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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs May 23-24, 2013 (Glenn Hauser)
2. DX Listening Digest 13-21; World of Radio 1670 (Glenn Hauser)
3. New official updated A13 Media Broadcast schedule
(Akbar Indra Gunawan)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 08:43:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 23-24, 2013
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** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 6150, May 24 at 1240, R. Australia with classical piano
music instead of usual programming; except for WTWW 5830, it`s the SSOB, well
atop RHC Spanish collision until 1300*. Before then I hear the same music // on
other RA frequencies, 9475, 11945, 12065; 1254 announced as Beethoven`s Op 2,
No 2 played by Arrau, time 5<11 on ``ABC Classic FM``, then choral piece; 1300
no RA IS or theme, or even news, but switch to `Jazz Up Late`. Announcer
mentioned several platforms but NOT RA or SW! Not even aware of his suddenly
acquired worldwide audience? Starts with music from a festival sponsored by
WKCR in NY. At 1313 I find this also replaces RA Chinese on 11665 (now clashing
with Malaysia), and clear but delayed at 1338 check via PALAU on 9965, so
presumably also on 9475 now blocked by 9479 WTWW.
I was checking this because on May 22 and 23 at *1259, Ron Howard had been
hearing R. Australia announce this on 11665: "Radio Australia programs will not
be broadcast for several hours from 10:30 this Friday evening. Instead join us
for a special selection of the most beautiful music in the world courtesy of
ABC Classic FM"; RA services should resume by "mid-day Saturday Eastern
Australia Time".
Affects not only English but Chinese; no other languages scheduled until
2200-2330 Indonesian on 9695 via UAE, 11695 Shep, presumably also to be
replaced.
What in the world is going on? A planned strike at RA? Melbourne studio down
for maintenance? Experiment with new programming format?? Website does not
explain it, but correctly shows current programming as from ABC Classic FM,
altho elsewhere still linx to the RA/National programs which are ordinarily
carried. The approx. span for this anomaly converted to UT would be: 1230 UT
Friday to 0200 UT Saturday.
Here`s the Classic FM website:
http://www.abc.net.au/classic/
And the Saturday program schedule:
http://www.abc.net.au/classic/programs/saturday.htm
Check after 7 am Saturday = 2100 UT Friday on 21740.
`Weekend Breakfast` is on until 2300: ``There's plenty to enjoy on my weekend
breakfast menu - from Bach to Broadway, chamber music to comedy.`` Starting at
2100 with Rustic Dance by Percy Grainger.
http://www.abc.net.au/classic/program/weekendbreakfast/
And at 2300-2400 when 19000 is also on, `Keys to Music`:
http://www.abc.net.au/classic/program/keystomusic/
A Bach cantata, and part of Britten`s War Requiem.
At 0000-0200, `Your Requests`. 21740 goes off at 0100.
It`s great to hear classical on SW (jazz already existed in small doses on RA,
VOA), and RA ought to divvy up its multiple frequencies so some of them keep
with ABC Classic FM after this anomaly. Dream on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11815, May 24 at 0057, poor signal in Brazilian Portuguese, no doubt
R. Brasil Central. I never hear this later at night when other ZYs are
propagating on 25m, so presumably signs off sometime. DRM from REE/Costa Rica
is scheduled 00-01 to S America, but must have closed a bit early if on at all
this date.
This of course is yet another scandalous instance of frequency mismanagement, a
major international broadcaster ignoring the previous presence of a domestic SW
station in the target area; but Brasil is also to blame for refusing even to
take the minor step of registering all its SW frequencies with HFCC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake [non], CNR1 jamming May 24 before 1400 with very poor
propagation:
17170, very poor and choppy at 1340
16920, JBA at 1341
14750, JBA at 1342
14700, JBA at 1342; none in the 13s or 12s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9870, May 24 at 1250, AIR VBS good but fadey with pop Hindi songs,
but only in the clear before 1300 when CCCCI starts, i.e. CRI English. Hey,
whatever happened to AIR`s announced plan to convert 9870 to DRM, at least part
of the time experimentally; did they ever try it? I hope not (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, May 24 at 0056, R. Chaski carrier detectable, today not only vs.
natural noise on the band but also Cuban pulse jamming, which is ``necessary``
only after 0700 when R. Mart? is on 5980. But I can still time the
Chaski-cutoff at 0100:44 which is 6 seconds later than last nite. (Axually more
like 5.3 seconds later on average, but hard to split seconds on my watch.)
