[HCDX] Log Report for Al Muick 27 February 2012
QTH:Whitehall, Pennsylvania, USA RX: WinRadio G303e ANT:Wellbrook ALA1530P active loop 580 WHP, Harrisburg PA, heard at 0905 UTC on 27 February with special DX test for IRCA, NRC, et al. Male announcement of test and its purpose, sponsors and station address along with QSL guidelines, all under a slow speed CW ID. Good reception here with minimal QRM from CFRA Ottawa, and no sign of WKAQ, San Juan PR. 1460 WTKT, Harrisburg PA, heard at 0848 on 27 February with special DX test, with announcement as in WHP above and Morse. Fair signal, but fading bad at times in the mix of other US stations on channel. It appears, at least this hour, that the test was three minutes late in this slot. I'm glad I stuck around on-frequency to see if anything was going to be heard! ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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] Log Report for Al Muick 29 January 2012
Hi Al and all, take care when reading the csv file, it does include many inactive entries for a reason. The last three entries of each line give a clue if and when the entry is active: - If the first of the three is a 6, the entry was/is/will be active for the dates specified, e.g.: 6;3010;1911 means active from 30 October til 19 November of the current season, inactive on other dates (cancelled txion, changed frequency, ...) This is useful when you check your logs on a later date when the transmission has already been cancelled and deleted from the up-to-date databases. - If the first of the three is an 8, the entry is INACTIVE until further notice. This is used for domestic stations that might come back at random, or for some wooden entries when I don't know which of them actually will be used. When the station is clearly IDed to be on the air, then I just change the 8 to a 0 to make the entry active. Entries such marked as inactive are not copied into the bc and freq files, which are generated from the csv file with a date filter. These and more codes are explained in the readme.txt. Sorry for the confusion! 73, Eike Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:46:45 -0500 Von: Albert Muick radioresearch_field_operati...@yahoo.com An: d...@yahoogroups.com, hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Betreff: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Log Report for Al Muick 29 January 2012 All, Due to circumstances beyond my control, I missed the 1430 UTC ID or The language is definitely *NOT* Arabic, so please disregard my logging of Oman on this frequency yesterday. Unless someone comes up with any evidence to the contrary, I am going to call this Vo Iran in Hindi. I have just sent you a copy of the .csv file from EiBi from 15 January 2012 listing Oman in the 1400-1730 time slot. Could not send it to -- Empfehlen Sie GMX DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir belohnen Sie mit bis zu 50,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.gmx.de ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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] Log Report for Al Muick 29 January 2012
QTH:Whitehall, Pennsylvania, USA RX: WinRadio G303e ANT:Wellbrook ALA1530P active loop BRASIL Radio Brasil Central 11815, coming in about S4 right now at 2350 UTC on January 29 2012. This could be a good night for Brazilians. Playing Brazilian and international oldies and pops with thundering, full IDs by male announcer in Portuguese. Heard Badfinger's Day After Day from their live album, which was rather nice to hear. Killed by REE Digital DRM sign-on at 2356, but the REE DRM signal faded down many times and was drowned out by Brasil Central. REE is beamed to South America, so Brasil central apparently can overcome the back-of-the-beam field strength. BRASIL Radio Clube do Pará 4885 caught with very strong signals at 0442 UTC on 29 January 2012 with Brazilian music with latin beat. Lots of IDs and commercials as well in Portuguese. Really enjoyable. Makes me definitely want to go see Carnival! OMAN Radio Sultanate of Oman 13750, caught at 1433 with Arabic to eastern Africa. Koranic chanting into long-winded discussion program between two men. Fair signals, considering the broadcast is supposed to be beamed to eastern Africa. ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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] Log Report for Al Muick 29 January 2012
