[HCDX] foreign LW/MW DX loggings (DEC 31, 2008 - JAN 4, 2009)
Season's greetings to all of you ! Make sure 2009 will make falling asleep more natural without the ever-present temptation of turning your radio on and of getting out of bed by pure curiosity during the last few seconds it takes to disconnect from the DXer friendly world ! This resumes well what I did three nights ago. DXing, DXing and...again DXing, turning up and down both the LW and MW bands until around 5 o'clock when I couldn't stand any sound other than my own breath ! A new way to start 2009 was to relog 1 or 2 seldom heard Latins during semi-auroral condx, while DXing wasn't really above-average, but promising, though promising in vain as tonight was extremely poor for both Latin MW and TA LW DX and the moderate CME didn't turned my Montreal area QTH into a concrete based house with concrete roof and a big window near the radio toward the south... Well, into the logs !... Trans-Atlantic DX 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis JAN 2 0607 UTC - noted in passing with morning show in FF at a good level through moderate computer-like QRN. + JAN 3 0628 - promo for Comment voyager... trip and adventure-related px - dimanche sur France Inter, then extensive traffic weather reports, followed by a short newscast about a 6 months jail sentenced for a youngster who stoled a car, etc. Very good to fair. SINPO 45332 +JAN 3 0855 - w/ talk about the real value of life, then greetings to the sociologist who made the speech, extensive traffic and eather annc, time pips during the weather, then jingle leading to nx. (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador JAN 3 0355 UTC - at tune-in w/ a raï number followed by warm comments by the DJ who introduced, both in FF AA, the latest track by HJ singer Juanes (which seems popular worldwide, even in my native Romania). SINPO 35343 with a fair signal and very minor high-pitched growl from a computer or from several computers in the neighborhood. The best LW broadcast signal this evening ! When this one, usually 9575 isn't propagated and vice-versa. 9575 is better during the greyline and 171 way before sunrise at the tx-site and way after sunset in Montreal, at least it seems to be that way according to my own observations. This is the only Moroccan that seems to be received in the Montreal area on LW. The target of Azilal 207 is always buried in NDB QRM; in fact, even marginary level audio wasn't heard (yet) from the Azilal RTM outlet on 207 kHz. Well... +JAN 3 0406 UTC - up to a very good peak right now (S5 over S7) playing a dance oriented raï vocal with exotic female voice Mon amour; only the chorus is in FF, the rest of the tune is in AA ! +JAN 3 0424 UTC - with a musical request toward two lovers with mention ...Florent Pagny sur Medi Un, then the soft-rock MoR vocal Savoir aimer by Florent Pagny recorded again in duo with FF-Canadian singer Isabelle Boulay, then the DJ greeted a Casablanca listener who requested a Raï duo. Good ! With the CATV disconnected from upstairs, the only QRN consists of a slight high-pitched growl, instead of the unbearable buzz that hammered reception on this channel (and many others) just a few days ago ! This appears to be bilingual AA/FF px with musical request of mainly more or less upbeat FF/EE/SS/AA songs. +JAN 3 0452 UTC - almost completly lost due to tx-site sunrise, but still hanging on with trad. AA mx ! (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg JAN 2 0345-0903+ UTC - ending the nighttime talk show talking about the helpful relationship between animals and criminals or autistic children (zootherapy). Then at 0400, Europe 1 Info begun with the announcement of some astonishing events, for exemple the burning of cars around the 31th of December with the burning rate being 30% higher than the past year (1147 cars were fired up ! according to the Europe 1 anncr.) and also some strange weather notes about the current temprature in the eastern suburbs of Paris which was -8C. Weird, as the Gulf Stream should make exceptionnal anything under 0 C, EVEN AT THIS time of the year ! Very good and still hanging on at a poor level at 0903 UTC (03:03 AM EST). This was the loudest broadcast signal on LW, while RUV-189 was apparently knocked out by the semi-auroral condx... Still surprised to get this as even regular MW TAs such as Spain-585 were absent and Colombia-770 made several showings burrying the NYC powerhouse, WABC. +JAN 3 2355 - Very strong w/ end of a talkshow about wife complaining that their husbands or boyfriends are too much into music (just like me!), then an ugly FF chansonnette leading to the end of the show, followed by nx, sx and wx, then Si vous devez nous écouter sur les Grandes Ondes, rendez-vous maintenant sur la FM closing annc of the Germany-183 tx, then Europe 1, Europe 1 singed jingle, then switched abruptly to dead air after the first tone of a coming song, then off the air for good leaving only a SLIGHT amount of powerlines-like noise... Seems
[HCDX] foreign domestic LW/MW logs (DEC 31, 2008 - JAN 3, 2009) that did feat. semi-au condx.
Season's greetings to all of you ! Make sure 2009 will make falling asleep more natural without the ever-present temptation of turning your radio on and of getting out of bed by pure curiosity during the last few seconds it takes to disconnect from the DXer friendly world ! This resumes well what I did the past night. DXing, DXing and...again DXing, turning up and down both the LW and MW bands until around 5 o'clock when I couldn't stand any sound other than my own breath ! A new way to start 2009 was to relog 1 or 2 seldom heard Latins during semi-auroral condx, while DXing wasn't really above-average, but promising, though promising in vain as tonight was extremely poor for both Latin MW and TA LW DX and the moderate CME didn't turned my Montreal area QTH into a concrete based house with concrete roof and a big window near the radio toward the south... Well, into the logs !... Trans-Atlantic DX 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis JAN 2 0607 UTC - noted in passing with morning show in FF at a good level through moderate computer-like QRN. + JAN 3 0628 - promo for Comment voyager... trip and adventure-related px - dimanche sur France Inter, then extensive traffic weather reports, followed by a short newscast about a 6 months jail sentenced for a youngster who stoled a car, etc. Very good to fair. SINPO 45332 +JAN 3 0855 - w/ talk about the real value of life, then greetings to the sociologist who made the speech, extensive traffic and eather annc, time pips during the weather, then jingle leading to nx. (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador JAN 3 0355 UTC - at tune-in w/ a raï number followed by warm comments by the DJ who introduced, both in FF AA, the latest track by HJ singer Juanes (which seems popular worldwide, even in my native Romania). SINPO 35343 with a fair signal and very minor high-pitched growl from a computer or from several computers in the neighborhood. The best LW broadcast signal this evening ! When this one, usually 9575 isn't propagated and vice-versa. 