[HCDX] Re Hardcore Vol 40. Issue 19

2006-04-19 Thread Johan Berglund
Hi Craig and all,
following Craig's entry about ABC Far North on 11650 kHz I tried the frequency 
at 0635 UT today Wednesday April 19, without many expectations. But it was 
there on my AOR AR7030. I had to use very trick in the book to get it readable 
due to weak signal and  severe QRM. WRTH-2006 says this is Shepparton, with 100 
kW, so it's really not a new  DX-station for me, but the studio and its 
messages surely are. 

At 0651 "Tropical Cyclon Advice 23", warning about high winds, floodings, 
etc. and advicing people to stay calm and remain in shelter. At 0700 "On... and 
... this is ABC Far North". In a newscast that followed there was a phone 
report from Jakarta, and at 0712 another cyclon warning.

Around 0720  the signal was completely lost here. Well, I trust you're all 
right Craig, you seem to be prepared. Thank you for the
tip.

 73 Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden AOR AR7030, longwire 
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[HCDX] 1314 kHz

2006-08-16 Thread Johan Berglund
Hi, the closure of NRK on 1314 has paved the way for Loisirs AM, Paris. Heard 
on Aug 14 and 15 after my local sunset around 19UT. Nonstop songs, ballads, 
rapping etc, in French or English. No commercials heard but rather frequent ids 
"Loisirs 13-14 A.M." or "Loisirs 13-14 ondes moyennes. Weak to fair. At first 
with Roumanian txs echoing, then a little bit later sometimes Spanish voices in 
the background, but Loisirs AM clearly dominant. SINPO 3 at best. /Johan 
Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden AOR AR7030, 30 m lw. 
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[HCDX] 1539 Radio Manresa

2006-10-24 Thread Johan Berglund
Hi all, I found
Radio Manresa, Manresa, Spain on 1539 kHz at 0158, Oct 24 with three different 
canned ids in Catalan, time beeps at 0200
followed by Noticiero Cadena SER in Spanish of course. "Son las cuatro horas, 
las tres en Canarias..."  . So it was just the ids 
that were local. SIO 343.
73 Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden AOR AR7030 K9AY
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[HCDX] Re unid 6005

2006-10-27 Thread Johan Berglund
Hi Glenn and all,
Re Glenn's unid on 6005, I don't understand why you didn't think about 
Deutschlandradio Kultur which is 
more or less a local here. I enjoy this station a lot. Its programming is 
really a mix of cultural features
from any place worldwide, not neccesarily centered on Germany. Tx-site is 
listed as Berlin-Britz 100 kW,
and I presume it's non-directional. Right now at 0906 UT, Oct 27  they are 
giving a the forecast of water levels
and weather around the Baltic and northwest European coast. (Well, that doesn't 
matter so much for a "land-crab"
like me, but we do have a storm with possible gale force winds right now in 
northweast Europe.)
It's rather difficult for me to imagine how you hear 6005 in Enid, OK. Radio 
Habana Cuba must be very strong
on 6000. 

Ciao / Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden.  AOR  AR7030 and presently using a 
30 m lw mixed with a K9AY. 
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[HCDX] 7120 kHz

2005-11-01 Thread Johan Berglund
Hi,
Oct 31 1225-1255 7120 Wantok Radio Light with very good id at 1233. Weak to 
fair, but  at times terrible splashes from
   adjacent qrgs. From 1255 carrier on 7120 and 
at 1300 station in Romanian (?). Also momentarily
   cw and  U.K. hams in USB too. Those are not 
supposed to be in this range, I think. They might have
been com radio stations, anyway very 
Scottish accent. Besides some talk in English, just a male 
voices, christian songs.
   
I was too late to hear anything readable at 
0800 on 1570 ,1640  and 1700 yoday.Signals were to  
   weak  and fading.to day.New try tomorrow morning. I is 
long overdue for me to invest in new up-to- 
   date  frequency lists and  and I mus't forget to set the alarm clock.

 Despite reading a lot of dx news on the 
web and getting interesting loggings, the AOR   
   AR70 has recently shown some malfuntionings. The 
clock wont't readjust, the sync-lock  won't 
 work as it should  and the reason I think are cracks in some 
solering. Even if I could get help from the 
rx homesite,  I would dare to try to repair it myself . Any seggustions ?. 
Over the years I have   had 
 little or no  contact with the guy who sold it to me. His name is Stefan 
Wikander, but I have lost  contact with 
 him, even his mail address.  Anyone knows that ?

