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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs January 26-27, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
2. Small ferrite antenna (Giampiero Bernardini)
3. Florida Logs (Robert Wilkner)
4. Thr Early DX (Charles Bolland)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:25:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 26-27, 2010
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** ARGENTINA. 15345, the 8-note RAE IS fair at 2157 Jan 26, following German
broadcast; had I realized that Aoki shows a one-hour gap until Spanish from
*2300, I would have stayed tuned a bit longer to reconfirm that Spanish axually
starts at 2200 weekdays, as per WRTH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 11600, jamming still going at 2202 Jan 26, later than usual?
Altho maybe not continuously since it started at 1600. Now it`s pulsing, which
means maybe only one of multiple transmitters which add up to walls of noise.
Tried comparing it to 11930, and much stronger pulsing there matched, exactly
synchronized at the rate of four per second, except the pitch was slightly
higher on 11930, where Radio Mart? had just closed (BTW, Aoki somehow misses
Mart? on this frequency). We remained baffled why the DCJC runs jammers on
11600, where nothing at all is known to be broadcasting after 1600 --- but hey,
no better place for them!
15360, Jan 27 at 1445, RHC`s Formalmente Informal, a lo-fi interview mixing
with something in Persian, about equal level and precisely zero beat, so rather
confusing as they took turns dominating. Latter is RFI Issoudun at 1430-1500
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. OTH radar, presumed from here, but maybe not, Jan 27 at 1450
spanning 15745-15815, with peaks at odd spots such as 15780 and 15810, so most
damaging to Galei Zahal, ISRAEL on 15783.6 and BBC Arabic on 15790, which is
definitely Cyprus; overshadowed by the Saudi buzz, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 15080, R. Cairo, poor with distorted modulation as always on this
frequency, music at 1430 Jan 27, into 4+1 timesignal 35 seconds late, Cairo
news theme and distorted talk in Arabic. This is 13-16 via Abis site to West
Africa, where they`d better set their clox by something else (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 15140, R. Sultanate of Oman, fair signal but barely audible
modulation, 1433 Jan 27 with YL in English news mentioning Baghdad, and highly
likely it was bad news (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [and non]. 9996, binary code at 1255 Jan 27, presumably RWM, and
beating against WWV/H on 10000 where there was also a fast SAH indicating some
other station`s frequency was not standard at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. I thought the Buzzing Service of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
was bad the day before, but much worse on Jan 27, a new record: first check at
1500, the horrible 15435 transmitter was audible just between 15390 and 15460,
leaving e.g. fluttery Spain 15385 in the clear.
But at 1518 If found that blotted out, with the buzz now extending from 15270
to 15775! I can`t begin to enumerate all the stations this was interfering
with, but who cares?
The edges reduced to just pulsing of four times per second, ranged 15270-15300,
and 15630-15775, leaving the full brunt at 15300-15630. The upper end
overlapped OTH radar from 15745, see CYPRUS. Standard but amplified remarks of
incredulity over the Saudi monstrosity (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOLOMON ISLANDS [non]. SIBC missing from 5020 for at least a week in chex
around 1300-1430, including Jan 27 at 1307, when no carrier at all detectable.
This is because they have ceased overnight relays of BBCWS which used to start
at 12 UT, due to power expense of over US$11K per year, per Media Network blog:
http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/sibc-drops-nighttime-relays-of-bbc-to-save-money
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. 7275, RTT music had just switched to announcement when cut to brief
OC and off the air at 0626:50* Jan 27 while // 7335 continued. This is a
consistently odd closing time for 7275, contrary to published schedules; as for
7335 closing, on the schedules as 0910, Noel Green says it goes off around
0810, and Wolfgang B?schel heard it until 0807* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U K [non]. Jan 27 was monitoring barely early enough to hear the conclusion
of BBC`s new Creole service, VG on 9410 via WHRI; a bit of music at 1250, then
closing announcement giving the only time for ``Connexion[s] Ha?ti`` (pardon my
French) as 9:10 am, which is 1410 UT when it repeats on Haitian FM stations; as
usual, shortwave gets no respect from the BBC, just an afterthought if we are
lucky. Or in this case, a beforethought.
At 1252:30 introduced in Spanish classical music fill show 19 minutes later
than previously, which would last only 7.5 minutes until 1300:00* sharp without
announcement, matching a timesignal underneath which must have been BBC Oman
just overtaking the channel.
