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(Artur Fernandez Llorella) 4. Radio Pakistan continues drive into digital age (Jaisakthivel) 5. Et?n Corporation Announces Availability of ZoneGuard Weather Radio (Jaisakthivel) 6. LOgs 19.4 (LIAGKAS ZAXARIAS) 7. Logs 20.4.13 (LIAGKAS ZAXARIAS) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:59:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] (no subject) Message-ID: <1366736352.41869.yahoomailclas...@web161301.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 23 at *1356:19, BB carrier on and quickly adding hum and tone; 1357:12 switch to IS which we get to hear longer than usual today for 2+ minutes; mis-timesignal ends at 1359:47.5, opening Urdu. Poor with heavy flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 11990, April 23 at 1257 like yesterday, Russian tune-up tones, prior to VOA Chinese via Novosibirsk, along with fast SAH, no doubt from ChiCom jammer about to pounce but no modulation yet. 1300, 5+1 timesignal and add CCCCCCI [Chinese Communist Chinese language co-channel interference] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 12000, April 23 at 1257, mix of Chinese and a song; the Chinese is CNR1 since it`s // 11825 jammer in the mix. As noted yesterday, V. of Vietnam is also here alternating Chinese and Russian until 1330, and it seemed strange that CNR1 jamming was running against VOV in either language. At 1300, CNR1 programming is atop 12000 with some hum. At 1418 recheck, 12000 poor in Chinese not // 11990 CNR1 jammer. At 1422, noted the CNR1 jammers on 15525 and 15570 were not // 12000 or maybe way out of synch with it. Sei-ichi Hasegawa has reported to the DXLD yg: ``CNR started a NationUrgent Radio with an earthquake of Lushan, Ya-an, Sichuan. National Urgent Radio-Lushan Emergency Radio, 24 hours on 9800, 12000 kHz and FM 92.7 MHz. Ya-an CNR1 24 hours on 639 kHz and FM 99.1 MHz. This broadcast is co-production of CNR, Sichuan TV & Radio, Ya-an PBS and Lushan TV & Radio`` I was also checking 9800 a few minutes before 1300, but could not pull anything between WHRI 9795 bigsig, and Cuban jamming on 9805. WHRI off after 1300, and at 1303 all I can get on 9800 is a poor carrier with no modulation audible; still some jamming on 9805, and 9795 now bears a much weaker signal in Japanese, i.e. Radio Thailand. These have already been added to Aoki as of April 23, with my comments: What is the ID of NUR in Chinese? Or is it just CNR1 as implied by new Aoki entries: 9800 CNR 1 National emergency broad 0000-2400 1234567 Chinese 100 217 12000 CNR 1 National emergency broad 0000-2400 1234567 Chinese 100 217 [both:] Shijiazhuang 723 CHN 11428E 3804N CNR1 a13 Apr. 22- And that answers my next question about transmitter site. But why? CNR1 is already ubiquitous, to say the least, all over China and most of the world. There is no point in adding these unless there is special programming on them. Maybe part of the time it`s Lushan Emergency Radio (and how is that ID in Chinese?), or the other co-producers, filling the rest with CNR1? Wolfgang B?schel explains: ``From Shijiazhuang towards Lushan, Ya-an, Sichuan, distance is 1370 kilometers at 230 degree angle. Azimuth from Shijiazhuang is real 217 degrees. Propagation distance would fit with good volume in 31 and 25 mb`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake, April 23 circa 1330, except there is no Firedrake jamming heard on its traditional mostly OOB frequencies but instead still CNR1 modulation: 13920, very good at 1328; none in the 12s 14700, poor at 1330 with flutter 14980, very good at 1330 15195, fair at 1335: vs RFA Tibetan via Tajikistan at 11-14 15610, poor at 1333 under WEWN, plus propeller noise 15800, good at 1332 16100, very good at 1335, reverb apart from 14980 16160, fair at 1335, no reverb vs 14980 16920, good at 1337, reverb apart from 14980 17250, JBA at 1338; none in the 18s, 10s 17450, fair at 1337 After 1400, not a complete search, more CNR1 jamming: 15525, fair at 1422 15570, good at 1422 with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11860, April 23 at 1301, RHC Spanish is just barely modulated, while 11760 is at normal level, but with squeal. 1417 recheck, now 11860 is OK. Never a new day without some new anomaly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DIEGO GARCIA. 12759-USB, April 23 at 0058, JBA music no doubt from AFN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA [non]. 