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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs March 28, 2015 (Glenn Hauser)
2. Re: [mwdx] Re: ERT open back to 1404 (Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX)
3. Glenn Hauser logs March 28-29, 2015 (Glenn Hauser)
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Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 17:57:54 -0700
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
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Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 28, 2015
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** BRAZIL. 11710 trace, 11745 & 11815 poor, March 28 at 0546 check, crackling
spurs still emanate from the defective 11780.15v 250 kW transmitter of RNA/RNB
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGESET)
** BULGARIA. 9525, March 28 at 2012, as expected, no signal audible here from
Global 24 via Secretbrod, so at 2055 I tune in the Twente, Netherlands remote
instead. No signal there either! Just wideband whine on the 31m band, something
wrong with the receiver? But I leave it on 9525 and it pops on at *2057. As a
second-hand reception, I can`t be sure whether that was what the transmitter
did, or the receiver did. In time to hear Blues Radio International closing
with Boca Rat?n FL address; 2059 ``Global 24 on WRMI`` ID (NOT: still using old
recordings). And into `Feature Story News` for 5 minutes starting with the NYC
fire which makes me suspect it`s from yesterday. 2105 Global 24 Radio promo,
like us on Facebook; and very familiar music fill interspersed with ads:
``RESPECT``, 2108 SDR from Universal et al., ``Mashed Potatoes``; 2111 ``Mrs.
Robinson``; 2114 Ears to Our World; 2115 waltz theme and `News Review from
European News Network`. Lead story
refers to plane crash being ``yesterday``, so apparently recorded three days
ago, usual Wednesday produxion. So far reception via Twente has been very good!
But at 2121, some local noise starts cutting on and off irregularly, mostly on,
like something shorting in the electrical lines around, bad transformer. 2123
lets up a little, then worsens again. 2126, ENN concludes with ``Out on a
Song``, some retro artist. 2129 promo another ENN program (which isn`t on G24
or SW, AFAIK), `Anything Goes`, on Mondays and Fridays.
2130.5 Global 24 ID ``on 9395 kHz``, also outdated; 2131:09 (with webcast
delay), start WORLD OF RADIO 1766 and played to completion at 2200. The noise
bursts continue to QRM. At 2145 ACI also cuts on, i.e. 9530 with HCJB`s Radio
Akhbar Mufriha, 250 kW, 27 degrees from ASCENSION. I`ve been listening with
relatively wide (default?) bandwidth on the remote, but now narrow it to lessen
this and off-tune to 9524, which helps. Still it gets worse at 2155.
What about from next week in A-15? G24/BUL still isn`t registered. HFCC shows
that HCJB/ASC will be gone from 9530, but 9525 will have CRI Russian from 19 to
21, aimed NW from Beijing site, so that will be no good for Bulgaria around
Eurasia during that bihour (this Saturday start scheduled at 1800 with two
hours of `The Rock Pile`). Will WOR stay at 2130 or shift to 2030? TBA (Glenn
Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 7230.0-LSB, March 28 at 0552, XL3A is making his contact #710 in the
WPX DX Contest, but whence? QRZ.com shows: XL3A, Ron Vander Kraats, 9 Jopling
Avenue South, Islington, ON M9B 3P4, Canada; QSL: VE3AT --- who, AAMOF, has
exactly the same name and address. But XL3A is so much more exotic a prefix.
Hambands have continued to be crammed this weekend tnx to the contest, but with
the MARTINIQUE log, this is about the extent of my monitoring of it (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. CNR1 jammers, morning of March 28:
17830, March 28 at 1418, CNR1 jammer, poor with heavy flutter. Had not noticed
this inband one before, but I bet it`s against VOA Tibetan --- yes, Aoki shows
via Tinang, Philippines, this hour only
17585, March 28 at 1418, CNR1 jammer, fair with heavy flutter. This one is vs
VOA Tibetan via Lampertheim, Germany
16920, March 28 at 1418, CNR1 jammer, good with heavy flutter
15970, March 28 at 1419, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter
15745, March 28 at 1419, CNR1 jammer, good with heavy flutter
14980, March 28 at 1421, CNR1 jammer, fair-good with flutter
14920, March 28 at 1421, CNR1 jammer but dead air until 1422 modulation, good
with flutter
12560, March 28 at 1424, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 17550, March 28 at 2004, R. Kuwait ID in passing, Arabic, fair,
registering 27-38 dbu on the PL-880 with short random wire; by 2023 it`s down
to 20-35 dbu, and keeps weakening. Believe it`s the first time this year I have
heard this strange service to Central & Western North America at 20-24 UT.
