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Today's Topics:
1. Radio St. Helena 2009 ([email protected])
2. Radio Australia begins Burma broadcasts (Arnaldo)
3. EMR (Manuel M?ndez)
4. LOG 15/NOV (Jorge Freitas (Yahoo))
5. Grava??es de Logs (Latest recordings of logs)
(Jorge Freitas (Yahoo))
6. My reception of 11092.5 RSH, Nov 14 (Horacio Nigro)
7. Nov 15 Logs ([email protected])
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:02:00 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Radio St. Helena 2009
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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It was interesting to read all the posts of little to no reception of
Radio St. Helena, especially in North America.
Here I was able to record the entire broadcast from 2000, although the
North American portion was by far the worst reception and suffered
from the usual distortion as had been noted in the past. An e-mail to
the station did not get anserwed no was the problem fixed as it had
been in the past. RF getting back into the transmitter with their
antenna beam directly at the utility transmission tower on the RSH site.
2000 "crash started" with a couple of time pips and the National
anthem. The first song was Hotel California and at 2020 the
"unoffical NA" St. Helena Island was played. Throughout the first
couple of hours there was mention of a contest and winners were
selected at 0057 UTC.
Some other hilites was the pirate heard at 2254 UTC singing over the
ABBA tune about wanting to meet up wth a lady on St. Helena (not using
those words though).
Best reception was probably between the 2200 hour to Europe when many
Japanese listeners reported very good reception and received several
music requests.
Any of the pre-recored segments (with the Govenor, Commerace advisor,
or the young school girl that read a brief history of her school) just
did not have very good audio and was lost once it hit the shortwaves.
Useual "classic" pop/rock tunes from ABBA, Rush, The Carpenters, Joe
Cocker etc were played but during the North American broadcast I did
not recognize more than a couple of tunes and very little, if any
e-mails were read.
So, I suspect our choice of a log periodic helped reception, but the
beverages did do well early on as did the K9AY. I was using an Icom
R72, while Don and Nigel used their Perseus.
By far the worst reception in recent memory of RSH day but by far not
a complete loss.
73
Mick Delmage
Sherwood Park
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:57:42 +0100
From: "Arnaldo" <[email protected]>
To: "DXLD" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], playdx2003
<[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Australia begins Burma broadcasts
Message-ID: <000d01ca65b0$2a22e5a0$98a1c...@windowsv03oj4t>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Radio Australia, the ABC's international radio broadcaster, has begun
broadcasting to Burma.
The Burmese language service began Monday morning, with two news broadcasts.
Radio Australia's Chief Executive, Hanh Tran, said Burma's elections next year
and increased international attention on the military-led country prompted the
decision to start the new radio service.
"This is the first new language service for Radio Australia in more than 15
years," he said.
Mr Tran told Radio Australia's Connect Asia program that the creation of the
Burmese service expands the broadcaster's brief to provide impartial news and
information to the region.
"Our audience has always been those who are in developing countries. Their
access to information is limited, for reasons of poor infrastructure, or state
control, or sometimes the reasons relate to stability in the region: he said.
"We don't go along the activist path of regime change or anything like that. In
fact the service we provide Burmese people is no different from what we provide
people in China, in Vietnam, those countries (that) are having very good
bilateral relations with Australia."
The broadcasts will be transmitted to Burma seven days a week on shortwave
frequencies 12010 and 17665.
The Burmese service will begin as a 15-minute news broadcast on shortwave,
satellite and online at 5:30 am local time, and repeated three times across
peak morning listening times.
More broadcasts will be added in the evening as the service grows.
Cherry Mangrai, producer of the Burmese service, says though access to the
Internet is limited in Burma, she expects a wide audience to tune in via
shortwave.
"A lot of people would have transistor radios that they can tune in on
shortwave, and that is still very very popular in the whole of Burma, so my
audience is I think, 50 million plus," she said.
Ms Mangrai says there currently are four shortwave radio services broadcasting
into Burma, two from the United States and two from Europe.
Of Radio Australia's addition to the field, she said: "Coming from this region
closer to Burma, it would be very good, would be very refreshing for the people
in Burma.(australianetworknews.com)
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:41:55 +0100
From: Manuel M?ndez <[email protected]>
To: Conexi?n Digital <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] EMR
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Manuel M?ndez
Lugo, Espa?a
Grundig Satellit 500 y Sony ICF SW 7600 G
Antena de cable 8 metros
Escucha realizada en casco urbano de Lugo
ALEMANIA, 6140, European Music Radio, 1025-1040, 15-11, m?sica pop,
locutor, identificaci?n: "EMR, European Music Radio", a las 1030 m?s
m?sica y programa "Mail Box", con Mike Taylor. 45444. (M?ndez)
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:39:42 -0000
From: "Jorge Freitas \(Yahoo\)" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, "Hard Core DX" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] LOG 15/NOV
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
6015 15/11 0335 TANZANIA, VO Tanzania Zanzibar, *presumida*, em Swahili,
desde Dole, com 50 kW, OM talk, as 0336 UTC local mx, as 0339 UTC curta fala
do OM e nova mx, as 0342 UTC YL com men??es a Zanzibar, as 0343 UTC o que
parece nx por OM e YL com trechos de discursos, 23432 (Jorge Freitas-B)
9425 15/11 0147 UZBEKISTAN, CVC INT, em Hindi, desde Tashkent. Com 100 kW,
gospel mx, as 0150 UTC vinheta CVC, as 0151 UTC o que parece ser uma
entrevista de um OM fora do est?dio, as 0156 UTC gospel mx em estilo ?rabe
(estilo do Uzbequist?o), as 0200 UTC YL talk, as 0203 UTC pop gospel mx,
25333 (Jorge Freitas-B)
9625 15/11 0220 CANADA, CBC Radio Nord Quebec, *tentativa*, EE, desde
Sackville, com 100 kW, sequ?ncia de pop mx, as 0225 UTC OM e YL talk, forte
QRM da REE em espanhol na freq. de 9620 kHz, as 0227 UTC mx estilo jazz,
parece um programa de jazz e h? uma sequ?ncia de jazz somente instrumental
entre curtas falas do OM, as 0252 UTC desloquei a freq. para 9627 kHz para
fugir da QRM da REE. Voltando a freq. as 0347 UTC continua o px musical,
gravado, 22432 (Jorge Freitas-B)
73
Jorge Freitas
SWL1023B
Skype jorge.freitas.fsa
Escutas (listening): http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006
Blog DX: http://www.ipernity.com/home/75006
Blog Pessoal
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/107414/
Feira de Santana Bahia - Brasil
12?? 15' 1.57" S 38?? 58' 40.30" W
Degen 1103
Antena Dipolo de 16 metros Balun 4:1
Dire??o Leste/Oeste
"De Certa forma, as pessoas s?o como esponjas; elas t?m a tend?ncia de
absorver o que est? ? sua volta. ? muito f?cil adotar, mesmo sem querer, as
atitudes, os padr?es e os tra?os de personalidade daqueles com quem temos
muito contato"
"Mesmo que n?o me escutem ainda assim eu falarei, pois sei que as paredes
t?m ouvidos" (JJFS)
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:41:23 -0000
From: "Jorge Freitas \(Yahoo\)" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, "Hard Core DX" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Grava??es de Logs (Latest recordings of logs)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Colegas.
