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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. EMR this Sunday at 1000 utc (Tom Taylor) 2. Logs 18+19.3 (Zacharias Liangas ) 3. Mar. 14, 15, 18 logs (L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec) 4. March 18-19 Logs (brian384...@aol.com) 5. Glenn Hauser logs March 18-19, 2011 (Glenn Hauser) 6. Re: [and non] (Glenn Hauser) 7. Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA (Stewart MacKenzie) 8. Re: VOA A-11 Schedule (Wolfgang Bueschel) 9. Glenn Hauser logs March 19-20, 2011 (Glenn Hauser) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:12:32 +0000 From: Tom Taylor <em...@sky.com> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: [HCDX] EMR this Sunday at 1000 utc Message-ID: <AANLkTinmJg7aw9we4cGN4DCURk4FR=pp6d66lstcs...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 EMR this Sunday at 1000 utc Date 20th of March 2011 Time 10.00 to 11.00 utc Channel 6140 khz Programmes: 10.00 Tom Taylor programme 10.25 Mike Taylor (Mail Box programme) EMR Internet radio service on Sunday and Monday Programme repeats are at the following times: 10.00, 13:00, 16:00, 17:00, 22:00 utc Please visit www.emr.org.uk and click on the ?EMR internet radio? button which you will find throughout the website (see the menu on the left). Please send all reception reports to: stu...@emr.org.uk Good Listening 73s Tom PS. MV Baltic Radio relay service Schedule for Summertime 2011 1st Sunday ? MV Baltic Radio 3rd Sunday ? European Music Radio (June) 4th Sunday ? Radio Gloria International ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:32:29 +0200 From: "Zacharias Liangas " <gree...@otenet.gr> To: <> Subject: [HCDX] Logs 18+19.3 Message-ID: <4d8504cd.11460.2dd...@greekdx.otenet.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Logs for 18.3 http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/344 4845.2 Cultura Ondas tropicais 2236 (t , per Eibi ) with talks in PP Signal S7 undermoded. There is a recording in this address http://www.mediafire.com/?qzs2iu3nq4ms9yv 4700 San Miguel (t)2255 is just a carrier 4747 Huanta 2k 2256 with marginal signal with music <S1 4955 R Cultura Amauta Huanta Peru (t per Eibi ) 2302 with Andean music and possibly ID trhen again Andean music on 2305 then OM with talks , in Spanish , advert S5 max , S3 mean Also recordings with these : http://www.mediafire.com/?4xx0zvtgcxycd0w 5050 WWRB 2314 with OM in stations self advert with web addresses etc S6 34x23 5446.5 U AFN 2320+ OM with talks in Eng marginal signal //4319U of S9 Logs for 19.3 11580 Family Radio from American Xters? 0819 with ID S5 34433 15295 VoM 0831 with prg in English S4 with very strong QRM from RFI . At 0850 better with S9 signal 9580 RAustralia 0825 with sports and news , and fast talks . then ID as 'This is ABC ' YL then with ID 'R Australia ' and international news , advert MAX S3 22443 , with QRM from R Medi 9575 S9 15900 Fredrake? 0852 . Ay 0859 white noise started on the freq just after a short sentence I heard I think in english . Exact QRG for rthe white noise 11589.2 11665 RTM/Wai 0905 with news in Malay . Signal is sub-marginal(ie S1 with preamp ) 0911 with short music bridge and back to news. Here is a recording: http://www.mediafire.com/?tq2m9me7kqyme3g Again 1655 heard under CRI /CNR with old Malay songs . Om 1659 Family radio in Amharic or same with S20 15200 KTWR 1049 seems back , with Sunda music, talks in Sunda then inspirational Sunda song At 1057 OM with ID as TWR Agana 1059* Standard 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, 19 Mar 2011 15:03:16 -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. 14, 15, 18 logs Message-ID: <000e01cbe660$0eec30c0$28648bc8@home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 4950, R. Nacional de Angola, Mulenvos. March, 14 2346-2347 female in Portuguese talks alternating Romantic music selections. Low modulation, unreadable 24322 (lob-B). 3960, Korea, North, KCBS Pyongyang, Kanggye. March, 15 0912-0920 first male, later female in Korean talks. //3970, degrading 25322 (lob-B). 3970, Korea, North, KCBS Pyongyang, Wonsan. March, 15 0920-0925 female in Korean talks. Degrading, 25322 (lob-B). 3945, R. Vanuatu, Port Vila. March, 18 0836-0848 Pop music, male and female in local language. 7260 was off, 25322 (lob-B). 6020, Peru, R. Vict?ria, Lima. March, 18 0855-0900 male and female in Spanish talks, seems news program "una revoluci?n educativa en la ciudad; la informaci?n", canned ID by male on 5th Symphony. From 0900 R. Ga?cha sign on and covered Peru, 23333 (lob-B). 