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Today's Topics:
1. Logs for Al Muick (Albert Muick)
2. Tuesday Morning Dx (Charles Bolland)
3. R. Australia logs (L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec)
4. Re: [dxld] Al Muick, visiting Thailand logs Sept 7
(Wolfgang Bueschel)
5. Glenn Hauser logs September 6-7, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 17:48:40 +0700
From: "Albert Muick" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs for Al Muick
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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QTH: Pattaya, Thailand
RX: WinRadio G303e
ANT: 100m Longwire/Randomwire
ACC: none
7210 07 SEP, 0837 UTC, CHINA, PBS Yunnan (Tent.) heard with male/female
announcer, but I could not ID the language. Possibly vernacular? Not
supposed to be here at this time, but definitely NOT AIR Kolkata. Plenty of
traditional Chinese-style music, so doubtful CRI. Fair signals, no QRM.
7295 07 SEP, 0810 UTC, MALAYSIA, RTM Traxx FM, heard with R&B, Soul and DJ
patter in English with good signals. Second check at 0900 UTC reavealed
almost 6dB increase in signal level. Possible change in antenna or
transmitter power?
7325 07 SEP, 1010 UTC, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, Wantok Radio Light, with
English/Pidgin religious programming but being hit hard by CRI in Japanese.
Fair signal level
8400 07 SEP, 0917 UTC, CHINA, Firedrake jammer heard with the traditional
jug band doing the mashed potatoes over Sound of Hope, which may or may not
have actually been there!
Well, this was the first day I actually got any DX done here. Too busy
having fun and nursing hangovers otherwise.
I must say it is such a relief to be out of Afghanistan, even if just for 9
days. The food is good and plentiful and the beer is cold, and the rest, I
will leave to your imaginations.
There was a minor disaster as one obstreperous Afghan security official
confiscated a roll of litz wire I had planned to use as an antenna as well
as a BNC female to SMB male adapter just because he felt like it. Rather
than roll around on the floor with the guy and see one of their prisons up
close and personal, I chose to let him have it and continue on my way.
I have not been able to find the adapter here, but I did manage to find some
fine wire which inserts nicely into the SMB female connector on the
WinRadio. It's not correct and it's not right, but it is working and I am
happy.
Alright, I'm off to tear up the town a little bit and will DX some more
hopefully in the late night hours when I get back. I have to say that so
far, the electrical noise is not one tenth as bad as I had imagined or been
led to believe. We'll see what happens when the place goes full-tilt-boogie
in a few hours.
73s and I'll hoist a few cold ones for ya!
Al
"Half a truth is often a great lie."
- Benjamin Franklin
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 10:46:16 -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] Tuesday Morning Dx
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Suriname, 4990, Radio Apintie, 0605-0615, Noted a
person in comments from a very threshold signal.
No other details were heard. (Chuck Bolland, September
7, 2010)
Cuba, 6150, RHC, 0635-0645+, Noted a program of news
and commentary in English language. Signal
was good as far as strength, but was muffled with the
audio. (Chuck Bolland, September 7, 2010)
China, 8400, Firedrake, 1035-1040, Noted steady
Chinese type music during the period. Signal was
good. (Chuck Bolland, September 7, 2010)
China 9379.98, Firedrake 1035-1040 Noted Steady Cinese
type music during the period which was
parallel with 8400 KHz. Signal was good. (Chuck
Bolland, September 7, 2010)
WinRadio G305e/pd
26.37N 081.05W
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 12:15:34 -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] R. Australia logs
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5995, R. Australia, Brandon. September,07 0906-0919 Pop music, male
announcements in Pidgin, Elton John music, back male, two female talks. Het,
T-static, //6020, 23322 (lob-B).
6020, R. Australia, Shepparton. September, 07 0919-0929 two female talks in
Pidgin, male announcements, slow Pop music, back male. At 0929 sign on of R.
Nederlend covered R. Australia, //5995, 22322 (lob-B).
9475, R. Australia, Shepparton. September, 07 0933-0938 studio male in English
discussion with male outside "Australia". 23333, (lob-B).
9710, R. Australia, Shepparton. September, 07 0958-1007 male in Pidgin talks
"Australia", Pacific music, back male. Degrading, 24332 (lob-B).
11945, ABC Radio via R. Australia, Shepparton. Sepetember, 07 1008-1015 male
and female in English talks, news program, outside talks. 24432, (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: 4
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 17:11:17 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>, "DXLD"
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Al Muick, visiting Thailand logs Sept 7
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1300 km distance Kunming to Pattaya. ex 6937 ?
