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Today's Topics:
1. Logs (Manuel M?ndez)
2. logs for ca one week (Zacharias Liangas )
3. Thomson rotatable shortwave antenna system (Alokesh Gupta)
4. Re: Darwin still on for last day (Glenn Hauser)
5. Glenn Hauser logs January 30-31, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
6. Re: Darwin still on for last day (Glenn Hauser)
7. Jan 30-31 Logs ([email protected])
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:55:01 +0100
From: Manuel M?ndez <[email protected]>
To: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Manuel M?ndez
Lugo, Espa?a
Escuchas realizadas en Friol
Grundig Satellit 500 y Sony ICF SW7600G
Antena de cable, 10 metros, orientada WSW
BRASIL
9565, Radio Tupi, Super Radio Deus e Amor, Curitiba, 1028-1037, 30-01,
religioso, locutor, predicaciones. 24322. (M?ndez)
9695, Radio Rio Mar, Manaus, 1009-1025, 30-01, locutor, portugu?s,
canciones brasile?as, noticias. 23322. (M?ndez)
11735, Radio Transmundial, Santa Mar?a, 1021-1026, 30-01, locutora,
comentario religioso. 34333. (M?ndez)
11749.9, Radio Marumbuy, Florian?polis, (probable), 1022-1040, 30-01,
locutor, portugu?s, comentarios, locutora, entrevistas a oyentes por
tel?fono. 24322. (M?ndez)
11780, Radio Nacional da Amazonia, Brasilia, 1019-1022, 30-01, locutor,
portugu?s, comentarios. 34433. (M?ndez)
11815, Radio Brasil Central, Goiania, 1013-1030, 30-01, locutor,
portugu?s, comentarios, canciones brasile?as. A las 1100 noticias de
Brasil y del mundo. 44444. (M?ndez)
11855, Radio Aparecida, Aparecida, 1104-1112, 30-01, canciones
religiosas, portugu?s. 24322. (M?ndez)
11915, Radio Gaucha, Porto Alegre, 1015-1033, 30-01, locutor, portugu?s,
comentarios. 24322. (M?ndez)
ECUADOR, 6050, HCJB, 1006-1020, 30-01, locutora, quechua. 24322 (M?ndez)
GUINEA, 7125, Radio Guinea, Conakry, 1128-1148, 30-01, vern?culo,
comentario, franc?s, muy d?bil. 13321. (M?ndez)
INDIA
4840, AIR, Mumbai, 1612-1620, 30-01, locutor, vern?culo, comentarios.
25322. (M?ndez)
4860, AIR, Delhi A, 1615-1622, 30-01, vern?culo, canciones. 25322. (M?ndez)
4920, AIR, Chennai, 1613-1619, 30-01, vern?culo, locutor, comentarios,
canciones
5010, AIR, Thiruvananthapuram, 1605-1609, 30-01, canciones, vern?culo.
35433. (M?ndez)
5040, AIR, Jeypore, 1609-1613, 30-01, canciones, vern?culo. 34333. (M?ndez)
MALI, 9635, Radio Mali, Bamako, 1119-1127, 30-01, locutor, franc?s,
comentarios. 34433. (M?ndez)
MAURITANIA, 7245, Radio Mauritania, Nouakchott, 1133-1137, 30-01,
canciones africanas, locutora, ?rabe. 34433. (M?ndez)
MEXICO
6010, Radio Mil, M?xico D. F., 1010-1031, 30-01, canciones
latinoamericanas, identificaci?n: "Vive M?xico en Radio Mil",
comentarios. Muy d?bil. 13321. (M?ndez)
6185, Radio Educaci?n, M?xico D. F., 1003-1035, 30-01, canciones, y
m?sica cl?sica. 34433. (M?ndez)
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:43:48 +0200
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[email protected]>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] logs for ca one week
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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LOgs 23+ 24 + 29
typed and sent today due to house works
http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/262
ON 23th
9510 PBS Xinjang 1022 musical & YL talking over 1030 with IS S0
9685 VoA? 1342 withtalks in tai S 3 1357*
9750 MSIA VIslam 1400 OM with talksin ML with ID jingle then chants
andon 1407 with psalms S4 co ch QRM NHK
ON 24th
Special report for Amica and Atlantis (I received andlaso repy from them
sending mesage same time... )
7610 Amica 1200 + with pop songs , ID in intalian R Amica Onde corte S3
25433
ON 1537 with prg Atlantis and ID then OM in French then song s' total
eclips of the heart ' and song she is a lady .my daughter hearing these
songs danced with them!!
