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Today's Topics:
1. ???.: 1026 Hertz Test Tone (Frequencies)
2. Glenn Hauser logs October 31-November 1, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
3. WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Top News #1089 (Michael Bethge)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 15:39:48 +0000
From: Frequencies <[email protected]>
To: Wolfgang Bueschel <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]"
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] ???.: 1026 Hertz Test Tone
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Dear Wolfgang,
Would you please check 11510 BIJ or KCH 1555-1600UTC tonight
and 11510 SOF at 1600UTC during the transmitter sites switch.
I'm sending you some videos from the Friday through Monday,
which I made with my colleague Georgi Bancov on our DX-Camp.
All stations from Kostinbrod are included, except for two -
Polish Radio External Service and Brother Stair.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qbt5KDXRwg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAK8bVfxTKQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS8xAt9U1Jo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cHy_zE31co
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TmFsIYhoso
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygPoGzGxW44
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UVsJVBwnZ4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo-WOGscBeQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6a30qzNXbw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LruDAt53gC4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR94Ha7D2Wo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0ov78OTbrc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjJK7TRAR4U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuRS5czj8jE&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UVsJVBwnZ4&feature=plcp
More videos, please visit: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/
73! Ivo Ivanov
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??: Wolfgang Bueschel [[email protected]]
?????????: 01 ??????? 2012 ?. 15:26
??: Frequencies
????: 1026 Hertz Test Tone
Hi Ivo,
UKR Mykolaiev Luch site sce ceased on Aug 31.
Somebody told me, that 11510 kHz Kurdish radio remained and moved to
Grigoriopol Maiac Moldova.
Few days in row I discovered a 1026 Hertz test measurement and alignement
tone on 11510 kHz at 0348 to 0400 UT.
Yesterday at 2255-2300 UT I checked also other GRI/KCH outlet on 7260 kHz
and heard same 1026 Hertz test tone.
This morning I woke up and checked both Miraya FM 9940 and 11510 kHz
signals.
Miraya FM 9940 disturbed by terrible Radio Cairo signal 9965 kHz nearby, in
range 9937...9989 kHz.
Miraya FM started CRASH start at 02.58:52 UT, Sudan music started suddenly.
No t o n e Opening procedure, pure CRASH start.
11510 despite different procedure
TX ON carrier 03.50:16 UT,
to 03.51.29 UT TX OFF
Pause
TX ON 03.55:37 UT, Test measurement tone 1026 Hertz,
alternate duration 6sec tone, 5sec pause,
last tone at 03.59:41 UT.
Crash program audio start at 04.00:02 UT, short Kurdish announcement by man,
followed at 04.00:24 UT by playing Kurdish National hymne by brass band.
At this time,
transmissions from outside Europe,
like Cyprus, Egypt and Nador Morocco 9579 are
much stronger than 9940 and 11510 kHz.
11510 from 04 UT is at 99% rate coming out of Grigoriopol Maiac.
