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Today's Topics:
1. DX Listening Digest 9-019; WOR 1449 (Glenn Hauser)
2. foreign LW-MW-SW logs from the past week or so (aurel chiochiu)
3. Logs - Feb 23 - Memphis, TN (Brandon Jordan)
4. Escutas (Antonio Laurentino Garcia)
5. Glenn Hauser logs March 2, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
6. Tamil Radio (ka4...@peoplepc.com)
7. Logs from NH-USA, March 1-2 (Scott R. Barbour Jr.)
8. * Police track rise of pirate radio * (Paul)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 22:28:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] DX Listening Digest 9-019; WOR 1449
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DX Listening Digest 9-019 has now been posted at http://www.dxld.org
or http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt or http://dxld.worldofradio.org
and now also without delay at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld9019.txt
CONTENTS:
WOR 1449 / AFGHANISTAN / ALBANIA +non / ANTARCTICA / ANTIGUA & BARBUDA /
AUSTRALIA AM 1710 / AUSTRALIA ABC / BAHRAIN / BANGLADESH / BRAZIL +non / CANADA
+non CBC/RCI / CANADA CHHA / CHINA +non / COLOMBIA / CONGO DR / CUBA / ECUADOR
+non / ERITREA / ETHIOPIA +non / EUROPE Pirate / FRANCE / GERMANY B08+ /
GUINEA-BISSAU / INDONESIA +non / INTERNATIONAL ham 40m / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM
STO / INTERNATIONAL WATERS Pirates / IRAN +non / IRELAND / KOREA NORTH non /
KOREA SOUTH +non / KURDISTAN / LAOS / LIBYA / MALAYSIA/SARAWAK / MANCHURIA non
/ MICRONESIA / MONGOLIA / MYANMAR / NEWFOUNDLAND +non / OKLAHOMA +non Paul
Harvey / OKLAHOMA KXTD / PALAU / PHILIPPINES / PORTUGAL / ROMANIA +non / RUSSIA
/ SAUDI ARABIA / SIERRA LEONE non / SLOVAKIA / SOLOMON ISLANDS / SOUTH AMERICA
Pirate / SRI LANKA / SUDAN non / SYRIA / TAIWAN non / TURKEY +non / UKRAINE /
USA WRMI/WOR / USA non IPAR/WOR / USA WBCQ/WWCR/WOR / USA WBOH / USA non TWR /
USA WYFR / USA WPSO/WXYB / USA WJDM /
USA WESO / USA LPFM / USA Univision / USA Citadel / USA Paul Harvey /
VENEZUELA +non / VIETNAM non / ZIMBABWE non / UNIDENTIFIED 3337 / UNIDENTIFIED
3905 / UNIDENTIFIED 6074 / UNIDENTIFIED 6220 / UNIDENTIFIED 7191 / PUBLICATIONS
/ DIGITAL BROADCASTING / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION
For restrixions and searchable 2008 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
NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1449
Mon 2300 WBCQ 7415 [confirmed Feb 9]
Tue 1200 WRMI 9955
Tue 1630 WRMI 9955
Wed 0600 WRMI 9955 [or new 1450]
Wed 1630 WRMI 9955 [or new 1450]
WBCQ is also airing new or archive editions of WOR M-F 2000 on 7415
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 or
http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org
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://podcast.worldofradio.org or
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/stations/podcast.php
OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO:
http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
or http://wor.worldofradio.org
Regards, Glenn Hauser
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:11:28 -0500
From: aurel chiochiu <a...@videotron.ca>
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] foreign LW-MW-SW logs from the past week or so
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Warm greetings to all of you !
I have been hit by grippis since barely past a week, so aside from a rather
limited DX (with, coincidentally, some of the most mediocre condx noted this
season, at least as far as LW and MW TAs go), I couldn't see my girlfriend
and I'm late with several works for school. As I'm writing this repport, I
still have some cough to deal with.
I'm report mainly to keep in touch (especially since I rejoined the NRC -
National Radio Club), since there wasn't really something to get excited
with, this time, NO exception. I can't think, right the top of my head, of
one single more elusive catche I may have caught during the past few weeks.
We are approaching the end of the traditionnal MW DX season and, like
usually around the equinoxes, some auroral enhancement can always bring
unexpected DX from the south on top of North American pests, as far as
mediumwave DX is concerned.
On SW, I tryed in vain to get XEOI Radio Mil, and only got a jumble
containing 1 or maybe 2 Spanish signals with nothing even close to Mexican
Radio Mil (on 6010 kHz).
On LW, this must have been the worst run of conditions, since I got the PK's
Shielded Magnetic longwave loop. We are seriously considering buying a
similar loop for mediumwave, as for having a backup combo to the
Sanyo-MCD-S830 barefoot and also for getting more DX in the 800-1000 kHz
range area where the Sanyo MCD-S830 sucks (sorry for such a harsh word
against my favorite receiver) !
