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Today's Topics:
1. LOgs 5-4 (Zacharias Liangas )
2. Glenn Hauser logs April 5-6, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Re: Logs 5-4 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
4. Re: Sat Morn DX: 7360 RN (Glenn Hauser)
5. Glenn Hauser logs April 6-7, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:34:18 +0300
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[email protected]>
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Subject: [HCDX] LOgs 5-4
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http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/271
Logs 5/4 with little help from latest logs from Glenn Hauser
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added )
Most important logs:
??? 7560 unIDed 2137 with talks in French, giving rendez vous with
listeners and mentions of the station (in a fadeout) 2140 with spiritual song
also on 2155 Sudden s/off 2159 Signal just S2 23242
Nothing on both lists Aoki or Eibi spur? /harmonic?
??? 7525 unIDed in CC on 2200 with signal S9 . English talks translated
into Chinese SOH Zhiwang zhe sheng mentioned on Aoki listing
Cuba 12030 RHC 2046 has been hard as 2x2x1 //15380 (S4 35232) and
also 15370 S7. ID at 2047
USA 9479.05 NF for WTWW on 2057 with religious prg , and mentions on
Africa. Power?
USA 15550U WJHR 2110 with preacher heard at best marginally over a
quite high level QRN from DSL lines
Power????
USA 9265 WINB 2119 with religious song . Prayer with slightly hoarse
voice mentioning an explosion . Next with a relig type song /sermon . Abt S7
Also :
Tajikistan 4765 1956 with folk songs similar to Persian , 2nd song
emphasized to dunya (world) Good audio and S9 45423 . sudden s/off 2200
Uganda 4976 UBC radio 2003 with hilife song , OM mentioning radio music
, 2007 talks in VN with echoed jingle , refs to Sumba , Tanzania , then hilife
song S9 45434
I'nsia 9526 2029 with talks inEG . Mentions to a woman with two children ,
Karamanlis(????), Bosnia Best reception to+1 kHz for a 324x2 result
EGYPT 9250 R Nile Cairo 2115 'Idaatu... Kahira ' with talks in Arabic .
Signal steady on S9 having relatively high buzzing audio
Pirates 7610(Amica ) and 6220 (Mystery ) still in use with signal to S9 on
2130 . BUt on 6/4 nothing in both freqs
??? 7555 V of America 2133 with pop songs . strong QRM by FSK on 7557
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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: 2
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 09:39:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 5-6, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** BRAZIL. High-latitude paths wiped out by geomag storm, leaving little but
weak Brazilians on 25m, April 6 at 0616, wacky wailing preacher David Miranda
detectable on 11765v and something surely Bandeirantes on 11925 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA [and non]. For the first time in many months, geomagnetic storms
reaching the G3 level have occurred, says SWPC, and the K-index hit 7 at 12 UT
on April 5. Since then every three hours the K has been reported as
5-4-3-2-5-6-4-4-4, ending at 15 UT April 6. Solar flux and A-indices: April 4,
79 and 12; April 5, 79 and 37.
This has severely degraded SW reception, except on the lower frequencies and
except for southerly paths on some higher bands. For example, April 6 at 1355,
CRI relay via Sackville on 15260 was quite weak instead of usual inbooming,
while // 9650 was still strong. Hardly anything else audible on 19m except
REE/Costa Rica 15170; nothing from Europe. See also USA, for nighttime
observations of WRMI, WYFR, WTWW, WWCR, WWRB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA. Typo in previous report of RHC schedule:
15380 runs 11-23 and 00-05 to Buenos Aires. (not 11-12!)
Further chex of RHC new schedule: April 6 at 0608 English on new 5970 which is
ex-6140 now missing, and sounds just like it did, with low modulation, // 6010
and 6060. At 0624 a stronger image appeared on 5960, receiver mix due to
overload from 6060 and 6010, but vanished with attenuation. Spanish was only on
6120, 6150 and 5040 at 0608.
At 1402 I monitored the frequency announcement on 11760: same as yesterday, in
fact I think recorded as speaker hesitated at exactly the same spot, before
saying 11730 --- still omitting 12030 and 15380, while claiming to be on
abolished 11800 and 13760, i.e.:
``15120, 15360, 13760, 13680, 13780, 11760, 11730, 11800, 6110``
New 12030 was also again audible, but not 15380 due to poor propagation (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Enid`s X-band station, 1640 has just changed format. It had been
Fox sports talk, but who needs that with Chisholm Trail`s other station KCRC
1390 also sportstalk with ESPN?? Well, we ``needed`` that for several years.
But this church-on-every-streetcorner town has an even greater ``need`` ---
First noticed April 6 as I tuned by at 0618 UT playing country gospel music!
0621 slogan thrice as ``solid gospel music``, and ``The new Faith 1640``. Are
the calls still KFXY?
