[HCDX] CME - Colombian log
690 COLOMBIA HJCZ Radio Recuerdo, Santa Fé de Bogotá JAN 30 0628 UTC - ranchera, Los bailados de siempre están en Radio Recuerdos, then a classic cumbia track. Poor-fair, but dominant over apparent Cuba which was IDed earlier and residual hash. SINPO 22332. NEW ! Colombia#8... I have HJKL-610, HJKH-650, HJAJ-760, HJJX-770, HJCY-810, HJIJ-1070, HJCG-1070, so this is indeed my 8th Colombian on mediumwave... First new Colombian in ages ! In WLW-700 null ! It's hard to null out WLW-700 without also semi-nulling Colombia, but a semi-null is better than a total null ! (Chiochiu-QC) This is what a clear channel can do during non-auroral conditions... Imagine if WLW-700 was HDless or if there was some auroral enhancement ! May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefpnds (Montreal's West Island), QC Heard on the Sony CFS-6000 / PK AM loop combination Btw.: An MP3 will follow tomorrow ! ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[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] three mediumwave logs - am stereo + Cuba
Warm greetings to all of you ! While the Radio Coro 780 peaked up nicely for a few minutes, I put the tape to delet the low-signal parts and now, I'm glad to admit, I have a full C90 tape with 780 oddities: Radio Coro on one side and WTEM in Maine, a daytimer with Post Sunset Authority staying on late with it's full power on the other one ! But the best is yet to come: armchair copy of KCJJ-1630 with over and under the co-channel QRM and CJRS Radio Shalom splatter ! Unbelievable, but true...do not really sounds like they switched to their 1 kW night rig, though it may seem stronger because they are omnidirectionnal ! Into the logs: 1630 KCJJ Iowa City, IA 01/28 0154 EST - End of ad bloc, Hot Talk, Hot Hits jingle with very clean stereo separation during a very good signal peak, followed by an Alicia Keys number. Also heard a couple of dozens of minutes earlier with a man host talking about the best way to take care of a golden retriever (like the very sensitive one I already breed and cheers). SINPO 43523 and I more reliable than WIRY-1340 as far as its signal strength goes, at least that's the way it was the past night. I'm very happy with this one ! Heard with a fair level of QRM from WDAG (also new !) and a Spanish Mexican playing ranchera that was probably the one in Wyoming. Also some IBOC hash, unsure from who... Is there something IBOC on 1620-1640 in the northeast or even further into the midwest that could potentially harm KCJJ in the Montreal area ? Still, not too bad overall, as far as the reception goes ! How many IBOC badcasters are slicing the X-band ? (BC-QC) 1680 WTTM Princettown, NJ 01/28 0235 EST - in order to get it in CQuam, I almost had to break the dial which stopss right at 1678 or 1679 kHz, sounded like some stereo separation on WTTM, maybe just a fake ? Always hard to tell with those forced stereo sets like my trusty Sony CFS-6000 (which works very well between 515 and 1670 kHz) and the poor stereo separation on ranchera music, though I thought I had one instrument one side and the other on the left side with the voice in both channels, though it was hard to tell. Fadings on the X-band are choppy and my inability to tune right to 1680 made the fadings sound even more unbearable than on KCJJ ! (BC-QC) 600 CUBA CMKV, Radio Rebelde, Urbano Norrís JAN 28 0422 UTC - woman doing a speech against racism and taking phone calls from her listeners. Atop CKAT ! Heard on the Sony SRF-A1 barefoot while walking the dog near the Céres park in Pierrefonds. Briefly good, then overtaked by QRM. Condx toward Latin America generally very poor. (Chiochiu-QC) Additionnal comments: While I've only slept 4 hours the past night, I've dreamed a lot... Time to get ready for walking the dog and starting to do that Spanish homework with the Radio Coro tape in mind ! This report is brougt to you by Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu DXing using his Sony CFS-6000 with the passive tunable PK AM loop or the Sony SRF-A1 barefoot while walking the dog - both excellent for mediumwave and DXing and Motorola C-Quam listening ! May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[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] foreign domestic LW-MW logs w/ the Sony SRF-A1
Warm greetings to all of you ! First of all, sorry for what happened in Haiti... I hope this means more Haitian immigration which is a good thing for me, as I love Hatian food and music, especially Cabri and grillot... Into the logs (mostly highlights, as I'm too buzy with my new AM Stereo toy, a Sony SRF-A1 walkman bought from EBay, in order to type more): Trans-Atlantic DX 153 Germany DLF, Donebach / Algeria RTA Radio Wahad, Bechar JAN 10 0331 UTC - Arabic programming mixed with jazz music. Good with nothing in the way of noise thanks to an electricity blackout ! (Chiochiu-QC) 225 POLAND Polski Radio 1, Solec Kujawski JAN 13 0559 UTC - Time pips, then ID Polski Radio Warshov, program ? (I don't speak Polish), then into news. Very good signal, best reception ever ! Semi-regular, though they seldom fade up strongly ! Heard on the Grundig G5 ULR / PK LW loop combo ! (Chiochiu-QC) 270 CZECH REPUBLIC Cezky Rozhlas - Radio Zurnal JAN 13 0536 UTC - playing US pops and male clearly speaking in Czech. It's the 2nd or 3rd I have audio on 269 in AM Narrow mode on the Sangean ACS-818 CST / PK LW loop combo, though never with such a good SIO 422 ! (Chiochiu-QC) Pan-American DX 600 CUBA CMKV Radio Rebelde, Urbano Norrís JAN 15 2350 UTC - man talking with passion about la revolución cubana leading to a cumbia song. Good, in CKAT null ! Heard with the Sony SRF-A1 walkman and it's own built-in ferrite rod antenna in AM ST mode with the cumbia song jumping from one channel to another with a weak domestic rumble in the other channel... I think this walkman gives a stereo-like effect to all stations (hello Phil Laruse, who had a similar occurance with CHNC-610) ! (Chiochiu-QC) 710 CUBA Radio Rebelde synchros JAN 15 2350 UTC - // 600 with some splatter from next-to-adjacent locals on 690 and 730. Over WOR though ! Heard on the Sony SRF-A1 walkman with its built-in ferrite rod antenna ! (Chiochiu-QC) 780 VENEZUELA YVNM Radio Coro JAN 15 0520 UTC - HJ vallenato mx, followed by a couple of canned announcements such as ¡La publicidad radial es más efectiva, más economica y con mayores beneficios! ¡Anuncie sú producto hoy!, full ID, then into a salsa number. Poor reception, a few good peaks, but very deep fadings, mostly weak and rarely good. SINPO 35512. Heard on the Sanyo MCD-S830 / PK AM loop combo with WBBM carefully nulled out ! Conditions toward Latin America generally very poor. Even Radio Coro is very unimpressive as you can see... TA DX is much better ! (Chiochiu-QC) Domestic North American DX 630 CFCO Chattam, ON JAN 15 1706 EST - playing a contemporary country song with electric guitar on one ear and drums on the other one. Switch beetwen both due to platform motion... Carried hockey later, after 1930 EST, after an ad for a sweater ! With so much talk: WPRO, CFCO, WMAL et al, I though they went dark, due to their 92.9 simulcast, which is a shame, as it is my best source of Motorola C-Quam DXing ! (BC-QC) 890 WLS Chicago, IL JAN 15 2018 EST - Heard Emerson Lake and Palmer welcome back my friend to the show that never ends, come inside, come inside... symphonic prog-rock gem on the right ear and the talkshow host on the left ear ! Yes, and with NO platform motion effect, in null of WCBS-880 HD QRM ! Excellent, almost local-like ! (BC-QC) 940 CINW Montréal, QC JAN 15 1505 EST - heard with monaural music on the right ear and just powerline noises on the left one as I was in the center of the local noise storm that Hydro Québec will solve tonight ! It appears this walkman brings platform motion effect and stereo where it doesn't belong as well as where it REALLY belongs. CINW never used stereo and is not doing so today either ! (BC-QC) 1280 CFMB Montréal, QC JAN 15 1625 EST - with an Italian punk-rock classic from the early 80s. Heard with some platform motion effect as I nulled them out, I was degradating their city grade reception here in Pierrefonds ! (BC-QC) 1310 CIWW Ottawa, ON JAN 15 1536 EST - Heard with one 70s song alternating between left and right ear, platform motion effect with stereo-like separation ! Mixing with WORC ! (BC-QC) 1310 WORC Worchester, MA JAN 15 1536 EST - using La Mega and Power Trece Diez slogans and playing trop mx... At 1630 EST, after a Zacaría Ferreira track, the man anncr told his listeners he will be live in Massachussets, on stage ! Very good, over / under CIWW / others on the Sony SRF-A1 barefoot ! Are they using stereo ? I couldn't really tell ! (BC-QC) 1340 WIRY Plattsburg, NY JAN 15 1108 EST - playing a funky song from the late 70s or early 80s with a nice separation between the funky guitar and the drums that were trading places due to the platform motion effect... Its the first time I hear anything close to Dance Music on this otherwise eclectic Home Town broadcaster ! Heard on the Sony SRF-A1 / PK AM loop combo ! There was some skywave intereference from other 'graveyarders', mainly WSTJ and WMSA,
[HCDX] Foreign logs NOV 23 through DEC 21
Foreign logs (NOV 23 through DEC 21) Warm greetings to all of you ! First of all, I didn't sent a report in a while for two reasons... There are some reparations of SEVERAL highways that are taking places local evenings in my area disturbing any weak or even fair-strength signals with an awful buzz that is making me really upset (they SHOULD end on Wensday, according to what I understood, making DXing way easier). Secondly, I had to struggle with other hobbies, some radio-related ones (such as looking for ANY full-length Aventure FM aircheck) and some not. That being said, if I didn't sent a report it doesn't mean I haven't DXed at all. While my DX activities have slowed down, I heard a few interesting things along with the regular ones. The problem is that the better conditions get and the noisier the band gets too, so after local midnight when the buzz stops, I'm left with lousy conditions as the sun is rising in Europe and the lack of any auroral enhancement means poor Pan-American DX with, fortunatly, a few pleasant surprises as you can read below. Into the logs: North American DX 1310 WORC Worchester, MA Power Trece-Diez DEC 12 1940 EST - man announcing in Spanish they have the best salsa, merengue, bachata, raeggetón and Freestyle classics (Latin Freestyle Dance Music - Bogdan) of all the time and to come up and party at a nightclub playing the same type of music as on Power Trece-Diez. Heard while driving toward a help center for becoming a radio jock and overpowering semi-local CIWW in Ottawa, ON. I think CIWW is using their required nighttime pattern, while WORC Massachussets is sending out their 1 kW daytime power instead of their nighttime power which is a lot LESS than 1 kW and which would sent less signal our way and less signal in the way of CIWW too ! (BC-QC) 1340 unID WSPJ Storm Center forecast DEC 21 1540 EST - Heard several call IDs as WSPJ, but Google makes something on 1400 as WSPG or WSPJ and nothing on 1340. QRMing semi-local WIRY in Plattsburg, NY as the local graveyarders are starting to make this frequency a real mess. Any ideas ? I think the minute I will have an AM Stereo receiver I will give North American short-haul domestic DX more attention, as I'm YET to hear FOR REAL something in Stereo on a broadcast band other than the FM one (ultrashortwaves in Romanian or unde ultrascurte) ! WSTJ St. Johnsbury, VT ? Where are they located ? Are they further than Newport, Burlington or Montpellier for a real not-that-short-skip DX challenge ? Ore are they another run of the mil catche ? Maybe they are in the Rutland area which would be NICE ! (BC-QC) 1340 WSTJ St. Johnsbury, VT DEC 21 1553 EST - finally IDed. NEW ! Wow ! It's been a long time since I gave up on North American short-skip DXing, but hearing endlessly the same TAs and Latins is certainly making me want to try a new kind of DX, so here it is. This is perphaps my closest unheard ! (BC-QC) 106.7 local RADIO ENFANT (c.f. Kevin Redding) DEC 20 2120 EST - as I cameback from the movie theater, heard this one strong enough to knock out another country music pirate (according to Scott Fybush) with no sign of semi-local WIZN. A flea powered RADIO ENFANT (c.f. Kevin Redding) from a neaby school with kids saying poems about Xmas and talking endlessly about their own feelings related to Christmas... They played one song regarding a French legend dealing with the little mouse. Very strong around Le Marché Central area, but lost around the Saint-Laurent suburb to a CW which was a true pirate ! Logged in car with a friend driver. (BC-car-QC) Trans-Atlantic DX 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis DEC 3 0740 UTC - News report regarding a weird bread that comes out of China and which has maked many French persons ill, the on that did eat it... Hope it didn't contained soya as it blocks a protein from reaching the human brain, though I understand soya is very good for the cows ! Good reception even with the Grundig G5 set for the AM Wide filter ! (Chiochiu-QC) 171 KALININGRAD Radio Rossi, Bolshakovo DEC 9 2340 UTC - some Slavic sounding vocals and Russian talk with a few words ending in iski... Caught on tape at least one Radio Rossi mention, so I finally succeded in nailing down these guys which along with Poland-225 make up for my furthest longwave DX. Very poor, but over Medi 1, which eventually rose to strength (though never better than a poor-fair level, I'm sure since Spetember or October they have done something wrong with their transmitter in Nador and / or with their modulation) around 2350 GMT with Radio Rossi completly faded out. NEW log and NEW country ! An electricity shortage at the time due to a heavy snowfall and, fortunatly, I had my battery powered Sangean ACS 818-CST along with the battery powered active PK LW Shielded Magnetic loop antenna ready ! (Chiochiu-QC) 177 GERMANY DeutschlandRadio Kultur, Oranienburg DEC 17 0520 UTC - Woman in German. Poor
[HCDX] foreign logs (NOV 23 through DEC 21)
Warm greetings to all of you ! First of all, I didn't sent a report in a while for two reasons... There are some reparations of SEVERAL highways that are taking places local evenings in my area disturbing any weak or even fair-strength signals with an awful buzz that is making me really upset (they SHOULD end on Wensday, according to what I understood, making DXing way easier). Secondly, I had to struggle with other hobbies, some radio-related ones (such as looking for ANY full-length Aventure FM aircheck) and some not. That being said, if I didn't sent a report it doesn't mean I haven't DXed at all. While my DX activities have slowed down, I heard a few interesting things along with the regular ones. The problem is that the better conditions get and the noisier the band gets too, so after local midnight when the buzz stops, I'm left with lousy conditions as the sun is rising in Europe and the lack of any auroral enhancement means poor Pan-American DX with, fortunatly, a few pleasant surprises as you can read below. Into the logs: North American DX 1310 WORC Worchester, MA Power Trece-Diez DEC 12 1940 EST - man announcing in Spanish they have the best salsa, merengue, bachata, raeggetón and Freestyle classics (Latin Freestyle Dance Music - Bogdan) of all the time and to come up and party at a nightclub playing the same type of music as on Power Trece-Diez. Heard while driving toward a help center for becoming a radio jock and overpowering semi-local CIWW in Ottawa, ON. I think CIWW is using their required nighttime pattern, while WORC Massachussets is sending out their 1 kW daytime power instead of their nighttime power which is a lot LESS than 1 kW and which would sent less signal our way and less signal in the way of CIWW too ! (BC-QC) 1340 unID WSPJ Storm Center forecast DEC 21 1540 EST - Heard several call IDs as WSPJ, but Google makes something on 1400 as WSPG or WSPJ and nothing on 1340. QRMing semi-local WIRY in Plattsburg, NY as the local graveyarders are starting to make this frequency a real mess. Any ideas ? I think the minute I will have an AM Stereo receiver I will give North American short-haul domestic DX more attention, as I'm YET to hear FOR REAL something in Stereo on a broadcast band other than the FM one (ultrashortwaves in Romanian or unde ultrascurte) ! WSTJ St. Johnsbury, VT ? Where are they located ? Are they further than Newport, Burlington or Montpellier for a real not-that-short-skip DX challenge ? Ore are they another run of the mil catche ? Maybe they are in the Rutland area which would be NICE ! (BC-QC) 1340 WSTJ St. Johnsbury, VT DEC 21 1553 EST - finally IDed. NEW ! Wow ! It's been a long time since I gave up on North American short-skip DXing, but hearing endlessly the same TAs and Latins is certainly making me want to try a new kind of DX, so here it is. This is perphaps my closest unheard ! (BC-QC) 106.7 local RADIO ENFANT (c.f. Kevin Redding) DEC 20 2120 EST - as I cameback from the movie theater, heard this one strong enough to knock out another country music pirate (according to Scott Fybush) with no sign of semi-local WIZN. A flea powered RADIO ENFANT (c.f. Kevin Redding) from a neaby school with kids saying poems about Xmas and talking endlessly about their own feelings related to Christmas... They played one song regarding a French legend dealing with the little mouse. Very strong around Le Marché Central area, but lost around the Saint-Laurent suburb to a CW which was a true pirate ! Logged in car with a friend driver. (BC-car-QC) Trans-Atlantic DX 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis DEC 3 0740 UTC - News report regarding a weird bread that comes out of China and which has maked many French persons ill, the on that did eat it... Hope it didn't contained soya as it blocks a protein from reaching the human brain, though I understand soya is very good for the cows ! Good reception even with the Grundig G5 set for the AM Wide filter ! (Chiochiu-QC) 171 KALININGRAD Radio Rossi, Bolshakovo DEC 9 2340 UTC - some Slavic sounding vocals and Russian talk with a few words ending in iski... Caught on tape at least one Radio Rossi mention, so I finally succeded in nailing down these guys which along with Poland-225 make up for my furthest longwave DX. Very poor, but over Medi 1, which eventually rose to strength (though never better than a poor-fair level, I'm sure since Spetember or October they have done something wrong with their transmitter in Nador and / or with their modulation) around 2350 GMT with Radio Rossi completly faded out. NEW log and NEW country ! An electricity shortage at the time due to a heavy snowfall and, fortunatly, I had my battery powered Sangean ACS 818-CST along with the battery powered active PK LW Shielded Magnetic loop antenna ready ! (Chiochiu-QC) 177 GERMANY DeutschlandRadio Kultur, Oranienburg DEC 17 0520 UTC - Woman in German. Poor signal, but not that bad overall.
[HCDX] a pirate on 106.7 FM yesturday
Warm greetings to all of you ! Still DXing on a regular basis, even though I didn't bother to send any report, since 95% of what I've heard was regular stuff and when something more exotic popped up on the PK loops such as Russia-171, the reception was very poor... However, if I can get co-channel Russia, the loops are working well, just Morocco's Nador 171 kHz LW transmitter is modulating poorly or is using less power... I seem to remember back in the mid 90s (according to the 95 Newfie report) they were harder to get in NF than in MA. In NF an unID station, apparently Russia, was dominating 171 kHz... Well, back on topic, yesturday while driving away with a friend from the movie theater, heard a pedagogical pirate on 106.7 MHz with Xmas carols and interviews with elementary level students about what Xmas means for them... Very strong around Le Marché Central area of MTL, however as we drove back toward Pierrefonds, it slowly started to weakens and lead the way to Vergennes, VT (former WIZN) which apparently changed its format from Classic Rock (The Wizard) to CW ! Is it a REAL pirate or a LPFM (Low Powered FMer) ? Who knows ? I initially thought this was Arpents des Neige one, but this one is better up here in Pierrefonds than in the Marché Central area, but it certainly sounds the same... Makes me want to start a pirate as well, relaying Aventure FM airchecks from 1988 (the French Army - SIRPA broadcaster which turned to MaXXimum 2 years later after its official launch in 1987), but I know aside from the University a job in the radio field as a jock isn't that far off of my life. May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu Btw.: I will comeback later with more details on how the DX condx have been over the past few weeks... See you later aligator and Merry Christmas ! ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[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] two logs including a log of WMAL-630
Hello again ! A brand new domestic DX log: 630 WMAL Washington, DC 0030 EST - ID as AM Six Thirty WMAL and schedule. Good under WPRO which had several minutes of dead air. New ! Heard while tuning around digging for the very few Latins that are propagating tonight. DC#2 ! (BC-QC) Heard on the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot with the PK AM loop in another room The third easiest YV once again: 550 VENEZUELA YVKE, Caracas, DF 0552 - Haleluya gaita male vocal, followed by a pasaje llanera-type YV trad song. Fair and easily over WEVD ! SINPO 33543. (Chiochiu-QC) Heard on the Sanyo MCD-S830 portable with the PK loop set to null out a rather weak WGR and to bring it over semi-local WEVD in Waterbury, Vermont without actually nulling it, sinc enulling Vermont also nulls Venezuela ! May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu QTH: Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island), PQ - QC ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[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] Maruego: Medi Un
¡ Saludos a todos queridos colegas ! Ahóra, estoy en la sintonía de Medi Un en los 171 kHz onda larga... Estoy sorprendido de un señal bastante poderoso con buena modulación, pues durante las últimas semanas solamente encontraba ruido en esa frecuencia con algo casi incomprehensible... Despues de un gigante buletín de noticias en árabo, siguio un pequeño buletín de noticias en francés con hóra local de 6 de la mañana con 37 minutos... ¡ Estupendo ! Yo envío eso igualmente sobre CumbreDX porqué transmite también en onda corta en 9575 kHz y se trata de una escucha bastante difícil... Es más fácil de sintonizar Maruego-9575 durante la tarde aún en aquellos momentos hay salpicadura desde Gabon-9580 (Africa Numéro Un). Right now, I just heard Radio Méditerranée Internationale booming in with a good signal and good modulation (a few weeks ago they were barely in there with a fair signal but POOR modulation) and I'm happy... After a lengthy Arabic newscast, a résumé in French of the leading news stories followed by a local 0637 AM time check ! Great ! I'm sending this stuff to CumbreDX too, because Medi Un simulcast it's longwave outlet on 9575 kHz shortwave where it is quite a catche even during the mid-afternoons time slot with Africa Numéro Un in Gabon next door on 9580 ! May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu DXing from Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island), QC using the Grundig G5 ultralight along with the PK's Shielded Magnetic longwave loop ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[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] a few foreign logs
Warm greetings to all of you ! Two things: first of all, I moved back to Pierrefonds for the NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS and secondly, I saw last night the Pirate Radio movie... The characters were much more original and less robotical than those of Hollywood and the topic was as original as it could be... Wow ! Into the logs: Trans-Atlantic DX 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg NOV 21 0503 - French politics noted in passing while trying succesfully for Iceland-189 and unsuccesfully for Morocco-171. (Chiochiu-PierrefondsQC) 189 ICELAND Rikisútvarpid, Gufuskalar NOV 21 0536 - playing a very beautiful 80s Icelandic melodic new wave track followed by an instrumental Techno-Dance cover version. Very good, almost excellent ! I didn't listened it on the Sangean or I would had airchecked it ! SINPO 45454. (Chiochiu-PierrefondsQC) 198 ENGLAND BBC Radio 4, Droitwhich NOV 19 2255 - Man with news about something happening overnight. Poor and barely readable, but always nice to hear ! (Chiochiu-HochelagaMaisonneuveQC) 252 ALGERIA Alger Chaîne 3, Tipaza NOV 19 2232 - Arabic dance music over Ireland and the NDBs (non-directional navigational beacons for the non-DXers reading this). Fair ! (Chiochiu-HochelagaMaisonneuveQC) 585 SPAIN Radio Nacional de España, Madrid NOV 21 0455 - Man in Spanish discussing the topic of several Spaniard soccer teams. Fairly good through an annoying computer growl with very slight adjacent channel splatter ! SINPO 34232-1 as the computer growl was really bothersome ! (Chiochiu-PierrefondsQC) Pan-American DX 550 VENEZUELA YVKE, Mundial, Caracas, Distrito Federal NOV 20 0650 - program of trad. YV mx (an even mix of gaitas and música llanera) with woman host. ID around 0659 GMT as Y-V-K-E Mundial with Y pronounced Jie instead of I Griega as usually done by YVs and even by this station. Slowly fading from poor to good and back-up and topping semi-local WEVD Waterbury and semi-regular WGR Buffalo, but the QRM underneath YVKE was still quite bothersome for a non-DXer. Therefore, I will write SINPO 42532 ! 2nd time in 2009-2010 yet ! This is the third easiest YV after YVKS-750 and YVNM-780, but lousy conditions toward South America makes it a poor third - hi ! (Chiochiu-PierrefondsQC) 640 CUBA CMBC, Radio Progreso, Guanabacoa NOV 20 0635 - Adult Contemporary music program with woman host. Good in an almost graveyard-like jumble with two domestics and perphaps a second Latin. The strongest station on this channel was AM 640 Toronto. (Chiochiu-PierrefondsQC) 780 VENEZUELA YVNM, Radio Coro, Coro, Falcón NOV no time - easily heard in a tight WBBM null at both the Hochelaga Maisonneuve and Pierrefonds QTHs the past week. However, at the Hochelaga Maisonneuve, I had a buzz popping up 1 minute out of two ruining what was otherwise a semi-local like signal ! In the meantime, you can always hear them streaming on the web, waiting for them to fade in as the sun sets ! http://200.6.157.20:8034/listen.pls is the first step for your WiFi log on ABDX ! (Chiochiu-PierrefondsQC / Chiochiu-HochelagaMaisonneuveQC) Additional comments: If any of you wants to exchange with me airchecks of French, Belgian, Romanian, French Caribbean, Pan American, American and Canadian dance or AOR stations from the 70s, 80s and EARLY 90s, please let me know ! Aventure FM and MaXXimum are my favorites though ! We're trying to figure out how to make WAV and MP3 files for once again sharing them with many digital airchecks collectors ! We may be using the computer downstairs, down in the basement, for that purpose ! The WiFi of my friend broke two weeks ago, but the temptation is lower... I now think AM Stereo is a bigger challenge than WiFi listening... That being said, the Meducci AM Stereo tuner seems to be gone ! What would be the next step if I want to DX X-band AM Stereo signals ? http://meduci.com/amx2000.html ! Has KCJJ-1630 reduced power ? When I tried to get it the last night (in Mono), I got nothing between CJWI-1610 and CJRS-1650 ! This report is brought to you by Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu, DXing from Hochelaga Maisonneuve (south-east of MTL) and from the main QTH in Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island), QC May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[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] Trans-Atlantic LW and MW logs
Warm greetings ! I went to an adivinadora (not an astrologist, but a voyante or ghicitoare) and she gave me hope about the Aventure FM airchecks and even about my efforts for trying to make it cameback. That being said, I'm still into DXing, but less than before... In spite of an astonishing Syria-783 reception, my other radio related hobby, the quest for airchecks is coming back stronger than ever !... I think I have been bitted by the airchecks bug as much as by the DX one ! Just some feeds for thoughts ! Into the logs: Trans-Atlantic DX 189 ICELAND Rikisútvarpid, Gufuskalar NOV 12 0418 - A pop-rock song with woman vocals noted in passing, while listening with a knowledge of mine in Hochelaga Maisonneuve. (Chiochiu-HochelagaMaisonneuve-QC) 207 MOROCCO RTM, Azilal NOV 12 0338 - Man announcer in Arabic with a very heavy voice, almost as if he was saying dirty words or choice words - very fanatic. Poor-fair over what appeared to be Germany and, of course, a non-directionnal beacon... (Chiochiu-HochelagaMaisonneuve-QC) 216 FRANCE RMC Première, Romoules NOV 12 0419 - an item in their lengthy morning newscast: the Vatican now has his own YouTube channel (well, David Icke has one too - Bogdan). Good, over / under what is probably the CLB beacon. (Chiochiu-HochelagaMaisonneuve-QC) 252 IRELAND RTE Radio One, Clarkestown NOV 12 0200 - AOR music show that went on and on with English blues-rock vocals without stopping at the Top-of-the-hour. Slight QRM from what appeared to be Algeria, aside from the regular beacons. (Chiochiu-HochelagaMaisonneuve-QC) 612 MOROCCO RTM, Sebaa-Aioun NOV 10 2340 - playing plaintive religious Arabic vocals that sounded Egyptian rather than Moroccan. Good in heavy CHNC-610 splatter even when detuned to 613. Sharply distorted on 614 and killed by CHNC New Carlisle right on 612 ! I thought 610 is to be turned off, right ? If CHNC-610 is going dark, then this station would become the easiest TA. New ! New country on mediumwave ! (Chiochiu-HochelagaMaisonneuve-QC) 621 CANARY ISLANDS Radio Nacional de España, Santa Cruz de Tenerife NOV 10 2335 - Spanish discussion in heavy 620 QRM. Caught one Radio Nacional mention ! Regular on 623 ! (Chiochiu-HochelagaMaisonneuve-QC) 783 SYRIA ORT Wahad, Tartus NOV 10 0250 - playing traditionnal Syrian music (different from Mauritania-4845 and different from Lebanese music as well). Fairly good and splittable from WBBM Chicago 780 using both the Sanyo MCD-S830 and the Sangean ACS 818CST along with the PK AM loop. Later, after 0300 GMT (2200 EST) when Arabic talk was heard, they were down in the mud and fading out with transmitter site sunrise ! THE catche of the week ! Probably my best mediumwave DX ever ! (Chiochiu-HochelagaMaisonneuve-QC) 1215 ENGLAND Absolute Radio, Moonside Edge NOV 9 2154 - Rock music, then woman in British accented English. Very good with minimal splatter, but quickly faded away a few minutes later. (Chiochiu-HochelagaMaisonneuve-QC) Bogdan speaks: Also heard weakly Morocco-171, UK-198 and Luxy-234, but didn't took then any specific notes. That being said, conditions on mediumwave have been EXTRA-GOOD ! Too bad they are fewer and fewer Euros and Afros on mediumwave. I miss Senegal-765 and Norway-1314, because I never heard them, having activated only in 2000. As far as the LAs, the same old Radio Coro on 780 and while I found it interesting like always, it was difficult to listen, because the same bothersome buzz has appeared on a random basis at the Hochelaga Maisonneuve QTH (1 minute there, then gone for two minutes, then it came back for 1 minute) and this is somewhat nullable on the E/W bearing making TAs easier to listen to than LAs, on both long and mediumwave. Anyone has news regarding Medi Un and their ridiculously low modulation ? They were heard, of course, but with a lower than ever signal level, but I think it's the low modulation rather than a real loss in the signal strength, because my Sangean ACS 818-CST reading meter is always showing S4 or even S5 while tuned to 171 kHz LW on Sunday evening EST (Monday morning UTC or GMT if you like that way) ! Bogdan speaks again: As I write this Radio Saint Helena will be doing a test broadcast on 11092.5 kHz in USB, upper side band. Some Venezuelan DXers are doing a DXpedition for haunting this low-powered shortwave DX catche that is more intriguing than the major international broadcasters with their endless propaganda. Bogdan speaks once again: If anyone has Aventure FM airchecks, feel free to share them with me ! That being said, may the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu Btw.: Is anyone interested in hearing how Aventure FM sounded like back in 1988 ? This report is brought to you by Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu, DXing from Hochelaga Maisonneuve using his Sanyo MCD-S830 / PK AM loop, Sangean ACS 818 / PK AM loop or PK LW loop combos ! ---[Start Commercial]-
[HCDX] Trans Atlantic and Pan American LW / MW logs
