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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs December 13-14, 2015 (Glenn Hauser)
2. BBC Uzbek Dushanbe 4790 kHz 1300-1330 UT, Dec 13
(Wolfgang Bueschel)
3. Log for 14.12.2015 (Ivan Lebedevsky)
4. Voice of Greece and Voice of America, Dec.14 (Ivo Observer)
5. Glenn Hauser logs December 14, 2015 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 05:26:21 +0000 (UTC)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 13-14, 2015
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
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** CUBA [non]. 9490, Dec 14 at 0202, R. Rep?blica is fair at S9 and no jamming
audible, but maybe due to lower MUF between Cuba and here than direct from
France.
R. Mart? also mostly clear, Dec 14 around 0207 on 7365 plus JBA leapfrog on
7425 and audio bleeding in under 7305 Vatican relay, all out of Greenville
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6951.0-AM, Dec 14 at 0212, weak S5 pirate with talk at
tune-in, repeating a couple words, sounds like ``fool, fool, fool`` and
another; 0215 recognized ``Lincolnshire Poacher`` IS. NO logs of this on HF
Underground tonight, last heard a month ago on another frequency, or rather
``Son of Lincolnshire Poacher``. Nor on Free Radio Cafe, but searching the
latter forum on 6951 finds several stations in the past, most recently Frederic
Chopin Radio on Nov 22 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. K17JN-D, RF 17, Enid, continues to regale us with six channels at
once of Three Angels Broadcasting Network, 3ABN, Seventh Day Adventism --- and
other than someone running across it when rescanning for DTV channels, I bet
I`m the only one in Enid who knows about this, due to absolutely no publicity
in local media. I`ve had a closer look at some of the lower-right bugs, hard to
decipher due to font on SD at least, to make out what the PSIP sub-IDs stand
for, and find:
17-2, 3ABN-PR means Proclaim!
17-3, 3ABN-DD means Dare to Dream
Per http://3abn.org/networks/ they have several more networks than the six we
get; can`t K17JN-D squeeze them in too? About::
``3ABN is not owned, operated or funded by any church, denomination or
organization, so people from all cultures and backgrounds appreciate 3ABN
programming. Many of 3ABN?s employees and volunteers are members of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.`` History:
Three Angels Broadcasting Network began in the early morning hours of November
15, 1984 when Danny Shelton, a carpenter from Southern Illinois, was kept awake
by troubling thoughts. . .
http://3abn.org/information/about/history/
HQ is in West Frankfort, Illinois.
This station remains the *only* local TV signal in this city of 50K, otherwise
forced to rely on fringe signals from OKC, requiring outdoor antennas and even
then some of them breaking up insufficiently.
Some other CPs or APPs are on file with FCC for Enid, and maybe like this one,
will eventually activate one day, tho we anticipate nothing better than yet
more gospel huxters or home shopping. None of the following have ever been
glimpsed even tho ``licensed``! FCC TV Query shows:
K19IR-D OK ENID LD LIC
Licensee: EICB-TV EAST, LLC, For 0.5 kW, but CP for 15 kW, like K17JN, but at
different site
And a NEW app for 1000 kW! on channel 21:
NEW OK ENID APP, Licensee: COMMUNITY TELEVISION EDUCATORS
which sounds like another gospel-huxter front
Three more from one company:
K36MV-D OK ENID LD CP Licensee: DTV AMERICA CORPORATION, 5 kW
K42LL-D OK ENID LD LIC Licensee: DTV AMERICA CORPORATION, 7 kW, CP 15
KUOC-LD OK ENID LD LIC Licensee: DTV AMERICA CORPORATION, ch 48, Licensed for 3
kW, CP for 10 kW
K45EJ has three entries, but all are DK45EJ meaning deleted, at least for now;
APPs and CPs from Griffin TV, i.e. KWTV-39, on behalf of its substation
KSBI-23. This was an analog translator of KSBI 52 under previous ownership but
really off the air for many years!