Back on 1620 R amica with paris Latino , then ID wih email , song shes a
lady
6140 Gloria with rock song ID Mc hein , S10 at 1004 some C tone at +1 kHZ
greek pirate Dinamitis heard on 4857 or 3x 1619 with best reception fron
the basic frq
15610 wewn ? 1843 prg in Eng on children abuse @1844 S4-5 ,24333
6040 R poland in Ukrainina 2000 music before IS rhen news S10
15340 RAE is back (thx to WB and Glen )2044 ID with National la radio
publica
ON 29th
9370 ??? 2042 with a religious kind of music 2045 with soms slf adverts S5
with the 16 h antna
WJTC per Eibi
9580 R africa N1 2048 with afropops talks by 2 om s follwed by talks and
phone ins S8 @16H antenna
9645 Aparecida? 2055 with talks in P by 2xOM S0-2
9695 Rio MAr? 2059 with some on off signal S8
9680 VOR? in FF with news on 2105 S6 max
3905 pirate 2209 with germanic songs S8 over S3 local qrn
3925 NIkkei R //6055 with music @2202 talks in 2215 in JJ loweer
modualtion
6010 BLR mixed with CNR . At 2217 heard song Vemnus apprently from
BLR S9 signal
On 30th
for WEWN
11520 WEWN 0732 with their regular prg in Eng S5
11870 WEWNsspanish with submarginal signal
7555 WEWN under a FDM signal same times
7730 !! 0740 in a lang seems unrainina , a prg seems as religious ,back on
0755 but nothing . poiisbly off at 0745 WYFR per Eibi
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: 3
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:30:54 +0530
From: "Alokesh Gupta" <[email protected]>
To: "Alokesh-Hotmail" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Thomson rotatable shortwave antenna system
Message-ID: <042301caa28e$989cf780$2c33e...@alokesh>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Video of Thomson rotatable shortwave antenna system at IBB Kuwait, Phase 2.
http://www.shortwaveradioreceivers.com/shortwaveradioantennas/rotatable-shortwave-transmitting-antenna/
----
Alokesh Gupta, VU3BSE
New Delhi, India
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:29:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], ODXA yg <[email protected]>, ARDXC
<[email protected]>, ABDX <[email protected]>,
[email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Darwin still on for last day
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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CVC Darwin rechecked shortly after 2300 UT Jan 30: 15170 audible weakly,
succeeding 9585, used only for the first hour of CVC Chinese; 15250 for CVC
Indonesian (and 15255) totally blocked by Venezuela via Cuba, of course. 12010
R. Australia no longer // talk on 12040, 15560, but music presumably in Burmese
service.
UT Jan 31, surely the final day now, started checking at 1415:
13635 good with gospel rock or whatever they call such a format with
indecipherable lyrix, just as well. At 1415 mentioned ``cvcradio.in``. 1418 YL
DJ with Oz accent mentions this will be the final time on shortwave, so switch
to mobile streaming (yeah, right).
Then greeted countless Kumars by the full name of each, of the Cosmos Club in
India. As usual fast-paced format suitable for those with deficient attention
spans; you never know when they are going to drop in an ID as the music plays.
BTW, Andrew Flynn of CVC HQ in England told me a few days ago that the SW
transmissions via Uzbekistan for India would continue.
1428 she gives full website without the http which I always insert to assist
hotlinking: http://www.cvcradio.in for song requests, or text 99-45-97-77-77.
Will they play anything that is unChristian, or godforbid, off-format?
At 1430 it`s local midnight in Cox Peninsula and Feb 1 starts, but that`s only
incidental as it is already midnight in Queensland, and four hours away in
India, so the broadcast goes on. By 1440 the signal is weakening considerably;
by 1504 recheck still audible; 1542 just a carrier detectable, tho on Sunday
there is no Tirana ACI from 13640.
Meanwhile I was switching back and forth to CVC`s Chinese service on 13685, but
paying less attention to it. At 1416 music presumably with a gospel element in
Chinese; 1417 Chinese YL announcement. Fortunately, Habana has been missing
from 13680 lately, but still some ACI from Farda, and just as much from very
strong WYFR 13695, ever-increasing problems as 13685 weakened by 1504.
I assume that English on 13635 will play on until final final QRT at the usual
time of 1830, and Chinese 13685 until 1800.
Also looked for the Kaze clands for North Korea, 9880 at 1430, 9690 at 1500,
but nothing heard UT Jan 31, so already gone. I assume these will have switched
to some other site(s). Monitoring Palau extensively, Hiroshi via Hasegawa
reported as of Jan 29, only a different (?) one: 1530-1600 9965 JCIC Korean
"Ilbone Baram".
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
> ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. Is Darwin still on the air January 31? Yes! But it
> should be the last day ever.
>
> UT January 30 at 2159 I look for the three frequencies
> scheduled to start at 2200, 9585 CVC Chinese, 9630 RA
> Indonesian, and 12010 RA English --- nothing. But Maltilda
> is Waltzing on 15560, loud and clear from Shepparton; path
> from Darwin is rather different, but there should be some
> traces if on the air.
>
> Then at 2200 I find RA on 12040 in English, which is the
> new Palau relay, news running about 3.5 seconds behind
> 15560. Must be quite a circuitous feed route; since VTC is
> involved, to London and back?
>
> Finally at 2201 I am also hearing RA English on 12010, and
> that is Darwin, with a much shorter delay, less than one
> second or about one word behind 15560. It`s weaker than
> 12040. Must have come on a bit late, or at least without any
> pr?lude.
>
> By 2206 I check the 31m channels again, and now I am
> getting them fairly: 9585 with music which I assume is CVC
> Chinese service, and 9630 in Indonesian talk, soon music,
> which fits for Radio Australia.
>
> The fourth transmitter starts at 2300 with CVC Indonesian
> on 15250 (some sources say 15255), so here I repeat the full
> schedule showing that also at 2300 the 9585 service switches
> to 15170, and the 12010 service switches to Burmese.
>
> 9585, 2200-2300 340 CVC Chinese
> 15170, 2300-0200 340 CVC Chinese
> 17690, 0400-0600 340 CVC Chinese
> 17635, 0600-1200 340 CVC Chinese
> 13685, 1200-1800 340 CVC Chinese
>
> 15535, 0930-1230 303 CVC English
> 13635, 1230-1830 303 CVC English
>
> 15250, 2300-0200 290 CVC Indonesian
> 17820, 0400-1000 290 CVC Indonesian
> 9890, 1000-1300 290 CVC Indonesian
> 11925, 1300-1700 290 CVC Indonesian
> -----------------------------------
> 11825, 1300-1430 340 RA? Chinese
>
> 12010, 2200-2400 317 RA? English [except Burmese 2300-2330]
> 17665, 0000-0200 317 RA? English [except Burmese 0100-0130]
> 11980, 1600-1700 317 RA? English
>
> 9630, 2200-2330 290 RA? Indonesian
> 15180, 0000-0030 290 RA? Indonesian
> ? ? ???0400-0430 290 RA? Indonesian
> ? ? ???0500-0530 290 RA? Indonesian
> -----------------------------------
> 9880, 1430-1530???3 JCI Japanese - Furusato no Kaze, alt 11995
> 9690, 1500-1530???3 JCI Korean?> -?Nippon no Kaze,???alt 11650
> -----------------------------------
> 17755, 0700-0800 317 TDP English DRM 17750-17760
> (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
------------------------------
Message: 5
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:48:38 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 30-31, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. Is Darwin still on the air January 31? Yes! But it
should be the last day ever.
