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Today's Topics:
1. LA ROSA DE TOKYO PARA ESTE FIN DE SEMANA: PROGRAMA EVICATIVO
DEDICADO A LR4 RADIO SPLENDID (Primera Parte) (Arnaldo)
2. Voice of America expands audience (Arnaldo)
3. UNID 9584.68 at 0140 UT on Nov 22 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
4. Glenn Hauser logs November 27-28, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
5. Nov 27-28 Logs ([email protected])
6. Logs from NH-USA, Nov 28 (Scott R. Barbour Jr.)
7. Glenn Hauser logs November 28, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:24:14 +0100
From: "Arnaldo" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: Carlos Felipe <[email protected]>, [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected], NoticiasDX
<[email protected]>, Domesticas Y Tropicales
<[email protected]>, Luis Mar?a Barassi
<[email protected]>, playdx2003 <[email protected]>,
DXLD <[email protected]>, [email protected],
[email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] LA ROSA DE TOKYO PARA ESTE FIN DE SEMANA: PROGRAMA
EVICATIVO DEDICADO A LR4 RADIO SPLENDID (Primera Parte)
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La Rosa de Tokyo, el programa semanal de DX y medios de comunicaci?n irradiado
a trav?s de LS11 Radio Provincia de Buenos Aires (AM1270
Khz;www.amprovincia.com.ar y una importante red de emisoras de frecuencia
modulada, amplitud modulada y onda corta de la Argentina y el resto del mundo)
El programa de esta semana ser? el primero de una serie de dos dedicado a
revisar el pasado, el presente y el futuro de una de las emisoras m?s
representativas y emblem?ticas de la radiofon?a argentina: LR4 RADIO SPLENDID.
Escucharemos interesant?simas entrevistas realizadas por La Rosa de Tokyo a
prominentes figuras que pasaron por la radio y que revivir?n los momentos m?s
gloriosos y m?s significativos de esta estaci?n.
No se pierdan los registros sonoros hist?ricos con los cuales se "ilustrar?" el
programa.
La Rosa de Tokyo se irradia los s?bados desde las 0900 hasta las 1000 hora de
la Argentina (1200 a 1300 horas UTC).- En caso de querer escuchar el programa
en cualquier momento pueden visitar la excelente p?gina programas DX en
http://programasdx.com/larosadetokio.htm
Omar Somma y Arnaldo Slaen
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:37:35 +0100
From: "Arnaldo" <[email protected]>
To: "DXLD" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], playdx2003
<[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Voice of America expands audience
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Facing a group of presidents loudly critical of Washington, the U.S.
government's Voice of America broadcast is expanding its audience in Venezuela,
Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua, VOA officials said.
VOA's Spanish-language division also will step up its use of Radio/TV Marti's
production facilities in Miami because of budget pressures on both
broadcasters, the officials added.
The VOA effort to grow its Latin American audience comes as the Obama
administration tries to counter the attacks on U.S. policies by several
presidents in the region: Hugo Ch?vez in Venezuela, Evo Morales in Bolivia,
Rafael Correa in Ecuador and Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua.
"Our focus is on the Andean region because of the upheavals that are going on
there," said Alberto Mascaro, Spanish division director. "Our second priority
is Central America, especially Nicaragua and Honduras."
The Andean region includes Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia, Colombia and Peru.
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, a Ch?vez ally, was ousted in July and is
seeking to return to power.
VOA -- which only broadcasts internationally -- transmits its reports via
shortwave radio, local FM affiliates and satellite television as well as its
Web pages. Funded by the government, it is required to observe standards of
"accuracy, balance, comprehensiveness, and objectivity."
''We need to contribute to informed dialogue" in the Andean region and Central
America, Joan Mower, VOA public relations and development director, told El
Nuevo Herald in a telephone interview from Washington.
Mower said VOA has 319 affiliated radio stations in the Andean region that
broadcast its free programs -- 199 in Bolivia, 77 in Colombia and seven each in
Ecuador and Peru. It also has 95 television affiliates, with the largest
number, 23, in Colombia. The Spanish division has 21 staffers and a 2009 budget
of $3.1 million.
VOA's ruling Board of Broadcasting Governors decided to increase the
broadcaster's reach into the Andes and Central America after three board
members toured the two regions this summer, Mower said.
