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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. Mar. 07, 08 logs (L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec) 2. Few relaxing tips from Milan (Giampiero Bernardini) 3. DX Logs - Ralph Perry - 8 Mar (Ralph Perry) 4. Errata corrige 5040 - 5045 (Giampiero Bernardini) 5. Glenn Hauser logs March 8, 2011 (Glenn Hauser) 6. Libya now on 8500 kHz (G?nter Lorenz) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 08:26:00 -0300 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] Mar. 07, 08 logs Message-ID: <002801cbdd84$7f6491b0$13f864c8@home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 4828, Voice of Zimbabwe, Gweru. March, 07 2152-2209 African music ( xylophone - like and vocals), Hilife, male in English talks segment. Het, progressive enhancement 23333 (lob-B). 5030, Malaysia, RTM, Kuching-Stapok. March, 07 2210-2220 Malaysian (listed) male talks between Pop music selections. 33333, (lob-B). 3945, R. Vanuatu, Port Vila. March, 08 0843-0853 male and female in local language talks. 34333, (lob-B). 9475, R. Australia, Shepparton. March, 08 0857-0904 male and female in English talks "good night", canned ID by male "R. Australia", top of the hour announcements, news program "headlines" about Libya, U.S. president, outside talks. // 9580, 9590, 34433 (lob-B). 9580, R. Australia, Shepparton. March, 08 0904-0909 male in English talks "Australia". 34433, (lob-B). 9590, R. Australia, Shepparton. March, 08 0909-0914 two male in English talks "Australia". 34433, (lob-B). 9710, R. Australia, Shepparton. March, 08 0914-0922 female interviewing male in Tok Pisin talks "Australia". 33433, (lob-B). 73's L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec Embu SP Brasil SW40 - Dipoles and Longwire ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 17:28:56 +0100 From: "Giampiero Bernardini" <g.bernard...@avvenire.it> To: "HCDX" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com> Subject: [HCDX] Few relaxing tips from Milan Message-ID: <5b9bd0362fae1340b6aab3c4ca7afe7705746...@exch04.local.avvenire.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Here some more tips from Milan Ciao Giampiero RX: Collins 51S-1 - ANT: T2FD 15 meters long QTH: Milan City SW blog: http://radiodxsw.blogspot.com/ <http://radiodxsw.blogspot.com/?> MW Blog: http://radio-dx.blogspot.com/ LA blog: http://lasw.blogspot.com/ 4026 8/3 0320 Laser Hot Hits, on air again after problems, Pirate, old rock songs, fair 4780 8/3 0359 RTV Djibouti, music, fair 4960 8/3 0403 vOA, Sao Tome, English news about Africa, good 5025 8/3 0215 Radio Rebelde, Cuba, talks sport & other, great signal 5040 8/3 0233 Radio Cultura do Par?, Brazil, usual songs, some splatter from Radio Habana 5040, weak 6140 8/3 0300 Radio Habana, Cuba, news in Spanish, good 6160 8/3 0303 CKZN, St. John's, CBC news, fair (better in LSB) 6220 8/3 0311 Laser Hot Hits ? (could be but no id heard because noise, they announced just yesterday they where back here), Pirate, songs, few talks in English, disappeared at 0318, fair but QRM 9665 8/3 0333 Voz Missionaria, Brazil, religious program "Alleluja", good 9675 8/3 0341 REE, via Costa Rica, International reports, Spanish, good 9770 8/3 0345 Radio Habana, Cuba, talks about Cuba, Spanish, good 10000 8/3 0248 Observatorio Nacional, Brazil, usual pips, time, ids, fair 11575 8/3 1405 Radio Pakistan, slow songs, fair/good 11711 8/3 0350 RAE, Argentina, program in French, talks, song, good 15185 8/3 1418 Family Radio, tx?, talks about the Bible, web URL, good 15190 8/3 0238 Radio Inconfidencia, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Brazilian songs //AM 880 streaming, few ids, fair, fading 15285 8/3 1258 Radio Athmeeyayathra, tx in Germany, Indian songs, talks, ids, fair 15330 8/3 1430 Radio Mart?, USA, clandestine to Cuba, economics, weak 15360 8/3 1254 Radio Habana, Cuba, Spanish, talks about 8th of March "Mujeres" day, weak/fair 15400 8/3 1250 HCJB, Kununurra, Australia, English lesson, good as usual, only some fading 15510 8/3 1435 BBC, Mahe, Seychelles, talks mentioning African countries and Somalia many times, reported in Somali, fair 15610 8/3 1247 WEWN, Catholic Radio, USA. English, religious culture, fair/good 15650 8/3 1243 Voice of Greece, Greek, reports about Greece and Libya. Very good 15690 8/3 1239 Radio Farda, via Sri Lanka, songs, talks, good 15825 8/3 1235 WWCR, USA, talks about Gospel, good 15850 8/3 1304 Galei Zahal, Israele, talks in Hebrew and phone talks, weak and with fading. 