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Today's Topics:
1. Unidentified 6248.30 ([email protected])
2. Sept 6 Logs ([email protected])
3. Mon MOrn DX (Charles Bolland)
4. Oceania and Pacific logs (L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec)
5. Glenn Hauser logs September 6, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 03:56:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Unidentified 6248.30
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** UNIDENTIFIED. 6248.30, 0635-0755+, Sept 6, Middle Eastern music.
Religious recitations at 0646 in unidentified language. Lite instrumental
music after 0700. Good. Strong. No //s found. Kuwait testing?
Western Sahara 6297 off frequency? (Alexander-PA)
?
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 04:13:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Sept 6 Logs
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** ETHIOPIA. 6030, Radio Oromiya, *0322-0335, Sept 6, sign on with
xylophone-like IS. Opening announcements at 0330 in listed Oromo.
Local Horn of Africa music at 0332. Weak. Poor with adjacent channel
splatter but no co-channel QRM with Radio Marti and jammer off the
air on UTC Mondays. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** EURO-PIRATE. NETHERLANDS. 6324.98, Black Bandit Radio,
0010-0025*, Sept 6, pop ballads. Local oldies music. English ID
announcements. Said they were playing ?local music from Amsterdam.?
Fair signal. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** IRAN [non]. via Moldova, 7460, Radio Payam-e Doost, 0240-0315*,
Sept 6, Mid-east style music. Farsi talk. ID. Some instrumental classical-
religious music. Good. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** KUWAIT?? 7130, Radio Kuwait? 0515-0534*, Sept 6, Kuwait testing
here again as they were doing back in Jan-April? Talk in unidentified
language. Some Mid-east style choral music. Abrupt sign off. Strong.
Too strong to be Eritrea or Ethiopia. No //s found. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** NIGERIA. 7275, FRCN, Abuja, 0601-0635, Sept 6, audible under
Tunisia at 0601 tune-in. Weak but in the clear at 0627 when Tunisia
signs off. English news program. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** SOUTH AFRICA. 7285, Radio Sonder Grense, *0459-0510, Sept 6,
sign on with talk in Afrikaans. Very weak in noisy conditions. (Brian
Alexander, PA)
** SUDAN. 7200, SRTC, *0239-0431*, Sept 6, sign on with Qur`an.
Local tribal music. Arabic talk. Local pop music. Fair signal but mixing
with a weak Iran until Iran?s sign off at approximately 0330. (Brian
Alexander, PA)
** UNIDENTIFIED. 6248.30, 0635-0755+, Sept 6, Middle Eastern music.
Religious recitations at 0646 in unidentified language. Lite instrumental
music after 0700. Good. Strong. No //s found. Kuwait testing?
Perhaps Western Sahara 6297 off frequency? (Brian Alexander, PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 11:05:36 -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] Mon MOrn DX
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Bolivia, 6134.80, Radio Santa Cruz, 0938-1000,
Initially noted a male in Spanish language
comments. Then at 0940 music commences. At 0944 male
returns with more comments.
Signal was fair this morning. (Chuck Bolland,
September 6, 2010)
Brazil, 4807.98, Radio Difusora Do Amazonas(pres),
0945-1000, Noted a very weak signal
here with a male in Portuguese language comments.
Signal doesn't improve at all from
this point. It remains threshold. (Chuck Bolland,
September 6, 2010)
Bolivia, 5952,42, Radio Emisoras Pio XII, 1009-1015,
Noted a male and female in Spanish
comments. These comments could be the news. Not too
sure since there's plenty
of Splatter on the freq. Signal was fair. (Chuck
Bolland, September 6, 2010)
WinRadio G305e/pd
26.37N 081.05W
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 09:48:57 -0300
From: L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, "Anker Petersen"
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Oceania and Pacific logs
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3945, R. Vanuatu, Port Vila. September, 06 0933-0943 male and female in
discussion seems in their dialect, male announcements on music, male outside.
25332, (lob-B).
5020, Solomon Islands BC, Honiara. September, 06 0946-1000 two male in English
comments "program..Solomon Islands..listeners..recognizing..are welcome". From
10000 started splash of 5035 R. Aparecida annoying SIBC, 23332 (lob-B).
9710, R. Australia, Shepparton. September, 06 1005-1015 Pacific Pop music, male
in Pidgin announcements, female interviewing male. 34433, (lob-B.
11945, ABC Radio via R. Australia, Shepparton. Sepetember, 06 1016-1028 male
and female talking about many topics like of China, Indonesia, Taiwan, Nort
Korea with many outside talks. "ABC Radio..Australia". 33433, (lob-B).
73's
L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec
Embu SP Brasil - Sony ICF SW40 - Dipole 18m, 32m; Longwire 22m.
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 09:50:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 6, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** ALBANIA. 13755, checking whether R. Tirana is back in scheduled English
Mon-Sat at 1430-1500: Sept 6 at 1430 nothing audible vs Cuban overload from
13680, 13740, 13780; 1431 a carrier, and can barely make out Klara`s voice with
English transmission schedule. Registers S9 but also with low modulation,
unusable. European propagation very poor today.
Last week, Anne Fanelli in NY found the 2000 English broadcast on 13640 instead
in Albanian. Drita ?i?o reports that there was a problem with their STL to
Shijak for a few days so instead it relayed the domestic program I, picked up
off the air.
Does this mean all English broadcasts were replaced by Albanian, even all
foreign-language transmissions? Shijak should keep some evergreen recordings on
hand to play back from there in such emergencies, or better yet, have a backup
feed route (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36 barely audible Sept 6 at 1316 with pop music, a bit
stronger than hetted 15480 Rampisham (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Sept 6:
8400, very poor at 1256. No others found up to 18 MHz after 1300; E Asian
conditions were generally poor today.
