[HCDX] IRRS on 7285
Hi all, I strayed into 7285 kHz on Aug 31 at 1814UT and heard IRRS, Milan, Italy with station id, then a relay of United Nations Radio, New York with news and report from the UN Security Council. I haven't heard UN Radio for ages. At 1828 IRRS gave another id, address (in Milan) and said that reception reports were welcome. Has it been confirmed 100 % that this tx is indeed in Bulgaria ? I've read a lot of speculations about this, to many so my mind is swamped by them, and the last WRTH I bought was that of 2006. Just fair signal here in western Sweden. SINPO 33443 on my AOR AR7030 with a 30 m longwire.73 from Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden where night frost is imminent. ---[Start Commercial]- Preorder your WRTH 2007: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2007 ---[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] Re unid 6005
Hi Glenn and all, Re Glenn's unid on 6005, I don't understand why you didn't think about Deutschlandradio Kultur which is more or less a local here. I enjoy this station a lot. Its programming is really a mix of cultural features from any place worldwide, not neccesarily centered on Germany. Tx-site is listed as Berlin-Britz 100 kW, and I presume it's non-directional. Right now at 0906 UT, Oct 27 they are giving a the forecast of water levels and weather around the Baltic and northwest European coast. (Well, that doesn't matter so much for a land-crab like me, but we do have a storm with possible gale force winds right now in northweast Europe.) It's rather difficult for me to imagine how you hear 6005 in Enid, OK. Radio Habana Cuba must be very strong on 6000. Ciao / Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden. AOR AR7030 and presently using a 30 m lw mixed with a K9AY. ---[Start Commercial]- Preorder your WRTH 2007: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0953586499/hardcoredxcom/ ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://arizona.hard-core-dx.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] 1539 Radio Manresa
Hi all, I found Radio Manresa, Manresa, Spain on 1539 kHz at 0158, Oct 24 with three different canned ids in Catalan, time beeps at 0200 followed by Noticiero Cadena SER in Spanish of course. Son las cuatro horas, las tres en Canarias... . So it was just the ids that were local. SIO 343. 73 Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden AOR AR7030 K9AY ---[Start Commercial]- Preorder your WRTH 2007: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0953586499/hardcoredxcom/ ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://arizona.hard-core-dx.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] 1314 kHz
Hi, the closure of NRK on 1314 has paved the way for Loisirs AM, Paris. Heard on Aug 14 and 15 after my local sunset around 19UT. Nonstop songs, ballads, rapping etc, in French or English. No commercials heard but rather frequent ids Loisirs 13-14 A.M. or Loisirs 13-14 ondes moyennes. Weak to fair. At first with Roumanian txs echoing, then a little bit later sometimes Spanish voices in the background, but Loisirs AM clearly dominant. SINPO 3 at best. /Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden AOR AR7030, 30 m lw. ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2006 is out. Order yours from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059367/hardcoredxcom/ ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://arizona.hard-core-dx.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] Palau 9965
Hi all, 9965 Feb 7 , 1055 -1105 Palau, T8BZ, Koror with Christian px in Chinese (female announcer) and at TOH an ID read by male. T8BZ (zed, not zee). To be sure I have listened to my recording of this id at least ten times. Best heard in LSB mode due to qrm from 9970 La Première, Belgium. SIO 344.This is my first logging of this station in 9 years, but of course I haven't made many attempts after I received a QSL in 1996. 73/Johan Berglund Trollhättan, Sweden AOR AR7030, 30 m lw. ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2006 is out. Order yours from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059367/hardcoredxcom/ ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://arizona.hard-core-dx.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] Re LW Europe
Hi, I am right now - Jan 27, 10-11 UT making a scanning of the European LW band, just as olf friend Joukko did around 14 UT two days later. I also use Herman Boels superb EMWG. Thanks Joukko for the idea, and thanks Herman for the list. These are my findings 153 Germany, Deutschlandsfunk ,weak to fair. Talk program. 162 France, France Inter 171 Kaliningrad with Radio Rossii // 261 177 Germany, Deutschlandradio Kultur at 1000 coastal weather forecast, then classical music and about Mozart on his 250th anniversary 183 Germany Europe No. 1 189 Nil, absolutely nil 198 UK Radio 4 207 Germany Deutschlandfunk //6190 altering with Ukraine Ukrainske Radio 216 France Radio Monte Carlo ads for Paris Match 225 Poland Polskie Radio with Abba and commercials 234 Luxembourg RTL in French 243 Denmark Danmarks Radio. The mast is repaired, obviously 252 Ireland RTE 1 261 Russia Radio Rossii // 261 270 Czech Republic Ceský Rozlas 279 Belarus Belaruskye Radio Not all of them with 100 % id, but these all normal loggings here. As usual I used my AOR AR7030, but my K9AY doesn't work at the moment, so I used a 30 meter longwire. 73 from a very wintry western Sweden/ Johan Berglund (outside) Trollhättan ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2006 is out. Order yours from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059367/hardcoredxcom/ ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://arizona.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] 7120 Wantok Radio Light
