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Today's Topics:
1. Logs 1-6/11 (Zacharias Liangas )
2. Glenn Hauser logs November 6, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Nov 5-6 Logs ([email protected])
4. Glenn Hauser logs November 7, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:08:40 +0200
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[email protected]>
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Subject: [HCDX] Logs 1-6/11
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Please look http://sites.google.com/site/zliangas/kaito-an200-antenna-review
LOGS of lat week
http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/403
1-11
7175 V of BM 0438 S5 mixed with white noise 32432
15105 Tatarstan?0439 OM with talks in Tatar (lang for sure) S5
15120 Nigeria 0440 carrier only signal with strong hum S3
15415 RA 0442 with political talks in Indo S4
9885 CRI 0446 talks in Eng with perfect USA pronunciation - China's space
program S2
9835 RTM 1415 with talks S2 12xx2
15105 ?? in Hausa . Mention of Nigeria .Just S2 recheck on 1452 but off
9930 VoA music 1520 with pop songs . talks in English . Mention Africa 909kHz ,
then a rap
song 24233
9965 .... 1540 with talks in Korean 1543 a gospel song then discussions
3-11
1755U .... 0436 talk in SP (Palma radio per Eibi )
15290 CNR1 0450 with ID S0
6-11
15060 R Scotland INtl 0855 OM with IDs Sign off 0900
15735 (S9 ) IRIB Arabic (per BCDX 1039 ) //17820 (S9 )slightly treblier )with
OM in excellent
arabic
Pirates today
12257.17 WRI with just sub marginal carrier as detected in SSB
Gloria on 9480 with fair signal of S3 which is good considering the 1 kW of
power
However 6140 was vacant on 1000. 9480 was with signal S1-2
Standard rig : ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser
Please read and distribute this 15 year research article
http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e
Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd
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Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 09:58:09 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
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Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 6, 2011
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** ALBANIA. UT Nov 6, R. Tirana is still on 7425 for Albanian at 0000, with
heavy QRM from China, but on 7420 for English at 0230 [except UT Mondays], in
the clear as checked 0254 during closing music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CANADA. 6175, Nov 6 at 0519, continuous 1 kHz tone instead of V. of Vietnam
relay which is supposed to run until 0528. No doubt another screwup somewhere
between Hanoi and London and Montreal and Sackville due to clock changes: ADT
had officially just ended in NB at 0500 UT, when 2 am became 1 am AST. Note: if
you forget about local time and go strictly by never-shifting UT, no such
problems, duh (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 6, after 8 am ChiCom time:
14700, fair at 0025 UT, none higher
13970, very poor at 0025
13920, poor at 0025
At 1330-1400:
7970, fair at 1331
10300, very good with flutter at 1334
11500, fair at 1334
12230, good at 1337
12600, good at 1337
13130, fair at 1337
13625, unlike 24 hours earlier, at 1339 the jamming against RFA Tibetan via
Tinian is CNR1 instead of Firedrake
14700, poor at 1339
15760, very good at 1346 [see below]
16100, good at 1346
16980, good at 1346
17170, poor at 1346
After 1400, not a complete scan:
7970, very poor at 1436
13850, fair at 1426 with WWCR ACI
15770, very good at 1435, ex-15760 in previous hour; HFCC doesn`t show any
targets on either, but Aoki has Sound of Hope via Tajikistan jumping anywhere
from 15750 to 15795. None now in the 16s or 17s. See also UNIDENTIFIED 14439
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. It`s Nov 6 and RHC still hasn`t made any B-11 frequency
changes. We may expect some this week, and maybe Arnie will say something about
them on Sunday or Tuesday`s `DXers Unlimited`.
Meanwhile, RHC`s Spanish DX program, `En Contacto`, continues at 1335 Sundays,
among others on 15120 abutting 15125 REE via Costa Rica at the same time with
`Amigos de la Onda Corta`, tho much stronger here on 15170. 15120 Cuban carrier
is still on at 1404.
