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published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
Today's Topics:
1. About Armed Forces Day 2016 (Manuel M?ndez)
2. La Rosa de Tokio para este fin de semana: La radio en la
provincia argentina de San Luis ([email protected])
3. Re: Glenn Hauser logs May 10-11-12, 2016 (Mauno Ritola)
4. 3325 kHz? (Daniel Wyllyans)
5. Re: [dxld] Reach Beyond Australia - 7 May 2016 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
6. JRX Logs: Friday, May 13, 2016. (Jota Xavier)
7. Glenn Hauser logs May 14-15, 2016 (Glenn Hauser)
8. Re: Glenn Hauser logs May 14-15, 2016 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 07:41:23 +0200
From: Manuel M?ndez <[email protected]>
To: "DX Listenig Digest" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] About Armed Forces Day 2016
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Manuel M?ndez
Lugo, Spain
Jim Pogue send me this e-mail:
"A reminder that WUG-2, the radio station of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Memphis District, will be on the air this Saturday for the 2016 Armed Forces
Day Crossband Military/Amateur Radio Communications Test. Information on our
planned operations are listed below:
WUG-2 / ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, TN (14 MAY 1300Z-15 MAY 0200Z)
FREQUENCY EMISSION AMATEUR BAND
5,403.5 kHz USB 60M
13,910.5 kHz USB/CW 20M
18,293.0 kHz USB/CW 17M
20,973.5 kHz USB/CW 15M
As in years past, we will have a unique QSL card printed and available for
WUG-2 to confirm amateur crossband contacts and correct SWL reports. Just send
your card or report to me at the following address:
Jim Pogue
Chief, Public Affairs Office
Memphis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
167 N. Main St., Room B-202
Memphis, TN 38103-1894
No return postage or SASE is needed for either domestic or international
contacts/reports.
Please share this information to ensure the widest distribution possible. 73
and we look forward to working or hearing from you.
Jim Pogue ? KH2AR/W4"
---
El software de antivirus Avast ha analizado este correo electr?nico en busca de
virus.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 06:48:16 -0300 (ART)
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] La Rosa de Tokio para este fin de semana: La radio en
la provincia argentina de San Luis
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
La Rosa de Tokio es un programa dedicado a difundir el apasionante mundo de la
radio y del diexismo que se transmite semanalmente desde los estudios de LS11
Radio Provincia de Buenos Aires.
En este programa relevaremos la historia de la radiodifusi?n en la provincia de
San Luis, ubicada en
el oeste de la Rep?blica Argentina.
No se pierdan los archivos de audio hist?ricos con los cuales se "ilustra"
cada programa.
La Rosa de Tokio puede ser escuchada los d?as s?bados de 12:00 a 13:00 Tiempo
Universal Coordinado (09:00 a 10:00 hora LU) por los 1270 Khz y en Internet por
http://www.amprovincia.com.ar
Adem?s, una extensa red de emisoras de frecuencia modulada de toda la Rep?blica
Argentina retransmite en forma semanal nuestro programa en diferentes d?as y
horarios.
La Rosa de Tokio tambi?n sale por onda corta gracias a las facilidades brindadas
por WRMI Radio Miami Internacional (http://www.wrmi.net
Tambi?n puede ser escuchada en cualquier momento entrando en la p?gina
ProgramasDX y haciendo "click" en http://programasdx.com/larosadetokio.htm
Desde este v?nculo tambi?n podr?n acceder al archivo que recaba ediciones
anteriores del programa.
La Rosa de Tokio es producida y conducida por Omar Jos? Somma y Arnaldo Leonel
Slaen y cuenta con la colaboraci?n habitual de Rub?n Guillermo Margenet, desde
Rosario y Alejandro Daniel Alvarez, desde Neuquen.
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 15:25:05 +0300
From: Mauno Ritola <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], DXLD <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 10-11-12, 2016
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
?
It says, that both are in English to same target area, nothing whether
it is "Beijing Hour" or other programme.
MR
12.5.2016, 23:41, Wolfgang Bueschel kirjoitti:
>
> WRTH PDF Update IR6 shows also 9730 kHz in parallel ????