KXOK-LD 31 is also still on the FCC books altho has been defunct for more than
a year (Glenn Hauser, Enid, Dec 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1803 monitoring: after a terrific funky fill-music set
(who was that?) from 0345 UT Monday Dec 14, confirmed ontime at 0400 on Area 51
via WBCQ, 5109.7-CUSB; (and to compensate for pre?mption last week, followed by
WOR 1802 at 0430). 1803 also confirmed on WRMI webcast at 0430 UT Monday, but
at 0400 I had found 9955 already inaudible along with 9395, presumably on but
MUF`d out. Next:
Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW
BTW, Tom, W5KUB just informed me: Hi Glenn, I took your advice and changed the
frequency from 9330 to 5110 kHz. This is for our Amateur Radio Roundtable that
is live every Tuesday night at 8 pm Central. (0200 UT Wed) Thanks, Tom`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9475, Dec 13 at 2114, WTWW-1 is off, and not on night frequency 5830
either; but 12105, WTWW-3 is on with Brazuguese Bibling. Next check at 0203 UT
Dec 14: 5830 & 9475 are still off; 12105 still on with S9 signal of PPPP bonus
hour: sporadic E boost? 5085, WTWW-2 is also on now with Xmas music,
overmodulated/distorted, and still at 0403. By 0403 I can tell that 5830 is now
on but plummeting MUF has made it JBA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7504.77, Dec 14 at 0205, WRNO is S9+20, but music is suptorted (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 930, Dec 13 at 1850 UT, altho the noisy computer is on, I head to
the garaged caradio to hear if anything be audible in the absence of WKY: NO.
At least local device noise by sheer luck happens to land on frequencies away
from 930. Then to the NRD-545 with ALA330S aimed east-west: yes, a trace of a
JBA carrier, or two it seems, while nothing on the north-south NVL wire. Might
be skywave at lo noon, or remnants of groundwave, the closest other 930s being:
KCCC Carlsbad NM
KRKY Granby CO
KOGA Ogallala NE
WTAD Quincy IL
KWOC Poplar Bluff MO
WSFZ Jackson MS
KDET Center TX
KLUP Terrell Hills TX
By 2100 UT, when skywave might really be kicking in, WKY is back on (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 0526 UT December 14
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 11:11:29 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, "DXLD" <[email protected]>,
"DXplorer" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] BBC Uzbek Dushanbe 4790 kHz 1300-1330 UT, Dec 13
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TAJIKISTAN / CHINA Mainland
4790 kHz Jamming against BBC Uzbek via Dushanbe Yangi Yul
{4789.988 accurate} 1300-1330 UT on Dec 13.
Chinese security authority is much flexible, instead of China Opera mx
jamming, today Dec 13 came a WHITE NOISE interference on air, while jamming
the transmission in 60 meterband.
I heard in Karelia-Finland in Mauno's 8014port SDR.
And in St.P. and Moscow Russia:
log
Usual 4790 kHz TJK was 13 to 17 minutes earlier to warm up ON AIR already.
After my Tune-In I heard at 12.59:08 UT to 12.59: 37 UT the known
BBC / Babcock Control Room Cello / String Pause Music feed line filler from
Dushanbe Yangi Yul TJK, an S=9+10dB signal in Finland.
13.00:03 UT local Uzbek string instrument,
13.00:23 UT the station ID by a female voice.
Nothing heard of usual BBC Big Ben tower chime etc.
At 13.02:05 UT China put a strong NOISE jamming on air, BROADBAND WHITE
NOISE and metallic audio sound, as wideband around 8 kHz bandwidth.
The end of the BBC Uzbek broadcast was heard at 13.25:55 UT, a local string
instrument play, followed by the BBC / Babcock Control Room pause music
again, with cello / string instrument piece from 13.29:38 UT, this last
until 13.30:57 UT.
TX Dushanbe Yangi Yul transmitter carrier string switch connection O F F
at 13.31:07 UT.
The CHINA Noise Jammer remained until 13.32:55 UT in the air.
The 8 kHz bandwidth noise signal disappeared from SDR screen.
The other three BBC Uzbek broadcasts at 1300-1330 UT:
most 13865 kHz signal was disrupted, with a CNR word and 'Radio Play'
program, no music jamming observed on Dec 13.
S=9+30dB signal here in Europe.
But had the BBC Uzbek program on 15510 and 17780 kHz on top, little China
jamming here with us in Europe, but could be much worse and different in the
Uzbek / Uighur language target area in western China.
wb
ps.
Tajik R1 Dushanbe on 4765 kHz is on the same power strength level at this
time.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2015 12:10 AM
Subject: Re: [A-DX] UNID 4790 kHz
http://www.bbc.com/uzbek
re 17650 BBC Uzbek on website ??????????
Specifying 17650 kHz on the BBC website is not correct, but possibly part of
the VEIL behaviour or coming BBC frequency hopping aim to escape the Chinese
jamming.
In my estimation, Uzbek is not necessarily one of the various 65 Chinese
state national languages,
such as Tibetan and/or Uighur in western China location, the latter are for
years target of China Mainland radio broadcast jamming.
Uzbek as Turkic group language, but is determined by Chinese security
authority with this
Understood the background for jamming purpose.
