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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs April 11, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
2. Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA (Stewart MacKenzie)
3. Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA (Stewart MacKenzie)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:01:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 11, 2011
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** ANTARCTICA. 15476, no carrier from LRA36, Monday April 11 at 1308, 1418,
1456 checks. Still waiting for them to resume regular operation after the
surprise re-appearance (test?) April 6 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. THE DUMBING-DOWN OF RADIO AUSTRALIA: one of the few bright spots
on the SW dial in our mornings (in English with a strong signal) has been RA,
with a variety of intellexually-stimulating or at least meaningful ABC feature
programs on weekdays between 13 and 15 UT. Monday April 11 I tune in 9580 at
1345 expecting to hear ``Innovations``, but instead:
YL DJ is jabbering about the local times in various Pacificasian cities where
RA has FM relays, such as Port Moresby 101.9; then pop music outroed at 1350 as
by Melbourne band Electric Empire; temps in cities as far as Tokyo. Mentions
she is hosting this new program in the wee hours, asks for SMS messages. 1359
says something about RA being made over into a ``brighter radio``!
Still news at 1400, anyway, after 9580 has closed but still on 9590; at 1405
instead of `Big Ideas`, right back to this ``overnight show`` with frequencies
107 in Honiara, 103 in Port Vila, 102.1 in Lae, wants text messages to +61 427
72 72 72. Would someone please tell her to go away and put `Big Ideas` back on
shortwave, at least??? She is ``all about connecting with you, the listener``.
1408 starts to play wrong track, ``the beauty of live radio, the unexpected``.
Strike RA as anything worth listening to. I hope they still haven`t canned
``Late Night Live``, superb discussion show in the 12-13 hour, which I last
heard on Thursday. OMG, ``Late Night Live`` is no longer among the L`s in
program list
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/programguide/
Just Live Talk-this, and Live Talk-that. I expect we can still find LNL on ABC
domestic webcasts.
Indeed, the program sked at
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/programguide/universal.htm
now shows ``Live Talk`` English for Asia, M-F at 1230-1530 and also at 05-08
and 09-12, plus some other times. A few of the old ABC feature shows still
appear between 16 and 18, deep in the night.
The official term for this revolting development is not ``dumbing-down`` but
``Renovating``:
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/renovate/
``Over the coming weeks and months you'll begin to notice changes to Radio
Australia. We're renovating to be more relevant and immediate in our coverage
of breaking news, major stories, activities and events as they occur around
Asia, the Pacific and Australia. Through this renovation we'll provide new
improved opportunities for sharing, participating and collaborating, as well as
a new look, style and feel.
Preview the new Radio Australia. You can now preview our new program schedule
featuring nine live audio streams, which will be live from 11 April across Asia
and the Pacific. Below you can also preview how the new site is shaping up.
During the renovation we'd like to hear what you think makes a great website.
You can let us know by visiting our contact us page. . .`` (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake April 11:
8400, absent at 1255. Starting here, did not have time for a thoro bandscan
before 1300, but:
10300, good with flutter at 1255
10965, fair at 1256 // 10300, no 10970 today; very poor at 1328
11500, poor at 1329 // 13920
13130, VG at 1259
13920, VG at 1259; good at 1326
13980, fair at 1326, weaker than // 13920
14700, good at 1416, not earlier
15670, fair mixing with some talk at 1303, i.e. RFA Tibetan via Tajikistan
11760, RHC normally very strong here, has heavy CCI from music at 1329 April
11; talk in English after 1330 turns out to be // CRI 9650, but two seconds
behind Sackville. Aoki shows Kunming site at 12-14. At 1356, RHC is atop 11760,
but CRI under // 9760. Commies vs Commies! See also EAST TURKISTAN (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 13780, April 11 at 1432, RHC audio is suppressed and distorted, while
still loud and clear on // 13680. Wiggle that patchcord! See also CHINA:
collision on 11760 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 13670, April 11 at 1325, ``Chinese opera``, flutter, not //
CNR1. Aoki shows it`s CRI Chinese service this hour only via Urumqi.
NOT ``Urumqui`` as I keep seeing it misspelt: the Q in Chinese transliteration
has no need of a U and doesn`t even sound like our Q. Or, to be more
politically correct, we should spell it Urumchi, less confusing and closer to
the Uyghur? Even better: some old maps, Rand McNally Atlas 1971, show it as
Wulumuchi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, April 11 at 1503, gospel huxter in Amerenglish,
Brother somebody from Georgia, introducing the ``Bible Way Temple Radio
Choir``; presumed R. Africa on its sporadic ``schedule`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI gone again Monday April 11 during the 13 English hour,
and 14 Indonesian hour; will it be back in time for Banjarmasin co-produxion 24
hours later? As always, the higher-priority RRI transmitter next to it on 9680
is still running, Indopop at 1358 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [and non]. R. Tirana, ALBANIA, 13625, English to NAm at 1430 is
normally without ACI from 13630, but April 11 at 1430 a stronger signal is on
13630 with music, soft announcements, language uncertain, 1431 into Qur`an.
That`s typical behaviour of VIRI; gone at 1455 recheck.
