[HCDX] The Medium Wave in Canary Islands
Manuel Méndez Lugo, Spain The Medium Wave in Canary Islands Active Medium Wave Stations in Canary Islands, listened in Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote, between 13 and 19 December 2011. Sony ICF SW 7600 G 1269, Radio Ecca, Las Palmas. Educative Station. SINPO 45444 1179, Radio Club de Tenerife, Cadena SER network. SINPO 45444 1008, ABC Punto Radio, Las Palmas, ABC Punto Radio network. SINPO 45444 882, COPE Tenerife, Cadena COPE network. SINPO 45444 837, COPE Las Palmas, Cadena COPE network. SINPO 5 747, Radio 5 Las Palmas, Radio Nacional de España network. SINPO 45444 720, Radio 5 Tenerife, Radio Nacional de España network. SINPO 45444 621, Radio 1 Tenerife, Radio Nacional de España network. SINPO 5 576, Radio 1 Las Palmas, Radio Nacional de España network. SINPO 5 ---[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] Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA
>>> ASCENSION BBCWS Relay 17885 1934 GMT Haush 333 Dec 20 Two OMs with comments. YL with comments 1936 GMT. MacKenzie-CA.. CHILE CVC 11665 1850 GMT Spanish 333 Dec 20 YL and OM with comments. MacKenzie-CA.. CHINA Voice of Han 9745 1907 GMT Chinese 333 Dec 20 YL with comments. Mackenzie-CA.. CHINA CPBS 9455 1915 GMT Chinese 333 Dec 20 YL and OM with comments. MacKenzie-CA.. COSTA RICA Radio Exterior Espana Relay REE 9675 1910 GMT Spanish 333 Dec 20 OM with comments. MacKenzie-CA.. FRENCH GUIANA Radio France Intl Relay 21690 1930 GMT French 333 Dec 20 Two OMs with comments. YL with RFI ID. YL with musiic singing. Also with comments 1932 GMT Mackenzie-CA.. INDIA All India Radio AIR 9425 1918 GMT Bengalru Dec 20 YL with comments and India vocal music. MacKenzie-CA.. PALUA Radio Free Asia Relay 9905 1900 GMT Chinese 444 Dec 20 YL and OM with comments. MacKenzie-CA.. Merry Christmas to everyone worldwide. Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA Huntington Beach, California, United States of America Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650 "World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive" ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC SCADS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCADS ---[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] HAPPENING NOW - TDF DRM TEST FROM FRENCH GUIANA
TDF is DRM testing from French Guiana as of my 2040 UTC tune in 0n 17755, 20 December 2011. Reports requested to engenharia.ra...@ebc.com.br Go get 'em! Currently 22dBm SNR at my location. 73 Al Muick Whitehall PA USA ---[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] Afghans Target Valleys With Shortwave
http://zlgr.multiply.com/photos/album/28/my_radio_shack_ Afghans Target Valleys With Shortwave on 12.20.2011 http://www.radioworld.com/article/afghans-target-valleys-with-shortwave--/154934 U.S. and Romanian troops, members of the team who successfully deployed a new province- wide short wave radio transmitter in Zabul, pose for a photo after completing installation of the antenna near Qalat, Afghanistan Dec. 9. (Photo by Spc. Crystal Davis) Soldiers and a ham radio operator have come up with a way for Afghan officials to better reach citizens throughout the mountainous valleys of Zabul Province - near vertical incidence skywave transmissions. According to an article on the Digital Video and Imagery Distribution System (DVIDS) website, which is operated by the U.S. Army, soliders from Combined Team Zabul worked with the Zabul provincial government to devise a shortwave transmitter set up with long, horizontal antennas and a ground wire that direct the signals steeply upwards. The result is transmissions that bounce off the ionosphere and back into valleys that otherwise would be difficult to reach. Ham radio operator Don Butler (N4UJW) provided design assistance for the transmission system. Combined Team Zabul includes members of the Virginia Army National Guard, the Alaska- based U.S. Army 1st Battalion 24th Infantry Regiment and the Romanian Land Forces Brigada 1 Mecanizata(. The full story is available at DVIDS. http://www.dvidshub.net/news/81428/video-killed-radio-star-virginia-national-guardsman- finds-new-use-old-radio-technology-afghanistan#.TvCkdjVSTTq Standard rig : ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser Please read and distribute this 15 year research article http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE http://www.delicious.com/gr_greek1/@zach (all mypages !!) 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 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] 7635 Galei Tzahal
