Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 103, Issue 31
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 2011 is out. Order yours from http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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. Glenn Hauser logs July 29-30, 2011 (Glenn Hauser) 2. July 28-30 Logs (Brian Alexander) 3. July 29-31 logs (Mikhail Timofeyev) -- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 13:00:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Glenn Hauser wghau...@yahoo.com To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs July 29-30, 2011 Message-ID: 1312056006.37787.yahoomailclas...@web114012.mail.gq1.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** CHINA. Firedrake July 30; poor propagation at first, but came up with some `new` frequencies, prompted by choices of jamming victims, as SARFT is totally reaxionary: Before 1200: 16100, JBA at 1150. NO others found 10-19 MHz, altho CNR1 and CRI had some signals on 13590, 13720, 15250, 15480, 15670. Only poor signals from anywhere at this hour above 15 MHz Before 1230: 11500, fluttery carrier at 1221, but no music. NO others found up to 18 MHz by 1225 Before 1330: 15280, fair with flutter at 1327 [see 15290 below] 15425, poor at 1327. Yes, not 15430 as previously; had to make sure on YB-400 rather than parallax on the FRG-7; no others below 16 MHz. July 30 Aoki has V. of Tibet on 15427 at 1300-1306 via Tajikistan; 15430 at 1330-1400 via UAE. Close enough. Probably was same target when on 15445 Before 1400: 16100, very good with flutter at 1335 15525, very poor at 1345 15290, poor at 1347; was 15280 20 minutes earlier, above. July 30 Aoki almost accounts for these in reverse with V. of Tibet via Tajikistan at 1330-1401 on 15292, 1401-1430 on 15283; no such hets audible here 12900, very good with flutter at 1337; same site as 16100? 12025, poor at 1337 mixing with Chinese, CNR1 jammer 11500, good at 1338; no others 10-19 MHz Before 1430: 17560, poor at 1421. Unusual spot: Nothing in July 30 Aoki to account for this but HFCC has: V. of Tibet, 250 kW, 45 degrees via Madagascar at 1400-1430 15790, poor at 1421 // 17560. Nothing in HFCC to explain it but Aoki July 30 has Sound of Hope via Tajikistan on 15795 at 1400-1430 14950, good at 1427; no others 10-19 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. More missing transmissions: 17560, July 29 at 2003, 2019, RHC to Europe absent (allowing unimpeded spash-free reception of ME music on R. Kuwait 17550 Arabic to CW NAm). 17560 back on next day July 30 at 1936 in French. 13740, July 30 at 1428, CRI relay in English is missing. It had been on 9570 in the 12-13 hour. Now RHC itself on 13680, 13780 as usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE [and non]. 17610, July 30 at 1152, blues song in English, poor with fades, then reggae until abrupt 1200* without any announcement; how rude! Scheduled here is RFI, 500 kW due west from Issoudun in French at 11-12 to CIRAF 7S, 8S, 10E, 11 and 12N, i.e. Enid and vicinity southward! The 270 degree bearing heads more toward Mexico/Central America. This may be another frequency for the M?t?o Marine weather broadcasts at 1133, more easily heard via GUF on 13640, and always filled out with RFI musique. 15515, July 30 at 1202, RFI via GUIANA FRENCH, good with clip of Pres. Obama, voice-over translation to Spanish with heavy gringo accent. Wonder who did that, the White House? Surely RFI could do better, as then followed by more news announced in proper Spanish: YL refers to US debt as ``14 billones de d?lares`` --- oh oh, are they using the confusing alternate million/billion notation instead of trillion? Everybody, abandon that for unequivocal metric ``terabux``. 15300, July 30 at 1650, RFI weak in French. Mike Cooper and I are wondering what the current hours on this frequency are: is it really all the way from 04 to 20 TU as HFCC-registered, and also in Aoki, EiBi? Plus
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs July 30-31, 2011
