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Today's Topics:
1. Re: [dxld] Re: Ron's logs (Wolfgang Bueschel)
2. JRX Logs: Tue, August 30, 2016. (Jota Xavier)
3. Glenn Hauser logs August 29-30, 2016 [more] (Glenn Hauser)
4. Glenn Hauser logs August 30-31, 2016 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 12:57:40 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, "DXLD" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Re: Ron's logs
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all three RA on air at 1045 UT Aug 30, 9580, 12065 and 12085 kHz,
heard at Nagoya and Kyoto remote units.
BUT 31 mb range 9522 to 9618 kHz heavily disturbed of BUBBLE type jamming
of - probably - D.P.R. North Koreans,
against KBS Korean sce at 09-11 UT of 9570 kHz center frequency.
73 wb
----- Original Message -----
From: "[email protected] [dxld]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 1:07 AM
Subject: [dxld] Re: Ron's logs
> Hi Ron, I noticed this too, but here (@~1400z) 12085 was just above the
> noise and 12065 nothing heard. It was surprising to find 9580 not there at
> all, but at the time I was chalking it up to propagation. It still didn't
> make sense since 49 meters had strong signals from RNZI and BBC Thailand.
>
> ---In [email protected], <ron888howard@...> wrote :
>
> AUSTRALIA[and non-log] 9580, RA, 1235, Aug 29. During
> a brief check, noted off the air, but present were 12065 (fair)
> // 12085 (somewhat better than fair)
> (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:30:44 +0000 (UTC)
From: Jota Xavier <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] JRX Logs: Tue, August 30, 2016.
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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JRX Logs: Tue, August 30, 2016.
BURUNDI
+15480. August 30, 2016. 1828-1833, Radio Publique Africaine, Issoudun, in
French. Female and male announcers talks. Station with poor signal and barely
audible modulation, 25331.
GUINEA
+9650. August 30, 2016. 1119-1126, Radio Guinea, Conakri, in Vernacular
language. Male announcer talks. Station with fair signal and poor modulation,
35432.
INDONESIA
+9525. August 30, 2016. 1834-1840, Voice of Indonesia, Jakarta, in German.
Female announcer talks; brief music, ID. VOI has a fair signal and poor
modulation, 35332.
JAPAN
+9755. August 30, 2016. 1821-1826, NHK Radio Japan, Meyerton, in English.
Female and male announcers talks economic news of Japan; ID. Broadcasting with
fair signal and poor modulation, 35432.
ROMANIA
+11975. August 30, 2016. 1900-1907, Radio Romania International, Galbeni, in
Romanian. Female and male announcers presents news; ID. Station with good
signal and modulation, 45544.
SWEDEN
+15260. August 30, 2016. 1757-1810, IBRA Radio Sama, Woofferton, in Arabic.
Female announcer talks with musical background; ID, a song (Hymn ?). Male
announcer talks, ID. Station with good signal and fair modulation, 45433.
UK
+11785. August 30, 2016. 1812-1820, BBC, Ascension, in French. Female announcer
makes a interview with a man; Male announcer talks news, ID. Good signal and
modulation, 45444.
USA
+12140. August 30, 2016. 1841-1846, Voice of America, Udon Thani, in Amharic.
Female and male announcers talks & talks. Broadcasting with fair signal and
modulation, 35433.
DXer: Jos? Ronaldo Xavier (JRX).
Location: Cabedelo-PB, Brazil (UTC-3).
RX (s): Sony ICF-SW100S.
Antenna: Portable Telescopic
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 00:14:23 +0000 (UTC)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 29-30, 2016 [more]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** INDONESIA. 9525.888, Aug 30 at 1306, VOI is S4 with a bit of undermodulated
music when it should be an `Exotic Indonesia` Tuesday broadcast in English.
Unable to copy anything, as usual, I instead measure its offness as closely as
possible (plus/minus 2 Hz?).
So via the newly updated by Alan Roe WOR HITLIST,
http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm
I look at their website which gives the impression that this is a funxional
``world service`` (maybe it is, on the Internet). Here`s their limited
expectation for SW coverage:
``In Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, South-East and East Asia it is
possible to listen to VOI Audio Service through much of the day using a short
wave radio. To find out more about short wave visit our short wave information
guide. To find out what frequency you need to tune your radio to, go to our
Frequency Charts.``
I was really looking for info about a listener contest with prizes of a free
trip to Indonesia, but none found this year, just:
http://en.voi.co.id/voi-program-highlight/11510-rri-71-anniversary
``In conjunction with RRI's 71st anniversary on September 11, we invite all
listeners of Voice of Indonesia who want to convey their wishes to send their
greetings to us in the form of audio, video, text or pictures in English,
French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Indonesian, Chinese and Arabic languages to
[email protected] or Facebook messenger Voice of Indonesia by September 5, 2016.