I don`t see anything new yet at
http://www.radiohc.cu/de-interes/frecuencias.html
but this version covers Spanish broadcasts only, nor on the Union Jack language:
http://www.radiohc.cu/ing/of-interest/frequencies.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [and non]. UT Nov 6 checking again for VIRI`s so-called Voice of
Justice in English to NAm at B-11 scheduling of 0330-0430 on 7200, 7365: at
0416, 7365 still has R. Mart? and Cuban jamming, but must be Iran making
additional co-channel QRM and SAH. Surely it would be loud and clear if not
colliding with all this.
We should get our chance on UT Monday only when RM, and hopefully the DCJC go
into their weekly silent-period truce at 0400 while on other nights 7365s stay
on until 0500.
At 0416, 7200 also has a SAH between two signals, presumably Sudan and Iran,
but both are much weaker and even undermodulated, also vs SSB and CW QRhaM.
Iran has no business broadcasting on any 40m American hamband frequency to NAm;
both choices this season are monumental failures, and we can`t expect any
changes, since they never got off another collider in A-11, 11920, despite our
telling them about the problem in person at HFCC Dallas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 5910, Nov 6 at *1329 carrier on, 1330 opening Shiokaze in Japanese
from JSR Tokyo. Fair signal, no jamming audible here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 9770, UT Sunday Nov 6 at 0510, after usual dead air between
program playouts, NHK World Radio Japan starts `Friends Around the World`, so
the listener contact program has not changed name again for this season: wait
until April 1 new fiscal year. One of the topix to be DST [which Japan has
toyed with regionally as a remedy for disasters].
Sorry, but the forced joviality of this show is a turnoff for me; it`s partly a
Japanese cultural thing, lots of giggling, tho the M cohost is a gaijin.
Website pictures Kay Fujimoto and Mick Corliss, also with Chris Sasaki, the
latter looking like a semi-Japanese.
9770 is via FRANCE; better of course on 6110 via CANADA; and again audible at
1410 Sunday on 21560 via France (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1040, Nov 6 at 1251 UT, convenient ID at tune-in, ``Desde Guaymas,
Sonora, M?xico, Radio Vida``, i.e. XEGYS, tho Cant? still names this ``La
Primera``, 5 kW day and 250 watts night, which it surely is on the Mexican
Pacific coast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. RNZI reception has plummeted, perhaps seasonally: 11725 no
longer a mainstay around 0500, inaudible Nov 6; and 5950 very poor at 1325
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. UT Nov 6 at 0354, WORLD OF RADIO HQ was hit by an
earthquake. Everything shook for about 10 seconds, but nothing fell or broke as
far as we know: the first quake gh can recall experiencing. There was another
one about 12 hours earlier in Oklahoma which we did not notice, rated 4.8, but
this one was 5.6, at the epicenter 44 miles NE of OKC, while we are 70 miles
NNW.
