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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. Log from Milano city, Italy (Giampiero58) 2. DX Logs - RALPH PERRY - 1/30 (Ralph Perry) 3. Media event: Number 1000 of BC-DX TopNews is published (Dr. Anton J. Kuchelmeister) 4. Glenn Hauser logs January 29-30, 2011 (Glenn Hauser) 5. CuteSDR: the new sound of RFSpace's SDR (Nils Schiffhauer) 6. Special Dx pirate session for Japan (Zacharias Liangas ) 7. Re: Media event: Number 1000 of BC-DX TopNews is published (John) 8. DX LOGS - Ralph Perry 1/31 (Ralph Perry) 9. Iran on MW (Jan 29, 2011) (Matti Ponkamo) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:48:48 +0100 From: "Giampiero58" <giampier...@fastwebnet.it> To: <d...@yahoogroups.com>, "HCDX" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, "Cumbredx" <cumbr...@n2jeu.net> Subject: [HCDX] Log from Milano city, Italy Message-ID: <A16164F7ED2C4C43BB459ABACBCBF99C@Bernardini> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Some Saturday night tips. Nice signal with Amanacer International on 6025 kHz. 4845.24 30/1 0120 Radio Cultura, Manaus, Brazil, nice songs, fair 5952.45 30/1 0041 Radio Pio Doce, Bolivia, talks & music, poor 5954.23 30/1 0038 Radio Republica, Costa Rica, talks about Cuba, fair 5985.88 30/1 0044 Myanma Radio, Myanmar, talks, weak but clear 6025.05 30/1 0047 Radio Amanecer, Dominican Republic, religious talks and music. Great id on the hour, "Radio Amanecer Internacional presenta...". Fair 6210 30/1 0110 Laser Hot Hits, Pirate, nice songs, several ids, fair to good 7245 30/1 0030 Radio Mauretanie, slow folk songs and Arabic talks, good 7365 30/1 0034 Radio Mart?, Clandestine via USA, Cuban politics, good 9629.92 30/1 0020 Radio Aparecida, Brazil, religious, weak 9675 30/1 0026 Cancao Nova, Brazil, long talks about alegria, fair 11815 30/1 0012 Radio Brasil Central, talks, weak/fair QTH: Milano, Italia - RX: Perseus - ANT: T2FD 15 meters long My Short Wave blog: http://radiodxsw.blogspot.com/ Ciao Giampiero Giampiero Bernardini Milano, Italy ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 08:35:02 -0800 (PST) From: Ralph Perry <ralphpe...@yahoo.com> Cc: cumbr...@jumbo.ralabs.com, na...@yahoogroups.com, amigo...@yahoogroups.com, shortwave-ra...@yahoogroups.com, dxclub...@yahoogrupos.com.br, shortwa...@yahoogroups.com, condigl...@yahoogroups.com, playdx2...@yahoogroups.com, shortwavelisten...@yahoogroups.com, hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com, dxplo...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [HCDX] DX Logs - RALPH PERRY - 1/30 Message-ID: <565097.95688...@web39707.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ZANZIBAR - 6015, Voice of Tanzania - Zanzibar, aka the former RTZ, well heard 0300-0340+ 1/30, thanks to Ron Howard's tip! Decent African propagation this nite but more importantly, fqy nice and clear other than the awful splatter from 6020. Sig fair to occasionally fading-in to good level. Checked fqy 0258 and could detect carrier but not hear anything -- missed any IS -- but realized about 0300 YL anmts suddenly there, in progress, very muffled. Signal faded up so that at 0301.20 Islamic call to prayer very well heard, muzzein sadly chanting for about 5 minutes with long pauses between verses. 0306 thru bottom of the hour, OM giving speech or narrative, excited at times, either a political or religious exhortation. Quick mx interlude 0316 broke in, and then OM speech resuming. YL with possible news at bottom of hour, also hearing echoey, excited man, possible taped sports report or the like. 0341 orch mx with YL, probably ad. Gotta hand it to the R8B on this one, rig did well: the AM sync detection mode seemed to really pull this out of the mud at times. Never heard Zanzibar on this fqy before and, in fact, had not heard Zanzibar in 30 years, since the days when RTZ hung out on 3339 kHz and Mr. Omar M. Omar delighted in teasing DXers with letters that explicitly non-verified. Again, thanks again for the tip to Ron Howard, the Nomad DXer of the Asilomar Beach State Park! (R Perry, Illinois) BOLIVIA - 6134.77, R. Santa Cruz, 1009-1045+ 1/30, good time to tune as usual 6135 QRM (initially) absent early morning. Sounded like remote newsfeed at tune-in, 1018 brief musica folklorica break and then OM ancr 1019 and into romantic guitar ballad. 