Hi all, on 7120 I usually have Xinjiang with Kyrgyz until 1230 UT, but Wantok Radio Light has been well over the threshold many times lately, today Sat Jan 14, too. Christian songs, some of them with choires singing in a South Pacific style. From 1300 Radio Romania. Their carrier seems to begin warming up at different times, e.g. 1253, as today, sometimes as late as 1259. 7120 is at times full of ham operators, today with a funny-sounding whistle concert when one of them was, I think, trying to start up a repeater. So there is a window to hear Wantok Radio Light between 1230 and 1300. 73/Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden AOR AR7030 30 m LW ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2006 is out. Order yours from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059367/hardcoredxcom/ ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://arizona.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] A few MV loggings
Hi, a few loggings this Monday morning Nov 28, 2005 1386 0805 UK : LPAM hospital radio station Carillon Radio just above noise level with 100 % ID. The S-meter wasn't reacting at all. Just 1 watt. 1404 0830 France : Two stations, France Info and Radio Blue equally good att the same time, so I couldn't tell what station was airing what. But one of them had news from Ajaccio, Corsica and Radio Corsa Frequenza Mora was mentioned - as the source, perhaps. Acccording to the European-African Medium Wave Guide, the Ajaccio station does not carry local programs at this hour. To add to the confusion I felt, two Romanian stations took over, and when I managed to phase them out I heard just France Info. 1413 0825 UK : BBC Radio Gloucestershire w/ very good signal and at least one more UK station in the background. From 0845 I had to deal with incoming phone-calls and other matters and now att 0925 I have tuned to : 1431 0925 UK : Classic Gold Breeze w/ oldies and weak signal. 1440 0937 Lux: DRM noise spilling up to 1449 1449 0945 UK : BBC Radio 4 // 198 with religious program 1458 0953 UK : BBC Radio Newcastle dominating, but BBC Radio Cumbria is here too. 1548 1000 UK : Magic AM, Sheffield is usually not the strongest UK station at my place, but it is definitely so right now. Wonderful signal. Awaiting a visitor any minute, I hurry to send this. Good DX to all. Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden AOR AR7030, K9AY ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2006 is coming out. Order yours from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059367/hardcoredxcom/ ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://arizona.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] 7120 kHz
Hi, Oct 31 1225-1255 7120 Wantok Radio Light with very good id at 1233. Weak to fair, but at times terrible splashes from adjacent qrgs. From 1255 carrier on 7120 and at 1300 station in Romanian (?). Also momentarily cw and U.K. hams in USB too. Those are not supposed to be in this range, I think. They might have been com radio stations, anyway very Scottish accent. Besides some talk in English, just a male voices, christian songs. I was too late to hear anything readable at 0800 on 1570 ,1640 and 1700 yoday.Signals were to weak and fading.to day.New try tomorrow morning. I is long overdue for me to invest in new up-to- date frequency lists and and I mus't forget to set the alarm clock. Despite reading a lot of dx news on the web and getting interesting loggings, the AOR AR70 has recently shown some malfuntionings. The clock wont't readjust, the sync-lock won't work as it should and the reason I think are cracks in some solering. Even if I could get help from the rx homesite, I would dare to try to repair it myself . Any seggustions ?. Over the years I have had little or no contact with the guy who sold it to me. His name is Stefan Wikander, but I have lost contact with him, even his mail address. Anyone knows that ? I would very much appareciate any help from anyone. Good DX-in and Many 73s from Johan Berglund, Trollhättan. Sweden. . ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is out. Order yours from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://arizona.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] NORDX under way
Hi, from a usally very lazy Dx-er I got the NORDX 2004 list of countries and competition rules from the web, and got (sorta) turned on. Now at 1400UTC Oct16 2004 Sat I've 15 out of 30 countries recorded, taped and logs written. Two px's were for DX-ers : A Voz Cristã 21500 in Portuguese, and RAE 9690 in German. The Antarctica station on 15476 was heard very well two days before the competition started, but not last nights. Cxs will change I hope. A few countries will be impossible or very hard to log I think. R Bayrak 6150 is as far I can see off the air. Well on radio, anything can happen very fast, so keep tuning and listening 73 from Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden AOR AR7030, K9AY, random wire ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2004 is out! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059685/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] Re: Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 22, Issue 6
