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Today's Topics:
1. R Rebelde 5025 kHz (Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX)
2. Glenn Hauser logs March 22-23, 2014 (Glenn Hauser)
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Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 09:40:18 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>, "DXLD"
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Subject: [HCDX] R Rebelde 5025 kHz
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CUBA 5025 Great music selection of Radio Rebelde heard this Sunday morning
07-09 UT slot.
Wideband signal, seen on Perseus browser screen on 5014.7 to 5035.2 kHz
range in peaks. Set small bandwidth window on Perseus to 25 kHz wide.
TRANSMISIONES EN IDIOMA ESPERANTO, Sunday only
San Francisco 6000 kHz 0700-0730 UT March 23
S=9+35dB on remote unit in BC-CAN and AZ-USA
S=9+30dB on remote unit in AB-CAN
S=9+15dB on remote unit in KY-USA, NY-USA, NJ-USA and MA-USA
S=5-6 in Europe, fadeout
5025 kHz R Rebelde 0700-0730 UT
S=9+25dB on remote unit in BC-CAN, AB-CAN and AZ-USA
S=9+30dB on remote unit in KY-USA, NY-USA, NJ-USA and MA-USA
S=8 in England
S=5-6 in Germany, fadeout
RHC English program closed at exact 0702 UT March 23,
before 0700-0702 UT heard RHC Spanish transmission program,
on all 6060 6100 6165 kHz channels.
73 wolfy df5sx
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 10:19:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 22-23, 2014
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** BANGLADESH. 15505, March 22 at 1357, BB is very poor with tone, 1358 IS, 5+1
timesignal ends at 1359:43, way early (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. March 23 at 1330, first noting Elgar`s ``Pomp & Circumstance March
#5`` on 25m frequencies, I start looking for more CNR1 jammers with the same
obvious music:
13130, at 1331 March 23, poor with flutter; none in the 12s, 14s
15265, at 1333 March 23, fair, ending the Elgar, other talk and music
15970, at 1333 March 23, very poor with flutter
16100, at 1334 March 23, good with flutter
16160, at 1334 March 23, JBA
17080, at 1336 March 23, good with flutter; none in the 18s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5025, March 22 at 0548 check, R. Rebelde is off again, while 5040 RHC
is still on. March 23 at 0558, both are on, but at 0601, RHC has gone off 5040,
while 5025 dead air is broken by announcement about ``problemas t?cnicos`` at
Rebelde (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 17650, March 22 at 1354, fair with flutter, CRI French about
to close broadcast; site Kashgar toward Europe. This has been quite regular
lately, and the only one in this range (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 11645, March 22 at 0136, soft rock music, fair-good signal now from
Helleniki Radiophonia. We seldom hear Greek music any more on these frequencies
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 11985, March 22 at 0114, AIR Sinhala service modulation via
Delhi-Khampur is OK tonight, march music, much stronger than // 11740 fluttery
via Goa and never synchronized. Music stops just after 0115 but 11985 carrier
remains past 0117+ with hum level boosted way up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9775, March 23 at 1351 open carrier, tone and off, 1353
cutting back on and then adding usual romantic musical pr?lude in English
before R. Free Chosun in Korean from 1400; via RVA Palauig, PHILIPPINES. VG
signal but fluttery (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, March 22 at 1342, KBS World Radio is very poor with
heavy flutter, so still no good for the Saturday mailbag/DX program (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MICRONESIA [and non?]. 4755+, March 22 at 1155, once again two extremely
weak carriers on almost but not quite the same frequency, at least one of which
is surely PMA The Cross. One cuts off the air at 1156:44*, and the other,
weaker at 1158:16*.
Following my previous log of two such carriers March 20, Ron Howard asked Dave
Valko, ``Hi Dave, I have checked a few times for the UNID, but so far all I
hear is the Cross closing down and nothing after that on lower 4755.00. Do you
still "see" the UNID and the Cross? Thanks.
Ron`` And Dave replied (via Ron):
``You know Ron, I've checked it a few times in the last 2 weeks and haven't
seen a thing except The Cross. Now I didn't check it this morning but did note
a decent signal from The Cross. I'm glad someone else was getting that 4755
thing. So I'm not crazy after all!! I'll have to look at it more closely again.
