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Today's Topics:
1. Thur DX ([email protected])
2. DX Listening Digest 9-053; World of Radio 1470 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Glenn Hauser logs July 23, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
4. Brandon Jordan Logs - July 22/3 (Brandon Jordan)
5. logs incl one of the best TA LW DX openings (aurel chiochiu)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:30:18 -0000
From: <[email protected]>
To: "worlddx" <[email protected]>, "Robert Wilkner"
<[email protected]>, "Marie Lamb" <[email protected]>, "Logs
DSWCI
Logs DSWCI Logs DSWCI" <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, "Chuck B" <[email protected]>,
"Anker Petersen" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
"CUMBREDX" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Thur DX
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Peru, 5039.18, Radio Libertad, 1039-1115, Don't know if I was having
antenna problems or a shortwave fadeout, but accidentally tuned
to this freq and noted Libertad with a fair signal while a male was in
Spanish comments between music. This was totally unexpected because Rebelde
just 14 KHz lower was very weak when I tune there (5025KHz) a few seconds
earlier. I usually have just a weak carrier and weaker audio from Libertad.
At 1049, Libertad's signal improves to a good level. It's getting scary
here all of the sudden. The sun is high on the horizon now and I am being
blasted by a Peruvian station. It's nice! Signal dropped to threshold by
1115.(Chuck Bolland, July 23, 2009)
Note: The signal improvement from 1049 only lasted a couple of minutes. I
dropped Libertad and scanned a few Peruvian and
Bolivian frequencies at that time- La Voz de la Selva, Radio Sicuani, and
Radio Maranon - and noted a similar improvement, but by 1053 the signals had
all dropped to fair or poor. I figured Bolivia's Radio Logos might be
fading in too, but I only heard a Brazilian on 4865.10 KHz. Maybe I am
exaggerating this phenomena because I am usually walking my dogs around the
block at this time and leave the radio alone. Consequently, I miss any
brief openings that might occur after sunrise here in Montura Ranch Estates.
This morning however, I left my receiver tuned to 4835.40 KHz as I typed
the above and at 1108, Radio Maranon faded back in from being nil heard to a
fair level. I am seriously thinking about changing my exercise routine to a
different time at least for one or two days during the week. I have too
many early morning responsibilities to make it a regular change however.
At 1115 Radio Maranon is still at a fair level. I checked the higher band
of 9 megs for a minute just to see what it was doing? I could not hear
anything on 9680 KHz where RRI Jakarta is usually booming in, and
Radio Australia on 9580 KHz was not at the armchair quality I usually have
for it either. There is definitely something strange going on this
morning?
At 1121 I went to recheck Radio Libertad on 5039.18 KHz and still heard it,
but the signal was now threshold. Still on 4835.41 KHz, Radio Maranon was
readable at a fair level; but I could tell there wasn't going to be much
more signal left in a few minutes. The noise was increasing and Maranon's
signal was being gobbled up by it. So I decided to secure the receiver and
take my dogs for their walk.
