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Today's Topics:
1. Sun Morn Dx (Charles B)
2. Captaciones/Logs/Escutas (Arnaldo)
3. Sept 19-20 Logs ([email protected])
4. Glenn Hauser logs September 20, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
5. Re: Glenn Hauser logs: Egypt correxion (Glenn Hauser)
6. Logs from NH-USA, Sept 15-19th (Scott R. Barbour Jr.)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:20:00 -0400
From: "Charles B" <[email protected]>
To: "Anker Petersen" <[email protected]>, "Bob Wilkner"
<[email protected]>, "Charles B" <[email protected]>, "dxld
dxld"
<[email protected]>, "Glenn Hauser" <[email protected]>,
"hard-core-dx hard-core-dx" <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, "shortwaveworld shortwaveworld"
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Sun Morn Dx
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Brazil, 4925.25, Radio Educacao, 1010-1025, I had tuned
in to the carrier on this freq hoping to hear the Indonesian
station that's around this freq, but at 1010 a male in
Protuguese comments began talking. At first the signal
was barely audible but by 1015, it had improved to fair.
After a few comments, music was presented for the entire
period. (Chuck Bolland, September 20, 2009)
Watkins Johnson HF1000
26.37N 081.05W
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:46:55 +0200
From: "Arnaldo" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected],
NoticiasDX <[email protected]>, Domesticas Y Tropicales
<[email protected]>, [email protected],
playdx2003 <[email protected]>, DXLD
<[email protected]>,
[email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Captaciones/Logs/Escutas
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Past weekend I was in a DX Camp in Villa Loguercio, small town near Lobos Lake,
to 120 kms. to South/West from Buenos Aires City.
The DXpeditionars : Miguel Castellino, Hector Goyena & Arnaldo Slaen
Receivers: Two Degen 1103
Antenna: a active antenna and a longwire
The most important logs are:
September 12 from 2145 to 2315 UTC time
4451 Radio Santa Ana, Santa na de Yacuma, religious programme: "Se?or.te
alabamos..", 24442
4699 Radio San Miguel, Riberalta, local messagges with 25432 at 22 UTC
Announcement at 2215 UTC: "ya estamos llegando a la ultima parte del servicio
de mensajes..Noticiero de Radio San Miguel.."
4746 Radio Huanta 2000, huaynos, 24433
4770 Radio Nigeria, Kaduna, local music, 25432
4775 Radio Tarma, Tarma, tlk by male, 25432
4780 Radio Djibouti, Djibouti, local songs, 45444
4790 Radio Vision-LV Salvacion, peru, religious programme, 25432
4905 R.Anhanguera Aragua?na (t). I couldn`t hear this station from many years
ago!!!!!! 22542 with interferente from PBS Xizang
4925 R.Educacao Rural, Tef? with talk by male with 25532
4940 Radio San Antonio, Ucayali, romantic songs, 25432
4950 Radio Nacional de Angola, Mulenvos, local songs at 2240 UTC, 24432
5025 Radio Quillabamba, Quillabamba, huaynos, 34433
5120 Ondas del Sudoriente, Quillabamba, huaynos, 24442
6220 Mistery Radio (t), pops and long talk in ??, 25332
6297 RADS, news from 22 UTC with 35433
September 13 from 1000-1130 UTC
3250 Voice of Korea, KRE, 1010 UTC, 25442
4557 KCBS Pyongyang (AINDF), korean songs, jammed, 22432
4740 UNID, songs and music (some time ago I hear a regional station from
Vietnam in this QRG), 15341
4830 Mongolian Radio 1 (p), tlk by female, 25552. From 11 UTC not // with
4895 Khz
4860 Radio Boa Vontade,?????, Brazil, many identifications from 1030 UTC,
announcement: "na comando na esperanza.Super Radio Boa Vontade..", 25532
4895 Mongolian Radio 1 (p), local songs at 1020, 24432, from 11 UTC not //
with 4830
4955 Radio Cultural Amauta, Huanta, tlk by male, 25532
4970 AIR Shillong, India, 1055, local music, 25432
4990 PBS Hunan, local songs, 24432
5050 Beibu Bay Radio, local songs, 25532
6425 UNID, melodic songs!!!!!!, 1045 UTC, transmisi?n in korean!!!!!,
announcement by female, 25442
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:18:42 EDT
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Sept 19-20 Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** CHAD. 7119.95, RNT, 1925-2002*, Sept 19, Presumed with Afro-
pop music. French talk. Tribal drums. Abruptly off with Afro-pop
music. Weak but readable at tune-in. Improved to a fair level by 1945.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
** COLOMBIA. 2980, Radio Vida Nueva, 0550-0640, Sept 20, 2nd
harmonic of 1490. Spanish religious talk. Spanish religious music.
