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Today's Topics:
1. Logs for Al Muick (Albert Muick)
2. Radio Fides Active (Charles Bolland)
3. African Logs ([email protected])
4. Djibouti on Ramadan (Eike Bierwirth)
5. Glenn Hauser logs August 20, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
6. Please check 1580 Saturday morning in S/C USA (Glenn Hauser)
7. Glenn Hauser logs August 20-21, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:34:02 +0430
From: "Albert Muick" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs for Al Muick
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QTH: Kabul, Afghanistan
RX: WinRadio G303e
ANT: 100m Longwire/Randomwire
ACC: Palstar MW-550P Mediumwave Preselector
4845 20 AUG, 0058 UTC, MAURITANIA, Radio Mauritanie in Arabic talk, staying
on past supposed 0100 sign-off. Some Arabic prayer and French announcements
after 0100 with male announcer. Probably on Ramadan schedule. Reasonably
strong signal for this late in the morning, but modulation very low. QRM
from CW UTE on 4844.
5040 20 AUG, 0028 UTC, INDIA AIR Kolkata in Hindi with music. Modulator
shot. Beautiful carrier, but modulation distorted and unable to provide
enough power to completely modulate the signal. Strong carrier, no QRM, but
moderate fading.
5860 20 AUG, 0118 UTC, SRI LANKA, Radio Farda, caught in mid-music playing
Uriah Heep's Lady in Black. Immediately into Middle Eastern music after ID.
Now *that* is bizarre! That's about the last music I ever expected to hear
on Farda! Surprisingly poor signals, no QRM, but heavy fluttery
propagation.
9725 20 AUG, 0440 UTC, TUNISIA, RTV Tunisia, with Arabic vocals and talk.
Fair signal mid-morning here, no QRM and moderate fading.
"To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection:
it is plunder."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:41:45 -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] Radio Fides Active
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Radio Fides is active on 6155.36 KHz NOW! at 1040
Chuck
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:25:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] African Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** CHAD. 6165, RNT, *0427-0459, August 20, sign on with Balafon
IS. National Anthem at 0429. Opening French announcements at
0430. Afro-pop music at 0433. Weak but readable. Covered by Radio
Nederland sign on at 0459. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** ERITREA. 9710.03, NF, Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea,
*0355-0410, August 20, sign on with IS. Talk at 0400. Some local
Horn of Africa music. Fair to good. // 7175 - poor with noise jammer.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
** MADAGASCAR. 4910 USB, Radio Madagasikara, 0350-0400,
August 20, local African music. Talk in local language. Weak but
readable. Nothing heard on 5010. New frequency or punch-up
error. Thanks to Jari Savolainen tip. (Brian Alexander, PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:09:41 +0200
From: "Eike Bierwirth" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Djibouti on Ramadan
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Hi,
Djibouti on 4780 kHz has extended its schedule by one hour, most likely because
of the ongoing Ramadan. Today (20 August 2010) they aired a closing
announcement and their national anthem at 2200 UTC, fell silent at 2202, tx
close-down at 22:02:30. I have to listen in LSB due to strong UTE noise; but
then reception is not too bad (SINPO 34333; I=1 if not in LSB).
73,
Eike
Eike Bierwirth
Leipzig, Germany
JRC NRD525 with PA0RDT MiniWhip antenna
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:24:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 20, 2010
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** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36 detectable Friday Aug 20, VP at 1325 with YL in
Spanish, weaker than hettor 15480 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake August 20:
8400 and up, none found from 1310 except:
14700, JBA at 1317
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9420, no signal, not even a carrier detectable from VOG, Aug 20 at
0522, tho BBC 9410 and CVC 9430 were in well; so ERT was off? But at 1328,
15630 on as usual, fair signal with heated discussion in Greek rather than
music, one side on the phone; 1401 brief music and back to talk (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI had been chugging along just fine for the past week,
English at 13-14, but Friday Aug 20 the VG signal with some hum bore no
English, just Indonesian (or Malay?), at several chex, 1306, 1323, 1345, but no
hindrance to the music at the latter time. Despite het from CRI Russian 9525.0
from *1357, VOI stayed on past 1400 this time, still music at 1411.
Atsunori Ishida`s almost daily monitoring of this from Japan at
http://www.max.hi-ho.ne.jp/a-ishida/ins/
does not yet include Aug 20, but he did find some other anomalies in language
rotation recently: on Aug 15 there was additional English at 11 and 12 instead
of Chinese and Japanese; Aug 13, extra Chinese at 1101 switched to English at
1120; Aug 9 at 1203 extra Chinese instead of Japanese.
