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Today's Topics:
1. Logs from NH-USA, April 21-23 (Scott R. Barbour Jr.)
2. Glenn Hauser logs April 21-23, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Re: Glenn Hauser logs April 21-23, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
4. Re: Glenn Hauser logs April 21-23, 2012 correxion (Glenn Hauser)
5. Re: [dxld] Dutch government collapse effect on Radio
Netherlands? (Wolfgang Bueschel)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:04:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Scott R. Barbour Jr." <srbjr...@yahoo.com>
To: "cumbre...@yahoogroups.com" <cumbre...@yahoogroups.com>,
"d...@yahoogroups.com" <d...@yahoogroups.com>,
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Subject: [HCDX] Logs from NH-USA, April 21-23
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3309.98 BOLIVIA R. Mosoj Chaski Cochabamba 0920-0936 April 23 SS; W announcer
between ballads; brief, canned announcement at 0928 though no discernible ID
noted; poor-fair in ECCS-LSB. (Barbour-NH)
4699.91 BOLIVIA R. San Miguel Riberalta 0904-0919 April 23 SS; M announcer w/
LA ballads & relg talk between selections; ments. of "Santa Maria"; poor-fair
in ECCS-LSB. (Barbour-NH)
4850 CHINA Xijiang PBS Urumqi 2332-0000 April 21; ex-4330; Continuos,
indigenous vocal mx; announcer at 2353 though rough copy by then; more mx at
2356; booming signal at t/in; f/out w/ increasing CODAR by ToH. (Barbour-NH)
5910 COLOMBIA Alcaravan Radio Puerto Lleras 0948-1002 April 23 SS; Two M
announcers in political sounding discussion; tentative prg ID "(?) do Capital"
at 1001 into M & W announcers w/ ID ancments; mx at 1002; fair in ECCS-USB.
(Barbour-NH)
6003 UNIDENTIFIED 1003 April 23; JBA talk in unid. language; Echo of Hope, S.
Korea??. (Barbour-NH)
6115? CHINA presumed V. of the Strait Fuzhou 1015-1023 April 23 listed Amoy; M
& W announcers w/ alternating talk; pop-like mx at 1018; back to talk at 1023;
weak & poor but relatively clear. (Barbour-NH)
6140 SINGAPORE NHK/R. Japan Kranji 1026-1030* April 23 Indonesian; M & W
announcer in discussion; ballad at 1027, interrupted by announcer at 1029 w/
brief talk & "Goodbye"; promplty pulled the plug; no discernible ID noted;
fair-good. (Barbour-NH)
6165 CHINA CNR-6 V. of Shenzhou Beijing 1035-1050 April 23 CC; W announcer w/
brief talks between pop like mx selections; fair at t/in; quickly f/out by
1050. (Barbour-NH)
9580 GABON Afrique Numero Un Moyabi 2141-2203 April 21 FF; M announcer w/ brief
talks between Afropops & Hi-life mx selections; ID in passing at 2155; again at
ToH into news; fair. (Barbour-NH)
13585 UAE KBS Dhabbaya *2000-2011 April 21 AA; S/on announcement; M announcer
w/ nx; several ments. of Korea & "..Korea (sam)aliyah"; mx bridge at 2008 into
two W announcers w/ brief banter; pop mx at 2009; fair-good. (Barbour-NH)
13590 ZAMBIA CVC Lusaka 1934-2000* April 21 EE; KickStart prg w/ devotional;
relg pop mx & new artist featurette re musician Dan Wakefield; I had to step
away for personal phone call at 1945; returned for 1958 re-check w/ pop mx &
freq change announcement "Attention OneAfrica shortwave listeners..."
