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Today's Topics:
1. Nov 26 Logs ([email protected])
2. R. Quito 4919 hrd again (Karel Honz?k)
3. Nov. 24, 27 logs (L?cio Bobrowiec)
4. Glenn Hauser logs November 27, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
5. R. Quito (Dave Valko)
6. South Florida Brasil Australia (Robert Wilkner)
7. Nov 27 Logs ([email protected])
8. Glenn Hauser logs November 27-28, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 02:25:55 -0500 (EST)
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Nov 26 Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 6025.09, Radio Amanecer, 1053-1105,
Nov 26, Spanish talk. IDs. Jingles. Promos. Fair to good signal.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** MALI. 9635, RTVM, *0800-0840, Nov 26, sign on with flute IS
and opening French announcements and into vernacular talk. Local
tribal music after 0830. Strong carrier but weak modulation. (Brian
Alexander, PA)
?
** NIGERIA. 9690, Voice of Nigeria, 0910-0920, Nov 26, English
programming with talk about local wildlife. IDs. Some local music.
Fair. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** U.S.A. 3160.04, WPJK, Orangeburg, SC, 1300-1320, Nov 26,
2nd harmonic of 1580. Several announcements. Gospel music. Talk
at 1310. Very weak. Weak but readable on peaks. 1320 fade-out.
2 x 1580. Thanks to Glenn Hauser tips. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
?
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
?
?
?
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 10:13:50 +0100
From: Karel Honz?k <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] R. Quito 4919 hrd again
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ECUADOR
4918.98, Radio Quito, 0533-0730, Nov 26, Spanish, LA pop, frequent IDs, "760
AM" mentioned only, no SW QRG. Quite weak here in the middle of Europe.
Karel Honzik, CZE
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:53:46 -0800 (PST)
From: L?cio Bobrowiec <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Nov. 24, 27 logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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15415, R. Australia, Shepparton. November, 24 0403-0412 Indonesian (listed)
male and female talks, many mentions of ?Australia, R. Australia?, male outside
in discussion with studio female. 35443, (lob-B).
?
6020, Peru, R. Vict?ria, Lima. November, 24 0423-0430 male preacher to an
audience ?la oraci?n, milagro del Di?s?, short music as a bridge to studio
religious talks. 33433, (lob-B).
?
3945, R. Vanuatu, Port Vila. November, 24 0754-0804 male in an uncertain
language talks with some reverb. // 7260, 25222 (lob-B).
?
13630, R. Australia, Shepparton. November, 24 0805-0813 female in English
segment ?R. Australia?, short music, male ?good evening?. Weak but clear, 23422
(lob-B).
?
6025, Dominican Republic, R. Amanecer (tentative), Santo Domingo. November, 27
0337-0400 latin, romantic Spanish selections, male Spanish talks. Sign off at
0400, weak and unreadable, 22422 (lob-B).
?
73's
?
L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec
Embu SP Brasil
SW 40 - Dipoles and Longwire
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 11:05:29 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 27, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** ASCENSION. 17505, good signal with tonal African language, Nov 27 at 1727
past 1730; kept talking about ``Cristo``. HFCC shows it`s YFR in Shona at 17-18
daily, 250 kW, 102 degrees. And it had quite a hum, now so characteristic of
Ascension, due to wind power generation? Why can`t they filter that out? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. They still haven`t caught on in the RHC studio that
programming is airing one hour later than before. Saturday Nov 27 at 1508 UT on
11760, Cartas a la Redacci?n is opening, claiming its schedule in Cuban time is
Saturday 9:05 am, 11:32 am, 7:00 pm, and Sunday 4:00 am. But guess what, at
1508 UT it is already 10:08 am EST!!
I paused to listen to this on 11760 since the carrier was dropping to a lower
level for a split second every one or two seconds. Most annoying; the
modulation seemed to continue, and on the S-meter too I could see that the
carrier was not cutting out completely, just dropping to lower power (or maybe
a short in the antenna was to blame). This situation was still ongoing at 1528.
So it`s different from the IADs infecting the Voice of Indonesia 9526-
transmitter where the carrier is unaffected (and still doing that today as I
bytuned).
