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Today's Topics:
1. Indians, Symban (Dave Valko)
2. Slovak Republic 9510 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
3. Dec 4-5 Logs ([email protected])
4. Glenn Hauser logs December 3-5, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
5. Uruguay SW update (Horacio Nigro)
6. Radio Sarandi (Arnaldo)
7. MV Baltic Radio this Sunday (Tom Taylor)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:17:33 -0500
From: "Dave Valko" <[email protected]>
To: "Guy Atkins" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]"
<[email protected]>, "Nicolas Eramo" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Indians, Symban
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AUSTRALIA 2368.49 R. Symban Was surprised to get a peak on the signal at
times on the Perseus spectrum display this morning in the 1235-1250 time frame,
and even thought I had some tlking briefly around 1242. Highly tentative
though. The other 120mb Aussies were OK, not particularly good. I think
Symban should come in on a good morning. (5 Dec) Got this e-mail response
yesterday;
Hi Dave,
Symban programming is certainly 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Regarding the 2368 khz, we are currently testing on this frequency with the
intention of being permanantly in near future.
Our current power is less than 200 watts.
regards,
Tom Tsamouras
www.radiosymban.com.au
INDIA AIR outlets coming in the on 60 meters peaking around 1215-1230. 4920
the best. 4940 about equal with China. 4910 would have been decent if not for
CODAR. 5010 had respectable audio. Was surprised that 4860 wasn't that good.
(5 Dec.)
73 Dave
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 14:22:38 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>, "DXLD" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Slovak Republic 9510
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Subject: 9510 Rimavska Sobota, Slovak Republic, Saturday only 9-10 UT.
SLOVAK REP 9510 Today the "short distance" propagation conditions were
excellent, even on 31 mb frequency from Rimavska Sobota in the Slovak
Republic. Country Sound "Joystick" program via IRRS Milano Berlusconiland
broker, at 09-10 UT a little fluttery of lowest S=8 signal up to average
range mostly S=9+10 dB up to the peak.
wb
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 11:41:22 EST
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Dec 4-5 Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** BRAZIL. 6009.95, Radio Inconfidencia, 0030-0125, Dec 5,
Portuguese ballads. Several US ballads from the 50s and 60s.
Portuguese talk. ID. Poor with adjacent channel splatter. (Brian
Alexander, PA)
** CYPRUS. 9760, Cyprus Broadcasting Corp, *2215-2245*, Dec 4,
sign on with Greek music & Greek talk. Sign off with Greek music.
Fair to good. // 7210 - mixing with China. // 6180 - mixing with All
India Radio in English until their 2230 sign off. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Radio Nac, Bata, 2245-2302*,
Dec 4, Euro-pop music. Spanish announcements. Sign off with long
National Anthem at 2259. Poor in noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander,
PA)
** ETHIOPIA. 6090, Amhara State Radio, *0257-0350, Dec 5, sign on
with IS. Talk at 0300. Local Horn of Africa music. Some rustic vocals.
Very weak under a strong Anguilla, a weak presumed Brazil and a
weak Voice of Hope-Austria at their 0330 sign on. (Brian Alexander,
PA)
** HONDURAS. 3339.99, LV de Misiones Internacionales, 1055-1105,
Dec 5, Spanish religious music. Spanish ID announcements at 1057.
Weak. Poor. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** INDONESIA. 9525.89, Voice of Indonesia, 1043-1050, Dec 5,
presumed. Very weak modulation with talk and local music.
Modulation too weak to even identify language but English is listed.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
** SUDAN. 7200, SRTC, *0240-0300+, Dec 5, sign on with Qur`an.
Arabic talk. Weak. Poor with co-channel QRM from Russia. (Brian
Alexander, PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 10:01:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 3-5, 2009
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** BRAZIL [and non]. 6185, RNA, *0631 Dec 4, wiping out XEPPM which was playing
some nice Mexican music. The earliest I have caught Bras?lia cutting on so far.