Warm greetings to all of you ! While DX conditions have been excellent so far, I have to blame the dumb engineers who are reparing the interstate endlessly with a bothersome buzz going on until shortly before midnight ruining sunset DXing more than ever and dissapearing as Radio Coro weakens and WBBM becomes unnulable... Otherwise, I was on the verge of logging Germany on 153 kHz using the brand new PK LW loop I had for my birthday... Last night, I went for a ride on my mum's car to escape from the noisy conditions that prevalates here and I heard some of the regular domestic and Cubans with tremendous strength. However, it is clear for me that the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve QTH is far less noisier and I will once again leave for this one later today ! Now, I'm looking for an antenna to go with the Meducci AM Stereo tuner, even though a Perseus is also interesting... Do you know a communication receiver that receives AM Stereo on LW and SW ? Is Iceland-189 in stereo ? Are they're still pushing out a loud Motorola C-Quam pilot tone like they did a few years ago ? It appears that our Sony XR-A33 car tuner doesn't support Motorola C-Quam, as the Stereo light didn't flash while I was listening to WICC in Bridgeport, Connecticut QRMing Cuba last night ! Enough speech, into the logs: Trans-Atlantic DX 153 GERMANY Deutschlandfunk, Donebach NOV 7 0410 UTC - Presumed with classical music. Poor-fair overall with another station way underneath (Romania or Algeria). (Chiochiu-Pierrefonds-QC) 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis NOV 8 0612 UTC - noted in passing with French rock music. Fair. (Chiochiu-Pierrefonds-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg NOV 7 0401 UTC - promptly heard as the powerline buzz ended at excellent level with an item about Nicolas Sarkozy. Excellent, local-like ! SINPO 5 for several minutes in a row ! The nx was followed by an interview with someone working at a high-speed party center (La Ronde in French Canadian, fête forraine in original French and bâlci in Romanian). The interview was cut once every 10 minutes to allow from some Nouvelle Scène French chanson by Bénabar and others. SINPO 45444 10 minutes later. (Chiochiu-Pierrefonds-QC) 189 ICELAND Rikisútvarpid, Gufusukalar NOV 8 0640 UTC - Lite rock music mix, then a sudden switch to 19 century classical organ followed by a conversation in Icelandic between a man and a woman with a very soothing voice, ideal for unwinding ! Around 0840, while the radio was still open, they were playing jazz music as the person who turned off the Grundig G5 ultralight told me today ! (Chiochiu-Pierrefonds-QC) 198 ENGLAND BBC Radio 4, Droitwich NOV 7 0448 UTC - health items. One of the items was about Australian researching things about the human body. Only fair, but armchair copy with the Sangean ACS 818=CST tuned to 197 in AM Narrow mode to avoid noise and QRM ! (Chiochiu-Pierrefonds-QC) 216 FRANCE RMC, Romoules NOV 7 0429 UTC - French sports talk regarding several soccer teams noted in passing sligthly over what seemed to be the CLB beacon in South Carolina (I don't understand Morse though). (Chiochiu-Pierrefonds-QC) 252 ALGERIA Alger Chaîne 3, Tipaza NOV 7 0430 UTC - morning show announcements in French. Received with a very good strength, but the modulation was only fair ! Over a poor co-channel Irish signal ! (Chiochiu-Pierrefonds-QC) 603 unID NOV 6 2237 UTC - Woman talk in unID language hetting badly CKAT-600 on the high-side... Occasionally splittable on the Sanyo MCD-S830 / PK AM loop combo, but clearly splittable on the Sangean ACS 818-CST / PK AM loop combo with the receiver detuned to 604 in AM Narrow to get away from 600. Poor signal and too mushy to see if I heard Spanish out of Spain or French from Lyon, France. The only mediumwave Trans-Atlantic that I tried to get under local noisy conditions ! (Chiochiu-Pierrefonds-QC) Pan-American DX 600 CUBA CMKV, Radio Rebelde, Urbano Norrís NOV 8 0214 UTC - relaying their FM feed with IDs such as Música Viva 96.7 Potencia FM and heard with requests from listeners living in QTHs like Pinar del Río. One of them requested a song by Ricardo Arjona which is one of the most popular Central American rockers (outside Mexico) and who cames out of Guatemala ! Huge, over / under WICC and CKAT on the Sony XR-A33 car-radio / omnidirectionnal whip combo ! //670 and 710 ! Is WICC in stereo ? They were playing a weird mix of English oldies and Italian pops, both old and new ! (Chiochiu-car-Pierrefonds-QC) 670 CUBA CMBA, Radio Rebelde, Arroyo Arrenas NOV 8 0404 UTC - playing an instrumental version of the Cuban classic Guantanamera. Good, over QRM ! WFAN had it's IBOC exciter turned off all night long, so no more QRM even after local midnight. Heard far from the powerlines ! (Chiochiu-car-Pierrefonds-QC) 710 CUBA Radio Rebelde synchros NOV 8 0406 UTC - woman happily announced things undergoing inside the Solo Música px. Briefly
[HCDX] Post-Halloween Trans-Atlantic LW logs
Warm greetings to all of you ! I found some time the past night after the movie theater to DX, to casual DX the longwave broadcast band... A surprise, although not a good one, was hearing Morocco on 171 weakly with a huge jammer-like noise. Unfortunatly, when I nulled that noise, Morocco was weaker... They used to beam NNW from Nador during the last couple of months (years ?), but they may have changed their pattern since... Also something ver choppy on 180, QRMed by Europe 1 (see below)... I didn't had the opportunity to take my mother's car yet this week-end, but I assume I may had the chance to log WICC 600 in C-QUAM STEREO as they were in strong around 6PM EDT (5PM EST) on the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot... But the most surprising thing was a change in my equipment, albeit a small one... Instead pf using my Sangean with its low-Fi sound (as compared to my trusty Sanyo MCD-S830), I used instead the Grundig G5 ultralight... Boy, does it sound Hi-Fi ! I had trouble sleeping with RUV's classic rock and cosmic rock music before, but now as it sounds much better, I went to bed around 0215 AM local and felt asleep quickly... As far as the sensitivity goes, it is just about the same or perphaps slightly BETTER than the Sangean (so a good point) although it is hard to rate... I should take it at the weekday's Hochelaga-Maisonneuve / MTL-EST house, even though like most ULR I can't aircheck my listening pleasures, but who cares, as I'll bring my Sanyo MCD-S830 in the cases condx switch to heavy auroral or at least semi-auroral, enough for some pleasant Radio Coro 780 airchecking... We don't have CDs in my mom's car, so taping foreign tropical signals is the only way to bring into the car SPANISH MUSIC... That being said, as far as my airechecks querry is concerned, see below my logs my biggest aircheck goal ! Well... Into the logs: Trans-Atlantic DX 153 unID NOV 1 0603 - something here with little or no audio. Very choppy sound ! (Chiochiu*Pierrefonds-QC / Chiochiu-ULR) 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis NOV 1 0606 - French hard rock tune noted in passing... They seldom play music on Sunday mornings, as they carry a litterature show. They stop the litterature show maybe twice during the hour for playing a wee bit of music. Very strong at this time, but consistently weaker than Europe 1. The hill right on the France / Germany border probably helps with Europe 1 better than the regular ground around the Allouis (Bourges area) transmitter site. (Chiochiu*Pierrefonds-QC / Chiochiu-ULR) 171 MOROCCO Médi Un, Nador NOV 1 0610 - news, very poor and difficult with jammer-like behind... Unfortunatly, it was almost impossible to null the jammer without also reducing dramatically the strength of Radio Méditerrannée Internationale. SIO 211. (Chiochiu*Pierrefonds-QC / Chiochiu-ULR) 180 unID NOV 1 0354 - The unID of the night ! unID carrying some barely discernable rock music getting through with a very dirty and choppy sound and some het from 183 kHz... Either crossmodulation from something on mediumwave or shortwave or maybe (who knows ?) TTT out of Polati, Turkey ? I know Turkey is occasionally making the TA trip inland, as Sylvain Naud heard them... The PK's Shielded Magnetic longwave loop is supposed to get rid of all the crossmodulation and false QRM problems, so I have high hopes for Turkey-180 ! (Chiochiu*Pierrefonds-QC / Chiochiu-logs) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg NOV 1 0356 - with a health magazine. Among the items, was a recent increase of 55% in the H1N1 swine flu cases reported... Very huge, booming in... After the 0400 GMT news, they went into the latest French Top 50 show ! (Chiochiu*Pierrefonds-QC / Chiochiu-ULR) 189 ICELAND Rikisútvarpid, Gufuskalar NOV 1 0615 - playing a smooth blend of slow tempo and mid tempo classic rock, cosmic rock, pop-rock and prog-rock tracks, mostly in English, maybe a tiny bit in Icelandic... I felt asleep listening to them. At 5AM EDT (4AM EST) / 0900 GMT (UTC) they were still going strong with Icelandic chatter, as my mother told me... With the Grundig G5 in AM Wide mode, one could hear some splatter out of Europe 1. Wow ! I never imagined two TAs could cause hets and splatter to each other ! (Chiochiu*Pierrefonds-QC / Chiochiu-ULR) 252 unID NOV 1 0352 - woman talk... Unreadable, as was heavily QRMed by beacons on nearby frequencies. (Chiochiu*Pierrefonds-QC / Chiochiu-ULR) Additionnal comments: The friend with whom I was at the movie theater was DXing with me for a short while... He was surprised at how many (at least three) LW signals I was logging, even though in his country (Congo - Kinshasa) there are no longwave broadcasters, only shortwave and ultrashortwave (FM). I'm surprised too to some extent that it's easier to DX longwave from the Montreal area than from my native Romania... Down there, I couldn't get a single Arabic station on LW... Here, I can (at least) get Medi Un, even though they are
[HCDX] mostly Pan-American MW logs during non-auroral conditions
Warm greetings to all of you guys ! I have been taken my Sanyo MCD-S830 to the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve / Montréal-Est border cottage with no trouble... We had flood two nights this week, so I have not slept too much this ending week except during the last two nights, but I'm not that tired overall... On the other hand, I had two or three pleasant surprises DXing South America and the Caribbean on MW, while condx were slightly below average as one would expect during such a phenomenal run of non-auroral ionospheric conditions... I'm still in DEEP trouble with the cegep's principals, so I'm still away from school, but at least I can stay up late and DX exciting stations like Venezuelan Radio Coro, so things aren't too bad overall, but I must admit they could get way much better... Into the logs now: Pan-American DX 555 ST KITTS ZIZ, Basseterre OCT 27 0326 - poor w/ Caribbean calypso and time-checks. (Chiochiu*HochelagaMaisonneuve-QC) 600 CUBA CMKV, Radio Rebelde, Urbano Norrís OCT 30 2310 - advice regarding persons sick with H1N1 flu to stay en un lugar cerrado (away from anybody) and to meet as soon as possible el medico de familia. This medical advice was followed by a Spanish Adult Contemporary ballad. After about 2330 UTC, their sports coverage begun, like usually on this station. Very good, over / under both WICC and CKAT. SINPO 42543-4 (Chiochiu*carMontRoyal-QC) 640 GUADELOUPE RFO, Pointe-à-Pitre OCT 27 0037 - w/ a zouk-love track followed by Radio Guadeloupe présente Lionel Ritchie... with some of his great hits... Good signal in a big jumble (Radio Progreso, WNNZ Westifield-MA carrying BBC World Service and weak residual AM 640 out of Toronto) ! SINPO 42532... I haven't heard that one in years ! That is a pleasant surprise, an almost astonishing one ! Have they increased their power ? (Chiochiu*HochelagaMaisonneuve-QC) 670 CUBA CMBA, Radio Rebelde, Arroyo Arrenas OCT 30 2317 - Woman in Spanish talking after the SS AC ballad (in // w/ 600) way over WSCR and slightly over the WFAN-660 IBOC hiss and the local next-to-adjacent CINF Infos Six Quatre Vingt Dix 690 splatter ! (Chiochiu*carLachine-QC) 750 VENEZUELA YVKS, Radio Caracas Radio, Caracas, Distrito Federal OCT 27 0115 - Venezuelan baseball coverage... On of the teams was Los Gavilanes or Los Magallanes. Huge, almost local-like, way stronger than anything else on this channel (WSB, CMHG Radio Progreso out of Sancti Spiritus). (Chiochiu*HochelagaMaisonneuve-QC) 760 COLOMBIA HJAJ, RCN Cadena Basíca OCT 27 0026 - promo for a cumbia music show on RCN Nuestra TV, time-check, ad for a bank. +OCT 27 0101 - nx segment about several Colombians who died in Venezuela in places such as el estado Táchira due to the H1N1 swine flu bacteria. (Chiochiu*HochelagaMaisonneuve-QC) 780tent. BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS ZBVI, Roadtwon OCT 29 0104 - Tentative with reggae music in WBBM null and heavily QRMing La Discoteca del Pueblo on Radio Coro... All my suspicions lead to ZBVI, but I'm skeptical as sooner or later I WILL GET AN ID ! (Chiochiu*HochelagaMaisonneuve-QC) 780 VENEZUELA YVNM, Radio Coro, Coro, Falcón OCT 26 0400 - carrying Ruta Músical 7-80. The beginning of the program featured mostly dark edged tropical grooves using minor chords, while the follow-up after about 1AM EDT (we are switching to EST this weekend though) featured mostly happy-sounding cumbia, vallenato, etc. tropical and traditionnal songs. Very huge peaks, deep fadings and domestic QRM in WBBM null ! SINPO 43323. I prefer hearing endlessly the same 2 or 3 regular Latins that, at least, are pretty long-haul from where I live rather than trying to hear through a deep-pileup low powered short skip USA stations that belong to the same networks anyway. At least, Radio Coro is a true regional Venezuelan ! (Chiochiu*HochelagaMaisonneuve-QC) 840 unID OCT 27 0015 - very good mixing with WHAS in Lousville, KY playing traditionnal Venezuelan music (música llanera). Lost barely two minutes away before I could secure any ID material. According to the YV DXers on SKYPE, Radio Juventud (YVMY) in Barquisimeto, Lara is running lower power than it used to. Given the huge friendship between Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro, it could be one of the two Cubans. There is also a domestic here playing Spanish tropical music, but I doubt it was it, since you won't hear YV mx on USA Spanish domestics. (Chiochiu*HochelagaMaisonneuve-QC) 870 CUBA CMHL, Radio Reloj, Sancti Spiritus OCT 27 0258 - Spanish news with clock ticks behind. Good through an annoying WCBS-880 IBOC hash. (Chiochiu*HochelagaMaisonneuve-QC) Trans-Atlantic DX 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg OCT 31 0425 - carrying a Laurent Rouquier do-you-know general culture game show in the same fashion as the ever-popular Des Questions pour un champion on TV5. Good with some slow fadings in and out. Generally speaking the signal was good, almost armchair copy ! SINPO 45432. This one is a
[HCDX] two Pan-American logs
Warm greetings to all of you ! Here in Pierrefonds, I get a huge buzz that stops promptly around 2330 Eastern Delayed Time - EDT (0330 GMT / UTC). By the way, as far as the time goes, we will be switching to EST (Eastern Standard Time) on Sunday, the first of November. After the buzz ended, I heard mostly so-so condx and logged at least two foreign signals, while noting in passing a few others... With condx on the active side of the things, I expect to hear something more surprising as soon as tomorrow ! Into the logs now: Pan-American DX 530 CUBA CMBD, Radio Enciclopedía, La Habana OCT 25 0332 - playing a Muzak version of Serge Gainsbourg / Jane Birkin's chanson classic Je t'aime, moi non plus... It seems odd to hear this stuff on Cuban radio. As far as the Muzak format of Radio Enciclopedia goes, they don't stick around with instrumental versions of pop songs, they even play Muzak version of Cuban TROPICAL music which is good, since with all this IBOC hash there are fewer and fewer frequencies around with Latin tropical music and more and more jammed by short-skip domestic pests from the New England and mid-west area... Fair in null of CIAO (which was weaker anyway) ! SINPO 25533 (Chiochiu-PIERREFONDS-QC) 780 VENEZUELA YVNM, Radio Coro, Coro, Falcón OCT 25 0340 - La Bailante Siete Ochenta very good peaks, deep fadings and splatter from both sides (local-like WABC-770 and true local CJAD-800). SINPO 42232. (Chiochiu-PIERREFONDS-QC) Additionnal comments: We will be moving from Montreal-Est during the next few weeks or so... In the meantime, I gave you a wrong number, as its 514-322-4555. You can reply to this message, but it will be read either today (providing you have to reply quickly) or Friday night if the buzz is still around... Otherwise, I will be DXing ! That being said, I'm a bit buzzy today, but as soon as I get more time, I will be trying to post more airchecks querries ! I tried last night, while the buzz was going on strong, to chat with the Venezuelan DXers on SKYPE, but it was in vain. Well, I will try again today, as this also part of the why I will be buzzy... I will bring my Sanyo MCD-S830 at the Montréal-Est QTH with me instead of my Sangean ACS-818 CST as there is hope for auroral condx... My Sanyo MCD-S830 is way less prone to overload than my Sangean and, last but certainly not least, the sound and the quality of the tape recordings or airchecks is better. Using the Sangean ACS 818-CST I hear distorted sound unless the signal is really strong. However, I'm afraid to get it broke... It's a huge AM-FM Hi-Fi portable with astonishing AM broadcast DX capabilities ! What is your opinion ? Should I take the Sanyo with me instead of the Sangean ? Reply fast ! Thanks a lot ! May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu This report is brought to you by Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu DXing this time only from Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island), QC using his trusty Sanyo MCD-S830 along with the PK's mediumwave AM loop ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[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] Bogdan's LW and MW loggings from the past week and one older goodie C-quam querries
Warm greetings ! I have been working very hard on finding Aventure FM tapes and I almost succeded... Let's see what comes inside my snail mail bag the next few weeks... I need to talk about Aventure, because the 23rd of October we sadly celebrate 20 years since Aventure FM was replaced by MaXXimum and this is unfortunate for me ! I love MaXXimum, just it didn't have a goal and wasn't eclectic enough to keep my mind high on life ! I also like better MaXXimum instead of Fun Radio rather than MaXXimum instead of Aventure FM ! However, I do enjoy the MaXXimum airchecks I found, since late 80s dance music will always be a part of my eclectic musical tastes ! Is anyone having any unscoped MaXXimum airchecks ? I'll thank you so much ! As far as the DX goes, a lot of good things and a constant, albeit VERY slow increase in the solar activity could sooner or later provide us with some astonishing auroral conditions... I'm so glad to see the A and K index both at 2 instead of 0 or even 1 ! The past week, at the MTL-EST cottage, LW was quite good after midnight, but almost useless during the early evenings time slot... MW was interesting in that I caught for a few minutes some music on 1215 kHz in heavy domestic QRM and I actually caught READABLE AUDIO on 623 kHz in AM Narrow mode from the Canary Islands in a deep WVMT-620 null... WVMT's audio on my fairly selective Sangean ACS 818-CST goes from 618 to 622 and the Canary-621 het goes from 619 to 623, so 623 in AM Narrow mode was quite clear, but the low modulation and the slight albeit still bothersome 620 QRM didn't allow me to extract too much program content. Still, I was rewarded with two mentions of Radio Nacional ! Latins are improoving, even though right now I'm only hearing the regulars, nothing beyond north coast South America ! Into the DX logs: Trans-Atlantic DX 153 unID OCT 22 0305 - two or three signals mixing. Nothing readable. (Chiochiu-MTL-EST-QC) 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis OCT 20 0503 - to fair-good peak. Didn't took any specific notes while I was listening, as even though the signal was almost good, it is often noisier way down there and the station is a run of the mil catche during average conditions. LW condx were slightly below average with some pleasant surprises (see 252 below). (Chiochiu-MTL-EST-QC) 171 MOROCCO (no) Medi Un, Nador OCT - still no reception of this station. However, one night (OCT 22 around 0305 UTC) I caught very weakly some Slavic talk and some Dance Music which lead to either Ukraine or Russia. Are they leaving longwave for good in order to allow for better shortwave coverage ? If Morocco-171 is gone, then hearing Arabic on LW will become more difficult... Well... (Chiochiu-MTL-EST-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg OCT 20 0415 - with the news stories of the day... A man in Montpellier (southern France) has killed a thief who had a gun on his hands and was trying to stole gold and money from his house. He was sent to justice, but he appears to be avoiding jail, since he tried to fight for his life and the one of his family. Also, weather warnings for southern France and Corsica concerning huge thunderstorms that were predicted for later the same day... Often huge with slow and deep fadings, while an annoying buzz was popping in and out... SINPO 45332 (Chiochiu-MTL-EST-QC) 189 ICELAND Rikisútvarpid, Gufuskalar OCT 22 0344 - playing some lite rock. Poor. Condx were poor on OCT 21 / OCT 22 UTC on longwave with some nice, albeit weak surprises. (Chiochiu-MTL-EST-QC) 198 ENGLAND BBC Radio 4, Droitwich OCT 20 0348 - playing a World Beat program made by BBC World Service. Fairly good, best signal from them in ages ! I have to admit, however, that my weekend home isn't the perfect choice for DXing on 198 kHz, because I have a weird noise RIGHT ON this channel ! (Chiochiu-MTL-EST-QC) 207 GERMANY Deutschlandfunk, Münich OCT 20 0407 - Tentative with woman in German weakly through some threshold-strength NDBs. (Chiochiu-MTL-EST-QC) 216 FRANCE RMC, Romoules OCT 20 0420 - with their ever lengthy morning newscast. They carried pretty much the same stories as Europe 1 (see 183 above). Huge, over / under what was perphaps CLB if I understood morse. (Chiochiu-MTL-EST-QC) 234 LUXEMBOURG RTL, Beidweler and / or Junglister OCT 20 0403 - to good peak with an item regarding the swine flu (H1N1) vaccine shot and the beginning of the vaccination campaign... It's scary because I had huge traumas with the first shots here (I even deleted my Aventure FM 06.10.1988 tape after two painful shots), but that's another story and isn't related to this log ! (Chiochiu-MTL-EST-QC) 252 ALGERIA Alger Chaîne 3, Tipaza OCT 19 0246 - playing traditionnal Arabic music that was midway between raï and folk. Huge at tune-in, but quickly faded away leading to Ireland underneath to come atop ! Ireland had its best peak after 0400 GMT / UTC. SINPO 4232-1 +OCT 22 0340 - playing Je
[HCDX] Bogdan's latest LW-MW-SW logs
Warm greetings to all of you ! A lots of things going on, some good, other bad... I haven't DXed in a while, except randomly, and while the propagation wasn't extra-good, it was nice to enjoy DXing with a friend who was astonished at how good Venezuela was received on the mediumwave AM broadcast band... I live with him nowadays, so I seldom have access to the Internet right now... That being said, I will still try to get in touch with you as often as possible ! Some topics of interest: Medi Un is stronger than ever on 9575 kHz SW, while LW 171 seems off. When the awful computer generated noise is off there is NOTHING on 171 kHz other than static... However, despite the crisis, Iceland-189 is often huge ! On MW, some snippets of TA audio here and there, mostly on 585, 594 and 1134 but nothing compared to LW (which even that TA band is slightly below par), but most of the regular Latins are quite good... However, I badly miss a huge aurora - one that would take away all that awful IBOC hiss - all that unbearable hash ! As for the Aventure FM airchecks, I found some 99% music airchecks with the recording stopped while the jock is talking... It isn't really what I was looking for but it's better than nothing ! I haven't received them officially yet, but they lead toward mainly late 80s Dance Music from the pre-MaXXimum era ! Into the logs now: Trans-Atlantic DX 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis OCT 16 0410 - discussing contemporary French litterature. Fair and improoving with transmitter site grayline dawn enhancement. (Chiochiu*P-QC) 171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador (no) OCT - no reception of this station during the last couple of nights. However, on late afternoons, 9575 kHz SW has been fair to good, so apparently they increased power on SW while working on their LW transmitter ? (Chiochiu*P-QC / Chiochiu*MtlEST-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg AUG 6 0310 - playing Elle a les yeux revolver 1985 French variety classic by Marc Lavoine, then the man announcer talking about the birthday of this great singer ! Very good reception, one of the best showings of Europe 1 the past summer ! (Chiochiu*P-QC) 189 ICELAND Rikisútvarpid, Gufuskalar OCT 16 0340 - playing some hard rock music selections done by a man in Icelandic. Poor-fair with static scratches; the only LW broadcaster audible then. (Chiochiu*MtlEST-QC) +OCT 18 0450 - playing some psychedelic classic rock with some Ruv Fur jingles interspersed in beetwen. At 0600 had a short IS followed by nx in Icelandic. Powerful signal, but disturbed by static scratches with the PK's Shielded Magnetic longwave loop on a SW-NE bearing ! SINPO 45252 (Chiochiu*P-QC) 198 ENGLAND BBC Radio 4, Droitwich OCT 16 0407 - Very poor with talk in British accented English. Destroyed at home in Pierrefonds by an awful computer-like buzz ! (Chiochiu*MtlEST-QC) 216 FRANCE RMC Info, Romoules OCT 16 0425 - French soccer-related chatter. Good. SINPO 34454 (Chiochiu*P-QC) 234 LUXEMBOURG RTL, Junglister / Beidweler OCT 16 0412 - French weather reports. Poor, but readable ! (Chiochiu*MtlEST-QC) +OCT 18 0430 - two men discussing in French. Fair signal, but completly destroyed by a computer growl... Unlike the beacons who are using NEARBY frequencies, the COMPUTER GROWL WAS RIGHT ON 234 kHz. SINPO 31241 (Chiochiu*P-QC) 252 ALGERIA Alger Chaîne 3, Tipaza OCT 16 0410 - Algerian weather repport. Briefly up at a poor-fair level with almost no QRM. (Chiochiu*MtlEST-QC) +OCT 18 0440 - talking about the morning show going on until 9AM local time. Fair with a high pitched growl other than local UL 248 NDB QRM. SIO 322. (Chiochiu*P-QC) 585 SPAIN Radio Nacional de España, Madrid OCT 6 0444 - Morning show announcement. Fair to nil with the Sanyo MCD-S830 analog dial tuned in between the 580 and 590 kHz domestics... Unfortunatly, during the upcoming days this one was unreadable ! It isn't as reliable as one might think... Adjacent channel semi-local CFRA dropping power from 50 kW days to 10 kW nights certainly helps ! (Chiochiu*P-QC) 594 unID OCT 3 2207 - Man talking in unID language. Very weak, essentially a threshold signal. (Chiochiu*P-QC) 1134 CROATIA Glas Hrvatska (600 kW), Zadar / SPAIN COPE synchros (around 10 kW) OCT 16 0410 - Man talking in Spanish mixed with Slavic talk. Poor in huge WBBR splatter. Best reception was on 1137 kHz in AM Wide mode, as on 1136 kHz in AM Narrow mode the audio was too Low-Fi - hi ! (Chiochiu*MtlEST-QC) 1215 unID OCT 16 0415 - bits of very threshold audio. Unreadable ! (Chiochiu*MtlEST-QC) 9460 TURKEY Voice of Turkey, Çakilar OCT 17 2149 - playing a wonderful dark-edged Turkish vocal Eurotrance track followed by a cheap Turkish pop. Good signal with some fading. SINPO 45543 - an overall of 4 or 3 over 5 depending on a good but less than stellar signal and a good but less than stellar propagation mixed together, so SINPO 45543 ! (Chiochiu*P-QC) 9575 MOROCCO
Re: [HCDX] long-haul FM DX
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[HCDX] we are getting closer to 2009-2010
Warm greetings to all of you ! First of all, I'm hearing a weird beacon on 750 kHz, mixing with YVKS (yes, YVKS !)... I had snippets of Radio Coro earlier, but now it's getting hurt by both local splatter and local noise... Seems like CJAD-800 changed something to its modulation, it seems to use thicker modulation than ever... In spite of the promising conditions, I'm plagued with noises, most likely TVI from our neighborhood...between IBOC, TVI and New England pests south of Montreal, it is getting harder and harder to DX the mediumwave Latins... As far as LW goes, I have an awful growl right on 171 swmaping Medi Un... Well... May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[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] long-haul FM DX
¡ Hóla queridos parceors, panas y patas ! Due to the lack of any sporadic E openings lately (and the huge amount of them back in late June when I used to woke around 1PM when the Es was winding down), I decided to take a look over youtube and see what the Romanian DXer Zvartoshu has received... I came upon this video and I almost believe its a fake: Colombian station heard on 88.7 Mhz in ROMANIA via double-hop F2 skip - it must be a fake... The F2 has not even reached the old Eastern bloc OIRT-FM band at 65-75 MHz, so how can it reach 88.7 MHz ? Check out this video... is there some TEP scatter or some TEP linking to double-hop Es, I mean Colombia to Brasil, then Brazil to northern Africa, then Es to Romania, but it sounds splendid ! I tried to meet this guy when I was in Romania, but he didn't seemed very interested in meeting another DXer... Anyway, here is the video to watch out ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuVbgDZ5F68NR=1 Cada uno dentre nosotros sabe que la propagación en la FM tiene un más pequeño alcanzo que sobre onda larga, media o corta... Con la falta de abiertura E esporadicas durante la última semana y mi pasión tan grande para el DXismo, he tratado de mirar videos sobre YouTube... No puedes adivinar como me siento cuando miro que un DXista venezolano ha logrado una emisora COLOMBIANA en la FM en Rumania con una video sobre YouTube para probar... Pienso que Rumania es mejor que Canada para el DXismo FM, pero de todos modos, la propagación este-oeste desde Colombia hacia Rumania en la FM me parece imposible... o tal vez una mezcla de TEP y de Es pero aún eso me parece muy lindo... El peor es que los DXistas que han escrito comentarios sobre ese video no han parecido tan sorprendidos... Todo eso me parece un sueño fuera del cual tengo que despertarme... pero si me gustaría lograr una emisora FM de la costa norte de America del Sur, ¡claro! Puedes disfrutar ese video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuVbgDZ5F68NR=1 es malicioso ha puso sú computador frente al WiFi a cerca de sú camera web y, luego, ha abierto sú tuner FM sobre una frecuencia vacía...no... ¡que cobardía! He tratado de encontrar a ese DXista extraño durante mi último viaje sin exito...sería interesante de hacer DXismo consigo - es el mejor DXista TV-FM que nunca he conocido... También, alguien en Irlanada a logrado a escuchar algo desde Alabama en la FM, pero eso es un poquitito más cercano... Espero que Mike Bugaj va a conseguir ese video sobre ABDX o WTFDA... ¡ Hasta pronto - me siento engañado por ese video tan malicioso ! Bogdan Chiochiu en Canadá ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[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] logs incl one of the best TA LW DX openings
Warm greetings to all of you ! I'm in a big rush right now, trying to attend a party and looking forward changing the setting in my own room (I wouldn't have access to the computer for a short while, except maybe the one downstairs to chat with the Venezuelan DXers which, I hope, have already purchassed the PK loop for longwave listening)... I'm not too used with the keyboard downstairs and condx don't look too primising for another long report soon either ! Anyway, here are my latest logs: Trans-Atlantic DX 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis JUL 20 0313 - end of a reggae-rock French song, then into talk regarding a Britton summer festivity and a contest offering a radio to the listener who knew something about this Britton festivity. Fair. (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador - logged, details not taken. (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg JUL 22 0245 - carrying the same Top 50 memories program for the 25th birthday of the French countdown TOP CINQUANTE... They seem to have dropped their heavy and almost exclusive news/talk format. (Chiochiu-QC) 198 UNITED KINGDOM BBC Radio 4, Droitwhich JUL 20 0250 - relaying BBC World Service with a World Beat program... Heard some nice acoustic flavoured Afropops... Fair in AM Narrow mode to avoid QRM from low-powered local beacon on 201 kHz. Best ever reception this summer yet ! (Chiochiu-QC) 207 GERMANY Deutschlandfunk, Münich JUL 20 0145 - Presumed with classical music noted at a fair level... Got briefly disturbed by a srong buzz, then faded out for good... The best I've ever heard on 207 kHz yet... I was on the verge of logging this one ! (Chiochiu-QC) 216 FRANCE RMC Info, Romoules JUL 20 0310 - noted in passing at dawn enhancement. (Chiochiu-QC) 234 LUXEMBOURG RTL, Beidweler and/or Junglister JUL 20 0307 - heard with Philippe Lafontaine's French Belgian Coeur de Loup (Wolf's Heart) classic, then man with ID, time-check, an input about the music played, then introduced the Samuel and Garfunkel Smokey Robinson classic. Also well heard around 0300 at the top-of-the-hour but was buzy reviewing my tape so that I won't delete a vital aircheck, so I missed the top-of-the-hour announcements. The recording of the Philippe Lafontinae - Samuel and Garfunkel spoken announcement was posted on the web ! The clearest I got them was on 233 kHz in AM Narrow rather than on 234 kHz in AM Wide mode to avoid splatter from adjacent channel non-directionnal beacons ! 2nd best ever reception of the most difficult French LW outlet to get at my location ! The clip will be uploaded at www.21centimeters.com and has already been uploaded by myself on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ABDX/files/Miscellanous%20DX%20airchecks/ ! (Chiochiu-QC) Pan American DX 750 VENEZUELA YVKS Radio Caracas Radio, Caracas, DF JUL 20 0335 - woman in Spanish talking about Caracas. Good and mixing with WSB. (Chiochiu-QC) 760 COLOMBIA HJAJ RCN Cadena Basíca, Barranquilla JUL 22 0245 - w/ a man doing a speech via the phone regarding war issues. Good to quite poor in a more or less solid WJR null. Threshold on the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot, so the PK loop undoubtedly helped ! (Chiochiu-QC) 1150 unID JUL 22 0234 - Spanish talk regarding El Salvador not sure if religious or geographical related. Fair-good but way under the domestic pileup. Probably an ethnic domestic rather than a long-sought Central or South American, though who knows for sure better than God the creator of nighttime skywave ? (Chiochiu-QC) Additionnal comments: I decided to take the Sangean ACS 818-CST and the PK's Shielded Magnetic C-LOOP HDSM 150-450 with me on a short ride toward a quiet neighborhood. I wasn't dissapointed at all. At home, except for France-162, most of the LW and MW reception is plagued by growls appearing on the most interesting channels. However at the spot I stayed I could get my best ever reception of Germany-207 (still presumed as I wasn't rewarded with an ID, unlike Sylvain Naud north-EAST of me, but hey !...) and my 2nd best ever reception of Luxembourg-234... I certainly doubt Sylvain Naud could get it on 233 in AM Narrow mode as he has a megapest on 230 kHz, but on 234 in USB (my Sangean has BFO which is like USB, but, unfortunatly, the readability is almost useless as far as original AM signals are concerned - still it is very nice for listening to ham transmissions). Here, 234 has a S5 high-pitched growl annihilating everything ! After the exceptionnal evening of Sunday when both the A and K indices were hovering right at 0, conditions deteriorated, but Latin American signals didn't get really enhanced, except maybe a tiny bit, like the past night when I got a mysterious Spanish signal on 1150 kHz, an area of the mediumwave band I don't check too often because of IBOC hash and also because of growl from HDTV sets and / or computers surrounding us. A bit off-topic, but I've heard that Canadian HD is already on and in
[HCDX] foreign LW, MW and SW logs
