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Today's Topics:
1. SWLDXBulgaria News June 23-24 (Ivo Observer)
2. Fw: June 20th to July 4th, 2020, more RTC technicians repair
maintenance action at Kashgar site, on border to Kyrgyzstan
(Wolfgang Bueschel)
3. Special 4th of July Simulcast on WBCQ
(bill tilfordproductions.com)
4. Glenn Hauser logs June 23-24, 2020 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 10:04:41 +0000
From: Ivo Observer <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] SWLDXBulgaria News June 23-24
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SWLDXBulgaria News June 23-24 (publications ?24941-?24950)
FRANCE(non) Good signal of MGB Eye Radio via TDF Issoudun, June 23
1600-1700 on 15410 ISS 250 kW / 138 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic* Mon-Fri
* including other langs
English/Dinka/Nuer/Shilluk/Bari/Zande/Lutohohttps://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/06/good-signal-of-mgb-eye-radio-via-tdf_24.html
GREECE Reception of Voice of Greece on 9420 kHz June 24:
0501&0703 on 9420 AVL 150 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek*tx#3
*Arabic nx NOT on air, Serbian nx at 0705UT(by telephone).
0713-0715 freq.ann.: 9420, 9935, 11645, last two inactive!
>From 0725UT open carrier & transmitter off air at
0727UTC.https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/06/reception-of-voice-of-greece-on-9420_24.html
KOREA SOUTH Frequency change of Voice of Freedom from June
23https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/06/frequency-change-of-clandestine-voice.html
KUWAIT Good signal of MOI Radio Kuwait on 9749.8 & 11629.8 kHz June 23
1053-1333 on 9749.8 KBD 250 kW / 286 deg to NEAf Arabic General Service
1353-1603 on 11629.8 KBD 250 kW / 230 deg to CeAf Arabic Holy Qur'an
Scehttps://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/06/good-signal-of-moi-radio-kuwait-on.html
NUMBERS STATION S06s Russian Lady & Denge Welat on 11530 kHz, June 24:
0730-0736 on 11530#unknown secret tx site to Eu Russian CUSB S06s, good.
# co-ch same 11530 KCH 300 kW / 130 deg to WeAs Kurdish Denge Welat-good
At same time 11530 EMR 500 kW / 105 deg to WeAs TRT R.Ergogan-NOT ON
AIRhttps://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/06/s06s-russian-lady-denge-welat-on-11530_24.html
NUMBERS STATION E11 Oblique on 15720 kHz & S06s Russian Lady on
11565 khz June 24
0745-0748 on 15720 unknown secret tx site to Eu English USB mode E11
Oblique - weak
0830-0836 on 11565 unknown secret tx site to Eu Russian CUSB S06s
Russian
Lady-goodhttps://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/06/e11-oblique-on-15720-s06s-russian-lady.html
SUDAN(non) FPU Radio Tamazuj via MGB Talata Volonondry & TDF Issoudun June 23
1459-1557 on 15150 MDC 250 kW / 335 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic*, weak/fair signal
1459-1557 on 15400 ISS 250 kW / 138 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic*, good-8 sec.delay
* including English language news bulletin 1544-1554UTC Tuesay and
Friday:https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/06/fpu-radio-tamazuj-via-talata-volonondry_24.html
SUDAN(non) FPU Radio Dabanga via SPL Secretbrod and SM di Galeria on June 23:
1529-1627 on 11640 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Darfur Arabic, very good signal
1529-1627 on 15550 SMG 250 kW / 150 deg to EaAf Darfur Arabic, good-2
sec.delayhttps://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/06/fpu-radio-dabanga-via-spl-secretbrod-sm.html
U.K.(non) Frequency change of BBCWS via ENC-DMS Kranji, June
6https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/06/frequency-change-of-bbc-ws-via-enc-dms.html
U.K.(non) Radio Ndarason Int via ENC-DMS Woofferton/Ascension, June 24
0600-0700 on 12050 WOF 250 kW / 158 deg to WeAf Kanuri, good signal incl
0615-0625 on 12050 WOF 250 kW / 158 deg to WeAf news bulletin in French.
