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Today's Topics:
1. Radio Gloria & European Music Radio this Sunday (tom taylor)
2. Log Serbia NF (Eike Bierwirth)
3. Glenn Hauser logs February 24-25, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
4. Feb 25-26 Logs (Brian Alexander)
5. Kaliningrad DRM Test (Eike Bierwirth)
6. FRS Holland now on air (Manuel M?ndez)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:58:15 -0000
From: "tom taylor" <[email protected]>
To: "tom taylor" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Gloria & European Music Radio this Sunday
Message-ID: <B7BE3DCA44304092A72924DBC9E9A1B7@dellcb21k2j>
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Radio Gloria & European Music Radio this Sunday
Dear Listeners,
E.M.R. and Radio Gloria are on the air this Sunday the 26th of February 2012
MVBR Schedule for 9480 KHz with 1 KW:
Station Name Time Slot Channels & Internet
repeats
E.M.R. 08.00 to 09.00 UTC 9480 kHz www.emr.org.uk
<http://www.emr.org.uk/>
Radio Gloria 09.00 to 11.00 UTC 9480 kHz
Radio Gloria 10.00 to 11.00 UTC 6005 kHz
"shortwaveservice.com"/6005
Radio Gloria 13.00 to 15.00 UTC 9480 kHz (repeat) from 09.00
UTC
Radio Gloria 16.00 to 17.00 UTC "Coloradio.org"
Please send all Radio Gloria reports to: [email protected]
Please send all E.M.R. reports to: <mailto:[email protected]>
[email protected]
PS: Main Schedule for 9480 KHz for 2012:
1st Sunday MV Baltic Radio
3rd Sunday E M R
4th Sunday R Gloria
Technical Information for Receiving 9480 KHz:
The transmitter at G?hren is using A3H (carrier with upper side band)
modulation.
If you use a normal AM - shortwave receiver, please tune exactly to 9480
KHz.
If you use a SSB - receiver, please tune to 9480 KHz, USB - mode for best
results.
Good Listening 73s Tom
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:51:44 +0100
From: "Eike Bierwirth" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Log Serbia NF
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Int. Radio of Serbia, 25 Feb 2012, 9640 kHz instead of 9635, in Arabic at 1540
UTC. Numerous reports about Serbia and Kosovo. Strong signal, some QRM from
Radio Vaticana on 9645. 9635 has a weak RCI via Xian, possibly the reason for
the change, and also VTN/CHL/MLI listed.
73,
Eike
Leipzig, Germany
Perseus + DX-10Pro Active Antenna
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:29:01 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: NASWA <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 24-25, 2012
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
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** CHINA. Firedrake Feb 25, before 1330:
11500, nothing ever here today, just:
12230, fair with flutter at 1320 just after first found on 12300
12300, poor with flutter at 1320
Before 1400:
12230, good at 1346
12300, good at 1346
12670, good with flutter at 1346 during drumming-only passage, edit
12980, JBA at 1345
13680, good at 1347
15535, very poor at 1349 vs het from 15538 presumed V. of Tibet
15900, good with flutter at 1350
16100, fair at 1350; none in the 17s, 18s
After 1400:
11970, fair at 1444
12230, very good at 1444
12670, very good at 1444
13130, fair at 1445
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. 11885, Feb 25 at 1318, romantic song in Spanish; can it
possibly be CRI via CANADA as scheduled with usual VG signal? Yes, it can, 1319
no back-announce, but ID as ``China Drive on Easy FM``, into bear bile story in
English. What next?
Decimating all kinds of wildlife for imaginary benefits to humans of their
organs, is surely one of the most despicable aspects of Chinese culture and its
cousins (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 11750, Feb 25 at 1315, RHC is back on scheduled frequency
after departure (punch up error?) to 11705, 24 hours earlier. Segment // 11760
et al., about Cuba`s support for the Saharans, including a clip of the RASD
ambassador to Cuba speaking a strange variety of AfroSpanish. Does this mean
Cuba has no relations with evil Morocco? Meanwhile their own SW outlet 6297v
remains quelled; we surely miss it.
