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Today's Topics:
1. Undercover Radio - The Fifties On Air (Radio Heritage Mail)
2. DX Listening Digest 10-39; World of Radio 1532 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Glenn Hauser logs September 30, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
4. Sound of Hope (Eike Bierwirth)
5. unid BBC (Eike Bierwirth)
6. Belaruskoye Radio (Eike Bierwirth)
7. Glenn Hauser logs September 30-October 1, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:36:31 +1300
From: "Radio Heritage Mail" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Undercover Radio - The Fifties On Air
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Media Release
Radio Heritage Foundation
www.radioheritage.net
Undercover Radio -
The Fifties On Air
A young man growing up in Missouri, another growing up in Virginia
and yet another in far away New Zealand.
They were all drawn together by one common love and exploring a world
far beyond their local towns. In 'Undercover Radio' the new Popular
Culture feature of the Radio Heritage Foundation at
www.radioheritage.net you'll be drawn into their world from The
Fifties.
Bob Dylan, Bill Hester and Keith Robinson lived thousands of miles
apart, but were connected through the airwaves to the same radio
stations, the same DJs and the same music at the same time.
With extracts from memoirs and colorfully illustrated with popular
magazines of the time, personal letters from the DJs at radio
stations and beautiful artwork of station logos and much more, Bill
Hester's 'coming of age' story comes alive for new generations who
enjoy the music of Bob Dylan.
Releasing the new feature at www.radioheritage.net, the Radio
Heritage Foundation says 'This story captures a moment in time when
musical influences from all over could beam into one tiny transistor
radio held under the bedsheets and have a profound influence on the
development of popular music as we know it today'.
'It nicely ties together our long held belief that radio heritage is
more than just dusty old cards, letters and photos, fading memories
and scratchy records - and connects not only people and places, but
the popular culture of a significant era in time'.
>From WOR New York, KYW Philadelphia, WSB Atlanta, WBAL Baltimore, and
many hundreds more stations across the eastern seaboard and mid-west
of the USA, the sounds of The Fifties swept across the nation and
across the world.
'Undercover Radio' at www.radioheritage.net is entertaining,
informative and when you listen to Bob Dylan's music from now on,
you'll always hear the echoes of those magical radio airwaves and the
music, ideas and influences that crossed so many borders.
The Radio Heritage Foundation is a registered non-profit organization
connecting popular culture, nostalgia and radio heritage across the
Pacific. Our global website is www.radioheritage.net.
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:47:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] DX Listening Digest 10-39; World of Radio 1532
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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DX Listening Digest 10-39 has now been posted at http://www.dxld.org
or http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt or http://dxld.worldofradio.org
and now also without delay at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1039.txt
CONTENTS:
WOR 1532 / AFGHANISTAN / ALASKA / ALBANIA / ANGUILLA +non / ANTARCTICA +non /
ARGENTINA / ASCENSION / ASIA non / AUSTRALIA BBCWS / AUSTRALIA X-band /
AUSTRALIA Symban / AUSTRALIA RA / AUSTRALIA HCJB / AUSTRIA / BAHAMAS / BAHRAIN
/ BANGLADESH / BELARUS / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL +non / CANADA IC/CBC / CANADA +non
CKWX/KTRP / CANADA CKMX/CFVP / CANADA +non CFRX / CANADA CKZU / CANADA +non RCI
/ CANADA CBCNQ / CANADA DTV / CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC / CHAD / CHINA +non /
COLOMBIA / COSTA RICA / CROATIA non / CUBA +non / ECUADOR / EL SALVADOR /
EQUATORIAL GUINEA +non / ERITREA +non / ETHIOPIA +non / EUROPE Pirate / FRANCE
+non / GAMBIA non / GERMANY +non / GREENLAND / GUAM / GUATEMALA / GUINEA /
HAWAII / HONDURAS / INDIA / INDONESIA / IRAN +non / IRELAND +non / JAPAN +non /
JORDAN / KOREA NORTH +non / KOREA SOUTH / KURDISTAN non / KUWAIT +non / LAOS /
