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Today's Topics:
1. Feb 21-22 Logs (brian384...@aol.com)
2. Logs (Manuel M?ndez)
3. Spanish MW QSL Report (Artur Fernandez Llorella)
4. QSL Report (Artur Fernandez Llorella)
5. Re: Logs from NH-USA, Feb 17-21: 4980 unID (Glenn Hauser)
6. LW-MW-SW logs under abysmal ionospheric condx (aurel chiochiu)
7. News by Radio Cochiguaz (Arnaldo)
8. DX Listening Digest 9-016; World of Radio 1448 (Glenn Hauser)
9. WICC log (aurel chiochiu)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:35:59 EST
From: brian384...@aol.com
Subject: [HCDX] Feb 21-22 Logs
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
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** ERITREA. 7165, VOBME, program 2, *0356-0410, Feb 22, sign
on with IS initially on 7175 at 0355 but moved to 7165 at 0356. Talk
at 0400. Horn of Africa music at 0406. Fair to good until covered by
noise jammer at 0409. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** ERITREA. 7209.98, VOBME, program 1, *0355-0420, Feb 22, sign
on with IS. Talk at 0400. Short breaks of Horn of Africa music. Tribal
chants at 0413 followed by local rustic music. Fair to good. (Brian
Alexander, PA)
** ETHIOPIA. 5979.93v, Voice of Tigray Rev, *0255-0325, Feb 22,
sign on with IS. Talk at 0259. Horn of Africa music at 0301. Weak
but readable. Off frequency at sign on but slowly moved up to 5980.0
by 0301. // 5950 - weak under Okeechobee, FL. (Brian Alexander,
PA)
** EURO-PIRATE. 6880.0, Radio Playback Int, 2315-2340, Feb 21,
pop ballads. Several IDs. Poor to fair. (Brian Alexander, PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, U.S.A.
Equipment: TenTec RX-340, two 100 foot longwires
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:23:48 +0100
From: Manuel M?ndez <manuelmend...@gmail.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs
To: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <49a18a24.8090...@gmail.com>
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Manuel M?ndez
Lugo, Espa?a
Escuchas realizadas en Friol
Grundig Satellit 500 y Sony ICF SW 7600G
Antena de cable, 10 metros, orientada WSW
ALEMANIA, 6140, Radio Gloria Internacional, 1434-1435, 22-02, canciones en
ingl?s, locutor, ingl?s, comentarios. 45444. (M?ndez)
BRASIL
9630, Radio Aparecida, Aparecida, 1038-1045, 22-02, locutor, portugu?s,
comentario religioso. 14322. (M?ndez)
11725, Radio Novas de Paz, Curitiba, 1032-1036, 22-02, canciones religiosas en
portugu?s. 13221. (M?ndez)
11915, Radio Gaucha, Porto Alegre, 1153-1158, 22-02, portugu?s, locutor,
comentarios. 24222. (M?ndez)
COLOMBIA, 5910, Marfil Estereo, Lomalinda, 0815-0823, 22-02, canciones
latinoamericanas, locutor, identificaci?n: "Marfil Estereo". 24322. (M?ndez)
GUINEA ECUATORIAL,15190, Radio Africa, 0822-0827, 22-02, locutor, ingl?s,
comentario religioso. 34433. (M?ndez)
MEXICO, 4800, XERTA, Radio Transcontinental de Am?rica, M?xico D. F.,
0806-0811, locutor, espa?ol, comentario religioso. 15321. (M?ndez)
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:53:40 +0100
From: Artur Fernandez Llorella <af...@hotmail.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Spanish MW QSL Report
To: Frecuencia DX <frecuenci...@yahoogroups.com>, playdx groups
<playdx2...@yahoogroups.com>, hard-core-dx HCDX
<hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
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New QSLs:
* Radio Algeciras, 1260 Khz, QSL card, stickers, personal letter. v/s Miguel
Gallego, T?cnico. Address: c/ General Casta?os 2, 3?, 11201 Algeciras, Spain.
Answer in 2 weeks.
* Radio Ol? Costa del Estrecho (Transmitter in Ceuta), 1584 KHz, QSL card for
old report sent to Radio Algeciras, as R. Ol? belongs to SER. v/s Miguel
Gallego. (Address see above). Answer in 3 weeks.
