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Today's Topics:
1. 15492 / 15490 - 15558 / 15560 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
2. QSL Report for Al Muick (Albert Muick)
3. Glenn Hauser logs April 14-15, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
4. April 14-15 Logs (Brian Alexander)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:47:48 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>, "DXLD"
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] 15492 / 15490 - 15558 / 15560
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TAJIKISTAN 15492 / 15558 Voice of Tibet via Yangi Yul at 1335 UT April
15, S=8-9 signal in Tibetan. Firedrake music jamming appeared from China
mainland on lower 15490 kHz and upper 15560 kHz, equal level.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 15)
ps. VoKorea from Pyongyang still on winter schedule TODAY.
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:49:07 -0400
From: Albert Muick <[email protected]>
To: DXLD <[email protected]>, HCDX <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] QSL Report for Al Muick
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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CANADA, CKOC, Hamilton Ontario, 1150, full data logo/flag eQSL in 64
days for English airmail report and 1 IRC. V/s Chris Fernick, Chief
Engineer
INDIA, AIR Thiruvanathapuram, 5010, full data Footprint of Buddha card
via New Delhi in 661 days for English email report, then follow-up via
registered airmail in September 2011 with 3 IRCs. Card received in 170
days after follow-up. Like pulling teeth!
USA, WSCR, Chicago, Illinois, 670, full data letter in 219 days for
English first-class mail report with a first-class stamp return postage
and email folow-up to GM. QSL received 60 days after email follow-up.
V/s Mark Nielsen, Chief Operator.
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Radio Vila Verde, Macao - a curious and intriguing tale of QSL non-receipt:
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I chanced to hear this elusive mediumwave station in April 2010 while on
vacation in Pattaya Thailand. I promptly sent them a reception report
via airmail in Portuguese with US $5 via airmail, along with an English
version of the report in May 2010.
I followed up with an email to the station (from their website) in
August of 2010 without result. After I returned to the USA, I sent them
another follow-up via registered email with letters in Portuguese,
simplified Chinese and English with 3 IRCs in September of 2011. In
October of 2011, I received the pink receipt card back, indicating they
had signed for my letter on the 23rd of September 2011.
Finally, out of desperation, I sent a polite letter requesting
assistance to the Chinese Embassy in Washington DC. I received the
following letter reply:
"Dear Mr. Muick,
We have been trying to help you contact Radio Vila Verde. We finally
spoke to someone from the station who refused to disclose his name.
According to what he said, they didn't receive your letter. We offered
transferring your letter to them, but were refused."
Wow. I wonder who signed for the registered letter then, if they did
not receive it? Interestingly, no one signed the letter form the
Chinese Embassy, nor was it on official stationery, however it did
arrive in an official envelope. The man refused to disclose is name?!
Refused a letter from the Chinese Embassy?!
A case of pass-the-buck, or international intrigue? You decide, my dear
colleagues.
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So, I am now somewhat ensconced in Williamsport, Pennsylvania and still
looking for s short-term DX property to rent until this contract is
over. Wish me luck.
73 to all!
Al Muick
Williamsport, PA
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:00:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: NASWA <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 14-15, 2012
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** CHINA. Firedrake April 15 circa 1330:
15500, very poor at 1330 with het on lo side
15550, very poor at 1330 with het on lo side
16100, poor at 1332
17450, very poor at 1332
None on the 14s, 13s, 12s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6010, 6050, 6060, 6125, Sunday April 15 at 0518, RHC in Esperanto
instead of English! Usual span of signals, best to worst, 6010, 6050, 6125,
6060. 0527 wrapping up without a schedule announcement, but the M is Mario
Ru?z; 0528 IS, and opening an English hour repeat of April 14, a semi-hour out
of step, as if nothing had happened. Was this a playback mistake?
The RHC Espo website is unchanged since B-11
http://www.radiohc.cu/eo/interesaoj/frekvencoj.html
``GEOGRAFIA REGIONO FREKVENCOJ MHZ [sic] BANDO METROJ HOROJ
Norte, Centro y Suram?rica 11760 Khz 25 15-15:30 UTC
San Francisco 6010 Khz 49 07-07:30 UTC
Suram?rica 15370 Khz 19 22:30-23 UTC``
Which also fails to specify it is Sunday only! I.e. the ``San Francisco``
broadcast had been at 0700 UT Sunday, tacked on to the end of the English
broadcasts but on only one of the four frequencies. And now it is heard two
hours earlier on all of them. I try not to be awake at 0700 so can`t say what
has really been happening then.
