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Today's Topics:
1. DX Loggings -- 10 Nov -- Ralph Perry (RALPH PERRY)
2. Glenn Hauser logs November 9-10, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Glenn Hauser logs November 10-11, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
4. Nov 10 Logs ([email protected])
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 07:52:14 -0600
From: RALPH PERRY <[email protected]>
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Subject: [HCDX] DX Loggings -- 10 Nov -- Ralph Perry
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ECUADOR / BRAZIL ? These two currently-active LA stations operate on *
nearly* the same precise fqy. For what it?s worth, I typically only
receive the HC station in the mornings, and the Brazilian usually during
local evenings, although this is by no means fixed in stone! Probably a
great example of why a precision-measured frequency (while a great *
additional* piece of investigative info when IDing a station) is usually
not enough, by itself, to ID a station.
4814.98 - Radio El Buen Pastor, Saraguro, Ecuador, noted here mornings and
often ?fading up? only after 1045 or so, when it may be taking the air.
Not ?fading up? due to propagation, but rather (I suspect), probably
reflecting the station tweaking / cranking up its xmtr for the broadcast
day. Heard again this morning 11/10 at 1052 t/in, best in ECSB, with
unmistakable Andes-themed music and OM t/ck in SS as ?5 horas y 52 minutos,
5 y 52 . . . ? Blipping CODAR QRM and low modulation. At 1055, usual
calm, low-voiced locutor in SS. Fadey signal. (Perry, Illinois)
4814.97 ? Radio Difusora de Londrina, Parana, Brazil, noted 0147 on 11/10
w/OM PP anmts and into religious-sounding choral mx. Fanfare at 0155, ID
anmt in echo. Again, CODAR QRM. Choir to 0159, more fanfare and echo
anmts in PP. (Perry, Illinois)
BOLIVIA ? 4716.71, Radio 'Jatun Ayllu Yura', La Voz de los Ayllus, San
Antonio de Quijarro, luckily tuned-by at 0201 on 11/10 and noted upbeat CP
folk music with OM singer with guitar and a lovely Andes-sounding refrain
played on pinkillos. At 0204 OM ancr in SS with what I later figured out
was a closedown anmt. Waited 5 minutes for music to resume and then
realized Yura had already gone adios, hi. Usually hear this one, often and
usually much better signal, during local mornings after 1000. (Perry,
Illinois)
ECUADOR ? 4781.68, Radio Oriental, tracking their morning slot many days
now and they are very, very reliably *1100. Sometimes a minute or two
before, or after, but a consistent daily visitor. Park on this fqy at 1050
and wait ? you will hear a few very strong bursts of ?burbly/gurgling?
RTTY-like rippling sound, which likely is R. Oriental testing their xmtr.
(Wonder if they co-own an xmtr also used for private commercial
communications?) Today, 11/10, abrupt s/on a minute late, signal not
initially great but then peaked around 1105 with excellent power. Morning
sports show with local ads. OM at 1105, ? . . . en el Mercado Central Tena
. . . son las seis de la manana y 6 minutos . . . Los Deportivos del Mundo
. . .? More time checks and then an ad for ?Banco de Guayaquil, su banco
del barrio . . .? More musical commercials followed, but noise coming up
and signal lost by 1110. (Perry, Illinois)
UNID ? 4824.50, 11/10 again noting open carrier appearing sometime after
1035 and holding on thru to TOH. Quick checks in the 1050-1105 period
never result in any programming being heard with certainty. No s/on at
1100 noted, unfortunately. As the propagation window from E. Peru widens,
am hopeful this may improve and eventually be reliably confirmed to be LV
Selva, which has been gone from 60 meters for more than a year. Needs
work. (Perry, Illinois)
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Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois
Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100
Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 + Quantum Phaser antenna
unit (customized for tropical bands)
355-foot bidirectional BOG positioned 150 deg / 330 deg for LA / SE Asia
Phased Longwire + Small Loop
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:05:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 9-10, 2012
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On Nov 9 replaced my primary antenna to the FRG-7, mostly E-W longwire, which
had several splices, by a single piece of heavier gauge wire over same route,
from tree to tree to tree and not more than 10 feet above ground, not quite as
long, but axuallly measured as 160 feet = 49 meters. Notice a definite
improvement in overall reception, especially better S/N allowing weak 60 and
90m signals to come thru better. (However, in the post-sunset `prime time`
period vs household and area noise sources, I still get better results with the
DX-398 on the porch and a much shorter random wire plugged into it.)