6025, Bolivia, R Patria Nueva, La Paz. March, 18 0901-0911 male in Spanish talks on Andean music with elation lyrics "pueblo boliviano; atrav?s de la asamblea constituinte; nueva Bolivia; la constituici?n pol?tica del Bolivia; P?tria Nueva; la autonomia del Bolivia totalmente garantisada", outside talks. 33323, (lob-B). 73's L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec Embu SP SW40 - Dipoles and Longwire ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 14:34:32 -0400 (EDT) From: brian384...@aol.com To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Subject: [HCDX] March 18-19 Logs Message-ID: <8cdb47b6c3c81a5-3c0-2...@webmail-m114.sysops.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" ** BRAZIL. 5990, Radio Senado, *0850-0915, March 19, sign on with lite jazz music. Opening Portuguese ID announcements at 0900. Back to lite jazz at 0901. Very good. Strong. (Brian Alexander, PA) ? ** BRAZIL. 9592.81, Super R?dio Deus ? Amor, 0305-0320, March 19, emotional Portuguese preacher. // 9564.98, 11764.95. All weak but readable. (Brian Alexander, PA) ? ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, Radio Africa, 2105-2257*, March 18, ?Hope for Today? English religious program. Gospel music. Sign off with religious music. Fair to good. Weak co-channel QRM from Brazil after 2200. (Brian Alexander, PA) ? ** ETHIOPIA. 9705, Radio Ethiopia, 2015-2100:30*, March 18, local Horn of Africa style music. Amharic announcements. Possible Amharic news at 2056. Sign off with National Anthem at 2059. Very good. Strong signal. (Brian Alexander, PA) ? ** ETHIOPIA. 9705, Radio Ethiopia, 0325-0335, March 19, local Horn of Africa music. Amharic announcements. Fair. (Brian Alexander, PA) ? ** MALI. 9635, RTVM, *0759-0830, March 19, sign on with opening French announcements and flute IS. Vernacular talk at 0800. Lite instrumental music at 0813. Local tribal music at 0816. Weak modulation at sign on but improved to fair levels by 0810. (Brian Alexander, PA) ? ** NIGER. 9704.99, LV du Sahel, 2101-2300:30*, March 18, audible after Ethiopia sign off with a weak signal. French talk. Variety of rustic local music, tribal music, and Afro-pop music. Qur`an at approximately 2256. Short flute IS and National Anthem at 2259. Weak signal at 2101 but improved to a fair level by 2200. (Brian Alexander, PA) ? ?? Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:19:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 18-19, 2011 Message-ID: <846735.69036...@web114017.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** CHINA. Firedrake, March 19: 6030, in usual mix with Taiwan and other jamming, fair around 1315. 9350, none before or after 1330, nor on any other frequency in the area, unlike 24 hours earlier. Nor any FD to be heard on 8400, 10300 or anywhere up to 15 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11760, RHC English missing March 18 at 2026 check, nothing on frequency, tho Portuguese is running on 11770. New schedule effective March 20 shows first English broadcast moved one UT hour earlier to 19-20 on 11760, to be confirmed; also earlied is the 5040 broadcast, back to original 23-24 as last fall. The complete updated, edited and annotated new RHC sked has been provided first to the DXLD yahoogroup. 13780, March 19 at 1402, RHC timecheck as 9 de la ma?ana ``en todo el territorio nacional``, so still on UT -5 for one more day. As if Cuba might have more than one timezone, they have to keep saying it applies to the entire territory? Hmmm, what about Guant?namo Bay? Is that T.N. or not? US military there might find it more convenient to stay with US timechange dates, i.e. already UT-4, but that could confuse the Cuban national civilian employees allowed into and out of the base daily, if that is still the case, presumably having nothing to do with the prison funxion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 24938, big signal and almost only SSB ham on 12m is again CO8LY in Santiago de Cuba, March 19 at 1506 with QRZ, CQDX, CQ 12 meters, in heavily accented English, working station after station quickly including at 1507, WI9M (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, R. Africa cut off ending of one gospel huxter March 18 at 2157, dead air when it would have been nice to insert an ID, and 2158 starting Tony Alamo show #236 (or 246?). Seems to be usual start time within a minute or two for the disgraced sex-offending and incarcerated for 175 years evangelist (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE [non]. 