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Today's Topics:
1. Sun DX (Charles Bolland)
2. Brazil, Clandestine (Dave Valko)
3. Glenn Hauser logs February 14, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
4. Feb 13-14 Logs ([email protected])
5. Glenn Hauser logs February 14-15, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:35:00 -0000
From: "Charles Bolland" <[email protected]>
To: "ALF" <[email protected]>, "Arnaldo slaen"
<[email protected]>, "Bjorn Fransson" <[email protected]>,
"Bob Wilkner" <[email protected]>, "brainman214"
<[email protected]>,Carlos GonA?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] Sun DX
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Papua New Guinea, 3315, Radio Manus, 1220-1230, Noted
a steady serving of PNG music as
well as CW type music. At 1228 a male in comments Then
back to music. (Chuck Bolland,
February 14, 2010)
Papua New Guinea, 3365, Radio Milne Bay, 1226-1230,
Noted males in English language comments.
Signal was difficult to understand, but comments
continue. Signal was poor. (Chuck Bolland,
February 14, 2010)
Thailand, 9720, Radio Thailand, 1231-1245, "it's ...
in Bangkok ... national news". News follows in
English. Mentions of "Thailand" during the news.
Signal was good. (Chuck Bolland, February 14,
2010)
NRD-545
26.27N 081.05W
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:26:50 -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] Brazil, Clandestine
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BRAZIL 3364.94 R. Cultura 2310-2336, Presumed nx pgm to 2332 w/ID and ment
of difusoras at end, then canned anmnts including ID anmnt by M w/about a half
dozen "Cultura"s. Best signal in the last 3 nights but getting some local
noise. Would be nice at the remote micro-DXpedition site. (13 Feb)
CLANDESTINE (to Cuba) 5955 R. Republica 2339 same pgm as hrd the last
couple evenings; long live report by M w/background tlking and mx. 2357 W
w/promo ".Radio Republica ?? Escucha nuestra programmacion Cuba", then another
w/strange SFX and alternating M and W anncrs "Noticias, ??, radio ??sasion.R.
Republica, 5-O-?? W, radio.W ??, R. Republica 5-O-??", then yet another
ID/promo. What is "5-O-??"??? Discovered I actually heard this back in Oct.
2007. (13 Feb)
73 Dave
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:55:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 14, 2010
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** AUSTRALIA. 15400, Feb 14 at 1429 tune-in, just in time to catch sign-off in
English by HCJB Global Voice, Australia, saying they would resume at 2200 UT on
15525. Good S9+5 signal, carrier still on at 1432. It was actually in Chinese
up to sign-off.
Then checked 15340 at 1433 and there was S Asian singing over big het from
Morocco 15341. Sat & Sun 1430-1445 language on schedule is Chhattisghari.
Website http://www.hcjb.org.au/ is headed with this: ``Broadcast alert 11th Feb
2010 -- As of tonight our broadcast to South East Asia resumed.``
WRTH 2010 says they have one 100 kW transmitter at Kununurra, but they
obviously have two, and more probably to come from Pifo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 5045, instead of the usual unannounced, automated? music for long
stretches, R. Cultura do Par? had apparent live coverage of the beginning of
Carnaval, ``do in?cio ao fim``, Feb 14 at 0606 UT with IDs in passing, phone
numbers, crowd sounds, maybe broadcasting from the street? There is lite but
not annoying reverb on the announcer`s mike. Note this was 3+ am in Bel?m.
Since carnaval is the most important festival of the year in Brasil (who needs
Chinese New Year or Valentine`s Day?), I would not be surprised if other
Brazilian stations go into overdrive during it, possibly audiblizing normally
staid or silent transmitters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake traditional music-only jamming Feb 14 at 1450: very good on
8400, nothing on 9000, 10210 or 11300 or vicinities. Not found on 40 meters
either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. Cut numbers on 5930.0, Feb 14 at 0613, new frequency? These
code letter versions of spy numbers on A2 are normally heard below 5900, e.g.
5898. Very strong and bleeding into adjacent frequencies, vs WWCR/DGS on 5935,
RFI on 5925. Ending at 0631 with AR x 3 and SK x 1 but carrier stays on a
while. It`s surprisingly difficult to find this frequency mentioned in ENIGMA
and other numbers references.
