sabato 31 dicembre 2011

Glenn Hauser logs December 30-31, 2011 [more]

** AUSTRALIA. 9580, went with R. Australia for 2012y arrival at the shifted time of 1300 UT (9590 had heavy CCI at 1255, presumably CRI Russian despite due NW from SZG site). At 1257 two guys with timecheck for 11:56. Seems they are on rooftop of the ABC building in Melbourne awaiting fireworx display; 1259, 1 minute to go. At 1300 no timesignal, just a verbal countdown ending about a sesquisecond late. Then lots of explosions as the guys tried to be heard over them. Said fireworx were set off from tops of other buildings, controlled by 30 computers. Mentioned Triple J and 774, i.e. the ABC Melbourne frequency better(?) known as 3LO.

1305-1310 back to studio for delayed RA newscast mentioning bigger/biggest fireworks show at Sydney. 1310 music and back to the roofguys who in the meantime have gone down to the studio too, mentioning simulcast with RA for the next two hours, phone numbers with 774 in them too. Sydney`s fireworks are set off from barges in the harbo, rather than downtown buildings as in Melbun (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRUNEI. For New Year`s in the UT+8 zone I decided to try something exotic, according to Lou Josephs` recommendation at
http://newyearslive.blogspot.com/
Listened online to RTB from about 1520 Dec 31, mostly pop music with DJ in local language; 1555 Qur`an segment; 1600 no timesignal but apparently marking new year, 1602 sounds like national anthem, followed by speech, probably by the Sultan, one of the world`s richest oligarchs, until 1612 jingle ID ``National FM, Radio Brunei`` but only the ID and occasional words were in English, back to pop music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake December 30 before 2400:
 9200, good with flutter at 2340; none in the 11s, 10s
12500, good at 2338
13970, poor with flutter at 2334; maybe over some CCI
15900, fair at 2335; none in the 14s
16100, fair at 2335
16980, poor at 2336
17170, fair at 2337
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN [and non]. NHK World Radio Japan always has a live music show on New Year`s Eve, from domestic radio or TV, so well before 1500 UT = midnite I start listening to that from 1313 via CANADA 11655 relay. Lots of songs, audience applause in big auditorium with PA reverb by announcers, chatting between performances. 1348 `Sukiyaki` in heartfelt, not bouncy rendition; 1357 `Sakura` in a poppier version. 1443 Auld Lang Syne ending that program, 1445 back to pre-produced feature, including 1449 banging on something.

Knowing that Sackville will cut off the transmission just before 2012, I have retuned to 9750 direct which by 1458 has just as a good a signal if not better, but with some SAH, likely PBS Nei Menggu, Hohhot as in Aoki, or maybe Kuwait, but not defunct Malaysia as still in HFCC. 11655 does cut off by 1459, and 9750 continues with gong, then accurate timesignal at 1500, more gongs periodically during speech (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA SOUTH [non]. 9650, KBS World Radio`s Korean hour via Sackville at 14-15 happens to be during the final hour of 2011y there, so I listen to a bit tuning back and forth with Japan. They did play Auld Lang Syne at 1409; also goes off too early at 1459 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MAURITANIA. 7245, Dec 31 at 0645, IGIM Nouakchott is on and chanting, a lot weaker than the Gregorian chanting on 7250 Vatican (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TAIWAN [and non]. More attempts to hear R. Taiwán Internacional as scheduled in Spanish relays: 11885, Dec 30 at 2353, Chinese vs Chinese, i.e. RTI Taiwan vs RTI WYFR at about equal levels, instead of Spanish via WYFR. 2359 blotted by CRI turned on early with tail of usual end-of-hour dispensable filler, `Let`s Learn Chinese` lessons, giving
chinese@cri.com.cn address. I was thinking CRI English at 0000 would be Sackville, but on 11885 that`s only at 13-14; at 00-01 HFCC shows it`s 500 kW, 200 degrees from Xi`an. After 0000 Taiwan was off and WYFR continued in WYFR English, instead of scheduled WYFR Portuguese; by 0030, it was atop Xi`an.

At 0227 Dec 31, once again RTI Spanish was missing from 9355, instead RTI English // 5950 and 9680, but 11995 via GUIANA FRENCH finally bore RTI in Spanish with ID instead of open carrier or silence. After 0600, 6875 via WYFR still in German, not Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. 5845, Dec 31 at 1327, very weak B-B-C- chimes, prior to what? Bengali, 250 kW, 325 degrees via Thailand at 1330-1400. And I see in HFCC that`s followed at 14-18 by BBC DRM, 100 kW, 290 degrees from Thailand on 5840-5845-5850; for the DRM listener in Sri Lanka? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1540, Dec 31 from 0657 to 0715 UT, tried to hear the WKVQ Eatonton GA DX test, which was scheduled with only two days notice, but never heard any Xmas music, CW IDs or sweep tones, just this:

1540, Dec 31 at 0702 UT, after Mexican music, ID in English ``This is KEDA, San Antonio, Texas, your Jalapeño radio station``. It was dominant even on my E-W longwire also suitable for the high end of MW on the FRG-7; also tried to null it on the DX-398 but not much success, only bringing up some weaker talk station, presumably KXEL. 0710 another ID for `Jalapeño Radio` mixing Spanish and English. No sign of the other Texans, closer KZMP, or KGBC with CRI, which must have lesser signals at night than KEDA`s 1 kW. BTW, those calls mean in Spanish ``stay`` as in ``with us`` = queda. I guess they don`t consider `Jalapeño Radio` to be an politically incorrect stereotype.

As for the WKVQ test, no power was stated in the publicity but they have a 10 kW non-direxional daytime authorization, which should have been employed for this post-midnite test. Yet initial reports I have seen indicate spotty reception even in the East with several 50 kW stations to contend with, but did make it as far as Manassas, Kansas City and Omaha (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Nothing ever happens on weekends, so VOA Spanish doesn`t bother with newscasts, just music fill shows at 13-14 UT Saturdays: I check again Dec 31 whether there is any jamming, none heard on 9885, 13750 or 15590. At 1317 `Música Country` is underway with top 2011 hits from Billboard; 1329 dead air almost a minute as usual, 1330 reopening 5-4-3-2-1 countdown, `Éxitos Latinoamericanos` yet this show presents Spanish-language hits from inside USA, as of course EUA is now officially part of LA.

UNIDENTIFIED. 5085.0, Dec 31 at 0637, S9+22 big carrier, with continuous middle-C tone (circa 256 Hz); continued for a while; next check at 0650 it was gone. Suspect a test from WTWW-2 on one of its planned frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Glenn Hauser logs December 30-31, 2011

** BRAZIL. 6150, Dec 30 at 2300, pop music atop one or two other weak stations with SAH, so I keep listening hoping for some Turkish from Northern Cyprus` R. Bayrak; but no, 2304 announcement definitely in Brazilian Portuguese, so R. Record (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. 4915.0, Dec 30 at 2315, pop music vs CODAR, 2317 quick Portuguese announcement maybe mentioning ``nove`` (9), a bit more music before vanishing in noise level. At first I thought some neighbor had turned on an appliance, raising my noise to its usual over-level, but then with BFO I could not detect a carrier other than CODAR swishing across 4915.

Presumably R. Daqui, Goiânia, the currently active Brasilian here, which LA SW Logs shows signing off around 0000, while R. Difusora, Macapá has not been reported since Jan 2011; DSWCI TBM has latest log of that as Feb 2011. WRTH 2012 shows them both as active. Aoki still has the former identity of the Goiânia station, R. Anhanguera, as well as Macapá. EiBi has two separate entries from Daqui, one of which I suppose was meant to read Macapá (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. UT Dec 31 I am checking the VOA Spanish service at 0030-0200 whether it is still heavily jammed, unlike the morning service at 13-14: at 0030, yes, 5890, 9885 and 12000 are all jammed; 5890 has a better signal vs jamming than the others.

Next check at 0148, oh-oh, 5890 is buried by WWCR preacher about Yahweh, can just make out SAH, VOA Spanish and jamming underneath; 9885 and 12000 are still mixed with jamming; not // 9825 R. Martí which is much atop the jamming since it`s from Sackville. See USA: WWCR entry for more on the collision on 5890 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. VOA Spanish still being jammed in evening: see CUBA [and non]; WWCR colliding with VOA 5890: see USA [and non]: WWCR

** U S A [and non]. 5890, WWCR is colliding with VOA for at least an hour, 01-02 UT: this apparently has been going on for weeks, unnoticed by FCC, IBB, WWCR --- or me until now in a daypart I don`t monitor much. Dec 31 at 0148, WWCR is dominant with preacher about Yahweh, can just make out SAH, VOA Spanish and jamming underneath.

Looking at latest HFCC Dec 29 for what`s supposed to happen on 5890:
VOA Greenville Spanish: Tue-Sat 0030-0200 from 7 November to 10 March
WWCR Nashville English: daily   0200-1200 from 7 November to 10 March
                        daily   0100-1100 30 Oct-6 Nov and 11-24 March  

In other words, WWCR was supposed to shift to a one-UT-hour-later start at 0200 since DST went off Nov 6, but instead has kept starting at 0100 UT producing this collision. I assume this is due to the inexperience, to put it politely, of the current WWCR frequency manager Jerry Plummer, who has also been appointed frequency manager for the Caribbean Beacon to HFCC, taking over from George McClintock who is plenty busy expanding his own SW station; so don`t be surprised if Anguilla starts colliding with something in upcoming seasons.

Aren`t alarm bells ringing at HFCC? 5890 is officially a collision in CIRAF target 11, but obviously also affecting the rest of North America. VOA is due to shift one UT hour earlier after DST resumes 11 March 2012, but will they all put up with the clash until then?

WWCR website transmission schedule as of Dec 19 admits WWCR-4 starts 5890 at 0100. The more detailed pdf program schedule shows the start times vary: 0100 on Tue-Sat, 0130 on Sun, and 0400 on UT Mon. But the days that matter, when VOA is on 5890, it`s a full hour too early.

After 0200 exchanging 90 mb frequencies with 3195 WWRB, WWCR had the same programming on 3215 and 5890, `Call to Decision` with Pastor Butch Paugh, subtitled ``this is war``.

BTW, HFCC shows the Vatican Radio added itself to the mix Nov 20, but little consequence here at the other worldside, if they can tolerate interference from multiple W Hemisphere transmitters: daily 0015-0040, 100 kW, 186 degrees from Tashkent to S Asia, and 0040-0200, 500 kW, 90 degrees from SMG to same (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5050, Dec 30 at 2330, WWRB is running with ``The Bible on Shortwave``, announcing its own Box 7, Manchester TN 37349 address, into Psalm CXII. Nothing on 3215 at this hour, registered to start as early as 2100. 5050 still on at 0315 Dec 31 with same programming.

3215, Dec 30 at 0156, WWRB has now been on for a while, and is open carrier, 0157 Dave ID announcement, 0158 bit of accordion/organ music, 0159 QSY announcement to 3195, while WWCR steel drums briefly overlap on 3215 which it is opening, ex-3195.

