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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs September 4, 2013 (Glenn Hauser)
2. TRS: New KVOH Tests (Akbar Indra Gunawan)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 08:59:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
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Cc: "s...@mailman.qth.net" <s...@mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 4, 2013
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** AUSTRALIA. 2325, Sept 4 at 1206, VL8T weak music sounds the same as on 4835
VL8A but no time to check //. 2485 VL8K blocked by some ute or local device.
Easy to check for carrier on 2325 after PNG/Indonesia on 3325 one MHz higher
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRIA. 6155, Sept 4 at 0538, classical music, fair signal from ORF`s only
token SW broadcast left, propagating again after a dry summer. It`s reported
that this stays on the air only as a legal requirement to allow Moosbrunn site
to do all its other business relaying several other stations (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake [non], CNR1 jammers Sept 4 after 1330:
15870, fair at 1331; none in the 18s, 17s, 16s, 14s
15565, 15550, very poor at 1337; also the usual lo-banders on 15115, 15195,
15265
13830, poor at 1338; none in the 12s; usual 11-MHz in-banders
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 6085, Sept 4 at 0540, JBA RHC English with echo in sideband
of Anguilla. That means it`s a mixing product between two RHC frequencies, and
indeed there is the same echo when comparing 6165 and 6125, this being a
leapfrog 40 kHz lower. I was also hearing traces of it on 6205, 40 kHz higher.
If the echo-apart-audio means they are from two different sites, then this must
be receiver-produced overload. 6125 is the only frequency out of synch, with
5040, 6000, 6060 and 6165 all matching.
6000, Sept 4 at 1230, RHC Spanish on new frequency, fair with het on hi side,
DRM on lo side. Ex-6150, after five months colliding with R. Australia. Way to
go, Arnie, you`re really on the ball. I had been complaining about this ever
since. I had happened to hear the last few minutes of `DXers Unlimited` at 0548
Sept 4 when Arnie announced the new frequency replacing 6150 at 11-13, due to
``antipodal interference``. He claims it`s the same 250 kW transmitter and
antenna with gain producing 1 megawatt ERP. Crummy signal here. Aoki thought it
was 100 kW on 6150 at 160 degrees. Now it`s squeezed between R. Australia
5990-5995-6000 DRM from Brandon at 12-14 (plus AM at 11-12), and 6003 with
North Korean jamming vs Echo of Hope thruout. Really a throwaway frequency as
always much better reception on 9, 11, 13, 15 if not 17 MHz channels. (However,
13780 is off at 1339 so 13785, Kamalabad, Iran is unimpeded; BTW, it`s missing
from Aoki but in HFCC at 0530-1430.)
At 1235 on 6000, timecheck for 8:31, and hot news from the Central Committee of
the Communist Party of Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 5765, Sept 4 at 1229, AFN is still AWOL, but now there is fast RTTY on
channel! Suspect same USN transmitter repurposed. When AFN was active, there
was never any such QRM. Nothing audible on 13362-USB, but can`t depend on it
propagating night-path if day frequency really be on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. 4870, Sept 4 at 1155 music vs bonker on lo side; 1207
Indonesian talk seems // 4750; still in at 1227 with music not // 4750. 4870 is
RRI Wamena, 4750 RRI Makassar. Latter had usual mix with another slightly
offset carrier, Bangladesh or China, obvious with BFO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 660, Sept 4 at 0511, break in Mexican music for ID mentioning FM
102.9. Best place to look up AM/FM parallels is
http://www.mexicoradiotv.com/frec_am.htm
where we find:
``660 XEEY La Kaliente + FM 102.9 Aguascalientes, Ags. 50,000 10,000``
so if the powers are to believed it`s also the most potent XE at night on 660.
Monterrey and Delicias are more common here. This was dominating for a while,
then over to KSKY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 990, Sept 4 at 1212 UT, fast SAH from Spanish heading E/W rather
than N/S, talking about the ``Valle de Mexicali`` and earthquakes; 1215 into
song. Must be per Cant?:
``990 XECL La Rocola Mexicali, B.C. 1,400 3,000``
A few minutes earlier, shortly after sunrise here, the usual NW Mexicans were
still in weakly on 650, 710, 730, 870 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1050, Sept 4 at 1216 UT, mentions California, Spanish timecheck for
6:16 plus some seconds, music. At first I thought it was XED Mexicali, like on
990, but it`s only 5:16 there, so must be per Cant? the other 10 kW
``daytimer``:
``1050 XEBCS La Radio de Sudcalifornia La Paz, B.C.S. 10,000 D``
There are no other XEs in the UT-6 zone now. Followed at 1218 a federal PSA
mentioning Chilpancingo, Guerrero, which of course is no clue to the origin of
this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Sept 4 at 1220 UT, KEOR Catoosa/Tulsa/Sperry with praise
music in Spanish, 1221 Radio Victoria program promo for some domingo shows;
1222 another such non-ID, music. KMOX had to be nulled at first, vs SAH of
270/minute = 4.5 Hz. Someone suggested previous late sign-on of KEOR would be
in keeping with Critical Hours licensing, but not now. Its official September
sunrise is 1200 UT and sunset 0030 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. Super-signals from WWCR and WTWW and my strongest local
1390 KCRC with ESPN are conspiring to wreak havoc on my FRG-7 and its usual
longwire antenna. Can`t be sure if something is amiss at KCRC or merely
overload here.