* R. Linares, 1602 KHz, full detailed QSL letter, book 75th anniversary of the
station, v/s Miguel Ortega. Address: Plaza Ram?n y Cajal 8, ?tico, 23700
Linares, Spain. Answer in 11 weeks.
Artur Fern?ndez Llorella
Catalonia, Spain
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:06:29 +0100
From: Artur Fernandez Llorella <af...@hotmail.com>
Subject: [HCDX] QSL Report
To: playdx groups <playdx2...@yahoogroups.com>, Frecuencia DX
<frecuenci...@yahoogroups.com>, hard-core-dx HCDX
<hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
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New QSLs:
FRANCE
* HCJB Issoudun, 6015, full detailed E-QSL from Media Broadcast in 15 weeks.
v/s Michael Puetz.
LATVIA
* MV Baltic Radio, 9290, via Ulbroka, QSL in 6 weeks. Sent 1 US $, v/s Roland
Rohde.
* Radio Victoria, 9290, via Ulbroka, QSL card in 22 weeks. Sent 1 US $. Report
sent to WWDXC, Postfach 1214, D-61282 Bad Homburg, Germany.
LITHUANIA
* MV Baltic Radio, 9710, via Sitkunai, QSL in 4 weeks. Sent 1 US $. v/s Roland
Rohde.
MONACO
* Polskie Radio, 9670, via Monte Carlo, full detailed E-QSL from Media
Broadcast in 15 weeks. v/s Michael Puetz.
RUSSIA
* Voice of Russia via Irkutsk, 6125, full detailed QSL card in 8 weeks for
report to wo...@ruvr.ru.
FREE RADIO
* R. Bluebell, 6220, via Mystery Radio, QSL card, info sheet for report sent to
SRS Germany. Sent 1 US $. 8 weeks.
* R. Shadowman, 6308, non detailed E-card in 6 weeks for report to
radioshadow...@hotmail.com.
* R. East Coast Holland/VOTN, 6210, E-QSL in 3 weeks for report to
eastcoastholl...@hotmail.com.
* R. Brandaris, 6305, QSL card, info, sheet in 6 weeks for report to
i...@radiobrandaris.com
* R. Merlin, 6280, E-QSL in 1 week for report to radiomer...@blueyonder.co.uk
Artur Fern?ndez Llorella
Catalonia, Spain
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:26:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Logs from NH-USA, Feb 17-21: 4980 unID
To: Cumbre DX <cumbr...@cs2.ralabs.com>, d...@yahoogroups.com, HCDX
<hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, NASWAyg <na...@yahoogroups.com>,
Al
Quaglieri <listenersnoteb...@gmail.com>, Mark Taylor
<markok...@tds.net>
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Could be third harmonic of something on 1660 --- like WWRU in New Jersey, Radio
Korea. Or yet another off-frequency AIR station (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
--- On Sat, 2/21/09, Scott R. Barbour Jr. <srbjr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 4980, UNIDENTIFIED, 0018-0032, Feb 21, vernacular. W ancr
> b/w brief wind/stringed instrumental bits; animated speaker
> joins briefly at 0024; more mx w/ ancr at BoH; v. poor &
> barely audible; Xijiang PBS-China?; I can't recall the
> last time I heard anything on this frequency. (Barbour-NH)
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:45:54 -0500
From: aurel chiochiu <a...@videotron.ca>
Subject: [HCDX] LW-MW-SW logs under abysmal ionospheric condx
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com, baco...@aol.com, nrci...@aol.com,
cumbr...@cs2.ralabs.com, latinm...@yahoogroups.com,
m...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: pepe8...@hotmail.com, bro...@yahoo.com, SOAD BENKIRANE
<soadbenkir...@gmail.com>, ve2...@yahoo.com, Hauville
<e.hauvi...@pschent.fr>, curious.geo...@att.net,
venezuelanqslh...@yahoo.com, Sylvain Naud <esn...@globetrotter.net>,
Perez Ricardo <canadac...@hotmail.com>, markwa1...@aol.com,
"olivier.tequi" <olivier.te...@laposte.net>, da_18gu...@hotmail.com,
Jorge Garc?ffffeda <jorge.gar...@rocketmail.com>,
o_p_nimig...@yahoo.com, bourdeau_annemari...@hotmail.com, Mike
Brooker
<aum...@idirect.com>
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reply-type=original
Warm greetings to all of you !
