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Today's Topics:
1. KBC (Manuel M?ndez)
2. INDIA RADIO FORUM 2009 (Jaisakthivel)
3. Very Important update (Mike)
4. Radio Damascus : better modulation - maintenance operations -
more audio recordings (kris)
5. 4955 (Ruud Vos)
6. Logs: 6600 Voice of The People, audio. (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO)
7. 9827 Voz de Am?rica en franc?s. (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO)
8. 9840 Radio Rep?blica, ?nueva frec? (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO)
9. City selling NOAA weather radios (Yimber Gaviria)
10. DXCPR - MW/SW brasilian radio stations update - Version
20090425.01 (Marcelo Bedene)
11. Dxers Unlimited, 25 y 16 de abril, por Arnaldo Coro
(JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO)
12. Re: Antarctica (Don Jensen)
13. on the air now (Robert Wilkner)
14. DX Listening Digest 9-036; WOR 1457 (Glenn Hauser)
15. RUSIA 9665 Voz de Rusia, espa?ol. Nuevo servicio.
(JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:22:10 +0200
From: Manuel M?ndez <manuelmend...@gmail.com>
To: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
Subject: [HCDX] KBC
Message-ID: <xmj.ya$crqpj.ypebvscvvp5x4f...@gmail.com>
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:38:09 +0530 (IST)
From: Jaisakthivel <ardicdxc...@yahoo.co.in>
To: ardic <ardicdxc...@yahoo.co.in>
Subject: [HCDX] INDIA RADIO FORUM 2009
Message-ID: <122057.42384...@web95410.mail.in2.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
INDIA RADIO FORUM 2009
Mumbai, 27th May
Taj Land's End Hotel, Mumbai, India
EXCELLENCE IN RADIO AWARDS
Awards Ceremony will be on
27th May after the Forum
Register for the forum,
CONTACT THEM ON
On Conference:
Contact Janet Alcantara - Conference Director
+65 6736 1472 or ja...@pim-asia.com
On Sponsorship & Branding:
Contact Rajika Mittra - Special Project Director
+91 98 3611 2078 or raji...@pim-asia.com
(Jaisakthival, Chennai, India)
Cricket on your mind? Visit the ultimate cricket website. Enter
http://beta.cricket.yahoo.com
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:52:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mike <mikesn...@yahoo.com>
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] Very Important update
Message-ID: <575758.49216...@web53111.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Dear all
Thanks to those of you who have signed up to our petition.
Please be aware that it is the stated aim of the web master at number 10 to
remove any signatory who adds anything more than a simple first and second name.
Please do not add call signs or comment as it may very well be removed.
I have protested this but in the meantime there is nothing I can do about it.
Please pass this on to other radio groups.
Regards
Mike
www.ukqrm.org
Save world band radio from PLT
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/SaveShortwave2/
Have your say today and don't let those that would block
this freedom win!
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:18:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: kris <kris251...@yahoo.com>
To: Kris Janssen <kris251...@yahoo.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Damascus : better modulation - maintenance
operations - more audio recordings
Message-ID: <961274.15481...@web50409.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Subject :
(a) better modulation levels of Radio Damascus' shortwave transmitters planned
by the engineering department
(b) short break in shortwave for maintenance operations at Radio Damascus'
shortwave transmitters
(c) audio recordings for all language sections of Radio Damascus online
Dear Radio Friends
The audio recording of the daily program of Radio Damascus is now online for
all language sections (English, German, French, Spanish, Turkish, Russian and
Hebrew).
Before only the English and German programs were available but since today the
other language sections followed.
You can find all the recordings by going directly here :
http://www.rtv.gov.sy/index.php?m=541
The German program can also be downloaded on the Radio700.info platform on this
location :
http://www.radio700.info/index.php?country=start
(choose the country "Syrien" from the drop down menu on the left side)
And the Spanish section has an alternative download site here :
http://aquidamasco.podomatic.com
And I have some other great news. I received today an email from my dear
friends at Radio Damascus that the engineer in charge of the shortwave
transmitters
is aware of the terrible modulation problem and will take measures to raise the
modulation level with priority.
My friends at Radio Damascus also informed me that starting April 28th, there
will be a short break in the shortwave transmissions from Damascus to perform
some maintenance work on the transmitters (maybe this is related to the
modulation operations). They will try to keep the interruption of the shortwave
transmissions
as short as possible, so it should only take a short while!
