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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 Today's Topics: 1. Radio Gloria International this Sunday (Tom Taylor) 2. DX Listening Digest 8-107; World of Radio 1427 (Glenn Hauser) 3. Re: Clandestine/Clandestina (Wolfgang Bueschel) 4. Sept 27 Logs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 5. HCDX logs between 2008-09-27 0000 UTC and 2008-09-28 0000 UTC (Risto Kotalampi) 6. DX evening ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 7. Logs from NH-USA, week ending Sept 27. (Scott R. Barbour Jr.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:22:11 +0100 From: "Tom Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [HCDX] Radio Gloria International this Sunday To: "Tom Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Radio Gloria International this Sunday Date 28th of September 2008, Time 1200 to 1300 UTC Channel 6140 KHz The transmissions of Radio Gloria will be broadcast over the transmitting station Wertachtal in Germany. The transmitter power will be 100 000 Watts, and we will be using a non-directional antenna system (Quadrant antenna). Good listening 73s Tom ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:37:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [HCDX] DX Listening Digest 8-107; World of Radio 1427 To: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 DX Listening Digest 8-107 has now been posted at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt or http://dxld.worldofradio.org and now also without delay at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld8107.txt CONTENTS: WOR 1427 / AFGHANISTAN non / ALBANIA / ALGERIA non / ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS / ANTARCTICA / ARGENTINA / ASCENSION / AUSTRALIA VL8 / BAHAMAS / BIAFRA non / BOLIVIA / CANADA CBCR1 / CANADA CKZU/CKZN/CFRX / CANADA non BVB / CANADA CJLO / CANADA CFUN/CKST / CANADA Northern Peaks / CHAD +non / CHINA / CONGO DR non / CUBA +non / DEUTSCHES REICH / DJIBOUTI +non / ECUADOR / EQUATORIAL GUINEA / ERITREA +non / ETHIOPIA non / FRANCE / GERMANY / GUATEMALA / HAWAII / INDIA / INDONESIA / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM USSR / IRAN +non / ISRAEL / JAPAN non / KOREA NORTH +non / LAOS / LATVIA / LIBYA / LITHUANIA / MALAYSIA / MALI / MEXICO / MYANMAR / NEW ZEALAND / PALAU / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PERU / PRIDNESTROVYE +non / ROMANIA / SAUDI ARABIA +non / SIKKIM / SINGAPORE / SPAIN / SUDAN non / TURKEY / UK non BBCWS / USA VOA / USA WBCQ/RNI / USA +non Alamo / USA WTOP / USA WPRR / USA KRVA/KUSH / USA KBUY / USA WZFG / USA KCPW / USA KFI/KNX/KTNN / USA WVKO / USA Ray Baurenhuber / VENEZUELA non / UNIDENTIFIED 3170 / UNIDENTIFIED 4781 / UNIDENTIFIED 4870 / UNIDENTIFIED 4945 / UNIDENTIFIED 5876/4790 / UNIDENTIFIED 6068/6070 / UNIDENTIFIED 6150 / UNIDENTIFIED 6768 / UNIDENTIFIED 7520 / PUBLICATIONS / MUSEA / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / PROPAGATION For restrixions and searchable 2008 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1427 SUMMARY: *Radio Netherlands cancels English on shortwave to North America at end of October; replaced by Spanish. Listeners referred to satellite, internet or `partner stations`. We can try to hear the African service via Bonaire at 2000 on 17810; see discussion in DX Listening Digests 8-104, 8-106 via http://www.worldofradio.org *Radio Canada Internal announces it will cancel English [and French] to Europe *Brain of Britain quiz missing from BBC WS for years, but new season starting on BBC Radio 4 *World of Radio via Slovakia, Friday 1930 on 7290 to Europe, audible in Pennsylvania *Radio Sweden suddenly switches relays via Canada from 15240 to 11640 *Radio Ukraine International makes frequency changes for autumn; still 7440 to North America. Also new QSLs available *Radio PMR, Pridnestrovye, changed 12135 to 7370 for Europe; still 6040 to North America *Radio Exterior, Spain, resumes QSLing after listener pressure *Radio Africa, Equatorial Guinea, missing from 15190 since Sept 19 [but back on Sept 25]; domestic services on 5005, 6250 also missing [but 5005 back too Sept 25] *unID Ethiopian clandestine mentioned last week, 1600-1700 Sun/Tue/Thu on 15670 via Germany is Voice of Oromia Liberation Front *Another Ethiopian clandestine, Ginbo 7 Dimts Radio, now jammed on 17655, same white noise as against DW Amharic *Ramadan ends Sept. 30; precesses earlier each year and by 2016 will coincide with longest days of year at summer solstice, extending mandatory fasting. Maybe that`s why there are so few Moslems in the Arctic *All India Radio, Imphal, reactivated sporadically on 4775 *RRI, Manokwari, Indonesia, back on 3987.05 after long absence *unID Indonesian on 3578.73 heard in Colorado; two different stations listed *Australian English teaching show carried by RRI 