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Today's Topics:
1. Logs for Al Muick (Albert Muick)
2. Glenn Hauser logs September 9-10, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Re: Glenn Hauser logs September 9-10, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
4. Radio St Helena Day 2010 CANCELLED (Glenn Hauser)
5. R St. Helena Day broadcast cancelled (Anker Petersen)
6. Logs for Al Muick (Albert Muick)
7. Sat early DX (Charles Bolland)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:23:19 +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: 10m Longwire/Randomwire
ACC: None
594 09 SEP, 2107 UTC, BRUNEI, Radio Television Brunei, in apparent Malay
with Koranic chants by men and women, many mentions of Ramadan and Eid al
Fitr. I have never heard chants done by a female before and their chants
were accompanied by drums. There were even modern pop songs about Ramadan,
which I guess is kinda like Christian rock. It was an interesting listening
experience. Several IDs during the course of everything. Signal strength
was fair, overriding local electrical noise. Signal just followed the water
path.
Not much else to report. I have been down with food poisoning the last 24
hours or so, and the good doctor has pumped me full of all kinds of stuff
and given me pills which make me doze off, so DXing is a little limited
right now. Sorry.
73s
Al
"When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear
the government, there is tyranny.
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear
arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in
government."
-Thomas Jefferson
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:53:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 9-10, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** ALGERIA [non]. 5865, Sept 10 at 0456 good signal, RTA with Qur`an via
FRANCE, but cut it off abruptly at 0457*. Allah`ll get `em for that. TDF waits
for no man or god when the time comes to change frequencies. Meanwhile, back in
Algiers, they ought to be aware of things like this and program accordingly
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36 fair with music, Friday Sept 10 at 1305, stronger
than hetted Rampisham 15480. Now for a weekend rest (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. VL8 stations best on 2310, then 2325, JBA on 2485 with talk at
1227 Sept 10. No trace of R. Symban on 2368.5v --- just too much noise and/or
too little gain and/or too late in the day past local sunrise, but will keep
trying, as it has now been heard all over North America, sometimes reported as
strong as the 50 kW VL8s! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BONAIRE. 6250, NHK Spanish leapfrog mixing product, perfectly readable even
with max attenuation, Sept 10 at 0515; also some Dutch audio, as 6080 saults
over 6165. 6250 has some Spanish SSB on the hi side, ute beeps on the lo side;
and Equatorial Guinea not yet on, and still not when I quit around 0540 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Sept 10:
8400, poor to fair at 1221
No others found before 1300 or 1305-1314 up to 18 MHz
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA. 5965, REE relay missing Sept 10 at 0500 check, allowing weak
signal from Vatican to come thru opening English, but with RHC 5970 ACI; REE
scheduled 04-08 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. RHC anomalies Sept 10: at 0500, 6000 is still on in English
instead of 6010, open for Colombia/Mexico het mix. English also on 5970, 6150;
and at 0508, 6060 under REE 6055 splash.
9965, like clockwork, DentroCuban jamming starts again Sept 10 at *1358:25,
quickly building up to noise wall and ruining Radio Australia, Palau in
Chinese, if nothing else. In fact it probably is on a clock timer. Set and
forget whether there is really anything there needing jamming (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM [and non]. AFN on new frequency! 5755.5-USB, approximately, Sept 10 at
1353 during Marketplace Morning segment on NPR Morning Edition, running a few
sex ahead of KOSU 91.7 OK, which deliberately delays its analog audio to match
IBOC.
Ex-5765, in the clear now but NOT a good idea for the 11 hours a day WTWW is on
5755 ? currently 01-12 per FCC instead of 02-12 thru August, but haven`t
confirmed that. AFN could be a punch-up error or variation? Further chex
required (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 15795, AIR Chinese service, Sept 10 at 1302 with Indian vocal music,
then Bollywood, flutter, but no ChiCom jamming audible; must be a propagational
quirk.
9425, AIR National Channel, Bengaluru, Sept 10 at 1312 with tone test already,
next check 1323 music but unseems Vande Mataram; 1325 Akashvani ID by YL, over
music, flutter, peaks S9+20. 9425 is another frequency which has not been
making it this summer but hope it will improve equinoxially; after this it
steadily weakened and not much left past 1400.
