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Today's Topics:
1. Logs (Manuel M?ndez)
2. Switzerland's global voice turns 75 (Arnaldo)
3. ABC Radio Australia set to launch 24-hour FM radio service in
Koror (Arnaldo)
4. Glenn Hauser logs July 30-31, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:18:49 +0200
From: Manuel M?ndez <[email protected]>
To: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Manuel M?ndez
Lugo, Espa?a
Escuchas realizadas en Reinante, costa del mar Cant?brico
Grundig Satellit 500 y Sony ICF SW 7600 G
Antena de cable, 10 metros
BRASIL
4885, Radio Clube do Par?, Bel?m, 0550-0604, 29-07, canciones
brasile?as, locutor, programa "Clube da Madrugada". 24322. (M?ndez)
4915, Radiodifusora Macap?, Macap?, 0547-0556, 29-07, canciones
brasile?as. 24322. (M?ndez)
5940, Voz Missionaria, Cambori?, 0523-0529, 29-07, canciones religiosas
en portugu?s, locutor, comentario religioso. 23322. (M?ndez)
COLOMBIA, 5910, Marfil Estereo, Lomalinda, 0530-0540, 29-07, canciones
latinoamericanas, identificaci?n por locutor: "La hora en Marfil
Estereo, son las 12 y 31 minutos".24322. (M?ndez)
COSTA RICA, 3350, Radio Exterior de Espa?a, Cariari, 0556-0600*, 29-07,
locutor: "Instituto Cervantes, para la ense?anza del espa?ol, es una
recomendaci?n de Radio Exterior de Espa?a", a las 0600, se?ales
horarias, "Son las 6 Tiempo Universal, 8 de la ma?ana en Madrid, Radio
Exterior de Espa?a, nos despedimos de nuestros oyentes en Centro Am?rica
y Sur de Norte Am?rica...". 25432. (M?ndez)
CUBA, 5025, Radio Rebelde, Bauta, 0600-0620, 29-07, locutor, "Las
noticias, titulares de esta hora". "Estas fueron las noticias de Cuba y
del mundo", luego, a las 0603 programa "A Esta Hora, buena compa??a
durante 3 horas". 45444. (M?ndez)
GUINEA ECUATORIAL, 5005, Radio Nacional, Bata, 2101-2115, 28-07,
canciones africanas, locutora, espa?ol, comentarios. 24322. (M?ndez)
MEXICO, 6185, Radio Educaci?n, M?xico D. F., 0604-0633, 29-07,
identificaci?n: "Radio Educaci?n, 1060 AM, transmitiendo desde M?xico D.
F., con 100.000 watts de potencia, Radio Educaci?n, 85 a?os, Radio
Educaci?n, una radio para todos los p?blicos"., anuncio de programas.
24322. (M?ndez)
PERU
4790, Radio Visi?n, Chiclayo, 0553-0622, 29-07, canciones religiosas,
espa?ol, locutor: "La Voz de la Salvaci?n". 24322. (M?ndez)
4974.8, Radio del Pac?fico, Lima, 0542-0551, 29-07, locutor, espa?ol,
comentario religioso. Audible en LSB. 14321. (M?ndez)
6019.3, Radio Victoria, Lima, 0610-0630, 29-07, locutor, religioso,
espa?ol: "El rescate de las almas perdidas, este viernes 30 en La Voz de
la Liberaci?n, ser? en nuestra sede nacional, todas las personas con
enfermedades incurables, hechizos y brujer?a, ser?n curadas por nuestras
potentes oraciones". "1 de la ma?ana con 15 minutos en la Voz de la
Liberaci?n". 24322. (M?ndez)
9720, Radio Victoria, Lima, 0557-0612, 29-07, programa religioso,
espa?ol, predicaciones: "La Voz de la Liberaci?n, Radio Victoria".