9575 is better during the greyline and 171 way before sunrise at the tx-site and way after sunset in Montreal, at least it seems to be that way according to my own observations. This is the only Moroccan that seems to be received in the Montreal area on LW. The target of Azilal 207 is always buried in NDB QRM; in fact, even marginary level audio wasn't heard (yet) from the Azilal RTM outlet on 207 kHz. Well... +JAN 3 0406 UTC - up to a very good peak right now (S5 over S7) playing a dance oriented raï vocal with exotic female voice Mon amour; only the chorus is in FF, the rest of the tune is in AA ! +JAN 3 0424 UTC - with a musical request toward two lovers with mention ...Florent Pagny sur Medi Un, then the soft-rock MoR vocal Savoir aimer by Florent Pagny recorded again in duo with FF-Canadian singer Isabelle Boulay, then the DJ greeted a Casablanca listener who requested a Raï duo. Good ! With the CATV disconnected from upstairs, the only QRN consists of a slight high-pitched growl, instead of the unbearable buzz that hammered reception on this channel (and many others) just a few days ago ! This appears to be bilingual AA/FF px with musical request of mainly more or less upbeat FF/EE/SS/AA songs. +JAN 3 0452 UTC - almost completly lost due to tx-site sunrise, but still hanging on with trad. AA mx ! (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg JAN 2 0345-0903+ UTC - ending the nighttime talk show talking about the helpful relationship between animals and criminals or autistic children (zootherapy). Then at 0400, Europe 1 Info begun with the announcement of some astonishing events, for exemple the burning of cars around the 31th of December with the burning rate being 30% higher than the past year (1147 cars were fired up ! according to the Europe 1 anncr.) and also some strange weather notes about the current temprature in the eastern suburbs of Paris which was -8C. Weird, as the Gulf Stream should make exceptionnal anything under 0 C, EVEN AT THIS time of the year ! Very good and still hanging on at a poor level at 0903 UTC (03:03 AM EST). This was the loudest broadcast signal on LW, while RUV-189 was apparently knocked out by the semi-auroral condx... Still surprised to get this as even regular MW TAs such as Spain-585 were absent and Colombia-770 made several showings burrying the NYC powerhouse, WABC. (Chiochiu-QC) 252 IRELAND RTE Radio One, Clarkestown / ALGERIA Alger Chaîne 3, Tipaza JAN 1 0045 UTC - EE talk and EE music o/ FF px. Both poor with NDB QRM reduced as much as possible. SINPO 22232. Ireland is a BRAND new visitor for me ! (Chiochiu-QC) Pan-American DX 550 VENEZUELA Mundial YVKE, Caracas, Distrito Federal JAN 1 0612 UTC - Assumed this one w/ salsa mx in mess. 2nd time this season ! It is slightly easier to receive in Montreal, now that semi-local CHLN in Trois-Rivière, PQ has vacated the channel, though a weaker semi-local, WEVD in
[HCDX] foreign domestic LW/MW logs (DEC 31, 2008 - JAN 3, 2009) w/ semi-au condx
Season's greetings to all of you ! Make sure 2009 will make falling asleep more natural without the ever-present temptation of turning your radio on and of getting out of bed by pure curiosity during the last few seconds it takes to disconnect from the DXer friendly world ! This resumes well what I did three nights ago. DXing, DXing and...again DXing, turning up and down both the LW and MW bands until around 5 o'clock when I couldn't stand any sound other than my own breath ! A new way to start 2009 was to relog 1 or 2 seldom heard Latins during semi-auroral condx, while DXing wasn't really above-average, but promising, though promising in vain as tonight was extremely poor for both Latin MW and TA LW DX and the moderate CME didn't turned my Montreal area QTH into a concrete based house with concrete roof and a big window near the radio toward the south... Well, into the logs !... Trans-Atlantic DX 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis JAN 2 0607 UTC - noted in passing with morning show in FF at a good level through moderate computer-like QRN. + JAN 3 0628 - promo for Comment voyager... trip and adventure-related px - dimanche sur France Inter, then extensive traffic weather reports, followed by a short newscast about a 6 months jail sentenced for a youngster who stoled a car, etc. Very good to fair. SINPO 45332 +JAN 3 0855 - w/ talk about the real value of life, then greetings to the sociologist who made the speech, extensive traffic and eather annc, time pips during the weather, then jingle leading to nx. (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador JAN 3 0355 UTC - at tune-in w/ a raï number followed by warm comments by the DJ who introduced, both in FF AA, the latest track by HJ singer Juanes (which seems popular worldwide, even in my native Romania). SINPO 35343 with a fair signal and very minor high-pitched growl from a computer or from several computers in the neighborhood. The best LW broadcast signal this evening ! When this one, usually 9575 isn't propagated and vice-versa. 9575 is better during the greyline and 171 way before sunrise at the tx-site and way after sunset in Montreal, at least it seems to be that way according to my own observations. This is the only Moroccan that seems to be received in the Montreal area on LW. The target of Azilal 207 is always buried in NDB QRM; in fact, even marginary level audio wasn't heard (yet) from the Azilal RTM outlet on 207 kHz. Well... +JAN 3 0406 UTC - up to a very good peak right now (S5 over S7) playing a dance oriented raï vocal with exotic female voice Mon amour; only the chorus is in FF, the rest of the tune is in AA ! +JAN 3 0424 UTC - with a musical request toward two lovers with mention ...Florent Pagny sur Medi Un, then the soft-rock MoR vocal Savoir aimer by Florent Pagny recorded again in duo with FF-Canadian singer Isabelle Boulay, then the DJ greeted a Casablanca listener who requested a Raï duo. Good ! With the CATV disconnected from upstairs, the only QRN consists of a slight high-pitched growl, instead of the unbearable buzz that hammered reception on this channel (and many others) just a few days ago ! This appears to be bilingual AA/FF px with musical request of mainly more or less upbeat FF/EE/SS/AA songs. +JAN 3 0452 UTC - almost completly lost due to tx-site sunrise, but still hanging on with trad. AA mx ! (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg JAN 2 0345-0903+ UTC - ending the nighttime talk show talking about the helpful relationship between animals and criminals or autistic children (zootherapy). Then at 0400, Europe 1 Info begun with the announcement of some astonishing events, for exemple the burning of cars around the 31th of December with the burning rate being 30% higher than the past year (1147 cars were fired up ! according to the Europe 1 anncr.) and also some strange weather notes about the current temprature in the eastern suburbs of Paris which was -8C. Weird, as the Gulf Stream should make exceptionnal anything under 0 C, EVEN AT THIS time of the year ! Very good and still hanging on at a poor level at 0903 UTC (03:03 AM EST). This was the loudest broadcast signal on LW, while RUV-189 was apparently knocked out by the semi-auroral condx... Still surprised to get this as even regular MW TAs such as Spain-585 were absent and Colombia-770 made several showings burrying the NYC powerhouse, WABC. +JAN 3 2355 - Very strong w/ end of a talkshow about wife complaining that their husbands or boyfriends are too much into music (just like me!), then an ugly FF chansonnette leading to the end of the show, followed by nx, sx and wx, then Si vous devez nous écouter sur les Grandes Ondes, rendez-vous maintenant sur la FM closing annc of the Germany-183 tx, then Europe 1, Europe 1 singed jingle, then switched abruptly to dead air after the first tone of a coming song, then off the air for good leaving only a SLIGHT amount of powerlines-like noise... Seems
[HCDX] CHU QSY
Beginning today the canadian time signal station CHU changed frequency of the transmitter on 7335 kHz to 7850 kHz to avoid interference from broadcast stations. 7335 kHz has been used since 1938 along with 3330 and 14670 kHz. Received with weak but clear signal here in southern Germany at 11:45 UTC. Happy New Year to all HCDXers! Franz Süss Rottenburg, Germany JRC NRD535 Sony ICF2001 ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] CHU QSY
