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Today's Topics:
1. BLANDX reactivated (Don Moore)
2. SW 31.03.2015 (Rudolf Grimm)
3. Glenn Hauser logs March 31-April 1, 2015 (Glenn Hauser)
4. Berber test transmissions (Eike Bierwirth)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 23:23:15 +0000 (UTC)
From: Don Moore <[email protected]>
To: HCDX <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] BLANDX reactivated
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<[email protected]>
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The April 1 2015 BLANDX is up at BLANDX - Home Page?
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| BLANDX - Home PageBREAKING DX NEWS!!! BLANDX HAS REACTIVATED!!! (That's Us!)
Can your bladder handle the excitment? If so, check out our new April 1, 2015
issue of BLANDX. |
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| View on www.blandx.com | Preview by Yahoo |
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??Don Moore --- [email protected]
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
Radio & Latin American website: http://www.pateplumaradio.com/
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 20:53:36 -0300
From: Rudolf Grimm <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] SW 31.03.2015
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Listening from today:
9575 kHz MOROCCO: Medi Un, Nador, AA, 31/03 2031. Songs in AA and EE, OM:
talk in AA, 45554
15260 kHz UK: IBRA Radio, via Woofferton, AA, 31/03 1810. OM: talk,
instrumental mx, id, QTH, 35543
15275 kHz MADAGASCAR: Deutsche Welle, via Talata-Volondry, Hausa, 31/03
1832. OM: talk, African song, YL, 35553
Stations listened in S?o Bernardo SP
Rudolf Grimm
S?o Bernardo SP
BRAZIL
Rx: Sony ICF2001D, AOR LA-400
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 20:17:50 -0700
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 31-April 1, 2015
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
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** ALBANIA. 9855, March 31 at 2356, R. Tirana Albanian hour to N America in
closing music, 2357 national anthem, 2358 IS and off. Fair signal, no
interference co- or adjacent. Nearest signal is Chinese on 9865, no problem.
*2359 pops on 9850 instead with carrier and then IS until 2400*, i.e. setting
up for the next broadcast, English at 0130 on 5 kHz lower.
There is a slight QRM overlap, but not a big problem. By 2357 or so I am
hearing something underneath 9855, clear but poor at 2359, which turns out to
be VOA Tibetan via Kuwait, with a VOA jingle at 0001.
9850, April 1 at 0127, R. Tirana IS, fair with flutter. On the PL-880 with
short random wire, dbu ranges 31-51, average about 46. There are storms not far
away to the south in Oklahoma, and the noise floor level on unoccupied 9840
ranges 19-23 dbu. No adjacent or co-channel interference plus 5 or 10. In fact,
the only significants are bookends Turkey in Spanish back on same frequencies
as last A, 9770 and 9870. 0130 sign-on with correct times and frequencies for
the two English broadcasts starting March 29, into news.
Recheck at 0155 during closing music, still no QRM problem, dbu ranges 37-49;
0157 theme, 0158 IS to 0158.5*. So both frequencies are working well in the new
season. However, modulation is not sufficient; as Wolfy suggests, should add an
OPTIMOD to boost it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ALGERIA [non]. 13820, March 31 at 1942, music on very poor signal, must be
RTA via FRANCE as scheduled 18-20 UT, audible now that Cuba has moved all its
jammers to 13605 following Mart? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11745 & 11815, March 31 at 2355, crackling spurs from RNA 11780.1v
are audible already, and a trace on 11710 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 13605, March 31 at 1941, DentroCuban Jamming Command finally
hits R. Mart?`s A-frequency instead of B-frequency 13820 as they were still
doing this morning. RM is still atop the wall-of-noise and easily readable.