Excelente se?al. 44444. (M?ndez)
Escuchas realizadas en Friol
Antena de cable, 10 metros, orientada WSW
BRASIL
11735, Radio Transmundial, Santa Mar?a, 1012-1017, 30-07, locutor,
portugu?s, comentario religioso, identificaci?n: "Radio Transmundial",
canciones religiosas. 24322. (M?ndez)
11815, Radio Brasil Central, Goiania, 1026-1045, 30-07, noticias locales
de Goiania, identificaci?n; "Radio Brasil Central", "7 horas 31
minutos". 34433. (M?ndez)
11925, Radio Bandeirantes, Sao Paulo, 1017-1022, 30-07, locutor,
portugu?s, comentarios. 14321. (M?ndez)
MONGOLIA, 12085, Voice of Mongolia, Ulan Bator, 1022-1026, 30-07,
locutora, comentarios, chino. 24322. (M?ndez)
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:10:37 +0200
From: "Arnaldo" <[email protected]>
To: "DXLD" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], DXLD <[email protected]>,
playdx2003 <[email protected]>, [email protected],
[email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Switzerland's global voice turns 75
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Seventy-five years ago on Sunday, swissinfo's predecessor, a shortwave radio
service from the Swiss Broadcasting Corp., transmitted its first signal round
the world.
To celebrate the station's rich history as the "voice of Switzerland abroad",
swissinfo has compiled excerpts of some of the more memorable programmes,
interviews and reader pictures collected throughout the years.
"Dear Swiss men and women in South America," said Rudolf Minger, Swiss
president at the time, using the first words sent over the station's first
broadcast on August 1, 1935.
Over the decades, shortwave broadcasts eventually grew more obsolete, and the
last radio programme of what became Swiss Radio International aired in 2004.
But the station's mission lives on. Today the multimedia platform,
swissinfo.ch, has assumed a federally mandated duty to inform the Swiss abroad
and an international audience about news and events in Switzerland.
To hear Minger's address, Winston Churchill's post war speech from 1946 in
Bern, and an interview with Louis Armstrong from 1955, among many other
excerpts, click on the 75th anniversary special link. (swissinfo.ch)
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:11:32 +0200
From: "Arnaldo" <[email protected]>
To: "DXLD" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], playdx2003
<[email protected]>, [email protected],
[email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] ABC Radio Australia set to launch 24-hour FM radio
service in Koror
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Starting Aug. 1, if you live in Palau's busy central district of Koror, you
will be able to connect to ABC Radio Australia's newest 24-hour Pacific service
on 91.5FM.
ABC International director Murray Green will officially launch 91.5FM,
accompanied by popular Radio Australia presenter Clement Paligaru, at the Palau
Pacific Resort on July 30.
The new service was made possible by working in close partnership with the
Palau Ministry of State, and continues to build on Radio Australia's dedicated
Pacific FM radio network.
"We are finally able to reach our listeners in Palau via FM broadcast and
provide a high quality informative and entertaining service. We are delighted
to welcome Palau to our growing network of 24-hour FM services in the Pacific
and provide a 24-hour radio service that has the ability to connect the
thoughts, attitudes, experiences and issues facing people all across the
Pacific, from the Cook Islands in Polynesia all the way to Palau in
Micronesia," said Dr. Mike McCluskey, chief executive of Radio Australia.
Radio Australia's 91.5FM will deliver programming in Koror and surrounding
areas, enabling local audiences to connect to a diverse choice of Pacific
focused programs that have thus far been available only via shortwave.
Radio Australia is part of the ABC's International division and is a radio and
online service broadcasting 24-hours a day across Asia and the Pacific and
together with Australia Network Television, connects Australia with audiences
in the Pacific.
Radio Australia now has a network of 12 FM relays in the Pacific broadcasting
24 hours a day: Palau . Koror . 91.5FM; PNG . Port Moresby . 101.9FM . Lae .
102.1FM; Solomon Islands . Honiara . 107FM; Vanuatu . Port Vila & Santo .
103FM; Fiji . Suva & Nadi . 92.6FM (suspended until further notice); Samoa .
Apia . 102FM; Tonga . Nuku'alofa . 103FM; Cooks Islands . Rarotonga . 93FM;
Kiribati . Tarawa . 90FM. (Saipan Tribune.com)
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:06:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs July 30-31, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** CHINA. Firedrake July 31: did not do a thoro bandscan earlier, but around
1420, none at all found 8-18 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. 4605-, no trace of RRI Serui July 31 at 1213. Gone
again? Maybe that`s too late, but two weak signals detectable on 4750, one of
which likely RRI Makassar. Atsunori Ishida reported 4605 on July 30, but his
July 31 observations are not up yet. O, Ron Howard says 4605.90 was
``noticeably off the air`` today.