Al, Are you sure about Oman? I haven`t seen this reported before. Not in EiBi or Aoki, but in HFCC, likely one of several wooden registrations from them. But Iran in Hindi is on 13750 at 1430-1530, and at that hour would have been starting the transmission in Arabic (Qur`an). Since this was Sunday, lucky that Cuba was not on 13750 until later for Alo, Presidente. 73, Glenn Hauser --- On Sun, 1/29/12, Albert Muick radioresearch_field_operati...@yahoo.com wrote: OMAN Radio Sultanate of Oman 13750, caught at 1433 with Arabic to eastern Africa. Koranic chanting into long-winded discussion program between two men. Fair signals, considering the broadcast is supposed to be beamed to eastern Africa. ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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] Log Report for Al Muick 29 January 2012
Hi Glenn, EiBi has Oman here 1400-1730 UTC in their 15 January update. I'm also wondering if Iran would have had the Arabic Koranic chanting on a Hindi program? Haven't listened to Iran in ages, so I do not know for sure. Is there anyone else has heard this? Guess I did get lucky with Cuba. Was surprised that they were not there. I will give it another shot tomorrow before I make a final call on it, unless someone else has some input one way or the other. Let us move this one onto the tentative pile until I can have a crack at it again tomorrow. I didn't come across the signal until 1433, so the sign-on would be a definite giveaway! You're more than likely right and it is a wooden entry, but now I've got to make sure. 73 Al Muick On 1/29/2012 19:31, Glenn Hauser wrote: Al, Are you sure about Oman? I haven`t seen this reported before. Not in EiBi or Aoki, but in HFCC, likely one of several wooden registrations from them. But Iran in Hindi is on 13750 at 1430-1530, and at that hour would have been starting the transmission in Arabic (Qur`an). Since this was Sunday, lucky that Cuba was not on 13750 until later for Alo, Presidente. 73, Glenn Hauser --- On Sun, 1/29/12, Albert Muickradioresearch_field_operati...@yahoo.com wrote: OMAN Radio Sultanate of Oman 13750, caught at 1433 with Arabic to eastern Africa. Koranic chanting into long-winded discussion program between two men. Fair signals, considering the broadcast is supposed to be beamed to eastern Africa. ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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] Log Report for Al Muick
QTH:Whitehall, Pennsylvania, USA RX: WinRadio G303e ANT:Wellbrook ALA1530P active loop oriented NNW-ESE AUSTRALIA, VMW Wiluna Meteo, 12362 USB, heard at 2140 on 06 January 2012 with maritime weather including sea heights. Several IDs. Male voice had that borderline quality where it was hard to tell if it was real or synth'ed. Very weak, but no QRM and no major QSB. At this time of day, probably due to the loop qualities and orientation. BRAZIL (TENT)., Possibly Radio Aparecida on 11855 at 2350 on 06 January 2012 with long talks by a woman in Portuguese, then a booming announcement by a man and continued talk. Station was weak and somewhat under-modulated, so I could not get a clear enough ID even on USB or Synch AM. Another long booming announcement on the hour, and definitely Portuguese, so I am going with Aparecida, supposedly running only 1kW. Time to do the Snoopy Dance! After only a couple of weeks of arguing with my local utility (PPL), I finally got them to repair the 500kV transmission line which runs about 300m behind my property and was a real buzzkill almost 24/7. They also cleaned up a few of their utility poles again. Now 518kHz is free for NAVTEX DX and overall noise is down about 15dbB. I am now at something approaching normal listening conditions. 73 Al ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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] Log Report for Al Muick 23 December 2011
QTH:Whitehall, Pennsylvania, USA RX: WinRadio G303e ANT:Wellbrook ALA1530P active loop, oriented NNW-ESE JAPAN (non), Furusato no Kaze, 9550, transmitting from Taiwan, in Japanese with talk by female and male announcers. Heard at 1337 UTC on 23 December. Announcements were interspersed with short instrumental jingles or sound effects. SINPO 45434. Positive ID at 1345 UTC. They've had a bit of jamming in the past, but today I noticed nothing. I wonder if North Korea has its hands too full with other matters at the moment? KOREA, SOUTH, HLO Seoul Radio Coastal Station, 12843, heard at 2250 UTC on 23 December pounding the brass with a Morse CQ channel marker. SINPO 25522. Unusual to hear them at my QTH this time of day. I presume it's due to the loop antenna. This station is a very friendly QSLer, BTW. USA, WLW, Cincinnati Ohio, 700, heard at 0051 UTC on 23 December with a slew of commercial announcements, station IDs and a short news/weather break. Heard a commercial for Skyline Chili, which, by all accounts, is some pretty decent grub. Like a local at SINPO 45544. Could not hear the QRM for the strength of this signal today. 73 Al Muick Whitehall, PA USA ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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] Log Report for Al Muick 19 December 2011 - CORRECTION RE VOICE OF PUJIAN
