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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs June 4, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
2. May 31, June 02-04 (L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec)
3. June 4 Logs (Brian Alexander)
4. Re: WORLD OF RADIO back on Saturday nights, WaveScan
(Glenn Hauser)
5. audio quality - La Voz de Russia in Spanish 0100-0500 UT
(Wolfgang Bueschel)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 12:27:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs June 4, 2011
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** CHINA. Firedrake June 4 [hey, it`s TAM Square anniversary time!]:
10970, fair at 1343, not earlier
12270, good at 1251; 1312 retune with OC vs nothing, 1313:24 cut on FD music;
good at 1341
13500, very good at 1253; very good at 1341
13800, good at 1253 mixing with kidsing // 13695 WYFR
13850, very good at 1252
13920, very good at 1252
14700, very good at 1257
14900, very good at 1339
14970, very good at 1339
15280, poor with 15279 het at 1337
15430, fair at 1337
15545, very good at 1258; 1308 retune to open carrier, then FD cuts on
15670, good at 1258 atop CNR1 jamming too; 1305 still on but now under CNR1
jamming which is // 11990, 15795, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc...
15970, JBA at 1336
16100, poor at 1259
16980, poor at 1259-1300*, weaker than 16100
At 1508 I bandscanned 10-18 MHz again, and no FD heard now.
15330, CNR1 jamming over something June 4 at 1310, i.e. BBC Uzbek via Oman
during this semihour only.
13640, CNR1 jamming at 1507 June 4, a reverb apart from // weaker 13675. HFCC
and Aoki show what`s happening: the intended victim is R. Free Asia in
Mandarin, via Tinian on 13640, Tajkistan on 13675; EiBi shows Tinian for both.
CRI English via Kashgar, East Turkistan is supposedly on 13640 during this hour
too, tsk2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11760, RHC in English, tuned in just in time June 4 at 0553* to hear a
few words, ``Cuba has a lot to learn`` before cut off 53 minutes later than
scheduled in Spanish. Presumably had been missing from 6010, but not checked
immediately. By 0603 that was on // the overkill three other 49m channels also
in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUINEA. 7125, no signal from RTG June 4 checked as late as 0605 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI weakly audible in Special Japanese around 1249 June
4, but by 1319 during presumed English, nothing but a JBA carrier (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT [and non]. 21540, June 4 at 1332, subaudible heterodyne of about 6 Hz
between Kuwait and needlessly colliding Spain, both very weak, but noting 13m
is trying to recover a bit; poor signals also audible from Saudi 21505, Spain
21610, better Rwanda 21780, but of course no more Portugal 21655. WWV says
yesterday`s solar flux was 107, and K indices today went from 0 at 12 to 1 at
15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, no signal from R. Mauritanie, June 4 checked as late as
0605 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 770, June 4 at 0405, ad in Spanish for a cervical cancer doctor
(quack?) whose address is on Oaxaca Street, but never caught the city. He also
sells books. Went on and on and on, so it`s an informercial, perhaps at least
half an hour. Strong steady, dominant signal which does not fit for any listed
Mexican, except my prime suspect, XEACH, R. F?rmula in Monterrey NL, running
day power 25 kW instead of 1 kW night. Later gave doctor`s appearance dates in
June all over Mexico, still no local clues about where this axually come from
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 2, June 4 at 1605 as soon as I turn on the analog TV, I see a
tit-parade, the Mexicans do so well, yet not sufficiently distracted to miss
the XHI-TV bug in the upper right, i.e. Ciudad Obreg?n, Sonora by sporadic E.
During following bihour, various Mexican TV signals in and mostly out, seldom
exceeding ch 2, with antenna SSW to SW:
2, at 1610, net-13 bug in UR (the one with two vertical lines and to their
right three vertical dots, 5 + 5 + 3 = 13), i.e. Azteca 13, in and out; 1617
during cartoon. Also very distorted audio, maybe from something else. 1752,
net-13 shows up again. The website http://www.tvazteca.com/ reveals that the
three dots from top to bottom, are blue, red and yellow (instead of green!); my
DX TV is B&W.