15390, April 23 at 1344, gospel harmony in unknown language, 1345 announcement and more; fair signal but declining. Aoki shows it`s Athmeeya Yatra Radio (Gospel for Asia), 250 kW, 85 degrees from Nauen, GERMANY, with huge selexion of obscure minority languages whose speakers are targeted for Christianization, i.e. Tuesdays 1330-1345 Nockte, 1345-1400 Kokborok. From EiBi`s exhaustive readme list of langs: NOC Nocte / Nockte (India - Assam, Arunachal Pr.: 35,000) KBO Kok Borok/Tripuri: India (0.7m) Are these unchurched heathens snowed by anyone bothering to broadcast to them? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 560, April 23 at 0554 UT after music, ID as ``La Tremenda``, dominant unless nulled when US stations can be heard, i.e. XESRD, Santiago Papasquiaro, Durango, 10/1 kW per Cant?. I was wondering about the derivation of this strange name; no info on that in Wikipedia, but I do learn it is a town about the same size as Enid but four times as high; many emigrants from there are in Chicago. In the news lately for kidnapping. Googling, I don`t find the name Papasquiaro applying to anyplace or anyone else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 580, April 23 at 0549 UT, promo for ``Noticias Rancherita del Aire``, singing ID for same, live DJ with timecheck and 26 degrees; often dominant over opposite WIBW Topeka KS with which it makes a 2 Hz SAH, i.e. XEMU, Piedras Negras, Coahuila, 5/2.5 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 660, April 23 at 0500 UT the Mexican NA is playing, followed by dead air, open carrier with background hum surging to foreground. So we know the big hum being heard here is from a United States of Mexican rather than United States of American. Next will have to tune in a few minutes earlier to determine which one. Apparently they leave on not only the carrier after sign-off, but also the Optimod which stupidly brings up the hum on the circuit. Tonight it`s worse than usual, with slow pulsing too. 0548 recheck I think it is off, but fades back in along with another Spanish station still modulating. My hunch is that the hummer is XEFZ in Monterrey NL, which is usually the dominant Mexican on this frequency; but based solely on the schedule hours in the 2012 IRCA Mexican Log, which cannot remain totally accurate after publication: it`s 24 hours as are XEEY Aguascalientes and XEAR Tampico, while these close at 0600: XEACB Ciudad Delicias (which I have also heard before), XEWX Durango; while the others sign off at some other time. However altho presented in UT, those schedule times probably apply to winter non-DST rather than now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1610, April 22 at 1921 UT at a quiet location with caradio inside Enid, I can still hear a weak hum, no doubt from WQCL720 at Great Salt Plains State Park, contrary to yesterday`s assumption that they had finally turned it off. What a waste (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 7325, April 23 at 1249, not even a carrier from Wantok Radio Light. While it may be too much to expect something from its 1 kW every day even with no CCCCI, I still wonder if it`s off the air today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, April 22 at 0057, R. Chaski carrier as usual detectable weakly in the noise level, including storms in the next county to the north, Grant. At 0100 can tell it`s Spanish; 0101 music while 5990-CRI Cuba English splash is still overrunning; 0101:45 the sounder we have heard so many times, then Spanish talk somewhat muffled; 0102:50 fanfare and presumed devotional capsule --- but I missed the turnoff, tuning around elsewhere, got back too late at 0104:40 when it was already off, which should have occurred at approximately 0104:10. Our streetlite fires on at 0107, earlier than it would have if the sunset were clear instead of clouded (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9330-CUSB, April 22 at 1902 check, WBCQ is now on after absence earlier in the day, who else but Rod Hembree promoting, who else, but Jesus Christ; 15420-CUSB also on and stronger with the androgynous anapaestic preachperson from Fence Lake NM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 690, April 23 tune-in just before 0500, KGGF Coffeyville KS is playing taps, and then dead air, open carrier, making slow SAH with news understation presumably KTSM. So this indicates KGGF is deliberately signing off at local midnite, but not turning off the carrier. Since they are licensed for fulltime, why not burn up 5 kWh for 5 hours or however long it takes before resuming programming? But what a waste: they could be modulating at no extra cost with *something*. Next I will have to tune in a few minutes earlier than that for what they say at closing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UZBEKISTAN [non]. 