Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 116, Issue 7
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 5-6, 2012 (Glenn Hauser) 2. Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA (Stewart MacKenzie) 3. Logs from NH-USA, August 2-6 (Scott R. Barbour Jr.) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 09:38:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Glenn Hauser wghau...@yahoo.com To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: NASWA na...@yahoogroups.com, s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 5-6, 2012 Message-ID: 1344271099.51433.yahoomailclas...@web114001.mail.gq1.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** CHINA. Firedrake August 6, not full scans, just noticed: 15500, poor with flutter until 1340* 15610, poor with flutter at 1416 with ACI from 15615 WEWN, but not as bad as it would have been on 15605 vs the WEWN 15606 spur 17570, JBA at 1418, mixing with V. of Tibet via MADAGASCAR, on this frequency today instead of alternating 17560 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6125, August 6 at 0500, no signal from RHC English which is supposed to start now; 0508 finally has reached open-carrier status, while the other three are modulating on 6010, 6050, 6060. I don`t keep listening as that would run into CO2KK. Just another night of SNAFU from RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, August 6 at 0603, ``In the Sweet Bye `n` Bye``, harmonious hymn with fiddle, good signal but lofi audio, 0605 into YL gospel huxter. More music, please, from R. Africa! Was not hearing it in the previous hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM [non]. 9410, August 6 at 0530, BBCWS via SOUTH AFRICA, news headlines that Curiosity was about to have landed on Mars, my cue to turn on CNN immediately, to witness the jubilation at JPL as the first low-res shots appeared. As a funder and space exploration enthusiast, I too am jubilant, altho somewhat less overtly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 15540, Sunday August 5 at 1900, R. Kuwait opening `Pioneers Personalities of Kuwait`s Cultural Awakening`, i.e. the 24th episode about Emir al-Sabah, at the time of the Iraqi invasion, support from Pres. Mubarak of Egypt with whom he met on 7 August 1990 to thank him. Program must be about three times as long as necessary due to musical interludes between each sentence, but makes it more palatable for SWLs with ADD (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MAURITANIA. 7245, August 6 at 0458, IGIM is on in very undermodulated Arabish, consistently for Ramadan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. 6170, Monday August 6 at 1329, RNZI playing music, as fortnightly `Mailbox` has started early as usual; poor signal and even worse at 1333 about to outfade as Kevin Hand is starting his utility DX report; back to the audio on demand via http://www.rnzi.com/audio/mailbox2.mp3 Has lots of tips about information sources. Toward the end, Mike Bird in Australia, ex-Media Network, discusses propagation, having taken over from Adrian Sainsbury for this. Both of them are to return in two weeks. Opening music occupying more than a quarter of the program is a nice pro-peace anthem, ``No More Fighting, No More Dying`` altho rather off-topic. Hmmm, no letters at all in this ``mailbox`` either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PRIDNESTROVYE. 9665, Sunday August 5 at 2211, poor signal in Russian, must be Radio PMR as scheduled. I was noticing that there haven`t been any logs of this reaching my desk for many weeks and wondered if it had vanished without notice. First checked it Friday August 3 at 2201, but that was too late, as their broadcast week concludes at 2100 Fridays, resumes at 2100 UT Sundays. Best chance for us to hear English is at 2230 Sun-Fri, unchecked.
