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Today's Topics:
1. logs (L?cio Ot?vio)
2. Glenn Hauser logs February 4, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Radio Joystick Relay on 9510 kHz (Tom Taylor)
4. MV Baltic Radio is on 6005 khz this Saturday (Tom Taylor)
5. 60 mb; Zambia, USA (Dave Valko)
6. Re: 60 mb; Zambia, USA (Robert Wilkner)
7. D X..........Florida (Robert Wilkner)
8. Glenn Hauser logs February 5, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 08:28:07 -0200
From: L?cio Ot?vio <[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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4699, Bolivia, R. San Miguel, Riberalta. February, 3 2300-2311 male talks in
Spanish, short music, adv, 2305 romantic Spanish music, male on music "musica
popular". Few words readable, 24532 (lob-B).
3945, R. Vanuatu, Port Vila. February, 4 0823-0835 male talks sometimes seems
in English, hosting listeners by phone. 34233 (lob-B).
L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec
Embu SP Brasil - Sony ICF SW40 - dipole 18m, 32m.
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 09:08:20 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 4, 2010
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** AUSTRALIA. VL8 survey Feb 4 at 1313: Strine M&W conversation about equal
level on 2310 and 2325, but much worse on 2485 at least due to local noise
around the latter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 7410, Pekin Hoso, the CRI Japanese service, VG at 1431 Feb 4, lively
talk and music with drumming, Afro-Cuban beat; 1434 fanfares and talking about
Shanghai. Then found // much weaker on 7400, which would seem to be redundant,
but:
7410 is 500 kW, 59 degrees from Jinhua site;
7400 is 500 kW, 73 degrees from Xi`an site
So presumably emphasize northern and southern Japan, and indeed 7410 is closer
to USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 7365, DCJC lite pulsing against nothing at 0629 Feb 4, right between
Vatican IS on 7360 and Romanian IS on 7370.
9885 also had residual DCJC pulses at 0631 under VOA English via South Africa,
tho originally on this frequency to block VOA Spanish (NOT R. Mart?) at 00-01
and 1230-1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. 15330, as I tuned across R. Mart?, Feb 4 at 1439 it was giving
horoscopes for Sagitarios, Acuarios. And our tax dollars are paying for this
crap? Hardly what the DentroCubans need to hear. At least it`s being jammed
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUINEA. 7125, African music at 0644 Feb 4, 0645 ID as ``Radiodiffusion
Nationale de la R?publique de Guin?e, ? Conakry`` and news headlines from
around the continent, with drumming underneath, potted up between them (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. AIR National Channel, Feb 4 at 1333 with YL speaking in Hindi on 9425
and weaker // 9470 which leads 9425 by a split second. 9470 Aligarh also has a
lite long-path echo, while 9425 Bengaluru does not. The echo is not so
pronounced, as from a site that far away, there is not so much difference
between short and long path distances, unlike North American stations (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI at 1332 Feb 4, soft Indonesian song with piano, good
modulation during presumed English hour. Off the air when rechecked about an
hour later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 3925, R. Nikkei, G signal at 1317 Feb 4 with medley of US film music
from the 30s or 40s; same at 1327 on 6055 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 5910 with whoop-whoop oscillating jammer at 1443 Feb 4, no
doubt left over from the Shiokaze transmission which ended at 1430, and now
disrupting Iran`s Bengali service via Kamalabad, tsk2. It was a good morning
for Juche jamming. Noise type also noted on 5890 vs VOA; 3480, 6003, 6015,
6518, 6600 vs various clandestines (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 6185, XEPPM eclectic/freeform music brought us enjoyable
tangos, Feb 4 at 0632, breaking for announcement by live DJ mentioning today`s
date ``jueves, 4 de febrero``; nice and clear until *0642:30 RNA Brasil cut on
6185 putting an end to it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6925+ USB, pirate playing music at 1446 Feb 4, a familiar
surfin` song with heavy drumming, what else but Wipeout! 1448 pauses for ID as
Radio Gaga. There is a little bit of carrier, but it`s hard to zero-beat with
the dense music playing. Still going at 1502. Please QSL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. Standing by for BSKSA 15435, Feb 4: cut on abruptly with
modulation in progress at *1456, spirited Arabic conversation, or rather
lexure, as one guy was doing all the talking and the other was murmuring
assent, briefly interrupted for announcement at 1500, and then at 1501 full ID
from Riyadh, Idha`at al-Islam, into Qur`an but with audience responses. No
chirping today and certainly no buzz, almost back to normal, only marred by a
slight hum and whine, and occupying proper bandwidth only, so congratulations
are in order (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 15670, Feb 4 already on at 1407 with African music, chanting,
poor signal but presumably Miraya FM via IRRS via SLOVAKIA as IDed yesterdays,
so starting at 1400? Homepage http://www.mirayafm.org/ still claims to be on
15650! What do they know? Searching the site for 15670 gets 0 results --- but
so does 15650 even tho it is showing on the very same page. When will Fondation
Hirondelle ever get its act together? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. Another check of VOT`s English hour at 1330, Feb 4 at 1409: 12035 is
just barely audible but I can tell there is some modulation on it this time.