The broadcaster, looking to hire a marketing specialist to increase the number
of affiliates, recently completed a major update of its Spanish-language Web
site and last month gathered 17 Latin American freelancers in Washington for
training, she added.
Starting next month, VOA will run training sessions for journalists in Bolivia,
Argentina, Panama and Haiti on how to cover the swine flu epidemic. It's also
working to give affiliates easier Internet access to broadcast-quality video
and audio materials.
VOA's most recent surveys in the five Andean countries plus Cuba showed a total
audience of 1.9 million adults -- 1.4 million on radio, 500,000 on television
and 200,000 on the Internet, Mower said.
Mascaro said the increased use of Radio/TV Marti's Miami studios is the result
of budget pressures on both broadcasters.
''In a time of tight budgets, we see a need to maximize resources, and the OCB
has a great infrastructure," said Mascaro, a Cuban American who was chief of
staff at the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB), in charge of the Marti
operations. He was hired by VOA in August.
Radio/TV Marti now has about 170 employees and a 2009 budget of $34.8 million,
but its 2010 budget is under attack by congressional critics who argue that
Cuban government jamming blocks virtually all TV Marti reception on the island.
(-- Miami Herald )
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:03:15 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>, "DXLD" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] UNID 9584.68 at 0140 UT on Nov 22
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UNID 9584.68 kHz noted hetting 9580 channel, 0140 UT on Nov 22.
Maybe R Globo Brazil
or
9581v PBS Radio ng Bayan 2300-1100 Filipino 0.5 ND Quezon City-Marulas PHL
DZFM
wb
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:37:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 27-28, 2009
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** ALBANIA. 7435, R. Tirana in Albanian music at 2153 Nov 27: quite distorted
modulation as happens too frequently from Shijak (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANGUILLA [and non]. Caribbean Beacon is normally later than nominal 2200
switching from 11775 to 6090, but Nov 27 at 2159, DGS already audible on 6090
mixing with VOR IS and DRM from both sides, quite a squeeze job, Ismaning,
Germany from 6085 and Junglinster, Luxembourg, also in German, from 6095, while
VOR is 285 degrees from ``Armavir`` at 21-23 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. While a few days ago I found RA incoming well after 1600 on 11980
via Darwin, it was barely audible Nov 28; instead, 9710 via Shepparton was
best, on 30 degree beam toward Alaska, 1605 opening Margaret Throsby interview
show, but first playing Greensleeves (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BULGARIA. 15700, R. Bulgaria, Nov 28 at 1430 ID in Bulgarian and into folk
music show called ``Chardota`` or something like that, sounded Roma. Much
better than // 11700. I was going to keep listening to it, but first a bit more
bandscanning, which sidetracked me to another music feature on R. Mart?; see
CUBA [non]. The Sat 1430 semihour on RB is worth a weekly revisit (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 28 at 1427: good on 9000, better on 8400 and just
barely audible on 10210. Why does relative reception of the big 3 FD channels
vary so much? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. 5910, Nov 28 at 0634, timecheck for 1:36 and Marfil Est?reo ID;
this time had to strain to make it out, weaker than usual; also the area can
get desensitized by super signals from WWCR on both sides, 5890 and 5935 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC anomaly survey Nov 28: at 0610, 6140 in English, Ed Newman (not
Noonan as Ken Zichi guesses), phone ringing audible in background. Much
stronger // 6060 and 6010 with no phone audible, and at this time 6060 did not
have Spanish service audio mixed in either!
Cuba does its best to make enemies, not just of the US but of other Latin
Americans --- like jamming the innocuous media/DX show La Rosa de Tokio
produced in Argentina, UT Sat Nov 28 at 0614. Strong rapid jamming pulses were
disrupting this on WRMI 9955, altho not a wall of noise. Try again when it`s
scheduled 24 hours later, UT Sunday 0600-0700.
6110 had been missing before 1500 the last few days, but Nov 28 it was back as
early as 1357 in music show (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. I axually listened to R. Mart? on Saturday morning for more than
an hour and conclude it`s getting a bum wrap as merely ``la emisora
propagand?stica norteamericana`` as R. Nederland always calls it along with
RFE/RL. 15330 was inbooming as usual Nov 28 at 1436, well atop the DentroCuban
jamming, tho as time went on the relative jamming level built up.
