[HCDX] 2 Loggings, 18 April
11735 ZANZIBAR ZBC 1809 EG ID by W at end of nx as "This is the English news from Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation. Thank you for listening". Best signal during the EG nx in quite a while. (Valko 18 April) 6100 PIRATE (NA) "The Relay Station" Tnx John Herkimer tip, noted at 2205 w/end of anmnt w/ment of website welcomeradio.com, Dance mx w/DJ "Annie" giving pgm credits, name and "The General Store", Blues mx, ID by little girl for WXNZ, Skowhegan, ME, cont. Blues song, then "Both Sides Now" by Joni Mitchell. Very good signal. Here's a link to a Youtube video of the reception: https://youtu.be/JTRfsX5LugM (Valko 18 April) Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop antenna. 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Congo
Ron Howard and apparently Glenn Hauser pointed out my recent logging of R. Congo should be Republic of Congo NOT Dem. Rep. of Congo. Yes, from Brazzaville. My mistake. Sorry for any confusion. _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 26-27 February Loggings
4774.87 BRAZIL R. Sora “A Voz do Brasil” nx pgm from 2255. Full canned ID w/freqs by M at 2300. ID as R. Sora de Congonhas. Best signal in a long time but centered right on a CODAR. (Valko 26 Feb.) 6010.02 BRAZIL R. Inconfidencia 2301 singing ID jingle, then live studio M DJ starting w/nice clear ID, then same ID jingle again, and nx highlights w/separater fanfare between each and ment of “America”. Another ID at 2303 and list of network stns. Good signal and clear. (Valko 26 Feb.) 4747.36 PERU R. Huanta 2000 Nice signal at 2342 w/camposina mx. M anncr in SP at 2344 ending w/ID and TC, then back to campo mx. Ad block 2348-2353 w/many ments of Huanta. Canned shouted ID by M during campo song at 2358:30. Live M DJ returned at 0001 followed by another ad block to 0003 t/out. One of the rare times it stayed on throughout the evening. (Valko 26-27 Feb.) 4774.90 PERU R. Tarma Rapid SP tlk by M at 2353 w/ment of R. Santa Rosa. Tuned out briefly and canned anmnt on return at 2356 w/ment of Tarma, live M DJ w/TC and tlk by 2 men over ToH past 0003. Good signal. No CODAR QRM at this time but horrible het and QRM from R. Sora a hair below. (Valko 26-27 Feb.) 6173.95 PERU R. Tawantinsuyo Very surprised to find this audible at 0010 w/Huayno mx. Studio M anncr at 0012-0014. Phone ringing SFX during song at 0015 and 0016. M anncr didn’t take any calls on the air though. 0017 canned W anncr very briefly, no doubt a promo. M anncr returned mixing w/mx 0017-0019. All parallel to their web stream. Had a nice ID at 0017 but it was just a tad too weak to hear it here. No QRM. Nearly gone by 0030. One of the best Andean openings this Winter season here. (Valko 27 Feb.) 5952.46 BOLIVIA R. Pio Doce 0208 really nice signal w/nonstop rustic CP camposina mx. 0220 finally short canned ID anmnt by W, and more anmnts. 0225 men shouting “Pio Doce” twice, then alternating M and W anncrs over instru. mx w/ID. 0227 usual “Colonel Bogey march and long full canned ID anmnt by M w/QTH “Siglo XX, Municipio de Llallagua, Departmento de Potosi, Bolivia”, AM SW and FM freqs, website, and phone. Ended w/harp signature 3 times at 0229 and plug pulled at 0230:02. Had slight QRM from weak signal on 5950, but passband removed it. (Valko 27 Feb.) 4875.26 BRAZIL R. Difusora Roraima Tremendous signal w/long song 0256-0302, canned PT anmnt by W, tlk by M over mx, 0305 nice full canned PT ID by M w/freqs and QTH. Amazing strength but really poor the following morning. (Valko 27 Feb.) 4885.03 BRAZIL R. Clube do Para 0301 M anncr in PT w/ment of R. Clube, couple canned anmnts, and full canned ID anmnt w/freqs, and QTH by M at 0306. Strong but not quite as good as Roraima next door. (Valko 27 Feb.) Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop antenna 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 26 February 2018 Loggings
5960 ASCENSION IS. R. Ndarason Int. (relay) NHK (Issoudun) went off here leaving R. Ndarason Int. already on with vcl song then exotic Afro mx at 0500. Same W anncr as hrd previous day w/opening anmnt mixed in w/ment of Nigeria, Hausa and ending w/ID at 0502:25. When a M anncr came on along with the W, I realized it was 2 diff. audio feeds. W continued w/pres. nx to 0511 (many ments of Nigeria, and Boko Haram) while the other had more exotic mx then M anncr at 0510. The first feed had all tlk segments (w/mx bridges), and the second had all exotic mx (sounding HoA style at 0513 and 0527) with the studio M anncr sev. times. Hrd the M on the second feed ment “International” at least twice, possibly Ndarason IDs, but the pace was too fast to be 100% certain. But presumably 2 diff. R. Ndarason Int. feeds mixing together. Was down to just the second feed only at 0620 recheck. Tnx Mauno Ritola and Dave Kernicks tip passed on by Ron Howard. A Youtube video of the reception can be found using this link: https://youtu.be/SWfNPDmIc74 (Valko 26 Feb.) 6115 D.R. OF CONGO R. Congo Nx pgm at 0549 t/in. Wasn't there at 0540 check, so came on sometime w/in those 4 min. M pgm host in FR w/many many actualities and ments of Rwanda (or was it Luanda) and Congo. Nice ID ending rpt by M at 0554:15. Afro Pop mx bridge at 0602, then canned M and W at 0603, Afro Pop mx w/M voice-over tlk and ment of Congo at 0604. 0605 M anncr. More canned anmnts to pleasant Afro Pop mx after 0608. Tlk during mx at 0614-0615. Fading. Best hrd in many years. Stronger on the Delta Loop but a little noisy. Also getting blasted pulsing static noise from 6080. A Youtube video of the reception can be found using this link: https://youtu.be/4zv8UEbQExc (Valko 26 Feb.) Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S and 153 foot Delta Loop 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 29-31 January Loggings
1710.01 PIRATE (NA) UNID. Came on at 2201:15 with "The One" by Elton John already in progress. You could see the tell-tale sign of the 'hook' as the carrier came on. Started out on 1710.02 and drifted down. The audio was brought up and lowered several times over the following 2 minutes or so. Definitely not QSB. Surprised to hear an anmnt at 2206 in which a M seemed to ment. "...free radio...". Too much Flight 93 TIS QRM to copy more. Song by The Carpenters at 2209 followed by a EST TC and song anmnt at 2210. 2218 another song anmnt and TC as "...going home time is 5:18". So definitely live. All but 1 song changeover was down in the mud. Finally went off at 2300:40. (Valko 29 Jan.) 6973 PIRATE (ARGENTINA) Lupo R. Found w/LA and Tango mx again from 0223. 0231, 0234, 0244 same W anncr as hrd before, but too weak to copy. Still going at 0246 t/out. (Valko 30 Jan.) 6540.79 PIRATE?? Weak signal w/Rock music w/an occasional Metal and Punk song from 0804 t/in. Short apparent song anmnts by M in (non-UK) EG at 0810 and 0820. Too weak to copy. Only recognized a remake of "Green Tambourine" at 0844 and went off suddenly at 0847:03. Was also getting audio on web rx in Uniontown PA, Alberta Canada, Miami, FL, and Warrenton VA, the latter being the best. Also had the signal w/out any audio in Washington state, and Michigan, and I believe 2 receivers in the UK. Thought at first it might be a EuroPirate, but it shouldn’t have been hrd w/audio as far west as Alberta. Then thought a possible spur, but no //’s found anywhere. Only possibilities are a NA Pirate or harmonic of 1090. If a NA Pirate, is a strange time/day for one. Not hrd the next morning. (Valko 30 Jan.) 6024.96 BOLIVIA Red Patria Nueva From 1026 t/in w/M and W hosts w/apparent “Bolivia Informa” nx pgm. Many remote phoned-in rpts. 1029-1035 ad/promo block including ID at 1032:25 several nice IDs in promo at 1033:10. Fortunately the Cuban jammer went off at this time. 6030 OC came on 1045 causing some QRM. Then someone on 6020 blasted it out at 1058. (Valko 30 Jan.) 4875.26 BRAZIL R. Difusora Roraima Tremendous signal like a local at 0256 w/PT contemporary mx. 0259 jingle and TC, then full canned ID by M, and into Clapton’s acoustic version of his “Layla”. (Valko 31 Jan.) 1710 PIRATE (NA) R. Reten que lo Tenes Agonizingly long rel.-like song to 0830, then caught one of the SP IDs at 0830:40 when the Hudson Co. TIS finally faded. On the web rx in Kingwood TX, there were a ton of IDs in succession from 0830 past 0831, some giving their website, and AM and FM freqs. When I checked back at 0841, they were airing the usual live impassioned preaching. Hrd on the Wellbrook but not on the Delta Loop oddly enough. (Valko 31 Jan.) 6215U HONG KONG VRC Marine Rescue R. (UTE) 1030 just caught end of EG ID by M as I tuned in. Unfortunately I wasn’t recording. Readable signal much like VMW on 6230 above. Hrd another xmsn at 1233-1234 w/M sounding like wx w/ment of numbers and possibly “visibility”. Too weak at this time.(Valko 31 Jan.) Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop antenna. 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 25-29 January 2018 Loggings
5940 RUSSIA Kamchatskoye R./R. Rossii Could just barely hear M and lady anncrs underneath R. Algerienne (via Issoudun) here at 2151 same as hrd on web rx in Novosibirsk. Algerienne went off at 2159 and noted het w/5940 and 5939.79 Voz Missionaria. M and W w/apparent promo at 2159, same as hrd in Novosibirsk, then poss. M anncr for abt 10-15 seconds (this as an ID on the web rx), then 5 clear time ticks, M with a few words probably an intro, and definite M w/nx after 2200. Very poor due mainly to Voz Missionaria slop QRM. Tnx Ron Howard tip. (Valko 25 Jan.) 6940U PIRATE (NA) Unsuspected R. (no doubt ex: An Unknown Radio Station) 2250 repeating IDs by W “Good evening. This is Unsuspected R., 6-9-40, Unssupected R.”, and into hard Rock mx at 2251. Played pieces of Led Zeppelin songs at 2254. Same ID over song at 2301. Pink Floyd song. 2305 repeating IDs w/out mx again, and apparent Black Sabbath song. Strong and clear. (Valko 26 Jan.) 5940 FRANCE R. Algerienne (via Issoudun) 2058 AR vcl song, signal off the air for 47 seconds, back on w/OC, then routine of M w/AR ID mixed w/AR mx and EG ID by W as “Koran Radio Algeria”, then repeated again. Nice signal //5905. (Valko 27 Jan.) 4985 BRAZIL R. Brasil Central End of soft PT song at 0132, W anncr in PT, then nice ID by M over “Theme from a Summer Place”, canned anmnt by W, and right back to more PT MOR mx. Just fair but not RTTY QRM. (Valko 28 Jan.) 3310 BOLIVIA R. Mosoj Chaski Nice camposina mx w/W vcl, W in Quechua at 0957 including TC, and cont. tlk to 1000. Usual canned ID anmnt w/freq and QTH over instru. CP mx, then W returned briefly before going back to camposina mx. (Valko 28 Jan.) 11600 CLANDESTINE (BULGARIA) R. OMN OC already on at 1556. 1600 HoA mx and nice echo ID by W w/freq in Oromo, M anncr w/couple more IDs w/ment of meterband, then obvious nx headlines w/instru. mx between each short item. Good signal and not jammed. (Valko 28 Jan.) 12255.02PIRATE (EUROPE) Reflections Europe Very poor and only audible on very short peaks w/M anncr at 1631 and again 1632, and mx at 1636. Peak coincided w/ID at 1640, also hrd on a European web rx. (Valko 28 Jan.) 7340 INDIA AIR Mumbai 1240 segment of long tlk by M in pres. Sinhalese, brief mx, then W anncr at 1245, and into subcont. mx going past 1253. Weak signal but also on Coimbatore India web rx doing well. (Valko 29 Jan.) 9775 SRI LANKA FEBA On w/IS once at 1330, and into Hindi rel. pgm. 1344 IS again and opening EG ID anmnt giving freq, and pgm “Chords of Praise”, then said EG pgm w/W host w/inspirational tlk and playing 2 songs; “King of My Life” and a choral rel. song. Instru. piano mx and ended w/M and W giving ID/pgm/freq/contact info anmnt, IS once, and off. A Youtube video with a STEREO recording of the reception here and in Coimbatore India can be found using this link: https://youtu.be/qDOHuQMkERM (Valko 29 Jan.) Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop antenna. Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 17 January 2018 Loggings
6173.8v PERU R. Tawantinsuyo Seemed a little stronger than usual at 1038 t/in on 6173.82 and wasn’t doing the nx which is usually the case at this hour. Instead was playing some OA camposina mx. Drifting up rapidly, so must have come on just before I tuned in. 1042 long canned SP anmnt by M w/echo, then back to mx. Still going w/mx to at least 1101. Found it was // to their webstream. Slightly audible by 1125 and had drifted up to 6173.93. Still barely visible in the display on 6173.94 at 1206, so xmtr settling down by then. Had to notch out 6175 China. (Valko 17 Jan.) 4774.91 PERU R. Tarma Starting their nice full canned ID w/calls and freqs over dramatic mx bed at 1101 t/in. Then intro for upcoming daily pgm “Antena Informativa”. Still readable at 1127 recheck but fading quickly. Ments of informativa, Peru, Cusco, and Lima No longer readable at 1135. Fair signal at first but awful CODAR QRM. (Valko 17 Jan.) 9570 CUBA CRI w/tremendously strong signal splattering all the way out 20 kHz on both sides at 1205. (Valko 17 Jan.) 15370 CUBA RHC Around 1520, I was getting bands of buzzing noise in the 19 meterband which I thought was coming from a local origin. I discovered it was in fact being generated by Radio Havana Cuba every 67 kilohertz above and below their primary frequency. The first ones above and below were very strong. A Youtube video of the reception showing the noise can be found using this link: https://youtu.be/03siD5md7Lw (Valko 17 Jan.) Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop antenna. 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Logging
4747.58 PERU R. Huanta 2000 This is indeed the one here. Noted at 2310 w/camposina mx but went off around 2315. Found back on 2330. Was able to // their webstream w/ad/promo block from 2336-2342. Ments of Huanta. 2 anmnts had long list of presumed network stns. Live M anncr came back w/anmnt including ID at 2342. Caught a full canned ID by M at 0005. Peaked around 2335 and faded some. Of course horrible CODAR QRM. (Valko 15-16 Jan.) Perseus with Wellbrook ALA1530S. 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 12-15 January 2018 Loggings
5950 USA IBC (via WRMI) 0131 M anncr in accented EG w/ment of upcoming features, ment of www.dxfanzine.com, DX pgm of MW and SW loggings 0133-0142, IBC singing jingle, SP ID by M, then 425 DX News segment past 0148. Good signal w/some QSB. (Valko 13 Jan.) 9550.05 BRAZIL Super R. Boa Vontade PT tlk by W in PT at 0940, // 6160.02 which was very poor. This freq better. I believe this was the first time I’ve been able to // these freqs. (Valko 13 Jan.) 4989.98 ASURINAM R. Apintie 0949 M tlk in Sranan Tongo w/ments of September and Pakistani. Nice peaks at 0950:10 and 0950:50. Into canned anmnts/ads at 0952, 1 w/M shouting, and ID by M at 0953:05. 0954 people singing/shouting in unison like girls jumping rope. Faded and was very weak but got a “R. Apintie, the happy station” ID by W at 0955. 1004 apparent nx sponsor ad, then M w/nx. Still had some audio at 1050 recheck. (Valko 13 Jan.) 11735 ZANZIBAR ZBC 1805-1905 live coverage of the Mapinduzi Cup final between URA from Uganda and AZAM FC from Tanzania w/M anncr doing the play-by-play and screaming on occas. when the action got intense. There were a few breaks when they cut into Afro Pop mx. AZAM FC won 4-3. (Valko 13 Jan.) 6049.98 LIBERIA ELWA 2150 lcl rel. tlk/phone-in pgm in EG. 2200 M w/simply short “This is ELWA” ID, then into next EG rel. pgm from World Christian ??, and blasted by 6040 WHRI slop QRM. 2230 live M anncr w/another ID “You’re listening to ELWA…transmission…night…”, instru. NA, and off at 2232:07. Getting QRM from HCJB as well by s/off. (Valko 13 Jan.) 6150 GERMANY The Mighty KBC 0019 tlk abt writing of “Telstar”, then ID singing jingle, M w/song anmnt, and into “You Can Drive My Car” by The Beatles. Very strong and clear of course. (Valko 14 Jan.) 5914.99 ZAMBIA ZNBC/R. One 0338- live studio M and W pgm hosts w/chatter and taking phone calls. 0359 marvelous Fish Eagle mixed w/fanfare, then quick ID by W and pres. nx. 0403 Rooster crowing (which may have been the actual start of the next song) and into Afro Pop mx. More of the tlk show at 0405 to at least 0419. Not that bad of a signal and nice of 5920 WHRI to stay off. (Valko 14 Jan.) 3310 BOLIVIA R. Mosoj Chaski 0959 Quechua tlk by M anncr including a nice ID, then into instru. Andean mx. 1001 W anncr briefly more CP vcl mx. Fair signal. (Valko 14 Jan.) 11895.06BRAZIL Super R. Boa Vontade 1012-1032 rel. tlk by W pgm host in PT w/ID at 1016. Ments of Gloria, Jesus, Jesus Cristo, esparto Santo, amor. 1027 canned anmnt by M and W w/ment of “Bible ??” and contact info. 1029 W w/ment of “oficial do Brasil” and Sao Paulo. Then rel vcl song 1029-1033. 1035 ID by little girl and then by same W. M anncr continued the pgm then to at least 1045, but was fading badly then. Seemed to peak around 1020-1025. No //’s found. Nothing on any of the freqs on any web rxs from Brazil either. This freq best hrd in a while. (Valko 14 Jan.) 4747.58 PERU R. Huanta 2000 (pres.) 2350 sounded like an ad block, OA camposina mx. What sounded like a ment of Huanta (twice) and Peru in the first canned anmnt in an ad/promo block 0004-0007. Back to camposina mx. Went off abruptly in mid-song at 0009:44. Horrendous CODAR QRM. Almost certain I could have IDed it if not for the CODAR. First hrd here on the 12th. (Valko 14-15 Jan.) 5055 AUSTRALIA 4KZ (pres.) 1259-1310 getting bits of M tlk a few times and mx on very short peaks of a no more than 1.5 seconds. Fading. Still barely visible in the Perseus display at 1438. Wish I would have been on freq earlier at my lcl sunrise. (Valko 15 Jan.) Perseus with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop antenna 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 2-12 January 2018 Loggings
(TAJIKISTAN) National Unity R. (via Dushanbe) OC already on at 1156. Fanfare and W w/apparent opening anmnts in KR at 1200, and cont. fanfare mx. 1201 mx and anmnt by W, then alternating tlk by same W and M. Fair signal. Still readable at 1310 but not quite as strong. (Valko 11 Jan.) 7906U VIETNAM Was able to get varying strengths of audible signals from Hai Phong R. at 1213, Vung Tau R. at 1225, Da Nang R. at 1235, Ben Thuy R. at 1250, Ho Chi Minh R. at 1305, but none of the subsequent others past 1400. Hai Phong and Ho Chi Minh were about equal and the best. (Valko 11 Jan.) 4790 CHINA Already had an OC here at 1240, presumably getting the CNR1 jammer ready for BBC’s transmission at 1300. (Valko 11 Jan.) 4765 TAJIKISTAN R. Tajikistan Did a quick check and found W speaking in the apparent Tajik lang. at 1256. Wouldn’t have been that bad of a signal if not for the awful CODAR. (Valko 11 Jan.) 4790 TAJIKISTAN BBC Signal already on at 1256. 1258 M w/EG w/short 20 second ID and website anmnt over mx, and repeated about every 35 seconds. Apparent Uzbek pgm start at 1300. Didn’t seem jammed by 1303 t/out. But just getting hammered by CODAR. (Valko 11 Jan.) 6085 JAPAN Shiokaze Sea Breeze Signal on at 1259, then usual soft piano mx and opening anmnt by M, but it sounded like JP. When hrd in the past on Thursdays, they signed on w/W anncr in EG. Poor signal. Tnx Ron Howard, says this was a repeat of the special 7 Jan. joint broadcast between Shiokaze and Furusato no Kaze in JP. (Valko 11 Jan.) 7560 ALASKA (USA) KNLS Huge signal at 1307 w/rel. Pop song going on and on and on. Closing w/M in CH at 1358, then theme mx. Dead air, IS start at 1400, and CH opening ID at 1401. (Valko 11 Jan.) 9743.62 UNID. Found a fairly strong OC here at 1323 w/QRM from a strong TWR India. (Valko 11 Jan.) 9749.81 KUWAIT R. Kuwait AR Pop-like mx w/M vcl 1324. Suddenly went off abt 1326 and didn’t return. Good signal. (Valko 11 Jan.) 5985 MYNAMAR Myanmar R. Burmese tlk by W anncr 1331-1333+. Came back later at 1402 and hrd M anncr still audible but getting some slop QRM from a huge 5970 WEWN. (Valko 11 Jan.) 7120 SOMALILAND R. Hargeisa M anncr here very weakly at 1342. HoA mx briefly and cont. tlk. Some CW QRM on the high side. Checked at 1325 for EG nx but it was too weak and severe Ham QRM. (Valko 11 Jan.) 7625 UZBEKISTAN V.O. the Wilderness Easy mx on a wind instru. and KR tlk by W over the mx at 1357 continuing to 1401 t/out. (Valko 11 Jan) 6045 CLANDESTINE (SOUTH KOREA) V.O. Freedom Came here at 1402 and found CNR1 off and this in the clear with a KR version of the Kenny Rogers song “Coward of the County”. (Valko 11 Jan.) 4885 CLANDESTINE (SOUTH KOREA) Echo of Hope Still barely getting just a bit of audio w/tlk by W at 1405. The last thing audible on the band. (Valko 11 Jan.) 5915 ZAMBIA ZNBC/R. One Per Ron Howards tip, found back on w/OC at 0238, then start of Fish Eagle cry IS past 0245. Very poor and had to tune in LSB to avoid tremendous slop QRM from 5920 WHRI. Will have to try later when WHRI is off. Tnx Ron, and Eike Bierwirth, Richard Langley and Bill Bingham in DXLD. (Valko 12 Jan.) Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop antenna. On the micro-DXpedition, used a 315 foot BOG at 320 degrees, changed to 20 degrees. 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Loggings 27-30 December
