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Today's Topics:
1. June 2-3 Logs (Brian Alexander)
2. Glenn Hauser logs June 2-3, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
3. New Fiji clandestine June 4 at 0830 (Glenn Hauser)
4. Glenn Hauser logs June 3, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 11:47:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Alexander <brian384...@aol.com>
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] June 2-3 Logs
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** BRAZIL. 4878.5v, Radio Roraima, 0345-0403*, June 3, Portuguese
pop music. Portuguese talk. ID. Sign off with National Anthem. Still
here with a poor, unstable, wobbly, distorted signal. (Brian Alexander,
PA)
?
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Radio Nac - Bata, *0538-0545,
June 3, sign on with African choral music. Weak. Poor in noisy
conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, Radio Africa, *0539-0550, June 3,
late sign on with English religious talk. Religious music. Good signal
strength but suffered from some kind of strange digital reverb.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** EUROPE. PIRATE. 6419.95, Radio Tidalwave, 2345-0055*,
June 2-3, pop music. IDs. Shoutouts. Weak but readable. Improved
to a fair level by 0035. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** MALI. 5995, RTVM, *0555-0610, June 3, sign on with guitar IS.
National Anthem at 0558 followed by flute IS and opening French ID
announcements at 0559. Local tribal music at 0601. Good modulation
for a change. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6930 USB, WPOD, 0340-0347*, June 3,
IDs. Pop music. Poor. Weak in noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6950 USB, Wolverine Radio, 0320-0330+,
June 3, music by KT Tunstall and Fats Domino. ID and SSTV at 0326.
Very good. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** SUDAN [non]. via UKRAINE. 11560, Radio Miraya, 0355-0445,
June 3, tune-in to English interview. Local pop music. English news
at 0400-0412. IDs at ?Radio Miraya? and ?101 Miraya FM?. Local pop
music. English interview at 0420 about health services. Arabic talk at
0430. Back to English at 0433 with talk, local pop music. Phone calls
with personal messages. Poor to fair. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
?
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 09:26:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
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Cc: NASWA <na...@yahoogroups.com>, s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs June 2-3, 2012
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** BRAZIL. 11780, June 3 at 0502, RNA is on here but not on 6180; good news
anyway for 6185 MEXICO, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. Sporadic E TV DX opening from north in English replaces Mexico
[q.v.] earlier in this hour, June 3 UT:
0051 on 2, GLOBAL promo, VG video for a moment even tho antenna is S for
Mexico, so rotate to north for the rest. 2 Global is surely regular CKND2 in
Minnedosa, Manitoba rather than one of the east-Ontarians. Yes: 0053 some promo
or ad mentioning Manitoba; 0054 news (?) item about expected worldend in Dec
2012; 0056 ``Prime News here in Winnipeg`` promo ``tonite at 10``. 0059 Carolyn
James says thanks for watching; looks like a large graphic beside/behind her
with numbers 16-9-2. W9WI.com shows ch 9 as the analog originator in Winnipeg,
CKND, but CKND-DT is on channel 40, and no other relays. Maybe 16 is its cable
channel? 0100 into a filmed drama. Is analog 9 still on the air, unlike CBWFT
on 3 in Winnipeg?
CKND-TV-2 is surely Minnedosa`s greatest claim to fame, a town of 2426 north of
Brandon in SW MB, chosen just as a workable drop-in site for a 100 kW relay
which did not exist during my previous heyday of TVDXing.
0118 on 3, hockey in English, surely CBC as it`s Saturday night, tho never
glimpsed a CBC exploding-pizza bug. Presumably one of the Sasks.
0130 on 4, some drama, also on 2 and 3 briefly.
0141 on 4, Rogers Internet ad; then Dallin furniture at Dufresne, now video
only; Googling immediately found that very same commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZuGSRHs6RM
I assume it`s national, not local, but surely Canadian
Fitful skip is out by around 0215.
0255 on 2, brief fade-in drama featuring a dog show, nothing more
Next day, June 3 I start monitoring ch 2 north before 1500, but nothing shows
until 1552 with a bit of talk in English. The 6m Es maps had been showing lots
of activity centered around Missouri/Iowa.
