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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs July 14-15, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
2. July 14-15 Logs (brian384...@aol.com)
3. Serbia off? (Eike Bierwirth)
4. A review of degen DE1126 (Zacharias Liangas )
5. 15 July Loggings (Dave Valko)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 08:29:30 -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 14-15, 2012
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** CHINA. Firedrake July 15:
17450, JBA music at 0549, probably this
9970, poor-fair with at 1229 with flutter. None higher. In fact, with K=6 and
a blackout, nothing at all heard above a very weak 12050 WEWN (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9490, July 15 at 0240, lite pulse jamming, of the usual residual type
when there is nothing really to be jammed. Missed checking whether a biweek
after it started via GUF, there is yet any heavy jamming during the R.
Rep?blica broadcast at 0000-0157 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15540, July 15 at 1940, R. Kuwait fair signal in English, during
`This Day in History` daily feature until 1945 back to western pop music.
This all depends on the Western calendar, e.g. matching up July 14 with the
same date in previous years. Do the Arabs have any such parallel concept? The
lunar Islamic calendar makes ``this day`` a totally different one from year to
year insofar as where the earth is in its orbit, which also accounts for the
precession of Ramadan earlier and earlier each of our years, i.e. in ``2012``,
July 19-August 18, more or less, as flagged in our Calendar,
http://www.w4uvh.net/calendar.html
Ramadan influences expansions or changes in SW and other broadcast schedules to
keep up with temporary fasting-and-feasting lifestyles, inevitably leading to
different waking-and-sleeping hours and consequently potential listenership
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. In last report this item typoed initial entry of frequency as 770.
Yes, it was really 700! Please correct if quoting.
700, July 14 from 1120, a weak Spanish station with no QRM unlike all the other
frequencies; 1128, promo for 1,110 Radio Red, i.e. relay of M?xico DF, and by
now there is a weak SAH from something else. As this signal is weakening, a
mention of Grupo Radio Centro, i.e. per Cant?:
700 XEDKR Radio Red AM Guadalajara, Jal. 10,000 150
Site axually Tonala, Jalisco. Standard remark about day vs night power
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, July 15 at 0454, XEPPM, songs with guitar accompaniment;
sufficient modulation, and not too much ACI from Brasil 6180 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEWFOUNDLAND [and non]. 6160.88, July 15 at 0452, CKZN is still
off-frequency producing an A-note het with CKZU. If CKZU is slightly on the low
side of 6160.00, CKZN would be slightly below 6160.88 too as this measurement
is only by comparison (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6930-USB, July 15 at 0456, dense music with no residual
carrier, making if hard to tune in, as the music would sound no less weird if
the BFO is slightly off. 0500 cut off music, ID as something-Radio, can`t make
out the word yet, acknowledging real-time reports posted on hfunderground.com
forum. DJ speaks with funny forced voice making it harder to understand him.
0519, addresses audience (and many more times later) as ``Boys and girls, and
bald-headed squirrels``. Acks reports on hfu from Mr. Shortwave, Aurora. Long
pauses between talk and music segments. Now I think the ID is ``Cool Head
Radio``? 0525 ID adds slogan ``Voice of the Midweek Contact``? Not at all sure
of the last two words; refers to ``goddamn war hero``. Mentions ``with your
host, Colonel Coolhead(?)`` and website, coolhead.com? No, that has a squatter.
0532 address as coolheadra...@gmail.com ? Again not at all sure of that name.
Then reception and/or enunciation improves a bit, and I think he is really
saying:
Turtlehead Radio. Keeps acknowledging same reporters to hfunderground,
K5WRT(?), Mr. Shortwave, Aurora. 0543 more shoutouts to same; someone else
copied the slogan wrong; says his mother would call it ``voice of the mentally
handicapped``, but that is not what he was saying. 0545 calls himself ``Good
ol` Turtlehead``. Music was interspersed but I can`t identify any of it, none
of it vocal, I think.
Afterwards I find that there is a http://www.turtlehead.com whose opening page
says this is an herb, but it`s really a young woman(?) long-haired musician,
vocalist at keyboard with lyrix displayed; doubtful if any link to this pirate.
And only the next morning do I check
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php
where the main thread on this is at
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,7701.0.html
And all agree it`s Turtlehead Radio, with some SSTV ID captures; I never heard
any SSTV while I was listening. The one with the ham-like handle is KE5WRT
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6925, July 15 at 0515 as I am listening to 6930-USB,
Turtlehead Radio q.v., AM carrier pops on the side, Red Mercury Labs ID, ``just
screwing around``, but goes back off in less than a minute and nothing heard
further. Perhaps he discovered neighboring Turtlehead was in progress and went
off in deference (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA [non]. 12140, re last report of non-reception of Tamil Tigers
clandestine here, David Kernick says he was not hearing it either at 1530 last
Sunday thru Friday, even using remote receivers. Alokesh Gupta says,
``Scheduled on Saturdays only as mentioned on their website [in Tamil],
confirmed by Jaisakthivel, July 9`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. 15725, July 15 at 0547, JBA carrier from presumed V. of
South Sudan Revolutionary Radio. Maybe it was better earlier in the
half-sesquihour when I was distracted by pirates and MW DX test.