Otherwise the security authorities would in giant empire not jam these short
30 minutes service.
If there would be no connection, otherwise the security authorities would
not jam these short 30 minutes service in giant empire.
73 wolfgang
- - -
Moin, Moin nach Tha Mai.
Re China Mainland Jamming gegen BBC Uzbek 1300-1330 UT Dec 12 !?
Dushanbe MW 1251 kHz
Dushanbe 4790 kHz
Oman 13865 u. 17780 kHz
Thailand 15510 kHz.
Today Dec 12 I had no Chinese Opera jamming, but the BBC Uzbek program Yangi
Yul 4789.988 kHz and also on the \\ 15510 kHz Thailand Nakhon Sawan relay
site S=9+30dB, and the BBC Oman relays 13865 S = 9 + 40, and weak on 17780
kHz also.
We had to talk with Mauno and Glenn in November about Chinese jamming
discussed programs against the BBC Uzbek, but later no longer persecuted.
The Jamming on 15510 kHz is also weaker than on 13865 and 17780 kHz.
73 wolfgang
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger" >
Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2015 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: [A-DX] UNID 4790 kHz
Am 12.12.2015 um 23:09 schrieb Roger:
> http://www.bbc.com/uzbek
> http://www.bbc.com/uzbek/bbc_uzbek_radio/p03b59rc
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hier die Frequenzangaben:
http://www.bbc.com/uzbek/institutional/radio
T?glich 18?? Taschkenter Zeit (= 13??UTC+5h) 17650 // 4790 // 1251
kHz MW + Sat
roger
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:42:47 +0300
From: Ivan Lebedevsky <[email protected]>
To: hcdx <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Log for 14.12.2015
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Log for 14.12.2015
12.28 utc, 9.750 kHz, Radio Japan, in japanese, good signal
12.30 utc, 9.575 kHz, Medi One, in french, good signal
12.32 utc, 9.590 kHz, China Radio Int, in russian, good signal
12.34 utc, 9.525 kHz, Voice of Indonesia, in english, weak signal
12.36 utc, 9.510 kHz, Voice of I.R.Iran, in pashto, weak signal
12.38 utc, 11.520 kHz, EWTN, in english, good signal
--
73! Ivan Lebedevsky
QTH: Vyritsa, Russia
RX: Grundig YB 80 with 5 m long wire.
Web: http://worlddx.ml/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/iworlddx
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 14:29:25 +0000
From: Ivo Observer <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Voice of Greece and Voice of America, Dec.14
Message-ID:
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GREECE Transmissions of Voice of Greece on December 14
0655-0725 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek, time announcement 0716UT!
0725-0745 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Serbian/Romanian/Spanish/Russian
1020-1030 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Romanian/Serbian/Russian & Music
No signal of Voice of Greece on 9420 after 1145UT, typical for Avlis
transmitter!http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2015/12/transmissions-of-voice-of-greece-on.html
USA(non) Additional transmissions of Voice of America to East Africa:
from Nov.30
1030-1100 on 13650 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to EaAf Somali Daily, no signal
1030-1100 on 15620 SAO 100 kW / 076 deg to EaAf Somali Daily, very weak
1030-1100 on 17550 BOT 100 kW / 010 deg to EaAf Somali Daily, powerful:
from Dec.14, video will be added later today
1630-1700 on 11770 SAO 100 kW / 076 deg to EaAf Amharic Mon-Fri
1630-1700 on 15580 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to EaAf Amharic
Mon-Frihttp://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2015/12/additional-trasnmissions-of-voice-of.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: 5
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 19:53:07 +0000 (UTC)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 14, 2015
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
** COLOMBIA. 6010.24v, Dec 14 at 0634, presumed LV de tu Conciencia carrier is
wavering audibly as I listen on SSB (Glenn Hauser, oK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6100, UT Mon Dec 14 at 0640, RHC English starting ``From Havana``
which is about local music performers, alternate Sundays. Strongest frequency,
but carrier is wobbling (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 11675, Dec 14 at 1420, bit of VIRI IS before cutoff at 1421*; I think
it was about S9 but barely had a chance to look at the meter. Thus ends the
Urdu sesquihour, 500 kW, 178 degrees from Kamalabad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 580, Dec 14 at 0704 UT, bit of Mexican NA mixed with CBS News on
WIBW KS. Ergo it`s not XEMU in Coahuila, but midnight+ in the UT-7 zone where
exist two stations in the five states where that`s vigent winterly: XEFI
Chihuahua2, or XEHO Ciudad Obreg?n, Sonora. Cf. this handy color-coded timezone
map, whence you may also reach such for other worldparts:
http://www.worldtimezone.com/time-mexico12.php
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Without doing another full FM bandscan, I can report that as of
1915 UT December 14, the following Enid stations are still off following the
Nov 28-29 icestorm:
88.3, K202BY, Family Radio
94.3, KLGB-LP
This gives me an excuse to refer to a photo of the icestorm aftermath: my main
longwire antenna for SW, sagging but never broken, unlike the poor tree next to
it:
http://www.w4uvh.net/iceant20151129.jpg
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 6080, Dec 14 at 0636, VOA International Edition, with report from
climate agreement in Paris; 0639 offers free 2016 VOA calendar with photos of
America`s #1 city, New York, by P-mail if requested by E-mail to
[email protected] VG at steady S9+20, obviously Greenville site still
substituting for S?o Tom?, but during this semihour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** YEMEN [non]. 11860, Dec 14 at 1419, R. Sana`a clandestine continues to put
in amazing signals this hour; is it really for deep North America instead of
Yemen?? Since 1403 tune-in, S9+20 during rousing music making me want to
overthrow the usurpers; 1425 break for an exhortative speech in Arabic, soon
back to music, shifting at 1436 to brief Qur`an*, and tnx to long pregnant
pauses, now I can hear IBB Kuwait to Afghanistan underneath, a collision still
not resolved.