MADAGASCAR +non / MALAYSIA +non / MALI / MEXICO +non / NETHERLANDS non / NEW
ZEALAND DRM+ / NICARAGUA / NORTH AMERICA
Pirate / OKLAHOMA +non KFAQ+ / OKLAHOMA +non KRMP/KWFS/KMMM / OKLAHOMA KOKB /
OKLAHOMA OK / OKLAHOMA +non GCN Pirate/KZLS/KTCS / OKLAHOMA
KOSB/KOSU/KHEV/KVDC/KLZR+ / OKLAHOMA KRSC/KWTV+ / PAKISTAN / PAPUA NEW GUINEA /
PERU / PHILIPPINES / PUERTO RICO / RUSSIA +non / SAINT HELENA / SAUDI ARABIA /
SIERRA LEONE non / SLOVAKIA / SOLOMON ISLANDS / SOMALIA / SOMALILAND / SOUTH
AFRICA / SPAIN +non / SRI LANKA / SUDAN non / SURINAME / SWAZILAND / SWEDEN non
/ SWITZERLAND / TAIWAN +non / THAILAND / TIBET +non / TUNISIA / TURKEY +non /
UGANDA +non / UKRAINE / UK +non BBCWS / UK BBCR4 / UK +non VTC A10 / USA non
VOA+ / USA non RFE/RL/BBG / USA WEWN / USA WOR/WRMI / USA WOR/WWCR / USA WTWW /
USA WOR/WWRB / USA +non WRMI / USA KVOH / USA WJHR/KTMI+ / USA AWR / USA +non
WYFR B10 / USA ham MW / USA FCC/WiFi/LPTV / USA FCC/3-letter calls / USA Disney
/ USA KGGF / USA WGN / USA KMOX / USA WCXI/WPON / USA KYYW / USA Florida MIS /
USA KHSB++ / USA CNN/NBC / VATICAN +non /
VENEZUELA +non / WESTERN SAHARA non / ZANZIBAR / ZIMBABWE +non / UNIDENTIFIED
225 / UNIDENTIFIED 650 / UNIDENTIFIED 729 / UNIDENTIFIED 1098 / UNIDENTIFIED
1490 / UNIDENTIFIED 1521/1539 / UNIDENTIFIED 1712 / UNIDENTIFIED 4290 /
UNIDENTIFIED 4695 / UNIDENTIFIED 6313 / UNIDENTIFIED 17505 / TESTIMONIALS /
PUBLICATIONS / LANGUAGE LESSONS / MUSEA / WORLD OF TELEPHONY / DIGITAL
BROADCASTING / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION
For restrixions and searchable 2010 contents archive see
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html
NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but
have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself
obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn
WORLD OF RADIO 1532 HEADLINES:
*Future plans from Alaska, Guatemala, Slovakia, Sweden, Tennessee, UK
*Interruptions in Canada, Laos, Papua New Guinea, Sudan, Alabama,
California
*Specials from Germany, India
*More DX and station news from Argentina, Asia, Brazil, China, Cuba,
France, Greenland, Ireland, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Russia,
Saint Helena, Taiwan, Uganda, USA
SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1532, September 30-October 6, 2010
Thu 1500 WRMI 9955
Thu 1900 WBCQ 7415
Thu 2100 WRMI 9955
Fri 0330 WWRB 3185
Fri 1430 WRMI 9955
Fri 2030 WWCR1 15825
Sat 0800 WRMI 9955
Sat 0800 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 9515
[second, fourth, fifth Saturdays, maybe]
Sat 1400 WRMI 9955 [NEW]
Sat 1600 WWCR2 12160
Sat 1730 WRMI 9955
Sat 1800 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 7290
Sun 0230 WWCR3 4840
Sun 0630 WWCR1 3215
Sun 0800 WRMI 9955
Sun 1730 WRMI 9955
Tue 1530 WRMI 9955
Tue 1900 WBCQ 7415
Tue 2230 WRMI 9955
Wed 0030 WRMI 9955
Wed 1530 WRMI 9955
Wed 1900 WBCQ 7415
Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite
and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or
http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org
For updates see our Anomaly Alert page:
http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html
WRN ON DEMAND:
http://193.42.152.193/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24
WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN:
http://www.wrn.org/wrn-listeners/world-of-radio/
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/world-of-radio/rss/09:00:00UTC/English/541
OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO:
http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
or http://wor.worldofradio.org
Best DX wishes, Glenn Hauser
------------------------------
Message: 3
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:12:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 30, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36, Sept 30: no carrier detectable at 1349 tho 15480
Rampisham was there; but at 1418 I do find a 15476 carrier; was it off earlier?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Sept 30: after 1330, none found until:
15520, at 1348, weak FD music mixed with noise jamming and talk, very poor with
flutter, against V. of Tibet; no het, anyway
10500, VG at 1431; certainly was not on before 1400. Then I do another quick