Nothing audible from // Aligarh 9470 if it is still on, but also suffers from
WTWW 9479 splash (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 3325, RRI Palangkaraya, surprisingly good Sept 10 at 1229-1232+
M&W in Indonesian over music bed, mentioning Radio RRI, Nippon Hoso Kyokai
several times, and BBC London; a promo about their news sources? SSOB except
for 3185 WWRB, and 4750 was much weaker (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. 9526-, the VOI transmitter broke down Sept 9, open
carrier and off before 1400, and still off Sept 10: no signal at all at 1219
and 1316 chex. Not a power outage at Cimanggis, since RRI 9680 was on with
Qur`an at the latter time. Or VOI might have jumped unpredictably to alternate
11785v, but no sign of it or a het there, just the ChiCom/VOA radio war; let`s
hope they learned their lesson about that frequency last year (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALAYSIA. 5030, RTM Sarawak presumed, beginning to show again, and looking
forward to improved reception in fall and winter; Sept 10 at 1234 with music vs
Cuba 5025, then M&W dialog in unknown language, not necessarily Malay (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. The GCN pirate is back on the air in Enid, 99.9 MHz, not heard for
a couple of sesquimonths (tho it could have been on sporadically, unnoticed).
On caradio in central Enid, Sept 9 at 1920 UT, rightwing wacko Alex Jones; only
national ads for gold, tasty MREs, etc. Reception somewhat spotty but about the
same as before.
Site seems still to be the location we found on the south-central edge of Enid,
as when we drove to the north side of Enid, it was losing out to KTCS 99.9 in
Fort Smith AR, IDed, 192 miles away. On the west end of Enid, GCN was a little
better with less problem from KTCS.
Around 2130 UT, a woman talkhost was on, presumably the glamorized Katherine
Albrecht http://www.katherinealbrecht.com/ as on the schedule and also heard
previously. Her guest now was Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war activist who lost a
son to George W. Bush, and is not any happier with Barack H. Obama. She hasn`t
been much in the news lately, and appearing here indicates a more moderate if
not leftward orientation to the K.A. show, but I haven`t listened to her long
enough to tell exactly where she`s coming from.
It seems that Cindy also has her own Soapbox radio show, mentioned at
http://cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com/ but nothing obvious about when and
where to hear it ``online and on the air``, without plowing thru Facebook. O,
wiki has another link to it:
http://www.cindysheehanssoapbox.com/
It`s a weekly show, but suspect it`s mainly online; we await any broadcast
affiliate info (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 10 days after its termination on RF9, KWTV transmitter is still on
and running the NO PROGRAMMING slide described previously, Sept 10 at 0324 UT,
silent audio. I have asked KWTV how much longer they will be wasting watts on
this, and also suggested that once this is decided, they should give us a
couple of more virtual channels on RF39, like sister station KOTV-45 Tulsa,
e.g. no-cost CLASSIC ARTS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU [and non]. 6020, CRI Sackville, Sept 10 at 0502 hetless, so R. Victoria
6019.3 is gone again after a one-night appearance Sept 8 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 5930, R. Rossii, Pet/Kam, Sept 10 at 1242 Russian announcement, into
familiar music by great Estonian composer Arvo P?rt, the piece evoking for me
Arctic vastness, the dim sun struggling to broach the horizon and then fading
out; but am not sure of the title. 1251 outro announcement mentioning P?rt, who
is currently being celebrated in Estonia.
The 5930 transmitter still has hum/motorboating, and with BFO on can tell it is
as usual unstable; // 5940 from Magadan weaker but unburdened by such problems.
When talk resumed I could tell that 5940 was running a word ahead of 5930
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [non]. Since the programming/stations carried on the 6240 and 9665
Pridnestrovye transmitters have been so variable the last few nights, I made a
point of checking again UT Friday Sept 10 (starting 2358 UT Sept 9):
5900, too weak in the noise level to confirm, but supposedly VOR English 22-02,
via ``Armavir``.
6240, at 2358 intermittent tune-up tones; 0000 Radio PMR in English. Could not
check every quarter hour, but: 0032 in German, 0046 English, 0125 German, 0146
French and 0158 to ``au revoir`` at 0200*. One may with some confidence fill in
the blanks as 0015 French, 0100 French, 0130 English, but don`t count on this
every weeknight.
Since this was UT Friday, Radio PMR should be off for 70 hours, resuming at
0000 UT Monday. The question is whether 6240 will be on the air with VOR
English, or Russian during this bihour on UT Saturday or Sunday.
