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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs March 31-April 1, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
2. April 1 Logs (Brian Alexander)
3. DX Listening Digest 12-13; World of Radio 1610 (Glenn Hauser)
4. [ptsw] Glenn Hauser logs March 31-April 1, 2012
(Stewart MacKenzie)
5. Glenn Hauser logs April 1-2, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 10:25:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: d...@yahooogroups.com
Cc: NASWA <na...@yahoogroups.com>, s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 31-April 1, 2012
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** BRAZIL. 6180 // 11780, April 1 at 0139, RNA back in whack, unlike a week ago
with huge spurs around 5985 and 6085; and also OK circa 0500 in all-night UT
Sunday broadcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11915+, April 1 at 0200 timesignal and Portuguese timecheck for
``onze horas``, in the ``capital Ga?cha``, by YL, poor signal slightly on the
hi side, i.e. R. Ga?cha, Porto Alegre RS. It`s less off-frequency than 11925++
R. Bandeirantes, as I step up 10 kHz with the BFO, and which is *not* inactive
despite the a*terisk in WRTH 2012. I never hear 11915 when I am tuning later at
night; maybe signs off at local midnight 0300 UT? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake April 1, before 1300:
15450, good at 1257-1300* atop V. of Turkey in English!
After 1300:
15485, good at 1305, ex-15450 clearing that for Turkey
Before 1400:
12980, good at 1346
13920, very good at 1346
15490, very good at 1348, ex 15485 earlier in hour
15560, fair at 1349 with het
15870, good at 1349
16100, very poor at 1350
16700, very poor at 1350
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 15785, April 1 at 0454, CRI English is still here, 0455
going into disposable Chinese lesson at hourends; presumably obliterating Galei
Zahal further east, no trace here. CRI registered as 01-07 via Xi`an, and into
Chinese after 05. Before then also audible on weaker // 15120 [no sign of
Nigeria], and 6020 via Canada (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also
EAST TURKISTAN
** CUBA. 6010, April 1 at 0550-0552, RHC English with Arnie Coro`s science &
technology talk, about A-12 frequency changes now going into effect, how it`s
all cleared with ITU [not HFCC!], CIRAF zones, etc., but no details, referring
us to their English website. Before checking that, I am going to find out what
I can by monitoring.
Starting at 1253: new, or rather reactivated 9550 has been added to weak 9540
and strong 9850, but 9850 goes off at 1257*. At 1312 check, 9550 had also gone
off, uncovering CRI in Vietnamese.
At 1254, new 11860 has replaced 11840; still on 11760, 11750, 11690.
At 1257 none in the 13s, and still 15230, but not 15380 in the 15s.
At 1304, new 15 MHz frequency is 15340! They`ve used it periodically many years
before, and now it blasts away HCJB Australia to S Asia, weakly audible
underneath. Maybe not a problem for HCJB in its target area? But RHC has a
history of indifference or hostility to HCJB, refusing to open up its only
remaining frequency from Ecuador in the evenings, 6050. So far, Morocco is
sticking to 15349.2, far enough away, after starting A-12 on 15341.2.
At 1308, 13780 is the only frequency on this band; no more 13670
At 1310, 11860 still on atop CCI: only thing scheduled is VOR in Russian, 117
degrees from Moscow site, which ought not to matter here
Spanish programming has moved one UT hour earlier as DST has just started in
Cuba. I suppose sign on is now at *1100; `En Contacto` confirmed Sunday at 1335
instead of 1435; during it someone mentioned their new frequency lineup for
Spanish, in generalities, standard Soviet-style disorder:
Mornings [missed first few, but see below]: 15340, 11750, 11760, 11690, 11860,
9540, 9550, 9850, 6150
Afternoons: 17705, 17750, 11840, 9710, 9810, 5040
Nights: 17705, 17750, 15230, 11680, 11760, 11840, 9810, 6060, 6120, 5040.
At 1347, 15340 is very strong and splattering +/- 10 kHz at least
At 1351, I hear two more new 17 MHz channels for the morning: 17580 atop CCI,
which would be YFR via Wertachtal at 13-15; and at 1353, 17730 in the clear.
Now let`s check the RHC website: guess what, as of 1630 UT April 1, the Spanish
schedule
http://www.radiohc.cu/index.php/de-interes/frecuencias.html
is still the out of date B-11 one, none of the new frequencies in it!