RHC anomaly today: at 1322 Feb 25, 13670 is missing, but 13780 is on. By 1347,
13670 is also on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, Feb 25 at 0555, R. Truth in English signing off until 5 am
[11 UT], with cowboy hymn music accompaniment, then a prayer(?) with music;
0558 into multi-lingual sign-offs accompanied by Hammond organ: Spanish, 0559
English, 0600 German YL, 0601 Italian, 0602 Swedish, 0603 Japanese, 0604 local
vernacular including Spanish words, times approximate; 0605 starting
multi-verse NA by children`s choir. Good signal as usual for less than 1 kW,
and with BFO, carrier is slightly unstable.
Feb 25 is the twelfth anniversary of R. Verdad. A quick look at the website
http://www.radioverdad.org does not find any mention of this; however this note
about last year: ``El s?bado 26 de Febrero, celebramos nuestro 11? ANIVERSARIO,
y tuvimos actividades especiales desde las 22:00 horas UTC.`` Might want to
check the webcast around that hour this weekend (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 6600, Feb 25 at 1339, // weaker 6518, V. of the
People, from South to North, in Korean talk, free of jamming.
9335, Feb 25 at 1342, JBA carrier probably not VOK`s English to America, but R.
Azadi (Free Afghanistan) via Kuwait; and nothing at all on 11710.
The following French hour, however, was on the air at 1434, 9335 good with some
CCI, // 11710 at 1438 now with choral music.
It seems that a lot of jamming and VOK transmissions have been missing lately,
due to electricity shortage. Martyn Williams, Tokyo, wrote DXLD yg Feb 24:
For the last couple of days, most of North Korea's jamming has been silent.
Voice of Korea is also missing broadcasts and cutting others short. Electricity
supply problems are the likely cause.
http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/02/24/dprk-radio-disappears/
That`s Martyn`s own blog which concludes, ``Earlier in February, Reuters
reported that Pyongyang is facing its "worst electricity shortages in years,"
quoting a foreign diplomat based in the city.``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1700, Feb 25 at 1258 UT, orchestral Mexican NA is playing, 1259 ESPN
promos in English, ``ESPN Radio 1700`` no callsign ID heard, but no doubt XEPE
Tecate BCN, for all intents and purposes a San Diego station for Alta
California Sur, no doubt the least interesting of all border stations (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 6010, Feb 25 at 1253, R. Rossii, Pet/Kam on new frequency
with harp music and no trace of XEOI; and at 1340 no nothing on 6010. Juli?n
Santiago D?ez de Bonilla, DF, responded Feb 24 to our query that it is off:
``Hola Glenn: por el momento est? fuera del aire XEOI. Saludos, Juli?n`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAIPAN. 9360, Feb 25 at 1335, Russian talk from R. Svoboda/Liberty has some
modulation breakup on otherwise sufficient signal.
BTW, CSPAN2`s Book TV this morning featured the incredible story of ``King
Larry``, founder of DHL, etc., etc., half-hour video/audio:
http://www.booktv.org/Program/13159/King+Larry+The+Life+and+Ruins+of+a+Billionaire+Genius.aspx
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. 17735, following up my last report, from 1600, how long is IWT on
this frequency? Recheck Feb 24 at 1811, Arabic still audible with fair signal.