Spanish ballads. Promos, jingles. ID. Poor. Weak but readable.
Occasional peaks up to a fair level. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** ETHIOPIA. 6890, Radio Fana, 2005-2101*, Sept 19, Horn of Africa
music. Tribal chants. Short ID announcement at 2101 and off. Weak
in noisy conditions. Better on // 6110. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** EURO-PIRATE. 6870, Playback International, 0000-0010, Sept 20,
IDs at 0001 and 0005. Pop music. Very weak. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** EURO-PIRATE. 7550.54, Radio Amica, 2340-2400, Sept 19, Euro-
pop music. Techno-pop dance music. Italian ID announcement at
2348. Weak but readable. Occasional peaks up to a fair level.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
** MEXICO. 6104.75, XEQM, Candela FM, Merida, 0540-0555,
Sept 20, Spanish talk. Local ballads. Poor. Weak in noisy conditions.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:53:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 20, 2009
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** ANGUILLA. Caribbean Beacon silent again on 6090, Sept 20 at 0558, but maybe
not for a week this time, as DGS was back on 11775 at 1300 check, never with
any local ID at hourtop or anywhen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. As an example of how feeble the ``100 kW`` transmitter at General
Pacheco is, Sept 20 at 0152 I noticed a het registering about S6 on 11711v,
obviously R. Nacional, but no audio readable. Meanwhile, the following other
SAm signals were inbooming on the same band: 11780 Brasil S9+18, 11920 HCJB
S9+18, 11665 CVC S9+12; from closer in LAm, RHC 11760 & 11690 S9+20. And per
Aoki, 11711 is even supposed to be aimed usward at 335 degrees (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. Interesting to compare signals from Toronto and Sackville only 25
kHz apart, and CFRX wins! Sept 20 at 0605, CFRX 6070 had louder modulation and
at least equal signal to KBSWR in Spanish on 6045. CFRX runs 1 kW
non-direxional(?), and RCI has 250 kW at 60 degrees to Europe, but normally VG
here. Of course, Toronto is considably closer. CFRX had been missing about 24
hours earlier. It was also still on around 1230 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Sept 20 at 1245, poor on 8400 and 9000 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. Not only does the CRI relay via CUBA on 9570 in the mornings
hash neighboring Australian frequencies 9560 and 9580, but exactly the same
kind of noise accompanies no doubt the same dirty transmitter in the evenings
when it is on 9580: Sept 20 at 0205 the hash could be heard around 9570 and
9590. In fact, I was not hearing the CRI relay via Albania on 9570 at all, so
it`s ChiComs vs ChiComs! Both 9570 and 9580 are in use 0100-0300. Serves the
damn jammers right (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also SPAIN
** CUBA. RHC, UT Sunday Sept 20 at 0558: DXers Unlimited had Arnie Coro with
studio-quality audio on his voice for a change! He had previously claimed that
he always did it from the studio rather than phoning it in from home, and the
degraded audio only on his voice was intentional filtering to make it more
intelligible over SW transmission. We found this strange, as none of the other
RHC announcers were so lucky.
Show was running late, at 0559 Item 4: Ask Arnie in which he gave a superficial
explanation of why RHC streamed audio runs behind SW audio on 11770 as
monitored in Italy; and propagation, saying that we need solar flux of 80 or 90
to perk up the bands in the daytime. Who can remember when it was typically
that high? Sigh.