Altho undated, the English version is also still obviously B-11:
http://www.radiohc.cu/ing/of-interest/frequencies.html
Maybe they`ll get around to updating them by Monday
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. 9490, April 1 at 0146, R. Rep?blica via RMI via CANADA with
polemic talk in Spanish, more or less over the DentroCuban jamming. Then
checked 5954+ via COSTA RICA: much weaker signal, and lowly modulated but music
so not //. The 9490 broadcast is weekends only, not sure about 5954 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. 11775, April 1 at 0157, R. Mart? loud and clear, no jamming
detectable despite strong signal from Habana on 11760. This is 100 kW via
CANADA at 01-03, following only one hour from 500 kW Greenville at 00-01 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS [and non]. 11793-11818, April 1 at 0158, OTH radar pulsing, perhaps
from here in typical 25-kHz bandwidth, bothering mainly 11795 with RRI IS prior
to Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN [and non]. 9470, April 1 at 0145, CRI English with heavy
echo, same program as 6020 via ALBANIA, but not synchronized. 9470 is 308
degrees via Wulumuchi toward Europe, but apparently also via long path (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 6270, April 1 at 0141, R. Cairo with whine and just barely modulated,
but no huge spur field for a change.
9305, April 1 at 0143, R. Cairo Arabic service with VG signal, but just barely
modulated at distorted peaks.
9315, April 1 at 0143, R. Cairo, finally a frequency with sufficient
modulation, song in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 7475 // 9420 and much weaker // 15650 detectable April 1 at 0135,
VOG with Greek music. So all three transmitters funxioning at the moment and
probably about to close at 0200 as others have reported, tho unchecked further
here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 11620, April 1 at 0156, S Asian vocal music with flutter. This is
AIR`s Urdu service, 0015-0430, 500 kW, 240 degrees from Bangaluru per Aoki
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 6110, April 1 at 0500, R. Japan via CANADA, has resumed opening
English broadcasts with `Sakura` and frequencies instead of going directly into
news without even an ID; a welcome development. 0501 the deep-voiced newscaster
introduces himself as Hirokazu Kazamaki, if I copied all the syllables
correctly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, April 1 at 0142, Arabish phone calls to YL host, typical
IGIM overnight programming, but not on the air around 0500, 0555 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 7280-7285-7290, April 1 at 1252, DRM noise, so American hams
can kiss goodbye this segment of 40m, where they like to run AM instead of SSB.
In DXLD 12-12, we had two conflicting schedules for RNZI A-12:
for DRM on 7 MHz, the tentative schedule as of March 13 had:
0759-1158 7440 RAN 025 kW 035 deg DRM All Pac, NW Pac, Timor
0759-1158 7440 RAN 025 kW 325 deg DRM All Pac, NW Pac, Timor
and then no DRM until resuming at 1545 on 6170:
1545-1750 6170 RAN 035 kW 035 deg DRM Cook Isl, Samoa, Fiji
A later presumably more definite one shows:
0759-1058 6170 AM 7285 DRM Pacific Daily
and then no DRM until resuming at 1551 on 6170:
1551-1650 7285 AM 6170 DRM Cook Islands, Samoa, Fiji Daily
Yet another one is now on the website as of April 1, where changes are made
without notice, so behold the whole thing in case anything else be different;
here it`s back to 7285 DRM at 1551 instead of 6170.
25 Mar 2012 - 27 Oct 2012
UTC kHz Target Days
0459-0650 11725 AM 11675 DRM Pacific Daily
0651-0758 11725 AM 11675 DRM Tonga Daily
0759-1058 6170 AM 7285 DRM Pacific Daily
1059-1258 9655 AM Timor, NW Pacific Daily
1300-1550 6170 AM Pacific Daily
1551-1650 6170 AM 7285 DRM Cook Islands, Samoa, Fiji Daily
1651-1836 9615 AM 9890 DRM Cook Islands, Samoa, Fiji Daily
1837-1850 9615 AM 11675 DRM Samoa Daily
1851-2150 11725 AM 15720 DRM Niue, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa Daily
2151-0458 15720 AM 17675 DRM Pacific Daily
I wonder why they decided to go from out-of-band 7440 where DRM could do less
damage, to inband 7285? But in none of these is DRM supposed to be on at 1252!
Since this is the first day of standard time UT +12 resuming in NZ after 6+
months of UT+13, I assume they were unable to change the local time scheduling
of the DRM transmitter. Yet it`s on two, not one hours later than listed (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 15190, April 1 at 1402, Brother Scare is still audible
here via IRRS via ROMANIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. REE certainly has problems with its transmitters.
9630, April 1 at 0150, the DRM broadcast via COSTA RICA at 00-02 is expanding
far beyond the full-10-kHz bandwidth supposedly employed by DRM. Stepping 1 kHz
at a time on the DX-398, I can hear the DRM noise steadily diminishing out to
+/- 30 kHz, i.e. reaching 9600-9660. Fortunately not too many other AM stations
are active in the area, encouraged to evacuate? 9625 CBCNQ of course is totally
blown away, slightly less so REE analog on 9620.
11880 via COSTA RICA, Sunday April 1 at 1320, world music turns out to be the
excellent `Mundofon?as` show at a new hour for our Sunday morning listening
pleasure, music from Karelia, Finland at the moment. Altho this is the
strongest frequency (still no 17595 direct on weekends), 11880 now suffers from
some modulation distortion.