I also heard something on 3905, but must be PNG, q.v. From Aoki you might think
RRI Merauke is still there but it`s been gone so long it`s not even in the
`silent stations` roster at Mr Ishida`s site,
http://www.max.hi-ho.ne.jp/a-ishida/ins/
let alone among current ones (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. Looking for staple JOZ, R. Nikkei 1, July 31 at 1211, but nothing on
3925, nor at 1215 on 6055. Per Aoki, different sign-off times by day of week
are: Sun 1200, Mon 1330, Tue/Thu/Fri 1400, Wed 1345, Sat 1230. Aoki shows both
JOZ 50 kW, 64 degrees at main Chiba-Nagara site, and JOZ4 at Nemuro, 10 kW,
non-direxional on 3925 in the local evenings with same times, but only starting
at 0800, while Chiba is also on all day from morning at 2155 or 2225. I think
the Nemuro is synchronized to fill in evening coverage gap. Anyhow, these are
reliable signals when on, so suspect Nikkei was off earlier than scheduled this
Saturday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBERIA. 4025-, Star Radio, presumed source of JBA carrier at 0556 July 31,
slightly on low side compared to Cuba 5025. Will we ever get adequate signal
and modulation from this, by winter? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA. VOA which was heard the night before on 11850 instead of 9870, //
still 9880, on July 31 at 0547 check was back on 9870 // 9880, Arabic. So maybe
the foray to 11850 was caused by forgetting to change the frequency of one of
the transmitters from that which had been used the previous evening; rather
than seeing the light about frequency diversity (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3335, some music audible at 1210 July 31, presumably R.
East Sepik, Wewak, only known broadcaster on this frequency, but really tuned
in too late after LSR.
3905, July 31 at 1211 music and talk, presumed R. New Ireland as no other
broadcasters known here, Indonesia [q.v.] inactive; QRhaM in SSB, of course
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 15450, VOT, Saturday July 31, poor at 1254 had DX Corner underway,
reading nothing but reception reports, which is not our idea of a DX program.
Later went to audio file and found it had started at 1251. YL IDs as ?erma? and
says she will go thru E-mail, not having received any letters this week. Who
cares what someone`s SINPO was in Germany --- except the sender and possibly
the recipient? But it was more interesting to hear Ted Schuerzinger`s comments
from USA about poor reception, also others, several from India. ``We have
notified our technical department``.
Lasted until 1304, back in two weeks. At least this reconfirms which weeks are
on and which weeks are off. After usual promos and fillers, started playing
songs at 1308. Well, we always enjoy their music, but it seems troublesome talk
feature content has been cut back for more and more easy music fill; staff
shortage, or usual vacation situation?
The needlessly complex full URL for the 31 July broadcast audio is:
http://www.trt-world.com/trtworld/Galeri/Media.aspx?MedyaKodu=c04470a5-2b22-433f-a849-29847dc09c67&KategoriKodu=d2b66127-a908-46d0-9f57-38d404a5dca1&dil=en
We should try it a day or more later to see if it still exists, altho linx to
each broadcast only last 24 hours. They do announce the date or day at the
start of each (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1523 monitoring chex: confirmed on webcasts:
WRMI, Wednesday 1530, Thursday 1500
ACBRadio Mainstream, Friday 0100
WWRB, Friday 0330
On SW:
WWCR, Friday 2030 on 15825. Missed checking Saturday 1630 on 12160, but Liz
Cameron says a screaming preacher was on instead. We`ll have to see that the
August program sked shows. Try UT Sunday 0230 on 4840, 0630 on 3215, 2330 on
9980 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Altho it was inaudible and believed off the air the night before, on
July 31 at 0545 I could hear a very poor signal with some music on 9370, or
rather slightly to the low side as is true for WTJC. Conditions were strange,
as WYFR and other US stations were also weak, but Europe/Mideast were quite
good on 31m. Next check at 1424, WTJC definitely back as usual (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5755, WTWW with paranoid PPP about government conspiracy, July 31 at
0553, his audio breaking up badly, and then to dead air, along with continuous
rumble and other audio garbage he outsends even when not modulating (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Answering yesterday`s question about whether Brother Scare would be
on 9265 or 9335 for his Sabbath extravaganza via WINB: 9265, still on the air
at 1535 check July 31, no 9335 where he has been showing up on weekdays,
secretly, as not listed on WINB website.
