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Today's Topics:
1. MV Baltic Radio this Sunday (Tom Taylor)
2. La Rosa de Tokyo para hoy: La Radio durante la Segunda Guerra
Mundial (Arnaldo)
3. Very Sad (Hector Perez-Diaz)
4. 50 kW transmitter at RNW Madagascar back on the air (Andy Sennitt)
5. Glenn Hauser logs January 1-2, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
6. recent logs (Wolfgang Bueschel)
7. New MW QSL (KBNW-1340) (Patrick Martin)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 05:41:58 -0000
From: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
To: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] MV Baltic Radio this Sunday
Message-ID: <28f0b5feac0749308adfca5ec8fea...@dellcb21k2j>
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MV Baltic Radio this Sunday
MV Baltic Radio is on this Sunday the 3rd of January 2010
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 2010
1st Sunday - MV Baltic Radio
3rd Sunday - European Music Radio (February)
4th Sunday - Radio Gloria International
We wish you good listening and good reception! 73s Tom
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 05:10:56 +0100
From: "Arnaldo" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected],
NoticiasDX <[email protected]>, Domesticas Y Tropicales
<[email protected]>, playdx2003
<[email protected]>, DXLD <[email protected]>,
[email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] La Rosa de Tokyo para hoy: La Radio durante la Segunda
Guerra Mundial
Message-ID: <008101ca8b61$955896e0$0ca9c...@windowsv03oj4t>
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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)
En el programa del d?a 02 de Enero de 2010 podr?n escuchar una producci?n
dedicada a dar una semblanza del uso de los medios radiales durante la Segunda
Guerra Mundial. 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: 3
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 07:47:29 -0400
From: "Hector Perez-Diaz" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Very Sad
Message-ID: <002101ca8ba1$5d7a92b0$186fb8...@net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
It just caught me by surprise the news on the death of Mr. Harry Helms
author - among others- of the well known Shortwave Listening Guidebook.
After reading this book (from page tp page) I sent him a not asking me if he
would autograph my copy. He said it was ok so I sent him the book for this
purpose.
Our hobby for sure will miss this great man.
Luigi
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 17:43:04 +0100
From: "Andy Sennitt" <[email protected]>
To: "hard-core...@hard-core-dx. Com" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] 50 kW transmitter at RNW Madagascar back on the air
Message-ID: <72f29550662047df9bf954a615606...@dc5100>
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We now have three transmitters back on the air following the fire at the RNW
Madagascar relay station. The 50 kW transmitter was activated today. The
fourth transmitter, a 250 kW ABB rig, has suffered some heat damage and must
be repaired, which will take up to a week. Our Head of Distribution Jan
Willem Drexhage says that the Dutch word for the damaged components is
"hoogspanningsschakelaarbeveiligingselectronica" which he suggests would be
a good word for Scrabble, at least if you're playing it in Dutch :-)
There have also been some changes to which broadcasts are assigned to which
of the Philips transmitters. A revised schedule for all three transmitters,
effectively immediately, is in the Media Network Weblog.
http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 11:03:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 1-2, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 2: 8400 fair with flutter, 9000 very poor, nothing
audible on 10210, 11300 or 11350 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. 7405, CRI English, via Urumqi, EAST TURKISTAN, Jan 2 at 1531
but with lite pulsing QRM from the DentroCuban Jamming Command, which failed to
close down completely with nemesis Radio Mart? at 1400: Commies vs Commies!
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9420, no signal from ERA, Avlis, Jan 2 at 1520 check, tho there was
a poor signal on 15650. Constant VOG monitor John Babbis in Maryland says 9420
has been missing since Dec 28 when he checks every evening. One of the
transmitters is definitely down. Wolfgang B?schel, however, says 9420 was on
and 12105 missing until 1000 Jan 2, then 9420 missing from 1100 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 60m had lots of intriguing grayline signals, Jan 1 at 1335 but most
of them were quite weak. These fit for All India Radio: 4800 Hyderabad, 4820
Kolkata, 4840 Mumbai, 4850, 4920. The last, probably Chennai, had S Asian
music, tho Lhasa is also on frequency. 4850 was open carrier at the moment (or
very low mod); would like to think it was AIR Kohima, altho the steady signal
makes me doubt it. 4800 had something SAHing underneath fifth harmonic of my
local KGWA-960. See also TAJIKISTAN.