Rerecheck at 1948, not heard, but could have outfaded meanwhile (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 15510 and weaker // 13825, Saturday-only frequencies of BBCWS via
CYPRUS, are usually in English, but Feb 25 at 1518 they are not! Presumed the
language nominally scheduled, Somali, but still seems to be live coverage of a
silly ballgame. I listen for a few minutes trying to decide which sport it
could be. Football most likely, but crowd noises not hyper-excited. A bit more
staid: could it be cricket? Tried to hear any batcrax, but not for sure. Is
there a colonial legacy of cricket in British Somaliland? Is cricket in season
in Britain itself? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Greenville is having transmitter problems during VOA Spanish: Feb 25
at 1322, no signals on 13750 or 15590 (no jamming either), so I wonder if VOA
has decided to cancel 13-14 morning Spanish on weekends? No, there it is on the
third frequency, 9885, which is heavily jammed, despite only inconsequential
musical programming as usual on Saturday, playing a country hit from 1994 (in
English, natch). At 1325, 15590 is now on the air with program, and 13750 is on
with carrier only. At 1330, audio starts cutting on and off every second on
13750, then stays on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15825 and 7490, WWCR, Sat Feb 25 at 1426 are both airing the same
``Why Not?`` hymn sung by Martha Garvin, but far out of synch. Must be separate
playbacks instead of combined. Yep, the Feb 1 program schedule shows her
`Musical Memories` on both WWCR-1 and -2, Sat at 1400 (Glenn Hasuere, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11715.1, Feb 25 at 1441, KJES is undermodulated, distorted,
catechisms mixed with guitar + hymnsing, SNAFU. Suffers by comparison to the
robochoir from Pyongyang adjacent on 11710 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1605: On WRMI 9955: Sat 1830, Sun 0900, 1630, 1830,
Mon 0600, 1230; on WTWW 5755: UT Sun 0500; on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB: UT
Mon 0330v. On Hamburger Lokalradio 5980: Tue 1030. On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat
& Sun 1830, Sun 0930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 680, Sat Feb 25 at 1301 UT, good signal from KNBR San Francisco with
its only significant hour intellexually breaking away from stupid ballgames,
`Commonwealth Club`, introducing this week`s speaker, Dr Margaret Hamburg, US
FDA Commissioner. I wonder if KNBR retains a modicum of public service donated
time or if CC has to purchase it, even at 5 am local? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1700, Feb 25 at 1309 UT, frequency dominated a few minutes earlier by
XEPE is now with stand-up comedy in English about male prostitutes, ha ha, no
doubt KKLF, The Metroplex TX with its new format since Feb 1 uniquely on this
frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1190, Feb 25 at 1306 UT, something in Spanish, fragments of ID,
``esuchando la V [? or a rhyming letter], la estaci?n m?s importante``, lost in
too much QRM.
By Googling on the frequency and the slogan, I was at first pleased to get some
hits, on the Koje/komex list, but a single pdf page
http://www.tapiokalmi.net/dx/koje/10OCT2011-KOMEX-1kW-or-more.pdf
contains all the frequencies, and the only station shown for that is XEI 1300
Morelia.
This could easily be a US station, such as the previously heard KNUV in
Phoenix, [Feniz?] Arizona; do they call themselves that? Not on their homepage
http://www.onda1190am.com/ but maybe would hear it by taking time to listen to
their stream, if only the flash player would work (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6023, Feb 25 at 1430 a carrier here with no modulation
detectable, poor but at least equal in strength to 6025, RFA TINIAN, in
Cantonese which is a language normally not worth jamming. I previously observed
the same on Dec 9 as in DXLD 11-50, but no explanations were forthcoming;
standard remark about Avogadro`s number (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:00:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Alexander <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Feb 25-26 Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
** ARGENTINA. 13363.5 LSB, Radio Continental, 2330-2355, Spanish
play-by-play futbol coverage. ID. Weak but readable. Feb 25. (Brian
Alexander, PA)
?
** DJIBOUTI. 4780, Radio Djibouti, *0300-0335, sign on with National
Anthem. Arabic talk at 0301. Qur`an at 0303. Arabic talk at 0312.