>
> English CRI
> 1300-1400 daily SEA 9730bei, 11910bei
>
> wb
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Hauser via Hard-Core-DX"
> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016 8:34 PM
> Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 10-11-12, 2016
>
>> CHINA. 11910, May 11 at 1330, I`m checking again for the anomalous CRI
>> English programming, compared to 11900, but this time 11900 is not
>> audible. 11910 is very poor and unseems // 9570 via Cuba.
>>
>> 11910, May 12 at 1335, now I can hear both this and 11900, altho
>> 11910 is
>> very poor; 11900 is running 3 seconds ahead of Cuba 9570.
>>
>> Peter W. Hanson in south Florida reminds us on the DXLD yg: ``Hi Glenn,
>> that 11910 frequency has always been different from the rest of the CRI
>> frequencies at 1300 UT. If I remember correctly that used to be the REE
>> relay on CRI. It broadcasts the Beijing Hour now instead of what`s on
>> 1008. Otherwise everything I've been able to monitor so far on the
>> rest of
>> the CRI frequencies have played what is on the 1008 schedule provided by
>> Alan Roe``
>>
>> Ah, yes, when the REE relays were canceled a sesquiyear ago, 11910
>> stayed
>> on the air and was immediately filled by CRI programming, which
>> evidently
>> still hasn`t been integrated into their full regular schedule. So now
>> the
>> only SW chance to hear the once-pervasive `Beijing Hour` show?
>> (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1825, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
>
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 14:48:51 -0300
From: Daniel Wyllyans <[email protected]>
To: Hard-Core-DX <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] 3325 kHz?
Message-ID:
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I have problem in the video camcord, but follows the audio you
indentification you know he what would that emission in 3325 kHz? Radio
Republik Indonesia Palangkaraya? al NBC Radio Bougainville 3325 kHz? was on
April 22, 2016 at 10:22 UTC in Video in
https://www.facebook.com/DanielWyllyansEliziaMartinsIzabelaRodriguesGabriel/videos/177557479310503/
Tony Ashar / After playing several times, I prefer to say that OM voice
wasn't Indonesian.
=============================================
Eu tenho problema na filmadora de v?deo, mas segue o ?udio para que voc?
indentifique voc? sabe que o que seria na emiss?o em 3325 kHz ? R?dio
Republik Indon?sia Palangkaraya? ou NBC Radio Bougainville 3325 kHz? foi em
22 de abril de 2016 ?s 10:22 UTC em video aqui
https://www.facebook.com/DanielWyllyansEliziaMartinsIzabelaRodriguesGabriel/videos/177557479310503/
Tony Ashar / After playing several times, I prefer to say that OM voice
wasn't Indonesian.
IN MP3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYm5i5R-4A4&feature=youtu.be
RX : Tecsun S-2000 Antenna: Beverage simples NSSEA-21
Daniel Wyllyans Nova Xavantina MT Brazil
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 01:14:08 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, "DXLD" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Reach Beyond Australia - 7 May 2016
Message-ID: <B7D35291693D404D81754F60E2EBEC0C@HNPC2>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8";
reply-type=original
AUSTRALIA 15524.986 "Reach Beyond Australia" in probably Cantonese Chinese
language, talk by woman, now at 2312 UT a light music relig? singer.
At 2310 UT on May 14-UT, S=6 signal in nearby skip zone in Brisbane
Queensland remote unit.
wb df5sx
----- Original Message -----
From: "[email protected] [dxld]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2016 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: [dxld] Reach Beyond Australia - 7 May 2016
> Reach Beyond via long path (presumed), audible with a weak signal starting
> at 21:55:10z on 9625. Flute music with occasional voice overs. Central
> Texas is an additional 1000 miles of distance and daylight past Miami.
>
> Local noise level is about S-2, Kununurra is only at about S-3 to S-4.
>
> JLenamon, Waco Tx, Drake R-8B, Wellbrook ALA 330
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 01:43:09 +0000 (UTC)
From: Jota Xavier <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
yahoogroups <[email protected]>, Yahoo! Brazil
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] JRX Logs: Friday, May 13, 2016.
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
JRX Logs: Friday, May 13, 2016.
ALBANIA
+9855, May 13, 2016. 2318-2323, Radio Tirana, Shijiak. OM talks in albanian; a
song by female singer. Poor signal and barely audible modulation, 25431
(sometimes, 25432).