QTH:Whitehall, Pennsylvania, USA RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: Wellbrook ALA1530P active loop 9705 - The station I reported as tentative, Voice of Pujian, Shanghai China, has been investigated by both myself and Ron Howard, and it seems that it is indeed the Voice of America from Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands, and NOT Pujian. I have no explanation for hearing Pujian spoken twice, outside of completely probable coincidence as well as bad ears and wishful thinking. Nevertheless, there always existed some doubt in my mind, and that is why I listed it as tentative. I heard VoA's sign-on at 1300 today, with a much clearer signal than yesterday. EiBi does list Pujian on during this time frame, but Pujian's own website http://www.yicai.com/news/2010/12/641494.html lists all their shortwave frequencies but this one. I have been shown communications between other DXers stating that 9705 is a summer frequency, but EiBi and even WRTH 2012 do not show this. This is disappointing, but it is yet another reminder to me to always make triple sure of logs and to mark things tentative when one is not 100% sure. Thanks to Ron Howard for his help and guidance in this matter! 73 Al Muick Whitehall, PA USA ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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
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QTH:Whitehall, Pennsylvania, USA RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: Wellbrook ALA1530P active loop, oriented N-S 560 CANADA, CFOS, Owen Sound, Ontario, heard at 1101 UTC with short local news, into some international news, full station ID, and anti-drink-driving PSA and the morning show with Fred and Bob. SINPO 43533 with co-channel QRM. The station is a reduced-power nighttime operation with 7.5kW/1kW. If the Canadian DOC rules track with the FCC regulations, then this would have been before local sunrise and operating at 1kW. 9705 CHINA (*TENT*), Voice of Pujiang, Shanghai, heard at 1347 UTC on 19 December with presumed Mandarin talks by female announcer with short telephone recordings of a male speaker. Mention of Pujiang at 1348 then into another announcement by a male, also mentioning Pujiang, then more from the female announcer, interspersed with a fast-paced music bed and telephonic announcements by the male. At 1354 there was a bit of music and then there appeared to be an English lesson, with the English read by a man and translated by a woman. At 1358 CRI suddenly came on 9700 with an Chinese lesson and the VoA swamped 9705 and Pujiang was lost. SINPO 35522 until decimated at 1358. Can anyone confirm that Pujiang does any kind of English lessons? The IDs seemed to fit, but the English lessons threw me off. This is the only station scheduled here during this time frame. 11714.8 USA, KJES New Mexico, heard at 1445 UTC on 19 December with scripture read by female with children answering. SINPO 45533. 15260 CANADA, Polskie Radio via Sackville in Polish heard at 2218 UTC on 19 December with news and commentary. Only SINPO 45433 and a very unstable fading condition. 73 Al Muick Whitehall PA USA ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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] Log Report for Al Muick
QTH:Whitehall, Pennsylvania, USA RX: WinRadio G303e ANT:Wellbrook ALA1530P active loop (oriented N-S) ACC:Hoka Code 300-32 Demodulator v3.08 5890, USA, VoA Greenville, heard with Spanish programming about world journalism at 0118 UTC on 13 December 2011. SINPO 55544. Hoping to get their QSL direct as discussed earlier in DXLD. They're only 365 miles down the road from me, but after the appeal for reports direct, I kinda feel obligated. ;-) 5970 BRAZIL, Radio Itatiaia, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, heard at 0054 UTC on December 13 2011 with comedy show, station ID's, news and sports clips. Lots of sound effects in the comedy show as well as a canned laugh track! SINPO 35433 6925 USA (PIRATE) Radio Ronin, heard at 0006 UTC on 13 December 2011 with modern rock and station IDs. Asking for reports at radioroninshortwave(at)gmail(dot)com. Off at 0024 UTC. SINPO 45433. 