5010 PIRATE (NA) Pirate Radio Newport (relay) 2120-2157 very good signal w/Rock mx including 2129-2139 “Stranglehold” by Ten Nugent. 2140 M anncr w/what seemed to be a full list of songs played in the show to that point, and ID, then LP by The Scorpions. (Valko 27 Dec.) 4920 INDIA AIR Chennai 1228-1229 couple canned anmnts. 1229 W in hyper-speed mentioning upcoming EG nx. Deadair, then EG nx by soft-spoken M anncr to 1235. ID by studio W anncr, then subcont. mx. Fair. (Valko 28 Dec.) 5010 INDIA AIR Thiruvananthapuram EG nx by soft-spoken M 1230-1235 could just barely tell it was //4920 and 5040. (Valko 28 Dec.) 5040 INDIA AIR Jeypore Similar strength to AIR Thiru., and just barely able to tell it was //4920 w/EG nx by M 1230-1235. (Valko 28 Dec.) 9809.97 UNID. AIR Panaji?? Found a signal here with 1 khz test tone from 1245. Going of over an hour and a half until finally going off at 1416:37. (See below) (Valko 28 Dec.) 9809.98 INDIA AIR Panaji Weak at 1230 but came up rapidly and decent signal in just 5 min. Indian Pop mx to W anncr in pres. Tamil at 1240, then deadair for 5 min., and audio back at 1245 w/W anncr and canned anmnts in possible Hindi. Horrible distorted noise in the audio. Audio cut and test tone for 2 seconds, then off at 1254:17. So this was indeed the one with the test tone yesterday. (Valko 29 Dec.) 11828vUNID. Found a strong OC here at 1417 varying quickly and drifting as well. Was able to check on a number of web rxs around the world and it was noted everywhere. Went off at 1428:46 w/out any audio unfortunately. Must have been someone with a high-powered xmtr. (See below) (Valko 29 Dec.) 6185.02 MEXICO R. Educacion Audible at times. Thought I had Turkey in Italian at 1510 but it wasn't sounding parallel to what I had on a web receiver in Greece. The only other thing I could see that it could have been was Educacion. So I tried a web rx in TX, and sure enough, it was parallel. 1531 w/W then M in SP on peaks. W still audible on peak at 1546, and M at 1551 and 1556, same as on the TX web rx. Never heard R. Educacion at this time of day before. Signal visible in the display throughout the day even after China came on at 2000 (Educacion was slightly off freq.). (Valko 29 Dec.) 11828.5v INDIA AIR (site??) Found again today at 1410 w/audio, unlike yesterday. M tlk in what sounded like Hindi. 1412-1419 subcont. mx. 1419:25 clear AIR ID by M and tlk. Another ID by M at 1429:37. Discussion by at least 2 men from 1430 until the signal suddenly went off at 1433:05. Fair signal w/some QRM from 11830 which was easily notched out. I don’t see AIR listed on either 11825 or 11830. A Youtube video of the reception can be found by clicking on this link: https://youtu.be/RUHUs6efpvQ (Valko 30 Dec.) Used a Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop antenna. 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Corrrection
Rob Wagner was alert enough to inform me of a mistake I made in my loggings. 4KZ is of course in Australia, not New Zealand. Sorry. Thanks to Rob. _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Loggings 19-26 December
ESIA RRI Palangkaraya Decent signal up at 2158, but blasted by South Africa and UTE. Audio too low and too much QRM to ID. (Valko 24 Dec. micro-DXpedition) 6295.02 PIRATE (EUROPE) Reflections Europe 2203-2008 rel. tlk by M and choral mx at 2210. Tough reception. (Valko 24 Dec. micro-DXpedition) 6310 PIRATE (EUROE) R. Marabu M anmnt as soon as I started the recording at 2203, and into “Haitian Divorce” by Steely Dan. 2205 ment of Marabu in GM tlk by M. “Me and You and a Dog Named Boo” at 2210. Better signal than Coast FM. (Valko 24 Dec. micro-DXpedition) 6973 PIRATE (ARGENTINA) Lupo R. Signal here at 2244 after I moved to the top of the hill and changed BOG to 175 degrees. Definite mx at 2259, and again at 2307 check. 2318 Tango mx. W anncr at 2341 but imposs. To copy. (Valko 24 Dec. micro-DXpedition) 6925.13 PIRATE (CHILE) R. Compania Worldwide (pres.) Signal here at 2320 but SP renegades were here. 2332 poss. mx?? Definite mx at 2343 but extremely weak. Very fady. Needed that extra 315 feet of wire like last night. Just too weak. (Valko 24 Dec. micro-DXpedition) 4054.98 GUATEMALA R. Verdad Usual vibraphone-like mx w/SP ID anmnt by M at 0805, and into rel. mx. Guess they were staying on all night for Christmas. Fair signal at best with a lot of crackly static-like noise through the entire SW spectrum. (Valko 25 Dec.) 7400 CHINA apparently Ron’s UNID. hrd w/signal coming on at 1056:43 and Chinese mx up already in progress 10 seconds later. Mx over ToH and straight through nonstop till laptop battery ran out of power at 1219. (Valko 25 Dec.) 6069.98 CANADA CFRX 1557 W giving her version of a memorable Christmas, canned ID by M “This is Toronto’s breaking news, traffic, and weather, Indepth Radio, Newstalk 10-10. CFRB AM, an iHeart Radio station”, and into Christmas mx. Fanfare, ID, nx and sports from the Canadian Press by W, Christmas and New Years ID greeting, then back to Christmas mx including “Happy Christmas, War is Over” by Lennon. Strong. (Valko 25 Dec.) 6000 RUSSIA Adygeyan R. (pres.) Had the signal here from but not strong enough for audio. Plus there was a band of lcl noise between 5999-6010. Went off at 1859:35. Had it fairly well on a web rx in the Ukraine too. (Valko 25 Dec.) 6160 UNID. NA Pirate?? Getting a weak signal here at w/unrec. Rock mx. Also had it on VA web rx, and very weak signals w/out audio on various European web rxs, but may have been something else. In fact it was strongest here. Unreadable M anncr at 2227:55 sounding like EG. 2233:20 ment of “…on frequencies 6160 khz shortwave…”. 2234 back to Rock mx sounding like a remake of “Here Come the Sun”. 2236:50 canned tlk in EG by M w/ment of United States, Watergate, and Vietnam, then audio off at 2238:14 and signal gone at 2238:31. Didn’t return. Not a spur or image. One or two NA Pirates have been hrd around this freq in the past. (Valko 25 Dec.) PIRATE (ARGENTINA) Nice e-QSL from Lupo R. for Saturdays reception. A great Christmas present!!! (Valko 25 Dec.) 6294.96 PIRATE (EUROPE) R. Tower Found weak signal at 0852 then bits of audio on very short peaks after 0900. Big signal on the Leiden NL web rx. Peaks here at 0925, 0935, and 0942. M anncr at 0948. Just not in long enough. (Valko 26 Dec.) 6160.03 BRAZIL Super R. Boa Vontade (pres.) Came on late at 0907:54 today w/male choral song. Too weak as usual. (Valko 26 Dec.) 9898 CLANDESTINE V.O. Tibet (via Tajikistan) Found w/weak signal at 1332 w/tlk in Asian lang., no doubt Tibetan. Signal went off 1335:44 on sked. (Valko 26 Dec.) 9903 CLANDESTINE V.O. Tibet (via Tajikistan) Came on here just 3 seconds after 9898 went off. Cont. tlk in pres. Tibetan by M, W joining in later. Still tlking and no change in signal quality by 1345 t/out. Don’t recall ever hearing these 2 freqs before. (Valko 26 Dec.) HAWAII (USA) Got a QSL picturing a fiery sunset (or is it sunrise) in the mail from WWVH for the Dec. 7 reception on 2.5 mhz. Ironically the time wasn't included!! (Valko 26 Dec.) 6011.74 BRAZIL R. Inconfidencia First found around 2252 w/M and W. W in PT went over the 2300 ToH. Some canned anmnts at 2302, and into mx at 2304. Slowly getting better. M in PT at 2318 recheck, and more mx. Mx pgm w/M DJ hosting continued, playing a bunch of songs in a row after 2330. Got a het from pres. China on 6010. Nothing noted on 15190 as conditions were too poor. Hrd on a couple ZY web rxs too and only 1 ID in the 2300- hour. Wonder why it’s so far off freq. (Valko 26 Dec.) Perseus SDR Wellbrook ALA1530S loop at home and BOGs of 315 feet (except for 23 Dec. when 630 feet used) on micro-DXpeditions. 73 and Happy New Year to all in 2018!! Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Co
[HCDX] 18-19 Loggings
1710 UNID. Pirate?? T/in at 2246 “Never Gonna Let You Go” by Dionne Warwick, 2248 “Yakety Sax” by Boots Randolph, 2251 “Together Forever” by Rick Astley, 2253 “When I Fall in Love” Natalie and Nat King Cole, and 2258 “525,600 Minutes” by Tuks. Lost at 2259 and didn’t return. No anmnts. Brett Saylor said he brought up the webstream for the Louisiana Pirate R. Reten lo que Tiene and they had preaching. So this is someone new. (Valko 17 Dec.) 6924.97 PIRATE (NA) Partial India R. Holiday program 1938-2026+ w/”The Indian 12 Days of Christmas”, canned IDs by Mrs. Krishna. E-mail QSL request anmnt as haroldkrishna...@gmail.com. Played The Beatles “Christmastime is Here Again” song/comedy recording. Also had sitar versions of Christmas songs. Fair signal and a bit fady. (Valko 18 Dec.) 6045 CLANDESTINE (SOUTH KOREA) V.O. Freedom 2112 getting some mx here at this time. Flute song at 2119 plainly audible. Then song by what sounded like Stevie Wonder at 2122. Went over BoH w/mx. W anncr in KR mixed w/instru. mx 2156-2159. Mx leading up to ToH. M and W w/short anmnt, peppy mx, then tlk by M anncr maybe nx. Wiped out by 6040 WHRI. Also hrd on a web rx in South Korea, jammed w/pulsing noise, but no jamming detected here. (Valko 18 Dec.) 6600 CLANDESTINE V.O. the People 2209 jammer went off, then hrd M in KR. 2216 instru. mx bridge, then next segment by W to BoH. M after 2230. Jammer returned at 2240. Haven’t hrd this w/out the jammer in a while. Peaked nicely around 2215-2220. The white noise jammer here and on 6520, 6350, and 6015 all went off at the exact same time. Unfortunately there’s some lcl noise on 6350. (Valko 18 Dec.) 6400 NORTH KOREA Pyongyang BS, Kanggye Big signal w/orch./opera mx pgm from 2208-2229. Studio W anncr in KR once or twice. Dear air briefly at 2229, same W anncr, 3+1 higher pitched time ticks, then alternating M and W anncrs at 2230-2243+. Very strong around 2225 peak, but faded very quickly after 2235. Abt the best ever hrd at this time. (Valko 18 Dec.) 4450 CLANDESTINE V.O. the People Didn’t appear to be jammed at 2211 when M anncr hrd very weakly. Signal strong enough, just not that much audio punch. (Valko 18 Dec.) e-QSL received in quick time from Partial India R. for todays reception. Total time, 3 hours 41 minutes. (Valko 18 Dec.) 6160.03 BRAZIL Super R. Boa Vontade W anncr in PT at 0904 t/in, then rel. song at 0906-0911. Fading too quickly. Could still hear the studio W return at 0911, also noted on a Brazilian web rx where she ended w/ment of Sao Paulo. Brief mx, then M anncr w/cadence matching that on the web rx w/Super R. Boa Vontade ID w/freq and QTH. Unfortunately there was a lcl static-like noise burst a couple times over ID here, but did catch the Puerto Alegre QTH. Have noted this a couple times now, but it fades very quickly upon 0900 s/on. Best on the Delta loop. (Valko 19 Dec.) 9839.81 VIETNAM V.O.V. Signal suddenly on at 0959 w/orch. mx already playing. 1000 usual instru. mx and EG IDs by W and M. Opening w/W anncr. Mx briefly and nx headlines and in detail by W. Peppy Caribbean-flavored instru. mx at 1009 recheck, then same W anncr, and into lcl traditional mx. 25mb outlet much too weak to //. (Valko 19 Dec.) Perseus SDR and Wellbrook ALA1530S and 150 foot Delta loop. 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA USA _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Micro-DXpedition Loggings
and didn’t realize I had this as well. W anncr in KR at 1201. Not very strong and had an echo at this time. Much better at the end of the broadcast at 1256 w/end of KR tlk by W, somber vcl song until audio suddenly cut off at 1259:24 and signal gone abt 25 sec. later. (Valko 16 Nov.) 5010 INDIA AIR Thiru. W and M anncrs in definite Hindi at 1156, mx for abt a min., then W and M anncrs again, and subcont. mx to at least 1200. Still there at around 1210, fairly strong w/simple end of EG Pop song and M and W anncrs, but gone at 1219 check. Looked like it was back at 1237 though. (Valko 16 Nov.) 7555.73 INDIA AIR Delhi 1209 vcl only singing, then W anncr in lang. Decent strength but very low audio lvl and slop QRM from huge 7570 WRMI. (Valko 16 Nov.) 5920 SOUTH KOREA V.O. Freedom M anncr at 1121, mx at 1122. Way too weak and too much 5925 CNR slop QRM at this time. 1214 Asian Pop ballad, then soft KR tlk by W to 1216, and into Bluesy song. Easy MOR mx at 1238 recheck and soft-spoken W returned at 1241. Fady then. (Valko 16 Nov.) 11513 CLANDESTINE V.O. Tibet (via Dushanbe, Tad.) Found here w/tlk by M in CH at 1222. Fair w/propagational echo. (Valko 16 Nov.) 9835 MALAYSIA RTM-Sarawak FM Abt best ever rcptn w/M doing nx at 1226, promo at 1229, then into Asian rom. ballad by M and W vclists, then 2 women DJs in discussion at 1234, ment of Sarawak. Surprised at the strength. (Valko 16 Nov.) 11603 CLANDESTINE V.O. Tibet (via Dushanbe, Tad.) Found M tlk in CH here at 1242, mx briefly then diff. M at 1244-1248, then W anncr to at least 1255. Like 11513 this had a slight echo as well. (Valko 16 Nov.) 9524.96 INDONESIA V.O.I. End of JP pgm, then in EG at 1300 w/fanfare and canned ID by M and W over mx, then freqs and webstream by W, live W w/pgm rundown, and into the nx. Nice to get some readable audio on this for a change. (Valko 16 Nov.) 7120 SOMALILAND R. Hargeisa Weak w/tlk by M at 1306. 1306:50 canned anmnt by W w/AR mx much more audible. 1308 SP SSB QRM. Getting better W/AR mx at 1218 as the sun was rising higher. Nice “This is R. Hargeisa” at 1320:10. Huge Ham CW signal on 7123 QRM. Could tell it was EG nx by same M at 1323. Sounded like another ment of R. Hargeisa at 1325:47. Drum solo briefly at 1325 then, and same M. M anncr much weaker by 1344 check. Still barely audiable at 1354 amid the Ham QRM. (Valko 16 Nov.) 9745 ARMENIA TWR (via Yerevan) Found w/IS at 1256. 1300 M w/ID and sked for 9410 (every Sat. at 1300) ending w/”God bless” seemingly indicating it was a closing ID anmnt. Into EG inspirational message and then rel. Pop mx. Fairly good. (Valko 16 Nov.) 11627 CLANDESTINE V.O. Tibet (via Dushanbe, Tad.) Tlk by M and W in CH at 1313 and mx, then usual theme mx and ID anmnt by M. Best of the 3 freqs and none appeared to be jammed. (Valko 16 Nov.) 7236 ETHIOPIA R.E. Found a carrier here at 1328 barely visible through the massive Ham QRM. Certainly sounded like some mx at 1331-1332. Varying up to 7235.99 and 7236.03, so obviously Ethiopia. Didn’t stick with it. Already visible in the display at 1258 the next day. Went off later at 1703. (Valko 16 Nov.) 7410 JAPAN Shiokaze Seabreeze Barely able to hear the soft instru. mx bed at the start of the EG lang s/on anmnt at 1330 under huge CRI. Checked again at 1354 but hopeless. (Valko 16 Nov.) 7625 CLANDESTINE V.O. the Wilderness (via Tashkent) 1229 early s/on w/W tlk, then wind blowing SFX, trumpet fanfare, and soft opening mx. 1333 tlk by W in KR over mx, mx up briefly at 1335, then cont. tlk. Into soft vcl song by W at 1335. Actually not too bad. Same W returned at end of the song at 1340. Still in at 1350 w/more tlk by W host over soft instru. mx. (Valko 16 Nov.) 14230U MEXICO XE3CIA (Tuxtla, Chiapas) SSTV CQ picture at 1346 amid others at the same time. (Valko 16 Nov.) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus with 315 foot BOG's at 45 degrees (towards Europe) on 15 Nov., and at 0 degrees (for East Asia) on 16 Nov. 2 different outings at 2 different local locations. _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 24 Oct. Micro-DXpedition Loggings
4764.06 PERU R. Huanta 2000 First found at 2318 t/in w/end of ad block, then into several beautiful camposino songs. Left the freq at 2327 to record the MW band, and when I returned at 2339, there was what sounded like a sermon by M w/ment of “madre de dios”. Not to bad of a signal w/CODAR QRM and some weak thunderstorm static crashes. Thanks to Don Moore on his travels for IDing this one. Here's a link to a Youtube video of the reception: https://youtu.be/UKSv6vuGuaM (24 Oct.) 5824.9CHILE R. Triunfal Evangelica (pres.) Noted the signal here on a micro-DXpedition last week (20 Oct.) and thought it was just an anomaly not thinking it could be R.T.E. Tuned in on this outing and found what sounded like nonstop rel. mx from 2341 until it suddenly went off w/out any announcements or fanfare at 2354:10. Maybe the extra wire (820 feet) over last week helped improve the signal level. Here's a link to a Youtube video of the reception: https://youtu.be/sKCqCvCWlDA (24 Oct.) 6024.96 BOLIVIA Red Patria Nueva Great clear signal at 2341 w/usual evening nx pgm w/M presenter in apparent Amara and many long actualities in SP w/ments of Bolivanos, trabajadores, ecomica, solidad, Radio Santa Fe, camposinas, Octubre, Departmento Oro, etc. 2350 TC. 6030 jammer started up at 2352. (24 Oct.) The above loggings were made on a micro-DXpedition using a Perseus SDR with a 820 foot terminated BOG aimed at 181 degrees (western South America). 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Recent Loggings
7140.02 ERITREA VOBM 1 Caught OC w/1.014 kHz tone from 0247. At t/in, VA7LTX, Richmond, BC, Canada was calling CQ on 7142 and requested the person tuning up w/continuous signal on 7140 give him a call not realizing it was VOBM!! After a few minutes, he moved up to 7143 and got in a QSO w/Ham in KS but was still causing a lot of QRM to VOBM. 0257 ended tone and began guitar IS. A min. later, carrier came on 7140.0 causing a low het, apparently the white noise jammer that was noted later at 0320 check. 0300 M anncr, instru. mx bridge, then diff. M, and HoA mx. Very little audio noted because of the jammer at 0320. (4 Oct.) 7180.02 ERITREA VOBM 2 Like 7140.02, hrd the OC w/1.027 kHz tone from 0247. Odd that both freqs were 22 hertz off (yes, I had calibrated the Perseus). However, the tone here was slightly higher than on 7140.02. 0300 end of tone, then very low level mx (maybe the IS), then stronger audio w/instru. HoA mx w/apparent s/on ID anmnt. Like 7140.02, very little audio making it through the white noise jammer at 0320, but did hear vcl singing. (4 Oct.) 6090 ETHIOPIA Amhara State R. Barely audible at 0255 t/in w/what sounded like mx. 0258 two and a half reps of the haunting echoey IS at better audio level, dead air, then M anncr suddenly at 0300 and lively HoA instru. mx. Not that bad of a signal but massive slop QRM from 6105 Japan when they started at 0258. (4 Oct.) 7120 SOMALILAND R. Hargeisa Already on w/anthem at 0329, barely audible M at 0330, diff. M introducing the Koran briefly at 0332, and into said morning prayers. Clear but they need to boost the audio. (4 Oct.) 6205.01 PIRATE (EUROPE) Laser Hot Hits 0334 quite audible w/song off the Bee Gees “Spirits Having Flown” LP. Incredible peak at 0336:30. 0338 song anmnt, 0339 into next Pop song w/laser shooting SFX. 0342 ad for “Off Shore Echos” magazine. Never seemed to peak during anmnts though. Audio can be heard at: https://app.box.com/s/dx1edig0qvd77px6y2my4l91stl5s2nk (4 Oct.) 9730 MYANMAR Myanma R. Surprised to get some audio on this at 1125 w/same W anncr as hrd in the past. Apparent nx by W and M after 1130. Signal off at 1133:50. Very weak w/slop QRM from 9725 CRI. (4 Oct.) 9410 UNID. Fu Hsing?? Found on a couple web rxs around 1150 w/usual weak signal going off and on. Decided to try it here for the heck of it and was shocked to see it in the display mimicking the on/off times on the web rxs, finally going off for good sometime around 1156. No hope for any audio here of course. (4 Oct.) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus with 151 foot Delta Loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Loggings 29-30 July
25000 USA WWV Despite not having any luck on checks on previous numerous days 1400-1900, have been hearing this the last 2 days in the 2300-0100 time period. According to the NIST website, is 2 kw experimental reactivation on this freq. Usual format aired plus they’ve been giving this announcement at 16 min. past the hour: “Beginning the 7th of July 2017 at 2042 UTC, the 25 megaHertz broadcast is on a turnstile antenna with circular polarization and will remain in this configuration until after the eclipse on the 21st of August 2017. Signal reports are requested and appreciated. Listener reception reports may be e-mailed to w...@nist.gov, or mailed to Radio Station WWV, 2000 East County Road 58, Ft. Collins, CO 80524”. Audible on the (20-200 degrees) Delta loop but not the Wellbrook ALA1530S. Seems to be peaking here just after 2300 and is always very fady, many times fading out completely, but also peaking fairly well at times. (Valko, 29 July) 4989.983UNID. R. Apintie?? Carrier here past 0942 t/in and sounded like bits of mx at times. This was where Apintie was noted last February. (Valko, 30 July) 5125 UNID. 0944 for at least the next hour, a massive signal on this freq, from someone apparently testing w/repeating loop of test tones starting w/OC, then 500 hz and jumping up roughly 200 hz every 5 seconds to 4.9 khz before starting the loop again. Thought it might be a SP numbers stn, but only the loop of tones hrd. (Valko, 30 July) 4810 PERU R. Logos 1003-1009 pleasant instru. mx, 1004 abt a 20 second SP ID/promo by M between songs starting w/”R. Logos…”. Hammered by the UTE on 4812 and CODAR, and surprised I got the ID. (Valko, 30 July) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S and 153 foot Delta loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 6250 Malabo (presumed)
6250 EQUATORIAL GUINEA R. Malabo (pres.) While testing a new USB cable to power the Perseus SDR with an XTPower power bank charger, was shocked to find a strong signal here at 0001 w/African Pop mx. Nonstop mx past 0045. M in song at 0034 mentioned Malabo clearly several times. Very glad to have it reactivated (if it is indeed Malabo) and hope it stays on. So far Brandon Jordan in TN noted it first. Youtube video of my reception at 0017 can be found at https://youtu.be/VVClRjhneuY (Valko, 27 July) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR (on DC) with 153 foot Delta Loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 11858v Aparecida Higher
11858.9v BRAZIL R. Aparecida Found that this had moved up even higher now varying between 11858.9 – 11859.0, mostly hanging around 11858.93. PT tlk by M and W on peaks after 0045, //9630 barely audible. Creating a big het against 11860 Yemen (Saudi Arabia) which had to be notched out. (Valko, 20 June) 11858.4v BRAZIL R. Aparecida Came down a little by 1015 check. Similar varying signal to 10 hours earlier, but no het as Yemen not present. M anncr in PT on peaks. Signal is much like how 6010 Conciencia used to be. Varying between 11858.3 – 11858.5 mostly, but did go up to 11858.7 briefly at 1030. (Valko, 20 June) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus with Wellbrook ALA1530S _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 9-11 June Loggings
