[HCDX] MVBR Test / European Music Radio Schedule
MVBR Test / European Music Radio Schedule MVBR Test Transmissions on 9480 KHz Tomorrow Sunday the 3rd of November MVBR will make some tests on 9480 KHz, this will take place between 0900 and 11.00 UTC. All reprts to: i...@mvbalticradio.de Thank you! European Music Radio Schedule for November 2013: 17th November 2013, 08.00 - 09.00 UTC Gohren / 7265 KHz Tom Taylor (60s 70s) 17th November 2013, 09.00 - 10.00 UTC Gohren / 9480 KHz Repeat 29th November 2013, 19.00 -19.45 UTC IRRS / 7290 kHz Tom Taylor (New prog) 30th November 2013, 09.00 - 09.45 UTC IRRS / 9510 KHz Repeat More information will follow on Sunday night! Good Listening! 73s Tom _ 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] Favourite greek pirate on 1044 (daffy )
https://sites.google.com/site/zliangas/1044 Several minor changes and adds Following the special case of Canibal I now present you another for the time being free radio station but still not identified (or possibly indirectly identified ) After the closure of nearly the half radio stations from ERA , including the three transmitters from Thessaloniki our city is now free from local radio stations . With the closure of the German station this year , the frequency was clear since May 13 Shortly later on May 13thn a new station has been started fist by relaying a local FM radio station well known of playing traditional songs on afternoons and nights every day. But later as per my monitoring , this station (??i have some doubts for it ) reappeared with its own programming (read play list with mp3 collection ) with old Greek songs , but more especially pops (not folk as most others )from the 60-80 era that later (after 9 pm ) `hardens ` a little still into `light folks´ and goes vice versa . . All these songs were highly popular those old times. That makes me suppose the operator´s age is around 50 That is after listening sometimes this station for more than 3 hours (for looking for ID ) And little later this station appeared wth mostly western pops of 70a and 80s , but their transmissions are highly irregular . More recently the station airs old songs of 60-80s with emphasis on Italian and French songs. Although with some little direction finding (by turning the radio ) shows to be in line with Athens (ie Cannibal ) their propagation pattern is different with more frequent fade outs and higher signals than Cannibal . As for example my parallel testing with them on 7-9 shown signals as low as 23/05/6 to as high as 35/18/10 ( db S - S/N - S on 16H antenna on R75 ) That makes me believe that the station transmits possibly from further than Athens with higher power I am also wondering if this station did a frequency change from 1035 to 1044 as the station has nearly same signal. If this is the case the station then is called Daffy . Thanks to the radio pirate mates who helped me for this information http://www.delicious.com/gr_greek1/@zach (all mypages !!) Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece zlian...@yahoo.com Standard rig : ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , various degen tecsun models Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, Loops :SW mag loop 1 m2 for MW , AN200 MW loop .. Please read and distribute this 15 year research article http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd _ 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] DSWCI annual DX-contest
The DSWCI organizes its 4th INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST THE GRAND TOUR ACROSS ALL CONTINENTS 2013 ThiscontestisheldfromFriday29^th ^November2013,UTC,toSunday8^th ^December2013,2400UTC. ItisopentoallshortwavelistenersregardlesstotheirmembershipinanyDXclub. Primary contest frequencies are from 2300 to 26100 kHz. Logs outside this range will be valued by half points. More details at www.dswci.org/contest . Anker Petersen Chairman DSWCI _ 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] QSL Report for Al Muick, Week ending 02 NOV 2013
CANADA CJYE 1250 Oakville ON, date/frequency letter and sticker in 15d for mint stamps. V/s Don Millar, Program Director. USA, KAAY 1090, Little Rock AR, full data logo card and personal note from Gordon Ross Stepus in 10 days for US $1 return postage (returned). Lucky to have caught this one, under WBAL (normally dominant on channel) but above IBOC hash, carrying the notorious Brother Stair. I have to say, the QSL return rates have been disappointing of late. I hope things start to improve as the season progresses. 73 Al Muick Whitehall PA USA Microtelecom Perseus and Wellbrook ALA1530P active loop _ 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 1-2, 2013
