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Today's Topics:
1. Mon Morn Dx ([email protected])
2. Special MW logs and some SW 6+7 (Zacharias Liangas )
3. Re: Special MW logs and some SW 6+7 ([email protected])
4. Glenn Hauser logs November 9, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
5. Re: Special MW logs and some SW 6+7 (G?nter Lorenz)
6. EiBi B09 (Eike Bierwirth)
7. Re: AUSTRALIA: ABC announces ambitious expansion
(Robert M. Bratcher Jr.)
8. Re: AUSTRALIA: ABC announces ambitious expansion (Glenn Hauser)
9. Glenn Hauser logs November 10, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 11:54:04 -0000
From: <[email protected]>
To: "arnaldo slaen" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
"DSWCI" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, "Gayle Van Horn"
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, "Marie Lamb" <[email protected]>, "Robert
Wilkner" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, "ALF"
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Subject: [HCDX] Mon Morn Dx
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Russia, 6075, Radio Rossii, 1102-1150 Noted the usual format here with
news and features in Russian language. At 1105 noted a canned ID by
a male. This occured often during the period. Signal was fair. (Chuck
Bolland, November 9, 2009)
Watkins Johnson HF1000
26.27N 081.05W
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:03:59 +0200
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[email protected]>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] Special MW logs and some SW 6+7
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A corexion to the previous log
http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/241
Hungary mentioned as 1098 but corect is 1188
....
several logs on 6-1
http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/242
Braazil 4885 Para 2259 with OM /YL in news heads? S3 with some co ch
QRM
Mauritania 4845 being back here on 2300 with talks by OM in arabic S9
43x23
MONGOLIA 4895 Mongol radio 2302 with national hymn S6 35333
BRAZIL 4805 RN Amazonas?/Rasuwilca from Peru? 2305 OM with talks in
Spanish Signal S2 max
TAJIKISTAN 4765 Dushanbe 2307 OM with talks in Tajik S7 33233
PIRATE 6400.6 WMR ???? 2313 with pop songs . Steady signal S7 ,
34353 with quite low mod
MWs :
1350 R Lebanon (??) 2318 with Arabic music IS in Arabic / French as
'Lubnen' and back to Arabic music (70s) S7-9 45434
- this is not mentioned on emwg-
1458 Sunrise radio 2326 S??? , tapped under a S20 Romania
1314 RFE 2345 in Romanian ? with many references to R Europe Libera
1539 Spain SER??? 2350 with discussions and laughs S4-6
1550 RASD 2351 with talks in Spanish ,mentions of Polissario , RASD on
2353
and 7-10
1567 AIR Nagpur on 2357 to ca 0003 with Hindi songs . Signal below S2-3
, worse on 16 m horizontal
1476 R Africa ? 0006 with hilife songs S406 , VN afro language talks S9
asingal on 16 m hor antenna
15070 Cupido radio 0900 with old rock songs ID on 0906 Signal S6 over
S2 local QRN level 45333
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 19:09:53 +0200
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Special MW logs and some SW 6+7
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Lainaus Zacharias Liangas <[email protected]>:
> A corexion to the previous log
> http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/241
> Hungary mentioned as 1098 but corect is 1188
> 1350 R Lebanon (??) 2318 with Arabic music IS in Arabic / French as
> 'Lubnen' and back to Arabic music (70s) S7-9 45434
> - this is not mentioned on emwg-
Are you sure?
Perhaps you have heard this station:
http://www.radioorient.com
This is arabic/french language station.
> 1476 R Africa ? 0006 with hilife songs S406 , VN afro language talks S9
> asingal on 16 m hor antenna
Perhaps this station reactivated on 1476 kHz?
http://www.radioafrika.net/
Reijo Alapiha
Joensuu Finland
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 09:42:38 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 9, 2009
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** ALASKA. RHC blox KNLS on 6150: see CUBA [and non]
** AUSTRALIA. These fall nitemiddles, we are lucky to hear anything from RA on
13630, let alone anywhere higher, but Nov 9 at 0613 was more like August, VG
English signal on 15160, and progressively somewhat weaker on // 15240, 13630,
13690. See also SAIPAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9475 blob QRM:
see INDIA
** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 9: at 1310, poor on 8400 and 9000, nothing on 10210. At
1435, 10210 had become JBA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also
MALAYSIA
** CHINA. 5175-5225, OTH radar pulses, presumed from here, Nov 9 at 1430 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. Unlike many nights inaudible, RHC 11760 was inbooming Nov 9
at 0610 in Spanish, S9+22, and still no spurs! Also spurless at 1504 check.
