Ascolti AM Luca Botto Fiora

Ascolti AM (orari UTC)
Legenda segnale/signal
IN - Insufficiente/Poor
SF - Sufficiente/Fair
BN - Buono/Good
MB - Molto Buono/Very Good

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Continua l'apprendimento all'uso del VR5000DSP. Il ricevitore di sera ha un po' di problemi con i segnali più forti, ma l'uso dell'RF Tune - come suggerito caldamente in alcune recensioni USA - fa la differenza. Quando si arriva su una frequenza piena di segnali dove non ci dovrebbero essere, basta attivarlo, regolarlo in un punto dove il brusio scompare *o quasi* (per non attenuare troppo) e restano solo i segnali reali.

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Domenica 29 agosto 2010
05.40-06.00
11725 R. NEW ZEALAND INT. - Inglese - IN/SF
11770 PBS XINJIANG - Cina - Mandarino - IN/SF
11950 PBS XIZANG - Cina - Mandarino - IN/SF
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07.00-08.00
6297 RASD R. - Algeria - AA - IN/SF
5820 ORION R. NL - Canzone YL - IN/SF
6220 MYSTERY R. - Inglese - IDs YL - IN/SF
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10.25-10.45
11665 CNR1 vs R. TAIWAN INT. Mandarino - IN/SF
12055 CNR1 (no jammer) - Cina - IN/SF
13700 CNR1 (no jammer) - Cina - IN/SF
-
13.00-13.30
11560 UNID coreano s/off 15.08! - SF/BN
11590 CNR1 vs RFA Tibetano //11605 - SF/BN
12120 FEBC - Filippine - 13.30 Burmese - SF/BN

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Abbiate pazienza se faccio un po' di confusione, sto cercando una procedura di log che permetta di fare un po' più ascolti, monitorare le bande più rapidamente ed essere meno ripetitivo.

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Lunedì 30 agosto 2010
01.10-01.40
7506.3 WRNO - N. Orleans - USA - EE - IDs OM - SF/BN
4885.0 R. CLUBE DO PARA - Brasile - PP - SF/BN
4845.0 R. MAURITANIE - AA - Phone-in show - SF/BN
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20.58-21.22
17680 CVC Voz Cristiana - Cile - Spagnolo - IN/SF
15190 R. AFRICA - Guinea Eq. - Inglese - IN/SF
13625 CNR1 vs RFA Mandarin - SF/BN
11725 R. NEW ZEALAND INT. - Inglese - IN/SF
11780 RN DA AMAZONIA - Brasile - PP - IN/SF
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21.37-22.00
9745 VO HAN - Taiwan - Mandarino - SF/BN
9625 CBC N. QUEBEC - Canada - Inuvik - SF/BN
9580 AFRICA N. 1 - Gabon - S. Wonder - SF/BN
9540 CVC 1AFRICA - Zambia - Gospel rap - SF/BN
9470 AIR NATIONAL CHANNEL - India - IN/SF
9330 WBCQ THE PLANET - EE - Bible - SF/BN
9265 WINB - Red Lion - USA - Inglese - SF/BN
9170 CNR6 - Cina - IN/SF
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22.00-22.32
7850 CHHU - Ottawa - Canada - T/S - IN/SF
7620 CNR5 - Cina - Annunci OM/YL - IN/SF
7385 PBS XIZANG - Cina - Tibetano - IN/SF
7325 CNR1 vs BBC Mandarino - BN/MB
7240 PBS XIZANG - Cina - Mandarino - SF/BN
7105 CNR1 vs Sound of Hope Taiwan - SF/BN
6090 Corano. FRCN Kaduna Nigeria? - IN/SF
6085 R. ROSSII Krasnoyarsk (DRM off) - IN/SF
6050 PBS XIZANG - Mandarino - SF/BN

Luca Botto Fiora
 
SITO RICEVENTE
G.C. 09E13 - 44N21
Rapallo (Genova)
Italia
 
RICEVITORI
(Rack 1)
R7 Drake
VR5000DSP Yaesu
Satellit 500 Grundig
-
(Rack 2)
ATS909 Sangean
DE1103 Degen
VR500 Yaesu
 
ANTENNE
Loop ferrite ACA 75 cm modificata (@70 kHz-2 MHz)
Loop 1 spira da finestra 150x100 cm (@2-6 MHz)
Dipolo aperto 20 m (@6-30 MHz)
 
VARIE
Ampli RF K0LR per loop ACA modificato (WA1ION)
Ampli RF LX1456 Nuova Elettronica per loop SW e dipolo
Balun a choke coassiale 1:1 di RG174 per dipolo (IZ7ATH)
Eliminatore di QRM MFJ 1026 modificato (W8JI)
Software demo Multimode 5.9.2 Black Cat Systems

SIDC Weekly Bulletin

:Issued: 2010 Aug 31 1041 UTC
:Product: documentation at http://www.sidc.be/products/bul
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# SIDC Weekly bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic activity            #
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WEEK 504 from 2010 Aug 23 

SOLAR ACTIVITY
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Solar activity was very low during the week,
with no significant flaring activity.

GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY
-------------------
The week was dominated by the influence of a
coronal hole that triggered active to minor storm
conditions at planetary levels from Aug. 23rd, 21UT
until Aug. 25th 06UT. Minor storm conditions were only
observed during 6 hours on Aug. 25th.
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DAILY INDICES
DATE          RC  EISN  10CM  Ak  BKG    M  X
2010 Aug 23  014    000  75  008  A4.9  0  0
2010 Aug 24  011    007  74  022  A4.7  0  0
2010 Aug 25  022    015  74  018  A5.2  0  0
2010 Aug 26  033    014  73  012  A7.5  0  0
2010 Aug 27  011    008  73  018  A7.9  0  0
2010 Aug 28  011    007  72  008  A5.9  0  0
2010 Aug 29  ///    017  74  003  A5.7  0  0
# RC  : Sunspot index (Wolf Number) from Catania Observatory (Italy)
# EISN : Estimated International Sunspot Number
# 10cm : 10.7 cm  radioflux (DRAO, Canada)
# Ak  : Ak Index Wingst (Germany)
# BKG  : Background GOES X-ray level (NOAA, USA)
# M,X  : Number of X-ray flares in M and X class, see below (NOAA, USA)
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NOTICEABLE EVENTS
DAY BEGIN MAX  END  LOC    XRAY OP TENCM TYPE                      Cat NOAA NOTE


#--------------------------------------------------------------------#
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Pavanello's last log

 1650 28/8 22.15 R. Caroline Int. - ?? EE ID e MX buono
 3240 28/8 03.10 T.W.R. - Manzini Shona predica buono
 3330 28/8 03.05 CHU - Ottawa EE/FF ID e pip pip buono
 4790 28/8 03.00 R. Vision - Chiclayo SS predica suff.
 4835 28/8 22.20 VL8A - Alice Spring EE NX suff.
 4885 28/8 22.25 R. Clube do Parà - Belem PP calcio
 4925 28/8 22.30 R. Educ. Rural - Tefè PP MX suff.
 5005 28/8 22.40 R. Nacional - Bata SS MX afro suff.
 5910 28/8 22.50 Marfil estereo - Bogotà SS MX suff.
 6240 29/8 08.30 R. Borderhunter - EE ID e MX buono
 6265 29/8 09.10 R. Geronimo - EE ID e MX buono
 6290 29/8 08.35 R. Shadow - EE ID e MX buono
 6305 29/8 08.40 R. Trans Europe - EE ID e MX buono
 9720 28/8 23.00 R. Veritas - Manila EE ID buono
11815 28/8 22.10 R. Brasil Central - Goiania PP calcio buono

Roberto Pavanello

Vercelli / Italia

Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA

AUSTRALIA Radio Australia-Shepparton-RA 21725 0432 GMT English 333 Aug 28 OM interviewing an OM. Then a sports event coverage. OM sports ancr 0517 //17750[333]Shep, 15515[444]Shep, 15240[444]Shep, 15160[444]Shep, 13690[444]Shep, 13630[444]Shep and 12080[444] Brandon.

CHINA China Radio Intl-CRI 15635 0510 GMT Chinese 444 Aug 28 YL and OM with comments. //15120[333] and 15170[444].

CHINA CPBS 11960 0542 Chinese 333 Aug 28 YL and OM with comments.

IRAN VOIR 13710 0526 GMT Azeri 333 Aug 28 OM with vocal music plus a YL ancr.

JAPAN Radio Japan-NHK 17810 0450 GMT Japanese 333 Aug 28 Two OMs and a YL with comments. //15195[333] and 15325[333].

MARIANAS, North Radio Free Asia-RFA 17880 0443 GMT Chinese 333 Aug 28 Two YLs in a conversation. YL with comments 0500 GMT. //17615[333]Saipan and 15665[333]Tinian.

RUSSIA Voice of Russia-VOR 13775 0522 GMT English 444 Aug 28 OM with comments on Pakistan and Nato. OM with an ID 0524.

RUSSIA Radio Rossii 12070 0537 GMT Russian 333 Aug 28 YL and OM with comments.

.Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, United States of America
Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650
"World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive"
ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC
SCADS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCADS

Ascolti AM Luca Botto Fiora

Ascolti AM (orari UTC)

Ringrazio Glenn Hauser che su un DXLD - se non sbaglio il 10-28 - ha corretto dei miei ascolti di qualche settimana fa, che ritenevo relativi a R. Kuwait e invece erano di Vo Africa dalla Libia, su 11630, 11650 e 15000 kHz.

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Venerdì 20 agosto 2010
14.30!!! - 11815 kHz
R. BRASIL CENTRAL - Goiania
PP, pubblicità OM/YL.
Segnale sufficiente-buono
Solo per 5-6 minuti e poi f/out.
Questo tipo di ascolto lo capisco
in Portogallo che è affacciato
sull'Atlantico, ma in Italia...
-
15.26 - 8400 kHz
FIREDRAKE vs. SO Hope Taiwan
Segnale insufficiente-sufficiente

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Sabato 21 agosto 2010
05.34 - 15120 kHz
VO NIGERIA - Ikorodu
EE, promos OM/YL.
Segnale buono-molto buono
-
05.48 - 15785 kHz
GALEI ZAHAL - Lod (Israele)
"Non ho l'età" di G. Cinquetti
Segnale insufficiente-sufficiente
-
05.55 - 13630//13690 kHz
R. AUSTRALIA
EE, cronaca sportiva.
Segnale sufficiente-buono
13630 co-ch CVC Uzbekistan.
-
06.03 - 11253USB kHz
SHANNON VOLMET (Irlanda)
EE, wx YL-PC.
Segnale insufficiente-sufficiente
-
09.31 - 15295 kHz
SUARA MALAYSIA - Kajang
Corano.
Segnale sufficiente-buono
Lieve eco propagativa.
-
09.37 - 15770 kHz
ALL INDIA R. - Aligarh
Mix di due programmi (problema audio).
Segnale sufficiente-buono
Alle 09.38 in anticipo hanno spento,
forse se ne sono accorti. Secondo la
stagione A10 dovrebbe essere alle
08.45-09.45 in indonesiano.
-
09.46 - 11558+11682 kHz
Spurie di R. Ukraine 11620 kHz
Anche nei giorni successivi.
-
09.54 - 9526 kHz
VO INDONESIA - Cimanggis
Musica leggera locale.
Segnale insufficiente-sufficiente
-
9560v - R. Ethiopia off
9704-9705 - Ethiopia+Niger off
-
10.14 - 13970 kHz
FIREDRAKE vs. SO Hope Taiwan
Segnale insufficiente-sufficiente
No other FDs today at this time.

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Domenica 22 agosto 2010
09.32 - 9780.16 kHz
YEMEN RTV - Sana'a
AA, tk YL e mx locale.
Segnale sufficiente-buono
A quest'ora irregolare.
-
09.43 - 6220 kHz
MYSTERY R.
Motown records.
Segnale buono
-
10.21 - 13264USB kHz
SHANNON VOLMET (Irlanda)
EE, wx YL-PC.
Segnale insufficiente-sufficiente
Non in // a 11253USB!

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Giovedì 26 agosto 2010
20.54 - 1368 kHz
CHALLENGER R. NORD ITALIA
Villa Estense (Padova)
II, ora esatta, ID e mx Zecchino.
Segnale sufficiente-buono
-
20.58 - 1413 kHz
SWR CONT.RA - Ulm (germania)
GG, IDs OM.
Segnale sufficiente-buono
Ex 711. QRM basco.
-
21.02 - 1431 kHz
R. UKRAINA 3 - Kopani
Nxs YL.
Segnale sufficiente-buono
QRM RAI1+R. Sawa Gibuti.
-
21.12 - 1035 kHz
R. CLUBE PORTUGUES - Belmonte
PP, "Sapore di sale" OM in portoghese.
Segnale insufficiente-sufficiente

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Venerdì 27 agosto 2010
05.32 - 1395 kHz
BIG L - Trintelhaven (Olanda)
Brano rock 60s.
Segnale sufficiente-insufficiente
-
05.54 - 13670 kHz
XINJIANG PBS - Urumqi (Cina)
Uighur, tk YLs.
Segnale insufficiente-sufficiente
-
14.58 - 17625 kHz
DEM. VO BURMA - Talata V. (MDG)
Canzone e annunci YLs.
Segnale sufficiente-insufficiente
Non in // 15480!
-
15.04 - 17630 kHz
prob. CRI - Bamako (Mali)
Portante muta.
Segnale sufficiente-buono
-
15.10 - 15185 kHz
CNR 1 vs. VOA Uzbek (heard)
Segnali buoni
-
15.14 - 15285 kHz
BBC Mandarin+CNR 1 Jammer
Segnali sufficienti-buoni
BBC dominante.
-
15.20 - 15495 kHz
CNR 1 vs. RFA Mandarin
Segnali buoni


Luca Botto Fiora

 
SITO RICEVENTE
G.C. 09E13 - 44N21
Rapallo (Genova)
Italia
 
RICEVITORI
(Rack 1)
R7 Drake
VR5000DSP Yaesu
Satellit 500 Grundig
-
(Rack 2)
ATS909 Sangean
DE1103 Degen
VR500 Yaesu
 
ANTENNE
Loop ferrite ACA 75 cm modificata (@70 kHz-2 MHz)
Loop 1 spira da finestra 150x100 cm (@2-6 MHz)
Dipolo aperto 20 m (@6-30 MHz)
 
VARIE
Ampli RF K0LR per loop ACA modificato (WA1ION)
Ampli RF LX1456 Nuova Elettronica per loop SW e dipolo
Balun a choke coassiale 1:1 di RG174 per dipolo (IZ7ATH)
Eliminatore di QRM MFJ 1026 modificato (W8JI)
Software demo Multimode 5.9.2 Black Cat Systems

DSP VR5000

Non so quanti abbiano il VR5000 Yaesu con DSP, magari nessuno, comunque segnalo che se si collega un registratore alla presa Line Out l'inserimento del DSP non è rilevato, meglio alla vicina presa per altoparlante esterno. Tuttavia, se si inserisce una cuffia sulla apposita presa frontale quella per altoparlante esterno posteriore viene esclusa. Nel mio caso, per fortuna, utilizzo un amplificatore audio a tre ingressi equalizzati - ciascuno per ogni ricevitore - e collegando insieme registratore e amplificatore sulla presa altoparlante (con uno sdoppiatore) tutto è perfettamente funzionante. Comunque, l' audio presente sulla presa Line Out, a monte del DSP opzionale, è davvero limpido, paradossalmente - come avviene spesso - più pulito di quello amplificato internamente e presente sulla presa per la cuffia.

Luca Botto Fiora
 
SITO RICEVENTE
G.C. 09E13 - 44N21
Rapallo (Genova)
Italia
 
RICEVITORI
(Rack 1)
R7 Drake
VR5000DSP Yaesu
Satellit 500 Grundig
-
(Rack 2)
ATS909 Sangean
DE1103 Degen
VR500 Yaesu
 
ANTENNE
Loop ferrite ACA 75 cm modificata (@70 kHz-2 MHz)
Loop 1 spira da finestra 150x100 cm (@2-6 MHz)
Dipolo aperto 20 m (@6-30 MHz)
 
VARIE
Ampli RF K0LR per loop ACA modificato (WA1ION)
Ampli RF LX1456 Nuova Elettronica per loop SW e dipolo
Balun a choke coassiale 1:1 di RG174 per dipolo (IZ7ATH)
Eliminatore di QRM MFJ 1026 modificato (W8JI)
Software demo Multimode 5.9.2 Black Cat Systems

RWI's news

Dear listeners,

Radio Waves International will be back on airwaves this weekend on the 41mb around 7480 khz  Saturday evening & Sunday morning

we  hope everyone have enjoyed their holidays
Peter HILLS & Philippe

R.W.I via Internet continue this weekend with a flash back with Radio Caroline top 500 1984.

Now listen to us on the net via  http://www.pirateradionetwork.com/

RADIO WAVES INTERNATIONAL http://go.to/rwi
Country music show, French service,Rock City &Pirate memories
the sounds on short-waves around the world
"on the highway to freedom"
Peter HILLS & Philippe  " The terrible twins"
 
For review and airplay send your promos to :
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RTÉ Radio coverage of All Ireland finals 2010

Irish public broadcaster RTÉ has published details of its worldwide coverage of the All Ireland Finals on 4 and 18 September 2010:

Britain: Across most of Britain, listeners can receive coverage on Long Wave 252 kHz. In addition RTÉ Radio 1 is available on the UK free to air satellite platform Freesat on channel 750.

Worldwide: Across the world, the match commentaries will be available online at www.rte.ie/radio1.

Shortwave to Africa: In Africa, where many Irish people live and work, often in relative isolation with poor communications, RTÉ is providing special transmissions on shortwave radio:

• To South Africa: 1200-1600 UTC on 7265 kHz
• To East Africa: 1200-1400 UTC on 15400kHz, 1400-1600 on 11695 kHz
• To West Africa: 1330-1400 on 15445 kHz, 1400-1530 on 11805 kHz

Satellite Radio: Across the world, the match commentaries will be available on satellite radios on WRN2, channel 328.

Intelsat Service: For the first time, RTÉ Radio is providing a dedicated satellite radio feed of the finals. Full coverage from 1200-1600 UTC Irish time will be available on Intelsat (C Band) Channel 10: GAA Special. The coverage of the service is extensive - from western Africa over to Australia, as well as throughout most of Europe and Asia.

