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Today's Topics:
1. Tue MOnr DX (Charles Bolland)
2. DRM+ tests in VHF band I and band II FM (Giampiero58)
3. Glenn Hauser logs October 18-19, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:29:41 -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] Tue MOnr DX
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Bolivia, 6134. 79, Radio Santa Cruz, 0955-1005, Noted
a female in Spanish comments. At 0958
canned comments by a male. Followed by more canned
promos. On the hour a program of
traditional music is heard. At 1001 a canned ID,
"... onda media .... kilohertz onda corta ..."
That's all that made it. Then back to music. Signal
was poor and fading. (Chuck Bolland,
October 19, 2010)
Peru, 47476.81, Radio Huanta Dos Mil, 1005-1015, Noted
different persons in Spanish language
comments which sounded like canned promos. This
continued during the period. Signal was
poor, but sometimes fading to a fair level. Singing
and comments heard at 1012. (Chuck
Bolland, October 19, 2010)
Peru, 4774.99, Radio Tarma,(pres) 1015-1025, Steady
music heard at tune in. Music
continues during the period as the signal diminishes to
threshold. (Chuck Bolland,
October 19, 2010)
Peru, 3329.52, Radio Ondas del Huallaga, 1025-1035,
Ofcourse this is just on the edge of CHU which
is much stronger, making copying very tenuous.
Consequently, "Ondas" is only audible at irregular
times depending on where CHU is in its time routine.
Noted music and comments from ODH between
CHU's announcements. ODH was threshold. (Chuck
Bolland, October 19, 2010)
Peru, 6019.34, Radio Victoria, 1038-1030, This is a
toughy this morning since there's a strong
het produced by the signal on 6020 KHz. As for Radio
Victoria, David Miranda, the Preacher,
is preaching in his usual way and manner. Tried to
log this earlier in the morning, but the signal
hadn't developed yet. It Seems to be much better at
this time which leaves it at a poor
level. (Chuck Bolland, October 19, 2010)
WR-G31DDC
26N 081W
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:53:54 +0200
From: "Giampiero58" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] DRM+ tests in VHF band I and band II FM
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In Torino area (North Italy) tests of DRM+ broadcasts are starting on VHF
band I and band II FM thanks to Radio Maria World Family.
More info (in Italian) on my blog: http://radiodxinfo.blogspot.com/
73
Giampiero
Giampiero Bernardini
Milano
Italia
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:52:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 18-19, 2010
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** CANADA [and non]. 9650, Oct 19 at 1312, the CRI English relay still has
co-channel QRM from RNW Dutch via Tinang, PHILIPPINES, but today Sackville is
on top, and there is no audible heterodyne, just a SAH. As closely as I can
tell, RCI transmitter is no longer off-frequency, but 9650.00 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 19: none found 1315-1325 between 8 and 18 MHz, and the
most likely spot, 10500, has some bubble jamming from local cable DTV converter
boxes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. Ananomaly check Oct 18: 17705, at 2058 wraps up RNV relay
hour with a minute of IS, and off at 2059* instead of starting over and going
on and on as it did a few days ago.
Anomalies Oct 19 at 0521, English only on 6150, 5970; both 6060 and 6010 were
absent; the latter had two stations mixing with low het, music and talk, no
doubt LV de tu Conciencia and Radio Mil.
Arnie has released the tentative B-10 schedule for RHC, English only, showing
6050 at 01-07, which would replace 5970 --- but that would blot out HCJB`s only
remaining frequency. Way to go. Spain has 5970 planned at 2300-0200 in French,
English, Spanish, surely just backup/alternate to 6055 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 21420-21445, rapid OTH radar pulses Oct 19 at 1354 and still after
1400, presumably from here. The ``15m`` hams will be having a fit, justifiably.
