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Today's Topics:
1. Log 24/Dez (Jorge Freitas (Yahoo))
2. Tips (Giampiero58)
3. Feliz Navidad (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO)
4. INS 9525.972 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
5. Glenn Hauser logs December 24, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
6. Dec 24-25 Logs ([email protected])
7. Glenn Hauser logs December 24, 2009, part 2 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:36:21 -0000
From: "Jorge Freitas \(Yahoo\)" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, "Hard Core DX"
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Log 24/Dez
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7220 24/Dez 0859 PHILIPPINES, RFE R Liberty, in Russian, from Tinang, with
250 kW. Signal ID. The 0900 UT ID, this was followed with nx by OM and YL.
25433 (Jorge Freitas-B)
7245 24/Dez 0905 MAURETANIA, R Mauritanie, in Arabic, from Nouakchott, with
100 kW. OM Talks. The 0908 UT Arabic mx. The 0911 UT seems an interview
between two OM. Stable signal. 35433 (Jorge Freitas-B)
73
Jorge Freitas
Local time -3 UT
Feira de Santana Bahia
Brasil
Degen 1103
Dipole antenna 16 m
Skype: jorge.freitas.fsa
Escutas (listening): http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006
"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: 2
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:55:01 +0100
From: "Giampiero58" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Tips
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Some daytime tips
Merry Christmas, Buon Natale
Giampiero
Log 23/24 December
Drake R8 - ant. T2FD - QTH Milano, Italia
6170 24/12 1337 Radio New Zealand Int., in English, songs and talks, weak
9970 24/12 1325 RTBF, Waver, Belgium, Christmas and not songs,last days to
listen to them on SW, they also are leaving SW. Fair
9990 24/12 1323 Radio Free Afghanistan, via Sri Lanka, man & woman talks,
//12140 fair
11530 24/12 1320 Denge Mezopotamya, Clandestine, songs, ids, talks, good
11650 24/12 1317 KFBS, Saipan, Mariana Islands, talks in Russian, good
11725 23/12 1910 Radio New Zealand Int. in English, reports, weak to fair
signal, easy listening even if some QRM from DW, Kigali tx
11825 24/12 1314 Radio Australia, Shepparton, program in Mandarin //11660,
good
12120 24/12 1310 FEBC, Philippines, talks in Asian language, fair/good
12140 24/12 1306 Radio Free Afghanistan, via Kuwait, talks like reports,
//9990 weak
13635 24/12 1303 CVC International, Shepparton, Australia, English, pop
songs, good
13660 24/12 1209 Radio New Zealand Int, English, reports, fair/good
13685 24/12 1300 CVC International, Shepparton, Australia, id, Mandarin prg,
fair
14670 24/12 1240 CHU, Canada, usual pips & time, poor but not usual at this
time
15400 24/12 1224 HCJB Australia, Shepparton, Talks in English about
Christmas, weak but clear
15535 24/12 1219 CVC International, Shepparton, Australia, pop songs, EE,
fair/good
15785 24/12 1215 Galei Zahal, Israel, songs and talks, fading, weak
17680 24/12 1235 CVC Voz Cristiana, Chile, Spanish, talks and songs, poor,
fading S=2
Giampiero Bernardini
Milano, Italia
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:42:33 +0000 (GMT)
From: JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Feliz Navidad
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Saludos cordiales compa?eros, con mucho afecto les deseo una Fel?z Navidad.
Reciban un cordial saludo, atentamente Jos? Miguel Romero
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:39:50 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>, "DXLD" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] INS 9525.972
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INDONESIA 9525.972 odd Behind strong CRI transmission in English on even
9525 kHz I see VoINS Jakarta at 1530 UT Dec 24, S=8-9 level. Checked the PC
twice, on standard time signal stations DCF 77.5 kHz and Moscow 9996 kHz.
wb
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:00:21 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 24, 2009
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** ALBANIA. 6100, R. Tirana, Dec 24 at 0437, S9+5, SINPO 45444, ending press
review, into show about Albania and the EU, summary of 2009 efforts to join
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 4885, Dec 24 at 0424, songs in Spanish provoke a double-take, but
retracted due to Portuguese announcement between them. Best Brazilian signal on
60m at this time, presumed R. Clube do Par?, even better than its neighbor R.