9855, Sept 6 at 1344 heard some FD-like music, but soon with vocals, so rules
that out. Not // 9845 CNR1 jammer; gone at 1408 recheck. It`s really CRI
Chinese service at 12-14, 500 kW, 215 degrees from a Beijing site, per Aoki
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 9965, new frequency for DentroCuban Jamming Command, Sept 6
at 1408, heavy grind over something modulating. Or is it DRM? So hard to tell
them apart. Then I also hear 4 pulses per second, so it`s jammer; later mixed
with weaker 3 pulses per second, approx. Still going at 1501. Gone at 1638
check; but heavy jamming on 9800 --- oops, that`s really DRM from Sackville.
Suspect 9965 a new R. Rep?blica frequency; is that right, my friend in Havana?
Meanwhile 9955 WRMI with Prague was not being jammed at 1408+. 9965 could not
be a punch-up error for 9955 as there are multiple jamming sites involved. The
collateral victim is R. Australia via Palau, previously audible here altho no
comparison to Shep on 9580, 9590; 9965 at 11-13 in English, 1300-1430 in
Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
13880, RHC leapfrog, Sept 6 at 1328, S9+10 mixed with jamming clix. 13880 had
not been audible a few minutes earlier as I tuned by; now fundamentals 13680
and 13780 are extremely strong, S9+25 plus; weaker `frog on other side 13580
also audible mixed with VOA Somali via Madagascar. RHC feature was ``Figuras en
la Historia``, someone who could imitate flutes and contrabass with his mouth,
but never heard an example (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI, Sept 6 at 1337 in English hour, Indonesian lesson
marred by continuing audio dropouts every few sex degrading comprehension
further; otherwise VG reception with barely audible 9525 het from unknown
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO. 15341.1, Sept 6 at 1435, poor with Arabic music. Not only is RTM
off-frequency from 15340, it is off-the-off-frequency by about 0.1 kHz (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 15435, excerpt from Mme Butterfly, Sept 6 at 1324, cut to RRI outro
in Chinese, IS to 1327*. So was the singing in Romanian, Chinese, or Italian?
Heard too little of it to tell.
Also had weak het on low side around 15434 --- probably ChiCom jamming and/or
V. of Tibet via UAE varying from nominal 15430, at 1330-1400. AFAIK, the ChiCom
are not deliberately jamming RRI in Chinese, the lucky former allies (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [and non]. Tnx to tip from Dan Ervin in IA, UT Sept 5, Voice of
Russia now using 9665 in English at 0002 check UT Monday Sept 6. Previously,
9665 had carried Radio PMR alternating quarter-hours in English, German, French
in unpredictable order, at 0000-0200 only on UT Mon-Fri, and off the air
Sat-Sun, while VOR used the same transmitter for English daily starting at 0200.
Now PMR is gone (to somewhere else, or off?), and VOR appears to be using 9665
from at least 0000 to 0200. It was previously also in use at 02-04 for
`Central` America, and maybe still so. The Moldovan use of 9665 at 00-02
officially ended on Sept 4, anyway.
I also checked 9890, which had been in use for VOR English to NAm at 2200-0200,
and could not hear it at all at 0004 UT Sept 6. Usual DentroCuban jamming from
9885 against non-VOA, but should have been some trace of 9890 if on. So maybe
9665 replaces it for at least those two hours.
9665 itself was only fair with flutter, and with lo het from presumed Brasil,
no comparison to solid signal from Serbia [non] on 9675.
We suggested long ago that VOR should use 9665 on Sat & Sun at 00-02 rather
than letting it go to waste, but now they have apparently taken it over seven
days a week.
Have these changes been entered on the VOR English schedule at
http://english.ruvr.ru/radio_broadcast/schedule ?? Of course not! They haven`t
even fixed the `15000` typo we pointed out months ago. This is probably one of
a number of unpublicized VOR changes for the no longer extant `S-10` season,
made in early September (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. Monitored WINB Sept 6 to see whether they would evacuate
9335 following WBCQ 9330 protests. At 1422 still on 9265 with Brother Scare. At
1457 to ID and address, but heard no mention of next frequency, off at 1458*.
Then I sat on 9335 which had open carrier, but that turned out to be VOK
opening at 1500. Then tuned further and at 1501 found BS on 9355, not synch
9385 WWRB, so 9355 must be new WINB frequency for him M-F at 15-16, 18-20, and
now the erroneous listing of 9355 on The Overcomer Ministry website becomes
correct!
No QRM heard on 9355 initially, but scheduled for IBB Tinang at 15-16, Saipan
at 17-21, with VOA Vietnamese at 15-16, RFA Chinese (consequently jammed) at
18-20.
Meanwhile, 9265 is totally available during this period too. One might wonder
why, if Brother Scare is such a good friend to WBCQ, he would ever allow
himself to QRM it from 9335 to 9330 for a sesquimonth. Of course, 9330 is
currently carrying competing gospel huxters. The buck is passed to FCC for
choosing 9335.
At 1638 check, WINB back on 13570 vs CODAR for the interval between BS and BS
consisting of the androgynous anapaestic preacher/ess from Fence Lake NM at
16-18, and presumably again 20-21 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9370-, WTJC, Sept 6 at 1339, quite distorted during a rendition of
Amazing Grace. Can`t imagine anyone listening to that voluntarily. Even worse
during another hymn at 1421: only for masochists. Time to shut the transmitter
down again and fiddle with it, but they never get that homemade POS back into
proper funxioning for long (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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