9685 AUSTRALIA Reach Beyond Australia 1117-1128 Somewhat slow and deliberate EG pgm abt Baseball rules and “Almost Perfect” segment of Armando Galarraga’s near perfect game. 1129 instru. mx, and into next pgm in Chin Hakha. No ID between pgms. Fair signal. (Valko, 9 June) 9799.61 EGYPT R. Cairo 2205 AR mx, 4+1 higher pitch time ticks at 2215, then W w/EG nx ending w/ID at 2217. 2219 ID w/intro for “Egyptian Challenge” pgm, then off the air. Back on w/OC a min. later, and pgm already continuing. Good signal but audio over modulated. (Valko, 9 June) 9514.97 BRAZIL R. Marumby 2224-2300 “Voz do Brasil” // to other ZYs including 9665.87 Voz Missionaria, 9674.92 Cancao Nova, 11856.02 Aparecida, and 15190.05 Inconfidencia. 2300 instru. mx, 2301 usual “Marumby” singing jingle by women, then canned ID/promo w/ment of Marumby, sev. more canned anmnts, and into next pgm at 2304. Fady w/some 9505 WHRI slop QRM, but stronger than usual and readable. (Valko, 9 June) 6940U PIRATE (NA) Seven Trees Radio Hard Rock, almost Metal mx then short final ID by M at 2300 as “Welcome to Seven Trees Radio, where we pull the plug every day”, and off. Came back on w/ID at 2304 and into current mx, then went off. Came back on again at 2314 with the same ID and played the song “Who Do You Love” by George Thorogood. Glad he came back w/IDs so I could get a recording. Youtube video of the reception can be found using this link: https://youtu.be/p4ZiFDbt1q4 (Valko, 10 June) 6930U PIRATE (NA) WEAK/Weak R. Noted after 0005 w/mostly Punk mx, although they also played “Ride Captain Ride” by Blues Image, and only novelty C song. Many IDs by W including “We are going crazy crazy, we are going crazy, very crazy, Weak R., going crazy” at 0013. Comedy ads. At 0015, someone came on overtop repeating “Welcome to Strong R.” which sounded like the anncr from Seven Trees R. When the bdcst ended at 0017, there were 3 SSTV images aired, but they didn’t seem to be from WEAK. In fact the last was from Pee Wee. Youtube video of the reception can be found using this link: https://youtu.be/xOJ8MImKht8 (Valko, 11 June) 6205.01 PIRATE (EUROPE) Laser Hot Hits 0128 Rock song then M w/Off Shore Echos ad, then back to mx. 0133 ID jingle, and another song. Thought this might be someone else as they weren’t on nominal 6220. (Valko, 11 June) 6925.2v PIRATE (NA) Ion R. Weak signal at 1204, coming up at 1208, then some sort of rumbling effect at 1209 which turned out to be “ambient music” according to the op. Finally recognized “Ebony Eyes” by Bob Welch at 1224, Simple ID by W at 1225, then “Love is in the Air” by John Paul Young. Best at 1228. SSTV and off at 1240. Seemed to be having xmtr trouble. No carrier present most of the time and drifting around. (Valko, 11 June) 7850 CANADA CHU 1230 nothing but an OC here. Strong signal. Same on 3330 but a much weaker signal. Must be having some technical difficulties. 14670 too weak to tell if there was only an OC there, and the web rxs didn’t have it any better. (Valko, 11 June) 11885 ALASKA (USA) KNLS 1457 M anncr sounded like Mandarin ending w/instru. signature, then 1458-1500 deadair, and 1500 IS twice and off. Came back on w/IS in progress and into Mandarin pgming. (Valko, 11 June) 14670 CANADA CHU Indeed, only an OC here at 1900 when the signal was much improved. Shortly thereafter, Ron Howard forwarded a quote that they had a suspect piece of equipment and they would be looking into the problem. By 2045, everything as back to normal on all freqs. Reception video of the OCs on all freqs can be found using this link: https://youtu.be/Ox78B0nWFbI (Valko, 11 June) 6924.2PIRATE (NA) Insane R. From 2343- Soundbites mixed w/mx. Radio story abt a “regular guy” who became a time anncr in WashingtonDC. Unrecognizable Rock songs. 0002 M whistling and saying he liked to whistle. 0005 repeating “Insane R.” IDs. Another song. 0011 repeating IDs again, and Bluesy song. Went off at 0019. Massive S9+25 signal. (Valko, 11-12 June) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop and 153 foot Delta loop antennas. _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] More KNLS
Just want to add that of course no other freqs are noted on KNLS now except for 11885 and 11870. 1227 short segment about DXing equipment and techniques now, and into song by U2. _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 11885 KNLS Unscheduled On Again
Just noticed now at 1220 KNLS is on 11885 again unscheduled and parallel to 11870. Not as good here as the first time noted on Monday. 1221 ID and mailing address announcement by lady, song announcement, and into "Every Breath You Take" by The Police. _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] KNLS Addition
I inadvertently left out the time on the 11885 KNLS logging. Was in Mandarin before 1200 UTC, and in English after. Went off at 1259 followed by 11870. Sorry. 73 Dave _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 11885 KNLS Unscheduled Transmission
11885 ALASKA (USA) KNLS Was recording 11870 to catch upcoming start of EG pgm and found 11885 on the air unscheduled in Mandarin w/Pop mx, M w/tlk including ID, deadair, then start of EG pgm w/ID anmnt by W and IS //11870. Both fairly strong but this freq slightly better. Is this a new transmission, an error, or testing??Posted a Youtube video of the reception which can be viewed using this link: https://youtu.be/AisW-DfKeXU Use 480p setting for best viewing. (5 June) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop antenna _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 26 May - 4 June Loggings
uld as morning progressed there. Checked a web rx in Khimki Russia and a decent signal there with the same pgming. Myanmar “long path” is very rare here, and especially so, being so close to the solstice. Audio recording at https://app.box.com/s/svyqgzllt4j9uynzi30dijucs0gjo4zv (includes both reception here and in Khimki Russia with clips of reception here being weaker, of course). (Valko 2 June) 11870 ALASKA KNLS (New Life Station) Caught the closing EG ID by M w/sked for EG pgming at 1254, one last Pop song, some deadair, then off. Kind of surprised it was so readable. Audio recording at https://app.box.com/s/4oplz5zkyscp5vxjtf0u05nc12m9b8q9 (Valko 3 June) 3-4 June 2017: Micro-DXpedition RX: Perseus SDR ANT: 313 foot BOG at 185° Duration: 2245-0010 UTC. 5985 MYANMAR R. Myanmar Signal already on with 1 khz tone at 2345. 2255 tone off. Sounded like it started w/mx at 2300:06, and W anncr abt 40 sec. later. More mx and W again at 2302, then M. Wasn’t quite as good as at home yesterday. (Valko 3 June) 6924.4 PIRATE (NA) Recycle R. 2316 closing ID, “Glory Glory We Adore Thee”, then SSTV. Weak but SSTV fairly strong. Looked like he was back on 6899.98 by 2356, which is the freq where he’s been hrd before. (Valko 3 June) 6880U PIRATE (NA) Clever Name R. 2318 end of mx and ID w/e-mail, deadair, then canned network ID and e-mail addr, and canned ID jingle. Strong. (Valko 3 June) 14680H CUBA RHC While checking for 14670 CHU, found this 2 X 7340 harmonic of R. Havana Cuba. Poor to fair and fady. (Valko 3 June) 6930U PIRATE (NA) WRRI (R. Random Int.) “Cruel Summer” by Bananarama at 2357, deadair, and into “Safety Dance” at . 0006 “Rock the Casbah”. Fairly good signal. Fady w/some QRN. Had moved to 9945 while I was driving home. (Valko 3-4 June) 9945U PIRATE WRRI Found out from HF Underground this had turned up here and did indeed hear mx at 0035 but couldn’t recognize the song. 0037 into REM song and faded badly in 2 min. 0045 able to hear ID by YL “WRRI ??, WRRI, R. Random Int.” and immediately into R. Australia’s “Waltzing Matilda” IS, then off. (Valko 4 June) 6925.28 PIRATE Ion R. Surprised to find this Pirate on the air in the early morning w/Pop/Rock mx when I tuned in at 1223. 1225 apparent comedy skit ending w/live M voice ID sounding like “You’ve been listening to Ion R. ionradioshortw...@gmail.com.” Then “Beautiful Sunday” by Daniel Boone and “Love is in the Air by John Paul Young, “Ion Radio” Morse code ID at 1233, “Magic” by Pilot, e-mail addr in code at 1240, “Thunderstuck” by AC/DC, and several Blues songs. 1254 e-mail in code again, and ended w/SSTV scan. Poor w/quick QSB and a lot of lcl QRM. Youtube video of reception can be found using this link https://youtu.be/7rYHWGQFDhA (Valko 4 June) 73 and Good DX!! Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Recent Loggings
11856.099 BRAZIL R. Aparecida Noticed that this has been way off freq for at least the last 5 days. 0730 Rosary recital, then soft rel. mx at 0734, studio W pgm host in PT at 0736, then Rosary again. Weak and QRMed from 11855. //9630.02 which wasn't much better. (Valko 28 March) 7615 PIRATE (Rel.) ex-YHWH 0509 Joshua w/usual rel. tlk and ments of Yaweh. Pgm end at 0510 coinciding w/signal drop down to S8, but then came back up to S9+10 a min. later. So fady and very noisy signal. Deadair until finally going off at 0514:41. Didn't expect to find him on this late. If he's still coming on around 0230, then his sked is a good 2 and a half hours. (Valko 18 April) 5910.02 COLOMBIA R. Alcaravan 0520 nice canned ID/promo between lively LA songs. Really good signal. (Valko 18 April) 6010.14 COLOMBIA LV de tu Conciencia 0522 end of song "Heatwave" and into soft LA song. 0524 canned ID by W between songs. 0534 slow banjo version of the Christmas song "Silver Bells"!! (Valko 18 April) 6185.01 MEXICO R. Educacion 0417 lively instru. XE Ranchera mx. Finally call and name ID by W in SP at 0454, and back to Ranchera vcl mx. All songs at this time seemed to be by the same W vclist. Deadair after song at 0503 to at least 0507. Gone at 0518 recheck. Big signal w/some 6180 splash QRM until it went off at 0456. Also some QSB. (Valko 19 April) 7615 ex-YHWH on the air again tonight at 0434. (Valko 19 April) 4949.73 ANGOLA R. Nac. Angola Fair good signal at 0508 w/W doing the nx in PT ending w/headlines over fanfare mx at 0513. M anncr briefly, then nice canned ID, and more canned anmnts by M w/ment of musica, internet, Angola, a website URL, and "voz popular". Good audio. (Valko 19 April) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR Wellbrook ALA1530S and 153 foot Delta Loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Loggings the Last Few Weeks
5915 ZAMBIA ZNBC Fish Eagle IS mixed w/fanfare at 0459, then ID and EG nx by W. Ended at 0517 w/manufacturing ad for Zambia Bureau of Standards by M, then ID by studio M DJ in vern. and lively Afro Pop mx. Still audible at 0532 w/M DJ came in after mx, and barely w/mx and M vcl at 0555. Fairly readable at start and surprised it was coming in this late. (Valko 25 Feb.) 6120 SWAZILAND TWR 0458 chime IS and EG IDs by M. Came back later at 0522 and noted M preaching in EG sounding //4775 QRMed by CODAR. 6120 better. Instru. guitar mx at 0528, then W w/segment intro. Fading. (Valko 25 Feb.) 4885.02 BRAZIL R. Clube do Para Massive S9+20 signal at 0539 w/live ZY Pops. Poor on the Pardinho web rx and nowhere near as good as 4895 Novo Tempo or 4905 Relogio, but oddly just the opposite here. 0541 rooster and "bon dia" jingle. 0544 bon dia and Clube ID promo. 0551 full canned ID w/freqs and ending w/QTH by M. (Valko 25 Feb.) 4996 RUSSIA RWM time station 0609 usual repeating CW IDs. Weak but there. (Valko 25 Feb.) 4989.98 Getting a signal here at 0613. Too weak to get any audio so can't tell if it's Apintie or not. (Valko 25 Feb.) 4985.01 BRAZIL R. Brasil Central "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" by Elton John. at 0616, and into ZY Pop. 0622 singing ID jingle, and canned anmnts by M. Had to use LSB and notch out the lower RTTY but was still getting severe QRM. (Valko 25 Feb.) 5005 EQUATORIAL GUINEA R. Nacional Bata (pres.) 0548 choral singing, possibly religious. Fairly readable and freq dead on 5005.000. (Valko 5 March) 9514.96 BRAZIL R. Marumby 0943 tlk by M in PT. Usual "Marumby" women singing jingle ID at 0946 before going into pleasant PT song. Studio M DJ returned at 0950, and back to mx at 0952. Quick QSB. Creating a het as it was off freq, but audible over China. Oddly, only China noted on the Parinho Brazil web receiver. (Valko 7 March) 7259.95 VANUATU R.V. 0959 end of song, M anncr in Bislama, fanfare, M then W anncrs briefly, usual conch shell blowing ToH signature at 1000:41, then W anncr w/nx w/many actualities. Would have been better if not for the lcl QRN on the freq. (Valko 7 March) 5025.003 PERU R. Quillabamba 2328 tlk by lady and M anncrs in SP. 2330 canned anmnt by M w/ID and ment of Cusco, followed by another canned anmnt by same W anncr, then intro w/ID "Radio Quillabamba presenta..." for upcoming Rosary recital pgm, and said pgm to 0002. Nice signal in absence of Rebelde. (Valko 7 March) 10010 BRAZIL PPE time station Found on this possible new freq. 2300, , M w/ID and time w/time tick every 10 seconds. 3 normal +1 soft ticks between anmnt and the ToH. Is carrier +USB. Fair signal. Video of reception can be found using this link https://youtu.be/YfDoFGPiY5w (Valko 12 March) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop and 1530 foot Delta Loop antennas. _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Loggings 14-18 February 2017
5915 ZAMBIA ZNBC/R. One 0310 M DJ in lcl vern. playing Afro Pop songs and anmnts between songs. Great signal on the web rx in Pardinho Brazil. Nonexistant on the rx in South Africa. 0329:20 M ended anmnt w/ID and TC "5:29". 0330 W anncr w/rel. pgm segment giving Christian EG words every so often. (Valko 14 Feb.) 5011.3v MADAGASCAR R.M. Was watching from 0210 and it didn’t come on by 0232 t/out. But upon recheck at 0243, found it here playing pleasant choral mx. 0253 went into Dance Pop mx. 0257 bubbly W anncr, back to mx. 0259 took a quick dive down to 5011.0 but then came back up. Notched out the QRM from 5010.01 Rebelde mixing product. (Valko 15 Feb.) 5915 ZAMBIA ZNBC/R. One 0305 leaving Madagascar came up here to find it totally in the clear as Romania had signed off, and still no sign of 5920 WHRI. Fair signal w/M hosting African Pops. (Valko 15 Feb.) 11868.4 MADAGASCAR MWV Finally figured out who this is. It’s a spur of 11610 Madagascar World Voice. Also noted the spur below on 11351.6 as well. Hrd w/CH rel. pgming from 2106-2143. Fundamental 11610 is quite good here. (Valko 15 Feb.) 9650 GUINEA R. Guinee 0945 long phoned-in report by M journalist in FR to 0951 w/annoying double 'beeps' every 3 seconds. Studio M anncr, then another report w/beeps again. 1000 fanfare then canned ToH ID anmnt w/several IDs by M, and M w/nx. Don't usually hear Guinea at this time as it fades earlier. Pres. North Korea underneath. (Valko 17 Feb.) 7300 CHINA CNR1 pres. jammer 1002 nx by W in CH w/actualities and occas. breaks, //9500. Getting an echo here and on the Pardinho Brazil web rx, so guess there are 2 xmtrs on the freq. Hrd another weak stn underneath presumably stn it was jamming. Don't see a listing for this freq. (Valko 17 Feb.) 5910.18 COLOMBIA R. Alcaravan First time hrd in a while and way off freq. 1012 rel. pgm w/M host in SP w/ments of corazon, Santa Cruz, Colombia, gloria de dios, la voz del pueblo, la palabra, and many Cristiano. Into soft vcl song at 1014, then M host returned. Really faded badly, almost complete f/out, but came back up at 1027. Pgm finally ended at 1043 w/outro, studio M anncr giving TC twice, then into lively LA tropical mx. Went off the air suddenly in mid-song at :30. (Valko 17 Feb.) 5875 THAILAND R.T. End of VT pgm at 1114. Usual bells IS, M in EG w/ID and lang. pgm anmnt, and several more reps of the bells IS. Good signal. (Valko 17 Feb.) 3325 PAPUA NEW GUINEA NBC Bougainville 1122-1143 long speech by M w/ments of Bougainville. 1143 brief deadair, and into mx. 1151 reggae-like island Pop song. 1155 live W w/closing ID anmnt "...broadcast on NBC Bougainville." and ment of SW and FM freq, another ID, date, and ments of Papua New Guinea, "ogala night", Monday, and suddenly off at 1156:55 before she could finish. Pretty nice signal. Not as strong with the Delta Loop but quieter than the Wellbrook for some reason. (Valko 17 Feb.) 5020 SOLOMON ISLANDS SIBC 1157 usual xmsn ending rel. inspiritional segment. 1200 instru. mx and canned EG voice-over closing ID anmnt by W "You've been listening to the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation, R. Happy Isles. We have been transmitting on 1035 kilohertz in the mediumwave band and the shortwave frequency of 5020 kHz, and 9545 kHz in the 60 and 31 meterbands. We're now closing down for today but we resume transmissions tomorrow morning at 6 o'clock. So until then, from all of us at SIBC, goodnight everyone", instru. NA, and signal off at 1202:16. Despite Rebelde, this was the most readable signal in a long time. (Valko 17 Feb.) 5008.3MADAGASCAR R.M. Found way down on this freq at 0241 w/Afro Pop mx. 0245 M anncr. 0247 song sounded like a remake of "Last Friday Night" by Katy Perry. Usually wobbly signal. Dropped down below 5008 briefly at 0247, and down to 5008.1 when next song started at 0355. So the freq drops every time there's a change in audio (song to song, anmnt to song, etc.). 0300 ment of Madagascar but couldn't tell if it was an ID. Had to notch out the Rebelde mixing product on 5010. (Valko 18 Feb.) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA USA Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S and 153 foot Delta Loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 12 February Logging
4920 USA WHRI (sub-harmonic of 9840) Found w/big OC at 1156. 1159 M w/ID and QTH over usual theme mx, 1200 Bro. Stair theme song, but then sounded like it went into a different pgm. //9840 of course. A Youtube video of the reception can be found using this link https://youtu.be/rGfxfyX-p54 (Valko 12 Feb.) More radio nostalgia. Just uploaded a Youtube video with an old reception of Radiodiffusion Television Voltaique from Upper Volta on 4815 from 1983. Here's the link if you'd like to hear/watch it https://youtu.be/_JJrHx8raEQ 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA USA Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Nostalgic Shortwave Recordings on Video
For an afternoon project, I put together a few videos on Youtube of some old shortwave recordings made here. You should find them interesting. Here are the links to the videos... https://youtu.be/8KJEJVLjU_U HKBS/R. Jordan from 1980 (IS), and English IDs from 1988 and 2004. https://youtu.be/gq3F5QVucJc La Voz de Galapagos from 1979 with IDs and part of the Ecuadorian national anthem. https://youtu.be/wi3eHKuc6bk Radio Chortis from Guatemala from 1980 with ID near sign off, and from 1993 with opening ID. https://youtu.be/HFeibbh1uhU Africa Number 1 from Gabon from December 1979 with IS and ID and contest announcement in English. _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Loggings from February So Far
4955 PERU R. Cultural Amauta 1057-1101 somber OA camposina mx, live M anncr briefly, then usual canned ID anmnt by W over "El Condor Pasa". Fair signal. (Valko 1 Feb.) 4865 BRAZIL R. Verdes Florestas Rel. pgm hosted by M from 1035-1101, nice canned ID w/freqs by M over instru. beat mx, and into ZY Pop song. Decent but modulation always seems a little low. (Valko1 Feb.) 6105.33 UNID. Signal here at 1114. I couldn't get any audio on it and there's QRM from 6105. I had the signal on 2 ZY web receivers as well but no audio there either. Panamericana?? (Valko 1 Feb.) 11895.06BRAZIL Super R. Boa Vontade 2208 caught full canned PT ID anmnt (w/freqs) by M, but the plug was pulled just before the end at 2208:37. Fairly readable and actually better than Bandeirantes and RB2 above. (Valko 3 Feb.) 9664.91 BRAZIL R. Voz Missionaria Caught a short EG/PT ID by M at 0010 “RVM, national(?) Brazilian missionaria radio (then in PT)”. Not the full EG ID hrd abt a month ago, but still nice to hear an EG ID. Fair. (Valko 4 Feb.) 6165 MYANMAR R. Thazin (pres.) Definitely 2 signals here at 1126. One is CNR6. The other had W tlk at 1135, prob. their ToH nx on Thazin. (Valko 5 Feb.) 4900 CHINA V.O. the Strait M and W speaking from 1206 t/in. Sounds like CH but is actually Minnan language pgm per Ron Howard. No wonder a parallel couldn’t be found. Very strong on the SDR.hu web rx at Freemans Ranch Australia. Jim Young mentions he also hrd it on 27 Jan. and 3 Feb., but later time. (Valko 5 Feb.) 9510 ITALY IRRS (pres.) From 1236 t/in, hrd Rock and Alternative mx w/M anncr in EG between songs giving only artists/groups European concert venues and times/dates, but nothing else. No IDs. Went off abruptly in mid-pgm at 1257. The IRRS website isn’t any help as it hasn’t been updated since Nov. (Valko 5 Feb.) 6065 ZAMBIA V.O. Hope Africa Signal noted as early as 2027 but little audio at that time. Returned at 2106 and found live M anncr in EG w/”We are V.O. Hope radio” ID and voiceofhope.com, and rel. tlk. Into rel. Pop-like mx. 2126 M w/ment of 4965 and 6065, phone #, and e-mail addr. Gospel mx. 2200 canned ID by M “Live from Zambia, this is the V.O. Hope Africa broadcasting on 4965 and 6065 kHz and streaming worldwide at voiceofhope.com. Broadcasting the Gospel of Jesus. This is the V.O. Hope. V. O Hope is now closing down. Please join us again tomorrow for more music and ministry from the Word of God", cont. mx, then 1800 hz tone, and off at 2201:04. Good but 6070 CFRX QRM. Youtube video of the reception can be found using this link https://youtu.be/cakU_lqX7Kc (Valko 10 Feb.) 9664.9BRAZIL R. Voz Missionaria 0016 same short EG/PT ID by M as hrd on 4 Feb. Still looking for that full canned EG ID. Fair. Youtube video of the reception can be found using this link https://youtu.be/clcs6oPOkOI (Valko 11 Feb.) 7550 PIRATE (NA, rel.) ex: YHWH Found as early as 0232 w/usual rel. tlk and many many ments of Yahweh. At 0302:26, when into another pgm, exact same one hrd back on 8 Dec. in the 60mb. So tuned out at 0304. Quick QSB. Decent and near 100% copy on peaks, but inaudible on fades. Youtube video of the reception can be found using this link https://youtu.be/vQhr7tbBfOs (Valko 11 Feb.) 7220 GERMANY Bible Voice Broadcasting (via Nauen) 0808-0829 "Jack Van Impe Presents" EG rel. pgm hosted by Dr. Jack and Rexella Van Impe abt how current geo-political situation corresponds to the scriptures and end times, guitar mx and M w/ID and contact info, then plug pulled at 0830:04. Strongest signal on the band just above Nigeria. Youtube video of the reception can be found using this link https://youtu.be/CTKADd6oJjU (Valko 11 Feb.) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA USA Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S Loop and 153 foot Delta Loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Logging Correction
