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Today's Topics:
1. Hamburger Lokalradio & Radio City Relays (Tom Taylor)
2. What the heck is that Chinese station - time to find out!
(Mika Makelainen)
3. log (Jorge Freitas (Yahoo))
4. Glenn Hauser logs December 31, 2013-January 1, 2014 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 06:38:32 +0000
From: Tom Taylor <emrs...@gmail.com>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [HCDX] Hamburger Lokalradio & Radio City Relays
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Hamburger Lokalradio & Radio City Relays
Hamburger Lokalradio Transmissions
Wednesday, January 1st 2014
0700 - 1300 UTC, 6190 kHz, German
1300 - 1600 UTC, 7265 kHz, German
All reception reports for these broadcasts will be confirmed with a special
printed QSL card. Hamburger Lokalradio is a non-profit station, return
postage (e.g. 1 US-Dollar) is highly appreciated. Postal address: Hamburger
Lokalradio, c/o Kulturzentrum LOLA, 21031 Hamburg, Germany.
Radio City this weekend
Radio City will be on this weekend the 3rd of January 2014 on 7290 kHz and
1368 kHz between 1900 to 2000 UTC.
The programme will also be repeated on Saturday morning the 5th of January
2014 on 9510 kHz betwenn 0900 to 1000 UTC.
All reports to: citymorec...@yahoo.ca Thank you!
Good Listening!
73s
Tom
PS. A Happy New Year to All Listeners
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:34:03 +0200
From: Mika Makelainen <m...@makelainen.com>
To: IRCA <i...@hard-core-dx.com>, a...@yahoogroups.com,
no...@yahoogroups.com, hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com,
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Christoph Ratzer <d...@ratzer.at>, Suomalaisten DX-lista
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Subject: [HCDX] What the heck is that Chinese station - time to find
out!
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New Year, time to learn a new DX skill - how about a small dose of
Chinese? Here's your comprehensive guide to making sense of Chinese
station identifications:
http://www.dxing.info/articles/identifying_Chinese_radio_stations.dx
73
Mika Makelainen
DXing.info
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 18:37:42 -0000
From: "Jorge Freitas \(Yahoo\)" <jorgefreitas_...@yahoo.com.br>
To: <d...@yahoogroups.com>, <condigl...@yahoogroups.com>,
<adxb-n...@yahoogrupos.com.br>, <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: [HCDX] log
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11610 01/Jan 1740 SOUTH AFRICA (relay), IBRA Radio in Somali. OM talk. At 1742
local music. At 1744 OM back to talk. At 1758 I
return on frequency, local music, the signal is better. At 1759 quick interval
signal and left the air. 25332 (Jorge Freitas-B)
11810 01/Jan 1751 FRANCE (relay) Voice of Oromo Liberation in Afar Oromo
(lited). OM talk, as if reading a speech. QRM of noise
turbine type. abruptly left the air at 1757. 33433 (Jorge Freitas-B)
73
Jorge Freitas
Local time -3 UT
Feira de Santana Bahia
12?14?S 38?58?W - Brasil
Degen 1103 - All listening in mode of filter Narrow the 4 kHz.
Dipole antenna, 16 meters - east/west
Escutas (listening, my blog): http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006
The best of Brazilian music: http://www.novabrasilfm.com.br/
A bit of my city: www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1443186
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 10:50:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 31, 2013-January 1, 2014
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** ARGENTINA. 11711-, Jan 1 at 0203, after hearing 2014 come to BRAZIL 11780,
Argentina will be next at 0300 UT, so I tune down to always weaker RAE, but
instead of English it`s in Spanish, still at 0212. Maybe due to holiday it`s
really a R Nacional relay (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11780, Jan 1 at 0157 tune in RNA to hear 2014 allegedly arrive in
Brasil, where they pretend it`s an hour later than it really is with DST of UT
-2. VG signal but flutter and // 6180. After music, 0159 ID as R Nacional de
Bras?lia, (not Amaz?nia), NO timesignal, but usual overnight DJ opening
`Madrugada Nacional` show greeting us with ``Bom Dia, novo dia . . . novo ano
2,014``, back to music at 0202.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5040, Jan 1 at 0012, RHC English finally fixed or swapped transmitter,
no longer severely wobbling, altho slightly squealing, and less than solid
signal, antenna problem too? English again at 0612, still OK except squealing.
5990, Jan 1 at 0016, CRI Spanish relay is wobbling and rumbling some at first,
making me suspect this is the ex-5040 transmitter; then it stabilizes, but
modulation is somewhat distorted.