Altho quite different, I might enjoy the Brazilian music too except I resent
what they are doing to Mexico, and Radio Educaci?n still has enough co-channel
signal to make RNA listening unpleasant (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Dec 4 at 1420: 8400 fair, 9000 poor, 10210 JBA. Dec 5 at
1334: 8400 poor, 9000 JBA, 10210 & 11300 zilch (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6140, RHC mostly in English in the 05-07 period, but Dec 4 it was back
in Spanish at 0612 check, much lower modulation than // 6150, 6120.
6010, RHC, UT Sat Dec 5 at 0609, ``Ed Newman`` with ``Thursday night`` news,
but this is Friday night! Stories included Comcast buying NBC, which could be
24+ hours old, and Bobby Woods ``executed last night in Texas``. That occurred
at 6:40 pm CST Thursday Dec 3, so it`s Ed who must have been confused about the
current day, rather than a 24-hour-old program being played, which certainly
could happen at this erratic station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CZECHIA [and non]. 9845-9850-9855, DRM noise Sat Dec 5 at 1341, not usually
heard here. It`s R. Prague via Woofferton Fri and Sat only at 13-14 in German
and English per own sked, 35 kW.
Fortunately, R. Prague also still broadcasts in analog which I have no trouble
decoding; less than a semihour later on 13580, Dec 5 at 1409, offbeat stories
including a goat escaping pursuers into a town named Goat-Eaters, punxuated by
Dixieland music. Show might be named ``News of the Weird`` but already taken;
instead it is just ``Magazine`` and 1412 into SoundCzech, as described in the
schedule: ``Magazine - The show that starts where the news ends - we bring you
the stories you might otherwise have missed. SoundCzech - learn useful Czech
phrases through song lyrics``. You can hear all this 25 hours later on WRMI,
9955; or not, depending on antenna use and jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. AIR National Channel, Dec 5 at 1318 with IS on 9425 fair, // blobless
9470 poor at sign-on. As usual, VBS on 9870 was much better (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. VOI missing from 9526 and 9525, Dec 4 at 1425 during Malay hour.
Wish I had checked an hour earlier for English, but probably the same. No
carrier at all detectable now. Don`t think it was propagation, as RRI home
service on 9680 was S9+15, fair with dialog in Indonesian. Altho seldom with
adequate modulation, 9525.9 had been reliably on the air the last few weeks.
Next day Dec 5 at 1338, 9525.9 had a very poor but detectable carrier, and JBA
modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PORTUGAL [and non]. 15560, RDPI with usual big weekend signal, Dec 5 at
1420; during pauses could hear squeal on the transmission. Modulation somewhat
distorted, not just, I think, due to selective fading. Program: Hotel
Internacional which is really a pop music chart show, nothing to do with the
hostelry biz, Sats 1410-1500. Plays same jingle between each pair of songs.
Some of the songs in English so not clear to me just what the parameters are.
This page has audio files of last few shows, says based on Tabela AFP:
http://ww1.rtp.pt/multimedia/index.php?prog=1278
This page autolaunches the `latest` show, still 11/28 as of three hours after
airing new one 12/5
http://ww1.rtp.pt/programas-rtp/index.php?e_id=&c_id=5&dif=radio&p_id=1278
So we have yet more musical choices on 19m Saturday mornings: from 1430 on
15700, R. Bulgaria`s rather more exotic folk music show; on 15410, R. Farda
with its mix of Farsi and western pop music; 15330, R. Mart?`s music
documentary, this week at 1445 on Trio Los Panchos, but that`s mostly
narration, with musical clips (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. RRI won`t speak English to us in our mornings any more, but on
11940, Dec 5 at 1353 after kid`s squeaky voice in Romanian, at least played
cowboy song in English, ``Wherever You Go, We Go, Amigo``. VG signal here as
well as in German on 11970 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** THAILAND [and non]. 7365, at 1314 Dec 5, R. Thailand with English ID in
transition from Japanese to Chinese, over co-channel QRM already in Mandarin.