My tentative logging of 6000 R. Adygeyskoye should have been listed as RUSSIA (Armavir Krasnodar) instead of Armenia. Thanks to Wolfgang Bueschel for pointing that out. Armavir must have registered as Armenia in my mind. Sorry for the mix up. 73 Dave Valko _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Loggings, January 2017
Here are most of the loggings from this month so far: 6049.99 LIBERIA ELWA Gospel Pop-like mx from 2326. No sign of HCJB. 2336 live M anncr w/happy new years greeting, poss. ment of Liberia, “God bless you and Happy New Year to you”. More mx. Closing anmnt by same M w/”ELWA Radio” ID, then NA and off at 0002. (7 Jan.) 5950 ETHIOPIA V.O. the Tigray Revolution Although the carrier came on around 0254, the flute IS didn’t start until 0302. Fair at best. (7 Jan.) 6089.96 BRAZIL R. Bandeirantes Found the Caribbean Beacon off when I checked the band at 0740 and this here w/tlk by M, although it was a little too weak to determine the lang. But I did hear the usual Kitty Cat meowing at 0743, 0744, and 0746. And at 0748, it peaked enough to tell it was definitely PT. Trailed off a bit after 0800. (12 Jan.) 7259.96 VANUATU R. Vanuatu 0754 noted a W tlking, almost able to copy. Same W hrd in Pidgin on the Freemans Ranch Australia web rx. (12 Jan.) 7254.94 NIGERIA V.O. Nigeria 0758 usual drum IS, then W anncr in EG w/ID, gave her name, pgm rundown, then ID "You're listening to the English service of Voice of Nigeria...", and M w/pgm intro giving website at 0800. Fair signal. (12 Jan.) 15420 CLANDESTINE R. Itahuka (via Madagascar) Big OC came on at 1757, but went off the air at 1800 just as the pgm started w/Afro Pop mx. Came back on at 1800:35 followed seconds later w/M in mid-anmnt in pres. Kinyarwanda w/ID. Into apparent political feature w/same M and a diff. deep-voiced M w/ments of Rwanda and America. Also had some sound bites from remote reporter. (Valko 14 Jan.) 6000 ARMENIA R. Adygeyskoye (tent.) Signal here from the start at 1925. Sounded like a W anncr once at 1940. Maybe mx at 1955. W anncr at 1958. Signal went off at 2000:03 on schedule. Seemed strong enough on peaks, but modulation must have been really low. Hrd on a micro-DXpedition. (Valko 15 Jan.) 5790 PIRATE (NA) (religious) YHWH At 0303 got an ID sounding like "You're listening to station YHWH", then a mention of "...e-mail address ??WH...". Rel. tlk w/many ments of Yaweh. Unfortunately there was some noise just on the upper side and I had the tuner bypassed. Good on peaks. (Valko 19 Jan.) I had half a dozen or so loggings from this morning to send out but lost them when the laptop battery died. So, from (short term) memory, here is what I can recall: 3310 BOLIVIA R. Mosoj Chaski Was surprised to find this suddenly go off the air as soon as I rechecked them at 1025:22. Was fairly good earlier. (Valko 25 Jan.) 6134.83 BOLIVIA R. Santa Cruz Excellent signal this morning w/usual full canned ID in SP by M over instru. mx at 1001, then into lovely rustic flute mx. (Valko 25 Jan.) 6160.04 BRAZIL Super R. Boa Vontade Quite audiable at 0916 t/in w/live studio W anncr in PT w/ments of "Deus e amor", espirito, and Cristo. Also bon dia. 0917 clear ment of Boa Vontade. Very rarely get IDable audio on this. CKZN mixing in by 0930. Although still audible at 0945, CKZN way on top. Hrd the same pgming quite well on the Pardinho Brazil web rx. (Valko 25 Jan.) 11895.08 BRAZIL Super R. Boa Vontade Found as soon as I turned the rx on at 0906 w/childrens choir, then W host in definite PT. Faded pretty quickly. Came back later at 1009 (while listening to Gaucha) and noted the same studio W anncr as hrd earlier and also on 6160.04 and the Pardinho Brazil web rx. Very fady signal, but sometimes fairly decent easily readable on peaks. Looked like the only stns on 25m were from Brazil at this time!! (Valko 25 Jan.) 11915 BRAZIL R. Gaucha Shocked to find this on at 1009-1030 in apparent nx pgm w/M and W hosting (mainly M anncr) in PT. Ment of Gaucha near end of ad block just as I tuned in, and again later. Time ticks noted at 1015 and 1030. Oddly, this was in the clear here, but was extremely weak way in the background under Taiwan in IN on the Pardinho Brazil web rx. Seemed to be a negligible 3 or 4 hertz above 11915. Having not hrd it in many months, I thought this was either long gone or temporarily inactive. I see one of the last loggings was from Manuel Mendez in early October, so maybe it's been off since then. Nice to see it's still around. (Valko 25 Jan.) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop, and 153 foot Delta Loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Correction
11735 Zanzibar: My logging stating the time as "1659" was a typo, and of course should have been 1759. Sorry for any confusion. (Thanks for pointing it out Rich!!) 73 Dave _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Loggings 20-30 December 2016
” at 2003, studio M anncr w/ID and Swaziland addr, brief instru. mx bridge, M again but cut off, IS once, and off at 2005. (Valko 29 Dec.) 6040 IRAN VOIROI Went off abruptly in mid-pgm at 2020:12. Very strong but usual low modulation. (Valko 29 Dec.) 9835 MALAYSIA?? Sarawak FM?? Found a weak signal here at 2038 w/audio right at threshold. Nothing else sked to be on this freq at this time. (Valko 29 Dec.) 5920.03GERMANY HCJB Deutschland (pres.) Had a signal here at 2050. Little soft rel-like mx at 2057 and more so on 2058 peaks. W in definite GM at 2100:35 and went off the air at 2101:00. Just when it was starting to come up. For a Youtube video of the reception, click on this link https://youtu.be/G5yHN7xYvl4 (use 480p quality setting for best viewing) (Valko 29 Dec.) 9380 INDIA AIR, National Channel, Aligarh Noted this was off-freq on 9381 before Christmas, found they had readjusted it back on 9380 the past few days. Came on at 1320:23 and subcont. mx start at 1325:17 briefly followed by W anncr. Strength isn’t too bad but modulations is low. For a Youtube video of the reception, use this link https://youtu.be/59CiAr6s3Fo (use 480p quality setting for best viewing) (Valko 30 Dec.) e-QSL came in from Europa 24 for September reception reported in November. (Valko 30 Dec.) 5939. BRAZIL R. Voz Missionaria Was waiting and hoping to catch the full EG ID anmnt and was listening from 2255 and nothing. But at 2356 hrd the same correspondence/report request by M in EG as hrd on the 28th at 2358 on 9664.95. So maybe it's a regular feature at the end of the pgm. For a Youtube video of the reception, use this link https://youtu.be/sEQ6f6NlClo (use 480p quality setting for best viewing) (Valko 30 Dec.) 73 and have a Happy DX-filled New Year, 2017!!! Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop and 153 foot Delta Loop at home, and BOGs on Micro-DXpeditions. _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Logging 23 December 2016
2520 USA WOCO, Oconto, WI 2nd harmonic of 1260 First found at 1205 w/M w/inspirational message, farming related nx and features. 1221 Joe Prato(?) w/wx ending w/ID, live lady DJ w/current conditions, 1222 Polkas. 1229 DJ w/song anmnts and sev. anecdotes. 1230 “USA Radio News”, 1232 wx again, lady DJ. 1240-1255 back to Polkas including one mentioning “Merry Christmas from Wisconsin” and “I Love Christmastime”. Lady tlking abt what Lena was having for breakfast. 1256 wx sponsored by Peterson Ford, and another Polka leading up to ToH. Signal was strong but modulation a little low. A video I posted on Youtube can be found with this link https://youtu.be/J57cEs4SPOk use 480p quality setting for best picture. (Valko 23 Dec.) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus with Wellbrook ALA1530S _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 12 December Logging
6119.95 BRAZIL Super R. Deus e Amor 0222 apparent rel. tlk in PT by M over instru. mx w/ment of “espirtu santo” (many), “gloria”, “bon dia”, etc. Rel. mx at 0228. 0232 tlk by diff. M w/ment of “programa”, “amor”, Sao Paulo. Came back at 0239 and noted W anncr w/ment of Cristo, transmundial. 0243 instru. mx bridge, then M anncr w/ment of Brasil, amor, and many numbers (sounded kind of like phone numbers), canned anmnt by W and W, then M host again. //11764.63 which had some noise just on the upper edge. This freq always very poor, but improved this time. Made a Youvideo of this reception with STEREO AUDIO using the Perseus SDR on 11764.63 (left channel) and the NRD-535D on 6119.95 (right channel). Here's the link https://youtu.be/8AHIwHge6IQ (Valko 12 Dec.) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA USA _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 25-26 November Zion PA DX Session, 4 December 2016 Micro-DXpedition Loggings
io would’ve been up to 100%. (Valko 4 Dec.) 6145 ARMENIA R. Menschen & Geschichten End of Pop song at 1907 and M anncr in GM w/ID, then took phone caller. Good signal. A video of the reception can be found at https://youtu.be/pNpR1zEDEao (Valko 4 Dec.) 6040 IRAN V.O. the Islamic Rep. of Iran Signal came on around 1922, then deadair until mx started at 1928 for abut 30 seconds before going off. Audio finally came on at 1958 w/mailbag pgm. Very strong. (Valko 4 Dec.) 6205.08 Presumed Coast FM at 1942. Way too weak to get any audio yet. Finally getting some mx at 2010. Slightly better by 2025. Looked gone by 2042. (Valko 4 Dec.) 5950 ETHIOPIA V.O. the Tigray Revolution 1952 M DJ trying to take a phone call w/many “hello”s before finally getting the caller on. Into HoA mx. (Valko 4 Dec.) 6925 PIRATE (NA) R. Free Whatever 2013 big signal old time oldie “Look At Him Now”. 2020 “Radio Free Whatever Time Wrap”. Strong. A video of the reception can be found at https://youtu.be/0V0RJhCnq3A (Valko 4 Dec.) 4996 RUSSIA RWM 2039 CW IDs, then time ticks on the subsequent minutes. Quite strong and surprised to find it here. A video of the reception can be found at https://youtu.be/QJPDHXO33mg (Valko 4 Dec.) 7265 PAKISTAN Azad Kashmir R. 1209 simple M vcl subcont. singing to 1218. Found // that hrd on Aussie web rxs. Into a song at 1218 w/wailing vcl. Faded just enough after 1220 to make it really difficult. Of course China came on at 1230. (Valko 5 Dec.) 3375.07 BRAZIL R. Municipal 1006 ZY Pop song, 1008 lively canned anmnts by M w/ment of Brasil, then same M DJ over mx at 1009-1013. Was able to catch 1 mention of Municipal and Brasil and ID at 1012:15. Back to mx at 1013. Very difficult due to faulty 60 hz buzzing xmtr. (Valko 6 Dec.) 5010 UNID. Strong OC noted here as early as 1025. Thought it might be Taiwan or China returning, but no audio noted past 1200. Also found on KiwiSDR web rx in Montana and Australia. Also found later in the day at 2145+. Jim Young also had it out west. (Valko 6 Dec.) 6035 CHINA Yunnan PBS Surprised to find this on at 1212 w/Classical mx, long periods of silence between songs. Still going at 1245. No too bad when it was peaking around 1225-1230. Ron Howard said he had it to 1346. (Valko 6 Dec.) 9545 CHINA CNR1 Found here at 1247 w/M and W hosting pgm in CH, //9500. Went off near the end of the ToH time ticks. I don’t recall ever hearing this freq before. Is this new?? (Valko 6 Dec.) 9500 IRAN V.O. the Islamic Rep. of Iran Usual soft piano signature song at 1250 mixing abt equally w/CNR1. Choral anthem-like song at 1253, then into the Koran at 1254. (Valko 6 Dec.) 7175 ERITREA V.O. the Broad Masses of Eritrea 1333-1349 tlk by M in lang. and mx bridge at 1336, and M continuing w/occas. remote reporter to 1352, then HoA mx for abt 45 seconds (the beat was prominent), and M continued. Found parallel to that hrd on the SV3EXP KiwiSDR web rx in Greece. Nothing noted here on 7146.55 and no audio detected here on 7120 or on the web rx in Greece. (Valko 6 Dec.) 4949.73 ANGOLA R. Nacional Angola 2354 soft PT Pop song, 2357 M DJ in PT, 4 time ticks, TC, then nx pgm segment by M w/siren SFX. (A crime report??) 0002:20 nice ID by M followed by the siren SFX again, then live M anncr tlk w/ment of Angola. M DJ was having trouble taking phone call on the air at 0125. Usual ToH routine at 0200. Nice signal. A video of the reception can be found at https://youtu.be/3Ki0eVC2JzA (Valko 6-7 Dec.) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA USA Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop and 153 foot Delta Loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Latest Loggings
on 6260.05!! Dance mx up a little at 0823. M anncr at 0825:30 but too weak to copy. When he moved to 6260.05, there looked to be like an extremely weak signal already there. R. Waves Int.?? Went off sometime between 0832 and 0834 while I was checking calibration. Tnx Irish Pauls blog. A video of my reception can be viewed at https://youtu.be/Xh0hoUrXeao (6 Nov.) 6230 PIRATE (EUROPE) R. Casanova Signal on at 0817:10 and playing mx at 0818. Definite mx on 0820, 0821, 0822:45 peaks. 0823 into another Dutch song. 0823:55 and 0824:20 M anncr voice-over. 0826 novelty instru., I think “My Bonnie”. 0827 into “The Old Man Down the Road” by John Fogerty and M voice-over, and again at 0829:40. 0830 another Dutch song. 0836:20 M anncr. 0838:05 some kind of jingle w/M voice in a bottle. Really nice peak at 0839 and 0840:05. 0841 sounded like canned e-mail in IT. 0842 M voice-over with radiocasan...@hotmail.com e-mail addr and into “Candle in the Wind” by Elton John. Fading out completely just 5 min. later. Some SSB QRM. Video of the reception can be viewed at https://youtu.be/_1sglra6vu0 (6 Nov.) 9345 ARMENIA TWR India (relay) (pres.) 1342 found end of tlk by W anncr in apparent Bondo then mx, and gone at 1344:49 as per sked. Weak. (6 Nov.) 15070.07PIRATE (EUROPE) Cupid R. Tnx John Cooper tip, found w/Dance and Pop mx at 1604. 1613 anmnt w/IDs and peaking during listener acknowledgments. More anmnts at 1622. Canned e-mail anmnt at 1628. Live anmnts again at 1639. Poor but had a couple decent peaks. (6 Nov.) 15059.87PIRATE (EUROPE) Enterprise R. Very shortly after getting in the Pirate Chat, Capt. Denny asked if I could tune in and did. Extremely weak signal and didn’t seem to hold much promise. But then it came up at 1616 with a little mx, and dropped back down. Back at 1624 w/a bit more audio, but then the best peak at 1626:00 w/guitar solo who Capt. D. said was Queen. Couldn’t recog. it though as it was a song from one of the latter LPs. Dropped out completely again. Even though it was right at threshold at 1633, it never did come back up. A Youtube video of this reception can be viewed at https://youtu.be/e7zub-QKvVM (6 Nov.) An e-QSL came in from Renegade R. for 1 Nov. Halloween reception on a Youtube video I posted. (6 Nov.) 6 NOVEMBER 2016 Quick micro-DXpedition: RX: Perseus SDR ANT: 313' Beverage (BOG) aimed at 35°. Duration: 1705-1735 UTC. 15070.08PIRATE (EUROPE) Cupid R. 1704 tlk abt the Summer Meeting while the BOG was being laid out. 1705:07 ID and greetings, and said was closing in 15-20 min., and back to Dance mx and really faded. 1717 more listener acknowledgments including shout-out to yours truly listening at “the remote site”. Very fady signal. No better than at home, but also about 45 min. later. A video of the reception can be found at https://youtu.be/u5DtfCCqkJQ (6 Nov.) Barely any signal at all on 15059.87 from 1705+ on Enterprise R. Way below threshold. (6 Nov.) 11750 SRI LANKA SLBC subcont. Pop mx at 1725. Went right over the BoH w/mx. Was hoping for an ID then. Some slop QRM from massive 11760 Cuba. (6 Nov.) 6925U PIRATE (NA) UNID. Historical pgm on Sodom & Gomorrah from 1853 t/in. Suddenly off in mid-pgm at 1905:24. Apparently same stn back on at 1915 w/pgm abt Caroline Norton and “The Infants Custody Act”. Gone at 1957. Strong with a little QSB. (6 Nov.) 6873.4v PIRATE (NA) WEEK Signal on at 2008:10 right on 6873.4. Checked calibration, came back, and was playing “8 Days a Week” by The Beatles at 2010. 2011:25 M anncr w/ment of “?? Shortwave free radio station….radio ??” followed immediately by raspy-voiced M w/apparent e-mail addr "...dot com". Recog. a Bluegrass version of “Wild Horses” at 2022:50. Not that strong but would have been easy if not for the apparent TV buzzing QRM. I find it interesting that this is the exact same freq and identical xmtr drift to that of Witch City R. heard last Monday!! A video of this reception can be seen at https://youtu.be/YEflK-wvDeA (6 Nov.) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR and Wellbrook ALA1530S, 153 foot Delta Loop, and BOGs on Micro-DXpeditions _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Logging, R. Quillabamba
5024.93 PERU R. Quillabamba Found R. Rebeldes audio off again (just OC) at 0950 and waited/hoped for R. Quillabamba to s/on which it did at 0957:13 w/usual opening routine by alternating M and W in SP including QTH, ID, calls and freqs, pgming format, etc. 0959 fanfare and another ID anmnt by M, barnyard SFX starting w/Rooster crowing, Horse, Dog, and even a Wolf howling, then live studio AM W DJ w/nice IDs and freqs and website www.radioquillabamba.com over camposino mx. Into campo mx at 1002. Canned ID jingle between songs. Then the audio of R. Rebelde came on at 1005:10, however R. Quillabamba was giving it a run for its money. Had to tune in LSB to avoid the het from Rebelde. A bit of noise too, possibly from 5015. Would say conditions were poor. Had it be good, I can’t imagine what Quillabamba would’ve sounded like!! A video of the reception can be found at https://youtu.be/TPnks1hNxy4 (31 Oct.) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop antenna _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 27 October Micro-DXpedition Loggings
27 October 2016 Micro-DXpedition: RX: Perseus SDR ANT: 313' Beverage (BOG) aimed at 60°. Solar Indices: Solar Flux = 78 A Index =46 K Index = 5 G2 level storms. A8 X-Ray flux. WX: Cloudy with drizzle and rain, mid-40’s 7146.56 ERITREA V.O. the Broad Masses of Eritrea Getting extremely weak signals showing up on both 41mb freqs at 1646 start. Audio on both 7146.56 and 7185 at 1810. 7146.56 fairly strong w/closing anmnt by M at 1830, then long patriotic song 1833, then OC to at least 1837. You can view the video here https://youtu.be/iShJIXKaxEg (27 Oct.) 15235 SOUTH AFRICA Channel Africa 1700 into EG w/”Africa Digest” w/pgm intro by W, then live M host w/TC, pgm and stn ID and freqs, and upcoming stories preview, and W w/nx. Fair. (27 Oct.) 15260 UK R. Sama from IBRA (via Woofferton) Signal on at 1659:40 and audio up 12 sec. later w/AR Pop mx, W w/ID, then switch to horrible audio feed like it was through a phone w/mx and M anncr briefly which was stopped, then back to good feed w/same M over mx. Good signal. Video can be found here https://youtu.be/wgg-x2Nv7l8 (27 Oct.) 11750 SRI LANKA SLBC (tent.) Signal here at 1713 w/what sounded like subcont. mx, but too weak and too much 11760 slop QRM. (27 Oct.) 11700 SWAZILAND TWR 1800 chime IS and EG ID by M then off. Good signal. (27 Oct.) 7200L Hams 1804 presumably a Ham operator playing “Flirtin’ With Disaster” by Molly Hatchet intentionally jamming other Hams who were having a good discussion about him. One Ham repeated mentioned FCC rule paragraph 97.113 sub-paragraph 4. Went on for quite a while. Here's a link to the video https://youtu.be/u9WHBYVnZ6w (27 Oct.) 4920 UNID. Rel. preaching by M at 1655. Not a spur of 5015. Harmonic maybe?? Not 1230 as lcl stn WCRO is not rel. There are a few regional rel. stns on 1230. Could be 1640 WJSP, Sussex, WI or 820 WVSG, Columbus, OH too. I didn’t check for parallels. (27 Oct.) 6090 Amhara R. came on at 1931:22, then mx brought up 10 sec. later. And 6030 R. Oromiya came on at 1932:17, then mx on 13 sec. later but they were having trouble with the audio cutting in and out (check out the video at https://youtu.be/Sv9W73om5FY ). Second day in a row these 2 came on around 1930 and wonder how often this occurs. (27 Oct.) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 2 Micro-DXpeditions; 25 and 26 October loggings
(wasn’t there at 1754) but W anncr barely audible. Fairly good at 1849 w/nx by W in EG. ID by W at 1958, and into Pop song at 1859. Pop mx at 1900, then W anncr introducing the nx w/M host. (26 Oct.) 5820 MADAGASCAR RTE R. Audio up at 1929:45 as M gave ID, and pgm in progress. Break for nice ID/contact info by W at 1945, and cont. pgm. After changing laptop batteries, checked this at 1953 and had the same pgm abt sev. elderly ladies who love to dance as hrd yesterday at the same time. Tone again at 1958 and off w/out ID. Video of the reception can be found at https://youtu.be/1Rohiu-WBII (26 Oct.) 6030 ETHIOPIA R. Oromiya Signal suddenly came on at 1934:15, and the audio came up w/HoA mx at 1935:45. Signal improved quite a bit in just 25 min. 1958 M anncr in apparent Oromo but didn’t hear any mention of Oromiya. Usual anthem to 1959-2000, long deadair, and signal gone at 2004:54. (26 Oct.) Signal on 5010.63 after 1930, probably Madagascar. Stronger and enough that audio should have been detected at 2019 but wasn’t. No sign of 5066.3 Candip. (26 Oct.) 6090 ETHIOPIA Amhara R. Looked like the signal came on at 1934:45. Interesting that this and R. Oromiya came on at about the same time. Equal w/CRI at this time. Started out abt 3 or 4 hz below CRI. M anncr when the audio came on at 1935:00. HoA mx at 1937. Took phone caller at 1954. ID for CRI at 1956, then instru. CH mx on CRI and HoA mx on Amhara. In the clear w/HoA mx when CRI went off at 1957. Another phone conversation at 2001. A miniscule signal compared to yesterday. Good at 2020 check w/HoA mx. Phone call again at 2050. 2058 live M anncr, very brief mx, then usual ID anmnt w/vibraphone, choral anthem and off 2100. Wonder why the dramatic change in signal level from yesterday. (26 Oct.) 4710 USA WPII600, Glastonbury, CT TIS (3 X 1570 harmonic) ID by M starting the loop anmnt at 2106:45. Did catch phone number and website earlier. Very fady. First time hrd since 6 Sept. and surprised it made it again. (26 Oct.) 6205.08 Getting a signal here at 2114, no doubt Coast FM. Not strong enough for audio though. (26 Oct.) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 23 October 2016 Micro-DXpedition loggings and 1 From 25 Oct.