11830, March 19 at 0604, news in French from RFI via SOUTH AFRICA --- I kept expecting them to voice-over into Portuguese, which is the language scheduled during this hour, but kept on in French for a few minutes and still at a later check. Is the Portuguese really M-F only, like morning English, since this was Saturday? Or missing due to selective strike? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4052.5-, March 19 at 0537 check, preacher in English, and now good clear modulation unlike last mushy log of R. Verdad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA [and non]. 9690, March 19 at 1326, pop vocal music, as AIR continues to deprive GOS listeners of its own wonderful interval signal prior to the 1330-1500 English to SE Asia. 1330 that music stops, and ``Namaskar,`` YL sign-on mentioning 9690, 11620, 13710, right into news by OM. Now with talk only, the perpetual hum on 9690 is audible. Without it, I might guess it was some other station! At 1336 checked 13710, but heard only a station in French, i.e. CRI, 308 degrees from Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN, toward Europe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JORDAN [and non]. 11960, rechecking my previous unID in Arabic until 0054.6*: March 19 at 0030 reception is awful, but sounds Spanish so presumably Romania as scheduled this time. At 0505, very poor with heavy flutter in Arabic, which is really when R. Jordan is scheduled for one hour only, but variable per WRTH 2011 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9950, March 19 at 1432 playing ``Sakura``, much stronger than adjacent 9955 WRMI; 1435 into Japanese announcements with jingles, from: Furusato no Kaze, 100 kW, 345 degrees from Koror, PALAU, i.e. T8WH. Aoki also reminds us that in previous 13-14 UT hour on 9950, Nippon no Kaze in Korean and FnK in Japanese are instead 100 kW, 2 degrees from Taipei, Taiwan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBYA. 17725, VOAf from the GJ, still here March 19 at occasional chex up to 1553 in English, but only poor signal generally unreadable, and nothing on 21695 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 16560, March 19 at 1341 I am hearing a distorted weak signal from local KCRC 1390 with weather, ID. Not an harmonic; could it be one of those MW mixes with an extremely strong SW signal? So happens that 16560 minus 1390 = 15170: only problem is, REE Costa Rica has Saturdays off! Added the other way gets 17950, nothing there, so remains a mystery. I include this as a curiosity, not a DX tip anyone else further from KCRC could possibly hear (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. After checking LIBYA 17725, went up to 17745 at 1459 March 19 in anticipation of Sudan Radio Service, but nothing there. Sines, PORTUGAL cuts on abruptly at *1500 with sign-on in English already in progress, string of phone(?) numbers, overtly produced by ``Education Development Center, a project of the US Agency for International Development``, then opening ``Let`s Talk``, a radio drama series about democracy in Sudan, from the Sudan Radio Service. Still in English later in this half hour, believed to be regularly on Saturdays. Signal only fair, much weaker than Spain 17595 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1556 monitoring: confirmed timeshifted on WWCR: Friday March 18 at 2030 on 7465, Saturday March 19 at 1600 on 12160. Final repeat to be Sunday 0630 on 3215. 9955, WRMI Sat 1400 airing confirmed March 19 at 1428 closing with propagation outlook; no jamming except 9965 bleed. Times on WRMI Sunday: 0800, 1530, 1730 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7415, WBCQ with `Allan Weiner Worldwide`, one UT hour earlier now, around 0035 UT Saturday March 19 was talking about numerous program time changes, including `Frecuencia al D?a`, which he just moved to 0000 UT Tuesdays, now filled by something else at 2300 Mondays, so moving FAD to either Tuesday or Thursday at 2115. That change not yet appearing by 1900 March 19, but some of the others are, at http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=7415 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 15280, YFR in English March 18 at 2157-2200*, which Babcock takes credit for as an ASCENSION relay, and with typical hum this once-great site exhibits, plus trans-equatorial flutter much like not // 15195 also ending at 2200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9405 and 13570, absolutely no signal audible on either from WINB, not even a carrier, March 19 at 0602, tho Ascension was sufficient on 9410, and Zambia on 13590. WINB has supposedly changed to 13570 all-night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11715-, KJES, Saturday March 19 at 1425, VG S9+18 signal, but just