Send Hard-Core-DX mailing list submissions to
[email protected]
To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx
or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
[email protected]
You can reach the person managing the list at
[email protected]
When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
than "Re: Contents of Hard-Core-DX digest..."
________________________________________
Hard-Core-DX mailing list
[email protected]
http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/
_______________________________________________
THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed
and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License
published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
Today's Topics:
1. DX Loggings -- 17 Dec -- Ralph Perry (RALPH PERRY)
2. Glenn Hauser logs December 16-17, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Message: 1
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:26:38 -0600
From: RALPH PERRY <[email protected]>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [HCDX] DX Loggings -- 17 Dec -- Ralph Perry
Message-ID:
<calcatlfsp6j+fyry9vkxq9qzf11j-hm0wv-znpsse-8wskq...@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
BRAZIL ? 9819.32, Radio Nove de Julho, Sao Paolo, this one noted with
moderate signal tho het, best in ECSS-LSB, 12/16 at 2218, OM vocalist
in PP with YL chorus and orch in background. Anmts by YL at 2221 in
PP, ?Estamos apresentando a musica de . . . ? And then, nice musical
ID at 2222, sung by YL chorus, simply ?Radio Nove . . . de Julho!?
Signal fading in better toward BOH. Tnx to tip from Prof. Ronda on
this! (Perry, Illinois)
BOLIVIA ? 6134.82, Radio Santa Cruz, interesting programming noted on
Sun morning 12/16. At 0910 playing very rustic CP folkloric mx but
with all anmts in indigenous vernacular language. ID easily picked
out at 0912 as simply ?Radio Santa Cruz?. 0915 started what seemed a
radionovela, but also in non-SS indigenous lang of E Bolivia, with a
hysterical woman weeping and moaning and relating her sad story.
Must have signed on at approx. *0900 as nothing on the channel at 0855
check. Great big, lusty signal just pounding in, reminiscent of
high-powered international broadcasters on 49 meters, back in the day,
like Deutsche Welle or Radio Nederland! (Perry, Illinois)
----------------------------------------------------
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)
335-foot bidirectional BOG 150 deg/330 deg) for LA/SE Asia
DXEngineering RPA-1 preamp
Phased Longwire + Small Loop
------------------------------
Message: 2
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:37:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 16-17, 2012
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
** CUBA. 9504 approx., Dec 17 at 1354, approx. center of spurblob from weak
9540 RHC transmitter again; could not find one to match at +36 kHz, i.e. 9576
between very strong CRI/Cuba relay 9570, and RA 9580 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9425, Dec 17 at 1353, AIR ``banshee blob`` wanders across here from
9435 a minute earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 11880, Dec 16 at 2128, NHK IS, I think I can barely still
detect under RHC French, as both are about to start Portuguese at 2130. I keep
expecting NHK to move its GUIANA FRENCH relay frequency, as Arnie`s incompetent
frequency management choices have proven to be non-negotiable in several other
instances. But it takes an agonizingly long time for some victims to react
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 11510, Dec 17 at 1415-1450+, Denge Kurdistan via presumed
PRIDNESTROVYE, nice continuous concert of mostly vocal Kurdish music. Latest
HFCC still claims this is 300 kW, 129 degrees from SMF = Simferopol, Ukraine,
from BRB (ex-TDP), but NOT to be construed only as ``Belgian Radio`` as per a
log in NZ DX Times on 7390. For 11510, Aoki goes with 100 kW, 100 degrees from
Kishinev-Grigoriopol, MDA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 730, Dec 17 at 0631 UT, ``La Ke Buena`` with full FM & AM IDs on the
half-hour, mentions 25 kW, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, time as 11:31, back
to lively music. Not sure if the 25 kW referred to FM 107.1 or AM. But Cant?