21540 at 1355, REE IS making SAH with weaker Kuwait, as 21540 is about to sign
off an hour earlier than on weekdays; while weak 21610 continues with
`Mundofon?as` a minute longer, some 5 sex ahead of // 11880 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 5950, April 1 at 0556 check, RTI via WYFR is in correct
language English for the 05-06 hour, instead of Chinese, as heard 48 hours
earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 15450, VOT gets creamed by Firedrake: see CHINA. Tnx a lot, V of
Tibet! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 15730, March 31 at 2033, English lesson, very strong
splattering +/- 30 kHz, 94 degrees from Greenville B, VOA French service in the
2030-2100 extension on Sat & Sun after daily 2000-2030. Also on much weaker //
15185 slightly behind 15730, i.e. 10 degrees from BOTSWANA, which is on air
only for the weekend 2030-2100 segment. Did not hear a word of French in a
couple of minutes.
9510, Sunday April 1 at 1312, VOA `Jazz America` clear on fair signal here,
while the ChiCom are still co-channel mixing on 9760. 9510 is registered as the
old 50 kW transmitter from the PHX site, daily at 12-13, weekends only at
13-14. PHX is what HFCC labels it; Aoki calls it Tinang II; and WRTH makes no
distinxion between the 50 kW and 250 kW Tinang sites, both just PHT; why?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7555+, April 1 at 0138, KJES NM, VG signal with Spanish catechisms,
but just barely modulated. Slightly off frequency to hi side but within
tolerance (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 6115, April 1 at 0140, a younger Harold Camping on WYFR English still
here in only remaining broadcast northward; someone had reported this on 6120,
probably dial miscalibration (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11520, April 1 at 0154, WEWN English distorted and continuous
crackle, spur field bothering 11530 WYFR, Portuguese Bible study with Spanish
accent; which still hasn`t learned to give wider berth to any WEWN frequency.
11845-11900, April 1 at 0159, WEWN 11870 Spanish is inbooming, unlike later in
the night, audiblizing the noise field accompanying it, gradually diminishing
out to 25 kHz above and below. The noise also audible on the fundamental. Two
out of three WEWN transmitters have these problems, and no one seems to care.
Mother Angelica should be ashamed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 4840, April 1 at 0459, WWCR-3 announcing an apparent change in the
WWCR-2 schedule from sometime in March, 21-24 UT on 9350. This is hardly news,
having gone into effect March 25, ex 21-23 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** VATICAN [and non]. 9810, April 1 at 0506, VR Scandinavian language (Swedish
on Sundays per Aoki), no longer with collision from RHC, but instead
DRM-sounding noise co-channel, tho none such is scheduled on 9805, 9810 or
9815. Hmm, maybe the noise is from RHC with an open STL feed (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
------------------------------
Message: 2
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 19:06:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Alexander <brian384...@aol.com>
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] April 1 Logs
Message-ID: <8cede733f8f3236-2abc-c...@webmail-m135.sysops.aol.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
** EUROPE. PIRATE. 15840 USB, Radio Spaceshuttle, 1315-1405,
pop music. Rock music. ID. Weak in noisy conditions, but fair on
peaks. April 1. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** LIBYA. 11600, Radio T?l?vision Libye - Radio Libye, 1629-1805*,
tune-in to French talk. Lite music. French ballads. IDs. Weak at
tune-in, but fair to good by 1715. Irregular. April 1. (Brian Alexander,
PA)
?
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6925 USB, Renegade Radio, 1525-
1546, lite instrumental music. Music by Pink Floyd, Styx, Steely Dan,
ZZ Top. ID and email address at 1545. Weak in noisy conditions.
April 1. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
?
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
?
