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Today's Topics:
1. La Rosa de Tokyo para hoy: la Radidifusion en Angola (Arnaldo)
2. Glenn Hauser logs September 24-25, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 07:48:57 +0200
From: "Arnaldo" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: Radio Club QRM Belgrano <[email protected]>,
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], NoticiasDX <[email protected]>,
Domesticas
Y Tropicales <[email protected]>, Luis Mar?a
Barassi <[email protected]>, playdx2003
<[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] La Rosa de Tokyo para hoy: la Radidifusion en Angola
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Recuerden que semana a semana el Grupo Radioescucha Argentino colabora
activamente con "La Rosa de Tokyo", espacio que se irradia cada s?bado por LS11
Radio Provincia de Buenos Aires, la emisora p?blica de la provincia.
El programa de este s?bado 25 de Septiembre de 2010 (que en d?as sucesivos
puede escucharse en http://programasdx.com/larosadetokio.htm) estar? dedicado a
visitar radiof?nicamente Angola.
Conoceremos su historia y su presente radial, haciendo especial hincapi? en sus
emisoras m?s representativas. Tambi?n, se ilustrar? el programa con material
sonoro hist?rico.
La Rosa de Tokyo es un programa dedicado a difundir el apasionante mundo de la
radio y del diexismo que se transmite semanalmente desde los estudios de LS11
Radio Provincia de Buenos Aires.
Puede ser escuchada los d?as s?bados de 12: 00 UTC a 13:00 Tiempo Universal
Coordinado (09:00 a 10-00 hora LU) por los 1270 Khz y en Internet por
http://www.amprovincia.com.ar/
Adem?s, una extensa red de emisoras de frecuencia modulada de toda la Rep?blica
Argentina retransmite en forma semanal nuestro programa en diferentes d?as y
horarios. La Rosa de Tokyo tambi?n sale por onda corta gracias a las
facilidades brindadas por WRMI Radio Miami Internacional (http://www.wrmi.net/).
Tambi?n puede ser escuchada en cualquier momento entrando en la p?gina
ProgramasDX y haciendo "click" en http://programasdx.com/larosadetokio.htm
Desde este v?nculo tambi?n podr?n acceder al archivo que recaba ediciones
anteriores del programa.
Omar Jose Somma y Arnaldo Slaen
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 09:37:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 24-25, 2010
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** ALASKA. Since I heard it yesterday, tried again Sept 25 for KNLS on 7355
during scheduled English hour, but could not detect it around 1250. Like I
said, conditions have to be just right; and/or is it perhaps sporadic, not
really on the air every day?
I also wonder about their choice of 11870 for another English broadcast at
10-11, in the middle of the Arctic night across a darkness path to east Asia.
That high a frequency certainly not propagating here, and unlikely either to
there. In B-10 they have nothing planned above 10 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ALBANIA. 13640, Sept 24 at 2014 I encounter Balkan music, must be R. Tirana,
but is it the English external service as scheduled, or default relay of the
Albanian domestic service? Quickly resolved at 2015 by announcement in English,
Profile of someone born in Shkodor, but modulation too low to follow. S9+20
signal but could turn the volume almost all the way up without blasting my ears
on the phones (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANGUILLA [and non]. 11775, tuned into C.B. at 2010 Sept 24 to compare it
with the undermodulation from Cuba [q.v.] on 11760, but heard instead applause;
or was it? Went on so long, at least a minute, that I was beginning to think it
was noise from an open satellite-feed circuit, but it finally stopped, and at
2011 PMS resumed speaking with good normal modulation level eclipsing that from
``Ed Newman``. She must have said something really terrific to set off that
much clapping from her psychophants; assuming it was authentic.
As I tuned by 11775, Sept 25 at 1324, dead air. It could have been a dekasecond
pregnant pause while Dead Gene Scott was originally puffing on his cigar,
inaudibly on the radio, but it went on and on for three minutes until finally
he cut back on at 1327, just after I had also tuned to 13845 WWCR and found it
equally silent until cutting on at the same time, just an echo apart, so outage
was at the uplink; 13845 DGS currently scheduled 12-15 on Sats & Suns, not
weekdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 6160, Sept 25 at 1142, interview by OM announcer with a regional
British accent, so it is CRI? With a YL about the Israel/Palestine border and
human rights violations. 1146 revealed as from bbcworldservice.com. Therefore,
this is part of the CBC Overnight relays via CKZU Vancouver (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA [and non]. 7325, RCI, Sept 25 at 1110 in Arabic with ID in passing,
about equal mix with CRI in Japanese, both of them USward, but RCI never has
figured out there could be a collision, as this has been going on for several
seasons. I assume there have been few complaints from RCI`s minuscule audience
of Arabic-understanding SWLs in the USA who want to hear about Canadian
immigration matters at 4, 5, 6, or 7 in the morning (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 6175, CNR1, Sept 25 at 1138 in clear, lacking usual het on
lo side from Malaysia, and Chinese on 6175 // 6125, and // 6150 way atop RHC
and another station, i.e. R. Taiwan International, as the middle CNR1 is really
a jammer. 6150 also had a big carrier, something else? Maybe Cuba being
undermodulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 9965, heavy wall-of-noise against nothing (?) from the
DentroCuban Jamming Command is still running in the daytime starting at *1358+.
