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Today's Topics:
1. Fri Morn (Charles)
2. Glenn Hauser logs April 8, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA (Stewart MacKenzie)
4. Australia Radio Heritage 2MO Gunnedah (Radio Heritage Mail)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 09:54:10 -0000
From: "Charles" <ka4...@peoplepc.com>
To: "ALF" <alf.e.pers...@telia.com>, "ANKER PETERSEN"
<anker.peter...@mail.dk>, "Anne Fanelli" <w...@yahoo.com>,
"Charles B"
<ka4prfnos...@peoplepc.com>, "DD" <ddsra...@juno.com>, "Eike
Bierwirth" <capercail...@gmx.net>, <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>,
"'Harry'" <mtmush...@aol.com>, <mal...@mailbox.syr.edu>,
<primetimeshortw...@yahoogroups.com>, <r...@earthlink.net>, "Ron
Howard" <ron888how...@gmail.com>, "'skeds'" <sk...@hfskeds.com>,
"wghauser" <wghau...@yahoo.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Fri Morn
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Bolivia, 6134.803, Radio Santa Cruz, 0920-0930 At tune in heard a program
of
steady ballad type music . At 0921 noted a canned ID as, "Santa Cruz,
Santa
Cruz ... en Radio ...". Then music continued. Signal was good and strong.
(Chuck Bolland, April 8, 2011)
Peru, 6019.176, Radio Victoria, 0926-0935, With the usual format, noted
a male in Religious Spanish language comments (David Miranda).
Signal was at a fair level this morning while listening in LSB mode.
However, at 0929 Australia's Interval signal is heard from 6020KHz blocking
Radio Victoria somewhat. (Chuck Bolland, April 8, 2011)
WR-31DDC
26N 081W
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 10:38:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 8, 2011
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** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36 still missing April 8, after sudden appearance
April 6, and absence April 7. Roberto Scaglione says they were working on
fixing antenna and transmitter problems. On April 8 I checked repeatedly at
1255, 1330, 1409, 1417, 1447 and never heard even a carrier, tho propagation
was poor. Harold Frodge, reporting to DXLD, also looked for it recently at
later hours, and indeed they might have the transmitter on beyond previous
regular schedule while they are testing and repairing:
``15476, 2156, 5-Apr; Weak het only centering about 15476. Not there at 2315.
No het detected at 1700 or 2129, 6-Apr or 1824, 7-Apr (Frodge-MI)`` By ``het``
he means carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 13830, April 8 at 1318, CNR1 jamming // 11990; 13830 is to block R.
Free Asia, Tibetan via Tajikistan at 11-14.
15670, April 8 at 1332, Firedrake atop something, // 15900, and no other FD
found 8-17 MHz by 1340. 15670 is also RFA Tibetan via TAJIKISTAN at 11-14, and
15900 presumably Sound of Hope.
17705, April 8 at 1308, Chinese vs Chinese, i.e. ChiCom jamming against All
India Radio`s Chinese service until 1315, burying Saudi Arabia, q.v. (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 15630, VOG with non-classical music, fair April 8 at 1456, but
presumably filling with even more music than usual of some sort, during strike
thru Monday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, April 8 at 0556, R. Truth with multilingual announcements,
English at tune-in offering QSL, with postal address Box 5, Chiquimula. Then YL
in German; Italian; Swedish? Japanese; native language including Spanish words,
all with Hammond organ music background, but audio quality varies greatly from
language to language, some hard to copy or even identify. Overall modulation is
somewhat distorted, and some T-storm crashes, but good steady signal at S9+20.
Then brief sign-offs in Spanish and English, 0602 starting NA (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUINEA. 7125, April 8 at 0605, RTG again with Qur`an, in Arabic of course.
Did not catch any French translation like before in brief monitoring this time
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT [and non]. 21540, April 8 at 1454, Arabic pop music rather than
Qur`an on this Friday, atop co-channel Spain, the SSOB now after Hamada Radio
International is finished. Altho Kuwait may be at fault for this stupid
collision, Spain could solve it by reactivating vacant 21570 which it was using
in B-10, instead of 21540. But that would be too easy and require diligence
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA. 17725, I can tell VOAf from the GJ is there, April 8 at 1453, fair
signal with undermodulated music during presumed English bihour (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA [non]. 21480, Hamada Radio International, via RMI, April 8 at 1415
is the SSOB --- strongest station on the band of 13m! Frequent mentions in
Hausa of Kaduna. This is currently scheduled M-F 1400-1430, due south from
Wertachtal, GERMANY with a semi-transmitter at 125 kW. Close second in strength
is Kuwait on 21540.
