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Today's Topics:
1. JRX Logs: April 11, 2016. (Jota Xavier)
2. QSL Radio Nacional da Amaz?nia 6180 kHz (Daniel Wyllyans)
3. Glenn Hauser logs April 11-12, 2016 (Glenn Hauser)
4. JRX Logs: April 12, 2016. (Jota Xavier)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 12:56:01 +0000 (UTC)
From: Jota Xavier <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
yahoogroups <[email protected]>, Yahoo! Brazil
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] JRX Logs: April 11, 2016.
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JRX Logs: April 11, 2016.
AUSTRALIA
+15415, Apr 11, 2016. 2130-2140, Radio Australia, Shepparton. OM/YL talks news,
in english. Fair broadc, 35433.
BRAZIL
+15190, Apr 11, 2016. 1755-1805, R. Inconfid?ncia, Contagem. Pgm in portuguese;
Inconfid?ncia News; ID. R. Pilipinas better than Inconfid?ncia in certain
moments. In resume, this transmission is a collision, it?s true.
CHINA
+9490, Apr 11, 2016. 2201-2210, CRI, Beijing. OM presents News in spanish; ID;
China rforms: restructuring of the economy. Good broadc, 45444.
FRANCE
+21580, Apr 11, 2016. 1720-1727, RFI, Issoudun. Pgm in french; YL/OM talks and
cms abt policy and democracy in few african countries; ID. Good signal and
modulation, 45444.
+21690, Apr 11, 2016. 1700-1720, RFI, Issoudun. Pgm in portuguese; YL/OM
presents RFI Newsletter; ID. Very good broadc, 45444.
GERMANY
+15275, Apr 11, 2016. 1744-1750, D.Welle, Issoudun. YL talks in french; mx; ID.
Fair station, 35333.
IRAN
17630 and 21610, Apr 11, 2016. 1020-1030, VOIRI, Sirjan, in portuguese (new
entry). No signal, no modulation, none.
SWEDEN
+15510, Apr 11, 2016. 1735-1742, IBRA Radio, Woofferton. OM talks in bedawi
lang; a short mx. Fair signal and poor modulation, 35332.
UNITED KINGDOM
+15180, Apr 11, 2016. 1806-1811, BBC, Woofferton. YL/OM talks in french abr the
african imigration to Europe and conversation w/ a African Union; ID. Good
signal and fair modulation, 45433.
UNITED STATES OF AMRICA
+11930, Apr 11, 2016. 2211-2216, Radio Mart?, Greenville. YL/OM presents news
in spanish; ID, Mart? Noticias. Good signal, slight to moderate interference by
BSKSA Holy Qur?an on 11930kHz, too, 43433.
DXer - Jos? Ronaldo Xavier? (JRX)
Cabedelo, PB, Brazil? location (UTC-3)
RX (s)? Tecsun S-2000
Portable Telescopic? antenna
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 14:05:47 -0300
From: Daniel Wyllyans <[email protected]>
To: Hard-Core-DX <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] QSL Radio Nacional da Amaz?nia 6180 kHz
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QSL Radio Nacional da Amaz?nia 6180 kHz
Recebido QSL em apenas 4 dias por carta registrada! chegou confirmando 6180
kHz mas a escuta na verdade foi em 6.181.200 kHz email para informes -
[email protected] e [email protected] segue a escuta -
6181.200 kHz Radio Nacional da Amaz?nia (+ Anomalia #2) Notada nova
anomalia as 13:01 UTC no IC-R75 Presizamente em 6.181.200 kHz ,passando o
nacional informa com YL . SINPO 45444
Dia 31 Mar?o 2016
Certamente os tecnicos est?o trabalhando no parque de ondas curtas do
rodeador.
Veja as fotos onde fica o parque do rodeador:
https://dxswl.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/visita-ao-parque-do-rodeador-ebcradiobras/
RX : Icom IC-R75 Antenna: Beverage simples NSSEA-21
http://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com.br/2016/04/qsl-radio-nacional-da-amazonia-6180-khz.html
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 17:34:42 +0000 (UTC)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 11-12, 2016
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** ARGENTINA. 15344.86, April 11 at 2354, S3 signal in distorted Spanish, i.e.