At this time, 13m was open from all over the area: Kuwait, Saudi, Spain,
Portugal, Ascension, Libya and after 1400, BBC Cyprus 21470 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, Oct 19 at 1326, VOI about Mother Teresa on This Day in
History, 1327 Banjarmasin guy talks about instant noodles, how Taiwan had
withdrawn some from Indonesia, but they`re OK as long as put in boiling
100-degree water. (But what about at higher elevations? Did not get into
that.). Another Tuesday, so another joint `Exotic Indonesian ``produxion with
RRI Banjarmasin. 1336 answering listener question about good spots for
photography in South Kalimantan; find the announcer at his office in the RRI
building at km 3.5 on Jalan-something, and he will show you. It would also help
if we could ever find out his true, correct and complete name. Then he and a YL
announcer presented a pre-produced scripted feature describing mosques for
religious tourism. The IADs continue thruout, but VG signal otherwise and not
much hum. I did not pay any attention to VOI the previous morning Oct 18, when
Ron Howard found double-audio in Japanese and English
during the 12-13 hour! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 3925, R. Nikkei, Tuesday Oct 19 at 1305 with German lesson,
concentrating on the word ``mehr``, explained in Japanese, but I also heard
``more`` as if they were explaining German in English as well. Mostly free of
QRhaM, but a little SSB on the hi side; // 6055 better (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. Breaking away from MW DX session on internal antenna
only due to storms, by 1300 Oct 19 it was safe to reconnect the 110-foot
east/west longwire to the FRG-7, but a bit too late to get much on 120-60
meters; nevertheless, at 1304, KCBS 2850 was still audible in Korean, and
different Korean on 3480 from V. of the People, south to north (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 21540, R. Kuwait, Oct 19 at 1357, music after drama, well over REE
Spain, making SAH of about 5 Hz; see also SAUDI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** LIBYA. 21695, V. of Africa, Oct 19 at 1324 in Swahili, and 1355, music
sounds awful due to rippling modulation, as if there were CCI from another
station maybe 20 Hz off, but this is just their own defective transmitter. 1402
ponderous English announcer also degraded by this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. T-storms in the area Oct 19, so even more reason to concentrate on
sunrise MW DX, only with internal antenna in the DX-398; not too many lightning
crashes per minute, and diminishing. Prime reference is the WRTH 2010; Cant? if
necessary:
540, in CBK null, at 1230 TC as 6:30, temp 12 grados, SID ``XETX, 5-40 AM, 5
mil watts, La Ranchera de Paquim?, . . . Sonora, y el sur de Nuevo M?jico y
Tejas``. But it`s axually in Nuevo Casas Grandes, the NW part of Chihuahua, and
could also claim to reach another state, Arizona.
610, at 1233, ``el noticiario m?s informado de Sinaloa``, soon mentioning
Guasave too: so it`s XEGS.
640, at 1219 music, 1222 ad for what sounded like Iluminaciones Loya, but that
does not Google; CNDR PSA, ID mentions 640, Radio Vivo (?), definitely ended in
-o, CCI from another Spanish; with WWLS nulled. Most likely Radio Uno, XEHHI,
Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, tho there is another Uno in Zacatecas.
650, at 1225-1228 ad/PSA string, finally Radio 65 ID in passing, 1228 music:
i.e. XETNT, Los Mochis, Sin., a regular. 1234 more journalists found executed,
risky profession. By now WWLS 640 IBOC bothers but can be nulled.
710, at 1220, ``la mejor programaci?n, XEDP, La Ranchera de Cuauht?moc``
singing ID, TC, music, from hi-elevation Chihua2.
730, at 1238, XEHB canned ID by super-hype announcer, 50 mil watts (Parral,
Chih.); by now KRMG 740 splatter is a problem with its own 50 kW day power.
XEHB and Tahiti 738 listeners note: KRMG official sunrises, UT: Oct 1230, Nov
1300, Dec & Jan 1330, Feb 1315.
760, at 1208-1210, Mexican NA playing late; op overslept? UnID roughly from WSW
direxion, then mixing with Antena 7-60, plus more Spanish from the south (Glenn
Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Musical call-signs in the OKC market, even for talk stations: I
would never deliberately listen to an outlet dedicated to stupid ballgames;
thus it was solely fortuitous that on caradio I happened to pause on 1340 at an
hourtop, 1900 UT Oct 18, and heard a new legal ID: ``The Game, KGHM, Midwest
City-Oklahoma City``, on to Fox Sports Radio news. (Don`t some ESPN or Fox
Sports affils default to real non-sports news on the hour from some other net,
even CNN?).
