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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. DX LOGS - Ralph Perry - 12 Feb (Ralph Perry) 2. Logs 11+12/2 (Zacharias Liangas ) 3. Feb. 08-12 logs (L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec) 4. Glenn Hauser logs Feb 11-12, 2011 (Glenn Hauser) 5. *WIN* Pirate Radio DVD Competition (Radio Heritage Mail) 6. Feb 12 Logs (brian384...@aol.com) 7. Glenn Hauser logs February 12-13, 2011 (Glenn Hauser) 8. Logs (Manuel M?ndez) 9. cupid is going dx again towards the east now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Cupido Radio) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 06:30:44 -0800 (PST) From: Ralph Perry <ralphpe...@yahoo.com> To: cumbr...@jumbo.ralabs.com Subject: [HCDX] DX LOGS - Ralph Perry - 12 Feb Message-ID: <580230.95673...@web39705.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CHAD - 6165, Radiodiffusion Nationale Tchadienne, N'djamena, good signal 2150-2215 2/7, pleasant African rhythms to 2200 nx and commentary show in FF by OM, with remote feeds by YL and others. Gone at 2245 recheck. Slated to s/off daily 2230* except weekends when it runs to 2300*. (R Perry, Illinois) ECUADOR - 4814.98, R. El Buen Pastor, 1050-1110, decent signal and in the clear on 2/5 (ute missing) but noisy. Upbeat nondescript music to 1052 when quick theme burst and OM on top, "Radio El Buen Pastor, nuestro programa esta manana . . ." t/ck and fqy quote. Into what sounded like brief rlg tlk, mtning "El Senor . . . Dios . . ." and then MOR orchls at 1102 with another ID over. (R Perry, Illinois) INDIA - 6155, Bangalore, noting this 2/10 and 2/11 with good signal and in the clear, early local evenings. A bit unusual to hear the subcontinent in Illinois at this time, although a darkness short path exists. On 2/11, fqy clear when carrier switched on 0012 and 0015 YL abruptly speaking. Believe this is the Urdu domestic service. 0015.30, chanting by OM, sound like Islamic call to prayer (interesting to hear this on an India xmtr, but a reminder that about 15% of Bangalore population is indeed Muslim). 0021 OM in Urdu and then into subcontinental music. YL singer with subcontinental combo featuring sitar, tabla, etc. Segued to 0029 t/o. Same pattern pgming heard prior day, when noting call to prayer already in progress at 0018, the 0021 anmt and then into Hindi music. Nice signal and just a lot of fun to hear this. Armchair level signal at the top of fade-ins. (R Perry, Illinois). GUYANA - GBS Georgetown noted 0920 past 0950 2/12, deep fades, OM ancr in EE with instl mx. (R Perry, Illinois) BRAZIL - 4885, R. Clube do Para, best signal in the band 0935 on 2/12, booming in at 0935 with OM ancr in P giving ID ("Radio Clube do Para, muito bom dia! . . . na faixa de 60 metros . . ." and fqy quote over musical backdrop. Same day, at 0940 on 4915 Anhanguera presumed, OM PP tlk and mx, but lower sig. Also an unid Brazilian on 4865 at 1015. (R Perry, Illinois) CHINA - 6030, China National Radio 1, fine signal 1305 2/12 with what sounded a lot like a Lion Dance performance with clanging symbols, drumming. Into local folk music by small band with local kazoo-like horns, drumming, etc. Seemed live performance. Wonderful listening, nice to play inthe background while typing, etc. (R Perry, Illinois) ----------------------------------------- Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois Drake R8B; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100; Knightkit Star Roamer Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 Longwire ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:39:11 +0200 From: "Zacharias Liangas " <gree...@otenet.gr> To: <> Subject: [HCDX] Logs 11+12/2 Message-ID: <4d56b7af.10366.295...@greekdx.otenet.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Stations logged with the help of the latest 4 DX Mix news (that includes relays via Babcock ) http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/332 9975 Nihon no Kaze 1515 talk in Korean, sometimes with talks from Japanese ppl followed by Korean translation 35433 21840 (from ASC and S20 ) //9895 (via DHA and S6 with delay abt 0.1 sec) WYFR 1521 with some phone ins 1528 with IS/ID address etc Polish radio 11905 (S20 44444) //15245 (S10 in sync with 11905 ,1530*) with talks , a song , IS 7295 Traxx FM?? 1533 with S6 but reception was as 45534!! . A sudden carrier intruder on 1534 with S9 did a signal copy of 42xx2 . advert on 1536 new tune in 1555 with talk s in Eng (still under the carrier intruder poss. CRI ) 9965 Nihon no Kaze 1538 with talks by OM in Korean YL 1557 spelling letters , with a background music and web addresses 5760 RF Chosun 1540 with talks by OM in KO QRMEd by a spike and white noise S9 17745 Sudan R Service 1548 with talks /disc'ns in AR , ID by YL then AR msx S7 45544 17770 R Canada Africa???? 