** CHINA. Firedrake July 31; poor propagation and not as many audible as usual; before 1230: 11500, fair at 1221 12900, fair at 1223; none in the 13s 14700, fair at 1225, none higher Before 1330: 10300, very good at 1317 11500, missing at 1317 12900, good at 1318 13850, very poor at 1321 // 12900; WWCR not making it on 13845; none higher (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 13740, July 31 at 1435, CRI relay mixing Chinese and English is back; was missing 24 hours earlier. 11760, RHC Esperanto reconfirmed Sunday July 31 at 1521 in YL announcement after music: only the first word did it, ``Saluton``. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also VENEZUELA [non] ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 12015, July 31 at 1314 nothing but a het, the stronger signal on the lo side, about 12014.8. Aoki shows both VOK Kujang and VOR via Samara during this hour. I`ll bet I know which one is off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN [non]. 11880, Sunday July 31 at 1240, REE with `Amigos de la Onda Corta` via COSTA RICA, news item about R. Taiwan International. I quickly check // 11910 via CHINA, and can barely hear it there. So the PRC axually transmitted a non-hostile mention of the enemy. REE is in bed with the ChiCom for relay exchanges, presumably protecting it from jamming; is that explicitly in the contract? One might ask the same about Canada and China (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. 13730, July 31 at 0455, R. Dabanga best heard yet on this frequency, synchronized // 13620 via MADAGASCAR which has the usual tone jamming, but no jam audible on 13730. Scatterbrain Dabanga is over-produced with echo-chamber, cutting every few sex between talk and music clips. At 0457 the signal on 13730 abruptly drops to much weaker without any break. This contradicts the expanded schedule as of July 18 in DXLD 11-29 which showed 13730 not starting until 0500 via Wertachtal. However, latest HFCC info on 13730 since 18 July does show 13730 at 0430-0459 [sic] as 250 kW, 340 degrees from Madagascar, 0500[sic]-0557 as 250 kW, 150 degrees from Wertachtal; no longer UAE site on this frequency at all. BOTH 13620 and 13730 via MDC during the first semi-hour correlates with equal reception now and synchronization. As for 13620, HFCC shows 0430-0527, 250 kW, 330 degrees [10 away from 13730 bearing] from Madagascar, 0530[sic]-0557, 500 kW, 156 degrees from Nauen, GERMANY. This one also really starts 3 minutes earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. 15450, July 31 at 1227, altho most signals on 19m are very poor or absent, even CUBA, VOT is surprisingly good with IS; 1230 sign-on by live OM, who still hasn`t engaged brain, and continues to read outdated script claiming the time is 1330 and the frequencies are 15520 and 15450. Following news dominated by mass resignation of Turkish military leadership. Delivery is hesitant, almost off-the-cuff, as if he might be translating on the fly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. Re previous report, what is BBC doing on 15370, Saturdays only at 13-16? Hi Glenn, Regarding your query in logs July 29/30, I've looked at the Sentech website and they show no A11 BBC WS transmissions on 15370 Saturdays; in fact they show no transmissions on 15370 for anyone at any time. http://www.sentech.co.za/products/signal-distribution/frequencies/radio/shortwave/bbc Be aware that this website is not entirely reliable; for example they still show 702 Talk Radio on mediumwave, although it moved to 92.7 FM some 3 or 4 years ago, and is shown as such on their own Gauteng region FM section of the webpage! So it is not conclusive that they have nothing on 15370 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, July 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) In fact: Hi all, BBC in French, not Somali 1300-1600 on 15370 MEY 250 kW / 020 deg Sat only BBC in English, not Somali 1300-1400 17680 CYP 300 kW / 160 deg Sat only BBC in Somali 1400-1500 17680 CYP 300 kW / 160 deg Sat only // 11860 15420 both SEY BBC in English, not Somali 1500-1600 17680 CYP 300 kW / 160 deg Sat only 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, July 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ivo also attaches clips of these frequencies from remote monitoring archives for July 30: 7-30 1305, 15370 BBC French, not Somali 7-30 1406, 15370 BBC French, not Somali 7-30 1508, 15370 BBC French, not Somali 7-30 1302, 17680 BBC English, not Somali 7-30 1407, 17680 BBC Somali 7-30 1506, 17680 BBC English, not Somali So it appears the 3-hour Saturday Somali broadcast has been cut to one hour in the middle, on a different frequency via a different site, while the South Africa relay on 15370 has been changed to French; why? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1575 monitoring: reconfirmed on WTWW-1, 5755, good signal UT Sunday July 31 after 0400, preceded by the usual automated announcement from SFAW about sorcery on the streets of Washington DC. Standard
[HCDX] R.Afghanistan on 6100 kHz
