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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Glenn Hauser logs May 17-18, 2016 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
2. 7205 at 1530 UT (Wolfgang Bueschel)
3. Glenn Hauser logs May 18-19, 2016 (Glenn Hauser)
4. others in 41 mb (Wolfgang Bueschel)
5. Glenn Hauser logs May 19-20, 2016 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 17:31:50 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "DXLD" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 17-18, 2016
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11979.571 kHz S=5 peak tiny carrier at 1440 UT May 19,
in MI-USA and Alberta-CAN remote SDR's, also on west coast of Europe like
Belgium, Germany and Spain, but nothing noted in Asia, Near East and
Mediterr, Moscow-Russia.
so still a mystery signal,
on half harmonic in 5986.3 to 5989.4 kHz range, observed strong digital
STANAG signal of S=9+15dB strength, noted here in western Europe.
I guess, Radio Dniprovska Hvylya, Zaporizhia not heard lately anymore.
wb df5sx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Hauser via Hard-Core-DX"
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 17-18, 2016
> UNIDENTIFIED. 11979.793v, May 18 at 1215, something is making a het with a
> weaker 11980.00 station. Only 11980 thing scheduled is CRI English via
> Kunming at 1200-1357. Only other occupants of 11980 are Turkey at 04-06
> which is normally slightly off to the hi side; and EiBi reminds us of the
> Ukrainian pirate(?), Radio Dniprovska Hvylya, Zaporizhia, not reported
> lately, and was supposedly scheduled 0800-1000 Sat/Sun only. The unID
> carrier is also varying slightly as I attempt to measure it.
> (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
> _
> Hard-Core-DX mailing list
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 17:45:48 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, "DXLD" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] 7205 at 1530 UT
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Two signals noted at 1530 UT on May 19, 7204.984 kHz and 7205.0 kHz even,
like CNR Xinjiang Urumqi in Uighur lang, as well as Arabic of Omdurman
Sudan, latter a little stronger, similar like Somalia 7120 kHz signal. wb
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 16:25:04 +0000 (UTC)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 18-19, 2016
Message-ID:
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** CANADA [non]. 9550, Thu May 19 at 0449, poor signal in English with
Newmarket, Ontario address, postal code, and [email protected] e-mail
address, off at 0450*. This matches schedule for Bible Voice via Nauen,
GERMANY, on Tue-Wed-Thu-Fri per Aoki at 0430-0450, other days only until 0445,
both called ``Radio Da``; is that an abbr.? Other refs, WRTH, EiBi and of
course HFCC, do not go that far into individual program names via BVB (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9965.17, May 19 at 0423, R. Cairo, S9+ with Qur`an, lite whine. No
Breaking News about the missing plane here! But this is usually the best
frequency of the lot, managing to modulate without too much distraxion. 0454
recheck, it`s off, nominally scheduled 2300-0430, 250 kW, 325 degrees from Abis
in Arabic except the first sesquihour in English.
12085.06, May 19 at 0457, R. Cairo, S5 open carrier/dead air or maybe just
barely modulated. This one scheduled 0200-0700, 250 kW, 315 degrees from Abis,
all in Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 9400, May 19 at 0427, MWV at S9+25 with `this day in history`
excuse for a Bible lesson, ID as ``African Pathways Radio on 94-80 at 4 am UTC,
and 176-40 [sic] at 6 pm UTC``. Oh, yeah? The 18 UT repeat has been AWOL for
weeks, as this brand-new station still can`t get both its Continental
transmitters operational (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [and non]. 11651.25 & 11652.65, May 19 at 0444, weak carriers peaking
here causing double heterodynes to R. Dabanga via VATICAN on about 11649.96
which itself is barely audible with some Arabish modulation. It`s hard to
decide whether these are merely unmodulated carriers to jam by hetting, or also
transmitting tones of their own, as Sudan has used both methods (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. 9600, May 19 at 0426, ``HOA`` music at S9: it`s R.