Into the logs now:
Trans-Atlantic DX
The LW TAs were heard on the Sangean CST-818 / PK's Shielded Magnetic
longwave loop combo !
The SW TAs were heard on the Sangean CST-818 / shortwave southern random
wire combo !
162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis FEB 21 around 0350 - Woman in French.
Fair-poor, not threshold, but still too mushy with all the additional
slight, albeit annoying buzz, to understand. Steady though. SINPO 35332.
Almost surprised to get this one under such mediocre ionospheric conditions
! (Chiochiu-QC)
171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador FEB 17 2305 - Assumed with barely noticeable
audio. Very, very weak with some growl from computers in the neighborhood
(not our own). Of course, during such mediocre conditions, logging
Russia-171 would be unthinkable and Russia-171 and Morocco-171 are the only
signals that are reported in eastern North America on this channel with the
probable exception of a LowFER ! (Chiochiu-QC)
183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg FEB 21 0605 - with repport from a
psychoveterinary who was trying to understand the animal's feelings. Good
through some slight buzz. SINPO 35354. The only longwave broadcaster to
reach the Montreal area with, at least, a half-decent signal ! I got to
understand that animal's feelings issue, because the signal was in French,
not in German. In fact, until 1981, in France (as well as in most of
Europe), private radio was illegal. If you were caught running a radio
station (a pirate one in this case), the Police will be visiting your home
in less than a hour. They were continuously monitoring the whole LW, MW, SW
and VHF FM spectrum for that purpose ! So, a few guys had the bright idea of
running private radio from neighboring countries such as Luxembourg, Germany
or Monaco and in the case of other European countries, from aboard a ship
out in the International Seas ! While the latter one is known as being an
offshore pirate, the former one is known as being a "radio p?riph?rique".
Otherwise, I have quite some trouble with my German, as I missed the class
last Friday and I did not do yet the small homework for the private German
teacher I see twice each month ! (Chiochiu-QC)
189 ICELAND Rikis?tvarpid, Gufuskalar FEB 21 0607 - Assumed this usual
blaster with music and talk heard weakly. (Chiochiu-QC)
198 ENGLAND BBC Radio 4, Droitwich FEB 21 0603 - Man talking in
British-accented English. When the PK's Shielded Magnetic longwave loop was
set to amplify 198 kHz, while attenuating everything below and above,
including nearby 201, the local beacon on 201 kHz went unreadable (even
though it's in Morse which is known for cutting through all sorts of QTM
c.f. Cuban Radio Reloj) as this one violently overspilled 3 kHz above ! Fair
and mushy and unreadable for me, as I'm not QUITE as fluent in English, as I
am in French, Romanian and, to a lesser extent, Spanish, though sounded
vaguely like a weather repport, as I barely picked out 1 or 2 words out of
the mush ! Not // ZIZ-555 (BBC Radio 4 realays BBC World Service overnight)
anymore at this time ! (Chiochiu-QC)
9575 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador FEB 20 2014 - with a nice set of traditionnal
Arabic music, very monotonous but full of monotonous, yet emotional
fullfilling powerful vocal harmonies. Fair-good until killed by some
powerful buzz around 2020 that ruined several LW, MW and SW frequencies. I'm
not as much into shortwave as I was several years ago, but after seeing on
YouTube some videos of Romanian FM DXers catching Middle Eastersn stations
via sporadic-E layer skip, my appetite caught on ! The LW outlet on 171 kHz
was very threshold at best during the past few listening sessions ! SINPO
33543 ,with some splatter from 9570 rather than from the rather weak
Gabon-9580 signal from which I sucessfully escapted by swithching to 9576
kHz in AM Narrow Mode instead of 9575 kHz in AM Wide Mode, until the buzz
appeared at 2020 UTC (1520 EST / 3:20 PM local). Was DXing this semi-regular
North African shortwave broadcaster mainly because I was absent from school
last Friday due to the cough ! (Chiochiu-QC)
9580 GABON Africa Num?ro Un, Moyabi FEB 20 2015 - briefly tuned to this
one as to see the source of splatter against Morocco-9575 and found it at a
rather weakish strength before it got completly killed by an awful buzz at
2022 UTC (3:22 PM local / 1522 Eastern Standard Time). The rather weak
strength of this powerhouse enabled me to listen to Medi Un 9575 very
slightly detuned to 9576 kHz in AM Narrow Mode ! (Chiochiu-QC)
Pan-American DX
555 ST KITTS ZIZ, Basseterre FEB 21 0608 - running BBC WS feed ! Fair-good
with British nx announcer talking about the foreign reaction to the politics
managed by Russian president Dmitri Mvedevev. Not // 198 which was obviously
running the domestic BBC Radio 4 broadcast rather than the BBC World Service
one ! I'm surprised to get this run-of-the-mil Caribbean outlet during such
abysnal conditions toward all directions ! (Chiochiu-QC)
780 VENEZUELA YVNM, Radio Coro, estado Falc?n FEB 15 0047 - Presumed with
melodic ranchera vocal heard at a poor-fair level with splatter from local
CJAD-800 that was playing music on Saturday night. If them, this is the
first showing of this Venezuelan powerhouse in over a month ! Mexican
