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Today’s Topics:

1. Logs for Al Muick (Albert Muick)
2. Radio Fides Active (Charles Bolland)
3. African Logs (Brian384875@aol.com)
4. Djibouti on Ramadan (Eike Bierwirth)
5. Glenn Hauser logs August 20, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
6. Please check 1580 Saturday morning in S/C USA (Glenn Hauser)
7. Glenn Hauser logs August 20-21, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:34:02 +0430
From: “Albert Muick” <radioresearch_field_operations@yahoo.com
To: <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] Logs for Al Muick

QTH:    Kabul, Afghanistan
RX:     WinRadio G303e
ANT:    100m Longwire/Randomwire
ACC:    Palstar MW-550P Mediumwave Preselector

4845  20 AUG, 0058 UTC, MAURITANIA, Radio Mauritanie in Arabic talk, staying on past supposed 0100 sign-off.  Some Arabic prayer and French announcements after 0100 with male announcer.  Probably on Ramadan schedule.  Reasonably strong signal for this late in the morning, but modulation very low.  QRM from CW UTE on 4844.

5040  20 AUG, 0028 UTC, INDIA AIR Kolkata in Hindi with music.  Modulator shot.  Beautiful carrier, but modulation distorted and unable to provide enough power to completely modulate the signal.  Strong carrier, no QRM, but moderate fading.

5860 20 AUG, 0118 UTC, SRI LANKA, Radio Farda, caught in mid-music playing Uriah Heep’s Lady in Black.  Immediately into Middle Eastern music after ID. Now *that* is bizarre!  That’s about the last music I ever expected to hear on Farda!  Surprisingly poor signals, no QRM, but heavy fluttery propagation.

9725  20 AUG, 0440 UTC, TUNISIA, RTV Tunisia, with Arabic vocals and talk. Fair signal mid-morning here, no QRM and moderate fading.

“To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.”
- Benjamin Disraeli

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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:41:45 -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] Radio Fides Active

Radio Fides is active on 6155.36 KHz NOW! at 1040

Chuck

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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:25:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian384875@aol.com
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] African Logs

** CHAD. 6165, RNT, *0427-0459, August 20, sign on with Balafon IS.  National Anthem at 0429. Opening French announcements at 0430. Afro-pop music  at 0433. Weak but readable. Covered by Radio Nederland sign on at 0459.  (Brian Alexander, PA)

** ERITREA. 9710.03, NF, Voice of the Broad Masses of  Eritrea, *0355-0410, August 20, sign on with IS. Talk at 0400. Some  local Horn of Africa music. Fair to good. // 7175 – poor with noise  jammer. (Brian Alexander, PA)

** MADAGASCAR. 4910 USB, Radio Madagasikara, 0350-0400, August 20, local  African music. Talk in local language. Weak but readable. Nothing heard on  5010. New frequency or punch-up error. Thanks to Jari Savolainen tip. (Brian  Alexander, PA)

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

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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:09:41 +0200
From: “Eike Bierwirth” <Eike.Bierwirth@gmx.de
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] Djibouti on Ramadan

Hi,

Djibouti on 4780 kHz has extended its schedule by one hour, most likely because of the ongoing Ramadan. Today (20 August 2010) they aired a closing announcement and their national anthem at 2200 UTC, fell silent at 2202, tx close-down at 22:02:30. I have to listen in LSB due to strong UTE noise; but then reception is not too bad (SINPO 34333; I=1 if not in LSB).

73,
Eike

Eike Bierwirth
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:24:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 20, 2010

** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36 detectable Friday Aug 20, VP at 1325 with YL in Spanish, weaker than hettor 15480 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake August 20:
8400 and up, none found from 1310 except:
14700, JBA at 1317
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GREECE. 9420, no signal, not even a carrier detectable from VOG, Aug 20 at 0522, tho BBC 9410 and CVC 9430 were in well; so ERT was off? But at 1328, 15630 on as usual, fair signal with heated discussion in Greek rather than music, one side on the phone; 1401 brief music and back to talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI had been chugging along just fine for the past week, English at 13-14, but Friday Aug 20 the VG signal with some hum bore no English, just Indonesian (or Malay?), at several chex, 1306, 1323, 1345, but no hindrance to the music at the latter time. Despite het from CRI Russian 9525.0 from *1357, VOI stayed on past 1400 this time, still music at 1411.

Atsunori Ishida`s almost daily monitoring of this from Japan at
http://www.max.hi-ho.ne.jp/a-ishida/ins/
does not yet include Aug 20, but he did find some other anomalies in language rotation recently: on Aug 15 there was additional English at 11 and 12 instead of Chinese and Japanese; Aug 13, extra Chinese at 1101 switched to English at 1120; Aug 9 at 1203 extra Chinese instead of Japanese.

`9525` nominally changes from 135 to a 10 degree azimuth at 11, and to 290 degrees at 16. 10 degrees carries on transiting the Arctic to cross Detroit, while Enid is about 30 degrees from Cimanggis but at 15 megameters, signal spreads out quite a bit by the time it gets here. I wonder if it`s even better in Michigan, plus NW and SE from there.

Or is Aoki correct, that all 9525 transmissions are at 30 degrees, right on Enid? That would also cross Japan, rather more likely bearing for Japanese and ESL audience (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1580, KOKB, Blackwell didn`t wait until the weekend to drop modulation and resume open carrier: Friday Aug 20 at 1525, 2000 and 2350 UT chex. I hope others in neighboring states will monitor 1580 Saturday 1300-1400+ UT for the Spanish sportstalk unID I have been getting for weeks on 1580, only on Saturdays at this time (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PORTUGAL [and non]. 21810, Aug 20 at 1337, very poor signal but OSOB, with what sounded like “praise music“, i.e. one-note pitch shifts back and forth, language uncertain, English or Spanish? Gone or faded out by 1355 check. I vaguely recalled that one of the US gospel-huxters formerly used this frequency, WHRI? So trying it again? No, only one station is currently scheduled, RDPI eastward M-F at 13-15, so I suppose that was it, with misleading music. By 1356, there were JBA signals on 21570, 21610, i.e. copeninsular SPAIN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 17615 // 17625, Aug 20 at 1331 in Qur`an, slightly better on the latter and also // weaker 17895, but not // 17705, separate Arabic program which was best of all but only fair. But at 1359 past 1400, 17615 continued with Qur`an while 17625 was gone.

