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Today's Topics:
1. Radio Australia special transmissions (Arnaldo)
2. DX LOGGINGS - Ralph Perry 5 Feb (Ralph Perry)
3. MV Baltic Radio is on this Suinday (Tom Taylor)
4. Fwd: Re: Radio Australia special transmissions
([email protected])
5. Fwd: Re: Radio Australia special transmissions
([email protected])
6. Feb. 04,05 logs (L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec)
7. unbelievable Latin logs highlights (Mirela Chiochiu)
8. Glenn Hauser logs February 4-5, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
9. Some logs (Eike Bierwirth)
10. Tropical band this weekend ([email protected])
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 09:29:13 +0100
From: "Arnaldo" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: DXLD <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Australia special transmissions
Message-ID: <9B60D9FFC7374E4BB1A27A3A0A75E4FE@windowsv03oj4t>
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Just as it did after Cyclone Tracy, Radio Australia's Shepparton base has been
providing short-wave radio broadcasts into cyclone ravaged parts of north
Queensland.
Radio Australia transmission manager Nigel Holmes said the service had been
relaying ABC Queensland Local radio on two short-wave services into the region
hit by Cyclone Yasi.
``We got the request at 12.45 pm on Tuesday and we had it up and running in 31
minutes,'' Mr Holmes said yesterday.
The request was based on the experience with Cyclone Larry in 2006-(sheppnews)
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 06:26:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Ralph Perry <[email protected]>
To: undisclosed recipients: ;
Subject: [HCDX] DX LOGGINGS - Ralph Perry 5 Feb
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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MADAGASCAR - 5010.3, Radio Madagasikara / R Nationale Malgache, Antananarivo
coming thru nicely. Already in progress at tune-in 0300 with fair-good power,
lite fades and moderate static. Clear fqy 2/5. 100 kWs listed and sounded
like
it! Pleasant, melodic African choral chanting/pop accompanied by local
ensemble, heavy on rhythm and bass. Segued similar songs thru to 0330, when
signal severely faded. Seemed newscast by OM caught in fragments at bottom of
the hour. Unable to raise a streaming broadcast to get a //, but did find
their
website: http://takelaka.dts.mg/radmad/ . At same time, a decent signal on
4976 which I believe was Kampala also coming thru. (R Perry, Illinois)
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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: 3
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 14:29:15 +0000
From: Tom Taylor <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] MV Baltic Radio is on this Suinday
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
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MV Baltic Radio is on this Suinday
Channel 6140 khz - Time 10.00 to 1100 utc
1st Sunday ? MV Baltic Radio
3rd Sunday ? European Music Radio
4th Sunday ? Radio Gloria International
Good Listening 73s Tom
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 09:59:45 -0500
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Fwd: Re: Radio Australia special transmissions
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 10:07:24 -0500
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Fwd: Re: Radio Australia special transmissions
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 13:59:46 -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] Feb. 04,05 logs
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4828, Voice of Zimbabwe, Gweru. February, 04 2208-2215 female in an uncertain
language, N. A. (consisted by a female choral), 2215 audio off. Het, 23322
(lob-B).
3950, China, PBS Xinjiang, Urumqui. February, 04 2338-2346 two male in Chinese
discussion, later female in discussion too. Poor, 25322 (lob-B).
4220, China, PBS Qinghai, Xining. Februay, 04 2346-2353 Tibetan (listed) music,
male talks. 25322, (lob-B).
3945, R. Vanuatu, Port Vila. February, 05 0829-0839 Pacific music, Pop music.
Poor, 25322 (lob-B).
73's
L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec
Embu SP Brasil
SW40 - Dipoles and Longwire
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:58:52 -0500
From: Mirela Chiochiu <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
Cc: Kyru Rex <[email protected]>, 23 24
<[email protected]>, [email protected],
[email protected], RADIO PIRATE <[email protected]>,
PK's
Loop Antennas <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] unbelievable Latin logs highlights
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I`m in a big rush so some tips and unIDs...help required...
Equipment used: Sanyo MCD-S830 and repaired Sony CFS-6000 boomboxes with two
phased PK magnetic and Select-A-Tenna loops.
780 VENEZUELA YVOD, Ecos del Torbes, San Cristobal, estado T?chira FEB 5 0404
- break between two romantic songs with the well known "desde est? noche,
recuerdos" program ID that blewed me away when I started tropical band DXing
during the summer of 2000 when Ecos del Torbes was active on 4980 kHz. Poor,
barely above QRM. NEW ON MEDIUMWAVE ! ? ESTADO NUEVO, NUMERO 7 ! ? Primera vez
desde T?chira ! It is also the first time I get so deep inland Venezuela.