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 19:39:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: NASWA <na...@yahoogroups.com>, s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] DX Listening Digest 12-13; World of Radio 1610
Message-ID:
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DX Listening Digest 12-13 has now been posted at http://dxld.org
or http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt or http://dxld.worldofradio.org
and now also without delay at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1213.txt
[as sometimes happens, upload of this edition as dxlatest has not been
immediate, but has been immediate at the dxld1213.txt link above]
CONTENTS:
WOR 1610 / ALASKA / ALBANIA A12 / ALGERIA non A12 / ANGUILLA +non / ARGENTINA /
ARMENIA / ASIA non RFA A12 / AUSTRALIA VL8 / AUSTRALIA Symban / AUSTRALIA RA /
AUSTRALIA HCJB / AUSTRALIA TAB / AUSTRIA / BELARUS / BELGIUM non A12 / BERMUDA
/ BOLIVIA / BONAIRE / BRAZIL +non / BURMA non / CANADA CJRN / CANADA CKMO /
CANADA CKZU/CKZN / CANADA CBCNQ / CANADA +non RCI+ / CHAD +non / CHINA +non /
COLOMBIA / CONGO / COSTA RICA +non / CROATIA +non / CUBA +non / CYPRUS +non /
CZECHIA / DIEGO GARCIA / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC / EAST TURKISTAN / ECUADOR / EGYPT
/ EQUATORIAL GUINEA +non / ERITREA / ETHIOPIA / EUROPE Pirates / FRANCE / GABON
/ GERMANY +non / GOA / GREECE +non / GRENADA / GUAM / HAITI / INDIA A12+ /
INDONESIA +non / INTERNATIONAL INTERNET / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM CNN / IRAN +non
/ ISRAEL +non / ITALY +non A12+ / JAPAN +non A12 / KALININGRAD / KAZAKHSTAN /
KOREA NORTH +non / KOREA SOUTH / KURDISTAN non / KUWAIT +non / LEBANON non /
LIBYA / LITHUANIA A12 /
MACEDONIA / MALAYSIA / MALI / MAURITANIA / MEXICO / MICRONESIA / MONGOLIA /
MOROCCO +non / MYANMAR / NEPAL / NETHERLANDS non / NEW ZEALAND / NIGERIA +non /
NORTH AMERICA pirates / OKLAHOMA KSEO / OKLAHOMA +non KTOK / OKLAHOMA
KOKB/KOKP/KOSB / OMAN / PAKISTAN A12+ / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PERU / PHILIPPINES /
POLAND non / PRIDNESTROVYE / ROMANIA / RUSSIA +non / RWANDA / SAINT KITTS &
NEVIS / SARAWAK non / SAUDI ARABIA / SERBIA +non A12 / SOUTH AFRICA +non /
SOUTH CAROLINA non / SPAIN +non / SRI LANKA A12 / SUDAN +non / SWAZILAND /
SWEDEN / TAIWAN +non A12 / TAJIKISTAN / THAILAND A12 / TUNISIA / TURKEY /
TUVALU / UKRAINE / UK Palace Radio / UK +non BBCWS+ A12+ / USA NNN0APG/NNN0AEV
/ USA +non AFN / USA BBG / USA +non VOA / USA KLIF/WBAP / USA
WOR/WRMI/WTWW/WWRB/WBCQ / USA WBCQ / USA +non WRMI / USA WEWN/WWRB / USA WHRI /
USA WWCR / USA WTJC / USA WJHR / USA +non WYFR A12 / USA non AWR / USA non
Alamo / USA KTBN / USA KBOI / USA KKNO / USA KBME / USA KOA+ /
USA KCWJ / USA WCSZ / USA KWYR+ / USA KGGS / USA KZQZ / USA KTNO / USA WPQB866
/ USA WQFG689 / USA FCC/LPRM / USA FCC/pirate / VATICAN +non / VENEZUELA /
VIETNAM +non / WESTERN SAHARA non / YEMEN non / ZAMBIA / ZIMBABWE +non /
UNIDENTIFIED 3219 / UNIDENTIFIED 4590 / UNIDENTIFIED 4995 / UNIDENTIFIED 5837 /
UNIDENTIFIED 6060 / UNIDENTIFIED 7150 / UNIDENTIFIED non 9500 / UNIDENTIFIED
9975/9985 / UNIDENTIFIED 10000 / UNIDENTIFIED non 11565 / UNIDENTIFIED 11690 /
UNIDENTIFIED 12015 / UNIDENTIFIED 16083 / UNIDENTIFIED 17902 / UNIDENTIFIED
18000 / TESTIMONIALS / PUBLICATIONS / LANGUAGE LESSONS / DIGITAL BROADCASTING
A12 / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / WORLD OF HOROLOGY / PROPAGATION
For restrixions and searchable 2012 contents archive see
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html
For restrixions and searchable 2011 contents archive see
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid1.html
NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but
have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself
obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn
WORLD OF RADIO 1610 HEADLINES:
*DX and station news including new season schedules, from: Algeria
non, Bonaire, Brazil, Canada, Chad, China, Congo, Cuba and non, Diego
Garcia, Egypt, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Kuwait,
Lebanon non, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mali, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar,
Netherlands non, Pakistan, Serbia and non, Sudan non, Thailand,
Tunisia, USA, Vatican and non
SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1610, March 29-April 4, 2012
Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [repeated 1609 this week]
Thu 2100 WTWW 9479 [confirmed]
Fri 0329v WWRB 5050 [confirmed on new 5050, ex-3195!]
Sat 0100v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 [confirmed at 0129 start!]