We'll publish and air your greetings on facebook and our social medias. Thank
you`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 17640, Aug 30 at 1817 check, no signal from MWV/APR in English,
sporadic broadcast gone again. Transmitter keeps breaking down? Propagation OK,
as 17885 BBC ASC in French is in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAO TOME. 6180, Aug 30 at 0537, VOA French is S9+10 and in the clear, as RNA
BRASIL is still AWOL like it was a few hours earlier. IBB should not have
picked 6180 during a protracted absence of RNA earlier this year, but may not
go away until B-16 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020, Aug 30 at 1300, JBA carrier still, as SIBC has been
running later than 1200* lately per Ron Howard: Aug 24 until 1330*; Aug 26
until 1330* with Wantok FM relay; Aug 27 until 1245* with SIBC itself; Sunday
Aug 28 with hymns to 1333*; Aug 29 open carrier only from 1208 to 1238, off by
1312, per Ron (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 17830, Aug 30 around 1635, glad to find that BBCWS in English has
a sufficient signal for easy listening, as BBC fails to prevent its SW from
bleeding into undesirable North America. This is 85 degrees from ASCENSION at
16-17, and also 65 degrees at 17-18, hours when I am seldom SWLing. BTW, Aoki
shows these are *jammed by the ChiCom, as they must also bleed into China where
English is far too understood; can`t allow that! Jamming of BBCWS English is
normally by noise rather than Firedragon or CNR1, and harder to detect abroad
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1840 monitoring: NOT confirmed Tue Aug 30 at 2130 on
15770, when WRMI is still replaying their digital special which I hoped would
be over after HFCC finished. But confirmed Tue Aug 30 at 2330 on WBCQ,
9329.971v-CUSB, fair. Next:
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. 11580, Aug 30 at 1323, WRMI World Music is in Spanish, then song in
Chinese. Instead of the same old songs I am hearing some different ones, so
maybe this rotation has been refreshed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085, Aug 30 at 1303, surprised to find WTWW-2 on at this odd hour,
Ted with a ``ham-it-forward`` promo, classic rock music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9275, Aug 30 at 1632, 1816 and 1923 chex, no signal from WMLK, which
allegedly resumed transmissions Aug 28, per their Facebook, via Richard
Langley. Problem was fixing the power supply. I`ve yet to see any real logs of
it, and not from me today. Remember: don`t say ``God``, but be sacred, say
``Yahweh``. Even the China radio war vs RFA Saipan is JB audible on 9355 at
1816 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9265, Tue Aug 30 at 1923 UT, WINB is on, but not at 1816 when I am
also looking fruitlessly for WMLK on 9275. So much for WINB`s latest schedule
dated Aug 14 claiming that on Mon/Tue/Wed only, The Overcomer is run at 17-19;
gone again already? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Re trans-Pacific MW carrier search: ``at 1146 UT Aug 29,
something on 594 seems to peak N/S --- that can`t be right. Those were on the
DX-398``
Now it dawns on me this could well be the megawatt in Chinsurah, INDIA:
``Akashvani Maitree channel on 594 kHz beamed to Bangladesh``
Grayline would work, as sunset in Kolkata is about 1225 UT, and sunrise here
1202 UT. Make that trans-polar! The path goes about 5 degrees from the North
Pole, across Cold Bay and The Pas in Canada, 13440 km or 8351 miles to Enid;
74.4 watts per km, or 13.44 meters per watt (if it were strictly along the
surface) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Walt Salmaniw, Victoria BC, replies: ``Glenn, I don't think any of us on the
PNW coast have ever heard [India] 594. Much more likely this time of year are
DU stations. Normally in the Fall/Winter, it's a major NHK frequency. Perhaps
Patrick Martin [OR] just might have heard your station?``
Well, this was looping too far north for Japan, and certainly for Down Under.
Will try to refine the DF if I have another chance (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0014 UT August 31
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 04:18:31 +0000 (UTC)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 30-31, 2016
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
** ALBANIA. 9855-, Aug 31 at 0128, same old story from R. Tirana, S6 with IS vs
hum, but programming unreadable next semihour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 4796.01, Aug 31 at 0123, JBA carrier, probably R. L?pez, Uyuni,
reactivated. First reported by Eduard Korsakov, Moskva, to the DXLD yg, Aug 30
at 0245-0302 as unID, possibly Peruvian. Not in WRTH 2016. R. L?pez per the
DSWCI TBS 2016 was last reported three years ago in August 2013 (and was
formerly known as R. Mallku, as still listed in Aoki!). All this is based
primarily on the odd frequency, so if anyone can pull a definite ID, that would
be nice. It might even have a third name by now. Recheck at 0205, no signal
detectable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 6180, Aug 31 at 0055, RNA is still off; and 11780, Aug 31 at 0112,
RNA is still on. 6180 still missing at 0402 Aug 31, so VOA French may have
another clear shot at 0530 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. 5909.95, Aug 31 at 0125, music at S8 and occasional Spanish
announcements, such as 0127 automated timecheck, typical of Alcarav?n Radio,
which this surely is, at last reactivated. 0159 announcement about ``tema de la
independencia colombiana``. Previously was on hi side of 5910.0. So of course I
look for its sibling:
6010.17, Aug 31 at 0130, music at S6, not // 5909.95, but surely La Voz de tu
Conciencia has also been reactivated. At 0149 it`s S9 while 5910 is up to
S9+15, i.e. consistently weaker than 5910v, which is to be expected since its
direxional antenna was installed to minimize QRM to XEOI 6010 M?xico DF, but
which no longer matters as a defunct station. Hard to copy but 0202 YL
announcement mentions Colombia.
