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Today's Topics:
1. BDXC web site and Broadcasts In English (BDXC-UK)
2. Mon Morn DX (Charles Bolland)
3. Glenn Hauser logs May 2-3, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
4. Logs May 3 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
5. please help a newbe with simple questions (Joe Strain aka Yodar)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 10:27:50 +0100
From: "BDXC-UK" <[email protected]>
To: "Hard Core DX" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] BDXC web site and Broadcasts In English
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The various frequency listings which are maintained on the British DX Club
web site have now been updated for May 2010:
*Guide to DX & Media Programmes
*Africa on Shortwave
*Middle East on Shortwave
*UK on Shortwave
*South Asia on the Tropical Bands
*External Services on Mediumwave
The above can all be found on the Articles Index at:
http://www.bdxc.org.uk
We are also pleased to announce the publication of the A-10 edition of
Broadcasts in English which can now be ordered from the club - see Home page
for details.
(Copies were sent to club members on Friday and should be delivered this
week
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 10:15:51 -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] Mon Morn DX
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Guyana, 3290, Voice of Guyana, 0915-0930, Noted
musical selections with English comments
from a male between tunes. Comments consisted of live
Ads by the announcer. After that,
back to music. Signal was best I heard since they
came back on the air, which is a fair
level. No interference noted this morning nor the buzz
that's been here for a couple of days.
(Chuck Bolland, May 3, 2010)
Suriname, 4990, Radio Apintie, 0921-0930, With very
weak audio, noted a male in Dutch
language comments. here. Also heard canned promos
during the period. Signal was
poor. (Chuck Bolland, May 3, 2010)
Russia, 5930, Radio Rossii, 0935-1005, With a nice
strong carrier, but very weak audio,
I noted music and Russian comments from a male. Yes,
the audio was almost absent it was
so weak and later sounded muffled. (Chuck Bolland,
May 3, 2010)
Russia, 5940. Radio Rossii, 1000-1015, I checked this
earlier (0950) and could not hear
any Russian language comments. I did hear Portuguese
prior to the hour however. Anyway
at 1000 noted Russian language comments and details
parallel with 05930 KHz. Signal
was fair here. (Chuck Bolland, May 3, 2010)
WinRadio G305e/pd
26.27N 081.05W
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 10:00:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 2-3, 2010
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** ANTARCTICA [and non]. For the first weekday in a fortnight, can`t hear any
signal on 15476 from LRA36, Monday May 3 at 1321, nor by final check at 1418;
but propagation certainly degraded on 19m, with Cubans weaker than usual, no UK
on 15480, Turkey barely audible on 15450, and CRI via Sackville 15260 the only
inboomer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHILE. After discovering on May 1 that CVC had lost spurs from 11920 but
added them from 11665, I recheck May 2 at 2337, this time on portable so they
don`t sound as pervasive, but still spiking roughly 11810-11830 from 11665, and
trace on 11510 vs spur from WEWN 11520; and yes, 11920 still clean with no HCJB
spurs around 11900 or 11940 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake May 3: propagation is subpar, and can only find poor
signals at 1326 on 12980, 12600, none audible above or below in the usual spots
between 8 and 18 MHz. The former jumps frequency from day to day, also heard
recently on 12970, 12960, 12950 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Rogue jamspurs from DCJC: May 3 at 1237 centered about 7658, fading in
and out; could originate from 7405 blast against Mart?; pulsing at the rate of
4 per second. Exactly same rate on 12020 at 1328, also weak. This could come
from 11845.
12020 is of course a deliberate RHC frequency later in the day. We would dearly
like to know whether any of the noise/pulse jamming comes from RHC`s broadcast
sites, but will have to wait for the counter-revolutionary era, with RadioCuba
exposed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9690, AIR GOS frequency better than usual, good signal but fluttery,
May 3 at 1334, modulation well over the hum, but it`s not in English! Trying to
place it, seems like it`s tonal, not much like Hindi or major S Asian
languages. Is there a handy reference showing which are tonal and which not?
