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Today's Topics:
1. EMR / MVBR this Sunday - UP-DATE (tom taylor)
2. Glenn Hauser logs November 16, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
3. LOgs 15& 16 (Zacharias Liangas )
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:53:40 -0000
From: "tom taylor" <[email protected]>
To: "tom taylor" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] EMR / MVBR this Sunday - UP-DATE
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EMR/ MVBR is on this Sunday - 20th November 2011
EMR/ MVBR Schedule for 9480 KHz
Time - 08.00 to 09.00 UTC - EMR
Time - 09.00 to 10.00 UTC - MVBR (repeat from 6th of Nov)
EMR Schedule for 6140 KHz
Time - 1400 to 1500 utc
EMR Programmes via 9480 and 6140 KHz:
Tom Taylor programme
Mike Taylor programme
EMR Internet radio service on Sunday and Monday
Programme repeats are at the following times:
14:00, 17:00, 20:00, 22:00 utc
Please visit <http://www.emr.org.uk/> www.emr.org.uk and click on the "EMR
internet radio" button
which you will find throughout the website (see the menu on the left).
Please send all EMR reception reports to: <mailto:[email protected]>
[email protected]
Good Listening 73s Tom
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:18:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
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Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 16, 2011
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** ALBANIA. 7425, UT Nov 16 at 0057, tuned in to check how bad the QRM from
China was to R. Tirana in Albanian, but no signal from either, nor on 7420, the
replacement frequency I recommend. Maybe just signed off, tho recently R.
Tirana had been lasting a minute or two past 0100.
7420, tuned in at 0227 UT Nov 16, and find R. Tirana already on the air with
music, then *closing* an English transmission, ``Goodbye from Albania,`` theme
music, 0228 IS, 0230 theme and re-opening English. Reception is not very clear,
but I think Klara gives the wrong times and frequencies! I had been wanting to
check this out for some time since I heard what I thought was a wrong time or
frequency.
Then I try to hear the 11/15 podcast via
http://radio700.info/player/podcastplayer2.php?lang=en&country=al&feed=tirana
but it`s just half an hour of silence, or rather hiss. So are the previous two
or three files checked!
So in case the `live` webcast is still carrying English at 0330 UT even tho not
on SW, I bring up
http://radiotirana.funkhaus.info:8000/
at 0328 which plays immediately with IS, 0330+ sign-on is clearly copied. Klara
Ruci says ``From 30 October 2011 to 24 March 2012, English to the UK at 22 to
2230 according to local time, on the frequency 7,530 kHz; to North America,
0330-0400 on 13,640``
That is, local time in Tirana. What happened to UT? WHICH local time should
have been specified clearly, but instead times should always be in UT and
specified as such. The correct times are 2100-2130 and 0230-0300 UT, and of
course the frequency for the latter is 7420, not 13640. Furthermore these are
still six days a week, i.e. Monday-Saturday for the first and UT Tuesday-Sunday
for the second. This announcement needs to be corrected immediately.
At 0348, mailbag first acknowledged a report from China on 13640, but it must
have been many months old, since R. Tirana moved to 13735 early in the A-11
season. Soon there was another report, from North America on November 1, also
claiming to have been heard on 13640. Or were these phony reports based on
outdated schedules? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 16, before 0300:
13800, poor at 0237
15900, fair at 0238
16700, poor at 0239
17100, fair at 0240 mixing with ute
Before 0700:
15900, poor at 0648
Before 1500:
9200, good at 1437; none in the 10s, 11s, 12s, 13s
14700, poor at 1446; none in the 15s, 16s, 17s, 18s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. I haven`t listened to `DXers Unlimited` for weeks, but by sheer chance
I was tuning across 6010 at 0630 UT Wednesday Nov 16 as it was just starting.
Perhaps Arnie will have something to say about the new frequency/schedule of
RHC itself? Only obliquely in Item 3 at 0635: denouncing some ``self-proclaimed
guru in the middle of the USA`` who is making a major blunder by criticizing
frequency conflicts, example being a broadcast to Argentina which may put some
back radiation into the USA, but that`s OK, since there`s no problem in the
target area.
This must be the 15230 case, where Arnie has kept RHC colliding with China via
Canada at 13-15, year after year. Sure, it may be fine for Cuba in Argentina,
but how about for your ChiCom comrades? I just rechecked 15230 Nov 16 at 1450,
and oui, mes amis, there is Spanish QRM underneath CRI English for which we ARE
the target.
This is an excellent example of the me-first philosophy of frequency
management, rather than kind co?peration with other stations, for the benefit
of the listeners, which is supposedly the ultimate objective of SW
broadcasting. They do not both *have to be* on 15230 at the same time. There
are other open frequencies on 19m one or the other could use during this
bihour.