9680, Wed & Fri 0805, changed name to Kang Guru Radio English to Kang Guru Indonesia *V. of Indonesia, 11784.83v besides English hour at 1300, after Malay hour at 1400 started English again at 1500, turned off transmitter at 1502 *World of Radio 1427, woradio at yahoo.com *Thanks for equinoxial financial support from Gerald T. Pollard, North Carolina, who sent a check in the mail to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 *Radio New Zealand International issues 60th anniversary QSL card for P-mail reports only with US$2 return postage, starting September 27 *RNZI 60th anniversary special program in two parts on Mailbox last weekend of Sept, full 40-minute version at special times, Sunday 1205 on 9655, 1710 on 7145 and others *Vanuatu is back on the air on 7260 with low-power ham rig, awaiting delivery of new 10 kW transmitter; beware of Algeria via UK at 04-06 *Palau heard testing on 9945 between 1430 and 1530 with KWHR IDs, Merlin music, Sound of Hope; new callsign announced is T8WH, for World Harvest; WHR programming also on 9905, 9930, 9955 at various times *VOA quietly canceling several languages at end of September, including Hindi despite listener campaign to keep it. Last broadcast should be Sept 30 at 1600-1700 on 7430, 9320 *Dan Lewis program on WBCQ, 7415, UT Monday Sept 29 at 0100-0300 remembers Isaac Blonder, Tom Kneitel, interviews Benn Kobb *WRNO since hurricane not at full power or modulation and off frequency 7505.1 *Washington DC talk radio stations rebrand themselves: McCain 570 WTNT, Obama 1260 WWRC *Radio Chapingo, Texcoco, Mexico, 1610, which had been 1400-0200 UT only and difficult to DX, now reported to add 0200-1400 with continuous music *Radio Habana Cuba makes mistakes every day; perhaps the worst, two languages at once on 6000 and 6140, English and Portuguese one night, English and Spanish another night *RHC online transmission schedule finally updated; we enumerate all the errors in it confirmed by our own monitoring *Radio Mart?, Marathon, Florida Keys, 1180, has new 100 kW transmitter in operation, so modulation should be denser against jamming *Radio Panamericana, Bolivia, heard on new 5970 ex-6105, in the mornings; Costa Rica blocks here *Radio Kausachun Coca, Bolivia, new on 6075, heard as early as 0850 but not on weekends *Radio Frontera, Cobija, Bolivia, 4450, off the air for political reasons *Radio Nove de Julho, S?o Paulo, 9820, well heard in Brasil, but difficult in North America; best chance perhaps around 0000-0130; watch out for Portugal on 9820 until 2300, and Cuba around 2200-2400 except weekends *Radio Baluarte, 6214.62, on Argentina/Brazil border active again, heard at 1012 mixing Portuguese, Spanish *Propagation outlook from SWPC, Boulder, Sept 23; new sunspot appeared and solar flux forecast to start fluxuating up to 70! ### NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1427 Sun 0230 WWCR3 5070 Sun 0630 WWCR1 3215 Sun 0800 WRMI 9955 Sun 1515 WRMI 9955 Mon 2200 WBCQ 7415 [temporary, confirmed Sept 15] Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Tue 1530 WRMI 9955 Wed 0530 WRMI 9955 Wed 1130 WRMI 9955 Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WRN ON DEMAND: http://new.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24 WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN NOW AVAILABLE: http://www.wrn.org/listeners/stations/podcast.php OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org Regards, Glenn Hauser ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:08:56 +0200 From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [HCDX] Clandestine/Clandestina To: "Arnaldo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "HCDX" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, "DXLD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=original Arnaldo hola, did you hear any Ethiopian hissing jamming also on 21555 kHz today? see my report on 17655 kHz of Sept 22. 73 wb RUSSIA/ETHIOPIA Ginbot 7 Dimts Radio on 17655 and 21555 kHz is heavily jammed today 1700-1730 UT by the Ethiopian government with same like BUZZ signal of DWL Amharic once on 15 MHz, i.e. white noise hissing. Weak Ginbot 7 Dimts Radio program is hardly read underneath here in Germany, but I'm outside the main lobe signal. On 21555 only noise hash noted. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 22) Ginbot 7 Dimts Radio in Amharic, new opposition station from Sept 11: 1700-1730 17655 SAM 250 kW / 188 deg to EaEa Tue/Thu/Sat 21555 SAM 250 kW / 188 deg to EaEa Tue/Thu/Sat (R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 16) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arnaldo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 7:34 PM Subject: Clandestine/Clandestina > CLANDESTINE (Ethiopia). > 21555 Ginbot 7 Dimts Radio, 1715-1726, September 27, Amharic, new > opposition station from Russia (Samara transmitters), talk by male, > instrumental songs, 24332 > (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina) ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:25:21 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [HCDX] Sept 27 Logs To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" ** DJIBOUTI. 