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Today's Topics:
1. DX Loggings -- 19 Nov -- Ralph Perry (RALPH PERRY)
2. Glenn Hauser logs November 19, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
3. A farewell to Radio Mayak (Georgi Bancov)
4. Ministers of Heritage, Public Safety and the CBC: Stop
dismantling Canada's only int'l broadcasting site, RCI Sackville
(Georgi Bancov)
5. Re: [dxld] Oman 0300 English on 13600 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:10:18 -0600
From: RALPH PERRY <[email protected]>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [HCDX] DX Loggings -- 19 Nov -- Ralph Perry
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BOLIVIA ? 6154.95, Radio Fides, La Paz, 11/19 fair signal clear of QRM
and static at 0959 tune in, with morning news program already in
progress, hosted by YL. Included national, local and international
items (hrd items for Santa Cruz, Bolivia; La Paz; Peru; and the Middle
East -- ?un nuevo bombardeo en Gaza, el dia de hoy?). Musical
stingers between items and very precise time checks regularly provided
by the YL, e.g. ?Las 6 de la manana, 6 minutos y 42 segundos . . .?.
CP folkloric musical burst at 1008 during ads, then more news,
regional items for Bolivia. Het and other QRM building toward bottom
of the hour, as Fides began fading down and Asian QRMer fading up. By
1030, entire fqy was a mess and left the station. According to
station?s website, signs on *0945 and this first show runs to 1030,
called ?Saratasi?ani? and the host is Felipa Pe?a. (Perry, Illinois)
BOLIVIA ? 6105.52, Radio Panamericana, La Paz, 11/19 monitored fqy for
s/on, from 0945 but nothing noted until 1036, when weak signal finally
noted and flute + guitar Bolivian folkloric music in progress.
Probably running to a nominal *1030 these days rather than the
reported *1000, as nothing there when checked a few minutes earlier.
Poor reception and only readable in ECSS. Het QRM from Asian on fqy
and at best could pick out the musical bits. Could not hold for long.
By 1045, all but lost. (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: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:38:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 19, 2012
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** ANTARCTICA. 15476, Monday Nov 19 at 1413 and later in the hour, no signal
detectable from LRA36. It seems the confirmed receptions in S America last Nov
14-15 were only preliminary tests: Horacio Nigro translates for the DXLD yg:
``"This morning I spoke to Base Esperanza and I talked with Mirta, a station
announcer. She told me that the transmissions are sporadic and they are
performing maintenance on the station to put it on air in early 2013. I left
her with the feeling that even the shortwave broadcasts will not be regular, as
broadcasters and technicians are getting ready to leave the icy continent, and
turn it over to a new staff that will be working in the coming month of
February at LRA36. The idea is to leave the radio in perfect condition for the
next Antarctic campaign. She also mentioned that the station would come out
with a power of 1 kW and they currently broadcast in the FM band for the
inhabitants of the base and its surroundings." via Jorge Villavicencio, DRM
Radio Argentina (www.drmradio.com.ar), in Condiglist yg via Horacio Nigro
(translated & edited).`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 5982, approx. center of distorted spurblob with hum, talk
modulation, but what? Nov 19 at 1404. Searched entire 49 mb for another one,
and finally found a slightly weaker blob on 6008 --- aha, what`s halfway
between those? 5995! Yes, indeed on another receiver I can match the modulation
to R. Australia, which sounds OK on the fundamental. These plus/minus 13 blobs
will be happening only at 14-18 UT when 5995 is from Shepparton, not at 08-14
when 5995 is from Brandon. (And not to be confused with North Korean jamming).