Riding the MUF, reception will continue to vary widely from day to day. And
still NO signal on 15540 for the 18-21 English service, transmitter defunct?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MARTINIQUE. 7279.5-LSB, March 28 at 0549, ham TO4C making quick contest
QSOs, having reached #923 sequentially. Fortunately always utters call
fonetikaly, but where in the world is that? Must find himself in Region 2 to
reside in this bandpart. QRZ.com shows:
TO4C, Richard Brokenshaw M5RIC, QSL Via M0OXO, OQRS Preferred, Martinique.
Active from Martinique NA-107 from:
26 March - 01 April 2014 including an entry in CQWW WPX SSB.
22 March - 29 March 2015 including an entry in CQWW WPX SSB.
No doubt he got that odd call to diversify the prefixes available rather than
plain old FM- something (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1560, afternoon of March 28, KEBC OKC is still duplicating 1520
KOKC --- did they break contract with NBC Sports and can`t go back? There is
certainly no need for // 1560 as long as 1520 is funxioning. Ben Dawson
provides more:
``1520 back on the air! With our new folded vertical radiator and a slightly
modified simple L network. Makes 10 kW with 1.07 VSWR. Jack calls it a
"Slant-loaded Network".
The Jack he refers to is Jack Sellmeyer, distinguished Texas consulting
engineer who cobbled together the temporary lash up.``
I assume a ``folded vertical`` is a bit of a joke, considering that`s what the
tornado left them with (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 90.1, March 28 just before 1500 UT, KUCO remarx during a pledge
drive, after announcer and GM Brad Ferguson stumbles over triple-station ID,
that the heritage KCSC call, originally on 90.1, will be applied to the 95.9
Woodward relay effective Monday = March 30, ex-KZCU. UCO acquired it from KCCU
Lawton, which was unwilling / unable to run it properly, get rid of persistent
IADs (intermittent audio dropouts) marring the 95.9 transmission which was 100%
relay of KCCU. (Or rather one time when I was in range --- can`t get it in Enid
---, the dropouts were extremely regular, like clockwork.)
It`s seemed odd that for the past few months since KUCO took it over, IDs have
continued to be as KZCU, obviously based on the ex-owner`s home calls. Thought
they might go for ``KUCW`` which seemed to be available. Then later in the
afternoon during Met Opera intermission, local host Lane Whitesell (who`s
awfully hard to find on the website, spell-checking), says KCSC calls are
effective Wednesday = April 1, which seems more likely (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 9800, March 28 at 1427, VOA Korean usual good signal but
somewhat distorted and carrier wobble, soul music. Is Tinang site, and has had
such problem before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RWANDA. I make a point of monitoring the final semihour in existence of the
Kigali relay station, which is AWR French on 17800: tune-in at 2000 to very
good signal, opening as Radio Mondiale Adventiste. First segment is ``emission
de sant?`` (which means health, an Adventist preoccupation, not saintliness),
advice about STDs. 2007 break for address in C?te d`Ivoire, music box; 2009.5
AWR theme, another talk.
I haven`t been logging the dbmu readings displayed by the PL-880 which is now
hooked up to a random wire under the eaves on the porch, but this time I do and
compare it to the few other signals on 16m; larger ranges indicate more fading:
17800 AWR Kigali registers 34-46 dbu
17790 WRMI is a bit weaker at 38-45 dbu, and softer modulation
17730 RHC is stronger at 43-51 dbu, but sounds weaker, undermodulated
17550 Kuwait is 27-38 dbu and weakening (see separate log)
Noise floor on unoccupied 17 MHz channel is 15-17 dbu
At 2024 I start recording the last six minutes to be heard from Kigali, ever:
http://www.w4uvh.net/kigaliend.rm
2025, e-mail Abidjan address, again. I am trying to copy it: La Radio Mondiale
Adventiste, La Voix de l`Esp?rance, 08 Boite Postale 1551(?), Abidjan 08, C?te
d`Ivoire? but not sure, so try to look it up. Nowhere in the WRTH entries for
AWR. Nor that I can find on website, with podcasts of this and many previous
French broadcasts, http://af.awr.org/ci/fra/7 where you are expected to use
e-mail only but not the `local` address announced: [email protected]
--- They say to be sure to make the e-mail in minuscule (lower case) only ---
no, e-mail addresses are NOT case-sensitive. Google search on voix esperance
cote divoire leads to a station of the same name on FM 101.6, but it`s
Methodist!!
