Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 104, Issue 30
Send Hard-Core-DX mailing list submissions to hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to hard-core-dx-requ...@hard-core-dx.com You can reach the person managing the list at hard-core-dx-ow...@hard-core-dx.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Hard-Core-DX digest... ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2011 is out. Order yours from http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt Today's Topics: 1. Glenn Hauser logs August 29, 2011 (Glenn Hauser) 2. Log in Milan (Giampiero Bernardini) 3. Logs 27+28 (Zacharias Liangas ) 4. Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA (Stewart MacKenzie) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:45:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Glenn Hauser wghau...@yahoo.com To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 29, 2011 Message-ID: 1314636302.71139.yahoomailclas...@web114020.mail.gq1.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** ALBANIA. Since R. Tirana has been missing from both frequencies, I brought up the unofficial webcast http://radiotirana.funkhaus.info:8000/ at 1428 August 29, to see if the weekday English broadcast at 1430, missing for a month from 13625, and still absent at 1442 check today, would at least be on the webcast? No, music at first, 1430 Albanian announcements from R. Tirana in `Kalendar` feature, then alternating pop music and brief talk segments in Albanian. So are English broadcasts even being produced? If SW remains silent, we need to check the webcast Mon-Sat also at 1845, 2000, UT Tue-Sun 0030, 0145, 0230 and 0330. The later segments to North America have also been heard previously with additional English repeats in between the SW times. Ramadan is about to end, in case that has something to do with this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 15340, Aug 29 at 1240, HCJB in S Asian language, in the clear, no 15341 Morocco het! Not on 15345v either, so off the air. HCJB`s other transmitter in English on 15400 also audible. But at 1333, IMM was back on 15341v to het HCJB whose audio remained atop (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake Aug 29, before 1300: 7970, good at *1226. I had just tuned by on the 7-8 MHz FRG-7 range without hearing it, and then starting at the bottom edge of the 8-9 MHz range, 7965, there it was on 7970 10300, very good at 1233; none in the 11`s, 12`s 13130, very good at 1237 13920, poor at 1236 14720, good at 1238 After 1300: 15430, very poor at 1307; on early or continuously thru hourtop After 1330: 16100, fair at 1336 14720, fair at 1338 13920, very good at 1339 12270, good at 1339 12025, poor at 1340 mixed with CNR1 jamming 10300, fair at 1342 7970, poor at 1342 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also MALAYSIA, ChiCom QRM ** EURASIA. Following reports that MW TA carriers were penetrating deep into NAm, I made a check UT Aug 29 at 0250, and could detect some weak ones on 1521 (no doubt Saudi Arabia) against KOKC, and on 1089, plus a few other hints too weak to be sure of vs birdies, appliance radiation, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. 9835, Aug 29 at 1228, Qur`an squeezed by ACI, but RTM is apparently sporadically active. At 1251, speech in Malay, mentions ``subsidy``, over CCI, flutter; By 1254 the CCI is gaining. What could that be? HFCC, Aoki and EiBi show nothing else on 9835 until India at 1315 or 1330, tho there are plenty of collisions at other times. 11665 is an even worse frequency choice for RTM`s Sarawak service: I can never hear it, just a het with the Chinese radio war, such as Aug 29 at 1341, CNR1 echo-jamming vs Taiwan at 04-06 and 10-17 per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Sunrise MW DX Aug 29: 750, Aug 29 at 1159, an anthem, but not Mexican national, soon obvious from the lyrix that it`s the Sinaloa state hymn; 1201 ID or sign-on mentions 89.5 FM y 750 AM, ergo per Cant?: 750 XECSI Stereo Vida + FM 89.5 Culiac?n, Sin. 5,000 250 DXLD correspondent Ing. Civ. Israel Gonz?lez Ahumada, M.I., in M?rida, Yucat?n, has just rounded up videos of many state songs, official or not,
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 29-30, 2011
** ALBANIA. Further monitoring of R. Tirana, Monday August 29, on webcast if not SW: No English at 1845, but Turkish continued to 1900. I think there are two different feed lines as the MW site is not // the SW site. Since the unofficial stream was set up by German friends, they are partial to the one containing German (at 1800). I re-`tuned in` to stream at 1957, dead air until IS started at 2002:30. `Perfect` reception only reveals the flaws in this old worn-out lo-fi and distorted recording. But I kept listening to it until 2013 stepped out to be sure 13735 was still off the air; it was, and couldn`t hear it way out here on // 7465 if it were on. Back to the stream just in time to hear theme at 2015 and opening in Serbian! So this is still the feed to MW 1458 Fllakë. Maybe after 2030 when there is only one external program at a time, Albanian or English, we will hear those on web? No! I left a winamp player running for hours and hours until past 