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Today's Topics:
1. Logs (Manuel M?ndez)
2. Glenn Hauser logs April 11-12, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
3. OT: Shortwave Listening Event (David Goren)
4. Re: OT: Shortwave Listening Event (David Goren)
5. New MW QSL (KXTK-1280) (Patrick Martin)
6. Latest Pacific Asian Radio Guide ([email protected])
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:10:48 +0200
From: Manuel M?ndez <[email protected]>
To: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Manuel M?ndez
Lugo, Espa?a
Grundig Satellit 500 y Sony ICF SW 7600G
Antena de cable, 8 metros
Escuchas realizadas en casco urbano de Lugo
BRASIL
4915, 0601-0610, 10-04, Radiodifusora Macap?, Bel?m, canciones
brasile?as, identificaci?n a las 0603: "Radiodifusora Macap?, 630 AM, a
radio da Amazonia, 24 horas no ar". 34433. (M?ndez)
6185, Radio Nacional da Amazonia, Brasilia, 05555-0610, 11-04, canciones
brasile?as, comentarios, identificaci?n a las 0600: "Radio Nacional da
Amazonia", "Na nosa Radio Nacional". 34433. (M?ndez)
9818.9, Radio 9 de Julho, Sao Paulo, 0702-0710, 11-04, programa
religioso, portugu?s, locutor, comentaros. 24322. (M?ndez)
11765, Super Radio Deus e Amor, Curitiba, 0909-0913, 10-04, portugu?s,
religioso, predicaciones. 24322. (M?ndez)
11780, Radio Nacional da Amazonia, Brasilia, 0913-0916, 10-04, locutor,
portugu?s, comentarios. 24322. (M?ndez)
11855, Radio Aparecida, Aparecida, 0903-0910, 11-04, portugu?s,
religioso, transmisi?n misa del domingo. 24432. (M?ndez)
11925, Radio Bandeirantes, Sao Paulo, 0916-0922, 10-04, portugu?s,
locutor, comentarios. D?bil. 14321. (M?ndez)
COLOMBIA, 5910, Marfil Estereo, Lomalinda, 0556-0650, 10-04, canciones
latinoamericanas, identificaci?n: "Marfil Estereo". 24322. (M?ndez)
COSTA RICA, 3350, Radio Exterior de Espa?a, Cariari, 0555-0600*, 10-04,
canciones, despedida y cierre por locutora a las 0600: "Radio Exterior
de Espa?a, nos despedimos de nuestros oyentes en Centroam?rica y sur de
Norteam?rica hasta las 12 de la ma?ana Tiempo Universal, 6 de la
ma?ana en Centroam?rica , que volveremos por las frecuencias de... ,
Radio Exterior de Espa?a.". 35433. (M?ndez)
ECUADOR, 6050, HCJB, Pichincha, *0825-0833, 11-04, inicio de la
transmisi?n con m?sica de flautas e himno, comentarios, quechua. Muy
d?bil. 14321. (M?ndez)
HONDURAS, 3250, Radio Luz y Vida, San Luis, 0545-0603, 10-04, espa?ol,
locutor, locutora, comentarios, canciones religiosas. Muy d?bil, audible
en LSB. 15321. (M?ndez)
GUINEA ECUATORIAL, 15190, Radio Africa, 1705-1720, 11-04, locutor,
ingl?s, comentario religioso, locutora. 34433. (M?ndez)
INDIA, 4860, AIR, Delhi A, Kingsway, 1722-1728, 11-04, locutor,
vern?culo, comentarios. 24322. (M?ndez)
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:14:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 11-12, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** CUBA. Another secret unscheduled time for En Contacto, RHC`s Spanish DX
program, in progress UT Monday April 12 at 0551 with Manolo acknowledging mail
from Lima, Puebla, on 6150, 6120, 5040.
12025 with lite jamming pulses, April 12 at 1314 against nothing, but bothering
RHC on 12030! May be spur from 11845, DCJC lower on the band, or possibly
mixing out of the 12030 transmitter itself.