Warm greetings to all of you ! I have been buzy lately either with preparing invitations for my birthday party (even so I forgot to call several times a music-minded Peruvian girl to ensure she will attend my party and I feel ashamed which is why I decided to write down my logs in order to try forgeting such an upset misunderstood situation) or chatting with some highly charismatic Venezuelan DXers using SKYPE. Another reason for my lack of any DXing is that I have highly annoying high-pitched growl on 172 kHz terribly offending reception of Morocco's Medi Un (171) that seems to originate from our neighbor's house (who are on vacation). It can be nulled with the PK LW loop perpendicular to the North-East, but the Morocco's signal is somewhat weaker. That being said, it isn't as weak as I have thought, because the directionnal pattern of Nador-171 is NNW which means some of it signal manages to scatter toward the northeast of my QTH, even though the correct bearing from Montreal to Nador (Morocco) is SSE not NE ! That being said, I reactivated last night and I must say I'm impressed with the 150-450 kHz LW loop... The connector cable was included, so I didn't need to purchase it the past few days... Another thing to mention: it amplifies the 153 kHz TA channel properly, though only some moderate hum could be heard on this channel ! I have some severe noises issues between 198 and 279 kHz meaning I didn't log RMC Info 216 kHz lately... In addition to those, I'm get a severe high-pitched growl on 234 kHz so unless it stops during the next few weeks, it would be a while before I relog RTL ! Enough chatter, into the logs: Trans-Atlantic DX 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis JUL 18 0305 - playing one of the latest Vanessa Paradis tracks, then interview with her. She told she dislike jolidays on the beach and what she enjoys the most is the performance on stage... Good signal but static scracthes made readability so-so. This was the only LW signal that happened to be on a clear frequency without growl and noises from hte neighborhood downstairs at this late time, while Germany-183 had already faded out ! (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador JUL 18 0255 - woman host of an Arabic music program containing mostly plaintive Egyptian religious vocals. Very good at times. Best on 169 kHz in AM WIDE Mode with the PK LW loop perpendicular to the north-east / south-west which is not too bad as 171 Nador has a NNW directionnal pattern meaning some of its signal manages to scatter toward the north-east of my QTH. I took my battery powered Sangean ACS 818-CST along with the PK LW loop and just came to the other side of the road and this station was QRM-free ! (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg JUL 18 0210 - carrying French Top 50 memories... Noted at a fair, but very clear level, S3 out of S7 on the Sangean's reading meter ! (Chiochiu-QC) 189 ICELAND Rikisútvarpid, Gufuskalar JUL 18 0240 - Tentative with very weak audio; the first sign of a darkness path of any kind between Montreal and Gufuskalar ! During the month of June, the only Trans-Atlantic darkness path allowing Icelandic DX is between Newfoundland and Gufuskalar, because of the proximity ! (Chiochiu-QC) 198 unID JUL 17 0315 - with man talk. Very threhsold and very noisy, both man-made and a huge amount of static scratches from a nearby thunderstorm ! Could be unlogged Algeria ! (Chiochiu-QC) 9575 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador JUL 17 2250 - fair with splatter from 9580 and 9570 kHz; with mostly plaintive Egyptian vocals, religious in nature. When the darkness path between Morocco and Montreal is viable, LW 171 kHz often fares better than SW 9575 kHz, as far as its signal strength goes ! (Chiochiu-QC) 11820 SAUDI ARABIA BS Of the Kingdom, Jiddah and / or Riadh JUL 18 2108 - Fair with koranic male chanting. SINPO 35433. I will be happy when I will be able to identify them on 594 kHz. 1521 would be impossible given my equipment, the relative lack of selectivity, WWKB-1520 QRM and, to a lesser extent, local splatter from overmodulated CFAV-1570. +JUL 18 2122 - SINPO 45533 right now with Koranic chanting ! +JUL 18 2126 - going into a prayer, then back into Koranic chanting at 2130 GMT with the same SINPO ! +JUL 18 2131 - with a prayer in the form of speech ! (Chiochiu-QC) Pan-American DX 750 VENEZUELA YVKS, Radio Caracas Radio, Caracas, Distrito Federal JUL 17 0320 - man talking about FM listening issues. Very poor and difficult to follow with QRM from both WSB in Atlanta and a nearby thunderstorm in my neck of the woods ! (Chiochiu-QC) 760 COLOMBIA HJAJ, RCN Cadena Basíca, Barranquilla JUL 18 0720 - carrying CNN audio feed in Spanish. They talked about the Latin American countries with the fewer cases of swine flu. Bolivia was among them. Good in a difficult WJR null. (Chiochiu-QC) 780 VENEZUELA YVNM, Radio Coro, Coro, Falcón JUL 18 0625 - carrying Ruta Musical
[HCDX] Cuba-910
Warm greetings ! I was surprised to find an announcement on Radio Cadena Agramonte regarding the next Fidel Castro's meeting with someone... Good and mixing with Spanish language tropical pest WLAT La Mega Nueve Diez on 910 AM ! Here is the log (IDXD format): 910 CUBA Radio Cadena Agramonte (CMAF), Camagüey JUL 9 0602 - Good and mixing with megapest WLAT with a man announcing the next Fidel Castro's meeting with someone. This is more commun than YVRQ for me these days, a few years ago YVRQ was more commun than Cuba here. I'm still looking for YVRQ Radio Aeropuerto airchecks... I'm interested in the history of Venezuelan broadcasting, even though I'm barely turning 22 the next week ! Radio Aeropuerto became RQ-910 in 1986 ! There is a very short aircheck of YVRQ from 1976 on the Mark Connelly's website and it is in real-audio an oldschool format... I hope to hear more from the pre-1986 YVRQ. Remember aircheck collectioning is just as fun as DXing ! (Chiochiu-QC) May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[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] foreign logs including a new one on shortwave
Warm greetings to all of you ! Nothing unusual was heard on either LW or MW... However the last night, I had the pleasant surprise of tuning into an Algerian clandestine on 6300 kHz and almost fell asleep listening to a man chanting the Koran... This was my best SW catche in a while... Right now, I'm listening to a run-of-the-mil major international broadcaster from Greece on 9420 kHz (actually it is better on 9421 kHz to reduce adjacent channel splatter from 9415), but is more entertaining that the endless talk programs coming out of the French broadcaster and more than pay off of finding the WANTED MOROCCO PEST ON 207 KHZ RUNNING LOWER POWER ACCORDING TO A GERMAN DXER WHO VISITED PORTUGAL RECENTLY. Into the logs: Trans-Atlantic DX 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis JUL 5 0320 - Comment voyager ?... trip related px with chatter relating trips to Bretagne (in westernmost France) and to the Tibet ! Huge, peaking well over a growl from a nearby computer (that was nulled somewhat when I looped north-east/south-west) and audible a little bit on the Sangean barefoot just like RMC-216. (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MOROCCO Medi 1, Nador JUL 4 0230 - back-to-back Arabic vocals interspersed with short comments by a woman in Arabic as well. Very good peaks (i.e. around 0238 UTC), but also very poor ones with deep and slow fadings, but not that bad overall. Overall SINPO 45323 + JUL 5 0230 - briefly fair with raï, otherwise way down in the noises the past night unlike the other night when they were dominant, by far... They seem to habe dropped the bilengual late-night French-Arabic request show ! Sad ! They used to carry that show on weekends and on special weekdays. (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg JUL 4 0246 - playing an oldfashionned French chanson inside their talkshow... The signal was quite good, but static scratches made following program content more challenging, even though it was in French which is almost like a second mothertongue for me ! (Chiochiu-QC) 207 GERMANY Deutschlandfunk, Münich JUL 4 0208 - Tentative with female opera classical vocal... Very poor and noisy, but QRM-free, almost useless. No sign of most wanted 207 RTM Azilal even though 171 quickly faded up to huge peaks. Per SINPO 25221 (Chiochiu-QC) 216 FRANCE RMC Info, Romoules JUL 4 0405 - Very good / huge, interview with a traveller from Montreal that spoke in accented French ! Audible a little bit on the Sangean barefoot with the PK antenna on another corner of the room. SINPO 4 thanks to greyline sunrise enhancement ! (Chiochiu-QC) 252 ALGERIA Alger Chaîne 3, Tipaza JUL 5 0255 - Tentative; two men discussing in an unID language... Even with local UL NDB on 248 kHz attenuated to a great extent, the reception was mushy and fadey, the fades were more rapid that those I'm used to when DXing the lower half of the longwave broadcast band; it almost sounded like a flea powered signal on shortwave. Probably Algeria as still hanging on after 0400 with the same pitifully hard-to-follow program content with the sun shinning brightly at the co-channel Irish transmitter. (Chiochiu-QC) 6300 ALGERIA RASD JUL 5 0620 - Man chanting the Koran followed by man with comments in Arabic then what seemed to be a short musical interlude. Fair-poor overall with utility QRM that was avoided using AM Narrow, but more exciting than the run-of-the-mil of longwave Trans-Atlantics and the almost inexistent mediumwave Pan-Americans. NEW ! Very excited about this one ! SINPO 23542 (Chiochiu-QC) 9420 GREECE Foni Tis Helladas JUL 5 2255 - just heard an accented woman saying You are listening to the Voice of Greece in English over a nice instrumental music jingle. Not as entertaining as the 6300 Algerian clandestine, but still nice to listen to from time to time. Around 2300 UTC improved with the 9415 kHz pest signing off ! SINPO 33433 at 2255 UTC and SINPO 45544 at 2300 UTC ! (Chiochiu-QC) Pan-American DX 640 CUBA CMBC, Radio Progreso, Guanabacoa JUL 5 0406 - Presumed with Spanish romantic vocals in mess. SIO 323. (Chiochiu-QC) 780 VENEZUELA YVNM, Coro, Falcón JUL 3 0405 - Apparent romantic vocal very poor in as deep as possible a null of both CFDR and WBBM. (Chiochiu-QC) 6185 BRAZIL Radio Nacional do Brasil JUL 5 0600 - Brasilian pops and ID... Good atop a fluttery Mexican... SINPO 44544. Seems like Mexico performs very poorly on SW and Colombia too... This is one of the few remaining South American domestic SW broadcasters ! Sad ! (Chiochiu-QC) Domestic DX 88.1 WHDX St Louis, MO 6/30 2005 - faded at the ToH ID, but the man announcer mentioned St Louis several times. Huge signal almost local-like, EXCELLENT with some fades ! SINPO 45324 This is the only one from the June 30 opening that I IDed for sure ! (BC-PQ) Additionnal comments: I made a short aircheck of the 6300 mysterious Arabic clandestine broadcaster... If anyone is interested in it, please let me know ! Also,
[HCDX] June 26 sporadic E logs on VHF2 FM
Warm greetings to all of you ! Some of you may wonder how a DXer who is DXing the long, medium and to a lesser extent the shortwave bands all year round could be so excited with FM DXing... The answer is because it is rare and it's so unpredictable... If you get Es from an area that is also getting Es from another one, then you're likely to get double-hop Es and double-hop Es on FM *can* mean foreign DX which is a kind of stuff I usually hunt on either longwave or mediumwave ! Even though Es was heard from as far south as AL, nothing in Spanish from the Caribbean or Mexico could be squeeze out of a rather choppy FM band ! Equipment used was the Sangean ACS 818-CST with its own telescopic antenna which still works well on FM even though on SW it's automatically disconnected and therefore rather deaf ! Right now at 2002 EDT (0002 UTC), the FM band seems to be open again with very weak signals on 93.1 and stronger ones between 89.7 and 91.7 ! I just fired on the Sangean rig as I wrote this and was surprised, too bad the Es opening is on the verge of its end ! Into the logs now: 89.7 unID 6/26 2007 - someone playing RB mixing with a very weak Christian semi-local in Plattsburg, NY ! (BC-PQ) 90.7 unID around 1815 EDT 6/26 playing In The Hands of God lite rock gospel track and useless network ID as K-Love which is the same network as the Plattsburg, NY station on 89.7 ! Often excellent local-like signal ! (BC-PQ) 90.9 unID playing RB gospel tracks... Afternoon expressions on your smooth jazz... From Alabama's university... No idea who it might be, except that it comes from Alabama just as 100,000 watter WMXS and it would be my third Alabaman on FM if someone is willing to help me, as I googled it to no avail ! This would be AL#5, if someone helps me with an ID... (BC-PQ) 91.1 unID NPR broadcaster, better on 91.05 to avoid splatter from local CIRA (Radio Ville Marie) on 91.3. (BC-PQ) 91.7 unID station with a beautiful sad-sounding chorale singing. (BC-PQ) 92.9 unID playing alternative rock music in a very difficult null of semi-local WEZF in Burlington, VT around 1720 EDT shortly after getting the 101.1 unID. (BC-PQ) 92.9 KGRC Hannibal, MO - innitially an unID 6/26 2020 EDT (2420 / 0020 UTC) playing soothing, yet fairly rhythmic RB and IDing as Real 92.9... Definitively not previously logged WTUG... I found a spot in my bedroom where I can point the telescopic antenna of my Sangean ACS 818-CST away from huge semi-local pest WEZF in Burlington, VT ! Wikipedia points out to this station ! By the year 2000, the station had become 92.9 The River. KGRC currently plays a Hot AC format, and is known as Real 92.9. Since it plays a mix of hit music such as a Hot Adult Contemporary, but adds hip-hop and Rhythmic Contemporary product to its rotation at night like a Top 40 (CHR), thus it could be considered an Adult Top 40. It also explains why I heard a nice smooth RB track released a few years ago ! (BC-PQ) 92.9 unID 6/26 2040 EDT in an almost perfect WEZF null heard one with classic country and nonIDing as Bass Country 92.9 with local ads. Good peaks, but deep fadings and unstable, as if the E-skip opening is slowing down. (BC-PQ) 93.1 IDing as B93.1 with mention of Savannah and playing ONLY RB... Maybe I was misleading in the fairly few notes I took... I just wish I turned on my rig earlier and find an agenda for taking notes instead of just taping randomly. At 1745 EDT (2145 UTC) heard here an ugly pop-punk song by Simpla Plan. Later, slightly past 6PM EDT, heard a gospel music station here with a huge signal strength and minor fadings though it eventually faded out as the opening ended ! (BC-PQ) 93.7 WFBC Greenville, SC 6/26 1704 - playing up-beat RB and commercial alt-punk music and IDing with the slogan B93.7 with mentions of South Carolina. Best on 93.75 MHz to reduce splatter from local CBC Radio Two on 93.5 MHz. On The Air with Ryan Sicrest on B93.7 with a special tribute to MJ. Is WFBC carrying Ryan Sicrest or have I mislogged this one ? I'm so excited, as I never heard South Carolina before on ANY broadcast band, not even on mediumwave ! Sometimes excellent on 93.75 ! Probably the same station noted at 1807 EDT playing Pray by MC Hammer, if WFBC ! (BC-PQ) 93.9 WSEK Burnside, KY 6/26 1740 EDT and beyond - unID country station heard very strongly during this 6/26 E-skip opening. NonIDing as K93 country and giving the website of www.k93country.com for voting for the Top 20 of the station which points out to WSEK which is obviously a new one for me ! This is KY#2 on FM for me and #3 including nighttime mediumwave pest WHAS-840 ! Fairly short Es... Girard, have you received some Montreal area stations if I'm receiving at least one station out of Kentucky ? CKMF 94.3 énergie quatrevingt-quatorze trois should make to your area ! (BC-PQ) 93.9 around 6/26 1808 EDT with Tennessee 93.9 slogan, not sure if WSEK broadcasting country music to nearby
[HCDX] a bunch of exciting TA logs 1 Latin
Warm greetings to all of you ! The solar activity is on a SLIGHT, albeit fairly significative rise ! This means that it is not impossible that toward the official beginning of the 2009-2010 LW and MW DX season we might get some auroral enhanced Latins instead of those back-to-back TAs, as some of them seem to be heard all-year-round (especially the LW ones). While I was chatting to some highly charismatic YV DXers using SKYPE the past week-end, one of them tried unsuccesfully to log Médi Un on 171 kHz and was rewarded with a bunch of highly bothersome noises... I suggested they loog at http://www.amradioantennas.com/ and I hope the next time I have some time available to spent on SKYPE chatting with him, he will tell me what he thinks of this promising website, a promise of feeding-frenzy TA LW DXing and much more... Last Tuesday night, condx were unusual with Medi Un getting at a good, not at a fair level at tx-site dawn greyline enhancement, BBC Radio 4 making a showing on 198 kHz (for the first time this summer) along with very faint audio on 252 kHz through a computer-related growl, this growl being more bothersome than the adjacent excellent strength local UL beacon on 248 kHz... Part of the reason I heard so much on LW was that I found a quiet spot for the Sangean ACS-818CST / PK's Shielded Magnetic longwave loop combo in my parents bedroom... Well... Paul Karlstrand, the man behind PK, is receiving this message as well, because I would like to ask my mom' if she could think about a fixed frequency loop for 153 kHz for my birthday... The Shielded Magnetic LW loop is awesome, except if I tune to the lowest frequency this tuned loop can be tuned, I only get enhancement on France-162 and I don't start to see any amplification on 153 kHz, I can't tune below 162 kHz, to take away the gain needed for a clean reception of Allouis-162 and to get a noteworthy reception on Tipaza-153 kHz... This is also the best frequency for Romanian, German and Norwegian domestic LW radio ! Well... Into the logs now: Trans-Atlantic DX 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis JUN 24 0257 - heard with a nice blues-rock song before the top-of-the-hour. Very good signal, but poor overall due to some annoying computer popping growl that was only slightly reduced by tuning the Sangean ACS 818-CST portable in AM Narrow mode on 160 kHz. (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MOROCCO Médi 1, Nador JUN 24 0350 - good on tx-site dawn enhancement with some powerful rhythmic Arabic raï as well as slow religious plaintive vocals leading to the 0400 UTC newscast. SINPO 45443. Toward the end of the Arabic music broadcast, it dropped to SINPO 35332 ! +JUN 25 0150 - heard with rhythmic Arabic music. Fair but with lots of static scratches as the extremely hot wet weather Montreal is going through right now is making the atmosphere prone to Thunderstorm activity. Propagation was at most average as around 0155 UTC was starting to fade down to a very poor level because the receiver sunset dawn enhacement effect was over ! SINPO 35232. (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg JUN 24 0245 - dramatic reading of the L'écume des jours classical modern French book by Boris Vian interspead with some nice Boris Vian French language jazz songs. Huge, better than in my own room ! This station which was known for carrying broadcasts dealing with the woman's sexual health is also carrying some days dramatic reading on early morning hours. They do this probably to fight for France Inter's status which is playing less music and more dramatic reading programs during the early morning hours. By the way this station is located on the France/Germany's border and is considered to be a French broadcaster. It is among the first post-World War II FRENCH PRIVATE broadcasters, when private radio was prohibited in France and a few owners such as the ones behind Europe 1 had the bright idea of opening their stations with their transmitter accross the border, but with their studios in Paris ! In French, this is known as radio périphérique... The first legal landbased French PRIVATE radio stations appeared in 1981 followed PS François Mitterand election ! (Chiochiu-QC) 198 ENGLAND BBC Radio 4, Droitwich JUN 24 0259 - with top-of-the-hour BBC World Service ID followed by The World Now... Very poor, but partially readable ! First time in June ! Semi-regular during the fall and winter months but not as strong as 189 Rikisútvarpid or 171 Médi Un. (Chiochiu-QC) 216 FRANCE RMC Info, Roumoules JUN 24 0301 - headlines in French, among the main items was that Frédéric Mitterand was chosen to become the minister of the culture ! Poor, but partially readable ! Unreadable earlier but there and gone a few minutes later, as the dawn enhancement came to an end ! (Chiochiu-QC) 252 unID JUN 24 0240 - very threshold audio getting through slight splatter from the local UL beacon on 248 kHz and through a huge computer
[HCDX] foreign LW MW DX logs
Warm greetings to all of you ! LW DX has been very poor over the last few days, though the past night while I was in the basement chatting with some highly charismatic Venezuelan DXers on our only computer that supports a microphone, my mother heard plaintive Arabic chanting coming out of the bedroom... As far as the YV DXers are concerned, they even suggested me trying to join the Spanish service of RCI... The lead of the Venezuelan SKYPE DX group told me my Spanish was good, but it could get even better and once I master fully my Spanish, I MUST join Radio Canada International. This idea is so sick, so wonderful, that it must be taken into consideration ! It reminds me of the the many floodings to LatinMWDX during the 2005-2006 when I wrote in Spanish instead of English, while many DXers weren't interested in learning more about Latin American culture, but just to increase their logs quickly IDing the new stations, no matter if it were Latins or not and IF they were Latins to quickly report them to LatinMWDX without trying to personalize this Yahoo! Group. Just some feed for thoughts... I must say I loved my evening and the fact there aren't any mandatory vaccines for flying to Venezuela (according to the YV DXers) makes planing a trip to the joropo land more than noteworthy, truly necessary ! I received the last DX News issue and I'm very glad Guadeloupe got audible on 640 kHz at an excellent level, because it is the best bet for a French Caribbean broadcaster in North America, although with the PK AM Loop, Radio 4VEH out of Cap Haïtien on 840 kHz should come to life, as my Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot is rather deaf in the 800s ! Well, into the logs now: Trans-Atlantic DX 171 MOROCCO Médi Un, Nador JUN 22 +/- 0310 - blasting out of my bedroom with plaintive Arabic chants at an apparently huge level, as far as my mum told me. The only LW TA heard during the last few days ! I left the radio open while I chatted with some highly charismatic YV DXers using SKYPE ! (Chiochiu-QC) Pan-American DX 555 ST KITTS ZIZ, Basseterre JUN 21 0235 - blasting on through a computer growl with soca music. SINPO 44232 (Chiochiu-QC) 710 CUBA CMW, Radio Rebelde, La Julia JUN 21 0250 - Apparent Cuban baseball coverage way under WOR. SIO 312 (Chiochiu-QC) 750 VENEZUELA YVKS, RCR, Caracas, Distrito Federal JUN 21 0240 - Sports report from someone in the Zulia state. Huge, way over WSB ! SIO 443 (Chiochiu-QC) 780 VENEZUELA YVNM, Radio Coro, Falcón JUN 21 0300 - Very tentative ! Highly rhythmic music with the cadence of merengue seemed vaguely // to the Radio Coro stream on the web ! Sounded like something different from what CFDR and WBBM had at the time, but way to weak to clearly determine the identity of the station. Usually this is better heard slightly past local midnight EDT at this time of the year ! Very threshold signal ! SIO 131 in WBBM/CFDR null ! (Chiochiu-QC) Additionnal comments: Seems like with the Solar Cycle 24 winding up, around mid August toward the end of my summer holidays I expect some auroral openings toward South America on mediumwave before the holidays are over ! I always try to consider August as the best summer month and among the top 5 best months of all year for long-haul mediumwave DX ! Am I right ? Am I correct ? I think DXing during the second half of August is way better than in early January with the awful midwinter anomaly. Well... This report is brought to you by Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu, DXing from Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island), QC using the Sanyo MCD-S830 / PK AM Loop combo and the Sangean ACS 818CST / PK's Shielded Magnetic longwave loop combo ! May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[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] logs - among my best groundwave DX
Warm greetings to all of your, fellow DXers and dear friends ! This afternoon I played a little bit more with the Australian PK AM loop next to my Sanyo MCD-S830. One of my dreams is to pick up daytime groundwave signals in excess of 250 km, in the 250-400 km area ! Well, I'm glad to see it happened once more ! Here are the logs: 550 WDEV Waterbury, VT 06/20 1515 EDT (1915 UTC) - man with comments regarding the CW tunes played and IDing as WEVD Radio Vermont AM and FM. Actually GOOD using the Sanyo MCD-S830 / PK AM loop combo, poor but quite clear using the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot. Probably beyond Burlington as it is much weaker than WVMT-620 which has a city grade signal in the Montreal area and beyond ! (BC-QC) 590 WROW Glenmont, NY 06/20 1530 EDT (1930 UTC) - forecast mentioning a possibility of T-storms both this afternoon and this evening followed by a nice ID. Poor but clear using the Sanyo MCD-S830 / PK AM loop ! Very threshold and mushy using the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot... The Albany area (where Glenmont is located) is roughly 300 km from Montreal making it one of my alltime best DAYTIME GROUNDWAVE DX CATCHES ! (BC-QC) Regular foreign logs Trans-Atlantic DX 171 MOROCCO Médi 1, Nador JUN 15 0145 - playing a wide array of Arabic music and female announcements in Arabic. Better heard with the Sangean ACS 818-CST / PK LW loop combo outdoor, since a weird buzz harmed reception both at my regular QTH in Edward Higgins and at the Céres park... This buzz sounded like powerline noises. (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg JUN 15 0147 - interview with a singer noted in passing at a nice level. (Chiochiu-QC) 216 FRANCE RMC Info, Romoules JUN 16 0305 - weather forecast for various cities that included a high of 25 C in Marseilles which isn't too bad, considering global warming. Very poor, but partially readable and not heard in a while ! (Chiochiu-QC) Pan-American DX 750 VENEZUELA YVKS, RCR, Caracas, Distrito Federal JUN 20 0240 - Man in Spanish with a good signal in jumble... Clear enough though to understand words like ahóra (right now) and other ones. QRM from both WSB and CMHG ! This spring/summer is the first time ever I listen to YVKS-750 during the month of June ! (Chiochiu-QC) 750 CUBA CMHG, Radio Progreso, Sancti Spiritus JUN 20 0249 - Romantic Spanish vocals, poor-fair but atop WSB/YVKS ! Semi-regular even during the off-season months (first time heard in May of 2006) but almost always mushy ! (Chiochiu-QC) 780 VENEZUELA YVNM, Radio Coro, Coro, Falcón JUN 20 0242 - Man in Spanish with religious comments. Briefly good - best ever reception of this station during the month of June ! + JUN 20 0310 - with Romantica Siete Ochenta carrying Romantic Spanish vocals - poor in jumble with residual remnants of the nulled WBBM/CFDR mix ! Never cameback with the strength noted at 0242 UTC (2242 EDT) during the whole evening and was too tired to pursuie DXing after local midnight ! During the off-season summer months, Radio Coro is usually stronger after local midnight EDT ! Still amazed to hear something from the south with such a ridiculously low solar activity ! (Chiochiu-QC) Additionnal comments: with the solar activity so low, I can't wait for mid-August when condx dramatically improve... That being said, this season sporadic-E activity was very poor in North America, but exceptionnal in Europe with a double-hop Es opening on FM (!) between Romania and Morocco noted by DX Colleague Zvartoshu in Bucharest (which wasn't interested in meeting me) ! Thanks to all of you who helped me in identifying the Spanish mysterious signal on 1360 kHz... I will keep an ear on it ! Is Radio Catatumbo Internacional still active ? I know the CIDX president, Sheldon Harvey, heard Radio Catatumbo Internacional on 1360 kHz from Maracaibo out of the YV estado of Zulia several decades ago ! Before I leave, I would like to inform Bruce Conti and other of you as well how difficult is it to receive something from South America OTHER THAN Colombia AND Venezuela period from locations other than the New England and Canadian Maritimes area ! With this fact in mind, some of you wonder how the DXer can still going after new targets ! Well, it's a question of inventing new places within Colombia and Venezuela... With this in mind, since it is unlikely that I'll get Ecuador or Argentina on mediumwave anytime soon, I decide to consider every new YV estado as a new place ! I logged 6 YV states (Distrito Federal, Falcón, Zulia, Anzoátegui, Sucre and Aragua) and would dearly love to hear all 23 (24 including DF) ! This is to motivate myself to go after new SAs within the relatively easily available country of Venezuela ! I wonder if, the same way we include XE estados into IDXD issues, if we could include YV estados as well, dear Bruce ! For exemple Radio Coro is in Coro which is located in the estado of Falcón and Caracas is in Distrito Federal !
[HCDX] unID Spanish on 1360
Hello ! Being hyperactive as I am, I forgot to mention that under the talk of Connecticut on 1360 kHz, last Tuesday night, I had ranchera music and Spanish talk with a frequency ID as AM Trece-Sesenta... good peaks mainly under the Connecticut talker ! Any ideas ? Probably another Spanish domestic though... I think I need to purchase the NRC domestic log ! Any chance some of the higher powered XEs could scatter through the high-band channels in order to make the trip to Montreal mixing with the high angle domestic skip pests ? XEs are almost impossible for me with a few exceptions (mainly XEWA-540 and XEW-900) due to Montreal area broadcasters using the same channels or adjacent ones as the best XE targets ! CFAV-1570 and CKDO-1580 are blocking XEDM La Grande de Sonora along with XERF La Poderosa Quince-Setenta... CINF Infos 690 is blocking XEN-690, I have to null out CKAC-730 to the biggest extent I'm able to in order to get faint traces of XEX-730 under... The same goes for CINW-940 and XEQ-940 ! Well... May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island), QC ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[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] TA and LA LW MW logs
Warm greetings to all of you ! Just received yesturday the tunable AM Shielded Magnetic loop for mediumwave for Australia... I must admit that I have mixed feelings with it dependeing on the receiver I use... Using the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot with the PK MW Loop close to it, it works wonderful, not only in the 800-1000 kHz area, but also in the X-band. There was a huge difference between getting the pirates on 1710 kHz with readable audio and getting them pretty much with a threshold unlistenable signal... Using the Sangean DURING THE DAYTIME, I get overload on every frequency even with the RF gain control in a lower position and sometimes even if the antenna is very far from the Sangean... We are buzy right now, but I won't be surprised for Xmas to obtain a communication receivers such as the Kenwood 2000. DX-wise, some foreign stuff hanging on during this off-season period, enough to stimulate my appetite for what could be heard during the real DX season, as you can see below...: Trans-Atlantic DX 171 MOROCCO Medi 1, Nador JUN 7 0330 UTC - Arabic woman announcer with an eclectic range of Arabic selections, ranging from Algerian raï to Egyptian plaintive male vocals... Nx at 0400 UTC followed by music that included some Western stuff and alternating French Arabic short newscasts... They seem to have dropped the FF/AA friedly request program they had on Saturday night / early Sunday morning ! Heard on subsequent evenings, always with long and clear fair peaks while the // outlet on SW 9575 was always extremely poor and noisy with deep rapid fadings ! (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg JUN 12 0235 UTC - playing a French rock tune, then the follow-up French talkshow regarding woman's sexual health. Fairly strong signal with some static scratches that made following program content more challenging ! SINPO 35342. (Chiochiu-QC) Pan-American DX 670 CUBA CMBA, Radio Rebelde, Arroyo Arrenas JUN 13 0340 - Man talking in Spanish with a serious and mature voice... That's all I could tell about it as despite the fair strength, it was destroyed by local-like IBOC hash coming out of WFAN-660. SIO 311 really ! (Chiochiu-QC) 710 CUBA CMW, Radio Rebelde, La Julia et al JUN 13 0530 UTC - Adult Contemporary vocal followed by Rebelde's canned instrumental ID. Good, over/under WOR with very slight splatter from next-adjacent CINF 690 that is using slightly thinner modulation than recently. After getting CMAF-910 for the second time the last night, I was tempted to try for this one, as it is often stronger than magepest WOR and also because I wanted to test the CINF-690 overmodulation issue that has triggered my ability to DX the upper 600s and the lower 700s over the last couple of months ! (Chiochiu-QC) 900 CUBA CMKP, Radio Progreso, Cacocúm JUN 13 0547 - End of an oldie, then man in Spanish talking with an empathy toward the Cubans that got sick recently then introduced a radiodrama regarding an illness. Was hard to choose the best side of the channel - on the high side of 900 there was a computer high-pitched growl and on the lower side a fair amount of weak albeit fairly bothersome IBOC coming from WCBS-880... Inaudible withtout the PK Shielded Magnetic mediumwave green power loop, fair with some QRM when using it ! (Chiochiu-QC) 910 CUBA CMAF, Radio Cadena Agaramonte, Camagüey JUN 13 0434 - woman talking in Spanish and mentioning Radio Cadena Agramonte rising above WLAT. Briefly poor ! +JUN 13 0520 - rising above a strong WLAT and a weak WABI with a fair signal for a few seconds, playing Cuban cha-cha-cha music (flute based oldfashionned tropical music). A total surprise for the month of June ! Used to get them on a semi-regular basis, but not lately ! (Chiochiu-QC) Domestic DX 910 WABI Bangor, ME JUN 13 0110 EDT / JUN 13 0510 UTC - American talkshow with a male host occasionally on top of strong WLAT and occasional Cuba. Assumed this station as WZAN-970 was in with a blockbuster signal ! (BC-QC) 1710 RSI - Radio Soleil International Boston, MA JUN 13 0230 EDT / JUN 13 0630 UTC+ - playing kompas music with occasional overmodulated male kreyol DJ voiceover. Good peaks, deep fadings and I had to tune on the high side of 1710 kHz to avoid a computer growl that was heard around 1705 kHz. Mainly threshold audio using the Sanyo MCD-S830, but the PK AM loop brought this one nicely ! NEW ! First pirate in years ! Mixing with an unID Spanish station that had romantic music and seemingly religious SS talk that was hard to follow in heavy co-channel and man-made QRM, almost certainly a pirate as well, as the only legal stations on this channel are Traveller Information Service outlets (TIS stations) ! (BC-QC) Additional comments: I guess I'm somewhere between a hard-core and a casual DXer. While Cuba-910 was undoubtedly a more difficult catche, hearing the megapest but extremely enjoyable WLAT-910 was definitively a piece of cake !