Altho this is the least of their problems, now the Haitians are faced with a
logjam of special programming at 1230, from VOA, BBC and WRMI. A bit of
co?rdination rather than competition would be nice (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, straining to hear WRMI`s new French service to Haiti, Jan 27 at
1257, very weak signal I was about to conclude to be in French when DentroCuban
Jamming Command cut on at 1257:40 with one pulser, quickly joined by others,
and a pileup noise wall before 1300 when WRMI presumably is running a new Cuban
exile program daily, Radio Libertad until 1400. But Cuba was jamming this hour
anyway for months when it contained no contrary programming, just victimized DX
and other innocent shows.
WRMI`s website still has not been updated to tell us anything about Radio
Libertad: http://www.wrmi.net/schedule.php but it allegedly is not strictly an
anti-Castro show. Close enough.
WRMI is not only on the SSE antenna at this time but on the backup 5 kW
transmitter, pending repairs, making it virtually inaudible here, and not a
chance of overcoming jamming, which the Cubans keep on thru the 1400 hour for
good measure against DX and other programs, and even past 1500 when R. Prague
is relayed in English.
Jeff White says the 12-13 M-F hour is now occupied by programs in French for
Haiti: Prague, Vatican and UN Radio, perhaps to be replaced by religious
programs in Creole when available (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. Lavwadlamerik, Jan 27 at 1305 on 6135 via Bonaire, 9505
presumably Greenville, with announcement over sad piano music reminiscent of
Sea Breeze. This semihour does not conflict with Haitian services from BBC and
WRMI at 1230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. As I tuned in 15315, Jan 27 at 1438, heard gruff announcer
mention ``shortwave radio station``, then ``Family Radio`` and later, ``Open
Forum``, but otherwise in a S Asian language. Aoki shows it`s Malayalam, since
Dec 30 at 14-15 via Wertachtal, GERMANY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 17610 with extremely repetitious rustic melody of only a few
notes up and down being sung at 1456 Jan 27, 1458 briefly to other music before
cut off at 1458:40 without any announcement. Another example of AWR`s Afar
service via AUSTRIA, to what must be a tiny minority, Adventist Afars, but AWR
voices hope of their peculiar sect catching on from afar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:43:19 +0100
From: "Giampiero Bernardini" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Small ferrite antenna
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I got from RadioPlus+ (USA) a nice ferrite antenna, useful with portable
and ultralight radios: The Q-Stick+. You can see some info and my
impressions on my blog http://radiodxinfo.blogspot.com/
<http://radiodxinfo.blogspot.com/>
Ciao
Giampiero
Giampiero Bernardini
Milano, Italia
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:29:11 -0500
From: Robert Wilkner <[email protected]>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [HCDX] Florida Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Logs
4700 Bolivia, Radio San Miguel, Riberalta 1030 to 1045 "seis in la
manana" .."en todos el tiempo".. .." en Bolivia hoy"..... rooster crows
"..en la radio seis en las manana" ..much improved signal as returned to
4700. 2300 'Amigos en las mision " 27 January [Wilkner]
4800 Mexico XERTA, 1117 om espanol with weak signal 27 January
[Wilkner]
4985 Brasil Radio Brasil Central, Goainia 2258 2300 football live
"gooooal!", strong signal 27 January [Wilkner]
5952.45 Bolivia Pio XII, Siglo Veinte yl en espanol, co channel, narrow
filter, 27 January [Wilkner]
73s de
Bob
Pompano Beach, Florida
Drake R 8, Icom 746Pro DL, NRD 535D
noise reducing antenna
60 meter band dipole
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:03:49 -0000
From: "Charles Bolland" <[email protected]>
To: "ALF" <[email protected]>, "Arnaldo slaen"
<[email protected]>, "Bob Wilkner" <[email protected]>,
"brainman214" <[email protected]>, Carlos Gon??alves
<[email protected]>, "Cumbre" <[email protected]>, "DSWCI"
<[email protected]>, "Gayle Van Horn"
<[email protected]>, "Glenn Hauser"
<[email protected]>, "Hard-core-dx" <[email protected]>,
"Marie Lamb" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Thr Early DX
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India, 4920, All India Radio, (Chennai), 0111-0120,
Initially noted a male in Hindi language
news until 0013 when canned promos presented. At 0115
a female takes over the mic
with more comments. Heard "India" mentioned during
these. Signal was fair which is
better than usual. (Chuck Bolland, January 28, 2010)
India, 4800, All India Radio, (Hyderabad), 0146-0200,
Noted a male in Hindi language
comments with bridge type music. Male continues to
talk however. Signal was poor.
(Chuck Bolland, January 28, 2010)
NRD545
26.27N 081.05W
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