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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs June 23-24, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
2. AIR plans to up FM coverage to 90% of population (Jaisakthivel)
3. June 23-24 Logs (Brian Alexander)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 08:48:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: NASWA <na...@yahoogroups.com>, s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs June 23-24, 2012
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** CANADA. Reminder to monitor the very last `Maple Leaf Mailbag` on RCI today
Sunday June 24, at 1800-1900 on 17810 & 11765 Skelton, 9530 Kashgar; and at
2000-2100 on Sackville 15235, 15330, 17735 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake June 24, before 1200:
14700, good at 1158
14950, fair at 1158-1200*
Before 1300:
13920, good at 1237; none in the 12s
14700, very good at 1240
15555, very good at 1242
15780, very good at 1241, way over 15775 VOA Korean Tinang USward
16100, very good at 1244
16920, very good at 1244
17450, JBA at 1245
After 1300:
15555, good at 1304; the only one still on past hourtop
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. 13650, June 24 at 1206, CRI English with CCI, surely V. of
Korear, followed 5 or 6 words later by 13645. 13650 is via Cerrik, ALBANIA;
13645 is via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. 14950.7, June 24 at 0058, another try at the station previously
filed under UNIDENTIFIED. Much better signal than before! Peaks at 6 bars on
the DX-398 instead of the usual zero, maybe 1. As I tune in, again mentioning
``Ciudad de Pasto`` with a phone number.
0059, plug for Cristo, 0100 Mexican music.
0107, music segu?, lyric includes ``la salvaci?n``, quote from Isa?as, YL
timecheck, more music
0113, announcement includes ``ellos no pueden esperar``, song.
0117, Bible quote, then timecheck in a different format by YL only, ``----
Est?reo informa la hora: 8 de la noche, 22 minutos``. But she`s still 5 minutes
fast! Unfortunately the canned IDs are somewhat muffled, harder to copy than
the music. And now it`s weakening.
0121 quoting another Bible vers?culo, timecheck, weaker still.
On the Pasto lead I had researched all the radio stations there, starting with
AM. There are only a few, with the best bet being per WRTH on 1250, Radio
Vida/Radio Mar?a. I later got their webcast to work and it did not have this
religious element.
The official Colombian government station list is here:
http://www.mintic.gov.co/images/documentos/radio_difusion_sonora/listado_emisoras.xls
In three different categories. Once I heard ``stereo`` I knew the originating
station was very likely FM, not AM. Again there are only a few possibilities in
Pasto, all with webcasts: Tropicana Est?reo 97.1, certainly not the right
format; Amor Est?reo 94.1, but that`s RCN and 14950 is local; Rom?ntica Stereo
88.1 HJU86 looks promising, as licensee is the Cooperativa de Trabajo Asociado
Arca de No?, implying religious connexion with Noah`s Ark, but it sounds
secular too.
I`m running this on my FM feeder 87.85 MHz as I resume monitoring 14950 on the
porch at 0158. Switching back and forth, no match.
0202, announcement about something with dates in junio.
0205, the street light photocell again fires up the arc starting with a big RF
blast on SW. This is the current dusk time with a clear sky.
0205 another automated timecheck, 0210 announcement, 0214 fading and I quit.
Final recheck at 0343 to find it gone, probably off much earlier.
Meanwhile I check one more Pasto station, R. Capital Pasto, 104.1, which
despite the seemingly secular name is obviously religious from its Facebook,
but again the announcements and music style don`t fit.
Another check in the morning June 24: at 1158 Firedrake is dominating 14950,
off at 1200, with JBA signal uncovered maybe from Colombia, but now one of my
DTV cable boxes has decided to vary to this frequency with its bubble-jamming,
still at 1224.
So nothing fits for Pasto. Since 14950 is obviously piratical, maybe the FM
station is too, and not in the official lists? No, Pasto turns out to be a
mislead. Fortunately, I need pursue this no longer, as Henrik Klemetz reports:
``Thanks to Torolf Johnsson, of Stockholm, for providing two good audio files.
The programming heard on 14950.6 is that of Salem St?reo, which operates on
106.5 FM from Rioblanco, Tolima, Colombia. I am inclined to believe that the SW
frequency is being operated by some local or semilocal ham. Pasto is mentioned
in an ad as the home town of Freddy Noguera, who is co-hosting a youth meeting
June 26-26 [sic].``
BTW, this station does not appear on the official list! Here`s its website:
http://www.salemstereo.com/
and stream with strange title Radio Ipuc:
[hmm, maybe means something like Iglesia Pentecostal Unida Colombiana]
http://www.salemstereo.com/radio/salemstereo.html
Format matches checked at 1511 UT with timecheck only 2 minutes fast. ID is
pronounced ``Sal?n Est?reo``. I would not rule out possibility that other times
in past and future, 14950 may relay some other station. And since Salem Stereo
does webcast, the relay really could be anywhere, unless 14950 is suitably
ahead of the webcast delay.