Of the numerous mistakes at all levels of RHC, from transmitter operation to
studio announcements, to frequency management, this was the only example Arnie
came up with, and it is easily refutable.
Another point he made was that monitoring only from the middle of the USA is
not sufficient to determine conflicts. I make no apologies for this --- I am
perfectly aware of how relative signal levels will vary in different places,
but I am where I am and am not going to take the time and trouble to consult
remote receivers all over the globe, tho others are more than welcome to do so
and report their results. What Arnie apparently is not aware of is that his
signals from Cuba have *lots* of back- and side-lobe radiation so frequency
choices need to be made very carefully to avoid unintended(?) consequences.
I am not going to let any station off the hook when their frequency management
leads to unnecessary conflicts!
On quite another level, I am certainly not defending the ChiCom who are just as
guilty as Cuba of jamming and frequency mismanagement. In fact, it`s just
peachy that the 15230 situation is: Commies vs Commies! Let them interfere with
each other all they want!
Obviously I can only assume he was attacking yours truly, as he has in the past
when I criticised his frequency management, but he never mentioned my name. I
defy anyone to ever find any instance where in print or on the air I have
``proclaimed`` myself a ``guru`` --- that distinxion is reserved for Arnie`s
periodic denunciations, but thank you very much. Someone else may have
proclaimed me a guru too; I can`t prevent that, but am far too modest to say it
myself.
I hope I have fairly paraphrased what Arnie said; the last script on his
blogspot is for Oct. 28, while the other source on the RHC site itself stops at
Sept. 18.
DXUL has been trimmed to only ten minutes; the produced open & close continue
to feature his voice in studio quality, while the body of the show sounds
phoned-in, lo fi audio, which Arnie has previously claimed is not phoned-in,
but deliberately degraded that way in the studio for better intelligibility of
his particular voice. Huh? The `mit-week edition` had previously been appearing
later in the hour, starting about :38 --- is the :30 start a definite change
now?
Still trying to hear a new frequency announcement on RHC, at last there is one,
Nov 16 at 1502 as I listen to 15380 --- except it`s the same *old* one from
A-11, now outdated, still listing five frequencies no longer in use, and not
mentioning any new one, including the very one I am monitoring, in
characteristic Soviet out-of-order style:
``15120, 15360, 15230; from *13 on 13680, 13780; from *11 on 11690, 11760,
11830, 12040; from *13 on 11730`` plus ``audio real`` --- not Really, it`s
Windows Media! Q.E.D. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 15135, Nov 16 at 0604, CRI in stilted Spanish, flutter, not
normally heard, but is 294 degrees to Spain from Kashgar at 06-08 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 15075, Nov 16 at 0241, nice S Asian vocal music, with flutter, 0247
talk. Nothing in HFCC B-11 on this frequency, which means it`s probably India
whose registrations are totally missing. Still nothing about India here:
http://hfcc.org/data/b11/index.phtml
Aoki to the rescue: ``15075 ALL INDIA RADIO 0215-0300 1234567 Kannada 500 240
Bangaluru IND 07713E 1314N AIR b11`` and continues in other languages until
0530 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9525-, Nov 16 at 1434, VOI sufficient signal and modulation
during Indonesian hour, same music bits as heard during English; some hum, but
no IADs noticed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 13710, Nov 16 at 0612, Spanish station kept talking about Ir?n, and
not // 15135 so not East Turkistan; yes, it is VIRI as scheduled 0530-0630, 500
kW, 289 degrees from Kamalabad to Eurafrica (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NIGERIA [and non]. 15120, Nov 16 at 0603, hummy VON mixing about equally
with China, and there are a lot of other E Asian as well as African signals on
19m band, unusual. By 0650, VON was atop (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 7260, Nov 16 at 1423, pleased to hear VOR in the morning here,
unusual and not intended for us; some SSB QRhaM on the sides, but unlike some
other 41m frequencies, no ham zero-beat to it. Commentary on International
Tolerance Day, 1425 outro `Outlook` show, VOR promo for its 38 languages, etc.;
1426, `Russian Travelog` about guns fired each noon from the Fortress of St.
Pete and St. Paul in ex-Leningrad; sufficient signal, but some hum. HFCC shows
11-16, 500 kW, 235 degrees from Vladivostok toward SE Asia, lacking languages.
Aoki shows only 11-15, in English except for a Vietnamese hour at 12-13 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 15380, good Nov 16 at 0606 with Qur`an in reverby venue --- or
artificially applied? HFCC shows 500 kW, 310 degrees from Riyadh to CIRAF 39N =
Turkey, also USward.
