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Today's Topics:
1. Pacific (mauritsvandriess...@skynet.)
2. Malaysia (mauritsvandriess...@skynet.)
3. Glenn Hauser logs May 24-25, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
4. Re: Glenn Hauser logs May 24-25, 2010 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
5. SPORADIC SPACE-SHUTTLE SKIP, ROUND TWO? (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 09:53:01 +0200
From: "mauritsvandriess...@skynet." <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Pacific
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15515khz Australia Sh. 2217utc News
15525khz HCJB Austarlia Ku. Mandarin talks 2220utc
15560khz Australia Sh. news 2223utc
1230khz Australia Sh. 2226utc News
Also overday good Cuba stations like the 15120khz .....
Gr. 73,
Maurits Van Driessche
Perseus SDR + LW 100meters
Belgium
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 12:32:42 +0200
From: "mauritsvandriess...@skynet." <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Malaysia
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Voice of Malaysia on 15295khz at 1031utc .With Mandarin talks ,good signal
and audio
Perseus SDR +LW 100meter
Maurits Van Driessche
Belgium
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 12:14:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 24-25, 2010
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** ANGUILLA. 11775 absent May 25 at 1401, but back on with University Network
at 1800 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANTARCTICA. 15476 still with no LRA36 carrier detectable here, May 25 at
1310, just the spurry blob from 15360 Cuba [q.v.] landing around 15473.7. LRA36
is so weak that it needs a completely clear frequency, which fortunately it did
have earlier in May.
Now RHC exceeds its entire two-sesquihour weekday schedule from 1200 as RHC
runs 15360 at 11-15, toward South America, so its variable spurs should also be
an obstacle much closer to Base Esperanza.
But is LRA36 on the air at all? Another of its fans, Maurits Van Driessche in
Belgium, tells me he could see a carrier on his Perseus, 15476.020 at 1203 UT
Monday May 24. We might have a chance at 1500 if Cuba is off promptly and RNASG
runs a bit overtime as sometimes reported (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake May 25:
8400, poor at 1250
9380, fair at 1256, just as WWRB was starting to fade up carrier and BS
modulation on 9385.
11500, JBA at 1328
14700, poor-fair at 1325, and 1351; nowhere else 8-18 MHz
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA [and non]. REE Cariari is indeed running their new DRM
transmitter on 9630, and how! Supposedly scheduled only at 00-02, but May 24 at
2351 tune in, it`s already on covering at least 9625-9635, goodbye CBC NQ. Next
check 0128, the DRM so strong it`s audible all the way from 9620 to 9655!
DRM Consortium claims the bandwidth is strictly `only` 10 kHz, dropping off
sharply above and below that range. It probably would have been detected below
9620 if it were not for some strong AM signals there unlike the 9650 area. DRM
is doubtless spreading to 9620, where it interferes with: REE direct from
Spain!! Way to go.
The new DRM transmitter is still not funxioning properly when in the AM mode
(presumably this is the one, unless they still have the old one operational for
a total of four now). May 25 at 1315, very strong 15170 has continuous crackle,
which also produces the spiky spurs, this time audible depending on modulation
peaks, roughly plus and minus 70 kHz, 15100-15240 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. RHC`s spurry 19mb transmitter with matching modulation on
the closer ones, plus continuous whine, which is audible same pitch on the
further ones: May 24 at 2219 when fundamentally on 15370, also heard on approx.
15295.3 where first noted; also 15407.4, 15258, i.e. roughly 37.4 kHz
multiples. It`s hard to pin down the spurs exactly as they are blobs without
clear center carriers, but one can notice changes in pitch with BFO stepping 1
kHz up and down on the YB-400, and estimate the centers.
At 2219, RHC was plugging the availability of all Cuban radio networks on some
satellite at 11,884 MHz. Maybe there are no spurs there?
RHC still colliding with RDPI PORTUGAL on 12020: May 24 I tuned in seconds
before 2300 and both carriers were open; then at 2300 sharp, both started
modulating, in a fine instance of involuntary co?rdination. RHC was generally
atop at further chex.