Sat 0800 WRMI 9955
Sat 1500 WRMI 9955
Sat 1730 WRMI 9955
Sun 0400 WTWW 5755
Sun 0800 WRMI 9955
Sun 1530 WRMI 9955
Sun 1730 WRMI 9955
Mon 0500 WRMI 9955
Mon 1130 WRMI 9955
Tue 0930 HLR 5980 Hamburger Lokal Radio [new summer time shift]
Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or maybe 1611 if ready in time]
Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite
and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or
http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org
For updates see our Anomaly Alert page:
http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html
WRN ON DEMAND:
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/#world-of-radio
WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN:
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/customize-panel/addToPlaylist/98/09:00:00UTC/English
OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO:
http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
or http://wor.worldofradio.org
Best DX wishes, Glenn Hauser
------------------------------
Message: 4
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 20:37:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Stewart MacKenzie <wdx...@yahoo.com>
To: Adrian Peterson <adr...@awr.org>, Gerry Dexter <g...@wi.rr.com>,
Anker Peterson <anker.peter...@mail.dk>, BCL NEWS
<bcln...@yahoogroups.com>, Duane Fischer <dfisc...@usol.com>, Hard
Core DX <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, Maryann Kehoe
<atl...@webtv.net>, Prime Time Shortwave
<primetimeshortw...@yahoogroups.com>, SWL QTH <s...@mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [HCDX] [ptsw] Glenn Hauser logs March 31-April 1, 2012
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?On Sun, 4/1/12, Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
Subject: [ptsw] Glenn Hauser logs March 31-April 1, 2012
To: d...@yahooogroups.com
Cc: "NASWA" <na...@yahoogroups.com>, s...@mailman.qth.net
Date: Sunday, April 1, 2012, 10:25 AM
** BRAZIL. 6180 // 11780, April 1 at 0139, RNA back in whack, unlike a week ago
with huge spurs around 5985 and 6085; and also OK circa 0500 in all-night UT
Sunday broadcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11915+, April 1 at 0200 timesignal and Portuguese timecheck for
``onze horas``, in the ``capital Ga?cha``, by YL, poor signal slightly on the
hi side, i.e. R. Ga?cha, Porto Alegre RS. It`s less off-frequency than 11925++
R. Bandeirantes, as I step up 10 kHz with the BFO, and which is *not* inactive
despite the a*terisk in WRTH 2012. I never hear 11915 when I am tuning later at
night; maybe signs off at local midnight 0300 UT? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake April 1, before 1300:
15450, good at 1257-1300* atop V. of Turkey in English!
After 1300:
15485, good at 1305, ex-15450 clearing that for Turkey
Before 1400:
12980, good at 1346
13920, very good at 1346
15490, very good at 1348, ex 15485 earlier in hour
15560, fair at 1349 with het
15870, good at 1349
16100, very poor at 1350
16700, very poor at 1350
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 15785, April 1 at 0454, CRI English is still here, 0455
going into disposable Chinese lesson at hourends; presumably obliterating Galei
Zahal further east, no trace here. CRI registered as 01-07 via Xi`an, and into
Chinese after 05. Before then also audible on weaker // 15120 [no sign of
Nigeria], and 6020 via Canada (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also
EAST TURKISTAN
** CUBA. 6010, April 1 at 0550-0552, RHC English with Arnie Coro`s science &
technology talk, about A-12 frequency changes now going into effect, how it`s
all cleared with ITU [not HFCC!], CIRAF zones, etc., but no details, referring
us to their English website. Before checking that, I am going to find out what
I can by monitoring.
Starting at 1253: new, or rather reactivated 9550 has been added to weak 9540
and strong 9850, but 9850 goes off at 1257*. At 1312 check, 9550 had also gone
off, uncovering CRI in Vietnamese.
At 1254, new 11860 has replaced 11840; still on 11760, 11750, 11690.
At 1257 none in the 13s, and still 15230, but not 15380 in the 15s.
At 1304, new 15 MHz frequency is 15340! They`ve used it periodically many years
before, and now it blasts away HCJB Australia to S Asia, weakly audible
underneath. Maybe not a problem for HCJB in its target area? But RHC has a
history of indifference or hostility to HCJB, refusing to open up its only
remaining frequency from Ecuador in the evenings, 6050. So far, Morocco is
sticking to 15349.2, far enough away, after starting A-12 on 15341.2.
At 1308, 13780 is the only frequency on this band; no more 13670
At 1310, 11860 still on atop CCI: only thing scheduled is VOR in Russian, 117
degrees from Moscow site, which ought not to matter here
Spanish programming has moved one UT hour earlier as DST has just started in
Cuba. I suppose sign on is now at *1100; `En Contacto` confirmed Sunday at 1335
instead of 1435; during it someone mentioned their new frequency lineup for
Spanish, in generalities, standard Soviet-style disorder:
Mornings [missed first few, but see below]: 15340, 11750, 11760, 11690, 11860,
9540, 9550, 9850, 6150
Afternoons: 17705, 17750, 11840, 9710, 9810, 5040
Nights: 17705, 17750, 15230, 11680, 11760, 11840, 9810, 6060, 6120, 5040.