3840-USB, approx., Nov 6 at 0525, some ham in Kansas said he felt it too, and
it was ``pretty cool``. At 1304 UT we happened to be tuning across 1330, where
KNSS in Wichita also reported on this OKquake as 5.6, felt as far away as
Wisconsin. Here`s one local story about it:
``The largest earthquake ever recorded in the state of Oklahoma struck Saturday
night, officials said. The quake had a magnitude of 5.6, and its epicenter was
four miles east of Sparks in Lincoln County, according to the Oklahoma
Geological Survey. The quake hit at 10:53 p.m. The quake was reportedly felt as
far away as Illinois, Kansas, Arkansas, Tennessee and Texas. . .`` Read more:
http://newsok.com/record-5.6-magnitude-earthquake-shakes-oklahoma/article/3620706#ixzz1cwkl7f4f
Inconveniently, this was too late to make the front page of the Sunday Daily
Disappointment on paper; or any page? (We had succumbed to a sales pitch in an
OKC grocery store promising us Wednesday & Sunday home delivery at a discounted
price --- should pay for itself with the extra coupons. Trouble is, we
discovered later that the Wednesdays are not available in faraway Enid, and the
salesman had lived in Enid and knew we were in Enid!). Avoid in future (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1210, I sure am hearing KGYN Guymon a lot at night, when it is
supposed to be nulling toward Philadelphia, not far from the Enid azimuth. Nov
6 at 1248 UT, dominant country music on frequency, while official November
sunrise in the center of No Man`s Land is 1330 UT. FCC shows in CST with [UT]
added:
Monthly Local Sunrise Times
November 7:30 [1330]
December 7:45 [1345]
January 8:00 [1400]
February 7:30 [1330]
Monthly Local Sunset Times
November 5:30 [2330]
December 5:30 [2330]
January 6:00 [0000]
February 6:30 [0030]
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 9840, Nov 6 at 0512, propagation this night favors Moscow, so we`re
only hearing R. Rossii in Russian, while other nights it`s an equal mix, or
dominated by V. of Russia in English from Pet/Kam. // 9855 Vladivostok no good
either, as weak English there proves to be // 9810, i.e. DW via RWANDA (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 6875, Nov 6 at 0524, yet another night that RTI via WYFR is in
the wrong language according to its own schedule: Chinese, not English. Did
German instead of Spanish appear yet again at 0600? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 9655, UT Sunday Nov 6 at 0413, VOT`s `DX Corner` has already
started, good but fluttery signal on new time and frequency to NAm, ex-9515.
She was giving the VOT B-11 schedule in English, out of order by time, then
acknowledging reception report from Christopher Lewis in England, who has a
``slight problem`` with 6050 at 1930 and 5960 at 2300; so what is it? DXC is
fortnightly; we try to keep up with the weeks-on and weeks-off on DX/SWL/MEDIA
PROGRAMS, now updated for B-11: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html
9820, Nov 6 at 0513, wailing and drumming Turkish music, poor compared to good
// 9700 from TRT, east- and west-ward respectively. 9820 also has a het, which
points to the always off-frequency Brazilian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 7465, UT Sunday Nov 6 at 0412, WHRI with Chris Lobdell on DXing With
Cumbre, i.e. the A-11 time, the B-11 frequency ex-9825. Perhaps it will be at
0500 UT from next week? DWC seems to last only 25 minutes or so, plus music
fill (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO monitoring: UT Sunday Nov 6 after 0400, confirmed on
5755 WTWW; the signal is losing its solidity and weakening during the semihour,
but we hope holding up over longer skip paths. From next week should be at 0500
on same.
Now the Area 51 broadcast of WOR on 5110v-CUSB WBCQ is to be at 0400v UT
Mondays. And more WRMI times all shifted one UT hour later: Sunday 0900, 1630,
1830, Monday 1230, 1630, 2230, Tuesday & Wednesday 1630.
The Sunday 1830 broadcast is also on WRN via SiriusXM Channel 120.
On Hamburger Lokalradio, Germany, 5980, Tuesday at 1030.
The complete WORLD OF RADIO schedule, including all webcasting affiliates is
now updated for B-11:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9885, Nov 6 at 1315, as expected, VOA Spanish has shifted one UT hour
later, after DST, obviously for the convenience of Washingtonians, not
listeners abroad: usual Sunday music fill show instead of any information, also
on // 15590 mentioning the Billboard top tunes survey. Presumably also on //
13750 not checked. So the 12-13 morning broadcast has become 13-14 UT daily.
