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Today's Topics:
1. Re: [BDXC-UK] Radio 700 testing on 9700 kHz (Wolfgang Bueschel)
2. Re: Radio 700 testing on 9700 kHz (Glenn Hauser)
3. Glenn Hauser logs January 13-15, 2013 (Glenn Hauser)
4. Radio Gloria changed Transmission date (Tom Taylor)
5. Logs 10/1/13 (LIAGKAS ZAXARIAS)
6. Logs 10/1/13 soem added info (LIAGKAS ZAXARIAS)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:47:48 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>, "BDXC News"
<[email protected]>, "Dave kenny" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [BDXC-UK] Radio 700 testing on 9700 kHz
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Very best signal noted on remote sdr's in England, signals in range S=9+10
to +20dB,
so the R700 foreign service for Albion could be initialised by Christian of
radio house Euskirchen Germany :-) :-)
RR's appreciated to
"Christian Milling" <christian.milling @ funkhaus-euskirchen.de>
Much weaker in Netherlands, in Northern Sweden only tiny S=3,
sweet popular German Schlager hit song "Am weissen Strand von San
Angelo...."
in Northern Italy San Marino region at S=8-9 level, some 5% noisy ...
In Moscow and Finnland poor S=4 signal, just above threshold.
Unfortunately bad UTE signal on 9699 to 9703 kHz.
needs must to change Perseus bandwidth to notch out 9701-9704 kHz range.
No problem with adjacent PBS Xinjiang on 9705 kHz in Kyrgyz scheduled to
1230 UT. 73 wb df5sx
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:04:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: BDXC News <[email protected]>, [email protected],
[email protected]
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Radio 700 testing on 9700 kHz
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<[email protected]>
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Do they really have four transmitters at Kall? 9700 is a ``traditional``
Bulgarian frequency. Was it synchronized with all the others? 73, Glenn Hausere
--- On Tue, 1/15/13, Dave kenny <[email protected]> wrote:
?
Thanks to a tip from Mauno Ritola on the WRTH Facebook page, Radio 700 is
testing on 9700 kHz until 1300 UTC today.
Confirmed here at 1045 UTC in parallel on no less that four SW frequencies:
9700 (fair), 6085 (good), 6005 (fair), 3955 (weak) with the usual "schlager
and oldies" format
Presume all of these are from the Kall site in Germany
73s Dave
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:19:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 13-15, 2013
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** BRAZIL. I first checked this evening Jan 14 at 2216 UT, and found NO signal
on 11780, when RNB is normally quite audible. Not on AM nor with BFO. However,
Brasil was clearly propagating as SRDA was audible on 11765 with wailin` Davi.
Recheck at 2238: now the wideband noise is on, and there is a noise blob on
11780. Elsewhere 11.5-11.9 MHz more or less with BFO can hear the same multiple
carriers and noise while tuning across, rather like spread-out DRM. 11765 is
still audible despite it. Surely someone near the Brasilia transmitter site
could confirm whether that is the source.
I did not check for it again until 0525 UT Jan 15: yes, still noise, audible
under 11725 NZ, and even under stronger NHK GUF 11740. 0614, still wideband
noise on 25m; and at 0634.
Others in the DXLD yg were monitoring for this on a third night. Turns out, the
11780 signal and the noise were on-and-off; I had just missed it before 2216.
Here`s a roundup of those posts (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.:
``Hello everyone, Checked about 30 minutes ago. 25 meter band at 2115 was OK
--- R?dio Nacional Amaz?nia good modulation on 11780. Now at 2140 UT, RNA
distorted and the 25 meter band is back in the wideband white noise
interference for the 3rd day in a row.
Here in Montreal, wideband noise I can hear from about 11410 to 11910 kHz. It
washes out many 25 meter band stations. Some of the stronger stations are
heard, but you can hear the white noise in the background. 73 Gilles, 2208
Interesting to see the wideband noise is now stopped. It is 2214 UT and nothing
right now; and RNA is off the air. Noise back at 2220 UT`` (Gilles Letourneau,
Montreal, Canada, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
``According to the screen capture with time stamps you can see a few bursts
around 2144 and in full "bloom" around 2147. Not in this capture are a couple
sharp transitions to quiet around 2200; but mostly steady since. For those not
hearing it I will put up my Perseus server and you are welcome to check it
there. The signal is VERY obvious here`` (Don Moman, VE6JY, Alberta, 2211 UT
Jan 14, ibid.)
