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Today's Topics:
1. An Important Message (Radio Heritage Mail)
2. UNID, playing Arab pop music on 9550 kHz (Georgi Bancov)
3. Glenn Hauser logs March 16-17, 2014 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 21:37:00 +1300
From: "Radio Heritage Mail" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] An Important Message
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www.radioheritage.net
March 17 2014
An Important Message
____________________
Hello
As you know, protection of radio memories and memorabilia is the
reason why we exist. For the last few years, we've had to share the
cost of running the project with a growing number of people around
the world, and we're very grateful to those who share our passion and
have [often] regularly made donations towards keeping us afloat
financially.
Compared to 2013, already in 2014 we've seen increases in people
using the website:
New people +8%
Brazilians +103%
Indonesians +60%
Finns +56%
Americans +44%
Russians + 38%
It's really become much more of a global project. This is good
because more people from more places and cultures are sharing and
learning about radio heritage and history. Unfortunately, many of the
people who come to visit us can't afford to donate anything towards
our running costs, and businesses still keep telling us our visitor
numbers are too small to be of any interest to them so they don't
want to advertise or make donations.
So here we are, two weeks away from ending our financial year on
March 31, and only able to find 73% of the money needed just to pay
our operating costs, and leaving nothing for new equipment,
advertising, promotions, and improving our work.
We understand that radio history isn't a sexy issue, that it's not
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Seriously, if you can make a donation towards our operational costs
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Our target is $7,900 left to pay all our bills for the year ended
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doing our work as volunteers with greater confidence if we know the
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Thanks so much for keeping the radio memories safe.
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:37:21 +0200
From: Georgi Bancov <[email protected]>
To: Shortwave-Radio <[email protected]>,
[email protected], "[email protected]"
<[email protected]>,
[email protected],
[email protected], [email protected], MIDXB
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] UNID, playing Arab pop music on 9550 kHz
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Yesterday at 1230UTC, I received in unidentified station, playing Arab pop
music on 9550 kHz. The station signed off at approximately 1236UTC after a
single 1kHz test tone. Any ideas?
More logs from yesterday may be found at my blog:
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/03/17032014-broadcast-logs.html
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:58:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 16-17, 2014
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** ALASKA [non]. 9580, Monday March 17 at 1406, I was amid usual bandscanning,
but encountering this item on R Australia, I was hooked for the rest of the
hour, the author who exposed what a lying, vengeful, ignoramus Sarah Palin was
and is:
``CONVERSATIONS WITH RICHARD FIDLER --- A repeat of Richard's interview with
veteran US journalist Joe McGinniss, who died this week. Broadcast date: Friday
14 March
Joe McGinniss wrote a classic work of campaign journalism called The Selling of
The President. He also wrote an acclaimed book on Alaska, a place he adored and
feared for.
On election day 2008 he began on the ground reporting on the background of
Alaska's most famous daughter. Joe's research famously began with his decision
to rent a house right next door to the Palin family in Wasilla.
Richard recorded this interview with Joe when he was visiting Australia in
2012. Joe died on Monday from complications of prostate cancer, aged 71.
The Rogue: Searching for The Real Sarah Palin is published by Random House.
[link to audio, 51 minutes:]
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2014/03/14/3963444.htm?site=conversations
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, March 17 at 1358, Bangladesh Betar IS very poor, but
enough to tell the timesignal ends 8 seconds before 1400:00. Thus Bangladesh
proves to be a leading country (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 4750-, March 17 at 1247, music and some talks sound Indonesian,
but not positive; however it is on the low side compared to Nebraska 750
carrier, as befits RRI Makassar. Also try to match it to 9680, but far too much
China radio war QRM, and not sure if it would be // RRI Jakarta anyway (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9775, March 17 at 1405, R. Free Chosun via RVA Palauig
[not Palaugi as typoed before!], PHILIPPINES. Now the humbuzz seems
significantly reduced to a more tolerable level, altho still audible underneath
on this VG signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6930-USB, March 17 at 0136, tune in to some pirate music, but
soon stops, and dead air until resumes at 0139. Stops again at 0143 with no
announcement. Sorry, don`t have the patience to keep listening hoping it will
get around to IDing. It was Renegade Radio per this thread, as also first heard
by Chris Smolinski mentioning the audio breaks; span was *0133-0240*
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,15985.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU [and non]. 5980, March 17 at 0103, usual double-carriers from R. Chaski
and BBC UAE on slightly different frequencies, the Chaski of which cuts off at
0105:35.0, which is appropriately 11.5 seconds later than 48 hours ago. As we
are closing in on 0106, it`s ``about time`` for another autotimer reset back
closer to 0100 if not before.