But I have yet to catch when it ends. Sept 24 at 2008 it`s still roaring, and I
meant to retune before 2100 for another check, but not today. I did remember at
2158 and by then 9965 jamming was off, uncovered a very weak carrier, only T8WH
PALAU listed, tho VOR via ARMENIA collides with it after 2200.
Heavy jamming now at 2158 is focused on 9955 instead, despite the fact that in
latest schedule WRMI has NO exile programming on Fridays between 21 and 23 (tho
there is some scattered on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays). I fear
WOR is getting this treatment at 2100 on Thursdays, 2230 on Tuesdays. The DCJC
cannot be bothered to match its schedule, with the WRMI schedule,
program-for-program, varying by day of week. Axually, I DO expect them to.
11760, RHC English hour made it thru the burocratic tangle onto the air Sept
24, at 2010, instead of oft-substituting Spanish, but undermodulated and made
worse by the soft-spoken ``Ed Newman`` who never raises his voice, outshouted
by neighbor on 11775; see ANGUILLA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See
also USA: WRMI
** GUATEMALA. 4055, R. Verdad, Sept 25 at 1100 still not on; seems they are
sometimes starting a bit late. Recheck at 1119, now it`s on with organ music
mixed with talk, intonation sounds English rather than Spanish but can`t make
out a word to be sure, in mushy audio difficult to tune on USB with no carrier.
1126 definitely some Spanish, and ``I`ve Been Workin` on the Railroad`` in
gospelized rendition, theme for ``El Tren del Evangelio`` show. By 1159 the
signal was just about gone after local sunrise there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [and non]. John Wilkins` capture in Colorado before sunrise of NHK on
MW 774 prompted me to try for this one again, as last year it also made it to
OK. Sept 25 at 1152 UT I do detect a carrier on 774 from the NW, which is
surely JOUB, Akita-2, 500 kW.
Close to KSPI Stillwater OK, with its spurs on 774 and 786, we have to be
careful! But the Sept sign-on for this daytimer is 1215 UT and it has no PSSA,
per NRC AM Log; in October it will be *1230.
On the DX-398 set to 9 kHz, I stepped thru the entire MW band with BFO on and
could only detect one other TP carrier, on 1098, which everyone assumes is
V7AB, Majuro, MARSHALL ISLANDS, 25 kW, leaving its carrier on all-night after
1130 sign-off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. Am beginning to wonder if the North American services of R. Kuwait
are ever going to be well-heard again as they were for much of the summer. Was
standing by on 17550 Sept 24 before 2030 as VOA-French, VG via Bonaire was
about to close, but in its absence there was only a JBA carrier from Kuwait`s
Arabic to C&W NAm. Then checking Kuwait`s English to Eu & NAm on 15540, only
slightly better to very poor level and still insufficient, unusable. We can
only hope for an October-bump. AFAIK, they plan to use the same frequencies in
B-10 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALAYSIA [and non]. 6175, no het against CNR1, Sept 25 at 1138, so VOM must
be off; especially since the much weaker transmitter on 6049.6 managed to het
HCJB in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 6185, XEPPM, Sept 25 at 1047 loud and clear with ``M?xico,
M?xico`` paeansong, much better than RNV/Cuba 6180, and at this hour no QRM
from Bras?lia. R. Educaci?n still going with more music at 1102 past nominal
summer sign-off; at 1136 check, with NHK Russian inbooming on 6185 far beyond
its target, no trace of XE underneath, so presumably did go off in meantime
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1580, KOKB Blackwell has managed to modulate whenever checked in
the daytime this week; are the long hours of open carrier a past-thing? We`ll
see, this weekend. (It is modulating at 1628 Sat Sept 25). Back Sept 24 at 2055
UT they were promoting four different high-school football games Friday night
at 7:15 CDT, not only on 1580, 1020 KOKP Perry, 105.1 KOSB Stillwater, but also
on 99.3 KLOR Ponca City --- so is it now Quadruple-Play Radio? Website is still
http://www.tripleplaysportsradio.com/ but a player for KLOR has been added. Not
clear whether that station is now owned by TPSR or some other deal (Glenn
Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also JAPAN [and non]
** OKLAHOMA. Bill Hepburn`s tropo maps showed enhancement to the east on the
morning of Sept 25, and so there was. Rechecked at 1418 UT, the public TV
station KRSC in Claremore OK, RF 36:
DTV 35-1 is labeled KRSC-SD, while
DTV 35-2 is labeled KRSC-HD. At 1418 both were running animation, hardly
needing HD. Strangely, both are set so ``the aspect ratio cannot be changed``.
