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It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt Today's Topics: 1. Wed Eve/Thurs DX (Charles Bolland) 2. Glenn Hauser logs April 29-30, 2010 (Glenn Hauser) 3. Long winded series on radio listening... online (c...@islandnet.com) 4. Radio Joystick Relay on 9515 kHz (Tom Taylor) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:46:01 -0000 From: "Charles Bolland" <ka4...@peoplepc.com> To: "ALF" <alf.e.pers...@telia.com>, "Arnaldo slaen" <sl...@ciudad.com.ar>, "Bob Wilkner" <r...@earthlink.net>, "brainman214" <brainman...@gmail.com>,Carlos GonA?alves<carlos-rel...@sapo.pt>, "Cumbre" <cumbr...@n2jeu.net>, "DSWCI" <l...@directbox.com>, "Gayle Van Horn" <gaylevanh...@monitoringtimes.com>, "Glenn Hauser" <wghau...@yahoo.com>, "Hard-core-dx" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, "Marie Lamb" <mal...@cumbredx.org> Subject: [HCDX] Wed Eve/Thurs DX Message-ID: <!&!aaaaaaaaaaayaaaaaaaaamcpx2kdl2jfmeyxbvynxoncgaaaeaaaafyntchrw4zcuooigrx9rlgbaaaaa...@peoplepc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Bolivia, 4716.75, Radio Yura, 2354-0010, Noted a man talking in Spanish. Although the station is still on after the top of the hour, it doesn't maintain it's prious level. It's quality continous to decline from a poor to threshold. (Chuck Bolland, April 29, 2010) Guyana, 3289.98, Voice of Guyana, 0933-0945, I have a buzzing noise on the band that reaches from 3250 to about 3410, and it is very loud. consequently, any stations located within that spectrum, suffers from the buzz noise. Anyone else hear it? I could still hear Vo Guyana with difficulty presenting music and English comments from a male. Signal would have been good if it weren't for the buzz, but it was just poor. (Chuck Bolland, April 30. 2010) Surinmae, 4989.98, Radio Apintie, 0945-1000, Can hear two individuals in comments. Believe the language is Dutch, can't be sure. Tried to pull out more details using the following receivers: WinRadio, WJ HF1000, and the NRD545 all on the same antenna. The NRD545 did a better job allowing the signal to be heard almost at 100 percent, but it was still poor. At 0954 canned promos heard. (Chuck Bolland, April 30, 2010) Indonesia, 9525.87, Voice of Indonesia, 1001-1015, At tune in, noted a female in Engllish language news. "This news comes to you from the Voice of Indonesia in Jakarta". More news and features. Signal was good this morning. (Chuck Bolland, April 30, 2010) WR G305e/pd & WJ Hf1000 & NRD545 26.27N 081.05W ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:49:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 29-30, 2010 Message-ID: <11961.29181...@web51106.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** ALGERIA [non]. 7295, RTA via FRANCE, April 30 at 0600 from music to 5+1 timesignal 8 seconds late, then sounder and Arabic talk, perhaps news. As noted last time, from May 2 this frequency should be going off at 0600 instead of 0700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA [and non]. 15476, LRA36 continues to be audible every weekday morning. April 30 at 1257 with pop music, better signal than usual, past 1300. Seems they never do an ID or any announcement at this hourtop. Retune at 1312 just in time to hear an OM say ``Transmite LRA36`` but rest of ID lost in fade; then into YL speaking Spanish. They usually have a talk segment around this time. But at next2 check 1323 already back in music. At 1349 still holding up in romantic music, signal ranging from S2 to peaks at S8, but by 1353 getting too weak. Meanwhile, the ACI from Woofferton 15480 dropped at 1329 when Poland`s Russian broadcast ended, shortly back on for Belarussian, but weaker despite beam switch of only 5 degrees. By 1358 this had built up to be problematic for the Archangel (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. CRI advance publicity said it would be broadcasting live coverage in English of the opening of Shanghai Expo, April 30 at 12-14 UT. So I look around for it at 1225. Unfortunately, there are no English relays via Canada or Cuba during this hour. At 1227 I do find 11825 with an official speaking in English about how great the Expo will be for the world at large, and then he says some more words in Chinese, presumably consecutively translating himself. Thank god for CNR1 jammers, of which 11825 is one, vs VOA Chinese via Philippines, itself inaudible. // 11785 and many other frequencies. At 1234 played a bit of Blue Danube, rather incongruous on the Huangpu. Surely the Expo special will be on the 1300 English relays? No, at 1305, 9650 via Canada is in ordinary China Drive program from Beijing! With heavy QRM from RNW in Dutch via Philippines. And so is // 9570 via Cuba, with usual defective modulation. Talking about irrelevant weather in Beijing alternating English and Chinese. So much for that. Also, 11805 has an open carrier at 1229 so I stand by for what`s next: at 1230 sharp, CNR1 echo jamming starts at exactly the same time as VOA Chinese starts, scheduled oddly from the half-hour via Thailand. Here both are audible, but the jamming atop, of course. At least this is // 11825 et al., with the Shanghai special (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake April 30: 15730, fair at 1315, aside Sweden 15735, but what`s to jam on 15730? Today`s edition of Aoki does not show anything, except Sound of Hope on 15750 varies 15700-15795, so probably jumped here today, altho supposedly in a break at 13-14 between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan sites. 13100, fair at 1310 12600, good at 1310 10440, good at 1318 with het from something, ute? 10300, poor at 1318, much weaker than 10440, why? Not found anywhere else 8-19 MHz, not even 8400 at 1323. Former regular spot 9000 has not been heard for several weeks (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Checking DCJC behavior against WRMI 9955: monitoring from 2057 April 29 hearing nothing, but first jampulsing starts at 2058.5 and more pile on quickly to make wall of noise inaudiblizing any trace of WRMI, scheduled to broadcast WORLD OF RADIO at 2100 on Thursdays. Thanks a lot, Arnie, my friend in Habana! What a crock (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUYANA. Making progress DXing reactivated GBC: last time no carrier at all, but April 30 at 0548 I do detect a carrier on 3290, weaker than the RTTY on 3287; and far too much T-storm static from Kansas to pull anything thru it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 15540, R. Kuwait in English this Thursday instead of Arabic last Thursday: April 29 at 2050 going from rock music to final news summary, starting with red shirts in Thailand. I don`t think there was a single item about Kuwait; are there any at 1830? 