Another amateurish anomaly from the RadioCuba operation: 11730, Nov 27 at 1554
with open carrier atop pop music, announcement maybe in Arabic. I figure it`s
RHC as usual which runs 11730 all day in Spanish, but when will modulation be
applied? Not at 1616, and still not one hour and one minute later checked,
1717! Wake up. At 1554 and onward, RHC was going as usual on 11690 // 11760.
As for the 11730 Arabic before 1600, nothing listed in Aoki, but HFCC has it as
RRI via Galbeni (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ECUADOR. 4918.9, R. Quito carrier detectable vs noise level for a second
night, Nov 27 at 0612, bit of music vs CODAR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** FRANCE [and non]. 13695, Nov 27 at 1723, something in French, with cora
music, underneath Harold Camping`s Open Forum. It`s RFI, Issoudun at 185
degrees, oblivious of the QRM from Okeechobee heading 355 degrees (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [and non]. 13670, something strange here, Nov 27 at 1535, fire &
brimstone preacher in English, not Brother Scare or another TOM psychophant,
mixing about equally with South Asian(?) song, 1540 announcement Farsi-like.
Can`t hear a SAH between them, so zero-beat. At 1544 the latter announces a ``P
O Box`` but that`s all I can catch. At 1545 both of them cut off
simultaneously, uncovering a Chinese lesson presented in French.
The latter is certainly CRI via ALBANIA as scheduled, 1400-1600 at 240 degrees,
and the former fits for a Saturday-only transmission of MBR via Wertachtal,
1515-1545, 100 kW, 90 degrees. Aoki reveals it`s Bible Voice, in English (also
on 13670: in English Thursday 1630-1600; and in Urdu Wednesday & Friday
1530-1600). Nothing else. Since both cut off at the same instant, I conclude
that it was a double audio feed into and out of the Wertachtal transmitter, not
external interference, Christians vs Christians! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 5765-USB, AFN, Nov 27 at 1256 is wrapping up a talk show, apparently
concerning country music, a bit of which was heard, plus NPR outro credit. Hard
to copy due to splash from incomparably more powerful WTWW 5755. But that goes
off at 1300, and suddenly the AFN signal jumps as the FRG-7 is no longer being
desensitized by WTWW, and we can hear the opening of NPR`s Weekend Edition
Saturday, yay, still on SW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, ORTM, Nov 27 at 0625 with characteristic soporific wake-up
chanting, 0630 onto something more secular. Usually this signal is lesser than
neighbors DW 7240 and Vatican 7250, but tonight it`s morer, as higher latitudes
were barely propagating, such as Tunisia 7335 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PORTUGAL. 13720, Nov 27 at 1722, Iberian Portuguese with silly ballgame, //
stronger 17820 and equivalent 15465, all RDPI simulcasting a domestic network
enthusiastically (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. 5965 via COSTA RICA, REE`s Amigos de la Onda Corta, Saturday
Nov 27 at 0614 with propagation predictions for different bands and areas from
a regular contributor. Meanwhile, propagation was quite degraded with little
above 10 MHz and no REE direct parallels audible, while 5965 had the usual CCI
from Vatican making a SAH, and the CR audio also a bit muffled (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9615, Sat Nov 27 at 0621, VG S9+20 signal the SSOB, much stronger
than WYFR, but horrible audio of YL singing, chirpy like water dripping in a
sewer, apparently very poor webfeed. WHR website claims Angel 2 is on 9615
daily at 06-08 UT, but fortunately it`s really on the air weekends only (or
fragments of that span which are sold), and this must have been Jesus' Love
Ministers, with Mrs. Gwen Knox, Saturdays 0615-0630. Has Gwen listened to how
she sounds from Furman? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1540 confirmed on WRMI, 9955, Saturday Nov 27 ending
at 1529 with propagation outlook, fair signal and no jamming audible; thanks a
lot, Arnie! Then plug for the NASB cruise in May, Jeff White wearing his
travel-agent hat, 1531 AWR Wavescan with Jeff changing to his DX-program-host
hat.