17510, April 23 at 1309 W&M in Turkic language, fair signal, gone at 1337 recheck. Aoki shows it`s BBC Uzbek via OMAN. Normally jammed by the ChiCom but apparently not propagating today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN [non]. 7305, April 23 at 0150, the Greenville carrier is on prior to Vatican Radio relay; 0209 check in Spanish, only fair signal; 0232 check in French! Spanish supposedly is half a sesquihour until 0245. Ed Insinger in NJ had noted this previously and contacted VR about the anomaly. Reply explaining how a substitute satellite stream has to be picked up for this was in DXLD 13-16. Sergio Salvatore of VR frequency management also said after 0230 it could be in English, Armenian or Russian which we have not heard yet. It seems what they need to do is run the Spanish service intact at original timing of 0145-0230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:02:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 22-23, 2013 Message-ID: <1366736572.72601.yahoomailclas...@web161302.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 23 at *1356:19, BB carrier on and quickly adding hum and tone; 1357:12 switch to IS which we get to hear longer than usual today for 2+ minutes; mis-timesignal ends at 1359:47.5, opening Urdu. Poor with heavy flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 11990, April 23 at 1257 like yesterday, Russian tune-up tones, prior to VOA Chinese via Novosibirsk, along with fast SAH, no doubt from ChiCom jammer about to pounce but no modulation yet. 1300, 5+1 timesignal and add CCCCCCI [Chinese Communist Chinese language co-channel interference] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 12000, April 23 at 1257, mix of Chinese and a song; the Chinese is CNR1 since it`s // 11825 jammer in the mix. As noted yesterday, V. of Vietnam is also here alternating Chinese and Russian until 1330, and it seemed strange that CNR1 jamming was running against VOV in either language. At 1300, CNR1 programming is atop 12000 with some hum. At 1418 recheck, 12000 poor in Chinese not // 11990 CNR1 jammer. At 1422, noted the CNR1 jammers on 15525 and 15570 were not // 12000 or maybe way out of synch with it. Sei-ichi Hasegawa has reported to the DXLD yg: ``CNR started a NationUrgent Radio with an earthquake of Lushan, Ya-an, Sichuan. National Urgent Radio-Lushan Emergency Radio, 24 hours on 9800, 12000 kHz and FM 92.7 MHz. Ya-an CNR1 24 hours on 639 kHz and FM 99.1 MHz. This broadcast is co-production of CNR, Sichuan TV & Radio, Ya-an PBS and Lushan TV & Radio`` I was also checking 9800 a few minutes before 1300, but could not pull anything between WHRI 9795 bigsig, and Cuban jamming on 9805. WHRI off after 1300, and at 1303 all I can get on 9800 is a poor carrier with no modulation audible; still some jamming on 9805, and 9795 now bears a much weaker signal in Japanese, i.e. Radio Thailand. These have already been added to Aoki as of April 23, with my comments: What is the ID of NUR in Chinese? Or is it just CNR1 as implied by new Aoki entries: 9800 CNR 1 National emergency broad 0000-2400 1234567 Chinese 100 217 12000 CNR 1 National emergency broad 0000-2400 1234567 Chinese 100 217 [both:] Shijiazhuang 723 CHN 11428E 3804N CNR1 a13 Apr. 22- And that answers my next question about transmitter site. But why? CNR1 is already ubiquitous, to say the least, all over China and most of the world. There is no point in adding these unless there is special programming on them. Maybe part of the time it`s Lushan Emergency Radio (and how is that ID in Chinese?), or the other co-producers, filling the rest with CNR1? Wolfgang B?schel explains: ``From Shijiazhuang towards Lushan, Ya-an, Sichuan, distance is 1370 kilometers at 230 degree angle. Azimuth from Shijiazhuang is real 217 degrees. Propagation distance would fit with good volume in 31 and 25 mb`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake, April 23 circa 1330, except there is no Firedrake jamming heard on its traditional mostly OOB frequencies but instead still CNR1 modulation: 13920, very good at 1328; none in the 12s 14700, poor at 1330 with flutter 14980, very good at 1330 15195, fair at 1335: vs RFA Tibetan via Tajikistan at 11-14 15610, poor at 1333 under WEWN, plus propeller noise 15800, good at 1332 16100, very good at 1335, reverb apart from 14980 16160, fair at 1335, no reverb vs 14980 16920, good at 1337, reverb apart from 14980 17250, JBA at 1338; none in the 18s, 10s 17450, fair at 1337 After 1400, not a complete search, more CNR1 jamming: 15525, fair at 1422 15570, good at 1422 with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11860, April 23 at 1301, RHC Spanish is just barely modulated, while 11760 is at normal level, but with squeal. 