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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs December 2-3, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
2. Dec 3 Logs ([email protected])
3. Glenn Hauser logs December 3-4, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
4. Re: Dec 3 Logs (Wolfgang Bueschel)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 08:57:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 2-3, 2012
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** AUSTRALIA. 5980 & 6010, Dec 3 at 1428, dirty distorted spurblobs from RA
Shepparton 5995 are back, approx. frequency centres; last time they were closer
to 5982 and 6008; during interesting `Big Ideas` discussion with author of a
book about a people-smuggler, Ali, who was really a noble survivor of
Iraqi/Saddam torture; she wrote it in the first person. I had been listening to
that on loud & clear 9580. The `modulation` on the spurs could be matched to
5995 and 9580.
Unless the transmitters have been swapped around (and there is also a spare),
the 5995 unit is the same `A` one employed at other dayparts on: 9710, 11650,
15230, 15240, and until 1400 on 6020. Have not noticed such spurs around any of
them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [non]. 12005, Dec 3 at 1436, Farsi talk // 15690 synchronized, and
15410 out of synch: R. Farda which on 12005 is via Lampertheim, GERMANY (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, Dec 3 at 1432, open carrier with fast SAH, no doubt XEPPM,
probably on all night, never turned off after 0600. Now if they could
accidentally modulate it too? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, Dec 3 at 0635, poor signal, but VON with a report about
mothers and medicine, the OSOB and consequently the SSOB; not a bit from
Australia or any other African, otherwise deadband (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 6055, UT Monday Dec 3 at 0024 check, still no signal from REE. Alison
Hughes of the English department said this would resume by Monday at 0000-0100,
so check again UT Tuesday.
Listened to the first part of `Amigos de la Onda Corta` this week; not much
specific from the boss, but did say they now have 53 programs, of which 21 are
new ones. The other new time for `AdlOC` is confirmed, 0005 UT Mondays, in
progress at 0024 check on poorly audible 6125, 9620 and slightly better 9535,
all direct. (Why they have never run the CR relay in the prime evening hours of
23-02 is a mystery.)
17595, which was inbooming Sat & Sun mornings, gone again on Monday before and
after 1400; and 15170 still gone too from CR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U K. 5450-USB, Dec 3 at 0625, VOLMET by YL, poor signal, hard to catch
locations cited, but finally heard Kuwait and Bahrain, so is it from ME? DX
Info Centre
http://www.dxinfocentre.com/volmet.htm
still lists the only VOLMET on 5450 as RAF ASCENSION, tho previous log of this
led to info that it`s decommissioned, and now coming from the UK, apparently
Inskip tho an ID as RAF Bournemouth had been heard (not this time). See DXLD
12-36 under UK,
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1236.txt
Another // frequency for this is 11253 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9990, Dec 2 at 2020, WTWW-2 is on with gospel music, but WTWW-3 is
off 12105.
5085, UT Monday Dec 3 at 0028, WTWW-2 is on with gospel music; usually operates
on UT Sundays but not this week. Hours of operation for WTWW-2 and WTWW-3 are
quite erratic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 7490, Sunday Dec 2 at 2233, WBCQ with `Marion`s Attic` in
progress, mixing with BBC CCI, and also bothered by Algeria via FRANCE on 7495,
especially the hi notes from the cantor. M.A. music was cut off abruptly at
2259:40 ID, in time for the gospel huxter at 2300.
The BBC QRM was even worse 47 hours earlier, Nov 30 at 2345: signals about
equal with BBC atop at times, vs disposable `Money Talk` show, a log I
inadvertently skipped in previous report. But `Behaviour Night` faces same QRM
Fridays at 22-23.
WBCQ had the same problem last winter, when I tried to persuade them to do
something about it. It seems that WBCQ: 1) hates to change frequency; 2) is
defeatist about QRM problems, or getting the other station to move; 3) relies
on a frequency consultant based on theory rather than reality; and perhaps 4)
along with HFCC and BBCWS just can`t believe that there could be any collision
in this case:
7490 1900 0500 3-5,9-11 BCQ 50 245 0 805 1234567 281012 310313 D
7490 2200 2400 43E,44 NAK 250 25 0 156 1234567 281012 310313 D
Look how different the CIRAF targets are! N.B. that CIRAF zones 6, 7 and 8 are
missing from WBCQ --- the entire conterminous USA is NOT a target of WBCQ, yeah
right, even tho the 245 degree beam goes right across us!!
Note also that the 25 degree beam from THAILAND, altho designated for the
eastern half of China, happens to aim further, right across North America from
Victoria to Ju?rez, just a few degrees away from Oklahoma, and with 250 kW has
no problem reaching here under near-grayline conditions.
