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Today's Topics:
1. Brazil 5055 reactivated (Karel Honz?k)
2. tUES dX (Charles Bolland)
3. Re: Brazil 5055 reactivated (Glenn Hauser)
4. Glenn Hauser logs August 2-3, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
5. Re: Brazil 5055 reactivated (Brandon Jordan)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:22:37 +0200 (CEST)
From: Karel Honz?k <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Brazil 5055 reactivated
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BRAZIL
Radio Jornal A Critica reactivated 5055kHz (5054.96kHz). "A Critica
FM" relay heard this morning (AUG 03, 0323-0530UTC) with a nice
signal here in the middle of Europe.
Karel Honzik, CZE
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 11:13:37 -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] tUES dX
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Korea, N, 4450, KCBS, 1003-1015, Noted steady Korean
Language comments
by a female. She was very dramatic with her comments.
At 1007 a male
sings. Signal was poor but better than usual. (Chuck
Bolland, August 03, 2010)
Indonesia, 4750, RRI Makassar, 1010-1020, Noted a male
reciting the Qu'ran. After
a few minutes, popular music presented. Signal was
fair this morning. (Chuck
Bolland, August 3, 2010)
China, 5925, China National Radio Five, 1020-1030
Noted a male and female in Chinese
language news. Also heard reports from the field by
others, at least that was the
impression when a third person commented. Signal was
fair. (Chuck Bolland,
August 3, 2010)
Bolivia, 5952.43, Emisoras Pio XII, 1030-1045, Noted a
weak signal here with a male in
preaching mode until 1031 when a second person comments
in Spanish with program
information it seemed. Signal was weak and poor with
plenty of noise. (Chuck Bolland,
August 3, 2010)
Papua New Guinea, 5960, Radio Fly,(TENT),1040-1105,
Noted a male and female in comments
in English, could really make it out with the noise.
English is listed for this.
At 1043 music presented. The music being played sounds
like it was from PNG.
Following the music the male talks more. Signal was
poor but improves by 1105.
(Chuck Bolland, August 3, 2010)
NRD545
26.37N 081.05W
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 07:32:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], Karel Honz?k
<[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [HCDX] Brazil 5055 reactivated
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But watch out for this which I heard on 5055:
** CUBA. 5055, very poor signal in Spanish, music mix, Aug 2 at 0527. Soon
realized it was leapfrog of Cuba 5025 over 5040, and then confirmed by //
audio. This might explain some unID on 5055, if both the Cubans are strong.
Also lower leapfrog would land on 5010, leading people to hypothesize Honduras,
dream of Dominican Republic or even imagine Madagascar. So always check for
Cuban parallels, the dirty birds (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
--- On Tue, 8/3/10, Karel Honz?k <[email protected]> wrote:
> BRAZIL
> Radio Jornal A Critica reactivated 5055kHz (5054.96kHz). "A
> Critica
> FM" relay heard this morning (AUG 03, 0323-0530UTC) with a
> nice
> signal here in the middle of Europe.
>
> Karel Honzik, CZE
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 10:07:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 2-3, 2010
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** ANTARCTICA. After tracking Turkey`s late switch from 13760 to 15450, started
monitoring LRA36 on 15476, Aug 3 at 1237: music with heavy beat, hetting weaker
15480 station; 1244 brief announcement and more music. After listening to
incomparably better VOI for an hour, check 15476 at 1358 and now it is a JBA
carrier with music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. Aug 3 morning I mistakenly checked higher bands first, not down
to 120m until 1205, finding the VL8s all audible with // music, 2310 and 2325
slightly stronger than 2485. Now to try 2368.5 for R. Symban: yes, can detect a
carrier, and threshold imagination-level music but I will not be so bold as to
say it was Greek, yet. Could not detect the seventh harmonic of 338 kHz LW
beacon LSA in Lamesa TX, on 2366, this time.