0700-0800 on 12050 ASC 250 kW / 055 deg to WeAf Kanuri, weak/fair
signalhttps://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/06/radio-ndarason-int-via-enc-dms.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: 2
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 16:07:17 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "wor" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Fw: June 20th to July 4th, 2020, more RTC technicians
repair maintenance action at Kashgar site, on border to Kyrgyzstan
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2020 8:35 PM
Subject: [HCDX] June 20th to July 4th, 2020, more RTC technicians repair
maintenance action at Kashgar site, on border to Kyrgyzstan
Today Wednesday June 24
checked this maintenance action at RTC site
in Kashgar far western China, requested June 20th to July 4th.
NOT OFF AIR service today June 24 at 13.25 UT:
9500 CRI 1100-1400 English 100 209 Kashi-Saibagh 2022 CHN_RTC CRI
CRI English service to CeAS, SoAS, PAK, IRN
WAS NOT OFF AIR,
maybe English sce replaced
by another transmitter in Beijing or Urumqi tonight ?
S=9+15dB superpower -63 dBm strength.
Also these bcasts ON AIR tonight
11790 CRI 1158-1400 Chinese 100 239 Kashi-Saibagh 2022 CHN_RTC CRI
S=9+25dB or -52dBm strength at 13.30 UT to ARS, Arabia, Africa
13810 CRI 1158-1400 Chinese 100 239 Kashi-Saibagh 2022 CHN_RTC CRI
S=9+30dB or -48dBm strength at 13.32 UT to ARS, Arabia, Africa
17560 CRI 1200-1357 French 500 308 Kashi-Saibagh 2022 CHN_RTC CRI
S=9+30dB or -44dBm strength at 13.38 UT to WeEUR.
9450 CRI 1300-1357 Hindi 100 174 Kashi-Saibagh 2022 CHN_RTC CRI
S=9+20dB or -61dBm strength at 13.45 UT to CeAS, SoAS, PAK, IRN.
13755 CRI 1300-1400 English 100 174 Kashi-Saibagh 2022 CHN_RTC CRI
but not always English, rather mixed with SoAs vernacular,
clear English CRI ID at
S=9+20dB or -51dBm strength at 13.45 UT to CeAS, SoAS, PAK, IRN.
OFF AIR from Kashgar:
OFF AIR at 15.40 UT 17650 kHz French to WeEUR, NOT ON AIR
OFF AIR at 15.43 UT 13670 kHz English to WeEUR, NOT ON AIR
rather CeAsian sce 1100-1400 UT TKS PBS Xinjiang, Uyghur Urumqi
OFF AIR at 15.55 UT 7230 kHz Russian NOT ON AIR
rather CeAsian sce 1150-1800 UT CHN PBS Xinjiang, Mongolia Urumqi
A20 Shortwave Frequency List of June 17 2020 1300 UTC Day 1 = Sunday
FRE STATION UTC Language Pow Azi Location Rem
9500 CRI 1100-1400 English 100 209 Kashi-Saibagh 2022 CHN_RTC CRI
11790 CRI 1158-1400 Chinese 100 239 Kashi-Saibagh 2022 CHN_RTC CRI
13810 CRI 1158-1400 Chinese 100 239 Kashi-Saibagh 2022 CHN_RTC CRI
17560 CRI 1200-1357 French 500 308 Kashi-Saibagh 2022 CHN_RTC CRI
7230 CRI 1200-1400 Russian 100 ND Kashi-Saibagh 2022 CHN_RTC CRI
9450 CRI 1300-1357 Hindi 100 174 Kashi-Saibagh 2022 CHN_RTC CRI
17650 CRI 1300-1357 French 500 308 Kashi-Saibagh 2022 CHN_RTC CRI
13670 CRI 1300-1400 English 500 308 Kashi-Saibagh 2022 CHN_RTC CRI
13755 CRI 1300-1400 English 100 174 Kashi-Saibagh 2022 CHN_RTC CRI
(Maintenance June 24, 2020)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel"
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2020 5:46 PM
Subject: [HCDX] June 20th to July 4th, 2020, more RTC technicians repair
maintenance action at Kashgar site, on border to Kyrgyzstan
> CHINA On June 20th to July 4th in 2020,
> more RTC technicians repair maintenance action at
> RTC Kashgar site, on border to Kyrgyzstan in central Asia.
