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Today's Topics:
1. Radio Maria again on 26000 kHz (Giampiero Bernardini)
2. TDP A10 (Alokesh Gupta)
3. Glenn Hauser logs May 4, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
4. Glenn Hauser logs May 5, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
5. New Australian Radio Guide (Radio Heritage Mail)
6. LA ROSA DE TOKYO COMPITIENDO POR EL PREMIO MAS IMPORTANTE DE
LA RADIOFONIA ARGENTINA (Arnaldo)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 21:07:33 +0200
From: "Giampiero Bernardini" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Maria again on 26000 kHz
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Radio Maria is on air again on 26000 kHz in AM mode. TX low power
located in Andrate, North Italy.
Have fun
Giampiero
Giampiero Bernardini
Milano, Italia
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 16:34:39 +0530
From: Alokesh Gupta <[email protected]>
To: Alokesh-Hotmail <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] TDP A10
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TDP
PROGRAM AND FREQUENCY SCHEDULE A10
PROGRAM TIME (UTC) FREQ AM/DRM DAYS LANG TARGET AREA
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Moj Them Radio 0130-0200 15260 AM m.w.f.. Hmong Asia
Denge Mezopotamya 0400-1800 11530 AM mtwtfss Kurdish Middle East
Denge Mezopotamya 1800-2000 7540 AM mtwtfss Kurdish Middle East
TDP Radio 0700-0800 6015 DRM m...... English Europe
TDP Radio 0800-0900 6015 DRM .t..... English Europe
TDP Radio 0900-1000 6015 DRM ..w.... English Europe
TDP Radio 1000-1100 6015 DRM ...t... English Europe
TDP Radio 1100-1200 6015 DRM ....f.. English Europe
TDP Radio 1200-1300 6015 DRM .....s. English Europe
TDP Radio 1300-1400 6015 DRM ......s English Europe
Radio Democracia 0900-1000 21555 AM ......s Amharic Africa
La Voix de Djibouti 1200-1300 17880 AM ...t... Somali Africa
The Disco Palace 1400-1500 6015 DRM mtwtfss English Europe
EOTC Holy Synod Radio 1600-1700 15195 AM m...... Amharic Africa
Meleket Ethiopia Radio 1600-1645 15195 AM ..w.... Amharic Africa
Voice Of Asena 1730-1800 15350 AM m...f.. Tigrinya Africa
Voice Of Meselna Delina 1730-1800 15350 AM .t.t.s. Tigrinya Africa
Radio Bilal 1800-1900 15350 AM mtwtfss Amharic Africa
TDP Radio 1900-2000 15755 DRM mtwtfss English America
The Disco Palace 2000-2100 15755 DRM mtwtfss English America
Suab Xaa Moo Zoo 2230-2300 7530 AM mtwtfss Hmong Asia
Reception Report with return postage to :
TDP
c/o Ludo Maes
P.O. Box 1
2310 Rijkevorsel
BELGIUM
Tel : +32 33 14 78 00
Mob : +32 477 477 800
Fax : +32 33 14 12 12
E-mail : [email protected]
Web : http://www.broadcast.be
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Alokesh Gupta
New Delhi, India
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 08:59:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 4, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** ANTARCTICA. It having been inaudible on May 3, I was eager to reconfirm
LRA-36 still active on May 4, as you never know when they will vanish for
months at a time; tuned in 15476 at 1204 but nothing. Just as I was fine tuning
below 15480 Chinese (which is CNR1 Beijing site #572, not a jammer(!) until
1300, per Aoki), on pops the 15476 carrier at *1205, now making a nice hefty 4
kHz het, but no modulation audible. By 1240 some music is making it, with a
heavy drum beat; 1252 announcement and more of same; 1300 YL talking but too
weak. BTW, I see that Aoki still has not updated the sked for 15476, showing
old 18-21 M-F (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11925.1v, R. Bandeirantes, fair May 4 at 0518 giving 2:18
time-check, Brazilian talk, no need for ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake May 4:
8400, no sign of any at 1145 and later chex; nor 9000
9150, fair-good at 1145
10970, good at 1148
11420, good at 1148
12960, poor at 1306
13300, poor at 1210
None others found in the 8-18 MHz range.