I have been hit by grippis since barely past a week, so aside from a rather
limited DX (with, coincidentally, some of the most mediocre condx noted this
season, at least as far as LW and MW TAs go), I couldn't see my girlfriend
and I'm late with several works for school. As I'm writing this repport, I
still have some cough to deal with.
I'm report mainly to keep in touch (especially since I rejoined the NRC -
National Radio Club), since there wasn't really something to get excited
with, this time, NO exception. I can't think, right the top of my head, of
one single more elusive catche I may have caught during the past few weeks.
We are approaching the end of the traditionnal MW DX season and, like
usually around the equinoxes, some auroral enhancement can always bring
unexpected DX from the south on top of North American pests, as far as
mediumwave DX is concerned.
On SW, I tryed in vain to get XEOI Radio Mil, and only got a jumble
containing 1 or maybe 2 Spanish signals with nothing even close to Mexican
Radio Mil (on 6010 kHz).
On LW, this must have been the worst run of conditions, since I got the PK's
Shielded Magnetic longwave loop. We are seriously considering buying a
similar loop for mediumwave, as for having a backup combo to the
Sanyo-MCD-S830 barefoot and also for getting more DX in the 800-1000 kHz
range area where the Sanyo MCD-S830 sucks (sorry for such a harsh word
against my favorite receiver) !
Into the logs now:
Trans-Atlantic DX
The LW TAs were heard on the Sangean CST-818 / PK's Shielded Magnetic
longwave loop combo !
The SW TAs were heard on the Sangean CST-818 / shortwave southern random
wire combo !
162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis FEB 21 around 0350 - Woman in French.
Fair-poor, not threshold, but still too mushy with all the additional
slight, albeit annoying buzz, to understand. Steady though. SINPO 35332.
Almost surprised to get this one under such mediocre ionospheric conditions
! (Chiochiu-QC)
171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador FEB 17 2305 - Assumed with barely noticeable
audio. Very, very weak with some growl from computers in the neighborhood
(not our own). Of course, during such mediocre conditions, logging
Russia-171 would be unthinkable and Russia-171 and Morocco-171 are the only
signals that are reported in eastern North America on this channel with the
probable exception of a LowFER ! (Chiochiu-QC)
183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg FEB 21 0605 - with repport from a
psychoveterinary who was trying to understand the animal's feelings. Good
through some slight buzz. SINPO 35354. The only longwave broadcaster to
reach the Montreal area with, at least, a half-decent signal ! I got to
understand that animal's feelings issue, because the signal was in French,
not in German. In fact, until 1981, in France (as well as in most of
Europe), private radio was illegal. If you were caught running a radio
station (a pirate one in this case), the Police will be visiting your home
in less than a hour. They were continuously monitoring the whole LW, MW, SW
and VHF FM spectrum for that purpose ! So, a few guys had the bright idea of
running private radio from neighboring countries such as Luxembourg, Germany
or Monaco and in the case of other European countries, from aboard a ship
out in the International Seas ! While the latter one is known as being an
offshore pirate, the former one is known as being a "radio p?riph?rique".
Otherwise, I have quite some trouble with my German, as I missed the class
last Friday and I did not do yet the small homework for the private German
teacher I see twice each month ! (Chiochiu-QC)
189 ICELAND Rikis?tvarpid, Gufuskalar FEB 21 0607 - Assumed this usual
blaster with music and talk heard weakly. (Chiochiu-QC)
198 ENGLAND BBC Radio 4, Droitwich FEB 21 0603 - Man talking in
British-accented English. When the PK's Shielded Magnetic longwave loop was
set to amplify 198 kHz, while attenuating everything below and above,
including nearby 201, the local beacon on 201 kHz went unreadable (even
though it's in Morse which is known for cutting through all sorts of QTM
c.f. Cuban Radio Reloj) as this one violently overspilled 3 kHz above ! Fair
and mushy and unreadable for me, as I'm not QUITE as fluent in English, as I
am in French, Romanian and, to a lesser extent, Spanish, though sounded