(Chiochiu-QC)
780 VENEZUELA YVNM, Radio Coro, Coro, estado Falc?n FEB 5 0504 - "...siempre
en primer lugar" followed by a kind of tropical ballad. Very weak, occasional
fade-ins, presumably running lower power allowing other unheard Latins to sneak
through. (Chiochiu-QC)
780 COLOMBIA unID FEB 5 0450 - back-to-back Colombian cumbias, way over Radio
Coro (back to what power level ?) and adjacent channel splatter. Fairly good
signal strength. HJZW or HJZG ? Which one is still on the air ? I taped some of
the accordeon based cumbias if someone wants to look at, but I doubt there is
much ID material on the tape, otherwise. (Chiochiu-QC)
830 unID FEB 5 0220 - HELP NEEDED, for about half an hour had Spanish Adult
Contemp. vocals here under WNYC open carrer including a Spanish version of the
Andrea Bocelli / H?l?ne S?garas Vivo Perlei smash hit, but WNYC coming back
with regular programming just before 10 PM EST killed any chance of getting a
top-of-the-hour ID here. However, WNYC still had open carrer here around 0245
UTC / 9:45 PM EST as I went out of the bath with the tape still running
unattended, so I must have missed something. At least, that`s what I hope.
(Chiochiu-QC)
840 CUBA at least two stations (CMHW Santa Clara and CMCA Havana) FEB 5 0204
- two stations, one playing Spanish AC music and another one with
old-fashionned Cuban vocals, no evidence of WHAS in heavy auroral condx. ID as
"Radio ? R?a" or something similar, presumed to be a program name on CMCA or
something else. (Chiochiu-QC)
860 unID FEB 5 0150 - lively Latin music and LA Q slogans mixing with Radio
Reloj and aurora subdued CJBC (which was often completly nil, an unbelievable
occurence, indeed). Help needed, didn`t sound like YVYE in Valle de Pascua
estado Guarico (Enlace Ocho Sesenta) which is Mark Connelly`s pest, as no
required joropos were played, so apparently something else. (Chiochiu-QC)
870 Reloj Arroyo Arrenas over WCBS-880 Stallinist jammer... this one is a clear
sign of Aurora ! (Chiochiu-QC)
895 NEVIS VON, Bath Village FEB 5 0050 - reggae music with DJ voice over,
including a Bob Marley song but also more obscure material. NEW ! (Chiochiu-QC)
More coming, but I have to leave, I just need some help on the unIDs heard on
780, 820, 860 and...1070 (with Andean pop music, despite WTIC next door)...
May the good DX be with you !
A full report is coming !
Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefonds Montreal, Quebec
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 11:55:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 4-5, 2011
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
** AUSTRALIA. 9710, ABC Local Radio Queensland via RA, Shepparton, Victoria,
Feb 5 at 0732 YL with phone interview about cyclone cleanup, not // RA
mainstream 9660 transmitted from Queensland itself. This time has ACI from WYFR
9715 whose signal has not dropped out tonight. 0744 mentions hearing from
listeners all over, including in the Pentagon by WiFi, Lincs. by internet,
Saskatchewan but not on SW, apparently.
6080, next check at 1242, Kelly Higgins is back, with flutter, and weaker than
non-// mainstream RA 6020 without any flutter, but with Chinese CCI thanks to
Vatican via RVA PHILIPPINES. Caller is looking for a generator, phone numbers;
18 minutes to go for this program (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Correxion to last report; I slipped on one of the times for `En
Contacto`: UT Mon 0235, not 0135; make it read:
``I had notified Manolo de la Rosa that I heard his DX program `En Contacto` at
0730 UT Monday, but that`s gone, as well as the other just-discovered repeat
which he says was around 2005 Sundays. So it`s back to only three airings, Sun
1435, 2240v, Mon 0235.``
However, if RHC makes another DST shift March 13, it will be back to Mon 0135,
as well as Sun 1335, 2140v.
11880, Feb 4 at 2115, pulsing from DentroCuban Jamming Command, presumably spur
from the wall of noise on 11930 against Mart?. Matching 50 kHz up on 11980 was
a different weaker `dittering` spur. Frequency managers would be well advised
not to land ~50 kHz on either side of any Cuban-jammed frequency; tnx a lot,
Arnie!