1551 with hilife songs ID by OM in Arabic with new ID R C Afr then with a LA/hilife song S6 35333 S off 1559 9960 Bar Kulan 1602 OM with ID , a short Quranic verse then OM with talks in Somali and Arabic 'uork bar kulan ' then YL with talks , some mentioned 'rresha, mreka ' S8 435x3 9965 R A 1605 with talks news in CC S9 9940 FEBA 1608 in Amharic 1608 with talks HOA song and back to talks S3 max best in AM N 9950 AIR 1612 with 'modern' Bollywood pop hits (90s and then song 'its magic' ) S9 434x3 6240 V of Martyrs 1615 YL mentioning Jesus Christ , a gong , OM with talk in a very serious style , another OM with talk in a dramatized way . Some background music and people from crowd S10 445x4 7195 supposedly V of Broad masses 2 ? 1618 with HoA music and talks in Amharic or Eritrean New tune in 1727 with S7 signal and HoA songs 9840 Sudan RS 1731 with ID short music gap then again YL with ID then news S7 35343 11785 IBRA Swahili 1735 with a Hindi music style hilife song S20 4880 SWR Africa 1755 under Mossad station and 1803 with YL talking in Eng ,a and several mentions of ZWE S8 34332 4895 ZWE community radio 1806 OM wih talks , relatively poor modulation over a quite noisy background S6 24232 7480 Payam E Dhoost 1810 with a traditional Kurdish style song , YL in Farsi with talks , hymn 1811 then talks by OM S7 334x3 5955 VoVietnam via MOS (?) with English program 1816 man with talks in Vietnamese which was translated into English 1820 a ballad song S30!!! 11740 Damal 1833 OM with ID "damal ... Somaliyeed ' and mentioning MHz meter band 1835 with nasyid song S40 (55555) Another man with with a Muslim program but audio has 'mike-buzz' 5780 Ashna Radio (via KWT ) 1854 with phone in OM speaking a poem then song then s off S9 max /S4 local QRN level 9430 for Dardasha radio 1901 there is a strong QRM from R Liberty that mostly wipes them out . Around S5 for Dardarsha and S7-9 for Liberty 9965 Farda 1914 Persian pop song , ID then an English song S7 35433 12-2 6045 KBS 0735 talkz in Korean S10 15205 FEBA in Urdu 0810 S4 , 25333 15220 FEBA in Arabic 0804 with S5Standard 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: 3 Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:09:11 -0200 From: L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec <eefi...@yahoo.com.br> To: <Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com>, <cumbr...@n2jeu.net>, <playdx2...@yahoogroups.com>, <d...@yahoogroups.com>, <g...@apple.email.ne.jp>, "Anker Petersen" <anker.peter...@mail.dk>, <worldbandra...@yahoogroups.com> Subject: [HCDX] Feb. 08-12 logs Message-ID: <003001cbcacf$c0b1f440$0a055dc9@home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 4828, Voice of Zimbabwe, Gweru. February, 08 2154-2217 African music ( xylophone-like and voice), male in an uncertain language, back same kind of music, female in English talks segment, N. A., at 2217 audio off. Progressive enhacement, 23322 (lob-B). 7260, R. Vanuatu, Port Vila. February, 09 0830-0839 studio female and male in English discussion with male outside; // 3945, 23332. February, 12 0839-0853 female in an uncertain language talks, local music. // 3945, 34333 (lob-B). 4796, Bolivia, R. L?pez, Uyuni. February, 09 0843-0852 local Pop, Bolero style music selections, many canned ID by female on music "stay escuchando R. L?pez". Strong, 34333 (lob-B). 5020, Solomon Islands BC, Honiara. February, 10 0838-0848 non stop female in an uncertain language (English or Tok Pisin?) talks. 23422, (lob-B). 9710, R. Australia, Shepparton. February, 10 0859-0910 Tok Pisin (listed) instrumental music sounding like an I.S., male and female talks, "R. Australia", old English Pop music of 90's. 34433, (lob-B). 15476, Antarctica, RN San Gabriel. 2/11 at 1420 and 1903, no signal from Antarctica, (lob-B). 3945, Japan, R. Nikkei 2, Chiba-Nagara. February, 12 0828-0839 English Pop music selections. Sometimes in a battle agaisnt Vanuatu, 22332 (lob-B). 73's L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec Embu SP Brasil SW40 - Dipoles and Longwire ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 09:56:58 -0800 (PST) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs Feb 11-12, 2011 Message-ID: <832345.85523...@web114001.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** ANTARCTICA. More on anticipated reactivation of LRA36, 15476: Re: ``broadcasting will be resumed on February 25, i.e. another Friday, which seems odd instead of a Monday, assuming they will resume being M-F only at 12-15`` The staff will be at Base Esperanza that week; they hope to resume broadcasting as soon as possible, most probably on February 25 (Roberto Scaglione, http://www.bclnews.it http://www.siciliamedia.it DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [non]. 