(RTÉ website via Media Network)

Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA

AUSTRALIA Radio Australia-Shepparton 9580 1729 GMT English 333 Aug 24 OM with comments on the upcoming elections. Also an OM on his trip to California USA.

AUSTRALIA Radio Australia-Shepparton 11880 1705 GMT English 444 Aug 25 YL and OM with a news program.

CHINA China Radio Intl - CRI 11900 1707 GMT English 333 Aug 25 YL and OM with World News program.

CUBA Radio Havana Cuba-RHC 11760 1752 Spanish 333 Aug 24 OM with comments plus a YL mentioning Cuba often.

JAPAN Radio Japan-NHK 9835 1702 Japanese 444 Aug 24 OM with comments and ID 1703. Classical music 1734.

KOREA, North KCBS 9335 1725 Korean 333 Aug 24 Group of people talking then a YL 1725 with comments. YL with strident singing 1740. National Anthem and off the air 1750. //11545[333] and 11710[444].

MARIANNAS,North Radio Free asia-RFA and a Jammer 11765 1640 Chinese 333 Aug 25 OM with comments via RFA. YL with comments via Jammer plus some Chinese music. Time Pips 1700 followed by an OM with comments.11795[444], 11540[444], 9905[444], 9455[333], and 9540[444].

VATICAN STATE Radio Canada Intl-RCI Relay 7230 1707 GMT Chinese 333 Aug 24 OM with comments plus some music in the background also piano music and YL singing1725. //7365[444], 7305[444], 9905[444].

.Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, United States of America
Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650
"World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive"
ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC
SCADS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCADS

SIDC Weekly Bulletin

:Issued: 2010 Aug 24 2031 UTC
:Product: documentation at http://www.sidc.be/products/bul
#--------------------------------------------------------------------#
# SIDC Weekly bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic activity            #
#--------------------------------------------------------------------#
WEEK 503 from 2010 Aug 16 

SOLAR ACTIVITY
-------------

NOAA AR 1098 was the dominant active region during the period. On Aug 18 it was  positioned on the North West
limb and triggered the biggest flare of the period: a C4.5 long duration flare at 05:48. The event was associated
with a coronal mass ejection and an  increase in solar proton fluxes, that however did not pass the event
threshold levels (10 fpu at 10 MeV).

Following this event,  the active region rotated behind the North West limb, an SIDC ALL QUIET ALERT was issued
and indeed, no more flaring activity was observed.

GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY
-------------------

Geomagnetic activity was very low during the period and never went higher than the Kp=3 level.



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DAILY INDICES
DATE          RC  EISN  10CM  Ak  BKG    M  X
2010 Aug 16  062    033  85  008  B1.4  0  0
2010 Aug 17  025    016  81  007  B1.4  0  0
2010 Aug 18  023    014  81  005  B1.3  0  0
2010 Aug 19  011    006  78  004  A6.9  0  0
2010 Aug 20  023    003  77  004  A6.2  0  0
2010 Aug 21  011    000  76  003  A5.6  0  0
2010 Aug 22  ///    000  75  002  A4.9  0  0
# RC  : Sunspot index (Wolf Number) from Catania Observatory (Italy)
# EISN : Estimated International Sunspot Number
# 10cm : 10.7 cm  radioflux (DRAO, Canada)
# Ak  : Ak Index Wingst (Germany)
# BKG  : Background GOES X-ray level (NOAA, USA)
# M,X  : Number of X-ray flares in M and X class, see below (NOAA, USA)
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NOTICEABLE EVENTS
DAY BEGIN MAX  END  LOC    XRAY OP TENCM TYPE                      Cat NOAA NOTE


#--------------------------------------------------------------------#
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Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA

CHINA China Radio Intl-CRI 13580 1650 GMT Chinese 333 Aug 22 YL and OM with comments and suddenly off the air 1657 GMT.

COSTA RICA Radio Exterior Espana Relay-REE 11815 1710 GMT Spanish 333 Aug 22 Drum/Bongo music.

CUBA Radio Havana Cuba Relay-RHC 13760 0334 GMT Spanish 333 Aug 22 OM with comments. Mixing with OM with comments from the Voice of Korea-VOK in French.

IRAN VOIRI 13710 0344 GMT Azeri 433 Aug 22 YL and OM with comments.

KOREA, North Voice of Korea-VOK 13650 0346 Chinese 433 Aug 22 YL singing plus choir music. YL with comments at 0350 GMT. Then more strident choir singing...

NEW ZEALAND Radio New Zealand Intl- RNZI 13730 0338 GMT English 444 Aug

22 YL and OM in a Comedy program. Two YLs singing 0341. MacKenzie-CA.

SAUDI ARABIA BSKSA 15170 0330 GMT Arabic OM singing the Koran.

UNITED STATES, Tennessee WWCR-2 12160 1705 GMT English 444 Aug 22 OM with course on the ISLAM and GOD'S words from the Calvary Baptist Church.
.
Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, United States of America
Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650
"World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive"
ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC
SCADS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCADS

Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA

AUSTRALIA Radio Australia-Shepparton 17795 2305 GMT English 444 Aug 21 OM interviewing an OM on upcoming parliment elections in the RA News program. //15560[444].

AUSTRALIA HCJB 15525 2337 GMT Chinese 333 Aug 21 YL with comments plus an OM at times.

BONAIRE Radio Netherlands Intl Relay-RNI 17605 2310 GMT Dutch 444 Aug 21 OM interviewing an OM from Canada.

CANADA Radio Canada Intl-RCI 17860 2255 Portuguese 333 Aug 21 YL and OM with comments. Suddenly off the air at 2259.

CANADA Radio Canada Intl-RCI 15455 2340 GMT Spanish 444 Aug 21 YL and OM with comments. YL mentions Radio Canada often followed by an OM with comments. //11990[444].

COSTA RICA Radio Exterior Espana-REE Relay 17850 2300 GMT Spanish 444 Aug 21 YL with REE ID and off the air.

CUBA Radio Havana Cuba-RHC 15380 2344 Portuguese 333 Aug 21 YL and OM with comments and some band music.

UNITED STATES, and SPAIN Radio Free Asia-RFA and Radio Exterior Espana-Ree 15585 2332 Chines and Spanish 333 Aug 21 RFA in Chinese with an OM with comments. REE in Spanish with an OM with comments. Both station mixing with each other.

Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA

Huntington Beach, California, United States of America
Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650
"World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive"
ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC
SCADS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCADS

DX MIX NEWS # 639

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
DX MIX NEWS # 639                                            23 August 2010
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
GERMANY(non)  Summer A-10 of Media Broadcast(ex DTK T-Systems).Part 2 of 4:
Bible Voice Broadcasting Network (BVBN):
0700-0815 on  5945 WER 100 kW / 300 deg Sat         to WeEu English
0700-0730 on  5945 WER 100 kW / 300 deg Sun         to WeEu English
1800-1830 on  6130 WER 100 kW / 055 deg Tue         to EaEu Russian
1800-1845 on  6130 WER 100 kW / 055 deg Fri         to EaEu Russian
1800-1815 on  6130 WER 100 kW / 055 deg Thu         to EaEu Ukrainian
1800-1845 on  6130 WER 100 kW / 055 deg Sat         to EaEu English
1800-1900 on  6130 WER 100 kW / 055 deg Sun         to EaEu English
1800-1830 on  9435 NAU 125 kW / 230 deg Sun         to SoEu Spanish
0900-1000 on 17535 WER 125 kW / 135 deg Fri         to NoAf Arabic
2000-2115 on  9485 WER 125 kW / 210 deg Wed         to WCAf French
2045-2115 on  9485 WER 125 kW / 210 deg Thu-Tue     to WCAf French
1930-1945 on 11830 NAU 100 kW / 187 deg Sat         to WeAf French
1945-2000 on 11830 NAU 100 kW / 187 deg Sat         to WeAf Adja
1830-1845 on 11830 WER 100 kW / 180 deg Sun         to CeAf Swahili
1630-1730 on 13720 WER 100 kW / 150 deg Daily       to CEAf Nuer/Dinka
1730-1745 on 13720 WER 100 kW / 150 deg Fri         to CEAf Fur
0430-0500 on  9735 WER 250 kW / 105 deg Tue/Thu     to EaAf Arabic
0500-0515 on  9735 WER 250 kW / 105 deg Fri         to EaAf Arabic
1600-1630 on 13810 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Mon/Thu     to EaAf Oromo
1630-1700 on 13810 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Mon/Fri     to EaAf Amharic
1700-1730 on 13810 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Mon/Tue/Fri to EaAf Tigrinya
1730-1800 on 13810 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Mon/Tue/Fri to EaAf Amharic
1600-1700 on 13810 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Tue         to EaAf Amharic
1600-1800 on 13810 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Wed         to EaAf Amharic
1630-1800 on 13810 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Thu/Sat/Sun to EaAf Amharic
1600-1630 on 13810 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Fri/Sun     to EaAf Oromo
1800-1830 on 13810 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Fri-Sun     to EaAf Somali
1830-1900 on  9430 WER 250 kW / 120 deg Fri         to N/ME English
1800-1900 on  9430 WER 250 kW / 120 deg Sat         to N/ME English
1800-1815 on  9430 WER 250 kW / 120 deg 1st Sun     to N/ME English
1815-1845 on  9430 WER 250 kW / 120 deg Sun         to N/ME English
1700-1800 on  9645 WER 125 kW / 120 deg Sat         to N/ME English
1730-1800 on  9645 WER 125 kW / 120 deg Sun         to N/ME English
1615-1700 on 11645 ISS 100 kW / 115 deg Mon         to N/ME Arabic
1545-1700 on 11645 ISS 100 kW / 115 deg Wed         to N/ME Arabic
1615-1630 on 11645 ISS 100 kW / 115 deg Fri         to N/ME Arabic
1730-1800 on 11860 WER 125 kW / 120 deg Daily       to N/ME Arabic
1700-1720 on 13580 ISS 250 kW / 115 deg Mo/Tu/Th/Fr to N/ME Arabic
1700-1735 on 13580 ISS 250 kW / 115 deg Wed         to N/ME Arabic
1545-1600 on 13590 NAU 100 kW / 127 deg Mon/Wed     to N/ME English
1545-1620 on 13590 NAU 100 kW / 127 deg Tue         to N/ME English
1700-1715 on 13590 NAU 100 kW / 127 deg Tue         to N/ME English
1715-1800 on 13590 NAU 100 kW / 127 deg Tue         to N/ME Hebrew
1545-1645 on 13590 NAU 100 kW / 127 deg Thu         to N/ME English
1545-1615 on 13590 NAU 100 kW / 127 deg Fri         to N/ME English
1545-1730 on 13590 NAU 100 kW / 127 deg Sat         to N/ME English
1530-1815 on 13590 NAU 100 kW / 127 deg Sun         to N/ME English
1800-1830 on 11855 NAU 100 kW / 105 deg Mon/Wed/Fri to WeAs Persian
1800-1900 on 11855 NAU 100 kW / 105 deg Tue/Thu     to WeAs Persian
1830-1900 on 11855 NAU 100 kW / 105 deg Sun         to WeAs Persian
1800-1815 on 11855 NAU 100 kW / 105 deg Sat         to WeAs Persian
1530-1545 on 11955 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg Sun         to WeAs Persian
1530-1730 on 12140 WER 125 kW / 105 deg Daily       to WeAs Persian
0030-0100 on  7405 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Mon-Thu     to SoAs Hindi
0030-0100 on  7405 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Fri-Sun     to SoAs English
1530-1600 on 13740 ISS 100 kW / 082 deg Wed/Fri     to SoAs Urdu
1530-1600 on 13740 ISS 100 kW / 082 deg Thu         to SoAs English
1515-1545 on 13740 ISS 100 kW / 082 deg Sat         to SoAs English
1500-1515 on 13740 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Sun         to SoAs English
1430-1500 on 15265 ISS 250 kW / 083 deg Sat         to SoAs English
1415-1500 on 15265 ISS 250 kW / 083 deg Sun         to SoAs English

Lutheran World Federation Voice of Gospel
1330-1345 on 15160 NAU 250 KW / 082 deg Mon-Sat     to SEAs Burmese
1330-1345 on 15160 WER 250 kW / 075 deg Sun         to SEAs Burmese
1830-1900 on  9655 WER 500 kW / 180 deg Daily       to WCAf Fulani

Voice of Oromia Liberation Front:
1600-1630 on 11975 WER 500 kW / 135 deg Sun/Tue/Thu to EaAf Oromo

Radiyo Y'Abadanga Ababaka
1700-1800 on 15410 ISS 250 kW / 140 deg Sat         to EaAf Swahili

Radio Oromiyaa Liberation
1730-1800 on 13830 NAU 100 kW / 140 deg Fri         to EaAf Oromo/Amharic

Ethiopia Adera Dimtse Radio, cancelled from Aug.7
1700-1800 on 13820 NAU 500 kW / 140 deg Sat         to EaAf Amharic

Ethiopian Liberation Front-Voice of Democratic Eritrea
1700-1730 on 13820 NAU 125 kW / 145 deg Thu         to EaAf Tigrinya
1730-1800 on 13820 NAU 125 kW / 145 deg Thu         to EaAf Arabic

Ethiopians for Democracy-Voice of Ethiopian Unity:
1700-1800 on 13820 NAU 250 kW / 145 deg Sun/Wed     to EaAf Amharic

Voice of Oromo Liberation (Sagalee Bilisummaa Oromoo):
1700-1800 on 13830 ISS 100 kW / 126 deg Sun/Wed     to EaAf Oromo

Save the Gambia Democracy Project(STGDP)Baati Rewmi Radio/Voice of the Country
1815-1830 on 15225 NAU 125 kW / 221 deg Sat         to WeAf Fula/Wolof/English

Radio Reveil Paroles de Vie:
1830-1845 on 15675 NAU 125 kW / 170 deg Tue/Thu     to SoAf French

Ultimi ascolti estivi

Eccovi la "coda" degli ascolti effettuati da San Marco e non riportati nel listone precedente. Condizioni di propagazione così così, con il solito QRN estivo generato dai temporali. Chiudiamo così la stagione estiva 2010 !

 

Michele D'Amico

 

(Perseus, Asus 1201n, filare da 15 metri e balun.)

Brasil, 4875.4, Radiodifusora Roraima, 0257, Aug 16, religious talk by a male speaker in Portughese, melodic songs; sign-off at 0358. Fair to good.

Brasil, 6185, r. Nac.Amazonia, 0026, Aug 16, female speaker talking in Portughese, melodic songs. Fair.

Brasil, 9675, R.Cancao Nova, 2227, Aug 08, melodic songs, talk in Portughese, strong co-channel QRM from China. Poor.

India, 4940, AIR Guwahati, 2359, Aug 11, sign-on with usual AIR tune, talk in Vernacular. Good.

Indonesia, 4925, RRI Jambi, 1930, Aug 19, male speakers talking in Vernacular. Fair to good.

Uganda, 4976, R. Uganda, Kampala, songs, talk by male speaker, jingle, English. Fair.

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 ``Aló, 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) ###

Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA

BOTSWANA VOA Relay 12015 1708 GMT English 433 Aug 17 YL interviewing an OM. Pop vocal music then a YL with VOA ID 1716 GMT followed by more interviews. //17895[444].

CUBA Radio Havana Cuba-RHC 12030 1722 GMT Spanish 333 Aug 17 OM with comments.

FRANCE Radio France Intl-RFI 15300 1748 GMT French 333 Aug 17 YL and OM with comments.

MARIANAS, North Radio Free Asia-RFA 13625 1734 Chinese 333 Aug 17 OM with comments.

RUSSIA Voice of Russia-VOR 13855 1742 Russian and English 333 Aug 17 YL singing. OM ancr and more music.

UNITED STATES, Tennessee WWCR #2 121601725 English 444 Aug 17 OM interviewing an OM on Gold Coin values.

UNITED STATES, Pennsylvania WINB 13570 1730 GMT English 333 Aug 17 OM with comments on the Seperation of Church and Government.

UNITED STATES, NoCarolina Radio Marti 13820 1740 Spanish 323 Aug 17 YL with comments. Cuban Jammer on this frequency.

Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, United States of America
Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650
"World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive"
ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC
SCADS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCADS

Sundays and oldies a perfect match

            Just to let you know that WR International is at it again on air this morning on short wave @ 12257Khz until 11:00 UK time. Also on the internet with the Destiny radio system www.pirateradionetwork.com in stereo visit our web site for details www.wrinternational.co.uk you can also listen via shoutcast search for WR International at www.shoutcast.com or the url is http://radio.wrinternational.co.uk:8003/listen.pls 

 

You can contact us during our transmission at radio@wrinternational.co.uk , with facebook.com (search for Dave Jones) or sms text message to +447539441912.

Happy listening if you choose to, have a good day.

 

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Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA

ARGENTINA Radio Argentina Exterior-RAE 15345 0017 GMT Spanish 333 Aug 16 Two OMs with comments at a sports event plus a YL witt\h comments at times.

AUSTRALIA Radio Australia-Shepparton 17795 2348 GMT English 433 Aug 15 OM with comments on Cambodia and its Shoe Industry.

CUBA Radio Havana Cuba-RHC 15380 0013 GMT Spanish 433 Aug 16 OM with comments. YL with RHC ID 0015. //15120[333].

MARIANAS, North Radio Free Asia-RFA 15585 2354 Aug 15 Two OMs with comments. Off the air at 0000.GMT. //15485[333]Saipan and 15430[333]Tinian.

MARIANAS, North, Radio Free Asia-RFA 15560 0005 GMT Vietnamese 333 Aug 16 YL and OM with comments. //13740[333].

NEW ZEALAND Radio New Zealand-RNZI 13730 0027 GMT English Aug 16 Two OMs with comments. A Very noisy frequency. YL with RNZI ID 0029 GMT.

SPAIN Radio Exterior Espana-REE 15160 0020 GMT Spanish 444 Aug 16 YL and OM with comments in the Diaria program.

UNITED STATES Voice of Germany Relay-DW 17820 2340 GMT German Aug 15 444 YL and OM with comments. //11815 [333] via Portugal.


.Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, United States of America
Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650
"World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive"
ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC
SCADS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCADS

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) ###

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 incógnitos, including Córdoba, Andalucía; 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) ###

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 Martí, 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 Brasília, 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 Guápiles, Costa Rica, but are they still carrying Radio República? 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) ###

DX MIX NEWS # 638

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DX MIX NEWS # 638                                            20 August 2010
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GERMANY(non)  Summer A-10 of Media Broadcast(ex DTK T-Systems).Part 1 of 4:
Adventist World Radio (AWR):
0400-0430 on  6065 WER 100 kW / 120 deg Daily       to EaEu Bulgarian
1600-1630 on  7340 WER 100 kW / 120 deg Daily       to EaEu Bulgarian
0900-1000 on  9790 NAU 100 kW / 180 deg Sun         to SoEu Italian
0700-0800 on 11980 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily       to NoAf Arabic
0800-0830 on 11980 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily       to NoAf Kabyle
0800-0900 on 12010 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily       to NoAf French/Tachelhit
1900-2000 on  9765 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily       to NoAf Arabic/Tachelhit
2000-2030 on  9765 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily       to NoAf French
1730-1800 on 11915 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily       to NoAf Kabyle
1900-2000 on 15260 NAU 125 kW / 215 deg Daily       to NoAf Arabic
1900-1930 on 15205 NAU 125 kW / 215 deg Daily       to CeAf Fulfulde
1930-2000 on 15205 WER 250 kW / 165 deg Daily       to CeAf Ibo
2000-2100 on 11755 WER 250 kW / 180 deg Daily       to CeAf French/Youruba
0300-0330 on  6065 WER 250 kW / 135 deg Daily       to EaAf Tigrigna
0330-0400 on  9815 WER 250 kW / 135 deg Daily       to EaAf Amharic
0300-0330 on  9505 WER 250 kW / 135 deg Daily       to EaAf Oromo
1730-1800 on 15155 WER 250 kW / 135 deg Daily       to EaAf Oromo
1630-1700 on 17575 WER 250 kW / 135 deg Daily       to EaAf Somali
0400-0430 on  9845 WER 250 kW / 120 deg Daily       to N/ME Arabic
1700-1730 on  9445 WER 250 kW / 120 deg Daily       to N/ME Arabic
1200-1300 on 15435 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Daily       to SoAs English/Bangla
1500-1600 on 15160 ISS 250 kW / 080 deg Daily       to SoAs Nepali/Hindi
1500-1530 on 15255 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Daily       to SoAs Punjabi
1530-1600 on 15255 WER 250 kW / 075 deg Daily       to SoAs English
1300-1330 on 15320 NAU 250 kW / 070 deg Mon-Fri     to EaAs Chinese
1300-1330 on 15320 NAU 250 kW / 070 deg Sat/Sun     to EaAs Uighur
1330-1500 on 15320 NAU 250 kW / 070 deg Daily       to EaAs Chinese

Radio Netherlands
0500-0555 on  9895 WER 500 kW / 120 deg Daily       to SEEu Dutch
0600-0655 on  9895 NAU 500 kW / 190 deg Daily       to SoEu Dutch
0600-0755 on  5955 NAU 500 kW / 210 deg Daily       to WCEu Dutch
0700-0755 on  6035 NAU 500 kW / 186 deg Daily       to CeEu Dutch
0700-0755 on  9740 WER 100 kW / 300 deg Daily       to NoEu Dutch
0800-0855 on  6035 NAU 500 kW / 186 deg Sat, Aug.28 to CeEu Dutch
0800-0855 on  9740 WER 100 kW / 300 deg Sat, Aug.28 to NoEu Dutch
0800-0955 on  6120 WER 250 kW / 255 deg Mon-Fri     to SoEu Dutch
0800-0955 on  9895 NAU 500 kW / 230 deg Sat/Sun     to SoEu Dutch
1000-1155 on 13700 WER 250 kW / 240 deg Daily       to SEEu Dutch
1000-1155 on  5955 NAU 500 kW / 210 deg Mon-Sat     to WCEu Dutch
1000-1155 on  9895 NAU 500 kW / 230 deg Mon-Sat     to SEEu Dutch
1000-1655 on  5955 NAU 500 kW / 210 deg Sun         to WCEu Dutch
1000-1655 on  9895 NAU 500 kW / 230 deg Sun         to SEEu Dutch
1500-1555 on 13700 WER 500 kW / 120 deg Daily       to SEEu Dutch
1500-1655 on  5955 NAU 500 kW / 210 deg Mon-Sat     to WCEu Dutch
1500-1655 on  9895 NAU 500 kW / 230 deg Mon-Sat     to SEEu Dutch
1500-1655 on 13700 WER 500 kW / 240 deg Daily       to SEEu Dutch
1700-1725 on 15710 WER 500 kW / 180 deg Daily       to CeAf Dutch
1700-1725 on 15720 NAU 500 kW / 155 deg Daily       to EaAf Dutch
1800-1955 on 15535 WER 500 kW / 150 deg Daily       to EaAf English
2000-2155 on  6125 NAU 500 kW / 225 deg Daily       to SEEu Dutch
2100-2125 on  9815 NAU 250 kW / 320 deg Daily       to NoEu Dutch

Trans World Radio (TWR):
0645-0820 on  6105 NAU 100 kW / 285 deg Sun         to NoEu English
0715-0750 on  6105 NAU 100 kW / 285 deg Sat         to NoEu English
0700-0750 on  6105 NAU 100 kW / 285 deg Mon-Fri     to NoEu English
1400-1430 on  7215 WER 100 kW / 060 deg Mon         to EaEu Belarussian
1400-1430 on  7215 WER 100 kW / 060 deg Tue-Fri     to EaEu Russian
1400-1500 on  7215 WER 100 kW / 060 deg Sat/Sun     to EaEu Russian
1530-1600 on  9440 WER 100 kW / 105 deg Sat         to EaEu Romanian
1530-1600 on  9440 WER 100 kW / 090 deg Mon-Fri     to CeAs Armenian

Hamburger Lokalradio
0900-1000 on  6045 WER 100 kW / non-dir 1st Sun     to CeEu German

Mecklenburg Verpommern Baltic Radio:
0900-1000 on  6140 WER 125 kW / non-dir 1st Sun     to CeEu German

European Music Radio:
0900-1000 on  6140 WER 125 kW / non-dir 3rd Sun     to CeEu Music

Radio Gloria International:
0900-1000 on  6140 WER 125 kW / non-dir 4th Sun     to CeEu Music

Christliche Wissenschaft/Christian Science
0900-1000 on  6055 WER 100 kW / 090 deg Sun         to CeEu German, deleted
1800-1900 on  9585 WER 125 kW / 075 deg Sat         to EaEu Russian

Evangelische Missions Gemeiden:
1030-1100 on  6055 WER 125 kW / non-dir Sat/Sun     to CeEu German
1100-1130 on 13710 NAU 250 kW / 020 deg Sat         to FE   Russian
1500-1530 on 11695 WER 250 kW / 060 deg Sat         to EaEu Russian

Missionswerke Arche Stimme des Trostes
1100-1115 on  5945 WER 250 kW / non-dir Sun         to CeEu German

Radio Traumland:
1300-1400 on  5945 WER 100 kW / non-dir Sun         to CeEu German

Pan American Broadcasting (PAB):
1400-1415 on 15205 ISS 100 kW / 083 deg Sun         to SoAs English
1415-1430 on 15205 ISS 100 kW / 083 deg Daily       to SoAs English
1430-1445 on 15205 ISS 250 kW / 083 deg Sun         to SoAs English
1600-1630 on 13830 WER 100 kW / 090 deg Sun         to WeAs English
1930-2015 on  6175 WER 250 kW / 150 deg Sun         to NoAf English
1930-2030 on  6175 WER 250 kW / 150 deg Sat         to NoAf English

Brother Stair/The Overcomer Ministries (TOM):
1300-1500 on  6110 WER 100 kW / 300 deg Daily       to WeEu >>>> not active
1500-1600 on  6110 MOS 100 kW / 300 deg Daily       to WeEu >>>> not active
1400-1500 on 13810 NAU 100 kW / 127 deg Daily       to N/ME English,x 14-16
1500-1600 on 17485 WER 100 kW / 160 deg Daily       to CeAf English
1800-1900 on  9895 WER 500 kW / non-dir Daily       to N/ME English,x 18-20
1900-2000 on  7425 WER 100 kW / 120 deg Daily       to N/ME >>>> not active
1900-2100 on  6155 WER 100 kW / 300 deg Daily       to WeEu English

Glenn Hauser logs August 17-19, 2010

** ANTARCTICA [and non]. 15476, LRA36, very poor but detectable signal, Aug 18 at 1312 with YL in Spanish; 1345 some music. Likewise Aug 19 at 1327 music, het from 15480; 1421 music again, and now weaker than 15480, White Russian from Poland via Woofferton UK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. 9625, the defective transmitter dedicated to Sackville`s lowest priority, CBCNQ, Aug 19 at 0503 in CBC news, distorted on fundamental and putting out worse spurs circa 9600 and 9650. Fortunately sign-off was imminent, but did not check for prolonged transmission with tones as often happens (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake August 18:
 8400, JBA at 1252
14700, fair at 1334 with flutter. No others found up to 18 MHz.

