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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs September 9-10, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
2. Re: Glenn Hauser logs September 9-10, 2012 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
3. Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA (Stewart MacKenzie)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:25:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 9-10, 2012
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** BANGLADESH. 15105, Sept 10 at 1244 just as I upwake and intune, ``end of the
news; this is the external service of Bangladesh Betar``, and into music. Best
reception so far of the 1230 English, often in- or barely-audible; too bad I
missed the first half. Seems like there is still some noise underneath the
program audio. By 1250 it`s back to talk about some diplomatic event in
Washington DC, and other headlines separated by replays of the same brief
stinger music; 1253 introduces music only for ``dear listeners``. 1256 another
``dear listeners`` announcement, and during pause before music the noise level
grows again. Seems like a mis-adjusted Optimod. However, music which had just
started cuts off the air at 1257:22*.
15505, Sept 10 at 1359, music other than BB IS is already playing, then opening
Urdu; also seems noisy. 1417 check music playing. 1429 recheck music ends and
noise level rises during dead air before closing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 15191.5-, Sept 10 at 0455, unmistakable Nat King Cole singing in
Spanish, B?same Mucho? Just heard the last bit of it so not sure which song.
Always with a heavy English accent, and wikipedia confirms my suspicion that ``
Cole learned songs in languages other than English by rote.`` It seems he
recorded three albums in Spanish, and also some in Portuguese; I wonder if R.
Inconfid?ncia plays any of the latter? Soon followed 0456 by hyper live
Brazilian with no back-announce to the music. Still making het of about 3.5 kHz
with NHK 15195 direct, about to close (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Sept 10, before 1300:
17370, very poor with flutter, also noise jamming at 1258-1300:05*
No time to do full search at this hour
Before 1400:
14700, very good at 1349; none in the 13s, 12s
15490, good at 1346, het on lo side
15605, good at 1345 with noise
15745, very poor at 1345
16920, very good at 1347
17170, very good at 1347; none in the 18s
After 1400:
17570, fair at 1414 vs V. of Tibet via Madagascar, inaudible here nor on
alternates 17565, 17560
15495, fair at 1415, het on hi side
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also EAST TURKISTAN
** CHINA. The 8-kHz-separated very weak spurs from 11760 CNR1 jammer against
nothing are still detectable, September 10 at 1318: 11728 hetting another weak
signal on 11725; 11736 hetting North Korea 11735; 11744; 11752 hetting
Cuba-11750; 11768; 11776 hetting Anguilla 11775; 11784 hetting 11785, exactly
same pitch as the previous one; and finally, 11792 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. 14950+, Sept 10 at 1303, gospel music to peaks of S9+10, ``ahora
soy de Cristo`` lyric repeated over and over by YL; segu? to ``cantar? al mundo
entero``; 1309:30 announcement but fades, ``un servicio de esta estaci?n``,
then citing cap?tulo 37-38 of algo; ``Desde la Rep?blica de Colombia, transmite
Salem Stereo en ---`` fades as it sounded like they are about to announce a
frequency, in the 80s? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6125, Sept 10 just as I tune by at 0521, RHC English cuts on the air
with `DXers Unlimited` in progress, Prof. Arnaldo de Jes?s Coro Antich,
CO2-caca, talking about antennas; modulation seems to be adjusting at the start
to usual lo level. Hardly necessary with 6010, 6050 and 6060 already //.
15330, Sept 10 at 1248, lite pulse jamming audible, a rogue(?) jammer still not
turned off despite no usage of 15330 by R. Mart? since the end of March. Also
hear jamming remnants on other unused VOA Spanish and Mart? frequencies, from
these incompetents, not all logged (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 13755, Sept 10 at 1313, CRI English with economic news by
that British announcer, about 2 sex behind stronger // 13790. 13755 is 174
degrees from Kashgar, while 13790 is 308 degrees from Wulumuchi, also East
Turkistan; you`d think these two sites under Han occupation would be
synchronized, vis-?-vis ones eastward in China proper (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, Sept 10 at 1321 check, zero signal from VOI.