`9525` nominally changes from 135 to a 10 degree azimuth at 11, and to 290
degrees at 16. 10 degrees carries on transiting the Arctic to cross Detroit,
while Enid is about 30 degrees from Cimanggis but at 15 megameters, signal
spreads out quite a bit by the time it gets here. I wonder if it`s even better
in Michigan, plus NW and SE from there.
Or is Aoki correct, that all 9525 transmissions are at 30 degrees, right on
Enid? That would also cross Japan, rather more likely bearing for Japanese and
ESL audience (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1580, KOKB, Blackwell didn`t wait until the weekend to drop
modulation and resume open carrier: Friday Aug 20 at 1525, 2000 and 2350 UT
chex. I hope others in neighboring states will monitor 1580 Saturday 1300-1400+
UT for the Spanish sportstalk unID I have been getting for weeks on 1580, only
on Saturdays at this time (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PORTUGAL [and non]. 21810, Aug 20 at 1337, very poor signal but OSOB, with
what sounded like ``praise music``, i.e. one-note pitch shifts back and forth,
language uncertain, English or Spanish? Gone or faded out by 1355 check. I
vaguely recalled that one of the US gospel-huxters formerly used this
frequency, WHRI? So trying it again? No, only one station is currently
scheduled, RDPI eastward M-F at 13-15, so I suppose that was it, with
misleading music. By 1356, there were JBA signals on 21570, 21610, i.e.
copeninsular SPAIN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 17615 // 17625, Aug 20 at 1331 in Qur`an, slightly better on
the latter and also // weaker 17895, but not // 17705, separate Arabic program
which was best of all but only fair. But at 1359 past 1400, 17615 continued
with Qur`an while 17625 was gone.
This all fits for BSKSA 500 kW Riyadh scheduling. One transmitter on 17615 at
100 degrees switches from 17615 to 17625 at 1200-1400, but a second transmitter
comes on 17615, 190 degrees at 1300-1600, while VP 17895 is 295 degrees at
1200-1500. And 17705 is Program I, 1200-1500 at 310 degrees, the only one of
these aimed USward, but really for Europe.
Also JBA seems Arabic on 21505 at 1357, must be BSKSA as scheduled 12-15; could
not detect them on 21460, 21530, 21600 or 21640, also scheduled at this hour
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. 15170, REE via COSTA RICA, usually has big signal aimed 340
degrees USward, but Aug 20 at 1319 almost equal CCI from something in Russian,
i.e. BBC via Woofferton, scheduled here from 1300, 300 kW at 70 degrees. At
least it`s a sign of possibly improving conditions from Europe. See also
PORTUGAL.
But by 1405 REE definitely atop starting ``Paisajes y Sabores``, traipsing
senderos inc?gnitos, including C?rdoba, Andaluc?a; Cordillera Pirenaica (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 15450, VOT, fair Aug 20 at 1323, sign-off English and IS played
twice before carrier-off, an improvement over yesterday, only once. But there
are multiple piano variations to the same tune, some of them quite subtle.
As of 2300 UT Aug 20, the latest English audio linked on TRT website is still
for Aug 17, so I can`t check whether there was a ``Live from Turkey`` on
Thursday Aug 19. Webmaster on holiday? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15550-USB, WJHR, Aug 20 at 1402, poor with preacher about government,
Jesus being king whether we vote for him or not. Please! We had enough of
divine-right monarchies by 1776y (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 13710, Aug 20 at 0532, SSOB in African-accented French, news of
Africa including Niger; cholera in Nigeria. Don`t recall hearing this before,
but soon refers to ``les nouvelles en direct de Washington`` and VOA is
scheduled 305 degrees via MADAGASCAR, M-F 0530-0600.
7550, Aug 20 at 1414, weak talk, only third signal left on 40m band following
WWCR 7490, RA 7240; o yes, it`s via Tinang, PHILIPPINES, VOA`s Indonesian
service on Thu-Fri-Sat only, mostly US pop music, I thought; with ACI from
7546, see UNIDENTIFIED (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9512v, Aug 20 at 1303 as I am approaching Indonesia, distracted by
the unique raspy voice of Brother Scare, hetting something weak on 9515 and the
het is varying. BS is on three intentional 31m channels at this time, 9265
WINB, 9385 WWRB and 9980 WWCR, but since none are synchronized, 9512 audio only
matches 9385, yet another defect of this transmitter. Did not find such a spur
on the other side, on 9258. Previous spurs from this have been wide distorted
blobs rather than precise carriers with readable modulation. At the same time,
PPPP on WTWW 9479 was overloading as far as 9512 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 630, again clear of WWLS OK IBOC from 640, Aug 20 at 1530 and
1700 chex on caradio in western Enid, weak talk including news at 1700, but too
much T-storm QRN from westward. WWLS turns off IBOC unpredictably and this has
nothing to do with when there is live play-by-play as some stations do, to
avoid AM/IBOC asynchrony.