17755 8/3 1310 Voice of Turkey, nice Turkish pop songs, multilanguage ids, great signal and audio. 21780 8/3 DW, via UK, talks in German, weak. Higher HF BC in frequency today Giampiero Bernardini Milano, Italia ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 09:24:50 -0800 (PST) From: Ralph Perry <ralphpe...@yahoo.com> To: undisclosed recipients: ; Subject: [HCDX] DX Logs - Ralph Perry - 8 Mar Message-ID: <414251.38744...@web39704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii INDONESIA: 4750, pres. RRI Makassar (as long reported/listed here). Definitely an Indo here 3/6 at 1115-1202 t/out. Slow orchl EZL mx and II ballads / love songs, YL dj with occasional II anmts. 1131 sounded like nx headline summary, OM and YL alternating brief items. 1136, back into program of 'lagu populer'. At 1159, the old familiar Rayuan Pulau Kelapa theme, an RRI ID on the hr and then, after a pause, the Jakarta newsfeed. Fadey sig, fair but peaking to good, with high noise underlying noise level. (R Perry, Illinois) PERU: 5039.17, Radio Libertad de Junin, heard several mornings this week. Noted 3/7 with fair signal at 1009 with huaynos, echo chamber SS anmts by OM. 1016 anmt: ...Informa . . . hermanitos y hermanitas . . . las cinco de la manana . . . Radio Libertad de Junin . . . " Signal building but xmsn suddenly cut at 1030 after OM in echo chamber -- think was xmtr problem. Noted again 3/8 with nice sig at 1046 t/in, OM dj for folklorica pgm, frantic t/cks and anmts over OA mx rifts. Tuned out 1053 during conjunto w/huayno on guitar. (R Perry, Illinois) BOLIVIA: 4699.96, Radio San Miguel, Riberalta, appeared to be cranking up modulation at 1032, from carrier and into programming -- may have just signed on, with OM SS anmts 1034, then into taped echo chamber ad string at 1035. CP mxa folklorica from 1036. Nice signal on 3/8, when a notably good opening to the Andes, a day after the big solar flare. Same time, big signal from R Tarma, Peru, on 4775. (R Perry, Illinois) PERU: 4746.96, Radio Huanta 2000, daily visitor lately in the mornings, with fine OA folkloric programming. Noted from 1042 check on 3/7, with ID at 1051: "Amables oyentes, les indicamos . . . al servicio de Huanta . . . Radio Huanta 2000 . . . ". Next morning, 3/8, good signal 1015 and booming by 1040. Again, this was the day after the solar flare and hours before the polar / auroral effects were predicted to start. (R Perry, Illinois) BRAZIL: 4885.03, Radio Clube do Para, biggest signal on the band at 1008 3/8 with ballads. OM yelled ID between songs simply, "Radio Clube do PARA!". (R Perry, Illinois) BRAZIL: 4865.03, tent. Radio Alvorada, Londrina, the Brazilian here with nice signal at 1023, playing insipid ballads and schlocky pop (e.g. "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden", in PP). Couldn't force myself to stay with this fare, too painful to listen and other stations beckoned. Peaking to huge sig at 1045 recheck and, by 1055 recheck, starting to fade down. (R Perry, Illinois) BRAZIL: 4804.98, unid Brazilian, likely Rdif. do Amazonas, Manaus, nx pgm in PP at 1015 check. Taped remote reports. Fair sig, only QRM that bleepin' ute. (R Perry, Illinois) ----------------------------------------- Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois Drake R8B; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100; Knightkit Star Roamer Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 Longwires (150' + 100') ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 17:50:24 +0100 From: "Giampiero Bernardini" <g.bernard...@avvenire.it> To: "HCDX" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com> Subject: [HCDX] Errata corrige 5040 - 5045 Message-ID: <5b9bd0362fae1340b6aab3c4ca7afe7705746...@exch04.local.avvenire.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Of course you have to read 5045 and not 5040 this tip: 5040 8/3 0233 Radio Cultura do Par?, Brazil, usual songs, some splatter from Radio Habana 5040, weak Sorry twice Giampiero ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 10:37:17 -0800 (PST) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 8, 2011 Message-ID: <476817.15950...@web114003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ** ANGUILLA [non]. Caribbean Beacon, which was off 11775 fifteen hours earlier, is still missing from 6090, March 8 at 0636 leaving a het, probably off-frequency Brazil vs Nigeria, and/or Habana leapfrog mixing product of 6010 over 6050, as I could also make out some // English on 6090 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. 