If the shortwave transmitters are down, you can still listen to Radio Damascus
through the audio recordings on the internet or in digital audio quality on the
different satellite feeds :
Hot Bird at 13.0?E : 12380 Mhz
Nilesat at 7.0?W : 11823 Mhz
Badr / Arabsat at 26.0?E : 12054 Mhz
Here once again the full schedule of Radio Damascus :
1600-1700 UTC/GMT Turkish daily 9.330 Khz, 12.085 Khz and satellite
1700-1800 UTC/GMT Russian daily 9.330 Khz, 12.085 Khz and satellite
1800-1900 UTC/GMT German daily 9.330 Khz, 12.085 Khz and satellite
1900-2000 UTC/GMT French daily 9.330 Khz, 12.085 Khz and satellite
2000-2100 UTC/GMT English daily on satellite
2100-2200 UTC/GMT English daily 9.330 Khz, 12.085 Khz and satellite
2200-2300 UTC/GMT Spanish daily 9.330 Khz, 12.085 Khz and satellite
783 Khz Mediumwave :
1600 - 1830 UTC/GMT Hebrew
1830 - 1900 UTC/GMT Russian
The Radio Damascus staff does highly value when you write to them with your
commentaries about the programs or reception reports about the transmissions
and you will get in return a nice postcard to confirm the reception (QSL-card)
and a program schedule.
Their address is :
Radio Damascus
P.O. Box 4702
Damascus
Syrian Arab Republic
http://www.radio-damascus.net
email : radiodamascusengl...@yahoo.com
http://www.radio-damascus-listeners-club.tk or
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/radio_damascus
http://www.rtv.gov.sy (RTV Arabic Website)
http://www.rtv.gov.sy/index.php?m=541 (audio recordings)
http://www.radio700.info/index.php?country=start (alternative download site for
the German program)
http://aquidamasco.podomatic.com (alternative download site for the Spanish
program)
http://www.syriaonline.sy (RTV English Website)
greetings
Kris
Belgium
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:36:16 +0200
From: "Ruud Vos" <sh...@wanadoo.nl>
To: <Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: [HCDX] 4955
Message-ID: <004e01c9c76f$6e86e000$6402a...@uw4b58d8528225>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hello friends,
This weekend I heard on 4955 Khz a brazilian station,
no station Id alas enough.
I hope one of our brazilian friends on the list can help?
Between 0100 - 0130 I heard a religious programme,
from 0130 till 0150 about brazilian rocksongs, suddenly
signing off at 0150 without announchment.
TNX for the help!
73!
Ruud Vos
Utrecht
Holland
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:14:59 +0000 (GMT)
From: JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO <jmromero782...@yahoo.es>
To: undisclosed recipients: ;
Subject: [HCDX] Logs: 6600 Voice of The People, audio.
Message-ID: <4159.80382...@web25705.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Saludos cordiales.
Clandestinas
ARMENIA 7530 Radio Free North Korea, Yerevan-Gavar, 19:03-19:06, escuchada el
26 de abril en coreano a locutora con comentarios, SINPO 34443
COREA 6600 Voice of The People, Kyonggi-do, 20:50-20:55, escuchada el 27 de
abril en coreano, locutora con comentarios y segmento m?sica de opera, SINPO
22322
Audio: http://jmromero782004.podomatic.com/
Pirata
6220 Mystery Radio, 18:48-18:58, escuchada el 26 de abril con emisi?n de m?sica
disco dance de los a?os 70 y 80, ?Bony M?, tema pop mel?dico, cu?a de ID, SINPO
34443
6870 Playback Int., 19:08-19:15, escuchada el 26 de abril con emisi?n musical,
cu?a de ID, m?sica de los a?os 50 y 60, SINPO 45444
Jos? Miguel Romero
Burjasot (Valencia)
Espa?a
Sangean ATS 909
Antena Radio Master A-108
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:27:43 +0000 (GMT)
From: JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO <jmromero782...@yahoo.es>
To: undisclosed recipients: ;
Subject: [HCDX] 9827 Voz de Am?rica en franc?s.
Message-ID: <904306.2046...@web25708.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Saludos cordiales.