** AUSTRALIA. 4835, Nov 10 at 1333, VL8A still in a semihour after sunrise
here, very poor, mentions Northern Territory. 1339 playing typical country
music. Note WWCR-3 is now scheduled on 4840 from 01 to 13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA [non]. 15470, Nov 10 at 1453, gospel huxter in English, fair signal.
This is Bible Voice Broadcasting, via Wertachtal, GERMANY, scheduled here only
on Sat & Sun. What a pity that this now represents Canada on international SW,
altho never direct from Sackville (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 4940, Nov 10 at 1339 soft M&W talk in Chinese, i.e. V. of Strait,
Fuzhou. No CCI from India audible here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 7435, Nov 10 tuned in just in time before 1400 to hear once the REE
IS from Kunming, followed by CRI theme and opening in presumed Nepali. // 7220
was too blocked by SSB QRhaM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5025, Nov 10 at 0614, R. Rebelde now clear of the persistent RTTY QRM,
and no het either as at last check 0233.
5040, Nov 10 at 0614, RHC is back in English as newly scheduled during this
hour, instead of Spanish 24 hours earlier. But wait, there`s more:
9550, Nov 10 at 0624, RHC English on this unscheduled frequency, so I check the
49m transmitters and find one is missing: 6060. Another mistake, or
experimenting?
5800, Nov 10 at 0617, cut numbers, spy transmission as regularly scheduled,
just like I was hearing on RHC`s 15340, Nov 9 at 1929-1934 instead of RHC
French (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 5765-USB, Nov 10 at 1342, AFN with talk but not // NPR Weekend Edition
Saturday digitally-delayed on KOSU. 1342 outro segment as with Christina
Aguilera, and ``Today on NBC``, sounds like Lester Holt. Still barely audible
at 1420 and still not with NPR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 3325, Nov 10 at 1328, RRI Palangkaraya at S9+12, 1329 rustic
music, 1330 YL mentions Indonesia, almost one semihour after sunrise here.
4750, Nov 10 at 1334, RRI Makassar, SSOB with music; 1335 YL in Indonesian.
With BFO I can tell there is a second signal on slightly different frequency,
Bangladesh or China?
Atusnori Ishida`s Monitoring Report of Indonesian SW at
http://www.rri.jpn.org/
has not been updated since Nov 7, but in the week prior agrees that these two
had been active, slightly variable times:
3325, -1000-1700v* and *2200v
4750, -1000-1600v* and *2100v-2130-
Only other active RRIs were:
4870, -1000-1500v* and *2000v-2100-, Wamena
7290, -0730-0800v*, occasionally much later, Nabire
9680 Jakarta had not been heard since October 19
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 11685, Nov 10 at 1401, S Asian language mentioning Pakistan, musical
theme, and soon found a bit better // 11720. Both are VIRI in Urdu at 1300-1430
via Kamalabad, 178 and 118 degrees respectively. No sign of BBC Burmese via
Singapore, also sked on 11685 at 1345-1430 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** ISRAEL. 15760, Nov 10 at 1450, continuous tone, 1455 change to IBA IS, good
signal, 1500 fades out the last iteration in order to present accurate
timesignal, and opening Farsi, ``Injo (however they say Jerusalem), seda-ye
Israel``.
Persian is the only language IBA considers worth broadcasting on SW, for
obvious strategic reasons. Who cares about allies, or a worldwide tongue?? HFCC
B-12 shows IBA Persian at 1500-1630 registered on multiple frequencies, but
presumably only on two or three at once: 90 degrees on 6990, 9390, 9985, 13850,
15760; 27 degrees on 11595, 17490. I guess the other active one is 13850?
