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Today's Topics:
1. All India Radio on 5015 (???????? ?????????)
2. Re: All India Radio on 5015 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
3. QSL Report (J.D. Stephens)
4. SW Event Organizers Expand Their Brief (Zacharias Liangas )
5. Glenn Hauser logs August 30-31, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
6. August 31 Logs (Brian Alexander)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:51:19 +0700
From: ???????? ????????? <[email protected]>
To: "????-???-??-???" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] All India Radio on 5015
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INDIA, All India Radio (I believe) - 31.08.2011, 13.30 UTC, 5015. Very good
signal, never heard it on formerly Turkmen Radio's frequency.
Vladimir Kovalenko, Tomsk, Russia
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:30:18 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: ???????? ????????? <[email protected]>, "????-???-??-???"
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] All India Radio on 5015
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Scheduled few seasons like
5015 50 Delhi (Kingsway) 1220-1841 (Ex 3365)
of B-06 season - DXIndia:
5015 AIR New Delhi 1220-1400 Hindi/English 50 ND Delhi (Kingsway) IND
5015 AIR New Delhi 1400-1410 Punjabi 50 ND Delhi (Kingsway) IND
5015 AIR New Delhi 1410-1530 Hindi 50 ND Delhi (Kingsway) IND
5015 AIR New Delhi 1530-1545 English 50 ND Delhi (Kingsway) IND
5015 AIR New Delhi 1600-1630 English 50 ND Delhi (Kingsway) IND
5015 AIR New Delhi 1630-1840 Hindi 50 ND Delhi (Kingsway) IND
73 wb
----- Original Message -----
From: "???????? ?????????" <[email protected]>
To: ""????-???-??-???"" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 3:51 PM
Subject: [HCDX] All India Radio on 5015
> INDIA, All India Radio (I believe) - 31.08.2011, 13.30 UTC, 5015. Very
> good
> signal, never heard it on formerly Turkmen Radio's frequency.
> Vladimir Kovalenko, Tomsk, Russia
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:38:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: "J.D. Stephens" <[email protected]>
To: HardCore DX <[email protected]>, Cumbre DX
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] QSL Report
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QSL Report
Shortwave Broadcast:
PALAU: T8WH. 9930 full data 25th Anniversary card w/ site in 30 days
after a followup to World harvest Radio's Indiana HQ address.
No V/s. (JDS - AL)
Europirate:
Cupid Radio. 15070 full data beam antenna card with postcard 3 page
station infosheet in 8 months. V/s: Rinus Nederland. (JDS-AL)
73,
J.D. Stephens
Hampton Cove, AL, USA
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:51:13 +0300
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[email protected]>
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Subject: [HCDX] SW Event Organizers Expand Their Brief
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SW Event Organizers Expand Their Brief
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The use of other platforms among shortwave broadcasters is a touchy subject for
true
believers. But for many in the shortwave world, the use of FM, online and other
media is
simple reality.
One manifestation of that shift: The approaching B11 HFCC/ASBU shortwave
broadcasters
conference in Dallas, Sept. 12-16, has announced an expansion of its agenda.
The High-Frequency Coordination Conference is a semi-annual gathering at which
shortwave
broadcast frequency schedules are coordinated. These meetings been going on
since 1989
but this will be the first one in the United States. "B11" refers to the
broadcast season that
runs from October 2011 to March 2012.
Event organizers say the time has come to start addressing additional modes of
delivering
messages. Chairman of the HFCC Oldrich Cip recently wrote: "The merits of
broadband
delivery of media through the Internet or via mobile devices in comparison with
the traditional
delivery of TV and sound radio from terrestrial transmitters are frequently on
the agenda of
meetings and discussions of domestic broadcasters and broadcasting unions.
"Such an in-depth debate has been missing in international broadcasting
circles. We are now
ready to provide a forum and environment for such discussions."
He continued: "We have accepted the fact that what was only one program
distribution
method only about 20 years ago has now been replaced by a multitude of
technologies
where media consumers and listeners are offered a whole range of distribution
platforms."