1417 recheck, now 11860 is OK. Never a new day without some new anomaly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DIEGO GARCIA. 12759-USB, April 23 at 0058, JBA music no doubt from AFN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA [non]. 15390, April 23 at 1344, gospel harmony in unknown language, 1345 announcement and more; fair signal but declining. Aoki shows it`s Athmeeya Yatra Radio (Gospel for Asia), 250 kW, 85 degrees from Nauen, GERMANY, with huge selexion of obscure minority languages whose speakers are targeted for Christianization, i.e. Tuesdays 1330-1345 Nockte, 1345-1400 Kokborok. From EiBi`s exhaustive readme list of langs: NOC Nocte / Nockte (India - Assam, Arunachal Pr.: 35,000) KBO Kok Borok/Tripuri: India (0.7m) Are these unchurched heathens snowed by anyone bothering to broadcast to them? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 560, April 23 at 0554 UT after music, ID as ``La Tremenda``, dominant unless nulled when US stations can be heard, i.e. XESRD, Santiago Papasquiaro, Durango, 10/1 kW per Cant?. I was wondering about the derivation of this strange name; no info on that in Wikipedia, but I do learn it is a town about the same size as Enid but four times as high; many emigrants from there are in Chicago. In the news lately for kidnapping. Googling, I don`t find the name Papasquiaro applying to anyplace or anyone else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 580, April 23 at 0549 UT, promo for ``Noticias Rancherita del Aire``, singing ID for same, live DJ with timecheck and 26 degrees; often dominant over opposite WIBW Topeka KS with which it makes a 2 Hz SAH, i.e. XEMU, Piedras Negras, Coahuila, 5/2.5 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 660, April 23 at 0500 UT the Mexican NA is playing, followed by dead air, open carrier with background hum surging to foreground. So we know the big hum being heard here is from a United States of Mexican rather than United States of American. Next will have to tune in a few minutes earlier to determine which one. Apparently they leave on not only the carrier after sign-off, but also the Optimod which stupidly brings up the hum on the circuit. Tonight it`s worse than usual, with slow pulsing too. 0548 recheck I think it is off, but fades back in along with another Spanish station still modulating. My hunch is that the hummer is XEFZ in Monterrey NL, which is usually the dominant Mexican on this frequency; but based solely on the schedule hours in the 2012 IRCA Mexican Log, which cannot remain totally accurate after publication: it`s 24 hours as are XEEY Aguascalientes and XEAR Tampico, while these close at 0600: XEACB Ciudad Delicias (which I have also heard before), XEWX Durango; while the others sign off at some other time. However altho presented in UT, those schedule times probably apply to winter non-DST rather than now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1610, April 22 at 1921 UT at a quiet location with caradio inside Enid, I can still hear a weak hum, no doubt from WQCL720 at Great Salt Plains State Park, contrary to yesterday`s assumption that they had finally turned it off. What a waste (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 7325, April 23 at 1249, not even a carrier from Wantok Radio Light. While it may be too much to expect something from its 1 kW every day even with no CCCCI, I still wonder if it`s off the air today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, April 22 at 0057, R. Chaski carrier as usual detectable weakly in the noise level, including storms in the next county to the north, Grant. At 0100 can tell it`s Spanish; 0101 music while 5990-CRI Cuba English splash is still overrunning; 0101:45 the sounder we have heard so many times, then Spanish talk somewhat muffled; 0102:50 fanfare and presumed devotional capsule --- but I missed the turnoff, tuning around elsewhere, got back too late at 0104:40 when it was already off, which should have occurred at approximately 0104:10. Our streetlite fires on at 0107, earlier than it would have if the sunset were clear instead of clouded (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9330-CUSB, April 22 at 1902 check, WBCQ is now on