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Today's Topics:
1. HCA A10 (Alokesh Gupta)
2. SENTECH A10 (Alokesh Gupta)
3. Sat Morning Dx (Charles Bolland)
4. Radio Gloria International this Sunday (Tom Taylor)
5. Radio Free North Korea (Arnaldo)
6. Log RNZI NZL (Theodor Averbeck)
7. Radio Rossii broadcasting reductions on SW (Mikhail Timofeyev)
8. Radio Rossii broadcasting reductions on SW (DATE CORRECTION!)
(Mikhail Timofeyev)
9. Glenn Hauser logs March 26-27, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
10. March 27 Logs ([email protected])
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:00:19 +0530
From: Alokesh Gupta <[email protected]>
To: Alokesh-Hotmail <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] HCA A10
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
HCJB AUSTRALIA A10
Effective: Sunday 28 March 2010 ? Saturday 30 October 2010
TO EAST ASIA
2200-2230 15525 CVC Mandarin
2230-2300 15525 Mandarin Mon-Fri
2230-2300 15525 Japanese Sat/Sun
2300-0000 15525 Mandarin Daily
0000-0030 15525 Fujian Daily
1030-1130 15400 Mandarin Daily
1130-1300 15400 English Sun/Sat
1130-1200 15400 Fujian Mon-Fri
1200-1230 15400 CVC Mandarin Mon-Fri
1230-1300 15400 FEBA English Mon-Fri
1300-1330 15400 English Daily
1330-1430 15400 Mandarin Daily
SOUTH EAST ASIA
2345-0000 15400 Indonesia (Bahasa)Daily
0000-0030 15400 Indonesia(Bahasa) Mon-Sat
0000-0030 15400 Myanmar(Rawang) Sun
0030-0100 15400 Myanmar(Rawang) Daily
1145-1200 15340 Indonesia (Bahasa)Daily
1230-1330 15340 Indonesia(Bahasa) Mon-Sat
1200-1230 15340 Malay(Bahasa) Sun
1230-1300 15340 Myanmar(Rawang) Daily
SOUTH ASIA
0100-0115 15400 Nepali Daily
0115-0130 15400 Malayalam Sun
0115-0130 15400 Gujarati Mon
0115-0130 15400 Urdu Tues
0115-0130 15400 Marathi Wed
0115-0130 15400 Bhojpuri Thu
0115-0130 15400 Punjabi Fri
0115-0130 15400 Tamil Sat
0130-0200 15400 Urdu Daily
0200-0230 15400 Hindi Daily
0230-0245 15400 Chhattisgarhi Sat/Sun
0230-0245 15400 Kuruk Mon/Thu
0230-0245 15400 Marwari Tues
0230-0245 15400 Telegu Wed
0230-0245 15400 Hmar Fri
0245-0300 15400 English Daily
1300-1315 15340 Nepali Daily
1315-1330 15340 Malayalam Sun
1315-1330 15340 Gujarati Mon
1315-1330 15340 Urdu Tues
1315-1330 15340 Marathi Wed
1315-1330 15340 Bhojpuri Thu
1315-1330 15340 Punjabi Fri
1315-1330 15340 Tamil Sat
1330-1400 15340 Hindi Daily
1400-1430 15340 Urdu Daily
1430-1445 15340 Chhattisgarhi Sat/Sun
1430-1445 15340 Kuruk Mon/Thu
1430-1445 15340 Marwari Tues
1430-1445 15340 Telegu Wed
1430-1445 15340 Hmar Fri
1445-1500 15340 FEBA English Mon-Fri
1445-1500 15340 English Sat/Sun
1500-1530 15340 English Daily
SOUTH PACIFIC
0730-0930 11750 English Daily
DX PARTYLINE
1315-1330 15400 SAT TO EAST ASIA
1515-1530 15340 SAT TO SOUTH ASIA
0800-0815 11750 SAT TO SOUTH PACIFIC
All times are in UTC, frequencies in kHz.