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1200, May 24 at 0506 UT as I tune across WOAI opening `Coast to Coast
AM`, George announces that starting Monday the show will be on the 1190 station
in Dallas. Hmmm, moving from what, KLIF? No, current affiliate list for TX at
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/stations/texas
shows no station at all in The Metroplex, a major, major market! Not under that
monicker, nor Dallas, nor Fort Worth, nor any obvious suburb/COL (White Oak
99.3 FM turns out to be in east TX).
1190 is KFXR (originally KLIF), with that extremely complex 5 kW night pattern,
utilizing 12! towers:
http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=25375
and the major lobe heads WSW, 252 degrees:
http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/221001-66822.pdf
FCC link to topo map
http://msrmaps.com/image.aspx?t=2&Lon=-96.413056&Lat=32.899167&w=2&ref=G|-96.413056,32.899167
showing nite site (which is different from day site) with coordinates:
32? 53' 57.00" N Latitude
96? 24' 47.00" W Longitude (NAD 27)
is very slow-loading but finally displays ``37 km NE of Dallas``, i.e.
somewhere on the eastern shore of Lake Ray Hubbard, near Rockwall and Glen
Hill. That makes its major lobe shoot right across Dallas proper and more or
less Fort Worth beyond, but many other parts of The Metroplex will find
themselves in a null.
Getting back to WOAI, I notice that C2C runs many seconds behind same program
on other outlets; in fact, no two of them seem to be synchronized, as in random
bandscanning from one station to another, often on adjacent frequencies, you
hear the last several words repeated or skipped (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1670 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1 9479, Thursday
May 23 at 2100.5, usual excellent signal. Also confirmed on WWRB 3195, UT
Friday May 24 at 0328.3, after a respectful pause, after Dave mentioned that
his computer is back in service after lightning strike last week, after music
fill. Still not on 5050 too or instead. WOR could also appear sometime after
1800 UT on WTWW-2 9930. Otherwise:
Next: UT Saturday 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0630 & 1430 on
HLR 7265-CUSB; Saturday 1500 on WRMI 9955; Saturday & Sunday 2329v on WTWW-2
9930; UT Sunday 0400.5 on WTWW-1 5830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [non]. 7305, May 24 at 0200, Vatican Radio via Greenville, USA, only
fair signal aimed south, following open carrier until hourtop, which could have
more usefully been modulating something like English. Ed Insinger, NJ, has been
corresponding with the VR frequency manager about this 0200-0245 transmission.
Often after 0230 instead of continuing in Spanish, French has been heard, and
recently a listener in target S America was hearing something other than
Spanish at 0200, so I was checking it out.
Nothing but Spanish heard here, but HFCC shows IBB (VOA) in Burmese at
0130-0300, 250 kW, 276 degrees from Thailand, which could well carry on to S
America across the darkside. Yet another instance of frequency planners not
recognizing that signals cannot possibly be restricted to the intended CIRAF,
in this case 49W. VR cannot even depend on getting a full half-sesquihour of
Spanish on the GB 7305 transmission due to the complexities of satellite feed
scheduling.
