Re: [HCDX] Dxers Unlimited's mid week edition for 15-16 January 2008
Tuesday -Wednesday, January 15- 16, 2008 Radio Havana Cuba Dxers Unlimited Dxers Unlimited's mid week edition for 16-17 January 2008 By Arnie Coro radio amateur CO2KK Hi amigos radioaficionados , welcome to the mid week edition of your favorite radio hobby program... I am Arnie Coro, radio amateur CO2KK and as always it is my pleasure to share with you around 17 minutes of on the air and on the web time. You can also read the scripts of the show by subscribing to one of the several short wave listeners and radio amateur's mailing lists to which the scripts are uploaded sometimes even slightly ahead of our first on the air delivery. Among the lists that carry Dxers Unlimited's scripts are the ODXA , Ontario DX Association Yahoo groups list, the ANTENNEX antennas topics web magazine e-mail distribution list . Now here is item one of today's program: Although practically all solar scientists coincide about the fact that solar cycle 24 has already started, we have yet to wait for a while longer to see more high latitude , reverse magnetic polarity sunspots that belong to cycle 24... so far optical observations have picked up just one small sunspot group that everyone is practically sure that it belongs to the new cycle... In the meantime, the latest solar data shows a blank Sun, zero sunspots and a very low solar flux. More information about HF propagation conditions , as always at the end of the program. Item two: I have received many requests to post the whole set of data files for the Regenerodyne receivers family and the Super Islander hybrid amateur radio transceiver. At this moment I am working on the circuit diagrams , so that when the files are made available, those of you interested in duplicating the circuits will then have available very detailed circuit diagrams, photos and the complete step by step building instructions, following the patterns of the well written radio kit manuals, with the exception that you must look for the parts all by yourself . Item three: Monitoring the 19 meters international broadcast band during the local early morning hours is an excellent demonstration of how the maximum useable frequency curve rises very slowly under conditions of very low solar activity. Even on short paths , single hop propagation, the 15 megaHertz band is not able to provide a high quality service until the Sun is way up above the horizon. Our own Radio Havana Cuba morning show, Despertar con Cuba, waking up with Cuba is not on the air on 19 meters until 13 hours UTC, that is 8 AM local time here, and the reason for operating on 6180 kiloHertz from 11 hours UTC to 13 hours UTC and then switching to frequencies on the 22 meters band and the 19 meters band is precisely to make the best possible use of the propagation windows that don't open up until the ionosphere has received a good boost of solar ultraviolet radiation. By the way if you want to practice your Spanish , our Waking up with Cuba show, Despertar con Cuba is an excellent opportunity to get a daily practice session of Spanish language. You can pick our morning show in North America from 13 to 15 hours UTC on 15370, 13680 , 12000 and, 11760kiloHertz, as all frequencies that can be well heard in North America during that two hour period . Stay tuned for more radio hobby related information , coming to you from Havana, when our mid week edition of Dxers Unlimited continues after a short break for station ID... ... You are listening to Radio Havana Cuba, the name of the show is Dxers Unlimited, and here is now our next item of today's program: Our popular Antenna Topics section, that today will feature information about underground antennas, an option that is a good choice when you do have a garden or backyard area available, but for some particular reason or reasons you can't install antenna masts or towers. Amazing as this may sound, undeground antennas for the short wave bands do work, and when properly designed and installed the results achieved with them are really amazing. One of the interesting features of underground antennas is that they can provide a very good signal to noise ratio , as they are actually shielded from noise sources that make reception difficult. I have tried two different types of underground antennas for short wave reception and transmission. One of them is made from a length of coaxial cable that you don't even have to bury underground, but that it is always a good idea to put it below ground preferable inside a length of buried PVC or polyethylene pipe. This antenna type is often refered as a SNAKE ANTENNA because of the way the black coaxial cable looks when lying on the ground. I have also installed SNAKE antennas on my reinforced concrete rooftop, with very good results, comparing the signals received from the SNAKE ANTENNA with signals picked up with a FAN DIPOLE located about 10 meters above the SNAKE made with a 15 meters long