Dave``
And Ron Howard reported next: ``March 21, on about 4755.54, heard PMA-The Cross
Radio sign off at 1156:42*. Nothing at all on 4755.00. When at the beach, I
measure sign off time by recording the sign off and then tuning to 5000 to
record the next minute. In this case the tx went off just after the DTMF tones.
With Audacity software, I "saw" the tx go off and 18 seconds later the pip for
1157:00. Ron``.
Altho it`s a very long shot, I note that three WWCR transmitters all are
currently scheduled to go off just before 1200: 4840, 5890 and 5935; possibly a
spur or mixture altho I can`t figure out any formula to relate them to 4755,
nor including MW 1300 WNQM. One could try to match the exact cutoff of the
second 4755 signal with the time WWCRs go off. If not WWCR, it could still be a
spur/mixture of some other closeby transmitters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, poor March 22 at 0537, presumed V. of Nigeria with music,
and CCI, presumably China (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1640, Saturday March 22 at 1329 UT, KZLS has another talk show
instead of True Oldies, `Under the Hood`, automobilistic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 96.5, March 22 at 1659 UT, rock and ``KRXO HD3, now 96``, but same
KRXO classic-rock format also on 104.5 translator. This was the original KRXO
on 107.7 until main channel was converted to yet another stupid sportstalk
station. 96.5 is K243BJ, and 104.5 is K283BW. These two still do not add up to
anywhere near the coverage of full-power 107.7, but at least reach most of The
Metro.
97.3, March 22 at 1700 UT, something Catholic; at 1716 talkshow is ``St. Joseph
Radio Presents``; from KKNG Blanchard OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OMAN. 15355, March 22 at 0135, Qur`an on fair-good signal, as RSO has once
again failed to make scheduled frequency change to 9500 at 0000 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, March 22 at 0058, music from R. Chaski, very poor; after 0059
hit by SAH from weaker BBC/UAE. Hymn continues across hourtop, 0101 Spanish
announcement presumably for Red Radio Integridad as relayed, until cutoff still
during talk at 0106:03*, which is 5 seconds later than yesterday, while the BBC
carrier continues. Having surpassed the 0106 mark, it`s high time for Urubamba
to reset its autotimer closer to 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 11565, March 22 at 0138, BS via WRMI says he needs
$50K to take up offers on two stations; hey, why not send him a million? he
prompts. Missed any details; SW? as he went on to further blah, but probably to
be repeated & repeated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, March 22 at 0114, open carrier from SLBC, good with
flutter, starting vocal music 4 seconds before 0115 with no timesignal; just as
well, as they never get it right. Presumed Hindi opening before 0116 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 4802-USB, March 22 at 0108, with lite CODAR QRM, Navy MARS net,
NNN0GFE discussing a conference, and a ``digital transition`` as of 1 June,
then to the NCS, NNN0SXN; one of the contacts is in Wisconsin. I had three logs
last year at same hour on same frequency as Navy MARS Wisconsin. But I don`t
find either call on the rosters I have. But Googling NNN0SXN leads to Richard
Peter in Milwaukee; and NNN0GFE to Rush J. Williams (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15620, March 22 at 1344, poor signal with Horn of Africa music. It`s
VOA Somali, 100 kW, 10 degrees via BOTSWANA during this hour. QRM from the
15618 WEWN spur out of its much stronger, always-defective 15610 transmitter
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1713 monitoring: missed again March 22 the presumed
Saturday 2330 airing on WTWW-2 since 9930 is off the air (and so is 5085 after
0000); however confirmed on WRMI-14, UT Sunday March 23 at 0030. Hope it aired
next at 0401 UT Sunday on WTWW-1 5830 which I missed confirming. Next: UT
Monday 0300v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Tuesday 1100 & Wednesday 1300 on
WRMI 9955; Wednesday 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5110-CUSB, March 22 at 0131, WBCQ ID and Area-51-like liners,
presumably following `Allan Weiner Worldwide` which now starts at 0000 UT
Saturdays and may lasts up to a sesquihour. Since Brother Scare departed 5110,
Area 51 had remained on Sat and Sun evenings only, but now it`s also back on
Fridays = UT Saturdays. The A51 website has also been redesigned:
http://www.worldmicroscope.com
It shows A51 schedule this weekend March 21-23: UT Sat 0000-0400 on 5110; Sat
2300-0400 Sun on 5110 AND 7490; Sun 2300-0400 Mon on 5110. UT Sat 0130 it was
the `Lost Discs Radio Show #32` for an hour. WORLD OF RADIO remains UT Mondays
0300, so we still have no broadcasts on Friday evenings.