>
> So, the Chinese RTC technicians go back from Urumqi Hutubi site
> in the far northwest of Tibetan China,
> recently there on repair maintenance action, -
>
> back to Kashgar, in the far west on the Chinese border with Kyrgyzstan.
>
> Either was in April at the first repair appointment of bad (wintry)
> weather, frost or the spare parts were still - not available?
>
> Thank you for submitting the maintenance / repair appointment for the
> RTC Kashgar 500 kW location broadcast center.
>
> 19 June 2020 hardworking, hardworking !
>
> Dear listeners:
> For technical reasons, our show from June 20th to July 4th is
> Until 10 p.m. CEST
>
> on the frequencies 7395 kHz and 11775 kHz
>
> and from 7 Clock until 9 a.m. CEST
>
> n o t t o b e r e c e i v e d
>
> on the frequency 17720 kHz.
>
> In addition, other European language services will also be affected by the
> maintenance times at RTC Kashgar China, like:
> Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, English, Hausa, Croatian,
> Hungarian, Italian, Russian, and Portuguese.
>
> The German language programs on the frequencies 11650 kHz and 17615 kHz
> via Urumqui site remain unchanged. We ask for your understanding.
>
> German editorial office of CRI Beijing China.
>
> (thanks to Paul Gager-AUT, June 19)
> _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 13:52:45 -0500 (CDT)
From: "bill tilfordproductions.com" <[email protected]>
To: "bill tilfordproductions.com" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Special 4th of July Simulcast on WBCQ
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 00:17:01 +0000 (UTC)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: WOR DXLD <[email protected]>
Cc: Short-Wave Radio Listening <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs June 23-24, 2020
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, June 24 at 1356-1400: just a few
scattered WOOB between 15 and 11 MHz: 14850 S5-S7; 12800 S6-S8 with
song in English; 12500 & 11100 JBA.
[non?] 13575, June 24 at 1442, S5-S7 music almost sounds like
Firedragon; scheduled this hour only is RFA Cantonese via TINIAN; only
one station audible, not sure which as ChiCom usually don`t bother to
jam minolity Chinese language.
CNR1 jammers, June 24 at 1440-1445: 15110, VG signal from only one
station, no sign of target VOA, which means all its power this hour
only via Philippines is blasting only into target China; or???
12820, S9/+10 // 15110 in case there were any doubt; 12500, S6-S8
At 1454, 9230, S5-S8 // the others (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** NIGERIA. 7254.9, June 24 at 0555, instead of Handel, some South?
African choral music pr?lude to VON in Hausa (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. Still keeping an eye on sporadic E openings, June 24 at 1845
UT, pileups on several CB channels, always with hets since those guys
can`t achieve accurate AM frequencies; also some LSB freebanders
further up including one in Spanish. But I proceed to 10m beacon band
where stuff can be identified:
28209-, June 24 at 1846, VVV DE N8PVL/B LIVONIA --- two different WPM
speeds as heard before, from Michigan.
28264-, June 24 at 1848, DE AB8Z/B PARMA --- Ohio, also heard before;
strong but deep fades.
28281, June 24 at 1851, DE W8EH EM79 --- slow CW and no /B suffix.
``28.281 W8EH C MIDDLETOWN OHIO # 8W, GP VERTICAL`` --- NJ5O list
``W8EH USA flag USA, ERNEST W HOWARD, JR, MIDDLETOWN, OH 45044 USA
W8EH/BEACONS: 10 meters on 28.281 MHz in Middletown, OH. It is running
7 to 8 watts to a Cushcraft Ringo 20' above ground at 860' elevation``
--- QRZ.com
28297, June 24 at 1853, 4? dits, and DE NS9RC EN62 BE CHICAGO
``28.297 NS9RC C HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS # 5W, VERTICAL QTH Change 30
May 17`` --- WJ5O
``NS9RC USA flag, NORTH SHORE RADIO CLUB INC, PO BOX 1066, Highland
Park, IL 60035 USA. QSL: DONALD WHITEMAN, KK9H
Welcome, NS9RC is the club call of the North Shore Radio Club, Inc.