Beginning today the canadian time signal station CHU changed frequency of the transmitter on 7335 kHz to 7850 kHz to avoid interference from broadcast stations. 7335 kHz has been used since 1938 along with 3330 kHz and 14670 kHz. Received with weak but clear signal here in southern Germany at 12:15 UTC. Happy New Year to all HCDXers! Franz Süss Rottenburg, Germany JRC NRD535 Sony ICF2001 ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] CHU QSY
Beginning today the canadian time signal station CHU changed frequency of the transmitter on 7335 kHz to 7850 kHz to avoid interference from broadcast stations. 7335 kHz has been used since 1938 along with 3330 kHz and 14670 kHz. Received with weak but clear signal here in southern Germany at 12:15 UTC. Happy New Year to all HCDXers! Franz Süss Rottenburg, Germany JRC NRD535 Sony ICF2001 ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
Re: [HCDX] WNNZ on 640 is using daytime pattern
At 05:45 PM 12/31/2008, aurel chiochiu wrote: Warm greetings to all of you and season's greetings ! WNNZ (Westfield, MA) is using daytime power on 640. I can barely null it off the back of my Sanyo MCD-S830's ferrite bar loop to pick up the Toronto station or something else. They are semi-local like, at least as strong as WVMT is on 620 from Burlington, VT. They are relaying NPR, I just heard an ID for WFCR 88.5 which it simulcasts. A quick research over Google relayed that is indeed WNNZ and not a new semi-local nightmare. An aurora should take care of this guys even on daytime power, since their groundwave signal is THRESHOLD and aurora leaves only groundwave from domestics and skywave from southern domestics, Caribbeans and Latins. I guess the chief engineer of WNNZ is buzy on New Year's Eve. As far as the px content goes, they talk about the issues concerning the Israel - Palestinian conflict among other items ! If anyone in Europe needs WNNZ-640 or MA as a state (since WBZ-1030 is beaming away from Europe at night) or, if your are like me a foreign DXer with some limited short-skip DXing too, go, get that one. A few days ago, it's CFRA-580 who forgot their daytime rig one... Really? I missed it. May the good DX bless your ears and fullfill your New Year's Eve party ! Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefonds / Montreal, QC Btw.: Maybe it can reach Venezuela with YVQO Unión Radio nulled out; YVQO is a regular during, at least, semi-auroral condx; otherwise WNNZ, CFYR and CMBC are jamming the channel. It appears that even Guadeloupe would be possible once again on 640 during the right condx... ---[Start Commercial]- OMG, 50kw!! Time to catch this station on day power tonight if you can!! ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] the latest LW/MW DX logs in semi-auroral condx
Season's greetings to all of you ! Make sure 2009 will make falling asleep more natural without the ever-present temptation of turning your radio on and of getting out of bed by pure curiosity during the last few seconds it takes to disconnect from the DXer friendly world ! This resumes well what I did three nights ago. DXing, DXing and...again DXing, turning up and down both the LW and MW bands until around 5 o'clock when I couldn't stand any sound other than my own breath ! A new way to start 2009 was to relog 1 or 2 seldom heard Latins during semi-auroral condx, while DXing wasn't really above-average, but promising, though promising in vain as tonight was extremely poor for both Latin MW and TA LW DX and the moderate CME didn't turned my Montreal area QTH into a concrete based house with concrete roof and a big window near the radio toward the south... Well, into the logs !... Trans-Atlantic DX 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis JAN 2 0607 UTC - noted in passing with morning show in FF at a good level through moderate computer-like QRN. + JAN 3 0628 - promo for Comment voyager... trip and adventure-related px - dimanche sur France Inter, then extensive traffic weather reports, followed by a short newscast about a 6 months jail sentenced for a youngster who stoled a car, etc. Very good to fair. SINPO 45332 +JAN 3 0855 - w/ talk about the real value of life, then greetings to the sociologist who made the speech, extensive traffic and eather annc, time pips during the weather, then jingle leading to nx. (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador JAN 3 0355 UTC - at tune-in w/ a raï number followed by warm comments by the DJ who introduced, both in FF AA, the latest track by HJ singer Juanes (which seems popular worldwide, even in my native Romania). SINPO 35343 with a fair signal and very minor high-pitched growl from a computer or from several computers in the neighborhood. The best LW broadcast signal this evening ! When this one, usually 9575 isn't propagated and vice-versa. 9575 is better during the greyline and 171 way before sunrise at the tx-site and way after sunset in Montreal, at least it seems to be that way according to my own observations. This is the only Moroccan that seems to be received in the Montreal area on LW. The target of Azilal 207 is always buried in NDB QRM; in fact, even marginary level audio wasn't heard (yet) from the Azilal RTM outlet on 207 kHz. Well... +JAN 3 0406 UTC - up to a very good peak right now (S5 over S7) playing a dance oriented raï vocal with exotic female voice Mon amour; only the chorus is in FF, the rest of the tune is in AA ! +JAN 3 0424 UTC - with a musical request toward two lovers with mention ...Florent Pagny sur Medi Un, then the soft-rock MoR vocal Savoir aimer by Florent Pagny recorded again in duo with FF-Canadian singer Isabelle Boulay, then the DJ greeted a Casablanca listener who requested a Raï duo. Good ! With the CATV disconnected from upstairs, the only QRN consists of a slight high-pitched growl, instead of the unbearable buzz that hammered reception on this channel (and many others) just a few days ago ! This appears to be bilingual AA/FF px with musical request of mainly more or less upbeat FF/EE/SS/AA songs. +JAN 3 0452 UTC - almost completly lost due to tx-site sunrise, but still hanging on with trad. AA mx ! (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg JAN 2 0345-0903+ UTC - ending the nighttime talk show talking about the helpful relationship between animals and criminals or autistic children (zootherapy). Then at 0400, Europe 1 Info begun with the announcement of some astonishing events, for exemple the burning of cars around the 31th of December with the burning rate being 30% higher than the past year (1147 cars were fired up ! according to the Europe 1 anncr.) and also some strange weather notes about the current temprature in the eastern suburbs of Paris which was -8C. Weird, as the Gulf Stream should make exceptionnal anything under 0 C, EVEN AT THIS time of the year ! Very good and still hanging on at a poor level at 0903 UTC (03:03 AM EST). This was the loudest broadcast signal on LW, while RUV-189 was apparently knocked out by the semi-auroral condx... Still surprised to get this as even regular MW TAs such as Spain-585 were absent and Colombia-770 made several showings burrying the NYC powerhouse, WABC. +JAN 3 2355 - Very strong w/ end of a talkshow about wife complaining that their husbands or boyfriends are too much into music (just like me!), then an ugly FF chansonnette leading to the end of the show, followed by nx, sx and wx, then Si vous devez nous écouter sur les Grandes Ondes, rendez-vous maintenant sur la FM closing annc of the Germany-183 tx, then Europe 1, Europe 1 singed jingle, then switched abruptly to dead air after the first tone of a coming song, then off the air for good leaving only a SLIGHT amount of powerlines-like noise... Seems
Re: [HCDX] R Nederland on 940 kHz?????