21505, Nov 16 at 1455, BSKSA in Arabic is audible any morning, but this is the
first time I have noticed crackly noise atop the modulation which underneath is
unimpaired, just like we heard recently on 15435 after 1500. Bet it`s the very
same defective transmitter! 21505 cuts off abruptly amid talk at 1457*, so I
retune to 15435 and wait for it to appear there. Sometimes the QSY is earlier,
overlapping with RVA via VATICAN until 1457* [see UNIDENTIFIED 15434]. On
15435, I wait, and wait. Finally at 1508 a very weak carrier appears, exciter?
And several sex later, big carrier pops on, at first only with the crackling,
then BSKSA Arabic modulation applied in progress underneath (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH AFRICA. 15255, Nov 16 at 0605, fair signal from Channel Africa, with
news in English. Usually inaudible even when Nigeria is in on 15120 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 6875, Nov 16 at 0627, standard remarx about RTI via WYFR being
in German instead of scheduled Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 15400, Nov 16 at 0606, BBCWS in English very good and much
stronger than // 15420, which is to be expected for 15400, 330 degrees from
Meyerton like Radio RSA was, vs 15420 registered as 270 from Seychelles AND 177
from Cyprus --- are they really running both or is it either-or? (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 7811-USB, Nov 16 at 0621, yay, as hoped, AFN is back to
news/talk stream instead of techno music for several days, in a string of
features lasting 1 or 2 minutes each. First it`s DaveRoss.com on Penn State
sex; PTSD PSA; 0622 Osgood File on Ponzi schemes; 0624 Sound Bites (sp?),
plugging a Thanksgiving show on History Channel; 0625 Today 11/16 in Rock
History; 0626 Outdoor World from BassProShop, something fishy here, tips
instead on deer hunting, but first a promo for Bob & Tom Show on AFN`s Legacy
channel.
At next check 1442, poorly audible on 7811, better on // 12133.5-USB during YL
talk show, but heavy QRM from AM broadcaster on 12130.0, i.e. IBB Vietnamese
via SRI LANKA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 17650, Nov 16 at 1453 VOA sufficient with news instead of Music
Mix! Bookmark this one; it`s 100 kW, 88 degrees from S?O TOM? at 14-15.
Plus, conveniently next down on 17640 is BBCWS in English news too, if you
prefer; that`s 250 kW, 114 degrees from ASCENSION at 13-17, with lots more on
17640 before and after: 05-08 Cyprus, 07-13 Seychelles, 17-19 Meyerton (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9990, Nov 15 at 2350, WTWW-2 was on with PPP audio testing about the
spurs which occurred on the Nov 12-13 special. I could still hear them around
10003, 10016 and barely on 10029 but they seem to have been attenuated somewhat
as tweaking is underway (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZAMBIA. 17695, Nov 16 at 0608, Jesus rock from the OSOB, i.e. CVC 1Africa.
Was expecting something on 16m after all the African propagation on 19m (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 671: Haven`t looked for TAs tonight, UT Wednesday Nov 16 around
0100 but the 671 carrier is in again. Best I can tell is that it`s from due
NW/SE, which cuts across western Cuba and northeastern Colombia, give or take.
{Signal is quite steady, so I doubt it`s from any further than Cuba, if not
domestic.}
Sorry if I haven`t seen everyone`s reply yet, but from last night have not
received any other bearings or audio reports. How about those of you in the
east of NAm getting a bearing on it for some triangulation, and those in FL
trying to get some audio whether it is a R. Reloj outlet or not? 73, (Glenn
Hauser, Enid OK, several MW lists and dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) These are
the only new replies I`ve found:
Glenn, 125 miles east of Memphis, the directional is towards Cuba on the 671
(Kevin Redding, Crump, TN, 0129 UT Nov 16, ABDX via DXLD)
I've heard it here in Missouri as well -- quite a loud 1-kHz het but as Glenn
said, no discernible audio here (Randy Stewart, Springfield MO, 0153 UT Nov 16,
NRC-AM via DXLD)
I haven't had the opportunity to do any serious work on it yet, but I really
didn't notice it on the crappy car radio daytime yesterday, in fact very weak
around 2330 GMT yesterday on the NRD-535, but stronger as the eve progressed.
And it was there pre-sunrise today, so obviously Latin American. No audio, or
at least none coming through. Just seemingly a carrier.