Before 1400 there was no R. Mart? on 11930 and no jamming either; at 1423 heavy
jamming with pulse spurs out to 11910-11955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** EAST TURKESTAN/EAST TURKISTAN [depending on your spell check]. During
G3-storm-disturbed propagation conditions, April 12 at 1341, nothing much
audible on the SW bands beyond single-hop, southerly or trans-equatorial
signals, but one trans-polar was making it on 13670, Chinese singing/opera,
fair with flutter, and splash from Cuba 13680; 1355 to Chinese talk, 1357 off.
Aoki shows CRI in Chinese via Ur?mqi, 500 kW due west (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, R. Africa at unusual hour of 0526 April 12,
closing one gospel huxter with a 6-digit PO box in ZIP 74170, which is Tulsa,
brief pause, no ID, and YL opening another show. Fair with slow fading. Also
in: NIGERIA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. Altho VOI`s English hour was missing from 9525.9 April 11 during
the 13 UT hour when propagation was good, its off-frequency carrier was just
barely detectable at 1339 April 12, when propagation was very disturbed.
At this time hi-latitude signals from Asia below 12 MHz were absent or greatly
attenuated, as were signals from Europe above 12 MHz; K-index at 12 UT was 2
and a strong G3 geomag storm was in progress, per WWV on 5000 at 1318 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 13840, good signal April 12 at 0533 two YLs with news in French
frequently mentioning Japon, which is fitting since this is NHK, at 0530-0600.
13710, April 12 at 0534 news in French, voice sounds very much like R. Japan on
13840, but not //, and soon ID with jingle for La Voix de l`Amerique, i.e. VOA
via Madagascar at 0530-0600 M-F; BTW, the second half of this French hour at
0600-0630 on 13710 switches to Botswana; why? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. After hearing Equatorial Guinea 15190 on nightpath, I checked
15120, and there was VON at 0529 April 12, modulation somewhat distorted,
ending Today in History, plugging listening via http://www.voiceofnigeria.com?
Not sure of the .com.
No, going there, that site`s footer admits it is not the radio station, instead
refers to http://www.voiceofnigeria.org Some drumming, fair with fades, signal
quite similar to 15190, stronger than Australia 15160 which often is the SSOB
or OSOB at this hour.
BTW, VON`s language and frequency schedule is in flux; Thorsten Hallmann, Alan
Roe and Tony Rogers are trying to sort it out, as reported in the dxldyg and
upcoming DXLD 10-15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 13775, VOR finally propagating with good signal on the only
frequency retained for English to NAm at 04-06, 50 degrees from Vladivostok;
good modulation too, YL in story narrative with music and war SFX. Scheduled is
``Timelines``. But at next check 0558 right before sign-off, was fading out and
becoming JBA! Apparently the G3 magstorm had hit the path in the meantime. This
could be avoided by using a relay to the south!
At 0545 I caught the propagation report on WWVH 10000. K index was 7! at 0300,
and G3 storms were raging (not a word used by the SWPC). At first I thought
that K7 must be mistaken, since hi-latitude path from DVR was obviously
funxioning well; after 0300 until 0545 SW reception seemed generally enhanced
rather than outwiped, e.g. Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria too, qq.vv. on 15 MHz.
But later found mid-latitude K-index at 0300 indeed shown as 7 on 3-hourly
e-mail Geophysical Alert from WWV, subsiding to only 4 at 0600 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TINIAN. 15635, April 12 at 0532, fair signal in Chinese, probably RFA
scheduled at 03-07, rather than ChiCom jamming due to current propagation
favoring Pacific over Asia. Nothing else to or from China audible on 19m band
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Checking new WORLD OF RADIO time on WWCR-4, Sundays 2330 on 9980:
April 11 at 2333, audible enough to confirm but very poor signal, down from
normal blast earlier in daytimes. Strangely, WWCR-2 on 9350 was MUCH stronger.
Published azimuths for these are 90 and 85 degrees respectively, both of which
should be ideal for OK off-the-back westward.
Furthermore, WTWW on 9479, just a few myriameters further, was stronger still.