However, ftp://www.overcomerministry.org/RadioSchedule/Short%20Wave%20Radio.html
has now been corrected to show 9335 instead of 9355, but times 11 am-noon, and
2-4 pm are not specified as M-F only, still unattributed to any station, and no
timezone specified in the column headed for that, even tho surely EDT = UT -4.
Not using 9265 on weekdays after 1500 is in deference to virtually defunct WMLK
which claims the frequency but never uses it, while if it existed, WMLK would
not be on air for The Sabbath, unlike Brother Scare. WINB might as well use
9265 every day, as EJOM could hardly object. BTW, EJOM is not my flip monicker
for the late Yahweh guru; the WMLK website employs that initialism (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. The afternoon of July 30 we made an expedition NW from Enid to Great
Salt Plains State Park & National Wildlife Refuge OK, and to fill up on free
artesian water nearby. We also found some tasty sandplums on the roadside.
This was also my chance to check out AM and FM on the caradio in midsummer full
daytime, how it compares to Enid, and especially explore the coverage area of
KGNO 1370 Dodge City KS, which I can`t get daytime in Enid, and led me to
suspect they were off the air or with degraded facilities, nominally 5 kW
nondirexional.
KGNO became audible around Hillsdale OK not far out of Enid on State 132, and
on the way back down US 81 held up till about 5 miles north of Enid, then
dropped out completely. Since programming is far-right talk, we aren`t missing
anything.
Strange, tho, that as I drive around all parts of Enid I can`t get any sign of
it on caradio, nor on home rig in daytime. Possibly KCRC 1390 on the N side of
Enid is desensitizing receivers 20 kHz away without that being obvious. Close
to the site, KCRC does desensitize far more than 40 kHz, but one would think
this would not be a factor on the W side where KGNO might make it in.
At GSPSP, bandscan on the shore found 970 with // talk programming to KGWA 960
Enid but a couple seconds behind, at 1954 UT. Can`t be anything but KCFO Tulsa,
but the last we knew it was ``Christian Talk Radio`` while KGWA is secular, tho
right-skewed. Easily found website http://www.kcfo.com/ shows it is now ``Talk
You Can Trust``, which is debatable, with the likes of Focus on the Family.
It`s still plenty Christian, but Mon-Sat at 1-4 pm CDT is Dave Ramsey whose
main thrust seems to be financial advice, sort of crossover, so he also fits on
KGWA. Coverage map
http://www.kcfo.com/html/coveragemap.html
shows KCFO putting a little more signal northward of Enid than into our
Garfield County. And KGWA is an obstacle to 970 tho in some parts of town we
can pull another gospel huxter past it on 950, Bott`s KJRG Newton KS.
Just trying to find KGWA`s schedule, all searches lead to website of its
offspring KOFM, where there is NOTHING about KGWA, even by internal search.
By GSPSP&NWR, KOSU 91.7 signal is losing out, so we have to look elsewhere for
NPR, i.e. KMUW 89.1 Wichita. It`s in and out, but hardly clear, as the Enid
Oasis Network translator K06CA on 89.1, 250 watts, is still enough to be quite
a problem on a nondirexional car antenna. This, its flagship KNYD 90.5 Tulsa
and many other relays are licensed to ``Creative Educational Media Corp.,``,
another gospel huxter group trying to portray itself as ``educational``, and
``creative`` (codeword for creationism?) to boot!
On 1470 at 1957 UT, ``The Rocket 1470 AM, blast from the past``, and ``mission
control forecast`` by YL Dee2 Michaels, hi 91, lo 68 which indicates it is
slightly further north and/or west than Enid. Has to be Liberal KS which has
good coverage but does not make it on GW to Enid. Googling the slogan is
surprisingly unproductive, but I do find it on a cache of the unavailable City
of Liberal website, http://www.cityofliberal.com/b_marketing.htm ---
KSMM-AM [sic] 1470 The Rocket
150 Village Plaza
Liberal, KS 67901
Phone: (620) 624-8156
Email: [email protected]
So it seems Enid is not the only city with a cohete for a radio station. 1470
is no longer Spanish sports as in NRC 2009 Log, tho their FM is Spanish.
On 1540 at 1959 UT, Mozart`s ``Eine Kleine Nachtmusik`` catches my ear but it
has English lyrix I can`t make out. Turns out to be a PSA for
http://www.americansforthearts.org --- an undoubtedly worthy cause.
