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Today's Topics:
1. Re: [dxld] Voice of Russia gone from 4975 kHz (++)
(Wolfgang Bueschel)
2. Re: [dxld] Voice of Russia gone from 4975 kHz (++) (Mauno Ritola)
3. Glenn Hauser logs October 30, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
4. More tranmissions from tx site Kostinbrod, Bulgaria (Frequencies)
5. morning log Oct 31 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:35:56 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>, "DXLD"
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Voice of Russia gone from 4975 kHz (++)
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TAJIKISTAN 4950 Noted fade-in of VoRussia Yangi-Yul near Dushanbe.
Pahto/Dari 12-14 UT, En 14-19 UT, S=4-5 when fade-in.
Thanks Victor for enlighten.
Is some 1-2 Hertz less frequency, BUT suffers by near-by UTE RTTY ditter on
4950.050, and two side peaks on 4949.950 and 4950.150 kHz. Registered 4780
kHz on HFCC conference instead, but see comment below.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 30)
----- Original Message -----
From: "G. Victor A. Goonetilleke" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 6:30 AM
Subject: Re: [dxld] Voice of Russia gone from 4795 kHz
> I guess the subject line is a typo for 4795?? But checking last
> night 1700 UT and later observe VOR English on 4950 kHz, and nothing
> on 4975. I suppose this is Dushanbe ex 4975? Nothing for 4950 in
> HFCC. Yes HFCC lists 4780 but only DJI heard there.
>
> 4780 1200 1900 39-41 DB 100 180 0
> 101 1234567 281012 310313 D TJK VOR VOR 8118
>
> Victor Goonetileke
>
>
>>Checking on 4975 kHz today (Oct. 29) I noticed Voice of Russia in
>>English (TX Dushanbe-Yangiyul) is no more on that frequency. VoR
>>website says the new frequency is 4780 kHz, and indeed at 1608 UT I
>>can hear the same buzzing I used to hear on 4975 (probably an old TX
>>malfunction) but only a faint trace of modulation.
>>
>>Tudor Vedeanu
>>(Gura Humorului, Romania)
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:04:24 +0200
From: Mauno Ritola <[email protected]>
To: HCDX <[email protected]>, DXLD <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Voice of Russia gone from 4975 kHz (++)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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I think it is AIR Srinagar that is a few Hz below. VOR on 4950.06 kHz
with ?100 Hz spurs. And apparently Vo Pujiang on exact nominal.
73, Mauno
30.10.2012 15:35, Wolfgang Bueschel kirjoitti:
> TAJIKISTAN 4950 Noted fade-in of VoRussia Yangi-Yul near Dushanbe.
> Pahto/Dari 12-14 UT, En 14-19 UT, S=4-5 when fade-in.
> Thanks Victor for enlighten.
>
> Is some 1-2 Hertz less frequency, BUT suffers by near-by UTE RTTY
> ditter on
> 4950.050, and two side peaks on 4949.950 and 4950.150 kHz. Registered
> 4780 kHz on HFCC conference instead, but see comment below.
> (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 30)
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "G. Victor A. Goonetilleke"
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 6:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [dxld] Voice of Russia gone from 4795 kHz
>
>> I guess the subject line is a typo for 4795?? But checking last
>> night 1700 UT and later observe VOR English on 4950 kHz, and nothing
>> on 4975. I suppose this is Dushanbe ex 4975? Nothing for 4950 in
>> HFCC. Yes HFCC lists 4780 but only DJI heard there.
>>
>> 4780 1200 1900 39-41 DB 100 180 0
>> 101 1234567 281012 310313 D TJK VOR VOR 8118
>>
>> Victor Goonetileke
>>
>>
>>> Checking on 4975 kHz today (Oct. 29) I noticed Voice of Russia in
>>> English (TX Dushanbe-Yangiyul) is no more on that frequency. VoR
>>> website says the new frequency is 4780 kHz, and indeed at 1608 UT I
>>> can hear the same buzzing I used to hear on 4975 (probably an old TX
>>> malfunction) but only a faint trace of modulation.
>>>
>>> Tudor Vedeanu
>>> (Gura Humorului, Romania)
>
>
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:18:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 30, 2012
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
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** CANADA. 6110, Oct 30 at 0508, Sackville keeps this frequency on but without
NHK any more, which lasted thru Oct 29. Now playing novelty song in French,
obviously local fill, as they had been earlier on 5960. See also JAPAN [non]
9555, Oct 30 at 0509 check, Sackville has finally turned off this ex-VOV
frequency, like 6175 earlier. See also VIETNAM [non]: 7345
9650, Oct 30 at 1255, SAC also keeps this ex-KBSWR English frequency on air,
with local music fill instead of tones and clacking; 1259 RCI IS & IDs and cut
off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 5025, Oct 30 at 0523, R. Rebelde is still bothered by RTTY
CCI. A shame, since they play some great music and believe it or not, devote
less time to ruthless propaganda than RHC. Cuba`s #1 domestic service on relay,
and also no English, an advantage for those who don`t understand Spanish
anyway.
