[HCDX] DX Listening Digest 12-44 just out
DX Listening Digest 12-44 is now available. Extra load of news partly because of the B-12 seasonal changes has delayed publication, and contents have not yet been compiled for usual formal notification, which will be done later on Monday. But here it is: http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1244.txt or when updated: http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt Please note a new time for WORLD OF RADIO on WRMI 9955, UT Monday 0530. 73, Glenn Hauser _ 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
Manuel Méndez Lugo, Spain Logs in Friol Sony ICF SW 7600 G, cable antenna, 10 meters BRAZIL 11830, Radio Daquí, Goiania, 0952-1017, 04-11, Brazilian songs, male, advertisements, identification: "A Radio Daquí". 14321. (Méndez) 15190, Radio Inconfidencia, Belo Horizonte, 0950-1120, 04-11, Brazilian songs, between 1000 to 1100 eclipsed by China Radio International, at 1100 male, comments, Portuguese, Brazilian songs. 23322. (Méndez) DJIBOUTI, 4780, Radio TV Djibouti, Arta, 1634-1640, 04-11, Vernacular music. 24322. (Méndez) INDIA 4800, AIR, Hyderabad, 1632-1634, 04-11, Hindi music. Interference from China on the same frequency. 24222. (Méndez) 4810, AIR, Bhopal, 1635-1638, Hindi music. 14321. (Méndez) 4840, AIR, Mumbai, 1631-1633, 04-11, Hindi music. 24322. (Méndez) 4910, AIR, Jaipur, 1636-1640, 04-11, Hindi music. 24322. (Méndez) 4920, AIR, Chennai, 1628-1631, 04-11, Hindi music, interference from China on the same frequency. 22322. (Méndez) 5010, AIR, Thiruvananthapuram, 1625-1628, 04-11, Hindi music. 24322. (Méndez) MALI, 9635, Radio Mali, Bamako, 0945-1020, 04-11, Vernacular songs, male, comments, identification: "La radio national du Mali". 24322. (Méndez) MONGOLIA, 12085, Voice of Mongolia, 1030-1038, 04-11, female, English, identification: "Voice of Mongolia", comments, Mongolian songs. 23322. (Méndez) _ 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 November 4, 2012
** CUBA. 5025, Nov 4 at 0528, R. Rebelde has no RTTY QRM at the moment, but now its own modulation is distorted and suppressed, lacking the usual vigour. Substituting one of RHC`s defective transmitters? Next check at 1223, more or less back to normal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Guess what: despite dis- or mis-information from RHC`s B-12 schedule labeled as effective Nov 1, and timeanddate.com which showed Nov 11 as the timechange date for Cuba from UT-4 to UT -5, in the end Cuba kowtows to yankee imperialism by going off DST on the same date, Nov 4, as is obvious by sudden shift of RHC Spanish programming to one UT hour later than it had been. At least this will minimize confusion with gusano clox in Miami, and international flights. 17580 et al., Sunday Nov 4 at 1337, is in `Cuba Campesina` folk music show which had been circa 1230 UT, and no `En Contacto` DX program yet. That is on at 1435 ex-1335, and gives entire new schedule for itself, from ``next week``, meaning today, and only I care to rearrange the frequencies into sequential order: Sun 1435 on 6150, 9540, 9550, 9850, 11690, 11750, 11760, 11860, 13780, 15230, 15340, 17580, 17730 Sun 2345 on 5040, 9710, 9810, 11840, 15340, 17705 Mon 0235 on 5040, 6060, 6120, 11680, 11760, 11840, 15230 E.C. ends already at 1448, shortened, or started a bit early? `Amigos de Cuba`, mailbag only for comsymps, is also an hour later after 1400. However usual confusion by RadioCuba with 15340 and 11860 in dead air, 17730 and 17580 still modulating. Morning Spanish had been finishing at 1500 in the summer, but now at 1503 check these are still on: 11750, 11760, 11860, 13780, 15230, 15340, 17580, 17730. Not there have been fewer seasonal frequency changes than usual, just time changes. One significant change is the European service on 15340 at 22-24, ex 17750 at 21-23; also 15340 for French, Portuguese and Arabic at 1930-2100. And evening English at 01-07 is now supposed to be on 6125, ex-6050 where HCJB should again be clear after years of blockage. Weekly Esperanto had been Sundays at 1500 on 11760 only, but now scheduled an hour later. At 1600 Nov 4, 11760 is still in Spanish, plus dead air/open carriers still on 11860, 13780, 15340, 17580, 17730. Then at 1601, 11760 switches to theme and Esperanto opening, ``Saluton,`` from Radío Havano Kubo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, Nov 4 at 1221, R. Verdad is already on with music (and not faded out yet), despite nominal Sunday late opening at 1255 as per detailed program schedule at http://www.radioverdad.org/programaci%C3%B3n which has not been updated either to show earlier weekday sign-on at 0930 UT instead of 1100+, as Dr. Madrid recently confirmed to a listener, tnx to the new morning operator who wanted to come in and turn on that early, 3:30 am local (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUIANA FRENCH [and non]. Regarding my previous report, of squealing surrounding the 9500 Mighty KBC broadcast via Bulgaria, Nov 4 at 00-02, Greg Putrich, N0QDS in Plymouth MN was also monitoring this and confirms our suspicion that it was really coming from Montsinéry, not Kostinbrod: ``I don't think it was 9500's transmitter, but probably spurs from R República's transmitter on 9490. At 0003Z, R República came on. Until 0005Z, The Mighty KBC & R República's signals looked good on the SDR waterfall and sounded fine. At 0005Z (0005:31Z), a weak carrier comes on 9483.2, 9496.8, 9503.6. After about 5 seconds, the