BTW, the WRTH 2012 schedule for WWRB on page 497 bears little resemblance to reality, nor does WWRB`s own website; nor do registrations with FCC, including three unused frequencies, 2390, 5745 and 15795; longer hours than really used on 3215, 5050; no entry for 3195 which is really used at 02-05 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VATICAN. 6075, Dec 30 at 2309, Swingle Singers music, good signal, but as I tune back across at 2311 it is gone. That`s because VR is in fact scheduled 2200-2310 in Italian to W Europe, 250 kW, 330 degrees from SMG, also USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VIETNAM [and non]. Re my Dec 29 report, oscillating tone jamming against nothing on 9990, S. Hasegawa, Japan replies: ``Dear Glenn, RFA-Vietnamese via Agingan Point was broadcasted on 9990 kHz at 1400 to 1500 UT until Nov. 23; this service QSYed to 9400 kHz from Nov. 24. Vietnam is thought not to yet notice this change. And 9400 kHz received Nov. 30 to clearing it. de Hiroshi`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Log. CWR -6300 khz

hello and Happy New Year
I listen Crazy Waves Radio on 6300 khz with O=3

Peter Vaegler
QTH: Stralsund /Germany:  13°6´10´´ E; 54°16´23´´ N
RX: mod.DEGEN DE 1103
Ant: Teleskop/TG 34

RNE-Canary Islands special program

The last night of every year brings us a unique opportunity for catching the RNE stations in the Canary Islands with own programming at night. All RN and R5TN outlets leave the national network at some point around 2230 UTC/Canary Is. time (2330 in mainland Spain) for a regional special program to receive the new year. The content is usually funny music with phone calls from listeners and messages from the Regional Goverment President and some other Authorities. This program ends some minutes after the midnight Canary Is./UTC time. These are the RNE stations in the Canary Islands:

RN     Las Palmas  576 kHz
RN     Tenerife        621 kHz
R5TN  Tenerife        720 kHz
R5TN Las Palmas  747 kHz

Happy New Year!

73s

Mauricio Molano
Salamanca
ESPAÑA - SPAIN
RX site:  Aldea del Cano, Cáceres.
LAT:  39º17'09.70 N    LONG: 6º19'00 W
RX: PERSEUS.   ANT: WELLBROOK ALA1530S+
(http://moladx.blogspot.com/)

Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012!!!!

ALBANIA   China Radio Intl Relay   9570  0121 GMT  English  444  Dec 30  YL with comments on the decline of Gold value.

BULGARIA   Radio Bulgaria   7400  0100 GMT  Spanish  433  Dec 30  YL and OM with comments and some music.

CHINA   China Radio Intl -CRI   9710  0125 GMT  Spanish  433  Dec 30  YL and OM with comments.

GREECE   Foni Tis Helladas   7475  0104 GMT  Greek  333  Dec 30  YL with singing comments.

MEXICO   Radio Educacion   6185  0040 GMT  Spanish  433  Dec 29  Classical piano music.

SPAIN   Radio Exterior Espana REE   9620  0124  GMT   Spanish  433  Dec 30  OM with comments.

TAJIKISTAN    Radio Free Asia Relay RFA   7480  0113 GMT  Chinese  333  Dec 30  YL with comments.

VATICAN STATE    Radio Vaticana VR   7305  0050 GMT  Portuguses  333  Dec 29  OM with comments about Papa with audience clapping. Then more comments from two OMs.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MY FRIENDS AROUND THE WORLD.!!!

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

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venerdì 30 dicembre 2011

M V Baltic Radio - Radio Gloria this Sunday

Happy New Year to all our Listeners from European Music Radio !

 

Dear Listeners,

MV Baltic Radio relay service is on the air this Sunday the 1st of January 2012

 

MVBR Schedule via 9480 KHz:

09.00 to 10.00 UTC - Radio Gloria   (repeat from last Sunday)

10.00 to 11.00 UTC - M V Baltic Radio

12.30 to 13.00 UTC - Radio Gloria - Kathy Kirby- Special (German vision)

13.00 to 14.00 UTC - MVBR (repeat from 10.00 utc)  

14.00 to 14.30 UTC - Radio Gloria - Kathy Kirby- Special (English vision)

 

Please send all R Gloria reception reports to  radiogloria@aol.com

Please send all M.V.B.R reception reports to info@mvbalticradio.de

 

Good Listening
73s Tom
 

Trasmissione RadioGiornali della Radio Vaticana su Ondamedia Broadcast

Ondamedia BROADCAST ha il piacere di annunciare la sottoscrizione dell'accordo di collaborazione con la Radio Vaticana per la trasmissione dei RadioGiornali del pomeriggio e della sera. Il contratto di collaborazione, siglato lo scorso 19 Dicembre dal Direttore Generale della Radio Vaticana, P. Federico Lombardi S.J., consentira' ad Ondamedia BROADCAST la trasmissione dei RadioGiornali delle ore 14:00 e delle ore 19:30, sulla frequenza di 1512 kHz. L'inizio delle trasmissioni regolari dei RadioGiornali e' previsto a partire dal 9 Gennaio prossimo, dopo i necessari test di collegamento e programmazione. A seguito di questo accordo sara' inoltre possibile avviare iniziative di collaborazione tecnica con le strutture della Radio Vaticana. Ondamedia BROADCAST intende promuovere e potenziare al massimo iniziative di collaborazione con le grandi emittenti internazionali, al fine di offrire a propri ascoltatori contenuti di qualita' e di respiro internazionale, nel piu' autentico spirito della Radio.

Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA

ALBANIA    China Radio Intl-CRI Relay   6020  0022 GMT  English  444  Dec 29  YL and OM with comments on the Allies in America via the United Nations.

BONAIRE   Radio Netherlands Relay   6165  0035 GMT  Spanish  444  Dec 29  OM with comments. YL with comments  0038 GMT.

CUBA   China Radio Intl relay   5990  0018 GMT  Spanish  444  Dec 29  YL and OM with comments.

CUBA   Radio Havana Cuba-RHC   6000  0020 GMT  Spanish  333  Dec 29  Two OMs with comments.

CUBA   Radio Havana Cuba-RHC   6060  0028 GMT  Spanish  444  Dec 29  YL with comments plus some piano music.

SPAIN   Radio Exterior Espana REE   6055  0025 GMT  English  444  Dec 29  YL with comments and suddenly of the air 0026 GMT.

SPAIN   Radio Exterior Espana  REE    6125  0032 GMT   Spanish  333  Dec 29  YL with comments mentioning Maria often.  Also an OM at times.

UNITED STATES, Tennessee    WTWW   5755  0010 GMT  English  444  Dec 29  OM thanking the Lord for his blessings to everyone.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012 to all my Friends

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

Log Roberto Pavanello

 1269 22/12 22.55 COPE - Ciudad Real SS pubblicità locale ma no ID!!!! buono
 1350 24/12 16.10 R. Orient - Nice FF NX buono
 1584 23/12 23.20 R. Studio X - Momigno IT ID e Abba's song buono
 3900 23/12 22.45 R. Festivum - EE EE ID e MX buono
 3905 23/12 23.00 R. Skyline Int. -Dutch ID e MX buono
 4760 22/12 16.50 T.W.R. - Manzini - Ndau talk OM buono
 4885 23/12 23.05 R. Clube sdo Parà - Belem PP calcio suff.
 4915 23/12 23.10 R. Difusora - Macapà PP MX buono
 5000 22/12 17.00 IBF - Torino IT ID e pip pip buono
 5820 25/12 09.30 KWRN-Nordland Radio - EE ID e MX buono
 6060 25/12 00.05 R. Nacional - Buenos Aires SS MX suff.
 6265 25/12 09.35 Geronimo Shortwave - EE ID e MX buono
 6295 25/12 09.45 R. Mistletoe - EE ID e MX buono
 6304 25/12 10.20 R. Boomerang - EE ID e MX buono
 6320 25/12 10.05 R. Speedwing - EE ID e MX buono
 6325 25/12 10.35 R. Zeewolf - EE ID e MX buono
 6450 25/12 09.40 R. Universe - EE ID e MX suff.
 7105 22/12 22.40 Sound of Hope - Taichung Cinese talk buono
11765 23/12 20.10 R. Deus è Amor - Curitiba PP predica suff.
15345 21/12 19.15 R.A.E. - Buenos Aires IT NX buono

Roberto Pavanello
Vercelli / Italia

Escuchas Onda Corta

ASCENSIÓN
15.400 kHz, BBC, Ascensión, 27-12-11, 1508-1513. Locutor entrevista a invitado e identificación emisora, en inglés. SINPO 55444

AUSTRALIA
15.340 kHz, HCJB Australia, Kununurra, 27-12-11, 1446-1508. Locutor con comentarios religiosos, música, identificación emisora y tertulia, en inglés. SINPO 44343

REINO UNIDO
15.410 kHz, Radio Farda, Woofferton, 27-12-11, 1515-1616. Música e identificación emisora, en persa. SINPO 55555

RUMANIA
7.430 kHz, Radio Rumania Int., Tiganesti, 27-12-11, 2000-2025. Noticias, canción del día y programa "club de negocios", en español. SINPO 54444. En paralelo por 9.620 kHz con SINPO 35333

Javier Robledillo EA5-1028 / Elche (Alicante)
Rx: Sangean ATS909 / Ant: Telescópica
http://cuadernodebitacoradx.blogspot.com
@blanqiverd

Glenn Hauser logs December 29-30, 2011

** BRAZIL. 11780, Dec 30 at 0635, strong open carrier, and just about the OSOB, from RNA; 0645 finally starts modulating with Portuguese wake-up talk in progress (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake Dec 30: none found 18-7 MHz 1346-1350, except:
12500, good with flutter at 1349; another search at 1437+ lacked even this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. After lack of DentroCuban Jamming Dec 28, I am listening carefully for it Dec 30 at 1343 vs VOA Spanish service frequencies during newsmagazine `Buenos Días, América` 1330-1400 M-F: none detectable on 9885 or 15590, but slight bubble jamming audible underneath 13750. 9885 had slight CCI from another broadcaster, i.e. VOR Hindi via Tajikistan. VOA was running a promo for `De Capital a Capital` show which is ``música y más música``, but failing to reveal any time for it! Now need to check for jamming against VOA`s evening broadcast in Spanish, which may be more problematic if part of it is still shared with Radio Martí (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ECUADOR [non]. 12025, good signal Dec 29 at 2135 nice music, not obviously evangelical, from HCJB Arabic service via CANADA, 2144:30 cut abruptly to RCI IS until 2145* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN. 11860, fair with flutter Dec 30 at 1513, SW Asian music, strumming and signing, 1518 YL mentions Azerbaijan, 1521 more singing, 1526 definitely Russian talk, more music cut off abruptly at 1527:10*. Aoki reveals this was VIRI Russian Service, 1430-1528, 500 kW, 330 degrees from Sirjan, also USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, Dec 30 at 1341, via JSR Tokyo/Yamata, JAPAN, Shiokaze in Japanese with lite het from off-5985 Myanmar; 1421 I thought it was Korean, but definitely another Japanese ID at 1422, so as expected, no English this Friday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MAURITANIA. 7245, Friday Dec 30 at 0636, IGIM has not shown up yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. Dec 29 at 1728 UT check of ch A2 finally shows some signs of E-skip, peaking SSW, music and Spanish, mix of several weak signals. Nothing in the TV-FM Skip Log yet, and in DX Sherlock on 6m, only one red contact between FL and TX showing. 1734 news about Coahuila, but may be national. It`s net 4, with f bug in lower left. Now ch 3 is starting to propagate, sounds like a net-5 toon, but next video is visibly human. Mostly gone by 1740, and nothing further developed in the next hour.