6270, Jan 1 at 0423, RHC Spanish music leapfrog, even with max attenuation on
the FRG-7; i.e. 6060 Spanish over 6165 English another 105 kHz higher (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also THAILAND [non]
** ERITREA [non]. 7235-, Jan 1 at 0420, good signal but very distorted
suppressed modulation, talk in unID language, then Horn of Africa music;
slightly on lo side. Off already at 0454 check. No doubt it`s the 100 kW R.
Ethiopia transmitter carrying the clandestine Voice of Peace and Democracy of
Eritrea as per WRTH 2014, M/W/F at 0400-0500. Aoki shows merely R. Ethiopia
with an x meaning inactive. Not in HFCC, of course, but instead a 23-hour
broadcast from a 5 kW Belarus transmitter on 7235; does that even exist any
more? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA [non]. Oromo Voice Radio to start 1 January 2014. This Ethiopian
clandestine will start shortwave operation on 17850 kHz at 1600 UT on 1 January
2014, with programming in Afaan Oromo and English. Further info with YouTube
video at
http://tinyurl.com/of3xqc4
and on the broadcaster's own website at http://oromovoice.org
(David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, Dec 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST
13-52)
I`ve been monitoring 17850 since *1600 Jan 1, 2014; fair-good signal but heavy
flutter, and dead air! Finally talk starts at 1611 until 1612, but sounds like
French?? Dead air again. Resumes at 1613-1615. Like they keep trying and
failing to find the right program feed. Why do so many start-ups fail? You`d
think they`d do dry-runs and have everything set up ahead of time. More
on-and-off follows as reception deteriorates. Off at 1632* Site? Probably
Issoudun, FRANCE, which uses 17850 earlier and later.
Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, agrees: ``At 1620 UT on 17850 is Radio France
Internationale in French, instead of Oromo Voice radio``
Tarek Zeidan, Cairo: ``Been checking 17850 from 1620 and I noticed that the
conversation in French was on and off and then suddenly off the air at 1632 UT.
SIO 343. Happy new year. Sent from my iPad``
Jean-Michel Aubier, France: ``Same observations: dead air, segments in French,
but it sounds like an RFI programme! Off the air at 1632``
Alan Roe, Teddington, UK: ``Glenn, Noted the same here - a strong, clear signal
with intermittent talk in French between a man and a woman (seemingly talking
between themselves, rather than to listeners?). Transmitter went off air at
around 1630 UT (didn't note the exact time). (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) Should that be OROMIA [non]?
viz. from website above:
Madda Walaabuu Media Foundation Launching Event
December 1, 2013 News
To All Oromos in Washington DC Metro Region, USA --- You are cordially invited
to Madda Walaabuu Media Foundation Launching Event
Theme: Oromo Voice Radio (OVR) will commence broadcasting to Oromia
Venue: 1610 Columbia Rd. NW Washington, D.C. 20009
Date: December 14, 2013
Time: 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. [Ethiopian clock or ours?]
On January 1, 2014, the Oromo Voice Radio (OVR) will commence broadcasting to
Oromia at the frequency of 17850 KHz in the 16 meter band. The new, independent
broadcast will take place on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays. The broadcast
service will be provided in two languages: Afaan Oromo (Oromo language) and
English.
The OVR broadcast will include, not limited to, the following major segments:
news, news analysis, guest interviews, documentary, and cultural shows. In its
English broadcast, OVR will reach out to Oromo neighbors for the purpose of
exploring and identifying areas of common interests and common strategies,
which are relevant to the survival of the peoples in the Horn of Africa during
the 21st Century.
The Oromo Voice media website (www.oromovoice.org) will operate and function as
the twin media outlet of this new critical and ambitious outreach to the Oromo
nation and its neighbors. The Oromo Voice website, in addition to posting all
the contents of the Oromo Voice Radio broadcast, will post other relevant
educational materials - in that sense, the website will have more expanded
educational services.
OVR and Oromo Voice website are owned and operated by the Madda Walaabuu Media
Foundation (MWMF), which was established in October 2013 by a collection of
concerned community leaders, human rights activists, feminists, attorneys,
journalists and intellectuals.
MWMF is a non-governmental, non-partisan, and non-profit organization,
incorporated and registered in Washington, D. C., USA. It is operated by the
board of directors and the administrative staff under the direction of the
Executive Director. The MWMF media outlets are run by experienced journalists.