requesting switch to 9505; fair-good. (Barbour-NH)
13660 AUSTRIA BBC Moosbrunn 2013-2032 April 21 AA; Two M announcer in
discussion; joined by W announcer at which point the becomes quite heated; M
announcer & mx bit at 2030 w/ presumed ID ment. "London"; back to two M
announcers; good. (Barbour-NH)
15190 PHILIPPINES R. Pilipinas Tinang 1747-1802 April 21 listed Tagalog/EE; W
announcer noted under co-channel R. Africa-Eq. Guinea; R. Africa w/ carrier
only at 1758 leaving Pilipinas in the clear w/ talk & M announcer w/ solid ID
at 1800 "Radio Pilipinas-The Voice of the Philippines" & again in presumed
Tagalog; bit of martial/anthem-like mx into M & W announcers w/ another full ID
in passing; talk over mx at 1802 when R. Africa returned w/ crash-start into US
brokered relg prg; fair in ECCS-LSB; would have been easy copy w/out R. Africa;
very pleased w/ this as it's been years since I last last logged R. Pilipinas.
(Barbour-NH)
Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA
NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:59:57 -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 April 21-23, 2012
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** ASCENSION. 7305, April 23 at 0527, BBCWS with announcement loop, ``no
programmmes on this channel at present``, which just might encourage ordinary
listeners to tune away, but not me --- 0529 cuts to Hausa opening. Why don`t
they use that biminute for something more entertaining, like B-B-C- chimes,
Oranges & Lemons, or Lilliburlero?
21630, April 23 at 1212, French signal, poor with peaks to fair, the OSOB at
this hour, BBC via Ascension; but see KUWAIT later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 15160 // weaker 15240, April 23 at 0531, R. Australia with item
about PNG`s mineral resources, mentioning the Ok Tedi mine of Radio Fly fame,
which I have barely ever heard, so this Okie finally learns how to pronounce Ok
--- ``ahk`` or ``awk``, not ``oak`` or ``O-kay`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake April 23, after 1200:
15435, fair at 1208, het from 15437
Before 1300:
12600, good at 1258; none in the 11s, 10s
12980, very good at 1258
14700, very good at 1257
14800, good at 1257
15555, good at 1253
15900, very good at 1254
15970, very good at 1254
16100, very good at 1255
16980, very poor at 1254
17170, poor at 1255
18200, JBA? At 1256 vs local cable DTV converter box bubble jammer
After 1300:
15485, poor at 1308 also with noise jamming
15555, poor at 1309
After 1330:
15490, poor at 1342; probably jumped from 15500
15500, poor at 1336-1340*
15565, poor at 1340
15750, poor at 1341 with flutter
15900, fair at 1341
15970, fair at 1341
After 1400:
15610, poor at 1407
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. DentroCuban Jamming Command once again ignores the weekly
truce Radio Mart? observes by turning everything off for six hours Monday
mornings: April 23 at 0455, still wall-of-noise jamming on 6030, 7405; also
spur pulsing around 7230 inside the hamband. And pulse jamming against nothing
at 0453 on 9725, which is not used at all in the A-seasons by R. Mart?! See
also USA: WRMI/WOR.
15230, April 23 at 1205, RHC has heavy long/short path echo, with flutter on
one of them. Recheck at 1250, no echo. Since Habana is just over 2 megameters
from here, that means the long way round is just under 38 Mm. My NGS globe
shows the path: across Venezuela, Brasil, way south of Africa near Prince
Edward, Crozet and Marion Is., across the Indian ocean thru Java, Borneo,
Mindanao, east of Japan, along the Aleutians, and re?ntering North America at
Vancouver BC. Assuming the long path is 36.3 Mm longer than the short path, and
the speed of radio is 298.5 Mm/sec, the delay is 0.12 second.
Meanwhile, RHC on 16m at 1211 was loud and clear with no echoes on 17580,
17730. 17580 was already off at 1256 check. Claims to be on until 1500 tho
seldom heard later than 1400.
HCJB Australia 15340 was also audible without echo before RHC came on at 1300,
similar route, but was it long or short?
