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Today's Topics:
1. Mon Morn (Charles)
2. Glenn Hauser logs March 20-21, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Radio Damascus observations (Radio Damascus)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:04:12 -0000
From: "Charles" <[email protected]>
To: "ALF" <[email protected]>, "ANKER PETERSEN"
<[email protected]>, "Anne Fanelli" <[email protected]>,
"Charles B"
<[email protected]>, "Eike Bierwirth" <[email protected]>,
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Subject: [HCDX] Mon Morn
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Bolivia, 3309.961, Radio Mosoj Chaski, 1000-1010, Noted two females in
Spanish language comments at tune in. The noise is very strong. The
signal remained fair. (Chuck Bolland, March 21, 2011)
China, 4940.00 Voice of the Strait, 1015-1030, Noted a program of music
and Chinese comments by a female. At 1023 a male comments. Signal
is poor with noise. (Chuck Bolland, March 21, 2011)
China, 4974.90, People's Broadcasting Station, 1020-1030, Noted a male
in Chinese language comments. This was followed with canned promos.
Later a female comments. Signal was poor. (Chuck Bolland, March 21, 2011)
Peru, 5039.165, Radio Libertad, 1030-1045, At tune in, noted a program
of music. At 1034 could a male in Spanish language comments under
the noise. He seemed to be using the echo effect in his comments?
Signal was threshold. (Chuck Bolland, March 21, 2011)
Bolivia, 6134.791, Radio Santa Cruz, 1035-1045, At tune in, noted a male in
Spanish language comments. At 1037 music but just as background as
male continues to talk. At 1040 the signal begins to fade from a fair level
to threshold. (Chuck Bolland, March 21, 2011)
Peru, 6173.872, Radio Tawantinsuyo, Tent, 1041-1043, Only caught the
signal for
a minute before it began to fade to threshold then nil. (Chuck Bolland,
March 21, 2011)
Indonesia, 9680.107, RRI Jakarta, 1045-1055, Noted a male in Indonesian
comments over Islamic type music where a female is singing. Signal was
good. (Chuck Bolland, March 21, 2011)
Indonesia, 9525.977, Voice of Indonesia, 1049-1100 At tune in noticed just
secular music being presented. At 1054 a female comments between music.
Language sounded like English, but she was too quick for me. (Chuck
Bolland, March 21, 2011)
NRD545
26N 081W
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:45:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 20-21, 2011
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** ANTARCTICA. 15476, March 21 is the latest reactivation-date anticipated from
LRA36, but no, still no carrier even detectable at 1325 or 1439 March 21 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake March 21:
8400, very poor at 1324
10300, fair at 1320, checking for // to 13625, but not; poor at 1446
12240, poor at 1320 // 10300 but not // 13625; off at 1446 check
13625, weak at 1320 mixing with something: RFA Tibetan via Tinian, not // the
others (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA. 15170, REE relay missing, Monday March 21 at 1327, 1440, so
clear for ROMANIA, q.v. HFCC listings are useless for Cariari, showing maximum
spans rather than true daily usage. Aoki
shows 15170 Mon-Fri 1200-1400, Sun -1500; WRTH 2011 and Aoki as Sun-Fri
1200-1500. REE/CR was still audible with usual poor signals on 9765, 11815, the
latter under NHK with heavy SAH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. RHC`s first English broadcast used to be at 2100 (when they
got around to it), then moved up to 2000, and now moved forward another hour to
1900, as per new DST schedule effective March 20. So I am tuned to 11760 by
1900 March 20 to confirm if it really be so. Nothing. But cuts on circa 1906
with English already in progress. Presumably followed by French at 2000, but
off the air again by next time I check 2037.
Further monitoring to confirm anticipated RHC Spanish program timeshifts one UT
hour earlier due to DST March 20: at 2137+ on 12010 et al., something other
than DX program. `En Contacto` does start at 2245 ex-2345; after birthday
greetings, into another listener essay about what DXing has done for you; then
historical talk about early radio in Cuba, starting with 2NC (?) in 1920y.
12010 was an echo apart from all the other // frequencies confirmed: 12040,
11770, 9820, 6140, 5040. Followed at 2300 by a program whose name I didn`t
catch, but it was not `Cuba Campesina` as expected. The final `En Contacto`
repeat also confirmed at its reactivated time, 0135 UT Monday March 21. I
posted this to the noticiasdx yg:
Averiguado el nuevo esquema de En Contacto hoy domingo 20 de marzo:
1335 en 6140 11690 11730 11760 12040 13680 13780 15120 15230 15360
2245 en 5040 6140 9820 11770 12010 12040
0135 [lunes TU] en 5040 6060 6120 6140 9770 11760 12010 12040 15230
73, Guillermo Glenn Hauser
RHC`s own schedule at
http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/c_frecuencia/frecuencias.htm
has still not been updated as of 1635 March 21, showing old 12-16, 22-06 times
for Spanish, English at 20, etc., etc.