Puerto Rican on 940 seems to relay R Nederland. Maybe the time fits. http://www.tutv.puertorico.pr/940am/programacion.htm 73, Jari - Original Message - From: Markku Jussila markku.t.juss...@gmail.com To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 10:44 AM Subject: [HCDX] R Nederland on 940 kHz? Hi On Thursday, January the 1st I heard R Nederland in Spanish at 0600 UTC. Cx seemed to be in Orinoco-Puerto Rico. Does anyone have a clue? Kind regards, Markku Jussila Vaasa, Finland ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 3-4, 2009
** AUSTRALIA. RA, 7240, Jan 3 at 1505:30 after news, reverting to ``Overnight on ABC Local Radio``. We are hearing a lot of this instead of the usual RA/ABC feature programs before and after this hour. That`s because RA gives up for several weeks each summer and just plugs into a misnamed ABC network, which even without this SW relay, is still a national, not local service, i.e. originating at each local station as you would be entitled to expect (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. CBC NQ, 9625 remained in whack, Jan 4 at 1415, but NHK relay on 11705 was again splattering 11685-11725, especially during music, which is the Sunday subject (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. The day before, Firedrake vs Sound of Hope was on 8400, but Jan 3 at 1426 check it was back on 9000 instead. Firedrake back on 8400, Jan 4 at 1406 check, ex-9000 the day before, ex-8400 the day before that, no doubt mimicking the saults of Sound of Hope (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Still no Aló, Presidente relay of RN Venezuela, Sunday Jan 4; however, one of the frequencies which had been used for that on Sundays only, strong 13750, was on the air with extended RHC programming. At 1520 with weekly Esperanto service supposedly on 11760 only, where // but much weaker and an echo ahead of 13750 feed. 1551 check, 13750 still on with El Mundo de la Filatelia; audio cuts down but not completely out, periodically: wiggle that patchcord! Shortly followed by Por Una Vida Mejor medical show about living to age 120 or more, as if anyone would really want to do that in a police state full of privation; kept running past 1600 but did not pay attention to content; 1701 check, starting replay of Cuba Campesina, which originally airs at 1230. Perhaps they are keeping one transmitter warm for a return of the Cold One. Still on with more music at last check 1800 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 9975, Sat Jan 3 at 1420, sounds like a vintage Billy Graham sermon, with his peculiar accent, over a PA system. Trouble is, EiBi and Aoki say KTWR uses 9975 after 1400 on M-F only, but nothing else scheduled. WWCR 9980 was still weak before daily buildup to super-strength. 9975 again with English preaching after hymn, Sunday Jan 4 at 1411, sounded like Rev. Victor Bornay (sp?), something Gospel Hour, ref. Isaiah 55, about immigration. Like Sat, presumably KTWR extended to daily from M-F only at this hour, and once again, ACI from WWCR 9980 weak at first, but then building steadily (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LAOS [non]. 11785, WHRI, Sat Jan 3 at 1459 after rustic music from Hmong Lao Radio, no break, no legal ID, and right into next program, Hmong World Christian Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Looking for XEQM, 6104.8, no trace of even a het Jan 3 before 1500 with strong VOA Chinese on 6105, but after that went off at 1503, could barely detect het against remaining pileup. Het was doing better Jan 4 after 1400. Julián Santiago says XEQM had been off for more than a dekaday, but since Jan 3 he is hearing it in the daytime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. KEOR, Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa OK, 1120, had kept on with nothing but music tests for weeks and weeks, but missing Jan 3 at 1937 check, allowing KMOX to just barely be heard as its skywave was starting to build. We shall see if KEOR be off for good again. Still off at 1750 UT check Jan 4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. REE, 17595, Sunday Jan 4 at 1435 ending one episode of Solo Canciones from Radio Clásica network, with French interpretations of music about Spain, e.g. by Saint-Saëns; and into another episode of same show, this with songs from Cabo Verde, and later Niger. 1459 just started something by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, only to be interrupted at 1500 for time signal and immediate joining of live(?) Tablero [Deportivo] show. Most unprofessional and disrespectful of the music show. I figured this was going to happen as they were starting a half-hour program at :35! Should have skipped the news at 1400 and started part 1 then (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Marion`s Attic on WBCQ, 7415, Sat Jan 3 at 2200 featured music boxes, and I believe she said there would be more of that next week. I really enjoy their tinkles, but at 2258 something went very wrong as show was upwrapping, bits of audio of Marion looping over and over, but progressing syllable by syllable. Fortunately, it was almost over anyway, unlike a few weeks ago when this happened for some 15 minutes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1680, UT Sun Jan 4 at 0740, found Tom Leykis show in progress discussing the merits of women as sports reporters, not a topic of interest to me, but what station could that be? Talk format does not match any of the 1680 listings in the NRC AM Log 2008-2009, all of which are either
[HCDX] DX Listening Digest 9-002; WOR 1441
DX Listening Digest 9-002 has now been posted at http://www.dxld.org or http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt or http://dxld.worldofradio.org and now also without delay at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld9002.txt CONTENTS: WOR 1441 / AFGHANISTAN / ALBANIA / ANGOLA / ANTARCTICA ham / AUSTRALIA RA / AUSTRIA / AZERBAIJAN +non / BANGLADESH / BELARUS / BENIN / BHUTAN / BOTSWANA / BRAZIL / CANADA CBCNQ / CANADA VOV/NHK / CANADA CBU / CANADA +non CJOR/CKBD+ / CANADA CFRX / CANADA CHU / CHAD / CHINA / COSTA RICA / CROATIA / CUBA +non / EGYPT / ERITREA +non / ETHIOPIA / GERMANY +non / GREENLAND / GUAM / GUATEMALA / GUINEA / HONDURAS / HONG KONG +non / INDIA / INDONESIA +non / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM +non MS / INTERNATIONAL WATERS Russian navy / IRAN +non / IRELAND / ISRAEL / JAPAN +non / KASHMIR / KOREA NORTH +non / KOREA SOUTH +non / KURDISTAN non / LAOS non / LATVIA / LITHUANIA / MADAGASCAR / MALAYSIA / MALI / MALTA non / MAURITANIA / MEXICO / MONGOLIA / MOROCCO / NETHERLANDS ANTILLES / NIGERIA / OKLAHOMA KEOR / PALAU / PALESTINE +non / PERU / PHILIPPINES / POLAND non / PRIDNESTROVYE / ROMANIA / RUSSIA +non / SLOVAKIA / SOLOMON ISLANDS / SUDAN / SWAZILAND / SYRIA / TAJIKISTAN / TIBET / TURKEY / TURKS CAICOS / UKRAINE / UAE / UK BBC / USA +non VOA / USA WJHR / USA WWCR / USA WBCQ/WOR / USA WRNO / USA ham K3OW/K5AH / USA WHAS/WBAP / USA KWTO / USA WHRB / USA KZMU / USA KQSE / USA WBBR/WZRC / USA 1710 / VATICAN +non / VENEZUELA / VIETNAM / YEMEN / ZIMBABWE non / UNIDENTIFIED 1470 / UNIDENTIFIED non 5010 / UNIDENTIFIED 5801 / UNIDENTIFIED 6074 / UNIDENTIFIED 9954 / UNIDENTIFIED 13830 / TESTIMONIALS / LANGUAGE LESSONS / PUBLICATIONS / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / PROPAGATION For restrixions and searchable 2008 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 SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1441 Mon 2300 WBCQ 7415 [confirmed December 22] Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 Tue 1630 WRMI 9955 Wed 0630 WRMI 9955 [or new 1442] Wed 1230 WRMI 9955 [or new 1442] WBCQ is also airing recent archive editions of WOR M-F 2000 on 7415; except on Wednesday or Thursday this should be the latest edition. 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 For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WRN ON DEMAND: http://new.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24 WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN NOW AVAILABLE: http://www.wrn.org/listeners/stations/podcast.php OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org Regards, Glenn Hauser ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Motala / Orlunda
Hello! I found a clip where solidiers demolish two of five antennas at former Motala / Orlunda longwave station (ex. 189KHz) in the winter 1987. It's so sad to the these 200m high antennas fall down to a pile a steel crap. Today no antennas remains but the two 300kW CFTH-transmitters are still in mint condition but havn't been used since 1991. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHD5VgCTzUw 73's de Chris SM6VPU ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Transmitter sites and Google Earth
Happy New Year, I wonder if anyone is aware of an on-line directory of international broadcaster transmitter site coordinates plotted on Google Earth? I see that such a list exists for VLF sites here http://sidstation.lionelloudet.homedns.org/stations-list-en.xhtml And the UK has several sites which list just about everything with a transmission tower. e.g. http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/973305/page/0/vc/1. It is fascinating to see that Orfordness still shows the fan shape of the old over the horizon radar station It is interesting that if you type Wertachtal into Google Earth it takes you to the front door of the HF transmitter site. I have been manually putting a few into Google Earth pro as part of a video documentary sequence I am making, but just wondered if anyone else shares the fascination. I know ITU and WRTH have listed Lat/Long locations for decades. 73's Jonathan Marks ___ This e-mail originates from: Jonathan Marks Director Critical Distance BV Stam 69 1275CG Huizen The Netherlands Newsblog: http://criticaldistance.blogspot.com/ http://criticaldistance.blogspot.com Broadcast Podcast Gadgets: http://whatcaughtmyeye.blogspot.com/ http://whatcaughtmyeye.blogspot.com/ Media Lab in Benin http://www.mediaprofessional.org http://www.mediaprofessional.org Company Website: http://www.criticaldistance.nl http://www.criticaldistance.nl ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] 5790 BBC, ruso??, nuevo??
