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Today's Topics:
1. Tues Morn ([email protected])
2. Glenn Hauser logs November 24, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Re: Uruguay 49m 6045 R Sarandi, Montevideo (Horacio Nigro)
4. Band Scan (Robert Wilkner)
5. LOG 24/Nov (Jorge Freitas (Yahoo))
6. (Test) (Konnie Rychalsky)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:51:44 -0000
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, "ALF" <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, "Robert Wilkner" <[email protected]>, "Marie
Lamb" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, "Gayle Van Horn"
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, "DSWCI"
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, "arnaldo slaen"
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Tues Morn
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Vietnam, 5925, Voice of Vietnam, 1100-1115 Tuned in at 1100 with steady
music. At about 1101 a male and female give opening comments in Vietnamese,
this is followed
with a female presenting the news. The signal was steady at a fair level.
(Chuck
Bolland, November24, 2009)
Russia (non)(pres), 6115, WYFR, 1115-1130 Noted a religious program in the
Chinese
language. At about 1122, address given in slow English. AOKI says this is
being relayed via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy in Russia. Infact the signal
begins to
fade at 1130 UTC. (Chuck Bolland, November 24, 2009)
China, 6125, China National Radio One, Shijiazhuang, 1134-1145+ Noted a
male and
female in Chinese language news and commentary. Found parallel broadcast on
6175, and 7230 KHz with possibly more parallel broadcasts undiscovered.
Signal was fair on 6125
while the others were poor. (Chuck Bolland, November 24, 2009)
Russia,(non) 6135, Deutsche Welle, Irkutsk, 1140-1150, At tune in, noted a
female in
Chinese language comments, which was probably news. Every once in a while,
a male
comments in German. Signal was good. AOKI says this is being relayed via
Irkutsk in
Russia. (Chuck Bolland, November 24, 2009)
Watkins Johnson HF1000
26.27N 081.05W
http://www.orchidcitysoftware.com/IMAGE59.HTML
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:27:51 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 24, 2009
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** AUSTRIA. 17610, AWR Afar service via Moosbrunn at 1430-1500 continues to be
a regular here, far from the target; Nov 24 at 1448 with heavy quick echo which
I can only assume was longpath/shortpath simultaneously. It`s aimed 145
degrees, which is close to oppositewards, so a lot of signal is pushed the far
way round, while plenty of the 300 kW signal also reaches us off the back
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. Looking for R. Cultura, S?o Paulo, reported active on 9615 after
1500 a week ago by Richard Bianchino, NV: Nov 24 at 1355 no trace of a carrier,
nor at 1455 when 9610 has big splashy signal from RCI in Chinese. Skeds
indicate 9615 itself is free of major broadcasters at 14-16, but there could be
even more opportune windows without the adjacencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) RNA vs XEPPM: see MEXICO [and non]
** CANADA. Something strange on 11232.0, Nov 24 at 1509: seems like a repeater,
with intermittent 2-way conversations on AM, carrier stays on in between.
Sounds like US military net, discussing GPS devices. One side IDed as ``radar
maintenance``, and the other sounded like ``Century`` something.
Short transmissions in lingo, always asking how copy? Copy. 1514 something
about clearing RAM, PPI screen. One of them has background noise as if in a
craft. From the FRG-7 I switch to the DX-398 and find the voices are on USB
only, so what really must be happening is that another transmitter is running
open carrier zero-beat, to assist demodulation??
At 1519 interrupted for an unrelated contact, Atlas 341 calling Trenton
Military which said to change (not `QSY`) to 9007, so now we know it`s
Canadian, not American, I beg your pardon. No tell-tale Canadian accents had
been detected.
1519-1525+ more contacts between ``Century Art(?)`` and ``radar maintenance``,
the latter being weaker, with instruxions on jumping antenna modules, or
something like that. Probably a training exercise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 7650-7700, OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here, Nov 24 at 1411; no
broadcasters harmed in this range. I know this is rather boring, but feel this
stuff should be documented; yet I admit there are a lot more instances I don`t
bother to log (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 24 at 1412: fair on 8400, nothing on 9000 or 10210
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Yet another instance of rapid clix above a DentroCuban Jamming Command
frequency, which I believe to be jammer spurs: Nov 24 at 1416 on 13882, i.e. 62
kHz above Mart? jamming on 13820, and this one interferes with RHC leapfrog
spur on 13880, i.e. 13680 over 13780, DentroCubans vs DentroCubans!
Others have been about 52 kHz apart, which seems to be a favorite offset in
Cuba, also for the two dozen spurs generated by the 11760 transmitter, now in
its twenty-first day of not doing so, i.e. almost as long as the period they
were doing so thru Nov 3.
