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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs May 18-19, 2013 (Glenn Hauser)
2. Idhaat al Akhbar al Mofreha (Jorge Freitas)
3. DX Listening Digest 13-20; World of Radio 1669 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 08:57:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 18-19, 2013
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** CUBA. 6125, May 19 at 0519, RHC English is somewhat undermodulated and
distorted; 6165 is somewhat undermodulated and not distorted. // 6060 mod is OK
but weakest as usual aimed toward Europe; and 6010 is OK.
Sunday May 19 at 1401, RHC Spanish has lost modulation, only dead air on:
17580, 15340 vs HCJB, 11860, 11760. Nominal on 17730, 15230, 13780, 11750,
11690; trace of signal? on 9540. Things always go more haywire than usual on
Sunday mornings, presumably because of long- defunct `Al? Presidente` relay
from Venezuela, which required transmitter and feed shuffling to accommodate,
from which RHC has yet to recover (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 11730, May 19 at 0529, surprised to hear NHK giving full
English schedule, 0530 into `Sakura` theme and French as scheduled. The English
was // 11970 just before it closed. TDF Issoudun applied off-topic modulation
to 11730 a minute too early (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 2, May 19 at 1533 UT, sporadic-E signal fades in, Spanish. Jockeying
rotor, seems slightly east of due south. A B&W documentary. Probably XHY-TV
M?rida, Yucat?n; yes, during ads at 1541 I make a match to webstream via
http://sipse.com/canal2/ with the usual delay. It`s only a weak opening so far,
in and out, mostly out, and not above ch 2. Hope to have more in my next report.
Glad to be getting some real TV DX again, while analog still exist in parts of
M?xico. But I continue to pine for something further, extended single hop from
Central America, double-hop from Central or South America, which DXers further
east now have little trouble getting with no US stations in the way. But for
me, Mexicans are still in the way.
At 1550 UT, the essential 50 MHz Es maps at
http://www.tvcomm.co.uk/radio/muf5.html
and
http://www.dxmaps.com/spots/map.php?Lan=E&Frec=50&Map=NA
show lots of paths across eastern, southern and western USA, but no linx
between Enid and M?rida.
BTW, I appreciate the tolerance in SW lists for my including VHF/UHF DX which
may simply be ignored if not interested, but which I find hard to fathom (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9925, May 19 at 0058 check, The Mighty KBC via Nauen,
GERMANY, good signal but very heavy flutter in propagation disturbance. I
wonder how that affected Kim`s Radiograms (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Saturday May 18 at 1948 UT check on caradio at squirrel
haven, KEOR Catoosa is gone again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Typo in yesterday`s URL about KIZS 101.5 Collinsville: of course
should have read http://www.lapreciosa.com (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 48, May 19 after 0230 UT, with my new C-490 antenna in service, I
am pleased to find that KOCY-LP is still NTSC from OKC, 18.1 kW with Estrella
TV network. Under dead conditions I am lucky to see a frame bar, but with a
little help from the troposphere, it visiblizes, hardly ever snow-free: the
nearest if not only OK TV station that hasn`t gone DTV yet, which I will really
miss as a signal-checker that antenna be funxional (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, May 19 at 0057, no signal at first, then a JBA carrier, but
seems slightly on the lo side, unlike usual 5980.00 from R. Chaski, or is it
some other carrier? No time to measure it, so I just listen for the cutoff,
This one goes off about 0100:18*, 11 seconds later than last heard two evenings
ago, so still correlates as the Urubamban (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 5000, May 19 at 0518, WWV propbotess intones: SF 132, Ap 21, K 4 at
03; minor, G1, S1; next 24 hours forecast: G2, S1, R1. That explains why not
much to report this time on SW: horrible conditions (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050, UT Sun May 19 at 0101, WWRB is on again with hymn, since it`s
Saturday night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085, UT Sun May 19 at 0057, WTWW-2 is on with music. Did anyone
notice whether WOR 1669 appeared at 2329 Saturday on 9930? I was otherwise
occupied, but earlier in the afternoon suspected they were live from the Dayton
Hamvention, if not a previous QSO show.