The SD has letterboxing, the HD does not. Is something screwy here? (I do not
have any real HD display capability.)
Still in at 1559, with a ``My Source`` promo. So isolated here, I had assumed
that campaign was exclusive to competing OETA. Is it on every PBS station?
Several of the Tulsa UHF DTVs were in plus KOED RF 11, but no signal bar at all
on RF 45, KOTV. Some signals from Wichita too at almost right angles, but no RF
45 signal bar from that direxion either, KSNW. I am beginning to suspect that
both these do put in strong enough signals, at the same time, canceling each
other out as far as the DTV converter is concerned. See also USA for a non-OK
log.
BTW, KWTV OKC, as of Sept 25, is STILL running the NO PROGRAMMING slide on RF9
as it has been the entire month of September, as OldKWTV, while its programming
continues on RF39 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY [and non]. 15450, VOT, Saturday Sept 25 at 1250, YL is reading
reception reports, i.e. the so-called DX Corner, so this is an on-week for the
fortnightly show, ending at 1257; at exactly the same time, KBS World Radio was
also reading reception reports as it does every week on Worldwide Friendship
via CANADA on 9650 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WEWN`s scheduled downtime was over at least an hour earlier than the
anticipated 21 UT Friday; ran across 12050 Spanish already back at 2011 Sept
24, VG signal, but guess what --- it`s still squealing! Previously diagnosed as
card(s) in the modulator needing replacing. // 13830 was also back on, but
weaker with splatter from 13820 DentroCuban Jamming Command extending up to
13845 WWCR. At 2016 I could barely hear WEWN`s third transmitter, 15610 in
English with poor propagation, too weak to reconfirm it`s still putting out +/-
10 kHz spurs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17775, KVOH, 2018 tune-in Sept 24 but just S9+22 open carrier, then
occasionally interrupted by program audio bursting on for a few sex each,
screaming gospel huxter in Spanish, then back to bless?d silence making up the
great majority of airtime. Even if one wanted to, it would have been impossible
to follow what he was trying to preach. Meanwhile there was only a trace of the
spur on 17920. Recheck at 2115, singing and preaching most of the time but with
some breaks; 2123 silence for another semi-minute; 2137 modulation still on and
off. Why is it so challenging for so many SW stations to just do the minimal
job of modulating a carrier? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15825, checking WWCR for its first airing of WORLD OF RADIO 1531,
Friday Sept 24 at 2030 on 15825 --- very poor, fading signal here in skip-zone,
but made out a familiar voice mentioning ``15476`` so probably yours truly.
Also reconfirmed next airing Sat 1600 on 12160; rest are UT Sun 0230 on 4840,
0630 on 3215.
3255, WWCR again here instead of 3215, Sept 25 at 0414 check and this time with
modulation, some preacher, presumably 3215 scheduled Fulcher, letting us
overhear his prayer for a president that would appoint anti-RoeWade, anti-gay,
etc., SCOTUS justices.
It seems that WWCR plans to use 3255 in B-10 between 22 and 02, give or take an
hour depending on DST, so this may be a trial run, during only one different
hour? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9955, WRMI chex: Sept 25 at 1112, good signal, no jamming,
with Andean music, ergo Aires Andinos show, at one of its several scheduled
times, 1100-1130 Saturdays. By 1359, pulse-jamming was marring religious
kidshow, outroed with website, as Your Story Hour. That`s one of the AWR flock
of shows with a long history, but WRMI schedule shows Living the Bible for Sat
1330-1400. Perhaps YSH is a subset within it.
After WRMI ID, WORLD OF RADIO 1531 confirmed at new time, Sat from 1400:33,
still with jamming pulses. Tnx a lot, our false friend in Havana! Much heavier
jamming against nothing (?) on 9965 had just ramped up at 1358:20. Next WOR
airings on WRMI are Sat 1730, Sun 0800, 1730 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. Some regional tropo, Sept 25 at 1410 UT, as predicted by Bill
Hepburn`s maps: but nothing further than RF21, DTV 40-1 KHSB-DT with bug ei
over ABC in the upper right. That`s Fort Smith AR, barely out of OK, but needs
some tropo to come in at all. I tried several times to get a 40-2 to come up,
but there wasn`t any. Both rabbitears and W9WI.com list CW for that (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. 6060, RNV via CUBA, Sept 25 at 1108 YL with `news` in
English, far too literally translated from Spanish that it`s laughable. Not
only that, but it`s in newspaper-style rather than radio-style. These
propagandists still have a lot to learn. Anyhow, so this is one of the
transmissions that is partly in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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