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Today's Topics:
1. WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Top News #1122 (Michael Bethge)
2. Glenn Hauser logs July 4, 2013 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Re: Glenn Hauser logs July 3-4, 2013 (Karel Honz?k)
4. Who listens to the humble wireless? Not if you've got one of
these bionic radio ears (Jaisakthivel)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 17:40:45 +0200
From: "Michael Bethge" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
"Fernando Luiz de Souza" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Top News #1122
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The latest edition (4 July) of the WORLDWIDE DX CLUB "Top News",
compiled by Wolfgang Bueschel, has been posted:
http://topnews.wwdxc.de
Best regards,
Michael Bethge
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 09:41:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs July 4, 2013
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** AFGHANISTAN [non]. 11545, July 4 at 0352, presumed Salam Watandar, with calm
talk in presumed Pashto, SINPO 25222, as now scheduled 0230-0400 via
Kostinbrod, BULGARIA (according to Ivo Ivanov, instead of Tiganeshti, Romania
as he first thought since he can also hear groundwave harmonics on 23090 and
31230).
Several tries here for the other broadcast at 1330-1500 on 15615 have been
fruitless, including July 4 at 1400, not even a carrier between WEWN 15610 and
WEWN spur 15619, neither of which were strong.
This is not a clandestine (except perhaps to the Taliban), but a target
broadcast by an FM network from Afghanistan, adding SW relays back to fill in
coverage gaps. ``Hello Countrymen`` was set up by USAID in 2003y, was also on
SW for a while in 2004, and since 2012 is now `independent``. Read all about it
at the top of these issues:
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1325.txt
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1326.txt
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 9580, July 4 at 1220, RA with town hall/panel forum about
Indonesia, apparently from Indonesia, discussing Papua separatism, where the
foreign press has been banned; suspicions that Australia is promoting this, not
to mention US marines installed in Darwin. Yet neighbors Australia and
Indonesia need to work together for mutual benefit. Ended abruptly at 1240 as
satellite time was about to expire: host identified the panelists but not the
name of the program or the provenance. Right on to `Album of the Week` starting
at odd time. What I heard does not match at all RA`s online program schedule
for Pacific stream: Thursday ``1200`` Asia Pacific, 1230 World Football Weekly!
(and same for Asia at this hour) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake [non], July 4 at 0450, CNR1 jamming poor on 14800. This
will have to substitute for my usual bandscans in the 12-14 period today (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 17575, July 4 at 1256-1300* nice erhu music, no announcements until
cutoff; must have been fill after the CRI Russian hour as scheduled, 500 kW due
northwest from SZG site but sufficient here to the northeast, as good as
neighbor Cuba 17580.
BTW, occupancy of the 16m band is very strange, but somewhat understandable.
Besides being almost vacant in our afternoons, in our mornings hardly anything
is heard above 17730 Cuba. Most of the stations stick to the lower part of the
band down to 17500, to have a very slight MUF advantage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGSET)
** CUBA. 11920, July 4 at 0352, RHC Spanish with very weak signal on a new
spot, // but an echo apart from 9810. Obviously this is a leapfrog mixing
product between the two strong signals on 11760 and 11840, another 80 kHz
higher. Similar audible in the other direxion on 11680 (which is a fundamental
until 0400). 11840 modulation is somewhat suppressed and distorted compared to
loud & clear 11760.
5010 approx., July 4 at 0451, stray pulse jammer comes and goes (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALAYSIA. 9835, July 4 at 1210 Qur`an, so suspected the recitation
competition Ron Howard has been hearing from RTM, but 1212 into variety of
music, so apparently not now; good signal but with flutter, our best bet by far
for Malaysia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 15720, July 4 at 0448, no signal from RNZI which is normally
quite good, and Australia was inbooming on 15515, 15240 and 15160. Must be off
the air (or on totally wrong frequency as sometimes happens, like 7330,
computer programming screwup?). Nor any signal on 11725 at 0515, nor DRM on
11675. Next check at 1218, correct 9700 is on the air with `Checkpoint`, usual
deficient signal here aimed at Timor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1676 monitoring: first broadcast confirmed on WRMI, UT
Thursday July 4 at 0331 on webcast, 0351 check on 9955, vs. Cuban pulse
jamming, but WOR mostly readable. Next:
Thursday 2100.5 on WTWW-1 9479
UT Friday 0326v on WWRB 5050
UT Saturday 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB
Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Saturday 1500 & 1730 on WRMI 9955
Saturday 2329v on WTWW-2 9930 [or Sunday 0000 on 5085, as last week?]
