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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs April 14, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
2. DX Listening Digest 11-15; World of Radio 1560 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA (Stewart MacKenzie)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:44:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 14, 2011
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** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36 finally back in business, following sporadic logs
of it past two days, and Roberto Scaglione`s news that they hoped to have all
the problems solved by April 14 for 1230-1500 transmissions (presumably M-F
only) ---
1228 tune-in April 14 to open carrier, fading up from S6 to peaks of S9+10.
1229 YL says ``Transmite LRA36 . . . 15476``. Copy is still marginal but
definite. Into music, 1234 ID also mentioning full name ``Radio Nacional
Arc?ngel San Gabriel`` (people tend to leave out the middle word, for some
reason, but I still heard it), ``Ant?rtida Argentina . . . el futuro. . .``.
More talk mixed with music. 1238 ``saludos . . . nuestras operadoras``. 1239
introducing Se?ora ---, who says she has ``41 a?os, soy enfermera [nurse]``.
1242 a male voice is heard briefly, the only one.
1243 weakening, vocal song. Generally mix of music and talk; 1312 YL seems
named Lidia; 1313 giving some numbers, phone? And something .com.ar At 1316 I
was surprised to hear a couple of fast CW messages ending with K. I had BFO on,
but did not want to touch it, so not certain whether this was QRM or something
they sent. 1317 music with heavy beat, 1330 announcement, and checked 15480 UK
signal, which was steadier at S9+5 but no problem for 15476.
On this auspicious reinauguration occasion, I stayed on 15476 for a full hour,
passing up my usual bandscanning, but reception waned.
Occasional chex later found at 1403 still carrier but S3 to S7 max with little
audio; 1422 quick CW occurred again.
Esperanza Base is about latitude 63 which puts it outside the Antarctic Circle,
and closer to the Equator than Reykjavik, Umea, Arkhangelsk, Anadyr,
Unalakleet, Iqaluit.
Then we hear from Roberto Scaglione, recorded in Sicily? Only music 1210-1230
UT, regularly on the air. First 11 minutes are available on
http://www.bclnews.it/110414-15476-1230z.mp3
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA [non]. 21490, no trace of a signal from BVB in English, April 14 at
1339 and further chex to 1400, unlike April 13, so that must have been a test.
Or BVB transmissions may vary depending on day of week. Will we ever know
whence? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake April 14: no bandscanning 1230-1330 as I was sticking with
ANTARCTICA [q.v.], but then found:
13920, good at 1346; gone at 1405
By 1350, no others 8-17 MHz.
10300, very poor at 1351 // 13920; no 8400 now
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 6050, while RHC was missing later last night, it`s back on
the air as usual, // 6010 English during music, April 14 at 0229 check, totally
blocking poor HCJB, as Arnie Coro continues to prove what a bully he is,
refusing to move off the only channel HCJB can use direct from Ecuador (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 11830, April 14 at 0539, Portuguese soon with DW ID in
passing; I was expecting RFI, but its Portuguese is on 11830 after 0600 via
Meyerton, while DW is 0530-0557, 250 kW, 150 degrees via Sines, PORTUGAL (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 15050, April 14 at 1333, after shivering in the Antarctic for an hour
on 15476, I warm up by tuning here for South Asian music, flutter, S9 to S9+10
from AIR`s Sinhala service, 250 kW, 174 degrees from Delhi (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SUDAN [non]
** KUWAIT [and non]. 21540, R. Kuwait, April 14 at 1340, good signal, in fact
the Strongest signal on band (SSOB), better than #2 Saudi 21505, during drama
in Arabic, complete with music including some Bach, SFX including neigh, 1341
``Idha`at - Kuwait`` ID, 1343 mentions Lebanon, Brasil. Way atop co-channel
Spain; in fact only a hint of a SAH from REE during Kuwait fades, while Spain
in clear on 21610, Portugal 21655 were quite weak (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA [non]. 21480, April 14 at 1358 open carrier, like before shifting
very slightly and regularly at rate of 72 times per minute, obvious with BFO
slightly off-tuned. Something is amiss with this Wertachtal, GERMANY
transmitter, but not noticeable in ordinary AM-mode listening.
1400 sharp, percussion starts and Hausa from Hamada Radio International,
``Salaam Aleikum``. At same time started to notice some lite second-ACI from
BBC Cyprus which just opened English on 21470.
Latest RMI schedule from MBR via HFCC shows additional frequencies following
week only:
9610 0530-0600 daily since 8 April, 180 degrees, 100 kW Wertachtal
9860 0530-0600 daily 15-21 April, 180 degrees, 100 kW Wertachtal
11970 0530-0600 daily since 8 April, 185 degrees, 100 kW Nauen
17860 1400-1430 daily 15-21 April, 180 degrees, 125 kW Wertachtal
21480 1400-1430 daily since 8 April, 180 degrees, 125 kW Wertachtal
11945 1930-2000 daily since 8 April, 180 degrees, 100 kW Wertachtal
13800 1930-2000 daily 15-21 April, 183 degrees, 100 kW Nauen
While registered as daily, weekends may be contingency basis only; all due to
elexions in Nigeria (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [and non]. 13620, April 14 at 0527*, tuned in just in time to hear
closing ID from ``Radio Dabanga``, good signal. This is 250 kW, 330 degrees
from MADAGASCAR at 0430-0527.
