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Today's Topics:
1. Re: [dxld] Het on 6035 - PBS Yunnan and BBS/Bhutan?
(Wolfgang Bueschel)
2. Glenn Hauser logs June 24-25, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
3. QSL Report for Al Muick 25 June 2012 (Albert Muick)
4. Logs 22+25/6 (Zacharias Liangas )
5. MW Field metering using PL360 (Zacharias Liangas )
6. Fwd: Re: QSL Report for Al Muick 25 June 2012 (Bruce Portzer)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:16:24 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>, "DXLD"
<[email protected]>, "DXplorer" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Het on 6035 - PBS Yunnan and BBS/Bhutan?
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Hello dear Victor,
Bhutan is on 6034.744 kHz at 1514 UT June 25th.
vy73 de wolfy df5sx
----- Original Message -----
From: "G. Victor A. Goonetilleke" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: [dxld] Het on 6035 - PBS Yunnan and BBS/Bhutan?
Yes BBS is strong and clear today at 1330
overriding Yunan. At 1435 BBS measured on
6034.740 no het as Yunan has gone off. if BBC
6195 is considered 6195.000! 1500 BBS has
English news.
>UNIDENTIFIED. 6035. This year I have just been hearing PBS
>Yunnan here with no trace of BBS/Bhutan. June 25 at 1154
>for the first time heard a definite het. This would seem to
>correspond to reports from others that BBS is off frequency.
>This would tend to indicate that the BBS signal has suddenly
>improved to the point where I am hearing their het against PBS
>Yunnan. A good sign! With my Eton E1 was unable to tell what
>the two frequencies were (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean
>Beach, CA, Et?n E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
G. Victor A. Goonetilleke 4S7VK,
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:11:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: NASWA <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs June 24-25, 2012
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** ALASKA. 9655, June 25 at 1300, good signal from KNLS IS, 1302 sign-on in
Chinese with website http://www.smzg.org pronounced in, what else? English! But
some other word than ``dot``. That site`s transmission schedule presented in
English
http://www.smzg.org/Schedule_in_English.htm
and in Chinese
http://www.smzg.org/Schedule_in_Chinese.htm
both still claim this 13-14 broadcast in Chinese is on 9920! 1303 on to pop
song in English. Anyhow now in the clear with CRI/Sackville defunct
[de-funked?] on 9650 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 5995, June 25 at 1227, RA with interesting item on language
diversity concluding `Asia-Pacific` show; good signal here, surely Shepparton,
but missing from 6020 which is supposed to be on, and 5995 is supposed to be in
DRM from Brandon. Maybe a sign of further schedule disruptions if RA is finally
about to get a series of DRM frequencies activated from Shep? (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. THE LAST DAY for RADIO CANADA INTERNATIONAL, June 24:
15330, at 2005 `Maple Leaf Mailbag` sounds awfully familiar; yes, introduced as
the ``Pentultimate`` edition, references to June 17 and going to present the
final edition a week later. RCI is playing back last week`s show, depriving
Terry Haig of his farewell program!! Was it pulled by management as too
``emotional``?? I listened incredulously to the entire hour, again, in case
something new was edited in, but it was all the same as last week, ending with
song ``Get a Haircut, Get a Real Job``. Then Terry`s final words were ``You
people are a total gas. Thank you, thank you, thank you``, into canned closing,
and 15330 cut off the air while // 15235 switched to French.
Then checked the website, but found audio of the same last-week show of June 17
is now presented as the ``last show`` of June 24!
Harry Brooks points out: Also available at WRN to play and download:
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/#radio-canada-international
But their ``June 24`` file of 1800 UT is also a repeat of June 17.
Tony Malloy points out: The RSS feed has the last broadcast
http://www.rcinet.ca/audio_on_demand/Audio/english/The_Maple_Leaf_Mailbag/EN_1200_The_Maple_Leaf_Mailbag_Balado-20120624.mp3
so I listen to that immediately before it gets deleted, and Terry does intro it
as the June 24 podcast, but it`s not the same as the broadcast would have been,
much shorter with music and what else removed? He said something about
listening to the broadcast to hear more letters.
