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Today's Topics:
1. Radio Beacon XE2EJ (Bill Smith)
2. Fw: [WOR] Fw: [bdxc-news] Radio ??mrang, usual single day
operation on Febr 21, from 16 to 17 UT via TDF Issoudun on 15215
kHz towards MA / NY states in US (df5sx.p11)
3. Glenn Hauser logs February 20-21, 2025 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:00:44 +0000
From: Bill Smith <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Beacon XE2EJ
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February 21, 2025: First ever Mexico long wave beacon heard at 0622UTC - XE2EJ
- with strength of -28DB and 2588 miles from Douglas, Mass. Frequency: 475.759
Khz. I have been listening on longwave since 1958 beginning with a WWII
surplus BC-1206-CM Receiver which were used in WWII fighter planes. Antenna:
Horizontal Loop, 529 feet long, 30 feet high. Current receiver: Palstar R30A.
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:15:20 +0100
From: "df5sx.p11" <[email protected]>
To: "_ WOR" <[email protected]>, "_ DXplorer" <[email protected]>, "HCDX"
<[email protected]>, "_ BCLNEWS" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Fw: [WOR] Fw: [bdxc-news] Radio ??mrang, usual single
day operation on Febr 21, from 16 to 17 UT via TDF Issoudun on 15215
kHz towards MA / NY states in US
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Okay Radio ??mrang from Amrum in NoWe Germany in 19 meterband not anymore in
service in 2025 year.
Here is my log in Europe and NoAM ? remotedly on Febr 21 from 16 UT:
15104.960 SWZ TWR Manzini in Tigre to Horn of AF target, odd fqy on lower
flank.
15125even MLI CRI Africa relay Bamako II, Arabic, S=9+15dB
15135.011 IRN probably Vo Iran from Sirjan site, Arabic, low audio modulation
15150even USA WMLK in En S=9+20dB powerful Ampegon TX unit
15275even F__ DWL Amharic via TDF ISS S=9+25dB
15310even D__ BVB Tigre via MBR Nauen S=9+10dB to Horn of Africa target
15425even ROU IRRS Milano rent TIG / SAF site Oromia Nat Media S=9+15dB to
Horn of Africa
15460even KWT VoA KnK to AF, fair S=7-8
15550even CVA R Dabanga NGO sponsored Sudanese Arabic S=9+25dB backlobe
signal power
15565even CVA RVA Swahili to EaAF target S=9+30dB
15580even BOT VoA in En S=8
15618 UTE AUS WMW Wilma Meteo Fax S=7
15665.015 odd fqy GUM KSDA AWR S=8
15700.008 DNK World Music Radio low power music stn ? poor and tiny S=4 signal
15770even USA WRMI En S=9+10dB
17754.995 ESP REE Noblejas rather West AF music kind, S=9+20dB some 5 ?6 Hertz
on lower flank, 16.28UT
likely to zones all-Africa 46,47,52,57 NOB 200kW 161degr azi
17790even USA WRMI / PAB R Africa En,, S=9+15dB
17880even MLI CRI Africa relay Bamako II, Arabic, S=9
17900even BUL BS TOM En religious via Sofia Kostinbrod 15-17 UT S=8 some spurs
noted at 17975v kHz
21490even CHN probably CNR1 jamming against SOH sect TWN S=7
21580even F__ RFI Issoudun in Hausa, S=8
21710 DRM digital audio block seen ! S=9+15dB signal at 16.32 UT Febr 21.
Probably RFI Paris digital test
73 de wolfie df5sx
wwdxc germany
pe 21.2.2025 klo 11.57 Ydun Ritz via groups.io
([email protected]) kirjoitti:
I have contacted the local newspaper on the island of Amrum
(https://www.amrum-news.de/)
asking if there will be any radio transmission this year. I just received this
answer from the editor-in-chief, Peter L?ckel:
"Unfortunately we have no knowledge of that. Probably not, otherwise we would
definitely have received a message. "
Nevertheless, I will give it a try this afternoon on 15215 kHz.
73s
Ydun
From: Hansj?rg Biener via groups.io
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2025 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: [WOR] Fw: [bdxc-news] Radio ??mrang
Following up on Richard Langley's question whether there would be another
broadcast of Radio ??mrang,
I tried to call Arjan Koelzow who sponsored the yearly programme but the
telephone number was unavailable.
I also phoned Media Broadcast (both "Kundenbetreuung" and "Presse") but nobody
answered the call (just a music loop)..
There is no broadcast listed by HFCC, Media Broadcast or TDF (where I only
found a schedule of 2021).
So we would have to wait and see or rather listen.
(Dr Hansjoerg Biener)
Am Mi., 19. Feb. 2025 um 18:55 Uhr schrieb Kari Kallio via groups.io
<[email protected]>:
Radio ??mrang
Radio ??mrang (Amrum) has an annual broadcast to North America in February in
the North Frisian dialect, German and
English. The February date coincides with local festivities in Amrum in the
German North Frisian Islands.
Transmitter site: broadcasts are usually made each year via Issoudun, France
(500 kW).
Next broadcast date Time/UTC Languages kHz
Friday 21 February 2025 1600-1700 North Frisian dialect, German, English
15215 (as used for B23)
British DX Club
Europe on
Shortwave
ke 19.2.2025 klo 20.41 Richard Langley via groups.io ([email protected])
kirjoitti:
Will it be on this year (2025)?