Could it be the same transmitter as on 15160 from which Wolfgang B?schel heard
+/- 15.5 kHz spurs at 0430 Nov 12? No, that`s Shep-F while 5995 is Shep-A, so
they have at least two units with spur problems (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, Nov 19 at 1419, very poor signal with S Asian song,
presumably BB Urdu service. I wasn`t really hearing it at 1359-1400+, and
propagation from them has been quite degraded lately, but you never know either
whether the transmitter will be on the air as scheduled. Tried again at 1515,
and found JBA carrier for Hindi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. Congratulations to the International Radio Report, which celebrated
its 25th anniversary on CKUT November 18. We listened later online via
http://ckut.ca/c/en/oldgrid/sunday,10:30
which stops abruptly after half an hour, the normal duration of IRR, but this
week it`s an hour long, so for the rest of it, we have to pretend to listen to
the first half `Free Kick`, the next show:
http://ckut.ca/c/en/oldgrid/sunday,11:00
Sheldon mentions that whether I know it or not, WORLD OF RADIO was an
inspiration for the IRR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 19, before 1500:
13970, fair at 1437, none higher up past 18 MHz
13530, fair at 1437 with CODAR
12230, poor at 1437
11970, fair at 1438
And none in the 9 or 10 MHz ranges either
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 11736, 11744, 11752, 11768, 11776, 11784, 8-kHz spur field from 11760
CNR1 jammer again audible as JBA carriers or hets against other signals, Nov 19
at 1440 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6165, and all the other English frequencies including 6270 leapfrog of
6060 over 6165, where I noticed it first, Nov 19 at 0619 with a big ringing
sound, RHC gone haywire? Not this time; it`s copycat Arnie doing his own
digital-mode text test, which he outros as a history-making ``first`` for RHC.
Must have got the idea from The Mighty KBC via Bulgaria which has been doing
this for a few weeks already. At the end of `DXers Unlimited` so I don`t know
how he pre-explained it; 0620 switch from phoned-in deliberately degraded audio
quality to studio-quality canned outro by Arnie. Sorry, but I can`t get too
excited about this marvelous new technology, preferring amplitude modulation.
What`s next, SSTV? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 15160, Nov 19 at 1507, Qur`an but modulating only at peaks, and
distorted; long pause, or maybe the original modulation level is just not
enough to break threshold --- I bet it`s Radio Cairo. Yes, HFCC shows 15-16,
250 kW, 61 degrees from Abis in Uzbek. The incompetent ERTU has done nothing to
fix itself since the ancien r?gime fell (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 7475, Nov 19 at 0611, Greekish music and talk in uncertain language,
maybe Albanian, and not // JBA signal on 9420, so presumed R. Filia separate
programming on 7475. No propagation on 11645.
15630 & 15650, Nov 19 at 1417, VOG is missing, tho there are plenty of Eurosigs
now on 19m; 1502 recheck, 15630 has come on with vocal music, song from the 30s
or 40s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. 5844, 5892, 5926, 5994, 6076, Nov 19 at 0201, NHK World Radio
Japan relay in Japanese on 5960 via Montsin?ry has just started its bihour
broadcast, and so have the panoply of extremely distorted FMy spurs TDF has
provided for weeks without fixing them. (There is another on 6028 but obscured
by the 6030 Cuban radio war.) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ISRAEL. 15760, Nov 19 at 1415, good open carrier with some flutter,
continuing past 1432, and at 1443:40 starts a continuous tone test; recheck at
1501 now it`s in Farsi, so presumably Israel Radio was running the transmitter
way early before the 1500-1630 Persian service. Just think, they could have
played the 15-minute English newscast thrice in that wasted period (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ITALY [non]. 15215, Nov 19 at 1424, no signal and no Brother Scare who used
to be here via IRRS via ROMANIA (?). The Overcomer schedule as of Nov 7 in DX
Re Mix News Nov 12 no longer included 15215, or 17770 but still had 7290 at
20-21 via TIGaneshti (however, hardly reliable since it also shows 9990 at
20-23 as via ERV = Armenia instead of WTWW!). The IRRS schedule at
http://www.nexus.org/NEXUS-IBA/Schedules/mon.htm