ranchera is very popular in Venezuela as well and often heard on this
station, so I'm not even claming Mexican XEMF in Monclava. This was almost
certainly this old visitor, Radio Coro, which I'm enjoying right now, as I
type this, with special Carnaval programming over their website at
http://www.radiocoro.com/ ! Is Colombia still on 780 kHz ? I never heard
HJZG La Voz del Valle in Cali (a Todelar station) or even HJZW Radio
Almirante in Riohacha ? In some corners of eastern North America, during the
mid-90s, Radio Almirante used to be slightly more commun than Radio Coro on
780 kHz, right ? Why are they missing nowadays ? (Chiochiu-QC)
1070 SOUTH AMERICA unID country and station FEB 15 0055 - Spanish-sounding
music and talk heard at a very threshold level with very slight splash from
WTIC-1080 wich, thanksfully, is keeping their IBOC crud silent at night ! In
the latest DX News issue, I see Radio Santa F? (HJCG) reported by Chris
Black in South Yarmouth, MA (Massachussets for the non-DXers out there who
are receiving this message as well) on Cape Cod which I heard only once
before, just like the two other commonly reported South Americans: Emisora
Atlantico (HJIJ) out of Barranquilla and Mundial Zulia (YVMA) out of
Maracaibo, estado Zulia from which a nice real-audio clip was posted by me
several years ago on the excellent LatinMWDX Yahoo! group ! That being said,
domestic North American WNCT in Greenville, NC (North Carolina - Bogdan) is
also remotely possible, though the very weak music didn't sound Mexican, as
far as I can remember (didn't had tape running as this very threshold signal
quickly faded away). (Chiochiu-QC)
Additionnal comments: I went through the whole last DX News last issue and
noticed a big mistake ! As the Boston area pirate on 1710 kHz got heard by
Bruce Conti, he commented that compas music is the Haitian equivalent of
AFRICAN zouk music (?). This is almost totally wrong ! Zouk music came from
the overseas FRENCH departments of Martinica, Guadelupa and French Guyana.
The first zouk album LOVE AND KA DANCE by Kassav', recorded in 1979 and
received by the public somewhere in December of 1979 or January of 1980 was
recorded in Guadelupa and Martinica and has more Caribbean roots than
African ones (though it has a few and enjoy a huge amount of popularity in
Western African nations such as Congo and used to be HUGE in the Ivory
Coast, before they replied with their afro-zouk equivalent more precisely
known as "coup?-d?call?" which is a blend of Afro-zouk and traditionnal
Western African melodies) ! While there are a few African ZOUK artists out
there, they almost always copy the FRENCH CARIBBEAN TRUE ZOUK MUSIC. If
you'd like to hear some great ZOUK music, please try to check out Battery
Cr?mil, Eric Brouta, Eric Virgal (not quite as good as the former ones, but
very typical of classic zouk-love; which is a slower extremely popular
variation of ZOUK music), Tanya Saint-Val (AWESOME voice, vocals and songs
!), Zouk Look, Zouk Machine, Kassav' (the godfathers of Zouk !), David et
Corinne (a borther-and-sister duo who play more original ZOUK-LOVE than the
rahter unsinspired and generic zouk-love singer ERIC VIRGAL), Edith Lefel
(which died from a heart attack in January of 2003 - he was popular between
1984 and 2002 releasing ALMOST year after year some astonishingly great
records), Harry Diboula, Thierry Cham, Cyrielle (a new one, not as good as
the oldschool "zouk r?tro" artists) and several ones... I used to be a big
fan of zouk music, though my musical tastes changed over time, and I get
insulted by people affirming zouk comes from Africa and not GUADELUPA or
MARTINICA where, when one gets bored with zouk, tends to enjoy Haitian
kompas as well... One tend to forget the overseas FF departments ! In fact,
zouk is a mixture of kompas, calypso, urban African music (to a small extent
!) and American funky music with, originally, a mixture of traditional and
electric instruments, even though nowadays the artistical part of zouk is
gone and artists such as CYRIELLE, JEAN-MARIE RINGALD, SLA? and most of the
other ones, are seeking for money and fame rather than artistic
accomplishments... Also, if you want to check some kompas, try for ZENGLEN,
GARCIA REIZA, SWEET MICKEY, DAAN JUNIOR, TOP VICE, T-VICE, DJAKOUT MUZIK,
MISTY JEAN, ALAN CAV?, ZIN, BLACK PARENTS and for FUNKY KOMPAS -> ZEKLE
(which means lightning in French creole) and if you like old-school kompas
which sounds like a polished version of Dominican merengue, try for TABOU
COMBO (70's). Prior to the 70's, during the 50s and 60s, kompas sounded
fairly close to the Venezuelan "orchestras bailables" of Los Melod?cos and,
especially, Billo's Caracas Boys, so if you want to check some pre-Tabou
Combo, please try for Coup? Clou?, Les Shleus, Shleus and, especially, the
legendary Tropicana d'Ha?ti... L'Orchestre Tropicana / Tropicana d'Ha?ti is
definitively a Haitian version of Billo's Caracas Boys ! I play lots of
French Caribbean music at the college radio station from both Haiti and
Guadelupa ! I used to be really into both zouk and kompas, though mostly
into the former one, as kompas isn't catchy enough. Some salsa and cumbia
tropical songs or trad. gaita ones are way more catchy than most of the
kompas, though a few kompas are borderline catchy with some pretty amazing
melodies !
