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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs August 15-16, 2013 (Glenn Hauser)
2. Re: [dxld] ?Ron?s logs ? AIR Kohima and Thazin Radio
(Myanmar) (Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX)
3. Atlantic 2000 is on the air this Sunday 18th of August
(TOM TAYLOR)
4. Amazing night for longwave! (Albert Muick)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 08:57:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 15-16, 2013
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** BANGLADESH [and non]. 15505, August 16 at 1354, JBA tone from BB; 1359 JBA
IS, seems past 1400 and too weak to make out any timesignal. I am lucky to get
this much, as MUF at 1220 was only 13 MHz with the 13 & 15 MHz bands dead,
except for a bit o` Birmingham on 15610; and by 1400 there are only a few
signals. No Sarawak [non] to be heard before 1230 on 15420, nor any Turkey
[q.v.] before 1320 on 15450 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 6160v, August 16 at 0058, fair signal in English, 0059 ``CBC News is
next``. Certainly CKZN at this hour before CKZU would be propagating, and CUBA
6165 hasn`t come on quite yet; but it is on and splashing by 0105 when CKZN
probably aired local weather.
6160 was of especial interest, since we had just received word from Dan Say
(and later from Ricky Leong; also Dan Sys via Andy Reid), of a CRTC
announcement that an application from CBC to close down several rebroadcasting
transmitters (LPRTs) also mentioning CKZU Vancouver, had been granted August 15!
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2013/2013-410.htm
or: http://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2013/2013-410.htm
Would this be effective immediately? Please check, I requested.
Walt Salmaniw, Victoria BC, replied: ``Well, I'm listening to them right now on
6160 // 690 CBU, 0308 UT`` August 16.
I, gh, checked again at 1209, when CKZU would be propagating rather than CKZN,
and found only a JBA carrier on 6160, something else?
Walt replies again: ``Very poorly heard this morning at 1417 // 690.? Perhaps
very low power, or propagation not allowing`` August 16 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 6000, August 16 at 0536, RHC English on here instead of
6010, as predicted by Arnie Coro, intentional test (which however did not occur
24 hours earlier as he claimed). Thus re-opens 6010v for a much weaker station
in Spanish, very poor with het at 0537 past 0600, presumably LV de tu
Conciencia, COLOMBIA rather than Radio Mil. Mostly music past 0600, never heard
ID. Now it only has splash and overload from 6000, rather than being directly
obliterated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1020, August 16 at 1241 UT, KOKP Perry is again off the
air, audiblizing weak Spanish music, no doubt KMMQ Nebraska still skywaving
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, August 16 at 1240 UT, as usual no signal from KEOR
Catoosa/Tulsa/Sperry, which as a daytimer is entitled to start in August at
1145 UT (September: 1200), just a trace of KMOX. I have yet to discover when
KEOR axually signs on, so I sit in wait for it at 1300 --- still nothing. I
wait and wait. A few seconds before *1311 carrier finally kicks on, no
announcement heard, but into praise music in Spanish. I suppose the odd time
may well vary from day to day until they get around to it.
FCC shows this is now licensed for 10 kW daytime, 7 kW critical hours (whatever
that means in this case, presumably depending on KMOX), but it sure doesn`t
sound any stronger than when it was originally 2 kW. Official sunset times:
0115 UT in August, 0030 in September. Slogan Radio Victoria not reheard lately,
but presumably still applies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU [and non]. 5980, August 16 at 0056, R. Chaski the best heard in a long
time, not a struggle to get a carrier, but axual audio with talk; despite
splash from 5990 CRI/CUBA and this went off earlier than usual by 0058.
Unfortunately, Urubamba was playing music thru hourtop, and no announcement
before cutoff at 0101:31.5*, no BFO needed. If they had said anything, I could
have copied it easily. I did not check the past two nights! So this is 16
seconds later than three nights ago, = sticking to the average at about five
and a third seconds later per 24 hours.
