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Today's Topics:
1. MV Baltic Radio is on this Weekend (Tom Taylor)
2. Glenn Hauser logs August 30-September 1, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 10:51:46 +0100
From: Tom Taylor <[email protected]>
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Subject: [HCDX] MV Baltic Radio is on this Weekend
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MV Baltic Radio is on this Weekend
Dear Listeners,
MV Baltic Radio is on the air this Sunday the 4th of September 2011
MVBR Schedule:
0900 to 1000 UTC on 6140 KHz, 100 KW
0900 to 1000 UTC on 9480 KHz, 1 KW
1200 to 1300 UTC on 9585 KHz, 100 KW with a Test Transmission
Good listening and good reception! 73s Tom
PS. MV Baltic Radio relay service Schedule for 2011/12
1st Sunday ? MV Baltic Radio 0900 utc
3rd Sunday ? European Music Radio 0900 utc (18th
September)
4th Sunday ? Radio Gloria International 1300 utc
NEW EMR Postal Address:
European Music Radio,
c/o M.V. Baltic Radio,
Seestra?e 17,
D-19089 G?hren,
Germany
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 10:08:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
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Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 30-September 1, 2011
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** ANGUILLA. 11775, Sept 1 at 1245, tune-in to dead air; could it be a pregnant
pause by DGS while he puffs a deadly cigar? No, after a while, gospel music
interlude ``Kick Yo Feet`` audio cuts on and off and on and off, etc., then PMS
starts talking about Labor Day weekend without cutouts. CB still has its
problems, but has remained on the air whenever checked last several days, also
6090 at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 7245-7275, Sept 1 at 1227, OTH radar pulses, presumed from here, vs
heavy QRM from various broadcasters and hams. More of the same sound at
7335-7355. Both may have extended further if not blocked by QRM (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Sept 1, before 1300:
7970, good at 1230
13970, very good at 1250; none in the 10s, 11s, 12s
14400, poor at 1251
14720, very good at 1250; none in the 15s, 16s, 17s by 1257
After 1300:
17170, poor at 1327 with flutter // others
15520, very poor at 1359-1400*
15430, very poor at 1311, het 15432; poor at 1323 // 15280; none 16s
15280, fair at 1307 plus noise jamming
14720, very good at 1323 // 11560 [as were they all]; music had an abrupt edit
to `ramshorn` at 1323
13970, poor at 1322
12025, poor at 1319 about level with CNR1 jamming; no others in 12s
11560, very good at 1320 // 12025. Unusual spot for FD, and no sign of anything
else; Aoki shows only YFR, Hu Wei, Taiwan in English 13-15!
11560 was even inbooming on the breakfast table radio with whip only
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 9600, Sept 1 at 1237, a CRI interview catches my ear, sounds like Al
Gore, talking about American radio, then on to other topix focusing on US/China
relations and interdependency, // 9760, 11980, 13645, 13790. He was a two-term
US senator. Finally outro before hourtop as having been Gordon (Golden?) Brown
on `Voices From Other Lands`. Maybe the name is wrong as I don`t find any such
person in US Senate archives, by general Googling, nor on the CRIEnglish
website, which does not yet have anything about the latest VFOL. 9600 and 11980
site is Kunming, 13645 Kashgar, 13790 Wulumuchi, both EAST TURKISTAN (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ITALY [non]. 15610, checking IRRS again Sept 1 whether it would bring us
KQED or BS: 1259 A?da theme, very quick ``IRRS Signing on`` and right into BS.
Not even a request for reception reports. Next few minutes there is a raucous
mix of music and Bible citations, sounding like a mistake, but that`s what BS
sends out before coming on to announce he is on 15610 plus several other
frequencies including 9980 which is not really on the air until an hour later
via WWCR, and he is speaking to the entire world --- what an ego this wacko has
to feed. 1358:50 cut off BS as he was about to give his Walterboro P O Box
number, and now we get the full IRRS contact info for special QSL as WEWN
starts to mix in the Queen of Heaven. Poor reception thruout, eastward via
ROMANIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT [and non]. 21540, Sept 1 at 1315, R. Kuwait is the SSOB of the
moment, better than 21505, 21610, 21780 with Arabic song well atop Spain
underneath, but REE gains and by 1412 is atop 21540 with `Espa?oles en la Mar`
report on Somali piracy (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, Sept 1 at 0545, post-Ramadan IGIM chanting, still on the
air earlier than pre-Ramadan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Sunrise DX Sept 1, UT:
920, Sept 1 at 1205 mentions ``Hermosillo, la ciudad m?s bello de M?xico``;
yes, it is a pretty little place, i.e. R. Capital, XEHQ again, meanwhile mixing
with NA from another XE:
920, Sept 1 at 1205 instrumental NA mixing with XEHQ, 1207 mentions Radio
Noticias, Chihuahua2, so Cant? IDs this as:
920 XEQD 920 Noticias Chihuahua, Chih. 1,000 250
The USA QRM is getting worse at sunrise across MW, but 870 remains a nice clear
frequency for XETAR, with WWL faded out and nothing much from The Metroplex
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1640, Sept 1 at 1217 UT, Faith 1640, supposedly an Enid station,
KFXY, but ad for OCCC, and OKC traffic report by Connie Carson. Is she doing
this from a studio in OKC, or Enid? Or anywhere? KFXY, unusually direxional for
an X-bander, just happens to have a major lobe toward OKC. BTW, notably
undermodulated, as it has been for some time now, I have been intending to
outpoint. 1640 has been on the air ten years already, so about time for some
significant transmitter problem (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 15510, Sept 1 at 1256, classical music with hum, so VOR Pashto
service is modulating today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1510+, Sept 1 at 0544, KCTE Independence MO is *still* putting a
wavering het against 1510.0 stations, for at least the fifth night in a row,
instead of zero-beating *and* turning off the transmitter at night like it is
required to do by license (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330, Sept 1 at 1233 weak carrier, can`t make out any modulation,
WBCQ or completely off uncovering another? But there is nothing else except
Syria registered, tho never known active before 1600. Anyhow, by 1407, 9330 is
WBCQ modulating about Solomon (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. August 30, all three major network stations in OKC blew away
regular programming including network news at 2230 UT, for continuous wildfire
coverage from northeast OKC. This may have been going on all afternoon as they
said the fires started around 1730.
