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Today’s Topics:

1. Radio Gloria International this Sunday (Tom Taylor)
2. Sat Dx (Charles Bolland)
3. Somalia Islamists al-Shabab ban BBC transmissions (Arnaldo)
4. Radio Station Location (Hector (Luigi) Perez)
5. Re: Radio Station Location (Glenn Hauser)
6. New Domestic Broadcasting Survey (Anker Petersen)
7. Glenn Hauser logs April 9-10, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
8. April 10 Logs (Brian384875@aol.com)
9. Log Bolivia (Eike Bierwirth)
10. Glenn Hauser logs April 10-11, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:43:41 +0100
From: “Tom Taylor” <emrsw@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: “Tom Taylor” <emrsw@blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Gloria International this Sunday

Radio Gloria International this Sunday
Radio Gloria International is on this Sunday the 11th of April 2010 At 09.00 to 1000 UTC on our normal channel of 6140 KHz.

M.V.Baltic. Information:
MV Baltic Radio relay service Schedule for Summer 2010

1st Sunday – MV Baltic Radio
2nd Sunday – Radio Gloria International ( New Time Slot )
3rd Sunday – European Music Radio (April )

We wish you good listening and good reception! 73s Tom

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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:02:44 -0000
From: “Charles Bolland” <ka4prf@peoplepc.com>
To: “ALF” <alf.e.persson@telia.com>, “Arnaldo slaen”
<slaen@ciudad.com.ar>, ”Bob Wilkner” <rlcw@earthlink.net>,
“brainman214″ <brainman214@gmail.com>,Carlos
GonA?alves<carlos-relvas@sapo.pt>, ”Cumbre” <cumbredx@n2jeu.net>,
“DSWCI” <logs@directbox.com>, “Gayle Van Horn”
<gaylevanhorn@monitoringtimes.com>, “Glenn Hauser”
<wghauser@yahoo.com>, “Hard-core-dx” <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>,
“Marie Lamb” <malamb@cumbredx.org>
Subject: [HCDX] Sat Dx

Peru, 6019.30, Radio Victoria, 0939-1000, At tune in, noted the usual preacher in Religious
discourse with the sops and pleading that is his forte. Signal was good even though it was mixing with another on 6020. (Chuck Bolland, April 10 2010)

Bolivia, 3310, Radio Mosoj chaski, 0945-1000, Noted a female in Steady Spanish comments.
This continues during the period. Signal was poor. (Chuck Bolland, April 10, 2010)

Bolivia, 4796.40, Radio Mallku, 0953-1000, Just an indication on the display that there’s
a station here. Audio is not fading in with the signal this morning – too much noise. (Chuck Bolland, April 10, 2010)

WinRadio G305e
26.37.34.65N 081.05.34.19W

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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:53:14 +0200
From: “Arnaldo” <slaen@ciudad.com.ar>
To: <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Cc: cumbredx@cs2.ralabs.com, playdx2003 <playdx2003@yahoogroups.com>,
DXLD <dxld@yahoogroups.com>, bclnews@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HCDX] Somalia Islamists al-Shabab ban BBC transmissions

The Somali Islamist movement al-Shabab has banned the BBC and closed down transmitters broadcasting the Somali language service inside the country.
Al-Shabab accused the BBC of fighting against Islam and supporting the transitional federal government, which the rebels are fighting to overthrow.
The group said the BBC had been broadcasting the agenda of crusaders and colonialists against Muslims.
The BBC said it was strictly impartial and spoke to all sides in the conflict.
The BBC has been broadcasting its services in Somali, Arabic and English across the country on a series of FM frequencies for at least a decade, and surveys suggest it is one of the most widely listened-to news services in Somalia.

‘Strict standards’
Al-Shabab ordered all of the BBC’s transmitters to be shut down.
A statement by al-Shabab demanded that any organisation transmitting the BBC, or the Washington-based Voice of America, should cancel their contracts.
Al-Shabab and its allies control most of southern and central Somalia and all but a few districts of the capital, Mogadishu.
They have been fighting to establish an Islamist administration of their own in place of the current government.
The BBC’s broadcasts have been taken off the FM bandwidth, but are still available on shortwave and the internet.
In response to the statement, the head of BBC Africa, Jerry Timmins, said the organisation spoke to all sides in the conflict, including al-Shabab, adhered to strict standards of impartiality and editorial independence and rejected any suggestion otherwise. (BBC News)

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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:16:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: “Hector $Luigi$ Perez” <capecuatro@yahoo.com>
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Station Location

RADIO STATION
LOCATION A FRIENDLY DILEMMA

For a long time, I have had in
my mind this friendly dilemma: where is the real location of the station I am listening at?
My shack is this? small sanctuary? where I sit at home without been disturbed by no other thing than a good radio program. I have many radios at my shack; some very old but in mint condition, some other, modern ones.

I also have a good number of special stations that I tune to for the quality of their programs. Among them, Radio Havana Cuba, Radio Canada International, Radio Miami, DW Germany, Radio Netherlands and Radio Bulgaria. And then, I tend to compare, the way I hear at them with different radios and different antennas.

To pick an example, I have an old Kenwood R-2000 receiver which I consider a Killer. The quality of its audio, its sensitivity and selectivity makes this old receiver maybe my best one. Among the radios I have had, only the JST-145 (JRC) transceiver has been the only radio that I could say has gone nose by nose with my old R-2000.

And then as I said, here comes alone the programs aired which I hear from start to end. But, hand by hand with the station and its program, I strongly consider the place where the signal is been aired.

I love to compare, how my old Kenwood pulls out a distant signal from a distant station compared with any other of my radios. Same issue goes for my portable radios and not willing to detour from the main idea of my script, I have to say, that my Grundig YB-400 is another Killer.

My great frustration?? As I said before, the location, where the program is being aired.?

One of these days I will love to hear for instance, Radio Korea (North) or Radio Vietnam on the heart of Hanoi, but not to hear any of those from a different location or station where time was purchased to air the program.

Occasionally, I see postings from folks claiming they heard a certain radio station and I ask myself: did they really hear the station? or just the program aired from some other place. Such postings should read: Radio Rumania via CRI.

Am I going confused I don’t know.

Best 73s to all

Luigi (San Juan, P.R.

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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 08:28:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: “Hector $Luigi$ Perez” <capecuatro@yahoo.com>
Cc: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Radio Station Location

Luigi,
I agree it is important to know where SW signals are really coming from. But this info is readily available, if you consult current A-10 schedules, e.g. linked from my home page, http://www.worldofradio.com
You have to understand/reference the different abbreviations used to indicate transmitter sites.

Yes, you are a bit confused — “Rumania via China“ is a bad example. RRI is ONE station that does not use relays abroad, and have excellent signals nonetheless thanks to new transmitters and antennas installed at two domestic sites a year and two ago. (They did have some DRM via other countries, but not currently, doing their own DRM too, what a waste.)

Voice of Korea (North) does not use external relays either (who would want to help them?), so if you hear VOK it`s bound to be direct. Should not be that difficult even in your location.

73, Glenn Hauser, OK

— On Sat, 4/10/10, Hector (Luigi) Perez <capecuatro@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Hector (Luigi) Perez <capecuatro@yahoo.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Station Location
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Date: Saturday, April 10, 2010, 9:16 AM

RADIO STATION LOCATION A FRIENDLY DILEMMA

For a long time, I have had in my mind this friendly dilemma: where is the real location of the station I am listening at?
My shack is this? Small sanctuary? where I sit at home without been disturbed by no other thing than a
good radio program.?
I have many radios at my shack; some very old but in mint condition, some other, modern ones.?
I also have a good number of special stations that I tune to for the quality of their programs. Among them, Radio Havana Cuba, Radio Canada International, Radio Miami, DW Germany, Radio Netherlands and Radio Bulgaria. And then, I tend to compare, the way I hear at them with different radios and different antennas. ?
To pick an example, I have an old Kenwood R-2000 receiver which I consider a Killer. The quality of its audio, its sensitivity and selectivity makes this old receiver maybe my best one. Among the radios I have had, only the JST-145 (JRC) transceiver has been the only radio that I could say has gone nose by nose with my old R-2000.
And then as I said, here comes alone the programs aired which I hear from start to end. But, hand by hand with the station and its program, I strongly consider the place where the signal is been aired.
I love to compare, how my old Kenwood pulls out a distant signal from a distant station compared with any other of my radios. Same issue goes for my portable radios and not willing to detour from the main idea of my script, I have to say, that my Grundig YB-400 is another Killer.
My great frustration?? As I said before, the location, where the program is being aired.?
One of these days I will love to hear for instance, Radio Korea (North) or Radio Vietnam on the heart of Hanoi, but not to hear any of those from a different location or station where time was purchased to air the program.?
Occasionally, I see postings from folks claiming they heard a certain radio station and I ask myself: did they really hear the station? or just the program aired from some other place. Such postings should read: Radio Rumania via CRI.

Am I going confused? I don?t know.
Best 73s to all

Luigi (San Juan, P.R.

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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:28:05 +0200
From: “Anker Petersen” <anker.petersen@mail.dk>
To: “Hard-core DX contributions” <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: [HCDX] New Domestic Broadcasting Survey

Dear DX-friends,
I have just published a new, fully updated edition of the Domestic Broadcasting Survey, the 12th Edition.

Please have a look at http://www.dswci.org/news/2010/1004/dbs-12.pdf for further information.

Best 73,
Anker Petersen
Denmark

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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:01:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 9-10, 2010

** CANADA. 9650, KBS World Radio due a further refund from RCI, April 10 at 1454-1459* once again playing RCI IS, French and English ID loop instead of lost Korean service as scheduled 14-15. I believe I had heard Korean normally sometime earlier in the hour as I tuned past (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake April 10: at 1315, good on 8400, fair on 10420 and poor on 10440, the latter two being unusual landing spots. None others found from 11 up to 18 MHz. But at 1321, FD best of all on 9365 against nothing co-audible, and so strong it bothered WTJC on 9370.

HFCC has nothing currently at this time on 9365, but Aoki shows Sound of Hope = Xi Wang Zhi Sheng could be there 24 hours with 1 kW from Taiwan, thus provoking the ChiCom jamming, probably 500 kW from a suitable internal skip distance to prevent hundreds of megaChinese from being corrupted by harmless Falun Gong (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 5970, new RHC frequency, already on air at 2145 April 9 in Spanish, fairly good signal. Is this on the brand-new schedule at http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/c_frecuencia/frecuencias.htm — of course not! Shows 5970 only at 01-05 in English, 07-11 in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [non]. As I was finding RHC on unscheduled 5970 at 2145 April 9, also audible weaker on 6030 was Radio Mart?, and no jamming audible. This is now starting at 1800, and we wonder how good a signal it can get into Cuba at midday, jamming or not.

Also confirmed RM`s new 9460 with good signal at 0256 check April 10, no jamming audible. It`s on the sked now as “temporary“ at 01-04.

Saturday April 10 at 1339, R. Mart? with “Arte Latino“ show about “Olbga de Cuba“ and her singing career in exile, 9805 with heavy jamming, 11845 VG over jamming. Closing produxion credits already at 1352 and on to next show, “Enfoque a Am?rica Latina“ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [non]. Jos? El?as D?az G?mez, Venezuela, on his blog bandscanning for easily-heard Spanish-language broadcasts,
http://sintoniadx.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!956BF69EACAB477D!3372.entry
includes Radio Rep?blica on 9780 sometime in the 02-03 and 03-04 hours. That`s a new unlisted frequency and unknown to me, so I check for it April 10 at 0256 — nothing there, tho propagation is poor on 31m. However, Vatican English via Sackville is audible on 9610. About the only signal making it weakly from Europe is China via Spain on 9690.

JEDG says he heard “La Voz de los Cubanos Libres“ on 9780, dates not noted, but he scans only on local Mondays-Fridays, and will check for it again. I don`t recall RR using that specific slogan, so unless he heard an axual RR ID, possibly this was some other hitherto unknown exile clandestine. Per HFCC, only Yemen and CNR China are registered on 9780 during parts of this bihour. Others please be on the lookout for this! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. 4920, April 10 at 1234, weak signal with talk, from intonation sounds like English, ergo AIR news on the hour via Chennai, and also similar but unseemed // on 5010 via T`m. Several other weak signals on 60m from AIR frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. 6165, April 10 at 1255, poor signal in S Asian singing. I will confidently list-log this as AIR Sindhi service via Delhi-Khampur site, 250 kW at 65 degrees in B-09, rather than VOV-4 Hmong service, 50 kW, ND from Hanoi-Xuan Mai site in A-10, both per Aoki.