Conditions were also improved on 60m, with numerous carriers and some audio on
the typical Bolivian, Peruvian, Ecuadorian, Brazilian frequencies. Bolivia
5952+ however was missing at 0104, while 6135- still had a good signal (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9930, August 16 at 1217, Vietnamese is atop BS from
WTWW-2; and BS from WWCR-4 on 9980 is also very poor, as the band has not yet
opened up over the short 1-megameter path from mid-Tennessee. (But it has by a
semihour later). 9930 is T8WH with a rare non-English clandestine slot, Qu? Me
Radio, instead of gospel huxters; what luck! See VIETNAM [non].
At 1358 I endure enough BS to time the delay between 9930 and 9980: WWCR is 18
seconds behind WTWW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. Re VOT replacing its interval signal: This is the latest one which
has now apparently been retired, recorded in Dec 2011, and presumably to be
refiled as ``vintage``:
http://www.intervalsignals.net/files/tur-trt_vo_turkey_foreign_151211.m3u
Here is a previous 2004 version, unfortunately hummy and only thrice:
http://www.intervalsignals.net/files/tur-z-trt_vo_turkey_foreign_010104.m3u
But that archive apparently missed the one just before the Dec 2011 version,
which had all the subtle variations on the same tune! Tho I have not explored
all the `domestic` clips which might duplicate it, unlikely.
But we have it preserved,
http://www.w4uvh.net/votis1.mp3
recorded off web in 2006y, 15 variations running over 4 minutes. Listen
carefully for the different flourishes and tempi. I find it remarkable that
some log editors habitually delete my audio linx despite my trouble and desire
to share them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1682 monitoring: confirmed VG on WTWW-1 9479, Thursday
August 15 from 2100.5. Also confirmed on WWRB 5050 and webcast, UT Friday
August 16 at 0328.5 after Dave stops the preacher at 0328 asking us to stand by
for gh`s WOR.
Next: UT Saturday 0200v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0630 & 1430 on
HLR 7265-CUSB (would European listeners please reconfirm??); Saturday 1500 on
WRMI 9955; UT Sunday 0400.5 on WTWW-1 5830. Maybe also on WTWW-2 9930, Sat
and/or Sun 2329v unless we have now been Overcome (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. 9930, August 16 at 1217, I am hearing Vietnamese which is
axually atop Brother Scare from co-channel WTWW. He starts at 1200, but daytime
propagation has not yet kicked in for super-signal over the 1-megameter path;
see USA. Looking this up in Aoki, I have really lucked into the s?le weekly
semihour broadcast of Qu? Me Radio, a pro-democracy clandestine, Fridays only
1200-1230, 100 kW, 318 degrees from PALAU. The T8WH transmission from 0800 to
1400 daily is almost all gospel-huxtering in English except for this, and one
hour weekly of Japanese, but which is also gospel-huxtering, Saturdays at
08-09. The six hours daily on 9930 are entirely on 318 degrees, which misses
both Vietnam and Japan, instead right across China, entering around Swatow, but
close enough? Per WRTH, Qu? Me is based in France, website http://queme.net
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:00:46 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>, "DXLD"
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] ?Ron?s logs ? AIR Kohima and Thazin Radio
(Myanmar)
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MYANMAR The only station from Myanmar I heard at 1535 UT Aug 16th, was
older odd frequency unit at Rangoon transmitter site on
5985.794 kHz footprint, nice pop music program on S=9+10dB level, on remote
SDR unit at Brisbane Australia.
6165 was totally covered by CNR6th Taiwanese program, latter \\ 9420 to
check.
Nothing traced on 5915, 6030 and 7110 kHz so far...
vy73 wolfy df5sx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Victor Goonetilleke" <victorg4s7vk @ yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: [dxld] ?Ron?s logs ? AIR Kohima and Thazin Radio (Myanmar)
Great that you were able to check this slot Ron. I returned home only past
1600 UTC. Just finished listening to the second EE program 0630-0700 on
9460 kHz.
Yes indeed 7110 was inside the R.Amateur band, though its hardly creating
any problems over here. 6165 here is on top of anything tho. However, note a
bit of a drop in strength on their return.