According to HFCC, VOA Spanish in the evenings is now weeknights only, shifted
from 2330-0100 to 0030-0200 UT Tue-Sat on 5890, 9885, 12000, parts or all of
which should be jammed by the Cubans, confident that the US will never jam RHC
in retaliation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WTWW operations have so far made a 1-UT-hour-later timechange as of
Nov 6: WTWW-3 Arabible on 12105 not on the air yet at 1316 or 1337, but on at
1404. WTWW-1 also still on 5755 with SFAW at 1326, and on 9479 after 1400
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9980, Nov 6 at 1404, WWCR Brother Scare service missing
after A-11 sign-on time; now from 1500? WWCR-4 still on curtailed schedule, one
UT hour later.
We noticed that BS via IRRS via ROMANIA 15190 was still airing in the hours
before and after 1400 Nov 6 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 15205, Sunday Nov 6 at 1434, American gospel huxter in
slow/special English with anti-evolution, anti-science sermon. How can anyone
take such nonsense seriously? Thought it might be BVB, but not on their B-11
schedule. HFCC shows it`s something via MBR, Issoudun, FRANCE, Sundays only at
1430-1445 to CIRAF 41, S Asia. Aoki B-11 doesn`t show it at all, but Aoki A-11
had same as Pan American Broadcasting. (And now in HFCC, before 1430, PAB on
15205 is instead via Wertachtal, Germany). (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 7575, Sunday Nov 6 at 1332, good signal from VOA`s `Jazz
America` music, but drops off the air for a couple minutes. Also on weaker
11700 via Thailand. 7575 is Tinang, PHILIPPINES. Both are on the air during
this hour on weekends only (Glenn Hasuer, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 660, Nov 6 at 1310 UT, Indian chanting and drumming from the
east/west, vs Dallas/Omaha from the N/S, no doubt KTNN AZ again radiating
eastward long before local sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 14439 approx., Nov 6 at 1342, fluttery carrier much like
Firedrake, but only hearing two alternating tones, depending on BFO offset;
then a faster variety of tones until 1343*.
14440 is a jammed Sound of Hope 100-watt nuisance frequency listed in the
current Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 18:13:19 -0500 (EST)
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Nov 5-6 Logs
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** EUROPE. PIRATE. NETHERLANDS. 21460.23v, Cupid Radio,
1625-1655, Euro-pop music. IDs. Said they were running around
350-400 watts. Gave email address as [email protected]_
(mailto:[email protected]) .
SSTV at 1635. Acknowledged listeners? reports from Larry Yamron,
John Herkimer and others. Drifted up to 21460.28 by 1640. And
drifted up to 21460.32 by 1654 Very good signal. Nov 6. (Brian
Alexander, PA)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, Radio Verdad, 0545-0604*, gospel music.
Closing multi-lingual ID announcements at 0553. Sign off with
National Anthem at 0559. Poor in noisy conditions. Nov 6. (Brian
Alexander, PA)
** ITALY [non]. via ROMANIA. 15190, IRRS, *1259-1305, sign on
with opening theme music. Transmitter off the air at 1300. Back
on the air at 1301 with Overcomer Ministry and Brother Stair. Good.
Nov 6. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6925.08, Radio Free Euphoria, 0000-
0015, IDs. Pop music. Fake ads. Poor. Weak. Nov 6. (Brian Alexander,
PA)
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6932.57, WBNY, 0303-0310, fake
ads. Commander Bunny. Poor in noisy conditions. Nov 6. (Brian
Alexander, PA)
** UGANDA [non]. via FRANCE. 17725 or 15410, Radio Y?Abaganda,
1700-1715, no sign of this station today on either frequency. Nov 5.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 22:10:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 7, 2011
Message-ID:
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** ALBANIA. 7425, Nov 7 at 0010, R. Tirana atop China QRM, but by 0039 China is
gaining as RT stix to this frequency instead of shifting to clear 7420. Since
it`s UT Monday, no check of 7420 at 0230 English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6030, Monday Nov 7 at 0403 I compare the jamming here to the other R.
