Re: [DX] W7IUV preamp
Perseuksen kytkentäkaaviota kannattaisi varmaan kysellä Perseus_SDR-listalla Yahoossa. Softahan siitä tosin vasta tekee sen, mikä se on. 73, MR 8.11.2012 18:52, Ilpo J Leppänen kirjoitti: Jos ajatellaan muoviin valamista sääsuojauksena niin elektroniikalle voidaan sen sijaan tehdä vaikka hyvinkin paksu (jopa useita mm) lakkaus lakoilla jotka pystytään poistamaan liuottimella. Näihin pystytään vaihtamaan komponentteja kun ensin poistetaan lakkakerros. On kelvannut tämä esim. sotilaspuolen ilmailuelektroniikkaan jossa paikkapaikoin ympäristöolosuhdevaatimukset ylittävät aika reilusti radioharrastajan antenniympäristössä vaadittavat. Sinänsä on tuo kaavioiden panttaaminen aika turhaa jos sillä pyritään estämään jotain teollista valmistajaa saamasta tietoa laitteen tekniikasta. Massatuotteiden suhteenhan on olemassa yrityksiä, jotka selvittävät sen rakenteen heti kun uusi laite tulee markkinoille. Ja tämmöisten yksinkertaiseksi luokiteltavien laitteiden suhteen kuten vielä Perseuskin on ei se liene kilpailijoiden labroille vaikeaa. Vai halutaanko tällä vain kiusata harrastajia ja vaikeuttaa heidän omien ideoiden ja modisten toteutusta. 73,s IJL At 18:00 8.11.2012, you wrote: Amidon lienee pelkkä myyntifirma, joka ei itse valmista noita toroideja - näin olen jostain lukenut. Lieko valmistaja Micrometals tai jotain sinnepäin. Mutta käyttökelpoisiahan nämä todella ovat hyvine spekseineen. Ihmeen paljon salaisia nämä kytkennät ja laitteet nykyisin ovat. Mistähän saisit esim. Perseukseen huolto-ohjeen ... tai kytkentäkaavion? Kun et löydä edes kunnon käyttäjän ohjetta! Olen joskus koettanut purkaa Wellbrookin ALA1530:n antennivahvistinta - salainen kaava tässäkin. Näitä olen jo parikin omistanut ... ja jostain syystä vaikuttaa, että muutamassa vuodessa näiden vahvistus vähitellen heikkenee. Onkohan jollain muulla vastaavia kokemuksia? Tarkempaa syytä olisin etsinyt, mutta mahdotontahan tämä on - todella kertakäyttöistä tavaraa. Olisi siis ehkä aika siirtyä taas omatekoisiin, muoviin valamattomiin ja siis myös huollettaviin vahvistimiin! 73 de SDXL1398/OH5MD, Ilkka M. -Alkuperäinen viesti- Lähettäjä: dx-boun...@hard-core-dx.com [mailto:dx-boun...@hard-core-dx.com] Puolesta Ilpo J Leppänen Lähetetty: 8. marraskuuta 2012 17:39 Vastaanottaja: Suomalaisten DX-lista Aihe: Re: [DX] W7IUV preamp En ole kaikkia maailman vahvistinkytkentöjä tutkaillut, mutta mikä sitten on Nelson-periaate? Nelsonin kytkentöjä on kyllä audiovahvistimissa. Nortonin aikoinaan patentoimaa kytkentää on eri variaatioina kyllä käytetty runsaasti. Tosiasiasia on, että aika harva on kovin laajaa repertuaaria eri vahvistimia samaan aikaan ja täysin vertailukelpoisissa olosuhteissa kokeillut. Eroja vahvistimien välillä ensinnäkin on vahvistuksen määrässä ja kohinaluvussa. Viimemainitussa ei kannattane kuitenkaan kuvitella sen vaikutusta merkittäväksi kunhan se on riittävän pieni . On ihan mahdollista toki käyttää vastaavia komponentteja kuin korkeimmillakin taajuusalueilla käytetään Ultra Low Noise-vahvistimissa, mutta MW:llä siitä ei välttämättä ole enää hyötyä. En myöskään usko yhden valmistajan ainoisiin autuaisiin ferriittimateriaaleihin tai toroideihin. Isot valmistajat hallitsevat kaikenlaatuisten kelasydänmateriaalien teon ja yleensä löytyy maailmasta ainakin 4-6 valmistajaa jolla on samat ominaisuudet omaavia materiaaleja. On sitten eri asia onko jonkun valmistajan materiaaleja helpompi harrastajan saada. Tässä suhteessa esim. Amidon on aina ollut suuntautunut harrastajamarkkinoille, mutta taas varsin vähän käytetty teollisessa laitevalmistuksessa verrattuna Siemensiin, Neosidiin, TDK:hon yms. Hauskoja nuo salaiset kytkentäkaaviot. Niiden takia on työelämässäkin aikoinaan jouduttu uhraamaan pitkiä toveja kun on ollut pakko saada purettua auki jonkin laitteen kytkentä jonka valmistaja on esim. tehnyt konkurssin ja mitään tietoa ei saa. Pahimmat on purettu epoksivalusta ennen piirtämistä. Liiketoiminta pitäisi olla kannattavaa jollain muulla tavalla kuin salaamalla laitteen toteutus mahdollisilta kilpailijoilta. 