Feb 5 I make quick chex of RHC frequencies, and find the ones in use do match
the latest schedule I compiled in previous report:
1219, about what else, Los 5, on 6000, 6095, 6140, 6150
1239, in sports also on 11690-lofi, 11760, 12040-lofi
1307, the 6 MHz frequencies have gone off except for 6140, now also on 11690,
11730, 11760, 12040, 13680, 13780, 15120, 15230, 15360
1520, same as before except 15120 is off
1604, all RHC frequencies are off!
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: WRMI re jamming
** FRANCE. 15605, RFI English on its s?le frequency, Feb 5 at 1603 but blocked
by running-water ute QRM centered on 15603 just as I tune in; finally relents,
uncovering report on Cairo protests (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI back on this off-frequency, and ever so slightly on
the low side of it, Feb 5 at 1215 in Japanese but inserting English ID, the one
about being first and best. So the other transmitter has been reactivated, as
Atsunori Ishida first noted a few days ago, ex-9525. This was immediately
obvious, as the het against something on 9530 was circa 4 kHz instead of 5. Ron
Howard measured both of them 40 Hz low.
1230 still in slowly-spoken Japanese. I don`t hear any intermittent audio
dropouts until 1234, so maybe the 9526 transmitter doesn`t have that problem?
1300 when English starts, signal has declined to very poor, but still on 9526.
Much better and still on the air overtime at next check 1507, with YL English
news, atop a slight het from a 9525.0 station. 1510 begins commentary about
elexions, and now I can hear a few IADs until abrupt 1511:42* as SW listeners
to the 1500 English broadcast will always be frustrated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 9790, Feb 5 at 1304, Qur`an, then W & M in S Asian language, right
back to Qur`an. This smax of VIRI, and indeed it is, Urdu at 1300-1430, 500 kW,
118 degrees via Kamalabad. Fairly good signal. By 1313 is in Urdu talk (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH [non]. 9650, KBSWR, English to NAm via Sackville, Sat Feb 5 at
1236 in `Worldwide Friendship` mailbag with M&M hosts; trouble is it`s just
barely audible, but as I listen it starts to fade up to good level in a few
sex. Back to it at 1250, but it`s poor again, and then fading up some with more
mailbag. 1255 regional summary of listening conditions, asking for reports on
how well this very transmission from New Brunswick is heard, ``so we can
address the problem``. The `problem` has been there for years, in the winter
--- the frequency is too high for reliable propagation this early in the
morning. Meanwhile Sackville with RCI Arabic is very good without fadeouts on
7325, the band where this broadcast ought to be!
Then to WWF closing, and no Kevin O`Donovan! His 3-minute `listening tips` from
New Mexico used to appear at this time; is he no longer on at all? Still time
to promote Quiz #2 for 2011, two easy questions which I am not going to quote
since those interested should at least take the trouble to discover them on
their own. 1258 starts reciting KBSWR English schedule but only has time for a
few transmissions, starting at 1300, general and to Europe, before cut to RCI
IS and off at 1259:13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. 3480, Feb 5 at 1226 in Korean; stronger signal with
modulation is here, with weaker het from 3481. Per Aoki, 3480 is V. of the
People, clandestine from S to N, while 3481 is jamming by KNDF from the North
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MICRONESIA. 4755.4, V6MP, The Cross, Feb 7 at 0747 tune-in to S9+15 signal
with music, 0753 announcement but too weak to copy; 0755 gospel rock; 0759
seems like ID in English, but still too weak, and fading.
This is a nice clear frequency with no QRM at all, not even CODAR, except for
an occasional rapid swoosh by an ionosonde, to which all frequencies are
subject. I found it initially by zero-beating on WTWW 5755, then down 1 MHz,
and hearing the het of some 400 Hz --- some have refined it to 4755.44, which
means the het should have been A = 440 Hz, but no musical instrument handy.
I have no doubt I was hearing this station, reactivated after 3.3 years, but
hope for a better catch with more definite details. I am awake again at 1205,
and the carrier is still there, also at 1228, but that`s all (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 9765, RNZI with Saturday night request-and-dedication show, VG
signal; anything goes, it seems, including ancient recordings. After some show
tunes, then a romantic crooner, from the teens or twenties, outroed as
Romanian-born tenor Joseph Schmidt; then Motown by Syreeta (Wright) from
Tennessee, *1946-2004*. I never would have guessed how to spell her name beyond
`Cyrita`(?) without:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syreeta_Wright
The RNZI SW schedule is as usual totally unhelpful, merely showing RNZI
National is relayed Sat 06-08, including newscasts. So the National schedule
lists ``7:04 Saturday Night with Peter Fry -
Four hours of music, reminiscences, requests and entertainment``
Look at the playlist!
