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Today's Topics:
1. Sun Morn Dx (Charles)
2. April, 23, 24 logs (L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec)
3. VoTibet 15557 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
4. Glenn Hauser logs April 23-24, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
5. Re: Glenn Hauser logs April 23-24, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
6. Logs from NH-USA, April 18 (Scott R. Barbour Jr.)
7. April 23-24 Logs ([email protected])
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 10:24:00 -0000
From: "Charles" <[email protected]>
To: "ALF" <[email protected]>, "ANKER PETERSEN"
<[email protected]>, "Anne Fanelli" <[email protected]>,
"Charles B"
<[email protected]>, "DD" <[email protected]>, "Eike
Bierwirth" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
"'Harry'" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, "Ron
Howard" <[email protected]>, "'skeds'" <[email protected]>,
"wghauser" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Sun Morn Dx
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Bolivia, 6134.812, Radio Santa Cruz, 0945-1000, Noted a male in brief
Spanish comments as the music is playing. This is possibly a religious
program as the music seems to be a slow march type tempo as heard
in a funeral procession. At 0950 a male continues to comment. He is
followed with normal Bolivian music. Signal was poor. A recheck at
1006 UTC resulted in the signal being fair. (Chuck Bolland, April 24, 2011)
Peru, 6019.215, Radio Victoria, 0953-1000, Lots of interference here from
Radio Australia, but noted a signal male in Spanish language comments.
Not much else heard due to noise and the above interference. Signal
was poor. (Chuck Bolland, April 24, 2011)
Bolivia, 6155.028, Radio Fides, (pres), 1000-1010,. At 1000 noted a
threshold
broadcast commence on the above frequency as I waited on 6155.00 KHz for
just a carrier to start broadcasting. The signal on 6155.028 consisted of
a female in possibly Spanish language comments. It was very threshold.
The carrier mentioned above never did anything from my location. (Chuck
Bolland, April 24, 2011)
WR-G31DDc
26N 081W
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:18:10 -0300
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] April, 23, 24 logs
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5910, Colombia, Alcarav?n Radio, Puerto Lleras. April, 23 0914-0926 local music
selections, religious talks by male in Spanish, in every music break "Maria;
Jesus; Galilea". Able to catch few words, 24333 (lob-B).
7125, Guinea, R.Conakry. April, 24 0812-0826 African music, male in French,
African music with some Arabic style (maybe a Islamism space or program), back
male. Weak, degrading, at peak 35433 (lob-B).
9710, Australia, Shepparton. April, 24 0918-0932 announcer interviewing female
in Tok Pisin, short canned ID by female "R. Australia", English ballad music,
announcer "news: prime minister..". 45444, (lob-B).
73's
L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec
Embu SP Brasil
SW40 - Dipoles and Longwire
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:23:29 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>, "DXLD"
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] VoTibet 15557
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TAJIKISTAN/CHINA 15550 - Firedrake tscheng-bumm Firedrake music. 7 kHz
away of Voice of Tibet signal from Yangi Yul-TJK on 15557 kHz, at 1215 UT
Apr 24. vy 73 wb
V of Tibet, Dushanbe Yangiyul, S=8 signal in Nagoya JPN at 1235 UT,
but now down on 15537.000 kHz, music jamming on 15540 nearby. 1230-
1300 UT. Also logged recently on odd 15527, 15537, 15547, 15552,
15557, 15562, 15582 kHz channels, to avoid a little bit China mainland
jamming against VoTibet broadcasts.
