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Berber test transmissions (Eike Bierwirth) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 23:23:15 +0000 (UTC) From: Don Moore <donmoored...@yahoo.com> To: HCDX <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com> Subject: [HCDX] BLANDX reactivated Message-ID: <1838562068.2502772.1427844195917.javamail.ya...@mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 The April 1 2015 BLANDX is up at BLANDX - Home Page? | ? | | ? | | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | | BLANDX - Home PageBREAKING DX NEWS!!! BLANDX HAS REACTIVATED!!! (That's Us!) Can your bladder handle the excitment? If so, check out our new April 1, 2015 issue of BLANDX. | | | | View on www.blandx.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | | ? | ??Don Moore --- donmoored...@yahoo.com Humpty Dumpty was pushed. Radio & Latin American website: http://www.pateplumaradio.com/ ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 20:53:36 -0300 From: Rudolf Grimm <grim...@outlook.com.br> To: <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com> Subject: [HCDX] SW 31.03.2015 Message-ID: <bay404-eas306909d61912339ca362a0fc2...@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Listening from today: 9575 kHz MOROCCO: Medi Un, Nador, AA, 31/03 2031. Songs in AA and EE, OM: talk in AA, 45554 15260 kHz UK: IBRA Radio, via Woofferton, AA, 31/03 1810. OM: talk, instrumental mx, id, QTH, 35543 15275 kHz MADAGASCAR: Deutsche Welle, via Talata-Volondry, Hausa, 31/03 1832. OM: talk, African song, YL, 35553 Stations listened in S?o Bernardo SP Rudolf Grimm S?o Bernardo SP BRAZIL Rx: Sony ICF2001D, AOR LA-400 ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 20:17:50 -0700 From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 31-April 1, 2015 Message-ID: <1427858270.73158.yahoomailba...@web161304.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** ALBANIA. 9855, March 31 at 2356, R. Tirana Albanian hour to N America in closing music, 2357 national anthem, 2358 IS and off. Fair signal, no interference co- or adjacent. Nearest signal is Chinese on 9865, no problem. *2359 pops on 9850 instead with carrier and then IS until 2400*, i.e. setting up for the next broadcast, English at 0130 on 5 kHz lower. There is a slight QRM overlap, but not a big problem. By 2357 or so I am hearing something underneath 9855, clear but poor at 2359, which turns out to be VOA Tibetan via Kuwait, with a VOA jingle at 0001. 9850, April 1 at 0127, R. Tirana IS, fair with flutter. On the PL-880 with short random wire, dbu ranges 31-51, average about 46. There are storms not far away to the south in Oklahoma, and the noise floor level on unoccupied 9840 ranges 19-23 dbu. No adjacent or co-channel interference plus 5 or 10. In fact, the only significants are bookends Turkey in Spanish back on same frequencies as last A, 9770 and 9870. 0130 sign-on with correct times and frequencies for the two English broadcasts starting March 29, into news. Recheck at 0155 during closing music, still no QRM problem, dbu ranges 37-49; 0157 theme, 0158 IS to 0158.5*. So both frequencies are working well in the new season. However, modulation is not sufficient; as Wolfy suggests, should add an OPTIMOD to boost it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALGERIA [non]. 13820, March 31 at 1942, music on very poor signal, must be RTA via FRANCE as scheduled 18-20 UT, audible now that Cuba has moved all its jammers to 13605 following Mart? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11745 & 11815, March 31 at 2355, crackling spurs from RNA 11780.1v are audible already, and a trace on 11710 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 13605, March 31 at 1941, DentroCuban Jamming Command finally hits R. Mart?`s A-frequency instead of B-frequency 13820 as they were still doing this morning. RM is still atop the wall-of-noise and easily readable. Arnie must have finally got around to reading my logs ridiculing their incompetence; Sorry, Mart?, but this was no secret, as in HFCC for all to see (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See ALGERIA [non] ** GREECE. 