Yemen still VG with music past 1505. Allegedly via 50 kW ND Jeddah, SAUDI
ARABIA transmitter, but no signal on 25m from Mideast anywhere near comparable;
e.g., Turkey on 12035 at 1417 altho aimed toward us was only S6-S9 with
flutter. So where is this Yemeni really via???
*As for the Qur`an break, this site
http://www.gaisma.com/en/dir/ye-country.html
has an amazing number of Yemeni localities for a relatively small country,
showing Sana`a (San`a with a macron over the last A) sunset today was 1434 UT
--- and Aden (`Adan), even closer, right on 1436! So it was vespers, time for a
5x-a-day prayer break. Such precision can be helpful in identifying the source,
if not the site, of other Qur`anic broadcasts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1140, Dec 14 at 1347 UT, Casper.com ad but it`s about mattresses,
not Wyoming, so not necessarily the 10 kW daytimer KZMQ in Greybull (Cody
address); in English, roughly east-west and soon losing out to Spanish, no
doubt KLTK Arkansas. I`d like to think the casper station was NV, CA, or ID,
all with very unfavorable night patterns for us, but there are a number of
little stations east of Arkansas; Enid sunrise was 1335 UT today (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11590, Dec 14 at 1421, S9+10 in S Asian? language, i.e. KTWR GUAM
at 1345-1430? HFCC says langs are VARiable and EiBi leaves it blank. So to Aoki
for that detail: NO, no 11590 entries at all!
More than a sesquimonth into the B-15 season, Aoki has still not put up an
easily accessible plain text version of the frequency schedule; via
http://www1.s2.starcat.ne.jp/ndxc/news.htm one must choose either an xlsx
version unfriendly to my computer, or a condensed user list for Perseus which
is zipped --- but if you open that you will find that the traditional full Aoki
sked in text format is also ready to be unzipped, from the current or very
recent date.
BUT, consulting that, no 11590 entries either!! How about the Bulgarian B15
archive of schedules for TWR?
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/11/trans-world-radio-europe-africa-india.html
No 11590 there either, altho KTWR is included. During this time period on
weekdays it does have:
1345-1500 on 9910 TWR 100 kW / 345 deg to EaAs Korean Mon-Fri
1400-1430 on 9975 TWR 200 kW / 315 deg to EaAs Cantonese Mon-Fri
So maybe a replacement for one of those, but sure didn`t sound like either
language to me; or not TWR at all on 11590 now? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 12065, Dec 14 at 1415, music not // to 12085 Australia, so keep
listening and at 1416, it`s a BaBcoCk test asking for reports to
[email protected] and back to BaBcoCk theme in medley of many music
forms, sitar, fado, etc. This is S9+10, while 12085 is merely S9.
12065 RA normally has CCI from BBC Singapore collision at 1330-1430 & 1500-1600
et al. sites later, but what`s the point of this additional CCI? Nominal
assumption is that these tests come from Woofferton UK site, perhaps merely for
training, but BaBcoCk controls lots of others. Recheck at 1422, it`s off
already, uncovering weak S7 RA // 12085, which I couldn`t even hear while
BaBcoCk was on (nor BBC in Hindi --- which ought to be moving off 12065 which
ABC has claimed for itself 12 hours a day, tough luck, BBC) (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1954 UT December 14
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