J? se encontra em meu blog as ?ltimas escutas em meus logs com trechos da
Radio Santa Helena. (Latest recordings of logs, including Radio St. Helena)
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006
73
Jorge Freitas
SWL1023B
Skype jorge.freitas.fsa
Escutas (listening): http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006
Blog DX: http://www.ipernity.com/home/75006
Blog Pessoal
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/107414/
Feira de Santana Bahia - Brasil
12?? 15' 1.57" S 38?? 58' 40.30" W
Degen 1103
Antena Dipolo de 16 metros Balun 4:1
Dire??o Leste/Oeste
"De Certa forma, as pessoas s?o como esponjas; elas t?m a tend?ncia de
absorver o que est? ? sua volta. ? muito f?cil adotar, mesmo sem querer, as
atitudes, os padr?es e os tra?os de personalidade daqueles com quem temos
muito contato"
"Mesmo que n?o me escutem ainda assim eu falarei, pois sei que as paredes
t?m ouvidos" (JJFS)
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:23:22 +0000 (GMT)
From: Horacio Nigro <[email protected]>
To: Horacio Nigro <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] My reception of 11092.5 RSH, Nov 14
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Just returned from four familiy's house in the seaside resort of El Pinar, 30
km East from Montevideo, capital city of Uruguay escaping the noise at home.
I could get the RSH broadcast beamed to India & SEAs fairly well from 2000, but
it was tough to get a readable pitch for the music and voice announcements on
my Kenwood R600 connected to a wire on the ground 50 metres beamed to the east.
I am not -and have never been- good recognizing titles for modern musical
themes but there was a song by James Taylor at 2055. I didn't stick to the
entire broadcast, checking it from time to time while I was attending other
family affairs. The worst signal was for the European target period. At 2333 I
could identify a Abba mx theme. At the time I found nice condx to AIR stations
on the 60 mb so QSYed there.
>From 2356 to 0200 4775 Imphal, 4920 Chennai, 4940 Guwahati, 4970 Shillong,
>5010 Thiruvunanthampuram booming, 5040 Jaypore, besides listed 15 KW from
>China 4220 Qinghay PBS, Tajikistan 4765 Dushanbe, made my weekend more
>interesting than RSH, with very nice signals.
73
Horacio A. Nigro
Montevideo
Uruguay
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:26:46 EST
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Nov 15 Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 6250, Radio Nac-Malabo, 0548-0615,
Nov 15, irregular. Spanish talk. Afro-pop music. Radio Nacional IDs.
News program at 0603. Fair to good but occasional rtty QRM.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
** ETHIOPIA. 5980, Voice of Tigray Rev, *0256-0305, Nov 15, sign
on with IS. Vernacular talk at 0301. Instrumental music. Horn of Africa
music. Weak. Stronger on // 5950 - but mixing with Okeechobee.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
** EURO-PIRATE. 7599.98, FRS-Holland, 0822-0834, Nov 15, lite
pop music. ?FRS-Holland? IDs. Fair signal. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** EURO-PIRATE. 7610.05, Radio Amica, 0050-0105, Nov 15, Euro-
pop music. Italian announcements. ID at 0102. Fair. Good signal on
peaks. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** MALI. 7285.88, RTVM, *0752-0810, Nov 15, abrupt sign on with
rustic tribal music. Flute IS & French ID announcements at 0759.
Vernacular talk at 0801. Good signal strength but low modulation.
// 9635 at 0800 sign on with a fair signal. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** SIERRA LEONE [non]. via VTC Rampisham, UK, 11875, Cotton
Tree News, *0730-0800*, Nov 15, abrupt sign on with English news
in progress. ?CTN? ID at 0736. Talk in English & vernacular. Weak.
Poor in noisy conditions. Very difficult to understand English due to
thick accents. Thanks to Glenn Hauser tip. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** ZANZIBAR. 11735, Voice of Tanzania-Zanzibar, 1758-1810, Nov 15,
tune-in to local drums. Time pips at 1759:30 and English news. IDs.
Swahili talk and local pop music at 1808. Good. (Brian Alexander, PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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