13880 lacking the RHC leapfrog, Feb 14 at 1444 as I started to tune down the 13
MHz band, so one of its components must be missing: yes, 13780 OK, but absent
from 13680 allowing R. Farda via Wertachtal, GERMANY to arrive unimpeded (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE [and non]. 15605 in Russian, Feb 14 at 1420, first assumed VOR but
it`s really RFI at 1400-1430, caught my attention since it had RTTY QRM
slightly to one side, which also continued later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) See also CUBA [and non]
** HAWAII. 6501-USB, distorted high seas marine weather by masculine robot
voice, Feb 14 at 0634, pause, and 0635 closing as ``US Coast Guard master
communications station, Pacific, out``. Presumably this means NMO Honolulu
rather than NMC Point Reyes CA, both of which use this frequency as well as NMN
Chesapeake, but NMO weather starts at 0600 per schedule included in my last
report (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR [non]. R. Mada still colliding with Miraya FM for Sudan on 15670:
Sunday Feb 14 at 1529 with usual SAH of about 3 Hz, double audio from 1530
while 15680 et al. remain vacant (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 15670, Miraya FM via IRRS via SLOVAKIA, Feb 14 at 1439
interview with both participants speaking heavily-accented English, about
languages, 1443, what constitutes a free and fair elexion. Good signal
declining somewhat in following hour, and collision from 1530 with Radio Mada;
see MADAGASCAR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [non]. 11500, at 1507 Feb 14, Chinese conversation with laughing, or
so I thought, but listed as R. Free Asia in Tibetan, via Kuwait during this
hour only. Do they mix in the language of the imperialists/colonialists? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9410 back to WHRI programming, Feb 14 at quick 1236 check, well atop
China, when a gospel huxter was mentioning ``hot slippery pneumatic sex`` or
something like that (trying to read my scribbled notes, pretty sure of
pneumatic, anyway), presumably in disapproval, but secretly relishing the
thought, ex-BBCWS Connexion Ha?ti in Creole, which allegedly has now ended.
Need to check on a weekday to be sure, when BBC should be back to Spanish only
during this hour. So could DXing with Cumbre possibly be back on SW at 1200 Sat
or Sun? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Relatively quiet conditions Feb 14 at 0556 allowed a weak S9+5 signal
to be audible on 4050 with country music. Faded a bit at 0600 sharp when
inserted ID including ``KWM-`` and right back to more of same music. I.e. KWMO,
Washington MO, 3 x 1350 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 6000, aimed due south, WYFR is rather weak here, but Harold
Camping at 0614 Feb 14 had big variable het on him not noted before. Wild
guess: R. Gua?ba, Brasil, with extended or reactivated schedule for Carnaval;
see also BRAZIL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 15580, via SOUTH AFRICA, VOA interview with a guest about the
situation in Venezuela, notably Ch?vez` increasing control of the media, Feb 14
at 1420-1430. Outroed as On the Line. I wanted to recommend this show to
others, but website
http://www1.voanews.com/english/programs/tv/64969652.html
does not (yet?) include it. The ``latest show`` tho dated Feb 12 is about
something else. On the Line is really a talking-heads TV show, audio track of
which gets to be on SW.