RAE shortly before QSY to 11710.7v. I also notice this always-off-frequency but
variable carrier around 1350 April 12 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 9580, Tue April 12 at 1341, American folk music, so must still be
`Daily Planet` on RA. Unlike yesterday`s check, RA program schedule now shows
DP at 13-14 Mon-Thu; no more `LNL`, but `Conversations with Richard Fidler`
continue at 14-15.
Every time I go to RA sked, some cookie insists on displaying it in ``London
time``, but my computer really stays on UT, so I`m always having to change that
from the drop-down timezone locality list, which includes lots of exotic
locales from Kerguelen Island, to Srednekolymsk to Qyzylorda (but not Enid!),
going to the very end where UTC finally appears as if it were the least, rather
than most important!
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/programschedule?timezone=UTC&stream=ras-1
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 12230.0, April 11 at 2350, very poor S2 AM signal with music; first
checked 6115 WWCR but NOT // so not a second harmonic of that, rather something
more exotic. RHC is the logical next option; how about a leapfrog? Yes! making
a match on // 11670, 11760, 11840, but not 11950 which is separate with talk
during `Mesa Redonda` TV simulcast hour. 12230, however, results from a
leapfrog of 11670 over 11950 another 280 kHz higher. All of these are from
Bauta site except 11840 Quivic?n (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 15400.08, April 12 at 1352, very poor with some music modulation. A
well-known BBC frequency, I figure this is probably the UAE or RSA site,
well-known for frequency inaccuracy --- but, no, per HFCC only thing at this
hour is R. Cairo in Prs, 250 kW, 61 degrees from Abis at 1300-1400. In this
case, as WRTH reveals, Prs really means Dari, not pure Persian. Being only 80
Hz off is pretty good for ERTU (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9934.964, April 11 at 2106, Greek talk under whine, ERT also as
usual slightly off to the low side.
11644.965, April 12 at 0526, ERT whine with trace of modulation, S7-S4 with
flutter, so the grossly defective 9935 transmitter has moved up here now; why
bother at all? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9525, April 12 at 1345, VOI in the clear, but just barely
modulated at S3-S5, so once again SWLing it is pointless. One might listen
online, however, and also participate in the Wonderful Indonesia Quiz,
http://en.voi.co.id/voi-program-highlight/10798-wonderful-indonesia-quiz-2016
possibly winning a free visit to Indonesia. There, I have just diminished my
own chances should I decide to participate, but if you win as a result of this
notice, how about a tip of the hat? Get your passport first. Deadline is May 7.
I think past trips have been in August or September, with a small group of
alleged listeners from different countries (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 11985.0175 approx., April 11 at 2059, song until cutoff at
2100*. HFCC shows it`s NHK French, 250 kW, 305 degrees via Talata at 2030-2100.
So MGLOB is yet another site with lax frequency control. It was obviously off,
as with BFO I tuned by on 1 kHz steps, then refined on the R75 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 90.1, April 12 at 0450 UT I am listening to KUCO Edmond with
overnight `Sleepers Awake` classical music service from WCPE in North Carolina,
when the modulation goes dead circa 0455 UT. At first I wonder if my radio
volume control is at fault, but no, other stations are still heard. Still dead
by 0515 UT.
That`s what happens when you rely on automation rather than paying a genuine
human to be at the controls at all hours --- something apparently completely
out of the question in today`s broadcasting world. Instead, some poor staffer
probably had to make a trip to the studio eventually in the middle of the
night; whenever anyone in charge noticed.
91.7, April 12 at 1400 UT, KOSU goes to dead air too after `The Living Room`
monthly discussion show; finally JIP NPR news about two minutes later. Surely
there was really an human nearby at this hour. Such outages are all too common
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 11870, April 11 at 2057, RRI IS in the clear on AM, no DRM, so have
they fixed the auto-collision, or did the DRM transmitter go off just before I
tuned in? AM closes in less than a minute, as does somewhat weaker // 13650.