RM was telling the story of ``Do?a la Negra``, a Veracruz washerwoman with a
wonderful voice discovered by Agust?n Lara, and went on to be a big singing
star. It seems the Mexicans had no qualms about nicknaming people by their
race. A string of at least a semidozen names made up her birth monicker; I
never caught them all, but started with Marieta. It also seems she was too
pre-Internet to get any significant Google hits.
Excerpts of her singing were playing continuously along with the narrative, but
we never got to hear a complete song uninterrupted. She was obviously Mexican,
Jarocha to be specific, but show also dealt with Cuban influence upon her
music. After a scandal-free life, she died on 19 Dec 1982.
At 1452 moved on to another singer, a sonero, whose 90th birth anniversary is
current, Bartolom? Mor? (sp? a.k.a. Benny, or Barto). 1459 cut to R. Mart?
theme and ID, as if the program were interrupted, and the name of it was not
outroed.
1500 starting Resumen Semanal, this week on a Thanksgiving theme, with
interviews made at the Miami International Book Fair; at 1535, when I tried
13820 but found jamming worse there, while 11930 was buried, it was Robert
Fleming, ``an enormous gringo`` who wrote a book after walking from one end of
Cuba to the other, to get to know the common people and found them very
hospitable, tho wondering why he didn`t hire a car. After 1600 continued with
more from the MIBF.
All this was very well-produced and enlightening, not hard-line exile
propaganda at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 11040-11065, OTH radar pulses, presumed from here, Nov 28 at 1417.
Please keep them this far out of SWBC bands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 6270, R. Cairo, English to Europe but also USward beyond at 330
degrees, Nov 27 at 2203 sufficient modulation, YL talking about schools in
Congo, recipe, 2209 on an Egyptian film director. No QRM a tall (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9690, AIR GOS in English, Nov 28 at 1422, talking about air pollution
in Indian cities. This frequency always has a hum on it, not so bad as to drive
away listeners, but wouldn`t a little filtering take care of that? Site listed
for this 1330 sesquihour to SE Asia is Bangalore (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. KGYN 1210 Guymon: Nov 27 at 2046 UT caradio was at one of the
regular hotspots for AM reception in western Enid. At first, nothing but very
weak traces on 1210, then KGYN fades in with ``US Country 1210 KGYN`` ID and
then fades back down. Never reached normal sufficient level when on 10 kW
non-direxional daytime groundwave, so this was skywave, at reduced or
direxional-west power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES [non]. 11715, Tagalog talk with music bed, Nov 28 at 1524; RVA
via VATICAN; low rumble het KJES off-frequency but well atop it until latter
started gaining at 1530, with chorus audible. Catholix via Catholix vs
Catholix! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. VOR WS in English to NAm check Nov 28 at 0615: 9840 tho with some
co-channel under from R Rossii, better signal than // 9855, and no signal this
time from 12030 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SERBIA [non]. 6100, Nov 27 at 2154, presumed Balkan music making fast SAH
with RCI Viva in French which was on top. Still same mix at 2204 when
International Radio Serbia should have been in English, and RCI was changing to
Mandarin. Not to be confused with CRI in Chinese, also scheduled at 2200 from
Kunming. Going by the `book` rather than reality, CRI and RCI may pretend IRS
is not there since it does not participate in HFCC, to everyone`s detriment
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SEYCHELLES [non]. WEWN inaudible and presumably off the 12050 air (it did
have a fair signal in Spanish on 11550), facilitating hearing something on
12045, Nov 28 at 1413, YL in English mentioning meter band more than once, then
apparently reading a Bible story with extra expressiveness. Poor signal with
flutter. Must be FEBA via UAE as scheduled 14-15 in several S Asian languages,
per Aoki, except Saturday it is supposed to be a quarter hour each of
Malayalam, Konkani, Urdu and Kashmiri, but this was in English, a very rare
language for this station, supposedly only on Sundays at 1400-1430. Of course
one gains nothing about the world of reality by hearing them in English,
whenever that may be (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. WWCR`s pdf program guide for November still shows
Brother Scare 7 days a week at 1500-1900 on 13845, but Nov 28 at 1515 there was
DGS instead, and at 1540 PMS; only fair signal with no Es help from this