Re my previous report, Dave Kernick points out that he does have a clip of
their sign-on at
http://www.intervalsignals.net
filed under
http://www.intervalsignals.net/countries/south_sudan.htm
SOUTH SUDAN instead of SUDAN, of course. It matches what I have been hearing
around 0504. One can copy the `Morse code` a bit better at the end of the clip,
tho the first and last letters are uncertain due to fading in and out: AOLKKXK
--- Doesn`t mean much to me (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7506+, July 15 at 0240, WRNO is on with very good signal and
modulation from gospel huxter; as usual still way off-frequency far beyond
FCC`s legal tolerance (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1590, July 15 at 0504, trying for the WGBW bihour DX test from
Wisconsin, I think I hear some Morse code, but very heavy QRM on 1590, and from
KATZ 1600 IBOC, always a problem on 1590 and moreso 1610. Several other chex in
next half-sesquihour, such as 0520-0524 and finally 0552 were unproductive,
with 1590 dominated by a sports-talk station. However, Tom Jasinski, much
closer in Joliet IL, reported WGBW to the IRCA list: ``At 0004 CDT WGBW noted
with tone, code and EBS alert noise`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7295.0, July 15 at 0536, loud & clear AM signal with very good
modulation from W0VMC, ``voice modulated carrier``, over to a much weaker
AM-er, W6? ARRL FCC lookup shows W0VMC is Robert M Smith in New Richmond WI
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 11:56:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: brian384...@aol.com
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] July 14-15 Logs
Message-ID: <a32a.17aa6d78.3d344...@aol.com>
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** BIAFRA [non]. via GERMANY. 11870, Radio Biafra, London,
*2000-2100*, July 14, sign on with local African music and opening
announcements in vernacular. Discussion in vernacular. Some
English. Fair to good. Thur, Sat only. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** BOLIVIA. 6134.82, Radio Santa Cruz, 0105-0110*, July 15, tune-in
to closing Spanish ID announcements. Sign off with ?Santa Cruz?
song at 0107. Fair to good. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** BRAZIL. 15191.69, Radio Inconfid?ncia, 0110-0120, July 15,
Portuguese talk. Brazilian ballads. Fair. Very poor on // 6009.98.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
** DJIBOUTI. 4780, Radio Djibouti, *0306:30-0320, July 15, abrupt
sign on with local chants. Arabic talk at 0318. Fair. (Brian Alexander,
PA)
** MADAGASCAR. 5010.00, Radio Madagasikara, 0300-0325,
July 15, in full AM mode for a change. Malagasy talk. Some African
choral music. Poor in noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6925, Radio Whatever, 0030-0050,
July 15, electronic dance music. IDs. Ads for internet radio station
_www.di.fm_ (http://www.di.fm) . Fair. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6925, WMPR, 0135-0140, July 15,
very strange electronic music. IDs. Strong. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** ZANZIBAR. 11735, ZBC, 2030-2121*, July 14, wide variety of
African hi-life music, Hindi style music and Middle-Eastern style
music. Swahili talk. Several IDs at 2059 as ?ZBC? and ?Spice FM?.
Afro-pop music after 2100. Abrupt and late sign off. Fair to good.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 18:35:35 +0200
From: "Eike Bierwirth" <eike.bierwi...@gmx.de>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com, hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] Serbia off?
Message-ID: <20120715163535.70...@gmx.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
No signal from Serbia today on 9635 at 1620 UTC (also on various remote
radios), but the program is still streamed online. Power down or gone from SW
for good?
73,
Eike
Leipzig / Germany
Perseus + DX-10 Pro Active Antenna
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:52:54 +0300
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <gree...@otenet.gr>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] A review of degen DE1126
Message-ID: <50031186.27760.324...@greekdx.otenet.gr>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
THis is a report for my latest radio De1126 from Degen posted recently in
eham.net site. I
am now preparing to make a full report in my radio reviews page on google.
Unfortunately no
logs this time ....
Report for DE1126
http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/10563
De1126 is my last and latest radio. I found it via ebay from a very respected
seller I know
since 2005 from other Degen radio forums. It has been bought for a total of 70
USd (45 for
radio , 15 shipping and 2x5 for battery replacements )
This article here is a abridged article of a soon to be posted in my page on
http://sites.google.com/site/zliangas/.
This is a DSP based radio . It operates also as removable disk ,mp3 player with
4 GB
memory , voice and radio recorder and e-text reader !The radio is included in a
book shaped
box Unfolding the box the radio is pulled out from the left `page?. On the
right `page? there are
the accessories (ears , adaptor with USB plug , battery BLC 5 type clone of
Nokia , USB
cable and instructions guide ). The seller adds a Cd with a complete
instruction guide for all
Degen and Tecsun models and several firmware updates
This is a menu driven radio , oprated by the right thumb button
Here are several results during my tests
MW has tuning step of 9 and 10 kHz adjustable from menu with range of 520
-1620/1710
kHz and less than 4 kHz bandwidth making of bad audio . Good sensitivity linear
acvross te
band,from 5S units comparable to 1103?s
SW with range of 2 to 23 MHz , 5 kHz tuning step and same bandwidth filter as
in MW .