While Aoki has only B-09 India info so far, these instances also check with latest A-10 info as in http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm which however lax azimuths (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. 15050, April 10 at 1448 fluttery signal peaking at S9+10 but absolutely no modulation; went off somewhere around 1500. This can only be the AIR Sinhala service as scheduled 1300-1500, 250 kW from Delhi-Khampur site at 174 degrees, so longpath? Preceded by Tamil at 1115-1215. Is it unmodulated too? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 4870, weak music at 1234 April 10, presumably RRI Wamena; while 4750 Makassar was much stronger atop CCI (Glenn Hasuer, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9526-, April 10 at 1332, VOI English with daily Miscellany segment, but despite good modulation this time, her accent was so heavy that I could barely understand a word. One of her last may have been “oxycontin“ before cut to open carrier with hum at 1334, and still the case at 1338 when I upgave (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MALAYSIA [and non]. 6175 in Chinese April 10 at 1252 with constant audible het on low side. Aoki has CNR1 from Beijing 572 site, 100 kW, 37 degrees USward, while VOM Kajang in Indonesian, 100 kW non-direxional. Ron Howard confirms this date that VOM is in fact on 6174.40, so must be a 600 Hz het, assuming CNR1 be spot on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. Radio Educaci?n, 6185, does it again tnx to eclectic late-night music format when you never know what to expect: April 10 at 0555 traditional bluegrass lovesongs with wonderful harmony (in English!); 0603 full ID for MW and SW; 0605 on to a couple of contrasting Linda Ronstadt songs, “You`re No Good“ and “When Will I Be Loved“. No CCI, and strong enough to overcome ACI from CRI/Sackville 6190 before that QRTed at 0559 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1580, KOKB Blackwell, April 10 at 1434 UT in open carrier; still/again the case three and four hours later. Clearly this station has close to zero listeners, not including anyone in its own management or engineering (ha, ha), let alone anyone around Blackwell who would care enough to tell them that they are forgetting to modulate. Meanwhile sibling station KOKP 1020 Perry is nominal with sportstalk (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA. More futile attempts to hear Voice of Russia`s only listed frequency in English to North America before 0200, 9890: UT April 10 at 0100 the DentroCuban Jamming Command and VOA Spanish have just evacuated 9885, but that`s no help, as on 9890 there is still only a trace of a carrier. If really 500 kW, it`s dissipating long before here, perhaps keeping the ionosphere warm at the first reflexion point (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA [non]. CUBA is still negligently jamming 9810, which was abandoned three months ago by Radio Rep?blica, despite the fact that in A-10 Voz de Rusia is trying to broadcast Spanish to Latin America on that very same frequency, via GUIANA FRENCH. April 10 at 0101 I can hear VOR`s news in Spanish under the noise, and it`s // and synchronized with much stronger 9735, which is unjammed. Yes, during the 01-02 hour only, VOR is using both 9810 and 9735 via GUF, at 320 and 195 degrees respectively. Meanwhile, they can`t spare a minute of airtime on this or neighboring transmitter and 320 degree antenna USward in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA. 5940 with coloratura soprano, April 10 at 1245, poor signal but in the clear and well-modulated, unlike // 5920 Pet/Kam motorboating itself; 1248 Russian interview.

5940 is registered with HFCC A-10 as R. Rossii from Okhotsk site, 17-13 UT; but more realistically, Aoki says it`s Magadan at 02-13 and 1700-1910.

At 1254 found Russian talk on 7200 // 5940 but an echo apart, shortly back to coloratura. Could not hear any QRM on 7200; tho Korea North is also here, Aoki says that finishes around 1250; nor Myanmar which may use 7200 only in its mornings. All of them plus Sudan have no business on this borderline channel between ham and broadcast bands.

R. Rossii on 7200 is Yakutsk at 1900-1500, Aoki and HFCC agree, but not on other details: HFCC says 250 kW at 45 degrees, while Aoki says 100 kW non-direxional. WRTH says 250 kW but thinx azimuths are too technical, never worth publishing, just like ex-PWBR.

At 1256 April 10, 7220 in Russian not // 7200; that turns out to be VIETNAM, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. VOA news at 1304 April 10 on 7575, report from DXer Dan Robinson at the White House (who since March 1 has been promoted from Capitol Hill correspondent — congrats!), good signal and 1305 into Jazz America, theme this week Billie Holliday, n?e Eleanora Fagin (sp?). VG signal and I think I`ll take her over Martha Garvin on 7490, see WWCR. 7575 is 21 degrees from Tinang, PHILIPPINES, on the air during this hour only on Sat & Sun (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WWCR-3, 7490, Saturday April 10 at 1314 still with Martha Garvin`s Musical Memories, contrary to published schedule; she was doing hymns in alfabetical order by title, A-B-C. This signal is so strong that it desensitizes the receiver roughly plus/minus 35 kHz, between 7455 and 7525 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9265, WINB at 1318 UT Saturday April 10 with that eruptive preacher who takes long pauses, as if steam is building up over and over until he blows, then screams at ever-increasing level; he mentioned pentecostal.

Even tho dated March 14, as if it were actualized because of the start of DST, the WINB program schedule still shows a 5-hour difference between ET and UT, instead of the correct 4 hours, so which are we to believe? How can they be so ignorant? What I was hearing must have been either:
08:00A / Sat-1300…Apostolic Asssembly [sic!] or
09:00A / Sat-1400…Terry Blalock
Second harmonic 18530 was not expected to propagate, and did not (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO chex April 10: at 1341, just barely audible on WRMI 9955, as I was mentioning WOR is sometimes jammed — but it was not this time; glad to be proven wrong, temporarily.

1630 Sat airing on 12160 confirmed on WWCR-2 webcast until 1700, did not get stuck into looping (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Believe I have not heard KJES once since A-10 began, e.g. no sign of it on 11715 at 1345 check April 10, and nothing else on frequency either. Also zilch on 15385 at 1837. So is KJES totally off the air again? FCC schedule shows it is supposed to be, with azimuths:
11715, 13-14 70 toward OK; 14-15 350; 15-16 150
15385, 18-19 270, 19-20 100
7555, 01-02 335, 02-0230 20 — So is anyone hearing them anywhere, anywhen? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX L LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15420-CUSB, WBCQ, is on early Saturdays only for the Brother Scare Sabbath: April 10 at 1358 tuned in to ID loop I had not heard before, not Allan Weiner`s voice, “You`re listening to WBCQ, Monticello, Maine, the United States of America, The Planet“ and then a riff of band music. I was trying to count the number of notes but only heard it twice, maybe 22 to 25, so is this the WBCQ interval signal now?

Then to longtime produced ID with Allan`s voice, singing jingle ID, and 1400 join BS in progress, but immediately interrupted for a quick legal ID only as if that were necessary. 1403-1404 dumped off the air. Even then, no co-channel QRM audible, due to poor extracontinental propagation, but BBC Seychelles is now scheduled at 13-17, alternating English, Somali and Swahili on westward beams, depending on the hour and the day.

BTW, one column in HFCC shows the mode, D for analog and N for DRM, but WBCQ is one of few entries as T, which must mean USB, even tho there is no T anywhere in the words “upper sideband“ (there is no N in “digital“ either, but it`s from French = num?rique; I don`t remember how they get D for “analog“). I have not searched the entire register, but T is also listed for WJHR 15550, and WBCQ 9330 — but not WBCQ on 5110; or 17495, which surely would be if really in use (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 18980, WYFR Spanish poor at 1445 April 10, // 15130. WYFR is now the sole worldwide occupant of this peculiar SWBC band, as IBB is no longer listed on 19010 from Kuwait. WYFR: 18930 at 1600-2200, 18980 at 1400-2145 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VATICAN [non]. 9610, April 10 at 0256 in English, must be VR as scheduled from 0250 via Sackville, as I was scanning the band to find what few signals were still making it, unlike alleged Radio Rep?blica on 9780 — see CUBA [non].

I see that VR in Spanish and French until 0250 are via BONAIRE, so it should be interesting to monitor how well they switch sites, without overlap? SAC is unsuitable for French at 0230 since it`s too close to Qu?bec; Bonaire no doubt inbooms there aimed 350 degrees, while English to follow is 240 degrees from SAC across the USA. And VR Spanish via Bonaire 0100-0230 emanates at 170 degrees for CIRAF 12-15, i.e. all of S America, including the Southern Cone, an area abandoned by R. Nederland itself, except Patagonia = CIRAF 16 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VIETNAM. As I was hearing R. Rossii on 5920, 5940, 7200, see RUSSIA, also found non // W&W Russian talk at 1256 April 10 on 7220, but 1257 to open carrier. Per Aoki it`s VOV in Russian, 100 kW, 27 degrees from Hanoi-Sontay so also USward, at 1230-1300 and also 1130-1200 (plus Chinese on same at 1200-1230, 1300-1330). Do not see also INDIA 6165 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:49:58 EDT
From: Brian384875@aol.com
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] April 10 Logs

** BOLIVIA. 6134.82, Radio Santa Cruz, 1000-1010, April 10, Bolivian music. Spanish ID announcement at 1005. Promos. Announcements. Good signal. (Brian Alexander, PA)

** BRAZIL. 9665.11, Radio Voz Mission?ria, Florian?polis, 0120-0140, April 10, Portuguese preacher. Contemporary Portuguese religious music. Weak in noisy conditions. // 11749.89 – very weak. // 5939.97 – fair level but noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA)

** BRAZIL. 11765, Super Radio Deus ? Amor, Curitiba PR, 0100-0115, April 10, Portuguese religious talk. ID at 0102. Announcements. Promos. Contemporary Portuguese religious music. Emotional preacher at 0108. Poor to fair with adjacent channel splatter. // 6060 – weak under Cuba. (Brian Alexander, PA)

** ETHIOPIA. 6890, Radio Fana, *0258:40-0310, April 10, sign on with IS. Amharic talk at 0301. Horn of Africa music at 0306. Weak but readable. // 6110 – weak under Cuba. (Brian Alexander, PA)

** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6950 USB, WLDJ, 0140-0146*, April 10, lite pop music. Woman announcer. ID as ?WLDJ, Voice of the Last DJ.? Sign off with SSTV. Fair. (Brian Alexander, PA)

** UGANDA [non]. via France, 15410, Radio Y?Abaganda, *1700-1800*, April 10, sign on with non-stop tape loop consisting of tones and tape loop saying ?We?re sorry you’ve reached a station that is unavailable at this time. Please try again later” along with “Live 365″ jingle. Into vernacular talk at 1733. Abrupt s/off at 1800. Poor to fair in noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA)

Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires

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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 03:58:28 +0200
From: “Eike Bierwirth” <Eike.Bierwirth@gmx.de>
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] Log Bolivia

Pio XII is audible right now in Germany on 5952.46 kHz (11 April, 0150 UTC), weak but not bad for a Bolivian station (listening in USB to avoid 5950).

73,
Eike
Leipzig, Germany
JRC NRD-525 with PA0RDT Mini-Whip
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Message: 10
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:53:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 10-11, 2010

** CHINA. See RUSSIA for 9890 clash, 9900; CUBA [and non] for jamming on 9810; MALI

** CUBA. Two new frequencies of RHC confirmed, 9525 // synchronized 12020 in Spanish allegedly to South America but fine in the North, at 2305 April 10 and an echo apart from 12030 to Central America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 9810 still with heavy noise from the DentroCuban Jamming Command, April 10 at 2304 when Radio Rep?blica used to appear. During this hour, CRI`s Mongolian service may be too far away to suffer, but at 00-02 the innocent victim will be VOR in Spanish via Guiana French. See RUSSIA [non].

Meanwhile, Radio Rep?blica is really on 9490 via RMI via Sackville, VG signal at 2306 talking about the hunger-strikes by political prisoners inside Cuba; it`s way over jamming which is at the pulse-level rather than wall-of-noise level. RR at 23-02 was originally M-F, but now Saturdays, and shall we make it daily including Sundays too?

