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Today's Topics:
1. Cold Morning loggings 50 degrees ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
2. RRI A08 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
3. POL A08 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
4. Re: [dxld] POLAND A08 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
5. HCDX logs between 2008-03-25 0000 UTC and 2008-03-26 0000 UTC
(Risto Kotalampi)
6. Logs from NH-USA, Mar 20-25th (Scott R. Barbour Jr.)
7. Glenn Hauser logs March 24-25 (Glenn Hauser)
8. New Sunspot Cycle 24: The Sun Awakens (Tomas Hood (NW7US))
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:29:59 -0000
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Subject: [HCDX] Cold Morning loggings 50 degrees
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French Guiana, 6195, Radio Japan, 0935-1000 Noted a program of Japanese
language
features and comments. Heard ID as, "Radio Nipon ...". Mentions of place
names
such as, Toyko and Nipon as well. Signal was good. (Chuck Bolland, March
25, 2008)
China, 5925, China National Radio, 1000-1015+, Programming consisted of live
Chinese
comments from a female and breaks consisting of music and comments from a
male.
Signal was fair with a parallel broadcast on 7260 KHz. (Chuck Bolland,
March 25, 2008)
Russia, 6040, Radio Nederland, 1015-1030 (relay via
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy), Noted
a summary of world news and affairs with recorded interviews from persons
all in English.
Although the signal was good, one could hear the characteristics of a long
transmission path
coming to the South East of North America. (Chuck Bolland, March 25, 2008)
Clewiston, Florida
NRD545
http://www.orchidcitysoftware.com/IMAGE59.HTML
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:04:02 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] RRI A08
To: "DXLD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "HCDX"
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ROMANIA R ROMANIA INTL A08 FREQ SCHEDULE
ARABIC 0630-0700 9685 9700 11730 11790
1400-1500 11945 15160
AROMANIAN 1430-1500 7170
1630-1700 7135
1830-1900 7130 -Sept 6, 5955 fr Sept 7
CHINESE 0400-0430 11790 15215
1300-1330 11795 15435
ENGLISH 0000-0100 N.Am. 9775 11790
0300-0400 N.Am. 6150 9645
SEAs. 9735 11895
0530-0600 W.Eu. 9655 11830
Pac. 15435 17770
1200-1300 W.Eu. 11875 15220
1700-1800 W.Eu. 9535 11735
2030-2100 W.Eu. 9515 11810
N.Am. 11940 15465
2200-2300 W.Eu. 7185 9675
N.Am. 9790 11940
FRENCH 0100-0200 Canada 6130 9515
0500-0530 Eu. 7180 9655
Sun.1000-1100 Eu. 11830
1000-1100 Eu. 15250
Maghreb 15380 17785
1600-1700 Eu. 9680 11950
2000-2030 Eu. 7215 9655
GERMAN 0600-0630 7125 9740
1100-1200 9525 11775
1800-1900 7160 9775
ITALIAN 1400-1430 7170
1600-1630 9620
1800-1830 7130 -Sept 6, 5955 fr Sept 7
ROMANIAN 0000-0100 N.Am. 9525 11960
0100-0200 N.Am. 9525 11960
Sun.0700-0800 9700 11970 15260 17720
Sun.0800-0900 9700 11875 11970 15450
Sun.0900-1000 11830 11925 15250 15380
1200-1300 Eu. 7165 11920 15195
1400-1500 Eu. 9760 11965
1600-1700 Israel 7205 9690
1700-1800 Eu. 9625 11865
1800-1900 Eu. 9625 11945
RUSSIAN 0430-0500 7190 9555
1330-1400 9790 11855
1500-1600 7325 9760
SERBIAN 1530-1600 6135
1730-1800 6105
1930-2000 6065 7140
SPANISH 0200-0300 Argentina 9520 11945
Mexico 5975 9645
1900-2000 Spain 9775 11715
2100-2200 Argentina 9755 11965
2300-2400 Argentina 9745 11935
Mexico 9655 11880
UKRAINIAN 1500-1530 7210
1700-1730 6135
1900-1930 5910 7210
(Dragan Lekic-Subotica-SER in A-07, updated by wb in A-08,
wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Mar 24)
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:31:52 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] POL A08
To: "DXLD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "HCDX"
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POLAND Polskie Radio A08 BC schedule - 30 MAR TO 26 OCT 2008
ENGLISH 1200-1259 9525 11850 1700-1759 7140 7265
POLISH 1030-1059 11915 11995 1530-1630 9670 2100-2200 5975 7135
GERMAN 1130-1159 5965 5975 1530-1555 5975 1930-1955 6110 6135
ESPERANTO 1500-1525 9440 11800 1800-1825 6140
RUSSIAN 1100-1125 13745 13840 1300-1329 11835 13800
1430-1455 11955 1800-1829 6140 9695 1900-1955 6050