But it`s not our problem, as WBCQ has no room for WORLD OF RADIO on 7490, even
tho it does have room for a Spanish DX program, Tuesdays at 2230 which is also
a victim of this failure of frequency management (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1645 monitoring: 0530 UT Monday broadcast on WRMI
9955, confirmed at 0540 check, but not completely readable due to pulse jamming
from CUBA; tnx a lot, Arnie! (one of my neighbor`s beepers is also hetting
9955). Next: Tuesday 1200 on 9955, probably jammed too, both far beyond any
hours jamming is ``necessary`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11715, Dec 3 at 1438, KJES in English and the modulation is axually
sufficient! Altho not completely up to par, on very strong carrier. Nothing is
forever, and I`m sure it`ll be back to JBM before long (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZANZIBAR. 11735, Dec 2 at 2020, ZBC with easy-listening music, 2024 YL DJ in
presumed Swahili; fair signal and steadily improving from day to day on the
average, vs hardly anything a month or more ago. Closing varies around 2100
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 21:10:06 -0500 (EST)
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Dec 3 Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** KURDISTAN [non]. via MOLDOVA. 11510, Denge Kurdistan,
1545-1600*, Dec 3, Kurdish music. Indigenous vocals. Kurdish talk.
Good. (Alexander-PA)
** MEXICO. 6184.99, Radio Educaci?n, 0505-0605*, Dec 3, Spanish
talk. ID. Local ranchero music. Classical music. Abrupt sign off at
0605. Transmitter off at 0606:30. Fair. (Alexander-PA)
** NIGER. 9705.39, LV du Sahel, 2215-2303*, Dec 3, continuous
vernacular talk. Qur`an at 2257. Flute IS at 2300:30. National Anthem
at 2300:40. Sign off with 13 second test tone at 2303. Weak. Poor
with adjacent channel splatter. Stable frequency for a change.
(Alexander-PA)
** NIGERIA. 7255, Voice of Nigeria, *2104-2201, Dec 3, abrupt sign
on with English programming. Program about local Nigerian music at
2104. IDs. ?Nigerian Popular Music? program at 2134. IS at 2200 and
into listed Hausa at 2201. Good. Fulfulde language is scheduled for
2100-2200, but English being heard here instead. (Alexander-PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 22:22:15 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 3-4, 2012
Message-ID:
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** ASCENSION [and non]. 17885, Dec 3 at 1955, BBCWS in Hausa with some hum
typical of this site, generator signature? Good signal and the ONLY STATION ON
BAND! Here it is mid-afternoon, the sun shining brightly, but nothing else from
17500 to 17900 to be heard. There is no blackout either, tho winter conditions
could be keeping some eastern signals from propagating, like Tunisia if it is
still on 17735 past 2000? No, not in B-12 HFCC at all.
There must be no other signals active on 16m at this time from the dayside ---
no US, no Cuba, and of course, no South America. Yet 13m is still working with
21630 WHRI and 21690 RFI Guiana French audible.
However at *1958:15, 17885 is blown away by DRM noise from 17875 TDP via GUIANA
FRENCH which has just come on for its one-hour broadcast, expanding beyond the
touted 10-kHz bandwidth of DRM, so that path is propagating too. Now it becomes
the OSOB and the SSOB, still so at 2017, despite BBC scheduled until 2030
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 6180, Dec 4 at 0259, RNA/RNB Bras?lia is reactivated here after a
few weeks, // 11780 and now squeezed between WHRI and XEPPM. Still there at
0415 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake December 3, before 2000:
11945, good at 1946; vs RFA via Tajikistan at 15-22 but unheard. At
2019-2024+ no Firedrake but something in Chinese, RFA or CNR1?
11790, fair at 1946, mixing with something, RFA via Saipan at 18-20
9875, good at 1947 with SAH; RFA via Palau at 19-22 scheduled, but other
frequencies have been reported missing and suspected to have been off for the
typhoon; maybe recovering now
9455, fair at 1947, vs RFA via Saipan at 16-22, unheard
9355, fair at 1946, vs RFA via Saipan at 17-22, unheard
None in the 7s, 8s, 10s, 12s, 13s, 14s, 15s, 16s, 17s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6270, Dec 4 at 0249, weak signal in Spanish matches 6060 RHC, since
this is a leapfrog of that over 6165 RHC English, another 105 kHz higher. The
leapfrog in the other direxion to 5955 is blocked by jamming against R.