AUSTRALIA
+15415, May 13, 2016. 2202-2207, Radio Australia, Shepparton. YL/OM talks in
english; ID. Fair signal and poor modulation, 35432. No signal on 15240 and
17840kHz.
CLANDESTINE
+11700, May 13, 2016. 1918-1930, Radio Biafra, Kostinbrod. YL/OM talks in
english. Radio Biafra is on air, but? severely impaired by CRI, strong signal
in french, on 11695kHz.
EGYPT
+9325, May 13, 2016. 1930-1940, Radio Cairo, Abis, hausa sce. Open carrier
(S3-4), OM/YL talks w/ severe distorted sound modulation; unlistenable in some
moments. No conditions to evaluate by SINPO code.
+12005, May 13, 2016. 2304-2309, Radio Cairo, Abis, portuguese sce. YL talks,
but severe distorted sound modulation, 35421.
+13580, May 13, 2016. 2153-2158, Radio Cairo, Abis, french sce. On air (YL
talks; song by female singer) but severe distorted sound modulation, 45421.
GREECE
+9935, May 13, 2016. 2230-2240, Voice of Greece, Avlis, in greek. Greek song;
ID, YL/OM talks. Good broadc, 45444.
INDIA
+7550, May 13, 2016. 2115-2130, All India Radio, Bangalore. YL/OM, conversation
in english (EiBi says: 2045-2230 UT All India Radio DIGITAL? E? 7550b) and AIR
Vividh Bharati DIGITAL? HI? SAs 7550b, too. Very good signal and modulation,
45444.
IRAN
+11695, May 13, 2016. 2132-2137, VOIRI, Sirjan. YL talks in japanese; Qur?an
chant pause. Good signal w/ distorted modulation, 35433.
MADAGASCAR
+11615, May 13, 2016. 2138-2143, Madagascar World Voice, Mahajanga. OMs:
conversation in mandarin. Fair signal and modulation, 35333.
MALI
+5995, May 13, 2016. 2003-2017, RTV du Mali, Bamako. OM talks in french or
bambara (?); 2015 regional music. Very poor signal and barely audible
modulation, 25431 (sometimes, 25432).
NIGERIA
+7255, May 13, 2016. 1852-1903, Voice of Nigeria, Abuja-Lugbe. YL/OM talks, in
english w/ accent; YL talks, ID, drums Good signal, but moderate distorted
sound modulation, 45432. Note: After 1900UT, a authentic collision w/ CRI in
turkish.
PHILIPPINES
+12095, May 13, 2016. 2310-2317, FEBC Manila, Bocaue, in hmong-white lang. YL
talks; female singer playing a song, only vocal. Good signal and fair
modulation, 45433.
ROMANIA
+15170, May 13, 2016. 2144-2150, RRI, Tiganesti, spanish sce. OM: interview;
ID; 2145 La canci?n del d?a; Very good broadc, 45444. Parallel log on 17745kHz,
Tiganesti, 45444 (RRI returns a normal tranasmission in this two freqs, of
course).
SAUDI ARABIA
+9675, May 13, 2016. 1911-1916, BSKSA, Riyadh. YL talks in turkish; a short mx.
Weak signal and modulation, 25432.
SPAIN
+17855, May 13, 2016. 1943-1953, REE, Noblejas. OMs presents football news,
mainly abt Real Madrid and other teams. Good signal and modulation, 45444.
UNITED KINGDOM
+9410, May 13, 2016. 1905-1910, BBC, Dhabbaya. YL talks BBC News, in english;
ID; OM talks. Fair signal and modulation, 35433.
ZAMBIA
+5915, May 13, 2016. 2019-2050, Zambia NBC, Lusaka. OM/YL talks in luvale lang;
2030 Regional songs Rare log this time in my location (5:19 PM in Cabedelo;
10:19 PM in Lusaka)! Weak signal and poor modulation, 25432 (sometimes, 35433).
DXer - Jos? Ronaldo Xavier? (JRX)
Cabedelo, PB, Brazil? location (UTC-3)
RX (s)? Sony ICF-SW100S
Portable Telescopic? antenna
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 04:22:05 +0000 (UTC)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 14-15, 2016
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
** CHINA. 11560, May 14 by 1822, hey, it`s Firedragon music, at S4 and
overshadowed by 11565 WRMI. Maybe another signal under it, which would be
jamming victim R Free Asia in Chinese via Saipan this hour only; still audible
at 1844.