Arnie may be looking for a new frequency. Why would any RTTY service pick this
frequency already occupied by a strong broadcaster? Subtle retaliation for
Cuban jamming? Will the RTTY decode with all this AM QRM? I understand that
most RTTY is encrypted these days.
The new RHC B-12 schedule has come out, effective Nov 1, apparently when Cuba
goes off DST, as Spanish programming starts at 1200 instead of 1100 UT and ends
at 0600 instead of 0500.
Notably, 6050 is no longer on the schedule at all, 01-07 English replaced by
6140. Good news for HCJB, which RHC has blocked for a couple of years. As
usual, two English broadcasts shift one UT hour later, 20 ex-19 on 11760, and
00 ex-23 on 5040.
Still on the schedule is the imaginary ``Al? Presidente`` at 14-18 on 5
frequencies, not specified as Sundays only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9905, Oct 30 at 0513, tho missing earlier, R. Cairo is on now with
buzz, distorted and suppressed Arabic modulation. Seems sporadic but they
should turn it off permanently if they can`t or won`t fix it. Yet they make
seasonal frequency changes (ex-9305) as if nothing is wrong, nobody notices
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 7475 // 9420, Oct 30 at 0518, VOG with VG signals instead of Greek
music playing American big band standards such as ``Melancholy Baby``. We`re
sure glad to have them back on the air after 0200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 17650, Oct 30 at 1328, VIRI Arabic with distorted Qur`an, way atop CRI
French via EAST TURKISTAN. I imagine this collision is intolerable in the
target areas of each (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 11740, Oct 30 at 0508, NHK in correct English on new GUIANA
FRENCH relay back to WNAm, replacing CANADA 6110, which is still on the air but
without NHK. Altho significantly weaker than 6110, 11740 is very good, best
yet, so we can only hope the winter night MUF from the tropix will hold up thru
B12. NHK English also audible on weaker // 9770 via FRANCE. Steve Luce in
Houston TX says 11740 came on two minutes late (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH [non]. See CANADA
** KUWAIT. 9535, Oct 30 at 0512, mixture of Slavic and west Asian language,
i.e. Tatar-Bashkir as now scheduled for R. Liberty, 250 kW, 355 degrees from
Kuwait so rather USward too; replaces Algeria via France which was on 9535 this
hour in A-12, moved to 5865 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 570, Oct 30 at 0535 UT tune in, full ID at odd time from
XEBJB with address, etc., mixing with C2C on presumed KLIF (which at mid-hour
has a musical break, now ``Time After Time``). Per Cant?:
570 XEBJB Radio 570 Monterrey, N.L. 5,000 500
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 960, UT Tue Oct 30 at 0500, KGWA fails to quit modulation so no
understation DX tonight (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 15630, Oct 30 at 0515, the VOR Pet/Kam frequency which was inbooming
earlier at 0237, is now inaudible, tho scheduled until 0600. But that`s OK;
from 0400 we have 9830 instead of 17665 for English to W NAm.