BTW, as VOA spins its TV logo, half the time it looks like NOV from the back
side, not a good idea. Eliminating the cross bar from Capital A to make it look
like a lambda is also a nonsensical graphic device and only exacerbates
problems like this. Why should we call it VOLambda? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. And I do mean non! After a few weeks of regular Sunday
appearances, no Al?, Presidente to be heard at 1735 UT check Feb 14, via Cuba,
absent from 17750, 13750, 13680, 12010, while the other frequency 11690 was on
but // regular RHC 11730, etc. El Hugazo has started butting into Venezuelan
radio and TV whenever he feels like it, even in the middle of the night, so
maybe there will be fewer Sunday marathons (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. 13865, something in Vietnamese, Feb 14 at 1445, weak and
fluttery, music. It`s R. Free Asia via SRI LANKA during this hour only (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:36:42 EST
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Feb 13-14 Logs
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** COLOMBIA. 6034.99, LV del Guaviare, San Jos? Guaviare,
0045-0056*, Feb 14, local music. Spanish announcements. Sign off
with National Anthem. Early sign off tonight. Weak. Poor with adjacent
channel splatter. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 6025.01, Radio Amanecer Int, Santo
Domingo, 0030-0045, Feb 14, Spanish talk. ID at 0032. Spanish
religious music. Poor with adjacent channel splatter. (Brian Alexander,
PA)
** EURO-PIRATE. 7610.05, Radio Amica, 2310-2320, Feb 13, pop
music. Italian ID announcements at 2313. Fair. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** EURO-PIRATE. 15070.09v, Cupid Radio, 1312-1330+, Feb 14,
IDs. Acknowledged listeners? reports. Lite pop music. Weak but
readable. Fair on peaks. Frequency drifting slightly. Was on 15070.09
at 1312, drifting up to 15070.17 by 1358 check. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** INDONESIA. 9525.98, Voice of Indonesia, 1315-1330, Feb 14,
tune-in to English news. ID. Poor with weak modulation and adjacent
channel splatter. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6951.8 USB, Outhouse Radio, 0815-
0825, ID. Rock music. Good signal. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** SUDAN [non]. via IRRS, Slovakia, 15670, Miraya 101 FM, *1400-
1615, Feb 14, sign on with pop music and ?Miraya FM? IDs followed
by a wide variety of western pop music and Afro-pop music. Time
pips at 1500 followed by ?Miraya 101? ID and English news. Arabic
talk at 1510. Good signal but poor signal at 1530-1600, mixing with
Radio Mada Int. Both stations in at equal levels. (Brian Alexander, PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:24:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 14-15, 2010
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** ARGENTINA [and non]. Just like the good old days, an audible het of about
200 Hz between two obstinate stations which refuse to move apart and eliminate
the problem, despite plenty of open frequencies just above and below.
Yes, RAE has drifted off-channel again to 15345.2 or so, but around 2115 Feb 14
the dominant audio is Arabic from MOROCCO. Next check 2219, Morocco is off,
leaving very weak and fluttery RAE, or rather R. Nacional relay on weekends via
same General Pacheco transmitter, in the clear. By 0010 Feb 15, 15345.2 signal
has surged to good level but still heavy flutter in live play-by-play of some
SBG (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11760, RHC in French, Sunday Feb 14 at 2139 with Le Monde de la
Filat?lie. Naturally, the stamp subjects are yet more fodder for revolutionary
political propaganda. Then tuned up 10 kHz to RHC Spanish on 11770, and they
were just upwrapping equivalent El Mundo de la Filatelia. The variably-timed DX
program, En Contacto, began at precisely 2144:30 this week, also on 11730,
11800, etc., starting with birthday greetings.
At 0013 on 13820, DCJC pulses against nothing since R. Mart? quits this
frequency at 2200. But propagation from Cuba must be very good. Checking some
other jammers, 9810 obliterated R. Rep?blica at 0014, and contained beeps. At
0033, 5890 VOA under heavy jamming without beeps, but // 9885 well over jamming
with beeps during an innocuous discussion about teaching children.
13770 Spanish and 13790 weekly Esperanto both inbooming UT Monday Feb 15 at
0022, seem equal level tho 13770 is normally much weaker here; must have
changed antennas. Also had heard Esperanto earlier Sunday just after 1500 on
11760; was not copying the announced schedule, but am fairly certain there was
no mention of the 13790 transmission at 0000, just the 2330 one on two
frequencies, which I doubt still exist.
They are mainly concerned with promoting and anticipating the 95 Universala
Kongreso de Esperanto, Havano, 17-24 Julio, 2010 --- that is, if armed
counter-revolution has not broken out by then. I continue to be amused by one
of the announcers, obviously not a native-speaker of Esperanto, who cannot
break himself of saying ``Am?riko`` instead of ``Amer?ko`` as invariable
Esperanto rules require penultimate stress.
3445 at 0058 Feb 15 with weak Spanish talk, sure sounds // RHC 6060 et al., but
only one receiver handy at the moment so can`t be positive. Plus weaker second
audio source. Definitely not // Rebelde 5025. Since it ends in -5, can`t be a
leapfrog or difference mix of any regular RHC or CRI relay frequencies since
they all end in -0, except 17705 which goes off at 0030. For the same reason,
it could not be a mix with any local MW station. Could be a mix with an equally
strong spy transmitter at same site but punching numbers into the calculator, I
have not come up with anything recognizable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** ECUADOR [non]. HCJB via CVC CHILE 11920 spurs containing mushy distorted //
audio in Portuguese, Feb 15 at 0026 centered on about 11900.5 and 11939.5 =
plus and minus 19.5 kHz, while 25+ hours earlier they were circa 11904 and
11936 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, R. Africa at 2220 Sunday Feb 14 with evangelist
Tony Al?mo, convicted and sentenced to 175 years for child sex abuse, rambling
about baptism and resurrexion, from a station and a broker, Panamerican
Broadcasting in Cupertino CA, which have no compunxion about diffusing this
monster with money. WINB broadcasts him only Monday-Friday so this is a
much-needed Sunday fix; Saturday too?