However, 15795 again with CNR1 jamming, May 4 at 1211, // other CNR1 jammers on
11785 et al. No trace of AIR Mandarin service underneath 15795 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. DCJC pulsing at 0515 May 4 on 9780, 9490, 9460, i.e. against nothing,
since Rep?blica, Rep?blica and Mart? finish with these frequencies earlier in
evening. At same time, slower rate but stronger pulsing and other noise on 9955
against WRMI, which presumably is on the air but also with no need to be jammed
after 0500, airing WRN English starting with Israel.
Nice to hear the 13580 RHC spur again, May 4 at 1305 which I have not noticed
for a while, altho very poor signal, this time was unusually a bit stronger
than its twin, 13880, both of which are leapfrogs of 13680 and 13780 over each
other, and of course those two were inbooming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) See also USA: Mart?
** INDIA. Since AIR Bengaluru broadcast the wrong language, apparently Dari,
instead of English, May 3 at 1330-1415+ on 9690 and 13710, I make a point of
checking May 4: at 1318, 9690 carrier is already on with flutter, some hum.
1330 poor, but opening in English. Congratulations! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) See also CHINA
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI, May 4 at 1310 with hum and just barely audible
modulation under it; but at 1312, modulation suddenly jumps and now the YL can
be more or less understood. 1314 switches to the guy at RRI Banjarmasin, a
Tuesday staple, and once again the modulation lowers to make copy difficult.
Wiggle that patchcord! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 4845, ORTM, fair May 4 at 0533 with traditional music and Arabic
dialect conversation, no QRM from silent WWCR 4840 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6045, May 4 at 0526, SAH of about 4 Hz, and very weak signals, one
of which sounded like a classical song. Also a low audible het. I suspect XEXQ
is leaving the transmitter on beyond nominal 0400*. Did not check next morning
until 1230 when classical music was JBA but XEXQ for sure (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. 11695-11705, extremely distorted modulation spixe with no carrier,
May 4 at 1154, conversation sounds like English but hard to copy. Quick scans
of 25 and even 31m find no match. At 1158 sign-off announcement I hear a dot
tw, and then RTI`s complete English schedule recited, altho cannot make out two
separate frequencies and targets for the 11-12 broadcast. At 1200, 3+1
timesignal, the last one prolonged at higher pitch, and into Chinese.
Uplooked later, what does HFCC say? NOTHING. Taiwan is a nonentity there tnx to
pressure from the ChiCom, world`s largest jammer which should be banned from
HFCC instead. Aoki and EiBi reveal that RTI is supposed to be on 11715, so that
transmitter is malfunxioning. Aoki says site Tainan, 250 kW, 180 degrees. The
// is 7445, which would probably have been obscured by RNZI 7440 DRM before
1158. Language at 12-13 is specifically Amoy (Hokkein), says Aoki.
At 1205 I notice that this scratchy noise is also bothering RNV relay via Cuba
on 11705, where its own modulation seems OK today. Have I unjustly criticised
that previously, really caused by Taiwan? Maybe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U K [non]. I have been intending to monitor how BBC handles the transition
from BBC Mundo in Spanish to BBCWS in English on 9410 weekdays via WHRI at
12-13. May 4 at 1213, Spanish story about 2-meter crox getting into storm
sewers and residences in Villahermosa, Tabasco. After reminding us it is
martes, at 1215 sharp immediately switched to English, joining in progress a
discussion of terrorist plots against New York.
So here`s how they handle it: clumsily. If SW were not a mere afterthought we
are lucky to have at all for 225 minutes a week from BBCWS in English, they
would have built in a hard break at 1215 and welcomed all their American
listeners at that point. Ha (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050, WWRB`s extended all-night(?) schedule with Bible dramatizations
vanished at least a week ago, clearing 5045-5055 for DX. At 0530 check May 4,
WWRB not on. Dave Frantz tells me they had some lightning damage and downtime,
but no flooding since he had the foresight to spend $40K on gravel to raise the
site near a creek, 3 feet when constructed.