Tamazuj, 0330-0430, 250 kW, 134 degrees from Issoudun, FRANCE. Yes, neither
Sudan is really in the Horn of Africa, but Sudanese music is much like it to
our ears (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non?]. 17530, Thu May 19 at 1404, weak open carrier and off. It`s a
VOA frequency so what`s scheduled, exactly? The 14-15 span is for Sat & Sun
only in Kinyarwanda and/or Kirundi via S?o Tom?. But just before it at 13-14
daily is VOA Somali via VATICAN, so perhaps the tail end of that. Another
possibility is Greenville making its usual transmitter check before it comes up
on 17530 at 1700. But Botswana and S?o Tom? are also back on 17530 before 1700
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1825 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday May 18 at 2100 on
WBCQ webcast, after usual partial ID ``WBC`` tnx to automation mismatch; also
on 7490- but JBA in local and non-local noise levels. Also confirmed Wed May 18
at 2330 on WBCQ 9329.990-CUSB.
WORLD OF RADIO 1826 monitoring: ready for first airings Thu May 19:
Thu 1130 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Thu 2100 WRMI 13695 to NW
Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE
Fri 2130.5 WRMI 13695 to NW
Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW
Sat 0700 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power
Sat 1400 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power
Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
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. 9955, May 19 at 0458, WRMI already in World Music, ``Up2 & Away``; I
daresay the Beautiful Balloons are getting a bit overplayed. 0459.5 interrupted
for ID, 0500 some other music instead of BS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, May 18 at 1911, WTWW-3 in Spanish Bibling is only S6 peaking
some to S9, but remarkably weak compared to neighbor (geographically and
frequencily) 12160 WWCR-2 which is S9+30. Therefore we conclude that WTWW is
grossly underpowered and/or with extremely inefficient antenna in comparison.
And it`s now much weaker than 12105 is normally heard here in daytime (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9980, May 19 at 1252, S9+10 open carrier/dead air from WWCR, perhaps
appreciated by the utility it clashes with on the hi side? On a Thursday there
is no excuse for this, as 9980 is supposed to run from 12 to 24 UT, including
The Overcomer straight thru from 12 to 20 on weekdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7385, May 19 at 0430, WHRI open carrier/dead air at S9+45. Registered
until 0500 on the 315 degree antenna, but no programming accounted for on
Thursdays per Aoki, not even music or LeSEA fillers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM. 9635.807, May 19 at 1254, VOV-1 at S4 with Viet talk, back down to
usual way-off-frequency; so much for exceeding 9636.0 yesterday.
Also, Wolfgang B?schel replies: ``Both VoV Son Tay units are ODD frequency
already a lot of months ago too, 12018 ... 12019 kHz, - or 9635.800 .... 9636.0
kHz. On May 19 at 0830 UT Vietnamese service from VoV Son Tay on exact
measurement of 9635.798 kHz, scheduled 2145-1600 UT daily`` (Glenn Hauser, OK
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZAMBIA. 9680, May 19 at 0453-0502+, no signal from Voice of Hope, nor at
0554 recheck, so power must still be out longer than expected. (Hey, maybe
Zambia is not such a good place to start a SW operation requiring lots of
reliable kWh?) Ron Howard and Bill Bingham agree there was no signal from this
now or later this morning.
Meanwhile, Ray Robinson of VOH told us a bit more as of May 17:
``Hi, Glenn and others. A few quick comments about Voice of Hope - Africa. We
are currently using the omni antenna with 9680, intended to provide coverage to
Central and Southern Africa. We are needing a part from Continental (they
shipped the wrong one) before we can activate the second transmitter on the 315
degree beam to West Africa.
Because the transmitters have been idle for some time, we want to wake them up
gently. For the 05-08 broadcast on the 17th, we were only running at about 60
kW. That will gradually be stepped up. Power shortages and rotating outages are
still a major problem in Zambia, and our genset is not yet serviceable. Thus we
are dependent on grid power for the time being, and our broadcasts may be
subject to interruptions beyond our control.
