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Glenn Hauser logs July 3-4, 2013 (Glenn Hauser) 4. ROC office rebuts Sound of Hope charges on broadcasting issue (Zacharias LIangas) 5. [HCDX] http://mt-shortwave.blogspot.gr/2013/07/radio-kuwait-summer-schedule.htm (Zacharias LIangas) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 08:05:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs July 2-3, 2013 Message-ID: <1372863934.61220.yahoomailclas...@web161301.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** BANGLADESH. 15505, July 2 at 1357, open carrier, very poor; 1358:25 IS from BB; no timesignal heard by start of Urdu at 1359:45. 15505, July 3 at 1358, JBA carrier with tone; no IS or TS heard past 1400, but started talking just before 1401 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6154.95 approx., July 2 at 0056, rock music, 0058 YL DJ, more music past 0100; 0102 announcement possibly mentioning Fides, but too much noise, and after 0100 splatter from RHC 6165 IS. No het this time from India, however (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4915, July 3 at 0054, music here, so one of the Brazilians is on and propagating, unlike last night, probably R. Daqui. This time the one on 4885 is noticeably stronger, but several other ZY frequencies are JBA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake July 2, before 1330: 13795, fair at 1324 The rest are CNR1 jamming instead: 13830, poor at 1325, none in the 12s 14750, fair at 1325 15105 & 15195, fair at 1328 with echoes, CCI 15545, very poor at 1327 with het on lo side; none in 16s, 17s Firedrake July 3, before 1400 13795, poor at 1350 Only CNR1 jamming, with none in the 12s, 13s, 15s, 16s, 17s: 14800, fair at 1350 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGST) ** GUAM. 9880, July 3 at 1220 some switched-on Bach makes me pause, 1223 into Korean. Must be as listed KSDA, 12-13 in Korean, 100 kW, 330 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 92.1, July 3 at 0052 UT I notice that KAMG-LP Enid is back on the air after a week or more off (and before that weeks of dead air), resuming praise music in Spanish; shux (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, July 2 at 0059, R. Chaski carrier detectable until 0104:09*, i.e. 5.5 seconds later than yesterday. 5980, July 3 at 0056, R. Chaski with usual very poor signal and bits of modulation, a bit clearer after China is finished with Cuba on 5990 around 0100; Chaski cutoff at 0104:14* which is 5 seconds later than yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9930, July 2 at 2020, WTWW-2 is back on with a QSO show playback; 12105, WTWW-3 is in French. WORLD OF RADIO 1675 was playing on 9930 when I checked at 2351 about Romania 21500, so must have started around 2328.5 on this Tuesday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Noise across the 7 MHz band, July 3 at 0521, gradually diminishing out to the edges, with irregular peaks circa: 6685, 6760, 6820, 6865, 6910, 6950, 7000, 7035, 7100, 7175, 7210, 7265, 7295, 7345, 7380, 7435, 7470, 7510, 7550, 7585, 7620, 7680, 7725, 7755, 7800, 7835. Some others maybe obscured by strong signals, such as 7405 Cuban jamming and R. Mart?, but not in the center of this panoply. I don`t hear these at other dayparts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 08:11:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs July 2-3, 2013 Message-ID: <1372864315.12504.yahoomailclas...@web161305.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Had wrong date on this item, July 2, here corrected: ** BOLIVIA. 6154.95 approx., July 3 at 0056, rock music, 0058 YL DJ, more music past 0100; 0102 announcement possibly mentioning Fides, but too much noise, and after 0100 splatter from RHC 6165 IS. No het this time from India, however (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 20:00:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs July 3-4, 2013 Message-ID: <1372906846.3620.yahoomailclas...@web161305.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** BOLIVIA. 6155-, July 4 at 0101, presumed R. Fides, with YL talking including possible mentions of Bolivia. JBA LAH from presumed India not so off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4915, July 4 at 0052, JBA carrier here, could be the other ZY if R. Daqui is again absent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9965, July 3 at 2259-2302, R. Cairo English to N. America is instead tone test, but sufficient level atop the buzz. One might be interested in how they treat the latest coup. Too busy with WORLD OF RADIO to check further until 0021 UT July 4, now with vocal music, undermodulated; same at 0051 after out of English. How about the 0200-0300 broadcast in ``English`` on 9720? At 0215 UT July 4 when there should be news, unmodulated. But it doesn`t take a coup for R. Cairo to accomplish this. Morsi