vaguely like a weather repport, as I barely picked out 1 or 2 words out of
the mush ! Not // ZIZ-555 (BBC Radio 4 realays BBC World Service overnight)
anymore at this time ! (Chiochiu-QC)
9575 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador FEB 20 2014 - with a nice set of traditionnal
Arabic music, very monotonous but full of monotonous, yet emotional
fullfilling powerful vocal harmonies. Fair-good until killed by some
powerful buzz around 2020 that ruined several LW, MW and SW frequencies. I'm
not as much into shortwave as I was several years ago, but after seeing on
YouTube some videos of Romanian FM DXers catching Middle Eastersn stations
via sporadic-E layer skip, my appetite caught on ! The LW outlet on 171 kHz
was very threshold at best during the past few listening sessions ! SINPO
33543 ,with some splatter from 9570 rather than from the rather weak
Gabon-9580 signal from which I sucessfully escapted by swithching to 9576
kHz in AM Narrow Mode instead of 9575 kHz in AM Wide Mode, until the buzz
appeared at 2020 UTC (1520 EST / 3:20 PM local). Was DXing this semi-regular
North African shortwave broadcaster mainly because I was absent from school
last Friday due to the cough ! (Chiochiu-QC)
9580 GABON Africa Num?ro Un, Moyabi FEB 20 2015 - briefly tuned to this
one as to see the source of splatter against Morocco-9575 and found it at a
rather weakish strength before it got completly killed by an awful buzz at
2022 UTC (3:22 PM local / 1522 Eastern Standard Time). The rather weak
strength of this powerhouse enabled me to listen to Medi Un 9575 very
slightly detuned to 9576 kHz in AM Narrow Mode ! (Chiochiu-QC)
Pan-American DX
555 ST KITTS ZIZ, Basseterre FEB 21 0608 - running BBC WS feed ! Fair-good
with British nx announcer talking about the foreign reaction to the politics
managed by Russian president Dmitri Mvedevev. Not // 198 which was obviously
running the domestic BBC Radio 4 broadcast rather than the BBC World Service
one ! I'm surprised to get this run-of-the-mil Caribbean outlet during such
abysnal conditions toward all directions ! (Chiochiu-QC)
780 VENEZUELA YVNM, Radio Coro, estado Falc?n FEB 15 0047 - Presumed with
melodic ranchera vocal heard at a poor-fair level with splatter from local
CJAD-800 that was playing music on Saturday night. If them, this is the
first showing of this Venezuelan powerhouse in over a month ! Mexican
ranchera is very popular in Venezuela as well and often heard on this
station, so I'm not even claming Mexican XEMF in Monclava. This was almost
certainly this old visitor, Radio Coro, which I'm enjoying right now, as I
type this, with special Carnaval programming over their website at
http://www.radiocoro.com/ ! Is Colombia still on 780 kHz ? I never heard
HJZG La Voz del Valle in Cali (a Todelar station) or even HJZW Radio
Almirante in Riohacha ? In some corners of eastern North America, during the
mid-90s, Radio Almirante used to be slightly more commun than Radio Coro on
780 kHz, right ? Why are they missing nowadays ? (Chiochiu-QC)
1070 SOUTH AMERICA unID country and station FEB 15 0055 - Spanish-sounding
music and talk heard at a very threshold level with very slight splash from
WTIC-1080 wich, thanksfully, is keeping their IBOC crud silent at night ! In
the latest DX News issue, I see Radio Santa F? (HJCG) reported by Chris
Black in South Yarmouth, MA (Massachussets for the non-DXers out there who
are receiving this message as well) on Cape Cod which I heard only once
before, just like the two other commonly reported South Americans: Emisora
Atlantico (HJIJ) out of Barranquilla and Mundial Zulia (YVMA) out of
Maracaibo, estado Zulia from which a nice real-audio clip was posted by me
several years ago on the excellent LatinMWDX Yahoo! group ! That being said,
domestic North American WNCT in Greenville, NC (North Carolina - Bogdan) is
also remotely possible, though the very weak music didn't sound Mexican, as
far as I can remember (didn't had tape running as this very threshold signal
quickly faded away). (Chiochiu-QC)
Additionnal comments: I went through the whole last DX News last issue and
noticed a big mistake ! As the Boston area pirate on 1710 kHz got heard by
Bruce Conti, he commented that compas music is the Haitian equivalent of
AFRICAN zouk music (?). This is almost totally wrong ! Zouk music came from
the overseas FRENCH departments of Martinica, Guadelupa and French Guyana.
