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Today's Topics:
1. La Voz de Rusia A-10 Espa?ol (Jose Bueno)
2. Glenn Hauser logs March 31-April 1, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Radio Joystick Relay on 9510 kHz (Tom Taylor)
4. Radio Joystick Relay on 9510 kHz (Tom Taylor)
5. April 1-2 Logs ([email protected])
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 16:41:04 +0200
From: "Jose Bueno" <[email protected]>
To: "Grupo CONDIGLIST" <[email protected]>, "Grupo DX
programas" <[email protected]>, "Grupo NOTICIASDX"
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] La Voz de Rusia A-10 Espa?ol
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Esquema de La Voz de Rusia en espa?ol:
Formato texto:
http://programasdx.com/lavozderusiaverano2010.toc
Formato PDF:
http://programasdx.com/lavozderusiaverano2010.pdf
Jos? Bueno
C?rdoba, Espa?a
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 09:35:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 31-April 1, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** AUSTRALIA. HCJB coming in quite well April 1 on both 19m frequencies: 15340
at 1328 in S Asian language, atop 15341 Morocco het; 1329 announcer kept mixing
in English phrases such as ``brand new program``, ``host with the most``,
``thanks for all the e-mails``, ``so without wasting any more time, let`s get
on with the show``, and played hymn ``What a Friend We Have in Jesus``.
Schedule at
http://www.hcjb.org.au/docs/A10_Schedule_HCJB_Australia_20100328-20101030.pdf
shows it`s supposed to transition at 1330 from Bhojpuri on Thursdays to Hindi
daily. By 1402, the het from Morocco is much worse, with its undermodulated
Arabic.
15400 Chinese service at 1328 had an English ID, back to Chinese.
If these are coming long-path, the route is across the Indian Ocean, over Cape
Town, up the Atlantic skirting the NE coast of Brasil, entering N America
between Savannah and Jacksonville. If short-path, across Midway Island, north
of Berkeley (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** DJIBOUTI [non]. 15165, checking whether clandestine La Voix de Djibouti
remains on B-09 frequency in A-10, Thursdays only ? yes, April 1 carrier on a
few seconds before 1530 and modulation a few sex after with instrumental
anthem, 1531 HOA song, 1532 into talk unseeming French. Poor signal compared to
the last time I heard it a few weeks ago, and traces of long-path echo. Recheck
at 1615, even weaker and more echoey, with much greater ACI from BBC Russian
15170. Could not tell if it had switched to French by now like last time.
I still think a W European site is likely rather than South Africa as
hypothesized by Wendel Craighead, who among others has got an e-QSL never
revealing the true site. The echo would be more likely if we are getting back-
and front-beams from Europe rather than South Africa which would aim in a very
different direxion, roughly sideways from us, but this is all very hypothetical
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI English, April 1 at 1337 with fair modulation,
accented YL talking about science and technology, with music background; no
adjacent-channel QRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. RRI putting in several good to very good signals on 19m, none of
them designated for NAm, April 1:
15195, at 1349 with pop music. This is Galbeni, 285 degrees to Europe at 12-14
in Romanian.
15140, at 1355 in Russian but giveaway Romanian folk music, mentioned Brasov.
Tiganeshti at 52 degrees, 1330-1400 only, so off in time for Oman in English,
inaudible as usual.
15160, at 1357 with RRI IS, briefly // 15140 until latter 1358*. Then 15160 at
1400 opening in Romanian-accented Arabic, ID ``Sawt al-Romania``, mentioning
all the satellites, WRN, and also heard on // 15490. 15160 is 245 degrees from
Galbeni at 14-15, while 15490 is 142 degrees from Tiganeshti.
What about English? There isn`t any from RRI, anywhere between 12 and 17 UT
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. The co-channel QRM to REE via COSTA RICA, 15170, is no longer
Romania, but BBC Russian, scheduled 1300-1730 via Woofferton. The latter was
atop REE at 1349 April 1 discussing Poland and imposing a SAH of 3 Hz (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. I listened to the final Live from Turkey, Tuesday edition on
1-day-on-demand webcast. Seref Isler seemed to be saying goodbye, as apparently
others will be doing the remaining Thursday edition. This is due to the current
staffing situation, as Voice of Turkey needs an extra person on duty for that
program, and there are higher priorities, such as doing a daily newscast in
English which is loaded on Turkish airlines. He also said that because of this
he did not have time to do a new Letterbox program for this Wednesday`s
broadcasts, so would repeat one from 3(?) weeks ago.
I then listened to the SW broadcast on 9830, Wednesday March 31 at 2227, and it
indeed sounded like an old Letterbox, until music at 2338. The trouble is, on
DX Corner a few days before, he also said that feature programs on the 2200 UT
broadcast would now be for the next UT day, since 2200 is after local midnight
(and also the 0300 broadcast, instead of being the last repeat of the previous
UT day). That should have put Letterbox on the 2200 UT Tuesday transmission,
instead of Wednesday. Maybe this does not kick in until next week, or are they
still confused or trying to decide what to do?
During this period, 9830 had some strange fading and noises, but did not sound
like the usual RTTY interference.
13635, April 1 at 1248, good with Turkish music, a sad-sounding song. On his
last LFT, Seref remarked that he could not think of any Turkish songs which
were happy ones; sad songs, such as one he played about a jilted lover, are the
norm. 13635 cut off at 1259 after a brief Turkish announcement. It`s scheduled
06-13, 500 kW, 310 degrees from Emirler to western Europe but also USward.