9908-SSB, Sept 4 at 1254 I am surprised to hear a net here, could it be MARS?
No, regular hams ragchewing, a K8, a WA5, a K7, and N4ZZ. I am not hearing this
on the DX-398, so I tune it looking for a match, and find it on: 7128-LSB (did
not notice which SB on 9908). Possibly one ham could be radiating a spur, but
not a whole net of them! Seemed like real signals rather than image/spurs.
Guess what: 9908 minus 7128 = 2780 which is the second harmonic of 1390. Just
before that, I was also hearing KCRC mixing in the BS audio on 9980 WWCR. After
1300 there is QRM from the other BS on 9930 WTWW. Then 9908 is gone while the
QSOs on 7128 continue. One of them was talking about Davidson County
(Nashville), and I-40 to Jackson (TN).
18120, Sept 4 at 1333 as I am looking for CNR1 jammers, here`s KCRC again. This
happens to be 2780 kHz from another very strong signal, 15340 RHC, which
however is not to be heard on 18120.
And another: 12760, KCRC mixing with BS on 9980 plus 2780; 12710 same but
weaker, i.e. 9930 plus 2780.
I am sure these are not real transmissions anyone else could hear, but I report
them as an example of similar problems one may confront (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260, Sept 4 at 1153, NBC Madang is the best PNG channel
as I awaken a bit before sunrise here and hasten to 90 meters; choir is
singing. (3385 and 3205 are off, carriers on 3365, 3345, stronger 3325). Back
to 3260, at 1156 group talking after group singing, 1159 harmonious song thru
hourtop, 1202 announcement seems TokPisin, believe kHz mentioned. Clip of
speaker in echoey venue, 1204 YL in English news, ``scientists believe they
have discovered a new`` something. Cut off the air rudely and abruptly at
1205:05*. Aoki shows the languages as Pidgin/Graged.
Then checking others at 1205: 3325, 3345 and 3365 are still on, the last one
with some audio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 6823-USB, Wednesday Sept 4 at 1347, Army MARS net with ``TTX`` the
NCS;? still 1358 discussing computer training, reports and exercises, with
``6KF``, ``6QE``, 1400 about formatting messages on Wordpad. One of them likes
this frequency instead of ``M146`` (real kHz must never be spoken for
security!). These are abbr`d calls; as previously logged April 18, 2013 at
1343, in DXLD 13-17, full call AAM6TTX being Scott Hamende of Texas Army MARS,
and followed up in 13-33 on another frequency, 5205, both on Thursdays (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 830, Sept 4 at 0602 UT, ``La Caliente 830`` ID by super-hype voice
actor (SHVA); no legal ID heard in break from non-soporific Mexican music. NRC
AM Log 2012 shows WFNO, Norco LA, ``La Raza 830 AM``. Could be ``Kaliente``,
favorite but proprietary(?) misspelling of the word, another hot one in
addition to the real Mexican I got the hour before on 660. No, per
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFNO
``On March 11, 2013, WFNO changed moniker to "La Caliente 830am."
WFNO is rather regular with WCCO nulled. Don`t you believe their 750-watt night
pattern
http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/107371-2919.pdf
supposed to be a circle tangent to the SSE with the null meward to the NNW (And
you`d think there would be a nominal notch north toward WCCO) (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 14:38:28 +0800 (SGT)
From: Akbar Indra Gunawan <akbariguna...@yahoo.com>
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] TRS: New KVOH Tests
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Dari: rrobin...@kvoh.net
Kepada: rrobin...@kvoh.net
Email Keluar: Kam, 5 Sep 2013 11:25 ICT
Judul: New KVOH Tests
Thank you for responding to the test broadcasts KVOH conducted on 17775 kHz a
couple of months ago. ?We were happy that our transmitter performed well, but
were disappointed with the propagation conditions that make use of 16 metres
challenging at the present time. ?However, we have also been working hard to
restore a second transmitter to operate on 31 metres (a band we have not
operated on for over 6 years). ?That work is nearing completion, and we would
like to run two more evening tests to see how the tx is performing.
Accordingly, we would very much appreciate your reception reports (or
preferably, recordings) of the tests we will be running on 9975 kHz on Friday
and Saturday evenings this week. ?The exact times are:
Saturday 7th ? ?0100-0400 UTC
Sunday 8th ? ? ? 0100-0400 UTC
In North and Central America, that would be this Friday and Saturday evenings,
8-11pm Central, 9pm-12am Eastern. ?The test program will be similar to last
time, but not exactly the same. ?It will contain segments in both English and
Spanish.
The transmitter site is near Los Angeles, and here it is currently getting dark
at about 0230 UTC (7:30pm local). ?Therefore, during the first half of these
tests, the transmission path will be increasingly in darkness, and for the last
90 minutes or so will be in complete darkness. ?Please let us know what
reception sounds like at your location as the evening progresses, and also what
type of receiver and antenna you are using.
Reception reports may be emailed to "q...@kvoh.net" or sent to:
KVOH - Voice of Hope
P.O.Box 102
Los Angeles, CA 90078
United States of America
All correct reports will be verified with our QSL card.
Thank you very much in advance for your assistance with this test! ?
Ray Robinson
Operations Manager
KVOH - Voice of Hope / Voz de Esperanza
Los Angeles
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 129, Issue 5
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