WORLD OF RADIO 1540 also confirmed on WWCR-2, 12160, Saturday Nov 27 after
1700. The audio processing on this transmitter is turned up to the max, which
boosts every breath I take and every little glitch in the editing; please try
to disregard them. Next airings are UT Sunday 0330 on 4840, 0730 on 3215 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. TA carrier search UT Nov 27 at 0132-0140, on DX-398 in USB mode
9-kHz steps with slightly offtuned BFO, twice up and once down the band: 693,
783, 837, 909, 945, 1089, 1206, 1215, 1377, 1502, 1512, 1521, 1557, 1575 (Glenn
Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. TP carrier search UT Nov 27 at 1315-1320: 1566, 1422, 1053, 774,
666, 594 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 18:02:52 -0500
From: "Dave Valko" <[email protected]>
To: "Cumbre DX" <[email protected]>, "Hardcore DX"
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] R. Quito
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ECUADOR 4918.97 R. Quito 1009 long tlk by M in possibly Quechua. 1015
nice HC mx w/vcl by M and W. 1018 brief canned promo and ad block for 2 min.,
HC mx briefly and same M anncr again w/ment of "economico". Song again
1030-1033 and more ads w/ments of Quito, then back to mx. Another song and
another ad block. Ments of Ecuadoriana. More of the same. HC coral NA at
1057-1100. 1 min. anmnt by M but no ID noted. A few more canned anmnts, then
finally a canned ID w/ment of AM and FM. Fair to good but distorted audio like
it used to be. (26 Nov.)
73 Dave
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:50:46 -0500
From: Robert Wilkner <[email protected]>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [HCDX] South Florida Brasil Australia
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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---------- South Florida -------- Brasil ---------- Australia ------------
162 France France Inter 0328 yl om in FR, good signal [Wilkner]
171 Morocco, Medi 1 0320 to 0410 AR music and programming, very strong
signal also 207 kHz seemingly? 27 November [Wilkner]
183 Europe 1, Felsberg -Saarlouis- 0310 to 0400 with good signal. 27
November [Wilkner]
2485 Australia, VL8K Katherine NT 1030 with some audio, best of the
three, 23 November [Wilkner]
3290 Guyana, GBC 0320 orchestral music, 27 November [Wilkner]
3329.53 Peru Ondas del Huallaga, Hu?nuco 1010 to 1017 om en espanol, CHU
notched 26 November [Wilkner]
3375.34 Brasil Radio Municipal S?o Gabriel da Cachoeira 1016 with Brasil
music and om, strong signal 25 November; same 23 November [Wilkner]
4700 Bolivia, Radio San Miguel, Riberalta 1000 and 0000 every day [Wilkner]
4716.19 Bolivia Radio Yura, Yura 1000 and 0000 every day [Wilkner]
4746.971 Peru, Radio Huanta 2000 Huanta Ayacucho 1022 -1050, musica
peruana with ID by om 26 November [Wilkner]
4774.906 Peru, Radio Tarma. Tarma 1020 to 1040 good signal, music..25
November [Wilkner]
4778.098 Unid 1030 on 25 November. rlw
4780 Djibouti, Radio Djibouti, Doraleh 0320 with om, strong signal 27
November [Wilkner]
4805 Brasil Radio Difusora do Amazonas,Manaus 1026 PT, fair signal
strength. om on 26 November [Wilkner]
4824.49 Peru La Voz de la Selva, Iquitos 1045 to 1100 excellent music,
good signal, enjoyable 26 November [Wilkner]
4986.366 Peru Radio Manantial, Huancayo 1030 to 1040 fading out 23
November [Wilkner]
-----------------------Brasil
---------------------------------------------------
15415, R. Australia, Shepparton. November, 24 0403-0412 Indonesian
(listed) male and female talks, many mentions of ?Australia, R.
Australia?, male outside in discussion with studio female. 35443, (lob-B).
6020, Peru, R. Vict?ria, Lima. November, 24 0423-0430 male preacher to
an audience ?la oraci?n, milagro del Di?s?, short music as a bridge to
studio religious talks. 33433, (lob-B).
3945, R. Vanuatu, Port Vila. November, 24 0754-0804 male in an uncertain
language talks with some reverb. // 7260, 25222 (lob-B).
13630, R. Australia, Shepparton. November, 24 0805-0813 female in
English segment ?R. Australia?, short music, male ?good evening?. Weak
but clear, 23422 (lob-B).
6025, Dominican Republic, R. Amanecer (tentative), Santo Domingo.
November, 27 0337-0400 latin, romantic Spanish selections, male Spanish
talks. Sign off at 0400, weak and unreadable, 22422 (lob-B).
4220, China, PBS Qinghai, Xining. November, 21 0012-0022 Tibetan
(listed) male and female talks, short music as a bridge, male and female
announcements. Very weak, 25222 (lob-B).