However, propagation from Cuba was so pipeline at 0611 that remnant DCJC
jamming pulses were also clearly audible on 11930 against non-Radio Mart?,
enough to bother Brasil on 11925. Just another example of Cuba`s cynical
attitude about jamming, not bothering to restrict it totally to when really
`needed`. See also USA: VOA.
11435.0. huge S9+22 open carrier plus hum, Nov 9 at 0612, correlating nicely
with opening from RHC on 11760, so likely a spy transmitter at same or nearby
site. See previous report in DXLD 9-007. Another suspicious open carrier on
9085.3 at 0627.
6180 was one of the RHC frequencies listed on En Contacto (see my previous
report) as deleted. That may be so in the evenings, but not in the mornings ---
still there until 1257* Nov 9, presumably from at least 1100 for Despertar con
Cuba. Also 10-11 for Venezuela relay.
At tune-in 1255 all three were running, 6110, 6150 and 6180. 6150 cut off less
than a minute later at 1258* audiblizing praise music ending KNLS`s English
hour now being crushed by the Cubans; while 6110 continued as usual, to be on
all day and evening. It was quite undermodulated compared to the other two
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. OTH radar pulses, presumed from here, Nov 9 at 1334 on 13935-13960
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 15710, R. Cairo Indonesian service, Nov 9 at 1335 check, quite weak,
but as best I could tell the modulation was not too bad unlike most days and
should have been comprehensible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** HAWAII. AFN`s ``format change`` to country music via Pearl Harbor 10320-USB
was short-lived, and I suspect ad-hoc, so no telling if or when it will change
back, but Nov 9 at 0622, back to news/talk feature bits, Osgood File from CBS,
about Ft Hood. Also at 1433 news update from AP about American hostages in
Iran, AFN ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA [and non]. Where will the AIR Aligarh blob be today, Nov 9? At 1317 I
find mush centered right on top of 9475, R. Australia in Chinese. It`s so
distorted that I cannot recognize AIR IS or Vande Mataram // weak 9425, but no
doubt this is it. 1437-1500+ the same (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. After an 8-day absence, VOI is back on 9525.9, Nov 9 at 1317
during English, but no improvement in modulation, still just enough to
recognize the YL announcer, so why bother? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, Shiokaze, via JSR Japan, Nov 9 at 1420, sad
Japanese YL talking with mandatory piano background, ultimately IDing as
``Kochira wa Shiokaze desu`` before 1429. No QRM at all here, unlike Myanmar
and Juche jamming washing up onto Asilomar Beach (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALAYSIA SARAWAK [and non]. 5030, Nov 9 at 1429, fast rippling SAH with CNR1
Beijing in Chinese pop music // much weaker 4460. By now Cuba 5025 had weakened
enough not to be a problem, but China is always on top of 5030, and hardly ever
free of the SAH. The co-channel on 5030 has to be RTM Kuching, 10 kW, but all
we can do is wait and hope for a CNR1 transmission break (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND [and non]. Nov 9 checking for RNZI vs QRM: No sign of DZRM on
6170.4, but on 6170.0 at 1259, VOR IS quite good; RNZI cut on with a SAH a few
sex before 1300, no bellbird or sign-on routine, right into news. Now the two
signals were roughly equal, or a slight advantage to NZ as VOR went into
Chinese opening, pronouncing a URL in English.
Then at 1313 I find that RNZI has taken my advice and reactivated the second
transmitter due to the 6170 clash: there it is // on 7440, not DRM, but AM too
with report from Saipan.
This was an off-week for fortnightly Mailbox Monday at 1329, so no chance to
hear any explanation from Adrian until next week. Instead, a report about
thousands of weed-eaters. I think this was about devices rather than fauna.
7440 was the frequency originally planned for the 1300- period in B-09, but
avoided due to potential clash with IBB via Sri Lanka. Did NZ get IBB to
vacate? At first it seemed so, as no QRM on 7440. But by 1411 the co-channel
QRM had grown as NZ was talking about birdwatching.
On the FRG-7 with longwire aimed toward NZ, RNZI remained dominant, but on the
YB-400 with interior randomwires, it was a very different story, at best an
even mix. At 1445 found NZ even weaker on 7440 vs Udorn, and 6170 was nothing
but Chinese from Chabarovsk.
7440 has the VOA Urdu service at 13-15, but the first hour is via Sri Lanka at
315 degrees, while the second hour is via Thailand at 300 degrees. NZ has a
choice of 35 or 325 degrees on 7440 at 1300-1600. After 1500, IBB is finished
with 7440, so at 1517 NZ in clear again but declined to poor signal by now, and
with splash from 7445 RFA Chinese via Tinian + ChiCom jamming.