Saludos cordiales. 5790 BBC, 18:45-19:05, escuchada el 4 de enero probablemente en ruso a locutor y locutora con comentarios, música de sintonía que no reconozco, emisión de fragmento de música clásica en concierto en directo, fragmentos en inglés con traducción simultanea al ruso, a las 1900 tonos horarios, titulares y boletín de noticias, muchas referencias a Ucrania, ID “BBC London”, SINPO 45554 * No encuentro listada esta emisora ni en Aoki ni en EiBi, tampoco recuerdo haberla escuchada antes, ¿nuevo servicio o emisión accidental? . ARMENIA 9415 Democratic Voice of Burma, Yerevan-Gavar, 14:32-14:37, escuchada el 4 de enero en birmano a locutor y locutora con comentarios, SINPO 24332 José Miguel Romero Burjasot (Valencia) España Sangean ATS 909 Antena Radio Master A-108 ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] LOG OM
As escutas podem ser ouvidas no site http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006/home?t=74925c=6s=uploaded . Utilizei o degen 1103 apenas com a antena interna de ferrite para OM e a gravação foi feita com um gravador portátil aiwa em ambiente externo da casa, portanto com ruidos adicionais do transito na rua. São curtas gravações devido a dificuldade e apenas para os colegas terem uma idéia. 1557 03/01 2255 FRANÇA, Radio France Info , FF, desde Nice, com 150 kW, YL Talk, mx, as 2100 um sinal tipo início de transmissão, 22332, gravado, (Jorge Freitas - Feira de Santana BA - Brasil) 1575 03/01 2220 EMIRADOS ARABES UNIDOS, Radio Farda , em persa (farsi), desde Al Dhabiya , com 800 kW, mx arabe e Om Talk, 22332, gravado (Jorge Freitas - Feira de Santana BA - Brasil) 73 Jorge Freitas SWL1023B Skype jorge.freitas.fsa Feira de Santana Bahia 12º 15' 1.57 S 38º 58' 40.30 W Degen 1103 Antena fio longo com 20 metros e balum 9:1 ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Mini Long Wave DX Camp
Hello friends, Following the log of our Mini DX Camp devoted to Long Waves at Serra do Japí, Jundiaí, SP, Brazil. In 8 hours of listening we heard 110 NDBs, with 5 unknow and 3 different countries (Puerto Rico, Chile and Paraguay). From Brazil we heard 16 states of all 5 regions, 30 NDBs came only from Sao Paulo. Some marks were TUI Tucuruí, JAC Jacareacanga, PEL Manaus, CLD Chile and DDP Puerto Rico (around 5.000 km). Log in Excell: http://archangelo.net/temp/rx/PY2OC_PY2ZX_LW_Japi_2008.xls Or exported as htm: http://archangelo.net/temp/rx/japy_2008/lw.htm Mostly of the listenings were made by Luiz Tresso PY2OC with 80 cm diameter loop and IC-SW7600G Flávio PY2ZX ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Unid on 1700 kHz 2.1.2009 0629 utc
Hi I bumped in to this on Friday, January the 2nd. The file is named incorrectly, it´s on 1700 kHz. Is this French or Haitian? Kind regards, Markku Jussila Vaasa, Finland ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Escutas
Escutas realizadas em João Pessoa-PBHI22nu Radio: IC - R1500-Antena: 3DX3 9.840,0 0102-0111 3/1 Radio Österreich International (ÖRF) - Presumida, Moosbrunn, AUSTRIA, (GG) falas de OMs. 25222 11.920,0 0119-0125 3/1 HCJB (Voice of the Andes), Quito, ECUADOR, (PP) música; breve comentário de OM; segue mesma música; falas de OM, pregação religiosa. 35333 11.825,0 0126-0131 3/1 WYFR (Family Radio), Okeechobee, FL UNITED STATES, (PP) falas de OM, pregação religiosa; falas de YL; música (voz masculina); comentário de OM; 24322 11.815,0 0131-0136 3/1 Radio Brasil Central, Goiania, BRAZIL, (PP) música; breve comentário, ID; segue música (Daniela Mercuri) 25332 11.805,0 0136-0144 3/1 Radio Globo - Tentativa, Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL, (PP) música; falas de OM, em espanhol, discurso de cunho religioso. 25232 11.780,0 0145-0151 3/1Radio Nacional da Amazonia (Brazil), Brasilia, BRAZIL, (PP) Programação esportiva; retransmitindo vários gols. 35333 11.765,0 0151-0156 3/1 Radio Tupi, Curitiba, BRAZIL, (PP) programa de cunho religioso; pastor colhe testemunhos de cura; 23h53. 25232 21.655,0 1338-1351 4/1 Radiodifusao Portuguesã, Lisbon-Sao Gabriel, PORTUGAL, (PP) Programa Um Abraço da Madeira; música; locutor conversa com ouvintes ao telefone. 25332 21.570,0 1352-1358 4/1 Radio Exterior de España, Noblejas, SPAIN, (SS) falas de OM; música; OM e YL com falas e ID emissora; música. 25332 15.330,0 1406-1411 4/1 Radio Martí, Greenville, NC UNITED STATES, (SS) falas de OM iniciando programa; comentário s/história cubana. 25322 11.990,0 1856-1901 4/1Radio Kuwait - Presumida, KABD, KUWAIT, (EE) pragamação musical. 35333 11.965,0 1904-1909 4/1 Libyan Jamahiriya Broadcasting - Presumida, Sabrata, LIBYA, (UU) falas de OM, por semelhança, TX boletim de notícias. 35333 Antonio Laurentino Garcia PR7BCP ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Escuchas del 4 de enero.
