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Today's Topics:
1. QSL report for Al Muick (Albert Muick)
2. Re: QSL report for Al Muick (Jari Savolainen)
3. African logs (L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec)
4. Sun Morning DX (Charles Bolland)
5. Glenn Hauser logs October 9-10, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
6. Oct 9-10 Logs ([email protected])
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:04:56 +0430
From: "Albert Muick" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] QSL report for Al Muick
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
QTH: Kabul, Afghanistan
RX: WinRadio G303e
ANT: 100m Longwire/Randomwire
ACC: Palstar MW-550P Mediumwave Preselector
AUSTRALIA, Northern Territory Shortwave Service, Katherine 5025, f/d letter
and assorted stickers and cards in 37 days for English airmail report and US
$5 in return postage. The letter commends "your good use of English!"
ITALY, IAR Rome Radio, 8418, f/d "73 fm RomaRadio/IAR" folder card with
color picture of their offices on front of card, a picture of Marconi and
sat dishes on the inside of the card and a ship outline on the back. In 68
days for English airmail report and US $5 return postage. This is really a
very lovely QSL.
NEW ZEALAND, RNZI, 9655, f/d rugby radio card in 37 days for English airmail
report and US $5 return postage. They also send a lot of stickers and a
very kind thank-you note.
Well, I have to say I had a helluva good laugh at the letter from the
Northern Territory Shortwave Service commending my good use of English. All
my reports state that I am an American expatriate based in Kabul. Still
there may be something to it, as all of my British colleagues claim my
English is execrable! ;-)
I also could use some help locating the current mailing address of HEB Berne
Radio in Switzerland (ute station). My report was returned as undeliverable
from address Riedernstrasse 146, CH-3027 Berne. Help anyone?
Best 73,
Al
"Most people prefer to believe their leaders are just and fair even
in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen
acknowledges that the government under which they live is lying and
corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it.
To take action in the face of a corrupt government entails risks of
harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to
surrender one's self-image of standing for principles. Most people
do not have the courage to face that choice. Hence, most propaganda
is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral
cowards an excuse not to think at all."
- Michaell Rivero
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:30:46 +0300
From: "Jari Savolainen" <[email protected]>
To: "Albert Muick" <[email protected]>
Cc: HCDX <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] QSL report for Al Muick
Message-ID: <005101cb685d$d141aaa0$11000...@js1>
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reply-type=original
Re HEB.
My QSL from 2009 shows the same address but
their letter gives also following:
Swisscom Broadcast AG
Bernradio
Ostermundigenstrasse 99
CH-3006 Bern
Switzerland
Maybe better to check the current address from John Schrempft
e-mail schrempft at bernradio.ch
73, Jari
----- Original Message -----
From: "Albert Muick" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 10:34 AM
Subject: [HCDX] QSL report for Al Muick
> QTH: Kabul, Afghanistan
> RX: WinRadio G303e
> ANT: 100m Longwire/Randomwire
> ACC: Palstar MW-550P Mediumwave Preselector
>
>
>
> AUSTRALIA, Northern Territory Shortwave Service, Katherine 5025, f/d
> letter
> and assorted stickers and cards in 37 days for English airmail report and
> US
> $5 in return postage. The letter commends "your good use of English!"
>
> ITALY, IAR Rome Radio, 8418, f/d "73 fm RomaRadio/IAR" folder card with
> color picture of their offices on front of card, a picture of Marconi and
> sat dishes on the inside of the card and a ship outline on the back. In
> 68
> days for English airmail report and US $5 return postage. This is really
> a
> very lovely QSL.
>
> NEW ZEALAND, RNZI, 9655, f/d rugby radio card in 37 days for English
> airmail
> report and US $5 return postage. They also send a lot of stickers and a
> very kind thank-you note.
>
> Well, I have to say I had a helluva good laugh at the letter from the
> Northern Territory Shortwave Service commending my good use of English.
> All
> my reports state that I am an American expatriate based in Kabul. Still
> there may be something to it, as all of my British colleagues claim my
> English is execrable! ;-)
>
> I also could use some help locating the current mailing address of HEB
> Berne
> Radio in Switzerland (ute station). My report was returned as
> undeliverable
> from address Riedernstrasse 146, CH-3027 Berne. Help anyone?