Is there anything about adding 7440 during this time period on the RNZI
website? No, not under what`s new, and the grid still shows 6170 only at
1300-1549. But I did find this:
``Notice for DRM Europe Listeners, 01 Nov, 2009 21:55 UTC: RNZI is no longer
broadcasting on VT Group?s DRM digital service in Europe. DRM listeners in
Europe can access RNZI through the World Radio Network (WRN).`` ?? Well, so can
AM listeners in Europe, of whom there are a lot more (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** POLAND [non]. 11675, PRES continues to be a VG reliable English hour in our
mornings, even tho we benefit only accidentally by being beyond the true
British Isles target in the same direxion from AUSTRIA. Nov 9 at 1345 with
Soundscapes feature about how Poland is homogeneous with only 2% resident
foreigners, so most Poles have never met a nonPole; and they have a negative
opinion especially of Russians, Ukrainians and Jews (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAIPAN. A nightmiddle opening up to 18 MHz, unusual now but common in
summer: Nov 9 at 0615, RFA Chinese on 17880 and 17615 but deliberately
unsynchronized, poor signals; surely this rather than ChiCom jamming. See also
AUSTRALIA. Nothing unusual per SWPC:
``Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 08 November follow.
Solar flux 71 and mid-latitude A-index 7. The mid-latitude K-index at 0600 UTC
on 09 November was 1 (9 nT). No space weather storms were observed for the past
24 hours. No space weather storms are expected for the next 24 hours.`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Checked for DXing with Cumbre at 0345 UT Nov 9 on both 7315 and 7385,
WHRI and WHRA as in the WHR online schedule for 0330 UT Mondays: no signals, no
surprise due to their imaginary SW scheduling, perhaps fooling paying customers
who never turn on a radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, D LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Checking the morning VOA Spanish frequencies, Nov 9 at 1323: VG on
9885 and 13715, but the third Greenville channel, 15590, much weaker as the MUF
had not built up. Notable that no DentroCuban jamming could be heard on any of
them, maybe just a fluke, as they are still jamming the 23-24 broadcast on
5890, 9885. Propagation from Cuba was certainly open, e.g. RHC on 15120 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13706, intruding 2-way Spanish on SSB, Nov 9 at 1510, wedged
between 13695 WYFR splash, 13700 algo and 13710 Saudi Arabia and Cuban
leapfrog. Slightly off 13706 to the lo side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) ###
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 23:18:20 +0100
From: G?nter Lorenz <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Special MW logs and some SW 6+7
Message-ID:
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> > 1476 R Africa ? 0006 with hilife songs S406 , VN afro
> language talks S9
> > asingal on 16 m hor antenna
>
> Perhaps this station reactivated on 1476 kHz?
> http://www.radioafrika.net/
No way. There are plans to dismantle the Bisamberg antennas.
I am pretty sure Zacharias did hear the Basque language program from Radio
Euzkadi.
73,
G?nter
D-85354 Freising
RX: Perseus ANT: ALA1530+SSB
ESET Mail Security 4589 (20091109) checked - OK
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:46:52 +0100
From: "Eike Bierwirth" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] EiBi B09
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hi,
the datafiles have just been uploaded: http://www.eibispace.de/
Maybe there is still something missing, but it is a usable version now, at
least it was fine when I tried some loggings last night.
Perseus users may copy the file http://www.eibispace.de/dx/eibi.txt into the
directory that contains the perseus.exe.
Corrections are always welcome!
Good dx,
Eike
Boulder, CO
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:04:59 -0600
From: "Robert M. Bratcher Jr." <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HCDX] AUSTRALIA: ABC announces ambitious expansion
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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At 11:14 AM 11/7/2009, Arnaldo wrote:
>The Australian Broadcasting Corp. has announced ambitious
>international expansion plans, which initially focus on launching TV
>and radio services in China and India, followed by a staged rollout
>to the Middle East, Latin America and Europe and North America,
>managing director Mark Scott said Wednesday night.
>
>The ABC currently operates the Australia Television network and
>Radio Australia, with AUS$34 million ($30.6 million) per year in
>government funding. Australia Television broadcasts in 44 countries
>in Asia Pacific, reaching over 22 million homes, while Radio
>Australia has a network of 15 FM stations in almost every Pacific
>capital, and Cambodia and Laos, runs a digital radio service in
>Singapore, and broadcasts on shortwave in eight Asian languages.
