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published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
Today's Topics:
1. Firedrake Jan 19 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
2. Space Shuttle Radio 15880 (Arthur Delibert)
3. DX Listening Digest 13-03; World of Radio 1652 (Glenn Hauser)
4. Glenn Hauser logs January 18-20, 2013 (Glenn Hauser)
5. E.M.R. on today (tom taylor)
6. E-mail address lists (Paul Ormandy ZL4PW)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 12:21:06 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "DXLD" <[email protected]>, "HCDX"
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Firedrake Jan 19
Message-ID: <84F863BD71C24418A7A76E4F03B53474@HNPC2>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8";
reply-type=original
CHINA Firedrake Jan 4 before 2300 UT: 13970 kHz, very poor at 2255 UT; none
lower 1355-1400 UT Jan 5, none found 12-16 MHz
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Firedrake Jan 8, 1456-1500 UT: none found 12-17 MHz.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Very very bad propagation from Asia into Europe this morning, wb.
TAIWAN/CHINA mainland Check of FIREDRAKE jamming and SOH operations from
Taiwan, Jan 19, 07-08 UT.
FIREDRAKE Chinese jamming music noted on
13430 13920 13970 14800 14980 15800 15900 16100 16920 17080 17250
18250 kHz.
SOH word program only, on
10960 11230 11300 12320 12370 12500 12670 12800 12870 12980 13130 13270
13350 13530 14370 14700 14750 14870 15870 16250 16360 16600 17170 17300
17370 17900 18970 19970 kHz.
All noted on remote sdr units in Asia and Australia.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 19)
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:59:17 -0500
From: Arthur Delibert <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
"arthur.delibert" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Space Shuttle Radio 15880
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
N. EUROPE, 15880 USB, Space Shuttle Radio, 12:11 - 13:00. Heard their test
this morning. Very poor at tune-in, but came up to the point where it was
mostly readable after 12:40, then faded somewhat. Classic American rock music
from 1950s and 60s, recordings of American political events from late early
70s, many IDs. E-mailed the station and heard my own report mentioned on the
air. (Art Delibert, N. Bethesda, MD 1/19/13).
Excalibur Pro Hiccup -- Love my Excalibur Pro, but when I turned it on just
after the New Year ... nothing -- except a message saying the app had crashed.
I tried everything -- rebooting the computer, removing and reinstalling the
software from the original disk, restoring my operating system to a date when I
knew the radio was working ... still nothing. Finally wrote to Grove
Electronics, and Bob Grove clued me in: there was a glitch in the software
that caused these radios to shut down when the calendar turned to 2013! He
provided me the latest software, and all is well now. Would be nice if all
radios could be fixed by e-mail!
Art Delibert
North Bethesda, Maryland
JRC NRD-535D
Pennant antenna with DX Engineering preamp
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:32:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] DX Listening Digest 13-03; World of Radio 1652
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
DX Listening Digest 13-03 has now been posted at
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1303.txt
and also soon, sometimes delayed at
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt
CONTENTS:
WOR 1652 / ALGERIA non / ANGOLA +non / AUSTRALIA VL8 / AUSTRALIA +non RA /
BANGLADESH +non / BELARUS / BHUTAN / BOLIVIA / BOTSWANA / BRAZIL / CANADA CBR /
CANADA non Radio City / CHINA / CONGO DR non / CROATIA / CUBA +non / CYPRUS /
CZECHIA / ECUADOR / EGYPT +non / ERITREA +non / ETHIOPIA +non / FINLAND /
FRANCE / GABON / GERMANY / GOA / GREECE / GUAM / GUIANA FRENCH / HONDURAS /
INDIA +non / INDONESIA +non / INTERNATIONAL NYE / IRAN / ITALY non / JAPAN +non
B12 / KOREA NORTH +non B12 / KOREA SOUTH +non B12 / KURDISTAN non / KUWAIT /
LIBYA / MADAGASCAR +non / MALAYSIA / MALI / MAURITANIA / MEXICO / MICRONESIA /
MOLDOVA / MONGOLIA / MOROCCO / NEW ZEALAND / NIGERIA / NORTH AMERICA / OKLAHOMA
KSPI / OKLAHOMA KGWA / OKLAHOMA KOKP/KOKB / OKLAHOMA KEOR / OKLAHOMA KOAG /
OKLAHOMA Radio Oklahoma / OKLAHOMA +non KOMA/KZUE+ / OKLAHOMA KTUL / PAKISTAN /
PALESTINE non / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PERU / POLAND ham / PRIDNESTROVYE / PUERTO
RICO / QATAR non / ROMANIA / RUSSIA
+non / SARAWAK non / SAUDI ARABIA / SOMALIA / SOUTH CAROLINA non / SPAIN +non
/ SRI LANKA +non / SUDAN +non / SWEDEN / TAIWAN non / TAJIKISTAN +non / TIBET