Cip extended an invitation to the conference for those who had reduced or
stopped
shortwave transmission and turned to alternative means. Peter White, chairman
of the
National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters, one of the co-sponsors of the
conference,
noted the many "alternative delivery platforms" such as Internet, podcasts,
local AM and FM
rebroadcasting and satellite.
But organizers also stressed that one of the major themes of the conference
will be the
continuing importance of shortwave for international broadcasting.
The conference is expected to draw delegates from some 40 countries; it is
co-sponsored by
Texas-based transmitter maker Continental Electronics, which will provide a
factory tour.
Addresses are planned by Dr. Dowell Chow, president of Adventist World Radio;
Lauren
Libby, president of Trans World Radio; and Charles Caudill, president of World
Christian
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Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000
Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:09:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 30-31, 2011
Message-ID:
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** BULGARIA. 11600, Aug 31 at 0523, surprised to find no signal here instead of
usual long-running open carrier from R. Bulgaria which used to come on by 0510
or even earlier. So kept monitoring with BFO, and carrier did not cut on until
*0529:20, just in time for IS // 9600 and opening German at 0530. Ha,
someone(s) at Sofia and/or Plovdiv must have seen my recent log querying why
they were wasting so many watts prior to 0530 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake Aug 31, before 1300:
10300, very good at 1243
12970, very good at 1243
13130, very good at 1249
13920, good at 1244
14720, very good at 1249
15900, fair at 1249
16100, very good at 1257
16980, fair at 1257
17170, poor at 1258
After 1300:
15430, very poor at 1305, just starting, I think vs 15432 carrier het, which
also QRMed Romania in Chinese on 15435. The latest Aoki, dated Aug 26, showed
V. of Tibet via Tajikistan at 1300-1306 on 15437, 1306-1330 on 15442, but today
must have been on 15432 instead at the moment
15280, fair at 1307. Aoki shows this too is vs a jumparound V. of Tibet via
Tajikistan, 1301-1330 on 15282, 1401-1430 on 15283
12025, very poor at 1313 under CNR1 in Chinese jamming
Before 1400:
18180, just barely audible at 1350
17170, fair with flutter at 1349
15900, fair with flutter at 1349; none in the 16`s
15520, very poor at 1351 vs het de 15523: no doubt another V. of Tibet
jumparound via Tajikistan, which Aoki Aug 26 had on 15527 at 1330-1337, 15517
at 1337-1400
15425, fair at 1352, ex-15430 earlier in the hour, q.v.
14720, good at 1353
14400, very good at 1353
13970, very good at 1353
13920, fair at 1353 with het, fax QRM?
13670, fair at 1354, Firedrake music NOT // 13970 and 14400. Unusual spot for
Firedrake; Aoki Aug 26 has nothing to explain it, and in fact, lists both PBS
Xinjiang, Urumqi in Uighur, and CRI in Chinese via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN at
this hour; wrong audio by mistake? Or maybe it was coincidentally non-jamming
programming with same kind of music.
13650, poor at 1355, Firedrake mixing with Chinese, not // 13970 either. Aoki
shows this is also an Urumqi channel until 1357, CRI in Chinese, plus VOK in
Chinese. So maybe a second Wulumuchi transmitter with the wrong feed, as here
too there is no known opposition broadcasting. After 1400, only VOK remained
13130, very good at 1356, // 13970
12025, very poor at 1356 under Chinese from CNR1 jammer; none lower
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9525-, Aug 31 at 1236 music and then announcements in Special
Japanese, VOI reception now good enough to confirm that IADs are still
happening several times a minute in a very irregular fashion (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ITALY [non]. 15610, it turns out that Brian Alexander in PA was monitoring
the same hour as I, Aug 30 at 1259-1400 when IRRS via ROMANIA was not carrying
Brother Scare but other (default?) programming, mainly the discussion about
California`s Three Strikes law; but he got the program name, `Forum`, which
pinpoints it to have originated at KQED in San Francisco, so I replied:
``Brian and I were obviously listening to the same thing. Aha, `Forum` means it
came from KQED, their excellent talkshow which I never have time to listen to
on KQED itself. This was the 10 am segment on August 16, details and audio:
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201108161000
And the name I heard was Michael Rushford. Certainly a great improvement over
BS; thank you, IRRS. It`s about time KQED got a shortwave relay! But why?``
I checked 15610 again Aug 31 at 1259, and there was IRRS ``A?da`` theme, 1300
cut to Brother Scare, so no luck today in hearing something incomparably
better. Still BS at some swift rechex later in the hour (Glenn Hauser, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 15445, Aug 31 at 1815, enough of Islamicization from KUWAIT
[q.v.], tuned down here to poor-fair signal with a song; 1816 Japanese
announcement and another song, sounds like an American novelty tune from the
WWII era in the forties, but in Japanese: were our enemies doing that too?