 I would very much appareciate any help 
from  anyone.  
 Good DX-in and Many 73s from Johan 
Berglund, Trollhättan. Sweden.  
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[HCDX] A few MV loggings

2005-11-28 Thread Johan Berglund
Hi, a few loggings this Monday morning Nov 28, 2005

1386 0805 UK  : LPAM hospital radio station Carillon Radio just above noise 
level with 100 % ID. The S-meter
 wasn't reacting at all. Just 1 watt.

1404 0830 France : Two stations, France Info and Radio Blue equally good att 
the same time, so I couldn't tell
 what station was airing what. But one of them had 
news from Ajaccio, Corsica and "Radio Corsa
 Frequenza Mora" was mentioned - as the source, 
perhaps. Acccording to the European-African 
 Medium Wave Guide, the Ajaccio station does not 
carry local programs at this hour. To add to
 the confusion  I felt, two Romanian stations took 
over, and when I managed to phase them out 
 I heard just France Info. 

1413 0825 UK  : BBC Radio Gloucestershire w/ very good signal and at least 
one more UK station in the background.

>From 0845 I had to deal with incoming phone-calls and other matters and now 
>att 0925  I have tuned to : 

1431 0925 UK  : Classic Gold Breeze w/ oldies and weak signal.

1440 0937 Lux: DRM noise spilling  up to 1449

1449 0945 UK : BBC Radio 4 // 198  with religious program

1458 0953 UK : BBC Radio Newcastle dominating, but BBC Radio Cumbria is 
here too.

1548 1000 UK : Magic AM, Sheffield is usually not the strongest UK station 
at my place, but it is definitely so right
   now. Wonderful signal.

Awaiting a visitor any minute, I hurry to send this. Good DX to all. 

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[HCDX] 7120 Wantok Radio Light

2006-01-14 Thread Johan Berglund
Hi all,
on 7120 I usually have Xinjiang with Kyrgyz until 1230 UT, but Wantok Radio 
Light has been well over the threshold many times lately, today Sat Jan 14, 
too. Christian songs, some of them with choires singing in a South Pacific 
style. From 1300 Radio Romania. Their carrier seems to begin warming up at 
different times, e.g. 1253, as today, sometimes as late as 1259. 7120 is at 
times full of ham operators, today with a funny-sounding whistle concert when 
one of them  was, I think,  trying to start up a repeater. So there is a 
"window"  to hear Wantok Radio Light between 1230 and 1300.
73/Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden AOR AR7030 30 m LW 
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[HCDX] Re LW Europe

2006-01-27 Thread Johan Berglund
Hi, I am right now - Jan 27, 10-11 UT making a scanning of the European LW 
band, just as olf friend Joukko did around 14 UT two days later. I also use 
Herman Boels superb EMWG. Thanks Joukko for the idea, and thanks Herman for the 
list.

These are my findings
153  Germany, Deutschlandsfunk  ,weak to fair. Talk program.
162  France, France Inter 
171  Kaliningrad with Radio Rossii // 261
177 Germany, Deutschlandradio Kultur at 1000 coastal weather forecast, then 
classical music and about Mozart on his 250th
   anniversary
183 Germany Europe No. 1
189 Nil, absolutely nil
198 UK Radio 4
207 Germany Deutschlandfunk //6190 altering with Ukraine Ukrainske Radio
216 France Radio Monte Carlo ads for Paris Match 
225 Poland Polskie Radio  with Abba and commercials
234 Luxembourg RTL in French
243 Denmark  Danmarks Radio. The mast is repaired, obviously
252 Ireland RTE 1
261 Russia Radio Rossii // 261
270 Czech Republic Ceský Rozlas 
279 Belarus Belaruskye Radio 

Not all of them with 100 % id, but these all  normal loggings here. As usual I 
used my AOR AR7030, but my K9AY doesn't work at the moment, so I used a 30 
meter longwire.

73 from a very wintry western Sweden/ Johan Berglund (outside) Trollhättan
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[HCDX] Re 17660

2006-02-02 Thread Johan Berglund

Hi all

Björn Fransson wrote

> Hi list,
> Who can help me with the follwing "tips"?
> 73 from Björn Fransson, DX-ing on the island of Gotland, Sweden
> CLANDESTINES AND UNID
> 17660, UNID African, 1225-1430*, Feb 1st (alsoJan 30th), playing African
> style pop music, very nice! I was trying for new Libyan clandestine Sowt
> Al-Amel and heard some "Arab music" far back in the background and also a
> lot of jamming from time to time. My guess first was that the music
> station
> was something intended to make interference to the Libyan clandestine, but
> why jam as well??? The music was sometimes in French and seemed coming
> from
> Congo or similar. Help! (Björn Fransson)

I have this to add, but not to much help I'am afraid. I listened to 17660.00
on Feb 2 from 1335 to
1429. UT. Nonstop highlife music.Very enjoyable and with SINPO 3-4 5 5 3 4 ,
getting better.
At 1349 a very weak station under was heard with arabic music, but
disappeared  after a minute or two.
No jammer was heard during the whole time of listening. The station with
african music just kept on
playing their highlife music. Nothing that even ressembles an id was heard.
At 1408 a song which included
the words "independence" and "Cameroun" , at 1410 a song probably titled
"L'Afrique, c'est mon pais".
At 1429 they went off the air, without any spoken words, leaving the
frequency free from any other
station, the qrg is dead, whatever antenna I use.  BTW, as a very young
DX-er I didn't fancy high-
life music at all, even called it  pejorative things like "Lumumba music".
Time and life have taught me better.