Another good news for those on the west coast still reading me is that while
WTIC-1080 has learned to keep their IBOC crud off at night, KNX-1070 has
quickly learned to do the same ! Nothing to do with DXing properly, as WTIC
is directionnal NORTH-SOUTH to protect KRLD in Dallas, Texas (on the same
channel), but if the trend continues I may once again hear HJKH RCN Antena
Dos on 650 on a semi-regular basis. Just wait for co-channel WSM to learn
complaiining about nighttime secondary coverage areas stolen by WFAN-660 !
If I wasn't that sick with cough et al, I would have wrote a complaint to
the FCC regarding WSM/HJKH-650, but for the next few days, doing this is
beyond me, as I'm quite lazy !
Last, but certainly not least, I had the warm pleasure of receiving a phone
call from one of Ontario's top-notch FM/TV DXers (and also a mediumwave
"zealot" - is that word appropiate for that circumstance ?), Saul Chernos,
before heading to Bahamas with a great receiver along with his Radio Shack
loop ! BOGDAN SPEAKS: Saul Chernos was calling the operator and asked for
Chiochiu in Montreal and there wasn't any, but the operator was nice enough
to suggest him to try for Pierrefonds, the western suburb where I live, so
he came upon me. This was just before the grippis ! We had talked for
several minutes with a huge amount of pleasure... The TV DX issue was
particularly serious, as he is better equiped than me, I do have a Yagi
antenna since a few months, but do not have a sensitive low-VHF tuner
anymore for double-hop Sporadic E TV DXing. I broke the TV telecommand
during the chemo, as my father was insulting myself for vomiting (my father
is a bit narcisistic !) and the Magnasonic TV tuner was put to the garbage,
because one couldn;t change the channels anymore. For FM, it's a different
story ! The newly purchased Degen 1103 which overloads badly on both long
and mediumwave is great on both SW and FM ! Since Venezuela is about 2400
miles from Montreal, it is definitively within 2Es range from me, so I could
always get the most powerful signals using the Degen 1103 whip on FM and
then, connected to the soundcard, make .WAV and / or MP3 files of those...
We also had a lengthy talk about mediumwave DX. Since during excellent TA
condx of December, 2008, I had audio from Algeria-549 trying to break
through the weak adjacent North American signals on 550 kHz with CHLN gone
forever, I suggested him to try for that one from Bahamas, which is slightly
closer to Algeria than Montreal... I don't know if he had the time to write
it down in the logbook, though I gladly hope he had at least a poor signal
out of this Algerian blaster ! Very warm, we spent almost a half-hour
talking... Too bad, we didn't DX althogether, or we would have had the
chance to hear both that very weak elusive Latin on 1070 kHz mediumwave
which is the only SLIGHTLY, ALBEIT DEFINITIVELY more interesting catche
among that ugly repport ! There is also Cuba on 1070 kHz. Saul Chernos is a
great journalist with a great deal of experience and he may come to Montreal
another time for analysing an important event or something like that...
As far as DXing in group, I had two friends, an older Qu?b?cois one and a
Colombian one with whom I DXed, two occasions with each, during the
2008-2009 winter holidays and in less-than-stellar conditions, we did hear a
few things of interest; it was, nevertheless, a good introduction to what
can be heard on AM. The Colombian friend almost couldn't believe I had the
Colombia-760 signal so huge (back in early January, 2009) using a normal
radio and I have him a CD recording containing an MP3 file converted from
the HJAJ-760 tape.
Me and Saul Chernos, also talked about the ultralight receivers (the Degen
1103 is one of them!) and about the Newfoundland DXpedition. What can I do
in order to attend a DXpedition ? I have been on and off DXing, with the
same amount of enthousiasm on peaks, such as now, since 2000 and a
DXpedition for someone young like me would be such an awesome adventure !