This all fits for BSKSA 500 kW Riyadh scheduling. One transmitter on 17615 at 100 degrees switches from 17615 to 17625 at 1200-1400, but a second transmitter comes on 17615, 190 degrees at 1300-1600, while VP 17895 is 295 degrees at 1200-1500. And 17705 is Program I, 1200-1500 at 310 degrees, the only one of these aimed USward, but really for Europe.

Also JBA seems Arabic on 21505 at 1357, must be BSKSA as scheduled 12-15; could not detect them on 21460, 21530, 21600 or 21640, also scheduled at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN [non]. 15170, REE via COSTA RICA, usually has big signal aimed 340 degrees USward, but Aug 20 at 1319 almost equal CCI from something in Russian, i.e. BBC via Woofferton, scheduled here from 1300, 300 kW at 70 degrees. At least it`s a sign of possibly improving conditions from Europe. See also PORTUGAL.

But by 1405 REE definitely atop starting “Paisajes y Sabores“, traipsing senderos inc?gnitos, including C?rdoba, Andaluc?a; Cordillera Pirenaica (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. 15450, VOT, fair Aug 20 at 1323, sign-off English and IS played twice before carrier-off, an improvement over yesterday, only once. But there are multiple piano variations to the same tune, some of them quite subtle.

As of 2300 UT Aug 20, the latest English audio linked on TRT website is still for Aug 17, so I can`t check whether there was a “Live from Turkey“ on Thursday Aug 19. Webmaster on holiday? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15550-USB, WJHR, Aug 20 at 1402, poor with preacher about government, Jesus being king whether we vote for him or not. Please! We had enough of divine-right monarchies by 1776y (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 13710, Aug 20 at 0532, SSOB in African-accented French, news of Africa including Niger; cholera in Nigeria. Don`t recall hearing this before, but soon refers to “les nouvelles en direct de Washington“ and VOA is scheduled 305 degrees via MADAGASCAR, M-F 0530-0600.

7550, Aug 20 at 1414, weak talk, only third signal left on 40m band following WWCR 7490, RA 7240; o yes, it`s via Tinang, PHILIPPINES, VOA`s Indonesian service on Thu-Fri-Sat only, mostly US pop music, I thought; with ACI from 7546, see UNIDENTIFIED (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9512v, Aug 20 at 1303 as I am approaching Indonesia, distracted by the unique raspy voice of Brother Scare, hetting something weak on 9515 and the het is varying. BS is on three intentional 31m channels at this time, 9265 WINB, 9385 WWRB and 9980 WWCR, but since none are synchronized, 9512 audio only matches 9385, yet another defect of this transmitter. Did not find such a spur on the other side, on 9258. Previous spurs from this have been wide distorted blobs rather than precise carriers with readable modulation. At the same time, PPPP on WTWW 9479 was overloading as far as 9512 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 630, again clear of WWLS OK IBOC from 640, Aug 20 at 1530 and 1700 chex on caradio in western Enid, weak talk including news at 1700, but too much T-storm QRN from westward. WWLS turns off IBOC unpredictably and this has nothing to do with when there is live play-by-play as some stations do, to avoid AM/IBOC asynchrony.

Maybe someday everything will mesh: no IBOC, lo noise, good daytime propagation and I can definitely ID 630 as KHOW Denver on groundwave. There still may be weaker IBOC from the other side, the mickey-mouse station in the Metroplex, KMKI 620, hijacked from Wichita Falls, ex-KWFT, once a full-service station which even put me on the p-mailing list for their program schedules (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 7544-USB, Aug 20 at 1415, Spanish 2-way with pauses, QRMing VOA 7550 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:50:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com
To: ABDX <ABDX@yahoogroups.com, hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com,
amfmtvdx@mailman.qth.net, mwdx <mwdx@yahoogroups.com,
irca@hard-core-dx.com, am@nrcdxas.org, dxld@yahoogroups.com,
amdx@wtfda.info
Subject: [HCDX] Please check 1580 Saturday morning in S/C USA

1580, KOKB, Blackwell OK didn`t wait until the weekend to drop modulation and resume open carrier: already Friday Aug 20 at 1525, 2000 and 2350 UT chex.

I hope others in neighboring states will monitor 1580 this Saturday at 1300-1400+ UT (8-9+ am CDT) for the Spanish sportstalk unID I have been getting for weeks on 1580, only on Saturdays at this time.

WTTN in Wisconsin is probably carrying ESPN Deportes, but I really think it is closer, and not a full-time Spanish station, maybe running this by mistake.

Thanks, Glenn Hauser, Enid OK

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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:40:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 20-21, 2010

** ANGUILLA [and non]. This could be a good evening for hearing something else on 6090: at 0052 UT past 0100 Aug 21, no Anguilla; instead, DGS still on day frequency 11775, in huge collision with DentroCuban Jamming Command and Radio Mart?, making SAH of about 5 Hz too. Rather self-defeating; but then, he`s dead. // 5935 via WWCR, shortly with PMS instead; she`s alive. Still same clash at 0146.

After 0300, RM and (most of?) the jamming are gone from 11775, and Caribbean Beacon is still on 11775 at 0312 with DGS; rather weak and now the problem is Bras?lia, still going on 11780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** COSTA RICA [and non]. 5954, 0139 Aug 21, carrier is still on this off-frequency, but cannot make out any modulation vs WYFR on 5950, apparent jamming on hi side. Presumably the ELCOR test-transmission from Gu?piles, Costa Rica, but are they still carrying Radio Republica? That had been running since 2300 on 9490 via Sackville, with heavy jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN. 9495, Aug 21 at 0206, speaker in American accent fooled me at first, a VOA service? Hardly: VIRI likes to put such accents on the air from dissidents; some propaganda about US intelligence, with poor studio miking, or boomy room, plus music bed to make it that much harder to follow thru the ionosphere.