To Björn from Johan : drop me a personal email if you find out  what we are
listening to.

73/ Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden AOR AR7030, K9AY  (now operational
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[HCDX] Palau 9965

2006-02-07 Thread Johan Berglund
Hi all,
9965 Feb 7 , 1055 -1105 Palau, T8BZ, Koror with  Christian px in Chinese 
(female announcer) and at TOH an ID read by male. 
"T8BZ (zed, not zee). To be sure I have 
listened to my recording of this id at least ten times. Best heard
in LSB mode due to qrm from 9970 La 
Première, Belgium. SIO 344.This is my first logging of this
station in 9 years, but of course I haven't 
made many attempts after I received a QSL in 1996.
73/Johan Berglund Trollhättan, Sweden AOR AR7030, 30 m lw.
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[HCDX] Re: Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 10, Issue 12

2003-10-07 Thread Johan Berglund
Re items answered directly to you before they are even in the list.
It happens to me now and then - the reason being I think is  that diffent servers  and 
mail programs work in different ways. How it comes about I don't know. Not a real 
problem (I use Outlook Express 6.0) but of course you get surprised from time to time. 
 73 Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden

Björn wrote 
> Hi all,
> To all of you, who tried to solve my 4600 kHz problem. Thanks a lot! I am 
> quite sure that you are right. It must have been the Korean voice I heard.
> An interesting thing about Hard-Core-DX accurred again (because it has 
> accurred before): I read your answers before my question was published on my 
> Hotmail inbox! So you get the message and are able to answer it before it 
> has even been published on Hotmail! Can anybody tell how it works and why it 
> works like that?
> 73 from Björn Fransson, DX-ing on the island of Gotland, Sweden
> 
> _
> The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE*  
> http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:42:16 +0200
> From: "BCLNEWS.IT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [HCDX] Re: Utility or spy?
> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> 
> > So you get the message and are able to answer it before it
> > has even been published on Hotmail! Can anybody tell how it works and why
> it
> > works like that?
> 
> Sorry, I can't solve also this question but I think an Hotmail account
> receives messagges later than a normal provider.
> 
> Bye
> 
> Roberto Scaglione
> http://www.bclnews.it
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 13:32:02 +0200
> From: "Alfredo Gallerati" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [HCDX] VOM FREQUENCY TABLE
> To: "HCDX Hard Core DX List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> The frequencies at present  in use by  the  of
> VOM Malta ( 6110 kHz, 9605kHz ) from RAI Int. relay service,
> will be the same also after 25th October 2003.
> In case they will update some of frequencies, we'll let you know
> on HCDX list.
> Thank you.
> Best greetings.
> ...
> 
> Alfredo Gallerati
> "Voice of The Mediterranean" Malta
> Redazione "Onde Radio"
> mailto: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> "Onde Radio" on line: www.vomradio.com
> .
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 09:44:56 +0100
> From: "Noel R. Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [HCDX] Unidentified
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> 
> For two days I have been hearing a unidentified station using 7260.  On
> Oct.5th it was traced c1535 at weak strength playing non-de-script music
> with occasional announcements using a language I could not recognise.  It
> was covered by VOA via Udorn making a crash start at 1600 with their Hindi
> programme.
> 
> On Oct.6th there were traces of  "something" on 7260 before 1500, but after
> that hour I could again hear music - sounding like 'dreamy' SE Asian pop
> music we sometimes find on stations from that area and intro by a woman. A
> man and woman were heard talking at 1519 and then the music continued as
> before. The signal was again weak and splash came from AIR 7255 [til 1545]
> and SWDR 7265.  The VOA again blocked the frequency from 1600 [active until
> 1700].
> 
> I re-tuned 7260 c1728 and found what seemed to be the same station with a
> slightly better signal. The language sounded "something like" Arabic at tune
> in, then music followed and varied from Indian like to Middle Eastern like.
> Iran came on frequency at 1750 and started Russian at 1800.
> 
> I don't find anything listed for 7260 at 1500 or 1730. Can anyone identify
> this signal?
> 
> 73s, Noel R. Green [north-west England]
> 
> 
> 
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> Subject: [HCDX

[HCDX] 981 flop, Jan 15 2004

2004-01-18 Thread Johan Berglund
Re 981 on Jan 15. No not a single trace of a different tx than the usual ones could be 
heard here.
This well advertised attempt was a total flop, here at a distance of about 50 miles 
from the tx. I live
in the countryside outside Trollhättan, have a fairly good K9AY, and the day before 
Desi Radio ("...from 
the south of Southall , this is Desi Radio...") was coming in with S6 at 18 UTC on 
1602. Desi Radio is listed with
70 watts.

