Glenn Hauser logs May 9-10, 2011

** ANTARCTICA. 15476, May 10 at 1252, LRA36 with music to S9+10 level, and YL quickly mentions LRA36 as in their e-mail address. (I don`t like to convey Spanish fonetically, as everyone should at least learn its simple pronunciation scheme and numbers, but just once I will do so to assist some others in copying the ID: EH-leh, EH-reh, AH, TRAYN-tah__ee SAY-ees). 1300 strengthened noticeably during music; 1303 local weather conditions including temp way below zero, wind velocity, sky cover -- nublado = cloudy; soon started fading down after this peak (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake May 10, with very subjective ratings:
10300, fair-good at 10300; poor at 1351
10965, fair-good at 1240; poor at 1351
11500, fair with CCI, het at 1241; only open carrier at 1350, maybe trace of FD
12240, good at 1244
12980, fair at 1244
13060, good at 1245 // others, but with ute QRM
13130, poor at 1348
13920, fair at 1348
14900, poor at 1246
15430, poor with CCI, flutter at 1346
15550, poor at 1249 vs het from 15552
15900, good at 1247; poor at 1347
16100, poor at 1345
16980, fair at 1345 with flutter (like most of them)
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9526-, May 10 at 1310, VOI, very poor signal and seems barely modulated too, so no way to tell if they are doing an `Exotic Indonesia` excursion to Banjarmasin or Bali this Tuesday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN. 15530, May 10 at 0535-0538 in Spanish with lengthy transmission schedule, poor signal, website; 0538 on to other talk by YL. It`s Voz de la República Islámica de Irán, and I must have just missed the opening Corán, shux. Too poor to copy details, but the revised sked from DX Mix News in DXLD 11-15 shows:

0030-0227 on  9905 11760
0230-0327 on  9905
0530-0627 on 15530 17530
2030-2127 on  6055  7300  9780

Somehow they managed to stretch that to fill three minutes. 15530 is 500 kW, 289 degrees from Kamalabad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN [non]. 17755, fair May 10 at 1325 mentions R. Farda, sounders, more in Persian. HFCC shows 100 kW, 85 degrees from Biblis, GERMANY at 12-14 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KUWAIT. 17550, R. Kuwait, Arabic to C&W NAm, signal is improving with latening spring sunsets; May 9 at 2030 good signal even rivalling RHC 17560, nice ME music but interrupted too frequently for talk. Much of the time there is too much talk for my taste.

Meanwhile, the English frequency 15540 rarely plays any music but Western pop, yecch. May 9 at 2050 news headlines about Libya, Egypt, Pakistan; 2053 music; 2055 again reading the residency and immigration law, as the MOI must mandate it to do (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** LIBYA. Reports of strikes on Tripoli broadcast installations keep on coming, but Voice of Africa from the Great Jamahiriya survives so far: 17725 inaudible yesterday, but May 10 at 1251 poor carrier in presumed Kiswahili; 1344 better with hilife music during presumed English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA [non]. Re previous report of no Hamada Radio International on 21480 at 1400-1430: Jeff White says: ``Glenn: Since May 1 Hamada is on 7 days a week at 0530-0600 on 9610 and 1930-2000 on 11945. It has never been on 21810`` [as someone in Europe had logged it] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15655-15680, May 9 at 2015, WWCR modulation spike spurs scratch thru this range, from S9+18 // 15825 fundamental; looked for a match around 16000, but none there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 12100, May 9 at 2023 open carrier, quickly off; 2043 back on and off briefly: no doubt WTWW testing second/third transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9330-CUSB, May 10 at 0547, dead air from Rod Hembree`s network, the programming I find most satisfying, while the hard-sell pseudo-hip presentation of Radio 2:11 is annoying, even if I were interested in the content (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9370, WTJC remains out of whack for more than a week, polluting the 31m band with filthy distorted spurs. Rather like squeezing a pastry with cream filling, more of it comes out around the edges than is left in the center. May 10 at 0547 the usual peaks circa 9320, 9345, 9395, 9420, with 9395 worst. Also at 1238 same setup. Dear Jesus, please make them work to fix their transmitter once and for all, and not wait till You come. Amen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA

BRAZIL Radio Nacional da Amazonia 11780 2337 GMT Portuguese 433 April 30 Two OMs singing.

CANADA China Radio Intl Relay-CRI 11840 2340 GMT English 333 April 30 YL and OM on Chinese going to colleges.

CUBA Radio Havana Cuba-RHC 12020 2347 GMT Spanish 333 April 30 OM with comments and some bongo band music. YL with comments 2349 GMT. //12040[333].

NAKHON SAWAN BBCWS Relay 12095 0010 GMT English 333 May 1st YL and OM with comments.

RWANDA Voice of Germany Relay-DW 12050 0000 GMT German 444 May 1st OM with IS and ID as DW then into comments. //12070[33]Rwanda.

UNITED STATES, Tennessee WWCR #4 9980 2325 GMT English 444 April 30 Choior singing "The Army of God". OM with comments on the people of God.

UNITED STATES, NoCarolina Radio Marti 11930 2343 GMT Spanish 333 April 30 Two OMs with comments.

UNITED STATES, Alabama WEWN 12050 2354 GMT Spanish 444 April 30 YL mentioning Maria often. Choir music 2355 GMT.

...
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
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SIDC Weekly Bulletin

:Issued: 2011 May 10 1948 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 540 from 2011 May 02 

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

The week started with a C6.5 flare (actually just before midnight) from NOAA 11199, then already
rotated over the solar West limb. After that, activity was dominated by a cluster of active regions
(NOAA 11203, 11204 and 11205) in the NE quadrant. A C1.3 flare was released from NOAA11204
on May 3, but activity gradually decreased after that and no more flares of C-class,  or higher,
were observed during the period.

An active region (later labeled NOAA11210)  with a very extended structure of coronal rays crossed
the solar NE limb on May 4.

>From May 7 onwards an SIDC ALL QUIET ALERT was issued for the rest of the period.


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

The week started with high geomagnetic activity (Kp=5) as a consequence of a high speed solar wind
stream (>600km/s). Solar wind speed and geomagnetic activity decayed monotonically as the period
proceded, down to  a solar wind speed of 300km/s and a value of Kp=1.
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DAILY INDICES
DATE          RC  EISN  10CM  Ak  BKG    M  X
2011 May 02  ///    034  110  ///  B2.9  0  0
2011 May 03  ///    046  107  018  B2.1  0  0
2011 May 04  106    048  107  006  B2.0  0  0
2011 May 05  098    047  105  008  B1.8  0  0
2011 May 06  049    029  102  004  B1.8  0  0
2011 May 07  ///    023  102  009  B1.8  0  0
2011 May 08  ///    041  102  003  B1.8  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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Tips Roberto Pavanello

 1071 5/5 20.50 R. Al Nour - Tartus Arabo Corano buono
 1395 7/5 21.50 R. Rossii - Bogurusian Russo talk OM suff.
 3905 6/5 21.45 R. Skyline - EE ID e MX buono
 4835 7/5 21.50 VL8A - Alice Spring EE NX suff.
 5815 8/5 08.50 R. Tina - EE ID e MX buono
 5990 6/5 21.55 R. Senado - Brasilia PP MX suff.
 6305 7/5 22.15 TRX R - MX buono
 6450 8/5 09.05 R. Borderhunter - EE ID e MX buono
 9675 6/5 22.05 R. Cancao Nova - Cachoeira Paulista PP Voz do Brasil buono
 9695 7/5 22.00 R. Australia - Melbourne Bahasa ID e NX buono
11765 6/5 22.00 R. Deus è Amor - Curitiba PP predica buono
15000 7/5 22.10 WWV - Fort Collins EE ID e pip pip buono

Roberto Pavanello

Vercelli / Italia

Glenn Hauser logs May 8-9, 2011

** ANTARCTICA. 15476, Monday May 9 at 1301, LRA36 is on with music. 1307 next music is at a feverish pace, no doubt encouraging fast-dancing to keep warm, as at 1311 announced the temperature as -21 C, on `Amanecer Austral` show; 1312 with phone numbers, seemed to mention date as ``9 de marzo`` but maybe was really ``mayo`` with that zh sound prevalent in the Southern Cone and beyond. (``Argentine Antarctica`` might be described as the ``Northern Cone``, literally, of that continent as normally displayed on imperialist maps). Signal now peaking S9+18, stronger than UK het from 15480. 1314 music under and up. By 1335 it faded to much weaker, only S3-6, unreadable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. 5045, May 9 at 0554, some music is making it thru unlike anything else from SAm on 60m, no doubt R. Cultura do Pará. Maybe reception is picking up with seasonal changes. Haven`t been able to hear much of it for months (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake May 9: Checked at 1542, the major lightning area on the Weather Channel golfer map is western Wisconsin, plus a little spot in central Missouri.
 7970, poor at 1250 with lots of summer storm noise as above
10300, fair at 1256; fair-good at 1319 when most of the others were not yet back on
11500, fair at 1257, mixing with other signals, het; at 1325 better and dominating over other signals with talk, het
12240, fair at 1258
13130, fair at 1259; good at 1327 // 10300
13850, good at 1258; an unusual one, hetting WWCR 13845. Aoki shows as Sound of Hope at 20-17, no doubt only in use sporadically
13920, fair at 1327 // 13130
15430, poor at 1359
15555, very weak carriers here and 15558 at 1329, not sure if FD audio, but likely usual jumparound vs V. of Tibet
15670, CNR1 jamming dominating vs RFA in Tibetan via UAE, before 1300, and at 1333 could also hear FD // 13130, but no RFA, jammer vs jammer! Also audible at 1358
15900, poor at 1328 // 10300; very poor at 1358
16100, poor at 1259-1300*
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [and non]. 15190, R. Africa, checked 24 hours after it vanished following a long period of cutting on and off twice per second --- still absent May 8 at 2117. By 2148 the WYFR carrier was on; no sign of ZYE522 meanwhile (typo in WRTH 2011 as ZYE622) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GREECE. 15630, May 9 at 0543, VOG with music and Greek announcement, good signal in the nightmiddle, much better than 11645 with R. Filía service. John Babbis warns that another general strike is scheduled for May 11, so anticipate more classical music fill:

``Greek unions state they will hold a 24-hour general strike Wednesday, 11 May, 2011 --- A general strike will be held in Greece on May 11 against the government's austerity measures after a leading union joined on Tuesday a previously declared labor mobilization. The ADEDY union that represents civil servants said it was joining a strike announced Monday by GSEE, the country's main worker group that defends private sector staff. European trade unions from the ETUC will also be gathering in Athens next month for a congress on May 16-19. The general strike is the second this year held against unprecedented cuts imposed by the Socialist government in its efforts to reduce a gaping deficit and a soaring debt that nearly bankrupted the country last year.`` [source?] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. 9690, May 9 tune in at 1323 just in time to hear hum-only convert at 1323:37 to add music modulation, not IS; presumably the Tibetan service supposed to be only on three other frequencies. AIR better watch out: if the ChiCom hear any Tibetan on 9690 they`ll start jamming it too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9526-, May 9 at 1323, VOI is very poor but seems English, as well as a check before 1300. Atsunori Ishida confirms that this frequency continues to be only in English. I check the main website, http://www.voi.co.id and it forwards to http://en.voi.co.id titled ``VOI Indonesia Latest Radio News, Broadcast International in English Language`` with auto greeting whether you want to hear it or not. Dropdown at upper right still linx to other languages, but when I tried Spanish, it wanted to install a CAB! Deutsch did go to a German page. Both English and German include dire warnings like this:

Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the  date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Asia/Jakarta' for 'WIT/7.0/no DST' instead in /home/ambiucom/public_html/voi.co.id/german/libraries/joomla/utilities/date.php on line 198

and an identical one for line 56. I did not do any spelling of a timezone identifier! Not there on the French page. Second try on Spanish got to proper page, also without timezone warning. Each includes ``AV on demand``, linking to nothing. SNAFU (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** LIBYA. 17725, May 9 at 1402, no carrier detectable de VOAf from the GJ, supposed to be in English, but too soon to draw any conclusions (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MOROCCO. 15345.1, May 8 at 2145 in Arabic, so RTM is still on, evidently until 2200v* even if they are really on UT+1 now. No sign of Argentina, but this one was slightly off-frequency to hi side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA [non]. 21480, no signal at all detectable from Hamada Radio International via Wertachtal, Monday May 9 at 1403; has that been canceled? Other usual 13m signals were in weakly on 21470, 21505, 21540, 21610, 21630, 21655. Not on 21810 either, where HRI was once reported (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 17750, May 9 at 0542, good signal from VOA Kurdish, 250 kW due north from MADAGASCAR. Some JBA CCI this time, way over R. Australia collision. It`s the SSOB with the only other one being 17855, R. Free Asia, Saipan, very poor. Note and remember:

JBA = just barely audible
ACI = adjacent-channel QRM, i.e. 5 kHz away
CCI = co-channel interference, i.e. same channel, or almost so
OSOB = only signal (or station) on band
SSOB = strongest station (or signal) on band
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 17530, May 9 at 1403, pop music from R. Sawa via KUWAIT, still on this same frequency for more than a week! Vying for the longevity award (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
 
** U S A. 18530, May 8 at 2122, JBA music, sounds like Martha Garvin, and sure `nuff, // 9265 WINB she is belting away her ``Musical Memories`` hymns, accompanying self on piano. Second harmonic always radiating when 9265 is on, just waiting for enough propagation. Wish I knew what the power on 18530 is, but I`m sure not even WINB knows (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 12787.5, May 8 at 2148, very strong and extremely distorted SSB masculine robot with marine weather; quotes NWS Weather Predixion Center, Washington DC, for west-central North-Atlantic continental shelf, etc., etc. Mispronounces ``décimal`` something like ``decíminil``. Geez. But the worst thing is the awful maladjustment of the transmitter which has been going on for months on this and other USCG frequencies. Searched the 33908 posts so far in the UDXF yg on that frequency and got zero hits, nor on 12787, but instead 12788.
Dave Alpert posted this on Nov 4, 2010, source not cited:

NOAA's National Weather Service Marine Forecasts Broadcast by USCG

``Gulf of Mexico Region NMG - New Orleans (MSY)
Broadcast Time GMT (Zulu) Station Location Station Call Sign
Frequency (kHz, USB) Forecast Type
0330Z MSY NMG 4316 8502 12788 Offshore, Hurricane
0515Z MSY NMG 4316 8502 12788 High-seas, Hurricane
0930Z MSY NMG 4316 8502 12788 Offshore, Hurricane
1115Z MSY NMG 4316 8502 12788 High-seas, Hurricane
1530Z MSY NMG 4316 8502 12788 Offshore, Hurricane
1715Z MSY NMG 4316 8502 12788 High-seas, Hurricane
2130Z MSY NMG 4316 8502 12788 Offshore, Hurricane
2315Z MSY NMG 4316 8502 12788 High-seas, Hurricane

Broadcast of hurricane and other weather broadcasts from this station
may on occasion be preempted, as the transmitters are shared with the
radiofax broadcast.``

So I guess it is still the 2130 broadcast from NMG, which needs serious engineering attention! But beware: other USCG stations probably share frequency depending on time schedule. IIRC, 8502 has also been heard with the same problem (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9370, WTJC distorted spur situation, May 9 at 0532: peaking around 9320, 9345, 9495, 9420, i.e. plus/minus 25 kHz and multiples. At 1256, worst on 9395, mixing with distorted BS splash from 9385 WWRB. At 1322, WTJC was louder on 9395 spur than 9370 fundamental. At 1407, splatter from 9385 WWRB so bad on 9395 that it obscured the WTJC spur, commercial station vs fundamentalists! Yes, Capt. Frantz notified us May 8 that WWRB is no longer a ministry ---

``Greetings: Many changes at WWRB shortwave:

WWRB is no longer a Ministry; it is a commercial radio station: Our web page http://www.wwrb.org is being updated to reflect this change. We ask our clients & potential clients to no longer address our staff as 'Brother' or 'Sister'    

WWRB shortwave no longer provides Free airtime to broadcasters; In keeping with other shortwave stations` policies, open airtime slots until sold will be filled with various specialty programs.

WWRB shortwave is now open to all broadcasters` political and religious points of view. WWRB does not discriminate. On air conduct will in good taste, and respectful.

WWRB is reviewing our rate card and structure in relation to other shortwave stations.

WWRB is changing  Global - ONE broadcast frequency from 2390 to 5050 kHz for the summer. Some programming will move to 3215 & 3195; working out the details with our broadcasters.    

WWRB shortwave is installing Audio Processing equipment to enhance / augment our broadcast audio chain. Global-ONE is the first transmitter to be updated.

WWRB is adding 15 MHz to our broadcast line up. 15 MHz frequency to be announced. Antenna Azimuth will be 045 degrees, rhombic antenna 150 feet high. Antenna will be calibrated by using one of our Radio survey aircraft, N 5259Q.

Airline Transport, WWRB's parent company, has received FAA approval to construct an 'All weather' runway with full Instrument Landing System (ILS) capability. This runway will be 36 / 18.

Airline Transport's Runway 28 / 10 ILS / DME has been upgraded.

WOW, we have been and will be very busy! Regards, (Captain David L. Frantz, Chief Pilot, Airline Transport)``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

Correzione di SYNC ed SSB del radioricevitore G3 Etón/Grundig

Il radioamatore statunitense Chris Lynch, circa un anno fa - ma io l'ho trovato solo in questi giorni - ha illustrato, con tanto di fotografie, la procedura per correggere la demodulazione sincrona del ricevitore portatile G3 Etón/Grundig. L'articolo originale è tra i messaggi del gruppo Yahoo! dedicato a tale radio e al quale mi sono prontamente iscritto, però è reperibile anche altrove, digitando in un motore di ricerca "Sync Detector Fix for the Grundig G3".
Per chi non ha dimestichezza con l'inglese e circa questo tipo di lavori tranquillizzo subito dicendo che finalmente stavolta *non serve il saldatore* e, quindi, non si rischia niente, è indispensabile solo una mano un po' delicata, ovvero agire con calma e cura: in pochi minuti la correzione viene effettuata.
Facciamo un passo indietro: per molte unità G3 la SYNC è difettosa, nel senso che non si aggancia sulla frequenza di emissione esatta ma a -1 kHz. Inoltre, ma penso che nessuno o quasi se ne sia mai accorto, a tale problema è associato anche quello di L/USB perché, sintonizzata la stazione sul canale giusto, la regolazione del BFO non è in posizione centrale ma quasi tutta verso il basso, circa a fine corsa.
Ecco, dunque, con una semplificazione da me individuata, la modifica proposta da Chris Lynch.

*****
Innanzitutto, per agevolare l'apertura dell'apparecchio, anzichè con le batterie è bene alimentarlo attraverso l'adattatore da 8 volt in dotazione, poi (ovviamente!) bisogna accenderlo e sintonizzarlo sull'emittente nella propria zona più forte, magari in onde medie: qui da me ad esempio l'ho fatto con RAI Radiouno da Portofino su 1575 kHz. Attivata la funzione SYNC-USB (con SYNC-LSB il difetto è meno evidente), si deve sentire una forte nota associata alla modulazione della stazione: se così è la variazione è indispensabile. A questo punto la G3 va lasciata accesa, altrimenti l'intervento non è possibile.

*****

1. Togliere le 6 viti più una nel vano batterie sul retro con un cacciavite a croce dalla misura adeguata;
2. Girare la radio in maniera frontale, si solleverà *senza fatica* la parte superiore, alla quale sono applicati altoparlante e circuito di display e tasti;
3. A questo punto Chris Lynch dice di togliere anche le viti che fissano il circuito di display e tasti e lo si vede anche in una delle sue foto, ma *non è necessario*;
4. *Spostare*, *con delicatezza* e *senza scollegare niente*, la parte superiore fino al punto in cui, *sotto la matrice di fili gialla* appare *un piccolissimo compensatore bianco* contrassegnato C113;
5. Con un piccolissimo *cacciavite a taglio da orologiaio* regolare C113 *in senso antiorario*, fino a quando non scompare la nota e resta solo la stazione di radiodiffusione, con un audio il più chiaro possibile.

*****

A questo punto non resta altro che richiudere la radio con le proprie viti (attenzione alla cinghietta di trasporto che ha una propria fessura) e l'operazione è conclusa. Provandola sul segnale forte ma anche su altri *non proprio deboli* in tutte le bande AM, sia in SYNC-USB che in SYNC-LSB ci si rende conto che l'aggancio avviene sulla frequenza giusta, è molto più rapido (quasi in tempo reale) e stabile. Anche in L/USB il BFO chiarifica i segnali broadcasting in posizione assai più centrale, quindi è più agevole anche la tecnica di ECSS manuale, pregio in dotazione anche ai portatili DE1103 Degen ed E5 Etón dai quali proviene la G3.
Comunque, non essendo queste liste di discussione prettamente tecniche, ribadisco: se non ci si sente in grado di fare un intervento anche minimo all'interno di una radio, è meglio affidarsi ad una persona pratica. Eseguirlo però ne vale la pena, perché la mia G3 era difettosa e ora va bene, senza bisogno di rimandarla indietro - come hanno fatto molti anglosassoni in certi casi due o tre volte - e senza avere compromesso la garanzia di due anni iniziata a metà marzo.

