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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. Logs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2. ERT 3rd tx problem ? (Wolfgang Bueschel) 3. June 1-2 Logs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 4. New MW QSL (KHMO-1070) (Patrick Martin) 5. HCDX logs between 2008-06-02 0000 UTC and 2008-06-03 0000 UTC (Risto Kotalampi) 6. Serbia on new 6190 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 7. Glenn Hauser logs June 2-3, 2008 (Glenn Hauser) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 11:09:29 +0100 From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [HCDX] Logs To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Shortwaveworld Shortwaveworld Shortwaveworld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Robert Wilkner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Anker Petersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Logs DSWCI Logs DSWCI Logs DSWCI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Czech Republic, 6080, 0330-0350 Noted a program of English language features such as "Letter Box" and news. Also music was presented during the period. Signal was good. (Chuck Bolland, June 2, 2008) Cuba, 6180, Radio Havana Cube, 0344-0400, With an English broadcast at this time, noted news, comments and features. One portion of the time was filled with Arnie describing the solar power program in Cuba. It was very interesting. Signal was good. (Chuck Bolland, June 2, 2008) Russia, 5920, Radio Rossii, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, 1000-1031, With a pretty good signal this Monday morning, noted a period of news and features in the Russian Language. Periodically a canned ID was let loose as "Radio Rossii" by a female and other times by a male. At 1028, a tune by Neal Young was heard. Signal was good. (Chuck Bolland, June 2, 2008) Mariana Islands, 9575, Voice of America (pres), 1040-1110, Was curious who or what the carrier was between Radio Australia's transmissions on 9570 and 9580 KHz. So I tenderly tuned it in and heard Chinese Language comments (actually it was Mandarin) there. Sometimes English words were heard. In the background, I heard Firedrake music. Although the VOA broadcast is scheduled until 1200 UTC, it either faded out or dropped off the air at 1100 today? Firedrake however, continued to broadcast. VOA must of had transmitter problems because at about 1106, the broadcast of Mandarin retured to the air. VOA's signal was fair to poor. (Chuck Bolland, June 2, 2008) Clewiston, Florida NRD545 http://www.orchidcitysoftware.com/IMAGE59.HTML ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 13:20:43 +0200 From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [HCDX] ERT 3rd tx problem ? To: "HCDX" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, "DXLD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original GREECE 11645 ERT Avlis has a problem on its 3rd tx now ? ERT ERA5 Avlis in German missed on Sun June 1st too, according report on A-DX ng item. Today I checked that foreign language channel, regular on air 0500-1000 UT, but txion missed again totally. ERT ERA5 Greek was on air at same time on 9420 and 15630 kHz. >From 1100 UT ERT ERA5 Greek was on air again on two channels only: ERT Greek on 9420 powerhouse, and 9935 carried the usual ERA3 Makedonias Thessaloniki relay 1100-2300 UT. But 3rd channel 15630 kHz was empty again. June 2. John, may you can ask the ERT staff? ROMANIA RRI Tiganesti solved their 2nd tx problem on June 1 at 2100 UT. Today June 2nd noted French 1000-1056 on two channels again, 11830 and 15380, as well as German at 100 UT on 9525 and 11775 kHz. FRANCE R Algerienne HQ TEST relays via Issoudun noted on May 26 to 29 only. IRAN 13789.95 IRIB in Arabic is on odd frequ daily, noted around 0620 UT with S=4 signal. USA 9369.94 WTJC Bible reading progr in English, with S=4 signal at 0605 UT. HAWAII 13650 KWHR came 'through' on May 31: around 0725 UT with station ID at 0727 UT, S=2-3 tiny signal, deep fades into Europe. But not every day, missed here June 1st and 2nd. wolfgang ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 17:38:11 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [HCDX] June 1-2 Logs To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" ** BOLIVIA. 6134.82, Radio Santa Cruz, 0050-0059*, June 2, Bolivian music. Spanish announcements. Many IDs at 0055-0057. Local flute/ranchero tune to sign off. Poor with weak QRM from Brazil on 6134.96. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** ETHIOPIA. 