after absence earlier in the day, who else but Rod Hembree promoting, who else, but Jesus Christ; 15420-CUSB also on and stronger with the androgynous anapaestic preachperson from Fence Lake NM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 690, April 23 tune-in just before 0500, KGGF Coffeyville KS is playing taps, and then dead air, open carrier, making slow SAH with news understation presumably KTSM. So this indicates KGGF is deliberately signing off at local midnite, but not turning off the carrier. Since they are licensed for fulltime, why not burn up 5 kWh for 5 hours or however long it takes before resuming programming? But what a waste: they could be modulating at no extra cost with *something*. Next I will have to tune in a few minutes earlier than that for what they say at closing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UZBEKISTAN [non]. 17510, April 23 at 1309 W&M in Turkic language, fair signal, gone at 1337 recheck. Aoki shows it`s BBC Uzbek via OMAN. Normally jammed by the ChiCom but apparently not propagating today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN [non]. 7305, April 23 at 0150, the Greenville carrier is on prior to Vatican Radio relay; 0209 check in Spanish, only fair signal; 0232 check in French! Spanish supposedly is half a sesquihour until 0245. Ed Insinger in NJ had noted this previously and contacted VR about the anomaly. Reply explaining how a substitute satellite stream has to be picked up for this was in DXLD 13-16. Sergio Salvatore of VR frequency management also said after 0230 it could be in English, Armenian or Russian which we have not heard yet. It seems what they need to do is run the Spanish service intact at original timing of 0145-0230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [sorry, I hit Send too soon; every message must have a subject; didn`t yahoomail once intercept such lapses before sending? Dispose of the unknown one which is identical -- gh] ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:05:33 +0200 From: Artur Fernandez Llorella <af...@hotmail.com> To: hard-core-dx HCDX <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com> Subject: [HCDX] Help about Radio Technical Man? Message-ID: <dub118-w12eba0824644754de3f49fff...@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Does anybody know any valid contact info for the Dutch pirate station Radio Technical Man? My report sent to Box 65, NL-7260 AB Ruurlo has been returned. Thanks in advance! Artur ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:28:30 +0800 (SGT) From: Jaisakthivel <ardicdxc...@yahoo.co.in> To: ardic <ardicdxc...@yahoo.co.in> Subject: [HCDX] Radio Pakistan continues drive into digital age Message-ID: <1366781310.55711.yahoomailclas...@web192302.mail.sg3.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Radio Pakistan, which has embraced web technology over the past five years, made not one but three new technological leaps on Monday. ? Radio Pakistan Director-General Murtaza Solangi inaugurated three projects which would allow the country?s national radio service to report better from outdoor locations, broadcast its world services via the web, and interactively update the public on the upcoming elections. ? The projects ? a satellite communication system, internet streaming of the radio?s International Services and a dedicated elections website ? were launched at the National Broadcasting House in Islamabad. ? The satellite communication system includes an earth station located inside the Radio Pakistan building and a digital satellite news gathering (DSNG) mobile van, capable of bidirectional communication and editing. ? Ghulam Mujaddid, technical adviser to the director-general, said the DSNG van will improve Radio Pakistan?s reporting from outlying areas. ?Before this, we used to use standard telephony for outdoor communications,? Mujaddid said. ?Satellite communication will improve the quality of signals received from the field.? ? The DSNG is also capable of sending audio and video feeds from the field directly to a control room in the radio?s headquarters, he said. Earlier, the international services, which include broadcasts in 11 world languages and an Urdu World Service, were only available on shortwave radio. ? Now, thanks to satellite transmission, people in 38 countries from South Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe can use receivers to tune in to these services. The services are also available on the internet, where listeners can stream and listen, just like radio stations in the