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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. Friday Morn DX, (Charles Bolland) 2. Glenn Hauser logs February 3-4, 2011 (Glenn Hauser) 3. DX Listening Digest 11-05; World of Radio 1550 (Glenn Hauser) 4. Unbelievable auroral condx (Mirela Chiochiu) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 12:17:51 -0000 From: "Charles Bolland" <ka4...@peoplepc.com> To: "ALF" <alf.e.pers...@telia.com>, "Arnaldo slaen" <sl...@ciudad.com.ar>, "Bob Wilkner" <r...@earthlink.net>, "brainman214" <brainman...@gmail.com>,Carlos GonA?alves<carlos-rel...@sapo.pt>, "Cumbre" <cumbr...@n2jeu.net>, "'DSWCI'" <l...@dxer.de>, "Gayle Van Horn" <gaylevanh...@monitoringtimes.com>, "Glenn Hauser" <wghau...@yahoo.com>, "Hard-core-dx" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, "Marie Lamb" <mal...@cumbredx.org> Subject: [HCDX] Friday Morn DX, Message-ID: <!&!AAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAAMcpx2KDL2JFmEyXbvynxonCgAAAEAAAAAe6V7mLC3pElX43ir3U+RABAAAAAA==@peoplepc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Indonesia, 4749.978, RRI Makassar, Tentative, 1030-1045, Noted a male in Islamic type reciting until 1034 when a female talks in Indonesian language. After she comments, a brief interlude of music is heard, then more comments. At 1036 a male converses with the female. Signal was poor and muffled. As I decided to tune away, I notice a second signal on 4750.030 starting to fade in, but it's still too weak to copy anything. (Chuck Bolland, February 4, 2011) Micronesia, 4755.452, Cross Radio,Tentative, 1044-1055, Noted a weak signal here with possibly religious singing? Signal still needs time to reach it's peak fade in time. At 1046, believe a female commented briefly. Rechecked this at 1145, and the signal had improved to a poor level while music was heard. (Chuck Bolland, February 4, 2011) Peru, 4774.959, Radio Tarma, 1048-1100, Brief Spanish language comments at tune in which was followed with Huaynos music. Signal remained at a fair level during this period. (Chuck Bolland, February 4, 2011) Brazil, 4865.041, Radio Verdes Florestas, 1103-1115, Principly noted a male in Portuguese language comments until about 1108 when a female comments in Portuguese. At 1113 the male returns with comments. This is the only signal on or near this frequency at the present time. I suppose the other Brazilian stations and Radio Logos are all "Sleepy Heads". (Chuck Bolland, February 4, 2011) Peru, 4955.006, Radio Cultura Amauta, 1117-1130 Yes with the best signal on the band, noted a male and female in what sounded like serious Spanish comments. Heard the male mention "Amauta" here and there during his comments. This sounds like a news program with reports being presented by other anouncers. After listening for awhile, "Amauta and Peru" are mentioned rather often. And as mentioned above, the signal is good. (Chuck Bolland, February 4, 2011) Peru, 4986.385, Radio Manantial, Tent, 1125-1150, Noted a fair signal at tune in with a female in Spanish Language comments. From her tone, she sounded as if she were giving a religious discourse, which continued during the period. Tried to find some backup information on this. Ran a search for DXLD, but Google rejected me. I'm use to it. Checked out AOKI's database and Manantial was listed on 4991 KHz. Next I looked at EIBI and Manantial was listed on 4986 KHz. Signal was fair to threshold during the period. (Chuck Bolland, February 4, 2011) Papua New Guinea, 3325.008, Radio Buka,Tent, 1150-1200, Noted a thresholds signal here which is better than usual. Most of the time just a carrier is heard on this freq at my location. With that in mind, noted a male and female talking together. Couldn't identify the language 100 percent, but my best guess is Pidgin. At 1200 some bridge music and more comments by a female. And as mentioned, the signal is threshold. (Chuck Bolland, February 4, 2011) WR-G31DDC 26N 081W Note: If I were to put a value on the work I've done this morning, I would say I earned at least $500.00 and that's for only an hour or so. Relax, I am just joking around. Conditions were good this morning compared to the usual conditions I notice here in my area and I was able to turn on the receiver a little earlier than I normally do. So in the list of loggings above, there are three(3) stations that I haven't reported before. Things are looking up. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 09:59:37 -0800 (PST) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 3-4, 2011 Message-ID: <852481.87184...