[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 10-11, 2015
** ALBANIA. 9850-, April 11 at *0122:12, R. Tirana comes on with IS, up from the noise floor of 00-17 dbu to 10-24 dbu. During the following English to North America, Wolfgang Büschel measured it 27 Hz low (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11770-11790, April 11 at 0056, RNA/RNB 11780.1v is splattering up and down, in addition to the usual separate crackling spurs circa 11815 and 11745. The RAE Argentina IS on 11711- is also marred by the weaker one (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 2749-USB, April 11 at 0102, very poor signal but YL voice, presumably marine weather; then I check 2598-USB and hear more of same, probably not //, both too weak to read --- but first time I`ve heard either in months, not all winter, so suspected the Canadian Coast Guard may have closed them, but Bill Hepburn confirmed they were still on. His listings http://www.dxinfocentre.com/mb.htm show these must have been, on shared frequencies, at this hour: 2749, VCO, Sydney NS, starting at 0040 2598, VCP-4, Placentia NL, starting at 0048 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 15565, April 11 at 0051, CNR1 jammer, poor signal with low rumbling audible heterodyne, Chinese and CCI, this being the VOA via THAILAND hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6060, April 11 at 0045 UT, RHC with someone speaking ``church Spanish``, and sure `nuff, it`s the Pope`s portable voice, with official greeting to the President of Panamá, as the big-deal Seventh Summit is getting underway, seemingly live coverage. 17730, tuning around further, at 0052 UT April 11 I find this RHC frequency still on air with same, and holding up with a VG signal. Vatican spoxeman is finishing and at 0053 a childlike voice introduces the next speaker, Secretary General of the OAS, also greeting the Pan Pres & spouse. Also on 9710, 9535, 15230, 11760, 11840, 13740 at least. This must be pre-empting regular programming, and do not be surprised if there is more of this on Saturday, even causing some frequency extensions. According to the brand-new A-15 schedule, 17730 is supposed to finish at 2300 after European service from Bauta #1, and switch to 11670 for Rio de Janeiro until 0400. 17730 is still on at 0111 with someone speaking in English (a number of Caribbean countries are in this), but voice-over translation into Spanish, bummer. Anyhow, RHC is doing a lot more on the Summit than we can ever expect from VOA --- and I wonder how R. Martí will be playing it, as the Cuban-Americans are none too happy about Pres. Obama meeting with Pres. Castro. 6165 meanwhile is back in whack tonight, after last night`s total disaster of huge noise blob instead of English. But it`s normal RHC programming at 0111 // 6000, not Summit-live (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT [and non]. 9315, April 11 at 0113, R. Cairo, fair signal, open carrier/dead air instead of Spanish 9965, April 11 at 0113, R. Cairo, good signal with whine, Arabic is JBM, then BM with ID at 0114 12070, April 11 at 0114, R. Cairo, fair signal and suptorted, supposedly Spanish 11935, April 11 at 0116, the LAH under RB2 BRAZIL with its frequent IDs is presumably the other Cairo frequency, nothing on 12035 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1560, April 10 at 1820 UT on caradio, KEBC Del City is once again back on its own, no longer duplicating 1520 KOKC, where rebuild of a single tower must now be complete. Instead on 1560 I am hearing Oklahoma high school sports promos (same one twice?), and Oklahoma Dept of Health PSA, 1822 UT rejoining NBC Sports Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 94.3, April 10 at 2008 UT, now it`s at least 24 hours of dead air from KLGB-LP Enid, deadline for license cancellation under gh`s proposed FCC rules. Still with bleed from 99.9 co-station. And still at 0340 UT April 11 --- make that 31 hours and counting (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 9740, April 11 at 0049, Qur`an, fair signal, presumed R. Sultanate of Oman, having failed to switch to 9500 at scheduled . Registered time for 9740 is 22-24 UT only, and someone on the NASWA Flashsheet had an unID then which must have been this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, April 11 at 0046, JBA carrier from R. Chaski; autocutoff happens at 0107:58.5* which is 5.5 seconds later than last night, back to customary slippage. My streetlight RF burst and visible ignition haven`t happened yet, even tho sunset horizon is cloudy, but surely within the next few minutes when I miss it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, April 11 at *0114:10.5, carrier on from SLBC (and no pre-burst since 0111 tune-in), prélude at 0114:49.5; 2+1 pips until 0115:19, right on mis-time, opening. Signal is only poor, not the good but fluttery one it habitually achieved in Feb and Mar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 29-30-31, 2014
** AUSTRALIA. 11945, Wed Dec 31 at 0631, RA `Religion and Ethics Report` visits Buenos Aires (and yet host Andrew West hasn`t learnt how to pronounce Aires), interviews thru interpreter about religion there from the source of a pope; fair but sufficient signal as customary here, tho it`s on 100-degree azimuth, better for S America than N. 13630, often VG, is now inaudible above the MUF if on. HFCC shows 11945 also at 12-15 on 70 degree beam toward N America, when we never hear it: that must be wooden. As for this R&E program, RA online schedule shows `Radio Australia Wantok` in Pidgin during this semi-hour! But it`s only on certain frequencies, not this one, duh. It does show R&E Wednesdays at 2130: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/religionandethicsreport/ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 9595, Dec 31 at 1457, there`s no NHK to be heard, as their New Year`s celebration has long since vanished from SW, so I settle on R. Nikkei where it`s almost local 2015y. Fair signal with pop music, 1459 ID ``kochirawa Radio Nikkei desu`` and sign-off citing JOZ- calls, 1500 dead air, no observance of the New Year whatsoever. Did hear a timesignal but probably bleeding from China on 9605. BTW, there was a publicized NYE monitoring suggestion including midnight in eastern Australia at 1100 UT --- wrong, it was 1300 UT in NSW and Vic, 1400 UT in Qsld, but 1100 UT in NZ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SEYCHELLES [non]. 11900, Dec 31 at 1443, Urdu program closing with Pakistani addresses, 1444 BaBcoCk IS and off 1445*. Surprisingly good signal considering it`s FEBC via UAE, 250 kW aimed 60 degrees at 1400-1445 daily per HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [and non]. 15550, Dec 31 at 1524, R. Tamazuj with VG signal, trace of WJHR, and no tone jamming yet from Sudan. Then I discover Arabish talk in // on also VG 15400, and synchronized! ID at 1526 pronounced ``Tamázuk``. At 1527, they are no longer synch, in fact not //, one with YL, other with OM. One has changed site and/or feed. And 15400 cuts off at 1528:23*. 15550 signs-off R. Tamazuj but scheduled R. Dabanga does NOT follow at 1530, instead dead air, audiblizing WJHR screamer. Still DA at 1531 when Sudanese tone jammer cuts on. Still the same situation at 1534. Next check at 1547, still no Dabanga, but WJHR is much stronger, in fact too strong for the carrier to be sufficient BFO, and slightly off-frequency, off-pitching the gospel huxter. Tone jammer still there. It seems Sudan was not so concerned about jamming R. Tamazuj, but will jam R. Dabanga even in its absence; why? 13800, finally at 1549 I check the other R. Dabanga frequency, and here it is funxional in Arabish with typical stingers, fair with flutter. Per HFCC, 15550 is supposed to be Vatican relay at 1500-1630 --- FAIL! SMG staff celebrating NYE and not paying attention to feed inputs? 15400 is also Vatican, cryptically in Apd language per HFCC, a PNW service only at 1500-1530. I.e. non-cryptically in Aoki: R. Tamazuj in Sudanese Arabic at 1459-1527 (in neither case also for R. Dabanga afterwards, normally paired with Tamazuj.) 13800 is in HFCC as PNW via MADAGASCAR at 1500-1600, switching to VATICAN at 1600-1630 (apparently in the middle of the Dabanga hour, why?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1753 monitoring: confirmed on Global 24 webcast, UT Wednesday Dec 31 at 0401, following `Wavescan` and preceding `Media Network Plus`. But when I check WRMI 9395 at 0410, it`s inaudible! While 9955 is JBA. If G24 had been on the 7 MHz band it would have been OK like other WRMI services on 7455, 7570. Propagation certainly depressed, as 11825 was also JBA; yet Cuba sufficient on 9710 and 9790, Martí Greenville VG on 7405. WOR 1753 also confirmed Wednesday Dec 31 at 1415 on WRMI 9955, good and not jammed. Next: Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 We hope to have 1754 ready for first broadcast on WRMI, UT Thu 0430 on 9955; otherwise another play of 1753 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 7490v, Tue Dec 30 at 2234, WBCQ with a playback of last Saturday`s live `Allan Weiner Worldwide`, same I was hearing before, as he is on phone with a Bill Smith in federal prison, a technician who really needs to be on the outside ASAP. Fair signal and clear until *2258:10 hit by huge het from BBC Thailand with Bow Bells --- a monumental failure of frequency coördination. BBC is on 25 degree beam for E Asia, which carries right on across North America, but FCC and BBC apparently can`t believe a station on the far side of the world could possibly QRM a North American station in North America, and close to its own 245 degree azimuth toward Nuevo Laredo, no less. WBCQ signal had improved during the session; sunset in Monticello was already circa 2050 UT. The het is WBCQ`s fault for always being off-frequency (no attempt to
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 30-31, 2013
** ALASKA. 9655, Dec 31 at 1511, English sermon, poor but atop Romania, 1513 KNLS ID on their sole surviving transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9400-9450 approx., extent of big filthy blob of FMy distortion, Dec 31 at 1514, modulation matchable to CNR1 jammers on 9450 and 9680; was not there at earlier check before 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA [non]. 5910, Dec 31 at 0641, open carrier with no het, then music-box TWR IS, i.e. from AUSTRIA to Poland, so HJDH must be off the air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 5040, Dec 31 at 0643, besides the ever-increasing rumbling, RHC English is just barely modulated here. Less than the typical undermodulation on // 6060 and 6100, while 6165 and 6000 are nominal. 15340, Dec 31 at 1428 I tune across RHC as a frequency announcement is starting, so I listen to hear what they get wrong this time: the final frequency on the 25mb is pronounced as ``1790`` instead of 11750! Big error in the script, but announcer either cannot recognize it or faces firing squad if he deviate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [and non]. 15190, Dec 30 at 2239, usual collision between the two Radios Africas, SAH and two modulations, one music, one talk. At 2300 one of them goes off, the other stays on a bit longer, now audiblizing a very weak het on the hi side, no doubt R. Inconfidência, Brasil, which is victimized by both. In the latter days of WYFR, they finally got off 15190. We haven`t had a listenable signal from Belo Horizonte in ages. 15190, Dec 31 at 0638, very poor signal here, presumed R. Africa; 19m is usually dead at this time, but also had 15275, fair signal with DW in Hausa via RWANDA; and even NIGERIA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. As 1500 UT Dec 31 approaches, I am looking for a signal from R. Japan to celebrate the New Year with them (ha, even if I could hear it, last several years have been a disappointment, failing to broadcast the tolling of the bell and midnite festivities). Both 9750 and 11815 are supposed to be on air direct from Yamata, but zero signal on 9750; there is a music on 11815, but it turns out to be TURKEY, q.v. I have better luck with KOREA NORTH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. 9665, fair signal Dec 31 at 1459, excited Korean from KCBS P`yongyang, as I have found this UT+9 zone signal just in time, having failed to hear anything from Japan on 9750 or 11815. Accurate timesignal at 1500 is undermodulated as if it might be CCI. Then three gongs (only), and IS on bells of different pitch, talked over by faux-enthusiastic Juche announcer. I listen for next dekaminute to all the hoopla as the inhabitants of the world`s greatest people`s paradise celebrate the arrival of another year of oppression. Amid the narration, there are loud low noises whose nature I cannot divine: crowd roars? jet engines? cannons? drums? They also drown out the chorus. Fading after 1510 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9775, Dec 31 I am waiting for the R. Free Chosun prélude to come on: carrier not on until *1354:13 and adding `Xmas Day Cheer` song in English a bit later; brief transmission break at 1358:20*, back on in time for normal startup in Korean (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 15120, Dec 31 at 0638, YL in seeming English, bad modulation, very poor signal on AM, presumed V. of Nigeria. 19m is usually dead and haven`t heard VON at this time in months. 15190 and 15275 also bearing stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORWAY. 5895, Dec 31 at 0641, one more try for LLB, R. Northern Star, publicized as their very last broadcast (under 2013y license, anyway), but not even a carrier detectable vs splash from 5890 WWCR BS. You never know when that will be blasting in or propped out. Let`s hope LLB if relicensed will get a clearer frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, Dec 31 at 0101, R. Chaski carrier detectable until 0102:10* which is 11 seconds later than last check 48 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 5930, Dec 31 at 1340, R. Rossii, Pet/Kam, has stayed on late for New Year`s Eve, normally 1300*. With their eclectic music, wish they would stay on just one more hour every night, to surpass the WWCR 5935 ACI now until its 1300*. But the 5930 transmitter has some hum; mixed Russian talk and rock music. Also audible on much weaker // 5940 Magadan, which has also extended, but under R. Australia which on an ordinary night starts 5940 just when Magadan stops at 1300. At 1346, I also find some hum on 7320, presumably Magadan too, but just barely modulated as usual. (BTW I have also been hearing this rather useless signal as early as 0100 UT in dead winter.) For the benefit of denizens in the UT+10 zone, R. Rossii provides a 6-pip NY 2014y timesignal on 5930
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 23-24, 2013
** AUSTRALIA. 13630, 12080 and 11945, Sunday Nov 24 at 0627, surprised to hear operatic singing, an excerpt, then discussion, instead of stupid ball games on RA, despite `Grandstand` being scheduled all the way from 0200 to 0800. Maybe they couldn`t find a game to cover at the moment? Tsk2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 6075, Nov 24 at 1418, Firedrake mixing with algo, much weaker than the other FD on 6145. Per Aoki, victim on both is R. Taiwan International (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. 21780, Nov 24 at 1352, very poor signal, i.e. DW Hausa, now from UAE site at 13-14, which explains why it`s no longer the reliable Rwanda signal in A-13, which is however in use for French at 12-13 in B-13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL. 6885-AM, Nov 24 at 0112, very poor signal, sounds like Sinatra in English, ``Mr. Lonely``. Galei Zahal trying to join the N American pirate scene? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY [non]. 15190, Sunday Nov 24 at 1459, ``IRRS signing on``, then into Radio Santec, weekly in English via presumed ROMANIA, fair signal from this Cosmic Wave. Not to be confused with R. Africa (glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 920, Nov 24 at 0704 UT, amid QRM, Mexican NA audible and segué to Chihuahua`s like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmMt5lWMR4k Per Cantú the sole Chihuahuan on 920 among a dozen other XEs is: 920 XEQD Romance + FM 95.7 Chihuahua, Chih. 1,000 250 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, Nov 24 at 0106 strong signal from pirate in live talk, about checking HF Underground and Free Radio Café for real-time reception reports. Aurora was getting fantastic audio; also quotes Zane, Jerry Rafferty, DX-ears. ID in passing as Red Mercury Labs. This is so strong that to avoid pumping, I have to turn down the RF gain on the DX-398 (with usual random wire of a few meters clipped on), which is an unusual situation on this receiver. In fact I can still hear him fine with the RF gain all the way down (but still the external antenna). Goes on to quote an S7 from New Hampshire; says has been on the air for a couple of years; ``research vessel with the most``, ``USB, the manliest of modes``; live timechex in UT or past-the-hours. Says he has been working 12-14 hours a day for six days, and it is time for a day off. 0110 finally plays some unID music, which he says is a favorite of Spike and other lab rats. Recheck at 0128, he`s off but now there is another pirate on 6935-AM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6935-AM, Nov 24 at 0128 fair-poor signal and fading, open carrier, then 0129 Lawrence Welk parody. Chris Smolinski IDed this as `The Late Movie`, at http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,13994.0.html it was unID in the previous thread: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,13993.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 91.7, Nov 23 at 1435 UT, KOSU is in open carrier/dead air when I was trying to hear NPR WESAT. Finally resume modulation in time for `Car Talk` at 1500. That`s OK, as a result I tuned to 90.1 KCSC-FM and enjoyed R. Strauss` tone poem ``Don Quixote`` from the L.A. Philharmonic. KOSU with more dead air during The Spy at 0601-0612 UT Nov 24, finally resuming starting with a canned ID. What`s going on there? Not only SW stations fail to modulate. Carrier remained on, but lost studio link? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU [non]. 5980, Nov 24 at 0055, dominant signal is apparent Tibetan from VOA SRI LANKA; no tone, no jamming, Cuban or Chinese audible, but maybe a bit of CCI which could be R. Chaski. By 0059 VOA is off leaving a JBA carrier, presumed Chaski --- continues past 0101, but retune at 0104 to catch the precessed cutoff, it`s already gone. So not sure what`s what. Will have to monitor 5980 continuously around 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 1521, Nov 24 at 0125 UT, het upon KOKC OKC, no doubt the 2 megawatt transmitter in the NW corner. I wonder how many of KOKC`s Okie listeners know the source of this tone? Checked a few prime lower TA channels, but no others heard, without stepping 9 kHz thru the entire MW band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 21505, Nov 24 before and after 1400, BSKSA is notable by its absence, while nearby 21540 Kuwait is in well as usual. Yet, full Radio Riyadh schedule just issued by Ivo Ivanov shows 21505 in use at 12-15 for General Arabic Service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALILAND. 7120-AM, Nov 24 at 1348, poor signal but enough for some talk modulation to be audible from R. Hargeisa. I notice the hambands now have pileups of CW signals rather than SSB, evidently some contest in progress, but not around 7120 at the moment (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 17595, Nov 24 at 1446, REE modulation
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 23, 2013 [more]
** CHINA. 9680, Nov 23 at 1508, CNR1 is VG here and alone, no sign of RTI which it is supposed to jam until 1700; and no sign of RRI, which must have signed off at 1500. While CNR1 // 9790 is a reverb apart and with CCI from VOA Chinese via SAIPAN during this hour only (and again not employing Firedrake today; nor was any CNR1 or FD jamming found 12-18 MHz before 1500) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 13740, Nov 23 at 1426, humbuzz on the CRI English relay transmitter exceeds the crackly modulation; still breaking up at 1504 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR [non]. 6165, Nov 23 at 1025, soft SE Asian(?) songs, poor with flutter, hoping for Myanmar, but 1030 announcement in a Chinese language, heard ``bodiantai`` at least. Per Aoki, Myanmar`s Rakhine Broadcasting Station is on 6165 via Naypyidaw at 0930-1430 in Burmese, 1430-1500 in English --- but so is CNR6 in Hakka at 0900-1100, 100 kW, 163 degrees from Beijing 491 site, and then Chinese = Mandarin at 1100-1605. (The same Naypyidaw 50 kW transmitter at 356 degrees carries Thazin Radio at 2330-0130; CNR6 and VOV4 also spoil most of that, plus RHC after 0100) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS [and non]. 6080, Nov 23 at 1100, RA in English has some CCI; could it be SIBC? No, soon hear CRI theme music; Russian service scheduled from Beijing site. There is however, a JBA carrier at 1101 on 5020, no doubt SIBC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 5085, Nov 23 at 0621, tune across WTWW to find Brother Scare repeating his recorded announcement about big changes December 1 with addition of Okeechobee. I keep running across this again, so he must be airing it at least twice an hour: 3185, Nov 23 at 1021 on WWRB; trouble is, I keep missing the start of it. A little more gleaned on 5890, Nov 23 at 1039 via WWCR: Starting Dec 1, 26 SW transmitters including in the US, will be fed by a satellite uplink from Jerusalem. Will be on WRMI 24 hours a day, cost $40,000 *per month* to begin with, etc., etc. But how does Walterboro get to Jerusalem? Another satellite hop, presumably. That`s slightly devious, but no doubt of supreme significance to wacky religionists! So 48 frequency-hours a day, and the average month has 30.4375 days = 1461 frequency-hours per month, or dividing that into 40,000 = only $27.38 per frequency-hour, quite a discount from the nominal $1 a minute rate that (the old) WRMI publicizes on its website. We`ve heard that BS usually gets big discounts from SW stations due to the huge gobs of time he buys. One more time for same announcement heard: at 1424 on 9930 WTWW. Here are the 48 daily Overcomer hours on WRMI Okeechobee effective December 1, as planned Nov 23, with transmitter number and azimuth: 7570 02-06 8-315 9355 04-08 7-087 9495 11-13 14-181 9690 11-15 13-285 9690 22-02 1-222 9955 06-11 10-160 9955 15-22 11-315 11565 00-06 12-140 11730 22-06 13-285 13695 00-02 9-151 15440 20-22 9-044 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: WRMI ** SPAIN. 21640, Nov 23 at 1428, REE is back on new frequency ex-21630 since it`s Saturday again, like last weekend, having reverted to collisions on 21630 Monday thru Friday. Leaving BBC Hausa alone via Ascension about to close on 21630. But something strange there later: see USA: WHRI. 21610, at 1500, REE is *not* // 21640, something news-related rather than silly ballgame `Tablero Deportivo` on 21640, which is // 17595 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. Correxion: original item typoed ``2`` seconds late instead of 12: 11905, Nov 23 at 0115, fair with flutter, music to timesignal ending 12 seconds late, opening Hindi service with ID pronounced in English as Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, more south Asian songs. Much better than AIR on 11985/11730 had been, to Sri Lanka (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** THAILAND. 5875, Nov 23 at 1103, fair signal in Vietnamese, BBC? No, BBC does not start from Nahkon Sawan until 1200 in English. At 11-12 it`s HSK9, R. Thailand, Udorn, quarter-hour each in Vietnamese, Khmer, Lao, Myanmarianese, per HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [and non]. 7305, Nov 23 at 0628, BBC French is stronger here than on // 7325 an echo apart. Both go off at 0629** but 7325 comes back stronger in a few seconds for Hausa. HFCC shows: 7305 0600-0629 Ascension 250 kW 27 degrees 7325 0600-0629 Woofferton 250 kW 170 degrees 7325 0629-0700 Ascension 250 kW 55 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. 9810, Nov 23 at 1510, poor signal, talk with crowd noises mentioning Afghanistan in presumed Pashto, as BBC is scheduled at 15-16, 250 kW, 315 degrees via SINGAPORE (but the Dari hour preceding is 250 kW, 35 degrees from Oman), per Aoki. HFCC agrees except for 320 instead of 315 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Nov 23 at 0621, the Tennessee
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 23, 2013
** CUBA. 6165, Nov 23 at 0107, RHC English is instead open carrier/dead air, and still the same at 0109, 0127; by next check at 0136, modulation has finally been applied. What about the other English frequency, 6000? At 0107 it`s on, but undermodulated, and I can hear something else under it; 0137 Mideast song; 0147 I find RHC is off, audiblizing TURKEY, q.v. until RHC cuts back on at *0150:42 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 11985 // 11740, Nov 23 at 0106, very poor signals on both, sounds like same S Asian song, so AIR Sinhala service must have succeeded today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRELAND. 5505.0-USB, Nov 23 at 0140-0142+, Shannon Radio, flight weather by YL with a mid-Atlantic accent, for Oslo, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, etc. The VOLMET list at dxinfocentre.com shows EIP has this frequency to itself continuously, not sharing with other VOLMETs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6075, Nov 23 after 0100, I crossed this frequency in bandscan, and something was there, assumed usual CRI English via Kashgar, but Bob LaRose, W6ACU in California reports: ``YHWH on again: They've made another Friday afternoon appearance, this time on 6075 kHz. Relatively strong around 0100 Saturday UT with sideband QRM from Havana on 6070. Same old stuff. Could be same identical program as before, as reported by others`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6935-AM, Nov 23 at 0133, music with a heavy beat, like drumming, in fact same four beats over and over could be a loop; 0135:45 pause for Liquid Radio ID, and more (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 3185, Nov 23 at 0122, Brother Scare via WWRB is talking about his expansion to 103 hours per day on 26 SW transmitters, (with the addition in a week of 48 hpd on WRMI Okeechobee), as an interruption to programming in progress, and mentions that Brother Jeff would prefer he pay $40,000 up front --- so send money now; cut back to regular huxtering. Then at 0144 as I tune across WTWW 5085, the exact same announcement is playing again already. I wouldn`t expect Jeff White to disclose his financial details, but Brother Scare often mentions what he allegedly pays for airtime: of course, we don`t know how much WRMI time that 40 grand is buying, for how long, but it should be a useful infusion to get the new site going or as a down payment to Family Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, Nov 23 at 0115, fair with flutter, music to timesignal ending 2 seconds late, opening Hindi service with ID pronounced in English as Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, more south Asian songs. Much better than AIR on 11985/11730 had been, to Sri Lanka (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY [and non]. 6000, Nov 23 at 0137, I`m hearing a song, mideast? under RHC English which is helpfully undermodulated. Even more helpful, RHC is off the air when I retune at 0147, uncovering the station with fair signal; unseems Brazilian, in fact Turkish style minor music; 0148 YL announcement and more music until *0150:42 RHC cuts back on. Yes, HFCC shows TRT in Turkish on 6000 at 0100-0300, 500 kW, 72 degrees from Emirler. Seems it`s the only frequency in this block; remember when they used to beam Turkish to North America all evening on 9460? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5110v-CUSB, Nov 23 at 0145, Allan Weiner Worldwide on WBCQ mentions Dr. Becker in Florida, during his long phone conversation with this guy Mel, who seems to be occupying gobs of time on every show; also says that Tom is doing a fantastic job of programming 94.7 WBCQ-FM with classic country format (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1695 monitoring: confirmed on Area 51 webcast, 0300 UT Saturday Nov 23, and also audible on WBCQ 5110v-CUSB at 0314 check. Next: Sat 0730 & 1530 on HLR 7265-CUSB; Sat 1600 on WRMI 9955; UT Sun 0030 on WTWW 5085 and Sun 0501 on WTWW 5830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5980, Nov 23 at 0059, once again tonight mixed with talk, a tone or het on the channel past 0100 except for a break of about 7 seconds at 0101:00. I`m listening with BFO from 0104 past 0106 and hear two tones, but neither one goes off signifying R. Chaski, Perú: maybe it`s really the new carrier and the tone it is modulating. Still the same at 0127 when in AM mode I am hearing two different tones alternating with fades. Would not be surprised if the new signal be R. Guarujá, ZYE891, Florianópolis SC, Brasil, reactivated. Brasileiros or Conosuristas should easily confirm this. Haven`t seen anything from Claudio Galaz, Chile, since Nov 17 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 11989.5-USB, Nov 23 at 0117, 2-way intruders in uncertain language, one much stronger than the other. One may have said ``come back``. Later taped brief sample at 0119: what la
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 21-22, 2013
** CHINA. 6145, Nov 22 at 1425, fair signal with Firedrake, the only place heard. Search for FD or CNR1 jamming at 1453-1455 Nov 22 finds none at all audible between 12 and 18 MHz, nor 10-11 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 17540, Nov 21 at 2151, NHK World Rádio Japão in Portuguese via WHRI with usual VG signal even here --- except there is a heavy SAH of about 6 Hz from another strong carrier, revealed at 2156 when the latter starts YL spy numbers interspersed with digital bursts. 2200 NHK timesignal, ID in Japanese and Sakura before WHRI cuts it off late at 2200:40* as the numbers keep going. WHRI`s or NHK`s frequency management should consult the ENIGMA schedule of Cuban spy numbers, which occupy a lot of frequencies you`ll never find in HFCC. The latest ENIGMA newsletter is here: http://www.numbersoddities.nl/En78a.pdf Searching it on 17540 leads to an HM01 schedule grid on page 88 of 89, dated 27/06-2013 showing 17540 however in use at 2300 on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, but this was an hour earlier on a Thursday. 17480 was the listed frequency at 2200 on those days, alternating with 10715 all other days of the week, while the alt to 17540 was 11530. Anyhow, the schedule has changed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 5930, Nov 22 at 0609, Cuban spy numbers and digital bursts are here, very strong right next to 5935 WWCR but with ACI from it; new frequency? According to ENIGMA schedule, the Thursday 0600 frequency was 14375, and 5930 appears nowhere in the entire file (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11880, Nov 21 at 2153, RHC is yet again in French instead of Portuguese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 9795-9805 & 9818-9835, approx. extent of buzzspurs from 9810 RHC transmitter, but constantly varying, Nov 22 at 0133; main victim is 9820 station, probably Brasil 9819+ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also EGYPT [and non] ** EGYPT [and non]. 11760, Nov 22 at 0137, big mess here with Cairo atop, very distorted singing, ringing sound and hum, making fast rippling SAH with CUBA underneath which sounds like the same programming as on 6060. In B-13, ERTU has chosen to collide with the #1 frequency of RHC, used for the past 52+ years. Aoki shows 250 kW, 286 degrees from Abis toward Cuba at 2330-0045 Arabic, 0045-0200 Spanish. Cuba currently restarts 11760 at 0000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 13580, Nov 22 at 1449 open carrier, fair-good strength, with CODAR QRM; 1450 fast SAH starts with hi-pitched but lo-level tone; 1457 past 1500, the carrier is really pulsing now, not a SAH? Still no other modulation. It`s another total loss from R. Cairo, scheduled 15-16 in Albanian, 250 kW, 300 degrees from Abu Zaabal per Aoki; 250 kW, 315 degrees from Abis per HFCC. Maybe *both* sites are trying and failing to emit Albanian, accounting for the SAH. IBB is now wisely giving this mess a wide berth, taking a 2-hour break at 14-16 between VOA Somali broadcasts via Sri Lanka (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 11645, Nov 22 at 0136, Greek talk, then Greek rap, // stronger 9420 and 7450. 11645 isn`t usually on the air at this hour from Avlis, which means nothing on 15 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9775, Nov 22 at 1435 song, 1437 Korean, poor with flutter, i.e. Radio Free Chosun. Today it is much weaker than 9800 VOA Korean via Philippines, unlike originally a couple weeks ago with almost comparable strong and steady signal. Aoki still says this 14-16 broadcast is via Tajikistan, but Ivo Ivanov lists it from Uzbekistan; either one transpolar could be believable now, but were IBB previously trying Tinang, Tinian, or Taiwan? Ivo`s Nov 16 edition of the now-daily DX Re Mix news shows related: ``Radio Free Chosun: 1300-1400 on 9300 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to KRE Korean 1400-1600 on 9775 TAC 200 kW / 070 deg to KRE Korean North Korea Reform Radio: 1300-1500 on 9380 DB 200 kW / 071 deg to KRE Korean 1400-1600 on 7590 TAC 200 kW / 070 deg to KRE Korean`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. 6170, since it`s Friday, Nov 22 at 1425 music here, poor with CCI, presumed RNZI again on weekly wrong frequency, since it`s missing from 5950 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 9500, Nov 22 at 0130, fair signal with open carrier/dead air, presumed R. Sultanate of, as scheduled and previously heard here 00-02; kept with it for a minute+ in case it were just a pregnant pause during Qur`an, but still no modulation. Isn`t it amazing how many SW stations can`t keep their modulation going? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU [non]. 5980, Nov 22 at 0054 and still at 0118, unID tone on frequency like last night; did not have a chance to try to pull out the Chaski cutoff circa 0105 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN [and non]. 21630, Nov 22 at 1427, day 5 of R
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 19, 2013