Again, no sign of anything on 9780, at 0225 check April 11, when Radio Rep?blica had allegedly been heard elsewhere (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CYPRUS. 9187-9212, over-the-horizon radar pulses, presumed from here April 10 at 2309 with typical 25-kHz bandwidth; yes, propagation from that worldpart is good again, Voice of Greece also in on 9420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MALI. 7295, at 2311 April 10 CRI in Chinese via Bamako, either undermodulated or under a zero-beat amateur carrier to spoil it; or both. This area is a favorite of hams for AM instead of SSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 18057.9, after a dry spell this week, the third harmonic of Radio Victoria, Lima is audible again, April 10 at 2222 with bits of Spanish peaking/peeking thru the not too bad noise level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This item in previous report had the azimuths swapped. Please replace with corrected version:

** RUSSIA [non]. CUBA is still negligently jamming 9810, which was abandoned three months ago by Radio Rep?blica, despite the fact that in A-10 Voz de Rusia is trying to broadcast Spanish to Latin America on that very same frequency, via GUIANA FRENCH. April 10 at 0101 I can hear VOR`s news in Spanish under the noise, and it`s // and synchronized with much stronger 9735, which is unjammed. Yes, during the 01-02 hour only, VOR is using both 9810 and 9735 via GUF, at 195 and 320 degrees respectively. Meanwhile, they can`t spare a minute of airtime on this or neighboring transmitter and 320 degree antenna USward for English, which would really inboom vs our struggles to hear 9890 direct (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA [non]. 9965 at 2256 April 10, open carrier but it`s motorboating, obviously unstable with BFO on, which seems to be all too common a problem in the CIS, like 5920 Pet/Kam. 2259 some “Russian tones“ and 2300 with hum as loud as the fitful modulation which sounds rather like Portuguese. Yes, per EiBi it`s VOR to Brasil at 23-24, followed by Spanish, via ARMENIA, probably not a good idea to pick as a relay site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA [and non]. VOR English to North America finally semi-audible on the only frequency they deign to provide, 9890 direct from “Armavir“ = Krasnodar, April 10 at 2228, apparently an interview between W&M, but very low key and his low-pitched voice is no match for the assertive higher-pitched ChiCom co-channel!

This is a semihour before we have CubaRM and VOA to contend with adjacently from 9885, but now we have a direct clash from China. Aoki says 9890 bears CNR1 at 1955-2300 from Lingshi 725 site, 100 kW at 286 degrees. No problem way over here in CNAm? Wrong! It`s slightly weaker than VOR at first, but gaining, making both of them unusable. It`s also // clear 9900, Beijing 572 site, says Aoki.

The program grid at http://english.ruvr.ru/radio_broadcast/schedule/ shows Saturdays at 2230+ VOR airs Timelines, but the sked is still dated to expire March 27 before the timeshift! Is it really the current sked, just forgot to change the dates? Apparently, as Rich Cuff forwards one he received by e-mail showing current A-10 dates and same program at this hour.

Anne Fanelli in NY says it was the unmistakable Estelle Winters at 2255, good reception, where apparently China was not a problem. But how was it five minutes later?

I checked again just before 2300. By 2257 the Greenville carrier was on with its own problems: see USA. At 2259 I could still make out the VOR IS mixing with Chinese announcement but wideband splash from VOA`s rap music after 2300 blew away VOR, even tho the ChiCom CCI was supposed to be over (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. Conditions are finally getting back to normal after the disturbances early in the week. Maybe even better than normal, as I have REE inbooming on 17595, April 10 at 2217 UT, some 3.5 hours after local sunset at Noblejas, // also strong 15110. Furthermore, weaker // on 17755 also audible. Per Aoki, 17755 at 161 degrees and 17595 at 248 degrees run as late as 2200 only on weekends. But they were still on; did not pay much attention to programming but it was a remote interview with some hum on the feed, same on all frequencies; not live sports which might explain the extension unless it was post-game. 17595 is 248 degrees, not even USward. Also very strong via Costa Rica on 17850, 340 degrees. It and 15110 direct at 302 degrees which are USward, are both scheduled until 2300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. 9935, something in Spanish, April 10 at 2229, immediately mentioning 21 de mayo de 2011, so it`s only F?mily Radio predicting the end of the world. How will Harold weasel out of that one, if he survive that long? A good time to go camping.

9935 is too weak to be Okeechobee and not // 15130. How do the French Guianans feel about broadcasting such nonsense from their country? Ha, they have no say, and I bet not even one percent know what`s going out at 215 degrees from Montsin?ry, now more world-famous than Devil`s Island, on a par with Kourou.

6985, April 10 at 2310, in French, must be WYFR as scheduled, 355 degrees, but only fair signal and much weaker than Spanish on 6915 at 160 degrees, both 100 kW. This does not compute (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9330-CUSB, WBCQ is on with another weekend special from Area 51, = Area 93. At first I thought two stations were mixing, but that was the way the music was presented on the modulation, soon clearing up to one thing at a time, and of course, exact SSB tuning is critical with music. Nothing audible on 15420 or 5110, and not // 7415. At 2250 a “legal ID“ on 9330 for WBCQ. Recheck at 2313, with Radio TimTron WorldWide giving his mission statement, now // 7415 and weaker // 5110-CUSB has also become audible. I had checked the Area 51 blog on Friday but nothing then about additional frequencies this weekend; short notice (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. While monitoring VOR on 9890, see RUSSIA, I was dreading VOA upcoming on 9885. At 2257 its open carrier is on — no, there is some weak modulation already, from Radio Mart? as quickly confirmed by // 6030. 2259 VOA YDD sign-on in English, but mixing with R. Mart? frequency announcement in Spanish.

If RM is still in the mod mix after 2300 it`s buried under VOA`s “De Capital a Capital“, right into rap music, with widebland splash blowing away Russia on 9890. Did not keep listening long enough to tell whether the DentroCuban Jamming Command also hit it, but why bother blocking this apolitical program? Indeed, that does not usually stop them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. By 2300 April 10, WWCR-4 on 9980, which blasts in all day, is beginning to fade down as Unshackled #2682 is starting on Saturday. I hope this does not bode ill for reception of WORLD OF RADIO #1507, at its new time of 2330 Sunday. Hmm, that other show is 1175 episodes ahead of me. Must buckle down and get busy.

7465, April 10 at 2314, WWCR-1 ending The Victory Hour (would you believe quarter-hour?), with squeal quite audible on this transmitter, not to be confused with some sirens in Enid arriving via compression waves at the very same time. Next show opens with a Bible citation not even bothering to identify itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. I have been noticing this for a week or two, but haven`t logged it. Since it`s pervasive, about time to outpoint another intruder in the 31m SWBC band: centered on 9871, some sort of loud utility noise at 2258 April 10, heavily QRMing a broadcaster on 9870 but the latter went off a minute later, presumably BSKSA to Europe as scheduled but also USward. 9871 is also there at many other times, likely to mar VBS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

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Today’s Topics:

1. Sun Morn (Charles Bolland)
2. Glenn Hauser logs April 11, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
3. DXpedition near St.Petersburg (Mikhail Timofeyev)
4. April 11 Logs (Brian384875@aol.com)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 12:05:38 -0000
From: “Charles Bolland” <ka4prf@peoplepc.com>
To: “ALF” <alf.e.persson@telia.com>, “Arnaldo slaen”
<slaen@ciudad.com.ar>, ”Bob Wilkner” <rlcw@earthlink.net>,
“brainman214″ <brainman214@gmail.com>,Carlos
GonA?alves<carlos-relvas@sapo.pt>, ”Cumbre” <cumbredx@n2jeu.net>,
“DSWCI” <logs@directbox.com>, “Gayle Van Horn”
<gaylevanhorn@monitoringtimes.com>, “Glenn Hauser”
<wghauser@yahoo.com>, “Hard-core-dx” <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>,
“Marie Lamb” <malamb@cumbredx.org>
Subject: [HCDX] Sun Morn

Bolivia, 4699.95, Radio San Miguel, 0950-1005, With a very weak signal, noted steady instrumental
music. At 0957 a female comments in Spanish. Very difficult to glean any details since the signal
is threshold. At 0959 signal suddenly inproves and a canned ID is heard as “Radio San Miguel …”
from a female and male. News followed presented by a male. (Chuck Bolland, April 11, 2010)

WinRadio G305e/pd
26.37N 081.05w

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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:55:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 11, 2010

** CHINA. Firedrake April 11: at 1258 JBA on 13970; at 1317 poor on 8400. Not heard anywhere else such as 9365, 10420, 10440 as the day before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA [and non]. 9690, AIR GOS tuning up early April 11 at 1319-1320* open carrier with signature big hum always upon this transmitter. The sesquihour does not officially start until 1330. It QRMs something, per Aoki, IBB`s Deewa Radio via Sri Lanka to Afghanistan at 1300-1400. How can Bengaluru and nearby Irana Wila possibly have been scheduled on the same frequency at the same time? Must be quite a clash in Asia. AIR has been on 9690 for ages (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. A day of rest for VOI, no signal on 9526v, Sunday April 11 at 1309 and later chex during the hour when there was still Chinese all over the band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** POLAND [non]. Looking for PRES English coverage the day after the president`s plane crash, but nothing audible on 11675, April 11 at 1246, just a weak carrier/het where the 300 kW relay via AUSTRIA used to be reliable, making me wonder if it was even on air today? // 11980 via Woofferton UK had some JBA talk. Others report PRES was on the ball with that devastating news 24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN [non]. 15170, REE via COSTA RICA, Sunday April 11 at 1249 with Antonio Buitrago talking about a contest at Radio Internacional de China, (but don`t call them RIC), thus confirming the new summer time of Amigos de la Onda Corta at 1230 Sundays on this and numerous other frequencies direct and relayed. Was already over by 1255 check, since its only other airing is 0605-0630 Saturdays on 5965, 11890, 12035 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SURINAME. 4990, a weak carrier with some music at 0546 April 11, and axually a bit stronger than adjacent 4985 RBC, very unusual. Must be Radio Apintie, which rarely makes an appearance here, with its low power and southward aim, and I`ve yet to attain a good definite ID log on it. David Hodgson, TN, was getting it better hearing multiple IDs within the hour around 0625 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. 13635, April 11 at 1258 play-by-play in Turkish with crowd roaring, 1300 to studio announcement, a bit of music, and cut off the air at 1300:45*. This is 310 degrees from Emirler. It seems the only next frequency in Turkish is 9840, not an option here with WHRI, Voice of Vietnam (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 4050, something odd at 0540 April 11: ticks exactly every second, rather like WWV during minutes when no tone is added, but no marker at TOM (top of minutes). Could it be a HIFER conveying some local weather info? No, at 0542 YL says “We`re The Mouth, 1350 AM“, which is the slogan of KWMO here on its usual third harmonic; followed by dead air with no tix, as the automation fails for all to hear.

Clearly the station is now going for the harmonic DX audience who would find this interesting, not ordinary Washingtonians who would quickly retune to some station that has not lost its ongoing program modulation.

Night power on 1350 is legally only 84 watts. “The Mouth“ goes with its NRC-listed talk format, tho most of the nighttime we hear KWMO playing C&W music. Must have quite a split personality, when funxional (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9955, WRMI, Sunday April 11 at 1306 in Spanish with report on ILLW = Fin de Semana Internacional de los Faros, coming in August, i.e. Frecuencia al D?a as scheduled, and not jammed. After 1400, Radio Prague in English also fairly audible, the only current reliable 7-day-per-week time for RP via WRMI, contrary to some published schedules with outdated info (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. DXing with Cumbre deconfirmed at another of its imaginary times per WHR online schedule: Sunday at 1330 on 11785. WHRI not even on the 11785 air April 11, just the hefty Chinese signals (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VENEZUELA [non]. El Hugazo misses another opportunity to extend his pontifications from mere Venezuela to the world courtesy of Cuba: no show for “Al?, Presidente“ on any of the nominal frequencies at 1620 check Sunday April 11: 17750, 13750, 13680, 12010, 11690 as still shown in the latest RHC online sked starting at 1400.