Walt Salmaniw, from his Masset BC DXpediton was also hearing a ``big open
carrier`` on 4850 around 1735 Dec 29 and 30. One idea: possibly the Alaska DRM
transmitter in non-DRM mode, which was active a couple months ago centered on
4845?? Or some utility since after all this is a fixed band in NAm (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526, VOI carrier but little modulation detectable, Jan 1 at
1355. But no carrier at all detectable Jan 2 at 1444.
However, RRI Jakarta, 9680 had good signal Jan 2 at 1447 with drama, singing,
cut off rudely and abruptly at 1457* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 9575, GIRI in Russian, Jan 2 at 1446, S9+18 but just barely modulated!
Same at 1517 recheck. What in the world are they doing at Sirjan? Might as well
turn it off if they won`t modulate it. This is 330 degrees, so also USward
accounting for the strong signal. Well, if we can`t hear Russian there, tune
down to 9570 for PHILIPPINES (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [and non]. 5955, NHKWNRJ, Sat Jan 2 at 1414 unusually playing
classical music, a movement from one of Vivaldi`s Seasons. Quickly switched to
Sackville relay 11705 for much better reception. Turned out this was a `live`
performance by a Japanese string quintet named `Seasons` (but the final S is
silent; go figure); players were interviewed briefly ? all young women and the
extra is a violinist. Then played a somewhat more modern opus, ``Twenti-First
Century Schizoid Man``; an unrelated song by some singer; back to the SQ for
their version of a Nirvana tune, ``Smells Like Teen Spirit``. Wow, I really dig
string quartets/quintets which transcend classical and modern, as pioneered by
Kronos.
Outro: this was a special `live` concert on Pop-Up Japan, more of same next
weeks in January. Went back and listened to this week`s 19-minute audio:
http://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/radio/asx/saturday.asx
Access to all past week`s programs:
http://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/radio/program/index.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. While Iran was failing to modulate its Russian hour on 9575,
Russian could be heard clearly on adjacent 9570, Jan 2 at 1521. The Shiites
better watch out lest they lose their audience to the Catholix: it`s R. Veritas
Asia, Philippines, carrying the R. Blagovest program at 1500-1557 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 6075, R. Rossii, Pet/Kam, Jan 1 at 1400 timesignal 4 seconds late,
and 8GAL overlapped it; see UNIDENTIFIED. RR`s motorboating carrier remained on
past 1402, but no programming unlike yesterday/year (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SLOVAKIA [and non]. 6055, Jan 2 at 1432, poor and fluttery signal in German,
so has to be R. Slovakia International as scheduled, 305 degrees, unusual time
for C Europe-to-CNAm, but apparently close enough to grayline; and despite two
other broadcasters you would expect to be dominating, per Aoki, so it`s odd
there was no sign of these, altho as far as I can tell they are still scheduled:
R. Liberty, Turkmen, 300 degrees via Thailand,
CRI, Cambodian, 200 degrees via Nanning
R. Nikkei is never on 6055 this late, altho closing time depends on day of
week. WRTH shows it until 1415 on Fridays only; 1400* some other days, while
Aoki shows B-09 until 1400 on Fridays too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** TAJIKISTAN. 60m had lots of intriguing grayline signals, Jan 1 at 1335 but
most of them were quite weak. See also INDIA. A pair which point to Dushanbe
were 4765 and 4975:
4765, Jan 1 at 1335, weak music, flutter. Only thing known on this frequency
now is Tajik Radio 1 at 2300-2000 per Aoki, 100 kW ND from Yangiyul site.
However EiBi shows the time as 14-11, so by that, would theoretically be off
the air when I was hearing this. But WRTH 2010 sides with the 23-20 version.
4975, Jan 1 at 1335 with talk in Asian language, 1339 familiar music briefly as
theme, Polovetsian Dances from Borodin's Prince Igor, then other music,
fluttery, gone by 1355. It`s the VOR relay in Pashto/Dari at 13-15, same site
and parameters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET. 4905, Jan 2 at 1400 Chinese talk and music, flutter, somewhat better
than 4920 which is supposed to be // but did not confirm that. The only station
listed on 4905 is PBS Xizang, Lhasa, but it`s supposed to be the first channel,
in Tibetan, // MW 594.
(BTW, looking up in WRTH 2010 page 143 I see a string of listings on ``595``,
between 576 and 594, all of which must be typos for 585. These were correctly
585 in WRTH 2009.)
Aoki also shows 4905 with no Chinese, mainly Tibetan except for a bit of
English and Kham. So the Han are encroaching even on their Tibetan-language
network? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WTWW did make it on the air in 2009, Central Time, at least:
transmitter first fired up at 0545-0600 UT January 1, 2010, George McClintock
tells me, with 15 kW on 5755, but just with carrier and squealing tones, like
sometimes audible on WWCR and others, showing that some modules need to be
replaced. But did anyone hear it? No reports have been received yet, nor have I
heard it, so this is info, not a log.