KCH/GRI registrations are
6225 17 7260 23 7290 18 bzw. 23 7460 0230 7480 18
7530 17 7550 17 9400 17 9405 1600 9745 17
9865 15 9935 17 9945 16 UT
9940 03-06 UT
BULGARIA/FRANCE/FRENCH GUIANA/MOLDOVA/PALAU/TAIWAN
BRB (exTDP) Belgium. B-12 winter schedule
24-AUG-2012: add: BRB, Broadcast Belgium
Shortwave Radio Broadcast Schedule
Effective 28 Oct 2012 - 30 March 2013
AM/
Program UTC Freq DRM days lang target site
Radio Miraya 0300-0600 9940 AM mtwtfss Ar/En NoEaAF ISS {SOF}
Denge Kurdistan 0400-2000 11510 AM mtwtfss Kurd NE/ME KCH-GRI
Suab Xaa Moo Zoo 1130-1200 11570 AM mtwtfss Hmong Asia TAI
Que Me 1200-1230 9930 AM ....f.. Vietn Asia HBN
The Khmer Post R.1200-1300 9960 AM .twtf.. Khmer Asia HBN
KPPM Radio 1200-1300 9960 AM m....ss Khmer Asia HBN
The Disco Palace 1530-1630 12115 DRM mtwtfss Engl AS/ME ISS
Radio Xoriyo 1600-1630 17870 AM m...f.. SomaliNoEaAF SOF
Radio Assenna 1700-1800 15245 AM m.w.f.. Tigre NoEaAF SOF
ESAT Radio 1700-1800 15370 AM mtwtfss Amhar NoEaAF SOF
The Disco Palace 2000-2100 17875 DRM mtwtfss En NoAM GUF
Suab Xaa Moo Zoo 2230-2300 7530 AM mtwtfss Hmong Asia TAI
(Oct 28)
vy73 wolfy
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kai Ludwig"
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 2:18 PM
> Subject: [dxld] Polskie Radio replaces Woofferton by Kostinbrod
>
> Cf. http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.de/2012/10/observations_30.html
>
> Checking shortly after 1300 I could not trace any signal on 15560 or
> 17860, as still shown at
> http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=B12&broadc=PRW
>
> So apparently those who market the revived Kostinbrod facility have
> taken away that customer from Babcock. It should be no wild guess that
> they proactively approached Polskie Radio and sell the 50 kW from
> Kostinbrod cheaper than Babcock did with the now lost 125 kW business
> from Woofferton. Clear signs for a meanwhile predatory type of
> competition I'd say.
>
> Kai
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 14:38:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 31-November 1, 2012
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
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** ALBANIA. 7465, Oct 31 at 2100 trying to hear R. Tirana`s sign-on
announcement in English but still too weak here against the noise level. Should
improve on the average as we approach Solstice, and also should be better
further east.
6100, Nov 1 at 0224 tune-in, R. Tirana is already on the air with music, 0227
IS and 0230 opening English. Poor signal tonight but I could barely tell that
Klara was still saying this starts at ``2 o`clock`` --- well, maybe it did!
Altho scheduled only from 0230. It`s happened before that the broadcast has
come on early, perhaps as warmup, with the Albanian HS, or perhaps even a
preplay of English available on the program feed line (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. It took until UT Nov 1 for Sackville to turn off all the relay
transmitters even tho they were no longer serving any purpose with tones, fill
music or clashing programming: 6175 ex-Vietnam was already off, and now at 0223
check, 5960 ex-Japan and 9560 ex-Korea South are also gone. After 0500, 6110
ex-Japan also off.
9625, CBC NQ continues on air but with heavy flutter at 0223 and bothered by
ACI from Spain 9620. Since upon CBC request, CRTC has revoked the license of
what they call ``CKCX``, effective Nov 1, this should be the final broadcast of
CBCNQ and of Sackville itself. So we make a point of listening and taping the
final few minutes: at 0455 a report on the late Letitia Baldridge, etiquette
experte, concluding `As It Happens, Midnite Edition` by replaying a 1979y
interview with her by Barbara Frum. 0459 AIH theme; 0459:30 ID in English for
CBCNQ mentioning 9625, Sackville, address and phone in Montreal; 0500 CBC News,
which now lasts only three sesquiminutes; 0504:30 NQ sign-off only in French,
as far as I can tell the same canned one as always, nothing special; ``Oh,
Canada`` 0506:30 but carrier stays on and then tone test added to 0509:16*.
Gone forever?
No! 9625 is on again at 1352 check Nov 1, seems Inuk., heavy flutter. This
rebirth was also noted by Glenn Swiderski in NC who wonders if it`s now a
powerful unlicensed pirate; Kim Elliott in DC; Mark Coady in Ont. who reports
that Thomas Witherspoon`s blog says that two transmitters are being maintained
(one as backup) to keep the NQ service only on the SW air a bit longer until
all the FM relays are funxional in northern Quebec. So whenever that happens,
the plug will be pulled without further notice. Thus we are deprived of closure
from Sackville, but take what we can get.