The first zouk album LOVE AND KA DANCE by Kassav', recorded in 1979 and
received by the public somewhere in December of 1979 or January of 1980 was
recorded in Guadelupa and Martinica and has more Caribbean roots than
African ones (though it has a few and enjoy a huge amount of popularity in
Western African nations such as Congo and used to be HUGE in the Ivory
Coast, before they replied with their afro-zouk equivalent more precisely
known as "coup?-d?call?" which is a blend of Afro-zouk and traditionnal
Western African melodies) ! While there are a few African ZOUK artists out
there, they almost always copy the FRENCH CARIBBEAN TRUE ZOUK MUSIC. If
you'd like to hear some great ZOUK music, please try to check out Battery
Cr?mil, Eric Brouta, Eric Virgal (not quite as good as the former ones, but
very typical of classic zouk-love; which is a slower extremely popular
variation of ZOUK music), Tanya Saint-Val (AWESOME voice, vocals and songs
!), Zouk Look, Zouk Machine, Kassav' (the godfathers of Zouk !), David et
Corinne (a borther-and-sister duo who play more original ZOUK-LOVE than the
rahter unsinspired and generic zouk-love singer ERIC VIRGAL), Edith Lefel
(which died from a heart attack in January of 2003 - he was popular between
1984 and 2002 releasing ALMOST year after year some astonishingly great
records), Harry Diboula, Thierry Cham, Cyrielle (a new one, not as good as
the oldschool "zouk r?tro" artists) and several ones... I used to be a big
fan of zouk music, though my musical tastes changed over time, and I get
insulted by people affirming zouk comes from Africa and not GUADELUPA or
MARTINICA where, when one gets bored with zouk, tends to enjoy Haitian
kompas as well... One tend to forget the overseas FF departments ! In fact,
zouk is a mixture of kompas, calypso, urban African music (to a small extent
!) and American funky music with, originally, a mixture of traditional and
electric instruments, even though nowadays the artistical part of zouk is
gone and artists such as CYRIELLE, JEAN-MARIE RINGALD, SLA? and most of the
other ones, are seeking for money and fame rather than artistic
accomplishments... Also, if you want to check some kompas, try for ZENGLEN,
GARCIA REIZA, SWEET MICKEY, DAAN JUNIOR, TOP VICE, T-VICE, DJAKOUT MUZIK,
MISTY JEAN, ALAN CAV?, ZIN, BLACK PARENTS and for FUNKY KOMPAS -> ZEKLE
(which means lightning in French creole) and if you like old-school kompas
which sounds like a polished version of Dominican merengue, try for TABOU
COMBO (70's). Prior to the 70's, during the 50s and 60s, kompas sounded
fairly close to the Venezuelan "orchestras bailables" of Los Melod?cos and,
especially, Billo's Caracas Boys, so if you want to check some pre-Tabou
Combo, please try for Coup? Clou?, Les Shleus, Shleus and, especially, the
legendary Tropicana d'Ha?ti... L'Orchestre Tropicana / Tropicana d'Ha?ti is
definitively a Haitian version of Billo's Caracas Boys ! I play lots of
French Caribbean music at the college radio station from both Haiti and
Guadelupa ! I used to be really into both zouk and kompas, though mostly
into the former one, as kompas isn't catchy enough. Some salsa and cumbia
tropical songs or trad. gaita ones are way more catchy than most of the
kompas, though a few kompas are borderline catchy with some pretty amazing
melodies !
Another good news for those on the west coast still reading me is that while
WTIC-1080 has learned to keep their IBOC crud off at night, KNX-1070 has
quickly learned to do the same ! Nothing to do with DXing properly, as WTIC
is directionnal NORTH-SOUTH to protect KRLD in Dallas, Texas (on the same
channel), but if the trend continues I may once again hear HJKH RCN Antena
Dos on 650 on a semi-regular basis. Just wait for co-channel WSM to learn
complaiining about nighttime secondary coverage areas stolen by WFAN-660 !
If I wasn't that sick with cough et al, I would have wrote a complaint to
the FCC regarding WSM/HJKH-650, but for the next few days, doing this is
beyond me, as I'm quite lazy !