At this hour I am pleased to note 10 audible signals on the 13 m band,
unimaginable just a year ago during prolonged solar min: 21470 BBC English via
Cyprus, 21480 HRI, 21505 BSKSA, 21540 RK AND REE, 21560 NHK via France, 21610
REE, 21630 BBC Hausa via Portugal, 21655 RDPI Portugal, 21840 DW Amharic via
Portugal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Re previous report of KWTV-DT 39 adding continuous news on 9.2:
Searching their site on ``News 9 Now`` (abbr`d as News9 N on PSIP ID), does get
this:
``KWTV'S 'NEWS NOW' TO BECOME 'NEWS 9 NOW' --- News9.com
OKLAHOMA CITY -- News 9 is proud to introduce News 9 Now, formerly known as
News Now 53. Beginning April 1, 2011, viewers can find News 9 Now on KWTV's
digital sub-channel, 9.2. The news will continue to be broadcast on Cox Cable
Channel 53.
"We made this move to make these channels more accessible to our viewers," said
Griffin Communications President and CEO David Griffin. "We're happy to
continue our successful 15 year partnership with Cox and look forward to
serving even more Oklahomans by offering News 9 Now and News On 6 Now over the
air."
The new channel will also allow News 9 to carry special programming without
pre-empting regular scheduled programming. Viewers may need to rescan their
channel lineups in order for the change to take effect. For more information,
including a list of cable companies who will carry News 9 Now, check out
http://News9.com/News9Now [website]`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA [and non]. 17705, BSKSA in Arabic was blasted away by the
Indo-Chinese radio war April 8 at 1308, see CHINA; that should have ended at
1315, and at 1411 check, BSKSA is alone again on channel in Arabic (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA [and non]. 15640, April 8 at 1448, noise jamming, bleeding to
adjacent frequencies, perhaps Ethiopia using a Chinese-provided DRM transmitter
to jam DW Amharic? NO! Looking it up in HFCC, this really is DRM, the joint
BBC/DW service via Trincomalee, 90 kW aimed 5 degrees across India at
1400-1800. It`s so hard to tell DRM from jamming.
And this was in fact jamming an analog signal, Russian-style tune-up tone going
on and off! Per HFCC, a Moscow analog site is also on 15640 at 13-18, 500 kW,
190 degrees. But Aoki shows 15640 really in use only at 15-16, for VOR in
Russian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 17745, Sudan Radio Service, Friday April 8 *1459:20 carrier on
via Sines, PORTUGAL, a few sex after VOA Kurdish via Wertachtal finishes 17750
at 1459*. Only fair signal, starts with drumming and other percussion, 1500
echoey YL with sign-on mentioning station name as in English, but otherwise in
colloquial Arabic(?).
I made a point of monitoring SRS, since Ivo Ivanov reports to DXLD that this
and all other transmissions via Portugal are being deleted from April 9, as
well as various vernaculars via UAE at 17-18 on 9590, retaining only these:
``0400-0500 on 13720 DHA 250 kW / 245 deg to EaAf Arabic
0500-0600 on 13720 DHA 250 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Arabic/English Sat/Sun, ex
Daily``
Which are unlikely to be heard well here in NAm, contrary to Sines. But there
should be one more SRS broadcast on 17745 via Portugal on April 8 at 15-17,
when the first semihour on Saturday is normally in English. Does SRS consider
its mission almost accomplished, or another funding cut? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 15450, VOT English, poor April 8 at 1323 concluding with a few
headlines, then YL still thinks she is on two 25m frequencies as in B-10 at
1330+, and into IS. I listen to all the repeats, and they are indeed identical,
on some keyboard. We so miss the subtle variations in the old version on a real
piano. There was time to play it 15 times, plus 21 of the 26 notes for a
sixteenth before cut off the air later than usual at 1328* (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 17545, VOA news in English, fair with deep fades April 8 at
1452. Listed 100 kW, 350 degrees from BOTSWANA during this hour only (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 7555, April 8 at 0133, VG open carrier, no modulation
detectable, but usual ute hash from France on the hi side. Must be KJES, in
another pointless transmission, now scheduled 0100-0230 on this frequency.
Supposed to rotate from 335 to 20 degrees at 0200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13845, WWCR VG signal April 8 at 1306, much better than 15825 as we
again have enhanced propagation below 15 MHz. At 1448, however, 15825 is also
VG, indicating HF sporadic E has hit --- so good that I could hear the squeal
and detect the #1 transmitter`s spurs on 15840.6 and 15810.4. Now if Es will
only build up into VHF beyond 54 MHz for what`s left of analog TVDX. It would
also be nice if the Es enhancement last thru 2100 for WORLD OF RADIO on 15825
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9955, WRMI, April 8 at 1405 has no jamming during RFI
English relay but with considerable CCI, and lo het, which per Aoki is KTWR in
Cantonese (HFCC says ``Yue``), during this semihour only M-F. TWR itself calls
it Cantonese with `Thru the Bible`:
http://www.twr.org/schedule/?language=Cantonese&country=&site=&program_name=
Aoki`s WRMI listings are one hour late, showing RFI at 1500, still not shifted
for DST! WORLD OF RADIO lucks out at 1430 Friday on WRMI as that`s in a break
between KTWR and *1500 YFR Russian via Taiwan. Checked toward the end at 1457,
poor with fair peaks, perhaps some sporadic-E help, no broadcast QRM but some
irregular noise bursts, not jamming?