barely modulated with call-and-response catechisms (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1250, trying for the DX test from WYTH in Georgia, March 19: monitored continuously from 0508 to 0530 UT, but nothing definite from this 1 kW non-direxional on daytime facilities, vs the dozens of other stations on frequency, dominated by romantic music in Spanish from the NNE, i.e. KYYS Kansas City KS (successor to WREN Topeka and share-timer KFKU Lawrence). Could null that somewhat on the DX-398, but still too much QRM, much of it a cacophony caused by multiple SAHs rather than propagational fading, as countless stations do not bother to keep their transmitters precisely on 1250.000 as they should. At 0508 I did think I was hearing a bit of Morse code in the mix, and again at 0523 code at imagination-level. A final check at 0610 during the second test still found the Spanish dominant. When I turned the radio back on at 1248 UT, KYYS had less competition, playing ``Te quiero, Mexico`` song, and ID as ``La Equis, la s?per-estaci?n`` by usual hyper voice actor heard on countless SS stations on both sides of border. ?Qui?n es, anyway? Note that there is no X in the callsign, a stretch to make KYYS the last syllable of e-quis. So this station is for Mexicans rather than Americans? Do they ever play American patriotic music in any language? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Tuning up from 1250 to 1270, March 19 at 1251 UT I notice IBOC noise around 1260 and also 1280, which means it`s coming from the Spanish station on 1270. Per http://topazdesigns.com/iboc/station-list.html it must be 50 kW KFLC Fort Worth rather than 5 kW KRVT Tulsa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1510 still has audible het, March 19 at 1252 UT, and it`s warbling slightly meaning the transmitter is not only off-frequency, but unstable. Previously traced to KCTE Independence MO; and also again a het of the same pitch, coincidentally? Previously traced to long-time off-frequency KMDO Fort Scott KS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 25906, March 19 at 1509, scanning 11m SWBC band for anything of interest, found only a weak SSB here speaking Brazilian, presumably freebander. At this time, 10m was almost closed, only with some SSB around 28005, unlikely to have been any licensed ham that low in the band, and a bit of CW a little further up. BTW, having reluctantly added another piece of gear to my multi-media shack, a Samsung DVD-VR375, I find that when plugged in but ``off`` it puts out whining noise blobs approx. every 65 kHz between 18230 and 25370. So that makes about 110 frequencies possibly blocked for DX, the frequency range no doubt depending on proximity to the antenna. Fortunately they are not very strong, but certainly annoying, first noted in the 13m band: 21470, 21535, 21600, 21665, 21730, 21795 but not inside 16m. I`ve yet to investigate where the spurs fall when it is ``on`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 13:44:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Subject: Re: [HCDX] [and non] Message-ID: <449533.49576...@web114004.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I may as well reply now on lists in case anyone else is wondering. Since logs are sorted by country of origin, if the item involves anywhere else, such as relay sites, additional countries mentioned e.g. as interference or related logs, and/or broadcasts TO the country concerned, `non` applies, meaning not only strictly about the country to which the non is appended. Glenn --- On Sat, 3/19/11, Thomas W. <funnytom2...@yahoo.de> wrote: Hello everyone, please what does the term [and non] mean ? Sorry Glenn! I sent this directly to you not to the mailing list! I apologize! Thanks Thomas Wagnsonner ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:41:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Stewart MacKenzie <wdx...@yahoo.com> To: Anker Peterson <anker.peter...@mail.dk>, Arnie Coro <ar...@rhc.cu>, BCL NEWS <bcln...@yahoogroups.com>, Duane Fischer <dfisc...@usol.com>, Hard Core DX <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, Marie Lamb <mal...@cumbredx.net>, Maryann Kehoe <atl...@webtv.net>, Prime Time Shortwave <primetimeshortw...@yahoogroups.com>, SWL QTH <s...@mailman.qth.net> Cc: Adrian Peterson <adr...@awr.org>, Allen Graham <agra...@hcjb.org.ec> Subject: [HCDX] Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA Message-ID: <514033.88306...@web30705.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 >>> AUSTRALIA?? Radio Australia-Shepparton?? 9580? 1726 GMT? English? 