9665: 2358 VOR English, saying would continue on 31 and 41m [what? AFAIK it`s
on 49m, 5900]; Presumably has been on since 2300. 0000 re-opening VORWS in
English. Signal steadily declines; 0125 still VOR English; 0158 now it`s so
weak the Brazilian het is a problem, 0159 IS, 0200 still VOR English, I think.
Now, will VOR English stay on 9665 from 2300 to 0400 every night? 24 hours
earlier, UT Friday Sept 9, Mark Coady and I heard PMR back on 9665 starting at
0000 but VOR had resumed before 0100. And 6240 I heard with some service in
Russian during that hour.
9735: while we are straining to hear these weak signals in the noise, 9735 is
on from 0200 Sept 10 opening La Voz de Rusia in Spanish, excellent via GUIANA
FRENCH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 5890, Brother Scare via WWCR, Sept 10 at 0458 check
with same horrible sideband noise as on day frequency 9980. I suspect the
garbage is coming over the satellite feed from Walterboro, but could be
filtered out; OTOH, other huge signals from WWCR such as 7490 have similar
problems, so maybe they are just overdriving the modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1529 confirmed on WRMI 9955, Friday Sept 10 at 1430.
Next SW airing should be Friday 2030 on WWCR 15825 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9370-, WTJC missing again/still, Sept 10 at 1220, 1326; no problem
with some other US signals in the area: at the first time, WHRI/BBC on 9410,
nearby NC station VOA on 9885; at the second time, WINB 9265, WWRB 9385 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9945, Yankee Doodle IS 1359 Friday Sept 10, 1400 VOA sign-on by
DJ in English, then switching to Indonesian for this Thu-Fri-Sat-only pop music
show; 250 kW, 200 degrees via Tinang, PHILIPPINES (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM. 7220, duet of romantic music, unknown language, Sept 10 at 1225
fair vs stronger VOA Korean 7225. Probably VOV Chinese service as scheduled,
100 kW, 27 degrees also USward, altho a Geermu, China transmitter is also
listed here. Searching for reports of this frequency, most of them last few
months concern Eritrea or Central African Republic, but not at this hour (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:43:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 9-10, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Correxion: time was 1253, not 1353
** GUAM [and non]. AFN on new frequency! 5755.5-USB, approximately, Sept 10 at
1253 during Marketplace Morning segment on NPR Morning Edition, running a few
sex ahead of KOSU, which deliberately delays its analog audio to match IBOC.
Ex-5765, in the clear now but NOT a good idea for the 11 hours a day WTWW is on
5755 ? currently 01-12 per FCC instead of 02-12 thru August, but haven`t
confirmed that. AFN could be a punch-up error or variation? Further chex
required (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:27:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], ABDX <[email protected]>, ODXA
yg <[email protected]>, NASWA <[email protected]>,
[email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Radio St Helena Day 2010 CANCELLED
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
** SAINT HELENA. Radio St Helena Day 2010 CANCELLED --- Dear Friends, it really
hurts me to have to send you the following message. With best 73, (Robert Kipp,
1549 UT Sept 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.:
=====================
RSH << RSD 2010 Cancelled >> 10 September 2010
============
Radio St. Helena sincerely regrets to have to inform radio listeners everywhere
that
>> Radio St. Helena Day 2010 has been cancelled << .
This very difficult decision was necessary, due to severe technical problems
with the shortwave antenna tower. RSH is quite confident that RSD will be able
to continue in 2011.
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RSH << RSD 2010 Abgesagt >> 10 September 2010
============
Radio St. Helena bedauert es sehr, Kurzwellenhoerern mitteilen zu muessen, dass
>> Radio St. Helena Day 2010 abgesagt worden ist << .
Diese sehr schwierige Entscheidung ist notwendig gewesen, weil gravierende
technische Probleme mit dem Antennenmast der Kurzwellenstation aufgetreten
sind. RSH ist recht zuversichtlich, dass RSD in 2011 fortgesetzt erden kann.