15476, rack up another day with no sign of LRA36, March 8 at 1334, 1431, 1457 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 15340, March 8 at 1333, South Asian music way over het from 15341 Morocco, then mentioning Australia, kHz. Aoki and WRTH 2011 show both Hindi and Rawang simultaneously during this semihour daily from HCJB; I guess they mix them together; why? Rawang is a place in Malaysia, but presumably coincidental: no connexion with the Rawang language spoken in northern Myanmar, where it`s unlikely to have much linguistic relation to Hindi. Meanwhile 15400, HCJB in Chinese was in the clear. At 1458 recheck, the 15340 situation was quite reversed, with Arabic from Morocco 15341, still not QSYed to 15345, dominating the het from HCJB, and also with splatter from the DentroCuban Jamming Command on 15330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 9625, March 8 at 0627, S9+21 open carrier, no tonetest now, from CBCNQ, burning up 100 kW again after sign-off, why? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake March 8: 8400, JBA until 1300*. None others encountered during following bihour altho did not perform a complete bandscan searching for it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also U K [non] 9410 ** GERMANY [non]. 17860, March 8 at 1447, DW in Urdu, VG signal at S9+12, even tho this 1430-1500 is 500 kW, 76 degrees via Rampisham UK (following an hour of Pashto and Dari, same). How much better would the signal be in S Asia if they were not sending so much of it back this way? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 5765-USB, March 8 at 1303, AFN with basketball scores. What are these doing during a top-of-hour serious news block? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUINEA. 7125, RTG intruding again on 40m hamband, March 8 at 0625 in hilife music, and there`s SSB QRhaM in Spanish exactly on frequency, but Guinea is atop (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 4750, woman in Indonesian, March 8 at 1305, RRI Makassar, with a second slightly offset carrier detectable on BFO. 3995, March 8 at 1307 mentioning ``Republik Indonesia``, so it`s RRI Kendari, better signal than 4750. 3325, March 8 at 1318, a weak signal still audible here, presumed usual RRI Palangkaraya, and 4750 Makassar too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNIDENTIFIED 3974 ** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI on the air this Tuesday, allowing us to hear another `Exotic Indonesia` co-produxion with RRI Banjarmasin. Unfortunately the IADs are still happening several times per minute, sometimes ~5 seconds long, but I keep with it as much as I can tolerate; also continuous hum but VG signal level. March 8 at 1322, W&M plugging Banj frequency 95.2 FM, then introducing feature about the new president of Philippines, Benigno Aquino III, about to visit Indonesia, and talx already going on at the international relations staff level: `Focus` show about this still going on at 1337; 1339 discussing International Women`s Day; I believe the W co-host in Banj said she had spent 14 years in the US. 1341 playing pre-produced Banj feature with the mystery man and a woman narrating, about the custom of cradling babies in conjunxion with Mohammed`s birthday in February; with some rustic music pauses. 1352 the live hosts discuss this further, but I never did get the point of it; 1355 playing a romantic song from Banj to mark IWD (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, Shiokaze via JAPAN, Tuesday March 8 at 1403, in Japanese, weak with Myanmar het (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBYA. It seems like V. of Africa from the Great Jamahiriyah is going out with a whimper, not a bang. March 8 at 1408 still no signal on former 21695 (nor 21660 used once), but 17725 is on as a carrier, with only a trace of modulation detectable, if that, (once I located and unplugged the cable DTV converter box which puts out the bubble-jamming on this frequency --- and later I have to rescan it thrice to get all the channels back, grrr). At 1450 the 17725 carrier is registering S9+10 at peaks, nothing but maybe a trace to be heard on it; same at 1525 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6185, XEPPM, which normally has good modulation quality altho not to the 100% level, March 8 at 0641 is very distorted, only with peaks audible during S9+20 signal, a shame! Hope