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Today's Topics:
1. Logs (Manuel M?ndez)
2. Glenn Hauser logs April 2, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Glenn Hauser logs April 2-3, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:33:44 +0200
From: Manuel M?ndez <[email protected]>
To: DX Listenig Digest <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs
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Manuel M?ndez
Lugo, Spain
Logs in Friol
Sony ICF SW 7600 G, cable antenna, 10 meters
BRAZIL
4915, Radiodifusora Macap?, Macap?, 0555-0630, 01-04, Brazilian songs,
male, comments. 24322. (M?ndez)
6180, Radio Nacional da Amazonia, Brasilia, 0603-0615, 01-04,
Portuguese, male and female comments and Brazilian songs. 24322. (M?ndez)
9820, Radio 9 de Julho, Sao Paulo, 0614-0625, 01-04, male, Portuguese,
religious, program "Com a Mae Aparecida". 34433. (M?ndez)
15190, Radio Inconfidencia, Belo Horizonte, 1101-1120, 01-04, male,
Portuguese, identification: "Inconfidencia, O Gigante do Ar", "Bom dia
Minas Gerais, Bom dia, Brasil", comments and Brazilian songs. 24322.
(M?ndez)
GERMANY
6140, MV Baltic Radio, *0900-1000*, 01-04, identification in German and
English, male: "MV Baltic Radio", "This is MV Baltic Radio", pop music,
comments in German. 34433. (M?ndez)
9480, Atlantic 2000, 0820-0900*, 01-04, music, French, comments, comment
about stations and programs actives years ago, Radio Luxembourg English
Service on Short Wave, The Voice of Peace and others, identification:
"Radio Atlantic 2000", songs. 44444. (M?ndez)
9480, Radio Gloria International, *1000-1040, 01-04, identification in
English: "Radio Gloria International, welcome to our two hour program",
male, German comments and music. 34433. (M?ndez)
GUATEMALA, 4055, Radio Verdad, Chiquimula, 0555-0609*, 01-04, male and
female with identification in many languages, "Estaci?n Educativa Radio
Verdad, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Centro Am?rica", "Volveremos ma?ana a la
misma hora". Anthem and close down. Best on LSB to avoid noise in this
frequency. 25322. (M?ndez)
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 09:55:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: NASWA <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 2, 2012
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** CANADA. 6160, April 2 at 0601, echoing CBC News from both CKZN and CKZU,
where no effort is made to synchronize them. One is slightly weaker than the
other, no telling which (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake April 2, before 1300:
13680, good at 1256
13920, fair at 1256
13970, fair at 1256
No thoro search of all the bands today, but just what I ran across
Before 1330:
15495, fair at 1325
15550, poor at 1325
15900, fair at 1327; none in the 16s
Before 1400:
15900, very good with flutter at 1358
After 1400:
15615, fair with het at 1406
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. The irresponsible DentroCuban Jamming Command is wildly jamming many
unoccupied frequencies, UT Monday April 2, including:
13820, at 0542, with heavy multiple pulses (daytime-only RM frequency)
11930, at 0551, heavy jamming (daytime-only RM frequency)
11775, at 0551, lite to medium jamming vs CRI Arabic via Albania (early evening
only, RM via Greenville, Sackville)
9885, at 0552, pulsing (morning & evening VOA Spanish; now VOA Botswana
escapes most of it by being on 9880 instead)
7405, at 0559, heavy jamming during RM Monday silent period
6940, at 0600, pulse jamming, stray or spur?
6030, at 0601, residual lite jamming without R. Mart?
5745, at 0606, pulse jamming, another unoccupied RM channel
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6010, 6060 and 6125, April 2 at 0604, RHC English apparently still
running until 0700, but missing from the fourth frequency 6050. Remains to be
seen if this was intentional for new A-12 schedule, or accidental. However,
6050 had some noise on it, suspiciously DRM-like, tho none scheduled in HFCC on
this or adjacents. Maybe RHC defective?