23 October 2016: Micro-DXpedition 6140 CUBA R. Havana Cuba Found a spur of 6060 here at start 0647 and went off at exactly 0701:13. Some adjacent slop QRM. Disappointed this turned out to be a spur. (23 Oct.) 6205.08 PIRATE (EUROPE) Coast FM Dance mx format w/canned anmnts/singing jingles between songs, occas. M DJ chatter, and ad blocks right from the start. 0659 ad for pharmacy, then nx ID “With ?? News around the clock, this is the Canaries biggest British radio station, this is Coast FM”, then 2-min. nxcast, and back to mx. 0724-0727 “I’m Coming Out” by Diana Ross. 0742 ID “Coast FM. More music weekend. Coast FM”. 0745-0749 “Celebration” by Kool and the Gang. Decent signal. Still coming in at 0853 when I packed up and left for the other site. Video can be found at https://youtu.be/gKSsJxbCqsg (23 Oct.) 6304.8PIRATE (EUROPE) R. Marabu Alternative and Pop mx w/M DJ in GM and many ID jingles. Some really nice peaks between 0657-0705. Did recognize “Sexual Healing” by Marvin Gaye at 0726. Fading by 0800. Still a little signal w/bits of audio by 0850, but unreadable. A video can be found at https://youtu.be/63vxaBmML9g (23 Oct.) 6070 GERMANY Atlantic 2000 Int. (via Channel 292, Rohrback) “Word of Deliverance” pgm to 0659, then Altantic 2000 Int. starting w/M giving ID “You’re listening to Atlantic 2000 International” followed immediately by W and M w/IDs in FR and GM. Instru. mx, 0700 M w/short voice-over ID, then diff. M w/FR opening freq anmnt”, and into “Listen to the Music” by The Doobie Brothers at 0701-0704. 0704 sev. jingles including “Whoopie!!”. 0705-0710 “Love is a Battlefield” by Pat Benatar. 0710 FR song anmnt and ID by M w/ment of kilohertz. 0711-0714 unrecog. slow Rock song. 0714 short canned anmnt by W, then same M DJ w/ment of kHz sev. times. Came back at 0718 and hrd “Sunshine Superman” by Donavan until 0721, then M DJ again in FR w/ment of R. Waves and canned tlk by M over techno mx, and ending w/M DJ giving ID. 0724-0727 “More Than a Woman” by The Bee Gees. 0727 jingle and live M DJ in FR again w/upcoming song anmnt. 0728- Pop song “?? My Heart”. More of the same w/song “98.6” by Keith at 0736. Didn’t recog. any others. Faded and was getting nasty 6090 Anguilla slop QRM after abt 0745. Video can be found at https://youtu.be/ccbDZlBcpkg (23 Oct.) 7254.94 NIGERIA V.O. Nigeria 0805-0814 nx and sports by M in EG. Very weak modulation. 0814 into Afro Pop mx. Much better lvl for inspirational rel. segment from 0815-0820. M anncr barely audible then at 0820. Better lvl again for promo by M at 0820 including sev. IDs. And ment of freqs, mb, and website at 0821. Nice ID at 0824. Somewhat surprised it was this readable this late. A video can be found at https://youtu.be/ToYvbfRc5a4 (23 Oct.) 7699.94 PIRATE (EUROPE) FRSH 0829 end of Pop song, then canned ID/promos by M and ment of 30th anniversary. 0830 into another unrecog. Soul song. 0834-0838 anmnt w/ment of FRSH and historical tlk segment including ment of Bob Dylan. 0838 back to mx w/another unrecog. song. Decent peak during song at 0840. 0843 anmnt over end of song (machine gun UTE QRM), then immediately into another Rock song. 0847 another anmnt but fading. Pretty fady signal. Video can be fround at https://youtu.be/DzgtvxRHMUg (23 Oct.) 9510 ITALY?? Euro Gospel R. (tent.) 0935 tlk by W in EG but too weak and too much slop QRM from 9515. Could get an occas. word on peaks. (23 Oct.) 9550.03 UNID. R. Boa Vontade?? Mx at 0941. Very weak. (23 Oct.) 1620UNID. Found someone here with an awful transmitter fault generating 120 hertz buzzing noise at 1023 UTC. Suspect it may be R. Rebelde, but maybe not. Strong signal. Video can be found at https://youtu.be/VCHC4t9AgQo (25 Oct.) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR with 313 foot Beverage on the ground at 45 and 355 degrees. _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 14 October 2016 Loggings
4985.01 BRAZIL R. Brasil Central 0810 found in the clear with the RTTY off. Aparecida pgm. ZY Pops and live M DJ and occas. ad blocks w/Aparecida jingles, TCs. //11815.02. Here's a link to a stereo recording (4985.01 and 11815.02 separate channels) I made: https://app.box.com/s/dqyjtj3e83oyu9ra7h4k7570a5fj7rq2 (14 Oct.) 6035 R. Marti 0916 ID/promo by M, //5980 which was abt 3 seconds behind. Jamming very weak and hardly effective for once but came up to near normal level in the next 3 min. Same complete f/out of the jamming occurred again at 0939. (14 Oct.) No 6180 R. Nacional Amazonia this morning from 0810 to at least 0920. (14 Oct.) Neither 6160 Canadian showing any kind of a signal at 0947. Completely absent. (14 Oct.) 600 CUBA R. Rebelde With the disturbed conditions, found this in and out along with many other Cubans on the MW band. 0942 nx pgm w/M and W host, //5025. When 600 was peaking, almost nothing else audible on the freq. Here's a link to a stereo recording (600 and 5025 in separate channels) I made: https://app.box.com/s/kwl9xeibzn4yvn4b3yvuoeqh3mk4p80i Of course you get the best effect using headphones. (14 Oct.) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA USA Perseus SDR and NRD-535D 153 foot Delta Loop and Wellbrook ALA1530S loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 12 October 2016 Loggings
7146.56 ERITREA V.O. the Broad Masses of Eritrea Found here on this odd freq at 0313 w/tlk by studio W anncr in lang. alternating w/HoA mx. Severely jammed with a white noise jammer. Gradually got worse and could barely hear any audio at all by 0330 due to the weakening signal and jammer. Here's the link to a Youtube video of this, 7175 and also 7120 R. Hargeisa https://youtu.be/4-X6LdcJM6U (12 Oct.) 7175 ERITREA V.O. the Broad Masses of Eritrea Barely able to make out mx through the severe white noise jammer at 0313 followed by W anncr. More difficult than 7146.56. Was able to hear HoA mx at 0316, then M anncr at 0317-0320+. Like 7146.56, couldn't really hear the audio through the jamming by 0330. (12 Oct.) 7120 SOMALIA R. Hargeisa Nothing by 0320 t/out, but the signal was there at 0326 recheck. Could just barely hear mx at 0328 and tlk by M at 0330 but it was just totally impossible. They can't be modulating at more than 5%. (12 Oct.) 5024.93 PERU R. Quillabamba Noticed 5025 Rebelde had just an OC at 0944 which continued. Quillabamba's carrier popped on 5024.94 at 0952 but had deadair as well (at least I couldn't detect any) until Rebelde's audio came up at 1035. Actually Rebelde went off the air completely for 5 seconds at 1035 before coming back on with audio. In those 5 seconds when the Quillabamba signal was in the clear, I still didn't hear any audio. (12 Oct.) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S and 153 foot Delta Loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Recent Loggings
1010 and 1020 UNID. Found a strange noise sounding somewhat like the Aboriginal Didjeridoo instrument on 1020 kHz at 0717 UTC. Brett Saylor noticed there was another one on 1000 kHz and that it’s comprised of carrier-like lines of audio spaced at about 180 or 190 hertz apart, on the upper sideband of 1000, and on the lower sideband of 1020. Brett Saylor theorizes it may be coming from WINS on 1010 kHz. To see a video of the reception, here's a Youtube link https://youtu.be/jmkmOfRs6s4 (7 Oct.) 7 October 2016: Micro-DXpedition 15190 PHILIPPINES PBS/R. Pilipinas 1905 feature by M and W pgm hosts in Tagalog. Pop mx on return at 1924. 1928 canned R. Pilipinas/V.O. the Philippines ID and sked anmnt by M, short choral NA, a little deadair, then signal off at 1930:04. Don’t recall ever hearing the Philippine NA here before. (7 Oct.) 9275.04 USA WMLK 1910 found on the air. Spiritual instruction with a lot scription quotes. 2000 full complete ID and off the air at 2001:57. Good signal. (7 Oct.) 1630 USA WPMI336, TIS, US 40/48 and Willow Brook road interchange Cumberland, MD Allegany county. MDOT TIS. Loop recording including ID at 1950:05. (7 oct.) 9355 CHINA Firedrake (jammer) Noted at 1956 until 2001:02 when 9350 WWCR came on and blasted it. Firedrake obviously jamming R. Free Asia. (7 Oct.) 11735 ZANZIBAR ZBC R. 2100 lady DJ, then quick Spice FM ID and immediately off. Was hoping it would stay on for an extra minute or 2 as the signal was pretty nice, but no. (7 October) 11895.04UNID. Getting a signal here at 2107. Sounded like mx briefly. Signal seemed strong enough but just couldn’t be certain. Blasted out by Vatican at 2145-2200, but was clear at 2200 and went off before 2201. Was hoping for Boa Vontade but it should’ve stayed on. Who?? (7 Oct.) 6304.82 PIRATE (EUROPE) Cupid R. Signal here at 2110. Too weak yet. Sounded like M anncr at 2128 then mx. Almost good enough on peaks at 2130 to recog. songs. Bursts from a UTE at 2134 and M anncr. 2137:00 short canned anmnt by M and immediately off. Alexandr said it was Cupid R. (7 Oct.) 6215 same as 6284.97 above at 2136. Alexandr in the chat room said others heard R. Oscar Zulu. (7 Oct.) 6010.15 COLOMBIA LV de tu Conciencia Hrd W in EG ending sentence w/"...the mercy of the Lord", then into EG song sounding much like Van Morrison, and into LA song. ID promo at 0838 between songs. Good at times. Fady. Way off freq now, but not tremendously variable like it used to be. (8 Oct.) 7259.932VANUATU R.V. Found this is down a little lower now at 0910 w/pres. nx by W. Pop mx later at 0923, M anncr between songs at 0924. Long speech or preaching 0958-1016+. Dropped off towards 1100 while co-channel presumed Xinjiang was coming up. (8 Oct.) 11895 UNID Must have just caught it signing on within a couple seconds at 1034 as the signal went from 11895.03 up to 11895.17 quickly, then gradually and steadily drifted back down to 11895.12 by 1045, and 11895.09 by 1125. Like the other afternoon, it seemed strong enough on peaks, but I couldn't detect any audio. Wonder if this is Boa Vontade with a 1030-2200 sked. (9 Oct.) 12034.88MONGOLIA V.O. Mongolia 1052-1055 tlk by W in JP, same as hrd on Brisbane and Japanese Perseus'. Quite weak here though, but still audible. (9 Oct.) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA USA Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA 1530S loop antenna and 153 foot Delta Loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Loggings 2-7 October
4905 CHINA Xizang PBS 2248 and have it //4920 w/pleasant Chinese mx. 6200 should be on as well but nothing there. Other Chinese on 4820, 4800, and had some very weak audio on 4750. (2 Oct.) 5580.24 BOLIVIA R. San Jose (pres.) Weak mx, obviously R. San Jose at 2253. M anncr noted after 2300. Hrd later after , but only a tad better. (2 Oct.) 5990 CHINA Qinghai PBS 2304 M tlking in Chinese or similar alternating w/Chinese instru. mx on 5990. Same as hrd on the Delhi Perseus. Got to be Qinghai. About the same strength as it is in the morning. (2 Oct.) Looks like hurricane Matthew knocked off WRMI, or they took the transmitters off intentionally. Oddly 6855 is the only freq on though. (7 Oct.) 6160.045BRAZIL Presumed R. Rio Mar on already at 0945. Quite a het created w/CKZN just below 6160. Had drifted up from 6160.03 to 6160.045 by 1010. (7 Oct.) 3274.990PAPUA NEW GUINEA NBC Southern Highlands First noted at 0949 found on the Brisbane Perseus. //3260 at 0953 w/EG nx. Weaker than 3260 Madang. Broke away from 3260 at 1001, had what was probably an ID promo but I couldn't copy, then played an updated version of the native mx w/birdcall (a short fanfare substituted for the native mx) signature, then into more NBC nx. 1018 mention of "NBC Radio". Also noted here in PA right at threshold audio level in the 1100-1130 time frame. Sounded like M tlking at 1131 as hrd on the Brisbane Perseus. Nice to see this one back on!! (7 Oct.) 3325 Bougainville was off at 0953 but was on at 1016 check but only abt as strong at 3275. Much much weaker than usual. (7 Oct.) On the Brisbane Perseus, found someone on 3210 playing Pop Dance and Rap mx in the 1155-1225+ time frame. A very short sentence by M at 1209 but couldn't copy. Went into a feature at 1221 presented by M anncr in US accent EG giving ment of “?? Radio” and a website. Couldn’t copy the word before “Radio”. No harmonics work out. (7 Oct.) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA USA Perseus, Wellbrook ALA1530S and 153 triangular Delta Loop and Perseus net receivers. _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Loggins from 10-26 September 2016
3260 PAPUA NEW GUINEA NBC Madang 1049-1058 radio play. 1058- M anncr in PD w/outro and sev. ments of Madang and also Eastern Highlands Province, New Britain, and ID "...radio Madang ?? long broadcast ??". 1059 exotic flute, 1100 studio M anncr in PD w/ment of Saturday night, phone #, tonight, "fax number", and apparently upcoming pgm. 1102 into lively island mx. 1113 studio M anncr w/ment of NBC and TC. Best hrd yet this season. Easily as good, if not better, than Neils Perseus in Brisbane!! (10 Sept.) 3344.87 Getting a carrier here obviously from RRI Ternate after 1100. (10 Sept.) 6205 PIRATE (NA) WREC/R. Free East Coast OC at 2257. Audio up at 2300 w/ID, and into mx. Comedy ad at 2309 and ID by W. Another ID at 2322. R. Free Whatever was here last weekend. (10 Sept.) 6264.97 PIRATE (EUROPE) Johnny Tobacco 2241 Recognized "Rainy Day Women" by Dylan. 2313 anmnt w/ID. Recognized his voice too. More mx and back w/anmnts at 2325 and 2327. Playing a Polka at 2349 and into another at 2354, then more anmnts at 2355 mentioning "...my signal...goodnight, goodbye, good morning...". More mx and Johnny back briefly at 2359 and plug pulled at 2359:24. (10 Sept.) 6305.13 PIRATE (EUROPE) R. Marabu Could only get a carrier here after 2257. No audio as it was too weak. Dr. Tim said R. Marabu was here. 2347 definitely got some mx. Audio right at threshold. (10 Sept.) 6319.98 PIRATE (EUROPE) Mustang R. OC came on at 2335:57. "Summer Breeze" from Grease started at 2337:39. 2341 canned jingle, and into Rock song. Sounded like another jingle at 2351. 2352 live anmnt, but too much static noise. Did catch a "good morning". 0006 "Let It Be" by The Beatles. Still going at 0033 when my recording stopped. As strong as or maybe a tad stronger than Johnny Tobacco. (10-11 Sept.) 3325 INDONESIA RRI Palangkaraya (pres.) 1036 getting a little mx that sounded similar to what was hrd on the Japan Perseus'. (12 Sept.) 6015 SOUTH KOREA KBS Hanminjok 1039 found this clear for once w/tlk by M, no doubt during the “Pops Freedom” pgm. About 10 seconds after I started recording, the jammer came back on. Interesting that both the jammer on this freq and 6003 came back on at the exact same time. (12 Sept.) The Aussie NT stns on 2310, 2485, and 4835 were back on at 1003 with mx. 2310 and 2485 weak, but 4835 near 100% copy in LSB to avoid 4840 WWCR. (13 Sept.) 6173.83 PERU R. Tawantinsuyo Pleasant rustic OA campo mx at 1011 t/in. 1013 TC by W and ID by M, then right back to mx. 1016 another brief anmnt by W but couldn't copy. 1020 fantastic TC and ID by M “Transmite R. Tawantinsuyo desde Cusco Peru”. Best hrd in a long time and nice on very short peaks (2 seconds or so) due to QSB. (13 Sept.) No sign of 6134.8 Santa Cruz to at least 1020 this morning. (13 Sept.) 5980 USA WWCR Getting a horrible spur product of 45 khz (5935 - 5890) + 5935 = 5980. (13 Sept.) I was getting Alcaravan as good as Rossii was on the JA2GGZ Perseus in Japan at 1033. Conversely, Alcaravan was as poor in Japan as Rossi was here. (14 Sept.) 2325 AUSTRALIA ABC Local R., Tennant Creek Clear and nearly 100% readable except for a few static crashes. 1040 pgm promo for girl vocal artist ending w/"ABC Local Radio" ID by M. 1048 tlk abt NT wx. (14 Sept.) 20 September 2016 Micro-DXpedition: RX: Perseus SDR ANT: 313' Beverage (BOG) aimed roughly at 355°. QTH: State Game Lands Duration: 0855-1215 UTC. Solar Indices: Solar Flux = 83 A Index = 10 K Index = 4 G1 geomagnetic storm. B1 background X-Ray Flux. WX: Clear and calm with a heavy dew. Upper 50’s. 5939.84BRAZIL R. Voz Missionaria A lot of ZY Pops from 0910 w/canned jingles and SFX (including roosters) and “Bon dia”s. Live studio M DJ in PT. TCs and chatter. Good signal at first, excellent by 0935. Some slop QRM from 5935 WWCR as usual. (20 Sept.) 6059.78BRAZIL Super R. Deus e Amor 0910-0925 M preaching in PT. Quite readable and better than at home. Diff. M preaching at 0934 return, building to shouting level by 0939. (20 Sept.) 6040.42BRAZIL RB2 A number of songs in a row, 0937 canned anmnts including an ID, then live M DJ in PT. Not that strong. (20 Sept.) 9390THAILAND R. Thailand WS Signal on at 1157:36, 1200 TC in EG by M, bells IS and M in EG w/full ID ending w/ment of upcoming pgm in Malaysian. Good signal but 9395 WRMI slop QRM. (20 Sept.) 7265PAKISTAN Azad Kashmir R. (pres.) 1210 subcont.-sounding mx during a break in the Ham net here. Surprised to hear anything at all. (20 Sept.) 7345 R. Sakha w/usual ToH routine at 1000 but poor signal. (20 Sept.) 6130TIBET Xizang PBS M and W anncrs in pres. Tibetan at 0938 t/in. Pleasant mx at 1144 recheck, then same M and W again, //6200. Both weak. (20 Sept.) 5900 R. Rossii just as strong (weak) as at home. Was expecting it to be better. (20 Sept.) 4895INDIA AIR Kurseong Surprised to
[HCDX] Loggings From the Last 2 Weeks (17-31 August)
e mx. Also Definte mx at 1003, 1012, 1014, 1016, and 1018. Too much CODAR QRM. Tnx Ron Howard for passing along tip that its been logged in Moscow around 0245-0302. (30 August) 31 August 2016 Micro-DXpedition RX: Perseus SDR ANT: 313' Beverage (BOG) aimed roughly at 350°. Duration: 0910-1305 UTC. Solar Indices: Solar Flux = 100 A Index = 16 K Index = 1 B5 background X-Ray. No storms. 7259.96VANUATU R.V. 0917 Pop mx.. Lady DJ at 0924, jingle by M, then into “Karma Chameleon” by Culture Club. 0929 canned anmnt by M, then one by W, and live lady DJ returned. More mx on 0948 recheck, 0953 jingle by M, then same lady DJ w/ment of “tomorrow night”, 0955 sounded like an ID jingle by M, and back to mx. Better at 1035 w/speech in lcl PD w/ment of “people” and “500”. Signal seemed strong enough but modulation was low. (31 August) 11925.21BRAZIL R. Bandeirantes Nice ID during ad block at 0937 ending w/jingle and usual cat meowing. Back to pres. nx pgm. (31 August) 3325PAPUA NEW GUINEA NBC Bougainville Wasn’t on at 0915 but was there at 0932. 0958 feature by studio W anncr w/actualities, then same W w/outro and mentiong “…if you’d like to comment on ??, you can contact us here at the NBC…”, 1001 M w/ID and TC and bird call signature (not the old one), then into NBC EG nx by W. 1020 end of regional nx by M w/NBC contact info and mentioning the NBC website, then studio M anncr in PD w/pgm notes and ID. Incredible lvl at 1045 w/speech. 1050 promo w/children in unison with “My station, my Bougainville”. Lcl nx in PD by M at 1105 recheck. Many ments of Bougainville. ID by diff. M, promo by M, then same M anncr cont. w/ment of celebration of anniversary in Bougainville, the NBC website, shortwave, and an NBC representative being present somewhere. Good and peaking from 1045-1115. A little noisy. (31 August) 9525.89INDONESIA V.O.I. 1011 EG ID during nx by W “This news comes you from the Voice of Indonesia…”. Came back at 1054 and caught Asian Pop mx. 1103 EG promo/ID by M and W, Gamelan mx bridge then W over mx w/canned anmnt w/freqs, website for streaming audio, e-mail and mailing addrs. Very rarely hear this well enough to ID. (31 August) 3344.86INDONESIA RRI Ternate (tent.) Thought I hrd a W anncr briefly at 1026. Maybe mx at 1043. No sense in spending time on this. (31 August) 7345YAKUTSK R. Sakha 1034 nice RS Pop song, //extremely weak 7295. 1037 W anncr in RS or Yakut. RS Pop-like mx to 1159 Jews Harp and the “boing” SFX, only 3 time ticks, then short ID anmnt by W then M (starting with “Yakutskiya…”), and into nx by usual W anncr. Only fair at best. Should have been a lot better considering the BOG was aimed right at Yakutsk. Seemed a lot more noisy than other bands too. (31 August) 7410PHILIPPINES FEBC Cambodia/V.O. Love FEBC IS to 1159, then pleasant choral song, short voice-over anmnt in Khmer by M, instru. SE Asian mx, pres. opening anmnt by same M, then unique SE Asian vcl mx at 1202. Could only get a readable signal in USB as AM mode had slop-over QRM from a Marti jammer on 7405. (31 August) 11100CLANDESTINE Sound of Hope (pres.) 1128 End of CH tlk by M, brief fanfare, then W anncr, 1130 Orch. mx and M w/pres. pgm intro, cont. mx, then W anncr. Fair. Diff. pgming than 11070 //11150. Neither 11070/11150 or 11100 were // to the CNR1 jammers. (31 August) 11665MALAYSIA Wai FM 1135 ID during nx by W. Couple ments of Sarawak at 1139 during main points again mixed w/fanfare. 1139 ment of warta berita. Fairly good but slop-over QRM from 11670 CNR2. (31 August) 15105BANGLADESH Bangladesh Betar 1227 start of IS, unintelligible anmnt, usual flute theme, W anncr at 1230. Extremely weak but clear. (31 August) 15180NORTH KOREA V.O. Korea 1229 Incredible strength. OC w/slight hum. 1230 IS and KR IDs by M and W. Don’t believe I’ve ever hrd this freq so strong. (31 August) 13800SOMALIA Puntland R. 1246-1250 continuous Koran-like chanting by M, but not breaks as you’d hear in the Koran recitation. M w/rhythm singing style at 1250-1301+. Fading by 1255 but M still singing. Really strange that I’d get this as it was almost broadside to the BOG. (31 August) No sign of the ABC NT Aussies again this morning. (31 August) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S and 153 foot Delta Loop antennas (at home) _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] R. Munansi Logging
USA 15239.95 R. Munansi (via WWRB) OC at 1558 t/in. WWRB ID by W and pgm solicitation w/phone at 1559. More deadair. R. Munansi suddenly up w/nonstop Afro Pops at 1601 in good audio/speed. At 1614 audio went to increased speed and was cutting out every second. More Afro Pops and had a canned anmnt at 1631 but impossible to copy of course. Finally stopped the faulty audio at 1715 and then deadair for 2 minutes before coming back fixed w/more Afro Pops. 1723 w/sev. IDs and ments of Uganda by M in Afro vern. “Moneygram” ad in EG at 1744. Back to pgming w/mx and then tlk by M w/many names given and ments of Uganda and Kampala. Another ID at 1802, 1804, 1805, and radiomunansi.com website and radiomuna...@gmail.com e-mail addr at 1806. Fair signal. Here’s a link to a Youtube video I posted; https://youtu.be/-CHiVrtFbdU (2 July) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus with Wellbrook ALA1530S _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Logging
BRAZIL 11734.96 R. Transmundial Found the het here again at 1952. This indeed turned out to be R. Transmundial mixing with 11735 ZBC Zanzibar. Sounded like 2 sets of mx at t/in. Canned anmnts at 1958 by M in PT. Website anmnt w/ment of “Transmundial” and “www”, then start of next anmnt w/ment of Transmundial, and off at 1959:02. Just about equal with Zanzibar. Don’t ever recall hearing this sign off at this time in the past. Here’s a link to a recording I made at sign off; https://app.box.com/s/c0ecl2klaasnkunv5ezpv8rh8o4n9k9b (mention of “www” at :15 and “Transmundial” at :21, then R. Transmundial goes off leaving ZBC in the clear and the bandwidth is increased. (1 July) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus receiver Wellbrook ALA1530S loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Logging (R. Nacional da Amazonia)
6180.88 BRAZIL R. Nacional da Amazonia Found on this off-freq at 1023 w/apparently “Reporter Brasil” pgm hosted by W and M in PT, which was parallel to 11780.1. Not very strong, but then again it was fading. 11780.1 was getting better. I guess this is a reactivation as I haven’t hrd it in a long time. Here’s a link to a Youtube video of the reception https://youtu.be/40GWq3x4Sq0 (5 April) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Latest Loggings