-----
Alokesh Gupta
New Delhi, India
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:47:26 +0530
From: Alokesh Gupta <[email protected]>
To: Alokesh-Hotmail <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] SENTECH A10
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
Sentech A10
Effective from 28 March 2010 to 30 October 2010
Time (UTC)Freq (KHz)Tx kW Target Area Language
---------------------------------------------
Adventist World Radio
1700-1730 9600 250 East Africa Swahili
1730-1800 9600 250 East Africa Masai
1800-1830 3215 100 Botswana,Namibia English
1800-1830 3345 100 Zimbabwe,Zambia English
1800-1830 9610 250 East Africa English
Radio Bar Kulan
1600-1700 9930 500 Somalia Somali
BBC
0300-0400 6145 500 West Africa English
0300-0330 6155 500 East & Central Africa Swahili
0300-0600 6190 100 Southern Africa English
0300-0600 3255 100 Southern Africa English
0400-0430 6155 250 East Africa Swahili
0400-0600 7310 250 West Africa English
0430-0530 3380 100 S.Mozambique Portuguese*
0430-0530 6145 250 N.Mozambique Portuguese*
0500-0600 11925 250 East & Central Africa Kirundi #
0530-0600 11925 250 East & Central Africa Kirundi ##
0600-0700 12015 250 West Africa English
0600-1600 6190 100 Southern Africa English
0600-1400 9860 100 Southern Africa English
0700-0730 17640 500 West Africa French
0700-0800 17830 500 West Africa English
1330-1530 11705 500 East & Central Africa Swahili #
1400-1600 7230 100 Southern Africa English
1500-1530 7405 500 East & Central Africa English
1530-1615 7405 500 East & Central Africa Swahili ##
1530-1630 7405 500 East & Central Africa Swahili *
1530-1700 7405 500 East & Central Africa English #
1600-2200 3255 100 Southern Africa English
1600-2200 6190 100 Southern Africa English
1615-1700 7405 500 East & Central Africa English ##
1630-1700 7405 500 East & Central Africa Kirundi *
1630-1745 11705 100 East Africa Swahili #
1700-1900 7405 250 East & Central Africa English
1745-1800 7230 500 East & Central Africa Swahili
1800-1830 5985 250 Indian Ocean Isles French
2030-2100 3380 100 S. Mozambique Portuguese*
2030-2100 6135 250 N. Mozambique Portuguese*
2030-2100 6065 500 Angola Portuguese*
2100-2200 7405 100 West Africa English
2200-2300 5935 100 West Africa English
* Monday to Friday
# Saturday
## Sunday
Channel Africa
0300-0355 6135 250 East & Central Africa English
0300-0500 3345 100 Southern Africa English
0500-0800 7230 100 Southern Africa English
0600-0655 15255 250 Far West Africa English
0800-1200 9625 100 Southern Africa English
1200-1300 9625 100 Southern Africa Nyanja
1300-1400 9625 100 Southern Africa Lozi
1400-1600 9625 100 Southern Africa English
1500-1555 15660 250 East & Central Africa Swahili
1600-1655 15235 250 West Africa French
1700-1755 9675 500 West Africa English
1900-2000 3345 100 Southern Africa Portuguese
Deutsche Welle
0500-0530 9825 250 Central Africa English
1700-1800 9735 100 Central Africa French
EDC
1600-1700 11770 100 Sudan Various *
* Every day but Friday
Family Radio
1600-1700 6225 250 Madagascar Malagasy
1700-1800 6225 100 Madagascar French
1800-1900 9495 250 East Africa Kinyarwanda
1800-1900 6180 100 East Africa English
1900-2000 5930 250 East Africa Swahili
1900-2000 6100 100 Angola Portuguese
1900-2000 3955 100 Mozambique Portuguese
1900-2000 3230 100 Southern Africa English
FEBA Radio
1600-1700 12125 250 East Africa Amharic
1730-1800 5890 250 East Africa Silte
Hirondelle Foundation
0400-0500 11690 250 Central Africa French
IBRA Radio
1730-1800 9615 100 Somalia Somali
Radio Dialogue
1755-1855 4895 100 Zimbabwe English
Radio France International
0500-0700 11605 100 West Africa French
0600-0700 11830 250 Angola Portuguese
0700-0800 15170 250 West Africa French
1200-1300 17660 250 Central Africa French
Radio Sonder Grense
0500-0800 7285 100 Northern Cape,RSA Afrikaans
0800-1600 9650 100 Northern Cape,RSA Afrikaans
1600-0500 3320 100 Northern Cape,RSA Afrikaans
RTE
1930-2030 6225 100 Central Africa English
SA Radio League
0800-0900* 7205 100 Southern Africa English
0800-0900* 17570 250 East Africa English
1905-2005** 3215 100 Southern Africa English
* Sunday
** Monday
Trans World Radio
0330-0345 7215 250 Ethiopia 1234567 Amharic
0600-0645 11640 500 Nigeria 12345 English
0600-0615 11640 500 Nigeria 67 English
1557-1627 9675 250 Burundi 12345 Kirundi
1625-1655 9660 500 Somalia 12345 Somali
1625-1640 9660 500 Somalia 7 Somali
1718-1733 7265 250 Mozambique 1234567 Yao
Day 1 = Monday, Day 2 = Tuesday?