On Monday morning, the Esperanto schedule still hasn`t been updated to show
Sunday 2030 on 11760, which we heard April 1, but the English page has been,
with this ``HEDULE``, confirming that the 20 and 00 broadcasts have shifted one
UT hour earlier like last summer (even tho this nonsensically puts 60m even
further into the dayside), but not the others:
Banda Tropical 5040 23-24
Am?rica Central 11760 19-20
Am?rica del Norte 6050/6000/6060 01-07/01-05/05-07
Norte Centro y Suram?rica 6125 05-07
San Francisco 6010 05-07
The confusing three-frequencies-three times-on-one-line means that 6050 is
still supposed to be on air from 01 to 07.
How about Spanish? That too is now updated; removed meterband clutter:
Buenos Aires 15230/17580 23-04 y 11-15/11-15
Nueva York 9550/11860 11-13/11-15
San Francisco 13780 13-15
Chicago 15340/9850 13-15/11-13
Am?rica del Sur 17730 11?15 [not Suram?rica above]
Banda Tropical 5040 21?23 y 01-05
Am?rica Central 11750/9540/9810 13-15/11-15/22-06
Europa 17750 21-23
Norte Centro Suram?rica 11760/6150 11-15 y 00-05/11-13
Caribe 6120/9710/11690 23-05/21-23/11-15
Am?rica del Sur 11680/17705 23-04/21-04
MESA REDONDA (Lunes a Viernes y d?as especiales)
Am?rica del Norte 6000/15140 22:30?24
AL? PRESIDENTE (Domingo)
Am?rica Central 13680 14-18
Caribe 11690 14-18
Am?rica del Sur 17590/17750 14-18
Am?rica del Norte 15340 14-18
Some new frequencies there, notably 15140 for Mesa Redonda; and 17590, 15340
for Al? Presidente, which of course seldom happens, even when El Hugazo is not
back in Cuba for chemotherapy. As we know all too well, but RHC apparently does
not, when AP does appear, it never starts until after 1530, and can run as late
as 1930, not ``14-18`` but no doubt all other DX sources will blindly copy what
RHC puts up here, without even pointing out it is mostly missing!
RHC website has specific pages only for some of its other languages, and no
comprehensive transmission schedule in one place.
French is updated:
Am?rique du Sud 15370 22:30 - 23:00
Am?rique Centrale 11760 20:00 - 20:30
Cara?be 5040 00:30 - 01:00
Europa 17750 19:30 - 20:00
http://www.radiohc.cu 18:30 - 19:00 20:00 - 21:00 00:30 - 01:00
That confirms what was supposed to occupy dead air on 17750 April 1.
Portuguese: this page http://www.radiohc.cu/pt/
is still ``under construxion`` and I am prompted to log in?!
Arabic, time backwards in Roman but when copied comes out forward:
17750 20:30 - 21
Creole and Quechua aren`t worthy of even a mention on the RHC website (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, April 2 at 0558, IGIM is on and chanting, very good signal
this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 6170, Monday April 2 at 1329, RNZI Mailbox is already underway
with Adrian Sainsbury only, no Oh. Right into Bryan Clark`s DX report also
before 1330 has been reached, starting with his visit to Cooper`s Beach, and
American expatriate satellite TV and TV DX guru Bob Cooper; and then a string
of current SW DX news upward by frequency, including one item I had not heard
about before:
BOLIVIA: 6134.82, R. Santa Cruz heard on extended sked UT Sun & Mon, weekends
only? Nonstop music fade-in circa 0400 to ID, closing at 0608* one day, 0504*
the next day.
He refers to R. Africa, 15190 being in the ``tiny West African nation of
Equatorial Guinea``, best at 0600-0730 with American religious teaching in the
English language (to put it politely) also traces prior to 2000, usually QRM
from Brazil 15189.93. And 5005, R. Nacional reactivated, poor at 0600, 1915.
Galei Zahal, 15785, 5 kW in Hebrew, heard *over* CRI English at 0500, with
recording.
6170 was holding up surprisingly well more than an hour after sunrise here. But
by the second item about propagation (should we be worried about sunspots,
CMEs? marginally) around 1345, too much local noise to copy well, yet it is
still the SSOB.