6150, April 23 at 1306 RHC is still on, and this late without much CCI from the
China radio war, just in time to hear it cut off late at 1306:50* (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 15050, April 23 at 1206, nice to hear AIR in AM here for a change,
with S Asian music, fair and fluttery, but that`s only because the Tamil
service until 1215 is supposed to be in AM, while the Sinhala service from 1300
is supposed to be in DRM (but occasionally defaulting to AM). Today the DRM
noise was detectable poorly already at 1249. Strangely, HFCC registrations show
both in ``D`` mode meaning non-digital. Eventually everything from AIR will be
in DRM to minimize listenership (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPANESE. 9526-, April 23 at 1219, after missing several days, VOI is back,
in special Japanese ? slowly spoken anyway by presumed non-native script
reader; very undermodulated despite S9+22 signal, also het from a 9525 station.
How about English after 1300? 1301 only carrier with some hum, 1304 just barely
modulated, useless but no het during this hour. Nothing else is listed on 9525
before 13 to account for that het, in EiBi, Aoki or HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT [and non]. 21540, April 23 at 1352, pipeline from R. Kuwait, SSOB by
far with ME pop music, 1400 YL ID and akhbar now a bit weaker, no sign of Spain
under, which was JBA on clear 21610. Yet Saudi 21505 was very poor with
flutter; 21780 Rwanda good (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO [and non]. 15349.1, April 23 at 1251, IMM has a weak het from 15350,
presumably Gospel for Asia via Wertachtal, GERMANY, scheduled 1230-1530 daily
in a huge variety of languages ripe for conversion. Mondays during this
quarter-hour, it`s Punjabi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. Re RNZI heard April 21 until 1202* on 7440 in AM, but not on
9655, Adrian Sainsbury explains: ``The DRM service on 7440 was switched to AM
mode in the process of rescheduling it to run on 6170 to cover for the AM
transmitter on 9655 which had developed a fault. Because of this the usual
9655 transmission was cancelled`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6935-USB, April 23 at 0503 tune-in to frequency mention,
missed any ID, but acknowledging reports from Beantown and Kauai, Lihue? The
operator says he has been there. Very good and clear S9+20 signal with what he
says is over 100 watts from his Yoshi transmitter with ``dipole hanging from
the yardarm``, live timecheck for 0505 UTC, back to music. 0520 retune, Red
Mercury Labs ID, time to sign-off or as he puts it, ``release the frequency``,
73 and off at 0522* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAKISTAN. Re previous report: ``15725, April 22 at 0508, very poor signal,
something talking. Per HFCC and Aoki, nothing but: R. Pakistan, 05-07 in Urdu,
100 kW, 282 degrees from Islamabad API-9 transmitter; also used for 0800-1104
Urdu at 313 degrees, the transmission including token 4-5 minute English
newscasts now at 0905 and 1100 per EiBi. There is disagreement over the second
broadcast: HFCC shows starting at 0800, 313 degrees, while Aoki shows from
0830, 233 degrees. EiBI also shows it starting at 0830 now (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST``) Noel Green, England replies:
``The current PBC transmitter schedule for A-12 shows that External Service for
Gulf & M.E. on 15725 at 0500-0700 UT is via API-5 (one of the two 250 kW units)
and is via 282 degrees. The parallel channel is via the other 250 kW unit API-6
on 17830 at 282-30 = 252 degrees.
External Service for West Europe starts at 0830 (confirmed) and continues until
about 1104 after English news. API-5 remains on 15725 and API-6 moves to 17720,
both via 313 degrees.