``Yes, visible now after 2200 UT on remote units in Alberta, Minnesota and
Rochester, but not in Los Angeles, Europe and Japan. Has somebody in USA/Canada
a telephone number of FCC bandwatch monitoring station to pressure the monitors
to narrow DIRECTION FINDING the signal azimuth of 11360 to 11830 kHz, narrowed
like 11600-11625 kHz? 73 wb df5sx`` (Wolfgang B?schel, Germany, ibid.) Wolfy
also suggested this could be first tests from the new Venezuelan SW site, but I
doubt that
``Here the wideband noise is all over on 25 meters. The same intensity over the
entire band. Feira de Santana ==> Bras?lia = +/- 1100 km in a straight line.
Wideband noise stopped at 2226. On 11780 no signal from RNA. With this
coincidence, the question falls upon RNA, unfortunately.
11780, 14/Jan 2346, Brazil, RNA in Portuguese. Very good signal, but at 2347
the signal starts getting bad and the bubble is back. YES, IT IS RNA. 73``
(Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia - Brazil, ibid.)
``You can see in the attached screen grab that once ~11780 starts, so does the
noise. Gradually it gets worse and 11780 carrier becomes more indistinct over a
period of several minutes`` (Don Moman, AB, ibid.)
``Wideband noise is quite strong in Houston at an 0030 check Jan 15. Low end
is around 11450, extending to around 11850. Tuning through the signal it almost
sounds like DRM, just much wider. Oddly, when I heard it 24 hours earlier, it
was more of an even hiss.
I did not hear any noise when checking around 0000. If the Brazilian
transmitter on 11780 is indeed the source, the fact that it is going on and off
could indicate that their engineers are aware of a problem. Wish they would use
a dummy load while diagnosing. This would be the most severely out of whack
transmitter I've heard in almost 50 years of listening on SW.
At a quick check at 0415 the noise was very weak, only between 11650 and 11800.
No audio on 11780. However at 0530 the noise was back to the stronger levels
noted at 0000.
The noise peaks seem to change -- At 0000 the peak was around 11550. At 0530
there were two peaks at 11645 and 11680, but only low level on 11550. Still
rather sounds like DRM, but spread out over a wide span of frequencies. Could
this be a DRM test gone terribly wrong?`` (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, ibid.)
[From much earlier in the day]: ``11780, 14/Jan 1026 Brazil, R?dio Nacional da
Amaz?nia in Portuguese. The suspicions of Glenn has meaning. A strong signal
with distorted sound. The modulation is low, but clear, YL talk. Now at 1024
music of Tim Maia. ID at 1026. Link recorded
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006/14124975/ ``
(Jorge Freitas, Brasil, ibid.)
``Hello Glenn, I sent the reports to R. Nacional da Amaz?nia and I hope to
receive informations from Bras?lia in the next days. 73 and congratulations for
usual astonishing job in SW monitoring news`` (Flavio PY2ZX Archangelo, Brasil,
Jan 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 9665, Jan 15 at 0632, Brazilian music, the SSOB is R. Voz
Mission?ria, which per Aoki is 10 kW, 30 degrees from Cambori? SC. Not much
else audible at all on 31m except 9955 Cuban jamming/WRMI, and trace of Turkey
9700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6010, Jan 15 at 0621, RHC English with squealing, the hi pitches more
noticeable by tuning slightly to the sidebands. Another transmitter needs some
new modulation cards.