2053.7 back to music, YL song about love (is this allowed by Islam?). 2058 segu? to another song but fade it down by 2058.5 for standard sign-off once again giving wrong frequency 11990, and imaginary 15110 for English at 05-08. 2059.4 brief NA by military band. 2100 accurate 5+1 timesignal, Y L Arabic ID, news fanfare and news, this time staying on until 2106.6*. Signal was fair with deep fades (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6045, looking for reactivated XEXQ at 0550 April 30: there are two very weak carriers on slightly different frequencies, and we know SLP is axually on 6044.93 or so. At 1218 audible with classical music but too much T-storm and line noise. Juli?n Santiago D?ez de Bonilla says they finally got needed replacement part from the transmitter manufacturer in Chile (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 15510, April 30 at 1357, ``Love Story`` snippet of music again today like April 27, then Dari announcement. Must be a regular program theme. And this time no modulation cutouts from VOR service to Afghanistan via Krasnodar, per Aoki, Samara per EiBi and HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9980, WWCR-4 again with Pastor Pete Peters, Friday April 30 at 1224, proffering instruxions on how to get him on public access TV, where ``they play us for nothing!``. Unsolid signal compared to huge strength of // WTWW 9479. But after 1300, 9980 also reached overload level. WWCR program guide still hasn`t been updated to show his true hours instead of temp fill programming on WWCR-4; I suppose it will be in early May. SFAW website, is it up to date? Leaves UTC field blank but default time seems to be CDT = UT -5 to which we have added UT: WWCR SFAW Broadcast Schedule: 7 days a week 9:00PM-10:00PM 5890 0200-0300 Mon-Sat 7:00AM-10:00AM 9980 1200-1500 7 days a week 7:00PM- 9:00PM 9980 0000-0200 Sunday Only 11:00AM- 2:00PM 9980 1600-1900 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN [non]. Confirmed the Chinese broadcast from somewhere on 12035, splashed by Cuba 12030, April 29 at 2241 with ID, sacred choral music, 2242-2245* VR IS. Did NOT conclude with ``This is the Voice of America, Washington DC, signing off`` but presumably IBB TINIAN as scheduled in collusion with the RCC to the exclusion of any other religious broadcaster (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VENEZUELA [non]. The Bolivarians continue to get screwed by the Cubans, not getting their money`s worth due to defective transmitters employed for RNV relays. 11705, April 30 at 1245 check and later, horrible crackling modulation. But it`s good enough for communist government work (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:44:35 -0700 From: c...@islandnet.com To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Subject: [HCDX] Long winded series on radio listening... online Message-ID: <4bdb2513-4...@helpdesk.islandnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain With the passing of the classic book "Passport to World Band Radio" it occurred to me that there is a void and a potential niche online - a series on Radio Listening... from the ground up... a "Radio Hobby for Dummies" if you would... -- although I cannot use that title obviously. I envisioned a series of web pages and articles dedicated to recruiting new hobbyists and energizing the existing ones. I imagine creating this on DXer.ca and then upon its completion being mirrored on a variety of similar websites hosted by other hobbyists. That way the project does not die or get locked down with the loss of the author or its participants. It's going to be a very long and long winded set of distinct web pages (or chapters) and have every facet of the radio listening hobby from AM (MW) Dxing, chasing domestics, ULR listening, collecting, SW, Utilities, Ham, Antennas, accessories, etc. Everything. Nothing left out. Not only will there be pages and pages of useful information in one spot but also a series of Podcasts and even video tutorials. I might be a tad out of my mind because in some ways, this has already been done - there are web pages dedicated to virtually every aspect of the hobby - scattered over the internet. Some sites even have pages of links to all of these sites. The downside of this is that various sites come and go - and what better plan than to have everything under one roof where everyone can access it. Losing the Passport book, for me, (and I imagine most hobbyists) has been a big deal. It left a massive hole in the library of already limited resources for radio hobbyists. This is one small way of filling in that gap. I hope also to have some participation on this project from a variety of hobbyists who are specialists in their own area - Like I said, I do not wish to leave anything out. I would also like to dedicate this project to John Bryant whose departure still hurts, whose contribution to the hobby could never be accurately measured and whose unexpected demise fundamentally changes, in some small way, the way be all see and appreciate the radio hobby. The first "chapter" is here - http://www.dxer.ca/latest/81-world-radio-101-the-basics-of-world-band-radio please follow the links to the next 2 chapters and comment (positive and negative welcome...) -- ________________________________________ Colin Newell is a Victoria B.C. Resident and Writer Editor/Creator - Coffeecrew dot com | coffee DOT bc DOT ca _________________________________________ ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:21:42 +0100 From: "Tom Taylor" <em...@blueyonder.co.uk> To: "Tom Taylor" <em...@blueyonder.co.uk> Subject: [HCDX] Radio Joystick Relay on 9515 kHz Message-ID: <ea12ae865081462693eecf94d536b...@dellcb21k2j> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Radio Joystick Relay on 9515 kHz Dear Listeners, The relay of Radio Joystick is on this Saturday the 1st of May 2010 on 9515 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 End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 89, Issue 1 *******************************************