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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. HFCC public data is updated (akbarig gunawan) 2. Radio Farda on 1314 kHz (Vladimir Kovalenko (???????? ?????????)) 3. new PNG station? 4775kHz (John Durham) 4. Re: Radio Farda on 1314 kHz (Wolfgang Bueschel) 5. Glenn Hauser logs January 16-17, 2011 (Glenn Hauser) 6. Re: HFCC public data is updated (Andy Sennitt) 7. Glenn Hauser logs January 17, 2011 (Glenn Hauser) 8. Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA (Stewart MacKenzie) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 13:03:52 +0800 (SGT) From: akbarig gunawan <akbariguna...@yahoo.com> To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Subject: [HCDX] HFCC public data is updated Message-ID: <971887.3766...@web76504.mail.sg1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii http://www.hfcc.org/data/b10/b10allx2.zip B10allx2.zip - B10 Operational Schedule - Last updated on 02-Jan-2011 ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 21:06:41 +0600 From: Vladimir Kovalenko (???????? ?????????) <toms...@sibmail.com> To: <Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com> Subject: [HCDX] Radio Farda on 1314 kHz Message-ID: <000201cbaa8e$a96493d0$fc2dbb70$@com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Today, on January 2, at 01.45 UTC I received Radio Farda on 1314 kHz in parallel to 1575 via Thailand. The signal switched off at 02.02. I couldn't find information on this frequency for Radio Farda. Who knows more? Vladimir Kovalenko, Tomsk, Russia __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5752 (20110101) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 15:38:58 +1300 From: "John Durham" <johnj...@ihug.co.nz> To: <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com> Subject: [HCDX] new PNG station? 4775kHz Message-ID: <A8C0189F60A04DFCA74D14E17B8B456E@ownered536583e> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Have noted the past few days what i think is PNG station on 4775kHz around 1120 to past 1230 UTC with Nx in English at 1200. Reception from poor to just fair. As yet no positive ID. John Durham. Tauranga. New Zealand. ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:10:59 +0100 From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <buesch...@web.de> To: "HCDX" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com> Subject: Re: [HCDX] Radio Farda on 1314 kHz Message-ID: <0958F25CCD3A4673A3D073CB6FCE603D@HNPC2> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8"; reply-type=original Has been reported widely in past 2 weeks. Also chief of US BBG-IBB monitoring confirmed old BBC Al Dhabbaya UAE site in use for R Farda program now, due of 2 years delay of new Kuwait Farda mediumwave relay. 73 wb UAE Radio Farda Persian on 1314 kHz also heard in USA. On Jan 10, Chris Black wrote: Hi all, I just heard Radio Farda on 1314 kHz and was verified as "IBBs Persian service". I have been showing 1314 kHz as the BBC world service from Al Dhabbaya. Can someone verify if this is still correct or should this Persian service be listed differently? Thanks, Chris Black, Cape Cod. Radio Farda - MW 1314 kHz. Radio Farda in Persian heard with fair to good reception on 1314 kHz at 2130 UT on 15 January 2011 \\ 1575 and 5850 kHz. Did a quick Google search and this posting from Bill Whitacre (via Real DX) indicates it is 1000 kW from Dhabbaya (UAE) and became effective on 1 January 2011: <http://stasjonsnytt.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/radio-farda-tar-i-bruk-1314- khz> (Tony Rogers-UK, BrDXC-UK Jan 15) On Jan 10, 2011, at 8:27 AM, Sylvain Naud wrote: ... and it is. I heard it last night around 21:30 UTC and it was \\ to 1575 kHz. Did I read that this is a new tx from Kuwait? Sylvain <RealDX-fullfeatured @ yahoogroups.com> Jan 10 Le 2011-01-10, Bill Whitacre a ecrit : It should be Farda 14-24 UT since 1/1/11 and should be \\ 1575 kHz. R Farda on 1314, send reply to: <RealDX @ yahoogroups.com> It is from Dhabaya. (Bill Whitacre-USA, RealDX Jan 10) IBB MW Radio Farda Kuwait relay project on probably MW 1386 kHz is now overdue at least 26 months, realization planned in Aug 2008. wb. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vladimir Kovalenko (???????? ?????????)" <toms...@sibmail.com> To: <Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 4:06 PM Subject: [HCDX] Radio Farda on 1314 kHz > Today, on January 2, at 01.45 UTC I received Radio Farda on 1314 kHz in > parallel to 1575 via Thailand. The signal switched off at 02.02. I > couldn't find information on this frequency for Radio Farda. Who knows > more? > > Vladimir Kovalenko, Tomsk, Russia ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:23:55 -0800 (PST) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 16-17, 2011 Message-ID: <62388.24668...@web112814.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** CUBA [and non]. Since El Hugazo was a no-show again this Sunday, the special `Al?, Presidente` frequencies, 17750, 13750 and 15370 had already been turned off at 1834 check Jan 16, after having carried nothing but RHC duplications earlier, as in previous report. Yes, this Sunday, tnx to the triple-alarming capabilities of the DX-398, I remember to check for the alleged Esperanto broadcast from RHC at 2230 on 15370: at 2231, no signal, not even on the air. Maybe a breakdown, since 11730 and 15230 are also anomalous, on the air, but with open carrier only, and in the case of the latter, much stronger than usual on this frequency, on wrong antenna too? JBA under it was R. Australia. RHC Spanish was going after 2230 on 11770, and RNV relay on 11670; 12040 RHC seemingly on too, making SAH under sports from PORTUGAL, q.v. I reset the alarm again and check again at 2250. NOW, 15370 is on the air with horrible, distorted rap. Surely this is not Esperanto, which altho inexorably mired in Marxism here, is a semi-intellexual pursuit! Previous weeks during this semihour, Creole, French or Quechua has been carried. No, at 2253 it IS Esperanto being announced! Meanwhile at 2250, `En Contacto`, the DX program in Spanish is audible on 12040 with RDPI now off, 11770, 9820, 6140, 5040; while 11730 and 15230 are still open carrier. Just another day of SNAFUs at RHC and RadioCuba. See also USA: WRMI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 5765-USB, AFN barely audible Jan 17 at 1344 with country music, not news/talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, V. of Mesopotamia with continuous Kurdish vocal music segu?s, some of it ululatory, always a treat and reliably unannounced during this hour, 1415 Jan 17. Flutter as usual, and it would be odd to hear such music without the flutter which seems like an essential element of it. Good signal but some hum, via UKRAINE. If only we could hear RUI this well any more! According to Alexandr Yegorov, Kyiv, ex-RUI, in RusDX 16 Jan, the sole English broadcast left is 2000-2100 on 6030, only remnants of which might make it to northeast America, certainly not here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 15540, again Jan 16 at 1823 check, just-barely-audible carrier during English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Es opening underway at tune-in 1747 UT Jan 16, pileup on channel 2, generally peaking SSW. 1800 net-5 bug UR on channel 3 during war movie, and continuing to dominate that channel, quite good by 1810, probably XHBQ Zacatecas. 1817 on 3, Televisa Quer?taro animated ID, i.e. XEZ-TV, Zamorano. I have received that station countless times since my earliest TV DXing in OK a semicentury ago, but not with such a particular ID rather than just an XEW relay. Signs of activity on 4 and 5 too. At 1836, f?tbol on 2 with net-2 lazy-star bug in upper right. Nothing more afterwards. DX Sherlock map at 1813 showed center of activity over W/C Texas. First report on the TV-FM Skip Log of Es reaching ch 2 was at 1552, and thence some pokes into FM elsewhere (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. What could be more apropos for Martin Luther King`s unbirthday? 