** CHINA. 7435, Nov 2 at 1359, prélude music, 1400 CRI opening Russian, very good signal. I was looking for the Radio Exterior de España IS, which whenever checked the past several B-seasons, would air by mistake at 1358-1400 on 7435 and 7220 preceding the CRI Nepali hour via Kunming, both always weak but enough to recognize REE IS. Maybe it is still on 7435, but in B-13, CRI is scheduled to collide with itself, in Russian also from 1400 via another site SZG, 500 kW at 37 degrees, also USward. No wonder I am hearing that instead of REE/Kunming/Nepali. Next chance must check 7220 at 1358, as there is no collision scheduled there, with Vietnam conveniently in a sesquihour break. This mixed-up built-in switching-error is/was presumably connected with the REE Spanish relay via Beijing 11910 which was and is still scheduled to end at 1400, but unreheard lately. 17495, fair at 0154 Nov 2 with song; Aoki shows CRI in Amoy, not a jammer. HFCC shows 193 degrees from Beijing site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake [non] CNR1 jamming before 0200 UT Nov 2: 17890, poor at 0153 --- HFCC shows NOT jamming, just CNR1 Beijing at 0130-1100; standard remark about genuine CNR1 vs jamming outlets 17805, poor at 0153 with echo. HFCC target here is IBB in ``Uly`` via Tinian this hour only; Aoki has a better abbr. for Uighur: Uyg 17730, poor at 0154 with LAH from target, i.e. Ulaanbataar off-frequency relay of RFA Tibetan, not in HFCC so it`s deniable by Mongolia, but in Aoki at 01-03 Before 1300 UT Nov 2: 7390 at 1257 with 1 kHz tone, 1258 open carrier; at 1300, 5+1 timesignal, opening CNR1 Mandarin blocking ``Welcome to the Voice of America --- in Cantonese``, as scheduled per Aoki, *7390 via Tinang, PHILIPPINES at 1300-1500 daily After 1300 UT Nov 2: 15510, fair at 1308, unusual CNR1 spot, vs what? Aoki: *BBC Uzbek via Thailand during this semihour only. After 1400 UT Nov 2, finally some real FIREDRAKE again!!! Never have I been so pleased to hear jamming; maybe not employing it every day? 6145, good at 1401 past 1423 as it`s weakening into daytime here; no CCI audible, but target must be per Aoki: R. Taiwan International at 1400-1800 via Paochung. Eike Bierwirth in Wiesbaden, Germany also reports it: ``Chinese Firedrake jamming is currently going on against RFA on 9355 (fair), 5865 (weak) and 9455 (fair-strong). 2 Nov 2013, 2015 UT`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 11760, Nov 1 at 1954, no signal from the first RHC English hour of the day, 19-20 UT. It will probably shift to 20-21, but should not do so until DST is over Nov 3. Could it be a blackout? ANGUILLA is also absent from 11775, but probably coincidental. At this time the only significant signals on 25m are 11670 India, poor with flutter, 11930 R. Martí, very poor; and nearby US stations with usual VG signals: 12160 WWCR, 12105 WTWW, 12050 WEWN; on 31m just the four Tennesseeans on 9980, 9930, 9479, all VG and 9370 WWRB weak (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 5040, Nov 1 at 2330, RHC English is still suffering bad rumble on the modulation and wobble on the carrier, like 24 hours earlier, and nothing has been done about it. Still really rumbling and wobbling in Spanish at 0135 check --- but at 0545 in English now it`s recovered; fixed, or switched to a different transmitter? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also EGYPT ** CUBA [and non]. Typo in this item from previous report: it`s 5980, not 5890, altho VOA Spanish and jamming had been there previously. (Why isn`t my spellchecker smart enough to catch such an error??) 5980, Nov 1 at 1256, the DentroCuban Jamming Command has finally caught up with R. Martí which extended another hour on this frequency for B-13, and enjoyed it jamming-free for a few days. Perhaps Arnie read my reports, which he will never admit. Now RM is about level with the jam, still readable. After 1300, 7405 is still on and well atop the jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 9490, Nov 2 at 0124, wall-of-noise jamming and Radio República barely audible underneath it; unlike before 0100 when no RR and jamming was only lite pulsing, so it does appear that RR shifted one hour later already, 01-03 instead of 00-02, in accordance with standard time in FRANCE which is irrelevant in Cuba and the USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DJIBOUTI. See UNIDENTIFIED ** EGYPT. 