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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 12, 2012 (Glenn Hauser) 2. (Fwd) EMR this is on 6005 KHz (Zacharias Liangas ) 3. Logs 8-12/7 (Zacharias Liangas ) 4. CALENDAR of mostly SW SPECIALS July 12 update (Glenn Hauser) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:55:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: NASWA <na...@yahoogroups.com>, s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs July 12, 2012 Message-ID: <1342108528.61806.yahoomailclas...@web114001.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** BRAZIL. 11815.0, July 12 at 0126, obviously R. Brasil Central, but presumed as no ID heard, typical frenetic phony hyper-enthusiasm in Brazilian accent, unsure if covering a game or not, as only poor signal but right on frequency. Slightly better past 0200 with numbers, probably telephones rather than scores as they were multi-digit (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 6160.88, July 12 before and after 0530, big het between one of the Canadians on 6160.0 and what must be the other one shifted way off-frequency, making an A-pitch slightly wavering tone. Higher one is stronger, just a woman speaking and seems to be in English. Next check at 1221, no carrier audible on 6160.88, but a very weak one on 6160.0, so that points to CKZU Vancouver still in darkness, making 6160.88 CKZN Newfoundland way into the dayside. Check tonight to confirm if this still be the case (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [non?]. 9625, July 12 at 1226, JBA carrier while Sackville 9650 with KBS World Radio has fair to good signal. Is anyone still hearing the CBC NQ service? It was supposedly going to last a while longer, but I`m not confirming it since the June 24 cuts. Signal was never very strong here way off-beam, but hi-latitude propagation has been quite degraded lately. Wolfgang B?schel was hearing a ``sermon`` in English at 0350 July 11 on exactly 9625.000, while the CBCNQ transmitter used to be considerably off-frequency. Perhaps if still running, Sackville switched to a different transmitter among the many idle ones now. Nothing else is scheduled on 9625 at that hour, tho RCI hardly protected 9625 from CCI elsewhen. At 12-13 M-F it could be a remnant of Channel Africa in Nyanja that I detect, lacking CBCNQ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHILE. Re my penultimate report: ``BTW, the real site is Calera de Tango, CHILE, which is 92 km NNW of Santiago, as per this handy website to find distances between cities by name without messing with exact coordinates: http://www.distancefromto.net/ which also displays miles, and path between them on a Google map.`` My point was that it`s not really from Santiago, but seems this thing is not so accurate after all; GIGO. Wolfgang B?schel says: ``Google Earth/Maps shows total different distances. Former Pinochet Radio Nacional HARRIS transmitter site, now CVC relay, also CBC [?] is 27 kilometers away "southwestwards" of Santiago downtown instead, on total rural farmland. 92 km distance issue is total faulty. Also formerly CHL-CB114 Radio Nacional, Camino Loreto, Calera de Tango, Regi?n Metropolitana, 1140 kHz 75/50 kW on same area 33?38'35.70"S 70?51'01.25"W http://goo.gl/maps/Z9lE 73 wolfy`` Wolfy, Some database has Calera de Tango at less than 33 south, i.e. north of Stgo, and further west too. This may explain it. I don`t doubt your location as I too find CdT to the SW of Stgo in Maipo province, which would be 33+ south. For example, Wikipedia shows for Calera de Tango: Coordinates (commune): 32?47?12?S 71?11?50?W Country Chile Region Santiago Metro Province Maipo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake July 12 before 1300 in continuing degraded propagation conditions, especially on higher bands, just: 11500, very poor at 1230 16100, good at 1237 16980, JBA at 1239; none in the 12s, 13s, 14s, 15s, 17s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. 14950+, July 12 at 0523 check, Salem Stereo music is peaking at S9+5. At 1540 check, a JBA carrier, better than 12140 where I sought the Tamil Tigers clandestine, hearing nothing but CODAR. BTW, maybe S.S. should rethink their slogan if they are going to keep broadcasting on mono shortwave only! (Is the stream in stereo? I have not noticed.) Since they were once a licensed FM on 106.5, what was the callsign? One would have to find an expired official government list, as I already checked the current one and found it absent. One would also like to know why they lost their license. Googling is not productive, except I found this page of an announcer at Salem Stereo, YL with stylish wrap-around shades and hanging cornrows; the one who gives time chex?: https://profiles.google.com/116083705027750392630/about What a name! JHAMILETH ORTIZ YATE --- Probably unique in the universe; another example of the strange JH digraph (like ``Jhon``) which would seem to be forbidden in Spanish, but rampant in Rioblanco (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9305, July 12 at 0258, huge propeller-roar buzz and just traces of Arabic modulation from R. Cairo, usual situation for this totally useless transmission registered for a full semiday, 19-07 UT from Abis site, 250 kW, 315 degrees toward Europe and North America. 