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Today's Topics:
1. Hamburger Local Radio Test Transmissions on 7265 KHz (tom taylor)
2. Fw: Hamburger Local Radio Test Transmissions on 7265 KHz
(Wolfgang Bueschel)
3. Radio Africa and Hamburger Local Radio on air (Manuel M?ndez)
4. Religious on 15190 (Manuel M?ndez)
5. Glenn Hauser logs October 31-November 1, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
6. Re: [dxld] Re: QSL Report for Al Muick, Week ending 29
October 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
7. Shortwave radio Logs from WDX6AA (Stewart MacKenzie)
8. Re: [dxld] Re: QSL Report for Al Muick, Week ending 29
October 2011 (Sudipta Ghose)
9. Re: [dxld] Re: QSL Report for Al Muick, Week ending 29
October 2011 (Albert Muick)
10. PARAGUAY: El Poder Legislativo podr? tener TV y radio de AM,
FM y Onda Corta (Arnaldo)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 13:16:22 -0000
From: "tom taylor" <[email protected]>
To: "tom taylor" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Hamburger Local Radio Test Transmissions on 7265 KHz
Message-ID: <4BB544C6D8724C56BB0D251F59D6C2BD@dellcb21k2j>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hamburger Local Radio Test Transmissions on 7265 KHz
Dear Listeners,
All this week Test Transmissions from Hamburger Local Radio are running
via the Shortwave transmitting station G?hren Germany (MV Baltic Radio )
These tests will be between 0700 to 1500 utc at irregular intervals.
The frequency will be 7265 KHz with a power of 1 KW.
All Reports to: [email protected] (Hamburger) or [email protected]
Good Listening 73s Tom
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 14:18:42 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "BCLNEWS" <[email protected]>, "HCDX"
<[email protected]>, "DXLD" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Fw: Hamburger Local Radio Test Transmissions on 7265
KHz
Message-ID: <6F7F0909468F406DA459B651B91BC315@HNPC2>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
----- Original Message -----
From: tom taylor
To: tom taylor
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 2:15 PM
Subject: Hamburger Local Radio Test Transmissions on 7265 KHz
Hamburger Local Radio Test Transmissions on 7265 KHz
Dear Listeners,
All this week Test Transmissions from Hamburger Local Radio are running
via the Shortwave transmitting station G?hren Germany (MV Baltic Radio )
These tests will be between 0700 to 1500 utc at irregular intervals.
The frequency will be 7265 KHz with a power of 1 KW.
All Reports to: [email protected] (Hamburger) or [email protected]
Good Listening 73s Tom
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:08:30 +0100
From: Manuel M?ndez <[email protected]>
To: DX Listenig Digest <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Africa and Hamburger Local Radio on air
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Manuel M?ndez
Lugo, Spain
EQUATORIAL GUINEA, 15190, Radio Africa, 1417-1457* , 11-01, male,
English, religious comments, "The Overcomer Ministry, South Carolina".
Close at 1457 Good signal. 44434. (M?ndez)
GERMANY, 7265, Hamburger Local Radio, 1415-1500* , 11-01, male, comments
in German, at 1529 music and comments, male and female, instrumental
music and more comments. Close at 1500. 24222. (M?ndez)
Logs in Lugo
Grundig Satellit 500 and Sony ICF SW 7600 G
Cable antenna, 8 meters.
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:24:21 +0100
From: Manuel M?ndez <[email protected]>
To: DX Listenig Digest <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Religious on 15190
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Manuel M?ndez
Lugo, Spain
The religious station I listen on 15190, seems to be IRSS instead of
Radio Africa. Thanks to Glenn Houser and Harold Sellers. The time I
listen it is 1400-1457* UTC.
Sorry by my mistake.
73,s
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 11:27:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 31-November 1, 2011
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
** ALBANIA [and non]. 7425, monitoring for R. Tirana, Oct 31-UT Nov 1: at 2335,
7425 is occupied by a strong Chinese station! HFCC shows CRI Kunming toward the
south. You might not think it a problem here, but it is! So ALR should not use
7425 for anything at this hour.
At 0005: 7425 ALR is now on but poor signal with co-channel about equal level,
both unusable. During this hour there is another Chinese transmission, CRI
English also aimed south, from Kashgar.
