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Today's Topics:
1. Thur Morn DX (Charles Bolland)
2. Glenn Hauser logs May 5-6, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
3. DX Listening Digest 10-18 May 6 (Glenn Hauser)
4. Re: Thur Morn DX (Charles Bolland)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 11:57:44 -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] Thur Morn DX
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Brazil, 5939.96, Radio Guaruja Paulista, (pres)
0902-0910, Noted a male in Portuguese language
conversation with a second individual in the studio.
No sign of the Russian station yet.
Signal for Guaruja was poor. Rechecked at 0925 and
Guaruja still holding the freq.
(Chuck Bolland, May 6, 2010)
Russia, 5929.99, Radio Rossii, 0908-0930, Noted Russian
language comments from both male and
female during the period. At 0910 some music
presented, but only as break in the format. The
carrier of this station was good, but the audio needed
a lot of help. It was very poor. What's
that situation referred as? Over Modulated maybe?
(Chuck Bolland, May 6 2010)
Bolivia, 6134.80, Radio Santa Cruz, 0916-0930, At tune
in, noted steady CP local music. "5 en manana
(Morning)
y 16 minutos ..." lengthy comments in Spanish follow by
a male, while the signal remains at a good level.
(Chuck Bolland, May 6, 2010)
Bolivia, 5952.40, Radio Emisoras Pio XII, 1015-1030,
Had trouble tuning this in for a few minutes. Seemed
like
there was no audio, eventhough the carrier was
reasonably strong. At about 1020 finally got some
audio with
two males in Spanish Language comments. At 1031
thought they were going into music, but was just
a couple of bars as far as I could tell. Anyway, SP
comments continued. Signal was fair.
(Chuck Bolland, May 6, 2010)
Malaysia, 7295, RTM, Kuala Lumpur, (pres)1040-1100,
At tune in heard a female in English(?)
language comments, then music followed that. Signal
was rather weak, so not sure if I heard English.
After a few minutes of music, the female returns in
comments. Still couldn't be certain about
the language. Signal, over all, was poor. (Chuck
Bolland, May 6, 2010)
WinRadio G305e/pc
26.27N 081.05W
Sorry for any errors.
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 09:43:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 5-6, 2010
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** ANTARCTICA. Thursday May 6 from 1200 I sit on 15476 (or rather 15475 with
BFO on), to detect exactly when LRA36 turns on its transmitter. There it goes,
from *1203:21. Too weak to get any modulation now or later. Trouble is, when I
do this, I miss Pomp & Circumstance from XEXQ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake May 6:
14920, poor at 1334
13970, JBA at 1335
12960, good at 1335, and NOT // 14920 and 12600. (I have not been checking
assiduously for non-// Firedraxe, but they occasionally happen, from a
different playback of the 60-minute show, and this was obvious when confirming
frequencies on two different receivers.)
12600, poor at 1337
10440, poor at 1339
9150, fair at 1342
None others found 8-18 MHz. A somewhat different set would have been in use
during the previous hour or the following hour. E Asian reception was overall
not very good this morning. Except:
11990, at 1402 May 6, CNR1 with VG signal, not echoey like jammer on // 11805.
Why is it on 11990? VOA in Chinese, of course! Aoki says via Novosibirsk,
RUSSIA at 13-15; there was no trace of it audible here underneath the jamming
by the wicked control-freak ChiCom.
SWPC: ``Solar-terrestrial indices for 05 May follow.
Solar flux 83 and mid-latitude A-index 6.
The mid-latitude K-index at 1500 UTC on 06 May was 2 (15 nT).
Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor.
Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level occurred.
No space weather storms are expected for the next 24 hours.``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. May 6 at 1406 I notice that both RHC 22m frequencies, tho
quite strong, have co-channel QRM. 13680 has it worse, something in Russian,
i.e. R. Liberty via Rampisham, UK, at 62 degrees during this hour only. On
13780 it`s Deutsche Welle in German via Woofferton, UK, at 107 degrees also
overlapping RHC this hour only.
As an outlaw nation, Cuban usage is not in HFCC, so the RL and DW frequency
managers may not have even considered it; tho in their own targets RHC may be
no problem, unlike vice versa. In which case: serves the Cuban commies right
for jamming VOA and other US broadcasts deliberately rather than accidentally
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9690, AIR GOS so weak I could barely hear the hum, at *1330 May 6,
but sufficient to confirm in correct language English for the third day in a
row (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI has been consistently here, like 9525.9v, rather than
9524.9v, for several weeks; yet I keep seeing reports and listings of it as
``9525``! There IS a difference, especially when something hets from real 9525.
