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Today's Topics:
1. And now for something completely different (Volodya S)
2. Re: Glenn Hauser logs February 29, 2024 (df...@darc.de)
3. SDR 20/2 local logs part1 (Zacharias Liangas)
4. Glenn Hauser logs March 1, 2024 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2024 06:10:36 +
From: Volodya S
To: IRCA List , Hard-Core-DX
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Subject: [HCDX] And now for something completely different
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If you wish to look beyond the MW band, tune up to 3250 and you might get
quite a show from HAARP! 06:09 UTC73, Walt (Masset)
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2024 14:18:00 +0100
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To: "Glenn Hauser" , "WOR DXLD" ,
"HCDX" , "_ BCLNEWS"
, "Glenn Hauser_actual"
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 29, 2024
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re 5025 kHz R Rebelde Cuba radio ...
CUBA - yes 'periodically',
noted program ID on
Febr 15, 16, 21 and 26.
73 wb df5sx
-Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-
From: Glenn Hauser via Hard-Core-DX
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2024
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 29, 2024
WORLD OF RADIO HITLIST update Feb 29
1) Cuba - Habana R: Added entries for this station as has been
periodically relayed on 5025 kHz in place of R Rebelde {but maybe no
more, its anniversary past? gh}
CUBA. 5025, Feb 29 at 0722, R. Rebelde missing again. Something`s
always wrong at wRadioCuba.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2232)
This report dispatched at 0253 UT March 1
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2024 17:57:12 + (UTC)
From: Zacharias Liangas
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [HCDX] SDR 20/2 local logs part1
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https://zliangaslogs.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/sdr-20-2-local-logs/
RSP1a? and 10/15 m antenna in balun
11510 Denge gel in the clear? with SNR 17+ SNR ?(25 above the noise )and ID
1339 .? talks by YL and external recordings Very good audio
11530? denge Erdogan alone on 11530 with 25 db lower than gel -65dbm
11640 CGTN poor in the dust 1348
11730? seems as? Tibetan from RFA?? There is some QRM from China but is not
heard -65dbm for both
13600? R Farda 1353? YL with nice voice talking in Farsi Bubble sounds under
-57dbm 25 SNR noted
13610 unnoticed for that time CNR or CRI ,? with adverts and talks by YL before
the TOH on 14z -70dbm locally , is heard better with the same level on TWR
Cyprus? S off 1400 before the ID time was noted
13655?? CNR noting on Anhui 1400 z , 2.75 kHz wide -53dbm it is noted as jammer
against RFA Tibetan
13635 TRT ?? 1405? With? news in English with -65dbm signal? and highly trebled
sound?? Sudden fade by 30+ db down but the reverted back to its good signal
?Weekly commentaries?? program ID on 1407 . music program starts after? with
Turkish songs.??
9330? if this I WBCQ it is still heard with -65/80dbm signal on 1413
9910 TWR? in Uighur 1420? with surely religious program -62dbm Quite different
to what head from China?.
15690 Farda 1436? talks by YL 14db SNR
15700? WR on 1429? with nice signal on -68dbm 12SNR with the typical
Cafroribeean music Audio bandwidth seems to be not more than 2.5 kHZ !
15710 AWR in Chinese 1434? with religious talks
17550? with religious program? and overloaded? audio making sound squash
Zacharias Liangas
PL330 + ext antennas/ RSP1a/SpyHF+D
exMusic Producer Greek Music Refuge / Dangdut? and Beyond
https://youtu.be/8VJ__oppkLs the pool
https://bit.ly/3OZixtr? disclaimer on my writinghttps://linktr.ee/zliangas? all
my pages?
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2024 01:13:06 + (UTC)
From: Glenn Hauser
To: WOR DXLD
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 1, 2024
** ALASKA. HAARP tests: see UNIDENTIFIED 3200 ** BRAZIL [and non]. 4985, March 1 at 0725, JBA carrier again audible from presumed R Brasil Central, unheard last night. Only other 60m SAm signal the 4810 Perú carrier; 4940 Venezombia still absent (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ITALY [non]. 7290, Friday March 1 at 1919, checking what IRRS is running in the SW slot it removed from WOR some months ago: `Flashpoint Global Crisis` from VOA, story about some virus, not about Ukraine any more, where not enough was happening? to keep that in the title. Note: WRMI is still running `FGC` at 1935; is that its `live` time on VOA itself? If so, is the episode on IRRS really from yesterday? After lunch, at 1951 referring to globalresearch.ca and Canadian items, something about Calgary and fluoridation. S8/9+15 into UTwente, best on LSB to avoid 7295 ChiCom ACI. At *1957 more ChiCom ACI hits from below, 7285, making IRRS unlistenable even by narrowing bandwidth to 3 kHz. 1959 IRRS s/off referring to continuing on MW 1323 is chopped off by SW site, Bulgaria or Romania? at 2000* before it`s finished. But later at 2130 no signal on 1323 during WOR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. Ken Zichi replies in great detail to this log of mine: ``267 MCW kHz, Feb 26 at 0729 UT, HET, 25-watt NDB at HenryEtTa; but better copy tuned to 265 USB. In 2007y someone reported it on 263. Occasionally noted but not always logged, JBA vs noise level. RNA and DXinfocentre.com show it the only 267 anywhere!