[HCDX] Sunday evening logs
Sunday, 28 June 2009 AUSTRALIA 4835, 4910, 5025 kHz21:34 UTC Alice Springs, Tennant Creek, Katherine in English. All three of them audible, with ABC News, then some pop music, four past seven, this corresponds to UTC + 9.5. Poor MALI 5995 kHz around 21-22 UTC Radio Bamako in French. Nice music from the region, info on their FM frequencies. Good MAURITANIA 4845 kHz around 21-22 UTC ORTM in Arabic. Good GUINEA EQUATORIAL 5005 kHz around 21-22 UTC Radio Bata in Spanish. Lively music from the region. Good 73 Kai Munich, Germany Lowe HF-150 with ALA1530 active loop indoors ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-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 15410 kHz in Portuguese
Hi everyone, Tuesday, 15 April 2008, 2030 UTC 15410 kHz UNID (PORTUGAL OR BRAZIL?) O=4, lively programme in Portuguese, Brazilian songs, Brasil, Sao Paolo mentioned a couple of times. Now (2055 UTC) signal is becoming weaker. Does anybody know this station? Many thanks in advance!! KW Munich (Germany) Lowe HF-150 Wellbrook ALA1530 (indoors) ---[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] African logs
Saturday, 12 April 2008, 1810 - 1835 UTC: MADAGASCAR 5010 kHz (USB), Radio Malagasy (presumed), O=2, hilife music ETHIOPIA 5990 kHz, Radio Ethiopia, O=3 7110 kHz // 5990 kHz DJIBOUTI 4780 kHz, Radio Djibouti, O=3 CHAD 4905 kHz, Radio N'djamena, O=3 GABON 4777 kHz, RTG Libreville, French, vocal and drum music, O=3 73 Kai Munich, Germany Lowe HF-150 Wellbrook ALA1530 (indoors) ---[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] BBC ends shortwave service in Europe
Hi everyone, thanks to Zacharias for forwarding this sad piece of information. I used to be a great fan of the BBC WS, which I discovered at the end of the 1980s when I was 13 or 14 years old. My initial motivation for listening was to improve my English, but soon I became I addicted to the programmes such as From our own correspondent, Alistair Cooke's Letter from America, the interview, and so on. In recent months I basically stopped listening as the service was no longer available at all times on, you name it, SHORTWAVE. There comes a point where the shortwave audience in a given region becomes so small that spending money on it can no longer be justified, the broadcaster said in a statement. How do they measure their audience? Personally, although I am open to all sorts of new technology, I only have internet at home since summer 2007. I lived abroad for many years and was so little settled that I had neither internet nor a satellite dish, and thus I really appreciated having the BBC on shortwave. Now I can still get it via the internet, but only at my PC and only when I haven't just shut the thing down... The quiet ending for the service was a contrast with its celebrated arrival. Seventy-five years ago, King George V helped promote the new technology from his small study in the British royal family's Norfolk retreat, Sandringham. In a speech written by the poet Rudyard Kipling, the king extolled radio as a way to reach out to men and women isolated by snow and sea. Through one of the marvels of modern science, I am enabled this Christmas Day to speak to all my people throughout the empire, the king said. The abdication speech of Edward VIII was broadcast on shortwave, as was news of the Hindenburg airship's explosion and Hungarian Free Radio's last anguished call for aid as Russian tanks rumbled into Budapest. But modern modes of communication have been squeezing out shortwave services in Western countries, where programming is available on FM radio, on the Internet and on iPods with wireless connections. I wish it were like this. I live in Munich, which has more than 1 million inhabitants, but BBC WS is not available on FM, neither on terrestrial FM nor on cable. And so far haven't found the courage to set up an ugly satellite dish at my flat (probably one is only allowed to set it up where it does not spoil the facade). Europe is very developed and so is America, said Michael Gardner, a spokesman for BBC World Services. Shortwave is not the best way of reaching those audiences there. They all have FM, AM stations close by. Some of them have satellites or they can pull it down on their TV screens and there are alternatives on line. There are lots of ways of interacting with the BBC. OK. Shortwave is a sign of under-development. Simon Spanswick, chief executive of the Association of International Broadcasters in London, said that the move by the BBC probably sounds the death knell for traditional analogue shortwave broadcasting in the developed world. I agree. The BBC switching off its shortwave transmitters is gloomy. Shortwave transmissions remain an important media outlet in Africa and Asia, he noted. Since 2006, the BBC World Service shortwave audience has grown by 7 million people, or 7 percent, to 107 million - about 58 percent of the BBC's total radio audience. But in developed countries, Spanswick added, nobody really uses shortwave radio any more to listen to content produced on a big scale. A counter example: My wife, who is South American, listens to the Spanish service of Radio Exterior de Espana (Madrid) every morning. REE still provides excellent coverage via shortwave, and we really enjoy their broadcasts. Of course I already checked how I might receive REE via satellite, just to be prepared. Not surprisingly, REE and BBC WS use different satellites...So will need 2 dishes. All of the world's largest international broadcasters, based in the United States, France, Germany, England and the Netherlands, are