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Today's Topics:
1. Indonesia (maurits van driessche)
2. Glenn Hauser logs May 6-7, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
3. May 03-06 logs (L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec)
4. May 7 Logs ([email protected])
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 15:49:56 +0200
From: "maurits van driessche" <[email protected]>
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Subject: [HCDX] Indonesia
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Voice of Indonesia ,Jakarta 9525.960khz at 1340utc Historic programa
English spoken by women. Frequency Interference by sun activity
(not always) ,fair reception
Perseus SDR and Super Kaz antenna
Maurits Van Driessche
Belgium
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 11:28:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
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Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 6-7, 2011
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** CHINA. Firedrake May 7, all // when checked:
10965, fair at 1244; poor at 1346; very poor at 1435
11500, poor at 1349, CCI, // 10965
13920, good at 1216 with ute/het
14700, poor at 1248 // 13920; poor at 1352
15430, very poor with flutter at 1355; // 16100 at 1358
16100, good at 1255 // 13920; good with flutter at 1358
16980, good at 1256. I compared to reception quality of CRI 17490 English and
17650 Chinese, both known to be Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN, and 16980 was better;
however it was much like 17575 at 1257 with non-Firedrake Chinese music, a CRI
postlude until cut at 1300* after only two pips. 17575 is scheduled as Russian,
315 degrees from the SZG site at 12-13. 16980 was not on at 1358 when 16100 was
still running
17705, May 7 at 1300, ZRGD/CJKT ID atop Indian music from AIR Chinese, which
the ChiCom feel so threatened by. I.e. CNR1 jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5735, May 7 at 0546, pulse jamming against nothing, timed at the rate
of approx. 232 per minute or almost 4 per second. Something interesting might
turn up on 5735, unless this was totally spurious.
15360, Saturday May 7 at 1432, RHC starting `Cancionero Iberoamericano` good
music show, altho previously heard at this hour was `Sonido Cubano` as still
shown on `new` program schedule:
http://www.radiohc.cu/index.php/de-interes/programacion.html
Tried all the frequencies and found:
15360 fair
15230 fair
15120 off by 1400
13780 and 13680 good
12040 JBA under Chinese QRM
11830 mix and SAH with WYFR
11760 good
11730 poor
11690 poor with RTTY
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 17860-17885, OTH radar pulses, presumed from here, May 7 at 1439,
and luckily enough, not hitting any broadcasters, and indeed per HFCC none are
scheduled at this time on Saturdays, except some ADM from UAE on 17885,
probably wooden (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 13730, May 7 at 1211, French underneath VATICAN via CANADA
until its 1215*. 1218 in clear, as DW to Africa with contact info, jingle. It`s
via Sines, PORTUGAL, about which Kai Ludwig reports:
In the May edition of the "Journalist" magazine: ``DW will close its Sines and
Trincomalee transmitter sites. Radio programmes in Persian, Russian and
Indonesian will be cancelled before the end of this year. It appears that the
DW radio operations at Bonn will be hit particularly hard by cuts, with
employees having to move to DW TV in Berlin.``
15410, May 7 at 1356 sounds like the VTC fill-music loop, but off at 1357*
after unmistakable 4-note DW jingle. Scheduled as Hausa via RWANDA, so no
Babcock involved; however, on 15410 from 1400 it`s DW via Woofferton in
Russian, so maybe the two overlapped (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 11645, May 7 at 0527, at last we hear R. Filia via V. of Greece in
English instead of Albanian --- but nothing to do with Greece, as it`s just a
BBCWS relay, at the moment mentioning demonstrations in China, confirmed by //
7255 ASCENSION, and slightly ahead of it, programme ID as `World Today`. At
0530, 11645 cuts to announcement in Greek, and then something in French; poor
with flutter, and deteriorating later in the hour.