WORLD OF RADIO 1669 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1, 5830, UT Sunday May 19 at
0400.6, very good reception. Next: Sunday 2329v on WTWW-2 9930 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 720, May 18 at 1954 UT, caradio bandscan at squirrel haven north of
Enid, quiet location (but lite line noise detectable on some MW channels; I can
still see powerlines in the distance), baseball game. Can this be WGN? Some
player named deJes?s. Yes, it`s the Cubs, daytime groundwave all the way from
Chicago! I`ve heard it before in the daytime; in winter there is some question
whether it`s residual skywave, but surely not now. City to city distance is 667
miles, maybe a bit less to the site.
670, the strange thing is, I am not hearing anything from WSCR, which
theoretically should have at least as good a signal as WGN under these
circumstances. KLTT Denver, a couple hundred miles closer, is alone with some
non-sports talk mentioning area code 303. Why does WGN get out so much better
than WSCR? Is the latter not up to par? Unfortunately, Okie stations block the
other Chi-town possibilities, 780 and 890 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. RF 9, May 18 at 1929 UT, KAFT Fayetteville AR, tropo is in with high
humidity, even at mid-afternoon. 37.9 kW KAFT emits the usual four subchannels,
three varieties of PBS, plus 13-4 with a reading service, video being nothing
but a slide which changes colors and fonts every so often; I assume like all
the other Arkansas PTV stations (OETA OTOH, restricts to only two so they can
run HD on the prime one. KPTS-8 Wichita also has 3 or 4 channels we are missing
in OK).
Inaugurating my new C-490 Antennacraft antenna, which replaces the same model
severely damaged by icing last winter. I was trying to hold off till after
tornado season, but couldn`t wait any longer with sporadic E erupting (and the
lowband elements being longest were the most damaged on the old one). The UHF
`arrow` segment of the C-490 was not damaged, and now I am wondering if I can
detach it and use it productively independently? Heavy storms and high winds
followed this night, but whew, no tornados here.
Axually the first non-local signal I got on the new antenna was KOTV-45 Tulsa,
as I was realigning the rotor and it was axually pointing WNW. Hmm. Also in:
KOED-11, Tulsa. I discovered that with end point due west, the rotor won`t
reach 270-280 degrees or so, but nothing much to be seen directly from that
angle.
Then on the way to squirrel haven, on caradio north of Enid on 107.9 heard an
ad for Rogers at 1942 UT May 18, which must have been nearby KEZA, 99 kW also
in Fayetteville AR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 580, May 18 at 1953 UT from squirrel haven, a daytime bandscan
audiblizes a weak talk station underneath WIBW Topeka KS, the very dominant
signal here. Lubbock TX, KRFE? But only 500 watts and supposedly directional
westward. I do recall it gets out well. Or is it KJMJ Alexandria LA, 5 kW,
non-direxional, and a couple hundred miles further than Lubbock, over a
not-so-good ground conductivity path? No nulling and no DFing on the caradio. I
guess we can rule out WILL, despite WGN incoming, with WILL`s null toward
Topeka and us --- or is it out of order? IIRC they had some problems a while
ago.
Speaking of which, I hear that KCKN 1020 Roswell NM is running only 1 kW
non-direxional as its 50 kW has failed and is not being fixed by the new
owners. That might audiblize it here, no longer nulled toward KDKA (not heard
yet and not likely unless KOKP is off), while opening up 1020 for much else in
the West (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 14:34:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jorge Freitas <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Idhaat al Akhbar al Mofreha
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9400 19/May 2117 BULGARIA (Relay), Idhaat al Akhbar al Mofreha in Arabic. Om
speaks animatedly. Some excerpts of music. At 2129 Om discloses adrress of
site. At 2129 repeats the ID by Om and YL. 35433 (Jorge Freitas-B)
?
73
Jorge Freitas
Local time -3 UT
Feira de Santana Bahia?
12?14?S 38?58?W - Brasil
Degen 1103 - All listening in mode of filter Narrow the 4 kHz.