19689.4 SOUTH AFRICA, ZSC Cape Town Radio, heard at 2030 UTC on December 12 sending Globe Wireless Dataplex using identifier D2. SINPO 35433 25910 USA, WBAP Fort Worth, TX, studio-transmitter link. FM Modulation heard at 1919 UTC on 12 December 2011 with traffic and weather reports, local news and radical right-winger Rush Limbaugh's syndicated show. SINPO 45533 25990 USA, KSCS Arlingon TX, studio-transmitter link. FM modulation, heard at 1901 UTC on 12 December 2011 with lots of local commercial announcements and country music with a female DJ. SINPO 45533. Well, I have to say the Wellbrook loop definitely is much, much better than my straight 100m longwire. My line noise and other locally generated junk is down at least 35-40 dB. The loop really was a good investment and it has paid off with my first logging of Radio Itatiaia! 73s Al Muick ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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] Log Report for Al Muick
QTH:Whitehall, Pennsylvania, USA RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: Wellbrook ALA1530P active loop 530 CANADA, CIAO Toronto, in Hindi with subcontinental music and commercial announcements with telephone numbers given in English. Heard at 1006 UTC on 12 December 2011. SINPO 42433 with bad QRM from Enciclopedia Cuba, co-channel. 8422 GUAM, US Coast Guard Station NRV heard at 1317 UTC on 12 December 2011 with SITOR bursts and morse IDs as NRV. SINPO 34543 9280 TAIWAN, WYFR relay in special English with sermon. Heard at 1249 UTC on December 12, 2011. SINPO 35433. I can almost imagine the guy at the pulpit waiving his arms very slowly and slow-motion thumping the good book as he speaks this. Special English seems to have all but disappeared from the bands. 9335 KOREA, NORTH, Voice of Korea KCBS, heard at 1235 UTC on December 12 2011. Very irate sounding woman (or higher pitched man) ranting away in Korean. Almost laughable. Also played glorious march music for the enjoyment of the listening audience. SINPO 45433. This is supposedly aimed at Latin America, which begs the question of how many people in Latin America actually speak Korean and listen to this? For a nation that is so broke, they sure expend a lot of money sending their propaganda to an area where the language is probably not understood. 9350 TAJIKISTAN, Radio Free Asia, heard at 1210 UTC on December 12 2011 with Tibetan talk and RFA jingles. SINPO 25432 11890 SINGAPORE, BBC Relay heard at 1448 UTC on December 12 2011 with English talk and commentary. SINPO 35423. Very fluttery propagation. 17745 UNITED KINGDOM, Sudan Radio service via Woofferton (per EIBE listing in 11 December CSV table) with Arabic talk and African music, at 1620 UTC on December 12 2011. SINPO 45433. 21495 FRENCH GUIANA, TDF DRM test heard at 1729 UTC on 12 December 2011 with banging sigs at 20db SNR and gone suddently at 1736, with possible antenna switch or tx off. Briefly re-appeared at only 8dB SNR and then gone altogether. Requesting reports to engenharia(dot)radio(at)ebc(dot)com(dot)br and engenharia(at)ebc(dot)com(dot)br via the infor bar scroll. I am *very* impressed with the noise cancelling and properties and superior performance of the Wellbrook loop which I just installed yesterday evening! I can now hear things that were in the dirt and noise with my previous longwire. I am hearing a lot of NDBs as well and plan to spend a lot more time on the tropical, mediumwave and LF bands now. 73 Al Muick ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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] Log Report for Al Muick
QTH:Whitehall, Pennsylvania, USA RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: 100m longwire 518 ICELAND, TFK Grindavik Radio, heard at 0354 UTC on 14 November 2011, in SITOR-B with NAVTEX transmissions in English. Fair signals but very clear as no one else was operating on freq at the time. This is my first trans-Atlantic NAVTEX reception! I will be interested to see what the antenna type and power are if they QSL. 4645 USB ESTONIA, Tallinn VOLMET, heard early afternoon here at 1924 UTC on 13 November 2011, with English aviation weather and ILS approach information. Just barely peaking above the noise and the horrible interference from French NATO Station FUG on 4644.8 kHz. The QRM was so extreme, that the station barely was audible even on peaks. FUG runs NATO STANAG 4285 modulation which sounds a lot like the old multichannel FSK transmitters, i.e. a roaring plane engine, however this is pure PSK and about 3.3 kHz wide. I checked on several European remote receivers and the QRM is just as bad there, which makes me wonder exactly how effective this station is in providing its service to its intended targets. Propagation is definitely getting better, as it seems to me that 4645 would definitely be towards the LOF/LUF for that time of day. The Estonian station is supposed to be a 24/7 operations, so hopefully others will be able to hear it at their QTH's as well. 73 Al Muick ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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] Log Report for Al Muick
