Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 111, Issue 31
Send Hard-Core-DX mailing list submissions to hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to hard-core-dx-requ...@hard-core-dx.com You can reach the person managing the list at hard-core-dx-ow...@hard-core-dx.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Hard-Core-DX digest... ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2011 is out. Order yours from 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://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt Today's Topics: 1. Glenn Hauser logs March 29-30, 2012 (Glenn Hauser) 2. DX/SWL/Media Programs A-12 (Glenn Hauser) -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:11:00 -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 March 29-30, 2012 Message-ID: 1333131060.5675.yahoomailclas...@web114016.mail.gq1.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** ALBANIA. 7425, March 30 at 0130, R. Tirana sign-on has now been changed to give the correct times and frequencies for the only two English broadcasts left, unlike on March 27; poor reception with T-storm noise in the area (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake March 30, before 1300: 13130, good at 1259 14700, fair at 1259 14970, fair at 1259 15445, good at 1255, QRMing Turkey English on 15450 15900, good at 1257 15970, good at 1257 16100, good at 1257 16700, fair at 1257 Tuning downward, did not get below 13000 before 1300* After 1300: 15485, good at 1309, het from 15487 but gone at 1315 15500, good at *1215 with 15498 het, just jumped up from 15485, still on at 1318 when 15540 is off 15540, good at 1309, with het from 15538, still at 1315, off 1318 15550, fair now here at 1326, het on hi side 15900, very good at 1316 Before 1400: 12230, very good at 1350 12300, very good at 1350 13970, poor at 1351 14700, poor at 1352 14970, poor at 1352 15485, good at 1349, het from 15482 16100, very good at 1352 16700, very good at 1352 17450, good at 1353 After 1400: 15615, good at *1404 CNR1 jamming: 15670, March 30 at 1317, along with raspy noise for additional jamming, but the programming is // 12040 jammer. Target on 15670 is RFA in Tibetan via Tajikistan see also SAUDI ARABIA, 17705 jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE [and non]. 15650, March 30 at 1354 I am standing by for VOG to come on, but only a very poor signal from something else, still same past 1400. Was it Brother Scare via IRRS via Romania as in Aoki, not HFCC, as alternate(?) to 15190? I don`t think so, and after 1400 R Liberty in Turkmen via Wertachtal is surely there. Finally at 1406 I am hearing the same fast SAH as produced by Greece before colliding with RL, and second audio, weak music from Athens. BTW, John Babbis found a press release on the ERT website about a special marathon broadcast April 2 to raise money for those who cannot afford medications, involving the SW service at 0600-1900 UT, headlined in translation: ``The VOICE OF GREECE - SOLIDARITY VOICE RADIOMARATHON FOR SOCIAL PHARMACY, THE HOLY ARCHIEPISKOPIS ATHENS`` Apparently explaining the lack of response from VOG about an A-12 schedule is this via Chris Rigas, IL to the DXLD yahoogroup: Technician shortage at Voice of Greece Voice of Greece (ERA5), the shortwave service of ERT, faces lack of qualified technical personnel. According to the Association of Engineers and Technicians of ERT, the remaining permanent employees at the Emission Center at Avlida are preparing to retire and the Centre will be handed over to new technical personnel that will be employed as contract employees only. New technicians need at least three years within the group in order to gain the necessary experience to support the Emission Center. The same happens with other facilities. With the new system at ERT of contracting technicians for only one or two years, the ERT faces the problem of not having enough qualified personnel to do the necessary work at the ERT broadcasting facilities, notes the Association of Engineers and Technician of ERT. Full article in Greek here: http://www.radiofono.gr/node/3161 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) **
[HCDX] MV Baltic R -- R Gloria Atlantic 2000 this Weekend
