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Today's Topics:
1. Looking for contact: Japan FM and MW radio (G?nter Lorenz)
2. Glenn Hauser logs September 16-17, 2013 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Radio NordAM (Akbar Indra Gunawan)
4. greek mini news (Zacharias LIangas)
5. Greek shortwave to be dismantled after order by Ministry of
Finance (Zacharias LIangas)
6. and a second feed from ERA now about the dismantling
(Zacharias LIangas)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:20:47 +0200
From: G?nter Lorenz <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Looking for contact: Japan FM and MW radio
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I am looking for a contact to Japanese DXers. My interest is about FM and MW
radio, especially in the prefectures of Kyoto and Osaka.
Please contact me via e-mail [email protected] if you are interested and have
some knowledge.
73,
G?nter
www.fmlist.org www.mwlist.org
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:00:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 16-17, 2013
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** AUSTRALIA. 6150 & 9580, Tuesday Sept 17 at 1240, R. Australia `Future Tense`
interviewing Prof. Ed Finn of Arizona SU, about Project Hieroglyph and the
Center for Science and Imagination --- promoting positive science-fixional
ideas to prompt research and development, e.g. how high can a building go, 20
km?
1246 next topic about the difficulty of mapping the Internet, but someone is
trying to do it. I had previously heard part of this on the Friday 1230
prepeat. Transcripts and audio:
Project Hieroglyph
??? Listen now??? Download audio??? show transcript
??? Sunday 15 September 2013 11:30AM
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/project-hieroglyph/4948170
``Translating thoughts into binary
Image: Project Hieroglyph is trying to get science fiction writers to break
their addiction to the negative. (Tim Teebken, Getty Images)
A lot of the sci-fi of the last century focussed on fear and dystopia. It can
be fun, it can make for good film and literature, but does it really help
society if so many of our visions of the future are unrelentingly bleak?
Ed Finn is involved in an initiative called Project Hieroglyph, trying to get
science fiction writers to break their addiction to the negative.``
Internet Mapping
??? Listen now??? Download audio??? show transcript
??? Sunday 15 September 2013 11:40AM
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/internet-mapping/4948178
``Internet mapping underground grids
Image: Prof Mathew Roughan is part of an effort to map the web and to identify
its points of vulnerability. (Jorg Greuel, Getty Images)
The internet is vast. It?s one of the biggest systems that human beings have
ever built - if not the biggest. But because it?s so complex, it?s difficult to
know how it all fits together.
That limits our ability to harness its full potential, according to Matthew
Roughan from the University of Adelaide. Prof Roughan is part of an effort to
map the web and to identify its points of vulnerability.`` (Glenn Hauser, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 12080, Sept 17 at 1354, continuous tone at G# = 415 Hz,
fair-good signal with slow fades, continues past 1400, but then: 1401:15 level
decreases, then increases; just before 1402, pitch steps down to open carrier,
1402.5, up and down pitches; 1404.5 starts playing ``Waltzing Matilda`` on
synthesizer, but modulation cuts off and on at 1404.5, back to OC, and still so
at 1421 tune-out.
Meanwhile, usual good signal from RA on 12065 was very poor but detectable by
// 9580, and RA maybe on 12085 JBA. Looks like the 12080 signal has been put on
the 12065 antenna toward the Pacific, but what is all this about? Presumed
Shepparton, but Brandon has also used 12080, and could even be an external
relay test (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 4717-, Sept 17 at 0053, no signal again from Yura, tho several
other 60m S Americans are making it with carriers and some audio, such as 4815
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CAMBODIA [and non]. 13845, Sept 17 at 1230, open carrier with SAH overrides
WWCR with R. Free Asia theme and sign-on in English, introducing ``K-mai``; via
SRI LANKA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHAD [and non]. 6165-, Sept 17 at 0055, hilife music, fair signal but as
usual undermodulated from RNT, before RHC is on, this time with open carrier
already at 0100, now making LAH previously reported as 41 Hz and French
detectable underneath; Cuba modulation in English underway by 0105, also //
6000 which wasn`t on as soon as 6165 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake [non] CNR1 jamming Sept 17 before 1400: degraded
propagation audiblizes only:
13830, fair at 1353 with flutter, none in the 12s
15115, good at 1351 with usual CCI; 15195 & 15265 very poor
15540 & 15570, JBA at 1351; none in the 16s, 17s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6270, Sept 17 at 0106, very poor signal in Spanish, no doubt RHC
leapfrog of 6060 over English on 6165 another 105 kHz higher.