0211 ID as “Voice of Justice, Live from Tehran“, so these poor announcers really have to work from 5 to 6 am local?? “Coming up next: The Collapse of Global Imperialism“, quoting someone from the New School in New York. At least we still have regional imperialism. This and other logs 0200-0300+ on indoor longwire due to T-storm nearby (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MAURITANIA. 4845, something there Aug 21 at 0141, presumably ORTM on extended 24h? Ramadan schedule, but too much WWCR from 4840 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO [and non]. 6185, at 0134 Aug 21, no Portuguese, just Spanish, so XEPPM, apparently remote report about Huapango, M&W conversing in the open, but audio cutting off and on, mostly off. There have been reports of RNA back on 6185, but not now, it seems, tho certainly there on 11780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA [and non]. 9665, VOR English via Pridnestrovye, poor Aug 21 at 0205 with het, probably from off-frequency Brasilian rather than North Korean at this hour. 7440 via Ukraine not any better. 15425 via DVR not propagating. Meanwhile, VOR Spanish on 9735 is loud and clear, since this favored service gets to use the Guiana French relay (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 11520, WEWN English transmitter is still putting out swishy spurs plus and minus 10 kHz. Aug 21 at 0146 I am hearing one QRMing WYFR 11530 in Portuguese, but WYFR has a // free of it right up the dial at 11550. WEWN spur also audible with BFO on 11510 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VATICAN [and non]. UT August 21 compared the VR relays to North America, going from French to English at 0250 on 7305 and 9610.

7305 Santa Maria di Galeria cut off the air at 0249:03 while French was still speaking; back on with better signal via Sackville about a semiminute later with IS briefly, 0250 opening English show about Pius X.

9610 Bonaire, au contraire, had an overlap of a few sex before 0250 with ripple SAH, then clear via Sackville only and // synchronized 7305 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

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Today’s Topics:

1. Sat DX (Charles Bolland)
2. Re: Glenn Hauser logs August 20-21, 2010 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
3. Glenn Hauser logs August 21, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
4. logs (L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec)
5. Tajikistan, North Korea, India, Clandestine (Dave Valko)
6. logs (Robert Wilkner)
7. August 21 Logs (Brian384875@aol.com)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:42:18 -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

Guyana, 3290, Voice of Guyana, 0945-1000,  At tune in noted music from  India which  ontinued
steady during the period.   On the hour a male talks but it’s too muffled to comprehend.  Signal
was poor.  (Chuck Bolland, August 21, 2010)

Peru, 4826.54, Radio  Sicuani, 1001-1015,  Signal just starting to fade in with Spanish comments
from a male and music.  Signal is threshold this morning.  (Chuck Bolland, August 21, 2010)

Russia, 5940, Radio Rossii, 1010-1020  Noted a male and female in Russian language conversation. At 1019 a brief period of Russian music.  Signal was fair this morning.  (Chuck Bolland, August 21, 2010)

Bolivia, 6134.81, Radio Santa Cruz, 1025-1035,  At tune in noted one male in Spanish comments. He is joined by a female who comments briefly.  Signal is threshold at this point.  (Chuck Bolland, August 21, 2010)

Papua New Guinea, 5960, Radio Fly, 1030-1045, A very difficult situation here.  Noted a good carrier, but the audio only peaks in occasionally with a male in comments. Between comments music is heard.  The signal remained threshold.  (Chuck Bolland, August 21, 2010)

NRD545 & Watkins Johnson HF1000
26.37N 081.05w

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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:12:57 +0200
From: “Wolfgang Bueschel” <BueschelW@web.de
To: “HCDX” <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com, “DXLD”
<dxld@yahoogroups.com, “Glenn Hauser” <wghauser@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 20-21, 2010

Re Voice of Russia
Thanks to a tip of Christian Milling in Austrian NETradio – see URL link site
http://95.81.162.158:8000/

English – open with your media player  http://95.81.162.158:8000/angliyskiy.m3u
French http://95.81.162.158:8000/frantsuzsky.m3u
German http://95.81.162.158:8000/germany.m3u
Spanish http://95.81.162.158:8000/ispansky.m3u
Italian, doesn’t work at present http://95.81.162.158:8000/italiansky_5.m3u
Russian to Caucasus http://95.81.162.158:8000/kavkaz.m3u
Chinese http://95.81.162.158:8000/kitayskiy.m3u
supposedly VOR – RUSSKOE MEZHDUNARODNOE RADIO http://95.81.162.158:8000/mrr.m3u
Brazilian http://95.81.162.158:8000/brazilian.m3u
Portuguese http://95.81.162.158:8000/portugalsky.m3u
Japanese doesn’t work at present http://95.81.162.158:8000/yaponsky.m3u

Also links to Arabic, Azeri, Dari-Pashto, Hindi, Kurdish, Mongolian, Persian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Turkish, Vietnamese services available.

73 wolfgang

—– Original Message —–
From: “Glenn Hauser” Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 20-21, 2010

RUSSIA [and non]. 9665, VOR English via Pridnestrovye, poor Aug 21 at 0205 with het, probably from off-frequency Brasilian rather than North Korean at this hour. 7440 via Ukraine not any better. 15425 via DVR not propagating. Meanwhile, VOR Spanish on 9735 is loud and clear, since this favored service gets to use the Guiana French relay (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 08:47:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 21, 2010

** CHINA. Firedrake Aug 21:
8400, poor at 1250
None others heard up to 18 MHz before 1300 or after 1308, but search less thorough than usual as I was concentrating on the 1580 Spanish unID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA [non]. 13740, CRIEnglish via CUBA, Aug 21 at 1407 is interviewing Tavi (sp?) from Radio 86 in Estonia about a singing festival there and Estonian music in general. Radio 86 is their `partner` (front?) station in Nordic area thru which CRI broadcasts via 963 kHz Pori, Finland, starting last year. http://www.radio86.com/ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PHILIPPINES. 7225, VOA Korean via Tinang, Aug 21 at 1245 was putting out wide spurs from modulation spikes, covering approx. 7275-7295, 7155-7175, and 7095-7120, i.e. centered plus/minus 60 and 120 kHz; altho could not hear them around 7345, perhaps masked by other signals in the area. This transmitter is on the air 1200-1400, 250 kW, 21 degrees, same azimuth as a number of other broadcasts carrying on well to NAm, such as 9760 English at 12/15; and // Korean on 11935 at 13-15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6297.1, SASASAM, already on the air when I tuned in, 0558 Aug 21, music mixed with talk; 0600 3-pip timesignal 38 seconds late, anthem on tinny band, dead air, 0602 YL announcement and into OM chanting. Wonder how much before 0558 they were on? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 1580, KOKB Blackwell OK, still in weekend open-carrier mode Sat Aug 21 at 1240, facilitating monitoring of what else is on frequency by suppressing noise level with no annoying modulation of its own. Several stations in English mixing before 1300 UT.