Since Chernos is also an NRCer and I hope to see his Bahamas repport in the
next DX News's IDXD issue ! I really hope, that in Bahamas, thanks to it's
coastal situation and, in spite of the huge amount of Cuban QRM, one could
get some South American, African and, who knows, south-western European
(i.e. France and Spain) MEDIUMWAVE DX with some nice reception quality ! I'm
not only curious to read the Saul Chernos's results from Bahamas, I can't
wait !!! Is the Radio Shack Saul Chernos suing THAT good ? I mostly heard
bad things about it, it is cheap, it's nulling abilities are poor and can't
compare even with a Select-A-tenna. For myself, during our next trip, I'll
take a magnetic loop... Is a MW magnetic loop quite good, even though it's
inferior to a LW magnetic loop ? Is a MW magnetic loop SLIGHTLY worse than a
Beverage or WAY MUCH worse than a Beverage ! I heard from an old DX friend
in British Colombia that a longwave magnetic loop is better than the average
Beverage, but on mediumwave it's a different story. To what extent, it is
worse than a Beverage ?
We are heading for Romania in a few months, toward the end of May, after
c?-gep ends and, then, I may see a completly different perspective on DXing
from my own country, I place where I did some DXing when I was young, nut
very casual and uninspired as you can imagine DXing from a brick house or on
the 4th floor of a builiding with concrete walls and ceiling, you would get
just some 500 kW short-skip nighttime mediumwave signals from the
neighboring countries, nothing to really get excited like the Pan American
DX and, to a lesser extent, Trans Atlantic DX I'm used to enjoy from here
that captivated my attention since the past few years. But, there is the
possibility of DXing from outdoors, i.e.: from a park ! I will try to get in
contact with some of Romania's top DXers during the course of the several
weeks, as my health improves !
{END OF THE BOGDAN SPEAKS part}
I have nothing to add anymore, time to get back to DXing or fighting against
that damned grippis !
This repport is brought to you by Bogan Chiochiu DXing from Pierrefonds
(Montreal's West Island), Quebec, Canada DXing using the Sanyo MCD-S830
barefoot and the Sangean CST-818 along with the PK's Shielded Magnetic LW
loop for longwave and the random wire (along with the same Sangean rx) for
shortwave !
May the good DX be with you !
Bogdan Chiochiu
Btw.: Coming soon, my ratings for this season, as far as LAs and TAs are
concerned !
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:42:34 -0600
From: Brandon Jordan <bcdx....@gmail.com>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com, cumbr...@cs2.ralabs.com, HCDX CONTRIBUTIONS
- LATEST <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, na...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HCDX] Logs - Feb 23 - Memphis, TN
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** AUSTRALIA 6020, R. Australia, Shepparton, 23 Feb, *0900-1315; a few
bars of Waltzing Matilda IS into Pidgin service. English service at 1100
lasting until tune-out. Good signal throughout except during the
1228-1314 UTC Vatican Radio via Philippines. No sign of R Ga?cha during
the 0700-1315 UTC recordings. (Jordan-TN)
** BOLIVIA 6024.99v, (tent) R Patria Nueva, La Paz, 23 Feb, 0850-1134
fade-out; weak carrier-on at 0850, unsure if modulated. Signal slowly
increasing until peaking from 1030 to 1045 UTC, coinciding with sunrise
in La Paz. Threshold audio with woman speaking is possible Spanish, best
in LSB to avoid R Marti mess on 6030. Fading until the carrier finally
dropped below noise floor at 1134 UTC. Transmitter slowly drifted
downward to 6024.98 kHz at fade-out. (Jordan-TN)
** CANADA 6030, CFVP, Calgary, 23 Feb, 0613-0645; Barn Dance Saturday
Night show, country music, a few ads, multiple "Classic Country AM
10-60". Rather weak but nicely readable and stable signal in the UTC
Monday morning UTC absence of R Marti. (Jordan-TN)
** COLOMBIA 6009.96v, La Voz de Tu Conciencia, Lomalinda, 23 Feb
0700-f/out - Programs of easy listening vocals and instrumentals, low
key talks, inspirational sounding radio dramas. Nominally at equal
levels as co-channel R. Mil up to almost an hour after 1110 UTC sunrise
in Lomalinda, although better modulation gave Conciencia the edge.