[HCDX] The Sunclock Applet
This came across my desk today, and I thought it might make a nice addition to the DXTests.info web site and possibly others. It is a real time clock that illustrates the grayline as it moves across the earth. It looks like it might be fairly easy to customize to display where the sun would be (will be) positioned at the time that a DX test occurs. You can see the applet and download the code at: http://www.brunchboy.com/sunclock.shtml Les Rayburn, director High Noon Film 100 Centerview Drive Suite 111 Birmingham, AL 35216-3748 205.824.8930 205.824.8960 fax 205.253.4867 cell ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- 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] LOGS 13+14
Please look at my new web page http://zliangas.blogspot.com/ Article blogged http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/139/ Free radio 6400.8 WMR 2204 playing a song , talks by OM in English I could not catch , 2208 old song mentions on N Irealnd and address of WMR in Scotland .Steady signal on S3 , best on USB or on + 6.63 kHZ to avoid QRM from Korea Liangas 13th Thessaloniki GReece ITALY free radio 6882 (rel power FM? ) 2214 with dance music . 25544 , S4 at max Liangas 13thThessaloniki GReece MSIA 9750 RTM /V Islam and 7295 Traxx FM have been heard on 13th with `great' signals S9 max for RTM and S6 for TRaxx on 14xx hours . relatively stable signal for Traxx Liangas 13th Thessaloniki GReece NIGERIA 4770 FCRN Kaduna 2233 with light music and signal S10 one of the 3 strongest signals on the band .Low modulation lowers the total `image' 42522 Liangas 13th Thessaloniki GReece TCHAD 4905 R Chad 0503 with news S10 Liangas 13th. same level for 15th BRAZIL 4985 RBC 2159 with ID after TOH S5 max 24232 Liangas 14th Thessaloniki GReece http://zliangas.blogspot.com (radio tech , gadgets, grk ethics) http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE http://www.worldisround.com/articles/302315/ (Litohoro) 321199/Tinos http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachgrpictures upload http://www.geocities.com/zliangas http://www.myspace.com/310100806 http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=770974854 http://del.icio.us/gr_geek Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece greekdx @ otenet dot gr --- Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108, Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000 Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- 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. Universitaria
R. Universitaria 4732KHz was with a strong signal, different than other times around 0100 at 01/15 but with breaks, seems like they are testing some transmitter. You can listen this short mp3 audio 125kbt, 30 seconds: http://www.freewebs.com/audiodx/r.universitaria4732khz0100utc150108.mp3 Lucio Otavio Bobrowiec Embu SP Brasil (23 33 S, 46 51 W) Sony ICF SW40 dipole 18m, 32m ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- 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 NAVIGATIONAL WARNINGS
Saludos cordiales, interesante listado con todas las estaciones costeras, horarios y frecuencias, FAX, NAVTEX y fonia. http://homepage.mac.com/lawendel/radionavigationalwarnings.pdf Para los interesados en el DX de utilitarias. 73 José Miguel Romero - ¡Descubre una nueva forma de obtener respuestas a tus preguntas! Entra en Yahoo! Respuestas. ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- 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] DX Listening Digest 8-005; WOR 1391, 1390