Whew, he`s out of Oklahoma after being transferred thru OKC on the way to his
permanent prison, or at least the next one, which is in Tucson AZ. Now
officials are trying to figure out how many ``wives`` still under his influence
will be allowed to visit him, altho not conjugally. See
http://www.tonyalamonews.com/3271/21210-tg-tony-alamo-transferred-to-tucson-prison.php
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET. 4820, at 0030 Feb 15 in Chinese, vs CODAR and some SSB on one side,
and a SAH of about 8 Hz. We may confidently list-log this as Lhasa, and
Kolkata, as they are the only two stations in the world on 4820 and both could
be propagating near grayline (unlike Aoki, forget about Botswana and Honduras).
4800 had a weaker tentative Chinese at 0033, which would be Geermu, on the same
frequency as Chennai; discounting XERTA which I see is missing from Aoki (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNIDENTIFIED 4895
** U S A. 600 kHz, good signal looping NE/SW with nostalgia music, at 0052 UT
Feb 15, a love song for VD, soon outroed as by Mary Jo Stafford, and the Phil
Weston Orchestra, on ``Musical Memories`` for a Sunday afternoon, mentioning
current hour 6-7 pm, so apparently live DJ somewhere in the CST zone, also
giving weather forecast for what ``we`` could expect, including snow and
below-freezing temps, but never a geographical hint as to exactly where ``we``
are, for those yearning for an ID.
But must be WMT Cedar Rapids IA. Soon confirmed it`s Jim Doyne at
http://www.wmtradio.com/pages/musicalmemories.html
which says his show starts at 2 pm = 2000 UT:
``Relive your Musical Memories every Sunday with Jim Doyne --- Jim provides his
listeners with the great songs of the 40?s, 50?s and early 60?s every Sunday
afternoon from 2 to 7 pm.``
Companion show before it at 7:30 am-2 pm [1330-2000 UT] is: ``Leo Greco's
Variety Time --- Leo has been a musician and entertainer in Eastern Iowa since
the mid 1940?s. He show features a special blend of polkas, standards, country
and other musical favorites. He?s been waking up Iowans on Sunday morning for
over 35 years.``
WMT must be a ``full-service`` station daring to play music as well as
news/talk the other six days of the week. Well, axually a disservice as their
`news` comes from Fox, and Rash Limburger is on the roster, along with
anti-administration stuff plastered all over their homepage.
Besides the nostalgic music, I`ll give them some credit for carrying Jim
Bohannon --- since our local KGWA has dropped Jimbo, WMT is a possible source
for him here at 0307-0559 UT Tue-Sat, tho hardly QRM-free (Glenn Hauser, Enid
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4895, Feb 15 at 0033 had a weak fluttery signal at same time I
was getting Tibet/China on 4820, 4800. Could be Mongolia, especially if AIR
Kurseong was not on the air; normal sign-on is 0055, and Jose Jacob monitoring
in late January said it had been off the air lately (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5955, trying to pull something out of this weak unID again Feb 15
at several chex between 0000 and 0057, but just too much WYFR splash from 5950,
and also from RRI Spanish 5960 especially when it`s playing music, which is
often. Dave Valko`s third report on this 25 hours earlier says he heard Radio
Rep?blica IDs, and it was previously logged by him in Oct 2007. Here`s a
pertinent log from 2008y:
``CUBA [non]. 5955, *0100-0125, CLANDESTINE, 25+28.06, R. Rep?blica,
via Nauen, Germany, Spanish ID, talk about Cuba and Colombia,
interview about internet, 54554; still on 5955 until 30.06! Different
program on 6155! (Anker Petersen, AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 m longwire in
Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD 8-075)``
So has that relay started again, or is it now a peanut-whistle in Central
America like 11600? No sign of jamming, so the DCJC must not have heard 5955
yet; and if DXers really have to dig for it, hard to imagine it having any
impact among general Cuban listeners (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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