non / TUNISIA / TURKEY / UGANDA / UKRAINE / U K non BBCWS / UK BBCR3 / USA non
AFN / USA VOA/BBG /USA non RL / USA KOA / USA WOR/WTWW/WWRB/WRMI/WBCQ+ / USA
WWRB / USA WTWW / USA WRMI / USA WRNO / USA WRMI / USA WHRI / USA +non WWCR+ /
USA +non WYFR / USA KVOH / USA WCKL / USA LAX / USA KFI / USA +non KKDA / USA
WNDZ / USA WABC / USA KLRG / USA KSDN / USA KMA / USA KMMQ / USA KDUN / USA
WYLL / USA KFNW/WRTO / USA KZDC / USA KCTE / USA KUAZ / USA WOZN / USA
WPGC/WRG3 / USA Huell Howser / UZBEKISTAN / VATICAN / YEMEN / ZAMBIA / ZANZIBAR
/ ZIMBABWE +non / UNIDENTIFIED 800 / UNIDENTIFIED 900 / UNIDENTIFIED 960 /
UNDIENTIFIED 999 / UNIDENTIFIED TA / UNIDENTIFIED 1439 / UNIDENTIFIED 6128 /
UNIDENTIFIED 9430-9460 / UNIDENTIFIED 9575 / UNIDENTIFIED 14653 / UNIDENTIFIED
15901 / TESTIMONIALS / PUBLICATIONS /
CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES / MUSEA / LANGUAGE LESSONS / RADIO STAMPS / WORLD OF
HOROLOGY / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION
For restrixions and searchable 2013 contents archive see
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html
For restrixions and searchable 2012 contents archive see
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid12.html
[also linx to previous years]
NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but
have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself
obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn
WORLD OF RADIO 1652 headlines:
*DX and station news about: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brazil, Canada non,
China, Cuba, Ecuador, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan non,
Korea South, Libya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria,
North America, Oklahoma, Sarawak non, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka non,
Turkey, Ukraine, USA, Yemen
SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1652, January 17-23, 2013
Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [confirmed on webcast]
Thu 2200 WTWW 9479 [confirmed]
Fri 0428v WWRB 3195 [confirmed with rough start; & 5050?]
Sat 0230v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 [confirmed at 0241]
Sat 0630 HLR 7265 Hamburger Lokalradio
Sat 0900 WRMI 9955
Sat 1600 WRMI 9955 [confirmed]
Sat 1630 HLR 7265 Hamburger Lokalradio
Sat 1830 WRMI 9955 [confirmed]
Sun 0500 WTWW 5830
Sun 0900 WRMI 9955
Sun 1630 WRMI 9955
Mon 0530 WRMI 9955
Tue 1200 WRMI 9955
Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [or maybe 1653 if ready in time]
Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite
and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or
http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org
For updates see our Anomaly Alert page:
http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html
WRN ON DEMAND:
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/#world-of-radio
WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN:
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/customize-panel/addToPlaylist/98/10:00:00UTC/English
OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO:
http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
or http://wor.worldofradio.org
DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS:
Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of
them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated,
inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to
manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues:
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser
Best DX wishes, Glenn Hauser
------------------------------
Message: 4
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:33:09 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 18-20, 2013
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
** AUSTRALIA. 15525, Sat Jan 19 at 2230, HCJB ID and frequency in English, very
poor, then into Japanese, which per Aoki is UT Fri & Sat only, otherwise
Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11780-AM, Jan 18 at 2236, RNA is back to normal with good
modulation, no spurs; ditto at rechex 2330, UT Jan 19 0135, 0342, 0615. Also
still OK Jan 19 at 2220 and later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BULGARIA. 9450, Jan 20 at 0042, ID ``This is KBC Radio, broadcasting from
Bulgaria`` just as I tune in after some music; only poor-fair signal. Kim
Elliott continues to conduct digital text tests on this weekly 00-02 UT Sunday
broadcast, which I have yet to try, but others report varying degrees of
success (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11840, Jan 18 at 2238, RHC Spanish is undermodulated/distorted, no
comparison to English on 11880.