1021 local time ck and mentions of ". . . boliviano . . .La Paz" and "musica del campo" and then into extremely rustic musica folklorica segment. Yelling/singing women a capella with only percussion accompaniment. 1027 taped ID by OM & YL, clear mention ". . . Radio Santa Cruz . . . onda corta . . ." 1029 ads and another ID 1029.46, into slow huayno-type ballad by OM with accordianlike instrument. QRM coming up at this point and big het, but still able to follow until 1045 tune out. (R Perry, Illinois) MEXICO - 6010, Radio Mil, daily visitor morning and night, heard 1/30 booming in 1035 with OA pops, DJ wishing folks muy buenos dias and formula ID as "Esta escuchando . . . Radio Mil, desde Mexico!". Signal holds up well after daybreak locally, heard still hanging in there past 1300 GMT. (R Perry, Illinois) DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - 6025.06, tent. Radio Amanecer, Santo Domingo, 1202-1240+ 1/29, OM SS at tune-in talking about "La Familia . . . nuestro salud . . . Republica Dominicana . . ." Fair to good sig, very deep fades and lots of side splatter. 1211 mx breaker by OM with t/ck. Sig fading by 1215 when OM mentioned "iglesia" and "Dominicana". 1222 thot caught the ID for R Amanecer but not 100% sure. Still going at 1240 with piano mx poss hymn. This one needs more work. (R Perry, Illinois) UNID LA (HONDURAS?) - 3250.1, Unid. fading up at 1130 on 1/29, YL and OM in dialogue, weak and hard to tell lang but cadence could have been SS. Suspecting R. Luz Y Vida, Honduras and will keep at this fqy. (R Perry, Illinois) UNID LA (DOM REPUBLIC?) - 5954.24, "La Voz de ____ " ID heard at 0055 1/29 with terrible het and slop. Back at 0427 recheck with LA romantic vocals and again, at 0430, YL ID as "La Voz de ____". Can't make it out. There are some reports of a "Radio Republica" on this precise off-fqy, too, from Costa Rica but too early to say. (R Perry, Illinois) UNID (AFRICAN?) - 4780, 0445-0510, Unid African? Boomy audio. OM anmts at top of hr for 3 mins, then into mainly nondescript instrumental music, but there was one chantlike, very ethnic selection interspersed -- almost sounded like Thai hilltribe type stringed instrument with vocalist. Fair sig at times but rather muffled and couldn't read the lang. Could have even been EE. Interesting one to retry. (R Perry, Illinois) ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:27:43 +0100 From: "Dr. Anton J. Kuchelmeister" <a...@kaynou.de> To: hard-core-dx <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com> Subject: [HCDX] Media event: Number 1000 of BC-DX TopNews is published Message-ID: <op.vp4tghfik0ljt2@home-007> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Today the internationally well-known Wolfgang B?schel from Stuttgart, Germany, has published the Number 1000, Number One Thousand, of his BC-DX TopNews. On this occasion, the AGDX, that is the umbrella organisation of German speaking DX clubs, and where myself currently being the President, wanted to honour Wolfgang for his persistent and exceptional contribution, also beyond the BC-DX TopNews, which includes contributions to various magazines, mailing lists (also this one, HCDX), and also amateur radio band monitoring against intruders. The AGDX Board has agreed to award the status of Honorary Member to Wolfgang. We all are very thankful for his quality contibutions over the many years, and we wish him continuing achievements and fun. Anton, AGDX President (www.agdx.de) Munich, Germany ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 09:33:47 -0800 (PST) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 29-30, 2011 Message-ID: <355919.83004...@web114015.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 30: 8400, at 1352, JBA with flutter 9380, at 1354, fair vs presumed DW in Chinese, not audible, not 1400+ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. RHC Sunday Jan 30 check: at 1412 the special ``Al?, Presidente`` frequencies are on, 13750, 15370 and 17750, the latter strong but undermodulated with buzzes, but no separate programming, all // mainstream RHC 11690, 11730, 11760, 13780, 15120, 15230; while 12040 and 15360 are absent. Recheck at 1655: 17750, 15370 and 13750 still on and still no-show Hugazo, // others. Gone again! Esperanto from RHC scheduled Sundays 1500-1530 on 11760, but Jan 30 at 1510, just Spanish // numerous other frequencies in filatelia show (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PALAU. 