13810, May 15 at 0006, very poor S5 signal in Chinese? That would be CNR1
jamming vs VOA Tibetan via Thailand this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9790, May 14 at 0526, huge S9+30 carrier and dead air except for some
hum, of course, the Cubans have neglected to turn off the CRI relay after 0500.
Imagine how many Cubans could have enjoyed a nutritious meal for the cost of
that much electricity wasted, @ 250 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6935-USB, May 15 at 0008, S9+5 with hard rock version of
``Boots Made for Walking``. At 0025 finally an announcement with birdcalls,
evidently sign-off ID I missed copying, 73 in CW and off.
** NORTH AMERICA. 6929.97-USB, May 15 at 0026, as soon as the 6935 station is
off, I find one is now on here,much stronger at S9+20, dense music, 0032 cuts
off in music, resumes with ``Those Were the Days``. At 0040 check this is off.
** NORTH AMERICA. 6970.0-USB, May 15 at 0034, rock music at s9+25; 0040
announcer says there is a rumor that people like good old music; hope that`s
true ---. 0047 another announcement, says a friend lost his house in the wind;
and this is Burn It Down Radio, refers to HF Underground posts, BID Radio, will
be on for an hour and then disappear; 0055 ``American Pie``. I QRT after 0100
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 15140, May 15 at 0025 check, unlike 24 hours earlier, no signal from
RSO, off or not propagating? nor on any of the registered frequencies for this
timeblock, 9500, 9650 or 12015 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, May 15 at 0055, no signal from R. Chaski, not even JBA carrier,
so no cutoff timing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SWEDEN [non]. 15510, May 14 at 1837, very poor S3 signal, maybe Arabish?
Aoki shows it`s IBRA Media via Woofferton UK in the Fur language (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Armed Forces Day crossband test monitoring May 14: first I check
around 1825 UT for stations of particular interest: WUG-2 Memphis at the Army
Corps of Engineers, as Jim Pogue has invited us, but nothing heard now or later
on any listed frequencies, 20973.5, 18293.5, 13910.5 or 5403.5. The top two
would unlikely propagate this close anyway in less than 500 mile range, but
noting heard on the bottom pair into the evening.
At 1825+ I also check the frequencies for ABH, Hawaii, but no go either: 20997,
18272, 14438, 5357, the least of which would of course nor propagate now. And
of ADB Okinawa, my main target: 20994, 17545, 14487, zilch. But I do get
something else interesting on 17545 later, below.
17545-USB, May 14 at 2354 checking for ADB Okinawa, at a daypart when it should
propagate best, instead hear another AF Day crossbander, NPAX, calling ``any
ham station``, listening on 18185-upper. Many repetitions every minute or two,
but never any contacts, past 0004 May 15, and not heard any more by 0010. This
and the others always give calls fonetikaly so no doubt about them, but NPAX
never says what or where it is --- a Navy vessel, no doubt. See below.
I don`t have the full publicized AF Day schedule at hand in the shack, but it
only showed base stations, and nothing naval, so it`s a pleasant surprise to
encounter NPAX, and others to follow by random tuning near the 20m band:
14441.50-USB, May 14 at 2358, NIIW, another AF Day crossbander, says he is
listening on 14341 (I run across this after hearing nothing from ABH Okinawa on
14438). So what vessel is this, and where?
I find this 229-page unclassified PDF, not only US, but for allied countries;
somewhere in there?
ACP 113(AI) CALL SIGN BOOK FOR SHIPS JANUARY 2012 UNCLASSIFIED
http://jcs.dtic.mil/j6/cceb/acps/acp113/ACP113AI.pdf
NO, NIIW not found by searching or in the huge alfabetical-order list. NAPX is
in it, identified as YP 684 (US-N) --- that helps a lot.
13963.5-USB, May 15 at 0002, AAC is S9+20, CQ Armed Forces Day Crossband Test,
from Lexington KY, listening on 14235. Name is Harvey, and making contacts, but
difficulty in copying due to propagation. Once the call, handle and state of
contact entered in log, promises QSL from Fort Huachuca in 4-6 weeks.