** BRAZIL. 9665.34, Nov 19 at 0102, Voz Missionária with full ID including 10 kW on 5940 from Santa Catarina state; fair signal, remains the best from Brasil on 31m, and no het with Voice of Russia long gone (Glenn Hauser, oK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 5965, Nov 19 at 1501, very poor signal in Russian is the OSOB by now, and I figure it will be CRI: yes, per Aoki, this hour is 500 kW, 55 degrees from Beijing site. That aims across DVR including Petropavlovsk/Kamchatsky, tip of Aleutian Islands, but considerably offshore west of North America. The azimuth from Beijing to Enid is more like 25 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 6020, Nov 19 at 1344, not CNR1 but song, announcement in uncertain language. Presumed as in Aoki, CNR8 service, 100 kW, 15 degrees from Beijing 491 site, in Mongolian at 12-14 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9790, Nov 19 at 1505, Firedrake jammer with good signal and also CCI from victim, RFA Saipan in Chinese, this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 11500, Nov 19 at 1355, CNR1 jammer, fair signal; at 1357 compared to 14870, not synchronized (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 14870, Nov 19 at 1357, CNR1 jammer, fair signal; none in the 12s, 13s, 15s, 17s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 16160, Nov 19 at 1359, CNR1 jammer, poor until 1400 timesignal and modulation stops, but carrier remains on past 1402; next check 1458 open carrier with flutter is still/again on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 9580, Nov 19 at 0104, open carrier/dead air with some humbuzz from the alleged CRI English relay, which meanwhile is quite adequate via ALBANIA on 9570 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU [non]. 5980, November 19 at 0053, a poor signal here with some modulation, and it`s not Spanish, but a tonal non-Chinese Asian language --- therefore, VOA Tibetan, 250 kW, 20 degrees from SRI LANKA, which we dreaded would be a Chaski-blocker per B-13 scheduling this hour only, plus the inevitable ChiCom jamming (which however is not audible now). I cannot detect any trace of R. Chaski under it. VOA cuts off at 0100:08* as always, and still, there is not a bit of any other carrier which there should be, if Chaski still be on the air, precessing 5.25 seconds later each night. The last time I heard it for sure was Nov 13, until 0103:53*, so by now, six nights later, it should have reached 0104:24.5* or so. I`ve been eagerly awaiting reports from Claudio Galaz in IV Chile, the only other DXer who has been Chaski-checking almost every night. Now he reports on the condig list that on Nov 16 at 0027 he was still hearing Chaski underneath the CNR1 jammer, but 23 hours later at 2316, no signal at all on the frequency; 24 hours later at 0034 Nov 17, only the CNR1 jammer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 21630, Nov 19 at 1410, REE is still here and colliding with BBC Hausa via Ascension during this semihour; both poor, as REE continues on mis-frequency after correcting it Nov 16-17 only, to 21640 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. 6055, Tuesday Nov 19 at 0620, fair signal in French I had not noticed before, with splash from 6060 Cuba. Could it be Nikkei with a lesson? No, it`s BBC southward via Woofferton during this semihour only. It could also have been Rwanda, but per Aoki, RRR takes a break from 0525 to 0900, except on Sundays when it too is in French at 0600-0900 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5110-CUSB, Nov 19 at 0058, WBCQ playing the IS-and-ID loop ``The Planet``, before 0100 programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5050-USB, Nov 19 at 0107 check, WWRB is *not* on here after running it about a week, // 3215-AM. Remains to be heard whether sporadic, and/or will be on when next WORLD OF RADIO 1696 comes around Friday at 0430 // 3195-AM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 14757.5 approx., Nov 19 at 1417, tone melody reminiscent of a slow VOA Radiogram. Requires BFO to be heard at all, as frequency shifts are slight, and of course different pitches depending on where the BFO be set. Also like a native-American flute, but seemingly random notes, or the `bagpipe` station. Here`s a brief sample: http://www.w4uvh.net/14757tones.rm If anyone can recognize the source, mode or even decode it, please do (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 1647 UT November 19 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list hard-core...@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 1, 2013
** AUSTRALIA. 15340, Nov 1 at 1338, RHC is missing, allowing HCJB Australia to be audible in S Asian language; Aoki shows Hindi during this semihour daily, tho there is a large rotation of many other languages at 1230-1330 and 1430-1500. Weaker than an open carrier on 15400, see unID, possibly the other Kununurran (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake [non] CNR1 jamming Nov 1 before 1400: 12050: see TIBET [non] 13130, very poor at 1335 13430, poor at 1336 with heavy CODAR 13480, poor at 1336 with heavy CODAR 13970, fair at 1337; none in the 14s, 15s except maybe 15265v 16100, very poor at 1339 16600, fair at 1339; none in the 17s, 18s; no 10s at 1348 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15340, Nov 1 at 1338, RHC is missing, allowing HCJB Australia to be audible, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 5890, Nov 1 at 1256, the DentroCuban Jamming Command has finally caught up with R. Martí which extended another hour on this frequency for B-13, and enjoyed it jamming-free for a few days. Perhaps Arnie read my reports, which he will never admit. Now RM is about level with the jam, still readable. After 1300, 7405 is still on and well atop the jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, Nov 1 at 1308, VOI is still AWOL from its English hour and perhaps all its hours. http://rri.jpn.org/ still has not been updated to Nov 1, but shows it was last heard on Oct 29 instead of 28, and I have not heard it now for three days in a row (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [and non]. 17840, Nov 1 at 1304, IRIB Arabic via Zahedan is still colliding with RRI Romanian, as I first reported Oct 28, despite plenty of free channels on 16m. How much longer? RRI is atop here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 3945, Nov 1 at 1253, good signal from R. Nikkei 2 with flute music, but does not deter SSB hams from transmitting on and around it, while they do tend to avoid Nikkei 1 on 3925. 3945 is on this late only on weekdays, and today almost as good as 3925 except for the QRhaM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5910, Nov 1 at 1354, Sea Breeze, via JSR Tokyo, JAPAN, very poor with usual sounders and seems like English as only on Fridays at 1330-1430 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9775+, Nov 1 at 1345, good open carrier again like heard Oct 30; 1400 dramatic music and YL announcement in Korean, with assertiveness worthy of Pyongyang; I can only make out ``Pangsong inmida`` which is no full ID; 1401 music has a hopeful/gospel tinge? 1403 another theme and OM opening some program; still going past 1430 in Korean conversation. 9775+ means it`s slightly on the hi side compared to 11775 Anguilla (but that could be slightly on the lo side). Not in HFCC but the preliminary version of B-13 Aoki found by Paul S. in Connecticut at http://www.geocities.jp/binewsjp/ia/userlist1.txt has it: ``9775 1400-1600 TJK Radio Free Chosun Kor Dushanbe-Ya 1-7``. Certainly a better signal than I would have expected from TAJIKISTAN. BTW, no jamming audible here. WRTH 2013 entry showed quite a different schedule in B-12, at 12-14 and 20-21 on other Dushanbe frequencies. ID: ``Inmin-e sori, jeongni-e hamseong, Jayu Joseon Bangsong-imnida``; Notes: ``On SW since 5 Dec 2005. Produced by the NGO ``Network for NK Democracy and Human Rights`` (Nknet). Funded thru US government / US Congress grants``. So it is not out of the question it could also be using USG transmitters, such as NMI or Philippines, which would be more in keeping with the good reception I am getting. Or maybe Palau (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11510, Nov 1 at 1307, Denge Kurdistan is back on its originally planned B-13 frequency, after trying 11600 for a few days. Maybe Ludo saw our reports that 11510 is clear and 11600 clashes with several other stations. We used to enjoy mostly music during this hour, but now it`s mostly talk --- did they make a DST programming shift too? Fair signal at first, declining later in the hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 610, Nov 1 at 1242 UT, checking for XEGS Guasave, Sinaloa, // 650 XETNT, I think it`s there, but underneath a stronger Spanish signal, with birthday greetings to kids, notably quinceañeras in various colonias; one mentioned was Villahermosa, but surely not Tabasco as also mentioned Nueva Rosita and Sabinas phones, CST TC, i.e. XEBX 5000/500 watts in Coahuila (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 650, Nov 1 at 1237 UT, song extolling Sinaloa, naming several cities, then compares to Durango, Chihuahua, back to beloved Sinaloa. 1239 ID as ``Chávez Radio K``, and `Panorama Agropecuario`, 5:39 TC. It`s XETNT in Los Mochis back on MST. Normally duplicated on XEGS 610 Guasave, but found another XE dominant there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 31, 2013
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 6080, Oct 31 at 1146, R. Australia, weak beam to Asia has CCI, probably CRI Russian, northwestward from Beijing site, as in HFCC B-13, where RA has not bothered to register anything. Thought I would check this following recent one-day appearance of Solomon Islands on 6080 at 0830-0900+ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 9490, Oct 31 at 0052, usual wall-of-noise jamming is reduced to only lite pulse jamming, yet I cannot hear any R. República. Suspect they have made the timeshift early in Europe even tho it`s from the US to Cuba where clox don`t change for another quadriday. Jeff White just told me it`s still supposed to be at 00-02, but HFCC B-13 shows a 3-hour span from Issoudun, FRANCE, at 00-03 starting 27 Oct; I suspect really to encompass the two different 2-hour spans, i.e. already 0100-0300 instead of -0200, but did not recheck after 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6270, Oct 31 at 0114, RHC Spanish weak but readable, leapfrog of 6060 Spanish over 6165 English fulcrum another 105 kHz higher, but no English audible on 6270 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, Oct 31 at 1348, VOI is missing for the third day in a row. Is it heard at any other dayparts, e.g. in Europe? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT [and non]. 21580, Oct 31 at 1245, very poor signal starts to fade in; 1248 Arabic music mixing with another. The understation at 1257 seems // 21690, which fits for RFI FRANCE as scheduled on both at 1200-1300 (and don`t you believe RFI comes back on 21580 with ENGLISH at 1430-1500 as registered in HFCC B-13!!! All SW English was dropped a year or two ago and I don`t believe it`s coming back.) So Kuwait is on 21580 for a second day, apparently deliberate to evade Spain`s usurpation of 21540 (still there today but barely audible unlike good sig from Kuwait). The geniuses in MOI frequency management have jumped from one frying pan into another; there are plenty of totally open frequencies on 13m, but at least 21580 is unimpeded after 1300. At 1411 recheck, 21580 is still very good in Arabic, and 21540 Spain JBA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 900, Oct 31 at 1226 UT, XEOK Monterrey, with feature report about ballet, overmodulated and somewhat distorted, typical of this station, 1229 non-ID as ``Es 900 AM`` (really???), 1230 ``reporte de tráfico y clima en 88.9``, 6:33 TC. It`s the relay of 88.9 in México DF as if anyone in Monterrey cared about traffic jams there. DF (direxion finding) fits for MTY, a bit west of due south (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, Oct 31 at 0101, R. Chaski carrier detectable, until cutoff at 0102:36.5, which is right on time, 5.5 seconds later than yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SERBIA [non]. As quickly found via: http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm The IRS B-13 schedule is now up at http://voiceofserbia.org/program-schedule Showing the usual one-hour time-shifts, and alleging that it is still broadcasting to North America at 0100-0230, including English at 0130-0200 Tue-Sat, and back on the winter frequency 6190 - except it`s NOT --- no signal at 0110 check Oct 31, just like there has been no signal for months on the A-season frequency 9685. Whom are they kidding? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1693, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN [and non]. 21540, Oct 31 before 1300, weak signal in Spanish, no QRM from Kuwait since REE drove it off yesterday to 21580. 21540 REE is still barely audible at 1411, while the other new frequency, 21630, continues to collide with BBC Hausa via Ascension (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. 5875, Oct 31 at 1308, BBCWS with report from Melilla, about porteadoras, poor underpaid women who haul goods across the border with Morocco, and how others sneak into Spanish territory this way. Very good signal today, only a little RTTY on the lo side. It now appears that BBC is adhering to its HFCC registration to stay on this frequency at 12-14 UT seven days a week; as Aoki accurately listed for A-13, and as we heard it last week, the Thursday frequency via THAILAND used to be 5980, with 5875 really in use only on Sundays and Wednesdays, in a silly attempt to escape ChiCom jamming (which we could never hear anyway); alternating with 5820 and 5840 other days of week, all of which we heard at one time or another during the past few months, but keep checking them in case 5875 be missing again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1693: first airing will be Thursday Oct 31 at 2101v on WTWW-1 9479; then: UT Friday 0327v on WWRB 3195 (ex-, or maybe // 5050); UT Saturday 0200v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0630 & 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB; Saturday 1500 on WRMI 9955; Saturday 2327v on WTWW-2 9930; UT Sunday 0401v on WTWW-1 5830. Remember from next week all these times shift
[HCDX] DX Listening Digest 13-43; World of Radio 1692
DX Listening Digest 13-43 has now been posted at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1343.txt and also soon, sometimes delayed at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt CONTENTS: WOR 1692 / AFGHANISTAN non / ALBANIA +non / ANGOLA / ANGUILLA / ANTARCTICA +non / ARGENTINA / ASIA non B13 / AUSTRALIA Symban/LMS / AUSTRALIA RA / AUSTRALIA HCJB B13 / BANGLADESH / BOLIVIA / BONAIRE / BRAZIL / CANADA CHHA / CANADA CKZU / CANADA non Radio City / CANADA non BVB / CHAD / CHINA +non / COLOMBIA / CONGO / CONGO DR / COSTA RICA +non / CUBA +non / CZECHIA / DIEGO GARCIA / DJIBOUTI / EAST TURKISTAN +non / ECUADOR / EGYPT / EQUATORIAL GUINEA +non / ERITREA non / ETHIOPIA +non / EUROPE Pirates / FINLAND / FRANCE / GERMANY +non B13+ / GREECE +non / GUAM / GUATEMALA / HONDURAS / INDIA +non / INDONESIA +non / INTERNATIOANAL SW reduction / INTERNATIONAL WATERS non ham / IRAN +non B13+ / IRELAND / IRELAND NORTHERN / ISRAEL / ITALY +non / JAPAN B13+ / KOREA NORTH +non / KOREA SOUTH +non / KUWAIT / KYRGYZSTAN / LUXEMBOURG / MALAYSIA / MEXICO / MICRONESIA / MYANMAR +non / NETHERLANDS +non ham+ / NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR / NICARAGUA / NIGERIA / NORTH AMERICA Pirates / NORWAY / OKLAHOMA WKY/KOHC / OKLAHOMA KEOR / OKLAHOMA non WBBZ / OKLAHOMA KMUS / OKLAHOMA KYAL / OKLAHOMA KZLS / OKLAHOMA KYHN / OMAN / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PERU +non / POLAND +non / PORTUGAL / ROMANIA B13 / RUSSIA +non / RWANDA / SAUDI ARABIA / SERBIA non / SOLOMON ISLANDS / SOMALILAND +non / SPAIN / SRI LANKA / SUDAN +non / SWEDEN non / TAHITI / TAIWAN +non / THAILAND B13 / TIBET non / TURKEY +non B13 / UGANDA / UK Kismat / UK non BBCWS / UK BBCR4X / USA MARS / USA ham W0VMC / USA BBG/IBB / USA non VOA / USA KOA / USA KOVR-TV / USA WOR/WTWW/WWRB/WBCQ/WRMI+ / USA WTWW / USA WBCQ / USA WINB / USA WWCR / USA WEWN / USA WJHR / USA KSNM+ / USA KTAR / USA KYFI / USA WGN / USA WCKA / USA WWBA / USA KWDF / USA KHAC / USA KCJB / USA KVEL / USA KAFF / USA WONQ / USA KMOX/WEEI / USA KOKK / USA WODT / USA KRGE / USA WFFG / USA WQBN / USA WIMO / USA WNQM/WMQM / USA KRJO / USA Dial Global/Westwood I / USA KTDK/KESN+ / USA KPFM/FCC / VATICAN +non / VIETNAM +non / VIRGIN ISLANDS BRITISH / WESTERN SAHARA non / ZANZIBAR / UNIDENTIFIED TA carriers / UNIDENTIFIED TP carriers / UNIDENTIFIED 700 / UNIDENTIFIED 740 / UNIDENTIFIED 750 / UNIDENTIFIED 760 / UNIDENTIFIED 940 / UNIDENTIFIED 990 / UNIDENTIFIED 4780 / UNIDENTIFIED 5215 / UNIDENTIFIED 6911/6917 / UNIDENTIFIED 7194 / UNIDENTIFIED 7390 / UNIDENTIFIED 7535 / UNIDENTIFIED 7735 / UNIDENTIFIED +non 1 / UNIDENTIFIED 13605 / UNIDENTIFIED 14920 / UNIDENTIFIED 22819 / TESTIMONIALS / PUBLICATIONS / MUSEA / CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES / DX-PEDITIONS / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION For restrixions and searchable 2013 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html [also linx to previous years] NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1692: *DX and station news about: Australia, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Cuba and non, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea non, Germany non, India, International, Ireland and Northern, Japan and non, Korea South non, Myanmar, North America, Romania, Rwanda, Somaliland and non, Sri Lanka, Taiwan non, Thailand, USA SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1692, October 24-30, 2013 Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed on webcast] Thu 2101 WTWW 9479 [confirmed] Fri 0326v WWRB 5050 [confirmed at 0328] Sat 0200v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 [confirmed] Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1500 WRMI 9955 [confirmed on webcast] Sat 2330v WTWW 9930 [confirmed] Sun 0401 WTWW 5830 [confirmed] Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or maybe 1693 if ready in time] Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WRN ON DEMAND: http://www.wrn.org/listeners/#world-of-radio WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN: http://www.wrn.org/listeners/customize-panel/addToPlaylist/98/10:00:00UTC/English OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser Best DX wishes, Glenn Hauser _ Hard-Core-DX
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 21-22, 2013
** BANGLADESH. 15505, August 22 at 1357, tone from BB; 1358.5 starts IS, timesignal ends only 0.5 second early before 1400, opening theme and Urdu, all very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 6160-, August 22 at 1230, JBA carrier slightly on the lo side compared to 1160. Suspected Asian remnant since should be getting more from CKZU, now closed down? But Walt Salmaniw, Victoria says it was still on nine hours earlier: ``Excellent reception except for 6165 [Cuba] splatter, from Vancouver // CBU 690 at 0333 22Aug2013``. And it so happens that Aoki lists no Asians on 6160 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake [non] CNR1 jamming August 22, before 1300: 12870, poor at 1248 13530, good at 1248 vs CODAR 13830, poor at 1249 13970, fair at 1251 14700, poor at 1251 with hets 14980, good at 1251 15195, poor-fair at 1253 with echo and noise jamming too 1, fair at 1252, het on hi side; no 16s, 17s or 18s Before 1400 August 22: 13920, fair at 1339; none in the 12s, 14s, 15s, 16s, 17s, 18s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9410, August 22 at 1308, weak Chinese, but no noisy blob, so the CNR5 Beijing 491 transmitter must be back in whack today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 15120, August 22 at 0534, VON is on the air again tonight! Fair signal in English but undermodulated, muffled, and some hum; meanwhile, another African signal, DW RWANDA 15275 in English, is inbooming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 10051-USB, August 22 at 0530, New York Radio is on the air, but like yesterday, VOLMET is ``missing`` for Chicago-O`Hare, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Detroit, and Boston, as robo-announced over and over. At 1337 check, no signals at all on 10051-USB or 13270-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1683 monitoring: confirmed first airing after 0330 UT Thursday August 22 on WRMI webcast; inaudible on 9955. Next: Thursday 2100.5 on WTWW-1 9479 UT Friday 0326v on WWRB 5050 UT Saturday 0200v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Saturday 0630 & 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB (? Not on air last week) Saturday 1500 on WRMI 9955 UT Sunday 0400.5 on WTWW-1 5830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5085, August 22 at 0523, WTWW-2 is on, very strong with Brother Scare, perhaps signifying that the 24-hour service has begun about when George McClintock was expecting it to; with 9930 daytimes. However that was absent the previous afternoon. Meanwhile at 0523, BS is also on 3185 WWRB and 5890 WWCR; just can`t get enough of The Last Days Prophet of God (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7506.4, August 22 from *0101:53.5, WRNO cuts on with gospel huxter in progress. Another station which sees no need for a formal sign-on. Since I couldn`t get a carrier from Chaski 5980 in the current noise level, I decided to check when WRNO would appear, as on some nites I`ve noticed it already running a few minutes before 0100, tho I think the nominal schedule is 0100-0400 UT (only). Quite a poor signal this time, tho on occasion it is very strong; due to propagation or running low power? Meanwhile, super-signal on 7520 from WWCR with another g.h. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VENEZUELA. 21295-USB, Aug 22 at 1257, YW5X calling CQDX and mostly working K-stations at 5&9, quick contest-like contacts. Barely audible here. Call seems familiar but I do not find a log of it before. QRZ.com reveals: YW5X, DX Expedición Isla la Orchila IOTA (SA 054) ARLHS (VEN 049) WLOTA (3044) Grupo DX Caracas (20 to 26 August 2013) Venezuela La Orchila is about halfway between Bonaire and Nueva Esparta. Virtually the OSOB, and little but Rwanda on 21 MHz broadcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list hard-core...@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 August 20, 2013
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 15340, August 20 at 1255, HCJB with usual good signal (long path? Aimed 307 degrees from Kununurra), closing Tuesday-only Marawari language per EiBi & Aoki, with P O Box address starting with ``Radio DMTA`` or similar letters fonetikaly – is that how you say ``HCJB`` in Marawari? RHC CCI cuts on at *1256 with even stronger signal overriding it. Mis-registration in HFCC would have us believe that the 1245-1300 segment is on air Sundays only in ``mal``. Aoki & EiBi show several other languages filling other days, and EiBi`s readme says ``MW = Marwari [sic] (a Rajasthani variety): India (13 million speakers)``. Spelling of it: WRTH goes with Marawari (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 15505, August 20 at 1358, BB IS poorly audible, timesignal ending at 1410:03, opening Urdu; recheck 1409 mainly hum is audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake, August 20 after 1300: 17535, fair at 1308, still going past 1330, 1337 but fading to very poor; no target audible or listed. Maybe an IBB Tibetan service jumped to this frequency today? BSKSA Qur`an service is listed on 17535 at 12-14, but no sign of it either. Strange. Tried to // 13795 where FD usually shows but today only a JBA carrier, talk? CNR1 jammers, August 20 after 1300: 17510, fair at 1308; vs BBC Uzbek via OMAN, unheard (BTW, EiBi shows target for this service at 1300-1330 on all three frequencies is Afghanistan; HFCC lists CIRAF 30-S and 40-NE --- these two cover all the ex-SSR `stans as well as Afghanistan). None in the 18s, 16s 15565, poor at 1311, het on lo side 15640, poor at 1311, het on hi side, both vs V of Tibet, Tajikistan 15330, good at 1311, vs BBC Uzbek via Oman, unheard 15115, good at 1312, with heavy CCI from victim VOA Chinese via Thailand at 14 degrees further aimed USward; none in the 14s, 13s, 12s August 20 after 1400: 15570, good at 1410, probably vs V. of Tibet on 15568, unheard (very little signal today from KBS 15575 before or after 1400) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 13850, August 20 at 0525, R. Cairo provides only a big buzz, no Arabic program modulation; but at least it`s the second SSOB after 13630 Australia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 17660, August 20 at 0528, VIRI IS, poor signal but the SSOB prior to the ``Bosnian`` broadcast via Kamalabad. The 0500 Russian broadcast was also audible on 13750 and 15480 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, August 20 at 0100, JBA carrier with BFO from R. Chaski, enough to detect when it cuts off: 0101:52.5* which is 16 seconds later than three days ago, keeping up the average of five and a third per day. I am avoiding the mosquitoey porch where I would prefer to be on the DX-398, instead inside on the FRG-7 but with external longwire (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [and non]. 15400, August 20 at 0527, 1 kHz tone jammer is more atop R. Dabanga than usual via MADAGASCAR. It`s always there, since first discovered weeks ago, but not relogged constantly. I wonder how blocky it is in the target area (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5110-CUSB, August 20 at 0059, WBCQ already on as Allan is on phone line with someone, mentioning that someone`s wife has died, but missed whose, 0100 into `Heart & Soul` scheduled show (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN. 7250, August 20 at 0520, poor signal from VR, in presumed Albanian as now scheduled to be only on MW; they do this from time to time, turning on this transmitter early; and sometimes plugged into different service in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4865, August 20 at 0516, TADIL-A bonker as usual around here; checking since there had been a couple reports at other times of very strong open carrier on 4865 or 4866, US broadcaster testing? Maybe it was really the same TADIL-A transmitter in idle mode not cutting on and off. This is apparently the one which moved off the low side of 6135 several months ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list hard-core...@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 June 30-July 1, 2013
** BRAZIL. 4915, July 1 at 0056, fair signal with music, and within a few seconds of tune-in, ID by Rádio Daqui. Yay, it`s back after missing a couple of nights and again the best ZY by far on the 60m band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. 7585, July 1 at 0058, fair signal with pop music, i.e. R. Farda, 250 kW, 310 degrees from Iranawila, SRI LANKA, which is on very long hours, 1700-0130 per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. 11680, June 30 at 2024, emotional speech in Korean with background music; must be KCBS which per Aoki is on the air from 20 to 18 UT with 50 kW ND. Unusual to hear this time of day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 15540 & 17550, June 30 at 2024, R. Kuwait English & Arabic services with fair signals, as conditions have recovered somewhat (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Sporadic-E analog TV DX opening continued from previous report, which started at 1455 UT June 30: 1543 on 2, Azteca net-7 bug, stronger than some other CCI 1602 on 2, Azteca-7 in UR, with animation 1630 on 2, weak signal but now visibly soccer 1649 on 3, fade-in US sitcom, Spanish ads, video only; soon fade out along with ch 2 1715 on 2, fade-in algo 1720 on 2, ad in Spanish, video and audio 1730 on 2, animation, net-7 bug UR 1802 on 2, large font program title includes ISRAEL 1805 on 2, interview, fade-in enough to make out TeleVer bug UR: XHFM, Veracruz 1822 on 2, still same; interviewer has big boxy sign on his hand mike, unseems legend TeleVer on it, what? 1912 on 2, soccer and CCI, weak; nothing further (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, July 1 at 0054, R. Chaski usual weak but sufficient carrier until cut off at 0104:03.5* which is 5.5 seconds later than yesterday. How far will they get into the fifth minute past the hour this time before timer reset? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN [non]. 15440, June 30 at *2158, sometime before 2159 the WYFR carrier cuts on, 2200 opening RTI relay for the *last* time, local quality signal, with just enough lite selective fading once in a while to remind us this is via the dynamic medium of international shortwave by ionospheric propagation. I`ve usually listened to RTI on a hit-and-miss basis, but on this momentous occasion I monitor the entire hour (as re-relayed from the shack FRG-7 by feeder on 88.1 MHz thruout the house to several FM radios). News starts with record heat wave in Taibei; 2205 `Week in Review`; 2208 plug `new` website http://english.rti.org.tw and `This Day in History`: 1859y, Niagara Falls tightrope stunt; 1894, Tower Bridge opens in London; 1990, E&W Germany merge economies with DM for both; outro by Andrew Ryan 2210, plug upcoming shows `Chinese To Go`, `Soundwaves`, but first: `Here In Taiwan` for Monday, July 1: soft stories such as an ATM at a supermarket which keeps shocking people, bad grounding?; huge lines of people applying for flight attendant jobs, which may not be as glamourous as they think; ghost sightings 2225, `Chinese to Go`, learning to say ``give up your seat``, as in a courtesy by younger people to older people on bus, not always willing 2231, rock music, must be `Soundwaves`, or fill? 2247 Chinese performer, songs titled ``If`` and at 2255 ``Do You Know``. 2258-2300 canned announcement of entire RTI English schedule including the canceled WYFR relays as if they will still exist, and mixing in low-power MW relays via US stations on 1210, 750, without saying where they are! There was NO mention during this broadcast that it would be the final one on SW to North America! So much for historical perspective. 2300 WYFR ID in Chinese (no English) and right into a Chinese dialect. [see USA: WYFR final log in the interim] UT July 1 on 6115, reception is never as solid as on 15440, but recheck after Family Radio`s own finale at 0300 UT: this RTI relay is obviously a repeat of the one 5 hours earlier, same news of heatwave, etc. And spotchecked, not listening to whole thing again. Concludes with ``This is WYFR, Okeechobee, Florida`` at 0400 and pulled the big switch, off at 0400:04* July 1, 2013 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 6115, monitoring the last few minutes of WYFR, UT July 1 from 0245, playing ``Onward Christian Soldiers`` and ``Battle Hymn of the Republic``, other hymns by chorus and orchestra interspersed with brief Bible verses by non-Harold Camping announcer as ``Words to Live By`` --- probably regular programming; fade out at 0259 for ``It`s people just like you who [illegible] at the ministry of Family Radio``. Last words? Not quite, after almost minute of dead air, ``This is WYFR, Okeechobee, Florida`` ID, and opening RTI repeat --- see TAIWAN [non] After that hour, another legal ID as above spanning 0400 and carrier cut forever at 0400:04*. Nothing ever heard to the effect that this was the end of an era
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs June 16-17, 2013
** AUSTRALIA. 6168-6169 & 6131-6132, June 17 at 1226, distorted spurs out of the RA 6150 transmitter now peaking in these areas plus/minus 18-19 kHz away; modulation on them is `better` than before making them more or less readable and matching 6150, and clear but weak 6080, during `Asia-Pacific` news magazine. After 1300, the higher one is beating mercilessly against RNZI which has just come up on 6170. I`m notifying both stations about this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake June 17: 13795, poor at 1234 CNR1 jamming instead of Firedrake June 17: 13920, fair at 1234; none in the 12s 14700, fair at 1234 with flutter; none in the 15s, 16s or 17s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. I took my own advice and made a point of listening again to RHC`s `En Contacto` on the second airing which started at 2244 UT on 17720 (better than // 17705), Sunday June 16, to copy more details about their transmitter site #3 called Titán. The interviewee, Pedro Martínez is the sub-director-general. I missed the sub before. It seems the name Titán comes from El Titán de Bronce, nickname for the XIX century revolutionary hero Antonio Maceo. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Maceo_Grajales a quick wiki on him: ``Lt. General José Antonio de la Caridad Maceo y Grajales (June 14, 1845 – December 7, 1896) was second-in-command of the Cuban Army of Independence. Fellow Cubans gave Maceo the sobriquet of the "Bronze Titan" (Spanish: El Titán de Bronce), which was a reference to his skin color, stature and status`` Pedro mentioned that there`s a mural of him at the SW site. At first I thought the bronze bit referred to a statue, and there is a monument in Santiago wherein on his horse he is dwarfed by jagged bars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DirkvdM_monumento_antonio_maceo.jpg For the 28th anniversary of Titán, staff were given DVDs containing the 86 episodes on the history of RHC. Of the five transmitters there: #1 and #5 are Soviet ``PKV`` models (meaning RKB in Cyrillic?). Those have low-frequency PSM modifications. The others, #2, #3 and #4, are also Russian and have been modified for ``DRM`` [sic], i.e. ``régimen dinámico de portadora``. Which I assume is like Dynamic Carrier Control, as explained in DXLD 12-34, which also explains Pulse Step Modulation under PHILIPPINES, RVA. 6165, June 17 at 0059, RHC English frequency open carrier is varying slightly with BFO, but on AM has constant audible rhumble (hum + rumble). 9850, June 17 at 1231, RHC Spanish now with big wobble on the carrier and rumble on the modulation. I wonder which Titán transmitter this is? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 790, June 17 at 1110 UT, news in Spanish dominates the QRM, about bajacalifornianos; at a timecheck in ``hora central de México`` and R. Fórmula ID, ``cubriendo todo México y Estados Unidos``, adstring, 1115 Fórmula 9-70 promo, which is the flagship station XERFR in the DF whose IDs get relayed everywhere. So is it XENT, La Paz BCS, 5/0.75 kW as in IRCA? Probably, altho this may be during national network news, and there is another Fórmula on 790 in Guadalajara, supposedly a 1 kW daytimer. Cantú shows XENT at 10/0.75 kW and XEGAJ as 0.25 kW day & nite. WRTH agrees with IRCA on XENT and with Cantú on XEGAJ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1310, June 17 at 1100 UT I am unavoidably awake just before sunrise, so start tuning down the MW band in search of Mexican NAs. Finally hit one here at 1103, heavy QRM, but during full ID at 1104 I can make out a mention of Monterrey, and maybe a slogan, Radio Extremo? Anyhow, IRCA Log shows the NL station is XEVB, 5/0.1 kW, slogan ``Mujer`` = woman. Cantú agrees except power as 5/0.25 kW. WRTH agrees with that except name as ``Radio Mujer`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 960, June 17 at 0500 UT, KGWA Enid is providing a Fox-hole again (some recent unlogged dates it`s axually kept modulating), but nothing significant heard in its absence; however, at 0504 well before the usual cut-back-on time of 0505, a NWS severe weather warning fires starting with annoying sounder: it`s nice to know this still worx. Robot mentions numerous counties affected, appending ``in Northwest Oklahoma`` to each one of them --- we know that! Maddening delays to finishing the warning. ``All in NW Oklahoma`` would have been sufficient. Finally after 0506, KGWA rejoins regular programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, June 17 at 0056, R. Chaski carrier at usual very poor level, but enough to tell when it cuts off at 0102:49.5* which is 5 seconds later than yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN [non]. 15440, June 16 at 2210, RTI relay in English via WYFR has excellent signal as always. In case you haven`t heard, Dan Elyea at Okeechobee has notified us that June 30 will be WYFR`s last day on the
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 18-19, 2013