Voice Of America
0530-0600 9880 100 West Africa French
1600-1630 11695 100 East Africa Kirundi #
1700-1730 6080 100 West Africa English
1800-1830 12120 100 West Africa Portuguese*
1830-2030 6080 100 West Africa French
# Saturday
* Monday to Friday
----------
Alokesh Gupta
New Delhi, India
------------------------------
Message: 3
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 08:55:28 -0000
From: "Charles Bolland" <[email protected]>
To: "ALF" <[email protected]>, "Arnaldo slaen"
<[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] Sat Morning Dx
Message-ID:
<!&!AAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAAMcpx2KDL2JFmEyXbvynxonCgAAAEAAAAEL4w/[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Peru, 6019.30, Radio Victoria, 0815-0830, Noted
Victoria without any serious interference at this
hour except for splatter from Radio Marti on 6030.
Anyway, a female was in Spanish comments
when I tuned in here. At least it sounded like a
female? Unfortunately, the splatter from Marti
overwhelms Victoria making it barely audible by 0830.
(Chuck Bolland, March 27, 2010)
United States, 3252.70, WWRB, 0840-0850, Noted a
female in English language comments.
Signal was muffled and weak. This is a "Spur" from a
placed called Manchester. I
don't have the State unfortunately. (Chuck Bolland,
March 27, 2010)
WinRadio G305e/PD
26.27N 081.05W
------------------------------
Message: 4
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:35:14 -0000
From: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
To: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Gloria International this Sunday
Message-ID: <72dd979fb07243729caa0845b71d7...@dellcb21k2j>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Radio Gloria International this Sunday
Radio Gloria International is on this Sunday the 28th of March 2010
At 09.00 to 1000 UTC on our normal channel of 6140 KHz.
M.V.Baltic. Information:
MV Baltic Radio relay service Schedule for Summer 2010
1st Sunday - MV Baltic Radio
3rd Sunday - European Music Radio (April )
4th Sunday - Radio Gloria International
We wish you good listening and good reception! 73s Tom
------------------------------
Message: 5
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:42:35 +0100
From: "Arnaldo" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], playdx2003 <[email protected]>,
DXLD <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Free North Korea
Message-ID: <001701cacd70$4d9a27a0$83b7c...@windowsv03oj4t>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Free North Korea Radio is giving voice to a growing opposition to the
dictatorship, writes David McNeill in Seoul
BEGGARS HAVE returned to the streets of Pyongyang, income disparities are
growing thanks to a botched currency reform, and simmering anger at the
government threatens to boil over.
Ordinary North Koreans are increasingly waking from their long nightmare and
blinking in the light of a once unthinkable scenario: life without ailing
leader Kim Jong-il or his family of hereditary parasites.
?He is a hypocrite who only cares about himself,? one told Free North Korea
Radio (FNKR). ?We would be better off without him.?
Despite being vacuum-packed by the Kim dictatorship and sealed off behind a
once-solid technological firewall, North Korea is increasingly leaking bad news
? and much of it is coming from this Seoul-based broadcaster. Run by defector
Kim Seong-Min, the small shortwave station has an apparently simple mission: to
bring democracy to one of the world?s most paranoid, secretive nations.
?But first we must have a free media there,? says Kim. ?That?s what we?re
working on.?
Carrying out that mission is dangerous, and sometimes deadly. Kim (48) is
protected round the clock by two armed police bodyguards. In 2007 many of the
station?s original team of stringers were caught and tried as spies, then sent
to labour camps ? or perhaps executed. ?We don?t know what happened to them
exactly,? he says, adding that the detections ?devastated? him.
