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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Monitoring Report (Rich Levenson)
2. Oman today.... (Zacharias Liangas)
3. SWL Monitoring Report (Rich Levenson)
4. SW data burst transmissions in 2010 FBI report
([email protected])
5. Australia Still Has Shortwave Voices (Zacharias Liangas)
6. Glenn Hauser logs December 29-30-31, 2019 (Glenn Hauser)
7. Re: Monitoring Report (Arthur Delibert)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 17:42:50 -0500
From: Rich Levenson <[email protected]>
To: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Monitoring Report
Message-ID:
<cann20om5ugklaa9lgb0x4afvqbrgwdgv+o7h-0lsvfrqan6...@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Thanks! I'm a bit embarrassed since I have it correct in my SWL log book I
maintain, but somehow switched the numbers - yikes!
Won't make that mistake again. Best 73 and Happy Holidays - Rich, W2FKN
On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 11:34 AM Glenn Hauser <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, but that should be 11965, not 11695. 73, Glenn Hauser
>
>
>
>
> On Saturday, December 28, 2019, 2:40:33 PM GMT, Rich Levenson <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Date: 24 Dec 2019
> Time: 2241 UTC
> Freq: 6040
> Station: Radio Algerienne
> Signal: S9
>
> Date: 27 Dec 2019
> Time: 2032 UTC
> Freq: 11780
> Station: Radio National Amazonia
> Signal: S9
> Other: Playing Silent Night in Portuguese
>
> Date: 27 Dec 2019
> Time: 2056 UTC
> Freq: 11695
> Station: MWV African Pathways
> Signal: S9
> Other: Announcing frequencies in English
>
> My Location: Monroe Township, NJ
> Radio: ICOM 9500
> Antenna: Vertical
> Station Name: Rich Levenson
> Email Address: [email protected]
>
> Thanks - Hope this is in an acceptable format
>
>
--
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 12:12:12 +0000 (UTC)
From: Zacharias Liangas <[email protected]>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [HCDX] Oman today....
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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15145 Oman , 1155 talks bytwo men in Arabic , 1200 with ID iadatu Oman and news
headlines. Bandwidth is 2x9kHz maximum sigal is -84dbm falling down ?to -110
dbm ?S7 RHC is transmitting 15140 in Spanish that annoysclear reception.
https://sites.google.com/site/zliangas/sdr
Zacharias LiangasRSP1a? with Console & Uno &2x16 m antena
Icom? R75 /PL380 /? De1103? radios
https://del.icio.us/gr_greek1/ZAK (all pages)
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 13:55:42 -0500
From: Rich Levenson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] SWL Monitoring Report
Message-ID:
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CLA Denge Welat 29 Dec. 2019 on 11530 @ 1650 UTC in Kurdish/Arabic.
Alternate Male and female announcers. Signal of S9
CUBA - Radio Havana Cuba 29 Dec. 2019 on 11760 @ 1729 UTC. Alternate male /
female announcers leading to Latin American music. Signal of S9+20
CUBAN Spy Numbers - 29 Dec. 2019 on 11435 @ 1645 UTC Female speaking
Spanish with alternate interruptions of chime-noise like tones. Signal S9
INDIA - All India Radio - 29 Dec. 2019 on 11560 @ 1654 UTC. Music with
female announcer speaking Russian. Signal S8+
SPAIN - Radio Exterior Espana - 29 Dec. 2019 on 11685 @ 1735 UTC.
Alternating male/female announcers with lively animated speech. Signal S6+
USA - Voice of America - 29 Dec. 2019 on 11610 @ 1706 UTC with female
speaker in Somali. Signal S9
Location: Monroe Township, NJ
Radio: ICOM R9500
Antenna: 6-80 Meter Vertical
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 23:46:04 +0000 (UTC)
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] SW data burst transmissions in 2010 FBI report
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
A current Breitbart article references a NYT article from 2010 which includes
an FBI report indexed below which on Page 30 references Russian spies using
data-bursts to communicate with Moscow. Reading all the exhibits is educational
in WiFi usage, and even mentions one-time pads!
