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Today's Topics:
1. THUR DX (Charles)
2. Glenn Hauser logs October 10-11, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Re: Radio Algerienne this morning, Oct.11 (Mauno Ritola)
4. Oct 11 Logs (Brian Alexander)
5. FRS test on 7600 kHz next Sunday (Manuel M?ndez)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:58:18 -0000
From: "Charles" <ka4...@peoplepc.com>
To: "'Ankeer Petersen'" <anker.peter...@mail.dk>, "'Bob Wilkner'"
<r...@earthlink.net>, "'Chrissy Brand'" <chriss...@hotmail.co.uk>,
"'DXLD'" <d...@yahoogroups.com>, "'Gayle Van Horn'"
<gaylevanh...@monitoringtimes.com>, "'Glenn Hauser'"
<wghau...@yahoo.com>, "'Hard-Core-dx@hard-core-dx.com'"
<hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, "'Liz Cameron'"
<ale...@yahoo.com>,
"'Marie Lamb'" <mal...@mailbox.syr.edu>, "'Short Wave World'"
<shortwavewo...@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [HCDX] THUR DX
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Russia, 13665.37, Radio Rossii, 1240-1300 Noted two females in Russian
language conversation. These two continue there program until the hour
which included a male singing. At 1257 heard familiar canned ID for Rossii.
More ID's by a female follows. However, the schedule finishes by 1301.
Signal was fair but had a disturbing carrier on the lower side. No more
activity from Rossii after 1300. (Chuck Bolland, October 11, 2012)
26N 081W
Excalibur
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:22:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
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Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 10-11, 2012
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** ALGERIA [non]. 7295, Oct 11 at 0514 UT, poor signal in Qur`an from RTA via
FRANCE; also intermittent het, presumably from an AM ham disturbed by RTA
appearing on his favorite frequency. At least RTA is audible again, but
propagation still hasn`t fully recovered, and inaudible on // 9535 (nothing
much but REE/CR 9630 on 31m!), but Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, observed that RTA had
a separate, unID Arabic service on 9535 during this same hour, not // 7295;
which is it?
Meanwhile, 7275 Tunisia had better signal but weaker modulation than 7295; and
7245 Mauritania still missing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15105, Oct 11 at 1255, BB English very poor with flutter. Ivo
Ivanov agrees that the Nepali at 1315 has been absent.
15505, Oct 11 at 1359, JBA carrier has just come on, presumably BB; can`t even
make out IS or TS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 6180, Oct 11 at 0515, RNA with VG signal, but music is distorted
since they messed with their audio processing; // 11780 is JBA. Maybe should
call this RNB, as others have reported Bras?lia programming much of the time
rather than Amaz?nia, and I haven`t really heard a specific ID (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 740, Oct 11 at 0528 UT under KRMG is ``Don`t Sit Under the Apple
Tree``, WWII (or WWI?) song, also making a SAH of about 7 Hz. Hard to imagine
this being anything but CFZM Toronto, with NOStalgia format. NRC AM Log shows
only a few other very weak and very far stations on 740 with that. As if trying
to compensate for absence of CFRX from Toronto; never mind CFRB (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 6070, Oct 11 at 0517, no signal, not even a carrier from CFRX
Toronto. While higher bands were blacked out, still getting other Canadians
well on 6110, 6160, 6160.9, so suspect CFRX off the air; altho it is
considerably closer than any of them vs possibly disrupted, expanded skip zone.
Europe was still in too, e.g. Austria 6155, and Africa, Chad 6165. Anyhow, CFRX
could be heard again at 1252 with Canadian-accented discussion aboot Lance
Armstrong, cost of elexion campaigns (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 6175 & 9555, Oct 11 at 0515, cannot hear VOV relay on either
frequency --- which means it is probably on correct 9555 tonight, just not
propagating, as Sackville NHK was inbooming on 6110 and 31m had REE CR as the
OSOB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHAD. 6165, Oct 11 at 0516, fair signal in French news from RNT. Brian
Alexander and Ron Howard have observed this one cutting on and off the air at
unpredictable times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 11, before 1300:
15550, very poor at 1254; none in the 17s, 16s, 14s, 13s, 12s
Propagation over hi-latitude paths is still quite degraded
After 1300:
9680, poor at 1307, while not much else co-channel instead of usual collision
of RTI, CNR1 jamming, RRI; same at 1349
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6010, Oct 11 at 0532, RHC English `news` audio is breaking up, unlike
on // 6050, 6060, 6125.