So at this moment was the MUF somewhere in the middle of the 31m band,
advantaging the lower channels? And/or 9980 not running full 100 kW power? I
hope at further more favorable skip distances, 9980 was still inbooming. BTW,
Rick Barton in AZ says 15825 is excellent there, more than double the distance
to Enid, for the Friday 2030 WOR airing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13380, April 12 at 0539, extremely strong S9+25 carrier, not
local since also had slight fading, and shortly began sending digital data
bursts. This is like we have also heard on 11435, probably from CUBA, e.g. DXLD
9-082 under UNIDENTIFIED (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:48:31 -0400
From: David Goren <[email protected]>
To: HCDX Mailing List <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] OT: Shortwave Listening Event
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Pardon the somewhat off topic message:
After years of nurturing it at the SWL WinterFest in Kulpsville, I'm taking a
version of my shortwave listening event aka the Listening Lounge aka The
Shortwave Shindig on the road to the Megapolis Festival in Baltimore, MD on
Saturday evening May 15th from 10 pm until dawn. If anyone is in the area, I'd
love to see some familiar faces. Festival admission is low, about $10.00 and
runs from Friday to Sunday.
http://www.megapolifestival.org
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/The-Shortwave-Shindig/238065562301?ref=ts
The festival is aimed towards radio documentarians and sound
artists/composers, many of whom also attend the annual Third Coast Audio
Festival in Chicago.
Here's the official description:
The Shortwave Shindig is an overnight immersion in the wavering, crackly sonics
of the shortwave radio spectrum. Every day we stride through a stew of signals:
our bodies vibrating imperceptibly to a riot of ouds, harmoniums, raving
preachers, propaganda, secret messages, electronic squawks, and beeps. We lack
only the transistors and diodes to be able to decode them. With a phalanx of
receivers and gossamer strands of antennae, the Shortwave Shindig invites
listeners to decipher the distant and elusive sounds of the shortwave bands.
10pm-Midnight: Mercy, So Much Noise.
A crisp and creamy mix of real-time and archival shortwave audio.
Midnight-3 am: Whammy Bar.
The shortwave radio spectrum between 2 and 30 Megahertz provides accessible,
constantly morphing aural textures that have a rich history of use by sound
artists and musicians, both experimental and pop. After a review of some of
this work, via recordings and live performances, we will collectively craft
new soundscapes incorporating receiver improvisations and post-production
techniques. Listeners are encouraged to bring laptop-based production gear to
make their own pieces.
3am- dawn: The Thin Gray Line.
As dawn approaches, we'll track the movement of the sharp edge dividing
darkness from light around the world, briefly enhancing the reception of
low-powered domestic and regional stations from Africa, the Middle East, India,
Asia, and Latin America. This segment will combine live on-site monitoring,
(atmospheric conditions permitting), a global network of web-based receivers
and archival audio.
Schedule and segment length subject to change. Several shortwave radios will be
available for tuning; participants are encouraged to bring a shortwave radio if
they have one.
David Goren is a radio producer and audio archivist who has been messing around
with shortwave sound for almost 40 years.
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:02:22 -0400
From: David Goren <[email protected]>
To: David Goren <[email protected]>
Cc: HCDX Mailing List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] OT: Shortwave Listening Event
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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I had the URL wrong:
http://www.megapolisfestival.org
On Apr 11, 2010, at 11:48 AM, David Goren wrote:
> Pardon the somewhat off topic message:
>
> After years of nurturing it at the SWL WinterFest in Kulpsville, I'm taking a
> version of my shortwave listening event aka the Listening Lounge aka The
> Shortwave Shindig on the road to the Megapolis Festival in Baltimore, MD on
> Saturday evening May 15th from 10 pm until dawn. If anyone is in the area,
> I'd love to see some familiar faces. Festival admission is low, about $10.00
> and runs from Friday to Sunday.
>
> http://www.megapolifestival.org
> http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/The-Shortwave-Shindig/238065562301?ref=ts
>
> The festival is aimed towards radio documentarians and sound
> artists/composers, many of whom also attend the annual Third Coast Audio
> Festival in Chicago.