shows XHEHB on 107.1 with 25 kW; and on AM:
730 XEHB Ke buena + FM 107.1 Hidalgo del Parral, Chih. 50,000 1,000
and with their dominant signal, we strongly suspect a lot more than 1 kW at
night. Yet new IRCA Mexican log shows only 1000/300 watts and schedule at 13-01
UT only, from former location San Francisco del Oro. What about WRTH 2013? 50/1
kW, H del P. Cant? shows zero radio stations in SF del Oro now (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1040, Dec 17 at 0602 UT, ``Chihuahua, Chihuahua`` mentioned in WHO
null, so safe to assume it`s the usual per Cant?:
1040 XEHES Rom?ntica + FM 94.1 Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 250
The new IRCA Mexican Log 2012 has arrived, so I will be comparing Cant? and
WRTH info with it. For XEHES, IRCA shows: 5000 250 Radiorama Siglo 21, 24h
irreg, ROM format, CIMA net, // 94.1 FM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Channel A2, NTSC, Dec 17 at 0155 UT, Spanish signal fades in from
south after observing 6-meter sporadic-E openings on map across east-central
USA with MUF estimated of 74 MHz. Large net-7 bug in upper right, perhaps the
easiest Mexican one to identify, just the number 7 with high contrast; and
heavy ghosting at times makes it look like 77, i.e. two distinct propagation
paths arriving out of phase. 0207 ads, 0208 IFE PSA; 0214 another fade-up in a
suspense/horror film, still with 7 bug UR, and finally one more glimpse at
0230. There are five full-power Azteca 7s on channel 2, three of them generally
southward, but the prime suspect is always XHTAU in Tampico (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6939.7-AM, Dec 16 at 2238 a pirate signal is here, 2240 ID as
Radio Casablanca, e-mail; playing old WWII tunes at the same time as `Marion`s
Attic` on WBCQ 7490, but no BBCCCI here. Bits sound like old-time radio, then
song about the Maginot Line; 2245 ``Animal Crackers`` by Shirley Temple; 2248
``Three Little Fishies``; 2250 flash from United Press: Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor; 2251 another Radio Casablanca ID, FDR`s ``day which will live in
infamy`` address to Congress; 2259 ID and ``Praise the Lord and Pass the
Ammunition``; 2304 ``Remember Pearl Harbor``; 2307 ID email as
[email protected] and 2313 ``Bugle Boy``; 2316 ID & e-mail; 2318
``I`ll Be Seeing You``; 2328 ID and e-mail again, dramatic bit; 2345 still on
but at next check 2355 it`s off. Nothing about Casablanca or Morocco heard
other than the name. Sufficient signal of S9+12, and making C# above middle C
het with 6940 reference = 278 Hz, so about 6939.72 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA [and non]. 9810, Dec 17 at 1355, RRI closing German hour with IDs,
IS, but heavy CCCCCCI, as CNR Chinese, 150 kW, 155 degrees from Nanning site is
also here per HFCC; any problem in Europe? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTEING
DIGEST)
** SOUTH AFRICA. 15480, Dec 16 until 2101* BaBcoCk music loop; more slipshod
operation by SENTECH, as this had been the two-hour Arabic broadcast of AWR via
Meyerton, 250 kW, 19 degrees, but per HFCC you would not know that BaBcoCk is
involved (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7490, Dec 16 at 2106, no signal from WBCQ, nor at 2127; 9330 is on as
usual, but 15420 is a JBA carrier, maybe just WBCQ in a pause leaving its
reduced carrier, as it`s OK in CUSB at 2127. Checking sked later, only on
Sundays does 7490 start at 2200 instead of 2100. At 2233 recheck, it`s on with
`Marion`s Attic` and heavy QRM from BBC as usual, also producing SAH.
9330, Dec 17 at 1352 check, WBCQ in dead-air again instead of GFRN (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1060, Dec 17 at 1235 UT, KIJN Farwell TX on NM border, gospel huxter
in Spanish with shall we say, Chicano accent, mentions ``en el nombre de
Jes?s``, which is what the call letters mean in English, and introducing
``Noticiero Semanal desde Jerusal?n`` in good Spanish; so KIJN does have
``news`` after all, as long as it is from the future. Usual more than
sufficient signal before local sunrise, and making fast-ripple SAH with
whatever else on 1060 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 970, Dec 17 at 0606 UT, local ad with phone 493-4050, no area
code; Google points to LFM car repair in Louisville KY, so WGTK is a good bet
there. Whatever became of WAVE, an ideal radio-station call with their
sine-wave logo? Ha, FCC shows that call ended on Nov 1, 1981, and there were
two others before WGTK since August 9, 2000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6904.5-SSB, Dec 16 at 2237 sounds like a MARS net, or the like
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6955.3-AM, Dec 16 at 2239, a much weaker pirate is here at same
time as R. Casablanca on 6939.7; see NORTH AMERICA. Only thing copied here was
at 2246 ``My Favorite Things`` maybe Sinatra; off by 2259 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 120, Issue 18
*********************************************