Transmitter very slowly drifting between 6009.95-.97 kHz. (Jordan-TN)
** COLOMBIA 6035, La Voz de Guaviare, San Jos? del Guaviare, 23 Feb
0859-1030; transmitter cut-on at 0859 in mid song. Ballads with male
announcer between songs with IDs. Full ID at 0957, also mention Radio
Cadena Nacional. Young female voice at the top of the hour with a long
monologue with constant mentions of Santa Maria. Slop from the mess on
6030 kHz began affecting readability at 1000 UTC, and station beginning
to fade by 1015 UTC. Transmitter started on 6030.1 kHz and had slowly
drifted down to a few Hz above 6030 by 1000 UTC. (Jordan-TN)
** ETHIOPIA 6030, Radio Oromiya, Addis Ababa, 23 Feb, 0415-0435;
vaguely Horn of Africa type music at tune in and lasting until 0430,
then brief musical bridge, Radio Oromiya ID then talk by multiple
speakers in presumed Oromo, possibly news. Poor to fair levels in the
UTC Monday morning absence of R. Marti + jammers. (Jordan-TN)
** MEXICO 6010, XEOI, R. Mil, M?xico D.F., 23 Feb, 0700-1315; mainly
musical content, Radio Mil jingles, brief chatter. Good signal level but
lack luster modulation usually gave the upper hand to co-channel
Colombia until they began to fade. Transmitter stable a few Hz above
6030 kHz. (Jordan-TN)
** PERU 6047.19v, (pres.) R. Santa Rosa, Lima, 23 Feb, *1111-1250
fade-out; audio only started being heard a few minutes ofter the
transmitter was turned on. Decent carrier but only just slightly above
threshold audio, man in possible Spanish with low-key religious sounding
monologue. Much slop from booming HCJB on 6050. Transmitter steadily
drifting, up to 6047.22 kHz by carrier fade-out at 1250. (Jordan-TN)
** PHILIPPINES 6020, Vatican Radio, Palauig, 23 Feb, 1228-1314; sudden
cut-on at 1228 with Chinese service. At times at equal levels, but
usually underneath co-channel R Australia English service. (Jordan-TN)
** THAILAND 6040, Voice of America, Udon Thani, 23 Feb, 1157-1314;
transmitter on at 1157 into Chinese programming at 1200. Weak and noisy
but steadily improving to almost fair by 1314 tune-out. (Jordan-TN)
Receivers: WinRadio G313e, RFSpace SDR-IQ
Antenna: ALA100 Loop
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Brandon Jordan - Memphis, TN, USA
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 07:32:21 -0300
From: "Antonio Laurentino Garcia" <alau...@superig.com.br>
To: <radioescu...@yahoogrupos.com.br>,
<hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, DX Clube do Paran?
<dxcl...@yahoogrupos.com.br>, Associa??o DX do Brasil
<car...@adxb.com.br>
Subject: [HCDX] Escutas
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Escutas realizadas em Camboinha/Cabedelo-PB
IC - R1500 - Loop coaxial
21.630,0 1411-1414 28/2 BBC Worldservice, Ascension, ASCENSION ISLAND (U.K.),
(HA) falas de OM, por suposi??o, entrevista a convidado - 1414 fim TX. 35544
15.115,0 2046-2053 28/2 WYFR (Family Radio), Okeechobee, FL UNITED STATES, (EE)
m?sica sacra. - s? ?udio 25333
15.195,0 2054-2058 28/2 WYFR (Family Radio), Ascension, ASCENSION ISLAND
(U.K.), (EE) por suposi??o, entrevista a convidado (falas de YL e OMs). 35444
5.850,0 2356-2359 28/2 WHRA (Le Sea Broadcasting), Greenbush, ME UNITED STATES,
(EE) falas de OM, 2359 fim tx 35333
5.900,0 0003-0009 1/3 Radio Bulgaria - Presumida, Plovdiv, BULGARIA, (EE) falas
de YL, por suposi??o, boletim de not?cias. 35333
5.930,0 0011-0017 1/3 Radio Prague- Prov?vel, Litomysl, CZECH REPUBLIC, (SS)
falas de OM e YL, tx boletim de not?cias 25232
6.100,0 0023-0030 1/3 China Radio International, Beijing, CHINA, (PP) falas de
OM e YL, boletim informativo 25332
7.305,0 0038-0043 1/3 Vatican Radio, St. Maria di Galeria, VATICAN CITY, (PP)
falas de OM com boletim informativo 35333
7.375,0 0045-0053 1/3 Voice of Croatia - Prov?vel, Wertachtal, GERMANY, (EE)
sequencia de m?sicas 35343
9.535,0 0058-0103 1/3 Radio Exterior de Espa?a, Noblejas, SPAIN, (SS) m?sica
rom?ntica; ID; YL e OM com informativo. 35333
ICF-SW7600GR - RGP3
1.512,0 2103-2107 28/2 BSKSA - Presumida, Jeddah, SAUDI ARABIA, (AA) OM
recitando versos do Alcor?o 23333
1.521,0 2109-2114 28/2 BSKSA - Presumida, Duba SAUDI ARABIA, idioma NO ID falas
de OMs, por suposi??o, tx de boletim de not?cias 33333
1.575,0 2122-2127 28/2 OldieStar Radio - Presumida, Burg, GERMANY, idioma NO ID
falas de OMs, por suposi??o, TX de boletim de not?cias 23332
Antonio Laurentino Garcia
PR7BCP
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 09:40:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 2, 2009
Message-ID: <441794.27230...@web51106.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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** INDIA. The AIR National Channel on 9425 surprises us with more English than
expected, at least per Aoki listings, 500 kW, 18 degrees from Bangaluru, which
shows 5 minutes of English [news] at 1430 and 1530, otherwise in Hindi at
1435-1530, 1535-1630, and the same pattern thru the night. (And EiBi shows 9425
entirely in Hindi.) Nevertheless, Monday March 2 at 1435 tune-in I was still
hearing English, just mentioning 31 meters, so was this a special SW-only
broadcast? A bit of music and at 1437 discussion between YL host and an OM
about fossil fuel vs renewable energy; still going at 1445 and concluding at
1456 as having been some minister talking about global warming. 1457 the YL
host says something about exams, so maybe this is an `educational` programme
for credit? Music fill to 1500, Hindi announcement mentioning kHz and meter,
traditional string and drum music; 1515 talk in Hindi, 1539 recheck back in
English, this time about energy.