On the website I don`t find that PSA, just a 3-year old video:
http://www.americansforthearts.org/information_services/video_audio/video/007.asp
Then mentions central Kansas, and ``Talk Radio 1540, KNGL, McPherson``. This
one also barely makes it to Enid.
On 600 at 2000 UT, a trace of talk, but some remote T-storm is too much for it.
Probably groundwave remnant of KCOL in CO, the station which set off the
skywave fiesta on April 20, or possibly WMT in IA. KLTT 670 from CO is of
course quite a bit stronger here than in Enid close to the end of its
groundwave.
On 1360 at 2112 UT, Catholic talk with a slight echo. In Enid we get one, KAHS
El Dorado KS with EWTN, but at GSPSP&NWR, another affiliate, KDJW in Amarillo
TX is also incoming. NRC AM Log 2009 says the latter is ``St. Valentine
Radio``, 500 watts but with a CP for 6000, while KAHS is ``Holy Spirit Radio``.
1580 at 2304 UT, KOKB Blackwell OK is once again modulationless, setting up we
hope for another chance to ID the Saturday morning Spanish underneath (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. KOKB 1580 Blackwell OK co?perated by keeping its
carrier unmodulated the morning of July 31, so another chance to try to pull an
ID from the Spanish station underneath which so far I have detected only on
several Saturdays. Started checking at 1222 UT, but no Spanish, dominant
station being The Sports Hog, i.e. KHGG Van Buren AR, and it IDed with Fort
Smith at 1300. Only after 1300 did I start to hear Mexican music mixing in.
Some US station, not necessarily KHGG, had IRN-USA Radio News.
At 1302, hyper Spanish announcer may have included ID --- just as in English,
they employ totally insincere voice actors screaming IDs, promos and
commercials, as if they would impress listeners.
1306 station in English starting Home Business Radio Show with Tom Chenault,
which Google pins on KKKK 1580 Colorado Springs (however, FCC AM Query shows
the call is now KREL, with KKKK now unassigned and thus available for the Klan
to klutch onto).
I was busy unloading carload of artesian water, but rolled tape at 1318-1350,
listened to it later. Only a few bits of Spanish appeared now and then, nothing
identifiable, beyond circa 1345 mentioning Guadalajara, and partido, i.e.
sports talk, which could be from either United States.
Back to live monitoring at 1355, ``La Zona, m?s m?sica``; 1359 promo
``deportes, sin censura, en La Zona, T---``. I thought it sounded like
Teotihuac?n, but doubt the Mexican pyramids have such a radio station. Never
heard an XE- call; soon mentioned ``la capital del estado``, which is still
unhelpful. Losing it by 1402, tho KOKB still OC, and also at 1417 when nothing
else is audible.
``La Zona`` should be a good clue for research including Googling, but turns
out to be totally unproductive; the word zona is a bit too generic for refined
searching. There are a number of radio stations in LAm using such a slogan, but
surely this is USAmerica, or at best USMexico, and get no matches with 1580
included. It could be an AM station merely simulcasting an FM station by that
name. But I have not found any correlations with possible US or Mexican 1580
stations.
Current references show only four Mexicans on 1580, but FCC AM Query comes up
with lots of applications not only in Mexico but several in the US, such as
Santa Fe NM, which would be a nice fit geographically and propagationally for
what I am hearing on my E-W 110-foot longwire. Possibly this is a new station,
one of those really on the air now. Perhaps a New Mexican could check 1580 just
in case. When I lived there, an Albuquerque outlet inhabited 1580, before they
started swapping around stations, frequencies, formats and locations in the
upper part of the band.
And what about KMIK Tempe AZ? It is still 100% Disney, right? 50 kW
non-direxional day ought to be a factor here for a while after sunrise, but
never heard anything resembling Disney music format. It`s still on website
http://radio.disney.go.com/music/yourstation/phoenix/about.html
Altho no help with this mystery, Googling also led me to a website worth
bookmarking/favoring, crammed with linx and info including radio:
http://www.zonalatina.com/Radio.htm
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7000-SSB, July 31 at 1219, 2-way unseems Spanish, including some
singing at 1250. I assume real hams would not be running SSB on this bandedge
frequency, nor dare musicality (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15556, weak 4 kHz het against strong Portugal 15560, July 31 at
1257. Very likely a ChiCom jammer against variable V. of Tibet via Tajikistan
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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