BTW, the DentroCubans are celebrating Thanksgiving Nov 26-29 with war games in
anticipation of the next US invasion, per press reports via Yimber Gavir?a;
might make for some interesting utility if not spy and broadcast DX listening
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. AIR blobcheck Nov 24 at 1333: very poor reception today on both 9425
and 9470, weak plus adjacent QRM, but listening on two receivers finally
decided they were // but offset by a few Hindi words. In any event, modulation
seemed normal, and no blob instead from 9470 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9525.9, checking VOI Nov 24 whether they are still excursing
Tuesdays to Banjarmasin? Just as I tuned in at 1344, ``Welcome to another show
from RRI Banjarmasin``, then YL talk seemingly about royal succession 1251
years ago (or was it in year 1251?). Fair modulation but still requires extreme
concentration to try to follow.
Recheck at 1457 when CRI comes on 9525.0, but only producing a very weak het
today from Kashgar, East Turkistan, and could still listen to the end of the
Malay hour on VOI, music from which ran thru hourtop, 1502 restarting English,
and just barely got a ``sound of dignity`` slogan out before cut off the air
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ISRAEL. As I was outchecking the WEWN spur on 13845 instead of WWCR, Nov 24
at *1446 continuous tonetest started on 13850, presumably Kol Israel`s Persian
service from 1500, with 250 kW to burn an additional quarter-hour. BTW, Kol is
not an acronym or an initialism, but simply the Hebrew word for Voice, so
should not be in all-caps (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 6185, XEPPM check Nov 24 vs RNA Brasil: at 0630, XE in the
clear with Spanish announcement and soft guitar music, but quite
undermodulated. Confusingly, at *0649 guitar music became loud as RNA cut on
the air, coincidentally playing similar music, then Portuguese announcement //
11780 also on by then. This time RHC 11760 not strong enough to desensitize up
to 11780, tho plenty signal on 11760 itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PORTUGAL [and non]. RDPI really screwed up: with big signals on two
unscheduled frequencies, 9455 and 9855, first heard on the latter Nov 24 at
0613 giving full schedule for this hour, but only SW frequency mentioned was
7345, normally on the air 06-07 only, to Europe, but nothing there now; plus
all those satellite channels, which do we really need to hear about on SW?
9855 was blocking one of only three VOR English to North America frequencies,
the one via Vladivostok, with a SAH of approx. 215/minute, while the Russians
themselves were blocking another (see RUSSIA and previous reports), 9840.
RDPI programming mostly music, then at 0621 found // 9455 fortuitously not
colliding with anything. But 9455 transmitter was putting out a noisy spur on
9430 interfering with CVC Zambia which is now scheduled there from 04 to 07
instead of just one hour previously. At 0627 the FRG-7 metered 9455 at S9+25
and 9855 at only S9+20.
Recheck at 0659, still nothing on 7345 as per their announcement they were
moving from there to 9815, where nothing heard either after 0700, while 9455
and 9855 continued, the latter now clear of VOR which had just closed.
Now, when is RDPI REALLY supposed to be on those two frequencies?
9455 is registered as 00-03 Tue-Sat to NAm, also 17-20 M-F, 17-21 Sat/Sun to
Europe. And 9855, 00-03 Tue-Sat for Mexico down to western Brasil and northern
Bolivia.
So a theory: the transmitter op fell asleep and failed to turn them off at
0300, oops! Or can we blame the automation if no human was really present? In
that case, we blame a human somewhere in charge of the automation. Let`s hope
this was a singular event.
Was also listening to RDPI on 15690, Nov 24 when it suddenly dumped off the air
at 1442, and not back in next couple minutes. This one eastward is supposed to
run 14-16 weekdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. Poor VOR, or rather poor would-be English listeners in North
America, favored with only three weak direct frequencies instead of one strong
French Guiana relay like the Latin Americans get, until 0700*. As previously
noted, 9840 collides with R. Rossii in Russian, this time making a SAH of about
105/minute at 0613 Nov 24, but even worse, 9855 was totally blocked by PORTUGAL
[q.v.] which was running slightly overtime past 0700 instead of ceasing at
scheduled 0300*. Also VOR listed from Pet/Kam until 0700 is 12030, which may or
may not be propagating.