RHC itself, however, could be heard in // on 11690, 11730, 11760, on new 12030, and JBA on new 15380 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 3630-CLSB, April 11 at 0548, a leisurely ragchew between at least two hams who never bothered to ID for 5-10 minutes, nor observe the `over` protocol, during numerous exchanges. Talking about playing guitar and misc. other topix. What caught my attention was that they had weak reduced carriers along with their SSB, but not enough to obviate the need for BFO.

Upon closer listening with the BFO slightly off-tuned, I could tell the carriers only came on when they were talking/modulating, rather than constantly as with e.g. WBCQ. One of them mentioned “peakage at 600, pulled it down“, perhaps referring to the carrier injexion level; but why? Or was it simply defective AM or defective SSB. This area also bears full-AM hams at times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:32:50 +0000
From: Mikhail Timofeyev <timofeyev@sp.ru>
To: DXplorer <DXplorer@yahoogroups.com>, hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] DXpedition near St.Petersburg

Some observations of our local DXpedition:
http://dxcorner.narod.ru/DXpedition_April_9-10_2010.html

73!

Mikhail

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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:00:56 EDT
From: Brian384875@aol.com
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] April 11 Logs

** CHAD. 6165, RNT, 2210-2231:30*, April 11, French talk, African hi-life music. Sign off with National Anthem. Fair. (Brian Alexander, PA)

** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6850.74 AM, MAC Shortwave, 2231-2240, April 11, IDs. 60s pop music. Talk by young boy. Good signal. (Brian Alexander, PA)

** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6950 USB, Voice of Next Thursday, 2136-2145, April 11, rebroadcast by WBNY with IDs. Novelty music. Good. Strong. (Brian Alexander, PA)

** SUDAN [non]. via Wertachtal, 13730, Radio Dabanga, 1545-1726*, April 11, IDs. Arabic talk. Short breaks of local music. ID jingles. Fair to good. Very weak/threshold signal on // 11500 – via Madagascar, (Brian Alexander, PA)

Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires

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Today’s Topics:

1. Logs (Manuel M?ndez)
2. Glenn Hauser logs April 11-12, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
3. OT: Shortwave Listening Event (David Goren)
4. Re: OT: Shortwave Listening Event (David Goren)
5. New MW QSL (KXTK-1280) (Patrick Martin)
6. Latest Pacific Asian Radio Guide (info@radioheritage.net)
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Message: 1
Message: 2
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:14:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 11-12, 2010
Message-ID: <178156.90011.qm@web51104.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

** CUBA. Another secret unscheduled time for En Contacto, RHC`s Spanish DX program, in progress UT Monday April 12 at 0551 with Manolo acknowledging mail from Lima, Puebla, on 6150, 6120, 5040.

12025 with lite jamming pulses, April 12 at 1314 against nothing, but bothering RHC on 12030! May be spur from 11845, DCJC lower on the band, or possibly mixing out of the 12030 transmitter itself.

Before 1400 there was no R. Mart? on 11930 and no jamming either; at 1423 heavy jamming with pulse spurs out to 11910-11955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EAST TURKESTAN/EAST TURKISTAN [depending on your spell check]. During G3-storm-disturbed propagation conditions, April 12 at 1341, nothing much audible on the SW bands beyond single-hop, southerly or trans-equatorial signals, but one trans-polar was making it on 13670, Chinese singing/opera, fair with flutter, and splash from Cuba 13680; 1355 to Chinese talk, 1357 off. Aoki shows CRI in Chinese via Ur?mqi, 500 kW due west (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, R. Africa at unusual hour of 0526 April 12, closing one gospel huxter with a 6-digit PO box in ZIP 74170, which is Tulsa, brief pause, no ID, and YL opening another show. Fair with slow fading. Also in: NIGERIA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. Altho VOI`s English hour was missing from 9525.9 April 11 during the 13 UT hour when propagation was good, its off-frequency carrier was just barely detectable at 1339 April 12, when propagation was very disturbed.

At this time hi-latitude signals from Asia below 12 MHz were absent or greatly attenuated, as were signals from Europe above 12 MHz; K-index at 12 UT was 2 and a strong G3 geomag storm was in progress, per WWV on 5000 at 1318 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MADAGASCAR. 13840, good signal April 12 at 0533 two YLs with news in French frequently mentioning Japon, which is fitting since this is NHK, at 0530-0600.

13710, April 12 at 0534 news in French, voice sounds very much like R. Japan on 13840, but not //, and soon ID with jingle for La Voix de l`Amerique, i.e. VOA via Madagascar at 0530-0600 M-F; BTW, the second half of this French hour at 0600-0630 on 13710 switches to Botswana; why? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA. After hearing Equatorial Guinea 15190 on nightpath, I checked 15120, and there was VON at 0529 April 12, modulation somewhat distorted, ending Today in History, plugging listening via http://www.voiceofnigeria.com? Not sure of the .com.

No, going there, that site`s footer admits it is not the radio station, instead refers to http://www.voiceofnigeria.org Some drumming, fair with fades, signal quite similar to 15190, stronger than Australia 15160 which often is the SSOB or OSOB at this hour.

BTW, VON`s language and frequency schedule is in flux; Thorsten Hallmann, Alan Roe and Tony Rogers are trying to sort it out, as reported in the dxldyg and upcoming DXLD 10-15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA. 13775, VOR finally propagating with good signal on the only frequency retained for English to NAm at 04-06, 50 degrees from Vladivostok; good modulation too, YL in story narrative with music and war SFX. Scheduled is “Timelines“. But at next check 0558 right before sign-off, was fading out and becoming JBA! Apparently the G3 magstorm had hit the path in the meantime. This could be avoided by using a relay to the south!

At 0545 I caught the propagation report on WWVH 10000. K index was 7! at 0300, and G3 storms were raging (not a word used by the SWPC). At first I thought that K7 must be mistaken, since hi-latitude path from DVR was obviously funxioning well; after 0300 until 0545 SW reception seemed generally enhanced rather than outwiped, e.g. Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria too, qq.vv. on 15 MHz.

But later found mid-latitude K-index at 0300 indeed shown as 7 on 3-hourly e-mail Geophysical Alert from WWV, subsiding to only 4 at 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TINIAN. 15635, April 12 at 0532, fair signal in Chinese, probably RFA scheduled at 03-07, rather than ChiCom jamming due to current propagation favoring Pacific over Asia. Nothing else to or from China audible on 19m band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Checking new WORLD OF RADIO time on WWCR-4, Sundays 2330 on 9980: April 11 at 2333, audible enough to confirm but very poor signal, down from normal blast earlier in daytimes. Strangely, WWCR-2 on 9350 was MUCH stronger. Published azimuths for these are 90 and 85 degrees respectively, both of which should be ideal for OK off-the-back westward.

Furthermore, WTWW on 9479, just a few myriameters further, was stronger still. So at this moment was the MUF somewhere in the middle of the 31m band, advantaging the lower channels? And/or 9980 not running full 100 kW power? I hope at further more favorable skip distances, 9980 was still inbooming. BTW, Rick Barton in AZ says 15825 is excellent there, more than double the distance to Enid, for the Friday 2030 WOR airing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 13380, April 12 at 0539, extremely strong S9+25 carrier, not local since also had slight fading, and shortly began sending digital data bursts. This is like we have also heard on 11435, probably from CUBA, e.g. DXLD 9-082 under UNIDENTIFIED (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:48:31 -0400
From: David Goren <dbgoren@panix.com>
To: HCDX Mailing List <Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: [HCDX] OT: Shortwave Listening Event

Pardon the somewhat off topic message:

After years of nurturing it at the SWL WinterFest in Kulpsville, I’m taking a version of my shortwave listening event aka the Listening Lounge aka The Shortwave Shindig on the road to the Megapolis Festival in Baltimore, MD on Saturday evening May 15th from 10 pm until dawn. If anyone is in the area, I’d love to see some familiar faces. Festival admission is low, about $10.00 and runs from Friday to Sunday.

http://www.megapolifestival.org
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/The-Shortwave-Shindig/238065562301?ref=ts

The festival is aimed towards radio documentarians and sound artists/composers, many of whom also attend the annual Third Coast Audio Festival in Chicago.

Here’s the official description:

The Shortwave Shindig is an overnight immersion in the wavering, crackly sonics of the shortwave radio spectrum. Every day we stride through a stew of signals: our bodies vibrating imperceptibly to a riot of ouds, harmoniums, raving preachers, propaganda, secret messages, electronic squawks, and beeps. We lack only the transistors and diodes to be able to decode them. With a phalanx of receivers and gossamer strands of antennae, the Shortwave Shindig invites listeners to decipher the distant and elusive sounds of the shortwave bands.

10pm-Midnight: Mercy, So Much Noise.
A crisp and creamy mix of real-time and archival shortwave audio.

Midnight-3 am: Whammy Bar.
The shortwave radio spectrum between 2 and 30 Megahertz provides accessible, constantly morphing aural textures that have a rich history of use by sound artists and musicians, both experimental and pop. After a review of some of this work, via recordings and live performances, we will collectively craft new soundscapes incorporating receiver improvisations and post-production techniques. Listeners are encouraged to bring laptop-based production gear to make their own pieces.

3am- dawn: The Thin Gray Line.
As dawn approaches, we’ll track the movement of the sharp edge dividing darkness from light around the world, briefly enhancing the reception of low-powered domestic and regional stations from Africa, the Middle East, India, Asia, and Latin America. This segment will combine live on-site monitoring, (atmospheric conditions permitting), a global network of web-based receivers and archival audio.

Schedule and segment length subject to change. Several shortwave radios will be available for tuning; participants are encouraged to bring a shortwave radio if they have one.

David Goren is a radio producer and audio archivist who has been messing around with shortwave sound for almost 40 years.

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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:02:22 -0400
From: David Goren <dbgoren@panix.com>
To: David Goren <dbgoren@panix.com>
Cc: HCDX Mailing List <Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] OT: Shortwave Listening Event

I had the URL wrong:
http://www.megapolisfestival.org

On Apr 11, 2010, at 11:48 AM, David Goren wrote:

Pardon the somewhat off topic message:

The festival is aimed towards radio documentarians and sound artists/composers, many of whom also attend the annual Third Coast Audio Festival in Chicago.

Here’s the official description:

10pm-Midnight: Mercy, So Much Noise.
A crisp and creamy mix of real-time and archival shortwave audio.

Schedule and segment length subject to change. Several shortwave radios will be available for tuning; participants are encouraged to bring a shortwave radio if they have one.

David Goren is a radio producer and audio archivist who has been messing around with shortwave sound for almost 40 years.
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:53:38 -0700
From: mwdxer@webtv.net (Patrick Martin)
To: mwoz@Yahoogroups.com, wienbob@aol.com, BACONTI@aol.com,
gaylemt@brmemc.net, irca@hard-core-dx.com, martinfoltz@cox.net,
am@nrcdxas.org, hard-core-dx@kotalampi.com, showe@csc.albany.edu
Subject: [HCDX] New MW QSL (KXTK-1280)

1280 KXTK CA, Arroyo Grande, received homemade type QSL card from ESPN bumper sticker and business card taped to the back, stating “Thanks for listening” in 20d for CD report. V/S: Bill Bordeaux-CE. Address: PO Box 14910, San Luis Obispo CA 93406. MW QSL: 3013. (PM-OR)

Patrick Martin
Seaside Oregon
“Come visit us for the 2010 IRCA convention held Sept 24-26 at the Inn At Seaside.”

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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:57:40 +1200
From: info@radioheritage.net
To: info@radioheritage.net
Subject: [HCDX] Latest Pacific Asian Radio Guide

Media Release
Radio Heritage Foundation www.radioheritage.net

Latest Pacific Asian Log Radio
Guide Now Available
______________________________
The Radio Heritage Foundation has just released at its website www.radioheritage.net the latest version of the PAL Pacific Asian Log Radio Guide covering all AM [mediumwave] radio stations across the region.

Used by radio listeners, broadcasters and the general public, the guide lists all known AM radio stations operating in the area with detailed information about operating times, languages, location, and
much more…in fact more than 50,000 separately updated data entries across thousands of individual stations.

With riots in Thailand, earthquakes in Indonesia and Taiwan, tsunamis across the Pacific, civil unrest and censored local radio media, the information in the latest Pacific Asian Log Radio Guide is also very useful for travellers, travel agents and others who need to keep their clients informed.