The ``Suram?rica`` broadcast on the first day of RHC`s new schedule, April 1,
may have been at 2230 on 15370, unchecked, since I ran across it at an earlier
unscheduled time, 2030 on 11760, and assumed that was intentional. But on April
8, Esperanto was missing at 2030 and indeed heard at 2230.
Now on April 15 I need to confirm whether the third broadcast is still at 1500
on 11760? At that hour the other frequencies are closing, but the IS on 11760
is out of step with 11860 which soon goes off. It seems that the program feed
line to 11760 has switched, but then from 1501:40 that is cut off leaving dead
air. Will they ever start playing back Esperanto now? No, monitored the whole
semihour of dead air. The transmitter stayed on with no modulation --- that`s
half the battle! Without BFO on, did not notice exactly when they turned it
off, but maybe around 1530.
RHC are a bit more on the ball in putting up audio on demand, via
http://www.radiohc.cu/eo/sono.html
The April 15 broadcast is already there, so what schedule does it announce at
the outset? Same old one, as above; what do they know?
N/C/SAm 15 11760
SF 07 6010
SAm 2230 15370 ``nova horo``
15340, April 15 at 1404-1408, four minutes of dead air before Spanish
modulation cut back on; meanwhile the other frequencies were modulating,
including 9540, 11690, 11750, 11760, 11860, 15230.
17580, April 15 at 1409, this frequency has been turned off again an hour
earlier than claimed, still on 17730
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, April 15 at 0510, not even a carrier detectable from XEPPM,
amid the strong signals from Brasil 6180 [UT Sundays only at this hour], and
China/Canada on 6190. Which reminds me that I haven`t noticed R. Educaci?n at
other hours lately either. Is it off the air? I`ve asked Juli?n Santiago in the
DF, also about whether R. Mil is still absent from 6010 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 15310, April 14 at 1857 fair signal with music, 1900 timesignal,
Romanian. So it`s RRI`s two-sesquihour 300 kW, 285 degree broadcast from
Galbeni to France, each hour 17-18, 18-19, 19-20 registered separately in HFCC,
why? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** THAILAND [and non]. 9395, April 15 at 1406, JBA carrier presumed HSK9 in
English as scheduled to SE Asia at 1400-1430. Now it`s free of ACI from WEWN
9390 plus squishy spurs, their English broadcast still unfound anywhere, and
maybe R. Thailand is listenable further west. Multi-hop signals were generally
attenuated in all direxions today, subpar propagation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1612 monitoring: confirmed with excellent signal on
5755, UT Sunday April 15 after 0400. Remaining WRMI 9955 repeats: Sunday 1530,
1730, Monday 0500, 1130. On HLR Germany 5980: Tuesday 0930 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11520, April 15 at 0504, WEWN in English, and 11870 Spanish both with
good signals unlike usually in the nightmiddle, but 7555 Spanish even better.
9390 still missing at 1406 yet still on their own website schedule; see
THAILAND (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 21660, re my JBA unID here April 13 at 1916 when nothing is
listed: another possibility occurs, third harmonic from 7 MHz band, 7220?
Nothing on 7220 either at this hour in HFCC, but Aoki and EiBi remind us it
could be V of Broad Masses of Eritrea on one of its many alternate jumparound
frequencies; which as an outlaw nation refuses to participate in HFCC. But
certainly unlikely to be getting out that late at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:20:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Alexander <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] April 14-15 Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** BOLIVIA. 6134.81, Radio Santa Cruz, 0055-0116*, Spanish pop
music. Spanish talk. Sign off with Santa Cruz song. Poor in noisy
conditions. April 15. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** CUBA. 17795, 17660, Radio Havana Cuba, 2230-2257*, weak
leapfrogging spurs of 17705 and 17750. Note 45 kHz separation
between each frequency. Spanish talk. Spurs off the air when
17750 signs off at 2257. April 14. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6924.3, Hot Legs Radio, *2340-0010,
music from James Bond movies. Pop music by Whitney Houston
and others. IDs. Email address. Poor in noisy conditions. April 14-15.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
?
?
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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