Dipole antenna, 25 meters - east/west
Escutas (listening, my blog): http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006
The best of Brazilian music: http://www.novabrasilfm.com.br/
A bit of my city: www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1443186
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 17:54:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] DX Listening Digest 13-20; World of Radio 1669
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DX Listening Digest 13-20 has now been posted at
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1320.txt
and also soon, sometimes delayed at
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt
CONTENTS:
WOR 1669 / ALASKA A13 / ALBANIA A13 / ANTARCTICA / ARGENTINA A13 / AUSTRALIA
Symban / AUSTRALIA VL8 / AUSTRALIA +non RA / AUSTRALIA +non HCJB+ / AUSTRALIA
AXQ421 / BANGLADESH / BELARUS A13 / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL / BULGARIA A13 / CANADA
+non CBW+ / CANADA CKZU/CKZN / CANADA non BVBN / CANADA CKND2 / CENTRAL AFRICAN
REPUBLIC / CHINA +non / COLOMBIA / COSTA RICA / CUBA +non / CZECHIA non / DIEGO
GARCIA / ECUADOR +non / EGYPT / EUROPE Pirate / FRANCE +non / GABON / GEORGIA /
GERMANY +non / GREECE / GUAM +non A13 / GUATEMALA / GUINEA / INDIA / INDONESIA
/ INTERNATIONAL INTERNET 2LO / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM SXM / IRAN +non / ITALY non
/ JAPAN +non / KOREA NORTH +non / KOREA SOUTH +non / KUWAIT / KYRGYZSTAN /
LIBYA / MADEIRA +non / MEXICO / MOROCCO / MYANMAR / NEW ZEALAND A13 / NICARAGUA
/ OKLAHOMA KEOR / PAKISTAN +non / PANAMA / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PERU +non /
PHILIPPINES / POLAND non / PRIDNESTROVYE A13 / PUERTO RICO / RUSSIA +non A13 /
RWANDA / SAINT HELENA /
SAIPAN / SARAWAK non / SAUDI ARABIA / SERBIA non / SOMALILAND / SOUTH AFRICA /
SOUTH CAROLINA non / SPAIN +non / SRI LANKA +non / SUDAN non / SWAZILAND /
TAIWAN +non / TAJIKISTAN / TATARSTAN non / TUNISIA / UK non BBCWS / USA
NWVC/AAZ+ / USA +non VOA / USA KOA / USA WOR/WTWW/WWRB/WBCQ/WRMI+ / US WWRB /
USA WRMI / USA WEWN / USA WWCR / USA non AWR / USA +non wYFR A13+ / USA KMPH /
USA KCKN / USA WBLQ / USA WELP / USA WQLL / USA WOIR / USA WKAL / USA WQOH /
USA WNEW+ / USA WGBW / USA FCC/ VANUATU / VATICAN / VENEZUELA / VIETNAM +non /
VIRGIN ISLANDS US / YEMEN / ZANZIBAR / ZIMBABWE non / UNIDENTIFIED 4820 /
UNIDENTIFIED 15310 / UNIDENTIFIED 15835 / UNIDENTIFIED 17055 / UNIDENTIFIED
17450 / UNIDENTIFIED 17720 / UNIDENTIFIED 18965 / TESTIMONIALS / PUBLICATIONS /
LANGUAGE LESSONS / CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES / DX-PEDITIONS / MUSEA / DIGITAL
BROADCASTING / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION
For restrixions and searchable 2013 contents archive see
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.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 1669 headlines:
*DX and station news about: Antarctica, Argentina, Brazil, Central
African Republic, China, Georgia, Germany non, India, Indonesia, Korea
North non, Korea South non, Pakistan, Russia, Taiwan, Tajikistan,
Tatarstan non, Tunisia, USA, Vanuatu
SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1669, May 16-22, 2013
Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed on webcast]
Thu 2100 WTWW 9479 [confirmed]
Fri 0328v WWRB 3195 [on air but computer down, no WOR]
Sat 0130v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 [confirmed at 0143]
Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [confirmed by wb]
Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Sat 1500 WRMI 9955 [inaudible]
Sat 2330v WTWW 9930 [unconfirmed]
Sun 0400 WTWW 5830 [confirmed]
Sun 2330v WTWW 9930 [not on the air]
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955
Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or maybe 1670 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
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 125, Issue 23
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