So if R. Tirana cannot get Chinese friends to move off 7425, the Albanian
service to NAm at 00-01 needs to move off 7425! There is also a station on 7430
which is about equal level, not a big problem, but since 7420 and 7415 are now
open, R. Tirana should shift to 7420 for best results. 7430 is VOR, 500 kW, 305
degrees via ARMENIA at 23-04.
At 0105, something is on 7425! Oh, it must be R. Tirana running overtime, cut
off abruptly past 0106. Then the frequency is open. 7425 (and 7420) remain open
until 0300. So any half-hour in that span would be good for R. Tirana`s only
remaining English broadcast to NAm, instead of at 1530 on 13640. I think 0230
is being considered.
13640, another check of the NAm service for now, Nov 1 at 1528 carrier is on,
but heavy flutter and even Doppler wobble with BFO due to G1 storm. 1529 IS,
1530 opening but so poor I cannot copy anything except it`s the OM instead of
the usual YL, so maybe it`s a new schedule announcement by him (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. The 18.9-19+ MHz SW band is extremely underutilized, nothing at
all on it in most of A-11, but B-11 HFCC shows not only NEW ZEALAND [q.v.] but
RA Shepparton:
19000 0000 0200 56,60-63,76,77 SHP 100 70 0 216 1234567 301011 250312 D 15870
Mul AUS ABC ABC 14008
But no trace of it on half-hourly chex Nov 1; propagation not so good anyway,
but the 70 degree beam is the most favorable for NAm beyond the central
Pacific. Maybe 19000 is alternate for 17795 at 00-02, altho on that frequency
it`s 50 degrees to partly different zones.
No mention of 19000 on RA`s own current schedule:
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pdf/frequency_guide.pdf
But these never show any date or season, so one can only guess whether they are
current or still showing outdated previous A-11 info! Is anyone hearing RA on
19000? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENINGN DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 1, before 1400; not much, with geomag storm causing
extreme flutter on most signals; see USA: WTWW entry:
17170, very poor at 1340
16100, JBA at 1338; none in the 15s, 14s, 13s
12230, good but heavy flutter at 1343
10300, poor at 1344
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA. 9280-9950 approx., awful splatter from totally out of whack REE
Cariari transmitter on 9630, Nov 1 at 0515 ruining everything on 31m with only
a few strong signals almost overcoming it, such as Russia on 9840. No doubt
about source as despite extreme distortion, could // modulation to 3350, and
only with BFO could still detect a carrier on 9630. The mush was worse, the
closer to 9630, of course, tapering toward the edges of above range. Presumably
continued until 0600*, still same at final check 0539.
Fingers crossed that they get it fixed before next 02-06 analog broadcast Nov
2. May well have something to do with DRM, as same transmitters is in that mode
from 9630 at 00-02. What brand unit is that, anyway? It`s gone haywire before,
but not this bad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SPAIN
** CUBA [and non]. Nov 1, the third day of B-11 and the DentroCuban Jamming
Command still hasn`t adjusted for R. Mart?`s new schedule:
5745, RM fair with no jamming after 1300
11845, heavy jamming against nothing at 1319
11930, RM very good with no jamming at 1319
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 9810 > 9855 > 9800 in descending order of strength, Nov 1 at
0519 DW English via RWANDA at 0 degrees; notable that tonight 9855 was way atop
VOR English to W North America, 50 degrees from Vladivostok. When will
frequency managers ever catch on that there are far more significant
propagation factors than mere azimuths and nominal CIRAF target areas? This
time with awful QRM from COSTA RICA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** GUAM. 5765-USB, AFN, Nov 1 at 1308 discussing Denver snowstorm, on NBC Today
Show? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 15050, Nov 1 at 1338, nothing but noise, sounds like low-rate DRM,
instead of AM in AIR Sinhala service 13-15. In A-11 this was the Delhi-Khampur
site, which is DRM-capable, presumably still same in B-11 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** KAZAKHSTAN. 9310, Nov 1 at 1317, gospel huxter in English about god and
earthquakes, poor with flutter and audio rather thin. It`s YFR via Almaty,
11-14, 300 kW, 121 degrees per HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 21540, Nov 1 at 1341 check, MOI is still here on the third day of
B-11 despite registration to move to 21520; as yet very poor signal with Arabic
music atop Spain, as all signals degraded by G1 geomag storm, K=5 at 1200, 3 at
1500.