73 wb
7210 PBS Yunnan Shalang 0630-0830 Vernac 20kW ND Kunming CHN YNDT a10
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Hauser" Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 4:42 PM
Subject: [dxld] Al Muick, visiting Thailand logs Sept 7
> QTH: Pattaya, Thailand
> RX: WinRadio G303e
> ANT: 100m Longwire/Randomwire
> ACC: none
>
> 7210 07 SEP, 0837 UTC, CHINA, PBS Yunnan (Tent.) heard with male/female
> announcer, but I could not ID the language. Possibly vernacular? Not
> supposed to be here at this time, but definitely NOT AIR Kolkata. Plenty
> of traditional Chinese-style music, so doubtful CRI. Fair signals, no QRM.
> 73s and I'll hoist a few cold ones for ya!
> Al
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 10:30:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 6-7, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** ALBANIA. 13755, R. Tirana, Sept 7 at 1427 carrier, 1428 IS, 1430 schedule
announcement. Slightly improved from yesterday, holding up better versus the
CubaRM, at S9+12 but very undermodulated and not productive to keep listening
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36, Sept 7 at 1312 pop music, deep fades, somewhat
stronger than Rampisham 15480 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 9634+, spur from R. Australia, Sept 7 at 1216, putting big
slightly less than 1 kHz het to roughly equal strength CVC Miami via Chile in
Spanish on 9635, with Late Nite Live interview // 9590, 9580, 9560, 9475, so
impossible to tell which Shepparton transmitter it`s coming from, but doesn`t
compute as a mix among any of them.
Maybe something has been disrupted by the floods in Shepparton. Is the RA
facility on high ground? SW sites tend to be, for least horizon blockage, but
if the whole area is rather flat, there may not be much difference.
Then I was hearing same-pitch het circa 9615, 9535, 9515, but no audio to
compare. By 1225, 9634 and the other hets were gone, except on 9535 I could
hear a bit of audio matching. Some of this could be local receiver overload,
not including 9634 which I have never noted before, and could not be attenuated
out.
I had my fill of V. of Indonesia [q.v.] audio dropouts by 1337, so switched to
RA, best on 9580, during Australian Bite, Tuesdays. Discussion of slang, and
how originally offensive words lose their bite, such as ``ratbag``, now applied
affexionately to one`s kids. Guest assured us that overuse of ``awesome`` will
die out soon, hopefully. Another one which has moderated is ``carrying on like
a pork chop`` (originally adding ``in a synagogue``), now merely meaning
lunatic behavior. 1347 song about taboos, ``Peek-a-Boo``. 1351 next topic;
traffic in child slavery, so I move on again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Sept 7:
None found 8-12 MHz around 1230
8400, JBA at 1354
10500, very poor at 1354
No others found up to 18 MHz by 1400
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC anomaly Sept 7: 6060 English missing, leaving 6055 Spain Spanish
clear, at 0536 and later; English still on 5970, 6010, 6150; Spanish on 6120,
5040. Absence of 6060 also prevents the leapfrog over 5970 upon 5880.
Following yesterday`s discovery of a new jamming frequency, 9965, tuned in
earlier Sept 7: at 1212, still clear for R. Australia, whilst 9955 WRMI heavily
jammed as usual during this hour.
At 1352, 9965 still clear for RA now in Chinese, and jamming off 9955 too,
probably since 1300. However, at 1400 now 9965 has heavy jamming and 9955
remains clear for R. Prague relay in English. Should monitor 9965 continuously
from just before 1400 in case there be a clue of what is being jammed besides
RA, R. Rep?blica low-power transmitter in Central America, ex-11600 et al.?
13921, RHC Spanish spur, Sept 7 at 1356, weaker than leapfrog on 13880. Also
with hum, like the ~50 kHz multiple spurs one transmitter has put out before on
11 and 15 MHz bands, but no others like it found on 13 MHz despite all the
strong intentional Cuban signals on 13680, 13740, 13780. Maybe tomorrow (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 6250.0 was not on around 0540 Sept 7, but fair at next
pass 0558, in Spanish, 0600 informaci?n matinal, Radio Nacional de Guinea
Ecuatorial ID, panorama nacional; ute beep QRM. Was expecting major newscast
but at 0603 back to hilife music. Then better than Polisario signal on 6297.1,
but by final check 0633 the reverse was true as RNGE had faded considerably
into equatorial daylight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE. 7340, something new here, Sept 7 at 0546 continuous music fusing
hip-hop, rap, Bollywood, ska, pop with English lyric; 0548 brief RFI ID in
French; from 0553 marred by carrier from Tunisia 7335; 0555 Radio France
International ID in English, and off by 0557.
This frequency has just been reactivated as of Sept 5, also having been used in
the spring until May 2, for French to Africa (where else?) at 0500-0600, 500
kW, 160 degrees from Issoudun; ditto 0600-0700 at 204 degrees but apparently
not resuming the latter, or did I not keep listening long enough to hear it
come back on?