17580, Oct 11 at 1256, very good RHC signal, but modulation very suppressed;
surprised this is not causing spurs to be squeezed out all over the band. 1313
recheck, modulation almost fixed, OK level but somewhat distorted. And now,
17580 is louder than // 17730 with low but not distorted modulation (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, Oct 10 at 1956 I find R. Africa is in a rut --- in
fact a loop, repeating over and over a syllable that sounds like ``dan`` and
occasionally with some other sound. Can`t figure out the period of the loop, or
be certain of the original language. Goes on the same until 2006 when stops and
then a YL preacher in French! Occasional hiccups but audio otherwise OK. Stops
at 2019:50, no ID or sign-off, and carrier off at 2020:20*.
(Harold Frodge, MI, had observed a similar problem at 1645-1700 4 October:
``Still huxtering with same segment repeated every 30 seconds from tune-in; a
stuck huxter. (And, I listened to it for 15 minutes. What a hobby!)`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1638, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 790, Oct 11 at 1238 UT, Spanish talk mentioning Sabinas, Coahuila,
Funerario Mart?nez, discussing politics; loops SSW. Perhaps they were referring
to the theft of the corpse of Heriberto Lazcano, founder of the brutal Los
Zetas gang, from a funeral home, but checking several press reports about it, I
don`t find the name or even the town where this happened, somewhere in
Coahuila. There is a mortuary by that name in Sabinas (and elsewhere), but no
Sabinas station on 790.
Tentatively this one from direxion and talk format, per Cant?:
790 XEGZ Milenio Radio + FM 99.5 Torre?n, Coah. 1,000 1,000
IRCA Mexican log says that transmitter site is across the state line in twin
city G?mez Palacio, Durango (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 960, UT Thursday Oct 11 is another dead-air day for KGWA Enid at
0500: see U S A for log of something else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 9430, Oct 11 at 1352, FEBC Chinese with Firedrake QRM? No, it`s
Firedrake-like background music on their own program; a bit later changed to
Beethoven in the background (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7506.4, Oct 11 at 0225, presumed WRNO is still a very poor signal
instead of the usual blowtorch, so mismodulation can`t even be evaluated.
Assumed previous nights that this was taken out by propagation disturbances,
but now I am wondering it they are really on much reduced power? Also suspect
my measurement of 7506.8 was a miscalculation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 9980, Thursday Oct 11 at 1304 I am getting Brother Scare overload on
various 31m band frequencies, because WWCR-4 is already up and running on 9980:
much stronger than via non-synchronized WWRB 9370. WWCR website shows 9980
available as early as 1200, but the program schedule dated 1 Oct shows not used
until 1400 on weekdays, 1500 on weekends. Oh, yeah? And the transmitter
schedule is effective Oct 7, so there must have been some change to that. Not
sure what, but maybe a 1-hour shift in some of the QSY times (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1638 monitoring: completed in time for first airing on
WRMI, UT Thursday Oct 11 at 0330 on 9955: confirmed on webcast, but only
mixture of bubble and pulse jamming, rather than full wall-of-noise, on 9955.
Try again and again: Sat 0800, 1500, 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730, Mon 0500, Tue
1100=new.
Or on WTWW: Thu 2100 on 9479, UT Sun 0400 on 5745
Or WWRB: UT Fri 0330v on 5050 --- if they manage to play it this week
Or Area 51 via WBCQ: UT Sat 0130v on 5110v-CUSB
Or HLR: Sat 0630 & 1630 on 7265; Tue 0930 on 5980
Or WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, Oct 11 at 1345, very poor signal but recognizable as Jeff White
narrating some radio history item, so must be `Wavescan` on WRMI, as now
scheduled Thursdays at 1330, a recent change. Need to update my DX/SWL/Media
programs schedule. No jamming audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 600, Oct 11 at 0523 UT, `Coast to Coast AM` from two stations about
one second apart, very annoying. One is certainly the usual WMT Cedar Rapids
IA; NRC AM Log shows four other affiliates and so does the C2C website: we can
rule out KVNA AZ which is 48 watts at night and doesn`t join in until 0607 UT.
