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Today's Topics:
1. Channel Z Radio - Upcoming Test (W6SWL)
2. Special programme for last shortwave broadcast of Radio
Prague (Swopan Chakroborty)
3. Glenn Hauser logs January 27-28, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
4. More logs for 27+28/1 (Zacharias Liangas )
5. Interference Cancelling Using Correlation Feedback (Chris Trask)
6. Ralph Perry DX Logs - Date (Ralph Perry)
7. Re: Special programme for last shortwave broadcast of Radio
Prague (Chris Trask)
8. DX Logs - Ralph Perry (Ralph Perry)
9. BBC Hindi news to go off air from April 1 (Arnaldo)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:35:18 -0500
From: W6SWL <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Channel Z Radio - Upcoming Test
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Per http://hkdx2.blogspot.com/
Channel Z Radio (pirate) will be on the air on Saturday and Sunday (29 and
30 January) between 2130 and 2330 UTC, with 16 watts AM. Frq. 11.428.3 MHz.
Supposedly testing to Japan and of course other locales in Asia.
Steve Lare
Holland, MI
USA
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:11:54 +0530
From: Swopan Chakroborty <[email protected]>
To: Hard Core Dx <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Special programme for last shortwave broadcast of
Radio Prague
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
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A special programme will go on air on the last day of shortwave broadcast of
Radio Prague i.e. 31.1.2011 with memories of R Prague listeners.
So, don't forget to tune in to Radio Prague on 31.1.2011 via shortwave or
via internet, www.radio.cz
Thanks,
Swopan Chakroborty
Kolkata, India
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:37:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 27-28, 2011
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
** ANGUILLA [and non]. 6090, ``University Network`` still missing from night
frequency, Jan 28 at 0711. At 1500, day frequency 11775 was back on, but mixing
with AWR theme underneath, then the latter playing an excerpt from Concierto de
Aranjuez. 11775 at 1500-1530 is AWR Turkish via AUSTRIA, which was in the clear
24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. RA programming is returning to normal following several weeks of
``Summer`` substitutes --- don`t they realise that much of their overseas
audience is not observing summer? See
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/programguide/universal.htm
which we hope is again more or less correct.
9590, Friday Jan 28 at 1434 going from ``Movie Time`` to ``Artworks``, talk by
the ``Around the World in 80 Gardens`` guy about how gardening is spiritual,
makes global warming obvious to the gardener. This episode not yet at
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/artworks/default.htm
so on RA ahead of the RN Jan 30 airing? When it is, will be podcast and
transcript available (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRIA. 6155, ?1, Friday Jan 28 at 0709 going from German OM to English YL
with token world news capsule from domestic service, still airing M-F only,
starting with Egypt, 0712 French; fair signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. 5910-, Jan 28 at 0639, romantic music in Spanish; slightly on low
side of frequency; 0641 ``llanera`` folk music with harp akin to Venezuelan
style. Fair with deep fades. 0653 ID as ``15-30 AM Alcarav?n Radio``, more
music. That`s the source for HJDH on this frequency now rather than Marfil
Est?reo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6100, new frequency from RHC, Jan 28 at 0710, apparently instead of
missing 6150, VG and no spur, // 6120, 6060, 6050 in Spanish. This pileup of
hi-power transmitters on 49m leads to mixing products, and receiver overload,
hard to tell which is which, but I was also hearing RHC with weaker signals on:
6170, 6200, 6070, 6140, 6000.
Altho 6140 is a fundamental at other times, now it`s probably a leapfrog of
6100 over 6120, and/or 6060 over 6100! Likewise, 6000 = 6100 over 6050. 6070 =
leapfrog of 6050 over 6060, too bad for the comedians on CFRX. Also with
squeal/hets, perhaps mixes from adjacent spy-number transmitters (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CZECHIA [non]. 9955, WRMI, Jan 28 at 0646 unusually good signal (often there
is none at all in the nightmiddle), no jamming, with R. Praga in Spanish,
program about musical instruments, their names in Czech, some of them derived
from English or German. R. Praga again in Spanish at 1457 retune, giving full
SW schedule in that language, but only as filler following French at 1430.
Altho R. Prague will have a ``farewell to SW`` retrospective program Jan 31,
according to Swopan Chakroborty, Jeff White again comes to the rescue, reaching
an agreement with RP to continue relays on WRMI 9955, but on a different
schedule past Feb 1, already in effect.
