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Today's Topics:
1. No Test broadcast from Hamburger Lokalradio Today! (TOM TAYLOR)
2. Glenn Hauser logs June 30, 2013 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Indonesia (maurits van driessche)
4. Glenn Hauser logs June 30-July 1, 2013 (Glenn Hauser)
5. Last Day for Radio Heritage (Radio Heritage Mail)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 14:20:55 +0100
From: TOM TAYLOR <[email protected]>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [HCDX] No Test broadcast from Hamburger Lokalradio Today!
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No Test broadcast from Hamburger Lokalradio Today!
Dear Listeners,
I have received the following information from MVBR:
Hamburger Lokalradio (MVBR) have some technical problems with there aerial
matching unit, there technical staff are working on the problem.
Hamburger Lokalradio (MV Baltic Radio) are very sorry to inform you that we
will not be on the air today, More tests will follow in the weeks to come!
Sorry once again for the inconvenience, we wish you good DXing!
73s
Tom
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 08:13:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs June 30, 2013
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<[email protected]>
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** CHINA. Firedrake [non], June 30, with degraded propagation, before 1400 only
found:
13530, poor at 1338 with flutter
13970, very poor with het at 1340, none in the 12s
14700, very poor with het at 1342, none in the 15s, 16s, 17s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6010, June 30 at 0510, RHC English, only with trace of modulation at
peaks on big otherwise open carrier. Other frequencies are OK. Wiggle that
patchcord!
9850, Sunday June 30 at 1240, RHC with great `Cuba Campesina` music, as I pick
this frequency for best signal; a mistake since it`s chopped off the air rudely
at 1255 as this transmitter will take a while to retune to 15340 on the
`Chicago` beam. Quick retune to 11860 for the rest of it.
15340 and much weaker 15230 are the OSOB at 1305 June 30, except for both sides
of the China radio war on 15115. Propagation continues to be much degraded. At
1305, I can also hear 17580 fairly, but nothing on 17730; by 1307, a JBA signal
becomes audible on 17730.
This week`s `En Contacto` after 1335 concludes with a Ruben Guillermo Margenet
feature recorded years ago with clip of final Spanish broadcast from R.
Budapest, on anniversary of its closure, and also the final DX program from R.
Mosc? that Manolo de la Rosa presented before moving back to Cuba. And note:
the codey closing theme of En Contacto plays out complete, unusual, as the show
must have had a bit of time to fill. Catch it on the repeats starting around
2240v and Monday 0135 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Sporadic E analog TV DX June 30, UT:
1455 on 2, fade-in of Televisa net-5 bug LR, with Bob el Esponja, and fade
right back out. Had been watching snow for almost an hour; another glimpse of
same at 1500, this time with audio too. Here we go? Still in & out weakly at
1507 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 13735, June 30 at 1303, open carrier with fair signal, off within a
minute. At 1339 now there`s some broadcast with solo male singer, but very poor
and can`t determine the language. HFCC shows R. Rossii via Moskva site at
1330-1700, 250 kW, 267 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Dan Elyea at Okeechobee confirms to me that the final final broadcast
of Family Radio from WYFR will be on 6115 until 0300 UT Monday July 1, followed
by Radio Taiwan International relay in English for the last time until
0400*****.
WYFR is history as of midnight EDT tonight.
DXLD yg member Dave Hughes found this 82-slide slow of someone`s visit to WYFR:
https://plus.google.com/photos/115519153277489147905/albums/5149449666892817121/5149449731317326578?banner=pwa&pid=5149449731317326578&oid=115519153277489147905
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1675 monitoring: via Tom Taylor, Hamburger
Lokalradio says technical problems have prevented their planned 15785 tests
today, including World of Radio; maybe next Sunday. Maybe on WTWW-2, 9930,
sometime between 17 and 21 UT Sunday; and/or 2330v on 9930 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1020, June 30 at 0522 UT, QRM to semi-local KOKP Perry OK sounds
like the deep voice of the weekend guy on Coast to Coast AM, but there are no
1020 stations on its affiliate list in USA or Canada; no, not KDKA --- on FM in
that market. I also thought I heard KCKN mentioned (in English), not
necessarily from same QRM; any change in Roswell? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1070, June 30 at 0528 UT, sounds like Roy Masters, looping N-S;
instead of on 1090 from KAAY E-W, where he would not be on a Saturday night,
anyway. Extensive affiliate list at
http://www.fhu.com/radiostations.html
does not show any on 1070. Could it be KLIO Wichita which has been known to
break away from main True Oldies format at other times? No Kansas affils on his
list. Banner ad I see at top of http://www.trueoldies1070.com/
is for Auto Masters, not close enough, and there is no program schedule to be
found (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 20:12:50 +0200
From: maurits van driessche <[email protected]>
To: hard-core <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Indonesia
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Voice of indonesia ,Jakarta Strong on 9525.90khz at1757utc 30-6
Here a link for the audio https://www.box.com/s/k3q8ew095hltl50me9pd
Vertical antenna +Perseus SDR
73,
Maurits Van Driessche
Belgium
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 21:47:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs June 30-July 1, 2013
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
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** BRAZIL. 4915, July 1 at 0056, fair signal with music, and within a few
seconds of tune-in, ID by R?dio Daqui. Yay, it`s back after missing a couple of
nights and again the best ZY by far on the 60m band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [non]. 7585, July 1 at 0058, fair signal with pop music, i.e. R. Farda,
250 kW, 310 degrees from Iranawila, SRI LANKA, which is on very long hours,
1700-0130 per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 11680, June 30 at 2024, emotional speech in Korean with
background music; must be KCBS which per Aoki is on the air from 20 to 18 UT
with 50 kW ND. Unusual to hear this time of day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15540 & 17550, June 30 at 2024, R. Kuwait English & Arabic services
with fair signals, as conditions have recovered somewhat (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Sporadic-E analog TV DX opening continued from previous report,
which started at 1455 UT June 30:
1543 on 2, Azteca net-7 bug, stronger than some other CCI
1602 on 2, Azteca-7 in UR, with animation
1630 on 2, weak signal but now visibly soccer
1649 on 3, fade-in US sitcom, Spanish ads, video only; soon fade out along with
ch 2
1715 on 2, fade-in algo
1720 on 2, ad in Spanish, video and audio
1730 on 2, animation, net-7 bug UR
1802 on 2, large font program title includes ISRAEL
1805 on 2, interview, fade-in enough to make out TeleVer bug UR: XHFM, Veracruz
1822 on 2, still same; interviewer has big boxy sign on his hand mike, unseems
legend TeleVer on it, what?