Question: Are the Australian regional shortwave outlets (like VLM4
if I remember the call correctly) still on the 60 or 49 meter bands?
I haven't heard one in many years......
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 15:51:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], "Robert M. Bratcher Jr."
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] AUSTRALIA: ABC announces ambitious expansion
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
They have all been gone for many years. Then the Northern Territory Service
started up so those are the only regionals on SW, 120 and 60m.
73, Glenn Hauser
--- On Mon, 11/9/09, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Question: Are the Australian? regional shortwave
> outlets (like VLM4 if I remember the call correctly) still
> on the 60 or 49 meter bands? I haven't heard one in many
> years......
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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 19:30:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 10, 2009
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
** AFGHANISTAN [non]. 7595, Nov 10 at 0049 fair but fluttery signal with clip
in English, then something else. It`s R. Ashna, one of the IBB services via Sri
Lanka, 250 kW, 334 degrees also USward, the 0030 hour in Pashto, then the 0130
hour in Dari (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ALBANIA. R. Tirana check at 0007 Nov 10 on 6110, way under co-channel R.
Habana Cuba. At 0048, the other Tirana channel, 7425, was very poor, mainly
conveying a weak SAH between them and something else, which per skeds must be
CRI English via Kashgar, E Turkistan, 100 kW, 174 degrees but enough to mess up
Tirana way over here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHILE. Someone is now paying attention in Calera de Tango. On Friday and
Saturday evenings into the next UT days, the CVC 9745 transmitter in Spanish
was extremely distorted and spurring almost 100 kHz down. Did not check the
next night, but UT Nov 10 at 0045 it`s back to normal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA. I don`t DX much in `prime time` because of everything else going
on, not least the amount of household and neighborhood noise sources, resulting
in missing some neat stations others are catching. So Nov 10 I braved the noise
for the preceding hour at 00-01, and managed to hear the harmonic on 2859.8,
which must be pretty strong to occasionally peak above my noise level,
definitely in Spanish, but nothing much heard except ads mentioning phone
numbers around 0015. No ID caught but has been thoroughly IDed by several
others as R. San Carlos, 2 x 1429.9. If I could escape the damn noise level, I
would love to uncover some more LAm or US MW harmonics below 3.2 MHz. But it`s
almost Xmas and likely to get worse before it gets better, at least in urban
areas like the Enidplex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. DentroCuban Jamming Command transmissions and some of its
victims or [non]: Nov 10 at 0003, still jamming 5940, abandoned by VOA Spanish
when it was during the previous hour anyway; but heavier jamming on 5890
against current VOA Spanish such that the latter could barely be heard ---
until 0100 Yankee Doodle Dandy sign-off. Back at 0043 check of 9885, just lite
jamming, no VOA audible.
At 0045, R. Rep?blica was doing slightly better on 9810, at least detectable
Spanish with the jamming noise. [See also USA: WRMI]
Is RHC still using 13790 evenings for French and Creole from 0030 as in
previous schedule? Not a trace of it Nov 10 at 0037. Are these on some lower
frequency now as yet undiscovered, or just vanished? WWCR/PMS was still audible
on 13845. See also ALBANIA, KOREA NORTH, MEXICO for QubaRM (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 6025, another station I had not logged since its
reactivation a few weeks ago, simply because of inconvenient scheduling: R.
Amanecer, Nov 10 at 0005, Spanish with reverberation as if from an improperly
tiled sanxuary, talking about dios. Has lo het and also splash worse from 6020
than from 6030, so it helps to step up to 6026.
Amanecer had improved somewhat by 0054, but still with lo het, when the WYFR
hymn theme was being performed by YL and chorus with Spanish lyrix, i.e. known
in English as ``To God Be the Glory``. Should we trust a deity who expects to
be glorified? What an ego!
Per EiBI, Aoki and HFCC, the only other station on 6025 at this hour would be
R. Illimani = Patria Nueva, Bolivia. 6020 = CRI via Albania.
What about R. Discovery, coming to Santo Domingo on 4780, by when? Jeff White
tells me Nov 10: ``I would say maybe by year's end for the DR, looking at my
crystal ball`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ECUADOR [non non]. We have been wondering if HCJB is really about to close
down the last SW transmissions from Pifo. Stephan Schaa of HCJB Germany tells
DX LISTENING DIGEST:
``Pifo's final (international) transmission should be end of this week on the
15th of November. The only transmission that could still be transmitted from
Pifo some more days is the 6050 kHz. But the transmitter on Pichincha is ready
to go and transmissions are shifted to the new place as soon as authorities
approve the transmitter up there. 73, Stephan``
The international one referred to is 11920 in Kulina and Portuguese, destined
to switch to Chile site but at a later hour? On UT Nov 10 at 0031 I am hearing
11920 from Pifo in Portuguese greeting listeners in Acre, with music
dedications. I guess it still spans 2245-0230 but hours not confirmed.