cutting back on shortwave or reviewing the deployment of their resources. Andy Sennit, a media specialist with the Dutch public broadcaster, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, said that he got his start 30 years ago working on BBC shortwave broadcasts and had mixed feelings about the end of the transmissions. For die-hard shortwave listeners, this is negative, he said. What they don't understand is the huge cost of powering transmitters. The cost of diesel fuel has doubled. To my understanding, the true aim is to transfer the cost to the listener (energy for a computer, money for new equipment). Does anyone on this mailing list has estimated energy consumption for internet broadcasting? My estimate goes as follows: Shortwave for Europe: 500 kW transmitting power plus neglible power consumed by transistor receivers, makes a total of 500 kW Internet: 0 W transmitting power plus 5000 listeners times 100 W
[HCDX] African and South American logs
Hello everyone, this is my first contribution to HCDX. 3320 Radio Sonder Grense, SOUTH AFRICA. 02-17 0345 Afrikaans, classical music. 22332 4770 Radio Nigeria Kaduna, NIGERIA. 02-17 0440 English. 32432 4885 Radio Clube do Para, BRAZIL. 02-17 0425 Portuguese, songs. 32432 4905 Radio Ndjamena, CHAD. 02-17 0430 French, sign-on with national anthem, frequencies, African pop music. 44433. Went off abruptly at 0445. 5025 Radio Rebelde, CUBA. 02-17 0400 Spanish, news, followed by Cuban music. 34433 5030 Radio Burkina, Ouagadougou, BURKINA FASO. 02-17 0530 Sign-on in French and African language. 33433 5915 Radio Zambia (tent.), ZAMBIA. 02-17 0415 African language. 22432 5995 Radio Mali, Bamako, MALI. 02-17 0615 West African string music. 33433 6250 Radio Malabo, EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 02-17 0540 Spanish, Afro-pop music, song ella no me quiere mas. Time signal at 0600. 33433 7100 Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea (tent.), ERITREA. 02-17 0420 Horn of Africa music. 35433 7125 Radio Conakry, GUINEA. 02-17 0658 West African music. Fairly strong signal but low modulation. 35433 15120 La voix du Nigeria, Lagos, NIGERIA. 02-17 0740. French. Very good. 5 15255 Channel Africa, SOUTH AFRICA. 02-17 0635 English, interview about malaria. 35543 15345 Radio Nacionál, ARGENTINA. 02-16 2040. Spanish, talk about cinema. 35433 73 Kai Willner Munich, Germany Lowe HF-150 Wellbrook ALA1530 active magnetic loop, used indoors CREATIVE ZEN MP3 recorder ---[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] Chad 4905
Hello everone, a very nice surprise to see Radio N'djamena back on its old frequency!! Signal is great, and modulation is excellent! Until 1900 UTC superb traditional music. I resumed DXing a few weeks ago, after a pause of about 10 years. Noticing that so many African state broadcasters have disappeared from the tropical bands (Yaoundé, Garoua, Douala, Lomé, Abidjan, Cotonou, Gaborone, Maseru, Nairobi... to name but a few) made me feel quite nostalgic. Seeing N'djamena back on 4905 kHz (wasn't it 4904.5 kHz?) is a gleam of hope! At about 1901 UTC there was an interruption in the signal of about a minute or so... Now they are back on 4905 kHz in French! Great!!! 73 Kai Willner Germany Lowe HF-150 Wellbrook ALA-1530 active loop antenna (indoors) On Dec 20, 2007 5:31 PM, Jari Savolainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Dec 2007 noted Chad, RNT N'Djamena on 4905 at 1627. French program, into Arabic at 1700. Strong signal, blocking the Chinese station on this frequency. Jari Savolainen Kuusankoski Finland ---[Start Commercial]- Preorder your WRTH 2007: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2007 ---[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] UNID African on 17645 kHz
Hi Marcelo, it seems that you have been listening to one of the best music stations ever! However, it could be that bad guys are behind the superbe music! Conventional wisdom has it that the non-stop African music station is a jammer directed to North Africa. You may enter afro-pop jammer in Google to learn more. 73, Kai Munich / Germany On 5/16/07, Marcelo Xavier Vieira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, everyone This is my first message to Hard-core DX. Today, early in the morning, I was trying to listen to some Chinese shortwave stations on my portable receivers, but I end up finding something much more interesting. I found an African (at least I believe it was African) station on the frequency of 17645 kHz. I started to listen to it at 1409 UTC and followed the transmissions until 1510 UTC. At the beginning my SINPO was 25222, but at 1510 UTC I almost could'nt hear the broadcast because the noise was too strong and loud. Despite my patience, I couldn't hear any ID. The station played non-stop African pop music, without a single identification or talk. The station played a lot of ndombolo songs, which is a style of music produced mostly in the Democratic Republic of Congo. I noticed also a slight noise coming from the transmitter whenever a song stopped playing. Does anyone know the name of the station or its location? 73! Marcelo Xavier Vieira Chapadão do Sul - Brazil _ Procure em qualquer página Web com protecção eficaz. Obtenha já o Windows Live Toolbar GRATUITO! http://www.toolbar.live.com ---[Start Commercial]- Preorder your WRTH 2007: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2007 ---[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]- Preorder your WRTH 2007: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2007 ---[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