6925-SSB, Jan 17 at 1347, ``I have a dream`` speech with frequent applause. Rather imperative tone, but not to be mistaken for a contemporary gospel huxter. Only fair signal but pumping, leading to dilemma of whether to attenuate or not. 1352 Radio Ga-Ga ID, and into opening of CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, and far-flung correspondents, leading with `MLK shot to death``. BTW, another ``pirate radio``, really a legal -LP in Colorado near Laporte, is in the news for running anti-MLK editorials: http://www.brian-blackwell.com/2011/01/whack-job-kels-fm-owners-concealed.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 9570, nothing but a JBA carrier, Jan 17 at 1517, so has R. Blagovest via Radio Veritas Asia now been canceled? Indonesia had been good as usual on 9525- before 1500, but now at 1517 I am not getting FEBC Manila in Chinese either on 9430. Maybe Phil-prop is just very bad today? Also still missing: VOA 9760 via Tinang, which used to be good after 1500 with English Learning. No sign of it at 1513 Jan 17, altho supposedly scheduled 15-16 daily at 21 degrees USward (also at 13-14 Sat/Sun at 283 degrees --- not heard this weekend either). (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PORTUGAL [and non]. 12040, RDPI Jan 16 at 2035-2130+ with hyper-enthusiastic sillyballgame live coverage, challenging my comprehension of Portuguese, and in fact a nice soporific accompaniment to my nap, compensating for too much late and early DXing. No RHC audible at first, but may have been totally blocked; at 2133, I could tell RHC was under there making a SAH, and still at 2241, but RFPI off by 2250 uncovering RHC; see CUBA. Earlier on Sundays only, Cuba`s 12040 transmitter is moved to one of the El Hugazo frequencies instead, but Portugal still needs to evade this collision, altho there is a weaker but clear // 11960 at 2133 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TUNISIA. 7275, RTT, Jan 17 until 0627* usual nice calm Arabic music, as if nothing is going on rather than riots and fires (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Over to Mike: It continues to be interesting to listen to RTCI, the francophone Tunisian service [via satellite, Galaxy 19, Ku]. This morning, a woman is announcing the new interim government, emphasizing that there is no longer a Ministry of Communications or a Ministry of Information, and that information is being allowed to circulate freely. It makes me wonder what it must be like to be at a state-run station when the government body that regulates you no longer exists (Mike Cooper, Atlanta GA, Jan 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. See KURDISTAN [non] ** U S A. 9955, again on Sunday Jan 16 like Saturday, cannot hear WORLD OF RADIO from WRN via WRMI at 1834, due to wall-of-noise jamming from Cuba at same level as on 9965 vs Radio Rep?blica. With BFO could detect a WRMI carrier, anyway. Next chances for WOR on WRMI: Tue and Wed 1630 when jamming seems to abate; Tue & Wed 2000 on WBCQ 7415. WRMI is relaying WRN in English seven days a week at 17-21 UT (weekdays until 22 but believed to be on SW only on weekends), so there is no excuse for the DentroCuban Jamming Command to be blasting 9955 in the early afternoons, wasting countless megawatts while Cubans oppressed for a semi-century crave a good meal, and Arnie`s attempts to maintain a reputation as ``your friend in Habana`` continue to crumble. When he gets his jamming off all my WOR broadcasts, I will reconsider (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 17740, strong open carrier, Jan 17 at 1427, no doubt Greenville B tuning up for the 17 UT VOA Portuguese. 12150, VOA news, good but with some fading, Jan 17 at 1438. This amounts to the best, virtually only frequency to hear VOA at this hour in English, as nothing making it on 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 or 17 MHz, except a trace on 17715 Botswana, seems //. 12150 is via Iranawila, SRI LANKA, 250 kW, 322 degrees intended only for CIRAF 41 = South Asia, 1400-1500 M-F, 1500-1600 daily. 