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. Collision with SPAIN: q.v. ** CHINA. Firedrake April 19 circa 0130: 16160, very poor at 0131. Unusual time; no others found 11-19 MHz in complete scan until 0136 Firedrake April 19 before 1300, much more productive: 17450, very poor at 1242 17080, poor at 1242 16920, fair at 1243 16360, very poor at 1243 16160, very good at 1243 16100, very good at 1243 15900, very good at 1243 14700, good at 1247 13850, good at 1247 13820, poor at 1247 under R. Martí open carrier 13795, poor at 1247 12500, poor at 1247 11500, very poor at 11247; none in the 10s That`s a total of 13 transmitters at once. Firedrake April 19 after 1300: 15565, fair at 1319 - no further search as paying attention to events in Boston, OKC bombing commemoration (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6165, April 19 at 0451, RHC in wrong language, Spanish instead of English which is only on 6000 at this time. Spanish also on 6060, 5040; neither 6100 nor 6125 is on the air now. Just as I expected, despite at least two hours of English yesterday morning on three frequencies, on April 19, RHC is back in correct language Spanish, at 1230 check news break in Spanish on all: 17730, 17580, 15230, 11860, 11760, 11690, 9850, 9550, 6150=mixing with RA in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, April 19 at 1314, VOI carrier is back on after missing a few days, JBA music modulation. Ishida does not yet have an entry up for this date as of 1449 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENINGN DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6010+, April 19 at 0448-0453+, Spanish discussion about crime, presumed R. Mil. At this time, no hets from other stations; is Colombia off? XEOI is usually reported on the lo side of 6010, but compared to 1010 signals, this is slightly on the hi side. Encroaching from above is bleed from the 6030 jammer pileup; on the lo side, splash from incomparably stronger 6000 RHC English. 6010 itself is about to be creamed directly by RHC English moving there from 0500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. 15730, April 19 at 1244, distorted music and announcements fading out and in. Can`t recognize the language, but HFCC, Aoki and EiBi all agree it can only be R. Pakistan, Chinese service at 1200-1300, 250 kW, 70 degrees from API-6 Islamabad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, April 19 at 0038, carrier from R. Chaski, Urubamba, is detectable on the FRG-7, so this evening I decide to monitor it on the main rig, rather than going out to the cold, damp porch with the DX-398 as usual. Some but not all the household noise sources are off. Carrier cuts off at 0103:49* which is 5 sex later than last nite (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SARAWAK [non]. 15430, April 19 at 1232, R. Free Sarawak presumed, usual exposition in Iban. Had been on 15420 for about a week, but yesterday Ron Howard reported it back on 15430, and so it is today, nothing heard on 15420. Today`s Aoki & EiBi both have it still on 15420: EiBi with site Taiwan, but Aoki still shows Trinco, Sri Lanka, which has been denied by Victor Goonetilleke. HFCC has neither for this veiled service, but shows 15430 would clash with Romania in English at 11-12 to CIRAF 48 = East Africa from Sudan to Kenya. Is RRI still there? Has made some other frequency changes. Perhaps it was easier for RFS to change the frequency on the transmitter than on the website which kept showing 15430, as it does today, and furthermore they have finally changed the title from long-gone 11600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN [and non]. 15160, April 19 at 0118, collision about equal level between R. Australia in English, and REE in Spanish. This has been going on for years at least in the A-seasons, currently a one-hour overlap with Spain on until 0200, Australia starting at 0100, per Aoki. Apologists for easily avoidable interference will say, fine! Two different target areas, not including where you are, so you have no standing in this matter. I say: why use the same frequency when there are dozens of open frequencies nearby, so each station could be totally in the clear even in neighboring target areas?? Per Aoki, Australia is at 85 degrees across México, and Spain is at 242 degrees centered on southern Perú around Arequipa, but at those distances the signals spread out a lot, both towards the Americas from opposite direxions. Or they could split the difference at 0130 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1665 monitoring: confirmed Thursday April 18 at 2100.5 on 9479, WTWW-1. Also confirmed UT Friday April 19 just ending at 0357 on 3195, WWRB. So would have started early about 0328. After a pause, Dave came on live, referring listeners to 3185 before turning off 3195. BTW, as usual, 3185 has a considerably stronger signal than 3195. Next WOR airings: UT Saturday 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB. Saturday 0630 & 1430 on H
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 16-17, 2013
** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 17 at 1355, Bangladesh Betar carrier is already on, and initially pure and clean; 1356 starts tone and hum simultaneously as site brings up feed from studio; 1358:30 hum continues with switch to IS. Also parasitic peaks of noise detectable about 4.4 kHz above and below. Timesignal ends at 1359:44.5, opening Urdu. I hope no vessel is depending on this for navigation, lest it run into a reef or a peak (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11780, April 17 at 0059 tune-in, ID mentions Rádio MEC non-SW outlets in at least three cities, 0100 ``Nacional informa`` = news. Maybe they already IDed as R. Nacional da Amazônia before I tuned in? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 990, April 17 at 0506 UT, XET`s overnite multi-decade host heard recently has now reached his show no. 18,300. Fast SAH with CBW fighting over the frequency amid America. We are somewhat closer to Monterrey than Winnipeg, but if XET were on legal night pattern southward only, CBW could dominate 990 this far into El Sur, except when aurorally attenuated. Guess what: per NRC AM Log, CBW is not a 50 kW station at night, but cut to only 46 kW, why?? Don`t forget that FCC AM Query has full data not only on US stations, but Canadian, Mexican and thruout the Americas, with XET`s theoretical night pattern here: http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/309029-60021.pdf showing a southward circle, but a bit of a bump to the NNW, null apparently aimed at CBW to the NNE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, April 17 at 0050, R. Chaski carrier is detectable vs band noise, splash from 5990 CRI/Cuba, and possibly residual jamming. (My streetlite has already fired on at *0049 as it`s overcast.) By 0100, 5990 is off; at 0101 I can make out some music on 5980, and carrier cut at 0103:38.5* which is 5.5 sex later than last nite (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RWANDA. 21780, April 16 at 1852, VG signal from DW in Hausa, on otherwise almost dead band for lack of interest by broadcasters; in fact, would be the OSOB if it were not for a very weak 21630 = WHRI which is aimed back toward Africa, but inside the skip zone here. So just the SSOB. 21780 is // 15275 also VG (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9930, Tuesday April 16 at 1858, WTWW-2 is on with a Ted Randall `QSO` show, ham discussion about the ISS; keeps playing at 1900 as a canned ID also by Ted overrides it. Maybe he will slot in some World of Radio playbacks too in the expanded flexible schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9330, April 17 at 1223, WBCQ with open carrier/dead air, having lost Good Friends Radio Network. First time I have noticed this in quite a while now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1120, April 17 at 0510 UT, Mexican music causing heavy QRM to KMOX, and can`t really null it to be sure it`s KEOR cheating again. Makes SAH of 280/minute = 4 and two thirds Hz. 0515 fading out before I can decide if the music is praiseworthy (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1520, April 17 at 0520 UT, mysterious Mexican music is also QRMing KOKC with fast SAH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list hard-core...@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 January 27-28, 2013
** AUSTRALIA. 11945, Jan 28 from 1505, RA`s excellent `Asia-Pacific` newsmagazine, but cut off abruptly at 1528 before it`s over. At 1529 I notice that next frequency 11880 has started a bit early. Now must get in habit of immediately retuning, just as one must do at 1458 from 9580 to 11945. But if it is the same transmitter, there will still be a break of at least a minute before 11880 come up. If possible, listen instead to 7240 which should stay on. The people running the Melbourne studio just don`t get it that they need to build in pauses with no significant programming, to accommodate SW frequency changeovers. O yeah, SW is just an outdated adjunct to continuous short-range FM relays and webcasts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 4752, Jan 28 at 1351, still a carrier here hetting RRI Makassar, see INDONESIA. Abu Tabib Md. Zia Hasan, Senior Engineer, Research & Receiving Centre, Bangladesh Betar, denied to Supratik Sanatani, India, that they are on 4752 instead of 4750! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11880, Jan 27 at 2140 check, RHC is in proper Portuguese this Sunday instead of Esperanto as last Sunday. 15370 at 2243 check, ``Guantanamera`` is playing, maybe in Esperanto version, but couldn`t tell from the many refrains ``guajira, guantanamera`` which are apparently untranslatable. Then talk in Espo. Noisy blobs all over the 25 m band, Jan 28 from 1322: first noticed circa 11845 and 11874, no intelligible music or talk modulation, but a constant-pitch whine which matches on these and all the rest. At first I suspect RHC 11860 transmitter as the source, but these are not exactly the same plus and minus from it, and as I tune on down, many more are encountered every 13-15 kHz or so, to as low as 11580 area. Many have no exact carriers and can be heard better in AM mode than with BFO. First rough finds are circa: 11745, 11731, 11718, 11703, 11674; also 11788, 11801, 11816, 11827, 11888, 11901, 11914, 11954. The separations here are, also approx.: 14, 13, 15, 29, 13, 15, 11, 61, 13, 13, 40. Common factor 13-14 kHz. By now it`s 1347 and at this point I am suspecting Anguilla 11775 could be the source. But at 1353 I can barely hear the same pitch whine under the otherwise good modulation on 11760 RHC. At 1404 I notice the noise also QRMing 11775 but its level fluxuates with fades, and the offsets do not match that exactly. Some of them do have carriers and make hets with nearby victims, e.g. 11815 REE Costa Rica, where the het on the hi side is circa F#6 = 1480 Hz. Call it 11816.5. If 11760 is the source, that`s 56.5 kHz above, fourth multiple of 14.125. At 1530 they are still going, and on the YB400 BFO 1 kHz steps I estimate several of them as: 11674.9, 11703.1, 11732.4, 11788.4, 11816.9, 11832.4, 11845.1, 11873.6. The intervals between these are: 28.2, 29.3, 56.0, 28.5, 15.5, 12.7, 28.5. The common factor here is somewhere around 14 kHz. Possibly some carriers from other sources got in, to explain the disparities; also the spurs themselves vary somewhat over time. It only remains to monitor the RHC sign-off circa 1600, listening to one of the spurs (11703) on one radio, and 11760 on another, both with BFO to hear exactly when the transmitter is turned off. Yes, both disappear at exactly the same instant, 1600:28*. Such a panoply of spurs from awful RHC transmitters has happened several times before, a fine old anomaly, but bad news for all the other stations: RHC the worst neighbor possible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 4750, Jan 28 at 1351, soft island music, presumed RRI Makassar, poor with weak 2-kHz het from Bangladesh 4752 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. ARTS channel via Enid PEGASYS cable access ch 12, UT Monday Jan 28 at 0520, is starting to play ``Stairway to Lenin``, from ``The Orchestra``. This is an hilarious satire on Soviet Communism, set to the music of Ravel`s ``Bolero``. ARTS provides no program schedule, so you can only tune in at random and see what`s playing. I have seen this many times, always already in progress, but now from the beginning. Unfortunately, I am not prepared to tape it! But maybe it will show up again in the next few days under current rotation. Unfortunately2, PEGASYS only provides lo-fi hissy audio and video from this channel: at least the video is not breaking up at the moment and the sparklies are not too bad. The original was produced in HDTV! Look for it on YouTube: here`s a fragment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoANrOmdtYc Some others have been deleted. I think Zbigvision is trying to keep it salable on DVD, along with other great videos, via http://www.zbigvision.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11510, Jan 28 at 1425-1500, another great concert of Kurdish vocal and instrumental music with hardly any announcements, tnx to the PKK terrorists of V. of Kurdistan,
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 24-25, 2013
** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 25: 7390, fair at 1409 slightly atop the mix with two signals in Chinese, i.e. CNR1 jamming and VOA Cantonese via Philippines 11520, very poor at 1415, het on lo side. Neatly matches Aoki listing for V. of Tibet, 11518 at 1330-1430 via Tajikistan No other FD found 12-18 MHz until 1424 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 11805, Jan 25 at 1427, VIRI IS, poor signal, 1430 three rising chimes, opening in unID language, brief choral piece presumed national anthem, another quick announcement and into Qur`an, the standard opening procedure. Aoki shows this is a Bengali hour, 500 kW, 100 degrees from Kamalabad. The Urdu service was also audible earlier in the hour on 11720 // 11685 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL [non]. 9955, Jan 25 at 0530, WRMI inaudible under jamming, but Jeff White says as of tonight, WRN relay at this time has resumed after some experimentation with Vatican Radio in Arabic. Therefore, Israel Radio`s only SW broadcast in English should be back at 0530-0545 Tue-Sat. Computer was off so could not confirm yet on WRMI webstream (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 5985, Jan 25 at 1342, Sea Breeze again in English on this Friday and much better reception than usual, talking about the UN and human rights in several countries, including North Korea. Still good at 1405 with news sounder, headline from Yonhap about Google trip to NK, another from Daily NK. Usual het from MYANMAR on the hi side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. 9335, Jan 25 at 1413, VOK in French, modulation rather distorted. 11710, Jan 25 at 1417, French also here and somewhat distorted with additional mixture of jamming noise that VOK is unable to keep out of its adjacent broadcast transmitter. Any SW broadcaster that is obviously so intimately involved with jamming other stations is worthy of nothing but contempt, also RHC and CRI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO [and non]. 9579.1, Jan 25 at 0556, Médi Un carrier, at least is back, making big het with 9580.0; having been missing 23.5 hours earlier. Only modulation audible is music from the higher frequency, i.e. presumed GABON. The het made a pitch somewhere between A5 and B-flat5, i.e. 880 and 932 Hz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 530, further observations Jan 24-25: ID occurs at random oddtimes, not just hourtop and hourbottom, such as 2004 and 1448 UT: by seemingly synthetic voice unlike the other announcements: ``You are listening to 530 AM operated by Vance Air Force Base, Enid, Oklahoma``. Many of the same old Ad Council PSAs continue in rotation, but now there is a new one apparently by a local announcer, including her flub at the end, about ``never leave candles unattached --- unattended``. I have yet to hear anything remotely connected with USAF or other military matters, but instead an emphasis on safety for civilians, also applicable to allhumans, including military (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Jan 25 at 0621, KMOX has a SAH of 192/minute = 3.2 Hz as measured some times before, but varies, presumably from KEOR carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1170, Jan 25 at 0619 UT, KFAQ Tulsa is accompanied by IBOC noise, as Bruce Winkelman had first reported it turned back on Jan 24, after some months off. However at next check 1440 in the daytime, with weaker signal, IBOC did not seem to be present (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU [non]. 5980, further chex for the new R. Chaski, Cusco: not only do we have R. Martí and wall-of-noise DentroCuban jamming at 07-13 UT, but at least lite residual Cuban pulse jamming continues on 5980 at many (all?) other hours, typical incompetent overkill and disrespect for other non-hostile broadcasters: Jan 24 at 2308 check, Jan 25 at 0117, 0205 the jamming is still there, plenty to block the Peruvian if really on and testing tonight as Pedro F. Arrunátegui reports scheduled until 0300. Here is his 17-second clip of it announcing 5980 only: http://www.w4uvh.net/chaski5980PFA.mp3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 7260, Jan 25 at 1406, fair signal in English from VOR about ``Tatiana Day`` = Jan 25 in Russia. Would be sufficient if not for the SSB QRhaM on an above-normal E Asian morning. HFCC shows 500 kW, 230 degrees from Vladivostok at 10-16 but the English portion is 13-15 only. Off the back is 50 degrees, which aims right down the angled California/Nevada border (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1653 monitoring: first SW broadcast confirmed on WTWW-1 9479, Thursday Jan 24 starting early about 2159:20. Therefore, the exact hourtop interruption for legal ID occurred further into the intro minute, at second :39 just as I started to say ``Eq--`` uatorial Guinea, and finished just as the theme did. Then the 0430 UT Friday broadcast on WWRB
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 16-17, 2013
** AUSTRALIA. After 0700 UT Jan 17, finding R. Australia all over the place, initially with Oz news, on 9475 at 0701; then at 0708 I compare 12080 and 11945 again: the two are slightly out of synch, but so close I have a hard time deciding which one is the echo: finally: 12080, a split second behind 11945, so good evidence it is really Brandon following satellite feed from Shepparton (or Melbourne, if nearby Shep has a microwave/landline feed). This time 12080 registers S9+18 and 11945 S9+20, despite 11945 allegedly running ten times the power of 12080. Now 15240 is also on unlike last night; 13630 is best, and also heard on 7410 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11780, Jan 16 at 2153, 2217 and Jan 17 at 0027 chex, RNA/RNB is nominal in AM without wideband noise. But at next check, 0432 Jan 17, heavy noise surrounding 11780 which is still audible, out to plus/minus 50 kHz or so. Not the same as the wideband noise of previous nights, but RNB still has big problems affecting its unfortunate neighbors. Robert Lafore, location unknown, had reported earlier on Jan 16: ``Likewise a great signal from 11780 at 2207, the noise started for a moment, pretty much covering RNA. When I hear the noise start, RNA's carrier remains steady here. Several more pulses of noise at 2208 and 2209. It slowly builds, then abruptly off.`` Was this like what Robert was hearing at 2207-2209, and was anyone else hearing it in the meantime? I asked the dxldyg. Steve Luce, Houston TX, replied: ``I'm hearing much the same thing here in Houston at a 0500 check Jan 17. Noise is heaviest +/- 20 kHz either side of 11780, with the upper side the loudest. Weak noise extends down to 11710 and up to 11860. RNA signal is there, but covered by the noise. At an earlier check at 0130, the RNA signal was strong and clean, no sign of any noise.`` Earlier on Jan 16, Flávio PY2ZX Archangelo in Brasil told us, ``I made a phone call yesterday to EBC, the federal government company that coordinates several radio and TV stations, including RNA. I´m not sure if the problem is fully corrected, but now the technical sector for sure have the feedback. EBC is studying buying new SW transmitters, including capability for digital upgrade [sic] for DRM modes.`` By my next check at 0614 Jan 17, 11780 had been put out of its (and our) misery, off the air, while 6180 continued normally. May I suggest that they keep it off the air unless they can prevent the additional noise radiation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11880, Jan 16 at 2153, RHC supposed to be Portuguese but instead silence, dead air; ho hum, another SNAFU at this amateurish operation, which has never really got its act together in 52 years. Recheck at 2217, now it`s modulating, in English. The 21-23 transmission is allegedly aimed at Africa, and I understand it`s poorly heard in Europe, too far offbeam, but it`s always a bigsig here off the back. 9810, Jan 17 at 0617, RHC fair signal still going in Spanish instead of closing at 0600. No other lingerers found, as Spanish is supposed to be totally off SW after that hour. Checking out leapfrog mixing products involving the overkill four English transmitters, 6010, 6060, 6125 and 6165, Jan 17 at 0622, which I confirmed all synchronized so from same site: poor but readable between fades on 6270 (6060 over 6165); also audible on 6205 (6125 over 6165). Could not be sure of one on 6320 which would be 6010 over 6165, and also have to watch out for receiver-produced overloads, which disappear with attenuation unlike 6270 and 6205. 17730, Jan 17 at 1347 is today`s missing frequency, but very good signal on 17580 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9905, Jan 17 at 0616, R. Cairo is unusually holding up over night path, good signal but Arabic distorted as always (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 6055, Thursday Jan 17 at 1335, R. Nikkei in English --- OM speaker for a minute about Japan`s relations with China. Then interrupted by YL in Japanese, and another OM starts reading a text about how PM Abe should visit China like Nixon did. She takes this apart, keeps interrupting to explain the English words and phrases (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 610, Jan 17 at 0639 UT, music and soon ID as ``La Primera``, which means it`s XEBX, Sabinas, Coahuila, 500 watts at night, as IRCA, WRTH and Cantú all agree is the only such Mexislogan on 610 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 720, Jan 17 at 1444 UT, Spanish talk fades in mixing with ``Jew`s harp``, see UNIDENTIFIED. KSAH San Antonio? But it`s not sports talk. 1447 ``El Extremo 720`` and timecheck sure sounds like 8:47 = CST, not 7:47 = MST. Mexican federal PSAs, 1448 ``regresamos, 7-20 Extremo``, into music, ``Quizás3`` on piano. This slogan applies to XEJCC Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, 1/1 kW per IRCA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ME
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 27-28, 2012
** AUSTRALIA. 11650, Nov 28 at 0556, English interview about visiting Lake Taupo in New Zealand, fair signal, but not // RA on 13630, and RNZI is as usual on 11725. At 0559, 11650 does ID as R. Australia, but not // 15240 either. 0600 both play R. Australia news theme almost synchronized, but then *separate* newscasts, 11650 by M, 15240 by W. At 0605, now 11650 and 15240 really join for the same news in depth program starting with the Egyptian situation. 15240 must have been the Pacific service, 11650 the sometimes-separate Asian service. 11650 is not on any of the schedules for RA at this time, tho it and 11660 are used at other hours from Shepparton. 11650 is scheduled only at 20-22, 30 degrees. So was this a mistake, or a new-frequency change? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA [non]. 6105, Nov 27 at 2303, still seeking R. Panamericana, but not even a het to the China radio war. Nor after Nov 28 when the frequency opens up. It`s still being reported active in the mornings on 6105.5v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 28, before 1400: 9780, good at 1352 with flutter; target is RTI Chinese at 10-14 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Nov 28 at 1429 UT, 2 kW daytimer KEOR Sperry/Catoosa/Tulsa is still playing continuous Mexican music, day and night, never any IDs or announcements; tho I haven`t been logging it every time heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES [and non]. 9430, Nov 28 at 1350, the Chinese service from FEBC with classical music themes is disrupted by variable carrier on hi side, making het of descending chirp tones over and over (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** POLAND [non]. 15180, Nov 28 at 1455, MRP with ID and schedule in Russian, pronouncing ``UTC`` as in English, bit of music and off at 1457*. Good signal. Altho some such broadcasts are now relayed from Bulgaria, this one is via FRANCE, 500 kW, 60 degrees from Issoudun per HFCC at 1400-1500 [sic]. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. 15170, Nov 28 at 1354, music from RRI is now in the clear with fair signal, since Spain deleted its North American morning service via Costa Rica. RRI is at 13-15, 300 kW, 290 degrees from Galbeni to France, but also close to USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALILAND. 7120, Nov 28 at 0432, R. Hargeisa presumed, still audible with Somali talk, then some music; undermodulation levels vary (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN [and non]. REE`s broadcasts for North America have indeed vanished without advance notice. Another major SW broadcaster has abandoned us! They obviously did not want to give listeners a chance to campaign against these cuts. There had been rumblings about reduxions in service, but this still comes as a shock, despite the overall financial crisis in Spain. Another clue, a bad omen, was that REE never registered a B-12 schedule with HFCC, forcing it just to keep on the books the B-11 schedule for reference. José Bueno also sent me a link to this page http://www.rtve.es/radio/20121122/radio-exterior-marca-espana-mundo/576560.shtml which explains the changes, along with preserving the most popular programs and canceling others (what about `Amigos de la Onda Corta`? It`s not mentioned as preserved), and trying to put a positive spin on this --- building up REE`s ``digital`` coverage by internet and satellite instead of SW. These numbskulls are keeping only the Spanish DRM broadcast to NAm, 9625-9630-9635 and beyond at 00-02 via Costa Rica, ensuring the smallest possible audience, instead of just one AM frequency! Monitoring Nov 27-28 finds the following situation: At 2040, gone are 17850-CR and 15110 direct. (Or rather, 17850 had been 18-20 on weekdays so would be off already; 16-23 on weekends) At 2049, 9605 with song in Spanish, 2052 French about fouteballe espagnole. This is to the Mideast so not cancelled, and neither is English at 19-20 to Africa on same, as others heard, which must be the ONLY English left, but both are M-F only. English to Europe is gone from 9665 at 19-20 M-F, and no doubt also the 6125 at 22-23 Sat/Sun. At 2303, 9535 and 9620 are still on past usual listed sign-off, maybe not significant; 6125 perhaps too but Chinese CCI; 6055 in French to NAm is gone. After : 6125, 9535 and 9620 are on with weak signals not to NAm, and 9630-DRM noise. 6055, the only remaining English hour to NAm, is kaput!!! 9765 has a signal but it`s in Khmer, i.e. CRI as in China Radio International, not as in Cariari. At 0430, 5965-CR is still on starting `Paisajes y Sabores`, seems weaker than usual; could it have been moved back to Spain? No, it`s still satellite-delayed a few sex behind 9535 et al. Announcement from REE referred to ``reducing power`` of remaining SW, and maybe they really mean that literally. 3350-CR also still on but poor. 9675, the other CR with a
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 5-6, 2012
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 15340, Sept 6 at 1238, JBA carrier only from presumed HCJB, unlike SSOB status yesterday. By 1323 signal is much better but RHC has decided to run 15340 today too, atop considerable DU CCI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 15105, Sept 6 at 1247 very poor signal seems English, and music, from Bangladesh Betar. 1259:30 to tone, and off at 1300:45* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 15191.5 [not 15149.5 as mistyped originally], Sept 5 at 0511 as I am bandscanning across 19m, expecting maybe R. Africa, instead immediately hear ``duas e onze``, i.e. Brazilian Portuguese timecheck which can only come from R. Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte. Then checked frequency and it`s right here, maybe 15191.49 but probably within margin of error (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Sept 6, per my E1 was indeed on 15191.49 from 0211 to 0221 tune out with excited sports announcer; 0220 a goal was scored; game ended after 0300; checking at 0323 was still heard with pop song in English. The best reception heard in a while. Best in LSB; QRN (Ron Howard, California, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake, Sept 6 before 1300, all with flutter: 12230, JBA at 1241 12320, very good at 1241, quite a contrast to 12230 12670, poor at 1241 12870, very good at 1242 13850, very good at 1242 13920, very good at 1242; no fax QRM now 14700, good at 1244 14870, good at 1245 15550, good at 1246 16250, fair at 1248; none in the 17s, 18s. That makes ten at a time Before 1330: 12320, very good at 1329; none in the 11s, 13s, 14s, 16s, 17s, 18s 15495, poor at 1324, net on hi side 15565, fair at 1325, het on hi side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 11736, 11744, 11752, 11768, 11776, 11784, 11792, the 8-kHz spurs from 11760 jammer all detectable Sept 6 at 1333. 11735, 11750, 11775 and 11785 broadcasters made considerable hets against them, and clear 11768 was strong enough to detect a bit of modulation matchable to intentional CNR1 jammer on 11990 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11760, Sept 6 at 2350, RHC is not on the air here, but on 11680 // 11840 and 9 MHz frequencies with music, presumably the usual `Sonido Cubano` filler in Spanish service. Was checking because Grayson Watson, TX, keeps hearing the 23-24 RHC English hour on frequencies where it is not supposed to be, such as 11760 on Sept 4, 11680 on Aug 17, instead of 5040-only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also AUSTRALIA ** GREECE. 15630, Sept 6 at 2010-2040, V. of Greece with great signal and great music for nap time, hardly any announcements; weakening somewhat after 2030 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, Sept 6 at 1338, VOI is on today, fair carrier with hum, but no modulation at all detectable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 6760, Sept 6 at 1232, Korean talk, no jamming, no doubt MND Radio. Just yesterday Ron Howard discovered a new // for the 1200 broadcast, 4925, ex-5900, so I try 4925: JBA carrier underneath a blob from one of my local cable DTV converter boxes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MAURITANIA. 7245, Sept 6 at 0554, no signal from IGIM as it recovers from/compensates for, all the extra airtime during Ramadan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 660, Sept 6 at 0600 UT, full ID from the only Chihuahua 660 station, and then state song. Cantú: 660 XEACB La Lupe + FM 98.9 Cd. Delicias, Chih. 3,000 1,000 The third time I`ve heard it recently without confirming that`s still the ID in the volatile Mexican radio scene (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 680, Sept 6 at 1159 UT, full ID from ``La Mera Jefa``, including: ``93.7 y 680``, ``la radio que manda``, ``Megamedios, Guasave, Sinaloa``, 1201 `Noticias en Punto`. But did not catch any call letters. Cantú shows: 680 XEORO La Mera Jefa + FM 93.7 Guasave, Sin. 1,000 500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 700, Sept 6 at 1158 UT, Radio Red ID and promo, temp as 14.7 degrees, presumably at the flagship hi-altitude DF station XERED, while 700 is XEDKR in Guadalajara; weak but alone on frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 760, Sept 6 at 1202 UT, full ID for XECSI, Éxtasis Digital, Culiacán, also mentioned an FM, and defined the format as featuring música en inglés. Then played choral NA in Spanish. Cantú: 750 XECSI Éxtasis Digital + FM 89.5 Culiacán, Sin. 5,000 250 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 770, Sept 6 at 1204 UT, after NA, 2 or 3 funny voices, 1205 mentions ``Cadena 40 Principales``. The only one on 770 per Cantú: 770 XEREV Los 40 Principales + FM 104.3 Los Mochis, Sin. 5,000 100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. ``The Cool TV`` with music videos has disappeared from KOCB, virtual 34.2, RF 33, OKC; now there is just 34.1, labeled KOCB HD. I noticed this Sept 6 around 2200 UT as I was
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs June 14-15, 2012