14383.50-USB, AAZ, Eddie, the HQ station of US Army Netcom, Fort Huachuca AZ,
contacting KK4BDF on 14336.5 (I never bother to tune the inside-ham
frequencies). He says the QSL will come in 60 days; will make two more contacts
before QRT as the day is about over. So at 0014 that`s WB0LSW, Ed in KS, and at
0016, W3HH, Doug in FL.
But then at 0018, a YL op takes over AAZ to make some more contacts; never hear
her name. 0019 it`s with KK4ZVD, Terry in VA, difficult for her to copy. 0030
she`s still on with WZ9B. It`s standard protocol to tell each contact that a
QSL will be coming in 60 days, once assured that they`re OK in the Callbook.
6913.0-USB, May 16 at 0041, another navy ship, NWVC is calling CQ for hams on
7178-LSB. This one is S9+25, then contacts someone he knows, Tom, KD8SML.
Whenever the NWVC mike is open, can hear CW in background, no doubt adjacent
ops not using `phones, Art, Perry and Steve, but don`t hear his own handle.
This one gives more details: NWVC is aboard LST-325, and offers an additional
QSL to the ``federal`` one, if QSL sent to address on website of
http://LSTMemorial.org --- From that, which launches a slideshow, we learn that
it`s docked at Evansville IN, dating from WWII but is still fully operational
with guided tours. 0046 another contact with KA1EKR. NWVC appears in the pdf
document above as HISTORICAL MUSEUM (LST 325) (US-N), which we already know
more about. And now we know why WRMI was expelled from 6915! (Glenn Hauser,
USAF, Ret., OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1825 monitoring: confirmed Sat May 14 at
1430+ on Hamburger Lok?lradio via G?hren, 7265-CUSB, via the UTwente remote;
fairly sufficient with some deep fades, and no QRM. If you`d like 2 or 3
minutes of propagation info from me, listen at 1425 for the end of Media
Network Plus, or better yet from 1400 for all of it. WOR 1825 also confirmed
Sat May 14 after 2234 on WBCQ, 9330-, CUSB, fair. Also confirmed at 0327 UT
Sunday May 15 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, as I am mentioning HCJB, which occurs at
about 8 and 10 minutes into the program. Next:
Sun 0830 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE
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. 9370, Sat May 14 at 1827, 9370 is on! It`s WWRB at S9+15, no more BS
like on 15440 WRMI, etc., etc., etc., but monolog in non-English. It`s a lo-fi
feed, in a tonal African language. I listen almost continuously trying to dig
out some clews; occasional Englishy words understandable, including Nigeria,
Los Angeles, California; a website like www.radiomonasi.algo (but that goes
nowhere, similar spelling/sounding?); frequency 88-point, shortwave, Burundi,
shortwave, South Africa. At 1857, Luganda. At 1857.5 a brief song mentioning
Uganda a few times.
No outro of program in English, but 1858 YL ID for WWRB with phone 931-728-6087
``for your message``; and then Dave comes on live? calling this ``Radio Africa
from WWRB Radio Worldwide``, about to close down; plays the YL ID again, in
which she also says ``the audience of the world is waiting to hear your
message`` and immediately off at 1900:43*.
Could it be what has become of Radio Lead Africa, or some other Ugandan
clandestine? I`m afraid if the client thinx they are able to get into Africa in
our summer on 9 MHz over a mostly daylit path, even if it`s on a proper azimuth
from Tennessee, they will be sorely disappointed.
For a general view of ``Most Suitable Frequencies 2016``, see WRTH 2016 page 47
for a table showing in May-August from eastern North America to Central & South
Africa, at 18-22 UT, it`s 17 MHz. Judging from current paltry MUFs, that may be
an exaggeration, too optimistic, so make it 15, but certainly not 9 which is
going to get absorbed after a hop or two in mid-Atlantic.
Not expecting to find anything about this on the WWRB website, I check it
anyway. It seems the homepage has been changed a bit, but not to account for
this. Excerpts of what it says, including rates which I have not seen them
mention before, undercutting WRMI`s dollar-a-minute:
``Saturday, Sunday, and Monday - 7:00 pm EST - 12:00 am EST on shortwave
frequency 5.050 MHz --- Additional days and times available upon request
How to Broadcast with Us --- Broadcasting with WWRB can be as simple as calling
us on the phone to as complex as realtime Internet streaming. We support all
modes of program delivery.