Ian Baxter of shortwavesites yg also wonders if I am still hearing 6050. Nov 10
at 0032 I could hear something weak there in non-Spanish, but heavy splash from
Spain on 6055. That was the Cofan semihour in A09, and probably still is, but I
could not hazard a guess whether the site is really Pifo or Pichincha already.
BTW, I see the new EiBi B09 schedule http://www.eibispace.de/dx/freq-b09.txt
does not show HCJB on 6050 at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. La Voz de Corea ID in Spanish heard as soon as I
tuned across 15180, Nov 10 at 0035. This frequency has a self-imposed rumble on
it. Bandscanning downward, soon found at 0037 clear // with stronger signal on
13760, concluding ``impressions of a foreigner visiting`` and music; and at
0042 also // 11735 which had a lite hum.
BTW, I assume Radio Habana Cuba abandoned its long hours on 13760 earlier in
the day, so I could no longer remark about that, ``Commies vs Commies!`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Another fragment of XEQM M?rida made it thru on 6104.8 or so, Nov 10
at 0059 when I heard a few words of Spanish until overridden by the RHC news
sounder from 6110. No doubt nearby Cuba`s long hours on 6110 also obstruct RASA
6105v wherever else it is trying to be heard. And then at 0100 RCI started
squeezing it in Spanish from the other side, 6100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** THAILAND. HSK9, 12095, Nov 10 at 0039, good signal but fluttery during live
relay of morning English newscast, at the moment with long commercial (or two
in a row) for Thai Airways, e.g. ``fly Thai to Belgium``, 7:40 timecheck,
business news. Always fun to hear commercials from a government station on SW,
Radio Thailand.
This semihour is registered as 6 degrees from Udorn, which means transpolar to
eastern USA; yet the CIRAF targets, instead of 8, are 6 and 7 which mean W&C
NAm. Anyhow, we could hear it. Hmmm, is it permitted for IBB USG transmitters
to broadcast commercials, at least without a disclaimer?? (Glenn Hauser, CNAm,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. During my evening bandscan hour of 00-01 UT Nov 10, I could not hear
any trace of WRMI on 9955, and assumed they were silent as usual until 0100,
but after 0200 I find this note from Jeff White:
``Glenn: Sorry for the short notice, but we are broadcasting a special live
program tonight at 0000-0200 UT Tuesday on 9955 kHz from Radio Rep?blica to
mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism in Europe. The program will
be repeated tomorrow at the same time. Jeff``
So they were on, but presumably on the SSE antenna instead of NW. How about 24
hours later, antennawise?
Jeff replies: ``Glenn: Both tonight and repeat tomorrow are on south antenna;
it's for Cuba. We have lowered the northern antenna to about 1/4 of usual
height due to heavy winds from the hurricane that were really making it sway a
lot. It will stay in this position till the hurricane/winds pass, but we'll try
transmitting north during usual hours. Jeff`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. WWCR-1 on new 3240, Nov 10 at 0013 talking about the Fed, VG signal
ex-3230 at 23-02 which itself was new only a couple weeks ago. Presumably, some
prior user of 3230 filed an objexion, probably US government or military. Now
we`ll see if anyone plays the NIB card on 3240. The
http://www.wwcr.com/transmitter-sched.html still shows 3.230. I assume that
after 0200, WWCR can safely stay on its original 90m outlet, 3215, recently
usurped by WWRB until that hour; unless they would rather be on 4755 anyway,
see UNIDENTIFIED. Yes, there`s a lot of usurpation going on and I seem to be
using that term more lately (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. WWCR-1 has been reporting testing more on 4755, and even asking
for reports, but I have yet to catch it again; checked UT Nov 10 at 0010 I
heard instead on 4755 something fluttery with a fair signal, but nothing like
WWCR on 5070 or 3240 [see USA]; seemed to be in Portuguese, but I`m not
positive it was the only other known station on frequency, R. Imaculada
Concei??o, Campo Grande MS, BRAZIL, which stands to lose a lot if WWCR adopts
4755 permanently any time but 03-07 when RIC is off, per Aoki.
Of course, there is supposed to be another 4755, The Cross, Pohnpei,
Micronesia, but no progress there after 25 months of silence, still the same
apologia at http://www.pmapacific.org/ministries/radio/shortwave.php
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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