BELARUSS 1330-1430 7180 9440 1630-1659 9670
UKRAINIAN 1430-1459 11755 1830-1859 6145 6175
<http://www.polskieradio.pl/zagranica/>
(wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Mar 24)
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:16:53 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] POLAND A08
To: "DXLD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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POLAND {non}
Ohh yes, very seldom Polskie Radio ext sce total schedules appeared in DX
press in past years. Even Polish DXers don't contribute real material to the
international DX scene. Yesterday I did' update an older Radio Poland
schedule of 2006 like a puzzle, and was not aware that Esperanto never
appeared on Radio Poland's service then. 1500 UT outlet carries now
Ukrainian, and 1800 UT frequency is used for Russian service.
Hebrew service moves from 9760 to 9695 kHz.
DTK TX sites in use will be once more Juelich, Nauen, and Wertachtal all in
Germany, as well as 9670 kHz via Monaco-Fontbonne in France. Fr-Guiana relay
may appear once again in next northern winter season B-08.
Hopefully these frequencies will appear on the various complicated websites
of Polskie Radio, i.e. click on the second item on the left side [Hebrew on
right side] to see frequency and time schedule.
http://www.polskieradio.pl/zagranica/
click to language like
English Section
Belaryskaja
Deutsche Redaktion
Redakcja Polska
Rysskaya
Ukrainskaya
Hebrew
click to the 2nd red-wine coloured navigation bar from above.
so A08 schedule should read tentativelly like this:
GERMANY/FRANCE[MONACO] {POLAND non}
Polskie Radio A08 BC schedule - 30 Mar to 26 Oct 2008
ENGLISH 1200-1259 9525 11850 1700-1759 7140 7265
POLISH 1030-1059 11915 11995 1530-1630 9670 2100-2200 5975 7135
GERMAN 1130-1159 5965 5975 1530-1555 5975 1930-1955 6110 6135
RUSSIAN 1100-1125 13745 13840 1300-1329 11835 13800
1430-1455 11955 1800-1829 6140 1900-1955 6050
BELARUSS 1330-1430 7180 9440 1630-1659 9670
UKRAINIAN 1430-1459 11755 1500-1525 9440 11800 1830-1859 6145 6175
HEBREW 1800-1830 9695
(wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Mar 24)
---- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Hauser" >
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: [dxld] POLAND A08
> I don`t find the A-08 schedule at below website; none of course, from
> Poland, but mostly via GERMANY; no more via Guiana French? (gh, DXLD)
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:05:02 +0000
From: Risto Kotalampi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] HCDX logs between 2008-03-25 0000 UTC and 2008-03-26
0000 UTC
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:44:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Scott R. Barbour Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs from NH-USA, Mar 20-25th
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2485, AUSTRALIA, VL8K Katherine, 0909-0932, Mar 24,
English. Mx & talk from the band "Cowboy Junkies"; IDs
for "105.7 FM Darwin"; minute of silence at 0928
followed by W ancr w/ prg preview & country mx "Rich
Mans World"; fair listening in ECCS-LSB; no //'s
noted. (Barbour-NH)
3385, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, R. East New Britain,
1044-1124, Mar 22, Tok Pisin. Surprisingly decent
signal w/ what appeared to be a mx request prg. M ancr
taking listener calls; callers audio noticably weaker
than ancrs; b/w vernacular & EG ballads. Mentions of
Rabual and several "....FM" IDs, tho could never catch
the word prior to FM; poor-fair w/ signal peaking at
ToH; barely audible at t/out. (Barbour-NH)
3984.87, CROATIA, Croatian Radio, 2316-2330, Mar 22,
English/Spanish. News re Serbia & Kosovo; sports & wx;
SW; MW; satellite skeds & Croatian Radio-Voice of
Croatia ID at 2320; ballads in presumed Croatian until
Spanish service at 2330; good. (Barbour-NH)
4775, PERU,presumed R. Tarma, 1009-1036, Mar 23,
Spanish. Presumed Catholic Mass w/ preacher; choral mx
& chanting prayers like one hears on R. Vaticana;
traditional SP mx at 1027 & SP version of "Battle Hymn
of the Republic" at 1033 which I have heard before via
this station; back to preaching at t/out; poor under
CODAR; just strong enough to mar reception.