73,s IJL At 16:07 8.11.2012, you wrote: Se vahvistin jonka mä käytän, elikkä SW-preamp on nimenomaan tehty Nelson-periaatteella ja kohinakerroin on alle 3. On hyvä, en käyttäisi muuta. SW Ruotsissa joka on kehittänyt sitä ei anna lupa kytkentäkaavan julkaisemiseen, mutta tietävälle on helppo ottaa selvää kytkentäkaavasta ja käytetyistä komponenteistä. Ihan kaupasta helposti saatavilla, paitsi ehkäpä se Neosidin kuristin.. Voishan kokeilla muitakin kytkentöjä, mut kun on tyytyväinen siihen mitä itse käyttää ei oikein viitsi kun aika on kortilla. 73' RS 8.11.2012 10:52, Ilpo J Leppänen kirjoitti: Kaupasta - ei siis elintarvike, vaan elektroniikkaliikkeistä - saa myös peltikoteloita joihin voi juottaa esimerkiksi seuraavan kaltainen. Valikoimaa kyllä riittää. http://koti.mbnet.fi/~ijl/sdr_iq/dfs_rakentelua_aloitellaan.jpghttp://
Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 119, Issue 9
Send Hard-Core-DX mailing list submissions to hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to hard-core-dx-requ...@hard-core-dx.com You can reach the person managing the list at hard-core-dx-ow...@hard-core-dx.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Hard-Core-DX digest... Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt Today's Topics: 1. Glenn Hauser logs November 7-8, 2012 (Glenn Hauser) 2. Nov 7-8 Logs (brian384...@aol.com) 3. DX/SWL/Media Programs B-12 schedule (Glenn Hauser) -- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 13:52:37 -0800 (PST) From: Glenn Hauser wghau...@yahoo.com To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 7-8, 2012 Message-ID: 1352411557.74260.yahoomailclas...@web114014.mail.gq1.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** BIAFRA [non]. 11830, Nov 8 at 1917, JBA carrier here and not on 11870, maybe evidence that R. Biafra London matches HFCC B-12 on this new frequency and an hour earlier, Thursdays and Saturdays only at 19-20 via WRN, due south from Wertachtal, GERMANY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 7220 7435, CRI Nepali service via Kunming site at 1400, is just as I suspected *still* preceding it with nonsensical Radio Exterior de Espa?a interval signal, barely but definitely audible on both at 1359 Nov 8, somewhat stronger on 7435 and less QRhaM, but 7435 also has a squeal on the signal. This presumably results from the fact that the REE program feed in Spanish, is going into Beijing master control for relay via Beijing site on 11910 and is just ending at 1400, when MC somehow switches that feed onto the circuit going to Kunming. This has been going on for two or three years now, and no one notices but me? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1642, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 8, not a full search but noticed only: 15570, very poor at 1356 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. 6050, Nov 8 at 0230 I am tuning for HCJB, which finally got its frequency back from the Cuban usurpers. I want to hear the automatic timesignal on the half-hour, but get here a few sex too late. Yet there are praise songs by YL in Spanish, so this must be it. Still faces QRM problems, but nothing to compare with co-channel RHC blasts: there is some lite pulse jamming which must be bleeding over from 6030 vs R. Mart?, as I can also hear it between the two frequencies. Recheck just before 0500 for the sign-off. At 0459 ID for 690 and 6050 kHz, auto timesignal which is 3+1, the last prolonged at the same pitch, then sign-off announcement mentioning that next broadcast early morning will be in Quichua. Then national anthem with the refrain ``gloria a ti`` repeated. Open carrier stayed on a while, but did not hear any postlude of Andean music like they used to do (switching error?). 6050 also suffers ACI from Spain 6055, which is much stronger, but that`s been acceptable from long before Cuba intervened on 6050 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1642, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9720, Nov 8 at 0237, R. Cairo with fair signal, just barely modulated in presumed English; stronger signal on 9905 with Qur`an, not as distorted or buzzy as it often is; 9965, very distorted Arabic, no buzz tho (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 15630, Nov 8 at 1353, VOG fair signal with dirge music as befits the general strike (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUIANA FRENCH. 