Chuck Bolland
27.27N 080.56W
Watkins Johnson HF1000
Dipole
Magna Updated
http://www.orchidcitysoftware.com/IMAGE59.HTML
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:19:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] DX Listening Digest 9-053; World of Radio 1470
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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DX Listening Digest 9-053 has now been posted at http://www.dxld.org
or http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt or http://dxld.worldofradio.org
and now also without delay at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld9053.txt
CONTENTS:
WOR 1470 / ANGOLA / ANTARCTICA / ARGENTINA +non / AUSTRALIA +non RA / AUSTRALIA
VMR / BELARUS non / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL / CANADA DTV / CANADA RCI / CANADA NHK/KBS
/ CANADA CFWH / CANADA CBC Kelowna / CHINA +non / COLOMBIA / CONGO / CUBA +non
/ CZECHIA +non / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC / ECUADOR +non / EGYPT / EQUATORIAL GUINEA
/ ERITREA non / ETHIOPIA +non / EUROPE Pirate / FRANCE / GERMANY +non /
GUANTANAMO BAY +non / HONDURAS / INDIA / INDONESIA +non / INTERNATIONAL
INTERNET WHRO / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM Moon / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM Eclipse / IRAN
+non / IRELAND / ITALY +non / JAPAN +non / KOREA NORTH +non / KURDISTAN non /
KUWAIT / LAOS / LITHUANIA A09 / MALAYSIA/SARAWAK / MAURITANIA / MEXICO /
MONGOLIA / MOROCCO / MYANMAR / NETHERLANDS +non / NEW ZEALAND / NIGERIA / NORTH
AMERICA Pirates / OKLAHOMA +non KOCO+ / OKLAHOMA +non OETA+++ / PAPUA NEW
GUINEA / PERU +non / PHILIPPINES / ROMANIA / RUSSIA / SAIPAN / SERBIA /
SOMALILAND / SOUTH AFRICA +non / SOUTH CAROLINA
non / SUDAN +non / SURINAME / SYRIA / TAIWAN / TIBET / TURKEY / UGANDA / UK
+non BBCWS / UK BBCR3 / UK non BFBS / USA USCG / USA +non VOA A09 / USA BBG /
USA KVOH / USA WINB/WWCR/WOR / USA WRMI/WOR / USA WTJC / USA Cronkite / USA
WEWN / USA non YFR / USA WQXR/WNYC / USA KXEG/KPHX / USA KFI/KNX/XERB+++ / USA
KDWN / USA VANUATU / USA VATICAN / USA VENEZUELA +non / ZAMBIA / ZIMBABWE non /
UNIDENTIFIED +non 1570 / UNIDENTIFIED 1710 / UNIDENTIFIED +non 5110 /
UNIDENTIFIED 7130 / UNIDENTIFIED 7225 / UNIDENTIFIED 9200-9400 / UNIDENTIFIED
9495-9500 / UNIDENTIFIED 15450 / UNIDENTIFIED 87.7 / TESTIMONIALS /
PUBLICATIONS / LANGUAGE LESSONS / RADIO PHILATELY / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM /
DIGITAL BROADCASTING / POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS / PROPAGATION
For restrixions and searchable 2009 contents archive see
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html
NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but
have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself
obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn
SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1470, July 23-29, 2009
Thu 0530 WRMI 9955
Thu 1900 WBCQ 7415
Fri 0000 WBCQ 5110-CUSB Area 51
Fri 0100 WRMI 9955
Fri 1130 WRMI 9955
Fri 1900 WBCQ 7415
Fri 2030 WWCR1 15825 [or 2028:30]
Sat 0800 WRMI 9955
Sat 0800 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 9510 [except first and second Sats]
Sat 1630 WWCR3 12160
Sun 0230 WWCR3 5070
Sun 0630 WWCR1 3215
Sun 0800 WRMI 9955
Sun 1515 WRMI 9955 [suspended, until mid-August?]
Mon 0500 WRMI 9955
Mon 2200 WBCQ 7415
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955
Tue 1530 WRMI 9955
Tue 1900 WBCQ 7415
Wed 0500 WRMI 9955 [or new 1471 starting here?]
Wed 1530 WRMI 9955
Wed 1900 WBCQ 7415
Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite
and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or
http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org
For updates see our Anomaly Alert page:
http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html
WRN ON DEMAND:
http://new.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24
WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN NOW AVAILABLE:
http://podcast.worldofradio.org or
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/stations/podcast.php
OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO:
http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
or http://wor.worldofradio.org
Regards, Glenn Hauser
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:35:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs July 23, 2009
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** CHINA. Firedrake July 23: at 1309 audible on 8400, a bit better on 9000; not
on 13970. 15285 CNR1 jamming was making it thru (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC check July 23 at 0630 news by `Ed Newman`: English this time on
6010, 6060 and 6140, while Spanish was on 6000, 6120 and 11760. Other nights
6140 has been in Spanish, and sometimes 11760 is in English.