[HCDX] Log of Morocco-171
Heard on the Sangean ACS 818CST / PK's Shielded Magnetic longwave loop combo: 171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador JUN 14 0355 - after the end of a powerful Egyptian religious male vocal, heard with woman in French greeting her listeners and encouraging them to pass through a wonderful weekend, then a medium-sized newscast in Arabic that is still going on at 0403 UTC. Good to fair SINPO 35354 with no man-made noises this time making listening easy right on 171 kHz in AM Wide mode ! (Chiochiu-QC) This repport is brought to you by Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu DXing from Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island), QC May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[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] unID Spanish trop mx station on 1430 kHz
Warm greetings to all of you ! While the past night, nothing noteworthy was heard, on Tuesday night, between 0030 and 0100 UTC (2030 to 2100 EDT), I heard a Spanish tropical music station, playing a wide array of music ranging from salsa to bachata or merengue ! Very good peaks over/under an unID sports talker, but always faded out during the talk segments, so I couldn't ID it... Almost certainly an ethnic domestic, but probably not the Toronto station, because this station was nulled out with the Sanyo's antenna aimed perpendicular to the E/W bearing... I even thought I had Venezuela, but the strong signal and the very poor propagation toward Latin America, unlike on Monday night when a few of the most commun Pan-Americans were huge, definitively points to the USA ! Some of the music was taped, but this don't proves to be useful when trying to ID it ! That being said, I was quite buzzy yesturday, so I didn't had time to repport it back then. Among the DX related things, I joined AM Stereo groups on Yahoo! and I also took a Technics SA-104 tuner out of dust I received as a gift sometime ago. I found an adapter for proffessional headphones (so only one that would work, anyway), so I could listen to it. I connected it to a broken Yagi antenna and I must confess that the performance I had maked me want to use a better antenna... I heard a new semi-local on 100.1 MHz in Valleyfield and several other catches, but it lacks a lot of gain, as some of the elements of my Yagi were broke and the wire I use for connecting the Yagi isn't a coaxial cable, so they are lots of signal losses with it... Anyway, some of the stronger Es might be heard... As far as the selectivity goes, I'm VERY impressed. I can hear slight splatter on 94.5 MHz, while using other radios I have, I get very annoying overspills from local CKMF on 94.3 and semi-local WYUL on 94.7. This Technics SA-104 tuner is an AM-FM one and on mediumwave the selectivity is the worst one I've ever heard. The Sont XFD AM Stereo car radio we have, in the Wide filter position, is slightly MORE selective than it is and is a real DX machine in the AM normal filter position which is narrower than normal mid-range fidelity. As far as the sensitivity goes, I have trouble hearing some of the semi-local pests clearly like WVMT-620... It is really a sensitivity problem as the internal ferrite bar antenna on the back of it is quite large ! I guess, the selectivity could compare with that of the Grundig G5 receiver which is the only radio I have that clearly cuts down the 91.9 jazz splatter against 91.7 in the way of Radio Coco, Ciúdad de la Havana via a long-haul single-hop Es mixed with some tropo in the way... Enough now, I'd like to see if there is some Es undergoing ! Anyway, if someone knows the identity of the Spanish tropical music station heard on 1430 Tuesday night around local sunset, please let me know ! This short repport is brought yo you by Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu, DXing from Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island), Quebec, Canada using mainly the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot, but also the Technics SA-104 AM/FM Stereo tuner along with a Yagi antenna that has some of its element broken ! May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[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] Romanian logs + a few bonus logs from home
Warm greetings to all of you ! I must confess, DX-wise, the Romanian trip wasn't as good as it should have been... Socially-wise, it wasn't too bad, though many people has completly changed their lives since 12 years ago when we moved to Canada and some mysteriously vanished... But still it was an interesting trip, nevertheless... The houses out there are made of concrete walls, ceilings and roof meaning you need to move outside to DX... My greatfather made a good job in choosing a metal house for his flowers standing just outside the concrete balcony. Not only this metal house was acting like an antenna, but when mixed with the telescopic antenna of my Sangean althogether it brought armchair copy of several fairly weak signals such as Morocco-9575 (well it was a pest during the evenings, but during the mid-mornings it was quite weak). Evertyhing would have been just fine for shortwave DXing, except there were some weird noises coming from poorly insulated CATV leakage which got worse on the lower tropical band or 48m band frequencies... So must of my shortwave DXing in fact was more SWLing than DXing; the stronger signals had a better punch because they were boosted, but the noises swamping the weaker ones were boosted too, so finally, nothing worth of mention got heard. On LW we had noise, most probably CATV related (CATV insulation has always been very poor in Romania) all over, though on the second night when I got outside of the house to DX, I found that some French signals along with Poland-225 were cleanly audible on the very few clean spots I was able to find. However, I wasn't able to confirm wherever the Turkish transmitters on 162 in Agri or on 180 kHz in Polati are still active or not. For MW, I didn't had ANY antenna other than the Sangean barefoot and on the botton-end of the dial the PK LW loop set to the highest frequency which was somewhat better than the Sangean barefoot between 520 and 567 or 576 kHz, afterwards it didn't make much of a difference. Many catches I expected would be easy were either not heard at all or at a very threshold level. I was quite disappointed with MW with maybe 1 or 2 pleasant surprises, but not that pleasant overall. I had at least two weird signals on the X band which may have been from a Greek or maybe a Dutch pirate, but the reception was too poor and too hissy to stay with it ! In any event, I would like to thank George Maroti for having given me a few pirate tips ! On FM, I tried to get in touch with Romania's top TV-FM DXer, but he didn't seemed too interested in meeting me... This was quite disappointing, as on May 19, he got an astonishing opening shifting directions wildly and he got Morocco on FM which must be at a douple-hop Es distance from Bucharest. His videos are on YouTube, they are really appealing... I should do the same ! Otherwise, it seems that Romania is getting more Es than North America... There are days when some weak random Es on the botton of the FM band around 88.2-88.3 from Lebanon are audible very often. DXing from the airplane was more than disappointing, it was almost useless, especially when we came back from the transition flight in Paris and the other times I mostly got the public service broadcasters from several European countries such as Hungary, Germany or Croatia and even Italy which are the most powerful ones ! It seems that the telescopic antenna of my Sangean is beginning to die... When I connect a short wire to the AM EXT ANT. terminal, the reception is cutting down and doesn't comeback when I take it out unless I play very hard with the antenna on both SW and FM (USW, really...). Doing that, I was caught by the Air France stewarders which told me I didn't had the right to use the radio during this part of the trip and they suspected my radio was causing harmful interference. At least, I did enjoy a great movie and the music on the Air France musical airchecks was appealing to my tastes. What was really entertaining was the comeback to Montreal with the stronger Latins and Caribbean BOOMING IN which is somewhat of an exceptionnal event for late spring / early summer standards and, alas, no static scratches at all or almost !... Into the logs: Romanian logs: 153 ROMANIA Antena Satelor, Bod - this was the strongest LW broadcaster noted, though it didn't had enough punch to overcome the concrete structure at the Drumul Taberei building and got audible out there. However, in a concrete building in Baneasa we stayed in, it was quite good ! (Chiochiu-ROM) 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis MAY 17 0120 - apparent French talk very threshold inside the concrete building. (Chiochiu-Drumul Taberii-ROM) 171 UKRAINE Radio Free Cecenia / Radio Campanie MAY 23 1315 - with Russian dance music and talk between the musical items. Always IDing as Radio Campanie. Very good signal in null of TVI ! The only station heard on 171 everywhere as expected...
[HCDX] the last logs before our trip to Romania
171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador MAY 15 0305 - religious islamic music barely faded in and only briefly at a weak-poor level, though it faded in at a more or less listenable level too late for me ! // 9575 covered by splatter from major international broadcasters on both sides, Radio Japan and CRI (China Radio International) if my memores serves me well ! (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg MAY 15 0235 - with dramatic reading of a poem dealing with a dangerous relationship. Fair-good with minimal static and some slow fadings in and out. SINPO 45423. (Chiochiu-QC) 216 FRANCE RMC Info, Romoules MAY 11 0320 - end of a sports repport, followed by weather, ID and news headlines including drug issues for a specific tennis player. Fair to poor and armchair copy at first. Rare and a TOTAL surprise in May ! Also had France-162 with a poor and Morocco-171 with a very poor signal. + MAY 15 0315 - again tonight with a rather poor signal with French sports talk barely readable, but interference-free. SIO 252. The only TA signal above 200 kHz heard lately ! During the winter months, there is usually a beacon pestering this channel, I wonder if during the spring and summer months it skips over Montreal for some unknown reason ! (Chiochiu-QC) Additionnal comments: I just discovered my Sangean is quite a battery eater, so I needed to take out the batteries and charge them a tiny bit AGAIN today, in order to get through this issue... When we arrive at our Romanian QTH, I'll make sure those batteries are out each time the radio is turned off... As I had some success DXing in an airplane during our trip to Cuba, I plan to do that once again ! I can't wait...I'm almost prepared for a sleepless night and I'm too excited, because DXing abord an airplane with a decent portable is one of the greatest challenges FM DXing can bring you ! As far as DXing longwave, mediumwave or shortwave, I can't say much, because I never had much success doing so from an airplane... This repport is brought to you by Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu DXing from Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island), QC using the Sangean ACS 818-CST / PK's Shielded Magnetic longwave loop combo May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[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] latest foreign LW / MW / WiFi logs
Warm greetings to all of you ! After two very quiet weeks, the solar activity is starting to climb again, not enough to enhance Latin American mediumwave reception, but definitively enough to block TA LW reception, especially Iceland-189... During the first day of solar activity on the rise, though, I had my BEST SIGNAL THIS SPRING YET out of France-162, so the solar activity is more complex that what one actually thinks. While I managed to squeeze enough time for monitoring both the TA LW and the MW bands, most of my otherwise free DX moments were swamped by exams, especially on Wensday when my day started at 9 o'clock and ended at 6 PM (18 o'clock if you'd want)... I was able, yesturday, to meet a bonefide female DXer, a Cuban girl who had headache due to many sleepless early mornings spent on listening to the ever-challenging XEs from her spot in eastern Cuba, in Holguín, one of the smarter girls I've ever meet (even though, I'm still wondering wherever I felt in love with her). While condx were very poor, we were glad we were able to ID Radio Reloj on 570 on the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot and we were also glad because we were able to enjoy Rebelde-5025 on the Sangean ACS-818 CST / outdoor random wire combo. All in all, almost enough for mid-spring standards ! Today, since more than half of my exams are done, I wasn't too buzy, but a low pressure front and some lazyness prevented me from contributing to the radio clubs until later this evening ! While this week, the time for DXing was rather limited, I had some amount of time in the beginning of the week devoted to airchecking. I found a spot in my room where the PK's Shielded Magnetic longwave is far enough from the computer to avoid picking up unwanted QRM, yet not *that* far in order to allow me to connect the encoding cable from the Sangean's jack into the soundcard of my computer... Rikisutvarpid, the Icelandic main public service 189 kHz LW outlet, was playing some astonishing Europops, including the Romanian international smash hit Dragostea din Tei by O-Zone ! I think the more we approach June, the smaller the darkness path between Gufuskalar and Pierrefonds will be, though I will be leaving for Romania shortly after my last exams... Into the logs: TRANS-ATLANTIC DX 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis MAY 7 0152 - Kiss by Prince (1986) followed by chopped French talk, then French chanson Il suffirait de presque rien pour t'emmener à Saint-Germain by Serge Reggiani, then more French talk before the top-of-the-hour. Poor and chopped with some kind of computer QRM, but not bad for mid-spring D layer absorption standards ! (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador MAY 7 0158 - religious Egyptian vocals (which are popular in Morocco as well, as I have been told by Arabic friends at cégep). Very poor, but quite clear especially when tuned to 170 kHz instead of 171 to avoid a high-pitched growl on the high side of the channel. (Chiochiu-QC) 189 ICELAND Rikisútvarpid, Gufuskalar MAY 7 0345 - playing a wild (!) mixture of Europops, including Romanian worldwide smash hit Dragostea din Tei by O-Zone followed by a Scandinavian alternative rock cover of the same song (?), then Ukrainian and Dutch melancholic electropops with short analysis in Icelandic of the songs played. Best between 0330 and 0430 UTC (SINPO 55454), but still hanging on with a very poor signal after 0500 UTC ! At 0345 GMT / UTC, it was close to local-like strength, excellent, really ! It came to a point the Paul Karlstrand statement brant Clear ang Long Range AM Radio Reception Everywhere was 100% true... If I wouldn't have received the PK loop as a Xmas present in order to exacerbate my interest in DXing, I would have been now a whole lot less active on the dials ! One of my first DX dreams when I came to Canada were to catch on broadcasts on broadcast bands not used elsewhere in the radio than in a very few countries, such as the LW broadcast band, the SW tropical bands or OIRT-FM ! Is just that those frequencies seem more mysterious to me ! (Chiochiu-QC) http://fr.radiocontact.be/page/radio-contact-live-on-air/15.aspx BELGIUM Radio Contact, Bruxelles MAY 9 1730 - with the :30 newscast. One of the items were dealing with the growing number of persons afflicted by the porcine flu which has jumped to 2554 victims in the USA and about researchers trying to find a vaccine against this disease (which will contain a very small microchip to resolve the mind control issues of the Freemasons, of course). This station, in both the Belgian and the Romanian version, always had its newscasts at :30 ! Unfortunatly, it dissapeared forever from Romania in November of 2003 when its changed both its format (from Hot AC to Hot CHR / Top 40) and its name (Radio Contact - Kiss FM), but is still well and alive in Belgium ! IMPORTANT: Since a few hours, the website of this station is down... A Google announcement Oups ! This link has
Re: [HCDX] latest foreign LW / MW / WiFi logs: FEBA
Thanks a lot for answering on this issue ! I think if I want to chase real DX, I should purchase a 90 meters tropical band antenna from Australia... I never managed to pick up anything useful on 90 meters, other than a REE relay in Costa Rica a few years ago and, of course, CHU on 3330 kHz... If you have some time available offhand, I'll gladly appreciate if you could do a 90 meters bandscan from your QTH to see what I could expect if I purchase a loop for this band... The PK LW loop is just the first step of the upgrade of my listening facilities ! Thanks again for your input, for the time devoted in making the DX Listening Diggest and for having helped me with my Venezuelan article a few years ago ! May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[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] LW TAs are still hanging on
Hello again ! In spite of the rising solar activity, I'm getting fair to good signals from both France-162 and Morocco-171. However, NOTHING else, not even Iceland-189 like I noted in my previous repport. May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island), PQ ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[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] foreign LW, MW, SW and Internet WiFi logs
Warm greetings to all of you ! The solar activity stayed quiet enough to allow for some feeding-frenzy reception the past night, here in the Montreal area. I had fair to good signals on 162, 171 and 183 and, believe it or not, Iceland-189 got VERY strong. The further north you get, the longer and stronger the half-daylight / half-darkness grayline effect gets and Iceland is sitting right on the Polar cercle ! That being said, not only were the LW TAs really astonishing, but the MW Latins were so as well. While nothing properly from South America was heard during the last week, I had the pleasure, on Tuesday late night, to pick up WKAQ out of Puerto Rico on 580 kHz for the first time EVER in spring. A drawback, albeit a small one, was the lack of any mediumwave TAs, but, hey, I'd rather hear the longwave ones anyway... Just for your knowledge, I tried for 549 Algeria (since CHLN moved, this frequency is relatively clear here) and 585 Spain to no avail... I can't listen to too many highband MW TAs, because the overspills from adjacent channel NA domestics are too harmful to the reception of such weak signals from accross the pond ! See below my comments concerning the possible purchasse of a better radio than what I'm owning right now... Into the logs now: Trans-Atlantic DX 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis MAY 3 0310 UTC - with man talking about an undergoing litterature-related project, then a brand new oldfashionned French chanson, probably in the style of Bénabar, a singer of La Nouvelle Scène. Fairly good, amazing for the month of May when the darkness path is less solid than during the fall and winter months, though enabling more D layer absorption on the lower frequencies Some botheringsome static scratches, though these static craches are not as annoying as the powerline buzz with gives a painful lethal vaccine shot to my gorgeous and innocent ears. SINPO 45232 some fading, though as with every LW signal, the fading was VERY slow, slower than on MW or SW ! (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador MAY 3 0410 UTC - a very eclectic and unpredictable music mix, as requested by the Medi 1 listeners. The DJ doing the request show was bilingual, French and Arabic. They even played Without Me by Eminem. Rising from very poor (S2 to S3) at tune in around 11 PM EDT (Eastern Delayed Time) to fair (S5) between 0400 and 0430 UTC (12 AM to 12:30 AM EDT) with grayline enhancement, then almost suddenly lost to S1 noises at 0430 UTC with the D layer absorption already undergoing, starting at 0430 UTC. This was the last LW broadcast signal to fade out ! (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg MAY 3 0328 UTC - playing Hot Stuff by Donna Summer, then back to the Laurent Rouquier contest show... One of the participants to the Laurent Rouquier show was a contemporary dancing teacher... The guys out there seemed amazing too see such an unusual guy trying to win their contest ! They even asked him a question about global warning... Fair to occasionally good on short and slow peaks, but I had to be very careful to copy out the content, as this fair-good signal was thrown in a bunch of distant T-storm static crashes ! For those new to my DX repports, this station is located in Germany, right accross the French border, but always broadcasted in French and never in German. The reason was that prior to the 1981 François Mitterand election, private radio was strictly prohibided from France and the very few people involved with pre-1981 French private stations had to run them from accross the border. Europe 1 is one such exemple ! (Chiochiu-QC) 189 ICELAND Rikisútvarpid, Gufuskalar MAY 3 0320 UTC - Woman talking in Icelandic and playing obscure English-speaking oldies. VERY GOOD when detuned to 192 kHz in AM Wide mode or 191 kHz in AM Narrow mode for several minutes in a row ! I needed to detune in order to avoid a high-pitched growl on 188 kHz. I guess the Icelandic greyline is the only darkness path at the transmitter end at this time of the year... Wow ! (Chiochiu-QC) 4845 MAURITANIE Radio Mauritanie, Noukchott MAY 2 2340 UTC - playing tribal African music with a very slight Arabic flavour... Poor, but fairly clear with minor utility QRM ! (Chiochiu-QC) 9550 unID Arabic station MAY 2 around 1930 UTC - playing Arabic music including Arabic dance music and religious talk with mention of Allah (God). I'm puzzled on this one, since my outdated 2003 PWBR (Passport to World Band Radio) does not list anything helpful ! +MAY 3 1907 UTC - Man doing fairly dramatic Arabic talk followed by an IS (Interval Signal), more Arabic talk, then what seemed to be Christian religious music. Weird ! unID...any ideas ? (Chiochiu-QC) 9575 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador MAY 2 2350 UTC - playing a flamenco influenced raï vocal in the style of Radio Tarifa followed by an Arabic dance music number. Poor using the connecting cable close to our longwire to very
[HCDX] the most recent LW-MW logs
Warm greetings to all of you ! While conditions are fairly lousy, it is quite surprising that a few Pan-Americans are still getting through as we are heading toward the end of April... If WABC-770 keeps it's IBOC crud silent at night, then off-season reception of LAs around its pesty channel such as Coro-780 would be expected around June. For whatever reason, I don't yet fully understand the nearly trans-equatorial path from Coro to Montreal is only viable, aside from the prime time fall and winter months, only on June and early July. During may and EARLY August, I never heard Coro-780, although starting from mid-August as the next season slowly begins they start to show. Into the logs now: Trans-Atlantic DX 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis APR 18 0038 GMT - French talk badly chopped by computer growl. Very poor, but the only TA making the trip the last evening, so late in the DX season ! (Chiochiu-QC) 171 RUSSIA Radio Rossii, Bolshakovo MAR 22 2230 GMT - Very tentative; threshold audio from a second station mixing with an equally weak Medi Un. Unusual considering the poor conditions and FIRST TIME HERE (if them, of course - I never saw the Radio Free Cecenia tx in Ukraine got logged in North America - at Sylvain Naud's QTH, Russia-171 is the subdominant behind Morocco) ! (Chiochiu-QC) Pan-American DX 555 ST KITTS ZIZ, Basseterre MAR 28 0310 GMT - Reggae music program with Caribbean English DJ. Pretty fair with some fades. SIO 343. The splatter is very minimal since adjacent-channel semi-local CHLN-550 went dark ! (Chiochiu-QC) 570 CUBA CMDC, Radio Reloj, Pilón APR 18 0742 GMT - heard with a news segment regarding technological developpment followed by Radio Reloj spoken ID and a quick RR morse code ID. Fair signal and partially readable under WSYR and WMCA. The RR code IDs didn't had the usual punch despite the fairly good signal strength as if their CW machine has come out of age. The RR morse code ID was only SLIGHTLY stronger than the technological developpment voice segment caught at this time which is weird. Before, at local midnight, Radio Reloj was audible with dorbells through the QRM as the announcer was giving time checks around the world. Radio Reloj is doing this at both noon and midnight, as was noted during our trip to Cuba on the 2nd week of March, 2006. Overall SIO 422 due to QRM from both WSYR and WMCA. (Chiochiu-QC) 600 CUBA CMKV, Radio Rebelde, Urbano Norris (Holguín area) APR 18 0750 GMT - atop WICC with a song done by Buena Vista Social Club. (Chiochiu-QC) 640 VENEZUELA YVQO, Unión Radio, Puerto La Cruz, Anzoátegui APR 18 0330 - Presumed with Spanish news in mess. This has been heard on 2 or 3 occasions this season (and was regular back in 2002-2003), but I wonder where Guadeloupe has gone ? Only on FM ? I think I miss it ! (Chiochiu-QC) 670 CUBA CMBA, Radio Rebelde, Arroyo Arrenas APR 18 0755 GMT - Cuban music atop the WFAN's HD QRM. Hints of it could be squeezed out of WOR on 710, but not good enough for a positive // confirmation. The past night was the first one in a while I got Rebelde-670 good enough to break through the WFAN's digital hiss ! (Chiochiu-QC) 750 VENEZUELA YVKS, Caracas, Distrito Federal MAR 28 0300 GMT - heard, after the end of their previous talkshow and after several IDs prior to the top-of-the-hour, with the beginning of a passionated speech about the unity dream of Simón Bolivar. Fading during the course of a few minutes from poor to good and backwards. WSB QRM. SINPO 43523 (Chiochiu-QC) 760 COLOMBIA HJAJ, RCN Cadena Basíca, Barranquilla MAR 28 0304 GMT - Woman doing news in Spanish noted in passing briefly in WJR null. (Chiochiu-QC) Domestic DX 570 WMCA New York, NY APR 18 0400 EDT - ...WMCA, a service of Salem Communications ToH ID suddenly faded on top of megapest WSYR Syracuse with Radio Reloj bubbling under. Rare here ! This and WNYC-820 are among the harder low-band New York City broadcasters at my QTH. (BC-QC) Equipment test 760 WJR Detroit, MI APR 18 0001 EDT - briefly after local midnight and after a man with a serious voice giving a legal ID, the carrer was cut. Unfortunatly, NOTHING was really audible here in WJR's absence. With the radio's ferrite bar perpendicular to the E/W, I got moderate computer-like growl that was fairly slight with the radio's perpendicular to the N/S. No sign AT ALL of RCN Barranquilla which was very threshold at best BEFORE WJR's maintenance test ! Saying that, I suspect a dumb chief engineer who didn't knew the hiss the WJR listeners were hearing came from WABC-770 was because something was malfunctioning, so they decided to turn it off. This maintenance period couldn't happen at a worst time, propagation-wise ! (BC-QC) Additionnal comments: we are leaving for Romania around the 16th or 18th of May and I still didn't had time to contat Romania's top FM-TV DXer, but I'm looking forward doing it as my buzy schedule and
[HCDX] WABC-770 AGAIN !!!!!
Hi ! Are several of you interested in writing a complaint to the FCC requesting that WABC-770 keeps its IBOC crud off at night ? I can't listen to Radio Coro (780) or RCN Barranquilla (760) because of that awful hash. Unfortunatly, nulling out WABC also nulls out RCN or Coro ! What can I do in order to regularly tune in to these stations AGAIN ? I enjoy LatinMWLing as much as LatinMWDXing ! May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu Btw.: I could always write that I'm an expatriaite Colombian willing to hear RCN Cadena Basíca, that their Internet stream is unreliable and that nulling out WABC also nulls out Colombia as both NYC and Barranquilla are on the same bearing from Montreal ! While Radio Coro is broadcasting live on http://www.radiocoro.com/, I can't say the same regarding the highly irreliable RCN Cadena Basíca stream, let alone RCN Antena Dos 650 which is completly destroyed by WFAN ! With a name weird like the mine, they'll probably believe me... Has Citadel sold WABC, meaning there is no more need to protect WJR ? Why WABC is destroying 760 and 780 ? Why IBOC couldn't move to a new segment somehwere in the 2-3 MHz area where MW ends and SW begins or around 27 MHz ? Why it needs to use the CLASSIC MW BROADCAST BAND ? ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[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] Romania-6030
Warm greettins to all of you ! Just as I tried to look for a possible early fade-in of Radio Marti on 6030 kHz, I was welcomed by the French service of RRI with, among other items, news regarding Romanian scientists trying to find life in the outer space and among the Festival International de Théâtre de Sibiu... I don't see it listed in my 2003 PWBR, so probably a new outlet ! Also of important note, Brasil on 9455 kHz suddenly dropped out at 2100 UTC in the middle of a soccer game... Weird ! Was it an international service relaying a domestic outlet that has switched frequency ? I'm listening to SW today, as condx have been misery lately for both foreign LW and MW... May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island), QC ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[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] Romania-6030
Sorry guys, I now hear (and with a stronger signal) the ENG service of RRI on the same channel and the space exploration started from Cape Canaveral, not from Romania... May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu - Original Message - From: aurel chiochiu To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com ; cumbr...@cs2.ralabs.com Cc: o_p_nimig...@yahoo.com ; a...@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 4:10 PM Subject: Romania-6030 Warm greettins to all of you ! Just as I tried to look for a possible early fade-in of Radio Marti on 6030 kHz, I was welcomed by the French service of RRI with, among other items, news regarding Romanian scientists trying to find life in the outer space and among the Festival International de Théâtre de Sibiu... I don't see it listed in my 2003 PWBR, so probably a new outlet ! Also of important note, Brasil on 9455 kHz suddenly dropped out at 2100 UTC in the middle of a soccer game... Weird ! Was it an international service relaying a domestic outlet that has switched frequency ? I'm listening to SW today, as condx have been misery lately for both foreign LW and MW... May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island), QC ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[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] foreign LW-MW-SW logs from the past week or so
Warm greetings to all of you ! I have been hit by grippis since barely past a week, so aside from a rather limited DX (with, coincidentally, some of the most mediocre condx noted this season, at least as far as LW and MW TAs go), I couldn't see my girlfriend and I'm late with several works for school. As I'm writing this repport, I still have some cough to deal with. I'm report mainly to keep in touch (especially since I rejoined the NRC - National Radio Club), since there wasn't really something to get excited with, this time, NO exception. I can't think, right the top of my head, of one single more elusive catche I may have caught during the past few weeks. We are approaching the end of the traditionnal MW DX season and, like usually around the equinoxes, some auroral enhancement can always bring unexpected DX from the south on top of North American pests, as far as mediumwave DX is concerned. On SW, I tryed in vain to get XEOI Radio Mil, and only got a jumble containing 1 or maybe 2 Spanish signals with nothing even close to Mexican Radio Mil (on 6010 kHz). On LW, this must have been the worst run of conditions, since I got the PK's Shielded Magnetic longwave loop. We are seriously considering buying a similar loop for mediumwave, as for having a backup combo to the Sanyo-MCD-S830 barefoot and also for getting more DX in the 800-1000 kHz range area where the Sanyo MCD-S830 sucks (sorry for such a harsh word against my favorite receiver) ! Into the logs now: Trans-Atlantic DX The LW TAs were heard on the Sangean CST-818 / PK's Shielded Magnetic longwave loop combo ! The SW TAs were heard on the Sangean CST-818 / shortwave southern random wire combo ! 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis FEB 21 around 0350 - Woman in French. Fair-poor, not threshold, but still too mushy with all the additional slight, albeit annoying buzz, to understand. Steady though. SINPO 35332. Almost surprised to get this one under such mediocre ionospheric conditions ! (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador FEB 17 2305 - Assumed with barely noticeable audio. Very, very weak with some growl from computers in the neighborhood (not our own). Of course, during such mediocre conditions, logging Russia-171 would be unthinkable and Russia-171 and Morocco-171 are the only signals that are reported in eastern North America on this channel with the probable exception of a LowFER ! (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg FEB 21 0605 - with repport from a psychoveterinary who was trying to understand the animal's feelings. Good through some slight buzz. SINPO 35354. The only longwave broadcaster to reach the Montreal area with, at least, a half-decent signal ! I got to understand that animal's feelings issue, because the signal was in French, not in German. In fact, until 1981, in France (as well as in most of Europe), private radio was illegal. If you were caught running a radio station (a pirate one in this case), the Police will be visiting your home in less than a hour. They were continuously monitoring the whole LW, MW, SW and VHF FM spectrum for that purpose ! So, a few guys had the bright idea of running private radio from neighboring countries such as Luxembourg, Germany or Monaco and in the case of other European countries, from aboard a ship out in the International Seas ! While the latter one is known as being an offshore pirate, the former one is known as being a radio périphérique. Otherwise, I have quite some trouble with my German, as I missed the class last Friday and I did not do yet the small homework for the private German teacher I see twice each month ! (Chiochiu-QC) 189 ICELAND Rikisútvarpid, Gufuskalar FEB 21 0607 - Assumed this usual blaster with music and talk heard weakly. (Chiochiu-QC) 198 ENGLAND BBC Radio 4, Droitwich FEB 21 0603 - Man talking in British-accented English. When the PK's Shielded Magnetic longwave loop was set to amplify 198 kHz, while attenuating everything below and above, including nearby 201, the local beacon on 201 kHz went unreadable (even though it's in Morse which is known for cutting through all sorts of QTM c.f. Cuban Radio Reloj) as this one violently overspilled 3 kHz above ! Fair and mushy and unreadable for me, as I'm not QUITE as fluent in English, as I am in French, Romanian and, to a lesser extent, Spanish, though sounded vaguely like a weather repport, as I barely picked out 1 or 2 words out of the mush ! Not // ZIZ-555 (BBC Radio 4 realays BBC World Service overnight) anymore at this time ! (Chiochiu-QC) 9575 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador FEB 20 2014 - with a nice set of traditionnal Arabic music, very monotonous but full of monotonous, yet emotional fullfilling powerful vocal harmonies. Fair-good until killed by some powerful buzz around 2020 that ruined several LW, MW and SW frequencies. I'm not as much into shortwave as I was several years ago, but after seeing on YouTube some videos of Romanian
[HCDX] LW-MW-SW logs under abysmal ionospheric condx
Warm greetings to all of you ! I have been hit by grippis since barely past a week, so aside from a rather limited DX (with, coincidentally, some of the most mediocre condx noted this season, at least as far as LW and MW TAs go), I couldn't see my girlfriend and I'm late with several works for school. As I'm writing this repport, I still have some cough to deal with. I'm report mainly to keep in touch (especially since I rejoined the NRC - National Radio Club), since there wasn't really something to get excited with, this time, NO exception. I can't think, right the top of my head, of one single more elusive catche I may have caught during the past few weeks. We are approaching the end of the traditionnal MW DX season and, like usually around the equinoxes, some auroral enhancement can always bring unexpected DX from the south on top of North American pests, as far as mediumwave DX is concerned. On SW, I tryed in vain to get XEOI Radio Mil, and only got a jumble containing 1 or maybe 2 Spanish signals with nothing even close to Mexican Radio Mil (on 6010 kHz). On LW, this must have been the worst run of conditions, since I got the PK's Shielded Magnetic longwave loop. We are seriously considering buying a similar loop for mediumwave, as for having a backup combo to the Sanyo-MCD-S830 barefoot and also for getting more DX in the 800-1000 kHz range area where the Sanyo MCD-S830 sucks (sorry for such a harsh word against my favorite receiver) ! Into the logs now: Trans-Atlantic DX The LW TAs were heard on the Sangean CST-818 / PK's Shielded Magnetic longwave loop combo ! The SW TAs were heard on the Sangean CST-818 / shortwave southern random wire combo ! 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis FEB 21 around 0350 - Woman in French. Fair-poor, not threshold, but still too mushy with all the additional slight, albeit annoying buzz, to understand. Steady though. SINPO 35332. Almost surprised to get this one under such mediocre ionospheric conditions ! (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador FEB 17 2305 - Assumed with barely noticeable audio. Very, very weak with some growl from computers in the neighborhood (not our own). Of course, during such mediocre conditions, logging Russia-171 would be unthinkable and Russia-171 and Morocco-171 are the only signals that are reported in eastern North America on this channel with the probable exception of a LowFER ! (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg FEB 21 0605 - with repport from a psychoveterinary who was trying to understand the animal's feelings. Good through some slight buzz. SINPO 35354. The only longwave broadcaster to reach the Montreal area with, at least, a half-decent signal ! I got to understand that animal's feelings issue, because the signal was in French, not in German. In fact, until 1981, in France (as well as in most of Europe), private radio was illegal. If you were caught running a radio station (a pirate one in this case), the Police will be visiting your home in less than a hour. They were continuously monitoring the whole LW, MW, SW and VHF FM spectrum for that purpose ! So, a few guys had the bright idea of running private radio from neighboring countries such as Luxembourg, Germany or Monaco and in the case of other European countries, from aboard a ship out in the International Seas ! While the latter one is known as being an offshore pirate, the former one is known as being a radio périphérique. Otherwise, I have quite some trouble with my German, as I missed the class last Friday and I did not do yet the small homework for the private German teacher I see twice each month ! (Chiochiu-QC) 189 ICELAND Rikisútvarpid, Gufuskalar FEB 21 0607 - Assumed this usual blaster with music and talk heard weakly. (Chiochiu-QC) 198 ENGLAND BBC Radio 4, Droitwich FEB 21 0603 - Man talking in British-accented English. When the PK's Shielded Magnetic longwave loop was set to amplify 198 kHz, while attenuating everything below and above, including nearby 201, the local beacon on 201 kHz went unreadable (even though it's in Morse which is known for cutting through all sorts of QTM c.f. Cuban Radio Reloj) as this one violently overspilled 3 kHz above ! Fair and mushy and unreadable for me, as I'm not QUITE as fluent in English, as I am in French, Romanian and, to a lesser extent, Spanish, though sounded vaguely like a weather repport, as I barely picked out 1 or 2 words out of the mush ! Not // ZIZ-555 (BBC Radio 4 realays BBC World Service overnight) anymore at this time ! (Chiochiu-QC) 9575 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador FEB 20 2014 - with a nice set of traditionnal Arabic music, very monotonous but full of monotonous, yet emotional fullfilling powerful vocal harmonies. Fair-good until killed by some powerful buzz around 2020 that ruined several LW, MW and SW frequencies. I'm not as much into shortwave as I was several years ago, but after seeing on YouTube some videos
[HCDX] WICC log
600 WICC Bridgeport, CT 02/22 - WICC Six Hundreed strongly breaking through a few other signals with CKAT megapest in North Bay, ON not much in evidence at this time. Regular, though not that easily heard as in the past, mostly due to the rather poor condx. (BC-PQ) This repport is brought to you by Bogdan Chiochiu DXing from Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island), QC using the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot Bogdan Chiochiu ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[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] foreign LW-MW logs + 1 noteworthy domestic log
