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Today's Topics:
1. logs (L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec)
2. Tues Morn Dx ([email protected])
3. Logs 15-01-10 (Zacharias Liangas )
4. Logs 17+18.1 (Zacharias Liangas )
5. End of the road for shortwave? (Alokesh Gupta)
6. Glenn Hauser logs January 18-19, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
7. Glenn Hauser logs January 19, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
8. Borderless Radio Rankings Now Here! ([email protected])
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:23:43 -0200
From: L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, "Anker Petersen" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] logs
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9704, R. Ethiopia, Addis Ababa-Gedja. January, 18 Amharic/Oro./Tig (listed)
2001-2014 male talks segment, short local music, female alternating short local
music, 2005 local music selections, 2013 female talks. 23332 (lob-B).
7200, Sudan, R.Omdurman, Al Fitahab. January, 18 2015-2024 male and female in
Arabic talks, many mentions of "Sudan", 2017 tribal music (xylophone like,
percussion and tribal choral), female in Arabic talks. 33333 (lob-B).
73's
L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec
Embu SP Brasil - Sony ICF SW40 - dipole 18m, 32m.
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:07:06 -0000
From: <[email protected]>
To: "Cumbre" <[email protected]>, "arnaldo slaen"
<[email protected]>, "DSWCI" <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, "Gayle Van Horn" <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, "Marie
Lamb" <[email protected]>, "Robert Wilkner" <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, "ALF" <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Tues Morn Dx
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Papua New Guinea, 3385, Radio New East Britian, (tent)1145-1205 Noted a male
in Pidgin language comments uantil 1149 when typical music is presented. On
the hour news is presented by a female. Signal was very poor. (Chuck
Bolland, January 19, 2010)
NRD545
26.27N 081.05W
Just uploaded a new version of Magna to
http://www.orchidcitysoftware.com/IMAGE59.HTML
If you are interested, check it out.
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:20:27 +0200
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[email protected]>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs 15-01-10
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Logs
15-1
http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/259
TW 9745 V oHan 2045 in Amoy with signal S6 max. Soem QRM from 9740
and sporadic QRM from co ch Bahrain in case signal from OVoH fades
below S2 Prg heard : light music, opera with CC language discussion
bwtween 2 young ppl. 2059 with a CC traditional song and ID 'hanyin
shoutin' .
4724 U : north american operator wuith enoded measg on 2103 and S9
signal
7610 R amica 2116 with old pop songs , ID on 2119 and S6-8 33443
Turkey 9610 VoT in English 2140 with news , abot NIcosia , S9 35433
CHINA 7105 (is it a jammer? )//4800 CNR1 with dsicsussiosn by OM on
2140 S7
Please read and distribute this 15 year research article
http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e
Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd
________________________
http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE
http://sites.google.com/site/zliangas (replacement of geocities)
http://zliangas.blogspot.com (radio tech , gadgets, grk ethics)
http://www.youtube.com/zach0gr some videos
http://www.myspace.com/310100806
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=770974854
http://www.worldisround.com/articles/302315/ (Litohoro) 321199/Tinos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachgr pictures upload
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/06600224598981072865 (social
news )
http://zlgr.stumbleupon.com (my social 'bookmarks' )
http://del.icio.us/gr_geek1
........
Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece
greekdx @ otenet dot gr ---
Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108,
Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000
Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:23:19 +0200
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[email protected]>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs 17+18.1
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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17.1