The second frequency for North America, English at 2030 was originally supposed
to be 15170, as Wolfgang B?schel points out. It`s not too late to go there
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1820 monitoring: confirmed Monday April 11 from
2329:23 on WBCQ 9330.02-CUSB. (The Planet ID & IS already playing at 2325;
another measurement at 2355 comes closer to 9330.03). Next:
Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE [new]
Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW
Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 21675, April 12 at 1358, TOM theme via Radio Africa Network via WRMI,
at S9+20, instead of usual JBA carrier, so is getting sporadic E boost. After
1400 into other music not // TOM frequencies. 15610 WEWN is also much stronger
than usual, S9+20, but 15825 WWCR is still poor at S8. 15555-USB WJHR is just
starting with ``Rock of Ages`` theme, S9 despite peanut-power.
Therefore I conclude the sporadic E opening up to at least 22 MHz is operative
from southeast, but not east. Nothing audible here on 12 or 10m. Checked at
1455, the 6m ham dxmap shows no activity, but on 10m there are lots of mostly
east-west coast-to-coast contacts by unknown mode, which might imply F2, but
that would not be affecting 15 MHz as close as 1 megameter, nor maybe even 21
MHz at 2 megameters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050, April 11 at 2319, I find DJ Dave Frantz is devoting this hour
on WWRB to pitching for new business, alternating with some tunes. Similar
spiel from one break to the next. Summarizing his points:
WWRB is not using souped-up military surplus junk transmitters from the 1940s,
such as a BC-610, but state-of-the-art Harris 100 kW transmitters with
solid-state modulators which can change frequencies from 1 to 30 megacycles in
10 seconds, frequency-agile auto-tune.
Has professional, top-notch, modern rhombic antennas on real radio towers 200
feet high, not lower telephone poles. No guessing, antenna radiation patterns
have been measured by flying around the site, with instruments on one of his
airplanes. Also used to locate FM pirates down to 3 meters for clients, takes
only 15 minutes, but it`s expensive. 5050 is now running the #4 transmitter at
95% (? I didn`t copy this number for sure) efficiency. Brother Ben is coming at
top of hour.
WWRB wants to sell time only in the evenings until midnight ET when there is a
shortwave audience, not 3 am overnight and certainly not 3 pm in the daytime
when you would be wasting your money.
An Islamic broadcaster starts this week with Holy Qur`an in English to USA,
Central America, Caribbean (no time or frequency given! nor does he ever
mention airtime rates). Purchasers of one program hour or 100 are all welcome.
It`s clear to me that denigrating ``surplus junk`` like the BC-610 is a dig at
WBCQ; and ``200-foot towers instead of telephone poles`` is a dig at WTWW and
WWCR.
Meanwhile I have received more e-mail from Dave, about an hour after this
broadcast, edited here only for style:
``Greetings! Lots of questions on our format change and are we still
'Christian' ??? Our reply is we no longer put up with: WORTHLESS Christian lip
service --- We're going to PRAY for you.
We are 'quid pro quo' NOW!!!
When a requesting church / pastor wants us to come over and fix their air
conditioning system, computers, video, PA systems, re-lamp, rig, or paint their
radio tower, fix their FM transmitter, AM transmitter --- WHAT EVER, We tell
them right then: what are your going to DO for US in RETURN, period, and they
have to sign a contract!
No more we`re going to PRAY for you or one-sided Christian bull shit. For years
this is ALL we have heard & endured. They get MAD as hell --- better THEM than
US! No more hurt or utter abject disappointment of being grievously used ---
The source of my so called 'rant's as you put it! Only TWO types of people in
this world: GIVERS & TAKERS``
I replied: ``Hi Dave, I also heard your pitches this evening and will be
summarizing them --- putting down WBCQ, WWCR, WTWW --- I hope you will be
putting an up to date program schedule on your website before long. 73, Glenn``
And he replied again:
``Not putting down anybody, just telling listeners / potential broadcasters we
operate 'modern' auto tuned transmitter equipment that performs with high
efficiency, and new automation equipment.