ISRAEL 7635 Israel's Army radio station Galei Tzahal noted with identification at 0536 UT Dec 20. But hit heavily of UTE station in two tone like RTTY mode, latter S=9+10dB signals on both 7634.755 and 7635.255 kHz. \\ 15850 kHz very poor S=4, just above threshold in dead zone at this hour. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 20) ---[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] Glenn Hauser logs December 19-20, 2011
This item was incompletely identified: ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, Dec 20 at 1355, V. of Mesopotamia via UKRAINE, Kurdish talk instead of usual music, with lite het on hi side 11532 or so, suspected spur from WEWN 11550, 18 kHz away, altho this transmitter is normally their only one without spurs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ---[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] Glenn Hauser logs December 19-20, 2011
** ALBANIA. 7420, UT Tue Dec 20 at 0226, open carrier, 0228 R. Tirana IS, 0230 sign-on English, barely audible with my domestic noise sources not suppressed, but enough to confirm back on air after missing 48 hours earlier. Drita Çiço explains: ``Last week Fllaka was off air due to blocking r/relay problem in Shijak or Fllaka r-st - as reported by Fllaka r-station. During the last days, Shijak is off air due to power interruption according to Shijak r-station. While TWR and CRI via Fllaka r-station are on air, with no interruption at all! - Radio Tirana Monitoring Center`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BHUTAN. 6035, looking for BBS after its re-appearance last week, Dec 20 at 1301, can only detect a VP signal with splash from China radio war on 6030; more likely Yunnan PBS. BBS also appeared on 5030 which others have heard, but not even a carrier there. Of course, that one has ACI from Cuba too. If we do hear anything on 5030, it won`t be Sarawak. Both frequencies have been sporadic so far, going off at unexpected times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake Dec 19, before 1900: 9455, very poor at 1850. Tnx to Leonard Rooney, PA for reminder of this which he was hearing already at 1600. Vs RFA Chinese via Saipan at 16-22, unheard 9355, poor at 1850. Also vs RFA Chinese via Saipan at 17-22, unheard Firedrake Dec 20, before 1400: 12230, very poor with flutter at 1335; by 1352 it has built up to fair NO others found from 7 to 19 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CYPRUS [and non]. 17687-17712, Dec 20 at 1417, strong OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here, causing heavy QRM even to big broadcast signals RFI Guiana French in Spanish on 17690, BSKSA on 17705 --- and weaker CVC Zambia 17695 hasn`t a chance (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. 7220, Dec 20 at 0627, RFI English is still here instead of scheduled Hausa, now with news about KJI until abrupt cutoff at 0630* while much weaker // 9765 continues for the full hour in English. While TDF is SNAFU --- isn`t anyone paying attention at Issoudun? --- I`m not complaining as a semi-hour of good English reception is better than nothing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9470, Dec 20 at 1319, AIR National Channel via Aligarh with IS, 1320 ``Vande Mataram`` and sign-on in Hindi. 9470 is usually inferior to // 9425 via Bengaluru, but this time 9470 is better altho with some CCI underneath, presumably VOR Moskva site in Russian as scheduled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. 