4780, Radio Djibouti, 2130-2201*, Sept 27, Arabic talk. Local Horn of Africa music. Some music with a Mid-East sound. Sign off with National Anthem. Poor to fair but with CODAR QRM. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** ETHIOPIA. 9704.19, Radio Ethiopia, 2005-2102*, Sept 27, Horn of Africa music. Amharic talk. Phone talk. Closing announcements and National Anthem at 2100. Fair but some adjacent channel splatter. Better on // 7110.06. Weak on // 5990.04v. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** ETHIOPIA. (non). via Samara, Russia, 17655, Ginbot 7 Dimts Radio, *1700-1729*, Sept 27, Tentative. Talk in listed Amharic. Poor to fair but covered by noise jammer at 1705. Still slightly audible underneath. Nothing heard on 21555. Tues/Thur/Sat only. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** SUDAN. (non). via Slovakia, 15650, Miraya 101 FM, 1500-1510, Sept 27, time pips & IDs at 1501 followed by English news. Into Arabic at 1509. Poor to fair. (Brian Alexander, PA) **************Looking for simple solutions to your real-life financial challenges? Check out WalletPop for the latest news and information, tips and calculators. (http://www.walletpop.com/?NCID=emlcntuswall00000001) ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:05:01 +0000 From: Risto Kotalampi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [HCDX] HCDX logs between 2008-09-27 0000 UTC and 2008-09-28 0000 UTC To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hard-Core-DX.com logs from 2008-09-27 0000 UTC to 2008-09-28 0000 UTC --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit http://log.hard-core-dx.com/ for the real time logs and to submit your logs to the HCDX Online Log. For more information please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:07:32 +0100 From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [HCDX] DX evening To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Colombia, 5910, Marfil Estereo, (pres) 2345-0010, Noted steady Popular Colombian Ballads until the TOH. At 0001, possible ID with other details, "...5430, Onda Media ... Puerto ... Meta..." Af ter that, about ten minutes of promos, then back to music. Too many crashes for these old ears to separate out the ID. I left a sound bite at the following link: http://www.orchidcitysoftware.com/IMAGE61.HTML It's the first sound bite(MP3) on the page. Signal was fair. (Chuck Bolland, September 27, 2008) Clewiston, Florida NRD545 ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:30:44 -0700 (PDT) From: "Scott R. Barbour Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [HCDX] Logs from NH-USA, week ending Sept 27. To: Cumbre DX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, DXLD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, DXplorer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, HCDX <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, Gayle Van Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, NASWAyg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Al Quaglieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dave Valko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 4826.49, PERU, presumed R. Sicuani Sicuani, 1018-1024, Sept 27, Spanish. Ancr w/ talk; joined by W; SP mx; weak-f/out under increasing band QRN. (Barbour-NH) 5005, EQ. GUINEA, R. Nacional-Bata, 2251-2303*, Sept 25, Spanish/vern. Pop/rap music in language; ancr in SP at 2257; brief mx until NA at 2259 thru s/off; v. weak-poor. (Barbour-NH) 5010, MADAGASCAR, RTV Malagasy Antananarivo, 0242-0305, Sept 22, vernacular. Pop-like & reggae mx w/ W ancr b/w selectionn thru ToH; "whistling" prg intro followed by ancr talk; poor-fair in reduced carrier USB. (Barbour-NH) 5030, CHINA, CNR 1 Beijing, 1023, Sept 22, Mandarin. Ancr w/ talk b/w short, music interludes; lost under Rebelde-5025 splatter at BoH; poor. (Barbour-NH) 7260, MONGOLIA, presumed Mongolian Radio HS-2, Ulaanbaatar, 1052-1100, Sept 27, listed Mongolian. Lengthy instrumental into vocal ballad; very exotic; audible under co-ch. R. Thailand carrier at 1058; barely audible ancr at 1059; crushed at 1100 Thailand s/on; poor. (Barbour-NH) 7280, CHINA, V. of the Strait Fuzhou, 1033-1048, Sept 27, Mandarin. Ancr w/ talk & mxt bits; various ancrs w/ presumed nx reports; fair.(Barbour-NH) Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, NH-USA R8,R75,CLR/DSP,MLB1,200'Bevs,60mDipole End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 69, Issue 31 ********************************************