Up until now we have not been represented at HFCC other than by the FCC for
KVOH. We plan to change that for the next meeting. Ray.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1500, May 19 at 0441 UT, that whistling noise in the sidebands of
KSTP is again audible, subject of much investigation a few months ago leading
to a few minor stations in the MO/IL/KY area, never determined just which
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6170.0, Thu May 19 at 0501, unusual to find a weak S5-S6 open
carrier here, suffering from 6165 RHC splash, but off in less than a minute.
Nothing to account for it in lists, altho Scandinavian Weekend Radio, Finland,
supposedly stops at 0500 on first Saturdays and special occasions only (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Regarding my unID off-frequency carrier yesterday, 11979.793v at
1215, Wolfgang B?schel replies:
11979.571 kHz S=5 peak tiny carrier at 1440 UT May 19, in MI-USA and
Alberta-CAN remote SDRs, also on west coast of Europe like Belgium, Germany and
Spain, but nothing noted in Asia, Near East and Mediterranean, Moscow-Russia.
So still a mystery signal. On half harmonic in 5986.3 to 5989.4 kHz range,
observed strong digital STANAG signal of S=9+15dB strength, noted here in
western Europe. I guess, Radio Dniprovska Hvylya, Zaporizhia not heard lately
anymore. wb df5sx`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1625 UT May 19
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 19:15:53 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, "DXLD" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] others in 41 mb
Message-ID: <9667747FA42A4CB9B707F888BBE784EB@HNPC2>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
reply-type=original
7220.004 VTN VoVTN Vietnamese language, spoken program from Son Tay site,
S=9+15dB at 1540 UT on Mediterranean remotes in Greece and Calabria.
7236.256 ETH - and vary hopping some 20 Hertz fqs around, Ethiopia with
EaAF/HoA mx program, S=9+20dB at 1550 UT.
CHN PBS XJBS Xinjiang, Chinese language program, played very sweet girls
singer discs, all S=9 and more in Greece unit.
All Urumqi China site on 5960even,
\\ 7259.991, 7309.978, and 11769.974 kHz.
7510 UZB Voice of Martyrs from Tashkent site, 1610 UT on May 19,
also tiny string seen on 15020 kHz hx.
7539.982 THA IBB US radio relay site Udorn Thani NoEaThailand, S=9+5dB at
1613 UT, VoA Deewa Radio in Pashto to AFGH. \\ Udorn Thani 9309.979 kHz,
9335even Iranawila CLN IBB Sri Lanka relay.
9389.977 THA IBB US RLiberty/RFE Udorn Thani, Uzbek language 1620 UT on
May 19. S=9+5dB strength.
9525.890 INS Spanish sce news read by female of VoINS Cimanggis, S=9+10dB
at 1711 UT on May 19.
73 wb df5sx May 19
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 5:45 PM
Subject: [HCDX] 7205 at 1530 UT
> Two signals noted at 1530 UT on May 19, 7204.984 kHz and 7205.0 kHz even,
> like CNR Xinjiang Urumqi in Uighur lang, as well as Arabic of Omdurman
> Sudan, latter a little stronger, similar like Somalia 7120 kHz signal. wb
> _
> Hard-Core-DX mailing list
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 04:18:44 +0000 (UTC)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 19-20, 2016
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
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** CUBA. 11830 & 11850, May 20 at 0120, JBA carriers, S3 and S2 respectively vs
noise level, evidently emanating as parasites from 11840 RHC Spanish which is
S9+20. On each of them I strain to detect traces of // programming to the
fundamental on another receiver into the other ear, and believe I barely can do
so.
(My streetlite ignites at *0123 with an RF noise burst, early before sunset
behind an overcast sky) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9315.00, May 20 at 0117, R. Cairo is S9+20 but no Spanish programming
audible, just motorboating noise.