I asked Wojtek Gwiazda of the RCI Action Committee about this and he replied:
``Hi Glenn, I don't know what happened. I very seriously doubt the programme
was censored. I'll check in with Terry tomorrow. If something screwed up, I
want him to at least have a quiet night of sleep tonight. He will be devastated
to know the last programme was not broadcast. I may be wrong, but there are a
number of steps before a program is ready for broadcast, enough steps for
something to go wrong.``
On June 25 at 1640, we find that the MLM archive page has a ``June 24`` show
recorded June 22 with this link:
http://www.rcinet.ca/english/archives/program/the-maple-leaf-mailbag/archives/episode/12-11_2012-06-25-/
Note, it says June 25, as if it may have just been corrected, but there is no
audio play link!
15455, June 24 at 2100, ``?ltimo programa em portugu?s de RCI,`` `Canad?
Direto`, // stronger 17860. As far as staff were concerned, it was all over
June 22, since the pattern had been to play this same half hour nine times each
weekend, three each on Fri, Sat and Sun, and there would be two more June 24 at
2200 and 2300.
15455, June 24 at 2302, now it`s Spanish with finale of mailbag `El Castor
Mensajero` = ``The Messenger Beaver`` which loses something in translation.
This also on weaker 11990, along with Portuguese on 13760 were really the
final, final, RCI SW transmissions. At 2328 inserted a bit of French and
English, including ``the last of all RCI shortwave programs``. But it was not
the last language! Inexplicably at 2329.5 to 2330.5* we heard Arabic! Plugged
their website, opened program till cut off. I suppose this is what followed on
a satellite feed which didn`t belong on SW, never any Arabic scheduled at this
hour.
What about other relays via Sackville?
CBC Northern Quebec: 9625 is still on at 0202 June 25, CBC news in English, as
usual blasted away by Spain/Costa Rica 9630 but at least in analog instead of
DRM as before 0200.
NHK World Radio Japan: 5960 for Japanese from 0200 June 25 is missing; instead
Qur`an with weak signal, still at 0203, presumably Kuwait. However, NHK must
have come on late, as it`s there at 0256 and beyond. The 0500-0529 English
still exists too, thankfully, very good at 0513. 11655, 1259 June 25, NHK IS
starting the bihour in Japanese. Bill Patalon III also confirms English still
at 1200 on 6120. So NHK relays are lasting longer, until ---?
Voice of Vietnam: 6175 is still going including English from 0100, altho when I
tune in at 0114 it`s Vietnamese, soon voiced-over. Also for the rest of the
evening, plus 9555 after 0430 at 0519 check with happy kidsongs. How much
longer? But:
CRI is gone from all these previously scheduled and heard broadcasts: 0100 on
9790, 0300 on 9560, 0400 on 6020, 6080, 0500 on 6020, 6190, 1300 on 9650,
15260. Also missing: Cantonese after 1200 on 11850. I`m rather surprised at
this, since SAC was the #1 way for CRI to cover N America. These transmissions
have still not been deleted from
http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A12&broadc=CRI
showing effective until Oct 28.
That leaves inferior signals from Cuba, Albania, Spain. If they wanted to,
plenty of frequencies could also reach us intentionally direct from China.
Maybe CRI thinx the increasing numbers of relays on MW stations in the US are
sufficient? Hardly!
KBS World Radio: 9560, at 0200 June 25, ID pronounced in English, then opening
Spanish with constant audio artifacts as always from them. I assumed the 0230
English would follow, but it`s not there at 0253 check, following inquiry from
Mick Delmage who was not hearing that broadcast at 0235, nor the previous
night; how come?
9650 at 1232 check, the KBSWR 1200 English broadcast is still going, and so is
the 1400 Korean at 1407 check. Jean-Michel Aubier confirmed the 0600 Spanish is
still going too on 6045.
Vatican Radio: The 0250 English broadcast is still there with VG signals on
9610, 7305. Did not awaken in time June 25 to check the 1130-1214 on 13730. VR
is making their own cuts as of July 1, so these may only last one more week
(via BONAIRE 15470 also still on in Spanish at 0200).