In this case I don`t think it is deliberate ChiCom jamming, but a genuine
collision which should have been avoided, as CNR1 Shijiazhuang site is also
scheduled on 7365 at 1200-1735, 37 degrees. The CIRAF zones even match at #44
for the Mandarin quarter-hour from Thailand, so a red flag, if you`ll pardon
the expression, should have gone up at HFCC coordination meeting. Also, the
A-09 frequency for these languages, 9455, was not collided or jammed. At 1332,
HSK9 had switched to Thai for the rest of the hour, still with Chinese clash
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. VOT English on 12035 is still having distorted modulation problems,
Dec 5 at 1352 vocal music; 1400 multi-lingual ID filler for two minutes, then
more pop music. Good signal level today, anyway. This is one of the supposedly
refurbished ?akirlar transmitters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13835, Dec 5 at 1406, Nutcracker Suite playing, but in Dec that
doesn`t mean any newfound commitment to classical music, just the must-play
most-hackneyed seasonal `favorite`, WEWN slipping into secularity, ooooh, but
by 1414 back to sacredarity with organ music; unsolid signal as usual (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DGIEST)
** U S A [and non]. VOA, 15205, Friday Dec 4 at 1433 with Reporters` Notebook,
stronger but echoier on // 11985, and weaker on 9760. I can`t find this show on
the VOA A-Z program list, tho there is one with a similar name, Reporters`
Roundtable supposedly on the African service at 1730. This was not about
Africa; one of the segments in the discussion included Dan Robinson from
Capitol Hill. I wonder what the other times for it are, if any. It was revived
after cancellation.
Assuming the separate VOA A-Z language transmission schedule is correct, and
that all frequencies carry the same English programming during this hour, the
entire frequency list at 1430 is: 7575 9760 9930 11985 12150 15205 15580 17650
17715.
7405, somewhat above or equal to DentroCuban jamming level, UT Sat Dec 5 at
0556, surprised to hear VOA jingle and editorial in Spanish about Pres. Obama`s
Afghanistan policy, but this is Radio Mart?. 0600 back to RM programming with
``Noche de Paz`` Xmas carol. There have been reports that VOA Spanish service
would be encroaching on RM territory due to budget restraints, etc., so maybe
this is a sign of it.
OR: RM has always run VOA editorials and I just haven`t noticed. However, it
had been a long-standing policy for VOA to keep the not exactly objective RM at
least an arm`s length away, lest it damage VOA`s own reputation. Makes no diff
to the Cubans, who jam both.
VOA Spanish service for sure, 9885, Sat Dec 5 at 1342 with ?xitos
Latinoamericanos ``en VOASat e internet`` but no mention of SW! And back to pop
music really in Spanish for a change. This Greenville signal was rather weak
and AIR VBS, one sesquidekakHz away on 9870 from the other worldside was
axually much better.
11635, at 1349 Dec 5, ME music which must have been Kurdish, as shortly IDed as
``Denge Amerike, Washington`` and VOA jingle. It`s 104 degrees from
Lampertheim, GERMANY, but uncomfortably close to Arabic on 11630 starting
Qur`an, i.e. KUWAIT at 230 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3956-LSB, Dec 5 at 0535 anti-Catholic polemic being read by a ham,
allegedly quoting Cardinal Newman, etc., to effect that the RCC is either
totally representing God, or the Devil, ``Kingdom of Evil`` and the Vatican has
the Devil sequestered within its walls.