160 foot high (sag point) suspended on steel towers rhombic antennas proved and
adjusted by aircraft; (N5259Q, our radio survey aircraft). Not guessing on the
patterns: and they MEET THE 10 dB GAIN rule at 3 MHz.
We are the ONLY SW station ever inspected by the FCC and they are welcomed here
at any time, with the caveat to inspect ALL of us! and prove their facilities
like we had to, including the 10 dB rule at 3 MHz.
WWRB is a business now and we are marketing our facilities. I am sorry if you
got the impression we we're putting someone down; as you are aware, the
unlicensed pirates in the upper 6 MHz band are PLENTIFUL and no doubt running
military surplus gear, like BC-610-s etc. (had one myself years ago). Now that
WWRB is a free speech radio station they are welcomed to join us, be legal and
be heard!! Come out of the shadows --- WELCOMED on WWRB.
In closing, We do not play games; after 7 NO-KNOCK FCC inspections, we KNOW
they EXIST AND mean business!!! and know their shit. It's a damm good thing we
were / are operating by the rules when they came, or it would have been our
ass!`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9475, April 12 at 0543, poor S7-S5 signal with SFAW, and nothing on
5830, so yet again Ted has neglected to change WTWW-1 to night frequency (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12050 // 13830 in Spanish, and 15610 in English, April 11 at 2058,
all three WEWN transmitters are now vigorous. Previously one frequency or
another was AWOL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9265, April 12 at 1349, surprised to find a gospel huxter about
pharisees at this early hour on a Tuesday: got to be WINB uniquely scheduled
here. Own website sked as of April 3 still shows it not signing on until 2 pm
ET on weekdays (*18 UT; Saturday *1430, Sunday *1130). So a lot of new
customers? Who were pharisees, anyway?
http://www.gotquestions.org/Sadducees-Pharisees.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1560, April 12 at 0556 UT, promo for Yahoo Sports Radio shows,
dominating even on E-W longwire, but no doubt KGOW Bellaire (Houston market)
TX, 46 kW day power and pattern to the NE, rather than 15 kW night to the SE;
as others have reported lately, including this just in from George Thurman,
Houston:
Can you get KGOW 1560 up there at night? They have been running BOTH of their
transmitter sites at the same [time] at night. I reported it to the CE. GEORGE
THURMAN`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** YEMEN [non]. 11860, April 12 at 1313, Republic of Yemen Radio, modulation is
cutting off and on, YL in Arabic, mostly off, at S8-S3; 1319 back on to stay;
by 1340 interview it`s up to S9 to S9+10.
I`m checking the A-16 HFCC whether there is any scheduled usage of 25m now by
Riyadh site around this time, to compare signals? NO, nothing at all between 12
and 18 UT. How about Jeddah? Yes, still a suspicious one obviously not in use
on frequency listed as 50 kW, non-direxional:
``11855 0600 1700 38E,39,48NW JED 50 0 Ara ARS ARS ARS``
And as exhaustively discussed in past months, the 11860 signal has got to be
much higher power, more likely from Riyadh, but still very veiled (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1480, April 12 at 1230-1245 UT, again no sign of ``1290 y 1480
Qu? Buena``, mostly KQAM Wichita dominating as it will do more and more with
earlying sunrises.
Thinking about this, where are there a 1290/1480 pair in nearby cities, close
enough, yet far enough to make sense for a such a duo? Laramie & Cheyenne WY,
both of which would need to have radically changed format, as 1290 KOWB is/was
news/talk/sport in English; and 1480 KRAE Cheyenne is/was nostalgia/oldies.