Mart? frequency, 7365 [see IRAN]. Much lighter on 6030, but still some, mixing
with another weak broadcaster, maybe Ethiopia. With BFO easily audible, and
less so in AM mode: mixed with the jamming noise, or rather
overriding/interrupting it, are series of beeps equally spaced, alternately 11,
12, 13 or 14 of them, with a pause in between groups. The beeps are of
different pitches within each set, so could be some kind of message
intelligence. Listened to this in wonderment for some five minutes. Never heard
anything like it, and apparently correlating with or emanating from jamming
transmitter. Please explain, Arnie (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [and non]. 7365, UT Monday Nov 7 hoping to confirm whether V. of
Justice, IRIB`s English to NAm, is really here at 0330-0430. There have been
signs of another signal under the DentroCuban Jamming Command`s wall of noise,
and Radio Mart?, and the 0400-1000 UT silent period of Mart? on Mondays should
give us a chance to hear it --- unfortunately the DCJC does not cooperate,
keeping on jamming 7365 heavily past 0400-0415+ when I give up. There`s also a
TADIL-A bonker circa 7359. See also CUBA: 6030.
The other Iran frequency, 7200: at 0358 I am hearing Arabic, 0401:27 end of
very late timesignal and Omdurman ID. The TS had double/echoing pips, which
might have been from a second station except another could not possibly have
been equally off-hour by coincidence. Trying to hear IRIB or anything under
Sudan, but not convinced it`s there at all. At 0413 it`s really nothing but
Sudan on 7200. Plus some QRhaM.
Finally as last resort, can`t find any SW schedule at
http://english.irib.ir/
or on the Voice of Justice page, tho if you click on Frequencies you get a
56(?) page PDF on satellite reception! Which the repressive government frowns
upon for Iranians themselves.
Finally on the About Us page, there is a link ``Tune in our new frequency``,
but that was Tuesday August 23 (such as in 2011), 11945 at 1530 to S Asia.
Still no complete SW schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 6020v, Nov 7 at 0128, looking for signs of R. Victoria, which Michele
d`Amico visiting Ecuador reported hearing Oct 27, but still nothing, only CRI
English via Albania with no het from Per?, which used to be a nuisance all
evening from 6019.3v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [and non]. Mikhail Timofeyev of the St. Petersburg site invites
reception reports for their new special anniversary QSL card. View card with
complete site schedule at http://spb.rtrn.ru/info.asp?view=7007
The only `evening` VOR transmission from St Pete likely to be heard in NAm,
altho aimed at SAm, is 00-03 Spanish/Russian/Spanish on 6135 ---despite Bolivia
6134.8v, and Nov 7 at 0040 check we were hearing mainly the het between them,
while 6130, 6140, 6145 and 6150 were open (tho maybe not for all three hours.)
Unfortunate that St Pete site has to use 6135 of all frequencies. Must really
wipe out Radio Santa Cruz down there, but that signs off shortly after 0100. Or
not: I expected the het to go away, but it`s still there, slightly wavering, at
0128, 0235. At the later time I can make out some Spanish from Russia, as they
are going from talk to music, but really unreadable, SINPO 22442 at best. I`ll
keep trying to get some loggable details on VOR. As a domestic station RSC is
incapable of avoiding Russia or getting on-frequency, but at least they can
stay on the whole time to bother the usurper.
7210, Nov 7 at 0410 as I am checking Sudan/Iran on 7200, I notice a very wobbly
signal --- it`s in Spanish at 0415 but the transmitter is quite unstable
putting out garbage mostly on the high side. With BFO there is no specific
carrier. Listed as a VOR Moscow site at 0000-0600, 500 kW, 265 degrees (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1589 monitoring: while trying to pull Iran out of the
QRM on 7200 and 7365 I am also switching back and forth to 5110v-CUSB where
WBCQ Area 51 has a good signal and as usual `Radio Jennifer` whose host is not
a YL, is running a bit late. WOR 1589 starts at 0402:45, new nominal winter
time of 0400 UT Mondays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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