9950, Jan 30 at 1451, playing music including riff from ``Touch Me`` by The Doors, 1453 Japanese talk, 1457 giving URL with // pronounced ``surashu, surashu``, and schedule mentioning kirohertsu several times, to 1459*. Is Furusato no Kaze, 100 kW, 345 degrees from Koror via T8WH; better signal than neighbor 9955 WRMI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [and non]. 6075, R. Rossii, no motorboating and not much program audio either Jan 30 at 1359, but could hear 1400+ timesignal, mixing with Taipei ID and then more Chinese from jamming. Hard to tell when Pet/Kam carrier goes off, without the motorboating roar! No sign of 2MTL or 8GAL 6074 until 1402 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. VOT was reported to have changed frequency for English to NAm at 23-24: ``Frequency changes for Voice of Turkey effective from Jan. 14: 2300-2357 NF 7335+EMR 500 kW / 310 deg to NoAm, ex 5960 English; + co-channel WHRI Angel 1/5 in English on Sat (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Jan 18 via DXLD 11-03)`` And I finally get around to checking it on Saturday January 29 at 2330: nothing but WHRI audible on 7335, but there is something weak on 5960, seems English, bothered by much stronger and bleeding DentroCuban Jamming Command on 5955 against R. Rep?blica on 5954.2v. That could certainly motivate VOT to move, but onto a frequency occupied by WHRI?! To be sure, I listen again at 2352, and do hear the VOT IS on 5960. So the change has NOT been made, or if it was, they have gone back to 5960, or even less likely, gone back on Saturdays only, possibly the only day of week WHRI is really on 7335, altho HFCC shows 17 = Sunday and Saturday. Yet the latest HFCC also shows TRT on 7335 as if it had been there all the time since 31 Oct! And no listing for 5960 where it really was and is. Far too many changes in HFCC are masked by showing incorrect dates in effect (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1549 monitoring: Saturday Jan 29 at 1846, very poor but audible on 9955, WRN via WRMI, no jamming. Jeff White reconfirms that WRMI is on the air Sat & Sun only in the 17-22 UT period, taking a break on weekdays, all with WRN relays. And WOR is also scheduled at the same time on Sundays. 3215, WWCR at 0735 UT Sun Jan 30, WOR confirmed. 9955, WRMI at 1647 Sunday, also confirmed, with usual SAH from YFR Taiwan, but generally atop it, and no jamming unlike 9965. Next chances on 9955: Sun 1830, Mon 1230, 2230, Tue 1630, Wed 0200, 1630; 7415 WBCQ: Tue 2000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9955, lovely Andean music from WRMI, ``Aires Andinos`` show, UT Sun Jan 30 at 0533, so I settle back to listen for the rest of the half hour: unfortunately, I just caught it at a peak, as soon obscured by Cuban jamming pulses, and then alternating peaking and troughing. Our Friend in Habana finds such innocent programming a threat to the oppressed DentroCubans --- even this must be jammed. Tnx a lot, Arnie! Some other times for ``Aires Andinos`` on the WRMI schedule: Wed 1230, Thu 0100, Sat 1200. The 1200 and 1230 are probably jammed too; maybe has a chance at 01. Or give up and listen to webcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 15420, Jan 29 at 1847, I am hearing nothing but BBCWS in English via SOUTH AFRICA, when normally there is a collision with WBCQ on CUSB. Global Spirit Proclamation, the androgynous anapest from Fence Lake NM, is supposedly scheduled 7 days a week at 18-22 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1190, Jan 30 at 1433 UT, Spanish caught my ear, mostly atop jumble of multiple stations, talking about a trip to M?rida, Yucat?n. Since it seems from WNW/ESE, and the hour is rather late, I don`t think it is an XE, and there are no Yucatecans on 1190. Maybe an infomercial. Lasted about 5 minutes before losing out. Several US stations on 1190 are Spanish, per NRC AM Log, in AZ, FL, GA, MS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7534-SSB, Jan 30 at 0618, 2-way in English, one side good, the other JBA or not at all during long pauses. The one I can hear with some engine noise in background, calls his contact Mike, mentions ``lockers``, ``only got one drum``; 0623 ``awful big ocean here``; ``not one --ck--- boat in 12 miles``, ``I just don`t see anything``. 