In the old days, the pair at the same Puerto Lleras site would produce a mixing
product around 5810. If these exact frequencies persist, that would land on
5809.73 --- look for a carrier there and maybe some audio from one or the
other, if both are still on when WEWN finishes with 5810 around 0500.
(NHK France of course blox 5910 at 03-05; nothing much else on 6010 except
erratic Inconfid?ncia, Brasil, which is also off-frequency, and maybe Bahrain
after 0300?). Reverse leapfrog would land on 6110.39 --- watch out for R. Fana,
Ethiopia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9965, Aug 31 at 0103, R. Cairo is now humroaring on this frequency
which is normally relatively quiet if undermodulated; with useless Cuban pulse
jamming underneath. At 0208, only motorboating at S9.
9315, Aug 31 at 0208, R. Cairo in horrible distortion of scheduled English, S8
but at least no spurs!
12085, Aug 31 at 0208, R. Cairo is S1, JBM, seems with Qur`an. Too weak to
evaluate modulation quality.
BTW, Richard Langley discovered there is *another* Radio Cairo with much better
audio and reception, web relay of the 95.4 FM European service, also in French,
via
http://www.egradio.eg/radio.php?PubPnt=ElBernamegElOrobi&ChnName=6
Details in the next DXLD 16-35 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 6190, Aug 31 at 0206, no signal from La Voz Alegre, Spanish
service of MWV. Was also missing earlier from 17640 after 1800 Aug 30, so are
both transmitters down now? 6150 also AWOL at 0351 during consecutive Spanish
hour. 9480 also missing at 0402 during other hour of African Pathways Radio
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, Aug 31 at 0056, JBA carrier from R. Chaski, but already off at
0104 retune in preparation for cutoff which if had not been reset earlier,
would have happened about 0105:53.5* per standard slippage rate. Or it could be
an anomaly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** THAILAND. 13729.94, Aug 31 at 0116, JBA carrier off-frequency. It`s VOA
Radio Ashna, at 0030-0230 alternating Pashto and Dari, 250 kW, 300 degrees from
Udorn where they aren`t too careful about frequency accuracy. 15590, R.
Thailand`s so-called North American service arrives no better (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 9830, Aug 31 at 0102, S5 La Voz de Turqu?a is once again on wrong
frequency instead of 9770, // stronger correct frequency 9870. Still on 9830 at
0129 recheck (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330-CUSB, UT Wed Aug 31 at 0105, WBCQ stays on to carry the weekly
`Amateur Radio Roundtable`, first with big band music, then Tom and Kathy (sp?)
seemingly behind the scenes discussing how the video web streaming is not
working via W5KUB.com so everyone should watch on YouTube. (Meanwhile if this
were primarily a radio show, already on shortwave, that would be irrelevant.)
0110 finally ready to open the show, mentions is on WBCQ 9330 new frequency as
of two weeks ago and now with much better coverage. She interviews someone from
ARRL about National Parks on the Air, over 400 entities eligible. Very good,
still going at 0207 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9475-, Aug 31 at 0058, WTWW-1 is S9+50 of dead air; 0000 alive with
canned ID and back to SFAW. At 0207, 9475 is off and 5830 is not on, yet?
5085, Aug 31 at 0058, WTWW-2 is on with S9+50 of C&W music and into QSO show
replay, still going at 0207.
12105, Aug 31 at 0058, WTWW-3 is S9 but poorly audible with end of Russian
Bibling hour. At 0106 now it`s dead air as usually the case for an hour until
0200* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1380, Aug 31 at 0142 UT, ``Una se?al llena de vida, Vida 13-80`` ID
at tune-in, then `Concepto Financiero` -- for Christians, natch. KRCM
Shenandoah TX is *still* obviously running 22 kW day power and pattern at
night, dominating frequency here, with local KCRC 1390 easily minimized by LSB
tuning. (Can you think of a less Hispanic CoL name than Shenandoah?? But
address in Pasadena can be taken as Spanish) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. 12005, Aug 31 0110 at first thought VOV was gone, but then a
JBA carrier, still from Woofferton (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1349.2, Aug 31 at 0144 UT, JBA carrier, hetting 1350 stations;
some station off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1499.17, Aug 31 at 0139 UT, JBA carrier, hetting KSTP 1500. This
is not the same as the wobbly spurs about 0.5 kHz above and below 1500 which
are also occasionally heard. Logged on the NRD-545, but also had a JBA carrier
on about 1499.2, via the R75, Aug 30 at 0600 UT. Which North American station
is off-frequency? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 0418 UT August 31
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 164, Issue 31
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