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Today's Topics:
1. Wed Morn (Charles Bolland)
2. Glenn Hauser logs April 7, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 10:33:24 -0000
From: "Charles Bolland" <[email protected]>
To: "ALF" <[email protected]>, "Arnaldo slaen"
<[email protected]>, "Bob Wilkner" <[email protected]>,
"brainman214" <[email protected]>,Carlos
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"DSWCI" <[email protected]>, "Gayle Van Horn"
<[email protected]>, "Glenn Hauser"
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"Marie Lamb" <[email protected]>
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Bolivia, 6134.80, Radio Santa Cruz, 1003-1030 What a
pleasure! To tune into RSC with a
strong clear signal that had no interference from any
others. To make matters better,
heard a decent ID at 1004 as "Radio Santa Cruz ... by a
female. This was followed with
commentary on the Economy presented by a male and
female. I was really surprised with
the good reception here. I am thinking they might
have replaced a tube or two in the
old transmitter recently. Signal was good. (Chuck
Bolland, April 7, 2010)
Bolivia, 6155.24, Radio Fides, 1012-1020, Noted a
female in Spanish language comments
here with interference from a station on 6155 KHz
during the damage. Don't know which
station is causing the QRM. Signal was poor for Fides.
(Chuck Bolland, April 7, 2010)
Peru, 4746.90, Radio Huanta Dos Mil, 1018-1030. Noted a
program of music during the
period. Signal began to fade by 1020. Overall it was
poor. (Chuck Bolland, April 7, 2010)
Peru, 4774.95, Radio Tarma, 1020-1030, With a
threshold signal, noted a steady program
of Huaynos music with the usual yelling by a male
during the music. (Chuck Bolland,
April 7, 2010)
WinRadio G305e/pd
26.37.34.65N 081.05.34.19W
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 08:22:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
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Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 7, 2010
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** ASCENSION. 6100, April 7 at 0527 VG signal with rap music, and hum, cut off
at 0529* with no announcement, how rude. It`s listed as BBC Portuguese to
Africa via Ascension at 0430-0530, 250 kW at 102 degrees. They really need to
work on getting rid of the hum, something you would not expect from one of the
world`s major SW transmitter sites on the air for many years and supposedly
being upgraded (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake April 7 at 1310: good on 8400, not found on any of the 7 or
9 MHz frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Here we go again. Just like its predecessor 6140, RHC`s new 5970
proves to be the channel which randomly switches between English and Spanish,
no matter what the schedules may say.
April 7 at 0530 found this ``English`` frequency really in Spanish service,
music at the moment // 6120 and 6150, not // the English frequencies 6010 and
6060.
Furthermore, 5040, which is supposedly all-Spanish after 0200, was in English
at 0531 check, Elena Valverde`s heavily-accented ``news``. So it appears the
wires were crossed so 5040 and 6140 exchanged program feeds.
New 5970 also means new spurs! At 0536 I was getting RHC English weakly on
5880, which is a leap of 6060 over 5970 another 90 kHz lower. This was
transmitted, not receiver-produced, as confirmed by still audibility with
attenuation; unlike some receiver-only images forced by overload from
fundamentals.
Altho 6110 transmitter moves to 6150 at 0500 to avoid Japan via Sackville,
later on it`s possible for both 6110 and 6150 to be on the air, plus 6180, all
// at 1225.
Besides a separate entry for 6180 at 11-13, the format of the A-10 schedule
makes it difficult to sort out what is meant here since there are three
frequencies separated by / and four timespans separated by / :
``Norte Centro Suram?rica 11760/6150/6110 11-20/24-05/05-13/11-05``
Probably the first two timespans both refer to 11760. There are many other
entries like this. Why in the world don`t they explicitly show one frequency on
one line for each timespan?
At 1357, RHC audible on 15380, 15360, 13680, 12030, 11730, missing from 15120,
13780 and 11760. Nevertheless, the frequency announcement at 1359 says
``estamos transmitiendo`` (meaning currently, i.e. both before and after that
time), en ``15120, 15360, 15380, 13680, 13780, 11760, 11730, 12030, 6110``. So
finally two days after the changes, new frequencies 15380 and 12030 make the
list, replacing 13770 and 11800, but it still doesn`t match what is really
happening (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. Re my previous remark that Shiokaze could not be heard on
5915 at 1400: As Ron Howard reminds me, it`s not supposed to be on 5915, but
5910, where he was still hearing it as of April 6. Checking April 7 at 1403,
all I could get here a bihour into the dayside was a trace of a carrier on
5910, not 5915 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, R. Educaci?n totally in the clear April 7 from 0545 with great
music, mostly romantic, tnx to geomag disturbance greatly weakening CRI via
Sackville 6190 until 0600; and nothing from Vatican 6185 either. XEPPM Heard as
late as 0717 with no Brasil, which presumably would come on before 0800 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS ANTILLES. The ionosphere is still all screwed up following the
G3 geomagnetic storm, with some very strange propagation. April 7 at 0523,
found RN in Dutch with good signal on 9865. This was close to the OSOB and
certainly the SSOB, an incredible situation considering all the other signals
normally audible. Second strongest station on band was 9630, REE/Costa Rica,
and a distant third, 9505 in Spanish, WYFR at 222 degrees. 9865 RN is of course
BONAIRE, 300 kW at 230 degrees at 0500-0527 only.
Also, 6250, April 7 at 0525, NHK Spanish leapfrog of 6080 over RNW 6165 Dutch,
but 6250 cut off at 0527* when 6165 went off altho NHK kept going on 6080 via
Bonaire (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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