As for the music fill, looks like another general strike in France, also
affecting RFI programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, V. of Indonesia, strange behaviour Tuesday Sept 7: in
English instead of Japanese at 1222, interview with someone in Bali about plans
to demolish and replace the airport. 1230 songs, 1236 apparent live YL DJ in
English inviting us to stay tuned to her till 8:00 Western Indonesia Time (1300
UT).
Plugs its Facebook, Twitter, but then quotes report that students who keep
networking socially while studying, make grades 20% lower, drawback of
multitasking. 1242 plugs Exotic Indonesia coming up at 8:00.
Quick audio dropouts are still happening several times a minute; they get worse
at 1257. Music continued until 1301 and during the 1300-1301 minute I count ten
of them, very irregularly spaced.
1301 VOI, Sound of Dignity ID and open Exotic Indonesia, a special network
program with RRI Banjarmasin. Introduced anchor there as Satur (? Now we are
getting closer to his name), while the anchorette in Jakarta is Rachma (Raxma?
Middle consonant as gutteral h [j]).
Once again I go to the RRI Banjarmasin website where they have pix of the Crew
on the Air, and for Pro 2
http://www.rribanjarmasin.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=80
I look at every one of them, with their Nama Udara (air names, which are often
quite different), and then all the other Pros, and still no Satur or anything
similar, anywhere!
Back to program notes: it`s raining or drizzling in both Banjarmasin and
Jakarta. Only one day until Eid and Ramadhan will be over. A topic later will
be about astronomy.
1304, Jak YL ID mentions only one frequency, 9525! Finally they have dumped
listing 11785 and 15150 which have not really been on at this hour for years.
Did they finally read my previous reports pointing this out??
1305, news from alternating studios, starting as ever with activities of the
president, much like RHC and VOK: visiting Medan and people displaced by
volcanic eruption of Sinabung last week.
The audio dropouts continue, equally affecting originations from Banj and Jak,
so the problem occurs downstream from them; also, the hum is downstream from
the dropouts, since it continues uninterrupted.
1317, YL reports on the volcano, its first eruption, unexpectedly, since 1600;
hard to follow with dropouts plus her halting accent.
1321, a ``Dignatorial`` about minimizing earthquake damage; most quakes there
have shallow epicenters causing heavier damage on the surface; making seismic
zoning maps. But this segment outroduced as ``Commentary``.
1324, ID again with 9525 only, contact info.
1325, Today in History, from Jak studio: the 1999-2001 president was born in
1940; also an Islamic official, he wrote an article in the 12/30/2005 WSJ
against Islamic extremism. 1822y, Dom Pedro declared Brasil independent;
borders all SAm countries except Ecuador [wrong: Chile too, unless audio
dropped that word out].
1330, Focus, government to stop using newspapers for goods and service
procurement announcements when contracts expire in 2011.
1332, from Banj: differences in determining the exact dates of Ramadan (why is
this so important? Will Allah get `em if they are a day off?).
This must have been the previewed astronomy bit, but by 1337, the dropouts are
getting so bad that I bail out, while congratulating myself for having stuck
with them for 60 percent of the broadcast, and retune to R. Australia [q.v.]
which has 100 percent readability and comprehension.
1402, recheck, however, now with the CRI Russian 9525.0 het, and VOI is STILL
in English! with YL news, but only a few words heard as another dropout starts
but it`s a long one, still silent carrier at 1407. 1424 another check, now back
with music vs the het, dropouts, 1425 ID, ``keeping dignity alive``. Apparently
all the defects of VOI`s transmission have no effect on its Dignity. But who`s
to know in the studios without axually monitoring the SW frequency?
1431, final check, now 9526 is in an Indo-Malay language. One has the
impression that Studio Jakarta operates on an ad-hoc basis insofar as nominal
language scheduling (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH [non]. 9650, KBSWR via Sackville in English, Sept 7 at 1252 with
QRM from continuous 1 kHz tone, i.e. IBB Tinang, PHILIPPINES, warming up for
RNW Dutch relay from 1259, which caused even greater interference to 1300 CRI
English relay via Sackville.
Will these stations ever get their acts together, or rather separated? Of
course not! No one cares in A-10, altho in B-10, CRI should no longer be on
9650 at 1300, and RNW at 1300 via PHT will be on 12065 with KBS staying on
9650, only colliding with North Korea, if they are lucky (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1610, WQCL720, Great Salt Plains State Park, as it never IDs, just
relaying Enid NWS from 162 MHz, marginally audible in Enid, but on a Labor Day
DXpedition to NW Garfield County near Nine Mile Canyon (much less impressive
than the name implies), closer to GSP, marred by heavy noise on frequency. I
think its own transmitter is now defective, but it could be some Talking House
as at least three of those still pollute 1670 similarly.