I allowed myself to joke about it in Swedish to a friend who tried 981 inside 
Trollhättan, and of course he had
failed too. I wrote something like this : ---I can't but believe that the guy doesn't 
know anything about AM low
power broadcasting. Probably the transmission took place from some underground bunker 
with the output antenna
wire down the sewage pipe. Can't tell, perhaps  the transmission was heard in some  
bunker next door...

Now I read that it was a technical failure. Why no tests before the real attempt ? All 
I can say, good luck if you
try again, however I will not waste my time. 73 Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden
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[HCDX] QSL Desi Radio

2004-03-22 Thread Johan Berglund
Hi, some sparks from me

A QSL from Desi Radio, Southall,  in the west of London,  1602 kHz, was found in my 
letterbox of ordinary mail. I filtered it out a few days ago  from the enormous amount 
 of commercial prints and newspapers usually  stuffed  into it  after two or three 
days of abcense. 

Desi Radio was heard here with  marvellous reception on Jan 13, 2004 around 17UT. 
Lists say they are with just 70 watts, which seems  incredibly low. But at that hour 
they beat anything on that frequency. Px are in Panjabi with a lot of ids in EE. 

The letter is  obviously  computer-designed and very nicely put, and signed by Ms 
Amarjit Khera, Chair of The Panjabi Centre. They are on 30 Sussex Rd.,Southall, 
Middlesex UB2 5EG, U.K, and on email [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

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[HCDX] QSL R Sweden

2004-04-07 Thread Johan Berglund
Hi and congrats , this is really was QSL-ing is about. The right letter hits the right 
person at the right time.

One could only wish that it was so with all reports we send. But that  would offend 
our gods, if we have any. 

73 Johan Berglund, Trollhattan, Sweden


QSL: 

SWEDEN, Radio Sweden, 13590, Neat QSL via TERACOM for
report of special transmission of the  "Bandy
Championship". Enormous DTV-T coverage map of Sweden
w/ a f/d, personal note on back explaining what
"Bandy' is, (Think of a cross b/w hurling and ice
hockey played on a soccer field) and a promise of a
QSL card when they find them, having misplaced them
while moving to a new office months ago. V/S, Magnus
Urberg (sp?). This in 14 days for $1. (Barbour-NH)
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[HCDX] NORDX under way

2004-10-16 Thread Johan Berglund
Hi,
from a usally very lazy Dx-er
I got the NORDX 2004  list of countries and competition rules from the web,
and got (sorta) turned on.  Now at 1400UTC Oct16 2004  Sat  I've 15 out of
30 countries recorded, taped and logs written. Two px's were for DX-ers :
A Voz Cristã 21500 in Portuguese, and RAE 9690 in German. 

The Antarctica station on 15476 was heard very well  two days before the
competition started, but not last nights.  Cxs will change I hope.

A  few countries will be impossible or very hard to log I think. R Bayrak 6150 is 
as far I can see off  the air.

Well on radio, anything can happen very fast, so keep tuning and listening

73 from Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden   
AOR AR7030,  K9AY,  random wire
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[HCDX] Re: Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 22, Issue 6

2004-10-06 Thread Johan Berglund

Hi all, 

Logs

4982U   1430 Oct04   BEL Minsk utility station relaying a Belarus FM channel. Very 
good./Berglund, Sweden 

5770 1300 Oct03   BRM Burmese (Myanmar)Army Station. Fair to good. Very  exotic mx 
this time.. Nx in
  languages you'd never heard of. /Berglund, Sweden

Two unidentified  :  

5860  1700 Oct02&04  ME or  South  Asia, probably one of many clandestines moving 
around
Weak to fair. /Berglund, Sweden 
6340.04 1545 Oct 05   Kurdistani or Turkish station.Very good. With phone-ins.( 
Also vy poor, right at the time of 
writing this, Oct06 1345UT. Despite PC  turned on) /Berglund, 
Sweden


QSLs this year :

With the "new" country counting for SWLs, I got one new (LVA) :



LVA European Music Radio via Latvia 9290 card, letter (I also spent some
 phone money talking to the the DJ - Tom - after - the transmission. HE
 was in England, the TX in Latvia.
DJI   Radio Sawa  1431 email with screen-saver and the lot
S  Radio Kinnekulle, Götene 1584 card 
G Desi Radio, Southall,  1602  letter

73 Johan Berglund
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[HCDX] Virgin Islands 1620

2004-10-07 Thread Johan Berglund
Hi, many thanks to Anker P. who sent me a swift reply about 6340. I was just too lazy 
to 
stay on the frequency to  hear the id. Today I did and heard "---dengi Kurstistana 
Iraka---". 