Quick check at 1629 found 11760 and 13760 still on the air in extended midday
service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. VOI check July 23 at 1314: still on 9524.9 with ID, URL, into
Today In History (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WEWN still missing from all frequencies for the second day in a row,
July 23; at 0635 nothing on 7555, 11520 or 11870; at 1316, nothing on 11530,
11550 or 12050; at 1630 nothing on 11520, 11550 or 15610 as on the schedule
http://www.ewtn.com/radio/freq.htm
Last year they were off for two weeks of maintenance, as of July 28; see DXLD
8-086, altho I believe it turned out to be not quite that long. I asked Glen
Tapley and he replies July 23, 2009:
``Glenn, We are having downtime until Friday afternoon. We are repairing some
slew boxes and transmitters along with our regular maintenance. We project to
be back on air this weekend if all goes well. Glen``
So now`s the time to try to DX something else on or near WEWN frequencies,
especially the ones flanked by those noisy plus/minus 10 kHz spurs, unless the
maintenance takes care of them. For example, V. of Mesopotamia at 12-15 on
11530 (which also collides with WYFR at 04-09) (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) ###
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:44:48 -0500
From: Brandon Jordan <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected], HCDX CONTRIBUTIONS
- LATEST <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Brandon Jordan Logs - July 22/3
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** BRAZIL. R Nac do Amazonia, Brasilia DF, 6185.01, July 22, 2259 -
conclusion of A Voz do Brasil, canned station ID just after the top of
the hour into live sports coverage. (Jordan-TN)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. R. Malabo, Malabo, 6250, July 22, *0514 - back to
back African pop, hi-life vocals. Occasional Radio Nacional ID's and
chatter by male in Spanish until news beginning at 0605 UTC. (Jordan-TN)
** ERITREA. Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea, Asmara, 7165, July 22,
0344 - open carrier until possible interval signal beginning at 0354
UTC. Female in Arabic with ID, frequency announcements and greetings.
Male speaker with possible news. White noise type jamming began at 0359
UTC. Off at 0431 UTC. (Jordan-TN)
** ETHIOPIA. Radio Ethiopia, Geja Jawe, 7110, July 22, 0340 - listed
Amharic, magazine-type format interspaced with excellent vocals.
Interval signal at 0359, 3 church bells at the top of the hour and usual
"Ityoppya Radio" ID by woman. Fair signal at tune in and slowly fading,
occasional ARO QRM. (Jordan-TN)
Radio Ethiopia, Geja Jawe, 7110, July 23, *0258 - On with interval
signal, 3 bells at the top of the hour, ID by woman into news. // much
weaker nominal 5990v, except *0254 with OC until 0258. 5989.42 kHz
drifting upwards to 5989.46 kHz by 0305 UTC tune out. (Jordan-TN)
** GUINEA. (presumed) R. Conakry, Conakry, 7125, July 22, 2300-0020* -
good carrier signal, but almost non-existent modulation. Occasional
barely threshold audio, male speaking in what sounded to be French. Off
at 0020 UTC. (Jordan-TN)
** ISRAEL. Galei Zahel, Lod, 6974.9v, July 22, 2300 - after many months
of being relatively stable on 6973.0 kHz, I noticed them this week on a
much higher frequency and drifting. Noted 2300 UTC 7/22 on 6974.94 kHz,
drifting slowly downward. A re-check 4 hours later at 0300 UTC noted
them on 6974.90 kHz. (Jordan-TN)
** SUDAN. Radio Sudan, Khartoum, 7200, July 22, 0340 - excellent signal,
tune in to a nice traditional vocal with lute accompaniment then Arabic
male and female speaker with magazine format type content with short
musical bridges. Time pips at the top of the hour, ID then news read by
male. Transmitter suddenly cut-off at 0429 and not returning until 0528,
at which time with the signal was poor. Intermittent but significant ARO
SSB QRM. (Jordan-TN)
Radio Sudan, Khartoum, 7200, July 22, *0238 - on with Koranic
recitations lasting until 0248 UTC. Male speaker in Arabic with brief
announcements, including what sure sounded like a mention of "Radio
Sudan". Into local a cappella singing/chanting by males. (Jordan-TN)
** TUNISIA. RTV Tunisienne, Sfax, 7275, July 22, *0358 - open carrier
until the sign-on announcement at 0358 by a female speaker in Arabic.
