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Today's Topics:
1. 6050 kHz observed at 07.50 ... 08.05 UT March 15, HCJB Quito
Pico Pichincha worked overtime ? (Wolfgang Bueschel)
2. WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Top News #1419 (Michael Bethge (WWDXC))
3. Re: [WOR] Radio Free Asia A20 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
4. SW meetings of 2020 (V?h?kainu)
5. SWLDXBulgaria News March 15 (Ivo Observer)
6. Glenn Hauser logs March 14-15, 2020 (Glenn Hauser)
7. DX Tip: KGAB 650 Dead Air (Paul B. Walker, Jr.)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 09:07:18 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, "wor" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] 6050 kHz observed at 07.50 ... 08.05 UT March 15, HCJB
Quito Pico Pichincha worked overtime ?
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ECUADOR HCJB Quito Pico Pichincha, music program in Spanish announcement at
07.50 UT-08.05 slot noted on exact
6050.000 kHz, S=8 or -82dBm in remote Rochester NY state unit.
Scheduled Sat/Sun til 05.00 UT end. 73 wb df5sx
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 10:03:40 +0100
From: "Michael Bethge \(WWDXC\)" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
Cc: "\"Prof. Arnaldo Coro Antich\"" <[email protected]>, "\"Richard
Lemke\"" <[email protected]>, "\"Fernando Luiz de Souza\""
<[email protected]>, "\"Faustino Prado Moreira\""
<[email protected]>, "\"Wolfgang Bueschel\"" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Top News #1419
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The latest edition (15 March 2020) of the WORLDWIDE DX CLUB "Top News",
compiled by Wolfgang Bueschel, has been posted:
http://topnews.wwdxc.de
(or http://www.wwdxc.de/topnews.shtml / https://www.wwdxc.de/topnews.shtml)
It can also be downloaded as a txt file at: http://bcdx.wwdxc.de.
Best regards,
Michael Bethge
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E-Mail: [email protected]
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 11:17:16 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, "wor" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [WOR] Radio Free Asia A20
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Hauser via Groups.Io" Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2020 1:38 AM
Subject: [WOR] Radio Free Asia A20
Radio Free Asia Broadcast Frequency Schedules
Effective March 29 - October 25, 2020
Burmese
0030-0130 on 12120TIN 15110SAI 15700TIN
1230-1330 on 7530TJK 9370TJK 11805TIN
1330-1400 on 7530TJK 11805TIN 12140TIN
1400-1430 on 7530TJK 11805TIN
Cantonese
1400-1500 *FNP 13575SAI
Khmer
1230-1330 on 9700TJK 12140TIN
1430-1500 on 9355SAI 12140TIN
2230-2330 on 9890SAI 12140TIN
Korean
1500-1700 on 9850SAI 9990TJK 11985SAI
1700-1900 on 9990TJK 11985SAI
2100-2200 on 9540TJK 11945SAI 11985TIN
Lao
0000-0100 on 9940KWT
1100-1200 on 15195TIN
Mandarin
0300-0400 on 11570TJK 11895SAI 11985KWT 17690SAI
0400-0500 on 11895SAI 13750KWT 17690SAI 21505TIN
0500-0600 on 11895SAI 17690SAI 21690TIN
0600-0700 on 11895SAI 13790SAI 17690KWT 17810TIN
1500-1600 on 9940KWT 11675SAI 13810TJK
1600-1700 on 7540TJK 11610TIN 13570SAI 13810TJK
1700-1800 on 9360KWT 9970SAI
1800-1900 on 9360KWT 9970SAI 11745KWT
1900-2000 on 9360KWT 9720SAI
2000-2100 on 6080TJK 9360KWT 9535SAI
2100-2200 on 7435KWT 9685KWT
2300-2400 on 9535KWT 9720KWT 15555SAI
Tibetan
0100-0200 on 9370TJK 9510KWT 9705TJK 11705KWT 13765TJK
0200-0300 on 9370TJK 11705KWT 11745SAI 13765TJK
*FNP / KWT 11820tuth 11895mowefr 11925sasu
1000-1100 on 13800KWT 15330TIN
*FNP / TIN 21455tu 21465mo 21475sa 21505su 21520fr 21540we 21565th
1100-1200 on 13580TJK 15265BIB 15470TJK 17640TIN
1200-1300 on 11570KWT 13580TJK 15470TJK 17690TJK 17720LAM
1300-1400 on 11570KWT 13835TJK 15275TJK 15470TJK 17860SAI
1500-1600 on 9355TJK 12110KWT
*FNP / TIN 13720sututhsa 13790mowefr
2200-2300 on 7505TJK 9380KWT
*FNP / KWT 7460mo 7465fr 7470tu 7520suwe 9655th 9920sa
2300-2400 on 5965KWT 9555TJK 9875TJK
Uyghur
0100-0200 on 9350TJK 9780KWT 9800BIB 11640KWT 11790KWT
1600-1700 on 9355TJK 9480KWT 11675TIN 15700BIB
*FPN = Frequency Not Promoted
("A.J." Janitschek, Director Program & Operations Support, Radio Free Asia)
(via Rich D'Angelo-USA, March 11, NASWA iog)
It would have been helpful to include transmitter sites, variable frequency
info, FNPs -- ha (gh)
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 12:33:46 +0000
From: V?h?kainu, Risto S <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] SW meetings of 2020
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Dear friends,
at the end of January 2020 I sent out a list of coming SW and DX meetings of
this year. At that time the corona virus was already active in China, but no
one had a real clue of how big an effect it would have in the everyday life in
the whole world.