I later read that Terry Krueger, FL, had also IDed it: ``14950.68 COLOMBIA
Salem Stereo, Ibagu? or R?o Blanco, Tolima. 2145 June 23, 2012`` (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY. 7265, Sunday June 24 at 0459 past 0500, no signal from Hamburger
Lokalradio, just North American SSB hams in their Field Day frenzy, overfilling
the bands once a year; they were even atop Vatican on 7250. Thomas Voelkner had
tipped us that HLR would be on today, including a special airing of WORLD OF
RADIO at 0630. Aoki shows it`s only 1 kW, 230 degrees from Bremen, starting
this early only on Sat & Sun (but not always?), so how was reception in Europe
for WOR?
Noel Green, Blackpool, England reports: ``Hello Glenn, Yes, WOR was heard on
7265 today (24th) at tune in around 0635 till close at 0800. Their signal was
varying from nil on the meter with surges up to 9, but mostly about S2. That's
not strong enough to over-ride my local noise level and so I missed hearing
clearly some of the programme. But, I hope they will do it again another
weekend`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15540, June 23 at 1809 check, R. Kuwait is in Arabic intonations,
not Qur`an recitation, then into English translation, fair signal. So it`s the
regular Islamic-evangelism show, not default to total Arabic today; fair signal
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Sporadic-E analog TV DX June 23, UT:
1649 on 2, fade-in Spanish from south. Grafix showing Mesa 5, Mesa 6, Mesa 7,
audio announcing premio after premio in the 20s. Some kind of game show,
auxion, lottery? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1622 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW 5755, UT Sunday
June 24 at 0400. Once again like Thursday, the ID causes my opening to be upcut
in progress. Remaining airings on WRMI 9955: Sunday 1530, 1730, Monday 0500,
1130; on HLR 5980: Tuesday 0930 [see also GERMANY]. On WRN via SiriusXM channel
120: Sunday 1730 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9990, Saturday June 23 at 1730, no signal from WTWW-2 despite advance
publicity from Ted Randall that he would be doing a live show from Field Day
near Nashville at 12-6 pm (=17-23 UT). Next check at 1745 it was on with music;
1815 a live interview and onward for at least two hours, alternating with
classic rock/country. Meanwhile after 1800, his pre-recorded regular QSO show
was airing on WTWW-1 9479.
12105, June 23 at 1813, noticed that WTWW-3 was in Arabic, which is normally
heard from *1400, but now with piano music background, so not Arabible? I don`t
think languages they really broadcast have ever matched the nominal schedule on
website:
``Transmitter 3 Scripture readings 12.105 Mhz New schedule to start shortly:
Central UTC
6 - 9 am Russian 1200 - 1500
9 - 12 noon Arabic 1500 - 1800
12 - 3pm French 1800 - 2100
3 - 6pm German 2100 - 0000
6 - 9pm Spanish 0000 - 0400
9 - 12 midn Portuguese 0400 - 0600
12MN - 3am English 0600 - 0900
3 - 6am English 0900 - 1200``
Note the time conversions are for MDT/CST, not CDT. And not really on the air
between 0500 and 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9980, June 23 at 1910 I notice that WWCR-4 is off early, so no
competition for 9990 WTWW; but June 24 at early 1223, I notice that 9980 is on
with ``The Last Radio Program``, VG signal, Alun(sp?) giving his e-mail
address. This show does not appear anywhere on the WWCR program schedule.