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/documents/criminal-complaints-from-the-justice-department?action=click&contentCollection=Europe&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=EndOfArticle&pgtype=article
This piqued my interest since it involved Anna Chapman the very attractive
Rusiian spy who later in Moscow offered to marry Edward Snowden so he could get
sanctuary. What interesting pillow talk they'd have!
kd2bxa
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 21:31:06 +0000 (UTC)
From: Zacharias Liangas <[email protected]>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [HCDX] Australia Still Has Shortwave Voices
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
SYDNEY ? Radio Australia shortwave services may be dead, but the medium is
alive and well on the continent.
Reach Beyond Australia is on shortwave, but with its Christian programming
largely in foreign languages, it really isn?t seen as representing Australia on
the shortwavesread more ...
https://www.radioworld.com/global/australia-shortwave-voices
Zacharias LiangasRSP1a? with Console & Uno &2x16 m antena
Icom? R75 /PL380 /? De1103? radios
https://del.icio.us/gr_greek1/ZAK (all pages)
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 01:41:28 +0000 (UTC)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: WOR DXLD <[email protected]>
Cc: Short-Wave Radio Listening <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 29-30-31, 2019
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
** ALGERIA [non]. 7375, Mon Dec 30 at 1925-1949, since I have UTwente
SDR running for WOR 7290 check a few minutes earlier, I set up to
record this frequency and listen later. That`s because a very recent
TDF schedule obtained by Ga?tan Teyssonneau for the WOR iogroup,
https://www.tdf.fr/sites/default/files/TDF%20Short%20Waves%20B19%20transmission%20schedule%20-%20November%202019_0.pdf
prompted this reply from me:
``I do look for English language broadcasts; besides NHK at 05 on 7410
there is one other, surprisingly:
TDA 18:00 19:00 47, 46E Arabic ISS 7375 41 7123456
TDA 19:00 20:00 47, 46E English ISS 7375 41 7123456
Algerian relay in English? I don`t think so!
This led me to look for any English from Algeria. The International
network on FM has a few scattered English segments, but mostly in
French and Arabic. Day-by-day schedules, presumably in local UT+1:
http://www.radioalgerie.dz/rai/fr/grille
Some of the program titles are in English; some ambiguous; and some in
French about English! 20:30-20:41 Sunday, `Magazine Anglais` --- that
would put it in the 19-20 UT hour labeled by TDF as English; maybe
worth checking just in case this get shortwaved. Also on Monday, so
maybe daily tho I have not checked all seven. Glenn``
Further, as Ivo Ivanov points out, that sked is incomplete, lacking
three broadcasters brokered by RMI for Issoudun transmission.
So what do I hear on 7375? Big signal from RRI in Romanian, way atop
Algeria, at first Qur`aning, and then I simply can`t tell whether
buried talk be in English, but I doubt it. Also with some lite RTTY
QRM which if I were at controls might have eliminated.
Quite a collision, likely elsewhere in Eurafrica. RRI is 300 kW, 285
degrees from Galbeni for France at 1800-2100; TDA is 155 degrees out
of France for the Sahel just beyond outback Algeria (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA [non]. 5800, Dec 30 at 2132 and still 2200+, NO signal
from WRMI-10 which supposedly start at 2100 with SMTV. This bodes ill
for the RAE Spanish relay supposed to be on same at 0100. Still off at
0035 Dec 31, nor on briefly tested previously 9425 nor on 6060 which
now is occupied by RHC NLT 0000. And yes, still nil at 0100. We should
still be able to hear RAE in English at 0200-0230 on 9395, followed by
another ex-SWBC station on its own, Radio Tirana, Albania.
The January issue of El Dial (e) from Spain features a long article by
Mart?n Butera lamenting the ``decadence`` of RAE, at the mercy of
political winds, unable even under the enlightened new leadership of
Adrian Korol, who has SW credentials, to get a new SW transmitter of
its own. And fears that Korol`s term is about over with the latest
changes in Argentine leadership.
Butera acknowledges the WRMI relays in Spanish and English, both with
outdated info, but seems unaware of all the other languages getting on
SW, and downplays the WRMI relays as dependent on the generosity of
Jeff White. The article is profusely illustrated with photos, of
equipment, not people. I have quoted a fraxion of the text (in
Spanish) in the WOR iogroup (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA [and non]. Last time I was wondering what kind of doctor
that DXer Arnaldo Slaen be, as titled in `La Rosa de Tokio` publicity.