?The stress of knowing that could happen again is very hard to bear. Honestly,
I often just want to quit.?
Building up a new network of stringers took time. Today, 10 freelance
journalists provide reports from behind the bamboo curtain on a retainer of
about $100 (?73) a month. They include a university professor, a teacher, at
least two soldiers and a North Korean security agent.
FNKR provides them with small digital recorders, which are used to record
interviews, and mobile phones with signals that work across the Chinese border
? Pyongyang?s fledgling mobile- phone system was bought from Egypt and is
incompatible with the South Korean network.
The recordings are smuggled across the Chinese border and transported back to
Seoul via a network of spies.
The results detonate on air during Voices of the People , where the raw views
of the North?s citizens ? electronically distorted ? are broadcast back into
their own country. Brainwashed automatons in so much reporting, the people
heard here emerge as thrillingly human, alive and angry.
Kim Jong-il?s wealth comes from ?the sweat and blood of the people?, says one.
Another vows to protest government policies. A defector interviewed by the
station once vowed to shoot the Dear Leader. But the station?s director insists
that his purpose is not to incite violence.
?The world would be a better place without Kim Jong-il, of course,? says Kim.
?But the most important thing is not him, it?s the people he rules.?
Like many observers, Kim believes the looming transition of power from the
North?s leader, who appears to have suffered a stroke, to his son and suspected
heir, Kim Jong-un, will be the regime?s biggest test in a generation. ?The
level of consciousness of the people will be crucial,? he says. ?When power
moved from Kim Song-il [father of the nation] to Kim Jong-il, it was considered
a natural development. But people know far more about the outside world now and
they?re more sceptical of the leadership, so anything could happen.?
The possibility of real change electrifies defectors in the South. Pyongyang?s
devaluation of its nearly worthless currency in December was a ?turning point?,
says Seo Jae-pyong, another defector who runs a South Korean news service also
based on mobile-phone dispatches from inside the North.
The devaluation, apparently aimed at reining in the nation?s growing middle
class, wiped out the meagre savings of impoverished citizens, reportedly
sparked riots and even forced the leadership into making a rare apology. ?That
was a sign that social unrest is very deep,? Seo told the Korea Times last week.
FNKR claims it helped break that story and was the first media outlet to
smuggle the new currency notes out of the country, via its network of China
spies, and show them to the world. But every challenge to the regime risks
retaliation; another of its freelance reporters was subsequently almost caught,
says Kim. ?We got word just before she was to be arrested. She fled abroad and
is now in Vietnam.?
That story calls to mind Kim?s own remarkable escape from his country of birth.
The son of a poet, he worked for years as a propaganda officer for the North
Korean army before being brought down by accusations of spying ? one of his
letters to an uncle living abroad was intercepted.
Tortured then sentenced to death, Kim jumped from a moving train taking him to
his execution in 1997. Two years later he joined the 20,000 or so defectors in
the South. Angry at the deception and treatment he endured, Kim campaigned for
change, becoming director of the North Korean Defectors? Association and, in
2004, helping to set up FNKR.
The station was initially funded by defectors and sympathisers but the money
ran out quickly and it found itself swimming against the political zeitgeist:
the South?s ?sunshine policy? of burgeoning co-operation with its temper-
amental northern neighbour meant propaganda and provo- cation was out;
rapprochement was in. Squeezed between the hawks who call the sunshine policy
appeasement, and the doves who support its quiet efforts towards
transformation, Kim ? a natural dove ? leaned right.
Today, much of the funding for the broadcaster comes from Japanese activists
and the US state department ? at no cost to its independence, he insists.
?I?m asked about interference a lot, but it?s not an issue. There has been just
one clash. We ran a programme carrying testimony by defectors who spoke of
their treatment ? being beaten by guards at the Chinese border and so on. One
defector said he was going to shoot Kim Jong-il. The Americans told us to
delete that programme or they wouldn?t pay.?
Reports that the grip of the regime north of the border may finally be slipping
have heartened him, but the stress is taking its toll. Kim says he is
?exhausted? from working every day, weekends included. During our interview,
his phone rings constantly.
?That was a report by someone saying that people are begging in the streets of
Pyongyang,? he says after one call. ?Some people also drive expensive cars in
the city, like Mercedes. We?re trying to confirm the story.? Some time this
year, he wants to quit. ?I?m worried all the time about these people. It?s so
risky what they do.?