6060, Sept 17 at 0513, now this RHC transmitter is malfunxioning with big buzz
obliterating English (?) program modulation, which is OK on 5040, 6000, 6165,
and undermodulated on 6125 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CHAD
** GUAM. 5765-USB, can`t hear AFN today Sept 17 around 1230, but maybe bad
propagation; AFN HQ replied again that as of Sept 16 it was up and running
correctly, when I did hear it, but not before then (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 11985, Sept 17 at 0055, poor signal with flutter, echoey talk,
presumably proper language Sinhala from AIR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** IRAN [and non]. 9550, Sept 17 at 0058, Spanish poor with CCI, echo: IRIB at
0030-0330, 500 kW, 259 degrees via Kamalabad; while the CCI is probably CRI
Chinese, 191 degrees from Kunming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 880, Sept 17 at 1158 UT, ``Grupo F?rmula`` promo, slow SAH with
KRVN. Ergo it`s XEV in Chihauhua city, 5/0.25 kW; by 1200 losing out to a
cappella hymn, probably KLRG Arkansas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. UNIDENTIFIED, 920, Sept 17 at 1201 UT, instrumental NA, nonetheless
multi-verse, and losing out to QRM before any ID. Which XEs are in the UT-6
zone, likely 6 am time to be antheming? One of these two per Cant?:
920 XEQD Romance + FM 95.7??????????? Chihuahua, Chih. 1,000 250
920 XECQ La Nueva Ranchera + FM 104.1 Culiac?n, Sin.?? 5,000 500
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1410, Sept 17 at 1217 UT, Spanish ad in pesos, SAH of about 5.5 Hz
with probably Wichita, loops WSW/ENE; ad for Universidad del Pac?fico Norte
with phone number, two or three gobierno del estado PSAs, mentioning Sinaloa,
``informaci?n al momento`` by calling phonumber. Then lists several AM and FM
stations including 1270, 102.7, 94.3, 101.3, 93.3, 1410, including Mazatl?n,
Los Mochis, on ``cadena en vivo``, so doubtless it`s the only 1410 Sinaloan,
Cant?:
1410 XECF La Mexicana + 93.3 FM Los Mochis, Sin. 10,000 500
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, Sept 17 at 0051, R. Chaski carrier detectable vs hash from 5990
Cuba and other noise; after 0100 some modulation is audible. Carrier cutoff at
0104:22.5* which is 5 seconds later than yesterday. Maybe really closer to
5.25, the long-term average I previously computed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9265, Sept 17 at 0057, ``Old Rugged Cross`` on keyboard, as WINB is
back on original frequency after excursion (test?) to 9345, 24 hours earlier,
why? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 670, Sept 17 at 0503 UT, ``Hog Call Radio`` is dominating WSCR (and
Cuba) with SAH, i.e. KHGZ, Glenwood AR, once again cheating 5 kW daytimer at
night. But not heard just before 1200 when it should have been there around
sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. On another expedition to squirrel-haven, about 10 miles north of
Enid, Sept 16 at 2224 UT I tune around FM instead of usual AM, where the storm
noise from around OKC is pretty bad, and find something making it on 96.7. The
extra dekamile from adjacent 96.9 KQOB makes the difference.