Could Coloradans if not Wyomingans check these? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6133 approx., April 12 at 0548, rapid pulsing with tones, like a
jammer, but sounding different than anything heard before (and not like any of
my domestic devices such as DTV cable converter boxes which transmit to infest
various SW frequencies). Victim is 6135, BBC Hausa via Ascension during this
semihour only, surely not likely to be deliberately jammed, and evitable
completely by USB tuning. Maybe it`s the defective Radio Aparecida transmitter
normally on 6135.2? If not Radio Santa Cruz, normally off 6134.8 by this hour
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 18970, April 12 at 1306, JBA carrier; 18990, April 12 at 1357,
S2-S3 carrier, so RFA Tibetan via Kuwait? If so, either not adhering to
schedule in DXLD 16-14, and/or ChiCom jammer is on wrong frequency. 18970 is
not on the schedule at all, while 18990 is not on sked at this hour; 18980 is
supposed to be the Tue 13-14 frequency, splitting the difference? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1735 UT April 1
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 23:14:28 +0000 (UTC)
From: Jota Xavier <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
yahoogroups <[email protected]>, Yahoo! Brazil
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] JRX Logs: April 12, 2016.
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JRX Logs: April 12, 2016.
ARGENTINA
+15345, Apr 12, 2016. 2115-2120, RAE, Gral Pacheco. German sce; YL talks;
argentinian song. Variety weak signal, S2-3, and very poor or barely audible
modulation, 25432 to 25431.
EGYPT
+12005, Apr 12, 2016. 2213-2220, Radio Cairo, Abis. Portuguese sce. Open
carrier, S4, dead air.
+13580, Apr 12, 2016. 2150-2155, Radio Cairo, Abis. French sce. Open carrier,
S4, dead air.
INDIA
+11710, Apr 12, 2016. 2032-2037, AIR, Khampur. YL talks in french. Weak signal,
interference by CNR1, and very poor modulation, 33432.
JAPAN
+12015, Apr 12, 2016. 0401-0415, Radio Japan, Furman. YL/OM presents News, in
spanish; ID. Very good signal and modulation, 45544.
MOROCCO
+9575, Apr 2156-2202, Medi1, Nador. Music; OM talks in arabic. Radio Medi 1 has
a transmitter problem: Very good signal, S4, and very poor or barely audible
modulation, 45442 to 45441.
ROMANIA
+17745, Apr 12, 2016. 2123-2130, RRI, Tiganesti, in spanish. A romanian pop mx;
ID; 2026 YL: pgm "Rumania Turistica".? Good signal and fair to poor modulation,
45333 to 45332.
SAUDI ARABIA
+11930, Apr 12, 2016. 2038-2047, BSKSA, Riyadh. Holy Qur?an; 2046 OM talks.
Today, BSKSA has a better modulationl than R. Mart? (yesterday, Apr 11, R.
Mart? has a better modulation than BSKSA), 43433 to 43432.
SOUTH KOREA
+13585, Apr 12, 2016. 2048-2053, KBS, Dhabbaya. YL/OM talks in arabic; mx
pause; YL talks. Good signal and fair modulation, 45433.
USA
+11945, Apr 12, 2016. 2130-2140, RFA, Saipan. OM talks in korean; mx pause; YL
talks. Good signal, but poor modulation, 45442.
????????????? // 9700kHz, Tinian, 35331.
+12050, Apr 12, 2016. 2054-2059, Dandal Kura Radio, Ascension. YL/OM talks in
kanuri lang; music, ID, website. Very good station, 45544..
+12050, Apr 12, 2016. 2100-2110, R. Catolica Mundial, Vandiver, in spanish. ID.
At this time, transmitting pgm of Radio Vaticana, in spanish, till 2128UT. News
of catholic church. ID: "Radio Vaticana, la Radio del Papa". Weak broadc, 35333.
+15825, Apr 12, 2016. 2140-2150, WWCR, Nashville. Spanish sce; YL talks
listenner?s correspondence; a rel song in spanish; other song; 1845 pgm
"Enfoque a la Familia". Fair signal and modulation, 35433 (1st log in spanish
sce).
DXer - Jos? Ronaldo Xavier? (JRX)
Cabedelo, PB, Brazil? location (UTC-3)
RX (s)? Sony ICF-SW100S & Tecsun S-2000
Portable Telescopic? antenna
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