6100 1527-1607 AFG R.Afghanistan, Kabul, 31/07, local OM singing, then English with news at 1530, Afgnan traditional song, OM talk about Ramadan, and one western pop song (tentaive ID at 1555'58 as The International service of National Radio of Afghanistan), 1600'24 music and Urdu service - poor at the beginning, then fair and almost good after 1600 with local noise, KRE in the background and CRI on 6095 till 1557 73! Mikhail Timofeyev Saint-Petersburg Russia Drake R8A and 30 m long wire ---[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-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] July 31 Logs
** BRAZIL. 4876.77v, Rdif Roraima, 0237-0404*, July 31, Brazilian ballads. Portuguese announcements. Sign off with National Anthem. Weak. Poor in noisy conditions. Frequency constantly drifting between 4876.74 - 4876.85. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** BRAZIL. 6089.95, Radio Bandeirantes, 0040-0110, July 31, Anguilla 6090 still off the air allowing Brazil to be heard with futebol play-by-play. // 9645.38 - weak. // 11925.22 - threshold copy. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** DJIBOUTI. 4780, Radio Djibouti, *0313-0340, July 31, open carrier at 0300 but no programming until 0313. Sign on at 0313 with National Anthem. Rustic local flute music at 0314. Qur`an at 0314:20. Arabic talk at 0317. Local rustic music after 0335. Fair to good at sign on, but started to deteriorate to a weak level after 0330. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** ERITREA. 7110.03, Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea, *0256- 0315, July 31, sign on with IS. Horn of Africa music and vernacular talk at 0259. Strong carrier but very weak modulation. // 7174.99 - fair to good. // 9830.03 - poor to fair. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** KURDISTAN [non]. via Ukraine, 11530, Denge Mezopotamya, *0400- 0435, July 31, sign on with National Anthem followed by local Kurdish music. Indigenous vocals. Kurdish talk. Poor to fair but occasional QRM from WEWN spur on 11529. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** MADAGASCAR. 5010, Radio Madagasikara, 0222-0240, July 31, carrier + LSB. Yes, carrier + LSB. Tune-in to local Afro-pop music. 30 second IS at 0228 followed by choral National Anthem. Opening announcements at 0231 in listed Malagasy. Local Afro-pop music at 0232 and talk. Lively vocals. At 0303 check heard religious talk and local religious choral music. Poor in noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** U.S.A. 11511, 11529, WEWN Spurs, 0400-0430, July 31, strong, ugly, noisy, distorted spurs from 11520. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** ZAMBIA. 5915, ZNBC - Radio 1, *0241-0250, July 31, sign on with Fish Eagle IS. Choral National Anthem at 0246. Very weak. Lost in noise by 0250. (Brian Alexander, PA) Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires ---[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-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] 9264.963 WINB prayer
USA 9264.963 Loud hysterical prayer on WINB Red Lion noted at 2250 UT July 31, this program ended at 2259 UT. I grow fearful of this very loud YELL. I think this prayer is possibly very crazy and fit for the nuthouse. Never heard such behaviour from priest before. (wb, UT July 31) ---[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-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] [dxld] 9264.963 WINB prayer
WINB schedule shows: 06:30P / Sun-2230...Terry Blalock (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- On Sun, 7/31/11, Wolfgang Bueschel buesch...@web.de wrote: Date: Sunday, July 31, 2011, 6:06 PM USA 9264.963 Loud hysterical prayer on WINB Red Lion noted at 2250 UT July 31, this program ended at 2259 UT. I grow fearful of this very loud YELL. I think this prayer is possibly very crazy and fit for the nuthouse. Never heard such behaviour from priest before. (wb, UT July 31) ---[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-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