Warm greetings to all of you ! The TA activity has lessened year on Thursday night on LW and was pretty much inexistent on MW. I wonder if the trend has continued Friday night, but as I was buzy with my German (who's Grammar only bear little ressemblence with the English one) I can't tell much as I didn't bother to change the batteries for the astonishingly well built PK's Shielded Magnetic longwave loop and during the brief checks I did on my Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot, I couldn't get the slightest trace of a TA, especially on the low-end where DXing is easier for me. Latin American mediumwave DX continue to be abysmal. I haven't heard Coro for a few weeks and the only South Americans that seem to be heard during such below-average conditions seems to be YVKS-750 and HJAJ-760, though it's still challenging to hear at least those ones during such subpar non-auroral conditions. It's interesting to count at least one South American or non-Cuban Caribbean signal (ex.: ZIZ-555) during what is for everyone a domestic feeding-frenzy at, to a lesser extent, a TA feeding-frenzy experience ! Into the logs now: Trans-Atlantic DX (all times UTC) 153 unID FEB 8 0445 - woman talking in an unID language. Very weak and noisy ! SINPO 15231 ! Algeria was tentatively received here on 2 or 3 occasions, but it could be something else this time, like Germany or maybe Romania. (Chiochiu-QC) 153 ALGERIA Alger Chaîne 1 / RT Al Jazaira Radio Wahad, Bechar FEB 6 0220 - Presumed with Arabic music at the same time the Tipaza transmitter on 252 kHz (actually 253 to get rid of local UL on 248) was almost booming in with Dance music. Weak-poor level with the PK's Shielded Magnetic longwave loop set to amplify the lowest frequency possible ! I think the frequency limit is 162, not 153 or 150 kHz; I doubt it is a receiver problem. I never get good audio on 153, though Algeria is almost a pest for several DXers in eastern North America ! (Chiochiu-QC) 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis FEB 2 0358 - booming in with weather reports about icestorms, time pips, followed by a short newscast, then an obscure (to me!) lite rock number. Very good, booming in with some heavy static scratches from a thunderstorm somewhere mid-Atlantic, but NO computer-related growl or CATV noises ! SINPO 45243. +FEB 4 0440 - with a radio drama regarding some marginal woman (sexual workers) working in maisons closes. Quite good with, surprisingly, no computer hash that night ! SINPO 35443 +FEB 8 0400+ - with their usual Sunday litterature related program. Good, but noisy signal. SINPO 45232 ! (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador JAN 31 0130 - special request for the Por Ella smash salsa hit of Victor Manuel and Tous les cris, les SOS of Daniel Balavoine. Usually fair-good when tuned to 173 kHz to avoid a growl on the low-side of this channel ! +FEB 8 0105 - with an eclectic set of Arabic vocals (Middle Eastern pop, Algerian and / or Moroccan, raï, trad, dance, etc.) that were taped as I was going to a party ! The only LW broadcaster with even half-decent audio the past night ! Geomagnetic conditions were unsettled ! (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg (Saarlouis) FEB 8 0504 - This one, France-162 as well as Algeria-252 were the longwave broadcasters with listenable signals the past night around midnight local (0500 UTC). SINPO 45333 ! +FEB 9 0330 - Good through some annoying buzz, playing an old-fashionned disco-sounding French song. SINPO 45242 ! (Chiochiu-QC) 189 ICELAND Rikisutvarpid, Gufuskalar FEB 4 0420 - playing a wide variety of English and Icelandic pops that did include the Message In A Bottle early 80's smash hit by The Police. Very good, SINPO 45544 ! This and Europe 1 on 183 kHz are usually the strongest longwave broadcasters in the Montreal area ! (Chiochiu-QC) 198 ENGLAND BBC Radio 4, Droitwich - threshold to poor and noisy during most of the past week. (Chiochiu-QC) 207 MOROCCO RTM, Azilal FEB 5 0310 - Presumed with apparent Arabic programming (traditionnal Arabic music and plaintive male talk) in heavy beacon QRM. Best ever audio from this one ! (Chiochiu-QC) 252 ALGERIA Alger Chaîne 3, Tipaza FEB 1 0410 - woman with weather forecast in French with temperatures ranging between +14 degrees and twenty-something. Definitively not a local receiver-generated image from a local French-speaking Montreal AM broadcaster ! Finally had some decent audio here. Fair reception ! +FEB 6 0210 - back-to-back dark-edged raï influenced house tracks over assumed Ireland ! SINPO 2 Poor-fair reception ! +FEB 8 0510 - in and out with news as well as weather repports that dealed with rain and snow and temperatures lower than the average for this time of the year in Algeria. After the weather repport, the female announcer kept talking about Algeria. Good to fair signal stregth, but splatter from the local UL non-directionnal beacon on 248 kHz made readibility quite a
[HCDX] trans-oceanic logs + some Latin goodies
Warm greetings to all of you ! I'm quite buzy, but not as much as I thought, as I did loose my work (the Colombian person to whom I taught French has to leave for her native country tomorrow at 6AM because some member of her family were trapped by some narcotraficos), so instead of preparing pedagocial French-Spanish list of obscure verbs and other kind of stuff, I have time, this afternoon, to send in my latest logs. The TA condx on longwave and EVEN mediumwave has dramatically improven over the past 2 days, probably the best I ever saw, since I own the PK's Shielded Magnetic longwave loop and on MW they were also quite spectacular, though much short-lived than on MW. The MW TA opening I attended did last from about 0130 to 0200 UTC with almost readable audio on 603 (with the same woman voice as on 585 !) and for a few seconds, I could dodge 621 from the 620 WVMT megapest in Burlington, VT even though nulling out WVMT favors Belgium instead of the much more commun Canary Islands. By the way, is RTBF La Première from Wavre still on 621 kHz ? The only null on WVMT I can achieve yet is ENE / WSW, not ESE (east-south-east), so nulling WVMT does not favor much the fairly weak Canary Islands TA signal. Also unusual was that 621 was up with man talk trying to break through semi-nulled WVMT-620 even when much more commun Madrid-585 wasn't making the TA trip. Tonight, I'll likely not have enough time for DXing, because of my lovely frail girlfriend, but condx would likely get even better. So be on the lockout for some spectacular high-latitude east-west conditions on both longwave and...mediumwave, yes - MW ! Pan-American DX was rather decent Thursday night and way below average the other night, though late Monday night, the Bahía de Honda 1 kW sneaked through WIP-610 Philadelphia for the only noteworthy foreign LW-MW DX of that day. Thursday night, what was unusual, was YVKE-550 which is the strongest most commun Venezuelan in the Montreal area after YVKS-750 and YVNM-780 was good and YVKS-750 was huge, but YVNM-780 was absent, so the opening was toward the Caracas area of Distrito Federal with nothing out of Coro, yet Barranquilla-760 was noted in passing at a quite nice level strength. Into the logs: Trans-Atlantic DX 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis JAN 31 0610 - Woman in French noted at a poor level, though not representative at all of the REST OF THE LOGS (see below) ! (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador JAN 31 0130 - SINPO 24333 - a Middle Eastern pop tune, then a special request for the Por Ella salsa number of Victor Manuel which was followed by Tous les cris, les SOS of Daniel Balavoine, someone who sadly passed away while travelling for the Paris-Dakar contest in January of 1986. Seems like Morocco is the third spot after Russia and Japan for non-English foreign music on the planet ! French Caribbean zouk is also VERY popular in Morocco ! After the Daniel Balavoine recorded, heard raï vocals back-to-back ! Around 0230 UTC, they played an Amadou et Mariam track, so Morocco seems highly devoted to World Music and foreign cultures ! Fair at this time, but the best was yet to come ! +JAN 31 0415 - Spanish romantic ballad, then Celine Dion, Robbie Williams, then Arabic rhythmic contemporary vocals. Huge ! Peaking S6 out of S7 on the Sangean CST-818's reading meter ! Probably my best-ever reception of Morocco-171 yet. SINPO 44544 (Chiochiu-QC) 177 GERMANY Deutschlandradio Kultur, Oranienburg, Zehlendorf 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg (Saarlouis) JAN 31 0520 - Excellent level, almost local-like, with lengthy newscast. One of the items was about the strike of workers in Guadeloupe. Terrific SINPO ! SINPO 5 with barely noticeable splatter from Iceland-189 ! Best ever reception of Europe 1 for me ! Of all the 4 French stations (France Inter, Europe 1, RMC Info and RTL), Europe 1 is always the most reliable one, good enough even for a non-DXer to enjoy ! (Chiochiu-QC) 189 ICELAND RUV, Gufuskalar JAN 31 0615 - at this time, switched from International pops to classical piano music, then later, as I felt asleep, I was told Icelandic talk was coming out of the bedroom ! Very good ! (Chiochiu-QC) 198 ENGLAND BBC Radio 4, Droitwich JAN 31 0526 - British Accended English talk splattering into the local 201 kHz beacon in AM Wide mode ! The signal wasn't really strong though, just the Sangean CST-818 isn't too selective in AM Wide Mode ! (Chiochiu-QC) 207 unID DEC 31 0510 - talk and music badly QRMed by beacons on nearby frequencies. Nothing usable ! SIO 211 ! (Chiochiu-QC) 216 FRANCE RMC Info, Romoules JAN 31 0510 - French news noted in passing at a nice level, over the beacon that is usually pestering this channel ! SIO 443 (Chiochiu-QC) 225 POLAND Polski Radio 1, Solec Kujawski JAN 31 0014 - first founding of the evening, as I tuned to it, playing the Lady In Red smash hit of Chris de Bourg followed by man with
[HCDX] CORRECTION: trans-oceanic logs + some Latin goodies
- Original Message - From: Bogdan chiochiu To: a...@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 4:28 PM Subject: trans-oceanic logs + some Latin goodies Warm greetings to all of you ! I'm quite buzy, but not as much as I thought, as I did loose my work (the Colombian person to whom I taught French has to leave for her native country tomorrow at 6AM because some member of her family were trapped by some narcotraficos), so instead of preparing pedagocial French-Spanish list of obscure verbs and other kind of stuff, I have time, this afternoon, to send in my latest logs. The TA condx on longwave and EVEN mediumwave has dramatically improven over the past 2 days, probably the best I ever saw, since I own the PK's Shielded Magnetic longwave loop and on MW they were also quite spectacular, though much short-lived than on MW. The MW TA opening I attended did last from about 0130 to 0200 UTC with almost readable audio on 603 (with the same woman voice as on 585 !) and for a few seconds, I could dodge 621 from the 620 WVMT megapest in Burlington, VT even though nulling out WVMT favors Belgium instead of the much more commun Canary Islands. By the way, is RTBF La Première from Wavre still on 621 kHz ? The only null on WVMT I can achieve yet is ENE / WSW, not ESE (east-south-east), so nulling WVMT does not favor much the fairly weak Canary Islands TA signal. Also unusual was that 621 was up with man talk trying to break through semi-nulled WVMT-620 even when much more commun Madrid-585 wasn't making the TA trip. Tonight, I'll likely not have enough time for DXing, because of my lovely frail girlfriend, but condx would likely get even better. So be on the lockout for some spectacular high-latitude east-west conditions on both longwave and...mediumwave, yes - MW ! Pan-American DX was rather decent Thursday night and way below average the other night, though late Monday night, the Bahía de Honda 1 kW sneaked through WIP-610 Philadelphia for the only noteworthy foreign LW-MW DX of that day. Thursday night, what was unusual, was YVKE-550 which is the strongest most commun Venezuelan in the Montreal area after YVKS-750 and YVNM-780 was good and YVKS-750 was huge, but YVNM-780 was absent, so the opening was toward the Caracas area of Distrito Federal with nothing out of Coro, yet Barranquilla-760 was noted in passing at a quite nice level strength. Into the logs: Trans-Atlantic DX 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis JAN 31 0610 - Woman in French noted at a poor level, though not representative at all of the REST OF THE LOGS (see below) ! (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador JAN 31 0130 - SINPO 24333 - a Middle Eastern pop tune, then a special request for the Por Ella salsa number of Victor Manuel which was followed by Tous les cris, les SOS of Daniel Balavoine, someone who sadly passed away while travelling for the Paris-Dakar contest in January of 1986. Seems like Morocco is the third spot after Russia and Japan for non-English foreign music on the planet ! French Caribbean zouk is also VERY popular in Morocco ! After the Daniel Balavoine recorded, heard raï vocals back-to-back ! Around 0230 UTC, they played an Amadou et Mariam track, so Morocco seems highly devoted to World Music and foreign cultures ! Fair at this time, but the best was yet to come ! +JAN 31 0415 - Spanish romantic ballad, then Celine Dion, Robbie Williams, then Arabic rhythmic contemporary vocals. Huge ! Peaking S6 out of S7 on the Sangean CST-818's reading meter ! Probably my best-ever reception of Morocco-171 yet. SINPO 44544 (Chiochiu-QC) 177 GERMANY Deutschlandradio Kultur, Oranienburg, Zehlendorf JAN 30 0359 - noted with time pips as I tuned around. Poor-fair ! Second time here, relog ! (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg (Saarlouis) JAN 31 0520 - Excellent level, almost local-like, with lengthy newscast. One of the items was about the strike of workers in Guadeloupe. Terrific SINPO ! SINPO 5 with barely noticeable splatter from Iceland-189 ! Best ever reception of Europe 1 for me ! Of all the 4 French stations (France Inter, Europe 1, RMC Info and RTL), Europe 1 is always the most reliable one, good enough even for a non-DXer to enjoy ! (Chiochiu-QC) 189 ICELAND RUV, Gufuskalar JAN 31 0615 - at this time, switched from International pops to classical piano music, then later, as I felt asleep, I was told Icelandic talk was coming out of the bedroom ! Very good ! (Chiochiu-QC) 198 ENGLAND BBC Radio 4, Droitwich JAN 31 0526 - British Accended English talk splattering into the local 201 kHz beacon in AM Wide mode ! The signal wasn't really strong though, just the Sangean CST-818 isn't too selective in AM Wide Mode ! (Chiochiu-QC) 207 unID DEC 31 0510 - talk and music badly QRMed by beacons on nearby frequencies. Nothing usable ! SIO 211 ! (Chiochiu-QC) 216 FRANCE RMC Info, Romoules JAN 31 0510 - French news noted in passing at
[HCDX] the most recent LW-MW BCB DX logs
Warm greetings to all of you ! Seems like this winter was a taste of Heaven in my life, a special loop that would tune into LW broadcasts, a frail and innocent young woman that needs a protector and, last but not least, Aventure FM jingles (yep ! but you can't download them - you need to be online for this - and I miss full airchecks, but even for these, it is just a matter of time; just check out http://www.schoop.fr/sons/75_aventurefm.php and see if you can save them somewhere, they are protected from download) ! Since falling in love over the past weekend and since beginning school, my DX activity slowed down a little bit, though I couldn't resist the temptation of tuning into LW the past few hours and it payed since I got a new one on 177 along with other oddities such as unreadable music and talk on 207 in the misdt of beacon interference. As I write this, RMC Info is having a decent signal on 216 with French chatter... Another MAJOR DX HIGHLIGHT was Poland-225, something that wasn't so far from entertainment quality and playing some refreshing Slavic rock selections... More on that below !!! Very little time was spent on mediumwave lately, though weak talk was evident on 585 kHz. A few weak Latins were noted during some short DX sessions over the beginning of the past week, that barely worth being reported with the possible exception of Anzoátegui-640 ! Into the logs: Trans-Atlantic DX 153 unID JAN 25 2223 UTC - music and talk very weak and fluttery flashing S1 over S7 on and off on the Sangean reading meter ! It's rare for me to hear audio down there, as the PK's Shielded Magnetic LW loop doesn't show much gain below the France Inter frequency. Germany, Algeria and Romania are equally possible ! (Chiochiu-QC) 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis JAN 25 0449 UTC - after French litterature chatter and analysis, they did play Rue de la Paix by Zazie, one of the most uplifiting French alternative rock diva, then the litterature program continued with a book dealing with wealthy Dutch man (la bourgeoisi hollandaise) and how the narrator tried to fight against their socionarcisistic attitude. Very good at times with no computer-related growl, though the computer-like noise did comeback today. SINPO 45523. In France, this station is rumoured as being a favorite among mothertoungue general culture teachers and among the students who manage to obtain straight A on French, like a kind of general-service France Culture ! At times, this birdie was audible on the Sangean CST-818 barefoot with no additional loop ! (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador JAN 24 0326 UTC - plaintive Arabic male vocals noted at a fair level. +JAN 25 2258 - with a raï number followed by a newscast in Arabic with computer-like growl on and off popping on this channel and on several ones too ! (Chiochiu-QC) 177 GERMANY Deutschlandradio Kultur, Oranienburg, Zehlendorf JAN 25 0505 UTC - Woman talking in German leading into classical choral music that was fairly reminiscent of some dance-metal gothic artists such as Nightwish or Mylène Farmer ! Fairly annoying splatter was noted against Europe 1 on 183 kHz and it were these guys and not usual blaster Iceland-189 that were the source of this QRM trouble ! NEW ! Germany#2 on LW for me ! (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg, Saarlouis JAN 25 0446 UTC - playing Comment Te Dire Adieu by Jane Birkin, then announcer sayed it was from 1968, then changed topic and announced warmly Europe 1 was about to help the victims of the windstorm that did shake the southern France from Grenoble to the Pyréennées areas. Huge signal that had slow, but deep fadings and was sometimes splattered by Germany-177. SINPO 44332. (Chiochiu-QC) 189 ICELAND Rikisútvarpid, Gufaskalar JAN 25 2215 UTC - Icelandic talk that leaded to music selections that sounded like a blend of Native American and African tribal music with primitive melodic aspects, yet full of authenticity ! SINPO 45544 until some computer-like noise moved up in frequency and rendered listenability more problematic. +JAN 25 2323 UTC - man talking in Icelandic with a dramatic voice, possibly reading an emotional full-filling story or a poem ! (Chiochiu-QC) 198 UNITED KINGDOM BBC Radio 4, Droitwich JAN 25 0712 UTC - Talkshow regarding the need to continue the BBC international coverage of the Gaza conflict and other issues regarding the BBC's international coverage. Armchair copy ! SINPO 34543 with barely noticeable QRM from a much weaker beacon and splatter from 201 kHz (Montreal) eliminated with the receiver in AM Narrow Mode. (Chiochiu-QC) 207 MOROCCO RTM, Azilal JAN 25 0703 UTC - Very tentative ! Bits of talk and music that sounded Arabic. Probably best audio I ever had on 207 kHz. SINPO 2 (Chiochiu-QC) 216 FRANCE RMC Info, Romoules JAN 25 2230 UTC - French chatter, sports related, regarding problems involved in the organisation of French soccer games;
[HCDX] Latest LW-MW logs
Warm greetings to all of you ! LW TAs were gradually improving, though the past night the trans-atlantic skip on LW was only half-decent and tonight LW signals seems unreadables yet. MW TAs still are inexistent, as reveal both Spain-585 and Morocco-595, but I think we are running fast from solar minimal and I'd rather expect good auroral southern enhacement than a feeding-frenzy high-latitude east-west opening ! What are your thoughts about this ? Trans-Atlantic DX 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis JAN 17 0251 - Fair-good with minimal computer-like hash playing slow music on guitar. SIO 453 ! (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador JAN 16 0345 - continous plantive Arabic vocals which were perphaps religion-related. Generally fair ! The best North African LW in the Montreal area ! (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1 JAN 16 0310 - Booming in as I tuned it with a French talkshow regarding the sexuality of the older persons ! This and Iceland-189 are usually the strongest longwave broadcasters to reach my QTH in the Montreal area ! (Chiochiu-QC) 189 ICELAND Rikisutvarpid, Gufaskalar JAN 17 0125 - with a mixture of Icelandic and English-language pops and short IDs as Ruv (Fier?)... between almost each song. (Chiochiu-QC) 207 unID JAN 14 0320 - bits of unredable audio getting through several beacons including perphaps QI on 206 kHz in Nova Scotia. SIO 111, nothing usable. (Chiochiu-QC) 216 FRANCE RMC, Roumoules JAN 16 0420 - French news, poor-fair in the absence of the usual groundwave and/or short-skip beacon that dominates this TA channel. (Chiochiu-QC) 225 POLAND unID JAN 15 2231 - weak man talk, pretty much a threshold signal. Probably Poland, as this is the only broadcaster heard on this channel by our dearly Sylvain Naud ! (Chiochiu-QC) 234 LUXEMBOURG RTL, Beidweler JAN 14 0549 - with a joke regarding the Barak Obama's rise in status il casse la baraque which roughly translates to break the shadow between him and his futur status as the president of the USA. Very good, way over NDB QRM, had armchair copy for a couple of minutes, but then faded under the beacons ! Best ever reception of this 2 MW powerhouse ! SINPO 43522 (Chiochiu-QC) Pan-American DX 570 CUBA CMDC, Radio Reloj, Pilón JAN 17 0342 - Woman with nx and RR code IDs at the end of one news item. Couldn't copy much, as the reception wasn't as good as the last Sunday morning, but obviously you don't need armchair copy to get the RR code IDs past WSYR Syracruse... I wonder when is WSYR nest maintenance period ? (Chiochiu-QC) 600 CUBA CMKV, Radio Rebelde, Urbano Norris JAN 15 0210 - ...el primero, segundo... baseball play-by-play. Good under domestics. SIO 422 (Chiochiu-QC) 640 CUBA CMBC, Radio Progreso, Guanabacoa and / or CMBD, Radio Progreso, Las Tunas JAN 17 0339 - Presumed with Spanish programming in heavy QRM from WNNZ and other weaker visitors. This one is NOT as strong as it once had, giving real hope of hearing the José Elias Diaz Gomez's DX tests during the Sintonía DX program over Unión Radio (YVQO, Puerto-La Cruz, Anzoátegui) during, at least, a decent semi-auroral opening, if not a heavy auroral one. (Chiochiu-QC) 730 unID JAN 17 0450 - In local CKAC null: romantic Spanish male vocal getting through strong residual CKAC, followed by Spanish announcements way under residual CKAC. SIO 412. I had some fadings in null of their groundwave, as if skywave already start to blen with groundwave at such a short distance (probably 12 km from downtown Montreal as the crow flies) ! HJCU Melodía AM in Santafé de Bogotá is suspected, as XEX is now Sports Ya. Also, didn't seem // 640... (Chiochiu-QC) 750 VENEZUELA YVKS, Radio Caracas Radio, Caracas, Distrito Federal JAN 17 0350 - Woman announcer with several repporters concerning a lost video and their attempts at trying to locate that lost video which seemed fairly suspect (weird, to say the least). SINPO 33322, as the signal wasn't too stable and almost completly faded away with WSB fading-up. Overall, pretty fair reception ! (Chiochiu-QC) 760 COLOMBIA HJAJ, RCN Cadena Basíca, Barranquilla JAN 17 0350 - Man in studio chatting with someone outdoors, very threshold and unreadable. Condx need to be at least SLIGHTLY below average to South America for this one to be, at least, listenable ! (Chiochiu-QC) 770 CUBA CMKB, Radio Rebelde, QTH ? JAN 17 0449 - Cuban beisbol event way under WABC, noted in passing. (Chiochiu-QC) 780 VENEZUELA YVNM, Radio Coro, Coro, estado Falcón JAN 17 0445 - one hour later, after an unsuccesful attempt to listen to a definite signal out of HJAJ-760, got to hear an upbeat cumbia using major chords with lots of accordeon at a fair level. Quite surprised to get this, as this one is well heard when conditions are at least AVERAGE toward South America and the past night they were well subpar. A couple of dozens of seconds later, I was chassing possible Colombia-730 !
[HCDX] very recent LW-MW-SW DX logs
Warm greetings to all of you ! I hope you are doing very well. The moon's eclipse which did hit the Earth on Sunday-Monday left me very tired, almost as if the chemotherapy was still in full swing, and didn't had the motivation to send in my latest logs. On the wee hours of Sunday mornings, after midnight, there was a flurry of decent Latin American activity in the 500s, the 600s and the botton part of the 700s. On 580, there were as much as 4 Latins fighting against WTAG in Worchester, MA. Radio Reloj got to entertainment level quality and YVQO Unión Radio in Puerto-La Cruz, in the Anzoátegui state was, at times, fair and occasionally good with the only QRM being 1 or 2 domestics along with Cuban Radio Progreso (CMBC Guanabacoa back at what power level ? They were running 50 kW a few years ago along with CMBD Las Tunas running a medium-powered tx of 10 kW !). LW condx were abysmal until the last few nights when they were decent and, the last night, they got on par... I felt asleep listening to Morocco-171 which had a good signal and the other night, in spite of being fairly tired, I felt asleep listening to Iceland-189. I didn't tried too hard for MW TAs. Part of the reason is that I have a moderate amount of noises between 1000 and 1390 kHz, severely harming my mid-band reception which is where some of the easiest TAs are received such as Croatia-1134 and even France-1206... Another reason was that I was too excited with my still-brand new PK's Shielded Magnetic LW loop ! I just renewed for the NRC and I should receive soon the latest DX News publication. I'm glad, I did it ! This means, less Spanish repports, as I would need otherwise to make an effort to resend once again what I heard in Spanish...G! Into the logs now: Trans-Atlantic DX (all times UTC) 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis JAN 13 0515 - w/ nx regarding the Gaza conflict followed by an announcement for an upcoming item at 0530 UTC (07:30 AM local) and mention of France Inter. Good w/ some computer-like QRN. SINPO 45343 (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador JAN 14 0405 - tuned-in to a program which did consist of mostly back-to-back plaintive Arabic vocals with male comments in Arabic, then at 0500 had a short newscast in Arabic that was followed by a weather repport in French. Then a pop-dance number by Akon which was followed by a French newscast which mentioned an earthquake that did shake neighboring Algeria not a long time ago, known in French as glissement de terrain, then international weather forecast for a few neighboring worlwide cities, most of them being in southern France (where the daytime groundwave signal of Medi Un does a good job covering those areas). Fair-good. SINPO 34343 w/ occasional QRM from a long tone popping up, was it a LowFER ? +JAN 15 0027 - booming in at a good level with a romantic male raï vocal as I write this. The new computers do not produce QRM, but the older one do a lot. Maybe some of the computer-like growl sometimes noted on the lower half of the LW broadcast band is from an oldschool computer somewhere in my neck of the wood, perphaps just a few blocks from my house ? In any event, the powerlines-like noises are easily nulled and not too strong either, though quite annoying when I null out Morocco (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg (Saarlouis) JAN 14 0528 - man announcer just sayed Voilà! at the end of a news item, as I tuned away back to Morocco-171. Fair w/ fading distortion which made for some unpleasant listening, SINPO 35222 ! Stronger when noted in passing at other times. (Chiochiu-QC) 189 ICELAND Rikisutvarpid, Gufuskalar JAN 12 0457 - w/ a haunting atmospheric Icelandic reagge vocal followed an IS (Interval Signal) or INSTRUMENTAL JINGLE, then man talk in Icelandic. Fair +JAN 14 0453 - woman in Icelandic, burried by possible Low-FER QRM (Chiochiu-QC) 198 UNITED KINGDOM BBC Radio 4, Droitwich JAN 13 0458 - Man talking in British Accented English heard at a rather threshold strength and mostly unreadable level under a poor-strenght beacon. SINPO 22512 (Chiochiu-QC) 216 FRANCE RMC Info, Romoules JAN 13 0428 - w/ ...sur RMC heard at the end of a news item to which I didn't pay attention as I barely came-back to the DX shack as the ID was given. Briefly good. SINPO 42521, but soon completly lost to the NDB pest that is disturbing reception on this channel. The powerline-like noises are mostly an issue below 190 kHz. NEW ! First time ever that I caught TA audio on 216 kHz ! Seems like it's either powerlines-like noise or beacon QRM on longwave for me, at least parttime ! (Chiochiu-QC) 234 LUXEMBURG RTL, Beidweler JAN 13 0532 - Tentative reception w/ French talk that was difficult to follow in quite heavy beacon QRM, SINPO 22422. Only 2nd time here and the reception wasn't as good as on the 22nd of December of 2009. SINPO 22522 (Chiochiu-QC) 252 IRELAND RTE Radio One, Clarkestown / ALGERIA Alger Chaîne 3, Tipaza JAN 13 0625 - Tentative
[HCDX] Latin American MW-SW logs from Friday night
Warm greetings and season's greetings (though it's a bit late, as most of you already came back to work) ! This holiday (I'm still mostly free, pedagocially-wise, until the 19th of January, with the slight exception of a private German class) was a productive one for me: a brand new PK's Shielded Magnetic LW loop, my relative patience which was required in order to learn how to use an oldschool MP3 encoder, and most important of all, the delight of initiating someone new to the DX hobby with huge sounds from this homeland ! The excitement of both of us, along with the attention payed to the program content carried on by this HJ powerhouse (see below) more than payed off for the still SLIGTHLY below average conditions toward South America on MW. What was remarkable, is that this guy helped me pay a closer attention to the program content of RCN Barranquilla translating to me from Spanish to French some obscure regionalism only used in Colombia and he did this with quite some enthousiasm ! After the DX session, as WJR Detroit-Michigan became more difficult to null out, we spent the rest of the evening trying to burn a CD with a wild mixture of MP3 DX recordings and World Beat such as coupé-décalé or raï and we did other things as well. He showed me some both known international rock as well as rock en español hits on our guitar ! He is having ALMOST perfect pitch and a voice (he sings as well) quite similar to mine ! After he leaved, I listened to some SW on the Sangean CST-818 / random wire Combo, but the only noteworthy receptions were on 6010 kHz ! I fell asleep around 3 o'clock in the wee hours of the morning known in both Spanish and Portuguese as madrugada... Well, into the logs: Pan-American DX on mediuwave (the only foreign DX heard on the AM Broadcast Band, anyway, Croatia-1134 was covered, if there, by an awful hash - unsure if IBOC - and Spain-585 wasn't propagating) ALL TIMES IN UTC (United Time Coordinated) 570 CUBA CMDC, Radio Reloj, Pilón JAN 10 0640 UTC - RR code IDs clearly heard through a very strong domestic (WMCA or WSYR, though the latter one is much more likely, it's so strong that the medium-haul WMCA in New York City is seldom audible in the Montreal area), woman talk in Spanish surfaced once around this time. SINPO 31521 (Chiochiu-QC) 710 CUBA CMW, Radio Rebelde, La Julia JAN 10 0022 UTC - briefly tuned away from HJAJ-760 to find this one at a fair level but way under the WOR megapest with romantic Cuban Spanish vocal. Very difficult to enjoy as was way under WOR. Better on the high side of 710 rather than on the low side, because the next-to-adjacent sideband splatter from local CINF-690 was more annoying toward the south than the next-do-adjacent local splatter out of CKAC-730. SINPO 31322. Not sure if // 5025, as I didn't had the Sangean CST-818 connected to the random wire then. Usually, when the Rebelde-FM feed La Sensacional Noventa Y Seis Punto Siete (96.7) is carried instead of thr basic Rebelde network, it isn't // with SW 5025 and CMW-710 is known for carrying at times the La Sensacional... FM feed. Tuned quickly back to 760 AM. (Chiochiu-QC) 750 VENEZUELA YVKS, Radio Caracas Radio, Caracas, Distrito Federal JAN 10 0032 UTC - possibly a sociology-related program, man and woman, mentioning of la sociedad. Fair and mixing with WSB in Atlanta; noted at other times in passing as well, the second strongest South American the past evening after HJAJ-760, not unusual in it's self, but what was is that it was the only time when this got almost listenable; SINPO 32433. (Chiochiu-QC) 760 COLOMBIA HJAJ, RCN Cadena Basíca, Barranquilla, departamiento del Atlantico JAN 10 0011 UTC - in WJR null; after a segment about the fight against the torros which disrupbded a tiny bit the psychism of my friend who is sensitive to cruelty against the ever-innocent animals, heard with the man host doing chatter to his guest which was a chick with a cute voice (Tania) that did bring her parcera (which I've learned from my Colombian firend means either a kind of attached friend or a f*ckfriend - it's a Colombia-only regionalism) with her and were about to party allthogether at the Fería de Manizales. So, parcera = kinf of attached friend; f*ckfriend. End of the current Spanish lesson ! Huge between 1900 and 1930 EST ( to 0030 UTC) for the best non-USA and non-Canadian signal on mediumwave ! SINPO 43433 +JAN 10 0022 UTC - the news announcer (the same who was doing chatter with the sweet Tania) talking seriously about some fire-aficionados who didn't intellectualize their pulsion constructively, for painting for exemple, but instead let the fire harm a Fería de Manizales-related festivity, more precisely a Paso-Doble concert. Another new Spanish word, paso-doble is a Castilian music style, very similar to flamenco and using the Andaloucian minor chords. End of the last Spanish culture-related language lesson ! Still huge,
[HCDX] foreign LW-MW DX logs
Warm greetings to all of you ! Last night, I was able to initiate a friend from the college radio station of cé-gep Saint-Laurent at MW DXing. Condx were abysmal, but the good company along with the very brief flurry of still convincing Pan-American DX (she was still amazed when Atlanta and Caracas were fighting against each other on 750 kHz !) more than made up for the bad conditions. It's good to meet highly attractive persons that now to talk and to listen during the course of only a few minutes ! He will comeback Thursday... The other night, condx on LW were at least decent, but last night misery, with Europe 1 good at best and RUV poor at best and nothing else, not even usual blasters such as Morocco-171 and France-162 (which frequency was covered by a highly annoying buzz, just like 153), but he was amazed as I constantly connected and disconnected the brand new PK's Shielded Magnetic LW loop antenna showing the Europe 1 signal drop from fair to nil... It was, at least, a half-decent showing of what can be heard on LW and MW... Into the logs now: Trans-Atlantic DX (all times are UTC) 153 unID JAN 5 0318 - talk in unID language (possibly AA, but not sure at all so this time around I won't even clam Bechar-153) mostly poor but very clear at this time and pleasant to listen to for a hardcore DXer like mewhen tuned on 152 kHz in AM Narrow Mode to avoid a computer-like growl on the hish-side of the channel, around 154-155 kHz, though didn't comeback at a half-decent strength. SINPO 35412 (Chiochiu-QC) 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis JAN 5 0206 - dramatic talk by a woman about two lovers glued together in a highly sensual way. Very good, SINPO 45444, possibly my best ever reception of France-162 ! They often carry dramatic reading late at night; a true cultural oriented general service broadcasters, as opposed to France Culture which is 100% cultural +JAN 5 0613 - audible on the Sangean CST-818 barefoot weakly but clearly with readable French talk about the Palestinian-Israelian conflict. Obviously, the loop was disconnected ! I disconnected the loop, in order to connect to the longwire for SW DXing, but as I opened the radio received weakly France-162 which prompted me to reconnect the PK's Magnetic LW loop and it was slightly weaker than at 0206 UTC (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg JAN 5 2255 - w/ ads in FF, only fair, but good enough to amaze Marco ! The only LW broadcaster having half-decent audio tonight ! (Chiochiu-QC) 189 ICELAND RUV, Gufáskalar JAN 6 0654 - back-to-back classical music, then a long tone leading to what possibly were Icelandic nx. Only poor, S2 or S3 out of S7 on the Sangean CST-818 reading meter and SINPO 25332 ! (Chiochiu-QC) 198 ENGLAND BBC, Droitwich JAN 5 0256 - w/ British news. Fair and getting through annoying beacon QRM. SINPO 32422 (Chiochiu-QC) 252 ALGERIA Alger Chaîne 3, Tipaza JAN 5 0317 - getting through at a poor-fair and fadey level, pestered by the local UL beacon on 248 kHz. The signals on the higher half of the LW BCB, above 200 kHz, have more fadings which are more rapid and more efficient (they don't last as long as the fades below 200 kHz which are very slow and more or less deep). (Chiochiu-QC) 585 JAN 5 2407-2408 or more correctly JAN 6 0007-0008 - imaginary-level very threshold audio through computer-like QRN and didn't get much better than this. But my friend was quite interested even though he couldn't discern any audio... (Chiochiu-QC) Pan-American DX (all times are UTC) 750 VENEZUELA YVKS, Caracas, Distrito Federal JAN 6 0057 - Spanish talkshow; fair-poor and fighting w/ WSB Atlanta, GA, but the only South American more or less listenable the past night. SINPO 2 with still limited readability ! (Chiochiu-QC) 760 COLOMBIA HJAJ, RCN Cadena Basíca, Barranquilla JAN 6 0057 - lively commercial ads in a highly proffesionnal way (¡en el estilo de RCN!, ¿como nó?); threshold and alone in a rather solid WJR null, but soon faded out lost to a very threshold residual WJR which otherwise was excellent (as usual at this location). SINPO 14(with WJR nulled)411, so SINPO 14411 ! (Chiochiu-QC) 1140 unID JAN 5 2351 - w/ greetings to a listener who just married (...casar...) and giving a local phone number in a USA style (so maybe WQBA Miami, FL ?). Fair at tune-in, but quickly faded away before an ID could be secured ! It's not the first time I hear SS on 1140. Given the abysmal conditions toward the Carribean and South America, I suspect WQBA rather than Isla Margarita (which is only heard on the southeast coast of Massachussets by Mark Connelly and which don't seem to make further inland too often). Domestic DX (time = EST - Eastern Standard Time) 1120 WPRX Bristol, CT JAN 5 2348 - wi/ trop. mx (salsa, merengue, bachata, etc.) noted in passing several times at poor to good strength in more or less annoying WBBR-1130 splash. He was surprised at first as he
[HCDX] QSLing Venezuela-750
Hello to all of you ! I have two 90 minutes tapes of quite good reception from YVKS-750 (Radio Caracas Radio) that I would like to send as a taped repport to Caracas, D.F. I wonder what is their correct address... A minor writen repport will be sent as well to explain part of my reception... My Spanish is quite good from having learned it both in Romania and in Quebec at school, though stations love to hear how they sound at great distances AN RCR-750 isn't broadcasting on the Internet yet. I would gladly appreciate your input on the RCR-750 address; it would be like a 2nd Xmas DX present after the PK's Shielded Magnetic LW loop... May the good DX bless your ears as much as your enthousiastic mind ! Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefonds - Montreal, QC - PQ ¡Señoras y señores ! Me gustaría preguntar a ustedes cual es la dirección correcta de YVKS-750 (Radio Caracas Radio)... Me gustaría tener sobre los paredes de mi cuarto personal un recuerdo visual de la más poderosa emisora de mi país tan querido, un poco para mi orgullo y un poco para intentar de concretisar mi amor para la America Latina. Desafortunadamente, no he comprado el último WRTH y la dirección puede haber sido cambiada, por eso estoy escribiendo aquí. Sería como un segundo regalo navideño despues de la PK's Shielded Magnetic LW loop para la onda larga... ¡Hasta muy pronto! Bogdan Chiochiu P.D.: Despues de muchas buscas, lo solo que fui capaz de conseguir fue Avenida del País en el Paraíso, Edificio RCR sin ningún codigo postal y sin la clarificación de Paradisio o Paraíso o tal vez Paraísio... ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] foreign LW/MW DX loggings (DEC 31, 2008 - JAN 4, 2009)
Season's greetings to all of you ! Make sure 2009 will make falling asleep more natural without the ever-present temptation of turning your radio on and of getting out of bed by pure curiosity during the last few seconds it takes to disconnect from the DXer friendly world ! This resumes well what I did three nights ago. DXing, DXing and...again DXing, turning up and down both the LW and MW bands until around 5 o'clock when I couldn't stand any sound other than my own breath ! A new way to start 2009 was to relog 1 or 2 seldom heard Latins during semi-auroral condx, while DXing wasn't really above-average, but promising, though promising in vain as tonight was extremely poor for both Latin MW and TA LW DX and the moderate CME didn't turned my Montreal area QTH into a concrete based house with concrete roof and a big window near the radio toward the south... Well, into the logs !... Trans-Atlantic DX 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis JAN 2 0607 UTC - noted in passing with morning show in FF at a good level through moderate computer-like QRN. + JAN 3 0628 - promo for Comment voyager... trip and adventure-related px - dimanche sur France Inter, then extensive traffic weather reports, followed by a short newscast about a 6 months jail sentenced for a youngster who stoled a car, etc. Very good to fair. SINPO 45332 +JAN 3 0855 - w/ talk about the real value of life, then greetings to the sociologist who made the speech, extensive traffic and eather annc, time pips during the weather, then jingle leading to nx. (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador JAN 3 0355 UTC - at tune-in w/ a raï number followed by warm comments by the DJ who introduced, both in FF AA, the latest track by HJ singer Juanes (which seems popular worldwide, even in my native Romania). SINPO 35343 with a fair signal and very minor high-pitched growl from a computer or from several computers in the neighborhood. The best LW broadcast signal this evening ! When this one, usually 9575 isn't propagated and vice-versa. 9575 is better during the greyline and 171 way before sunrise at the tx-site and way after sunset in Montreal, at least it seems to be that way according to my own observations. This is the only Moroccan that seems to be received in the Montreal area on LW. The target of Azilal 207 is always buried in NDB QRM; in fact, even marginary level audio wasn't heard (yet) from the Azilal RTM outlet on 207 kHz. Well... +JAN 3 0406 UTC - up to a very good peak right now (S5 over S7) playing a dance oriented raï vocal with exotic female voice Mon amour; only the chorus is in FF, the rest of the tune is in AA ! +JAN 3 0424 UTC - with a musical request toward two lovers with mention ...Florent Pagny sur Medi Un, then the soft-rock MoR vocal Savoir aimer by Florent Pagny recorded again in duo with FF-Canadian singer Isabelle Boulay, then the DJ greeted a Casablanca listener who requested a Raï duo. Good ! With the CATV disconnected from upstairs, the only QRN consists of a slight high-pitched growl, instead of the unbearable buzz that hammered reception on this channel (and many others) just a few days ago ! This appears to be bilingual AA/FF px with musical request of mainly more or less upbeat FF/EE/SS/AA songs. +JAN 3 0452 UTC - almost completly lost due to tx-site sunrise, but still hanging on with trad. AA mx ! (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg JAN 2 0345-0903+ UTC - ending the nighttime talk show talking about the helpful relationship between animals and criminals or autistic children (zootherapy). Then at 0400, Europe 1 Info begun with the announcement of some astonishing events, for exemple the burning of cars around the 31th of December with the burning rate being 30% higher than the past year (1147 cars were fired up ! according to the Europe 1 anncr.) and also some strange weather notes about the current temprature in the eastern suburbs of Paris which was -8C. Weird, as the Gulf Stream should make exceptionnal anything under 0 C, EVEN AT THIS time of the year ! Very good and still hanging on at a poor level at 0903 UTC (03:03 AM EST). This was the loudest broadcast signal on LW, while RUV-189 was apparently knocked out by the semi-auroral condx... Still surprised to get this as even regular MW TAs such as Spain-585 were absent and Colombia-770 made several showings burrying the NYC powerhouse, WABC. +JAN 3 2355 - Very strong w/ end of a talkshow about wife complaining that their husbands or boyfriends are too much into music (just like me!), then an ugly FF chansonnette leading to the end of the show, followed by nx, sx and wx, then Si vous devez nous écouter sur les Grandes Ondes, rendez-vous maintenant sur la FM closing annc of the Germany-183 tx, then Europe 1, Europe 1 singed jingle, then switched abruptly to dead air after the first tone of a coming song, then off the air for good leaving only a SLIGHT amount of powerlines-like noise... Seems
[HCDX] foreign domestic LW/MW logs (DEC 31, 2008 - JAN 3, 2009) that did feat. semi-au condx.