Uplooked later, Iran is scheduled on 13630 but only at 1330-1427 in Japanese
via Kamalabad, so another of their sloppy overruns. Languages supposed to start
at 1430 on other frequencies are: Arabic, Bengali, Hindi, Pashto, Russian.
However, DX Mix News, Bulgaria April 11 in an updated A-11 VIRI schedule shows
Japanese until 1427 is supposed to be on 13645 now; and nothing on 13630 any
time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 15735, April 22 at 1301 poor with news in English of Japan
disasters, music stingers ? la NHK, and in fact it is R. Japan, via Tashkent,
UZBEKISTAN. HFCC shows two 100 kW transmitters, both to CIRAF 41, i.e.
Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, one at 141 degrees, the other at 163,
getting them all covered (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, April 11 at 1413, great Kurdish music at S9+20
without too much flutter; still but weaker at 1456, and also heard before 1400,
V. of Mesopotamia via UKRAINE currently scheduled 04-18, and from May 29
expanding to -20, while WYFR blox it only until 0900, so should be in the clear
anytime after then. 7540, the other frequency seldom heard here, follows at
18-20 until off for the summer. Thus the PKK terrorists get far more SW time on
Ukrainian transmitter than RUI any more (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA. 17725, VOAf from the GJ, April 11 at 1404 poor with ID in English,
drumming; better at 1532, YL about alleged free medical care in Libya. She
refers merely to Libya instead of the ``Socialist People`s Libyan Arab
Jamahiriyah``, the cumbersome name apparently abolished some time ago; how I
miss the SPLAJ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA [non]. 21480, Monday April 11 at 1357 open carrier, but nothing
starts at 1400. Finally at 1402, Hamada Radio International modulation, no RMI
ID in English, and my Hausa is not good enough to decide whether it was joined
in progress, or merely late starting. Meanwhile, with BFO I notice that the
carrier from Wertachtal is unsteady, compared to others on 13m, and has a
curious wobble (slight regular pitch shift) 48 times per minute.
Jeff White says the schedule will keep changing due to the Nigerian elexions in
progress. Besides 21480 M-F at 1400-1430, HRI is registered at 0530-0600 on
9545, 9610 and/or 11970; 1930-2000 on 11865, 11945, but not all of these may be
in use at once via GERMANY, and M-F broadcasts might be expanded to Sat and Sun
too. As of April 5-7, Kouji Hashimoto in Japan Premium reported that the 1930
broadcast was on 11945 ex-11865 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PORTUGAL. 21655, April 11 at 1320, RDP Internacional announcing this very
frequency plus satellite info. After a couple days of deadness, 13m has revived
with this plus the usual signals (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9980, as I tune across WWCR, April 11 at 1410, Brother
Scare reveals that ``Jesus is the only one in heaven now``. I`m sure that will
disappoint scads of survivors (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. 11880 via COSTA RICA, Monday April 11 at 1434 REE token news
capsule in Portuguese, the extremely nasal Brazilian YL, but by now should be
in French; were the two swapped at 1430, today or forevermore? 1435:08 into
English with Coe; 1437:50 Arabic YL; 1440 outro in Castilian. So English got
almost three minutes, Arabic only two. Just so the quadrilingual headlines add
up to 10 minutes.
Another full REE A-11 schedule from Antonio Buitrago, DX program host, via
Pedro Sedano, noticiasdx yg, still fails to mention this segment at all, merely
part of Spanish service. What about ``co-official`` languages?
Per that, Catalan, Gallego y Vasco are Mon-Sat 2330-2345 on 9535, 9620, 11680
and 15160. While Euskera (same language as Vasco, i.e. Basque) is Mon-Fri
1240-1255 on 11880, 11815, 15585, 21540, 21610. The trouble is, Euskera/Basque
was divorced last season from the other two when it got its longer slot
elsewhen, which we have recently heard starting closer to 1230 than 1240, but
not always. That schedule also claims there are a full 3 hours of Euskera on
5970 at 1200-1500, surely a mistake. Further, it claims that Euskera via China
to Philippines on 11910 is at 1330-1355, likely also a mistake rather than //
all the others at 1240v. We still need to confirm the ``2330-2345`` slot,
surely still only Catalan and Galician, and in B-10 there was an unpublished
repeat of that at 0505-0515; and still? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 17745, April 11 at *1500, Sudan Radio Service still opening in
colloquial Arabic but pronouncing station name in English, strumming, 1501
akbar. There was a false alarm last week that this transmission via Sines,
PORTUGAL at 15-17 was being canceled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 15580, April 11 at 0553, poor signal with golf score in
English: must be VOA, at the moment SSOB, better than Australia. Altho no
Nigeria, 15120, I figured VOA site would be Botswana, but HFCC shows Iranawila,
SRI LANKA at 03-07, 250 kW, 263 degrees toward Africa from the other side;
unusual opening.