May 6 at 1300 English has already started, good signal, not too much hum, and
sufficient modulation most of the time tho occasionally drops down; wiggle that
patchcord!
Someone was wondering about VOI programming, day by day. It seems to me that
the same magazine segments air every day, so I made note of them today. News,
Editorial, This Day in History, Focus, News in Brief, Indonesian Wonders,
Miscellany, Music Corner. Exact times are variable, so the music pads out the
hour as necessary.
Most or all of these also happen on Tuesdays interspersed with conversations
about Banjarmasin stuff, on the ``Exotic Indonesia`` excursions. The intro to
Miscellany lists a number of specific subjects eligible for inclusion, which I
should also copy down sometime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6045, XEXQ-OC, tune-in at 1206 May 6, already in opening talk
segment, 1212 starting classical music, but outfading. Very weak as usual
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1580, KOKB Blackwell, after a few days of open carrier whenever
checked, afternoon of May 5 they were modulating with sports talk again, and
may have resumed as early as May 4. I bet it happens again and again as no one
is really paying attention. And/or, it`s degenerated into an unpersonned relay,
and breakdowns have to wait for some contract engineer to get around to
visiting Blackwell from Perry, Stillwater, or wherever based, to hit the reset
button (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** POLAND [non]. 11675, PRES via AUSTRIA, Thursday May 6 at 1245 I can just
barely make out the intonations of Swavek Chefs, presumably during
``Multi-Touch``, the combined DX/media/mailbag. At least we know this English
hour is still on the air, and I suppose now summerly inbooming no further than
the British Isles. Or how is it along east coast NAm? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9945, Thursday May 6 at 1359 I hear Yankee Doodle Dandy, i.e.
the VOA sign-on routine. Or is it sign-off? From 1400 dead air, but almost a
semi-minute later starts Indonesian service. It`s really bilingual with the
announcer mixing in English, for the ``Direct Connexion`` pop music show. This
transmission is Thu-Fri-Sat only, via Tinang, PHILIPPINES, per Aoki. Signal
only fair (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WWCR`s comeback: After hearing 13845 only, the morning of May 5, next
check at 2130 finds 9350, 9980 and 13845 all on, but no 7465. So three of the
four transmitters have resumed.
May 6 at 0526, 4840 is on, and 5890 is // 5935 with PMS; before the flood, 5890
had just changed to carrying Brother Scare at that time. 3215 still missing,
that is WWCR-1.
Next check at 1408, 9980 inbooming, 13845 audible but weak, 15825 presumed on
but not propagating; but 7490 is missing, i.e. WWCR-2, altho it was confirmed
on earlier, via 9350 afternoon and 5935 at night.
It may well be that only one particular transmitter is out of use, but the
others can be switched around to different antennas and program feeds. So it`s
more correct to think of WWCR-1, 2, 3 and 4 being program streams and antennas
rather than individual transmitter units. In fact early on, designations 1 and
2 were interchanged. And of course last month, program streams per transmitter
were reconfigured.
Then I find a new message on the WWCR homepage as of May 6, which finally
explains the situation:
``Wednesday, May 05, 2010 Flood Update Release #1
WWCR, and much of Nashville along the Cumberland River, remain in a flood state
as of Wednesday, May 5 at 6.00pm (2300 UT). The Cumberland is at 48.2 feet and
receding. Flood depth is 40 feet. Weather analysts predict that the Cumberland
will be below flood level by Thursday, May 6 at 10.00pm (0300 UT). This is not
guaranteed, as this date has been rolled back during the week.
While WWCR's transmitters and buildings were spared the floodwaters, the
transmitter field for WWCR's four transmitters and its medium wave sister
station WNQM flooded to a level estimated between 15 and 20 feet depth. The
waters appear to be receding, but there is still a tremendous amount of
floodwaters in the transmitter field.
On Wednesday afternoon, CT, Engineer Phil Patton was able to bring up
transmitters 2, 3 and 4. This is an encouraging outcome, and could lead to more
on air time soon, but WWCR is unable to determine at this time how quickly all
transmitters will be brought on air. More details will be released as new
information is determined.