We are pleased to provide you with the following air time quotes: a 59 minute
program is $45.00, and a 29 minute program is $22.50 - always without any
commercial interruptions, and on prime time night time programming slots to the
United States, Canada, South and Central America, the Caribbean Islands, and
the rest of the world!
Bring your message to the world on our 60,000 watt transmitters!``
Huh??? Only 60 kW? Dave has been talking about 115 or 100 kW, and see below for
powers still claimed elsewhere on the website.
There is no longer any link to programming on the homepage, but its URL still
exists in our auto-completing browser:
http://www.wwrb.org/tsched.php
``Radio Station WWRB Transmitter Broadcast Schedule``
Global 1:
07.30 PM ? 09.00 PM: 3.215 MHz
09.00 PM ? 12.00 AM: 3.195 MHz
Global 2:
07:00 PM ? 12.00 AM: 5.050 MHz
Global 3:
08.00 AM ? 07.00 PM: 9.385 MHz
07.00 PM ? 08.00 AM: 3.185 MHz
Global 4:
Currently leased for shortwave propagation study``
That`s way out of date. Linx from this page to individual Global 1-2-3-4
schedules are obviously also totally outdated, as they have been for years, and
contradictory as to frequencies. Still shown are 12172, and even 15795 which
was tested briefly years ago. That`s where they should be for Radio Africa in
``primetime``.
Other pertinent website info:
``Engineering Staff: Radio Station WWRB has four fully qualified engineers on
staff. At any given time, at least one engineer is stationed at the WWRB
transmitter facility.``
This page claims they have 5 fully operational transmitters, altho Dave has
recently stated that all but two have been scrapped. ``Capable`` powers are
given as 115, 115, 150, 150, and backup 150 kW.
http://www.wwrb.org/about.php
See maps with bits of reception report comments
http://www.wwrb.org/c_maps/full/usamap.png
http://www.wwrb.org/c_maps/full/worldmap.png
So I e-mail Dave as follows:
``Hi Dave, Caught your new African service this afternoon on 9370, from tune-in
at 1827 UT until off at almost 1901.
Details, please. What language was that? Name of program? Destination? Contact
info or website? There was no English ID at conclusion.
What is the full schedule of the African service? And any other services you
currently have? What about the American Islamic service in English you were
talking about; when is it on? Any progress on the Pirates Cove? Haven`t run
across it on Friday evenings.
I am no longer hearing Brother Stair at all on WWRB. Please confirm if he is
off completely, or at what remaining times? Tnx, Glenn``
No reply yet. 9370 is still off at next check 2352, but:
5050, Sat May 14 at 2352, WWRB is back on here during politico-religious
sermon, and again // 3185 which strangely enough is axually stronger/louder
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3250.03-AM, May 15 at 0101, JBA signal at S4 less than the noise
level, I can barely make // WBCQ on 5129.9, so it`s on again. NOT on 3230 as in
the WRTH A16 supplement (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 0422 UT May 15
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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 04:34:18 +0000 (UTC)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 14-15, 2016
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Oops, I had not completed the three pirate logs before posting:
** NORTH AMERICA. 6935-USB, May 15 at 0008, S9+5 with hard rock version of
``Boots Made for Walking``. At 0025 finally an announcement with birdcalls,
evidently sign-off ID I missed copying, 73 in CW and off. These logs say it was
Northwoods Radio:
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,28147.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6929.97-USB, May 15 at 0026, as soon as the 6935 station is
off, I find one is now on here, much stronger at S9+20, dense music, 0032 cuts
off in music, resumes with ``Those Were the Days``. At 0040 check this is off.
These logs say it was Pee Wee:
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,28148.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6970.0-USB, May 15 at 0034, rock music at S9+25; 0040
announcer says there is a rumor that people like good old music; hope that`s
true ---. 0047 another announcement, says a friend lost his house in the wind;
and this is Burn It Down Radio, refers to HF Underground posts, BID Radio, will
be on for an hour and then disappear; 0055 ``American Pie``. I QRT after 0100.
Many more logs of this:
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,28149.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 161, Issue 15
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