7110, Radio Ethiopia, *0259-0315, June 2, short IS on electronic keyboard followed by opening ID announcements. Chimes at 0300 & Amharic talk. Horn of Africa music at 0303. Short bits of techno music. Fair but some adjacent channel splatter. Weak // 9704.19-with very low modulation. Listed // 5990 not heard. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** GABON. 4777, Radio Gabon, *0458-0515, June 2, abrupt sign on with opening ID announcements followed by local drums to 0500. French talk at 0500. Afro-pop music at 0508. Weak, low modulation at sign on but quickly popped up to a very good level at 0500. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** NORTH AMERICA. Pirate. 6850.78, MAC Shortwave, 0130-0141*, June 1, theme music from old TV shows & old commercial jingles. IDs. Yahoo e-mail address. Sign off with National Anthem. Fair. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** UZBEKISTAN. 11790, CVC, 0220-0250, June 2, Presumed with English talk. Christian/inspirational music. Very weak-threshold signal. (Brian Alexander, PA) **************Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4?&NCID=aolfod00030000000002) ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 14:43:11 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick Martin) Subject: [HCDX] New MW QSL (KHMO-1070) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII 1070 KHMO MO, Hannibal, received a very friendly letter from Gary L. Glaenzer-Chief Operator in 28d for CD report and SASE. Also enclosed pattern info & maps for both day & night. He was very surprised of my reception. Address: 119 North 3rd Street, Hannibal MO 63401-0711 I am very pleased with this. Of the three stations I heard on May 2nd & 3rd, on 1070, KHMO-MO, KVKK-MN, and KNTH-TX, I have got verie letter rplies on all three in less than a month! MO #23, MW QSL #2993. (PM-OR) Patrick Martin KGED QSL Manager ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 23:05:01 +0000 From: Risto Kotalampi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [HCDX] HCDX logs between 2008-06-02 0000 UTC and 2008-06-03 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 2008-06-02 0000 UTC to 2008-06-03 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: 6 Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 20:17:03 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [HCDX] Serbia on new 6190 To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" ** SERBIA (non). via Bosnia-Herzegovina. 6190 NF, Int Radio Serbia, 2328-0010+ ,June 2-3, new frequency. ex-6185. Tune-in to lite instrumental music. Talk in Serbia at 2330. English programming at 0000 with IDs. English news, commentary. Very good signal. Tnx to Glenn Hauser tip in DXLD. (Brian Alexander, PA) **************Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4?&NCID=aolfod00030000000002) ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 18:43:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs June 2-3, 2008 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ** ARGENTINA. RAE must have got its stolen feeder cable replaced, after being knocked off the air over the weekend, for June 2 at 2144 I heard a tango, and that would not be Morocco, then talk in German as scheduled this hour. Besides, the frequency was way off, 15343.9 or so; 2150 some Andean music for balance, 2159 IS and Japanese ID, then greeting listeners in Spanish, French, English, German (? fade), Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, Japanese. Finally at 2203 decided which language to stick with, Spanish, and opened with frequencies as 15345, 6060, address of studio, phone number, postal address, C.C. 555, 6000 WAS Buenos Aires --- that`s what it sounded like, but WRTH says C1000WAF, which sounds almost the same! e-mail rae @ radionacional.gov.ar Heard no het at all from Morocco which normally stays on until just after 2200, so RAE was fair and clear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 13630, June 2 at 2133 came across Oz accent so assumed it was CRI, especially since they were giving quick weather info for various cities in Asia including Pyongyang, Seoul, Phnom Penh and even Siem Reap, M&W hosts conversing, played ``She`s Not There`` by The Zombies, 2137 stox including NASDAQ, so it must be the business-obsessed Chicom, especially since CRI is relayed by Mali on 13630 at this hour, right? Wrong: then mentioned radioaustralia.net so I look it up. Yes, RA is on 13630 Shep at 21-23, 65 degrees toward us, despite CRI via Mali also supposed to be on 13630 at 1930-2230, but no trace of it; anyway, that changes from English to French at 2130, per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Following up earlier item about RHC collision with RNZI DRM --- RHC is not in fact on 11680 in the local afternoons, nothing there at 2119 check June 2, so the collision