13635, Feb 12 at 1438, North-American accented screaming gospel huxter in English, not noticed here before. Per Aoki, that`s because this semihour is Saturdays only, Bible Voice via Issoudun, FRANCE, 250 kW, 83 degrees; also maybe on Sundays at 1345-1430; Aoki says 1345-1415 first Sunday, and 1415-1430 as of Nov 7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. Unreliable relays: see CUBA; MALI ** CUBA [and non]. 6010, RHC English missing from this scheduled frequency, Feb 12 at 0650, but still going on 6050, 6060 and 6150, which are plenty, leaving 6010 to the Mexicans and Colombians. At 0700 check, 6050 and 6060 are already off, but 6150 has switched to Spanish for RHC ID and IS, starting some music but then cut off at 0701:20* leaving 49m blissfully free of CubaRM!! Except for the DentroCuban Jamming Command, of course, circa 5955, 5980, 6030. And those super-signal spy numbers below 5900. 13740, CRI English relay via Cuba is missing, Feb 12 at 1446. It was on a few minutes before as I tuned across. Next visit at 1519, is back on. RHC`s new reduced schedule in Spanish continues to be only a rough guide to what the RadioCuba transmitter operators really do: 15120 scheduled until 1500 is often off long before then, as Feb 12; 13680, scheduled until 1600, was gone at 1525 check Feb 12, allowing R. Farda music via Wertachtal to come thru clearly // weaker 15410 via Skelton, while Cuba continued on 13780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CYPRUS. 15840-15865, OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here, Feb 12 at 1532, safely outside the extended to 15825 SWBC band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUINEA. 7125, RTG reactivated a few days ago after a semiyear, gone again Feb 12 at 0653, 0702 chex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI in Indonesian, Feb 12 at 1430, VG with hum, few IADs, ``dari Suara Indonesia di Jakarta`` ID in passing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [and non]. The OETA OKLA .2 channel carries NHK Newsline M-F at 1700-1730 UT. Feb 11, one hour after Mubarak`s resignation was announced everywhere else, NHK is running stale barely-comprehensible mangled English analysis by `experts` in studio of what happened yesterday, blissfully unaware of what happened 60 minutes before. I had always thought this was a live feed. OETA told me it is coming over from NHK at the time they air it (unlike BBC at 2230 UT, delayed one sesquihour, also painfully obvious during breaking news from Egypt lately). Then it turns out that NHK has only 10 minutes of news, the rest documentary filler, so it must be another holiday for them, with the `news` hole pre-recorded, at least today, before momentous events in Egypt. So much for NHK`s commitment to world news (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI. 17630, Feb 12 at 1445, CRI relay, weak carrier, but I can tell it is not pumping or shifting like it was 24 hours earlier. By 1536 is strong enough to // 13740 via Cuba in English, and a couple words ahead of 13740 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO. 15341v, Feb 12 at 1533, RTM has still not shifted up to 15345, nominally happening at 1500. If only they would stay on 15341 all day, away from Argentina, which is incapable of anything beyond minor variations. Let`s hope their new transmitter will be frequency-agile and enjoy smart management (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 7275, after not hearing Guinea on 7125, tuned up to here at 0654 Feb 12, and found S9+13 carrier, but just barely modulated with vocal music, presumably R. Nigeria, Abuja, as TUNISIA`s clock-timer turns off 7275 at 0626* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. Three Tulsa MW frequencies are still simulcasting ``La Qu? Buena`` hyper-promoted mostly music format: original 1530 KXTD Wagoner, recently purchased 1270 KRVT Claremore, and bonus 1570 KZLI Catoosa, when checked Feb 11 at 2139 UT. Of course, 1530 is a daytimer, and 1570 daytimer + PSRA, so who cares about them? 1120, KEOR Sperry-Tulsa-Catoosa still off the air Feb 11 at 2141 UT, but a weak talk signal from presumed KMOX beginning to show. 1110, the frequency hijacked from the original KEOR in Atoka, SE OK near TX, so that The Metroplex could squeeze in yet another unneeded AM station, now KVTT, but is it really on the air with 50 kW? Feb 11 at 2139 I hear nothing but KFAB Omaha groundwave with that lunatic Glenn Beck as per schedule on delay. FCC shows KVTT 5-tower array does have a deep null at about 355 degrees almost toward us, but a minor lobe at 320, a bit of which might be audible http://www.