17545, April 11 at 1421, good signal, better than usual, hard-driving beat, VOA
Music Mix promo, and more until 1430 cut to ``From Studio 23 in Washington,
VOA`s International Edition``. Until then, Africans were prevented from hearing
news about Asia, who cares? 17540 is 100 kW, 350 degrees from BOTSWANA during
this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13570, I noticed WINB was on air with strong signal around 1258 April
11, but gone again at 1322, so no QRM to CODAR. Has the WINB program schedule
been updated since March 13 to show it`s nowhere near 24/7 any more?
http://www.winb.com/schedule.htm Of course not! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9320, very strong S9+22 open carrier, April 11 at 0559 past 0600,
better than WBCQ, WYFR and WTJC just up the band. Occasional barely audible
digital beeps, so maybe ute, Cuban spy station. No broadcasters scheduled here
between 0030 and 1430 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:52:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Stewart MacKenzie <[email protected]>
To: Anker Peterson <[email protected]>, Arnie Coro
<[email protected]>, BCL NEWS <[email protected]>, Duane Fischer
<[email protected]>, Hard Core DX <[email protected]>,
Marie Lamb <[email protected]>, Maryann Kehoe <[email protected]>,
Prime Time Shortwave <[email protected]>, SWL QTH
<[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Peterson <[email protected]>, Allen Graham
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>>>
AUSTRALIA?? Radio Australia-Shepparton?? 17795? 2302 GMT? English? 333? April
8?
OM with cimments oon Abortianspaid for by the govt.??? MacKenzie-CA..
BONAIRE?? Radio Netherlands Intl Relay-RNI?? 17605? 2323 GMT? Dutch? 333? April
8? Two OMs in a conversation.??? MacKenzie-CA..
BONAIRE?? Radio Japan-NHK Relay?? 15265? 2352 GMT? Japanese? 433? April 8? Two
YLs singing. OM with NHK ID 2355 GMT.? OM with ID 2359, then time pips and off
the air.??? MacKenzie-CA..
CANADA?? Radio China Intl Relay-CRI?? 15455? 2344 GMT? Spanish? 433? April 8?
Two OMs with comments.?? MacKenzie-CA..
CUBA?? Radio Havana Cuba-RHC?? 15370? 2347 GMT? Spanish? 433? April 8? YL with
comments.??? MacKenzie-CA..
NEW ZEALAND?? Radio New Zealand Intl-RNZI?? 15720? 2327 GMT? English? 333? Sept
8? OM with ongoing comments.????? MacKenzie-CA..
NORTH MARIANAS??? Radio Free Asia-RFA?? 15585? 2330 GMT? Chinese? 333? April 8?
YL and OM with comments.??? MacKenzie-CA..
UNITED STATES, Florida?? Radio Taiwan Intl Relay-RTI?? 17725? 2315 GMT?
Spanish?
333? April 8? YL with comments. YL with an ID 2318 GMT.?? Mackenzie-CA..
..
Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, United States of America
Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650
"World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive"
ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC
SCADS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCADS
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:02:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Stewart MacKenzie <[email protected]>
To: Anker Peterson <[email protected]>, Arnie Coro
<[email protected]>, BCL NEWS <[email protected]>, Duane Fischer
<[email protected]>, Hard Core DX <[email protected]>,
Marie Lamb <[email protected]>, Maryann Kehoe <[email protected]>,
Prime Time Shortwave <[email protected]>, SWL QTH
<[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Peterson <[email protected]>, Allen Graham
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>>>
AUSTRALIA?? Radio Australia-Shepparton?? 17750? 0413 GMT? English? 333? April
11? YL with comments on budget losses of money.? OM at times on newspapers
stories? //15515[444]Sheparton, 15240[333]Sheparton.? .??? MacKenzie-CA..
CHINA?? CPBS?? 15480? 0420 GMT? Chinese? 333? April 11? YL with comments plus
an
OM at times with comments.? //15270[333].??? MacKenzie-CA..
CHINA?? China Radio Intl-CRI?? 15445? 0423 GMT? Russian? 333? April 11? OM with
comments.? An OM singing 0426 GMT. //15665[333], 15170[333], 15230[444]via
Canada.??? MacKenzie-CA..
CHINA?? China Radio Intl-CRI?? 15160? 0445 GMT? Cantonese??? 444? April 11? YL
singing then a YL with comments. //9790[444]via Cuba.??? Mac Kenzie-CA..
JAPAN?? Radio Japan-NHK?? 17810? 0405 GMT? Japanese? 444? April 11? OM with
comments and Band music 0428 GMT.? //17560[444], 15325[444]. 15195[333],
5960[444]via Canada.??? MacKenzie-CA..
RUSSIA?? Tatarstan Wave?? 15110? 0449 GMT? Russian? 333? April 11? OM singing
followed by a YL singing.? MacKenzie-CA..
RUSSIA? Vladivostok?? Voice of Russia-VOR? 13775? 0452 GMT? English? 333? April
11? YL and OM singing plus some good piano music. OM with VOR ID 0458 GMT. Then
a newscast at 0500 GMT.??? Mackenzie-CA..
SAUDI ARABIA?? BSOTK?? 15285? 0432 GMT? Arabic? 333? April 11? Arabic music
followed by a YL with comments.????? MacKenzie-CA..
?Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, United States of America
Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650
"World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive"
ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC
SCADS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCADS
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