Another bit of NTSC video on ch 2 appeared around briefly at 0030 UT Dec 30. By then there was lots of 6m Es activity on the Sherlock map centered over Missouri, which is too close to be useful here. So far this `winter sporadic E` season has been a bust. 73, (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SUDAN [non]. 7315 via FRANCE, better than // 11940 via MADAGASCAR and only a trace on 13800 via UAE, Dec 30 at 0413, Radio Tamazuj, new target broadcast for the South/North Sudan border conflict area, with indigenous music and presumed colloquial Arabic, as publicized here:
http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/radio-tamazuj-begins-test-transmissions-to-sudan
Their own website hasn`t been activated yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** TAIWAN [non]. Further chex for RTI`s missing Spanish broadcasts, UT Dec 30: at 0215, WYFR 9355 again has RTI English // 9680, while 5950 is open carrier; 11995 via GUF also in open carrier and still so at 0222. By 0220, 5950 achieved undermodulation // weaker signal, more modulation on 9355 and best 9680, i.e. RTI English, not Spanish. At 0638, 6875 was still in German, not Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 10000, Dec 29 at 2118 checking WWV propagation minute: SF 147, A=6,
K@21=1, no, minor-G1. There was crosstalk underneath, sounded like a previous prop report incompletely erased, which stopped as soon as the new one did (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1597 monitoring: confirmed Thursday Dec 29 at 2200 on WTWW 9479; and at 2230:30 on WBCQ 7415, after a filler following Amos `n` Andy, `12 Days of Red Neck Xmas` by The Cable Guy. After 0430 UT Friday Dec 30 confirmed on WWRB 3195 (5050 was back on earlier with separate programming, but not heard by 0415). The 0600 UT Friday WRMI broadcast, checked 9955 at 0627, WOR confirmed fading up and down vs the pulse jamming; R. Praga at 0632 seemed to achieve a better average S/N ratio. Further scheduled WOR airings:

WRMI 9955: Sat 0900, 1600, 1830, Sun 0900, 1630, 1830.
WTWW 5755: UT Sun 0500
WBCQ 5110v-CUSB: UT Monday 0330 (not 0430 as I misspoke on WOR 1597) and biweekliness already confirmed on the UT January 2 schedule at
http://www.worldmicroscope.com/ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5050, Dec 30 at 0215, WWRB is back on this frequency; was previously // 3195, but now has two separate preachers. Next check at 0415, 5050 inaudible and presumably off the air, or just outfaded? Anyhow, only 3195 audible during Friday 0430 WORLD OF RADIO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

QSL Radio Witte Reus

Radio Witte Reus 6305 KHz - rxradioreport@gmail.com con QSL elettronica in 1 giorno.
Roberto Pavanello
Vercelli / Italia

Escuchas Onda Corta

ASCENSIÓN
15.400 kHz, BBC, Ascensión, 27-12-11, 1508-1513. Locutor entrevista a invitado e identificación emisora, en inglés. SINPO 55444

AUSTRALIA
15.340 kHz, HCJB Australia, Kununurra, 27-12-11, 1446-1508. Locutor con comentarios religiosos, música, identificación emisora y tertulia, en inglés. SINPO 44343


REINO UNIDO
15.410 kHz, Radio Farda, Woofferton, 27-12-11, 1515-1616. Música e identificación emisora, en persa. SINPO 55555


RUMANIA
7.430 kHz, Radio Rumania Int., Tiganesti, 27-12-11, 2000-2025. Noticias, canción del día y programa "club de negocios", en español. SINPO 54444. En paralelo por 9.620 kHz con SINPO 35333


Javier Robledillo EA5-1028 / Elche (Alicante)
Rx: Sangean ATS909 / Ant: Telescópica
http://cuadernodebitacoradx.blogspot.com
 @blanqiverd

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giovedì 29 dicembre 2011

Il futuro di Radio Netherlands

Il futuro nelle onde corte non è nero solo per RAI International.
Dal sito Shortwave Central:

In response to a comment about the possible abandonment of shortwave, the station wrote:

"The Dutch government has cut our budget by 70 percent from 1 January 2013. If we were to continue to use shortwave at the level we do now, due to the high cost we wouldn't have enough money left to produce any meaningful content :-( The exact situation after 1 Jan 2013 has still not been finalised. We will definitely close or sell our relay stations in Bonaire and Madagascar, as there will be no budget to pay staff to work there. We *may* retain a limited number of shortwave broadcasts, but this hasn't yet been decided. As soon as we know definitely, we will inform our listeners and Web users."

https://www.facebook.com/radionetherlands
(Mike Terry, UK/Cumbre DX)

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Roberto Rizzardi
SWL I/0216/GR
Porto S. Stefano (GR) Italy
Lat 42N43 - Long 11E12 - Locator grid JN52NK
Receivers: ICOM IC-R71E
Sangean ATS909 with 2x80kHz Murata filters in FM
Antennas: 15 meters outdoor random wire with RF System Magnetic Longwire Balun
Indoor self-made single-turn Loop
Telescopic and 7 meters indoor long wire antenna
Website: http://diarioradio.blogspot.com/
Skype: robybenjy

Glenn Hauser logs December 29, 2011

** ANTARCTICA. 15476, Thu Dec 29 at 1435 check, still nothing from LRA36 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA [non]. 9635, Dec 29 at 1506, ``The Link`` introducing Lynn Desjardins with a report about North Korea (but I assume she remains in Montreal), fair signal but heavy flutter, so RCI, having abandoned its North American audience, may still be heard here, i.e. 500 kW, 252 degrees from Xi`an, as RCI remains in bed (embedded?) with the ChiCom. Much better signal than nearby Sackville 9625 with CBCNQ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 5883, Dec 29 at 0652 tune-in, a few words of Spanish, including ``inflamante``, then back to open carrier. This is an erstwhile spy-numbers frequency, and I`ll bet the Spanish came from the RHC program feed which is nowhere else on SW at this hour.

12134, Dec 29 at 1427, cut numbers in CW, likely another Cuban spy transmission, not very strong, but way over AFN on 12133.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EGYPT. 13580, Dec 29 at 1518, open carrier with flutter, then maybe a trace of just-barely-modulation in R. Cairo`s Albanian service, no doubt causing great frustration among the Tiranans if not the Qahirans (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH. 9665, Dec 29 at 1508, while RCI via Xi`an on 9635 was reporting about NK, the real deal could be heard here, still hyper-emotional about something or other. No pulsing noise jamming mix audible unlike continuously on the VOK external frequencies, at this hour English on 9335 and 11710 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, Thursday Dec 29 at 1358, Shiokaze ID in Japanese; pause, and 1400 Shiokaze ID in Chinese with piano, poor signal via JSR Tokyo/Yamata. Per S. Hasegawa, we should not expect English on Friday to resume before January 6 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MAURITANIA. 7245, Dec 29 at 0639, IGIM is on with chanting; poor signal while adjacent 7250 Vatican was stronger but disturbed by CME, fluttery (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN [non]. 7220, Dec 29 at 1358, amid QRhaM, REE IS, a regular feature of Kunming site to introduce the CRI Nepali service. Are they scratching their heads in Kathmandu? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TAIWAN [non]. Further checks for the missing Spanish broadcasts of RTI via WYFR and Guiana French: Dec 29 at 0247, not audible on 9355, but that was RTI English when last we heard it; 11995 via GUF, which was open carrier one night, and absent the next, is poorly audible this time, and modulated to boot, but can`t tell what language and what station. The 0600 Spanish broadcast via WYFR on 6875, which was off the air night before, is back and still in German. When we tuned in at 0642 Dec 29, they were playing a rock song in English, modulation rather distorted, outroed in German as `Musik aus Taiwan`, by a group called B-A-D. Tnx to Wolfgang Büschel who confirmed that as of Dec 28, RTI is still really in Spanish at 20-21 on 3965 via Issoudun, France (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1597 monitoring: while 9955 was nothing but jamming as usual, checked WRMI webcast after 0430 UT Thursday Dec 29, and there was WOR 1596, instead of `Noticiero` from Radio Martí as on latest WRMI schedule grid updated Dec 13. It seems WRMI programming is in flux, so maybe some more of the canceled WOR times are still there.

SW airings should be:
WTWW: Thursday 2200 9479, UT Sunday 0500 5755
WBCQ: Thursday 2230 7490; maybe UT Monday 0330 5110v-CUSB Area 51
WWRB: UT Friday 0430v 3195 (no longer on 5050)
WRMI 9955: Friday 0600, Sat 0900, 1600, 1830, Sun 0900, 1630, 1830
HLR: Tuesday 1030 5980
Full schedule at
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 6215-USB, Dec 29 at 0703, notice about a sailing vessel missing since Dec 17, from ``US Coast Guard Point Reyes, out`` at 0704*. 6215 is a distress frequency too, fortunately mostly avoided by broadcasters, not including YFR via Taiwan at 22-24. Where is Point Reyes in California, anyway? Just NW of San Francisco, up the coast beyond Bolinas in the National Seashore. Rand McNally via State Farm says Point Reyes Station has a population of 818 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VATICAN. 13765, Dec 29 at 1518 open carrier, then, vying with EGYPT 13580, very weak modulation seemingly in a S Asian language, as VR is supposed to be in Malayalam at 1510-1530 per EiBi. But I`m afraid Cairo is still more unmodulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VIETNAM [and non]. 9990, Dec 29 at 1357, oscillating tone jammer against nothing, and Aoki, EiBi show nothing on 9990 between 1330 and 1500, but HFCC has IBB Vietnamese via Saipan at 14-15, so that explains it; by 1405 the presumed target barely detectable vs continuing jamming.