1912 on 2, soccer and CCI, weak; nothing further
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, July 1 at 0054, R. Chaski usual weak but sufficient carrier
until cut off at 0104:03.5* which is 5.5 seconds later than yesterday. How far
will they get into the fifth minute past the hour this time before timer reset?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 15440, June 30 at *2158, sometime before 2159 the WYFR carrier
cuts on, 2200 opening RTI relay for the *last* time, local quality signal, with
just enough lite selective fading once in a while to remind us this is via the
dynamic medium of international shortwave by ionospheric propagation. I`ve
usually listened to RTI on a hit-and-miss basis, but on this momentous occasion
I monitor the entire hour (as re-relayed from the shack FRG-7 by feeder on 88.1
MHz thruout the house to several FM radios).
News starts with record heat wave in Taibei; 2205 `Week in Review`; 2208 plug
`new` website http://english.rti.org.tw and `This Day in History`: 1859y,
Niagara Falls tightrope stunt; 1894, Tower Bridge opens in London; 1990, E&W
Germany merge economies with DM for both; outro by Andrew Ryan
2210, plug upcoming shows `Chinese To Go`, `Soundwaves`, but first: `Here In
Taiwan` for Monday, July 1: soft stories such as an ATM at a supermarket which
keeps shocking people, bad grounding?; huge lines of people applying for flight
attendant jobs, which may not be as glamourous as they think; ghost sightings
2225, `Chinese to Go`, learning to say ``give up your seat``, as in a courtesy
by younger people to older people on bus, not always willing
2231, rock music, must be `Soundwaves`, or fill? 2247 Chinese performer, songs
titled ``If`` and at 2255 ``Do You Know``.
2258-2300 canned announcement of entire RTI English schedule including the
canceled WYFR relays as if they will still exist, and mixing in low-power MW
relays via US stations on 1210, 750, without saying where they are!
There was NO mention during this broadcast that it would be the final one on SW
to North America! So much for historical perspective.
2300 WYFR ID in Chinese (no English) and right into a Chinese dialect.
[see USA: WYFR final log in the interim]
UT July 1 on 6115, reception is never as solid as on 15440, but recheck after
Family Radio`s own finale at 0300 UT: this RTI relay is obviously a repeat of
the one 5 hours earlier, same news of heatwave, etc. And spotchecked, not
listening to whole thing again.
Concludes with ``This is WYFR, Okeechobee, Florida`` at 0400 and pulled the big
switch, off at 0400:04* July 1, 2013 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 6115, monitoring the last few minutes of WYFR, UT July 1 from 0245,
playing ``Onward Christian Soldiers`` and ``Battle Hymn of the Republic``,
other hymns by chorus and orchestra interspersed with brief Bible verses by
non-Harold Camping announcer as ``Words to Live By`` --- probably regular
programming; fade out at 0259 for ``It`s people just like you who [illegible]
at the ministry of Family Radio``. Last words? Not quite, after almost minute
of dead air, ``This is WYFR, Okeechobee, Florida`` ID, and opening RTI repeat
--- see TAIWAN [non]
After that hour, another legal ID as above spanning 0400 and carrier cut
forever at 0400:04*. Nothing ever heard to the effect that this was the end of
an era on shortwave.
Family Radio has not given any hint about what will become of the
14-transmitter Okeechobee facility, but we hope it will live on with some other
identity, preferably secular. How about multiple NPR program streams? Dream on.
>From tomorrow we expect to hear WWCR on 6115 ex-6875, but only at 2100-0100
>(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 4840, UT Monday July 1 at 0400-0430, enjoying the full ``Talking
Machine Show`` of old wax cylinder music, a fragment of which we heard on an
earlier airing. Excellent signal as always on this WWCR intruder into the 60m
tropical/utility band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9930, Sunday June 30 at 2025 check, WTWW-2 is not on air, nor is
WTWW-3 12105. However at 2150, 9930 is on with Martha Garvin. Perhaps schedule
reduced to purchased time after 2100? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1675 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-2, 9930, Sunday
June 30 starting at 2328:35. Next: Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955; Wednesday 0630 &
1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZANZIBAR. 11735, June 30 at 2023, very poor signal with music, presumed ZBC
active again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 19:49:15 +1200
From: "Radio Heritage Mail" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Last Day for Radio Heritage
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Radio Heritage Foundation
www.radioheritage.com
July 1 2013
*Today is the Last Day to find
1st Quarter Operating Expenses
*The shortfall is just $A3,800
*Yes, you can personally help!
*From 67c/week................
* Tax deductible for NZ donors
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Below you'll see how you can help keep the project alive. Just 24
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Is it worth 67c a week to you to keep us free for the community to
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It's a battlefield out there. Everywhere someone has a good cause,
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A small group of people are working to keep radio memories safe and
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