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1. Help Radio Heritage add 16 new stories! (i...@radioheritage.net)
2. LOG FOR FRI (ka4...@peoplepc.com)
3. Logs for Fri. Mar 6, 2009 (Bruce Barker)
4. SW LOG (JG3GCI)
5. Glenn Hauser logs March 6, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
6. March 6 Logs (brian384...@aol.com)
7. Radio Dabanga on 5-3-9 (Zacharias Liangas )
8. Micro-DXpedition Loggings (Dave Valko)
9. Glenn Hauser logs March 6-7, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 21:50:29 +1300
From: i...@radioheritage.net
To: i...@radioheritage.net
Subject: [HCDX] Help Radio Heritage add 16 new stories!
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 10:54:09 -0000
From: <ka4...@peoplepc.com>
To: <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, <d...@yahoogroups.com>,
<cumbr...@cs2.ralabs.com>
Cc: mal...@mailbox.syr.edu
Subject: [HCDX] LOG FOR FRI
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Bolivia, 6134.80, Radio Santa Cruz, 1030-1039, The
signal was barely audible
with a female in Spanish language comments. By 1039,
the signal had disappeared
under the noise. (Chuck Bolland, March 6, 2009)
Clewiston, Florida
NRD545
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:11:48 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bruce Barker <brbar...@comcast.net>
To: NASWA <na...@yahoogroups.com>, topn...@wwdxc.de,
wghau...@yahoo.com, hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com,
gayl...@brmemc.net,
cumbr...@cs2.ralabs.com, d...@yahoogroups.com, rdange...@aol.com,
markok...@tds.net
Subject: [HCDX] Logs for Fri. Mar 6, 2009
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4985?? BRAZIL?? R. Brasil Central?? Goiania?? Mar 6?? 0910?? High-energy dj in
PT bubbling just above the noise, playing easy listening music, ads and station
slogans.?? (Barker-PA)
5995?? AUSTRALIA?? RA in EG and Pidgin to the Pacific with just 10 kw, Mar 6??
0935.?? Om with news of the Pacific, including several mentions of Papua New
Guinea.?? Barely making it above the noise.?? (Barker-PA)
6010?? BRAZIL?? R. Inconfidencia?? Belo Horizonte?? Mar 6?? 0940?? Beautiful PT
ballads.?? Interference from another Latin on freq. but could neither id it nor
null it out.?? (Barker-PA)
6019.66?? BRAZIL?? R.Gaucha?? Porto Alegro?? Mar 6?? 0840?? Five-minute block
of ads, canned station promos, and id's.? Theme from Goldfinger, then into soft
PT ballads.? Should be 6020. ?(Barker-PA)
6085?? BOLIVIA?? R. San Gabriel?? La Paz?? Mar 6? 1003?? Religious music and
then into preacher in SP? with several mentions of Jesus and San Juan.??
(Barker-PA)
6160?? CANADA?? CKZN?? St. John's, Newfoundland.?? Mar 6? 1015?? OM in EG with
Labrador Morning' program.?? Marine weather and then into CBC nx by yl.? Fading
from arm chair to threshold? and a pretty?annoying ?flutter to boot.??
(Barker-PA).
Bruce Barker, Broomall, PA.?? Equipment:? NRD 535D? and an Alpha Delta DX
Sloper.
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 23:44:01 +0900
From: "JG3GCI" <komachik...@yahoo.co.jp>
To: "HCDX" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: [HCDX] SW LOG
Message-ID: <ac9fa89771fb4f3bbacd8d9342322...@superhakuto>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp"
6155KHz Radio Korea INTL,6 Mar,2009 at 0759-0810 in Japanese.
SIO:444.Examination broadcast.
********************************
J G 3 G C I Yasuhiro Kubo
Kobe-city HYOGO,JAPAN.
JCC#270105
********************************
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 08:25:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 6, 2009
Message-ID: <843049.90837...@web51102.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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** CANADA [and non]. CFRX, 6070, at 0714 check March 6 during Holder Tonight,
the UT Tue-Sat talk show from CJAD Montreal, and NO QRM, not even a SAH, from
CVC Chile! The reason is that CVC has unexpectedly dropped their overnight
broadcasting in Spanish, just as they did in Portuguese several months ago.
Must have decided it is not cost-effective, and surely not in response to
complaints of QRM against CFRX.