Surely in January, WTWW will blow all this away on 9990, starting up #2 transmitter, which is awaiting further spur-suppression work by Continental. George McClintock tells me to expect another test transmission in a couple of weeks (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Articolo sull’attività solare del 2011 e le prospettive future

Interessante resoconto dell'attività solare di quest'anno le previsioni per il futuro: here is a link to a site I really like. http://www.meteoweb.eu/2011/12/lattivita-solare-del-2011-e-le-prospettive-future/106560

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Roberto Rizzardi
SWL I/0216/GR
Porto S. Stefano (GR) Italy
Lat 42N43 - Long 11E12 - Locator grid JN52NK
Receivers: ICOM IC-R71E
Sangean ATS909 with 2x80kHz Murata filters in FM
Antennas: 15 meters outdoor random wire with RF System Magnetic Longwire Balun
Indoor self-made single-turn Loop
Telescopic and 7 meters indoor long wire antenna
Website: http://diarioradio.blogspot.com
Skype - Twitter: robybenjy

Several German mediumwave stations about to close

Several mediumwave stations in Germany are due to cease transmissions within the next couple of weeks. The first to go, on Friday 30 December, is the low power (0.6 kW) SWR station at Ulm on 1413 kHz. The following day it is the turn of high power (700 kW) gospel station ERF at Mainflingen on 1539 kHz and the WDR mediumwave transmitter at Langenberg on 1593 kHz which has been broadcasting in DRM mode. On 8 January SWR will cease its mediumwave broadcasts of the "Bodensee Sender" on 666 kHz (150 kW), Muhlacker on 576 kHz (100 kW), Freiburg on 828 kHz (10kW) and RheinSender/Wolfsheim on 1017 kHz (100 kW). Andy Sennitt comments: The closure of Freiburg on 828 kHz is interesting, as it may improve reception of Dutch broadcaster Radio 10 Gold in some locations after dark, though there is still an NDR transmitter at Hannover active on this frequency. (Mediamagazine / Media Network via BDXC-UK ml)

Radio Tamazuj begins test transmissions to Sudan

A new radio initiative of Free Press Unlimited has started test transmissions today. Radio Tamazuj will carry special programming for people in the conflict areas between North and South Sudan, such as Abyei, Blue Nile and South Kordofan. Tamazuj means "across the border". Since November 2011 they have produced half an hour per week within the Radio Dabanga time slot. But from 5 January, 2012 they will produce half an hour a day from 0400-0430 UTC before the existing Radio Dabanga transmissions. Until that time test transmissions, which started today, will be broadcast at 0400-0430 UTC on 7315 (Issoudun), 11940 (Madagascar) and 13800 (Dhabbaya) kHz. Reception reports are welcomed via rnwmonitoring@gmail.com. We really would welcome reception reports from within Sudan! A website will be launched shortly at radiotamazuj.org. (RNW Programme Distribution)

Dx Mix News # 709

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DX MIX NEWS # 709                                          29 December 2011
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EGYPT    Winter B-11 of Radio Cairo:
0400-0600 on 13650 ABZ 100 kW / 170 deg to CEAf in Swahili
0700-1100 on 17510 ABZ 100 kW / 250 deg to WeAf in Arabic General Service
1015-1215 on 17480 ABZ 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs in Arabic
1215-1330 on 17870 ABZ 250 kW / 090 deg to SoAs in English
1230-1400 on 15710 ABS 250 kW / 106 deg to SEAs in Indonesian
1300-1400 on 15065 ABZ 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs in Dari
1300-1600 on 15080 ABS 250 kW / 241 deg to WeAf in Arabic
1330-1530 on 15040 ABZ 100 kW / 070 deg to WeAs in Farsi
1400-1600 on 15065 ABZ 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs in Pashto
1500-1600 on 15160 ABZ 250 kW / 050 deg to CeAs in Uzbek
1500-1600 on 13580 ABZ 250 kW / 330 deg to EaEu in Albanian
1530-1730 on 17810 ABZ 250 kW / 170 deg to CEAf in Swahili
1600-1700 on 15450 ABZ 100 kW / 160 deg to ECAf in Afar
1600-1800 on  6270 ABZ 250 kW / 090 deg to SoAs in Urdu
1600-1800 on 15345 ABZ 150 kW / 195 deg to CSAf in English
1630-1730 on 15285 ABZ 100 kW / 160 deg to ECAf in Somali
1700-1900 on  9280 ABS 250 kW / 005 deg to N/ME in Turkish
1730-1900 on 15285 ABZ 100 kW / 160 deg to ECAf in Amharic
1800-1900 on  6270 ABZ 250 kW / 315 deg to WeEu in Italian
1800-2100 on  9990 ABS 250 kW / 241 deg to WeAf in Hausa
1900-2000 on  6270 ABS 250 kW / 330 deg to WeEu in German
1900-2000 on  9280 ABS 250 kW / 005 deg to EaEu in Russian
1900-2400 on  9305 ABS 250 kW / 315 deg to WeEu in Arabic General Service
1900-0030 on 11540 ABZ 100 kW / 160 deg to ECAf in Arabic R.Voice of Arabs
2000-2115 on  6270 ABS 250 kW / 330 deg to WeEu in French
2000-2200 on  9855 ABZ 250 kW / 110 deg to AUS  in Arabic
2030-2230 on 15210 ABS 250 kW / 241 deg to WeAf in French
2115-2245 on  6270 ABS 250 kW / 330 deg to WeEu in English
2215-2330 on  9290 ABZ 250 kW / 245 deg to SoAm in Portuguese
2300-0030 on  6270 ABZ 250 kW / 325 deg to NWAm in English
2330-0045 on  9250 ABS 250 kW / 282 deg to CeAm in Arabic
2330-0045 on  9290 ABZ 250 kW / 245 deg to SoAm in Arabic
0000-0700 on  9305 ABS 250 kW / 315 deg to NoAm in Arabic General Service
0030-0430 on  6270 ABZ 250 kW / 325 deg to NWAm in Arabic
0045-0200 on  9315 ABZ 250 kW / 315 deg to NEAm in Spanish
0045-0200 on  9250 ABS 250 kW / 282 deg to CeAm in Spanish
0045-0200 on  9290 ABS 250 kW / 241 deg to SoAm in Spanish
0200-0330 on  9315 ABZ 250 kW / 315 deg to NoAm in English

KUWAIT    Winter B-11 of Radio Kuwait in Arabic:
0200-0900 on  5960 KBD 250 kW / non-dir to N/ME
0500-0900 on 15515 KBD 250 kW / 059 deg to EaAs Holy Qura'n service
0800-1000 on  7250 KBD 500 kW / non-dir to WeAs Farsi
0930-1600 on 11630 KBD 250 kW / 230 deg to CeAf Holy Qura'n service
1000-1500 on 21540#KBD 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu
1100-1600 on  9750 KBD 300 kW / 275 deg to NEAf
1600-2200 on  6080*KBD 500 kW / non-dir to N/ME
1700-2000 on 13650 KBD 500 kW / 350 deg to NoAm
1800-2100 on 15540 KBD 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English
2000-2400 on 17550 KBD 500 kW / 350 deg to NoAm
# unregistered freq., co-ch REE in Spanish, registered freq. 21520
* unregistered freq., co-ch R.Minsk and VOA, registered freq. 6050

NIGERIA    Winter B-11 for Voice of Nigeria:
0500-0700 on 15120 IKO 250 kW / 007 deg to NoAf English
0700-0800 on 15120 IKO 250 kW / 007 deg to NoAf French
0800-0900 on  9690 IKO 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf Hausa
0900-1500 on  9690 IKO 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf English
1500-1600 on 15120 IKO 250 kW / 007 deg to NoAf English
1600-1730 on  9690 IKO 250 kW / 248 deg to ECAf Swahili/Yoruba/Igbo
1730-1800 on 15120 IKO 250 kW / 007 deg to NoAf Arabic
1800-1900 on 15120 IKO 250 kW / 007 deg to NoAf English
1900-2100 on  7255 IKO 250 kW / 248 deg to WeAf English/French
2100-2300 on  7255 IKO 250 kW / 248 deg to WeAf Fulfulde/Hausa

mercoledì 28 dicembre 2011

Glenn Hauser logs December 28, 2011

** CHINA. Firedrake Dec 28: 1350-1355, none found 7-18 MHz. Tnx to several other monitors who are still hearing it at various times, reports all collected in DXLD in date/time order (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 9885, 13750 and 15590, Dec 28 at 1345, all three VOA Spanish frequencies are free of jamming, during `Buenos Días América` correspondent reports from Venezuela, Argentina. Hardly could be coincidental so hope it is a change of policy by the DentroCuban Jamming Command, which continued as usual with walls of noise on R. Martí frequencies 5745, 11930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CYPRUS [and non]. 17590-17615 and 17690-17715, Dec 28 at 1424, matching OTH radar pulses, presumed from here, QRMing broadcasters despite their strong signals: 17595 Spain, 17615 and 17705 Saudi Arabia, 17690 France via Guiana French (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GREECE. Re my previous report of 9420 missing, John Babbis says:

``Glenn: When I sent my Reception Report for December 28 to these people at the Voice of Greece, all 4 of the ones at ERA5 bounced back, as below. The one to Keramidas at ERT3 did go through. I wonder if they took the computers away from these 4 or maybe laid them off as part of the austerity in Greece? The 9420 transmitter has been off the air since December 22; saving electricity? John Babbis``

The bounce messages all say ``554 – rejected for policy reasons``

Could be just offline for the holidays. John also reports Dec 28: WEB SITE OF VOICE OF GREECE DOWN FOR SEVERAL WEEKS ---
http://www.voiceofgreece.gr/ ``The webpage cannot be found``
(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MAURITANIA. 7245, Dec 28 at 0631, IGIM is on and chanting, weaker than Vatican neighbor 7250. Yesterday it was missing at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1050, Dec 28 at 1401, choral NA is in progress, but of course it fades out before ID/sign-on. Loops E/W, and surely from the PST zone where it is 6 am, i.e. XED in Mexicali BCN a kilomile away (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO [and non]. 6010, Dec 28 at 1330, very weak signal fades up enough to tell it is in Spanish, so XEOI R. Mil is there between much stronger Juche jammer noise on 6003 and 6015. Might be better an hour earlier. In last report I indicated best window ending at 0900, but that`s only because Brasil supposedly starts 6010 then; that would soon fade out, and the only other stations scheduled co-channel are HJDH Colombia, which suppresses its signal to the north, would also have outfaded, and CNR-11 Tibetan service from Beijing starting at 1030, not much of a factor here. Carlos Gonçalves in Portugal and Manuel Méndez in Spain hear XEOI as late as 1000. RHC started with one hour at 12-13 on 6010 but then shifted to 6000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** PHILIPPINES. 9760, Dec 28 at 1507, VOA via Tinang-2, poor thing is in sad shape, strong carrier, but lowly modulated with `New Dynamic English` lessons. Can turn volume almost up to max for normal listening level, but that also brings up big hum (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ROMANIA. 15460 // 17530, Dec 28 at 1352, RRI playing ``Bring Me Down`` again, by YL pop singer in English, same as heard Dec 26 at 1547 in Arabic service on 15280 and 17540, but this is the German service. Found a YouTube of Kanye West rapping it plus Brandy on chorus, altho I did not hear the rap part either time, so maybe different version. What is the point of RRI playing this stuff? I am less and less impressed by their playlist (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TAIWAN [non]. 6875, RTI via WYFR is missing Dec 28 at 0634 check, during the hour which for weeks has been in wrong language German instead of Spanish. Have they finally decided there is no point in broadcasting German to Mexico at midnight? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7555.0, Dec 28 at 0245, only very weak signal here not off-frequency, so is it KJES? I guess so, as nothing else is scheduled. Current Aoki is showing the wrong timespan, 0100-0230 as in summer instead of 0200-0330 as in winter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Radio Star Int on New Years Day 2012

Dal sito di Radio Star International http://freeradio.awardspace.info/:

RSI will be back on the air on New Years Day 2012. We will be broadcasting on 6285/7600 Khz (to be confirmed) from 0800 to 1400 UTC with the following line up..