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturdaynight
Apparently it is not available on demand, not among the long list of program
titles podcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6899.6 AM, S9+18 as I tune in at 0705 Sat Feb 5, ``Contribute
to the Bowling League, P O Box 32, Mount Jackson, Virginia; you should listen
to me``, or something like that, and into music. 0710, Commander Bunny talking
about monkeys, FRN, Al Fansome; 0714 ID as ``International Bowling League Relay
Service``.
0724, the unmistakable down-east voice of Allan Weiner saying ``I want to marry
my cat``, conversation with Jay; mentions SWL Fest will be March 12-13, or from
March 11 for early arrivals. Hmmm, those were the dates in 2004y, while this
year it`s March 4-5: http://www.swlfest.com/
Mister Camping is so strong on 6875, that 6900 area gets desensitized; pirates
need to give him even wider berth. Unfortunately another pirate was
simultaneous on 6948, forcing me to split my attention (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6948-USB, Saturday Feb 5 at 0707 music, S9+18 at peaks like
6899.6-AM, but this one sounds louder; I have to attenuate it to the max
`local` to eliminate pumping. Must tune back and forth since they are competing
with each other. 0717 music segu? to bass strumming, then drumming. 0721 ID I
think as ``W-E-A-K Radio`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Yes, the two Tulsa market stations on 1270 and 1570 are now under
new ownership and converted to Spanish. Feb 4 at 1938 UT I hear music on 1570,
reminding me to check the stronger signal on 1270 too. Wait a minute! Sounds
like the same music. I carry a portable radio in the car so I can try //, and
yes indeed, the two are simulcasting, but ID at 1940 only as ``La Que Buena,
12-70 AM`` and hyperenthusiastic promo for LQB listeners to tune to 1270 now
(instead of KXTD 1530 --- what`s on that now? Cannot pull it past KOKC 1520 in
daytime.) I guess the new owner isn`t ready to program 1570 separately with
Spangospel, no hurry! But this seems a bit redundant and wasteful. Will the
callsigns change from KRVT on 1270 and KZLI on 1570?
BTW, the Jan 27 Tulsa World article about this consistently wrote ``KLZI`` ---
so much for the impact its former ``Smart Talk`` format in English made on the
writer. Still not corrected at:
http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/article.aspx?subjectid=52&articleid=20110127_15_E2_DnIuDn68992&archive=yes
As I recall, KRVT underwent some kind of upgrade in the last few years. So the
seller may have made a neat profit on the deal.
Now we shall have to pay attention whether the Spanish on 1270 is KRVT or KFLC
Fort Worth TX; and the 1570 is KZLI or XERF Ciudad Acu?a.
Meanwhile, 1120 KEOR was off the air again at 1945 UT check Feb 4 (Glenn
Hauser, Enid, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PORTUGAL [and non]. 13m showing some signs of life for a change: Feb 5 until
1559* Libya on 21695 and YFR Ascension, both in English. Leaving 21655 RDPI to
be the SSOB after 1600 timesignal; also JBA WHRI 21630, Spain 21610, 21570
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 17540, Feb 5 at 1525 very poor signal with flutter and Doppler
wobble on the carrier, at first intonation sounding French, but improving at
1530, not French, seems language lesson with Arabic words, repeated, M&W
alternating, bits of music, recognizable words in other language like
aeroporto, Qahira, musica. 1540 to music; 1545 stronger peaks, fast beat pop
music. Thought I might have something exotic, but 1555 contact info, 1556 RRI
IS. Yes, it`s RRI`s Arabic service, 300 kW, 247 degrees from Tiganeshti at
15-16, wedged between English from WHRI before 1500 (if on), and YFR English
via Ascension after 1600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SARAWAK [non]. 6205, R. Free Sarawak via presumed TAJIKISTAN, Feb 5 at 1220
conversation in Iban if not Malay between studio announcer and guy on phone,
the latter throwing in English phrases such as ``Yes, I know``, ``If you
really``, ``Who are you?``. Fair with heavy flutter. By 1245 vocal music is
playing, but it`s just barely modulated, still heavy flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 560, KWTO Springfield MO, is usually just barely audible on daytime
groundwave here, a bit too far, but Feb 4 around 2015 UT was quite readable on
caradio with local talk show about computers. I suspect all the snow on the
ground between there and here is helping to extend the range. Program schedule
at
http://www.newstalk560.com/schedule.aspx
shows this is a Friday-only program, and they have four other specialty shows
during this hour weekdays, suspiciously resembling infomercials: Fri ``2:00PM
3:00PM ComputerTalk with Premium Computers`` But what a lead-in, Rush! (Glenn
Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17775, KVOH is often absent, but on the air today Friday Feb 4 at
2119, S9+18 so VG signal with gospel rock in Spanish, but muffled, lo fi, and
with BFO, carrier is unstable. Unfortunately, not quite strong enough to
audiblize the spurs on 17630v and 17920v.