they get it repaired ASAP for their excellent eclectic music at this time, and QRM-free (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9830, RNW in Dutch, March 8 at 0630 a bit stronger than // 9895 altho 9895 is a few words behind, during lengthy weather info for Europe, including Spain, Ireland. Too bad English-speakers are not served by this. If it`s RN, it can`t be from Holland. Aoki shows 9830 is 500 kW, 120 degrees from Wertachtal, and 9895 is 250 kW, 280 degrees from Kishinev-Grigoriopol, i.e. Moldova, i.e. Pridnestrovye --- during this bihour, 06-08, but elsewhen its`s via Vatican, Moldova, Nauen or Wertachtal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN [and non]. Another check for Basque from REE, nominally at 1330 M-F: March 8 at 1331, 15170 via COSTA RICA is still in Castilian, info deportiva acerca de Barcelona v. los ingleses. By the time I reached // 17595 direct, at 1335, Basque was underway (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. BBC`s Spanish service on SW was terminated Feb 25; was M-F 1200-1215 via WHRI 9410, Guiana French 11860. The Caribbean English service got a month`s reprieve but it was not on SW; instead the rest of the 12-13 UT hour was filled by regular BBCWS English, but now that`s gone too, confirming our cynical opinion that it was never considered by BBC as anything but filler. Checked March 8 at 1248, not on 9410, leaving something very weak in Chinese. During this hour, Aoki shows Fu Hsing, Taiwan vs CNR5, Beijing. 21630, March 8 at 1429-1430* just as I tune in I hear the DW riff, and cut off the air during one unID word to follow. 1400-1430 is listed as *BBC* in Hausa via Sines, PORTUGAL. Perhaps a switching error before closedown, rather than the entire broadcast? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9405, WINB, March 8 at 0625, S9+22 while 24 hours earlier it was inaudible --- only attributable to wildly fluxuating propagation, or is station transmission a factor? Rod Hembree with another of his Star-Trek-ripoff promos for Radio 2:11, then intro or promo John Ankerberg. Modulation now is awful, carrier more unstable than usual, and splashing out to 9390, 9410+ bothering BBCWS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9680, WYFR in English, March 8 at 0628 is back in force, altho missing 24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. March 8 I monitor the transition of the still unidentified relays of YFR on 15185, 15485: 15485 carrier is on from *1500 before 15185 goes off, and the latter carrier stays on much of a minute more. So they are not from the same transmitter, presumably not same antenna either, tho the signals are quite similar and Harold Camping programming continues, still likely to be same site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM. 12019.4, V. of Vietnam, March 8 at 1326 carrier on until 1327:40* and back on at *1329 during scheduled beam switch from 177 to 57 degrees, as languages switch from Indonesian to English; 1330 a bit of music presumably opening English, but too weak today. No noticeable change in signal level despite turning to USward. My previous log did not measure the off-frequency below 12020, but Harold Frodge puts it on 12019.4, and it is certainly closer than necessary to the RTTY around 12015; there is another weak broadcaster on 12025, so can`t vary much in the upward direxion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 3974 approx., March 8 at 1307, some music mixed with heavy motorboating noise, apparent malfunxioning transmitter rather than jamming; de 3976 RRI Pontianak?? Stronger than and separate from the usual North Korean jamming on 3985. But this could also emanate from NK, Wonsan listed 3970. 1310 announcement on 3974 but could not copy anything of it; 1317 again some music audible. Atsunori Ishida, http://rri.jpn.org/ says Pontianak has been inactive since last April. Maybe this is the start of a comeback? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 21:36:39 +0100 From: G?nter Lorenz <glor...@lorenzsoft.de> To: "Cumbre" <cumbr...@n2jeu.net>, "HCDX" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com> Subject: [HCDX] Libya now on 8500 kHz Message-ID: <36c8b5a22d5d4b49a52b7c8dd0dcf9ba01f80...@lsoftmail01.lorenzsoft.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" // 972 kHz 73, G?nter Freising, Germany RX: Perseus ANT: ALA1530+SSB End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 99, Issue 9 *******************************************