Lyrix included ``hinky-dinky-doo``, and soon outroed as ``Tokyo Shoe Shine
Boy`` --- I think; I was not expecting to hear English words and may have
converted some similar-sounding Japanese phrase unwittingly.
Yes, Google that title, and find there is such a song, with mp3s, YouTube and
discussion, such as this, http://www.technogirls.org/enka/
which says it dates from the immediate postwar era. Another example of SWLing
leading to learning a little about other cultures, rather than racking up QSLs
and country totals.
Until 1830 back to KUWAIT, listened to several more such-era songs. Really fun
programming, and only wished reception were better. This was R. Japan at 17-19,
250 kW, 135 degrees via Wertachtal, GERMANY.
I am still waiting and hoping for one of our bilingual readers to provide a
translated program schedule of all NHK`s Japanese music shows on SW. This may
well repeat at a better time for us. Wonder if it`s a domestic service relay
from the nightmiddle (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15540, Aug 31 at 1757, after VATICAN [q.v.] on 15570, I tuned down
here to much better signal, R. Kuwait already on air, not in English, but S.
Asian music and YL announcement in such a language, presumed Urdu as in the
domestic Multilingual service which is not supposed to be on SW, but they just
turn the transmitter on early. 1759 brief NA by military band; 1800 5+1
timesignal accurate to within a semisecond, English ID with time as 9 pm = 1800
UTC, plays NA again within a 2-minute period, sign-on claiming frequencies are
963, 93.3 and 11990, quick [p]review of programs starting with `Under the
Umbrella of Islam`.
Seems like a live rather than canned announcement as the program lineup varies
from day to day, yet they remain clueless that they have not been on 11990 for
years. Also, they used to announce the FM as 96.3, which matched the MW
channel, how neat, impossible to do with North American allocations, but lately
they have been saying 93.3. Since they can`t get their SW frequency right, I
have no idea whether this is right, either, but 93.3 is another listed channel.
By 1801.5, right into the Islam show, part 2, dealing with stories of
conversions to Islam [that`s fine, but beware of converting away!], announcer
with American accent but other speakers in story-telling, dramatizations, laced
with frequent quotations from the Qur`an. Outright Islamic proselytizing in
English is still a rarity, vs just quoting and translating the HQ as Egypt and
Iran do, but the novelty soon became tiresome, so tuned on to 15445; see JAPAN.
1830 I returned to 15540 for R. Kuwait`s main English newscast, mainly about
Syria and Libya. I was thinking it was more substantial, but finished already
with fanfare at 1836 and on to essential pop music. At least it`s 3 or 4 times
as long as the 2050 headline news segment.
Meanwhile some strange QRM hit this and many other frequencies, with periodic
peaks, but audible all the way from 11 to 24 MHz. A big peak was found at
19625: four noise pulses between pauses, the last one slightly longer as in an
alarm-clock pattern, or a Morse V. No alarums going off inside WOR HQ, so
whence? Took the DX-398 outside and it grew louder in one direxion, soon pinned
onto an Enid Waste Management truck a block away with a claw picking up a huge
pile of debris from a house which had been cleaned out. Flashing lights on the
back of the truck (``keep 50 feet back``, surely excessive), matched the noise
exactly. Whew, it soon would go away (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, Aug 31 at 0522, IGIM still on earlier than usual, but W&M
talk in Arabish, rather than chanting. With Ramadan over, we are expecting this
to cease 24-hour operation and sign on circa 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Sunrise DX August 31, LSR here being 1202 UT:
920, Aug 31 at 1205 UT, NA just ending so must have started late, then picked a
`Radio Capital` ID out of the QRM, so it`s XEHQ, Hermosillo, Sonora, again. But
I started late too, missing the pileup of openings at 1159+.