1302 I hear the first traces of Spanish too, on the E-W 110-foot longwire. 1305 I switch to the longer NW/SE wire which picks up less local noise, and favors KREL in CO, soon mentioning Longmont studios. But no more Spanish made out on either antenna in next semihour.

At 1333 I try the DX-398 in the yard, and now I hear Spanish, OM interviewing YL; this is best in the KOKB null, but I cannot get a definite DF on the SS station. 1340 I am back on the E/W antenna as the Spanish host announces a `pausa` followed by screaming ad or promo. Briefly better on the NW/SE antenna but so is KREL with the Home (based) Business Radio Show, mention Radio Colorado network. 1345 losing Spanish; 1348 back briefly; 1349+ no further Spanish heard. Just before 1359 KREL ID but it`s losing out too, 1400 USA Radio News. So much for the 1580 Spanish mystery this week. I hope someone else gets something more definite (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:01:53 -0300
From: L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec <eefibra@yahoo.com.br
To: <Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com, <cumbredx@n2jeu.net,
<playdx2003@yahoogroups.com, <dxld@yahoogroups.com,
<gaku@apple.email.ne.jp, <barrera@arg.sicoar.com,     “Anker Petersen”
<anker.petersen@mail.dk,       <dxclubepe@yahoogrupos.com.br,
<radiotecnica@yahoogrupos.com.br
Subject: [HCDX] logs

5010, Madagascar, R. Madagasikara, Antananarivo. August, 21 0305-0315 Malagasy(listed) male and female talks “Madagascar” alternating short instrumental, choral music. 35333, (lob-B).

3960, Liberia, Star Radio. August, 21 0646-0707 male and female talks in English, outside talks, many mentions of “Liberia”, short African music, female announcements “this message is of the minister..” male eloquent speech, back male talks. 25322, (lob-B).

73’s

L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec

Embu SP Brasil – Sony ICF SW40 – Dipole 18m, 32m.

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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:02:10 -0400
From: “Dave Valko” <djvalko@verizon.net
To: “Cumbre DX” <cumbredx@n2jeu.net,   “Hardcore DX”
<hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] Tajikistan, North Korea, India, Clandestine

TAJIKISTAN   4765.05   Tajik R. (pres.)  0018 Subcontinental mx w/vcl by W and M.  Studio W anncr briefly at 0022 in lang., no doubt Tajik, then back to mx w/haunting flutes and M vcl, more Middle-eastern sounding than Subcontinental.  Start of song w/more flutes at 0027 and tlk by same W anncr.  Mx w/W vcl and male chorus again, Subcont. in style at 0029 and running over BoH. W returned at 0034, flute mx bridge, then more anmnts, and then Subcont. Pop-like song not really fitting in the format.  Gradually fading towards 0100.  Nice grayline reception this time of year here, and peaking around 0025 w/around 75% readability.  Surprised to find this.  Will have to wait until late November for the best opportunity to hear their EG xmsns on 7245 at 1300 when its near grayline, and hope the Auroral zone doesn’t suck up the signal.  (17 August)

INDIA   4800   AIR Hyderabad  Noted IS clearly at 0020.  IS also hrd same time on 5010 Thiru.  A decent Indian evening.  (17 August)

NORTH KOREA   2850   Korean Central BS  1022-1030, usual state-approved vcl mx.  NA at BoH, then M anncr in KR.  3320 also coming in.  4450 AINDF/KCBS strongest of the Koreans.  However there was another stn mixing in equally as strong playing soft vcl mx while KCBS had tlk by W at 1038.  (21 August)

CLANDESTINE   6600   V. O. the People  Cutting through the jamming at 1030, //3912 which was best.  (21 August)

CLANDESTINE   3985 and 6348   Echo of Hope  Both jammed so much that I couldn’t tell if the freqs were //, at 1040.  (21 August)

NORTH KOREA   11710   V.O. Korea  Strong in EG at 1046, and on freq too. (21 August)

NORTH KOREA   7200.01  V.O. Korea  NA at 1048.  Signal stayed on but there was another signal underneath w/mx then M anncr at 1056 and signal off.  (21 August)

Just want to mention that with the Koreans coming in better than usual this morning, there’s a perfect grayline at 1030 at this time of year.  (21 August)

Best DX and 73!!

Dave

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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:06:37 -0400
From: Robert Wilkner <rlcw@earthlink.net
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [HCDX] logs

logs
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2368.5 Australia, Radio Symban  1050 to 1105 audio with music, 11 August, only time logged [Wilkner]

3250  Honduras, Radio Luz y Vida, San Luis,  fading in 1100 to 1130 on 20 August, best at 0000   17 and 19 August. Standard espanol om with religion  [Wilkner]

3290  Guyana, GBC,, 0830 under thunderstorm, religion by 0940, 17 August;  0910 vocalist soprano, 19 August;   0923 pop rock and Caribbean music, greeting sent to several individuals, 0940 “Lord Jesus Christ…in Jesus Name..” 20 August. In the past used  to broadcast funeral announcements and “call names” which are no longer heard.  [Wilkner]

3309.98 Bolivia, Radio  Mosoj Chaski,  Cochabamba  regular reception 0930 and 0000   [Wilkner]

3329.53 Peru,  Ondas del Huallaga,  Hu?nuco  1030 music to 1040 fading out 17 August.  [Wilkner]

3375.34  Brasil,  Radio Municipal S?o Gabriel da Cachoeira  0930 sign on with music,  om good signal 19 August  [Wilkner]

3390.06 Radio, Emisoras Camargo, Camargo noted occasionally with weak signal at 2345 to 0010 , 18 August [Wilkner]

4319 usb Diego  Garcia. 4319 AFRTS  English language news under tty ute, 12 August   [Wilkner]

4409.8 Bolivia, Radio  Eco, Reyes 0000 to  0012, om with slow announcements  ”severcio de ?”  13 August,  [Wilkner]

4451.2 Bolivia, Radio Santa  Ana, Santa Ana de Yacuma 2340 to 2350, weak signal music 17 August  [Wilkner]

4700  Bolivia,  Radio San Miguel, Riberalta 1005 – 1020 “La Espananza de ? ” into Music good signal 20 August   [Wilkner]