Now in mid-March we know of that and everybody is aware that travelling as well
as having sports events, art events or meetings is quite restricted. Many of
the meetings mentioned on the list have already been cancelled or postponed.
Today we don't have an idea how long this exceptional time will last and when
we'll be able to return to normal (or even nearly normal) duties and actions.
I enclose a copy of the list. There are a couple of amendments and updates
(that came up before the Corona virus crisis escalated). But I'm sure everybody
will check the current details of the planned meetings on the websites to have
up-to-date information.
Hoping for better conference year 2021!
73
Risto V?h?kainu
The Finnish DX Association
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 14:59:35 +0000
From: Ivo Observer <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] SWLDXBulgaria News March 15
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SWLDXBulgaria News March 15 (publications ?23115-?23123)
ARMENIA(non) Free Iran International TV in 25mb, March 15
from 0930 on 11570 ERV 100 kW / 100 deg to N/ME Farsi,
fairhttps://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/03/reception-of-free-iran-international-tv.html
AUSTRIA(non) Reception of Radio DARC#265 via ORS Moosbrunn, March 15:
1000-1100 on 6070 MOS 100 kW / non-dir to CeEu German Sun, good
signalhttps://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/03/reception-of-radio-darc265-via-ors.html
GERMANY(non) Adventist World Radio Obiettivo DX#872 via MBR Nauen, March 15
1000-1100 on 9610 NAU 125 kW / 180 deg to SoEu Italian Sun, very good
signalhttps://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/03/adventist-world-radio-obiettivo-dx872.html
GERMANY(non) Pan American Broadcasting PAB via MBR Nauen on March 15
1430-1445 on 11800 NAU 250 kW / 094 deg to SoAs English Sun, very
goodhttps://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/03/pan-american-broadcasting-pab-via-mbr.html
JAPAN(non) Frequency changes of JSR Shiokaze Sea
Breeze:https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/03/frequency-changes-of-jsr-shiokaze.html
KURDISTAN(non) Updated SW schedule of BRB Denge Welat
0330-0600 on 7350 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish
0600-1500 on 11530 KCH 300 kW / 130 deg to WeAs Kurdish
1500-1600 on 11530 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish
1600-2200 on 9525 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish
Other registered in B-19 HFCC frequencies are inactive:
7360/7455/9550/11540/13710/13730/15170/15175/17860/17870https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/03/updated-shortwave-schedule-of-brb-denge.html
ROMANIA(non) IRRS EGR/UNR and AWR Wavescan#576 via RADIOCOM Saftica March 15
1030&1230 on 9510 SAF 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu English Sun IRRS EGR/UNR, weak
1200-1230 on 9510 SAF 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu English Sun
Wavescan#576,
fairhttps://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/03/irrs-egrunr-and-awr-wavescan576-via.html
USA World's Last Chance Radio WLCRadio via WBCQ-6 in 31mb March 15
0900-1000 on 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 076 deg to PORT Portug., good signal
1000-1055 on 9330 BCQ 500 kW / 076 deg to SPAI Spanish, good signal
Additional transmissions of World's Last Chance Radio / WLC Radio in
Arabic, according to their site, but not mentioned transmitter site:
1800-2100 on 9800 unknown kW / unknown to N/ME Arabic from March 15
2100-2400 on 6015 unknown kW / unknown to NoAf Arabic from March
15https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/03/worlds-last-chance-radio-wlcradio-via.html
USA Reception of Radio For Peace International RFPI via WRMI#09 on March 15:
1300-1400 on 15770 RMI 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu French Sun, weak/fair signal &
from 1400 on 15770 RMI 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English Dly Supreme
Master
TV.https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/03/radio-for-peace-international-rfpi-via.html
--
73! Ivo Ivanov
More information on the shortwave listening hobby,
please visit to http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com
QTH-1: Patreshko, Bulgaria
Receiver: Afedri SDR
Software: SDR-Console v2.3(using remote connection)
Antennas: various Inverted V and beverage antennas.
