[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 7-8, 2014
** CANADA. 6160, Jan 8 at 0706, after RHC 6165 ACI is gone, one CBC station in the clear, sufficient signal with discussion of Winnipeg weather, cold and windy as it may be, still being better than Mars; at least the air is breathable. Very slight SAH at times from the other CBC. I suppose CKZU Vancouver is more likely to be propagating to here, but usually in the nightmiddle they are more equal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 11635, Jan 7 at 2250, mix of music and Chinese with LAH (low audible heterodyne) from something off-frequency. Per Aoki, the pileup here consists of ChiCom jamming inspired by R. Taiwan International at 22-24, 100 kW via Paochung; but also scheduled is V. of Korea [North], 200 kW from Kujang until 2257 in Russian, 2300 onward in Korean. Cuban Spy Numbers finish 11635 at 2155 on Sun, Mon, Wed, Fri, and this was Tuesday anyway. 6075, Jan 8 at 1418, Firedrake mixing with Chinese = either CNR1 additional jamming or less likely the target RTI, while as usual on // 6145 Firedrake only is audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15340, Jan 8 at 1459, tune across RHC to find another canned frequency announcement playing, so I stay with it: yes, exactly the same one heard other days circa 1429, wackily claiming the last of the four 25m frequencies is ``1,790``. If the announcer can`t recognize such an obvious error, can`t anyone else at the station? Maybe nobody pays any attention to it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 11905, Jan 8 at 0638, Arabic in somewhat distorted and suppressed modulation, but should be readable to a native. Poor-fair with slow fades, music interludes, 0646 phone interview, fading down by 0700 when I can`t pull any ID. Modulation certainly worthy of Cairo, and per Aoki that`s exactly what it is: ``11905 R. CAIRO 'El-Bernameg Al-Aam' 0200-0700 1234567 Arabic 250 315 Abis EGY 3110N 03005E ERU b13 GS`` I tune across here almost every night during this hour and never heard this before. Nothing else is making it on 25m from Europe, ME or Africa, nor on 13, 17, 21 MHz, but see NIGERIA on 15120. Maybe this is a consequence of the big leap in solar activity. WWV reported at 0600/0618 on the air: ``Geophysical Alert Message Solar-terrestrial indices for 07 January follow. Solar flux 237 and estimated planetary A-index 8. The estimated planetary K-index at 0600 UTC on 08 January was 3. Space weather for the past 24 hours has been strong. Solar radiation storms reaching the S2 level occurred. Radio blackouts reaching the R3 level occurred. Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be moderate. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G2 level are expected. Solar radiation storms reaching the S2 level are expected. Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level are expected.`` Note the SF way above 200 which we haven`t seen in ages. But I`ve yet to find any improvement on the higher bands in the daytime, still only weak, marginal signals above 15 MHz, which were generally much better last fall with lower flux (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [non]. 15190, Jan 7 at 2244 tune-in, dead air from R. Africa Network via WRMI. Continued so until 2300* after a few uncopied words were blurted before cutoff (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 7475 not // 9420, Jan 8 at 0628 with separate pop musix (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9775, Jan 8 at 1352, R. Free Chosun is on again with English love song prélude, the same three as always, good signal. BTW, I *never* have heard any sign of Juche jamming on this; why not? Inconsequential to Un? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 15120, Jan 8 at 0642, VON with good signal instead of no signal propagating, bad modulation as usual, YL speaker briefly much more comprehensible than OMs. 0644 JBM ID as ``English service of Voice of Nigeria``. It`s the SSOB, virtually the OSOB with only a few other weak signals on 19m; not including 15190, where R. Africa is apparently not on yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, Jan 8 at 0100, JBA carrier from R. Chaski, enough to tell when autotimer cuts it off, at 0102:55.5*, which is 22.5 seconds later than last check four nights ago = averaging 5.625 seconds per 24 hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENIING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES [and non]. 9545, Jan 7 at 2252, FEBC ``Jesus Saves`` IS repeating under but almost equal to VOA Chinese, fair with flutter, from different Philippine sites, a fine example of coördination! Or is that really ChiCom jamming I am hearing? It`s surely applied to VOA. FEBC should crash-start its Hmong at *2300, if they have to be on the same frequency. Just one would be plenty to block Solomon Islands, which unfortunately is also trying to use 9545. Minor stations like SIBC need to be frequency-flexible, to avoid the big-guns, but seldom are due to red tape, as
[HCDX] Radio Rossii leaves LW, SW, and partly MW frequencies