1 BRAZIL PPE Time Station. Heard easily under WWV at this QTH on 03 September 2011 at 0040 UTC. Female voice saying Observatoria Nacional, then time, then three pips before the minute followed by a pip every ten seconds during the minute. Heard best in USB mode. I know, I know, nothing special, but it's been a slow week. 73 Al Muick QTH:Whitehall, Pennsylvania, USA RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: 100m longwire ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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
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QTH:Pattaya, Thailand RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: 20m longwire HAPPENING NOW 4810 UNID Heard at 2122 UTC on 20 June with two men in English talk, mentioning lots of factors that have to be considered, very, very lucky to be here. Decent signal level even after local sunrise here in Pattaya. Continuous talk in English, but then seem to have slipped into another language by 2150. Bad static, but without QRM. Still going strong at 2207 UTC!! One of the guys seemed to have an English accent. OK, so Armenia does not seem to be scheduled at this time, and no other Indian stations are on at this time. Any ideas on this? Couldn't sleep so managed to catch this, and now it's nagging at me. Probably I'm missing something, but help would be appreciated. 73 de Al ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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
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QTH:Pattaya, Thailand RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: 20m longwire 5030 MALAYSIA Radio Sarawak FM, heard 15 June at 1548 UTC with female vocal pops and announcements in Bahasa Malaysia by male announcer. Bad static tonight. Went off-air at 1600 as per schedule. Kinda weak even for 10kW. 6030 ETHIOPIA Radio Oromiya, heard at 1648 on June 15 with African music interspersed with male announcer talking, like a news highlights show with a report by a female announcer. Many Radio Oromiya IDs. Very strong signal with a somewhat fluttery fade. I've seen it spelled Oromiya and Orimiya. The announcements sound like Oromiya to me. 73 de Al ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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
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QTH:Pattaya, Thailand RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: 20m longwire 6049.67 MALAYSIA, 12 June, 0845 UTC, Radio Asyik, regional service in vernacular with lots of DJ patter and Malaysian pops. Running a little off of nominal frequency, but with decent signal level when the band is otherwise dead. 6175 MALAYSIA, 12 June, 0856 UTC, Suara Islam (Voice of Islam), regional service in English, heard initially with Arabic-style vocal by soft-voiced male, when suddenly drums started and there was a bit of pop music, Arabic-style as well. Kinda catchy. I wonder if this is Islamic Rock, as opposed to Christian Rock? ID by a female announcer and time pips on the hour into news read by a female announcer. She got tripped up over several news items on Indonesia. 6765 USB THAILAND, 12 June, 0907 UTC, Bangkok Meteorological Radio, with weather forecasts in Thai and English read by a man. These guys issue a very nice QSL card, so it's well worth the while to make the effort to log them. They are very friendly and happy to receive reports! 7906 USB VIETNAM, 12 June, 0916 UTC, Ho Chi Minh Radio coastal station. Maritime weather being read by female announcer in English with coordinates and thereafter in Vietnamese. Series of beeps at 0920 and then apparently off-air, to be replaced by another station, which was in the grass and not identifiable. 73 de Al ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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] Log Report for Al Muick