6100, Dec 20 at 1304, extremely emotional OM in Korean; wonder what he`s pretending to be so upset about? Also // 6400 at 1307 but an echo apart. Aoki lists these as different services: 6100 KCBS Pyongyang, 250 kW ND, and 6400 Pyongyang BS, 50 kW ND, but both from Kanggye site. 9335, Dec 20 at 1310, VOK English to NAm is making it today, altho bothered by WBCQ 9330 which favors the upper side. Continuous Juche jamming is also still mixing into the VOK broadcasts, but at a low level so we can still copy the content, as I tune in a long string of Korean syllables, probably names of other officials. One of KJI`s post-mortem honorifix is ``benevolent father of the people``, yeah right, the genocidal maniac. Glad I am not having breakfast yet, as a bit of this crap is pukeworthy. Nothing audible yet on // 11710, but at 1400 it`s in with IS and French ID ``La Voix de la Corée``, also with Juche jamming mix underneath, which was also audible unimpeded on 9335 during its open-carrier break at 1357 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, Dec 20 at 1355, Kurdish talk instead of usual music, with lite het on hi side 11532 or so, suspected spur from WEWN 11550, 18 kHz away, altho this transmitter is normally their only one without spurs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MAURITANIA. 7245, Dec 20 at 0627, IGIM is on and chanting, free for another minute or two of ACI from 250 kW VATICAN 7250 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 36, Dec 20 at 1530 UT there is enough tropo enhancement (?) for KUOK to lock in DTV with Univisión programming, local commercials inserted, PSIP ID as KUOK. FCC TV Query searching on those calls hits 9 entries revealing the call consolidation by licensee Oklahoma Land Company, LLC (not even a Spanish name!): The *real*, plain-old KUOK is still ch 35 in Woodward with 8 kW ERP, CP MOD for 1000 kW --- will they ever complete that? Huge power to cover sparsely-populated area in NW OK, while the real market is in the dense OKC area. Ch 36 in OKC is really KUOK-CD, only 7.3 kW but with CP for 14.65 and application for 14.3 (haven`t checked whether site changes are also involved). At this time, there was no enhancement of still-analog ch 48 in OKC carrying same programming, which as I recently noted is no longer called KWDW, but KUOK too --- except that one is really KUOK-LP, with 18
[HCDX] Log Report for Al Muick 19 December 2011 - CORRECTION RE VOICE OF PUJIAN
QTH:Whitehall, Pennsylvania, USA RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: Wellbrook ALA1530P active loop 9705 - The station I reported as tentative, Voice of Pujian, Shanghai China, has been investigated by both myself and Ron Howard, and it seems that it is indeed the Voice of America from Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands, and NOT Pujian. I have no explanation for hearing "Pujian" spoken twice, outside of completely probable coincidence as well as bad ears and wishful thinking. Nevertheless, there always existed some doubt in my mind, and that is why I listed it as tentative. I heard VoA's sign-on at 1300 today, with a much clearer signal than yesterday. EiBi does list Pujian on during this time frame, but Pujian's own website http://www.yicai.com/news/2010/12/641494.html lists all their shortwave frequencies but this one. I have been shown communications between other DXers stating that 9705 is a summer frequency, but EiBi and even WRTH 2012 do not show this. This is disappointing, but it is yet another reminder to me to always make triple sure of logs and to mark things tentative when one is not 100% sure. Thanks to Ron Howard for his help and guidance in this matter! 73 Al Muick Whitehall, PA USA ---[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
Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 108, Issue 20
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 December 19, 2011 (Glenn Hauser) 2. Re: Glenn Hauser logs December 19, 2011 (Wolfgang Bueschel) 3. Radio Remains the BBG Champ (Zacharias Liangas ) 4. NVIS Short Wave technology in Afghanistan (Zacharias Liangas ) 5. Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA (Stewart MacKenzie) 6. Log Report for Al Muick (Albert Muick) 7. Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA (Stewart MacKenzie) 8. Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA (Stewart MacKenzie) 9. RFA / VOA jamming from China mainland (Wolfgang Bueschel) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:59:29 -0800 (PST) From: Glenn Hauser To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 19, 2011 Message-ID: <1324313969.75798.yahoomailclas...@web114006.