Season's greetings to all of you ! Make sure 2009 will make falling asleep more natural without the ever-present temptation of turning your radio on and of getting out of bed by pure curiosity during the last few seconds it takes to disconnect from the DXer friendly world ! This resumes well what I did the past night. DXing, DXing and...again DXing, turning up and down both the LW and MW bands until around 5 o'clock when I couldn't stand any sound other than my own breath ! A new way to start 2009 was to relog 1 or 2 seldom heard Latins during semi-auroral condx, while DXing wasn't really above-average, but promising, though promising in vain as tonight was extremely poor for both Latin MW and TA LW DX and the moderate CME didn't turned my Montreal area QTH into a concrete based house with concrete roof and a big window near the radio toward the south... Well, into the logs !... Trans-Atlantic DX 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis JAN 2 0607 UTC - noted in passing with morning show in FF at a good level through moderate computer-like QRN. + JAN 3 0628 - promo for Comment voyager... trip and adventure-related px - dimanche sur France Inter, then extensive traffic weather reports, followed by a short newscast about a 6 months jail sentenced for a youngster who stoled a car, etc. Very good to fair. SINPO 45332 +JAN 3 0855 - w/ talk about the real value of life, then greetings to the sociologist who made the speech, extensive traffic and eather annc, time pips during the weather, then jingle leading to nx. (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador JAN 3 0355 UTC - at tune-in w/ a raï number followed by warm comments by the DJ who introduced, both in FF AA, the latest track by HJ singer Juanes (which seems popular worldwide, even in my native Romania). SINPO 35343 with a fair signal and very minor high-pitched growl from a computer or from several computers in the neighborhood. The best LW broadcast signal this evening ! When this one, usually 9575 isn't propagated and vice-versa. 9575 is better during the greyline and 171 way before sunrise at the tx-site and way after sunset in Montreal, at least it seems to be that way according to my own observations. This is the only Moroccan that seems to be received in the Montreal area on LW. The target of Azilal 207 is always buried in NDB QRM; in fact, even marginary level audio wasn't heard (yet) from the Azilal RTM outlet on 207 kHz. Well... +JAN 3 0406 UTC - up to a very good peak right now (S5 over S7) playing a dance oriented raï vocal with exotic female voice Mon amour; only the chorus is in FF, the rest of the tune is in AA ! +JAN 3 0424 UTC - with a musical request toward two lovers with mention ...Florent Pagny sur Medi Un, then the soft-rock MoR vocal Savoir aimer by Florent Pagny recorded again in duo with FF-Canadian singer Isabelle Boulay, then the DJ greeted a Casablanca listener who requested a Raï duo. Good ! With the CATV disconnected from upstairs, the only QRN consists of a slight high-pitched growl, instead of the unbearable buzz that hammered reception on this channel (and many others) just a few days ago ! This appears to be bilingual AA/FF px with musical request of mainly more or less upbeat FF/EE/SS/AA songs. +JAN 3 0452 UTC - almost completly lost due to tx-site sunrise, but still hanging on with trad. AA mx ! (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg JAN 2 0345-0903+ UTC - ending the nighttime talk show talking about the helpful relationship between animals and criminals or autistic children (zootherapy). Then at 0400, Europe 1 Info begun with the announcement of some astonishing events, for exemple the burning of cars around the 31th of December with the burning rate being 30% higher than the past year (1147 cars were fired up ! according to the Europe 1 anncr.) and also some strange weather notes about the current temprature in the eastern suburbs of Paris which was -8C. Weird, as the Gulf Stream should make exceptionnal anything under 0 C, EVEN AT THIS time of the year ! Very good and still hanging on at a poor level at 0903 UTC (03:03 AM EST). This was the loudest broadcast signal on LW, while RUV-189 was apparently knocked out by the semi-auroral condx... Still surprised to get this as even regular MW TAs such as Spain-585 were absent and Colombia-770 made several showings burrying the NYC powerhouse, WABC. (Chiochiu-QC) 252 IRELAND RTE Radio One, Clarkestown / ALGERIA Alger Chaîne 3, Tipaza JAN 1 0045 UTC - EE talk and EE music o/ FF px. Both poor with NDB QRM reduced as much as possible. SINPO 22232. Ireland is a BRAND new visitor for me ! (Chiochiu-QC) Pan-American DX 550 VENEZUELA Mundial YVKE, Caracas, Distrito Federal JAN 1 0612 UTC - Assumed this one w/ salsa mx in mess. 2nd time this season ! It is slightly easier to receive in Montreal, now that semi-local CHLN in Trois-Rivière, PQ has vacated the channel, though a weaker semi-local, WEVD in
[HCDX] foreign domestic LW/MW logs (DEC 31, 2008 - JAN 3, 2009) w/ semi-au condx
Season's greetings to all of you ! Make sure 2009 will make falling asleep more natural without the ever-present temptation of turning your radio on and of getting out of bed by pure curiosity during the last few seconds it takes to disconnect from the DXer friendly world ! This resumes well what I did three nights ago. DXing, DXing and...again DXing, turning up and down both the LW and MW bands until around 5 o'clock when I couldn't stand any sound other than my own breath ! A new way to start 2009 was to relog 1 or 2 seldom heard Latins during semi-auroral condx, while DXing wasn't really above-average, but promising, though promising in vain as tonight was extremely poor for both Latin MW and TA LW DX and the moderate CME didn't turned my Montreal area QTH into a concrete based house with concrete roof and a big window near the radio toward the south... Well, into the logs !... Trans-Atlantic DX 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis JAN 2 0607 UTC - noted in passing with morning show in FF at a good level through moderate computer-like QRN. + JAN 3 0628 - promo for Comment voyager... trip and adventure-related px - dimanche sur France Inter, then extensive traffic weather reports, followed by a short newscast about a 6 months jail sentenced for a youngster who stoled a car, etc. Very good to fair. SINPO 45332 +JAN 3 0855 - w/ talk about the real value of life, then greetings to the sociologist who made the speech, extensive traffic and eather annc, time pips during the weather, then jingle leading to nx. (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador JAN 3 0355 UTC - at tune-in w/ a raï number followed by warm comments by the DJ who introduced, both in FF AA, the latest track by HJ singer Juanes (which seems popular worldwide, even in my native Romania). SINPO 35343 with a fair signal and very minor high-pitched growl from a computer or from several computers in the neighborhood. The best LW broadcast signal this evening ! When this one, usually 9575 isn't propagated and vice-versa. 9575 is better during the greyline and 171 way before sunrise at the tx-site and way after sunset in Montreal, at least it seems to be that way according to my own observations. This is the only Moroccan that seems to be received in the Montreal area on LW. The target of Azilal 207 is always buried in NDB QRM; in fact, even marginary level audio wasn't heard (yet) from the Azilal RTM outlet on 207 kHz. Well... +JAN 3 0406 UTC - up to a very good peak right now (S5 over S7) playing a dance oriented raï vocal with exotic female voice Mon amour; only the chorus is in FF, the rest of the tune is in AA ! +JAN 3 0424 UTC - with a musical request toward two lovers with mention ...Florent Pagny sur Medi Un, then the soft-rock MoR vocal Savoir aimer by Florent Pagny recorded again in duo with FF-Canadian singer Isabelle Boulay, then the DJ greeted a Casablanca listener who requested a Raï duo. Good ! With the CATV disconnected from upstairs, the only QRN consists of a slight high-pitched growl, instead of the unbearable buzz that hammered reception on this channel (and many others) just a few days ago ! This appears to be bilingual AA/FF px with musical request of mainly more or less upbeat FF/EE/SS/AA songs. +JAN 3 0452 UTC - almost completly lost due to tx-site sunrise, but still hanging on with trad. AA mx ! (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg JAN 2 0345-0903+ UTC - ending the nighttime talk show talking about the helpful relationship between animals and criminals or autistic children (zootherapy). Then at 0400, Europe 1 Info begun with the announcement of some astonishing events, for exemple the burning of cars around the 31th of December with the burning rate being 30% higher than the past year (1147 cars were fired up ! according to the Europe 1 anncr.) and also some strange weather notes about the current temprature in the eastern suburbs of Paris which was -8C. Weird, as the Gulf Stream should make exceptionnal anything under 0 C, EVEN AT THIS time of the year ! Very good and still hanging on at a poor level at 0903 UTC (03:03 AM EST). This was the loudest broadcast signal on LW, while RUV-189 was apparently knocked out by the semi-auroral condx... Still surprised to get this as even regular MW TAs such as Spain-585 were absent and Colombia-770 made several showings burrying the NYC powerhouse, WABC. +JAN 3 2355 - Very strong w/ end of a talkshow about wife complaining that their husbands or boyfriends are too much into music (just like me!), then an ugly FF chansonnette leading to the end of the show, followed by nx, sx and wx, then Si vous devez nous écouter sur les Grandes Ondes, rendez-vous maintenant sur la FM closing annc of the Germany-183 tx, then Europe 1, Europe 1 singed jingle, then switched abruptly to dead air after the first tone of a coming song, then off the air for good leaving only a SLIGHT amount of powerlines-like noise... Seems
[HCDX] the latest LW/MW DX logs in semi-auroral condx
Season's greetings to all of you ! Make sure 2009 will make falling asleep more natural without the ever-present temptation of turning your radio on and of getting out of bed by pure curiosity during the last few seconds it takes to disconnect from the DXer friendly world ! This resumes well what I did three nights ago. DXing, DXing and...again DXing, turning up and down both the LW and MW bands until around 5 o'clock when I couldn't stand any sound other than my own breath ! A new way to start 2009 was to relog 1 or 2 seldom heard Latins during semi-auroral condx, while DXing wasn't really above-average, but promising, though promising in vain as tonight was extremely poor for both Latin MW and TA LW DX and the moderate CME didn't turned my Montreal area QTH into a concrete based house with concrete roof and a big window near the radio toward the south... Well, into the logs !... Trans-Atlantic DX 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis JAN 2 0607 UTC - noted in passing with morning show in FF at a good level through moderate computer-like QRN. + JAN 3 0628 - promo for Comment voyager... trip and adventure-related px - dimanche sur France Inter, then extensive traffic weather reports, followed by a short newscast about a 6 months jail sentenced for a youngster who stoled a car, etc. Very good to fair. SINPO 45332 +JAN 3 0855 - w/ talk about the real value of life, then greetings to the sociologist who made the speech, extensive traffic and eather annc, time pips during the weather, then jingle leading to nx. (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador JAN 3 0355 UTC - at tune-in w/ a raï number followed by warm comments by the DJ who introduced, both in FF AA, the latest track by HJ singer Juanes (which seems popular worldwide, even in my native Romania). SINPO 35343 with a fair signal and very minor high-pitched growl from a computer or from several computers in the neighborhood. The best LW broadcast signal this evening ! When this one, usually 9575 isn't propagated and vice-versa. 9575 is better during the greyline and 171 way before sunrise at the tx-site and way after sunset in Montreal, at least it seems to be that way according to my own observations. This is the only Moroccan that seems to be received in the Montreal area on LW. The target of Azilal 207 is always buried in NDB QRM; in fact, even marginary level audio wasn't heard (yet) from the Azilal RTM outlet on 207 kHz. Well... +JAN 3 0406 UTC - up to a very good peak right now (S5 over S7) playing a dance oriented raï vocal with exotic female voice Mon amour; only the chorus is in FF, the rest of the tune is in AA ! +JAN 3 0424 UTC - with a musical request toward two lovers with mention ...Florent Pagny sur Medi Un, then the soft-rock MoR vocal Savoir aimer by Florent Pagny recorded again in duo with FF-Canadian singer Isabelle Boulay, then the DJ greeted a Casablanca listener who requested a Raï duo. Good ! With the CATV disconnected from upstairs, the only QRN consists of a slight high-pitched growl, instead of the unbearable buzz that hammered reception on this channel (and many others) just a few days ago ! This appears to be bilingual AA/FF px with musical request of mainly more or less upbeat FF/EE/SS/AA songs. +JAN 3 0452 UTC - almost completly lost due to tx-site sunrise, but still hanging on with trad. AA mx ! (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg JAN 2 0345-0903+ UTC - ending the nighttime talk show talking about the helpful relationship between animals and criminals or autistic children (zootherapy). Then at 0400, Europe 1 Info begun with the announcement of some astonishing events, for exemple the burning of cars around the 31th of December with the burning rate being 30% higher than the past year (1147 cars were fired up ! according to the Europe 1 anncr.) and also some strange weather notes about the current temprature in the eastern suburbs of Paris which was -8C. Weird, as the Gulf Stream should make exceptionnal anything under 0 C, EVEN AT THIS time of the year ! Very good and still hanging on at a poor level at 0903 UTC (03:03 AM EST). This was the loudest broadcast signal on LW, while RUV-189 was apparently knocked out by the semi-auroral condx... Still surprised to get this as even regular MW TAs such as Spain-585 were absent and Colombia-770 made several showings burrying the NYC powerhouse, WABC. +JAN 3 2355 - Very strong w/ end of a talkshow about wife complaining that their husbands or boyfriends are too much into music (just like me!), then an ugly FF chansonnette leading to the end of the show, followed by nx, sx and wx, then Si vous devez nous écouter sur les Grandes Ondes, rendez-vous maintenant sur la FM closing annc of the Germany-183 tx, then Europe 1, Europe 1 singed jingle, then switched abruptly to dead air after the first tone of a coming song, then off the air for good leaving only a SLIGHT amount of powerlines-like noise... Seems
[HCDX] LW TAs are imrpooving tonight, but MW ones are still inexsitent
Hello to all of you ! While MW TAs seems inexistent tonight, nothing on 1107, 1134, 1143, 1503, 1494 or 585 on the low-band (the only low-band TA channel I actually listened), things are promising on LW with Algeria-252 (actually on 253 kHz in AM Narrow Mode to avoid UL-248 out of Montreal), Iceland-189, Morocco-171 (killed by the awful computer-like noise that moved from 189) and a very good France-162. Also, I have something on 153 kHz. It's the 2nd time, since I own the PK's Shielded Magnetic LW loop that I get a signal on 153 ! May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefonds-Montreal, QC-PQ ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] Medi Un
Warm greetings ! In the case you weren't aware, Medi Un is streaming live. You can check out their live stream by vistiting www.medi1.com/ and choosing the listening live option. However, the audio is ridicuosly low. On SW 9575 which is coming randomly right now, sometimes good / often poor-fair, the sound is more powerful and on LW they weren't too far from local strength the past evening, here in the Montreal area. The stream is almost annying, as you really can't enjoy the sound. So one more reason to DX Medi 1, instead of listening to them over the web. May the good DX keeps you in good mood through 2009 ! Bogdan Chiochiu ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] best antenna for TROPICAL BANDS DXing
Warm greetings and season greetings ! After the huge success of the PK's Magnetic LW loop antenna, I wonder what aerial should I use for a forray into the SW tropical bands of 90 and 60 meters. I was alwas fascinated by broadcast bands used only in some parts of the world such as LW, OIRT-FM, the tropical bands, the X-band, the Japanese FM band, etc. because is like being born again into another world. I receive very few exotic signals on 60m using my Sangean CST-818 connected to a random wire in our yard of roughly 10 - 20 meters of length... An antenna dedicated to the tropical bands would be the best gift for me 22nd year of birthday (with the possible exception of an OIRT-FM tuner since the F2 may exceptionally reach these frequencies and OIRT-FM F2 skip is much more likely than Japanese FM F2 skip, let alone CCIR-FM F2 skip) which takes place the next 16th of July, more than 6 months away, but we can even celebrate our non-birthday according to Charles Lutwidge Dodgson / Lewis Carroll's caracters. May the good DX comeback, as condx aren't even half-decent right now ! Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefonds-Roxboro (Pierrefonds-est in the eastern border of Montreal's West Island), QC - PQ ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] IRAN-1503
Warm greetings ! No...nope, it's not a log (of course, not !), rather just a wonder... A question for Sylvain Naud that any TA nuts could answer: when is the best time of the day for hearing Middle Eastern MW outlets such as IRIB-1503... I found a tape of Croatia-1134 heard on the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot which was sometimes good and it opened up my appetite for TA MW DXing, since TA LW DXing is way too easy... Also, is IRIB-1503 the best bet for Iran ? Is 1566 easier for those living away from WQEW-1560 and CFAV-1570 ? May the good DX keeps your afternoon warmer than the weather itself ! Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island), PQ - QC ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] Aurora...or NOT !
France Inter still hanging on RIGHT NOW... I think all this active condx are a joke... May the good DX not let you run away from the sleep ! Bogdan - Original Message - From: aurel chiochiu To: latinm...@yahoogroups.com ; m...@yahoogroups.com Cc: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 2:26 AM Subject: Aurora...or NOT ! Solar activity was very low. No flares were observed. The visible disk was spotless. Solar activity is expected to be very low. Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to active levels. ACE solar wind measurements indicated a recurrent coronal hole high-speed stream began early in the summary period. Velocities gradually increased from 305 to 559 km/sec during the period. IMF changes associated with the transition to the high-speed stream included increased Bt (peak 17 nT at 31/Z) and intermittent periods of southward Bz (minimum -16 nT at 31/0131Z). Well all of this is doing little to me; LW are stronger than ever, I got my 2nd best reception of Europe 1 ever and France-162 is quite good too... However, something is happening as 1) Iceland-189 is inexistent tonight (it's a high-latitude path), this being stronger than Europe 1 during the early mornings AND there is (there was a few minutes ago, but they faded) SOME LITTLE enhancement on Latins, Coro-780 got good and listenable, the 1 kW Rebelde outlet on 610 kHz was briefly good instead of the more elusive YVXY, YVSE or the Voz de la Cultura public broadcaster out of Colombia... But, WABC on 770 is also very strong splattering onto Coro with WBBM completly nulled out. I even have taped a nice play with the radio, as I turned it on and off, switching between Coro and Chicago. But, nothing to really get excited about. I begun to get tired of Coro-780 and Barranquilla-760, I would like to log some REGIONAL YVs in the upper 1300s and 1400s, for this Europe would be a better QTHs, because the high angle of short-skip from east coast domestics aren't overwhelming and, correct me if I'm wrong, there are fewer stations in Europe than in the USA and fewer DRM operations than IBOC ones... It is still strange Uruguay and Carúpano, estado Sucre, YV-land are regular on 1470 along with CPN Radio, Lima, Peru, while there are decades since Peru was last logged within the USA, but there are obvious reasons for this, of course... What I can do right now is only wait, auroral condx may be slow to start, but the CME will still going on tomorrow as well... It stay January 1st AND 2nd, so let's try to sleep and wait until tonight (we ARE Januery 2nd) or let's enjoy the not-so-auroral condx and try to scan the LW band which works better when average or above-average high-latitude paths are in progress. A full repport may come tomorrow or if not tomorrow during the week-end. Tomorrow, I hope to show some LW and MW DX to a friend from school... May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan in Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island) ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] WNNZ-640 again on daytime power
Hello ! Shortly before 4 PM, thei signal appeared to be fading out, but now since a few minutes they are extremely strong once again with the NPR feed. Are they are having any IBOC QRM issues for switching from daytime power to nightone around 4 o'clock, then back to daytime power at 5 ? Is WFAN-660 IBOC an issue 20 kHz away from their channel ? I'm afraid to loose 640 as a great Caribbean DX opportunity and 639 as a slim opportunity for Spain-639 which I've never heard (yet)... May the good DX keeps your ears in perfect health during 2009 ! Bogdan Chiochiu ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] Aurora...or NOT !