Those languages match John Babbis` new 11645 schedule for Saturdays, plus
Spanish from 0545. On Sundays, 0500-0530 Albanian, 0530-0600 BBC `Satellite
English`; M-F 0500-0600 all Albanian, but cuts off well before 0600 for QSY. It
seems rather pointless to take the second quarter hour only of BBC`s 55-minute
`W.T. Weekend`, also the programme excerpted on Sundays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** HAWAII [and non]. 15000, May 7 at 1247:45, quite good signal from WWVH ID
and no trace at all of WWV following it; 1248 NIST Survey announcement which
the two have stuck in at many different once-open minutes each hour; this
version ends with ``aloha``. 1248 on to Pacific weather. Could also hear
different pips on the lo side, no doubt 8 kW RWM Moscow-Taldom from 14996
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI back on the air May 7 at 1240 with lite music, fair
signal, IADs. 1305 poor during news in English; at 1314 noise starts to
override, and still atop VOI at 1343. Could be taken for jamming, but unlikely;
maybe spur from some near-frequency transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 11710 and 11735, we are doubly blessed with two different
streams of triumphal music from VOK, on the English and Chinese services
respectively, May 7 at 1348; at 1351 also on 13760 // 11710. At 1354 they go
into their respective language announcements. Until then one might have thought
them parallel, without comparison (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15540, R. Kuwait, May 6 at 2055 after news headlines in English,
reading a proclamation, article by article, about amnesty for illegal
immigrants. NA at 2059 and off immediately at 2100* unlike other occasions,
switching to Arabic feed // 17550 and staying on as much as 20 minutes past.
21540, May 7 at 1304, Arabic music and talk, over SAH from Spain collision, the
SSOB but not saying much, as still poor and nothing else but Spain itself
audible on 21610. Seems like the spring peak of 13m reception is over; we can
only hope that rising SSNs will compensate to some extent over the summer
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA. 17725, May 7 at 1301, Swahili fair with deep fades, snatch of
Beethoven`s Ninth, as always on VOAf from the GJ; signal had been barely
detectable past week. At 1440 not so good in English, but could make out ``Dear
listeners ---`` and something about, guess what? The Revolution. No, not this
one; that one (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PALAU. 9930, May 7 at 1233, English lesson cum Bible lesson from Luke
XII:15, YL explaining difficult(?) words with other words: ``take heed`` means
``pay attention``; ``beware`` means ``watch out``; ``covetousness`` means ``to
want other people`s things``. T8WH is registered here 24 hours! With no
competition except South Africa at 16-17 from Babcock in Somali (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 4790-, haven`t had a decent signal from R. Visi?n, Chiclayo for ages,
but there it is, slightly on lo side, May 7 at 0549 hymn with piano, minor-key
Andean touch, S9+15 over CODAR but carrier unstable. 0554 changes to shouting
predicator, discussion of evangelio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 9920, May 7 at 1230 ``Jesus Saves`` IS on chimes, dead giveaway
it`s FEBC, then segu? to Hmong-like hmusic on quena-like hmouth instrument with
calliope overtones; 1231 change to quartet(?) singing about Jesus. 1238 talk
with sort of a ringing het on it. Per EiBi this is really in Koho, spoken in
Vietnam, daily at 1230-1300 following a complicated rotation of other languages
from 1100, via Bocaue site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAIPAN. More searches for KFBS frequencies on the schedule previously
included for A-11: still nothing, May 7 at 1220 on 11920, 11800, while 11650
had very poor something, presumably CRI as before; so is KFBS defunct? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 15420, May 7 at 1356 and 1358, no signals from WBCQ,
which is normally running its IS/ID loop prior to the 1400 Brother Scare
Sabbath Service. Still nothing at 1420, 1431. Propagation does not seem to be
that bad; WBCQ 9330 is in as usual. It`s a new month and BS`s contract may have
run out in April? But recheck at 1650 found him JBA on 15420, incomparably
inferior to blastfurnace 9980 WWCR, // but not synchronized.