Also unlikely is faraway KOGO San Diego. That leaves KCOL in Wellington CO, and
WREC in Memphis TN, the latter with a 10x power advantage. KCOL also has a deep
null toward us and Memphis, while WREC is a tangent circle to the southwest,
but not a full null toward here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 730, Oct 11 at 0508 UT, ``Hot Soul in the Summertime, 730 KKDA``
momentarily atop XEX Spanish sports talk, which soon resurged, fast SAH between
them. They are apparently unaware that nowhere in the world is it summertime,
including Grand Prairie TX: a station on autopilot. Will they still be playing
this after December 21 too? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 960, Oct 11 at 0500 UT, local KGWA again provides a Fox-hole this UT
Thursday, so nulling its strong open carrier, this time there is something
besides ABC News from KMA et al., instead some jazz music, and ID in passing
sounds like ``WKZG-AM``. Checking NRC AM Log later, the closest match is WABG
in Greenwood MS with has a talk/blues format, 500 watts at night. I bet that`s
it! FCC AM Query shows its night-only direxional pattern is mainly south but a
minor lobe at 285 degrees towards here:
http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/708653-80603.pdf
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1030, UT Oct 11 at 0225, KCTA is back with hummy open carrier, altho
had been missing night before at 0559 UT. And Oct 11 at 0505 check, also not
heard. So they are still running it past legal daytimer-only sign-off, but not
as late (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1260, Oct 11 at 1246 UT, banda music again, and this time a definite
slogan ID at 1247 as ``La Reina``, and 7:47 TC, so now it`s definitely KDLF in
Boone IA, which on day power of 5 kW (officially starting at 1230 UT in Oct,
1300 in Nov), aims at us with major lobe to the southwest, but also sufficient
signal to its SE to cover Des Moines (a.k.a. De Los Monjes) (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1420, Oct 11 at 1325 and still 1336 UT, Laura Ingraham show about
weight loss rather than politix. Affiliate list shows only one around here with
her on this early is: KBHS Hot Springs AR. Format must have changed from NRC AM
Log 2012 as C&W - Classic Country, 5 kW in daytime and non-direxional. Seemed
to be ENE/WSW, but DF on the DX-398 must have been skewed from ESE/WNW. She`s
also on 1.5 kW KTAN Sierra Vista AZ, from 13 UT, which is more like WSW, but I
doubt it would be dominant this late; daytime non-direxional 1.5 kW is supposed
to start at 1330 UT in October (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1430, Oct 11 at 1325 UT, ``KZQZ, where the oldies sound best``, St.
Louis MO. No sign of KTBZ Tulsa or KALV Alva OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** VIETNAM. 12000, Oct 11 at 1259, S9+20 open carrier; after timesignal
bleedover from 11990 CNR1 jammer, at 1300-sharp sign-on VOV in Chinese ``Viet
Nam zhisheng guangbo diantai`` or something like that; had been in pause after
Russian service on same azimuth 27 degrees from 100 kW Hanoi-Sontay site, also
USward. No jamming audible from Cuba or China, nice clear signal (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1460, Oct 11 at 1327 UT, Spanish putting phone caller on the air,
soon losing out to Catholic talk in English, the latter no doubt KHOJ St
Charles MO. Roughly E-W, so could be KBZO Lubbock TX, listed as nostalgia in
Spanish, rather than KZUE in El Reno (pronounced Ree-noh) OK (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:48:35 +0300
From: Mauno Ritola <mauno.rit...@gmail.com>
To: Frequencies <frequenc...@bnr.bg>
Cc: "hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Radio Algerienne this morning, Oct.11
Message-ID: <50771483.80...@gmail.com>
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Hi Ivo,
yes, seems, that they have started using also other services. Now 13820
kHz carries Cha?ne 1, web feed having considerable delay to SW.