0628+ nothing more heard, no IDs. Sounded like he was somewhat distressed. What else has been reported on 7534? Searching the 31,130 posts so far on the UDXF yg, I get two hits on 7534 from 2006 and 2007y, neither relevant (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:50:19 -0000 From: "Nils Schiffhauer" <dk...@gmx.net> To: "Nils Schiffhauer" <dk...@gmx.net> Subject: [HCDX] CuteSDR: the new sound of RFSpace's SDR Message-ID: <004e01cbc0a6$29f75410$7de5fc30$@net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hallo - the new software CuteSDR provides exciting additions to RFSpace's software defined radio, SDR. In this short video, two of them are demonstrated: * reception of a shortwave broadcaster (All India Radio "Vividh Bharati", 9870 kHz) with synchro detection in pseudo stereo. This is: the lower sideband on the left ear, the upper sideband on the right ear. This gives the striking experience of phase differences in both sidebands due to selective fading. Also a-symmetrical tuning of the bandwidth is provided to cope with interference in one sideband. It sounds like a merry-go-round. ["Shortwave on speed"] * A very versatile AGC, which enhances intelligibility of not only SSB signals. Here Shannon VOLMET from Ireland on 5.505 kHz has been used as an example. Look at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxlSfewC8m4 Thanks to RFSpace, to having provided this software, working on a PC, as even on an MAC! -- 73, Nils DK8OK Excalibur, SDR-IP/GPS, Perseus, 2 x 20 m active quad loop (90?), 42 m windom, DX-One prof ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 20:13:59 +0200 From: "Zacharias Liangas " <gree...@otenet.gr> To: <> Subject: [HCDX] Special Dx pirate session for Japan Message-ID: <4d45c687.30181.323...@greekdx.otenet.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Special Dx pirate session for Japan system used: R75 ICOM antennas : 2x16 inv V a/o 16 H wire head: m@h 40 Sennheiser the local QRN coming from mainly DSL lines and possibly CFL lamps 29-1-11 14374.7 Shoreline radio 0804 with old rocks . OM IDed many times on 0805. Again ID on 0817 followed with song from Deep Purple Signal max S3 15433 12265 Space shuttle 0812 with lively music (tango? Waltz? ) Max signal S2 but most time under the local DSL QRN R Scotland on 15090 was not audible on 21xx 30-1-11 Vacant frequencies were of Shoreline 14374 , Mike radio 13900 and possibly WRI 12256 Remain stations heeard: F R Nova 15068.4 on 0706 has been heard with old songs and signal S2 Better on 0822 with signal 15342 ??? WR International on 12256 on 0719 was probably not audible or just sub marginal under the strong local QRN Space Shuttle on 12264.7 AM was audible after 0838 with S2 level max S3 1-2/5332 Heard a rock song Old Time Radio on 15008.9 was very poor on 08xx though several times could be heard marginally Blue Star supposedly was heard on 14500 and on 0755 with a sub marginal signal R Scotland on 15052 found on 0757 with a carrier of S3-4 . ON 0802 was airing the song 'call me' of Blondie , then OM with talks calling Japan then with old song "I wonder' S4 max 25434 The station with the strongest signal Baltic Sea radio on 14350 U on 0818 with ID email and talks S0 15332Best signal using the 16 horizontal antenna and also !!! (not included in the listing) Cupid radio 15074.9 .Duno if he was transmitting for the occasion but he was quite well audible audible as with the previous tuimes I logged him. He supposedly started on 0900 but i tuned in, on 0912 with ID and old song ,and signal level S3 max Audio clips of the above receptions of 30-1 can be found in this link (it is directory) http://www.mediafire.com/?beyi2489oi2fcStandard rig : ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser Please read and distribute this 15 year research article http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd ________________________ http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE http://www.delicious.com/gr_greek1/@zach (all mypages !!) ........ Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece greekdx @ otenet dot gr --- Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108, Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000 Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:35:26 +1100 From: John <jkecs...@internode.on.net> To: a...@kaynou.de Cc: hard-core-dx <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com> Subject: Re: [HCDX] Media event: Number 1000 of BC-DX TopNews is published Message-ID: <1bmbk69ibraue5ceb065s4068e620r1...@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:27:43 +0100, you wrote: > >Today the internationally well-known Wolfgang B?schel from Stuttgart, >Germany, has published the Number 1000, Number One Thousand, of his BC-DX >TopNews. > >On this occasion, the AGDX, that is the umbrella organisation of German >speaking DX clubs, and where myself currently being the President, wanted >to honour Wolfgang for his persistent and exceptional contribution, also >beyond the BC-DX TopNews, which includes contributions to various >magazines, mailing lists (also this one, HCDX), and also amateur radio >band monitoring against intruders. > >The AGDX Board has agreed to award the status of Honorary Member to >Wolfgang. > >We all are very thankful for his quality contibutions over the many years, >and we wish him continuing achievements and fun. > >Anton, AGDX President (www.agdx.de) >Munich, Germany Very pleased to hear this, very well deserve it John ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:45:19 -0800 (PST) From: Ralph Perry <ralphpe...@yahoo.com> To: undisclosed recipients: ; Subject: [HCDX] DX LOGS - Ralph Perry 1/31 Message-ID: <503048.3220...@web39705.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii DJIBOUTI: 4780, Djibouti *0300-0330+ 1/31, thanks to all who suggested this (Don, Fergy, others). Heard tonight from 0250 open carrier, orchl NA at 0300 f/by repeating IS of flute and what seemed like fiddle-type instrument. Into Islamic morning Call to Prayer at 0301.28-0317 (long form!). Then OM narration or news in AA to 0332, when mx show opened. Modern, western influenced, pop-sounding AA recording featuring organ, base, flute and mixed group of singers. S9+++ at 0335 tune out. (R Perry, Illinois) COSTA RICA: 5954.24, Radio Republica, Guapiles. Turns out my unid indeed is Radio Republica, the station targeting bcsts to Cuba from xmtrs reportedly in Guapiles, Costa Rica. Heard 0236-0256 on 1/31, deep fades, and lucked out with nice recorded ID by YL at peak of fade cycle at 0238: "Esta es Radio Republica, La Voz del Pueblo . . . nuestro programa 'Sorprisa Musical' . . . la mejor de musica . . ." and then a snippet from Queen's "We Will Rock You" as part of the theme. Into program of hot merengue dance music and pops. At 0249 again, "....un lugar con la mejor de musica . . . Radio Republica . . .". At 0255, the sound of a fax machine and then words said in English, haltingly, "World Wide Web". Sig was on bottom of a fade cycle, but could hear a URL was being given, couldn't read it. Fqy anmt too, "en la banda de 49 metros". (R Perry, Illinois) ---------------------- Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois Drake R8B; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100; Knightkit Star Roamer Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 Longwire ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:47:49 +0200 From: "Matti Ponkamo" <matt...@luukku.com> To: <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com> Subject: [HCDX] Iran on MW (Jan 29, 2011) Message-ID: <829C90613DDD4AD7A213AB2BFEE1C9AB@oskariad.local> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original In farsi on 1359 kHz, at 1800 UTC and on. Tentative, because I did not get any ID (very weak signal, deep fades), but most probably IRIB/Darab as per language. 73 de Matti Ponkamo, Naantali, Finland (Loc.: KP10AK18; IC-718, dipole) End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 97, Issue 31 ********************************************