Solar activity was very low. No flares were observed. The visible disk was spotless. Solar activity is expected to be very low. Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to active levels. ACE solar wind measurements indicated a recurrent coronal hole high-speed stream began early in the summary period. Velocities gradually increased from 305 to 559 km/sec during the period. IMF changes associated with the transition to the high-speed stream included increased Bt (peak 17 nT at 31/Z) and intermittent periods of southward Bz (minimum -16 nT at 31/0131Z). Well all of this is doing little to me; LW are stronger than ever, I got my 2nd best reception of Europe 1 ever and France-162 is quite good too... However, something is happening as 1) Iceland-189 is inexistent tonight (it's a high-latitude path), this being stronger than Europe 1 during the early mornings AND there is (there was a few minutes ago, but they faded) SOME LITTLE enhancement on Latins, Coro-780 got good and listenable, the 1 kW Rebelde outlet on 610 kHz was briefly good instead of the more elusive YVXY, YVSE or the Voz de la Cultura public broadcaster out of Colombia... But, WABC on 770 is also very strong splattering onto Coro with WBBM completly nulled out. I even have taped a nice play with the radio, as I turned it on and off, switching between Coro and Chicago. But, nothing to really get excited about. I begun to get tired of Coro-780 and Barranquilla-760, I would like to log some REGIONAL YVs in the upper 1300s and 1400s, for this Europe would be a better QTHs, because the high angle of short-skip from east coast domestics aren't overwhelming and, correct me if I'm wrong, there are fewer stations in Europe than in the USA and fewer DRM operations than IBOC ones... It is still strange Uruguay and Carúpano, estado Sucre, YV-land are regular on 1470 along with CPN Radio, Lima, Peru, while there are decades since Peru was last logged within the USA, but there are obvious reasons for this, of course... What I can do right now is only wait, auroral condx may be slow to start, but the CME will still going on tomorrow as well... It stay January 1st AND 2nd, so let's try to sleep and wait until tonight (we ARE Januery 2nd) or let's enjoy the not-so-auroral condx and try to scan the LW band which works better when average or above-average high-latitude paths are in progress. A full repport may come tomorrow or if not tomorrow during the week-end. Tomorrow, I hope to show some LW and MW DX to a friend from school... May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan in Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island) ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] foreign LW/MW DX loggings (DEC 27 - DEC 31, 2008)
Season's greetings and happy holidays ! A check with the computer on and off revealed that is not that much a computer problem as is a cable leakage, the cable leakage is disturbing the radio, placing the PK's Magnetic LW loop right over the cable and the noise is awful, semi-local like ! We need to switch our computer here upstairs from cable leakage to WiFi, otherwise even the strong signals on LW are difficult to listen to... May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan - Original Message - From: Albert Muick radioresearch_field_operati...@yahoo.com To: 'aurel chiochiu' a...@videotron.ca Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 10:57 PM Subject: RE: [HCDX] foreign LW/MW DX loggings (DEC 27 - DEC 31, 2008) Hi Aurel, Is it your own computer which is causing you these problems? If so, you may consider purchasing a new case for it that is electrically sealed or TEMPEST certified. This can reduce the QRM by a good amount or even eliminate it in some cases. The problem is that it is expensive. Another problem is the electrical insulation of the case of your radio. Most portables are poorly insulated, and usually only expensive comms receivers or the software-defined radios have the appropriate amount of insulation to stop the problem. Hope this helps! Best 73, Al Muick Kabul, Afghanistan -Original Message- From: hard-core-dx-boun...@hard-core-dx.com [mailto:hard-core-dx-boun...@hard-core-dx.com] On Behalf Of aurel chiochiu Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 7:48 AM To: condigl...@yahoogroups.com; nrci...@aol.com; m...@yahoogroups.com; hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Cc: fk...@yahoo.fr; latinm...@yahoogroups.com; pepe8...@hotmail.com; christophe genaudeau; ve2...@yahoo.com; baco...@aol.com; jrtrevi...@free.fr; SOAD BENKIRANE; Perez Ricardo; moy thierry; markwa1...@aol.com; olivier.tequi; ashley pp; pklo...@bigpond.net.au; bourdeau_annemari...@hotmail.com; o_p_nimig...@yahoo.com Subject: [HCDX] foreign LW/MW DX loggings (DEC 27 - DEC 31, 2008) Warm greetings to all of you and may your best whises come true during the upcoming 2009 ! While conditions toward both the TAs and the LAs were way below average, there was 1 exception (see it below). Also, condx on LW may not be that bad, but local buzz is stronger than ever and almost unnulable using the PK's Magnetic Shield loop which is a quiet environment should be almost perfect (though the low frequency isn't quite right on 150 kHz, when I choose to apmilify the lowest frequency, France-162 along with some local buzz is boosted, but I can't say the same about 153 which is only slightly amplified, but the most important issue isn't the antenna which is almost perfect, but the ever-going buzz which is stronger than ever). On MW, I get computer-related QRM on frequency I rarely heard such as 780, even WBBM is difficult to listen to due to that. Well into the logs (made by Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu in Pierrefonds / Montreal, QC using the Sangean CST-818 and the PK's Magnetic LW loop along with the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot): Trans-Atlantic DX: 162 FRANCE, France Inter, Allouis DEC 30 2223 - French talk at a fair level but completly subdued by excellent-level buzz that completly disturbed anything else other than local NDBs ! (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MOROCCO, Medi Un, Nador DEC 30 2346 - playing a wide variety of Arabic mx (traditionnal as well as Dance), jingle and apparent TOH ID in Arabic, then nx. Good signal, but difficult to listen to due to an annoying buzz. SINPO 44242 (Chiochiu-QC) 189 ICELAND, RUV, Gufuskalar DEC 30 2346 - with an eclectic set of music, mostly jazz and man talk in Icelandic. Fair with severe noise. SINPO 35132. (Chiochiu-QC) 225 POLAND, Raszyn DEC 30 2354 - with Slavic rock music at a very good level, above the buzz; the best LW signal this evening, surprisingly since it is very far from the Atlantic coast ! SINPO 55332 (Chiochiu-QC) 252 ALGERIA, Alger Chaîne 3, Tipaza DEC 28 0012 - plaintive AA male vocal then unreadable FF talk, very poor and best in AM Narrow mode on 253 rather than on 252 to avoid QRM from the local UL beacon on 248 kHz. The buzz wasn't too much annoying above 189 kHz. SINPO 23422. (Chiochiu-QC) Pan-American DX 550 VENEZUELA, Mundial YVKE, Caracas, Distrito Federal DEC 27 0130 - End of a monologue by a woman, then ID Mundial YVKE de la mano con el pueblo followed by a program of semi-traditionnal / semi-popular Latin American music. Among the tunes played, the last one was a number done by a Cuban trobador which ...ha sido reconocido en el mundo entero. Slightly under an unID jazz music domestic (the fairly weak Waterbury, VT semi-local WEVD w/ some unusual px ?) during the monologue, but very good and atop during most of the LAm mx px, then shortly after the beginning of the Cuban song, faded down and never cameback with at least a half-decent strenght. First time this season ! A nice surprise, given the awful conditions toward Latin America, even toward Cuba ! Adjacent channel ZIZ-555
[HCDX] WNNZ on 640 is using daytime pattern
Warm greetings to all of you and season's greetings ! WNNZ (Westfield, MA) is using daytime power on 640. I can barely null it off the back of my Sanyo MCD-S830's ferrite bar loop to pick up the Toronto station or something else. They are semi-local like, at least as strong as WVMT is on 620 from Burlington, VT. They are relaying NPR, I just heard an ID for WFCR 88.5 which it simulcasts. A quick research over Google relayed that is indeed WNNZ and not a new semi-local nightmare. An aurora should take care of this guys even on daytime power, since their groundwave signal is THRESHOLD and aurora leaves only groundwave from domestics and skywave from southern domestics, Caribbeans and Latins. I guess the chief engineer of WNNZ is buzy on New Year's Eve. As far as the px content goes, they talk about the issues concerning the Israel - Palestinian conflict among other items ! If anyone in Europe needs WNNZ-640 or MA as a state (since WBZ-1030 is beaming away from Europe at night) or, if your are like me a foreign DXer with some limited short-skip DXing too, go, get that one. A few days ago, it's CFRA-580 who forgot their daytime rig one... May the good DX bless your ears and fullfill your New Year's Eve party ! Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefonds / Montreal, QC Btw.: Maybe it can reach Venezuela with YVQO Unión Radio nulled out; YVQO is a regular during, at least, semi-auroral condx; otherwise WNNZ, CFYR and CMBC are jamming the channel. It appears that even Guadeloupe would be possible once again on 640 during the right condx... ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] [mwdx] WNNZ on 640 is using daytime pattern
[edit] WNNZ WFCR provides a full-time NPR news/talk programming feed to WNNZ, 640 kHz, licensed to Westfield, Massachusetts, which is owned by Clear Channel Communications. WFCR is providing the station's programming, and Clear Channel is selling underwriting advertisements.[1] [2] The programming now heard on WNNZ was moved in 2007 from WPNI, 1430 kHz, in Amherst. [edit] - Original Message - From: aurel chiochiu To: m...@yahoogroups.com Cc: Jorge Garcÿeda ; Sylvain Naud ; hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 6:45 PM Subject: [mwdx] WNNZ on 640 is using daytime pattern Warm greetings to all of you and season's greetings ! WNNZ (Westfield, MA) is using daytime power on 640. I can barely null it off the back of my Sanyo MCD-S830's ferrite bar loop to pick up the Toronto station or something else. They are semi-local like, at least as strong as WVMT is on 620 from Burlington, VT. They are relaying NPR, I just heard an ID for WFCR 88.5 which it simulcasts. A quick research over Google relayed that is indeed WNNZ and not a new semi-local nightmare. An aurora should take care of this guys even on daytime power, since their groundwave signal is THRESHOLD and aurora leaves only groundwave from domestics and skywave from southern domestics, Caribbeans and Latins. I guess the chief engineer of WNNZ is buzy on New Year's Eve. As far as the px content goes, they talk about the issues concerning the Israel - Palestinian conflict among other items ! If anyone in Europe needs WNNZ-640 or MA as a state (since WBZ-1030 is beaming away from Europe at night) or, if your are like me a foreign DXer with some limited short-skip DXing too, go, get that one. A few days ago, it's CFRA-580 who forgot their daytime rig one... May the good DX bless your ears and fullfill your New Year's Eve party ! Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefonds / Montreal, QC Btw.: Maybe it can reach Venezuela with YVQO Unión Radio nulled out; YVQO is a regular during, at least, semi-auroral condx; otherwise WNNZ, CFYR and CMBC are jamming the channel. It appears that even Guadeloupe would be possible once again on 640 during the right condx... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Members | Calendar Post message:m...@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: mwdx-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: mwdx-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com List owner: mwdx-ow...@yahoogroups.com MARKETPLACE -- From kitchen basics to easy recipes - join the Group from Kraft Foods Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch format to Traditional Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe Recent Activity a.. 1New Members Visit Your Group Sitebuilder Build a web site quickly easily with Sitebuilder. All-Bran Day 10 Club on Yahoo! Groups Feel better with fiber. Y! Groups blog the best source for the latest scoop on Groups. . __,_._,___ ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] Ireland-252
It's a shame I had nothing for LW when Atlantic 252 was on, since Ireland is pretty well right now, better on 253 in AM Narrow Mode rather than on 252 in AM Wide mode due to UL beacon on 248 from Montreal. May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu Btw.: I still have a few Atlantic 252 airchecks to share with you if you are interested... If you have any Atlantic 252 airchecks, please let me know... ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] foreign LW/MW DX loggings (DEC 27 - DEC 31, 2008)
Warm greetings to all of you and may your best whises come true during the upcoming 2009 ! While conditions toward both the TAs and the LAs were way below average, there was 1 exception (see it below). Also, condx on LW may not be that bad, but local buzz is stronger than ever and almost unnulable using the PK's Magnetic Shield loop which is a quiet environment should be almost perfect (though the low frequency isn't quite right on 150 kHz, when I choose to apmilify the lowest frequency, France-162 along with some local buzz is boosted, but I can't say the same about 153 which is only slightly amplified, but the most important issue isn't the antenna which is almost perfect, but the ever-going buzz which is stronger than ever). On MW, I get computer-related QRM on frequency I rarely heard such as 780, even WBBM is difficult to listen to due to that. Well into the logs (made by Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu in Pierrefonds / Montreal, QC using the Sangean CST-818 and the PK's Magnetic LW loop along with the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot): Trans-Atlantic DX: 162 FRANCE, France Inter, Allouis DEC 30 2223 - French talk at a fair level but completly subdued by excellent-level buzz that completly disturbed anything else other than local NDBs ! (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MOROCCO, Medi Un, Nador DEC 30 2346 - playing a wide variety of Arabic mx (traditionnal as well as Dance), jingle and apparent TOH ID in Arabic, then nx. Good signal, but difficult to listen to due to an annoying buzz. SINPO 44242 (Chiochiu-QC) 189 ICELAND, RUV, Gufuskalar DEC 30 2346 - with an eclectic set of music, mostly jazz and man talk in Icelandic. Fair with severe noise. SINPO 35132. (Chiochiu-QC) 225 POLAND, Raszyn DEC 30 2354 - with Slavic rock music at a very good level, above the buzz; the best LW signal this evening, surprisingly since it is very far from the Atlantic coast ! SINPO 55332 (Chiochiu-QC) 252 ALGERIA, Alger Chaîne 3, Tipaza DEC 28 0012 - plaintive AA male vocal then unreadable FF talk, very poor and best in AM Narrow mode on 253 rather than on 252 to avoid QRM from the local UL beacon on 248 kHz. The buzz wasn't too much annoying above 189 kHz. SINPO 23422. (Chiochiu-QC) Pan-American DX 550 VENEZUELA, Mundial YVKE, Caracas, Distrito Federal DEC 27 0130 - End of a monologue by a woman, then ID Mundial YVKE de la mano con el pueblo followed by a program of semi-traditionnal / semi-popular Latin American music. Among the tunes played, the last one was a number done by a Cuban trobador which ...ha sido reconocido en el mundo entero. Slightly under an unID jazz music domestic (the fairly weak Waterbury, VT semi-local WEVD w/ some unusual px ?) during the monologue, but very good and atop during most of the LAm mx px, then shortly after the beginning of the Cuban song, faded down and never cameback with at least a half-decent strenght. First time this season ! A nice surprise, given the awful conditions toward Latin America, even toward Cuba ! Adjacent channel ZIZ-555 unheard since at least a week, so condx toward the Caribbean are as abysmal as the ones toward northern South America (the only area of South America with reliable reception on MW at night in North America outside the primetime coastal areas such as MA, ME, NS or NF !). (Chiochiu-QC) 570 CUBA, CMDC, Radio Reloj, Pilón DEC 30 0746 - RR code ID was able to get through WSYR Syracruse where the host was talking about the fire of Hell and of volcanoes on Coast-to-Coast AM. When intelligible audio comes from this, condx are at least decent, so they aren't even average toward Latin America yet. SINPO 41521; at least the computers are off late at night, so the high pitched growl usually on the low side of 570 wasn't audible, hence a N factor of 5 over 5. (Chiochiu-QC) 600 CUBA, CMKV, Radio Rebelde, Urbano Norris DEC 30 0546 - w/ old-fashionned Cuban mx // SW 5025 briefly poking through WICC/CKAT/others. This used to be a pest, sometimes stronger than 670 and 710, now it sounds like rare DX. (Chiochiu-QC) 640 CUBA, CMBC, Radio Progreso, Guanabacoa DEC 30 0514 - assuming this station from hearing it quite well during better condx with trop. LAm mx under 1 or 2 domestics. SINPO 22512 with no computer noise after midnight. (Chiochiu-QC) 670 CUBA, CMBA, Radio Rebelde, Arroyo Arrenas DEC 29 0211 - faded up nice and clear with medium level splatter from CINF-690 while WFAN's side-band IBOC hash faded down. I sadly miss Radio Rumbos which was my first YV on MW ! I guess I'll never hear it again unless I move farther from Cuba, New York and Montreal ! (Chiochiu-QC) 750 VENEZUELA, YVKS, Caracas, Distrito Federal DEC 29 0043 - station's promos leading to a program about sociology, an interesting topic seldom broadcasted over talkradio anywhere (if anyone has sociology features broadcasted by AVENTURE FM in Paris on 105.9 MHz - which merged into MaXXimum on the 23rd of October of 1989, pleaselet me know),
[HCDX] VENEZUELA
Hello ! A loud buzz which was heard during most of the evening on LW and on some spots on MW below 800 along with high-pitched computer QRN on channels such as 780 is keeping me away from the radio dials tonight; so I'm using my free time to ask for a reliable list of ALL THE VENEZUELAN MW STATIONS FOR EACH ESTADO... I had such a list on the walls of my bedroom several years ago, but my parents accidently put it into the garbage... I only heard 6 or 7 states yet using my fairly limited setup and would like to heard at least half of them, since all of 23/24 (depending on how you feel of the Distrito Federal estado) are very slim (though more likely than hearing the whole 50 US states)... Queridos amigos, me gustaría conseguir una lista de todas las emisoras radiales YV que transmiten en amplitud modulada desde cada estado con sús potencias y que se nos olvidan sú frecuencia. La lista publicada por el gobierno es inactiva. ¡ Que se los recuerdan que los que no respectan a la Ley Resorte van a volver prohibida por el gobierno bolivariano (yo digo eso de manera chistosa - estoy de acuerdo con el 50% de música venezolana, pero por los menos la media parte - al menos 25% de 100% música - de estar música de tradición es odioso - una emisora de pop juvenil como La Mega Estación 107.3 en Caracas y 89.7 en Valle de Pascua estado Guarico no tiene nada que hacer con Simon Díaz o Un Solo Pueblo) ! ¡ Muchísimas gracias por sús respuestas y lo siento para haber sido tan fánatico de la patria de Simon Bolivar - solamente lo siento para no haber podido hacer una jornada hacia la patria bolivariana ya ! Bogdan Chiochiu ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] computer-like growl and LW DX
Warm greetings AND season's greetings to all of you ! I'm right now listening to France-162 at 0740 UTC with a fairly annoying growl in the background with the PK's Magnetic LW loop set to null out the buzz that is usually destroying reception on frequencies below 200 kHz. The signal is still quite easy to understand (the economical status of France vs other European countries, the duties of Nicolas Sarkozy, etc.) because it is quite strong AND because dawn enhancement at the Allouis transmitter site is undergoing right now, but on other channels the growl is unbearable ie. 171 with Medi Un already faded out. Nothing from Spain on either 1134, 585 or 1143, in fact COPE on 1143 was never heard even though WRVA in Richmond, VA was always easy to null out at my location in the Montreal area. May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu (even though I'm using the Aurel Chiochiu's e-mail address instead of my MSN account) ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] foreign LW/MW/SW DX logs (DEC 22 - DEC 26, 2008)
Repport from: Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu DX'ing from Pierrefonds-Roxboro / Montreal's West Island using the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot for MW and the Sangean CST-818 with the battery-powered PK's Magnetic LW loop for LW Trans-Atlantic DX: 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis DEC 22 0205 - woman reading poems with a dramatic voice, followed up by 1 or 2 FF electropop numbers, then a feature about an African immigrant coming to Paris followed by corny African Jazz-Ethno music, then talk about the true nature of coupé-décallé (conteporary rhythmic music originating from the Ivory Coast), mainly using major chords, though using minor ones too at times) which puts you in a Trance without un philtre d'amour. Generally very good, but local computer-like QRM maked understandibility partial especially during the poem reading when the signal was slightly lower. In any event, best ever reception of this station ! The new battery (which already weakened) definitely allowed the PK's Magnetic LW loop to be the perfect choice ! +162 DEC 25 0005 - End of newscast, then into a discussion w/ a religious zealot about what is the church's position on the economical crisis which is shaking the Earth right now. Fair-good and listenable in spite of some moderate growl, likely from a computer in the neighborhood. Best reception was on 164 in AM Narrow Mode to avoid the computer-QRM which was stronger around 161 kHz (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MAROCCO Medi Un, Nador DEC 22 0407 - about one hour later after getting France-162, I had my best reception of these guys with broadcast announcement in French (station's identity, frequency, etc.), probably talking about the upcoming FF language px (this station is bilingual), but it was so chopped... Poor-fair with severe computer-like QRM. I see old repports about the GWEN, what the Groundwave Emergency Network is all about ? Noises, morse, voice utility signals or computer-like noise ? All the repports I saw are in the Mark Connelly's IDXD archive from the 1990s... (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg (Saarlouis) DEC 22 0330 - fired their tx on about this time. I heard that Europe 1 is 24h on FM and broadcasts from 0230-2300 UTC on LW or something like that. First heard with a half electropop half acoustic Afropop tune by Amadou et Mariam, then the announcer was complementing their work saying in French they found the right balance between African and Occidental music. Then into the analysis of an english-speaking singer singing like Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston that was fairly obscure to me. Weird to have African music-related features on two differents FF stations ! Huge with very little in the way of deep fadings and absolutely no local computer or beacon QRM at all on this frequency as the PK's Magnetic loop seems unsensitive to overload from strong pests such as CINF-690 or CFAV-1570 ! This and Iceland-189 were the best LWers the past evening ! +DEC 22 0550 - mentioning the journalist Emmanuel Maubert which worked for AVENTURE FM back in 1988. Is anyone having any airchecks of Aventure FM which switched to MaXXimum-M40-RTL1-RTL2 afterwards ? +DEC 23 - start of a talkshow, part of it dealed with the reality of a lesbian who forced herself to marry because she wanted kids and the psy didn't understand her (when he meet it 20+ years ago). Huge, the best TA LW signal at this time ! (Chiochiu-QC) 189 ICELAND RUV - Rikisutvarpid, Gufuskalar DEC 22 0225 - Man in Icelandic making some comments in between obscure musical selections that sounded like a gothic version of mid-1950's rockabilly with Icelandic lyrics. (Iceland, despite it's small size and small population, has a rich musical industry). Good, slightly weaker than Europe 1 on 1983 which was VERY good, but the best was yet to come. +DEC 22 0800+ - after a good movie watched past midnight and all that astonishing DX couldn't sleep, so fired the Sangean CST-818 / PK's Magnetic LW loop combo once again. France-162 was still fair and partially readable in spite of computer-like high-pitched growl and this one was EXCELLENT, semi-local-like and unbelievable with, at this time, mainly two men and occasionally a woman in Icelandic with two or three songs sqeezed in between the talk segments of their program. The chatter was partly music-related, I think, as I recognized the rock and blues words. At the end of one of the talk segments, heard a man making his voice softer and the other one said a word ressembling English Thank You and German Danke! (Icelandic is a Germanic language and have small ressemblance with both English and, especially, German - Bogdan). After the Danke-like word, 4 seconds break, then a classical interlude with beautifol trompett sounding like Bolero de Ravel. Our dog was sitting in the bed and as the classical trompett-based interlude began, he jumped toward the radio... So it seems we have a second DXer in our house. (Our dog was treated
Re: [HCDX] holiday wishes, good DX and season's greetings
De plus, k'espère que l'année 2009 sera le moment idéal pour renouer avec vos projets entamés en 2008 ! A+ Bogdan - Original Message - From: aurel chiochiu To: o_p_nimig...@yahoo.com ; ve2...@yahoo.com ; fk...@yahoo.fr ; bro...@yahoo.com ; Tudor M. Vedeanu ; moy thierry ; playdx2...@yahoogroups.com ; Perez Ricardo ; condigl...@yahoogroups.com ; m...@yahoogroups.com Cc: pklo...@bigpond.net.au ; jrtrevi...@free.fr ; hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com ; ve2...@yahoo.com ; latinm...@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 6:02 PM Subject: holiday wishes, good DX and season's greetings Dear DXers, friends and life's camarade, I would like to take this opportunity for wishing all your dreams come true or at least most of them and this holiday's season is productive as far as the best DX is concerned, me gustaría enviar a todos ustedes toda la cordialidad equivocada por mis saludos, los cuales reflejan un respecto de fuerza mayor - espero que los dentre ustedes que viven en Europa, España o Venezuela tienen también exito con las emisoras fuera del continente Va doresc mult success, dragi DXisti si sper ca încercati si voi sa captati posturi de peste mari si tari ori unde ati fi situati; încercati de pile pe 1470 kHz pe la 4-5 dimineata Radio Vibración din Venezuela din România - ar trebui se se-auda ceva J'éspère que vôtre DX est tout aussi rejouissant que vos enregistrements d'Aventure FM, la meilleure radio au monde, la radio la plus extrèmiste dans son anti-masochisme ! Pe curând, ma duc sa DXsti ! Viel Glück ! Bogdan Chiochiu L\'aventure jusqu\'au bout des ondes ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] holiday wishes, good DX and season's greetings
Dear DXers, friends and life's camarade, I would like to take this opportunity for wishing all your dreams come true or at least most of them and this holiday's season is productive as far as the best DX is concerned, me gustaría enviar a todos ustedes toda la cordialidad equivocada por mis saludos, los cuales reflejan un respecto de fuerza mayor - espero que los dentre ustedes que viven en Europa, España o Venezuela tienen también exito con las emisoras fuera del continente Va doresc mult success, dragi DXisti si sper ca încercati si voi sa captati posturi de peste mari si tari ori unde ati fi situati; încercati de pile pe 1470 kHz pe la 4-5 dimineata Radio Vibración din Venezuela din România - ar trebui se se-auda ceva J'éspère que vôtre DX est tout aussi rejouissant que vos enregistrements d'Aventure FM, la meilleure radio au monde, la radio la plus extrèmiste dans son anti-masochisme ! Pe curând, ma duc sa DXsti ! Viel Glück ! Bogdan Chiochiu L\'aventure jusqu\'au bout des ondes ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] foreign LW/MW/SW DX logs (DEC 22 - DEC 26, 2008)
Repport from: Bogdan Chiochiu DX'ing from Pierrefonds / Montreal's West Island, QC using the Sangean CST-818 and the Australian PK's Magnetic LW loop, also using the Sanyo-MCD-S830 boombox AM-FM-tape-CD receiver barefoot as well as the Sangean CST-818 with 15m random wire on SW Season greetings ! Trans-Atlantic DX 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis DEC 25 0005 - End of newscast, then into a discussion w/ a religious zealot about what is the church's position on the economical crisis which is shaking the Earth right now. Fair-good and listenable in spite of some moderate growl, likely from a computer in the neighborhood. Best reception was on 164 in AM Narrow Mode to avoid the computer-QRM which was stronger around 161 kHz (Chiochiu-QC - LW is very sensitive to computer, TVI and powerlines, much more than MW - Bogdan). 189 ICELAND RUV, Gufuskalar DEC 26 0628 - playing a wide variety of mx - Xmas mx, alternative rock, then switched to classical mx selections that included Chopin, then a man was heard mentioning Reykjavik. Fairly good SINPO 35343. (Chiochiu-QC) 198 UNITED KINGDOM BBC Radio 4, Droitwich DEC 24 - giving weather forecast for various QTH's within the UK, then a news item about Russia which is the biggest trade exporter in the World. The Russian news item, as well as the rest of the newscast was probably relayed from BBCWS. Fair. SINPO 35243-2. (Chiochiu-QC) 225 POLAND Polish Radio External Service, Raszyn DEC 23 0015 - Tentative ! Slavic talk and unID music almost barely getting though powerlines-like noise. SINPO 25222. Surprised to get this, as almost anything else was burried in powerline-like noise. (Chiochiu-QC) Bogdan speaks: after a brief amount of very slight solar activity, the solar activty went to extremely quiet once again, even though the Earth remained with a quiet high-spead coronal stream which in theory does enhance mediumwave Latins, but instead it maked LW reception almost unbearable. I tentatively logged Poland-225, but nothing else interesting a few days ago, then the past night things improoved. The best was Sunday night and early Monday mornings, when Iceland-189 was excellent and unheard-since RTL-234 was quite good in spite of NDB QRM. 585 SPAIN, Radio Nacional de España, Madrid DEC 22 0151 - female host talking very fast with his listeners in a rapid-fire way, very hyperactive chatter; couldn't pick up a word, maybe because of this and because in Spain the accents are tougher to follow on and to understand than in Cuba or Venezuela which I'm used to hear on MW and to a lesser extent on SW too. Very good signal though. SINPO 44422 faded away near the ToH to a very poor strenght. Best reception ever ! (Chiochiu-QC) Bogdan speaks: no other MW TAs heard despite several checks, although something on 603 or 612 was having a high fluttery growl, not sure at all if a TA het and no audio other than Spain-585. 9575 MOROCCO, Medi Un / Radio Méditerannée Internationale, Nador DEC 23 0556 - caught the end of the FF newscast with an item about a doctor judged for illegal practice of medecine, then music including Miles Away by Madonna and an AA rhythmic vocal by almost-certainly Nancy Arjam (a Libanese singer that achieved a certain level of popularity in North Africa as well in spite of the huge amount of raï listeners). Very good with little in the way of fades; I felt asleep listening to this and I when I woke before 11 AM local (before 1600 UTC) they were still hanging on at a fairly threshold level. An interesting phenomenon: when this is on, the supposed 171 // is either out or totally unreadable, when LW-171 is listenable, this one is absent. SINPO 44533. +DEC 23 2120 - playing sad RB tunes; very good with only slight splatter from Gabon-9580 in AM Wide mode which was considerably weaker (at a poor and fadey level). (Chiochiu-QC) Bogdan speaks once again: The nice presence of Spain-585 hasn't allowed me to go after the Europirates, even though LW and, especially, MW TAs are good beacons for lower-powered Europirates around 48m according to George Maroti. Pan-American DX 750 VENEZUELA YVKS, Radio Caracas Radio / RCR, Caracas, Distrito Federal DEC 23 around 0400 UTC - with a man announcer with a fairly serious voice talking about what the angeles did when they meet Jesus Christ at his birth, then, after this narrative rel. segment, a few canned IDs such as Usted escucha RCR, Radio Caracas Radio, 750 AM, ... during which it started to mix w/ WSB and fade away. SINPO 43523-2. How comes I couldn't follow the program content of Spain-585, yet Venezuela-750 was very listenable, at least for several minutes ? Spain-585 on DEC 21 at 0151 UTC was at about the same level as YVKS-750 on DEC 23 around 0400 UTC ! Are the mediumwave euros using slighter modulation than the NA and LAs ? Curiosity enquires ! (Chiochiu-QC) 760 COLOMBIA HJAJ, RCN Cadena Basíca, Barranquilla, departamiento del Atlantico
[HCDX] good LW DX
After a few instances of local noises, the LW band is clean once again with a VERY NICE signal out of France-162. However, a few days ago, in spite of severe noises on many LW and lower MW frequencies, I got definite slavic talk on 225, a channel I expected to be audible only on a Beverage, NOT on a LW Magnetic Loop... May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan in Pierrefonds / Montreal Btw.: Can the Saint-Lawrence river actually boost the signals and make Montreal a semi-coastal-like QTH ? I have been inland both in Montéregie and Lanaudière and the foreign DX was ALMOST inexistent save for a few short instances of SA reception in Lanaudière, although in Montéregie the Cubans were huge, the usual YVs (750, 780, etc.) were very threshold to inexistent... ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] foreign LW/MW DX logs from the past few hours
Repport from: Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu DX'ing from Pierrefonds-Roxboro / Montreal's West Island using the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot for MW and the Sangean CST-818 with the battery-powered PK's Magnetic LW loop for LW Trans-Atlantic DX: 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis DEC 22 0205 - woman reading poems with a dramatic voice, followed up by 1 or 2 FF electropop numbers, then a feature about an African immigrant coming to Paris followed by corny African Jazz-Ethno music, then talk about the true nature of coupé-décallé (conteporary rhythmic music originating from the Ivory Coast), mainly using major chords, though using minor ones too at times) which puts you in a Trance without un philtre d'amour. Generally very good, but local computer-like QRM maked understandibility partial especially during the poem reading when the signal was slightly lower. In any event, best ever reception of this station ! The new battery (which already weakened) definitely allowed the PK's Magnetic LW loop to be the perfect choice ! (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MAROCCO Medi Un, Nador DEC 22 0407 - about one hour later after getting France-162, I had my best reception of these guys with broadcast announcement in French (station's identity, frequency, etc.), probably talking about the upcoming FF language px (this station is bilingual), but it was so chopped... Poor-fair with severe computer-like QRM. I see old repports about the GWEN, what the Groundwave Emergency Network is all about ? Noises, morse, voice utility signals or computer-like noise ? All the repports I saw are in the Mark Connelly's IDXD archive from the 1990s... (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg (Saarlouis) DEC 22 0330 - fired their tx on about this time. I heard that Europe 1 is 24h on FM and broadcasts from 0230-2300 UTC on LW or something like that. First heard with a half electropop half acoustic Afropop tune by Amadou et Mariam, then the announcer was complementing their work saying in French they found the right balance between African and Occidental music. Then into the analysis of an english-speaking singer singing like Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston that was fairly obscure to me. Weird to have African music-related features on two differents FF stations ! Huge with very little in the way of deep fadings and absolutely no local computer or beacon QRM at all on this frequency as the PK's Magnetic loop seems unsensitive to overload from strong pests such as CINF-690 or CFAV-1570 ! This and Iceland-189 were the best LWers the past evening ! (Chiochiu-QC) 189 ICELAND RUV - Rikisutvarpid, Gufuskalar DEC 22 0225 - Man in Icelandic making some comments in between obscure musical selections that sounded like a gothic version of mid-1950's rockabilly with Icelandic lyrics. (Iceland, despite it's small size and small population, has a rich musical industry). Good, slightly weaker than Europe 1 on 1983 which was VERY good, but the best was yet to come. +DEC 22 0800+ - after a good movie watched past midnight and all that astonishing DX couldn't sleep, so fired the Sangean CST-818 / PK's Magnetic LW loop combo once again. France-162 was still fair and partially readable in spite of computer-like high-pitched growl and this one was EXCELLENT, semi-local-like and unbelievable with, at this time, mainly two men and occasionally a woman in Icelandic with two or three songs sqeezed in between the talk segments of their program. The chatter was partly music-related, I think, as I recognized the rock and blues words. At the end of one of the talk segments, heard a man making his voice softer and the other one said a word ressembling English Thank You and German Danke! (Icelandic is a Germanic language and have small ressemblance with both English and, especially, German - Bogdan). After the Danke-like word, 4 seconds break, then a classical interlude with beautifol trompett sounding like Bolero de Ravel. Our dog was sitting in the bed and as the classical trompett-based interlude began, he jumped toward the radio... So it seems we have a second DXer in our house. (Our dog was treated by a series of psy trance, progressive rock, classical music, World Music and French-Caribbean zouk music all summer long; I played the same record once every 3 or 4 days in order to help him developp a melodical sense. At night, I almost always left the radio switched to the classical music local CJPX on 99.5 MHz FM. He is quite sensitive to music, indeed. What maked this unusual was that it was a distant station with EXCELLENT signal by DX standard SEMI-local-like and with FAIR signal for a local listener, so a few barely noticeable noise - for me - was audible and the dog has even better ears - Bogdan). (Chiochiu-QC) 198 UNITED KINGDOM BBC Radio 4, Droitwich DEC 22 0258 - Man in British-accented English with a fair accent with QRM from a fairly strong local beacon on 201 kHz and from a weaker skywave-propagated one that
[HCDX] the Grundig Eton G5: a major disappointment
Hello ! I'm writing again because we just tested the Grundig Eton G5 receiver and we are highly disappointed... We get overload on every frequency on both LW and MW. It overloads even worse than the Sangean CST-818 rx with local 1450 kHz Arabic station wipping out any signal on 550 in both the DX and LO mode. In LO it is just SLIGHTLY weaker... I purchased it, because a lot of the interesting LW channels such as Tipaza-252 or Azilal-207 were hammered by local false mixing products between CINF-690, CFAV-1450 and CHUC-1450 on the Sangean CST-818, but with this rx things are only worse. While the 550 RECEIVER-GENERATED spur is poor-strenght using the Sangean CST-818 barefoot, it is SEMI-LOCAL-like with excellent strenght semi-Hi-Fi using the Grundig Eton G5 receiver... I wonder why CHUC the 1450 Arabic station in Le Parc Industriel de Saint-Laurent generates spur on 550 in all the radios in our house (even on a broken Venturer clock radio) WITH THE EXCEPTION of the Sanyo MCD-S830 AM/FM Hi-Fi chain with tape copy and recorder which cleanly receives the weak WEVD Vermont groundwave and skywave from low-power domestic regionals, as well as occasionally YVKE-Venezuela without any 1450 local receiver-generated spur and even better had a TA het on 549. Is there a mathematical formula for a signal on 1450 to appear on 550 d! ue to overload concerns ? We need some advice concerning European LW DXing and a receiver able to cope with strong signals. I'm very sad; looks like I can't do too much longwave DXing and I'm sure the fault is the receiver... What should I do ? We purchased the Eton from Ontario...can we get back and what should we do in order to get it back ? I'm so disappointed an old Phillips LW/MW transistor from my grandmother got so sadly broken. Aside from having a sentimental value, it hardly suffered any overload, had the dynamic range and the sensitivity just about as good as the Sanyo MCD-S830 portable, if any drawbacks, it was less selective than my Sanyo, but this was hardly a problem on LW, especially on the nearly empty 153-198 kHz section of the band... Of course, the 2002-2003 DX season was full of solar flare, so aside from a threshold unID around 180-185 kHz which I *guessed* was Europe 1, I didn't received anything on LW. Of course with the Loop antenna placed close enough to the receiver's ferrite bar, as I do with the Sangean CST-818, magic things could happen... Maybe it's a God's lesson to finally purchasse an used Drake R8B ? Is the Drake R8B along with the AOR, the Icom and the Degen the only options for LW DXing ? Is there anything even *SLIGHTLY* cheaper ? I would really like to hear at least 162 and 171 regularly... Now, 171 is badly covered by mixing products on the Eton G5... Listen, I have severe overload on 150, 171, 180, 210, 252 just 4 kHz above the UL beacon on 248, 550 and several other channels... On SW and on FM is a different story. It even beats the Sangean CST-818 with Radio Rebelde particularly easy on 5025, but I'm more interested in TA and LAs on LW and MW rather than SW DXing these days... I have one project in order to calm down my negative thoughts: a research project concerning the best affordable receiver for picking up overseas powerhouses in the 153-279 kHz. May the good DX bless your receiver and your ears ! Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefonds / Montreal, QC, Canada ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] brand new domestic DX logging
NA domestic DX: Heard on the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot: 550 WGR Buffalo, NY 1814 EST - out of the poor-strenght domestic caught a live sports announcer with the mention of a team in Buffalo; very briefly alone for less than 1 minute before fading back under the rather weak domestic mess. NEW ! I'm lucky CHLN has moved to 106.9 FM rendering both 549 and 550 free for DX ! (BC-QC) Heard on the Grundig Eton G5 barefoot: 550 WGR Buffalo, NY ??? Well not, instead CHUC Saint-Laurent, QC 1814 - instead of getting the weak domestic mess that included the brand new catche of WGR, got here at an excellent level Arabic dance music, followed by a Celine Dion's personal remake of Feliz Navidad with season's greetings in both Arabic and French. This is clearly a receiver-generated local spur ! I get a lot of them on LW ! It's even worse... (BC-QC) As I showed my mother that, she just couldn't believe how a Hi-Fi entertainement receiver (the Sanyo one) that intentionally might have notoriously bad AM could receive at a poor but clean level an assorted amoutn of distant USA domestics, while on the Grundig Eton G5 we had an overspill from a signal that I showed her could ONLY be received on 1450, AND NOT on 550, while on the Eton G5 it was audible on both 550 and 1450, as well as on various LW channels mixing with CINF-690 and CFAV-1570. I knew only good things about the Eton G5, I didn't believed it overloads so badly. With the LO button turned on, it still receives the 1450 local on 550 with a very slight background hiss... Well, seems like I'll only have mediumwave and shortwave to deal with, unless I find SOMETHING GOOD on LW... I'm so disappointed...I'm always ready for changes (albeit postive ones) in my DX career ! May the good DX bless your ears ! Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefonds / Montreal, QC ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] What CCIR stands for ?