UT January 30 at 2159 I look for the three frequencies scheduled to start at
2200, 9585 CVC Chinese, 9630 RA Indonesian, and 12010 RA English --- nothing.
But Maltilda is Waltzing on 15560, loud and clear from Shepparton; path from
Darwin is rather different, but there should be some traces if on the air.
Then at 2200 I find RA on 12040 in English, which is the new Palau relay, news
running about 3.5 seconds behind 15560. Must be quite a circuitous feed route;
since VTC is involved, to London and back?
Finally at 2201 I am also hearing RA English on 12010, and that is Darwin, with
a much shorter delay, less than one second or about one word behind 15560. It`s
weaker than 12040. Must have come on a bit late, or at least without any
pr?lude.
By 2206 I check the 31m channels again, and now I am getting them fairly: 9585
with music which I assume is CVC Chinese service, and 9630 in Indonesian talk,
soon music, which fits for Radio Australia.
The fourth transmitter starts at 2300 with CVC Indonesian on 15250 (some
sources say 15255), so here I repeat the full schedule showing that also at
2300 the 9585 service switches to 15170, and the 12010 service switches to
Burmese (Glenn Hauser, OK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
CVC Darwin rechecked shortly after 2300 UT Jan 30: 15170 audible weakly,
succeeding 9585, used only for the first hour of CVC Chinese; 15250 for CVC
Indonesian (and 15255) totally blocked by Venezuela via Cuba, of course. 12010
R. Australia no longer // talk on 12040, 15560, but music presumably in Burmese
service.
UT Jan 31, surely the final day now, started checking at 1415:
13635 good with gospel rock or whatever they call such a format with
indecipherable lyrix, just as well. At 1415 mentioned ``cvcradio.in``. 1418 YL
DJ with Oz accent mentions this will be the final time on shortwave, so switch
to mobile streaming (yeah, right).
Then greeted countless Kumars by the full name of each, of the Cosmos Club in
India. As usual fast-paced format suitable for those with deficient attention
spans; you never know when they are going to drop in an ID as the music plays.
Andrew Flynn of CVC HQ in England told me a few days ago that the SW
transmissions via UZBEKISTAN for India would continue. He may have been
referring only to the Hindi service, not the English service.
Hindi: 0000-0400 6260, 0100-0400 9425, 0400-1100 13630, 1100-1400 9500.
English: 0030-0230 7395, 0230-0630 11970, 0630-0930 15700.
1428 on 13635 she gives full website without the http which I always insert to
assist hotlinking: http://www.cvcradio.in for song requests, or text
99-45-97-77-77. Will they play anything that is unChristian, or godforbid,
off-format? I would have wanted to hear Stockhausen.
At 1430 it`s local midnight in Cox Peninsula and Feb 1 starts, but that`s only
incidental as it is already midnight in Queensland, and four hours away in
India, so the broadcast goes on. By 1440 the signal is weakening considerably;
by 1504 recheck still audible; 1542 just a carrier detectable, tho on Sunday
there is no Tirana ACI from 13640.
Meanwhile I was switching back and forth to CVC`s Chinese service on 13685, but
paying less attention to it. At 1416 music presumably with a gospel element in
Chinese; 1417 Chinese YL announcement. Fortunately, Habana has been missing
from 13680 lately, but still some ACI from Farda Wertachtal, and just as much
from very strong WYFR 13695, ever-increasing problems as 13685 weakened by 1504.