Luca Botto Fiora

P.S. Come ipotizzato giustamente da Giampiero Bernardini, mi pare di avere visto che nel G3 non vi sono filtri ceramici FM, quindi purtroppo non dovrebbe essere possibile nessuna modifica per la selettività che, tuttavia, se ci si accontenta e i segnali sono presenti, di fabbrica è più che accettabile.

SIDC Weekly Bulletin

:Issued: 2011 May 03 1353 UTC
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# SIDC Weekly bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic activity            #
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WEEK 539 from 2011 Apr 25 

SOLAR ACTIVITY
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Solar activity was low during the whole week. Even though there were
always more than five ARs present on the visible Sun, only C-flares
were observed due to the lack of complexity in the active regions.
The largest flare was a C3.8 from NOAA AR 1203, peaking at 00:26 UT
on April 29. No Earth directed CMEs were seen.

GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY
--------------------
Geomagnetic activity was quiet during most of the week. On April 29
a fast wind stream from a coronal hole arrived to the Earth and
produced extended periods of active conditions plus a minor
geomagnetic storm on April 30.
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DAILY INDICES
DATE          RC  EISN  10CM  Ak  BKG    M  X
2011 Apr 25  ///    036  112  004  B3.1  0  0
2011 Apr 26  ///    044  109  003  B2.8  0  0
2011 Apr 27  ///    047  108  002  B2.7  0  0
2011 Apr 28  069    033  110  004  B2.4  0  0
2011 Apr 29  091    037  110  ///  B2.6  0  0
2011 Apr 30  ///    048  110  ///  B3.4  0  0
2011 May 01  ///    042  106  ///  B2.9  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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Dx Mix News # 676

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DX MIX NEWS # 676                                               09 May 2011
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EGYPT    Updated summer A-11 of Radio Cairo:
0400-0600 on 13650 ABZ 250 kW / 170 deg to CEAf in Swahili
0700-1100 on 17510 ABZ 100 kW / 250 deg to WeAf in Arabic General Sce
1015-1215 on 15090 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
1300-1600 on 15080 ABS 250 kW / 241 deg to WeAf in Arabic
1300-1600 on 17550 ABZ 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs in Dari/Pashto
1330-1530 on 15040 ABZ 100 kW / 070 deg to WeAs in Farsi
1500-1600 on 13580 ABS 250 kW / 315 deg to EaEu in Albanian
1500-1600 on 15160 ABZ 250 kW / 050 deg to CeAs in Uzbek
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
1700-1730 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
1700-2300 on  9250 ABZ 250 kW / 180 deg to EaAf in Arabic Waadi e Nile
1730-1900 on 15285 ABZ 100 kW / 160 deg to ECAf in Amharic
1800-1900 on  6270 ABS 250 kW / 325 deg to WeEu in Italian
1800-2100 on  9990 ABS 250 kW / 241 deg to WeAf in Hausa
1845-2000 on 11555 ABZ 250 kW / 245 deg to WeAf in Fulfulde
1900-2000 on  6270 ABS 250 kW / 325 deg to WeEu in German
1900-2000 on  9280 ABS 250 kW / 005 deg to EaEu in Russian
1900-2030 on 11510 ABZ 250 kW / 250 deg to WeAf in English
1900-2400 on  9305 ABS 250 kW / 315 deg to WeEu in Arabic General Sce
1900-0030 on 11540 ABZ 100 kW / 160 deg to CEAf in Arabic Voice of Arabs
2000-2115 on  6270 ABS 250 kW / 325 deg to WeEu in French
2000-2200 on  6860 ABZ 250 kW / 110 deg to AUS  in Arabic
2030-2230 on  9280 ABS 250 kW / 241 deg to WeAf in French
2115-2245 on  6270 ABS 250 kW / 325 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 NEAm in English
2330-0045 on  9250 ABS 250 kW / 241 deg to SoAm 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 Sce
0030-0430 on  6270 ABZ 250 kW / 325 deg to NEAm in Arabic
0045-0200 on  9315 ABZ 250 kW / 330 deg to NoAm in Spanish
0045-0200 on  9290 ABZ 250 kW / 245 deg to SoAm in Spanish
0045-0200 on  9915 ABS 250 kW / 282 deg to CeAm in Spanish
0200-0330 on  9315 ABZ 250 kW / 330 deg to NoAm in English

MADAGASCAR    Frequency change of VOPeople in English/Shona/Ndebele to ZWE:
1800-1900 NF  7245 MDC 050 kW / 265 deg, ex 7330 to aviod WYFR in Romanian

NEW ZEALAND  Frequency change of Radio New Zealand International from May 1
0659-0758 NF 13730 RAN 025 kW / 035 deg to Tonga in DRM, ex 15720 // 6170AM

U.K.(non)   Additional frequency of BBC WS in English:
1700-1800 NF  7565 NAK 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs, ex  9810 CYP 300kW/090 deg

USA(non)   Frequency changes of Radio Liberty:
1300-1400 NF 13745 RMP 500 kW / 062 deg to RUSS, ex  9710 in Russian
1400-1500 NF 13745 RMP 500 kW / 062 deg to RUSS, ex 13830 in Russian
1500-1600 NF 12025 BIB 100 kW / 088 deg to CeAs, ex  9405 in Azeri

USA(non)   Frequency changes of Radio Farda in Farsi:
0430-0500 NF 17880 IRA 250 kW / 316 deg to WeAs, ex 17845
0500-0600 NF 17880 UDO 250 kW / 304 deg to WeAs, ex 17845
0600-0800 NF 17880 UDO 250 kW / 304 deg to WeAs, ex 21715
0800-0830 on 17880 UDO 250 kW / 304 deg to WeAs, cancelled to avoid R.SAWA!

USA(non)   New additional txion for Voice of America in French from May 14:
1100-1130 on 11925 SAO 100 kW / 335 deg to CeAf Sat only
1100-1130 on 13770 SAO 100 kW / 100 deg to CeAf Sat only
1100-1130 on 15715 BON 250 kW / 090 deg to CeAf Sat only
1100-1130 on 17630 IRA 250 kW / 271 deg to CeAf Sat only

USA(non)   Frequency changes of Voice of America:
0500-0530 NF  5995 SAO 100 kW / 335 deg to CeAf, ex  7320 Hausa, re- 9600
0700-0730 NF 17530 MDC 250 kW / 305 deg to CeAf, ex 17525 Hausa, re-17820
1530-1630 NF  9320 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg to SEAs, ex  9355 Burmese
1600-1700 NF 11790 PHT 250 kW / 283 deg to SoAs, ex  9320 Bangla
1700-1800 NF 13855 UDO 250 kW / 308 deg to CeAs, ex  7425 Georgian
2030-2100 NF  9810 NAU 250 kW / 190 deg to CeAf, ex  9815 Hausa Mon-Fri
2030-2100 NF 11990 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to CeAf, ex 15185 Hausa Mon-Fri

USA(non)    Summer A-11 for IBB via KWT 250 kW:
1730-2130 on  5830 KWT 250 kW / 046 deg to WeAs FAR Farsi
0200-0530 on  5860 KWT 250 kW / 046 deg to WeAs FAR Farsi
2300-2400 on  5860 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs RFA Tibetan
2200-2300 on  5865 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs RFA Tibetan
0300-1200 on  5885 KWT 250 kW / 046 deg to WeAs FAR Farsi
0530-0930 on  7220 KWT 250 kW / 046 deg to WeAs FAR Farsi
0000-0100 on  7250 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs VOA Tibetan
0400-0500 on  7280 KWT 250 kW / 080 deg to WeAs FAR Farsi
0030-0100 on  7430 KWT 250 kW / 080 deg to SEAs VOA English
0100-0200 on  7430 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to SoAs VOA English
1000-1400 on  7435 KWT 250 kW / 046 deg to WeAs FAR Farsi
1900-2100 on  7475 KWT 250 kW / 350 deg to EaEu RFE Belorussian
2200-2300 on  7480 KWT 250 kW / 058 deg to SoAs VOA English
2300-2400 on  7505 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to CeAs RFA Tibetan
0030-0100 on  7555 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs ASH Pashto
1600-1700 on  7555 KWT 250 kW / 054 deg to CeAs RFE Uzbek
1830-2030 on  7555 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs ASH Pashto/Dari
2030-0030 on  7555 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs VOA English
1430-1830 on  9335 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs ASH Pashto/Dari/Pashto/Dari
0100-0300 on  9365 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to CeAs RFA Tibetan
0100-0400 on  9390 KWT 250 kW / 080 deg to WeAs DEE Pashto
1230-1330 on 11550 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs AFG Dari
1330-1430 on 11550 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs AFG Pashto/Dari
0130-0230 on 11565 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs ASH Dari
1630-1730 on 11565 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs ASH Pashto
1630-1830 on 11580 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs ASH Pashto/Dari
1200-1400 on 11590 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to CeAs RFA Tibetan
1400-1500 on 11595 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs VOA Tibetan
1500-1600 on 11590 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to CeAs RFA Tibetan
1700-1800 on 11665 KWT 250 kW / 185 deg to EaAf VOA Somali
0100-0400 on 12015 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to WeAs DEE Pashto
0400-0900 on 12130 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to WeAs MAS Pashto
1500-1530 on 13755 KWT 250 kW / 046 deg to CeAs VOA Uzbek
0830-1330 on 15090 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs AFG Dari/Pashto/Dari/Pashto/Dari
1330-1430 on 15090 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs AFG Pashto/Dari
1430-1630 on 15090 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs ASH Pashto/Dari
1100-1300 on 15320 KWT 250 kW / 080 deg to WeAs MAS Pashto
0230-0330 on 15680 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs AFG Pashto/Dari
0330-0530 on 15680 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs AFG Pashto/Dari
0730-0830 on 15680 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs AFG Pashto
1400-1500 on 15725 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to SoAs AAP Urdu
1630-1700 on 15730 KWT 250 kW / 185 deg to EaAf VOA Somali
0900-1000 on 15740 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs MAS Pashto
1300-1500 on 17530 KWT 250 kW / 285 deg to NEAf SAW Arabic
1500-1600 on 17540 KWT 250 kW / 285 deg to NEAf SAW Arabic
0600-0700 on 17560 KWT 250 kW / 035 deg to CeAs RFE Russian
1000-1200 on 17750 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs RFA Tibetan
0600-0700 on 17765 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to CeAs RFA Tibetan
0800-1100 on 17880 KWT 250 kW / 285 deg to NEAf SAW Arabic
1100-1300 on 17840 KWT 250 kW / 285 deg to NEAf SAW Arabic
AAP=Aap Ki Dunyaa
AFG=Radio Free Afghanistan
ASH=Radio Ashna
DEE=Deewa Radio
FAR=Radio Farda
MAS=Radio Mashaal
RFA=Radio Free Asia
RFE=Radio Liberty
SAW=Radio Sawa
VOA=Voice of America

Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA

AUSTRALIA Radio Australia-Shepparton 17795 2332 GMT English 333 April 26 OM with comments on how to Cook Chickens! also comments from a YL. //15560[333]Shepparton.