http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/260
7255 BLR radio 0700 with ID and aderts S7
15120 Vo Nigeria 0702 ID by YL with nx S10 453x4
5010 RTM MAlagasy 2005 -13 OM with very lenghty talks in MG - sports
program ? S5-7 34233 and dragging
4965 CVC 2016 with songs At 2006 with talks (foundation) and on 2023
back to music S6/S2 34333
4976! on off signal with music program
7240 CNR Xizang 2059 with nice 'chinese' songs after WYFR signed off .
ID on 2133 by YL over a CC song that continues thereafter S7 max 34433
9505 CVC 2153 music then theatric type play betwen OM and YL CRF
then continued with music tll 2201 *
9580 Afica NO1 2208 with nexs reports in FRench mentioning President
Lorent Baho /Revolution Ayuba rep du Congo ID at 2216 , Sudan . Radio
Jingle on 226 then lovely music 2229 S8 35434
9820 CNR - China Business RAdio 2243 with English language lessons .
They tried to spell letters S8
18-1
4985 RBC - BRAZIL 0617 talks and music S2-3
7210 unIDed 1958 pop songs hymn on 2000 , signed off 2001
9526 VoIns 2044 with dangdut song S7 21xx2 QRM fom 9525
9535 R Thailand 2045 gongd and ID , talks in tai S9
9550 VoVietnam? many news in FF for Vietnam S6 22332 QRM 9555
Please read and distribute this 15 year research article
http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e
Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd
________________________
http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE
http://sites.google.com/site/zliangas (replacement of geocities)
http://zliangas.blogspot.com (radio tech , gadgets, grk ethics)
http://www.youtube.com/zach0gr some videos
http://www.myspace.com/310100806
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=770974854
http://www.worldisround.com/articles/302315/ (Litohoro) 321199/Tinos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachgr pictures upload
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/06600224598981072865 (social
news )
http://zlgr.stumbleupon.com (my social 'bookmarks' )
http://del.icio.us/gr_geek1
........
Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece
greekdx @ otenet dot gr ---
Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108,
Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000
Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:47:24 +0530
From: "Alokesh Gupta" <[email protected]>
To: "Alokesh-Hotmail" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] End of the road for shortwave?
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
End of the road for shortwave?
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/124187
----
Alokesh Gupta
New Delhi, India
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:33:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 18-19, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
** ALASKA. 6890, KNLS better than usual during English hour, Jan 19 at 1406 ID
and 2-minute segment on stamp collecting, US plans for 2010 issues, Year of the
Woman. A bit of an echo, backscatter? 1408 Postcard from Alaska, about Glacier
Bay starting with bird SFX. Now they`ve got listeners hooked with innocent
secular stuff, at 1412 hit `em with gospel-huxtering: ``True Stories from the
Bible in Contemporary English``. Still, every state should have its own SW
station promoting tourism, even if it`s produced in Tennessee (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 2485, VL8K, Jan 19 at 1345 with some talk audible, but not on
weaker NT carriers 2310, 2325. At 1346 I could almost imagine there was a
carrier on 2368.5 from R. Symban, but too much LSA beacon harmonic --- see U S
A (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 15340 in English Jan 19 at 1455 with big het from
perpetually off-frequency Morocco on 15341. Must be HCJB Kununurra, only thing
scheduled, and CVC Cox Peninsula (still on the air) was making it well with
gospel rock on 13635, neither reliably audible here over night-path.
At 1458 Morocco went off, about to shift to 15345, so could hear 15340 at 1500
closing Spotlight, easy English program with e-mail address. Now the problem is
splatter from Radio Mart? 15330, and nothing much further audible from HCJB-Au,
which is supposedly in English daily 1445-1530, after lots of other S Asian
languages from 1145, all aimed 307 degrees from WA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL [and non]. 6185, apprehensively enjoying nice Mexican music on XEPPM,
6185, Jan 19 at 0625 now clear of Catholic clash from Vatican, and already at
*0629 on comes Bras?lia overriding it. Feb 21 cannot come soon enough, when
Brasil goes off DST and this should start cutting on sometime between 0730 and
0800 UT instead. Inexplicably, RNA shifts programming and transmission one hour
back and forth due to DST in Bras?lia even tho there is no DST in target
Amaz?nia! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake check Jan 19 at 1526: fair on 8400, not heard on 9000 or
anywhere in the 10000-11500 range (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. OTH radar pulses presumed from here, Jan 19: at 1402,
5760-5810 QRMing AFN Guam 5765 with AP Radio News ID at 1403, denoting an
optional cutaway to affiliates for whom even 5 minutes of news is too much to
swallow; and also QRMing the hugely stronger IBB Tinian in Cantonese on 5810.