Saludos cordiales. MALI 7285 Radio Mali, Bamako I, 09:22-09:30, escuchada el 4 de Enero en francés a locutor con comentarios, cuña,“...Radio Local”, se aprecia en colisión con el servicio rumano de CRI, SINPO 33433. 7285 Radio Mali, Bamako I, 10:05-10:15, escuchada el 4 de enero en francés a locutora con comentarios y música religiosa, parece un programa religioso, SINPO 35433 MAURITANIA 7245 Radio Mauritanie, Nouakchott, 09:10-09:20, escuchada el 4 de enero con emisión de música folklórica local árabe, cánticos acompañados por instrumentos de percusión, locutor con comentarios en árabe, SINPO 24332. NIGERIA 9690 Voice of Nigeria, Ikorodu, 09:31-09:35, escuchada el 4 de Enero en Fulfulde a locutor con lo que parece recitando un poema y emisión de música ancestral, SINPO 34343. NUEVA ZELANDA 9765 Radio New Zealand Int., Rangitaiki, 09:36-09:38, escuchada el 4 de Enero en inglés a locutor presentando temas de música pop melódico internacional, SINPO 34322. RUSIA 11915 Radio Tatarstan, Samara, 09:41-09:50, escuchada el 4 de enero en ruso con emisión de música lírica, locutora con comentarios, referencia a “..virtuoso...”, locutor presentado siguiente interprete, SINPO 44343. 12075 Radio Rossii, Moskva-Taldom, 09:50-09:55, escuchada el 4 de enero en ruso a locutor presentando interprete musical, posiblemente en directo y con público, aplausos, música pop melódica local, “..Concerto campaña...”, cuña de la emisora, “programa...historia...”, ID, SINPO 45544 PIRATA 5801 Playback Int., 22:48-23:15, escuchada el 3 de Enero con emisión musical, música de los Beatles “Let it Be”, música pop de los años 60, ID en inglés “Playback International”, SINPO 34343 José Miguel Romero Burjasot (Valencia) España Sangean ATS 909 Antena Radio Master A-108 ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Latest logs
ANTARTIC 15476 LRA36 Radio Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel, Esperanza Base, 1912-1930, December 31, Spanish, folk music; announcement ID as: si quiere comunicarse con nosotros..si llaman desde el exterior..transmite LRA36 Radio Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel.- Programme De Esperanza al Mundo, 24322 (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina) BRAZIL 4925 Radio Educacao Rural, Tefe, AM, 0157-0203, January 02, Portuguese, song, religious talk by male, 24332 (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina) 4935 Radio Capixaba, Vitoria, ES, 0151-0155, January 02, Portuguese, religious talk by male, 23222 (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina) CLANDESTINE 12120 Ginot 7 Radio, Samara,1700-1710, January 01, Amharic language, announcement by female, news by same female and a male, 24432 (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina) CUBA 5025 Radio Rebelde, Bauta, 0145-0150, January 02, Spanish, short news by female, 23222 (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina) HAWAII 9930 Sound of Hope (p), via KWHR-Angel 3, 1200-1205, January 01, Chinese, music, identification by male, announcement and news by male female, 24432 (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina) TAJIKISTAN 4765 Tajik Radio, Dushambe, 0250-0300, January 02, Vernacular, electronic pop and other pops!, short annmt by male female, ID at 0300, 24332 (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina) ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] R Nederland on 940 kHz?????
Hi On Thursday, January the 1st I heard R Nederland in Spanish at 0600 UTC. Cx seemed to be in Orinoco-Puerto Rico. Does anyone have a clue? Kind regards, Markku Jussila Vaasa, Finland ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
Re: [HCDX] best antenna for TROPICAL BANDS DXing
Until the sun went to hell in a handbasket I could receive 80M regularly each evening and tropicals almost all the time...The active antenna I have will go down to MW (blowtorches and locals only ) but it is a struggle below 80M any time of the solar spectrum Things have got to get better or this hobby will lose a lotta newbies real quick My complements again on your enthusiastic support of a hobby I used to be really involved in . Yours and the posts of a gentleman in Clewiston Fl. keep my dwaining (is THAT a WORD?) interests alive yodar --- On Sat, 1/3/09, aurel chiochiu a...@videotron.ca wrote: From: aurel chiochiu a...@videotron.ca Subject: [HCDX] best antenna for TROPICAL BANDS DXing To: cumbr...@cs2.ralabs.com Cc: pklo...@bigpond.net.au, hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 10:01 PM Warm greetings and season greetings ! After the huge success of the PK's Magnetic LW loop antenna, I wonder what aerial should I use for a forray into the SW tropical bands of 90 and 60 meters. I was alwas fascinated by broadcast bands used only in some parts of the world such as LW, OIRT-FM, the tropical bands, the X-band, the Japanese FM band, etc. because is like being born again into another world. I receive very few exotic signals on 60m using my Sangean CST-818 connected to a random wire in our yard of roughly 10 - 20 meters of length... An antenna dedicated to the tropical bands would be the best gift for me 22nd year of birthday (with the possible exception of an OIRT-FM tuner since the F2 may exceptionally reach these frequencies and OIRT-FM F2 skip is much more likely than Japanese FM F2 skip, let alone CCIR-FM F2 skip) which takes place the next 16th of July, more than 6 months away, but we can even celebrate our non-birthday according to Charles Lutwidge Dodgson / Lewis Carroll's caracters. May the good DX comeback, as condx aren't even half-decent right now ! Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefonds-Roxboro (Pierrefonds-est in the eastern border of Montreal's West Island), QC - PQ ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Radio Tupi Curitiba has changed its name to : SUPER RADIO DEUS É AMOR
Brazil - Radio Tupi Curitiba has changed its name to: SUPER RADIO DEUS É AMOR - 1210kHz , 6060kHz , 9565kHz , 11765kHz The New web link is: http://www.superradiodeuseamor.com.br Áudio ID : http://www.dxclube.com.br/db/LISTA_COMPLETA_download.asp?field=AUDIOkey1=3354 73 Marcelo Vilela Bedene DX Clube do Paraná Curitiba-Brasil www.dxclube.com.br ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] logs
7295, Malaysia, RTM Traxx FM(tent.), Kajang. January-03 2251-2301 English Pop selections. At 2300 strong QRM from 7300 Chinese annoyed the EE music, 22322 (lob-B). 4555, Bolivia, R Virgen de Remedios(pres.), Tupiza. January-03 SS 2306-2330 male talks and religious choral music la Virgen Maria..., nuestros pecados Short pieces readable, consistent het but, who else is there at this time? Slow enhancement 2 (lob-B). 73's Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec Embu SP Brasil - Sony ICF SW40 - dipole 18m, 32m. ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
Re: [HCDX] Logs for Al Muick - 03 January
