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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
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4. Radio Joystick Relay on 9515 kHz (Tom Taylor)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:46:01 -0000
From: "Charles Bolland" <[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]>, "Gayle Van Horn"
<[email protected]>, "Glenn Hauser"
<[email protected]>, "Hard-core-dx" <[email protected]>,
"Marie Lamb" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Wed Eve/Thurs DX
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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
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:49:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 29-30, 2010
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** 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) ###
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:44:35 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Long winded series on radio listening... online
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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...)
--
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Colin Newell is a Victoria B.C. Resident and Writer
Editor/Creator - Coffeecrew dot com | coffee DOT bc DOT ca
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:21:42 +0100
From: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
To: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Joystick Relay on 9515 kHz
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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
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