to at least 1049. Faded really quickly between 1045-1050 and was barely audible at 1051. Nice signal on par w/Tarma. Just too bad this is right in the middle of the strongest CODAR. (21 March) 7610 PIRATE (NA) Red Beacon R. Tnx John Herkimer tip, found here at 1847 w/Metal and Hard Rock songs. Audio cutting out a lot at 1902, deadair, then anncr came on at 1904 mentioning the “…DJ is having an issue…” and said it was he’d like someone to set up a live stream and use his gear. Then back to Hard Rock mx. 1906 t/out. (27 March) 6024.96 BOLIVIA Red Patria Nueva 1000 middle of ad/promo block at t/in, 1001 5 plus 1 long time ticks. Included some nice ID promos. Ended with the usual promo mentioning Bolivia at beginning of each sentence. Good signal but some slop QRM from 6030 Marti and jammer. (30 March) 3375.07 BRAZIL R. Municipal Decent signal at 0948 w/ad block ending w/clear ID and ment of ondas tropicais freq at 0951 and into ZY Pop song. Not quite as good as in the 3rd week of March, but much clearer. (4 April) 4785 BRAZIL R. Caiari 0953 usual morning pgm w/deep-voiced M hosting (rel.??). 1002 nice clear canned ID promo by M, then ad block. Nice singing ID jingle in promo at 1006, ZY Pop briefly, then live M DJ, and into mx. Good but fading w/CODAR QRM of course. (4 April) 4774.91 PERU R. Tarma Signal on at 0956:35, deadair, then usual s/on routine, and into “Musica Folklorica Nacional” pgm. Good w/CODAR QRM. (4 April) 4350 UNID. Found someone here playing C mx at 1034. Fairly strong but distorted and cutting out a lot. In fact it was cutting out longer and longer as time went by and was only audible for a split second abt once a min. by 1050. Didn’t hear it at all after 1100. Any ideas who this would be?? Here’s a link to a Youtube video of the reception. (please use 480p setting); https://youtu.be/7_O93axYOTc (4 April) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR with 153 foot Delta Loop and Wellbrook ALA1530S _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Loggings from 2015-08-21
3289.97 V.O. Guyana not on at 0924 and still not there at 1004 recheck. (21 August) Nothing from 4965 R. Alvorada again this morning in checks after 0924. Haven’t found it the last several times I’ve looked. (21 August) 3310 No sign of R. Mosoj Chaski here at 0935, but it was there already fading at 1004 recheck. (21 August) ARGENTINA 6070vRAE The severely distorted signal jumping and drifting around this freq is indeed RAE. Found the signal came on at 0954:47 then mx started shortly later. Caught a M anncr giving an ID at 0959, 5+1 long time ticks at 1000, then usual multi-lingual ID sequence for abt 2 min. It was just clear enough in AM mode with a width bandwidth. Was way up on 6071.3 (roughly) when the signal came on, down to 6070.2 at 1000, and 6069.7 by 1016. Posted a video on Youtube at https://youtu.be/cOUnOGg9hxQ (21 August) BRAZIL 11735R. Transmundial Surprisingly good signal at 1020 w/end of soft vcl song, then canned pgm intro by M w “Bon dia Brasil”, and live M DJ over instru. mx w/”Bon Dia”, nice ID, and cont. tlk. There was an R1 radio blackout with another M class flare just a half hour previous, so I can’t understand why this would be so good, but the rest of the band was very poor. In fact this was abt on par with 11780 R. Nacional Amazonia. There was almost nothing on 19m. The only signal audible was the CRN1 jammer on 14920. (21 August) NORTH KOREA 11710V.O. Korea 1123 end of slanted EG editorial feature, ID by W, then closing ID/sked anmnt by W including 1030-1130 in EG on 11710 and 11735. Strong signal on this freq. Dead air at 1127. (21 August) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA USA Perseus SDR with 153 foot Delta Loop and Wellbrook ALA1530S loop antenna _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Loggings from 17 August 2015
BRAZIL 6160.06R. Rio Mar Already on at 0938 w/end of tlk by M in PT and into pleasant vcl mx. Surprised this was quite audible at this time. In and out then w/more tlk by M to 0952 pres. soft rel. mx. Fading quickly though. Was able to // to 9694.65 at 0953 during mx. One of the very rare times to get audio on this. Youtube video can be found at https://youtu.be/UwONT2uqaU4 (17 August) UNID. 6070vOnce again, found the distorted signal here coming on at 0944:22. Drifting a bit w/QSB and mixing w/CFRX. At abt 1022 tlk by what sounded like a W anncr. Too distorted to determine the lang. though. Plainly audible during deadair from V.O. Korea before the IS started at 1029 on the “akky” Perseus receiver in Kanuma City Japan, and also very weakly on Neils Perseus in Brisbane Australia. I suspect this is RAE/R. Nacional, but it would be way off freq. Youtube video can be found at https://youtu.be/Dgw2sAfcjaI (17 August) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus with 153 foot Delta Loop and Wellbrook ALA1530S loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Screenshot Correction
I made one small mistake. The signal that I thought was CKZU (Vancouver) and labeled such on my screenshot yesterday is NOT CKZU. I think it’s just a Perseus artifact. CKZU must not have been off the air. I suspect they turn the transmitter off on Sunday night to Monday morning. The time of my reception would have still been 3:00 AM local time in Vancouver. CKZU was definitely there this morning though. Plainly visible. Below are the corrected screenshots from yesterday and today. Notice how much weaker the signals look today as compared to yesterday. Today, Boa Vontade signed on only about 30 seconds after Rio Mar. All settings were exactly the same, including the antenna. _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Brazilians
BRAZIL 5964.98 R. Transmundial 0815 inspirational pgm w/M host in PT ending w/song at 0824. 0829-0831 many IDs and ID/promos, then back to mx. Came back at 0857 and hrd ID/promo and long list of network stns. 0900 rooster crowing SFX and TC. // webstream which was :44 seconds behind. Improved slightly by 0835. Abt equal in strength to 6010.06 Inconfidencia. (11 July) BRAZIL 6160.058 R. Boa Vontade Noticed a big het on 6160 at 0955, and was surprised to hear audio on 6160.058 when I tuned in and notched out CKZN. A block of canned anmnts by M definitely in PT, some quite animated. 0958 definite mention of “…Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil…” (a list of the network stn QTHs??), followed by probably the full ID at 0959 but all I could copy was a mention of one of the freqs. Went into a long soft slow song w/M vclist at 1000 which sounded // the webstream. Had it IDed at around the 1003 peak, I could have copied it. The next song didn’t seem // to the webstream though. Unfortunately I didn’t find the right webstream until after 1000. 11895.00 certainly sounded like PT at around 1016. There was a signal on 9550.02 also, but couldn’t get any audio on it. Incidentally, the Boa Vontade website besides giving 9550 and 11895 for Porto Alegre gives the 49mb freq as 6610. We’re 1 week away from a perfect grayline which is obviously one reason why I was getting the most audio ever on this. A video can be found at https://youtu.be/gsZ6_LdCgcg (13 July) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop antenna and 153 foot triangular Delta Loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Strange Noise on 1000 kHz
CUBA?? 1000 Apparently one of the Cuban stations, R. Granma or R. Artemisa here with a strange effect on the carrier sounding like either a Rap DJ doing a turntablism or someone warping a hand saw. Noted intermittently from 0915-1000, but best heard around 0916 and 0927. Brett Saylor mentions the theory is that a power fluctuation in the grid is causing the transmitter carrier to wobble. Here's a video of what it looks/sounds like https://youtu.be/6Ww3CnCS2LU (26 June) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus with Wellbrook ALA1530S _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 6150 Apparent Pirate
PIRATE (NA) 6149.98Unid. 80’s Pop song at 0102 t/in. Into “Give a Little Bit” by Supertramp followed by “Silly Love Songs” by Wings. Had an ID at 0119 sounding like “You’re listening to R. United ??. We’re transmitting on 6150 kilohertz…”, then into ‘Pinball Wizard” by Elton John. 0127 “Urgent” by Foreigner, then “Carry On Wayward Son” by Kansas, “More Than a Feeling” by Boston, and “Goodbye Stranger” by Supertramp. Signal level seemingly manually dropped down and brought back up repeatedly at 0146 to at least 0152. Finally went off at 0200:44. One member in HF Underground said he heard it earlier in the day. Video at https://youtu.be/DTRQ1-enRIk (23 June) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA USA Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop antenna _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Loggings for the last week, 14-22 June 2015
w/M giving wx and maritime info/forecasts for the Australian coasts. Fairly decent on peaks. (16 June) BRAZIL 11764.67 Super R. Deus e Amor Finally hrd w/nice clear signal for the complete station ID at 0800. Video at https://youtu.be/bGZEvGOAhPg (17 June) UNID. 6125.103R. Nac. Del Uruguay?? First noted around 0805 after finding nothing on 7290. Didn’t start getting any audio until abt 0820. Could only make out mx and soft-spoken M anncr (0828-0829). It wasn’t enough to determine the type or lang. No audio detected again from 0830-0841, then a little more mx. Seemed to be drifting down a couple hertz. Still there at 0950 but fading badly of course. Video at https://youtu.be/0I251R3odOY (17 June) No sign of Wantok again this morning. (17 June) BRAZIL 6010.06R. Inconfidencia 0902:40 nice canned full ID w/freqs by M, then live M DJ w/another ID w/morning greetings, and back to pleasant ZY Pop mx. Very nice signal and the best hrd here in a long time. No Conciencia. Video at https://youtu.be/tQElgJtcHrU (17 June) AUSTRALIA 4835ABC Tennant Creek 0945 nice canned ABC promo during break in pgm. Not much WWCR QRM at this time but then back with a vengeance less than a min. later. (17 June) BRAZIL 6134.698R. Aparecida 0921 pleasant ZY Pops, sev. canned anmnts, then PT tlk by M anncr to 0926, and back to mx. //9629.96. Strong but fading w/Santa Cruz QRM. (19 June) Nothing on 6125.1 today. (19 June) Another morning w/out Wantok. (19 June) BOLIVIA 6134.84R. Santa Cruz 0948 beginning of “The Way it Is” by Bruce Hornsby as background mx for a short canned ID by M as “R. Santa Cruz, la primera”. Good but fading. Besides this and fading 6134.698 Aparecida, the jammer was on 6135, but no sign of V.O. Freedom. (19 June) ZANZIBAR 11734.998ZBC R. Noted a signal here at 1918 along w/11734.982 (Transmundial??). Getting a little distorted audio at 1941. Koran. M anncr w/pres. nx after 2000. Gradually getting better w/AR mx. Went off abruptly at 2058:38. Only up to fair by s/off but nice to see it back on. (21 June) PIRATE (NA) 6925.59Free Thinker R. Live IDs w/e-mail addr by M DJ at 0039 and 0043 between songs “What I Am” and “Sex and Candy”, then either canned or scripted ID/contact anmnt at 0046. Tremendously strong. Video is at https://youtu.be/Gv6XL_bDuwE (22 June) BAHRAIN 9745UR.B./Shabab FM Audible w/AR Pops from 0110 t/in in usual carrier +USB. (record 0115:30, 0119:10, 0130) Signal was somewhat choppy. Better in Europe on the Twente web rx. Finally W anncr in AR at 0159 UTC. While listening to the Twente rx, it sounded like she mentioned Shabab, but not certain. From the nonstop AR Pop mx format, I presume this is Shabab FM. The http://www.984shabab.com/ website doesn’t work. Video is at https://youtu.be/5AXrEEHmxRI (22 June) One quick note. If you're playing the videos and it looks a little pixelated, please try the 480p setting. 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA USA Perseus SDR Wellbrook ALA1530S and 153' triangular Delta Loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 2015-06-10 logging of R. Eco
4409.77BOLIVIA R. Eco 2358 nice Andean folk mx over ToH. M DJ came on and seemingly took phone call from a M that was barely audiable. DJ chatter after 0108 w/clear ment of Bolivia at 0109, then someones name. Ment “programa” at 0111, tarde and noche and ID at 0112:05, then back to lively LA mx. 0115 into another song w/yipping like a Terrier Dog at the beginning (not a Huayno). 0118 diff. M barely audible again. Still going at 0225 w/sev. songs in a row. Ranchera song at 0231, then M came on at 0233. If not for the thunderstorm static crashes, it would’ve been a decent signal. Here's a link to a Youtube video that you should enjoy. It includes not only this reception but also good receptions from 1991 and 2005. Please check it out at https://youtu.be/iE8I3qnF2_4 (10 June) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Loggings for the Past Week; 24-31 May 2015
15064.92PIRATE (EUROPE) Shortwave Papa 2207 w/”Thunderstruck” by AC/DC followed by another, then another Pop song, and off at 2215 w/out any anmnt. Was in the chat as shortwave_papa_15065, so obviously him. Fairly decent on peaks. (24 May) 4055 GUATEMALA R. Verdad Nothing on the freq by 0940, but did catch the last rep of the midi IS at 1001, then long choral NA, and multi-lingual IDs including EG. Really good signal for 800 watts, per Dr. Madrid who says they just got back on the air. They’ve been off for a while due to another lightning strike. (28 May) 6089.96 BRAZIL R. Bandeirantes 0918 pres. nx pgm by M and W in PT mixing just about equally with NHK R. Japan. Japan finally off at 0930 and Bandeirantes // to 9645.4 where nice canned ID was noted. Much stronger than 6089.96, but QRM from CNR1. Youtube video at https://youtu.be/hV68Ida0E30 (28 May) 9505 SUDAN R. Omdurman/SNBC Regional vcl mx at 1851. W anncr at 1900, then extremely low audio. Finally back up w/more mx at 1907. 1912-1914 tlk by M anncr w/ment of Sudan. Back to regional vcl mx by M. Same M anncr again at 1926 and 1929, mx briefly, W anncr w/very short anmnt, and off at 1930:40. First time to hear audio let along get anything here in a long time. (28 May) 4747.564PERU R. Huanta Dos Mil Found OC here at 0845. But there were also spurs of the carrier out 2.777 khz on 4744.187 and 4750.341, and also the harmonics as well. Never seen that before. (30 May) 11999.875 MONGOLIA V.O. Mongolia Per Ivo, found on this NF in EG at 0900, but just missed s/on. Apparent nx and features. Could only copy a few words like Pakistan, 50,000, and India, etc. Played occas. pleasant mx. A little better by 0928 w/English lang sked at 0929, website given, letter request w/mailing addr., then into the usual IS. (30 May) 5952.42 BOLIVIA R. Pio Doce Signal came on the air at 0959:04 in long mid-ad/promo block including a nice promo with the Pio Doce male chorus at 1004. Into what may have been the “Pio Doce Contacto” pgm. At least the anncrs sounded the same. But they were playing mx after 1030. Good signal this morning. Clear with just a little noise. Youtube video at https://youtu.be/knAJklJKomw (31 May) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S and 153 foot triangular Delta Loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 21 and 22 May 2015 Loggings
6155.12 BOLIVIA R. Fides 0010-0100 pgm called “Fides, La Paz Informa” with +/-10 min. segments by M and W anncrs separated by ad blocks, including one for bank, ID/promos, and the same instru. mx that sounded like it came from the movie “Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid”. 0100 long choral jingle/song w/5+1 long time ticks, and into next pgm. Fairly decent on peaks and a little distorted. Also had a het from pres. AIR Aligarh. (21 May) 17580 CLANDESTINE (FRANCE) V.O. Khaatumo Just missed the s/on and tuned in at 1700 during the opening anmnts M in Somali w/ment of website www.codkakhaatumo.com. Brief chant, then same M returned. 1702 brief HoA mx, then M host again and speech by M to 1710. Discussion by M and W for 5 min. then another live in-the-street tlk to 1720, and into HoA choral mx. Another tlk feature at 1722 followed by live speech, and M anncr host but cut off as signal left the air. Fair at best but fady. (21 May) 15700 PAKISTAN R. Pakistan Found here at 1736 after leaving V.O. Khaatumo. Press feature by W in apparent Urdu w/ment of Pakistan and soundbite of M tlking. 1738 end of feature w/fanfare, then into subcont. mx. Same W returned between songs at 1742, 1750, 1753, and 1756. Went off in mid-song at 1759.32. Up to fair on peaks. (21 May) 15730 PAKISTAN R. Pakistan Per tip from John Cooper, found here w/OC on at 0112:58, then audio up in mid-pgm at 0113:30 w/pgm of “roomy” sounding tlk by M and vcl singing by M kind of sounding like the Koran, and hosted by another M anncr. 0159 usual ToH fanfare, 3 time ticks, then W w/nx ID intro, nx headlines w/instru. mx between each item, then nx in detail. Ended w/ID, and off at 0210:24. Poor but there. (22 May) 7175 ERITREA V.O. the Broad Masses of Eritrea OC w/tone at 0255, then usual guitar IS w/occas. IDs starting 0255:57. Horrible QRM from SP AM Hams right on the freq at this time. Finally clear ID at 0258:50. Into pgming at 0300:45 w/studio M anncr in pres. Amharic. Into HoA mx at 0302 past 0305. Very nice signal when the Hams weren’t on. (22 May) 7200 ERITREA V.O. the Broad Masses of Eritrea IS w/occas. ID sequence already going at 0255. Beautiful signal but Ham net just blasting it out. In fact at 0258:25 one Ham said he tlked to the guys on 7205 that said there was a SW stn there (obviously Sudan) and hoped the same thing didn’t happen there on 7200. Another Ham responded that it could be Japan or somewhere else. Pgm start at 0300 w/M and W anncrs in pres. Tigrinya. 0304 HoA mx, and the tlk segment. Too bad the freq wasn’t clear. (22 May) 7205 SUDAN R. Omdurman/SNBC Excellent signal w/Ham QRM at 0255 t/in. Clear then at 0256 w/canned anmnt by M over AR mx. 0257 studio M w/AR ID, then tlk by diff. deep-voiced M for 2 min., 5+1 echoed time ticks, same deep-voiced M w/nice ID, usual fanfare, and into nx, and Ham came on testing his audio w/”hello radio”. Still excellent at 0333:10 w/ID by M end tlk feature, then into great lcl vcl mx. About the best ever heard Sudan here. (22 May) 13725 FRANCE R. France Int. Signal on at 0558:50 and audio up 10 sec. later w/M cmntry in EG abt conflicts in Syria/Iraq. 4 time ticks over instru. mx at 0600 and ID “You’re listening to ‘Paris Live’ on R. France Int.”, then into nx by M. 0609:45 ID, website, and e-mail info. Then more nx stories. Another ID by M at 0629:50, another ID w/nx at 0630. Good signal and 100% copy. Nice to finally hear RFI in EG again, especially since I never recorded it years ago. (22 May) No sign of 7290 RRI Nabire today at 0830. (22 May) 15485 PAKISTAN R. Pakistan 1340 very weak w/what sounded like the Koran. Nearly inaudible 3 min. later but still getting some audio at times until it went off at 1354. Came back on at 1412:30 w/QRM from pres. 15487 V.O. Tibet. Noted tlk by M at 1419 but barely there. Mx at 1426, and off at 1429:50. (22 May) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA USA Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop and 153 foot triangular Delta Loop antennas. _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Unidentified on 9670
9670 UNID. Strong steady signal here from someone playing nonstop CW music from 0940 t/in until the signal suddenly went off at the end of a song at 0956:50. Obviously a test. Maybe WRMI, but that’s just a total guess. Still not back on by 1100. Youtube video at https://youtu.be/a7pSvhAvvok (23 May) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR with 153 foot long triangular Delta Loop antenna. _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Loggings, 20 May 2015
5020 SOLOMON ISLANDS SIBC Rebelde was off. 0836 W giving PSAs and messages ending w/IDs at 0840. Canned anmnt, then W returned w/pgm notes briefly, and M w/Press feature, and then ads at 0843, followed by W very briefly w/ID and TC at 0845. CW song on return at 0858. 0900 W DJ w/brief pgm notes and TC, diff. W w/feature intro and M w/”Bible Reading”. Current Pop songs at 0932. 0949 nice “Voice of the Nation” ID promo by sev. People, then ad/PSA block. 0959 into “California Girls” by David Lee Roth. Youtube video of the ID promo at https://youtu.be/qlM2B_-z4vo (20 May) 7289.930INDONESIA RRI Nabire 0850 surprised to hear the Koran here to at least 0858. Signal strength on par with 7259.941 Vanuatu. Still on at 0902 return w/mx. 0907 M anncr briefly between songs. AR style song at 0910. Signal suddenly disappeared at 0914:05. Had some really nasty thunderstorm static crashes. Youtube video at https://youtu.be/r-9dDIxB1Ig (notice at the end of the video 7260 Vanuatu and 7325 Wantok R. Light) (20 May) 7324.96 PAPUA NEW GUINEA Wantok R. Light 0906 W journalist ended her report w/ment of NBC during the nx. (20 May) 5024.95 PERU R. Quillabamba OC on at 0955:41, then poss. Mx at 0958. 1000 what sounded like a fanfare w/canned M anncr. Soft mx, and at 1001 definite live M anncr. It was just too weak. Our sunrise is too early now. (20 May) 5035.05 Aparecida?? Signal came on here just after Quillabamba at 0956:02. Couldn’t get any audio and faded by 1004. (20 May) 3904.968RRI Merauke?? No sign of this when I checked at 0830, and then Hams were on the freq later. But at 1006, there was indeed a signal here. What audio there was sounded like it was from a few very weak Hams. Is Merauke actually signing on around 0930-1000?? Video of the signal at https://youtu.be/UXZoize5uaI (20 May) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA USA Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop and 153 foot triangular Delta Loop antennas. _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] KWHW logging and video link
2899.75 USA KWHW, Altus, OK A readable signal here again at 0936, so stayed with it and caught the wx ending w/”…pure country KWHW” ID, then another canned ID by M at 0959. Wasn’t as fady today as yesterday but the peaks were better yesterday. A Youtube video is at https://youtu.be/8Q1_hfq4SsE (19 May) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR and Wellbrook ALA1530S loop antenna _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Loggings for the last week, 2015 May 8-14