The flooding brings troubles to many Middle Tennessee and Nashville residents,
as well as the noted troubles to WWCR. At least two WWCR employees are
suffering loss, with home flooding, automobiles being submerged in water to the
windshield and being stranded, separated from family and loved ones. WWCR
requests the prayers and thoughts of both broadcasters and listeners as WWCR
works its way through this major event and returns to the air, as well as for
the WWCR employees (and all of Middle Tennessee residents) through this time of
loss.
WWCR is still without telephone and internet service. WWCR has been included in
the "disaster area" by AT&T and offers no timeline for restored services.``
A lot of airtime has been lost which can never be made up, but don`t be
surprised if, even back on the air, some WORLD OF RADIO times are replaced by
make-goods of other programs. In fact, if there is still no internet or phone
service, WOR 1511 will not make it to WWCR.
I guess they still have satellite downlinking; I wonder if they could pull it
off WRN in a pinch? But not until Saturday at 12:30 pm CT; or Sunday 3:30 am,
12:30 pm.
To be safe, I suggest people make a point of catching the UT Friday 0330 WOR
airing via WWRB 3185, or try the numerous other opportunities at
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 12:52:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] DX Listening Digest 10-18 May 6
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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DX Listening Digest 10-18 has now been posted at http://www.dxld.org
or http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt or http://dxld.worldofradio.org
and now also without delay at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1018.txt
[as has been happening lately, upload of this edition as dxlatest has not been
immediate, but has been immediate at the last -1018 link above]
CONTENTS:
WOR 1511 / AFGHANISTAN / ALASKA / ALBANIA / ALGERIA non / ANDORRA / ANTARCTICA
+non / ARGENTINA / AUSTRALIA 3210/Symban / AUSTRALIA VL8 / AUSTRIA / AZERBAIJAN
/ BELARUS / BELGIUM non A10 / BHUTAN / BIAFRA non / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL DRM+ /
CANADA non BVB / CHILE / CHINA +non / COLOMBIA / CUBA +non / CYPRUS / DJIBOUTI
non / EGYPT / EQUATORIAL GUINEA / ERITREA / ETHIOPIA +non / EUROPE Pirate /
GERMANY non / GERMANY EAST / GREECE / GUINEA / GUYANA / HAITI +non / INDIA /
INDONESIA +non / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM VOA / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM Indonesia/WRN
/ INTERNATIONAL VACUUM non SiriusXM/FCC / ISRAEL / ITALY +non / KOREA NORTH
+non / KOREA SOUTH +non / KURDISTAN +non / KUWAIT / LAOS +non / LITHUANIA /
MADAGASCAR / MALAYSIA / MAURITANIA / MEXICO / MICRONESIA / MONACO / MYANMAR /
NETHERLANDS +non / NIGER / NORTH AMERICA pirates / NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS /
OKLAHOMA KOKB / OMAN / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PERU / PHILIPPINES / POLAND non /
PRIDNESTROVYE / ROMANIA DRM / RUSSIA
+non / SAUDI ARABIA / SLOVAKIA / SOLOMON ISLANDS / SOMALIA non / SOUTH
CAROLINA non / SPAIN / SRI LANKA / SUDAN +non / SWEDEN / SYRIA / TAIWAN / TIBET
+non / TUNISIA / TURKEY / TURKMENISTAN / UGANDA +non / UKRAINE / UK +non BBCWS
/ USA +non Marti/VOA / USA WWCR / USA Nashville / USA KJES / USA WJHR / USA
KVOH / USA WBCQ / USA WTWW / USA WWRB / USA WHRB / USA KXTR / USA Little Rock /
USA KYAA / USA NYC/CT pirates / URUGUAY / VATICAN / VENEZUELA +non / VIETNAM
+non / UNIDENTIFIED 4900 / UNIDENTIFIED 5954 / UNIDENTIFIED non 9369 /
UNIDENTIFIED 11643 / UNIDENTIFIED 16725 / CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES /
PUBLICATIONS / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / PROPAGATION
For restrixions and searchable 2010 contents archive see
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html
NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but
have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself
obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn
WORLD OF RADIO 1511 headlines:
*DX news from Antarctica, Brazil, China, Guyana, India, Monaco, Slovakia, Uganda
*New frequencies for Chile, China, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Italy, Myanmar, Africa
*Reactivations from Brazil, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Turkmenistan, Nashville,
Uruguay