2, at 1621, `Sabadazo` program bug in LR, net-2 bug in UR, i.e. Televisa, Canal
de las Estrellas. Distorted audio definitely does not match this video. Anyone
know which Mexican on 2 has this problem? (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1600, KUSH, Cushing OK, weak groundwave signal June 4 at 1517 UT
with Amerindian chanting, outroed as ``Southern Thunder``, song or singer? Then
seemed about a minute of dead air, more Indian music. Recheck at 1528, news in
English about the Sac-Fox Nation, Osage, gam(bl)ing. 1559 more chanting
wrapping up, KUSH ID.
The program list here
http://www.1600kush.com/index.php?section=7
is obviously not a full schedule, but fortunately includes:
``Native Air with Hugh Foley
10-11 AM Saturdays
Native American News, Music and more!``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. OKC tropo was up UT June 4 after 0500, as signaled by snowy but
visible signal on 48 from KWDW-LP, our main remnant of analog TV, with
Univisi?n, but its unsynchronized DTV duplicate on 36, KCHM-CA also decoding,
rather than Bad at best. Reconfirmed their 36-2 is still slides and sound from
co-owned KTUZ 106.7 La Zeta.
Ch 21 also decoding DTV from HSN, which is listed as KTOU-LP, but their PSIP is
blank! Is that legal? Just DTV 21-1. Maybe they do run some kind of local legal
ID on screen at hourtop, unseen yet then. This was analog for a long time,
finally flash-cut to digital a few months ago (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9385, tuning across WWRB, June 4 at 1236 Brother Scare
is talking about new broadcasts in Europe, so I force myself to stop, listen
and take notes until 1244. In the next week, Alfredo says he will be on AM in
Rome 1566, which is just a block from the Vatican but he will then be
``standing before Caesar``, evidently a Biblical reference, which may appeal to
him more than confronting the Pope?? And also on 1368 in northern Italy
reaching as far as Germany and Sweden.
Furthermore, by a week after that he will be on 7290, a powerful 300,000-watt
``state-of the art`` SW frequency ``in northern Italy``, capable of ``reaching
two thirds of the world``! Says he has collected $20 million (total over time?)
and has spent every dime on broadcast time, not on worldly things. But needs to
cut expenses now and the new 7290 deal will give him better coverage of Europe,
ME, N Africa (than M&B via Germany, canceling it??) for somewhat less money,
cost $10,000 per month. Payable in advance. He has to send the amount on
Monday, and of course wants major donors to pay up now.
This obviously refers to NEXUS-IBA/IRRS, or rather their European Gospel Radio
identity, and raises the question of what will become of current public-service
unpaid programming on those three frequencies, including WORLD OF RADIO (which
is supposed to resume next Saturday at 1800, after `maintenance` this week). I
never heard anything specific about how much time $10K/month buys on EGR but it
is surely a substantial number of hours per day. ``The only safe investment
today is to give to the cause of Christ``. I beg to differ, or is that beg
differently?
IRRS/IPAR may have lost Miraya FM, but are about to start milking the cash cow
of Brother Scare! Get it while the getting is good. Later mentioned that he is
78, so ``Jesus will return in YOUR lifetime``, but how about his??
If really 300 kW on 7290, it could no longer be a 250 kW SLOVAKIA unit,
allegedly run at 150 (unless two combined?? RSI certainly doesn`t need any),
but where? We know that IRRS will never tell us (or its monied clients?), but
this will be figured out sooner or later.
Retune at 1254, now via 9980 WWCR, BS was talking about this again, and at
first thought a playback, but the wording was slightly different. I have mixed
his later comments into the summary above. At 1325 he added that his total
radio costs run to over $100,000 a month including five different satellites
for feeds. ``The bride is making herself ready``, another sexo-biblical
allusion.
Nothing yet of course about TOM on the IRRS program schedule starting here,
http://www.nexus.org/NEXUS-IBA/Schedules/sun.htm
but I took the opportunity to search every day of the week for Tony Alamo, and
that monster is finally gone, some two years after entering prison.
I also check TOM website, where it still says ``New Shortwave added, aimed at
Europe, Mid East and Africa. 14:00 to 22:00 UTC ----- WWRB ----- 15.795`` with
the frequency flashing, even tho it has been missing for more than a week and
was starting at 1300, not 1400. Nothing about the above plans (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Tuning around MW, UT Saturday June 4 at 0440, came upon an
interesting discussion about exoplanets on 820, WBAP Fort Worth. Usually a
solid signal, occasionally went into deep fades to nothing, but right back up.