bandscan 8-19 MHz but find no others (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 14580-14605, OTH radar pulses, presumed from here, Sept 30 at 1346
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, R. Verdad, 0605 UT Sept 30, tuned in barely in time to hear
end of NA, so could not evaluate it much. Later I found this from R. Verdad
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Dear Glenn: I want to inform you that we made some adjustments on our small
transmitter this afternoon, and now, we are transmitting with almost 100 watts
power on AM. I was able to monitor our signal at the house of a DX friend, and
the signal sounded strong and clear. I provided the technician with your last
letter. We appreciate your suggestions very much. May God bless you (Dr. ?dgar
Madrid, Radio Verdad, 0508 UT Sept 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 21540, nothing heard at first check around 1330 Sept 30, but at
1423, 13m had blossomed with this SSOB achieving S9+20, conversation in Arabic;
at first not even any CCI from Spain audible, but detectable at 1426 as R.
Kuwait had gone into Qur`an. Don`t Moslems ever tire of this stuff, over and
over? Is their faith so fragile that it must be reinforced five times a day,
causing tremendous losses in earthly productivity? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA. 13m was just about dead at 1330, but checked again at 1422 Sept 30,
21695 has S9+18 signal from V. of Africa from the Great Jamahiriyah, YL in
English with heavy imposed reverb, making her heavy accent even less readable,
plus hum and lo-fi audio, something about revolution, brotherhood, socialism.
1422 outro as a special program for the 39-th anniversary of the revolution.
1425 into geographical feature about S?n?gal, I finally figured out from
content, altho pronunciation was so poor at intro that I thought they said
Trinidad. Second SSOB, outdone only by KUWAIT, q.v. Quite stronger than //
17725 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. Tnx to a quick tip from Bruce Winkelman, Tulsa that his
local KFAQ 1170 was off at 0355 UT Sept 30, I hurried to check the frequency.
Around 0405 UT quite a jumble there, and nice to have the IBOC off too. But now
there is some IBOC QRM from KSL when aiming E/W. Two Spanish speakers, one with
music, one with talk, when that is nulled. One ran a slogan ID but could not
catch it.
NRC AM Log shows no US nighttimers in Spanish on 1170; WRTH shows eight
nighttimers in Mexico, no more than 2.5 kW from Puebla and Aguascalientes.
0420 check, KFAQ is back on but weak, and easily nulled. Must be backup
transmitter, and still no IBOC.
At 1650 UT, KFAQ still seems weaker than usual, but this is subjective as I
don`t pay much attention to its normal level. But, no IBOC audible now either,
so probably still on backup. If this continue into UT Oct 1, should enhance DX
possibilities on 1157-1183 kHz.
Is there anything about this situation on the KFAQ website, titled ``Tulsa`s
Conservative Talk Radio Station`` http://www.1170kfaq.com/
(even tho they don`t have Rush, just othercreeps like Beck, Ingraham, bits from
O`Reilly, Huckabee)? No.
How about the radio-info.com OK board?
http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?board=224.0
No, again, tho participants there often post inside info on what`s going on in
the market (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. I often leave my only funxioning B&W TV on channel 36 aimed toward
OKC, for my best remaining analog TV station, Univisi?n`s KCHM-CA, 12.53 kW
ERP. In dead daytime conditions there is little if any signal detectable, but
it serves to tip me if tropo is up, and my equipment is funxional. Customarily
the signal steadily rises in the evenings past midnight, sometimes joined by
weaker LPTVs/translators in OKC on 17, 19, 21, 48.
It also can amuse me by bursting into visibility occasionally for a second or
two, e.g. the morning of Sept 30, 15-17+ UT, i.e. airplane scatter, not
necessarily correlating with any audible Vance training jet flyovers (Glenn
Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAIPAN. 11650, Sept 30 at 1321, fair signal holding its own against stronger
NHK/Sackville 11655; interesting language with Slavic elements, recognizable
Russian-like words here and there, but what is it really?