deserved to go for not fixing Radio Cairo (hi). The other nominal English to W Europe and onward to N America is at 2115-2245 on 11890, unchecked yet. WRN had been providing R. Cairo audio on demand, but even worse, John Figliozzi finds that there`s nothing there for the past month (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, July 4 at 0051, R. Chaski with some audio; carrier cutoff at 0104:19.5* which is 5.5 seconds later than last night. The split-seconds are just my approximations, roughly halfway between the numbers ticking away on my digital watch (as always with a WWV correxion). For a closer estimate we need to compare to the time a certain number of days earlier, such as: ``5980, May 16 at 0059, R. Chaski carrier detectable until cut off the air at 0100:02*, which is 5 seconds later than yesterday. At this rate it will take roughly 70 days to reach 0106 and another timer reset.`` That is, over a period of 50 days from May 15 to July 4, the cutoff has precessed 4 minutes and 22.5 seconds later = 262.5 seconds, which divided by 50 = 5.25 seconds per day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN [non]. Having failed to replace WYFR with some other relay to N America, how can R. Taiwan International now be heard? Theoretically it looks like the English relays via France to S Asia at 16-17 on 15485, and to Africa at 17-18 on 15690 should be possible, and maybe will be on a better day, but July 3 at 1657, no signal on 15485 (off already?), and at 1700 nothing but a JBA carrier on 15690. BTW, Alan Roe tells me that RTI quoted my e-mail about the need for a new relay, on their mailbag this week, ``We`ve Got Mail`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1676, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1676 monitoring: completed in time for first airing on WRMI, 9955, UT Thursday July 4 at 0330; repeats are Sat 1500 & 1730, Tue 1100. On WTWW: Thu 2100.5 on 9479; Sat 2329v on 9930 (but last week was 0000 UT Sunday on 5085 instead); UT Sun 0400.5 on 5830; Sun 2330v on 9930. Also new or previous WOR any day, any time between 17 & 24 on 9930, 00-01 on 5085. (This week it showed up Tuesday at 2329.) On WWRB: UT Friday at 0326v on 5050. On Area 51 via WBCQ: UT Saturday 0130v on 5110v-CUSB (from July 13 this moves to UT Saturday 0200-non variable). On Hamburger Lokalradio: Sat 0630 & 1430 on 7265-CUSB; Sun testing at 0630, 1030, 1430 and 1830 on 15785-CUSB (also appeared this Wednesday at 1630, having missed the tests last Sunday). Full schedule including many webcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html DX/SWL/Media programs has been updated: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5925-5965 approx., July 4 at 0058, extremely distorted modulation is spreading roughly here wideband, worse in open spots, but audible also under WWCR 5935 PMS. Otherwise peak circa 5955 mixed with Cuban jamming against no Radio Rep?blica. Sounds like a silly ballgame with hyperenthusiasm, could well be in Spanish. R. Nacional, Argentina, 6060 transmitter has been reported way out of whack in the 5920-5930 area by Argentines, but this seems stronger than it could manage so far away; only one receiver on the porch, so I can`t hunt for parallel matches (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 55.25 MHz, July 3 at 2343, NTSC video fades in weakly for less than a minute, with antenna south. Probably Mexico ch A2 trying to reach here by sporadic E (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 08:19:03 +0300 From: Zacharias LIangas <zlia...@ath.forthnet.gr> To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com, cumbre...@yahoogroups.com, playdx2...@yahoogroups.com, mrd...@yahoo.com, dario.monfer...@playdx.com, wghau...@yahoo.com; Subject: [HCDX] ROC office rebuts Sound of Hope charges on broadcasting issue Message-ID: <201307040519.r645j3t1010...@mx-in-04.forthnet.gr> Content-Type: text/plain Please reply to zlian...@yahoo.com ROC office rebuts Sound of Hope charges on broadcasting issue 2013/07/03 14:41:09 Washington, July 2 (CNA) The Republic of China's representative office in the United States on Tuesday described as "inaccurate" a radio network's claim that the office has failed to convey to its home government congressional concerns over a shortwave broadcasting issue. The Falun Gong-affiliated Sound of Hope Radio Network said recently that several U.S. Congress members have expressed concerns about Radio Taiwan International's decision to demolish RTI broadcasting towers in southern Taiwan. The towers have been used in part to send shortwave radio signals to China, including programming that the Falun Gong contracts Radio Taiwan International (RTI) to broadcast, and the group fears that without the towers its exposure in China will be limited. The Sound of Hope charged that Taiwan's representative office, under the leadership of King