9490, Nov 8 at 0154, no signal from R. Rep?blica relay which normally ends at 0157. I tuned in time, I thought, to see if the spurs were still there. But I had previously told Jeff White about them, and he said he passed it on, presumably to TDF, so maybe they are working on the problem. However, the spurs are still there out of the 5960 GUF transmitter after 0200 relaying NHK in Japanese: 0227 check, the usual buzz around 6076, 5994, 5926, 5892, 5844. Listening to fundamental 5960 itself at 0236, it has that motor-boating sound in the background (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 9595, Thu Nov 8 at 1338, R. Nikkei in American English about the inventor of blue LEDs in Santa B?rbara, then Japanese, further alternations discussing how Korea and China hire lots of
Re: [HCDX] 6270 unID
Ralph, ``Imperialismo`` is certainly a hallmark of Radio Habana Cuba, not Radio Marti. Likely a leapfrog mixing product. Doing the math, 6060 leaps over 6165 another 105 kHz higher, to land on 6270. Surely you would find // audio on 6060 or many other RHC frequencies in Spanish. Since RHC English on 6165 is new, this particular mix on 6270 would not have appeared previously. It`s great that some of these are still around 49m, in the post-Bonaire and post-Sackville era. 73, Glenn Hauser --- On Fri, 11/9/12, RALPH PERRY ralph.w.pe...@gmail.com wrote: From: RALPH PERRY ralph.w.pe...@gmail.com Subject: [dxld] To: Date: Friday, November 9, 2012, 8:40 AM UNID – 6270, unid station, possible clandestine or religious, noted 11/9 at 0415 past 0430. OM droning on in SS until 0427 when martial-type marching band music, then YL and OM alternating. Weak signal with muffled modulation and very deep (nearly total) cyclical fades, such as I’ve experienced on groundwave xmsns ex Central America. Can’t tell yet if religious exhortation or political – but may be the latter as perhaps heard mention of ‘imperialismo’. Checked Marti for //s, thinking a spur, but no match. Help, anybody? (Perry, Illinois) Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100 Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 + Quantum Phaser antenna unit (customized for tropical bands) 355-foot bidirectional BOG positioned 150 deg / 330 deg for LA / SE Asia Phased Longwire + Small Loop _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 8-9, 2012
** ASIA [non]. 11605, Nov 9 at 0027, ``you have been listening to Radio Free Asia`` a bit of music, carrier cut but right back on. No I haven`t, I just tuned in! Strangely enough, no IBB transmissions are in latest HFCC B-12 on 11605. That`s because as in Aoki, it`s via detested Taiwan: 11605 2330-0030 TWN R.FREE ASIA Vietnamese Tanshui 1-7 However, at 0030, music continues, along with whoops and Asian language, long-path echo. Nothing scheduled now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4716.64 approx., Nov 9 at 0035, very poor signal with LA music, but off-frequency closely matches recent report by Bob Wilkner on 4716.63 of Radio Yatun Ayllu Yura, Yura. Pleased to be getting it at all, with local noise level here on 60m usually intolerable, but it helped to recess to the porch and the DX-398. See also PERU (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5952.44 approx., Nov 9 at 0043, music with drumming, poor signal, presumed Radio Pio Doce, Siglo Veinte, on its characteristic off-frequency; I`ll concede the last digit to Andy Robins, who also had it a few nights ago at this time on 5952.45 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 990, Nov 9 at 0710 UT, CBW with CBC Overnight, correspondent reports on banning porn in Egypt, severe Hurricane Sandy damage to Santiago de Cuba (both stories we have heard little about on mainstream US media). Kept me awake longer than I wished, 0719 Public Radio International ID, music break, 0720 `The World` is the program (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 