An updated CVC schedule this week shows 6070 still in use only for two hours at
00-01 and 11-12 UT. More frequencies have been dropped, 11805 and 11970, and
others reduced. Good news from the minions of J.C.! Now CFRX is relatively
unimpeded thruout the darkness hours. However, in A-09, CVC Santiago plans to
use 6070 at 2300-0200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. DentroCuban Jamming Command with big noise against R. Mart?,
5980 which starts at 0700, noted March 6 at 0724 spreading plus/minus 10 kHz or
more with modulated pulses on the sides which are unneeded to jam RM itself,
but interfering with other stations, even bothering Spain/Costa Rica 5965. R.
Victoria, Per?, 6020v, at 0713 was also QRMed by modulated pulses from the
DentroCuban Jamming Command centered on 6030 against Radio Mart?. The same
spread extended to the high side on 6040; this has not always been the case, so
we may thank the Commie Cubans for worsening the collateral damage caused by
their accurs?d jamming, and inability to confront contrary opinions with reason
rather than brute force (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. Quick check of 9525 March 6 reconfirmed VOI operating nominally,
which means about 2 minutes late going from English to Malay at 1402 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. NHKWNRJ, 6145, excellent signal at 0715 UT Fri March 6 in Japanese,
so you would think it is a NAm service or relayed from NAm, but this hour is
really direct from Yamata, 300 kW at 35 degrees intended only for FE Russia;
and // much weaker 6165 at 330 degrees for the next zones of Russia westward.
Seemed poetry followed by nice piano music to 0720 when started new program
with English title announced by two different speakers as ``Sound Passage`` --
except the second word was pronounced as in French! Started with sound of jet
engine. I am really hankering for a full program schedule, translated to
English, of R. Japan`s Japanese broadcasts, but repeated requests have gone
unfulfilled. There are lots of gems like this involving music or sounds, which
can be enjoyed without speaking Japanese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. Juli?n Santiago D?ez de Bonilla will be glad to know that
XEOI, 6010, R. Mil, was in the clear with Mexican music at 0723 March 6;
Conciencia apparently off, and Marfil not heard either on 5910, tho the latter
was badly trounced by overload from WWCR 5890 and 5935 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. R. Victoria, March 6 at 0713, happened to tune across 6020 as they
were doing a local ID, with chords from Beethoven`s Fifth. It was QRMed by
modulated pulses from the DentroCuban Jamming Command centered on 6030 against
Radio Mart? [see CUBA]. Yes, R. Victoria is perpetually off-frequency to the
low side, and when anyone else is on 6020.0, such as all evening during prime
time from China/Albania, Turkey, etc., there is a big het. No het now. Did not
attempt to measure it here, but Luca Botto Fiora recently put it on 6019.4
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. RRI Romanian service to Europe and thence N America on 11940, March
6 at 1417 playing ``Mamma Mia`` song in English. What has this to do with
Romanian culture? We thought it was a recent revival by some other group, but
outro mentioned ABBA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. R. Rossii, Pet/Kam, 6075, March 6 at 1350 with some weird
vocalizations. This station really has some neat music. Like R. Japan, I would
like to see a program schedule translated to English. Trouble is, this
transmitter has developed motorboating, which seems a bit worse every day.
Currently registered at 1800-1400, 100 kW at 15 degrees which is favorable for
NAm. During A-season this moves to 5920 or 5930 at 1700-1300, neither better
for us due to NAm QRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY [non]. 7325 at 0432 check March 6 found Turkish again instead of
English, Sackville relay of VOT; and with co-channel QRM. I see that BBCWS is
now also scheduled on 7325 during that hour via Cyprus and/or Rampisham, in
Arabic. That collision will be resolved in A-09, by when we hope VOT manages to
feed the right language to Sackville, as BBC stays at 0400 and Turkey/Canada
shifts to 0300 --- but why should we have to upput with it till then? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. Checking VOA via Tinian, 7575, March 6 at 1355 to find whether
there were unwanted noises on the transmission this day; sounded OK, except now
there was Spanish SSB on the hi side around 7576. And at 1356 instead of a USG
Editorial, there was an ``International Public Service Announcement`` about a
guy wanted in the Khobar Towers 1996 bombing in Saudi Arabia; a $5 million
reward is offered for anonymous info leading to his capture. Could not catch
his name, and do I find anything about this on the VOA website? Of course not!
But four names are given at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khobar_Towers_bombing
And the item mentioned wwwrewardsforjustice.net which of course will get you
nowhere unless you put in the dot after the www! Why are so many ignorant
speakers leaving this out? Have they never used the Internet themselves? They
never leave out the other dot. Why is it such a burden to include one extra
syllable when you have just said ``double-u, double-u, double-u``? This site
has a rogues` gallery, no doubt including the individual mentioned. I suppose
VOA defaults to the IPSAs when there is no new editorial to broadcast, as the
info conveyed is hardly new (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
------------------------------
Message: 6
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 15:36:25 EST
From: brian384...@aol.com
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] March 6 Logs
Message-ID: <cbf.3589b1fe.36e2e...@aol.com>
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** ETHIOPIA. 7165, Voice of Peace & Democracy, via Radio Ethiopia
transmitter, *0358-0430*, March 6, sign on with Horn of Africa music.