Rep?blica 5954v whether it be there or not (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CZECHIA [non]. 6075, Dec 4 at 0258, ID loop in English from ``Radio Free
Europe/Radio Liberty, Praha,`` and beeps. I always wonder whether this is ever
meant to go on the air, but it makes for a definite ID, if lacking info about
language to follow, i.e. Belarussian via VATICAN. Some QRM from the 6076
spurblob out of GUIANA FRENCH, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. 5960, Dec 4 at 0247, NHK IS playing over and over, as
Montsin?ry has lost feed from R. Japan, Japanese service. This has been
reported again some recent nights by others, so what`s the big problem? I don`t
have all the household noise sources off, but on the porch can barely detect
the spurs still on 5844, 6076, i.e. plus and minus 116 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 9710, Dec 4 at 0419, argument in English about Palestine, Israeli
nuclear weapons. VIRI probably found another American academic willing to take
Iran`s side on ``Voice of Justice``, the only English service to North America,
at 0330-0430, 500 kW, 333 degrees from Kamalabad. I`d forgotten that the // was
11770, 500 kW, 330 degrees from Sirjan, unchecked, and as I then tuned 41m, ran
across a different //, 7270 with a hollower sound but no better overall.
Latest HFCC shows 7270 as 0430-0600 in Turki-Es, 500 kW, 289 degrees from
Kamalabad. Suspect it was typical slipshod operation, turning that transmitter
on too early with previous program feed into that site. Either that, or a late
change for improved winter propagation under an 11 MHz darkside signal. At 0426
closing they were announcing the full(?) English schedule, so I wish I had
heard what they said about 0330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [non]. 7520 // 7580, Dec 3 at 2248, vocal music and at 2252 R. Farda ID
as I expected; both fair via SRI LANKA. At 2351, 7520 is still on but not 7580
which closes at 2300. 7520 is 250 kW, 332 degrees from Iranawila; 7580 is 250
kW, 315 degrees. This is of course the middle of the night in Iran, where we
imagine repressed citizens huddled under the covers with earphones secretly
listening to the truth from outside their wacky theocracy (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 960, Dec 4 at 0601 UT atop the QRM briefly in the KGWA
dead-air carrier null is a full ID mentioning Ciudad Camargo, Chihuahua, again,
so XEFAMA. Then a couple of minutes of big band music, maybe WABG Mississippi
if not an XE; by 0604 ABC news is gaining, with closing commercial, and just
before 0605 KGWA blasts back on, the ABC stations starts to say ``partly cloudy
skies ---`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. 15125, Dec 3 at 2001-2002* REE IS, as the CR relay is just
closing; before 2000 this weak signal beamed away was useless next to Nigerian
DRM, 15115-15120-15125. We surely miss 15110 direct from Spain in the
afternoons, which normally had a tremendous signal, not to mention the also
still absent CR relay for us on 17850.
6055, Dec 3 at 2344, REE French hour is back! After being canceled last week.
And from 0000 UT Dec 4, so is ENGLISH! Justin Coe opening the hour with world
news as if nothing had happened. Altho listener protests may have played a
r?le, I suspect this reversal is more due to internal conflict between REE
management and higher-ups at RTVE who apparently decided to kill SW to Europe
and North America without even telling REE.
John Figliozzi, Halfmoon NY, however, fears it`s not back for good:
``Received this e-mail from REE late last week; The gist -- they got a
temporary reprieve.
"Dear John, thank you so much for your letter, for listening and for thinking
about us! It's been an awful week. We had no idea the broadcasts were cut, and
apparently, neither did the REE director. Oh. But the good news - really good
news - is that the broadcasts, at the same hours on the same frequencies are
going to be restored, perhaps this weekend, definitely on Monday. That way,
should it be decided that Spain can no longer afford its short wave world
service, we should have time to warn our listeners and prepare ourselves for
new media. We'll keep you informed and again, John, thank you!! All our best,
Alison, Justin and Frank" (via dxldyg)``
However, Spanish to North America still hasn`t come back, which of course would
be a lot more expensive if the full multi-hour schedule resumed. 17595 still
missing Monday morning, and 15110, 17850, Monday afternoon. How about Monday
evening? 6055 is off again at 0127 check UT Tuesday Dec 4, when it used to stay
on for us in Spanish.
At 0248 check, also missing are: CR from 3350, 5995, 9630, 9675. Noblejas
channels direct to S America but weak here are still heard on 6125, 9535, 9620.
Sephardic to S America is still colliding with 11780 Brasil after 0115 Tuesday
only. And still to North America at 0415 UT Tuesday on 9690. As usual, the
hostess is speaking Ladino while her interviewee gets away with plain old
Castilian; a discussion about flamenco at 0418.