** AUSTRALIA. 4835, June 15 at 1158 immediately after WWCR cuts off 4840, with BFO I can detect a JBA carrier here, no doubt VL8A on its extended 60m schedule. Earlier around 1120 shortly after sunrise, I could also detect a JBA carrier on 2325, no doubt VL8T. BTW, the NT frequencies are still absent from HFCC along with RA Shepparton and Brandon. I wonder if ABC just didn`t want to pay the HFCC dues; who needs it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 6180, June 15 at 0448, RNA is reactivated here with Brazilian music, // 11780, much stronger than 6185 XEPPM, and much, much louder, as XEPPM continues to just-barely-modulate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 9625, June 15 at 0459, ending of the ``Midnight Edition of As It Happens`` from CBC Radio One, which I assume is just an edited-down version of the original sesquihour (or is it back to only one hour now as in most summers?); CBC NQ ID, frequency and contact info, even 877 toll-free phone number --- is that valid continent-wide? ACI from always stronger REE via CR on 9630. 0500 into CBC News in English prior to sign-off. It remains unclear whether this service will go off shortwave after June 24 like RCI, but plans are to replace it by strategically placed LPFM transmitters in the isolated NQ communities which need it. I thought they already had those, and SW was to reach even further into the outback. 15455, no signal June 15 at 0508, unlike 24 hours earlier, when RCI Spanish service via Hotbird satellite was being relayed from somewhere (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake June 15, before 1200: 12230, poor at 1131 12320, poor at 1131 13920, good at 1128; none in the 14s 15900, poor at 1133 16100, very poor at 1134 16980, very poor at 1134; none in the 17s After 1200: 15435, fair at 1211 Before 1300: 16980, good at 1247 just as a bad edit in the music occurs 16100, very good at 1246; none in the 17s 15900, poor at 1247 1, fair at 1247; het on the lo side [when I say this, I am alluding to presumed target V. of Tibet 2 or 3 kHz off-channel] 13920, fair at 1250; none in the 14s 12230, very poor at 1251; none in the 11s, 10s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, June 15 at 1215, VOI very poor and undermodulated but sounds like scheduled Japanese; also heard before 1200 in presumed Chinese. One can never rely on their broadcasting the correct language; see the log at http://rri.jp.org As always, frequency is very slightly on the lo side of 9526. BTW, I neglected to mention the VOI frequency on WOR 1621 this week, but surely everyone knows it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [and non]. 6110, June 15 at 0501, NHK World Radio Japan, VG in English via Sackville, finally reactivated after a biweek. (Steve Luce heard it first 24 hours earlier, a rare occasion when I did not check for it.) Lead news item: arrest by Tokyo police of the last Aum Shinrikyo fugitive, Katsiya Takahashi, of the 1995y serin attacks. Never mentioned that they were a fellow SW broadcaster, via Russian transmitters! We`ll miss very much this very good and again reliable signal with the closure of Sackville. But something has to be amiss with NHK relays, and now it`s 6080 in Spanish via Bonaire that is absent at 0504 June 15. Another automation mixup?? 11815, June 15 at 1125, C&W song in English ``love, it is a flower``, 1127 segué another starting ``it must have been cool there in my shadow``, from NHK Japanese service direct. This early, it`s nice to hear it without Costa Rica colliding which starts at 1200; // 9750. The NHK ID at 1159 again is accompanied by steel drum music; how eclectic, and then the accurate timesignal ending at 1200:00 just as REE starts their delayed TS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6185, June 15 at 0505, XEPPM is nothing but a 5-kHz het to both 6180 Brazil land 6190 CRI via Canada, as the unmodulated transmitter has not been turned off quite yet. They might as well leave it off if they aren`t going to modulate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Es analog TV DX, June 15, UT: 1355 on 2, turn on the TV to find opening in progress, CCI of various signals ranging from SSE to SSW. G7IZU map doesn`t show any 6m activity around here so I also check north, but it`s not from Canada. G7IZU later crashes, apparently from overuse, as does DX Sherlock. 1326 on 2, bits of audio finally as MUF creeps up to 59.75 MHz, but not positive yet it is Spanish. Signals in and out, mostly out. 1356 on 2, stronger CCI now with audio in Spanish including zero-beat video CCI, which I associate with Mérida vs Cancún. 1352 on 4, signs of video briefly, 67.25 MHz 1353 on 2, news about soccer; 1356 cycling; clock in LR says 8:56 = CDT; can`t make out bug in UR 1515 on 2, brief resurgence with hoy bug in LL, i.e. the Net-2 program 1552 on 2, some video starts to show again; 1554 adding Spanish a
Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Radio Nacional da Amazônia back in 6180
** BRAZIL. Nacional Amazônica --- Sintonia em 6180 aproximadamente, hoje às 18:30 horário de Brasília [2130 UT]; com ótimo sinal (durval503, Brasil, Feb 27, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Hoje, dia 28/2, também sintonizei em 6180 kHz faixa de 49m a Rádio Nacional da Amazônia, hora do noticiário matinal, sob o comando do Lucio Haeser, às 7h, hora oficial de Brasília ou 10h UT. Sinal bom. 73 (Luiz Chaine Neto, Limeira sp, 28-2-2012, ibid.) ! Has been off air for a long time, allegedly broken transmitter. Let`s hope they stay on 6180, not alternate and WRTH-listed 6185 where if up to the 250 kW or even quite a bit less, it will again ruin XEPPM if on into the night. We may now know what EBC did with the ex-R. Senado transmitter on 5990 --- even tho when it was vigent, they never used it at night and could have run RNA on 6180/6185 anyway except 09-21 UT or whenever Senado was on. Or maybe switching frequencies twice a day would not have been feasible. 6180 should be pretty good, as now there is nothing else significant on it within or near the darkside except DW English via Rwanda, natch, at 0400-0457 non-direxional. Aoki still has it listed, probably never x-ed out: ``6180 RN da Amazonia 0630-0300 1234567 Portuguese 250 344 Brasilia DF B 04755W 1546S RNAMA``. However, if the hours match // 11780, back on normal time it would be signing on between 0730 and 0800, not sure about sign-off time. Maybe still 0300, as nothing audible on 6180 at my first chance to check, 0347 UT Feb 29, aside big sig from Vietnam/Canada on 6175. Except UT Sundays, all-night (Glenn Hauser, radioescutas yg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- On Wed, 2/29/12, Jorge Freitas (Yahoo) wrote:Lenildo da Silva, reports that the Rádio Nacional da Amazônia is back in the frequency 6180 kHz. I confirmed the listening at 1000 SINPO 35433. 6180 kHz, Rádio Nacional da Amazônia, português para o Brasil (desde Brasília, DF), 09:00-09:03 (UTC), quarta-feira, 29 de fevereiro de 2012. Notícia sobre as enchentes que atinge o Estado do Acre. De acordo com o locutor, o número de afetados já passa proporcionalmente, o número de atingidos pelas chuvas no Rio de Janeiro e Santa Catarina. Em seguida, um ouvinte liga para o programa. O apresentador pergunta-lhe se estar a ouvir pelos 49m, ele informa que não e afirma que é pela parabólica. SINPO: 55544. (Lenildo da Silva, São José de Piranhas-Paraiba, Brasil, via “no mundo do dexismo”) 73 Jorge Freitas Local time -2 UT Feira de Santana Bahia 12°14´S 38°58´W - Brasil Degen 1103 - All listening in mode of filter Narrow the 6 kHz. Dipole antenna, 16 meters - east/west Escutas (listening, my blog): http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006http://www.novabrasilfm.com.br/ao-vivo/audio.php http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1443186 ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list hard-core...@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 February 27-28, 2012
** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake Feb 28: 9935, good at 1440 and until 1500* --- no target audible before or after closedown. Apparent new frequency, not in Harold Frodge`s latest Flaming Goose Report, nor in Steve Handler`s restricted charts of Chinese Jamming SW Broadcasts, both of which have only 9905 in the 9900s. As usual we go to Aoki for an idea of why FD could be here, but no likely target on 9935 or anywhere in the vicinity, not even a jumparound listing for Sound of Hope, but still the probable impetus, as they can land wherever they like and 9935 is surely a tempting open frequency --- until Firedrake finds it, which doesn`t take long. The only station anytime anywhere listed on 9935 is ERT3 Makedonia station --- HFCC has it for 10 hours from 250 kW Thessaloniki, which is surely imaginary, while Aoki has it from 1600 for less than 2 hours via 100 kW Avlis. 11500, JBA? at 1442 12300, good with flutter at 1444; no others up to 19 MHz by 1449 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 7365, Feb 28 at 0631 as I am checking Vatican on 7360, usual residual pulse jamming, twice per second, long after R. Martí is finished with the frequency. RM has NO history of unexpectedly appearing out of schedule on its frequencies! But the paranoid DentroCubans are taking no chances! The also do it on other vacant VOA and R. Martí channels. It`s just like the neighborhood feral cat who keeps pissing on our front door to mark ``his`` territory (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 11675, Feb 28 at 1504, S Asian song by YL, fair, and figured it could be AIR, but only listed is KSDA in Telugu, 100 kW, 285 degrees at 1500-1530 daily. However, gone at 1524 recheck as conditions were worsening, but maybe closed early (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 11670, better than // 9445, Feb 27 at 2119 I intune AIR GOS, sufficiently listenable with some flutter despite (because of?) K-index just reported as 5 by new robofem WWV announceress, so since it happens to be Monday, once a classical music recital concludes, I settle in to listen to their weekly 2120-2135 mailbag `Faithfully Yours` with usual W&M hosts. It turns out they only deal with four reports; scarce listener input, or just very selective? I figure I will always recognize at least some of the names on any mailbag show, from the limited universe of active reception-reporting SWLs: To wit: 1, can`t catch his name, but from Assam, NE India. Says he is new host of the Indian DX Report on AWR Wavescan, congratulates the GOS on now having its very own QSL and wants one. This takes the entire first five minutes, as the hosts read and comment on his comments, etc. 2, Costa Constantinides, Cyprus; yes, we know him, 4.5 minutes. 3, Dennis Allen, Australia; we know him too, just got some of his items in Australian DX News; 2 minutes. 4, Alvin McCrory(?), USA; don`t know him, but report was from 10 November; are the others that old? He listened at 1909-1945 on 11670 with SINPO 54434; sent 4 IRCs but they reiterate that return postage is NOT WANTED. 2.5 minutes for him. Every one of them reported on a transmission which was not to their target area! and the OM found that ``very interesting`` each time. He filled quite a bit of the time by giving the schedules and frequencies where they ought to be listening, except of course the American who is not supposed to be listening at all, but admittedly they have got a lot of reports from North America lately. Concluding with W&M unison, ``Faithfully Yours!``. 2135 on to popular Indian vocal music, which was faded out abruptly at 2150 when it was time for `Economic Review` as MEGO caused tuneout. (E = ears) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA [and non]. 6050-, very poor Feb 28 at 1423 past 1433, music and some talk with intonation suitable for Indo-Malay, presumed RTM Kajang. Trying to pinpoint the frequency with BFO, compared it to WEWN 12050 and decided it was on the hi side of 6050, but then stepping 5 kHz compared to several other 6 MHz signals, decided it was on the lo side, which is usual. So WEWN must also be off-frequency. As always, that has the squishy spurs to confuse things too. Confirming that same Malaysia site was propagating, but with ten times the power, the usual het on 5965v with CRI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MAURITANIA. 7245, Feb 28 at 0626, IGIM is on and chanting, good signal tonight, and adjacent VATICAN 7250 never showed up to compete with another Abrahamic religion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 7275, Feb 28 at 0629 as TUNISIA goes off, a weaker but respectable signal is left on exactly the same frequency, but it`s just barely modulated, presumably FRCN Abuja as it continues to bury itself under Sfax most of the time. Since it`s zero-beat and JBM, hard to tell it is there while IWT is on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 6520, Feb 28
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 26-27, 2012
** AUSTRALIA. 15525, Feb 26 at 2259, ``HCJB Global Voice`` ID, Melbourne address, poor signal and into another language. Aoki shows this 2200-2430 transmission, 100 kW, 340 degrees from Kununurra, is mainly Chinese [Mandarin] except: 2230-2300 Japanese on UT Fri/Sat; Amoy -0030 UT Mon-Fri (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake Feb 27 before 1400: 13130, poor with heavy flutter at 1354, none lower 13920, equal to 13130 at 1355 15535, very poor at 1357; none in the 12s, 14s, 16s, 17s, 18s Before 1500: 12980, poor with flutter at 1452; none in the 13s 12670, very poor at 1453 11970, very poor at 1453 11500, very poor at 1458 While FE propagation conditions were very subnormal, Afroeurasians were incoming better than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15370, Feb 26 at 2235 check, RHC is still in Esperanto this semihour on Sundays, with usual propaganda as in all other languages. 11750, Feb 27 at 1457, RHC Spanish achieves the correct frequency for the third day in a row instead of 11705 as on Feb 24 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 15320, UT Sunday Feb 26 at 2238, AWR Wavescan via KSDA in progress with David Ricquish on AEF (US armed forces) ``Mosquito Radio`` station in 1944 NZ, 1ZN, which morphed into different stations to this day; originally aired on RNZI Mailbox, here called ``South Pacific Panorama``; outro by Jeff White. Who, BTW has been the presenter of WS for a few years now; someone was wondering what happened to Adrian Peterson. He writes the show, Jeff voices part of the script, and puts together the pieces with continuity, for airing on WRMI, AWR. This Sunday 2230 broadcast from KSDA is more reliable here than any of the airings on WRMI 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA [and non]. 9526-, Feb 27 at 1348, VOI is back on the air and back on their 9526- instead of 9525- transmitter, very poor signal, but no doubt about the off-off-frequency carrier. At 1520 it is still on producing the almost-one-kHz het with CRI, both too weak for anything but the tone. Ishida agrees VOI is back on 9526 today from *0953 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL [and non]. 9985, Feb 27 at 1459, fair signal with IBA IS, which means it must be preceding Persian as years ago they cancelled all other SW languages. Needless to say, 9990 WTWW was not on the air! Seems one or another of the WTWW transmitters has been missing sporadically lately (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 21540, Feb 27 at 1503, still hearing Arabic here after Spain has closed, usual overrun until cut off abruptly at 1503:18*. With only a month left in the B-11 season, R. Kuwait still hasn`t activated the frequency registered, 21520, preferring instead to collide with Spain for hours and hours (which also prefers to keep the collision going despite scads of open frequencies on 13m band). Kuwait has again registered 21520 for the A-12 season, but I`ll believe it only if I ever hear it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI. 15505, Feb 26 at 2234, open carrier with flutter, still at 2243 and until 2257:40*. Roughly same level as Australia but modulating on 15515. Never any modulation on 15505, presumed ``Bamako II`` relay of CRI in Mandarin as per Aoki, 100 kW at 85 degrees, 2230-2257; EiBi and HFCC show 2230-2300. This must be the most dysfunxional of all CRI relay sites. And why would there be a single semihour broadcast when all other CRI Mandarin broadcasts are in 1-hour blox? Except: one sesquihour from 2230 on unchecked 11975 as in WRTH 2012 where 15505 is not listed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1550, Feb 26 at 0858 tune-in, ``La Rancherita`` ID and such music, 0900 fading for TOH ID, but I do hear ``Tamaulipas, México`` mentioned, so it`s surely XENU, Nuevo Laredo, the only Tamaulipan on 1550 with that slogan, listed 250 watts night. One of the extra benefits of a DX test is forcing one to log other stations as well, in this case along with KRPI inserting Morse code IDs every pentaminute for a semihour (see USA). If any other programming could be made out, it was ranchera music, but never peaked as much as at the outset, generally just a jumble of signals. Recorded while I slept with longwire antenna unfavorably east-west (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. As I was setting up to record the KRPI DX test, I was distracted by WBNY pirate on 6925+ AM, so also recorded Commander Bunny at 0629 Feb 26, about war with Iran, rodent revolution, HD radio a monkey-joke, as in my yesterday`s report: http://www.w4uvh.net/WBNY.rm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 11820, Feb 26 at 2049, BSKSA fair signal with Qur`an; still audible but poor at 2245 recheck with even more Qur`an. HFCC shows this lasts from 18 to 23, 500 kW, 320 degrees from Riyadh to W Europe, NW Africa, but also USward. Times in Aoki are more
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 23-24, 2012
** AUSTRALIA. 13630, Feb 24 at 0635, unusual music for RA, soon outroed as Gypsy/Turkish for a music festival in Melbourne. Best of the four 13/15 MHz frequencies, almost sufficient (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11750, Feb 24 at 1434, RHC is missing from one of its minor frequencies, but soon found instead on 11705! Error in punching up the frequency, or an abrupt permanent change? Time will tell. RHC has used 11705 in the distant past. Will this be mentioned in the frequency announcement copied at 1502 on 11760 et al.? Of course not! Still says [as translated]: ``15380 and 15230 to 1600; 9540 to 1600; 13-16 on 9850; 13670 until 16 and 13780, 13670 [sic, repeated, as always]; 11760, 11840, 11690 until 16; from 13 on 11750 [sic!] until 16``. I also compared the 11 MHz frequencies: strongest 11760 and 11840 synchronized; 11690 and 11705 a significant echo apart from the others; 11690 and 11705 very slightly apart from each other (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. 11740, Feb 24 at 1434 while checking out Cuba changing from 11750 to 11705, noticed good reception in Burmese here, which is NHK, 250 kW, 330 degrees via SINGAPORE at 1430-1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6135, Feb 24 at 1358, Sea Breeze with piano music, ID and contact info in English, ``time for all of us to come together against North Korean dictator Kim Jung-Il and his regime``, slightly outdated; pause and 1400 reopening with second half of English hour on Fridays only via JSR Tokyo, JAPAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, Feb 24 at 1420, V. of Mesopotamia via UKRAINE, continuous Kurdish vocal music to 1430 brief announcement, and then more music in a different style; fair signal but always enjoyable, with kudos to TDP and the PKK terrorists for providing this service with so much music; of course the words may well have some political significance unbeknownst to the rest of us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TUNISIA. 17735, looking for IWT on new frequency I discovered Feb 20, Feb 24 at 1508, but so far nothing but Japanese from NHK via FRANCE. Does it still start later? Yes, by 1610 there is an equal mix of them in Japanese and Arabic producing SAH between 3 and 4 Hz. Other reports indicated IWT continues past 1700 when NHK is finished with 17735, but for how long? Aoki, EiBi, and HFCC still haven`t caught up with Tunisia being on 17735 at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1605 monitoring: first broadcast confirmed Thursday Feb 23 at 2200 on WTWW 9479; but the next broadcast, 2230 on WBCQ 7490 was replaced by something else. Allan Weiner wrote us at 2202 that the time had been sold at the last minute, and he will let us know when he finds a new time for WOR on WBCQ (so far no word). Also confirmed after 0430 UT Friday Feb 24 on WWRB 3195. (BTW, WWRB is still gone from 5050). More WOR airings: UT Sunday 0500 on WTWW 5755; UT Monday 0330v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB. WRMI 9955 times: Saturday 0900, 1600, 1830, Sunday 0900, 1630, 1830, Monday 0600, 1230. Also on WRN via SiriusXM 120, Sat & Sun 1830, Sun 0930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list hard-core...@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 February 21, 2012
** ANGUILLA. 6090, Feb 21 at 0700, Caribbean Beacon is off, uncovering weak het from presumed Nigeria/Brasil; wish I had noticed this earlier. 11775 is on nominally at 1354 check with gospel music interlude (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11780, Feb 21 at 0644, RNA is on, good with Brazilian talk, reverb, crowd noise --- o, must be covering Carnaval in the nightmiddle, which might affect transmission hours of this, but end of DST Feb 26 should shift everything one real UT hour later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 530, Feb 21 at 0243, instead of R. Enciclopedia`s EZL music dominating the channel, it`s mixed with R. Rebelde // 670 et al. ICRT has gone and ruined what was a pleasant `clear channel` service to both sides of the Strait by putting on another transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GABON [non]. 9580, Feb 21 at 0643, no signal from ANU. Operation and/or sign-on time seem quite variable. 9575 Morocco is in. At 0711, there is a very weak signal on 9580. Per Aoki, Australia does not start until 0800, but PBS Xizang, Lhasa is on 9580 at 0200-0930 except this was Tuesday, its siesta-maintenance day, supposed to be off the air after 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. 15215, all set Feb 21 for the once-a-year special from Radio Öömrang, very strong carrier cuts on at 1600, and rocky start of modulation with some drops, opening in English mentioning news of Amrang on 21 Feb, prior to the burning-event (bonfire?) each year one hour later. Audio sounds like a lo-fi internet feed, impeding readability despite strong signal, as does the mixture of English and Frisian during the hour. Mostly Frisian, but shorter segments every few minutes in English. The accent in English does not help either. Never any music, one guy speaking both languages altho briefly thought I heard a different voice. Requires a DXer`s dedication to keep listening; they should have aggregated the English to one single longer portion. 1603 something about a Christmas celebration, back to Frisian. 1605 English about the burning; 1612 English again; 1618 mentions the new year, but did he say 2012? ``Free voice of the Frisian people``, schedule as on Jülich, 15230 kHz, 11 o`clock New York time, 16 UTzed, 17 MEzed, address with postal code 25946 but I can`t understand the rest of it. Since Jülich no longer exists and 15230 is the wrong frequency altho was used in 2009y, I suspect they are playing back a recording from long ago; either that, or they never found out that they are on 15215 via Wertachtal both this year and last. 1622 another brief English segment, mentioning February; 1629 English, greeting ``listeners all over the world, especially New York``. After this it sounds like High German, not Frisian. 1633 ID in English, with nonsensical mention (also heard something like this last year) of ``High 19 FM via Jülich, 15230 k-H-z``, times again as above, and address. They do not offer QSLs. Did anyone ever get one previous years? No further English breaks heard. At some point must have switched back to Frisian/Low German until the end. Mentioned Internet at 1658, but no closing ID or anything, NO ``Auf Wiederhören bis zum nächsten Jahr`` or however you spell that in Frisian. Modulation cut in mid-word at 1658:15 or so, carrier remained on, figured that was it, but 1659:40 modulation resumed with a bit of English, then carrier cut off at 1700* before completed announcement. No sign of KSDA CCI on 15215 at 1600-1630 that Ivo Ivanov warned us about, which is English aimed 285 from Guam to S Asia. Maybe a problem in Europe, especially the skip zone from Wertachtal? At 1629, in English he said ``my name is Janos(?) ---`` but not sure of that. The 3-year-old story at http://www.amrum-news.de/2009/02/18/radio-oomrang-geht-wieder-auf-sendungto/ shows the guy who was doing it then as Arjan Kölzow with his family e-mail address. Thanks to our advance publicity, this was widely heard by others: Al Muick, Whitehall PA says, ``Oeoemrang is coming in very strong right now at 1639 on 21 February on 15215 with a soft-spoken talk in Low German about a Commander and the Northsea. No interference and minimal fading. Lots of talk about weather. No music heard yet. I've just realized how poor my Frisian comprehension is.`` Noel R. Green says, ``Yes, it is a VERY strong signal at my location in NW England too, but going down a little by the end of transmission`` Wolfgang Büschel says: ``I guess the station is a non-verifier. Never heard widely that Radio Oeoemrang sent out QSLs. From 2011 broadcast: Mr. Arjan Koelzow Tanenwai 24 25946 Nebel (Amrum island) Germany which is the sponsor of this broadcast. Tel. +49 [0] 4682/2688, E-Mail `` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9525-, Feb 21 at 1335, very poor carrier, also just barely modulated, as usual from VOI during the English hour. And
Re: [HCDX] Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA
> CHINA China Radio Intl CRI Relay via Canada 11770 > 0038 GMT Chinese 333 Feb 6 YL and OM with comments. > Plus YL singing // 11975[444], 11980[333], 11640[333]via > China. MacKenzie-CA.. There is no such relay on 11770. CRI is listed in Vietnamese direct. Not on 11980 or 11640 either. I do hear some signals on 11770 and 11975. > GREECE Foni Tis Helladas 12105 0133 GMT Greek > 333 Feb 6 OM with comments. MacKenzie-CA.. As someone already informed you the last time you reported this, Greece has not been on this frequency for many years. WTWW is, and not in Greek. Glenn Hauser ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list hard-core...@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 February 6-7, 2012
** CHINA [and non]. 6145, Feb 7 at 1522, Chinese station has het on weaker 6144.0 where no modulation detectable. Perhaps additional jamming or Taiwan`s notorious off-frequenciness, as Aoki shows all these in the 15-16 hour on 6145: CNR8 in Kazakh from Lingshi PBS Qinghai from Xining in Chinese [except Tuesday, and x=off the air] RTI in Chinese from Paochung and of course, *jamming on RTI which was probably what I mainly heard on 6145, CNR1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA. QSL card for R. República test via Cariari, received Feb 6 for Jan 7 reception reported by e-mail to WRMI, v/s Jeff White, for 5954, 10 kW, 2309-2359 UT: http://www.w4uvh.net/CRepub2.jpg http://www.w4uvh.net/CRepub1.jpg Obverse illustrates a banana plantation in Cariari, Limón province, including three blue plastic bags to keep in the pesticides. USPS put a strip over the entire lettering across the bottom, but fortunately these peel off without damage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 13670, Feb 7 at 1434 and still at 1526, RHC missing from this scheduled morning frequency for at least the second day. Announcement at 1530 on 15230 still had the automaton claiming to be on 13670, twice, until 1600. Would it be too much trouble to turn on a receiver in the studio and find out what frequencies are really on the air? Of course! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 15160, Feb 7 at 1529, propeller noise, rather like narrow-band OTH radar, and stronger at 1534, no intelligent modulation at all. Presumably usual R. Cairo totally demented Uzbek service as scheduled, 250 kW, 50 degrees from Abu Zaabal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, Feb 7 at 1419, VOI poor signal is just barely modulated if at all during presumed Indonesian hour; suffers from splash de 9520 RVA in Tamil. Meanwhile, 9680 RRI domestic relay has good modulation and signal with music, Indonesian talk. 9526- still on at 1520 with better modulation and in slow Chinese instead of Indonesian hour as in Aoki, het from weaker 9525, presumably usual CRI English. Isihida shows VOI has been in Chinese during the 15 UT hour so far Feb 1-6, but seldom on air thruout (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. 15205, Feb 7 at 1436, no sign of R. Farda which was here 24 hours earlier, unlisted channel. Is audible on 15410, out-of-synch // 13680 during news/talk, and barely on 13615; 11750 has weak RHC but signs of a SAH beneath. Still no 15205 at 1528, so was it a mistake yesterday or a test? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 9325, Feb 7 at 1415 as I tune in, ``VOA`` jingle and Khmer, i.e. from Tinian; where is VOK? Maybe causing a slight SAH during Russian hour toward Europe. Slightly better but insufficient signal in French on the other side of WBCQ, 9335, which is aimed USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, Tuesday Feb 7 at 1355, Shiokaze from JSR Tokyo/Yamata, YL in Spe-cial Chi-nese, i.e. slowly spoken. WRTH 2012 page 505 shows Mandarin as their fourth language but without attempting to pin down any specific language rotation with Korean, Japanese, and English. It does say they require a US$10 MO donation for a QSL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MAURITANIA. 7245, Feb 7 at 0633 and still 0652, IGIM is missing again, along with VATICAN 7250 for big holes in the middle of the band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 88.1 et al., noisy spur from 93.3 K227AT Enid, Feb 6 around 2100 UT: whew, it`s gone 24 hours after infestation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 7325, Feb 7 at 1400, poor fluttery signal with gospel music, presumed Wantok Radio Light (note word order and spelling), in semi-hour hiatus of CRI blocking frequency. Break for talk from 1402 to 1409:10 when music resumed, 1413:50 talk. Too weak to copy any further details, and doubtful their log would show exact times of music/talk switches, the only significant details I can garner. BTW, Google shows ``garner`` has been used in DXLD only eight times in the past decade, some of them as proper names (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 9515, Feb 7 at 1428, RVA ID in English with jazz background, introducing next language at ``1430-1457 on 9515``, repeated. Could not understand what they said it would be, but Telugu listed. For some reason, they switch from to 9515 from 9520 used during previous semihour in Tamil (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11580, Tue Feb 7 at 1531, very strong `Inspirations Across America` again, but did not stay tuned for a panty-liner ad; evidently WWCR-4 is on here regularly weekdays at 15-17 tho not appearing on their schedules. 15825, Feb 7 at 1532, WWCR-1 is quite strong, must have sporadic-E assistance, so I check for the plus/minus 15.6 kHz spurs. They are just barely detectable with BFO around
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 5-6, 2012
** CANADA. 15034-USB, Feb 6 at 1446:40, ID twice for Trenton Military, time as 1450Z! and flight weather for Calgary, Cold Lake, etc. I hope CHR`s other figures are more accurate than the time. Sounds like real human being and I wonder how automated this be (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Today`s RHC anomaly: 13670, Feb 6 at 1434 is missing, and also after 1500, so no het upon CRI Sackville 13675 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 11700, Feb 6 at 1430, poor signal with NA, 1431 Qur`an, i.e. VIRI`s Hindi service via Kamalabad; no longer any concern about colliding with Bulgaria, which had been scheduled 14-15 (Glenn Hasuer, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. 15205, Feb 6 at 1453, good reception with great Persian pop music, occasional Farda mentions, 1500 4-pip timesignal about a semisecond late, and YL talk, presumed news. New frequency? Not noticed here before. Yes, not even in latest HFCC, so what`s the site? Uplooked later, EiBi shows Farda scheduled before and after 1500 on: 11750 Biblis, 13615 Lampertheim, 13680 Wertachtal, 15410 Woofferton, so maybe one of those has moved, and in a few weeks IBB will get around to telling HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 6055, Feb 6 at 1413, R. Nikkei`s eclectic music mix today presents: electronic music with stream-train sound effects; 1420 adding some vocal. Fair signal, also audible on // 9595 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MAURITANIA. 7245, Feb 6 at 0649, IGIM is on in Arabic, unlike 24 hours earlier. You never know when or if they will flip on this transmitter. See also VATICAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 87.7-88.1, Feb 5 around 21 UT I notice awful noise infesting this area of the FM band, crackling, occasional chirps, no recognizable modulation. Also audible on open spots further up. 87.9 and 88.1 are where I normally run RF feeders for convenient listening to internet or SW programming on other FM receivers. The signals have some dead spots as I walk around the property but no change in overall level. So I get in the car and drive in various direxions to get an idea of the source: Peaks in downtown Enid, obviously coming from the multi-station transmitter site Broadway Tower. Furthermore, everywhere I hear the same crackling underneath the 93.3 translator of KIMY 93.9 Watonga, K227AT, which is on the Bway Tower; therefore that is the out-of-whack source. At weaker areas the peak of the spurs seems to be 88.1, so this might have something to do with mixing from another translator at same location, 98.5 K253BC, of KLVV 88.7, altho by itself sounds OK: 5.2 MHz separations. Next day around 1530 UT still some of it but not so strong, and still audible on 93.3 itself. This POS has acted up before in different ways (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 11790, Feb 6 at 1543, fair signal with ME?-sounding music, but 1546 announcement is sorta Indonesian. That fits for the only thing listed, FEBC, 100 kW, 200 degrees from Bocaue in Banjar, 1530-1600 daily (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7465, Feb 6 just as I tune in at 0653, song in English cuts off the air; was only fair signal. Over-registered on 7465 is WHRI, 05-06 daily, 06-07 M-F, 07-10 daily, all at 47 degrees to E Canada and W Europe, but activated for only a fraxion of that; WWCR also uses 7465 at other dayparts and might have tested it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11580, Feb 6 at 1510, extremely strong signal with black gospel music, sounds like `Inspirations Across America`, which is on WWCR 15825 during the previous hour weekdays. 1516 program ID as such and panty-liner ad; have they no shame? So WWCR-4 is again running this frequency during otherwise hiatus until 1700 weekdays. At split-second pauses in frantic loud programming could detect crosstalk still infesting this transmitter from another WWCR or WNQM service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 13570, Feb 6 at 1506, ``Monday, Monday`` by Mamas & Papas playing vs CODAR, one of my favorite songs; 1508 Larry London outroing it on VOA`s `Border Crossings`. Fortunately, 13570 is not in use by WINB weekday mornings, tho they are entitled to it, and `BC` is weekdays only. Site is Lampertheim, GERMANY, 100 kW, 108 degrees. We don`t have any really good frequencies for it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN [and non]. 7250, Feb 6 at 0649, VR is missing, when Latin/Eurolang mass is normally airing, so no ACI to Mauritania 7245. Not due to propagation, since Vatican still heard on weaker 7360 in English to Africa; and TWR 7225 via AUSTRIA was inbooming, during the M-F 0644-0659 Polish, 100 kW at 300 degrees USward rather than Polandward. So what became of VR? Absences are just as important as appearances, but some editors will pass over a non-log like this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ---[S
[HCDX] Please QSL Greenville direct