ID at 0359 & talk in Tigrinya. Local drums. Some Horn of Africa music.
Good signal at sign on but poor signal after 0402 due to co-channel
QRM from a presumed VOBME at 0402 & noise jammer at 0403.
// 9559.8v - but not on the air until 0420. Fair to good signal strength
but varying between 9559.44-9559.82. Mon, Wed, Fri only. (Brian
Alexander, PA)
** ETHIOPIA [non]. via Julich, Germany, 9680, Radio Oromiya
Liberation, 1732-1759*, March 6, tentative with talk in listed Oromo
language. Tentative ID. Some Afro-pop music. Weak but readable.
Fri only. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** INDONESIA. 9524.98, Voice of Indonesia, 1335-1404, March 6,
English talk about economic developments in Indonesia. Local music.
Closing English announcements at 1402 & into Malay at 1403. Fair.
Stronger than usual. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** PHILIPPINES. 9615, Radio Veritas Asia, 1130-1155*, March 6,
talk in listed Mandarin. Some inspirational music. Sign off with
English ID announcement at 1155. Fair to good. (Brian Alexander,
PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA U.S.A.
Equipment: TenTec RX-340, two 100 foot longwires
**************Need a job? Find employment help in your area.
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:16:09 +0200
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <gree...@otenet.gr>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Dabanga on 5-3-9
Message-ID: <49b1aeb9.26561.46c...@greekdx.otenet.gr>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/210
Radio Dabanga on 5-3-9
Dabanga has been heard on 5-3-9 and 0506+ as follows:
13820 S8 35334
7315 S9 43544
9830 S3 25233 but later was S9 43534
program consisted by news and reports . On 0510 with musical IS
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Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 18:33:05 -0500
From: "Dave Valko" <djva...@verizon.net>
To: <r...@earthlink.net>, <lyam...@comcast.net>, <srbjr...@yahoo.com>,
<hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, <cumbr...@cs2.ralabs.com>,
<kirk74...@yahoo.com>, "Guy Atkins" <d...@guyatkins.com>, "Nicolas
Eramo" <ner...@gmail.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Micro-DXpedition Loggings
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6 March 2009: Was planning on going up to the remote site for a
micro-DXpedition for PNGs and Asians, but conditions were horrible when I
awoke at 1000. Wasn't going to go but then caught RRI Manokwari doing
fairly well on 3987.06, so changed my mind. Conditions were still the same
at the site and I almost bugged out around 1130. But then suddenly and
dramatically, the PNGs improved around 1140. The Asians improved as well
but not nearly like the PNGs. Really squirrelly (like Hans Johnson says)
propagation conditions.
INDONESIA 3987.06 RRI Manokwari End of Rom. Pop Ballad at 1058, W anncr,
3 note piano (with echo) played 3 times, time ticks w/last longer, W anncr
w/nice site ID and into nx w/ments of Manokwari, Indonesia, and RRI. Hams
on 3987.5 causing massive QRM ruining reception. Hams were right on every
freq w/broadcasters in 80 meters (3995, 3987.05, 3912, and 3905) this
morning. And the Hams on this freq were on the entire time!! (6 March)
A UTE was covering R. East New Britain 3385, R. Milne Bay 3365 was off, and
60 meters was virtually dead at 1105 except for 5070, 5025, and 4800. (6
March)
PAPUA NEW GUINEA 3290 R. Central Lcl nx by M at 1110. (6 March)
CLANDESTINE 3912 V.O. the People Choral mx at 1122 //6600. Oddly, 3912
was better at 1231. (6 March)
MYANMAR 5770 Myanmar Defense Forces BS (tent.) Just a carrier here at
1129. Possibly a little mx very weakly at 1155. (6 March)
PAPUA NEW GUINEA/INDONESIA 3345 Definitely getting 2 stns here offset by
abt 40 hz; 3344.96 and 3345.01. Def. audio on both at 1142. 3345.01 went
off sometime between 1151-1157 leaving 3344.96 which sounded //3976.05 and
3995 at 1216. 3995 mx at 1218, but 3344.96 still had W tlking. Was still
tlking right through BoH 1230, and going past 1232. Possibly mx though at
1236, but too far gone to be sure. So apparently 3345.01 is Northern, and
3344.96 is Ternate. (6 March)
INDONESIA 3976.05 RRI Pontianak Not a hint of it at 1105, but came up
out of nowhere at 1144!!! Hams on top of it of course. (6 March)
PAPUA NEW GUINEA 3305 R. Western 1151 Song anmnt ("Oh Stella") by M.