New B-12 WRN North America schedule shows Israel Radio in English, daily at
0030-0045 and 0630-0645 UT. Unfortunately these are not times when WRMI is
currently relaying WRN on 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 2850, Nov 10 at 1331, very poor with music, must be KCBS; only
other possibility for a broadcaster would be a third harmonic of 950. It`s been
ages since I have heard any non-local MW harmonic in the 2+ MHz range. Maybe
new antenna will help (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [and non]. 4820, Nov 10 at 1335, two stations making a SAH here, no
doubt PBS Xizang, Lhasa, and AIR Kolkata. At 1337 I estimate the SAH at about
10 Hz; talk on top is not Chinese, so must be Hindi from AIR, as this Tibetan
frequency is supposed to be in Chinese. Imagine how much worse the collision
must be in S Asia! BTW, don`t you believe Aoki that Voz Evang?lica, Honduras is
still active on 4820 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7255, Nov 10 at 0621, very weak AM carrier, possibly Belarus as
only thing scheduled unless it`s a spoiler ham transmitter; SSB QRhaM (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:17:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 10-11, 2012
Message-ID:
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** ARGENTINA. 13363.5-LSB, Nov 11 at 0058, JBA so I can tell LTA is on the air
this Saturday night, but too weak to copy (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 9480, Nov 11 at 0101, something in Chinese, vs squealing
spur circa 9481 from GUIANA FRENCH 9490. Probably CNR1 jammer against IBB in
Uyghur via KUWAIT starting at 0100, following CNR Tibetan service from Beijing
until 0100. Also, WTWW-1 may have just left 9479 for 5745 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5990, Nov 11 at 0050, CRI Spanish 00-01 relay is back on proper
frequency, whew, instead of apparent mispunch 24 hours earlier on 5950.
Presumably also applies to the 23-24 English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5025, Nov 11 at 0103, R. Rebelde is on the air but with that het from
presumed RTTY transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. 9475-9502, Nov 11 at 0101, R. Rep?blica relay from TDF
Montsin?ry has resumed emitting squealing spurs in this range from fundamental
9490. Detectable around 9475 and worst around 9481 and 9499, as well as the
hash closer in about plus/minus 5 from 9490. The Mighty KBC, via BULGARIA ---
see NETHERLANDS [non] --- has wisely left 9500 for 9450 this week. We hoped the
spurs were fixed, since we were not hearing them anymore previous nights (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9450, Nov 11 at 0059, The Mighty KBC has very good signal
with rock music, via BULGARIA, moved here this UT Sunday at 00-02, ex-9500, to
escape the spurs from 9490 R. Rep?blica, and a good thing they did: see GUIANA
FRENCH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15435-15475, approx. peak around 15450, huge dirty distorted spur,
Nov 10 at 2004. As soon as I could tell the language was French, I figured it
was VOA Greenville, from 15225. Yes, matches, and there is an equal spur range
14980-15020, peaking just about atop WWVH 15000, disaudiblizing it completely.
So the peaks are plus/minus 225 kHz or so.
Second order spurs are weaker but obvious circa: 15650-15720, peaking about
15680; 14755-14810, peaking about 14780; and third order even detectable circa
14550, but not circa 15900. At 2025 recheck, all are diminished, perhaps only
due to propagational decline, but still plenty around 15450, 15000.
2032 rerecheck, all gone as is the fundamental, altho VOA is still on 15225 in
Hausa, but now via Botswana on Saturdays only (Sundays, the extension from same
until 2100 is in French). The GB transmission is on the main African antenna
azimuth 94 degrees, so we are close to directly off the back. HFCC designates
the antenna as an 896. I notified GB about the problem, so hope it is soon
fixed.
15580, meanwhile, also 94 degrees from GB on an 883 antenna, is VG in English
during VOA`s excellent `Music Time in Africa` at 20-21 Sat & Sun, and with no
spurs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9990, Nov 10 at 2020, WTWW-2 is on again, this time not Brother Scare
like WWCR 9980 and WWRB 9370, but music; 2030 seems gospel music, Ted Randall
canned ID, and some IADs during next tune ``Let the Lower Lights Be Burning``.
`QSO with Ted Randall` running as usual on WTWW-1 9479 Saturdays at 19-21;
WTWW-3 was missing from 12105, unlike WWCR from 12160.