Despite the costs, broadcasters like FNKR are helping to corrode the legitimacy
of the Kim regime, says Youngkwan Yoon, professor of international relations at
Seoul National University. ?North Korea has entered a new era of instability
and uncertainty since Kim became ill. The currency devaluation was a total
failure and the leaders there are feeling a lot of pressure from the citizens.
So the more information the people there have, the better.?
After years of shipwrecked forecasts that change is coming to his former home,
Kim is making no predictions about its future. But he is hopeful. ?North
Koreans are humans and want the same freedoms we have. Eventually they will get
them.?(Irish Times)
------------------------------
Message: 6
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:20:10 +0100
From: Theodor Averbeck <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Log RNZI NZL
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Log data
frequency kHz 9765
date 2010-03-27
time UTC 0950
transmitter at Rangitaiki NZL
t-coordinates -38? 50' 34.86", +176? 25' 46.85"
language English
sio 433
www.rnzi.com
73 ? Theo
_______________________________
rx ar7030 mod?ant sb?loc jo42dr
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:29:00 +0000
From: Mikhail Timofeyev <[email protected]>
To: DXplorer <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Rossii broadcasting reductions on SW
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
It is not Radio Sweden, but nevertheless lamentably...
It seems some of Radio Rossii SW transmitters will leave
the air for good starting tomorrow due to stress of money.
I do not have all info yet but among these for a long time
usable ones will be:
5930 Murmansk (0100-2100 UTC during the summer seasons),
6085 Krasnoyarsk (2100-1700),
6160 Arkhangelsk (0100-2100),
6195 Ulan Ude (2100-0100), etc.
I am listening now Radio Rossii on 5930 kHz and cannot
still believe that March 27, 2010 will be the last day of SW
relays from Murmansk...
73!
Mikhail
------------------------------
Message: 8
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:13:39 +0000
From: Mikhail Timofeyev <[email protected]>
To: DXplorer <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Rossii broadcasting reductions on SW (DATE
CORRECTION!)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
Date correction: all changes will be in use starting from April 1
(not March 28!).
73!
Mikhail
------------------------------
Message: 9
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:39:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 26-27, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
** CHINA. Firedrake March 27: did not search thoroly, but at 1453 encountered
on 10400, fair signal, and much better than JBA 8400; none audible in the
9300-9400 area or on the `970s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. DentroCuban Jamming Command doing its thing, same pulsing against
nothing, March 27 at 0620: on 9955 with WRMI inaudible, 9885 vs absent VOA, and
9810 vs absent Radio Rep?blica. And more of it on 9565 vs absent Mart?, plus
spurs around 9545 and 9585.
Strange things are happening with RHC scheduling, making me wonder if they are
confused about the DST shift a biweek ago, or have decided to go with the flow
rather than keep to UT?
March 27 at 1400 I find 11760 missing, but still on 11730 and 11800. The 11760
transmitter could be the one with open carrier on 11680 about to open relay of
Venezuela, q.v., an hour earlier than had been scheduled. At 1415 noticed that
frequencies supposed to be on until 1500 were missing: 15360, 15120, 13780,
13680; at 1423 heard only on 13770 above 12 MHz. But at 1448, 11760 was back on
while RNV was still on 11680. No RHC frequency announcement heard around 1500
as there used to be (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS [and non]. OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here, March 27 at 1421 on
17847-17872 atop some broadcaster on 17850, i.e. BBC Somali via CYPRUS, oops!
Still going at 1503, and now the victim is on 17860, i.e. Channel Africa, SOUTH
AFRICA in Swahili.
Same sound of OTH radar on 17465-17490, March 27 at 1504 atop Brother Scare via
GERMANY on 17485. And then mixing with the huge wideband whining sound centered
on 17450 which just cut on at *1505 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, looking for rumored reactivation of R.
Inconfid?ncia, Belo Horizonte, Brasil on 15190, still nothing ? but R. Africa,
March 26 at 1958 with American preachess wishing ``Happy Thanksgiving`` to
listeners and remarking that she is speaking on Black Friday, why call it that?
She apparently has no economic background. (So I can be sure she is American,
not Canadian, since there is no such thing as a Black Friday there, unless it`s
Black Day-after-Columbus-Day?), and further remarx about orphans in Malawi.