As to frequency usage, it was once again jumbled. I first tuned in to 6140,
which was in English this time, but 6060 absent, and English also on 6010. 6120
and much weaker 6000 were in Spanish. At recheck 0604, 6060 was back on as an
additional English channel.
Sept 20 at 1450 on 13780 announcer was mentioning a special event at 2 pm [1800
UT], on TV and satellite, no doubt the big concert for peace in Habana, but if
also on SW, I was too late to catch details of that. Any Esperanto this week?
No, that minority language continues to be even more expendable than Guarani or
English, as 11760 was still in RHC Spanish at 1502 and 1522, now in the secret
midday SW service // weak 13760, and 13780 was still on with big open carrier.
At 1539, 11760 still modulating // ever-distorted 11800 but 13760 was OC, and
// 11690 JBA under RTTY an echo apart from 11760. By 1548, 11690 had switched
to Al?, Presidente from VENEZUELA, q.v. for more about that. At 1551, 13760 was
modulating RHC again // 11760 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also
CHINA [non]
** EGYPT. R. Cairo, 7540, with 100% readable signal!!! UT Sunday Sept 20 at
0220, American-accented YL with news of Africa, good modulation. RC`s newscasts
start at :15 past the hour, when else? 0223 ID in passing, repeating headlines,
mentioned it was the ``west coast service`` on 7535.
The 0200-0330 broadcast may be a `west coast service` in the sense that it is
at a more convenient prime time in PDT, 7-8:30 pm and is he second of two
English sesquihours to NAm, after 2300-2430 on 11590, but the 11590 is really
the one aimed at the WC, 330 degrees, while 7540 is aimed at the east coast,
315 degrees. Furthermore, 11590 is for CIRAF targets 6 and 7, i.e. W and C USA,
while 7260 is at 7-9, i.e. C & E USA plus Maritime Provinces. Either the
listings or the transmissions are reversed, opposite of what they ought to be!
And she still hasn`t heard about the shift to 7540 made months ago to avoid
Romania on 7535 before 0200! She spoke quite informally, asking for reports
evaluating whether listeners could barely hear her or not. Also now is the time
to make suggestions about new program subjects, as changes are made in December
(not January?) and July.
Address given as P O Box 550, Cairo, and `zip code 11511`. Another hint that
she is an American, as the term ZIP code properly applies only to American
postal codes, originally standing for Zone Improvement Program. Need to recheck
the box announcement as PWBR `2009` mentions two others, and WRTH mentions one
other, but they agree on the postal code. Careful to write EGYPT in large
letters, as otherwise your p-mail may wind up in the DLO on Long Island, where
it is apparently not a valid US ZIP code.
0225 on to press review, 0231 YL pop music singer in Arabic, 0239 another talk
feature. Reception weakened somewhat and next program at 0301 was ``--- in
Egypt``. Meanwhile, Arabic service on 6290 remained stronger but as usual,
heavily distorted, not assisted by the speaker yelling at 0234 check (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. 9680 with Qur`an, Sept 20 at 1250 mixing at 4 Hz SAH
with something in Chinese. Per listings, must presume Qur`an station is RRI
domestic service relay, versus the PRC/ROC radio war, with RTI attracting
mandatory CNR1 ChiCom jamming. RRI obstinately insists on staying on that
ruined frequency. Meanwhile, could not detect even a carrier on 9525v at 1316
when the VOI English service should have been airing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 15200, Sept 20 at 1327 piano music, whence? 1330 two or three chimes
and announcement definitely in Japanese, choral anthem, somewhat distorted, but
abruptly off at 1332* in mid-announcement. WRTH A09 update has the answer:
VOIRI, Sirjan site which is scheduled in Indonesian until 1330, then supposed
to switch to 15555 for Japanese, and where I might have heard them from 1332 if
propagating. Just another instance of the Iranians unable to coordinate program
and transmitter switching properly. Aoki, however, claims the 1230-1327 on
15200 is in Malaysian, meaning Malay? which is extremely similar to Indonesian
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH [non]. 9560, UT Sun Sept 20 at 0206-0210 surprised to hear the
AER DX report voiced by Pedro Sedano, with news about HCJB`s imminent closure,