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1390900-111898.pdf 780, KSPI Stillwater still has its perpetual plus and minus 4 kHz parasitic spurs obvious from hets on caradio stepping 770-780-790. Feb 11 at 2140 UT and anytime. 640, WWLS, Moore-Norman-OKC, whose IBOC comes and goes, had gone Feb 11 at 2142 UT, but that allowed excessive analog splatter instead at least plus/minus 10 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 9570, RVA Radio Blagovest still missing Feb 12 at 1516, while VOA 9760 was VG (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. Interesting to note how different frequencies from same site provide markedly different reception: 17705, BSKSA Arabic at 1448 Feb 12 is good with no flutter, while 17660 in French is fair with heavy flutter. 17895 Arabic is poor with flutter. Per HFCC, all are 500 kW from Riyadh; azimuths: 17660 270 17705 310 17895 295 310 is closest to USward, so naturally is best here. One might think 17660 was aimed more northerly to get disrupted by the auroral zone, but something else is causing this, aimed westward, apparently bothered by equatorial ionospheric bumpiness. 15435, later at 1520 is still buzzless, VG with lite flutter, Qur`an sung and spoken, // 17615 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 13810, via GERMANY, Feb 12 at 1441, Brother Scare is talking about some of his frequencies and remarx that ``next week, will be on 3185 all night long``. See U S A, WWRB for more (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 15209.3v, still hearing het on WYFR 15210, Feb 12 around 1450 when WYFR is in Portuguese, 1503 in English. This has finally been identified as YFR testing via the Ekala transmitter, so it`s Camping vs Camping! Wolfgang B?schel forwards another inquiry about this from Nils Schiffhauer, DK8OK on the A-DX list, who was getting 15209.36 in Hindi at 1525 Feb 12. Now the answer is in Aoki, unlike my previous chex: 15210 FAMILY RADIO 1330-1430 1234567 Marathi 300 350 Colombo-Ekala CLN 15210 FAMILY RADIO 1430-1530 1234567 Hindi 300 350 Colombo-Ekala CLN 15210 FAMILY RADIO 1530-1630 1234567 English 300 350 Colombo-Ekala CLN 07954E 0706N WYFR b10 Jan. 30 Altho this really started long before Jan 30. See DXLD 11-03: ```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 11-03)``` Since then I have kept hearing the het caused by 15209.3v vs 15210. So my `long shot` almost a month ago turns out to be correct. Wolfgang suggests maybe it really is on 15120, with 15209.33 being a spur from that; but I have yet to see any reports of YFR on 15120, and have never heard anything but Nigeria there after 1500. I`m sure South Asians could easily confirm whether anything from Sri Lanka is on 15120 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 3843-LSB, Feb 12 until 0639* UT a net is wrapping up with NCS K5TRM, until next Friday night. Mentions a website quickly but I can`t copy it. K5TRM is Tandy R. Martin, per QRZ.com. Apparently something to do with Mississippi? NO, Searching on him led to: Old Man International Sideband Society http://www.omiss.net/Facelift/index.php I guess YLs are not welcome here? Tell the EEOC. Details: ``OMISS OPERATES ON THE FOLLOWING FREQUENCIES AND TIMES, PLUS OR MINUS QRM AND PROPAGATION: Band Freq Day UT Net Coordinator 160M 1.865 MHz Sat & Sun ** * 0400 KA8MMI , Neil #4538 80M 3.942 MHz Daily 0200 KR2C , Kurt #5916 80M Late 3.942 MHz Sat & Sun ** * 0500 KR2C , Kurt #5916 40M 7.185 MHz Daily 0100 N4JTE , Bob #1440 40M Late 7.185 MHz Sat & Sun * 0300 N4JTE , Bob #1440 20M 14.290 MHz Daily 1830 KT7E , Joe, #6282 17M 18.165 MHz Sat & Sun * 1900 KA8III , Jim #5952 15M 21.360 MHz Sat & Sun * 1700 N7FUD , Ron #1914 10M 28.665 MHz Sat & Sun * 1800 ND8F , Homer # 774 * And Monday if it is a Legal Holiday, plus New Years Day, 4th of July, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. ** The Winter schedule will begin the last week-end in October and complete the 1st week-end in April. Days and times are in UTC. Nets that are Friday night local are displayed as Sat UTC. Net Control Stations Needed! Please contact K5TRM if you can help out once in a while or regularly.