Re 4982U  old friend  Jouko in Turku (Åbo in Swedish) says he's heard something of the 
the
same kind on 4855.1L.  He also tells that 603 Mariehamn is background mx for him. Well 
really not here
in Trollhättan, Sweden.  Romania, France, the UK,s and  some tx with nonstop pop mx, 
so far no id 
gotten by me.

Re 5770 Myanmar they are there most afternoons until 1630 or so. With utility talk in 
Russian as
a QRM from time to time, and also some audio which sounds like another bc station. 

1620 Oct 7  0455  VI. WHDP, Fredrikstedt is an easy catch. I heard no id on the hour, 
but at 0510
there were three ads for organizations. What amazed me and amused me was the first one 
, ending
with these words "Community - Service - Protection - Commitment   -- The Virgin Ilands 
Police Department".
I can't tell where the line between a PSA and an ad goes. Anyway, if the local police 
(here) had put an ad 
like this one  on the air, people would've  laughed their arse off.   This was 
actually the first time that I heard
something very local from the Virgin Islands, except the ids or course. With daylight 
around 0530 the station
disappeared. Fair to nil./Berglund, Sweden  


73
Johan Berglund,
Trollhättan, Sweden

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[HCDX] Small modification

2002-06-03 Thread Johan Berglund



Re Radio Altura
 
Radio Altura is on 5009.55 to be exact, and the program was 
"Boleros y baladas de oro". 
This station seems to be a hard qsl-er, am I right ? Btw is 
the address
(Pasaje Tarma 127, Chaupimarca) in WRTH 2002 the correct one 
? 
 
73 Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, 
Sweden  


[HCDX] Cannot believe it

2002-06-06 Thread Johan Berglund



 
 
Hi,
 
Re 4820 Zacharias Liangas and comment by Jari Savolainen, it's 
rather clear that Zacharias got it wrong, or they were joking on 4820. But let's 
thank Zacharias a lot for so much of very good monitoring and reporting to the 
HCDX.  
 
Bophutswana was a so-called homeland in South Africa in the 
times of the late apartheid regimes, and of course it did not work.  I am 
sure that that  idea was buried pretty deep after democracy came to South Africa. 
 
It's the World Cup  going on - and this is for real - 
and  for me too. Sorry, football haters.  But I got bored of Swedish 
commentators during the match between England and Sweden last Sunday and 
 picked up  252 Longwave - TeamTalk, Ireland  for the speakers. 
But something was odd about it.  They didn't fit, the screen events 
and   the commentator sound.   I found out that the guy 
on 252 was viewing it with a delay. When Sweden goaled, he was WAY behind. Not just slow. As if 
directing a  symphony orchestra after the final thundering 
bars.
 
Funny experience.
 
73 JB
 
Johan Berglund
Trollhättan, Sweden 
 
 


[HCDX] Re: Hard-Core-DX digest, Vol 1 #917 - 4 msgs

2002-07-02 Thread Johan Berglund

Hi, re #917 Björn Malm from Quito & other matters

Wonderful reporting from you Björn, as always. Re R Cosmopolta, I have not said that 
my report was returned, simply that it hasn't been answered. I used the address you 
mentioned. And also the name you
suggested. Well so a f/u is going from here any day. I see you are coming this way 
soon. Be sure to get a phone-call from me.

Re the Radio Nord special nostalgia program over 9980 Lithuania June  30, it  is was 
heard well here, but to miserably  I believe to attract the average listener*. I 
missed 75 % of the show because I had simply forgot about the event, and tuned in at 
2035 UT. (My only excuse is too much TV that evening here  - for once.) Had to use USB 
mode to get the sharpness of the sound needed for fair readability. Very good 
programming, and a kick for those who were around at the time 40 years ago. To the 
producer(s), many thanks for this shortwave event, and  tell our Lithuanian friends 
that the transmitter was a bit meak this time.  

I should really get into the SW bands sincerely again soon, my  break is due to bad 
health, and a pause was needed. This afternoon at work at our  small local airport a 
lot of time was spent with phone and telex conversation with a US air operator 
regarding a F900  arriving here tomorrow. Sorry, no more details, you cannot discuss 
customers.  One can only be amazed how  the world regards this  "petite" airport. It's 
almost closed in July, and I had alert a helluva lot of people. We are surely not LAX 
or JFK... My God !