QTH-2: Sofia OK2, Bulgaria
Receiver: Sony ICF-2001D
Antenna: 30 m. long wire
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 19:54:15 +0000 (UTC)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: WOR DXLD <[email protected]>
Cc: Short-Wave Radio Listening <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 14-15, 2020
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** CANADA. 258-MCW kHz, March 15 at 0552, dash and ZSJ, which is a
1000-watt ND Beacon from Sandy Lake, Ontario, the only one on 258 per
dxinfocentre.com -- first time heard since Dec 28.
340-MCW kHz, March 15 at 0558, dash and YY, 500-watt NDB at Mont-Joli,
QC. See also UNIDENTIFIED 278 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 13780, March 14 at 1343, RHC again here ex-13740 and // much
stronger 13700. By 1417, 13780 is still on with noisy dead air.
13756.580, March 14 at 1419, RHC spur VP. Not like the loud FM/AM
spurblobs sporadically out of 13700, rather clearly audible in AM mode
and precisely measurable with BFO; also is 56.58 kHz displaced, rather
than 66-70 kHz. I look for a match on the minus side and find a JBA
carrier on 13644.53, but calculated spot would be 13643.42 so maybe
that`s just a birdie. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 15370, March 14 at 2015, RHC S9+20 in distorted Brazuguese,
while 15140 is in French. Both these had been scheduled at 2100-2130,
so bumped one real hour earlier. Something`s always wrong at RHC
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 17480, March 14 at 2247, 5-digit spy numbers alternating with
digibeepery, S1-S4 and nothing higher on the 17 or 18 MHz bands (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 6000, March 15 at 0543, RHC English JBM with crackle; 6060 VG
S9+10/20; 6100 S9+10 undermodulated; 6145 VP S7-S9; 5040 S9+10/20 and
distorted. Something`s always wrong at RHC(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** GUAM. 12035, March 15 at 1456 VP music; thought it might be another
Turkey overrun past 1430, but KSDA is scheduled 1430-1500 in
Myanmarianese; VOT sandwiched between this and Kununurra in Hindi
before 1330. Much weaker than really TRT 11815v still on in Turkish
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** GUATEMALA. This isn`t a log but wrapping up(?) discussion of postal
service here, following my log of 4055, Radio Truth announcing a
postal address, P O Box 5, Chiquimula. From Chuck Gessner, W3ON to the
WOR iogroup:
``Hi All, I sent an email to Dr. Madrid, the General Manager and
Director of Radio Verdad Guatemala yesterday, regarding postal mail to
and from Guatemala.
His comments were very interesting. Here is some of what he wrote.
`Here's how Postal Mail is in Guatemala: Private mail ceased
permanently, as they never got an agreement with the government.
The government is now operating to some extent the old official Post
Offices. The problem is that it is not operating fully. They are
operating on a partial way. We are not allowed to send any mail out,
but we may receive mail from other countries (very scarcely). I have
received several mail from the US and from Mexico, but not many. Mail
from other countries take much time to arrive, although they may
eventually get to us.
I have been checking for your registered mail you sent in January, but
is has not arrived yet. I was informed that we may send postal mail
within Guatemala already, but not to other countries. They have
announced several times that postal mail will start functioning
normally, but it hasn't happened yet.
Dr. ?dgar Am?lcar Madrid
General Manager and Director
Radio Truth
Chiquimula, Guatemala, C. A.`
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Glen[n], et al., In my perspective the best way to reach Radio Verdad
is via the '[email protected]' email service. I do know that when
I asked for a QSL card for some monitoring a few months ago, he
responded via email, with email attachments. I had tried to send Radio
Verdad a donation via PayPal. But it was suspended at the time. I
don't know if that situation has been sorted out. I have also sent a
donation via U.S. Registered Mail in late January. As of this date in
mid March, Radio Verdad has not received it.
So, to say that regular postal mail is somewhat elusive, is not to
exaggerate. In my correspondence a while ago, I was going to try to
send a donation via some of those overseas banking systems, as it
appears that Radio Verdad can get monies that way. But my local bank
balked when I requested that. I suppose that one could send Radio
Verdad an email, and ask for guidance. To me, its such a shame that
the Guatemalan government doesn't have this straightened out as this
is a long time problem. I have read where one can use services such as
FedEx to send stuff to Guatemala. I have not tried that.
Anyway, that's what I know. I sure hope that gets straightened out.
Radio Verdad Guatemala does IMHO, very good work in its coverage area.
All you have to do is look at the Radio Verdad Guatemala YouTube
channel to see some of its activities. I believe there may be a link
to it on the Radio Verdad web page. 73 de Chuck W3ON`` (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)
** INDONESIA. 7165-LSB, March 14 at 1409, YD3BIH ham in contact and
foneticizing his call, so I can look it up for sure at QRZ.com:
``YD2BIH flag Indonesia AGUNG DWI SETYAWAN, KENDAL 51355, Indonesia``
Kendal is in Central Java. I was looking for special VI3RA in this
area of the 40m band, no luck (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** KUWAIT. 17550.550, March 14 at 2012, JBA carrier as I am trying to
hear the alleged 20-24 UT RK broadcast to C&W NAm in Arabic, contrary
to Propagation 101.