Maybe someday everything will mesh: no IBOC, lo noise, good daytime propagation
and I can definitely ID 630 as KHOW Denver on groundwave. There still may be
weaker IBOC from the other side, the mickey-mouse station in the Metroplex,
KMKI 620, hijacked from Wichita Falls, ex-KWFT, once a full-service station
which even put me on the p-mailing list for their program schedules (Glenn
Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7544-USB, Aug 20 at 1415, Spanish 2-way with pauses, QRMing VOA
7550 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:50:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: ABDX <[email protected]>, [email protected],
[email protected], mwdx <[email protected]>,
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Please check 1580 Saturday morning in S/C USA
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1580, KOKB, Blackwell OK didn`t wait until the weekend to drop modulation and
resume open carrier: already Friday Aug 20 at 1525, 2000 and 2350 UT chex.
I hope others in neighboring states will monitor 1580 this Saturday at
1300-1400+ UT (8-9+ am CDT) for the Spanish sportstalk unID I have been getting
for weeks on 1580, only on Saturdays at this time.
WTTN in Wisconsin is probably carrying ESPN Deportes, but I really think it is
closer, and not a full-time Spanish station, maybe running this by mistake.
Thanks, Glenn Hauser, Enid OK
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:40:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 20-21, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** ANGUILLA [and non]. This could be a good evening for hearing something else
on 6090: at 0052 UT past 0100 Aug 21, no Anguilla; instead, DGS still on day
frequency 11775, in huge collision with DentroCuban Jamming Command and Radio
Mart?, making SAH of about 5 Hz too. Rather self-defeating; but then, he`s
dead. // 5935 via WWCR, shortly with PMS instead; she`s alive. Still same clash
at 0146.
After 0300, RM and (most of?) the jamming are gone from 11775, and Caribbean
Beacon is still on 11775 at 0312 with DGS; rather weak and now the problem is
Bras?lia, still going on 11780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA [and non]. 5954, 0139 Aug 21, carrier is still on this
off-frequency, but cannot make out any modulation vs WYFR on 5950, apparent
jamming on hi side. Presumably the ELCOR test-transmission from Gu?piles, Costa
Rica, but are they still carrying Radio Rep?blica? That had been running since
2300 on 9490 via Sackville, with heavy jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** IRAN. 9495, Aug 21 at 0206, speaker in American accent fooled me at first, a
VOA service? Hardly: VIRI likes to put such accents on the air from dissidents;
some propaganda about US intelligence, with poor studio miking, or boomy room,
plus music bed to make it that much harder to follow thru the ionosphere.
0211 ID as ``Voice of Justice, Live from Tehran``, so these poor announcers
really have to work from 5 to 6 am local?? ``Coming up next: The Collapse of
Global Imperialism``, quoting someone from the New School in New York. At least
we still have regional imperialism. This and other logs 0200-0300+ on indoor
longwire due to T-storm nearby (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 4845, something there Aug 21 at 0141, presumably ORTM on
extended 24h? Ramadan schedule, but too much WWCR from 4840 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 6185, at 0134 Aug 21, no Portuguese, just Spanish, so
XEPPM, apparently remote report about Huapango, M&W conversing in the open, but
audio cutting off and on, mostly off. There have been reports of RNA back on
6185, but not now, it seems, tho certainly there on 11780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [and non]. 9665, VOR English via Pridnestrovye, poor Aug 21 at 0205
with het, probably from off-frequency Brasilian rather than North Korean at
this hour. 7440 via Ukraine not any better. 15425 via DVR not propagating.
Meanwhile, VOR Spanish on 9735 is loud and clear, since this favored service
gets to use the Guiana French relay (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11520, WEWN English transmitter is still putting out swishy spurs
plus and minus 10 kHz. Aug 21 at 0146 I am hearing one QRMing WYFR 11530 in
Portuguese, but WYFR has a // free of it right up the dial at 11550. WEWN spur
also audible with BFO on 11510 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [and non]. UT August 21 compared the VR relays to North America,
going from French to English at 0250 on 7305 and 9610.
7305 Santa Maria di Galeria cut off the air at 0249:03 while French was still
speaking; back on with better signal via Sackville about a semiminute later
with IS briefly, 0250 opening English show about Pius X.
9610 Bonaire, au contraire, had an overlap of a few sex before 0250 with ripple
SAH, then clear via Sackville only and // synchronized 7305 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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