6125, Jan 15 at 0622, RHC English with good modulation level! Usually it`s
quite low; now it rivals 6165 and 6010, altho 6125 signal is not quite as
strong (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 15160, Jan 15 at 1458 open carrier with lite whine, 1459 whine stops,
then a few digital bursts and distorted voice accompanying only during the
on-and-off bursts; QRM? The pitch of these slowly declines, suspected from
another carrier crossing the open one. Finally at 1501:45 Qur`an starts, and
1504 the QRM stops; 1507 Qur`an stops, and dead air continues at 1520, 1527
chex past 1530. This is supposed to be the Uzbek hour of R. Cairo, 250 kW, 50
degrees from Abu Zaabal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 7475, Tuesday Jan 15 at 0618, Greek music, not // JBA 9420, so R.
Philia service is on today, and 0619 Albanian announcement (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, Jan 15 at 0619, still no signal from IGIM, which has been
missing for months, as I tune across here virtually every night during this
hour when it used to be active. However, Bruce Conti in NH reported 7245 was on
the air Jan 7 at 0035, when as an MW DXer he was checking it merely to confirm
as // to 783 kHz, and thus Mauritania there instead of something else such as
Syria. What other hours is 7245 audible? Also need to check alternate 4845 from
time to time despite WWCR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 540, Jan 15 at 0642 UT, ``La Ranchera de Paquim?`` frequent ID fired
within a minute of tune-in, i.e. XETX, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, listed
by Cant? as only 250 watts at night, and no problem from any XEWA SLP listed as
150,000 watts.
BTW, the ``250,000`` full-time non-direxional watts from 900, XEW are also
obviously pass?, as there is no dominance whatsoever of XEW at night; lucky to
hear some Spanish amid the QRM. Has W Radio allowed its super-power outlets to
fall into disrepair, or deliberately cut down the power levels? (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 960, Jan 15 at 0601 UT, during local KGWA Fox-hole of dead air,
mainly Mexican music; 0603 part of ID mentioning ``Chihuahua, M?xico``, so it
must be the only station in that state per Cant?:
960 XEFAMA Radio Fama, La Grandota + FM 97.5 Cd. Camargo, Chih. 10,000 1,000
which I have heard before. The precise null of KGWA carrier is more favorable
for this than for also-heard XEK in Nuevo Laredo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 7255, Jan 14 at 2219, VG signal from VON but somewhat distorted
music, then announcement in English referring to the music having been in a
language of southeastern Nigeria. Probably Igbo --- googling on nigeria
languages map and then clicking on the jpg images link gets an incredible
variety of colorful displays; one here shows the big four:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Nigeria
The 22-23 final hour of the day on 7255 is supposedly in Hausa, but VON is
always mixing up languages on this frequency. What a third-rate operation
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 780, Jan 15 at 0641 UT, KSPI Stillwater, 250-watt daytimer, has
again left its carrier on all-night, groundwave-steady dead air clearly from
here in null of WBBM (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 15440, Jan 14 at 2214, RTI English relay via WYFR still has
some light crackling (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5830, Jan 15 at 0623, noticeable that WTWW has much stronger signal
than Tennessee rivals 5890 WWCR and even weaker 5935 WWCR. Altho by now 5830 is
not up to full blasting strength either. The MUF/skip zone must be on the
margin between Nashville and slightly further Lebanon, and/or wide divergence
in real power output, real azimuths, lobes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 15635-15660 or so, Jan 15 at 1454, WWCR modulation spur
spikes audible again, matching peaks on fundamental 15825, during `Inspiration
Across America`. 15630 Greece barely escapes this on the edge, QRMed more at
the moment by 15628 WEWN-15610 constant squishy spur (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 7250, Jan 15 at 0630, VR starting Latin mass with multilingual
intro; was not on the air earlier, unlike some days, and now // 3975, 6075, not
audible on 9645, with depressed MUF (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:34:39 +0000
From: Tom Taylor <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected], alessandro
<[email protected]>, Alexandr Kostiukevich
<[email protected]>, Anker Petersen <[email protected]>,
[email protected], [email protected], Bernd Seiser
<[email protected]>, [email protected],
[email protected], Dave Valko <[email protected]>,
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected], Gayle -
Monitoring Times
<[email protected]>, [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], Jayanta Chakrabarty <[email protected]>,
[email protected], Manuel M?ndez <[email protected]>, Mauno
Ritola <[email protected]>, [email protected],
radiogloria <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Gloria changed Transmission date
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Dear Listeners,
Radio Gloria will be testing on 9480 KHz on the 27th of January 2013
between 04.00 and 06.00 UTC, and not on the 20th this Sunday.