============
With best greetings, Mit besten Gruessen,
(Gary Walters Station Manager, Radio St. Helena
Robert Kipp Radio St. Helena Day Revival Project,
Sept 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
They still would have a month to fix it; what a pity (gh)
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:41:02 +0200
From: "Anker Petersen" <[email protected]>
To: "Hard-core DX contributions" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] R St. Helena Day broadcast cancelled
Message-ID: <1a01b1875a434f44b005d636a5ae6...@pavilion>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252"
=====================
RSH << RSD 2010 Cancelled >> 10 September 2010
============
Radio St. Helena sincerely regrets to have to inform radio listeners everywhere
that
>> Radio St. Helena Day 2010 has been cancelled << .
This very difficult decision was necessary, due to severe technical problems
with
the shortwave antenna tower.
RSH is quite confident that RSD will be able to continue in 2011.
============
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RSH << RSD 2010 Abgesagt >> 10 September 2010
============
Radio St. Helena bedauert es sehr, Kurzwellenhoerern mitteilen zu muessen,
dass
>> Radio St. Helena Day 2010 abgesagt worden ist << .
Diese sehr schwierige Entscheidung ist notwendig gewesen, weil gravierende
technische Probleme
mit dem Antennenmast der Kurzwellenstation aufgetreten sind.
RSH ist recht zuversichtlich, dass RSD in 2011 fortgesetzt erden kann.
============
With best greetings,
Mit besten Gruessen,
Gary Walters Station Manager, Radio St. Helena
Robert Kipp Radio St. Helena Day Revival Project
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 07:05:54 +0700
From: "Albert Muick" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs for Al Muick
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
QTH: Pattaya, Thailand
RX: WinRadio G303e
ANT: 10m Longwire/Randomwire
ACC: None
918 10 SEP, 2226 UTC, UNID (poss. Cambodia?), Rolled up on-freq at 2226
hoping to find NRK, but there was already a station on there playing light
R&B. I know the sign on time is variable, so I sat listening and the same
song was played in a loop until 2300 when there was some talk by a man.
Signal was quite weak, so I was unable to clearly hear the language. Seems
to me that if Phnom Penh was really at 120kW, it would be a much better
signal, unless a directional antenna. There is also a 100kW Radio Thailand
station on frequency, but this audio was not // to any of the other RT
channels. I'll try again after sundown and see what I get.
4750 10 SEP, 1134 UTC, INDONESIA, RRI Makassar (tent.), long-winded Koranic
singing with occasional prayer and talk. Sounded like Bahasa Indonesia, but
unable to confirm via RRI live audio stream, and Makassar regional live
audio not offered. Checked on Bangladesh website to make sure I didn't have
them and they were happily playing light pop.
5050 10 SEP, 2327 UTC, CHINA, Beibu Bay Radio, in presumed Mandarin
(according to schedule) with man talking in soothing tones over classical
music, then ID with many mentions of Beibu, into some light jazz music.
Allegedly only 15kW, but good signals with only a slight fade.
6130 10 SEP, 1444 UTC, LAOS, Lao National Radio in Lao with talks by female
announcer into several Laotian tunes. Station ID at 2201 after song ended
by woman announcer with extremely laid-back voice. Constant S9 signal with
no QRM on this night.
Not a bad day for logging. Sure wish I could get a positive on NRK above,
and am curious about Makassar (anyone else in the area noticed this
programming at this particular day/time?).
73s
Al
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue
of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the
banks...will deprive the people of all property until their children
wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered... The
issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the
people, to whom it properly belongs."
- President, Thomas Jefferson
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:06:18 -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] Sat early DX
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Unknown, 5900, Voice of Russia, 0025-0045, Commentary
and news in English language presented by
male and female. In between some music heard. The
"Voice of Russia" ID heard at 0032 by a
female. Judging from the strength, this signal sounds
like a relay - probably via
MOLDOVA-PRIDNESTROVIE? Yes the signal was very good.
(Chuck Bolland, September 11, 2010)
Iran, 6025, Voice of Islamic Republic,
(Tent),0055-0105, Noted a weak signal here with
Islamic type chanting at
one point and a male in Arabic type language comments
at another. Signal was very poor with Splatter.
I was looking for Radio Illimani. (Chuck Bolland,
September 11, 2010)
Bolivia, 6134.80, Radio Santa Cruz, 0103-0115, Noted
a male in Spanish language comments which is
fading in and out more or less. At 0104 a second male
talks briefly then into music. Signal was poor.
(Chuck Bolland, September 11, 2010)
NRD545
26.37N 081.05W
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