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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs January 4-5, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
2. logs (L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 11:06:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
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Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 4-5, 2010
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** ANGUILLA [and non]. 11775 missing Jan 5 at 1411, helping NHKWNRJ English on
11780 via Rampisham to be clearly heard, with barely a sign of Bras?lia
co-channel either. DGS was poorly audible on 13845 WWCR at 1517, again instead
of Brother Scare.
The Africans must be rejoicing over the absence of Anguilla. Recheck 1758, VOA
Portuguese in the clear on 11775, which is S?o Tom?, 100 kW, 138 degrees toward
Mo?ambique at 17-18, about to switch to Botswana 1800-1830, 100 kW, 350
degrees, per HFCC.
Strange: there are no Portuguese-speaking areas at that angle from Botswana;
can`t be for Angola or Mo?ambique, but maybe Cabo Verde, Guin?-Bissau? However,
Aoki shows the angle as 10 degrees, even further from former Portuguese
colonies, and extended M-F only for that semi-hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Bands above 12 MHz are usually dead here in the nightmiddle, but Jan
5 at 0617 was hearing CRI English on 13645, about two sex behind Sackville
6115; fair signal. A strange opening as 13645 is via Xi`an at 190 degrees,
06-08.
Also had Mandarin at 0618 on 13750, which is CRI via Kunming at 177 degrees,
also 06-08.
I ascended to 15 MHz band, kept hunting for signals, and at 0619 on 15570 found
something Chinese-sounding non //. That`s listed in Aoki as CNR11, i.e. the
Tibetan service at 01-08, 100 kW, 255 degrees from Baoji-Sifangshan site #724,
and BTW including English at 0530-0600; but closing early on Wednesdays for the
0600 [2 pm local] siesta. Am I really hearing Mandarin-language segments within
nominally Tibetan-language services?
All of the above are legitimate broadcasts, not jammers! At 0618 I had another
non // Chinese signal on 15665, where RFA is scheduled via Tinian, but more
likely CNR1 jamming. Nothing audible on 17 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 5: at 1417, very poor on 9000. At 1430, JBA on 8400
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Even I get bored with tracking the anomalies of Radio Habana Cuba,
ignored lately, but Jan 5 at 0634, 6140 was in Spanish // 6150, 6120, while
English was on 6060, 6010. The previous night, 6140 was in English around this
time.
11600, again with heavy jamming against nothing, Jan 5 at 1601 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. Jan 5 I did not get down to scan 90 meters until 1442, after
finding not much on 60 or 75m, so surprised to hear some weak talk on 3325,
fading, ute QRM on lo side, amounts to only broadcast station on band, CHU also
outfaded.
But on 3325 we are faced with the usual quandary whether it`s R. Buka, Kieta,
Bougainville, PNG, or RRI Palangkaraya, Kalimantan, Indonesia. Going strictly
by schedule in Aoki, PNG is off after 1300 while RRI is on until 1615. WRTH
leans even heavier toward the latter with the same sign-off shown, and not
attempting to show individual Kundu Network station schedules, just 0800-1200v
for them all. A US MW harmonic or mixing product is outruled since it ends in
-5.
Atsunori Ishida, http://www.max.hi-ho.ne.jp/a-ishida/ins/ says RRI runs until
1610v* daily, often with poor modulation, and with Buka QRM but doesn`t say
when that ends. John Wilkins, CO, was also hearing 3325 past 1500 Jan 5, says
it was in Indonesian, Palangkaraya. Based on all this I am not filing this as
unidentified as first intended, but as INDONESIA presumed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. VOI still missing from 9526v, Jan 5 at 1415, and presumably also
during the previous hour in English when another Tuesday excursion to
Banjarmasin might have happened.
No, Atsunori Ishida http://www.max.hi-ho.ne.jp/a-ishida/ins/ reports that 9526v
was on the air in English at 1300 Jan 3 and 5 but went off the air at 1408 and
1405 respectively.
However, at 1609 there was a 9526/9525 het, one of them with music, so suspect
it was back on at that hour. I wondered if earlier, VOI had switched to 11786v
as it has unpredictably in the past; too much QRM there now to tell.
9680, RRI at 1446 rated S9+15 on the meter, but Indonesian talk was at quite
low modulation, so this transmitter has problems too. Usually it is sufficient.
I resolved to listen to VOI online for the Exotic Indonesia show, via
http://www.voi.co.id which switches automatically to http://en.voi.co.id/ ---
This was just as frustrating. Live streaming embedded player just sits there
when you hit play. Below it is a header ``VOI AV ON DEMAND`` but cold and
nothing to go with it. Various other linx on the page are dead.
There is a link to ``VISIT INDONESIA 2009``, so apparently time travel is
possible with Indonesia! Was it a better place to visit last year? Time will
tell. At least if you do that, you know which tourist places to avoid,
terrorist attacks already dated on the historical record.
I see that ``Dignity`` is an obsession of theirs here too, with a ``Dignity
Forum`` -- goes nowhere; some ``VOI DIGNITORIALS``, and another header with no
content, ``VOI - World Dignified View``. Perhaps they should focus more on
Competence (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ISRAEL [and non]. 9955, Israel Radio via WRN via WRMI, Jan 5 at 0626;
unfortunately by the time I intuned it was nothing but WRN fill music; must
keep trying to hear Israel from the start 0600 M-F. Trouble is, often
inaudible, but good S9+10 signal tonight, and no jamming; 0630 into RCI relay.
Assumed WRMI still on SSE antenna, but corresponded with super-strong S9+22
signals from WYFR on 9680, 9715, along with mixing products on 9645, 9750, and
plenty strong on 9985, 9355 fundamentals.
