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Today's Topics:
1. (no subject) (Glenn Hauser)
2. 530 CUBA ????? (Konnie Rychalsky)
3. Re: 530 CUBA ????? (Glenn Hauser)
4. 530 KHZ (Richard Brock)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:01:11 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] (no subject)
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** CHINA. Firedrake Dec 15 at 1448: 8400 fair, 9000 JBA, 10210 none, 11300 good
steady at S9+10 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. DentroCuban Jamming Command against nothing, on 7365 pulsing
away at 0623 Dec 15, managing to impede two adjacent frequencies in French:
7370 Romania and weaker 7360 Vatican. The only time jamming is `necessary` on
7365 is when R. Mart? is using it, 0000-0500, but hey, close enough for Commie
government work.
Much heavier jamming on 7405 which R. Mart? is axually using until 0700. But at
0705 check, no jamming at all on 7365 or 7405, instead concentrating on 6030
and 5980. A brief very strong open carrier and tone did appear on 7405 until
0706, Greenville testing? See also USA: WRMI; UNIDENTIFIED 15580.
RHC, UT Dec 15 at 0704* tuned in 6010 just in time to hear English news being
cut off the air abruptly four minutes late; continued on 6060, while 6140 in
English before 0700 had switched to Spanish, along with 6120 and 6150. This
appears to be the nominal pattern for what happens around 0700 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 6185, XEPPM, Dec 15 at 0630 with space music one might
have heard on ``Music from the Hearts of Space``; tnx to the eclectic format of
R. Educaci?n, you never know what kind of music they will be playing during the
all-too-brief QRM-free window, which tonight lasted until *0645 Bras?lia
playing Silent Night in progress in Portuguese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. Monitored RTT on 7275 again Dec 15 to see when it would go off, at
0627:30 like yesterday? Almost: YL started outro to previous music, with
cuckoo-clock sounds, but faded her out after a few Arabic words, OC and off by
0627:20; continued on // 7335 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9955, WRMI, clear of jamming Dec 15 at 0657 ending ``El
Camino`` religious program, brief fill music, 0659 IDs and reception report
info by Jeff White, 0701 R. Prague relay in English. Back to usual very heavy
jamming, no WRMI audible before 1500 UT. Between 1505 and 1510 the jamming
noise gradually abated audiblizing another R. Prague relay in English (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Two MARS nets noted the morning of Dec 15: 4623-SSB, Navy MARS, which
still exists, was just securing at 1422 with ``final comments``. Copied one
call among several weak stations, NNN0YQP, the last three letters expressed
fonetically. Frequency approximate as did not have a chance to measure it or
determine which sideband.
Googling on that call I got ONE hit, Sept 2009! Internet security must be
pretty tight. http://www.navymars.org/national/cmi/CMIB-2009-35.txt
``NNN0YQP JAMEWS -------------------- WI 10 YEARS OF SERVICE``
4517-USB, Air Force MARS, 1425 with NCS AFE7DM, strongest signal, discussing
QRM, where it was being heard and where not in parts of the ``Midwest`` --- and
just what states that term applies to. Called the QRM ``sweeper``, ``Star
Wars``, one station even imitating it with his mouth, but never called it
CODAR, making me wonder if they know what it really is. AFE7DM was using group
callsign NCM3 in his calls for other check-ins. Some of them were hearing CODAR
relayed from other stations over linx. 1438 ``the net is free`` and individual
stations contacted each other without management by the net control station.
Googling on that call got five hits, including:
http://region3digital.tripod.com/
``AFE7DM (NC Area Digital Manager) is Conrad Steinel, AFA7VP
located in Emporia, KS``. NC means North Central, even tho Emporia`s latitude
is about one sesquidegree south of the geographical center of the Lower 48 in
north-central Kansas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Another quick MW bandscan on the caradio at a hotspot in western Enid
the afternoon of Dec 14, times UT!
1200, at 2137, skywave in, something in Spanish atop WOAI, various ads for
juguetes, etc., causing slow SAH with WOAI; later mentioned ``Chicago informa ?