At 1347, 15340 is very strong and splattering +/- 10 kHz at least
At 1351, I hear two more new 17 MHz channels for the morning: 17580 atop CCI,
which would be YFR via Wertachtal at 13-15; and at 1353, 17730 in the clear.
Now let`s check the RHC website: guess what, as of 1630 UT April 1, the Spanish
schedule
http://www.radiohc.cu/index.php/de-interes/frecuencias.html
is still the out of date B-11 one, none of the new frequencies in it!
Altho undated, the English version is also still obviously B-11:
http://www.radiohc.cu/ing/of-interest/frequencies.html
Maybe they`ll get around to updating them by Monday
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. 9490, April 1 at 0146, R. Rep?blica via RMI via CANADA with
polemic talk in Spanish, more or less over the DentroCuban jamming. Then
checked 5954+ via COSTA RICA: much weaker signal, and lowly modulated but music
so not //. The 9490 broadcast is weekends only, not sure about 5954 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. 11775, April 1 at 0157, R. Mart? loud and clear, no jamming
detectable despite strong signal from Habana on 11760. This is 100 kW via
CANADA at 01-03, following only one hour from 500 kW Greenville at 00-01 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS [and non]. 11793-11818, April 1 at 0158, OTH radar pulsing, perhaps
from here in typical 25-kHz bandwidth, bothering mainly 11795 with RRI IS prior
to Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN [and non]. 9470, April 1 at 0145, CRI English with heavy
echo, same program as 6020 via ALBANIA, but not synchronized. 9470 is 308
degrees via Wulumuchi toward Europe, but apparently also via long path (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 6270, April 1 at 0141, R. Cairo with whine and just barely modulated,
but no huge spur field for a change.
9305, April 1 at 0143, R. Cairo Arabic service with VG signal, but just barely
modulated at distorted peaks.
9315, April 1 at 0143, R. Cairo, finally a frequency with sufficient
modulation, song in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 7475 // 9420 and much weaker // 15650 detectable April 1 at 0135,
VOG with Greek music. So all three transmitters funxioning at the moment and
probably about to close at 0200 as others have reported, tho unchecked further
here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 11620, April 1 at 0156, S Asian vocal music with flutter. This is
AIR`s Urdu service, 0015-0430, 500 kW, 240 degrees from Bangaluru per Aoki
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 6110, April 1 at 0500, R. Japan via CANADA, has resumed opening
English broadcasts with `Sakura` and frequencies instead of going directly into
news without even an ID; a welcome development. 0501 the deep-voiced newscaster
introduces himself as Hirokazu Kazamaki, if I copied all the syllables
correctly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, April 1 at 0142, Arabish phone calls to YL host, typical
IGIM overnight programming, but not on the air around 0500, 0555 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 7280-7285-7290, April 1 at 1252, DRM noise, so American hams
can kiss goodbye this segment of 40m, where they like to run AM instead of SSB.
In DXLD 12-12, we had two conflicting schedules for RNZI A-12:
for DRM on 7 MHz, the tentative schedule as of March 13 had:
0759-1158? 7440 RAN 025 kW 035 deg DRM All Pac, NW Pac, Timor
0759-1158? 7440 RAN 025 kW 325 deg DRM All Pac, NW Pac, Timor
and then no DRM until resuming at 1545 on 6170:
1545-1750? 6170 RAN 035 kW 035 deg DRM Cook Isl, Samoa, Fiji
A later presumably more definite one shows:
0759-1058? 6170 AM? 7285 DRM Pacific Daily
and then no DRM until resuming at 1551 on 6170:
1551-1650? 7285 AM? 6170 DRM Cook Islands, Samoa, Fiji Daily
Yet another one is now on the website as of April 1, where changes are made
without notice, so behold the whole thing in case anything else be different;
here it`s back to 7285 DRM at 1551 instead of 6170.
25 Mar 2012 - 27 Oct 2012
???UTC? ? ? ? ???kHz? ? ? ???Target Days
0459-0650 11725 AM 11675 DRM Pacific Daily
0651-0758 11725 AM 11675 DRM Tonga Daily
0759-1058? 6170 AM? 7285 DRM Pacific Daily
1059-1258? 9655 AM? ? ? ? ???Timor, NW Pacific Daily
1300-1550? 6170 AM? ? ? ? ???Pacific Daily
1551-1650? 6170 AM? 7285 DRM Cook Islands, Samoa, Fiji Daily
1651-1836? 9615 AM? 9890 DRM Cook Islands, Samoa, Fiji Daily
1837-1850? 9615 AM 11675 DRM Samoa Daily
1851-2150 11725 AM 15720 DRM Niue, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa? Daily
2151-0458 15720 AM 17675 DRM Pacific Daily
I wonder why they decided to go from out-of-band 7440 where DRM could do less
damage, to inband 7285? But in none of these is DRM supposed to be on at 1252!