UT Sunday 0400.5 on WTWW-1 5830
Sunday 0630, 1030, 1430, 1830 on HLR 15785-CUSB, test planned
Sunday 2329v on WTWW-2 9930
Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955
Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB; maybe 1630 on 15785-CUSB
WOR also can appear any day, any time on WTWW-2 between 1700-2400 on 9930,
0000-0100 on 5085.
As Dave Hughes points out reports in hfunderground.com - some pirate on 6925 AM
was relaying WOR UT Thursday around 0200; ``thanks for the rebroadcast`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, July 4 at 1403, WTWW-3 Bible Worldwide is in Arabic, probably
just switched from Russian at 1300; never on the air before then. Also with
CCI, which is KSDA in Chinese at 11-15, as the FCC unwisely and unnecessarily
assigns two US SW stations to the same frequency at the same time (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11550, July 4 at 1243 tune-in, minute of dead air (totally, not
merely a pause with rustling or dinging sounds), then 1244 mass cuts on in
English, with Spanish voice-over translation. Clear here but // 12050 with
squeal from the perpetually defective WEWN transmitter. The translations are
obviously scripted rather than processed in real time thru a brain, just as the
order of the mass is scripted, the same stuff over and over ad infinitum (but I
assume the bored voice-overer is paying some attention to be sure he is
matching what is being pontificated). When the mass goes into crude singing in
Latin, there is no attempt to translate, as no one is supposed to understand
that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15150, July 4 at 0446-0516+ continuous 1 kHz tone, good signal,
no breaks at hourtop or anywhen. Nothing scheduled until 0530 Iran in Arabic
via Zahedan. Terry Krueger also suspected this source with music at 1306-1329*
Dec 23, 2012 as in DXLD 13-01. But I would not be surprised if it be some
BaBcoCk test and/or a new transmitter/site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 21:04:07 +0200 (CEST)
From: Karel Honz?k <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs July 3-4, 2013
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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> ** BRAZIL. 4915, July 4 at 0052, JBA carrier here, could be the other ZY if
> R. Daqui is again absent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi, this morning (July 4 at 0400) I heard Radio Difusora de Macap? on 4915kHz
with frequent time checks like "... en Macap?". Exact frequency: 4914.95kHz.
Karel Honzik, CZE
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 15:39:32 +0800 (SGT)
From: Jaisakthivel <[email protected]>
To: ardic <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Who listens to the humble wireless? Not if you've got
one of these bionic radio ears
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
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RESEARCHERS at Princeton University have brought a new tool into the realm of
cybernetics: a 3D printer.
The scientists have devised a way to produce an ear-shaped chunk of silicone
mixed with bovine cells and infused with tiny particles of silver that form a
coiled antenna. Like any antenna, this one can pick up radio signals that the
ear will interpret as sound.
The 3D ear is not designed to replace a human one, though the research is meant
to explore a new method of combining electronics with biological material.
"What we really did here was actually more of a proof of concept of the
capabilities of 3D printing," said Michael McAlpine, the professor who led the
project. "Because most people use 3D printing to print passive objects - things
like figurines and jewellery."
After it's printed, the 3D ear is soft and translucent. It is cultivated for 10
weeks, letting the cells multiply, creating a flesh colour and forming hardened
tissue around the antenna.
Manu Mannoor, a graduate student who worked with McAlpine on the project, held
up a petri dish in a lab at Princeton last week to show how the process works.
The dish was filled with liquid and a partly cultivated ear, and Mannoor said
the cells were secreting a matrix, the space between cells that exists in
organisms. "They make their own living space," Mannoor said.
McAlpine and his team demonstrated the antenna's ability to pick up radio
signals by attaching electrodes onto the backs of the ears in the printing
process.
When they broadcast a recording of Beethoven's "Fur Elise" to a pair of fully
cultivated ears, the electrodes passed the signal along wires to a set of
speakers, and the music flowed out clear and without interference.
Although the new research is just one iteration in the field of cybernetics -
an area that looks at combining biology with technology - McAlpine said the
research could lead to synthetic replacements for actual human functions, and
to a sort of electronic sixth sense.
"As the world becomes a more digital and electronic place, I think ultimately
we're going to care less about our traditional five senses," he said. "And
we're going to want these new senses to give us direct electronic communication
with our cellphones and our laptop devices."
Source:?http://www.heraldsun.com.au
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Jaisakthivel, ADXC, Tirunelveli, India
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