9955, DentroCuban Jamming Command must run on local time, for now that Cuba too
is on UT -4, the wall of noise is already grinding away at 2108 UT check March
20. WRMI is on 9955 all day weekends, but weekdays off between 1600 and 2100.
WRMI`s program grid spreadsheet is still dated Feb 1, but since it`s in ET
rather than UT, could remain more or less correct (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 6110, NHKWRJ, 0520 UT March 21, with another well-done report
on the post-tsunami situation; via Sackville here but with CCI audible under,
frequency managers having made the unwarranted assumption that BBC in Arabic
also on 6110 from 0500, due south from Skelton would not be a problem in deep
NAm! Altho somewhat weaker, the // NHK off the back of 5975, 140 degrees from
Rampisham UK, was clear of QRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15515, March 21 at 1327, fully-produced drama in Arabic, expressing
deep emotions, with SFX such as bells, dogs barking; still going at 1357; at
1359 ``Kuwait`` shouted several times by kidvoices, ID, and 1400 into news of
Bahrain, Libya. Good signal I had not noticed before, while 21540, which has
been good lately, was not audible. HFCC has no R. Kuwait on 15515, but WRTH,
Aoki and EiBi all show it on 15515 only at 0500-0900, so maybe they failed to
bring up 21540 at 1000? Will 15515 continue to be on past 1400? (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA. 17725, VOAf from the GJ, still on the air March 21 and still no
21695. At 1358 in Swahili, undermodulated, peaks at S9+5. 1400 hilife song in
English about ``no racist regime`` as heard several times before, but followed
by talk still in Swahili. 1412 finally starting English broadcast with ID,
stuff about 9.9.99, 1415 the canned imaginary frequency announcement which will
not die, claiming 21695 and 17850.
Cut off the air at 1415.4; whenever this happens, we visualize an explosion at
Sabrata, but so far it comes back, this time after 1.2 minutes. Then another
song about the Leader, and no racist regime. 1422 ID and ``special program``,
historical talk but hard to copy.
I try employing BFO to clarify, but find the carrier is slightly unstable,
making than not an option. 1433 ending talk about the r?le of the revolution
(Q`Daffy`s, that is); 1435 ID and wrong frequencies again. 1437 geographical
talk about Africa with areas, lengths of rivers including Congo, Nile. Usw
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 15170, RRI lucked out with a clear frequency, Monday March 21 at
1337 in Romanian, as REE/CR was missing, and still in the clear at 1440 with
doo-wop music. Normally, Cariari is silent only on Saturdays; see COSTA RICA
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9355, huge intermittent utility pulses centered here spreading
9345-9365, March 21 at 1447, blasting irregularly several times a minute, made
up of multiple closely-spaced carriers. Fortunately, no broadcaster audible on
9355 at the moment, tho 9355 is registered at many other hours for WYFR,
IBB=VOA/RFA. EiBi also shows SOH and ChiCom jamming, DVB. Only HFCC also shows
Moldova at 1330-1500, presumably wooden (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:40:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Radio Damascus <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Damascus observations
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Dear Radio friends
I received today an email from my good friend at Radio Damascus, Rasheed
Haidar, who is the head of the English language section.?
He asked me to make an appeal to all shortwave listeners to tune in to Radio
Damascus on the shortwave and let us know their observations.
My own observations of the shortwave transmissions are as follows (although I
mostly tune in? on the Hotbird satellite or download the audio file of the
daily program at syriaonline.sy and don't have a professional or
semi-professional receiver - only using a Sony ICF 7600 G) :
9330 Khz is mostly on the air, although irregular with a lot of interruptions
and a very weak signal +? extremely weak modulation which makes it almost
impossible to hear anything, even on days when the transmitter is operating
without interruptions and the signal strength is sufficient?
12085 Khz is, according to my observations, off air (I can?t hear anything on
that frequency)
Can you please let me know your observations and reception conditions of Radio
Damascus in your part of the world so I can forward them to the Radio Damascus
team?
You can send in your remarks at radiodamascusenglish at yahoo.com which is the
email address of my alternative website for Radio Damascus at
http://radio-damascus.net .
Looking forward to your observations and remarks.
Sincerely yours,
Kris Janssen
Belgium
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