Since this is the first day of standard time UT +12 resuming in NZ after 6+
months of UT+13, I assume they were unable to change the local time scheduling
of the DRM transmitter. Yet it`s on two, not one hours later than listed (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 15190, April 1 at 1402, Brother Scare is still audible
here via IRRS via ROMANIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. REE certainly has problems with its transmitters.
9630, April 1 at 0150, the DRM broadcast via COSTA RICA at 00-02 is expanding
far beyond the full-10-kHz bandwidth supposedly employed by DRM. Stepping 1 kHz
at a time on the DX-398, I can hear the DRM noise steadily diminishing out to
+/- 30 kHz, i.e. reaching 9600-9660. Fortunately not too many other AM stations
are active in the area, encouraged to evacuate? 9625 CBCNQ of course is totally
blown away, slightly less so REE analog on 9620.
11880 via COSTA RICA, Sunday April 1 at 1320, world music turns out to be the
excellent `Mundofon?as` show at a new hour for our Sunday morning listening
pleasure, music from Karelia, Finland at the moment. Altho this is the
strongest frequency (still no 17595 direct on weekends), 11880 now suffers from
some modulation distortion.
21540 at 1355, REE IS making SAH with weaker Kuwait, as 21540 is about to sign
off an hour earlier than on weekdays; while weak 21610 continues with
`Mundofon?as` a minute longer, some 5 sex ahead of // 11880 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 5950, April 1 at 0556 check, RTI via WYFR is in correct
language English for the 05-06 hour, instead of Chinese, as heard 48 hours
earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 15450, VOT gets creamed by Firedrake: see CHINA. Tnx a lot, V of
Tibet! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 15730, March 31 at 2033, English lesson, very strong
splattering +/- 30 kHz, 94 degrees from Greenville B, VOA French service in the
2030-2100 extension on Sat & Sun after daily 2000-2030. Also on much weaker //
15185 slightly behind 15730, i.e. 10 degrees from BOTSWANA, which is on air
only for the weekend 2030-2100 segment. Did not hear a word of French in a
couple of minutes.
9510, Sunday April 1 at 1312, VOA `Jazz America` clear on fair signal here,
while the ChiCom are still co-channel mixing on 9760. 9510 is registered as the
old 50 kW transmitter from the PHX site, daily at 12-13, weekends only at
13-14. PHX is what HFCC labels it; Aoki calls it Tinang II; and WRTH makes no
distinxion between the 50 kW and 250 kW Tinang sites, both just PHT; why?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7555+, April 1 at 0138, KJES NM, VG signal with Spanish catechisms,
but just barely modulated. Slightly off frequency to hi side but within
tolerance (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 6115, April 1 at 0140, a younger Harold Camping on WYFR English still
here in only remaining broadcast northward; someone had reported this on 6120,
probably dial miscalibration (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11520, April 1 at 0154, WEWN English distorted and continuous
crackle, spur field bothering 11530 WYFR, Portuguese Bible study with Spanish
accent; which still hasn`t learned to give wider berth to any WEWN frequency.
11845-11900, April 1 at 0159, WEWN 11870 Spanish is inbooming, unlike later in
the night, audiblizing the noise field accompanying it, gradually diminishing
out to 25 kHz above and below. The noise also audible on the fundamental. Two
out of three WEWN transmitters have these problems, and no one seems to care.
Mother Angelica should be ashamed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 4840, April 1 at 0459, WWCR-3 announcing an apparent change in the
WWCR-2 schedule from sometime in March, 21-24 UT on 9350. This is hardly news,
having gone into effect March 25, ex 21-23 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** VATICAN [and non]. 9810, April 1 at 0506, VR Scandinavian language (Swedish
on Sundays per Aoki), no longer with collision from RHC, but instead
DRM-sounding noise co-channel, tho none such is scheduled on 9805, 9810 or
9815. Hmm, maybe the noise is from RHC with an open STL feed (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 21:07:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
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Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 1-2, 2012
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** COSTA RICA. While waiting for RHC to put some modulation on 17750 carrier,
April 1 at 1947, see CUBA, I amused myself by tracing spurs from the bigsig on
17850 from REE relay during stupid ballgame, distorted matching modulation.
Found a lot of them at multiples of approx. 13.7 to 13.8 kHz up and down, so
give or take a bit on the decimal digit:
17836.2, 17822.3, 17808.4, 17794.6
17863.7, 17877.5, 17891.5, 17905.3
As usual, the closest ones were strongest, the further ones weakest (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Also spurs from SPAIN: q.v.
** CUBA. Monitoring for RHC after 1900 April 1, when the new frequencies are to
be in effect: at 1908, nothing found anywhere from 11 to 18 MHz, including
11760 where I expected the 20-21 English hour to move one hour earlier as it
did in A-11.