direxion. Too bad, as it`s Sabbath when BS would have wanted as many outlets as
possible, such as WBCQ on 15420-CUSB earlier than usual other days of week
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA [non]. The Tamil Tigers` specials expired Nov 27, as nothing heard
on 11510, Nov 28 at 1418 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 17745, Sudan Radio Service via PORTUGAL, Sat Nov 28 at 1505,
M&W discussion about the importance of registering to vote, with usual heavy
echo imposed on speech but not on music bits interspersed. Sounds like
something out of Washington. O, I said that before, but so did they about
registering to vote, an obsessive topic with SRS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WWV loud and clear on 20000, Nov 28 at 1513, so it has to be sporadic
E opening at less than 800 km. Not enough to inbring KOA aux on 25950, however,
quickly sought (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 11525, VOA World News Now, Nov 28 at 1521 about Black Friday;
poor signal, not noticed here before, a recent change? Listed as Tinang,
PHILIPPINES, 283 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) R. Mart?: see
CUBA [non]
UNIDENTIFIED. 6074, Nov 28 spanning the 1401 minute, 8GAL V/CQ marker just
barely audible under Chinese radio war on 6075. BTW, just before the hour as I
was intuning, noticed some other CW circa 6085, not just a marker (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:27:50 EST
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Nov 27-28 Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** BRAZIL. 5970, Radio Itatiaia, Belo Horizonte, 0730-0745, Nov 28,
tentative with Brazilian music. Portuguese talk. Radio-drama. Poor.
Weak in noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** BRAZIL. 6009.95, Radio Inconfidencia, Belo Horizonte, 0700-0725,
Nov 28, local folk music. ID at 0720. Audible after Cuba 6010 sign off
at 0700. Fair signal but slight QRM from weak unidentified station on
6009.81. Possibly Colombia?s LV de tu Conciencia. (Brian Alexander,
PA)
** BRAZIL. 9565.07, Super Radio Deus e Amor, Curitiba, 0620-0704,
Nov 28, usual Portuguese preacher. Some religious music. ID at 0703.
Weak but readable. // 6060 - weak under Cuba. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** BRAZIL. 11925.07, Radio Bandeirantes, Sao Paulo, 0600-0615,
Nov 28, Portuguese talk. // 9645.31 - both frequencies weak but
readable. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 6025.04, Radio Amanecer Internacional,
2320-2355, Nov 27, Spanish religious talk. Religious music. ID. Poor
in noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** SUDAN [non]. via Sines, Portugal, 17745, Sudan Radio Service,
1510-1600+, Nov 28, tune-in to English ?Lets Talk? program with
talk about Sudanese elections. IDs. Into Arabic talk at 1527 along
with local African music past 1600. Fair. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** ZANZIBAR. 11735, Voice of Tanzania-Zanzibar, 1750-2058*,
Nov 28, continuous local Mid-East style music. Local drums at 1858
and possible news in Swahili at 1859 followed by more local music.
Swahili talk at 2000. Phone-talk. Sign off with National Anthem. No
English heard. English previously heard on Saturdays but not today.
Good. (Brian Alexander, PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:31:52 -0800 (PST)
From: "Scott R. Barbour Jr." <[email protected]>
To: Gayle Van Horn <[email protected]>, Mark Taylor
<[email protected]>, Dave Valko <[email protected]>, NASWAyg
<[email protected]>, DXLD <[email protected]>, DXplorer
<[email protected]>, HCDX <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs from NH-USA, Nov 28
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3945, VANUATU, R. Vanuatu Port Vila, 1006, Nov 26, vernacular. M & W announcer
w/ talk in unid. language; poor but audible until 3947LSB ham net s/on a few
minutes later, w/ your host "Bob" & a dogpile of op's just dying to talk about
their rigs, local weather & sister's gout; as they do every day I've tried for
Vanuatu since mid-October; do these people EVER take a day
off? (Barbour-NH)
5010, MADAGASCAR, RTV Malagasy Antananarivo, *0230-0303, Nov 27, presumed
Malagasy. S/on w/ up-beat, folk-like mx; followed by a variety of continuos mx;
choral, ballads, pop-like; until 0256 when instrumental loop (IS?); choral
anthem at 0258; then ID ancment at 0300 into acoustic mx; fair in reduced
carrier USB. (Barbour-NH)
5035.1, R. Aparecida Aparecida, 0337-0346, Nov 28, Portuguese. Ad string;
canned ancment w/ several ment. Aparecida; "breathless" M ancr at 0340;
tentative ID at 0344 & brief talk into mx; fair-poor. (Barbour-NH)
7165, ETHIOPIA, V. of Peace & Democracy, *0358-0415, Nov 28, listed Tigrinya.