Last, but certainly not least, I had the warm pleasure of receiving a phone
call from one of Ontario's top-notch FM/TV DXers (and also a mediumwave
"zealot" - is that word appropiate for that circumstance ?), Saul Chernos,
before heading to Bahamas with a great receiver along with his Radio Shack
loop ! BOGDAN SPEAKS: Saul Chernos was calling the operator and asked for
Chiochiu in Montreal and there wasn't any, but the operator was nice enough
to suggest him to try for Pierrefonds, the western suburb where I live, so
he came upon me. This was just before the grippis ! We had talked for
several minutes with a huge amount of pleasure... The TV DX issue was
particularly serious, as he is better equiped than me, I do have a Yagi
antenna since a few months, but do not have a sensitive low-VHF tuner
anymore for double-hop Sporadic E TV DXing. I broke the TV telecommand
during the chemo, as my father was insulting myself for vomiting (my father
is a bit narcisistic !) and the Magnasonic TV tuner was put to the garbage,
because one couldn;t change the channels anymore. For FM, it's a different
story ! The newly purchased Degen 1103 which overloads badly on both long
and mediumwave is great on both SW and FM ! Since Venezuela is about 2400
miles from Montreal, it is definitively within 2Es range from me, so I could
always get the most powerful signals using the Degen 1103 whip on FM and
then, connected to the soundcard, make .WAV and / or MP3 files of those...
We also had a lengthy talk about mediumwave DX. Since during excellent TA
condx of December, 2008, I had audio from Algeria-549 trying to break
through the weak adjacent North American signals on 550 kHz with CHLN gone
forever, I suggested him to try for that one from Bahamas, which is slightly
closer to Algeria than Montreal... I don't know if he had the time to write
it down in the logbook, though I gladly hope he had at least a poor signal
out of this Algerian blaster ! Very warm, we spent almost a half-hour
talking... Too bad, we didn't DX althogether, or we would have had the
chance to hear both that very weak elusive Latin on 1070 kHz mediumwave
which is the only SLIGHTLY, ALBEIT DEFINITIVELY more interesting catche
among that ugly repport ! There is also Cuba on 1070 kHz. Saul Chernos is a
great journalist with a great deal of experience and he may come to Montreal
another time for analysing an important event or something like that...
As far as DXing in group, I had two friends, an older Qu?b?cois one and a
Colombian one with whom I DXed, two occasions with each, during the
2008-2009 winter holidays and in less-than-stellar conditions, we did hear a
few things of interest; it was, nevertheless, a good introduction to what
can be heard on AM. The Colombian friend almost couldn't believe I had the
Colombia-760 signal so huge (back in early January, 2009) using a normal
radio and I have him a CD recording containing an MP3 file converted from
the HJAJ-760 tape.
Me and Saul Chernos, also talked about the ultralight receivers (the Degen
1103 is one of them!) and about the Newfoundland DXpedition. What can I do
in order to attend a DXpedition ? I have been on and off DXing, with the
same amount of enthousiasm on peaks, such as now, since 2000 and a
DXpedition for someone young like me would be such an awesome adventure !
Since Chernos is also an NRCer and I hope to see his Bahamas repport in the
next DX News's IDXD issue ! I really hope, that in Bahamas, thanks to it's
coastal situation and, in spite of the huge amount of Cuban QRM, one could
get some South American, African and, who knows, south-western European
(i.e. France and Spain) MEDIUMWAVE DX with some nice reception quality ! I'm
not only curious to read the Saul Chernos's results from Bahamas, I can't
wait !!! Is the Radio Shack Saul Chernos suing THAT good ? I mostly heard
bad things about it, it is cheap, it's nulling abilities are poor and can't
compare even with a Select-A-tenna. For myself, during our next trip, I'll
take a magnetic loop... Is a MW magnetic loop quite good, even though it's
inferior to a LW magnetic loop ? Is a MW magnetic loop SLIGHTLY worse than a
Beverage or WAY MUCH worse than a Beverage ! I heard from an old DX friend
in British Colombia that a longwave magnetic loop is better than the average
Beverage, but on mediumwave it's a different story. To what extent, it is
worse than a Beverage ?
We are heading for Romania in a few months, toward the end of May, after
c?-gep ends and, then, I may see a completly different perspective on DXing
from my own country, I place where I did some DXing when I was young, nut
very casual and uninspired as you can imagine DXing from a brick house or on
the 4th floor of a builiding with concrete walls and ceiling, you would get
just some 500 kW short-skip nighttime mediumwave signals from the
neighboring countries, nothing to really get excited like the Pan American
DX and, to a lesser extent, Trans Atlantic DX I'm used to enjoy from here
that captivated my attention since the past few years. But, there is the
possibility of DXing from outdoors, i.e.: from a park ! I will try to get in
contact with some of Romania's top DXers during the course of the several
weeks, as my health improves !
{END OF THE BOGDAN SPEAKS part}
I have nothing to add anymore, time to get back to DXing or fighting against
that damned grippis !