WRTH Update shows 17775 schedule as 16-24 on Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri only, but also
daggered as irregular. Maybe, altho I had not figured that out; is that
`official` info? More to the point, perhaps, never on Sat/Sun/Mon. WRTH has
also finally deleted the imaginary 9975 for KVOH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5755, WTWW, which served such a useful purpose by zeroing in on
MICRONESIA 4755.4, by 1205 Feb 5 was open carrier, still at 1223, 1228. Not
checked again until 1310 when it`s off; and at 1312, 9479 is poor but audible,
and now modulated, SFAW having wasted at least an hour of purchased airtime ---
but when you buy it in bulk, not so important. BTW, WTWW now targets #2
transmitter to oncome circa second week of March, on 5080 at night, 9990 day
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. It`s hard to believe VOA has really canceled its Indonesian
service on SW, so I check the formerly listed frequencies. Yes, nothing to be
heard:
Feb 4 around 2230 and 2303, no 15205; At 2314, only Spain on 9620, nothing on
11805.
Feb 5 at 1217, a barely audible carrier on 7255, doubt it`s VOA, maybe listed
Lhasa; VOA Korean 7235 in well. At 1223, nothing on 9725.
9885, strong open carrier Feb 5 at 1249; since it`s Saturday, VOA Spanish does
not start until 1300, as everybody knows, nothing ever happens on weekends, so
`Enfoque Andino` is M-F only at 1230. Recheck 1314, now it`s American C&W music
in English but announced in Spanish, as VOA insists on plying its Latin
listeners with this stuff instead of anything significant (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, Feb 5 at 1238, WRMI with preachers in English, no jamming
unlike wall of noise on 9965 against Radio Rep?blica. Two guys discussing sin,
garments, blood sacrifice of animals. Maybe there is hope for DX shows at this
time on other days, such as WOR Mondays at 1230. At 1306, now 9955 has equal
WON to 9965. At 1504 today Sat, WORLD OF RADIO 1550 is fairly audible on 9955
without jamming, nor much Taiwan CCI, 9980 WWCR overload being the greater
problem.
WORLD OF RADIO also reconfirmed Sat Feb 5 at 1700 on 12160 WWCR; next airing is
Sunday 0730 on 3215. Sunday broadcasts on WRMI are: 0900, 1630, 1830 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VANUATU [non]. Not much luck hearing either frequency here; 7260, Feb 5 at
1220 has Japanese on top, but CCI from something; CRI Japanese, 500 kW, 73
degrees via Xi`an, starts at 1100. Before then per HFCC the only competition on
7260 is CNR, 100 kW non-direxional from Urumqi, East Turkistan at 0257-1205
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [non]. Despite our repeated monitoring chex late last year that
Vatican Radio`s scheduled English broadcast at 1200-1215 via Sackville 9865 was
really in Spanish, extending the 1130-1200 portion, the new WRTH Update claims
English is on, and so does VR`s own printed B-10 schedule, just received (by
surface mail?) Feb 4.
So once again we have to turn on a radio to find out what is really happening.
I was unexpectedly awake Feb 5 at 1206, so tried to hear it, but signal was
very poor, so poor that I could not discern the language, only the IS starting
at 1213. Did anyone else check? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Bruce Winkelman in Tulsa tipped that he had a carrier on 1359 kHz
at 0441 UT Feb 5; could it be Nigeria, listed sign-on *0430?
I hastened to check 1359 and do a 9-kHz bandscan between 0540 and 0550 UT Feb
5. I reported:
1359 certainly stands out, and seems right on by pitch, so not a variant.
However, it also gives a good DF bearing of NE/SW, maybe a bit more, in the 45
to 50 degree range.