Cultura do Par? on 5045 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA [and non]. While RCI gets derision from its former fans, making up
new meanings for the ``I`` other than International, its domestic-orientated
programming attains wider and wider dissemination! ``The Link`` bumped many
foreign stations off CBC Overnight, nationwide on Radio 1, and now tnx to
carriage on WRN, is also being relayed by WRMI!
On 9955 Dec 24 at 0642 there was Marc Montgomery, an excellent host and a
trooper making the best of his assignment, but who needs this via WRMI? Only
fair signal but no jamming audible. Furthermore, at 0655 on 6160, I believe he
was one of two guys chatting, presumably CKZN with CBCR1 relay; not // 9955, as
the RCI version on WRN via WRMI is in half-hour segments at 0630-0700 and
0930-1000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CROATIA [and non]. 3985, only 75m broadcaster audible at 0428 Dec 24 in
Croatian, mentioning Hrvatski, 0436 music. S9+5 and a good signal ahead of
German relay on 7375. There had been speculation that HRT runs only 10 kW here,
but sure sounds to me like 100 now. Also around 0430 and earlier, // 1134 was
putting in one of the stronger TA carriers, and many more were detected all
over the MW dial at 9-kHz spacings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC check at 0421 Dec 24: only one frequency in English, 6000, and it
is only fair; meanwhile there are plenty in Spanish, 6060, 6110, 6120, 6140,
9600, with a variety of strengths and modulations. Also scheduled in Spanish
until 0500 are 11690, 11760, 13770, 13790, the higher ones seldom propagating
here.
One has to wonder about RHC`s priorities, such a token service during North
American prime time; tho 6140 sometimes is in English instead. Hey, I am not
complaining, just observing. Only after 0500 do decent strong signals in
English start, on 6010, 6060, sometimes 6140.
At 0653 Dec 24, 6150, 6140 and 6120 in Spanish; 6060 and 6010 English (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** DJIBOUTI. 4780, Dec 24 at 0426, HOA music, fair vs CODAR. Nice to hear R.
Djibouti as I am seldom monitoring early enough to get it. Nominal schedule is
03-21, and eastern NAm also hears it winterly in afternoons. Capture it now
before R. Discovery, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC comes on the frequency next year (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA [and non]. 7165 at 0415 Dec 24, music and noise jamming in
Eritrea/Ethiopia radio war, the hams mere bystanders; 7110 R. Ethiopia clear
with talk in presumed Amharic. Presumed short-path, better signal than 14 hours
earlier via longpath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUINEA. 7125, Dec 24 at 0649, RTG on the air in the morning for a change,
intruding in the 40m hamband, but they`ve got more serious problems than
following ITU allocations. Reverby speech from a large venue in French
regarding ``la violence``, with interjexions by studio announcer. 0704 recheck
considerably weaker in music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH AFRICA [and non]. 7230, Dec 24 at 0416 two stations mixing at equal
levels in talk, SAH of approx. 6 Hz. One of them in English, no doubt Channel
Africa as scheduled, 04-07, 100 kW, 5 degrees from Meyerton.