Dave also says he has been inundated by calls from `patriot` broadcasters
desperate for airtime while WWCR is down, but he`s had it with getting screwed
by them and will only sell it at premium rates, payable 6 months in advance. No
takers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WWCR still missing from all frequencies, May 4 at 0532: silence on
3215, 4840, 5890, 5935. Ditto at 1300 check: no 15825, 13845, 9980 or 7490.
Still no further details on the WWCR website, but I hear the rhombix are not
underwater, so maybe it`s just power outage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. I have been wondering whether the MW frequency at Marathon
FL of Radio Mart?, 1180, is still off the air after a month. Apparently so, as
I happened on an announcement May 4 at 1231 on 6030 atop jamming that it is
``fuera del aire``, but ``es solo temporal``.
That is, assuming at the Miami studios they really know the current status of
Marathon. I guess IBB are still installing new transmitter and/or upgrading
antennas, which would seem to go counter to the trend in W?shington against
prolonging Mart?. I also assume the DentroCuban jamming by at least three
co-channel transmitters pretending to be legit broadcasts, continues unabated.
Could Marathon be repurposed in a post-Mart? era for a general Caribbean
service or to resume Krey?l to Ha?ti? Dream on.
As I tuned past RHC 13680, May 4 at 1301 they were gleefully quoting Sen. Kerry
criticising R/TV Mart? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 09:19:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 5, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36, Wednesday May 5 at 1228 with pop song, enough of a
carrier to produce a good het with 15480. Still audible with music at 1325, but
not much after that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake May 5:
14900, poor at 1234
13320, fair at 1235
13300, fair at 1320, but modulation cutting on and off, unusual
12980, good at 1319
12960, poor at 1236
12600, fair at 1319
11460, poor at 1318 and 1340
10420, fair at 1318 and 1340
10300, fair at 1239
9355, good at 1242; against what? VOA and RFA use this frequency a lot but are
supposedly taking a break during this hour. At 1344 no FD, but VOA Cantonese
via SAIPAN.
8400, nothing today, nor any heard above 14900.
Note to editors who cannot afford so much white space: please insert semicolon
after each frequency-line rather than running them together.
15435, May 5 at 1325 weak talk marred by varying het, presumably today`s
frequency for V. of Tibet via UAE at 1330-1400 listed by Aoki on 15430?
However, Romania`s Chinese service is on 15435 at 1300-1330, so it would be
surprising if the ChiCom are now jamming that deliberately rather than VOT, or
warming up for same (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Once again, RHC DXers Unlimited shows up at the wrong time: UT Wed May
5 at 0520 I come upon it in progress, best on 6010, next undermodulated 5970,
and worst 6060, weak with Spain ACI de 6055. Arnie was already at Item 5, so
close to the end. Must have started circa 0505 instead of 0535. Playback
operator mixed up two half-hour tapes? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 9780, DentroCuban Jamming Command pulsing at rate of
128/minute, lower-pitched than usual, May 5 at 1337. Here because of R.
Rep?blica which uses 9780 only at 02-04! Now there is something collateral
under the jamming, per Aoki, Taiwan in Chinese, which also gets direct jamming
from China (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9690, May 5 at 1330, poor signal with some hum, AIR opening GOS in
English, correct language for second day in a row, into news. Worse on // 13710
with CCI, presumably CRI French via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN to Europe as
scheduled; Cuban leapfrogs no longer possible on this frequency (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. 9526-, VOI, good signal and modulation May 5 before
1300 in Japanese; 1335 OK in music during English hour. Still on at 1413 during
Indonesian(?) hour, making big het with stronger CRI in Russian on 9525.0
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6045, XEXQ, May 5 at 1206 tune-in with sign-on so I must have missed
Pomp & Circumstance; kept talking until classical music started at 1215.
