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Today's Topics:
1. Russian independent SW stations (Paul Ormandy)
2. Radio heritage goes after 65 years (Radio Heritage Mail)
3. Frequency change of Bible Voice Broadcasting in English
(Ivo Observer)
4. LOgs and notice (Zacharias Liangas)
5. Frequency change of Radio Free Asia in Korean from July 17
(Ivo Observer)
6. Re: [dxld] Myanmar on new 5985.22 kHz. (Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX)
7. Glenn Hauser logs July 21, 2014 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 05:55:39 +0000
From: Paul Ormandy <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Russian independent SW stations
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Hi all,
Have a last managed to compile the nucleus of an article I'd been
planning to do for some time. Winter is a great season for sitting in
front of the fire and catching up on articles, after all radio
conditions are poor in the evenings and its very cold in the shack!
The article is Russian Independent SW Stations 1991-1996. By going
through the DXTimes magazines conveniently and kindly scanned by Chris
Mackerell, I have created an outline which needs some filler. So if
anyone would like to contribute or correct the information, please use
the Comments box below the article or e-mail me directly
([email protected]).
http://www.radiodx.com/articles/station-profiles/europe/russian-independent-sw-stations-1991-96/
Have a look around radiodx.com while you're there. Enjoy!
Cheers,
Paul
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:04:59 +1200
From: "Radio Heritage Mail" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Radio heritage goes after 65 years
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
www.radioheritage.net
July 21 2014
Dear radio friend:
Radio heritage goes after 65 years
__________________________________
We were saddened to learn today that the Radio NZ International
Mailbox program to which we regularly contribute features about
Pacific radio has been cancelled after 65 years. That's a good run,
but we're pleased the funds will now be used for the core news and
information programs directed to the South Pacific, which is the
funded target area for RNZI.
We have about 10 years of features we've researched and presented,
and we will shortly be working through these and converting them into
multi-media features at our website www.radioheritage.net. We've
already got an example there, Papua New Guinea Radio, and it's
proving quite popular. Why not check it out.
A special thanks to our team of financial supporters who make it
possible to keep the project going each month. If you can join them,
we'd love to hear from you this month. Currently, we need to find
$1,649 to meet all our obligations by July 31. We welcome your gifts
to help us continue all aspects of the project to protect radio
memorabilia from being thrown away or lost, and we'd also love to add
you to the Supporter Roll of Honor at www.radioheritage.net.
You'll find simple and quick ways to make a gift that counts just by
looking under the ZCO Tonga logo on the right-hand side of every
page. And, whilst you're there, have a look around the hundreds of
features and images, explore our radio guides, learn more about our
mission, and share us on various social media. Did you know we have a
Facebook page with over 1,350 fans!
Whether you're in the middle of summer or the middle of winter, it's
good to know we have so many friends, like you, that we can count on
to keep the radio memories safe for future generations.
Best wishes from the team
Radio Heritage Foundation
www.radioheritage.net
Connecting today's people with yesterday's radio
Email code DX to be removed from this mailing list and please allow
15 working days for a volunteer to manually find and remove your
details.
PS...it's now possible to make little and regular gifts to the
project and Regular supporter status is still $25 or a week's worth
of coffee!