** U S A. VOA Greenville recently offered to QSL direct with its own card. Lots of reception reports, especially from abroad, should help encourage the powers that be in Washington that this shortwave site is still being listened to and worth keeping on the air. Its closedown has already been postponed more than once. You can find the current Greenville-B frequencies here: http://hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A11&broadc=IBB Repeating the QSLing details, which shows the curtain antennas: Reports are to be sent to: Voice of America Transmitting Station 3913 VOA Site "B" Road Grimesland, North Carolina 27837-8977 USA No return postage needed (Glenn Hauser, Nov 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list hard-core...@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 29-30, 2011
Stewart MacKenzie: Please stop forwarding my reports to other individuals and lists, especially those where I have already posted them directly. ** AFGHANISTAN [and non]. 7200, another try for R. Afghanistan`s new frequency Nov 30 at 1528: only a JBA carrier, maybe this, under QRhaM this time from W4RNZ = PRICE, CARL E, CARTERSVILLE, GA 30120, working a K5 on LSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA. 6155, Nov 30 at 0641 baroque music from Ö1, back-announced as from 1600y, ``Die Hexe``, 7:43 live timecheck in Austro-German. Kudos for including classical music in this remnant of SW service from Austria, 0600-0715 only. The only other broadcast is 0900-0935 on 17630 and/or 18910, unlikely to be heard here. Altho labeled as B-11, Aoki at 6155 still lists English and French news at 0710-0714 weekdays, which really stopped sometime in A-11, unfortunately, tho it was only token, mostly foreign headlines and very brief weather intended for domestic consumption. That demographic is now better served by a fulltime non-ORF, non-SW station; see http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/new-english-language-radio-station-opens-in-vienna WTFK? ``Danube International Radio (DIR) is initially being launched online with an official opening planned for 2012 after they obtain an FM licence.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake Nov 30, before 0700: 15900, fair at 0649; no others 12-19 MHz Before 1500: 9200, JBA at 1427 No others found up to 20 MHz by 1444 After 1500: 13785, poor at 1522, with ACI de CUBA, and some CCI. A reminder that we must not search for FD only in the OOB or WOOB [way-out-of-band] ranges. Aoki explains: VOA Uzbek via Kuwait at 1500-1530 is jammed, altho CNR1 might be the usual audio? Aoki adds that VOA was off the air on a Sunday and Thursday. (And the only other occupant of 13785 is Sirjan, Iran in English from 1530) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 9955, Nov 30 at 0630, R. Praga noticias via WRMI fair signal and NO jamming, unlike 48 hours earlier. 6125 undermodulated // 6060, 6050, 6010, RHC UT Wed Nov 30 at 0644-0645 Arnie wrapping up the mitweek edition of `DXers Unlimited`, so now at one dekaminute, must have started at 0635 instead of 0630 previously; varies. 6125, once again Nov 30 at 0706, RHC is still on the air on this frequency only, in unscheduled Spanish, sports segment starting as I QRT; for how long? Latest incompetent DentroCuban Jamming Command observations: 15590, Nov 30 at 1438, pulse jamming still going here after VOA 1400* 15330, Nov 30 at 1440, R. Martí very strong with no jamming detectable, altho RHC also strong on 15380 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. 9805, Nov 30 at 0628 I tuned in early enough to check whether RFI is in Hausa or English on the // frequency 7220 which has been in English instead of Hausa recently: no, 9805 is fair in non-English, sounds like Hausa, and concludes at 0630* sharp after jingle and ``RFI`` ID in French; while 7220 was playing musique as strike filler. So the wrong language on 7220 apparently has nothing to do with the strike, Hausa continuing on the other one. Current complete schedule of RFI Hausa per HFCC is: 0600-0630 7220 9805 0700-0730 11830 13685 15315 1600-1700 17615 So the Hausa service is not on strike at the moment. Andy Sennitt says that programming is axually produced in Lagos, not Paris. I`m not likely to hear the 0700 broadcast, but at 1620 Nov 30, I can hear 17615, and it is in non-French, non-English, presumably Hausa. I have a very hard time recognizing Hausa for sure, despite its nomenclatural affinity to yours truly, just ``African tonal language``. We need some key words often heard on SW to recognize, such as ``this is``, ``news``, ``republic``, ``president``, etc. No Hausa (yet?) on Google Translate. Consulting RFI`s Hausa page, http://www.hausa.rfi.fr/ we see that Hausa is written without any tonal diacritix, which must make it that much harder to learn, unlike Vietnamese; in the lower right corner there is a list of RFI languages linked as expressed in Hausa, ending with what passes for vietnamien: Harsunan kasashen ketare Inglishi Larabci Kambodiyanci Sinanci Faransanci Espaniyanci Parisanci Portuganci Rashenci Batenamisanci (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. When we`re up as late as 0700, we hear various NK frequencies opening, even on the lower bands propagating now in winter at 1600 local time, such as 7220. (Is 2850 still active? Mikhail Timofeyev in Russia wonders, and so do I, not heard lately before sunrise, but it fights a high local noise level here and there.) 6600, already at 0639 Nov 30, weak Korean is audible, without jamming, which means it`s clandestine V. of the People, from the South. Then I check // 6518 and it seems to be cutting on the air right then. Recheck at 0655, now both are noise jammed
Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Cuadro de frecuencias de RHC
Compare to http://www.radiohc.cu/de-interes/frecuencias.html which is not necessarily any more accurate, but --- This has several obvious(?) errors in it, including::: --- On Fri, 11/18/11, Jose Bueno wrote: RADIO HABANA CUBA. HORARIOS, BANDAS Y FRECUENCIAS NOVIEMBRE 2011 – MARZO 2012 TRANSMISIONES EN ESPAÑOL ZONAS GEOGRAFICAS FRECUENCIA UTC HORARIOS América Central 9540Khz / 31 m 12 – 16/22-06 UTC 9810 has been monitored and on the webpage as used 22-06, not 9540! Río Janeiro 9540Khz / 31 m 24 – 05 UTC Change or another 9540 mistake? SAm at 00-05 shown as 9740 on websked. Antillas 11690 Khz / 25 m 12– 16 UTC Sometimes, sometimes not. Nothing on 11690 after 1400 Nov 18. Banda Tropical 5040 Khz/60m 21 – 23 y 01- 05 They forgot to shift the Spanish times for 5040: 22-24 and 02-05, obviously necessary to fit in the English, Creole and French diversions down the page at 00-02. 73, Glenn Hauser ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list hard-core...@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] Glenn Hauser logs October 26-27, 2011 date correxions
Two items had the wrong date, Oct 26, really Oct 27. My apologies; must restrain myself from haste and proofread more. gh ** CHINA. The ionosphere still hasn`t recovered from the geomag storm 2-3 days ago. Firedrake chex Oct 27, before 1200: 10300, JBA at 1153. Did not to a complete search at this time Before 1300: none audible 10-17 MHz around 1255-1300 Before 1400: 7970, poor at 1353 10300, fair at 1353 11500, good at 1345; none in the 12s 13850, good at 1355 but ACI from 13845 WWCR 13920, very poor at 1355 with fax QRM, Australia? None in the 14s 15440, fair at 1356 with noise; still on at 1404 plus CCI 15545, good at 1356; het on hi side 15970, very good at 1356 16100, very good at 1358 16980, very good at 1358; none in the 17s, 18s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5000, Oct 27 at 1145, JBA carrier from presumed WWV or WWVH. This is extremely unusual, neither of them audible on 5 MHz. Fortunately, 2500 still bore WWV. Further, lower-latitude signals remained such as 4055 Guatemala and 5025 Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list hard-core...@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 October 24, 2011
** ALBANIA. 9590, Oct 24 at 0525, Chinese song // 9515, so both must be CRI Arabic service via Cërrik relay: yes, 9515 is 240 degrees, 9590 is 140 degrees. Long song almost sounded like Jesus rock, but surely not, finally ending by 0534, into Arabic ID and talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. Drita Çiço explains that the new curtailed R. Tirana schedule for Oct 21-29 did not go into effect after all, so the cuts are not expected to happen until Oct 30 with B-11 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 24, after 1230: 10300, poor at 1233 11500, fair at 1233, making fast SAH with open carrier from Tajikistan 12230, good at 1234 12600, very poor at 1235 13130, good at 1235 13970, good at 1235; none in the 14s, 15s or 16s Before 1400: 18200, very poor at 1348 16100, very poor at 1358; none in the 17s 15545, good at 1358 14700, very good at 1359 13970, very good at 1359 12230, very good at 1359 10300, fair at 1359; none in the 11s, 7s Before 1500, a time I don`t often check, found some unusual ones: 11550, good at 1442 making heavy clash with WEWN Spanish, its only good transmitter, Commies vs Catholix! 12670, very good at 1444; Sound of Hope must be adventurous today 13680, very good at 1446, over RHC, Commies vs Commies! 13970, very good at 1446; none in the 14s 18200, good at 1454; none in the 15s, 16s, 17s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. 23860, Oct 24 at 1456, my harmonic search pays off, with music // 11930, i.e. R. Martí, Greenville! Peaks S9+3 and no jamming audible, so DentroCubans should hunt for clear RM on this and other harmonix. Then looked for others, 27640 (2 x 13820) but not heard there amid freebanders tending to be on -5 frequencies; nor on 23690 (2 x 11845). From B-11, 15330 will be back in use at 14-20, and that should be a good target on 30660, which I vaguely recall hearing in years past. But there`s more: R. Martí is now on 9955, i.e. via WRMI! I kept listening to 23960 and heard it announced at 1500 to tune for RM on new 9955 at 6-7 pm and 11-12 pm. Is this a trial run? Those Eastern times knock out numerous DX program repeats, including WORLD OF RADIO at 0330 UT Thursdays. This week, with both Cuba and USA on DST, that means 22-23 and 03-04 UT; is it daily? Next week, From Oct 30 Cuba goes off DST a week earlier than USA, so what then? Will WRMI change times to keep up with Cuba, or wait another week to shift everything one UT hour later, i.e. RM relay at 23-24 and 04-05?? Nothing yet about this on WRMI website. Jeff White explains that at 22-23 UT it`s a rebroadcast of `Cuba al Día` originally airing on RM at 19-20 UT M-F, and will stay at 22-23 UT thru the first week of November; while the ``11 pm`` portion may not start until after DST is over. I say: WRMI has now made the big time in exile programming, and Cuba conveniently already has jammers set up for 9955 at many other times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. 15330, Oct 24 at 1448, novelty song in German. It`s less than a week before Deutsche Welle self-destructs, eliminating all German SW broadcasts, as that language will greatly decline in world presence, leaving only some English and certain strategic Afro-Asian tongues from DW. Later at 1454 found // 17840 in more music. 15330 is 300 kW, 107 degrees from Woofferton UK at 14-15 only. 17840 is 250 kW, 80 degrees from Sines, PORTUGAL at 14-15 only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 15630, Monday Oct 24 at 1449, Greek music, fair signal but somewhat undermodulated, so VOG is back on, starting at 1400 now? Exact curtailed schedule still not determined. Also, John Babbis notes: ``VOICE OF GREECE OFF ON SUNDAY 2000-0300 UT? Voice of Greece seems to have laid off the Sunday night shift due to austerity. On Sunday, October 23, 7450, 7475, 9420, 15630, and 15650 were silent when I monitored from 2000 to 0200 UT. The same thing happened on Sunday, October 2 and 9; and only 9420 was working on Sunday, October 16 from 2000 to 0200 UT`` Those are the only hours he normally monitors, so VOG may well be off the rest of Sundays earlier. However, Alokesh Gupta has just obtained the VOG B-11 schedule: ``Note: Due to impending crisis, ERT decided to restrict HF broadcast hours. The broadcast hours temporarily will be 1600 to 0400 GMT.`` with no mention of any difference on Sundays. Rounded times ignoring 10-minute-early closings for refrequencing: ERA-5: 16-04 9420; 16-18 15630, 18-23 15650, 23-02 15630, 23-04 7475, 02-04 7450. ERT-3, Macedonian Station: 16-18 9935, 18-23 7450. With a self-contradictory separate schedule as 1600-1650 9935, 1600-2250 7450, while in the combined schedule it looks like there would be no overlap but a 10-minute QSY at 1750. Note: the Mac frequencies have recently been reported // Athens with no separate programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9525-, VOI still missing at
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 18, 2011
** ALBANIA. 13625, Oct 18 at 1451, R. Tirana is there but too far below the local noise level. This will soon become one of only two English broadcasts, as R. Tirana can`t wait until Oct 30 seasonal changes to reduce its schedule. Like Harold Camping, Oct 21 is doomsday, with a new schedule for Oct 21-29 only showing English at 1430-1500 on 13625 to NAm, and 2000-2030 on 7465 only for Eu. All others including the four evening broadcasts to NAm, 0030 on 9860, 0145, 0230 and 0330 on 7425 will be gone. So we have only two more nights to hear those. Therefore, in B-11 the planned 0330 transmission will not happen either. The only English from Oct 30 will be, Mon-Sat: 1530-1600 on 13640 NAm, 2100-2130 on 7530 Eu The only Albanian left on SW will be daily: 0800-1000 on 7390 Eu, -0100 on 7425 NAm (one hour earlier Oct 21-29) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. 15476, Oct 18 is a Tuesday, so a chance LRA36 will make an appearance as per previous Tue/Thu operational info. Nothing detectable at 1233, 1247-1253, 1315; but at 1327 a JBA carrier is there, may have just come on. I lose it by 1334. LRA36 seems to remain severely hindered for some reason. Earlier span was 1230-1500 UT. Maybe it will stay on longer this Thursday, Oct 20 which is its 32nd anniversary! According to an item in the October news bulletin from Marambio, the primary Argentine base in Antarctica, accessible via http://www.marambio.aq --- tnx to Bill Westenhaver of RCI for forwarding that. Note the special domain .aq which is reserved for organizations working in Antarctica; but using .aq detracts from Argentine claims of sovereignty over a sector of Antarctica, which surely should also be just a part of .ar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. 7300, Oct 18 at 0523, ME/SW Asian music aside much stronger talk from Algeria via FRANCE 7295. Uplooked later, it`s R. Bulgaria in Turkish 0500-0530, 170 kW, 126 degrees from Plovdiv. After 0530 replaced by DRM noise from Galbeni, Romania 7300-7310 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 18, before 1300: 17545, JBA at 1237 underneath CNR1 and noise jamming against unknown target. I can detect // music to 12230, more so at 1255 15900, good at 1235; none in the 16s, 18s 14950, good at 1240 13130, fair at 1241; none in the 11s, 10s 12230, very good at 1237 7970, good at 1245; none in the 9s, 8s Before 1400: 14700, very good at 1348 with flutter; none higher 13130, very good at 1349 10300, very good at 1350 7970, good at 1351 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CYPRUS. 17818-17843, Oct 18 at 1346, OTH radar pulses presumed from here, mainly damaging 17820 DW in Hausa via Portugal. 24852-24880, Oct 18 at 1354 more OTH radar pulses, damaging nothing and pointedly avoiding the 12m hamband starting at 24890. No more ranges at this time, 22-27 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9525-, no `Exotic Indonesia` from Banjarmasin this Tuesday, as there is no VOI signal at all, checked at 1249 and again at 1315 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, Oct 18 at 1402, Shiokaze via JSR Tokyo now audible for the second half of its expanded one-hour broadcast; in Japanese this Tuesday. It`s about time for another frequency jump, maybe back to 6135? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA [and non]. 5965v, Oct 18 at 1403, het tnx to RTM always off-frequency to the low side, and some talk, maybe Malay if from them rather than the 5965.0 station which is per Aoki CRI Korean via Xi`an (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Pre-sunrise MW DX Oct 18, UT, with Cantú, IRCA lookups: 730, Oct 18 at 1230 UT, Radio Viva Villa singing ID, into song, dominating frequency for a while: 730 XEHB Radio Viva Villa Hidalgo del Parral, Chih. 50,000 1,000 730 XEHB Chih San Francisco del Oro 1000 300 Radio Viva Vida/Villa? 1300-0100 RAN CORP/RAMA, ex-770 Grupo Radiofónico Zer Note contradictory info. The IRCA listing from 2010y was when the slogan was unsure. But surely is 50 kW now with big signal. The two towns are near each other at the southern border of Chihuahua state. 770, Oct 18 at 1228 UT, gobierno federal PSA lauding the president`s accomplishments; modulation a bit distorted. 1229 heard Los 40 Principales mentioned, and then a full ID for XEACH, 25000 watts, Monterrey NL. Therefore a mixture of these two: 770 XEACH Radio Fórmula Primer Cadena Monterrey, N.L. 25,000 1,000 770 XEACH NL Monterrey 5000 200 Radio Fórmula 7-70 1200-0600 NWS/TLK ORF/RAMA and 770 XEREV Los 40 Principales + FM 104.3 Los Mochis, Sin. 5,000 100 770 XEREV Sin Los Mochis 5000 100 Los 40 Principales 24h MEX PM ex-XEJJR 830, Oct 18 at 1226 UT, Spanish atop WCCO, mentions ``vamos a Ciudad Acuña, y Torreón``, implying it`s the Coahuilan, but not 100%: 830 XEIK La Norteñita Piedras Negras, Coah. 5,000 D 830 XEIK Coah Piedras Negras 5000 -5000 La Norteñita, 8-30 AM 1200-0600
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 15, 2011
** ALBANIA. 13625, Monday Aug 15 at 1430, R. Tirana still missing, one transmitter down all month (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake August 15, before 1300, generally poor conditions: 10300, very good at 1237 12980, good at 1241 13920, fair at 1243 14700, very poor at 1243; none higher After 1330: 15280, poor at 1341; none higher up to 19 MHz 14950, good at 1342 13920, fair at 1342 12270, good at 1342 12025, very poor at 1342 under CNR1 jammer; none lower Before 1430: 15720, very poor at 1424. Nothing in Aoki, EiBi or HFCC to account for this, so probably Sound of Hope or maybe Voice of Tibet landed here 15280, fair at 1427, also with grind jammer; no others (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBYA. 17725, Aug 15 at 1428, no signal. Chris Greenway pointed out that fighting was getting near to the Sabrata shortwave site yesterday; but V. of Africa has been quite sporadic anyway. Wolfgang Büschel says Sabrata is 38 km from Al Zawiyah, but 17725 had been on and off earlier Aug 15, 1313-1316*, *1318- (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 88.1, UT Monday August 15 at 0515, Harry Shearer`s `Le Show` is in progress via KWOU Woodward, interview about Pfizer avoiding taxes. That makes a semi-convenient time for us to hear it on the KGOU network, 0500 UT Mondays. I see on their schedule they also have `Joe Frank` 24 hours earlier at 0500 UT Sundays, before going to BBC overnight relays at 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7520, Aug 15 at 0159*, WWCR-1 QSY announcement to 3215, which did come up within a minute, instead of 7465 where they were by mistake(?) the night before. 9980, Aug 15 at 1419, WWCR-4 with Brother Scare, extremely strong, and clearly audible in the background other audio which we found // 13845 WWCR-3. WWCR fails to isolate one transmitter/antenna from another sufficiently, a longstanding defect. Or the mix could be getting into the audio chain before transmission. 15825, August 15 at 1423, WWCR-1 is extremely strong too, must be aided by sporadic E not reaching VHF, with squeal as bad as ever on this transmitter, splashing out to 15810 and 15840, where the much weaker but detectable spurs are with same modulation; and furthermore once again putting wideband modulation spikes roughly covering 15620-15710, and a weaker range from 15500 to 15560, QRMing numerous other stations in these ranges. Longstanding problems that WWCR has failed to solve (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list hard-core...@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] [dxld] 4755.463 Micronesia
That would be too late for Brasil. And: 4755.4 MICRONESIA. The Cross, 1325 Aug 11. Christian songs, 1332 woman with ID, songs continued and were noted on several checks till 1430, when signal had almost faded out. Fair. (Sellers-BC) --- On Fri, 8/12/11, Wolfgang Bueschel wrote: > UNID 4755.463 probably FSM The Cross R, Pacific > Missionary ? Is that sce on > air at present? Modern pop music at 1240 UT. But could be a > Brazilian stn > instead? Aug 12. > (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 12) ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list hard-core...@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 May 26-27, 2011
** ANTARCTICA [and non]. 15476, LRA36, Friday May 27 did not tune in until 1247 but no signal, just China on 15480, so proceeded to scan for Firedrake [see CHINA], which takes a good 10 minutes before most of them cut off at hourtop. Recheck at 1258, 15476 is now on at S8-S9+5 with talk, 1300 music with a beat, but just too weak. At 1316 XYL talk has improved to S9-S9+10 but cuts off at 1320* and not heard any more, such as at 1346 or after 1400. While I was listening with BFO on 15475 for LRA36 to turn back on, at 1329 there may have been a couple of fitful attempts to do so, after some utility QRM heard at 1327 consisting of three beeps and a Bronx cheer, twice in a row, exact frequency undetermined. If you want to go where it should be easy to hear LRA36, try its antipodes, 63 north/123 east, west of Yakutsk in the middle of Siberia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake May 27: 16980, JBA, flutter at 1252 16100, good at 1252 15545, poor at 1253 15540, very poor, heavy flutter at 1336, 1347; this one jumping around after V. of Tibet stays on, also heard shortly after 1300 15430, very poor at 1336, 1347 14950, very good at 1254 14900, good at 1253; good but heavy flutter at 1338, 1449 14700, good at 1253; none in the 13s at this time 13850, poor at 1447 with ACI de 13845 WWCR; not heard earlier 12600, good at 1255 10970, very good at 1256, none lower; good at 1341, none in the 13s, 12s or 11s at this time; fair at 1451 // 14900 WWV says: ``Solar-terrestrial indices for 26 May follow. Solar flux 83 and mid-latitude A-index 9. The mid-latitude K-index at 1200 UTC on 27 May was 2 (8 nT). The mid-latitude K-index at 1500 UTC on 27 May was 2 (18 nT). No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours. No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours.`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM [and non]. 9560, May 27 at 1359 after RA is off, open carrier with persistent het from always off-frequency Ethiopia, 1400 AWR theme music, very poor, language? Listed as Chinese from KSDA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUINEA. 7125, May 27 at 0549, RTG poor with music and SSB QRhaM, on the air for a change this early, while 7245, Mauritania was not. Poor propagation now, with little from Europe, and even 7275 Tunisia weak (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MAURITANIA. 7245, R. Mauritanie, which reactivated May 26, missing again May 27 at 0550, or maybe not supposed to be on that early, but still absent at 0601, 0607 vs. weakened Portugal 7240. Not on 4845 either. However, when I awoke briefly at 0725, 7245 bore a sufficient signal talking in non-Arabic, (or a severely different dialect), much stronger than 7240 Portugal which was still on and audible. Only other listed possibility is Yakutsk, but I think not under current conditions (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 55.25 MHz, May 26 around 1730 UT, the sporadic-E MUF is poking up into VHF TV, signs of analog video from the south; 1750 some Spanish audio, and at this time there is NO Es showing on the 6m map! At 1753 I see the `Vale` bug in lower right, the V like a check mark. Axually, the show is `Se Vale`, on network 2, M-F at `noon`: http://www.televisa.com/programas/entretenimiento/079443/se-vale But nothing further developed in TVDX that afternoon when I could monitor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES [and non]. 15620, May 27 at 1453, something in Indonesian atop CCI with SAH, seems Russian; 1454 mentioned SMS. 1511 still CCI but now one is preaching in English, also with slush from defective 15610 WEWN transmitter. HFCC, Aoki and EiBi agree that the Indonesian is FEBC, Bocaue, 100 kW, 200 degrees at 1400-1530; the Russian is DW via Kigali, RWANDA, 250 kW, switching from 30 to 15 degrees between 1457 and 1500; but nothing scheduled in English, perhaps an aberration from FEBC, for consecutive translation? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENINGN DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES [non]. 15260, fair May 27 at 1431, presumed Urdu talk mentioning Pakistan, ``recording engineer``, impossible to express that in Urdu? Fair signal. This is the new frequency since May 15 of R. Veritas Asia, via VATICAN, 70 degrees back to Pak (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWEDEN. I want to get this report dispatched before 1800, but the R. Nord Revival says it will be on 9940 at 18-20 UT May 27. Latest details: http://radionordrevival.blogspot.com/2011/05/frequency-schedule-for-radio-nord.html ``Radio Nord now (1715 UT) audible with fair signal on 7485 (not 7385 as their blog said this morning). Audible in AM + lsb (not usb). Clear channel here now RFE Tajik has signed off. --- Alan Pennington, Caversham, UK, AOR 7030+ longwire``, to DXLD yg. Note that this revival has been scheduled at the worst possible time for propagation: SWPC predicts K indices reaching 4, solar flux at the lowest of 80-85 during these three days (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 14-15, 2011
** ANGUILLA. 6090, April 15 at 1008 UT, DGS is still pontificating past nominal 1000 switch to day frequency 11775, and even at 1019, but gone at next check 1031; by 1046, 11775 was on air with successor PMS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. 15476, after LRA36`s official reactivation yesterday, I am listening again April 15 from 1229, with vocal music already in progress. After a pause, 1232 sign-on by YL, program `Amanecer Austral` (southern dawn), then talk mixed with same happy theme song heard yesterday, ``Soy Feliz``. 1242, LRA36 ID in passing with music. Signal is a bit better than April 14, reading S9 to peaks of S9+10. 4-kHz het from 15480 is also stronger so helps to side-tune-down a bit. Still good with mostly music at 1305, 1329 chex, but by 1358 has declined to JBA, S4-9 at best. Perhaps peak reception area has shifted to west coast as Ron Howard was getting it after 1408 yesterday but weaker and weaker. The April 14 audio clip I linked in previous report via Roberto Scaglione, he says was made ``in Argentina by our contributor Marcello Caneva``, and must have started around 1230. Listening to that http://www.bclnews.it/110414-15476-1230z.mp3 there is a lot of spoken info. The three women announcing ``en la producción y conducción`` are Lidia Guzmán, Mónica García [the 41-year-old nurse], and Vanesa ---. Their husbands are involved in base support., etc. They agree they are at 63 degrees south, and the schedule after this `first broadcast` is M-F 9:30-12 [1230-1500 UT]. Also mentioned names of several other people involved including: Dirección, Teniente Coronel Guillermo Bolger(?); Coordinación General de la Radio, Teniente Coronel Pablo González. Phone 0810-222-0760 (or 0770?), and added 02-16, as extension? Totally different from the one in WRTH 2011. E-mail LRA36 @ infovia.com.ar which is the address I have used twice recently without any reply. Clarifying the phone number above, Horacio A. Nigro in Uruguay says: According to http://www.marambio.aq/radioarcangelsangabriel.html the phone nr. is 0810-222-0770. There appears another email address: lra36espera...@yahoo.com.ar I`m afraid much of the info on that page should be considered historical rather than current. I wonder how much power they are using now, what kind of antenna and direxionality? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 6060, April 15 at 1024, Andean music, very weak compared to Nikkei 6055 adjacent. Then talk on 6060 also sounds like Japanese. 1030 timesignal and continues talk in Japanese. Thought it might be from Asia, until consulted Aoki, not HFCC, reminding us that RAE does do Japanese here at 10-11. I wonder how well that makes it to Japan, considering the competition; see also JAPAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 6020, April 15 at 0944, heavy collision between R. Australia, and RNW in Dutch via BONAIRE, at 0930-1000, reduced weekends to only -0957. I am rather amazed that several stations choose to collide with RA on 6020 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11780, RNA, April 14 at 2354 as I tuned across was finishing a promo about inaugurating a new 50 kW MW transmitter at 7 am local on April 18 for RNB, then ID for this as ``Rádio Nacional Amazônia, Brasília, uma emissora EBC – Empresa Brasil de Comunicação``. If a frequency was mentioned for the new 50 kW, I missed it. Don`t see anything about it on website http://www.ebc.com.br/ but may refer to RNB 800 kHz, as the Amazon MW frequency 980 has a 250 kW transmitter run at somewhat lower power, and 50 kW would hardly be anything to brag about there. However, WRTH 2011 shows 800 as Rádio MEC with 10/1 kW in Brasília and 100 kW no Rio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11855, April 15 at 0957 ``Aparecida`` ID in passing, with usual low het we also hear in other dayparts since this station is always off-frequency. I suppose the competition was WYFR in Spanish, so lucky to have surpassed it; also on 11855 for long hours is Saudi Arabia. 11765 SRDA was in better, but who wants to listen to David Miranda wail? Besides himself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Lots of watts wasted with open carriers during my April 15 monitoring, including 9625 with hum, CBCNQ transmitter still on the air at 0509 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CUBA [non] Martí; RUSSIA; USA: WBCQ; UNIDENTIFIED 17730 ** CHINA. Firedrake April 15: 15900, good at 1245 10300, good at 1250 10970, fair at 1250 No others found between 19 and 8 MHz. 15900 reception strength and fading was very much like CRI English on 17490, Chinese on 17650 before 1300, making me suspect the same site for this Firedrake, i.e. Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA [and non]. 5954.2, April 15 at 0942, R. República surprisingly good in Spanish with only lite pulse jamming under, while heavy
Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 7, 2011
A few updates, additions, correxions: ** ANTARCTICA. They had damage to antenna, now solved. Today on the air only in FM for trouble to shortwave transmitter. They hope to solve in few hours (Roberto Scaglione, Sicily, 1532 UT April 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. In previous report I wrote DST started April 4; should have read April 3 (Sunday) (gh) ** OKLAHOMA. There is NOTHING about the extra DTV channel to be found on their website http://www.news9.com/ not even by searching on News9 N (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list hard-core...@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 February 9, 2011
** BURMA [non]. 7245, Feb 9 at 1334 kid and adult conversing in Burmese, i.e. RFA, 250 kW, 278 degrees via TINIAN at 1230-1400, at first atop QRhaM SSB, but then stronger signals from a net including W5EAK, not to be construed as `weak`, Rex King who wears a beard and an oxygen tube: http://www.qrz.com/db/W5EAK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 3280, amid all the Koreans [q.v.], Feb 9 at 1324, poor signal with M&W in a Chinese, so presumably V. of Pujiang, 15 kW, 182 degrees from Shanghai, per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA. 5936+, at 0644 Feb 9, bothersome het upon WWCR`s Dead Gene Scott 5935, i.e. the spur from R. República, 5954.24v via ELCOR, Guápiles, which itself was buried in DentroCuban jamming. Seldom can make out any audio on the spur, but previously traced to that, and a match on the hi side which has nothing to het (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 1620, Feb 9 at 0652, music // 5025, so R. Rebelde, making fast SAH with US stations. BTW, I recently referred to WTAW as being in Waco while it`s really nearby College Station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15120, RHC noted several times off the air well before scheduled 1500*; Feb 9 it`s gone already at 1404, but was on a few minutes earlier, so I figure it`s really closing at 1400. No, next tuneby at 1440, 15120 is back on, still at 1454 until 1456 cut to open carrier, 1457* off; while all the other frequencies now continue to 1600, then siesta time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CZECHIA [non]. 9955, WRMI relay of Radio Prague in French continues weekdays at 1430, heard opening on Feb 9; altho this language not mentioned in Jeff White`s press release about continuing Prague on SW in Spanish and English, it remains on the schedule for the time being. Pulse jamming disrupts, after YL preacher in English until 1430. 1455 check, 9955 is playing steel drums, unlike WWCR, so Prague must have come up short (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. 5925, Feb 9 at 0643, song in English, ``Standing in the Corner``, so what`s this? Not ``on the corner``. RFI in French, daily 06-07, 500 kW, 204 degrees via Issoudun. Later I hear from Mike Cooper: ``Another strike at RFI, on Wednesday and Thursday until 0600 UT. English-language broadcasts at 12 and 14 ran as usual, but 17 [or 16?] was replaced by RFI Musique`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUINEA. 7125, Feb 9 at 0628, S9+12 signal with undermodulated West-African sounding vocal and instrumental music, initially with SSB QRhaM in Spanish, precisely with this as BFO. Must be RTG reactivated after several months and they still haven`t organized a new frequency outside the hamband in the meantime! Still there at 0704, poor signal with vocal music; and het on the hi side, perhaps a hamjammer. Go get `em, Intruder-Busters! Perhaps someone could helpfully suggest a proper new 7 MHz band SWBC frequency for Guinea that would be clear at least 18 hours a day? Good luck. I often tuned past 7125 just in case, but first to report this was Jari Savolainen, Finland Feb 6 at 1755. Also heard a bit after my log by Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, SP, Brasil until abruptly off at 0855* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HONDURAS. 3340-, Feb 9 at 0649, just barely modulated music on signal almost as strong as CHU 3330. HRMI often stays on late, but don`t they realize their modulation is shot? Slightly on low side compared to 1340 jumble 2 MHz below (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 3325, Feb 9 at 1325, poor with talk in Indonesian, RRI Palangkaraya. Nothing making it on 4750 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI missing yesterday Tuesday, but back today Wednesday Feb 9, as soon as I tune in at 1340, hear an IAD and more to come, but good signal, during `Let`s Learn Bahasa Indonesia`, expressions on the subject of learning to drive, but presented far too swiftly by YL, and with no visuals to reinforce. Plus, distracting music bed. This is not the way to teach your language. Without measuring, I assumed it was still 9525, but on next check at 1502, signal is now VG and yes, it`s back on 9526-, with news in English, this time rudely cut off already at 1503:10* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5910, Sea Breeze via JSR JAPAN, another Wednesday in English, Feb 9 at 1408, good signal with details about Miyoshi Yamaguchi, who disappeared from Ohsaka on March 3, 1965; musical stingers between each abductee (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. Feb 9 was an especially calm morning for reception from the Koreas, temperature here +5 F with snowdrifts: 4450-, at 1315 Korean talk, poor but outstanding as nothing much from Asia was making it on 60m, i.e. V. of the People from S to N. 3480, Feb 9 at 1326, Korean talk best of all, good with het de 3481, V
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 11-12, 2011