1,200 AM``. So it`s WRTO, 10 kW, ``La Tremenda`` per NRC AM Log 2009-2010.
Strangely enough, per NRC pattern book, its daytime design has a null to the
SE, but plenty of signal to the SW. WOAI soon faded up overtaking it, but 1200
is hardly a ``clear channel`` any more!
540, at 2144, KWMT Ft Dodge IA, groundwave, with two or three IDs in passing
during info about local events. Usually it`s a mix with KDFT, but no sign of
Spanish this time; the latter off the air? If it stays off I may finally have a
chance of inpulling KNMX by daytime groundwave, which ought to be possible here.
570, at 2147, usual mix of KLIF with groundwave from WNAX SD, way under but
audible with SAH of about 3.5 Hz. Someone was wondering whether WNAX was
running usual spex; seems so to me (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15580, listening to weak signal from VOA in English news, Dec 15
at 1451, it was overridden for about 20 seconds by a very strong open carrier.
Likely Greenville testing a frequency they would use later, but at least they
kept it quick. But why not test on open 15570 instead as they do before 2100?
GB VOA is currently scheduled on 15580 at 17-18 and 21-22, while at 14-15 15580
is via SOUTH AFRICA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:15:27 -0500
From: Konnie Rychalsky <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] 530 CUBA ?????
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Information appreciated... Call? Location?
530 CM?? CUBA Havana assumed Nov 28+++, 0300; Rarely reported, yet
frequently heard here VG signal... Throughout November & December, have noted
YL with EZ mx, many US pop tune instrumentals, usually heard well from 0000 -
0400 UTC. Signal is not from the 530 Canadian outlet with foreign language
programming (and direction 90 degrees from the Cuban signal.) Information
appreciated... Call? Location?
Oddly enough, I have not seen this one mentioned in any Bogdan Chiochiu Pan-Am
reports. Only other mentions were Glenn Hauser's DX Listening Digest June 6,
2005 in a drive by; and mention in Crystal Radio contest from at least two
years ago.
There, something so rare, it's official... a log of this station. (Konnie
Rychalsky, Connecticut Dec 15, 2009)
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:28:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], Konnie Rychalsky
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] 530 CUBA ?????
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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It is Radio Enciclopedia, Habana, reported numerous times in DXLD. Try
searching under that name. Network callsign is CMBQ. It is on 530 to jam Radio
Marti, which is no longer on 530. 73, Glenn Hauser
--- On Tue, 12/15/09, Konnie Rychalsky <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Information appreciated... Call? Location?
>
>
>
> 530? CM??? CUBA? Havana assumed? Nov
> 28+++, 0300;? Rarely reported, yet frequently heard
> here VG signal... Throughout November & December, have
> noted YL with EZ mx, many US pop tune instrumentals, usually
> heard well from 0000 - 0400 UTC.? Signal is not from
> the 530 Canadian outlet with foreign language programming
> (and direction 90 degrees from the Cuban signal.)
> Information appreciated... Call? Location?
>
>
>
> Oddly enough, I have not seen this one mentioned in any
> Bogdan Chiochiu Pan-Am reports.? Only other mentions
> were Glenn Hauser's DX Listening Digest June 6, 2005 in a
> drive by; and mention in Crystal Radio contest from at least
> two years ago.
>
>
>
> There, something so rare, it's official... a log of this
> station.? (Konnie Rychalsky, Connecticut Dec 15, 2009)
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:21:12 -0500
From: "Richard Brock" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] 530 KHZ
Message-ID: <36d7c1bc3c0d47c7bc6d03c9ccdc8...@tombston85bbd1>
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Ok, I think I'm tuned on the Cuban station. 12-16-09 @ 0015 UTC. Weak
signal here in Western Pennsylvania due to my poor loop antenna.No reception on
50 foot long wire. I can hear a woman announcer with possibly news, some
unknown music, but with fairly strong background pulsating lower frequency type
het. Best I can do.
Rich Brock
Grundig S350
Loop antenna
Near Pittsburgh, Pa.
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