Meanwhile there was a tone test in background which continued in the clear
until its 0529*. Jamming? Unseems: that gave me time to tell it was a DSB tone
on an AM carrier, rather than a het. What else is there there? HFCC shows:
13620 0345 0530 38-40 BGL 500 300 Pers/Arab. IND AIR AIR
Presumably this tone happens at the tail of the AIR transmission, but if also
heard much earlier in the Dabanga hour, could be jamming.
13730, April 14 at 0527, whine and grind jamming against something inaudible.
The sound cuts out every 15 seconds proving that it is modulation on a normal
carrier. It is also pulsing regularly at the rate of 78 times per minute.
Continues past 0530 until 0537:28*. The victim is surely R. Dabanga on its
other frequency, 500 kW, 255 degrees via UAE at 0430-0527 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 15580, April 14 at 0532, VOA news in English about Libya. Tho
listed as Iranawila, Sri Lanka site, until 0700, there is no flutter on this,
just normal lite fading, so I suspect IBB has changed to another site. They are
always fiddling with sites.
Ah?, latest IBB schedule at
http://hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A11&broadc=IBB
indeed shows Sri Lanka from 0300, switching to BOTSWANA at 0500 since April 8,
100 kW, 350 degrees. See my previous log April 11, when I also thought it
should be Botswana, and in fact it was. Today this was much better than Nigeria
on 15120, worse than Australia on 15160, 15240 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1560 monitoring: confirmed on first airings, via WRMI
9955 webcast, UT Thursday April 14 at 0330 and 1600. Next: Thu 2100, Fri 1430,
Sat 0800, 1400, 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730. On WWRB: Fri 0330 on 2390 (and
probably 5050 as last two weeks). On WWCR: Fri 2030 on 15825, Sat 1600 on
12160, Sun 0630 on 3215. On IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS-IBA: Sat 1800 on 7290 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9370-, slightly on low side as usual compared to 1370 stations, WTJC
continues to enjoy good modulation for a while, but April 14 at 0541 during
hymn, also has spurs around 9335 and 9405, +/- 35 kHz. One might guess the
latter were WINB, but now an ex-frequency for it. Unlike previous spur
outbreaks, these are not distorted but also with good modulation, but much
weaker, fading in and out. With BFO I can tell that 9405 is somewhat wobbly
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 14579-SSB, April 14 at 1347, 2-way in colloquial Spanish, hardly
any of it understandable; in fact, at first I thought it was Greek. One station
had engine noise background, the other breaking up severely (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:32:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] DX Listening Digest 11-15; World of Radio 1560
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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DX Listening Digest 11-15 has now been posted at http://www.dxld.org
or http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt or http://dxld.worldofradio.org
and now also without delay at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1115.txt
[as sometimes happens, upload of this edition as dxlatest has not been
immediate, but has been immediate at the last -1115 link above]
CONTENTS:
WOR 1560 / AFGHANISTAN ham / ALBANIA +non / ANTARCTICA / ARMENIA / AUSTRALIA
Ozyradio / AUSTRALIA HCJB A11 / AUSTRALIA RA / AUSTRIA / BANGLADESH / BOLIVIA /
BONAIRE / BOTSWANA +non / BRAZIL +non / BULGARIA / CANADA Pirate/IC / CANADA
non BVB A11 / CANADA CHU / CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC / CHINA +non / COLOMBIA /
COSTA RICA / CROATIA / CUBA +non / CYPRUS +non / DJIBOUTI / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
/ EAST TURKISTAN / ECUADOR / EGYPT / EQUATORIAL GUINEA / ERITREA +non /
ETHIOPIA +non / EUROPE Pirate / FRANCE / GAMBIA non / GERMANY +non / GIBRALTAR
/ GREECE +non / GUAM / GUATEMALA / GUINEA / INDIA / INDONESIA / INTERNATIONAL
VACUUM Gagarin / IRAN +non A11+ / IRELAND / ISRAEL / ITALY non / JAPAN +non /
KIRIBATI / KOREA NORTH +non A11 / KURDISTAN non / KUWAIT +non / LIBERIA / LIBYA
/ MADAGASCAR +non / MALAYSIA / MAURITANIA / MEXICO / MICRONESIA / MONGOLIA /
MYANMAR / NETHERLANDS non / NIGER / NIGERIA +non / OKLAHOMA KEIF / OKLAHOMA
KWTV / OKLAHOMA KAUT/KFOR / OMAN /
PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PERU / POLAND non / PORTUGAL / ROMANIA / RUSSIA +non A11+ /