SAO TOM? 9827 Voz de Am?rica, Pinheira, 21:15-21:25, escuchada el 27 de abril
en franc?s a locutor en conversaci?n con invitado, noticias de Dakar, locutora
con ID, locutora anunciando E-mail y direcci?n web, m?sica de sinton?a, SINPO
45444
Jos? Miguel Romero
Burjasot (Valencia)
Espa?a
Sangean ATS 909
Antena Radio Master A-108
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:45:06 +0000 (GMT)
From: JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO <jmromero782...@yahoo.es>
To: undisclosed recipients: ;
Subject: [HCDX] 9840 Radio Rep?blica, ?nueva frec?
Message-ID: <538930.35993...@web25701.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Saludos cordiales.
9840 Radio Rep?blica, 21:28-21:41, escuchada el 27 de abril en espa?ol a
locutora en conversaci?n con invitado, referencias a Cuba, cu?a de iD, cu?a del
programa ?Barrio Adentro?, SINPO 44444
Frecuencia no listada en Eibi ni en Aoki, ?nuevo servicio?, ?desde donde
transmite?.
Jos? Miguel Romero
Burjasot (Valencia)
Espa?a
Sangean ATS 909
Antena Radio Master A-108
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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:04:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Yimber Gaviria <dxrep...@yahoo.com>
To: dxe...@gmail.com
Subject: [HCDX] City selling NOAA weather radios
Message-ID: <519712.68726...@web32404.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
The City of Verona
has partnered with Dane County Emergency Management in obtaining 250
NOAA Weather Alert Radios for citizens to take advantage of the
National Weather Service's 24-hour weather broadcast system.
NOAA Weather Radio in Madison - available online at www.crh.noaa.gov/mkx/
nwr.php
- is broadcast on a frequency of 162.55 MHz. The National Weather
Service broadcasts continuous weather information 24 hours per day.
When conditions warrant, the Weather Service can interrupt programming
to broadcast special weather statements and official severe weather
"Watches" and "Warnings."
The radios, available to Verona
residents, are $25 each, including sales tax, and can be purchased at
the Verona City Center, 111 Lincoln St., the Verona Public Library, 500
Silent St. or the Verona Senior Center, 108 Paoli St.
The city
encourages the use of Weather Alert Radios to receive warning
information directly from the National Weather Service. It is the most
timely, most reliable, and most credible source of weather warning
information available.
The radios are small and works a bit
like a pager. Normally muted and quiet, they can be activated by a
special code transmitted by the National Weather Service. Once
activated, most weather radios will sound an alerting tone to get your
attention and even wake you up if you are sleeping. You will then
receive a message describing the situation, directly from the source of
the warning.
By special arrangement, NOAA Weather Radio in
Dane County also broadcasts warnings for all types of hazards, both
natural (such as severe weather) and man-made (such as an evacuation
resulting from a toxic chemical release), making the weather radio a
true, all-hazards warning device.
A new Specific Area Message
Encoding or "SAME" technology allows the radios to be programmed to
receive and display alerts and warnings that apply only to Dane County.
And most weather radios are equipped with battery backup, enabling you
to receive warning information even if the power is out.
Individuals
with hearing impairment can also get these warnings by connecting a
weather radio to other types of attention-getting devices such as
strobe lights, pagers, bed-shakers, personal computers and text
printers.
The radios will be available until May 29 or all units are sold, whichever
occurs first.
Source: The Verona Press
http://www.veronapress.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=2&ArticleID=1454&TM=25504.42
via Yimber Gaviria,
http://yimber-gaviria.blogspot.com
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Message: 10
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:21:17 -0300
From: "Marcelo Bedene" <marcelo.bed...@onda.com.br>
To: "HCDX" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: [HCDX] DXCPR - MW/SW brasilian radio stations update -
Version 20090425.01
Message-ID: <826fc4a1df244f8792e81a9f8c28b...@home>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
DATABASE ON-LINE: http://www.dxclube.com.br/
DX CLUBE DO PARAN?
