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Today's Topics:
1. B-24 northern winter season requests, only decreased to some
total 3400 data lines in private hfcc.org database requested in
2024 (df5sx.p11)
2. Radio Sound of Africa on air with a test broadcast on 7395
kHz (RSOA)
3. Glenn Hauser logs October 27-28-29, 2024 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 23:23:41 +0100
From: "df5sx.p11" <[email protected]>
To: "_ BCLNEWS" <[email protected]>, "_ WOR" <[email protected]>, "HCDX"
<[email protected]>, "_ DXplorer" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] B-24 northern winter season requests, only decreased
to some total 3400 data lines in private hfcc.org database requested
in 2024
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Comments:
POSITIVELLY noted ALGERIA RTA Bechar and Ourgla outlets BOTH,
in parallel in 22 meterband.
So seemingly only the 19 mband antenna at Ourgla is DISFUNCT of 15150 kHz at
daytime
missed these mid - days.
ALGERIA 13640even fqy ALG TDA Bechar, talk in Arabic on Marrakesch and
Mauritania West Sahara / Polisario matter theme at 21.17 UT, S=9+15dB signal to-
wards Eastern Sahel CEAF azimuth, in Bavaria Germany Perseus unit. 19.00-03.00
UT
Also \\
13790.003 ALG TDA Ourgla (or probably Ifrikya FM program content ?) at 20.24
UT,
little less strong S=9 here in EUR as WestAF degr azimuth westwards.
19.00-01.00 UT requested.
17525even USA 17.30-22.30 UT WMLK at 53 degr azi ? 300 kW performance towards
Europe, En sermon at 19.55 UT, S=9+10dB strength in southern Bavaria in Germany,
sermon talk on Bibble pronted in 1963 year, customs of the Jewish ...
17790even USA WRMI Okeechobee FL, R Africa, poor to fair S=6 signal at 20.02 UT
on Monday Oct 28.
15104.982 much oddity in fqy. SWZ TWR Africa Manzini in E?SWATINI state, some
Sothern African language given address in accented Portuguese like at Lisbon,
Europe. S=9+15dB at 20.04 UT. TWR ID in English at 20.05:05 UT, TX switch off
at 20.05:18 UT.
15130even F__ R Japan NHK World in Japanese towards EaAF, Saudi and ME
peninsula
via TDF Issoudun, requested at 19 ?21 UT. S=9 sidelobe into Bavarai Germany.
15720even (seemingly new erected Ampegon TX on exact frqy in performance now)
R NZ Int Pacific Rangitaiki, scheduled 19.59-23.58 UT in their complex
schedule consrtruct. S=6 signal noted at 20.09 UT in southern Bavaria.
15770even USA WRMI Okeechobee FL, En talk on emigrants theme and European /
Brussels polictics. 20.12 UT on Mon Oct 28.
15825.002 USA WWCR Nashville TN, S=9 signal into Europe / Bavaria Germany at
20.14 UT, En sermon what else ...
13420 - 13563 kHz wideband CODAR scratching audio signal ? S=7 at 20.15 UT.
13709.957 odd fqy MDG WCB in En from MWV New Life Station, Mahajanga, Mada-
gascar; in Arabic, at 20.20 UT in strong performance of S=9+25dB strength.
13820.002 USA US AGM R Marti in Spanish from Greenville NC bcast center,
15-21 UT, and \\ 11860 kHz 13-23 UT & 11930 kHz 14-24 UT too.
13845.003 USA WWCR Nashville TN, En Universal Network sermon, S=9 at 20.28 UT.
11569.967 odd fqy of UZB ?NK Reform Radio? in Korean to KRE/KOR via RRTM
Telecom Tashkent Uzbekistan Shortwave Transmitting bcast center. S06 poor signal
in Bavaria at 20.35 UT.
11634.892 KRE Voice of Korea, KCBS from Kujang in Korean, S=9+25dB powerful
signal,
female army woman chorus, at 20.37 UT.
11675even JP NHK R Japan in Japanese, via NHK Koga-Ibaragi-Yamata Japan
site, 20-22 UT,
S=9+5dB at 20.40 UT Monday Oct 28.
11680.004 KRE KCBS Pyongyang Korean domestic sce, S=9 at 20.42 UT \\ 11634v
kHz.
11780.007 BRA RNA Brasilia in BrasPortuguese, mx, poor S=5-6 signal at 20.43
UT.
11825 kHz broadband 20 kHz signal of OTHR at S=9+25dB level at 20.44 UT.
11849.994 BOT USAGM Botswana 20.30-21.00 UT, Hausa WestAF lang sce, S=9+20dB
here
in southern Bavaria Germany. 20.46 UT.
11870.005 CVA Vatican Radio via Santa Maria di Galeria bcast center,
20.30-20.50 UT,
fluttera VR in French at 20.50 UT.
11885even VTN VoVietnam in French via Son Tay site, excelllent audio
quality, likely
refurbished TX unit, nice modulated at 20.52 UT on Monday Oct 28.