Next morning May 25 when the fundamental is 15360: spurs at 1310, on 15397.9,
i.e. 37.9 kHz displacement, the whiny spurs also around 15435.8, 15473.7, the
latter uncomfortably close to LRA36`s 15476. At 1353, the RHC spur on 15322.1
was QRMing Chinese on 15320.0, which is AWR via Nauen, GERMANY. The next spur
down, on 15284.2 was clashing at 1315 with the CNR1 jammer on 15285 vs BBC
Chinese via Singapore --- Commies vs Commies! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI has been quite weak lately, but still detectable
during the 1300 English hour; seems to be quite a bit stronger before 1300 when
in Japanese with the same 30 degree antenna, per Aoki. Probably increasing
absorption at this end with too much summer sunshine. May 25 at 1300 the
carrier is JBA, and after 1400 is still enough to cause a het to CRI 9525.0
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Chex the afternoon of May 24 and the morning of May 25 reconfirm
that KEOR 1120 Sperry-Catoosa-Tulsa is still off the air; and that KOKB 1580
Blackwell is still on the air, but overmodulated. Seems most likely to lose
modulation for entire weekends. I shall try not to repeat reports of either
until there is some change.
Also, May 24 at 1850 UT, the GCN Enid pirate on 99.9 was missing for the first
time since I discovered and located it; busted? Guess not; they were back a few
hours later (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. Still trying to confirm the frequency for REE`s weekly Emisi?n
Sefarad, to S America, UT Tue 0115-0145. On the previous broadcast to the
Middle East Monday at 1425 the frequency announced May 24 for 0115 was still
11795. So at 0120 May 25 I check 11795 and there is absolutely nothing.
Previously announced frequency for this was 11780, so again I struggle to
detect anything under huge signal from Bras?lia. Cannot hear any other
modulation, but RNA never pauses for an instant. There is some slight fading
which could be from a much weaker signal making a subaudible heterodyne, or
maybe not. The REE Spanish frequency to S America, clear 11680, meanwhile, was
inbooming, so something should have been detectable on 11780 if really there.
Then I scan the entire 25m band in case Sefarad really be on a completely new
unknown and unannounced frequency, but nothing found. I reiterate my plea for
South Americans in the skip zone of Bras?lia to look for this on 11780, and
11795 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also COSTA RICA [and non]
** U S A. Contrary to the new VOA program schedule via
http://www.kimandrewelliott.com showing the USG Editorial weekends only at :25
past certain hours, it`s still at 1255 weekdays, as Tuesday May 25 at 1259 I
tuned 9510 just in time to hear the Editorial outro, then sign-off by the `PHX`
or Tinang II, weak 50 kW site in the PHILIPPINES, a detail only for those of us
in the know, not the casual listener, who can only assume VOA is really
transmitting from ``Washington, DC`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Good Friends Radio Network has bought up gobs of time on WBCQ
9330-CUSB, per
http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=9330
supposedly daily at 13-04 UT, but May 25 at 1255 it`s already on, so like so
many things at WBCQ, operation is flexible; does it start 5 minutes early, or
60 minutes? Natch, I have never found its gospel-huxter programming worth
putting up with the incomplete modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. As I was checking out Firedrake on 9380, May 25 at 1256, noticed that
WWRB carrier was just coming on 9385; open at first, then fading up Brother
Scare, as the strength also seemed to be fading up from no problem to 9380, to
a serious problem to 9380 a few minutes later. However, at 1344, 9385 was off
the air again. 1800 recheck, on with open carrier, 1803 with B.S.
Altho 9385 is registered available until 2400, I`ve noticed it`s off by 2100.
If WWRB is starting the next Brother Scare frequency, 3215 as early as 2100
when it is registered available, it`s totally inaudible that early here in the
summer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. 15250, RNV via CUBA, May 24 at 2341 as I tuned by, heard
them STILL giving in Spanish the same old schedule they had at the outset years
ago, starting with 11 am to San Francisco on 13740 --- which now has been
totally outdated for YEARS except for one broadcast which happens still to
exist, ``1700 [meaning local time = 2000 UT] to Rio de Janeiro on 17705``; and
all the `new` broadcasts never get mentioned including the one I am listening
to.
What total Bolivarian incompetence! The only reason the correct schedule is out
there such as in the WRTH A-10 Update is that WE originally put it together by
monitoring. No help from RNV. At least it has not changed for some years now.
Except when RHC runs it overtime.
RNV obviously get reception reports on frequencies and at times not in their
announcement, but duh, they have not put two and two together in the studio and
figured out maybe some correxions are needed.
Also, standard inquiry: what has become of their own new SW transmitter site at
Calabozo which was supposed to go on the air by last December? (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 22:10:59 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>, "DXLD"
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 24-25, 2010
Message-ID: <db00437592154880a0f38531053b1...@hnpc2>
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Spurs even performed to EUR
CUBA RHC in Spanish at 2220 UT May 24, 15370 S=9+20dB and two spurious on
15335-15341 / 15404-15408 kHz. 15380 S=7-8. 12030 S=7, speech to the crowd
and accomp echo, words heard 1 second later underneath as repeat.