So they are messing with the schedule again. According to their own PDF program
schedule dated June 4, on Saturdays, 9980 goes off at 2000 after BS; Sunday
sign-on not until 1400 with more BS. Don`t you believe it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12050, June 23 at 2028, open carrier/dead air from WEWN Spanish,
while 13830 is crackly. 7555, June 24 at 0501 and still 0511, no signal from
WEWN Spanish which is missing a lot, but not every night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 17605, June 24 at 1306, good signal in Burmese from YFR, so
presumed still on substitute site Grigoriopol/Kishinov, Pridnestrovye/Moldova,
instead of originally scheduled Tashkent, Uzbekistan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZIMBABWE [non]. 9870, June 24 at 0453, African language with distortion; I
remember that Saudi Arabia, Iran and India use this frequency, but it`s none of
those now. Aoki shows:
``9870 R. VOICE OF PEOPLE 0400-0500 1234567 English/Shona/Ndebele 50 265
Talata-Volondry 3 MDG 04737E 1843S RVP a12``
So apparently the 50 kW Madagascar transmitter has its problems. I don`t think
it was jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15725, June 24 at 0510, music with very poor signal, 0511 YL
maybe in Urdu; 0517 intonation sounded more like English, then music. The
choices are: R. Pakistan, and V. of South Sudan Revolutionary Radio (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 01:38:57 +0800 (SGT)
From: Jaisakthivel <ardicdxc...@yahoo.co.in>
To: ardic <ardicdxc...@yahoo.co.in>
Subject: [HCDX] AIR plans to up FM coverage to 90% of population
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All India Radio proposes to set up 385 new FM transmitters in the Twelfth Plan
in the country to increase the FM coverage to 90 per cent population.?However,
this is subject to allocation of funds and approval of the Planning Commission,
Information and Broadcasting Ministry sources said.
At present, AIR FM reaches out to 41.43 per cent population and 29.18 per cent
area. This is part of the total AIR coverage of 91.87 per cent area and 99.19
per cent population.?Even prior to the 12th Plan scheme, FM Transmitters of
varying capacities are being installed in 224 more places throughout the
country by AIR, apart from 40 MW transmitters. This will take the coverage to
38.75 per cent area and 53.53 per cent population including villages and
hamlets.
In addition, the power of 12 MW transmitters is being increased and 40 new MW
transmitters are being installed under the 11th Plan. At present, 432 AM/FM
transmitters are installed in the country.?New stations are being set up in 225
places, and a total of 62 new Akashwani kendras were set up in the past three
years.
A total of 276 AIR radio stations are functional in the country at present. A
total of 278 more stations will be set up under the 12th Plan if the budgets
are approved.?Meanwhile, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information
Technology has said it is ?unhappy to note that out of the planned allocation
of Rs three billion for upgradation of studios and transmitters of All India
Radio in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, only Rs 18 million had been spent.
?
The Committee was not convinced with the reasons cited by the Ministry that
delay in approval of Schemes only on 27 April 2010 delayed procurement and
implementation of the project resulting in low expenditure.?The Committee was
"of the considered view that when the budgetary provision had already been made
for the project, the Ministry should have set the physical targets, closely
monitored the progress of physical targets and ensured full utilisation of
funds in the Island".
The Committee took serious note of the above underspending and recommended the
Ministry should take adequate measures during 2012-13 so that projects are
expedited and funds utilised optimally during the current Financial Year.
[Indiantelevision.com?20 June 2012]
_____________________________
Jaisakthivel, ADXC, Tirunelveli, India
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 20:01:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Alexander <brian384...@aol.com>
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] June 23-24 Logs
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** KURDISTAN [non]. via UKRAINE. 11530, Denge Mezopotamya,
*0300-0330, June 23, sign on with 40 seconds of local chants and
into Kurdistan National Anthem. Indigenous music at 0304. Fair to
good. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** MADAGASCAR. 5010.00, Radio Madagasikara, 0305-0340,
June 24, carrier + USB. Malagasy talk. African choral music. Poor
to fair. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** MYANMAR [non]. via ARMENIA. 11595, Democratic Voice of
Burma, *2330-0030, June 23-24, sign on with local music and talk
in Burmese. Short breaks of local music. Many mentions of Myanmar.
Good. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** NIGERIA. 7255, Voice of Nigeria, 2245-2259*, June 24, talk in listed
Hausa. Some short breaks of Afro-pop music. Sign off with National
Anthem at 2258. Transmitter remained on the air past 2305 with test
tone. Strong signal but also a strong whine. Overall poor signal quality.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6924.98, WMPR, 0228-0235, June 24,
instrumental music. ID. Fair. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6925.04, Radio 2012 International,
0209-0215, June 23, weird electronic music. IDs. Good. (Brian Alexander,
PA)
?
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6935.2, Radio Appalachia, 0100-0115,
June 24, bluegrass music. Some Johnny Cash music. IDs. Poor to
fair. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6950 USB, Wolverine Radio, 0300-0320,
June 24, ID. Music by The Who, Santana, The Police. Very good.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** SOMALIA [non]. via Woofferton, 11990, Radio Damal, 1923-1929*,
June 24, only heard an open carrier at various checks between 1830-
1905. Qur`an at 1923 tune-in. Local Middle-Eastern style music at
1924-1929*. Good. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
?
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
?
?
?
?
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