Well worth going back to listen online, for the clips of some of the DX and Bob
Cooper`s 103.5 FM station, just what I am doing while writing this,
http://www.rnzi.com/audio/mailbox.mp3
which is the permanent URL for whatever is the latest programme, this one
maintaining for a biweek (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 15650, April 2 at 1359 fast SAH between two
transmitters, 1400 Voice of Greece IS, and presumably R. Liberty, Germany in
Turkmen. But at 1401 I am just about sure there is a very weak third
understation, with ramshorn call, The Overcomer Ministry mentioned, intonations
of Brother Scare, not // or at least not synchro with 9385 WWRB. 1402 ID from
IFTH, Greece.
Then at 1404 I check 15190, Brother Scare via IRRS via ROMANIA, which was
certainly there before 1400, but now just a dead carrier, or JBM, or atop some
other JBA station, Eq. Guinea? 1408 some keyboard music fill has started, 1409
rejoining BS, which I time as 49 seconds behind WWRB. So 15650 is not a
frequency change from the 15190 service, but something additional.
On March 29, Wolfgang B?schel measured Greece 15 Hz high, which would account
for the ``fast SAH``, and at 1359 it ``covered a religious prayer underneath on
approx 15650.0 totally, midst on the station announcement in Greek started at
CRASH character at 1401:07 UT``. One would think the ``religious prayer`` was
not from R. Liberty, especially if it was in English?
Ivo Ivanov, DX Re Mix News, Bulgaria, reported March 28: ``ARMENIA/USA, Test
transmissions of Brother Stair TOM in English: Daily 1202-1402 15650#ERV 300 kW
/ 125 deg SEAs from March 20 and continued --- # from 1350 strong co-channel by
ERA-5 Greek and from 1400 by RL in Turkmen`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 15385, Monday April 2 at 1431, very poor signal with ME music, could
have taken for Arabic, but must be Sephardic, in REE`s weekly service at
1425-1455, now no longer suffering ACI from RHC which has moved to 15340;
announcement and on to more westernized music.
Now the two repeats need to be confirmed as on A-12 schedule:
UT Tue 0115-0145 on 11795 to SAm, really here and not colliding with Brasil on
alternate 11780? HFCC on 11795 only, but was on 11780 anyway
UT Tue 0415-0445 on 9650, really here rather than alternate 9690? As usual
HFCC-registered on both (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12133.5-USB, UT Monday April 2 at 0544 I am checking AFN Florida one
more time in case Jim Hightower commentary appear when it ought to, one UT hour
earlier than during standard time, but which slot has been occupied by other
stuff for weeks --- and I am rewarded! Jim is back, at 0544-0546, topic JOBS.
Hope this stix. Should be UT Mon-Fri at this time, and also on unchecked //
7811-USB and 5446.5-USB. The schedule at
http://myafn.dodmedia.osd.mil/AFNRadio.aspx
still lacks the block ``22:00 US Pacific Time`` for Sat & Sun, but does not
show him either for Mon-Thu. Unknown if he is on the AFN schedule at any time
whatsoever, since it`s not searchable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 12105, WTWW-3 had been opening nominally at 8 am CT, which
means 1300 instead of 1400 UT now, but April 2 absent before and after 1300.
Instead, very weak signal in Chinese, with a break at 1259, i.e. due NW from
KSDA GUAM, also scheduled 11-15, except until July 1 the final hour 14-15 is
due NE via Trincomalee, SRI LANKA instead, per HFCC.
Wondering when WTWW will ever come on, I leave a receiver on 12105, and finally
it pops on with usual bigsig at *1359:23 with Arabible in progress; no ID, no
sign-on. IDs are automated in at odd times during the hours.
Meanwhile, 9479 WTWW-1 with SFAW remains quite reliably on air, but at 1319
today I notice the modulation is lower than usual, still with the usual ripple.