** AUSTRALIA. RA is providing continuous coverage of the flooding in Queensland, pre-empting regular programming. Fortunately, it is summer-vacation time, so regular programming is already on holiday anyway, e.g. not to be heard Wed at 1405 ``All in the Mind`` nor 1434 ``The Philosophers` Zone``. Jan 12 at 1345, 9590 Shepparton has ABC Local Radio, Queensland, announcing that if the AM transmitter in Brisbane goes off, that will be carried on the Classic FM frequency of 106.1. So what is the AM frequency? Strangely enough, WRTH 2011 does not mention ``Local Radio`` as one of the ABC networks! We hear a lot of it relayed on RA. Instead, on MW there are National, Regional, Metropolitan, and Parliamentary & News. So does ``Local`` = ``Metropolitan``? That would be 4QR on 612, 50 kW. National is 4RN on 792, only 25 kW. AM sites are typically in low-lying areas, and likely they would be at same site and both flooded if one is, but who cares about National? WRTH does not mention ``Local Radio`` among the FM networks either. Anyhow, we can follow the emergency tnx to RA. Gives local time chex as UT +10, no DST in Qsld, which must seem strange to the Victorians and New South Welsh. At 1345 it`s ``a quarter to twelve``, and max flood stage of 5 to 5.2 m in Brisbane is expected at 4 am = 1800 UT. At 1439 UT, it`s ``21 to 1``. This service is also being carried on multiple platforms as per frequent announcements, but omitting RA. Robin Harwood tells me that the RA site in Brandon is well beyond the flood area further south (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNID 11660 ** CUBA [non]. 15120, once again today Jan 12, RHC is missing from this frequency, so at 1412 we can hear weak Bengali from BSKSA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CYPRUS. 15163-15189, OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here, Jan 12 at 1411, mainly QRMing 15170, where unusually, ROMANIA was atop Costa Rica (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 15550, Jan 12 at 1403, Qur`an verging on yodeling, neat. 1405 to different musical reverent-sounding voices, but surely not Qur`an as a female (ugh!) was involved. 1408 into Arabic talk by YL, mixed with musical bits. It`s VIRI`s Arabic service, 500 kW, 295 degrees from Sirjan over an 11-hour span, 0530-1630. Not audible after 1500, nor was co-channel WJHR, if it still exist (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 15120, VON, Jan 12 at 1512, announcer says this is ``15 Minutes``, apparently name of extended newscast. Today the modulation is more distorted, and carrier wobbling as usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1120, KEOR, Catoosa-Sperry-Tulsa, which had been more or less funxional recently, had reverted to open carrier, when checked Jan 11 around 1930 and 2130 UT (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 9570, RVA in Russian talk at 1500 Jan 12, only fair signal today, still Radio Blagovest program? No bells were heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9460 // 13810 // 17580, or almost so within a few millisex, with slight reverb among them, carrying Brother Scare, Jan 12 at 1507 after criticising gospel huxters all over SW who claim to know the date J.C. will be backcoming in May, thinly veiled reference to Harold Camping. I suppose 17580 replace 17485 where no longer heard; that had been scheduled 15-16 via Wertachtal, while 9460 and 13810 are 14-16 via Wertachtal, Nauen, respectively. Does this correlate with the SW sked at TOM, curiously as an ftp?? No, claims 9460 is 9-11 am, 13810 is 9-10 am, and 17580 is 9-10 am, i.e. EST, so at 1507 UT the two higher ones should be off! BS doesn`t even know the correct times of his own broadcasts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also U S A: WTJC/WWRB ** SPAIN [non]. 17850, REE via COSTA RICA, just as I tuned in Jan 11, ``muy buenas tardes``, beep and cut carrier at odd time of 2222* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11665, checking WYFR again for new unID language service, Jan 11 at 2143, tuned in too late for some music, 2144 closing in Arabic to 2145*. Arabic had been on some of the schedules, but it was certainly not the day before. Back to Arabic, or maybe body of program was still in the other tongue (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9395, the WTJC 9370 spur which has been audible the last few days, not audible Jan 12 at 1435; instead one from WWRB 9385 Brother Scare circa 9400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 720, WGN Chicago ID at 1930 UT Jan 11, on caradio at a quiet hotspot in western Enid, skywave already in less than an hour after low noon (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 11660, Jan 12 at 1424 past 1433, oscillator-jammer, i.e. two tones quickly alternating between 6 and 7 times per second, obvious with BFO on, but can`t hear what it is blocking, aside stonger NHK 11655 via Sackville. Also
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 25-26, 2010
** CANADA. 2749-SSB, Nov 26 at 1053 marine weather by YL with québecois accent, 1055 OM also in French but heavy English accent; 1057 OM in English mentions ``Coast Guard Radio`` and 2749 but can`t catch a location or call as signals fight heavy noise level; then calling ``All stations`` in English and French, but off at 1058 and nothing further heard by 1101. Let`s check Bill Hepburn`s info at: http://www.dxinfocentre.com/mb.htm#O%20ATL Which shows 2749 is used by four stations on the Atlantic Coast and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, two of which are bilingual, VCN in Grindstone [Magdalen Islands] QC, but not scheduled until 1118, while the other one has a broadcast starting at 1040: VAR-3, NS, Yarmouth-Fundy, 43 44 24, 66 07 19, EE/FF This source does not mention mode, USB or LSB, and on the FRG-7 BFO it`s not obvious immediately. Guess why I was tuning around here? Yep, HAARP, Alaska, but no sign of it on 2750. When active it could cause lots of QRM to the CCG stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 26: 8400, JBA at 1046 This nor any others heard later by 1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. The recalcitrant Arnie Coro, RHC frequency manager, so far has kept a transmitter on 6050 blowing away HCJB`s only remaining frequency from Ecuador: Nov 26 at 1042 check, in Spanish, 6050 is strongest here, // 5040, 6120, 6150. But off by 1101, audiblizing HCJB again; see ECUADOR. At 1106, equally big signal on 6095 instead, probably same transmitter // 6140, 6150, 6180. At 1210, RHC is also on 6000, perhaps waited until WYFR was finished at nominal 1200. 5025, R. Rebelde had been inbooming earlier as usual, but absent at 1212 Nov 26, at least allowing one to detect adjacent carriers from Solomons and Sarawak; back on at 1237 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also VENEZUELA [non] ** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 6025+, Nov 26 at 1136, badly squeezed between stronger Australia 6020 and DentroCuban Jamming Command 6030, apparent live show inviting phone calls to 809 number in Santo Domingo, discussing Madre Taresa, fading out by 1140: Radio Amanecer, slightly on hi side compared to 5025 Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. 6050, HCJB, Pichincha still exists, despite barrage from super signal de RHC between 01 and 11 UT; see CUBA. Nov 26 at 1042 not even a trace of HCJB can be heard under it, RHC off by 1101 about to move to 6095, so HCJB is audiblized: axually with R. Transmundial program, A través de la Biblia inviting toll-free calls in PR and US to 1-800-880-5339, or e-mail a...@transmundial.org. Now the only problem is the lite het from Malaysia off-frequency to lo side. HCJB gradually weakens as sunrise oncomes. At 1133 its own programming, news from La Voz de los Andes, W&M alternating, temp 10 degrees, frequent timechex for 6:33, 6:34, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. 4918.9, romantic music segués, Nov 26 at 0635, poor signal vs noise level and CODAR; on this frequency it has to be R. Quito, which sporadically reactivates on SW, usually lasting only a few nights before vanishing again. Go get `em. At 0644 it was the OSOB on 60m except for USA and Cuba (or OSAMOB – only South American on band). 0651 brief Spanish announcement, but could not copy. If there was an ID at hourtop, I dozed thru it, 0702 still music, but at 0709 ``Radio Quito --- amplitud modulada``. Next check at 1036, still a signal but unreadable on 4918.9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT [and non]. 13580, Nov 26 at 1535 mostly motorboating, modulation just barely audible under, from R. Cairo`s Albanian service; much worse than neighbor WINB 13570 with its unstable carrier detectable only with BFO on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 5765-USB, AFN barely audible Nov 26 at 1039, in talk, vs my local cable DTV converter bubbling, and now WTWW 5755 is splashing worse than before since audio processor has been changed. Also talk detectable at 1210, so is it back to newstalk including NPR Morning Edition rather than the country music stream? Guess not, as at 1239 country music. At least the transmitter is on the air today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4052.5-, hoped to catch R. Verdad sign-on, Nov 26, but nothing audible at 1127 or earlier, nor at 1131. However, at 1143 with BFO on I can hear a weak signal with music. Unsure when it came on; might have been there earlier but masked by additional local broadband noise source (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI Nov 26 at 1042, fair with flutter, music with IADs, perhaps during English hour. At 1108 in slow and deliberate Chinese, non-native speaker? Poor with ACI from Chinese on 9530. Not checked again until 1600, poor-fair, music, IADs, het de 9525.0, i.e. CRI English via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN; 1601 ``Voice of Indonesia, the Sound of Dignity`
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 18-19, 2010
** ANTARCTICA. 15476, now a full week of no signals from LRA36, Nov 19 at 1420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA. 6155, Ö1 or ORS, still has token English news capsule relayed from domestic service, Nov 19 at 0708-0711:51 when switched to French. Mostly world, not Austrian news, e.g. clip of President Obama. Fair signal but with ACI from Cuba 6150, tho its perpetual undermodulation is a blessing in this case. English and French news is UT M-F only, supposedly closing at 0710* Sat/Sun rather than 0715* M-F (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 19: None found 8-18 MHz by 1430 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 9153, extremely strong cut numbers (10 letters instead of numbers sent on full carrier with Morse code tones), Nov 19 at 0708; caused overload on weaker 31mb signals where one could also hear the code. Meanwhile there were also non-cut spy numbers in Spanish voice below 5.9 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CYPRUS. 5905, Nov 19 at 1358 poor signal in Arabic, soon obviously BBC with vamp music, 1400 one Big Ben bong (or two?), continues in Arabic, site? Listed as Cyprus, 0500-1600, 300 kW, 173 degrees. Unusual to get at this hour, more likely long path. No QRM audible from co-channels scheduled: CRI Russian via Kashgar until 1400, then VOR via Moskva (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CYPRUS. 15195-15220 approx., OTH radar pulses presumed from here, Nov 19 at 1426, mostly bothering WYFR Portuguese 15210; another bit of it in an otherwise clear spot around 15140 rather than Oman (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 5910, Nov 19 at 1358 nothing there, but 1359 open carrier, in fact two as there was a SAH, but 1400 opening Shiokaze without SAH, or jamming yet, ex-5985. First three minutes with contact info for Sea Breeze in English, including website, e-mail, p-mail, phone number, all over piano music; 1403 into news theme and items about North Korea, English on Friday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1390, Nov 18 at 1736 UT I am about 20 miles south of Enid, and astonishingly am hearing co-channel QRM under local KCRC, only one hour before low noon. This time of year on hiband it`s conceivable that residual skywave could be in play, e.g. from KGNU Denver CO, 5 kW ND, where it is a semihour earlier by the sun, but there are 1390s, one or two in every state adjacent to OK, the closest being 5 kW KFFK Rogers AR, and 500 W KNCK Concordia KS. Those two and most of the others are non-direxional but KCRC main lobe is 280 degrees day and night, evidently to protect Rogers, and diminishing its own signal to the south (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9980, Brother Scare via WWCR, Nov 19 at 1405, overpowering signal amid huge envelope of buzz extending 9965-9995 or so, abutting DentroCuban jamming command on the low side. Meanwhile, clear audio and no such buzz via new German relay frequency 15495 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 3185, WWRB, UT Friday Nov 19 at 0430 with last week`s WORLD OF RADIO 1538. We were never able to get a connexion to upload the latest program; they have it now in case there is any other time to play it, but have never been aware of any such substitutions. WOR 1539 confirmed on WRMI, Friday Nov 19 at 1530. Next chance: Friday 2130 on WWCR 7465 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 720, WGN, Extension 720 continues to be an oasis of intelligent discussion on the commercial MW band tnx to Milt Rosenberg, especially if the topic does not lend itself to Milt making anti-Obama remarx, such as UT Nov 19, on the significance of The Lord`s Prayer. As always, here in OK one must put up with periodic fades down by WGN, and fades up by Spanish KSAH San Antonio, whose subaudible heterodyne is an almost constant annoyance. Extension 720 is at 0405-0600 UT, had been UT Tue-Sat, but at the end Milt said from now on it will be local Sunday thru Thursday nites (except of course when pre-empted by stupid ballgames), instead of M-F, so in UT that makes it really Monday thru Friday. Website also provides lots of (too many) ways to listen online: http://www.wgnradio.com/shows/ext720/ Who takes over on UT Saturdays? Nick Digilio at 04-08, as well as UT Sundays 00-04 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6297.1, Nov 19 at 0713 fair signal with morning chantfest. This time I check to reconfirm it`s slightly on the hi side of 6297 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZAMBIA. 13590, Nov 19 at 0715 gospel rock, no doubt 1Africa, CVC, back on its original frequency after some forays to 13600. Would be the OSOB if it were not for a much weaker R. Australia on 13630, so make it the SSOB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 8-9, 2010
** ALASKA. I frequently check 2750 in routine bandscans, for HAARP to show up again, but no sign of it until: Nov 9 at 0647, with a wide variety of carrier and tone tests past 0719. Of course, until the DST/ST shift I was seldom monitoring that late, as unfortunately my daily routine has to be tied more to the local clock than to UT, even tho I denounce the very concept of shifting time. At 0647, carrier cutting on and off, gradually speeding up the pulse rate, peaks S9+25. 0643 it reaches about 10x per second and still rising. 0644 cuts briefly to constant carrier, then resumes pulsing at increasing rate. Meanwhile, I amuse myself by playing ``O What a Beautiful Morning`` by adjusting the BFO tuning on this carrier. 0646, adds tone modulation to the carrier pulsing, and that rises too as the pulse rate continues rising to ``airplaning``. 0653 still increasing rate and pitch but very slowly. 0654:36* cuts off the air, but soon back on at 0655 now with sweep tones upward repeated every 6 seconds = 10x per minute, past 0700+, and off at 0704:34*. *0705 back on with carrier, then hi-pitched tone test stepping up, rather than sweeping up. 0707 slow subaudible heterodyne, then increases (as if two separate transmitters deliberately slightly offset). 0708 constant tone, stepping up. 0709 lo-pitched tone, stepping up. 0710 slow SAH increasing to fast. (I take a few minutes to tune around for other things). 0719:34* after OC without tones, and soon back on with the SAHs as I quit. When I wake up at 1250, nothing on 2750, around the time I last heard this a few weeks ago: ``Oct 4 at 1214, strong signal and still but weaker at 1242.`` Identity of all this as HAARP, Gakona, Alaska is based on previous reports and this is one of their known frequencies, tho certainly there was nothing like an ID heard, nor probably sent tho it would have been easy to do so. There is a lot of information at http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/ but searching on 2750 does not get any hits. WTFK? I have yet to find any specific frequency info. It does say that some of the antennas cover 2.8 to 8.3 MHz, avoiding the 40 and 80m hambands. The 2750 signals I was hearing were not especially wideband, as some had reported, just normal bandwidth (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. 15476, Nov 9 at 1450, carrier only detectable from LRA36 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 15345+, Nov 8 at 2217, tango music, very poor with heavy trans-equatorial flutter, must be RAE, with Morocco off the frequency after 2200. I had also checked in the 18 UT hour for English to Europe, and could only hear a very weak signal (or two?) slightly below 15345-, while now it`s slightly above. Need to listen for English at 0200-0300 UT Tue-Sat on 11711v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA. 17605, Nov 9 at 1443, Horn of Africa music, i.e. a few notes sung up and down with plucked instrument, 1444 to birdchirps and Arabish announcement including a ``salaam aleikum``, but must be Afar as scheduled from AWR, 300 kW, 145 degrees from Moosbrunn at 1430-1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 3280, Nov 9 at 1254, oriental talk, no doubt V. of Pujiang, Shanghai, but also with a fast SAH. What else could be on 3280? Nothing known in Asia, but La Voz del Napo, Tena, Ecuador is being reported as reactivated. But surely it`s too late for that to reach here. Bingo! 3280 = 2 x 1640, probably second harmonic of my local KFXY. Its site is far enough away that its harmonix are rarely heard unlike from 960 and 1390 closer locals. At 1300, the non-Okie had a timesignal about one sesquisecond late, last pip higher and prolonged (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 9: 8400, poor with flutter at 1348; nothing on 10500 or 11100 as heard yesterday, nor anywhere else tho did not do a complete bandscan up to 18 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. 15230, CRI English via Sackville, Nov 9 at 1447 M&W discussing Carl Sagan, SETI; seems like there is CCI, but comparing to 13740 via Cuba, both have musical undercurrent on the program. Still, I hear something else under 15230 tho nothing is scheduled. Hmm, could be crosstalk from super-strong REE/CR on 15170 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. Checking for RHC new frequencies at the first opportunity, UT November 9: Mesa Redonda is now scheduled 2330-0100 on 9640, 6000, and is still going a little past 0100 on 6000. By now it`s badly squeezed between RFI Spanish via Guiana French on 5995, and CRI English via Sackville on 6005; 6000 off the air shortly, and does not come back in English as now scheduled during the next few minutes. I get tired of waiting for it but at next check 0123, 6000 is on, and still squeezed. The other new channel is 6050, a slap in the face to HCJB`s only remaining frequency from Ecuador, where it has been
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 29, 2010
** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36 carrier detectable Friday Oct 29 at 1340, much weaker than UK on 15480 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake search Oct 29, 1332-1340: none found from 8 to 16 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 13920.4, approximate center of dirty RHC spur with whine and Spanish modulation, Oct 29 at 1335, like squeal infesting 13680, presumed source rather than clear but equally superstrong 13780. Tried to hear a match 240 kHz below on 13440, but only CODAR there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4052.4, tuned in R. Verdad too late Oct 29, carrier still on at 0606, off 0607*. Seemed like it had been a better signal than before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9690, Oct 29 at 1329, usual hum, plus non-English talk and announcement, 1330 dead air, 1330.5 opening AIR GOS in English. Jose Jacob says this bit before 1330 is axually the AIR Tibetan service. WRTH A-10 May update shows that is at 1215-1330 on 7420 via Guwahati, 9575 via Delhi, and 11775 via Goa. Yet, Bengaluru picks up this feed from HQ and puts it on 9690 before GOS instead of the haunting AIR IS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI still missing Oct 29 during the English hour at 1331 check. Not on 11785 either, just the usual Chinese radio war (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 2850, KCBS, Oct 29 at 1240 triumphal choral music audible vs noise level; not much else could be heard on 120 thru 60 meters. Next check 1303 much better S9+20 during W&M Korean talk. Then 3480 hetwar also audible, and at 1305 numerous carriers on 60m, but too much noise. LSR here is 1252 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MAURITANIA. While ORTM was again on 7245 as early as 0600 Oct 28, missing again Oct 29 at 0610 check, and not on 4845 either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO. 15340.0, RTM, Oct 29 at 1341 with Arabic music, hum, no HCJB audible, but back on this frequency again. After we found them on 15340 instead of 15341 last week, Mike Barraclough in UK had measured Morocco off-frequency again, Oct 26 at 1452 on 15341.2. Where next? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 18058-, Oct 29 at 1346, JBA carrier slightly on the low side from third harmonic of R. Victoria, Perú, 6019.3+. Finally someone else has heard it: David Sharp in NSW, Oct 27 at 0842, i.e. a night-path to him! Measured on 18057.96, also audible on fundamental 6019.321 and // 9720.03 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWEDEN. Penultimate day for any SWBC from this country, Oct 29, 2010 at 1338 on 15735, sufficient reception from R. Sweden in English, discussing economy. One may want to make a point of haring the ultimate one Saturday here or via Madagascar, Canada relays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 3185, WWRB, open carrier only and no BS, Oct 29 at 1233; by 1254, next frequency 9385 was on instead with canned Bible reading modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1536 confirmed on 3185, WWRB, UT Friday Oct 29 at 0330; and on WRMI 9955 webcast Friday at 1430. Next airings are: WWCR Fri 2030 15825, Sat 1600 12160, Sun 0230 4840, 0630 3215 WRMI 9955: Sat 0800, 1400, 1730; Sun 0800, 1530, 1730 IRRS: Sat 0800 9515 [maybe, since it is fifth Sat]; Sat 1800 on 7290. From Nov, next week, these will be Sat 0900 9510, 1900 7290. WWRB, WWCR, WRMI and WBCQ times will not shift one UT hour later until Nov 7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 720, KDWN Las Vegas NV, cuts on day pattern illegally one hour too early, and suddenly becomes audible vs remnants of WGN, Oct 29 at 1244:38 UT as Heidi Harris turns it right over to traffic report. 990, Oct 29 at 1300 UT, joint ID for AM 990 KRMO Cassville MO, and AM 940 KSWM Aurora MO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1460, Oct 29 at 1352 UT I should be getting Spanish KZUE El Reno OK, but am hearing English from Father Jim, N/S-ish, a Marian cultist, so is it EWTN affiliate KHOJ Saint Charles MO? That should be NE/SW. Or could La Tremenda have some English now? Website http://www.latremendaokc.com/ does not work. At 1400 ID sounds like WAKW in a –ville, but that`s not correct, and could be from something else anyway, perhaps a closer station relaying something originating east of the Miss. At 1545 UT recheck on groundwave, KZUE is definitely there in Spanish. BTW, Wiki explains that the calls were inherited from a ``zoo`` format on FM, so apparently no significance in Spanish. 1470, Oct 29 at 1351 UT playing ``Wheels``, from N/S bearing, 1352 ``The Morning Mike`` slogan, ``Wake Up, Little Susie``. Per NRC AM Log the fit from direxion and format is oldies KWSL Sioux City IA, and website http://www.1470kwsl.com/main.html clinches Morning Mike (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. TP MW carrier search Oct 29 from
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 27, 2010
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 6250.0, RNGE on earlier than usual, 0536 Oct 27, S9+18 mentioning some numbers in Spanish, dios, so maybe citing Bible verses. This time I take referential frequency measurements by two methods. On the YB-400, zeroed to WWV, with BFO and then stepping up and down 6249-6251, it sounds right on. On FRG-7, compared to whatever is on 1250, it again seems a tad on the low side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4052.4, R. Verdad back close to its original frequency, a bit off nominal 4052.5, Oct 27 at 0518 fair with hymn, S9+12 and one can certainly tell the difference between this 500 watts, and the temporary 50 watts which had been on 4055. However, it`s still too weak for easy listening here, but should be good in the region, and maybe further with better conditions. 0529 sounded like Johnny Cash with hymn to the tune of ``We Shall Not Be Moved``, with guitar; modulation a bit muffled. Also audible around 1155. We had just received the good news from Dr. Madrid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: GREAT, Radio Truth is on the air again on short wave, with 500 watts of power, at 4052.5 kHz, after over two years being off the air, due to the awful harm done by a lightning strike on the 21st of September 2008, thanks to Engineer Ralph Borthwick, from Canada. We’ll appreciate it if you report our signal during these days, on which we’ll be making all necessary adjustments. Please distribute this information (Dr. Édgar Amílcar Madrid, Director and Manager, 0409 UT October 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 620, Oct 27 at 1206, after Mex NA, XEBU sign-on with calls twice, ``La Norteñita`` slogan, Chihuahua. 660, Oct 27 at 1214, 6:14 TC, ``en La Tremenda``, atención Agua Nueva, obits after barbacoa ad. Slogan belongs to XEACB, Ciudad Delicias, Chih (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1010, Oct 27 at 1357, from NW/SE, farm report, ad for corn maze (get it?) S of Atwood on hiway 63, business report. Figured it was KSIR Brush-Fort Morgan CO, and the maze location fits nearby (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 930, Oct 27 at 1203, CBS News (in English) in WKY null. Best bet is KWOC Poplar Bluff MO, listed by NRC as CBS and close to right angle from OKC (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. TP MW carrier search Oct 27 at 1221: JBA on 747, 774, no doubt the usual NHKs. Today by force of will, I turned off the radio and got another sesquihour of much-needed sleep (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list hard-core...@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 September 22, 2010
** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36 was missing Sept 21, but back Sept 22 at 1342, music barely audible, about same level as Rampisham 15480 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Earlier September I was noticing a gradual seasonal improvement in CFRX 6070 reception at night, and also usually audible into daytime, but Sept 22 at 1307 I am not hearing it, tho there is a weak carrier, which could be Asian? No, North Korea finishes 6070 Japanese service around 1250, per Aoki. Then a report from Bruce Winkelman, Tulsa that he also found CFRX audio absent Sept 22 at 0349, just an open carrier. So the Toronto station has suffered another breakdown (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 6030, Chinese // to one of the mixers jamming 9845, so CNR1, Sept 22 at 1310, atop co-channel QRM, unlike single station 24 hours earlier. So this is jamming Ming Hui Radio, clandestine via Tanshui, Taiwan during this hour only, per Aoki. 13830, Sept 22 at 1330, CNR1 on unlisted frequency, clear tnx to absence of WEWN 13835; 13830 jams Radio Free Asia, Tibetan via Tajikistan at 11-14. 15521, Sept 22 at 1344, weak Chinese hetting something on 15520; the only thing scheduled around this time per Aoki is V. of Tibet via Tajikistan at 1330-1342, plus jamming. Firedrake Sept 22: none found 8-18 MHz after 1305 except: 15670, fair with flutter at 1346, i.e. jamming R. Free Asia, Tibetan via UAE at 11-14 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. 9515, Sept 22 at 0535, strange music caught my ear, then talk in Arabic, so it`s CRI via ALBANIA at 05-07. BTW, 10+ MHz was dead at this time, but lower frequencies doing well, such as Egypt 9305, Greece 9420, Zambia 9430; YFR channels quite weak on 9 MHz band. The numbers from NOAA do not account for this: ``Geophysical Alert Message #Solar-terrestrial indices for 21 September follow. Solar flux 85 and mid-latitude A-index 4. The mid-latitude K-index at 0600 UTC on 22 September was 1 (5 nT). No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours. No space weather storms are expected for the next 24 hours.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 5970, RHC DXers Unlimited, UT Wed Sept 22 at 0544, in progress, Arnie asking for reports on antenna tests 05-07 on 6010 and 6060. I missed the point of this, but apparently 6060 is getting into Europe, as it is certainly poor here. I see that http://www.rfprograms.com/ is not including audio of DXUL, which would have been handy, and I suppose Arnie is delinquent as usual in blogposting his scripts. 13922, approx. very weak spur from RHC, Sept 22 at 1329, and again at 1433 check; has that hum associated with more-or-less 50-kHz multiples away from fundamentals previously infecting 11 and 15 MHz channels, but this was the only one I could detect on 13. Has to come from very strong 13680, 13780, or maybe both, besides the regular leapfrog on 13880 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, R. Verdad, Sept 22 at 0553 with music, poor but audible; dozed off, then found national anthem starting at 0601. BTW, Wayne Berger of TGN, R. Cultural died Sept 21 in Jerusalem as he was leading a Christian tour group. Longtime DXers will remember him from when TGNA was on SW. He had also been working on repairing the main R. Verdad transmitter. See http://www.radiocultural.net/site/index.php Another photo of him is on the administrativo sexion of http://www.radiocultural.net/site/index.php/personal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9470, AIR National Channel via Aligarh, Sept 22 at 1321, poor but audible in splash from WTWW 9479, with AIR IS, brief announcement and Vande Mataram, // better 9425 via Bengaluru. Had not heard 9470 in months, but seems to be behaving itself on proper frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. DRM noise, Sept 22 at 0540, I thought was centered on 7310, but must have been 7305, where RRI English is scheduled during this semihour only, 300 degrees toward Europe, also USward. Too bad DRM is not interactive, so RRI could know exactly how few are listening (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA [and non]. 21505, Sept 22 at 1355, YL in Arabic, strongest station on band, except maybe Hausa on 21630 from BBC Ascension, and Libya 21695 also contending; by 1408 that was SSOB. 21505 // 17705, so BSKSA program 1. At 1400 a 5 + 1 timesignal (same pitch, last one prolonged), which ended about one second early compared to WWV. 21505 still audible at 1431 but now very poor. No other Saudi signals on 13m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. 21470, Sept 22 at 1401, BBCWS news, good signal not there a couple minutes before, since at 1400 site switches from Seychelles 240 degrees, to Cyprus 175 degrees. Quite readable, but fading down by 1406, gone by 1431. The 1400 news repeated exactly the same item I had heard one hour earlier via 6195 Singapore, about Russia
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 20-21, 2010
** ANTARCTICA [and non]. 15476, LRA36 missing again, this week on a Tuesday, Sept 21 at several chex, 1232, 1326, 1354, 1404, no carrier ever detected, while 15480 Rampisham was JBA from the outset (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHILE. 17680, CVC La Voz, which was missing all morning Sept 20, back in force Sept 21 with gospel rock at 1234, in fact the SSOB by far (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake Sept 21: 8400, fair with flutter at 1218 10970, good with flutter at 1225, not at 1324. No others found up to 18 MHz. Also had 10970 on Sept 15, but there was a long gap before then since previous log on May 4. 6030, Sept 21 at 1336, Asian talk and music, flutter, only one signal audible, well after the DentroCuban Jamming Command and Radio Martí are finished with 6030. At first I thought it was S Asian, then Chinese. Aoki shows AIR New Delhi in Hindi, as well as CNR1 Beijing 572 in Chinese, AND, Ming Hui Radio, Chinese via Tanshui, Taiwan during this hour only and *jammed. CFVP Calgary is also no doubt buried somewhere underneath. As usual I will prioritize the jamming as most likely to be heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. OTH radar, presumed from here, Sept 21 at 1237 spanning 9370-9400 with strong pulsing; but the stations at the edges could escape it by side-tuning, WTJC and FEBC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9855, at 1244 Sept 21, Chinese with echo, could be long/short path from CRI Chinese service, 215 degrees from Beijing. You know you have a PR problem (read that public relations, OR People`s Republic), when any reception of your station is just as likely to be a jammer as a legit broadcast. But Aoki shows nothing to jam here at this hour. 7205 // 7215 in Chinese music, Sept 21 at 1338. 7205 is weaker but clear; 7215 has co-channel QRM. During this hour, CRI Chinese service is listed on both, via Beijing and Xi`an, respectively, while CRI Japanese service is also listed on 7215, same time, same frequency, same site Xi`an. That could well explain the QRM, tho such a situation would surely be counter-productive. Some genius may have decided that since the two services aim in different direxions, 73 and 190 degrees, this is feasible. CRI should double up on a lot more frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, R. Verdad which had been inaudible at this hour UT Monday, was back and best heard yet, UT Tuesday Sept 21 at 0529, talking over music. Still tough copy, and I found it hard to pin down the carrier with BFO on, concluding that it`s quite reduced carrier plus USB (and a trace of audio on LSB, but is the DX-398 doing that or their temp transmitter?). 0535 just hum, and I first thought it had faded down or turned off, but this was just dead air; 0537.6 starts singing gospel hymn in English with piano accompaniment. 0546 brief announcement and more gospel music; 0550-0553 another pause; 0559 ``The Time Has Come to Say --- (Good Night?)`` song in English, brief announcement, could not tell if in English too, brief hymn; 0601 YL announcement, presumed sign-off and choral/orchestral Guatemalan national anthem, long version of about 4 verses to 0605*. Perhaps they have bumped up the power to 100 watts now, and/or propagation is improving. As for the English, program schedule at http://www.radioverdad.org/programaci%C3%B3n shows ``Spiritual Songs`` in the 05-06 UT hour Tue-Sun. Also that alternating with other English programs UT Mondays 03-04 and 05-06. Whenever I seek the Truth on 4055, I also check 4050 for anything. Nothing at 0605, but at 1203 Sept 21 something was there, presumably 3 x 1350 KWMO Washington MO; nothing audible on 4055, too late after sunrise? Chiquimula ephemeris is here: http://www.gaisma.com/en/location/chiquimula.html showing today`s SR/SS are 1147-2355 UT. At 14-48 North, they do not vary much during the year, but at winter solstice, sunshine will contract to 1218-2333 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI, Tuesday Sept 21 at 1301 Jak YL introducing usual OM RRI Banjarmasin colleague, this time sounded like his name was Fatma, another time like Fato, while the YL anchor in Jakarta is more certainly Rachma, tho probably else-spelt. VG signal with some hum; OADs are rarer and not too annoying, or am I just getting used to them? Except for a dropout of about 5 sex at 1319, and the quick ones became more frequent later in the hour. 1304 into newscast alternating from Jak and Banj studios with other announcers, hard to understand. 1316 introduced as a ``dignatorial`` but its speaker called it a ``commentary``. 1320, Banj guy says we can listen to their stream via http://www.rribanjarmasin.info (I`ve yet to try it since at this hour I am into SW monitoring with computer off.) 1321, Today in History: World Peace Day, something about JRR Tolkien. 1324 about the Floating Market Festival
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 8, 2010