A number of other TA carriers but all seem to be from about the same direxion
(Europe/ME) despite `auroral` condx -- 1584, 1575, 1557, 1539, 1503, 1485,
1422, 1413, nothing midband, but also 783, 612, 594.
All too weak to expect any audio.
Neil Kazaross suggests 1359 is likely Spain, which can put in a good signal
around sunrise there. I see that WRTH 2011 shows that RNE Madrid`s key station
runs 600 kW, but has been testing DRM with only 10 kW at 2000-0600. Well, if
this was it, must have been back to 600 kW AM (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 04:45:37 +0100
From: "Eike Bierwirth" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Some logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Cameroon: 7150, Ham radio TJ3AY, Yaound?, QSO partners a littler higher so he
is in the clear, 5 Feb, 2213 UTC, S=3 in LSB
Costa Rica: 5954.2, Radio Republica in Spanish, 5 Feb, 0149, 32432
Cyprus: 1233, Radio Monte Carlo International, my first time ever for this
station, in Arabic, 5 Feb, 0340, song, phone-in, ID, News, 32322 with
co-channel Absolute Radio // 1215
Estonia: 4645, Tallinn Volmet, surprised to find this in the clear, was covered
by noise in the last couple of years, 4 Feb, 2218, with metreports in English
for Tallinn Airport repeated for approx. 5 minutes until updated, 33422
Iran: 1188, IRIB Radio Payam with Guantanamera song in // to their webstream,
struggling with MDR Info, 5 Feb, 0314, 32322
Israel: 1224, Galei Zahal with song // 6973, 5 Feb, 0333, 22332
Italy: 1368, Challenger Radio from Villa Estense, near Padova, 5 Feb, 1925,
Italian jazz music in Glenn Miller style, 34232
Kuwait: 1134, Radio Kuwait, dominating the channel, in Arabic parallel to 5960
and to weak 1341!, 6 Feb, 0223, Qur'an recitation, news at 0300, 43433
Tajikistan: 7245, Ovozi Tajik, 6 Feb, empty carrier at 0150, started at 0200
with a few bars of music, ID "Ovozi Tajik", Tajik programme, fill music,
getting weaker as the Sun rises over TJK. 42432 with splatter from the
neighbouring channels.
UAE: 1575, Radio Farda, 6 Feb, 0239, Song "More than words", ID, 33322
Zambia: 4965, Christian Voice, never before heard this strong, 5 Feb, 0109, in
English with African accent, talking about the peace and joy in Christ, 45333
73,
Eike
Leipzig, Germany
JRC-NRD525 with DX-10 Pro active antenna on the balcony
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Message: 10
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 11:14:05 +0100
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Tropical band this weekend
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3310khz , 2332utc Radio Mosoj Chaski , Cochabamba Bolivia SS talks
about the parlement in Bolivia by male fair
3250.060khz ,2329utc Radio Luz y Vida ,San Luis Honduras Weak SS talks
(news) by male
3329.560khz , 2330utc Ondas de Huallaga ,Hu?nuco Peru SS talks noisy
4699.970khz , 2312utc Radio San Miguel ,Riberalta Bolivia SS ID " Radio
San Miguel "
4746.970khz , 2315utc Radio Huanta 2000,Huanta Peru Nice Peru songs and
ID in SS good reception
4789.900khz ,2317utc Radio Vision -LV Salvacion Peru Weak religious
talks in SS
4804.980khz , 2321utc Radio Dif. do Amazonas , Manaus Brazil Talks
about Brazil local in PP fair
4814.960khz , 2333utc Radio Difusora Londrina Brazil Weak PP talks
4845.230khz , 2316utc Radio Cult. Ondas Tropicais Brazil PP talks by male
4885khz , 2329utc Radio Clube do Par? Brazil Full ID in PP good
4955khz ,2332utc Radio cultura Amauta,Huanta Peru Good SS talks by
male and nice Peru music + ID "Radio Cultura"
4986.400khz , 2328utc Radio Manantial ,Huanta Peru SS talks by
female Religious program
5120.553khz , 2318utc Ondas del Suroriente , Quillabamba Peru Nice
Peru music but weak
4052.460khz , 2322utc Radio Verdad Chiquimula Guatemala Some Religious
program in SS weak but fair
Heard this stations with my Perseus SDR receiver in overnight recording
Super Kaz antennas
Maurits Van Driessche
Belgium
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 98, Issue 6
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