Atualiza??o da lista de emissoras brasileiras OM/OT/OC - Vers?o 20090425.01
MW/SW brasilian radio stations update - Version 20090425.01
Nova denomina??o:
New denomination:
780kHz - Princesa AM, Porto Alegre-RS ( ExPampa)
1330kHz - Eldorado, Ribeir?o Preto (Ex-Cultura)
Freq??ncia alterada para:
Frequency changed to:
640kHz - Educadora, Porteirinha-MG (Ex-620kHz)
1500kHz - Liberdade AM, Cangu?u-RS (Ex-1490kHz)
1600kHz - Vox AM 1600, Muritiba-BA ( Ex-1580kHz)
Corre??o do nome da emissora:
Correction name station:
1240kHz - Pirapora AM, Pirapora-MG
1350kHz - Liberal Jaguaribana, Morada Nova-CE
1470kHz - Jornal AM 1470, Indaiatuba-SP
1520kHz - Continental (Grande Rio), Rio de Janeiro-RJ
1560kHz - Grande Rio, Itagua?-RJ
1600kHz - Vox AM 1600, Muritiba-BA
Atualizada as Redes:
Updated radio networks:
IURD - Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus
IPDA - Igreja Pentecostal Deus ? Amor
MIL - Rede Mil?cia Sat
EVANG - Rede Evangelizar de r?dio
RCR - Rede Cat?lica de R?dio
ELDO - Rede Eldorado de R?dio
CAN - Rede Can??o Nova
Web link corrigido:
Web link changed:
590kHz - Difusora Regional, Cruzeiro do Oeste-PR
630kHz - Cacique, Lagoa Vermelha-RS
810kHz - Educadora, Ub?-MG
810kHz - Can??o Nova, S?o Jos? do Rio Preto-SP
930kHz - RBN (Boas Novas), Manaus-AM
1020kHz - Independente AM, Aquidauana-MS
1080kHz - Clube, Ponta Grossa-PR
1130kHz - Super Marajoara, Belem-PA
1160kHz - Cacique AM, Sorocaba-SP
1200kHz - Clube AM, Fortaleza-CE
1210kHz - Jornal, Garanhus-CE
1210kHz - Vanguarda, Sorocaba-SP
1240kHz - Pirapora AM, Pirapora-MG
1240kHz - Arapongas AM, Arapongas-PR
1260kHz - Gazeta, Macei?-AL
1280kHz - Tupi AM, Rio de Janeiro-RJ
1290kHz - Metr?pole AM, Salvador-BA
1320kHz - Vit?ria AM, Videira-SC
1340KhZ - S?o Luis, S?o Luis-MA
1360kHz - Iracema, Ipu-CE
1370kHz - Gazeta AM, Alegrete-RS
1520kHz - Torre Forte, Birutama-SP
1530kHz - Porto Feliz, Monda?-SC
1550kHz - Clube, Itarar?-SP
1560kHz - Grande Rio, Itagua?-RJ
Novos links na WEB:
News web links:
560kHz - Costa do Sol, Araruama-RJ
610kHz - Bandeirantes, Catanduva-SP
620kHz - Municipal, Tenente Portela-RS
650kHz - Terra, Santos-SP
850kHz - Iracema, Juazeiro do Norte-CE
1130kHz - Castro, Castro-PR
1160kHz - Difusora, Laguna-SC
1250kHz - Difusora, Guarapuava-PR
1270kHz - Clube AM, Natal-RN
1270kHz - Cidade, Sum?-PB
1310kHz - Integra??o AM, Restinga Seca-RS
1330kHz - Jaguariaiva, Jaguariaiva-PR
1330kHz - Diplomata AM, S?o Marcos-RS
1340kHz - Pitaguary, Maracana?-CE
1350kHz - Clube AM, Campina Grande-PB
1350KhZ - Liberal Jaguaribana, Morada Nova-CE
1370kHz - Capital do Agreste (RCA), Itabaiana-SE
1380kHz - Parna?ba AM, Rio Parna?ba-MG
1470kHz - Jornal AM 1470, Indaiatuba-SP
1470kHz - Guananc?s AM, Itapag?-CE
1520kHz - Internacional, Quedas do Igua?u-PR
1580kHz - Laguna, Jardim-MS
Colabore enviando as suas informa??es para: marc...@bedene.com.br
Help us sending your informations to: marc...@bedene.com.br
73
EQUIPE DO DX CLUBE DO PARAN?