FCC AM query confirms KGHM is now the call for this old graveyarder which like
most OKC market stations has gone thru convulsions of callsign and/or format
changes. To us, 1340 is the original KOCY, which in its 60s heyday was a major
rocker. FCC callsign history, which does not go back nearly that far for any
station, just shows:
Call Sign Begin Date
KGHM 10/02/2010
KEBC 08/23/1996
KXXY 08/05/1985
KCNN 11/03/1984
KXXY 08/29/1983
I`d forgotten about KCNN ? or was out of state during that gestation period,
but KXXY was also the call on 96.1 FM (and still is, I think, glibly contracted
to ``KXY``). KEBC was also on FM 94.7, a C&W force for many years. Then the
KOCY call came back on 1560, the station hijacked to The Metro from poor little
Chickasha, originally KWCO as Women`s College of Oklahoma; now Radio Disney,
but how much longer?
What has Midwest City to do with this? 1340 KOCY was not attributed to that SE
suburb as city of license, so why should 1340 KGHM be now? [ex-]KEBC address
per NRC AM Log is in NW OKC on NW Expressway and Penn and 50th at the towering
Clear Channel building, topped by its logo, across from deadly Penn Square
Mall, along with KTOK-1000, et al.
Still no Tiger maps from Census available via FCC, but
http://www.radio-locator.com linx to Google maps pinpointing KGHM site still at
NE 29th St, 3 blox east of N Santa Fe, and just a bit further from I-235, i.e.
appropriately for an ND graveyarder, close to the center of OKC, not MWC. If it
were out there, would have a hard time getting to the NW side at night vs
hundreds of other kilowatters.
I wonder if CC ``needed`` the KEBC call somewhere else? FCC currently has it
nowhere on AM or FM; someone else should go get it, preferably an educational
station. ``KGHM`` will encourage some misundereducated Okie sportsnuts to
misspell the word ``game``, I am afraid --- or is ``ghm`` already textese for
the word, saving a hefty 25%? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA [and non]. 21505, BSKSA, Oct 19 at 1325 drama with music, while
Kuwait 21540 is airing another Arabic drama; a favorite late-afternoon local
time for such? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SCOTLAND [and non]. 24947, Oct 19 at 1404, GM4WZL, John in southwest
Scotland making lots of US contacts, a W-zero at 1407. QRZ.com lookup shows,
along with his dog Lucky:
JOHN SCOTT
5 Barrwood Gate
NR GALSTON IN AYRSHIRE, KA4 8NA
Scotland
Maybe a rather localized opening as the second-best signal on 12m, Oct 19 at
1408 on 24972 approx., was G0DBE in Liverpool, yes, with a Beatles accent.
LEE MARSLAND
154 MOSS LANE, LITHERLAND
Litherland, LIVERPOOL, L21 7NN
England
When 12m is open like this, one laments the lack of any nearby BBCWS UK
transmitters on 11m, which inboomed to NAm circa 1958 in the big solar peak
we`re unlikely ever to experience again. OTOH, 11m CB and 10m ham were not open.
Perhaps more realistically, when 12m is open from Europe, we ought to get some
equally low-power broadcast harmonix, so I scanned 23-25 MHz, but no results
yet. Prime sources would be:
23000-24320 = 2 x 11500-12160
23020-25188 = 4 x 5755-6297
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. 7225, surprised to find Arabic music here Oct 19 at 0513, but
nothing on 7275, the correct spot for RTT. 0517 YL announcement, more music;
0530 ``Tunis`` mentioned at least thrice in apparent next program title, more
music. 7335 not yet on which would be an easy //.