Hi all, Logs 4982U 1430 Oct04 BEL Minsk utility station relaying a Belarus FM channel. Very good./Berglund, Sweden 5770 1300 Oct03 BRM Burmese (Myanmar)Army Station. Fair to good. Very exotic mx this time.. Nx in languages you'd never heard of. /Berglund, Sweden Two unidentified : 5860 1700 Oct0204 ME or South Asia, probably one of many clandestines moving around Weak to fair. /Berglund, Sweden 6340.04 1545 Oct 05 Kurdistani or Turkish station.Very good. With phone-ins.( Also vy poor, right at the time of writing this, Oct06 1345UT. Despite PC turned on) /Berglund, Sweden QSLs this year : With the new country counting for SWLs, I got one new (LVA) : LVA European Music Radio via Latvia 9290 card, letter (I also spent some phone money talking to the the DJ - Tom - after - the transmission. HE was in England, the TX in Latvia. DJI Radio Sawa 1431 email with screen-saver and the lot S Radio Kinnekulle, Götene 1584 card G Desi Radio, Southall, 1602 letter 73 Johan Berglund Trollhattan, Sweden AOR7030, K9AY and 50 m random wire ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2004 is out! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059685/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] QSL Desi Radio
Hi, some sparks from me A QSL from Desi Radio, Southall, in the west of London, 1602 kHz, was found in my letterbox of ordinary mail. I filtered it out a few days ago from the enormous amount of commercial prints and newspapers usually stuffed into it after two or three days of abcense. Desi Radio was heard here with marvellous reception on Jan 13, 2004 around 17UT. Lists say they are with just 70 watts, which seems incredibly low. But at that hour they beat anything on that frequency. Px are in Panjabi with a lot of ids in EE. The letter is obviously computer-designed and very nicely put, and signed by Ms Amarjit Khera, Chair of The Panjabi Centre. They are on 30 Sussex Rd.,Southall, Middlesex UB2 5EG, U.K, and on email [EMAIL PROTECTED] . 73 Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden AOR AR7030 K9AY ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2004 is out! Only $20.97 through us. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059685/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] 981 flop, Jan 15 2004
Re 981 on Jan 15. No not a single trace of a different tx than the usual ones could be heard here. This well advertised attempt was a total flop, here at a distance of about 50 miles from the tx. I live in the countryside outside Trollhättan, have a fairly good K9AY, and the day before Desi Radio (...from the south of Southall , this is Desi Radio...) was coming in with S6 at 18 UTC on 1602. Desi Radio is listed with 70 watts. I allowed myself to joke about it in Swedish to a friend who tried 981 inside Trollhättan, and of course he had failed too. I wrote something like this : ---I can't but believe that the guy doesn't know anything about AM low power broadcasting. Probably the transmission took place from some underground bunker with the output antenna wire down the sewage pipe. Can't tell, perhaps the transmission was heard in some bunker next door... Now I read that it was a technical failure. Why no tests before the real attempt ? All I can say, good luck if you try again, however I will not waste my time. 73 Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2004 is coming out! Preorder yours now! Only $20.97 through us. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059685/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] Re: Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 10, Issue 12
Re items answered directly to you before they are even in the list. It happens to me now and then - the reason being I think is that diffent servers and mail programs work in different ways. How it comes about I don't know. Not a real problem (I use Outlook Express 6.0) but of course you get surprised from time to time. 73 Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden Björn wrote Hi all, To all of you, who tried to solve my 4600 kHz problem. Thanks a lot! I am quite sure that you are right. It must have been the Korean voice I heard. An interesting thing about Hard-Core-DX accurred again (because it has accurred before): I read your answers before my question was published on my Hotmail inbox! So you get the message and are able to answer it before it has even been published on Hotmail! Can anybody tell how it works and why it works like that? 73 from Björn Fransson, DX-ing on the island of Gotland, Sweden _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- Message: 2 Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:42:16 +0200 From: BCLNEWS.IT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [HCDX] Re: Utility or spy? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 So you get the message and are able to answer it before it has even been published on Hotmail! Can anybody tell how it works and why it works like that? Sorry, I can't solve also this question but I think an Hotmail account receives messagges later than a normal provider. Bye Roberto Scaglione http://www.bclnews.it -- Message: 3 Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 13:32:02 +0200 From: Alfredo Gallerati [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [HCDX] VOM FREQUENCY TABLE To: HCDX Hard Core DX List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 The frequencies at present in use by the italian service of VOM Malta ( 6110 kHz, 9605kHz ) from RAI Int. relay service, will be the same also after 25th October 2003. In case they will update some of frequencies, we'll let you know on HCDX list. Thank you. Best greetings. ... Alfredo Gallerati Voice of The Mediterranean Malta Redazione Onde Radio mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onde Radio on line: www.vomradio.com . -- Message: 4 Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 09:44:56 +0100 From: Noel R. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [HCDX] Unidentified To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 For two days I have been hearing a unidentified station using 7260. On Oct.5th it was traced c1535 at weak strength playing non-de-script music with occasional announcements using a language I could not recognise. It was covered by VOA via Udorn making a crash start at 1600 with their Hindi programme. On Oct.6th there were traces of something on 7260 before 1500, but after that hour I could again hear music - sounding like 'dreamy' SE Asian pop music we sometimes find on stations from that area and intro by a woman. A man and woman were heard talking at 1519 and then the music continued as before. The signal was again weak and splash came from AIR 7255 [til 1545] and SWDR 7265. The VOA again blocked the frequency from 1600 [active until 1700]. I re-tuned 7260 c1728 and found what seemed to be the same station with a slightly better signal. The language sounded something like Arabic at tune in, then music followed and varied from Indian like to Middle Eastern like. Iran came on frequency at 1750 and started Russian at 1800. I don't find anything listed for 7260 at 1500 or 1730. Can anyone identify this signal? 73s, Noel R. Green [north-west England] -- Message: 5 Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 08:28:17 -0700 (PDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick Martin) Subject: [HCDX] New EWE Antenna To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII After using my new improved EWE for the past couple of mornings, I am impressed. Even though TP CX are not as good as a few days ago, the antenna works well. Getting the vertical sections straight has made a big difference, plus I have discovered that my neighbors light dimmer noise is quite a bit weaker. The noise must be more horizonally polarized I would guess. I still get a bit of it, but it is not much of an issue. Taiwan-981 was pretty decent this morning. The best I have heard them this year. 738/1143, The Fishery Taiwanese stations were also good with 738 a bit stronger. The BCC
[HCDX] Fw: TIME World Watch Newsletter, September 1, 2003
Hi, in a fast-moving world DX-ers will slowly have to adopt to these totally new names. All credits to Time World Watch Newsletter for this information. We had the fall of communism, then several changes in India and now these. Perhaps lucky for us, the shortwave and mediumwave bands are not really crammed by local stations in the Republic if South Africa. But a change it surely is. From: Time Europe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 7:16 PM Subject: TIME World Watch Newsletter, September 1, 2003 September 1, 2003 = T I M EM A G A Z I N E www.timeeurope.com | www.timeasia.com | www.time.com SOUTH AFRICA: All Change, Please One of the first things most African nations did at independence was to change their colonial-era place names to African ones. Not so in South Africa, where, to help keep the peace in the early days of black rule, most cities, towns and streets retained the old names of apartheid. When the mayor of Pretoria, Smangaliso Mkhatshwa, recently suggested renaming the city Tshwane, the area's name before the arrival of white settlers, white residents protested that the change would be costly and, according to a petition drawn up by students at the University of Pretoria, show contempt for history. But a name change, says the mayor, is backed by many of Pretoria's black residents, who resent living in a city named for Andries Pretorius, a leader of the Afrikaners' march of settlement. Here's a look at other South African places where new names have been adopted or proposed . OLD:Pretoria NEW:Tshwane Expect fierce resistance but eventual change OLD: Johannesburg NEW: Egoli The Zulu name is already used informally OLD: Transvaal NEW: Gauteng Sotho word meaning Place of Gold was adopted in 1995 OLD: Pretoria NEW:Tshwane Expect fierce resistance but eventual change OLD: Kruger National Park NEW: Mandela National Park Controversial at home, but may be popular with the tourists OLD: Cape Town NEW: Ikapa Despite pressure from hard-line nationalists, the change is unlikely 73 Johan Berglund, Vabacksvägen 10, Trollhättan, Sweden ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2003 is out! Order it now! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059677/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] Re: Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 6, Issue 23
