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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs May 10-11, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
2. May 6-11 Logs (Brian Alexander)
3. Re: [dxld] May 6-11 Logs (Wolfgang Bueschel)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 09:49:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: NASWA <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 10-11, 2012
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** ANGUILLA. 11775, missing earlier today, May 10 at 2001 check, DGS is back on
air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 15515, UT Friday May 11 at 0300, RA has signed on in
English, // 15160 which also just started, and 15240 which was already on. I
was looking for a revived French broadcast as in the WRTH Update, M-F 0300-0315
on 15240, 15515, plus Brandon 12080. Then received RA`s own A12 schedule at
last, showing instead: French 0300-0330 M-F on 15515 and 12080 only. But no
French, at least not yet.
11945 has been a good new frequency for RA in our mornings, altho usually
weaker than 9580. It`s always been clear when heard after 1200, but May 11 I am
listening at 1138 and find there is CCI in Chinese underneath. HFCC (which
still hasn`t been updated for a week, and still has no SHP registrations at
all), shows the Chinese is R. Veritas Asia, PHILIPPINES, 250 kW non-direxional
(or due north?) at 10-12.
WRTH Update shows the RA 11945 hours are 0600-1530. RA`s own schedule agrees,
but in two segments, 0600-1000 at 100 degrees, 1000-1530 at 70 degrees. 70 is
best for us, and I don`t recall RA using a 100 degree azimuth before; it`s
shown nowhere else on their complete schedule. Could it be a typo? Or a hefty
slew. 100 from Shep is aimed across North Island NZ near Hamilton, then not
much of anything except French Polynesia, and Pitcairn at 108 degrees, entering
North America at Guatemala (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BIAFRA [non]. 11870, Thu May 10 at 2054, poor signal with talk; 2058 unseems
English, so Igbo? Mentions kilohertz, off at 2100. R. Biafra London, continuing
its Thu/Sat only 20-21 broadcasts. HFCC shows this is via WRN, 125 kW, 180
degrees via Wertachtal, GERMANY
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 6180 and 11780, UT Friday May 11 at 0454, surprised to hear samba
music, RNA on the air late/early other than on a Sunday; usual madrugada DJ
informing us the time is 1:55 am in ``um novo dia``, and it`s Day #6. Normally
these are off roughly 0330-0800. Maybe testing now that both transmitters are
back in service? More QRM that XEPPM 6185 does not need, see MEXICO (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 11750, May 11 at 1220, interesting talk about Naha, Okinawa, major
tourist destination. Can it be CRI? Their broad topix can fool you. But 1229
NHK World frequency announcement starts with the ones for 0500, 1000, and two
of the 1200 ones, not including this before modulation cut, and carrier not cut
until 1231.
I can only assume this was another SNAFU at Sackville, since CRI English is on
11750 at 1100-1200 only, but they must have left the transmitter on by mistake,
instead of 6120? Certainly better reception out here in the summer on 11750,
tho BBC Thailand normally has the frequency to itself during this hour (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake May 11, before 1300:
16980, poor at 1248
16100, very poor at 1247
14800, fair at 1248; none in the 15s
13850, fair at 1258
After 1300:
15565, fair at 1313
15490, poor at 1313; none in the 16s, 14s, 13s, 12s, but this is earlier in the
hour than many of them normally cut back on
Before 1400:
14800, fair at 1354
15490, poor at 1353, het on low side
16100, JBA at 1354; none in the 18s, 17s, 13s, 12s, 11s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6010, May 11 at 0457, RHC already on here with VG signal in Spanish,
promo for ``La Radio del Sur``, audio counterpart of Venezuelan-inspired
TeleSur, // much weaker 6060. Shortly RHC switched to English on both from
0500. It would be interesting if RHC were to put LRS programming on SW (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9305, May 11 at 0310, R. Cairo is undermodulated in Arabic talk, 0315
music is more distorted; comparing to English on 9315: just barely modulated.
WRTH Update says some but not all of the Arabic broadcasts are 1 hour earlier
from May to Sept, including 9305 General Program via Abis to NAm, at 1900-0700.