Also OTHR at 1406 covering 6770-6820 but no broadcasters to bother (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA. 2859.8, R. San Carlos --- seems the only times I hear it are
when checking something else quickly on the portable, in the cold outdoors on a
clip-on antenna away from the household noise sources --- there it was
definitely in Spanish vs noise level still high, Jan 19 at 0150, two times
1429.9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Has anyone noticed anything unusual from RHC in Creole? They allegedly
have only one half-hour program daily which doesn`t leave much time for
anything but propaganda. The `official` sked e-mailed out after B-09 began
claims Creole is only at 0100-0130 on 13790 to Rio de Janeiro! And that matches
the transmission schedule currently presented on the website in Spanish. I
think they are known to substitute French for Creole, anyway. It seems their
service in that language has atrophied. The YouTube visit to RHC a few years
ago showed a gringa(?) non-Haitian lady in charge of it. Is she gone?
There seems to be no Creole page at all on the RHC website, but looking at
French, the transmission schedule there is years out of date, claiming Creole
is: 2130-2200 9505, 2230-2300 9505, 0100-0130 9550 --- both frequencies
abandoned long ago.
If Cuba really wanted to help, they would have greatly expanded their Creole
service by now, like VOA, BBC, RFI. Not to mention actually delivering aid,
doctors from that paragon of medical excellence. But having to submit to US air
traffic control?! Instead they and Ch?vez bitch about US aid generously given
to Haiti as some kind of opportunism to take over the country (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** HAITI [non]. Checked the two emergency 20m channels for Haiti:
14265-USB, Jan 19 at 1503 NCS was NB7PX, listening for Haiti, DR, calling
Barbados but no traffic at the moment.
14300-USB, Jan 19 at 1506 NCS WA1RKP, open for relief effort traffic, several
talk-overs by hams who apparently could not hear each other. Both nets were
bothered by stronger SSB signals on the low side.
A reminder that TWR Bonaire 800 kHz says it is relaying 4VEH from Cap-Ha?tien
starting at 0315 UT until 0700. Let`s have some monitoring reports of that; not
likely around here with OKC on 800 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Much more concerning Haiti: CUBA; U S A
** INDIA. 9470, AIR National Channel via Aligarh, again exhibiting problems,
but at least not jumping to lots of other frequencies as it used to. Jan 19 at
1333, Hindi talk // clear 9425 Bengaluru, but 9470 with motorboating, warble,
hum (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI carrier weakly detectable but not any modulation, Jan
19 at 1340 during presumed English hour. RRI HS on 9680 also weak, but some
music audible.
4750, RRI Makassar, Jan 19 at 1352 continuous YL talk in Indonesian, with
ripple presumably from one of the other 4750 stations on a slightly different
frequency, likely CNR1. Also some music on 3325 at 1349 but can`t be sure it
was Palangkaraya as Atsunori Ishida http://www.max.hi-ho.ne.jp/a-ishida/ins/
says Buka, PNG often QRMs past 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. Jan 19 was a good calm morning for reception from
here, first checking 2850, at 1344 with Korean talk, deep fades from S9+8
peaks. Weaker at 1348 on 3250, 3320, jammer on 3480.