0800 Bright and Early (light classical music)
0830 Morning Melody (easy listening)
0900 Good morning Sunday with Roger Dale
1000 The Matt Roberts radio extravaganza
1100 Robert Murray's Classic Rock show
1200 The Lunchtime show with Roger Dale
1300 Mailbag with Christopher Phillips
1400 Close Down

RSI
PO Box 2702
6049ZG Herten
Netherlands
--
Roberto Rizzardi
SWL I/0216/GR
Porto S. Stefano (GR) Italy
Lat 42N43 - Long 11E12 - Locator grid JN52NK
Receivers: ICOM IC-R71E
Sangean ATS909 with 2x80kHz Murata filters in FM
Antennas: 15 meters outdoor random wire with RF System Magnetic Longwire Balun
Indoor self-made single-turn Loop
Telescopic and 7 meters indoor long wire antenna
Website:
http://diarioradio.blogspot.com/
Skype - Twitter: robybenjy

Sito Stazioni Costiere

Voglio segnalare un interessante link dove trovare le liste molto aggiornate delle stazioni costiere e marittime attive europee e non: http://www.coastalradio.org.uk/index.html

--
Roberto Rizzardi
SWL I/0216/GR
Porto S. Stefano (GR) Italy
Lat 42N43 - Long 11E12 - Locator grid JN52NK
Receivers: ICOM IC-R71E
Sangean ATS909 with 2x80kHz Murata filters in FM
Antennas: 15 meters outdoor random wire with RF System Magnetic Longwire Balun
Indoor self-made single-turn Loop
Telescopic and 7 meters indoor long wire antenna
Website: http://diarioradio.blogspot.com/
Skype - Twitter: robybenjy

Glenn Hauser logs December 27-28, 2011

** BOTSWANA. 15570, Dec 27 at *2058, my tune-up theory is confirmed, as I was waiting for VOA on both 15570 and 15580. The lower came on with carrier at 2058, by 2059 VOA Bonaire was off 15580, but 15570 Botswana did not cut to 15580 until a few notes of the VOA opening had played on 15570 at 2100. Well, that`s quite an improvement over staying on 15570 the whole hour like yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Re previous report of REE IS on 7220 at 1358-1400: I meant to add that the intentional REE relay via China is on 11910 at 12-14, sometimes audible here too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GREECE. 7450, Dec 27 at 2041, good with sacred choral music, sounds like Monteverdi; 2047 Greek announcement and more modern classical music, 2100 Greek news. Is ERT3 Macedonian service; checked 9420 which would not be //, but main VOG channel not audible there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN [non]. 9965, Dec 27 at 2015, rather traditional ME music, so did not think at first it would be R. Farda, but so IDed at 2025 and more of same, not the usual Persian/American pop. Maybe just an aberration. Quite a good signal, from the other worldside, 250 kW, 332 degrees USward from Iranawila, SRI LANKA at 1900-2130 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KUWAIT. 15540, no sign for weeks of R. Kuwait here for the 18-21 UT English broadcast, again checked at 1830 Dec 27. I suppose it is still on the air, and they just don`t care or understand that it`s not propagating in the dead of winter. Can it be detected in Europe? Also check 11990, the long-announced imaginary ex-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. Re my previous report of not hearing XEOI, Julián Santiago Díez de Bonilla, DF, replies: ``Radio Mil onda corta 6010 kHz está al aire y con su misma potencia nominal de 1 kW``. Current scheduling in Aoki of the big QRMers Cuba, Iran, RFA, indicates best windows for R. Mil should be 0000-0030, 0330-0500, 0700-0900. Except Colombia is also on 24 hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 9675, Dec 27 at 1845 and 2045, talk in language hard to place, not sharp modulation, with reverb, but listed as BSKSA Turkish service, 500 kW, 340 degrees USward from Riyadh (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TAIWAN [non]. 9355, Dec 28 at 0245-0250, confirmed that zero percent of the four scheduled Spanish hours of RTI are going out via WYFR. This one is in RTI English // 9680 and 5950, which are supposed to be the only two frequencies for it at this hour; makes up, I guess for no English at 0500 on 6875, Chinese instead. Unlike last night, the 9355 signal is sufficient, and the // 11995 via Guiana French is missing instead of open carrier all hour. That leaves one possible RTI Spanish broadcast on SW anywhere, 20-21 on 3965 via Issoudun, FRANCE. I`m still waiting for anyone in Europe to confirm whether it exist. Chances are not good for inpulling it here, but I may have to attempt it. Unless, of course, totally SNAFU, RTI is sending out Spanish at some times scheduled for even other languages (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5050, confirming WWRB is no longer heard here, 0245 check Dec 28, just on 3195 for the non-BS programming, including WORLD OF RADIO, UT Fridays 0430+ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012!!!

BOTSWANA    VOA Relay   15580   1916 GMT  English  333  Dec 22  YL with comments on Mass Exicutions of people protesting.  Next an OM interviewing a YL.

CANADA   Radio Canada Intl -RCI   17790  1910 GMT  French  444  Dec 22  Two OMs with comments plus a YL.

COSTA RICA   Radio Exterior Espana Relay -REE   17850  1905 GMT  Spanish  444  Dec 22  YL with comments plus an OM . Also two YLs with comments.  OM with comments 1935 GMT. //15110[433]via Spain.

CUBA   Radio Havana Cuba -RHC   13640  1944 GMT  Spanish  444  Dec 22  YL with RHC ID.  Also an OM with the RHC ID.

HAWAII   WWVH   15.000  1937 GMT  English  444  Dec 22   YL with time  annoucement  for the Pacific regions. Plus an OM with west cost time annoucement.

UNITED STATES, Tennessee    WWCR #1   13845  1940 GMT  EE  444  Dec 22  OM thanking listenersfor their support of his program, then into comments about Galations in the Bible.

UNITED STATES, Pennsylvania   WINB   13570  1945 GMT  English  333  Dec 22  YL and OM with comments on the End of the World.

UNKNOWN   15330  1925  Spanish  333  Dec 22  YL and OM with comments plus vocal singing heard in the background. In English 1932 but no ID was heard.

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"
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martedì 27 dicembre 2011

Glenn Hauser logs December 27, 2011

** BOTSWANA. Shortly after posting my last logs, under USA [non], the likely explanation for VOA appearing on 15570 instead of 15580 at 21-22 UT Dec 26 occurred to me: because 15580 is used right up until 2100 by another site (Bonaire), Botswana tunes up before 2100 on 15570 instead, and simply stayed on it that day instead of switching to proper 15580. Such off-channel tuning up is common practice at IBB, tho not always avoiding open carriers/tones mixing with other stations or IBB Sites. Likely will be back on 15580 today Dec 27 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake Dec 27, circa 1435 UT: none found, 7-19 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA [and non]. 6055, Dec 27 at 1414, R. Nikkei, JAPAN, has about equal-level co-channel QRM I had never noticed before, in Cambodian, still same past 1430. HFCC shows it`s CRI Khmer service at 14-15, 100 kW, 200 degrees from NNN = Nanning. Perhaps propagation from there was unusually favorable today. Other Japan signals were also weakish, such as 5985 and 6190 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GREECE. 15630, Dec 27 at 1548, VOG with Greek music, good signal. Probably just came on, earlier than nominal *1600 in the curtailed 12-hour broadcast day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6135, Shiokaze is missing for the first day, Dec 27 at 1358 and later, so I search elsewhere on 49m for it. 5985 must be the new/reactivated frequency from JSR Tokyo/Yamata, poor signal making het with off-frequency Myanmar at 1404, altho it doesn`t sound like the usual Shiokaze with sad piano music. Instead there is violin with piano music in the background of talk, in Japanese or Korean? None of the usual Shiokaze stingers either. 1423 still same, 1427 ID in Japanese, and still not the usual music, off after 1430 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. 6003, Dec 27 at 1401, bit of William Tell Overture, but then no Al Weiner, just Korean talk by YL, from Echo of Hope, well atop the continuous grind noise of Juche jamming. Also audible on 6348 but not so well vs jamming, which Aoki says is 250 kW vs 100 kW from EOH on both. V of the People modulation could also be heard vs jamming on 6518, 6600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MAURITANIA. 7245, Dec 27, IGIM still not on at 0637 or 0656 chex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENIG DIGEST)

** PHILIPPINES. 9760, Dec 27 at 1539, VOA Spe-cial Eng-lish news is quite undermodulated with hum from the ailing Tinang-2 transmitter; tho at least as strong as BBC Singapore on 9740, much softer sounding (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ROMANIA. 7310, Dec 27 at 0638, RRI with `Pro Memoria` feature on the Romanization of Dacia, how the Latin language was leading to Romanian, like it overtook the Celtic dialect in Gaul. Just as this was getting deeper into the subject, it was over, 0642 on to `Song of the Day`. I had heard the same talk earlier Dec 26 after 2230 on 9435. 7310 is the biggest signal from Europe at 0630, loud & clear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA. 7205, Dec 27 at 1502, poor signal sounds like Persian, 1507 Russian-sounding music, so VOR Persian service, at 15-16, 200 kW, 147 degrees from Petrograd/Popovka. Aoki shows Eritrea and CNR13 = PBS Xinjiang from Urumqi in Uyghur are also on 7205 at this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TAIWAN [non]. [cf. previous report starting under USA: WWCR]
I have checked out the other scheduled RTI Spanish broadcast via WYFR, 02-03 on 9355, Dec 27 at 0213 & 0245: JBA carrier, can`t tell what it is; would expect WYFR to have a better signal than that, but nothing else is scheduled. On this transmission there is an RTI // on 11995 via GUIANA FRENCH: that is certainly on the air, but unmodulated carrier, both at 0213 and 0245 Dec 27. Also reconfirmed at 0430 that instead of Spanish at 04-05, 6890 via WYFR is still in Chinese // 6875. Would Europeans please check the 20-21 UT broadcast on 3965 via FRANCE – is it really RTI in Spanish?

Dan Elyea of WYFR writes Dec 27: ``Hello, Glenn, I'm retiring from the Secretary-Treasurer position with NASB; still working fulltime with FR, though I'm well past "normal" retirement age.

The meltdown is being sorted out, piece-by-piece. Mysteriously, the issues saturate the system from stem-to-stern. Progress is being made, but there still remain problems to be resolved.

The RTI program feed has multiple users -- it's not tailored just for WYFR release times; normally, there is a system of automated recordings for later automated playback in the proper timeslot. 73.
Dan`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15809.4 & 15840.6, Dec 27 at 1539, WWCR-1 spurs from 15825 are still detectable with BFO, but way down compared to the bigsig on 15825, which is not splattering over half the 19m band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

L'Air si fa sempre più male, anche con il contest Attilio Leoni...