At 1218, WWV prop info says solar flux Aug 2 was 79, A-index 4. K-index at
1200, 2. No storms expected next 24 hours (despite the big CME hurtling
earthward) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 9625, 0518 August 3, continuous tone test again inexplicably from
presumed CBCNQ after 0505* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here, Aug 3 at 1147 on 7500-7535,
faster rate than usual; and at 1153 on 5805-5855 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Aug 3, another morning with no Firedrake audible; is it really
totally gone? Nothing heard until 1240 from 8 to 18 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC anomaly check August 3: at 0525 English on 6000 an echo apart from
6010 from other site, also // 5970, 6060, but missing from 6150 where it has
been a few weeks after 0500. Spanish on 6120, 5040. Probably failed to make
switch from 6000 to 6150 at 0500. See also FRANCE [and non] 9790, another
asleep-at-the-switch clue.
By 1148, 6150 was back on the air in Spanish, clashing with Chinese, Taiwan vs
Mainland jamming, Commies vs Commies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE [and non]. 9790, August 3 at 0516 extremely strong S9+25 open
carrier, making normally sufficient RFI just barely audible underneath; it was
off by 0525. Most likely Habana failed to turn off the transmitter which until
0500 was relaying CRI in Cantonese, 250 kW, 305 degrees. France runs 500 kW
from Issoudun to Africa, at 155 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 4790-, surprised to find best extracontinental 60m signal, really
only 1 kW? was RRI Fak2, August 3 at 1157, well-modulated Indo talk giving
CODAR a run for its money as well as storm noise level from around Deep Water
Horizon and/or SE Montana. Frequency a smidgin on low side; last measured by
Ron Howard 40 Hz low. 1159 music, 1200 SCI, timesignal about 35 seconds late,
into YL with presumed Warta Berita. By SCI at hourtop it`s synchronized //
weaker 4750 Makassar, but 4605- Serui inaudible, off again? All gone by 1215
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI, everything clix Aug 3: Japanese not looping before
1300, good modulation and negligible hum for the English hour, joint produxion
with RRI Banjarmasin since it`s another ``Exotic Indonesia`` excursion on
Tuesday. I do have to attenuate the FRG-7 in order to rid crosstalk from
overloading WTWW PPPP on 9479, as I feed it to the breakfast table DX-390 via
the WT-601N Wireless FM Transmitter tuned to 90.7.
Opens with small talk conversation between the studios: in Banj the weather is
very bad with rain; hot in Jak as usual. Traffic jams are worse in the huge
capital, but Banj has them too at morning and afternoon rush hours.
1304:30, finally starts newscast, items alternating from the two stations,
including: presidential plane departs late from Ambon, weather delay. Indonesia
to mediate between N and S Korea.
More than one announcer from Banj participates, but the guy with the
distinctive voice outros himself as something-Rahman. So I look at the website
again
http://www.rribanjarmasin.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=83
under Crew on the Air, but still don`t find a name match under Pro 2 or any of
the others displaying photos and zodiak signs.
1322, another guy IDs as Banj Pro-2 on 95.2, also streaming, phone number,
e-mail, and claims three SW frequencies, 9525, 11785, 15150 even tho this
broadcast is never on more than one and has stayed on 9526- for many months
now.
1324, Today in History, including Hitler`s consolidating power in 1934 plus
WWII in a nutshell; 1954 Abdul Rahman rules Malaya, becoming Malaysia as
Chinese-dominated Singapore opts out. 1328 Focus, but the announcer on this has
an accent too heavy. 1333 chat about revaluations of the rupiah.
1336 rest of hour to be coming from Banjarmasin studio, starting with a talk
about a few of the 40 traditional games for children, a pre-produced ``culture
show`` by the mystery man at RRI Pro-2. 1355 some Indo rock music, still
audible atop CRI Russian 9525.0 het from *1357:30 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MYANMAR. Weak het against WYFR 5985 open carrier August 3 at 1151 during
pause between broadcasts. At 1154 YFR was off for antenna change from 355 to
315 degrees, and off-frequency carrier was JBA on about 5985.8. No doubt it`s
Myanmar, perpetually off-frequency, about the closest I can come to hearing it
in deep North America. Nothing audible on 5770 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3335, Wewak, Aug 3 at 1203, music audible but VP by this
hour after hearing Indonesia on 60m; only station on 90m besides BS from WWRB
3185 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 5970, August 3 at 1154, open carrier and intermittent Russian
tune-up tones, leading up to YFR, 250 kW, 213 degrees via Komsomolsk/Amure in
Korean at 12-13, per Aoki. No sign of REE/Costa Rica on 5970 as registered.