So sermons are delayed about four months in the surface mail to Bata. BTW, does
the general African audience have any idea what the American Thanksgiving
holiday is about, let alone Black Friday, which could easily be misconstrued as
an insult? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 13645, AIR IS at 1513 March 27, fair with flutter, 1515 opening in
listed Gujurati via Bengaluru.
Don`t you believe last week`s DX program from Bulgaria which claimed that V. of
Southern Azerbaijan had returned to this frequency at 1600. That was lifted
from previous DXLD discussion of an unID which turned out to be AIR, and
everything about VOSA was historical! Not really heard since 1998 on this
frequency nor since 2003 on 9375. March BDXC-UK Communication also
misinterpreted that VOSA info was current.
13605, also with AIR IS at 1514 March 27, but not in synch with 13645, as 13605
is about to start Swahili via Bangalore, and not in // when both started
talking at 1515.
At 1517 found 15175 with extremely distorted South Asian music, modulation
cutting on and off while S9+15 carrier stayed on with flutter, and it`s //
13645 which has identical modulation cuts, also during talk at 1519, then back
to music. But 15175 is via Panaji, GOA site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 9335, VOK, March 27 at 1344, distorted modulation and flutter,
opening ``Songs of Korear, Land of the Morning Calm``, sounds like electric
organ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LAOS [non]. 11785, tuned in WHRI just in time at 1329 Saturday March 27 to
confirm that Hmong World Christian Radio has shifted another hour earlier to
1300; bit of Hmong talk and 1330 into Call to Worship, off after 1400 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 6135, another check for RTM, March 27 at 1409: something`s there
with talk rather than music, but too weak vs high noise level. My logs do
correlate with David Sharp`s, who was getting this a week earlier at 1350 on
7105.008 // 6134.954, from New South Wales, right along the long-path to me
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR [non]. One last A-10 check for R. Mada International, clandestine
via PRIDNESTROVYE, which has been running Sat & Sun 1530-1600 on 15660: March
27 at 1555 just continuous tone-test on frequency, so lost feed? From March 28
I imagine Mada will show on a different frequency in the area if it still exist
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO. 15345, unlike 15341 the day before, RTM on the `proper` frequency,
March 26 at 2001 with hum and whine and Arabic, RAE inaudible (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 6170, RNZI, March 27 at 1411 with heavy QRM in Chinese from
Voice of Russia, as has been the case all B-season since RNZI has refused to
find a clearer channel. At least beginning A-10, RNZI stays on 6170 and even
expands it to 0659-1058 and 1259-1550 with 9655 in between. And the 6170 QRM
should be gone! Altho 6 MHz after 1300 is no longer of much use this far into
the dayside (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. REE with big S9+15 signals on 21610 // 21570, March 27 at
1507 talking about some award, and C?ceres 2016. Googling indicates that this
place aspires to be European Capital of Culture in that year; yet is primarily
known for basketball. Meanwhile, Saudi`s remaining 13m signal after 1500,
21460, was JBA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTNEING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 15670, Miraya FM via IRRS via SLOVAKIA presumed, March 27 at
1418 M&W in Arabic dialect discussion, one of them on lower quality phone line.
This broadcast has been at 14-17 on 15670, but for A-10 is supposed to resume
15-18 on 15650, or is it 15710? Listen for clashes on 15650 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. 11875, March 27 at 1457 just tuned in to big signal but
undermodulated with kids` choir when it went off at 1457:23*. Per Aoki this can
only be RTI`s Indonesian service at 14-15, 205 degrees from Tainan, so off the
back would be 25 degrees, close enough to USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. VOT English from 1330, March 27 tuned at 1404 on 12035, just barely
audible but modulation seems OK, playing annoying multi-lingual ID filler. Much
better signal on // 15300 but clashing for the last day with stronger France
producing fast SAH. The DX Corner has been missing for the past two Saturdays,
so surely back today, and may have just missed it. Will have to demand the
audio later, but as of 1815, still availablizing only yesterday`s broadcasts.