Traditional vocal until the top of the hour, then news bulletin read by
a male speaker. (Jordan-TN)
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. R. Nacional de la RASD, 6300, July 22, *0600 -
transmitter on at 0550 with OC until National Anthem at the top of the
hour, into Koranic recitations. Fair signal. (Jordan-TN)
--
Brandon Jordan - Memphis, TN, USA
[email protected] - http://www.bcdx.org
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:23:59 -0400
From: aurel chiochiu <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Cc: Juan Carlos Lemieux <[email protected]>,
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected], "Tudor
M.
Vedeanu" <[email protected]>, [email protected], SOAD BENKIRANE
<[email protected]>, [email protected],
[email protected], Donn Tillman
<[email protected]>, Jorge Medina <[email protected]>,
"olivier.tequi" <[email protected]>, [email protected],
Jorge Garcia <[email protected]>, [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] logs incl one of the best TA LW DX openings
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Warm greetings to all of you !
I'm in a big rush right now, trying to attend a party and looking forward
changing the setting in my own room (I wouldn't have access to the computer for
a short while, except maybe the one downstairs to chat with the Venezuelan
DXers which, I hope, have already purchassed the PK loop for longwave
listening)... I'm not too used with the keyboard downstairs and condx don't
look too primising for another long report soon either ! Anyway, here are my
latest logs:
Trans-Atlantic DX
162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis JUL 20 0313 - end of a reggae-rock French
song, then into talk regarding a Britton summer festivity and a contest
offering a radio to the listener who knew something about this Britton
festivity. Fair. (Chiochiu-QC)
171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador - logged, details not taken. (Chiochiu-QC)
183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg JUL 22 0245 - carrying the same Top 50
memories program for the 25th birthday of the French countdown TOP CINQUANTE...
They seem to have dropped their heavy and almost exclusive news/talk format.
(Chiochiu-QC)
198 UNITED KINGDOM BBC Radio 4, Droitwhich JUL 20 0250 - relaying BBC World
Service with a World Beat program... Heard some nice acoustic flavoured
Afropops... Fair in AM Narrow mode to avoid QRM from low-powered local beacon
on 201 kHz. Best ever reception this summer yet ! (Chiochiu-QC)
207 GERMANY Deutschlandfunk, M?nich JUL 20 0145 - Presumed with classical
music noted at a fair level... Got briefly disturbed by a srong buzz, then
faded out for good... The best I've ever heard on 207 kHz yet... I was on the
verge of logging this one ! (Chiochiu-QC)
216 FRANCE RMC Info, Romoules JUL 20 0310 - noted in passing at dawn
enhancement. (Chiochiu-QC)
234 LUXEMBOURG RTL, Beidweler and/or Junglister JUL 20 0307 - heard with
Philippe Lafontaine's French Belgian "Coeur de Loup" (Wolf's Heart) classic,
then man with ID, time-check, an input about the music played, then introduced
the Samuel and Garfunkel "Smokey Robinson" classic. Also well heard around 0300
at the top-of-the-hour but was buzy reviewing my tape so that I won't delete a
vital aircheck, so I missed the top-of-the-hour announcements. The recording of
the Philippe Lafontinae - Samuel and Garfunkel spoken announcement was posted
on the web ! The clearest I got them was on 233 kHz in AM Narrow rather than on
234 kHz in AM Wide mode to avoid splatter from adjacent channel
non-directionnal beacons ! 2nd best ever reception of the most difficult French
LW outlet to get at my location ! The clip will be uploaded at
www.21centimeters.com and has already been uploaded by myself on
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ABDX/files/Miscellanous%20DX%20airchecks/ !