HoA mx & IDs at s/on; brief ancrs w/ "Salaam" & s/on ancment; talk & pop-like
HoA mx; fair; //9560v-poor; tnx B. Alexander tip. (Barbour-NH)
15295, MALAYSIA, V. of Malaysia Kajang, 1137-1206*, Nov 28, Mandarin. Ancr w/
talk &
pop-like mx; "Voice of Malaysia" ID & jingle at 1156 followed by filler mx; 1+1
pips at ToH
w/ ID & ancr in (P) Malay; "surf" mx bit at 1204; talk & ballad at 1206 when
pulled-the-plug; poor-fair; much improved by ToH. (Barbour-NH)
Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA
NRD-545, RX-350D, MLB1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:03:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 28, 2009
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** CANADA. Aha, I caught CFRX mentioning the still applicable but suppressed
CFRB call letters just before ``Newstalk 10-10``, Nov 28 at 2237 on 6070, then
ads. As for the SW call, CFRX, forget it, never to be spoken. CFRX lux out with
little co-channel QRM much of the time, despite not being protected by DOC or
RCI at HFCC.
But this hour is worst, a fast SAH of some 10 Hz and audio under, probably
Romania in Spanish at 247 degrees. VOA English via Thailand USward at 18
degrees could also be a grayline problem here at 22-24. Not to mention ELWA
Liberia, 5 kW non-direxional until 2300, if active? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA [and non]. 5910, during the previous hour had been BBCWS via South
Africa --- see UK [non] --- but at 2321 Nov 28 that was gone tho it did run
past 2300, and instead hearing ``B?same Mucho``, slow song which would seem too
hot for an evangelical station, as romantic human love can detract from
mandatory love of God, but it must have been Marfil Est?reo nonetheless, as
after a couple of segu?s to other tunes, typical announcement with time check
at 2333.
Since this was in, I also tuned for the other HJDH, its sibling station on
6010, La Voz de tu Conciencia --- a messy pileup there at 2325; think I heard
some Brazilian and some Chinese, but mainly a wavering audible het plus some
music. What`s on 6010 at this hour, per Aoki?
CNR 11, Baoji in Tibetan, 100 kW, 255 degrees, active?
R. Bahrain, 5 kW, non-direxional, 24 hours and really rare in NAm
R. Free Asia, via UAE in Tibetan, plus ChiCom CNR1 jamming, natch
R. Inconfid?ncia, Belo Horizonte, Brasil, 5 kW, 122 degrees
R. Parinacota, Putre, Chile, 1 kW, non-direx 24h; but active?
Voz de tu Conciencia, Puero Lleras, 5 kW, N-D, 24h, active?
XEOI, N?cleo Radio Mil, DF, 250 watts, N-D, 24h
Earlier Nov 28 at 0700, Brian Alexander in PA measured:
6009.95, Radio Inconfid?ncia, Belo Horizonte,
6009.81, Possibly Colombia?s LV de tu Conciencia
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Any English from RHC at 2030-2130? No English before or after 2100 Nov
28 on: 11730, 11760, 11770, 11800, 13770, just Spanish.
DCJC grinding on 11600 at 2059 Nov 28, against what? I tuned aside momentarily
to check DW on 11605, and when I went back to 11600, the jamnoise was gone, or
almost. With BFO there was a bit of hash, possibly a spur of something unID
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ECUADOR [non]. Nov 28 I was prepared to catch HCJB sign-on via Chile, 11920:
at 2243 open carrier; 2245 opening in Portuguese but no mention of CVC, right
into Kulina, where its only radio speaker was reading from Chapter XXI of
something I could not catch, not Matthew.