** ANTARCTICA [and non]. 15476, LRA36 check Sept 8 at 1307 audible with talk but very poor, weaker than hetted 15480 Rampisham; 1345, still weak but Ramp stronger with Poland in Belarussian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake Sept 8: none at all found 8-18 MHz between 1255 and 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 6060, RHC English, missing last night, is back Sept 8 at 0557 with music // 6010, 5970. Checking the DentroCuban Jamming Command vs 9965, Sept 8: 1355 still clear for R. Australia Chinese via Palau, while 9955 WRMI in French had lite pulse jamming. 9965 jamming cut on at *1358:25, typical sesquiminute headstart, rapidly building up to full level roar by 1359 blowing away RA. Past 1400 I still cannot detect anything else there which may be target of jamming. Apparent spur of this jamming also heard pulsing much more weakly around 9752 at 1402, briefly shifting onto VOA English 9760, then back to 9752 bothering Japan 9750 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CYPRUS. 14840-14865, OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here, Sept 8 at 1342 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI check Sept 8 at 1300, opening English, still with the frequent audio dropouts, and that`s enough for me today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU [and non]. As Chuck Bolland and Theo Donnelly have pointed out, R. Victoria has been missing from 6019.3 for more than a week, but it`s back Sept 8 at 0553 putting het on CRIEnglish via Sackville during Chinese lesson. CRI off by 0559 clearing frequency for a few words from David Miranda, then station announcement in Spanish, could not hear ID due to RHC 6010 splash but no doubt about it. 0600 VV message from Beethoven`s Fifth. There is still a het from a much weaker signal on 6020.0, but OAX4Q is atop it; nothing likely listed. Maybe Gaúcha, Brasil if running all night. Anyhow, this annoyance to CRI reception serves the accursèd ChiCom jammers right. And now we again have a chance at the third harmonic of R. Victoria on 18057.9, but still no sign of it around 1350 Sept 8, even when Chile 17680 is inbooming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. The sidebands of WWCR are something else. 9980 with Brother Scare, such as Sept 8 at 1355, accompanied by huge continuous noise down to 9970 and up to 9990 whether BS is modulating at the moment or not (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list hard-core...@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 August 17, 2010
** ANTARCTICA. 15476+, Aug 17 at 1316, JBA with YL talking, het 15480, so LRA36 definitely on the air today, while I could not detect it Aug 16 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [and non]. 9625, Aug 17 at 1237, WYFR in Portuguese over CBCNQ, the usual situation here, two stations on the same continent and the same coast, on the same frequency! Audible hum or low heterodyne presumably caused by CBC being considerably off-frequency. 1245 with WYFR off, I still hear an hum, but lessened, and past 1300 as CBC is beating against something else, such as FEBC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake August 17: 8400, fair at 1232 9380, fair at 1239; 1324 seems off but WWRB 9385 now Overcomes 10500, nothing at 1239, very poor at 1339. Gone at 1400, so I set a receiver on 10500 to hear if and when it would cut back on instead of 1405 as Ron Howard has been noting: *1409:20 but now JBA 13680, fair at 1243 // 9380; no others up to 15000 at 1415 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 13780, Aug 17 at 1413, RHC missing tho it was still among the frequencies announced a few minutes earlier, while as usual on 13680 and China relay on 13740. This allowed something in German to be heard poorly on 13780. If it`s in German, it can`t be from Germany, but likely from a DW relay, in this case Woofferton UK at 14-18 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9690, Aug 17, waiting for AIR GOS to come on: *1328 with anthem? But unseems Vande Mataram, and talked over at 1329:30, couldn`t understand and maybe not English. We don`t hear the haunting AIR IS at all; what`s up with that? 1330 quick GOS sign-on with the three frequencies, right into news with perpetual hum, really too poor to stay with. Later on, found // 13710 under CRI via EAST TURKISTAN, much too close to India (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9525.9, VOI, if it`s Tuesday, this must be Banjarmasin, Aug 17 joining in progress 1301:30 after dead air, tho previous hour in Japanese was OK. At first the two studios were having trouble hearing each other over the line (try SW?). The Exotic Indonesia excursions are more talky than other days, back and forth between Jak and Banj. 1320, talk about the rôle of youth in Indonesian independence, an editorial (or did she say ``dignatorial``?). Clueless announcers keep claiming to be on three frequencies, ``9525``, 11785 and 15150, the latter two inactive for many months, at least at this hour; heard at 1323. At 1324, Today in History, about this being the 65th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on Aug 17, 1945, two days after Japan`s WWII surrender (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. 11835, open carrier aside WYFR 11830, Aug 17 at 1335, rather steady at S9+20, whence? Kept on it and finally at *1359 IS very briefly and sign-on in English to Asia from Radio Netherlands Worldwide. Too much ACI from WYFR, and if side-tuned upward, bleed from the DentroCuban Jamming Command on 11845. If the RNW frequency were isolated, it would be usable. This is 250 kW, 50 degrees from Talata. But why burn 250 kW an extra 25 minutes? Uplooked later, I see that Romania in Russian is supposed to be on 11835 until 1400, but not a trace of that heard, tho other 25m frequencies from them often make it way offbeam to here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN [non]. 15170, REE via COSTA RICA, Aug 17 at 1300, compared the timesignal to WWV and it was one sesquisecond late. I realize it would be inconvenient to make it accurate, with one or more satellite-hop delays and other factors, but if you are going to broadcast timesignals like this at all, you should always air a disclaimer before or after (translated), like ``This timesignal is only an approximation, despite its seeming precision, not to be used for navigation, or critical scientific measurements``. Not holding breath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15579, het against VOA São Tomé Music Mix, Aug 17 at 1405. Just as I was measuring it, disappeared at 1407*. Likely ChiCom jamming and/or V. of Tibet via Tajikistan as Aoki Aug 15 shows *15577 and *15578 for that at 1307-1407! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list hard-core...@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 June 28-29, 2010
** ALBANIA. 13755, R. Tirana open carrier from Shijak is already on at tune-in 1418 June 29; some ACI from DPRK in French on 13760, splash from CRI/Cuba 13740. 1428:40 the RT IS starts, 1430 sign-on with A-10 schedule including 0230 on 7425, but weakening now. Another check at 1450, was ending mailbag (Tuesday) with a report from USA for 7425, 1451 into music fill (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36, finally showing a bit of audio, music only heard at frequent chex June 29 from 1330: 1337 as I am torn between this and Banjarmasin; 1345-1405 when sounded like drums and flutes, becoming JBA, 1406 slightly better but brief local 2-way FM image QRM. 1454 carrier still detectable along with a slightly stronger one on 15480 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 15525, at 2309 June 28, fair signal fluxuating to S9+10 with Christian hymn in Mandarin; can only be HCJB Kununurra a.k.a. ``KNX``. This and all their 15525 broadcasts, even Japanese, are registered 340 degrees, i.e. aimed at Hong Kong, across central China and Mongolia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DGIEST) ** CANADA. WWCR had been inbooming on 15825, so a sporadic-E opening into VHF was possible, but did not turn on TV until 1502 UT June 29. Tho antenna aimed south, was getting analog English on channel 5, so quickly rotated northward. It`s CBC with World Cup Paraguay vs Japan from the NNW, and also // channels 2, 3, and 4 fading in and out. Obviously from Saskatchewan area with possible intrusions from neighboring prairie provinces. Catching definite local IDs difficult, but the usual suspects I have reported before. DX Sherlock shows 6m activity mostly east-west across northern tier of states, so I am at right/acute angle to the major paths. 1506 on 2, fashion show in English, with CCI 1509 on 6, ad in English, CTV logo, during ``Fashion Television`` show which has a logo of a large T on screen and on interview mixe. This is on the CTV net at 9-10 am CDT as in MB, but this scheduling fits for CST from Sask an hour later, i.e. CKCK Regina. Still at 1540. 1515 on 4, The View with Whoopy et al., the CDT zone scheduling for MB CTV stations, but also simul at 11 am EDT from Ontario. CCI from another station in English, not CTV or CBC. 1555 on 3, FIFA in French, no doubt CBWFT Winnipeg. 1557 on 4, CTV promo Skywatch weather radar on your PC. 1559 on 3, Moose Jaw entertainment ad. Main MJ station is of course on ch 4, so I suppose CFQC-1, as the other ch 3 in southern Sask are CBC. 1600 on 6, briefly see 6x9 on screen; could that refer to a station whose main channels are those? 1605 on 3, The View, so CTV from CST Sask, mixing with CBC WC. 1610 on 4, Regis & Kelly, mixing with CBC vuvuzelas. This is scheduled on CFTO and CKCO in Ontario at 9-10 am EDT = 3 hours earlier. In the US it`s syndicated to individual stations rather than on a single network altho it`s produced at ABC New York; how about Canada? Did not find any listings for it from zap2it in Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay. Show`s own website ignores Canada, with drop-down ``local listings`` only for states, not provinces: http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/regisandkelly/local_listings.html Or could it be something even rarer, a US LPTV station still in analog? The only one in the area per dxinfocentre map is KGJC in Montana. Googling on calls gets little except a cache of W9WI as of May 16 showing: ``Great Falls , MT [4] KGJC-LD 0.300 0.00 47-27-52.40N 111-21-17.80W LD-CP | Great Falls`` But the current W9WI has removed it completely! No do those calls show on any other Montana channel. It was only a CP on 4, anyway. FCC TV Query also unlists that call for anywhere, and no channel 4 for Great Falls. Regis site doesn`t include it either. Then I check Calgary listings at zap2it.com --- Regis is on CFCN ch 4 at 10 am MDT, check! Please tell Regis in New York about this. 1615 on 4, infomercial? About Canadians adopting Afrokids, mentioned Worldvision. That`s sked on Global at 11 am CDT but no Global on 4 in Manitoba. CHFD Thunder Bay Ontario? No, not sked at all on that station. Chex at 10 am CST for CFSK from Saskatoon, Global. 1615-1700, mix of stations, nothing dominating for long, ch 2-4. 1700 on 2, WC finally over, ``CBC News Network`` audio ID starting with imminent EIIR Royal Tour of Canada. 1738 on 2, I now find 2 peaking from the NE with CBC Queen coverage, from a naval ship? Soldiers lined up in formation. Signals are weakening, not much left above 2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake June 29: started scanning 18 MHz downward at 1315. 15560, fair at 1319. Aoki shows V. of Tibet via Tajikistan at 1230-1330 on 15547, but also several other frequencies in area including 15562 at 1200-1230 only; but no doubt shifts day to day if not minute to minute. Did not pin this down to 15560 instead of 15562. See 15530: 15530, fai
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 10, 2010
** ANTARCTICA. 15476, May 10 at 1300 I can only detect the carrier vs noise level, confirming that RNASG, LRA36 is on the air, but that`s it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [non]. 9955, UT Monday May 10 at 0542, ``White Cliffs of Dover`` and big band music; what`s this? Then into reminiscences of VE Day celebrations (which was really May 8, 1945) in the ``Lower Mainland``, code for metro Vancouver; o yes, it`s RCI via WRN via WRMI, as if Sackville did not have enough SW coverage by itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA WRMI ** CHAD [and non]. Has RNT switched frequencies again? One window on 6165 is after Bonaire is finished at 0527, but May 10 at 0541 I can only detect a very weak carrier which could be something else, i.e. Croatia now opening at 0500 in A-season. Need to look for Chad in earlier window between Bonaire broadcasts 0427-0459. At 0541, nothing on 7120, that previously used and now out-of-band frequency, which Nils Schiffhauer, DK8OK presumably in Germany, reported to HCDX as active May 8 at 1720 mentioning N`djamena. A weak unID on 4900 is being heard around 2230-2300 by Carlos Gonçalves in Portugal, which I suspect could be Chad instead of its other alternative 4905, but he hears clues pointing to a reactivated Ivory Coast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake search May 10 at 1320-1328 found none at all between 8 and 18 MHz. E Asian reception not very good, but CNR1 jammers were still making it on 15285, 15265, 11805, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. Checking 15120 for Nigeria, May 10 at 0553 I hear something in Chinese instead, i.e. R. Free Asia via TINIAN as scheduled 03-07. Then find unsynchronized parallels: stronger 17615 which is a sesquisecond ahead of 15120; 0559 they are playing the Palladio ``diamond`` music as I have also heard repeatedly months ago from RFA. Must be a regular program theme, 0600 ID. Another // is 17880, which has even much better signal here, with audio ahead of 17615. And a weaker one on 15615. 17880 is SAIPAN, the other three Tinian; and as Aoki reminds us, all are *jammed by the ChiCom, but none of that was making it here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA. 5954+, May 10 at 0026 the ELCOR test transmitter again with continuous music, hets from WYFR 5950 and CRI/Sackville 5960. The latter finished by 0100, so 5954 reception much improved at 0102, still better at 0129. The exact purpose of these broadcasts has not been confirmed by ELCOR. Terry Krueger points out that their undated client list for SW transmitters still exists: http://www.elcor.org/refsw.html Many of those are now history, or never really became history, such as a 50 kW transmitter for a station called ``Ideas`` in Kenya (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Re last report: RHC DX program is named ``En Contacto``, not ``Encuentro DX``. I have a hard time keeping the titles of all the Spanish and Portuguese DX programs unconfused (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 6250, RNGE rarely on the air, May 10 at 0538 in Castilian probably news, vs ute beeps, but just as I was starting to BFO the frequency, it cut off the air at 0538:30*, and had not come back by 0552. If EqG ever starts before 0527, will make an interesting collision with another Spanish station on 6250, R. Japón via Bonaire, the leapfrog of 6080 over 6165 RN in Dutch (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [non]. Still seeking VON unsuccessfully on frequencies and times previously audible: 15120, May 10 at 0553 only something in Chinese instead, i.e. R. Free Asia, TINIAN. See CHINA [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA [and non]. 17705, May 10 at 1312, two weak stations mixing, one talk, one music. The talker has a very unstable carrier, but could be polar Doppler effect rather than transmitted that way; or is it imposed jamming? By 1317 the unstable one is gone, and the other remains now in talk. Aoki shows we have a collision here between AIR`s jammed Chinese service from Bangalore, and BSKSA General program 1: 17705*ALL INDIA RADIO 1145-1315 Chinese 500 58 Bangaluru 17705 R. RIYADH 1155-1455 Arabic 500 310 Riyadh BSKSA a10 At 1359, 17705 was poor with ME music; 1400 5+1 timesignal within one second of accuracy; the last pip of same pitch but prolonged; theme music and presumed news in Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. Another Monday, May 10, so another chance to check what REE is doing with its weekly Sephardic show scheduled 1425-1455. At 1428 no carrier detectable on 15385, tho there was a weak one from REE Castilian on 15585, and a much better signal on 17595. European reception on 19m was quite poor, so maybe 15385 was still on; could not find it either on the imaginary oft-announced frequency 15325 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 10-11, 2010
** AUSTRALIA. Seems RA is back to normal March 11, following hailstorm March 7 leading to many missing frequencies. I suppose they have been stitching their curtains back together. At 0624, propagation poor but could hear then on 13630 and a weak carrier on 13690, but nothing making it on 15 MHz. At 1321, 9560, 9580 and 9590 were all back, with 9580 best as usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. HCJB KNX, Kununurra, often inaudible, but March 11 was a good day for propagation USward, at 1335 in Chinese on 15400, S Asian language on 15340, Hindi scheduled, with het de Morocco 15341. At 1510 when HCJB is supposed to be still on 15340 in English, nothing heard while Morocco remained late on 15341, no het now. Per http://www.hcjb.org.au/docs/B09_Schedule_HCJB_Australia_20091025-20100327.pdf 15340 is supposed to contain a half-sesquihour in English to S Asia at 1445-1530, incidentally including an airing of DX Partyline, Saturday at 1515. So why do I never hear it after 1445? It`s the same 100 kW, 307 degree beam before and after. Is the English portion really on the air? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 9610, R. Canada Internal, March 11 at 1516 and still at 1525 just running RCI IS and IDs in English and French; Sackville apparently lost feed from Montreal, supposed to be in Russian during this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake, March 11: at 1319, flutter more audible than the audio on 8400. At 1336, Firedrake better on 15430, but still only poor, no doubt against V. of Tibet, during this semihour only, via UAE, as Wolfgang Büschel has also been monitoring. 9905 at 1515 March 11, CNR1 echo-jamming, against RFA Chinese via PALAU (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 11930, DentroCuban Jamming Command emitting beepy pulses against nothing, March 11 at 0620. 11930, of course, is a Radio Martí frequency, but in use only at 13-22. Such government waste in Cuba! No wonder people go hungry. More jamming: see USA: WRMI. RHC transmitter operator asleep at the switch, March 11 at 1505 still running the 19m channels 15360 and much stronger 15120 during music, // 13770, 11800, 11760, 11730, and vs RTTY on 11690. However, 13780 and 13680 were off by then. Kept listening to 15360 and 15120. At 1509, 15120 went to open carrier and off a bit later. At 1508, 15360 went to open carrier, and off at 1509, a few sex after 15120. Meanwhile, RNV relay was missing from 11680. Perhaps it came up once one of the 19m transmitters could finally be retuned (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. "24-HOUR STRIKE OF THE GSEE - From Thursday, March 11 at 06.00 to Friday, March 12 at 06.00 Greek time (0400-0400 UT), ERA-5 will connect to the Second Program of Greek Radio due to the GSEE strike (via John Babbis, MD, DX LISTENING DIGEST) GSEE being a union which is striking periodically due to the financial crisis. Checked 7475, March 11 at 0633 and instead of the usual pervasive Greek music there was a pop song in English, ``I Will Survive`` cover by OM, certainly not the original version by Gloria Gaynor; rather odd to hear a male singing it. However, we may have been fooled as we also heard another version of this in Spanish during lunch at La Fiesta restaurant March 10, and it sure sounded like a guy, but the maitre d` assured us it was a Cuban woman with a deep voice. At 1333 on 9420, however, Greek songs seguéd, 1512 on 15650, also Greek music from VOG; unknown whether this was really originating from ERA-2 rather than -5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAHAN. 15660, KSDA, March 11 at 1331, good S9+5 signal, ``The international voice(?) of Adventist World Radio in English, from Pune(?)``, and into song, ``I don`t know how to pray``. Per Aoki and HFCC, this semihour is in English except on Sundays and Wednesdays when it`s in Assamese. 15495, at 1511 March 11, weak signal in unknown language, preachy intonation. Aoki shows KSDA in Mizo AND R Free Asia via Tinian in Chinese, but the latter is not in the latest RFA schedule in DXLD 10-06, so collision avoided (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GOA. 15175, March 11 at 1529, muffled modulation, sort of like SSB but really with full carrier so BFO does not improve it, fluttery. Another imperfect performance of AIR Gujurati via Panaji at 1515-1600. Its modulation problems vary from day to day. This is 250 kW at 205 degrees for the substantial Gujurati community in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, who deserve better (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9680, RRI domestic relay, March 11 at 1433 with Indonesian talk and music, but QRM from something in Chinese also producing a rippling SAH (fast fading maybe 15 Hz caused by offset frequencies). I.e., ChiCom jamming or RTI. Meanwhile, down the hall at Cimanggis, the VOI transmitter was resting from 9525.9 during this hour, but back on at
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 9, 2010
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. R. Australia still missing from some frequencies, March 9: at 1343 discussion about English expressions, on 6020 and 9590 but not on 9580 or 9560. The latter weaky could have been there unheard, but 9580 definitely missing, clearing frequency for CRI via CUBA hash from 9570. After 1400, RA confirmed weakly on 6080 and 5995 vs YFR via Pet/Kam. Also missing: 7240 at 1458, normally from *1400, tho there was some weak signal on 7240, presumably Lhasa, 100 kW, 290 degrees, only thing else scheduled. At 1521, RA audible on 5995, 6080 and 9590 only. Noel Green has the explanation to DXLD: ``Radio Australia has reportedly suffered damage to the Shepparton facilities after a severe hail storm last week.`` He also found several higher RA frequencies missing earlier on March 9. Such a significant outage ought to be prominently explained on the homepage. Of course not! Then I try its internal search on HAIL SHEPPARTON, which gets zero hits, but instead asks ``did you mean DAILY CHARTING?`` Of course not! Off the wall, so helpful. BTW, the Australian city is spelt with an A, and the England one with an E, Shepperton, easy to remember, but critical for searching. Googling around, one can get lots of stuff about the hail hitting Shep and Melbourne, but unfound anything specifically about RA which is what really puts Shepparton on the world map. Hmm, wouldn`t it be nice if they had some backup/redundancy elsewhere in Australia, say Cox Peninsula? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake March 9: at 1345 on 9380 could tell it was in the mix with something, presumably Deutsche Welle in Dari via ARMENIA, which hardly deserves such treatment, rather than Sound of Hope. At 1458, Firedrake JBA on 8400 and definitely audible on 9000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 11600, DCJC normally starts at 1600 against alleged R. República ham-level transmitter in Central America which we have never detected, but March 9 the jamming pulses were already going at 1349. No collateral damagee at this hour, but Prague is on 11600 at 1400-1530 in English, French, Spanish; at 1502 the jamming was atop it. Commies vs ex-Commies! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CYPRUS [and non]. 17555-17580, OTH radar pulses, presumed from here, March 9 at 1436, bothering only a weak broadcaster on 17555, which must have been WYFR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. VOI, 9525.9, March 9 at 1346 at first seemed modulationless, but then could barely outmake the tones of the RRI Banjarmasin co-host on Tuesdays only. Useless (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, wonderful Kurdish music from the PKK terrorists, March 9 from 1415 to 1500*, i.e. V. of Mesopotamia, via UKRAINE. Good reception even on the breakfast table DX-390 with reel-out clip-on antenna extension. They got back on the air only two days after the raids in Belgium; from a different studio?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS ANTILLES. March 9 at 1439, no TDP DRM on 15745, nor TDP AM on 15760, so must have been a one-day-only test March 8. Andy Sennitt got the details from Jan Peter Werkman at RN. ``Hi Andy, Yes we did the DRM as planned on 15745 kHz and when it was on air we also decided to do it in AM on 15760 kHz to compare AM and DRM. Than a few minutes later we also tried 17840 kHz on 50 degrees in AM on the 3rd transmitter to compare propagation between 15760 and 17840 kHz. But this test only lasted a few minutes as the SWR was not good so we decided to shut down that transmission. This all at about 1300 UT. I am not aware of any other tests on 17 MHz later. Maybe Bonaire was testing on a dummy load. I don't know. The main purpose of this test was to try to feed the DRM data from the DRM content Server to the modulator in Bonaire via Internet as an MDI-stream for the first time. This was successful. Regards JP`` So it looks like 17840 must have been Bonaire too, as who else would be running RN programming on the same frequency later the same day? But it was certainly no dummy load. About The Disco Palace, the domain www.thediscopalace.com has been registered by TDP, so it appears it is really just another facet of Transmitter Documentation Project itself. The website is attributed to someone in Belgium. Give the homepage time to morph the virtual palace from day to night. Doubt we would find it on the 8th floor of a Miami building as given in the contact info; and do Alyx & Yeyi, what strange names, really exist? Maybe someone would drop in for a visit. The Disco Palace c/o Alyx & Yeyi, LLC 5201 Blue Lagoon Drive, 8th Floor Miami, FL 33126 U.S.A. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 18057.9, detectable very weak talk at 1437 March 9, third harmonic of R. Victoria, 6019.3 --- which had been causing a het to VOA Greenville, French until 0630 (Glenn H
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 8, 2010
** AUSTRALIA. Unlike normal G-VG reception, RA inaudible on 9560, 9580 and 9590, March 8 at 1327; it was OK on 6020. Weaker signals were there on 9585, 9595, not to mention CRI/Habana 9570 with its blobby mess. RA was also absent from 31m 24 hours earlier, so I am beginning to wonder if these transmitters are off the air, or the nightside TP MUF is unusually low. Strongest to weakest normally: 9580, 9590, 9560. Maintenance at Shepparton, or new schedule? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 15400, Chinese at 1358 March 8, no doubt HCJB as scheduled until 1430, 340 degrees. Then went to 15340 for their Urdu service at 307 degrees, and could only hear the het it makes with Morocco 15341. 1431 recheck, het and 15341 gone already, but only weak signal on 15340, too much Martí 15330 splash (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also MOROCCO ** CHINA. Firedrake March 8 at 1331, poor with flutter on 8400 and 9000. This pair had not been heard for a couple of weeks (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. 6115, CRI via CANADA, UT Monday March 8 at 0630 with Frontline show, convoluted tale of someone who sat outside staring at someone`s door all day, scaring the person inside who was aware of this thru a peephole. Could not stay awake for the resolution, but seems like odd programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. 15195, March 8 at 1607 good with Horn of Africa music including singer; 1612 announcement and now I notice there is also DRM-like noise on frequency, axually Ethiopian jamming of EOTC Holy Synod Radio, the clandestine which broadcasts Mondays only at 16-17 via Samara, RUSSIA site, per Aoki, and also reported by Wolfgang Büschel March 1 with such noise jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GOA. 15175, March 8 at 1516 with fluttery open carrier, no doubt AIR Gujurati via Panaji supposed to start at 1515 we have logged a couple times recently, but where`s the modulation this time? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9680.0, RRI Jakarta at 1326 March 8 with gamelan. Someone was wondering if this transmitter is off-frequency like VOI 9525v/9526v, but I have never heard an audible het on 9680, and now confirmed as matching a MW station, Louisiana? on 1680 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. 15410, surprised to find no signal from R. Farda, March 8 at 1358 but it was good with news at 1430. First tune-by may have been during transmission break switching from Lampertheim 100 kW to Skelton 300 kW site at 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. Wolfgang Büschel reported to DXLD and in BC-DX: ``Belgian police have raided sites in Brussels, Antwerp and other cities as part of an international investigation into connections with a Kurdish separatist group, the PKK. Turkey applauds arrests. 11530 kHz channel of Denge Mezopotamya from UKRAINE Mykolaiv Luch Posad-pokrovskote shortwave site is silent this morning March 5th.`` Sergei S. also found 11530 and night frequency 7540 missing March 4-5, but 11530 was back weakly on March 6. Voice of Mesopotamia is run by Roj TV, and on SW is brokered by TDP. A couple of background stories: http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/belgian-police-raid-offices-of-roj-tv http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5319300,00.html I checked 11530 on March 8: at 1332 I could tell it was there under WYFR Portuguese which runs until 1345. Then fluttery but in the clear at 1345 in Kurdish with phone rings and calls, pauses. At 1408 in music, 1417 Kurdish rap vying with TDP 15760 [see U S A [non]] to be the hippest, ha2. 1427 back to more traditional music. I sure hope Ludo Maes of TDP, a very nice fellow when you meet him, does not get ensnared into this terrorist investigation by associating with such shady characters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO. Seems RTM is taking longer than 4 minutes to change from 15341 to 15345, as previously timed. March 8 at 1358, het with 15340 which happens when HCJB Australia is propagating; but no het at 1431, so 15341 apparently off the air already. At 1517, 15345 was audible with whine but otherwise just barely modulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 15140, R. Sultanate of Oman inaudible around 1430 March 8 when has English news; as often happens, frustratingly improves after 1500 when in Arabic, e.g. March 8 at 1530 fair with Qur`an (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 18057.9, third harmonic of R. Victoria, Lima, OAX4Q, 3 kW on 6019.3, weakly audible at 1441 March 8 in Spanish; 1504 better than usual with wacky wailer David Miranda, so I also look for second and fourth harmonics. No, nothing on 24077.2 but locally hi noise around there; and nothing on 12038.6 except CODAR. Could be that its harmonicization favors odd numbers, i.e. fifth at 30096.5 but we`ll need a bit more MUF before that possiblizes. Keep
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 4, 2010