CANADA Radio Canada Intl-RCI 15455 2350 GMT Spanish 444 April 29 Two OMs in a conversation.

CUBA Radio Havana Cuba-RHC 15370 2354 GMT Spanish 433 April 29 YL with comments. IS by a YL with RHC ID. OM with Englishg ID as RHC.

NEW ZEALAND Radio New Zealand Intl-RNZI 15720 2340 GMT English 333 April 29 Two OMs with on going comments.

NORTH MARIANAS Radio Free Asia-RFA 15585 2345 GMT Chinese 322 April 29 YL and OM with comments.

UNITED STATES, Tennessee WTWN 9480 2327 GMT English 322 April 29 OM with comments on the Earthquake in Japan and the disaster it has caused.

UNITED STATES, Alabama WEWN 15610 2344 GMT English 444 April 29 Two OMs on interpiting the Bible verses.

UNITED STATES, WWCR 9980 2322 English 322 April 29 Choir music and an 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"
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Glenn Hauser logs May 7-8, 2011

** BELGIUM [non]. Further evidence that DRM is NOT compatible with AM shortwave broadcasting, and should be restricted to totally different utility bands: May 7 at 2010, 17750 WYFR in English has heavy QRDRM noise from 17750-17755-17760 TDP via GUIANA FRENCH. HFCC shows the two overlap for half a sesquihour at 2000-2045. Does WYFR AM also disrupt the handful trying to listen to TDP in DRM? Does WYFR care? Ha (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake May 8: As usual there was a break from 1300* until later in the hour when they were showing up again, vs SOH or VOT; also, lots of T-storm noise on lower bands. Weather.com map for golfers checked at 1528 showed the only lightning area in USA was northeastern South Dakota.
 7970, poor-fair at 1243, with T-storm noise
10300, fair at 1249; very poor at 1338
10965, very poor at 1338
11500, poor at 1250, // 10300, mixing with another station, lo het
12600, poor at 1339
13920, good at 1341, fair at 1358
14700, poor at 1255, very poor at 1342
14970, poor at 1255
15430, poor at 1343
15900, good at 1256, good at 1348
15970, good at 1256
16100, good at 1256, good at 1348
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 17560, RHC may have driven prior occupant VOA off this frequency, but now it even disrupts R. Kuwait [q.v.], Arabic on 17550, May 7 at 2011, especially when playing `news` sounders with audio approaching 10 kHz.

13680, RHC, Sunday May 8 at 1340 check during `En Contacto`, it`s a repeat of last week`s anniversary show, at the moment Dr. Madrid from R. Verdad greeting again. `EC` is normally introduced with the week-number edition during each year, so will this get a separate number or will one be skipped??

At 1359, while 13780 continued with programming, 13680 went to dead air, until 1401:45*, but the transmitter shift to 13750 never showed up by 1417. It might have eventually, if there were an `Aló, Presidente` this week, but El Hugazo excuses himself once again, not for Mothers` Day; see VENEZUELA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, R. Africa with a serious problem, May 7 at 2038, carrier cutting off and on twice a second, quite regular but not precisely so. This means we got roughly alternate syllables from the gospel huxter of the moment, totally useless. This was still going on at 2055. Finally during music at 2107 cut off the air and stayed off, did not come back by 2117. Perhaps the operator did not notice until it was music being disrupted? Did it finally die or will it be right back the next day? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI, fair May 8 at 1316 in English about tourism in 2011y, something about Garuda from June 1 to Singapore; long IAD in usual under-modulation, but at least it`s on the air today. RRI 9680 much louder (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KUWAIT [and non]. 17550, May 7 at 2011, R. Kuwait in Arabic mixed with music, at first seemed CCI, but apparently transmitted that way; strong but fluttery, and with QRM from CUBA 17560 especially during `news` sounders with audio approaching 10 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MOROCCO [and non]. 15345, May 7 at 2100, RTM with Arabic music, no audible het from ARGENTINA, but with BFO could detect a second carrier too, slightly offset at the SAH level. 2116 both had weakened a lot, or was it only R. Nacional by then?

We should now expect Morocco to close at 2100 instead of 2200, since per http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/2011.html
DST of UT +1 is now in effect:
``Morocco All locations Sunday, April 3-Sunday, July 31``
The early ending no doubt due to the ever-earlier precession of Ramadan, as explained last year when DST lasted a week longer:http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/morocco-ends-dst-2010.html
This year Ramadan runs from 1 to 30 August, at least in Morocco
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 18057.6, new frequency, May 8 at 1354, very weak carrier here and imagination-level bits of audio, but no doubt it is R. Victoria, Lima, third harmonic as frequently heard and IDed before, when closer to 18057.9, and now correlating with many other reports that the fundamental has been varying closer to 6018.2 than 6018.3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TAIWAN. 11535, May 8 at 1351, good with Chinese talk by OM. Nothing in HFCC to account for this, so check Aoki: of course, it`s TAIWAN, banned from HFCC by the ChiCom, with Family Radio at 12-13 via Yunlin site, and thus not worth jamming either. Think of all those hundreds of millions of non-Christians in China who have less than two weeks to get saved or get damned! Tsk2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 17795, May 8 at 1302, WYFR English is putting overmodulation spur spikes out to 17780-17810. Who cares, with The Rapture almost here! See also TAIWAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1563 monitoring: Sunday May 8 at 1535, very poor signal on 9955 WRMI, but enough to confirm, and no jamming as is usually the case now during this hour. Next airings on WRMI: Sunday 1730, Mon 1130 & 2130 (both likely jammed), Tue 1530, Wed 0100. On WRN and via SiriusXM 120: Sunday 1731 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9370, WTJC, May 8 at 1244, dirty spurs still emanating, peaking around 9345, 9395, i.e. +/- 25 kHz. Will the Fundamentalists ever notice and clean them up temporarily yet again? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VENEZUELA [non]. May 8 at 1535 I check the `Aló, Presidente` frequencies via CUBA, and none of them are on: 17750, 15370, 13750, 13680 (something else there), 11690. Missing for the fourth week in a row! Has El Hugazo run out of hot air? The A,P website has this excuse: ``El programa "Aló, Presidente" de este domingo, 8 de mayo, no será trasmitido y cede para que continúe el proceso de registro la Gran Misión Vivienda Venezuela.``

So it`s not because of Mothers` Day! According tohttp://www.mothersdaycentral.com/when/
(disregard the advertising as that is the real purpose of M.D.), Venezuela is among the majority of countries which like the USA observe it on second Sunday in May = May 8, 2011, but others spread it all the way from February to December. Is there an `only child day`, and if not, why not? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15527.5-SSB, May 8 at 1344, Spanish 2-way intruder, discussing ``la bodega allá en la esquina, 20 por ciento de descuento``. Could that be a coded message, or really so banal? Sounded quite casual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

Glenn Hauser logs May 6-7, 2011

** CHINA. Firedrake May 7, all // when checked:
10965, fair at 1244; poor at 1346; very poor at 1435
11500, poor at 1349, CCI, // 10965
13920, good at 1216 with ute/het
14700, poor at 1248 // 13920; poor at 1352
15430, very poor with flutter at 1355; // 16100 at 1358
16100, good at 1255 // 13920; good with flutter at 1358

16980, good at 1256. I compared to reception quality of CRI 17490 English and 17650 Chinese, both known to be Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN, and 16980 was better; however it was much like 17575 at 1257 with non-Firedrake Chinese music, a CRI postlude until cut at 1300* after only two pips. 17575 is scheduled as Russian, 315 degrees from the SZG site at 12-13. 16980 was not on at 1358 when 16100 was still running

17705, May 7 at 1300, ZRGD/CJKT ID atop Indian music from AIR Chinese, which the ChiCom feel so threatened by. I.e. CNR1 jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 5735, May 7 at 0546, pulse jamming against nothing, timed at the rate of approx. 232 per minute or almost 4 per second. Something interesting might turn up on 5735, unless this was totally spurious.

15360, Saturday May 7 at 1432, RHC starting `Cancionero Iberoamericano` good music show, altho previously heard at this hour was `Sonido Cubano` as still shown on `new` program schedule:http://www.radiohc.cu/index.php/de-interes/programacion.html

Tried all the frequencies and found:
15360 fair
15230 fair
15120 off by 1400
13780 and 13680 good
12040 JBA under Chinese QRM
11830 mix and SAH with WYFR
11760 good
11730 poor
11690 poor with RTTY
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CYPRUS. 17860-17885, OTH radar pulses, presumed from here, May 7 at 1439, and luckily enough, not hitting any broadcasters, and indeed per HFCC none are scheduled at this time on Saturdays, except some ADM from UAE on 17885, probably wooden (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GERMANY [non]. 13730, May 7 at 1211, French underneath VATICAN via CANADA until its 1215*. 1218 in clear, as DW to Africa with contact info, jingle. It`s via Sines, PORTUGAL, about which Kai Ludwig reports:

In the May edition of the "Journalist" magazine: ``DW will close its Sines and Trincomalee transmitter sites. Radio programmes in Persian, Russian and Indonesian will be cancelled before the end of this year. It appears that the DW radio operations at Bonn will be hit particularly hard by cuts, with employees having to move to DW TV in Berlin.``

15410, May 7 at 1356 sounds like the VTC fill-music loop, but off at 1357* after unmistakable 4-note DW jingle. Scheduled as Hausa via RWANDA, so no Babcock involved; however, on 15410 from 1400 it`s DW via Woofferton in Russian, so maybe the two overlapped (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GREECE. 11645, May 7 at 0527, at last we hear R. Filia via V. of Greece in English instead of Albanian --- but nothing to do with Greece, as it`s just a BBCWS relay, at the moment mentioning demonstrations in China, confirmed by // 7255 ASCENSION, and slightly ahead of it, programme ID as `World Today`. At 0530, 11645 cuts to announcement in Greek, and then something in French; poor with flutter, and deteriorating later in the hour.