@web114020.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** AUSTRALIA. 6080, Feb 4 at 1352, RA still with special relay of ABC Local Radio Queensland service, no longer an anchorette but an anchor, taking a call from Matt in Mackay while main RA on 6020 was back to `Football Weekly`. Mark Fahey in NSW says SW radios are extremely scarce in Australia and wonders how many Queenslanders are axually listening to this service? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. For the past few nights, RHC has been partially or totally missing after 0700 UT, leading us to suspect that they have done away with all-night broadcasts. See previous reports. Feb 4 at 0704 UT, all RHC Spanish frequencies are gone from 6 MHz, as well as 5040. I had noted that 6150 only was on a bit past 0700. Some schedule changes have definitely been made with frequencies formerly closing at 1500 still on at 1535 Feb 4: 13780, 13680, // 15360, 11760, 11730. New schedule posted on RHC website is in the usual confusing format, http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/c_frecuencia/frecuencias.htm so I have redone it in time order for the mainstream Spanish broadcasts, showing no longer on the air at all between 06 and 12 UT or 16 and 22, ending the 24-hour service which began a sesquiyear ago with the Honduran coup, the programming content of which was never published, but repeating earlier blox. Being completely off the air mid-day (well, until 1900 when Venezuela and foreign languages begin), also may be necessary for installing alleged new transmitters, antennas? Here is the Spanish schedule, unscrambled by time block: 12-13 6000 6095 6150 12-16 15230 15360 12040 11760 6140 11690 13-16 13780 13680 11730 22-24 5040 11770 9820 22-05 6140 22-06 12040 12010 00-05 11760 9770 00-06 15230 6120 02-06 5040 And here by time block with frequencies in order, combined between changeover times: 12-13 6000 6095 6140 6150 11690 11760 12040 15230 15360 13-16 6140 11690 11730 11760 12040 13680 13780 15230 15360 22-24 5040 6140 9820 11770 12010 12040 00-02 6120 6140 9770 11760 12010 12040 15230 02-05 5040 6120 6140 9770 11760 12010 12040 15230 05-06 5040 6120 12010 12040 15230 The separate `Mesa Redonda` program remains: 23-01 on 6000, 9640. Axually times vary somewhat and not necessarily on the air every day. Morning broadcasts include plugs for it with topic and start time. Al?, Presidente schedule has not been changed: Sundays 1400- on 11690, 13680, 13750, 15370, 17750 This inevitably means that on Sundays only some of the frequencies shown for mainstream at 1400 are off the air: 12040, 13780 at least, but RHC never gets down to such insignificant details in published schedules. Most of the time, it`s no-show Hugazo, so RHC programming continues on these frequencies. I had notified Manolo de la Rosa that I heard his DX program `En Contacto` at 0730 UT Monday, but that`s gone, as well as the other just-discovered repeat which he says was around 2005 Sundays. So it`s back to only three airings, Sun 1435, 2240v, Mon 0135. He forwarded this notice from management: ``Estimados oyentes: A partir del primero de febrero de 2011 se har?n ajustes a la programaci?n de Radio Habana Cuba. Por tal motivo desde esa fecha no saldr? al aire la revista Nuestra Am?rica, que se transmite de 1 a 3 de la tarde de lunes a s?bado. Tambi?n la revista Iberoamericana ajustar? su horario, y comenzar? a las cinco de la tarde con una duraci?n de 120 minutos. El resto de la programaci?n se mantiene sin cambios. Los domingos se mantendr? la programaci?n habitual de 7 a 11 de la ma?ana y de 5 de la tarde a la una de la madrugada del lunes. La direcci?n general de Radio Habana Cuba agradece su comprensi?n.`` That`s in local time of UT -5, but will there be one-hour adjustments when DST of UT -4 starts March 13 in order to stay in step with enemy #1, the USA, in its absurd scheduling of clock-shifting? I don`t see any significant changes on the new schedule concerning broadcasts in English or other languages. 