At first I suspected there could be a feed mixup again at Bangaluru putting the
AIR GOS in English on 9425 instead of 9690, but unseems, as that finishes at
1500; 9690 had a weak unreadable signal. Meanwhile, VBS was normal on 9870,
mostly pop music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [non]. Altho Fri Feb 27 at 1400 I confirmed VOI on reactivated
11785.0 going from English to Malay, and totally blocked Sat and Sun by WHRI,
when I check 11785 on Monday March 2 at 1430 I hear nothing but Mandarin
Chinese on the frequency! Interesting show mentioning Taiwan and playing music
ranging from solo to choral to American-Indian-sounding with drumming at 1445;
a lot of flutter, and off abruptly at 1457* with no ID heard. But this is
certainly not VOI! Not in Aoki or EiBi, but in HFCC we find CRI scheduled
during this hour via Kashi, 308 degrees to Europe in Chinese. Meanwhile, no
sign of VOI on 9525 or 9526 either, and did not check the third remote
possibility, 15150. What next? Would others please monitor what frequency if
any VOI is using for English at 1000 and 1300 and the intervening hours (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9690 with fair-good signal in Korean, March 2 at 1508;
what`s this? Eibi: ``9690 1500-1530 CLA Nippon no Kaze K KRE /AUS-d`` so it`s
via Darwin (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT [and non]. 13620-13645, Over-the-horizon radar pulses, presumed, this
time strong enough to cause a lot of interference to Kuwait in Arabic on 13620,
March 2 at 1511. Eibi shows a break in Kuwait`s transmission between 1305 and
1515, but Aoki shows the break 1310-1505, with the earlier transmission in DRM
anyway. WRTH disagrees, not DRM and break 1315-1505. HFCC has the break at
1400-1615 with DRM until 1400. PWBR shows 1315(?)-1600 with no such details.
Nobody agrees on exactly what is going on here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 15435, Sawt ul-Buzz, March 2 at 1513, big signal, terrible
frying sound overriding Qur`an. This Riyadh transmitter is getting worse and
worse. Erik K?ie in Denmark was hearing the same problem earlier at 1010 on
17805. How can the engineers there be unaware of it? A total waste of 500 kW
and an insult to the deity (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13620-13645, Over-the-horizon radar pulses, presumed, this time
strong enough to cause a lot of interference to Kuwait in Arabic on 13620,
March 2 at 1511. See KUWAIT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 01:09:46 -0000
From: <ka4...@peoplepc.com>
To: <ka4...@peoplepc.com>
Cc: cumbr...@cs2.ralabs.com
Subject: [HCDX] Tamil Radio
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Germany (non) 6045, Tamil Radio (pres), Relay, 0034-0100* Noted a halfhour
of steady comments in Tamil Language(?) by a male. Heard a few familiar
words like "Hamas" and "Isalm", but couldn't pick out an ID during the
comments. Signal began as poor, but slowly improved to fair by the end of
the sked. At 0055 music was presented
until the end of the broadcast. Heard a possible ID at 0059, but couldn't
make "heads nor tails" of it? (Chuck Bolland, March 3, 2009)
http://www.orchidcitysoftware.com/IMAGE59.HTML UPDATED
Clewiston, Florida, USA
NRD545
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 19:50:47 -0800 (PST)
From: "Scott R. Barbour Jr." <srbjr...@yahoo.com>
To: Cumbre DX <cumbr...@cs2.ralabs.com>, DXLD <d...@yahoogroups.com>,
DXplorer <dxplo...@yahoogroups.com>, HCDX
<hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, Gayle Van Horn
<gayl...@brmemc.net>,
NASWAyg <na...@yahoogroups.com>, Al Quaglieri
<listenersnoteb...@gmail.com>, Mark Taylor <markok...@tds.net>, Dave
Valko <djva...@verizon.net>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs from NH-USA, March 1-2
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Went on a DX spree this morning...