15590 CLANDESTINE (TAJIKISTAN) R. Free North Korea Signal already on at 1229 and start of the usual soft instru. BBC mx prior to xmsn. 1230 immediately into R. Free North Korea w/instru. mx and pres. voice-over opening anmnts by W in KR, fanfare, and into feature by what sounded like the same W anncr. Poor, but up to fair on very brief peaks. (8 May) 15630 CLANDESTINE (BULGARIA) R. Ranginkaman (Rainbow) Signal on the air at 1553 and pgm start at 1600 w/opening by W in Farsi w/sked and ment of “kilohertz” and ending w/what sounded like a website. Immed. into tlk feature by M. Mx at 1607 for a short time. W over Classical piano mx at 1613, then into another tlk feature w/nice peaks. Went off at 1630. Heavy deep QSB and mixing w/co-channel Greece which was weaker for the most part but was on top when Ranginkaman faded. In fact the Greece IS could be hrd equally briefly at 1600. Made for a tricky reception. Also slop QRM from 15610 WEWN blasting away. Glad this finally added a higher freq. The lower freqs in the 49 and 41 mbs during the day are imposs. (8 May) 9545 SOLOMON ISLANDS SIBC Found here again at 0945 w/island Pop mx, ad block, W anncr, Reggae song, 1000 promo w/ments of SIBC, usual calliope ToH signature at 1001, then M w/EG nx starting w/ID. W w/more nx to 1025, then back to mx. Came back at 1153 and still there w/QRM from 9550 China. Usual inspirational message feature leading up to s/off, cut off for canned closing ID anmnt by W, NA to 1202, deadair, then at 1205 audio came back w/Pop mx which Hasagawa stated was relay of Wanton FM 96.3. Hrd occas. anmnts and ads but had faded and too difficult to copy. Very gradually getting weaker and finally lost audio at 1410, but the signal was still there to at least 1630!! Mauno said it went back to SIBC/R. Happy Isles at 1900, and that it was back on 5020 at 2000. (11 May) No sign of 3290 V.O. Guyana this morning. (13 May) 4824.93 BRAZIL R. Cancao Nova 0827 end of ZY Pop rel. song, then Rooster crowing, TC, and canned anmnts to 0830 starting w/poss. ID/promo, ments of Brasil, Sao Paulo. 0830-0833 live M anncr w/ment of Sao Paulo, Santa Maria, Fatima, Corazon, etc. 0833 Rooster and TC again, then back to mx. Live studio W anncr. 0838 W w/ment of what sounded like “…radio telecomunicao….”, and also ment of Sao Paulo, Brasil, and partial e-mail “…nova.com”. Found // to the (R. Cancao Nova 96.3 FM) webstream at 0848 w/”Maria” song. Webstream was 1:07 behind. Rooster and TC again and another song. 0851 W anncr tlking w/M guest giving many ments of Fatima. Glad to finally ID this. S.F.= 163, A Index = 15, K Index = 6 with G2 geomagnetic storm. (13 May) 4810 PERU R. Logos OC on at 0851:00, and long choral NA start at 0853:25. 0856 M w/ID and freq, then canned ID w/call, another short canned anmt, and live M w/speech briefly and into beautiful rustic flute mx. In the clear w/out the UTE on, but ever-present CODAR QRM. Poor signal amid geomagnetic storm. (13 May) 3290 V.O. Guyana found back on the air at around 2350, but very weak. Much weaker than 3320 Sonder Grense. (13 May) 3290 V.O. Guyana very weak at 0945 check this morning. Must be running low power again. (14 May) 2899.75HUSA KWHW, Altus OK (2X1450 harmonic) Found w/reasonable audio at 0946. 0947 end of wx by live M anncr giving temp and ID as high of 83. That's the forecast on ?? Country KWHW. The word before Country is possibly Pure per its given slogan, but I'm not 100% sure. Went into a CW version of “Crazy” by Aerosmith then. More CW songs followed. Seemed to go over 1000 ToH w/out ID, but it seemed there was one later around 1003. Its listed as only 668 watts. This 2nd harmonic would put the fundamental on 1449.877. That's quite a bit off freq. I don't see anything there. Surprised to ID this. (14 May) 4810 Logos in the clear at 0955, but not very strong. (14 May) 7259.94 VANUATU R.V. Caught the usual conch shell blowing signature at exactly 1001:00, then into pres. nx by M. Better than it has been lately but not good enough to copy. (14 May) e-QSL in from DP07 Seefunk from Reiner Dietzel in 1 day. Filled out an actual hard-copy QSL, then sent a picture of it as an attachment to his e-mail. (14 May) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S and 153 foot triangular Delta Loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Palau
PALAU 9930 T8WH/World Harvest R. 0959 End of “Harvest for Christ” EG pgm w/host Rev. Charles Parker ending w/contact info by diff. M anncr. Then usual ID by M w/request for QSLs and South Bend IN addr over instru. mx, then off at 1000:06. Just fair reception. A Youtube video can be found at this link; https://youtu.be/gUmjax_Bib8 (8 May) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR with 153 foot triangular Delta Loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Puntland Audio
Puntland’s audio came up shortly after I sent my last message, sometime around 1219. So, yes, it’s doing very nicely today. Just got their usual Italian/English/Somali ID routine at 1242. _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Puntland Logging
13800 SOMALIA Puntland Radio One Found w/OC at 1210, then usual IT/EG/Somali ID/contact info routine at 1217:48 and repeated several times until 1224, then M tlk in Somali until 1228, and into HoA mx. 1242 another ID routine. Another long tlk over 1300 ToH, and into Koran from 1307. Really faded badly and nearly gone at 1330. Still barely there at 1420 but then lost completely. Best signal yet today. Peaks here around 1230-1240. A signal popped up several times at 1444 and 1637 (at least), but it could’ve been anything. (4 May) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus with 153 foot triangular Delta Loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Puntland On Now, 1220
13800 Puntland Radio One is on now, 1220. Have been listening to it for about the past hour. Fairly decent signal. Some QSB of course, but quite readable. Should be widely heard. _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Puntland Radio One Logging
SOMALIA 13800 C+USB Puntland Radio One After hearing it at home, waited until 1300 to make sure the freq was still clear and drove up to the remote site to listen. Fairly decent w/same testing format of HoA mx and occas. canned Italian (M)/ EG (M) /Somali (W) ID/contact info after abt every 2 songs. EG ID as “You are listening to Puntland Radio broadcasting on 49 meteband on the frequency 6160 kiloHertz, and 22 meterband on the frequency 13800 kiloHertz. You may contact us at e-mail on puntlandradio...@gmail.com. Or call at 00352-076037. Ladies and gentlemen(??)”. Thanks Ivo Ivanov tip. Here’s the link to a video of the full ID/contact info routine during the test xmsn. https://youtu.be/KkQZM8OC36U (28 April) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR and 315 foot BOG aimed at 55 degrees (Somalia) during a micro-DXpedition. _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Another Puntland Video
Here’s a link to another video of Puntland Radio One I posted on Youtube. I had actually started recording before I started laying out the BOG at the micro-DXpedition site this morning. So you can hear/see it go from nothing to its full strength while I was laying out the wire. And they conveniently gave the Italian/English/Somali ID loop at the same time!! Here’s the link; https://youtu.be/VbGsR4yB0t0 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 15030.078 AIR Aligarh
INDIA 15030.078 AIR Aligarh 1048 beautiful Hindi subcont. mx w/vcls by M and W during the EG pgm. Weak and // very good 15410 Bengaluru. Here’s a link to the Youtube video. https://youtu.be/Mt9oX66O6jo (19 April) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR 153 foot triangular Delta Loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Radio Vision reactivated
4789.79 PERU R. Vision reactivated First noted at 0945 w/”La Voz Salvacion” pgm. 0955 break for ID by M giving freqs and e-mail addr, and what sounded like a sked, back to “La Voz Salvacion” pgm at 1001 to 1032 w/stopped for canned anmnt by M over “El Condor Pasa” bracketed by W giving TCs. 1038 nice canned ID by M after children signing, then W again w/TC. Good signal but audio distorted, but not quite as bad as it was when it went off months ago. Here’s the link to a Youtube video I posted https://youtu.be/QUYEweMQzQA (11 April) _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] RAE Off-Frequency and Distorted
ARGENTINA RAE 6054.15v Found off-freq and very distorted again at 2337 UTC w/usual mx pgm hosted by M w/infrequent anmnts. Finally ID/IS/Jazz mx routine at 2355, then the signal going off the air at 2356. But unlike the last time, they didn’t appear to jump up to their nominal 6060 this time. Strong signal. Here’s a link to a Youtube video I posted https://youtu.be/28UH81i8hiA (10 April) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop antenna _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] CNR1 Jammers
CHINA CNR1 Jammers Conditions were very noisy here when I turned on the receiver/computer at 1030. Nothing new or unusual, but I did find a total of 17 freqs with CNR1 jammers on Sound of Hope. It’s not the most ever noted at one time (I think I had 21 once). For your amusement, I made a video and posted it on Youtube. Here’s the link; https://youtu.be/x-WMzTeGWks (9 April) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA USA Perseus SDR 153 foot triangular Delta Loop Wellbrook ALA1530S loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 19000/18990 UNID
UNIDENTIFIED 19000/18990 Found a station on 19000 at around 1225. Not very strong but I could tell it was NOT //CNR1. Language sounded possibly Asian. At 1259 it suddenly jumped down to 18990. Then had a fanfare that sounded familiar at 1300, and into prob. nx by W. When it jumped down to 18990, there was another signal on 19000 which remained for about 15 seconds before it went off. Was one jamming the other?? Anyone know what these stations were?? It stayed on 18990 for the next hour and went off at 1400. Here’s a link to a video I posted on Youtube; https://youtu.be/RsfA6-kM50k(4 April) _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Correction
Ron Howard just pointed out a typo in the loggings I just sent out. SIBC was NOT noted on 5024.87, but rather 5019.87. My mind must have been wandering on Quillabamba!! Thanks Ron!! 73 Dave _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Guyana and Surinam
3289.975 V.O. Guyana Hrd in amidst of the UTE here, first noted at 0118. MOR W vclist at 0331 recheck. Quite readable at 0336, and at 0337 w/Johnny Mathis-like song, and another at 0346-0348. Then Last Date by Floyd Cramer, cutoff, and into a diff. song. 0357 started Last Date again and deep-voiced M anncr sounding like a Caribbean accent. 0328 Goodbye to Love by the Carpenters then W anncr at 0359 (probably the pre-ToH BBC promo), 0400 time ticks and BBC nx //9460. Came back later when the electricity was out due to an ice storm and found the freq clear of the UTE and W in EG w/rel. pgm at 0804. Hindi mx at 0815 recheck then tried to air a rel. pgm but the audio was cutting out badly. 0829 deep-voiced M came on w/ID and apologized, then choral NA at 0830. 0831 different M anncr briefly and then what appeared to be the Koran. Into a Pop mx pgm w/M DJ host. Fading by 0840. Nice ID at 0848. Nice to have them back on SW. (2 Feb.) 4989.99 R. Apintie 0308 W anncr as I tuned in, then into slow rom. ballad by W vclist, kind of sounding like Celine Dion. 0315 W DJ returned, then canned anmnt and back to mx. Nice canned ID at 0418:20. Another ment of R. Apintie at 0435:35. (2 Feb.) Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus with Wellbrook ALA1530S _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Loggings Over the Holidays
.) VIETNAM 7906U Have heard the Utilities on this freq from; Da Nang R. 1235-1243 (30 Dec.), Ho Chi Minh City R. 1305-1313:50* (30 Dec.), Qui Phong R. 2235-2244:20* (30 Dec.), Ben Thuy R. 1251 (31 Dec.), Hue R. 2250-2256 (30 Dec.), Hon Gai R. 1110 (1 Jan. 2015) CHINA 7345 CNR1 Found this had returned here totally covering Thazin at 1056 w/CH tlk by W, //9500. Strong clear signal. (31 Dec.) THAILAND 5875 R. Thailand 1114 just caught the very end of the VT pgm, then chime IS, EG pgm outro, chime IS again, then usual HSK9 R. Thailands World Service... EG ID by M, and into Khmer pgm starting w/sked. Fairly good. (31 Dec.) PIRATE (NA) 6925.08 R. Dr. Tim (NA Pirate relay no doubt) SSTV at 2158 t/in, then canned ID, New Year greeting, and rpt acknowledgements by W, then another canned ID w/e-mail by M, and into Der Kommissar remake. Good signal. (31 Dec.) PIRATE (EUROPE) 6300 R. Abu Dhabi Mx at 0126. Poss. Polka at 0131. 0133 ID by usual recognized M. Surprised I was able to get the ID as conditions weren't very good. More mx w/W vcl, then at 0136 M returned w/shoutout and ...this is Abu Dhabi.. 0138 cont. anmnt w/poss. ment of 2015. Getting some slop QRM from that very strong spur on 6295. (1 Jan. 2015) CLANDESTINE 3480 V.O. the People 1108 tlk by M in KR, then Beethoven mx bridge, and cont. tlk. // to the other freqs. Fair signal and better than usual. (1 Jan. 2015) CHINA 7345 CRI Playing Jingle Bells at 1211. (1 Jan. 2015) PIRATE (EUROPE) 6210L Mini Power R. 2301 bits of mx briefly. Screaming M vcl at 2304. Stronger with Delta Loop at 2307:55. Op in chat said it was Reasons by Earth Wind and Fire. 2310:10 peak. Went off sometime around 2318. Op said he was running only 5 watts!! (2 Jan.) BOLIVIA 6024.96 Red Patria Nueva Good signal this evening w/usual nx pgm w/many ments of Potosi, San Borja, and Peru. Many long soundbites. Usual ID/promo at 2330 to start an ad/promo block. Did have a het on the freq no doubt from weakening China. (2 Jan.) MYANMAR 6029.992 Thazin R. OC already on at 2322. Indigenous log drum signature and W anncr, then M vcl song. Into another song at 2332 like you'd hear on Laos. Calibrated the Perseus, then noted the W anncr again at 2334 retune and immediately into canned anmnt by W over pleasant Asian instru. mx, probably an intro for the next feature (nx??) w/M tlk after 2335 until R. Marti's OC came on at 2344. Fairly decent. Matched up the indigenous log drumming at s/on with the recording on Interval Signals Online and my previous recording from 7345. A perfect match. Very happy to finally get Myanmar in the evening. Hope Marti continues to stay off. There was another signal on 6030.014, maybe a fading CNR1. No audio from it though. OR could it have been CFVP?? http://youtu.be/Y8hw1Frfzms (2 Jan.) BRAZIL 4865 R. Verdes Florestas Strong signal suddenly on at 1036:08 w/IS already going, followed by full canned ID by M as usual, and into mx. http://youtu.be/rjMSHS_hV2k (3 Jan.) BRAZIL 9695 R. Rio Mar Surprised to find this doing well at 1039. Long lk by W and M pgm hosts. Bom Dia and many several of Amazonia and kilovatts at 1041. Also Manaus later. They apparently fixed their modulation as it was 100% readable. 1049 long list of network stns. 1050-1054 song starting w/jungle birds SFX and Amazonia sung by womens chorus and then M vcl. 1054 W briefly then canned tlk by M over mx w/ment of Brasil, Sao Paulo. http://youtu.be/CDD_ityZs04 (3 Jan.) USA 10990 WEWN (prob. spur) 1137 end of soft music and then woman tlking in SP and giving numbers, and possible mention of Chavez and ment of camposino. 1140 interview of M w/ment of Caracas and comercial. Nice peak at 1143:20. 1146 ment of ...la palabra de Dios. Later also la amor, spirituales. End of pgm at 1154 w/instru. mx, then what sounded like an ID by W at 1155 but too weak. Then tlk by M and W anncrs. 1201 rel.-like W vcl then rosary w/M and response by women. At this point, found it to be //12050 WEWN. Fady like it was before. http://youtu.be/5t2I88VPKh8 (3 Jan.) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR Wellbrook ALA1350S loop antenna 153 foot Delta Loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 6050 ELWA
6050LIBERIAELWAThe UNID. I noted on 1 December turned out to indeed be ELWA. Found it // 4760 at 2154 w/end of EG rel. pgm. 2156 nice simple EG echo ID by M (a little too heavy on the echo), then into Oh Holy Night, and continuing w/more mx. Fairly good signal. Thanks to John Herkimer for suggesting this might be ELWA at the first reception. A video can be found at http://youtu.be/b1LTKjBt-QQ (6 Dec.) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA 15930 Perseus SDR 153 foot Delta Loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Radio Clarin Video
Just created and uploaded a short little video that I thought you guys could appreciate. Its a nice English station identification from Radio Clarin, Dominican Republic, from 1977. Here's the link; http://youtu.be/exq41Rn2m2I _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Fw: Loggings from 25 August - 25 September
First of all, I have to apologize for the size of this report and any typos than may have crept in. The large size isn't due just to the loggings but also several micro-DXpeditions and continuing observations which I thought may be of some interest. I've included links to videos I've posted as well. 6924.15 PIRATE (NA) Captain Morgan SW 0040 w/old RB songs. Song cut off and abruptly left the air around 0043. Tremendously strong signal. ID per HF Underground. (25 August) 6770.01 PIRATE (NA) 'Old Time R.' 0049 found here w/band mx in distorted audio, then comedy w/Bob Hope. The 90mb went off the other day after being on 24h a day nearly all week. (25 August) 6024.98 BOLIVIA Red Patria Nueva 0950 usual morning nx pgm. Instru. mx at 0952 break, then clear ID at 0953:00, and back to nx w/M mentioning Patria Nueva. Ad/promo block at 0954. Not that bad of a signal and 6030 staying to its own space for the most part. (25 August) 9665 CHINA CRI Apparently a new freq for the EG pgm w/nx by M at 1002, 1005 ID, and into People in the Know, // other freqs. QRMing KCBS (just a little weaker), and an extremely weak Voz Missionaria. (25 August) 4845.004BRAZIL R. Cultura Onda Tropicais (pres.) Upon reviewing the 60mb recordings, found 2 stns on 4845. This had what sounded like a canned discussion between M and W in PT from 2357-2359, then canned anmnt by M until WWCR came on. (25 August) 4845.086UNID. R. Meteorologia Paulista?? Definitely audio mixing in w/4845.004. What sounded very much like a ment of municipal' during tlk by M anncr at 2355. Sounded PT. M anncr just before WWCR came on. I'm willing to bet both Onda Tropicais and Meteorologia Paulista are both here. (25 August) 11735 ZANZIBAR ZBC R./Spice FM 2059:30 end of ZBC pgming w/W anncr mentioning radio and Spice FM, then into a number of Spice FM jingle IDs, and AR Pop mx. Went off just before 2105. Fair signal. http://youtu.be/lOoZuy0kwQk (26 August) 9525.9INDONESIA V.O. Indonesia Best audio heard in a very long time. In EG w/phone interview at 1035. W anncr over Indo Pop mx. 1056 end of Pop ballad, canned promo, and 1057:10 ID, then another short feature. Another canned ID at 1059:45, and ID starting the nx 1100:10. (27 August) 9730 MYANMAR Myanma R. 1108:30 start of ABC EG lang pgm. Same pgm at the restaurant as hrd before. Would you like to see a menu, Would you like to order now, Would you like boiled or cooked rice, Would you like a single or double brew, Thanks for the use of the towel, I apologize for any inconvenience, Thank you, thank you, I'd like a cup of tea, etc. And pgm end. (27 August) 9775 VATICAN Afia Darfur R. (via Santa Maria Galeria, Vatican) 1929 closing anmnts by M, mx, and suddenly off at 1930. Surprised this was coming in as 31m hasn't been doing that well lately. (27 August) 3394.72 PIRATE (NA) 'Old Time R.' Signal already here at 1940, and mx plainly audible during a peak at 1943. (27 August) 5939.849BRAZIL R. Voz Missionaria ZY Pops at 0841 t/in. Sev. men anncrs at 0843 and Rooster mixed w/siren SFX, TC, men laughing SFX, 2 loud TCs at 0847. Very nice signal. And still decent at 0918 w/mooing and bird call SFX during song. The morning DJs took a phone call at 0922 between songs. Found //9664.81 at 0932 w/the 2 DJs still going. (28 August) 6134.973BRAZIL R. Aparecida 0844 end of ZY Pop song, M anncr w/short anmnt and morning bom dia greeting, short canned jingle, M again w/accurate TC, bom dia, and into phone-in report w/ment of Aparecida at 0845:55. Very nice signal. (28 August) 4864.8v BRAZIL R. Alvorada Nice TC and ID by live studio M anncr between ZY Pop songs at 0850:50. M again at 0856 but all I could copy was a TC, and bom dia. Another mention of Alvorada at 0859:55. Strength wasn't too bad but the modulation was low. The signal varies quite a bit and there wasn't any exact pinpoint carrier. Also a buzzing was present, the same as whats on R. Vision and on 4825. http://youtu.be/noDOrUVwG-Q (28 August) 4774.98 BRAZIL R. Sora de Congonhas 0848 easy ZY Pop-like mx, 0850 live M DJ in echo starting w/R. Sora ID. Back to mx, then 0854 canned W anncr, then live M returned w/clear R. Congonhas ID 0855:00. 0856 lively song. 0959 canned tlk by diff. M over guitar mx. 0902 M DJ again w/ment of informacao and cont. tlk. Good strength but noisy. (28 August) 5965.006BRAZIL R. Transmundial Was getting a weak signal and soft Pop-like mx at 0905. Definite M anncr in PT briefly between songs at 0919:15. M anncr again w/what sounded like another M on the phone at 0923 but fading and pulsing noise. Back to mx at 0926. Have noted a signal here over the past month (never strong enough for audio) and was wondering
[HCDX] 27-29 September Loggings
K Index=4 No storms C1 background X-ray flux. 20 mhz MUF all the way. http://youtu.be/hD55dN6Woc0 (29 Sept.) 73 and best DX Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR Wellbrook ALA1530S, and 153 foot Delta Loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] LRA36/R. Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel
R. Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel from Antarctica on 15475.97 is staying on later this evening. Its 2215 and its still on. Give it a shot. (then again as soon as I hit send, they'll go off the air!!) _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] R. Nord Revival Video
Just uploaded a video of R. Nord Revival to Youtube. I know many have heard it this weekend but what mades this video a little different is that the first half was made during a micro-DXpedition and the second half was made during reception at home. Here's the link if you'd like to listen/watch; http://youtu.be/lppy0slPD2A _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Micro-DXpedition Report and Reception Video Links
14-15 August 2014 Micro-DXpedition Went out for the sole purpose of logging all the ZYs. I was disappointed some weren't on (or not observed); Gaucha, 9 de Julho, 9515 Marumby, and Brasil Central has been off for a while. But other things turned out to make it a memorable micro-DXpedition; Panaji, Patria Nueva, Eco. A nice evening for an early season micro-DXpedition. Not hot or humid. Conditions were a bit noisy on the Tropical bands but not too bad for Summer. RX: Perseus SDR ANT: 315' Beverage (BOG) at 165° QTH: Pennsylvania State Games Lands #26 Duration: 2300-0130 UTC Solar Indices: Solar Flux = 113 A Index = 5 K Index = 1 WX: Sunny (until the Sun set), northwest breeze, temp in the low 60's dropping to the upper 50's BRAZIL 11854.98 R. Aparecida 2302 end of long list of Aparecida stns and Aparecida theme song by W, mx, then tlk by live men w/IDs and website. Excellent signal. (14 August) INDIA 9705 AIR Panaji 2315:50 EG ID by W after the nx then sked for President Mukherjee's speech on Independence Day, and into Patriotic Songs. Another ID at 2328:50. Brief searing sitar mx, W w/intro for the presidents speech on Independence Day, instru. NA, and then the EG speech by his excellency. Great S9+10 signal. Probably the best ever heard Panaji. // much much weaker nearby 9690 AIR Bengaluru. (14 March) BOLIVIA 6024.97 Red Patria Nueva 2341 Incredible signal w/ment of Bo-Lee-Vee-ah during promo during break in the nx pgm that may be called Bolivia Informa. Journalist ?? Sanchez mentioned Patria Nueva at end of his report at 2343. 2347:30 break w/nice nx promo, jingle ad, then bank ad, 2349:55 ment of Patria Nueva in anmnt, 2350:40 short ID promo, same nx promo that started the break, then back to nx. Near 100% copy!! As easy as falling off a log!! That is until it was blasted out by 6020 and 6030 at the ToH. (14 August) BOLIVIA 5952.46 R. Pio Doce 2341 alternating SP tlk by M and W pgm hosts, M shouting at times. Ments of Bolivia, camposina, inform. Into live mx at 2348 for a min. and a half then the 2 anncrs returned all past the ToH. Severe slop QRM from 5950 WRMI. Totally inaudible when WRMI was playing mx. (14 August) BRAZIL 6080.03 R. Marumby Fairly good at 2341 t/in w/tlk by M in PT. Soft song and more tlk. 2359 full canned ID by deep-voiced M over instru. mx, then canned ID/promo. usual Marumby signing jingle by womens chorus. Best early on. (14 August) BRAZIL 6089.965 R. Bandeirantes Not often heard because of Anguilla. Good signal w/Futbol coverage starting at 2334 including a long goal at 2343. Ment of Brasil, Sao Paulo, Londrina. Going past ToH. //9645.41. (14 August) BOLIVIA 4409.773 R. Eco 0004 pleasant rom. song, 0008:45 church bells made the song sound like a wedding song. 0010:10 surprised to hear canned call, ID, and freq by M. Another anmnt w/ment of el servicio, then mx briefly, and live studio M anncr from 1011 w/what could have been PSAs (nice quick peak at 0015:40). Still going at 0018. Went off sometime around 0100. (15 August) BOLIVIA 5580.297 R. San Jose Deadair but then mx singing started as soon as I started the recording at 0019 (ment of corazon in the song). Then apparent Padre w/ment of palabra but very low level. Guess it was the daily Mass. More of the same. Long period of deadair, but could just detect very faint background rustling noise at times. When the signal peaked between static crashes, it was almost stunning. Went off sometime between 0044 and 0055. (15 August) BOLIVIA 3310 R. Mosoj Chaski 0102:50 end of long tlk by M anncr and nice canned ID w/freq and QTH. (15 August) SRI LANKA 11905 SLBC Outstanding signal. Came on around 0113, and audio suddenly popped on w/mx, one short and one long tick, W w/nice ID, and into regional mx. Another ID by W at 0128:50, and back to mx. Almost S9+10. Just amazing. (15 August) UNID. 15745 UNID. Saw a signal here at 0122, turned the AGC off to increase the signal strength and did hear M anncr w/sports in EG at times of brief peaks. I doubt it was SLBC. Probably a spur. (15 August) Here are links to the videos recorded from the micro-DXpedition. (check out Red Patria Nueva!!) http://youtu.be/hTdwFmqcuOA R. San Jose http://youtu.be/M4JwPr3jRRs SLBC http://youtu.be/9pT6y15u7mM R. Mosoj Chaski http://youtu.be/0ymS_-1j5Fo R. Eco http://youtu.be/i3r3HGIi5_s Red Patria Nueva http://youtu.be/7yEnyJQ41-A AIR Panaji http://youtu.be/VW5sWN1a4DY R. Aparecida 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science