Ogni volta che pensiamo di aver visto tutto riescono a sorprenderci, anche oggi non manca la perla... Si blindano per paura delle critiche e non capiscono che nessuno riuscirebbe a fargli più male di quanto non fanno da soli... Partecipando al contest in oggetto e arrivando primi in classifica potrete vincere, udite bene, un "balun 1:32 offerto all’AIR dal Socio Claudio Re", che prima si chiamava Maxi Whip e ti faceva ascoltare pure le emittenti che hanno lasciato le onde corte, ora un semplice balun. E soprattutto, oltre le varie capocchiate, per partecipare dovrete scrivere ad un fermo posta di un minuscolo paese in provincia di Torino, un po' come nell'epoca pre-internet si faceva per rispondere agli annunci di contatto dei giornali porno... E, come sempre, non posso fare a meno di metterci uno "e sti cazzi"!!!!

- L'AIR, PER FORTUNA, NON E' IL RADIOASCOLTO ITALIANO -

Roberto Scaglione

ISS

ARISS contact planned with students in Gdansk, Poland.

Saturday December 31, 2011 a radio contact is planned with students in Historical Museum of Gdansk in Poland. Expectedly, the contact will be established at approximately 14:04 UTC, which is 15:04 CEWT. Amateur radio station SP2ZIE will call OR4ISS. The conversation with NASA astronaut Daniel C. Burbank KC5ZSX will be conducted in English. Downlink signals with the astronaut's answers will be audible in Europe on 145.800 MHz FM. The event will be live broadcast in streaming video on http://live.arisspolska.info


ARISS contact planned with students in Zuromin, Poland.

Monday January 2, 2012 at approximately 12:05 UTC which is 13.05 CEWT, a radio contact is planned with students in a school in Zuromin, Poland. Amateur radio station SP5PMD will call OR4ISS. The conversation will be conducted in English. Downlink signals with the astronaut's answers will be audible in Europe on 145.800 MHz FM.