Yes, next check at 1557 UT again slogan ``The new Faith 1640``, and 1559 legal
ID as ``KFXY, Enid-Oklahoma City, bringing you the best, a better variety of
southern gospel music, the new Faith 1640``.
1600 into SRN News, which consists of two minutes of seemingly secular world
news, a minute of religious promotion, and the remaining two minutes of the
``news`` with a pro-Christian, anti-Moslem slant.
1605 back to gospel music. Thus KFXY has switched from one totally useless
format to another, as far as I am concerned. Now that I have got the word out,
back to ignoring 1640.
As a reminder, this station is one of few on the X-band with a direxional
antenna, same day and night, NNW/SSE from a site a few miles east of Hennessey,
so it gets into city of license OK and also into Oklahoma City, 10 kW day and 1
kW night, --- but makes it difficult to DX in Europe, Australia and New
Zealand, and also in much of North America, off the sides of the beam (Glenn
Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11970, new frequency for VOA Spanish, April 5 at 2350 with report
about controversy over some musical event in Shanghai, // and synchronized with
9885 so suspect it is Greenville. Have not found it on any schedule yet,
apparently a last-minute change for listed 11625; also // heavily jammed 5890
but no jamming audible on 11970 yet. Poor signal as propagation is pitiful
today with high K-indices and G3-level geomag storms (see CANADA).
Wolfgang B?schel had heard something in Spanish here a few days ago, April 1
after 0000, which would be the Tue-Sat A Fondo program.
Yes, at 0015 check April 6, nothing on 11625, but 11970 // 9885 // 5890 with A
Fondo, and no jamming audible on any of them now, unlike // 6030 R. Mart? with
same program this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WWRB, 5050, recently expanded to all-night operation, was always
running Biblical dramatizations in English when I tuned across it, but at 0428
April 6 in Spanish instead with programming called ``Con la Biblia Abierta``
which may be from the same source. Tnx to an inquiry from Jos? El?as D?az
G?mez, Venezuela, who had just heard an unID, something in Spanish IDing as
Radio Mundial.
They plugged website http://www.conlabibliaabierta.com which has an
uninformative Radiodifusi?n link with nothing about WWRB, but mentions 1700 and
1500 kHz in South Florida and Cuba, including a program called Radio Mundial.
WWRB hasn`t updated its own program schedule for ages, nothing about this or
anything past ET midnight at
http://www.wwrb.org/schedule/global_2/combined.pdf
Did not recheck until 0601 when 5050 was back in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. High-latitude paths missing due to high K-indices, leaving southerly
signals at good or better levels than usual, April 6 at 0614, WRMI 9955, R.
Prague via WRN, in English with Science Journal, appropriately about robots,
the very concept of which originated in Czechia with Karel Chapek`s R.U.R. SF
story of the early twenties.
>From across the lake, WYFR was also extremely strong on 31m, 9715, 9680, 9355
>and new 9385 ex-9340.
Nearby signals above 5 MHz which usually hold up well thru the nightmiddle,
WTWW 5755, WWCR 5890 and 5935 were quite weak; WWCR 4840 strong enough but less
signal than usual; and the lower ones loud and unaffected, WWCR 3215 and WWRB
3185 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 21:44:52 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "egroups_harmonics" <[email protected]>, "Zacharias
Liangas " <[email protected]>, "HCDX" <[email protected]>,
"DXLD" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Logs 5-4
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reply-type=original
Suggest is an Intermodulation at M&B Wertachtal site,
7290 and 7425 kHz both 500 kW at 180 degrees to Africa.
Only two station FRENCH programs end at 2200 UT,
7205 kHz RFI Issoudun, and 7290 YFR Wertachtal.
Another outlet from Wertachtal also at 2100-2200 UT on 7425 kHz.
So I guess two intermodulations occur in 41 mb, like on 7155 and 7560 kHz,
both 135 kHz away.
Formula:
7425 x 2 = 14850 minus 7290 kHz = 7560
7290 x 2 = 14580 minus 7425 kHz = 7155
73 wb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 3:34 PM
Subject: Logs 5-4
> ??? 7560 unIDed 2137 with talks in French, giving rendez vous with
> listeners and mentions of the station (in a fadeout) 2140 with spiritual
> song also on 2155 Sudden s/off 2159 Signal just S2 23242
> Nothing on both lists Aoki or Eibi spur? /harmonic?
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 15:02:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[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]>, Hard-core-dx
<[email protected]>, Marie Lamb
<[email protected]>,
Charles Bolland <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Sat Morn DX: 7360 RN
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Netherlands? Of course not. If you hear any RN broadcast it cannot possibly be
direct from the Netherlands, since Flevo transmitters were abolished/demolished
years ago. Check the A-10 schedule and find 7360 at 1100-1127 via Tinang,
PHILIPPINES 250 kW, 21 degrees for east China, Koreas and Japan, but also
USward.