11934.895 kHz ARS Yemen Excile Target Radio via Riyadh txing center, S=8 signal
at 20.53 UT, --- but earlier around 20 UT noted HEAVY LOUD JAMMING signal
with 2 signal peaks seemingly from Sirjan Iran bcast center. Covered some 30
kHz wide
broad signal block range then.
11965even MDG exact fqy MDG WCB in En from MWV New Life Station, Mahajanga,
Madagascar; in English, at 20.55 UT of fair S=8 strength performance.
12050even U.K. R Ndarason Int. towards WestAF, 19-21 UT, S=8 at 20.57 UT
in Kanuri language.
[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz]
(wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews & hcdx Oct 28)
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 11:19:14 +0100
From: RSOA <[email protected]>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Sound of Africa on air with a test broadcast on
7395 kHz
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Radio Sound of Africa, with its unique format of music from all over
Africa, has planned for today 27th October 2024 a further test broadcast
from 1700 to 2000 and from 2200 to 2300 UTC on 7395 kHz.
Please check and if you hear us send a reception report to:
[email protected]
Radio Sound of Africa
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 02:35:57 +0000 (UTC)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: WOR DXLD <[email protected]>
Cc: Short-Wave Radio Listening <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 27-28-29, 2024
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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B24 SCHEDULES at EiBi, Aoki/NDXC and HFCC are now linked from WOR
homepage http://www.worldofradio.com
** CHAD [non]. 9535, Oct 28 at 0608, YL in language with stingers,
S5/S7. Per EiBi this is now R. Ndarason International in Kanuri, 06-07
via Woofferton UK (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CHINA [non]. 5910, Oct 28 at 0313, no signal from CRI relay via La
Habana as now sked at 0300-0500 per HFCC, ex-9790. COLOMBIA is
long-gone from 5910 but still in Aoki, not EiBi (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)
** CUBA. 7335, Oct 28 at 0307, pulse jamming against nothing, since R.
Mart? is now on 7355, and 7435. So the jamming is back, wasting
precious pesos of electrical energy. RM changes its 7 MHz usage per
season for no obvious reason, but confusing incompetent jammers who
don`t pay attention to HFCC. RM so strong that cannot tell if jammed
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6925 USB, Oct 28 at 0306, S9+10/20 of jazz, the
OPOB. These say it`s Wasteland Radio, a.k.a. Dilligaf Radio:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,135802.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** SPAIN. Mon Oct 28 at 2245, REE found NOWHERE into UTwente or
Maryland SDRs, on A24 17855, 17715, 15520, 15390 nor B24 9690, 11940,
12030, 17755 frequencies! There have been some R1 blackouts per WWV
but there ought to be at least traces of something. Of course, I was
preparing to check if English would occur at B24 time of 2300,
especially on B24 for NAm, 9690. ??Qu? pasa?! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY [and non]. 9610, Oct 27 at 2205, VOT English new time from
2130, and frequency, with `Letterbox` theme - just starting? NO,
ending. S9+20/25 into UTwente but heavy CCI. B24 EiBi shows CNR8 in
Mongolian, 100 kW, 286 degrees from Beijing site at 2055-0600. TRT
should have avoided this frequency.
5960.004-, Oct 27 at 2300, TS and s/on VOT English to NAm, new time
and frequency for B24, S9+35/40 into UTwente, but there is an
understation. This time it`s PBS Xinjiang, Urumqi in Mandarin, at
2300-0300 per EiBi, 2330-1800 per HFCC. I know this will be unusable
direct: yes, at 2307 S8/S9 below the noise level, but Urumqi probably
not a problem here. They need to have a `shoulder` season with
something less drastic than a drop from 12 to 6 MHz. Also, domestic
clock changes should not be imposed upon international listeners.
`Letterbox` starts at 2314, with another hostess, Sylvia? Says they
are trying different program presenters each week. Mentions that
frequencies have changed but no details, look them up somewhere. I try
to copy those called but as usual hard to understand the names. 1)
Burnett?, England. 2) Christer Brunstr?m, Sweden, 20/10 report, again
against the multi-lingual ID filler reels, but guess what: VOT are
adding some more langs, including Norwegian, Korean, Japanese! for
total of 47. 3) India, about the Dewali festival. Music break at 2323.
5) Mohamed Bashir?, Pakistan. 6) Ricky Hein, from a phone call, wants
skeds. 7) Graham?, Indiana. 8) Chris ---, Canada. Closing with PO Box
33 address again, instead of 333 - which is correct? Does not spell
Yenishehir. 2332 music. 2335 L`Box outro (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY. 9650, Oct 28 at 0606, YL in Turkish presumed news, with
stingers, S6/S8 direct; at 04-07 per EiBi, i.e. ex-13635 which was
easy every night but not logged (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY [non]. 5960, Oct 28 at 2258 and still 2309, NO signal from
VOT English to us, which succeeded yesterday, but plenty signal from
Xinjiang PBS into UTwente, 5960.000 with Chinese music, dead air, 2300
5+1 TS and Xinjiang ID in Mandarin, i.e. EAST TURKISTAN. TRT should
QSY ASAP if they can even get on the air, but they need to inform
everyone whereto. I tuned UTwente around between 5800 and 6000, not
encountering any obvious TRT. Something`s always awry at Ankara and/or
erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [non]. 9775, Oct 28 at 0312, VOA English with African accent,
about *rump being called fascist, S9+10/20. Now sked at 03-05 via
BOTSWANA and per Aoki, *jammed because can be heard in China, where
ESL is unfortunately rampant (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2266 monitoring: confirmed Sunday
October 27 at 2000 ex-1900 on IRRS SW via AM Italia, 1322.995 kHz, S9
into UTwente across Europe; after 7285 s/off announcement, not checked
yet whether really on 7290 in B24.