17495, Nov 9 at 0018, Chinese with good signal, scheduled as CRI at 00-03, 500 kW, 193 degrees from Beijing site. 17645, Nov 9 at 0019, different Chinese than on 17495, and this one has CCI, i.e. CNR1 programming jamming VOA Chinese, 250 kW, 349 degrees from Tinang, PHILIPPINES during this hour only. 15385, Nov 9 at 0020, same mix as on 17645, except stronger here, where PHT even has exactly the same parameters. But deep in the mix I can hear some Firedrake too for good measure. One would expect normally extreme jamming levels to be stepped up even further during the ChiCommie Party Congress. But no jamming here: 15145, Nov 9 at 0022, reasonable-sounding discussion by American-accented guest about how capitalism plays a part in Chicommunism, i.e. CRI English at 00-02, 500 kW, 215 degrees from Beijing site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. 5025, Nov 9 at 0034, R. Rebelde is off the air again, and replaced by RTTY; almost as if they are coördinating? Rebelde is back on at 0624 check and no RTTY, sounds like Gardel, and outro quotes ``el abismo, nuestro porvenir`` (the abyss, our future), and mentions Tito Gómez, RCA Victor records from the 1940s. Kudos to R. Rebelde for a lot of good music, much more so than RHC. 5040, Nov 9 at 0624, so much for Arnie`s new English hour --- RHC is in Spanish, while the overkill quad on 49m remain in English. Ending ``la estampa de hoy`` segment. Does that mean stud, illustration or press review as my dixionary suggests? RHC is not supposed to be in Spanish on any frequency after 0600, so maybe the latest SNAFU by RadioCuba; back to English? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUIANA FRENCH. 9490, Nov 9 at 0015 I am checking the R. República relay much earlier tonight as it was missing last night at 0154 from the 00-02 transmission, but it is also absent now: nothing but wall-of-noise jamming audible, while normally RR/GUF is well atop that, at least during the first part of the broadcast. So, no spurs either! I suspect TDF has taken the transmitter down to fix it, tho one would expect some substitution to keep the RR service airborne (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 640, Nov 9 at 0705 UT, long choral NA ends, full ID for FM XHHHI on 99.3, XEHHI on 640, Los Cuarenta Principales from Chihuahua, 0706 slightly late TC as ``son las doce``, into top-40 music. Cantú: 640 XEHHI Los 40 Principales + FM 99.3 Hidalgo del Parral, Chih. 10,000 1,000 --- Nice to get this other Chihuahuan, than XEJUA in Juárez we hear around sunrise, but supposedly only a daytimer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 660, Nov 9 at 0700 UT, Chihuahua state song, fanfare and maybe jingle ID but could not copy it, then cuts off the air. Cantú shows the only Chihuahuan is: 660 XEACB La Lupe + FM 98.9 Cd. Delicias, Chih. 3,000 1,000 Most unusual to hear an XE axually going off the air at midnite. Left quite a hole on the dial (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 960, UT Fri Nov 9 at 0600-0605, KGWA Fox-hole silence audiblizes mainly ABC News, presumably KMA Iowa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Nov 9 at 1302, KEOR on again with open carrier, and little KMOX until it fades back in with slow SAH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4774.9, Nov 9 at 0037, very poor signal with some
[HCDX] HH Lokalradio this Saturday
HH Lokalradio this Saturday 05.00 to 11.00 UTC on 7265 KHz 11.00 to 17.00 UTC on 6190 KHz All reports to: m.kitt...@freenet.de http://mail.google.com/a/sky.com/h/mjewv27lu9pv/?v=bcs=whto=m.kittner@fr eenet.de Good Listening 73s, Tom _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Recent Logs
7290 RUSSIA VOR 2240 OM German ID, MX vocals OM 'aufwiederschein' at 2250, MX a number of vocals. Announcement by YL EE of broadcast being 24/7. OM with NX. 11/8. (ERVINE-TX) 7375 CROATIA VOC ZAGREB 0240 YL/OM dialogue, presumed Croatian. Local MX, vocals by group. 0300 ID, NX and commentary in EE. 0310 ID and more local MX. 11/9. (ERVINE-TX) 9480 WTWW USA 2215 EE WOR with Glenn Hauser with announcement that 1480 kHz KVXV? Dallas was opening up again. Into GLG EE that 'station was moving down to 5745 kHz at 6:00 PM ' 11/8. (ERVINE-TX) ICOM-75, SONY 2010, AOR LOOP LA-380 Thank you Jerry _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Nov 9 Logs