Thought I heard ``Seguro Social`` mentioned, perhaps government PSAs. Poor
signal as usual, but OK for 470 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** POLAND [non]. 11675, seems PRES via AUSTRIA, English at 12-13 has faded into
oblivion. This service to Eu in B-09 carried on well to NAm in the same
direxion, was weakening bit by bit in A-10, but as of May 5 a just barely
audible carrier is all we can get at 1245. We hope there will still be some
better days allowing it thru; anything we can get is a bonus as PRES refuses to
target North America deliberately with a more suitable relay (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. Unlike yesterday, no trace of scratchy RTI spur around 11695-11705,
May 5 at 1238; so RNV via CUBA 11705 unscathed, but nothing on 11715 either,
where RTI English is supposed to be. Plenty of Mainland signals coming thru on
25m, mainly CNR1 jammers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) But see
UNIDENTIFIED 11643
** U S A [non]. VOA has dumped the `World News Now` format for some
regionalized news blox
(see http://kimelli.nfshost.com/index.php?id=8871 ---
Kim says this has been a ``soft launch``, i.e. unpublicized).
Consequently some of the most enjoyable features such as Wordmaster have
disappeared from their habitual spots, in this case at 17 or 18 minutes past
the hours on Wednesdays. We hope they are still on the schedule somewhere else.
9760 via PHILIPPINES, Wed May 5 at 1229 has Sarah Williams outroducing what is
now called ``Crossroads Asia``. This followed an interview rather than This Day
In History which had been appearing without fail at :28-:30 minutes past the
hours. 1230 into the new segment on the half-hours, ``VOA`s International
Edition``. At the moment 9760 is atop the deliberate co-channel interference
from CRI.
Recheck at 1415 when 9760 is clear, with mid-ID as ``Crossroads Asia on Voice
of America``, but continued with news of Burma, Afghanistan, no Wordmaster.
Maybe that feature has been shifted to the second half of hours? Not at 1451 on
15580 when in another news interview.
It should be noted that VOA previously had regional news blox, until the World
News Now thing replaced them; this may be an ultimate improvement (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Periodic chex of WWCR frequencies found them all still missing May 5,
for the fourth day in a row following the Nashville flooding. None of them on
at 0527, nor at 1205, 1240. However, just as I tune in 13845 at 1321 there is a
big open carrier, and soon at 1322 WWCR ID, transmission cutting on and off,
then joining Pastor Melissa Scott in progress, and staying on. VG signal
obviously sporadic-E enhanced.
Kept looking for others, 7490, 9980, 15825, but still none of them at 1333,
1343. By 1411, 13845 had switched to Joyce Riley, and per current schedule her
Power Hour is already supposed to be on WWCR-2 at 12-15 weekdays. Another check
at 1451 still found 13845 the only frequency back on yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11715, KJES with considerable carrier but hardly any modulation, May
5 at 1315, kids chanting ``Jesus Saves`` over and over for most of a minute, to
embed this dogma into their tiny robotic brains, tantamount to child abuse.
Despite carrier level, bothered by splash from 11710 Korea North (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15550-USB, you`d never know it was on without the BFO and full gain,
but WJHR detectable May 5 at 1451 with its signature programming (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11643, approximate center of horribly distorted FM blob, May 5 at
1246 between AM signals on 11640 and 11650. At one point the intonation sounds
like Vietnamese, but can`t make anything further out of it. Next check 1259 it
was gone. Nothing scheduled on 11645 at this hour except wooden registration
for Greece. Possibly the Taiwan [q.v.] transmitter missing from 11715 which the
day before was making a different sounding spur on 11695-11705 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 16725, May 5 at 1327, Spanish SSB 2-way alternating with bits of
CW; in voice, included alfanumerics (``tango, eco, alfa``), and whistled into
mike, what a lid. Without embargo, in marine band so maybe legit rather than
poacher/narco. Standard remark about wishing native speakers would monitor
these things and extract some ID or clues (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) ###
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 10:31:26 +1200
From: "Radio Heritage Mail" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] New Australian Radio Guide
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Media Release
Radio Heritage Foundation
www.radioheritage.net
________________________________________
Australian AM Radio 1611-1701
Italian, Country, Arabic, Greek and Gold
________________________________________
Almost 70 low power stations are now broadcasting in Australia's
expanded AM radio dial almost two decades after the new channels
became available says the Radio Heritage Foundation which has just
updated a contemporary guide to them at www.radioheritage.net.