John Batchelor was interviewing a scientist in Holland. Later researched on
WBAP website to:
http://www.wbap.com/showdj.asp?DJID=52867
where he is scheduled UT Tue-Fri 04-05, Sun & Mon 02-05 (after news on the
hour?? Who cares about such details?)
Above linx to his own website but WBAP retains framing unless bypassed:
http://www.johnbatchelorshow.com/
And here are the details on this segment:
http://johnbatchelorshow.com/schedules/2011/06/friday-3-june-2011/
``Friday/Sat 1235A (935P Pacific Time): Govert Schilling, Science magazine, in
re: search for life on exoplanets; multiple-planet systems abound; why a moon
may not be needed to stabilize climate and life``. ``In re`` is his favorite
Latinism.
Apparently Batchelor originates at WABC, mentions ``(WABC, WMAL, WLS, KSFO,
WBAP and so forth)`` for streaming, live at ``01-05`` GMT with conversions
including ``8-12 CST``, as he apparently hasn`t figured out that CST is not in
effect and would be an hour apart from CDT. Mentions both M-F and Sat-Sun as if
really meaning 7 days at this time, unlikely.
So WBAP only carries 25% of him on weeknights. He went to UTS and is married to
a reverendess; seems to have a particular interest in space, exploration, so
worth monitoring his topix. From this segment I couldn`t really discern his
politix, nor from his website.
Anyhow, an improvement from the farrightwingnutwackos WBAP pollutes all day and
evening M-F until 11 pm: Rush, Sean, Mark, Laura, plus a Republican local show
starting at 8:30 am CDT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1567 monitoring: Confirmed on WWCR 12160 after 1600 UT
Saturday June 4, excellent signal. Next airings are UT Sunday 0230 on 4840
(revived!), Sunday 0630 on 3215. See also SOUTH CAROLINA [non].
Also confirmed AWR Wavescan added to WWCR schedule 1630-1659 Saturday on 12160;
at 1645 monolog by someone from WCBC talking about KNLS, Spanish via WRMI,
Madagascar World Voice (pending) and all their other non-SW operations. Sounded
as if prompt-questions by interviewer had been outedited, to save time. Jeff
White hosts; later the JSWC YL DX report starting with curtailed hours at R.
Nikkei. Wavescan repeats at 0200 UT Sunday on 4840. At 1659, WWCR ID announced
that they ``will broadcast on 9350 at 4-7 pm = 21-24 UT``, as if it were a
change, but it`s not (Glenn Hauser, OK DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12100, WTWW is back on, with VG signal even in the nightmiddle, June
4 at 0549, Bible in stilted English about asses. Arabic at 1251, 1420 and still
at 1508. Not sure if this Arabic is stilted, but surely unQur`anic, not
melodious at all, merely spoken. Have Christian Arabs ever tried conveying
their Bible that way? Or would that greatly offend hyper-touchy fellow
Abrahamists? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENNIGN DIGEST)
** U S A. 13570, WINB, this being Saturday, stayed on past 1313, gospel huxter
with horrible hum, plus WEWN 13580 slush, but WINB was off again at next check
1507, instead of the continuous schedule they claim (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 16:28:24 -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 31, June 02-04
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5010, Madagascar, R.Madagasikara, Antananarivo. May, 31 0354-0404 Malagasy
(listed) female talks alternating Rap music, male announcements on top of the
hour, male talks. Some saturated audio, 34333 (lob-B).
17770, Uganda via Russia, R. Ndiwulira, Luganda. May, 31 1700-1715 sudden sign
on with male talks in Vernacular, mentions of Uganda; short deep fades, weaker
than last week, 25433. June, 04 1659-1710 no signal (lob-B).
7125, Guinea, R.Conakry. May, 31 2054-2107 male and female in French
announcements seems to be a list of condemned persons and their respective
penalties, many mentions of "prison", Afropop, Hilife music. Stronger than
usual, maybe by the gray line here and near Conakry, 44434 (lob-B).
4111, Bolivia, R. Virgen de Remedios, Tupiza. June, 02 2117-2126 male in
Spanish talks; very poor, 15322. June, 04 0036 no signal (lob-B).