73, Mauno
11.10.2012 15:10, Frequencies kirjoitti:
> ALGERIA(non) Two diferent programs of R.Algerienne this morning, Oct.11:
> 0500-0558 on 7295 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf, confirmed: Holy Qur`an sce
> 0500-0558 on 9535 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf, UNIDENTIFIED sce in Arabic
> 0600-0658 on 9535 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf, UNIDENTIFIED sce in Arabic
> Please check the evening transmissions and tomorrow morning. Mystery to me!
>
> R.Algerienne in Arabic on shortwave from Oct.1:
> 0400-0458 on 7295 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf
> 0500-0558 on 7295 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf
> 0500-0558 on 9535 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf
> 0600-0658 on 9535 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf
> 1800-1858 on 13820 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf
> 1900-1858 on 11775 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf
> 1900-1958 on 13820 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf
> 2000-2058 on 9375 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf
> 2000-2058 on 11775 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf
> 2100-2158 on 7495 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf
> 2100-2158 on 9375 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf
>
> 73! Ivo
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:14:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Alexander <brian384...@aol.com>
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] Oct 11 Logs
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?
** BIAFRA [non]. via GERMANY. 11870, Radio Biafra, London.
*2000-2100*, Oct 11, sign on with local African music, opening
English ID announcements and into vernacular talk. Some English
talk. Good. Thur, Sat only. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** BRAZIL. 6059.73, Super R?dio Deus ? Amor, 0805-0825, Oct 11,
Portuguese religious talk. Fair. Weak // 6120.01, 9565.06, 11764.91.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** CHAD. 6164.96, RNT, *0452-0600+, Oct 11, abrupt sign on with
French talk. Afro-pop music at 0455. African hi-life music. Weak
under Japan at 0452 but signal abruptly came up at 0455 covering
Japan. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** MEXICO. 6185, Radio Educacion, 0315-0507*, Oct 11, ranchero style
music. Romantic ballads. Spanish pop music. Spanish announcements.
Reception varied between poor to good depending on degree of adjacent
channel splatter. Nice signal at times. Sign off at 0507 with transmitter
being turned off at 0511. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** SOMALILAND. 7120, Radio Hargeisa, *0333-0355. Oct 11, sign on
with local chants.Talk at 0345. Fair to good signal strength, but weak
modulation at times. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** ZAMBIA. 6165, ZNBC - Radio 2, 0242-0256, Oct 11, tune-in to
Fish Eagle IS at 0242. National Anthem at 0251. Local African music
at 0253. Reception too poor to pull out any further program details.
Covered by Voice of Turkey at their 0256 sign on. Zambia poor, weak
in noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
?
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
?
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 07:59:09 +0200
From: Manuel M?ndez <manuelmend...@gmail.com>
To: Hard-Core <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: [HCDX] FRS test on 7600 kHz next Sunday
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-------- Mensaje original --------
Asunto: FRS test on 7600 kHz next Sunday
Fecha: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 01:26:04 +0200
De: frs.holland <frs.holl...@hccnet.nl>
Para: FRS-Holland <frs.holl...@hccnet.nl>
Dear FRS Friends,
Summer has gone and autumn is ruling. Propagation conditions have
reached to a satisfactory level.
Time to expand some activity. In preparation to full programming, we
have planned a */test /*on 7600 kHz/ 39 metres
next Sunday */October 14th 07:52- 10:00 UTC/ 09:52- 12:00 CEST.
/*We are understandably curious about reception on 7600 kHz.
We'd love to hear from you, either by mail [f...@frsholland.nl] or via
POBox 2702, 6049 ZG Herten, the Netherlands.
FRS-Holland will take to the air with full programming on */Sun October
28th 08:52- 14:30 UTC/ 09:52- 15:30 CET.
/*That day winter time will come into force. In the afternoon there will
be an audio stream via Internet starting at 15:52 CET.
More news in the upcoming weeks.
73s, Peter Verbruggen on behalf of the FRS Team
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