BTW, at 0115 I notice that there is again a mixture of two signals on 5980, but
now the other one is WWCR PMS from 5935, since WWCR is also running open
carrier on 5890, both extremely strong, producing a leapfrog on 5980, which may
or may not be due to receiver overload. See U S A for more (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1712 monitoring: confirmed after 0300 UT Monday March
17 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB, barely audible in noise level, but loud &
clear on webcast. Next on WRMI 9955: Tuesday 1100, Wednesday 1300, maybe
Thursday 0330 unless 1713 be ready (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3195, March 17 at 0109, WWRB is absent from own programming
frequency, whence WORLD OF RADIO has also been missing for a biweek, Fridays at
0330. Since DST began a week ago, changeover time from WWRB to WWCR on 3215 is
now 0100 UT, i.e. when WWRB must switch from 3215 to 3195. 3215 now occupied by
WWCR. But 3185, the WWRB TOM channel, remains active, plus 9370 in daytime
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5980, after Chaski, Per? was confirmed cutting off at 0105:35* March
17, leaving only BBC UAE carrier on frequency, at 0115 I notice that there is
again a mixture of two signals, but now the other one is WWCR PMS from 5935,
since WWCR is also running open carrier on 5890, both extremely strong,
producing a leapfrog on 5980, which may or may not be due to receiver overload.
WWCR`s 5890 isn`t on transmitter schedule until 0200. However, per program
schedule, #4 is ``signed off`` from 2200 Sun to 0300 UT Mon (and also from 2200
Sat to 0400 UT Sun), which means the 9980 transmission ends earlier than on
weekdays, and there is no 7520 intervening either. Nothing else to do with this
transmitter than let it burn the 100 kW for nothing on 5890. If I were a
shareholder I might object to such wastage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085 & 9930, March 16-17 before and after 0000 UT, WTWW-2 is still
absent, but WTWW-1 is on 9475. 5085 still off at 0509; 9930 is still off after
1404 UT March 17 but 9475 WTWW-1 and 12105 WTWW-3 are on. George McClintock
explains that #2, the transmitter acquired from Seychelles ex-FEBA, has some
issues following a power failure; it seems the original unit had some
modifications by FEBA which are now problematic. WTWW team are working on it
today Monday. George also says the proper QSY time for 9475/5830 and 9930/5085
is still 0000 UT --- but programming such as WORLD OF RADIO should be one UT
hour earlier, i.e. Saturday 2330 on 9930 once the transmitter be fixed (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7506.6, approx., March 17 at 0120, WRNO is back with VG signal,
gospel huxter. DST nominal schedule is now 01-04 UT. Ron Howard was listening
about the same time and put it on 7506.57. He first heard it again on March 14;
last time before that was Feb 24 when on 7506.60, so it was off for 2.5 weeks
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9975, March 17 at 0157 I am standing by for KVOH to come on,
meanwhile weak signal from TWR Hindi, southward from Tashkent, which is
normally audible. *0157:45, KVOH does cut on with tone test, totally blocking
Uzbekistan, but off again at 0158:10*; back on at *0158:40 with tone, some
humbuzz; 0159:25 music modulation cuts on, 0200 brief ID in English (not a
sign-on message), and right into AWR Wavescan --- about the BBC Indian Ocean
Relay Station about to close March 30; Calcutta; and what does kHz mean? Seems
Jeff never announces the program number or date, but Adrian Peterson`s script
confirms it`s #264 for Sunday March 16. Altho Sunday is the nominal release day
for each new edition, this is one I`ve heard before on WRMI, which must have
started prepeating it earlier. 9975 KVOH is currently on air only four hours a
week, UT Sun & Mon 0200-0400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1550, March 17 at 1411 UT, presumed still KUAZ Tucson AZ, with
NPR-inflected news, but fading out by 1412, more than a sesquihour after
sunrise here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic carrier search, March 17 at 0131-0135 UT: I`m
mainly trying the new PL-880 on SW, but altho it can tune in 9 kHz steps on MW,
detecting TA carriers is easier on the DX-398 with offset BFO, so back to it:
541, 891, 909, 1044, 1053, 1152, 1206, 1215, 1503, 1512, 1521. Especially
strong is 1521, but still can`t peel off any Saudio next to 1520 KOKC it hets
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 2598-USB, March 17 at 0113, very poor signal in English on this
Canadian Coast Guard marine weather frequency. According to
http://dxinfocentre.com/mb.htm
this would be VCM in St Anthony, Newfoundland & Labrador, starting at 0107 UT,
but alternating with six other stations. As Don Moore found out, a neat
frequency to monitor at night if your noise level permit, which mine hardly
does. Other 2 MHz band Canadian CG channels in other regions are: 2749, 2582,
2514, 2054. Let`s hope they last a while longer unlike the USCG which abandoned
the band last year, no more 2670s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1759 UT March 17
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 135, Issue 18
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