Aoki shows KFBS daily at 1300-1330 in Kazakh, while preceding and following
segments are in a variety of other Central Asian languages. What I was hearing
did not sound Turkic to me, but more Slavic; WRTH May Update agrees it`s
Kazakh, so I must concede (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11436-USB, Sept 30 at 1327, as I was tuning for Firedrakes, stopped
at intermittent SSB; CAMSLANT Chesapeake was calling several Coast Guard Air
Stations, including Clearwater, Miami and Savannah, apparent roll call. I never
heard any of them answer, so is this duplex rather than simplex = on the same
frequency? HQ did not achieve contact with all of them either.
This resembles a previous log of mine from July 16, 2009, archived at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg24533.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13845, not even a carrier detectable from WWCR, Sept 30 at 1429, tho
15825 was JBA, plus numerous other signals on 21m, e.g. 13880 Cuba, 13870
Russia, 13860 Farda, 13835 WEWN. The remaining WWCR transmitters were inbooming
as usual, 9980 and 7490 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 15450, Sept 30 at 1350 open carrier with flutter; will this
develop into something interesting? No, 1400 we hear ``Gott sei die Ehre``
opening theme music for Family Radio, announcement in unknown language. Aoki
says it`s Assamese, 200 kW, 110 degrees via Krasnodar, RUSSIA at 1400-1500
daily. This was originally registered in A-10 for BBC via Armavir, 200 kW, 104
degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
------------------------------
Message: 4
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:14:17 +0200
From: "Eike Bierwirth" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Sound of Hope
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Hi,
the Sound of Hope from Taiwan is currently making it into Germany, 30 Sep 2010,
without communist jammers, on 9000 kHz (from about 2140 UTC). Checked on the
Perseus at 2205 and found the parallel on 7105 - with a strong signal but
covered by CNR1 jammer // 4800. Possibly also on 9635 but a mess of many
signals there, so I'm not sure yet.
Greetings from the RMRC DX Camp Langenselbold!
73,
Eike
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 02:15:36 +0200
From: "Eike Bierwirth" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] unid BBC
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
5935 kHz, 30 Sept 2010, 2352 UTC, still on at 00:12. BBC WS in English // and
in sync with 648. Strong signal, WWCR pushed far into the background.
73,
Eike
RMRC DX Camp, Langenselbold / Germany
Perseus + Long Wire
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 02:38:33 +0200
From: "Eike Bierwirth" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Belaruskoye Radio
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Obviously longer transmission schedule again for Belaruskoye Radio, 1st
programme, still heard at 0025 UT (01 Oct, 2010) on 279, 6010, 6040, 6070,
6190, and 7235 kHz, with anglopop music and a female host speaking in
Belarussian.
There is something in the background on 279, possibly Turkmenistan, heard here
years ago // 5015, now there's nothing available to compare it with.
73,
Eike
RMRC DX Camp, Langenselbold / Germany
Perseus + Long Wire
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:53:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 30-October 1, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** CANADA [non]. 15180, Sept 30 at 1959 just as I tune across, hear weak
``rcinet.ca`` and off. It`s the conclusion of Arabic via Rampisham UK, 500 kW
at 115 degrees, and sounds like 1 kW here off the back which would peak at 295
degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. Sept 30 I monitor 9965, where DentroCuban jamming starts
against nothing at 1358: at 2058 there is still heavy jamming, and 9955 WRMI
frequency open. At 2059, jamming pulses cut on 9955, and a few sex later the
jamming diminishes greatly on 9965.
On weekdays, WRMI signs 9955 on at 2100, after a break since 1600 when there is
nothing but WRN fill on the schedule. But 2100 Thursdays is exactly when WORLD
OF RADIO is carried on WRMI, and it`s totally inaudible under the jamming
quickly built up to wall-of-noise level. A few minutes later I confirm on
webcast that new WOR 1532 is indeed on WRMI at this time.
