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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs November 2-3, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
2. Glenn Hauser logs November 3-4, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
3. QSLs since mid-September (Bruce Portzer)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 13:39:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 2-3, 2012
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** ALBANIA. 7465, Nov 2 at 2057, weak signal with talk rather than R. Tirana
IS; must be tail of 2030 German service now scheduled just before English. 2100
opening English with correct times for both English broadcasts.
6100, Nov 2 at 0227 R. Tirana carrier is on, not earlier; 0228 IS, 0230 sign-on
English with schedule of: to UK 2100-2130 Mon-Sat on 7465, NAm 0230-0300
Mon-Sun on 6100. Well, almost correct: the 0230 is UT Tue-Sun. See also USA:
7465 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ALGERIA [non]. 7295, VG Nov 3 at 0526 tuneby, surprised to hear English on
RTA relay via FRANCE. Heavy accent, but is talking about Islam, some African
country (Algeria itself?) with low economic index; 0529 finishes his comments
and back into Arabic by another speaker. I suspect this is a fluke, not likely
to be a regular English segment (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. 11711, Nov 3 at 0139, RAE has fair signal but just barely
modulated, Japanese? This plus all the QRDRM from India 11710-11715-11720 make
it a total loss (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 4885, Nov 3 at 0535 with music, presumed the OBOB, R. Clube do Par?,
which has the strongest, most reliable 60m signal from S America, at least
among those which are on all-night. CODAR bothered, but diminished a little at
0540. Aoki lists power for Par? as only 2 kW but I`ll go with the 10 kW in WRTH
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 540, Nov 3 at 1236 UT, temps are rising at `Saskatchewan Weekend`,
i.e. CBK Watrous; Spanish nulled, probably XETX rather than XEWA (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 9625, Nov 3 at 0506, CKCX-SW survives another day of revoked
activity, `O, Canada` by band, open carrier and tone. On again at 1338 check
during political discussion, no doubt `The House` from CBC Radio 1 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 11635 & 11640, Nov 3 at 1224, hyper CNR1 programming on both,
probably as jammers; B-12, IBB Chinese via Thailand is scheduled on 11635, but
11640 has CRI Chinese via Xian in HFCC. Sometimes CRI is spoilt by jammed
services moving in co-channel, forcing the ChiCom to jam themselves as well
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9517 & 9563 approx., Nov 3 at 1227, spurblobs with buzzing presumably
emanating from 9540 RHC transmitter equally amid, which has done this several
times before. Fortunately, 9540 is weak here and the spurs even weaker. Still
audible at 1340 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 12015, Nov 3 at 1221, CRI English with talk about Beijing
subway, zombie walks. Little else is making it from E Asia on 11 MHz or higher
bands in depressed propagation, SF=97, but Kashgar in C Asia propagates quite
differently; aimed 173 degrees, and could even be long path. Not a good
frequency, tho, occupied by much closer RTTY all day here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) See also CHINA
** IRAN. 17650, Nov 3 at 1314, VIRI Arabic service with OK modulation for a
change, fair signal and no CCI from CRI French via EAST TURKISTAN, as has been
the problem, tho trace of that might be causing slight SAH (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 9595, Nov 3 at 1337, R. Nikkei in English, an American-accented
musician interviewed by Japanese-speaking interviewer. Not clear if translation
was involved too. Apparently a pianist per music to follow. 6055 checked
earlier, again had that new CCI from the bullying ChiCom (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. 15575, Nov 3 at 0138, open carrier, fair signal.
Nothing scheduled, but suspect warmup from KBSWR which attempts to broadcast to
North America at 0200-0300, not in English, but Spanish. Need to check that
after 0200 when propagation is much more likely than at 1200. Meanwhile, the
new 01-02 Spanish relay via Guiana French to South America was sufficient on
11635, inaudible on direct 11810.
15575, seeking the sole KBS English to NAm now, direct at 12-13, but Nov 3 at
1217 there is nothing to be heard here, not even the collidee, whilst NHK
English is quite good on 15190 via GUIANA FRENCH, the route KBS should have
followed too. At this hour, 15 MHz is only open from southerly paths (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 960, UT Sat Nov 3 at 0500-0505, KGWA silent period
occupied by one ABC news, then another one making slight echo, presumably KMA
IA and WERC AL. Which stations dominate the Fox hole from one night to the next
vary greatly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Fri Nov 2 at 1850 and 2058 UT chex, KEOR is back on with
Mexican music. Never any IDs or announcements at all heard.