3255, S. AFRICA, BBC Meyerton, 0356-0405, March 1, English. Commentary re gov't
subsidies; BBC promos; rooster crowing & "BBC..?..Africa" at ToH; headlines re
Africa; world nx; fair. (Barbour-NH)
4920, INDIA, AIR Chennai, 0055-0111, March 2, vernacular. Hindi ballads; ancr
at ToH; M ancr w/ lengthy talk from 0105 thru t/out; poor. (Barbour-NH)
5010, INDIA, AIR Thiruvananthapuram, 0113-0132, March 2, vernacular. M & W
ancr; various mx bits-possible radio drama?; mx tone followed by advertisement;
pips & ID at BoH; prg intro w/ piano/wind instrument & W ancr into Hindi mx;
poor-fair. This winter, Thiruvan` & Chennai are the only AIR regionals I hear
on a regular basis here & only at night. Nothing like at the height of the last
Solar Cycle, during my local winter mornings, when I could follow the greyline
across the sub-continent & log AIR across 60m. (Barbour-NH)
6010, MEXICO, R. Mil Mexico City, 1013-1034, March 2, Spanish. Ballads; ancr
b/w selections w/ talk; ancments & occasional ID; fair-poor. (Barbour-NH)
6020, AUSTRALIA, R. Australia Shepparton, 1046-1101, March 2, Tok
Pisin/English. Ancrs w/ talk w/ ment. of Palau & Cook Islands; contact info at
1052; talk over pop mx at 1057 & freq sked; mx fill into EG ID & nx at 1100;
fair. (Barbour-NH)
6055, JAPAN, R. Nikkei Tokyo-Nagara, 1125-1137, March 2, Japanese. W ancr at
t/in; continuos classical mx thru t/out; poor; //3925-fair. (Barbour-NH)
7245, CHINA, CNR-2 Beijing, 1236-1301, March 2, Mandarin. M & W ancr w/ banter;
mx bits & ancments; 5+1 pips at ToH w/ presumed ID in Mandarin &
"China..(Business?)..Radio" ID in EG; fair at best. (Barbour-NH)
7395, UZBEKISTAN, presumed CVC Tashkent, 0134-0145, March 2, English. W ancr w/
nx items re India; Obama; pop ballads; way too much 7400-Bulgaria for positive
ID; poor. (Barbour-NH)
9580, GABON, Afrique Numero Un Moyabi, 2025-2041, March 2. French. Mx prg w/
hi-life; French pop mx & Afropops; M ancr b/w selections & canned W ancr w/
numerous IDs; fair. (Barbour-NH)
9745, TAIWAN, presumed V. of Han Kuanyin, 1212-1231, March 2, Mandarin. W ancr
w/ talk; M w/ same; pop ballad at 1217; talk from 1222 until W ancr over lite
vocal mx at BoH into M ancr w/ talk; poor & fading by BoH. (Barbour-NH)
9750, UNIDENTIFIED, 1143-1210, March 2. M & W ancr in unid. language; mx bit at
1154 & more talk; 5+1 pips & W ancr at ToH followed by M w/ Kor'an-like vocal
chanting thru t/out; fair-poor. Heard snatches of IS at 1200, presumably via V.
of Malaysia s/on; both Aoki & Eibi list NHK/R. Japan in Japanese here; while
Eibe also lists VOM 1000-1400 which is
inaccurate based on recent logs. Sounded more Middle East than Far East to my
ear. (Barbour-NH)
11590, KUWAIT, R. Free Asia Kabd, 1304-1317, March 2, listed Tibetan. M & W
ancr w/ talk; mx bit at 1305 followed by interview thru t/out; fair w/ big
"hum" sound; same on //11540 via listed Tajikistan; a faulty Chinese jamming
transmitter perhaps? (Barbour-NH)
15440, RWANDA, Duetsche Welle Kigali, 1322, March 2, listed Hausa. ID at t/in;
ancr w/ nx listing several African countries; fair. (Barbour-NH)
Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, NH-USA
NRD545,RX350D,MLB1,200'Bevs,60mDipole
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 17:59:27 +1300
From: "Paul" <format...@gmail.com>
To: "Hard-Core-DX" <Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: [HCDX] * Police track rise of pirate radio *
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* Police track rise of pirate radio *
Pirate radio stations are booming across the UK, but so are police efforts to
catch the perpetrators.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/uk/7920241.stm
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 75, Issue 3
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