Looked for more Juche jammers at 1516: exactly same noise sound on 5890 vs VOA
as on 6003 and 6015. 6003 is against Echo of Hope, but 6015 is new, per Aoki
0654-0004 against the reactivated South Korean channel, some audio of which was
audible under at 1524:
``6015 KBS Hanminjok Bangsong 1 0350-2400 1234567 Korean 100 ND Hwaseong KOR
12659E 3709N KBS b09 Jan. 1- // 972, 117[0]``
At 1521, similar jamming noise on 6600 with victim audible and 6518; different
sound with faster pulsing on 6350. 6285 in Russian which is VOK. 6250 had noise
jamming pulses instead of Pyongyang BS ? a mixup at the transmitter site or are
the South Koreans retaliating? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 5875, BBCWS in English via THAILAND, Jan 19 at 1404 with optional
cutaway cue ``World News from the BBC`` for benefit of affiliates for whom
three minutes of news is plenty; atop co-channel in Arabic we have been noting
for several days now. A little birdie tells me this is indeed BBCWS via Cyprus
site:
5875 BBC 1400 1600 Arabic Cyprus smtwtfs Arabian Gulf 300 121 VTC 1/18
Tho I was hearing it before January 18. BBC assumes they can double up on this
frequency without significant self-QRM in respective target areas, which may be
true, and at the same time as a bonus make BBCWS 5875 unlistenable by
undesirable North Americans who have no right to hear it any way on SW (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. One of VOA`s known Kriyol SW frequencies, 13725, heard on
the air earlier than scheduled *2200, Jan 18 at 2134 tune-in but nothing yet on
the other SW channels 15390 or 11905. Announcement at 2138 mentioned only this
SW frequency after three FM frequencies, 92.?, 93.3 and 105.1 --- which had
been unknown before and not specified in press releases. Presumably some or all
of them are airborne from the psyop SOW which flew in from Harrisburg PA. Then
at 2140 started putting callers on the air trying to find out about relatives
or contact them. Surprised to hear the first one in English, from a woman in
Martinique seeking her father, gave her own phone number, but all the others
were in Creole almost until hourtop.
Then I started looking for the other SW frequencies. As usual, they were late
coming up as news on the hour had started on 13725! At 2201, open carrier on
15390, modulation from 2202. At 2201 no carrier on 11905, but on and modulating
at next check 2204. I suspect 13725 may have been on for hours before I ran
across it. More below.
Rechecking toward end of the scheduled 22 UT hour, at 2254: 15390 inaudible,
presumably just faded out; 13725 weak and fading, but 11905 still very good;
2259 a bit of dirge classical music, standard VOA sign-off in English. These
are all Greenville, of course, aimed close to a right angle from OK.
[Later, Jan 19:] Expanded hours for 13725 still do not show on the C-page of
the A-Z frequency schedule:
http://author.voanews.com/english/about/frequenciesAtoZ_c.cfm
and if you click on Creole for that service`s page, you may find lots of
interesting info in fraxured french at
http://www.voanews.com/creole/
but if you then click on Frekans, you go right back to the A-Z schedule
presented in English. Nor do I see anything on either page about the three new
airborne(?) FM frequencies I heard announced today.
At 0145 UT Jan 19, I tried the new nighttime Kriyol transmission at 01-02 on
1180, 5960 and 7465. 5960 was fair but fading, and 7465 JBA. 5960 was
previously the Tue-Sat Spe-cial Eng-lish channel at 0130-0200, along with 7405,
where nothing is heard now, so suspect the latter Greenville transmitter has
also been pre-empted, or co-opted, but on 7465 instead.
It so happened that at 0147 they were playing back the same caller in English
from Martinique that I had heard at 2140, otherwise Kriyol.
I thought I might be able to detect 1180 audio from Marathon // 5960, but no,
just too much QRM from multiple US/Mexican transmitters if not Cuban audible
here; I have no reason to believe the Cubans are turning off their jamming
during the VOA/Creole hours on 1180. (Terry Krueger in FL says there are at
least three unsynchronized Rebelde outlets on 1180.)
I was also wondering if Marathon might have loosened up or modified their
direxional pattern during the Haiti hours to maximize the signal there, and
possibly change its backward radiation too, normally extremely suppressed.
Looked for VOA Creole`s expanded morning transmission Jan 19: tune in 6135 at
1326 but nothing audible, scheduled Bonaire relay from 1230. It`s a bit late
for propagation, 9:26 am local, but expected to hear at least something. Maybe
they had to close a bit early. The other expanded frequency, from Greenville,
9660, was VG running a USG editorial in Creole, 1329:30 English sign-off.
During open carrier could hear RRI in German, now colliding for a semihour.