** BANGLADESH. 15105, Bangladesh Betar, *1228:25-1300*, Nov 9, sign on with IS. Opening English announcements at 1230 and into talk and subcont music. Fair signal strength but very weak modulation. (Alexander-PA) ** CHAD. 6164.96, RNT, *0501-0515, Nov 9, abrupt sign on with French talk. Afro-pop music. Poor. Weak under a very strong Cuba on 6165. (Alexander-PA) ** MEXICO. 6184.99, Radio Educación, 0535-0600*, Nov 9, Spanish radio-drama with short pieces of opera/classical music. Programming ended at 0600 with transmitter off at 0609. Poor. Weak. (Alexander-PA) ** NIGER. 9705.39, LV du Sahel, 2137-2259*, Nov 9, tune-in to talk in unidentified language. Local African tribal music. Indigenous vocals. Chants at 2254. Short flute IS at 2257 followed by National Anthem. Short 5 second test tone at 2259 and off. Very weak modulation, but slightly stronger than yesterday. (Alexander-PA) ** THAILAND. 9720, Radio Thailand, 1233-1250+. Nov 9, tune-in to English news. ID. Traval promos. In the clear with a weak but readable signal, but deteriorated to a barely audible level by 1245. (Alexander-PA) ** ZANZIBAR. 11735, ZBC, 2050-2123*, Nov 9, tune-in to traditional Mid-Eastern music. Swahili announcements. Only an open carrier at 2100-2103. Programming back on at 2103 with many canned “Spice FM” IDs, promos and Swahili announcements. Western style pop music. Abrupt sign off. Good overall signal but transmitter was slightly noisy and had a weak hum. (Alexander-PA) Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Madagascar 5010 reactivated
** MADAGASCAR. 5010.00, Radio Madagasikara, 0200-0240+, Nov 10, carrier + USB. Reactivated. Tune-in to inspirational music, choral music. Announcements. African Hi-life music. IS at 0228. Choral National Anthem at 0228:45. Local guitar music and opening announcements at 0230:45. Malagasy talk. Local African music at 0232. Weak but readable in noisy conditions. Checked yesterday for these guys but nothing heard. Thanks to tip from Ron Howard and others. (Alexander-PA) Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
Re: [HCDX] [DXplorer] Madagascar 5010 reactivated
5010.006 - just measured. Depends of daily SunSpot conditions, this morning Nov 10th at 0255 UT could only trace a threshold signal in Germany, could identify chorus pop music with MDG flavour, but no details so far. S=3 fluttery 73 wb df5sx - Original Message - From: brian384...@aol.com Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2012 3:43 AM Subject: [DXplorer] Madagascar 5010 reactivated ** MADAGASCAR. 5010.00, Radio Madagasikara, 0200-0240+, Nov 10, carrier + USB. Reactivated. Tune-in to inspirational music, choral music. Announcements. African Hi-life music. IS at 0228. Choral National Anthem at 0228:45. Local guitar music and opening announcements at 0230:45. Malagasy talk. Local African music at 0232. Weak but readable in noisy conditions. Checked yesterday for these guys but nothing heard. Thanks to tip from Ron Howard and others. (Alexander-PA) Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 9-10, 2012
** ALBANIA. 6100, Nov 10 at 0227 tune-in, R. Tirana with pop music, and ``end of our program for today; goodnight from Radio Tirana`` then switch to IS, 0230 opening English with usual B-12 schedule claiming this is on the air 7 nights a week instead of 6. So the only scheduled English at 0230 got a prepeat, but from how early, 0200? Probably not (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 13363.5-LSB, Nov 10 at 0034, LTA feeder is on and in again, song in English, ``I Love You So``, 0035 DJs talking over it, introducing comerciales, a looong adstring, including speech-compressed tags, websites in .ar, ``espacio publicitario``; 0040 ``tu radio``, QRM for a couple of minutes from Enid acoustic sirens; still ads past 0042, 0043 headlines including something about Uruguayan transit, Pope on Twitter, finally back