I assume that English on 13635 will play on until final final QRT at the usual
time of 1830, and Chinese 13685 until 1800.
Also looked for the Kaze clands for North Korea, 9880 at 1430, 9690 at 1500,
but nothing heard UT Jan 31, so already gone. I assume these will have switched
to some other site(s). Monitoring Palau extensively, Hiroshi via Hasegawa
reported as of Jan 29, only a different (?) one: 1530-1600 9965 JCIC Korean
"Ilbone Baram". S. Hasegawa says he has not been able to confirm 9690 or 9880
for more than a week
As for what becomes of the Darwin facility, this is totally unclear, other than
that CVC will now start ``dismantling`` it and get out by the time its lease
expires in June (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. Correlating with audibility of Cox Peninsula for the last time on
13 MHz, Morocco 15341 also had a strong het from HCJB Kununurra, Jan 31 at 1445
on 15340, but the Arabic audio was dominant as HCJB was scheduled just to have
started English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC has been missing lately from 13680 in the mornings. That`s one of
the hi-power signals normally // 13780 until 1500 and producing leapfrogs on
13880 and weaker 13580, so those are also absent, e.g. Jan 31 at 1416 as I am
monitoring CVC Darwin Chinese final broadcast on 13685. Lacking RHC helps that
a lot, but soon moot. All is not lost: RHC 13770 is still leapfrogging over CRI
relay 13740 to land on 13710 QRMing India. 13680 was back later on with the
weak daytime transmitter for Al?, Presidente; see VENEZUELA [non].
Routine check for weekly Esperanto service at 1500 Sunday on 11760: Jan 31 at
1503 only open carrier, off and on for several minutes, but at next check 1513
the Esperanto program was underway (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ITALY. After hearing Northern Ireland on 21290 [see UKOGBANI], I tuned a bit
more on 15m. Mostly nothing, but just down on 21285, matching DW 15285, was
another USB calling CQ from northern Italy, Dom, IW2CLM, Jan 31 at 1453 and
soon in contact with someone in ``north central Oklahoma`` who was weaker here
but audible, evidently by groundwave, so not far from Enid. Could not catch his
call but his name was Dan. QRZ.com shows:
IW2CLM
Domenico Bova
Via G.B. Rota 22
Bergamo, 24124
Italy
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 3973, noise jamming of the NK style centered here,
Jan 31 at 1335, almost BFO-ing the Breakfast Club net with a number of US hams
in the Midwest checking in, some also mentioning the unusual noise but not
knowing its provenance. Sort of like an airplane engine revving as the pitch
continually varies up and down.
Breakfast Club is in the final Nets to You of April 2007, as daily 1000 UT
(0900 summer) on 3973. Apparently it goes on for hours and hours.
Nothing is known on 3973 needing jamming, but Aoki shows a 5 kW Wonsan
transmitter of KCBS/Pyongyang BS on 3970, so perhaps that is out of whack, or
repurposed for jamming as needed.
Usual NK jamming on 3985 mixing with Echo of Hope, Korean talk audible; and
similar noise on 3912 against Voice of the People. Louder jamming on 3480
against KNDF, but not much signal from the 90m N Korean non-jammers, as checked
until 1340 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 15435 The Buzz, checked Jan 31 at 1539. Did not sound as loud
as usual around 15435, but nevertheless full brunt could be heard down to 15300
or so, and 4-per-minute pulses down to 15140, so yes, again also QRMing BSKSA`s
other Qur`an channel 15225 plus countless other stations. On the hi side,
however, full brunt lasted only until 15470, and could not hear 4-per-minute
pulses up from there, other stations seeming in clear, altho by now some TVs
are on adding their own swish QRM possibly disaudiblizing the weaker pulses.