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 6-7, 2012
** AUSTRALIA. 9580, August 7 at 1330, RA pulls away from Olympicism, for programming of significance, but not matching their own schedule! Online, both Pacific and Asian streams claim that this Tuesday at 1330 they were airing `Jazz Notes`, but instead I heard a program start about the Hazara, persecuted minority in Afghanistan, some of whom try to escape to Australia via Xmas Island. Could not catch name of show, and no hits searching RA website. Instead found `Rear Vision` on Radio National, whence it originated, with transcript, comments, audio OD: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/hazara/4165942 Fortunately, since KOSU was starting `The Living Room` at same time I wanted to hear; see OKLAHOMA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake August 6, after 1700: 13780, fair at 1707 mixing with Chinese, RFA and/or CNR1 jamming 13780, fair with flutter at 1915 recheck, now FD music only August 7, after 1300, without full bandscan: 15570, good at 1306 with het on lo side 15485, fair at 1306 with het on hi side Before 1400: 16920, very good at 1342 16100, poor at 1342 15970, fair at 1342 15490, good at 1344 After 1400: 15610, fair-good at 1411 with added noise jamming, aside WEWN 15615 17565, fair at 1412 vs V. of Tibet via MADAGASCAR on this frequency today splitting the difference between 17560 and 17570. Obviously it makes no difference to jump among these three, as the ChiCom monitors will find which one is in use (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA. 9765, August 7 at 0526, REE relay is here // stronger 9630, 5965, and missing from 3350 where the third transmitter is supposed to be. This happens periodically; just not paying attention at Cariari? 9765 is a frequency for them at other dayparts. Fortunately, no one else is trying to use it now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6125, August 7 at 0519, at first it seems RHC English is once again dead air, but turning the volume way up, I can tell it`s JBM // synchronized 6050. 7370-7430, August 7 at 0523, DentroCuban Jamming Command buzz field extends out to here from wall-of-noise jamming centred upon 7405 R. Martí (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9690, August 7 at 1417, still no signal from AIR GOS English sesquihour to SE Asia, but a frequency which used to make it here on good days from 1330. Jose Jacob reports that AIR has deliberately closed down this and some other frequencies from Bengaluru in order to install a new DRM transmitter. Try // 11620 and 13695 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9680, August 7 at 1327, RRI with Indonesian talk and music, the Chinese radio war only causing a weak SAH; at 1417 in Qur`an even less CCI; cantor has quite a hi-pitched voice: could it be a child, eunuch, or Allah-forbid, a woman? Those straying IndoMoslems! Meanwhile, still no signal on 9526 from VOI English which during this Tuesday hour might have been on an `Exotic Indonesia` co-produxion with RRI Banjarmasin. Atsunori Ishida has no logs of this at any hour in August, last heard July 26 until 1500, and I cannot disagree. Also after 1400, CRI Russian 9525.0 had no het at all. Of course, since VOI could not modulate it to any audible level, they might as well turn 9526 off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT [and non]. 15092 approx., August 7 at 1407, intermittent ute blasts atop 15090, IBB`s weak R. Free Afghanistan. Second one heard with BFO on was the ``running-water`` type. So there are utility users of this area despite the broadcast intrusion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MAURITANIA. 7245, August 7 at 0521, IGIM is once again on and chanting, which they do anyway around this hour if on the air, Ramadan or not (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. Just heard that Mt. Tongariro has erupted in the middle of North Island; it`s about 130 km from Rangitaiki, the RNZI transmitter site, so volcanic ash could disrupt transmissions (Glenn Hauser, OK, 1605 UT August 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 15120, August 7 at 0514, VON fair with news in English of Nigeria, and a whine on the signal, but not too bad. This transmission last logged here on July 30, upon almost nightly chex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 91.7, Tuesday August 7 at 1330, KOSU breaks away from NPR `Morning Edition` for monthly `The Living Room` interview show by Gerry Bonds, ex-OETA. Her first guests, head of Devon Energy, and an industry lobbyist, extol the oil and gas industry and how wonderful horizontal drilling and fracking are, so I sent her this comment: ``Hi Gerry, I always try to catch your show, altho the strange scheduling on KOSU makes it a task. Good that they are now available online. BTW, I was sorry to see how OETA treated you, and glad for you that you have found a new outlet. However: when are we going to hear the other side from environmentalist
[HCDX] Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA
BONAIRE Radio Japan NHK Relay 15265 2322 GMT Japanese 444 Aug 5 OM with comments. YL with comments 2322 GMT. Mackenzie-CA.. CUBA Radio Havana Cuba RHC 15230 2332 GMT Spanish 444 Aug 5 YL with comments followed by a group singing with Bongo Music. YL and OM RHC ID 2358 GMT. //11840[333], 11750[333], 11680[444]. MacKenzie-CA.. CUBA China Radio Intl Relay CRI 13650 2343 GMT Chinese 333 Aug 5 YL and OM with comments. MacKenzie-CA.. JAPAN Radio Japan NHK 13640 2345 GMT Japanese 333 Aug 5 YL and OM singing. Then YL with comments. Mackenzie-CA.. SPAIN Radio Exterior Espana REE 15160 2335 GMT Spanish 333 Aug 5 Group singing then OM with comments. MacKenzie-CA.. UNITED STATES WWCR-3 13845 2337 GMT English 444 Aug 5 YL preaching from the Bible. Mackenzie-CA.. UNITED STATES, Greenville Radio Marti 11930 2353 GMT Spanish 433 Aug5 OM with comments. Frequency is noisy via a Jammer. Mackenzie-CA.. UNITED STATES, Tennessee WTWN 9480 0010 GMT English 433 Aug 6 OM preaching from the Bible. MacKenzie-CA.. 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