This repport is brought to you by Bogan Chiochiu DXing from Pierrefonds
(Montreal's West Island), Quebec, Canada DXing using the Sanyo MCD-S830
barefoot and the Sangean CST-818 along with the PK's Shielded Magnetic LW
loop for longwave and the random wire (along with the same Sangean rx) for
shortwave !
May the good DX be with you !
Bogdan Chiochiu
Btw.: Coming soon, my ratings for this season, as far as LAs and TAs are
concerned !
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:34:47 -0300
From: "Arnaldo" <sl...@ciudad.com.ar>
Subject: [HCDX] News by Radio Cochiguaz
To: <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Cc: playdx2003 <playdx2...@yahoogroups.com>, DXLD
<d...@yahoogroups.com>, bcln...@yahoogroups.com
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Dear Friends,
We will inform/update you with our activities and hopes we are not bother
you. We are to go into the last week of February, our anniversary month.
Because of this we will be very active this days until the end of the month.
We can't guarantee that we will be on every day, but the possibility is
there. Check the frequency from time to time, 6307 kHz between 22 and 07
UTC. It is a true DX to catch our signals as we these days are using only 20
W (80 W PEP). We depend very much of good conditions, something that haven't
been present these days it seems..
All the best from
Cachito
http://www.geocities.com/rcochiguaz
e-mail: radio_cochiguaz@ yahoo.com
Casilla de correo 159;
Santiago 14; Chile
Amigos!
Queremos mantenerles informado sobre nuestra actividad por eso este
mail y esperamos no molestarlos. Estamos por entrar en la ultima semana del
mes de Febrero, nuestro mes aniversario. Por tal motivo estaremos
frecuentemente en el aire esta semana, hasta finalizar el mes. No aseguramos
que estaremos todos los d?as,pero casi. Peguen una vuelta por nuestra
frecuencia, la 6307 kHz de tiempo a tiempo(entre las 22:00-10:00 UTV). Como
ya mencionado anteriormente, es un logro verdadero captar nuestra emisi?n,
que en estos d?as se hacen con solo 20 vatios (80 W PEP). Dependemos mucho
de las buenas condiciones algo que al parecer no se han dado hasta el
momento. Esto si es Diexsismo en los tiempos de las megas potencias.
Cordiales saludos de
Cachito
http://www.geocities.com/rcochiguaz
e-mail: radio_cochiguaz@ yahoo.com
Casilla de correo 159;
Santiago 14; Chile
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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:38:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
Subject: [HCDX] DX Listening Digest 9-016; World of Radio 1448
To: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net
Message-ID: <71832.58022...@web51101.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
DX Listening Digest 9-016 has now been posted at http://www.dxld.org
or http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt or http://dxld.worldofradio.org
and now also without delay at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld9016.txt
CONTENTS:
WOR 1448 / AFGHANISTAN / ARGENTINA / AUSTRALIA RA / BANGLADESH +non / BELARUS /
BENIN / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL / CANADA RCI / CANADA CINA / CANADA CFRB/CBC / CHINA
+non / CONGO DR +non / CROATIA +non / CYPRUS / CZECHIA +non / DESECHEO ham+ /
DIEGO GARCIA / DJIBOUTI / EGYPT / EQUATORIAL GUINEA / ERITREA +non / ETHIOPIA
+non / EUROPE Pirate / FINLAND / FRANCE / GERMANY / GREENLAND / GUATEMALA /
HONDURAS / INDIA +non DRM+ / INDONESIA / INTERNATIONAL INTERNET +non webcasting
/ INTERNATIONAL WATERS +non BBC/Pirates / IRAN +non / JAPAN / KOREA NORTH non /
KURDISTAN / LAOS / LIBYA / MADAGASCAR / MALI / MEXICO +non / MYANMAR /
NETHERLANDS +non / NIGERIA +non / PAKISTAN / PALAU / PALESTINE non? / PAPUA NEW
GUINEA / PERU / PHILIPPINES / POLAND non / RUSSIA / SAUDI ARABIA / SLOVAKIA
DRM+ / SLOVENIA ham / SOLOMON ISLANDS +non / SOUTH AMERICA +non pirate / SPAIN
/ SUDAN +non / SWAZILAND +non / SYRIA / TIBET / TURKEY / UGANDA / UK +non BBCWS
/ UK Colourful/DAB / USA
WWV/WSB+ / USA VOA / USA WYFR A09 / USA WWRB / USA WWCR / USA WNQM+/WOR / USA
WOBH / USA WRNO / USA John Moritz / USA KGO / USA Inauguration / USA Christian
radio / USA WSVE+ / USA KUNI / VATICAN +non / VIETNAM / YEMEN / ZAMBIA /
ZIMBABWE +non / UNIDENTIFIED 4980 / UNIDENTIFIED 5779 / UNIDENTIFIED 5900 /
UNIDENTIFIED 6027 / UNIDENTIFIED 6125 / UNIDENTIFIED 9810 / UNIDENTIFIED