Horacio Nigro G., Uruguay, promptly replied, he`s a lawyer. That`s
interesting; maybe different in South America, but in the North, altho
many lawyers may have J.D. degrees, they rarely call themselves Drs.,
except maybe in academic settings; thus avoiding the ambiguity of that
honorific (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5040, Sun Dec 29 at 2356, Arnie Coro lickety-split with
propagation comments in Spanish, about to conclude `En Contacto`, must
have started circa 2345; squealy frequency yet the only one audible,
unlike on 9 or 11 MHz bands; 6060 is on by 2357 but open carrier only;
2359 current frequency announcement is woefully incomplete/incorrect
in typical Soviet-style disorder: 11670, 11700, 11950, 9640, 6000 and
FM. Misses the two I am really hearing! And 11950/6000 during this
hour only, as I keep having to point out, are weekdays only and with
separate programming, the `Mesa Redonda` TV audio simulcast. I check
again the 9s and 11s to find JBA carriers at best so maybe they be on
but propped out. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5040 & 6060 & 6145, UT Mon Dec 30 at 0726 are tonight`s three
English frequencies still on the air for last playback of mailbag;
something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 13630 & 13770, Dec 30 at 1530, JBA spurs out of
13700, because the fundamental is only S7-S9, even weaker than 13710v
Sa`udi Qur`aning. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15370 good, 15140 JBM, 11880 VG, Dec 30 at 2107, all three
RHCs are in Brazuguese and synchronized; despite as in EiBi, 11880
supposed to be in Arabic, 15140 in Spanish! Something`s always wrong
at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN [and non]. 5970, Dec 30 circa 1300, NO signal from
WEWN which is supposed to be on here until 1400; nor was it heard much
earlier in the UT night; instead, two stations in Chinese, i.e. RTI at
12-14 and CNR1 jamming which Aoki/NDXC says comes from Urumqi site
(land of ChiCom brainwashing Uyghurs). This could also be a problem
for PBS Gannan on 5970 in Chinese and Tibetan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** HAWAII. Re my plan to hear a delayed broadcast of The Magic Flute
on the Metropolitan Opera via KHPR-2 webcast from 0100 UT Sunday Dec
29 as scheduled --- I bring it up early at 0048, and it`s already on!
I was going by KHPR skedgrid, which has Met lined up with 3 pm HST.
But there is a blank space above it and maybe the Met was `centered`
an hour later than its real start at 2 pm? = 00 UT instead of 01.
Anyhow, it`s lofi and mono so I would not want to listen to it here
anyway. Well before 0200, KHPR has moved on to other classical music,
so Met may have started even before 0000. I might have had another
chance Sunday afternoon from two Alaskan stations. Maybe try them next
time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, Dec 29 at 2354, I tune in just in time to hear the R.
Chaski carrier under Cuban jamming cut off, at 2354:22*, 18 seconds
earlier that last check Dec 21 until 2354:40*, so averaging 2.25
seconds earlier per noctem, 18 divided by 8. Or long term since first
check in latest cycle, Nov 26 until 2355:27.5*, 65.5 seconds earlier
over 33 days = average 1.985 seconds slippage per (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 7345, Dec 30 at 0718, RRI mailbag in German reading
letters at some length; 307 degree beam from Ziganeschti also serves
North America beyond. Spelling it fonetikaly into German raises the
question whether the name be related to Gypsies, or rather Roma. Say,
could that name be linked to Romania? Altho hardly Latinate (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also ALGERIA [non]
** TAIWAN. 9530, Dec 30 at 1308 past 1323, open carrier of S9-S6,
stronger than adjacent 9535 Cuba, weaker than 9570 China via Cuba.
Aoki/NDXC shows only Nippon no Kaze, Korean via Paochung, Taiwan site
during this semihour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 395 kHz, Dec 30 at 1241 UT, ND beacon CA, which is 25 watts
in Newton - Harvs, Kansas; mixing with ULS, also 25 watts, from
Ulysses KS; they are 221 miles apart, maybe enough considering the
power.
420 kHz, Dec 30 at 1244 UT, ND beacon FQ, which is 25 watts in
Fairmont, Minnesota. I was tuned to 418-USB.
BTW, on the LW/MW band, USA NDBs range from 198 to 429 kHz; Canadians
195 to 414; so any heard higher in the 400s would have to be from
further worldparts (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2014 monitoring: confirmed Sunday
Dec 29 at 2130 on WRMI 7780, S8-S9 with a slight het from 7780.5.