4330, China, PBS Xinjiang, Urumqui. November, 21 0022-0032 Kazakh
(listed) male and female talks, male on music sounding like ads, a kind
of Chinese folk music, time pip, male and female announcements.
Progressive enhancement, 35222 (lob-B).
4500, China, PBS Xinjiang, Urumqui. November, 21 0032-0042 Mongolian
(listed) male alternating female segments. Noise behind sounding like a
jamming, 25222 (lob-B).
5010, India, AIR Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai. November, 21 0043-0052
Hindu style music. Very weak, 25322 (lob-B).
6020, Peru, R. Vict?ria, Lima. November, 21 0706-0715 male and female
?David Miranda, cinco de la tarde!; atenci?n hermanos y hermanas,
iglesia pentecostal los invitan; Iglesia Pentecostal Deus ? Amor en
Peru?. 34333, (lob-B).
3945, R. Vanuatu, Port Vila. November, 21 0736-0814 male and female
talks seemingly in local language, but with some English words ?country,
man, program?, Pacific music, English romantic music. Peak at 0759,
35233 (lob-B).
7260, November, 21 checks at 0735, 0748, 0806 no signal of R. Vanuatu.
(lob-B).
5995, R. Mali, Bamako. November, 15 0704-0712 male in French talks,
outside talks. Weak but clear, 23432 (lob-B).
7245, R.Mauritanie, Nouakchott. November, 15 0713-0723 Arabic style
music, male in local language talks. 35433, (lob-B).
7260, R. Vanuatu, Port Vila. November, 15 0723-0733 male and female in
English talks, female announcements on music; 25422. 0755-0805 English
Pop music selections, male in English top of the hour announcements on
music ?R. Vanuatu..program?, then female alternating male. 35333, (lob-B).
73's
L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec ? Embu SP Brasil - Sony SW40 - Dipole 18m, 32m,
Longwire 22m.
-------------Australia--------------------------------
** BAHRAIN
9745 Radio Bahrain, 1920, presumed with threshold signal, Arabic man and
classical Arabic music. All alone on freq. 12 Nov. (David Sharp, NSW
Australia: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, ICF-2010, ICF-SW7600GR, Timewave 599zx,
MW-550P, etc)
** BRAZIL
4865.05 UnID Brazilian here with Portuguese ballads at 1016, with talk
by a man. Possibly Radio Verdes Florestas, but no ID. 19 Nov. (David
Sharp, NSW Australia: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, ICF-2010, ICF-SW7600GR,
Timewave 599zx,
MW-550P, etc)
** CONGO
6115 Radio-Congo, 1720, presumed with hilife and talk by a French man.
Very weak and suffering splatter high side. It took a tight filter and
LSB to get any copy. 20 Nov. (David Sharp, NSW Australia: FT-950,
NRD-535D, R8, ICF-2010, ICF-SW7600GR, Timewave 599zx, MW-550P, etc)
** ECUADOR
3279.90 La Voz del Napo, 1035, weak but readable with Spanish ballads,
t/ck by man, "Seis menos 25 minutos." 19 Nov. (David Sharp, NSW
Australia: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, ICF-2010, ICF-SW7600GR, Timewave 599zx,
MW-550P, etc)
** INDONESIA
7289.84 RRI Nabire, 0600, fading-in with news by a man, then into local
music. Has been irregular of late. 20 Nov. (David Sharp, NSW Australia:
FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, ICF-2010, ICF-SW7600GR, Timewave 599zx, MW-550P, etc)
** LAOS
6130 Lao National Radio, 1147, poor with big sideband slop, but
partially readable in LSB. Seems to be the only active outlet from Laos
at the moment, with both Sam Neua (4412v) and the External Service
(7145) untraced. 19 Nov. (David Sharp, NSW Australia: FT-950, NRD-535D,
R8, ICF-2010, ICF-SW7600GR, Timewave 599zx, MW-550P, etc)
** PERU
4754.92 Huanta 2000, Spanish, 1010, presumed with huaynos and talk by
man. Thought I heard "Radio Huanta" ID but not 100% sure. First heard 19
November and several nights since. Nothing on 4747v. (David Sharp, NSW
Australia: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, ICF-2010, ICF-SW7600GR, Timewave 599zx,
MW-550P, etc)
5120.35 R. Ondas del Sur Oriente, 1025, presumed with huaynos. Very poor
copy under OHR. 21 Nov. (David Sharp, NSW Australia: FT-950, NRD-535D,
R8, ICF-2010, ICF-SW7600GR, Timewave 599zx, MW-550P, etc)
dxsf 1981-2010
------------------------------
Message: 7
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 20:32:44 -0500 (EST)
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Nov 27 Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
** BOLIVIA. 6134.80, Radio Santa Cruz, 1005-1024, Nov 27, talk in
local language. Mentions of Santa Cruz. Announcements. Promos.