(Barbour-NH)
5039.3, PERU, presumed R. Libertad, *1027-1034, Mar
22, Spanish. Presumed s/on w/ Quecha mx; nothing noted
on frequency prior; M w/ ancment at 1031 tho too much
band noise for positive ID; mx resumed at 1032; poor.
(Barbour-NH)
6075, RUSSIA, R. Rossii Petro`Kamchatsky, 0840-0902,
Mar 24., Russian. W & M ancr w/ talk; ballad at 0856;
poor-noisy; 7200 Yakutsk & 7320 Magadan were // to one
another thru-out; while 6075 was not // w/ either
until ToH when all three were in sync. (Barbour-NH)
7125, GUINEA, RTV Guineenne, 2228-2303, Mar 22,
French. M ancr w/ talk b/w Afropops & hilife mx
selections; tentative "R. Conakry" in passing at 2256,
poor-weak. (Barbour-NH)
7280, CHINA, presumed Vo the Strait Fuzhou, 1135-1202,
Mar 23, Mandarin. Pop-like mx & ballads w/ W ancr b/w
selections; presumed ID & fanfare at ToH;
fair-fluttery w/ co-channel Russian txmitter tones at
1151 & Vo Russia-Novosibirsk IS at ToH. (Barbour-NH)
7280, CHINA, UNIDENTIFIED, *1100, Mar 25. While
listening to 7275-Taiwan; heard splatter from
crash-start firedrake mx; presumably jamming
co-channel Xi Wang Zhi Sheng SOH;*1100 via Taiwan. If
this is the case, what was I hearing per my Mar
23-7280 log? [see
above](Barbour-NH)
7325, RUSSIA, IBRA Radio Novosibirsk, 1211-1230*, Mar
20, Mandarin. Talk at t/in; pop-like mx at 1213
followed by more talk until presumed s/off ancments at
1228, poor. (Barbour-NH)
7325, LITHUANIA, R. Vilnius Sitkunia, 2350, Mar 21,
English. Rough copy w/ ballads and talk; barely
audible signal buried under band noise & battling w/
co-channel CRI-Kunming. (Barbour-NH)
9760, PHILIPPINES, VOA Tinang, *1158-1209, Mar 25,
English. ID; IS at s/on; then silence until
instrumental jazz mx at 1201; crash-start nx in
progress at 1204 re Indo airline crash from '07 & US
casualties in Iraq reach 4K; fair. (Barbour-NH)
9920, PHILIPPINES, FEBC Bocaue, 1109-1134, Mar 25,
vernacular. M ancr w/ continuos talk until religous mx
at 1125; W ancr & IS at 1131; talk resumes at 1132;
poor-fair; listed as *1130 in both Eibi & Aoki lists
but IS is definitely FEBC. (Barbour-NH)
Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale,NH-USA
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:55:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 24-25
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** ALGERIA. ~1 kHz het on WLS 890, March 25 at 0530, surely Algeria as often
heard before, but this time on my new Sony SRF-59 ultralight barefoot, given by
Kraig Krist. However, people may relax. No doubt I will make good use of this
radio, but as soon as a fad develops, I run in the other direxion, and am not
about to join the ultralight craze, dropping everything else, giving up my
bigger radios, which has overtaken once serious DX groups. BTW, axually pulling
identifiable audio from Algeria 891 is quite another matter on any radio this
far inland (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. XEYU, Radio UNAM, back on 9599.3v, March 24 at 2152 with classical,
het, after missing a few days. Also heard since then, but seems quite weaker
(Glenn Hauser, OK, March 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. V. of Turkey announced their 2008y contest during Live from Turkey
on March 25, as heard on webcast [6050 broadcast at 1950]: this essay writing
contest is titled ``Why the Voice of Turkey?`` Tell us about ourselves --- are
you pleased with our programming? Suggestions to make it better? Satisfied?
