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Today's Topics:
1. 580...Mega, Radio Monte Cristi (aurel chiochiu)
2. solar activity...weird (aurel chiochiu)
3. Glenn Hauser logs October 26-27, 2008 (Glenn Hauser)
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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:44:49 -0400
From: aurel chiochiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] 580...Mega, Radio Monte Cristi
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Heard an ID sounding like "Mega, Radio Monte Cristi, quinientos ocheta" then
into a bachata. Strong, but with constant shape-shift fading distortion and
WTIG just underneath. WKAQ-PR has faded away.
Nice, but not too exotic. This station, along with the absence of SPAIN-585
indicates semi-auroral condx, although the sun don't seem too excited...
I was hoping the Maracaibo station, but it was still nice to actually TAPE
Monte Cristi. I never catched them on tape before. By the way, hurry up, as the
MAXELL TAPES are almost done. If you still use cassette like me for airchecking
your best DX achievements, you're in big trouble !
May the good DX be with you !
Bogdan in Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island), PQ
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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:47:55 -0400
From: aurel chiochiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] solar activity...weird
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Current Solar Report and Forecast
Solar activty was very low. No spots are visible on the solar disk.
Solar activity is expected to be very low.
The geomagnetic field was at quiet levels.
The geomagnetic field is expected to be at quiet levels for the next three days
(25-27 October).
Nothing to explain why WTAG is jammed by Monte Cristi and Puerto Rico... But it
certainly do explain WHY 580 is the only really interesting frequency providing
me with some less used-to DX. By used-to-DX I talk about Coro-estado-Falc?n,
Caracas-Distrito-Federal and Barranquilla-departamiento-del-Atlantico.
May the good DX be with you !
Bogdan
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:58:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 26-27, 2008
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** ALBANIA. R. Tirana chex Sunday Oct 26 when broadcasts are only in Albanian:
at 2200, fair on extended 9345 in the clear; UT Oct 27 at 0105, 9345 barely
audible as really needs to be on 7 MHz band, while 6110 was much better but
with jamming left over from the DentroCuban Jamming Command against VOA
Spanish, which vacated 6110 the night before. Hope DCJC wises up quickly. For
the rest of the week, let`s see how R. Tirana does in English: 1530 on 13720;
1945 on 11645, 7465; 2100 on 7510, 9345; 0130 on 9345, 0245 on 7390, 0330 on
6110, 0430 on 6100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC missing from 6140, Oct 27 at 0327, so I could hear instead R.
Romania International in Spanish, as now scheduled via Galbeni, 310 degrees at
03-04. But Cuba just had a breakdown (or a monitoring pause?), and was back on
with overpowering signal at 0401 check, also bothering V of Russia English
relay from unknown location on 6135 starting at 0400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. Checking R. Cairo`s new frequencies in English for B-08 as in DXLD
8-114: Oct 26 at 0105 it was too late to tell if 6850 had been in English at
2300-2430, but was on the air and audible in subsequent Arabic service; weaker
than 6290 also in Arabic. Next check at 0300, when 7535 is scheduled for
English at 0200-0330: a signal there but too weak to be sure it was Cairo in
English. Meanwhile, 6290 was quite strong by comparison. Why don`t they put
English there? Because Arabic is more important to them, even when broadcasting
to North America (Glenn Hausaer, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [and non]. A previous item below lacked date and time! It was 0542 UT
Oct 24 in A-08: 7200 with heavy SAH of about 6 Hz, between a station in Russian
with pop music, and unID language. Russian must be Yakutsk at 45 degrees, on
very long hours, and the other R. Bulgaria, scheduled in German during this
semihour at 295 degrees, so neither is aimed here, but both cross somewhere in
North America when extended. Yakutsk is also the one that used to motorboat,
but not currently (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. RRI on 6140 with Romanian folk music, Oct 27 at 0327, Spanish
announcement a few minutes later, as now scheduled via Galbeni at 03-04, 310
degrees. Amazingly, no RHC which had been on 6140 with big signal in English
for the last few weeks including the night before. Did RHC axually cede 6140 to
RRI? RHC still on weaker 6000 in English, 6060 in Spanish.
Not checked again until 0401, and RHC 6140 was back on with usual huge signal
in Cuban music; wonder if they waited until RRI was finished? No, Jeramy Ross,
W5XTL in Lawton OK tells me that RHC came back on at 0350. Why in the world
would RRI choose 6140 and collide with RHC? Because as an outlaw nation, RHC
does not register its frequencies with HFCC, and RRI would have had to inform
itself by reading DXLD to find out where RHC really operates (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [non]. Looking around for R. Rep?blica, no longer on 6100, and not
heard earlier on 6135, 6155, 6185, 9515, or 9640 --- Oct 27 at 0256 found same
MOR music playing on 6100 and stronger 6155 ? could that be it? No, at 0259
both into Golos Rossii ID and frequencies, but several seconds out of synch; at
0300 6155 cut to opening of VOR WS in English to NAm, and 6100 to continuous
tone which was still going at 0330. Obviously this is intended for something
more modulated, but whence? 6155 is on the DTK schedule B08 as 02-05 via
Wertachtal, 300 degrees to NAm, but not 6100. 6135, which I heard the night
before with VOR English closing at 0600, not yet on the air at 0300 Oct 27.
6135 was added at 0400, running a couple of words behind 6155 Wertachtal, and
6135 also suffering heavy splash from RHC 6140. At 0330 check, also found VOR
English on 7350, which is Vatican scheduled at 02-06.
As usual, VOR doesn`t have their new season schedule up yet and when it appears
will not show transmitter sites anyway; as of 0305 UT Oct 27, the English page
still showed useless A-08 info, including earlier 2008 change dates:
http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&w=129&p=
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY [non]. Since VOT via Sackville 7325 was missing during the 0400 UT
hour Oct 26, I expected to find it still during the 0300 hour UT Oct 27, but
nothing then either. It was on at 0417 recheck, in English, so that has been
outstraightened; and at 0425 // 6020 direct, which was a few seconds ahead of
7325`s circuitous relay path. CRI via Sackville 6020 now gone, but that leaves
the perpetually off-frequency gospel-huxter in Per?. CRI always had this het on
it, and now VOT suffers the same fate. No doubt they don`t know about the
non-HFCC participant Radio Victoria, not keeping up with DX publications. If
they did, they would surely avoid 6020 or even zero beat it. Yes, if Per? won`t
correct its frequency, all the other 6020 stations should match it! Like that
would ever happen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [and non]. BBCWS, good in English at 0425 Oct 27 on 7255, but wasted on
sports report which I hope only took a few minutes. In B-08 that`s Ascension
ex-7160 to WAf at 65 degrees from 0300 to 0600 so should be good for us; plus
another hour until 07 via Skelton at 180 degrees. I assume VTC are getting a
head start on evacuating the 7100-7200 band to attain squatter`s rights on
7200-7300 channels (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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