He says the FCC has been extremely helpful, willing to authorize program test
authority upon filing of the licence application by e-mail; but not yet ready
for that.
The high voltage meter had been wired backwards, so he fixed that. Some other
problems: getting the water pumping properly for the cooling system, but that
and the leaks have now been fixed; a couple bad buttons on the frequency
selection keypad, so only eight funxion instead of ten.
However, WTWW will surely not need all those, altho George says there are some
frequency issues to be resolved, and would like to try some others besides
these two. Yet to test on other registered frequency, 9480, unknown when. 5755
was on again the next night, no time given; did anyone catch that?
The latest as of Jan 2, Saturday morning: ``Now have audio to transmitter. Ran
ID audio on carrier (5755) for about 5 minutes last night before an overload. I
will need to look at this today. Transmitter ran about 35 kW. Tube is mounted
in water and will need to get new water cleaning agent before proceeding
forward in power.``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3325-USB, Navy MARS net, Fri Jan 1 at 2358, NNN0AVT explaining a
WinMor (?) program and then running digital test. Googling indicates this is in
the Kansas/Nebraska area (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 11715, nothing but Tagalog audible, Jan 2 at 1515, i.e. R.
Veritas Asia, via Vatican at 130 degrees; no trace of robokids underneath even
during modulation pauses, so where is KJES?
WRTH 2010 shows 14-17 on 11715 to NAm, from which you would not know that they
rotate the antenna every hour, from 70 to 350 to 150 degrees, per FCC and Aoki,
the first two hours in English, then Spanish.
350 is certainly unfavorable for here, so we should try during the previous
hour 14-15 when it`s supposedly aimed 70 degrees from The Lord`s Ranch, right
on Oklahoma City, but really too close and may be skipping over if really on
and the MUF is adequate; the collision then is with R. Liberty, Uzbek via
Lampertheim, Germany.
The 70-degree boresight from Vado NM carries on thru Cairo IL, Lexington KY,
between which the first hop should come down best, exiting North America across
the DelMarVa Peninsula, and next hitting land at Dakhla, ex-Villa Cisneros,
Western Sahara. 70 degrees is not used at all on its other frequencies 7555 and
15385.
We suspect KJES operation is quite irregular. However, tho FCC, HFCC, WRTH and
EiBi all show it daily, no doubt reflecting its authorization, Aoki says it
runs M-F only, and this was a Saturday. In any event, another instance of
Vatican collisions, Catholix vs pseudo-Catholix (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 11525, fair but fluttery, VOA World News Now, Jan 2 at 1528
with Today in History, the jam-packed 2-minute segment hourly at this time,
announcer properly pronouncing ``short-lived`` with a long I, since the term
derives from ``life``, which is not pronounced ``liff``, and whenever that
happens I find it worthy of note.
9310 at 1534 Jan 2, VOA, Art Chimes introducing science-technology magazine
show, ``Our World``, // 11525 but about one second ahead of it. 9310 is 283
degrees from Tinang, PHILIPPINES, while 11525 is 25 degrees from Iranawila, SRI
LANKA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** URUGUAY. Since Horacio Nigro had confirmed it reactivated two hours earlier,
I looked again for R. Sarand? on 6045, Jan 2 at 0552. I could detect an
extremely weak carrier, and perhaps some music at 0557 before blasted away by
KBS/Sackville *0559:45. But there should not be any carrier if the CX is pure
SSB; is it? Equally unlikely possibilities on 6045 at this hour: Zimbabwe and
XEXQ. BTW, Aoki still shows KBS at 0600 as only half an hour tho it was
expanded to a full hour some months ago, so forget about Uruguay until 0700; in
fact, forget about it until 0800 as KBS runs another hour via UK. Yes, this is
purely an unID log, but it concerns Uruguay (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** VATICAN [and non]. 9540, Jan 2 at 1445, Asian language poor with BBC
Woofferton QRDRM 9540-9545-9550. Listed on 9540 is Vatican in Urdu during this
semihour. I could avoid most of the DRM by sidetuning below 9540, but should I
have to? Of course, Vatican emits some DRM transmissions too, so they can
hardly complain (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6074, Jan 1 at 1400, V/CQ marker from 8GAL weakly audible at
first mixing with final timesignal of R. Rossii, 6075 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6930-USB, pirate at 0607 UT January 1, 2010 with weird music,