1040, Aug 31 at 1210 UT novelty song, 1211 jingle ID mentioning ``Once . . .
N?mero Uno, La Primera``, and timecheck for 5:10, so it`s XEGYS in Guaymas,
again, thus reminding us that Sonora stays on MST of UT-7 just like, and
because of, neighboring Arizona. Not sure where the ``11`` comes from unless
they are rounding the frequency way off to the hi side as on a badly-calibrated
analog dial? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 15510, Aug 31 at 1254, open carrier with hum or maybe just barely
modulated, poor signal. 1300 YL suddenly starts talking with announcement,
music, still with hum and undermodulated. Aoki shows the VOR Pashto service at
12-14 via Krasnodar, while HFCC calls the site Samara but omits the language.
EiBi agrees it`s Pashto for both hours via Samara; but the dead air in first
hour is not unusual, another example of incredibly bad studio/transmitter
co?rdination by Voice of Russia: see also TAJIKISTAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAJIKISTAN. 11500, Aug 31 at 1243, open carrier with hum, flutter, presumed
the scheduled VOR English relay, minus modulation, unlike 24 hours earlier when
it axually could be heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also
CHINA - Firedrake report re V. of Tibet
** U S A. 9330-CUSB, Aug 31 at 0512, WBCQ once again broadcasting dead air
only, instead of Good Friends Radio Network; still the same at 0518, 0532, but
at next check 1234, religion had resumed, ending a program with Norcross GA
address (not to be confused with better-known Waycross, almost twice as large).
Why does this keep happening? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, Aug 31 at 0516 UT Wednesday after WRMI ID, `Conexi?n Digital
Radio Deportes`, new show I had not run across before, gives date as 29 de
agosto, over/under considerable Cuban pulse jamming. Then checked the WRMI
program grid updated 26 July, and see it listed then and three other times as
`CD Deportes`. Conexi?n Digital is the name of a DX group based in Argentina, I
assume only coincidentally, as I have seen no mention of such a sports show in
their bulletin or listserve (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17820, Aug 31 at 1311, very strong open carrier S9+22 atop DW Hausa
via Portugal, traces emerging during OC fades: no doubt it`s IBB Greenville
back to its usual habit of tuning up the transmitter 4 hours ahead of the 1700
Portuguese on 17820, but off before 1312 uncovering DW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 15570, Aug 31 at 1742, heavily African-accented English discussion
among three voices, fair-poor and could only understand snippets, not helped by
one of my cable DTV boxes putting bubble jamming right on 15570; unplugged two
of them, but must be yet another responsible. Thought I might have some neat or
new clandestine, so kept straining to copy it. 1749 mentions UN office, bells
and drums, ``communications update``. 1756 closing until ``next week at the
same time`` a discussion on the relationship between radio administration and
listeners, or something like that. Just got in a ``Laudetur Jesus Christus``
and a few notes of the Vatican Radio IS before chopped off the air at 1757*. So
that`s all it is, one of VR`s direct-from-SMG frequencies, listed // 13765 and
11625, English daily at 1730 i.a. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:35:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Alexander <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] August 31 Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
** ERITREA. 9820.03, Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea, 0315-0330,
Horn of Africa music. Vernacular talk. Some Mid-East style music. Poor to
fair. // 9730.03 - weak modulation. // 7174.99 - fair to good. This station
seems to change their 9 MHz frequencies almost daily. August 31.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
?
?
** ETHIOPIA. 9705, Radio Ethiopia, *0258-0315, sign on with short IS on
electronic keyboard and opening announcements. National Anthem at
0259. Gongs at 0300 followed by Amharic talk. Possible news. Local
Horn of Africa pop music at 0303. Fair. August 31. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
?
** ITALY [non]. via ROMANIA. 15610, IRRS, 1259-1310+, tune-in to
classical music. English IRRS ID announcement at 1300 and into
religious music with Brother Stair and the Overcomer Ministry program.
Fair. August 31. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
?
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
?
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