It`s a Bott Network gospel-huxter shilling several products for the religiously
na?ve, but breaks for ``weather for south-central Kansas``. Uplooked later in
the WTFDA FM database, it`s
K244DW 96.7 ARKANSAS CITY KS 0.25 0.25 80.3 0.0 37.0432 96.5613 BOTT RADIO
NETWORK RELIGION
We still have to go to FCC FM Query to find out which station it translates:
KCVW (FM) which is 94.3 in Kingman KS, somewhat west of Wichita and totally
blocked inside Enid by my nearby LPFM gospel-huxter, KLGB. So 96.7 is a
250-watt translator, not that far away right across the KS border and somewhat
eastward, but too much ACI to make it all the way to Enid. Travelling 10 miles
north of Enid also makes a perceptible difference in some OK/KS co-channel
situations, such as 90.1 KCSC-FM vs Radio Kansas, and 99.7 Mustang vs Wichita
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. TP carrier search Sept 17 at 1150 UT: JBAs on 774, 972; after
finding 120, 105, 90 and 60m quite unproductive with only JBAs there. 774 and
972 were also the only two neighbor Richard Allen was hearing today over a
longer timespan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1190, Sept 17 at 1207 UT, Spanish with language lesson by YL
about words: colateral; ``protag?nico`` does not exist despite related words
protagonista, etc. 1208 on to Mexican news about tormentas tropicales hitting
both coasts with clips of various officials; 40,000 turistas affected in
Acapulco; 1215 losing out to CCI. Certainly sounds like a Mexican, but some US
stations do too; loops close to E/W indicating one of these unlikely XEs in
Cant?:
1190 XEMBC Canal 1190 AM Mexicali, B.C.????? 250 100
1190 XEPZ? Radio Norte?a Cd. Ju?rez, Chih. 5,000 100
Another possibility is the one US SS station westward:
1190 KNUV Tolleson AZ, Grupo F?rmula, La Radio Excelente, 5000/250 U4 per last
year`s NRC AM Log. Strangely, own website
http://www.1190-am.com/index.php/programacion
does not show any programming between 7 pm and 7 am (0200-1400 UT) as if it
were a strict daytimer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1600 UT Sept 17
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 10:52:26 +0800 (SGT)
From: Akbar Indra Gunawan <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio NordAM
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________________________________
From: NordAM <[email protected]>
To: Akbar Indra Gunawan <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 3:13 AM
I would like to invite you to try again to listen to NordAM. We will be on the
air the upcoming Sundays 22/09, 26/09 and 06/10/2013 on 3985 kHz at 2000 UTC.
Live streaming is available at http://bit.ly/nordamradio and
www.facebook.com/nordamradio. At all other times, 3985 kHz and the livestream
are in use by the local radio-station "Radio 700" (see www.radio700.eu) with
international oldies and German songs. NordAM is only a little student's
radio-project. By the way, next week, our show will feature African music.
I look forward to hearing from you again! If you have any further
questions or comments or reports, do not hesitate to contact me.
All the best to you and happy DXing,
Daniel Kaehler
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:23:53 +0300
From: Zacharias LIangas <[email protected]>
To: [email protected];, [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], ;
Subject: [HCDX] greek mini news
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Please reply to [email protected]
1. A funny short news from ERA yesterday :
A scrap dealer has made a contract with the Ministry and will be offering
soon an
offer for buying the hardware of the antenna system (possibly only the masts
)of the
Avlis shortwave facilities as scrap !!!
Unsure if this is a real news or just fake . 'time will show'
2. ERA Thessaloniki new motto : they continue in dark , we continue in light
ERA THS is now on 88 now with FM stereo
1008 Corfu yesterday was off.A signal presumably from Holland was heard with
S7 in
the horizontal antenna (mostly songs and time 2100)
http://delicious.com/gr_greek1/zak (all my pages )
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:29:37 +0300
From: Zacharias LIangas <[email protected]>
To: [email protected];, [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], ;
Subject: [HCDX] Greek shortwave to be dismantled after order by
Ministry of Finance
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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ad hereis the news :
http://www.thegreekradio.com/node/3831
Greek shortwave to be dismantled after order by Ministry of Finance
Submitted by radiofono.gr on Tue, 17/09/2013 - 16:09
The degradation of Greek Radio is going on, having shortwave radio "Voice of
Greece"
as a victim. This includes 39 shortwave antenna masts hosted in Avlis, which
the
government plans to sell as scrap metal. The shortwave service started 75 years
ago
and it is still transmitting in 5 frequencies that cover the globe with shows
in
Greek for expatriates and foreign language news. The facilities are currently
controlled by redundant ERT employes and broadcast the guerilla service of the
Greek
National Radio ERA. Eighteen months ago, shortwave facilities in Thessaloniki
were
dismantled.