Search the latest edition now at www.radioheritage.net – simply click on ‘PAL AM Radio’ in the Radio Guides factbox on any page.

You can also search for shortwave stations in the region [PAL SW Radio], Australian narrowcast AM radio [Australia 1611-1701 AM], New Zealand Low Power FM Radio Guide [NZLPFM Radio] and the Borderless Radio Rankings [What is Borderless Radio].

These services are provided free to the community by the Radio Heritage Foundation, a non-profit organization connecting popular culture, nostalgia and radio heritage across the Pacific.

Donations are welcome to support this service and annual supporter packages begin at US$10 with full details at www.radioheritage.net.

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Today’s Topics:

1. DX and Shortwave meetings of 2010 (Risto V?h?kainu )
2. Logs from NH-USA, April 10 (Scott R. Barbour Jr.)
3. Tues DX (Charles Bolland)
4. two most important logs made in pozar with questions …(Zacharias Liangas )
5. Logs made in Loutraki spas (nearby …) (Zacharias Liangas )
6. Glenn Hauser logs April 12-13, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
7. Logs of April 12 /13 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:03:12 +0300
From: “Risto V?h?kainu ” <risto.vahakainu@helsinki.fi>
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] DX and Shortwave meetings of 2010

Hi all,
here follows an updated list of this year’s SW meetings:
Shortwave Radio Meetings – 2010
Date: April 10 (1430-1700 BST)
Location: Reading International Solidarity Centre (RISC), 35-39 London
Street, Reading RG1 4PS, England
Organization: Reading International Radio Group
Expected attendance: 20
More info: www.bdxc.org.uk
Note: these Reading DX meetings are held with 1-2 months interval.
Next ones: 5 June, 24 July

Dates: May 14-16
Location: Dayton, Ohio, USA
Organization: Dayton Hamvention
Expected attendance: 20,000
More info: www.hamvention.org

Dates: May 17-21
Location : Langesbold, Germany
Description: DX-Camp
Organzation: Kurzwellenfreunde Rhein/Ruhr
More info: dx-camp@kwfr.de

Dates: May 20-21
Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Description: Annual NASB Conference
Oganisation: National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters+DRM
Consortium, USA
More info: galgom@galgom.org

Dates: June 4-6
Location: Vejers Beach, Jutland, Denmark
Description: The annual general meeting of DSWCI and listening camp
Organization: Danish Short Wave Club International
Expected attendance: 30
More info: www.dswci.org

Dates: June 25-27
Location: Friedrichshafen, Germany
Description: Ham Radio, biggest annual hamfest in Europe
Expected attendance: 19500

Dates: July 10-25
Location: Schwangau, Bavaria, Germany
Description: DX-Camp
More info: Franz.Ladner@gmx.net

Dates: July
Location: Mexico
Description: The Annual Mexican DX Meeting
Expected attendance: 50
More info:

Dates: August 6-8
Location: Haapavesi, Central Finland
Description: The Annual Summer Meeting
Organization: The Finnish DX Association
Expected attendance: 70
More info: www.sdxl.org

Dates: August 21-23
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Organization: Tokyo Ham Fair
Expected attendance: 30000

Dates: August/September
Location: Sweden
Description: The annual DX-Parliament of Swedish DXers
Organization: Swedish DX Federation
Expected attendance: 30
More info: www.sdxf.org

Dates: September 3-8
Location: Berlin, Germany
Name: IFA Internationale Funkausstellung
Description: Consumer Electronics Fair – Including Radios

Dates: September 10-14
Location: Amsterdam, Holland
Name: IBC Expo,
Description: Media trade show

Dates: September 15-19
Location: Solingen-Wald, Germany
Description: DX-Camp
More info: dx-camp@kwfr.de

Dates: September 22-26
Location: Sandkrug, Germany
Description: DX-Camp
More info: Karl-J.Conrads@t-online.de

Dates: September 24-26
Location: Seaside, Oregon, USA
Description: 2010 IRCA Convention
More info: mwdxer@webtv.net (Patrick Martin)

Dates: September 30-October 3
Location: Ankara, Turkey
Description: European DX Conference
Organization: European DX Council/Voice of Turkey
Expected attendance: 50
More info: www.edxc.org
–
Risto V?h?kainu
tietotekniikka-asiantuntija
Helsingin yliopisto
Tietohallinto
p. 09-191 23133
mp. 050-529 2909

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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 03:41:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: “Scott R. Barbour Jr.” <srbjrswl@yahoo.com>
To: DXLD <dxld@yahoogroups.com>, DXplorer <Dxplorer@yahoogroups.com>,
HCDX <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, Gayle Van Horn
<gaylemt@brmemc.net>, NASWAyg <NASWA@yahoogroups.com>, Mark Taylor
<markokpik@tds.net>, Dave Valko <djvalko@verizon.net>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs from NH-USA, April 10

6160, NEWFOUNDLAND, CKZN St. Johns, 2210, April 10, English. End of nx w/ “CBC News”; “The World Ahead” prg re Thai protests & Shroud of Turin; CBC promos; fair. (Barbour-NH)

6165, CHAD, RNT N’Djamena, 2219-2238, April 10, French. News & rpts at t/in; pop ballads at 2224; ancr at 2229 w/ passing ment. of N’Djamena; lite pops w/ ancr between selections; fair-good. (Barbour-NH)

9704.2, ETHIOPIA, R. Ethiopia Addis Ababa, 2041-2054*, April 10, vernacular. HoA-like mx; brief W ancr at 2050; back to mx until pulled the plug at 2054; fair over 9705-Niger. (Barbour-NH)

9705, NIGER, Voix du Sahel Niamey, 2054-2124, April 10, vernacular. Sounded like a radio drama w/ occasional mx bits; continuos thru t/out; fair & in the clear after Ethiopia s/off. (Barbour-NH)

9750, JAPAN, NHK/R. Japan Ibaragi, 1042-1102, April 10, Japanese. Banter between several ancrs ending at 1055; ancr talk & mx bits; IS snippet & ID over lite mx; 3+1 pips into news; fair. (Barbour-NH)

Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA
NRD-545, MLB1, 200′ Beverages, 60m dipole

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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:18:15 -0000
From: “Charles Bolland” <ka4prf@peoplepc.com>
To: “ALF” <alf.e.persson@telia.com>, “Arnaldo slaen”
<slaen@ciudad.com.ar>, ”Bob Wilkner” <rlcw@earthlink.net>,
“brainman214″ <brainman214@gmail.com>,Carlos
GonA?alves<carlos-relvas@sapo.pt>, ”Cumbre” <cumbredx@n2jeu.net>,
“DSWCI” <logs@directbox.com>, “Gayle Van Horn”
<gaylevanhorn@monitoringtimes.com>, “Glenn Hauser”
<wghauser@yahoo.com>, “Hard-core-dx” <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>,
“Marie Lamb” <malamb@cumbredx.org>
Subject: [HCDX] Tues DX

Bolivia, 6155.33, Radio Fides, 1010-1020, Noted a very faint signal here of a male in Spanish Language comments. Sometimes a female comments too. Tried for a better result with both the WR G305e and WJ HF1000 and both failed to produce much more than a faint signal, although the display
from the WR was very much better showing Fides’ signal well, even though there wasn’t much audio. By the way, there was a stronger signal on 6155 KHz producing a het with Fides. (Chuck Bolland,
April 13, 2010)

Peru, 6019.30, Radio Victoria, 1020-1030, Noted a male in Spanish language comments here. Victoria mixing with the station on 6120 which is playing Raga type music – excuse the misspelled word. Even so, Victoria is audible with precise tuning and with a fair signal (Chuck Bolland, April 13, 2010)

China, 6125, China National Radio One, 1035-1045, This is possibly the relay via Beijing
which comes on the air at 1000 UTC according to AOKI. Noted various persons in Mandarin (listed) language comments. Signal was good. (Chuck Bolland, April 13, 2010)

Unident, 6128.70, 1045-1050+ Have a faint carrier and display on this freq but no audio heard. This could be Laos which is listed on 6130 KHz at this period of time. Reported for reference and subsequent confirmation. (Chuck Bolland, April 13, 2010)

Peru, 6173.92, Tawantinsuyo, 1047-1100, Noted a male in Spanish language comments off and on as the signal fades in and out. The signal was threshold. (Chuck Bolland, April 13, 2010)

Tibet, 6200, PBS Xizang, 0930-1110+ Noted a program of news and features presented by both a male and female in Tibetan language. Found a parallel to this on 7385 KHz which was much a better signal than 6200 which was poor, but was fading in so to speak. (Chuck Bolland, April 13, 2010)

WinRadio G305e/pd
26.37N 081.05W

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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:10:30 +0300
From: “Zacharias Liangas ” <greekdx@otenet.gr>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] two most important logs made in pozar with questions

two most important logs made in pozar with questions …
(1) 15410 for the new radio station for Uganda ‘Radiyo Y’Abaganda’ , there was an error ” we are sorry … the .. is not available this time please try later” 365 Good signal
There seem that the station had some problems that day . No signal …..

(2) 5800 WRN? 1554, a sports program fair to good 5800 WRN? 1646 asking for sale of carrier Fair
I am not very sure if this was the station Is there soemthing new? Please read and distribute this 15 year research article http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e
Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd
________________________
http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE
http://sites.google.com/site/zliangas (replacement of geocities)
http://zliangas.blogspot.com (radio tech , gadgets, grk ethics)
http://www.youtube.com/zach0gr some videos
http://www.myspace.com/310100806
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=770974854
http://www.worldisround.com/articles/302315/ (Litohoro) 321199/Tinos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachgr pictures upload
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/06600224598981072865 (social news )
http://zlgr.stumbleupon.com (my social ‘bookmarks’ )
http://del.icio.us/gr_geek1
……..
Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece
greekdx @ otenet dot gr —
Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108,
Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000
Antenna: 16m hor, 2×16 m V invert, 1m australian loop

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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:57:37 +0300
From: “Zacharias Liangas ” <greekdx@otenet.gr>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs made in Loutraki spas (nearby …)

Logs made in Loutraki (POzar ) the last weeek together with some story on the trip
Her is the story behind http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/273

I Urge to you read my full posting in this page since the logs here are only a part and you will losr the most interestring :setup photos and wonderful view of logs and how reception has ben made these two days!!!! http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/274/

9/4/10
9975 ??? 1330 with IDs and goodbye Poor
15040 Cairo ? 1357 with news in farsi 1403 with Quran preaches
15065 Cairo? 1401 with talk sin farsi , 140 3 quran preahes 1610 nearly noting
15080 Cairo? 1420 arab songs . ID 1510 with prg in Arabic
15090 AIR? 1423 talks in HINDI . poor
15480 DVB 1453 discussions / talks in bamar good signal — based on the info I had , the program started on e hour before
9526 VoI 1505 nes in Indo 332333
9930 Bar Kulan 1602 HoA songs Poor

10-4-10
9550 V oViet 1525 talk in Viet 43xx3
15160 AWR hindi 1530 IS ID 42xx2
11585 CRI carriers x 2 1538 good sinal against?
5965 Malaysia Klassik National 1549 with old malay songs, talks by OM inmalay . Poor
9475 R Australia? 1550 old songs 33×3
9525 V o Indonesia 1515+1545 with talks in Indo 43xx4
17745 SRS 1549 VOH long talks inAR , 243×2
4980 Xinjiang PBS (CH)1550 talks in Uighur 343×3
5010 Trivandrum (IN)1551 sitar plays fair
5810 ?? 1553 talks in Korean Good , passing 1600
5800 WRN? 1554, a sports program fair to good
5800 WRN? 1646 asking for sale of carrier Fair
5810 Shiokaze??? 1648 with old enka song and talks in Korean 34433
15410 for the new radio station for Uganda , there was an error ” we are sorry … the .. is not available this time please try later” 365 Good signal

Please read and distribute this 15 year research article http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e
Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd
________________________
http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE
http://sites.google.com/site/zliangas (replacement of geocities)
http://zliangas.blogspot.com (radio tech , gadgets, grk ethics)
http://www.youtube.com/zach0gr some videos
http://www.myspace.com/310100806
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=770974854
http://www.worldisround.com/articles/302315/ (Litohoro) 321199/Tinos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachgr pictures upload
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/06600224598981072865 (social news )
http://zlgr.stumbleupon.com (my social ‘bookmarks’ )
http://del.icio.us/gr_geek1
……..
Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece
greekdx @ otenet dot gr —
Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108,
Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000
Antenna: 16m hor, 2×16 m V invert, 1m australian loop

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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:47:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 12-13, 2010

** ANGUILLA. Caribbean Beacon, the ID never heard on the air, missing from 6090, April 13 at 0615, instead NIGERIA, q.v.; and also missing from day frequency 11775 at 1319 and 1409 chex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA [and non]. 7325, RCI Spanish service giving postal address, mixing about equally with CRI in Japanese, also aimed USward, April 13 at 1243. This is an old story, same thing happening all last summer, as RCI doggedly keeps using this frequency, which is increasingly useless the further west from its official target of the NE quadrant of the conterminous USA, 277 degrees from Sackville. After this A-10 reminder, I promise not to keep reporting it, as RCI obviously does not consider it a problem and the audience would be minuscule even if it were QRM-free.