Our club's web site is: http://www.ns9rc.org
To help discover 10M band openings, the NSRC has been operating a
propagation beacon on 28.297 MHz since 2001. It is located at the
Heller Nature Center in Highland Park, IL about 27 miles north of
downtown Chicago. The beacon was built from a Radio Shack HTX-100
running 5 watts out to roof mounted Cushcraft AR-10 half wave vertical
at 18 ft. CW message keying is performed by an Ultimate PicoKeyer. The
10M band is open a lot more often than you think, even during periods
of low sunspot activity, so be sure to check the beacon section
between 28.175 and 28.300 regularly, you may be pleasantly surprised
with what you hear. Reception reports are always welcome and over the
years we have received them from over 30 countries and from every
continent except Antarctica. We will gladly QSL if requested, just
send your report to KK9H`` --- QRZ.com
There were also audible a number of phone contacts above 28300, but
not pursued with IDs to be sparse and imprecise.
Sporadic E from this area correlates with some MUF spikes past 88 MHz,
between us, so I spend a few minutes in the car circa 2030 UT, but
nothing unusual in several scans of 88-102 MHz. I then retire for a
semi-nap to the stereo headphone accompaniment of KUCO-FM 90.1:
``3:36 PM Symphony No. 4 in f Op 36 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer
| Manfred Honeck, conductor | Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra,`` a
terrific new performance and by a composer who moves me so deeply
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2039 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday June 24
from 2100:26.5 on WBCQ 7490v, JBA. Next and last SW repeat:
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE
Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
Thanks this week for financial support from Ron Howard, Monterey CA,
who sent a generous contribution in memory of Brian Alexander, by
check in US funds on a US bank to
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702
One may also contribute via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com
PayPal not necessarily in US funds as they will convert.
Next WOR 2040 should be ready by early UT Friday June 26 for first
SWBC at 2200 on WRMI 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 9330, June 24 at 1455, NO signal from World`s Last Chance
Radio via WBCQ-6. Another crash? Now what`s wrong. No word about this
yet from an Allan twit, last one dated June 23 when it was still
operative. However I do have a weak carrier on 9333.0, not noticed
before with or without 9330. Still off past 1500, and 9333 still on
past 1503, S4-S6 open carrier. About an hour later, remotes do not
hear either one. Next check 1842, still no 9330, while 9333 JBA
carrier is fadive so unseems local.
Speaking of flat-earthers, here`s a perfect gift, and it`s cheap:
``I ran into this entirely by accident today.
https://www.sciplus.com/spinning--political-earth-cube-globe-64555-p
William "Bill" Tilford, Owner/Producer, Tilford Productions, LLC``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 17775-, June 24 at 1843, KVOH S7-S8 with a trace? of
modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. Just had a call from George McClintock, Nashville TN, that
he is getting WNOE, Atlanta GA on 1690, oldies, as late as 1450 UT,
rather late on a long day for skywave. I wonder if it`s sporadic E
affecting MF. WNOE was 1060 in New Orleans, still a call there on FM.
Not yet as such in FCC, or radio-locator.com --- 1690 was WMLB, I
think gone for a while. 73, (Glenn Hauser, OK, June 23, WOR)
Glenn: Don't you believe that it's WNOE. I assume he misheard the
calls {But see below!}
I tuned 1690 in when I saw your email. They were playing "Georgia," it
was followed by a station ID of WMLB, Avondale Estates-Atlanta at
11:41 a.m. EDT.
The station has been on the air intermittently for the past year. I've
heard no live announcers or anything other than old interviews and
music.
I've seen them run a notice in the Atlanta newspaper about seeking to
renew their license. I think these broadcasts are just intended to
keep
the station active for that purpose, so that it's not deemed dark.
There's nothing different in what I'm hearing today than what I've
heard
for months. mc (Mike Cooper, Atlanta)
Sounds like George is simply mistaking the callsign when he's hearing
it. http://www.topazdesigns.com/ambc still shows the call as WMLB.
{but see below!}
Here's a post from "Harry S." in Buford, GA on radiodiscussions.com
from approx. 6 weeks ago that may shed some light on what's going on:
"Today (Thursday, May 7, 2020) WMLB 1690 AM switched from the
continuous loop of testing announcements and the same music loop
regular station announcements every other song (no mention of
"testing) and a larger variety of music played. This was interspersed
with old public service interviews conducted with Jeff Davis (former
PD for 1160) with various local individuals that are leading groups in
the area such as Georgia State Patrol recruiting and Veterans Affairs
Jobs in the Atlanta area among other guests."