Also confirmed UT Monday Dec 30 at 0130 on WRMI 7780 after Bob Zanotti
tries to get his name in edgewise, S6-S9 with some deep fades here,
but good a few minutes later at UTwente SDR.
Also confirmed UT Monday Dec 30 at 0230 on WRMIs, 7780 good and 9395
fair, both checked via UTwente only. Richard Langley, NB says of all
three 7780 airings, ``(no words cut off nor overridden this week)``.
Also confirmed UT Monday Dec 30 at 0230 on WRN webcast, correct
edition 2014 after two weeks of replaying 2011.
Also confirmed UT Monday Dec 30 from 0400 on Area 51 webcast, still
overmodulated; and at 0428 check via WBCQ 5130, S9 but noisy and not
ending until 0430:21 as if it were a sesquimnute longer than
originally; not sure why as internet delay should not be that much. Or
maybe I had paused Winamp at some point? Did not expect pause to
funxion on Winamp like Realplayer used to, but maybe it does.
Also confirmed UT Monday Dec 30 at 0430 on WRMI, JBA on very weak
signal under Cuban pulse jamming; OK on webcast.
Also confirmed Monday Dec 30 at 1901 on IRRS, 7290 via Romania(?) good
into UTwente SDR but considerably weaker than usual; came on just in
time for A?da, sign-on, a few news headlines, and WOR from the
beginning.
Also confirmed UT Tuesday Dec 31 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, fair; and via
UTwente SDR, good. Next:
0900 UT Wednesday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE
Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. (7490), Dec 29 at 2330, after `UBMP` on WBCQ webcast (which
memorializes ancient 7415 frequency in its URL), dead air, presumably
for the remaining semihour until `Le Show` like happened last week;
surely there should be fill music at least; or say, I have a handy
avialble program --- but I understand that some new show is planned in
this slot. 7490 itself is too weak to be sure that its air also be
dead (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5970, Dec 30 circa 1300, no signal from WEWN Spanish; was
also missing much earlier in the UT night. Instead hearing Chinese2
here, see EAST TURKISTAN. WEWN day frequencies 12050 and in English
afternoons 15610 do seem to be on tho poorly audible (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1540, Dec 30 at 2029 UT, Mexmx and ``La Ranchera`` slogan,
at first dominant then fading; no doubt KZMP University Park TX = The
Metroplex, format replacing ESPN Deportes 3+ months ago. 1480
Vietnamese already dominating Wichita too as DFW skywave well in 3
hours before sunset (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0141 UT December 31
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 02:11:39 +0000
From: Arthur Delibert <[email protected]>
To: Rich Levenson <[email protected]>, Glenn Hauser
<[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Monitoring Report
Message-ID:
<dm5pr10mb1433946b8b37edd250bc0697e4...@dm5pr10mb1433.namprd10.prod.outlook.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Welcome, and don't worry about the error. If that's the worst mistake you make
here, you'll be way ahead of most of the rest of us!
-- Art Delibert, North Bethesda, MD
________________________________
From: Hard-Core-DX <[email protected]> on behalf of Rich
Levenson <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2019 5:42 PM
To: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Monitoring Report
Thanks! I'm a bit embarrassed since I have it correct in my SWL log book I
maintain, but somehow switched the numbers - yikes!
Won't make that mistake again. Best 73 and Happy Holidays - Rich, W2FKN
On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 11:34 AM Glenn Hauser <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, but that should be 11965, not 11695. 73, Glenn Hauser
>
>
>
>
> On Saturday, December 28, 2019, 2:40:33 PM GMT, Rich Levenson <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Date: 24 Dec 2019
> Time: 2241 UTC
> Freq: 6040
> Station: Radio Algerienne
> Signal: S9
>
> Date: 27 Dec 2019
> Time: 2032 UTC
> Freq: 11780
> Station: Radio National Amazonia
> Signal: S9
> Other: Playing Silent Night in Portuguese
>
> Date: 27 Dec 2019
> Time: 2056 UTC
> Freq: 11695
> Station: MWV African Pathways
> Signal: S9
> Other: Announcing frequencies in English
>
> My Location: Monroe Township, NJ
> Radio: ICOM 9500
> Antenna: Vertical
> Station Name: Rich Levenson
> Email Address: [email protected]
>
> Thanks - Hope this is in an acceptable format
>
>
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