IBB uses 13725 from Tinian until 1700, but then it`s open, not registered by
anyone. But at 1757 Jan 19, the midday Creole transmission expanded to
1730-1930 is on VG 15390 and fair 17565, not yet 13725, tho it was certainly
running well before 2200 the day before. Maybe picks up at 1930? (Glenn Hauser,
Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15550-USB, still no trace of WJHR at 1725 check Jan 18. In fact, the
last date I definitely heard it was Dec 20, tho others reported it last on Dec
30. So has it been completely silent since then, or just brief tests we have
missed? I wrote to G S Mock asking him about this. He replied Jan 19:
``WJHR had an antenna failure. High rf caused melting in the wires. This is
good news though! A new antenna is being installed as soon as the weather
permits. I hope to have the station up and going in a few days if all goes
well. The new antenna is a quality log periodic which should put out a
substantial signal. Thankyou for your your concern and keep listening. We will
continue to be on this frequency during the A10 season. G.S. Mock wjhr @
usa.com`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 2366, Lamesa TX NDB on seventh harmonic of 338 kHz, stronger than
recently at 1346 Jan 19, so with BFO was able to recopy definite Morse ID as
``LSA`` despite negative keying on A2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6927, as I tuned by Jan 19 at 1519 heard some distorted music on
SSB, no doubt a pirate, but before I could be certain of the frequency it was
gone (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 10107, 2-way SSB in Spanish a surprise on this CW-only hamband,
Jan 19 at 1527. Probably the usual narco/poacher intruders rather than Mexican
hams (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17630, fairly strong open carrier Jan 19 at 1446-1447:30 and
noticed back on before 1452. Would like to think it`s Africa Num?ro Un, Gabon,
reactivating its long-missing second transmitter, and propagation was possible
from there, but pretty steady and I fear it`s only another IBB Greenville
warmup on an otherwise unused frequency. In between, could hear weak CRI Mali,
so if ANO does reactivate, they should really come back on a clear frequency!
And that goes for 15475 too vs Antarctica (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) ###
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:50:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 19, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
** ALBANIA. 7430, R. Tirana in English, Tue Jan 19 at 2113, Klara presenting
mailbag with letters from USA, Sweden, UK and one recognizable name,
Christopher Lewis. Later music fill and off the air at 2127*. Good signal,
adequate modulation, no QRM tho there was something weaker on 7425 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11600, DentroCuban Jamming Command still grinding away on this
frequency for no perceptible reason. There is nothing on any of the online
schedules after Slovakia finishes at 1600, and no victim can be detected under
the jamming, such as 2055 UT Jan 19, but bothering DW German via Rwanda on
11605.
11600 jamming diminished after 2100 but irregular pulsing could still be heard.
The DCJC must be convinced something needs to be jammed on 11600, or maybe
there was a typo in Arnie`s monitored schedule. Or could it be, or have been, a
never-discovered daytime broadcast of Radio Rep?blica or some other clandestine
with a signal too weak to show up?
Checked RHC frequencies in case they have resumed something Creole, Jan 19 at
2130 but found them all in Spanish, except 11760 with English running late,
about a joint Cuban/Venezuelan clinic in Haiti which was apparently already
there when the quake hit.
2132 theme and transition to French (not Creole) also on 11760, partly about
what Cuba is doing in Haiti. Here`s one story about that on their website:
http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/a_sugerencias/enero/10/etica.htm
And another, in English, always with as negative a spin as possible toward the
USA, claims 400 Cuban doctors are in Haiti:
http://www.radiohc.cu/ingles/a_comentarios/10/enero/ene18.htm
On the French broadcast one item was slightly positive, that Cuba is allowing
US aid flights to overfly eastern Cuba, or as found on their website:
``Le communiqu? rappelle que le gouvernement cubain avait autoris?, tout de
suite apr?s avoir re?u la demande, l?utilisation de l?espace a?rien sur l?Est
de son territoire, par des avions ?tasuniens ? destination d?Ha?ti pour
faciliter l?envoi d?aide humanitaire.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. After hearing VOA Creole earlier than scheduled the day before on
13725, I started looking for it much earlier on Jan 19, before the expanded
midday transmission until 1930 was over on 15390 and 17565. I was not
monitoring constantly, rather checking 13725 once per half hour, but nothing.
Finally a more comprehensive bandscan found 15390 still/again on the air at
2052 with VOA Creole --- no other frequencies found on 9, 11, 13, 15 or 17 MHz
bands. No thanks to VOA for not publishing their full correct frequency
schedule in Creole.