11760, Nov 2 at 0117, RHC Spanish mixed with humbuzz, but guess what, I am not going to blame RHC on this one, since we know that R. Cairo has also registered 11760 to Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean in Arabic and Spanish at 2330-0200, 250 kW, 286 degrees from Abis; and the humbuzz seemed to be fading independently of RHC. (The previous panoply of spurs centered on 11760, however, were so strong that I am still blaming RHC for those) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL
[HCDX] The Supporter Report October 2013
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[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 2-3, 2013
** CUBA [and non]. 9490, Nov 3 at 0057, lite pulse place-marking jamming from the DCJC, but as I listen it audibly ramps up as more sites pile on and/or turn up power level, in anticipation of Radio República. Its carrier via FRANCE is on at 0100 but no modulation until Cuban NA (both pre- and post-Castro) starts playing at 0101:15, as jamming increases, how unpatriotic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 6005, Nov 3 at 0054, very poor signal in English, could be something interesting, BBC? No, 0055 CRI ``Let`s Learn Chinese`` theme and dispensable hourend filler. It`s yet another overkill broadcast from Kashgar about to end (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 11985, Nov 3 at 0043, AIR is poor with flutter, in S Asian talk, presumably Tamil as scheduled -0045 from Delhi(Khampur) site. 0044 a bit of music, and 0045 pause until 0046:10 a song starts, presumably to open the Sinhala semihour. It`s been several nights since I had heard this, and figured they had made some change without telling us for B-13. But you never knew what they would do from one night to the next in A-13. 11740 via GOA is supposed to be // for both languages, and it`s also on, but very poor with CCI, from presumed CNR2 Lingshi site as scheduled now until 0100. While 11985 was pausing, I could still hear some talk on 11740, presumably CNR2. By 0104 the CCI is gone from 11740 and both it and 11985 are still on! Now I can tell the music is //, but not in synch. 11740 is much weaker than 11985 now, not always the case (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, Nov 3 at 0052, only pirate around, poor with rock music; 0101 saying something about ``co-ax thru the wall``; 0103 ending a phone call (faux?) with some music; 0109 recheck it`s gone. This thread agrees it was Twangy Radio: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,13622.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, Nov 3 at 0055, carrier could be R. Chaski or VOA Tibetan or ChiCom jamming; in a few minutes I know only Urubamba will be left, and time its cutoff at 0102:53* which is 16.5 seconds later than last check three days ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1693 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-2, 9930, Saturday Nov 2 at 2328:50. Next: UT Sunday 0401v on WTWW-1 5830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5085, Nov 3 at 0042, WTWW in Ted Randall`s `QSO` show, which presumably started at after WOR on 9930; but recheck at 0050, 5085 is already off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9975, Nov 3 at 0106, KVOH has come on late after allowing CVC to get a headstart from Uzbekistan; tone and some hum atop CVC, still at 0113 buts cuts off briefly and back on; 0132 now it`s open carrier and some hum, then joining `Frecuencia al Día`, the DX program already on several US and other SW stations, in progress. It`s a segment with Antonio Buitrago of REE talking about the Costa Rica relay closing; audio feed sounds like low-bitrate internet connexion rather than hi-fi FM STL, maybe a temp measure as KVOH had STL problems delaying last night`s début. Now I notice some buzz and crackle at 9960 and 9990, which I am afraid are parasitic spurs coming from the KVOH transmitter halfway between. 0325 recheck during English hour it`s ``classic and vintage jazz`` from Los Angeles, interspersed with ``Good News`` promos. Initially solid signal is quite a bit weaker by 0347 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UZBEKISTAN [and non]. 