http://rri.jpn.org/ agrees it`s still off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** IRELAND [non]. Shortly after my previous report was dispatched, WRN revealed
unto me the transmitter sites for the RT? hurling special Sunday September 9,
i.e. UK and SOUTH AFRICA:
West Africa
1300-1700 UTC, SKN, 300 kW, 17685 kHz
East Africa
1300-1600 UTC, MEY, 250 kW, 17540 kHz
1600-1700 UTC, MEY, 100 kW, 11915 kHz
Southern Africa
1300-1700 UTC, MEY, 100 kW, 7505 kHz
The same will be employed for the football final on September 23; furthermore,
since hurling ended in a draw, there will be more such broadcasts for the
replay of that on September 30 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 11510, Sept 10 at 0451, ME music, presumed Kurdish, fair
signal at S9+10. 0500 announcement with sound effects, 0501 ID as ``Denge
Kurdistana``, 0502 talk mentioning ``Roj`` several times, mixed with music. By
0524 recheck had faded to very poor.
This apparently replaces Voice of Mesopotamia on 11530, which has not been
audible here for months, so also from a new site? Had been via Ukraine, but
HFCC shows 11510 is still 300 kW, 129 degrees from ``SMF`` since 1 September,
0300-1900. No signal at all, however at 1319 check, as it also used to be
audible around that time, more so in the winter. (However, VOR in hummy Hindi
via TAJIKISTAN is audible on 11500.)
Kai Ludwig speculates that the 11510 site now sounds like Grigoriopol,
Pridnesntrovye, and that Luch, Ukraine has perhaps closed down completely,
making Ukraine another ex-SWBC country, except for the private/pirate? on 11980
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 21540, Sept 10 at 1356, R. Kuwait reception is steadily improving;
impassioned Arabic drama with SFX, and nothing audible from Spain underneath
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1140, Sept 9 at 1947 UT, I noticed that the OKC station now IDs
something like ``Your favorite Old School and New School station, 92.1 and
1140``.
FM comes first, in the mad rush by AM stations to get on FM somehow, even via a
99-watt translator K221FQ with much inferior coverage to the kilowatt on AM,
KRMP. New NRC-AM Log does list both frequencies, but the slogan has now changed
from ``Heart & Soul``.
Or has it? Website seems current
http://www.okcheartandsoul.com/shows.shtml
with ``continuous music`` from 2 pm CDT Sundays after six solid hours of gospel
huxters, safe to say all of them black. Maybe the OS & NS slogan applies only
to this music segment? Was going to listen online while the computer is on, but
to do that I must install Silverlight. No, tnx (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 106.1, Sept 10 at 1532 UT on caradio, marginal signal ID
as ``The Twister``, and country music. There are three 106.1s in OK and one not
too far in Kansas, but the dominant one is Tulsa (COL Owasso). OKC 101.9 has
been ``The Twister`` for ages, but found this notice of KTGX format change over
two months ago in allaccess.com:
``After stunting with various formats, CLEAR CHANNEL KTGX (GEN X RADIO
106.1)/TULSA is now officially Country as "OKLAHOMA's Best New Country On 106.1
THE TWISTER." The station switched officially at noon (CT) TODAY (7/3).
"We are thrilled to bring THE TWISTER brand to TULSA'S airwaves, said Market
Manager JON PHILLIPS. "TULSA has a huge appetite for Country music and THE
TWISTER will be a leader and aggressive in breaking new Country songs and
artists." You can stream THE TWISTER here.``
Now why would they name not one, but two OK radio stations for a dreaded
disaster? O, for the good old days when 106.1 Tulsa was commercial classical
KCMA. However FCC FM Query call sign history does not show a KCMA on 106.1 back
to 1986y. IIRC it moved to 92.1 which did not last very long either.