15540, checking whether this is still in English, Nov 1 at 1758 carrier, 1800
accurate timesignal barely audible, but too poor to copy anything else (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1030, Nov 1 at 1355 UT, was not expecting to hear a Mexican an hour
after sunrise here, but there are Grupo F?rmula promos, 1356 Banco de M?xico ad
listing lots of 0800 toll-free numbers, roughly from east/west, 1358 losing out
to C&W station. First I figured it might be Tijuana still in darkness, but
that`s not F?rmula, instead per Cant?:
1030 XEYC Radio F?rmula Cd. Ju?rez, Chih. 5,000 500
IRCA agrees on the group for this one, but Tampico, now surely too far east
into dayside, is on another F?rmula network. Sunrise in Ju?rez was 1322 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 18910, altho HFCC B11 shows this as an RNZI DRM frequency at
23-04, both 325 and 35 degrees with 25 kW each, starting 30 Oct, nothing heard
at several chex 23-03 UT Oct 31-Nov 1. O, HFCC also remarx ``tests``. RNZI`s
posted schedule
http://www.rnzi.com/pages/listen.php
shows 17675 instead.
6170, RNZI is by mistake back on A-11 frequency! Nov 1 at 1307 news of Cook
Islands, NZ, nothing on 5950 which we did confirm in use Oct 30, the first day
of B-11; still audible on 6170 at 1346 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, Nov 1 at 0454, drumming and ``Voice of Nigeria, Lagos`` ID
(not Abuja??), big S9+15 signal but the hum/whine is so heavy today vs
undermodulated audio that it`s pointless to try to listen further. What a joke!
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 9996, Nov 1 at 1309, RWM CW IDs beating against WWV/H 10000, 1310
resuming time pips. Happens at :09 and :39 past the hours from the Moscow
station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [and non]. 9840, Nov 1 at 0514, VOR in English to WNAm via Pet/Kam,
is well atop collision with R. Rossii via Moskva; you never know from one night
to the next which region propagation will favor --- last night they were about
equal, unusable. // 12030 VOR in the clear altho somewhat weaker, also 70
degrees from P.K. Meanwhile the // 9855 via Vladivostok was useless under
DW/RWANDA collision, as I also reported previously. Awful QRM to all of 31m
from totally out of whack REE 9630; see COSTA RICA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. COSTA RICA transmitter ruining 31m: q.v. Wolfgang B?schel has
been complaining about a similar problem from Noblejas, which fortunately I
have not noted over here:
``15585: heavy spurious signals from Noblejas spread over the 19 mb in range
15363 to 15750 kHz at 1545 UT when checked Greece 15.6+ MHz. This TX fault in
Spain lasts now 3 months in duration. Spanish DXer help, please phone contact
manager FERNANDO HERNAN-PEREZ on REE bc house! <[email protected]> 73
Wolfgang``
21610, Nov 1 at 1532 rechecking for quadrilingual REE news headlines when they
ought to appear after timeshift, but also today Tuesday it`s something else:
`Paisajes y Sabores`. I keep forgetting to check at 1430, their old and
possibly remaining time, but could be anywhen or nowhen now (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [and non]. 13620, Nov 1 at 0524, continuous 1 kHz tone jammer with
lite CCI, presumably CRI as now scheduled, instead of R. Dabanga, as Bashir
regime still hasn`t caught on that Dabanga is no longer there in B-11. Here`s
where it is:
7315, Nov 1 at 0528, numerous ``Radio Dabanga`` singing and spoken IDs over and
over, also mentioned Darfur in Arabish. I bet there were 25 IDs in the next
five minutes! Need to count them sometime; wish I had a clicker handy in my
palm. Good S9+20 signal and no jamming (audible yet).