[HCDX] Latest Loggings and Video Links
CHINA 9540 CNR1 jammer 0948 tlk by M in CH, //9730. Looks like both of these are jamming Sound of Hope. 9540 stronger. 9730 goes off at 1000 but 9540 stays on. (7 August) ALASKA 9655 KNLS 1000 usual opening of EG w/IS twice, EG ID w/QTH, then IS again, and start of EG pgm. (7 August) BRAZIL 6134.683 R. Aparecida Same long list of stns carrying the Aparecida pgms ending w/IDs and ID jingle song by womens chorus at 2302. Fair and clear as Santa Cruz hadn't faded in yet. (7 August) BOLIVIA 4409.796 R. Eco (pres.) Sounds like LA mx at 0114. 0116 M anncr very briefly but hard to tell if it was SP, then back to mx. A pretty noisy evening. A lot of uptempo songs w/accordion. 0125 M anncr again. 0127 sounded like a canned anmnt. (8 August) INDONESIA 7289.94 RRI Nabire (pres.) Possible mx around 0921, then soft-spoken M anncr from 0937 recheck to 0945, and back to mx. M returned at 0950. 0956:25 native singing, then more upbeat song 0957:00. M anncr briefly at 1000. More somber mx at 1001:30 w/W voice-over. W ended tlk at 1012:30 and back to mx plainly audible. Pleasant W vcl song at 1030. Mx 1033:40. And getting mx at 1101 and M anncr at 1102 shortly. Mx 1118:00. Was still going w/what sounded like drums at 1130. Surprised and glad this was on throughout. (8 August) MICRONESIA 4755.58 The Cross R. 1027 Christian Pop mx. Finally a clear ID by M at 1035 w/intro for The Edge pgm segment. Best heard yet since last season. Not as noisy as it has been. (9 August) THAILAND 5875 R. Thailand Int. 1115 caught This is HSK9... canned ID by M in EG, then into Cambodian pgm. Very nice signal and fairly quiet for a change. Easily as good as the 31mb outlet with the Malaysian program to 1215. The 15590 EG broadcast at was rather poor. (9 August) BRAZIL 11916.195 R. Gaucha Tlk pgm w/sev. men anncrs. Occas. ad block. From 2327:40-2328:35 hrd three IDs. Good signal. (9 August) BOLIVIA 6024.98 R. Patria Nueva Found the carrier on at 0801. Hard to tell if there was any audio due to the jammer on 6030. (10 August) PIRATE (NA) 6925 V.O. the Abnormal 0038 Spam Monty Python skit followed by Spam Weird Al parody of Stand by REM. Frank Zappa song. Nice clear ID by M, then another song. Strong. (11 August) BOLIVIA 4716.695 R. Yura 0112 nice signal and not too noisy. Campo mx. 0016 M anncr. TC. Seemed to take a phone caller. 0119 TC by diff. M, and more voice-over tlk. (11 August) PERU 4747.627 R. Huanta Dos Mil Series of canned anmnts at 1005 but wasn't there at 1001, so must have signed on between those times. 1011:55 ID by M during presumed usual nx pgm. LAs doing a little better this morning. (12 August) MICRONESIA 4755.57 The Cross R. Love is the Answer remake at 1030, 1032 usual ID intro for The Edge segment, said pgm, then back to Christian Pop mx. ID outro for spiritual message segment at 1045 recheck. Even better than 9 August and best signal since last season . (12 August) Uploaded a few more reception videos to Youtube which may be of some interest. Here are the links should you care to watch; http://youtu.be/gIIz971eWGE 2 Brazilians on 4885.012 and 4885.025 http://youtu.be/-IbQcFQYi1I RRI Nabire staying on late http://youtu.be/-yZYO9_5Upg The Cross Radio with station identification http://youtu.be/XSBBLbOIMUY Nice reception of Radio Thailand World Service http://youtu.be/9KA-c0G22ME Big signal from The Voice of the Abnormal http://youtu.be/R9Tb7kaoOeA Radio Voz Missionaria, including jingle station identification http://youtu.be/1MKGAHz8H0Y 15050 AIR Khampur going off, 15040 AIR Bengaluru coming on http://youtu.be/9VccUV55v1U Just a bit of weak audio from presumed Radio Eco http://youtu.be/KExH3kMMSqQ CNR1/Firedrake on 14920 and 14980 kHz http://youtu.be/1SpoZFdlCHg An older reception from January of Republic of Yemen Radio 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Loggings and Reception Video Links
SRI LANKA 9720 SLBC 1114 signal sudden on, then brief drum IS, time ticks, opening anmnt by W in pres. Tamil, and into mx. Weak but there. (1 August MYANMAR 9730 Myanma R. 1105 incredible strength and thought it was CNR back on this freq again, so tried to // but found none. By the time I came to the realization it was actually Myanmar, it had already dropped down. Was way down by 1120. Probably the best heard this year. (1 August) USA 17775 KVOH 1515-1529 Frecuencia al Dia DX pgm in SP w/many recordings of stns including R. Tarma, and mentions of other OA stations including R. Cultural Amauta, R. Chaski, and R. Quillabamba. SP ID at 1529, then into pleasant Ranchera mx pgm w/host Lorenzo Martinez who gave his name and many KVOH IDs and QTH as Los Angeles CA. Also ment of Internet website. Not very strong and quite a bit of QSB. (1 August) PIRATE (NA) 6950U R. Gallifrey Intergalactic 0008 Dr. Who theme, then instru. ethereal mx. More mx w/breaks in between songs. Sounded like there was SSTV at 0037 and off at 0039. Nothing came up on the SSTV decoding. Recorded the audio, slowed it down and copied what seemed to be code but it just turned up jibberish. Very strong. (2 August) USA 7505.24 WRNO 0058 full ID by M, then another ID by different M at 0059 w/freq. email wrnora...@mailus.net, addr in Ft. Worth TX. (record) Into New Years rel. mx pgm The Haven. Very good signal and nice audio, but off freq as usual. (2 August) PAPUA NEW GUINEA 7324.96 Wantok R. Light End of what may have been the Unshackled pgm at 0955, then studio W anncr giving the pgm contact info, and China came on and ruined one of the best receptions as of late. (2 August) PERU 4774.92 R. Tarma Signal popped on at 0958:34, some deadair, then surprised to hear the Windows XP opening theme melody at 1000:35!! A little more deadair, then start w/full canned ID anmnt by M w/freqs and calls and contact info, into mx pgm. Only fair and very noisy. (2 August) MYANMAR 9731 Myanma R. (pres.) Off freq and barely audible. Just voices here and there after 1108, then mx pgm from about 1114. Couldn't detect the usual them mx at 1129 but there was mx. W anncr then at 1130, and gone at 1130:50. So it must have been Myanmar. Nowhere near as strong as it was yesterday on 9730. (2 August) CLANDESTINE 15550 R. Dabanga Found here at 1528 mixing w/WJHR. Since WJHR is in USB, Dabanga was audible in LSB w/usual singing ID jingle. Both stns about equal. (3 August) USA 7555.033 KJES 0157 children singing then repeating something in an almost screaming manner. 0159 girl w/usual ID and QTH, then spiritual readings by W with group repeating. Good signal but UTE QRM. (4 August) BRAZIL 5999.99 R. Guaiba 018 discussion by men in PT, 0024 ad block starting w/poss. ID, then definite ID at 0025:05. Adj. slop QRM from 5990. (6 August) BRAZIL 9530v R. Transmundial Irregular here at this time but on today. 1006 pgm of ballads and M host w/canned anmnts. // 11735. Drifted down from above 9530.03 at the start and right on freq at 1012. (6 August) Made a few more videos. Feel free to view at the links below; http://youtu.be/VAwux4gR_gE Radio Hilaac signing on http://youtu.be/lHC69ARl9aU NBC East New Britain going off and on http://youtu.be/lufQjNZg_Us 9680.05 RRI Jakarta http://youtu.be/ZeCrszzhhPg Radio Tarma on 17775 kiloHertz?? http://youtu.be/TYopeXGXrXU Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty repeating identification http://youtu.be/Jqx6pdXFKWo Radio Tarma coming on the air and starting Windows XP!! http://youtu.be/FmmEHfH3jDs Presumed Myanma Radio off freq on 9731 kiloHertz http://youtu.be/OgiIkrD4zGA Pirate station Radio Gallifrey Intergalactic http://youtu.be/RbmsIMVD-ZY 3 Pirates, Northwoods Radio, Captain Morgan Shortwave, and an Unidentified http://youtu.be/EacYPjz6XNM Northwoods Radio again with a morning transmission http://youtu.be/D4TcR4Y-h-0 Very nice signal of Radio Aparecida http://youtu.be/-A1WhbSsuZc Radio Patria Nueva station identification http://youtu.be/qjaxUNkbrZo Good signal from Alcaravan Radio http://youtu.be/jkvytJCuDkQ Antenna switching comparison of Wellbrook and Delta Loop antennas 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA USA _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] A few loggings and video links
ASCENSION ISLAND 11985 Akhbar Mufriha (via HCJB, Ascension Is.) Signal on at 2145, ID in AR by M, a lot of tlk and occas. native stringed mx w/vcls w/Hallelujahs. Mx sounds like something from Mauritania. Nice ID w/contact info at 2159. ID and contact info again at 2214, then off. Fairly good signal and clear. (19 July) MAYNMAR 9730 Myanma R. 1036 usual closing for this early Monday airing of the ABC R. EG lang. pgm. Canned spots then studio W anncr tlk w/M. Poor to fair. No sign of the presumed CNR channel that was here yesterday at this time. (28 July) VIETNAM 9839.85 V.O. Vietnam 1050 M anncr in IN hosting pres. press pgm w/journalist reports and soundbites. Fair signal //better 12019.105. (28 July 2014) BANGLADESH 15105 Bangladesh Betar OC from at least 1222, then tone, and IS at 1229. 1230 usual opening routine. Very very weak. Something must have happened to the transmitter since 19mb conditions were fairly decent. Wasn't on during a check last week. (28 July) USA 11715 KJES Carrier came on with low power at 1249, then boosted to full power at 1259, and bdcst began w/girl giving ID and QTH in EG, and into rel. mx w/preaching. Strong but undermodulated. (28 July) INDIA 15410 AIR Panaji Suddenly popped on at :00, mx for 1 second, then deadair for 31 seconds and mx continued weakly modulated. Thai pgm started at 1115. ID at 1129, then deadair from 1130-1135, and nx in EG by M starting w/ID from 1135-1140. Carrier w/weak 1 khz tone from 1140 until the signal suddenly went off at 1158:36. Not all that strong. (30 July) INDIA 9705, 11740 AIR Panaji No sign of either frequency for the English xmsn at 2245. Was there a few days prior. (30 July) Made a few more videos. Here are the links; http://youtu.be/_V_S65dRjik Strong signals from Pirate stations Wolverine Radio and Radio Free Whatever http://youtu.be/O73XT5bTViY Pirate, Unidentified on 6925.32 KiloHertz (I think this was Liquid R.) http://youtu.be/eQZHSnSOLWU Presumed CNR with ID on 9730. Heard this one day only. http://youtu.be/Pf04zY7S7Mg Voice of Vietnam in parallel on 2 frequencies http://youtu.be/yFpvu5bGA-s KJES and Voice of Korea, side by side http://youtu.be/VvOuKHYEmi0 Radio Cairo in English http://youtu.be/MTjkiNY-mkU (25 meterband) Massive Spanish numbers station, Voice of Korea, Wai FM http://youtu.be/w0xTgCgG-YQ A Mess on 11915 kiloHertz 73Dave _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Reception Video Links
Made some videos earlier today. You may find these of interest. Here are the links. http://youtu.be/D1JygZCxQqQ Radio Aparecida, Radio Santa Cruz, each one notched out in turn. http://youtu.be/W4VIiP2muUo WWVH in the clear without any WWV QRM. http://youtu.be/iizC-12Y9_I Sarawak FM, ID, etc. http://youtu.be/aXkBucNYrXw Vividh Bharati, fairly good with an ID at 1200 http://youtu.be/Ngoz13A2GeY R. Taiwan Int. going off and on. http://youtu.be/83sTxkZ3Tiw RRI Jakarta, in the clear and CNR1 QRM briefly, then ToH with more QRM. http://youtu.be/OHx6gAZulHE Myanma R. http://youtu.be/DVvPhIy1Mog R. New Zealand Int., bird IS, ID, news. 73Dave _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Links for Reception Videos
I haven't made any loggings lately, but I have uploaded a number of reception videos on Youtube. Perhaps you'll find them of interest. Here are the links; http://youtu.be/ReN27LEAJg0 Radio Nacional da Amazonia, Good on 3 Frequencies http://youtu.be/WbxhcsWJ7eQ Voice of Korea signing on and going off, KCBS going off, Wai FM IDs http://youtu.be/CiZD8evldsk China Radio International and Radio Nacional da Amazonia http://youtu.be/xdXtnSd35os CNR1 on old Firedrake frequencies http://youtu.be/EplArnZnksI Voice of Nigeria http://youtu.be/2DRD0VqNlIU AIR Bengaluru, 15410 kiloHertz http://youtu.be/0xEQwjGFBLw Shortwave Pirate Station; Whiskey Redneck Radio http://youtu.be/kfwPsknKDbE Evening South American Shortwave radio stations heard in Pennsylvania (Yura, Para, Chaski, Santa Cruz, Fides) http://youtu.be/EwM5qVRbkb8 Radio Caiari http://youtu.be/Od_I-8qv-pw Radio Logos, No Utility Interference and with Utility Interference. http://youtu.be/IV_gNwXdpfw Super Radio Deus e Amor on 2 Parallel Frequencies in the 49mb. http://youtu.be/ZU6EktdPok4 Radio Santa Cruz amid white noise jamming of Voice of Freedom. http://youtu.be/9duwY8VK42A Radio Free Sarawak signing off with several IDs. _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Loggings and Video Links
MALAYSIA (SARAWAK) 9835 Sarawak FM 1014 studio W DJ anncr in BM and into rom. SE Asian song. W again at 1024 w/ID, tlk, and another ID at 1025 before going back to rom. mx. Apparent canned promo/ID by M over mx at 1031, then immed. back to mx. Has been off for a long time due to fault in a transmitter transformer and in the antenna per e-mail Ron Howard got from the stn. (29 May) BOLIVIA 6024.97 R. Patria Nueva Discovered that the stns webstream was 1:26 behind the live audio. Accounting for the delay, I was able to hear one of the three Patria Nueva IDs during the promos at 2359:37 despite V.O. Vietnam (Albania) playing music and splattering over. Also heard ment on El Mundo. But the other IDs just didn't make it through. (7 June) BOLIVIA 6024.97 R. Patria Nueva 1000:20 canned ID by W before the next hour of nx. The morning reception here has been QRMed by Marti and the jammer on 6030, but the evening reception is clear in the half hour before Marti comes on 2330- (China fades out). (9 June) PIRATE (EUROPE) 6220 Tip Elvis 0014* closing anmnt by M, part of a song, then off. Confirmed in a chat this was Tip Elvis and 500 watts. (15 June) BRAZIL 5990.07 R. Nacional da Amazonia 0835 end of ZY Pop song, then deep-voiced M anncr taking phone calls. Bom dias. Tlk w/ment of Parana, Sao Paulo, Puerto Alegro. Back to more Pops at 0847. Fair signal // tremendous 6180.01. (17 June) AUSTRALIA/ROMANIA 15399.973 HCJB (via Australia) 1057 Heard w/EG and CH rel. pgm (M speaking in EG repeated in CH by another M) over R. Romania Int. which was on 15400. You could plainly hear the 27 hz het created by the 2. Romania was ending their FR program, went off the air, and came back on weaker w/apparent EG program. (17 June) CLANDESTINE 15430 R. Free Sarawak Came on with a false start briefly at 1046, then on at 1050 and audio up at 1052 w/mx. 1100 hrd the usual sign on w/IDs and website easily copied. Only fair signal though. (17 June) Recently, I've started posting some videos of the Perseus SDR on Youtube. Things that may be of interest should you care to view. Here are some links; http://youtu.be/5KY7rgXgcZg European Pirates as heard in Pennsylvania, USA (Part 1) (2009-12-06) http://youtu.be/ui59ILrTnX0 European Pirates as heard in Pennsylvania, USA (Part 2) (2009-12-06) http://youtu.be/mAZcZyGVVnQ Shortwave Stations (11735) Voice of Korea and Radio Transmundial Mixing, (11665) Wai FM (2014-06-14) http://youtu.be/qRiXR-vijx0 Canadian Shortwave Stations CKZU and CKZN on 6160 kHz (2014-06-14) http://youtu.be/0wqblJ6eU9I Shortwave Pirate station MAC (2014-06-14) http://youtu.be/s1ZlLoswyHA 15400 HCJB (Australia) and Radio Romania Intenational 27 Hertz Apart (2014-06-17) http://youtu.be/YXLC42D8IFs Shortwave Radio Stations from Brazil in the 31 Meterband (2014-06-19) http://youtu.be/23GPWTCd9HQ Bolivian Shortwave Radio Station Radio Yura Identification (2014-06-19) http://youtu.be/8McV70ZgFeE Hets on 11815 and 11735. (2014-06-19) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 4985.5
In a sort-of follow-up to Art Deliberts observation PERU 4985.5 R Voz Cristiana Surprised to find this on in the evening coming in fairly well. Equal to Brasil Central!! 2330-2335 lively revival rel. mx. W anncr preaching w/ments of Madre de Dios, corazon, palabra. M took over at 2335. Gave ment of time at 2337. 2339 apparent lively rel. mx w/same M and W doing the singing. 2341 back to preaching by W w/many ments of palabra. 2346 M then. W nearly screaming at times. 2348 another rapid-paced song w/M vclist shouting Halleiuia once then W doing the same at 2352:05. 2352 W again w/ments of familia. Pgm break at 2356 w/what sounded like the same canned anmnts/promos as heard in the mornings. 2nd one had ments of internacional and addr in Huancayo. 2357:55 anmnt by W w/sev. ments of Voz Cristiana and Francisco. :25 another w/ment of Voz Cristiana. Promo w/nice IDs at 0001:20 and 0001:40. Pgm before 2356 continued at 0003. ID at 0050:30. Finally found their website at 0055 and indeed // but lagging beh! ind by 30 seconds. 0056 horn blowing and nice R. Voz Cristiana ID by M. (14-15 Jan.) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus with Wellbrook AL1530S+ _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] SIBC Now On 9545
BRAZIL 6079.89 R. Marumby 0840 soft mx which sounded //9545 at first but of course not. 0859 canned anmnt by M ending w/M definitely //9514.97. This freq fair and 9514.97 good. No sign of 6080 SIBC. (31 Dec.) SOLOMON ISLANDS 9545 SIBC/R. Happy Islands Soft Pops and island mx. Went over 0900 ToH w/island mx, then one ad at 0901 by M starting with conch shell blowing and back to Pop mx. 0904 studio M anncr mentioning ...for the past week... but couldn't copy much more. M returned at 0909 mentioned thank you for your company. 0911 Feliz Navidad. 0915 studio M again very briefly. Mx intro, then rel. segment w/tlk by M mentioning God many times and amens. 0927 outro w/ment of Solomon Islands and same rel. mx. Promo w/ment of R. Happy Isles and phone # at 0928, then pgm promo. Holiday greeting from a rel. store. 0930:25 nice ID and ment of national radio and upcoming Countdown by live studio M DJ. Getting very fady after 0920. 0952-1000 good and nearly 100% copy w/New Years Eve lottery/drawing pgm w/Joan and Paul hosts (Paul drawing and Joan announcing the winners), conch shell blowing and ID anmnt, then into nx. Still going after 1100 but 9540 China cause! s some slopover QRM at that time. Still on at 1327 w/tlk by M but 9550 Cuba splattering all over it. Guess they finally decided to get it over with and move off 6080 and the QRM from R. Australia. Much better on the Delta Loop than the Wellbrook. (31 Dec.) 73 and a Happy New Year to all of you!! Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153' vertical triangular Delta Loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 4760 ELWA Return
4760 ELWA Surprised to find a signal here with M preaching with the mic positioned in the back of the room at 0704 t/in. At 0705 preaching ended and the studio M came on in Afro-accented English and mentioned beautiful celebration, and then at 0708:40 was shocked to hear ELWA IDs clearly and somewhat slowly!! Then went into Hi-life music. 0714 M returned w/more ments of celebrate and celebration, broadcast. 0718 into choral singing w/M tlk voice-over saying hallelujah, and M pgm host came on at 0721. 0726-0731 Oh Holy Night by W. 0732:05 ID. Ment of Liberia during tlk by M at 0741. Was gradually and slowly fading but really took a nosedive between 0741-0751. Was still barely able to hear Afro singing at 0752. Barely visible in the display at 0800. Very surprised and glad to see them back. e-QSL already received from Moses Nyantee who says they are testing 5:30-10:00 AM and 5:00-10:00 PM Liberia time. Will start regular broadcasts on 1 January. (2! 1 Dec.) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153' vertical triangular Delta Loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Loggings 26-29 Nov.
on the freq. (28 Nov.) IRAN 6040 V.O. the Islamic Rep. of Iran 1939 EG nx read by M. 1941 interview on current affairs. Fair. (28 Nov.) UK 7235 IBRA R. (via Woofferton) 1944 end of mx and ID jingle, then canned anmnt by W in vern. over mx, then Afro choral singing. Good signal. (28 Nov.) UZBEKISTAN 6260 CVC/The Voice Asia (via Tashkent) 1947 tlk by W but not strong enough to confirm it was Hindi. 1955 mx on recheck. Went off at 2000:40 per sked. Never did get any better from t/in. Never hrd it here before. (28 Nov.) INDONESIA 9525.89 V.O. Indonesia M in what sounded like EG at 1949 but audio a bit muffled. Into Pop mx. Nice canned ID and website URL by W at 1954:30, then another Pop song. A little better signal at this time than at 1000. (28 Nov.) KUWAIT 6050 R. Kuwait Mixing about equally with Turkey at 2055, so it was hard to tell who was who. 2057 W in AR briefly, then M over AR mx and cont. mx to 2100. 5+1 time ticks, then deep-voiced M w/ID ending w/ment of Kuwait, fanfare sounding like a NA but not the beginning of the Kuwaiti NA. Then deep-voiced M again w/pres. nx. Makes for a mess on this freq. (28 Nov.) NIGERIA 6089.85 R. Nigeria, Kaduna Audio up to good level just before 2100, then ID by M in low level, distorted drum IS, and diff. M anncr w/apparent nx. Pretty strong signal. (28 Nov.) TAIWAN 7540 Suab Xaa Moo Zoo (via Taiwan) OC already on at 2227. 2230-2232 fanfare and opening voice-over anmnts by M in Hmong. 2232 into soft rel. vcl song by W. Same M returned at 2235-2237, and another soft song w/apparent Hmong vcl. Quick closing at 2259 by the M host, mx briefly and off. Choppy signal and seemed to get stronger to peaking around 2245, then faded a little. (28 Nov.) USA 9475 WTWW M w/anmnt saying they were leaving the freq and to tune to 5830, but then continued w/Pictures for America Worldwide. Still going on 9475 at 0007. Only fair at best. (29 Nov.) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153' vertical triangular Delta Loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 6150.76
I came across something that has me intrigued. Hopefully one of you can help. Here is a logging: 6150.76 UNID. Playing what sounds like a Pop song at 2158. 2200 possibly 1 tone, then a fanfare and M anncr, mx bridge and M returned. 2203 W anncr noted too. Still going at 2221 w/pleasant mx. Mx at 2231 sounded subcontientalish. Could this be R. Taiwan Int?? Couldn't //9450 and couldn't find a webstream oddly enough. Still no better by 2245. Weak but definitely here. Not there at 2347 check. (27 Nov.) I just got a message from Ron Howard copying a logging of Bayrak R. on 6150.73 from Martien Groot in 2010. And in 2011, Wolfgang Bueschel heard them on 6150.03. Could what I have heard this evening been Bayrak R.?? 73 Dave _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
