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Today's Topics:
1. 15270 BVBN Trincomalee (Wolfgang Bueschel)
2. Glenn Hauser logs August 10-11, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Re: Glenn Hauser logs August 10-11, 2012 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
4. Glenn Hauser logs August 11-12, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
5. Logs (Manuel M?ndez)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 13:06:59 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <buesche...@web.de>
To: "HCDX" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, "DXLD"
<d...@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [HCDX] 15270 BVBN Trincomalee
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SRI LANKA 15270 Poor signal of SIDELOBE signal from Trincomalee site noted
on BVBNetwork in English, Sat 1100-1130 UT.
S=4 weak here in Germany at 1104 UT.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 11)
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 08:57:27 -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 August 10-11, 2012
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** BANGLADESH. 15520, continued monitoring of Bangladesh Betar from previous
report: Aug 10 at 1602: signal has declined to very poor, could be Qur`an in
Arabic service; 1615 music audible. Nothing much left by 1630 when Turkey
starts. (Evidently the Ethiopian DRM jamming is only around 1630-1645 per
Wolfgang B?schel and Mauno Ritola). Not rechecked here until 1805 when
frequency unencumbered, VP signal could be English from BB. Much weaker than
Kuwait 15540.
15520, Aug 11 at 1406, poor signal with flutter, could be Urdu from BB, and now
with CCI, i.e. YFR in Marathi via UAE scheduled; 1407 music unseems Christian
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake August 11, after 1230:
17450, very poor at 1233
17250, poor at 1233
15550, good at 1248, het on hi side; none in the 16s
14870, good at 1236
13920, good at 1236; none in the 12s
After 1330:
15760, very good at 1338; unusual: per Aoki apparently a Sound of Hope
jumparound from Tajikistan has landed here today
15605, poor at 1338, with added noise; still here at 1403
15485, fair at *1339 after open carrier
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 13m open in the nightmiddle, Aug 11 at 0620: two non //
Chinese services on 21720 and weaker 21690. 21690 must be CNR1 jamming against
scheduled RFA Tibetan via UAE during this hour only; 21720 would be RFA Chinese
during this hour only via TINIAN overcoming the jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENIG DIGEST)
** CUBA. Checking out Grayson Watson`s mystery music program on RHC in the
23-24 hour, Friday Aug 10 at 2305, music on 11840 IDed as `Por los Campos de
Cuba` (In Cuban Fields). // stronger 11680 in dead air so far. Later on in the
hour, however, at 2313 and 2318 they mention `Sonido Cubano` which is a real
program title, also appearing elsewhen in their schedule
http://www.radiohc.cu/de-interes/programacion.html
He should also enjoy `Cuba Campesina` Sundays at 1233. There are additional
repeats of many programs in the 21-23 UT period for which specific details are
not given.
11840, Aug 11 at 0525, this RHC frequency is on way late, past nominal 0500*,
with campesino music; 9790 CRI relay transmitter is also still on at 0532 with
big carrier, open except for some hum, and 11840 also remains.
6125, checked Aug 11 at 0538, RHC English missing here, but on 6060, 6050; also
missing from 6010, but 6000 is still on late. Wake up at RadioCuba! Finally
they do: At 0537:28* 6000 cuts off the air and then 11840 is gone too. At
*0542:40 carrier comes on 6125, and finally at 0545:20 English fades up, to
usual undermodulation level. That was probably the 6000 transmitter; not sure
where 11840 went next if anywhere.
17730, Aug 11 at 1235, RHC inbooming here but absent from scheduled // 17580
uncovering an UNIDENTIFIED q.v. there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT [and non]. 21540, Aug 11 at 1410, R. Kuwait fair in Arabic talking
about kitab, with music, no CCI now as Spain presumably closed at 1400, still
in well on 21610 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, August 11 at 0534, IGIM chanting in consistent early
morning/allnight Ramadan service which has another week to go (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEWFOUNDLAND [and non]. The heterodyne between the two 6160 CBC stations has
continued, so Aug 11 at 0541 I recheck the pitch: close to Bb5 = 932 Hz, so
make it CKZN on approx. 6160.9 since CKZU is only slightly below 6160.0 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, Aug 11 at 0604, VON has horrible buzz on and off correlating
with modulation peaks as YL is talking; carrier also unstable. Signal is
stronger now than it was before 0600. Now it has a neighbor on weekends from
0600, SW Radio Africa on 15115; see ZIMBABWE [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 12070, Aug 11 at 0547, fair signal with flutter during ``People``
song in English, 0549 Russian outro mentions Streisand. It`s R. Rossii, per
HFCC 04-08, 250 kW, 265 degrees from a Moscow site to Europe. Aoki says
specific site is Taldom (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [non]. 17800, Aug 11 at 1254, poor signal in Russian with flutter
until 1259.5* and nothing further, presumed R. Liberty via THAILAND as
scheduled 12-13, unlike Aug 9 when I was still hearing Russian at 1320 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 15380, Aug 11 at 0552, open carrier; by 0602 fair in somewhat
undermodulated Arabic, i.e. BSKSA at 06-09, 500 kW, 310 degrees from Riyadh to
Syria and Turkey but also USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 15215, Aug 11 at 1405, crude Hammond organ hymn as
typical for the live Sabbath services from The Overcomer Ministry compound,
matching but not synchro with much better signal on 15420-CUSB WBCQ; and 15215
also has CCI now, since not only IRRS (via ARMENIA, Wolfgang B?schel claims,
not ROMANIA as Ivo Ivanov claims), but as Ivo also notes, also VOA Kurdish to
same target area has just moved to 15215 at 14-15, via Wertachtal, ex-11640!
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 15160, Aug 10 at 2015, poor signal with something in Parisian French.
Frequent bandscans make it obvious to me that this is something new. No ID, but
mentions Espagne several times, and finally at 2028 announces the P O Box
address in Madrid of REE; clinched further by automatic timesignal on half-hour
(like HCJB does too).
The trouble is, nothing at all is scheduled on 15160 between 18 and 23, least
of all REE. However, they do have a M-F French service at 20-21 which is
supposed to be only on 11620 and 9690. REE does use 15160 later, from 2300, so
presumably a mistake if not a late change. (RFI also uses 15160 at 1300-1330;
HFCC, EiBi and Aoki still have not removed the defunct RFI English broadcast at
05-06!) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1629 monitoring. Confirmed UT Saturday Aug 11 at 0130
right on time via Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB. Next: UT Sun 0400 on WTWW 5755;
also WRMI 9955: Sat 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730, Mon 0500, 1130; on HLR: Tue
0930 on 5980. On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZIMBABWE [non]. 15115, Saturday Aug 11 at 0603, SW Radio Africa in new
morning service which happens to audiblize it in N America unlike the evening
broadcasts on 4880 via South Africa. Now in HFCC as 0600-0800 Sat & Sun, 250
kW, 265 degrees from MADAGASCAR for the rest of A-12.
Unfortunately nothing in English heard until I QRT at 0625. There were a
variety of voices in Shona and/or Ndebele, including one guy who yelled; at
0608 included various English words: committee, 1998, 1997, organisation.
Modulation somewhat choppy, slight hum, good signal, enough to keep awful
adjacent Nigeria 15120 at bay (but anyone tuning around this area would be
drawn instead to English on 15105 Woofferton with BBC `Weekend`, at 0610 a
report from a ``Lass Vegas`` drone exhibition.)
(I am also reminded that we haven`t heard from a contributor in Z for a long
time, over two years in fact, David Pringle-Wood; hope he`s OK) (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Another check for the mystery very weak off-channel carriers
usually heard in the 13-14 UT period, August 11: at 1359 I can detect them on
11734, 11751.5, 11776 but not 11784 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17580, Aug 11 at 1235 RHC absent from this frequency uncovering a
poor signal with music, altho nothing else is supposed to be here until 1300
YFR in Bengali via Wertachtal (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 18:25:14 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <buesche...@web.de>
To: "HCDX" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, "DXLD"
<d...@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 10-11, 2012
Message-ID: <D46517AF45354D34A84FA731EBAA1F5F@HNPC2>
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re 15520 kHz
That digital like noise comes from Dhaka audio modulator of new TX unit.
Heard at 1415-1418 UT when tuned in today Aug 11,
DRM/AM-kompatible mode on air again.
The engineeers at Dhaka Khabipur try to use PC browser options of Audio
Modes of the new BBEF Made in China gear, on 15511 to 15529 kHz.
WHITE NOISE comes ACCOMPANIED from the Dhaka MODULATOR PC,
Correction:"Evidently the Ethiopian DRM jamming >l i k e< "
mode, probably not ETH origin on that channel ! "
73 wb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Hauser" <wghau...@yahoo.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 5:57 PM
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 10-11, 2012
BANGLADESH. 15520, continued monitoring of Bangladesh Betar from previous
report: Aug 10 at 1602: signal has declined to very poor, could be Qur`an in
Arabic service; 1615 music audible. Nothing much left by 1630 when Turkey
starts. (Evidently the Ethiopian DRM jamming is only around 1630-1645 per
Wolfgang B?schel and Mauno Ritola). Not rechecked here until 1805 when
frequency unencumbered, VP signal could be English from BB. Much weaker than
Kuwait 15540.
15520, Aug 11 at 1406, poor signal with flutter, could be Urdu from BB, and
now with CCI, i.e. YFR in Marathi via UAE scheduled; 1407 music unseems
Christian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 15215, Aug 11 at 1405, crude Hammond organ hymn as
typical for the live Sabbath services from The Overcomer Ministry compound,
matching but not synchro with much better signal on 15420-CUSB WBCQ; and
15215 also has CCI now, since not only IRRS (via ARMENIA, Wolfgang B?schel
claims, not ROMANIA as Ivo Ivanov claims), but as Ivo also notes, also VOA
Kurdish to same target area has just moved to 15215 at 14-15, via
Wertachtal, ex-11640! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
------------------------------
Message: 4
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 21:55:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: na...@yahoogroups.com, s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 11-12, 2012
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** ARGENTINA. 15345.1, Aug 12 at 0142, R. Nacional exceptionally good at S9+20
in Spanish discussion, soon playing ``This Land Is Your Land`` in English. No
RAE on 11711v since it`s a weekend; transmitter stays on 15 MHz much later.
Tried 13363 for LTA but nothing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15520, Aug 11 at 1820, very poor signal with flutter, talk,
presumably English from Bangladesh Betar. We might have better luck if they
broadcast English at 1230-1300 on 15520 rather than 7250 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CROATIA [non]. 9925, Aug 12 at 0204, V. of Croatia is hastening to wrap up
only 4 minutes of news in `Croatia Today``, takes 2 minutes to announce English
schedule on satellite, SW with local times (what if there is more than one
each??), so --- what`s the big hurry? --- they can get right back to music at
0206, which I stayed with past 0214 after they had played a tune which included
melody from ``Rose of Spanish Haarlem``, otherwise unrecognizable presumably
real Croatian music. All the schedules show English is 15 minutes from 0200,
but there was nothing English about the music and certainly no speech after
0206; maybe cut back on weekends? Via Wertachtal, GERMANY, of course. On 7
September moves back down to 7375. Initial very good signal on 9925 was getting
fluttier by tune-out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6050, Aug 12 at 0235, no signal from RHC in English, so 50% of the
early-evening service is missing, and the other 50%, 6000 is only fair, 0235
introducing a commentary from A. Coro. Recheck at 0311, still no 6050.
Unfortunately, too much Spain from 6055 to tell whether HCJB was there as it
should have been, good news for them anyway the Cuban disappearance, but likely
not for long (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 13620, Aug 12 at 0147 just humbuzz, no programodulation, from R.
Cairo, Abis, Spanish to S America at 0045-0200 scheduled.
9315, Aug 12 at 0225, R. Cairo English to N America missing, no signal at all,
whilst 9305 Arabuzzing as usual, and 9965 distorted Arabic undermod. Has
English finally moved to 9720 as predicted? No, nothing there either. Not found
anywhere else on 9 MHz, so did another sweep of 6.8-13.9 MHz and did not find
it anywhere else either. Still the same, no 9315 or 9720 at 0314 check (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, Aug 11 at 1828, crazy gospel huxter keeps me on R.
Africa for only a few sex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 11800, Aug 12 at 0230 I am looking for a lousy-modulated signal as
possible replacement from missing Cairo 9315; see EGYPT. Something poor here
aside much stronger Romania in Spanish on 11795, with unknown language talk,
cut off abruptly at 0231:30*. Uplooked later in HFCC, it`s merely VIRI in
``Kazaki``, 500 kW, 5 degrees from Sirjan at 0130-0230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15115-15120-15125, Aug 11 at *1827, DRM noise has just erupted,
i.e. start of scheduled VON sesquihour in English. Does the modulation/audio on
this still sound as bad as it does when in AM? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, a Saturday night = UT Sunday Aug 12 so pirate
activity likely, and yes there is: All-music except for occasional brief IDs
merely as ``Ronin Radio`` (I would not be sure of the name if I had not seen it
previously reported by others), at 0251.4 and just before 0300 nicely TOH. No
carrier, and dense music very hard to tune in properly on SSB, but I try
zero-beating 9925 Croatia [non] on the FRG-7 MHz-only tuning.