Unfortunately, the hours for English are rather inconvenient for North
Americans sleeping normal hours; too bad the M-F 1500 UT slot was ceded to RFI
a few months ago. We asked Jeff White for the latest (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.:
OK, I've made the changes. The schedule on the website and Facebook page are
updated. The Radio Prague airings as of Feb. 1 (actually as of today) are:
0630-0700 UTC Daily (Spanish)
0700-0730 UTC Daily (English)
0930-1000 UTC Daily (Spanish)
1000-1030 UTC Monday-Friday (English)
1930-2000 UTC Saturday-Sunday (English)
0300-0330 UTC Daily (Spanish)
The Radio Slovakia and World Radio Network times on the schedule are also
correct (no changes, I think). Note that we are off the air from 1700 to 2200
UT Monday-Friday until further notice, although we run WRN during that time
period, which is only on our webcast (Jeff White, WRMI Radio Miami
International, Jan 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. There have been reports of some R. Cairo broadcasts missing such as
the European service on 6270, per Chris Lewis in England, but some of them are
still going:
13580, Jan 28 at 1509, R. Cairo Albanian service, good signal aimed USward but
just barely modulated, traces of talk at peaks. Normal for this broadcast,
regardless of riots and revolutions (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 6250-, Jan 28 at 0655, poor-fair signal in continuous
Spanish talk, mentions Bata, keeps going past 0700. I am rather surprised
reception is holding up this late as usually it`s gone by 0630. And still JBA
at 0715, 0722 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5910, Shiokaze via JSR JAPAN still here and in English
1400 on Friday, checked Jan 28 at 1425 with Sea Breeze ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Regional tropo enhancement in play morning of Jan 28, as we are
headed for an unusually warm day for January: at 1540 UT I find analog 48
KWDW-LP Nichols Hills (OKC) Univisi?n relay is in well (tho never snow-free)
with 18.1 kW ERP, so I check for its sibling now in DTV on channel 36, KHCM-CA,
7.33 kW.
That is decoding as 36-1, and I discover that they have added 36-2! It`s
carrying ``La Zeta`` KTUZ 106.7 audio and the video is just continuous
advertising, in several frames, similar to but not synchronized with their
website http://www.ktuz.com/
By 1600, both are beginning to fade/lose decoding. Strangely enough,
http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php Market 50 info for OKC does not show
36-2, nor 48 analog! The above info is from http://www.w9wi.com/states/OK.html
Note: KTUZ-TV RF 29 (``30``) ``Shawnee`` full power is Telemundo with no
virtual channels. Tyler Media has wrapped up both rivals Univisi?n and TM in
this market. Sort of like being affiliated with both CBS and NBC. Why don`t
they put UNI as 30-2 instead of messing with these low-power relays? (Glenn
Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9360, no signal Friday Jan 28 at 1429, the VOA hour which used
to propagate American pop music announced in Englonesian, Thu-Fri-Sat only via
Tinang, Philippines. That`s because on Jan 15, VOA abruptly eliminated all SW
broadcasts in Indonesian! Plus or rather minus, Vietnamese, as Kim Andrew
Elliott revealed Jan 25:
http://kimelli.nfshost.com/index.php?id=10550
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1549 monitoring: confirmed Thu 2000 on WBCQ 7415,
webcast. Also Fri 0200 on ACB Radio Mainstream webcast, to be repeated 2-hourly
thru 2430. Also well heard Fri 0430 on WWRB 3185. And on WRMI, Friday Jan 28 at
1530 on 9955: jamming is only bleed from 9965, also facing overload from WWCR
9980; SAH, CCI from YFR via Taiwan in Russian.
Next chances are: Fri 2130 on WWCR 7465; Sat 0900, 1500, 1830 on WRMI 9955; Sat
1700 on WWCR 12160; Sat 1900 on IPAR 6090-Slovakia(?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) WRMI: see also CZECHIA [non]
** U S A. 9335, Jan 28 at 1430, noise/hash which seems to be coming from the
WBCQ 9330-CUSB transmitter; audible in AM mode only on hi, not lo side, but not
much with BFO on; anyhow, blox North Korea, tsk2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11535, Jan 28 at 1503, weak Spanish spur of WEWN 11550. If there is a
match on 11565, it`s blocked by WYFR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6297.1, SASASAM, Jan 28 at 0701 NA by military band,
0702:40 right into chanting without any sign-on announcement unless that was
before the NA. Usual constant utility beep QRM on low side (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11540, Jan 28 at 1504-1505.5* open carrier with flutter; sounds
like something exotic. Perhaps tune-up for the following, only thing in Aoki on
11540: ``11540 Radio Xoriyo Ogadenia 1530-1600 .2...6. Somali 300 160
Kishinev-Grigoriopol MDA 04511E 4025N RHU/WRN b10`` And yes, 6 = Friday. Not
knowing this until uplooked later, I was not rechecking at 1530 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:09:50 +0200
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[email protected]>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] More logs for 27+28/1
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
More logs for 27+28/1
R75 , 2x16m inv V , m@h40 heads
http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/326
11815 RBC 1942 man telling a poem with guitar background . religious
program ? S4 best in AM-N
28-11 Just before leaving the house for work...