MV Baltic R -- R Gloria Atlantic 2000 this Weekend Dear Listeners, MV Baltic Radio - Atlantic 2000 Radio Gloria are on the air this Sunday the 1st of April 2012 MVBR Schedule for Sunday the 1st of April 2012: Station Name Channel Time Slot Programmes E-mail the station Atlantic 2000 Int 948008:00 to 09:00 UTC Music Programme atlantic2000internatio...@gmail.com MV Baltic Radio 614009:00 to 10:00 UTCThe real music Station i...@mvbalticradio.de Radio Gloria 948010:00 to 12:00 UTC (repeat from last month) radioglo...@aol.com Good Listening 73s Tom ---[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] SAT dx
Indonesia, 9680.04, RRI Jakarta, 1130-1145, At tune, noted MOR music in Indonesian language. At the end of current song, a female comments with a quick ID heard followed with comments. After a minute, more music is presented. Signal is good, but can hear Chinese language comments underneath Jakarta. (Chuck Bolland, March 31, 2012) China, 9540.00, China Radio International, Pres. 1135-1145, Noted Chinese music at tune in. Thought I might have Firedrake, but at 1138 a male and woman comment over music which continues with singing in a big production. Signal was good. (Chuck Bolland, March 31, 2012) China, 9645.00, China National Radio, 1150-1205, At tune in, noted MOR music from Asia. At 1152 a male comments in Cambodian, listed then more music and later more comments from a female and the same male. On the hour, the program changes to English but the interference increases and copy is impossible. Signal was poor to threshold. (Chuck Bolland, March 31, 2012) Note: Checked 9525 and 9526 this morning for Voice of Indonesia, but didn't hear anything there? Using NRD545 26N 081W ---[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] Logs from NH-USA, Week ending 3/31.
Propagation here has been good lately. Unfortunately, the sun now rises an hour earlier. 3309.97 BOLIVIA R. Mosoj Chaski Cochabamba 0953-1005 March 26 SS; M W announcers w/ ballads talk between mx bits; no discernible ID/announcement noted at ToH; fair in ECCS-USB. (Barbour-NH) 4716.19 BOLIVIA R. Yura Yura 0023-0050 March 27 SS; Continuous LA ballads; announcer at 0046 w/ distorted audio; back to mx zinger ID at 0049; fair-good; best heard here in quite some time. (Barbour-NH) 4755.42 MICRONESIA presumed V6MP The Cross Pohnpei 1016-1028* March 26 EE; Lenghty talk by animated M announcer; EE noted but too weak to detail; mx bridge at 1024 followed by different announcer; mx bridge at 1028 pulled the plug; poor weak. (Barbour-NH) 4795 KYRGYZSTAN very tentative Kyrgyz Radio 1 Bishkek 0104 March 28; Carrier w/ imagination lvl talk in unid. language; same on // 4010, FWIW, both carriers had the same tone, for lack of a better description; 4765 Kazakhstan was audible fair at best during the same time; interestingly, my notes show that the last time I had a tentative logging for Kyrgyzstan was in March 2011. (Barbour-NH) 4920 TIBET Xizang PBS Lhasa 0006 March 26; M W announcers in listed Tibetan; //4905; poor-fair. (Barbour-NH) 4955 PERU R. Cultural Amauta 2345-0005 March 25 SS; W announcer w/ ballads talk between mx bits; ID announcement at 0002; poor weak, but clear in ECCS-USB. (Barbour-NH) 5915 ZAMBIA presumed ZNBC Radio 1 Lusaka 0442-0517 March 27; M W announcers w/ talk in unid language mx bits; banter; diff. M announcer at 0449 w/ (T) ment. Zambia; Afropops at 0450 occasional talk over mx; M announcer at 0500 w/ (P) nx dramatic drop in audio level; Afropops at 0510 continuing past listetd *0515; fair at t/in deteriorating after ToH; pleased to hear this as it's been years since I last logged ZNBC. (Barbour-NH) 9820 CHINA presumed Beibu Bay Radio Nanning 1032-1100 March 26; M W announcers in listed Cantonese w/ ballads pop mx; talk over mx; two pips at ToH w/ M W announcement; conflicting w/ co-channel station at 1100, presumably CNR-2 Xianyang; fair; no chance for //5050 buried in band noise. (Barbour-NH) 9965 PALAU R. Australia Koror 1324-1336 March 26 CC; M announcers in discussion; mx bridge multi-lingual Radio Australia ID at 1329; nx w/ soundbites remote reports; poor-fair. (Barbour-NH) Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole ---[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] March 30-31 Logs