Indigenous music. Poor. Weak. Feb 26. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** ERITREA. 7204.98, Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea - program 1,
*0255-0315, sign on with IS. Vernacular talk at 0301. Local Horn of
Africa music. Weak. Poor with adjacent channel splatter and HAM
QRM. Feb 26. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** ERITREA. 7175, Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea - program 2,
*0255-0315, sign on with IS. Vernacular talk at 0301. Horn of Africa
music. Poor to fair with HAM QRM. Feb 26. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** EUROPE. PIRATE. 6306.08v. Double Kilo Radio, 0120-0209*,
Weak but fair on peaks. Pop music. Ballads. DJ chatter. ID. Contact
information. Think they gave a Netherland?s address. Varying between
6306.09-6306.07. Feb 26. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** LIBYA. 11600, Radio T?l?vision Libye - Radio Libye, *1756-1803*,
Tentative. Sign on with instrumental music. French talk. Short breaks
of instrumental music. No ID heard. Fair. Feb 25. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 1710, Undercover Radio, 0314-0337*,
Dr Benway radio-drama about aliens and ghosts. Sound effects. Lite
music. IDs. Email address. Merlin, Ontario mail drop. Weak but readable.
?Broadcasting from the middle of nowhere?. Shoutout to the Michigan
DXpedition team. Feb 26. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6925 USB, Undercover Radio, 0404-
0430+, lite music. IDs. Contact information. Shoutout to MARE DX-
pedition group. Talk by Dr Benway. Said this was their First Anniversary
Show featuring highlights of 2003 season. Good signal. Feb 26. (Brian
Alexander, PA)
?
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6925 USB, Radio Ga Ga, *0022-0050,
sign on with 4 Non-Blondes mx. ID. Pop music by Beatles, Bob Dylan,
Billy Joel and others. Fair. Feb 26. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6925 USB, Wolverine Radio, 0114-0120,
oldies music. ID. Really booming in. Feb 26. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** SYRIA. 9330, Radio Damascus, 1906-1934*, tune-in to French talk.
Local pop music. Abrupt sign off. In the past their French service has
signed off around 1930-1945. Mixing with WBCQ. Must use ECSS-
LSB to avoid WBCQ as much as possible. Slight hum in audio.
Fair to good levels on occasional peaks but an overall poor to fair
signal. Feb 25. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** SYRIA. 9330, Radio Damascus, *2103-2204, sign on with a weak
threshold signal but improved with weak to fair modulation by 2130.
English talk. Instrumental music. Local music. Into Spanish at 2201.
Slight hum in audio. Mixing with WBCQ. Must use ECSS-LSB to avoid
WBCQ. An overall poor signal. Feb 25. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
?
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
?
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 08:54:01 +0100
From: "Eike Bierwirth" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Kaliningrad DRM Test
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Just scanned the 41 m band when I stumbled upon this 1-minute DRM test
broadcast:
http://www.eibispace.de/dx/DRM-Kaliningrad-Test-7325kHz-20120226-0732UTC.jpg
It signed on at 07:32, 26 Feb 2012 (I had just scanned 7325 a minute earlier
when it was empty) and signed off again at 07:33. The DRM tag "Label Service 0"
and the ID FF0010 indicate that this originated in Bolshakovo/Kaliningrad,
Russia, acc. to info from Wolfgang B?schel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 24, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST via RUS-DX 210A.
73,
Eike
Leipzig, Germany
Perseus + DX-10pro active antenna
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:16:16 +0100
From: Manuel M?ndez <[email protected]>
To: DX Listenig Digest <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] FRS Holland now on air
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Manuel M?ndez
Lugo, Spain
FRS Hollan now on air. *0753-0805, 26-02, tunning music, pop music and
identification in English: "FRS Holland", SINPO 34433 on 7600 kHz and
13221 on 6240 kHz.
Sunday February 26th, FRSH will be on 7600//6240 kHz for no less than 6
hours between 07.52- 14.03 UTC/ 08.52- 15.03 CET.
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