Also the previous week`s A51 sked for March 14-16 said ``Live broadcasts from
the SWL Winterfest will happen randomly this weekend!`` The first we had heard
of this with no advance publicity and no details; too bad.
7490-, March 22 at 0134, Brother Scare via WBCQ; I notice that this frequency
has drifted off again, approx. 7489.85 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085, March 22 at 0548, WTWW-2 is off; and so is day frequency 9930
whenever checked later on March 22, including when WORLD OF RADIO should have
aired at 2330 Saturday. But at 0558 check March 23, 5085 is back on with BS.
5830, March 22 at 0550, WTWW-1 is on but modulation suppressed, audible at
peaks only and unreadable talk; wiggle that patchcord? OK at next check 1200.
9475, March 23 after 0000 UT, still on day frequency instead of 5830,
supposedly switching at 0000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 17670, March 22 at 1350, Vietnamese folk music, not
recognizably Christian, but doubtless Seventh-Day-Adventist theology during
much of the hour, as it`s AWR, 250 kW, 60 degrees via MADAGASCAR, but still
penetrating to hear way off-target (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1120, March 23 at 0121 UT, Mexican music vs KMOX; the music loops
southward, partial Spanish ID as ``11-20 AM`` so apparently KTXW Manor TX
(Austin market), rather than KEOR Catoosa OK (Tulsa market), daytimer which
ought to be off now. But then a stronger open carrier comes on atop KTXW,
making SAH of about 4.5 Hz in KMOX null, and this appears to emanate from KEOR
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1330, March 22 for the DX test from KCKM, Monahans TX: I expect to
hear it easily as I do when on 12 kW non-direxional day pattern around sunrise.
0500 ID as ``the west Texas powerhouse, KCKM``, sung ID and some music, nothing
about a DX test yet. It`s already atop my nearest, KNSS Wichita, whose ID I
hear at 0503; then at 0504 sweep tones start from KCKM. I monitor and record
the entire semihour, as KCKM remains atop with only a few brief fades.
Consists of alternating sweep tones, always from low pitch to high, busy
signals, fire-alarm siren & bells; Morse code IDs and other brief DX messages I
am yet to copy in detail until I recheck the digital recording; ``on the
radio`` jingles; musical piece apparently a TV theme I don`t quite recognize. I
logged the repeated times for all these to the minute; there were *no* voice
IDs during the test; why not? As the DX test started late, it also ended a bit
late, 0533 back to another voice ID like at 0500 and power drops as music
resumes with ``West Virginia``.
Tnx to Bob Souza for running this test, after offering to do so in an
unsolicited letter I received after logging it last April, and then arranged by
Paul Walker, who also supplied the test content. I understand it got out very
well across the continent and even to Europe. KCKM did not have a QSL card last
year, so I will be reporting for one offered now.
Turning on the radio again at 1320 UT March 22, still tuned to 1330, there`s
KCKM atop on regular schedule, discussion of when hereford cattle were
introduced to Albany, Shackelford County, which is not around Monahans but
northeast of Abilene; then about Robert E Lee at some camp around the Civil
War. Program is `Cowboy Corner`, probably syndicated; plug for Western Heritage
Awards, April 12 at the Cowboy Museum in OKC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 1550, March 22 at 1330 UT, ad for Fairview Golfcourse, but no
research needed, as then ID for ``the New ESPN Radio, St. Joseph``. What`s new
about it? KESJ in MO as listed in the 2013 NRC AM Log (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1719 UT March 23
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 135, Issue 24
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