9315, next to it July 12 at 0258 is an open carrier, maybe just barely modulated for the so-called English service of R. Cairo, 0200-0330 (following 0045-0200 Spanish), 250 kW, 330 degrees from Abu Zabaal to C&W NAm --- so both sites are totally dysfunxional. At the top of the ERTU A-12 schedule in HFCC, http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A12&broadc=ERU 9720 is shown as an alternate/duplicate frequency, same parameters as 9315, and same full-A-12 date span, but DX Mix News, Bulgaria, says 9720 has replaced 9315 or will do so along with changes in other English broadcasts starting July 18. As yet, there is nothing to be heard on 9720. There is certainly nothing wrong with 9315 as a frequency except for R. Cairo`s own total incompetence in modulating it, a minimal requirement for there to be any reason whatsoever for emitting a signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. A bit of area tropo enhancement visiblizes a weak analog signal on ch A19 with antenna toward OKC, while 48 Estrella TV is quite viewable. 19 not strong enough to lock in video, and audio remains JBA. But this means KUOT-CA ch 19 still has not cut to DTV for which they have a CP, and judging from its feebility, is still 23.7 kW rather than CP for 150. W9WI.com shows affiliation is COR = Cornerstone, tho last I saw it was GCN; maybe both, or one gospel-huxtering minor network is a subsidiary of the other (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN [and non]. 15160, July 12 at 0122, almost equal mix of REE in Spanish, slightly stronger than RA in English // 19000. A totally unnecessary collision with lots of open frequencies in the 19m band at this hour. RA is still boycotting HFCC, which shows only Noblejas at 23-05, 242 degrees to S America, but that`s a typical over-registration, not really on air for six hours. Aoki includes RA at 01-05, 65 degrees from Shepparton USward past the Pacific, and REE at 23-02 only, so only this one hour overlap. Both also have CRI via Jinhua-Youbu site, 59 degrees USward in Chinese at 0100-0457, but unheard. 11880 via COSTA RICA, Thursday July 12 at 1232:45, REE goes into Basque right after ID as ``la emisora global en castellano``; so Basque is back, unlike some weekdays missing without explanation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1625. First airing should have been 0330 UT Thursday July 12 on WRMI 9955, unchecked, as always jammed. Tnx a lot, Arnie! WRMI repeats are: Sat 0800, 1500, 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730, Mon 0500, 1130. Also: Thu 2100 on WTWW 9479 UT Fri 0330v on WWRB 5050 UT Sat 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB UT Sat 0630 on HLR 7265 [unconfirmed but has been past two weeks] UT Sun 0400 on WTWW 5755 Tue 0930 on HLR 5980 Also on WRN via SiriusXM channel 120: Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830 Note: in the item about the west coast pirate on 6925-USB, I neglected to mention its name: Blue Ocean Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7506+, July 12 at 0253 check, WRNO Worldwide is managing to modulate again instead of dead air the last few nights, preaching in progress. I compare the het pitches produced on the YB-400 by tuning BFO to 7506.0 and 7507.0. Below 7507, it`s close to E-flat above hi C, and above 7506 it`s right on F above middle C from my keyboard (whose calibration has not been confirmed). Per the equal-tempered scale based on A = 440 at http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~suits/notefreqs.html the carrier is 349 Hz above 7506, and 622 Hz below 7507, so with margin of error it`s somewhere between 7506.35 and 7506.38. Such an exercise is a lot more fun than axually listening to the gospel huxter; tnx, WRNO for possiblizing this by your illegal beyond-tolerance off-frequency operation subject to FCC notice of violation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:30:39 +0300 From: "Zacharias Liangas " <gree...@otenet.gr> To: <> Subject: [HCDX] (Fwd) EMR this is on 6005 KHz Message-ID: <4fff25df.21487.b7...@greekdx.otenet.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Dear Listeners, EMR will be on 6005 KHz this sunday at 0800 & 16.00 UTC for 1 hour. I am in London all this week in to next week, as my mother is very ill and will not live for much longer. I have no way to inform most of the EMR Listenrrs about our Transmissions. Can you please help me to let all the listeners know that EMR is on this Sunday . If you can email all the listeners and Dx clubs you know please. I thank you for all your help. 73s Tom ------- End of forwarded message -------Standard rig : ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser Please read and distribute this 15 year research article http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd ________________________ http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE http://www.delicious.com/gr_greek1/@zach (all mypages !!) ........ Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece greekdx @ otenet dot gr --- Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108, Tecsun PL200/550/600, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000 Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:04:46 +0300 From: "Zacharias Liangas " <gree...@otenet.gr> To: <> Subject: [HCDX] Logs 8-12/7 Message-ID: <4fff3bee.23612.619...@greekdx.otenet.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Logs 8-12/7 http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/461/Logs-8-127 8/7 9835 RTM 1630 'penantian' from group Blackrose S3 9750 NHK 1627 dissussions in JJ S4 ON 11/7 with S7 9/7 1531 0346 news in Eng S1 suppose STP VoA?? 10/7 4915 Macapa 0350 songs S4 On 12/7 with S2 4949.8 AN Angola 0351 /poor audio S2/S1 QRN 15160 RA 0353 abt politics S6 ABC news radio 15720 RNZI 0358 a song S7 !! 11/7 11500 Firedrake 1535 over SOH ??S6 11650 R Vashprosiva ?? 1546 S7 44333 FEBC Manila 11680 N Korea 1548 operas S3 35333 12/7 4775 ?? 0347 seems tals in Afro lang S2 > TWRSWZ 4895 ?? 0351 music S2 mx Standard rig : ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser Please read and distribute this 15 year research article http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd ________________________ http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE http://www.delicious.com/gr_greek1/@zach (all mypages !!) ........ Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece greekdx @ otenet dot gr --- Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108, Tecsun PL200/550/600, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000 Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:52:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> Cc: NASWA <na...@yahoogroups.com>, s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] CALENDAR of mostly SW SPECIALS July 12 update Message-ID: <1342133574.36431.yahoomailclas...@web114020.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CALENDAR OF mostly SW SPECIALS, FAREWELLS compiled by Glenn Hauser Dates, days and times are strictly UT Note: expired info has been moved to the bottom of this page on our website for anyone who may need to refer to it. I have not attempted to follow-up everything mentioned, but this has been done in DXLD, the DXLDyg and/or my log reports. UPDATE SUMMARY since last edition: More on Night of Nights July 13 from KPH et al. in California on CW. More on Radio Hami special from Finland. Another WGBW 1590 DX test July 15. European Music Radio on July 15. Dates for Ramadan from July 19. Final day for Vatican via Sackville July 31. SUNDAY JULY 1+ The AWR via SL relays have continued past June 30, unknown how much longer. Just a timely reminder that the original schedule for the AWR relay from Trincomalee in Sri Lanka showed that these broadcasts would end on June 30. A special QSL card is available, and also a rare (these days) QSL stamp. Available only from the AWR address in Indianapolis. Scheduling from the Trincomalee Relay Station, 125 kW 0000 - 0100 11955, 1100 - 1200 15540, 1200 - 1300 15490, 1300 - 1400 17635, 1400 - 1500 12105, 1500 - 1530 15715, 1530 - 1600 7410, 1600 - 1630 11835, 1630 - 1700 11740 ENGLISH, 2100 - 2200 11750, 2200 - 2230 9455 9545, 2230 - 2400 9730 ENGLISH (Dr. Adrian M. Peterson, Co-ordinator - International Relations & DX Editor, Adventist World Radio) He didn`t include the languages, but only two are in English which I have added, per WRTH Update (gh) THURSDAY JULY 12-SUNDAY JULY 15 R. Hami, Finland, low-power special on 6170, 1584, 94.7. Details: http://radiohami.fi/ UPDATE: Special Event Station - Radio Hami, 12-15th July 2012 on 6170 kHz Radio Hami (The Finnish Amateur Radio League annual summer camp event radio station) will be active from July 12th to July 15th. You can hear us on FM 94.7 MHz (Sappee), AM 6170 kHz & 1584 kHz. We will have around the clock transmission, though programming takes place mainly between 8 am and midnight EEST (0500-2100 UT). Program (in Finnish) is available here: http://radiohami.fi/operaatiot/kesaeleiri-2012-sappee/ohjelma2012.shtml Radio Hami is temporary radio station, that operates yearly from The Finnish Amateur Radio League summer camp. Usually transmissions can be heard locally on FM and more internationally on 49 and 187 meter bands. You can contact us using via email: mailto:halli...