Bogdan wrote : Hello all ! I wonder why European MW radio stations use powers of several hundreds and sometimes thousands of kWs ? Is it because in Europe, there are much more concrete buildings than in North America, where there is much more absorption of radio waves and the skywave signals of international MW stations like TWR-1467 need to scatter through a window to be audible in a concrete building since the ceilings are in concrete in the direction of the ionosphere ? Or is it more because of some organisations less strict than the FCC (or the CRTC) wich don't allow a power limit (like here in North America where 50 kW is the power limit on MW) ? Enquiring/curious minds wants to know ! 73 and good DX, Bogdan Hi, I think this is a good question and I think that I have at least some part of the answer. When radio came around in the twenties Europe was - and is still despite the efforts for a European Union - a continent which is split into some fourty countries. Countries, not radio stations overseen by e.g. the FCC, divided up the MW band in the twenties, and as you know WWII, suceeded by the the Cold War made it impossible to change anything. European countries have more or less kept all old frequncies and their right to broadcast with so and so much ERP. Some use their rights, some don't. Sweden has left MW all together, except for 1187 which is used for Radio Sweden. Another point is that most European governments very selflishly monopolized broadcasting and only allowed state-run broadcasting. So in a few words : The reasons, for this being as it is, are historical. 73 Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden PS. Bogdan, forget about concrete buildnings. They have nothing to do with the matter. ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2003 is out! Order it now! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059677/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www2.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] 531 Faroe Islands
Faroe Islands. 531 1200 Jan 8 Útvarp Foroya,Tórshavn really booming in. Definitely advertisements on this channel -apartment with airconditioning for sale, etc. One more oddobservation. NRK1 with same px as on 630 heard under this North Atlantic tx.Is this some prank on behalf of my receiver ? It seldom acts this way. A hunch anyone ? NRK1 on 531 United Kingdom. 792 My logging of BBC Radio Foyle, Londonderry, Northen Irelandon Jan 7 at 1200 could not be repeated on Jan 8. NDR4 was there again in force. 73 Johan Berglund, Trollhattan, Sweden AOR AR7030, K9AY ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2003 will be out soon. Order it now! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/095358643X/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www2.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] Radio Foyle
U.K 792 at 1200 Jan 7, 2003. From Londonderry, Northern Ireland, "BBCRadio Foyle News". After a short local news bulletin it was back to the same px as 1341 Radio Ulster. It was the only readable signal here, no trace of NDR4 so perhaps they have moved ?? Later in the afternoon France Info dominating. 73 Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden AR703 K9AY ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2003 will be out soon. Order it now! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/095358643X/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www2.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] Las Palmas
Hi, tho very inactive at the moment, I send out this feeler : Going to Gran Canary on Sat Nov 2, just for a week. Hotel and which playa only known upon arrival, but surely there'll be some time over for DX-contacts. Anybody who knows aboutlocal DX-ers or perhaps even clubson this island ? I cannot promise anything, but I will try to investigate the whereabouts of the tx of 6715U.I have heard it too. The program source was revealed I see.Now I amscraping up the leads I have seen in HCDX and other sources. [Believe it or not, but I remember well a Korean connection of my own from that island. I was guiding a bussload of Swedishtourists up in the mountains in 1973, I think, among the passengers were half a dozen of really Nordic blond and tall girls. At a stop at one of the calderas we found another tourist bus parked there. It was stranded and the driver was sweating to do some repairs. His passengers were standing about, obviously already tired of the views and waiting to get on. They were all Korean sailors, and now they really got something interesting to look at. I asked Pusan ? and they all smiled and nodded. My group had their view of the volcano and we left, but first I had to throw out a couple of Korean guyswho had follwed the girls onboard our bus. We waved them goodbye. That's theclosest to ethnic cleansing I have come - and that cruel expression became known only many yearslater] 73 Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden. (Sony ICF-SW7600G while on vacation.)
[HCDX] Small modification
Re Radio Altura Radio Altura is on 5009.55 to be exact, and the program was "Boleros y baladas de oro". This station seems to be a hard qsl-er, am I right ? Btw is theaddress (Pasaje Tarma 127, Chaupimarca) in WRTH 2002 the correct one ? 73 Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden
