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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. Glenn Hauser logs May 24-29 (Glenn Hauser) 2. UNID on 4828 kHz (Matti Ponkamo) 3. Re: UNID on 4828 kHz (Jari Savolainen) 4. Mostly from Germany (Ron) 5. Log (Charles B) 6. Voz de ?frica con dos emisiones en paralelo contra Sawt al-Amal (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO) 7. QSL from Radio The Voice Of Vietnam (Mukesh Kumar) 8. captaciones DX (Yimber) 9. Re: Dxers Unlimited's script mid week edition May 29-30 2007 (Prof. Arnaldo Coro Antich) 10. QSL report (Jim Pogue) 11. HCDX logs between 2007-05-29 0000 UTC and 2007-05-30 0000 UTC (Risto Kotalampi) 12. DX Listening Digest 7-063; WOR 1361 (Glenn Hauser) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 21:12:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 24-29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 UT May 29 logs in this report are from another DXpedition to Meadowlake Park, Enid, away from the household noise sources, using DX-398 on battery power (down to only 3 marks on the meter), and reel-out antenna of a few meters to a tree or light pole, while watching the geese and fish. ** ALBANIA [and non]. A problem, May 25: at 1300, R. Tirana was JBA on 13750, but nothing at all from adjacent 13745 Rwanda which was audible last Friday. Rechecking at 1319, I found a huge signal from RHC in Spanish on 13750! Normally they are on 13680 at this hour, but nothing there. Kept monitoring and at 1339 RHC suddenly vanished from 13750 and appeared on 13680, so apparently just a mistake (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA [and non]. May 28 at 1834 I found an audible het between ANU 15475 and a carrier on 15476, which must be LRA36. ANU was pretty weak, but some audio; at 1900 sharp after a timecheck in French for 1900, modulation ceased, and carrier off a semiminute later, after the typical power/frequency oscillation for a few seconds. I could then still detect the 15476 carrier by itself with BFO, but no audio and did not improve later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. RAE further off-frequency than usual, judging from the het against Morocco and Spain which as usual produce only a sub-audible het of a few Hz against each other on 15345.0; May 28 at 1837 I put RAE at about 15343.4, no audio detected (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHAD. Unlike previous nights, the extremely distorted transmission was very strong here May 24 around 0506; it was on the high side of 7290 but could not find a specific carrier to measure. QRMing Portuguese on 7290 which could be heard by off-tuning to low side. In fact, 7292v was the strongest signal on 41m, 7100-7300! As K-index was 5 (at 0600), and usual European signals were barely audible; even BBC Ascension 7160 was much weaker. I think there is little doubt this is the same one which was on 7312v earlier, and re-identified as Chad in Martien Groot`s report in DXLD 7-060 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Solar-terrestrial indices for 23 May follow. Solar flux 70 and mid-latitude A-index 37. The mid-latitude K-index at 0600 UTC on 24 May was 5 (82 nT). Space weather for the past 24 hours has been moderate. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G2 level occurred. Space weather for the next 24 hours is expected to be minor. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level are expected (SEC via DXLD) ** CHAD. The extremely distorted transmission is still there, noted May 27 at 0522 around 7292v; easier to pick it out with BFO on when the band is noisy (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake against Sound of Hope, May 29 at 0021 on 13970, F-G; not audible on 10300, 9200 or 18160, but also found on // 15150 at 0035, the latter about evenly mixed with Chinese talk, which would be VOA via Thailand rather than SOH at this hour (Glenn Hauser, MLPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. The Dentro-Cuban Jamming Command continues to mess up frequencies other than those they are targeting, and do they care? Of course not! May 29 at 0022 I found jamming pulsing away harmonically on 18090, which is 3 x 6030 against R. Mart?. I also heard very weak audio on 18000, but could not be sure it was // RHC 6000 or the other station it was colliding with on the fundamental. Then at 0024 found on 17730 exactly the same jamming pulses as on 18060, but here spreading to 17725, bothering WYFR in Portuguese, and to 17735. This is what we tend to call ``bubble jamming`` but without the tones since there is no carrier to beat against. 18090 is common, but never heard 17730 before, which is 3 x 5910 against R. Rep?blica via Germany, and it was also heavily jammed on the fundamental. BTW, RHC on 17705 with music in Spanish had a good signal. At 0052 I heard similar pulses on 6235 but can`t pin this on Cuba as mixing products of 49mb jamming and/or broadcast transmitters. At 0109, heard 12060 pulses, the second harmonic of 6030 to go along with the third on 18090 (Glenn Hauser, MLPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also ALBANIA ** EGYPT [and non]. On an evening DXpedition in the park, one must check for the CVC Chile mixing products on 12275 and 11360, from the Spanish frequencies 11665 and 11970 leapfrogging each other. May 29 at 0110, however, those mixes were not audible; the fundamentals were of good strength but not overpowering as on previous occasion, so perhaps not strong enough to bring along the mixes with them, assuming CVC has done nothing to suppress them --- if they have, they have not notified me. However, looking for 12275 led me to find something just as interesting on 12270 at 0131: a weak signal with poor audio cutting in and out, Spanish? Then checked 6135 and found the same thing, with breaks for music at same time as I switched back and forth on single DX-398 receiver, but could not be absolutely positive the two were parallel. My first guess was Romania, but I made it to the home rigs before 0200 and checked again; At 0157, 6135 was // 7270 in Spanish with better audio, so Radio Cairo as scheduled, but an echo apart. 6135 stayed on past 0200 for timesignal and theme, finally cut off at 0201:30 as 7270 continued to introduce English to North America with program summary in local time of UT+3 concluding at 6:30 am. The summary was at times drowned out by the `background` music, a very familiar theme which I think came from 48 Hours or an early Eddie Murphy movie. This was followed by a rap piece based on Super-Freak, both of which are to say the least unIslamic if not unEgyptian. There was another timesignal preceding the 0215 news, and I noticed it was about 9 seconds slow! I also tried 9360 before 0200, where there was a fairly good carrier, but could not hear any audio to match. 6135 is scheduled from R. Cairo only for the Spanish broadcast to Central America at 0045-0200, from the Abis site; 7270 is for both the 0045-0200 Spanish, and 0200-0330 English, also from the Abis site, per EiBi; so why the echo? I thought that would indicate one of them was from Abu Zaabal. Would harmonic 12270 be propagating at this late hour? Yes: 12050 fundamental in Arabic was putting in a strong signal at 0131 but awfully distorted as usual (Glenn Hauser, MLPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. Russian on 11970 at 1849 May 28, fair signal, would have to be NHK Warido, direct from Japan and far, far, offbeam here; also had them at 1855 in Japanese on 9835 but much weaker on the Hawaiian/South American service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. WBBZ, 1230, Ponca City, is still IDing as ``AM stereo``, as heard 0121 UT May 29 (Glenn Hauser, MLPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. Checking out an unID by Jim Ronda and Mark Taylor, I was monitoring 9735 May 28 from 1325 tune-in; poor signal with YL talking continuously; from the cadence and occasional recognizable word, I decided it was Japanese rather than Korean; 1329 brief musical break, and more of same; 1339 a bit of music and then two lower-pitched voices speaking, but fading into the noise; recheck at 1359 found no carrier, and nothing else on frequency audible at 1400 either. Then I checked e-mail and found that Ron Howard had IDed it as R. Taiwan International, // 7129.9; and Sei-ichi Hasegawa of NDXC explains that RTI is testing this frequency instead of 11605 at 11-14 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** THAILAND. BBCWS in English, 17615, May 29 at 0029 with ID, lite flutter but listenable, but then cut off in mid-word at 0029:30. Transmission on this frequency is for only half an hour (minus half a minute). BBCWS English has more and more of these brief transmissions, in accordance with their hit-and-miss policy of SW coverage (Glenn Hauser, MLPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Some sporadic-E was obviously happening, as WWCR 15825 was in well, but no activity on 15 meters. Nevertheless, I tried 10 meters and heard some SSB hams from Ohio and Minnesota, the latter working Austin TX, which I could not hear. Then at 1903 UT May 28, I found a beacon on 28284, E E E DE KC9GNK/B EN53. Googled him up and found this: http://www.freewebs.com/kc9gnkbeacon/ so QTH is Wisconsin Dells WI, and exact frequency 28283.6, 40 watts. Wants e-mail reports from anyone hearing it, but no e-mail address given (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WRMI`s switch from 7385 to 9955 during the 0000 UT hour weeknights in order to broadcast La Voz de la Fundaci?n hasn`t happened yet; UT May 29 at 0038 still found English on 7385, which would be WRN carrying Slovakia; and also still at 0107 with preacher which would be Christian Media Network (Glenn Hauser, MLPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. KJES heard in passing on May 28, at 1840 on 15385 when I was working on the 15380 het; and also May 29 at 0108 on 7555 with guitar and vocal hymn (Glenn Hauser, MLPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. IBAC hiss from KFAB-1110 Omaha was blocking 1100, and KMOX-1120 St Louis, May 29 at 0121 check; and also at 0123 IBAC hiss from WHO-1040 Des Moines was blocking whatever was on 1030 and 1050. However, by 0128 both had apparently been turned off, and e.g. XEG-1050 Monterrey was in the clear. No other IBAC signals were heard in a quick scan of the MW band, and KOA-840-850-860 had not yet infaded. At 0122 I also found matching carriers on 1083 and 977 kHz, no audio detectable, but stronger than a nostalgia station on 1030, the likely fundamental halfway between, 53 kHz apart. Would really like to know which station is responsible. Around 0156 on the home rig, the spurs were gone (Glenn Hauser, MLPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Here`s a daytimer which doesn`t skimp on its sign-off announcement, KJIM, 1500, Sherman TX. UT May 29 at 0114 said would be back at 6 am with CBS news, and ``best songs and memories of the radio``, then ``Thanks for the Memories`` but not the Bob Hope version. Nice reception at peaks. Played the song thru to end so did not pull plug until 0117* after ``Night, all``; also IDs as K-Jim (Glenn Hauser, MLPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VENEZUELA [non]. At 1405 UT Sunday May 27, checking out the RHC and RNV relay frequencies, I found there were three different programs, the odd one out being 11875 which had music not // to either of the other networks. Then at 1408 it switched to // 13680 et al. for RNV, actually during Mundo Siete, as RHC had announced a few minutes earlier that there would not be an Al? Presidente show per se, but some other Venezuelan relay of an inscription ceremony (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5897.5 seemed to be the center peak tho there were multiple carriers/constant pitched tones, which when combined were pulsating every few seconds with a recurring higher pitch. I could not detect by ear any variation which would indicate any intelligence was being conveyed. I suspect this is the Cuban spy-numbers/letters transmitter often heard around 5900 with more conventional modulation. This was at 0518 May 24, and litely QRMing WWCR 5890. Off when rechecked about a semihour later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. During Rai`s transmission on 15380 to NAm, May 28 at 1838, I found a low het on the low side, about 15379.8. Rechecked at 1903, Rai was still on with chirps, but no het. Can`t find anything else that is supposed to be on 15380 at this hour; could be a spur from some other 19 mb transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ____________________________________________________________________________________Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. http://farechase.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 09:17:06 +0300 From: "Matti Ponkamo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [HCDX] UNID on 4828 kHz To: <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original ** UNIDonia: Probably Zimbabwe on 4828 kHz at about 1830 UTC, May 28, 2007. African music, deep QSB at times, very poor reception, no idea of the language used. Another weak carrier detected on 4828.002, causing some "whining" - this may be local interference. 73 de Matti Ponkamo, Naantali, Finland (KP10AK18), Icom IC-718, dipole ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 09:31:02 +0300 From: "Jari Savolainen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [HCDX] UNID on 4828 kHz To: <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Matti, yes it's Zimbabwe on 4828. They are testing with non-stop Afro music for the new channel "Voice of Zimbabwe". Another test frequency is 5975 alternating with 4828. 3396/6045 has been observed with the usual programs. 73, Jari ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matti Ponkamo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 9:17 AM Subject: [HCDX] UNID on 4828 kHz > ** UNIDonia: Probably Zimbabwe on 4828 kHz at about 1830 UTC, May 28, 2007. > African music, deep QSB at times, very poor reception, no idea of the language > used. Another weak carrier detected on 4828.002, causing some "whining" - this > may be local interference. > 73 de Matti Ponkamo, Naantali, Finland (KP10AK18), Icom IC-718, dipole > ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 20:07:35 +1200 From: "Ron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [HCDX] Mostly from Germany To: <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Some reports sent out in past fortnight from Christchurch NZ. 6135 2100 Polskie Radio via Wertachtal, very good at sign on, but very rubbishy by 2159 close. 6145 1830 Polskie Radio via Wertachtal, sign on, very good in Ukrainian, to close at 1859. 6175 1900 The Overcomer via Nauen, sign on at good level but some local noise, off at 1959 7310 0600 Deutsche Welle via Sines, half hour English 0600-0630, very good. (Do they have a new QSL policy? One card per person per month?). 7430 2000 Family Radio via Kishinev?, very good at this time, and still good 2100, poor by 2130. 9455 1954 Radio Free Asia via Saipan. Very good in Mandarin, EE id ToH, poor by 2058. Jammer of no consequence on 20 May. 9540 0300 Family Radio via Wertachtal, very good at sign on in Oromo, off at 0330. 9565 2030 Adventist World Radio via Julich, Powerhouse at sign on in Mandarin, still a boomer at 2100 close. 9610 1900 Family Radio via Wertachtal, Excellent at sign on in EE, close 2000 as Vatican comes on. 9705 2000 Family Radio via Wertachtal, Excellent at sign on in Arabic, stilll A-OK 2100 close. 9805 1900 RFE/RL via Wertachtal, Excellent in Tatar at sign, to close at 1959. rgds. Ron Killick. Sony ICF6800W, long wire 40m. ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 10:13:29 -0000 From: "Charles B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [HCDX] Log To: "wghauser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, "Gayle Van Horn \(MT\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Cumbre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Anker Petersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Marie Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Russia, 9765, RadioStantsiya Tikhiy Okean, 0835-0900 Noted sign on ID followed with news and features in Russian Language. Signal was fair the entire period. Checked the parallel freq of 12065 KHz and notice only a threshold signal there. (Chuck Bolland, May 29, 2007) Peru, 5939.30, Radio Melodia, 0848-0900 Sandwiched under a Brazilian on 5940, noted steady Spanish comments from the usual announcers. Signal faded out periodically, but re-appeared to a poor level. (Chuck Bolland, May 29, 2007) Peru, 6193.40, Radio Cuzco,(pres)0910-0915 All I hear on this frequency is a carrier at this time. Either it's too early and Cuzco isn't broadcasting yet, or the signal is too weak to copy any audio? Or it could be all of the above, take your choice. (Chuck Bolland, May 29, 2007) Bolivia, 3310, Radio Mosoj Chaski, 0948-1000 With a threshold signal, noted a man in Spanish comments. Occasionally musical tones for emphasis presented. As mentioned above, signal was threshold, (Chuck Bolland, May 29, 2007) Unident, 4019.94, 1000-1015 Noted steady Rancheros type music with no comments. Sounds like a Central American Station from type of music heard. Signal was fair. (Chuck Bolland, May 29, 2007) Clewiston, Florida NRD545 ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 15:29:05 +0200 (CEST) From: JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [HCDX] Voz de ?frica con dos emisiones en paralelo contra Sawt al-Amal To: Frecuencia DX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Saludos cordiales. 17635//17640 Voice of ?frica, 13:20-17:26, escuchada el 29 de Mayo en ?rabe a locutor con comentarios, locutor presentando espacio con m?sica de fondo, segmento musical, se aprecia de fondo interferencia de otra emisora en ?rabe, probablemente Sawt al-Amal, a las 13:22 cesa emisi?n en 17635 y pasa a 17645 en paralelo por 17640, la emisora afro-pop en 17660, SINPO 53443. Jos? Miguel Romero Burjasot (Valencia) Espa?a --------------------------------- ?Descubre una nueva forma de obtener respuestas a tus preguntas! Entra en Yahoo! Respuestas. ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 10:16:12 +0100 (BST) From: Mukesh Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [HCDX] QSL from Radio The Voice Of Vietnam To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Dear Friends, Yesterday on 28th of May, I receive a nice detailed QSL verification card from RADIO THE VOICE OF VIETNAM for my detailed email reception report on 3rd of April 2007 from 1600-1630 UTC on the frequency of 7220 kHz of their English language broadcast. The envelope also contained their thank you letter, frequency-list, post-card, some Vietnamese stamps depicting their military as well as a badge. Their web and email addresses are as follows: - Web: http://vov.org.vn Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards & 73?s Mukesh Kumar The Cosmos Club Muzaffarpur INDIA. Download prohibited? No problem! To chat from any browser without download, Click Here: http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 08:45:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Yimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [HCDX] captaciones DX To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rafael Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Captaciones DX por Yimber Gaviria, Cali, Colombia Rx. Sony 7600G Antena: AN61 Las horas son en UT (Tiempo Universal) BONAIRE 5905 DW via Bonaire, mayo 29, 1115 UT, 333, locutora en Aleman. (Yimber Gaviria, Colombia) 9715 RNW via Bonaire, mayo 29, 1215-1227*, 444, espa?ol, // a 9895 (544). (Yimber Gaviria, Colombia) COLOMBIA 1140 Radio Paisa, Medellin, mayo 24, 0402 UT, 222, ID como "Radio Paisa, La Cari?osa" (RCN). La reporte que era desde Pereira...lo correcto es Medellin.(Mayo 29). (Yimber Gaviria, Colombia) CUBA 5910 Radio Republica (via Site??), mayo 29, 0255 UT, 333, paralelo a 6100 KHz pero con un retraso de 10 segundos + o - entre frecuencias. No hay se?al de Marfil Estereo. (Yimber Gaviria, Colombia) 6100 Radio Republica (via Rampisham, UK ), mayo 29, 0259-0300* UT, 444, ver 5910, justo a las 0300 UT quedo en silencio...supuestamente la programacion no era hasta las 0400 UT ??? (Yimber Gaviria, Colombia) 7365 Radio Marti, mayo 29, 0305 UT, 444, con noticias Radio Marti, // a 7405 (SIO de 333) (Yimber Gaviria, Colombia) 9805 Radio Marti, mayo 29, 1216 UT, 322, espa?ol // a 13820 (221). (Yimber Gaviria, Colombia) ECUADOR Podria algun colega ayudarme con los nombres (actuales) de las siguientes frecuencias de onda media de Ecuador. 540, 560, 590, 610, 770, 800, 880, 930, 1060, 1450, 1490, 1510...Gracias!!! (Yimber Gaviria, Colombia) 688v Spotlight (via HCJB), Pifo, mayo 29, 0330-0345, 222, en slow speed english, solo notada en onda media, ya que en la onda corta de 6050 KHz no hubo se?al, escuchada en 688v para evitar splash de W Radio, Cali (700 KHz) (Yimber Gaviria, Colombia) FRANCESA, GUAYANA 11825 BBC Mundo via Montsinery, mayo 29, notada a las 1125 UT con SIO de 333, con foro sobre el uso del tatuaje, escuchada tambien en paralelo a los 6095 KHz (tambien via Montsinery???), cerro a las 1200 UT. (Yimber Gaviria, Colombia) 13640 RFI via Montsinery, mayo 29, 1129 UT, 555 super se?al, en idioma frances escuchada tambien en paralelo a 15365 con se?al regular. (Yimber Gaviria, Colombia) 15515 RFI via Montsinery, mayo 29, 1222 UT, 555!, en espa?ol, cerro a las 1230 UT. (Yimber Gaviria, Colombia) VENEZUELA 11705 Radio Nacional de Venezuela (via Cuba), mayo 29, 12-13 UT, 333, colocando una grabacion de los inicios de la television social...(?) canal 2 VHF. (Yimber Gaviria, Colombia) USA 7370 Voz de America, Greenville, mayo 29, 1120 UT, 444, en espa?ol, con Enfoque Andino, escuchada en paralelo a 13790 (SIO de 444), los 9535 KHz no hubo se?al. Con cierre a las 1230 UT. (Yimber Gaviria, Colombia) 73 de Yimber http://www.geocities.com/dxreport/ http://yimber.blogspot.com http://yimbergaviria.podomatic.com --------------------------------- Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center. ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 12:41:32 -0400 From: "Prof. Arnaldo Coro Antich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [HCDX] Dxers Unlimited's script mid week edition May 29-30 2007 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Radio Havana Cuba Dxers Unlimited Dxers Unlimited mid week edition for 29-30 May 2007 Hi amigos radioaficionados around the world, and in orbiting in space ? I am Arnie Coro radio amateur CO2KK welcoming you to my twice weekly radio hobby program that attempts to cover the more than 81 ways you and I enjoy our hobby, from participating in an exhausting whole weekend amateur radio contest to relaxing at a beach resort listening to a far away AM broadcast band station that is heard on your little portable radio with a nice and clear signal thanks to that interesting propagation effect known among experts as sea gain? Sure, this hobby is always challenging, and when you think that already you have gone through all the possible aspects of it, then someone comes out with a radically new antenna, a new communications mode using computers or suddenly finds out that there is still a lot of room for experimenting at the millimeter wavelengths? Si amigos, yes my friends, oui mes amis in Canada and the French speaking Caribbean that listen to this program, radio is simply fascinating? Take for example this past weekend CQ Radio Amateur magazine WPX CW contest, when thousands of amateur radio stations around the world went on the air to try to work as many new prefixes as possible? According to my own observations and comments overheard on 40 meters after the constest was over, the WPX contest this weekend was favoured by fine conditions during its first part,that is from Satuday at 00 UTC when it started , that was Friday evening for us here in the Americas, but then Sunday UTC was not so good with little real DX stations heard. Among the rare goodies picked up on the ham bands, the really hard to work prefixes I heard the rare 3V8BB from Tunisia operating on the 40 meters band, on 7033 kHz He had already gone past the 2100 contest points, which is outstanding. Other maybe not so rare, but nevertheless interesting stations heard during the weekend WPX ham radio CW contest included 9K2HN Kuwait on 15 meters using 21030 kHz when the band opened for a few minutes from Cuba that that part of the world, I also heard someone working HL2AEJ Korea on14009 kHz, but no luck trying to pick up the Korean station. The not too frequently heard 4L prefix, from Georgia came via 4L8A, an excellent CW. And new prefixes continue to be assigned to amateur stations in countries with a deep rooted tradition in promoting our hobby; that is the case of the prefix 5P7 , that I had never heard before? it took some time to find out that it was a station from Denmark using the callsign 5P7Y during the contest. Othe stations heard- included C4I Cyprus on 20 meters , using 14028 kHz, and an operator from Central Siberia, using the callsign RK0UT that went past the normal CW self imposed boundary of around 14065, and insisted on calling CQ around 14075 kiloHertz, and to my surprise, he did made several contacts during the time that I listened to him. By the way, I didn?t operate during the contest, as I had a very busy weekend schedule, but did enjoy some amateur bands short wave listening , that gave what you have just heard as a practical result? And before going over to the next item, once again the world heritage site of the Ecuadorean GALAPAGOS ISLANDS was on the air during an amateur radio contest, HC8N heard on 7005 kHz CW. The operators was announcing at QRZ.com that he will be QSLing QSL via W5VE . More radio hobby related information follows as Dxers Unlimited?s mid week edition continues? ??? This is Radio Havana Cuba , the name of the show is Dxers Unlimited, and here is our next item in today?s mid week edition of the program? More about compact antennas for HF and some interesting antenna modeling done in real life, in actual practice, not using computers? Scale model of HF antennas done at VHF frequencies provide a lot of practical information and are easy to reproduce and modify. For example , a working model for the two meters amateur band of the electromagnetic ground plane antenna system, proved that using a proper ground system, the efficiency of the EMGP vertical antenna will match the radiation efficiency achieved by a full size quarter wave vertical to within a very small percentage? As a matter of fact, very carefully done field intensity comparative measurements between a full size quarter wave 2 meters band vertical placed at the center of a metal plate that has a diameter of one meter, and an EMGP antenna cut for the same 145 megaHertz center frequency proved to be almost exactly the same? A very interesting finding if you take into consideration that the EMGP antenna?s height above the ground plane is just 1/12 of a wavelength , that for the 145 megaHertz center frequency is just 17 centimeters or just six points seven inches? Now compare this antenna height with the 19 inches or around 49 centimeters required by the full size quarter wave or 90 electrical degrees high antenna system. For two meters band operation , the extremely low profile antenna will be an excellent choice for an antenna to be used when extremely strong winds are expected, like when a hurricane is approaching. An EMGP or electromagnetic ground plane antenna for the 40 meters amateur band, will be only about three and a half meters high above the ground plane, but I must clarify to my listeners that it would not be a very good emergency antenna because it will not have enough high vertical angle radiation , something that is essential for short range Near Vertical Incidence Skywave propagation, as required for short range communications within an affected area. Nevertheless, modeling the EMGP as a ?real life? antenna on 2 meters proved to be a very interesting and rewarding experience, and something that was done in just a few hours of my weekend spare time? If you don?t have enough space where to install a short wave antenna system, don?t overlook the possibility of homebrewing an EMGP antenna, that when properly made, will provide reasonable results on the band for which it is cut on transmit, and good receiving on the next lower and higher adjacent bands. If you want to know more about the EMGP , the Electro Magnetic Ground Plane antenna, send me an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and I will reply with the EMGP Antenna Design Package, with detailed instructions on how to homebrew these antennas for the amateur bands between 80 meters and 2 meters? ?? Si amigos, yes? ASK ARNIE continues to be at the top of your preferences, according to the e-mail messages, letters and actual on the air two way amateur radio contacts? Here is ASK ARNIE today answering a question sent by listeners Gail in Georgia USA, Armand in California also USA, Virgil , who listens to 6000 kiloHertz very late at night from his Southern England QTH, and Barry, who picks up our 9550 kiloHertz signals in New Zealand with amazing good quality as he tells me in his e-mail. They all want to know more about the Spiral end loaded antennas recently mentioned here at Dxers Unlimited, and in the case of Barry, who happens to be a very enthusiastic radio amateur operator, he wants to know the difference between the Petlowany and the Tak antennas, if there is any difference at all? Well amigos, the spiral end loaded antennas are really nothing new at all? I remember reading about spiral loaded antennas for the very low frequencies a long time ago, in an article that presented an extensive review of several types of top loaded antennas for operation on very low and extremely low frequencies. Then some time after reading that article, I went to Cardenas , a city of Matanzas province that has a very nice seaport , where a coastal radio station operating on the now no longer used 600 meters or 500 kiloHertz marine band was installed. To my surprise the vertical antenna located an an excellent salt marsh swampy area on one side of the bay, had a rather large sized top hat to provide additional loading to the about 70 meters high tower, that was physically too short to resonate efficiently on the 460 to 512 kiloHertz band where it had to operate. This was just a capacity hat made of spokes and wires, and not a spiral top loading of the tower. Several months later I had the nice opportunity of talking to the designer of that low frequency band antenna system, and he told me that due to the complexity of the spiral loading configuration, he had opted for the much simpler capacity hat, but he added that a spiral loading system proved to be much more efficient when he was doing ?the numbers?, that meaning when he was calculating the new antenna for the marine communications site. I asked him about the size of the projected spiral loading device and he said that even when made with the same diameter as the capacity hat, the spiral was much more efficient and provide much better loading of the structure, something that is essential on those very short antennas for the long waves? Then, he told me about an experiment that ran under his supervision, when two engineering students that were writing their thesis , made a 10 megaHertz scale model of the 500 kiloHertz antenna system? in other words a one twentieth scale ratio. The students, the designer said, had much more time to play with the antenna?s top loading, and they found out that winding a one quarter wave of wire into a spiral of enough diameter , the antenna?s resonant frequency went down dramatically while retaining a rather high radiation efficiency. But again, he added, the main problem was not of an electrical nature, but one related to the mechanical complexity of keeping the spiral wound loading device in place at the top of a tower when heavy winds were blowing. In the case of both the Petlowany and the Tak spiral loaded antennas, because they are both dipoles used in a horizontal configuration , keeping the end loading spirals in good shape is not as complicated as with the high towers? So, amigos, now you know a bit more about spiral loading of antennas, and why the Petlowany and the Tak antennas are almost identical !!! ?.. Now ready to copy, as the program is coming to an end, and Arnie Coro?s Dxers Unlimited?s HF plus low band VHF propagation update and forecast will now go on the air? Solar activity was at extremely low levels, with ZERO sunspot count and the solar flux at 70 and even below? So, the daytime maximum useable frequency continues to be only reching barely above 20 megaHertz for short periods, and staying even below 15 megaHertz on some circuits ? The chances for Sporadic E propagation events are now coming to their maximum for the year, as we enter the month of June?There is great expectation for the upcoming ARRL June VHF QSO Party Contest, because if the very low solar activity continues , we may see some really big sporadic E events happening, that the operators of Cuba?s main entry in the contest, special prefix callsign T49C , hope to make very good use to once again win that contest. Hope to have you all listening to the weekend edition of the program that will be on the air Saturday and Sunday UTC days amigos, and don?t forge to send your signal reports, QSL card requests and radio hobby related questions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED], again, [EMAIL PROTECTED] or VIA AIR MAIL to Arnie Coro, Radio Havana Cuba, Havana, Cuba ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 17:33:52 -0500 From: "Jim Pogue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [HCDX] QSL report To: <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'Martin and Wendy Foltz'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'Martin Schoech'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" SWBC: 7385 kHz China Tibet People's Broadcasting Station, Lhasa f/d beautiful QSL card in mostly Chinese with scenic views of Tibet in 92 days for 2 IRCs and goodies. Address: 180 Beijing Zhonglu, Lhasa, Xizang 850000 China. Also listed website www.tibetradio.cn and e-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] on their card. Very pleased to verify this new radio country for me. (Jim Pogue-Memphis, TN USA) Jim Pogue KH2AR/WPE9HLJ/KG6DX1A Memphis, Tennessee USA NRD-535, ICF-2010 Wellbrook LA5030 loop, attic longwire Quantum phaser ------------------------------ Message: 11 Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 23:05:02 +0000 From: Risto Kotalampi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [HCDX] HCDX logs between 2007-05-29 0000 UTC and 2007-05-30 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 2007-05-29 0000 UTC to 2007-05-30 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: 12 Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 21:31:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [HCDX] DX Listening Digest 7-063; WOR 1361 To: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 DX Listening Digest 7-063 has now been posted at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt or http://dxld.worldofradio.org CONTENTS: WOR 1361 / ALBANIA / ALGERIA non / ANGUILLA +non / ANTARCTICA +non / ARGENTINA / AUSTRALIA CVC / BELARUS / BHUTAN / CANADA CFVP / CANADA CJOB / CANADA CBCNQ / CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC / CHAD / CHILE / CHINA / COLOMBIA / CUBA +non / EGYPT +non / FINLAND / FRANCE / GABON / GERMANY non / GUINEA / INDIA DRM / INDONESIA / INTERNATIONAL ham Musea / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM XM / KALININGRAD / KASHMIR / KURDISTAN non / LIBERIA +non / LIBYA +non / MALDIVES +non / MALI / MONACO / MOROCCO / NEW ZEALAND / NICARAGUA / NIGER / NIGERIA / OKLAHOMA WBBZ / PAKISTAN / PAPUA NEW GUINEA non / SIERRA LEONE non / SOUTH AFRICA / SRI LANKA / SUDAN non / SYRIA / TAIWAN +non / THAILAND / TIBET / TURKEY / USA non VOA / USA WRMI / USA KJES / USA ham KC9GNK/B / USA KFAB/WHO+ / USA KJIM / VENEZUELA / VIETNAM / ZANZIBAR / ZIMBABWE +non / UNIDENTIFIED 977/1083 / UNIDENTIFIED 4019 / UNIDENTIFIED 5897 / UNIDENTIFIED 7590 / UNIDENTIFIED 9735 / UNIDENTIFIED 15379 / CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION After the following issue, 7-064 has been published, 7-063 will be available at http://www.worldofradio.com/dxld7062.txt For restrixions and searchable 2007 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 SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1361: ** tentative Wed 2200 WBCQ 7415 Wed 2300 WBCQ 18910-CLSB or 17495-CLSB Thu 1430 WRMI 7385 Thu 1500 KAIJ 9480 Fri 0630 WRMI 9955** Fri 1030 KAIJ 5755 Fri 1100 WRMI 9955** Fri 2030 WWCR1 15825 Sat 1630 WWCR3 12160 [irregular] Sat 2130 WRMI 9955 Sun 0230 WWCR3 5070 Sun 0630 WWCR1 3215 Sun 0800 WRMI 9955 Sun 1500 WRMI 7385 Mon 0300 WBCQ 9330-CLSB Mon 0415 WBCQ 7415 [time varies] Mon 0530 WRMI 9955** Mon 0930 WRMI 9955** Tue 1030 WRMI 9955** Wed 0730 WRMI 9955** WORLD OF RADIO, CONTINENT OF MEDIA, MUNDO RADIAL SCHEDULE: 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 [also CONTINENT OF MEDIA, MUNDO RADIAL] http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org Regards, Glenn Hauser ____________________________________________________________________________________Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 53, Issue 30 ********************************************