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Today's Topics:
1. Article about new ionosphere index (Eike Bierwirth)
2. Glenn Hauser logs January 11-12, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:17:01 +0100
From: "Eike Bierwirth" <[email protected]>
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Subject: [HCDX] Article about new ionosphere index
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Here is a recent research paper about a new index that describes the state of
the ionosphere.
http://www.ann-geophys.net/28/2227/2010/angeo-28-2227-2010.html
73,
Eike
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:50:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
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Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 11-12, 2011
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** AUSTRALIA. RA is providing continuous coverage of the flooding in
Queensland, pre-empting regular programming. Fortunately, it is summer-vacation
time, so regular programming is already on holiday anyway, e.g. not to be heard
Wed at 1405 ``All in the Mind`` nor 1434 ``The Philosophers` Zone``.
Jan 12 at 1345, 9590 Shepparton has ABC Local Radio, Queensland, announcing
that if the AM transmitter in Brisbane goes off, that will be carried on the
Classic FM frequency of 106.1. So what is the AM frequency?
Strangely enough, WRTH 2011 does not mention ``Local Radio`` as one of the ABC
networks! We hear a lot of it relayed on RA. Instead, on MW there are National,
Regional, Metropolitan, and Parliamentary & News. So does ``Local`` =
``Metropolitan``? That would be 4QR on 612, 50 kW. National is 4RN on 792, only
25 kW. AM sites are typically in low-lying areas, and likely they would be at
same site and both flooded if one is, but who cares about National? WRTH does
not mention ``Local Radio`` among the FM networks either.
Anyhow, we can follow the emergency tnx to RA. Gives local time chex as UT +10,
no DST in Qsld, which must seem strange to the Victorians and New South Welsh.
At 1345 it`s ``a quarter to twelve``, and max flood stage of 5 to 5.2 m in
Brisbane is expected at 4 am = 1800 UT. At 1439 UT, it`s ``21 to 1``. This
service is also being carried on multiple platforms as per frequent
announcements, but omitting RA. Robin Harwood tells me that the RA site in
Brandon is well beyond the flood area further south (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNID 11660
** CUBA [non]. 15120, once again today Jan 12, RHC is missing from this
frequency, so at 1412 we can hear weak Bengali from BSKSA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 15163-15189, OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here, Jan 12 at 1411,
mainly QRMing 15170, where unusually, ROMANIA was atop Costa Rica (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 15550, Jan 12 at 1403, Qur`an verging on yodeling, neat. 1405 to
different musical reverent-sounding voices, but surely not Qur`an as a female
(ugh!) was involved. 1408 into Arabic talk by YL, mixed with musical bits. It`s
VIRI`s Arabic service, 500 kW, 295 degrees from Sirjan over an 11-hour span,
0530-1630. Not audible after 1500, nor was co-channel WJHR, if it still exist
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, VON, Jan 12 at 1512, announcer says this is ``15 Minutes``,
apparently name of extended newscast. Today the modulation is more distorted,
and carrier wobbling as usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, KEOR, Catoosa-Sperry-Tulsa, which had been more or less
funxional recently, had reverted to open carrier, when checked Jan 11 around
1930 and 2130 UT (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 9570, RVA in Russian talk at 1500 Jan 12, only fair signal
today, still Radio Blagovest program? No bells were heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9460 // 13810 // 17580, or almost so within a few
millisex, with slight reverb among them, carrying Brother Scare, Jan 12 at 1507
after criticising gospel huxters all over SW who claim to know the date J.C.
will be backcoming in May, thinly veiled reference to Harold Camping.
I suppose 17580 replace 17485 where no longer heard; that had been scheduled
15-16 via Wertachtal, while 9460 and 13810 are 14-16 via Wertachtal, Nauen,
respectively. Does this correlate with the SW sked at TOM, curiously as an ftp??
No, claims 9460 is 9-11 am, 13810 is 9-10 am, and 17580 is 9-10 am, i.e. EST,
so at 1507 UT the two higher ones should be off! BS doesn`t even know the
correct times of his own broadcasts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See
also U S A: WTJC/WWRB
** SPAIN [non]. 17850, REE via COSTA RICA, just as I tuned in Jan 11, ``muy
buenas tardes``, beep and cut carrier at odd time of 2222* (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11665, checking WYFR again for new unID language service, Jan 11 at
2143, tuned in too late for some music, 2144 closing in Arabic to 2145*. Arabic
had been on some of the schedules, but it was certainly not the day before.
Back to Arabic, or maybe body of program was still in the other tongue (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9395, the WTJC 9370 spur which has been audible the last few days,
not audible Jan 12 at 1435; instead one from WWRB 9385 Brother Scare circa 9400
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 720, WGN Chicago ID at 1930 UT Jan 11, on caradio at a quiet hotspot
in western Enid, skywave already in less than an hour after low noon (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11660, Jan 12 at 1424 past 1433, oscillator-jammer, i.e. two
tones quickly alternating between 6 and 7 times per second, obvious with BFO
on, but can`t hear what it is blocking, aside stonger NHK 11655 via Sackville.
Also the pitch changes slightly every few sex. We figured this type of jamming
would be from KOREA NORTH, as used to be heard on 6348 and other clandestine
channels. From HFCC, the only thing on 11660 at this time is VOR via Tajikistan
at 12-15. Eibi and Aoki show VOR in English during this hour, and also have R.
Australia in Chinese via Shep until 1430, then English, but no sign of either
audible here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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