The collision applies to the entire trihour from 1105 to 1405 in Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, as CRI Japanese service runs 1000-1357, 500 kW, 59 degrees from Jinhua-Youbu #831 transmitter site, per Aoki. AIR Mumbai has apparently thought better of adding to the clash after 1230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. 4800 definitely in Chinese, April 13 at 1234, interfering with CODAR, which is CNR1, 100 kW non-direxional from Geermu per Aoki, nothing from AIR Hyderabad audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake April 13: at 1250, nothing on 8400, but at 1252 good on 10420, and suspicious weak open carrier on 11500. At 1417 fair on 10420, still nothing on 8400. Nor anything in the 9.3`s at either time or in between (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. As previously reported, RHC`s new 12020 to S America collides with RDPI Portugal on 12020 also to S America after 2300, but the latter is M-F only. No problem of course Sunday April 11, so checked again Monday April 12 at 2330: propagation poor, but RHC heard only on other new 12030 (with clicking jamspur now on the hi side), not on 12020 where a weak not // signal was audible, presumably Portugal again in the clear. At 0015 April 13, could make 12020 // much stronger RDPI on 9715. So where has RHC gone from 12020? As yet unknown.

9735, April 13 at 1255 pulse jamming at the rate of 136 per minute against nothing but an open carrier, i.e. Taiwan about to resume with its second hour in Japanese, hardly worth jamming. But this could be a tipoff to something more pertinent to the Cuban Commies on 9735 at some completely different hour; or it could be a rogue jamspur.

OTOH, 9805, extra extended frequency of R. Mart?, April 13 at 1419 was jamfree, but colliding with R. Free Asia, in Vietnamese via SAIPAN.

13880, the RHC leapfrog of 13680 over 13780, two very strong signals, doing well April 13 at 1317, at peaks as strong as the Russian on 13870, VOR, 145 degrees from St. Pete, but Cuba with more fading (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GERMANY [non]. 5980, April 13 at 1248 fair carrier with continuous tone, leading up to something at hourtop. 1300 undermodulated Chinese talk starts, soon revealed at 1301 as Deutsche Welle with ID, sounder. Listed via Vladivostok at 240 degrees oppositely from US (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. AIR with news in English, April 13 at 1231 on weak 4920 mixing with music presumably from TIBET; news // but an echo apart on weaker 5010, Chennai and T`m respectively;

At 1235 on 4820 music with SAH, one of which would be Kolkata, the other Lhasa, plus SSB QRM. Local sunrise April 13 in Enid was 1201 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 4750, RRI Makassar in heavy mix with China (or Bangladesh?), April 13 at 1233 but Indonesian talk atop (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI was missing April 11, back on but propped-out carrier only April 12; April 13 at 1302 fairly good signal strength, but with flutter, undermodulated under heavy hum, and adding the accent and pitch of Mr. Banjarmasin, copy was too poor to stay with for yet another Exotic Indonesia excursion on Tuesdays. YL in Jak did news headlines at 1304-1306 which were much more readable but yawn, about the president signing letters about this and that; 1306 back to Banjarmasin and I give up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN [non]. In A-seasons with 15410 absent, it`s harder to find a decent signal for Radio Farda`s great music mix, but audible April 13 at 1403 with song in Farsi, 1407 ID in passing, this hour only via Wertachtal, GERMANY on 13580; abandoned by R. Prague (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 5890, VOA Korean via TINIAN, April 13 at 1247 with noise jamming plus wavering het I had not noticed before.

Looked for Shiokaze on new 6135 as Ron Howard discovered, but too far into daytime absorption here at 1410. Would block longpath from Madagascar if it were still audible either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 6185, XEPPM, April 13 at 0622 still in the clear with a string of Carole King songs, album cuts, after intro in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9860, Arabic music and then talk about Hollandia, good signal April 12 at 2120. It`s the new A-10 frequency for RN via RWANDA during this hour at 325 degrees, tho missing from Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA. 6090, in absence of Anguilla, April 13 at 0615 African language distorted with hum, long pause leaving the hum unimpeded, resumed talk at 0616, no doubt R. Nigeria, Kaduna, presumably in Hausa, which when AIA is on can be heard as an undercurrent, and slightly off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1580, KOKB Blackwell had resumed modulating, at 2027 UT check April 12 on caradio, sports talk with the studio announcer somewhat overmodulated/distorted (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. KFXY 1640 Enid may have changed format to “The New Faith 1640“ with southern gospel music — but that doesn`t mean an even more important religion, baseball can`t bump off the praise whenever there is a game.

Monday afternoon April 12 at 1840 UT, I am hearing Royals baseball vs Tigers at Detroit! And frequent commercial breaks including local ones for the KC area, such as Edward Jones in Prairie Village. What good does that do us in Enid, with half a dozen of those right around here??

Next check at 2026, still Royals game. It was about over so after the post-game wrapup, and I could not care less who won, at 2046 slogan as “The sports authority for Edmond, 1640 The Score“ and already mixing with gospel music as it immediately converted to “The New Faith 1640“. Edmond is a northern suburb of OKC well within coverage.

There are bound to be night games too, so DXers may still hear either format and either slogan, depending, on 1640. But apparently still not sports talk any more, just live games and associated chatter.

While I was at it, scanned the MW band to find what other stations were audible on the Royals network, no IDs heard but easily presumed:

1550, KKLE Winfield KS (tho CCI KYAL Sapulpa OK is also sports)
1510, KNNS Larned KS, barely audible in KOKC splash, but // 1640
(was surprised to get this, as not usually audible daytimes)
1150, KSAL Salina KS
1130, KLEY Wellington KS, sibling station to 1550 KKLE Winfield
860, KKOW Pittsburg KS
690, KGGF Coffeyville KS
580, WIBW Topeka KS

and some 8 seconds delayed, 610, KCSP Kansas City, which I assume is the originating station. Is that so it will be less obvious that the same game is on 580 WIBW? It`s also incredible that 690 and 860 in essentially the same market with huge coverage overlap are both carrying Royals. Axually, 580 alone would suffice to cover this entire area in KS, MO and OK, not to mention NE and IA.

I also ran across more silly ball games on the dial; they all sound alike to me, so in the parked car I employed the handy portable I always keep in the vehicle, and checked for parallels.

Cardinals were also playing, on:
1390, KCRC Enid OK [we are so lucky to have access to both!]
1230, WBBZ Ponca City OK

Rangers on:
710, KGNC Amarillo TX
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PAKISTAN [and non]. Something colliding on 15540, April 13 at 1310, the stronger signal slightly off to the hi side, producing a wavering whine, one talk, one music.

At 1328, S. Asian music on the hi side is atop the talk on the lo side, and the lower one goes off at 1329, while the hi side makes an announcement, and then a brief riff which sounds hymnic.

Still trying to figure out what the remaining signal is at 1350, a bit of music sounds HOA, later Chinesish, 1355 SEAsish, now with heavy flutter. 1400 a brief tone and off.

Eibi shows 15540 with R. Pakistan in Tamil at 1300-1330. Aoki has nothing at all in this hour. The other one must be something new (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3905, with a bit of music April 13 at 1237, but more than a semihour after LSR, and soon losing out to SSB QRhaM. Has to be R. New Ireland, as RRI Merauke is inactive (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PORTUGAL. See CUBA [and non], 12020

** RUSSIA. R. Rossii with jazz on 7320, April 13 1244, squeezed between 7325 RCI/CRI, see CANADA [and non], and 7315 WHRI with country gospel music; but // 7200, which had a co-channel SAH, and QRhaM with a QSO between a 4 and a 9. 7200 is Yakutsk, 7320 is Magadan per Aoki, nowhere near Irkutsk per HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 11820, BSKSA with Qur`an, April 12 at 2130, good for lullaby napping as I could barely understand a word of it, so no risk of inadvertent conversion; also found on // 11915 still going at 2157. These are 320 and 295 degrees respectively from R. Riyadh`s HQS, or at least they were in B-09 per Aoki; but not really intended for the Americas.

17705 at 1401 April 13, weak signal in Arabic with stingers, mentioning Saudi; R. Riyadh program 1 is new here at 12-15, 310 degrees to Europe; probably ex-21640 as also noted by Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SEYCHELLES [non]. 11985, April 12 at 2159, Arabic-sounding song and talk mentioning “Idha`at“ and “Akbar“ in a .com website; had clix on low side, probably spur from Cuban 11930 jamming, and after 2200 bothered by RCI from 11990. Also heard a few words of French, 2203.5 into music.

This is FEBA via ASCENSION; Eibi says the language is Pulaar daily at 2145-2215; Aoki says Hassinya at 2145-2200 Mon-Tue-Thu-Fri and nothing later or on other days. HFCC says Pulaar daily 2145-2215 at 27 degrees. Pulaar is spoken in Senegal/Gambia and vicinity, related to Fulani/Fulfulde, not to be confused with Pular; while Hassinya presumably refers to Western Sahara (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. BBCWS` only remaining SW broadcast in English to the entire Western Hemisphere, M-F 1215-1300 via WHRI 9410, still exists, April 13 at 1251 with Robin Lustig interviewing someone, but considerable co-channel QRM in Chinese and SAH caused by CNR and incidentally jamming Fu Hsing, Taiwan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WWCR-4 off the air again from 9980 another afternoon, April 12 at 2118 and in the following hour, but seemed to be back at 2330 tho just barely audible as were WWCR-2 on 9350 and WTWW 9479 since propagation had dropped out.

The M-F program schedule shows:
2000 WW Country Radio
2100 Truth House
2200 Challenge Ministries
2300 Unshackled
2330 Thru the Bible
0000 Golden Age of Radio to 0200*

I would assume that Truth House and Challenge Ministries are paid programming so strange to be silent then, rather than during WWCR, Unshackled or GAOR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. Checking the M-F “A Fondo“ hour jointly produced by R. Mart? and VOA, UT Tue-Sat 00-01: April 13 at 0010, all jammed, but audible on 11970, 9885, 7365, 6030. Forgot to check 11775, the fifth frequency heard four nights earlier.

Suspect Lavwadlamerik has quietly cancelled the extra Creole broadcasts started ASAP after the Haitian earthquake in January, but when? VOA took forever to add the new schedule to the A-Z website, and now that it has, some of the frequencies shown are missing.

As Of April 13, VOA A-Z language schedule still shows: Creole – NEW!
0000-0100 UTC 5835 7590
0100-0200 UTC 5835 7465
1130-1230 UTC 6135 9505 M-F
1630-1830 UTC 15390 17565
1830-2000 UTC 15390
2000-2200 UTC 11905 13725
2200-2300 UTC 7590 11905
2300-0000 UTC 5835 7590

But April 13 at 0015, nothing on 5835 and 7590. Need to check the earlier channels, as may revert to original afternoon timing of 2100-2130 only, nothing later.