WTWW-2 which tested mostly with Brother Scare in Feb and early March, on 9990
day, 5085 night, remains silent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9390, April 2 at 1312, WEWN English frequency has lost it: no
intelligible modulation, just the sounds of extended flatulence, or should I
say, motorboating? Finally at 1316 abrupt ID and ``joining program in
progress``, but modulation cuts off and on, and the same noise continues in the
background. 1318 carrier too cuts off and on, modulation on and off, still
motorboating. All this abutts Brother Scare only 5 kHz away on 9385 WWRB. WEWN
should be put out of its misericordia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 21:22:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: NASWA <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 2-3, 2012
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
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** CUBA [and non]. 17750, April 2 at 1945, RHC is managing to modulate, in
French, unlike 24 hours earlier with at least a sesquihour of dead air
supposedly for Europe. At 2011 it`s in Portuguese as also scheduled, and at
2037 check in Arabic, but both with huge QRDRM from The Disco Palace via Guiana
French, which has been on 17750-17755-17760 for several seasons now in the
20-21 UT hour, aiming USward.
This is Arnie`s biggest blunder, so far, in mismanaging the A-12 frequencies of
RHC: he should have known that because of the 17755 DRM, 17750 was not the
place to put RHC on the wide-open 16m band which has scads of unused
frequencies. Not that he cares about QRMing other stations: he`s demonstrated
time and again that nothing matters but #1, as an outlaw station, condoning and
facilitating jamming, refusing to participate in HFCC, refusing to let HCJB
have its only frequency 6050 back, etc., etc.; but this usage is damaging RHC
itself, so we eagerly await a correxion, no doubt without any admission of
guilt.
I`ve also brought this to the attention of TDP`s Ludo Maes, who might want to
make the move himself. But please, not any closer to RCI on 17735. Not a bad
idea anyway, since TDP also collides directly with REE Noblejas 17755 on
weekends. A look at the latest Aoki shows *nothing* at 20-21 on any frequency
from 17760 to 17845, except:
17775, KVOH, imaginary, off the air for a few years now
HFCC shows some additional probably wooden entries, not in Aoki:
17785 KHBN
17845 Oman
So allowing for 15 kHz of protexion, any frequency from 17770 to 17835 would be
fine for TDP [aside from the weekend octet of weak spurs from REE/Costa Rica
17850 I accumulated]. If RHC were to move up and has to have the same frequency
until 2300 in Spanish, a couple more conflicts would arise, but still plenty of
options, not to mention lots of spots for either in the 17.5 to 17.7 MHz range.
BTW, looking over RHC`s newly posted A-12 schedule in Spanish which I copied
into my previous report, only one channel is shown on the air until 0600, 9810,
and I think this must be a mistake, as in summer all the others are closing
(nominally) by 0500; and in fact already April 1, 9810 was off by 0500,
fortunately for the Vatican with which it had been colliding since A-12 began.
Some further RHC monitoring in this new season:
15370, April 3 at 0002 is open carrier, still at 0006; off by next check 0026.
This semihour in B-11 was the Quechua service, presumably also what was missing
today, just like Arabic, Portuguese and French were missing Sunday from 17750
--- pity the poor program producers who wasted their efforts because some
operator down the line was not paying attention. It`s *always* something wrong,
at RHC!
Unlike 24 hours earlier, 17705 is on and inbooming, at 0002 just finishing a
frequency announcement in Spanish ending with 5040. 15230 also in Spanish, much
weaker.
5040, missed confirming whether English is really at 23-24 now as scheduled,
but at 0011 it`s very good in Kriyol, and at 0031 in French
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 12000, April 3 at 0009, VOA Spanish is apparently not being
jammed, at least none audible, but VOA`s own modulation is rather distorted.
9885 has pulse jamming but VOA atop it. 5890 has poor signal, and no jamming
audible tho Cuba is propagating well enough as low as 5040.
5955, April 3 at 0024, wall-of-noise jamming against nothing, no carrier
detectable from R. Rep?blica 5954.2v, apparently not on the air weeknights, or
at least not during this hour. Can`t be too careful (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, April 2 at 1945, R. Africa is back, poor signal
starting or ending a gospel huxter, YL giving 800 number and PO Box in Atlanta,
Georgia. By 2014, however, seems to be off as only a much weaker trace on
15190, probably Brasil, with YFR Ascension 15195 ACI added. Bill Bingham, RSA,
was also hearing Bata today before 1730 when blasted by R. Pilipinas (which
would have been off by 1930) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9420 // weaker 7475 and weaker 7450, April 3 at 0019 with Greek
music, so all three VOG transmitters are operating now, and not on 15 MHz.