Hmm, are there more Dutch-speakers in those countries, than, say,
English-speakers in North America? It`s another de-facto 3-minute English
broadcast to North America, with RNW failing to cut the Dutch satellite feed at
1127 instead of flipping to English; and IBB failing to cut off the
transmission at 1127 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
--- On Sat, 4/3/10, Charles Bolland <[email protected]> wrote:
Netherlands(?),
7360, ?Radio Netherlands, 1110-1130,? Noted a program of
Dutch
language comments
and features.?? Heard many mentions of "Nederland"
during
the
Dutch?comments.?? Checked all of my current references and didn't
find anything
on this freq in
Dutch language. Pull something up from DXLD however, from
last
November.?
? At 1128 a female and male both talk in English language,
mentioning "Radio
Netherlands". "You are listening to Radio Netherlands
Worldwide
brought to you on
the internet ...."? Nothering mentioned in the announcement
about
shortwave, just the
internet and satellite.? After this announcement, the signal goes
off
the air, but while
it was on the air, it was fair to good.? (Chuck?Bolland, April 3,
2010)
?
Watkins Johnson
HF1000
26.27N
081.05W
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 21:31:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 6-7, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** BRAZIL. At 2317 April 6 on 9665, heard Brazilian preacher, PMR not yet
signed on; R. Voz Mission?ria, 10 kW in SC; southern conditions enhanced,
northern degraded (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15370 is another new frequency for RHC, April 6 at 2012 in Brazilian
Portuguese, ex-11770. Online sked shows 15370 nevertheless for Europe:
2000-2030 Portuguese, 2030-2100 Arabic, 2100-2300 Spanish. 15370 stronger here
than 15380, new daytime frequency in Spanish. Meanwhile at 2013, 11730 and
12030 in Spanish, 17705 in RNV Spanish;
And 11760 heard in French, which the sked claims is for Central America, with
more at 2130-2200; hmm, I can`t think of a French-Fpeaking country there, and
Caribe is also a valid target specified for some other broadcasts. But then,
there is no Haitian-Creole speaking country in South America, either, shown as
target for 2300-2330 on 17705.
Also, the time for Esperanto on 5040 is Sundays 0000-0030, i.e. meaning UT
Mondays, pre-empting French other days of week; not at 0700-0730 real Sundays
as DSWCI presumed, which is supposed to be on 6010, but could turn up on any of
the 49m channels or even be missing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE [non]. Trying to check whether RFI via GUIANA FRENCH, 21690, has a
regular Brazilian/Portuguese transmission as heard previously around 2045:
April 6 at 2015, still in French, but by 2030 was starting to fade out, still
seems French, and ditto another try before 2100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. Peter W. Hansen tells us that he convinced V. of Russia that they
were not really broadcasting to North America on 9665, and they advised him
April 6 that they would be on new 9890 at 22-02; Harry Brooks and Mike
Barraclough soon found that the schedule
http://english.ruvr.ru/radio_broadcast/schedule/
had been updated to show that.
Good going on getting their attention, but 9890 is an awful choice:
Checked at 2317 UT April 6, inaudible vs huge splash from VOA Spanish 9885 and
the DentroCuban Jamming Command. (However, the jamming might stop at 0000).
With BFO could only detect a trace of a carrier on 9890.
After 0000, jamming seems off but VOA Spanish still very strong, no VOR
audible. At 0032 there seemed to be a trace of VOR on 9890, and at 0113 after
VOA was of, VOR was just barely audible. Of course, propagation from Europe is
still pitiful following geomagnetic storms.
Possibly after conditions recover, 9890, 500 kW due northwest from ``Armavir``
will be usable in eastern N America, but not very at 23-24 with the Cuban radio
war on 9885 and more VOA/Mart? until 01 on weeknights (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SEYCHELLES [non]. 9550, Arabic music and talk with an instruxional tone,
April 6 at 2018, fair signal next to better CVC error on 9540. FEBA is still
scheduled in Arabic 1900-2030 via RWANDA, 250 kW at 30 degrees (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WRMI chex April 6-7: at 2230 on webcast, WORLD OF RADIO 1506
confirmed at new time; not convenient to check 9955 but probably jammed. But
next WOR airing at 0030 UT Wednesday found 9955 in the clear with no jamming,
nor at 0113 when Ninochka`s new exile show was underway (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZAMBIA. 9540, at 2017 April 6, lively program in English soliciting texts to
+27-782-785-300, 1Africa promo, and text number again in next few minutes. Not
that there was any doubt, but Googling that number got three hits all connected
with 1Africa. What`s it doing on 9540? Scheduled 19-22 on 5940!
So they mispunched the frequency reversing two of the digits, and probably not
likely to repeat. Better signal than FEBA 9550 via RWANDA -- see SEYCHELLES
[non] and much better than Gabon 9580. I wonder if transmitting on the wrong
frequency automatically matches the antenna properly for it?
Thus without even trying, CVC reached North America much better than it could
have on 5940 at this hour, aimed due northwest and toward us anyway tho
intended only for Nigeria (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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