However, at 1925, now 11760 is on with music in progress; must have just missed
`DXers Unlimited` first airing, sob! 1927, yes, it`s RHC English; 1940 mailbag
show. What follows on 11760 after 2000? At 2023 check it`s French, and guess
what, at 2033 Esperanto ? new time for that, ex-2230 on 15370.
17750 was one of the new frequencies mentioned for ``tarde y noche`` on `En
Contacto` earlier, and by 1928 it has come on with big open carrier. I assume
this should be the frequency for Europe which was also on 17 MHz last summer.
In B-11 this has been 1930-2100 on 13640 in French/Arabic/Portuguese. I check
17750 repeatedly, 1935, 1941, 1945, 1956, 2017, but no modulation ever comes
on, and after 1959 it`s hit by huge DRM signal on 17750-17755-17760 from TDP
Radio in French Guiana. Way to go, Arnie!
Only with BFO can I tell the silent carrier on 17750 is still there. Is it
ruining DRM reception like DRM is ruining it? Not checked again until after the
DRM hour is over, at 2123 and now 17750 is finally modulating with music,
Spanish, so presumably the bihour to Europe is at 21-23, ex-22-24 on 13640.
Yet, like last summer, the bigsig from this on 16m makes it hard to believe
it`s aimed NE rather than NW. Included `En Contacto` also an hour earlier now,
Sunday at 2240. 17750 off at 2300* sharp. The other 17 MHz frequency announced
within the program, 17705, was never heard.
Full evening schedule not checked yet, but at 0128 April 2, confirmed on new
11680. Spain is registered here daily at 23-02 to South America, and suspect it
was source of the slight QRM under strong RHC, no doubt much worse in SAm. Way
to go, Arnie! Also confirmed in Spanish on 15230, 11840, 11760, 9810, 6120,
6060, 5040, including the third and final play of `En Contacto` at 0135,
ex-0235.
Not heard on 17750, instead something else very weak, presumably R. Australia
at 2330-0658 as in Aoki, missing from HFCC. And not on 17705 either.
Around 0130, RHC English on 6000 and 6050 as before. Rest of that full schedule
not yet determined; the 5040 broadcast probably shifted an hour earlier to
23-24 as last summer.
The RHC website schedules in English and Spanish as of early UT April 2 still
haven`t been updated with the new info. ?Ma?ana? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. While monitoring 17750, waiting for RHC to start
modulating, see CUBA, April 1 at 1947 I hear some weak distorted Spanish around
17764, sounds the same as 17850 REE Costa Rica, but no match 86 kHz higher on
17936. But there is a match on 17746, i.e. +/-9 kHz from the rather weak REE
Noblejas on 17755. I`m using only the DX-398 on the porch, no second receiver
handy to see if audio is simul or offset.
To my surprise I can still detect 17746 and 17764 after 1959 when TDP via
GUIANA FRENCH DRM starts, blowing away 17755 itself, and in the sideband of RHC
17750 unmodulated carrier. On Sat & Sun, REE`s 17755 to Africa expands to
14-22, from 17-19 in Spanish and Portuguese on M-F. Also audible on 17715 to S
America, which is at 14-22 on Sunday, 16-22 on Saturday, and only 15-19
including 1830-1900 Portuguese on weekdays. TDP and REE must not worry about
mutual interference on 17555, with widely divergent targets, but it`s still
unnecessary with plenty of vacant frequencies around.
Then I succeed in hearing eight! spurs really from 17850; see COSTA RICA (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA [and non]. 17735v, April 1 before 2000, IWT is causing the usual
annoying lo het to RCI, but RCI in the clear with `Maple Leaf Mailbag` in
English at 2018. Don`t know exactly when Tunisia went off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 17530, April 1 at 1926, big open carrier atop music from
something else. O yes, it`s still VOA interfering with itself, Greenville
preparing to take over from S?o Tom?, complete with sign-on at 1929, then
French, instead of a drop-carrier-immediately/crash-start (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17510, April 1 at 2145, WHRI, `DXing with Cumbre` starting the
`Pirating` segment until 2155, filling rest of hour with extended closing
theme, and then playing opening theme again. This is one of only two known
times when they really turn on SW transmitter among the many times on the
schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15190, April 1 at 1859 checking in case R. Africa has reappeared:
I am hearing two stations mixing, making a SAH, one of them with bad
modulation. At one point I think I hear some Brazilian. The other could be
Philippines. At 1932 I am still hearing noisy modulation, maybe only one
station now. Bill Bingham, RSA was monitoring this earlier with R. Pilipinas
from 1750, then QRM from the distorted station starting at 1826. Maybe it`s
really R. Africa trying to make a comeback (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15225, April 1 at 1933, weak RTTY on this approx. frequency,
intruding into the middle of the 15 MHz ISWBC band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 112, Issue 2
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