>
> Best 73,
>
> Al
>
>
> "Most people prefer to believe their leaders are just and fair even
> in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen
> acknowledges that the government under which they live is lying and
> corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it.
> To take action in the face of a corrupt government entails risks of
> harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to
> surrender one's self-image of standing for principles. Most people
> do not have the courage to face that choice. Hence, most propaganda
> is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral
> cowards an excuse not to think at all."
> - Michaell Rivero
>
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 07:18:44 -0200
From: L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, "Anker Petersen" <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] African logs
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5010, Madagascar, R. Madagasikara, Antananarivo. October, 10 0305-0321 Malagasy
(listed) male and female talks, voices reciting like a preach, choral music,
female segment. 35333, (lob-B).
6045, R. Zimbabwe, Gweru. October, 10 0326-0340 tribal music (main voice,
choral and percussion), slow African music, sometimes male talks in Vernacular
on music, mentioned "Zimbabwe". 33433, (lob-B).
4780, R. Djibouti. October, 10 0344-0356 Horn of the Africa music selections.
33333, (lob-B).
3960, Liberia, Star Radio (presumed). October, 10 0529-0546 African music, male
in an uncertain language because signal was very weak to identify. 25232,
(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: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 10:48:17 -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] Sun Morning DX
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Peru, 592126, Radio Bethel, (Pres).1023-1035, Noted a
male in Spanish language
talk which sounds like a scoccer game. At 1026 canned
ADs or promos briefly,
then ordinary music is presented. The scoccer game
entry above may
have been just a recording of an earlier game from
Sunday that was being
heard. This signal begain to get beatup by
conditions at 1034 and
resulted in it becoming a threshold. It have been a
just a recording of an earlier
game. Can't find this station listed anywhere, so
this may be a harmonic or
something? However, I seem to recall Radio Bethel
being heard recently.
(Chuck Bolland, October 10, 2010)
WR-G31DDC
26.37N 081.05W
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 09:45:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 9-10, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 10: nothing found 8-14 MHz by 1258. See also
UNIDENTIFIED 10500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 17705, Oct 9 at 2250, RHC French, lo-fi and distorted but
this time not putting out buzzes and spurs way above and below the frequency.
Yet this is still anomalous: supposed to be in Guaran? at 2230-2300 per own
schedule.
RHC anomalies Oct 10: at 0510, English very poor on 6060 under REE 6055 splash,
undermodulated on 5970. Nothing on 6010, nor on 11760 where English has been
appearing some nights until 0600. Then at 0511, carrier cutting on and off
6010, also English modulation on and off, covering and uncovering
Colombia/Mexico. At 0512, another English channel 6150, is unmodulated. Spanish
on 6120 but unusually poor signal; VG on 5040.
Just about everything that could be SNAFU`d at RHC has been at one time or
another, but this may be a new twist: Oct 10 at 1314 during mailbag, 13780 is
missing but 13680 is on --- with huge subaudible heterodyne of about 280/minute
= 4 and two-thirds Hz. This means that RHC is running TWO powerful transmitters
on 13680; if there is modulation on both of them, and I think there is, that at
least is synchronized, but there is some audio fading as if the audio partly
cancels itself out periodically.
The super-SAH makes a kind of pulsing which can be heard extending down to
13620 without modulation, with a weaker peak around 13530. Putting both
transmitters on one frequency also eliminates the leapfrog on 13880, but I
doubt if this was the intent. Still the same at 1333.
Next check at 1410, they have finally taken one of the transmitters off 13680,
and now there is an open carrier on 13750, the usual Sunday situation, standing
by for Al?, Presidente, if any. Also a carrier on 17750 over VOA Kurdish via
Wertachtal, but that carrier soon goes off. At 1447 and 1510, 13750 still on
with open carrier.
But at 1549, 13750 and several frequencies are now running // RHC programming,
not RNV, about Cuban music: 17750, 15380-with CCI, 13750, 12010, 11760, 11730.