As in my previous report, 7315 is 500 kW, 135 degrees from Issoudun, FRANCE, //
11940 same, and 500 kW, 255 degrees from Dhabayya, UAE, all at 0430-0557,
apparently no longer jumping sites every semihour. I doubt the other two were
propagating here, altho not checked deliberately since I didn`t have the new
schedule at hand (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 15400, Nov 1 at 0455 S9+18 open carrier, must be BBCWS from
somewhere warming up, probably Africa, as VON is at same level on 15120 tho
self-destructively unlistenable, (and also S9+12 OC on 15580 from VOA
Botswana). At 0459, 15400 is modulating conclusion of previous program! How
slipshod. Then BBCWS ID and on to news from 0500. HFCC shows it`s 250 kW, 330
degrees from Meyerton, SOUTH AFRICA ? same azimuth originally used for Radio
RSA to North America, but now it`s supposedly going no further than West
Africa. Sorry, BBC, we can still hear you well despite your intention to cut
off North America from SW service! Scheduled 05-07, then switching to Ascension
until 1030 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 15480, Nov 1 at 0456, S9+20 with ``What a Friend We Have in
Jesus`` on panpipe and chimes; 0458 ``Sweet Hour of Prayer``; 0500 AWR theme,
ID in English but no site given, introducing Arabic. Equally good signal to BBC
on 15400 from SOUTH AFRICA, and this is too, HFCC saying 04-06, 250 kW, 19
degrees from Meyerton in Arabic both hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, Nov 1 at 0523, surprised to hear on WRMI the tobacco-stained
voice of Doctor Jerry Plummer, and that of Brady Murray, on a stale `Ask WWCR`
we heard weeks ago discussing the mid-September HFCC Dallas conference and some
of the people they met, not including yours truly. Scheduled at 0515 UT
Tuesdays is `Viva Miami`, apparently ceded to WWCR this week. Also with pulse
jamming courtesy Coro & Co. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. BTW2, while consulting HFCC about WYFR on 6875, re unID q.v. pirate
on 6925, I see that WWCR also has a new wooden registration for 6875! The
46-degree rhombic at 23-02 from 7 November to 10 March, 22-01 UT before and
after while DST reigns. That wood be alternate to 3195, which is also shown not
only at 22-01/23-02 but also unchanging 06-10, the latter also obviously wooden
alternate to 3215. 5070 might also be used instead of 5890 at 07-12 on the
90-degree antenna.
WWCR now has posted not only their Week Of Confusion transmitter schedule, but
the next one from Nov 7 at:
http://www.wwcr.com/transmitter-sched.html
which indeed does *not* show 6875 or the other alternates above (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, Nov 1 at 1320, WTWW-3 Arabic JBA due to propagation
disturbance instead of usual loud & clear; WTWW-1 PPP was better tho not up to
usual powerhouse level. WWV reported:
``Solar-terrestrial indices for 31 October follow.
Solar flux 138 and mid-latitude A-index 7.
The mid-latitude K-index at 1200 UTC on 01 November was 5 (93 nT).
The mid-latitude K-index at 1500 UTC on 01 November was 3 (36 nT).
Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level occurred.
Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be minor.
Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level are likely.``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 21630, Nov 1 at 1759, WHRI is not solid, but plenty strong, and with
heavy short/longpath echo before sign-off. Strange propagation today, meaning
that this had to transit the darkside over a 38-megameter path to get here the
long/wrong way (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 770, Nov 1 at *1345 UT, KKOB Albuquerque cuts on non-direxional 50 kW
day pattern with programming about stox in progress, no greeting to us eastward
listeners. Good signal held up for several minutes despite starting a semihour
later than in Oct. Official sunrise gets later and later, 1400 in Dec, 1415 in
Jan, while sunset is oblately at its earliest, 0000 UT, both in Nov and Dec
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1460, Nov 1 at 1332, long list of unrecognizable local businesses,
but one mentioned Burleson, and area code 817-645 ----. Show seems to be named
``Trade Fare`` (Fair?), i.e. KCLE in Cleburne but COL Burleson TX, 11 kW day
power, way over KZUE in OK which is the 1460 occupant here daytimes once
skywave dies out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [non]. 9790, Nov 1 at 1312 VR goes from music bit to IS, as they
habitually do at the *end* of transmissions. This being new frequency of the
PUG = Palauig, PHILIPPINES relay courtesy RVA, 1228-1315 in Chinese, 250 kW,
331 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 6925 AM, Nov 1 at 0506, music marred by one of my cable
DTV boxes which has decided it will bubble-jam this frequency tonight! 0508
announcement about a story, mentions Boris Karlov, ``Just Inside the
Cemetery``.
Hope someone such as Brian Alexander got an ID on this one, as he did of my
previous log on 6940 as: Radio Malta, Europirate!