I have a question: what CCIR stands for ? Channel for Communications of International Radio ? I know OIRT stands for Organization Internationale de la Radio et Télévision... Curiosity enquires ! May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] what a TA het sounds like
Warm greetings to all ! Been geting a high-pitched growl on the low side of 550 that seems to almost annihilate the 550 domestics when I tuned on the low side of the channel. Is it the Algeria-549 juggernaut ? After all, Spain-585 was very good at times and everything is possible... I just want to know what is your definition of a TA heterodyne... May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] 549...there is something on
definitively something that sounds like a het, when I tune around 550.5 or 551 there is nothing, but on 549 there is something, but my receiver isn't selective enough to pick it down up; however it does an excellent job on separing Spain-585 from CFRA-580 and WEZE/mess-590... Of course, 5 kHz from a domestic channel is as far as you can get from the NA channels without worring of becoming illegal. May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] Radio Cadena La Voz de Victoria 540 kHz
Seems like there is nothing to do with Cuba, as they just announced el nacimiento de nuestro Señor after a Spanish redindition of a classic international Xmas tune. Most likely a new slogan for the Radio Autentica in Bogota (I fortgot the call-letters; HJKA ?) as Radio Autentica is religious just like Cadena La Voz de la Victoria. May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan - Original Message - From: aurel chiochiu To: aurel chiochiu ; latinm...@yahoogroups.com Cc: m...@yahoogroups.com ; hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 8:55 PM Subject: Re: Radio Cadena La Voz de Victoria 540 kHz Buscar en toda la Radio Cubana con Todo el texto Titulo Palabra clave Descripción Nombre de archivo usando Todas las palabras Cualquier palabra Frase exacta ARCHIVO AUDIO LIBRO VISITAS SOFTWARE RADIAL HIT PARADE RSS PORTADA Directorio Noticias Promoción Festivales Radialistas Documental Historia Misión Faq's Noticias de la Radio Cubana Actualizado, agosto 15, 2008 Un nuevo sonido radial desde Matanzas: La voz de la Victoria Por Hugo García Matanzas, 19 abril - La inauguración de la emisora municipal La voz de la victoria se unió a las cien obras nuevas o remodeladas que se ejecutaron en el municipio Ciénaga de Zapata, al sur de Matanzas, para celebrar el aniversario 47 de la gesta de abril de 1961. La radio cubana se engrandece con esta bella emisora en Playa Larga, lugar que irradia patriotismo y victoria, expresó en las palabras de apertura de esta instalación Guillermo Pavón Pacheco, vicepresidente de la Radio en el Instituto Cubano de Radio y Televisión. Sentenció que este es un acontecimiento cultural y político que sirve de reconocimiento a quienes dieron su sangre por el socialismo. Es un homenaje a los combatientes que hicieron morder el polvo de la derrota al imperio brutal que nos desprecia. Refirió que actualmente unas 20 emisoras contrarrevolucionarias transmiten más de 1 800 horas diarias contra la obra de la Revolución; de ahí la importancia de esta nueva emisora que desde su trinchera defenderá la verdad de Cuba. Ubicada en la localidad de Caletón, e identificada como CMDY, con una hora inicial de transmisión diariamente, emitirá revistas de diverso género y espacios informativos, con una tecnología de avanzada. El tema de presentación cuenta con la Canción de la victoria, en la voz de la emblemática artista Sara González, con arreglo de Raúl Valdés. CMDY La voz de la victoria transmitirá con una potencia de 250 W en la frecuencia de los 99.5 FM para Playa Larga y los poblados vecinos, cuyos habitantes este 19 de abril abarrotaron la sede del Conjunto Artístico Comunitario Korimacao, para presenciar el espectáculo ¡Gracias, Fidel!, que contó con la dirección artística del prestigioso actor Manuel Porto. Enviar mensaje Visitar el Foro - Original Message - From: aurel chiochiu To: latinm...@yahoogroups.com Cc: m...@yahoogroups.com ; hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 8:53 PM Subject: Radio Cadena La Voz de Victoria 540 kHz Warm greetings to all of you ! While looking for Ecuador on 540, with the November 2004's Barry McLarnon Ottawan reception in mind (although I'm silly to look after such stuff, as Sotuh Americans are almost inexistent, even RCR-750 is unimpressive), I came accross an interesting Spanish station giving a load of phone numbers and IDing as Radio Cadena La Voz de la Victoria with live announcers... Is it a domestic or a Latin America ? Is it a new slogan for Ecuador ? Also, I'm VERY happy because it is not // any local spur from a multilingustic station such as 1280 or 1450 (mainly in arabic, but some spurs form it are picked up on a Venturer clock radio with it's BROKEN ferrite bar antenne, ao who knows)... It is clearly DX ! Seems like 540 is an interesting channel to watch out for those of you, like me, chassing South American DX from eastern North America... Any thoughts on this weird bird ? May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu May theattachment: banner_radiohabanacuba.gifattachment: imprimir.gifattachment: correo.gifattachment: afavoritos.gifattachment: next.gifattachment: black01_next.gif---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com
Re: [HCDX] Radio Cadena La Voz de Victoria 540 kHz
Buscar en toda la Radio Cubana con Todo el texto Titulo Palabra clave Descripción Nombre de archivo usando Todas las palabras Cualquier palabra Frase exacta ARCHIVO AUDIO LIBRO VISITAS SOFTWARE RADIAL HIT PARADE RSS PORTADA Directorio Noticias Promoción Festivales Radialistas Documental Historia Misión Faq's Noticias de la Radio Cubana Actualizado, agosto 15, 2008 Un nuevo sonido radial desde Matanzas: La voz de la Victoria Por Hugo García Matanzas, 19 abril - La inauguración de la emisora municipal La voz de la victoria se unió a las cien obras nuevas o remodeladas que se ejecutaron en el municipio Ciénaga de Zapata, al sur de Matanzas, para celebrar el aniversario 47 de la gesta de abril de 1961. La radio cubana se engrandece con esta bella emisora en Playa Larga, lugar que irradia patriotismo y victoria, expresó en las palabras de apertura de esta instalación Guillermo Pavón Pacheco, vicepresidente de la Radio en el Instituto Cubano de Radio y Televisión. Sentenció que este es un acontecimiento cultural y político que sirve de reconocimiento a quienes dieron su sangre por el socialismo. Es un homenaje a los combatientes que hicieron morder el polvo de la derrota al imperio brutal que nos desprecia. Refirió que actualmente unas 20 emisoras contrarrevolucionarias transmiten más de 1 800 horas diarias contra la obra de la Revolución; de ahí la importancia de esta nueva emisora que desde su trinchera defenderá la verdad de Cuba. Ubicada en la localidad de Caletón, e identificada como CMDY, con una hora inicial de transmisión diariamente, emitirá revistas de diverso género y espacios informativos, con una tecnología de avanzada. El tema de presentación cuenta con la Canción de la victoria, en la voz de la emblemática artista Sara González, con arreglo de Raúl Valdés. CMDY La voz de la victoria transmitirá con una potencia de 250 W en la frecuencia de los 99.5 FM para Playa Larga y los poblados vecinos, cuyos habitantes este 19 de abril abarrotaron la sede del Conjunto Artístico Comunitario Korimacao, para presenciar el espectáculo ¡Gracias, Fidel!, que contó con la dirección artística del prestigioso actor Manuel Porto. Enviar mensaje Visitar el Foro - Original Message - From: aurel chiochiu To: latinm...@yahoogroups.com Cc: m...@yahoogroups.com ; hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 8:53 PM Subject: Radio Cadena La Voz de Victoria 540 kHz Warm greetings to all of you ! While looking for Ecuador on 540, with the November 2004's Barry McLarnon Ottawan reception in mind (although I'm silly to look after such stuff, as Sotuh Americans are almost inexistent, even RCR-750 is unimpressive), I came accross an interesting Spanish station giving a load of phone numbers and IDing as Radio Cadena La Voz de la Victoria with live announcers... Is it a domestic or a Latin America ? Is it a new slogan for Ecuador ? Also, I'm VERY happy because it is not // any local spur from a multilingustic station such as 1280 or 1450 (mainly in arabic, but some spurs form it are picked up on a Venturer clock radio with it's BROKEN ferrite bar antenne, ao who knows)... It is clearly DX ! Seems like 540 is an interesting channel to watch out for those of you, like me, chassing South American DX from eastern North America... Any thoughts on this weird bird ? May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu May theattachment: banner_radiohabanacuba.gifattachment: imprimir.gifattachment: correo.gifattachment: afavoritos.gifattachment: next.gifattachment: black01_next.gif---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] Radio Cadena La Voz de Victoria 540 kHz
Warm greetings to all of you ! While looking for Ecuador on 540, with the November 2004's Barry McLarnon Ottawan reception in mind (although I'm silly to look after such stuff, as Sotuh Americans are almost inexistent, even RCR-750 is unimpressive), I came accross an interesting Spanish station giving a load of phone numbers and IDing as Radio Cadena La Voz de la Victoria with live announcers... Is it a domestic or a Latin America ? Is it a new slogan for Ecuador ? Also, I'm VERY happy because it is not // any local spur from a multilingustic station such as 1280 or 1450 (mainly in arabic, but some spurs form it are picked up on a Venturer clock radio with it's BROKEN ferrite bar antenne, ao who knows)... It is clearly DX ! Seems like 540 is an interesting channel to watch out for those of you, like me, chassing South American DX from eastern North America... Any thoughts on this weird bird ? May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu May the ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] CINF-690
For several months in a row, our local CINF Infos Six Quatre-Vint-Dix on 690 kHz was overmodulated and put some annoying splatter against 670 and 710 as well as some very slight splatter on 660 during the daytime when this channel wasn't covered by megapest WFAN New York City. The hought something was changing was driving to a local French Caribbean party in downtown Montreal, the sound on 690 was distorted, then two days later, right now, WOR is local-like with almost no-splatter, while a few weeks ago it was listenablem vbut annoyingly listenable. Unfortunatly, with the WFAN IBOC's hash on 670, this does not do much good. It could be better if WFAN-660 and CUBA-670 would have lowered down their power too I miss Radio Rumbos on 670. I had a few tapes which have been stoled since, but Radio Rumbos was my first YV MW catche. Now, the only most-music YV on MW anymore is Coro, Falcón, YVNM on 780... May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] abysmal conditions / South American MW DX wonders / LW DXing wonders
Warm greetings to all of you ! Spain-585 with anemical strenght seems the only low-band TA getting through, despite a few checks on other channels. Last night, while they faded-up to poor-fair levels, a high-pithced low-growl from a computer in the neighborhood prevented any program details to be taken... Is Saudi-594 loggable from Montreal ? What about Morocco-594 ? In spite of higher solar flux which means SLIGHTLY weaker Spain-585 reception, conditions aren't auroral enough to allow for door-to-door South American DX. Since, I did found some Aventure FM promos (yeah!) and I begun to get tired of French music, the interest of DXing is getting back, but franckly, conditions are really abysmal. Auroral conditions do not only mean attenuation of east-west signals, but also an enhancement toward the south. For exemple, on 780, even though I was able to null out WBBM perfectly using the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot, Radio Coro was still very faint. I could barely make it // to the Internet webstream. ZIZ on 555 was fair, the only SLIGHTLY MORE NOTEWORTHY reception of the past night, but once again the adjacent 550 kHz channel had a very poor mess on it with nothing even close to be YVKE or Cuba or Jamaica (which is unheard yet on this channels, Jamaicans are very difficult for me - of all the 3 easiest ones 580, 700 and 720, only 580 is possible, because on 700 there is unnulable Infos 690 splatter and on 720 CKAC is ALMOST unnulable and as I can BARELY null out CKAC-730, I get QRM from WGN in Chicago, but that's another story). The other night, once again, the first signal to fade in on 760 was a VERY WEAK WJR off the back of the ferrite bar antenna (it was very good with the antenna aimed perpendicular to E/W - so I talk about - the nulled and residual aspect of the otherwise powerhouse WJR's signal) and not even a peep from the Colombian HJAJ-RCN powerhouse. By the way, it's interesting, I did read some comments of Randy Stewart in Missouri who was complaining Colombia was regular and Venezuelans were seldom heard, well, here it's the reverse situation, while during average condx (which, at this time, are WELL BELOW average) I can easily get up to a semi-dozens YVs, HJs are seldom heard with the exception of HJAJ 760 RCN Cadena Basíca in Barranquilla on the HJ northern coast. I wonder why. When I begun DXing, there was at least one other regularly heard Colombian, on 610 in Uribia (those on LatinMWDX probably found the file in the 610 kHz section) very strong and alone during auroral conditions with slight splatter from semi-local WVMT 620 in Burlington, Vermont and occasionnally during high-latitude NON-auroral conditions, WIP in Philadelphia would fade down and this would be on top for a few minutes, but not anymore. All I got the last those years I was active on MW on and off was Cuba which apparently increased power (there were times when Rebelde-610 was stronger than the juggernauts using 600, 670 and 710 which now are jammed by overmodulated 690 Montreal next-adjacent local splatter as well as by WFAN-660 IBOC, but still pests to some extent). When I begun DXing in 2000, Rebelde-610 was heard maybe once or twice and the rest of time, COLOMBIA Radio Difusora Nacional de Colombia, HJKL, had it's channel to it's self with WIP aurorared-out. I was so silly, I had an obsession with Radio Rumbos and with RCN Barranquilla and I wanted to record a tape with the signal peaks of these two pests in order to improve my very rudimentary (at that time) Spanish with NotiRumbos and RCN newscasts as well as with contemporary tropical grooves, and missed the excellent traditional Latin selections HJKL-610 used to have. Shame on me ! So let's get back to my question: why, in Montreal, YVs are easier than HJs ? and also, why the city of Riohacha, despite being on the HJ north coast, just like Barranquilla, is so hard to get from Montreal ? Is Colombia easier from Ontario or upstate New York ? I think, to enjoy Venezuelan DX as much as I used to, there are two things needed: a CME (coronal mass ejection) and a list with YVs by state. I used to have one, but was accidently put by my parents in the garbage and now I have to know by heart were the station is. Among the easily heard states, I need Carabobo, Nueva Esparta (why the state isn't just called ISLA MARGARITA is beyond my knowledge !)and LARA. Since Colombia-610 is using lower power or is inactive, YVSX on 610 kHz should be remotely possible, but the most reported YV on 610 is, by far, YVSE. Where is YVSE located ? in Aragua ? I had briefly logged Aragua with NotiRumbos in a mess on 570 back in 2001... Condx toward Latin America were way much better then. Well, at least the enthusiasm for DXing is back, I think I'm in the perfect mood for reactivating, I have been more active this fall than in 2006-2007 or in 2007-2008 and it payed off with some nice segments taped out of Spain-585, now with a higher
[HCDX] foreign MW DX logs (mostly Latin)
Pan American DX (only the less usual ones are included this time): 585 PUERTO RICO, WKAQ, Radio Reloj / El Polder Informativo, San Juan OCT 27 0025 - with woman talking almost continuosly about erection trouble problemas de potencia and selling a long-distance problem that couled heal these troubles with a number in the 1-800 which is a toll free US number. Only PR is having the same toll free number as the USA, hence this suspected outlet. Initially strong, slightly over WTIG and Radio Monte Cristi (HIAF) with bachata music bumbling way under. Faded completly away before a formal ID could be secured. Presumed based over previously log of them. Very unusual during NON-auroral condx, but a semi-regular during AU. Nice catche under such low solar activity and such high QRM from WTIG. (Chiochiu-QC) 580 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, HIAF, Monte Cristi 0040 - bachata tune followed by ID sounding like mega,...Radio Monte Cristi...quinientos ochenta and merengue. Very strong for a few minutes, way over WTIG while WKAQ has completly faded away. Nice, the best Dominican here in Montreal. (Chiochiu-QC) 580 has some unusual Latin activity over the past few days (especially yesturday), but the other channels had regular YVKS, HJAJ and YVNM (Coro, Falcón) with often substandard reception, though YVKS was huge at times and RCN Barranquilla (HJAJ) was listenable, no more, in fight with difficult to null WJR. 580 had the only noteworthy foreign Pan-American activity on it. Trans-Atlantic DX: 585 SPAIN, Radio Nacional de España, Madrid OCT 28 0320 - fair and listenable (though was HUGE on peaks, with very short deep fades - mostly on rather than faded !) with the announcer asking a listener the captial city of various countries ¿ y cual es la capital de Grecia ? Athena. Esa es una fácil ?; ¿ y la capital de Chile ? Santiago followed by other kind of listener-announcer chatter (but I'm away from the radio right now). Quite weird kind of programming. Instead of asking silly questions, they should play the music, but since I love geography too, it's quite amuzing and of course it's a thrill to enjoy and to have armchair copy out of a TA using just a Sanyo MCD-S830 portable barefoot. The most reliable Spanish language DX (even though it's TA) tonight in the Montreal area. (Chiochiu-QC) Bogdan Chiochiu DX'ing from Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island), Quebec using a barefoot Sanyo MCD-S830 portable I'm going back to my DX duties while charging my IPod for school. May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Btw.: Spain-585 has faded up to a huge peak !!! ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] 580 kHz
A 3 stations pile-up including WKAQ in San Juan, PR with a woman talking about problemas de potencia (erection trouble) and giving an 1-800 number, Radio Monte Cristi with tropical music and WTIG in Massachussets, all this with CFRA nulled, though WTIG was so strong off the back that CFRA Ottawa would have to prove was there. May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu P.S.: I haven't heard a formal ID out of Monte Cristi tonight, but they are semi-regular in MTL. I just hope it is something else, like HJCR in Medellí, CLM or YVMJ La Fe, Maracaibo, estado Zulia, but... ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] 580...Mega, Radio Monte Cristi
Heard an ID sounding like Mega, Radio Monte Cristi, quinientos ocheta then into a bachata. Strong, but with constant shape-shift fading distortion and WTIG just underneath. WKAQ-PR has faded away. Nice, but not too exotic. This station, along with the absence of SPAIN-585 indicates semi-auroral condx, although the sun don't seem too excited... I was hoping the Maracaibo station, but it was still nice to actually TAPE Monte Cristi. I never catched them on tape before. By the way, hurry up, as the MAXELL TAPES are almost done. If you still use cassette like me for airchecking your best DX achievements, you're in big trouble ! May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan in Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island), PQ ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] solar activity...weird
Current Solar Report and Forecast Solar activty was very low. No spots are visible on the solar disk. Solar activity is expected to be very low. The geomagnetic field was at quiet levels. The geomagnetic field is expected to be at quiet levels for the next three days (25-27 October). Nothing to explain why WTAG is jammed by Monte Cristi and Puerto Rico... But it certainly do explain WHY 580 is the only really interesting frequency providing me with some less used-to DX. By used-to-DX I talk about Coro-estado-Falcón, Caracas-Distrito-Federal and Barranquilla-departamiento-del-Atlantico. May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] ZIZ 555
At 0330-0340:- ZIZ on 555 is once again up and down, though lately moslty up with fair peaks and quite listenable (at least for an avid DXer like me)... This is not strange at all. But, in the middle of a commercial break (one was for an unexpensive party that costs about 10 bucks) the carrer went off the air for 2 seconds, they got back afterwards with open career and no audio, anotehr 1 second poff-air break, then after 30 seconds, they went back for good. Now at 0343 UTC, the tx problems are gone, but I'm still wondering if the tx (=transmitter) is working properly. As I write this, they are back from a fade with some kind of calypso music, but the technical problem they had led me to think they would switch to a new TX on either 550 or 560 which is bad. Otherwise, some more inspiring stuff, bachata music on 580 followed by woman talk under WTIG at 0237, definitively a relog of Radio Monte Cristi as well as salsa on 550 at 0241 (YVKE almost surely, unless it's Cuba). Spain-585 almost a no-show, and some domestics such as WSB 750 had weird fades. YVKS was much more stable than WSB, almost like a local. May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu Btw.: The new Montreal local on 1690 is quite good... Nice to hear some Black Metal on the old dusted AM Broadcast Band for a change ! ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] Propagation querry
Dear DXers, since 555 along with 895 are the only remaining PAN-AMERICAN splits, being as far-away as possible from the closed domestic NA channels, do they reach Western Canada or Oregon on occasions ? Has Patrick Martin in Seaside, OR or someone else logged ZIZ 555 or Voice of Nevis 595 ? Curiosity enquires ! Also how far away Colombia and Venezuela do they USED TO REACH ON A MONDAY MORNING SILENT PERIOD ??? HAS ANYONE EVER LOGGED VENEZUELA FROM BRITISH COLOMBIA ??? I HAD A FEW ASTRAL TRIPS IN THE PAST WHERE I WAS SITTING IN A GRASS AND LISTENING TO SALSA MUSIC FROM A SCRATCHY YV MW TRANSMITTER AROUND MANITOBA AND EVEN FURTHER ... HAS VENEZUELA BEING LOGGED IN MANITOBA ??? I DON'T SEE VENEZUELA ON THE SHAWN AXELRODS LOGS (at the time Radio Rumbos 670 and YVKS 750 along with YVRQ Radio Aeropuerto - RQ-910 were the easiest YVs, weren't they ?). May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefonds / Montreal, Quebec, Canada ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] MW logs from this evening
555 ST KITTS AND NEVIS, ZIZ, Basseterre OCT 24 0304 UTC+++ - with reggae music and Caribbean-accented announcer with rhythmic chatter during the reggae segment with TALKOVER effect. Up and down, but fair-good on peaks and quite easily listenable with very slow fadings. As I write this, it has faded down. (Chiochiu-QC) 760 COLOMBIA, HJAJ, RCN Cadena Basíca, Barranquilla OCT 24 0245 UTC - with a men and a woman talking about the developpement of true Colombian salsa music which is authentic and has a fairly different set of typical melodies and harmonies than foreign salsa music. They begun to play a fairly uninspired (to me) salsa tune) when they faded out to be replaced by weak residual WJR which was nulled out with the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot perpendicular to the N-S. (Chiochiu-QC) Bogdan's note: some of the objectivaly and artistically most prided salsa dura comes from the city of Cali. I wish I didn't had 990 as an adjacent-channel obstacle to 980 RCN, which would be in // with 1000 Cartagena and 760 Barranquilla. Well, it's been quite some time since I've last heard from ZIZ-555 with such a beautifool signal... Bogdan Chiochiu using his trusty Sanyo MCD-S830 receiver barefoot. I'm looking forward buying an antenna to enhance reception in the 800s and 900s where a lot of my favorite Latin American targets are during auroras. Still tried of listening to the same 1 or 2 TAs, such as Spain-585 which is difficult to follow. Even when they are very strong, they sound a tiny bit muffed. On october 23rd, 19 years ago, back in 1989, Aventure FM went off the air for good to be replaced by MaXXimum. Anyone has any recorded broadcast or airchecks from the BEST RADIO STATION IN THE WORLD ? May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan in Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island, Quebec, Canada) ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] Colombian log
760 COLOMBIA, HJAJ, RCN Cadena Basíca, Barranquilla OCT 22 0208 - con un hermoso vallenato melancolíco é romantico Que vuelva sigue con locutor y locutora charlando sobre la noche y discutando del aspecto melancolíco de ese tema dentro del programa de Nocturna de RCN. (Chiochiu-QC) Pienso que estoy preparado para regresar a nuestro hermoso hobby. Ahóra, se ha acabado mi inscripción sobre NRC (National Radio Club) y estoy libre para escribir mis captaciones en castellano. Alguien tiene a los jingles de Aventure FM y va a ayudarme muy pronto y espero utilizarles de nuevo sobre la radio estudiantíl o sobre el Internet. Me gustaría también hacer un programa DX de la misma manera que nuestro muy cariñoso José Elias Dias en el estado venezolano Anzoáteguí haga Sintonía DX L'Aventure Jusqu'Au Bout Du Monde con WORLD MUSIC (Nhac Viet, raï, zouk, kompas, joropo, cumbia, tecnocumbia, vallenato, pasillos, etc.) y comentarios de corte noticiosos sobre la radio en onda media, onda corta, etc. Ahóra, he perdido la señal de Barranquilla y se escuché a WJR Detroit, pero de manera débil porqué mi antena es orientada para eliminar al señal malicioso de WJR y maximisar a la emisora colombiana de la mejor manera que Dios (el creador de la ionosfera) nos permite. ¡Hasta muy pronto! Bogdan Alejandro Chiochiu en Pierrefonds / Montreal, Quebec, Canada P.D.: ¡ Colombia es de regreso y el señal reducido de WJR Detroit, Michigan ha desaperecido de nuevo ! ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] Aventure FM
Warm greetings to all of you ! I'm looking for Aventure FM airchecks... How I came to know this station... Back in the late 80s, the quality of Romanian radio was full-clock jammed with awful propaganda such as the strenghts of the socialist progress when you could barely sleep at night, during the winter, because the heat was turned off in order to grasp money for the Ceausescu's travels around the world. My family just couldn't stand it. They came accross a guy who had his brother maried with a French woman in Paris. They had recorded a tape for us on 105.9 MHz Aventure FM which was a wondeful station. While very young I wasn't so hooked on French culture and music, it was always special to get threated to the highly rhythmic pattern of that French FM operation. What hooked me to Aventure FM was our immigration to Canada, back in 1997. We took Air France and stayed for one night in Paris. Everything was gorgeous: the food, the streets, the radio inside the hotel, etc. ! When I came first to Canada I awaited a connection to Internet to enjoy Romanian (which I missed) as well as French radio (to which my heart was open up by our 1-night stay in Paris)... After a few months, we had Internet and I must say I was quite impressed by the refreshing set of music stations such as RTL 2, Fun Radio and Europe 2 were playing. But this was ALMOST superficial when compared to Aventure FM. My mom knew I was hooked on French radio and decided to sent me a few tapes included that special Aventure FM tape to Canada (I didn't had it when I first came in)... EVERYTHING WAS GORGEOUS ! The music played which ranged from californian soft-rock to melodic punk-rock while passing through the French variety, Dance Music and World Beat territories... The jocks intead of waiting for the song to finishing were talking back-to-back with the music popping in and out every few seconds at a time during the last 30 minutes of the last song played. This is called TALKOVER ! But wait for the jingles: highly harmonic industrial driven harmonies that were complex, yet quite catchy with each second a new musical tone blending over the last musical tone like NO OTHER JINGLE I'VE EVER EVEN HEARD OF... Unfortunatly, I do not still have even 1 Aventure FM jingle because of this damned vaccine that made me hyperactive in order to delete the whole tape. But let's just get back to Aventure FM: they featured very serious subjects that were discussed in a quick, effective and dynamic way such as acomoclitism, anthropology and...HORROR MOVIES... I don't know of any other station that featured such an emotional-driven acomoclitism feature in the 80s when acomoclitism was very tabou. What to say more about Aventure FM ?? It's the station that has turn my life into the nightmare when I accidently deleted that tape back in January of 1999 ! I did a lot of things. I wrote to the SIRPA (Service de l'Information et des Relations Publiques de l'Armée de terre) and someone answered thay didn't had any sound bites of Aventure FM anymore. I wrote too to the INA (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel) and I didn't received any answer, positive or negative. Among the postive things, back in december of 2000, on the RadioActu messageboard, someone called Thierry contacted me in order to talk about his airchecks collection, but my damned father ended up the Internet on that day for a few months and when I got back to RadioActu a couple of months later, Thierry was gone... Thierry is my only REAL hope, but I do have at least SEMI-FALSE hopes for the crew on Hard-Core DX and for the rest of us regarding Aventure FM !!! If any of you is having any airchecks, please let me know. I can give half my DX recordings collection or anything else to receive even 10 to 20 minutes of an Aventure FM aircheck !!! I badly miss this station and I don't have nothing from it to live on (oh yeah, a friendly Belgian guy gave me a poster L'AVENTURE JUSQU'AU BOUT DES ONDES - maybe I should walk along the Montreal streets and ask anyone if they have family in France with airchecks out of Aventure FM) ! Please if you heard AVENTURE FM back in 1988 when they were well or alive, or even back in 1989 before the switch to maXXimum (RTL2 nowadays, although MaXXimum took the Aventure FM's spot on the dial at 95.7 in Lyon, 90.5 in Reims, 105.8 in Grenoble and 105.9 in Paris) via sporadic-E layer skip or tropospheric ducting, please, be kind to tell me how could I taste that DX aircheck of the best station the Earth ever saw ! May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefonds / Montreal Btw.: Last night, I heard RCR-750 with promos and at least two R-C-R mentions with a fair to weak signal SIO 221, not that bad though. With more and more IBOC hash going on, the next step would be to try to find a good LONGWAVE radio, because MW TAs would gonna be hard to find. With LW so quiet (in terms of IBOC hash) and MW so jammed by
[HCDX] CHEZ 106 is having transmitter power
Helllo to all of you ! While DXing CHEZ 106, Ottawa's classic rock at 103 miles from Montral, the station dropped from an excellent level to a barely listenable level... All th eother Ottawans (ex. 106.9) are still almost excellent in full stereo. Anyone is aware of what's happening with this former powerhouse ? May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] CHLN-550
Last night, feeling boored and depressed, I opened up the radio in order to change out my mind and came up into that: Venez écoutez CHLN le nouvel FM parlé de la Mauricie au 106.9 FM, a loop telling the listeners to change the QRG which was heard continuously on 550 AM... That being said, my theory is that CKAC and CHRV 800 would be locals and all the FM parlé... outlets will be satellite outlets of the Montreal's 98.5 FM network. Maybe the 98.5 network, when this network would be completed, would be able to carry on once again the famous, albeit dogmatic Doc Mailloux psychological radioshow, who knows ? May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Btw.: With this in mind, 550 Mundial YVKE, RJR Ralleigah Valley and the adjacent Caribbean split ZIZ-555 will be much more easier catches for us in the Montreal area... ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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] a bunch mainly consisting of Caribbean MW logs
Repport from: Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu DXing using his trusty Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot in Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island), Quebec, Canada 550 VENEZUELA, YVKE, Mundial, Caracas, Distrito Federal JAN 6 0356 - with comments regarding this upcoming year Año Nuevo. Strong with dopple-shifter fades due to a slightly weaker CHLN signal coming in at the same time and due to a fairly unstable propagation. SINPO 32523. At level 3, it is the strongest YV this evening. 780 Radio Coro was heard at level 2. Usually YVKS-750 and YVNM-780 are stronger than YVKE-550. Nevertheless, this powerhouse is usually the 3rd easiest YV for me, as looping SSE usually deals away with CHLN, but not this time, in spite of semi-auroral conditions. Weird evening, as far as MW DX goes !!! (Chiochiu-QC) 555 ST KITTS AND NEVIS, ZIZ, Basseterre JAN 6 0358 - playing a surprinsingly astonishing selection of melancholy-drived soca melodies with chatter at 0402 UTC (2402 UTC). During the chatter, the upbeat voiced DJ, after a timecheck, greeted a listener, sending him his requested song in a highly dynamic way with talkover effect, as the music cameback during this breathbreaking. At tune-in, this was harmed by splatter from semi-local CHLN-550, but the signal got stronger than the splatter, way much stronger ! SINPO 33343 (Chiochiu-QC) 580 PUERTO RICO, WKAQ, San Juan JAN 6 0252 - several doble u...ochenta mentions. The only Spanish stations starting with W- (doble u...) on 580 kHz is WKAQ San Juan. SINPO 22412, never really atop unlike Jamaica and WTAG. Semi-regular in the Montreal area. (Chiochiu-QC) 580 JAMAICA, RJR, Galina JAN 6 0334 - featuring a mixture of reggae and RB jams. At 0434, I recognized an awesome extended version of the lovers rock hit Take You There by Voice Mail which was followed by a mid-tempo RB jam. Good peaks - often atop channel, deep fadings. Mixing mostly with WKAQ out of Puerto Rico and with WTAG-MA. Occasional QRM from a Cuban Rebelde. SINPO 32423-2. Only 2nd time here. I started to think this 1500 W Jamaican was off the air until tonight. The weird semi-auroral ionospheric conditions definitively helped, although little else of interest could be snagged out of a fairy lousy MW band. The South Americans were almost inexistent ! (Chiochiu-QC) 580 CUBA, CMMF, Radio Rebelde, Baracoa JAN 6 0350 - cha-cha-cha atop the RJR/WKAQ/WTAG/++ pile-up SINPO 32522. Could be the Mantua outlet too, who knows ? Rare here ! Not // 670 which was having upbeat announcer. I assume CMMF-580 was having the usual Rebelde MW Solo Música feed, while CMBA-670 was carrying the Rebelde FM Música Viva which is not unusual at all. (Chiochiu-QC) 600 CUBA, CMKV, Radio Rebelde, Urbano Norris JAN 6 0255 - briefly atop //670 with the apparent Rebelde FM feed. SINPO 22522. Usually this one is stronger, sometimes stronger than even CMBA-670. Weird conditions ! (Chiochiu-QC) 670 CUBA, CMBA, Radio Rebelde, Arroyo Arrenas JAN 6 0247 - with a dark-edged reggaetón track. Strong with fading-drived distortion. SINPO 4. (Chiochiu-QC) 780 VENEZUELA, YVNM Radio Coro, estado Falcón JAN 6 0147 - South American music way down in the noise and in the splatter. No more than level 2 out of 5. SINPO 23211. The only South American that really showed up this evening was YVKE-550 (see above). Weird conditions. (Chiochiu-QC) 580 was topped by unusual Jamaica !!! A great amount of astonishment from my part, since I rarely hear any English-speaking Caribbean DX on MW other than one Caribbean split almost everyone knows... As far as 580, I still miss Radio Monteria, a Colombian outlet Mark Connelly is occasionally picking up during his Cape Cod outings... Well, this one is seldom listened too even by him, as 580 isn't the best place for Colombia, but it would be great for a change. The most reported South American in North America on 580 is YVMJ La Fe out of Maracaibo, estado Zulia, but I already have a Zuliano, both on tape and in my logbook, Mundial Zulia 1070 from the same capital city, so it won't be a as big logbook related thrill, although it is an excellent catche, like everything foreign, of course... The research for Aventure FM almost finnished... More on that later, but something is happening right now concerning the airchecks made of this wonderful short-lived French station... If anyone is having the slightest amount of Aventure FM on tape, I would gladly exchange it with a Radio Coro tape, with a ZIZ one or even with a Cité Rock Détente one... As I'm writing this, at 0452 UTC, CHLN Trois-Rivières is unnulable on 550 and everything outside of North America seems more than subdued - almost inexistent right now at 0453 UTC. Let's hope things improve over the next few days. The solaractivity was so thigh, that I concentrated on the LAs, although it wouldn't hurt trying somewhat more for some possible TAs... This season has been dull as far as MW TAs, and I have nothing
[HCDX] Aventure FM
Happy New Year to everyone among you !!! I know I may seem a tiny bit too strong on the passionate side of the things, but I wonder if any of you ever heard of AVENTURE FM, maybe during a trip to Paris circa 1987-1988-1989... They were one of the first French radio stations to broadcast features about acomoclitism, back in the late 80s. They were also featuring a highly eclectic, badly astonishing and unpredictable musical mix, consisting of ETIENNE AUBERGER, ETIENNE ADAHO, JOHNY CLEG, MORY KANTE, BANANARAMA, ART OF NOISE, TRANSVISION VAMP, BOY GEORGE, LIANE FOLY, CAROLINE LEGRAND and a whole lot more... The jingle package was hugely astonishing: industrial, yet highly melodic jingles with a bunch of enjoyable musical notes every second. Over that instrumental jingles, a guy was saying écoute sur écoute sur Aventure FM. If anyone is having any airchecks of these guys, please feel free to e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Even if you picked up Aventure FM via e-skip during the summers of 1988 or 1989 (it is saddenly missed since the 23rd of October of 1989), and the e-skip tapes has a bunch of fadings or is simply short (just a jingle), feel free to contact me. I'm giving you all my DX conditions Radio Coro 780 Venezuela airchecks (many of them are unscoped) if I receive just a couple of dozens of minutes from the best station the Earth ever saw, Av-av-av-av-av-aventure May the good DX be with all of you ! May all your wishes turn into truth during the upcoming year of 2008 ! Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu Btw. I: If you are having any AVENTURE FM recordings, please feel free to contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm crazy in love with that awesome French radio station. Btw. II: It used to broadcast in Paris on 105.9 MHz VHF FM Stereo, Lyon 95.7 MHz VHF FM Stereo, Chambéry 91 MHz VHF FM Stereo, Grenoble 96.9 MHz VHF FM Stereo, Reims 90.5 MHz VHF FM Stereo and 2 or 3 more QRGs ! That being said, it was far from being a local outlet, outlet it didn't really broadcast nationwide, let's say Aventure FM was seminationwide ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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