Hi Al, I have checked both the harmonic frequencies here in Finland during the last few days but haven't been able to hear it or see a carrier. 73, Mauno - Original Message - From: Albert Muick radioresearch_field_operati...@yahoo.com To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 5:56 AM Subject: [HCDX] Logs for Al Muick - 03 January QTH: Kabul, Afghanistan RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: 200m Longwire/Randomwire ACC: Palstar MW-550P Mediumwave Preselector 1107 AFGHANISTAN, RTVA, seems to have cleaned up its act. Monitoring last night indicates that its modulation problems have been fixed and it's now well within its allotted occupied bandwidth of 9kHz, and the spectral display no longer looks like mush. The harmonics are also gone except for a slightly detectable 3rd harmonic which can just barely be seen. Gone too are the spurs. I hope someone else had a chance to log this. It started snowing and raining yesterday morning and continues. While this may be responsible for damping arcs between its antennas, I truly believe that the issue was tuning. We'll see what happens when drier weather returns. It's a rather curious coincidence that this got fixed after a write-up in Glenn Hauser's DXLD. Perhaps someone in charge at RTVA is a reader or had the info forwarded to them. No time for DX last night as I took delivery of my completely overhauled genset and had to oversee its installation and wiring. I did some brief scanning and everything seems quiet, however a newly commissioned city power transformer a couple of blocks away (only for the politically higher-ups though) is causing some hash on MW and LW. Perhaps I can persuade one of these Taliban types to rocket the thing so I have some quiet on those frequency ranges... Best 73 de Al Muick Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though for but one year, can never willingly abandon it. - Edmund Burke ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Asia
Taiwan, 9735, Radio Taiwan International, 1116-1135 Noted a male and a female in Japanese language conversation4 At 1128 ID and other pertinent information presented . At 1130 a female talks beyond 1130 until after 1135. Signal was fair. (Chuck Bolland, January 4, 2009) Clewiston, Florida NRD545 ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Map based logging - TBL - Perseus Databases
Hi friends, some good news at the start of 2009: 1) A new online logging map is available at http://www.mwlist.org/mw_logmap.php?la=en managed by Günter Lorenz and MWList. While Software Defined Radios brought visualisation as a new dimension to DXing (You can see the signals you receive, over a broad spectrum), now the next step of visualisation can be explored: Near realtime displays of logs on a world map. See what others hear. Let others see what you are receiving. The Perseus Databases logging function acts as support for creating online logs with a few mouseclicks. You'll find further advice on page 1 of the databases. 2) TBL is alive again! While the last edition of the Tropical Band List was published more than 2 years ago, I think that with the help of many online loggers the content could be updated quickly. So take part in the MWList online logging project, supported by TBL and MWList, covering MW, the tropical bands and domestic services on shortwave - the real DX. TBL will be solely distributed as part of the Perseus Databases, and it is free. 3) The Nagoya sheet of the Perseus Databases now also contains calculation of sunrise and sunset times for tx locations, as well as distance and azimut values. Users of the reduced version of the Perseus Databases (which keeps the file size below 140 MB for Excel 2000) can variably add the functions mentioned above to certain entries of the Nagoya list. Please refer to Read-first document supplied with the databases. vy 73, Willi Passmann, DJ6JZ http://www.4shared.com/dir/5567845/166a39bd/sharing.html Perseus Databases http://www.radio-portal.org/sdr.html SDR-Special http://www.mwlist.org/mw_logmap.php?la=en Visual Logbook of MWList TBL ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 73, Issue 7
Send Hard-Core-DX mailing list submissions to hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to hard-core-dx-requ...@hard-core-dx.com You can reach the person managing the list at hard-core-dx-ow...@hard-core-dx.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Hard-Core-DX digest... ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2008 is out. Order yours from http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt Today's Topics: 1. Re: WNNZ on 640 is using daytime pattern (Robert M. Bratcher Jr.) 2. CHU QSY (Franz S?ss) 3. CHU QSY (Franz S?ss) 4. CHU QSY (Franz S?ss) 5. Transmitter sites and Google Earth (Jonathan Marks) 6. R Nederland on 940 kHz? (Markku Jussila) 7. Unid on 1700 kHz 2.1.2009 0629 utc (Markku Jussila) 8. Mini Long Wave DX Camp (PY2ZX) 9. Radio Tupi Curitiba has changed its name to: SUPER RADIO DEUS ? AMOR (Marcelo Bedene) 10. Motala / Orlunda (Christian St?dberg) 11. Re: best antenna for TROPICAL BANDS DXing (Joe Strain aka Yodar) 12. Escuchas del 4 de enero. (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO) 13. Re: R Nederland on 940 kHz? (Jari Savolainen) 14. Re: Logs for Al Muick - 03 January (Mauno Ritola) 15. Latest logs (Arnaldo) 16. Asia (ka4...@peoplepc.com) 17. logs (L?cio Ot?vio) 18. DX Listening Digest 9-002; WOR 1441 (Glenn Hauser) 19. Glenn Hauser logs January 3-4, 2009 (Glenn Hauser) 20. 5790 BBC, ruso??, nuevo?? (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO) 21. LOG OM (Jorge Freitas (Yahoo)) 22. Escutas (Antonio L. Garcia) 23. Map based logging - TBL - Perseus Databases (Willi Passmann) 24. Logs for Al Muick for 04 January (Albert Muick) -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:56:32 -0600 From: Robert M. Bratcher Jr. bratc...@pdq.net Subject: Re: [HCDX] WNNZ on 640 is using daytime pattern To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Cc: amfmt...@mailman.qth.net, a...@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: e1licos-0002jm...@wmail-0.airmail.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed At 05:45 PM 12/31/2008, aurel chiochiu wrote: Warm greetings to all of you and season's greetings ! WNNZ (Westfield, MA) is using daytime power on 640. I can barely null it off the back of my Sanyo MCD-S830's ferrite bar loop to pick up the Toronto station or something else. They are semi-local like, at least as strong as WVMT is on 620 from Burlington, VT. They are relaying NPR, I just heard an ID for WFCR 88.5 which it simulcasts. A quick research over Google relayed that is indeed WNNZ and not a new semi-local nightmare. An aurora should take care of this guys even on daytime power, since their groundwave signal is THRESHOLD and aurora leaves only groundwave from domestics and skywave from southern domestics, Caribbeans and Latins. I guess the chief engineer of WNNZ is buzy on New Year's Eve. As far as the px content goes, they talk about the issues concerning the Israel - Palestinian conflict among other items ! If anyone in Europe needs WNNZ-640 or MA as a state (since WBZ-1030 is beaming away from Europe at night) or, if your are like me a foreign DXer with some limited short-skip DXing too, go, get that one. A few days ago, it's CFRA-580 who forgot their daytime rig one... Really? I missed it. May the good DX bless your ears and fullfill your New Year's Eve party ! Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefonds / Montreal, QC Btw.: Maybe it can reach Venezuela with YVQO Uni?n Radio nulled out; YVQO is a regular during, at least, semi-auroral condx; otherwise WNNZ, CFYR and CMBC are jamming the channel. It appears that even Guadeloupe would be possible once again on 640 during the right condx... ---[Start Commercial]- OMG, 50kw!! Time to catch this station on day power tonight if you can!! -- Message: 2 Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 13:34:15 +0100 From: Franz S?ss d...@mf-s.de Subject: [HCDX] CHU QSY To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Message-ID: 05051e3c2e9a4da898491e1b1461e...@mfs1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Beginning today the canadian time signal station CHU changed frequency of the transmitter on 7335 kHz to 7850 kHz to avoid interference from broadcast stations.