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 11:51:01 +0000
From: Ivo Observer <[email protected]>
To: "'Abu Sayed'" <[email protected]>, "'Al Quaglieri'"
<[email protected]>, "'Alexander Beryozkin'"
<[email protected]>, "'Alexander Dementiev'" <[email protected]>,
"'Alexander Zurman'" <[email protected]>, "'Alexey Zinevich'"
<[email protected]>, "'Alokesh Gupta'" <[email protected]>,
"'Anatoly Klepov'" <[email protected]>, "'Andreas Tschauder'"
<[email protected]>, "'Andreas Volk'"
<[email protected]>, "'Andrei Skorodumov'"
<[email protected]>, "'Anker Petersen'"
<[email protected]>, "'Arnulf Piontek'" <[email protected]>,
"'BCLNEWS'" <[email protected]>, "'Bengh Ericson'"
<[email protected]>, "'Bernd Trutenau'" <[email protected]>,
"'BK99'" <[email protected]>, "'Bob Padula'"
<[email protected]>,
"'Boris Chastoedov'" <[email protected]>, "'Dan Ferguson'"
<[email protected]>, "'Dario Gabrielli'"
<[email protected]>, "'Dave Valko'" <[email protected]>,
"'Dino Bloise'" <[email protected]>, "'Dmitry Mezin'"
<[email protected]>, "'Dmitry Puzanov'" <[email protected]>, "'DX Listening
Digest'" <[email protected]>, "'Georgi Bancov'"
<[email protected]>, "'Georgi Tamahkyarov'"
<[email protected]>, "'Glenn Hauser'" <[email protected]>,
"'Global Radio DX Club'" <[email protected]>, "'Hard-Core-DX'"
<[email protected]>, "'Igor D'"
<[email protected]>, "'Jaisakthivel '"
<[email protected]>, "'JJE'" <[email protected]>,
"'Jonathan
Short'" <[email protected]>, "'Jorge Garcia'"
<[email protected]>, "'Konstantin Aseev'"
<[email protected]>, "'Konstantin Gusev'" <[email protected]>, "'Lim
Kwet Hian'" <[email protected]>, "'Mauno Ritola'"
<[email protected]>, "'MIDXB'" <[email protected]>,
"'Mikhail
Timofeyev'" <[email protected]>, "'Noel Green'" <[email protected]>,
"'Paul Ormandy'" <[email protected]>, "'Radio Kurier'" <[email protected]>,
"'Sei-ichi Hasegawa'" <[email protected]>, "'Sergej Rogov'"
<[email protected]>, "'Sergey Shohin'" <[email protected]>,
"'Sergey Vinokurov'" <[email protected]>, "'Shukhrat
Rakhmatullaev'"
<[email protected]>, "'Siniy Voron'" <[email protected]>,
"'T.
Patterson'" <[email protected]>, "'Takahito Akabayashi'"
<[email protected]>, "'Valery Sheptukhin'" <[email protected]>,
"'Vasily Gulyaev'" <[email protected]>, "'Victor Goonetilleke'"
<[email protected]>, "'Vladimir Lisin'" <[email protected]>,
"'Vladimir Sitnikov'" <[email protected]>, "'Wolfgang Bueschel'"
<[email protected]>, "'Z Liagas'" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Frequency change of Bible Voice Broadcasting in
English
Message-ID:
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CANADA(non) Frequency change of Bible Voice Broadcasting in English
1830-1915 NF 11600 SOF 100 kW / 126 deg to N/ME Sun, ex 9635. Videos:
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/07/frequency-change-of-bible-voice.html
RNZI Mailbox ending on August 4. More details:
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/07/rnzi-mailbox-ending-on-august-4.html
--
73!
Ivo Ivanov
*QTH*: Sofia, Bulgaria
*Equipment*: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire
*Web: *http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 15:38:26 +0300
From: Zacharias Liangas <[email protected]>
To: [email protected];
Subject: [HCDX] LOgs and notice
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain
Please reply to [email protected]
All previous and forthcoming period will be with irregular acess to me as I will
be either in Litohoron or in Chalkidiki
Logs 19.7
Using Ivo's list and some bad scanning
11785 15250 VoA CC children as singing 1205
17680 VoA talks and reports in Bamar 1215
11760 Ictimai ? 1220 Turkish music very garbled
15425 RFA? 1229 deeply sounded audio and SAH 5-6 sudden step 1230
9955 RFI ? in CC 1334 the new RFI freqs? Joust marginal
15040 AIR 1238 with talks in Bamar and old Bolly songs local signal
15582 VoTib 1243 talks in TB They seem again changed comparing to Ivo's #856
15120 ??? 1248 talk in Bamar Garbeld
15130 R Rom Int 1250 song talks in Roum ID local
15225 FE?? 1255 YL with talks in Bamar or Karen good
15780 VoA in korean 1302 with talks fair
15115 VoA in CC 1304 news 44x24
15825 WWCR 1306 choirs , deep USB fair
20.7
15120 relig 0442 abt Judas in Eng fair
15160 RA in Eng 0420 with talks poor
15360 Mashaal 0455 ID fair
my radio shack: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/zliangas/album/282394
http://delicious.com/gr_greek1/zak (all my pages )
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 13:20:11 +0000
From: Ivo Observer <[email protected]>
To: "'Abu Sayed'" <[email protected]>, "'Al Quaglieri'"
<[email protected]>, "'Alexander Beryozkin'"
<[email protected]>, "'Alexander Dementiev'" <[email protected]>,
"'Alexander Zurman'" <[email protected]>, "'Alexey Zinevich'"
<[email protected]>, "'Alokesh Gupta'" <[email protected]>,
"'Anatoly Klepov'" <[email protected]>, "'Andreas Tschauder'"
<[email protected]>, "'Andreas Volk'"
<[email protected]>, "'Andrei Skorodumov'"
<[email protected]>, "'Anker Petersen'"
<[email protected]>, "'Arnulf Piontek'" <[email protected]>,
"'BCLNEWS'" <[email protected]>, "'Bengh Ericson'"
<[email protected]>, "'Bernd Trutenau'" <[email protected]>,
"'BK99'" <[email protected]>, "'Bob Padula'"
<[email protected]>,
"'Boris Chastoedov'" <[email protected]>, "'Dan Ferguson'"
<[email protected]>, "'Dario Gabrielli'"
<[email protected]>, "'Dave Valko'" <[email protected]>,
"'Dino Bloise'" <[email protected]>, "'Dmitry Mezin'"
<[email protected]>, "'Dmitry Puzanov'" <[email protected]>, "'DX Listening
Digest'" <[email protected]>, "'Georgi Bancov'"
<[email protected]>, "'Georgi Tamahkyarov'"
<[email protected]>, "'Glenn Hauser'" <[email protected]>,
"'Global Radio DX Club'" <[email protected]>, "'Hard-Core-DX'"
<[email protected]>, "'Igor D'"
<[email protected]>, "'Jaisakthivel '"
<[email protected]>, "'JJE'" <[email protected]>,
"'Jonathan
Short'" <[email protected]>, "'Jorge Garcia'"
<[email protected]>, "'Konstantin Aseev'"
<[email protected]>, "'Konstantin Gusev'" <[email protected]>, "'Lim
Kwet Hian'" <[email protected]>, "'Mauno Ritola'"
<[email protected]>, "'MIDXB'" <[email protected]>,
"'Mikhail
Timofeyev'" <[email protected]>, "'Noel Green'" <[email protected]>,
"'Paul Ormandy'" <[email protected]>, "'Radio Kurier'" <[email protected]>,
"'Sei-ichi Hasegawa'" <[email protected]>, "'Sergej Rogov'"
<[email protected]>, "'Sergey Shohin'" <[email protected]>,
"'Sergey Vinokurov'" <[email protected]>, "'Shukhrat
Rakhmatullaev'"
<[email protected]>, "'Siniy Voron'" <[email protected]>,
"'T.
Patterson'" <[email protected]>, "'Takahito Akabayashi'"
<[email protected]>, "'Valery Sheptukhin'" <[email protected]>,
"'Vasily Gulyaev'" <[email protected]>, "'Victor Goonetilleke'"
<[email protected]>, "'Vladimir Lisin'" <[email protected]>,
"'Vladimir Sitnikov'" <[email protected]>, "'Wolfgang Bueschel'"
<[email protected]>, "'Z Liagas'" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Frequency change of Radio Free Asia in Korean from
July 17
Message-ID:
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
USA(non) Frequency change of Radio Free Asia in Korean from July 17
1700-1900 NF 15425 TIN 250 kW / 325 deg to EaAs, ex 5820
Parallel freq 9975 TIN 250 kW / 329 deg to EaAs. Videos from July 20:
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/07/frequency-change-of-radio-free-asia-in.html
WRMI graphic schedule, updated on July 4, 2014
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-14-wrmi-graphic-schedule.html
--
73!
Ivo Ivanov
*QTH*: Sofia, Bulgaria
*Equipment*: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire
*Web: *http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 17:06:22 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX" <[email protected]>
To: "DXplorer" <[email protected]>, "DXLD"
<[email protected]>, "HCDX" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Myanmar on new 5985.22 kHz.
Message-ID: <41CB473967F04BF2A8CE192DC82BC888@HNPC2>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8";
reply-type=original
MYANMAR Rangoon some 6 Hertz up now.
Came across the 5985 kHz channel downunder in remote SDR unit in Australia,
in 1415 to 1430 UT time slot July 21.
5985.0 Powerful Shiokaze interval signal over and over again from Yamata JPN
relay site noted til TX off at 1430 UT. Then channel let in the clear of
Myanmar Radio Rangoon on odd 5985.234 at 1432 UT, and undoubtedly a North
Korean ditter jamming signal in the background underneath.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 21)
some 90 / 60 mb log of 1330 to 1415 UT time slot July 21:
4970.015 AIR Shillong in English {!}, female talk at 1330 UT.
Surprisingly S=8 or -81dBm signal downunder in AUS.
5040.0 AIR Calcutta.
4989.995 AIR Itanagar.
4920.0 Both AIR Chennai and PBS Xizang, equal freq, equal level.
4910.001 AIR Jaipur at 1340 UT.
4905.0 PBS Xizang, shrill voices of soldier? chorus.
4894.996 Mongolian Radio, flute mx from domestic Murun tx site.
4879.995 AIR Lucknow, Hindi lang singer.
Two signals nearby
4870.001 UNID, and stronger on
4869.916 probably RRI Wamena-INS at 1345 UT July 21.
4860.001 AIR Shimla
4840.002 AIR Mumbai
4820.0 PBS Xizang, and UNIDENTIFIED hereodyne interfering signal on
4820.728 ... 721 wandered up and down. AIR Calcutta ?
4809.996 AIR Mumbai, Hindi lang annmt, unstable TX at 1352 UT.
4800.0 CNR1 Mandarin service, and
4799.998 AIR Chennai in probably Hindi language program.
4765.047 Tajik Radio 1st program from Dushanbe Yangi Yul, flute mx 1355.
4760.008 Distorted by UTE signal, probably AIR Port Blair at 1358 UT.
Bad mixture here on
4749.994 rather Chinese PBS Qinghai Xining at 1400 UT, ID signal, and
4750.0 BGD with South Asian mx, latter much stronger.
3325.0 ? Most probably RRI Palangka Raya program in undoubtedly
Bahasa Indonesia language and mx, at 1410 UT.
3344.864 Phone in program by females of tentat. RRI Tennate-INS.
4010.075 Kyrgyz Radio 1st sce from Bishkek Krasnaya Rechka site at 1415 UT
but nothing noted at same time of 4795 kHz Bishkek-KGZ !
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 21)
----- Original Message -----
From: "'Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX' Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: [dxld] Myanmar on new 5985.22 kHz.
> MYANMAR Yes, Ron, your are correct, at 1430-1500 UT in AUS:
>
> 5985.228 is footprint frequency of Myanmar Radio at 1430 UT on today July
> 18, probably from old empire Rangoon transmitting center.
> S=8 or -75dBm signal strenght on remote SDR unit in downunder Australia.
>
> Also heard
> 5915.0 Naypyidaw outlet S=9+10dB or -63dBm,
> co-channel CRI Mongolian from Hohot-CHN #694 txing site.
>
> 6165.0 Undoubtedly Pyin U Lwin Myanmar bcasting program noted at same
> time, co-ch CNR6 Beijing equal level.
>
> Nothing heard on 7185/7200/7215 kHz Rangoon channel.
> (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 18)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Howard Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 4:32 PM
> Subject: [dxld] Myanmar on new 5985.22 kHz.
>
> ** MYANMAR. 5985.22, Myanmar Radio on July 18 something new here.
> For as long as I can remember they used one of two transmitters; being
> either on exact frequency - 5985.00 or the off frequency one - 5985.8.
> Recently have observed on different days both 5985.00 and 5985.8, so
> today was clearly a new frequency for them; noted at 1235 and 1301
> (before clandestine Shiokaze signs on at 1330). Perhaps Wolfy or
> others can measure the frequency more accurately? Appreciate any
> help with a Perseus exact frequency!
> (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxld July 18
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 20:23:45 -0700
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs July 21, 2014
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
** ALGERIA [non]. 13820, July 21 at 1829, fair signal with Qur`an, good
modulation, 1830 some other music, 1832 Arabic talk, maybe sermon, 1847 another
bit of music. Had me mystified until uplooked: RTA via FRANCE at 18-20, no
longer clashing with Mart? moved to 13605.
BTW, the RTA collision on 9535 with Spain at 0500-0600 goes on and on now that
we are halfway thru the A-14 season, and we bet it will last the entire season;
who cares? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 11595, July 21 at 1252, Kununurra has now replaced the old HCJB
IS & ID, with different music, but still ``uplifting`` on steel guitar, fiddle,
etc., and periodic IDs as ``This is Reach Beyond Australia; our program on this
frequency will commence shortly``; 1245 opening S Asian service, into language,
scheduled as Bengali on Mondays; fair signal. That makes it RBA by abbr (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11750 & 11810, July 21 at 0524 check, still distorted spurs from
11780 RNA. Why don`t they fix all this? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. CNR1 jammers, July 21:
13530, July 21 at 1230, CNR1 jammer, fair; none now in the 14s, 16s, 17s, 18s;
1248 vs CODAR
13830, July 21 at 1231, CNR1 jammer, very poor but // 13530
15195, July 21 at 1231, CNR1 jammer, poor, no Firedrake today
15265, July 21 at 1231, CNR1 jammer, poor
12370, July 21 at 1235, CNR1 jammer, fair, out of synch with 13530; I think
it`s 12370 that is a syllable ahead of 13530
12980, July 21 at 1240, CNR1 jammer, very poor
11785, July 21 at 1241, CNR1 jammer, poor with CCI
12980, July 21 at 1321, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter, CODAR
15115, July 21 at 1324, CNR1 jammer, with CCI
15195, July 21 at 1324, CNR1 jammer, still no Firedrake
15265, July 21 at 1325, CNR1 jammer, with usual het, Taiwan off-frequency; none
in the 16s, 17s, 18s, and 19s
16500, the non-Firedrake concert I heard July 17 before and after 1400, has not
shown up again despite daily chex (Glenn Hauser, OK, July 21, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. 4870-, July 21 at 1200, JBA carrier on the lo side,
probably RRI Wamena; 4835 VL8A in better than usual just after WWCR is off 4840
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALAYSIA [non]. I don`t intend to pursue this endlessly, but one more time:
despite all the media shorthand about ``MH Flight 17``, there is such a flight
*every day* from AMS to KUL, so either always add the date of the doomed flight
(July 17), or preferably refer to the unique callsign of the aircraft which was
shot down, 9MMRD (which I have *never* heard or seen in any press about this).
Checking flightradar24.com, for flight delays by avoiding Ukraine since the
shootdown, the July 19 flight, aircraft 9MMRF which left more than 4 hours
late, took 11:47. July 20: 9MMRQ took 11:38. July 21: 9MMRC took 12:02. Of
course part of the delay/variation could be due to stack-ups at the destination.
As for possible HF channels used by ongoing flights MH17: Noel Green, NW
England, says ``the most active station that might contact one of the MH
flights seems to be Mumbai, and possible calling frequencies are 8879, 8909 and
8948 or possibly 6655. I only see one frequency (in the lower range at least)
for Kuala Lumpur on 8942, and it *seems* that Singapore may handle
international traffic in that area on that frequency. All courtesy of the 2012
edition of Airwaves. Maybe someone from S Asia has better information``.
Normally air and ground are simplex on the same frequency. ATC often specifies
a secondary frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1570, July 21 at 1145 UT, XERF is still playing ``Ma?anitas`` songs
at this time every morning, followed by another tune, and at 1150, ``Servicio
Social --- Avisos Personales``, mainly missing persons but also missing purses.
Lots of people trying to make contact on both sides of la frontera; station
phone number announced for input is 877-108-7046. Seems unusual for a 1 to be
in 4th place, but maybe not for toll-frees; several phone numbers but not this
one are on their contact page http://www.imer.mx/lapoderosa/contactanos/
Starting to fade out at 1154, and at times some English US station occupying
its null; LSR here was 1130 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 6170, Monday July 21 starting at 1330:48, RNZI `Mailbox`, not
early this week as sometimes we`ve found it in progress already at 1328 or
1329. Reception is holding up a little longer with our later sunrises (but
still two hours earlier, 1130), but only poor, starting with a Samoan song
(Australia 6150 is much better, tho further). I listen to it later ondemand via:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player/20142458
No DX report this week from Kevin Hand due to a misunderstanding of the
scheduling, but other usual features: Mike Bird with propagation report and not
much news about cutbacks at Radio Australia; chat by Adrian Sainsbury back from
7 weeks in Europe (they must have a great vacation package at RNZI), while Myra
Oh has only been to Fiji.
Bad news: this program is being canceled after one more episode in a fortnight;
summarizing:
Mailbox is to retire after 65 years of service, sad to say. Manager Lynden
Clark says as part of a review of all our programming, due to increasing costs
and decreasing funding, reluctantly decided to end DX program Mailbox, and
consolidate funds on our core services. Mailbox has been on since 1990 in
current format, first hosted by Tony King.
RNZI however will continue on SW. DRM transmission times have also been reduced
for cost saving, no longer 18 hpd, but now on and off as required by
rebroadcasting stations in the Pacific.
Richard Lemke also notifies us of this and points out there is another
broadcast of the current show, UT Tuesday July 22 at 0330 on 15720. (We`ve yet
to confirm whether there is really another repeat on Friday circa 1935 on
11725, as shown on the schedule.) Let`s hope they leave up the large archive of
previous Mailboxes for a while longer.
15715-15720-15725, July 21 at 2023, DRM noise must be RNZI, as now scheduled
until 2150. Can`t say I`ve noticed this before, but sounds like it might be
strong enough to decode. The // AM frequency, 11725, never propagates here in
our afternoons. 15720 should be OK after 2151 when it switches to AM (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 780, July 21, KSPI Stillwater on the air at various chex during
the day, despite missing well before sunset lately. One promo was for religious
programming instead of sports on Sundays from 8 am to noon CT (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. 11915, July 21 at 1301, RTI in non-Mandarin Chinese, listed as Amoy,
after familiar theme also used by `Religion & Ethics Newsweekly`` on PBS TV in
the USA; fair (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: WRMI
** U K. The two-month Promenade Concert season began July 18 with live
broadcasts on BBCR3 (and also now the other networks according to website).
Perhaps a few excerpts will appear on BBCWS? We normally try to hear almost
every concert online, but this year the BBC website has been very
uncooperative, often with dead linx where the concerts are supposed to be. Our
best luck so far has been hitting the pop-up player reached via
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007v097/episodes/player
which is also fussy about which browsers it will accept. Supposedly these are
available now for 30 days rather than 7, altho the menu already lacks some of
the earlier concerts less than one week after them. One can also listen live
more reliably on BBCR3, but it`s much more convenient to listen a few days
later ondemand for pausing, skipping (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9955, July 21 at 1249, the CCI with SAH from France via
Taiwan in Chinese is even stronger than WRMI and the pulse jamming, while
nearby frequencies go unused (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1730 monitoring: July 21 check on the new 15770 airing
via WRMI: 2059 BS plugging his website; 2059:30 cutaway to Bob Zanotti ID; 2100
back to BS; 2101:30 join WOR 1730 in progress. Fair signal at best here off the
side, aimed toward Europe. Meanwhile, 15190 with Radio Africa Network is much
stronger. I suspect the delay with WOR may be due to not enough hands to
manually manage the RAN QSY from 17790 to 15190 at the same time as the program
shift on 15770. Next:
Tue 1100 on WRMI 9955 [see also log of Taiwan QRM still there]
Wed 0630 on HLR 7265-CUSB
Wed 1315 on WRMI 9955
Wed 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB
Wed 2100 on WBCQ 7490v
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17895, July 21 at 1827, VOA news in English, fair with fades, off by
1830. Note: this is the LAST VOA ENGLISH BROADCAST FROM GREENVILLE (except for
those beeping Radiograms), daily 1730-1830 eastward for Africa. Should normally
be fine beyond the skip zone off the back in central and western North America
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15445, July 21 at 0528, lite vocal music, maybe praise; 0531
French announcement, more music, poor. Thought it might be AWR but HFCC and
EiBi show CRI Russian via Kashgar at 0400-0600 on 15445! WRTH shows no French
from CRI before 0600, on other frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0323 UT July 22
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 139, Issue 23
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