Usage may vary from day to day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 11620, April 3 at 0011, fluttery open carrier, no doubt AIR prior to
0015 Urdu service via Bengaluru; at 0020 it`s modulating music (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, April 3 at 0021, presumed IGIM is on with music; will it
be all-night this time, or just late with a break? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15115-15120-15125, April 2 at 1900 UT check on the portable DX-398
in a mall parking lot, with BFO I can detect DRM noise next to very strong REE
15110 on AM, which is not splattering too much today. So after missing several
days, VON must be back with the 19-20 DRM hour via Abuja; are they also still
preceding it with an hour in analog from Ikorodu? If they cared to be heard,
they would run the new transmitter in AM! The analog 0445+ broadcast has not
been audible for several nights either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [non]. 9665, April 3 at 0016, V. of Russia in English to N America
has co-channel QRM with audio and making a fast SAH. The brute force of 500 kW
from PRIDNESTROVYE is not enough against the 10 kW from BRASIL`s R. Voz
Mission?ria, probably, tho it could also be CNR5 100 kW from Beijing scheduled
until 0100, or even N. Korea, 50 kW non-direxional 22 hours a day. VOR // 9800
is clear enough, 500 kW due northwest via ``Armavir``.
As Ken Fletcher points out to the BDXC-UK yg, VOR sked:
http://english.ruvr.ru/engradio /
Transmission schedule in English by target area. 9800 and 9665 are duplicated
both for North and Latin America at 22-02 and 23-02 respectively, but at 02-04,
9665 is for Latin America only, despite HFCC registrations showing 9665 on
exactly the same 309 degree antenna for the entire span, 23-04, so who are they
kidding? Merging all the Western Hemisphere frequencies, North and Latin
America, this is all we get! O, for the good old days of 20 R. Moscow
frequencies at once!
22-02 9800
23-04 9665
02-04 15425
04-06 13775
This does not mean different frequencies, same sites after 0200 and 0400 UT
changes: 9800 and 9665 are from Europe, 15425 and 13775 from Pet/Kam, DVR (Far
East Russia), 65 and 61 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SERBIA [non]. 9685, April 3 at 0029, IRS IS, very good, 0030 opening in
English mentioning 6100 for Europe, 9685 for US (and no mention now of 9635 or
9640). It`s the usual M announcer, whose accent is too heavy for the rate at
which he speaks. Know thy audience (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 11795, UT Tuesday April 3 at 0135 check, REE very good with Sephardic
music in weekly 0115-0145 service to South America.
On Nov 14, 2011, as in DXLD 11-47, I confirmed that this broadcast was
colliding with Brasil on 11780 despite announcing 11795, so gave up trying to
hear it for the rest of B-11 --- but now it really is on 11795, and in the
clear! Like it was in A-11. But in B-12 I bet they resume colliding, oblivious
of the situation, possibly because Brasil refuses to participate in HFCC, so as
far as HFCC is concerned, this 250 kW transmitter is vaporware.
The final repeat of Emisi?n Sefarad, to North America, confirmed on 9690, not
9650, with IS starting at *0412 UT Tuesday April 3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, April 3 at 0013, tone test with flutter; by 0020 signal is
fair with flutter, now drumming, vocal anthem(?), 0025 YL ID as ``Sri Lanka
Broadcasting Corporation`` in English, but the rest in S Asian language --- not
Sinhala but the Hindi service starts at 0020. Then man singing alternating with
chanting, 0032 string music.
Nothing audible yet on 15745, but it does not start until 0100 and is only 10
kW, vs 250 kW on 11905 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, April 3 at 0015, WRMI ID and `Viva Miami`, another interview by
Jeff White in Spanish with visiting Argentine DXer Rub?n Guillermo Margenet,
who has been seeing the sights including radio facilities in Florida and
Washington DC; seems he is impressed by America. His reports in the condig list
will be in DXLD. He says there are three 15-minute VMs interviewing him, which
should be availablized at http://programasdx.com/ At the moment WRMI is only
about equal to the pulse jamming level, so I don`t try to listen now. Tnx a
lot, Arnie! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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