Since I didn`t recollect the callsign, did FCC TIS search for all 1610 in OK
and found:
Callsign: WQCL720 Licensee: Alfalfa County - OSU Extension Service Radio
Service: Public Safety Pool, Conventional (PW) City: Cherokee, OK Status:
Active Grant Date: 04/04/2005 Expiration: 04/04/2015
Site: 1 Address: 9 miles north of Jet, OK on SH38 City: Jet, OK County:
ALFALFA Coordinates: 36? 44' 33.6" N, 98? 7' 56.4" W
Frequency: 1.61000000 V
Callsign: WNWU499 Licensee: Oklahoma Department of Transportation,
Communications Radio Service: Public Safety Pool, Conventional (PW) City:
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK Status: Active Grant Date: 04/28/2001 Expiration:
07/11/2011 [presumably for hiway reconstruxion]
Site: 1 State: OK
Frequency: 1.61000000
Callsign: WQBX491 Licensee: Arbuckle Mountain Area Tourism Assn Radio
Service: Public Safety Pool, Conventional (PW) City: Sulphur, OK Status:
Active Grant Date: 01/03/2005 Expiration: 01/03/2015
Site: 1 Address: Turner Falls Park at US Highway 77 City: Davis, OK County:
MURRAY Coordinates: 34? 25' 29.9" N, 97? 8' 36.4" W
Frequency: 1.61000000 V [is this one really active? Too far from Enid]
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. OETA OKLA, 13-2, has added Newsline from NHK World, M-F at
1600-1630 UT. Missed the first one Sept 6, but got the second one Sept 7. A
very welcome addition, as World Focus was not replaced with any other world
news source, e.g. Deutsche Welle or Al-Jazeera, after its demise last spring.
It seems NHK does not need its anchors to be native speakers of English;
however, the weatherwoman around 1620 has no accent, tho dressed in red and
white. Even included Oklahoma forecast thanks to Hurricane Hermine, rainy
remnants destined to cross around Woodward by 0600 UT Thursday.
At closing, NHK World said would be back in half an hour --- but not on OKLA.
Saw no time bug, so was this live? Unlike BBC World News which we get via OKLA
a sesquihour delayed at 2130 M-F only, as nothing ever happens at weekends
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3385, R. East New Britain, Rabaul, only one audible Sept 7
at 1206, news with Aussie accent, occasionally mentioning NBC, Port Moresby,
and bilong; ergo it was really in Tok Pisin; poor past 1211, straddling today`s
local sunrise of 1208 UT (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [and non]. Further chex for the revised schedule of VOR in English to
Am: Sept 6 at 2243, nothing on 9665, very weak and fluttery signal on 9890,
cannot discern language or identity.
2259, 9665 now on with big signal and tone tests on and off, 2300 opening VOR
English, but program modulation level lower than expected compared to preceding
tone level. Now nothing audible on 9890, vs spread from DCJC and VOA Spanish
9885.
RUVR online English sked still not updated by Sept 7 at 1700, showing 9890 at
22-02 to NAm --- can anyone further east confirm whether 9890 remains on the
air at all during any of these hours, especially 22-23?
And sked still shows 9665 only at 02-04 to `Latin` America. Previous night, UT
Sept 6, Will Flynn in Pennsylvania, found 9665 stayed on with VOR English until
0400, despite announcement at 0300 that it was closing down on 31m, continuing
on 19m [15425]. So it seems the total span for 9665 is now 23-04.
Later: Joe Hanlon in NJ found 5900 replacing 9890 for VOR Sept 6-7 at 22-02
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. 7335, *0554 with open carrier, 0558 modulation on with music //
7275 which has been on for some time. RTT needs to rethink use of 7275 now that
Abuja, Nigeria has reactivated there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11550, WEWN, 1427 Sept 7 Spanish noted with self-flagellating squeal,
a continuing problem with one of their transmitters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Not much of note in my Labor Day DXpedition to NW Garfield County OK,
on dusty dirt, sometimes washboard roads, with high winds from the SW, but I
figure a long-time resident of the county should explore all its roads
eventually.
850, more so than at home QTH, I can detect KOA English talk in daytime mixing
with Spanish KJON in N Texas, Sept 6 at 2024 UT.
1370, marginal KGNO Dodge City KS, JBA with talk in English at 2026 UT Sept 6,
unlike in Enid, off the cliff, and/or suppressed by KCRC 1390 desensitization
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also OKLA
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6297.1, SASASAM, Sept 7 at 0558 open carrier, 0600
anthem, poor, but held up better than RNGE on 6250.0 by 0633. In case you
missed my explanation of SASASAM in DXLD 10-32: short for the ID in
Hassania/Arabic, Sowt al-sha`ab a-Sahraui al-mukafa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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