15300 modulation seems OK, but as always is under RFI producing a fast SAH.
It`s Thursday so this must be Live from Turkey, with some other program heard
the day before. BTW, when there is near-zero modulation from a transmitter on
one frequency, chances are the same happens on many other broadcasts from the
same unit, multiplying the MWh wasted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 5875, the BBC English via Thailand clash with BBC Arabic via
Cyprus is still audible here, the latter surely via long-path, Feb 4 at 1443
but English` From Our Own Correspondent atop, A. Johnston introducing a report
from Kenya (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. Lavwadlamerik still going with morning Krey?l service Feb 4
at 1327 on 6135 via Bonaire, 9505 Greenville, but both rather poor toward end
of transmission. Bonaire has been changing antennas on this (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WWCR-3 on 4775 instead of 5070 for reasons unknown, 0300-1200 UT
until further notice, says their homepage. UT Feb 3, a leapfrog mixing product
with 5935 was first heard on 7095, but glad to note it was lacking 24 hours
later at 0626 check Feb 4, so apparently suppressed, as I was only hearing an
SSB ham QSO in Spanish about antennas and receivers, Mexicans? WWCR
fundamentals were pretty strong but it could also be they were sufficiently
weaker to put the spur below threshold (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Convicted and sentenced child sex criminal evangelist Tony Alamo is
still preaching on WINB, as I tuned across 9265 Feb 4 at 1330 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11715, KJES atop the QRM, Feb 4 at 1412 with Bible passage about
Jesus` trial; brings to mind ``Jesus Christ, Superstar`` but we`ll never hear
anything from that on KJES! Fairly good reception and KJES` frequency offset
causes the other station to sound off-key for a change. Can`t let an hour go by
without a performance of Ave Mar?a by these Marian cultists, and so that was
heard at 1436, when KJES had less of an advantage over Lampertheim (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. Since YFR in Hindi via UAE, 15520, lacked modulation on Feb 3,
I checked again Feb 4 at 1406. Only a very poor signal today but I could tell
it was modulated for a change. Of course, Dhabayya may not be to blame for the
failure; it could have been anywhere along the line from Oakland, so who has to
make a refund can only be determined by those in the know. Even FR HQ itself
may have failed to get the audio out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. I often hunt for LSA, the 338 kHz NDB in Lamesa TX which puts a
seventh harmonic on 2366, during my 06-07 UT bandscans, but never hear it then,
so suspect it is not 24h. Did hear it again Feb 4 at 1311 on 2366, negative
keying making copy difficult but still possible with careful BFO tuning. I
wonder if this airport has a regular flight coming in around sunrise, but none
around midnight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Jeff White advises that the main 50 kW WRMI transmitter is back on
9955 the morning of Feb 4, but I am still not hearing it after 1500 or 1600, so
must be on the SSE antenna instead of the NW one previously in use during this
bihour. Listened to Happy Station on webcast from 1600, but audio quality
awful, much worse than usual. A new program schedule from WRMI is very much
needed as there will have been many changes with the cancellation of Aventura
Diexista and most of the R. Prague relays, for example (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 7585, VR IS fair-poor Feb 4 at 1429; at 1430 flute music, Laudetur
Jesus Christus, Vatican Radio ID and into S Asian language. This frequency has
had inexplicable Firedrake ChiCom music jamming on it before, but not today at
rechecx 1450, 1457 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. I happened to be at the breakfast table before 1400 UT Feb 4, so
turned on the insensitive DX-390 which only has a reel-out clip-on antenna
around the room, and with BFO on punched up 6075 as a lark, not expecting to
hear 8GAL. But, a good thing I started at 1358, since its V/CQ marker on 6074
did too at 1358:50, more than a minute early, overlapping the motorboating R.