** BRAZIL. 4914.99, Radio Difusora, Macapa, 0805-0820, Brazilian pop music. Ballads. Portuguese talk. Ads. IDs. Fair. March 30. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** CYPRUS. 7220, Cyprus Broadcasting Corp, 2215-2245, still having transmitter problems. Transmitter on the air at 2215 and off at 2245. Strong carrier, but no programming. Just dead air. Same thing heard on // 9760. Not able to check // 6135 due to VOA in Chinese on this frequency. Fri, Sat, Sun only. March 30. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** EUROPE. PIRATE. 15020, Radio Mustang, 1419-1430, pop music. ID. Weak, but fair on peaks. March 31. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** EUROPE. PIRATE. 15070.28, Cupid Radio, 1545-1550, ID, dance music. Weak, but fair on peaks. March 31. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** EUROPE. PIRATE. 15845 USB, Radio Spaceshuttle, 1405-1415, pop music. DJ chatter. Weak but fair on peaks. March 31. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** EUROPE. PIRATE. 21460.2v, Cupid Radio, 1440-1520*, pop music. Dance music. IDs. Announced “Cupid Radio from The Netherlands”. SSTV. Frequency slowly drifted up. Was on 21460.14 at tune-in, drifting up to 21460.28 by 1515. March 31. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** LIBYA. 11600, Radio Télévision Libye - Radio Libye, 1700-1810*, tune-in to lite music. French talk. ID. Poor to fair. Weak modulation at times. Only dead air heard at times. Irregular. Last time I heard these guys was back on March 22, despite many checks. March 31. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** MALI. 9635, RVTM, *0801-0835, sign on with flute IS. Vernacular talk at 0801:30. Lite piano music. Local African music. Fair signal strength but weak modulation. March 30. (Brian Alexander, PA) Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires ---[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] Glenn Hauser logs March 31, 2012
** CHINA. Firedrake March 31, before 1300: 15445, very poor at 1238, this time weaker than 15450 Turkey 14700, JBA at 1247 13970, very good at 1247 12600, good at 1248 After 1300: 12230, very poor at 1325 12600, very good at 1324 13920, poor at 1324 13970, very good at 1324 14700, very poor at 1323 15445, fair at 1251, vs het on 15448 also against Turkey 15450 15500, very good at 1319 15550, very good at 1319 15900, fair at 1322 16100, very good at 1322 16700, very good at 1322 Before 1400: 15485, very good at 1342 15560, very good at 1342 with het on 15558 15900, poor at 1347 After 1400: 15615, very good at 1415 Other ChiCom jamming situations: 15115, March 31 at 1319, VOA in English about US funding projects, faked out as then into Chinese for consecutive translation; and with CNR1 jamming. This hour has VOA Chinese, 14 degrees from Thailand USward 15250, March 31 at 1245, echo jamming plus a het vs VOA Chinese Tinang 15265, March 31 at 1317, Chinese echo and a het here instead; against RTI in Chinese 15795, March 31 at 1321, just whining and grinding in the interim after jamming India`s Chinese service until 1315, before Sound of Hope via Tajikistan at 1400-1430 per Aoki 17855, March 31 at 0527 the OSOB is weak Chinese here, WM talking. RFA via SAIPAN is listed in Aoki and HFCC at 03-07; strangely enough, so is CRI but in English from Beijing site at 04-0557. But RFA Must Be Jammed too, likely with CNR1. 15 MHz band had lots of signals, most of them weak (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 11845, March 31 at 1404. R. Martí now with noise jamming despite adjacent RHC 11840, but RM atop it, unlike on 11930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, no signal from R. Africa, March 31 at 1506 after TOM via ROMANIA is off [see SOUTH CAROLINA [non]], nor at 1939 when Bata had been fairly reliable the last couple weeks. Ron Howard was also not hearing them at the earlier hour on March 29 or 30 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, March 31 at 1331, zero signal during the VOI English hour today tho 9680 RRI was well audible. 