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Today's Topics:
1. Correction (Manuel Mendez)
2. Glenn Hauser logs February 17-18, 2014 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 07:52:58 +0000
From: "Manuel Mendez" <[email protected]>
To: "DX Digest" <[email protected]>
Cc: World Band Radio <[email protected]>, Hard Core
<[email protected]>, Robert Wilkner
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Correction
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Manuel Mendez
Lugo, Spain
Im my yesterday logs I wrote by mistake on 5970 Radio inconfidencia when in
fact is Radio Itatiai.
Sorry for the mistake.
Enviado desde Smartphone BlackBerry
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Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:52:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
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Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 17-18, 2014
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** BRAZIL [and non]. 6135+, Feb 18 at 0056, big het, no doubt BOLIVIA on the lo
side, and R. Aparecida on the hi side. Can make out some music on the upper, so
compare it to 9630-; yes, sounds the same altho not with two receivers for
exact //. Then at 0106 I can make out some Portuguese on the lo side of 9630.
At 0136 again hearing same music on both.
Not trying to measure either this time, but Bryan Clark, NZ, had Aparecida on
9629.79, Jan 19 at 0824; and Dave Valko, PA, on 9629.657, Feb 7 at 2335.
Nothing audible here on 11855v, and too much slop from Cuba on 5035v. But
what`s the other station on 9630? Aoki & HFCC show it must be CNR1 from Geermu
site, CHINA, just starting at 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC [non]. 17500, Feb 17 at 1700-1709, no trace of a
signal from R. Ndeke Luka, reactivated target broadcast from a station inside
the country. Not surprising as from UAE site, aiming SW across Africa, at about
right angle to USward. Here`s what I posted about it February 16 to the DXLD yg:
UNIDENTIFIED. Also heard weak signal, 17500 kHz, 1700z as reported as new -
unID, too weak, Feb 8 (Rich Ray, Burr Ridge IL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Well heard in MO but I missed the s/o [sign on or sign off???]. Heard some
really nice reggae riddims during the last 10 minutes (Dave Hughes, Kansas City
MO, Feb 8, ibid.)
Aoki:
17500 Radio Ndeke Luka 1700-1730 1234567 Sango/French 250 245 Dhabbaya UAE
2410N 05415E NDL b13 BAB Feb. 3-
And HFCC:
17500 1700 1730 47S,52N DHA 250 245 -15 218 1234567 030214 300314 D 20600 Fra
UAE BAB BAB
Sounds familiar: that was a target broadcast to Central African Republic last
reported in 2005y, also as early as 2003. Certainly needed even more now. There
was talk of comeback on SW 6.5 years ago.
See DXLD 7-109, of Sept 8, 2007:
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld7109.txt
``CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC. CAR: U N-BACKED RADIO STRIVES FOR NATIONAL COVERAGE
| Text of report by state-owned Central African Republic radio on 5 September
Now it's over to Athanase Karayenga of Fondation Hirondelle [Geneva-
based NGO], representing his colleague at Radio Ndeke Luka [Bangui FM
station backed by UN and Fondation Hirondelle].
Athanase Karayenga talked with the communications minister about Ndeke
Luka's plan to broadcast to the whole country. At the end of the
meeting, Mr Karayenga answered questions from [reporter] Ruben Ngoya.
[Karayenga] I discussed Radio Ndeke Luka's plans with the
communications minister. We have received two directives from the EU,
one of Radio Ndeke Luka's donors, asking us to rework the statutes so
that Ndeke Luka becomes a Central African national judicial entity. We
hope to complete this by the end of the year. It is possible.
The second directive is to cover the whole country, via shortwave, in
the not-too-distant future. These are requests from the European
Commission.
I met the communications minister yesterday, when I was in Boali. I
met friends at ICDI, a shortwave [religious] radio station
broadcasting from Boali, and which could broadcast our programmes for
one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon, every day.
Source: Radio Centrafrique, Bangui, in French 1800 gmt 5 Sep 07 2007 (via BBCM
via DXLD)``
R. Ndeke Luka is listed in WRTH 2014 on page 114, and mentions being relayed by
ICDI 6030 at 1700-1900.
Homepage does not mention any SW except 6030:
http://www.radiondekeluka.org/
Searching the website on 17500 however gets this:
Search_result
Communication
Category: En Bref
``A partir de ce lundi, Radio Ndeke Luka ?met 30 minutes en onde courte ?
partir de 17h sur 17500 KWZ [sic] en direction des auditeurs des provinces. 3
f?vrier 2014``
BTW, I recently saw a news report from Boali, site of atrocities, also home of
Radio ICDI. A Christian church was giving refuge to Moslems; or was that
somewhere else in CAR? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9580, Feb 18 at 0106, open-carrier, dead air from transmitter supposed
to be modulating CRI relay in English, which the neighboring non-communist
Albanians have no trouble accomplishing on 9570 (er, really, I think the C?rrik
site is still mostly operated by Chinese) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1430, Feb 17 at 0601-0605 UT, I`m back trying to ID the Mexican I
have been hearing dominating the graveyard-like pileup. Long choral multi-verse
NA is playing so this one must be in the CST zone = local midnite. But then
0605 segu? to other music rather than ID.