BTW, RTI via WYFR is back on 6875 at 03-07, in Mandarin at the moment, pushing
S9+25+, so strong that it desensitizes reception around it. Pirates need to
stay at least 40 kHz away from 6875 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13380, Nov 1 at 0458, huge S9+22 open carrier, still at 0514.
Suspiciously like Cuban intelligence; did not monitor continuously in case
there were any digital data bursts. Retune just in time to hear it cut off at
0526:45* tho there may have been other offs-and-ons meanwhile or later. Once
the Revolution fracases, we can hope the truth about all this, and jamming
facilities come out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
------------------------------
Message: 6
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 14:57:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], Albert Muick
<[email protected]>
Cc: HCDX <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Re: QSL Report for Al Muick, Week ending 29
October 2011
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Al,
Not boring at all! Please include the back-stories to your QSL reports,
especially follow-ups a few years later when we may not remember the details
even if you reported them at the time.
Glenn
--- On Sat, 10/29/11, Albert Muick <[email protected]>
wrote:
Glenn,
I usually don't include reception details in a QSL report.?
Admittedly, I'm not an "old hand" like yourself, but I would usually
put them into a log report, and the log is from May 2nd 2010.
Radio Polynesie was logged for about sixteen minutes beginning
around 1510 UTC on that date, which would have been around 1940
Kandahar time (right about dusk/sunset time for that time of year in
the sandbox).? Tahiti is GMT -10, which would have put this in at
around 0510 their time.? The receiver used was the Winradio G303e
with a 100m longwire.
Many of my loggings were obtained by trying the randomwire as a (n
extremely) short beverage with a terminating resistance on the end.?
Id did not have the total beam directionality of a beverage, but it
did focus the reception path a little bit.? As the antenna sloped
down from the top of a 60' self-supporting tower for our WiMAX
equipment, I was able to rotate it pretty much 360 degrees by
arranging for one of our tower crew to be up there if necessary to
move the insulator from one corner of the tower to another for the
evening.? Since we had a large open area around our operation, I was
able to swing the antenna wherever I wanted it for the evening.? Not
an optimum setup by a long run, but it did work in many instances,
which I am now beginning to get the QSLs for.? I also use the
Palstar MW550P preselector which is quite nice to have for peaking
and notching.
I note in my logs (DXtreme Reception Log) that there was severe QRM
from a Chinese station co-channel as well as Hyderabad (tent.),
giving the overall reception poor quality with the standard deep
fades.? My notes indicate that at 1519, there was a Radio Polynesie
station identification where the name was definitely caught, but
only caught the FM frequency, and did not hear the mediumwave
mentioned.
When Haji wasn't lobbing rockets at us, Afghanistan provided some
great DX.? You couldn't pay me enough to go back there again,
however.? 33 months was enough.? I got injured, saw people die, and
went to a lot of ramp ceremonies.? In between all of that, I got in
a lot of good DX and ran an ISP.? Incidentally, that's my 5th war
zone:? Grenada and Panama with the US Army, Sudan and Haiti
(pre-quake) with the UN Dept. of Peacekeeping Operations and now the
'Stan.? If I get a chance at Somalia, I'll go for an even six, but
then that's it.
Hope I answered your questions and haven't bored you too greatly.?
:D
73
Al Muick
On 10/29/2011 11:04 PM, Glenn Hauser wrote:
?
Al,
Yes, indeed, mine has been in my gallery:
http://www.w4uvh.net/tahiti.jpg
QSL reports are interesting but ``there`s something
missing``, i.e. details of the original reception,
especially time? How did you manage to get Tahiti in
Afghanistan, with all the higher-power Asian stations on
738??
We think of Tahiti being way, way, distant, but it`s
axually much closer to PA (about 10 megameters) than to
Kandahar (10 kilomiles). It`s about the same distance in
the other direxion from Tahiti to western/northern Europe
as it is to Afghanistan.
73, Glenn Hauser
--- On Sat, 10/29/11, Albert Muick
<[email protected]>
wrote:
> TAHITI (FRENCH POLYNESIA),? Radio Polynesie, Papeete,
> 738, date/freq English letter in 535 days for French
report
> and US $5.00 sent via airmail, and follow-up report
in
> French with 3 IRCs via registered mail with return
> receipt.? QSL received 45 days after follow-up
> report.? This station was heard on Kandahar Airfield
> Afghanistan, and is another APO mail disappearance
> victim.? V/s. Christophe Marquand, Directeur de
> l'Antenna Radio.? Mr. Marquand also returned my IRCs
> and sent his business card and a very nice station
ballpoint
> pen!