>
> Here's the official description:
>
> The Shortwave Shindig is an overnight immersion in the wavering, crackly
> sonics of the shortwave radio spectrum. Every day we stride through a stew of
> signals: our bodies vibrating imperceptibly to a riot of ouds, harmoniums,
> raving preachers, propaganda, secret messages, electronic squawks, and beeps.
> We lack only the transistors and diodes to be able to decode them. With a
> phalanx of receivers and gossamer strands of antennae, the Shortwave Shindig
> invites listeners to decipher the distant and elusive sounds of the shortwave
> bands.
>
> 10pm-Midnight: Mercy, So Much Noise.
> A crisp and creamy mix of real-time and archival shortwave audio.
>
> Midnight-3 am: Whammy Bar.
> The shortwave radio spectrum between 2 and 30 Megahertz provides accessible,
> constantly morphing aural textures that have a rich history of use by sound
> artists and musicians, both experimental and pop. After a review of some of
> this work, via recordings and live performances, we will collectively craft
> new soundscapes incorporating receiver improvisations and post-production
> techniques. Listeners are encouraged to bring laptop-based production gear to
> make their own pieces.
>
> 3am- dawn: The Thin Gray Line.
> As dawn approaches, we'll track the movement of the sharp edge dividing
> darkness from light around the world, briefly enhancing the reception of
> low-powered domestic and regional stations from Africa, the Middle East,
> India, Asia, and Latin America. This segment will combine live on-site
> monitoring, (atmospheric conditions permitting), a global network of
> web-based receivers and archival audio.
>
> Schedule and segment length subject to change. Several shortwave radios will
> be available for tuning; participants are encouraged to bring a shortwave
> radio if they have one.
>
> David Goren is a radio producer and audio archivist who has been messing
> around with shortwave sound for almost 40 years.
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:53:38 -0700
From: [email protected] (Patrick Martin)
To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] New MW QSL (KXTK-1280)
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1280 KXTK CA, Arroyo Grande, received homemade type QSL card from
ESPN bumper sticker and business card taped to the back, stating "Thanks
for listening" in 20d for CD report. V/S: Bill Bordeaux-CE. Address: PO
Box 14910, San Luis Obispo CA 93406. MW QSL: 3013. (PM-OR)
Patrick Martin
Seaside Oregon
"Come visit us for the 2010 IRCA convention held Sept 24-26 at the Inn
At Seaside."
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:57:40 +1200
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Latest Pacific Asian Radio Guide
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Media Release
Radio Heritage Foundation
www.radioheritage.net
Latest Pacific Asian Log Radio
Guide Now Available
______________________________
The Radio Heritage Foundation has just released at its website
www.radioheritage.net the latest version of the PAL Pacific Asian Log
Radio Guide covering all AM [mediumwave] radio stations across the
region.
Used by radio listeners, broadcasters and the general public, the
guide lists all known AM radio stations operating in the area with
detailed information about operating times, languages, location, and
much more...in fact more than 50,000 separately updated data entries
across thousands of individual stations.
With riots in Thailand, earthquakes in Indonesia and Taiwan, tsunamis
across the Pacific, civil unrest and censored local radio media, the
information in the latest Pacific Asian Log Radio Guide is also very
useful for travellers, travel agents and others who need to keep
their clients informed.
Search the latest edition now at www.radioheritage.net - simply click
on 'PAL AM Radio' in the Radio Guides factbox on any page.
You can also search for shortwave stations in the region [PAL SW
Radio], Australian narrowcast AM radio [Australia 1611-1701 AM], New
Zealand Low Power FM Radio Guide [NZLPFM Radio] and the Borderless
Radio Rankings [What is Borderless Radio].
These services are provided free to the community by the Radio
Heritage Foundation, a non-profit organization connecting popular
culture, nostalgia and radio heritage across the Pacific.
Donations are welcome to support this service and annual supporter
packages begin at US$10 with full details at www.radioheritage.net.
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