Meanwhile, 15450 in English was somewhat weaker, during the remaining Live from
Turkey show on Thursdays, not hosted by Seref. The other guy was reading poetry
(Turkish translated to English, I assume) at 1320 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9479 is the frequency where WTWW has shifted its daytime
frequency 9480 as of March 31, at least temporarily.
George McClintock tells me the FCC has OK`d it. The reason is an unexpected
interference problem very near the transmitter site. The school system of Smith
County has a remote receiver on a mountaintop which happens to use 151.680 MHz,
and the sixteenth [!] harmonic of WTWW from 9.480 has been interfering with
their communication to school buses, altho it is not a serious safety issue. He
has been trying to deal with this for two weeks, which may account for a lot of
time off the air from 9480.
WTWW`s harmonic is properly more than 80 dB suppressed, but in this
circumstance it is not enough. Until a new more powerful and extremely
expensive harmonic filter to 90 dB can be obtained and installed, by shifting
to 9.479, WTWW moves the harmonic far enough off, to 151.664 MHz.
Unfortunately, altho the local problem has been solved, WTWW now faces
heterodynes from stations still on 9480, such as CRI via Albania at 1800-2000
in French, which must be a co-channel QRM problem anyway in eastern North
America and Europe. How did that get past HFCC?
WTWW is so strong here, that CRI was no problem when we checked before 2000,
tho it made a big het on George`s receiver a few miles away in the skip zone.
Voice of Russia might also be using 9480 after that time, and China at other
times. Of course, WTWW could seek a completely different frequency, but he
hates to give up 9480 which had been inherited from KAIJ and properly
co?rdinated.
Also, Radio Netherlands via Philippines in Indonesian at 22-23 on 9475 made a
noticeable 4-kHz het with WTWW, both here and in the Tennessee skip zone.
George says he could also shift to 9481 if that would be more advantageous.
Casual listeners tuning to 9480 may not even notice the change. WTWW was still
on 9479 at 1331 check April 1, no foolin`, making R. Australia 9475 that much
more difficult.
Meanwhile, Pastor Pete Peters continues to be the only programming on WTWW.
George says he has been inundated with hundreds of postal reception reports to
an address on FCC records, even tho he has not solicited them. Many of them
enclose $1 return postage. He does not have the time or staff to deal with them
all. However, a new QSL card is on the way to the printer.
Many of the reports come from Japan. George theorizes that Peters` message of
racial purity appeals to the Asians, even tho PPP is from a white-Christian
perspective. I question whether many Japanese DXers really appreciate what PPP
is saying in English; rather just are after a QSL from a new station. Also the
mail from Europe has been ``staggering``. Of course, PPP surely appeals to
neo-Nazis and cowboy fans as well (gh`s comment). (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 11550, large S9+25 open carrier at 1335 April 1; must be WEWN, but
where`s the Spanish modulation? Other frequency 12050 is running normally. Then
at 1337, 11550 with WEWN ID, and joining same programming in progress (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17585, which bore a very strong VOA English via Greenville a few days
before, had only a very weak unID signal at 1406 April 1. Nothing else
scheduled, so presumably still VOA, maybe not Greenville if they have switched
site already; or just not propagating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15106, weak het against 15105, BBC Hausa via Ascension, April 1
at 1354 and still at 1359. Most likely 15105 station to be off-frequency is PBC
Pakistan, scheduled from 1330 in Urdu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:33:33 +0100
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 3rd
of April 2010 on 9510 khz.
The Transmission time is between 0800 to 0900 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, 1 Apr 2010 21:50:51 +0100
From: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
To: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Joystick Relay on 9510 kHz
Message-ID: <073a76c27684421a8cf63194c2d91...@dellcb21k2j>
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Radio Joystick Relay on 9510 kHz
Dear Listeners,
The relay of Radio Joystick is on this Saturday the 3rd
of April 2010 on 9510 khz.
The Transmission time is between 0800 to 0900 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: 5
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 01:06:20 EDT
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] April 1-2 Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** BRAZIL. 11749.86, Radio Voz Mission?ria, Florian?polis, 0140-
0210, April 2, Portuguese religious talk. Portuguese religious music.
Announcements. Weak but readable. Stronger on // 5939.94.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
** COLOMBIA. 6035.0, LV del Guaviare, San Jos? Guaviare, 0210-
0236*, April 2, Spanish religious music. ID announcements. Sign off
with National Anthem. Fair signal. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** DJIBOUTI [non]. 15165, Voix de Djibouti, *1530-1630*, April 1,
via France?. Sign on with National Anthem. Qur`an at 1531. Talk in
presumed Somali at 1532. French heard later. Sign off with local
folk tune. Poor with adjacent channel splatter. Better reception after
1600. Thursdays only. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, Radio Africa, 1930-1945, April 1,
English religious talk. Radio Africa ID announcement at 1935 along
with email address and Ghana address. Fair signal. (Brian Alexander,
PA)
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6876.08 AM, The Crystal Ship, 0040-
0055, April 2, novelty music. ID. Mentioned power of 100 watts. Fake
ad for beasteality. Easter music. Good. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** SUDAN [non]. via Slovakia, 15710, Miraya FM, *1407-1430+,
April 1, appeared to sign on at 1407 with ID announcements. Arabic
talk. Local music. ?Miraya? jingles. Weak signal. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** U.S.A. 15550 USB, WJHR, Milton, FL, 1700-1715, April 1, English
fire & brimstone preacher. Gospel music. Very weak. (Brian Alexander,
PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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