Firedrake August 19: none at all found, 1330-1339 from 18 down to 8 MHz; however, CNR1 jammers were quite strong on 15 and 11 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 9525, Aug 19 at 0455-0500 RHC only running its IS, but why if this frequency is about to close down, anyway; or is it? 0501 into programming starting with music. Only poor signal; probably just overrunning.

Maybe that`s why 6010 was missing when I checked 49m at 0510, while the other English frequencies were up: 5970 good, 6060 poor, 6150 open carrier, then modulation cutting on and off. But at 0511, 6010 carrier started cutting on and off; finally at 0512, seemed to stay on plus modulation. Spanish on 6120, 5040 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ECUADOR. 3810-LSB, HD2IOA, accurate time signals announced every 10 seconds, Aug 19 at 0514. Weak, but evading QRhaM at the moment (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI, Aug 18 at 1322 ``Indonesian Wonder`` segment about ``burning the barge(?)``, i.e. paper replicas, some festival in Riau, which is a province in central Sumatera; 1326 ``Let`s Speak Bahasa Indonesia``, hard to follow as usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** LIBYA. V. of Africa still active on the original A10 and B09 frequency, 17725, poor with YL in English at 1418 Aug 19; // 21695 not propagating, nor anything else on 13m.

BTW: when solar flux had a hard time exceeding 70 earlier this year, we dreamt of it exceeding 80 and the improved reception that would ensue. Now it does, but reception is as poor as ever if not worse overall (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1050 on caradio with a low het rumble, surely between the two OK stations, as much closer than any others on daytime groundwave; someone is significantly off-frequency. Dominant station had soul music, Aug 17 at 2013 UT. Trouble is, new NRC AM Log 2010-2011, just received Aug 18, shows both are UC:AC (Urban contemporary/American contemporary) music formats: KKRX Lawton, U3 250 watts, and KGTO Tulsa U1 1000 watts. Of course, with a direxional receiver each could be nulled, but not on the caradio whip. More likely Tulsa, a bit closer and stronger, non direxional, while Lawton is direxional to the SW.

1240, previously noted with KFH Wichita KS and KADS Elk City OK both on ESPN and echoing, but Aug 17 at 2015 UT on caradio, KADS is way over KFH, and giving the WWLS phone number: ``Sports Animal`` network originator relayed by a few other OK stations, but surely none abroad; on website http://www.thesportsanimal.com/ I see nothing about affiliates; even searching on keywords KADS and Elk goes nowhere (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. KWTV, CBS affiliate in OKC, is about to make up its mind about whether to keep channel 9 or 39; it`s been running both for many months. Formerly, PSIP ID was 9-1 for RF9 and 9-2 for RF39, but first noted August 17, that has changed:

RF9:  now displays as DTV 9-3 OldKWTV
RF39: now displays as DTV 9-1 News9

But on my previously configured DTV converter, which had both saved, if I directly enter 9-1 I get News9 but I am really tuned to RF39.

If I directly enter 9-2 I get News9 and I am also really tuned to RF39.

If I directly enter 9-3 I get OldKWTV and am really tuned to RF9.
Previously there was no 9-3 option. Why set it up that way? There are not really three separate channels/programs.

As I found out when researching the KOSU CP to move to the KWTV tower, their ch 39 antenna is on the top, and the ch 9 is further down, another clue that they are going for UHF as a keeper. All these different ``9``s have always had identical programming; never any secondary channels.

There is no obvious link to DTV or reception problems on the http://www.news9.com website, so I had to search, leading to this:
http://www.news9.com/Global/story.asp?S=12892534

``Please Rescan by Aug. 30
Posted:  Jul 29, 2010 2:47 PM AST [sic]
Updated: Aug 03, 2010 3:15 PM AST [sic]

Since the DTV switch, some TVs have had problems with our signal. We apologize. We value all of our viewers and have been working hard to make sure everyone can get the best signal possible... and now we need your help.

If you are watching NEWS 9 on a TV using an antenna or a converter box, it's very important that you rescan your channel line-up one more time before August 30th or you'll lose CBS and NEWS 9.

RESCAN: Step - by - Step

1. Disconnect the antenna from the television/converter box
2. Rescan channels (with no antenna attached, you will likely get no channels)
3. Turn off the television/converter box and unplug from power source
4. After 5 minutes, plug the television/converter box back in and reconnect the antenna
5. Rescan for channels
6. And you are DONE!

If you run into any problems, we are here to help.
Send us an e-mail: Give us a call: 405-841-9199``

They still are not saying exactly what they are really doing! But obviously they are turning off one of their transmitters August 30. In the comments appended, a rather rude ``Echo Charlie`` explains to a confused viewer, who can blame her? that RF 9 will be turned off, keeping RF 39 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. 15450, checking VOT Aug 19, another Thursday whether ``Live from Turkey`` still exists, but tuned in too late, 1320, just as starting filler Question of the Month? But cut off the air for a minute so it was missed. Perhaps the transmitter operator, like the audience, is sick of hearing the same thing on every English broadcast for three weeks? By the time resumed, moved on to news headlines, hard to copy due to YL announcer speed/accent, and only fair reception, fading; IS once and off. Two hours later I check the website for this broadcast on demand,
http://www.trt-world.com/trtworld/en/news.aspx
but not only is today`s not available yet, neither is yesterday`s, the latest linked being Aug 17. So maybe Thursday`s will be there by Saturday? Ho, hum (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. First airing of WORLD OF RADIO 1526 confirmed on WBCQ, Wednesday Aug 18 at 1900; by webcast, as in- to just-barely audible here on 7415 at that hour across mostly absorbed full day summer path. Just how far does 7415 reach with a usable signal at that hour?

Next few scheduled airings: Thu 1500 WRMI 9955, Thu 1900 WBCQ 7415,
Thu 2100 WRMI 9955, Fri 0330 WWRB 3185, Fri 1430 WRMI 9955, Fri 2030 WWCR1 15825. Full schedule at
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 95.3, weak signal on caradio Aug 17 at 2018 UT, ad for a car dealer mentioning both Poteau OK and Fort Smith AR. Must be KERX Paris AR, 50 kW ERP, transmitter site halfway to Fort Smith, east of it. 228 miles, not bad on a bright summer afternoon (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 560, Aug 17 at 2010 UT, very weak with some T-storm QRN, clip of ``Heartbreak Hotel``, and unID host/DJ inviting calls. Also with SAH from a second station. KWTO Springfield MO is closest, talk format, and just barely makes it here on groundwave. KWTO schedule at
http://www.newstalk560.com/schedule.aspx
shows Tuesdays 3:00PM - 4:00PM Chestnut Chiropractic (1st, 3rd), and this was the third, so do they go off the air on 2nd, 4th and 5th?

The other suspects are KFDM Beaumont TX, WHBQ Memphis TN and KLZ Denver CO. NRC AM Log 2010-2011 shows all of them are some variety of talk. Looking at the NRC Pattern Book, all about the same distance from here, under 500 miles, but only KFDM is non-direxional day, and has the ground conductivity advantage over Memphis; while KLZ has quite a null usward. On caradio at a western Enid store parking lot, a fairly hot spot, tho now some frequencies marred by tones, expanded store security systems? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15570/15572, het Aug 19 at 1422 between two weak signals. Aoki shows: ``15572*VOICE OF TIBET  1407-1430 1234567 Tibetan 100 131 Dushanbe-Yangiyul TJK 06848E 3829N VOTi a10``; only audio I hear is on 15570, seems like Chinese, so likely CNR1 jamming VOT. Originally in A10, DW in Amharic via Sri Lanka was on 15570 during this hour, but apparently no longer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

Log tips FAX station

17/08 1858 8040     GYA     Marine Nortwood     G     120/576 Tafs
17/08 1854 7880     DDK3    Offenbach Meteo     D     120/576 chart
17/08 1737 12750    NMF     USCG Boston         USA   120/576 chart
17/08 1718 16035    9VF252  Kyodo New Singapore SNG   News paper J
17/08 1714 12745,5  JJC     Kyodo News          J     News paper Japan
17/08 1713 8140     BMF     Taipei Meteo        TWN   120/576 chart
17/08 1711 13988,5  JMH     Tokyo Meteo         J     120/576 chart
17/08 1710 9165     HLL2    Seoul Meteo         KOR   120/576 chart           

- Mauro IK2GFT - Swl 1510-
-JRC525Nrd - Lowe HF150-
Filter PAR Electronics – BCST-LPF + BCST-HPF
-Eavesdropper SWL Sloper 11mt to 120mt Band- Loop LFL1010
-Lat. 45°25'0"N Long. 9°7'0"E -Locator grid. Jn 45 Nk-