6075 check Nov 24 until 1400* for 8GAL CW marker on 6074: nothing from that,
but did note that R. Rossii, Petropavlovsk/Kamchatskiy transmitter has been
cleaned up, no longer a big rumbler, but with BFO on, still slightly unstable
carrier. Jazz right up to timesignal; they never say good-night, or anything,
at sign-off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 11785, buzz Nov 24 at 1415. Still can`t detect any Arabic
mixing, and this time no Chinese audible underneath either. At 1450, 13m was
barely open and could hear Qur`an very poorly on 21460, a carrier on 21640, the
other Riyadh frequencies, but no signal on 21505 which used to be the big
buzzer until 1500. As I have previously outpointed, BSKSA did use 11785 in the
B-08 season but it is yet to appear on any B-09 schedules (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9355, WYFR in Italian, Nov 24 at 0625, again with Harold Camping in
English audible underneath. While I am convinced the previous 3-day run of this
I monitored was produced at Okeechobee, this time it was produced at Enid, i.e.
receiver overload from the very strong WYFR English frequency 9680. Unlike
previously, I could get rid of it by attenuating or detuning the preselector.
Just an example of how a seemingly same fluke can happen for totally different
reasons (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Eleven days after being sentenced to 175 years in prison for child
sexual abuse, ``Tony Al?mo`` is still welcome to ``evangelize`` on WINB, 9265,
Nov 24 at 1340. Perhaps he has an ironclad contract for airtime? More likely
WINB doesn`t give a damn what creeps they put on the air, much less serving the
public interest in any way whatsoever.
At the moment he was rambling, ``didn`t go to the beach and get a corn dog
today,`` which would seem slightly off-topic, to Amens from a YL apparently
named Susan --- one of his victims? No telling how old this recording is. She
then read mail from an alleged fan in London who wanted a CD of something Alamo
said to listen to over and over. Then quoting Mark IV:20, interrupted for
annotations by Bernie LaZar Hoffmann.
O, Susan must be his long-embalmed wife, Susan Lipowitz, as in the incredible
long story here,
http://www.tonyalamonews.com/3027/112109-remember-the-alamo-tony-alamo.php
who died in 1982, so a fairly old show, unless another Susan has come along
since.
It`s not all over yet; various associates are facing charges, and the above
story says: ``Alamo must return to court on January 13, 2010, for a hearing to
determine whether five women who testified about sexual abuse will be paid up
to US$2.7 million in restitution." (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. One WWCR transmitter was down on Nov 23, and another one on Nov 24:
nothing from PMS/DGS audible on 13845 around 1430 tho 15825 was propagating,
and 7490, 9980 inblasting as usual. At 1445 switched on BFO and confirmed that
WEWN 13835 spur now had 13845 to itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. VOA on 7575 per latest schedules is supposed to switch from
Tinian to Thailand at 1400, but remain in English. I think this has truly been
the case on recent occasions, but not Nov 24: at 1410, good S9+18 signal on
1410, but in Chinese ? didn`t sound like Mandarin, tho, so probably Cantonese.
Same at 1451 recheck. Per the VOA A-Z language schedule, Cantonese is at 13-15,
but the only 7 MHz frequency is 7390, while Mandarin is supposed to be on 7525.
A mixup in program feeds, or deliberate site/language-switching to confuse the
ChiCom jammers, not to mention the would-be listeners? Too, signal level now
makes Tinian or Tinang site more likely than Thailand (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:33:58 +0000 (GMT)
From: Horacio Nigro <[email protected]>
To: Horacio Nigro <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Uruguay 49m 6045 R Sarandi, Montevideo
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
--Spanish text---
A m?s de diez dias del reporte como activa de esta emisora, la misma contin?a
emitiendo, pero de forma tan ineficiente que su trasmisi?n es una mezcla de
Banda Lateral con portadora reducida y FM...
---English text---
10 dias after first monitoring this station resuming, they're still on the air,
but with substandard trasmission quality. It seems a mixture of reduced carrier
SSB and FM.
(Horacio Nigro, Uruguay Nov 24)
73
Horacio A. Nigro
Montevideo
Uruguay
________________________________
De: Horacio Nigro <[email protected]>
Para: Horacio Nigro <[email protected]>
Enviado: jue,12 noviembre, 2009 11:34
Asunto: Uruguay 49m 6045 R Sarandi, Montevideo reactivada!
Uruguay. 6045 R Sarand?, Montevideo. 1035 con se?al de moderada intensidad
retrasmitiendo OM 690, con entrevista al candidato presidencial Dr.
Lacalle. Un poco sobremodulado o distorsionada la modulaci?n. Prob? USB con
mejor resultado, encontrando la portadora estable. (Nigro, Uruguay, Nov 12)
R. Sport se esperaba se reactivara aqu? hace unos meses en SSB pero esto es AM
y Sarandi es de la misma compa??a o grupo.
Envi? correo-e a la emisora pero no han respondido por el momento ni siquiera
menci?n al aire.