4716.19 Bolivia   Radio Yura, Yura 1023 impressive rustic Peruvian vocal music, Time checks seem slow, 20 August  [Wilkner]

4746.94 Peru Radio  Huanta 2000 Huanta Ayacucho 1001 hyper yl with rustic vocal, great signal 19 August  [Wilkner]

4795.87 Bolivia Radio Lipez, Uyuni   1033 program of music with om dj, ments de Bolivia 20 August.  [Wilkner]

4805 Brasil Radio Difusora do Amazonas,Manaus  1000 noted with weaker signal than normal 19 August  [Wilkner]

4814.95 Ecuador Radio El Buen Pastor,Saraguro Loma Loja, 1040 17 August; 1000 noted with weak signal 19 August  [Wilkner]

4826.665 Peru, Radio Sicuani, Sicuani, Cusco impressive signal 0920, traditional Peruvian music  19 August  [Wilkner]

4835.409 Peru  Radio Mara?on  Jaen, yl en espanol 1010 with narrow filter lsb  13 August, [Wilkner]

4857.4  Peru Radio La Hora, Cusco while a regular at 2330 beginning to be heard by 1120 in Florida  17, 19 and 20 August  [Wilkner]

4950  Peru  Radio Madre de Dios, 1040 on 17 August.  1030 carrier sign on, weak audio 19 August  [Wilkner]

5039.21 Peru, Radio  Libertad Junin noted signing on as late as 1130 on 11 August.   [Wilkner]

Robert Wilkner
Pompano Beach,  Florida
Drake R8 –  Icom 746Pro-DL – NRD 535D -
Elliptic Low Pass Audio Filters
60 meter band dipole ~
Noise Reducing Antenna

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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:43:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian384875@aol.com
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] August 21 Logs

** CHAD. 6165, RNT, *0430-0459, August 21, abrupt sign on tonight with  French talk. Local Afro-pop music after 0431. Local tribal music. Covered by  Radio Nederland sign on at 0459. Poor to fair. (Brian Alexander, PA)

** CHAD. 6165, RNT, 2220-2301*, August 21, African hi-life  music. Afro-pop music. French announcements. Sign off with National  Anthem. Fair. In the past sign off was usually at 2230. (Brian Alexander, PA)

** ETHIOPIA. 7210, Radio Fana, 0340-0350, August 21, local  Afro-pop music. Amharic talk. Fair. // 6110 – weak under Cuba. (Brian  Alexander, PA)

** NIGERIA. 6089.86, FRCN – Kaduna, 0400-0435, August 21, talk in listed Hausa. Qur`an. Poor to fair in noisy conditions. Anguilla 6090 off the air allowing this station to be heard. (Brian Alexander, PA)

** SUDAN [non]. via Slovakia, 9740, Radio Miraya, 0358-0412, August  21, Arabic talk. English news at 0401-0411 about freedoms in Southern Sudan. ?Radio Miraya? IDs. ?Miraya? jingles. Gave website : _www.mirayafm.org_ (http://www.mirayafm.org) . Arabic talk at 0412.  Poor to fair with adjacent channel splatter. (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 (L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec)
2. Glenn Hauser logs August 21-22, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
3. August 22 Logs (Brian384875@aol.com)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 09:44:33 -0300
From: L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec <eefibra@yahoo.com.br
To: <Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com, <cumbredx@n2jeu.net,
<playdx2003@yahoogroups.com, <dxld@yahoogroups.com,
<gaku@apple.email.ne.jp, <barrera@arg.sicoar.com,     “Anker Petersen”
<anker.petersen@mail.dk,       <dxclubepe@yahoogrupos.com.br,
<radiotecnica@yahoogrupos.com.br,      <adxb-news@yahoogrupos.com.br
Subject: [HCDX] logs

4050, Kyrgystan, R. Rossi, Bishkek (tentative). August, 21 2304-2312 Russian (listed) male talks. 15322, (lob-B).

4950, R. Nacional de Angola, Mulenvos. August, 21 2314-2325 sports news about european soccer by male in Portuguese, news “comunidade europ?ia”, Salsa music, ads about a program of R. N.A. “todos os domingos, a partir das 21 horas, Encontro de Domingo”, African music. 33333, (lob-B).

9475, R. Australia, Shepparton. August, 22 1022-1032 male talks in English, mentions of “Australia”. Adjacent QRM, 22422 (lob-B).

73’s

L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec
Embu SP Brasil – Sony ICF SW40 – Dipole 18m, 32m.

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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 09:20:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 21-22, 2010

** ANGUILLA. CB was back on 6090 around 0515 Aug 22 with TUN, having been stuck on the day frequency 11775 the night before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BULGARIA. 15700, Sunday Aug 22 at 1307 Zamfir-like pan-flute, 1310 switch to Swingle Singers or clone accompanying brief R. Bulgaria ID, on to Bulgarian song. Distorted, somewhat overmodulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake Aug 22: nothing found on initial upward scan after 1305, until I got to 16100; then I checked again from 19 MHz down to 8.

16100, good at 1319, S9+10 peaks with flutter; still past 1331, 1352
10500, good at 1323 // 16100; 1324 usual “ramshorn“ passage; 1352
8400, very poor at 1326, // 10500 and 16100; not heard earlier
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 6250.0, RNGE, Sunday Aug 22 at 0536 singing, 0544 announcement, choral or gospel music. Fair signal but undermodulated; ute beeper on hi side. 6250 is quite irregular, usually missing lately (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GREECE. 9420, VOG VG Aug 22 around 0530 amid multi-hour Sunday morning Greek Orthodox singing service; good signal vs zero signal 24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN [non]. 17695, Aug 22 at 1357, R. Farda ID, fair signal and back to Iranian music; via Lampertheim, GERMANY until 1430, then Biblis (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN [and non]. 9750, poor Sunday Aug 22 at 1350 going from Wagner, to Japanese announcement, to Mozart, then found almost // 11655 VG via Sackville, while 9750 is 290 degrees from Yamata, with fast SAH. Three other stations are registered at same time: Malaysia, Kuwait, Moscow (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PHILIPPINES. 7225, VOA Korean via Tinang, Aug 22 at 1252 check, minus the spurs heard 24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WEWN 13835 slushy spur messing up neighboring WWCR 13845, Aug 21 at 1408, made obvious by fundamental 13835 being so much stronger than 13845 at the moment. I have tried to make both stations plus other victim WYFR aware of this problem, but apparently nobody cares, as it`s been going on for years (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VATICAN. 15235, Aug 22 at 1314 VR IS, and 1315 opening Vietnamese, fair with S9 peaks; still at 1356 recheck. VR`s Vietnamese services are a regular in NAm, far offbeam from SMG at 72 degrees, so we are closer to off the side than off the back (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VENEZUELA [non]. El Hugazo missing another Sunday, from “Al?, Presidente“ Cuban relay frequencies at 1555 check Aug 22: nothing on 12010, 13750, 17750. I heard somewhere that he has suspended the show during elexion campaign, which would seem to be counterintuitive and counterproductive (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1580, KOKB open carrier understations, Sunday Aug 22 at 1340-1345: no Spanish, but mix of music and English talk, KREL CO no doubt being one of them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:23:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian384875@aol.com
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] August 22 Logs