According to a statement by ERT employees, on Monday morning "in the shortwave
broadcasting center of Avlis, a representative of a company that sells metal
showed
up and started taking photos of the site. After we, ERT people, asked him, we
got
informed that he had been mandated by the Ministry of Finance to give an offer
for
the dismantling of 39 masts and purchasing the metal as scrap." The name of
company
and the registration plate of the car are available.
The union body of ERT notes that this is an area of 1160 acres, featuring 39
metal
masts, with a height between 30 and 70 meters each, that function as the
shortwave
aerials that transmit the "Voice of Greece", the ERA-pénte, across the
world.
"Greek shortwave started operating in 1938 and later was also used sent
information
to the Greek soldiers fighting Fascists in Albania. The only ones who dared to
turn
it off were the Nazis during the occupation. Since the liberation, it never
stopped
to link the country with Greek seafarers and the Diaspora. The Voice of Greece
broadcasts information, entertainment, culture and tradition from Greece with
programs in 12 languages, all over the globe".
It is true that big broadcasters in Europe have decided to stop broadcasting
via
shortwave, because of cuts and because alternatives tuning possibilities are
provided
due to the development of technology. On the other hand, in the case of Greece.
there
are still generations of Greek immigrants abroad and seamen who are still
affiliated
with shortwave, whereas area around Greece the are still countries with low
technological development. Also, it is outragious that the decision to remove
an
entire radio service was taken by the liquidator of the Ministry of Finance:
there is
no study about ceasing shortwave by any official body, although the promise was
that
the future of Greek broadcasting will be decided after an analysis performed by
the
administrative Board of the new official broadcaster .
- See more at: http://www.thegreekradio.com/node/3831#sthash.dqcfBRUn.dpuf
http://delicious.com/gr_greek1/zak (all my pages )
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:39:21 +0300
From: Zacharias LIangas <[email protected]>
To: [email protected];, [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], ;
Subject: [HCDX] and a second feed from ERA now about the dismantling
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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BIg shame indeed ...
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http://dimosiografoiert.blogspot.gr/2013/09/blog-post_17.html
Off the "Voice of Greece", the company of sailors and expatriates
The irresponsibility of the government and Stournara, Kapsis and Manali has no
limits. This morning (Monday) at the premises of short ERT at Aulis, appeared
representative company that sells metals, who photographed the tissues of
antenna
systems for short. Asked her colleagues ERT working there, he replied that his
company is in consultation with the Ministry of Finance to give offer for the
decommissioning of 39 tissues antenna systems, their removal from the site and
the
purchase of scrap metal as after destruction of metallic structures. The
company name
and registration number of the car is available.
We note that at Aulis, in an area of ​​1160 acres, located 39 metal
poles, height from
30 to 100 meters each, which are positioned for short aerials that send the
"Voice of
Greece", the ERA5 in every corner of world, on all continents and oceans.
The short began to operate in 1938 and sent to the voice of his country in the
Albanian front. The only people who ventured to close were the Nazis during the
occupation of our country. After release never stopped to link the country with
our
seafarers and the Diaspora.
The "Voice of Greece" to every edge of land information, entertainment, culture
and
tradition from Greece, with programs in 12 languages.
The POSPERT, Conscious of the responsibility in front of the irresponsibility
of
governments which fail to recognize the national importance of the role played
by the
"Voice of Greece", over time trying to overcome the problems created by the
government's efforts to close (attached letter to AP . 1320, 3/10/2012).
That voice of his country want the "rulers" to uproot us and cut off from our
seafarers and the whole world, valuing it as scrap.
And then to sell out against the plate of lentils leveled plot, after having
set
aside the history of our country, which is written in every inch of it.
We will not let them. The competent authorities? Prosecutors? Political world?
Posted by on radiogeorge 7:25
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