The external service at 0500-0700 was listed to utilise API-9 a year or two
back, but the current schedule for this 100 kW transmitter is now listed as
0045-0430 and 1330-1815 on 3975, and 0900-1215 on 7265 using a Quadrant
antenna, and carrying the Rawalpindi (Pindi) - III programme. If it is still on
air, the clandestine Voice of Jammu and Kashmir Freedom Movement is thought to
utilise this transmitter too, although the transmission never appears in the
PBC schedules. 73 Noel R. Green`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. Not a log of mine (yet) but a hot tip about an apparent
new clandestine: 15725, April 19 at 1833 UT, Rodolfo Tizzi, Uruguay on the
condig list reported with a clip at
http://youtu.be/5_oC52R4cQc
a station in Arabish with an English ID at 1837, sounding like ``Voice of South
Sudan Revolutionary (?) Radio . . . stands for Freedom, Justice, Equality, and
(Liberal Arts? unlikely) mixing in some Morse code for effect? Doesn`t make
sense to me.
Chris Greenway replies, ``"... Justice, Equality, and Human Rights" The "Morse
code" is whistles. The style is reminiscent of Radio SPLA in the 1980s. Good
catch!``
Source and site unknown yet, nor the start time; better monitor from 1800 if
not earlier; daily?
Googling on `Voice of South Sudan` leads to two logs under that name in the
April 2010 issue of WWDXC DX Magazine, both from Michael Frese in Germany:
5975 0300 111 RRW English 15 March
9840 1740 111 UAE English 15 March
The 2012, 2011 and 2010 WRTHs do not have any station by that name in the
Target Broadcasts sexions. No hits on that name in the last decade of DXLDs.
Could this now be sponsored by (north) Sudan? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1613 monitoring: 9955, UT Monday April 23 at 0508,
sufficient signal from WRMI and no jamming for a change (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. Re: ``15570, April 21 at 1806, somewhat muffled Portuguese with
bits of Brazilian music, 1810 talking about Evangelista Lucas, 1812 Mat?u, so
suspect it`s a religious station --- yes, VR at 1800-1830, 250 kW, 229 degrees
from SMG to CIRAF 46 = W Africa, where the only
Portuguese-speaking/understanding area is little (but not tiny) Guinea-Bissau,
altho this beam should carry right on to Brasil (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)``
Glenn, You forgot to mention Cape Verde, which is almost 100% Roman Catholic.
In Portuguese, Matthew is spelled Mateus. Greetings (Fernando de Sousa Ribeiro,
Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 12061, April 23 at 0507, the ``chattering`` pulsing I was hearing
24 hours earlier. Still need to try before 0500 to see if it`s the V. of Russia
transmitter doing this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15455, April 23 at 1252 open carrier only, about equal strength
to Turkey 15450. Kept listening past 1300, 1307 with some flutter, and never
heard any modulation. 1315 I thought it went off, but as soon as I flipped on
BFO, it was back, and stayed until cut off at 1328:10, just as if it were an
intentional modulated transmission, only neglecting to do that. What is
scheduled? In HFCC, disregarding an imaginary Avlis, nothing. Zilch in Aoki and
EiBi too. Another great mystery. Maybe a standby Firedrake? (Glenn Hasuer, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15660, April 23 at 1407, modulation cutting on and off, maybe
Portuguese and bits of music, carrier off at 1408*. All three schedules show
this is during a one-hour break after KSDA in Malay until 1400, and before
Channel Africa in Swahili from 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 21640, April 23 at 1313 open carrier with fair signal, but went
right off. HFCC has BSKSA here at 12-15, but never really heard. Maybe
Kamalabad turned 21640 back on by mistake after the 1030-1130 VIRI English
before retuning it somewhere else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
------------------------------
Message: 3
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:06:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: NASWA <na...@yahoogroups.com>, s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 21-23, 2012
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An Arabic-speaking colleague has listened to the recording. It's pro-Khartoum
and anti-Juba, broadcasting in support of the Khartoum-backed South Sudan
Liberation Army (not to be confused with the Sudan People's Liberation Army,
which is now the government army of South Sudan).
Although on the same frequency, this station is very unlikely to have anything
to do with Radio Dabanga. Probably from Sudan itself, rather than a hired site.