There is no more RCI to be heard on SW, except: still a few RCI IS and IDs
accompanying relays of other stations: 0529 on 9555 after Vietnam; 1259 on 9650
after KBS. O, Canada (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake June 25, after 1300:
15560, poor at 1312
Before 1400:
17450, JBA at 1359
16920, very poor with flutter at 1359
16100, very poor with flutter at 1359
15900, JBA at 1359
14700, very poor at 1359
Started too late, unknown if any below 14 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. All the Sackville relays of CRI appear to have been canceled as
of June 25: see CANADA. This leaves inferior signals via CUBA, ALBANIA, SPAIN
intended for us, plus numerous off-beam broadcasts direct.
13740, June 25 at 1401 no signal tho RHC is big on 13780. CRI English finally
cuts on late at *1402 JIP news with undermodulation, hum, lo-fi audio.
Sometimes this transmitter is warming up already by 1350 with open carrier.
This 14-16 relay and equally defective 13-14 on 9570 are all that`s left for
CRI English in the morning to us. Whatever became of the new transmitters China
was installing in Cuba? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. 14950, June 25 at 0113 I have set up my 87.85 MHz feeder with
Salem Stereo programming in order to compare its delay with the SW relay tuned
on the porch --- but no signal at all heard now, at 0119, or later. Is it gone
for good? If so, we got it identified just in time. I did find a JBA carrier on
14885, not necessarily from any broadcaster. Timechex on the webcast only 3
minutes fast now. My nearest streetlight as it flickers on is still blasting RF
at *0205 but only briefly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Another UT Monday, and another week with the DentroCuban Jamming
Command ignoring the truce offered by R. Mart?`s silent period at 0300-0900:
still wall-of-noise jamming at 0511 on 6030, 0516 on 7405. Not exactly
``against nothing`` on 6030, as this impossiblizes any DX from Calgary, Central
African Republic, or Ethiopia. Tnx a lot, Arnie! While Cubans go hungry as all
this electrical expense is wasted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See
also CHINA [non]
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, June 24 at 1951, still no signal from R. Africa
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 9595, R. Nikkei, Monday June 25 good at 1318-1325 with English lesson
explaining in Japanese various expletives, such as ``Holy Hell`` (more like
``Hoary Hair``), ``O My God``, ``Holy Moses``, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, Monday June 25 at 0517, IGIM is on early for a change on a
non-Fribbath, Arabish with phone calls, poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Signs of sporadic E analog TV DX June 24, UT:
1931 on 2, fade-in some video from south; 1933 it`s f?tbol. Nothing more (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, June 25 at 0203, XEPPM with good modulation for a change and
no ACI from either side; talking about Turqu?a, Malta (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15115-15120-15125, Sunday June 24 at 1951, with BFO on, can detect
DRM here from VON; have they expanded to 7 days a week now? Tho useless to all
but a few enthusiasts, and more with take-it-or-leave it capability (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1622 monitoring: 9955, UT Monday June 25 at 0521 via
WRMI, about equal level to pulse jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, June 24 at 1951, WTWW-3 is again in Arabic at unscheduled
time. Unseems Arabible, instead Arabic talk with lively music. Maybe this is
the dramatic programming George McClintock had been wanting to add (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7555, June 25 at 0516, another night off for WEWN Spanish (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13570, June 25 at 1257, 1310, no signal from WINB with Brother Scare,
but audible poorly at next check 1404. Propagation degraded, so maybe it was
really on from 1200, but I doubt it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** USTRALIA. See AUSTRALIA
UNIDENTIFIED. 6045, June 25 at 0509-0512, a JBA carrier. Looking for
reactivated R. Sarand?, Uruguay, which Horacio Nigro says is 24 hours with 300
watts on LSB. But is there any reduced carrier? They are hearing it well in
Argentina, and even Bryan Clark in NZ is pulling it in. The only other
possibility at this hour would be Zimbabwe, also supposedly 24 hours, but
sunrise there is around 0430 now.
Don`t you believe Aoki and EiBi listings for XEXQ on 6045, long inactive. Huge
problem for us here is the bigsig from Habana on 6050; but those awake should
try after 0700 when that`s off and so is Korea/Canada 6045. While you`re at it,
check 6075+ for LV de Artigas, also active from Uruguay (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
------------------------------
Message: 3
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:46:17 -0400
From: Albert Muick <[email protected]>
To: DXLD <[email protected]>, HCDX <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] QSL Report for Al Muick 25 June 2012
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Hello All,
It's been a long time since I have had anything to report. The well has
been essentially dry, and I have been corresponding via registered
airmail as well as talking with several consulates about retrieving
outstanding QSLs.