>
> Anyone else remember the old "Nudie Cutie" card that
Radio
> Tahiti used to send out back in the 70's when they
were on
> shortwave?? My AFN Europe QSL from the early 80's was
a
> very drab drawn microphone card.? They've come a long
> way.
>
> 73
>
> Al Muick
> Whitehall PA? USA
------------------------------
Message: 7
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 17:48:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Stewart MacKenzie <[email protected]>
To: Adrian Peterson <[email protected]>, Allen Graham
<[email protected]>, Gerry Dexter <[email protected]>, Anker Peterson
<[email protected]>, BCL NEWS <[email protected]>,
Duane
Fischer <[email protected]>, Hard Core DX
<[email protected]>, Maryann Kehoe
<[email protected]>,
Prime Time Shortwave <[email protected]>, SWL QTH
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Shortwave radio Logs from WDX6AA
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
ARGENTINA?? Radio Argentina Exterior-RAE?? 15345? 2349 gmt? Spanish??333? Oct
17?? YL and OM with comments.??? MacKenzie-CA..
?
BONAIRE?? Radio Japan relay-NHK?? 15265? 2315 GMT? Japanese? 444? Oct 17? OM
with comments. YL with comments 2316 GMT.? YL singing 2338 GMT.?
//13680[444].??? MacKenzie-CA..
?
CUBA?? Radio Havana Cuba-RHC? 15370? 2346 GMT? Spanish? 444? Oct 17?? OM with
comments. //15230[444].??? MacKenzie-CA..
?
JAPAN?? Radio Japan-NHK?? 15195? 2354 GMT? Chinese? 333? Oct 14? YL with
comments. IS 2359 GMT followed by Time Pips and off the air? 0000 GMT.
//17810[333].??? MacKenzie-CA..
?
JAPAN?? Radio Japan-NHK?? 17810? 2310 GMT? Indonesian? 333? Oct 17? IS 2310 GMT
and on the air with comments from a YL and OM.??? MacKenzie-CA..
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JAPAN?? Radio Japan-NHK?? 13650? 2318 GMT? Thai? 333? Oct 17? YL with comments.
Radio Japan ID 2319 GMT.? YL with RJ ID and then into Vietnames.? Also QRM via
China CRI with an OM with comments.??? MacKenzie-CA..
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NORTH MARIANAS?? Radio Free Asia-RFA?? 15585? 2345 GMT? Chinese? 444? Oct 17?
OM with comments.??? MacKenzie-CA..
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SPAIN?? Radio Exterior Espana-REE?? 15160? 2355 GMT? Spanish? 433? Oct 17? Two
OMs with comments in the Diaria program.? YL's singing 2358 GMT.? Time Pips
0000 GMT.? YL with comments 0001 GMT.??? MacKenzie-CA..
Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, United States of America
Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650
"World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive"
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 07:21:02 +0530
From: Sudipta Ghose <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: HCDX <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Re: QSL Report for Al Muick, Week ending 29
October 2011
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Hi Glenn and Al!
Nice reading. Pity Al is only visiting (or for that matter pitching his
shack) in war zones only!
Kind regards,
Sudipta Ghose
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Glenn Hauser <[email protected]> wrote:
> **
>
>
> Al,
>
> Not boring at all! Please include the back-stories to your QSL reports,
> especially follow-ups a few years later when we may not remember the
> details even if you reported them at the time.
>
> Glenn
>
>
> --- On Sat, 10/29/11, Albert Muick <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> Glenn,
>
> I usually don't include reception details in a QSL report.
> Admittedly, I'm not an "old hand" like yourself, but I would usually
> put them into a log report, and the log is from May 2nd 2010.
>
> Radio Polynesie was logged for about sixteen minutes beginning
> around 1510 UTC on that date, which would have been around 1940
> Kandahar time (right about dusk/sunset time for that time of year in
> the sandbox). Tahiti is GMT -10, which would have put this in at
> around 0510 their time. The receiver used was the Winradio G303e
> with a 100m longwire.
>
> Many of my loggings were obtained by trying the randomwire as a (n
> extremely) short beverage with a terminating resistance on the end.