1335 to music, then commentary, at 1345 mentioning ``International Court of
Justice`` and ``Kyoto Protocol``; 1347 to instrumental music, 1352 announcement
and vocal music. At 1354 I check the other scheduled AIR GOS frequencies:
weaker 13710 is // so it has the same problem with wrong language input. Both
these are Bengaluru; 11620 is Delhi, and JBA, can`t tell if it`s // but may
well not be. Kept going past 1400 with more music. Much better signal on 9690
than AIR VBS on 9870 which used to have the edge, also from Bangalore.
Meanwhile I am checking WRTH 2010 to see which other languages are on the AIR
at this time, supposed to be on other frequencies. Then for latest info,
according to http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/es/time.htm this is the lineup with site
abbreviations:
1230-1500 Sindhi 6165(Kh) 7340(M) 9620(A)
1300-1430 Punjabi 702(J)
1300-1500 Sinhala 1053(T) 7270(Ch) 15050(Kh); used later: 9820(P)
1315-1415 Dari 7410(Kh) 9910(Kh); to be used later: 7255(A)
1330-1430 Nepali 3945(G) 4860(Ki) 7420(Gu) 11775(P) 1134(C)
1330-1500 English 9690(B) 11620(Kh) 13710(B) E SE Asia
1415-1530 Pushtu 7410(Kh) 9910(Kh); to be used later: 7255(A)
By now I have suspected announcements are in Dari/Persian, altho not supposed
to be a tonal language, so I pay close attention at 1415 when that transitions
to Pushtu. 1414:30 stop music, announcement, but signal is fading; 1415
``Salaam Aleikum`` in a different language, and 1416 into different-sounding
music. So I am fairly sure I was hearing on 9690 and 13710 what was supposed to
be on 7410 and 9910 from Khampur site near Delhi; unchecked but likely
inaudible anyway from that site. Maybe they had English on instead?
The programme feed could have been misrouted from master control in Delhi; or
Bengaluru was tuned to the wrong input. In any event, no one had noticed and
fixed it during the first half-sesquihour of the 1330 ``English`` transmission,
and probably for the entire sesquihour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI, which was open carrier only on Sunday made a slight
improvement on Monday May 3. At 1259, just barely modulated, under hum could
make out the canned ID with gamelan, 1300 English program summary and starting
news. Still at next check 1333 with only a trace of modulation under the hum
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6104.8, XEQM, May 3 at 0554, with romantic music, good peaks but
deep fades until *0559.6 became only a het against BBC French via Ascension
opening with 5+1 timesignal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6045-, XEXQ got started a bit earlier Monday morning May 3, tune in
at 1208 and already in sign-on announcement mentioning 1190 with 5 kW; and also
``--45`` but could not catch power announced; I`ll bet it was not the true
figure of 450 vatios. Seemingly live YL DJ kept talking until classical music
started at 1215; barely audible.
BTW, note that other Mexican AM+SW stations have distinct callsigns:
XEEP/XEPPM, XEOY/XEOI, XEMQ/XEQM, XEUN/XEYU, etc., but not this one. I have
however seen it listed somewhere as XEXQOC, so possibly its true SW call
axually has six letters which is possible in Mexico; or -OC considered a suffix
like -FM, or -TV (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1580, KOKB Blackwell, once again Sunday afternoon May 2 at several
chex running open carrier with no modulation. Perhaps I am the only one who has
noticed, but not one who cares, as if they were modulating it would be silly
ballgame talk. Sponsors might care if they think they are paying for carrier
plus modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Routine check of WWCR for newly scheduled WORLD OF RADIO broadcast
Sunday at 2330 on 9980: no signal at 2337 May 2. Can`t be propagation, since
nearby WTWW 9479 was inbooming.