@radiohami.fi QSL info: Radio Hami / SRAL, PL 44, 00441 Helsinki http://radiohami.fi/in-english.shtml (Thanks to Mikhail Timofeyev via Open DX, via Alokesh Gupta) FRIDAY JULY 13 NIGHT OF NIGHTS XIII >From 0001 UT, The Maritime Radio Historical Society with revival of CW Coastal >stations KPH, KSM, KFS, also ham activity as K6KPH. Also open house at >Bolinas, California from 2000 UT July 12. See http://www.radiomarine.org UPDATE: Good chance to catch rare (and not so rare) utes From: radiomar...@yahoogroups.com On Behalf Of Richard Dillman Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 4:08 PM To: Radiomarine; Boatanchors; Ham Radio History NIGHT OF NIGHTS XIII - SAVE THE DATE 12 July 1999 was a sad day for many of us. We knew it was coming but when the end finally arrived is was a shock. I was there. It was the supposed last day of Morse code. The final sign off took place at a remote station on the Pacific coast. Women attending the event were dressed as if at a funeral. Grizzled, hard bitten old men, the kind you wouldn't mess with in a bar room, had tears in their eyes as the last messages was keyed out to the world at 0000 gmt. And then there was silence. It was just beeps in the air. But that's how much Morse code means to the men and women who made the profession of radiotelegrapher one of honor and skill. But the prediction of the death of Morse code was not to be fulfilled. On that day the Maritime Radio Historical Society was born. On that day we began plans to restore a Morse code radio station - the famous KPH. One year later we held the first "Night of Nights" when not only KPH but other coast stations appeared once again on the air. Every year since we have commemorated that date by returning these stations to the air and thereby, we hope, honoring the men and women who came before us. Join us this year for Night of Nights XIII. See and hear a real Morse code coast station in full song. Mingle with the pioneers who werethe men and women of the airwaves. Or, if you can't join us in person, join us on the air. KSM and, we hope, KPH and KFS will be in action (to be confirmed - watch our Web site for updates). K6KPH will be open to calls from amateur stations. When: 12 July 2012 - Doors open at 3:00 pm [PDT], first transmission at 5:01pm (0001 gmt July 13) Where: KPH receive station, 14700 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, past the oyster company and G Ranch Information: i...@radiomarine.com or 663-8982 Light snacks will be served. VY 73, RD Richard Dillman, WPE2VT, Chief Operator, Coast Station KSM, Maritime Radio Historical Society http://www.radiomarine.org (via Harold Frodge, July 9, DXLD) BBC Radio 3 Prom Concert season starts, webcasts until September 8 http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms SUNDAY JULY 15 0500-0700: Mark Heller at WGBW-1590 advises he'll be conducting another DX TEST this will be Sunday Morning July 15 (after Saturday night) from Midnight to 2 AM Central Daylight Time. This may be the last test for a while from WGBW-1590, as they have received their Construction Permit for 500 watt night operation. 73 (Wayne Heinen, July 7, NRC-AM via DXLD) Two Rivers/Denmark, Wisconsin, circa Green Bay. 0800-0900 & 1600-1700: Dear Listeners, EMR will be on 6005 kHz [Kall, GERMANY] this Sunday at 0800 & 1600 UT for 1 hour. I am in London all this week in to next week, as my mother is very ill and will not live for much longer. I have no way to inform most of the EMR Listenrrs about our transmissions. Can you please help me to let all the listeners know that EMR is on this Sunday. If you can email all the listeners and DX clubs you know please. I thank you for all your help. 73s (Tom Taylor, July 11, via Zacharias Liangas, DXLD) 0930 UT Sundays starting this week: USTRALIA. AMATEUR NET --- We got more amateurs in this club; well, why not an amateur net? Say (now this is me, 7140 0930 on Sundays starting 15th July 0930 UT on 7140 kHz. Howzat?!!!! Say hello and also give your ARDXC membership number)! I want to hear this as a shortwave listener! (Johno Wright, July Australian DX News via DXLD) THURSDAY JULY 19-SATURDAY AUGUST 18 RAMADAN begins in the evening of Thursday, July 19, 2012, and ends in the evening of Saturday, August 18, 2012 [variable depending on local new-moon sightings]. This leads to extended all-night, or at least modified scheduling on many stations, some of them SW, in Islamic-dominated countries. TUESDAY JULY 31 Stop-date for Vatican Radio relays via Sackville; will they be replaced by Bonaire for a few more months, or what? English to the Americas has been at 0250-0320 on 7305, 9610; 1200-1214 except Sundays on 13730. This calendar will be updated and reissued as needed Latest edition: http://www.w4uvh.net/calendar.html WORLD OF RADIO: http://www.worldofradio.com DX LISTENING DIGEST: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html (Glenn Hauser, 2245 UT July 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 115, Issue 13 *********************************************