`` Altho I`m DXing these only by ear on my own regular radios, non-SDRs. ``This 'what frequency is it on' is a source of confusion for many --- but it has a simple explanation. An MCW signal consists of a carrier and an audio tone (the CW). Audio tones, as you may remember can generate 'harmonics' so a 1 kHz tone will also 'sound' at 2 and 3 and sometimes even 4 kHz. NOW -- imagine if you were able to 'see' radio waves, and looked at the radio spectrum. If you did that you would 'see' not only the 'carrier' at dead zero, but also see the code 'tones' at 1 kHz above and if it is full AM MCW also below that carrier. If the signal has 'harmonics' present you will ALSO see code peaks at 2 kHz and maybe even more remote away from that carrier. NOW imagine you set your radio to only receive a TEENY TINY slice of the radio spectrum as many people do to reduce noise when tuning CW. I mean, the rest of the spectrum isn't sending any useful info so why not filter it out? If you tuned in wide bandwidth AM none of this is 'obvious' but the minute you narrow down the bandwidth the details come screaming to your attention. NOW tune the radio to EXACTLY the carrier (267 in this example). What do you hear? With a narrow bandwidth, you hear the solid tone of the carrier and that's it. NOW, keep that bandwidth narrow and tune the radio instead to 266 or 265 -- NOW you get the code, To add to the confusion, if your radio is AT ALL 'off channel' when you TUNE to 265 you may really be tuning to 266 --- well I think you see what is happening. But even if your radio is 'dead on' if you tune to the 'carrier', you will get nothing. Tune slightly lower or higher and voila, there's the code with much better copy. A photo of the spectrum from an SDR (so you actually CAN 'see' radio waves!) may help (the one I can find quickly is a 400 Hz tone rather than 1 kHz but the principles are the same.): Note the radio is 'tuned' to 325.430 (+250 Hz) kHz. The station VV was broadcasting on 326 with an 'audio tone' of about 400 Hz (Most US stations use around 1000 Hz) and unlike most Canuks they used DSB rather than RCUSB modulation so that 'lower' sideband is also there 'peaking' at 325.6 kHz. If you look at the 'waterfall' you'll actually SEE the 'Dash Dot Dot Dot' code drawn out vertically on the screen but NOT at 326 kHz where the carrier is. THAT is just a solid line. The code is offset from the carrier at 325.6 and 326.4 kHz. Does this clear up why an MCW station may 'appear' somewhere on the radio dial other [than] the carrier frequency? [Indeed it will NEVER actually appear on the carrier -- that is a solid tone and not the code you're looking for.] The code will be 'offset' from the carrier by a specific amount depending on the tone sent. Those 'offsets' can be as distinctive as fingerprints and you'll note them listed in the RNA database. 73 //Ken Z`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 9690, Fri Mar 1 at 2300, token English from SNR, VG direct S9+10/20. Before news, preview about interview with Dr Lindsey Stonebridge, biographer of Hannah Arendt, and later, Beirut correspondent about Spanish people living in Lebanon. But at 2313 check the topic is drawbacks, crisis concerning social media (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY [and non]. 5960.002, March 1 at 2259, JBA carrier from VOT direct vs noise level. By 2325 I`m on UTwente, where it`s S9+30/35 and measured, `Weekly Analysis` concluding, something about Ukraine. 2326 multi-lingual ID 2-minute
[HCDX] SDR 20/2 local logs part1
https://zliangaslogs.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/sdr-20-2-local-logs/ RSP1a and 10/15 m antenna in balun 11510 Denge gel in the clear with SNR 17+ SNR (25 above the noise )and ID 1339 . talks by YL and external recordings Very good audio 11530 denge Erdogan alone on 11530 with 25 db lower than gel -65dbm 11640 CGTN poor in the dust 1348 11730 seems as Tibetan from RFA? There is some QRM from China but is not heard -65dbm for both 13600 R Farda 1353 YL with nice voice talking in Farsi Bubble sounds under -57dbm 25 SNR noted 13610 unnoticed for that time CNR or CRI , with adverts and talks by YL before the TOH on 14z -70dbm locally , is heard better with the same level on TWR Cyprus S off 1400 before the ID time was noted 13655 CNR noting on Anhui 1400 z , 2.75 kHz wide -53dbm it is noted as jammer against RFA Tibetan 13635 TRT ? 1405 With news in English with -65dbm signal and highly trebled sound Sudden fade by 30+ db down but the reverted back to its good signal “Weekly commentaries” program ID on 1407 . music program starts after with Turkish songs. 9330 if this I WBCQ it is still heard with -65/80dbm signal on 1413 9910 TWR in Uighur 1420 with surely religious program -62dbm Quite different to what head from China…. 15690 Farda 1436 talks by YL 14db SNR 15700 WR on 1429 with nice signal on -68dbm 12SNR with the typical Cafroribeean music Audio bandwidth seems to be not more than 2.5 kHZ ! 15710 AWR in Chinese 1434 with religious talks 17550 with religious program and overloaded audio making sound squash Zacharias Liangas PL330 + ext antennas/ RSP1a/SpyHF+D exMusic Producer Greek Music Refuge / Dangdut and Beyond https://youtu.be/8VJ__oppkLs the pool https://bit.ly/3OZixtr disclaimer on my writinghttps://linktr.ee/zliangas all my pages _ 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 February 29, 2024
re 5025 kHz R Rebelde Cuba radio ...
CUBA - yes 'periodically',
noted program ID on
Febr 15, 16, 21 and 26.
73 wb df5sx
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
From: Glenn Hauser via Hard-Core-DX
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2024
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 29, 2024
WORLD OF RADIO HITLIST update Feb 29
1) Cuba - Habana R: Added entries for this station as has been
periodically relayed on 5025 kHz in place of R Rebelde {but maybe no
more, its anniversary past? gh}
CUBA. 5025, Feb 29 at 0722, R. Rebelde missing again. Something`s
always wrong at wRadioCuba.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2232)
This report dispatched at 0253 UT March 1
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[HCDX] And now for something completely different
If you wish to look beyond the MW band, tune up to 3250 and you might get quite a show from HAARP! 06:09 UTC73, Walt (Masset) _ 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