9990 not checked again until 0058 Nov 11, when it`s still going with hymns, but
gone at 0102 to 5085 instead, still music. Further chex during this hour found
nothing but music, no DJing by Ted, but another canned ID by him at 0200, in
fact two of them, the second to tune of ``A Summer Place``. After that Ted is
prompting music requests, such as ``Judy in Disguise``, which the requestor
thinx is ``Judy in the Skies``, hee hee. Wonder if he will be putting on QSO
replay later, or even WORLD OF RADIO as happened unpredictably two or three
times on 5085 Saturday nights. Anyway, WOR 1642 should be on WTWW-1 5745 UT
Sunday at 0500 ex-0400. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1642 monitoring: tried the Saturday 1830 airing, Nov
11 at 1835, when WRMI is relaying the only WRN feed left to North America for
WOR, but only a JBA carrier is detectable vs the Cuban pulse jamming,
maintained even at this odd hour since Arnie can`t stand the competition from a
DX program not under Communist thought-control (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 21:32:56 -0500 (EST)
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Nov 10 Logs
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** BANGLADESH. 15105, Bangladesh Betar, *1227:40-1300*, Nov 10,
sign on with IS. Time pips and opening English announcements at
1230. English news. Subcont music. Local pop music. Poor to fair
with slight hum. (Alexander-PA)
** CHAD. 6164.96, RNT, *0501-0530, Nov 10, abrupt sign on with
French talk. Some Afro-pop music. Weak. Poor under Cuba.
(Alexander-PA)
** DJIBOUTI. 4780, Radio Djibouti, *0300:20-0330, Nov 10, sign on
with National Anthem. Arabic talk at 0301. Qur`an at 0303. Arabic
talk at 0313. Poor to fair in noisy conditions. (Alexander-PA)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, Radio Verdad, 0913-0940, Nov 10, tune-in
to 6 note IS played on an electronic keyboard. Long choral National
Anthem at 0915. Opening multi-lingual ID announcements at 0920.
Spanish talk at 0924. Noticed English religious talk at 0935. Not
sure when they switched to English due to high noise level masking
much of the reception. Fair reception at 0913 but deteriorated to
very poor reception by 0930 due to high noise level. (Alexander-PA)
** KURDISTAN [non]. via BULGARIA. 11510, Denge Kurdistan,
1625-1735, Nov 10, Kurdish talk. Short breaks of Kurdish string
music. Fair to good. (Alexander-PA)
** KURDISTAN [non]. via BULGARIA. 11510, Denge Kurdistan,
1950-1959*, Nov 10, tune-in to indigenous vocals. Kurdish
instrumental music. Local string music. Kurdistan National Anthem
at 1954. Kurdish talk at 1958 and some local string music to 1959
sign off. Good. (Alexander-PA)
** MADAGASCAR. 5010.00, Radio Madagasikara, 0200-0250+,
Nov 10, carrier + USB. Reactivated. Tune-in to inspirational music,
choral music. Announcements. African Hi-life music. IS at 0228.
Choral National Anthem at 0228:45. Local guitar music and opening
announcements at 0230:45. Malagasy talk. Local African music at
0232. African choral music. Weak but readable in noisy conditions.
Reception best between 0200-0230. Became more noisy after 0230.
Checked yesterday for these guys but nothing heard. Thanks to tip
from Ron Howard and others. (Alexander-PA)
** MALI. 5995, RTVM, 0750-0759*, Nov 10, tune-in to vernacular
talk. Sign off with flute IS and French ID announcements at 0758.
Weak but readable. Stronger than usual. (Alexander-PA)
** MALI. 9635, RTVM, *0759-0830, Nov 10, sign on with local music
played on a local harp like insrrument called a Cora. Flute music at
0803:40. Indigenous vocals at 0805. Local tribal music. Children?s
choral music. Vernacular announcements. Weak in noisy conditions.
But stronget than usual. (Alexander-PA)
** NIGER. 9705.59v, LV du Sahel, 2025-2300*, Nov 10, French and
vernacular talk. Wide variety of local flute music, indigenous vocals,
and local pop music. Chants at 2255. Flute IS at 2258 followed by
National Anthem. 3 second test tone at 2300 and off. Weak but
readable. A little stronger than yesterday. I didn?t notice they were
drifting until 2249. They were on 9705.59 at 2030. 9705.47 at
2249. 9705.46 at 2254. 9705.45 at 2256. 9705.44 at 2257. And
9705.43 at 2259. (Alexander-PA)
** SOMALILAND. 7120, Radio Hargaysa, *0331-0350, Nov 10, sign on
with Somaliland National Anthem. Talk at 0332. Local chants at 0333.
Talk at 0336. Horn of Africa music at 0350. Fair. (Alexander-PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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