Later found this on homepage: ``2 MAY 2010 - WWCR and sister station WNQM are
OFF-AIR due to power outage and flooding. Nashville, Tennessee is recovering
from 18 inches of rainfall in 2 days. We appreciate your patience and request
your prayers for employees and friends of these stations, many of whom have
suffered tremendous personal loss. Further details will be posted here as they
become available.``
All frequencies still absent May 3 at 1312: 7490, 9980, 13845, 15825. We hope
there has been no major damage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5755, WTWW is usually loud and clear, but May 3 at 0600 I noticed
SFAW was only a fair signal and bothered by a bonker (TADIL-A) on just about
the same frequency. The ute, of course, will have priority if anyone complains.
There`s always 5080 alternative, altho we knew it had ute QRM from the outset
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11715-, KJES surprisingly audible with good signal May 3 at 1308, but
just barely modulating obsessive Ave Mar?a song; by next check 1327 the carrier
had dropped to just barely audible. Frequency is slightly on the lo side (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 22:51:29 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>, "DXLD"
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs May 3
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BELARUS 7265 Tentativelly Belarus Radio Brest shortwave relay seems back
on air again. Was missed, a lot of weeks out of service. Noted in 1800-1830
UT slot on May 3rd, S=5-6, annmt in Belaruss./Russian followed by symphonic
music concert.
CHINA Seldom heard Firedrake music jamming against US propaganda stations,
but today May 3rd came back on this music sound instead of echo word
jamming.
Noted against RFA Mandarin service on 9540 17-19 Tinian S=9+30dB, 9905 15-18
KHBN Palau, 7355 against TWN, 11700 18-20 Tinian, 13625 17-22 Tinian.
17560 Mandarin echo talk jamming against VoTibet Madagascar, latter which
was not heard here in Europe, 1330-1430 UT May 3rd.
ETHIOPIA/USA[non] VOA services in Oromo, Amharic, and Tigrigna at 1730-1930
UT were subject of hiss jamming today May 3rd. Noted Oromo at 1730-1800 and
hiss on all three 11925, 12140, and 13870[not 13780 as typo on VOA website).
Amharic at 1800 UT and annoying hiss noise on 9620, 11925, 11975, 12140,
13835, 13870, and 15730 kHz.
KOREA D.P.R. 13650 Vo Korea Pyongyang in Korean has been heard at 1420
UT, scheduled on this channel 1000-1450 UT.
SAUDI ARABIA Thanks to Rumen Pankov for excellent BSKSA Riyadh monitored
frequency schedule in dxld.
(Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, May Australian DX News via DXLD)
Foreign Services
0900-1155 Indonesian not heard on alternative 17585 yet.
1500-1755 9885 in Tajik/Turkmen/Uyghur/Uzbek to TKM, TJK, UZB and Xijang CHN
is heard in the clear here in Germany. DRM adjacent 9880 kHz from
Kaliningrad Bolshakovo is not a problem here.
Planned language section programs not heard here on air yet:
0300-0455 Somali 15320, alternative 17760.
0300-0555 Chinese 21665.
0800-0955 Chinese 15610.
1400-1555 Pashto 15575, alternative 9695.
SRI LANKA 15650 R Liberty in Russian via tentativelly - Iranawila -,
noted around 1430 UT, and as fretful interference Unid station co-channel.
TURKEY 9785 TRT German noted here in 31 mb today, scheduled 1730-1827 UT
on 11835EMR in 25mb instead, May 3.
73 wb
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 18:50:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joe Strain aka Yodar <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] please help a newbe with simple questions
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I am just getting started receiving 80M/75M LSB? and HERE IN CENTRAL FLORIDA i
RECEIVE? find a pair OF HAMS at 3821? in a discussion? en Espanol (hablo
pequeno espanol)
Is this likely a domestic or foreign transmission ? SINPO 34333?
--TOTALLY IGNORANT I ask: are Cuban Hams in Miami able to communicate with
Cuban hams in Cuba?
Is this possibly what I am hearing? I DID copy a K4 ID? from the stronger
station. One member of the discussion comes in strong, one comes in weak,
suggesting greater distance.
Is this LOW END of the band occupied by a specific group? I never hear any
English Hams down here
Thanks all?
Yodar
Words MEAN things.
AS do the words in our constitution,
they are not meant to be nuanced,
but READ AS writ!
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