Bruce Winkelman, Tulsa, also reports it Nov 1 in UT -5: ``Hi, Glenn. Tuning
past 1120 during that time (1610-1645CDT) found presumed KEOR with non-stop
Spanish language vocals. Just checked (1720-1729CDT) 1120 after my walk and
found OC only for a few minutes, the carrier cut off at 1726CDT for a minute
then back on with Spanish vocal music.
Watching the S-meter, it appears that someone is actually "at the controls"?
When I tuned in at 1720CDT, the S-meter on the R8 showed S9+15 and steady; when
the music returned 1727CDT it was at S9+20 for a few seconds then dropped to a
steady S8, quickly back to S9+20. Carrier abruptly off at 1729CDT leaving a
weak KMOX. Still off as I finish this at 1735CDT. I'll keep watching 1120 as I
can.``
The strength surges on 1120 may indicate KEOR is working on implementing their
CP to increase power from 2 kW day to 10 kW day/7 kW critical hours. CPs for
both the daytime and CH show same pattern with a broad major lobe slightly west
of south, i.e. covering Tulsa, and a minor lobe in the opposite direxion, but
with deep nulls toward St Louis, and apparently Portland. Axually, it`s the
same as already in use for 2 kW daytime; we are off the side, but still
considerable signal toward Enid.
FCC ``AM silent stations, silent over 2 months AS OF: 11/1/2012`` at
http://transition.fcc.gov/mb/audio/newsite/docs/silentAM.html
Shows only these two in Oklahoma:
1120 AM KEOR CATOOSA OK 6/1/2012 3651
1340 AM KJMU SAND SPRINGS OK 11/7/2011 47101
I added the missing frequencies in this otherwise handy list. Morning of Nov 3,
various chex between 15 and 17 UT found KEOR off the air again, altho at the
earlier time a weak signal was audible, presumably skywave remnant of KMOX.
Bruce Winkelman also tells me:
``I worked in Tahlequah yesterday and checked 1490 both ways; no sign of KBIX
either around 0800CDT 31OCT12 or around 1930CDT 31OCT12. My route on the
Muskogee Turnpike to State Highway 62 takes me within 4-5 miles of the KBIX
transmitter site per RadioLocator so surely 450 watts would be heard. I'll keep
checking 1490 periodically from here in Tulsa as well as on future trips to the
'quah but it looks like it's silent. No sign of KBIX-1490 this afternoon while
running last-minute errands around town 1610-1645CDT 01NOV12. Bruce Winkelman,
Tulsa, OK, R8, Par EndFedZ sloper``
He was checking KBIX 1490 Muskogee because there was a question whether it`s on
the air. NRC AM Log 2012 shows unlike most graveyarders with 1 kW, it`s
licensed for only 450 watts day and night, 24 hours // The Sports Animal,
Tulsa, and with the YSR network. Nothing about it being silent (Glenn Hauser,
Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 15170, Sat Nov 3 at 1312, poor signal but RRI in the clear with
novelty song in Romanian. REE CR relay takes Saturday mornings off 15170,
saving up airtime for additional afternoon/evening silly ballgames (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOMALILAND. 7120, Nov 3 at 0402 check, R. Hargeisa is still audible with HoA
music. I am rather perplexed by some reports from Europe of hearing this almost
until 0500 UT, as in North America it`s gone by 0430 at the latest. Both Europe
and NAm are on roughly the same path across the sunrise terminator (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 7315, Nov 3 at 0528, R. Dabanga has just come on as a minute
earlier I was surprised to find R. Rossii, Magadan without ACI on 7320. Now,
it`s essentially blocked by much stronger signal via VATICAN which nominally
starts at 0400, presumably still R. Tamazuj for the first semihour, then
Dabanga. Perhaps there has just been a brief break in transmission (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 15420-CUSB, Sat Nov 3 at 1403 it`s fun to vary the SSB
tuning and hence the pitch of Brother Scare`s opening organ music for Sabbath
services, until he starts pontificating at 1408. Not much carrier here to mar
the pitchplay, unlike other US outlets (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SWAZILAND. 5995, UT Sat Nov 3 at 0400 as soon as the 5994 spurblob goes off
(see UNIDENTIFIED), an African language is audiblized here, maybe Swahili, plus
music? No, Nyanja, says HFCC, TWR Swaziland, 0400-0445 on Sat & Sun only, 100
kW, 5 degrees from Manzini (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 17755, Nov 3 at 1316, VOT German with `Frage des Monats`, etwas ?ber
Istanbul, a new one for a new month, and enjoyed some Turkish pop music fill on
good signal obviously intended for no further than Germany; 1323-1326* VOT IS
identically reiterated, with English-only IDs between.