Rossii, Petropavlovsk / Kamchatskiy, and finished about 1359:40 well before the
5-second-late closing timesignal from RR. 8GAL was totally clear copy (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11471-USB, 2-way Spanish contact at 1343 Feb 4, but I could only
hear one side, so duplex? As usual, no IDs heard, and due to idiomatic country
accent, I have trouble understanding what he is saying, other than ``puta
madre``, which amounts to a general expletive like the F-word, not necessarily
referring to a specific person having a whore for a mother and consequently
being a bastard. Also whistles into mike, sure sign of a non-professional radio
user (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 22:19:09 -0000
From: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
To: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Joystick Relay on 9510 kHz
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Radio Joystick Relay on 9510 kHz
Dear Listeners,
The relay of Radio Joystick is on this Saturday the 6th
of February 2010 on 9510 khz.
The Transmission time is between 0900 to 1000 utc with a
power of 150 KW via the IRRS.
Radio Joystick is on the air every 1st Saturday of the month
at the same time and on the same channel.
Good listening 73s Tom
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 21:51:52 -0000
From: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
To: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] MV Baltic Radio is on 6005 khz this Saturday
Message-ID: <c4ac446ca8c84b79981e4dc7843d7...@dellcb21k2j>
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MV Baltic Radio is on 6005 khz this Saturday (TX power of 1 kw)
MV Baltic Radio is on the air with a test Transmission this Saturday the 6th
of February 2010.
The frequency will be 6005 khz, and the time slot will be 0900 utc.
For more information, please email MV Baltic Radio on the day of the
Transmission.
Good Listening 73s Tom
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 18:49:36 -0500
From: "Dave Valko" <[email protected]>
To: "Dan Sheedy" <[email protected]>, "Guy Atkins" <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "David Sharp"
<[email protected]>, "Lucio Otavio Bobrowiec" <[email protected]>,
"Nicolas Eramo" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] 60 mb; Zambia, USA
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ZAMBIA 4965 R. Christian Voice Rel Pop-like mx at 0112 t/in. 0200 long
mission statement by W w/mx. 0201 more EG pgming w/W host and giving upcoming
pgm highlights. Unbelieveably strong signal. Never hrd so strong. In fact I
thought it was a new or current US Rel. broadcaster on a new freq.!!! Amazing
100% clear copy like it was right next door!! (4 Feb)
USA 4775 WWCR 0937 "The Power Hour" pgm w/M and W pgm host tlk abt
removing street camera's in regards to violating human rights. Finally a
canned ID at 1010, then back to the pgm. Very strong and 100% copy of course.
Found while checking for 4965 which I thought was a new US station at the time.
Like 4965, I didn't have time to listen to this, so I thought this and 4965
might be the same stn. So I was surprised 4965 was Christian Voice and
disappointed this turned out to be WWCR. (4 Feb)
73 Dave Valko
NRD-535D (sorry Guy!!! Didn't have time to connect the Perseus.)
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:33:07 -0500
From: Robert Wilkner <[email protected]>
To: Dave Valko <[email protected]>
Cc: Guy Atkins <[email protected]>, "[email protected]"
<[email protected]>, [email protected], Dan Sheedy
<[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], David Sharp <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] 60 mb; Zambia, USA
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:43:22 -0500
From: Robert Wilkner <[email protected]>
To: +HCDX <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] D X..........Florida
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Feb 5th 0100 to 0115 Band Scan
3309.98 Bolivia Radio Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba strong signal
3329.53 Peru Ondas del Huallaga, Hu?nuco om with music dominating CHU
4700 Bolivia. Radio San Miguel, Riberalta 0110 with good signal
4774.9 Peru Radio Tarma. Tarma good signal
4800 Mexico XERTA, Radio Trans. moderately strong signal
4985 Brasil Radio Brasil Central, Goainia excellent signal
5485.45 Peru, Radio Reina de la Selva, Chachapoyas excellent signal
with many IDs by om.