Those languages match John Babbis` new 11645 schedule for Saturdays, plus Spanish from 0545. On Sundays, 0500-0530 Albanian, 0530-0600 BBC `Satellite English`; M-F 0500-0600 all Albanian, but cuts off well before 0600 for QSY. It seems rather pointless to take the second quarter hour only of BBC`s 55-minute `W.T. Weekend`, also the programme excerpted on Sundays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** HAWAII [and non]. 15000, May 7 at 1247:45, quite good signal from WWVH ID and no trace at all of WWV following it; 1248 NIST Survey announcement which the two have stuck in at many different once-open minutes each hour; this version ends with ``aloha``. 1248 on to Pacific weather. Could also hear different pips on the lo side, no doubt 8 kW RWM Moscow-Taldom from 14996 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI back on the air May 7 at 1240 with lite music, fair signal, IADs. 1305 poor during news in English; at 1314  noise starts to override, and still atop VOI at 1343. Could be taken for jamming, but unlikely; maybe spur from some near-frequency transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH. 11710 and 11735, we are doubly blessed with two different streams of triumphal music from VOK, on the English and Chinese services respectively, May 7 at 1348; at 1351 also on 13760 // 11710. At 1354 they go into their respective language announcements. Until then one might have thought them parallel, without comparison (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KUWAIT. 15540, R. Kuwait, May 6 at 2055 after news headlines in English, reading a proclamation, article by article, about amnesty for illegal immigrants. NA at 2059 and off immediately at 2100* unlike other occasions, switching to Arabic feed // 17550 and staying on as much as 20 minutes past.

21540, May 7 at 1304, Arabic music and talk, over SAH from Spain collision, the SSOB but not saying much, as still poor and nothing else but Spain itself audible on 21610. Seems like the spring peak of 13m reception is over; we can only hope that rising SSNs will compensate to some extent over the summer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** LIBYA. 17725, May 7 at 1301, Swahili fair with deep fades, snatch of Beethoven`s Ninth, as always on VOAf from the GJ; signal had been barely detectable past week. At 1440 not so good in English, but could make out ``Dear listeners ---`` and something about, guess what? The Revolution. No, not this one; that one (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PALAU. 9930, May 7 at 1233, English lesson cum Bible lesson from Luke XII:15, YL explaining difficult(?) words with other words: ``take heed`` means ``pay attention``; ``beware`` means ``watch out``; ``covetousness`` means ``to want other people`s things``. T8WH is registered here 24 hours! With no competition except South Africa at 16-17 from Babcock in Somali (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 4790-, haven`t had a decent signal from R. Visión, Chiclayo for ages, but there it is, slightly on lo side, May 7 at 0549 hymn with piano, minor-key Andean touch, S9+15 over CODAR but carrier unstable. 0554 changes to shouting predicator, discussion of evangelio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PHILIPPINES. 9920, May 7 at 1230 ``Jesus Saves`` IS on chimes, dead giveaway it`s FEBC, then segué to Hmong-like hmusic on quena-like hmouth instrument with calliope overtones; 1231 change to quartet(?) singing about Jesus. 1238 talk with sort of a ringing het on it. Per EiBi this is really in Koho, spoken in Vietnam, daily at 1230-1300 following a complicated rotation of other languages from 1100, via Bocaue site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAIPAN. More searches for KFBS frequencies on the schedule previously included for A-11: still nothing, May 7 at 1220 on 11920, 11800, while 11650 had very poor something, presumably CRI as before; so is KFBS defunct? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 15420, May 7 at 1356 and 1358, no signals from WBCQ, which is normally running its IS/ID loop prior to the 1400 Brother Scare Sabbath Service. Still nothing at 1420, 1431. Propagation does not seem to be that bad; WBCQ 9330 is in as usual. It`s a new month and BS`s contract may have run out in April? But recheck at 1650 found him JBA on 15420, incomparably inferior to blastfurnace 9980 WWCR, // but not synchronized.

Meanwhile, BS also audible on 17485 via GERMANY, May 7 at 1432; first thing I heard upon tune-in was BS yelling ``blood running out of the body``, with murmurs of assent from psychophants, prompting a quick tune-on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. Still wondering what became of the mailbag show on REE in Spanish, which used to accompany the DX program, the latter still running UT Saturdays at 0505-0530 on 11890, 12035. May 7 at 0532 talking about a poetic folklore competition, unseems mailbag; does it still exist anywhen? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. 15450, VOT, poor May 7 at 1351 in `DX Corner` with YL reading some radio news about NHK; 1253 music break. Too poor to copy, but we need to ascertain if she is still ripping off items from the Media Network blog without credit. The on-demand file on the website is not yet for May 7, but May 6 as of 1730 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. BBCWS relay via GREECE: q.v.

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1563 monitoring: Friday 2030 on WWCR 15825 confirmed at 2044 check May 6, but very poor with no Es enhancement, skipping over here. E.g., KUWAIT [q.v.] was much better on 15540. WOR repeats on WWCR are Saturday 1600 on 12160, Sunday 0630 on 3215. Confirmed on WRN/WRMI webcast at 1731, to repeat Sunday at same time, and also on WRMI Sunday 0800, 1530. On IPAR via SLOVAKIA, Saturday 1800 on 7290. Also on WRN via SiriusXM new channel 120, Sunday at 0831 and 1731 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 17545 and 15580, VOA sufficient, Saturday May 7 at 1425 concluding `On the Line` discussion, 1427 `USG Editorial` about AU/US coöperation on Ivory Coast, Libya, but lasted only one sesquiminute, then fill music ending with VOA jingle, until 1430 `Encounter` discussion of UBL. It seems my previous suspicion that 17545 could be Greenville is not so; both SÃO TOMÉ at this hour. Yes, let`s always call him Usama from now on, less confundible with Obama (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 15120, May 7 at 0520 in Chinese a few seconds behind // 17855. Unlike Aoki and its easily overlooked or misunderstood a*terisks, Eibi explicitly shows CNR1 jammers on these frequencies, as well as R. Free Asia in Mandarin, 03-07. 15120 is TINIAN and 17855 is SAIPAN. Deliberate offset delays are typical of those sites to even out power consumption, even if both were from the same site, so I am quite sure it was RFA being heard, and the ChiCom jamming not propagating. 15120 did have some QRM under and SAH, no doubt poor NIGERIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9370, WTJC and its filthy spurs: May 7 at 0534, worst on 9395, weaker around 9345 talking about Jee-e-zus (3 syllables); also bothering Greek music on 9420 and audible up to 9445. And also at 1242, worst on 9345 vs VOK, 9320 and 9395 vs nothing, audible down to 9300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7555, if you tune in WEWN anytime between 04 and 06 UT on Tue-Sat, also // 11870, chances are great you will hear their super-unxuous announcer intoning ``por su dolorosa pasión``. That`s exactly what I hit May 7 at 0537, and in fact he recited it over and over, alternating with an OL saying ``en misericordia de nosotros y del mundo entero``. This went on for over a minute before they moved on. What a downer! I think the intention is to be comforting and peaceful in the moonlight --- even when the moon has already set, like tonight. The show is nevertheless always called ``Paz a la luz de la luna``, EN VIVO, per http://www.ewtn.com/radio/sp_radio_sched.asp#ixzz1LgLRpqIy
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15420, WBCQ: see SOUTH CAROLINA [non]

** VATICAN [non]. 13730 via CANADA, May 7 at 1212, closing ``Vatican Radio World News`` with some words from PBXVI. Caster was Charles Collins, American-accented. Seems VR is doing more newscasts like a real radio station rather than a gospel huxter, but can`t resist inserting Catholic stuff into them.

Good reception unlike yesterday, but CCI and a SAH from something in French. No IS from VR, but dead air 1214-1215* uncovering French which HFCC shows is DW, 110 degrees from the doomed Sines, PORTUGAL relay, while VR is 100 kW, 189 degrees from Sackville for CIRAF 11, i.e. Caribbean and Central America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6925+ on AM, May 7 at 0532, music from a pirate, but very poor, too weak (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

What next? My penultimate report was subjected as ``April 4-5`` instead of May 4-5. All the individual dates in it were correct, anyway. I have also been asked to give my location and equipment. I work this into items from time to time, but for the record:

Main receiver: FRG-7 unmodified. Also use RS DX-398 and Grundig YB-400 as backups, portables, measuring frequencies, checking parallels. Also have a rarely used Sony ICF SW-07 with window loop antenna which I occasionally try when synch detexion might be helpful. Usually it is not, since signal levels are lower with its antenna. Also various lesser portables kept in other houseparts, car.

Main antenna; random wire about 7 feet above ground, about 110 feet long, most of it running east-west. For the other receivers or during storms, some shorter random wires inside the house. Also have a shorter random wire outside around the porch, used with the DX-398 for quick checks away from some of the interior computer noise when inconvenient to turn that off. This combo is never as sensitive as the FRG-7 with interior noises minimized (Glenn Hauser, Enid, Oklahoma, USA) ###

Glenn Hauser logs May 6, 2011

** ANTARCTICA [and non]. 15476, LRA36 monitoring Friday May 6: started at 1232, but no signal, and still none at 1241. I was about to give up, but checked again at 1243 and now it`s suddenly on with the best signal yet, S9+15, opening routine with ``Soy Feliz`` themetune, `Amanecer Austral`, YL mentions ``falta de agua``, a water shortage the latest problem at Base Esperanza: guess it has not been snowing much yet. Now modulation is good both on the talk and the music, as she proceeds to name the support staff including Lt. Cols. Guillermo Borger, Pablo González, and a third person as technical operator whose name I can`t catch. One of the other XYLs is speaking and she is off-mike compared to her compañeras.

1246 music mix finally stops and the three say their welcomes, phone numbers including 0297 444 5309, e-mail. 1249 temperature mentioned as 8 grados, not sure if plus or minus, but maybe they get that warm above zero? Rapid chatter continues, hard to copy. 1254 has weakened to only S9+10, but still stronger than 15480 UK producing lite het unless I sidetune downwards; 1257 music.

Meanwhile since 1255 there has been intermittent scratchy SSB QRM on the low side traced to 15471-USB, a problem only due to side-tuning and the wide selectivity of the FRG-7. Sounds like weak 2-way intruder in Chinese rather than Spanish. At 1310 LRA36 has romantic song with piano accompaniment; 1316 more romantic with guitar past 1329. 1346 final check has faded to S9+5, still music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. `The Current` from CBC Radio 1 had a fine segment on Harold Camping and his Rapture nonsense starting the Friday May 6 program; final playback for the Pacific zone is 1537-1600 UT, but then to be on demand at the start of the show.

First, another gospel huxter who falls for this, then Dave Silverman of American Atheists; afterwards, somewhat more rational religious scholars. This page http://www.cbc.ca/radio/
has a photo of Harold Camping as he appears today. Perhaps that will be preserved in the link to archive later.