Meanwhile, BS also audible on 17485 via GERMANY, May 7 at 1432; first thing I
heard upon tune-in was BS yelling ``blood running out of the body``, with
murmurs of assent from psychophants, prompting a quick tune-on (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. Still wondering what became of the mailbag show on REE in Spanish,
which used to accompany the DX program, the latter still running UT Saturdays
at 0505-0530 on 11890, 12035. May 7 at 0532 talking about a poetic folklore
competition, unseems mailbag; does it still exist anywhen? (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 15450, VOT, poor May 7 at 1351 in `DX Corner` with YL reading some
radio news about NHK; 1253 music break. Too poor to copy, but we need to
ascertain if she is still ripping off items from the Media Network blog without
credit. The on-demand file on the website is not yet for May 7, but May 6 as of
1730 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. BBCWS relay via GREECE: q.v.
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1563 monitoring: Friday 2030 on WWCR 15825 confirmed
at 2044 check May 6, but very poor with no Es enhancement, skipping over here.
E.g., KUWAIT [q.v.] was much better on 15540. WOR repeats on WWCR are Saturday
1600 on 12160, Sunday 0630 on 3215. Confirmed on WRN/WRMI webcast at 1731, to
repeat Sunday at same time, and also on WRMI Sunday 0800, 1530. On IPAR via
SLOVAKIA, Saturday 1800 on 7290. Also on WRN via SiriusXM new channel 120,
Sunday at 0831 and 1731 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 17545 and 15580, VOA sufficient, Saturday May 7 at 1425
concluding `On the Line` discussion, 1427 `USG Editorial` about AU/US
co?peration on Ivory Coast, Libya, but lasted only one sesquiminute, then fill
music ending with VOA jingle, until 1430 `Encounter` discussion of UBL. It
seems my previous suspicion that 17545 could be Greenville is not so; both S?O
TOM? at this hour. Yes, let`s always call him Usama from now on, less
confundible with Obama (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 15120, May 7 at 0520 in Chinese a few seconds behind // 17855.
Unlike Aoki and its easily overlooked or misunderstood a*terisks, Eibi
explicitly shows CNR1 jammers on these frequencies, as well as R. Free Asia in
Mandarin, 03-07. 15120 is TINIAN and 17855 is SAIPAN. Deliberate offset delays
are typical of those sites to even out power consumption, even if both were
from the same site, so I am quite sure it was RFA being heard, and the ChiCom
jamming not propagating. 15120 did have some QRM under and SAH, no doubt poor
NIGERIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9370, WTJC and its filthy spurs: May 7 at 0534, worst on 9395, weaker
around 9345 talking about Jee-e-zus (3 syllables); also bothering Greek music
on 9420 and audible up to 9445. And also at 1242, worst on 9345 vs VOK, 9320
and 9395 vs nothing, audible down to 9300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 7555, if you tune in WEWN anytime between 04 and 06 UT on Tue-Sat,
also // 11870, chances are great you will hear their super-unxuous announcer
intoning ``por su dolorosa pasi?n``. That`s exactly what I hit May 7 at 0537,
and in fact he recited it over and over, alternating with an OL saying ``en
misericordia de nosotros y del mundo entero``. This went on for over a minute
before they moved on. What a downer! I think the intention is to be comforting
and peaceful in the moonlight --- even when the moon has already set, like
tonight. The show is nevertheless always called ``Paz a la luz de la luna``, EN
VIVO, per http://www.ewtn.com/radio/sp_radio_sched.asp#ixzz1LgLRpqIy
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15420, WBCQ: see SOUTH CAROLINA [non]
** VATICAN [non]. 13730 via CANADA, May 7 at 1212, closing ``Vatican Radio
World News`` with some words from PBXVI. Caster was Charles Collins,
American-accented. Seems VR is doing more newscasts like a real radio station
rather than a gospel huxter, but can`t resist inserting Catholic stuff into
them.
Good reception unlike yesterday, but CCI and a SAH from something in French. No
IS from VR, but dead air 1214-1215* uncovering French which HFCC shows is DW,
110 degrees from the doomed Sines, PORTUGAL relay, while VR is 100 kW, 189
degrees from Sackville for CIRAF 11, i.e. Caribbean and Central America (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6925+ on AM, May 7 at 0532, music from a pirate, but very poor,
too weak (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
What next? My penultimate report was subjected as ``April 4-5`` instead of May
4-5. All the individual dates in it were correct, anyway. I have also been
asked to give my location and equipment. I work this into items from time to
time, but for the record:
Main receiver: FRG-7 unmodified. Also use RS DX-398 and Grundig YB-400 as
backups, portables, measuring frequencies, checking parallels. Also have a
rarely used Sony ICF SW-07 with window loop antenna which I occasionally try
when synch detexion might be helpful. Usually it is not, since signal levels
are lower with its antenna. Also various lesser portables kept in other
houseparts, car.