Song started and suddenly dropped down, then back up later. 1155 nice EG
anmnts by M w/greetings to listeners and into Celine Dion "You Made Me Love
You" still going at 1159. Came back abt 2 minutes later and was playing an
instru. guitar song, then deadair at 1204*. Missed s/off anmnts if there
were indeed any. Good. (6 March)
3219.86 Just a carrier here at 1150. May be nothing. (6 March)
INDONESIA 3995.03 RRI Kendari Def. W w/Jakarta nx in IN at 1206
//3976.05. (6 March)
INDONESIA 9524.96 V.O. Indonesia Glad to see this one back on here w/M
in nx in IN after 1200. V.O. Indonesia promo w/web URL at 1226. Strong.
(6 March)
73 Dave
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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 16:57:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 6-7, 2009
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** CUBA [non]. Yes, R. Rep?blica is still on 9810, tho I could not hear it 23
hours earlier; at 2302 March 6, Spanish programming at roughly equal level to
the DentroCuban Jamming Command, but losing out to it as time went on; presumed
via Sackville. At 0028 UT March 7 recheck, nothing but jamming audible; let`s
hope it`s holding up better in the target, which is close to 45 degrees offbeam
from here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE [and non]. On March 6, not only was VOG no longer to be heard mixing
with Zambia on 9420 before 2200, and not audible either after that, but it did
not come back on after 2300, as it had the past few days --- nothing there at
2305 and 2328 chex.
Meanwhile, John Babbis heard from Demetri Vafeas at ERT that one of the Avlis
transmitters has been ``severely damaged``, so only two frequencies can be on
the air at once (the Makedonias station unaffected ? does that mean VOG itself
gets only ONE frequency at a time now, or two?).
And so the schedule has had to be rearranged. However, he said that 9420 is
replacing other frequencies, and on the air at all times except 2000-2300, so
something else must account for it missing after 2300 too. Or it could be on
but not propagating here as well, since 9420 is now supposed to be replacing
12105, which was not aimed at NAm unlike 9420 which was 323 degrees. O, there
it is at 0028 recheck UT March 7, Greek music, but weaker than usual.
Another beneficiary of this unfortunate situation is that 9420 replaces 15650
at 1500, so Miraya FM via Slovakia should now be in the clear, IRRS having
concluded that the collision did not matter anyway in their target Sudan. Since
it originated from within Sudan, I wonder if Miraya has been affected or even
expelled by the latest developments. Is it still there at 1500-1800 on 15650?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. RNZI, 17675, UT March 6 at 2206, a YL discoursing in
considerable graphic detail for about ten minutes on exactly how males should
pee for best results; some helpful tips there I will try to apply. This was the
Saturday Morning with Kim Hill show from National Radio. However, this segment
at 11:05 am local is missing from the rundown! And no audio available (yet?).
There was the usual considerable inescapable adjacent QRM from the Chilean
Christians on 17680, a frequency they have unfortunately not abandoned. In the
wide-open spaces of 16m at solar min, there is NO excuse for operating 5 kHz
away from another strong signal; or even, any signal. Yes, I know, neither
station is targeting North America, so who cares about us? But 17670, for one
example, is entirely vacant during the whole time RNZI is on 17675, 2145-0500.
A minor 5 kHz shift by RNZI would do no harm to the Pacificans, and be of
enormous benefit to listeners in the Americas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U K [non]. Kent D. Murphy, WV, reminds us by P-mail that BBCWS in English
runs 6155 past its scheduled closing at 2300*. Yes, indeed, as I was reading
his March 2 letter on March 6, I found a fair signal continuing past 2300,
until cut off abruptly in mid-World Today at 2314:30* This is via Meyerton,
South Africa, where I assume they have simply set the automation to give BBC a
bonus quarter-hour. Fortunately, Spain is no longer on 6155 for its French hour
at 2300, but 5970 to Europe and on weekends only, per EiBi (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Unlike the day before, KVOH much weaker on 17775 and no spurs audible
March 6 at 2156 check; fundamental also somewhat distorted with hymn. 2200
English and Spanish legal IDs, and remained on air, 2202 starting show
``Mujeres de Restauraci?n``, signal weakening noticeably. So maybe yesterday it
outfaded completely by 2230 rather than offsigned, having been assisted by
sporadic E which can go from super-strong to zilch in a short time (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 75, Issue 7
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