April 13 at 1757 and 1835, nothing on 15390 or 17565, so the midday show has probably contracted to original 1630-1700. Or less? I am beginning to wonder if *any* VOA Creole SW broadcasts remain on the air; need to check all above times and frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5050, WWRB presumed running all-night as normally heard both late and early with Biblical readings/dramatizations, but April 13 at 0627 it`s missing; 1226 it`s on vs SAH de CHINA, could be both of them at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9955, WRMI, April 13 at 1321 with screaming preacher in English vs DentroCuban pulse jamming. The latest WRMI program grid we have, dated March 23, showed various English religious programs at 1300-1315 M-F including Gospel King on Tuesdays, but then at 1315 French for Haiti, Radio des Nations-Unies, which this was definitely not (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15540 at 1300-1400: see PAKISTAN [and non] ###

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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:34:54 +0200
From: “Wolfgang Bueschel” <BueschelW@web.de>
To: “HCDX” <hard-core-dx@kotalampi.com>, “DXLD” <dxld@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs of April 12 /13

Some logs of April 12/13
IRAN/ISRAEL 13850v KOL Israel at 1500-1530 UT in Persian on 13850 even accompanied by two carriers of Iranian bubble jammers on 13849.88 and 13850.05 kHz, additional 120 Hertz buzz. No \\ 15640 traced, totally covered due of DRM Sines Portugal service on co-channel, latter S=9+30dB.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 12)

JORDAN 11960 Radio Jordan Amman in Arabic, scheduled 0500-0715 UT, but noted also much earlier at 0400-0500 UT like \\ 11810 kHz. S=poor 6-7 signal on Apr 13. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 13)

MOLDOVA 12130 YFR Bible Hour via Grigoriopol Moldova relay, like Arabic lang sce 1500-1600 UT, deep fades. S=6 poor signal. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 12)

PORTUGAL 12020 RDP Lisbon at 0940 UT April 13 noted 26 kHz broadband signal on 12007 to 12033 kHz coverage range. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 13)

SAUDI ARABIA “BSKSA Foreign sce schedule” not traced on Saudi Radio website yet.

“BSKSA shortwave sce schedule in Arabic” CID

1 = 1st progr
<http://www.saudiradio.net/DIFrame.aspx?src=RadioFrequency.aspx?cid=1> [thanks help Eike and Mauno]

2 = 2nd progr Jeddah ?, only two frequencies)
<http://www.saudiradio.net/DIFrame.aspx?src=RadioFrequency.aspx?cid=2>
3 = Quran program
<http://www.saudiradio.net/DIFrame.aspx?src=RadioFrequency.aspx?cid=3>
4 = only single line, seemingly e-mail addresses
<http://www.saudiradio.net/DIFrame.aspx?src=Section.aspx&id=4>
5 = Music Channel and Foreign language programs En/Fr programs,
see WRTH p334
<http://www.saudiradio.net/DIFrame.aspx?src=RadioFrequency.aspx?cid=5>
6 = only single line

“BSKSA shortwave sce schedule in Arabic”
7240 1500 1800 RIY 500 40 FARSI
9455 0600 0900 RIY 500 295 ARABIC 1ST. P
9555 1800 2300 RIY 500 295 ARABIC 1ST. P
9580 0300 0600 JED 50 0 ARABIC 2ND. P
9580 1700 2200 JED 50 0 ARABIC 2ND. P
9580 1800 2300 RIY 500 270 ARABIC HOLY Q
9640 1500 1800 RIY 500 40 TURKISTANI
9675 0300 0900 RIY 500 0 ARABIC 1ST. P
also 0600-1200 UT ? 2nd program, see website cid=2
9675 0900 1500 RIY 500 0 ARABIC 1ST. P
9675 1800 2100 RIY 500 340 TURKISH
9695 1400 1600 RIY 500 55 PASHTO
9705 1500 1800 RIY 500 40 TURKISTANI
9860 1200 1500 RIY 500 310 ARABIC 1ST. P
9870 1800 2300 RIY 500 310 ARABIC 1ST. P
9885 1500 1800 RIY 500 40 TURKISTANI
11730 0900 1200 RIY 500 310 ARABIC 1ST. P
11820 1800 2300 RIY 500 320 ARABIC HOLY Q
11855 0600 1700 JED 50 0 ARABIC 2ND. P
11880 0600 0900 RIY 250 310 ARABIC 1ST. P
11915 1800 2300 RIY 500 295 ARABIC HOLY Q
11930 1800 2300 RIY 500 270 ARABIC HOLY Q
11935 0900 1200 RIY 500 310 ARABIC HOLY Q
13710 1500 1800 RIY 500 295 ARABIC HOLY Q
13775 1200 1500 RIY 500 70 URDU
15120 1200 1600 RIY 500 70 BENGALI
15170 0300 0600 RIY 500 355 ARABIC HOLY Q
15205 1600 1800 RIY 500 320 ARABIC HOLY Q
15225 1500 1800 RIY 500 295 ARABIC 1ST. P
15250 0930 1230 RIY 500 250 ENGLISH
15285 0400 0700 RIY 500 190 SWAHILI
15320 0300 0500 RIY 500 175 SOMALI
15380 0600 0900 RIY 500 310 ARABIC HOLY Q
15380 1200 1400 RIY 500 310 ARABIC HOLY Q
15435 1500 1800 RIY 500 320 ARABIC 1ST. P
15470 1000 1300 RIY 500 250 ENGLISH
15490 0900 1200 RIY 500 310 ARABIC 1ST. P
15575 1400 1600 RIY 500 55 PASHTO
15610 0800 1000 RIY 500 55 CHINESE
15790 0900 1200 RIY 500 310 ARABIC 1ST. P
17500 1300 1600 RIY 500 190 ARABIC HOLY Q
17520 0900 1200 RIY 500 70 ARABIC HOLY Q
17535 1200 1400 RIY 500 100 ARABIC HOLY Q
17560 1600 1800 RIY 500 270 ARABIC HOLY Q
17570 0900 1200 RIY 500 70 ARABIC HOLY Q — new?
17585 0900 1200 RIY 500 100 INDONESIAN
17615 0900 1200 RIY 500 100 ARABIC HOLY Q
17625 1200 1400 RIY 500 100 ARABIC HOLY Q
17650 1600 1800 RIY 500 250 BAMBARA
17660 1400 1800 RIY 500 270 FRENCH
17705 1200 1500 RIY 500 310 ARABIC 1ST. P
17730 0600 0900 RIY 500 295 ARABIC 1ST. P
17740 0600 0900 RIY 250 310 ARABIC 1ST. P
17745 1200 1500 RIY 500 70 BENGALI
17760 0300 0500 RIY 500 175 SOMALI
17785 0800 1000 RIY 500 270 FRENCH
17805 0900 1200 RIY 500 295 ARABIC 1ST. P
17820 1200 1500 RIY 500 70 BENGALI
17885 1200 1400 RIY 500 100 ARABIC HOLY Q
17895 0300 0800 RIY 500 40 ARABIC HOLY Q
17895 1200 1500 RIY 500 295 ARABIC HOLY Q
21460 1300 1600 RIY 500 190 ARABIC HOLY Q
21495 0900 1200 RIY 500 70 ARABIC HOLY Q
21505 1200 1500 RIY 500 295 ARABIC 1ST. P
21530 1200 1500 RIY 500 70 URDU
21555 0900 1200 RIY 500 310 ARABIC 1ST. P
21600 1200 1400 RIY 500 100 ARABIC HOLY Q
21640 1200 1500 RIY 500 310 ARABIC 1ST. P
21665 0300 0600 RIY 500 55 CHINESE
21670 0900 1200 RIY 500 100 INDONESIAN
21705 0900 1200 RIY 500 310 ARABIC 1ST. P
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 12)

U.K. 11615 Polskie Radio Warsaw via Woofferton in Ukrainian 1500-1530 UT, noted at 1505 UT April 12, suffered and covered by China mainland echo jamming. Scheduled IBB Saipan 1400-1500 UT, I guess VOA Cantonese sce. But CHN jamming last longer into 15-16 UT slot. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 12)

USA 17494.90v WBCQ Kennebunk noted tiny S=1-2 signal around 1450 UT. Brother Stair station?
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 12)

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Today’s Topics:

1. Logs of April 14 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
2. Somalia: Las radios de Mogadiscio se quedan sin musica
(JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO)
3. Glenn Hauser logs April 13-14, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
4. Re: Logs of April 14 (Glenn Hauser)
5. Re: [dxld] Log 14/Apr (Wolfgang Bueschel)
6. Quito Ecuador War of the Worlds Story (Don Moore)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:34:46 +0200
From: “Wolfgang Bueschel” <BueschelW@web.de>
To: “HCDX” <hard-core-dx@kotalampi.com>, “DXLD” <dxld@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs of April 14

KOREA D.P.R. 11865 Supposedly Voice of Korea in Japanese, S=4 tiny carrier at 0842 UT, scheduled 0700-1250 UT, next door KNLS Alaska in Mandarin Chinese on 11870 kHz on similar poor signal level. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 14)

MALAYSIA 15295 Surprisingly fair level signal from RTM K-L Kajang, English news read by Cambridge like high-British accent English newsreader. Still in progress at 0904 UT Apr 14. As beam headed of 133 degrees towards Pacific, I guess RTM signal signal came longpath across Pacific, Easter Isl, Colombia, Bonaire and Azores to my post. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 14)

RUSSIA/TAJIKISTAN 15195 Supposedly an additional Radio Tatarstan Kazan transmission in Russian noted at 0800-0900 UT, April 14. From Tatar Radio via Russian Samara tx center. Talk between female journalist and male musican from Kazan. Strenght jumped up to S=9+20dB level. Time pips at exact 0900 UT, tx switch off at 09.00:45 UT.

Re my wrong WBCQ logging of 17494.94 kHz.

Noted once again an English newsreader on 17494.94 kHz at 0915 UT this morning, so seemingly rather Voice of Russia via Dushanbe-TJK scheduled 0700-1000 UT to SoEaAS/PAC, AUS/NZL, though tiny signal in Europe. This tx observed also at unscheduled time slot 14-15 UT. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 14)

UNID 9350.00 Some engineer checked a tx on air in 31 mb at 0800-0815 UT, maybe some of the VT-group beast from England. S=8-9, no content, just carrier. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 14)

UNID 9385.00 a S=6-7 signal observed at 0817 UT Apr 14. Even with SYNCR option in E1 I couldn’t trace the exact language, but I guess it was an English speaking typical US like religious prayer. WWRB is scheduled on 3185 til 1200 UT and later on 9385 from 1200 UT in US-FCC list.

At same time 08-09 UT fair propagation level from the west, like Shepparton-AUS on 9580, 9590, 11945, and 13630 kHz, the strongest was 9710 on S=7 level. Supposedly via long path Pacific, Easter Isl, Colombia, Bonaire, Azores into Europe. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 14)

UNID UTE stations in bc bands at 0800-0900 UT probably from Americas… Unid RTTY 9652 S=4 at 0825, 9864 at 0830 UT, 11523.90, 11913.50, 12149, STANAG on 12061 kHz, at 0840 UT.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 14)

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Message: 2
Message: 3
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:40:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 13-14, 2010
Message-ID: <900381.31122.qm@web51108.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

** CANADA. 9650, KBSWR relay hour in Korean via Sackville, once again replaced by RCI IS and ID loop in French and English, April 14 at 1434. I suspect another instance of lack of communication among Seoul, Montreal and Sackville, no one paying attention or taking responsibility for punching the right buttons, so who cares? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake April 14: not heard on 8-9-10 MHz bands, but on 11500 at 1227 during drumming, lo het and atop some other music. Aoki shows this as one of many 24h Sound of Hope 1 kW non-direxional transmitters on Taiwan to tie up the jammers.

But the more likely collateral victim was Voice of Russia via TAJIKISTAN to South Asia, as in EiBi, 1200 English, 1300 Hindi, 1400-1500 English. 11500 was typoed in VOR`s own schedule as “15000“ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 15380, new RHC frequency colliding at about equal level with Qur`an from SAUDI ARABIA, April 14 at 1326, making fast SAH of maybe 20 Hz, 1333 Saudi ID as it was gaining on Cuba. Riyadh is scheduled 12-14 at 310 degrees only for Turkey, but their 500 kW USward carries on a bit further. Cuba starts 15380 already at 1100. Another great pick by Arnie (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [non]. 9780, new frequency for R. Rep?blica at 0200-0400 first reported by Jos? El?as D?az G?mez in Venezuela, I had trouble hearing at first but audible April 14 at 0203; poor signal but no jamming, compared to 9490 via Sackville until 0200. The 9780 broadcast may be UT Tue-Sat only. Site unknown, possibly UK, or Central America. It seems to put a better signal into Venezuela than it does into OK. JEDG sent a clip of them announcing 9780 for those two hours. WRMI knows nothing about it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. It pays for me to awaken a bit earlier than usual for better Asian reception. 3325, RRI Palangkaraya, best heard in a long time, S9+18, April 14 at 1158 with song, 1200 one pip, RRI ID, WIB timecheck, warta berita, the first minute of which with plenty of music produxion, presumably headlines, then W&M alternating. Really no sign of Buka, PNG on same frequency. This is right at local sunrise in Enid.