QTH:Pattaya, Thailand RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: 20m longwire 6165, TCHAD, 11 June, 1810 UTC, RN Tchadienne, with shouted announcements in French by male announcer into a five minute drum solo. Station ID by a woman at 1815, then into talk show with a man in both French and some Arabic. Seemed to have some vernacular programming mixed in, although I will admit that my French is execrable. Very good signal level with some fluttery fades. 9559.79, ETHIOPIA, 11 June, 1713 UTC, Radio Ethiopia external service in French with lots of African drum music and male vocals and occasional French announcements. Good signals with slight fade. Apparently slightly off frequency. 9835, MALAYSIA, 11 June 2011, 1642 UTC, RM Sarawak FM, heard with call-in show into time pips and full ID in Bahasa Malaysia as news on the hour. Fair signals and regular fades, so presume I'm catching the fringe of the signal as it skips over me. Pretty much alone on the freq. My Afghanistan contract is finally finished after three years (!) and I am taking a few well-deserved months off. I have had no time for DX'ing since shortly after New Year, and only have the job to blame for that. Pattaya is normally an extremely noisy environment, but I managed to score an apartment on the 11th floor of the View Talay VI building in Central Pattaya. The noise level is quite tolerable, even if my antenna is of somewhat limited length. Mediumwave is suffering a lot of noise, so until I resolve that issue, there won't be any DX on there! I am eyeballing a tall tree in the adjacent vacant lot as an anchor point for a longer antenna, but don't want any kind of trouble, so I think I'll make a few discrete inquiries first! ;-) Hope everyone is well. 73s de Al ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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] Log Report for Al Muick - 02 JAN 2011
QTH:Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: 100m longwire Anyone else hearing this? 5000 02 JAN, 0150 UTC, ISRAEL, 4XZ, Israeli Navy, Haifa. Banging away in CW on a time and frequency channel! No sign of BPM or WWVH this morning. Station was in its normal V marker, then went into 5 digit/letter groups and then back to its V marker now at 0227. At first I thought I had a spur or an image. Israel is bit too far away for most of that and I see nothing that can mix to produce this. The rest of the band is normal and I have no such effect anywhere else. My rx is not really susceptible to such. I mean, it is dead-on at 5000. This raises the question, WTF? Bad tx on their end? On purpose? Sure would make the signal easy to find. 73 Al ---[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] Log Report for Al Muick
QTH:Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: 100m longwire 6055 31 DEC, 1923 UTC, RWANDA, Radio Rwanda with telephone call-ins in French and vernacular as well as some really nice African choral music. Fairly good signals but fighting a losing battle with China, also in French on the frequency. It was a multi-station pile-up, but confirmed with streaming audio (had to download Silverlight plugin for Linux!). Happy New Year to everyone! Let's hope 2011 brings better DX for all of us. 73 Al ---[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] Log Report for Al Muick
QTH:Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan RX: WinRadio G303e ANT:100m longwire HAPPENING NOW 7234 27 DEC, 1750 UTC, UNID, French-speaking station, African accent and music bed with male announcer. Off-frequency and bad het with a carrier on 7235. I think I heard him mention Burkina Faso. Is it possible Radio Burkina is back up on a new frequency? Beat to death @1800 by 7235 s/on. Otherwise good strength. ---[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] Log Report for Al Muick - correction/addendum
QTH:Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: 100m longwire RE my 7234 logging, Alokesh Gupta contacted me with info that Radio Ethiopia was on during that time in French per the new AOKI released 26 DEC. Thanks for the help Alokesh! The reggae-style music leads me to agree with you, but they were definitely off-freq. Had my hopes too high for Burkina. :-) 73s Al ---[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] Log Report for Al Muick - 27 DEC 2010