Arnie must have finally got around to reading my logs ridiculing their
incompetence; Sorry, Mart?, but this was no secret, as in HFCC for all to see
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See ALGERIA [non]
** GREECE. 15650, March 31 at 1939, dbu range 25-44, poor signal in music,
sounds ME or Greek, 1943 Greekish W&M talk; 1957 Greek music, plays past 2000,
but their clock is slow since a timesignal ends at 2000:49! Then surprise ID
for ``Radiophonikos Stathmos Makedonias``, theme, a bit of open carrier, and
cut off at 2001:41*. Maybe moved to 9420 but would not propagate now, and I`ve
not heard that for at least a week at night when it would (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 17550, March 31 at 2002, no signal from R. Kuwait, tho previous
frequency 13650 was audible poorly before 2000 and off now. By 2003 with BFO I
can detect a JBA carrier on 17550, so apparently it`s on but not a good day to
propagate. As always, nothing on 15540, the former English frequency (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. 17855, March 31 at 1935, no signal from REE, the new
frequency it started March 29 and 30 --- leaving 17850 FRANCE without QRM. Did
they see and act on my remark about absurdity of such adjacency on an almost
empty band? Tuning around, I find REE instead on 17715, poor signal in
Castilian, so is it still the North American beam? // fair 15490. Tuning
further, at 1940 I find the third frequency is another new one, 15450! Where
will they be tomorrow? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5850, March 31 at 2355, Global 24 via WRMI continues during the 23-24
hour only on weekdays, but it`s a good one: `Democracy Now`, which now has
coverage filling in numerous radio gaps, including Oklahoma. WRMI 11825 now off
the air at this hour except weekends with Global 24 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, March 31 at 1941, WTWW-3, Bible story in English with dramatic
music, VG signal, contrary to nominal schedule of Spanish this hour. Recheck
2006 now it`s in Brazuguese, scheduled as Portuguese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. March 31 at 1943, I notice that WTWW 9475 is audibly much weaker than
neighbor in TN, WWCR 9980, which continues to blast in despite some daytime
absorption affecting other USA 30-31 mb signals (and suspected mostly running
underpowered, too, and/or unfavorable antennas). So just for comparison, on the
PL-880 with a few meters of random wire, I take dbu readings for them all
within a few minutes at 1949-1956 UT, rearranged from weakest to strongest:
9515, 18-20, no signal measuring noise floor
9395, 20-26, WRMI
9265, 23-30, WINB
9840, 28-36, WHRI
9370, 27-47, WWRB
9475, 30-49, WTWW
10000, 50-53, WWV --- note steadiest and second strongest, only 10 kW
9980, 58-65, WWCR
9955, 20-24, no signal from WRMI, noise floor here
(Greenville/Mart? doesn`t start until 2000; WBCQ still silent on 9330)
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0317 UT April 1
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 07:08:49 +0200
From: Eike Bierwirth <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Berber test transmissions
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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H.Heinrich forwarded this info in the A-DX mailinglist from yet another
mailinglist, EuroRadio. An Algerian station named Radio Amazigh performs
test transmissions from 31 March until 4 April from international
waters. 1230-1300 UTC on (9805 plusminus 5) kHz. Languages: Kabyl and
French. Amazigh means Berber in Kabyl.
The first three broadcasts are in NBFM, the remaining two in AM.
RR (in French please) to [email protected]
73,
Eike
Laut einer Nachricht ?ber die Englischsprachige mailing-list EuroRadio,
wird von 31 M?rz bis 4 April aus hoher See getested.
Ein Algerischer Sender, der sich Radio Amazigh nennt, will an diesen
Tagen von 1230 bis 1300 auf 9805 kHz (+/- 5 kHz) testen.
Sprachen : Kabyl (Berber) und Franz?sisch. ?brigens Amazigh bedeutet
Berber in deren Sprache.
Komisch dabei is das die drei ersten Sendungen in NBFM abgewickelt
werden, die zwei letzten werden in AM ablaufen.
Empfangsberichte an [email protected]. Wenn m?glich sollten die
Berichte auf Franz?sich geschrieben sein.
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