If only they would also put the following hour in English on this frequency, it
would be good for us too! But I then retune to scheduled 12035 for 1330
English, waiting for it to come up, and give up at 1336 when nothing at all is
audible. It makes no propagational sense to drop 5.72 MHz between these two
adjacent broadcasts to nearby parts of Europe. And I continue to wonder if the
English hour is really somewhere else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. 5790, Nov 3 at 0518, BBC in Arabic has QRM from another station making
SAH of about 5 Hz. Seemed like there was weak non // audio, but the only
explanation in HFCC is that Woofferton is running two 250 kW transmitters here
between 04 and 05, i.e. 03-05 at 126 degrees, and 04-07 at 184 degrees, both
with Arabic; except by 0518 the other must have stayed on late, and furthermore
should be synchronized (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5000, Nov 3 at 1218, checking the WWV propagation minute: the robofem
must have been napping, as the K-index of 0 is quoted for 09 UT, not 12 as
would normally be the case in 3-hourly updates. She also adamantly refuses to
repeat any of the critical numbers, tho there is plenty of time to do so,
despite unpredictable selective fade/distortion which can prevent accurate copy
of certain syllables. Thus I am not sure if the Ap was really 9 for yesterday,
but solar flux was 97, not good (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non?]. 7465, UT Sat Nov 3 at 0141, VOA Spe-cial Eng-lish also has
fast rippling SAH from another carrier. Nothing else scheduled, unless ALBANIA
has left its carrier on past 0100*. This VOA is UT Tue-Sat only at 0130-0200
via Greenville. Or possibly a second Greenville transmitter was on by mistake
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1641 monitoring: 5110-CUSB, UT Saturday Nov 3 at 0134,
AWWW is still going with his closing prayer, // 7490-AM and 9330-CUSB; on 5110
only, after about 4 syllables of Brother Scare as on 7490, WOR 1641 starts at
0137; sufficient reception.
Next: UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW-1 5745. Possibly also on WTWW-2 5085 sometime
after 0100.
After reversion to standard time, on WRMI 9955: Sunday 0900, 1630 UT, Monday
0600, Tuesday 1200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7506.4, Nov 3 at 0141, WRNO is back to full strength, but modulation
of gospel huxter is suppressed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5051, Nov 3 at 0143, WWRB retains offset frequency, why? And is not
cutting off and on the air, or in strength, unlike last night during WORLD OF
RADIO; and // 3195 now during `Unshackled` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 7385, UT Sat Nov 3 at 0403, `DXing with Cumbre` is underway from
WHRI; seems they have activated a number of formerly imaginary SW airtimes, but
all may change again after DST is over (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LITENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1480, Sat Nov 3 at 1245 UT `Better Horses Radio`, chex at
http://www.betterhorsesnetwork.com/betterhorsesradio/index.htm
as on KQAM Wichita at this time; also on KCMO, KGYN and quite a few others;
originates in Ottawa KS.
Was looking for signs of rebuilt KBXD 1480 Dallas TX supposed to be testing;
there was a brief tone from some CCI (or KQAM itself) at 1245; and a promising
open carrier at 1259, but that turned out to be dead air from KQAM too, then
Fox ``news`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1530, Nov 3 at 1308 UT, market reports for Kansas from USDA, extended
forecast from Kansas Ag network, i.e. KQNK Norton (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1600, Sat Nov 3 at 1250 UT, interesting discussion about life on
Mars; late Arthur C. Clarke thought he saw tree-like growths from early
explorer images. Turns out to be C2CAM at a rather late time, closing hour at
1257 to continue same guest next hour; but there is no next hour here. 1258
political ads including for county clerk, Albuquerque, 1300 CBS News, 1306
another talk show about home repair vs storm Sandy.