Glenn Hauser logs August 17, 2010

** ANTARCTICA. 15476+, Aug 17 at 1316, JBA with YL talking, het 15480, so LRA36 definitely on the air today, while I could not detect it Aug 16 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA [and non]. 9625, Aug 17 at 1237, WYFR in Portuguese over CBCNQ, the usual situation here, two stations on the same continent and the same coast, on the same frequency! Audible hum or low heterodyne presumably caused by CBC being considerably off-frequency. 1245 with WYFR off, I still hear an hum, but lessened, and past 1300 as CBC is beating against something else, such as FEBC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake August 17:
 8400, fair at 1232
 9380, fair at 1239; 1324 seems off but WWRB 9385 now Overcomes
10500, nothing at 1239, very poor at 1339. Gone at 1400, so I set a receiver on 10500 to hear if and when it would cut back on instead of 1405 as Ron Howard has been noting: *1409:20 but now JBA
13680, fair at 1243 // 9380; no others up to 15000 at 1415
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 13780, Aug 17 at 1413, RHC missing tho it was still among the frequencies announced a few minutes earlier, while as usual on 13680 and China relay on 13740. This allowed something in German to be heard poorly on 13780. If it`s in German, it can`t be from Germany, but likely from a DW relay, in this case Woofferton UK at 14-18 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. 9690, Aug 17, waiting for AIR GOS to come on: *1328 with anthem? But unseems Vande Mataram, and talked over at 1329:30, couldn`t understand and maybe not English. We don`t hear the haunting AIR IS at all; what`s up with that? 1330 quick GOS sign-on with the three frequencies, right into news with perpetual hum, really too poor to stay with. Later on, found // 13710 under CRI via EAST TURKISTAN, much too close to India (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9525.9, VOI, if it`s Tuesday, this must be Banjarmasin, Aug 17 joining in progress 1301:30 after dead air, tho previous hour in Japanese was OK. At first the two studios were having trouble hearing each other over the line (try SW?). The Exotic Indonesia excursions are more talky than other days, back and forth between Jak and Banj. 1320, talk about the rôle of youth in Indonesian independence, an editorial (or did she say ``dignatorial``?).

Clueless announcers keep claiming to be on three frequencies, ``9525``, 11785 and 15150, the latter two inactive for many months, at least at this hour; heard at 1323. At 1324, Today in History, about this being the 65th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on Aug 17, 1945, two days after Japan`s WWII surrender (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MADAGASCAR. 11835, open carrier aside WYFR 11830, Aug 17 at 1335, rather steady at S9+20, whence? Kept on it and finally at *1359 IS very briefly and sign-on in English to Asia from Radio Netherlands Worldwide. Too much ACI from WYFR, and if side-tuned upward, bleed from the DentroCuban Jamming Command on 11845. If the RNW frequency were isolated, it would be usable. This is 250 kW, 50 degrees from Talata. But why burn 250 kW an extra 25 minutes?

Uplooked later, I see that Romania in Russian is supposed to be on 11835 until 1400, but not a trace of that heard, tho other 25m frequencies from them often make it way offbeam to here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN [non]. 15170, REE via COSTA RICA, Aug 17 at 1300, compared the timesignal to WWV and it was one sesquisecond late. I realize it would be inconvenient to make it accurate, with one or more satellite-hop delays and other factors, but if you are going to broadcast timesignals like this at all, you should always air a disclaimer before or after (translated), like ``This timesignal is only an approximation, despite its seeming precision, not to be used for navigation, or critical scientific measurements``. Not holding breath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15579, het against VOA São Tomé Music Mix, Aug 17 at 1405. Just as I was measuring it, disappeared at 1407*. Likely ChiCom jamming and/or V. of Tibet via Tajikistan as Aoki Aug 15 shows *15577 and *15578 for that at 1307-1407! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

Ascolti AM Luca Botto Fiora

Silent Key per IØFCG.

Ascolti AM (orari UTC)

Sabato 14 agosto 2010
14.00 - 7610 kHz
RADIO AMICA ONDE CORTE
Italiano, IDs e px scientifico.
Segnale sufficiente-buono
-
21.10 - 8743USB kHz
BANGKOK METEO R. (Tailandia)
Thai, tk YL (prob. wx)
Segnale insufficiente-sufficiente
-
21.20 - 7480 kHz
OPEN R. TO N. KOREA - Kamo (Armenia)
Coreano, tk OM/YL.
Segnale insufficiente-sufficiente
-
21.55 - 6310 kHz
R. BLACK BANDIT
EE, IDs e mx country.
Segnale sufficiente-buono

***

Domenica 15 agosto 2010
07.45 - 7590 kHz
MIKE RADIO
Inglese, test tx.
Segnale insufficiente-buono
-
17.25-19.00... - 7700v7704... kHz
AA, tk OM e Corano per Ramadan.
Segnale molto buono
Identificata la mattina del 16/8.
-
20.55 - 8400 kHz
Mandarino, tk YL, mx soft e
citazione indirizzo USA.
Segnale sufficiente-buono!!!
Sound of Hope Taiwan?
Su 10500 c'era un px diverso.
Nemmeno in // a CNR1 jamming.

***

Lunedì 16 agosto 2010
04.48 - 7850 kHz
CHU - Ottawa (Canada)
T/s e annunci (PC?)-OM.
Segnale sufficiente-buono
-
04.51 - 7811USB kHz
AFRTS - Key West-FL (USA)
EE, pubblicità OMs/YLs.
Segnale sufficiente
-
*05.01 - 15750 kHz
R. BAR-KULAN - Dhabbaya (UAE)
Somali, nxs e IDs OM.
Segnale sufficiente-buono
Dalle 05.30 c'è sopra la Romania.
-
(ecco la stazione di ieri sera)
05.06 - 7715v7716... kHz
RTT - Sfax (Tunisia)
AA, nxs e IDs OM/YL.
Segnale molto buono
7275 è spenta e anche ieri
sera era off 7225 kHz.
Problemi di trasmettitori.
-
05.50 - 1080 kHz
SER R. MALLORCA (Spagna)
SS, "Hoy por Hoy Baleares"
Segnale sufficiente-buono

Luca Botto Fiora
 
SITO RICEVENTE
G.C. 09E13 - 44N21
Rapallo (Genova)
Italia
 
RICEVITORI
(Rack 1)
R7 Drake
VR5000DSP Yaesu
Satellit 500 Grundig
-
(Rack 2)
ATS909 Sangean
DE1103 Degen
VR500 Yaesu
 
ANTENNE
Loop ferrite ACA 75 cm modificata (@70 kHz-2 MHz)
Loop 1 spira da finestra 150x100 cm (@2-6 MHz)
Dipolo aperto 20 m (@6-30 MHz)
 
VARIE
Ampli RF K0LR per loop ACA modificato (WA1ION)
Ampli RF LX1456 Nuova Elettronica per loop SW e dipolo
Balun a choke coassiale 1:1 di RG174 per dipolo (IZ7ATH)
Eliminatore di QRM MFJ 1026 modificato (W8JI)
Software demo Multimode 5.9.2 Black Cat Systems

Aperturas y Cierres emisoras LA

Les envio los horarios de apertura y cierre (S/On - S/Off) de algunas emisoras latinoamericanaslas cuales han estado activas durante las ultimas semanas, los horarios estan en basados en escuchas propias o por el anuncio de la emisora misma.

Cabe anotar que algunas emisoras han perdido la costumbre de iniciar o finalizar con el Himno de su pais, tan solo aperturando o finalizando emisiones con alguna melodia folclorica; Al intentar la escucha de las aperturas es bueno estar atento algunos minutos antes de la hora señalada.

Khz        Emisora                    *Apertura    Cierre*
3330.0    Ondas del Huallaga     1030        0200
4700.1    Radio San Miguel        1030        0330+
4747.0    Radio Huanta 2000      1100        0100
4775.0    Radio Tarma                1100        0200
4790.0    Radio Vision                24 Horas
4796v      Radio Lipez                1000        2330
4824.4    LV de la Selva(1)         1100        1300
4826.4    Radio Sicuani              1030        0300+
4835.4    Radio Marañon            1100        0200+
4940.0    Radio San Antonio       2200        0030
4950.1    Radio Madre de Dios    1030        0150
4955.0    RD Cultural Amauta      1100        0100
5025.0    Radio Quillabamba       1030        0000+
5039.2    Radio Libertad de Junin 1100        1400
5120.4    Ondas del Suroriente    1000        0300
5460.0    Radio Bolivar                2330        0130
5485.6    Radio Frecuencia Pop.  2330        0200   
5921.3    Radio Bethel                1045        0100
6135.0    Radio Santa Cruz         1100         0200+

Horas UTC
(1) No escuchada en las noches
+ Extiende su horarios en transmisiones especiales

Buen DX


Rafael Rodriguez R.
Bogota D.C. - COLOMBIA
Visite: http://dxdesdecolombia.blogspot.com/

(via playdx2003 yg)

TeamViewer

A chi ancora non lo sapesse, e io non lo sapevo e non so come ho fatto a non accorgermene, segnalo la presenza in rete di un programma "skype-simile", TeamViewer - http://www.teamviewer.com/fr/index.aspx- gratuito (è sufficiente dichiarare di utilizzarlo solo a scopo personale), facilissimo da usare, che consente di controllare un PC remoto, compreso il trasferimento audio e video. Lo sto provando in questi giorni ed è veramente geniale. Certo l'audio è meglio trasferirlo via Skype, la qualità è migliore. Ormai in rete si trova di tutto...

Andrea www.hb9gce.ch

DRM: verso un flop?

Grazie al calcolo effettuato dal nostro Giovanni Lorenzi IT9TZZ, uno dei pochi dxer italiani a seguire il DRM come "fenomeno" radiofonico, ecco un calcolo dei minuti di trasmissione diffusi con questo sistema negli ultimi due anni... una nuova tecnologia che invece di incrementare va indietro come un gambero...