R. Discovery having been on 4730 but no mention of next frequency 4780; RNV`s
new SW site in Guar?co state, instead of Gu?rico, item about LRA36. This was a
segment in KBSWR`s half-hour Spanish broadcast via Sackville. VG signal here,
per Aoki at 277 degrees, i.e. somewhat north of due west. It might be more
useful to aim it toward CAm, at most azimuthwise, Mexico, or is it for all the
Latinos residing in California right in the boresight? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** PORTUGAL. 15560, RDPI opening Abra?o da Madeira show, Sun Sept 20 at 1311
with VG signal; upbeat announcer said it was from Funchal studio. Every little
island should be so lucky as Madeira to have a weekly two-hour worldwide SW
contact show courtesy of the mother country. But is there an equivalent from
the A?ores? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 17485, Sunday Sept 20 at 1457 DTK already on with
Brother Scare, good clear modulation, better than he deserves or gets from
WWRB. This not supposed to start until 1500, but I expect the stereotypically
precise German operators at J?lich are demoralized, knowing their jobs will
last only another month; so why not burn up a little extra transmitter time for
the Last Days Prophet of God? Signal remained good at spot chex during
following hour tho aimed oppositely at 160 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 9690, Sept 20 at 0156 surprised to hear the REE IS where there is no
REE transmission scheduled; but it was just an admission that Noblejas was
about to relay CRI, as there followed a decent interval of silence at 0158,
then 0200 CRI IS and sign-on in Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. No doubt it varies, but checking WRMI evenings to note when 9955
fades out: UT Sept 20 it was good during an English religionist between 0130
and 0145, but gone at next check shortly after 0200. These are both scheduled
on the SSE antenna UT Sundays.
Surprised to hear an old WORLD OF RADIO, 1465 from a quarteryear ago,
concluding at 1542 Sunday Sept 20 on WRMI 9955, instead of current 1478. Jeff
White says it was glitch in the automation and should not happen again (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. After last Sunday`s fake-out, I paid closer attention to
Al?, Presidente frequencies via Cuba on Sept 20. No sign of them at 1423, altho
RHC 13680, normally running until 1500, was absent as if the transmitter were
being moved to an A,P channel. Mainly monitored 13750 which is the major A,P
channel here and not used otherwise by Cuba. Finally at 1546 found a big
carrier cutting on and off, 1547 joining Hugo in progress, but still going off
and on at 1548. Meanwhile, 13680 now on weakly with // Hugo. Could also make
him out on 11690, almost // an echo apart from 13750, but not on the other
nominal channels 12010 and 17750. So it appears that the DentroCubans are no
longer providing their own sesquihour prolog from 1400, but just turning on
some transmitters whenever they get around to it.
Did not check again until 1928, and found a different situation with Hugo still
blathering against capitalism on these frequencies from best to worst: 12010,
17750, 11690, JBA 13680 but 13750 off the air. See CUBA for more observations
during this period (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9600.4, again hearing that intriguing het, possibly XEYU trying
to operate with peanutpower, Sept 20 at 0612 against 9600.0 station in French,
i.e. Radio Bulgaria. At this time little else was audible on 31m, the best
being a weakish WYFR on 9680 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:14:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs: Egypt correxion
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Somehow I wrote 7260 once when I meant 7540 in this graf of my report about
EGYPT: Now corrected:
The 0200-0330 broadcast may be a `west coast service` in the sense that it is
at a more convenient prime time in PDT, 7-8:30 pm and is he second of two
English sesquihours to NAm, after 2300-2430 on 11590, but the 11590 is really
the one aimed at the WC, 330 degrees, while 7540 is aimed at the east coast,
315 degrees. Furthermore, 11590 is for CIRAF targets 6 and 7, i.e. W and C USA,
while 7540 is at 7-9, i.e. C & E USA plus Maritime Provinces. Either the
listings or the transmissions are reversed, opposite of what they ought to be!