Already at 1250 had het from off-frequency KMDO Fort Scott KS; and by 1306 QRM
is growing from KRVA TX in Vietnamese. C2CAM website says it`s on KIVA 1600
Albuquerque until 6 am MT on Saturdays, only until 4 am on otherdays. But 1300
UT = 7 am MDT for the last time today. KIVA website confirms it has CBS News
and C2CAM starting at 11 pm or midnite local (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. 7345, Nov 3 at 0527, Vietnamese with very poor signal from
VOV relay via Woofferton UK to WNAm. Quality varies greatly from night to night
as to be expected over a hi-latitude path, unlike closer and lower Sackville
had been on 6175 or even 9555 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZANZIBAR. 11735, Nov 2 at 2045, RTZ/ZBC has poor signal with singing, later
hilife music, but cut off abruptly at 2056:52*. What`s the big hurry? Prevents
any good-night or sign-off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 580, Sat Nov 3 at 1235, neatly in nulls of WIBW and XEMU, i.e.
from approx WNW/ESE is a car-repair call-in show. KJMJ Alexandria LA looks
likely from the maps, but it`s a Radio Maria. Also unfitting KSAZ in Arizona.
Maybe KUBC in Montrose CO? Cannot find a simple program schedule at
http://coloradoradio.com/ tho they proclaim months in advance when they and
sibling stations will be carrying stupid ballgames. KRFE in Lubbock is AC. WILL
in IL might have such a show, but bad pattern for here. No, WILL is in WESAT
from NPR, Car Talk not until 1400 UT, and there were no Tom & Rays to be heard
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5994 & 6076, Nov 3 at 0228, the spurblobs are already on, and
around the same frequencies as 23 hours earlier, both approx., as there is no
carrier to pinpoint. Not very strong at first, but at 0357 check they have
built up, still no modulation to try to identify, and both go off at 0400:04*.
Again nothing to be found on the midpoint, 6035. Due to the precision of the
close-down timings, suspect it is some major broadcaster extremely out of order.
In case this originate on 5995, note that an IBB Caucasus service, 250 kW, 355
degrees from KUWAIT is on 5995 at 0300-0400; see also SWAZILAND, which followed
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6925-USB, Nov 3 at 1211, weak pirate talking about a million
dollars, super-PACs, original lewd implication of tea-bagging; 1212 ``Addams
Family`` theme (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15488, Nov 3 at 1254, unlike Nov 2, no spurblob audible today,
nor earlier in the hour, but propagation is poor to absent from Asia, east and
west (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 21:53:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 3-4, 2012
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
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** ALBANIA. 6100, Nov 4 at 0230, R. Tirana is barely audible, less so than the
signal meter implies, because it`s undermodulated and weaker than usual vs the
noise level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. The dirty spurblobs of the last few nights are on again after
0200 UT Nov 4 circa 5994 and 6076, but not before 0200, so now we have the
timespan, 0200-0400. There is no modulation readable at all, just noise on
them, each spreading some 5 kHz. But which stations on 49m have a transmission
at 0200-0400? Surprisingly in HFCC there are only two, Oman on 6085, probably
wooden, and: NHK via GUIANA FRENCH on 5960! These spurs are approx. 34 and 116
kHz above the fundamental, so look for matches 34 and 116 kHz below --- and
there they are, tho not as strong and/or obscured by QRM, circa 5926 and 5844!
Furthermore there is another in between around 5892, i.e. 68 kHz below the
fundamental (fortunately no BS from WWCR 5890 yet tonight). How about 68 kHz
above 5960? That would be 6028, and with BFO and narrow filter I can barely
detect something in the sidebands of 6030 DCJC and Radio Mart?. One might
expect the third order to be 3 x 34 = 112
kHz out instead of 116, but close enough? None of these are precisely
pinpointable and subject to some variations. Remember, the first night I heard
the blob it was around a totally different frequency, 6045 = 85 kHz above 5960.