For me the zone feed program listings are always displayed one hour off, claiming that the Central zone feed was starting at 1437 UT, while it was really the Mountain. Do others see them that way? And why does CBC insist on claiming The Current starts at :30 past the hours?? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake May 6; all checked were //:
 7970, fair at 1222
10300, good at 1223
10965, good at 1223
11500, tune-in at 1224 to open carrier, but Firedrake audio is then faded up; so it looks like the OC heard previously was also FD
13920, good at 1226; none were found in the 12s on the way to this
14700, fair at 1227
15545, poor at 1228; and a het went off at 1229* as VOT QSYed
15550, poor at 1304 with het from 15552 VOT; also oscillating tone. At 1306 the het is gone, now a carrier with talk on 15558; FD still 15550
15555, very poor at 1330, not positive it`s FD, with too weak carrier on 15558, far enough away in the cat-and-mouse game with V. of Tibet; both mainly evidenced by the het between them
15900, fair-good at 1229
15970, very good at 1229, quite a contrast to 15900
16980, fair-good at 1230. No more up to 19 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI absent May 6 at 1217, 1303 chex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN [non]. 17690, good May 6 at 1231, R. Japon opening in French, whence? It`s 250 kW, 305 degrees USward from MADAGASCAR, where else? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 6518, May 6 at 1208, surprised to hear music in the clear and no jamming! V. of the People, from South to North, 1212 YL Korean talk, poor signal. Meanwhile the // 6600 seems even more heavily jammed than usual, sounds rather like a video carrier buzzing. 6348 Echo of Hope also has heavy jamming but not the video sound (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAIPAN [non]. Looking for KFBS as per schedule in last report: 11650, May 6 at 1156, no sign of it, but instead Chinese lesson from CRI English, via Wulumuchi, EAST TURKISTAN; 1159 giving CRI websites (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENINGN DIGEST)

** U S A. 9885, VOA Spanish, May 6 at 1219 says the program in progress is `Estudio 45`, lunes a viernes a las 8 de la mañana. Naming a program for the studio where it originates, of significance only to those within the building, demonstrates a profound lack of imagination, but hardly the first time this has been done. And what if the studio has to be changed for technical reasons; then what? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 2390, WWRB, as usual the preacher before us ran about a minute over, so at 0332 UT Friday May 6, Dave Frantz comes on live announcing that from Monday May 9 all programming on 2390 will be heard on the summer frequency 5050. Apparently this is a roundabout way of saying that 2390 will be off for the summer, as the two have already been running // for several weeks, especially during WORLD FO RADIO. So what will become of the 2390 transmitter in the evenings? Or will he be putting some other programming on it?

As also often happens, there followed dead air as Dave attempted to get the WOR 1563 playback started. At 0333 he said something about ``waiting for the internet to send it to us`` altho we already sent the file by ftp to WWRB. Finally started at 0334:30.

Next chances: via WWCR, Friday 2030 on 15825; Saturday 1600 on 12160; Sunday 0630 on 3215. WRMI 9955: Saturday 0800, 1730; Sunday 0800, 1530, 1730; IPAR Saturday 1800 on 7290 via Slovakia; WRN via Sirius/XM 120, Saturday and Sunday 1730; Sunday 0830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9370, WTJC`s out-of-whackness the worst yet, May 6 at 0549, spreading continuously from 9250 to 9470 with extreme distortion, especially bad for other US stations on 9330, 9355, 9385. Do WBCQ and WYFR care about this? Inconsequential compared to The Rapture.

At 1226, the main spurs are on 9320, 9345 vs VOK, and 9395 vs FEBC in Chinese on 9400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VATICAN [non]. 13730, May 6 at 1200 checking whether VR via CANADA is still in English? Yes, ``good morning`` and news in English, but very poor reception so far (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

Ascolti AM Luca Botto Fiora

Ascolti AM (orari UTC)


Legenda segnale
IN - Insufficiente/Poor
SF - Sufficiente/Fair
BN - Buono/Good
MB - Molto buono/Very good


Giovedì 5 maggio 2011 (G3 Etón)
21.20 9580 AFRICA N° 1 - Moyabi (Gabon) SF/BN
21.25 9565 R. MARTI - Grenville-NC (USA) SF/BN
21.30 9265 WINB - Red Lion-pA (USA) IN/SF
21.33 7970 SOUND OF HOPE (not Firedrake) IN/SF
21.37 7620 VO ZHONGHUA - Beijing (Cina) IN/SF
21.43 7385 PBS XIZANG - Lhasa (Tibet) SF/BN
21.52 5995 RDT MALIENNE - Kati IN/SF
21.53 5990 R. SENADO - Brasilia-DF SF/BN
Sembra che la SYNC agganci non solo con i segnali forti, ma fa più fatica.
E' un po' come l'RDS in FM, però a me sembra logico che tale modalità
tecnologica risponda solamente in presenza di segnali mediamente
rilevabili, anche se vorremmo che non fosse così. Pure DRM e DTT
stanno agganciati a partire da un livello minimo accettabile.


***


Venerdì 6 maggio 2011 (E5 Etón)
04.41 9625v CBC NORTHERN QUEBEC - Sackville (Canada) SF/BN
04.44 9665v VOZ MISSIONARIA - Florianópolis (Brasile) IN/SF
04.46 9705v R. ETHIOPIA - Gedja IN/SF
-
04.49 - 9780.1 kHz
R. SANA'A (Yemen)
Arabo, nxs OM.
Segnale sufficiente-buono
Mi sembra che sia un tx molto irregolare.
Prima delle 05.00 subentra REE in DRM.
-
04.58 9955 DC Jamming back+WRMI SF/BN
05.02 9565 SRDA - Curitiba (Brasile) IN/SF
05.03 9500 TWR SWAZILAND - Mpangela Range - EE IN/SF
-
05.06 11725 R. NEW ZEALAND INT. - Rangitaiki - EE SF/BN
05.09 13670 PBS XINJIANG - Urumqi (Cina) - Uighur IN/SF
-
05.15 - 15725 kHz
sembra R. PAKISTAN - Islamabad
Musica e modulazione tipica di tale emittente.
Segnale insufficiente-buono
Per A11 schedules s/on 08.30!!!
-
05.21 7811 AFRTS - Key West-FL (USA) USB SF
05.22 7850 CHU - Ottawa (Canada) EE/FF SF/BN
-
05.24 - 6946.6 kHz
prob. EUROPIRATA
EE, oldies e annunci OM.
Segnale insufficiente
L'E5 risponde molto meglio alle antenne esterne, è meno sorda della G3 e va
anche con la loop LW-MW senza amplificazione, come con la DE1103 e l'ATS909.




Luca Botto Fiora


QTH
G.C. 09E13 - 44N21
Rapallo (Genova)
Italia


RICEVITORI
R7 Drake
VR5000 DSP Yaesu
Satellit 500 Grundig
E5 Etón
G3 Etón
ATS909 Sangean
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ANTENNE
Loop in ferrite ACA di 75 cm modificata (@70 kHz-2 MHz)
Loop filare da finestra da 1 spira 150x100 cm (@2-6 MHz)
Dipolo aperto 21 m (@6-30 MHz)
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VARIE
Ampli RF K0LR per loop ACA modificato (WA1ION)
Ampli RF LX1456 Nuova Elettronica per loop SW e dipolo
Balun a choke coassiali 1:1 di RG174 per dipolo (IZ7ATH)
Eliminatore di QRM MFJ 1026 modificato (W8JI)
Software demo Multimode 6.2.3 Black Cat Systems
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Glenn Hauser logs April 4-6, 2011

** ANTARCTICA. 15476, May 5 at 1210 I set the second receiver with BFO on 15475, to be notified exactly when LRA36 turns on its carrier: Not until *1229 and immediately with music, S9+12 peaks. This turns out to be one of my best receptions so far. 1236 segué to another music, no announcements yet. 1239 finally ID with frequency, plus FM 96.7, longitude & latitude; 1240 other XYLs join in, mixing with ``Soy Feliz`` themesong. Credits to various tenientes/coroneles, operators and bosses. ``Amanecer Austral, del día 5 de Mayo``. 1245 with phone and e-mail contact info. Now the 3-way chatter is hard to follow. 1315 still fair signal with music; weakening at 1347, music and talk. Whenever hearing this, visualize Base Esperanza with bright-red buildings all over it, to facilitate finding them in the blizzards (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA [and non]. 6070, CFRX back on the air after missing all month, May 5 at 1126 interview with 877 toll-free number, in typical style and accent from a Toronto commercial station, so different from everything else on SW; but at this hour heavy Asian co-channel QRM (CCI), i.e. V. of Korear, Japanese service until 1250.

CFRX reactivation was first reported by several DXLD monitors May 4 after 2200, so I had to edit a last-minute update into WORLD OF RADIO 1563 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. Having had Mexican TV DX earlier in the day, I was looking for it again in the evening, with antenna southward. Ch 2 analog video faded in to sync at 0006 UT May 6, but too weak. Finally at 0031 I rotated north and found stronger signals, and yes, in English, so has to be Canada. Weather graphic about Saskatoon, 0033 English talk about trees greening around the legislative building, i.e. Regina; 0034 news about medicine; 0037 CTV News graphic; 0044 football clip in CTV sports; graphic of Swift Current Broncos lineup (so they know how to spell Bronco unlike some Americans). Must be CKCK-TV, a common catch here for sesquidecades at ideal Es distance just over one kilomile. Dominated in and out tho with some CCI, and occasional signs of video on higher channels.

At 0059 on 2, a graphic looked like Sevens Run, and then credit roll, Citytv promo (definitely not CTV), 0100 `Law & Order` video starts, while audio has hockey and occasionally hockey video overtakes. Channel 2 weak videos still showing at 0130, mainly L&O, from further west than Regina; Citytv bug in lower right. Still some fade-ins around 0203.

Citytv is CICT Calgary, and L&O: SVU is indeed scheduled there on Thursday nights at 7 local, following `Reviews on the Run`. W9WI.com listings http://www.w9wi.com/channels/2.html still show CICT as a Global affiliate. It`s more like 2 megameters from here, still a good Es distance.

The CICT website also shows ``My RONA Home``. I had seen RONA on the screen initially when still aimed at Mexico. The channel info page of Citytv http://www.citytv.com/calgary/channelinformation does not even bother with on-the-air channels! Just cable and satellite (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake May 5, starting to monitor earlier than usual:
 7970, very poor at 1141; not heard after 1200
10300, good at 1146; SOH had been in clear at 1051; see TAIWAN; also good at 1258, 1321
10965, very poor at 1259-1300*
12240, fair at 1148; fair at 1258
13130, good at 1258
13800, fair at 1059-1100*. Aoki shows this as a SOH frequency at 20-17, but I never hear FD on it after 1200. Also at 1151 at first seems undermodulated, but really under open carrier from WYFR before *1200
13920, fair at 1152, het and ute QRM; good at 1258
14700, good at 1257, the only one not //
14970, very poor at 1152
15745, very good at 1255. Aoki shows SOH via Tajikistan at 1230-1300
15900, very good at 1256
16100, fair at 1159-1200*; very good at 1256. None higher to 19 MHz. Also good at 1318, and none lower now except 10300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. 13590, May 5 at 1101 news with American accent, so is it VOA? It certainly can`t be BBC, which for newscasters welcomes all kinds of regional British and ex-colonial accents except North American.