[HCDX] Logs for Al Muick for 04 January
QTH:Kabul, Afghanistan RX: WinRadio G303e ANT:200m Longwire/Randomwire ACC:Palstar MW-550P Mediumwave Preselector 6250.4 KOREA (NORTH), R. Pyongyang heard 2325 on 04 Jan in K pgm with excited YL OM talking. Unusual in that the normal placid and calm annxrs were almost hysterical and they were 400 Hz off nominal freq. Fair sigs w/no QRM. 6391PAKISTAN, Pakistan Naval R. AQP, heard w/Morse marker at 2315 on 04 Jan as VVV VVV VVV AQP2/4. Good sigs. We have had earthquakes the last two days. Yesterday's (6.2 on the Richter scale) actually threw me out of bed at about 0030 local and this morning's shook the building at 0345 local. I was seated in the chair DXing and I can imagine it must have looked like the old Star Trek series when they got hit with something. The chair shook all over the place. Gotta love this place! Warzone, earthquake zone, and good DX spot all rolled up into one easy-to-reach-by-airplane location, LOL. 73 de Al Muick The way to happiness is filled with obstacles. - Shakuntala ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] LW TAs are imrpooving tonight, but MW ones are still inexsitent
Hello to all of you ! While MW TAs seems inexistent tonight, nothing on 1107, 1134, 1143, 1503, 1494 or 585 on the low-band (the only low-band TA channel I actually listened), things are promising on LW with Algeria-252 (actually on 253 kHz in AM Narrow Mode to avoid UL-248 out of Montreal), Iceland-189, Morocco-171 (killed by the awful computer-like noise that moved from 189) and a very good France-162. Also, I have something on 153 kHz. It's the 2nd time, since I own the PK's Shielded Magnetic LW loop that I get a signal on 153 ! May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefonds-Montreal, QC-PQ ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 73, Issue 8
Send Hard-Core-DX mailing list submissions to hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to hard-core-dx-requ...@hard-core-dx.com You can reach the person managing the list at hard-core-dx-ow...@hard-core-dx.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Hard-Core-DX digest... ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2008 is out. Order yours from http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt Today's Topics: 1. LW TAs are imrpooving tonight,but MW ones are still inexsitent (aurel chiochiu) -- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:42:58 -0500 From: aurel chiochiu a...@videotron.ca Subject: [HCDX] LW TAs are imrpooving tonight, but MW ones are still inexsitent To: m...@yahoogroups.com Cc: playdx2...@yahoogroups.com, pepe8...@hotmail.com, hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com, Perez Ricardo canadac...@hotmail.com, bro...@yahoo.com Message-ID: 003c01c96edf$51963290$6500a...@b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hello to all of you ! While MW TAs seems inexistent tonight, nothing on 1107, 1134, 1143, 1503, 1494 or 585 on the low-band (the only low-band TA channel I actually listened), things are promising on LW with Algeria-252 (actually on 253 kHz in AM Narrow Mode to avoid UL-248 out of Montreal), Iceland-189, Morocco-171 (killed by the awful computer-like noise that moved from 189) and a very good France-162. Also, I have something on 153 kHz. It's the 2nd time, since I own the PK's Shielded Magnetic LW loop that I get a signal on 153 ! May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefonds-Montreal, QC-PQ End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 73, Issue 8 ***
[HCDX] FM round up: South India - A year of opportunities
2008 turned out to be a year of opportunities for FM operators south of the Vindhyas, as many players launched their stations during the year. 2009, say most, will be a year of consolidation. An interesting aspect of the Bangalore market that the initial RAM listenership survey had mapped as a high morning listenership and high out of home listenership TG, was the conversion to Kannada. With the exception of a Radio Indigo, which stuck to its premise of international music, several players preferred to target masses by going the Kannada way. The Sun Network led SFM launched its stations across Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh in 2008. Educating the masses about commercial FM stations was a challenge, believes SFM Kerala station head Girish Babu. “Kerala had always been an All India Radio (AIR) dominated market, so we have to educate listeners about the FM concept. Even today, there is a chunk of listeners who tune into AIR for their news content. It would work for our benefit if independent news in allowed in the FM space.” Echoes SFM Programming Director (Karnataka) Sathish Chandra, “Our stations were in the concept setting stage in Gulbarga, Mysore and other places, but the audiences accepted us fairly well.” SFM also adopted marketing gimmicks like giving out gold coins to every listener who calls the radio station in the initial months of its launch for almost all its stations. Chennai Live (another station that launched in July) station head Prem Kumar says, “We have positioned ourselves differently from the other stations as we have adopted the talk format. It had been an enriching year for us.” Fever's Bangalore station head Anjali Paul, “It was an interesting year for Fever- Bangalore as our radio station underwent a format change this year. We changed our music content from Hindi and English to complete Kannada as we believe Kannada has the potential to be aspirational.” Advertising Advertising in the south Indian market predominantly comprises local retailers with a good chunk of national corporate ones. Talking about his stations in Mysore, Gulbarga, Bangalore and Mangalore, Chandra says, “I would say we are positioned at a 50- 50 per cent ratio when it comes to advertising, with both retail and national occupying a fair share. We are still educating the advertisers about the potential of radio as an advertising medium and it will take two to three years from now for the scene to change.” Referring to the Kerala market, Girish Babu opines, “Kerala is dominated by regional players and the advertising ratio would be 60 per cent of regional and 40 per cent of national advertisers.” Radio stations in Tamil Nadu enjoy a mixed bag of national and regional advertising, adds Chennai live station head Prem Kumar states, “Radio advertising currently constitutes about seven-10 per cent of the total advertising pie in TN. Our main focus in 2009 would be getting the advertisers showcase their premium brands as well along with their mass brands.” SFM Andhra Pradesh Programming head Shobhana says, “Our advertising picked up this year because more stations were launched and advertisers looking out for pan Idia presence thought it viable to advertise on our station. Also, the sales tie up with Red FM has added to our advertising volumes..” Owing to the global recession, the amount of advertising expenditure has reduced but the south Indian market seems to be still intact. Avers Fever Bangalore station head Anjali Paul, “This quarter saw some amount of the aftermath of the global meltdown in radio advertising. Although radio is economical compared to other mediums, radio alone can’t create a brand, it can build on a brand that's created by other media. Our Bangalore station is still receiving a fair share of advertising with a healthy balance of both, national and local retail.” Agrees Shobhana, “Although recession has hit most of the sectors, radio seems to be unaffected at the moment. There hasn’t been a change in the advertising yet and we believe advertisers will realise the potential of radio as being economical and targeting the same set of listeners.” During 2008, many advertisers and clients pulled their budgets into radio down south and in 2009, the amount of money to be invested in radio would increase substantially, believe many radio operators. Stumbling blocks Radio stations in Kerala had to bear with problems of frequency overlaps in their Thrissur and Cochin stations. An industry insider says, radio stations in Trissur enjoyed the advertisers’ attention as their frequency extended till Cochin, but there was a 50 per cent fall in the advertising revenue of Thrissur stations after the launch of stations in Cochin. Similar problems have been seen in parts of Tirunelveli and Tuticorin in Chennai. Although frequency overlap persists to be a problem, this doesn’t seem to affect the listenership. As Girish Babu puts it,