Also confirmed Sunday October 27 at 2230 ex-2130 on SW Radio, Germany,
3975.003+, S8/9+5 into UTwente.
Also confirmed Sunday October 27 at 2330 on WRMI 7780, S9/+15 into S
Texas SDR, like last week instead of scheduled 7570, remaining
absent.
Also confirmed UT Monday October 28 at 0030 on WRMI 7780, S9+10/15
into S Texas SDR.
Also confirmed UT Monday October 28 at 0302 on Area 51 via WBCQ
6159.93, S9+10/20 direct but including noise level so JBA: all I can
do is recognize the WOR theme, not which episode I intro.
Missed checking Mon Oct 28 at 2030 on SW Radio, Germany, 3975, as we
were on the road from Artesia; anyone hear it?
Not confirmed UT Tue Oct 29 at 0100 on WRMI 9955, usual Alameda Bible
Fellowship audible into Brazil SDR as sked tho a quadriweek ago
someone allegedly heard WOR at that time. Next:
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to SW;
1300 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?];
1400 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [NEW, to be confirmed];
2000 UT Tuesday IRRS 1323-Italy;
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW;
0030 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
2030 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW;
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S;
1730 UT Thursday SW Radio, Germany 3975.
As a noncommercial service, financial support welcome such as a
contribution via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to
woradio at yahoo.com
One may also contribute by MO or check on a US bank to: ?
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WHAT`S GOING ON WITH WAVESCAN, from Ray Robinson:
``Hi, Glenn. We haven't communicated in some time, but I trust you are
well. You may be interested in some of the fallout from AWR's decision
to end the use of all shortwave relay sites.
Jeff White and I were provided with the new schedule for KSDA about 10
days or so ago, and the immediately obvious thing was that there were
no English language programs on the schedule at all, including no
Wavescan. We have sought clarification from a number of people at AWR,
but have not received any response. No one at AWR has informed us that
Wavescan has been canceled, but it seems that is their intention, at
least in so far as their own platforms are concerned. Jose Jacob in
India has confirmed that Wavescan was not broadcast via KSDA on
Sunday, and furthermore this week's edition has not been posted on
AWR's podcast page ( https://awr.org/program/engmi_wav ).
However, the show will very much continue in production with Jeff and
I, just as before, but I guess now just as 'Wavescan' and not 'AWR
Wavescan' any longer. To be clear, neither Jeff nor I have any
association with AWR, or with the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Dr.
Adrian Peterson, Wavescan's Founder and Editor-in-Chief did of course,
but he is now in his mid-90's, and he retired from any active
involvement with the show some 18 months ago.
So, we are now in active negotiations to get the show carried by one
or two other shortwave stations with coverage into Asia. It will
continue on WRMI, WWCR, VOH-Africa and IRRS. And, there is now a new
podcast platform for the show, at:
https://wavescan.podomatic.com
This has the shows from the past couple of months, including the
edition that aired yesterday on some stations.
We see Wavescan as complementary to what you do on WOR, and not as a
competitor. I hope you'll help us get the word out that Wavescan is
continuing, and where it can be found.
Thank you, Ray Robinson, Los Angeles, Strategic Communications Group,
Voice of Hope World Radio Network, www.voiceofhope.com ``
My reply: ``Ray, Good to hear from you. Certainly I will publicize
what is happening. It seems you have been treated rather shoddily. I`m
not that surprised since it has long seemed to me that AWR HQ
considered WS not really part of AWR, not including it on official
schedules, at least when aired on non-AWR stations. I agree our
programs are complementary with your emphasis on history and mine on
the latest info. 73, Glenn`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 9275, Oct 28 at 0311, WMLK with DEJOM, S9+20/37 direct,
stronger than neighbor in more ways than one, 9265 WINB. Now sensible
frequency usage at night, ex-15150, but why target Europe where it`s 3
or 4 am? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1539.95 approx., Oct 28 at 2200, obvious het vs 1540.00
stations. Nothing this far off in mwoffsets, but I remember a few
years ago KGBC Galveston TX was showing up exactly here; a bit early
before sunset now but maybe not too early on hiband. See my report of
Oct 11, 2020 at 0055. At 2330 I check the W5GMD Houston KiwiSDR, but
it appears to be deaf on MW: can`t even hear or see 740 KTRH! Try
Maurice LA SDR: signal pileup on 1540 but low audible het and SAM does
read out -22 to - 95 Hz. IIRC KGBC has had a number of problems last
few years (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 0235 UT October 29
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 262, Issue 30
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