Good steady S9+20 signal, no modulation problem on 11920, but nonetheless,
accompanied by distorted FMy spurs at 11900.0 and 11940.0; the // audio was
unmistakable, sounding much lower than the still strong S-meter reading of
S9+15 on the extras at 2251. Nothing to bother on 11900, but at 2256, 11940 REE
IS was getting mushed just before its sign-off.
At 2300, HCJB Global introduced Portuguese service, and reconfirmed its
ignorance of what time it is in Brazil by claiming it was at 2000-2145 `hora
oficial de Bras?lia` = 2300 UTC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. As I as noting the Cuban jamming on 11600, also noticed DW on
11605 at 2059 UT Sat Nov 28, outroducing ``Wort zum Sonntag``. Hmmm, do they
have Words for Friday, Saturday or any other day that any of the multitude of
religions observed in Germany may consider holy? How about strict separation of
church and state (including public broadcasting). Asking for trouble, otherwise.
Or does WzS embrace all religions now? Website has archive of last six shows,
unclear to me from the unfamiliar abbrs. whether they all be somehow Christian,
but they sure look native German:
Wort zum Sonntag | 14.11.2009 Von Pfarrerin Lucie Panzer
Wort zum Sonntag | 21.11.2009 Von P. Hans Peters SVD
Wort zum Sonntag | 28.11.2009 Von Pfarrerin Lucie Panzer
Wort zum Sonntag | 31.10.2009 Zum Reformationstag
Wort zum Sonntag | 07.11.2009 Von P. Hans Peters SVD
Wort zum Sonntag | 24.10.2009 Von Sr. Dr. Aurelia Spendel OP
Linx go to full scripts, not audio, if one wants to investigate further.
Today`s is obviously Christian from a ``Reverend``.
I got to those by searching, but this page does have audio linx:
http://www.dwelle.de/dw/0,,2954,00.html?id=2954&x=14&y=10
These sermonettes are nothing compared to the live complete church service
Sundays at 0905 UT on DW, apparently either ``Evangelical`` or ``Catholic``,
and that`s all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Cf. my previous report under CUBA [non] of Radio Mart? with a
feature on ``Do?a la Negra``. No wonder I could not locate her under that name.
Juli?n Santiago D?ez de Bonilla in the DF explains, ``Hola Glenn: la cantante
que refieres era conocida como "To?a la Negra". To?a es el sobrenombre que se
les da a las Antonias, por tanto "To?o" a los Antonios, y efectivamente aqu? no
hay problema por decirle a alguien "negro", incluso no si?ndolo del todo.
Saludos, Juli?n`` (Glenn Hauser, Oclajoma, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9895, VG S9+22 signal Nov 28 at 2213 with Arabic music,
soon pausing for announcement in Arabic as ``Huna Amsterdam`` and e-mail arabic
@ rnw.nl Kept a receiver running on this the rest of the hour and it was
nothing but music, breaking every quarter hour or so for same announcement.
Amsterdam? What became of Hilversum; has it been absorbed into the metro, or
they figure no Arab will recognize Hilversum as the historic radio city of the
Netherlands, whence RNW still operates, or is this particular service really
coming from studios in Amsterdam?
What studios? The Dutch taxpayers are paying for hours of musical entertainment
for the Arabs they cannot get elsewhere? It was mostly pop vocal, so possibly
had an underlying message, but I doubt it. RNW has gone to the trouble of
reviving its Arabic service on SW, presumably with loftier goals. At 2257 the
music seemed to go into some kind of loop; at 2259, 9895 switched to RNW
carillon IS, and then opening in Spanish, claiming to be via Greenville!
But the 22-23 hour on 9895 is scheduled as via RWANDA 325 degrees, so also
defacto Arabic to North America. I tuned away to other things at 2300, assuming
Spanish would really follow and there must have been a site switch, but at
recheck 2302, 9895 was off. Kigali 9895 must not have cut off the Arabic feed
on time. But why would RNW feed any Spanish at all to that site?