It is a membership based organization, which solicits the support and
participation of all interested and committed Oromo and all persons of good
will who have the desire to empower the Oromo and its neighbors so that that
they can face the 21st Century in their own terms.
How can you support the new Oromo Voice media outlets? You can support this
new, important initiative in three major ways: First, we wish to invite you to
listen to the Oromo voice Radio broadcast. You can also visit our website,
http://oromovoice.org on a regular basis. Second, you can give us donations for
seed money so that we can get this new media program of the ground. Third, you
can become a member and support the success of this new media initiative on a
sustained basis.
For further information about the Oromo voice media outlets and the MWMF,
please visit our website: http://oromovoice.org
We thank you and look forward to working with you on this new and exciting
educational endeavor (via DXLD)
** IRAN. 7420, Jan 1 at 0208, VIRI in Spanish with NY greetings, poor-fair; and
also a weaker signal on 7430, presumably VIRI in Kazakh; fortunately, both
finish at 0220, so no ACI to ALBANIA on 7425 from 0230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9775, Jan 1 at 1450, R. Free Chosun is playing K-pop, as
I continue to wonder how serious a clandestine it can be; or is that the best
way to undermine the evil regime? Now it`s almost sufficient but with heavy
flutter, more so than 9800 VOA Korean via Philippines; both of them were quite
poor at 1400, and 9775 was still playing a musical pr?lude before then. Not
9755 if typoed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, Jan 1 at 0453 poor signal with rock music, off
around 0500; missed any announcement, switching back and forth with 6935, q.v.
6925-USB reported by numerous at
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,14730.0.html
as Fake RFW [Radio Free Whatever] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6935-AM, Jan 1 at 0453 rock music, 0500 wishing Happy New
Year, and count (up?) from 20 seconds, off the air before 0501. Much better
signal than 6925 had been. These agree on the count-up, and call it ``Whispery
Wolverine``:
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,14730.0.html
I noted no pirate activity on the band at earlier check here around 0200 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 7320, Jan 1 at 0422, R. Rossii, Magadan is still on the air in
2014y, in Russian, undermodulated but almost sufficient now. There have been
unclear reports that its SW services would also be closed down; maybe later in
January? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOMALILAND. 7120, Jan 1 at 0454, presumed R. Hargeisa with music hasn`t
faded out quite yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 9545.0, Jan 1 at 1044, I awaken long enough to check for
SIBC reactivated here: a JBA carrier incomparable to 9580 RA. There had been
numerous DXLD yg reports of SIBC December 31 back on 9545 ex-6080, with New
Year special extended all-night including 1300 UT = midnight in the +11 zone.
Evidently replaces 6080, since R. Australia reneged on its agreement to
``occupy`` 6080 only until SIBC was ready to use it. Remains to be heard what
the normal hours on 9545 will be, besides 5020v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 7570, Jan 1 at 0010, Brother Scare via WRMI on
expanded schedule, with a regular ``program`` at this hour and at 1200,
pentecostal howling & moaning, // 11565 (and // but not synch 5085 WTWW). Per
new graphic frequency schedule just put up at
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtF_YVDtCVlNdDJma2Jham9mYVlNQldpUWNiR1hYa2c&usp=drive_web#gid=0
WRMI has made a number of changes. Summarizing BS broadcasts:
7570 extended to 2200-1000
11730 dropped completely
9690 has been dropped in evening but extended in morning all day to 1100-2100
[so still blox AIR GOS at 1330-1500]
11825 new 1000-2200 [also confirmed Jan 1]
7730 new to Europe at 19-23, last hour 22-23 being RMI programming, same as on
9955? 7730 replaces 15440 and was on 15460 harmonic by mistake on Dec 28. 7730
is also on the #1 transmitter, reactivated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) See also USA: WBCQ
** SPAIN. REE has proven to be a good source of Jahrwechsel musical
entertainment in past years, but nothing audible on possible frequencies before
2300 UT Dec 31, so I go to the web and instead watch/listen to RTVE main TV
channel, which is covering festivities, a huge crowd crammed into some plaza in
Madrid; rather reminds me of the Hajj, around some large rectangular prism in
the middle. Hosts imbibe some liquid in champagne-like glasses after the hour.