Maximum two pages [undefined]. Deadline 7/31/08 [postmark or receipt?]. There
will be 8 winners of a 12-day holiday in Turkey beginning this October. Send to
VOT, P O Box 333, 06443 Yeneshehir, Ankara, Turkey, or englishdesk at
trt.net.tr That`s a paraphrase of the announcement which no doubt will be
heard many more times. IIRC, no one writing in English won last year (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. WHRI still on 9525 during ex-BBCWS hours, March 24 at 2150 check,
but playing gospel rock fill music, of which they have an endless supply. WHR
online schedule still shows BBC during the 4 hours previously relayed. Hey, why
not just `fill` with BBC anyway, a helluva lot better than that music, whether
BBC buys the time or not. Would BBC disallow? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A [non?]. VOA in African language at 1504 March 24 on 9605, soon
confirmed with VOA jingles at 1509, to 1530* with usual non-specific sign-off.
This was so strong I just about concluded it had to be Greenville, probably an
early replacement for Morocco; atop some CCI which would be BBC Singapore in
Chinese, jamming. However, listings show the 1500-1530 broadcast on 9605 is VOA
Hausa via S?o Tom?, 335 degrees, so it`s azimuthally favorable for us.
Greenville is used at other times for Hausa aimed east, and I would expect to
see more usage, at least temporarily, of Greenville for Africa as Morocco
demises (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. RNV CI via Cuba, 11680, March 24 at 1511 check had YL in
English doing hard-to-follow voiceover to a Ch?vez pronouncement (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Checked 2980 as reported by the Albertans, March 25 around 0550,
and occasionally traces of music surfaced above the high local noise level;
that`s all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:33:37 -0600
From: "Tomas Hood (NW7US)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] New Sunspot Cycle 24: The Sun Awakens
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
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Bulletin from Tomas Hood, NW7US:
"The Sun awakens in the early dawn of Sunspot Cycle 24"
During the week of March 24, the Sun became quite active. This, after
many months of long stretches of quiet, sunspot-less days. March 25
images of the sun revealed a train of sunspots, NOAA AR 0987 (a beta
configuration), 0988 (a beta configuration), and 0989 (an alpha
configuration). For many months prior, there would be an occasional
sunspot, if any at all. These three sunspots indicate a sun that is
waking up; there was even a strong M1-class solar flare on March 25,
the first such strong flare in a long period of quiet (the last such
flare was mid-2007).
The M1.7 magnitude flare originated in sunspot 0989, which was on the
very edge of the sun, not facing us. As this sunspot group rotates
into what is known as "geo-effective" position, it may well cause
intense radio blackouts and storms, while also strengthening the
ionosphere, in turn creating great DX opportunities on higher HF
frequencies during non-radio blackout periods. Radio blackouts occur
during solar flares.
On the same day, March 25, the solar flux (10.7-cm flux index) rose
from the low 70's to the high of 89 (as of the time this is being
written), and the flare caused minor storming and a radio blackout on
HF. This is a great trend for those interested in using the high
frequencies for radio communications. As we now move away from
sunspot cycle minimum to the peak of cycle 24, sometime in the next
three to five years, activity will increase. With this increase in
activity will come better HF propagation on the higher portions of HF,
while also bringing an increase in radio blackouts and geomagnetic
storminess that is part of an active cycle.
We're in for the exciting start of a new solar cycle! Some
forecasters speculate that this solar cycle will not be too active. I
still hold to one early forecast that speculates that the cycle may be
a very active and exciting one. Time will tell!
DX note: the forecast for March 26, 27, 28: Solar Flux expected to
reach 90 to 95. This will increase higher frequency propagation on
most DX paths. This is a time to be on the radio.
(c) Tomas Hood, NW7US
Contributing editor:
CQ Magazine, CQ VHF, Popular Communications
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