They've chosen too high a frequency for getting from Sudan to South Sudan in
mid-evening, but perhaps they thought it would be a good idea to be on the same
frequency as used by Dabanga (Chris Greenway, UK, April 23, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
--- On Mon, 4/23/12, Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. Not a log of mine (yet) but a hot tip
> about an apparent new clandestine: 15725, April 19 at 1833
> UT, Rodolfo Tizzi, Uruguay on the condig list reported with
> a clip at
> http://youtu.be/5_oC52R4cQc
> a station in Arabish with an English ID at 1837, sounding
> like ``Voice of South Sudan Revolutionary (?) Radio . . .
> stands for Freedom, Justice, Equality, and (Liberal Arts?
> unlikely) mixing in some Morse code for effect? Doesn`t make
> sense to me.
>
> Chris Greenway replies, ``"... Justice, Equality, and Human
> Rights" The "Morse code" is whistles. The style is
> reminiscent of Radio SPLA in the 1980s. Good catch!``
>
> Source and site unknown yet, nor the start time; better
> monitor from 1800 if not earlier; daily?
>
> Googling on `Voice of South Sudan` leads to two logs under
> that name in the April 2010 issue of WWDXC DX Magazine, both
> from Michael Frese in Germany:
> 5975 0300 111 RRW English 15 March
> 9840 1740 111 UAE English 15 March
> The 2012, 2011 and 2010 WRTHs do not have any station by
> that name in the Target Broadcasts sexions. No hits on that
> name in the last decade of DXLDs. Could this now be
> sponsored by (north) Sudan? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
> DIGEST)
------------------------------
Message: 4
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:42:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: NASWA <na...@yahoogroups.com>, s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 21-23, 2012 correxion
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** INDONESIA. 9526-, April 23 at 1219, after missing several days, VOI is back,
in special Japanese ? slowly spoken anyway by presumed non-native script
reader; very undermodulated despite S9+22 signal, also het from a 9525 station.
How about English after 1300? 1301 only carrier with some hum, 1304 just barely
modulated, useless but no het during this hour. Nothing else is listed on 9525
before 13 to account for that het, in EiBi, Aoki or HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
I can`t believe I did this, but above item had the wrong heading. gh
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:44:30 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <buesch...@web.de>
To: "BDXC" <bdxc-n...@yahoogroups.com>, "BCLNEWS"
<bcln...@yahoogroups.com>, "DXplorer" <dxplo...@yahoogroups.com>,
"HCDX" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, "DXLD" <d...@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Dutch government collapse effect on Radio
Netherlands?
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Hi all,
the budget of the Dutch international broadcaster RNW was 46 million EUR to
EUR 14 million slashed. 270 employees (of 350 in total) be dismissed.
Since it is surprising that the probably retiring chief of the
Transmitter, Jan Hoek, a severance ("golden handshake") of no
should receive less than EUR 1 million. At least, cites the
RNW website a report of the NRC Handelsblad:
http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/million-euro-golden-handshake-rnw-director
or: <http://is.gd/dO9xRu>
----- Original Message -----
From: <stvlucetx
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Subject: [dxld] Dutch government collapse effect on Radio Netherlands?
> With the collapse of the Dutch government and fresh elections on the way,
> does anyone think that the closure of the RNW Dutch service could possibly
> be delayed past May 11? Maybe not, but it will be rather awkward for the
> Dutch service to close in the middle of an election campaign. Perhaps the
> staff layoffs have reached a point where any extension would be
> impractical.
>
> However, I think it is safe to say a new Dutch government won't be
> restoring any funding to RNW. The new administration will have the same
> budget pressures, and maintaining an international broadcast service is
> probably at the bottom of any politician's priority list. The next
> government might even make further cuts, or axe RNW completely.
>
> Perhaps the domestic Dutch public broadcasters might provide programming
> to fill the gap?
>
> Steve Luce
> Houston, Texas
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