1615 on 2, sudden fade-in with ad for Association of Manitoba Land Surveyors,
i.e. CKND-TV-2 again, then panel discussion of the monarchy amid EIIR`s jubilee
festivities in London, UK (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake June 3:
16980, poor at 0527 mixing with ute?
Propagation degraded now and even more so around 1300, when none logged, except
see TAIWAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CONGO. Re my last report seeking 6115 at same time: Jorge Freitas in Bahia
reports: ``6115 02/Jun 0600 No signal R Congo`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 6110, June 3 at 0500, NHK World Radio Japan English relay via
Sackville, Canada is still missing without explanation for the fourth night. I
wonder if they are starting to dismantle transmitters. The 5975 relay
southeastward from Woofferton UK is not audible either, but presumably on and
just not propagating like it does in winter. France relay on 11970 still makes
it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. Re my unID carriers recently on 6071 hetting CFRX, Ron Howard
in California confirms: ``Hi Glenn, You are correct. June 2 heard VOK clearly
in Japanese, 1222-1225, with fair reception on 6071.0. By this later time I had
no signal from CFRX, so I had no het to deal with. Also heard May 10 drifting
around 6071.2v at 1214 with a fair signal, so not too uncommon. Ron`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, June 3 at 0456, I manage to turn on and tune in XEPPM before
sign-off and before CRI 6190, to find the modulation has become sufficient with
``typical Mexican music``. Sackville cut on 10 sex before 0500, causing severe
ACI, but XEPPM kept going a bit longer at 0501 with poetry recitation. If there
was a formal sign-off I missed it, but by 0506 there merely remained an open
carrier.
Juli?n Santiago D?ez de Bonilla in the DF coincidentally writes June 3 that
XEPPM modulation has been much improved for the past week: ``Hola Glenn: desde
hace una semana escucho con mucho mejor modulaci?n a XEPPM en los 6185 kHz.
Saludos, Juli?n``. We must treasure R. Educaci?n as M?xico`s last remaining SW
station, and a fine one too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Following the sporadic E analog TVDX opening from Tijuana and
Mexicali earlier on June 2 until 2017 UT or so, the MUF revives at 2300:
2300 on 2, fade-in cycling coverage, CCI
2300 on 3, Televisa Deportes, peaks SW, and bug in UR has Grupo Pac?fico logo
of italic 3 in an oval, i.e. XHQ-TV, Culiac?n, Sinaloa as illustrated here,
also with stylized seagull:
http://tvdxtips.com/mexlogosch3.html
2300 on 4, signs of video
UT June 3:
0003 on 4, seVale program bug in LR (with the V like a check mark), game show
involving someone in a wheelbarrow, whee! = carretilla, says my dixionary as I
seldom need to say that word in Spanish
At 0051 English on 2 from Global, so switch to CANADA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. 14600, June 3 at 1300 in a fitful Firedrake scan, instead heard
Chinese talk, very poor with flutter here during degraded propagation, perhaps
really Sound of Hope rather than substitute CNR1 jamming --- its known
frequencies were too weak to compare. WWV reported K index at 1200 was merely
2, and no space weather storms (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1619 monitoring: UT Sunday June 3 at 0400 on WTWW
5755: starts playing WOR opening but forgot to insert ID first, so interrupted
for that, then resumed before I started listing the countries to be covered.
Normally on WTWW, SFAW is interrupted for hourtop ID, then a few sex more of
that before starting WOR.
Remaining repeats on WRMI 9955: Sunday 1730, Monday 0500, 1130; on HLR Germany
5980: Tuesday 0930. On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sunday 1730 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9322-9434, June 3 at 0509, WTJC is out of whack again, very
overmodulated and distorted on fundamental 9370 and squeezing out extremely
distorted spurs at multiples of approx. 16 kHz above and below, circa: 9322,
9338, 9354, 9386, 9402, 9418, 9434. Hard to pin down these blobs but the 9386
one seemed centered about 9386.4.