(Wolfgang Bueschel, April 19, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 20 via DXLD)
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 10:30:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 23-24, 2011
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** CANADA [non]. 17495, Sunday April 24 at 1449 gospel music, 1451 YL with
North American accent about Jesus; closing with long PO Box number starting
with 5- was cut off abruptly at 1459. Had not been hearing anything on this
frequency, certainly not WBCQ as registered, which is only a wooden one,
alternate to 15420. But HFCC explains the current curious setup on 17495, by
MBR, only on weekends:
Sat 1345-1415 & 1415-1500, 250 kW, 83 degrees from Issoudun, FRANCE
Sun 1400-1500, 250 kW, 95 degrees from Nauen, GERMANY, both to CIRAF 41 = S
Asia. Aoki elucidates that it`s all for Bible Voice Broadcasting. Not to be
confused with 17485 still carrying Brother Scare via Germany (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake April 24:
7970, not heard at 1320 or later; maybe was on before 1300
10300, fair at 1321, not // 10970 or any of the others later
10970, fair at 1320
11500, good at 1324, // 10970, not 10300; still at 1352, seems to have CCI, lo
het, and much stronger than 10970, 10300
13130, poor at 1327 // 11500
No others heard up to 18 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11760, April 24 at 1335-1349, RHC `En Contacto` DX program, with
birthdays; feature on CMBF/Radio Musical Nacional, founded on April 25, 1948,
so survived the revolution and incorporation into ICRT --- the classical music
channel which shamefully is never put on SW but instead RHC wasting 4 or 6
frequencies at once on a single band. I later did get a prompt but lo-quality
webcast connexion via http://www.cmbfradio.cu/ where you will not escape Commie
propaganda but hopefully not much of it in the programming. At 1344, 11760
dumped off the air briefly. Third subject: earliest Cuban radio from amateur
broadcaster 2LC, then PWX.
No need for any Sunday shifts, as already last Sunday, RNV advised that there
would not be any `Al?, Presidente` this week either. Yet at 1357 there was a
suspicious open carrier on 15370. 13680 remained on 13680, not 13750, in the
doctor show about condoms (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9305, April 24 at 0602, R. Cairo Arabic is still on, distorted as
always. Being a domestic service relay, the hours for his normally shift
depending on DST; last summer the sign-off earlied from 0700 to 0600. WRTH 2011
said on page 183: ``UTC +2h (29 Apr-29 Sep: +3h). DST may end earlier (at start
of Ramadan)``. But http://www.timeanddate.com says there will be no DST in
Egypt in 2011y (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [and non]. 15190, April 23 at 2226, R. Africa still
propagating arrested, charged, tried, convicted and serving 175 years for child
sex abuse, evangelist Tony Al?mo. Virtually zero-beat with WYFR in Portuguese,
and no trace of R. Inconfid?ncia which if on is normally slightly
off-frequency. BTW, I see that Harold Sellers` similar log where he assumed it
was Brasil instead of WYFR was not corrected in the latest DSWCI DX Window,
while it was promptly corrected in DXLD; WYFR to Brasil at 2200-2445 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9420, April 24 at 0534, classical choral music with soloist which
struck me as in German during the few seconds I heard it, maybe something by
Bach for Easter, instead of the usual off-key singing by GO monx heard Sunday
mornings from VOG. 0535 music seemed incomplete but into Greek announcement,
more triumphal choral music. Per http://www.gmarts.org/index.php?go=413 this
year the Orthodox and Unorthodox Christian faxions have managed to pick the
same date for Easter; next year they`ll be a week apart. Fluttery signal, but
after 0530, so no Iran clash (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, April 24 at 0547, R. Truth with hymn in English ``Softly &
Tenderly, Jesus Is Calling``, but modulation quite distorted on S9+17 signal;
also vs atmosferix with spring storms not far away in OK (Glenn Hauser, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, April 24 at 1313, VOI with ``News from Around the
Country`` segment during English hour. Tho registering a respectable S9+18, has
some flutter, and lately VOI has not been coming thru with the usual oomph, tho
I have not noticed any absences. Also bits of IADs continue (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 6110 via CANADA, NHK World R. Japan, UT Sunday April 24 at 0524
mailbag during `Friends Around the World`, which per website is the successor
to `World Interactive` and with new W&M hosts. R. Japan revamps its programming
every April for new fiscal year, no apparent other reason, with previous
presenters` contracts expiring. This show had been pre?mpted quarterly on last
Sundays for something else, e.g. in January, but not any more. Along with other
updates, the new name has been duly entered in our DX program listing,
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR [and non]. 13620, April 24 at 0528, another too-late check of R.