QTH:Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan RX: WinRadio G303e ANT:100m longwire 5025 27 DEC, 0131 UTC, CUBA, Radio Rebelde with latin music and echo announcements. verified by streaming audio. Very weak at the time I caught it. I will try to get up earlier tomorrow and see if the signal is stronger. Two positive Rebelde IDs. Radio Habana also coming in on 5040 which is supposedly beamed towards North America. Much better signal on this frequency. 5045 27 DEC, 0156 UTC, BRAZIL, Radio Cultura do Para, heard in Portuguese with some Brazilian pops into a full ID by a male announcer at 0159, several commercial announcements and then news read by a woman (or a very light-voiced man). Fair signal level with some UTE QRM and a slow fade Haji sent his love and Season's Greetings on Xmas night and last night. One of the rockets hit a contractor compound and killed a person on Xmas night. The rocket last night was very close as it rocked our container buildings. Nothing quite like DXing in the combat zone. Very nice openings to the Caribbean and South America the last couple of nights. I hope it lasts for a bit yet. I never thought I'd actually *want* to hear Cuba over here, but it'll be nice if they QSL! 73s Al ---[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] Log Report for Al Muick 25 DEC 2010 Part III
QTH:Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan RX: WinRadio G303e ANT:100m longwire 7584, 25 DEC, 0621 UTC, UNID CW station repeatedly sending 751 and nothing else. Not a platter or loop because the op made several mistakes and sent a couple of BTs and dits to indicate an error. Went SK at 0623. Nothing listed in Klingenfuss. 10300, 25 DEC, 0845 UTC, CHINA, Firedrake with the jug band in full swing and going to town. Poor signals without QRM (dunno what they're trying to jam) and slight fading. 11530, 25 DEC, 0856 UTC, CLAN., Denge Mezopotamya, with Pop music and announcements by female DJ in presumed Kurdish. Very strong signals with a slight fade. No QRM. This is another one whose QSL evades me despite many reports and return postage. Same problem with Airtime Belgium, its enabler, who also promises a QSL for brokered programs. Bah! 12613, 25 DEC, 1017 UTC, CHINA, XSQ Guangzhou Radio, CW Marker and SITOR bursts. Good signals, slight fade, no QRM ---[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] Log Report for Al Muick - 25 DEC 2010
QTH:Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan RX: WinRadio G303e ANT:100m longwire 4830, 25 DEC, 0058 UTC, MONGOLIA, Mongolian R., in Mongol, and kickin' it with an instrumental version of I Just Want to Say I Love You. Great signals with a slight fade. Time pips and beautiful full ID on the hour. 4844, 25 DEC, 0106 UTC, INDIA, AIR Mumbai (tent.) in Hindi with subcontinental music and long talks by male announcer. Off of nominal 4840? Is this a planned move or has there been some detuning or a crystal that has gone for a walk? Strong signals but moderate QRM from a carrier on 4845. 4880, 25 DEC, 0112 UTC, INDIA, AIR Lucknow in Hindi with subcontinental music. Local level signals, but horrible, tinny modulation without any real depth to it. 4885, 25 DEC, 0115 UTC, BRAZIL, Radio Clube do Para in Portuguese with romantic songs and some RB. Beautiful, echo and full ID at 0128. Strong signals, no QRM, but fluttery. Incredible! This is quite the Xmas present. 7686 miles away! Supposedly only 2kW? 4895, 25 DEC, 0146 UTC, MONGOLIA, Mongolian Radio 2nd Channel, rockin' out for Xmas. Very haunting melody and music, and such good quality that it was actually a pleasure to listen to. Great signals with a slight fade. Well, a very merry Christmas to all! This is the first breather I have had in two months and I closed the office today, so I could do some DXing. I'm glad I did. It hasn't all been a joyous Holiday season tho as my mom is currently in hospital for a rather serious infection in her artificial knee. I hope all of you out there are doing much better than this! The knob-ends in the compound across our alley here have somehow converted a spark-gap transmitter into a power generator and they are blissfully destroying mediumwave and low-band DX for me. All appeals have fallen on deaf ears, so I guess they need some sugar in the fuel tank... Last night an international group of military officers got it into their small heads that somehow it might be a cool idea to go around base caroling. As Project Manager, I am also responsible for the compound and its security and their horrible screeching and jodeling combined to form a new doric scale, frightening my staff. I went out on my doorstep and held up a finger and they mistook that for a request for one more carol. The must have misidentified which finger I held up. Christmas meal is being served at the UK Cambridge Lines today and I am looking forward to the pomp and circumstance. Civilians are allowed between 1130-1230 (which, really, is kind of rushed for a Christmas meal). Hopefully I can find some outlaw alcohol somewhere on the base later, but I think mostly I'll be drinking coffee and diet coke and DXing. I'll check in more during the day as the DX rolls in. Just wanted to post these off and say hello! 73s from Al Muick in the dust of Kandahar Airfield. ---[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] Log Report for Al Muick - 25 DEC 2010 - Part II