15650, March 31 at 1939, dbu range 25-44, poor signal in music, sounds ME or Greek, 1943 Greekish W&M talk; 1957 Greek music, plays past 2000, but their clock is slow since a timesignal ends at 2000:49! Then surprise ID for ``Radiophonikos Stathmos Makedonias``, theme, a bit of open carrier, and cut off at 2001:41*. Maybe moved to 9420 but would not propagate now, and I`ve not heard that for at least a week at night when it would (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 17550, March 31 at 2002, no signal from R. Kuwait, tho previous frequency 13650 was audible poorly before 2000 and off now. By 2003 with BFO I can detect a JBA carrier on 17550, so apparently it`s on but not a good day to propagate. As always, nothing on 15540, the former English frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN [and non]. 17855, March 31 at 1935, no signal from REE, the new frequency it started March 29 and 30 --- leaving 17850 FRANCE without QRM. Did they see and act on my remark about absurdity of such adjacency on an almost empty band? Tuning around, I find REE instead on 17715, poor signal in Castilian, so is it still the North American beam? // fair 15490. Tuning further, at 1940 I find the third frequency is another new one, 15450! Where will they be tomorrow? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5850, March 31 at 2355, Global 24 via WRMI continues during the 23-24 hour only on weekdays, but it`s a good one: `Democracy Now`, which now has coverage filling in numerous radio gaps, including Oklahoma. WRMI 11825 now off the air at this hour except weekends with Global 24 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 12105, March 31 at 1941, WTWW-3, Bible story in English with dramatic music, VG signal, contrary to nominal schedule of Spanish this hour. Recheck 2006 now it`s in Brazuguese, scheduled as Portuguese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. March 31 at 1943, I notice that WTWW 9475 is audibly much weaker than neighbor in TN, WWCR 9980, which continues to blast in despite some daytime absorption affecting other USA 30-31 mb signals (and suspected mostly running underpowered, too, and/or unfavorable antennas). So just for comparison, on the PL-880 with a few meters of random wire, I take dbu readings for them all within a few minutes at 1949-1956 UT, rearranged from weakest to strongest: 9515, 18-20, no signal measuring noise floor 9395, 20-26, WRMI 9265, 23-30, WINB 9840, 28-36, WHRI 9370, 27-47, WWRB 9475, 30-49, WTWW 10000, 50-53, WWV --- note steadiest and second strongest, only 10 kW 9980, 58-65, WWCR 9955, 20-24, no signal from WRMI, noise floor here (Greenville/Mart? doesn`t start until 2000; WBCQ still silent on 9330) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 0317 UT April 1 ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 07:08:49 +0200 From: Eike Bierwirth <eike.bierwi...@yandex.com> To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Subject: [HCDX] Berber test transmissions Message-ID: <551b7d61.2020...@yandex.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed H.Heinrich forwarded this info in the A-DX mailinglist from yet another mailinglist, EuroRadio. An Algerian station named Radio Amazigh performs test transmissions from 31 March until 4 April from international waters. 1230-1300 UTC on (9805 plusminus 5) kHz. Languages: Kabyl and French. Amazigh means Berber in Kabyl. The first three broadcasts are in NBFM, the remaining two in AM. RR (in French please) to amaz...@netcourrier.com 73, Eike Laut einer Nachricht ?ber die Englischsprachige mailing-list EuroRadio, wird von 31 M?rz bis 4 April aus hoher See getested. Ein Algerischer Sender, der sich Radio Amazigh nennt, will an diesen Tagen von 1230 bis 1300 auf 9805 kHz (+/- 5 kHz) testen. Sprachen : Kabyl (Berber) und Franz?sisch. ?brigens Amazigh bedeutet Berber in deren Sprache. Komisch dabei is das die drei ersten Sendungen in NBFM abgewickelt werden, die zwei letzten werden in AM ablaufen. Empfangsberichte an amaz...@netcourrier.com. Wenn m?glich sollten die Berichte auf Franz?sich geschrieben sein. 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