1430, Feb 17 at 0625, tentative ID as ``XEOX, la Exa``, which would be Ciudad
Obreg?n, Sonora in wrong timezone, so not same station. At 0643, ``Radio X``,
so this one or the other one?
1430, Feb 18 at 0115 UT I try again; once more, there is one Spanish station
atop the pileup (fortunately, KZQZ is behaving itself, no more 50 kW day power
at night from St Louis), and it`s roughly N/S or slightly west of south. Live
hyper (but not super-hype) DJ with rapid speech, greets various colonias,
mentions Monterrey, ranchera tune; 0120 next break mentions corridos, 14-30,
Tamaulipas. 0123 a canned ID, but it`s relatively low-key and smooth, harder to
understand. Maybe `La X, 14-30``; then live DJ mentions Reynosa; 0127 plug an
event in Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas (that`s way down by Tampico, far from the
border). I never hear any produced ads or PSAs.
Finally says ``La F?rmula Perfecta desde Ciudad Miguel Alem?n, Tamaulipas``
which makes it XEWD, 5/0.15 kW per WRTH and Cant?, 2/0.15 kW per IRCA log, all
sloganing it ``La Grande`` which I don`t hear, and IRCA says with RCN network.
Unclear yet whether this ``F?rmula`` refers to the national F?rmula grupo, or
just a generic f?rmula. CMA is just across the border from Roma, Tejas.
Always with a very fast SAH, which leads me to suspect this station is the one
most off-frequency compared to the average. No way it`s only 150 watts, yet
steadily dominating all the other signals. Suspect but not positive it`s the
same one I was hearing around 0700, rather than something deeper into Mexico.
Three years ago as in DXLD 11-11, XEWD was reported from England by Barry
Davies with ``"La Arrolladora" slogan; ID spotted by OM Henrik Klemetz who says
the name means irresistible women!!!``. I don`t find any other logs of it in
DXLD past decade, not even by myself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, Feb 18 at 0057, R. Chaski poorly audible with some talk; turn on
BFO to catch the cutoff which comes at 0103:01*, i.e. 11.5 seconds later than
two nights ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RWANDA [non]. 17540, Feb 17 at 1700, [after no signal on 17500 from sought
R. Ndeke Luka ? see CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC], fair signal here with music
until 1705 announcement mentioning Rwanda, no doubt in Kinyarwanda, 1706
English ID for Radio Impala, at 7-8 pm, and info about station`s mission
concerning human rights, etc. Fanfare, and 1707 same in French, then into
another song. Recorded this:
http://www.w4uvh.net/impala.rm
English segment is 1:19 to 2:29 in the 4:27 clip.
Aoki shows 250 kW, 310 degrees from MADAGASCAR, favorable for us, daily at
1700-1758 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. 11780, UT Tue Feb 18 at 0114, REE IS is atop RNB, which
takes some doing, prior to 0115-0145 weekly Sephardic service, while alternate
11795 still goes empty, as the clueless Spaniards keep colliding with Brasil.
At least the pair are very, very close to zero-beat now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 6604-USB, WSY70, New York Radio, Feb 17 at 0631 check, all airports
are still ``missing``: Minneapolis, Detroit, Boston, [illegible], Milwaukee``.
13270-USB, New York Radio, Feb 17 at 1436, missing are: Pittsburgh, Atlantic
City, Indianapolis, St. Louis.
13270-USB, Feb 18 at 0110, New York Radio ID and timecheck, terminal aerodrome
conditions: still missing, starting with New York-Kennedy.
Will they finally get this fixed after the federal holiday on Tuesday? Did
countless flights complain about this, or is nobody listening but us? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9495, UT Tue Feb 18 at 0057, WRMI extra frequency is playing ``My
Way`` by Sinatra; not sure what program that could be, lacking a schedule for
any but 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** URUGUAY [non]. 6125, Feb 18 at 0055, sounds like REE has some lite CCI; its
own signal is always there but never big at this angle. South American
conditions are pretty good with the big het between Bolivia and Brasil around
6135, so could this be R. Uruguay? No! Checking better REE // 9535, the CCI
turns out to be its own music underneath the talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic MW carrier search, Feb 18 at 0130-0136 UT after
hearing the tell-tale het from 1521 upon 1520 KOKC, surely Saudi. Tuning up the
band on DX-398, internal antenna with offset BFO for easy spotting, found
these: 774, 783, 873, 882, 1044, 1053, 1152, 1206, 1215, 1422, 1503, 1512, 1521
kHz. This receiver has a few birdies which I always have to ignore, including
around 855 and 1476 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 12450, Feb 17 at 1433, very poor fluttery signal with continuous
talk, no sounders, not certain if Chinese, but I think it`s likely Sound of
Hope, always hopping around. Not // CNR1 on 9825, 12045 et al. Figured I would
find 12450 in Aoki, or in Wolfgang B?schel`s long list of monitored SOH
frequencies at an earlier hour in latest DXLD, but no 12450 in either.
Could it be an harmonic of something on 6225? Yes! Aoki reminds us that one of
the remaining Democratic Voice of Burma broadcasts is there at this very hour,
1430-1530, 100 kW, 125 degrees via TAJIKISTAN. Doubt I could hear 6225 to
compare, but others might. Further chex needed! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
This report despatched at 0453 UT February 18
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