Gave ID as KC0EBM at 0538, paused, no one replied, and then resumed. Another ID
at 0541 and apparently finished for time being. No attempt at 2-way contacts,
but at least he IDed. Trouble is, only once each, not clearly and no fonetix. I
am pretty sure it was KC0EBM, but could have been EBN. ARRL lookup shows, from
official FCC public info:
FRIESS, THOMAS E, KC0EBM (General)
3320 WILLIS
PERRY, IA 50220
While KC0EBN is a previous call sign for someone else, now W0ARL
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. On the caradio circa 2030 UT Dec 3, noticed a lo audible het on
1410, primary groundwave station here being Wichita, but skywave already
inkicking. The just updated MW offsets website has hundreds of entries, many of
them really LW, and a relative few SW, but only a few US stations are mentioned
on 1410, of which only this one is a possibility, by proximity and rough het
pitch, but the info is 2.75 years old: 1410 1409.952 USA WDSK (Cleveland, MS)
20070303
http://www.mwlist.org/mwoffset.php?khz=
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, X LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6074, 8GAL weak but identifiable with usual V/CQ marker, and a
good thing I intuned early as it already started about 15 sex before 1400:00
Dec 4 as Russia was about to go off. But strangely, nothing heard from either
China which are usually already ramping up their radio war a few minutes before
and to dominate 6075 thence (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6925, Dec 5 at 1325 melodic unrecognized song, poor signal to
1327* off with no announcement. No doubt a pirate; I think WBNY has been active
in the mornings, but not much to go on here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) ###
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 12:03:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Horacio Nigro <[email protected]>
To: Horacio Nigro <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Uruguay SW update
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
URUGUAY Sarand? 6045 & 6125 SODRE R. Uruguay, active again. The first one,
stronger than previous days but suffering from the same saturated/distorted
audio; the latter on the contrary barely audible. (Horacio Nigro, Dec 6)
Horacio A. Nigro
Montevideo
Uruguay
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 16:41:04 +0100
From: "Arnaldo" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], NoticiasDX
<[email protected]>, Domesticas Y Tropicales
<[email protected]>, DXLD
<[email protected]>,
playdx2003 <[email protected]>, [email protected],
[email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Sarandi
Message-ID: <009401ca75c1$5b21cc40$acb7c...@windowsv03oj4t>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
URUGUAY
6045 Radio Sarandi, Montevideo, 2030-2040, December 05, Spanish.
Programme "Amplitud Musical" // 690 Khz.
Ann. & ID as: "M?s comunicaci?n, m?s interactiva, m?s radio....siempre
Sarandi".
Local advs. "...........SER, siempre estamos donde vos est?s...";
".....portal digital de El Pais......." (El Pais newspaper), jingle "Vinos
Fais?n, un buen amigo en tu mesa".
TC & ann. "Amplitud Musical en Sarandi"
SINPO: 34443
Thanks Horacio Nigro for the tip!!!!!!!!!
(Arnaldo slaen, Argentina)
URUGUAY
6045 Radio Sarandi, Montevideo, 2030-2040, Diciembre 05, Espa?ol.
Programa "Amplitud Musical" // 690 Khz.
Anuncio e ID: "M?s comunicaci?n, m?s interactiva, m?s radio....siempre
Sarandi".
Comerciales locales: "...........SER, siempre estamos donde vos est?s...";
".....portal digital de El Pais......." (diario El Pais), jingle "Vinos Fais?n,
un buen amigo en tu mesa".
Reporte de la hora y anuncio "Amplitud Musical en Sarandi"
SINPO: 34443
Gracias Horacio Nigro por la informaci?n sobre la salida al aire de esta
emisora!!!!!!!!!
(Arnaldo slaen, Argentina)
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 23:10:47 -0000
From: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
To: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] MV Baltic Radio this Sunday
Message-ID: <3ee594ceaba34747ad04cebf46123...@dellcb21k2j>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
MV Baltic Radio this Sunday
MV Baltic Radio is on this Sunday the 6th of December 2009
At 10.00 to 1100 UTC on our normal channel of 6140 KHz.
M.V.Baltic. Information:
MV Baltic Radio relay service Schedule for winter 2009
1st Sunday - MV Baltic Radio
3rd Sunday - European Music Radio
4th Sunday - Radio Gloria International
We wish you good listening and good reception! 73s Tom
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