Pu-tsung, did not seem to have conveyed the congressional concerns to President Ma Ying-jeou or forwarded letters addressed to him on the issue by American lawmakers. "The allegations are not true," the ROC representative office said in a statement. The office has dealt with the issue promptly and faithfully and has conveyed the congressmen's concerns to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other related government agencies, the statement said. On June 21, ROC Deputy Representative to the U.S. Jacob Chang also met with Sound of Hope senior executives to listen to their appeals and convened to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs their appeals the same day, the statement said. "It's extremely regrettable that Sound of Hope has run reports without verification," King said in the statement. San Francisco-based Sound of Hope was founded by Falun Gong supporters in 2003. It began leasing time on Radio Taiwan International's shortwave radio network in 2004 to broadcast programs to China. Much of the programming has been broadcast via RTI towers in Tainan and in Huwei, Yunlin County, but the Tainan towers were torn down in June and work on the Huwei site is expected to start in the second half of the year. A resolution passed by Taiwan's Legislature has demanded that the towers on the two sites be completely torn down by the end of 2013. Arrangements have been made for Sound of Hope Radio programs to be broadcast to China in the future via RTI's Danshui and Baozhong facilities, the statement said. The Taiwanese broadcaster has given Sound of Hope assurances that the move will not affect the number of hours it can broadcast through RTI facilities and the services it receives, the statement said. RTI has already briefed U.S. congressional members through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Taiwan's representative office in Washington, D.C. on its decision-making process and handling of the case, the statement added. According to the office, the towers' removal was based on valid reasons and had been planned for a long time. Residents in the vicinity of the Tainan towers have long complained about electromagnetic wave interference and repeatedly pushed for their relocation, and the Huwei towers are being removed to make way for a special high-speed rail zone, the statement said. The decision to demolish the Tainan towers was made in 2004 when the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was still in power and the decision to phase out the Huwei station was made in 2011, it said. DPP Legislator Chen Ting-fei, who represents a Tainan constituency, has on many occasions pushed for early removal of the towers to facilitate the city's development, according to the statement. It further said the Tainan station was torn down in late June ahead of schedule mainly because the site was part of a river cleaning and flood-prevention project. (By Tony Liao and Sofia Wu) enditem/ls http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201307030014.aspx#.UdTtOGHNHSo.twitter http://delicious.com/gr_greek1/zak (all my pages ) ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 08:22:32 +0300 From: Zacharias LIangas <zlia...@ath.forthnet.gr> To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com, cumbre...@yahoogroups.com, playdx2...@yahoogroups.com, mrd...@yahoo.com, dario.monfer...@playdx.com, wghau...@yahoo.com; Subject: [HCDX] http://mt-shortwave.blogspot.gr/2013/07/radio-kuwait-summer-schedule.htm Message-ID: <201307040522.r645mwty006...@mx-in-05.forthnet.gr> Content-Type: text/plain Please reply to zlian...@yahoo.com Radio Kuwait Summer Schedule http://mt-shortwave.blogspot.gr/2013/07/radio-kuwait-summer-schedule.htm Effective to: 29 October 2013 Broadcast daily unless otherwise indicated Target areas and languages as noted All times UTC Radio Kuwait 0200-0900 5960 KBD 250 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic General Service 0500-0900 15515 KBD 300 kW / 059 deg to EaAs Arabic General Service 0800-1000 7250 KBD 500 kW / non-dir to WeAs Farsi 0900-1600 11630 KBD 250 kW / 230 deg to CeAf Arabic Holy Qur'an Sce 0900-1800 21540 KBD 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic General Service 1000-1200 21580 KBD 500 kW / 084 deg to EaAs Tagalog 1000-1600 9750 KBD 300 kW / 286 deg to NEAf Arabic General Service 1600-1800 15540 KBD 300 kW / 100 deg to SoAs Urdu 1600-2100 6050 KBD 300 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic General Service 1700-2000 13650 KBD 500 kW / 350 deg to NoAm Arabic General Service 1800-2100 15540 KBD 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English 2000-2400 17550 KBD 500 kW / 350 deg to NoAm Arabic General Service (DX Mix 788) http://delicious.com/gr_greek1/zak (all my pages ) End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 127, Issue 4 ********************************************