Instrumental music. Poor. Very low modulation at times. (Brian
Alexander, PA)
?
** ETHIOPIA. 9705.00, Radio Ethiopia, 2025-2100*, Nov 27, wide
variety of indigenous music, Horn of Africa music, and instrumental
pop music. A few Amharic announcements. Possible news at 2057.
Sign off with National Anthem at 2059. In the clear with a good signal.
No //s heard. Irregular. Not heard every day. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
?
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
?
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:57:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 27-28, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** COSTA RICA. Several evenings in the 00-02 UT period lately I have sought the
R. San Carlos second harmonic on 2859.8, without success. Last presumed log of
it here was Sept 23 at 1117 as in DXLD 10-39. Nor have I seen reports of it
from anyone else. The nominal schedule in WRTH from TIRDVC 1430 is 1115-0200,
but sign-off used to vary considerably. Still no sign of it Nov 28 at 0059. I
wonder if they have suppressed it, resulting from an ill-advised DX reception
report from someone. If QSLed, it may have been the last one ever from this
outlet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC has abandoned 16m for the season, but there is still propagation
as late as 2319 Nov 27 when I am again getting the third harmonix of pulse
jammers, on 17865 vs R. Rep?blica 5954v, and on 18090 vs R. Mart? 6030 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also PORTUGAL [and non]; VENEZUELA [non]
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [and non]. 15190, tuned in R. Africa just as it was
closing, Saturday November 27 at 2247, with myway.com address, P O Box ---, in
Somulu [spelt] 100007, Lagos, Nigeria, for forwarding to ministries. Google
prefers to spell it Shomolu, except on its own Google Map this area in Lagos is
labeled Somolu. Previously have heard them announcing Ghana and Zimbabwe
addresses. Et al.?
CCI barely audible underneath with SAH, presumably Inconfid?ncia. The carrier
was still on at 2309, altho it may have ceded to ZYE522 by then. This time I
was not hearing any wobble on the carrier, so Doppler effect affecting
propagation was likely the cause before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM [and non]. Besides seeking AFN in the mornings on night frequency
5765-USB, I am now also looking for it evenings on the listed day frequency
13362.5-USB. But nothing audible Nov 28 at 0028, despite big signals on 13580
and 13680 from CRI: respectively, Beijing site in Chinese, Xi`an site in
Vietnamese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 770, after KKOB NM had switched to night pattern at 0000 UT Nov 28,
at 0008 dominating frequency is Spanish from the SSW or so, most likely XEACH,
R. F?rmula, Monterrey, with a live talk show discussing the PRI, and attempting
unsuccessfully to call in a correspondent in Coahuila. I had the impression it
was a network produxion originating in the DF (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 6185, XEPPM, already on with musical pr?lude, Nov 27 at
2312, segu?s of a variety of music, in Spanish when vocal, no QRM from Amaz?nia
as no trace of a // to 11780.
However there was a SAH caused by XE being off-frequency to the low side, and
the source of that is intriguing. Only things listed after 2300 are CRI 500 kW
from Xi`an, 354 degrees in Mongolian; and China Huayi, 15 kW ND from Chengdu.
Or maybe something via the UAE site at 500 kW, 300 degrees, but there are scads
of wooden registrations for that. No longer getting the SAH after 2330 or so.
Anyhow, XEPPM`s nominal schedule is 00-12 UT (6 pm to 6 am local, ergo 23-11 UT
during DST, over for four weeks now), but we`ve heard it previously well before
0000 and sometimes after 1200. Any doubt about the source was eliminated when
full Spanish and English IDs were inserted at 2324, mentioning Radio Education,
shortwave from Mexico City, XEPPM, 6185 kHz, 10 kW. Filled the rest of the hour
with music.