After 0400, I do find the CR relay at 0415 on 5965 which is best here, missing
from supposedly scheduled 3350, and also on unscheduled 9765 which is weaker
even than 9535 direct. REE appear undecided about which 31m or 90m channel to
use, previously on 9630, 9675 at this time. Program now is `Eureka` about
science (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 6040, Dec 4 at 0258, B-B-C- note chimes at fair level. HFCC shows
Arabic about to start, from two sites at once: 250 kW, 101 degrees from Cyprus,
and 300 kW, 140 degrees from Skelton. Or is it really either/or? Even if
precisely synchronized in time and frequency, difficult to accomplish from two
widely-separated sites, and propagational variations are bound to cause mutual
interference. Did not notice anything double, but did not stay tuned to hear
how the Arabic sounded after 0300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15580, Dec 3 at 2004, VOA Greenville with `African Beat` music but
rather distorted; then a pause, music resumes with less distortion; 2005:30
another pause as music is starting to segu?, then resumes; 2007 pause and
resume again. It`s continuous hilife music with no announcements (unless they
were very brief in the pauses).
At 2015 a fun rendition of ``Happy Birthday to You, Seychelles``. Now there
aren`t so many interruptions. But, but, independence came to Seychelles on 29
June 1976, so this is hardly an anniversary. Playing back old program as test?
But this is a regularly scheduled transmission at 20-21 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 11925, Dec 3 at 2246, Chinese with slightly variable het. VOA
via Tinang, Philippines, is scheduled this hour only, and no doubt the het is
perpetually off-frequency R. Bandeirantes, S?o Paulo, Brasil on the hi side.
Still a similar het at 2352 with a weaker Chinese, which per schedules would
now be CNR1, Lingshi 725 site, but which is also on long before 2300 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9955, Dec 4 at 0251, neither WRMI nor Radio Liberty is
audible, just some pulse jamming. Jeff White was worried that R. Liberty, which
just moved to this frequency for a Tajik broadcast at 01-03 UT, as tipped by
Kim Elliott, would cause big problems for WRMI, and Jeff asked Latin American
listeners to monitor. They mostly reported noise, but didn`t call it jamming.
RL site was unknown, but I found it in HFCC: Udorn, Thailand, 250 kW, 316
degrees starting 25 November. However, by the 3 December update of HFCC, it`s
gone again, so apparently that potential problem was quickly solved. Now how
about KHBN/T8WH which is also on 9955 at various times, not to mention all the
unnecessary Cuban jamming, which is certainly a bigger problem, but less
soluble (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7506.5, Dec 4 at 0252, WRNO is back on with gospel huxter in a
lather; there is also some buzzing/frying sound which comes up in the
all-too-brief pauses, but the talk modulation itself is not too distorted.
Counting the 40-Hz interval clix on the DX-398 fine tuning, I come up with 12
above 7506, i.e. 7506.48, which would put it closer to 7506.5 than usual
7506.4, but within margin of error (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, Dec 4 at 0256, surprised to find WTWW-3 on the air, in
Spanish, not strictly Bible-reading, and propagating well. It had been off the
air at earlier chex in daytime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1060, Dec 4 at 0559 UT, ``el este de Nuevo M?jico --- la palabra de
dios``, i.e. KIJN Farwell TX, 10 kW daytimer cheating as always, and also a
fast SAH as always off-frequency, much like KLIO Wichita on 1070 which however
is legally on at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6980-LSB, Dec 3 at 2354, Brazilian accented QSO about VHF
(ve-ag?-efe), mentions 50 watts, over to a weaker station. I assume these are
freebanders, would-be hams outside 40 meters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 08:55:38 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "DXplorer" <[email protected]>, "HCDX"
<[email protected]>, "DXLD" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Dec 3 Logs
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On Dec 3 at 1725 UT heard two broadcasts on 9705 kHz channel.
Most probably Asmara ERI or Addis Ababa ETH on 9704.992 kHz,
and 9705.031 probably ORTN La Voix du Sahel, Niamey Niger outlet.
Nothing heard on 9705 kHz at 0745 UT but Ethiopia carrier wandering around
measured 9562.942 kHz up and down.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 3/4)
----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Subject: [HCDX] Dec 3 Logs
> NIGER. 9705.39, LV du Sahel, 2215-2303*, Dec 3, continuous
> vernacular talk. Qur`an at 2257. Flute IS at 2300:30. National Anthem
> at 2300:40. Sign off with 13 second test tone at 2303. Weak. Poor
> with adjacent channel splatter. Stable frequency for a change.
> (Alexander-PA)
>
> Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
> Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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