On Saturday, WOR is at 1400, so should also luck out on a KTWR day-off. Other
upcoming WRMI times for WORLD OF RADIO are: Sat 0800, 1730; Sunday 0800, 1530,
1730. On WWCR: Friday 2030 on 15825; Saturday 1600 on 12160; Sunday 0630 on
3215. On IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS-IBA: Saturday 1800 on 7290, 1566, 1368. How is
reception around Europe now on WWCR, IPAR?
WOR also confirmed on ACB Radio Mainstream webcast after 1500 Friday, to repeat
every odd-UT Friday hour thru 2330 via http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. Rechecking 15670, which was ChiCom-jammed earlier vs V. of
Tibet, April 8 at 1310, the Firedrake is gone and instead some weak unjammed
talk. HFCC shows it`s YFR in Hindi via Nauen at 1400-1600.
Strangely, from 2 to 25 July the same service is to switch to Issoudun, France
site, then back to Nauen, GERMANY. Something to do with higher transmission
priorities, RNW and the Tour de France? Very likely, as this year`s Tour runs
July 2-24, tho RNW has other holiday deviations in Dutch (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 15:00:08 -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
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>>>
AUSTRALIA?? Radio Australia-Shepparton?? 21725? 0312 GMT? English? 433? April
7?
Two YLs on deaths in Libya.? OM with comments on bombs being dropped in
Libya.??? MacKenzie-CA..
CANADA?? CHU - Ottawa?? 3300? 0430 GMT? French/English? 333? April 5? OM in
French plus an OM in English with the time clock.?? MacKenzie-CA..
COSTA RICA?? Radio Exterior Espana Relay-REE?? 3350? 0425 GMT? Spanish? 333?
April 5? YL and OM with comments in the Diaria program.? OM with REE ID 0428
GMT.??? Mackenzie-CA..
SOUTH AFRICA?? Trans World Radio-TWR?? 4775? 0407 GMT? German? 333? April 5? OM
with comments then an OM singing a hymn.????? MacKenzie-CA..
SOUTH AFRICA?? Radio Sonder Grense?? 3320? 0432 GMT? Afrikaans?? 333? April 5?
YL and OM with comments.??? MacKenzie-CA..
UNITED STATES, Tennessee?? WWCR-1?? 3215? 0435 GMT? English? 333? April 5? OM
on
God making Wars and the Rapture of the Church.??? Mackenzie-CA..
UNITED STATES, Tennessee?? WWRB?? 3185? 0445 GMT? English? 333? April 5? OM
with
comments via the Bible on living the Last Days on Earth.??? MacKenzie-CA..
Unknown Country,?? Unknown Station????? 4055? 0420 GMT? Spanish? 333? April 5?
OM with religous comments.??? 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
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 16:00:08 +1200
From: "Radio Heritage Mail" <i...@radioheritage.net>
To: i...@radioheritage.net
Subject: [HCDX] Australia Radio Heritage 2MO Gunnedah
Message-ID: <380-22011469408...@radioheritage.net>
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Media Release
Radio Heritage Foundation
www.radioheritage.net
____________________________
Australian Heritage AM Radio
2MO Gunnedah
Fine Station in Rich District
____________________________
The most popular feature heard on 2MO was the Hillbilly request
program on Saturday evenings, with requests from as far distant as
Rockhampton and Invercargill [NZ] according to the latest in the
popular series of Long Lost Australian Radio Stars hosted by the
Radio Heritage Foundation at www.radioheritage.net.
The station covered Gunnedah, Curlewis, Carroll, Mullaley, Kelvin,
Boggabri, Wee Waa, Somerton and Manilla and the station manager
Ernest S Tibbett originally came from the engineering staff at 2TM in
Tamworth.
Other local personalities heard on 2MO in the 1940's included Neville
Pellitt, Doreen Lambert, Ron Gibson, Margery Breen and John Cameron.
This new release brings to over thirty the number of such features
currently included in the Long Lost Australian Radio Stars series at
www.radioheritage.net where an increasing amount of Australian radio
heritage can now be found.
If you have your own memories, memorabilia and more you'd like to
share about 2MO Gunnedah or any of the other stations featured in the
series, the Radio Heritage Foundation wants to hear from you.
It may be some old photos, booklets, newspaper or magazine articles
or even some recordings. Memories or reminiscences of local events
and how 2MO has served the community for several generations of
listeners are also important.
The Radio Heritage Foundation is a registered non-profit organization
connecting popular culture nostalgia and radio heritage across the
Pacific and its website is www.radioheritage.net where full contact
details can be found. Email: i...@radioheritage.net.
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