By sheer luck, WBCQ falls right between them on 9330, as does BBC on 9410! Both
still unimpeded, but woe betide any other stations in the area. Next morning
around 1300, poor propagation made 9370 so weak that the spurs were not
audible, but if they were, 9386 would be bad for Brother Scare on WWRB 9385
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15615, June 3 at 1310, WEWN with ``percolating`` noise entertaining
us during a long pregnant pause in TV mass before priest says something in
English, causing the percolating to change its rate but never stop completely
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST
UNIDENTIFIED. 11494-SSB, June 3 at 0517-0525, occasional brief voice
transmissions, sounding US military, with occasional somewhat longer ``running
water`` digital mode bursts. Lots of logs in UDXF of 11494 as a US Coast Guard
frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 14:00:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: NASWA <na...@yahoogroups.com>, BDXC-news yg
<bdxc-n...@yahoogroups.com>, radioescutas yg
<radioescu...@yahoogrupos.com.br>, o...@yahoogroups.com, bclnews
<bcln...@yahoogroups.com>, playdx <playdx2...@yahoogroups.com>,
ar...@ardxc.info, condiglist yg <condigl...@yahoogroups.com>,
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Subject: [HCDX] New Fiji clandestine June 4 at 0830
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** FIJI [non]. As first reported exclusively on WORLD OF RADIO 1617 and DXLD
12-20:
HOT NEWS: A station for Fiji named Domo I Viti should start on 4 June at
0830-0900 on 11565 via WRN from Palau. Not sure what its agenda is, clandestine
or at least political? Seems there are at least two programs/stations by same
name, in Auckland and Sydney by expatriates. Related to either of them,
originating where? E.g.:
http://www.aucklandfiji.org.nz/community_features_view.asp?newsid=408
(Glenn Hauser, OK, May 9, WORLD OF RADIO 1617, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
WRN confirms that this new clandestine starts June 4 at 0830-0900 on 11565 via
PALAU, and will be weekly on Mondays only. It`s sponsored by the Fiji Freedom
and Democracy Movement, based in Adelaide, South Australia.
If anyone can hear it, please note how much, if any, is in English, any contact
info, and if possible record an ID. I haven`t found any Adelaide office, altho
searching on ABC News stories gets some hits which aren`t very productive.
Note that HFCC has WHRI rather than T8WH registered on 11565 at 08-09. WHR
schedules show Angel 4, the most likely transmitter, on 17650 at that time, and
Angel 3 on 9930. 11565 was probably just a place-holder in HFCC. Searching WHR
program schedules is fruitless (Glenn Hauser, June 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 17:48:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
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Cc: NASWA <na...@yahoogroups.com>, s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs June 3, 2012
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** CANADA. Analog Es TV DX opening continued from last report, June 3 UT:
1629 on 2, promo Global News at 10 and another program at 11; still CKND-TV-2,
Minnedosa, Manitoba; 1630 `Focus Manitoba` starts.
1708 on 2, `Simpsons` in and out for rest of half hour. Es continued the rest
of the afternoon per maps, over much of US, but not here on analog TV, anyway.
Also monitored DTV ch 2 or 3 with nothing showing. Trouble is, many of the few
active lowband US DTV stations are too close for max signals here, such as NE,
IA, SD, TN, which others a bit farther from them are getting. KNOP-2 in North
Platte NE was a rarity here when it was analog (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake June 3, after 2200, when I hardly ever hear it:
16100, very poor at 2214; no others 12-18 MHz, except:
13970, poor at 2218
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11840, June 3 at 2150, RHC music sounds like a love ballad, unless you
understand the lyrix --- ode to revolutionary guns. It`s the `Formalmente
Informal` show; outro says dedicated to Augusto C?sar Sandino, who inspired the
gun-toting Sandinistas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 15085-15115, June 3 at 2201, strong OTH radar pulsing maybe from
here, tho spanning 30 instead of usual 25 kHz. Had been audible first at 2140
and seemed continuous rather than intermittent, altho not monitored constantly;
in absence of normal VG signal on 15110 from SPAIN [q.v.]. And still audible
underneath once REE cut on 3+ hours late at 2202.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 15210.0, June 3 at 2206 poor carrier with nothing but hum audible,
typical behavior of R. Cairo. Yes! Aoki shows 2030-2230 in French, 250 kW
wasted, 241 degrees from Abis toward W Africa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** FIJI [non]. 21740, June 3 at 2200, top story on R. Australia news with VG
signal is Aussie aid to Fiji in hopes of encouraging transition to democracy
with elexion in 2014y. In case you missed my mentions on World of Radio and in
a separate post, this coincides with a new clandestine scheduled to start in a
few hours:
Domo I Viti, Mondays only from June 4 at 0830-0900 on 11565 via WRN via PALAU,
sponsored by the Fiji Freedom and Democracy Movement, based in Adelaide, South
Australia.