*English from Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Syria
*Ukraine claims it`s still on shortwave
*BBCWS faces up to 25 percent funding cut
*Pressure to merge Radio Mart? back into VOA
SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1511, May 6-12, 2010
Note: while most WWCR transmitters are back on the air, programming
may be disrupted. See USA
Thu 1900 WBCQ 7415
Thu 2100 WRMI 9955
Fri 0030 WRMI 9955
Fri 0330 WWRB 3185
Fri 1430 WRMI 9955
Fri 2030 WWCR1 15825
Sat 0800 WRMI 9955
Sat 0800 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 9515
[second, fourth, fifth Saturdays, maybe; but not May 8]
Sat 1330 WRMI 9955
Sat 1630 WWCR2 12160
Sat 1800 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 7290
Sat 1900 WRMI 9955
Sun 0230 WWCR3 4840
Sun 0630 WWCR1 3215
Sun 0800 WRMI 9955
Sun 1515 WRMI 9955
Sun 1900 WRMI 9955
Sun 2330 WWCR4 9980
Mon 0330 WWCR4 5890
Tue 1530 WRMI 9955
Tue 1900 WBCQ 7415
Tue 2230 WRMI 9955
Wed 0030 WRMI 9955
Wed 1530 WRMI 9955
Wed 1900 WBCQ 7415
Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite
and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or
http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org
For updates see our Anomaly Alert page:
http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html
WRN ON DEMAND:
http://193.42.152.193/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24
WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN:
http://www.wrn.org/wrn-listeners/world-of-radio/
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/world-of-radio/rss/08:00:00UTC/English/541
OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO:
http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
or http://wor.worldofradio.org
Best DX wishes, Glenn Hauser
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 23:23:05 -0000
From: "Charles Bolland" <[email protected]>
To: "'Charles Bolland'" <[email protected]>, "ALF"
<[email protected]>, "Arnaldo slaen" <[email protected]>,
"Bob
Wilkner" <[email protected]>, "brainman214" <[email protected]>,
Carlos Gon??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: Re: [HCDX] Thur Morn DX
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Please correct my Brazil 5939.96 logging to
Radio V?z Mission?ria, Camboriu, State of Santa
Catarina, -. R?dio Guaruj? Paulista is off in short
waves.
Sorry for the mistake
Chuck
_____
From: Charles Bolland [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 11:58
To: ALF; Arnaldo slaen; Bob Wilkner
([email protected]); brainman214; Carlos Gon??alves;
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: Thur Morn DX
Brazil, 5939.96, Radio Guaruja Paulista, (pres)
0902-0910, Noted a male in Portuguese language
conversation with a second individual in the studio.
No sign of the Russian station yet.
Signal for Guaruja was poor. Rechecked at 0925 and
Guaruja still holding the freq.
(Chuck Bolland, May 6, 2010)
Russia, 5929.99, Radio Rossii, 0908-0930, Noted Russian
language comments from both male and
female during the period. At 0910 some music
presented, but only as break in the format. The
carrier of this station was good, but the audio needed
a lot of help. It was very poor. What's
that situation referred as? Over Modulated maybe?
(Chuck Bolland, May 6 2010)
Bolivia, 6134.80, Radio Santa Cruz, 0916-0930, At tune
in, noted steady CP local music. "5 en manana
(Morning)
y 16 minutos ..." lengthy comments in Spanish follow by
a male, while the signal remains at a good level.
(Chuck Bolland, May 6, 2010)
Bolivia, 5952.40, Radio Emisoras Pio XII, 1015-1030,
Had trouble tuning this in for a few minutes. Seemed
like
there was no audio, eventhough the carrier was
reasonably strong. At about 1020 finally got some
audio with
two males in Spanish Language comments. At 1031
thought they were going into music, but was just
a couple of bars as far as I could tell. Anyway, SP
comments continued. Signal was fair.
(Chuck Bolland, May 6, 2010)
Malaysia, 7295, RTM, Kuala Lumpur, (pres)1040-1100,
At tune in heard a female in English(?)
language comments, then music followed that. Signal
was rather weak, so not sure if I heard English.
After a few minutes of music, the female returns in
comments. Still couldn't be certain about
the language. Signal, over all, was poor. (Chuck
Bolland, May 6, 2010)
WinRadio G305e/pc
26.27N 081.05W
Sorry for any errors.
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