to a song. Never caught an ID of the originating station. But: As I mention on WORLD OF RADIO 1642, Eduardo Peralta within Argentina heard a new one Nov 8 at 0154, ``Metro 95.1, well-known FM station from Buenos Aires; at 0154 Fin espacio publicitario, into English rap music at 0156. Terrible, noisy quality``. That matches what I was hearing tonight. Gone at 0100 recheck when there might have been an ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 11711v, Nov 10 at 0044, RAE good signal, het, in Portuguese with a porteño accent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4700, Nov 10 at 0022, JBA carrier and a trace of modulation, probably R. San Miguel, heard in the mornings by Andy Robins and Bob Wilkner on 4699.95 or 4699.9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4717-, Nov 10 at 0014, presumed Radio Yatun Ayllu Yura, Yura, is in again tonight with music, better at 0022, and at 0047 it`s become the best of the 4.7+ MHz signals (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5580.2, Nov 10 at 0023, JBA carrier, matching the frequency reported by Bob Wilkner for Radio San José, Oct 21 and 25 during the previous hour. On 4 November he had it on 5580.16 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5952.44, Nov 10 at 0046, Radio Pio Doce in Spanish, blasted away by CRI Spanish via Cuba on new 5950 ex-5990, and causing a big het to it, but no contest here about which dominates. RPXII was in the clear 24 hours earlier; we can only hope the Cubans punched up the wrong frequency rather than a permanent change (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4925, Nov 10 at 0029, poor in Portuguese with timecheck for 20 horas and something, i.e. UT-4 zone which makes it R. Educação Rural, Tefé, Amazonas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 2748.7-USB, Nov 10 at 0054, weak signal with weather, sort of British accent, then some different voices, traffic contacts? 0057 it`s French Canadian with an English accent, mentions Îles de la Madelaine. I know I`ve heard something like this before: see DXLD 11-12, and also 10-48. One schedule at http://www.dxinfocentre.com/mb.htm#O%20ATL shows three Coast Guard stations in NS in rotation with Grindstone, Quebec, i.e. Magdalen Islands, but the latest one starting before 0054 as VCO Sydney from 0040. The CCG schedule at http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/RAMN2012/Atlantic/Part2 agrees: ``MCTS Sydney / VCO - Broadcasts Time UTC 0040 Frequency 2749-J3E RADIOTELEPHONY`` J3E means single sideband, suppressed carrier. And there is no listing now for VCN or Grindstone, which apparently has been decommissioned (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 15340, oops! Nov 9 at 1929, we find the RHC new frequency to Europe instead broadcasting cut numbers in MCW, i.e. tones on a regular AM carrier. Cut numbers are ten Morse letters each standing for a different number, easier and quicker to copy than the five dits/dahs making up each proper Morse code number. And they are sent in groups of five each, then pauses, just like we hear on various frequencies in the 5.8-5.9 MHz range late at night. Of course, we already know these spy numbers, as well as the Spanish-spoken variety, are from Cuba, but putting them on an RHC frequency will make this a little harder to deny, if the dentroCubans even try to. Not only is it an RHC frequency, but obviously an RHC transmitter, sharing the site with the DGI spy numbers service, as finally at 1934 the numbers suddenly stop, replaced by the RHC French service already in progress. 5950, Nov 9 at 2305, surprised to find CRI English here with good modulation, and not on 5990, so must be the Cuban relay, which in HFCC B-12 is still shown on 5990 for 23-24 English and 00-01 Spanish. A mistake, or are the ChiCom rubbing in Taiwan`s departure from 5950 via WYFR? We`ll see subsequently. If not the only occasion for CRI/HAB on 5950, it`s the first, as yesterday before 0100 it was certainly not there when I was getting BOLIVIA, q.v. unimpeded on 5952.44. Yes, at 0024 UT Nov 10, CRI Spanish is still on 5950, and now has a