COLOMBIA, Radio Alcaravan , 5910, full data card and assorted stickers
in 280 days for Spanish airmail report with 2 IRCs and follow-up in
spanish via registered airmail with US $5.00. QSL received 37 days
after follow-up. V/s. Rafael Rodriguez R., QSL Manager. Rafael did
send me a very nice and polite email when he got the follow-up, stating
that he never received the original.
IRELAND, Shannon Aeradio, 8957, full data folder card in 275 days for
initial online report via their form, and finally follow-up in English
via registered email with US $5.00 (returned). V/s Joe Ryan, Watch
Manager, who promised to look into why the reports submitted online were
not being brought to his attention. Joe also sent some station material
concerning their broadcasts.
Still many outstanding QSLs that I am following up on. This is becoming
an expensive hobby for those of us who like the tangible QSLs.
I have not had much time for listening. Work has been all consuming,
along with a short stay in the VA hospital in Wilkes-Barre to remove
some long-troublesome shrapnel. I am hoping to spruce up antennas and
get back into the swing of things for this autumn/winter's DX season.
73 to all!
Al Muick
Williamsport, PA USA
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:02:18 +0300
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[email protected]>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs 22+25/6
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Logs of 22/6
http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/458
15455 RCI Portuguese 2109 talks in PP by YL some mentions to Brazil
(Brazilians in
Canada??) 2112 "esta es R C Intl" S5 35333
17660 RCI again in PP 2227 with many mention on Canada 25333 S off 2229
15191.5 Inconfidencia with S5 max
4885 Clube de Para 213 with signal S7
Logs for 25-6
In Litohoron Mt Olympus using a little problemous DE1102 (low sensitivity on
AM wie)and a
window mesh 1x 1 sqm as antenna
Euro pirates
6140 Gloria fair on 0920
6045 ?? oldies - good
6095 KBC 0926 country rock good
15200 TWR 0928 with folk indo songs 25322
17720 Pakistan ? 0930 Hindi song bad audio good signal
9575 Medi 1 song 1054 daddy cool fair
11520 WEWN /EWTN 1056 religious prg poor
11885 XJPBS 1107 poor
15420 RF Sarawak 1107 talks marginal
15825 WWCR 1116 relig prg fair
15410 AIR 1119 tai songs in Tai prg 34523
9526 RRI 1355 pop song 34523
9930 WHRI 1359 self adverts etc 342x2
9890 XJPBS 1410 ID fair
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 PL200/550/600, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000
Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:28:46 +0300
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[email protected]>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] MW Field metering using PL360
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
MW Field metering using PL360
Date : 19/6 , outdoors , times 1720-1730
810 Skopje 24 db 12 db S/N
774 Bul - varna 26 db - db S/N
792 Era sport Malgara 56 db 25 db S/N +++
1134 Croatia 19 db 09 db S/N
1179 era1 57 db 24 db S/N +++
1431 Uni radio THS 29 db 12 db S/N
1368 greek pirate 16 db 02 db S/N
1521 S Arabia 15 db 09 db S/N
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 PL200/550/600, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000
Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop
------------------------------
Message: 6
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:51:34 -0700
From: Bruce Portzer <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Fwd: Re: QSL Report for Al Muick 25 June 2012
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
On 6/25/2012 13:46, Albert Muick wrote:
>
> IRELAND, Shannon Aeradio, 8957, full data folder card in 275 days for
> initial online report via their form, and finally follow-up in English
> via registered email with US $5.00 (returned). V/s Joe Ryan, Watch
> Manager, who promised to look into why the reports submitted online
> were not being brought to his attention. Joe also sent some station
> material concerning their broadcasts.
My experiences have been similar. Shannon's website has a wonderful
on-line form for reception reports, but I've tried twice with no
responses. About a week ago, I sent a report via regular mail so
hopefully the third time will be the charmed one.
Bruce
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