444? March 15? YL on Australian Agriculture. YL with RA ID 1731 GMT.? YL with comments on the earthquake in Japan. //9710[333] Shepparton, 11880[444]Shepparton.??? MacKenzie-CA. FRANCE?? Radio Japan-NHK Relay?? 11945? 1737 GMT? Japanese? 444? March 15? OM with comments and some music in the background.??? Mackemnzie-CA.. JAPAN?? Radio Japan-NHK?? 9835? 1732 GMT? Japanese? 444? March 15? OM with comments.??? MacKenzie-CA.. KOREA, North?? Voice of Korea-VOK?? 9325? 1713 GMT Russian? 333? March 15? OM with ongoing comments.?? MacKenzie-CA.. KOREA,?North?? DPR?? 9335? 1715 GMT? Korean? 333? March 15? YL with comments.??? MacKenzie-CA.. KOREA, North?? CPBS?? 9355? 1718 GMT? Korean? 333? March 15??YL singing.? //9385[333], 9455[333].?? Mackenzie-CA.. KOREA, North?? DPR?? 11545? 1745 GMT? Korean? 444? March 15? YL singing and suddenly off the air at 1747 GMT.??? MacKenzie-CA.. ?TAIWAN?? Radio Taiwan Intl-RTI?? 7365? 1700 GMT? Chinese? 333? March 15? OM withcomments followed by a YL singing.? //7415[433], 7445[333].??? MacKenzie-CA.. . Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA Huntington Beach, California, United States of America Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650 "World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive" ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC SCADS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCADS ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 01:00:06 +0100 From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <buesch...@web.de> To: "HCDX" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, "DXLD" <d...@yahoogroups.com> Subject: Re: [HCDX] VOA A-11 Schedule Message-ID: <2C62477B51D847D58EEF540E3F73E02F@HNPC2> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original USA [mainly non] VOA Broadcast Frequency Schedules Effective 0800 UTC, 27 March through 0800 UTC, 30 October 2011 Notes: All times and dates are Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Frequencies are in kiloHertz (kHz). 1 MegaHertz (MHz) is equal to 1000 kHz. Conversion to meter bands: Meters=300000/frequency in kHz. e.g.: 17705 kHz --> 16.9 meters Abbreviations: All programs/frequencies are on daily unless noted otherwise. & - Monday only, * - Monday through Friday, = - Monday through Saturday < - Tuesday through Friday, / - Tuesday and Friday only, # - Tuesday through Saturday, % - Tuesday through Sunday, ~ - Thursday only, > - Friday and Saturday, @ - Saturday only, $ - Saturday and Sunday, " - Sunday only, + - Sunday and Monday, ^ - Sunday through Thursday, ! - Sunday through Friday Afan Oromo 1730-1800* 11905nau 11925sao 12140ira 13570bot 13870wer Albanian 0500-0530 5945bib 1600-1630 6040wer 1830-1900 6065bib Amharic 1800-1900 11905kwt 11925wer 12140ira 13570bot 13870nau Azerbaijani 1730-1800 7435bib 9850bib 13600lam Bangla 1600-1700 1575bph 7475udo 9320pht Burmese 0000-0030 1575bph 5955udo 7430ira 9320pht 0130-0300 11820ira 15110ira 17775pht 1130-1230 11965php 15350pht 17775pht 1430-1500 1575bph 5865pht 9320pht 11910ira 12120tin 1500-1530 5865pht 9320pht 11910ira 1500-1530$ 1575bph 1530-1600 1575bph 5865pht 9355pht 1600-1630 5865pht 9355pht 2300-2400 6185udo 7430pht 9320pht Cantonese 1300-1500 1170php 7365udo 9355pht Chinese 0000-0100 9545pht 11830pht 11925pht 15170udo 15385pht 17765pht 0900-1100 11825pht 11965udo 13610sai 13740udo 15250tjk 15665sai 17485udo 21695pht 1100-1200 6110udo 9845tin 11785udo 11825pht 11990sai 12040pht 15250pht 1200-1300 6110udo 11785udo 11825pht 11990sai 12040pht 15115sai 15250pht 1300-1400 6110pht 9845sai 11785pht 11805pht 11990nvs 12040pht 15115udo 1400-1500 6110pht 9845sai 11615sai 11805tjk 11990nvs 12040pht 2200-2300 6135udo 7205pht 9510pht 9845pht 11805udo 11925pht Croatian 0430-0500 5945bib 1830-1845 3995bib 5910bib Dari 0130-0230 1296kab 9335udo 11565kwt 1530-1630 1296kab 9335kwt 15090kwt 15380wer 1730-1830 1296kab 9335kwt 11565kwt 11580kwt 1930-2030 1296kab 7555kwt 9335udo English to Europe, Middle East and North Africa 0100-0130 1593kwt 1500-1600 13570wer 15530lam 2000-2100* 5930lam 9480udo English to Africa 0300-0400 909bot 1530sao 4930bot 6080sao 9855bot 15580ira 0400-0430 909bot 1530sao 4930bot 4960sao 6080sao 9855bot 11670bot 15580ira 0430-0500 909bot 4930bot 4960sao 6080sao 11670bot 15580ira 0500-0600 909bot 4930bot 6080sao 11670bot 15580ira 0600-0700 909bot 1530sao 6080sao 11670bot 15580ira 1400-1500 4930bot 6080sao 12080sao 15580sao 17545gb/bot 1500-1600 4930bot 6080sao 12080bot 15580sao/bot 17895bot 1600-1700 909bot 1530sao 4930bot 6080sao 15580bot 1700-1800 6080mey/sao 12015smg 15580bot 17895bot 1800-1830 6080sao 9850mey 12015sao 15580ira 1800-1830$ 909bot 4930bot 1830-1900 