Some of it is recognizable: 0238, Janis Joplin ``Cry Baby``; 0255 going from
Van Halen, ``Jamie`s Crying`` to Journey, ``Who`s Crying Now?`` --- I think I
perceive a theme in this, but after 0300 switches to blues and more blues past
0309. Maybe those too having crying in the title. Please QSL? (Glenn Hauser, P
O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 17745, Aug 11 at 2109, RRI in Spanish reviving those annoying
ringing audio artifacts again peaking at the sidebands, so I check // 21510,
and same heard there, but no ACI as there is on 17745 from much stronger RHC
17750. Both are Tiganeshti per HFCC.
BTW, 21510 has been misreported lately by a slipshod listlogger as Spain in
Spanish, and even Saudi Arabia in Arabic --- except neither of these is listed.
Guess again.
11750, Aug 12 at 0152, piano concerto with flutter, 0154 outro in Romanian as
Chopin, so I bet it`s RRI. A bit more piano music but cut off the air at 0156*.
Good signal but had splat from 11760 RHC. This is 310 degrees from Galbeni to
CIRAF 8 = E North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. 15110, Sat Aug 11 at 2112 with nice classical guitar music,
excellent signal as usual; next best: 17850 via Costa Rica but lower-fi; weaker
directs 17715 sufficient, and 17755 with CubaRM from 17750. The 17 MHz
frequencies run past 1900 only on weekends (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 9515, UT Sunday Aug 12 at 0314, VOT introducing `Legends of
Anatolia`, and I am switching receivers to the kitchen for a snack missing some
of it, but it`s over already in only 4 minutes: 0318 multi-lingual ID filler;
0321 Question of the Month; 0323 music --- fill for the rest of the hour?
Anyhow confirms this is an off-week for the fortnightly `DX Corner`, back Aug
19 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENIG DIGEST)
** U K [and non]. 15180, Aug 11 at 1826, fair signal in French, and sounds the
same on 15105; can`t // them for sure with only one receiver in hand on the
porch, and they would be out of synch since they are BBC, 15180 300 kW, 170
degrees from Woofferton, and 15105, 250 kW, 65 degrees from Ascension at
1800-1830, per HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17895, Aug 11 at 1828, Olympic theme music (guess NBC does not have a
monopoly on it), segu? to a bit of hilife, and 1829:50 starting VOA sign-off
routine. Currently scheduled as GB at 1730-1830 in English, 250 kW, 94 degrees
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11530, Aug 12 at 0150, hymn and then Portuguese announcement from
WYFR are marred by squealing spur from neighbor 11520 WEWN transmitter with
parasite on 11529; also could hear a match on 11511, but nothing there to beat
against except BFO. Christians vs Christians (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 7506.4, Aug 12 at 0233, WRNO strong signal with dead air --- no wait,
if I turn the volume wide open, I can hear some just barely modulation, but not
enough to tell what they are saying, which I am sure would be of no interest
anyway (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 15155, Aug 11 at 2045, preaching in French, poor with flutter.
It`s AWR at 2030-2100, 300 kW, 210 degrees from Moosbrunn, AUSTRIA. No sign of
French on 15160 today, where Spain had misappeared 24 hours earlier, but that`s
a M-F broadcast on other frequencies and this was Saturday (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
------------------------------
Message: 5
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 09:28:09 +0200
From: Manuel M?ndez <manuelmend...@gmail.com>
To: DX Listenig Digest <d...@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs
Message-ID: <50275b09.2000...@gmail.com>
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Manuel M?ndez
Lugo, Spain
Logs in Lugo
Sony ICF SW 7600 G, cable antenna, 8 meters
BRAZIL
5770, Radio Itatiai, Belo Horizonte, 0533-0540, 12-08, Portuguese, male
and female comments. Weak. 14321. (M?ndez)
6180, Radio Nacional da Amazonia, Brasilia, 0545-0606, 12-08, male,
Portuguese, comments, Brazilian songs. 34433. (M?ndez)
9820, Radio 9 de Julho, Sao Paulo, 0534-0547, 12-08, religious comments
by male, Portuguese, "Santuario Nacional", "Com a Mae Aparecida". 24322.
(M?ndez)
EQUATORIAL GUINEA, 15190, Radio Africa, 0546-0017, 12-08, English, male,
religious comments. 24322. (M?ndez)
GUATEMALA, 4055, Radio Verdad, Chiquimula, 0537-0558 , religious
comments in English, male. Identification. 14321. (M?ndez)
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