But the other? Aoki possibilities, most likely the first:
R. Liberty in Russian via Biblis, GERMANY, 100 kW, 63 degrees
NVK R. Sakha, Yakut/Russian via Yakutsk, 100 kW, 300 degrees
AIR Kurseong, India is also listed here in WRTH, but not this early
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY [and non]. VOT English to NAm, Dec 24 at 0420: much better via
Sackville 6040, even tho it`s two sesquiseconds behind Emirler direct on 6020,
weaker and with the perpetual Peruvian het tnx wailing wacko David Miranda and
Radio Victoria; major broadcasters using 6020 are oblivious to it. Don`t they
get reception reports with low-I SINPOs? Don`t they ever bring up a remote
receiver or an IBB file and check it themselves? Seref Isler was as always in
too big a hurry to read his script (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** UKRAINE. 7440, RUI, Dec 24 at 0440, VG signal, so much so that I could hear
a hum/whine from the generators(?), during English to NAm, quoting Abe Lincoln
at the moment. M&W alternating, and the M has one of the most distinctive
voices/accents on SW, a pleasure to listen to. Power is currently registered as
only 600 kW altho it`s a 1000 kW transmitter at Lviv (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [and non]. Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, annual BBC tradition on
Xmas eve, best heard here on Rampisham 12095, Dec 24 at 1508, but hardly
necessary as it`s relayed live by hundreds of public radio stations across the
USA, including the two closest ones here, which normally avoid duplication,
KCSC 90.1 and KOSU 91.7. The US version requires introduxion by an American,
the reverent Minnesotan Michael Barone.
Did not scan the entire SW spectrum, but did notice at 1513 that BBC was
carrying something else on Ascension 17640, so the Africans were spared this
colonial relic, an overt religious service on a public broadcaster. I suspend
my disbelief anyway since I enjoy the music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) ###
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:18:05 EST
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Dec 24-25 Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Happy Holidays!
** CANADA. 6250, Sackville spur, 0140-0159*, Dec 25, Radio
Canada Int heard on 6250 in Spanish. Not to be confused with
Equatorial Guinea. Weak but readable. 6250 is the leapfrogging
spur of 6100-Radio Canada Int. 6100 leapfrogging over 6175-Voice
of Vietnam via Sackville and landing on 6250. Note 75 kHz separation
between each frequency. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** ETHIOPIA [non]. via Samara, Russia, 7530, Ginbot 7 Radio,
*1701-1730*, Dec 24, presumed. Abrupt sign on with talk in listed
Amharic. Some Horn of Africa music at 1719. Poor to fair. // 9610 -
very weak under Radio Canada Int. Tues, Thur, Sat only.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
** EURO-PIRATE. 7610.05, Radio Amica, 0050-0120, Dec 25, US
pop music. Euro-pop music. Italian talk. IDs at 0105. Weak but
readable. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** GUINEA. 7125, Radio Guine?, 2305-2355*, Dec 24, special
Christmas programming with French talk. Preacher. Local choral
music. Abrupt sign off. Good. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** MALI. 7285.88, RTVM, *0800-0840+, Dec 24, sign on with flute IS
and opening French ID announcements followed by vernacular talk.
Local instrumental music. ?Radio Mali? ID. Very weak. Much stronger
on // 9635. Rustic vocals heard at 0910 check. Sign on times for
7285v varies between 0745-0800. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** RWANDA. 6055, Radio Rwanda, 2130-2259, Dec 24, on late for
Christmas. Sign off usually at 2100. French/vernacular talk. Wide
variety of African hi-life music, Afro-pops and local choral music.