Probably the worst source for news about the downed plane, which BTW was
uniquely called SU-GCC. Referring to it as ``Egyptair Flight 804`` is totally
ambiguous, as there is one of those every night. ``Flights`` don`t crash;
individual aircraft do (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6965.0-USB, May 20 at 0147, novelty music at S9, discovered
after finding ACI to 6968.5-USB MARS net. 0149 two DJs chatter, or is it one
guy with pre-recorded self? Mentions music for Chris Lobdell to dance to; gives
some titles, also for Skipmunk. ``Hope you enjoyed our short show`` from
[email protected], ``Whatever!`` and off 0152*. More logs of it:
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?topic=28214.0
Not one of them is further west than I (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1650, May 20 at 0131 UT, gospel rock in English, presumably KFSW
Sallisaw, which is really tough to hear here, and in two minutes is losing out
to Spanish from Denver or El Paso (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, May 20 at 0059, no signal from R. Chaski, so probably off early
today or completely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, May 20 at 0114:48, SLBC theme music starts, very poor S2,
just enough to catch the 2+1 mis-timesignal ending at 0115:17.5, right on the
mis-mark as usual; opening Bengali, which is daily at 0115-0130 per WRTH Update
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1826 monitoring: confirmed Thursday May 19
at 2100 on WRMI 13695, excellent. Also confirmed Thu May 19 at 2330 on WBCQ
9329.978-CUSB. Next:
Fri 0830 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power
Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE
Fri 2130.5 WRMI 13695 to NW
Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW
Sat 0700 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power
Sat 1400 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power
Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
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. 9330-, CUSB, May 20 at 0100, WBCQ is just signing off as usual now
following Blalock the Blaster, voiced by Allan Weiner backed up by operatic
music. Not remeasured now on the NRD-545 but a sesquihour earlier with WOR it
was 9329.978 on the R-75.
9330.33-AM, May 20 at 0107, as I tune back across WBCQ frequency which had
signed off at 0100, here`s Brother Scare, but not the off-to-lo side WBCQ CUSB
transmitter used before 0100. This is S9+20 but undermodulated, in AM and a
different offset on the hi side, so another station? No BS to compare on WWCR
at this hour, missing from both 5890 and 9980; all WWRB frequencies are silent.
Quickly check the three 7 MHz WRMI BS frequencies, and TOM there is completely
not // 9330+: they have others speaking while 9330+ has BS himself. Finally
check WBCQ 7489.93-AM, and it matches // same BS as on 9330+.
I assume WBCQ is trying another transmitter, probably the one previously on
3250v. (5129.9-AM is also on now, this being a UT Friday, with separate
programming, S9 + 10 undermodulated). 9330+ is still BSing at 0148 and sounds
slightly louder. So is this a one-off, or what? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 7520, UT Friday May 20 at 0127 as I tune by WWCR-4, a YL gospel
huxter is informing us that ``Obama is a queer --- we have a tranny in the
White House``, cites Bible. Apparently fortifies this revelation by the
President`s slender build. Huhhh? WWCR sked shows this is `A Call to Decision`
with Butch Paugh. Is that a man or a woman? Better watch out, OM Butch: people
might think you`re a Lesbian. Thank you, WWCR for more pure crap on the air
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1700, May 20 at 0138, romantic tejana music, atop the sports talk
stations, so KKLF Richardson TX; it`s clear of the ``horrible roar`` I was
hearing on May 7-8, but not since, apparently emanating from KKLF itself or
then something in the same direxion. 0142 UT English ID, ``Music revolution,
Kick-1700``. BTW, NRC AM Log shows address for this Metroplex outlet is in
faraway Corpus Christi. Ward Elliott in Richardson has been checking for the
noise too May 18-20 and not hearing it. Says it`s ``the New Kick`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1500, May 20 at 0134 UT, the whistling sound in the sidebands is
again audible, vs soft rock music from algo, and bits of KSTP sportstalk (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 2660, May 20 at 0143 UT, not even a JBA carrier detected from
presumed second harmonic of KGLD 1330 Tyler TX, nor have I heard it for a while
even later in the night. I think it`s not just the summer noise level, so is
1330 and/or 2660 off now? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6946.6, May 20 at 0152, S9+10 open carrier/dead air, as the
occasional RTTY sender is quiet as usual. Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, tells me
May 19, ``Good morning Glenn, your unID carrier on 6946.5 is there again.
Strong in Europe at 0700. 73 thorsten`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0418 UT May 20
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