CURITIBA-PR-BRASIL
www.dxclube.com.br
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Message: 11
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:54:10 +0000 (GMT)
From: JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO <jmromero782...@yahoo.es>
To: undisclosed recipients: ;
Subject: [HCDX] Dxers Unlimited, 25 y 16 de abril, por Arnaldo Coro
Message-ID: <151416.56180...@web25704.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Dxers
Unlimited
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Dxers
Unlimited weekend edition 25-26 April 2009
Radio Havana Cuba
Dxers Unlimited
Dxers Unlimited's weekend edition for 25-26 April 2009
By Arnie Coro
radio amateur CO2KK
Hi
amigos radioaficionados around the world... big hello to all three
million PLUS of you nice people that like me enjoy this wonderful hobby
a lot !
Welcome to the weekend edition of your favorite radio
hobby program, coming to you via short wave and also from 05 to 07 UTC
as part of our streaming audio from www.radiohc.cu.
Here is
now our first news item... one lonely sunspot, , yes, a small lonely
short living sunspot, that according to scientists belonged to solar
cycle 24 broke the 25 days in a row of ZERO sunspots, but it vanished
after just a very short existence.
Some heliophysicists are optimistic after seeing that minute sunspot,
while others are not ...
In the meantime, we continue to watch , and the extended tail end of
cycle 23 continues to dominate solar inactivity.
Item
two: Sporadic E is here, and it came a bit earlier than usual...
reports from many dyed in the wool 10 meters band operators confirm E
skip openings at such odd hours as 10 or 11 pM local time.
I
also realized that a sporadic E layer was overhead of my station while
working on 40 meters and having two way contacts with stations located
just 50 to 200 miles away in the evening, something that can only
happen if there is a sporadic E cloud right overhead.
Item
three: Have you ever heard of Class E radio frequency amplifiers ?. If
not, it is about time to do an Internet search engine exploration and
find out about that type of super high efficiency amplifiers, that will
boost your signal tremendously while using minimum energy from the
power supply.
But NO, those Class E amplifiers are not LINEAR,
so they can only amplify a constant carrier... nevertheless they are an
excellent choice for operating CW under battery power.
Item
four: The StingRay 65 antenna for 2 meter band handie talkies will
boost both your transmission and reception at very low cost, as you can
homebrew it from half of a TV rabbit's ears antenna and the connector
used by your HT , plus a bit of epoxy resin and the usual dose of ham
radio ingenuity !.
Si amigos, there are more than 84 ways of
enjoying this wonderful hobby, and here at Dxers Unlimited you will
always be learning something new...be it how to build and install your
own backyard radio telescope to pick up Jupiter's radio signals ,or
assembling a simple one diode, plus one transistor and one integrated
circuit receiver that will be featured here today in our technical
topics section.
Keep listening to Radio Havana Cuba, as Dxers Unlimited continues in
just a few seconds...
.............
Si
amigos, you are listening to the weekend edition of your favorite radio
hobby program, Dxers Unlimited with yours truly Arnie Coro... and here
is as promised earlier our technical topics section.... The One Plus
One Plus One short wave receiver... a unique very simple project that
can be built during a few hours of your spare time...
I will start by describing this direct conversion receiver .
The
name comes from the fact that it uses one signal diode, one transistor
and one integrated circuit. So that's why I have named it the One Plus
One Plus One short wave radio.
This receiver does need an external antenna .
The
input circuit is formed by a simple resistive attenuator, and a dual
tuned bandpass input circuit , to which a signal diode is connected.
The signal diode acts as an ultra simple product detector, when it is
also fed with radio frequency energy coming from the one transistor
local oscillator.
At the output of the mixer we have audio
from the station that we want to pick up, and it is fed to the
integrated circuit audio frequency amplifier. This is a barebones
receiver by all engineering standards, but it is really amazing how
nicely it works when connected to an external antenna !
My
prototype's signal mixer product detector diode was changed several
times, in order to determine which type provided the best performance,
and I must say that the 1N914 and IN4148 series proved to be excellent,
with other types of diodes also working OK.
I even tested a
super high performance microwave diode, and at the other end, a type
1N34A that was built more than 55 years ago !
The most critical
circuit of this One Plus One Plus One short wave receiver is the local
oscillator, because it must be very stable in order for to receiver to
work properly.
As a matter of fact, one of the tests that worked very well was to use
a quartz crystal to control the oscillator's frequency.
I
happened to have an exactly 6 megaHertz frequency crystal, and using it
the One Plus One Plus One , I am able to receive our own Radio Havana
Cuba's transmitter that operates on that frequency.