** CHAD. 6165, RNT, 2220-2230*, August 22, Afro-pop music. French announcements. Sign off with National Anthem. Poor to fair in noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA)

** ETHIOPIA [non]. via France, 13830, Voice of Oromo  Liberation, 1745-1800*, August 22, presumed with talk in listed Oromo.  Some local music. Sign off with choral anthem. Poor with QRM from  noise jammer. Sun/Wed only. (Brian Alexander, PA)

** ETHIOPIA [non]. via Samara, Russia, 15350, Radio Bilal, *1800-1815,  August 22, sign on with local chants and opening announcements with ?Radio  Bilal? ID. Amharic talk. Local tribal chants. Fair to good. (Brian Alexander,  PA)

** NIGERIA. 15120, Voice of Nigeria, 1803-1820+, August 22,  tune-in to English news. Gave program schedule at 1805. Afro-pop  music. Off the air at 1815-1819. Back at 1819 with talk about the  Sudanese people. Poor. Weak in noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA)

** U.S.A. 15550 USB, WJHR, Milton, FL, 2145-2200*, August 22, English  religious talk. Sign off at 2200. Poor. Weak. (Brian Alexander, PA)

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

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Today’s Topics:

1. Fw: Story in Today’s “New Zealand Herald” (Wolfgang Bueschel)
2. DX Listening Digest 10-34; World of Radio 1527 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Logs for Al Muick (Albert Muick)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:50:40 +0200
From: “Wolfgang Bueschel” <BueschelW@web.de
To: “HCDX” <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com, “DXLD”
<dxld@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HCDX] Fw: Story in Today’s “New Zealand Herald”

Story in Today’s “New Zealand Herald”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10668126

Fiji democracy group planning pirate radio
By Roger Maynard

In a move inspired by pirate radio stations of the 1960s, political activists in the South Pacific are planning to position a Dutch-registered merchant vessel in international waters off the coast of Fiji to defy censors in the military dictatorship.
Opponents of the coup leader and self-appointed Prime Minister, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, hope to have the station broadcasting news and interviews by the end of next month to circumvent draconian media laws imposed on press, radio and television.
Since taking power in a military coup in December 2006, Fiji’s strongman has slowly eaten away at the country’s democratic freedoms, installing newsroom censors and cracking down on foreign media ownership.
Newspapers and radio stations now have to be 90 per cent locally owned, a stipulation that will almost certainly see the closure of the 140-year-old Fiji Times.
The popular title, which has been owned by News Ltd since 1987, has been emasculated since the censors moved in to demand the removal of any anti-government stories.
With most of the population too poor to access the internet or satellite television, most Fijians rely on the press and transistor radios for their news. That is why Usaia Waqatairewa of the Fiji Democracy Movement has opted for pirate broadcasting.
Now exiled in Australia, he plans to stream live programming to the ship from a Sydney newsroom and rebroadcast the material from a transmitter on the AM waveband. “The basic purpose is to inform the public of what’s really happening in Fiji so they can make an informed decision about whether to support Bainimarama or not,” he said.
Even the phones no longer guarantee confidentiality since the Government ordered mobile and landline users to register all their personal details. One local carrier, Vodafone, is also demanding that customers provide a left-hand thumb print and PIN, which the user would normally keep secret.
The head of the Justice Ministry, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, claims the compulsory registration of all phones is the result of a spate of bomb threats and bogus calls. Critics suggest it is more to do with the interim Government wanting to create a database of callers whose views do not correspond with the regime’s.
Telephone paranoia even extends to some tourists. A German businessman who used his satellite phone in a restaurant recently was reported to the police, who promptly raided his hotel room. He left the country in disgust shortly afterwards.
So far, such stories have not damaged tourism, which is one of the few Fijian industries still booming. A devalued currency and a strong Australian dollar have made Fiji a bargain destination for overseas holidaymakers.
But while the tourists are still heading to Fiji, businesses are pulling out. Australia’s Commonwealth Bank has sold its Fijian arm, and Qantas is trying to sell its 46 per cent stake in Fiji’s national airline, Air Pacific. Despite these economic warning signals, Commodore  Bainimarama remains determined to do things his way. He has promised to go to the country in 2014 but as he has repeatedly postponed his general election plans, few believe he will keep his word.
And if an application for a loan of more than $700 million from the IMF fails, “the country’s economic outlook will be shocking”, says Anthony Bergin of the Australian Strategic Policy Unit.

CRACKDOWN LEADS TO POVERTY AND FEAR
Fiji has had four coups in the past two decades and is facing an economic crisis that threatens to bring more instability to the 800,000 people who inhabit this sprawling archipelago.
And there are concerns about human rights as Commodore Frank Bainimarama cracks down on those who oppose his dictatorship.
In a rare interview aired by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation last month, the military leader said “we’ll need to shut some people up” before the country can return to democracy. “I don’t trust the people,” declared the Prime Minister, adding that he was none too happy about politicians or the judiciary, either.
After silencing the powerful Methodist Church and the chiefs who are the traditional rulers of this fiercely patriotic nation, Commodore Bainimarama sacked many judges.
Suspended from the Commonwealth, Fiji risks becoming a pariah in the region.
The Prime Minister also recently expelled Australia’s acting high commissioner to Fiji.
The reforms he talks about strike at the heart of Fiji’s racially divided society. For many years, about half the population was of Indian origin, descendants of indentured labourers brought to Fiji in the 19th century to help in the sugar industry. Faced with eviction from their farms after their leases expired, thousands of Indians have sought refuge overseas while many of those unable to leave have ended up in squatter camps.
When Commodore Bainimarama seized power he promised a fairer society, with legislation designed to protect the interests of the Indian community. But unemployment, poverty and fear have created a society whose people are often too scared to talk.