We - ESGT - Trollhattan-Vanersborg Airport  , are on the air with our NDBs 24h. 325 
and 399. In a WWII story about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor I read that the 
USAAF (Army Air Force) used a commercial Honolulu station as a NDB. And that they 
actually asked the station not to close but to go on with their px at night and early 
mornings when a unit  coming in from the continental US was due. So one of the airborn 
commanders of the attacking air fleet actually got a weather forcast for the target 
area on medium wave and ordered  "head on". To good to be true.  And the few radar 
blips actually seen and reported in Hawaii were attributed to these US positioning 
flights.

73 Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden with an AOR7030 and K9AY a bit down for the 
moment.


  
attackers actually got a weather brief in the clear from   


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>me it is a dream to have a little "cabin" here in Ecuador to rest, for example on the 
>peninsula Santa Elena not far from Guayaquil. My mother-in-law has some land there 
>close to the holiday cottage of the president. 
> Just imagine how nice it will be to leave this crazy capital for a DX-pedition to 
>the Pacific Ocean for a week or so. There it is possible to erect a long beverage as 
>it is an uninhabited area. 
> After a night with tough DXing I will take a 15 - minutes walk on the several mile 
>long beach falling to sleep to the roaring waves .. 
> You can't understand how tough life is nowadays here in Quito - when I was here for 
>the first time 5-6 years ago it was a pure idyllic spot. Now I has dramatically 
>changed to the worse due to poverty is spreading down even to the middle class. 
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[HCDX] Saturday night fever on AM

2002-09-07 Thread Johan Berglund



Hi from Trollhättan, Sweden, where the rx was steamed up for 
the first time in months
 
1170 Sep 7 2035   Radio Minsk had a DX-px in German 
at this time, Sat night. Said they had a fine
   special 
QSL-card for this. (I thought I had gone more bananas than 
usual when
   I 
stumbled on this px, hearing old ids of Radio Schweden and 
Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk
   here 
plus one Colombian, Caracol I think.) But frankly speaking R Minsk itself 
seemed 
   
to be a bit of a DX station as it was only S7 on the K9AY direction east, 
so I really
   
doubt they are using a megawatt tx. Other stations on the frequency were 
heard better,
   
such as Radio Capodistria and a UK one, serving "..Staffordshire and Cheshire" 
so most
   
probably Big AM, Stoke-on-Trent. The latter one has 200 
watts.   
1278 Sep 7 2005   "Vous écoutez France Blue Alsace" 
, easy listening with old goodies. So this one 
    
has escaped, with thanks, the changes on AM in France.
1314 Sep 7 1945   BBC WS with EE/Arabic px must 
be Al Dhubbaya, UAE.  NRK off ?!
1593 Sep 7 1800   Radio Neumarkt, px in German from 
Targu Mures, Romania. A couple of very 
   
good ids, songs and features in German but heavy competition from R 
Romania
   Cultural  
and  R Cluj,  also on the qrg.
 
73 Johan Berglund, AOR AR7030, 
K9AY 


[HCDX] Re: Hard-Core-DX digest, Vol 1 #1006

2002-09-30 Thread Johan Berglund

> 
> Message: 4
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> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 21:44:34 EDT
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> Subject: [HCDX] Iran 15,084khz ??
> 
> What happened to Iran on 15,084khz ???
> 
> John wb9uai
> Milwaukee, WI USA

Hi!
Still there at 1044 Sep 30.. I think you must have noiced some 
very unusual silent period for the tx. If that one isn't there, I would
definitely presume that something was very very wrong my end.

73 Johan Berglund. Trollhättan, Sweden

 



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[HCDX] Las Palmas

2002-10-29 Thread Johan Berglund



Hi, tho very inactive at the moment, I send out this feeler 
:
 
Going to Gran Canary on Sat Nov 2, just for a week. Hotel and 
which playa only known upon arrival, but surely there'll be some time over for 
DX-contacts. Anybody who knows about local DX-ers or  perhaps even 
clubs on this island ? 
 
I cannot promise anything, but I will try to investigate the 
whereabouts of the tx of   6715U.  I have heard it too. The 
program source was revealed I see. Now I am scraping up the leads I 
have seen in HCDX and other sources. 
 