Radio Rossii leaves LW, SW, and partly MW frequencies on January 9, 2014. 5930 kHz and 7320 kHz from the Far East are already in silence right now starting from 1700 UTC... 73! Mikhail _ 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 133, Issue 9
Send Hard-Core-DX mailing list submissions to hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to hard-core-dx-requ...@hard-core-dx.com You can reach the person managing the list at hard-core-dx-ow...@hard-core-dx.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Hard-Core-DX digest... Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt Today's Topics: 1. Shortwave Relays from Hambuger Lokal Radio (Tom Taylor) 2. Glenn Hauser logs January 7-8, 2014 (Glenn Hauser) 3. Radio Rossii leaves LW, SW, and partly MW frequencies (Mikhail Timofeyev) -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 16:37:04 + From: Tom Taylor emrs...@gmail.com To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: [HCDX] Shortwave Relays from Hambuger Lokal Radio Message-ID: CAA_Ct2ysNJH-PK+sJg=3cxmsqhh4gc0pgcnxwk6b-25+ijm...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Shortwave Relays from Hambuger Lokal Radio GERMANY Hamburger Lokalradio (HLR) introduces an additional Shortwave transmission slot via Goehren, starting January 12, 2014: Sundays, 1200-1400 UTC, 9480 kHz. HLR is very interested in reception reports for this new slot frequency and will confirm correct reports with a special QSL card. Postal address: Hamburger Lokalradio, c/o Kulturzentrum LOLA, 21031 Hamburg, Germany. (Return postage, e.g. 1 US-Dollar, is appreciated.) SWEDEN (non) The first radio program in a series of three, produced by SDXF - Sveriges DX-F?rbund, will air via Hamburger Lokalradio (transmitter Goehren, Germany) on Saturday, January 11, 2014, from 1200-1300 UTC on 7265 kHz. More information can be found on the SDXF website at: http://www.sdxf.se/WP/?p=2446 Every Saturday and Wednesday the programs of HLR: 06 - 09 UTC, program in Spanish, English, German on 7265 KHz 09 - 12 UTC, program in German on 6190 KHz 12 - 16 UTC,program in German, Spanish, English on 7265 KHz 13 - 14 UTC Radio City Programme on 7265 KHz (4th Saturday only) Good Listening! 73sTom -- Message: 2 Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 09:17:53 -0800 (PST) From: Glenn Hauser wghau...@yahoo.com To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 7-8, 2014 Message-ID: 1389201473.25548.yahoomailba...@web161302.mail.bf1.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** CANADA. 6160, Jan 8 at 0706, after RHC 6165 ACI is gone, one CBC station in the clear, sufficient signal with discussion of Winnipeg weather, cold and windy as it may be, still being better than Mars; at least the air is breathable. Very slight SAH at times from the other CBC. I suppose CKZU Vancouver is more likely to be propagating to here, but usually in the nightmiddle they are more equal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 11635, Jan 7 at 2250, mix of music and Chinese with LAH (low audible heterodyne) from something off-frequency. Per Aoki, the pileup here consists of ChiCom jamming inspired by R. Taiwan International at 22-24, 100 kW via Paochung; but also scheduled is V. of Korea [North], 200 kW from Kujang until 2257 in Russian, 2300 onward in Korean. Cuban Spy Numbers finish 11635 at 2155 on Sun, Mon, Wed, Fri, and this was Tuesday anyway. 6075, Jan 8 at 1418, Firedrake mixing with Chinese = either CNR1 additional jamming or less likely the target RTI, while as usual on // 6145 Firedrake only is audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15340, Jan 8 at 1459, tune across RHC to find another canned frequency announcement playing, so I stay with it: yes, exactly the same one heard other days circa 1429, wackily claiming the last of the four 25m frequencies is ``1,790``. If the announcer can`t recognize such an obvious error, can`t anyone else at the station? Maybe nobody pays any attention to it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 11905, Jan 8 at 0638, Arabic in somewhat distorted and suppressed modulation, but should be readable to a native. Poor-fair with slow fades, music interludes, 0646 phone interview, fading down by 0700 when I can`t pull any ID. Modulation certainly worthy of Cairo, and per Aoki that`s exactly what it is: ``11905 R. CAIRO 'El-Bernameg Al-Aam' 0200-0700 1234567 Arabic 250 315 Abis EGY 3110N 03005E ERU b13