- Independent

By Roger Maynard (Aug 23)

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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:58:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com
To: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] DX Listening Digest 10-34; World of Radio 1527

DX Listening Digest 10-34 has now been posted at http://www.dxld.org
or http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt or http://dxld.worldofradio.org
and now also without delay at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1034.txt

[as has been happening lately, upload of this edition as dxlatest has not been immediate, but has been immediate at the last -1034 link above]

CONTENTS:
WOR 1527 / ALBANIA / ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS / ANGOLA / ANGUILLA +non / ANTARCTICA +non / ASIA non / AUSTRALIA Symban / AUSTRALIA 2355/3210 / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL / CANADA CJUL/CHSC / CANADA CHHA / CANADA CBC Calgary / CANADA CBCNQ / CHAD / CHINA +non / COSTA RICA +non / CUBA / DJIBOUTI / ECUADOR / EQUATORIAL GUINEA / ERITREA / ETHIOPIA +non / FIJI +non / GERMANY +non A10 / GREECE / GUYANA / HONDURAS / INDIA / INDONESIA / INTERNATIONAL DX programs / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM Echo 1+ / IRAN +non / JAPAN +non / JORDAN / KASHMIR / KURDISTAN / LIBERIA / LIBYA / MADAGASCAR +non / MAURITANIA / MEXICO +non / MYANMAR / NORTH AMERICA Pirate / OKLAHOMA +non KKRX/KGTO/KADS/KFH/WWLS / OKLAHOMA KOKB / OKLAHOMA KWTV+ / PAKISTAN / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PHILIPPINES / PORTUGAL +non / RUSSIA +non / SAINT HELENA / SAUDI ARABIA / SOUTH CAROLINA non / SPAIN +non / SUDAN non / TAJIKISTAN / THAILAND / TURKEY / UGANDA / UK DW / USA +non VOA / USA +non WOR/WBCQ/SHR+ / USA WWRB / USA WTWW
/ USA WEWN / USA WJHR / USA non YFR / USA KERX / USA WCAR / USA KMPH / USA WSB/KARN/KAAY+ / USA KRTS / VANUATU / VATICAN +non VENEZUELA +non / WESTERN SAHARA non / ZAMBIA / ZIMBABWE / UNIDENTIFIED 560 / UNIDENTIFIED 630 / UNIDENTIFIED +non 1580 / UNIDENTIFIED 7544 / UNIDENTIFIED 15570/15572 / TESTIMONIALS / PUBLICATIONS / SHORTWAVE MUSIC / MUSEA / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / PROPAGATION

For restrixions and searchable 2010 contents archive see
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html

NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but
have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself
obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn

WORLD OF RADIO 1527 HEADLINES:
*Wrong frequencies from China via Albania, Madagascar, Uganda, Germany via UK
*Ramadan expansions from Chad, Djibouti, Indonesia
*Eritrea vs Ethiopia
*Madagascar via Miami
*More news from Australia, Canada, China, India, Iran, Kashmir,
Kurdistan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Tajikistan, Modesto, Vanuatu
*Qur`an from Michigan
*Propagation outlook

SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1527, August 25-31, 2010
Wed 1530  WRMI  9955
Wed 1900  WBCQ  7415
Thu 1500  WRMI  9955
Thu 1900  WBCQ  7415
Thu 2100  WRMI  9955
Fri 0330  WWRB  3185
Fri 1430  WRMI  9955
Fri 2030  WWCR1 15825
Sat 0800  WRMI  9955
Sat 0800  IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 9515
[second, fourth, fifth Saturdays, maybe]
Sat 1600  WWCR2 12160 [ex-1630]
Sat 1730  WRMI  9955
Sat 1800  IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 7290
Sun 0230  WWCR3 4840
Sun 0630  WWCR1 3215
Sun 0800  WRMI  9955
Sun 1515  WRMI  9955
Sun 1730  WRMI  9955
Tue 1530  WRMI  9955
Tue 1900  WBCQ  7415
Tue 2230  WRMI  9955
Wed 0030  WRMI  9955

Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite
and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or
http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org

For updates see our Anomaly Alert page:
http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html

WRN ON DEMAND:
http://193.42.152.193/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24

WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN:
http://www.wrn.org/wrn-listeners/world-of-radio/
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/world-of-radio/rss/09:00:00UTC/English/541

OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO:
http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
or http://wor.worldofradio.org

Best DX wishes, Glenn Hauser

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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:59:46 +0430
From: “Albert Muick” <radioresearch_field_operations@yahoo.com
To: <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] Logs for Al Muick

QTH:    Kabul, Afghanistan
RX:     WinRadio G303e
ANT:    100m Longwire/Randomwire
ACC:    Palstar MW-550P Mediumwave Preselector

9560  23 AUG, 1440 UTC, ETHIOPIA, Radio Ethiopia (tent. – presumed) in Arabic with Ethiopian music and little talk.  Very low modulation, but otherwise good and clear signal.  No sign of KSDA which is supposed to be here according to AOKI….  CRI carrier flattened the neighborhood at 1500 UTC.

9665  23 AUG, 1431 UTC, MONGOLIA, Voice of Mongolia in Mandarin with station ID and news by female announcer. Fair signals with some heavy QRM from a dead carrier 500Hz higher in frequency.

Best 73,

Al

“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”
- Edmund Burke, 1784

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subjek              Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 92, Issue 25

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Today’s Topics:

1. QSL Report for Al Muick (Albert Muick)
2. QSL Report for Al Muick (Albert Muick)
3. logs (L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec)
4. Logs for Al Muick (Albert Muick)
5. Logs for Al Muick – possible ERRATUM (Albert Muick)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:42:01 +0430
From: “Albert Muick” <radioresearch_field_operations@yahoo.com
To: <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] QSL Report for Al Muick

QTH:    Kabul, Afghanistan
RX:     WinRadio G303e
ANT:    100m Longwire/Randomwire
ACC:    Palstar MW-550P Mediumwave Preselector

GERMANY, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, 720, date/frequency “antenna tower” card in 97 days, with program magazine, stickers, lapel pins and frequency reference card for airmail report and US $2.00 return postage.