5580.2 Bolivia Radio San Jos?, San Jos? de Chiquitos moderate signal
with music
=
73s de
Bob
Robert Wilkner
Pompano Beach, Florida
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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 19:17:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 5, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** FRANCE [non]. On UT Feb 4 as in my previous report, I discovered that RFI`s
Spanish service at 0100-0130 was on 7360 instead of 5995, via French Guiana, so
naturally assumed that was one of their unpublicized February shifts. But 24
hours later, at 0102 UT Feb 5, 7360 is vacant and RFI is back on 5995, VG
signal. May they make up their mind? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Another night to check what WWCR does, UT Feb 5: at 0055 I find 7465
already missing; it used to run until 0100. At 0059, however, 7465 cuts on for
a few sex, ``At this time, WWCR ---`` and back off before we could find out
what WWCR was going to do at this time.
I checked 3240 where same transmitter used to reside at 23-02 until they
decided to extend 7465 until 0200, despite Lavwadlamerik having put its Creole
service there at 01-02. No, nothing on 3240. After colliding on UT Feb 2, they
simply turned off for the hour on Feb 3 and 4 (I think).
Seemed to be the same tonight as I was punching up various VOA and other
frequencies to check on the DX-398, rather than full analog bandscans. I
happened to be on LVA 7465 which had just come up late around 0104, when at
0105, WWCR popped back on that frequency for another few sex, during a Discount
Gold website commercial, then LVA to itself again. WWCR appeared to be
indecisive.
So it was not until 0135 that I noticed a big signal on 7490 --- that`s WWCR,
mentioning First Amendment Radio, then resident herbalist Wendy Wilson on
motherwort, which stimulates the uterus. The audio is cutting out and skipping;
anyhow, good signal but not solid with some fading.
So 7490 is apparently where WWCR intends to be in the 01-02 hour. That works,
as it`s already a WWCR frequency in the mornings but with transmitter 3 then
instead of 1 now.
In B-09, WWCR is already registered on 7490 for 24 hours a day, so no problem
for them to expand usage of it under these circumstances. Yes, the transmitter
schedule page
http://www.wwcr.com/transmitter-sched.html
has now been updated to show this as well as 4775 ex-5070 at 03-12 from WWCR-3
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Checking Greenville`s hectic 01-02 hour another night, UT Feb 5:
A Fondo, the new VOA/Mart? collaboration again came up first on 9415 already at
0100. I suppose that particular transmitter is not required somewhere else
right up to 0100. 11625 not audible yet but could come on and not be noticed
due to poor propagation up there.
At 0104, 7340 still absent. Did not catch when it finally came on, but it was
certainly in play at 0128 thereupon when A Fondo announced frequencies: 11625,
9415 and 7340, plus Radio Mart? frequencies 1180, 6030, 7365 and 9825.
Initially the RM frequencies were not announced, so we were not positive
whether the same program was on them under jamming. The new trio are as yet
unjammed. While the old RM channels continue to be.
This page introducing A Fondo
http://www1.voanews.com/spanish/news/A-fondo-83291037.html
originally gave the time but not the frequencies, and had a comments option. So
I commented, telling them what their own frequencies are, and that it would be
nice to add them. By the time I refreshed the page, they had been added, but
comments no longer enabled. As of UT Feb 5 we are still waiting for them to add
the four original R. Mart? channels.
Lavwadlamerik: At 0101, 5835 was running, but not 7465. At 0104, 7465 had come
on, 0105 with some dead air, and then interrupted briefly by WWCR, q.v. I also
checked 7590 at 0101 and 0109 and there seemed to be something there, but too
weak to tell if // 5835. Previous nights it seemed 7590 was no longer in use
after 0100. At 0107, also had LVA on its third and worst frequency 5960.
The Creole schedule at
http://author.voanews.com/english/about/frequenciesAtoZ_c.cfm
still does not show any of the extra frequencies or times, but does still claim
the 0100 broadcast is on 1180, which A Fondo also now claims to be using!
On the S page, A Fondo has been added at 0100-0200 on its original three
frequencies only, as if it were just another nameless VOA Spanish hour; and the
lack of color coding implies it is seven days a week, contrary to original
publicity that it would be only five; change of plans or another SNAFU? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WRMI again audible on 9955 with 50 kW transmitter reactivated, but
not very well since it`s only on the SSE antenna so far. UT Fri Feb 5 at 0117
can recognize the baseball show, no jamming. After 0200 I was back online and
checked the webcast, confirming the first SW broadcast of WORLD OF RADIO 1498.
The first one was expected one hour earlier on WBCQ Area 51, but that was
inaudible here on 5110, and its webcast was just music during the entire hour
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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