Only KWTV, however, replaced its continuous news subchannel 9.2 `News9Now` with
what would have been on 9.1 during this period, as I found `CBS Evening News`
in progress on 9.2 at 2245. As soon as it was over, cut back to simulcast 9.1
when local news would have been on live anyway and I noticed E-T was back on
9.2 instead of 9.1 before 2400 UT. From 0000 Aug 31, 9.2 resumed playing back
previously recorded newscasts, as CBS went back on the main channel.
KOCO-7 (ABC 5) and KFOR-27 (NBC 4) also have subchannels but did not avail
themselves of this way to propagate their networks` newscasts! Meanwhile
depriving their entire audiences outside the wildfire zone of access to the
world. Instead, ThisTV stayed on 5.2, continuous weather on 4.2, and Ant-tv on
4.3 --- altho the latter went black during a power failure at KFOR and was slow
to resume. Only KOCO kept on wildfire coverage past 0000 UT = 7 pm CDT for
another hour or so. I don`t think the emergency suddenly ended as primetime
began.
August 31 it was a repeat performance as the fires were still raging around
OKC. Network news at 2230 UT was available only via 9.2. KWTV and KFOR quit
continuous fire coverage in time for primetime at 0000, but KOCO stayed with
the fires all the way until 0400 UT Sept 1, missing `Nightline` too, but not an
`Oprah` rerun. Maybe a third day of this, afternoon and evening of Sept 1??
All three carried a live news conference on the fires at noon = 1700 UT Sept 1,
even KOCO which deleted noon news months ago. They have it ``contained to an
18-square-mile area``, working on hotspots; depends on whether wind kicks
flareups again. Meanwhile there were plenty of shots of raging fires, live or
recorded? Next news briefing at 5 pm = 2200 UT. I expect these stations are
streaming plenty about the wildfires for those who can`t get them on TV (Glenn
Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1580: not ready in time for 0330 UT Thursday on WRMI,
so first airing at 1500 on 9955. Further opportunities: Thursday 2101 on WTWW
9479, and WRMI 9955; Thursday 2130 on WBCQ 7415.
WWRB website says from Sept 1 they are on `winter`! schedule using 3215 and
3195, which I think implies that 5051 will no longer be in use. For WOR UT
Friday 0330v check 3195 if not heard on 5051.
More WRMI airings: Friday 1430, Saturday 0800, 1500, 1730, Sunday 0800, 1530,
1730. WTWW, UT Sunday 0400 on 5755. WBCQ, UT Monday 0300v on 5110v-CUSB (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9568.4, Sept 1 at 1409 carrier making het with 9570. Suspected
Ethiopia longpath, as there was no het closer to its nominal 9560 which had a
weak signal from something, probably KSDA, while 9570 was probably KBSWR (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17875-17880-17885, Sept 1 at 1325, DRM noise. Nothing whatsoever
on 17880 or 17875 is on the supposedly ``always up-to-date`` DRM DX schedule at
http://www.drm-dx.de/ dated July 19!
Furthermore there are no posts about this in the linked DRM Software Radio
Fora. Nor in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/drmna/messages
We have sporadically heard DRM noise centered on 17880 before, but HFCC shows
nothing either, just 17875 at 13-20, 150 kW, 320 degrees from GUF, plus 17-21
at 165 degrees. I made sure what I am getting is on 17880, not 17875.
I was anticipating something like this because of a Media Network blog item of
Aug 30, ``Digital radio seminar in Brazil`` today only:
``The Brazilian Ministry of Communication has organised a high-level one-day
seminar on Digital Radio on 1 September 2011 in the capital Bras?lia. The main
objective of this event is to have an extensive discussion with various
segments of society about digital radio, which includes what criteria should be
used for the adoption of a digital standard with emphasis on the practical
implications for broadcasters and the industry. [. . .]
Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) is one of the systems under discussion and the
chair of the DRM Consortium Ruxandra Obreja will be present in the meetings
along with the Commercial Committee chair Michel Penneroux, Alex Zink,
vice-chair of the Association and vice-chair of the DRM Technical Committee,
and Jose Maria Matias of the University of Mexico, involved in the recent DRM30
and DRM+ trials conducted by DRM in Brazil.``
So I bet it is really Montsin?ry with a DRM demo for this meeting, not
publicized for ordinary listeners, and on the 165 rather than 320 degree
antenna (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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