TURKEY, TAH Istanbul Radio, 8431, full-data letter QSL in 56 days for airmail report and US $1.00 return postage. V/s Mehmet Colak, Director of Turk Radio.  Address used: Kiyi Emniyetive Gemi Kurtarma, Isletmeleri Genel M?d?rl?g?, Telsiz Isletme M?d?rl?g?, Sefak?y / Istanbul 34630.  Their email address is: telsiz@kiyiemniyeti.gov.tr

UZBEKISTAN, Tashkent VOLMET, 10090, no data thank you QSL with picture of Tashkent Intercontinental Hotel in 56 days for airmail report and US $2.00 return postage.  V/s Renat Grenaderov, Communication Leading Engineer-Inspector, grenad@rambler.ru Address used: 13 Lokomotivnaya Street Tashkent 100167.

Some people might regard the address, V/s and email data on the utility stations to be overkill, but I know I always have a hell of a time finding the information, so I pass it along in the hopes that someone, someday may compile a utility QSL address book.  I have yet to find one.  Besides that, if it helps someone else get a QSL, then the extra bytes are worth it!

Many of the utility stations I hear are on frequencies not listed in the 2009/2010 Klingenfuss book either.  I am rather surprised at that, since I was led to believe it was the latest and greates list…

73s from Kabul
Al

“I think it would be a good idea.”
- Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization

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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:26:45 +0430
From: “Albert Muick” <radioresearch_field_operations@yahoo.com
To: <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] QSL Report for Al Muick

QTH:    Kabul, Afghanistan
RX:     WinRadio G303e
ANT:    100m Longwire/Randomwire
ACC:    Palstar MW-550P Mediumwave Preselector

OMAN, BBC Relay Station A’Seela, 1413, full data letter from VT Merlin Communications via email in 21 days for airmail report and US $5.00 return postage.  V/s Afrah Al Orimi and the email address for them is: opsaseela@yahoo.com .

This just arrived so I figured I’d send it out there.  Thanks to Gayle Van Horn who also just sent me an email turning me on to the World QSL Book for addresses including utility stations.

73s from Kabul,
Al

“In this totalitarian state, the government can pretty much do what it wishes, and so anything, or anyone, deemed expendable was demolished or relocated.”
- Bob Ryan, Boston Globe sports columnist

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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:03:18 -0300
From: L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec <eefibra@yahoo.com.br
To: <Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com, <cumbredx@n2jeu.net,
<playdx2003@yahoogroups.com, <dxld@yahoogroups.com,
<gaku@apple.email.ne.jp, <barrera@arg.sicoar.com,     “Anker Petersen”
<anker.petersen@mail.dk,       <dxclubepe@yahoogrupos.com.br,
<radiotecnica@yahoogrupos.com.br,      <adxb-news@yahoogrupos.com.br
Subject: [HCDX] logs

5030, Malaysia, RTM Sarawak FM (presumed). August, 22 2312-2326 Malaysian (listed) female talks, Pop music, female hosting listener by phone, Moulin Rouge film musical theme. 34233, (lob-B).

4780, R. Djibouti. August, 23 2110-2125 male seems in Arabic talks “Ramadan, Pakistan”, music. 33333, (lob-B).

5005, R. Nacional Guinea Ecuatorial, Bata. August, 23 2142-2152 music, talks. Very weak, 25322 (lob-B).

6045, R. Zimbabwe, Gweru. August, 23 2201-2214 male in Vernacular talks “Zimbabwe”, choral music, African music. Deep fades, weak 22322 (lob-B).

3960, Liberia, Star Radio. August, 24 0653-0711 male in English talks “Liberia”, African music, male in eloquent speech, back music. Noisy, 25222 (lob-B).

73’s

L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec
Embu SP Brasil – Sony ICF SW40 – Dipole 18m, 32m.

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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:11:02 +0430
From: “Albert Muick” <radioresearch_field_operations@yahoo.com
To: <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] Logs for Al Muick

QTH:    Kabul, Afghanistan
RX:     WinRadio G303e
ANT:    100m Longwire/Randomwire
ACC:    Palstar MW-550P Mediumwave Preselector

4010  25 AUG, 0125 UTC, KYRGYZSTAN, Kyrgyz Radio, Very strong carrier with abysmal modulation.  I could just make out the man and woman speaking.  They need to turn up the dial on the modulator. No help even from synchronous AM detection.

4760  25 AUG, 0131 UTC, ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS (INDIA), AIR Port Blair (presumed) heard in Hindi with subcontinental music. Only AIR station scheduled at this time as Delhi not on until 0215 UTC.  Good signal but heavy QRM from Tajik radio on 4765.

4950  24 AUG, 1640 UTC, INDIA (SRINIGAR), AIR Radio Kashmir, HIndi pops and PSA’s/commercials in Hindi/Kashmiri.  Very strong signals with great modulation.  Local line noise and summer static the only problems.Hope everyone’s well!  My trek towards Pattaya Thailand begins in 8 days! There is no more beautiful sight than Kabul in the rear-view mirror!

73s from Kaboom, ermmm…. Kabul
Al

“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
- Mahatma Gandhi

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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:59:30 +0430
From: “Albert Muick” <radioresearch_field_operations@yahoo.com
To: <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] Logs for Al Muick – possible ERRATUM

This morning I reported a tentative logging of 4760 AIR Port Blair.
I received an email from Alokesh Gupta in New Delhi stating that he was hearing AIR Leh and that Port Blair had faded out at his QTH by that time.
I was using the latest AOKI database which apparently erroneously lists New Delhi on 4760, whilst the older EIBI database lists Leh.
There was some fluttery fading on the signal which I heard which does not comport with the signal quality of other stations of mainland India which I hear, so I am momentarily at a loss.  I will continue monitoring to see what I hear tomorrow, checking sign-on times and signal levels.
Thanks, Alokesh, for pointing out these things and I hope that we will shortly get to the bottom of this mystery!

Best 73
Al

“He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination–and taxes.”
- H. E. Martz

End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 92, Issue 25
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