Originally populated by ethnic broadcasters and niche formats, the
situation remains little unchanged in 2010 as attempts to bring the
low cost extra frequencies into mainstream media have largely failed
to materialize.
Existing commercial broadcasters saw these licences as a dangerously
cheap back door into digital broadcasting and lobbied strongly to
exclude 1611-1701 AM stations from digital entitlements. Coupled with
poor availability of AM radios able to tune to the new frequencies,
attempts by commercial aspirants like Radio 2 to establish economics
of scale and a nationwide network collapsed.
In 2010, the major players on air are Rete Italia [part of the
Italian Media publishing and media group], The Goanna [a fledgling
country music network co-owned with 2ME an Arabic language station],
Smart Group's Hot Country from Queensland, whilst small footholds in
the band have been claimed by 3ABN and Queensland based Christian
network Vision FM.
A small cluster of independent stations air a variation on the 'Gold'
music format of 1960's hits popular with babyboomers, two Greek
language stations compete for listeners in Sydney, and a handful of
other stations serve ethnic markets for Chinese, Hindi, Arabic,
Islamic and Lebanese Christian audiences.
A large number of licences held in the 1611-1701 AM band have
remained silent for many years and are unlikely to ever come on air.
The Radio Heritage Foundation has released a detailed list of
Australian stations currently operating in the 1611-1701 AM band
together with analysis of this fascinating and little known
broadcasting landscape.
It's currently available as a downloadable Word document at
www.radioheritage.net and will be updated regularly.
____________________________________________________
Radio Heritage Foundation is a registered non-profit organization
connecting popular culture, nostalgia and radio heritage across the
Pacific. The global website is www.radioheritage.net and all content
is available free. Annual supporter packages starting at US$10 and
online advertising rates are now available. Donations welcomed via
PAYPAL.
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 20:21:24 +0200
From: "Arnaldo" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected], NoticiasDX
<[email protected]>, Domesticas Y Tropicales
<[email protected]>, Luis Mar?a Barassi
<[email protected]>, DXLD <[email protected]>,
[email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] LA ROSA DE TOKYO COMPITIENDO POR EL PREMIO MAS
IMPORTANTE DE LA RADIOFONIA ARGENTINA
Message-ID: <002001caec7f$c5ae0bc0$fdabc...@windowsv03oj4t>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Gente:
Con mucho orgullo, quienes hacemos La Rosa de Tokyo queremos contarles que
nuestr programa ha sido nominado en la terna que competir? por el Mart?n Fierro
Federal (el premio m?s importante en radiodifusi?n que se otorga en el medio
local para comunicadores y producciones realizados en emisoras del Interior de
nuestro pa?s).
La Asociaci?n de Periodistas de la Televisi?n y Radiofon?a Argentinas (Aptra)
anunci? los nominados a los premios Mart?n Fierro Federal por las producciones
2009 del interior del pa?s.
La nominaci?n es en el rubro mejor programa period?stico documental y "La Rosa
de Tokyo" (una realizaci?n de LS11 Radio Provincia de Buenos Aires, La Plata)
competir? con otros dos programas que ser?n:
"As? peleamos en Malvinas" (FM de las Am?ricas de Bah?a Blanca) y
"Radiohistorias" (Radio Universidad de Rosario).
Cordiales saludos
Omar Jose Somma-Margarita Torres-Ruben Guillermo Margenet y Arnaldo Slaen
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