BTW, the 0500 Nov 1 CBC News on 9625 was // and almost synchronized with
6160.9, CKZN, if we put up with that annoying het (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF
RADIO 1641, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 11736, 11744, 11752, 11768, 11776, 11784, the 8-kHz spur field from
11760 CNR1 jammer is still here, all barely detectable at 1356 Nov 1 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6050, UT Nov 1 at 0225, RHC English is still here with bigsig, can`t
even detect HCJB underneath, despite published new schedule showing 6140
replacing it from this date. Of course it`s not yet Nov 1 in Cuba, so maybe
from UT Nov 2? On the new UT-5 schedule, the morning transmission is supposed
to be at 12-16 UT, but just before 1500, 17580 and 17730 were dead air and soon
turned off, i.e. still signing off as per A-12 summer schedule. And a partial
frequency announcement heard around 1400 sounded like the old one.
The 11760 English broadcast is in progress at 1937 Nov 1, so it hasn`t yet
shifted to 2000 as in the new schedule.
Listened to R. Reloj online, and at 1930 UT it announced 3:30 --- so Cuba is
still on UT -4, despite website displaying:
``La hora exacta en Cuba --- Thursday 01 Nov 2012 14:27:29pm -0500
America/Havana CST``. What confusion! Havana is never on CST and if it were the
time would be 13:27+. To run its website clock, also detects my computer set to
UT = Azores DST.
I can`t get any hits on the R. Reloj or R. Rebelde websites about ``hora de
invierno`` or ``hora de verano``. Timeanddate.com still says Nov 11 is the date
for DST to end in Cuba, so we may be in for a dekaday of confusion, or until
Cuba can be confirmed to have deset their clox (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 11560, Oct 31 at 2007, ME music on poor signal. Modulation seemed OK
so did not occur to me it could be R. Cairo until uplooked in HFCC: 1900-2115
in German and French, 200 kW, 325 degrees from Abis so also USward (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, Oct 31 at 1957, tuned in R. Africa just in time to
hear a country music hymn cut off the air at 1957.6* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. 11995, Nov 1 at 0513, no carrier with hum detectable; seems I
have not been hearing it since B-12 began, tho the original 02-03 relay of
Taiwan in Spanish is still there. 11740 was propagating OK with the new R.
Japan relay in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 5960, Nov 1 at 0223, NHK Japanese relay via new GUIANA FRENCH
is finally in the clear, as Sackville has finally turned off the fill music and
the transmitter which had collided with it every night since the end of A-12;
somewhat stronger than // 11935.
** OKLAHOMA. 960, UT Thu Nov 1 at 0500, KGWA dead air again, but I can`t DX it
tonight with CBCNQ Sackville about to close down (not); see CANADA (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA [and non]. 7220, Nov 1 at 0514, RRI in Romanian has considerable
CCI; what could it be? CRI in English via ALBANIA, as in HFCC during same hour,
150 kW at 140 degrees, while Galbeni is 300 kW, 285 degrees. Can`t expect
C?rrik to be unidirexional! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH AFRICA. 11755, Oct 31 at 2009, French competes with somewhat stronger
but undermodulated 11760, RHC French to Central America (where there are no
French-speaking countries), and then ID as Radio Mondiale Adventiste. HFCC
shows 250 kW, 328 degrees from SOUTH AFRICA at 2000-2030 (Glenn Hasuer, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 6140, Nov 1 at 0349, English from BBC is sufficient here; but we
shall lose it once RHC moves from 6050 to 6140, maybe strong enough to cover
it, 0300-0400, 100 kW, 330 degrees from Meyerton, SOUTH AFRICA. BBC is also on
6140 at 02-03 from Oman to Afghanistan, but that should be sharable (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7506.4, Nov 1 at 0226, WRNO is back up to full strength tonight, with
distorted music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1641 monitoring: first airing confirmed on WTWW 9479,
Thursday Nov 1 at 2101; next is UT Sunday 0400 on 5745.