Enrico, IZ2NXF

Bruno Casula Utility log

Lun 26 Dic 2011
1.650,00 FR.. - ..... F CROSS J3E/USB 11-dic 0805 NW/WX -
2.559,00 DBGZ BP26 - SHIP Escwege - D BUNDESPOLIZEI SEE ALE/USB 12-dic 0112 CLG "BPLEZS" -
2.673,00 DLVI ZPRI - SHIP Priwall - D ZOLL ALE/USB 12-dic 2229 CLG "ZLST" -
2.673,00 DLVK ZHID - SHIP Hiddensee - D ZOLL ALE/USB 13-dic 0020 CLG "ZLST" -
2.834,00 U... - ..... CIS MIL J3E/USB 20-dic 1620 TFC RUS SIMPLEX
2.880,00 U... - ..... CIS MIL J3E/USB 20-dic 1630 TFC RUS SIMPLEX
2.899,00 EIP SHANWICK Shannon IRL AIR (NAT-B) J3E/USB 12-dic 2226 TFC ING/SELCALL -
3.000,00 EHD5 TWVO2 Soria E GC ALE/USB 18-dic 1737 CLG "TWBM1" -
3.000,00 EHD6 TWBT1 Tarragona E GC ALE/USB 18-dic 1744 CLG "TZSO2" -
3.000,00 EHM3 TWBZ1 Zaragoza E GC ALE/USB 18-dic 1753 CLG "TWBL2" -
3.000,00 EHP7 TWBM2 Manresa E GC ALE/USB 18-dic 1737 CLG "TWVO2" -
3.000,00 EHP9 TWLB Burgos E GC ALE/USB 18-dic 1753 CLG "TWBZ1"
3.000,00 EHQ9 TZSO2 Cordoba E GC ALE/USB 18-dic 1744 CLG "TWBT1" -
3.235,50 ..... - ..... - [...] FSK 150/200 18-dic 1739 N-D -
3.295,00 U... - ..... CIS MIL RUS-SYS 75/250 12-dic 2232 N-D -
3.310,00 ESA - Tallinn EST RADIO J3E/USB 20-dic 1640 NW/WX -
3.338,50 ..... - ..... - [...] FSK 150/200 20-dic 1645 N-D -
3.515,00 U... - ..... CIS MIL CIS 81-81 40,5/200 21-dic 1705 N-D -
3.522,00 U... - ..... CIS MIL RUS-SYS 74/250 21-dic 1707 N-D -
3.549,00 4X.. - ..... ISR IsN MPSK (HYBRID MODEM) 21-dic 1709 N-D -
3.782,50 U... - ..... CIS MIL CIS 81-81 40,5/250 21-dic 1711 N-D -
3.803,10 ..... - ..... - [...] CW 21-dic 1714 GR(N4) '6091 0917 0917 0917 0917 0917 1809 1809 1809 1809 1809'
3.804,00 RMP - Kaliningrad RUS CISN RUS-SYS 75/200 20-dic 1558 N-D -
3.823,50 YI.. KER Kerbala IRQ POLICE ALE/USB 21-dic 1952 CLG "MES" -
3.823,50 YI.. MES Amarah IRQ POLICE ALE/USB 21-dic 1951 CLG "KRB" -
3.823,50 YI.. NEN ..... IRQ POLICE ALE/USB 21-dic 1941 CLG "NJF" -
3.825,50 ..... - ..... - [...] FSK 150/200 20-dic 1601 IDLE -
3.830,00 CN.. 2002 ..... MRC MDC ALE/USB 12-dic 1833 SOUND -
3.831,00 DLVI ZPRI - SHIP Priwall - D ZOLL ALE/USB 20-dic 1735 CLG "ZLST" -
4.030,00 U... - ..... CIS MIL RUS-SYS 75/200 12-dic 2235 N-D -
4.059,00 ..... - ..... - [...] CW 12-dic 0624 VVVVV -
4.268,00 PWZ33 - Rio de Janeiro/Ilha do Governador B BN PACTOR-FEC 12-dic 0620 NW/WX -
4.514,00 CN.. 1302 ..... MRC PC ALE/USB 15-dic 1932 SOUND -
4.880,00 U... - ..... CIS MIL MPSK-12/USB 20-dic 1651 N-D -
4.993,80 ..... - ..... - [...] FSK 150/150 18-dic 2050 N-D -
5.090,00 7U.. BJ21 ..... ALG ANG ALE/USB 18-dic 1757 CLG "UN20" -
5.090,00 7U.. UN20 ..... ALG ANG ALE/USB 18-dic 1747 CLG "XT25" -
5.090,00 7U.. UN20 ..... ALG ANG MIL-STD 188-110A/USB 18-dic 1744 N-D DATA RATE ERROR
5.090,00 7U.. XT25 ..... ALG ANG ALE/USB 18-dic 1748 CLG "UN20" -
5.104,00 U... - ..... CIS MIL FSK 50/250 23-dic 1736 N-D -
5.152,00 U... - ..... CIS MIL RUS-SYS 75/200 20-dic 1654 N-D -
5.255,00 ..... FBB1 ..... - [...] ALE/USB 17-dic 2041 CLG "FRB" -
5.255,00 ..... FRB ..... - [...] ALE/USB 17-dic 1959 CLG "FBB1" 2030,2035 CLG "FBB1"
5.272,00 ..... - ..... - [...] J3E/USB 23-dic 1748 TFC ARA SIMPLEX BEEP AT END
5.416,00 U... - ..... CIS MIL MPSK-12/USB 12-dic 0650 N-D
5.427,50 ..... 10B ..... - [...] ALE/USB 13-dic 0407 SOUND -
5.470,00 R... - ..... RUS MIL J3E/USB 23-dic 1751 TFC RUS SIMPLEX
5.493,00 YI.. ANB ..... IRQ CUSTOM ALE/USB 23-dic 1744 CLG "DB2" -
5.493,00 YI.. DB2 Tikrit IRQ CUSTOM ALE/USB 23-dic 1743 CLG "AMB" -
5.493,00 YI.. QAM Al Qaim IRQ CUSTOM ALE/USB 23-dic 1746 CLG "DB2" -
5.537,00 ..... KURU ..... - [...] CW 23-dic 1756 CLG/WKG "IAAX" -
5.752,00 U... - ..... CIS CISAF CW 11-dic 2138 COUNTING STRING -
5.753,00 DHJ58 - Glucksburg/Saterland-Ramsloh D GN STANAG-4285/600L/S5/USB 11-dic 2132 SEND KG84 MSGS -
5.775,00 RWD54 - Moskva RUS GOVERNATIVE RUS-ARQ 100/500 23-dic 1745 N-D -
5.948,00 FAV22 - Mont Valerien F FA CW 12-dic 0657 GR(A) -
6.327,50 VJS D7 # Perth,WA AUS GW RADIO GW-FSK 11-dic 2126 CH MARKER -
6.391,00 AQP2 - Karachi PAK PakN CW 22 11-dic 2109 VVV DE -
6.562,00 CN.. LG601 ..... MRC GENDARMERIE ALE/USB 20-dic 1818 SOUND -
6.562,00 CN.. R31 ..... MRC GENDARMERIE ALE/USB 20-dic 1713 SOUND -
6.562,00 CN.. R33 ..... MRC GENDARMERIE ALE/USB 20-dic 1734 SOUND -
6.566,00 5O.. 1009 ..... NIG POLICE ALE/USB 23-dic 1910 SOUND -
6.566,00 D2.. CUN Ondjiva AGL POLICE ALE/USB 13-dic 0046 SOUND -
6.609,00 7U.. DB51 ..... ALG ANG ALE/USB 18-dic 1654 CLG "MDN" -
6.609,00 7U.. MDN Alger ALG ANG ALE/USB 18-dic 1655 CLG "DB51" -
6.609,00 ..... BKA ..... - [...] ALE/USB 18-dic 1641 CLG "SHR" -
6.609,00 ..... FSN ..... - [...] ALE/USB 18-dic 1814 CLG "SMH" -
6.609,00 ..... JAS ..... - [...] ALE/USB 18-dic 1819 CLG "SMH" -
6.609,00 ..... SAL ..... - [...] ALE/USB 18-dic 1657 CLG "SMH" -
6.609,00 ..... SBG ..... - [...] ALE/USB 18-dic 1709 SOUND -
6.609,00 ..... SHR ..... - [...] ALE/USB 18-dic 1648" CLG "BKA" -
6.609,00 ..... SMH ..... - [...] ALE/USB 18-dic 1647 CLG "SAL" CLG "WRK"
6.609,00 ..... WRK ..... - [...] ALE/USB 18-dic 1649 CLG "SMH" -
6.624,50 ..... C45 ..... - [...] ALE/USB 17-dic 1756 CLG "C4" -
6.751,00 7U.. 123 ..... ALG ANG ALE/USB 11-dic 0816 CLG "GS30" -
6.751,00 7U.. GS30 ..... ALG ANG ALE/USB 11-dic 0814 CLG "VQ35" -
6.776,00 ..... - ..... - [...] CW 18-dic 0815 TFC 'QSA4 QSA~K OK R K'
6.779,00 ..... 224 ..... - [...] ALE/USB 13-dic 0014 CLG "217" '0020 CLG "132" 0240 CLG "269" 0033 CLG "182"
6.878,00 U... - ..... CIS MIL FSK 50/250 20-dic 1659 N-D -
6.886,00 U... - ..... CIS MIL FSK 50/250 20-dic 1702 N-D -
6.970,00 7U.. - ..... ALG [...] J3E/USB 11-dic 2048 TFC FRA SIMPLEX
7.426,00 U... - ..... CIS MIL RUS-SYS 75/250 11-dic 0820 N-D -
7.692,00 ..... 3KH ..... - [...] ALE/USB 20-dic 1958 CLG "7FD" -
7.692,00 ..... 5CQ ..... - [...] ALE/USB 20-dic 1928 CLG "R9C" -
7.692,00 ..... 7FD ..... - [...] ALE/USB 20-dic 1950 CLG "CQ0" -
7.692,00 ..... 7FD ..... - [...] MIL-STD 188-110A/S8/USB 20-dic 1951 TFC KRY -
7.692,00 ..... B2B ..... - [...] ALE/USB 11-dic 1756 CLG "U7C" -
7.692,00 ..... B2B ..... - [...] MIL-STD 188-110A/S8/USB 11-dic 1914 TFC KRY -
7.692,00 ..... HQ0 ..... - [...] ALE/USB 11-dic 1830 CLG "U7C" '[AMD] PTP'
7.692,00 ..... R9C ..... - [...] ALE/USB 20-dic 2013 CLG "5CQ" -
7.692,00 ..... U7C ..... - [...] ALE/USB 11-dic 1750 CLG "B2B" -
7.692,00 ..... U7C ..... - [...] MIL-STD 188-110A/S8/USB 11-dic 1748 TFC KRY -
7.789,00 U... N6V4 ..... CIS MIL CW 18-dic 0822 CLG/WKG "TVTO" 'TVTO TVTO DE N6V4 N6V4 QBE QYT 6 K '
8.100,00 ..... 38HQ ..... - [...] ALE/USB 11-dic 1722 CLG "10HQ" -
8.100,00 ..... 420 ..... - [...] ALE/USB 11-dic 1904 SOUND -
8.142,00 ..... - ..... - [...] MIL-STD 188-110A/S8/USB 18-dic 1651 TFC KRY -
8.144,00 U... - ..... CIS MIL BEE/36-50 50/200 18-dic 0827 TFC KRY -
8.195,00 YP.. BSV Brasov ROU POLICE ALE/USB 12-dic 0830 CLG "BU4" -
8.195,00 YP.. BSV Brasov ROU POLICE MIL-STD 188-110B/39T/USB 12-dic 0832 SEND MSGS TO "BU4" -
8.195,00 YP.. BU3 Bucuresti ROU POLICE ALE/USB 12-dic 0743 CLG "TUL" -
8.195,00 YP.. CON Contanta ROU POLICE ALE/USB 12-dic 0804 CLG "CRA" -
8.195,00 YP.. PIT Pitesti ROU POLICE ALE/USB 12-dic 0808 CLG "BU4" -
8.195,00 YP.. PIT Pitesti ROU POLICE MIL-STD 188-110B/39T/USB 12-dic 0906 SEND MSGS TO "BU4" -
8.195,00 YP.. PLS Ploiesti ROU POLICE ALE/USB 12-dic 0736 CLG "BU4" -
8.195,00 YP.. PLS Ploiesti ROU POLICE MIL-STD 188-110B/39T/USB 12-dic 0740 SEND MSGS TO "BU4" -
8.195,00 YP.. RAM Ramnicu Valcea ROU POLICE ALE/USB 12-dic 0716 CLG "BU4" -
8.195,00 YP.. RAM Ramnicu Valcea ROU POLICE MIL-STD 188-110B/39T/USB 12-dic 0714 SEND MSGS TO "BU4" -
8.195,00 YP.. VAS Vasiliu ROU POLICE ALE/USB 12-dic 0925 CLG "BU3" -
8.298,00 YV.. 5TG9 - SHIP - VEN VeN ALE/LSB 12-dic 0727 CLG "T5L1" -
8.298,00 YV.. T5L1 ..... VEN VeN ALE/LSB 12-dic 0728 CLG "5TG9" -
8.473,00 WLO - Mobile,AL USA RADIO BAUDOT 45,5/170 21-dic 0716 NXS '7.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA ISSUED AN ORDER'
8.473,00 WLO - Mobile,AL USA RADIO FEC 100/170 21-dic 0645 NXS 'FROM THE VOICE OF AMERICA - - -' 0726 SWITCHING TO RTTY BROADCAST
8.600,00 CN.. 13011 ..... MRC CD ALE/USB 12-dic 0848 SOUND -
8.600,00 CN.. 1303 ..... MRC CD ALE/USB 12-dic 0832 SOUND -
8.600,00 CN.. 1307 ..... MRC CD ALE/USB 12-dic 0912 SOUND -
8.600,00 CN.. 1311 ..... MRC CD ALE/USB 12-dic 0926 SOUND -
8.600,00 CN.. 1312 ..... MRC CD ALE/USB 12-dic 0749 SOUND -
8.600,00 CN.. 1325 ..... MRC CD ALE/USB 12-dic 1249 SOUND -
8.600,00 CN.. 13251 ..... MRC CD ALE/USB 12-dic 0830 SOUND -
8.600,00 CN.. 2215 ..... MRC CD ALE/USB 12-dic 0938 SOUND -
8.600,00 CN.. 2407 ..... MRC CD ALE/USB 12-dic 0802 SOUND -
8.600,00 CN.. 24151 ..... MRC CD ALE/USB 12-dic 0819 SOUND -
8.783,00 U... - ..... CIS MIL RUS-SYS 75/200 11-dic 2108 N-D -
8.788,00 B... CZT2 ..... CHN MIL CW 20-dic 1921 CLG "RXP7" -
8.912,00 KA... 03X Omaha,NE USA CHOTEN ALE/USB 11-dic 0854 SOUND -
8.912,00 KA... 09X Omaha,NE USA CHOTEN ALE/USB 11-dic 0850 SOUND -
8.912,00 KA... 21X Omaha,NE USA CHOTEN ALE/USB 11-dic 0843 SOUND -
8.912,00 KA... 27X Omaha,NE USA CHOTEN ALE/USB 11-dic 0834 SOUND -
8.912,00 KA... RSH Concord,NC USA CHOTEN ALE/USB 12-dic 0652 SOUND -
8.912,00 NICB ICB - USCGC FORWARD - USA USCG ALE/USB 11-dic 0849 SOUND -
8.939,00 ..... 400001 ..... - [...] ALE/USB 11-dic 1737 CLG "400005" -
8.939,00 ..... 400004 ..... - [...] ALE/USB 11-dic 1907 SOUND -
8.939,00 ..... 400006 ..... - [...] ALE/USB 11-dic 1839 SOUND -
8.939,00 ..... 400012 ..... - [...] ALE/USB 11-dic 1734 CLG "400001" -
8.939,00 ..... 400014 ..... - [...] ALE/USB 11-dic 1738 SOUND -
8.939,00 ..... NDB ..... - [...] ALE/USB 11-dic 1823 SOUND -
9.257,00 7U.. 783 - AIRCRAFT - ALG AlgAF ALE/USB 11-dic 0838 CLG "COFA" 0843,0849 CLG "COFA"
9.257,00 7U.. COFA ..... ALG AlgAF ALE/USB 11-dic 1217 CLG "CM6" -
9.300,00 SPI324 - ..... POL PoF ALE/USB 18-dic 1714 CLG "LCR154" -
9.300,00 SPI.. LCR154 Janki POL PoF ALE/USB 18-dic 1713 CLG SPI324 -
9.316,00 ZA.. BORA Bora ALB POLICE MIL-STD 188-110A/S8/USB 11-dic 0844 SEND MSGS TO "DRINI" -
9.316,00 ZA.. DRINI Drini ALB POLICE ALE/USB 11-dic 0847 SEND MSGS TO "BORA" -
9.440,00 TC.. 2010 ..... TUR TRC/TEN ALE/USB 18-dic 1104 SOUND -
9.440,00 TC.. 2014 ..... TUR TRC/TEN ALE/USB 18-dic 0837 CLG "4017" -
9.440,00 TC.. 2016 ..... TUR TRC/TEN ALE/USB 18-dic 1045 SOUND -
9.440,00 TC.. 2017 ..... TUR TRC/TEN ALE/USB 18-dic 1008 SOUND -
9.440,00 TC.. 206102 ..... TUR TRC/TEN ALE/USB 18-dic 1016 SOUND -
9.440,00 TC.. 207107 ..... TUR TRC/TEN ALE/USB 18-dic 0938 SOUND -
9.440,00 TC.. 3011 ..... TUR TRC/TEN ALE/USB 18-dic 1214 SOUND -
9.440,00 TC.. 4013 ..... TUR TRC/TEN ALE/USB 18-dic 1016 SOUND -
9.440,00 TC.. 4015 ..... TUR TRC/TEN ALE/USB 18-dic 0913 SOUND -
9.440,00 TC.. 9810 ..... TUR TRC/TEN ALE/USB 18-dic 0848 SOUND -
9.440,00 TC.. 9850 ..... TUR TRC/TEN ALE/USB 18-dic 1014 SOUND -
10.015,00 ..... NDB ..... - [...] ALE/USB 18-dic 2030 SOUND -
10.242,00 KA... 03X Omaha,NE USA CHOTEN ALE/USB 11-dic 0854 SOUND -
10.242,00 KA... PR1 Islote PTR CHOTEN ALE/USB 12-dic 0702 SOUND -
10.242,00 KA... RSH Concord,NC USA CHOTEN ALE/USB 12-dic 0652 SOUND -
10.242,00 NICB ICB - USCGC FORWARD - USA USCG ALE/USB 12-dic 0648 SOUND 0742,0828,0913 SOUND
10.283,00 U... - ..... CIS MIL RUS-SYS 75/250 18-dic 0832 N-D -
10.962,00 AQ.. SHAHJAHAN - PNS Shahjahan - PAK PaN ALE/USB 15-dic 1439 CLG "KW" -
10.962,00 AQ.. SHAMSHER1 - PNS Shamsheer - PAK PaN ALE/USB 15-dic 1456 CLG "KW" -
11.182,50 ..... - ..... - [...] J3E/USB 18-dic 1720 TFC ARA/FRA SIMPLEX
11.494,00 NICB ICB - USCGC FORWARD - USA USCG ALE/USB 11-dic 0935 SOUND 1021 SOUND
12.208,50 R... - ..... - FAPSI CROWD/USB 18-dic 1728 TFC KRY -
13.951,00 HBD59 - Ankara TUR AMB. SVIZZERA MIL-STD 188-110A/S8/USB 18-dic 0928 SEND MSGS TO Bern -
14.358,00 U... - ..... CIS MIL RUS-SYS 75/250 18-dic 0800 N-D -
14.458,00 7U.. CM3 ..... ALG AlgAF MIL-STD 188-110A/S8/USB 11-dic 0855 SEND MSGS TO "CNC" -
14.458,00 7U.. CNC ..... ALG AlgAF MIL-STD 188-110A/S8/USB 11-dic 0856 SEND MSGS TO "CM3" -
14.808,00 U... - ..... CIS MIL RUS-SYS 75/250 18-dic 0807 N-D -
15.867,00 K... I49 - CESSNA 550 - USA CPB ALE/USB 12-dic 1754 SOUND -
15.867,00 NICB ICB - USCGC FORWARD - USA USCG ALE/USB 12-dic 2025 SOUND -
15.867,00 N... J44 - MH-60J - USA USCG ALE/USB 12-dic 1936 SOUND -
15.867,00 N... N04 - HC-144A - USA USCG ALE/USB 12-dic 1908 SOUND -
16.078,00 SSE - Cairo EGY MFA CODAN 16 TONES/USB 15-dic 1345 N-D -
16.100,00 SSE.. - ..... - AMB. EGIZIANA CODAN 16 TONES/USB 18-dic 1137 WKG Cairo (17426,0)
16.101,70 SSE.. - ..... - AMB. EGIZIANA SITOR 100/170/ATU-80 18-dic 1131 WKG Cairo (17427,7)
16.112,00 SSE.. - ..... - AMB. EGIZIANA CODAN 16 TONES/USB 12-dic 1526 N-D -
16.117,00 R... - ..... RUS [...] A3A 12-dic 1045 TONE SEQUENCE (463125) 915,995,880,815,845,950 HZ
16.117,50 R... - ..... RUS [...] CROWD/USB 12-dic 1048 TFC KRY -
16.507,40 ..... - ..... - [...] SITOR 100/170 11-dic 0944 TFC CROATO 'DA JE NAJGOR KLUB IKADA+?'
16.607,00 PWAR GWPWAR - SHIP - B BN ALE/USB 11-dic 1855 CLG "GWPWZ33" -
16.607,00 PWPM GWPWPM - SHIP - B BN ALE/USB 11-dic 2108 CLG "GWPWZ33" -
16.607,00 PWZ33 GWPWZ33 Rio de Janeiro B BN ALE/USB 11-dic 1822 CLG "GWPWAR" -
16.954,00 PWZ33 GWPWZ33 Rio de Janeiro B BN ALE/USB 11-dic 2055 CLG "GWPWBL" -
17.426,00 SSE - Cairo EGY MFA CODAN 16 TONES/USB 18-dic 0740 N-D 1137 N-D (16100,0)
17.427,70 SSE - Cairo EGY MFA FEC 100/170/ATU-80 18-dic 1128 TFC ARA -
17.427,70 SSE - Cairo EGY MFA SITOR 100/170/ATU-80 18-dic 1054 CLG/WKG {TVQX} 1130 CLG/WKG {TVQX} (16101,7)
17.522,50 R... - ..... - FAPSI CROWD/USB 21-dic 1047 TFC KRY -
18.248,60 KLU52 - ..... USA DoS ALE/USB 18-dic 1557 CLG "KWG41" -
18.248,60 KWG41 - ..... USA DoS ALE/USB 18-dic 1558 CLG "KLU52" -
18.438,00 ..... 216 ..... - [...] CW 11-dic 0943 GR(N) '= = 216 216 83 83 T T T T T'
18.440,00 U... - ..... CIS MIL MPSK-12/USB 18-dic 0747 N-D -
18.575,00 R... - ..... - INTEL A3A 15-dic 1320 TONE SEQUENCE (352416) 880 950 845 915 815 1000 Hz
18.764,00 RDL - Smolensk RUS MIL CW-FSK 21-dic 1054 GR(N) -
19.709,00 PWBL GWPWBL - SHIP - B BN ALE/USB 12-dic 1639 CLG "GWPWZ33" -
19.709,00 PWPM GWPWPM - SHIP - B BN ALE/USB 12-dic 1751 CLG "GWPWZ33" -
19.709,00 PWZ33 GWPWZ33 Rio de Janeiro B BN ALE/USB 12-dic 1559 CLG "GWPWBL" -
20.605,00 HBD20 - Bern/Kernenried SUI MFA ALE/USB 21-dic 1107 N-D PROTECTED LINK SIMPLEX
20.605,00 HBD20 - Bern/Kernenried SUI MFA MIL-STD 188-110A/S8/USB 21-dic 1111 TFC KRY -
20.605,00 HBD66 - Ottawa,OT CAN AMB. SVIZZERA MIL-STD 188-110A/S8/USB 23-dic 1215 SEND MSGS TO Bern -
20.605,00 R... - ..... RUS [...] A3A 21-dic 1103 TONE SEQUENCE (256134) 860 950 1000 830 892 930 Hz
20.810,60 KLU52 - ..... USA DoS ALE/USB 23-dic 1553 CLG KMM94 -
20.810,60 KMN94 - ..... USA DoS ALE/USB 23-dic 1553 CLG KLU52 -
20.810,60 KWK20 - ..... USA DoS ALE/USB 23-dic 0918 CLG KWK20OS -
20.810,60 KWK20OS - ..... USA DoS ALE/USB 23-dic 0918 CLG KWK20 -
22.051,00 ..... - ..... - [...] FSK 100/170 11-dic 0944 N-D -
22.116,00 YI.. DYA1 Diyala IRQ IrqF ALE/USB 11-dic 0956 CLG "SAM1" -
22.116,00 YI.. IGF ..... IRQ IrqF ALE/USB 11-dic 1029 CLG "MOD" -
22.116,00 YI.. MOD ..... IRQ IrqF ALE/USB 11-dic 0957 CLG "IGF" -
22.116,00 YI.. NYN1 Ninawa IRQ IrqF ALE/USB 11-dic 1029 CLG "IGF" -
22.116,00 YI.. SAM1 Samarra IRQ IrqF ALE/USB 11-dic 0956 CLG "DYA1" -
25.120,00 CN.. LG601 ..... MRC GENDARMERIE ALE/USB 17-dic 1129 CLG "LG602" -
25.495,00 U.. - ..... CIS TAXI/TRUCKERS ? F3E 15-dic 1330 TFC RUS SIMPLEX
 