Tnx a lot, Arnie! The next time you hear him on RHC, ask yourself, or better
yet ask him, why he has a right to be heard without any interference from
across the shore, and I do not (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. KFAQ 1170: by 1755 UT Sept 30, IBOC sidebands could be heard again
and seems back up to full power (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13845, WWCR-3, which was missing earlier Sept 30 at 1429, when
rechecked at 2001 was poorly audible with DGS. WWCR-1 on 15825 very poor too as
usual, but WWCR-2 on 12160 was inbooming, second only to WWCR-4 on 9980 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 18710, success at last in detecting the second harmonic of WINB`s
newest frequency, 9355, in use only for Brother Scare, M-F 15-16 and 18-20 UT.
Sept 30 at 1955 I hear traces of modulation, and when it peaks a little I can
// it to 9355; also, the carrier is unstable like the fundamental, I expect
twice as unstable. The fundamental is not especially strong and I am quite sure
it`s the harmonic which is propagating, barely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1532 confirmed on WWRB 3185, UT Friday Oct 1 at 0330,
after having missed last week due to upload problem. Next SW airings are Friday
1430 WRMI 9955, Friday 2030 WWCR 15825, Saturday 0800, 1400 and 1730 WRMI 9955,
Saturday 1600 WWCR 12160 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
========================
Government Springs DX-pedition: As September turned into UT October, I spent 52
productive minutes SW DXing at one of Enid`s municipal parks. It was an
important watering hole on the Chisholm Trail. Tho only a block from a major
hospital now, the noise level is quite low compared to the home QTH, and just
as important, getting away from all the distraxions. RS DX-398 but with Grundig
reel-out antenna, roughly NW-SE, at picnic table #2, cell power only:
** BRAZIL. 12174, VG signal at 0016 Oct 1 from extremely distorted FMy spur, //
11765 with wacky wailing gospel huxter David Miranda. The fundamental is
distorted and undermodulated, since most of the audio is being squeezed out on
this spur, plus a matching much weaker one on 11356. ZYE726, SRDA, Curitiba,
Paran? (Glenn Hauser, GSDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA [and non]. 6070, CFRX after more than a week of open carrier, was
reported modulating again the afternoon of Sept 29, per
http://www.cfrx.webs.com/ ---
``CFRX Update: Audio back on! Around noon today, September 29, I heard audio
from CFRX. I hope to get an update on what the problem was, and when I do, I'll
let you know. Good listening! 73 Steve Canney``
And deleted was his previous item in the same place about it being off. The
resumption was also quickly reported by Steve Lare, MI; Stephen Wood, MA; Noble
West, TN, all early UT Sept 30, but I didn`t get it checked until:
2339 UT Sept 30, mixture presumably with CVC Chile, scheduled 23-02, but only
until 9 October. Better at 2353 with Toronto ads now atop clicking, jamming
spur? (Glenn Hauser, GSDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. 6175, Sept 30 at 2349, Cuban Spanish discussion of a new
installation in Holgu?n, had me going as maybe another stray Cuban transmitter,
but not // any of the three Cuban SW services at this time. 2353 ID as R.
Internacional de China; and this is the ALBANIA relay (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA [and non]. 5954+, Sept 30 at 2338, weak carrier detected under
jamming centered 5955, i.e. R. Rep?blica via ELCOR, Gu?piles. R. Rep?blica was
doing a LOT better on 9490 vs DentroCuban jamming, since that frequency is 100
kW via Sackville (Glenn Hauser, GSDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5970, contrary to its posted schedule that it starts at 0100 for
English, RHC Spanish at 0003 Oct 1 with news // 6060 and 6000, after 5970
having been open carrier at 0001.
17705, Oct 1 at 0019, RHC with VG strength, but overmodulated, distorted in
music then talk in indigenous language, presumably Quechua as scheduled, with
plenty of Spanish words, about Baracoa. Despite quiet location in the park,
when I tuned up the 17 MHz band, found high noise level around this frequency,
then realized it`s buzz centered on 17705, gradually weakening toward the edges
extending all the way to 17665 and 17755, so being produced by this transmitter
of RadioCuba which has the nerve to be celebrating an anniversary of all its
incompetent and jamming radiation.
Plus some lite pulse jamming against nothing on 17670 at 0021 Oct 1 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, carrier only detectable at the outset from TGAV at 2333
Sept 30. But still too early to pull any audio in later chex next 52 minutes
(Glenn Hauser, GSDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 4845, ORTM, in Arabic, Sept 30 at 2334, also het, from ute?