DX Listening Digest 8-005 has now been posted at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt or http://dxld.worldofradio.org and now also without delay at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld8005.txt CONTENTS: WOR 1391 / ANTARCTICA / ARGENTINA / AUSTRALIA non RA / AUSTRALIA 7LA / BENIN / BIAFRA non / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL +non / CANADA XLB51 / CANADA CFVP / CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC / CHINA / COSTA RICA / CUBA / CYPRUS / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC non / ECUADOR / ETHIOPIA +non / GREECE / GUIANA FRENCH DRM / GUINEA / HAITI / HONG KONG / INDIA / INDONESIA / INTERNATIONAL WATERS non? Amigos / IRAN +non / IRAQ ham / ISRAEL / ITALY DRM / JAPAN +non / JORDAN / KOREA NORTH / KURDISTAN +non / LATVIA / LITHUANIA / MALI / MEXICO +non / MOROCCO / MYANMAR / NETHERLANDS ANTILLES DRM / OKLAHOMA ham W5G / OKLAHOMA KTTL / OMAN / PAKISTAN / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PORTUGAL / ROMANIA non / RUSSIA +non / SUDAN +non / TIBET / TRINIDAD TOBAGO / TURKEY / UGANDA / UK BBCWS/R3 / USA +non VOA / USA AFN / USA WWRB / USA non YFR / USA WQFR277 / USA KLEY / USA NPR / USA WOSU / USA KATV/KETS+ / USA KKMO / USA FCC / USA KFXM / VENEZUELA +non / ZAMBIA / ZIMBABWE non / UNIDENTIFIED 960 / UNIDENTIFIED 1181 / UNIDENTIFIED 1320 / UNIDENTIFIED 1650 / UNIDENTIFIED 3290 / UNIDENTIFIED 5954 / UNIDENTIFIED 6074 / UNIDENTIFIED 7087 / UNIDENTIFIED 15710 / TESTIMONIALS / PUBLICATIONS / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / PROPAGATION For restrixions and searchable 2008 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html For restrixions and searchable 2007 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid7.html NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1391 **flexible times Thu 0700 WRMI 9955** Thu 1530 WRMI 7385 Fri 0030 WBCQ 7415 Fri 0730 WRMI 9955** Fri 1200 WRMI 9955** Fri 2130 WWCR1 15825 [not expected 7465] Fri 2330 WBCQ 5110-CLSB Sat 0900 WRMI 9955 Sat 1730 WWCR3 12160 Sat 2230 WRMI 9955 Sun 0330 WWCR3 5070 Sun 0730 WWCR1 3215 Sun 0900 WRMI 9955 Sun 1200 WRMI 9955 Sun 1615 WRMI 7385 Mon 0400 WBCQ 9330-CLSB [irregular] Mon 0515 WBCQ 7415 [time varies] Mon 0930 WRMI 9955** Tue 1130 WRMI 9955** Tue 1630 WRMI 7385 Wed 0830 WRMI 9955** Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WRN ON DEMAND: http://new.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24 WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN NOW AVAILABLE: http://www.wrn.org/listeners/stations/podcast.php OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org WORLD OF RADIO 1390 SUMMARY [last week`s show] *VOA adds another Swahili transmission, and a program for Rwandan youth *New executive editor at VOA is Steve Redisch, ex-CNN *Harris gets contract to modernize VOA Washington *New African music blog at http://www.voaafrica.com *Additions and subtractions to the VOA Special English word list *Critique of VOA and IBB`s effectiveness, by Victor Goonetilleke *AFN and VOA are insensitive to Islamic ears in Kuwait and vicinity *KAIJ advertises to dismantle log-periodic antenna *Area 51 on WBCQ has webcast, and advance program info on WBCQ forum *There`s another ``Radio Miami International`` with webcast not related to WRMI *30,000 kHz of Sound, shortwave inspires production at Magnet Theater in NY thru Jan *Thanks this week for financial support from Jan Schrader, Missouri *Mystery CW marker on 6074 kHz daily at 1400-1401, ID as 8GAL *Special DX test from KKMO, 1360, Seattle, Sunday January 13 at 0800- 0815 UT *Special DX test from CFFX, 960, Kingston, Ont., January 15 at 0500, 0600, 0700 UT; details on both at http://www.dxtests.info *XERTA confirms it is back on new 4800, 500 watts, new antenna *RAE, Argentina confirmed one hour earlier due to sudden DST, English M-F at 1700, Tu-Sa 0100 *LRA36, Antarctica, missing again from 15476; summer vacation? *BBC puts mixing product on 6280 at 2130, Skelton leapfrog of 6110 over 6195 *KBC via Lithuania 6265 Mon-Sat 2130-2230 *Serbia clear of DRM interference in English at 2200 on 6100 *New R. Svitle, Ukraine via CVC via Germany on 9885 at 1500 collides with V. of Russia via Dushanbe *Greece puts mixing product on 6230 = 15650 minus 9420, like 6210 = 15630 minus 9420 *Mauritania monitored on 4845 until 0830, 7245 from 0847 *Ethiopian jamming of Deutsche Welle Amharic continues on at least two of four frequencies *Radio Cairo Portuguese service says it will have webcasts; let`s hope English too, modulated properly for a change *Bubble jamming around 6128 could be Iran vs Coalition Maritime Forces in the Gulf *Pakistan canceled January 5 the English to Europe hour at 0730 *India`s 7410 transmitter puts out spurs, one