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** CHINA. Firedrake Dec 19: none found 7-19 MHz around 1430. Ron Howard observes that ``FD is emphasizing their jamming of SOH during their local morning. Dec 18 scanned at 0030 from 19000 down to 8000, finishing at 0048. All // [on 11 frequencies]`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 11785, Dec 19 at 1425, Firedrake-like music but soon joined by operatic vocals, so not FD. CRI Chinese to Europe is scheduled 14-1457, 500 kW, 308 degrees from site Aoki now calls ``Kashi-Saibagh 2022 TKS`` a.k.a. Kashgar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. 15360, Dec 19 at 1430, good with RFI ID and sounders amid Persian, fair signal // 17850. This 1430-1500 broadcast is to replace 15360 by 21580 on Feb 26, a nonsensical date when RFI plans many more upward spring shifts for one month before the A-12 schedules kick in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 6400, Dec 19 at 0630, P`yongyang BS is audible with sad music, ute QRM. 0650, YL in Korean sounds distraught about something or other. 6435, MND, from South to North, Dec 19 at 0631 with YL in Korean, 0632 into choral music closing, // weaker 6550. 6518 & 6600, V. of the People, from South to North, at 0633 Dec 19, lite jamming on 6518, no jamming audible on 6600. Harold Frodge, MI, noted that VOK transmissions were missing earlier on Dec 17 and 18; that should have been a clue that something significant had happened! However, VOK was back when I checked: 9335, Dec 19 at 1414, French about Kim Jung Il [hereafter KJI], what else? Dead or alive. Poor signal but could still hear mixture with NK-style jamming noise bleeding into the broadcast. At this moment WBCQ was missing from 9330-CUSB, tho it was there a few minutes earlier. At 1441, it was back, impeding weakish signal from Kujang. // 11710 not propagating. At 1500 could make out VOK IS and English IDs on 9335, but too weak vs WBCQ and still no 11710 making it. Here`s one convenient source of latest VOK info and scheduling, clips: http://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/10/29/voice-of-korea-b11-schedule/ And as pointed out by Mark Fahey, NSW: http://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/12/19/kim-jong-ils-death-monitoring-north-korean-tv-and-radio/#comments Tnx to Martyn Williams in Tokyo. By lucky coincidence, KJI garnered the top spot in this week`s issue of Parade magazine, Dec 18, printed far in advance, but who was the Second Worst Dictator in the World? Isaias Afewerkio. Who? Where? Eritrea. He`s certainly managed to maintain a lower profile abroad. Now must be temporarily #1 pending KJU making his mark. See http://www.parade.com/dictators (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MAURITANIA. 7245, Dec 19 at 0637, IGIM is on with Arabic talk, singing, not chanting or Qur`an; weaker than Vatican Hungarian massbit on 7250 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SLOVA
[HCDX] RFA / VOA jamming from China mainland
USA RFA Tibetan nominal registered 0600-0700 17515TJK 17715KWT 21625TIN 21695UAE heard on 17515TJK, 17715KWT, 21490TIN, 21640TIN, 21655TIN, and 21695UAE, but not on 21625TIN/21670TIN/21685TIN, Dec 20 at 0600 UT. RFA Mandarin nominal registered 0300-0700 11980TJK 13710TIN 15150TIN 15665SAI 17880TIN 21540TIN 1xhopping: 15150/21450/21465/21480/21495/21510/21525 heard on 11980TJK, 13710TIN, 15665SAI, 17880TIN, 21480TIN 21540TIN, Dec 20 at 0440 UT. But not on 15150TIN. heard on 11980TJK, 13710TIN, 15150TIN, 15665SAI, 17880TIN, 21540TIN, but not 21480TIN, on Dec 20 at 0600 UT. VOA Tibetan nominal registered 0300-0600 15560 17860 21570 kHz. Heard VOA Tibetan on 15560UDO, 17860UDO, and 21570TIN Dec 20 at 0445 UT. and unknown OTH Radar also heard in 21789 to 21811 kHz range. No Firedrake music heard this morning, only domestic CNR1 spoken word jamming. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 20) # # # # # # # TAIWAN 15290.138 RTI in Chinese from Tainan-TWN, and 15244.916 from Tanshui site, at 0515 UT Dec 20, S=7 on remote unit in JPN. Also \\ 11639.997 at 0529 UT. 11744.894 Radio Australia in Indonesian 0500-0530 UT Dec 20, via Tainan-TWN relay, station ID at 0525 UT, S=8 signal noted on back lobe in Japan. 15290.138 Radio Australia in English 0600-0630 UT Dec 20, via Tainan-TWN relay, nx heard at 0603 UT, illegal fishing vessel of Indonesia absorbed in last season, compared with 2004-2005y situation. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 20) ---[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