has not been updated since 23 August! In CET, which is now 1 hour ahead of UT,
it still shows TOM at 15-16 UT on 15215, 18-19 on 17770, and 20-21 on 7290. So
which of these are really still on the air, if any? FWIW, no signal on 17770 at
1817, tho Spain was making it on 17755, 17715, Tunisia on 17735 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOMALILAND. 7120, Nov 19 at 1358, I pull myself away from the REE IS on CRI
7220 and 7435 to hear what is still another novelty, R. Hargeisa, music on poor
signal; 1400 announcement in Somali, and I almost think I am hearing the words
``shortwave`` and ``meterband``; usual fanfare and military band with drumming
anthem to 1402:07, carrier on until 1402:32* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 15385, Nov 19 at 1505, REE is starting `Africa Hoy`, but something
else is on 21610; and 17595, 15170 are already off. This is a time when there
is a schedule split, but per
http://programasdx.com/principal_archivos/parrillareeb12.pdf
`Africa Hoy` would be at 1530, not 1505, occupying the second half of the 15-16
UT block on weekdays. Guess it really means in yellow that it supplants
`Paisajes y Sabores` for most of the entire hour on other frequencies. There
must be a better way to present REE program schedules accurately and
unambiguously (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5830, Nov 19 at 0200, WTWW ID by Ted announcing this new frequency
for WTWW-1, and back to SFAW programming; has just replaced 5745 all-night,
just because R. Mart? was already scheduled on 5745 in B-season at 1100-1400.
In late A-season, WTWW had to vacate 5755 since some US government/military
user reclaimed it, tho that is making precious little use of 5755, so 5745 was
temporary solution for WTWW.
George McClintock decided 5830 is the best of several options the FCC
availablized in the 5.8 MHz area. I suspect WEWN 5810 until 0500 will bother
with its +18 kHz squishy spur on 5828 when and where it attains a bigsig. We
see that http://wtww.us/pages/schedule.php has been updated to show 5830 at
00-14 UT, and ``9480`` (really 9479) at 14-24.
This will also affect the UT Sunday 0500 broadcast of WORLD OF RADIO starting
next week, 5830 ex-5745!
We also note that WTWW-3 has not been on 12105 very much; it seems that
whenever WTWW-2 is on 9990, which it is now most afternoons, plus 5085 UT
Sundays, 12105 is off. That could save on the electricity bill, and sometimes
the axual transmitters are swapped, in case one of the three needs some work.
12105 WTWW is on in Arabic, Nov 19 at 1817. BTW, if on at 1600-1658, 12105
collides with new frequency of Zimbabwe Community Radio, 250 kW, 265 degrees
from Madagascar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050, Nov 19 at 0203, gospel huxter with NC PO Box address, and //
3195, so WWRB has unpredictably reactivated its other transmitter, but not
necessarily every night and not necessarily until 3195 finishes at 0500, but
could affect WORLD OF RADIO UT Friday 0430. And not on 5051 this time (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 10000, Nov 19 at 0618, WWV has good signal, in fact the SSOB with
little else propagating on 31m, just weak sigs from Morocco/Gabon on 9579/9580,
BBC Ascension 9410/9460. Was checking for the propagation minute anyway, where
the robofem intoned: SF 141, A 5, K 0 at 0600, so conditions should have been
better than this, but winterish nightmiddle MUF plunge trumps --- except this
nearby WWV signal itself which must have been boosted by some HF sporadic E (at
first I figured it must be WWVH). No VHF sporadic E seen in months, tho I keep
running the TV set on channel 2 analog a lot of the time, including as I write
this the next morning --- but the winter Es season should bring us some
Mexicans again within a few weeks (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 15205, Nov 19 at 1422, Pastor Perry preaching in English about
who owns Palestine? Israel, says the Bible, so that`s that. Good signal, a
substitute for Brother Scare missing from 15215. 15205 is in HFCC as 100 kW, 90
degrees from Wertachtal Monday-Saturday at 1415-1430 only, while on Sundays
they expand same to 1400-1430 and tack on another quarter hour until 1445 but
boosted to 250 kW eastward. Only by consulting Aoki B-12, now conveniently
linked via
http://www.worldofradio.com
do we find out which gospel-huxtering service this is via MBR: Pan American