9810, Jan 19 at 0625, RHC Spanish is on late again, music sounds like `Cuba
Campesina`. Then found // on 6120 with ACI from stronger RHC English 6125; 0630
promo for RHC`s ``a?o 50`` --- that was two years ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 13363-USB, Jan 19 at 2217, very weak broadcast seems in English, so
not Argentina, but AFN. S. Hasegawa, Japan reported at 1032 UT Jan 19:
``AFN-Guam operates on 13362 kHz now for 24 hours`` --- rather than nights on
5765-USB, but remains to be heard how long this last (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALI. 15505, Jan 19 at 2228 open carrier, poor; 2230 just barely
audible/modulated. Presumed the useless CRI Bamako II relay, scheduled here
only for a semihour per Aoki. At least it still exists, apparently (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1560, Jan 19 at 0645 UT, ``en Radio Viva, proclamamos lo alt?simo,
Radio Viva 15-60`` on to gospel rock in Spanish. I figured this would be easy
to look up, but no such slogan on 1560 in NRC AM Log. Nor Radio ``Vida``, as it
could have been. NRC has the only SS:REL on 1560 as KVAN in Burbank WA, night
power 700 watts. Soon lost in QRM and did not get a bearing on it. O, here is
Radio Viva in the IRCA Mexican Log: XEJPV, Ciudad Ju?rez, Chihuahua, 10/-1 kW
--- the minus really means presumed/suspected/estimated night power. WRTH 2013
says 1 kW fulltime, and Cant? says 1 kW daytime only: hardly (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1570, Jan 19 at 1529 UT, Spanish, can it be XERF, or Tulsa? By
golly, promo for `La Hora Nacional`, and it loops correctly for XERF, almost
two hours after sunrise and about a megameter away. Sure helps to be La
Poderosa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGESET)
** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, Jan 19 at 0636, RNZI in that great Saturday-night
request show finishing some Flanders & Swann, 0640 the unicorn song by the
Irish Rovers. Fair to sufficient signal, whilst R. Australia was JBA to missing
from 11945, 12, 13 and 15 MHz channels, no loss during `Grandstand` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 530, the new TIS/HAR in the Enid area continues to be heard Jan
18. Around 2100 UT I set out to find it. Since it has been DF`d as almost N/S
of central Enid, I head east and west to get it from other angles. Soon obvious
that it`s from south, not north of Enid. From Garland & Garriott on the west
side, it loops SE. So I drive south and east to home in on it, and indeed it
gets stronger.
As I approach Vance AFB, strength and angles indicate it`s obviously coming
from somewhere on the base. I stop at the brand-new visitor`s center by the
main/north gate (where several antique aircraft are permanently mounted), and
enquire. Guess what: the airperson at the desk knows nothing about it, and the
noise level inside is so extreme I can`t let her hear it. She does give me a
phone number for further info. Altho I`m a USAF vet, you don`t just drive onto
the base without permission. From the perimeter I can`t spot a likely antenna.
The same group of Ad Council PSAs are still running in rotation over and over,
repeating every few minutes. From listening, there is no clue this thing has
anything to do with the military, let alone the USAF or Vance AFB in
particular, and there are still no IDs.
After some more phone referrals, someone suggests its purpose is to announce
gate closings, etc. It turns out the civilian person likely to know all about
at the Comms Squadron is gone for the long weekend.
Jan 19 at 1338 UT I monitor again, finding only two of previous PSAs are
playing, about locks & home safety, kids & internet, alternating with a new one
about the need for booster seats for post-baby kids.
Why can`t they fill time with something more useful, like AFN instead of
5765-Guam? Another check Jan 19 at 2215 UT: now only two PSAs are alternating:
asthma and booster seats.
It will be interesting to determine its range. Can any further Oklahomans hear
it? Only a few miles away it is weak enough to be nulled out for Cuba at night.
On my way out to find it, around the intersexion of Randolph & Cleveland, there
was co-channel QRM with a SAH. North-south HV powerline there raises the MW
noise level, but also boosts other signals as a supplemental defacto
re-radiating beverage antenna (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 17680, Jan 19 at 1516, African singing and talking, poor
signal. HFCC shows VOA Hausa via BOTSWANA, 100 kW, 350 degrees at 1500-1530
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1652 monitoring: The 0430 UT Friday Jan 18 on WWRB:
Tim Noonan reports: ``Hi Glenn, 3195 had trouble getting the program started,
but then they ran it in its entirety, a few minutes late.`` Don`t know if 5050
was also on this week.