Of course! It`s CRI as the content of the news centered around the Middle Kingdom soon reveals. Has long/short path echo. HFCC shows CRI, 500 kW, 193 degrees via Beijing site at 10-12 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA [and non]. 15250, one would like to hear the only intentional English broadcast from BSK Saudi Arabia, at 0930-1225 on R. Riyadh, per Aoki, but instead one must hear stuff in Chinese: May 5 at 1108 CNR1 echo-jammer plus het against VOA Mandarin via Tajikistan (except on Wednesdays when site switches to Tinang, Philippines; why??). At 1213 still the same, plus SAH, with the VOA site after 1200 daily being Tinang (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 5055, May 5 at 0452, two Spanish programs mixing about equally, i.e. a leapfrog mixing product of R. Rebelde 5025 and RHC 5040, landing another 15 kHz higher. I could hear it on two different receivers and also when attenuated. It ends of course around 0500 when 5040 goes off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also ECUADOR [and non]!

** ECUADOR [and non]. 6050, May 5 at 0454, RHC English service has heavy co-channel QRM and subaudible heterodyne from music. At 0458 RHC stops modulating, and then HCJB is clearly heard in Spanish, 0459 full ID mentioning 89.3, 91.3, 96.1, a couple other FM frequencies in different cities, 690 MW and 6050 SW, automatic timesignal at 0500, signing off until 3:30 am in Quechua, national anthem which sounds like a very old 78 rpm disc.

I think the RHC 6050 carrier had been cut, presumably for antenna change, but I could not tell when it came back on, or whether HCJB left its carrier on for a while. There was ACI from Spain on 6055.

At 0503, I found RHC English underway on 6060, not on 6010 yet, and  it did not pick up until later than minute on 6050, when also there was a bit of extraneous music. HCJB used to display this defect after ``sign-off`` on 9745. At 0504 RHC English is only poorly audible on 6050 with SAH from some carrier, maybe still HCJB.

At the 0454 outset, HCJB signal was definitely stronger than I expected for 10 kW. It certainly is capable of messing up RHC reception in North America, which is the only thing which might persuade recalcitrant frequency ``manager`` Arnie Coro to move away from 6050. HCJB, or rather Vozandes Media, is also planning on beefing up its transmissions from Pichincha. OTOH, Arnie`s happy to be colliding with WYFR on 11830 and numerous other instances of poor selexion, not even in RHC`s self-interest, and certainly with no consideration for others (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ECUADOR [non]. 9955, `DX Partyline` via WRMI, Thursday May 5 at 0520 during report from Luigi Cobisi, adequate copy vs heavy pulse jamming, but losing out by 0526 during interview with Brent Weeks, HCJB Global Latin American Engineering Director about a new DRM receiver from New Path Radio (?).

0528 the big announcement by Allen Graham (Allen always with an E as in Ecuador), with excuses why he is killing `DXPL` after the last week in May (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** FRANCE [non]. 13640, May 5 at 1149 as I tune across, surprised to hear an RFI ID in Russian during music. I suppose they were just showing off, as this is fill after the Météo Marine in French, via GUIANA FRENCH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUAM. 5765-USB, AFN, May 5 at 1125, sufficient signal with NPR `Morning Edition`, // KOSU 91.7 which was running some 8 seconds behind Guam due to IBOC delay. On my FRG-7, USB and LSB signals can be tuned equally well on the LSB or USB setting, but USB helps to avoid the QRM from WTWW 5755. Had not heard this one in a while in my usual post-sunrise monitoring, so glad it`s still going, but apprehensive about WTWW`s plan to use 5765 too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUATEMALA. 4055, May 5 at 1117, ``Goin` Home`` spiritual à la Dvorak, choral and organ, but modulation rather distorted from R. Verdad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9526-, unusually awake early, I have a chance to check out reports from Ron Howard that VOI has replaced other languages with nothing but English: May 5 at 1055, poor signal with interview in English as usual during the 10-11 hour. 1142, still in English with speech in echoey venue about the 2011 economy, Asian Development Bank. Until this week, the 11-12 hour had been in Mandarin.

At 1219 instead of Japanese, song in English with IADs; 1221, YL ID as ``Voice of Indonesia, the Sound of Dignity``. None of the usual scripted programs on definite subjects, but instead the YL DJ chats about the song she likes, ``more and more improvements to our programs``, offering to make birthday greetings; 1224 weather forecasts for cities in Indonesia, Asia, Australia, Europe, and even USA, altho it sounded like she expected the same high and low in NY and LA. 1229 another song. A cheap and easy way to fill an extra hour, á la `Live Talk` from R. Australia!

1301, English ID, program previews, 1302 news but reception has deteriorated from fair to poor. This hour seems to be like the old one with certain definite features rather than DJ chatter and music, e.g. `Today in History` at 1322, after which I gave up trying to copy anything.

It appears that VOI has dispensed with its Japanese and Mandarin services, as well as some of its English staff. We wonder if other languages are also gone, such as the previously scheduled: 1600 Arabic, 1700 Spanish, 1800 German, 2000 French? Yes, Atsunori Ishida reports at http://rri.jpn.org/ that since April 28 it`s been all-English at 10-15 and 16-21, the exact times varying widely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH & SOUTH. 4450, May 5 at 1120, Korean talk with a SAH, but I have no idea which is on top, V. of the People from S to N, or KNDF blocking it from N to S (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MALAYSIA. 6100, May 5 at 1130, fair and clear reception in Malay M&W talk about Islam, not news; 1135 choral music with birdsong; 1140 segué to Qur`an. This is a new frequency from Kajang, West Malaysia, first reported by Ron Howard April 24, sometimes relaying Wai FM from Sarawak, sometimes Sarawak FM, but I heard no ID for either, nor heard any //. Aoki shows it in use 24 hours, but CRI clashes after 1200.

However, there was a wavering het on 7270, no doubt caused by the off-frequency Wai FM relay really in Kuching vs China or India. That het was also audible before 1100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. Sporadic E season is getting a good start with another TV DX opening appropriately from here on Cinco de Mayo: I was hoping for it, since Es was affecting HF as early as 1107 from WWCR 15825. When I turned on the analog TV at 1419 UT, channel 2 with at least two stations 10 kHz apart, one with a variety show involving models. By 1434 the MUF was up to ch 4 video. At 1441, 2 was giving a national weather summary with highs in various cities, including 40 degrees in Hermosillo, whew! At 1444, ch 4 has net-5 cartoons (dibujos). I turn off the computer too close to the TV, verifying that when on it blocks ch 5. 1542, ch 4 is still in with net-5 dibujos. Unfortunately there are 6 full-power and 4 low-power net-5 XHGC relays on 4, per W9WI.com.

Then I had to go out for most of the day in search of a suitable 2.5 GHz transmitter to cook my food quickly, which required a trip outside Enid. It`d better not QRM MF, HF or VHF! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PAPUA NEW GUINEA [and non]. 3385, May 5 at 1114, poor signal in talk I can`t tell whether English or Tok Pisin, but at least there is some modulation from R. East New Britain, unlike other presumed PNG/Indonesian carriers on 3365, 3325. At the same time, 13m was open at least from Spain. This is a good example for us to beware of simplified A-11 Aoki, which still shows RRI Kupang on 3385, and R. Eastern Highlands on 3395, neither of which have been heard for years (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAIPAN. 12090, May 5 at 2357, no signal as I am checking for the 2330-2400 broadcast of KFBS, but I may have tuned in too late. Wolfgang Büschel says there are rumors that KFBS has closed down. It certainly has a limited schedule of 7 hours a week per the FEBC website, but if you click on ALL for it at http://data.febinfo.org/p_stations.php
you get no transmissions at all.

WRTH says they have 4 x 100 kW transmitters, but nowhere near that usage in HFCC, just a few hours daily at http://hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A11&broadc=FBS
And that`s why I was checking 12090. We need to try the others to find if anything is really on, none of it in English:
0830-0900 11850
0900-1130 15580
0930-1000 11990
1100-1400 11650
1130-1300 11920
1200-1300 11800
1300-1400 15580
2230-2300 12090
2330-2359 15580
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 21610, May 5 at 1112, REE poor in Spanish, the OSOB, but nice to find the band open this early, and at the same time all other bands down to 3 MHz; see PNG (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SUDAN [and non]. 13620, R. Dabanga via MADAGASCAR, checked about half an hour earlier than usual, at 0443 May 5, not only had the continuous tone jamming but an envelope of buzz extending between 13612 and 13638. Since this is about 25 kHz bandwidth, it may have typically been an OTH radar such as the one in Cyprus altho the sound was somewhat different (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TAIWAN. 10300, May 5 at 1051, VP signal in Chinese, but no jamming, so presumably Sound of Hope. By next check 1146, Firedrake was on. This and many other frequencies compiled under CHINA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TIBET [non]. 15670, May 5 at 1155 and 1256, CNR1 ChiCom jamming against R. Free Asia, Tibetan via Tajikistan, is assisted by spurs from WWCR 15825; see U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. 15450, VOT, May 5 at 1323-1325* closing the English broadcast, we get to hear the 26-note IS played several times absolutely identically, the variations having been eliminated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. I found two sufficient frequencies for BBCWS in English, should one care to listen between 11 and 12 UT, unlikely since it carries the pandering `World, Have Your Say` listener-participation programmme: 15285, May 5 at 1106, good signal; and at 1111, fair signal on 17760. 15285 still in at 1153.

Unfortunately, 15285 is about to be canceled! Plus three others, according to Ivo Ivanov May 5: ``Cancelled BBC frequencies from May 8:
1600-1800 on  9495 SLA 250 kW / 085 deg in English
0900-1300 on 15285 SNG 100 kW / 013 deg in English
0800-1300 on 15400 ASC 250 kW / 027 deg in English
0900-1300 on 21660 NAK 250 kW / 020 deg in English``

HFCC agrees that 15285 has been 13 degrees from SINGAPORE, and 17760 is 25 degrees from THAILAND, so both USward unintentionally (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. George McClintock phoned May 4 at 1915 UT to advise that WTWW #3 transmitter is now testing on 12100, about 20 kW and 50% modulation. We checked and it was VG here, S9+22 or so, and sufficient modulation, noticeably less than the over-modulation on 9479. Still going past 2030. Says he is working out the bugs and will continue testing 12100 on and off the next week, not on the other three frequencies, and work up to full 100 kW.