Broadcasting (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:19:16 +0200
From: Georgi Bancov <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected],
Ontario DX Association <[email protected]>, Cumbre DX
<[email protected]>, [email protected], Wolfgang
Bueschel <[email protected]>, Ivo Ivanov <[email protected]>, Glenn
Hauser <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] A farewell to Radio Mayak
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Long-time shorwave listeners may remember Radio Mayak shortwave broadcasts,
which at one time, were hard to avoid on the bands, as it was broadcasted
on a lot of frequencies. Shortwave broadcasts of Radio Mayak are long gone
and now the station decided to leave alltogether its longwave and medium
wave transmissions. A farewell to Radio Mayak:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlzbswEp6uk
73,
Georgi,
swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 07:49:29 +0200
From: Georgi Bancov <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], Harri Kujala
<[email protected]>, [email protected], Ontario
DX
Association <[email protected]>, Aleksandr Diadischev
<[email protected]>, Alexander Beryozkin <[email protected]>,
Alexander Dementiev <[email protected]>, Dmitriy Kutuzov
<[email protected]>, Dmitriy Kutuzov <[email protected]>, Dmitry
Mezin <[email protected]>, Wolfgang Bueschel <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Ministers of Heritage, Public Safety and the CBC: Stop
dismantling Canada's only int'l broadcasting site, RCI Sackville
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Hey everyone,
I just added my name to the petition Ministers of Heritage, Public Safety
and the CBC: Stop dismantling Canada's only int'l broadcasting site, RCI
Sackville on Change.org. Please consider adding your name as well.
http://www.change.org/petitions/ministers-of-heritage-public-safety-and-the-cbc-stop-dismantling-canada-s-only-int-l-broadcasting-site-rci-sackville?share_source=flash-widget_em
Thanks,
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:54:09 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>, "DXLD"
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Oman 0300 English on 13600
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Requested registration from Thumrait Oman site in hfcc.
13600 kHz 0400-1000 UT to 48,53 THU 100kW 220degrees antennaITUtype 205
Arabic OMA RSO
73 wb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Hauser" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 3:54 AM
Subject: [dxld] Oman 0300 English on 13600
> OMAN. UNIDENTIFIED. Hi Glenn! Just minutes ago, around 0318 UT, I tuned
> into a weak station on 13600, peaking at fair levels for brief moments,
> playing light pop music by Alanis Morisette, then a man talking in English
> (including a clear mention to "one million"), and then very nice and
> catchy tunes, including "Sugar Sugar" by The Archies and "Red, Red Wine"
> by UB40. However, the online schedules I found list CRI in Tamil at
> 0300-0357, and I'm sure this wasn't a Tamil broadcast! Do you have, by any
> chance, any idea of what this station might be? Greetings (Eduardo
> Peralta, Argentina, 0335 UT Nov 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
>
> Eduardo, No, I have no idea (and would have replied sooner if I had).
> Except possibly a pirate. Any further news on this one? (Glenn to Eduardo,
> Nov 19, via DXLD)
>
> Yes, Glenn. I listened to it today [UT Nov 19] at 0300 UT. No interval
> signal, it just begins over CRI. I heard references to Muscat, National
> Day, His Majesty, etc. It seems the show they play at that time is The
> Breakfast Show with Darren Shortt, but when I mentioned my hearing to the
> host on Twitter, he had no idea his show was on SW! The question is, who
> might be relaying it? Then Darren Shortt himself told me I actually
> listened to Oman FM 90.4, a state station. I'm still surprised they
> started using this frequency. Sorry for all the hassle!
> (Eduardo Peralta, Argentina, UT Nov 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
>
> Well, R. Sultanate of Oman had an English hour at 03-04 on 15355, so
> apparently on this new frequency; still too high for most of us, but give
> it a try (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
>
>
>
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