Although I'm sure the DXers on this board near Atlanta would disagree,
this is one expanded band station that I wouldn't mind having return
(I still {need} WMLB for my logbooks up here). WVON is my only real
consistent visitor on 1690 here at night, although KDMT will make the
occasional visit to Omaha. 73, Rick Dau, on the road in Davenport,
Iowa``
Glenn, They gave the WNOE ID Atlanta this morning. At 9:35pm tonight I
heard the WMLB ID. At 9:44pm tonight I heard the WNOE Atlanta ID ---
Weird. George McClintock 6-23-2020``
Yes, NOE does ``rhyme`` with MLB. Could 1690 be relaying feed from New
Orleans with its IDs intermixed? (Glenn)
They ID "WNOE Atlanta". (George 6-24-2020)
Meanwhile, 1608-1630+ UT June 24, I have been listening to 1690 via
KiwiSDR in Knoxville-Oak Ridge --- some good peaks, fadeouts. One Kiwi
in Jasper GA is unavailable and uncovers MW anyway; a couple in
Alabama don`t get it.
Oldies, IDs between every 2 or 3 songs so far only as ``This is
WMLB-AM, 1690 kHz, Avondale Estates -- Atlanta``. At 1617 ``stay
safe`` which would seem to refer to something current in 2020y.
Recognizable tunes between 1608 and 1644 included: Be My Love,
Tequila, Her Tender Lips, Who`s Cryin` Now, Good Golly, Miss Molly;
Crazy, That`ll Be the Day, Chantilly Lace.
George says the ``WNOE`` IDs just say Atlanta, not with the city of
license Avondale Estates. Also before 1600 they were in a talk show
rather than music.
And: ``In all fairness to people that heard the ID with the correct
city of licensee, I did not actually hear a legal ID at the top of the
hour or 45 minutes delayed by programming as required by the FCC.
The IDs were several times during the hour with different call
letters. This still seems strange. George McClintock 6-24-2020``
GH: continuing on 1690 via Knoxville: 1644 UT suddenly switches to
``Atlanta`s Business from News-Talk 1160``, interview. Her ``left leg
completely rotted to the hip``, etc. Yuk.
It appears that 1160 is currently ``The Quest, Atlanta`s Catholic
Radio`` with EWTN. FB as WCFO Newstalk 1160 stopped after March 2018.
So 1690 is playing old stuff from another station?
While playing music the cuts were 2 minutes max; seems they were
truncated. Will try to hear any ToH ID at least.
The interview continued until 1707 UT with no break, concluding with
plug for a related event on September (or December?) 9, and the woman
with the leg problem was Amy Copeland; 1708 another canned WMLB ID,
back to music, 1711 segue, 1714 segue, 1716 ID, 1718 tune, 1721 La
Bamba, 1723 segue, 1726 Georgia, etc., etc.; fading weaker into noise
level, so 1735 tune-out without my ever hearing a ``WNOE`` ID.
BUT: Mike Cooper, Atlanta, reports at 2032 UT June 24 to the WOR iog:
``Now I've heard this bizarre ID, as well. Apologies for suggesting
this was misheard, by George. I've heard the WNOE ID, as well, just
minutes away from an WMLB ID. Maybe they plan to change the call
letters? I didn't find anything in FCC AM database on WNOE. As I write
this, am listening to an interview with a Georgia State Patrolman,
done by host who refers to 1160, which was a business-news station
then-owned by the current owner of WMLB. Odd.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)
** U S A. Here`s another oddity --- I also heard over the phone from
George. ``"This is a test of the text to speech system" over and over.
I can hear it solid around Nashville, TN. 1680 AM. When in a fixed
location including my house, the signal does not vary. It`s on the
same frequency as one of the TN department of transportation
transmitters which is under the "This is a test ....." station. George
McClintock 6-24-2020, 1613 UT`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 12302-USB, June 24 at 1446, informal Spanish 2-way
ragchew, some whistling, stronger one with ``engine noise``, S9-S8;
weaker one slightly off frequency; IDs? Of course not! Per Klingenfuss
2002y, 12302-SSB was a ship station channel 1225 paired with QSX
13149.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report despatched at 0016 UT June 25
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 210, Issue 25
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