Many Thanks!
73s
Tom
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:15:03 +0200 (EET)
From: LIAGKAS ZAXARIAS <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Logs 10/1/13
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
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10/1 using R75 and HF150 in parallel in selected stations !
738 MW Arabic station 1706 S1 with Arabic songs
4850 ZJPBS 1711 with KZ songs S8 best in LSB
4880 SWR Africa 1712 talks abt ZWE S8
5005 Bata 1713 talks in Spanish S1 2x2x2
5130 ?? talks 1714 signal S1
9479 WWTV Lebanon 2106 with religious program ?revelation? and S8 !! signal A
guitar led song on 2107
6301.5 pirate in USB with pop songs 2124 next song is locomotion ID sa R
Faizade (??) several IDs and a ID clip S2
11880 RHC 2135 with news in Sp < many mentions of Cuba S7 35523
6060 IRIB? 2154 OM talking in Arabic , sound is echoed , passes TOH without ID
S9
11854 ,9 Aparecida? 2144 with numerous talks by OM and YL in PP that seems as
news S1 Also mentions of Brazil Appreciamos do Brazil 14221
12105 WTWW canned ID on 2207 in English but program is in French . Mention of
Capernaum Nice theatric performance with music etc S7 45444
4319 AFN 2215-20 with some talks , a country rock song . Diversity ?stereo?
reception !!
9710 RHC 2228 with many mentions about Cuba 2230 with ID S3 25222
9838.3 spurious of 9835 CBR with FMish like modulation (but incompatible with
FM) S2
9965 Br Stair 2239 with religious talks via WTWW S2 max
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:23:07 +0200 (EET)
From: LIAGKAS ZAXARIAS <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Logs 10/1/13 soem added info
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
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I am still using web mail to send the logs . I have not setup my new ISP's mail
due to other reasons This new connection uses 24 MB (practical max of 16 MB
)comparing to 2 MB i used via Otenet till last year
Also notice that since 25th of Dec my computer has been sent to computer
technicians to remove a very strong virus. This virus blocked me from entering
into desktop on Windows 7 . My trial to remove was in vain and lost 7 hours
for doing it. MY antivirus didnt recognize .
This time i used again the HF150 Lowe together with my main R75 ICOM for
"diversity stereo" R75 uses the main 2x16inv V and Lowe HF150 uses the 16 H
antenna
10/1
738 MW Arabic station 1706 S1 with Arabic songs
4850 XJPBS 1711 with KZ songs S8 best in LSB
4880 SWR Africa 1712 talks abt ZWE S8
5005 Bata 1713 talks in Spanish S1 2x2x2
5130 ?? talks 1714 signal S1
9479 WWTV Lebanon 2106 with religious program ?revelation? and S8 !! signal A
guitar led song on 2107
6301.5 pirate in USB with pop songs 2124 next song is locomotion ID sa R
Faizade (??) several IDs and a ID clip S2
11880 RHC 2135 with news in Sp < many mentions of Cuba S7 35523
6060 IRIB? 2154 OM talking in Arabic , sound is echoed , passes TOH without ID
S9
11854 ,9 Aparecida? 2144 with numerous talks by OM and YL in PP that seems as
news S1 Also mentions of Brazil Appreciamos do Brazil 14221
12105 WTWW canned ID on 2207 in English but program is in French . Mention of
Capernaum Nice theatric performance with music etc S7 45444
4319 AFN 2215-20 with some talks , a country rock song . Diversity ?stereo?
reception !!
9710 RHC 2228 with many mentions about Cuba 2230 with ID S3 25222
9838.3 spurious of 9835 CBR with FMish like modulation (but incompatible with
FM) S2
9965 Br Stair 2239 with religious talks via WTWW S2 max
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