But this assumes Egypt will go on DST of UT+3 instead of UT+2 sometime this
month, which it has not done for the past two summers, and timeanddate.com does
not expect it to this year either. If 9305 starts closing at 0600, that will
indicate a timeshift (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, May 10 at 2002, awful squeal/roar over talk and/or
music from R. Africa, still very much ailing; how long will it last? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. R. Kuwait is operating nominally May 10: at 2002, 15540 is good in
western pop music, i.e. English service. At 2001, both 13650 and 17550 are
unheard, just before 17550 comes on, and then it`s good with flutter at 2004 in
Arabic music, roughly equal signal to 15540 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** LEBANON [non]. 11715, May 11 at 0452, very poor signal with bits of music;
WRTH Update says Vatican Radio is carrying Sawt al-Mahabba daily at 0430-0455
on 11715, following its own Arabic at 0400, which is also on 9645. When I heard
it during the B-11 season timing at 0530, 9645 was on the air and better
audible, but not now. It had come on in English after 0500, poor with Brasilian
het at 0502 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, May 11 at 0459, XEPPM, ``se acab? el programa de hoy``, bit of
classical music, poor signal, fair modulation, which means an improvement, but
blasted away just before *0500 by CRI Sackville 6190, another night on its
correct frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. RNW is sending itself off with a 24-hour Dutch-language
marathon May 10-11, on many additional frequencies. Apparently the regular ones
are on too for one last time, including:
17605, May 10 at 2102, very good from Bonaire.
6165, May 11 at 0510 is blasting in as usual from Bonaire, for very last time?
That will also put an end to the leapfrog mixing product on 6250, NHK Spanish
from 6080 at 0500-0527, and people can no longer imagine they are hearing
Equatorial Guinea there unless it really return. Also will unclog 6165 for Chad.
9895, special scheduled from Nauen at 20-24, inaudible here.
Scheduled all day from Bonaire until 2000 May 11 only, three frequencies in the
13m band, to Africa/S America, not us. At 1311, 21555 is poor, better than
21720, better than JBA 21750. By 1354, 2155 and 21720 are equally good, still
better than 21750.
Since we know Bonaire units make leapfrog mixing products on other bands, this
is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to find some on 13m if at least two of the
fundamentals become strong enough: try 21945, 21845, 21780, 21690, 21390, 21360
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, May 11 at 0505, VON in analog English is audible tonight
unlike last night, fair signal with hum/growl, and weakening as the hour goes
on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Some area tropo is enhancing the signal from my last remaining
semi-local analog, ch 48 in OKC, May 11 at 1358 UT, Estrella TV in a movie; at
1400 for a few sex, super ID in tiny white letters in lower-left corner:
KOCY 48
OKLAHOMA CITY
The movie continues, sort of a mixture of Batman and Lucha Libre, starring a
guy in a mask plus full-head satin covering and a cape, uses grappling hook to
climb up side of building (anyone can do that! Some superhero). Soon referred
to as ``Blue Demon``, and the movie is ``Blue Demon y las Diab?licas``, from
1966-67. Interesting to Google up the background on this. The movie name gets
only three hits, one in German. But Blue Demon himself gets 5,690,000. At first
I thought it might be dubbed, as part of it was set in NYC, but it`s original
Mexican; has radio-communication scenes using codes such as QRX and QSL! This
is typical low-brow entertainment provided by minor network Estrella TV. Signal
faded down to normal JBV level by 1500 UT.
At its peak I also checked ch 19 and found traces of video there, so maybe the
other OKC LPTV is still on the analog air (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SERBIA [non]. 9685, May 10 at 0121 tune-in, IRS with some music, but soon
interrupted by 4-note ``Windows closing down`` logo! Who needs to turn on/off a
computer to hear this wonderful music?? Followed by two minutes of dead air, so
figured they were finished, but 0123 music resumed, must have rebooted, 0124
Serbian announcement, more music and no further talk until off at 0130*. A few
days before, it was off long before 0130, as I reported (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. WRTH A-12 pdf update just published includes REE minority
languages:
2300-0200 daily LAm 15160nob**
2300-0200 daily SAm 11680nob**
2300-0500 daily SAm 9620nob**
2300-0500 daily NAm,CAm 9535nob**
** Includes news Mon-Fri, in Galician & Catalan, at 2330-2345.
So I check all but 11680, which is probably covered by Cuba, May 10 at 2338 and
find Galician, with a heavy Castilian accent. You have to listen closely to
hear the difference, such as pronouncing gallego as if it were ``galego``; 2340
into plain old Castilian. So maybe Catalan was first at 2330? These have been
cleverly scheduled when the Costa Rica relay is not on the air, best here on
9535.
11880, May 11 at 1233, REE via COSTA RICA continues in Castilian the rest of
the semihour, talking about Lorca and poes?a, no Basque today, as sometimes
happens, with no apology or explanation ever heard. WRTH Update maintains all
the frequencies on air at this time ``Include news Mon-Fri, in Basque, at
1230-1255``.
At 1255, double take here as I hear the RHC IS and ID, and then Manolo de la
Rosa, but he`s just congratulating REE on its seventieth anniversary. Cariari
could have been playing fillers, as I couldn`t get any frequency direct to
compare, but by 1300, 5+second late timesignal it was obviously hooked up with
Madrid and // 17595 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1616 monitoring: first audible SW airing confirmed
Thursday May 10 at 2100 on WTWW 9479, excellent signal. Next airing scheduled
0330 UT Friday May 11 on WWRB 5050: tuned in at 0328 to hear preacher ending
with ``Amen and amen`` at 0328:55. Then a full five minutes` *very* respectful
pause before WOR started at 0334.
Next airings: UT Sat 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; UT Sunday 0400 on
WTWW 5755. On WRMI 9955: Sat 0800, 1500, 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730, Mon 0500,
1130. Also on WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 5810, May 11 at 0308, WEWN Spanish is missing here too,
scheduled 00-05, as well as still absent 7555 after 0500; but still on 11550
from 1300. Nothing about this at
http://www.ewtn.com/spanish/Frequencias_radio.asp
That opens 5810 for possible leapfrog mixing product of the HJDH Colombian
stations, 6010 over 5910, neither of which is on exact frequency so 5810 will
not be either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1190, May 11 at 1200, KFXR Dallas ID, NBC News Radio, but lasted only
two minutes with an optional cutaway at one minute! This is the extremely
direxional multi-stick array, the original KLIF, and dominating the frequency
for a bit here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZANZIBAR. 11735, May 10 at 2056, ZBC very poor signal with music, 2059
sounds like NA, brief announcement and off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6071 approx., May 11 at 1145, het upon CFRX 6070. What could it
be? Could not pull any modulation from it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 17:04:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Alexander <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] May 6-11 Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** CYPRUS. 9760, Cyprus Broadcasting Corp, *2217-2247*, sign on
with Greek music and Greek opening announcements. Greek talk.
Short breaks of Greek music. Radio-drama. Sign off with Greek music.
Very Good signal. Weaker on // 5925, 7220. Scheduled for Fri, Sat,
Sun only, but very irregular. May 6. Heard here two days in a row,
May 5 and 6. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Radio Nac - Bata, *0458-0540, sign
on with Spanish ballads. Spanish talk. Wide variety of Spanish pop
music, local Afro-pop and hi-life music. Poor in noisy conditions.
May 11. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** ISRAEL. 6973, Galei Zahal, 0020-0030, Hebrew talk. Weak but
readable. Fair on // 15850. May 11. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** LIBYA. 11600, Radio T?l?vision Libye - Radio Libye, 1732-1805*,
lite instrumental music. French ballads. ID. French talk. Weak. Poor
in noisy conditions. Weak modulation at times. May 10. (Brian Alexander,
PA)
?
?
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
?
?
?
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 00:34:22 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, "HCDX" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] May 6-11 Logs
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CBC-CYBC weekend shortwave transmission "Radiofoniko Idrima Kyprou"
Fri/Sat/Sun only at 2210-2245 UT on 5925 7220 9760 kHz via Zyyi site.
Tonight empty carriers heard on air approx. 2211 UT.
Greek language program from Nicosia via Zyyi tx started late at 22.16:38 UT.
5925 kHz S=9+12dB
7220 kHz S=9+25dB, best channel here in Germany.
9760 kHz S=9+18dB, but TX is NOISY and an carries a lot of HUM noise.
9760 was stronger than ERT 9420 kHz from Avlis Greece at same time.
73 wolfgang df6sx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Alexander" Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 11:03 PM
Subject: [dxld] May 6-11 Logs
CYPRUS. 9760, Cyprus Broadcasting Corp, *2217-2247*, sign on
with Greek music and Greek opening announcements. Greek talk.
Short breaks of Greek music. Radio-drama. Sign off with Greek music.
Very Good signal. Weaker on // 5925, 7220. Scheduled for Fri, Sat,
Sun only, but very irregular. May 6. Heard here two days in a row,
May 5 and 6. (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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