`` So they had shifted one kHz from nominal 3942 when I heard them. K5TRM`s photo is apparently in the lower right corner of this: http://www.omiss.net/Facelift/PhotoGallery/GenPhotoPage.php?Page=60 John Norfolk`s final Nets to You of four years ago had lots of OMISS entries but some on different frequencies then, and identified it as: OMISS: OM International Sideband Society. A Worked All States awards group. http://www.omiss.net/ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1551 monitoring: Sat Feb 12 from 1501 confirmed on WRMI 9955, weak with SAH from Taiwan and squeezed by adjacents such as 9960 VOA Uzbek via Tinian, but no jamming; however, at 1515 check, lite pulse jamming had attacked, but plenty considering weakness of WRMI. If WRMI ever gets its NW antenna back in service, that should be enough to overcome less than wall-of-noise jamming. Next WRMI airings are: Sat 1830, Sun 0900, 1630, 1830; Mon 1230, 2230; Tue 1630, Wed 0200, 1630. WOR 1551 also confirmed on 12160 WWCR, Sat Feb 12 at 1706. Final airing is Sunday 0730 on 3215. Will Martin heard WWRB announce just before the 0430 UT Friday airing of WORLD OF RADIO on 3185 that ``effective 14 Feb 2011, all WWRB programming on 3185 will be moved to 5050 kHz.`` So that nice-and-clear airing of WoR on Thursday nights (UT Friday) will henceforth be on 5050 instead (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SOUTH CAROLINA [non] ** U S A. Saturday mornings bring a double-dose of Martha Garvin`s Musical Memories, mostly hymns with her own piano accompaniment: Feb 12 after 1400 on 7490 with its heavily distorted audio processing; and after 1530 on 15825 with much better audio but weaker signal here, lacking any sporadic-E enhancement. At least OTH radar pulsing did not start until 15840, up to 15865. Current program schedule shows five more times for her (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Looking at my previous report that the website of KRVA-1600, The Metroplex was blank, I click on it again Feb 12 at 0505 UT: now it`s not blank, shows Mortensen Broadcasting, and antique logo for ``KRVA / AM 1600 / La Radio Viva`` plus ``Uploading content... Thank You.`` which I take to be a hollow promise, but will still check it again sometime. No linx on the homepage to anything else about KRVA, not a letter of Vietnamese. Kirk Allen says while in Houston he heard KRVA only in Vietnamese, except some English late at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 12:40:05 +1300 From: "Radio Heritage Mail" <i...@radioheritage.net> To: i...@radioheritage.net Subject: [HCDX] *WIN* Pirate Radio DVD Competition Message-ID: <380-22011261223405...@radioheritage.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Media Version Please also include in your current blog, online forum or your next published newsletter or magazine. Radio Heritage Foundation www.radioheritage.net Win Pirate Radio USA DVD Competition ____________________ The Radio Heritage Foundation announces its first competition for radio fans in 2011.....make sure you get your entry in fast to win a bonus Introductory Supporter package worth US$10 as well....... 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Portuguese announcements. Fair. Weak // 6010. (Brian Alexander, PA) ? ** ETHIOPIA. 9705, Radio Ethiopia, 2010-2100:25*, Feb 12, local Horn of Africa music. Amharic talk. Sign off with National Anthem at 2059. Fair. Weak QRM from a weak Niger 9704.99. (Brian Alexander, PA) ? ** KURDISTAN [non]. via UKRAINE. 11530, Denge Mezopotamya, 1425-1459:30*, Feb 12, local Kurdish music. Local vocals. Kurdish talk. Abrupt sign off during a speech. Fair to good. (Brian Alexander, PA) ? ** NIGER. 9704.99, LV du Sahel, 2100-2259:40*, Feb 12, weak but in the clear after Ethiopia signed off. Some occasional adjacent channel splatter. French talk. Variety of Euro-pop and Afro-pop music. Qur`an at 2255. Short flute IS at 2258 followed by National Anthem to sign off. (Brian Alexander, PA) ? ** SOMALIA [non]. via Dhabbaya, UAE. 11970, Radio Damal, *1930- 1940, Feb 12, s/on with Somali talk. Horn of Africa music. Weak. (Brian Alexander, PA) ? ** SOMALIA. [non]. via Woofferton, 11740, Radio Damal, 1908-1929:30*, Feb 12, Somali talk. Horn of Africa music. Abrupt sign off. Fair. (Brian Alexander, PA) ? ** SRI LANKA. 11905, Radio Sri Lanka-Radio Ceylon, *1530-1550, Feb 12, opening English ?Radio Sri Lanka? ID announcements and announcement as ?This is Radio Ceylon calling out to India?. English news at 1531. Local music at 1533. English and Hindi talk. Some oldies US pop music. Poor, mixing with Polish Radio. (Brian Alexander, PA) ? ** SUDAN [non]. via Sines, PORTUGAL. 17745, Sudan Radio Service, 1501-1530, Feb 12, tune-in to local string music. English IDs and into ?Lets Talk? program at 1502 with discussion about Southern Sudan politics. Only an open carrier at approximately 1526. Into Arabic at 1530. Good. (Brian Alexander, PA) ? ** UGANDA [non]. via FRANCE. 17725, Radio Y? Abaganda, *1700- 1715*, Feb 12, sign on with local choral music. Talk at 1704 in local language with mentions of Baganda and Uganda. Abrupt sign off. Sat only. Good signal but began mixing with an unidentified station at 1714 at equal level with lite instrumental music and Afro-pop music past 1730. (Brian Alexander, PA) ? ? Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 18:32:11 -0800 (PST) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 12-13, 2011 Message-ID: <449282.64362...@web114010.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 ** ARGENTINA. 15344.7, approx. frequency for R. Nacional with sports coverage, Feb 12 at 2248, VP with fading; checked this for comparison after hearing 15190 Brazil [q.v.] and they were about the same. Could not uncover anything on 13363 tnx to bubble jamming from a cable DTV box. Later in the next hour 15344.7 had improved a bit (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 15525, Feb 12 at 2352, fair signal with violin/piano music, quite like that on NHK 17605 (see JAPAN [non]) but not //. 2356 Chinese announcement. Uplooked later, 15525 is HCJB Australia, 100 kW, 340 degrees, HFCC registered as 2200-2230 English, 2230-2430 Chinese, except Japanese 2230-2300 Sat & Sun [meaning UT Fri & Sat??]. So HCJB gives NHK some competition in the Sunday-mornings-are-for-classical-music tradition (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 15190, R. Africa apparently off Feb 12 at 2245, leaving channel to R. Inconfid?ncia, Belo Horizonte, with announcement in Brazilian, but very poor and fading; then played a version of ``Elephant Walk`` including some vocal. By 2354 signal was better peaking S9+10, and guess what, ``Elephant Walk`` again ? program theme, or commercial? Then played rock song in English ``Yellow River`` = Rio Amarelo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 5954.2, Feb 13 at 0005, R. Rep?blica has enough signal for its Spanish via COSTA RICA to be readable vs noise from the DentroCuban Jamming Command; even could make out some audio on the 5936+ spur hetting 5940 as WWCR 5935 was not yet on; match on 5972 overwhelmed by REE 5970 in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. 11605, Sat Feb 12 at 2255 I am pleased to hear some orchestral classical music; 2259 a fast SAH hits from the next station, and before 2300 all we hear from this one is some audience applause, no announcement, DW jingle and then open carrier despite the other station trying to start. Kudos to DW as another rare SW station not afraid to play classical music, even on its Indonesian service, 22-23, 250 kW, 85 degrees via Madagascar. Its weaker 11605 successor ought to have a much better signal here, being Guiana French, 250 kW USward at 318 degrees for VOR in Spanish at 23-24, then switching due south for Portuguese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUINEA. 7125, RTG still missing the evening of Feb 12, checked at 2303. Will logs of last few days prove to have been its last gasp? Or first signs of a sporadic revival? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. 17605, NHK`s western classical music Sunday-morning ghetto continues relayed via BONAIRE, 270 kW, 170 degrees but quite good here nowhere near that azimuth, UT Sat Feb 12 at 2342 with final movement of Chaikofsky`s Violin Concerto until 2348, Japanese announcement, and a violin/piano piece. Something similar on 15525: see AUSTRALIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI. 15505, Feb 12 at 2250, weak signal in Chinese, figured it was China as some W Pacific signals were audible on band, such as VG KSDA 15320, but 15505 is really an unusual half-hour Chinese broadcast at 2230 of CRI via Bamako, HFCC and Aoki agree, 100 kW at 85 degrees. Aoki refers to CRI relays as Bamako II, distinct from Bamako I = Mali`s own service on 5995, 7286 (?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 15280, Feb 12 at 2251, spirited discussion in Indonesian, VG signal but with squeal, and audio feed is at lofi bitrate with artifacts. This is RNW at 2200-2257, 100 kW, 225 degrees via IBB SAIPAN, where by the way there are issues about the rent IBB is paying on the land for the transmitters; see DXLD 11-06, NMI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DGIEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6930-USB, one pirate active this evening Feb 12: at 2304 comedy bit, ``prick up your ears and listen to this``, calypso song. 2309 parody dog food ad ``Pussy-Lickins`` with five dead cats in each bag, from WPUP, ``right here on 43 meters, my name is Dr. Puppy ---; this puppy has to QRT now``, mentioned Yoder, Belfast maildrop, United States of Puppies; ``WPUP Shortwave Worldwide,`` but kept going with ``Puppy Love `` song; 2313 barking and howling, and yet another song. At this point I tuned away to Turkey, but back at 2321, sounded like same announcer with a new identity, suggesting we ``hang garter belts, panties, and other unmentionables outside your DX window for my unholiness to silently collect``. 