Finally official opening at 2359 with short version of Mexican NA, 0001 UT Nov
28 live sign-on in Spanish and English, similar IDs as before, giving date 27
November; both languages voiced by same YL, Pabla(?) Mart?nez Luna; then ID
only as its MW side, XEEP, 1060 AM, historical capsule, ``Historias y
Memorias``, 0003 back to music. Unfortunately, that`s the extent of English
programming from XEPPM. Too bad they don`t give us at least a 15-minute daily
news roundup.
At least a webcasting station, Radio Imagen, provides English news, as in our
Monitoring Reminders Calendar,
http://www.worldofradio.com/calendar.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 780, KSPI, Stillwater, still has its carrier on Nov 27
at 2328 past 2331 and even at another check 2408, steady signal causing fast
SAH to WBBM, but nullable. Confirming it`s KSPI, not only the direxion, but its
constant weak spurs on 776 and 784. Official sunset in Nov and Dec is 2315 UT.
NB: a daytime license means turn off the modulation AND carrier between sunset
and sunrise! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PORTUGAL [and non]. 12040, Sat Nov 27 at 2250, RDPI with live sports
play-by-play, therefore an `extraordinary` transmission extending the schedule.
Trouble is, it`s colliding with R. Habana CUBA, where Arnie decided to use
12040 in B-10 instead of 12030, at 11-24 to Central America.
According to RDPI`s B-10 schedule, 12040 is 300 degrees to N America, 19-21 on
Sat & Sun, but available daily 19-24 if needed. So on this Saturday the
collision probably went on for the full five hours! Another screwup thanks to
Cuba as an outlaw nation refusing to participate in advance co?rdination via
HFCC.
At 2310 also found RDPI on 7285 // 12040. That one is 45 degrees to Europe, Sat
& Sun 2300-2400, and available for extraordinary emissions also on weekdays
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 5970, listened to most of REE`s English hour to North America, UT
Sunday Nov 28 from 0005, since I was enjoying the excellent reception and the
music, initially flamenco in a feature about a singer called Terremoto
(Earthquake); at 0018 switched to Tierra Santa, a hard rock band, interspersing
music with interviews voiced-over into English.
About time I also listened to Radio Waves again to see how the `DX` program is
doing, which for a long time was just featuring a piece of music somehow
related to radio. But it never showed up. Has anyone heard it at any time
recently? If so, when and with what? Or is it gone forever? I may have to
remove it from DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS,
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html
I see that the WWDXC B-10 DX program list has it as Radio Corner at :15 into
the hours: http://www.wwdxc.de/swl.pdf
The BDXC-UK B-10 DX and Media Programme Guide at
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bdxcuk/dxprog.htm
also has it at :15v past, but still titled Radio Waves.
Next feature at 0040:40 was Historical Footnotes, talk about ferias, market
days once or twice a year, and the economix of the era, with nice medieval
music. 0050:40 to a modern song; 0055:40 closing English broadcast announcing
correct frequency 5970, off abruptly at 0056:45*, and a few sex later when I
had retuned to 6055, REE was already up there with IS. Note REE doesn`t bother
with any news on weekends, so pray nothing happen until Monday (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 770, KKOB, good signal Nov 27 at 2332 UT, but it`s only Lobo
football. Official Albuquerque sunset in Nov and Dec is 0000 UT, and indeed
KKOB was no longer to be heard at 0008 check Nov 28, the frequency instead
dominated by something in Spanish from the SSW [see MEXICO] and IBOC from WBBM.
With its null toward WABC at night, best chances to hear KKOB to the east are
in the hour (or less) before 0000, and also the hour (or less) after
non-direxional resumes in the morning, 1345 UT in November, 1400 in December.
Aside from the 230-watt synchronized Santa Fe relay on 770 only during night
hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. 11670, RNV wrapping up relay via CUBA, Nov 27 with IS and
ID until 2256*, the transmitter no doubt being retuned to 13680 or 15250 for
the following hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13957.5-SSB, 2-way in Spanish, Nov 28 at 0031, still going at
0037 and 0054. One of them sounds drunk, starts to sing ``ay-ay-ay-ay`` as in
Cielito Lindo; ``proa`` also mentioned, prow, as would a poacher in his boat
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 95, Issue 28
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