The
frequency of the quartz crystal must be set exactly to six dot zero ,
zero, zero, zero, in order to be able to receive in the so called
exalted carrier mode , that requires an ultra exact local oscillator
frequency.
The experiment proved to be very interesting, as our
transmitter's operating frequency is kept within plus or minus two to
three cycles per second, because we use a very sophisticated frequency
synthetizer.
During the local morning hours here in Havana
when we use the 6000 kiloHertz frequency to broadcast the Despertar con
Cuba program in Spanish, I was able to keep the One Plus One Plus One
fully synchronized with the transmitter so the audio coming out of the
loudspeaker was of excellent quality.
Replacing the crystal
controlled oscillator with a field effect transistor variable local
oscillator , it was possible to pick many stations on the 40 meters
amateur band, using CW and single side band voice modes, and I could
also hear the digital modes, easily recognized around 7070 kiloHertz.
When
one of the local radio amateur visited my workshop recently and saw the
breadboard version of the One Plus One Plus One, he asked how it could
be further improved, and that started a long analysis about how direct
conversion receivers can be optimized, that lasted more than two hours.
At the end of the conversation he left with one of my hombrew
double balanced mixers, a pair of field effect transistors a low noise
audio transistor and a type LM380 integrated circuit audio amplifier,
that he soon interconnected producing a very nice performing direct
conversion receiver, that as expected is much more complex than the
ultra simple One Plus One Plus One radio from which he picked up the
design concept.
You can learn more about the One Plus One Plus
One direct conversion short wave receiver, by sending an e-mail to
info...@enet.cu, with the request for the One Plus One Plus One direct
conversion receiver files ...
..........
Si amigos, yes my
friends, oui mes amis... the spring and summer Sporadic E season seems
to be already in progress, and 10 meter band operators where the first
one to find out about the presence of those elusive patches of very
high ionization that move fast at altitudes of between one hundred and
one hundred and fifty kilometers above the Earth.
One way of
knowing that a sporadic E propagation event is in progress is by
monitoring the segment of the ten meters amateur band that is used by
beacon stations, that transmit automatic Morse Code identification of
their callsigns and locations.
Those of you that own amateur
transceivers with a scanning function, can simply set the low end of
the scan fro 28.1 and the high end to 28. 5, so as to maximize the
probability of finding activity of the band, not only from the beacons,
but also from hams that operate digital and single side band voice
modes from 28.1 to 28.5 .
When the 10 meters band is open by
means of the sporadic E skip , the distance that can be reached is
shorter than when the band opens via the much higher altitude F2 layer
, but anyway, it is certainly nice to hear the band open for DX !
Now
our next item, also related to the already in progress E skip signal,
this time it has to do with TV and FM broadcast band DX... TV DX from
stations located in the United States of America will change totally
when the analog blackout takes over, and only digital TV signals will
be on the air from the USA. TV Dxers that already are learning about
digital TV from far away locations , have told me that the digital
signals are not as enjoyable to watch because of the very nature of the
transmission mode.
The digital TV signals are seen OK maybe for
a while, then the picture freezes up, then it just vanishes, and there
is no intermediate condition... in other words, it is quite different
from analog signals that slowly fade in and out, without those on and
off switching that is present with the digital TV DX.
FM
broadcast band Dxers will continue to enjoy the analog stereo the way
it is, but in the future a new FM band broadcast standard may replace
it, something that like in the case of digital TV will require totally
different new receivers.
.......................
ASK
ARNIE, is now tied up with the HF propagation update and solar activity
report as the number one most popular section of the program...
according to the e-mail messages sent to inforhc at enet dot cu, or VIA
AIR MAIL to Arnie Coro, Radio Havana Cuba .
Here is ASK ARNIE
today, with a question sent by listener Vladia from Russia. Vladia
picks up our 6000 kiloHertz English language program when we are
broadcasting to North America,the signal travels over the North Pole
and reaches Vladia's home QTH from 05 to 07 UTC !!!
Vladia
wants to know why our signals on that band are stronger during certain
part of the year , and are much more difficult to pick up at another
times.