Main antenna; random wire about 7 feet above ground, about 110 feet long, most
of it running east-west. For the other receivers or during storms, some shorter
random wires inside the house. Also have a shorter random wire outside around
the porch, used with the DX-398 for quick checks away from some of the interior
computer noise when inconvenient to turn that off. This combo is never as
sensitive as the FRG-7 with interior noises minimized (Glenn Hauser, Enid,
Oklahoma, USA) ###
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 15:55:35 -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] May 03-06 logs
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9580, Gabon, R. Africa No.1, Moyabi. May, 03 2146-2202 African music, male in
French talks, Hilife music, male announcements "R. Africa..", African music.
Some het, short audio fails, 33433 (lob-B).
4990, Suriname, R. Apintie, Paramaribo. May, 04 0904-0916 instrumental music
selections by a brass band, male in eloquent Dutch talks, but female mentioned
"happy station" (maybe a name of a program), male and female on music sounding
like ads. Brazilian 4985 was off, 25322 (lob-B).
9680, Indonesia, RRI Jakarta. May, 05 1002-1012 Indonesian (listed) male talks,
Arabic Pop music, local Pop music. Some het, 23332 (lob-B).
6170, R. New Zealand Int. May, 06 0740-0750 female inteviewing male in English,
short Islands music, canned female ID, Pop ballad selections. 44333, (lob-B).
15476, Antarctica, RN Arc?ngel, San Gabriel. May 04 at 1224 no signal but at
1246-1303 Argentinean music "libertad !/libertad !", female in Spanish talks on
music "soy feliz", female: "Buenos dias; el dia del bombero; en la LRA pueden
se comunicar..; ventos muy fuertes del sudoeste", Spanish Pop music; 55434.
May, 05 1309-1321 female in Spanish talks, Spanish Reggae, canned female ID on
music, Spanish Pop music; 45444. May, 06 1256-1311 two female in funny Spanish
discussion, music announcements, Spanish Pop/Rock music selections, Spanish
Romantic music. 44444, (lob-B).
73's
L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec
Embu SP Brasil
SW40 - Dipoles and Longwire
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 20:19:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] May 7 Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** BELARUS. 11930, Belaruskoye Radio, 0403-0435, May 7, local
music. Possible news at 0405 in Belarusian. Back to local music at
0407. IDs. Ads. Jingles. Poor to fair. Threshold/very weak signals
heard on // 7235, 7280, 6040. Thanks to Rich D'Angelo tip. (Brian
Alexander, PA)
?
** ISRAEL. 6977.0, Galei Zahal, 2330-2350, May 7, oldies US pop
standards. Several Louis Armstrong tunes. Hebrew announcements.
Weak but readable. Stronger on // 15850. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** NIGERIA [non]. via Germany, 9610, Hamada Radio Int, 0530-0559*,
May 7, Hausa talk. Short breaks of local music. Listed // 11970 not
heard. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** NIGERIA [non]. via Germany, 11945, Hamada Radio Int, *1930-
1959*, May 7, sign on with local music and opening ID announcements.
Hausa talk. Short breaks of local music. IDs. Very good. Strong.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** SRI LANKA. 15745.01, SLBC, *0126-0230, May 7, sign on with
local drums. National Anthem at 0126:30. Opening English ID
announcements at 0130 followed by local music. Time pips at 0200
and English news. Back to music at 0208. Some country music.
Personal messages. Poor to fair in noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** UGANDA [non]. via France, 15410, Radio Y?Abaganda, *1700-1715*,
May 7, US pop music. ID at 1705 and back to more US pop music.
Some Afro-pop music at 1709. Local choral tune at 1713. Vernacular
talk at 1713:30. Fair. Sat only. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
?
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
?
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