If anyone can hear it, please note how much, if any is in English, contact
info, and if possible record an ID. I haven`t found any website or Adelaide
office (Glenn Hauser, June 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ISRAEL. 15850, June 3 at 2143, Galei Zahal presumed with music and shortly
announcement, poor signal but better than usual, and the only thing audible
above 15630 Greece in a rather vacant 19m band. Improved to fair signal at 2216
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. It`s Sunday June 3, so REE messes up the transmission schedule we are
accustomed to on weekdays.
21610 is still on the air at the late hour of 2136 with silly ballgame coverage
(and much weaker than Romania in Spanish on 21510). What about 15110, which is
normally inbooming at this time? Nothing there vs OTH radar pulsing. Recheck at
2159, 21610 is stronger but cut off abruptly in mid-word at 2159.5, how rude!
They must be retuning the transmitter. Yes, finally at 2202.5, 15110 pops on
with usual very good signal, overriding the continuous OTH radar (see CYPRUS),
but the OTHR is still audible underneath.
However, in this case, HFCC, EiBi, Aoki and the official-looking schedule
posted at an unofficial site,
http://programasdx.com/principal_archivos/frecuenciasreea12.pdf
all show no variations from 7 days a week:
21610 in Spanish at 11-17 to Mideast, Arabic at 17-19 and nothing later. And
15110 at 1900-2300 daily.
It`s a talk about compiling or publishing a dixionary for the Gar?funa language
in Honduras. Interesting, but that`s hardly big news; yes, 2205 outro as having
been `En thinco minutos`, one of the pentaminute evergreen fillers REE runs
when news on the hour is unavailable from the domestic service (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17510, Sunday June 3 at 2130, on WHRI, `DXing with Cumbre` is
starting promptly, #724 produced May 24, so it`s more than a week old, as Marie
apologizes for missing the previous week due to ``technical problems``.
Apparently missed another one this week. Furthermore, searching ``Marie Lamb``
on the WHR program schedule still comes up with numerous imaginary airtimes,
not including this one which really exists, but fading down a lot in a few
minutes! Instead, claims Sunday 2100 on Angel 1 17510, and Sunday 2300 on Angel
2 17510, when nothing was heard either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13570, June 3 at 2145, I look for WINB and hear nothing but CODAR;
yes, WINB is already on 9265 where audible long before sunset. Since there`s
sporadic E up to VHF over central and eastern US, maybe the second harmonic on
18530 will be audible? I have heard it before, but not now. In this summer Es
season, it pays to check this and other 2 x 9 MHz frequencies of US stations if
you are circa a kilomile away.
BTW, 13 MHz band was practically vacant, nothing but 13820 jamming and 13845
WWCR; lots more activity on 11 and even 15 MHz band, which was also subpar. WWV
reported at 2100:
``Solar-terrestrial indices for 03 June follow.
Solar flux 129 and estimated planetary A-index 21.
The estimated planetary K-index at 2100 UTC on 03 June was 4.
Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level occurred.
Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level occurred.
Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be minor.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level are likely.
Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level are likely.``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9370, June 3 at 2156, WTJC is back in whack, undermodulated during
hymn rather than overmodulated producing multiple spurs. Now it`s WWCR`s turn
to mess up the area, splattering 9330-9370 from the superstrong 9350 signal,
and thus bothering WBCQ and WTJC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7490, June 3 at 2157, WBCQ with Marion Webster JBA in all the noise
and fading, as we can forget about hearing `Marion`s Attic` until winter on
this band at this timing, 21-22 UT Sundays. The 9330 transmitter was much
stronger (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7505, June 3 at 0114, zero signal from WRNO, which has been off the
air for more than a sesquiyear, despite claims on their Facebook to have
reactivated on May 31, spotted by Rich Lewis (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 15280, June 3 at 2209, VG signal with Spanish sermon,
sounds like WYFR, and indeed same speaker is on 15440 from Okeechobee, but not
//, citing different Bible chapters. O yes, 15280 is 500 kW, 215 degrees via
GUIANA FRENCH at 2200-2357 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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