17705 2230-2300 UT in Guarani, S=4 towards Paraguay.
9640 S=9+10dB signal of Spanish program "Mesa Redonda" from La Habana, nx
featured on CLM, BOL, PRU, MEX etc. at 2344 UT May 24. \\ 6000 kHz at
S=9+20dB level.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 24)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Hauser" Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 9:14 PM
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 24-25, 2010
** CUBA [and non]. RHC`s spurry 19mb transmitter with matching modulation on
the closer ones, plus continuous whine, which is audible same pitch on the
further ones: May 24 at 2219 when fundamentally on 15370, also heard on
approx. 15295.3 where first noted; also 15407.4, 15258, i.e. roughly 37.4
kHz multiples. It`s hard to pin down the spurs exactly as they are blobs
without clear center carriers, but one can notice changes in pitch with BFO
stepping 1 kHz up and down on the YB-400, and estimate the centers.
At 2219, RHC was plugging the availability of all Cuban radio networks on
some satellite at 11,884 MHz. Maybe there are no spurs there?
RHC still colliding with RDPI PORTUGAL on 12020: May 24 I tuned in seconds
before 2300 and both carriers were open; then at 2300 sharp, both started
modulating, in a fine instance of involuntary co?rdination. RHC was
generally atop at further chex.
Next morning May 25 when the fundamental is 15360: spurs at 1310, on
15397.9, i.e. 37.9 kHz displacement, the whiny spurs also around 15435.8,
15473.7, the latter uncomfortably close to LRA36`s 15476. At 1353, the RHC
spur on 15322.1 was QRMing Chinese on 15320.0, which is AWR via Nauen,
GERMANY. The next spur down, on 15284.2 was clashing at 1315 with the CNR1
jammer on 15285 vs BBC Chinese via Singapore --- Commies vs Commies! (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 16:04:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], ODXA yg <[email protected]>, mwdx
<[email protected]>, [email protected], MWC yg
<[email protected]>, [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] SPORADIC SPACE-SHUTTLE SKIP, ROUND TWO?
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Please be alert for a repeat of the extraordinary daytime MW DX opening Glenn
Hauser in OK observed in the few hours following the landing of the last space
shuttle mission April 20, which brought in night-like reception of stations in
the 500-800 mile range from Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota, North
Dakota and Minnesota.
The lower SW tropical bands could also be affected, but be difficult to detect
due to the paucity of daytime signals in North America, especially
broadcasters. Hams on 160 and 80 meters should certainly try for unusual
contacts.
This coincided with the path of passage of the STS thru the ionosphere across
North America from Vancouver to Cape Ca?averal, so we theorized that the
orbiter had caused some long-lingering ionization (or perhaps more likely,
disrupted the normal daytime effect of the D layer absorbing MW signals).
You may want to have a look at what I heard on April 20, under USA in
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1016.txt
We don`t yet know what path Atlantis will take into Florida this time (or even
whether it will have to land in CA or NM due to weather in which case the time
or even day would be different), but the mission TV schedule if all is nominal
according to the NASA website as of May 25 shows in UT for the final day of the
mission, Wednesday May 26 starting with orbit number:
http://www.nasa.gov/tvschedule/pdf/tvsked_revj.pdf
183 ATLANTIS DEORBIT PREPARATIONS BEGIN 07:40
184 PAYLOAD BAY DOOR CLOSING 09:05
186 ATLANTIS DEORBIT BURN 11:45
187 MILA C-BAND RADAR ACQUISITION OF ATLANTIS 12:35
187 KSC LANDING 12:48
Even if ionospheric passage occur at night, the effect could still linger many
hours into the daytime. It will certainly be daytime by landing on the above
schedule. Once deorbiting is Go, the path into KSC will become evident. Keep an
eye on:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html
If you are within say, 250-750 miles of the path during the following daytime
hours, look for MW DX on normally open frequencies. Should this happen again,
it will be strong evidence to confirm my theory. If not, I would dearly like to
know what could have caused it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Latest Space Shuttle News
STS-132 Crew Prepares for Landing
Tue, 25 May 2010 06:47:07 PM UTC-0100
Tuesday the space shuttle crew participated in interviews and prepared for its
return to Earth. The first landing opportunity for Atlantis is Wednesday at
8:48 a.m. EDT at Kennedy Space Center.
Wednesday weather forecasts for Kennedy Space Center were generally favorable,
though there was a chance of showers within 30 miles of the runway (via gh,
DXLD)
Please feel free to repost this to other groups where it may be of interest.
And would anyone making some positive observations please report them to me
directly, wghauser @ yahoo.com
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