It so happens that 7225 IS the scheduled RTT frequency in the evenings, at
1700-2110 per WRTH May updater. So operator obviously forgot to change the
frequency after that, or re-entered the wrong one by mistake, and likely will
be back on 7275, 24 hours later. Fortunately, was not colliding with any
legitimate occupant of 7225; nothing scheduled after VOR finishes with
Pridnestrovye at 0300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17920, the dirty KVOH 17775 spur easily audible with whine and
garbage, but no intelligible modulation, Oct 18 at 2055 while fundamental was
S9+25+, about what it takes to audiblize the spur which is probably always
radiated if not propagable.
And also as usual, the match around 17630 was much weaker, just detectable at
peaks with same-pitch whine. Why should it be so assymmetrical? Please tune up
yours spurs, Voice of Restoration (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3160, WPJK Orangeburg SC, 2 x 1580, not heard Oct 19 as local
T-storms kept me off SW till it was too late, so I submit this instead of a
relog:
Some might have better luck hearing it in the evening, just before official
local sunset and sign-off, UT: Oct 2245, Nov & Dec 2215, Jan 2245, Feb 2300.
Per FCC AM Query for WPJK`s coordinates. Like the sun, these are not dependent
on DST, which means that in terms of Eastern time, Nov 1 thru 6, it should go
off at 6:15, but from Nov 7, 5:15. Some stations get mixed up, or don`t reset
their clox/timers, and stay on an hour too late during the Week of Confusion.
Morning sign-on during that week is supposed to be at 1200 UT = 8 am EDT,
becoming 7 am EST Nov 7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Amid all the Mexican sunrise skip, I caught a few domestix too Oct 19:
720, at 1252, KDWN Las Vegas NV, talkhostess Heidi Harris defending Sharon
Angle, so that`s all we need to know about Heidi. Has channel to herself, yet
at 1317 she`s gone and am hearing Cubs talk from WGN.
760, at 1256, central Arkansas weather, on Morning Express, 66 degrees; in
Kansas City null. Lo key ad for auto sales in Camden (? that`s down in
south-central AR) --- anyway, wonderful to hear a car lot which doesn`t scream
at us. ``AM 760, KMTL Radio, Sherwood - Little Rock - North Little Rock,
Arkansas, United States of America, Inspiration Radio``. This is 10 kW
nondirexional daytimer, Sherwood being a suburb NE of NLR.
770, at 1239, Albuquerque ad, mixing with something in Spanish. Perhaps the
Santa Fe 230 watt relay as this is more than a semi-hour before Albuquerque
primary cuts to day pattern. Standing by again at 1314, and comes on a few sex
before 1315, saying that NM governor candidates` debate will be Thursday 7 pm
on KOB-TV ``4``, repeated on KKOB 770 Friday night, same time. Signal now is
fair and steady.
870, at 1243, WWL dominating with NOPD PSA. It seems eastward stations are
making a comeback after sunrise today, tho XETAR may have been in earlier.
950, at 1217, 50s and 60s music, playing Pet Clark, loops NW/SE, holding its
own so far against local KGWA-960 which is also to the NW. By format and time,
most likely KRWZ Denver CO, except they supposedly have a day and night null SE
toward us. What was once KIMN.
950, at 1244, in local KGWA null, ``Radio 950, KWON``, sounded like, sports
talk. But can`t be KWON as that is 1400 in Bartlesville OK. Searching 950
listings, closest match is KWOS in Jefferson City MO, which NRC AM Log says is
News/Talk, but includes ESPN among its networx (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX-398, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Lacking any hint of sporadic E on channel 2 for months now, I
typically leave the analog TV tuned to ch A-48, northeast, tracking the mystery
Univisi?n relay. UT Oct 19, however, the signal remains very weak, not building
up during the evening, nor the following morning, so something is changing,
probably just where and how area tropo enhancement occurs. This is the case
even when OETA-38 in Ponca City is decoding, making it less likely that 48 is
in the same place (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. TP MW carrier scan Oct 19 at 1212-1215: only very weak ones from
NW on 792, 774, 747 and more like SW on 738. See MEXICO 730 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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