9975, Nov 3 at 0051, open carrier, fair with flutter, not strong enough to be KVOH, so presumed CVC warming up for India service via Tashkent. 0100 starts talking presumed Hindi, but quite undermodulated for the carrier level. 0106 KVOH has come on with tone and hum over CVC which can be detected underneath. Continued under U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 0400 UT November 3 _ 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 131, Issue 3
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. MVBR Test / European Music Radio Schedule (TOM TAYLOR) 2. Favourite greek pirate on 1044 (daffy ) (Zacharias Liangas ) 3. DSWCI annual DX-contest (Anker Petersen) 4. QSL Report for Al Muick, Week ending 02 NOV 2013 (Albert Muick) 5. Glenn Hauser logs November 1-2, 2013 (Glenn Hauser) 6. The Supporter Report October 2013 (Radio Heritage Mail) 7. Glenn Hauser logs November 2-3, 2013 (Glenn Hauser) -- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 10:47:12 + From: TOM TAYLOR emrs...@gmail.com To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: [HCDX] MVBR Test / European Music Radio Schedule Message-ID: CAA_Ct2w20H+t263yw=gchhgfehbyzzo_q8_07dwrlod1wl2...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 MVBR Test / European Music Radio Schedule MVBR Test Transmissions on 9480 KHz Tomorrow Sunday the 3rd of November MVBR will make some tests on 9480 KHz, this will take place between 0900 and 11.00 UTC. All reprts to: i...@mvbalticradio.de Thank you! European Music Radio Schedule for November 2013: 17th November 2013, 08.00 - 09.00 UTC Gohren / 7265 KHz Tom Taylor (60s 70s) 17th November 2013, 09.00 - 10.00 UTC Gohren / 9480 KHz Repeat 29th November 2013, 19.00 -19.45 UTC IRRS / 7290 kHz Tom Taylor (New prog) 30th November 2013, 09.00 - 09.45 UTC IRRS / 9510 KHz Repeat More information will follow on Sunday night! Good Listening! 73s Tom -- Message: 2 Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 16:45:21 +0200 From: Zacharias Liangas zlia...@ath.forthnet.gr To: Subject: [HCDX] Favourite greek pirate on 1044 (daffy ) Message-ID: 52751001.18201.b51...@zliagas.ath.forthnet.gr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 https://sites.google.com/site/zliangas/1044 Several minor changes and adds Following the special case of Canibal I now present you another for the time being free radio station but still not identified (or possibly indirectly identified ) After the closure of nearly the half radio stations from ERA , including the three transmitters from Thessaloniki our city is now free from local radio stations . With the closure of the German station this year , the frequency was clear since May 13 Shortly later on May 13thn a new station has been started fist by relaying a local FM radio station well known of playing traditional songs on afternoons and nights every day. But later as per my monitoring , this station (??i have some doubts for it ) reappeared with its own programming (read play list with mp3 collection ) with old Greek songs , but more especially pops (not folk as most others )from the 60-80 era that later (after 9 pm ) `hardens ` a little still into `light folks? and goes vice versa . . All these songs were highly popular those old times. That makes me suppose the operator?s age is around 50 That is after listening sometimes this station for more than 3 hours (for looking for ID ) And little later this station appeared wth mostly western pops of 70a and 80s , but their transmissions are highly irregular . More recently the station airs old songs of 60-80s with emphasis on Italian and French songs. Although with some little direction finding (by turning the radio ) shows to be in line with Athens (ie Cannibal ) their propagation pattern is different with more frequent fade outs and higher signals than Cannibal . As for example my parallel testing with them on 7-9 shown signals as low as 23/05/6 to as high as 35/18/10 ( db S - S/N - S on 16H antenna on R75 ) That makes me believe that the station transmits possibly from further than Athens with higher power I am also wondering if this station did a frequency change from 1035 to 1044 as the station has nearly same signal. If this is the case the station then is called Daffy . Thanks to the radio