West. ? Solangi said the satellite communication system would help Radio Pakistan save Rs7 million of its costs of running generators for shortwave communications and of leasing broadcast media from the Pakistan Television. Radio Pakistan?s dedicated elections website will provide interactive constituency maps, election-related news, code of conducts and elections results among other things, Solangi said. ? ?The elections web portal will serve as a resource for journalists and researchers reporting on and monitoring the elections,? he said. During his address, Solangi also listed the achievements of the radio service. digitised old radio archives and established a web presence through its website. ? ?Today, we have listeners of Radio Pakistan, readers who visit our website and even viewers who watch our online video content,? Solangi said. ?We are not traditional radio anymore, now we are emerging as a multimedia company.? Published in The Express Tribune, April 23rd, 2013.? +++++++++++ Jaisakthivel, ADXC, Tirunelveli, India ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:37:27 +0800 (SGT) From: Jaisakthivel <ardicdxc...@yahoo.co.in> To: ardic <ardicdxc...@yahoo.co.in> Subject: [HCDX] Et?n Corporation Announces Availability of ZoneGuard Weather Radio Message-ID: <1366781847.48343.yahoomailclas...@web192304.mail.sg3.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Weather alert clock radio enables users to be alert, informed and safe during unexpected weather situations Et?n Corporation, a leading creator of high-performance, eco-minded consumer products, announces the American Red Cross ZoneGuard weather alert clock radio. 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SOURCE: Et?n Corporation, Copyright Business Wire 2013 +++++++++++++++++Jaisakthivel, ADXC, Tirunelveli, India ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:42:07 +0300 (EEST) From: LIAGKAS ZAXARIAS <gree...@otenet.gr> To: cumbre...@yahoogroups.com, hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com, playdx2...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [HCDX] LOgs 19.4 Message-ID: <29611284.216.1366782127874.javamail.tom...@elgreco.otenet.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Logs 19.4.13 9510 EMR via IRRS 0809 with old songs 25534 9677 V talisitan 1514 with music , overloaded with bad modulation and S7 11650 R Teos 1515 with OM talking in Russian and qrm from 11645 many mentions of Christos id 1531 with meter band \ 9835 RTM 1544 with traditional dances S4 11665 with a different program , negaraku at 1600 with S7 . that time 9835 is blocked by9830 by RL ???? of a S20 signal 9475 R A 1554 with talks and songs S3 QRM by DRM on 9480 S7 12105 Dialogue 1602 with introductory messages ID and comments 11610 R Sharooqa stopped in this freq???? Nothing found !! 11600 R Libya with ID before 1642 S9 9750 NHK 1642 with discussions S9 35323 At 1545 with an enka song 32322 7515 1658 an opera song YL with North Korean pronunciation and 1700 back to song ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:43:31 +0300 (EEST) From: LIAGKAS ZAXARIAS <gree...@otenet.gr> To: cumbre...@yahoogroups.com, hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com, playdx2...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [HCDX] Logs 20.4.13 Message-ID: <32028181.225.1366782211867.javamail.tom...@elgreco.otenet.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed 20.4 9690 Tatarstan Awazy 0643 with journal , mentioning Ibrahim Rulman with talks related to tatars S7 15070 the amateur with FM modulation is back ! with S9 and old folk song 15240 R A 0649 S1 this day 11765 SRDa 0658 just marginal this time S3 peaks IS tones freqs on 07600 now with some QRM by BB 11770 BBC S7 11865 N Korea 0700 with talk sin Japanese S1 at max and immediately with opera 7265 H L R 0705 with old ballad and OM in awful English and signal ca S4 . At 0745 marginal 12130 Mashaal 0716 mentioning Taliban S5 with buzzer in LSB 1179 once again off for ca 2 days !!! 1215 CRI via Albania 0723 with news in Eng S4 on the 16 H antena 9480 EMR not on 6150 (which is full of local QRN) . S0 but on clear freq . tested also with magnetic loop wth a ca S3-4 signal, and touring the house for better signal , using DE1103 mixed with local QRN . song ?urgent? and OM also mentioned facebook . no reception time has been noticed (but ca 0849?) 15120 V oN on ca 0853 with their ?weekly program? description . tested with mag loop End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 124, Issue 24 *********************************************