-- Richard Langley
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 22:52:17 +0000 (UTC)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: WOR DXLD <[email protected]>
Cc: Short-Wave Radio Listening <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 20-21, 2025
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** CANADA. 15034 USB, Feb 21 at 1549, still no signal from CHR Trenton
Military. Apparently finally realized it was pointless to keep default
auto-uttering ``no report received``? NO, there it is Feb 21 at
1811-1823, JBA into Maryland SDR, nothing but NRRs, furthermore, stuck
on the same NF/NS/ON sites over & over, both terminal forecasts, and
aviation weather. A bit better into PEI SDR. Later on to AB/MB/BC
locations. ID and timecheck at 1815 for ``1715 zulu`` and 1820 for
``1720``, even their clock is wrong. 2131 recheck, still nothing but
NRRs for Zagreb, Split, Ancona-##, Thule. Will they ever get their act
together? Gross perpetual errors like these could be deadly if any
pilots depend on them (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 15230, Feb 21 at 1548, RHC S8/S9 but JBM music. Something`s
always wrong at RHC. It`s mystifying why this and some other stations
keep turning on a transmitter, yet unable to modulate; is this a
matter of engineers ``just following orders`` while management is
clueless about the result, not even turning on a receiver? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** GERMANY [non]. 15215, Feb 21 at 1600, nothing but clickery into
Maryland SDR: like OTH radar but narrowband less than 10 kHz wide.
This is the long traditional time for once-a-year broadcast of Radio
??mrang, via FRANCE. But no specific advance publicity about it this
year. The clickery took a break at 1606*-*1611 and off again at 1612*.
One unconfirmed report from unknown source said this year it would be
UT Feb 22 at 0100 on 15125 via France, so check for it then if you can
pull away from AAAWWW on WBCQ (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY [and non]. 6050.002, Feb 20 at 1945, VOT in Turkish music so
it`s still not TRT World TV soundtrack, S9+20/40 into UTwente, 1946
``with-you-every-hour`` promo, and 1952 first episode of a new
segment, but I could not understand the title, something
``Definitions``? ACI from 6055 French, which is CRI to W Africa via
Kashgar, East Turkistan, land of imperialist ChiCom genocide against
Uyghurs and other Moslems (GLenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. MCW identifiable ND beacons during LW bandscan Feb
21; see UNIDENTIFIED for 33 more!
245, FS, Sioux FallS SD at 0706
257, JYR, YoRk NE at 0711
293, FBY, FairBurY NE mixing/alternating with UI qUIncy IL at 0715
326, two mixing, one surely MA, MidlAnd TX at 0720
338, RYN, Tucson AZ at 0723
346, dash and YXL SiouX Lookout ON at 0725
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2283 monitoring: confirmed first
SWBC, Friday February 21 at 1316 the 1300 on WRMI 15770, S9 direct.
WRMI was off the air yesterday for huge FP&L project replacing
transformers, so power supply should be more reliable now.
Surprise: Friday February 21 at 2147, WRMI 9955 with WOR from 2130.
It`s long been on the System B sked, but supposedly only on internet
until *2200 for 9955. Result of the transformer upgrade? Poor
undermodulated direct, but S9+25/35 into Georgia SDR.
Also confirmed Friday February 21 at 2148 on IRRS SW via AM Italia,
1322.998, S9/S8 into UTwente across Europe. Next:
2300 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?];
2330 UT Friday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
0400 UT Saturday WTWW 5085;
0930 UT Saturday WRMI 9455 to WNW [has been off air; or 7730];
1530 UT Saturday SW Radio, Germany 6160;
1830 UT Saturday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM [2000/2200];
0000 UT Sunday WTWW 9475 [suspended];
0100 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE [? not last week];
0330vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0600];
1130 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?];
2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323-Italy;
2230 UT Sunday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
2330 UT Sunday WRMI 7570 to NW [and/or 7780];
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW;
0930 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 6160;
2030 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to SW;
1400 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?];
1500 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?];
2100 UT Tuesday IRRS 1323-Italy;
0030 UT Wednesday WRMI 9395 to NNW;
0030 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
2030 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW;
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S;
1730 UT Thursday SW Radio, Germany 3975.
Thanks to Ron Howard, Monterey CA who sent a check on a US bank to
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, and ``Happy Chinese
New Year``
One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to:
woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 9330, Feb 20 at 2010, only a JBA carrier from WBCQ/WLCR,
even weaker than 9265 WINB; what`s wrong? Unless it`s totally off and
this be a revived Cuban spy numbers transmitter reactivated at a
totally different time, No other 9330 broadcasters listed around this
time (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. Feb 21 at 0706-0730 UT, LW bandscan in USB tuning hears
scads of JBA carriers. Noise level must have diminished, but still far
too much to pull many IDs. I think these are genuine, since they are
all on ``even`` kHz, .0 and the NRD 545 is not subject to images from
MW, where we have only 3 local stations anyway. I could spend hours
checking listings and speculating on most likely sources, but won`t.
Here they are, skipping over a few which could be IDed, and filed
separately under USA:
227, 233, 251, 260, 278, 280, 284, 299, 305, 307, 326: two mixing,
335, 341, 344, 350, 356, 365, 379, 382, 385, 388, 391, 392, 395, 400,
404, 407, 412, 414, 417, 419, 420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 660, Feb 21 at 0733 UT, Spanish in mixture, can copy
only a partial FM frequency starting with ``91``. No fits in IRCA
Mexican Log; and there is only one USA 660 SS in NRC AM Log, Oregon
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6051.0, Feb 20 at 2057, CWQRM to something on 6050 into
UTwente. This is really uncopied Morse code, not OOK unlike 6001 logs.
Nothing on 6051 in Klingenfu? 2022. 4XZ Israel? 6050 victim would be
Xizang RTV = Tibet, land of imperialist ChiCom genocide; unless Turkey
forgot to turn off its 6050 by 2025 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING
A Strategy for Christian Witness Against Trump's Autocracy
By Wesley Granberg-Michaelson
https://sojo.net/articles/opinion/strategy-christian-witness-against-trumps-autocracy
This report despatched at 2251 UT February 21
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