Coincidental that this appeared about the same time the big Rebelde from
western Cuba appeared on 530 (co-channeling their own Enciclopedia)? Rebelde
has been reported on 530 by others, but that or those have been determined to
be from the eastern side of the island and never heard at my location (Terry L
Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, 1326 UT Nov 16, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7335, Nov 16 at 0652 way under big signal from TUNISIA, I am
hearing tone test, 1 kHz, and then stepping down to lower pitches, repeating.
This is like what we were hearing last summer on higher frequencies, many in
the clear, source never identified. I can`t rule out that it might have been a
mixture in the Tunisian audio itself, tho unlikely. HFCC still has RTT
schedules one hour too late, as given to them by the confused Tunisians,
0700-0910 on 7335, while we and Aoki know it starts at 0600, or really a few
minutes earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 14934, Nov 16 at 0650, the same 6-note `interval signal` repeated
over and over in AM mode, a utility? Eurafrica was propagating, e.g. RWM on
14996 with hardly anything from WWV/H on 15000.
Searching for 14934 in the 37523 posts so far on the UDXF yg gets one hit in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/UDXF/message/27500
which includes 14934 in a long list of STANAG-4285 frequencies:
On Aug 1, 2010, at 7:27 PM, Lasse wrote:
``Hi all, I have been mapping a few STANAG-4285 frequencies (thanks Ary for
id'ing the mode) the week. I have used a FRG-7 which means that the frequencies
are a bit uncertain. I have not had the time to check all frequencies with my
DX-394, and many of those found are difficult to hear on that receiver due to
the higher noise floor. I don't have the new Klingenfuss freq. list yet, so
most of these are probably already known. Nevermind, I'll post them here
anyway. . .``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15434, Nov 16 at 1447 there is a weak het against 15435, RVA Urdu
via VATICAN. Likely V. of Tibet via Tajikistan on jumpy frequency, which on Oct
31 Aoki showed on 15433 at 1312/1402. Probably jammed, but none of that
audible. 15434 was a carrier, not a 1 kHz tone on 15435 since there was no
match on 15436 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:39:37 +0200
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[email protected]>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] LOgs 15& 16
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Please look my full radio list !!!
http://zlgr.multiply.com/photos/album/28
This log : http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/406
15.11.
11725 RNZI 0527 with reports S6
15720 RNZI 1233 phone in discussions, news on 1250 sudden s off 1258* S3
15170 TWR 1255 prg in indo S4 252x2 QRM 1259 by RRI Romania
15160 unIDed 1239 with talks in Vietnamese S3 , passes 1300
12130 YFR 1302 with talks in a Hindi Lang Signal S9 Therefore Lang must be
Nepali
12035 spp NHK Bangla with S6 max with talks by YL S?
12095 unIDed with talk in Viet but must be prayer due to emphatic talks S5
6102 Afganistan 1544 with good signal though under strong
15535 Dabanga 1556+ with phone interviews between 2 OM //13800 both S20 45554
11795 Okapi 1610 wit several ID s , then station jingle and freq listing in
French then news in
VN
9345 V o People > ZWE 1605 +1615 with talks in VN (Swahili )and many mentions
of ZWE
S5
12160 WYFR? 1623 marginal better in 16H with talks in English
11710 AIR 1626 has been heard under a strong low freq buzz and very low audio
.Hindi song
on 1636
9850 IRIB 1627 in KZ . At 1629 with ID and web address , IS S10
7440 RNZI 1557 +1641 with signal below S3 in between two strong signals 7445
CNR ? and
7455 CRI Turk S10
1457.8 Albania 1645-1700 in Greek QRMed by a Russian(?) station
15370 E-sat 1700+ is today QRMed by white noise jammer
15330 Marti 1716 with news n Spanish , mentions of Salvador and other countries
of the
region ID 1720 S7 35333
7130 poss VoBM 1723 with hilife songs with signal abt S3 but fully under
amateur
6990.5 pirate 1725 with oldies Seems over modulated with max signal S3 for less
than 10
secs in a period of 4 minutes At 173o seems signed off
6970 after 1730 LHH?? with very poor signal
16.11
9750 NHK 0954 with a jap song 0956 with talks by man in JJ S2 15231 (S7/S4 QRN
with
preamp )
17560 R F Sarawak 1005 OM with talks in ML 1009 with a deli song At 1925 with
S5 S7 on
1155 S7 best in the 16 H antenna with some QRM from 17550 and possibly 17570
(Hungarian lang )
15070 CNR/CRI 1158 with a very poor signal with talks in Chinese S2/S1 with
preamp .Spur?
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
________________________
http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE
http://www.delicious.com/gr_greek1/@zach (all mypages !!)
........
Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece
greekdx @ otenet dot gr ---
Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108,
Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000
Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop
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