3345, RRI Ternate at 1202 April 14, also news in Indonesian but not // 3325, or maybe it was just a bit out of synch; quite weaker than 3325. 3345 back to music already at 1205.

4870, RRI Wamena, April 14 at 1209 with warta berita, // much stronger 4750 Makassar, and a couple words out of synch (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN. 15555+, slightly hi in frequency, poor signal April 14 at 1335 with Qur`an, then YL in Japanese, which always seems a strange pairing, but not to the Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1330-1430 at 60 degrees from Kamalabad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KURDISTAN. 11530, V. of Mesopotamia, via UKRAINE, April 14 at 1405 nothing but talk, but kept tuned waiting for Kurdish music which finally followed at 1418; fair but fluttery signal from the PKK terrorists (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** POLAND [non]. 11675, PRES via AUSTRIA, fairly good signal still, April 14 at 1230 about remembering Pres. & Mrs. Kaczynski, improving relations with Israel, fourth day of mourning (website is still monochrome), controversy over where to bury them, plans for memorials and musea, new elexion must be held in June; 1238 dirge music and “Opera Connexions“ presenting art songs for rest of hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA [and non]. 15510+, slightly hi in frequency, April 14 at 1337 songs, split-second audio dropouts, hum, 1340 novelty/comedy song in Persian(?), 1346 a more serious song, 1356 “Love Story“ theme. What`s this?

Finally answered by VOR IS at 1359. It`s the Pashto/Dari service via Armavir/Krasnodar, overlapping briefly with DW opening in Russian via Rampisham UK at 1400. I also heard a few syllables of Chinese in the transition as one must have erred in switching (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CHINA [and non]

** SAIPAN [and non]. 9585 in Vietnamese, fair signal April 14 at 1220 interrupting the flow between Radio Australia on 9580 and 9590. This is KFBS at 12-13, also producing 5 kHz hets between the Australians. And it`s followed by KTWR GUAHAN at 1300-1330 on same in Sgaw Karen, per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGST)

** SAUDI ARABIA. Collision on 15380: see CUBA [and non]

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 3185, Brother Scare via WWRB, April 14 at 1155 saying another major SW station wants him 24/7, at a cost of $50,000 per month, but he doesn`t have the money for that, so please send him plenty. (That worx out to about $68 per hour.) He implied some other stations give him a better rate than that, and said he always pays in advance. That must be why several stations vie for his nonsensical biz; who cares about the public interest?

I happened to tune across him again on WWRB 9385 at 1423, saying he is rearranging radio schedules and asking for radio chex from Europe on 13845 — is that signal better now that WWCR has changed antennas? (He is not on 13845 at the moment; in fact not on the latest WWCR sked at all. I am sure they`d be glad to have him back, having lost Pastor Pete Peters.) Then at 1425 cut to exactly the same pitch heard 2.5 hours earlier, also saying that last month 7-8 (presumably AM) stations were dropped, but 4-5 added (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. VOA has cancelled all its SW broadcasts in Haitian Creole. These were greatly expanded from three half-hours per day shortly following the January earthquake. The extent of the expansion was not immediately clear since accurate schedules were not posted for weeks, but we soon monitored the additional times and frequencies.

Now that the A-Z language transmission schedule includes the extra hours, those are no longer heard, and furthermore the original half-hours, which in summer time would have been at 1130, 1630 and 2100 UT, are also missing from the HFCC schedule.

Monitoring April 14, no sign of the 1130 transmission which was on 9505, and before than on 9670, nor via the Bonaire relay 6135, which is also gone from the RNW schedule. At 1630 nothing on previous 15390 or 17565. Not yet checked at 2100-2130 but surely also gone.

If the Haitians were so much in need of additional VOA broadcasts on SW then, how is it that now they no longer need them, or any Kreyol SW broadcasts from VOA at all? Are we to assume that any listeners in Ha?ti can easily access Lavwadlamerik via internet, mobile devices? Or are there some reliable FM or AM relays now? When did the airborne Commando Solo relays cease? Likely quite some time ago, but we don`t get any press releases or any other announcements about that or VOA cuts, which might be construed as negative.

On April 7, Radio Mart? got another transmitter at Greenville, labeled “temporary“, making four frequencies at once during most of the day rather than three, as I previously reported. This came out of the ex-Kreyol service. That may have been when Kreyol was canceled, if not earlier in the nascent A-10 season. We suspected the extra SW for Mart? was to compensate for Marathon 1180 being off the air temporarily, as frequently announced on RM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. VOA at 1218 Wednesday April 14 going from Earth & Sky about big dams, to Wordmaster about English teaching, on 7575, also audible on 9505 and with ChiComQRM on 9760 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 4050, at 1134 April 14, fairly good signal with John Gibson on Fox Newstalk network, i.e. 3 x 1350 from KWMO Washington MO. So they do both far-right jabber and C&W music, as recently heard late at night, or is the C&W now displaced by The Mouth?

Cardinals folder from Will Martin shows KWMO also on that baseball network, as if nearby flagship KTRS-550 did not totally overlap KWMO coverage. Upcoming night games at 0015 UT April 15, 17; 0005 UT April 19, 0140 UT April 20, 21, 22 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VATICAN [non]. Radio Vaticano/a has a new morning relay via CANADA, 227 degrees from Sackville for Mexico, 1130-1215 on 9830, first Spanish, and from 1200 English. April 14 at 1146 heard ID in Spanish, mixed with RTTY! Another station which is not paying attention to the non-broadcast QRM problem on this frequency. Doesn`t anyone send them reception reports with an I of 2 or 3? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:37:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: HCDX <hard-core-dx@kotalampi.com>, dxld@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Logs of April 14
Message-ID: <84897.10959.qm@web51104.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

WYFR is now on 9835 at 02-04 Spanish, 0445-09 English, ex-9340. Glenn Hauser

— On Wed, 4/14/10, Wolfgang Bueschel <BueschelW@web.de> wrote:
UNID???9385.00? a S=6-7 signal observed at 0817 UT Apr 14. Even with SYNCR option in E1 I couldn’t trace the exact language, but I guess it was an English speaking typical US like religious prayer.?
WWRB is scheduled on 3185 til 1200 UT and later on 9385 from 1200 UT in US-FCC list.

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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:56:33 +0200
From: “Wolfgang Bueschel” <BueschelW@web.de>
To: “HCDX” <hard-core-dx@kotalampi.com>, “DXLD” <dxld@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Log 14/Apr

—– Original Message —–
From: “Jorge Freitas (Yahoo)” Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 10:07 PM
Subject: [dxld] Log 14/Apr

11640 14/Apr 1610 GERMANY, Polskie Radio, in Polish. OM e YL falam entre curtas classicas musicas. Sinal fraco e a ID veio atravos da radio online http://www.polskieradio.pl/sluchaj/default.aspx?p=5 . Sinal fraco e degradando. 25322 (Jorge Freitas-B)

Never Germany.
Polskie Radio only via transmitters of VT-group/ORS in
Austria, Norway, U.A.E., U.K.

6035 1930 2000 28NW WOF 125 90 12 607 German G
6135 1930 2000 28NW WOF 125 82 12 607 German G DRM
6155 2100 2200 27S SKN 250 150 0 341 Polish G
7245 2100 2200 28NE,29W WOF 125 78 0 547 Polish G
7265 1700 1800 27 KVI 250 220 0 800 English G
7265 1700 1800 27 KVI 250 220 0 800 English NOR PRW NPT
9435 1130 1200 28NW RMP(xWOF) 125 90 12 611 German G
9495 1530 1600 28NW WOF 300 90 12 611 German G
9610 1130 1200 28NW RMP(xWOF 125 82 12 618 German G
9655 1700 1800 18 WOF 125 58 -12 618 English G
11615 1500 1530 29S WOF 125 78 0 611 Ukrainian G
11640 1530 1630 28NE,29W WOF 125 78 0 611 Polish G
11675 1200 1300 27 MOS 100 300 0 218 English AUT PRW VTC
11730 1800 1830 29 WOF 125 58 -12 618 Russian G
11730 1830 1930 29S WOF 125 82 12 618 Ukrainian G
11760 1430 1500 29 WOF 125 66 -12 611 Russian G
11760 1630 1700 28NE,29W WOF 125 78 0 611 Belorussia G
11790 1030 1100 27 MOS 100 300 0 218 Polish AUT PRW VTC
11865 1800 1830 38E,39 SKN 300 110 0 216 Hebrew G
11955 1330 1430 28NE RMP 250 76 14 216 Belorussia G
11980 1200 1300 18 WOF 250 45 -30 218 English G
15155 1830 1930 29 WOF 125 82 12 618 Russian G
15265 1030 1100 28NE,29W RMP (xWOF 125 82 12 618 Polish G
15265 1100 1130 29 WOF 125 70 0 618 Russian G
15265 1500 1530 29S WOF 300 86 12 611 Ukrainian G
15460 1100 1130 29 RMP(xWOF 125 75 0 218 Russian G
15480 1300 1430 28NE,29W WOF 125 74 0 611 Ru/Belorussia G
15500 1430 1500 29S WOF 125 74 0 611 Ukrainian G
17860 1300 1330 30N DHA 250 20 0 218 Russian G

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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:21:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Don Moore <donmooredxer@yahoo.com>
To: wghauser@yahoo.com, hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Cc: kdmacharg@gmail.com
Subject: [HCDX] Quito Ecuador War of the Worlds Story

In 1992 Monitoring Times published an article of mine about a War of the Worlds broadcast gone-wrong from Radio Quito. The story can be found here:
http://www.pateplumaradio.com/south/ecuador/martians.html

My references were slim and the information was sketchy. A few years later Ken MacHarg did a feature on this on HCJB’s DX Party Line. He interviewed me and he interviewed Javier Almeida, then director of Radio Quito. Sr. Almeida was very interested in the story and had tried to research it locally, but hadn’t been able to learn much more so many years after the event. Many of the principal characters had moved out of the country in the years immediately following the event.

Just yesterday I received an e-mail from the son of Leonardo Paez – the main man behind the Quito War of the Worlds broadcast. Ivan (the son) corrected a few details of my story. Ivan also pointed out that his father had written a book about the event:
http://www.war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk/gall_r12.htm
That article included a link to this article which gives a lot more detail about this interesting story.
http://www.war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk/war_worlds_quito.htm
It turns out there was an earlier Latin American version of this story in Chile in 1944:
http://www.war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk/war_worlds_santiago.htm

There is some good reading here for radio history fans.

But, there is more to this. The son tells me that Leonardo Paez moved from Quito to Merida, Venezuela in 1955 when he took a job as director of Radio Universidad in Merida, which he held until about 1978. (He passed away in 1991.) L. Paez is listed as director of Radio Universidad in the WRTH during the 1970s. That station should be familiar to longtime shortwave DXers. Radio Universidad was an easy catch on 3395 kHz in the 1970s when I was first active. I have over a dozen loggings of it from that time period. I remember it as being the strongest of Venezuela’s 90 meter outlets back then. I wonder if anyone has an old QSL from them signed by Leonardo Paez?

The Radio Universidad connection is more noteworthy to me as I visited the city of Merida for two weeks after Christmas 1994. While there I visited Radio Universidad and had a long talk with the then-manager, who was the daughter of the station founder (not Paez). So, I spent spent some time sitting in Paez’s old manager’s office. If I had only known of the connection then, I could have learned a lot more about this story.

Regardless, it’s fun to bring together some details from one of the more interesting stories in Latin American radio history.

Don Moore — donmooredxer@yahoo.com

Thinking outside the box isn’t always enough. Sometimes you have to turn around and moon it.
Radio & Latin American website: http://www.pateplumaradio.com/

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