Everything is fitting together. A few weeks ago we had spurs 116 kHz away from
another GUF frequency, 9490, R. Rep?blica in the 00-02 period, on 9606 and a
match 116 kHz below on 9374. Could be to get rid of those, they swapped
transmitters, and now it`s NHK which is getting the bonus frequencies. See also
NETHERLANDS [non] for possibly different spurs from 9490 vs Radio KBC. Finally
I pay some attention to fundamental 5960 with NHK in Japanese, and notice it
has some hum, not unusual for GUF, but otherwise OK modulation and no clues
that it would be radiating the field of spurblobs too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 15775, Nov 3 at 2328, no signal yet, but *2329:45 carrier and
2330 keyboard music introducing special 60 th anniversary program of the Japan
SW Club, as previously publicized, via GUIANA FRENCH. Brief opening in
Japanese, the rest mostly in English. Reception is good, but considerable
fading. One band lower might have worked better to North America. First segment
recounts history of JSWC since founded in 1952 by three DXers.
>From 2337 a series of interviews made by Toshi Ohtake at last May`s EDXC
>Conference in Germany, everyone with best wishes to JSWC on anniversary,
>including: Tibor Szilagyi of EDXC; Dario Monferini (who also sings ``happy
>birthday`` in Italian = ``auguri a voi``); David Kenny of BDXC-UK; Mr Harald
>Gabler of RMRC; Andy Schmidt of DSWCI and ADXB; Anker Petersen of DSWCI, and a
>founder of EDXC at his house; Alexander B- of St. Petersburg DX Club; Risto
>V?h?kainu of FDXA; Max Van Arnhem of Holland, who also speaks some Dutch;
>George Brown of Edinburgh. Then three more greetings pre-recorded from: Robert
>Kipp, Radio Saint Helena Revival Project; Kim Andrew Elliott,
>ex-Communications World, still Research Officer at VOA; and Nicholas Hardyman,
>WRTH publisher. Most of them also plugged their own activities.
Program as a whole anchored by Yukiko Tsuji, YL who also reads the JSWC DX tips
on Wavescan et al. At 2357 she wraps it up with QSL info for this broadcast:
e-QSL for reports to [email protected] or p-QSL for reports with r.p. to P O Box
44, Kamakura 238-8691, Japan. She also thanked Ludo Maes of Broadcast Belgium
for brokering this transmission. Carrier stayed on a bit past 2400 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. 15575, Nov 4 at 0150, open carrier again, 24+ hours
after first noticed, but not followed up Nov 3. Must be KBSWR direct before
0200 Spanish to North America. Yes, 0158 with IS and IDs in Spanish and Korean;
0200 theme and sign-on. but gone at 0235 check, since is the half-hour version,
not the full hour which had just finished before 0200 on 11635 via GUIANA
FRENCH, and inaudible 11810 direct. If KBS could be convinced to put English on
15575 in our evenings instead of mornings, it might regain a fraxion of the
audience it lost with Sackville closure (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9500, UT Sun Nov 3 at 0001, The Mighty KBC Radio
broadcast is underway via Kostinbrod, BULGARIA with very good signal level,
best yet; missed any opening ID while I was still on 15775 for JSWC special, so
music is already playing, ``Baby, You Talk Too Much``. DJ announcement and
another tune around 0005, but by 0006, squealing has started on the
transmission while Stevie Wonder is singing the Beatles. The squeal really
detracts from the music. By 0147 recheck, the squeal is even louder compared to
the intentional modulation and the signal has weakened. At 0155 with BFO I can
hear the squeal as sidebands from 9495 to 9510; probably would go lower if it
were not for strong R. Rep?blica on 9490 from Guiana French. It helps to tune
to center 9500 with narrow filter, but that also cuts off the treble in the
music.
0156 closing announcement with contact info, themightykbc @ gmail.com or see
website http://kbcradio.eu --- ``back next week, same time, same station``.
Really? So this is now regular, not experimental? At 0157 I notice that the
squeal has stopped, and so has RR/GUF on 9490 --- I was sure the squeal was
coming out of the Bulgarian transmitter, heard on both sides of 9500, but now
there`s some doubt; could it have been out of the GUF transmitter instead? It
has had spur problems before and has also been nailed as the source of several
big spurblobs on the 49m band --- see GUIANA FRENCH. Before 9490 went off I
also checked 9606 where its spurblob had previously appeared along with 9374,
but not tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9990 & 5085, no show this Saturday night from WTWW-2, 0100-0300+ chex
UT Sunday Nov 4.