She refers that the periods around the spring and autumn
equinoctial seasons, when signals are much better than during the
summer season. She also explains that during the winter season, signals
of our 6000 kiloHertz frequency can be picked up much earlier in the
evening her local time, but the signals are not as strong as during the
spring and autumn seasons.
The answer to your question amiga
Vladia, is that the ionosphere goes through several seasonal changes
that are especially seen on very long range propagation of radio
signals.
And I must add that running 250 kiloWatts to an almost
20 decibels gain antenna, does help to enhance the reception at very
long distances.
And now amigos, here is our Dxer Unlimited's HF
plus low band VHF propagation update and forecast, that also includes a
solar activity report to help you plan your short wave listening and
amateur radio activities... Solar activity once again back to extremely
low levels, after the very short life of the high latitude sunspot of
cycle's 24 magnetic polarity. The E skip season is now picking up, and
that may lead to some nice short skip contacts on 20 meters, plus
longer range QSO's on the 10 and 6 meter bands. Expect a fast drop in
the maximum useable frequency about two hours after sunset your local
time... with the later arriving signals coming from the West and
Northwest of your location. Send your signal reports and comments about
the program
to info...@enet.cu or VIA AIR MAIL to Arnie Coro, Radio Havana Cuba,
Havana Cuba
Posted by
Arnaldo Coro
at
9:49 PM
Labels:
Dxers Unlimited 25-26 April
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Message: 12
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:57:43 -0500
From: "Don Jensen" <dnjkeno...@wi.rr.com>
To: <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Antarctica
Message-ID: <001801c9c687$bc6d3cd0$0201a...@jensen>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
reply-type=original
Yes, there is no such place as "San Gabriel" in the Argentine sector of
Antarctica
The location is Base Esperanza, the largest of several Argentine Army bases
on the Antarctic Peninsula (others include Base San Martin, Base Gen.
Belgrano, etc.) I think, perhaps,
the Archangel Gabriel is a patron saint of the Argentine military. Because
the base -- albeit small and barren -- is a stopping off point for various
Antarctic cruise ships, and their passengers are welcome ashore, Esperanza
is an odd mixture of scientific work and tourism.
It has a permanent population of only about 55. There is a school for the
22 children among them. Because there are quite a number of visitors,
there are lots of great photos on line including great panorama views that
one can both pan and zoom to get great detail! One also can find a map of
the various buildings. Using it for comparison with the panoramic photos on
other sites, (gigapan.org and others) one easily can see, close up, the
exterior of RN Arcangel San Gabriel, and its antenna tower, some distance
away from the "station" on a rocky bit of high ground. It is quite
interesting.
--don
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Message: 13
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:34:02 -0400
From: Robert Wilkner <r...@earthlink.net>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [HCDX] on the air now
Message-ID: <49f640ea.5070...@earthlink.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
2310 to 2330 both of the following have been logged in several location
in Florida:
4834.93 Bolivia, R. Virgen de Remedios, Tupiza.
4835.42 Peru Radio Mara?on, Jaen
73s
Bob
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Message: 14
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:43:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] DX Listening Digest 9-036; WOR 1457
Message-ID: <472356.22522...@web51102.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
DX Listening Digest 9-036 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/dxld9036.txt
CONTENTS:
WOR 1457 / ALBANIA +non / ANTARCTICA / ARGENTINA / AUSTRALIA CVC / AUSTRALIA
+non RA / AUSTRALIA ABC / AUSTRALIA VL8 / BAHRAIN / BANGLADESH / BELARUS /
BIAFRA non / BOLIVIA +non / BRAZIL +non / BULGARIA / CANADA CFRX / CANADA
Calgary 700 / CANADA CRTC / CANADA CJNL/CHNL / CANADA CKDH / CHAD / CHECHNYA
non / CHINA +non / COLOMBIA / CROATIA / CUBA +non / CYPRUS / CZECHIA / DJIBOUTI
/ ECUADOR DRM / EGYPT / EQUATORIAL GUINEA / ERITREA +non / ETHIOPIA +non /
EUROPE Pirates / FALKLAND ISLANDS / FRANCE non / GABON / GEORGIA / GERMANY +non
/ GREECE / GUIANA FRENCH DRM / GUINEA / HONDURAS / ICELAND / INDIA / INDONESIA
/ INTERNATIONAL INTERNET Global Voice/ACB/WOR / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM Jupiter /
IRAN +non / ISRAEL / KOREA NORTH +non / KURDISTAN non / LAOS / LIBERIA /
LITHUANIA / MADAGASCAR / MALAYSIA / MALI / NETHERLANDS +non / NEWFOUNDLAND /
NEW ZEALAND / NIGERIA / NORTH AMERICA Pirates / NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS +non /
OKLAHOMA Radio Oklahoma / OKLAHOMA KOSN+ /
OKLAHOMA KCSC/KHEV+ / OKLAHOMA KGWA/KOFM/KCRC/KXLS/KNID+ / PAKISTAN / PAPUA
NEW GUINEA +non / PERU +non / PHILIPPINES / POLAND +non / ROMANIA / RUSSIA +non
/ RWANDA +non / SAIPAN DRM / SAO TOME / SAUDI ARABIA / SERBIA +non A09 /
SEYCHELLES non / SLOVAKIA / SOLOMON ISLANDS / SOUTH AFRICA / SPAIN +non / SRI
LANKA / SUDAN +non / SYRIA / TAIWAN non / THAILAND +non / TIBET +non / TURKEY
+non / UGANDA / UKRAINE / UAE / UK +non BBCWS+ / UK BBCR4 / USA +non BBG/VOA /
USA +non IBB/VOA / USA WEWN / USA WWCR/WOR / USA WNYW/KUSW/KSL+ / USA +non WYFR
/ USA non CVC / USA WOAI / USA WARM / USA WRNI / USA +non WJR/KKZN+ / USA TIS /
USA WDCN / USA WFSM/KLRZ / USA KERA/KMPX/KDTN/KXAS/KDFI/KXTX/KXTA+ / USA
WCHU/WICD / USA WYBE / USA Al Manar / USA FCC/ham address / VATICAN / VENEZUELA
+non / VIETNAM non / WESTERN SAHARA non / ZAMBIA +non / ZANZIBAR / ZIMBABWE non
/ UNIDENTIFIED 2410 / UNIDENTIFIED 6160 / UNIDENTIFIED non 6937 / UNIDENTIFIED
9233 / UNIDENTIFIED 9347 /
UNIDENTIFIED 11665 / UNIDENTIFIED 11885 / UNIDENTIFIED 17850 / PUBLICATIONS /
RADIO PHILATELY / LANGUAGE LESSONS / CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES / DIGITAL
BROADCASTING / POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION /
TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING
For restrixions and searchable 2009 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
SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1457, April 22-29
Wed 0500 WRMI 9955
Wed 1530 WRMI 9955
Wed 1900 WBCQ 7415
Thu 0530 WRMI 9955
Thu 1900 WBCQ 7415
Fri 0000 WBCQ 5110-CUSB Area 51
Fri 0100 WRMI 9955
Fri 1130 WRMI 9955
Fri 1900 WBCQ 7415
Fri 2030 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 7290 [not 1930]
Fri 2030 WWCR1 15825 [or 2029]
Sat 0800 WRMI 9955
Sat 0800 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 9510 [except first Sat]
Sat 1630 WWCR3 12160
Sun 0230 WWCR3 5070
Sun 0630 WWCR1 3215
Sun 0800 WRMI 9955
Sun 1515 WRMI 9955
Mon 0500 WRMI 9955
Mon 2200 WBCQ 7415
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955
Tue 1530 WRMI 9955
Tue 1900 WBCQ 7415
Wed 0500 WRMI 9955 [or new 1458 starting here?]
Wed 1530 WRMI 9955
Wed 1900 WBCQ 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: 15
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:24:29 +0000 (GMT)
From: JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO <jmromero782...@yahoo.es>
To: undisclosed recipients: ;
Subject: [HCDX] RUSIA 9665 Voz de Rusia, espa?ol. Nuevo servicio.
Message-ID: <883205.12647...@web25706.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Saludos cordiales.
RUSIA 9665 Voz de Rusia, 04:45.05:00, escuchada el 28 de abril en espa?ol a
locutor con bolet?n de noticias, locutora leyendo poema, despedida, sinton?a,
emisi?n en paralelo por 9880, sin emisi?n en 9735 ni en 9945, SINPO 44444.
Jos? Miguel Romero
Burjasot (Valencia)
Espa?a
Sangean ATS 909
Antena Radio Master A-108
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 76, Issue 29
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