Bands change by pressing the SW button repeatedly Also good sensitivity close
to 1103?s but
subject to overloading if external antenna is used (especially of nearby strong
signals )
AM bands suffer from two factors : High circuitry self noise and `signal
dropout? (signals near
to threshold can be zeroed out but still audible with lower audio ) Audio
fidelity is quite bad
due to high selectivity.
FM with range of 68/88-108 depending of the region set from menu and 100 kHz
step . 5
types of ranges are available Word China Japan USA Campus . Clear audio. Low
sensitivity
compared to DE1102 and 1103
Tuning : 3 different types of tuning, manual scan memory ATS and can be made by
buttons
or by jog dialing , Jog dialing requires only slow tuning or no tuning is made
Recording : 3 different types of recordings :
128kb of WAV (ADPCM ) ,16 kHz nominal bandwidth -actual only 8 khz - suitable
for
recording from FM
40 kb MP3 (nominal 8kHz ) suitable for recording from SW, though actual
bandwidth is only
1.5 kHZ
256 kb WAV with or without silence remover, used only from microphone
CON : Radio recording sets to high output volume (20 in my case )
MP3 :
WAV MP3 WMA supported with clear sound of higher audio level than radio (at
least 10 db )
WMA is little bassier . Ability to stretch /enlarge playback (good for
podcasts) More info on
this mode's features in my full review page later
e-reader ; Supports only text files. Did not tested so far , but it is out of
interest here.
Interfacing:using a USB D type socket can yeld to 7.5 mB upload speeds and ca
20 mB
download speeds. in Windows 7. Not always communicating with computer (these
special
cases it just connects for charging or 'loses' connection )
Battery : BL5 C sized , clone of Nokia. About 10 hours of operation with
playback in the 1/3th
of volume. 3 hours required to charge fully the battery. Radio?s internal
circuitry can drain the
battery in about 3-4 weeks , without any radio usage.. .
System reset can happen also due to high moisture, once battery is replaced or
if battery is
drained.
As in result the radio is quite good for FM , quite good for journalistic work
as voice recorder
but not so good for AM modes
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
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 15:36:09 -0400
From: "Dave Valko" <djva...@verizon.net>
To: "Hardcore DX" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: [HCDX] 15 July Loggings
Message-ID: <CDAC3A9ED1024AAABBCA083865C2694F@DavePC>
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CYPRUS 9760 Cyprus BC OC on at 2214, then "scratchy" effect when attempt to
bring
audio up a minute later. Went off w/out success at abt 2221 and didn't return.
Strong signal though. (14 July)
BRAZIL 4894.93 R. Novo Tempo?? Hearing the ZY again post 0040 w/rom. songs and
live
M anncr. Ad/promo block at 0047. Thought hrd ment of Sao Paulo and "?? AM".
Jingles
are hard to copy. (15 July)
PIRATE (EUROPE) 6326.06, 6300.4 R. Summermeeting From 0040. No audio on either
freq. Terry in Newfoundland confirmed both freqs (and 6205 which I couldn't
hear)
were all R. Summermeeting. (15 July)
PERU?? 4939.97 R. San Antonio (pres.) 0556-0602 long LA rel.-sounding song.
Distorted echo-like audio quality. 0603 M and W anncrs, but distortion in the
audio
made it imposs. Lang. did sound like SP. Into another rel. song. M and W again
at
0615 but no way. Couldn't copy even w/bandwidth opened up. Canned anmnt by W
over
definite campo mx, then into more rel. mx. (15 July)
NIGER?? 9705 La Voix du Sahel?? Dead air at 0626, but playing lcl African vcl mx
(not HoA style) at 0628 recheck. M anncr in African vern. at 0630 but mod. too
weak
to copy. Back to mx at 0632. Although Ethiopia or Eritrea have been in daylight
for
some time, they aren't out of the question. Mx and mod. makes me suspect Niger.
Will have to try this one an hour earlier for s/on. (15 July)
15-Jul-2012 at 0910 UTC
SFI = 148 A = 17 K = 6
Conditions during the last 24 hours
Space weather for the past 24 hours has been moderate.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G2 level occurred. Solar radiation storms
reaching
the S1 level occurred.
Not one signal noted in 19 meters at 1045, no doubt due to the conditions above.
Still, only 2 signals noted at 1200. MUF was 11 mhz.
THAILAND 8743U Bangkok Meteo. R. W in apparent Thai at 1048. IS at 1050 and
mechanical M voice in EG at 1052 w/ID, sked, and wx info, IS, then W again at
1054.
Better than it has been lately. (15 July)
INDONESIA/MALAYSIA 9680.06 and 9835 RRI Jakarta/Sarawak FM Interesting both
airing
the Koran at 1056, but of course the latter was airing their usual 1030-1100
Koran
pgm at this time. (15 July)
73 Dave Valko
Dunlo, PA, USA
NRD-535D and Perseus SDR
T2FD
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