Nothing now on 12030, 15360; and 13680 has something in Chinese (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055.0, Oct 10 at 0517 weak music with carrier matching REE
6055.0 instead of TGAV being slightly off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9690, Oct 10 at 1328, annoying pop music instead of wonderful AIR IS;
1330 formal opening, ``Namaskar, welcome to the General Overseas Service of All
India Radio``, announcing as on 9690, 11620, 13710, and into news; poor signal,
hum and flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 3325, Oct 10, RRI Palangkaraya back to normal schedule, something
audible at 1209 vs artificial noise level plus natural noise from T-storms a
couple counties away; better at 1238 in Indonesian talk. I assume the absences
and/or late starts the past few days were transmitter or power problems (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 9500, Oct 10 at 1328, fair signal with very heavy flutter plus Doppler
causing frequency to seem unstable on BFO. Presumed VIRI Pushtu service as
listed, 500 kW, 68 degrees from Sirjan at 1230-1330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. TP MW bandscan around 1200 and 1230 UT Oct 10 unproductive; some of
the usual lower-band carriers, best being 747 at 1202, presumably 500 kW JOIB,
NHK Sapporo-2, Hokkaido (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Another sunrise and time to check for the fourth Ciudad Cuauht?moc,
Chiahua2 MW station, after having heard the ones on 550, 710 and 900: Sunday
Oct 10 at 1230 on 990, a station from the right direxion, WSW (surely not ENE),
vs Mexican music from the south, i.e. Monterrey or Metroplex. But this one is
in Spanish Rosary, 1231 interrupted for a hymn, 1234 back to Rosary but losing
out to QRM. Tentatively XEER, R. Lobo. Hope they do something less generic on
weekdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. Re question in my previous report whether 7350 is on the air in
evenings: WORLD OF RADIO monitor James MacDonell in Nigeria says R. Nigeria,
Abuja is only at 0530-1200*; tones until 0555 NA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. Overlooked checking for the 10/10 special from RTI pre-empting
English via WYFR 5950 and 9680 at 0200; however, at 0525, speech in Chinese
with PA reverb on 5950, so this English hour is also pre-empted (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3215, WWCR-1 back here Oct 10 at 0518 (along with spur carriers on
3199.5 and 3230.5), after a week testing 3255 instead. If anyone did object to
3255, it could take weeks to reach WWCR thru the bureaucracy, and besides, they
were not testing it during the hours they want to use it in B-10 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5950 // 5985, Oct 10 at 1242 nice organ music from WYFR; standard
remark about lack of classical music, and furthermore: if Harold Camping had
his way and churches were eliminated, where would we get such organ music??
At 1244 cut the fill music to another erroneous frequency change announcement.
YL says 5950 and 5985 are ending, to be replaced by 17555 and 17750, and in 15
minutes add 11910 to Canada. Trouble is, checking the 17 MHz channels at 1308,
17555 was in Portuguese, not English, and nothing on 17750; while WYFR was
really on 17795 as usual in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, checking WRMI for Sunday 1530 airing of WORLD OF RADIO on Oct
10: nothing audible nor jamming, but confirmed on webcast at 1552 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 10500-SSB, weak 2-way, not sure if Spanish, Oct 10 at 1323 in
absence of Firedrake (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:13:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Oct 9-10 Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
** COSTA RICA. 5954.17, ELCOR - Radio Republica, 0335-0403*,
Oct 9, Spanish talk. Local music. ID at sign off. Poor to fair with weak
jammer. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** GUATEMALA. 4055.00, Radio Verdad, 0535-0604*, Oct 10,
religious music. Talk. National Anthem at 0602. Poor. Very weak.
Too weak to ID the language. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** UGANDA [non]. via France, 15410, Radio Y?Abadanga Ababaka,
1724-1730*, Oct 9, Swahili talk. Many mentions of Uganda. Abrupt
sign off. Good. Sat only. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** WESTERN SAHARA. 6248.33, RASD, 0610-0655, Oct 10, once
again heard on this frequency. Tune-in to Qur`an. Lite music and
Arabic talk at 0613. Middle-East style local music. Arabic talk. Poor.
Weak with rtty-utility QRM and some QRM from a weak Equatorial
Guinea on 6250. Somewhat better reception after 0635. (Brian
Alexander, PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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