4930bot 6080mey 9850bot 12015sao 15580bot 1830-1900$ 909bot 1900-1930 909bot 4930bot 4940sao 6080mey 9850sao 15580bot 17895ira 1930-2000 909bot 4930bot 4940sao 6080mey 15580bot 2000-2030 909bot 1530sao 4930bot 4940sao 6080mey 15580bot 2030-2100 909bot 1530sao 4930bot 6080sao 15580bot 2030-2100$ 4940sao 2100-2200 1530sao 6080sao 15580bot English to Far East Asia, South Asia and Oceania 0100-0200 7430kwt 9780ira 11705udo 1100-1200$ 1575bph 1200-1300 1170php 7575udo 9510pht 12075ira 12150pht 1300-1400$ 7575pht 9510php 9760tin 12150pht 1400-1500* 7540pht 7575udo 12150pht 1500-1600 7540pht 7575udo 12150ira 2200-2300^ 5895pht 5915udo 7480kwt 7575pht 11955tin 2230-2400> 1575bph 2300-2400 5895pht 5910udo 7575pht 11955pht English to Afghanistan 0000-0030 1296kab 7555kwt 2030-2400 1296kab 7555kwt English-Special 0000-0030 1593kwt 0030-0100 1575bhp 1593kwt 7430kwt 9715udo 9780pht 11725pht 12005pht 15205sai 15290tin 17820pht 0130-0200# 1593kwt 7465gb 9820gb 1500-1600 6140pht 7465pht 7520pht 9485pht 9760udo 1600-1700 11890sao 12080bot 13570mdg 1600-1700* 1170php 1900-2000 7485ira 9630lam 2230-2300 7460pht 9570udo 11840pht 15340sai 2300-2400 1593kwt 7460pht 9570udo 11840pht 15340sai French 0530-0600* 1530sao 4960sao 6095sao 9880bot 13710ira 0600-0630* 4960sao 6095sao 9880gb 13710bot 1830-2000 1530sao 9815ira 17560sao 2000-2030 6170sao 9815bot 12080sao 15730gb 17560bon 2030-2100$ 9885sao 12080ira 15185bot 15730gb 2100-2130* 9815bot 9885sao 12035sao 12080sao Georgian 1600-1700 9435lam 13745wer 1700-1800 7425bib 11940bib Hausa 0500-0530 1530sao 4960sao 6045asc 9600sit 0700-0730 4960sao 11785bot 17820bot 1500-1530 13600bot 13830sao 13870sao 2030-2100* 4940sao 6170sao 7320sao 9815nau 15185bot Khmer 1330-1430 1575bph 5955pht 11540ira 2200-2230 1575bph 6060pht 9320pht 15110tin Kinyarwanda/Kirunda 0330-0430 6100sao 7340bot 11905ira 1600-1630@ 11695mey 15620sao 17895sao Korean 1200-1300 1188seo 5890tin 7225pht 9490udo 1300-1500 1188seo 5890tin 7225pht/tin 11935pht 1900-2100 648vld 5870pht 6060udo 7365udo Kurdish 0500-0600 11905lam 15130ira 17750mdg 1400-1500 1593kwt 11645wer 15130rmp 17750wer 1700-1800 11645kwt 15130lam 15380nau 2000-2100 1593kwt Lao 1230-1300 1575bph 9810pht 12010pht Pashto 0030-0130 1296kab 7555kwt 9335udo 1430-1530 1296kab 9335kwt 15090kwt 15380wer 1630-1730 1296kab 9335kwt 11565kwt 11580kwt 1830-1930 1296kab 7555kwt 9335udo Pashtun 0130-0230 5970bib 6105wer 7345bib 1530-1630 1593kwt 7295ira 9390ira/udo 11780bib 1630-1700 1593kwt 6040wer 9390udo 11780bib 1700-1730 1593kwt 6040wer 9370udo 11780bib 1730-1800 1593kwt 6040wer 7455udo 9370udo 1800-1830 648tjk 1593kwt 6040wer 7455udo 9370udo 1830-1900 648tjk 6040wer 7455udo 9370udo 1900-1930 6040wer 7455ira 9370udo Portuguese 1000-1030$ 17740ira 21590ira 1700-1800 1530sao 9800sao 15740sao/bot 17820gb 1800-1830* 1530sao 9800sao 15740mdg 17820gb Shon/Ndeb/Eng 1700-1800 909bot 4930bot 12130ira 15730mdg 1800-1830* 909bot 4930bot 12130ira 15730sao 1800-1900* 909bot 12130ira 15730sao Somali 0330-0400 5945sao 11670smg 15730ira 1300-1400 11665ira 15730mdg 1600-1630 1431dji 11665ira 15730bot 1630-1700 11665ira 15730kwt 1700-1800 11665kwt 13680ira Spanish 0000-0100# 5890gb 9885gb 12000gb 1130-1200* 9885gb 13750gb 15590gb 1200-1300 9885gb 13750gb 15590gb 2300-2400 5890gb 9885gb 12000gb Sudanese English 1630-1700* 9675nau 12015wer 13870wer Swahili 1630-1700 9815bot 15620sao 15740sao Tibetan 0000-0100 7250kwt 9480udo 9855ira 0300-0600 15265udo 15490pht 17735pht/udo 1400-1500 7465udo 11510udo 11595kwt 1400-1500) 15180lam 1400-1500; 15530lam 1600-1700 7330pht 9565udo 17670bib Tigrigna 1900-1930* 11905uae 11925wer 12140ira 13570bot 13870nau Urdu 0000-0100 972tjk 1539uae 0100-0200 972tjk 1539uae 7460ira 11975udo 1400-1500 972tjk 1539uae 13620kwt 15725kwt 1500-2400 972tjk 1539uae Uzbek 1500-1530 9945pht 11940wer 12120kwt 13755kwt Vietnamese 1300-1330 1575bph 1500-1600 1170php ( <http://www.voanews.com/english/programs/frequencies/> VOA website via Alan Roe-UK, WDXC-UK March 19) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Roe" Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 Subject: USA: VOA A-11 Schedule > USA: The VoA have finally added a link to their frequency schedules at > www.voanews.com on the Programs pages. > > Here is the VoA new A-11 schedule from: > http://www.voanews.com/english/programs/frequencies/ . > (VOA website via Alan Roe, Teddington, UK) ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:35:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 19-20, 2011 Message-ID: <254575.31369...@web114010.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** ALBANIA. 