BTW, I see that the only KCMA currently on FCC`s FM roster is also classical, a
3-watt! LP in Arizona:
``KCMA-LP 253 L1 FL 98.5 MHz LIC PAYSON AZ US BLL-20050803ABB - 134141 0.003 kW
167.1 m PAYSON CLASSICAL MUSIC ASSOCIATION, INC.``
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 15580, Sept 9 at 1955, VOA English to Africa has fastish SAH of
about 7 Hz, which means a transmitter site switch is imminent, and the next one
already has unmodulated carrier on, interfering with the previous one. At least
there is no overlap in modulation at 1959 vamping music, 2000 starting Sundays`
`Music Time in Africa` and the SAH then stops as the first one goes off. I.e.,
first Botswana, then Madagascar. The new MTIA hostess ethnomusicologist needs
to work on not sounding like she is reading from a script (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1633 monitoring: UT Monday Sept 10 at 0504, WRMI 9955
broadcast has considerable jamming, but I can make out a familiar voice mixed
with it. Tnx a lot, Arnie! who jams (or allows to be jammed) the DX program
competition (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 530, Sept 9 at 1945 UT, parked outside a fast-food chicken restaurant
in mid-Enid, bonus ice cream truncated cones with each order, it must be a
low-noise oasis, since I am pleased to hear very weak weather reports for
various cities from OKC to Dodge City to Topeka. No doubt it is one of the
Kansas Turnpike Authority HARs, or is it a TIS? Probably the nearest, South
Haven just across the OK line (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:37:44 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "BCLNEWS" <[email protected]>, "HCDX"
<[email protected]>, "DXLD" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 9-10, 2012
Message-ID: <2E7E48C326204C0CB654E35A97A6BCD7@HNPC2>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
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BANGLADESH 15505 Proper S=9+20dB signal of new 250 kW tx Made by Thomson,
heard here in Germany today, Sept 9.
Bangladesh Betar in Hindi at 1515-1545 UT. But very bad audio quality
standard of the Bangladesh bcaster national phone lines on standard like
Cairo/Pakistan colonial empire era, some 50 years ore more ago.
At 1521 UT announced a web mail address, followed by drums and flute music.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 10)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Hauser" Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 9:25 PM
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 9-10, 2012
BANGLADESH. 15105, Sept 10 at 1244 just as I upwake and intune, ``end of
the news; this is the external service of Bangladesh Betar``, and into
music. Best reception so far of the 1230 English, often in- or
barely-audible; too bad I missed the first half. Seems like there is still
some noise underneath the program audio. By 1250 it`s back to talk about
some diplomatic event in Washington DC, and other headlines separated by
replays of the same brief stinger music; 1253 introduces music only for
``dear listeners``. 1256 another ``dear listeners`` announcement, and during
pause before music the noise level grows again. Seems like a mis-adjusted
Optimod. However, music which had just started cuts off the air at 1257:22*.
15505, Sept 10 at 1359, music other than BB IS is already playing, then
opening Urdu; also seems noisy. 1417 check music playing. 1429 recheck music
ends and noise level rises during dead air before closing.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:36:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Stewart MacKenzie <[email protected]>
To: DXLD-GH <[email protected]>, Japan Premium
<[email protected]>, RUSDX <[email protected]>, Shortwave World
<[email protected]>, Anker Peterson
<[email protected]>, BCL NEWS <[email protected]>,
Duane
Fischer <[email protected]>, Hard Core DX
<[email protected]>, Prime Time Shortwave
<[email protected]>, SWL QTH <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
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>>>
BRAZIL??? Radio Nacional DA Amazonia??? 11780?? 0010 GMT?? Portuguese? 333?
Sept 10?? OMs singing.????? MacKenzie-CA..
CHINA?? CPBS?? 11960? 0005 GMT?? Chinese?? 333? Sept 10? YL with ongoing
comments.??
MacKenzie-CA..
RUSSIA, Moldova ? Voice of Russia? VOR?? 9665? 0020 GMT?? Spanish? 333? Sept 10
? YLs Yelling,? then YL with comments.????? MacKenzie-CA..
SPAIN?? Radio Exterior? Espana? REE?? 9620? 0223 GMT? Spanish? 333? Sept 10??
YL with comments.????? MacKenzie-CA..
UNITED STATES, Tennessee??? WTWW?? 9480? 2350 GMT?? English? 333? Sept 9?? Two
OMs with comments about Angels.????? MacKenzie-CA..
UNITED STATES, Tennessee ?? WEWN ? 12050? 2355 GMT? Spanish? 444? Sept 9? OM
with comments 2355 GMT.? Choir singing 2356 GMT.? Suddenly of the air 2358
GMT.? //13830[333], 11870[333] and 11580[333]. ? ?? Mackenzie-CA..
United States,? GUAM ?? Adventist World Radio? AWR ? 11965? 0000 GMT? English?
333? Sept 10? Suddenly on the air.? Choir singing? 0001 GMT.? YL ancr with with
comments 0003 GMT. ? ?? MacKenzie-CA..
UNITED STATES, Florida ? Family Radio? 11530? 0015 GMT? Spanish? 333? Sept 10 ?
Two OMs with comments.. ? ?? Mackenzie-CA.. . ?
Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, United States of America
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