(Glenn Hauser, GSDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, Sept 30 at 2343, Winston cigarette ads, as sponsor
for The Flintstones, theme (Fred was a cigar puffer, wasn`t he?). Distracted by
other logs including pirates, by the time I got back to 6925 at 2353, it was
off.
6932, at 2344 Sept 30, find another pirate above 6925; this one is not USB, but
mushy on AM, so more like FM, a mode I cannot receive directly on the DX-398,
but better copy than some FMy spurs. Narration about goodwill, etc., is going
on with Morse Code SFX, space music, then gives website
http://www.radiolimbo.tk or so it sounded, but that doesn`t work.
Googling on the name gets some interesting results, a 103.3 mobile FM pirate in
Tucson AZ, also subject of a movie filmed in 2004y, ``Making Waves``. So is it
now on SW, or was someone playing a recording of it?
At 2354 still going with opening of Pinball Wizard. At 2357 had some ACI from
Spanish 2-way LSB on 6929.0. And 6932 still on with music at 0024 as I am about
to wrap up my session. Is this something new? I don`t get any hits on limbo in
my Free Radio Weekly archive.
6940-USB, third pirate in a row, Oct 1 at 0024 after rechecking 6932: reggae,
0025 ID by YL as ``W-E-A-K, Weak Radio``; I disagree, signal was pretty good.
This one has been very active lately. 6940 should be avoided after 0200 when
the WWCR 4840/5890 leapfrog starts (Glenn Hauser, GSDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 6055, REE at 0002 Oct 1 with news in English by Justin Coe, about
yesterday`s work stoppage due to austerity measures. Mark Coady heard them
filling with music and strike announcements 24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser,
GSDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. 9630, center of DRM from REE COSTA RICA, Oct 1 at 0010, can
hear it not merely in the legal 9625-9635 10-kHz-wide band, but noise as low as
9610 and as high as 9650, i.e. 40 kHz wide, just like it was from the very
first day, self-QRMing 9620 REE analog from Spain. What nerve! How to win
friends (Glenn Hauser, GSDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** THAILAND. 15275, R. Thailand, HSK9, Oct 1 at 0018 with news in English,
heavy flutter (Glenn Hauser, GSDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11520, WEWN English, Oct 1 at 0013, the transmitter with audio
garbage mixed in, plus swishy spurs 10 kHz above and below, 11530 QRMing WYFR.
However, with BFO on, the carrier appears to be stable now (Glenn Hauser, GSDX,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non?]. 6165, Sept 30 at 2340 song and YL announcement in Spanish,
2341 mentions virgen, venezolana; poor signal with fades. 2349 ID in passing as
``Canal Internacional de Radio Nacional de Venezuela``. And again at 2349.
Outro another program segment with ID at 2356 and into IS.
What?? Not scheduled here, but during this hour is on 13680 and 15250 via Cuba,
and extremely strong. Sounds like same program, but without second receiver
can`t // for sure. By 2359 RNW Bonaire overpowers everything on 6165 with IS.
Three possibilities:
1, an extra Cuban transmitter has been turned on for this
2, receiver overload from 15250, 13680, but why land on 6165?? Further chex
should rule this one in or out
3, RNV has finally started its own transmissions from Calabozo, on secret
schedule (Glenn Hauser, GSDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5800, Sept 30 at 2335 talk in Spanish, seems mixing with other
audio and a likely mixing product from 49m transmitters, but which? I`ve yet to
come up with a likely pairing. Sounds a bit like WYFR on 5985, but I don`t have
a second receiver with me to make matches. Retune at 2359 hoping for ID; bit of
a Spanish news item mentioning Ecuador, cut off at 2400* (Glenn Hauser, GSDX,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5935, Sept 30 at 2337 English talk about Nigeria; sounds like a
BBC programme. Nothing scheduled now, but BBCWS English via SOUTH AFRICA is
listed at 2200-2300; seems we have caught Meyerton before staying on late. By
2401, WWCR with DGS has overtaken 5935 (Glenn Hauser, GSDX, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7745, Sept 30 at 0007 Brother Scare mixing with something,
probably caused by receiver overload from WWCR 9980, which also breaks thru on
2 x IF image 9080, but can`t figure a formula to explain it (Glenn Hauser,
GSDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 94, Issue 1
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