9830/11687/12015 / TESTIMONIALS / LANGUAGE LESSONS / MUSEA / SHORTWAVE MUSIC /
PUBLICATIONS / CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / POWERLINE
COMMUNICATIONS / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / PROPAGATION
For restrixions and searchable 2008 contents archive see
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html
NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but
have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself
obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn
WORLD OF RADIO 1448 SUMMARY:
*BBCWS outsourcing programming to New Delhi, to save money
*BBC TV news in USA anchored from Washington, not London
*DTV transition makes that available in Oklahoma; `nightlight` service
boring programming with DTV info for a month on some analog stations;
see DX Listening Digest 9-015
*KCBS, 740, San Francisco, celebrating 100th anniversary already by
including coastal or experimental predecessor
*WCNZ, 1660 in Florida has switched from Relevant Radio religion to
oldies; stunting?
*WWRB has started streaming programming on one of its frequencies
*VOA starts Burmese TV service, via satellite
*Talk of quid-pro-quo with Azerbaijan allowing VOA back on FM there,
in exchange for relays of Azeri broadcasts by US
*Radio Nacional Amaz?nia, Brasil, 11780 puts big spurs on 11730, 11830; plans
to buy new transmitters
*Former head of Radio Canada International, Betty Zimmerman has died
*Croatia plans new daytime frequency for Europe, 7370 ex-9830; some
English broadcasts missing
*Dentro-Cubans hope TV Mart? will close down May 20, but Radio Mart?
will continue on SW
*Desecheo ham Dxpedition monitored; why not add SW broadcasts?
*New Eritrean clandestine Voice of Asena has already verified
*All India Radio, Shillong, 4970, a favorite in California
*Iran relays via Lithuania resumed February 12
*Plans for revival of Happy Station, from March 11 on WRMI, 9955
*Nicaragua replaced 4-letter broadcast callsigns with 6 characters,
usually including one number
*VK9NS, Jim Smith has died on Norfolk Island, well-known DXpeditioner
*Al-Aqsa and Al-Quds TV relays on SW have stopped; were active while
Lithuanian relays of Iran were off, but probably coincidental
*Recommending Estelle Winters`s programs on Voice of Russia
*Sri Lanka at odds with BBC over relays, censoring Tamil news; could
US and German SW relay sites be endangered?
*Syria still using reactivated 12085, including English at 2100 ###
NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1448
Mon 0600 WRMI 9955
Mon 2300 WBCQ 7415 [confirmed Feb 9]
Tue 1200 WRMI 9955
Tue 1630 WRMI 9955
Wed 0600 WRMI 9955 [or new 1449]
Wed 1630 WRMI 9955 [or new 1449]
WBCQ is also airing new or archive editions of WOR M-F 2000 on 7415
Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite
and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or
http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org
For updates see our Anomaly Alert page:
http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html
WRN ON DEMAND:
http://new.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24
WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN NOW AVAILABLE:
http://podcast.worldofradio.org or
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/stations/podcast.php
OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO:
http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
or http://wor.worldofradio.org
Regards, Glenn Hauser
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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:18:34 -0500
From: aurel chiochiu <a...@videotron.ca>
Subject: [HCDX] WICC log
To: a...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com, Mike Brooker <aum...@idirect.com>
Message-ID: <007201c9955d$07435480$6400a...@b>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
600 WICC Bridgeport, CT 02/22 - "WICC Six Hundreed" strongly breaking through a
few other signals with CKAT megapest in North Bay, ON not much in evidence at
this time. Regular, though not that easily heard as in the past, mostly due to
the rather poor condx. (BC-PQ)
This repport is brought to you by Bogdan Chiochiu DXing from Pierrefonds
(Montreal's West Island), QC using the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot
Bogdan Chiochiu
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 74, Issue 23
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