Bruno Casula
Cagliari South Italy

(via Utilityworld)

Glenn Hauser logs December 26, 2011

** CHINA. 11945, Dec 26 at 2124, huge signal in Chinese from CNR1; it really stands out, as there is nothing like it anywhere else on 11 MHz or higher bands. Not in schedules, so we have R. Free Asia to thank for this, since if it were not broadcasting Mandarin at 95 degrees from Tajikistan overnight, all the way from 15 to 22 UT on 11945, CNR1 would surely not have accidentally landed on the same frequency. I did find a weaker // on 9455 running about two seconds ahead of 11945. That of course is also a jammer against RFA Mandarin, 16-22 via Saipan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 9565, Dec 26 at 2159 as I tune in R. Martí, there is a story about OVNIs, (UFOs), necessarily in Cuba?? I`ll never know, as cut off the air while jamming continued, resumed at 2200 with ID, weaker signal, i.e. the site switch from Sackville to Greenville (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. 9445, Dec 26 at 2128, AIR GOS is in weekly Monday mailbag `Faithfully Yours`, informal M&W hosting conversationally, reading and replying to reception reports, at the moment one from Germany in October. Next one they politely refuse to verify due to insufficient details; try again. More reports from Germany, Austria, until 2135 change to Film Music. F.Y. starts at 2120. I could also hear it on 11670 and, perhaps better, on 7550. I should have, since at 2136-2137, 9445 cut off the air, but the others were on as soon as I checked them.

After a stint with Romania next door on 9435,, at 2201 I was back on 9445 for the news, but it cut off and on and off and on and off again until 2204; meanwhile I found a much better signal with music on the National Channel 9425. 2210, commentary which I thought was rather smug, about Pakistan`s perilous balance among the government, military and intelligence agency. It seems India has a name for this, something-gate, but I couldn`t understand or Google it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SERBIA [non]. 6100, Dec 26 at 2223, fair signal with a rather sad Balkan-sounding song, from what? 2227 outro in English as International Radio Serbia, giving three frequencies without making clear that the other two apply only to the separate English broadcasts at different times. Contact info, 2228-2229* IS. Per Aoki, this daily 2200 transmission to Europe is on exactly the same 310-degree antenna as the 6190 transmission to NAm including English at 0130-0200 Tue-Sat (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 15570, Dec 26 at 2121, surprised to find VOA here instead of 15580, with classic rock, 2122 confirmed ID as `American Gold` from VOA Music Mix, Mondays at 21-22. Good signal here and in fact the SSOB, with only 15195 YFR/Ascension rivalling it, not much else on 19m. Mistake or deliberate QSY? Has this page been changed?
http://www.voanews.com/english/programs/frequencies/
Or course not! How about this schedule?
http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=B11&broadc=IBB
Still 15580 for English from Moepeng Hill, i.e. BOTSWANA, and still nothing but 15580 for many other hours via different sites thruout the day, no 15570 at all.

If this hour has changed permanently, how about the others, and why? Going by HFCC and Aoki, there is no co-channel problem on 15580, and the only possible conflict would be with 15575 KBS at 16-22, 250 kW, 290 degrees from Kimjae to Iraq/Oman/Afghanistan --- but that would still be 5 kHz away from the other side. 15570 is certainly available except at 01-08 when CNR is using it for Tibetan service from Beijing site. VOA has also been on 15580 at 03-07 via Botswana and Sri Lanka. Time will tell (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. 7465, Monday Dec 26 at 2217 as I tune in `Frecuencia al Día` on WWCR, a well put-together DX program with an impressive roster of contributors, I hear misinformation: in his AER report, Pedro Sedano is conveying the Spanish schedule of Radio Taiwán Internacional, with 0400 on 6890 and 0600 on 6875. Evidently he has ignored my almost-daily reports for several weeks that at 0600, 6875 has been in the wrong language, German instead of Spanish; and I have also reported that at 0400, 6890 is in Chinese instead of Spanish. He`s not the only DX reporter relying on `official` info instead of axual monitoring.

It may well be that all the other scheduled Spanish hours via WYFR are replaced by something else, so I check the 23-24 UT broadcast on 11885: yes, it`s in Chinese, not Spanish. There is something underneath it --- nothing in incomplete HFCC to account for that but Aoki and EiBi show it`s probably CNR1 jamming --- not against the WYFR relay, but against RTI from Hu Wei, Taiwan site itself in Mandarin also scheduled in this hour! The intervening RTI Spanish broadcast is supposedly at 0200-0300 on 9355 via WYFR, which Pedro also mentioned, and 11995 via Guiana French. Maybe the latter at least has not been lost in the WYFR shuffle? What about the one other, 20-21 on 3965 via France? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)