REE`s other frequency 5930 occupied by the Pet/Kam motorblob of R. Rossii. O,
A-10 sked per WRTH update shows CR not on until 1200 on either (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RWANDA. GERMANY [non]. DW is regularly heard in German on 9480, which is 30
degrees via Kigali, such as Aug 3 at 0519, but this time also audible on 9465
// but an echo apart. Despite that, this too is listed as Kigali, but at 180
degrees. I was also getting an echo on a single frequency, 9700 in DW English,
and at 0536 in Portuguese, long plus short path? Both of those are 190 degrees
from Kigali (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. 11795, REE Emisi?n Sefarad, UT Tue August 3: *0113:45 with
REE IS, VG signal better than Spanish to S America on 11680. 0115 opening show
which was almost all very enjoyable music until 0143 wrapup. After 0145*
fanfare and another snippet of music, checked 11680 where REE in Castilian had
a feature on the Arctic Ocean; tuned on to 11630 where Portugal had its own
nice music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 13760, surprised to hear VOT piano-variations IS, Aug 3 at 1227,
interspersed with IDs only in English! Nothing on 15450 where it is supposed to
be. Once again, Emirler operator failed to make the frequency switch before
another language began! 13760 carries German from 1130. 1230 timesignal and
opening English broadcast, program previews, news headlines and news until
abrupt cut at 1234:47*.
Then I tune to 15450 and wait for it to show up there, and that cuts on
abruptly at *1236:37 first with weak carrier, then step up to full strength,
then add modulation all within a few sex, news in progress. So it took 110
seconds to make the switch which should have occurred sometime between 1220 and
1225. Ultimately signal is better on 15 than 13, tho same 310 azimuth.
1246, promo mentioning trtenglish.com voiced by Sheref Ishler: is he still
there or will his recordings live on far beyond his term? 1246 feature by YL
about Ottoman-era metric recipe including coriander. 1254, Sheref again with a
travelog about the beautiful beaches of western Turkey; 1259, multi-lingual ID
filler.
I was expecting some clash on 13760 from V of Korea but I see that does not
start until 1300 with English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. VOA French has a really hyper DJ taking calls from listeners,
August 2 at 2015 on 15730. He`s fun to listen to but taxes the comprehension of
the non-native French Fpeaker. At 2019 introduced song ``Just the Way You
Are``, yes, performed in English.
This page
http://www1.voanews.com/french/programs/radio/91055704.html
displays rather sparse info:
``Musique 2000 --- Emission musicale interactive de Matthew Lavoie``
and there is an audio link to a recent show.
http://www.voanews.com/mp3/voa/africa/fren/fren2000a.mp3
15730, daily at 2000-2030 only is 76 degrees from S?o Tom?, but it was strong
enough this time I figured it was Greenville, which extends the transmission on
weekends only until 2100. He outroed the show just in time for 2030*.
I hear that R. Mart? on 15590 yesterday was a mistake, as Greenville is
understaffed and overworked, trying to keep all the transmitters operational a
while longer (Glenn Hauser, OK, Aug 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:45:22 -0500
From: Brandon Jordan <[email protected]>
To: Karel Honz?k <[email protected]>, HCDX CONTRIBUTIONS - LATEST
<[email protected]>, DXLD <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Brazil 5055 reactivated
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On 8/3/2010 1:22 AM, Karel Honz?k wrote:
> BRAZIL
> Radio Jornal A Critica reactivated 5055kHz (5054.96kHz). "A Critica
> FM" relay heard this morning (AUG 03, 0323-0530UTC) with a nice
> signal here in the middle of Europe.
Hi Karel, thank you for the report. I have been following this signal
the past two nights (August 2 and 3), an overnight program of Brazilian
and US pop and ballads. I haven't been able to pull an ID from it so far
due to high static levels, but was working on the assumption it was
possibly R?dio Difusora, C?ceres MT.
73,
Brandon Jordan, Memphis, TN
Perseus SDR, 15'x60' KAZ loop
www.bcdx.org
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