4985 RBC 0504 with news S2 with QRM by digital mode in USB part
15515 Kuwait ? 0511 with news and reports S1
And after returning ....
11665 looking for R Sarawak on 1420 I found there CRI in English with
signal S8 . But after CRI leaves the frequency , R S was very poor in a
relatively moderate local noise level S1
Also the other freq for R Sarawak , 9835 was a little better at S2 max on
1425 with an old Malay song then hearing a man talking about 'Sudirman' till
1430 when another old Malay song was played . These songs reminded me
the times of early 90s when RTM on 15295 was heard quite well and
played the same nice kinds of songs ! A recheck on ca 1500 with QRM
from RL Turkmen Both checked only under AM-Narrow band
9525 RRI ?? 1439 with pop songs but signal only S2 Again recheck on 1500
but signal was very marginal over the noisy background
7100 R Pakistan ?? 1457 man with Quranic verses and short talks , possibly
analysis of the psalms , At 1500 with ID Ye R Pakistan then with news by a
woman Signal S7-8 but quite low modulation
7115 , 7160 and 7185 on 15++ were covered by quite strong white noise
transmissions from Ethiopia with bandwidth of about 10-15 kHz
17745 SRS 1510 with talks by woman and man ON 1512 a quite lengthy
jingle of the station was aired with HoA musical style , news then followed .
Signal started with S2 faded out to S0 then increased to S7
4770 Broad masses from Eritrea ? 1716 with HoA songs and some talks
and signal S5 . Problem was that audio was very under modulated so that
local QRN or possibly digital QRM was quite apparent (34231)
Standard rig : ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser
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________________________
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........
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Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108,
Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000
Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:23:10 -0700
From: "Chris Trask" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Interference Cancelling Using Correlation Feedback
Message-ID: <00b201cbb827$760d2780$9f0ff004@ctrask>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
I just completed an online monologue on the subject of interference
cancellation using correlation feedback and posted the paper on my web page:
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~christrask/Paper024.html
There are undoubtedly errors in this, but I wanted to get it completed so
that I can move on to another project that has been lingering for a few
years.
Chris Trask
N7ZWY / WDX3HLB
Senior Member IEEE
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~christrask/
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 05:47:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Ralph Perry <[email protected]>
To: undisclosed recipients: ;
Subject: [HCDX] Ralph Perry DX Logs - Date
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Ethiopia: 9705 R Ethiopia, tent., 2000-2100* 1/27. Big thanks to Brian
Alexander for the tip, an extremely enjoyable catch -- haven't heard Addis
Ababa
in 30 years, so a fun way to rejoin the DXing world . . . . Fqy unblocked at
2000 when Family Radio (Meyerton) signs off, revealing signal of R Ethiopia,
weak at first but then fading in to good level by bottom of the hour. 2000 nx
pgm in progress, vern lang by OM, into local music program around 2006.
Terrific, very listenable mx selection, chanty vocals with twangy local
instruments and percussion accompaniment. Some mx with very Middle Eastern
influence, other uniquely different. Also more 'modern' (western?) sounding
music during back half of the hour, presume this is what Brian called 'Horn of
Africa pop'. (Sounded to me like Malaysian 'nightclub music', oddly enough.)
OM
and YL occasoinal anmts in lang, pres Amharic. Pre-shutdown nx flash f/by
electronic stinger around 2058, breathy s/off anmt by YL. Couldn't catch ID.
2059 unfamiliar anthem by funky oompah-type orchestra, then open carrier and
cut
after 2100. (R Perry, IL)
Niger: 9705, Unid but Niamey presumed 1/27, thanks again to Brian Alexander
for
this tip re the "9705 Experience" hi hi. Revealed after Ethiopia vacated fqy
2100a, but much weaker signal. Rechecked 2140 and in the clear,
Islamic-influenced African chant music. Not heard well, but believe Brian has
this one right. Another fun logging, requiring more checks in the following
days. Niamey used to be a very tough catch back in the day (60s and 70s), and
about the only way to hear them was to get lucky and snag a few minutes of
their
early morning programming after the unfortunately (for North America) rather
late sign on at 0700 GMT. (R Perry, IL)
Peru: 6019.23 Radio Victoria, Lima, 1/28 can pull out from under massive het at
1108-1120, need ECSS LSB plus notch but decent sig level, lengthy speech by
excited man in SS, not sure if political speech, religious oration (heard
'gracias a Dios' and references to 'la familia') or even sporting event. (R
Perry, IL)
Mexico: 6185 R Education XEEP, noted 1/22 and daily since, powering up carrier
around 1057 with pre-s/on music, then into rousing symphonic NA at 1058 and
1100
ID, "R Education . . . 86 anos al servicio a la cultura de nuestro pais . . .".