(Chiochiu-QC)
Pan American DX
750 VENEZUELA YVKS Radio Caracas Radio, Caracas, DF JUL 20 0335 - woman in
Spanish talking about Caracas. Good and mixing with WSB. (Chiochiu-QC)
760 COLOMBIA HJAJ RCN Cadena Bas?ca, Barranquilla JUL 22 0245 - w/ a man
doing a speech via the phone regarding war issues. Good to quite poor in a more
or less solid WJR null. Threshold on the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot, so the PK
loop undoubtedly helped ! (Chiochiu-QC)
1150 unID JUL 22 0234 - Spanish talk regarding "El Salvador" not sure if
religious or geographical related. Fair-good but way under the domestic pileup.
Probably an ethnic domestic rather than a long-sought Central or South
American, though who knows for sure better than God the creator of nighttime
skywave ? (Chiochiu-QC)
Additionnal comments:
I decided to take the Sangean ACS 818-CST and the PK's Shielded Magnetic C-LOOP
HDSM 150-450 with me on a short ride toward a quiet neighborhood. I wasn't
dissapointed at all. At home, except for France-162, most of the LW and MW
reception is plagued by growls appearing on the most interesting channels.
However at the spot I stayed I could get my best ever reception of Germany-207
(still presumed as I wasn't rewarded with an ID, unlike Sylvain Naud north-EAST
of me, but hey !...) and my 2nd best ever reception of Luxembourg-234... I
certainly doubt Sylvain Naud could get it on 233 in AM Narrow mode as he has a
megapest on 230 kHz, but on 234 in USB (my Sangean has BFO which is like USB,
but, unfortunatly, the readability is almost useless as far as original AM
signals are concerned - still it is very nice for listening to ham
transmissions). Here, 234 has a S5 high-pitched growl annihilating everything !
After the exceptionnal evening of Sunday when both the A and K indices were
hovering right at 0, conditions deteriorated, but Latin American signals didn't
get really enhanced, except maybe a tiny bit, like the past night when I got a
mysterious Spanish signal on 1150 kHz, an area of the mediumwave band I don't
check too often because of IBOC hash and also because of growl from HDTV sets
and / or computers surrounding us.
A bit off-topic, but I've heard that Canadian HD is already on and in two years
our analogical TV outlets will switch off forever ! Is it true ? Is anyone in
Canada reading this stuff that could get me some insights on the Canadian
situation of HDTV ? I know that a HDTV can cause awful noises... I have such
all the time on 570, 770, 910 (moved there from 900), 1110 (bye bye Car?pano),
1170 (bye bye Cartagena !) and many others I don't remember since I seldom DX
the upper half of the mediumwave band ! That being said, I was lucky to get my
1150 kHz unID Pan-American (though it could have been a North American domestic
DX signal) ! This in addition to IBOC... 570 is a very interesting channel,
maybe the most interesting one in the 500s, yet the high-pitched growl even
disturbs nearby WSYR in Syracuse which is a nighttime pest here in the Montreal
area ! This fall until about early November I could get out in the dark to DX,
since my Sangean ACS 818-CST isn't too bad of a recei!
ver, but forget trying to find a quiet spot in our neighborhood for LW and MW
DXing during the Canadian winter which is awful with the temperatures
constantly at -30 Celsius during most of the past winter... The type of growls
I witness seems very similar to the awful growls that disturbed even local LW
outlet on 153 kHz when the mother of one of my mom's friends had the TV on...
what can I do in order to have this stopped ? Is anyone else plagued with
noises ?
It is unlikely I will be able to send another report before the next week, but
I will try to DX as much as I can... The active conditions may pay off, though
condx are only slightly auroral as I still have the ever-awful New England QRM
to deal with... It also seems the sun is already beginning to setting faster...
I can't wait for August which is the best summer month for long-haul reception
of long and mediumwave. My best domestic DX on MW occured during August of 2006
when I briefly got CHRB from Riverside, AB on 1140 kHz !
This report is brougt to you by Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu, DXing from
Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island), PQ / QC using his Sanyo MCD-S830 along
with the PK AM Loop for mediumwave and the Sangean ACS 818-CST / PK's Shielded
Magnetic C-LOOP HDSM 150-450 kHz combo for longwave
May the good DX be with you !
Bogdan Chiochiu
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