Victor 4S7VK
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From: Ron Howard
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 6:24 PM
Subject: [dxld] ?Ron?s logs ? AIR Kohima and Thazin Radio (Myanmar)
MYANMAR. 6165, Thazin Radio, 1430, August 14. Ex 7110. Thanks to Victor
Goonetilleke (Sri Lanka) for the timely alert that this tx had been
reactivated. The tx broke down after being last heard about December 25,
2012 on 7110, where I had been enjoying them almost daily. Thazin Radio
acknowledged the situation via an email to me: ?Yes, we have been
transmitter problems. So we don't transmit radio programs. We are repairing.
Thank you for listening.? So they have finally fixed it! Had very much hoped
they would return to 7110, but not so. Heard in English with the usual
formatting; pop songs; 1434-1441 sounded very much like the usual news;
1444-1448 one of their talk features. Barely heard under a strong CNR6,
which today was playing mostly music; mostly unusable, but was able to tell
was in English during infrequent CNR6 talk segments; went off before 1500;
very poor frequency for them, as even if there is an especially good day for
propagation, then likely CNR6 will also be stronger; a no win situation.
I know 7110 is in the ham band and they should not be there, but it was so
well heard last winter for their English segment that I have to hope they do
in fact return there again. Barring that, at least they should find a
clearer frequency!
(Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Et?n E1, dxld Aug 14)
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:22:17 +0100
From: TOM TAYLOR <[email protected]>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [HCDX] Atlantic 2000 is on the air this Sunday 18th of August
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Atlantic 2000 is on the air this Sunday 18th of August
Atlantic 2000 will be on the air this Sunday the 18th of August from 08:00
to 09:00 UTC (10:00 to 11:00 CEST) on 6005 and 9480 kHz, and at the same
time on our webstream.
Only precise and detailed reception reports will be confirmed by QSL-card.
Atlantic 2000 ?mettra sur 6005 et 9480 kHz ce dimanche 18 ao?t de 08:00 ?
09:00 TUC
(10:00 ? 11:00 heure de Paris).
L'?mission sera diffus?e ? la m?me heure sur notre site internet.
Seuls les rapports d'?coute pr?cis et d?taill?s seront confirm?s par QSL.
<http://radioatlantic2000.free.fr/Rapports.htm>
--
Visit our website :
http://radioatlantic2000.free.fr
Hamburger Lokalradio via MVBR Saturday and Wednesday:
06.00 to 08.00 UTC on 7265 kHz
08.00 to 11.00 UTC on 6190 kHz
11.00 to 15.00 UTC on 7265 kHz
All reports to: [email protected] Thank you!
Good Listening!
73s, Tom
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 23:59:35 -0400
From: Albert Muick <[email protected]>
To: DXLD <[email protected]>, Mailing list for the International
Radio Club of America <[email protected]>,
[email protected],
HCDX <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Amazing night for longwave!
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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These stations are all coming in here in eastern PA now with S2-S4 signals!
162 France Inter playing Riders of the Storm by the Doors at 0348 UTC
17 August 2013 - S4 SINPO level
171 Radio Medi from Morocco coming in with French/Arabic female vocals
@ 0349 UTC on 17 August 2013 - S2
198 BBC Droitwich with English phone-in show at 0349 UTC on 17 August
2013 - S3/4
207 Iceland coming in very weak with male talk (*NOT* German!) at 0352
UTC on 17 August 2013
216 Radio Monte Carlo Roumoules banging in here at S4 with French talk
show, absolutely overpowering NDB @ 0354 UTC on 17 August 2013
234 RTL Luxemburg banging in here as well playing "Who Are You" by The
Who with S-4 signal at 0355 UTC 17 August 2013
252 RTE Radio 1, Ireland, has an S-3 signal playing what appears to be
some military music at 0357 UTC on 17 August 2013
Absolutely amazing reception here in summer.
73
Al Muick
Whitehall PA USA
Wellbrook ALA1530P Active loop
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