of concern is only after 0300 when NZ DRM 11670-11675-11680 takes over from Kuwait, not vice versa as I implied in previous report (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CZECHIA. R. Prague, 11600 direct, with usual surprisingly good signal into NAm, June 2 at 2130 opening English with news primarily of that country. This is 310 degrees, 100 kW from Litomysl for Mexico, C&E USA, E Canada. Recheck at 2157 with French ID and starting transmission schedule in irrelevant French, but cut off the air before they could get into it. Good idea (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT [and non]. Big het on WEWN 11550, Monday June 2 at 2114 during relay of R. Vaticano in Spanish. Cairo`s European service is still colliding after several weeks of inaxion, and I bet it stays this way for the rest of A-08. Cairo was originally on the hi side of 11550, about 11550.1, but now it`s on the lo side, approximately 11549.5. It was very hard pull any audio from Egypt due to its own undermodulation, compared to WEWN`s normal modulation level. I did perceive a bit of ME music at 2114. The English sesquihour should have started at 2115; at 2125 I could tell a YL was speaking English, perhaps news. This intolerable situation continued past 2200, no doubt until Cairo closes around 2245 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. BSKSA, ``The Buzz``, 11915, June 2 at 2128, with no intelligible audio, but could only hear it spreading plus/minus 5, or maybe a kHz more to the hi side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTNEING DIGEST) ** SERBIA [non]. IRS, 6190, June 2 at 2358 with IS in the clear, tho weak; this is worst time of year to try to reach very far into NAm from Europe so long before sunset on 49m. Hope it`s better to the east. Yes: Brian Alexander in Pennsylvania was listening at the same time and says it was very good there. But the Croatians have the right idea, using 9 MHz via Germany, inbooming here on 9925 at same time. June 3 at 0002 could tell 6190 had English news; some ACI from music on XEPPM 6185, but avoidable by sidetuning upward and certainly a great improvement over head-on collision which it was doing for the first two months of A-08 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Further chex of WRMI 9955 on June 2: must be over midday-absorption hump, for at 1950 UT, reception had improved so that WRN programming in English was intelligible. For those who would like to hear the stations lucky enough to get such a SW relay in NAm, without even asking for it, from http://www.wrn.org/listeners/schedules/schedule.php?ScheduleID=2 here is the schedule between 16 and 21 UT M-F: 1600 Radio New Zealand International: Korero Pacifica 1615 Vatican Radio 1630 Radio Slovakia International 1700 Polish Radio External Service 1730 Channel Africa: Africa Rise and Shine 1800 RTE Ireland "Drivetime" 1830 Radio Prague 1900 Radio Sweden 1930 Radio Australia 2000 Polish Radio 2030 KBS World Radio (Korea) Checked again at 2107, ``welcome back to Overnight AM``, as if they were just coming back from a break instead of starting the show, talking about ``the paranormal community``; signal a bit better than in the morning, now hitting S9+20. So the refurbished NAm antenna (is it really still at 317 degrees?), seems to be a definite improvement. Listeners to the NW of Miami with decent equipment and motivation may be able to listen to WRMI programs without too much strain. WRMI is scheduled to switch back to 160 degree antenna at 0000 UT so I retuned at 2357, but must have been too late, as not audible at all. With BFO engaged, about 15 seconds after 0000 heard weak carrier come on, but when I switched to AM it was obviously grinding from the DentroCuban Jamming Command, even tho WRMI is supposed to have English religion on at this hour, unworthy of jamming, or has that changed? Schedule grid at http://www.wrmi.net/images/wrmichart.xls still hasn`t been updated to show Overnight AM, M-F at 21-24, and the mostly Prague and DX shows of 22-24 shifted to 01-03, all of which happened a few weeks ago. Still nothing but jamming audible at 0006 when I gave up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WHRI, tho scheduled at least from 1600 on Angel 6, 11785, was not to be heard before 2100, but it was on at 2127 check June 2, so perhaps came on at 2100. Also ran across WHRI on 9615, which is Angel 2, June 2 at 2211 when Peter Sumrall asserted he was standing in front of his TV station in Tulsa, KWHB-47,, ``here in Central Oklahoma``. The poor guy is not only religiously, but geographically challenged (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 66, Issue 4 *******************************************