SAIPAN / SARAWAK +non / SAUDI ARABIA +non / SOUTH CAROLINA non / SPAIN +non
A11+ / SRI LANKA / SUDAN +non / SWAZILAND / SWEDEN / TAIWAN +non / TURKEY +non
/ TURKMENISTAN / UK +non BBCWS+ / USA VOA/Sawa+ / USA WBCQ/WEGP / USA +non
WOR/WRMI/WWRB/WWCR/IPAR/ACBRM / USA WWCR/WNQM / USA WINB / USA WTJC / USA +non
KJES / USA non YFR / USA non AWR / USA KSAZ / USA WZHF/VOR / USA KMBZ / USA
WBBM / USA Disney / USA FCC/WEAK+ / USA WMMT / USA NPR / VATICAN +non /
VENEZUELA non / VIETNAM / WESTERN SAHARA non / YEMEN / UNIDENTIFIED 9320 /
UNIDENTIFIED 9340 / UNIDENTIFIED 9855 / UNIDENTIFIED 10000 / UNIDENTIFIED 14579
/ UNIDENTIFIED 17904 / UNIDENTIFIED 27125 / TESTIMONIALS / PUBLICATIONS /
DX-PEDITIONS / WORLD OF HOROLOGY / LANGUAGE LESSONS / DIGITAL BROADCASTING /
RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS / PROPAGATION
For restrixions and searchable 2011 contents archive see
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html
NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but
have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself
obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn
WORLD OF RADIO 1560 HEADLINES:
*Radio Australia ``renovated``
*Radio Bulgaria testing lower power
*English from Egypt, Iran, Mexico, Mongolia, Taiwan, Vatican
*The Met on shortwave
*More news from: Albania, Antarctica, Australia, Bolivia, Central
African Republic, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Korea North, Netherlands,
Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Sarawak and non, Sudan non, UK, USA
SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1560, April 14-20, 2011
Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed]
Thu 1500 WRMI 9955 [confirmed]
Thu 2100 WRMI 9955
Fri 0330 WWRB 2390 5050
Fri 1430 WRMI 9955
Fri 2030 WWCR1 7465
Sat 0800 WRMI 9955
Sat 1400 WRMI 9955
Sat 1600 WWCR2 12160
Sat 1730 WRMI 9955 [pre-empted last week]
Sat 1800 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 7290 1566 1368
Sun 0630 WWCR1 3215
Sun 0800 WRMI 9955
Sun 1530 WRMI 9955
Sun 1730 WRMI 9955
Mon 1130 WRMI 9955
Mon 2130 WRMI 9955
Tue 1530 WRMI 9955
Wed 0100 WRMI 9955
Wed 1530 WRMI 9955
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7415 [or 2115, or 2130]
Thu 0330 WRMI 9955
Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite
and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or
http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org
For updates see our Anomaly Alert page:
http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html
WRN ON DEMAND:
http://193.42.152.193/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24
WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN:
http://www.wrn.org/wrn-listeners/world-of-radio/
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/world-of-radio/rss/09:00:00UTC/English/541
OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO:
http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
or http://wor.worldofradio.org
Best DX wishes, Glenn Hauser
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:42:40 -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
?>>>
BRAZIL?? 11780? 2302 GMT? Portuguese? 433? April 12? OM with comments and
mentions Brazil often.??? Mackenzie-CA..
CANADA?? China Radio Intl Relay-CRI?? 11840? 2305 GMT? English? 444? April 12?
OM with updates on the earhquake in Japan.??? Mackenzie-CA..
CUBA?? Radio Habana Cuba-RHC?? 12020? 2315 GMT? Spanish? 333? April 12? Two OMs
with comments.? OM with RHC ID 2312 GMT, OM with bongo music and singing.
//12040[333], 13670[444], 15230[333].??? Mackenzie-CA..
CUBA?? Radio Nacional Venezuela Relay-RNV?? 13680? 2326 GMT? Spanish? 444?
April
12? YL with an ID 2327 GMT. Spanish band music then an OM with comments. YL
with
an ID 2330 GMT. //15250[444] via Cuba.??? MacKenzie-CA..
JAPAN?? Radio Japan-NHK?? 13640? 2320 GMT? Japanese? 433? April 12? YL and OM
with comments.??? MacKenzie-CA..
SPAIN?? Radio Exterior Espana-REE?? 15190? 2342 GMT? Spanish? 333? April 12? OM
with ongoing comments.
MacKenzie-CA..
UNITED STATES, Greenville?? Radio Marti? 2310 GMT? Spanish? 444? April 12? Two
OMs with comments and mentioning Radio Marti often.??? MacKenzie-CA..
UNITED STATES, Alabama?? WEWN?? 13830? 2332 GMT? Spanish? 433? April 12? YL
with
comments.? //12050 [444].??? 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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