Dabanga and the jamming against it, found by surprise YL talk in English until
0528:30* cutoff, while the tone jamming continued. Sounded a bit Strine but not
// 13630 RA in stupid ballgame; more like the interview I then heard on 13775
VOR to 0529. But I think what really happened was a switching error, the Talata
relay running a sesquiminute of something else, perhaps RNW satellite feed
before cutting off later than usual 0527:00* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NIGERIA [non]. 9610, April 24 at 0549, poor in presumed Hausa from Hamada
Radio International via GERMANY. Could not hear anything on 9860 or 11970, so
probably back to only one frequency now. Missed checking for the 1400 broadcast
on 21480, but before and after 1430, 13m was dead of any signals (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. 15110, Sunday April 24 at 2206, REE`s excellent world-music
show `Mundofon?as` starting with Brasil, VG signal direct and also via COSTA
RICA 17850 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 15480, R. Sawa is back on a Greenville transmitter, and
only 4 kHz from LRA36! Couldn`t IBB have picked a further frequency? April 24
at *1422 open carrier; 1425 added VOA English audio for a minute or three, an
echo apart from 17545, which I thought yesterday would also be Greenville due
to signal strength, but 15470 is a word ahead of 17545. 1428 back to OC, and I
can hear some weak music under, which is presumably the finale of scheduled
Poland in Belarussian via Rampisham UK until 1430.
Still dead air until R. Sawa music modulation cuts on at 1432:48, then Arabic
announcement about DVDs for ``The King`s Speech`` et al. 1445 news as usual on
the quarter hour; still going at 1559-1601, but off at next check 1604. Let`s
hope this transmission nominally 1430-1600 does not last any longer than the
previous one for two days on 15470, since now it will prevent any audibility of
LRA36 between 1422 and 1500 M-F.
15580 // 17545 with VOA discussion show in English, Sunday April 24 at 1437,
with 15580 ahead of 17545. Both listed by HFCC as S?o Tom?, but that may have
changed with IBB`s constant site shuffling; synchronized audio is really
neither here nor there, as they program feed routings into a single site may be
different, or there may be a deliberate offset to even out power consumption
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7415, UT Sunday April 24 at 0541, WBCQ still on, ``Love Can Make You
Happy`` song, outroed by Ted Randall as the Christian version of it and
interviewing someone, perhaps the performer. `QSO with Ted Randall` is now
scheduled for six hours straight from 2200 Saturday, but he makes it even more
than eight hours, morphing at some point from ham show into evangelism. His own
website http://www.tedrandall.com/ still shows QSO starting at ``7 pm
Central``, i.e. 0000 UT, (and no mention of Sat 18-20 on WTWW 9479) while the
WBCQ schedule still shows Sat 2200-0400 Sun (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 13570, in its severely curtailed schedule instead of 24/7 on this or
9265 as still shown on website, WINB I have noticed goes off around 1315
weekdays, but weekends stays on. Sunday April 24 at 1328 the gospel huxteress
with a funny accent is giving some websites, www.amazingfacts.org,
discoveries.org, also mentions AWR, 3ABN, phone numbers for Your Story Hour.
Hum on her continues during canned WINB ID, into next program, atop constant
CODAR swishes. Anyhow, the 1300 Sunday program appears to be from AWR, listed
on WINB sked as `Living the Bible` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, WRMI inaudible Sunday April 24 at 1556 check during WORLD OF
RADIO --- just a very weak carrier, which may well be YFR via TAIWAN, always
clashing during this hour. The WRMI stream was also down, so maybe another
power failure at Hialeah or some other problem. Better luck for remaining
repeats of WOR on WRMI: Sunday 1730, Mon 1130, 2130, Tue 1530, Wed 0100, 1530
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. 11670 via CUBA, April 23 at 2229, time for a periodic
incredulous log that RNV is STILL announcing in Spanish their initial
transmission schedule from *2004y, even tho it was already outdated before
2005, and now by sheer luck contains only one time and frequency which are
still in force --- plus the times are all local in the target areas,
disregarding DST, and not specified as such. This was also long before four
morning broadcasts were added, which you would never know about by listening to
RNV itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9124, April 24 at 0538, huge S9+20 open carrier, slight fades and
hum, likely Cuban spy numbers transmitter of equivalent power to 250 kW RHC,
probably at same site. Still on at 0545 past 0600+. Another one was on 5800 at
0545 but had some rapid clix audible, perhaps mix with jammer output (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 14422-SSB, April 24 at 1332, two-way in Italian; nice to hear
something besides bastard Spanish for a change (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) ###
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:18:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 23-24, 2011
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Correxion: not Sunday April 24 but Saturday April 23!