** CHINA. Firedrake music-only jamming on 9365 // 9380, March 4 at 1322, unheard elsewhere (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9690, AIR GOS carrier March 4 already on at 1318 with that hum we`d recognize anywhere. Sesquihour transmission to SE Asia does not start until 1330. Music at 1357 check seemed to have less hum that usual but still some. 9425, AIR National Channel via Bengaluru, March 4 at 1320-1321 playing Vande Matarm, the ``national song`` as it does every day at sign-on, 1321 announcement with frequencies; fair. Tnx to a tip from UADX, the Wikipedia entry about the controversial V.M.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vande_Mataram (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. 15690, March 4 at 1333 fair signal with flutter mentioning Iran and referencing the International Herald Tribune; it`s R. Farda, via Sri Lanka during this hour only, then frequency ceded to Portugal which we normally hear after 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5910, Shiokaze, Sea-Breeze via JSR, JAPAN, is back here ex-5985 where it was during February, found March 4 at 1423, YL in Japanese with mandatory sad piano music background, and nothing on 5985. No jamming audible. This 1400-1430 broadcast may have been on 5910 a few days, as we are lacking daily monitoring for it by the vacationing Ron Howard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, March 4 at 1424 a pirate with novelty songs. The music was so continuous that at first I thought it was carrierless, but during some pauses barely detected a reduced one. Signal kept the meter peaked at S9+12, and needed some attenuation to avoid pumping; SINPOly I would put it at 35544. 1427 faux-cigarette ad mentioning Maharishi, so is it the Voice of the Runaway? 1428 promo Bozo TV on YouTube, so is this WBZO? No, it`s ``Captain Ganja, here on Radio Free Euphoria``, and back to the rest of the show. One suspects there are a lot more pirate program names than transmitters out there. 1437 mentioned that he was going to raid the refrigerator after the broadcast; offering a twisted (?) E-QSL for reports to radiofreeeuphoria @ yahoo.com or captainganja @ wbcq.com and referred to a website for his artwork, but didn`t catch it, only mentioned once. 1440 song about marijuana, 1445 ``Don`t Bogart That Joint``, 1448-1450* SSTV and off with no further vocalisms (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. The R. Victoria harmonic on 18057.9 has not been audible this week. I figured it was just due to propagation, but there could be another reason: Fundamental 6019.3 off the air! Nothing there as I tuned by around 0700 UT March 4. Are others noting 6020.0 stations hetless elsewhen? A mixed blessing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES [and non]. 7480, Vietnamese-like language but not really, March 4 at 1324, atop oscillating/whine jamming. But at 1327 speaker concludes with ``amen``, and then a hymn. Also some intermittent ``running water`` ute QRM. 1329 YL announcement sounds like a different dialect; 1330 mentions Vietnam and Jesus Christ. FEBC, 50 kW due west from Iba site is scheduled in tribal languages only, 13-14. Per Aoki, at 1330 on Thursdays they are going from Stieng Bulo to Katu (also 1300 in Sedang, 1345 in Bru). So why in the world is this being jammed? Maybe because WRN has also reserved 7480 at 13-15 for something via Tashkent, so is there now something new and offensive to China or more likely North Korea? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** POLAND [non]. 11675, PRES via AUSTRIA, Thursday March 4 at 1339 caught the last part of Multi-Touch, solo-hosted by Swavek Chefs, about reception in the Dominican Republic by a visiting Finn, Reijo, who p-mailed a hefty report plus a postcard, and then someone complaining on the phone from England. Ended already at 1346 music break, 1350 YL with discourse on potatoes, and how they got their names in Polish. I soon found the MT program ondemand which started with discussion of low internet access in Poland: http://www.thenews.pl/radio/multimedia/artykul126796.html Multimedia used to start around 1324, so apparently has been shortened, as 1324 is still the time shown on the player, which however stopped after about 10 minutes before I got to the part where I intuned (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN [and non]. 17595, big empty hole March 4 at 1311 where REE normally inbooms starting at 1300; propagation not responsible as there are plenty of Eurosignals on 16m, and beyond, e.g. TURKEY on 17700. Next check at 1331, 17595 was on with headlines in Castilian. Next2 check at 1352, more Castilian news about Euzkadi, as despite being a ``co-official`` language, Basque is too risky to run even for a pentaminute. And // 11815 via Costa Rica before the co-channel from Turkey starts at 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWEDEN [and non]. 11550
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 2-3, 2010
** ANGUILLA [non]. 11775, DGS missing March 3 at 1621 as I was checking for // to WWCR 13845, see USA; a very weak signal instead with something else, presumably VOA in Persian via Biblis, GERMANY, as scheduled 1530-1630. Maybe Caribbean Beacon, an ID they never really give, will still be off tonight from 6090, which would be more helpful, but don`t count on it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [and non]. 6160, March 3 at 1340 open carrier atop CKZU Vancouver, with the same SAH we hear after 1400. Therefore, CBC`s RCI not only brazenly interferes with CBC Vancouver during the 14-15 UT hour for its non-direxional relay via KOREA SOUTH in Mandarin, but allows KBS to turn the transmitter on that ill-chosen same frequency at least a third of an hour early. Recheck at 1357, the RCI IS has started (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake March 3: found only on 9380, at 1354, against unheard Sound of Hope, and tough luck, DW; QRM from WWRB 9385 BS splash, and WTWW 9480 PPP overload. At 1452 found another FD, on 7580, still unexplained and unlisted by Aoki, and by now not heard on 9380. CNR1 is all over the place as jamming, including some frequencies with echo, removing any doubt it is legitimate, such as 11895, March 3 at 1421. Aoki shows the a*terisked victim as BBC in Chinese via Singapore at 1300-1530 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 7220, March 3 at 1359:46 starting REE IS, before cutting to CRI sign-on at 1400, the usual pattern from Kunming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CYPRUS. OTH radar pulses, presumed from here, March 3 at 1412 on 15258-15283, so 15285 Wertachtal escapable by off-tuning upward. Still same at 1512 recheck. Then at 1516 heard exactly same sound but much weaker on 15738-15763 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CZECHIA [and non]. R. Prague might want to reconsider retaining 11600 and dumping 13580 in its one-transmitter-at-a-time austerity measures, for Spanish at 1500. March 3 at 1504, could make out RP theme and Spanish, but co-channel from weaker station with music, plus het. Nothing else scheduled, and not the Cuban noise jamming which starts at 1600, but maybe still to do with the Cuban radio war, or something out of east Asia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, R. Africa, at 1513 March 3, S9+10 signal, but just barely modulated preacher in English. And he is paying good money for this? So many gullible gospel huxters pays their money and never monitors, a good business for the unethical broadcaster. But the preacher gets the satisfaxion of imagining he is converting Africans (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GOA. 15175, AIR IS at 1514 March 3, only a few audio dropouts and decent modulation for a change, flutter with S9+5 peaks, 1515 opening Gujarati (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. VOI, 9526-, March 3 at 1355, undermodulated music toward end of English hour; off the air during the 14 UT hour, but back on at 1457 check with more undermodulated strummin` `n` singin`, atop het from CRI East Turkistan 9525.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBYA [and non]. Here`s another station without a clue what frequency they are really on! 21695, March 3 at 1405, tune in to frequency announcement in English, ``17850 at 4-6 pm, that is 2-4 pm GMT``, and shortly, ``Voice of Africa from the Great Jamahiriyah``. Have they moved on 16m? Of course not! Still on // 17725, while at 1408, 17850 bears usual BBC Somali via Cyprus (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA/SARAWAK. 5030, RTM Kuching, March 3 at 1402, S9+12 in talk, presumed news in Iban from Wai FM network relay, and would have been quite readable if I understood a word of Iban; some Cuba 5025 music splash, but quite a good signal for Swk. At 1454 music still audible on 5030 once Cuba had almost outfaded (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO. RTM missing from 15341 and 15345, March 3 at 1412. HCJB Australia not propagating so missed its chance to come thru unscathed on 15340 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [and non]. 6075, R. Rossii, Pet/Kam, March 3 at 1359-1400+*, motorboating as usual and impossible to zero-beat, no sign now of 8GAL V/CQ marker on 6074. Once RR was off, weak Chinese on 6075, either RTI or ChiCom jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. As I expected, nothing from REE on 9690, March 3 at 0607, 24 hours after they had a very good signal, apparently transmitted by mistake on that frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CHINA ** SWEDEN [non]. 15480, started looking for new transmission at 1411 March 3, but too early; at next check 1511, VG signal with SW Asian music, 1512 talk in unID language, but according to Wolfgang Büschel, it`s IBRA Radio via Rampisham UK, in Dari during this semihour amid 1430-1545 transmission in Pashtu before
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 10-11, 2010
** ALBANIA. 13640, R. Tirana, good signal as usual at tune-in 1556 Feb 11, but it`s in Albanian instead of English! mentioning Balkan countries until off abruptly at 1600*. I wonder if the entire semihour was in Albanian by mistake, or if this just filled out the hour after the English part which usually ends a few minutes early. Wolfgang Büschel was also listening and says it was entirely Albanian from 1530; perhaps a feeder problem (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6580, typical DCJC-style pulsing at 0650 Feb 11; it would cut off for a split second now and then as if for a monitoring check. Never could hear any target, but it bothered aero 2-way SSB communications around 6577 and another frequency on the hi side. I also compared it to DCJC on 7405 vs Martí, and by tuning to a sideband of that, the pulsing perfectly matched 6580. See also USA: WRMI RHC missing from 15120, but weaker 15360 signal still there at 1324 check Feb 11. I was about to remark that the audio distortion on RHC 11800 had improved; until at 1359 Feb 11 I tuned plus and minus 6 kHz or so, encountering slush from this transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. 7210-LSB, exile hams with polemical remarx surely intended to be overheard as quasi-broadcasts, Feb 11 at 1308, primarily Raúl, N4RAU in Miami, as last heard Jan 14 in DXLD 10-03. This time he was saying that once communism is eliminated in Venezuela there won`t be a drop of oil for Cuba, where the economy will really collapse (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 15710, Feb 11 at 1327, distorted music and talk in Indonesian, mentioning Indonesia, and Cairo, what else but R. Cairo itself with usual defective broadcast, but it has been worse (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI with YL talking about IRI, universities, in ``Miscellany`` segment ending at 1333, another one tomorrow; on to ``Music Corner`` from Bali. Some hum and flutter, a bit undermodulated but sufficient. 1401 signing off in English, 1403 opening in Malay or Indonesian, hard to discern which, as heard no mention of BM or BI, then warta berita, with more hum vs audio than during English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5910, Shiokaze again in English on a Thursday, Feb 11 at 1407 via JSR JAPAN: descriptions of abductees, atop lite Juche jamming noise. So the DPRK dictator even fears people hearing this in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. WWCR 15825 and 13845 instead of the usual marginal skip-over or backscatter signals at our distance of only one megameter from Nashville, reached very good levels at 1518 UT Feb 10, a sure tipoff that off-season sporadic E is in play, which may or may not ascend into the VHF range. Started monitoring channel 2 on analog TV, and nothing showed until finally at 2105 UT, a mixture of stations in Spanish on channel 2, which I am always too quick to assume are Mexicans, altho the probability is high. By 2130, channel 3 was also in with one dominant station showing cartoons in Spanish; by 2145 there was a Spanish drama on channel 4; and by 2147 the MUF was up to channel 5 video with signs of skip. Hard to get any IDs but at 2150, channel 3 had a Mexican government PSA and mention of Televisa, which could be from many different locations. MUF declined somewhat, but still channel 2 at 2247. Meanwhile I checked the 6-meter DX map at http://www.vhfdx.net/spots/map.php?Lan=E&Frec=50&Map=NA which showed NO activity at all! Wake up, hams. Around 0100 UT Feb 11, long after the TVDX had outfaded here, that map had lines all over it, from central to western NAm, with the Es patch around NW Kansas, too close to here, and then numerous other TVDXers were reporting activity in that area (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** POLAND [non]. 11675, PRES via AUSTRIA, Thu Feb 11 at 1335 with documentary on whisperers, supposedly performing natural healing, Slavonic folk magic. Unnamed program ended a 1348 until next week. ID by Swavek Chefs as the ES of PR, on to next unnamed show about eating offal, with harp music, culminating in a recipe for tripe soup. Glad I wasn`t eating breakfast yet. May have been the Letter from Poland lady, which had been scheduled in this time segment, but what became of Multimedia before it, or rather Multitouch --- has that been completely canceled, or moved? The program grid still hasn`t been revised since 10.5 months ago: http://www.thenews.pl/static/Schedule.aspx 1356 sign-off announcement, with P-mail address, e-mail english.section @ polishradio.pl and fill with rock music postlude. Went looking for text or audio archives, and found nothing on these subjects yet, not even under today`s date, nor the last few days in case the wrong hour was being played back; but under Multimedia link, a 16-minute file of the Feb 2 program, none since: ``February 1st marked
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** CHINA. Firedrake Dec 15 at 1448: 8400 fair, 9000 JBA, 10210 none, 11300 good steady at S9+10 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. DentroCuban Jamming Command against nothing, on 7365 pulsing away at 0623 Dec 15, managing to impede two adjacent frequencies in French: 7370 Romania and weaker 7360 Vatican. The only time jamming is `necessary` on 7365 is when R. Martí is using it, -0500, but hey, close enough for Commie government work. Much heavier jamming on 7405 which R. Martí is axually using until 0700. But at 0705 check, no jamming at all on 7365 or 7405, instead concentrating on 6030 and 5980. A brief very strong open carrier and tone did appear on 7405 until 0706, Greenville testing? See also USA: WRMI; UNIDENTIFIED 15580. RHC, UT Dec 15 at 0704* tuned in 6010 just in time to hear English news being cut off the air abruptly four minutes late; continued on 6060, while 6140 in English before 0700 had switched to Spanish, along with 6120 and 6150. This appears to be the nominal pattern for what happens around 0700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 6185, XEPPM, Dec 15 at 0630 with space music one might have heard on ``Music from the Hearts of Space``; tnx to the eclectic format of R. Educación, you never know what kind of music they will be playing during the all-too-brief QRM-free window, which tonight lasted until *0645 Brasília playing Silent Night in progress in Portuguese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TUNISIA. Monitored RTT on 7275 again Dec 15 to see when it would go off, at 0627:30 like yesterday? Almost: YL started outro to previous music, with cuckoo-clock sounds, but faded her out after a few Arabic words, OC and off by 0627:20; continued on // 7335 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 9955, WRMI, clear of jamming Dec 15 at 0657 ending ``El Camino`` religious program, brief fill music, 0659 IDs and reception report info by Jeff White, 0701 R. Prague relay in English. Back to usual very heavy jamming, no WRMI audible before 1500 UT. Between 1505 and 1510 the jamming noise gradually abated audiblizing another R. Prague relay in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Two MARS nets noted the morning of Dec 15: 4623-SSB, Navy MARS, which still exists, was just securing at 1422 with ``final comments``. Copied one call among several weak stations, NNN0YQP, the last three letters expressed fonetically. Frequency approximate as did not have a chance to measure it or determine which sideband. Googling on that call I got ONE hit, Sept 2009! Internet security must be pretty tight. http://www.navymars.org/national/cmi/CMIB-2009-35.txt ``NNN0YQP JAMEWS WI 10 YEARS OF SERVICE`` 4517-USB, Air Force MARS, 1425 with NCS AFE7DM, strongest signal, discussing QRM, where it was being heard and where not in parts of the ``Midwest`` --- and just what states that term applies to. Called the QRM ``sweeper``, ``Star Wars``, one station even imitating it with his mouth, but never called it CODAR, making me wonder if they know what it really is. AFE7DM was using group callsign NCM3 in his calls for other check-ins. Some of them were hearing CODAR relayed from other stations over linx. 1438 ``the net is free`` and individual stations contacted each other without management by the net control station. Googling on that call got five hits, including: http://region3digital.tripod.com/ ``AFE7DM (NC Area Digital Manager) is Conrad Steinel, AFA7VP located in Emporia, KS``. NC means North Central, even tho Emporia`s latitude is about one sesquidegree south of the geographical center of the Lower 48 in north-central Kansas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Another quick MW bandscan on the caradio at a hotspot in western Enid the afternoon of Dec 14, times UT! 1200, at 2137, skywave in, something in Spanish atop WOAI, various ads for juguetes, etc., causing slow SAH with WOAI; later mentioned ``Chicago informa … 1,200 AM``. So it`s WRTO, 10 kW, ``La Tremenda`` per NRC AM Log 2009-2010. Strangely enough, per NRC pattern book, its daytime design has a null to the SE, but plenty of signal to the SW. WOAI soon faded up overtaking it, but 1200 is hardly a ``clear channel`` any more! 540, at 2144, KWMT Ft Dodge IA, groundwave, with two or three IDs in passing during info about local events. Usually it`s a mix with KDFT, but no sign of Spanish this time; the latter off the air? If it stays off I may finally have a chance of inpulling KNMX by daytime groundwave, which ought to be possible here. 570, at 2147, usual mix of KLIF with groundwave from WNAX SD, way under but audible with SAH of about 3.5 Hz. Someone was wondering whether WNAX was running usual spex; seems so to me (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15580, listening to weak signal from VOA in English news, Dec 15 at 1451, it was overridden for
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 3, 2009
** BURMA [non]. 17495, weak signal in unID language, Dec 3 at 1433 and still at 1522. Has to be Democratic Voice of Burma, the only thing scheduled, at 1430-1530 via MADAGASCAR. Well, WBCQ is also registered here but has not used this frequency in years; kept as an alternate to 15420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake Dec 3 at 1324: nil on 9000, 11300, JBA on 8400, 10210 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CYPRUS. 11640-11665, OTH radar pulses, presumed from here, Dec 3 at 1400, not really bothering any broadcasters audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. AIR National Channel, signing on Dec 3 at 1319 IS, 1320 Vande Mataram announced and that anthem played, poor on 9425 and very poor on 9470, but no blob. Meanwhile, VBS on 9870 from Bengaluru, same transmitter site as 9425 but different azimuth, was a great deal better at 1329 with music, mentioned Masala, 1330 ``Yih Vividh Bharati`` ID by YL, 3-pip TOH timesignal which was 6 sex late compared to WWV! And Akashvani ID, presumed news (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9525.9, VOI modulation in English somewhat better Dec 3 before 1400, and even better during the Malay hour following, which 1435-1455 was almost all music, more modern than the gamelan on RRI 9680, with similar signal and modulation. 1457, 9525.9 IDed only in English, not Malay, and immediately cut off air before CRI Kashgar could cut on. Usually there is an overlap as VOI restarts English and a few minutes of that goes out past 1500 before its own very rude and abrupt cutoff (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6104.8, XEQM Mérida, Dec 3 at 1338, conversation in Spanish fading in and out, then music with heavy beat; no het, but splash from Cuba 6110. Made sure it was really not on 6105.0, where it seems we have a one-hour no-QRM window between Taiwan closing at 1300 and VOA Philippines opening at 1400, nominal times. XEOI was also in clear on 6010 with much better signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** POLAND [non]. PRES, cane across 11860 in English at 1345 Thursday Dec 3, so quickly retuned to always better // 11675 via AUSTRIA. Slawek Szefs was talking about the ubiquitous Christopher Lewis, who is going to visit R. Prague next week, and wants a report from him about that. Then clips of Chris on phone edited tightly together about PRES reception in England: 11675 is perfect every day; 11860 has some co-channel interference. 9650 in the evening (1800) is a total washout, a shame since it`s just not listenable, very weak, not worth the expense, due to propagation conditions, and low modulation. Altho two days last week it was outstanding, faded out by 25 past the hour. Suggest change of site for this from UAE to Austria or somewhere better for Europe. France or even UK would be preferable on 3 MHz band, where Skelton is well heard relaying other stations. This was the Multimedia show, ending at 1349, then promo for Off Sides, a sports-cum-music show on Fridays, repeated weekends, and then today, Letter from Poland, by a YL visitor, or resident from abroad, complaining amusingly about how hard it is to travel by train, due to confusing signage and grouchy ticket agents. 1357 signing off, 1358 filling with a bit of Polish reggae, or so it sounded (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. 12035, VOT, Thursday Dec 3 at 1416, fair signal but low modulation and cutting out, distorted toward end of Live from Turkey. Not even worth checking // 15300, colliding as it does with France (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9385, WWRB with open carrier only at 1320 Dec 3, and still 1325, after having moved up from 3185. Next check not until 1435 when Brother Scare had begun modulating madness sometime in the interim (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Almost three weeks after `Tony Alámo` was sentenced to 175 years for child sexual abuse, he`s still on WINB, Dec 3 around 1335 on 9265. I wasn`t going to bother to report this again, but there is something else to outpoint: 9265 signs off at 1400, but other frequency 13570 had still not come on at 1524, which means that on weekdays, they have nothing between the two Hoffman broadcasts at 13-14 and 16-17 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5000, right after the WWV propagation info finished at 18 past the hour, circa 1318:30, Dec 3, I heard a bit of CW, but not prepared to copy. I wonder if this is when BPM China identifies; must be alert for it again. 5030 was in well from Beijing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list hard-core...@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 2, 2009
** BRAZIL [and non]. The Dec 2 cut-on time for RNA Brasília, blasting away drumming played by XEPPM MEXICO on 6185 was: *0637 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake Dec 2 at 1351: nil on 8400, poor on 9000, very poor on 10210, just barely audible on 11300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. CNR1 Beijing, 5030, still audible in Chinese as late as 1520 Dec 2 eased by weakening Cuba 5025, and usual fast SAH which I can only assume is Malaysia Sarawak, always underneath. // 4460 CNR1 not audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CYPRUS. 12460-12485, OTH radar pulses, presumed from here, Dec 2 at 1410, mixing with CODAR on the hi side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA [and non]. 9525.9, VOI modulation somewhat better Dec 2 at 1356 in English giving website http://www.voi.co.id Fairly weak het from Kashgar 9525.0 cut on at 1457, so could still hear VOI at 1501 transitioning from Malay back to English, program summary for today`s date, 1502 news starting with something about villages in Bali, 1503 cut off, clearing CRI English, the weak signal left (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWEDEN. What luck, heard R. Sweden on both 9360 and weaker 9400, Dec 2 at 1459 with IS, ID and opening Swedish, both from Hörby, 125 and 100 degrees respectively. And --- both bothered by splatter from WWRB/Brother Scare on 9385, so neither really listenable. In this area you have to be careful to match the spurs/splash with 9385 or 9370 whence WTJC also makes a mess (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9265, `Tony Alámo` still on WINB, 9265, Dec 2 at 1353 as he started to sing ``Mister DJ``. O, how we shall miss him, but when? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 6224-USB, Dec 2 at 1506, WHW283 calling various vessels(?) by name rather than callsign. Brief check-ins, always responded to with ``if you have nothing else, I`ll talk to you in the morning``. Was not certain of callsign since op slurred it, could have been ``three-eighty-three``. He was too close to the mike or something, distorting, but no accent. Most of the captains replying had Spanish accents, and much weaker signals, and `283 greeted them by their mostly Spanish names. Some calls went to: at 1508, Queen Mary (not, I assume, the original one), 1510 Veracruz, 1511 Santa Mónica. The last one did not reply and shortly afterwards WHW283 quit. In next few minutes did hear a few inter-ship(?) contacts, including funny cartoonish voice, jajajajajá; 1519 some whistling. Googling on the callsign I got one significant hit, http://www.city-data.com/towers/other-Port-Isabel-Texas.html listing a whole bunch of stations, few of them HF, including this: ``400 Washington St (Lat: 26.087861 Lon: -97.206083), Type: Building, Overall height: 3 m, Call Sign: WHW283, Licensee ID: L1942 Assigned Frequencies : 4.12640 MHz, 6.22540 MHz, 6.22840 MHz, 156.350 MHz, 156.450 MHz, 156.800 MHz Grant Date: 01/25/1999, Expiration Date: 03/17/2004, Cancelation Date: 04/23/2004 Registrant: Texas Gulf Trawling Co Inc, Po Drawer Ae, Port Isabel, TX 78578`` The 6.22540 MHz listing apparently relates to a reference frequency 1140 Hz below it which is the way to report SSB logs, 6224.0 kHz and could also be on 6227.0. Oops, grant expired 5.8 years ago! Outdated info on this page? Looks like a daily 9 am CT net (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6074, 8GAL V/CQ CW marker not heard Dec 2, checked at 1359-1401, just 6075 Russia and China broadcasts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list hard-core...@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 October 6, 2009
** ALBANIA. Monitored most of R. Tirana English to NAm on 13625, Tue Oct 6: 1434 the only announcer amid news of political matters, 1435 ID and about Kosovo; 1438 end of news and into press review, about the prime minister`s first official visit to Kosovo. 1441 she started reading reception reports, almost all from familiar names: Kevin Molander in the USA, someone in Ireland, Sue Hickey in Canada, Edwin Southwell in UK. Soon launched into a talk about film music, the Albanian RTV orchestra, foreign conductors, in a reply to Edwin? Anyhow that was still part of In-Box, which ended at 1449, then song until 1457 goodbye and theme, 1457:30* off. Signal was a steady S9+15 and modulation almost sufficient, no QRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 6 at 1312: good on 9000, poor on 8400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Anomaly report for Oct 6: at 0550, RHC English on 6010 during music, splattering 5995-6025, almost merging with the DentroCuban Jamming Command noise on 6030! 6140 and 6060 also in English service, 6000 in Spanish JBA, and 6120 Spanish still missing. Suspect it is the same transmitter as had been on 11800 daytime, altho more distorted when there, as it too misses at 1428 check. Matching rapid clicking sounds, too narrowband to be OTH radar, Oct 6 centered about 11881 and 11981, and suspected to be spurious from the DCJC on 11930 and/or 11845. At 1433 found strong RHC signal on 13780 again suffering from squeal. Leapfrog over squealless 13680 landing on 13580 was strong enough to bother R. Prague (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. Monolinguals feeling left out from the exile side of the Cuban radio war have one program from the fueracubans in English: CDHD Brigade on WRMI, 9955. Among other times it`s 1515 Tuesdays. Tuned in at 1524 Oct 6 as W&M were discussing the downside of the big concert in Habana recently from the Plaza de la Revolución, which she said is an ugly place for any positive peaceful event, surrounded by government and military edifices. G signal on NW antenna, no jamming audible, preceding WORLD OF RADIO 1480 at 1530 (Glenn Hauser, OK, D XLISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT [and non]. 15255, Oct 6 at 1454 with two signals making a SAH, and one of them with intermittent tones atop the other in a S Asian language. Uplooked later in Aoki, Family Radio via Nauen, Germany in Bengali until 1500, then R. Cairo in Albanian. At 1525, Cairo was alone mentioning `Salaam Aleikum`, undermodulated. 1530 ID clinched by timesignal and Cairo news march (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. AIR Aligarh 9470 blob Oct 6 at 1317 centered on 9465 but extremely distorted FMy spread at least 9460-9475, with IS // 9425, 1320 announced and played Vande Mataram, 1321 Akashvani sign-on mentioning kHz at least twice, into music. By 1335, R. Thailand in Thai on 9455 was being splashed by this menace to the neighborhood, which has no business being on the air at all under such conditions. Mauno Ritola in Finland says this has been going on for three months! It seems AIR Engineering is totally incompetent; or the bureaucracy only requires the transmitter to be turned on every day, not that it funxion properly and not interfere with other stations. No one could possibly listen to this garbled mess voluntarily, so this 11-hour-daily transmission is serving no purpose whatsoever, meanwhile wasting 250 kW, the cost of which could have fed countless starving poor or flooded-out homeless. Sadly, the same situation can be found at some other government broadcasters, notably Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Meanwhile I enjoyed the VBS mostly music on 9870 with an even better signal than 9425, at 1350-1420, still the case at 1506. By 1425, found that Aligarh was still centred on 9465, spread expanded to 9450-9480; but at 1506 the blob had weakened considerably tnx to the ionosphere (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. RRI Pontianak, Kalimantan presumed, 3976 with music Oct 6 at 1247. Just as I switched on the BFO to pin down the frequency compared to anything on 5975, it dumped off the air at 1248* 4925, RRI Jambi, Sumatra, presumed, Oct 6 at 1252 YL singing ballad, occasional brief announcements, 1300 mentioned ``Republik``, likely in ID, and 10-note IS (or was it 11?) played thrice, 1301 YL with talk, presumed news. That IS is of particular interest, specific to Jambi? 4750, RRI Makassar, as usual stronger signal than Jambi 4925, but 4750 has co-channel QRM, and at 1302 was still playing music rather than news. I still look for other 60m Indos, finding nothing on 4605 or 4790 which have been inactive for months, but there was a trace of something around 4870. 9525.9, VOI – if it`s Tuesday, must be Banjarmasin. Tune in at 1322 Oct 6 but modulation is JBA with hum, sounds like the Banj guy talking about quakes. 1324 ID as ``Exotic Indonesia, broadcast live by VOI Jakarta
[HCDX] DX Listening Digest 5-171; WOR Extra 61; COM 05-09
DX Listening Digest 5-171 has now been posted at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt or http://dxld.worldofradio.org CONTENTS: WOR Extra 61 / COM 05-09 / AFGHANISTAN / AUSTRALIA ABCWA / AUSTRALIA DTV / CANADA RCI/DRM / CANADA CBC/CMG / CHAD / COLOMBIA / COSTA RICA / CUBA +non / DENMARK / GERMANY / INTERNATIONAL INTERNET ITU / INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM XM/Sirius / INTERNATIONAL WATERS Coalition / ITALY non / KOREA NORTH / KURDISTAN non / LAOS / MALAYSIA B05 / MEXICO +non / MONGOLIA B05 / NETHERLANDS +non DRM+ / PALESTINE / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PHILIPPINES / PORTUGAL / RUSSIA / SINGAPORE / SRI LANKA / SUDAN / UK BBCWS / UK Ramadan / UK BBCR4 / USA KVOH / USA WBCQ / USA WFUV / USA KMOX/KTRS / VIETNAM non / ZIMBABWE / TINY TRAP / PUBLICATIONS / CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / PROPAGATION After the following issue, 5-172 has been published, 5-171 will be available at http://www.worldofradio.com/dxld5171.txt For restrixions and searchable 2005 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn NEXT AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO Extra 61: Fri 0200 WOR ACBRadio Mainstream [repeated 2-hourly thru 2400] Fri 2000 WOR RFPI [repeated 4-hourly thru 1600 Sat] Fri 2105 WOR World FM, Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand 88.2 Sat 0400 WOR VoiceCorps Reading Service, WOSU-FM subcarrier, cable Sat 0800 WOR WRN to Eu, Au, NZ, WorldSpace AfriStar, AsiaStar Sat 0855 WOR WNQM Nashville TN 1300 Sat 1000 WOR WPKN Bridgeport CT 89.5 & WPKM Montauk LINY 88.7 Sat 1600 WOR R. Veronica 106.5 Sat 1730 WOR WRN to North America (including Sirius Satellite Radio channel 140 ex-115) Sat 2100 WOR WRMI 7385 Sat 2300 WOR Radio Studio X 1584 http://www.radiostudiox.it/ Sun 0230 WOR WWCR 5070 Sun 0300 WOR WBCQ 9330-CLSB Sun 0630 WOR WWCR 3210 Sun 0730 WOR World FM, Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand 88.2 Sun 0830 WOR WRN to North America, also WLIO-TV Lima OH SAP (including Sirius Satellite Radio channel 140 ex-115) Sun 0830 WOR KSFC Spokane WA 91.9 Sun 0830 WOR WXPR Rhinelander WI 91.7 91.9 100.9 Sun 0830 WOR WDWN Auburn NY 89.1 [unconfirmed] Sun 0830 WOR KTRU Houston TX 91.7 [occasional] Sun 1300 WOR KRFP-LP Moscow ID 92.5 Sun 1400 WOR WRMI 7385 Sun 1730 WOR WRN1 to North America (including Sirius Satellite Radio channel 140 ex-115) Sun 1900 WOR RNI Mon 0300 WOR WBCQ 9330-CLSB Mon 0330 WOR WSUI Iowa City IA 910 Mon 0415 WOR WBCQ 7415 [usually closer to 0418-] Mon 1600 WOR WBCQ after hours Mon 1800 WOR RFPI [repeated 4-hourly thru 1400 Tue] Tue 1600 WOR WBCQ after hours Tue 2330 WOR WBCQ 7415 [usually but temporary] Wed WOR CJOY INTERNET RADIO plug-in required [ex Sat 1600] Wed 0930 WOR WWCR 9985 Wed 1600 WOR WBCQ after hours Latest edition of this schedule version, with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html WRN ON DEMAND: http://new.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24 OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO [also CONTINENT OF MEDIA, MUNDO RADIAL]: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org WORLD OF RADIO Extra 61 (high version): (stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/worx61h.ram (download) http://www.w4uvh.net/worx61h.rm [Extra 61 is same as COM 05-07; high version adds WOR opening] WORLD OF RADIO Extra 61 (low version): (stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/com0507.ram (download) http://www.w4uvh.net/com0507.rm (summary) http://www.worldofradio.com/com0507.html WORLD OF RADIO Extra 61 in true SW sound of Alex`s mp3 (stream) http://www.dxprograms.net/worldofradio_09-28-05.m3u (download) http://www.dxprograms.net/worldofradio_09-28-05.mp3 WORLD OF RADIO Extra 61 downloads in studio-quality mp3: (high) http://www.obriensweb.com/worx61h.mp3 (low) http://www.obriensweb.com/worx61.mp3 WORLD OF RADIO PODCAST: www.obriensweb.com/wor.xml (currently: 1284, Extra 60, 1285, 1286, 1287, 1288, Extra 61) CONTINENT OF MEDIA 05-09: Coming shortly: (stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/com0509.ram (download) http://www.w4uvh.net/com0509.rm Regards, Glenn Hauser __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is out. Order yours from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://arizona.hard-core-dx.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