2326, ``Happy Valentine`s Day``; ``here I come in with my longue tongue ... 43 meters ? I`m coming down on you, can you handle me, baby?``. 2332 ``Voice of the Runaway Maharishi, Valentine`s Day Special``; QSL instruxions with 3 units of postage to Providence RI or Wellsville NY maildrops, and you may include ``delicious-smelling panty-hose`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 640, WWLS has some serious transmitter problem. Again today Feb 12 at 2111 UT, splattering badly, on caradio I now think it reaches up to 670; hard to be sure whether splatter on 680 is coming from it or KGGF-690, both with ESPN Radio tho out of synch. Listening on 650, I can hear some distorted modulation as well as IBOC-like noise, so maybe it`s a mixture with the IBOC portion out of order. Furthermore, like yesterday there is crackling on 640 itself. Is anybody paying attention at the studio? That should be obvious on the off-air monitor, if any (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PORTUGAL [and non]. With only a sesquimonth to go in the B-10 season, RDPI has done nothing to resolve the 12040 collision with Cuba they were informed about early on. Feb 12 at 2253, RDPI sports is atop, but it`s messy with RHC Spanish cochannel, a SAH apart; RDPI has much weaker // 11960; and at 2319 also came across // RDPI on 7285 which is scheduled for this hour only, aimed northeast across Europe. Of its own volition, RHC doesn`t start 12040 until 2200 now, but there will be a collision when extraordinary emissions of silly Lusitanian ballgames extend past 2200. Meanwhile RHC is also on 12010 in the clear but with some hum self-inflicted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [and non]. 7220, Feb 13 at 0009 in Russian with motorboating, not too severe yet, but there should not be any --- listed as Golos Rossii, 500 kW, 295 degrees via Pridnestrovye for Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, NW South America. Some QRhaM, which becomes less and less likely toward the upper edge, tho entitled to go right up to 7299. So I compared with VOR in English up the band: 7290, also via Pridnestrovye, was best, being 300 kW at 310 degrees for USA; // 7250 a lot weaker, despite being 500 kW, 315 degrees for same CIRAF zones, via ``Armavir``. At 0010, W&M were discussing arms limitations and suspicions about NATO. They were trying to sound spontaneous but I think it was scripted. Both had rather heavy Russian accents, as VOR seems to be making less effort to employ announcers with North American or British accents. Their best ones have died (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. Contrary to HFCC, WRTH and DX Mix News, V. of Turkey English to NAm is still on 5960, Feb 12 at 2304 JBA; 2315 with VOT jingle, English ID, `DX Corner` theme, but too poor to try to copy; while imaginary frequency 7335 is occupied on Saturdays by huge WHRI signal predicating in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. 15360, Feb 12 at 2357 poor signal with Bow Bells, so BBCWS is warming up for two-hour relay via THAILAND, 250 kW, 25 degrees, also USward. 2359:30 quick ID with website bbc.co.uk, less Lilliburlero than we used to hear, timesignal, 0000 Feb 13 midnight GMT timecheck, news headlines for a minute before the real news. This would have been a good bet for full strike of Big Ben on New Year`s Eve, propagation permitting (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1110, cf. yesterday`s report of nothing but KFAB Omaha audible here in daytime; is KVTT The Metroplex really on with 50 kW? It does have a null almost usward, and from another location on the west edge of Enid, and thus a little closer to its 320 degree minor lobe, I am hearing a barely audible SAH between KFAB and something else, Feb 12 at 2115 UT, clocked at 36 per minute = 0.6 Hz. Has anyone else measured the separation between these two stations? Such info is hard to come by, even on the MW Offset listing. BTW, at this time, 1440 Spanish from The Metroplex was in well, i.e. skywave at the higher end of the band already working, as KTNO does not make it here on groundwave (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ____________________________________________________________________________________ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:23:40 +0100 From: Manuel M?ndez <manuelmend...@gmail.com> To: DX Listenig Digest <d...@yahoogroups.com> Subject: [HCDX] Logs Message-ID: <4d5786fc.3010...