** SPAIN [and non]. 15110, Saturday April 23 at 2206, REE`s excellent
world-music show `Mundofon?as` starting with Brasil, VG signal direct and also
via COSTA RICA 17850 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:46:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Scott R. Barbour Jr." <[email protected]>
To: DXLD <[email protected]>, DXplorer <[email protected]>,
HCDX <[email protected]>, Gayle Van Horn
<[email protected]>, NASWAyg <[email protected]>, Mark Taylor
<[email protected]>, Dave Valko <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs from NH-USA, April 18
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Figure I should post these after dragging them around for the better part of a
week.
9820, CHINA, presumed Guangxi Beibu Bay Radio Nanning, 0942-1000, April 18,
vernacular. Plodding, indigenous mx w/ W announcer between selections; talk
between v. brief mx bits from 0950; M announcer w/ same at 0957; lost it at
0959 in splash via 9825-RFI Montsinery s/on; no chance to check //5050 due to
recent appearance of a strong, STANAG-4825 sounding ute on 5051v. (Barbour-NH)
9835, MALAYSIA-SARAWAK RTM Sarawak FM, 1032-1101, April 18, listed Malay.
Ballad at t/in; W announcer at 1043 into Kor'an-like vocals w/ occasional W & M
announcers; bit of spoken word at 1051; mx & vocals at 1057; two pips & quick
"Sarawak FM" ID at ToH into announcer w/ nx; f-p & fading out by ToH; v.
pleased to log this after trying ever since this frequency was announced.
(Barbour-NH)
15295, MALAYSIA, V. of Malaysia Kajang, 1119-1132, April 18, Mandarin. W
announcer w/ pop ballads; single pip at BoH & presumed ID in CC; not usual
English "Voice of Malaysia" I've often heard in the past; W announcer thru
t/out; poor. (Barbour-NH)
Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA
NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:54:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] April 23-24 Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** BRAZIL. 15189.95, Radio Inconfid?ncia, 2315-2335, April 24,
Portuguese talk. Brazilian pop/ballads. Weak under WYFR at 2315,
but gradually getting stronger. Fair level at times after 2320 but mixing
with WYFR. Weak // 6010. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, Radio Africa, 2245-2257*, April 24,
English religious programming. Closing ID announcements at 2256
along with contact information. Strong. Mixing with WYFR but Radio
Africa just slightly stronger than WYFR. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** GERMANY. via Wertachtal, 13740, Radio Dardasha 7, 1900-1929*,
April 23, instrumental music. Some traditional Arabic music. Arabic
talk. IDs. Abrupt sign off. Good. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** MONGOLIA. 12085, Voice of Mongolia, 0959-1057*, April 24,
tune-in to IS at 0959. Talk in unidentified language at 1000. Some lite
instrumental music. IS at 1029 followed by nice English ID announcement
and into ? hour English program. News at 1031. Local music. Abrupt
sign off. Very weak at tune-in and too weak to ID the language at that
time, but improved to a stronger level by 1025. Signal best between
1025-1045. Started to get noisy after 1045. Thanks to Dave Valko tip.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
** NIGERIA [non]. via GERMANY. 11945, Hamada Radio International,
*1930-1945+, April 23, sign on with local music and opening ID
announcements. Talk in listed Hausa. Good signal. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6924.75, Captain Morgan Shortwave,
2330-2346*, April 23, rock music, James Brown music. ID at 2332.
E-mail address. Poor, somewhat distorted audio. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6954.96, WBNY, 2338-2345, April 23,
talk from Commander Bunny, ID. Easter music. Poor in thunderstorm
static. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6925 USB, Northwoods Radio, 2355-
0004, April 23-24, rock music. ID and call of the loon IS at 0000.
Fair to good. (Brian Alexander, PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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