15476, Antarctica, RN Arc?ngel, San Gabriel. June, 02 1438 no signal. June 03
1405 no signal. (lob-B).
15120, Voice of Nigeria, Ikorodu. June, 02 1826-1836 female in English talks
"African Conference; Kigali; you are listening VON; Nigerian popular music",
English Pop music selections wich seems to be the popular music announced.
35443, (lob-B).
3945, R. Vanuatu, Port Vila. June, 04 1001-1017 English Pop ballad, female in
English talks, short music sounding like an Islands ballad, male in English
talks, music as a R. Vanuatu signature, talks outside sounding like a drama.
35333, (lob-B).
73's
L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec
Embu SP Brasil
SW40 - Dipoles and Longwire
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 15:52:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Alexander <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] June 4 Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** BOLIVIA. 6134.79, Radio Santa Cruz, 0050-0107*, June 4, Bolivian
music. Spanish announcements. IDs. Sign off with ?Santa Cruz? song
at 0104. Poor to fair. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** EUROPE. PIRATE. 6930.03, Irish Music Radio, 0025-0140, June 4,
very tentative with talk and pop music. Very weak/threshold levels.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** EUROPE. PIRATE. 6945.03, Laser Hot Hits, 0035-0140, June 4,
very tentative with talk by man with British accent. Pop music. Very
weak/threshold levels. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** UGANDA [non]. via France, 15410, Radio Y?Abaganda, *1700-1715*,
June 4, sign on with pop music. Short vernacular announcement at 1702
followed by Afro-pop music. African choal music. No other announcements
heard. Sat only. Poor in noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
?
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
?
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 19:34:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], ABDX <[email protected]>,
[email protected], ODXA yg <[email protected]>,
[email protected]
Subject: Re: [HCDX] WORLD OF RADIO back on Saturday nights, WaveScan
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Altho WaveScan did appear on WWCR for the first time, Saturday June 4 at 1630
on 12160, oh oh, that`s not WaveScan at 0225 UT Sunday on 4840, despite the
June 1 schedule listed repeat at 0200.
Silly me, relying on the updated schedule on WWCR website, which also means
that WORLD OF RADIO is NOT back at 0230. The gospel huxter in progress after
citing Malachi 3:16 played taps theme for a break at 0230, 0231 First Amendment
Radio promo, ads for Berkey water. 0234 taps again.
Anyway, reception is only fair-poor here with a lot of fading. Maybe next weeks
the DX Block will return? We`ll have to listen to Ask WWCR on demand to hear if
they have any explanation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
--- On Wed, 6/1/11, Glenn Hauser <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
> Subject: WORLD OF RADIO back on Saturday nights, WaveScan
> To: [email protected], "ABDX" <[email protected]>,
> [email protected], "ODXA yg" <[email protected]>,
> [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 11:19 PM
> The June 1 WWCR program schedule
> http://www.wwcr.com/program-guides/WWCR_Program_Guide.pdf
> shows the Saturday night DX Block has returned, with
> different composition, CDT on 4840 = 0145-0300 UT Sundays:
>
> 8:45P Ask WWCR WWCR Staff? ? ?
> ???0145
> 9:00P WaveScan Adrian Peterson? ? 0200
> 9:30P World of Radio Glenn Hauser 0230
>
> WaveScan is also shown at 1630 UT Saturday on 12160 after
> WORLD OF RADIO at 1600, but that will knock out Ask WWCR at
> 1645 which is still listed.
>
> It replaces the defunct 15-minute DX Partyline. The other
> WORLD OF RADIO airings remain, Friday 2030 on 15825, Sunday
> 0630 on 3215 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 06:17:10 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>, "DXLD"
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] audio quality - La Voz de Russia in Spanish 0100-0500
UT
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ARMENIA/TAJIKISTAN 9430 Once again logged terrible audio quality noted on
Voz de Russia in Spanish via Gavar relay site, but discovered also similar
bad audio via VoRUS other TJK Orzu relay on odd 9944.911 kHz at 01-05 UT bc
segment. So this distorted Spanish broadcast audio originate by a much
faulty satellite feed signal from Moscow bc center, what a surprise!
S=9+10dB here in EUR. 0345 UT June 5. Female talked about Sao Paulo Brazil
cultural matter.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 5)
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