Also UT Fri 0330v on WWRB 3195 and/or 5050
UT Sat 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB
Sat 0630 & 1630 on HLR, Germany, 7265 [no UT time shift]
Sat 0800, 1500, 1730, Sun 0900, 1630, Mon 0600, Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955 [with
standard timeshift starting Sunday]
On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat 1730 [and non longer on Sundays]
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [non]. 7305, Nov 1 at 1155 check, poor signal in Spanish about a
virgen, so new Vatican relay at 1130-1200 via Greenville, replacing Sackville,
must be in play; still haven`t heard the other scheduled broadcast at 0200-0245
altho did not check it Nov 1.
15495, Nov 1 at 1348 piano music reminiscent of Shiokaze, and Vietnamese talk;
1358 VR IS and now with SAH CCI until Vatican off at 1400* and the understation
turned out to be AWR Guam theme, ID in English, and introducing Mandarin. VR
here is via TINIAN at 1315-1400, but at 1228-1315 15495 Vatican Chinese comes
via RVA Philippines (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. 9640, Nov 1 at 0222 check, VOV in Vietnamese via Woofferton
with good signal tonight. English should be at 0100-0130, 0230-0300, 0330-0400
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZANZIBAR. 11735, Oct 31 at 2008, vocal music with flutter, no doubt RTZ/ZBC
starting to show up here again; modulation sounded OK, unlike some other recent
reports (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6045, Nov 1 at 0336, huge distorted FMy blob with talk, nothing
scheduled here, so a spur or some station very out of order. By slope tuning,
the intonation sounds English. Try to match it to other 49m signals: No match
to RHC English 6050 or Spanish, nor to WWCR. Seems like there is a weaker one
like it around 5925, but not sure. 0345 a bit of music, also at 0352. I am
listening very carefully up to hourtop hoping for something recognizable; there
is some repetitive beat music and cut off the air at 0400:25*
Not much to go on: sure hope they do it again the next night and we have better
luck tracing it. For now, what station-frequencies are in English until 0400 on
49m in HFCC?
5920 WHRI
5940 BBC Cyprus & Skelton
6020 CRI Albania
6115 WYFR
6140 BBC South Africa
6155 Channel Africa
Some good prospects there, tho it was not typical BBC behavior. Times in HFCC
are often rounded off or approx. so I also looked for endings at 0359, 0358,
0357, 0356, but nothing more. If it wasn`t English there are lots more
possibilities (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 930, Nov 1 at 0529 UT, something is occupying the null of Spanish
WKY OKC: promo for Rush at 9 am, then temps but no local refs caught; and into
Yahoo Sportsradio.com, slogan something like ``Sportstalk 930``. A strange
combination, both Rush and YSR? Or maybe the Rush promo was for a sibling
station. 9 am means MST or PDT for live airing, but there are no such 930
stations on the Rush affiliate list.
The only 930 stations on the YSR affiliate list:
Jacksonville FL WFXJ-AM 930 AM
Battle Creek MI WBCK-AM 930 AM
Jackson MS WSFZ-AM 930 AM
Greenville NC WDLX-AM 930 AM
None of these have favorable night patterns for us, but Jackson MS is closest.
WSFZ website says it`s Super Sport 930. But Rush couldn`t be on at 9 am in that
market, not starting until 11 am CT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 07:58:09 +0100
From: "Michael Bethge" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
"Fernando Luiz de Souza" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Top News #1089
Message-ID: <C15CED7928874069A7F8A51C7B453423@BETHGEZUHAUSE>
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The latest edition (2 November) of WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Top News,
compiled by Wolfgang Bueschel, has been posted:
http://topnews.wwdxc.de
Best regards,
Michael Bethge
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