5110v-CUSB, Area 51 via WBCQ has live `Allan Weiner Worldwide` still running at
0230 UT Saturday Jan 19, but it`s JBA. So I go to webcast to be sure what`s
happening. He wraps up late and WOR starts at 0241. About an hour later, the
5110v signal is better.
On WRMI 9955: barely confirmed Saturday Jan 19 after 1600: very weak signal,
and not sure if there is also very weak jamming. Slightly better at 1830, but
jamming definitely there too; tnx a lot, Arnie! Next: Sun 0530, Tue 1200. On
WTWW 5830: UT Sun 0500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7505, Jan 19 at 0146 check, still no signal from WRNO as some have
alleged. Recheck 0227, now it`s on, 7506.4v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085, Jan 20 at 0040, WTWW-2 is missing from its usual Saturday-night
broadcast. Was not on day frequency 9905 either nor at 2221 Jan 19, and WTWW-3
was also absent from 12105, while WTWW-1 9479 remained (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9370, Jan 20 at 0041, Brother Scare is still on here from WWRB,
instead of night frequency 3185. It used to come on much earlier, so checking
their current (?) but undated schedule at
http://www.wwrb.org/schedule/combined.pdf
in EST = UT -5, so should have switched at 0000 UT:
``Radio Station WWRB Transmitter Broadcast Schedule
Global 1: 045? Dual Feed Rhombic
07.30 PM ? 09.00 PM: 3.215 MHz
09.00 PM ? 12.00 AM: 3.195 MHz
Global 2: 150? Dual Feed Wide Spaced Yagi
07:00 PM ? 12.00 AM: 5.050 MHz
Global 3: 340? Dual Feed Rhombic
08.00 AM ? 07.00 PM: 9.385 MHz [moved months ago to 9370 kHz]
07.00 PM ? 08.00 AM: 3.185 MHz
Global 4:
Currently leased for shortwave propagation study.``
This appears to be more accurate than the individual transmitter program
schedules which still show some long-gone frequencies. I wonder what the SW
propagation study is all about, for whom, and WTFK?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 7250, Jan 19 at 0627, VR in Albanian, on early again; 0633 fair
signal with Latin mass, as I check the others: 3975 is missing! 6075 is good,
9645 is poor with Brazilian het (Glenn Hauer, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1510-, Jan 19 at 1315 UT, once again there is a low het on low
side looping NE/SW, pointing to KCTE Independence MO, but the main sports
signal audible on 1510 IDs as WLAC. Just recently I had decided KCTE was back
on frequency, so is another one off 1510 now? Or do they maybe have two
different transmitters? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[this report was delayed 8+ hours by a Suddenlink internet & cable outage
affecting half of Enid, said to be caused by a fibre optic cable cut, so I
added interim logs to it.]
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 04:12:29 -0000
From: "tom taylor" <[email protected]>
To: "tom taylor" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] E.M.R. on today
Message-ID: <70D76FE6D9BA49B79C27C0267F98B2D8@dellcb21k2j>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
E.M.R. on today
Sunday 20th: European Music Radio
08.00 - 09.00 UTC, E.M.R on 7265 KHz
09.00 - 10.00 UTC, E.M.R on 9480 KHz
09.00 - 10.00 UTC, E.M.R on 6005 KHz
All reports to: [email protected]
<http://mail.google.com/a/sky.com/h/1vx6iyyvt13ib/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=studio@emr.
org.uk>
EMR's internet broadcasts are at the following times:
0900, 1400, 1700, 2000 on Sunday & Monday:
Good Listening!
73s, Tom
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:58:39 +0000
From: Paul Ormandy ZL4PW <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] E-mail address lists
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Hi all,
Am chasing up old reports before I delete them entirely. Is there an up-to-date
list of e-mail
addresses? I know of QIP but doesn't seem to have been a lot of updating, which
would be a massive
job and Martin is to be applauded for all the work he's done over the years.
Otherwise, I could list the stations I need addresses for here for comment.
Regards,
Paul
--
Paul Ormandy, ZL4PW, Oamaru, New Zealand
http://www.zl4pw.orconhosting.net.nz/
www.radiodx.com
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