RNW Spanish on 9895 via Greenville does not really start until 0000. During the
previous hour, it`s on 11655, as I soon found at 2302. I had first noticed
11655 at 2248 with continuous tone test, and wondered what would ensue. By 2336
the co-channel IBB transmitter on 11655 had overtaken RNW Spanish, Udorn,
THAILAND at 30 degrees. That does not start until 2330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 5910, poor signal in African English with discussion of
development, Nov 28 at 2228, continuing past 2230. Soon became obvious this was
not spontaneous, but scripted. 2258 turned out to have been BBC World Drama,
with produxion credits, 2259 regular BBCWS jingle and ID, 2300 starting news in
The World Today. Did not recheck until 2321 when BBC was gone, Marfil Est?reo
[see COLOMBIA] instead. What`s going on here?
By pretending to be in Accra, Ghana, listening on FM, I found that BBC World
Drama was running at 22-23 UT, specifically
``The Prison Graduates, by Efo Kodjo Mawugbe
Broadcast Saturday 28 November 2009 at 2001 GMT [sic]
Listen to The Prison Graduates
Daniel Francis, David Gyasi, Richard Pepple, Wale Ojo and Mo Sesay
This is the second of our two prize-winning plays from the BBC World Service
and British Council International Radio Playwriting Competition 2009 - which
won the English as a second language category.
Efo Kodjo Mawugbe?s play was described by the judges as "imaginative",
"muscular" and "hysterically funny".
The play sees four men try to make their way in the world after being released
from prison in Ghana. They explore their many options ? only to choose the one
that might have surprised them all. This is a surreal, post-colonial fable -
whereWoza! Albert [sic] meets Samuel Beckett. . .``
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/2009/03/000000_world_drama.shtml
As for the transmission, 5910 is supposed to be on at 2200-2300 only, 100 kW,
330 degrees via Meyerton, SOUTH AFRICA, so yet another African service also
USward. Often happens that SENTECH doesn`t end a transmission right on time; or
did BBC deliberately keep it on at least for the hourtop news until 2306?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Would WWCR be testing on 60m this Saturday evening? No, on regular
3240, Nov 28 at 2304 opening Golden Age Radio Theatre, with a Duffy`s Tavern
from 1951y to be followed later in hour by The Haunting Hour (Glenn Hauser, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1860 kHz AM at 2308 Nov 28, with ham news bulletins, sounding like
one-way broadcasts rather than two-way contacts, since, well, that`s what they
are. Could hear some zero-beat SSB QRM, and occasional hets, presumably from
hams not too pleased with this weekly, er, broadcast on 160m, even tho it may
be legal like W1AW.
2313 had story of pirate Raymond Frank bust in Austin TX, the one who claims
FCC has no jurisdixion in the Republic of Texas; courtesy Amateur Radio
Newsline. At 2316 Don Carlson in NV credited a bunch of sources (not including
DXLD), but including something in Australia, ``W-one-A``, unaware that it`s
WIA, for Wireless Institute of Australia, their equivalent of ARRL.
Local ID as ``Gateway 160 [meter] Newsletter, on WA0RCR, Westville, Missouri``.
ARNL, ARRL, RAIN, TWIAR reports rotate on no particular schedule, from Saturday
afternoon into Sunday morning. Next segment was from RAIN. Signal is clear and
steady with occasional slight fades, just as good if not better than KMOX, and
with no IBOC sidebands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 5835, VOA sports at 2226 Nov 28, its usual position in their
news wheel, 2235 non-sports news, poor signal, whence? 21 degrees USward from
Tinang, PHILIPPINES.
7220 much better with same // 5835 at 2240. And I do mean same, as also 21
degrees and synchronized; at the moment saying that Honduras is holding
elexions ``today`` --- meaning Sunday Nov 29, but it`s not ``today the 29th``
for another 7+ hours in Honduras, 6+ hours in Washington, so how can they
justify calling this day before ``today`` just because the service is intended
for next-day Asia? 24 hours from now, would VOA say the elexions were
``yesterday`` instead of ``today`` while the polls are still open? See also
NETHERLANDS [non] 11655 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZAMBIA. 9505, Nov 28 at 2206 sorta British accent encouraging men not to
beat their wives, unless in self-defense, like she`s coming at you with a
knife. Good advice, soon justified by bible citations. Fairly good signal from
the Nigerian service of 1Africa/CVC at 315 degrees from Lusaka, ergo also to
North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11888-USB, intruder, Nov 28 at 2244, intermittent 2-way
conversation in tonal Asian language, and still some time after 2300. Much like
what we frequently hear on 11789.9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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