Last Sept 17 at 2121, I had an unID JBA carrier on 17550.6. While it
was propagating last summer, heard in August and June on 17550, not
offset; in May it had been offset-minus. However, Radio Kuwait often
aired off-frequencies by 0.6 or 0.7 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** OKLAHOMA. 88.3 WBFM, March 14 at 1721 UT, NO signal from K202BY,
even as we drive close by the site on a jaunt into the country west of
Enid. This was the original Family Radio satellator which crashed or
messed up the band for many months, then sold to translate 99.1 KJIL
Copeland KS, and came back on air Feb 1 with much improved signal --
new transmitter? in fact causing new ACI to 88.1 KWOU Woodward, and I
had to move my RF feeder frequencies somewhere else. May have been off
for a day or two but until now had seemed funxional with no problems.
Still off March 15 circa 1630 check.
BTW, via KWOU I heard GM Dick Pryor claim that thru its relays, KGOU
reaches 46 (of 77) OK counties. I wonder if he includes Garfield here
where the signal is so marginal. Absence of K202BY helps, especially
on the west side of Enid and/or with some tropo (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)
** SCOTLAND [non]. 5850 // 5010, UT Sun Mar 15 at 0100, `Encore`
classical music from Radio Tumbril via WRMI succeeds this week, not
only on publicized 5850 but also on companion 5010; thisaway 5010 is
much weaker; at Bogot? KiwiSDR, 5010 is better but not very strong.
Next airing is to be the final one on WBCQ, UT Mon Mar 16 at 0000 on
7490.2v; and then at 0200 on WRMI 9455. Unfortunately this week`s
playlist is not up yet, rather last week`s for 07/3, at:
https://www.tumbril.co.uk/playlists
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** SLOVENIA. 14275-USB, March 14 at 1427, CQ Contest over and over
from S57DX; see https://www.qrz.com/lookup/s57dx
``S57DXflag Slovenia, SLAVKO CELARC, OB IGRISCU 8, 1360 VRHNIKA,
Slovenia`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY. 12035, Sat Mar 14 at 1356-1403+, VOT English S8-S3 with
Turkish songs, a time when I was expecting to hear `Letterbox`.
5960, Sat Mar 14 at 2317, no signal from VOT English to us, another
no-show; so the Mighty farty KBC should have no worries this week from
5960 after 0000. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR) See also GUAM
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2025 monitoring: 15770, Sat Mar 14
at 1340 I awaken to a JBA carrier from WRMI, so was probably also on
at 1300 for WOR. Yes, Ivo Ivanov reports from Bulgaria with clips of
the first and last parts; but did it join 3 minutes late after BS?:
Weak/fair signal of World of Radio #2025 and Shortwave Radiogram #143,
March 14
https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/03/world-of-radio2025-and-shortwave.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uUhYmGpgt0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2OEkzsEfy0
``1200-1303 on 15770 RMI 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English Brother
HySTAIRical TOM and
1303-1330 on 15770 RMI 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English Sat World of
Radio#2025 and
1330-1400 on 15770 RMI 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English Sat Shortwave
Radiogram#143``
Also confirmed UT Sunday March 15 starting at 0330 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM,
Wentzville MO, sufficient at Peoria IL KiwiSDR, VG direct to here
S9+20/30 but with storm crashes from NE Texas. Next:
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9395 to NNW
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210
1901 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2100 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, WOR)
** U S A. 5085, March 15 at 0546 tune-in, just in time to hear some
dead air and turn off the air. WTWW-2 closings are extremely variable.
Earlier I found 5830 WTWW-1 on air weakly but it too off now (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 278-MCW kHz, March 15 at 0554 UT, beacon ND with long
dash, implying Canadian; no such listing at DXinfocentre.com and
classaxe.com --- miskeyed? Difficult copy amid lightning crashes from
NE Texas (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7473-7497 approx., March 15 at 0537, OTH radar pulsing
over almost 25-kHz range, Russian? Would bother 7490v WBCQ if on
earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report despatched at 1953 UT March 15
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 19:22:08 -0600
From: "Paul B. Walker, Jr." <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]"
<[email protected]>, NRC-AM <[email protected]>, ABDX List
<[email protected]>, Hard-Core-DX <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] DX Tip: KGAB 650 Dead Air
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With KGAB 650 running dead air due to power outages in Cheyenne, KMTI Manti
UT and CKOM 650 Saskatoon are audible fairly decently under the KGAB Dead
carrier at my QTH in Laramie, WY at sunset. Worth checking out, folks!
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