But who says this monstrosity has to be symmetrical? Every little bit helps
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K O G B A N I. Nice to hear some USB on 15m hamband, Jan 31 at 1449 on
21290, English with an Irish accent soon IDed as MI0JAT, mentioning that
``people don`t realize the band is open``; how true. He was in contact with a
K4 or a W4. Hmm, are there any MI5-prefixed hams? QRZ.com says:
MI0JAT
Joey Mc Goldrick
23 Lettercarn Rd, Co Tyrone
Castlederg, N Ireland, BT8 17QY,
Northern Ireland
Hadn`t noticed any significant signals on 13m SWBC band, so searched again, and
barely audible Spain on 21570, 21610; better Libya on 21695, all those with
incomparably greater power than any ham, yet inferior results (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also ITALY
** VENEZUELA [non]. Quick check for ``Al?, Presidente``, Sunday via CUBA at
1656 UT Jan 31 found it running but the speaker at the moment unsounded like El
Hugazo, perhaps a press-conference plant, on all five usual frequencies in
order of increasing signal strength: 13680, 11690, 17750, 12010, 13750 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13630, open carrier, noticed when checking doomed Darwin on
13635, Jan 31 at 1439; nothing remotely near this time scheduled in HFCC, Aoki
or EiBi; not strong enough to detract from Darwin. Someone else might want this
or 13635 from Feb 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:14:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], ODXA yg <[email protected]>, ARDXC
<[email protected]>, ABDX <[email protected]>,
[email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Darwin still on for last day
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
** AUSTRALIA. Since we knew that the CVC transmission around 1430 UT Jan 31 on
13635 was ``the last one on shortwave`` as announced, I made another routine
check of Darwin frequencies at 2200 UT Jan 31, not expecting to hear anything,
but the three of them are still on!
Tune in 12010 at 2159 to find open carrier, and 2200 sharp, start modulating R.
Australia news, as 24 hours earlier; slightly delayed compared to Shep 15560
and a longer delay on 12040 via Palau.
On 9630, Indonesian had also started, R. Australia, and music on 9585,
presumably CVC Chinese as previously scheduled.
So where does that leave us? No clean break, depending on the station or
language service, not all stopped at the end of January. It is now indisputably
February everywhere east of Central Europe and West Africa (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
BTW, Argentina with live sports at 2201 on 15345v, not 11710v as we were led to
believe on a Sunday.
VOA Creole at 2200 on 13725, but // 11905 did not cut on until 2102:45, par for
the course at Greenville (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
------------------------------
Message: 7
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:26:45 EST
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Jan 30-31 Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
** DJIBOUTI. 4780, Radio Djibouti, *0300-0330, Jan 31, sign on with
National Anthem. Arabic talk at 0301. Qur`an at 0302. Talk at 0313.
Rustic local music at 0325. Poor to fair with CODAR QRM and noisy
conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** ETHIOPIA. 7110.07, Radio Ethiopia, 2035-2101*, Jan 31, variety
of local pop music and Western/Euro-pop music. Amharic talk. Sign
off with National Anthem. // 9704.19 - both frequencies fair to good.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
** ETHIOPIA [non]. via Nauen, Germany, 11830, Ethiopia Adera
Dimtse Radio, *1700-1759*, Jan 30, presumed with talk in listed
Amharic. Some local Horn of Africa music. Poor to fair but some
QRM from weak noise jammer. Sat only. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** EURO-PIRATE. 7610.05, Radio Amica, 0040-0055, Jan 31, pop
music by Madonna and others. Italian ID announcements. Poor.
Weak. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** MADAGASCAR [non]. via Pridnestrovye, 15670, Radio Mada Int,
*1530-1600*, Jan 31, test tone started at 1523. Sign on with opening
announcements at 1530 and talk in presumed Malagasy. Local music
at 1555 to 1600 sign off. Poor in noisy conditions. Sat, Sun only.
Thanks to Ron Howard tip. (Brian Alexander, PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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