[Believe it or not, but I remember well a Korean connection of 
my own from that island. I was guiding a bussload of Swedish tourists up in 
the mountains in 1973, I think, among the passengers were half a dozen of really 
Nordic blond and tall girls. At a stop at one of the calderas we found another 
tourist bus  parked there. It was stranded and the driver was sweating to 
do some repairs. His passengers were standing about, obviously already tired of 
the views and  waiting to get on. They were all Korean sailors, and now 
they really got something interesting to look at. I asked Pusan ? and they all 
smiled and nodded. My group had their view of the volcano and we left, but first 
I had to throw out a couple of Korean guys who had follwed the girls 
onboard our bus. We waved them goodbye. That's the closest to ethnic 
cleansing I have come - and that cruel expression became known only  many 
years later]  
73 Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden. (Sony ICF-SW7600G while on 
vacation.) 
 
 


[HCDX] Radio Foyle

2003-01-07 Thread Johan Berglund



U.K  792 at 1200 Jan 7, 2003. From Londonderry, Northern 
Ireland,  "BBC Radio Foyle News". After a short local news bulletin it 
was back to the same px as 1341 Radio Ulster. It was the only readable signal 
here, no trace of NDR4 so perhaps they have moved ?? Later in the afternoon 
France Info dominating.
 
73 Johan Berglund,  Trollhättan, Sweden AR703 
K9AY
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[HCDX] 531 Faroe Islands

2003-01-08 Thread Johan Berglund



Faroe Islands. 531  1200 Jan 8 Útvarp Foroya,Tórshavn 
really booming in. Definitely advertisements on this channel - apartment 
with airconditioning for sale, etc. One more odd observation. NRK1 with 
same px as on 630 heard under this North Atlantic tx.Is this some prank on 
behalf of my receiver ? It seldom acts this way. A hunch anyone ? NRK1 on 531 

 
United Kingdom. 792 My logging of BBC Radio Foyle, 
Londonderry, Northen Ireland on Jan 7 at 1200 could not be repeated on Jan 
8. NDR4 was there again in force. 
 
73 Johan Berglund, Trollhattan, Sweden AOR AR7030, 
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[HCDX] 1584

2003-02-05 Thread Johan Berglund



1584 unid Arabic-speaking with modern popular Arabic music 
seems to be addressing itself to Iraq, as this word is in the "slogans" of 
the IDs, before name of the station, which sounds like Radio 
Tacheen, stress on the long e-sound. At 1911 Feb 5, double ID by both 
female and male announcer. Just slogans,ids and music here, no Radio 
Sawa-like news stories heard so far. But it is most likely a part of the US 
information & music offensive in the Gulf area. Any tx site will of course 
not be given away in the programs, perhaps some email address might pop up. 
Good for those who do understand Arabic, I am at loss here I am afraid.  
Candidate countries for origin of signal  ? Kuwait, Bahrain, 
UAE... 
73 
Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden  
AOR AR7030 K9AY   
 
 
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[HCDX] Saddam's home town on 1584 AM ...

2003-02-06 Thread Johan Berglund
Hi, 
thanks a lot Björn Fransson and Mauno Ritola for the work done on pinning down the 
name of the
station.  Tikrit surely fits my recording from Feb 5, at 1911.  The name of the town 
struck me as very familiar, and of course, it's Saddam Hussein's birthplace. And it 
has been in the news as a storage area for weapons of mass-destruction. Historically 
wellknown in many fields.  

I can only speculate about the real motives for the choice of name for this station. 
Another psychological tidbit in the war for minds ? Now we can probably only wait for 
what the BBCMS and other broadcast intelligence  sources have to say about it.  CRW ?  

A Google search for Tikrit  made me end up reading  the Israeli weekly web-mag Debka. 
Quite a lot to consume. No wonder I get some huge phone bills from time to time. 

73

Johan Berglund
Trollhättan, Sweden  

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[HCDX] Re: Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 6, Issue 23

2003-06-15 Thread Johan Berglund

Bogdan wrote :

> Hello all !
> 
> I wonder why European MW radio stations use powers of several hundreds and sometimes 
> thousands of kWs ? Is it because in Europe, there are much more concrete buildings 
> than in North America, where there is much more absorption of radio waves and the 
> skywave signals of international MW stations like TWR-1467 need to scatter through a 
> window to be audible in a concrete building since the ceilings are in concrete in 
> the direction of the ionosphere ?
> 
> Or is it more because of some organisations less strict than the FCC (or the CRTC) 
> wich don't allow a power limit (like here in North America where 50 kW is the power 
> limit on MW) ?
> 
> Enquiring/curious minds wants to know !
> 
> 73 and good DX,
> Bogdan


Hi, I think this is a good question and I think that I have at least some part of the 
answer.