Interview in progress kept on going right past hourtop 2100, but 15390 abruptly
cut off the air at 2100:30*. I could imagine the operator at Greenville
hustling to manually retune the old beast to 13725, meanwhile missing
programming in progress from Washington. Finally 13725 carrier came on at
*2002:15, and it took almost another minute for modulation to be applied,
phone-ins now.
At 2105 it was the anomalous English-speaking woman from Martinique, same
recording I have now heard three times at random tune-ins, seeking her father
Michel Kenetry (? No idea how to spell his surname, something like that, but
she never spelt it). Also copied her phone number but not to be put here as she
does not need any extraneous calls. (If in the extremely unlikely chance
someone in Haiti really needs to contact her after reading this here, ask.) At
2129:30 programming on 13725 paused with ``has come to you from VOA,
Washington``, but not a sign-off as Ronald C?sar resumed from studio at 2130
with news about the situation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Over two months after he was sentenced to 175 years in prison for
child sex abuse, convicted evangelist Tony Al?mo is *still* broadcasting on
WINB, where criminality is no problem, noted Jan 19 at 2050 with distorted
modulation on 13570, plus splattery spurs down to 13530 and up to 13595, with
further peaks around 13500 and 13635 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:34:28 +1300
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Borderless Radio Rankings Now Here!
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Media Release
Radio Heritage Foundation
www.radioheritage.net
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Borderless Radio is Here!
Creating Global Communities
from Pacific Radio Brands
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What do ABC Radio, Radio NZ, RFO Radio, Communications Fiji, KCCN-FM
and KUAM have in common?
Each features in the new Borderless Radio Rankings at
www.radioheritage.net as being the top radio websites from their
countries when ranked against hundreds of others from across the
Pacific.
This is a fresh way of looking at local radio stations and brands
from the Pacific in a 'borderless' global digital marketplace
according to the Radio Heritage Foundation who have released four new
reports covering the subject.
"Local market boundaries, AM, FM, DAB, HD and other digital licence
areas and frequency allocations are becoming increasingly irrelevant
to building communities of listeners" says David Ricquish of the Radio
Heritage Foundation.
"We can now look at all different kinds of radio brands and compare
them from one original common data source. Commercial, community,
state owned, high power, low power, AM, FM, digital, it makes no
difference any more" he adds.
In fact, AM, FM and even the latest digital radio technologies are
trapped within geography, whereas online streaming into multi-system
digital receivers underpins the real radio revolution that's taking
place believes the Radio Heritage Foundation.
You can now check how your favorite local radio station compares with
other radio stations across your town, city, radio market, country
and the entire Pacific region. You'll be surprised at the results.
Reports available at www.radioheritage.net include BRR Australia, BRR
New Zealand, BRR Pacific Region and BRR Top 1 Million with others
being progressively introduced.
Hawaiian FM radio brands dominate the Pacific Region report, but Fiji
and other island nations also feature.
Australan radio brands ranging from the ABC to local commercial and
community FM stations - and with a surprisingly strong showing from
heritage AM stations - in turn dominate the Pacific Top 1 Million
report.
Over 100 New Zealand radio brands feature in the New Zealand report,
with small LPFM [low power FM] stations staking a strong claim to
global audiences whilst the two major commercial networks are tied in
their global impact.
And this is just the beginning. Over 400 separate stations are listed
in the new Borderless Radio Rankings and more will join them in the
coming months.
The Radio Heritage Foundation tracks radio heritage. From original
spark wireless to AM to shortwave to amateur radio to FM to digital
to global wireless.
The new Borderless Radio Ranking service is part of the organizations
strategy to report on current changes in Pacific radio so it can
create baselines of data to support its ongoing radio heritage
protection activities. All reports can currently be accessed for free
at www.radioheritage.net.
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Radio Heritage Foundation is a registered non-profit organization
connecting popular culture, nostalgia and radio heritage across the
Pacific. Annual and Lifetime supporters now enjoy discounts on a
range of merchandise, services and reports such as the new Borderless
Radio Rankings. Global website: www.radioheritage.net
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End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 85, Issue 20
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