> Id did not have the total beam directionality of a beverage, but it
> did focus the reception path a little bit. As the antenna sloped
> down from the top of a 60' self-supporting tower for our WiMAX
> equipment, I was able to rotate it pretty much 360 degrees by
> arranging for one of our tower crew to be up there if necessary to
> move the insulator from one corner of the tower to another for the
> evening. Since we had a large open area around our operation, I was
> able to swing the antenna wherever I wanted it for the evening. Not
> an optimum setup by a long run, but it did work in many instances,
> which I am now beginning to get the QSLs for. I also use the
> Palstar MW550P preselector which is quite nice to have for peaking
> and notching.
>
> I note in my logs (DXtreme Reception Log) that there was severe QRM
> from a Chinese station co-channel as well as Hyderabad (tent.),
> giving the overall reception poor quality with the standard deep
> fades. My notes indicate that at 1519, there was a Radio Polynesie
> station identification where the name was definitely caught, but
> only caught the FM frequency, and did not hear the mediumwave
> mentioned.
>
> When Haji wasn't lobbing rockets at us, Afghanistan provided some
> great DX. You couldn't pay me enough to go back there again,
> however. 33 months was enough. I got injured, saw people die, and
> went to a lot of ramp ceremonies. In between all of that, I got in
> a lot of good DX and ran an ISP. Incidentally, that's my 5th war
> zone: Grenada and Panama with the US Army, Sudan and Haiti
> (pre-quake) with the UN Dept. of Peacekeeping Operations and now the
> 'Stan. If I get a chance at Somalia, I'll go for an even six, but
> then that's it.
>
> Hope I answered your questions and haven't bored you too greatly.
> :D
>
> 73
>
> Al Muick
>
> On 10/29/2011 11:04 PM, Glenn Hauser wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Al,
>
> Yes, indeed, mine has been in my gallery:
>
> http://www.w4uvh.net/tahiti.jpg
>
> QSL reports are interesting but ``there`s something
> missing``, i.e. details of the original reception,
> especially time? How did you manage to get Tahiti in
> Afghanistan, with all the higher-power Asian stations on
> 738??
>
> We think of Tahiti being way, way, distant, but it`s
> axually much closer to PA (about 10 megameters) than to
> Kandahar (10 kilomiles). It`s about the same distance in
> the other direxion from Tahiti to western/northern Europe
> as it is to Afghanistan.
>
> 73, Glenn Hauser
>
> --- On Sat, 10/29/11, Albert Muick <
> [email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > TAHITI (FRENCH POLYNESIA), Radio Polynesie, Papeete,
>
> > 738, date/freq English letter in 535 days for French
> report
>
> > and US $5.00 sent via airmail, and follow-up report
> in
>
> > French with 3 IRCs via registered mail with return
>
> > receipt. QSL received 45 days after follow-up
>
> > report. This station was heard on Kandahar Airfield
>
> > Afghanistan, and is another APO mail disappearance
>
> > victim. V/s. Christophe Marquand, Directeur de
>
> > l'Antenna Radio. Mr. Marquand also returned my IRCs
>
> > and sent his business card and a very nice station
> ballpoint
>
> > pen!
>
> >
>
> > Anyone else remember the old "Nudie Cutie" card that
> Radio
>
> > Tahiti used to send out back in the 70's when they
> were on
>
> > shortwave? My AFN Europe QSL from the early 80's was
> a
>
> > very drab drawn microphone card. They've come a long
>
> > way.
>
> >
>
> > 73
>
> >
>
> > Al Muick
>
> > Whitehall PA USA
>
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:14:17 -0400
From: Albert Muick <[email protected]>
To: Sudipta Ghose <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], HCDX <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Re: QSL Report for Al Muick, Week ending 29
October 2011
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Message: 10
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 04:52:26 +0100
From: "Arnaldo" <[email protected]>
To: "DXLD" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] PARAGUAY: El Poder Legislativo podr? tener TV y radio
de AM, FM y Onda Corta
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El Poder Ejecutivo promulg? la modificaci?n que se hizo al art?culo 34 de la
Ley N? 642/95 "De telecomunicaciones", y habilit? al Poder Legislativo a
instalar servicios de difusi?n (radios) enmarcados dentro del Plan Nacional de
Frecuencias. Contin?e leyendo esta informaci?n en
http://gruporadioescuchaargentino.wordpress.com/
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