>From March 28, this broadcast shifts to 1230-1322v, and back to last summer`s
>frequencies 15450 and 15520 at 310 and 252 degrees azimuth respectively, so
>the former aims USward and both should be QRM-free (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
>LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO attempted monitoring March 26: before 2000 I noticed
there was no signal at all from WWCR-1 on 15825; usually there is at least a
poor backscatter one. This bodes ill; 13845 audible. 2055 routine recheck for
WOR`s Friday 2030 airing, 7465 also absent, so WWCR-1 is MIA, and still off
after 2100 when Frencuencia al D?a would have aired. Did not check in the
evening for 3215, but at 1419 March 27, 15825 was back in business with
preacher. And at 1459 ending the 30-minute special expanded Ask-WWCR-like show
about the A-10 season. I`ve yet to catch this from the start; it would be
helpful to know when to expect it.
Saturday 1330 airing of WOR on WRMI 9955: at 1353 check, WOR 1505 weak but
clear, no jamming audible. Saturday 1630 on WWCR-3 12160: confirmed. But Mick
Delmage reports: ``Once again this week, at 1650 UT, World of Radio on WWCR
12160 has gone into "skip mode" during the Radio Sweden report.`` Grrr.
Next chances are Sat at 1900 on IRRS 6170, and WRMI 9955; Sunday 0230 on WWCR
4840, 0630 on 3215 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WTWW continues to be missing from 24-hour operation, perhaps taking a
rest before official inauguration April 1. At 1412 March 27, absent from 9480
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15550-USB, WJHR still active, March 27 at 1417 with screaming
preacher; racking up fines for every day of illegal operation? (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13845, big mushy spur from WEWN 13835, March 27 at 1423 over WWCR,
the rightful occupant of 13845. At times like these I figure WEWN has not
reduced its spurs at all, certainly not eliminated them as hoped (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11715, KJES, March 27 at 1511, S9+22 perhaps with sporadic-E assist,
but just barely audible modulation in Spanish. What a travesty! Don`t they
realize you need both a carrier and modulation?? Barely audible something
underneath, presumably usual R. Veritas relay via Vatican back to ME. From
tomorrow, that clash at 15-16 will be gone, as the latter moves to 15350 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. Surprised to find an RNV transmission on the air an hour
earlier than previously: after I noticed Habana missing from 11760, March 27 at
1400, I tuned down to 11680, and there was big S9+25 open carrier; 1401 joined
RNV in progress, program summary by the broken-English YL. Hmm, seems all the
segments are about El Hugazo one way or another: the state, it`s he. First:
evaluating the electrical plant; later, visiting a bolivarian school where he
is greatly honored. At 1438 she was reading an attempted translation of a long
polemic, MEGO. 1445 mentioning ``las ni?as de Ch?vez``, implying I hope only
that he is a father-figure, and Windows boot-up logo. Off at 1458*.
So has the 15-16 UT broadcast partly in English been moved to 14-15, or was
this just another SNAFU? If it has been deliberately moved earlier, how about
all the other RNV transmissions? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. 15195, March 27 at 1413 M&M dialog in Vietnamese, good signal
I had not noticed before: it`s RFA via TINIAN at 14-15. Goodbye: tomorrow it
moves to 11680, where it will collide with Venezuela q.v. via Cuba if it stays
at that hour; not to mention variable-frequency KCBS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Intruder on 15390, big multiplex ute signal at 1415 March 27,
still there at 1501 and 1517. This is where we usually hear Greenville tuning
up for 1630 Creole broadcast, but this signal is not as strong as GB; we have
wondered whether IBB transmitters are ever still used for digital DOS traffic.
In any event, this has no business within the SWBC band. I briefly heard a
similar sound around 15750 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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** ARGENTINA. 15820 LSB, unidentified feeder, 2154-2344*, March
27, Spanish talk. Spanish pops/ballads. Weak at tune-in but improved
to a fair level by 2330. Abrupt sign off. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** MALI. 9635, RTVM, *0800-0840, March 27, sign on with French
ID announcements and flute IS. Local African music at 0801.
Vernacular talk at 0809. Rustic African music at 0820. Poor to fair.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6950 USB, Wolverine Radio, 0050-
0140, March 27, wide variety of music by Billy Idol, ZZ Top, Paul Anka,
James Taylor, The Police, Tears for Fears, Go-Go?s, Ray Charles and
others. IDs. Good. Strong. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6930 USB, Magnetar Radio, 0040-0050,
March 27, odd techno-electronic music. IDs. Good. (Brian Alexander, PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 87, Issue 28
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