0611 announcement with ID but could not catch it; 0619 soul music; 0635 ``Sloop
John B`` by the Beach Boys, 0639 ``Paperback Writer`` by the Beatles; 0642
``Low Rider``. Poor signal with occasional peaks. That could be enough for a
QSL, please? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7415, Jan 2 at 1530-1532* open carrier. I think it was in Chinese
before 1530, but was not paying much attention. Should have, as nothing is on
the schedules after 1500 when YFR is via Pet/Kam, so maybe that has been
extended. Fortunately, tho authorized 24 hours on 7415, WBCQ is not attempting
to use it in the mornings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9583.5, approx., strong 2-way Spanish intruder on SSB, VG signal
but intermittent, Jan 2 at 1516; apparently discussing ETA or itinerary, but
could not hear the contact, maybe duplex on another frequency. Concluded at
1519 with ``igualmente; buen d?a``. Poachers or narco-traffickers? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9600.3, extremely weak het on estimated frequency vs something
equally weak on 9600.0, Jan 2 at 1521. So another entry in the
could-it-possibly-be-XEYU-annals? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 22:01:44 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>, "DXLD" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] recent logs
Message-ID: <252b1d3ca49d43d6afa04987cfbfd...@hnpc2>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
reply-type=original
CROATIA 3984.978 Croatian Radio via Deanovec, phone in program in
Croatian at 2230 UT Dec 31. S=7-8 fair signal.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 31)
CUBA 9600 RHC Quivican in Sp, ID at 1145 UT, S=7 signal here in Germany.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 2)
CYPRUS Typical British OHR from Limassol in 15885 to 15915 kHz range at
1118 UT Dec 2. Signal S=7-8.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 2)
GERMANY 6190 SW Berlin Britz transmission lost audio feed, only carrier
noted at 1100-1200 UT, though usual DLF winter signal of steep angle antenna
S=9+20dB some 750 kilometers away in southern Germany. Old RIAS/VOA unit of
1951year with 17 kW of power, - to enthuse about this "ripe performance".
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 2)
GREECE 15630 Seldom heard so powerful in 19 mb, VoGreece in Greek at 0805
UT Jan 2. \\ 9420 kHz. B u t 12105 kHz channel is off today 0600-1000 UT.
>From 1100 UT, 9420 kHz is OFF today. Only ERA-5 VoGRC 15650 kHz and ERT-3
Thessaloniki regional relay on 9935 kHz on air. 15650 kHz at 1120 UT
S=9+20dB. Scheduled 1100-1650 UT.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 2)
GUAM 11590 KTWR Guam in Mandarin Chinese, carry a very bad BUZZ audio,
like satellite dish feed alignment failure. 1125 UT Dec 2 at signal level
S=9+10dB. Registered at 1015-1100 UT.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 2)
KUWAIT Radio Kuwait hat folgenden Wintersendeplan 2009/10:
Arabisch
0200-0800 6055
0200-1100 13650
0900-1300 13620
1000-1745 11630
1305-1700 15110
1505-1755 13620
1800-0000 15495
2200-0200 11675 (DRM)
Holy Quran
1305-1500 17885
Farsi
0800-1000 7250
Englisch
1800-2100 11990
(Ulrich Wicke, Dec 1, via Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-D, ntt Jan 1)
TURKEY 9839.972 TRT Cakirlar with Georgian program at 1100-1200 UT.
Turkish pop mx, S=9+10dB. Signal not stable frequency, wandered to 9839.977
kHz at 1153 UT.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 2)
UAE/U.K. 5980.043v PRW Warsaw in Polish, midnight mass 2200-2259 UT Dec
31, via V-group Al Dhabbaya relay, S=9+5dB in peaks. Suffering audio level,
no Optimod in use? On of the eight txs at UAE is often odd frequency.
\\ 5990 kHz via V-group Woofferton facility, excellent powerful audio with
S=9+40dB at 2225 UT.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 31)
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 20:19:34 -0800
From: [email protected] (Patrick Martin)
To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] New MW QSL (KBNW-1340)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII
A nice way to start out the new year with a nice QSL letter.
1340 KBNW OR, Bend, rec a very friendly letter in 70d for CD
report. Mentioned they are diplexed off the KICE tower running 1000w
day/500 w nights. Not often you find a gyer that drops power at night
here in the West. V/S: Keith Shipman-Pres & CEO of Horizon BC Group.
Address: 854 N.E. Fourth Street, Bend OR 97701. MW QSL #3010. (PM-OR)
Patrick Martin
KGED QSL Manager
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