Phone talk. Christmas eve celebration services with talk, crying Baby
Jesus at 2200. Traditional Christmas music. Good signal initially but
poor to fair by 2245 due to adjacent channel splatter and completely
covered by a strong Spain at their 2259 sign on. (Brian Alexander, PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:26:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 24, 2009, part 2
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
** CANADA. 9625, CBCNQ, Dec 24 at 2305 in CBC World At Six special with reports
on the 20th anniversary earlier this year of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
Including how only in Hong Kong they managed to hold a vigil in honor of the
martyrs, suppressed by police everywhere else, but ``China cannot face its
future until it faces its past`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHILE. HCJB via CVC, Calera de Tango, 11920, is *still* accompanied by spurs
we and others first reported weeks ago; is no one paying attention at Quito,
Calera de Tango, Colorado Springs or West Bromwich? Dec 24 at 2352, tho 11920
in Portuguese sounded OK, it was flanked by distorted, motorboating, mushy
spurs with matching audio centered at approximately 11902 and 11938, the latter
too close to a legitimate transmission on 11935, presumably CRI in Cantonese
via Kunming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. When you hear a ChiCom transmission echoing, it`s a sign of one of
their accursed jamming techniques, to degrade their own broadcast so no one
will want to listen to it, let alone anything mixed in. However, at 2353 Dec
24, their latest farang/gaijin voice of China, Paul James in Beijing was making
secular remarx about the Xmas season just before closing on 11790, and that had
quite an echo. In this case it must have been long/short path as echo-jamming
is normally imposed only with CNR1 domestic programming, and there is nothing
known requiring interdixion at this hour on this frequency, i.e. 190 degrees
from Xi`an (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 10000, time pips pitched higher than WWV or WWVH, so knew I had
something else, Dec 24 at 2358. Unfortunately it wasn`t PPE Brasil since there
were no announcements every dekasecond; but conveniently at 2359 began repeated
Morse code IDs in A2 as BPM until 2359:45, on top of WWVH YL complete ID during
this minute and at :29 hourly. BPM is at Lintong, a suburb of Xi`an whence I
was also getting CRI on 11790 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC Dec 24 at 2322 on 13790 in English, and 13770 in Portuguese,
plugging their 50th anniversary philatelic contest. Strangely, both emissions
are designated for ``Buenos Aires`` rather than English- or Portuguese-speaking
areas. A third language, Spanish, was to be heard on 11770, overrun from
supposed 2300 close after European service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** RWANDA. Tnx to Steve George tip, heard RRR on extended Xmas eve broadcast.
He said 6055 would run past usual 2100* at least until local midnight 2200 UT.
I did not tune in until 2226, when Hark The Herald was being sung in uncertain
language; 2228 announcement at first seemed Japanese and I feared it was R.
Nikkei already, but shortly mentioned Rwanda and I realized it was an African
language, presumably KinyaRwanda. Fair signal, no QRM. More music and chat
continued, still going at 2257 but at *2258:50 completely blown away by REE
cutting on with IS prior to its 2300 French broadcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [really]. 4005, no doubt Vatican Radio the station in German at 2259
Dec 24 with Roman Catholic stuff. Frequency is normally off the air at this
time per skeds, but per VR`s special-broadcasts page
http://www.radiovaticana.org/coorpro/entrasmisspec.htm
this was: ``From St. Peter's Basilica , Eucharistic Celebration presided over
by the Holy Father. Live broadcast from 09.50 p.m.`` [= 2050 UT, two hours
earlier than usual to give the octogenarian B-16 an extra bihour of rest before
he has to make another appearance the next morning; per BBC World News on TV]
Tho it started at 2050, as usual VR did not specify an end time, but should
have been over well before 2300 this year; the German-speaker I heard briefly
may have been a non-Pope announcer recapping. Sked showed several other special
SW frequencies for this, 5885 in Italian, 7235 and 9760 in French, 5900 and
7395 in Chinese, 7305 in Spanish, and 9530 in Portuguese. Per Aoki, 4005
normally carries English, Spanish, Arabic and finally Italian between 2050 and
2250*.
Not scheduled for the convenience of Western Hemispherians, from 1050 UT Dec 25
is: ``The Holy Father's Christmas Message and "Urbi et Orbi" blessing at 12.00
p.m.`` Its special SW frequencies are 5965 in Italian, 9645 and 11740 in
English, 7250 in German, 15275 and 17675 in French, 17600 in Spanish and 17715
in Portuguese. No indication of how long it will last, either. This is when the
pontiff gets to show off his multi-linguistic skills (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6950.1, Chipmunx singing Deck the Halls and other carols in
medley, no doubt a pirate, Dec 24 at 2233; poor signal and not heard at next
check before 2300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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