When radio came around in the twenties Europe was - and is still  despite  the efforts 
for a European Union -
a continent which is split into some fourty countries. Countries, not radio stations 
overseen by e.g. the FCC, divided up the MW band in the twenties, and as you know 
WWII, suceeded by the the Cold War made it impossible to change anything. European 
countries have more or less kept all old frequncies and their right to broadcast with 
so and so much ERP. Some use their rights, some don't.  Sweden has left MW all 
together,
except for 1187 which is used for Radio Sweden.  Another point is that most European 
governments very selflishly monopolized broadcasting and only allowed state-run 
broadcasting. 

So in a few words : The reasons,  for this being as it is,  are historical.   

73 Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden
 
PS. Bogdan, forget about concrete buildnings. They have nothing to do with the matter.

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[HCDX] Fw: TIME World Watch Newsletter, September 1, 2003

2003-09-01 Thread Johan Berglund

Hi, in a fast-moving world DX-ers will slowly have to adopt to these totally new names.
All credits to Time World Watch Newsletter for this information.

We had the fall of communism, then  several changes in India and  now these.  Perhaps
lucky for us,  the shortwave and mediumwave bands are not really crammed by local 
stations
in the Republic if South Africa. But a change it surely is.  




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> September 1, 2003
> 
> =
> 
> 
> T I M EM A G A Z I N E
> www.timeeurope.com | www.timeasia.com | www.time.com
> 
> SOUTH AFRICA: All Change, Please
> One of the first things most African nations did at independence
> was to change their colonial-era place names to African ones. Not
> so in South Africa, where, to help keep the peace in the early
> days of black rule, most cities, towns and streets retained the
> old names of apartheid. When the mayor of Pretoria, Smangaliso
> Mkhatshwa, recently suggested renaming the city Tshwane, the
> area's name before the arrival of white settlers, white residents
> protested that the change would be costly and, according to a
> petition drawn up by students at the University of Pretoria,
> "show contempt for history." But a name change, says the mayor,
> is backed by many of Pretoria's black residents, who resent
> living in a city named for Andries Pretorius, a leader of the
> Afrikaners' march of settlement.
> 
> Here's a look at other South African places where new names have
> been adopted or proposed .
> 
> OLD:Pretoria NEW:Tshwane
> Expect fierce resistance but eventual change
> OLD: Johannesburg NEW: Egoli
> The Zulu name is already used informally
> OLD: Transvaal NEW: Gauteng
> Sotho word meaning "Place of Gold" was adopted in 1995
> OLD: Pretoria NEW:Tshwane
> Expect fierce resistance but eventual change
> OLD: Kruger National Park NEW: Mandela National Park
> Controversial at home, but may be popular with the tourists
> OLD: Cape Town NEW: Ikapa
> Despite pressure from hard-line nationalists, the change is
> unlikely
> 
73 Johan Berglund, Vabacksvägen 10, Trollhättan, Sweden

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[HCDX] Re: Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 9, Issue 3

2003-09-02 Thread Johan Berglund
Hi, I never ever thought I would critizise  another fellow DX-er, but in the future, 
please just send 
your link,  not the entire propagation forecast. 

Living in hill-billy county of Lilla Edet,  Sweden, where authorities and telecom 
companies never heard of anything by the sound of broadband, it takes minutes to 
download your info. I kow that it is  very valuable indeed, but the link suffices very 
well. 73 tohttp://www.kn4lf.com/kn4lf5.htm.  from 
Johan Berglund
Sweden

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[HCDX] IRRS on 7285

2007-08-31 Thread Johan Berglund
Hi all, I strayed into 7285 kHz on Aug 31 at 1814UT and heard IRRS, Milan, 
Italy with station id, then a relay of 
United Nations Radio, New York with news and report from the UN Security 
Council. I haven't heard UN Radio for
ages. At 1828 IRRS gave another id, address (in Milan) and said that reception 
reports were welcome. Has it 
been confirmed 100 % that this tx is indeed in Bulgaria ? I've read a lot of 
speculations about this, to many so my
mind is swamped by them, and the last WRTH I bought was that of 2006.  Just 
fair signal here in western Sweden.
SINPO 33443 on my AOR AR7030 with a 30 m longwire.73 from Johan Berglund, 
Trollhättan, Sweden where night
frost is imminent.  
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[HCDX] Antarctica LRA36

2007-09-04 Thread Johan Berglund
Hi all,
ANTARCTICA LRA36 on 15475.9, Sep 4 from tune-in at 1850UT with accordeon music 
(Beer Barrel Polka, etc),  YL id at
1900  "de Esperanza al Mundo, un concierto...", followed by presumed Argentine 
pop artist, and another id at 1935. The
signal was best around 1900 (SINPO 25433) but dropped below threshold around 
2005. Can't really explain why, but
listening to LRA36 always brightens me up. 73 Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, 
Sweden AOR AR7030, 30 m longwire.   
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