Furthermore as we have reported previously, VR`s only other token broadcast to
America, on the same frequency 7305 at 1130-1200 in Spanish via Greenville,
also has a collision problem: CNR beaming 37 degrees from the SZG site in
China, long before and after this semihour. Maybe, just maybe, VR should find
new frequencies for both, and schedule them at times when they can correctly
feed the intended language! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 21:08:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] DX Listening Digest 13-21; World of Radio 1670
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DX Listening Digest 13-21 has now been posted at
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1321.txt
and also soon, sometimes delayed at
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt
WOR 1670 / ALASKA / ALGERIA non / ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS / ANTARCTICA /
ARGENTINA / ARMENIA / AUSTRALIA Symban / AUSTRALIA AXQ421 / AUSTRALIA +non RA
A13 / BAHRAIN / BANGLADESH / BELARUS / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL +non / BULGARIA /
CANADA non BVB / CHINA +non / COLOMBIA / COSTA RICA +non / CUBA +non / CZECHIA
non / ECUADOR / ERITREA non / ETHIOPIA +non / FRANCE / GERMANY +non / GREECE /
GUAM / HAITI / ICELAND / INDIA +non A13 / INDONESIA / INTERNATIONAL INTERNET
ABC/CBS+ / IRAN / IRELAND non / ITALY non / JAPAN +non / KOREA NORTH +non /
KOREA SOUTH non / MALAYSIA / MEXICO +non / MICRONESIA / NETHERLANDS non / NEW
ZEALAND / NIGERIA / OKLAHOMA non WOR / OKLAHOMA KEOR / OKLAHOMA KIZS / OKLAHOMA
KXOK-LD / OKLAHOMA KOCY-LP / OKLAHOMA Tornado RTV / OMAN / PAKISTAN non / PAPUA
NEW GUINEA / PERU / PHILIPPINES / PORTUGAL non / PUERTO RICO / RUSSIA / SAINT
KITTS & NEVIS / SAMOA / SARAWAK +non / SERBIA non / SIKKIM / SOLOMON ISLANDS /
SOMALILAND / SOUTH CAROLINA non /
SPAIN +non / SWEDEN non / SYRIA +non / TAIWAN +non / TATARSTAN non / TIBET non
/ TUNISIA A13 / UGANDA / UK Ofcom / UK Pirates / UK BBC / UK +non BBCWS / USA
+non VOA/RFA/RL / USA Marti / USA WOR/WTWW/WWRB/WBCQ/WRMI+ / USA WWRB / USA
WBCQ / USA WHRI/KBS / USA WWCR / USA WYFR+ / USA KGGF / USA WGN/WSCR / USA WABG
/ USA KMKA / USA KCKN / USA KMXA / USA WKZV / USA
WEPG/WBKW/WCVG/WDJO/WPAD/WEMM/WWCS / USA KNXJ / USA Inspiracom / USA WMGR / USA
WNEW / USA WACP / USA KNFT/KEZA+ / USA KENS+ / VANUATU / VATICAN non /
VENEZUELA +non / VIETNAM +non / ZANZIBAR / UNIDENTIFIED 580 / UNIDENTIFIED 910
/ UNIDENTIFIED 12095 / UNIDENTIFIED 17996 / UNIDENTIFIED 92.3/93.9/96.3/97.9 /
TESTMONIALS / PUBLICATIONS / CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES / 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 1670 headlines:
*DX and station news about: Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Antarctica,
Australia, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Eritrea non, Ethiopia and non,
Germany and non, Guam, Guatemala, Indonesia, Mexico, New Zealand,
Oklahoma, Oman, Pakistan non, Papua New Guinea, Portugal non, Saint
Kitts & Nevis, Sarawak non, Somaliland, Spain, Syria, Taiwan and non,
Tajikistan, Tibet non, Tunisia, USA
SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1670, May 23-29, 2013
Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed with jamming]
Thu 2100 WTWW 9479 [confirmed]
Fri 0328v WWRB 3195 [congirmed]
Sat 0130v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 [confirmed at 0133]
Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Sat 1500 WRMI 9955
Sat 2329v WTWW 9930
Sun 0400 WTWW 5830
Sun 2329v WTWW 9930
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955
Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or maybe 1671 if ready in time]
Recent editions have also been airing in rotation at variable times on
WTWW 9930 between 18 and 24 UT, 5085 between 00 and 01 UT.
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
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 13:17:35 +0800 (SGT)
From: Akbar Indra Gunawan <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] New official updated A13 Media Broadcast schedule
Message-ID:
<1369459055.16578.bpmail_high_carr...@web194002.mail.sg3.yahoo.com>
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New official A13 Media Broadcast updated schedule
http://www.media-broadcast.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Downloads/A13_operational_240513_MBR.pdf
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 125, Issue 29
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