waveform then switches to what looks like audio. Once the carrier is done, another spur shows up at 9476.4. Interestingly, that one didn't start as a carrier (which shows up nicely), but came in with very weak unintelligible audio. By 0008Z, those spurs have become stronger. The spurs seem to be modulating along with the signal on 9490, and at 0100Z when the national anthem is played, there is an obvious similarity between the four spurs and the main signal on 9490. Was able to listen to 9500 with little problem, when I switched to sync-AM on the USB and narrowed the bandwidth to just under 3.5 kHz (blocking out the 9503.6 spur). Obviously not the greatest enjoyment at that point, but it worked. At 0156:57Z, 9490 dropped audio and about 2 seconds later, the carrier dropped. After the audio went away, could see a carrier on 9384.2, 9503.6, and a very weak one at 9496.8. 9476.4 is clear. When the carrier drops at 0157:00Z, everything is gone. With all of that said, KBC's signal was much weaker than it was last time. It varied from S0 to occasionally S8, with it being on average S4 at the start and slowly dropping over time. Other signals were also weaker. After R República went off the air, KBC was still on playing music and I switched back to sync-AM DSB and widened the bandwidth to 11 kHz and was sounding good, even though the signal was fairly weak (about S3)`` Thanks, Greg, good monitoring! (Glenn Hauser, DX
Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 119, Issue 4
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..." 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 November 2-3, 2012 (Glenn Hauser) 2. Glenn Hauser logs November 3-4, 2012 (Glenn Hauser) 3. QSLs since mid-September (Bruce Portzer) -- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 13:39:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Glenn Hauser To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 2-3, 2012 Message-ID: <1351975165.66213.yahoomailclas...@web114007.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** ALBANIA. 7465, Nov 2 at 2057, weak signal with talk rather than R. Tirana IS; must be tail of 2030 German service now scheduled just before English. 2100 opening English with correct times for both English broadcasts. 6100, Nov 2 at 0227 R. Tirana carrier is on, not earlier; 0228 IS, 0230 sign-on English with schedule of: to UK 2100-2130 Mon-Sat on 7465, NAm 0230-0300 Mon-Sun on 6100. Well, almost correct: the 0230 is UT Tue-Sun. See also USA: 7465 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALGERIA [non]. 7295, VG Nov 3 at 0526 tuneby, surprised to hear English on RTA relay via FRANCE. Heavy accent, but is talking about Islam, some African country (Algeria itself?) with low economic index; 0529 finishes his comments and back into Arabic by another speaker. I suspect this is a fluke, not likely to be a regular English segment (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 11711, Nov 3 at 0139, RAE has fair signal but just barely modulated, Japanese? This plus all the QRDRM from India 11710-11715-11720 make it a total loss (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4885, Nov 3 at 0535 with music, presumed the OBOB, R. Clube do Par?, which has the strongest, most reliable 60m signal from S America, at least among those which are on all-night. CODAR bothered, but diminished a little at 0540. Aoki lists power for Par? as only 2 kW but I`ll go with the 10 kW in WRTH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 540, Nov 3 at 1236 UT, temps are rising at `Saskatchewan Weekend`, i.e. CBK Watrous; Spanish nulled, probably XETX rather than XEWA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 9625, Nov 3 at 0506, CKCX-SW survives another day of revoked activity, `O, Canada` by band, open carrier and tone. On again at 1338 check during political discussion, no doubt `The House` from CBC Radio 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 11635 & 11640, Nov 3 at 1224, hyper CNR1 programming on both, probably as jammers; B-12, IBB Chinese via Thailand is scheduled on 11635, but 11640 has CRI Chinese via Xian in HFCC. Sometimes CRI is spoilt by jammed services moving in co-channel, forcing the ChiCom to jam themselves as well (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 9517 & 9563 approx., Nov 3 at 1227, spurblobs with buzzing presumably emanating from 9540 RHC transmitter equally amid, which has done this several times before. Fortunately, 9540 is weak here and the spurs even weaker. Still audible at 1340 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 12015, Nov 3 at 1221, CRI English with talk about Beijing subway, zombie walks. Little else is making it from E Asia on 11 MHz or higher bands in depressed propagation, SF=97, but Kashgar in C Asia propagates quite differently; aimed 173 degrees, and could even be long path. Not a good frequency, tho, occupied by much closer RTTY all day here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CHINA ** IRAN. 17650, Nov 3 at 1314, VIRI Arabic service with OK modulation for a change, fair signal and no CCI from CRI French via EAST TURKISTAN, as has been the problem, tho trace of that might be causing slight SAH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 9595, Nov 3 at 1337, R. Nikkei in English, an American-accented musician interviewed by Japanese-speaking interviewer. Not clear if translation was involved too. Apparently a pianist per music to follow. 6055 checked earl