QTH:Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan RX: WinRadio G303e ANT:100m longwire 6180, 25 DEC, 0312 UTC, CUBA, RHC in Spanish with interview and man on telephone rambling about everything from the US, to Venezuela to Palestine and Israel. No shortage of political opinions on this day. Fair level with slight interference from a station with Arabic chanting (unid.) and slight fading. Another amazing catch at 8117 miles! TXer blew the air at 0328. 6368.5, 25 DEC, 0410 UTC, SWITZERLAND, HEB Bern Radio coastal station with SITOR bursts and an occasional CQ DE HEB Morse ID. Fair signals with no QRM. 6379, 25 DEC, 0420 UTC, ISRAEL, 4XZ Israeli navy, Haifa. CW Marker. Excellent signals and no QRM. Does anyone have a working snail mail or email address for these guys? Thanks. 6435.5, 25 DEC, 0428 UTC, SWITZERLAND, HEB Bern Radio, // 6368.5 7175, 25 DEC, 0455 UTC, ERITREA, Voice of the Broad Masses with a female announcer spinning some music that sounded like a cross between Santana and Reggae. She did have a very nice voice. Fair signals with some fading and no QRM. 7405, 25 DEC, 0520, OMAN, Radio Sultanate of Oman, in Arabic with Arabic pop music and announcements by female DJ. Then into some sort of radio play. Pounding signal without QRM and very slight fading. Still more to come! 73 de Al ---[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] Log Report for Al Muick - 18 November
QTH:Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: 100m longwire 9500 18 NOV, 1815 UTC, SWAZILAND, TWR with african-accented preacher thumping the bible for all it was worth. Not sked'ed per EIBI and AOKI, but here at 1800 nonetheless. Good signal but beat up on by BBC on 9505. 9605 18 NOV, 1746 UTC, CLAN, Voice of Meselna Delina heard in presumed Tigrinya (sounds a lot like Arabic to me) with east African music and long talks by a woman. Went to pop music at 1759 for about ten seconds and then left the air. Something left at the end of the tape, maybe. About ten seconds after the transmitter left the air, the BBC came up in French. Excellent signals from Samara, Russia with no QRM and some minor fading. 11730 18 NOV, 1730 UTC, PHILIPPINES, Radio Pilipinas in Tagalog with male announcer reading news headlines. EIBI says this should be English and AOKI doesn't list it. Great. Powerhouse signal with no QRM and minimal fading. 11760 18 NOV, 1616 UTC, CLAN, Voice of Oromiyo Revolution with east African music and long-winded rants by a man. Good signals and no QRM. From Wertachtal. Will also try Media Broadcast for a QSL. Maybe get a 2-for-1 deal out of this! I'm off to Dubai in about 6 hours for a course and exam. I will be back in the dust of Kandahar on 27 November, Thanksgiving Day. Hope everyone has great DX until then! 73 Al ---[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] Log Report for Al Muick
QTH:Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: 100m longwire 6840 17 NOV, 1812 UTC, UNID numbers station with woman in English on full-carrier USB giving phonetics without numbers. Definite Russian accent (Novembyer). Good strength without QRM Another light night for DXing. I have to pop down to Dubai tomorrow to attend my certified ethical hacker course, so I will be offline for about a week after today. I will then be back with force. 73 to all, Al ---[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] Log Report for Al Muick
QTH:Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: 100m longwire 7175 16 NOV, 1529 UTC, ERITREA, Voice of the Broad Masses Program 2, heard in presumed Amharic with local music (almost oriental-sounding), into a station ID, and a pop instrumental music bed. Good signal strength and no QRM to speak of. CNRI must not have discovered this frequency yet. 7200 16 NOV, 1525 UTC, SUDAN, Sudan RTVC, Heard with man in Arabic talks with many mentions of Sudan. Fair signal, but beat up by CNRI on 7205 with a 20kHz occupied bandwidth. Sure wish the Chinese would get it together on splatter and occupied bandwidth... A light night of DX'ing. I was also listening on 7120 kHz and it seemed like Voice of the Broad Masses Program 1 was active there judging by the languages, but Chad also shares the frequency. I did not hear any French in over three hours of monitoring, but I kept hearing what I thought was N'Djamena, but might also have been Eritrea. Signal not as good as 7175 if indeed it was Eritrea. 73 Al ---[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