2026, AWR theme and other music, mentioning Jesus, hymn, address yet again.
Says back tomorrow at same time, nothing about new frequency or new site! (But
HFCC A-15 shows the 2000 French broadcast will be on 9610 via Nauen, and 17570
via Issoudun.) ``He leadeth me`` tune is cut off at 2029 and carrier stays on
another minute+ until 2030:03****. Goodbye forever. (Ironically, DW`s own usage
of Kigali ended a few hours earlier when I couldn`t monitor.) (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 17755, March 28 at 2010, no signal, nor 21620, which REE was
reportedly using already from A-15 schedule this Saturday starting at 1500 per
Ivo Ivanov; 15490 is good with flutter; at 2021 that signal ranges 36-47 dbu
without flutter, but at 2022 the flutter resumes during silly ballgame; suspect
this flutter is from two transmitters beating rather than propagation. 2032
check, now I can detect a JBA carrier on 17755, and 9620 is also audible along
with 15490 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 650, March 28 at 1855 UT on caradio, finding that IBOC from 640 KWPN
Moore OK is off, is anything making it on 650? Yes, JBA country music! Can it
be WSM Nashville, a megameter away, just a few minutes after our local mean
noon? What else could it be? I stop and get out the PL-880 which fortunately I
have along to check out something on SW. With BFO and rotating it, I can barely
DF this 650 signal to east-west, which chex for WSM. But there is also a second
even weaker carrier. That would most likely be talker KGAB in SE Wyoming, which
has been known barely to make it here on groundwave (if KLTT 670 Denver can,
why not?). But is WSM by skywave or groundwave? D-layer absorption should be
taking it out, but ground conductivity between there and here is nothing
special, and I don`t even get Memphis on 560 or 600 in daytime. BTW, NRC AM Log
shows there are only 7 stations on 650 in the entire conterminous US, which is
about as close as we can get
to a `clear` channel any more.
Mandatory check of 720 as well: at 1906 UT March 28, I do have a SAH,
presumably KSAH TX and WGN IL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0058 UT March 29
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Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 03:27:34 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>, "egroups_mwdx"
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [mwdx] Re: ERT open back to 1404
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at 0122 UT March 29
noted on various all European remote units
1403.947 far away NE / AF ?
1404.000 F, echo of both French stns.
1404.008 GRC
1404.017 UNID
wb
----- Original Message -----
From: "'Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX' >
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 9:08 PM
Subject: [mwdx] Re: [HCDX] ERT open back to 1404
> Rumen in Bulgaria reported ERT-open 1404 kHz last on January 8th.
> wb
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Zacharias Liangas" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 7:16 PM
> Subject: [HCDX] ERT open back to 1404
>
>> Please reply to [email protected]
>> Today ET open seems back in the MW on 1404.
>> Heard this morning with S7 signal in the 16 H antenna
>> _
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 21:52:40 -0700
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 28-29, 2015
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** ALBANIA. A-15 has just begun, but not every station switches to new schedule
immediately. March 29 at 0128 I am looking for R. Tirana on 9850, where it`s to
be in English to North America at shifted time of 0130-0200 --- but no signal
here past 0133, nor on other possibilities 9855, 7465 or 7425.
9855, March 29 at 0226, R. Tirana IS is on here! This is the winter timing to
be abandoned, and the frequency registered for the Albanian broadcast at
2300-2400 (unchecked yet). But no English starts at 0230, just keeps playing IS
on fair signal past 0233 when I quit. Maybe this will all be straightened out
by UT Tuesday at 0130, since there is no English broadcast on UT Monday anyway
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 17840, March 29 at 0119, R. Australia is still here as A-15
starts, poor signal, rather than alternate 13630. 17840 has however been
holding up well late into the night on occasion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6165, March 29 at 0120, open carrier/dead air, while English is
nominal on 6000; 0134 now both are modulating with an Arnie Coro non-DX talk
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 12070, March 29 at 0110, new R. Cairo A-15 frequency, open
carrier/dead air, with lite whine; nothing more on 12080 or 12035
9965++, March 29 at 0115, R. Cairo, Arabic, undermodulated, whine, very good
level, with flutter. This one unchanged. Off to hi side
9315.0, March 29 at 0118, open carrier/dead air, poor-fair; by 0227 it`s only
poor. This would be the 0200-0330 English frequency, ex-9860 where there is
nothing. Another alternate registered is 9720
13850+, March 29 at 0228, Qur`an? suptorted, fair with flutter, R. Cairo
ex-9905, Off to hi side, not as much as 9965 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** INDIA. 11985, March 29 at 0111, S Asian music, fair with flutter, gone at
0132 recheck. HFCC A-15 shows it`s AIR Sinhala service only until 0115, 250 kW,
174 degrees from Delhi site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN [and non]. 11650, March 29 at 0113, R. Sultanate of Oman is still here,
in Qur`an, with CCI in Chinese which is CRI, Urumqi, East Turkistan on A-15
schedule; 11650 is not registered for Oman in A-15; instead at 00-02, 9500 or
9650 or 12015 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, March 29 at 0105, JBA carrier, only one, it seems, i.e. R.
Chaski. Sharp cutoff at 0106:38.5* leaving nothing, as BBC is now gone from
5980 UAE for A-15. Furthermore, no ACI from 5985 WRMI --- tho registered as
available, not yet in use. This is 11.5 seconds later than a binite ago when
last checked, i.e. slipping average 5.75 later per uniday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, March 29 at *0114:12, carrier on, 0114:46 musical pr?lude
starts (not exactly an IS?), 2+1 timesignal ends at 0115:12.5, SLBC sign-on;
fair with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1766 monitoring: confirmed on WA0RCR,
1860-AM, UT Sunday March 29 from 0315. Also confirmed Saturday March 28 at 2130
on Global 24 via 9525 BULGARIA: see previous report:
Next:
Sun 2300 WRMI 11580
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955
Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [time shift for DST]
Wed 1315 WRMI 9955
Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [time shift for DST]
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v
Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1767 if ready in time]
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11920, March 29 at 0111, Family Radio in Spanish, fair; new A-15 WRMI
sked shows this at 01-02, plus RTI Spanish at 02-03 (and another Taiwan Spanish
at 03-04 on 7730). At 0225, 11920 is fair-good airing Chinese lesson for
Spanish speakers.
11825, UT Sun March 29 at 0112, `Travel with Rick Steves`, which is Global 24
via WRMI, VG (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1590, March 29 at 0128 UT, general newscast, 0130 ``ESPN Radio`` and
``KGAS Carthage`` ID inserted, thank you very much, and into sports talk. Can
we depend on all ESPN affils to ID like this on the semihour? Initially
dominating from SE/NW, soon fades down as if power cut. But its official March
sunset was an hour earlier at 0030 UT (April: 0045 UT). KGAS is 2500/128 watts
U1. Carthage is in E Texas, just SW of Shreveport LA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. 12005, March 29 at 0110, VOV English to N America is back
here for A-15, via Woofferton UT, ex-6175 where there is nothing now. Good with
flutter, but there is CCI underneath: probably VOA Deewa Radio via Sri Lanka,
still on B-14 frequency tho it should not be, and presumably will be gone by
tomorrow (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1460, March 29 at 0125 UT tune-by, ID as ``The Outlaw, non-stop
country music``, loops about SSE/NNW. Can`t find that slogan for any 1460 in
the NRC AM Log. The only country station around here is KCWM in Hondo TX, but I
also can`t find any `Outlaw` branding on http://www.kcwm.net website. So I
bring up their stream at 0415 UT. At 0423 they do utter ``The World`s Best
Country Music`` as on website. So where is The Outlaw?? Outlaw County is a
SiriusXM channel (60), any relation? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0453 UT March 29
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