Yes, #3, as the #2 transmitter is held up by some parts problems, so #3 on the 40 degree antenna toward Europe will be operational before #2. May change to a 15 MHz channel in the daytime. Modulation was gospel music, but when fully programmed, 12100 et al. will be carrying nothing but scripture reading from Spoken Word of God, in English, Arabic, German, French, Portuguese, perhaps Spanish; plans to add Chinese later on the other transmitter.

In English the SWOG is by Alexander Scourby, whom I used to respect as a secular narrator, heard on several other stations, even giving Brother Scare an occasional breather. Now he is remembered mostly for his Bible readings, having died in 1985, so yet another dead SW broadcaster, 25 years and counting (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1563, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9370, WTJC remains out of whack with distortion on the fundamental and wide-ranging spurs messing up many neighboring signals. At 0524 May 5, I could hear WTJC at many spots between 9315 and 9455. At 1052 the main peaks were circa 9320, 9345 and up to 9420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST0

** U S A. 9330-CUSB, May 5 at 1052, WBCQ again in dead air, with mush from WTJC 9370 spurs audible underneath. Next check at 1146, GFRN modulation had resumed, still with WTJC hash. It seems DA from Orangeville is not unusual, a sure way to lose what few listeners they could have (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9265, WINB is fond of confronting CODAR, not only on its only other frequency, 13570, but also here: May 5 at 1051 in English, lite CODAR underneath, with its weak peak circa 9250 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15825, May 5 at 1107, a bit of a novelty to hear Russian on WWCR, but now so scheduled, and good signal getting a sporadic-E boost this early before sunrise, shortly after sign-on. Per May 3 WWCR program sked, this is a version of James Dobson`s `Focus on the Family`, M-F at 1100-1115, followed by Arabic New Testament at 1115-1130.

15825 was so strong, S9+20, that at 1155 when back in English, modulation spike spurs traced to it by matching could be heard on 15670 vs Chinese radio war --- see TIBET [non], and spreading 15660-15680; 1210 faded to only fair, disaudiblizing the spikes; 1256 could again hear the spurs vs Chinese. This was a tipoff to more Es seen later from Mexico up to 68 MHz, q.v.

Strangely enough, the May 3 program schedule still shows Rollye James, Mon-Sat 0500-0800 on 3215, tho her show went off the air at the end of March and WWCR has been playing fill music shows instead. Maybe they expect her to resume any time. Of course, if she really appreciated shortwave, she would do her show there if nowhere else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1563: first airing should have been 0330 UT Thursday May 5 on WRMI 9955, but too busy to check it here; then at 1500, 2100, Friday 1430, Saturday 0800, 1730, Sunday 0800, 1530, 1730. On WWCR: Friday 2030 on 15825, Saturday 1600 on 12160, Sunday 0630 on 3215, as still shown on May schedule.

On WWRB, UT Friday 0330 on 2390, 5050, we hope back this week after missing last week. On IPAR, Saturday 1800 on 7290 via Slovakia. On WRN via SiriusXM, on new channel numbered 120, Saturday and Sunday 1730, Sunday 0830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** UZBEKISTAN. 9660, May 5 at 1306, YL in S Asian language, music, and mentions ``Voice Asia``; fair with flutter. It`s CVC in Hindi via Tashkent, 100 kW, 153 degrees at 11-14. I`d much rather hear the late lamented R. Tashkent, even if it is from one of the most repressive, controlled-press countries in the world, which very well may have once used the very same transmitter. Apparently the time-brokers consider CVC a kindred spirit (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

Glenn Hauser logs May 3-4, 2011

** ANTARCTICA. 15476, checked for LRA36, Tuesday May 3 at 1930 and 1957, but no trace of it. Something had been heard there the previous two Tuesdays in NZ and Australia; and it was missing from its usual earlier broadcast on May 3.

15476, May 4 at 1257, LRA36 is back at S9+8 level, undermodulated talk; 1300 said ``buena música`` audibly and then played some music. At 1346 Spanish talk mentioning some years, possibly a history of the base. 1409 now peaking S9+10 but little improvement to the ear, mentions ``casa blanca`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA [and non]. 15287 approx., May 4 at 1303, very distorted FMy blob in Chinese, no carrier to pinpoint, still same at 1333. At first I assumed the Babcock transmitter in Singapore with BBC Mandarin was out of whack, scheduled 1300-1530, 100 kW, 13 degrees, but now I think it was probably a filthy jamming technique by the ChiCom. Should have tried to // it with other CNR1 jammer audio.

Firedrake May 4: not checked before 1300. All heard were //.
10300, JBA at 1325
11500, open carrier with flutter at 1328 and following semihour. Aoki shows Sound of Hope at 20-16, and V. of Russia via Tajikistan to India at 12-15. Firedrake previously audible in the mix here, but the OC today I suspect was defective Tajikistan
13130, good with flutter at 1328
13920, fair at 1331
14700, VG at 1333
14970, VG at 1332. Cut off a few sex after 1400*
15430, poor at 1340 plus noise jamming vs V. of Tibet via UAE
15545, poor at 1340, jumped down from 15560 following VOT
15560, poor at 1334, het from 15562 carrier = V. of Tibet, TAJIKISTAN
15970, poor at 1337; none heard higher up to 18 MHz
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST

** COSTA RICA. 11880, REE relay, May 4 at 1327 is somewhat distorted and splattering up to 11895 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. 13710, May 4 at 1329 pleased to hear a bit of the AIR IS, so I quickly tune to 9690, but that frequency has non-English talk, presumed the usual Tibetan mistake, before switching to English AIR GOS opening at 1330. Both these are from Bengaluru, but apparently with different input feed routings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KUWAIT. 15540, May 3 at 1930-1942, R. Kuwait in English with `Today in History` (or whatever title they use), year-by-year chronology of world events on May 3. Since it lasted 12 minutes, more comprehensive than your typical TIH segment on other stations such as Indonesia. If one heard 366 of these, might have a fairly good history text. I wonder if RK compiles this itself, or pulls it off some website. At 1942, notice from the government about procedures for residing in the country, leaving and getting back in, or not. Sufficient reception but not solid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. Sporadic E analog TV DX opening in progress at tune-in May 4 at 1424 UT, Spanish mix of networks on channels 2, 3, 4, 5, peaking SSW; including cartoons on 3 from net-5, Lotería Nacional PSA from another. 1428 Net-5 cartoons as `El Chavo`; opening almost gone by 1500, but at 1504 a bit of ch 2, bug in upper-right looks like Azteca 13. There was NO indication of any activity from Mexico (and very little in the USA) on the 6m QSO map during this period (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. Re yesterday`s report of an open stereo carrier on 89.5 from the Braum`s store on W Garriott in Enid --- I went back 24 hours later May 3 with my DX-398 to track it down, but no signal. I now think it was probably an RF feeder in someone`s parked car, which did not occur to me before. If it were an employee, it could happen again; less likely if from a transient customer. Never mind (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
 
** SUDAN [non]. 13620, R. Dabanga via MADAGASCAR, good signal with yelling, May 4 at 0515, with continuous tone jamming. Other frequency via UAE, 13730, only had the weaker noise jamming described previously (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9330-CUSB, WBCQ with dead air May 4 at 0529, 0545 and still at 0545. Next check when I awoke briefly at 0828, GFRN/R2:11 modulation had resumed. 23/7 customer, turn it on and forget it; their fault if the feed fail (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 17750, May 4 at 1410, quite good signal and modulation from Denge Amerika = VOA Kurdish, 250 kW, 120 degrees from Wertachtal, GERMANY at 14-15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9479, WTWW missing May 4 at 1421; it had been on 5755 as usual the night before. Perhaps needed to turn off in order to work on new rhombic antennas for #2 and #3 transmitters. Back on at 1555 check. George McClintock has notified FCC that he intends to test the 40-degree antenna soon at will, anytime on 12100, 5080, 5765, and between 11 and 23 on 9990 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Intruder, 17656.0-SSB, May 4 at 1413, two-way in Spanish, engine noise in background, still going at 1422, between broadcast signals on 17650 and 17660 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

Ascolti AM Luca Botto Fiora

Ascolti AM (orari UTC)

Martedì 3 maggio 2011
16.23 - 15970 kHz
16.25 - 14900 kHz
16.35 - 7970 kHz
FIREDRAKE vs. SO Hope Taiwan
Segnale sufficiente-buono
Sound of Hope heard only on 7970.
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16.45 - 7295 kHz
RTM TRAXX FM - Kajang (Malaysia)
EE, jingles e mx pop-dance.
Segnale sufficiente-buono
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16.48 - 7110//7165//7180 kHz
Preventive hash jamming vs. Eritrea?
Apparently no stations in background!
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21.25 - 11670 kHz
AIR GOS - Bangalore (India)
EE, mx locale e ID OM.
Segnale molto buono
Per A11 databases s/off 20.45.
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21.29 - 10000 kHz
BPM - Kinshan (Cina)
Cinese, IDs CW e fonia YL.
Segnale sufficiente-insufficiente
Observatorio Rio quasi nullo.
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21.33 - 9835 kHz
RTM SARAWAK FM - Kajang (Malaysia)
Musica locale e annunci YL.
Segnale sufficiente-buono
Per A11 schedules s/on 22.00.
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21.54 - 7970 kHz
SOUND OF HOPE TAIWAN
Mandarino, tk OM.
Segnale sufficiente-insufficiente
Firedrake not heard!
Nothing heard on 8-9/10-11 MHz.
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Qualche piccola scarica temporalesca.




Legenda segnale
IN - Insufficiente/Poor
SF - Sufficiente/Fair
BN - Buono/Good
MB - Molto buono/Very good


Luca Botto Fiora

QTH
G.C. 09E13 - 44N21
Rapallo (Genova)
Italia


RICEVITORI
R7 Drake
VR5000 DSP Yaesu
Satellit 500 Grundig
E5 Etón
G3 Etón
ATS909 Sangean
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ANTENNE
Loop in ferrite ACA di 75 cm modificata (@70 kHz-2 MHz)
Loop filare da finestra da 1 spira 150x100 cm (@2-6 MHz)
Dipolo aperto 21 m (@6-30 MHz)
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VARIE
Ampli RF K0LR per loop ACA modificato (WA1ION)
Ampli RF LX1456 Nuova Elettronica per loop SW e dipolo
Balun a choke coassiali 1:1 di RG174 per dipolo (IZ7ATH)
Eliminatore di QRM MFJ 1026 modificato (W8JI)
Software demo Multimode 6.2.3 Black Cat Systems
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