@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Manuel M?ndez Lugo, Espa?a Logs in Lugo Grundig Satellit 500 and Sony ICF SW 7600 G Cable antenna, 8 meters. BRAZIL 4885, Radio Clube do Par?, Bel?m, 0650-0715, 11-02, Brazilian songs and comments by male, program "Clube da Madrugada". 24322. (M?ndez) 5940, Voz Missionaria, Cambori?, 0703-0710, 11-02, Portuguese, male, religious comments. 14321. (M?ndez) 9565, Super Radio Deus e Amor, Curitiba, 0640-0655, 12-02, Portuguese, male, religious comments. 24322. (M?ndez) 9654.4, Radio Bandeirantes, Sao Paulo, 0905-0912, 11-02, Portuguese, male, news and comments. 14321. (M?ndez) 9675, Radio Can?ao Nova, Cachoeira Paulista, 0915-0923, 11-02, religious comments in Portuguese by male. 24322. (M?ndez) 9695.8, Radio Rio Mar, Manus, 1015-1025, 09-02, male, Portuguese, news and comments, relays program news: "Jornal Primeira Hora" from Radio Bandeirantes. 23432. Also *1000-1007, 11-02, signing on at 1000: "6 horas en Manaus, Radio Rio Mar", male, comments and advertisements. (M?ndez) 11735, Radio Transmundial, Santa Mar?a, 0945-0955, 09-02, male, religious comments, Portuguese. 24322. (M?ndez) 11780, Radio Nacional da Amazonia, Brasilia, 1005-1012, 11-02, male, Portuguese, news an comments. 24322. (M?ndez) 11815, Radio Brasil Central, Goiania, 0924-0925, 09-02, male, Portuguese, news program: "O Mundo Em Sua Casa", with world and Brazilian news, sports. Identification: "Radio Brasil Central, Goiania". 34433. (M?ndez) 11925, Radio Bandeirantes, Sao Paulo, 0938-0950, 09-02 Portuguese, news program: "Jornal Primeira Hora", news and comments from Brazil and the World. Id. "Radio Bandeirantes". 24322. (M?ndez) 15190, Radio Inconfidencia, Belo Horizonte, 0910-9033, 09-02, male, Portuguese, news: "7 horas 12 minutos, Jornal Integra?ao", "Estamos a presentar Jornal Integra?ao, cultura, cidadania, Jornal Integra?ao". 24322. (M?ndez) COLOMBIA, 5910, Alcarav?n Radio, Puerto Lleras, 0701-0820, 11-02, Latinamerican songs, male, Spanish, religious comments, identification: "Alcar?n Radio". 24322. (M?ndez) COSTA RICA, 3350, Radio Exterior de Espa?a, Cariari, 0554-0600*, 13-02, Caribbean music, male, identification: "Radio Exterior de Espa?a, nos despedimos de nuestros oyentes en Centro Am?rica y Sur de Norteam?rica en que volveremos a las 12 Tiempo Universal, 6 de la ma?ana en Centroam?rica, por las frecuencias de 9765 y 15170 kHz.". Close down. 35433. (M?ndez) HONDURAS, 3340, Radio Misiones Internacionales, Comayaguela, 0548-0555, 13-02, religious songs. Very weak, only LSB. 14321. (M?ndez) GUINEA, 7125, Radio Guinea, Conakry, 0705-0725, 10-02, male an female with news and comments in French about Guinea, African music. 24322. Also 0710-0740, 11-02, African songs and comments y French by male. 34333. (M?ndez) MEXICO, 6185, Radio Educaci?n, M?xico D. F., 0805-0820, 11-02, classic music. 24322. (M?ndez) PERU, 4790, Radio Visi?n, Chiclayo, 0558-0710, 10-02, male, Spanish, religious program "La Voz de la Salvaci?n". 14321. (M?ndez) USA, 9955, WMRI, Radio Miami International, 0634-0645, 12-02, Radio Prague relay, Spanish, male and female, comments about Czech Republic. 14321. (M?ndez) ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:06:21 +0000 From: Cupido Radio <cupidora...@hotmail.com> To: andrei yaroslavl russia <skorodumov.and...@gmail.com>, china <zsf651...@yahoo.com.cn>, dimitry russia <de...@dialup.etr.ru>, <diemo...@netvallee.it>, dx world <hard-core-dx-requ...@hard-core-dx.com>, dx <dxplo...@yahoogroups.com>, <gian.panz...@tiscalinet.it>, <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, italie <pavanel...@libero.it>, <iz1...@libero.it>, japan <georgy_porgy...@yahoo.co.jp>, japan <yokoi-h...@mte.biglobe.ne.jp>, jari finland <jari.pensikk...@pp.inet.fi>, jarkko lethovaara <jarkko.lehtova...@swradio.net>, <jcfar...@mnsi.net>, jem cullen <jem...@hotmail.com>, <jeribimy...@hotmail.com>, johno austalia special dx news australia <d...@fl.net.au>, <juanluvilc...@yahoo.es>, Mac <mikeporcar...@yahoo.com>, mike japan <georgy_po...@hotmail.co.jp>, mike <metalwor...@optusnet.com.au>, vasily <vasil...@hotmail.com>, zagarias greek <gree...@otenet.gr> Subject: [HCDX] cupid is going dx again towards the east now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Message-ID: <snt113-w41228b15ac58ce4fc75925ba...@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hello radio friends, Doing the good propagation, i have decided to switch the transmitter on. freq is 15.070 mhz Beam is aimed at 80 degrees from the netherlands towards, ukrane, kazakhistan, china , and further power is 200 watts 13 feb time utc 09:00 till 10:30 or longer if the propagation is that good. rinus regards from holland End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 98, Issue 13 ********************************************