Horacio A. Nigro
Montevideo
Uruguay
Horacio A. Nigro
Montevideo
Uruguay
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:11:55 -0500
From: Robert Wilkner <[email protected]>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [HCDX] Band Scan
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Band Scan 15 November to 23 November 2009
2310 Australia, VL8A Alice Springs NT 0930
2325 Australia, VL8T Tennant Creek NT 0930
2379.93 Brasil, Radio Educadora, Limeira, SP 0930, 0000
2485 Australia, VL8K Katherine NT 0930
3250 Honduras, Radio Luz y Vida, San Luis 1130, 0100
3279.6v Ecuador, La Voz del Napo Tena 1000, 0100
3309.98v Bolivia, Radio Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba 0930, 0000
3329.53 Peru, Ondas del Huallaga, Hu?nuco 2300, 1000 IF Notch for CHU
3340 Honduras, Radio Misiones Internacionales Comayag?ela 0100
3375.34 Brasil, R Municipal S?o Gabriel da Cachoeira 0900, 0000
4409.85 Bolivia, Radio Eco, Reyes 2300
4451.2 Bolivia, Radio Santa Ana, Santa Ana de Yacuma 2300
4700 [?] Bolivia Radio San Miguel, Riberalta seems silent last few days
4716.64 Bolivia, Radio Yura, Yura 2300, 0950
4746.94 Peru, Radio Huanta 2000 Huanta Ayacucho 2300
4774.9 Peru, Radio Tarma. Tarma 2300
4781.49 Bolivia, Radio Tacana, Tumupasa. 2310 when active
4790 Peru, Radio Visi?n Chiclayo 0900 , 0000
4796.49.Bolivia Radio Lipez, Uyuni 2300, 1000
4800 Mexico,XERTA, Radio Trans. weak 1000 irregular ?
4805 Brasil, Radio Difusora do Amazonas,Manaus, 2230 Jazz 19 November.
4824.49 Peru, La Voz de la Selva, Iquitos 0930, 0000
4825 Brasil,Radio Can??o Nova, Cachoeira Paulista, S?o Paulo 0006
4835t. Australia, NT 0750 very weak also similar weak 4910 on 20 November.
4835.42 Peru, Radio Mara?on Jaen 0000, 0940
4845.2 Brasil, Radio Cultura Ondas Tropicais, Manaus
4857.37 Peru, Radio La Hora, Cusco 2250
4985.0 Brasil Radio Brasil Central, Goainia Excellent signals 0000,
0930 in Florida with music sports. On of the strongest on the band.
4990 Suriname,Radio Apintie, Paramaribo 0730 Dutch om, 20 November
5059.92 Peru La Voz de las Huarinjas, Huancabamba 2300 to 2350, music
en espanol y locutor. 19 November.
5120 XXX Peru, Ondas del Suroriente, Quillabamba no logs, silent?
5459.728 Peru Radio Bolivar Cd. Bolivar 2350 on 18 November
5580.2 Bolivia Radio San Jos?, San Jos? de Chiquitos 2330
5952 Bolivia Pio XII, Siglo Veinte 0000, 1030
6019.65 Peru Radio Victoria Lima 0750 , 0000, 1000
=
73s
de
Bob
[Robert Wilkner]
Pompano Beach, Florida
Drake R 8, Icom 746Pro DL,
Sony 2010XA
noise reducing antenna
60 meter band dipole
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:32:44 -0000
From: "Jorge Freitas \(Yahoo\)" <[email protected]>
To: "Hard Core DX" <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] LOG 24/Nov
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Blog http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006
9745 24/Nov 0831 TAIWAN, Voice of Han, *presumed*, in Chinese, from Kuanyin,
with 250 kW, romantic mx Chinese, at 0833 UTC two YL Talk happily, recorded,
35433 (Jorge Freitas-B)
9765 24/Nov 0752 NEW ZEALAND, R New Zealand, EE, from Rangitaiki, with 50
kW, pop local mx, at 0754 UTC OM talk and ID after local mx, at 0800 UTC
signal time and OM and YL with nx, at 0820 UTC px local mx, at 0829 UTC ID
by YL, recorded, 35433 (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: 6
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:58:53 -0500
From: Konnie Rychalsky <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] (Test)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
This is just a test e-mail... Last Hard-Core-DX post into my e-mail-box was 7
hours ago (2:50 PM EST today) and am checking if this e-mail arrives, or not.
It is now 10 PM EST... and no new posts received. Either the bands are dead,
or I missed a really big party somewhere. (Konnie Rychalsky, SW CT Nov 24,
2009)
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