But WOR 1641 confirmed on 5745, WTWW-1, UT Sunday Nov 4 at almost 0401, intact
after the schedule change announcement of 9479 ``9480`` changing to 5745 at 6
pm Central = 00 UT, presumably effective Nov 4/5, but the first part of the
advisory is cut off by the automatic canned ID also by Ted Randall.
WRMI 9955 has a new program schedule effective Nov 4, not only with one-hour
DST shifts but other changes, at
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AivhtkIEGb3_dENObnZrMkt1YmtUWGxkbkd3TGNzOXc&hl=en#gid=0
including WORLD OF RADIO UT Monday at 0530, ex-0500 instead of expected 0600 UT
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7315, UT Sunday Nov 4 at 0206 I notice that `DXing with Cumbre` is
playing on WHRI from 0200, and also on 5920, but a separate playout about 25
sex behind 7315. We are in the final hours of DST for 2012y so next week the
timings and/or frequencies may shift (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5885, Nov 4 around 0225, good signal in English here, sounds like
BBC and nothing where expected on 5875, but too busy monitoring spurblobs to
stay with it. At 0233 recheck, still nothing on 5875 but now 5885 is in French.
Latest HFCC of Nov 2 does not account for anything on 5885 before IBB Vatican
to Sudan after 0300; and BBC Cyprus is supposedly on 5875 in English for the
entire hour:
5875 0200 0300 30S,39NE,40 CYP 300 101 0 146 1234567 281012 310313 D 8975
English
BBC`s own complete schedule as in DXLD 12-44 also has English on 5875 at 02-03,
and no French until 0430. 5885 is however on the BBC schedule for one English
broadcast, 22-23 via Meyerton, SOUTH AFRICA. So this could be another screwup
by SENTECH, failing to change frequency from the night before on this
transmitter, but what would the French be? I don`t find any French listed for
Meyerton at 0230, which is really too early for any part of Africa. Must check
tomorrow (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
------------------------------
Message: 3
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 23:36:00 -0700
From: Bruce Portzer <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] QSLs since mid-September
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Some QSLs have arrived in the past few weeks:
BULGARIA - Mighty KBC 9500 kHz, eQSL in 5 hours for email report to
themightykbc(a)gmail(dot)com
COSTA RICA - Radio Exterior de Espana, sent QSL cards for Dec 2011
report (9675 kHz) in 276 days and August 2012 report (9630 kHz) in 30
days. Both were for Spanish email reports sent to ree(a)rtve(dot)es.
The two QSLs were mailed in separate envelopes but arrived on the same
day. Both cards were F/D except for tx site.
RUSSIA - Voice of Russia Arabic Service 12060 kHz via St Petersburg,
sent attractive F/D QSL card, sticker, calendars, & pennant in 50 days
for report with audio CD and IRC mailed to Mikhail Timofeev, Saint
Petersburg Regional Centre, 3 Akademika Pavlova St, Saint Petersburg
197022, Russia.
TAIWAN - Sound of Hope 9450 kHz, sent QSL card and stickers in 50 days.
I initially sent an email report with an MP3 file to
info(a)sohnetwork(dot)com, and then a postal report with audio CD to
Sound of Hope International, 6-4, Lane 84, GuoTai Street, North
District, Taichung 404 Taiwan. I don't know which one resulted in the
reply.
SRI LANKA - IBB Transmitting Station (VOA 12075 kHz) sent nice F/D QSL
card in 113 days. The report was mailed to the P.O. Box listed in WRTH,
but the return address on the envelope was c/o the U.S. Embassy, 210,
Galle Road, Colombo 3.
ECUADOR [and non] - HCJB Mt. Pichincha site, 6050 kHz, sent QSL cards
for June and December 2011 reports in 437 and 276 days, respectively.
Also enclosed a short note apologizing for the delay. Both were for
postal reports with audio CDs and MS or $3. The cards were sent in the
same envelope with a QSL card for the 11920 kHz Portuguese service via
Germany (59 days). All three reports had been sent to HCJB Global
Voice, Casilla 17-17-691, Quito, Ecuador.
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 119, Issue 4
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