Others reported 76 years, but it sure sounds like 86 to me. (R Perry, IL)
Mexico: 6009.96 R Mil, heard various mornings around 1030 with romantic vocals
and techno dance music. Fair to good sig but deep fades. At 1110, "Esta
escuchando . . . Radio Mil desde Mexico!" (R Perry, IL)
Colombia: 6035 unid LA, suspect LV Guaviare, mornings around 1045. Deep fades,
OM & YL anmts in SS, possibly morning news pgm, hard to read. Needs more work.
(R Perry, IL)
-----------------------
Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois
Drake R8B; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100; Knightkit Star Roamer
Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2
Longwire
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 07:02:44 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
From: Chris Trask <[email protected]>
To: Swopan Chakroborty <[email protected]>, Hard Core Dx
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Special programme for last shortwave broadcast of
Radio Prague
Message-ID:
<21656259.1296223364488.javamail.r...@wamui-june.atl.sa.earthlink.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> A special programme will go on air on the last day of shortwave
> broadcast of Radio Prague i.e. 31.1.2011 with memories of R
> Prague listeners.
>
> So, don't forget to tune in to Radio Prague on 31.1.2011 via
> shortwave or via internet, www.radio.cz
>
My one memory of Radio Prague was listening the evening that the Warsaw
Pact forces overran the border. The announcer made a simple statement of the
action, then the national anthem was played, and then they went off the air for
weeks.
Chris Trask
N7ZWY / WDX3HLB
Senior Member IEEE
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~christrask/
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:13:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Ralph Perry <[email protected]>
To: undisclosed recipients: ;
Subject: [HCDX] DX Logs - Ralph Perry
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Niger: 9705, Niamey (strongly) presumed, wonderful listening experience 1/28
2140-2300*. Terrific musical mix of Afro Jazz, highlife music, traditional
chants, W African pop songs hosted by YL with very muffled, undermod anmts in
what sounded like FF and vern lang. Signal weak at tune-in 2140 but faded up
to
very decent level toward end of transmission. Flute IS heard at 2158 and time
pips on the hour at 2200. Very deep fades, would disappear 20 seconds to a
minute, making me think it had signed-off, but then would come back. OM ancr
musical commercial 2243. Transmission shutdown came after Islamic call to
prayer at 2254, then flute IS again at 2258 f/by choral NA and silence to
2259.55* carrier cut. Everything fits for Niamey, from fqy, W Afr location,
Islamic country, former French colony, and so on . . . but didn't catch
definite
ID. Calling it 99% sure, though and thanks again to Brian Alexander for
initial
tip. (R Perry, Illinois)
-----------------------
Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois
Drake R8B; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100; BC221; Ameco PLF-2 preamp.
Longwire antenna.
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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 04:37:30 +0100
From: "Arnaldo" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] BBC Hindi news to go off air from April 1
Message-ID: <3DBFCA24367649A98301912260307858@windowsv03oj4t>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
At the height of his popularity in the mid-1990s, former Bihar chief minister
Lalu Prasad Yadav had made a trip to London. Addressing his followers at the
Patna airport on his return, Yadav had proudly exclaimed: "Do you know where I
went? I went to the BBC office in London!"
That Lalu chose to describe BBC as the biggest highlight of his London visit
was hardly surprising. That's a name that everyone - including the poorest and
most backward that Lalu sought to address - in north India could recognise,
probably even better than London itself. For years, BBC's Hindi news bulletins
on short-wave radio has been the only source of information - certainly the
most credible, as most listeners would insist - for millions of people in the
Hindi heartland of India.
Alas! that would be no longer the case from April 1. The BBC on Wednesday
announced that it would discontinue its Hindi bulletins from April 1 as part of
a global restructuring of its services. "This is death of an institution... an
iconic institution. I have been in mourning ever since I learnt about the
announcement," said Achala Sharma, who headed the Hindi Service for nearly 11
years, and was one of the most popular voices of the Service. (from Indian
Express.com)
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 97, Issue 29
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