9680, March 31 at 1407, RRI with Indonesian singing, accompanied by hi-pitched audio cutting on and off rapidly almost like fast CW; more obvious by tuning BFO plus or minus 5 to either sideband. I think it`s coming from the same transmitter. Nothing audible from the Taiwan/Mainland radio war which used to collide with 9680 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. 11705, March 31 at 1403, R. Japan news in English, fair signal at S9+12. Remember when NHK was nice enough to relay this frequency via Sackville to North America? Then for a while it was via Japan simultaneously with an echo; then only from Japan. And now in A-12 it`s from a new site, PALAU due west, but which turns out to be sufficient again here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT [and non]. 21540, Saturday March 31 at 1401, R. Kuwait in well, but can`t hear any Spain underneath, tho it is fairly good on 21610. At 1440 still all I hear is Arabic, and 1445 into Qur`an. Long pauses still don`t reveal any Spanish; 1500* cut off abruptly still Qur`an in progress: Allah`ll get `em for that. The REE schedule at http://programasdx.com/principal_archivos/frecuenciasreea12.pdf has the answer. It`s one of those anomalies, where on Sat Sun they close 21540 at 1400*, an hour earlier than on M-F at 1500*. Of course, REE ought to move it somewhere else completely as long as Kuwait stix to 21540 instead of the frequency it promises to use, 21520. Usually big REE signal to NAm on 17595 also notable by its absence, now scheduled 13-15 M-F only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 750, March 31 at 1215 UT, steady música romántica from WSW/ENE, alone on frequency and no signal from KMMJ Nebraska even when nulled. 1217 ID as ``Stereo Vida, sólo para ella``, and the next song also sung by a YL --- so maybe the format is really only for lesbians? Fading by 1221. Cantú shows the only Stereo Vida on 750 is: 750 XECSI Stereo Vida + FM 89.5 Culiacán, Sin. 5,000 250 WRTH and IRCA agree, except with day power of 1,000 W (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO [and non]. After several days starting A-12 on 15341+ or 15345+, IMM is back to 15349.1+, as in most of B-11, resuming hetting any station unfortunate enough to have chosen 15350. March 31 at 1239 the old high-A-note het again, i.e. 880 Hz vs 15350 = 15349.12 or so. IMM is stronger here with some Arabaudio. Strangely, no signal (yet) from HCJB Australia on 15340 which had been hit by its het. But at 1316 it`s in with a good and het-free signal with S Asian music. Morocco is still on 15349.12 with a 15350.0 het at 1435. The 15350 victim is Gospel for Asia = Athmeeya Yatra Radio in a multitude of S Asian languages from 1230 to 1500, 250 kW due east from Wertachtal, GERMANY. For details see Aoki which now has
[HCDX] Correction-RE: Logs from NH-USA, Week ending 3/31
Thanks to Bruce Churchill for pointing out that my tentative log of 4795 Kyrgyzstan, incorrectly makes reference to 4765 Kazakhstan, when in fact it is Tajikistan. Kazakhstan left SW earlier in March. Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. 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] March 31-April 1 Logs
** BOLIVIA. 6134.81, Radio Santa Cruz, 0050-0108*, Spanish pop music. ID. Spanish talk. Sign off with “Santa Cruz” song. Fair. April 1. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** EUROPE. PIRATE. 6936 USB, Fox 48, 0010-0045*, rock music. ID. Weak, but fair on peaks. April 1. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** ISRAEL. 15785, Galei Zahal, 2255-2315, now in AM mode. Hebrew talk. US pop music. Local pop music. Weak, but fair to good on peaks. // 6973 - very weak. March 31. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6924.96, WMPR, 2350-0005, IDs. Electronic dance music. Very good. March 31-April 1. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6925, Captain Morgan Shortwave, 2315-2330, blues music. ID. Very good. March 31. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6950, Wolverine Radio, 2315-2330, oldies music from the 20s-30s. ID. Very good. March 31. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6950.74, Radio Free Mars, 0100-0115, Elton John music. IDs. News parodies. Good. April 1. (Brian Alexander, PA) Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires ---[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