13850, Jan 5 at 1518, Kol Israel direct in Farsi; if I were inside Iran, I
would be threatened with incarceration as a counter-revolutionary for listening
to this, as just heard on RFI news item at 1500 on 15300; other no-no`s being
R. Farda, BBC and VOA. Better signal than weak WWCR overskipping 13845 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ISRAEL [and non]. 15785.0, Jan 5 at 1545, Hebrew talk; this time Galei
Tsahal is back on frequency unlike 15783.8 Jan 4. Recheck 1602, 15785 totally
blotted by WYFR in Arabic with presumed Christian hymn, unlike the Arabic music
you hear on most stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 5955, Jan 5 at 1436 M&W talking in Burmese about Al-Qa`ida, Mrs.
Clinton, fair signal from NHKWNRJ. Unlike 11705 via Canada, which closes at
1430 following English, 5955 Yamata stays on in Burmese, same antenna, but per
Aoki power drops from 300 to 100 kW, contrary to other listings (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JORDAN [and non]. 11960, Jan 5 at 0623, serious Arabic dialog, one side on
the phone line, when nothing else on band from Mideast, but must be R. Jordan
as scheduled 0500-0715, 500 kW, 350 degrees intended for Europe, but also
favoring WNAm. Music after 0630. Band was more open from Africa, e.g. DW
English good on 12045 via Rwanda (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 11715, RVA via Vatican, Jan 5 at 1523 was back in Tagalog
talking about Pilipinas, unlike English 24 hours earlier. Still no sign of KJES
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAIPAN. Pleased to note that IBB transmitter is back in whack, vs
yesterday`s distorted blobs: Jan 5 at 1423 check weak Vietnamese with normal
signal on 9990; at 1521, Vietnamese also OK on 9725 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SLOVAKIA [and non]. 6055, checking again for anomalous reception of RSI, Jan
5 at 1433, German weakly audible, but this time atop some weaker music, which
unless that was on the RSI audio, would be from China or Thailand (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15550-USB, have not been able to hear WJHR for several days now
checking around 1500, nor occasionally later in the day, e.g. 1757 UT Jan 5.
Could be on and just too weak to pull thru the noise level without some
enhanced propagation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. I have heard KXTR 1660 Kansas City several times since last
report, with classical music, but Jan 4 at 2145 UT on caradio I was hearing
nothing on the frequency but ``ESPN 1660``. Since the predicted temps were
negative F, must have been KQWB ND rather than KRZI TX (and we never hear WBMX
NC here --- all with ESPN per NRC AM Log).
It faded down a few minutes later, and there was a SAH, and then barely
detectable classical music, so apparently KXTR was on the air after all, but
why so weak? Chicago 1690 and Madison 1670 were also in at the time. KXTR has
been off and on for some weeks due to antenna work. Could be they are running
much less than 10 kW at the moment; hope it is not a permanent reduxion in
power or skywave coverage. But homepage http://www.kxtr.com no longer says
anything about antenna work.
BTW, the player which linx to all Entercom stations puts this and a bunch of
its other KC stations in the KC KS, not MO market. Of course, it`s really both,
but the MO side is larger and usually dominates. KXTR`s city of license is KC
KS and KXTR transmitter site is in fact in Kansas, at 94-36-56 W longitude,
i.e. less than one minute west of the straight N-S border between the states,
counties, and cities.
The same meridian is named State Line Road, at least a bit further south, and I
have driven it with the peculiar feeling of being in two places at once, but
nothing like the Four Corners monument, until we found out it is in the wrong
place.
However, classical music was dominating 1660 at 0648 UT Jan 5. Possibly the
daytime reception (non) was a propagational quirk. KXTR is the ONLY MW signal
normally audible here playing classical music, as there are NO public radio
stations left on MW in this part of the country, let alone any other commercial
classicals. What a vast wasteland, culturally, geographically and frequencially.
Even CBC has banned classical music from Radio One, often audible via CBW 990
--- the closest they come is Inside the Music, UT Mondays 0305-0400, but that`s
a lot of talk ABOUT classical music (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Yes, the subject line in my previous report said Jan 3-4, 2009. So far I have
not done that on my chex (gh)
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 17:38:07 -0200
From: L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec <eefi...@yahoo.com.br>
To: <Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com>, <cumbr...@cs2.ralabs.com>,
<playdx2...@yahoogroups.com>, <dxcl...@yahoogrupos.com.br>,
<d...@yahoogroups.com>, <g...@apple.email.ne.jp>,
<barr...@arg.sicoar.com>, "Anker Petersen" <anker.peter...@mail.dk>,
<laswl...@alice.it>
Subject: [HCDX] logs
Message-ID: <000e01ca8e3e$f09518a0$52c2e...@home>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
6045, Uruguay, R. Sarandi, Montevideo. January, 4 2323-2350 predominant male
and female in a eloquent Spanish talks, short music, seems ads, mentions of
"Uruguay". QRM, seems some distortion in audio, few words readable, 22432
(lob-B).
4409, Bolivia, R. Eco, Reyes. January, 4/5 2352-0005 Bolero beat with Andean
flute music, 2357 Bolero beat music, 0000 male Spanish announcements, then
seems messages service from listeners. Stronger than usual, 4451 R. Santa Ana
was strong too, certainly an L.A. opening, despite not very clear due the
noise, 34332 (lob-B).
In my last post (Vanuatu log), I made a mistake wich resulted in a triple
messages, I'm sorry by this.
73's
L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec
Embu SP Brasil - Sony ICF SW40 - dipole 18m, 32m.
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