0400, and no audio from R. Tirana ever came back. What a waste. Next check at 1440, webcast had resumed, again in Albanian, not English, and 13625 still off. However, Harry Brooks in NE England tells the dxld yg that some English broadcasts are still being produced: ``Radio Tirana's English broadcasts are available via podcasts made by Radio 700 in Germany. The previous week`s podcasts have been a bit irregular. The 20th, 23rd and 24th August are silent and the 25th August is all interval signal. It's not unusual for the Radio Tirana webcast to be silent though and Radio 700's webcast recording software sometimes accounts for a silent podcast. The podcasts are available at http://www.radio700.info/podcasts/en/al/tirana/tirana.php and judging by the filenames are probably recorded from the 0330-0400 English broadcast which is 0530 in Germany`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALGERIA [non]. 7295, Aug 30 at 0545, RTA via FRANCE with nice harmonious singing, an Eid celebration? Rather than usual Qur`an, which had resumed a few minutes later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BONAIRE. 6250, leapfrog Aug 30 at 0526-0527* Japanese song cut off the air abruptly while fundamental 6080 NHK relay continued another biminute; because fulcrum 6165, RNW Dutch had gone off the air as always at 0527. So these transmissions are the same as always, altho Horacio Nigro found a cryptic notice on RN`s Spanish Facebook, which I translate, ``RNW SW transmissions will be affected in the next days due to ruptures (roturas, or breakages), in the Bonaire relay transmitters. Broadcasts toward Cuba and the Caribbean region will be heard with lessened quality. Please accept our apologies for this inconvenience``. So what exactly has happened to them and how have the parameters changed on which times and frequencies? I asked Andy Sennitt about this, who promptly replied: ``Hi Glenn, The transmitters are fine. There was a lighting strike on Saturday that damaged one of the antenna switches, so they used a backup antenna. The signal into North America was already back to normal on Monday, and everything should be normal again today. I presume the reason for the cryptic note was that whoever wrote the Facebook item is not a technical person and didn't understand the exact nature of the problem :-) Andy`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake Aug 30, around 1230: 7970, poor at 1222 10300, good at 1231 with flutter. Most of them are rather fluttery 13130, good at 1237 13850, good at 1237 13920, good at 1238 13970, poor at 1238; none in the 14`s 1, poor at 1245 with het 15900, good at 1239 with flutter 16100, good at 1243 16980, good at 1243 Before 1400: 16100, very good at 1342. None in the 15`s until this: 15425, fair at 1351 also with noise jamming 14720, very good at 1344 13970, very good at 1345 13920, very good at 1345 13830, fair at 1345 13130, very good at 1344 12270, fair at 1345 12025, very poor at 1345 under CNR1 jamming; none in the 11`s, 10`s After 1400: 10300, fair at 1435, back on this hour; did not look for others (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA [and non]. 5954+, Aug 30 at 0530, I hear a less than 1 kHz het against 5955 = RNW via Sines, PORTUGAL, underneath all the Cuban noise jamming, i.e. only evidence that ELCOR is still on the air with R. República (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY [non]. 15610, monitored the entire hour of IRRS relay via Tiganeshti, ROMANIA, Aug 30, which is supposed to be Brother Scare. 1259, ``Triumphal March from Aïda`` by Verdi which serves as IRRS theme music (I thought, how incongruous, we are about to hear the lowest of brows, Brother Scare`s). But instead: 1300 American-accented ``IRRS Shortwave, signing on``, minute of dead air; 1301 initially Firedrake-like percussion, then into modern jazz; 1306 harp music and talk in French! 1308 cut to English, 1309 outro news, mention San Francisco Chronicle, bits of
[HCDX] August 29-30 Logs
** BRAZIL. 15189.96, Radio Inconfidência, 0045-0115, heard after WYFR 0045 sign off. Portuguese talk. Local ballads. Weak but readable. Weak with adjacent channel splatter on // 6010. August 30. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** ERITREA. 9710.03, Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea, 0320-0335, Horn of Africa style music. Vernacular talk. Fair level but very weak modulation. Fair on // 7174.99. August 30. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** ETHIOPIA. 9705, Radio Ethiopia, 2045-2101*, local Horn of Africa style music. Amharic announcements. Possible news at 2056. Sign off with National Anthem at 2059. Fair. August 29. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** ITALY [non]. via ROMANIA. 15610, IRRS, 1259-1400*, tune-in to classical music. English IRRS ID at 1300. One minute of dead air and into lite instrumental music at 1301. French talk at 1307, but into English at 1308 with “In History” program. Program at 1310 about music. “Forum” program at 1323 about California’s “Three Strikes and Your Out” law and their criminal justice system. IRRS ID and contact information at 1359. Fair signal but mixing with WEWN at their 1359 sign on. No Brother Stair and his Overcomer Ministry program today. August 30. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** NIGER. 9704.99, LV du Sahel, 2101-2303*, audible after Ethiopia 9705 sign off at 2101. Vernacular talk. Rustic indigenous vocals. Qur`an at 2257. Short flute IS at 2301 followed by National Anthem. 21 second test tone at 2303 and off. Weak but readable at 2101. Improved to fair to good levels by 2215. August 29. (Brian Alexander, PA) Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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] Sri Lanka broadcasting Corp. - Happening now
Coming in now at S4 on the east coast of the USA on 11905 at 0100 GMT. Broadcast in Hindi with subcontinental music and woman announcer. 73 Al Muick ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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 from NH-USA, August 29-30
..also a few from last week that I never got around to posting. The DX is starting to improve here. Hope it continues through the B-11 season. 2368.49 AUSTRALIA R. Symban 0935-1006 Ballads in listed Greek; ancr at 1005; f/in by ToH; poor in ECCS-USB when there was enough signal for it to lock onto; 8/30. (Barbour-NH) 3290 GUYANA GBC Georgetown 0930 EE; M ancr into On Top of Old Smokey followed by ancment of sorts; poor in ECCS-USB; 8/30. (Barbour-NH) 3375.42 BRAZIL R. Municipal Cachoeira 0939 PP; Ballads canned sounding ancr at 0943; v. poor; 8/30. (Barbour-NH) 4755.4 MICRONESIA presumed V6MP PMA The Cross Pohnpei 1008-1026 Lengthy talk poking through band noise; not enough to detail but best I've had to date; v.poor in ECCS-USB; 8/30. (Barbour-NH) 4940 CHINA V. of the Strait Fuzhou 1028-1041 CC; Ballad at t/in; ancment solid ID at BoH; ad string; back to ballads at t/out; poor; best in ECCS-LSB; 8/30. (Barbour-NH) 5925 CHINA CNR-5 Beijing 1046-1102 CC; M W ancrs w/ alternating talk; one ancr breaks out into song!; mx bridges remote reports; filler mx at 1058; ID CNR jingle mx at 1100 into more talk; poor-fair; 8/30. (Barbour-NH) 5930 RUSSIA R. Rossii Monchegorsk 0922-0932 RR; M ancr over lite instrumental mx; alternating M W over mx at 0924; more of same at BoH w/ ID at 0930; fair in ECCS-LSB to null 5935-MGS; 8/24. (Barbour-NH) 5995 MALI RTV Malieene Bamako 2303-2320 FF; Indigenous mx; lengthy talk by M ancr; mx at 2310 followed by more talk; v. poor; 8/29. (Barbour-NH) 9835 MALAYSIA-SARAWAK Sarawak FM/RTM Kajang 1121-1203 Pop ballads in listed Malay w/ W ancr between selections; Kor'an chants from 1150 w/ occasional W ancr talk; Arabic sounding talk at 1202 into a snippet of AA mx; back to Malay ballad at t/out; no discernible ID noted; poor-fair; 8/29. (Barbour-NH) 9920 ALASKA KNLS Anchor Point 1110 CC; Ballad W ancr w/ URL talk; battling for dominance w/ co-channel FEBC Bocaue featuring M ancr w/ lengthy talk in unid language; fair w/ constant siren effect heard throughout; 8/23. (Barbour-NH) Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA NRD-45, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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
Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Logs from NH-USA, August 29-30
--- On Tue, 8/30/11, Scott R. Barbour Jr. srbjr...@yahoo.com wrote: 5930 RUSSIA R. Rossii Monchegorsk 0922-0932 RR; M ancr over lite instrumental mx; alternating M W over mx at 0924; more of same at BoH w/ ID at 0930; fair in ECCS-LSB to null 5935-MGS; 8/24. (Barbour-NH) Monchegorsk is in the NW corner of Russia near Finland and Norway, see WRTH 2011 map on page 61, where it`s almost noon. Surely you were getting the other 5930 transmitter at this hour, Petropavlovsk / Kamchatsky on the Pacific Coast over a full darkness path. We commonly hear this 2-3 hours later, when it`s // but not synchronized with 5940 Magadan, i.e. on the same FE timezone feed, which Monchegorsk would not be. 73, Glenn Hauser ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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
Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Logs from NH-USA, August 29-30
--- On Tue, 8/30/11, Glenn Hauser wghau...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Tue, 8/30/11, Scott R. Barbour Jr. srbjr...@yahoo.com wrote: 5930 RUSSIA R. Rossii Monchegorsk 0922-0932 RR; M ancr over lite instrumental mx; alternating M W over mx at 0924; more of same at BoH w/ ID at 0930; fair in ECCS-LSB to null 5935-MGS; 8/24. (Barbour-NH) Monchegorsk is in the NW corner of Russia near Finland and Norway, see WRTH 2011 map on page 61, where it`s almost noon. Surely you were getting the other 5930 transmitter at this hour, Petropavlovsk / Kamchatsky on the Pacific Coast over a full darkness path. We commonly hear this 2-3 hours later, when it`s // but not synchronized with 5940 Magadan, i.e. on the same FE timezone feed, which Monchegorsk would not be. 73, Glenn Hauser In fact, NH and Pet/Kam are close to the grayline, which one may generate for any exact time and date, as in your log, via http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Earth/action?opt=-p It`s really handy to tell right away where it`s night and where it`s day. Glenn ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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