6130, March 20 at 0139 checked the 0130-0145 English from R. Tirana: low modulation and ACI from Spain 6125, bonker on hi side made it impossible to understand. Those were bonker pulses, but no long one, just continuous at same rate. In A-11 from March 29, if not already UT March 27, the evening broadcasts to NAm, except UT Mondays, shift one UT hour earlier and up in frequencies: 0030-0045 on 9860; 0145-0200, 0230-0300 and 0330-0400 on 7425, which we hope will get thru better (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 15345.2, R. Nacional, March 20 at 0025, romantic music, fair and better signal than Brasil 15190- (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 15190-, March 20 at 0022, R. Inconfid?ncia music, poor with flutter, and slightly on low side compared to 1190. This is the final week we may enjoy ZYE522 QRM-free at this time, for in A-11, WYFR will resume 15190 at 2200-2445 --- even worse, in Portuguese to Brasil! Bully. Of course, Brazil does not register any of its numerous SW stations on the international bands with HFCC, so the big guns may pretend they don`t exist. WYFR will also block ``Tony Al?mo`` at 2158 on Equatorial Guinea, tsk2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 2749-USB, March 20 at 0041, marine weather in English, mentions Magdalen, ADT; slowly improving signal, 0048 mentions Cape Breton Island, notice to shipping. OM announcer unseems robotic. Per http://www.dxinfocentre.com/mb.htm#O%20ATL this is VCO in Sydney NS, scheduled at 0040. 2598-USB I tuned in next at 0048 March 20, not as strong as 2749, with YL marine weather, repeatedly mentioning visibilities. Above reference shows VCP-4 in St Lawrence-Placentia, Newfoundland, starts at 0048, alternating with 5 other NL stations and one in QC. A thunderstorm had moved thru Enid a few hours earlier, cleaning up much of the line noise level, and was far enough away by now not to cause much lightning static, accounting for this good DX session (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake early UT March 20: 14900, fair with flutter at 0019; none found lower, but higher: 15900, poor at 0027 16980, good at 0028, all // and no trace of presumed victims, Sound of Hope. No more FD heard up to 22 MHz by 0033 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. 15120, March 20 at 0020, Radio Internacional de China, S9+20 signal in Spanish via Cuba but very undermodulated and hummy (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11760, March 19 at 2025, RHC in English as scheduled, tho missing yesterday when checked during this hour. From March 20, new schedule shows English shifts to 19-20, with French at 2000-2030 and nothing after 2030. 11760 and 12040 with doo-wop song in Spanish, March 20 at 0015, and 12040 has good modulation for a change! Much stronger 12010 which is supposed to be // was only dead air, and still so at 0037. 15370, RHC in Quechua, March 20 at 0026 liberally mixed with Spanish such as ``5 de abril`` and a song in Spanish. 0000-0030 on 15370 is the only Quechua scheduled now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 2279.9, March 20 at 0223, music and talk, significantly on the low side of 2280 compared to 1280; 0229 a little stronger but modulation is somewhat distorted during talk, and music is also undermodulated and distorted. No doubt it`s the second harmonic of 1140, R. Anacaona, as previously IDed. Also a slight het from weaker 2280.0, perhaps another harmonic. I first looked for HIRA a couple hours earlier, but not above the noise level then (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4052.5-, TGAV, March 20 at 0240, amateur YL singing hymn in Spanish with piano accompaniment, good modulation and fair signal. It was already audible before 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUYANA. 3290, VOG for once with no carrier QRM/het on the low side, March 20 at 0234, DJ taking call-ins from three or four listeners, presumably nearby, reporting ``loud and clear`` --- this could be a good time for DXers from abroad to phone in and surprise them, if only we knew the number. Fades up bits of music between calls, which I find quite disrespectful to the music and those who made it. 0236 a bit of a Hindi song, and 0239 more S Asian music with percussion, tambourine, singing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. Checking the pirate band, March 20 at 0112, circa 6900 heard end of a QSO, someone saying he enjoyed the broadcast, but ``over`` before I could pin down the frequency. 