12150 still audible at 1513 but weaker, English interview but apparently it is ``Border Crossings`` since the English is not spe-cial, and the subject is a musician. Now // 12055 is on, stronger but with echo, via Lampertheim, GERMANY. See also PHILIPPINES (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15151.5-SSB, intruders, Jan 17 at 1432, 2-way colloquial Spanish contact fighting QRM from 15150, BBC Russian via Rampisham this hour only, M-F. A frequency heard several times before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15210-, Jan 17 at 1430, het on the lo side of WYFR Portuguese. Previously reported by Eike Bierwirth, DXLD 11-02: ``9 Jan 2011, weak station, with some Asian language, religious? on approx. 15209.35 kHz, apparently fading out, first heard at 1455 UT, the sermon or whatever it is was not interrupted for the top of the hour. Doesn't sound like WYFR Portuguese/Spanish to me, that might be the carrier on 15210.0. 73, (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig, Germany)`` A long shot, but I wonder if it could be this as in DXLD 11-01, on a scrambled frequency? ``Victor Goonetilleke says Family Radio is testing in English on 15120 via 35 kW Ekala, SRI LANKA at 1330-1630``. Since FR on 15120 has yet to be heard by me, or anyone? on 15120, just Saudi and Cuba before 15, Nigeria after (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:19:00 +0100 From: "Andy Sennitt" <an...@euronet.nl> To: "Hard-Core-Dx@Hard-Core-Dx. Com" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com> Subject: Re: [HCDX] HFCC public data is updated Message-ID: <4F98AB497198490A82A035A83F1E837E@DC5100> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In fact it has been updated again on 14 January 2011. I recommend that Dxers get into the habit of checking at least once every couple of weeks to make sure you have the most recent version. Andy -----Original Message----- From: hard-core-dx-boun...@hard-core-dx.com [mailto:hard-core-dx-boun...@hard-core-dx.com] On Behalf Of akbarig gunawan Sent: 03 January 2011 06:04 To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Subject: [HCDX] HFCC public data is updated http://www.hfcc.org/data/b10/b10allx2.zip B10allx2.zip - B10 Operational Schedule - Last updated on 02-Jan-2011 ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:34:18 -0800 (PST) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 17, 2011 Message-ID: <628592.9648...@web112816.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** AUSTRALIA. 11660, RA news in English at 2101 Jan 17, stronger than // 11650, which is found to be synchronized, so same site? Yes, per HFCC, at 2000-2200 both Shepparton, 70 and 30 degrees respectively, i.e. 11660 ideal for CNAm beyond the central Pacific. Until 2057 they are divided by RNW Madagascar on 11655. At first I wondered if 11650 could be via Taiwan, but not now, not if they are in synch. However, Aoki shows 11660 as Brandon 10 kW in B-10, which does not compute either, as that would be much weaker and with a delay. Another RA pair until 1357 UT, 9580 and 9590, have the same azimuthal relationship in reverse order, i.e. 9580 better for us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Today`s RHC SNAFU roundup so far, Jan 17: 11760 missing at 2051 when English hour should have been on, audiblizing AWR on 11755; see USA [non]. Next check at 2122, 11760 on with scheduled French. 12040, off before 2100, on with Spanish around 2105, off again at 2119; anyhow, RDPI not on 12040 at all, this being a weekday with no sillyballgame, so no `extraordinary emission` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, R. Africa has not been heard for quite some time here, all year? Anyhow, Jan 17 at 2117 there is no trace of even a carrier, adjacent to strong YFR/Ascension on 15195. Has anyone been hearing 15190 lately at any hour? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. OKC`s only holdout running IBOC noise, WWLS-640, COL Moore, ex-Norman, sometimes turns it off unpredictably, such as Jan 17 at 2005 UT with remote from a car dealer, but still off at 2020 during sports talk, so avoiding asynchronism during live ballgame is not the reason. This audiblized very weak something on 650, probably KGAB WY, and on 630, probably KHOW CO, but the latter still has IBOC upon it from KMKI 620 Plano TX. The next Metroplex station up the dial, 660 KSKY, is also bothered by WWLS IBOC when on, and now without it, I can detect KCRO Omaha underneath; all groundwave, on caradio (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 11755, Jan 17 at 2051, slow talk in a tonal African language; 2058 retune in music, and no announcement before cut to open carrier at 2059:30, 2100 VTC music loop to 2100:42*. HFCC reveals it`s AWR in Yoruba via SOUTH AFRICA, 250 kW, 328 degrees from Meyerton to Nigeria, but also USward, accounting for the good signal, made better by the absence of RHC from 11760; see CUBA. Same has AWR French at 2000-2030. ** U S A. 11665, WYFR after 2100 was in Arabic again Jan 17, not Yoruba or whatever was heard once last week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 15580, Jan 17 at 2113, ``Billie Jean`` by Michael Jaxon, 2115 segu? to ``Thriller``, but very distorted modulation worsened by selective fading, and wobbling carrier. Must be VOA Music Mix, supposed to be BOTSWANA during this hour, so is it the ailing transmitter there? VG level at S9+15 and could have been Greenville, another ailing transmitter substituting. 9680, Jan 17 at 2126 hard rock music, 2127 VOA French with USG editorial, brief backgrounder on Martin Luther King, a Baptist minister from Alabama. (Actually he was from Atlanta, but became a pastor in 1954 in Montgomery.) This was over already in a sesquiminute, 2128.5 sign-off mentioning FM in Ouagadougou and Abidjan, not shortwave! VG signal which could have been Greenville, but HFCC shows MADAGASCAR, 250 kW, 300 degrees, M-F only. 9680 cut off at 2129.5 after ``VOA, Washington``. 9780, meanwhile, found to be // and leading 9680 by about a second. It`s S?O TOM?, 100 kW, 88 degrees and weaker like it should be. 9780 continued with full Yankee-Doodle-Dandy sign-off until 2131, then open carrier continuing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9479, WTWW missing, Jan 17 at 2123; I know it was on during the previous semihour; back on at next check 2132 with super-signal. Unfortunately, nothing of interest heard in its absence, but 1Africa, Zambia, 9505 did not have to worry about overload from WTWW in OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:02:55 -0800 (PST) From: Stewart MacKenzie <wdx...@yahoo.com> To: Anker Peterson <anker.peter...@mail.dk>, Arnie Coro <ar...@rhc.cu>, BCL NEWS <bcln...@yahoogroups.com>, Duane Fischer <dfisc...@usol.com>, Hard Core DX <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, Marie Lamb <mal...@cumbredx.net>, Maryann Kehoe <atl...@webtv.net>, Prime Time Shortwave <primetimeshortw...@yahoogroups.com>, SWL QTH <s...@mailman.qth.net> Cc: Adrian Peterson <adr...@awr.org>, Allen Graham <agra...@hcjb.org.ec> Subject: [HCDX] Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA Message-ID: <178926.30315...@web30701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 >>> ALBANIA?? China Radio Intl Relay-CRI?? 9570? 0058 GMT? English? 333? Jan 15? YL and OM with comments. Two OMs mixing Chinese and English with comments.??? MacKenzie-CA. CHINA?? China Radio Intl-CRI?? 9435 0050 GMT? Chinese? 333? Jan 15? YL with comments.??? MacKenzie-CA.. CHINA?? China Radio Intl-CRI?? 9590? 0010 GMT? Spanish? 333? Jan 16? YL and OM with comments.??? MacKenzie-CA.. CHINA?? China Radio Intl-CRI?? 9610? 0015 GMT? Hakka?? 433? Jan 16? Two YLs with comments.? MacKenzie-CA.. EGYPT?? Radio Cairo?? 9305? 0042 GMT? Arabic? 333? Jan 15? OM with comments.??? MacKenzie-CA.. PHILIPPINES?? VOA Relay?? 9315? 0045 GMT? English? 333? Jan 15? OM and YL with comments.//12005 {333]. MacKenzie-CA.. PORTUGAL?? RDP?? 9455? 0055 GMT? Portuguese? 333? Jan 15? YL and OM with comments. OM singing with piano music.??? MacKenzie-CA.. TAIWAN?? Radio Taiwan Intl-RTI?? 9660? 0020 GMT? Chinese? 433? JAN 16? OM with comments.??? MacKenzie-CA.. Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA Huntington Beach, California, United States of America Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650 "World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive" ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC SCADS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCADS End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 97, Issue 18 ********************************************