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MINUTI DI TRASMISSIONE DELLE STAZIONI IN DRM DIGITAL RADIO MONDIALE

DATA - MINUTI DI TRASMISSIONE

08/09/2008 - 39.420
07/09/2009 - 40.529
09/11/2009 - 39.371
23/03/2010 - 37.098
16/04/2010 - 36.585
12/05/2010 - 29.508

Glenn Hauser logs August 15-16, 2010

** ALASKA. 9920, KNLS IS very weak at 1501 Aug 16, about to open three(?) hours of Chinese. Have not been able to hear the only remaining English broadcast at 12-13 on 7355 for several weeks. KNLS was supposedly going to get the second transmitter working after July 31 and resume new programming in English; have they? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ALBANIA [and non]. 13755, R. Tirana, Aug 16 at 1449, M announcer mentions a new guidebook in English to archaeological sites has been released. Undermodulated but S9+20, almost enough to keep CRI/Cuba 13740 S9+30 at bay, until the latter goes from talk to music splatter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ANTARCTICA. 15476, no sign of even a carrier from LRA36, Monday Aug 16, after its usual weekend-off, including chex at 1332, 1422, 1454, tho weaker signals on either side were sometimes detectable, and many more mostly weak signals from other continents on 19m, not including Argentina 15345v, unfavored quadrant (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake August 16:
 8400, fair-good at 1250
10500, poor at 1258. No others found up to 18 MHz in next hour
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 11760, Aug 15 at 1347 RHC`s Spanish DX program En Contacto underway promoting contest about 50th anniversary of diplorelations with the ChiCom. So it`s back to its usual spot of 1335 UT Sundays, having been replaced (swapped?) with stamp show last week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also VENEZUELA [non]

** CZECHIA [non]. 9955, R. Prague in French, Monday Aug 16 at 1335, H&F conversing about ``le weekend``, so it`s a late repeat of the Sunday show via WRMI, fair signal and no jamming but squeezed by Taiwan transmitters on both sides plus RTTY on 9960. Prague in French is scheduled M-F 1330-1400, except JIP on Tuesdays at 1345 after English gospel huxter quarter-hour.

However, Prague in English, via WRMI daily at 1400-1430 was inaudible after 1400. Prague in French is supposed to attract listeners in Haiti, tho VOA concluded SW penetration there is negligible, canceling all its Creole broadcasts three months after the quake. Otherwise, they would likely have maintained the original 3 x 30 minutes a day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. 15050, Aug 16 at 1454, chanting, poor with heavy flutter. The AIR Sinhala service southwards from Delhi until 1500. Off-route aircraft, beware (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. VOI, 9525.9 continues to enjoy very good reception in CNAm for English hour at 13-14, when everything clix. Aug 16 at 1338, slogan as ``Voice of Indonesia, being first, being different, being the best``, then Music Corner, mentioning Portuguese, so maybe from Timor? Was off the air after 1400 instead of keeping het with CRI Russian.

9526- signal quality and quantity exceed RRI domestic on 9680, Aug 16 at 1410 with Qur`an, vs rippling SAH. Aoki lists Taiwan in Chinese at 11-17, which would be jammed, plus VOR in English via Pet/Kam since July 7 at 14-16 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KUWAIT. 15540, when R. Kuwait says ``News in Brief`` at 2050 UT Aug 15, they really mean it. Took only three minutes for a handful of headlines, 2053 back to their beloved primary format, rock music before 2059 signing off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. Results of leaving my analog TV running hour after hour on channel 2 next to the computer: Aug 15 at 2306 UT, a ch 2 fades in with Azteca 7 promo from the south, presumably XHTAU, Tampico. Fades out within a minute, and nothing on higher channels. But correlates nicely with a few contact paths on the 6m Es DX map from someone circa Ciudad Victoria, to central Missouri, etc. Estimated MUF of 53 MHz was obviously exceeded briefly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MOROCCO. 15341, RTM, stix to this off-frequency, Aug 16 at 1443 in Arabic causing het with 15340, presumably HCJB Australia S Asian service. The Arabic has a slight echo, long/short path, or deliberate on the modulation for effect and decreased SW readability?

By 1513, RTM has switched to 15345 (why not 15346?), with slight whine, I think rather than an Argie het which is often the case. They should do just the opposite, 15345 before 15, 15340 after. But then they and LRA are both out of it, not bothering with HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. UNIDENTIFIED. DTV DX is frustrating, with manual tuning on the converter, because you can often see numerous signal bars, all too weak to decode. And it`s hard to tell what direxion they are really coming from; they could be from opposite or side direxions from where aimed, if strong enough. Trying to peak them by jockeying the rotor is iffy. Aug 15 at 1508 UT aimed ENE, such are seen on 20-22-28-34-36-47-49. All but 34 and 36 are likely full-powers from the Tulsa/Muskogee/Okmulgee market which is slightly S of due E.

Checking W9WI.com, 34 could also be Tulsa, 15 kW translator formerly known as K15DA. 36 could be KRSC, nearby Claremore. There ought to be some way to pull out a PSIP ID from such weak signals, even lacking video and audio decode (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA. 15340, Aug 16 at 1549, poor carrier with flutter, intermittent Russian tune-up tones. Per Aoki, it will be VOR in Russian via Serpukhov at 16-18 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA [non]. 15565, R. Svoboda, Aug 16 at 1330 with ID, Moscow timecheck, fair. During this hour it`s 500 kW, 85 degrees via Rampisham UK, but preceding and following hours, 15565 is via Lampertheim, GERMANY; why switch back and forth? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAIPAN. 11650, Monday Aug 16 at 1259, R. Teos ID in Russian and vamping music, good at S9+20 but a semiminute later ruined by tinkling NHK IS from Sackville 11655, and then too much splatter; another Russian announcement before I fled. Checking Aoki and WRTH May Update for KFBS NMI, while 11650 is on the air earlier in Russian, and various central-Asian languages, nothing is accounted for Mondays just before 1300, but daily 1300-1330 is Kazakh, so apparently was just signing on today. Radio Teos by name is not found either, as it`s just a program within KFBS, not considered a station itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 17705, Aug 16 at 1450 in Arabic, poor. I was thinking this was one of the Sudanese surrogate services, but not now, merely Riyadh, BSKSA first program, to Europe and USward beyond, off by 1456 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9980, WWCR-4 now with Brother Scare, new on this frequency, Aug 16 at 1257, 1319; 1419 someone else preaching for the moment, but still Overcomer Ministry, about two words behind 9385 WWRB. 1508 check, BS is also on WINB during this hour, 9335, with heavy CCI and SAH from V. of Korea and/or R. Ashna, Kuwait --- three frequencies, none synchronized. 9335 a bit less QRMed by 1556, and at 1601 WINB had switched to 13570 for two hours from Fence Lake NM.

The WWCR pdf schedule has been updated as of August 16, showing Brother Scare is now 24/7 on transmitter 4, 9980/5890! Also: Saturdays only 17-20 on 13845 and 18-21 on 12160.

¿Is this reflected in BS` own SW schedule now at ftp://www.overcomerministry.org/RadioSchedule/Short%20Wave%20Radio.html
Sort of, totally botched as usual, mixing up stations and frequencies, showing 3215, 5890 and 12160 as WWRB instead of WWCR; WINB on wrong 9330.

So goodbye to everything else on WWCR-4, including the Sunday 2330 airing of WORLD OF RADIO on 9980. The four original times remain scheduled on other transmitters.

FWIW, no PPP on WWCR at all now. PMS/DGS/University Network is now:
5935: daily 00-12. 13845: Sunday 12-24; M-F 15-24; Sat 12-15, 20-24
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 15385, REE Sephardic service, Monday August 16, poor at 1430, closing fanfare cut off at 1454:45* before it could conclude, geez! There`s always the loud and clear repeat at 0115-0145 UT Tuesdays on 11795, if they keep remembering to turn on the transmitter then (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SWEDEN. 13870, Aug 16 at 1605, Farsi talk under heavy RTTY. I was expecting Israel, but Aoki lists instead R. Sweden, direct. 13870 is scheduled: M-F 1600-1630 with Persian on Mon/Tue/Wed, Assyrian on Thu/Fri; also Kurdish M-F 1630-1700; daily in English at 1530-1600, 1700-1730, Swedish 1500-1530. Get it while you can (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. KVOH 17775 was missing Aug 14, and I don`t think I noticed it either on Aug 15; but Aug 16 at 1550, good signal with Spanish preacher; M-F only? That would probably be too straightforward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 13645, weak Aug 16 at 1602, hymn singing in uncertain language with organ. It`s only YFR in Arabic via Wertachtal, GERMANY, nothing exotic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VENEZUELA [non]. 11680, Aug 16 at 1459 with RHC news sounder, IS,
ID, 1459.5 cut to OC and soon the RNV IS and sign-on. Usually sloppy switching by RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 13580, two stations colliding Aug 16 at 1600, CRI IS, scheduled Russian via Urumqi, EAST TURKISTAN; and by 1603 the other one is Qur`aning, but not // Saudi 13710. Most likely Cairo, EGYPT is overrunning its Albanian hour on 13580 at 15-16 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###