Note spelling unless you are an Illinois city (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** THAILAND [and non]. 13745, Jan 1 at 0003, R Thailand news in English to NAm
with heavy ACI from 13740 RHC, because the Cuban slopperation is running
overtime. 0004 modulation on that stops, so HSK9 can be copied, but 13740
carrier still on past 0008 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. 7275, Jan 1 at 0506, ME vocal music, reassuring myself that IWT is
still here in 2014, during this hour only before I usually start listening
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. We manage to maintain the tradition of listening to BBCWS
observing the New Year, despite their best efforts to cut North America off:
Dec 31, 2013 at 2358, Bow Bells are heard on 15335 via SINGAPORE, and slightly
better on 13725 via THAILAND. At about 2359.6, Big Ben TOH 16-chimes start,
followed at 0000:01 January 1, 2014 by full strike, delaying the news for a
minute, after a Happy New Year wish.
On another receiver I was also monitoring WWV. Just once I`d like to hear them
let their hair down and insert a Happy New Year, but it`s business as usual,
and furthermore no leap-second to liven things up. That`s how I know that BB
started striking a second after 2014 began (of course, part of that was
satellite delay to the sites) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13570, Dec 31 at 1944, notice that WINB again has a wobble on the
carrier; lately it had been rather stable. This while checking for a QRP pirate
on 13560, nothing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7555, Jan 1 at 0208, KJES is in Spanish, despite schedule just issued
by Ivo Ivanov alleging that it`s all-English at 0200-0330. So does Aoki, but
WRTH 2014 shows this entire sesquihour in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7490, Jan 1 at 0507, expecting to hear Brother Scare as now scheduled
on WBCQ at 0100-1100 (except for `Financial Survival` at 04-05), but instead
not // all his other overkill frequencies, with pleasant music loop vamping,
basically two notes alternating but orchestrated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, Wed Jan 1 both before and after 1400, WRMI with `Wavescan`. Not
sure if same edition as didn`t hear much of the first one, but after 1400 it
was last week`s already heard, final 2013 one. Current program grid for Wed now
shows WS at 1330, blank at 1400, Jimmy Surgener at 1415. 1330 Wed replaces one
of those English music shows presented in Spanish.
At 1430, ACI from 9960 grows as Furusato no Kaze starts from Palau, but
evitable. 1430 into a new `Viva Miami`, this time Jeff interviewing one of the
Okeechobee engineers, Harry Robins, who BTW mentioned that the transmitters
(all of them?) are running at half-power (50 kW). 1444 ID by Rudy Espinal.
BTW, checking latest Aoki for 9960 info, I notice he shows another time for
WORLD OF RADIO on 9955, UT Monday 0230 --- I wish it were so, but WRMI grid
only shows a similar title, `Word for the World`. Meanwhile, see how much of
WOR can fit in Thursday at 1331 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See
also SOUTH CAROLINA [non]
** U S A [non]. 6045, Jan 1 at 0452, some nice music with chimes, good signal,
off at 0459* and missed announcement if any. Scheduled is AWR in French,
0430-0500, 300 kW, 220 degrees from Moosbrunn, AUSTRIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 2660, Jan 1 at 0443 UT, very poor carrier, trace of music,
probably previously IDed 1330 x 2, KGLD, Tyler TX. Not in the WRTH, of course,
saving countless pages by skipping stations under 2.5 kW, but making the US
info extremely incomplete (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4004.56, Jan 1 at 0445, good AM signal with open carrier, still
at 0504, 0616. Pinpointed the frequency in two ways which match exactly: with
keyboard close-beat het against 4005.00 BFO on the YB-400, of A above middle-C
= 440 Hz; and on the DX-398 by comparing to WWV with BFO on 40-Hz steps, 11 of
them below 4005.00.
But what is this, some ute? Used to be a Vatican frequency (and they do very
well here later on 3975), but only known broadcaster on 4005 now is Kamalabad,
Iran in Russian at 1920-2020 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 5000, Jan 1 at 0503 doing some calibration with WWV,
bothered by some irregular beeping on frequency, certainly not another
timesignaler. By 0600 to celebrate arrival of 2014y in the CST zone, needed
2500 for best WWV reception; again, no NY wishes from them. Aloha is as
informal as it gets, from WWVH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Looking for late Latins on NY Eve, stepping thru 60mb with BFO
Jan 1 at 0446-0451 find carriers here but hardly any strong enough to pursue vs
my noise level, which is yet lower than usual: 4775 (2), 4780, 4785, 4790-,
4810, 4825, 4865-, 4885, 4905, 4950-, 4960, 4975, 4990, 5005, 5015 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1851 UT January 1, 2014
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 133, Issue 2
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