6050 is still listed for English at 01-05, but at least HCJB has it back in the mornings. You may want to consult the link above if you care about nominal target areas. Unfortunately, this new RHC schedule came a bit too late to be included in the just published WRTH update: http://www.wrth.com/files/WRTH2011IntRadioSuppl1_B10SchedulesUpdate.pdf (Glenn Hauser, OK, Feb 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 4750-, Feb 4 at 1344, some music audible, presumed RRI Makassar, as this was slightly low in frequency as reported elsewhere; with BFO on it seems the carrier is slightly unstable too. Have others noticed that? Also carriers and some audio on 3325 and 3345, the only two active 90m Indonesians per http://rri.jpn.org/ i.e. Palangkaraya and Ternate respectively (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9525-, VOI, Feb 4 at 1405 in Indonesian news, some hum, and undermodulated. At http://rri.jpn.org/ Atsunori Ishida reports that this frequency has become unstable, sometimes also on 9526-, with spurs: Feb 2: 9526 kHz *1607-1700- 1607 (AA), 1700 SS. The modulation was bad, and oscillating some spurious signals. Screen Shot of Perseus: http://ruri-hp.sakura.ne.jp/sblo_files/ruri-blog/img_2011/09526-110202-1700.gif (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. 3480, Feb 4 at 1337, triumphal choral music, fair signal, and no het audible. Presumably [North] Korean National Democratic Front relaying PBS, rather than its nemesis Voice of the People, from the South. Could have been on 3481 as listed by Aoki; did not nail down the frequency. Much better signal here than on 2850 from KCBS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9385, Brother Scare via WWRB, Feb 3 at 2155 as I tuned past was listing countries in alfabetical order, apparently 120 of them from which he claims to have received DX reports (and therefore considers himself greatly influential worldwide). He stumbled over a lot of the names, which I found extremely amusing. He tried to pronounce Macedonia about a semidozen times and never got it right. BS may be the Last Day Prophet of God, but the deity did not see fit to bless him with a basic education --- or a nice radio voice (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 7235 via TINIAN, VOA Korean, Feb 4 at 1359: now I cannot say that VOA never plays a note of classical music. Several notes were played for about half a minute before news on the hour, from a flute concerto, just as Matilda was starting to waltz on 7240. Preceding, there was a m?lange of show tunes with Korean commentary, and before that an Obama clip (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1550 monitoring: 2200 Thursday Feb 3 on 9955, nothing but jamming audible; tnx a lot, Arnie! Confirmed UT Friday Feb 4 after 0430, VG on WWRB 3185 and webcast; Friday 1530+ on WRMI 9955 poor with SAH from Taiwan, no jamming except bleedover from 9965. Also confirmed after 1600 Feb 4 on 2-hourly Friday repeats from ACB Radio Mainstream webcast. Next SW chances on WWCR: Friday 2130 on 7465, Saturday 1700 on 12160, Sunday 0730 on 3215. The Feb WWCR program schedule still shows only these three airings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 3210, Feb 4 at 1338, I am able to detect a JBA carrier, so will like to think it`s the new low-power no-name NSW station, and will be interested to see if others report it on the air at this time. 90m conditions were better than usual with carriers and some audio from Indonesia/PNG on 3325, 3345, 3365 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 16:55:42 -0800 (PST) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] DX Listening Digest 11-05; World of Radio 1550 Message-ID: <321945.31200...@web114007.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii DX Listening Digest 11-05 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/dxld1105.txt CONTENTS: WOR 1550 / ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS / ANGUILLA +non / ANTARCTICA / ARGENTINA / ARMENIA / AUSTRALIA Symban / AUSTRALIA 3210/5050 / AUSTRALIA RA/ABC / AUSTRIA / AZERBAIJAN / BANGLADESH / BENIN / BOLIVIA / BONAIRE / BRAZIL / BULGARIA / BURMA non / CANADA CBC / CANADA +non CKLN/CHUO / CANADA CARN-FM / CANADA CKPK/CFRO/CIOC / CANADA CFRX / CANADA non BVB / CHAD / CHINA +non / COLOMBIA / CONGO DR / COSTA RICA / CUBA +non / CYPRUS +non / CZECHIA +non / DJIBOUTI / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC / ECUADOR / EGYPT +non ham+ / EL SALVADOR / EQUATORIAL GUINEA / ERITREA / ETHIOPIA / EUROPE Pirates / FRANCE / GABON / GERMANY +non / GREECE / GREENLAND / GUAM +non / GUATEMALA / GUIANA FRENCH / HONDURAS / INDIA +non / INDONESIA / INTERNATIONAL Babcock B10 / INTERNATIONAL SWBC / IRAN / IRELAND +non / ISRAEL / ITALY non / JAPAN / JORDAN / KASHMIR non / KAZAKHSTAN / KOREA NORTH +non / KURDISTAN non / KUWAIT / LAOS / LIBYA / MALAYSIA/SARAWAK / MEXICO / MICRONESIA / MONACO non / MONGOLIA / MYANMAR / NETHERLANDS +non / NEWFOUNDLAND / NEW ZEALAND / NIGER / NIGERIA non / NORTH AMERICA Pirates / OKLAHOMA KRMG / OKLAHOMA KGWA / OKLAHOMA KTOK / OKLAHOMA KRVT/KZLI/KXTD / OKLAHOMA WQCL720 / OKLAHOMA WECS/GCN / OKLAHOMA KTUZ / OKLAHOMA KOKH / OKLAHOMA KFOR/Antenna TV / OKLAHOMA Pegasys / OKLAHOMA OETA/OKLA / OMAN / PAKISTAN / PALAU / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PERU / PHILIPPINES / POLAND non / PRIDNESTROVYE / QATAR +non / ROMANIA / RUSSIA +non / RWANDA / SAIPAN +non / SARAWAK non / SAUDI ARABIA +non / SERBIA / SIKKIM / SLOVAKIA / SLOVENIA / SOLOMON ISLANDS / SOMALIA non / SOUTH AFRICA / SPAIN +non / SUDAN non / SURINAME / SWAZILAND / SWEDEN non / SWITZERLAND / TAIWAN / TUNISIA / TURKEY / UGANDA +non / UKRAINE / UAE / UK IBRA/DW / UK +non BBCWN / UK +non BBCWS/UK International / USA +non VOA / USA +non AFN / USA Stinson SW / USA WTWW / USA +non WOR/WRMI/WWRB/WWCR/ACBRM/WBCQ/IRRS / USA WRMI / USA +non WBCQ / USA WEWN / USA WINB / USA KJES / USA WYFR / USA WSBA / USA KOA/WAIT / USA KUDL+ / USA WPNI+ / USA KDNT / USA KMYN/KABR / USA KRND / USA KHPY / USA KGED / USA WPRR / USA 1690 Pinellas / USA FCC/TIS / USA LPTV/Franken FM / USA Public Radio/KUNM / USA WSMR/WUSF / USA WNKU+ / USA +non Al Jazeera / URUGUAY / VANUATU / VATICAN +non / WESTERN SAHARA non / ZAMBIA / ZANZIBAR / ZIMBABWE non / UNIDENTIFIED 1190 / UNIDENTIFIED 1600 / UNIDENTIFIED 3819 ham / UNIDENTIFIED non 4780 / UNIDENTIFIED 4873 / UNIDENTIFIED 5010 / UNIDENTIFIED 5825 / UNIDENTIFIED 5954 / UNIDENTIFIED 6060 / UNIDENTIFIED 6074 / UNIDENTIFIED 6730 / UNIDENTIFIED 7039 / UNIDENTIFIED 7534 / UNIDENTIFIED 11540 / UNIDENTIFIED 12359 / UNIDENTIFIED 15209 / TESTIMONIALS / PUBLICATIONS / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / PROPAGATION For restrixions and searchable 2011 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html For restrixions and searchable 2010 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid0.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 WORLD OF RADIO 1550 headlines: *DX and station news about: Australia, Burma non, Canada, China, Congo DR, Cuba, Cyprus non, Czechia, Ecuador non, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Greenland, Iran, Italy non, Mexico, Micronesia, Nigeria non, Russia, Solomon Islands, Sweden non, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, USA, Vanuatu SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1550, February 3-9, 2011 Thu 1600 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 2000 WBCQ 7415 [confirmed] Thu 2200 WRMI 9955 [jammed] Fri 0430 WWRB 3185 [confirmed] Fri 1530 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Fri 2130 WWCR1 7465 [confirmed] Sat 0900 WRMI 9955 Sat 1500 WRMI 9955 Sat 1700 WWCR2 12160 Sat 1830 WRMI 9955 Sat 1900 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 6090 Sun 0730 WWCR1 3215 Sun 0900 WRMI 9955 Sun 1630 WRMI 9955 Sun 1830 WRMI 9955 Mon 1230 WRMI 9955 Mon 2230 WRMI 9955 [NEW] Tue 1630 WRMI 9955 Tue 2000 WBCQ 7415 Wed 0200 WRMI 9955 [NEW] Wed 1630 WRMI 9955 Wed 2000 WBCQ 7415 Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 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://193.42.152.193/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24 WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN: http://www.wrn.org/wrn-listeners/world-of-radio/ http://www.wrn.org/listeners/world-of-radio/rss/09:00:00UTC/English/541 OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org Best DX wishes, Glenn Hauser ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:09:45 -0500 From: Mirela Chiochiu <a...@videotron.ca> To: latinm...@yahoogroups.com, hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Cc: a...@yahoogroups.com, 23 24 <scorned__an...@hotmail.com> Subject: [HCDX] Unbelievable auroral condx Message-ID: <1BA1D084BA754C29A8A368CDB853EF44@MirelaPC> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Warm greetings |! Huge opening to South America including andean pop music on 1070 AM badly jammed by WTIC-1080 Stalinist jammer, YVRQ and Cadena Agramonte fighting on 910 AM and several in the 800s including at least two Latins on 860 in null of aurora weakened CJBC-860 Toronto... One of them is LA Q, obvbiously not XEQ which is on 940... May the good DX be with you ! Conditions are way above average almost spectacular....something I haven`t seen since December of 2006... Bogdan Chiochiu QTH: Pierrefonds or Montreal, PQ End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 98, Issue 5 *******************************************