17500, Oct 30 at 1354, typical Russian tones on and off in warmup procedure,
1400 VOR starting Russian news, but marred by whistling Spanish 2-way SSB CCI,
plus intermittent ``running water`` QRM. 1403 mid-news ID as ``Golos Rossii,
novosti``. HFCC shows 200 kW, 190 degrees from a Moskva site (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 17615 // 17625, Oct 30 at 1350, BSKSA HQS now has equally good
modulation on both; for a long time, 17625 was inferior with hum. Also much
weaker // 17895 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 7315, Oct 30 at 0521, R. Dabanga singing IDs immediately upon
tune-in, compensating for a long ID-less spell 48 hours earlier; VG signal via
VATICAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15615, Oct 30 at 1318, open carrier except for some slight swooshing
sounds also audible around the plus/minus 9 kHz spurs, i.e. WEWN is back here
as in A-12 instead of 15610, where they were at the beginning of B-12 from
1300. Dead air continues past 1325, but WEWN English programming had started by
1336 recheck. Why they are avoiding 15610 or 15605 is known only to Glen
Tapley. B-12 HFCC shows 13-24 on 15610 only. Or maybe today they forgot that
they are no longer supposed to be on 15615 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9630, Oct 30 at 0510, folk music in presumed Hausa, AWR at
0500-0530, 300 kW, 190 degrees from AUSTRIA, now good signal in the clear with
REE/CR`s move to 9675. AWR plays a lot of interesting music and in so many
incomprehensible languages that we are not in danger of being converted. Is
some of their music non-religious to pull in the unwary, or all with a message
for those who can understand it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 9645, Oct 30 at 0510, poor signal in Arabic with het, no doubt VR
vs Bandeirantes, Brasil on 9645.4. HFCC show VR in Arabic at 0500-0530 daily on
9645 and 11715, the latter inaudible, not propagating. The question is, whether
the V. of Charity relay from Lebanon in Arabic which on winter timing would be
at 0530, is still on any Vatican SW frequency? Apparently it was dropped
earlier in A12 when it would have been at 0430 on one or the other (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. 7345, Oct 30 at 0527 talk in Vietnamese, cut off abruptly at
0527:45*. Was hearing a strong signal earlier in the hour with music which did
not strike me as Vietnamese, and had forgotten that this was the replacement
for 9555 via Sackville, VOV`s final hour to WNAm. HFCC confirms it`s 250 kW,
310 degrees from Woofferton at 0430-0528 to CIRAF 6 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:55:39 +0000
From: Frequencies <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] More tranmissions from tx site Kostinbrod, Bulgaria
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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BULGARIA Surprise: Polish Radio External Sce eff.Oct.28 is from Bulgaria
1400-1430 on 12095 SOF 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu in Russian
1430-1500 on 12095 SOF 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu in Belorussian
1500-1600 on 12095 SOF 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu in Polish
1630-1730 on 9755 SOF 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu in Polish
1730-1830 on 9755 SOF 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu in Belorussian
1830-1900 on 9755 SOF 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu in Russian
POWERFUL SIGNAL on 12095 & GOOD SIGNAL on 9755 here in Sofia. The distance
from the town of Kostinbrod to my home is less than 20 kilometres.
BULGARIA Due to a technical problem at the transmitter site Kostinbrod no
test transmission of The Mighty KBC on Sun Oct.28, 2012: 0000-0200 on 9500.
BULGARIA The Mighty KBC will run another test on Sunday Nov.4, 2012:
0000-0200 on 9500 SOF 070 kW / 306 deg to NoAm. But on same 9500 is CNR-1!
73! Ivo Ivanov
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 05:58:53 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>, "DXLD"
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] morning log Oct 31
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11510 came across of a empty carrier at 0343 UT, S=9+15dB basic signal,
then silent, started again with 1026 Hertz signal tones and
at 0400 UT with Kurdish National Anthem played by brass band.
9940 Radio Miraya FM still on air, program in progress, compared to
11510 Kurdish station with muffeled audio,
seemingly total different{!!} TX centers in use.
Only fluttery S=6 signal.
11645 Voice of Greece in 03-05 UT slot strong signal at S=9+25dB level,
but produces two spurious signals with peaks on 11609 and 11681 kHz,
in ranges 11598-11615 and 11677-11687 kHz.
11730 NHK R Japan in Persian via Tashkent-UZB, 04-0430 UT S=8 fair
signal sidelobe into Germany at 0404 UT.
6195 NHK R Japan in Spanish via Montsinery-GUF, S=7 backlobe to EUR.
0406 UT Oct 31.
5865 Radio Algerienne via Issoudun, powerful S=9+45dB powerhouse,
nice NoAF music at 0407 UT.
6160 Radio Rossii via Arkhangelsk-Murmansk in Russian at 0412 UT.
S=9+5dB here in Germany.
6175.004 VoVietnam in Spanish, totally bad Spanish language accentuation.
nx til 0414 UT Oct 31, via Cypress Creek Furman-SC relay site.
S=9+10dB in Germany.
For the very first time I hear a Horn of Africa music station on 9715 kHz
around 0400-0500 UT. Noted three signals from TUNE IN at 0415 UT:
Started first with
9714.983 BSKSA Riyadh non-directional HQ sce for NE/ME.
9715.031 UNKNOWN HoA mx station, most probably from Eritrea. Music program
was nice sounding, but much overmodulated.
AT 0430-0431 UT heard station anncmt in Vernacular of ERI/ETH area.
Shortly after that annmt the Ethiopian White Noise jamming action
of 20 kHz wide jamming signal started right as 3rd accompanian.
73 wb
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