6925-USB peaking S9+12 with no carrier had music in progress at 0113, YL vocal in big band style, quick ID as ``Wolverine Radio``, next song ``You Are My Special Angel`` and followed by a long series of angelsongs, with no announcements except same ID inserted between every few songs: 0116 another angel song I did not recognize. 0119 ``Devil or Angel`` 0121 ``Pretty Little Angel Eyes`` 0123 ID and ``Angel Smile`` by Nat King Cole 0126 YL blues song mentioning angel 0129 ``Gotta Find Me an Angel``, Aretha Franklin, starting with narrative 0133 ``Angel Come Down From Heaven`` 0137 ID, another unID song 0140 ``I`m No Angel`` 0144 ``Make Me An Angel``, YL country song Some of these may not be correct titles, just lyrics heard. After that, my attention was split to Ask WWCR, but further songs not recognized anyway and may have moved on from angelic. 0201 ID as Wolverine Radio, into SSTV tones until 0207* Please QSL (Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6924+ AM, soon after Wolverine signed off, March 20 at 0209 a carrier came on a slightly lower frequency producing het as I was still in SSB. Some percussion, but both music and announcements were muffled, even tho AM, much harder to copy than Wolverine had been on USB. Could not catch any ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA [and non]. 11960, March 20 at 0056-0057.2* RRI IS following Spanish to SAm, completely unlike what I heard 72 hours earlier in Arabic and no such IS to 0054.6*. 5910, March 20 at 0106 rock music not in English, CCI and fast rippling SAH, presumably RRI in Romanian scheduled 01-03, vs. Alcarav?n Radio, COLOMBIA, rather off-frequency. I wonder if HJDH dominates in its local area during this bihour on all those fix-tuned receivers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TINIAN. 21580, March 20 at 0033, YL in Chinese, OSOB. Suspect it is VOA in Mandarin as scheduled this hour only, rather than ChiCom jamming, as the Pacific signals make it here much better than the Asian ones on 13m. Is Tinian per HFCC, not Tinang as in Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 2390, WWRB, March 20 at 0055 with VG signal, but inside noise envelope extending +/- 20 kHz. Also modulation spikes as far as 2250-2520 or so. Same situation at 0225 recheck. Altho this crackling is centered on 2390, I had a hard time matching it to modulation peaks on 2390 itself, so not positive WWRB was responsible. At 0231 was the mid-break of `Mike Gibson`s Bluegrass Gospel Hour` from Hueytown AL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7555, March 20 at 0116, S9+22 carrier from KJES, but just barely modulated --- turned volume up to max and still could not copy anything. Anyhow, confirms they have made usual DST shift to one UT hour earlier when axually on the air: 0100-0230; but why bother? WRNO should have done the same, now starting at 0100 on 7506, but still AWOL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 4840, monitored the first airing of `Ask WWCR` #335 for 3/19 to 4/1. At 0146 tune-in UT March 20, Lyon show was still running, and began to fear `Ask` had been bumped for paid programming as they said could happen just like the ex-DX Block, but it was only late, from 0148 to 0201. Brady and Jerry, soon to be a full professor, were discussing frequency usage, and obliquely responded to some comments of mine. Emphasized they are testing 3195 in order to ferret out any complaints now so they will be OK to use it next winter, but it and 5070 are being suspended once A-11 starts, altho still reserved and might test both at other times, such as 3195 in the early mornings. Yes, 3195 as early as 2200 does not work now to the west, but better to the east and when they start using it next winter at 2300, that will be after sunset. Will keep it on another week. Brady posts new schedules on Sundays they go into effect, not earlier, since more than one schedule on the page would confuse listeners. I say: not if they pay any attention to clearly stated dates in effect; putting up schedules somewhat in advance is advantageous for stations if they want them to be published in monthly bulletins with a week or two lead time. E.g. the NASWA Journal for April could not publish the WWCR schedule in effect by the time it reaches readers, if it is not known until March 27, which is after it goes to the printer, so would have to wait till early May to be seen. 6940, after monitoring the pirates on 6925 and 6924, at 0222 March 20 refound this WWCR mixing product, of 4840 leapfrogging over 5890 another 1050 kHz higher, confirmed by // audio to both; weak but still audible with max attenuation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 99, Issue 20 ********************************************