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:50:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Scott R. Barbour Jr." <[email protected]>
To: Cumbre DX <[email protected]>, DXLD <[email protected]>,
DXplorer <[email protected]>, HCDX
<[email protected]>, Gayle Van Horn
<[email protected]>,
NASWAyg <[email protected]>, Al Quaglieri
<[email protected]>, Mark Taylor <[email protected]>, Dave
Valko <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs from NH-USA, Sept 15-19th
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Lots of opportunities to DX this past week. Hope it turns into a trend thru my
local autumn/winter.
3240, SWAZILAND, TWR Manzini, 0320-0326, Sept 19, vern./listed Ndau. Choral mx;
ancr in vernacular w/ contact info; ID at 0325 into listed Ndau service; ancr
between mx bridges; fair. (Barbour-NH)
3385, PNG-NEW BRITAIN, R. East New Britain Rabaul, 1041, Sept 15, Tok Pisin. W
announcer w/ ad; island mx & talk; poor-fair; hampered by ute QRM. (Barbour-NH)
3945, VANUATU, presumed R. Vanuatu Port Vila, 1013, Sept 15, vernacular.
Announcer w/ mx & talk; weak under 3947-LSB chatter; poor. (Barbour-NH)
4835.44, PERU, R. Maranon Jaen, 0228-0234, Sept 18, Spanish. Easy-listening SP
mx w/ brief ancr between selections; canned ID ancment at 0232; poor.
(Barbour-NH)
4960, SAO TOME, VOA Pinheira, 0303, Sept 19, Arabic. M announcer w/ nx w/
mentions of Sudan & Ethiopia; "Affia Darfur" ID at 0309; fair-good. (Barbour-NH)
7140, N. KOREA, V. of Korea Kujang, 1037-1050, Sept 18, Korean. M announcer w/
talk; ballad; W announcer at 1047 w/ (P) ID ancment; anthem at 1048;
open-carrier at 1050; did not stick around for listed Chinese svc at *1100;
fair. (Barbour-NH)
7220, VIETNAM, V. of Vietnam Hanoi-Sontag, *1100, Sept 18, Mandarin. IS; W
announcer w/ s/on announcement; news; poor-rapidly deteriorating. (Barbour-NH)
9360, EGYPT, R. Cairo Abu Zaabal, 0004-0016, Sept. 19, Arabic. M announcer w/
nx; W announcer w/ disco-like mx intro at 0009; talk & mx bits; fair-good w/
9370-WTJC slop. (Barbour-NH)
9370, USA, WTJC Morehead, 0018-0026, Sept 19, Arabic. Male announcer w/ AR talk
& WTJC contact info at 0026!!; good; I rarely stop on this frequency during
bandscans. When did WTJC start broadcasting in Arabic? (Barbour-NH)
9425, INDIA, AIR Bangalore, 0041-0043*, Sept 19, vernacular. S/ off of National
Channel w/ M announcer w/ talk; Hindi mx at 0042 until pulled-the-plug; fair.
(Barbour-NH)
9705, CHINA, presumed V. of Pujiang Shanghai, 1210-1232, Sept 18, Mandarin. W
announcer w/ talk; pop-like ballad; M & W announcers at 1220; sounded like
"live" speech; ballad at 1228 thru BoH; no discernible ID noted; fair-fading by
t/out. (Barbour-NH)
9740, SINGAPORE, BBC Kranji, 1114-1124, Sept 15, English. News & reports re US
military actions in Afghanistan & Somalia; ID; poor-fair. (Barbour-NH)
11735, INDIA, AIR Bangalore, *0214, Sept 18, vernacular. IS; W ancr w/ s/on
announcement; Hindi mx; fair at best; //11985-weak/poor. (Barbour-NH)
Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA
NRD-545, RX-350D, MLB1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole
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