Glenn Hauser logs June 26, 2012

** ARGENTINA. 11710.76, approx., June 26 at 0200, RAE is signing on English with fair and fluttery signal, off-frequency as always but fortunately nothing to het it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** AUSTRALIA. 6020, June 26 at 1215, R. Ustralia is back to normal, in AM here, DRM on 5990-5995-6000, contrary to yesterday at this hour when 6020 was off and 5995 was in AM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL [and non]. 6180, June 26 at 0156, RNA is reactivated here with loud music causing heavy splash upon unfortunate neighbour 6185 XEPPM, which without that would have been listenable with sufficient modulation. RNA also VG at 0524 with more lively music designed to keep Amazonians awake; why? We may confidently expect RNA to be gone again unpredictably (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake June 26 around 1250: none found 11-18 MHz in very poor conditions. It`s the unreasonably low solar flux rather than disturbances. WWV reported:
``Solar-terrestrial indices for 25 June follow.
Solar flux 89 and estimated planetary A-index 9.
The estimated planetary K-index at 1200 UTC on 26 June was 2.
No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours.
No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours.``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** COLOMBIA. 14950, one more check for Salem Stereo relay, June 26 at 0155, nothing heard. No, I will not keep reporting non-loggings, but will keep checking from time to time. You never know when out-of-band-scanning will produce another such treasure (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, June 26 at 0512, no signal from R. Africa, while R. Dabanga was propagating well from Madagascar on 15400. Is anyone still hearing R. Africa at any time? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9526-, June 26 at 1250, VOI carrier detected, but very weak and no modulation. Since it`s Tuesday, and last week Ron Howard confirmed they were still doing `Exotic Indonesia` with RRI Banjarmasin, I condescended to go to the webcast in order to hear it at all. Live linx are right on homepage http://www.voi.co.id and came up promptly at 1302 in audio-only version (is there really video from studios on the other one?), and heard back-and-forth between Jak and Banj, the latter with hum on the feed, and everything kept hiccuping, and crashing the flash player – either stopping or disappearing completely. Restarted several times until it would not cooperate at all. Even tried the mobile link which wanted to open a Real Player, but that would not connect either.

Listening to VOI online is just as frustrating as on SW, but at least you can hear something intermittently. One more problem: very heavy accents from the announcers made them hard to understand even when the audio was working. Yet kudos to VOI for plowing on with dignified attempts at English broad/webcasts even under such daunting circumstances (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN [non]. 6110, June 26 at 0524, NHK World R. Japan still on via Sackville, with folk tale about a child-rearing ghost. Also noticed the only other English relay still on the 6120 air around 1215 as it struggled against ever-increasing day-path absorption (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA SOUTH [non]. 9560, June 26 at *0159, RCI IS and IDs in French and English a few times, 0200 KBS World Radio opening in Spanish. Altho the station name must always be in English, this time it was pronounced with a Spanish accent.

Re missing English at 0230-0300 on 9560: I confess to not having tried to hear this for a long time until searching out Sackville relays. I think it was canceled long ago, not in WRTH update, nor HFCC A-12, nor own schedule:http://world.kbs.co.kr/english/about/about_time.htm
There is still an hour of English at 0200-0300 on 9580 direct to S America, which is useless in N America with CRI Chinese via Cuba (and I`d think back radiation would also mess it up in S America) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA. 15120, June 26 at 0512, no signal from VON, while Africa was propagating well from Madagascar, 15400, R. Dabanga (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 6173.9, June 26 at 0204 I notice a significant het upon V. of Vietnam still via Canada, 6175.0, no doubt R. Tawantinsuyo, Cusco. This is exactly the off-frequency just reported for it independently by Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, in Chasqui DX, and as he spells it: ``6173.90, R. Tawuantisuyo, Cusco, 30/05 2320-2340`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7555, June 26 at 0203, no signal from KJES on the 0100-0230 schedule. The robokids are often missing for weeks at a time and no one cares, eventually to reshow, but eventually it may crash forever (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7555, June 26 at 0523, WEWN, R. Católica Mundial is on again tonight, unlike last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7506v, June 26 at 0203, no signal from WRNO Worldwide. Richard Lewis says their Facebook page claims they will be back on air circa July 1, but we`ll believe it if we ever hear it. Mañana, mañana, mañana (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 88.7, KRZA Alamosa CO/Taos NM, I often listen to webcast for the weekday 1430 UT features; June 26 before 1500 they announce that their ``antenna is down`` and may not be back on air until later in July, so webcasting only. Not sure if bilingual Glenda means it is literally on the ground, or just off the air, perhaps due to wildfires? Site is on San Antonio mountain, 10908 feet, just south of the CO/NM border, near US 285. This will not be helpful for their current fund drive. They still legally announce several translator frequencies but I suppose they cannot be fed either. No details on http://www.krza.org --- just

``Currently KRZA cannot be heard on a regular radio, but we can be heard online. Click the "Listen Live Now!" button on top of this page.
Our technicians are aware of the problem and are assessing the issue.
Thank you for your patience!`` Glenda hinted that people should not leave the Live365 stream running if they are not really listening, due to limited capacity.

Still heard Jim Hightower at 1506. Under normal conditions, they often have problems getting NPR news to work at 1501, etc., or miss Jim (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VATICAN [non]. 13730, June 26 at 1213, VR concluding `World News` about Ukraine, mixing in activities of bishops, which no other station would bother with; poor signal via Sackville, CANADA as frequencies this high are much attenuated, and hardly anything on 15 MHz yet. Again mentioned about no longer being on SW or MW from July 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Glenn Hauser logs June 24-25, 2012

** ALASKA. 9655, June 25 at 1300, good signal from KNLS IS, 1302 sign-on in Chinese with website http://www.smzg.org pronounced in, what else? English! But some other word than ``dot``. That site`s transmission schedule presented in Englishhttp://www.smzg.org/Schedule_in_English.htm
and in Chinese http://www.smzg.org/Schedule_in_Chinese.htm
both still claim this 13-14 broadcast in Chinese is on 9920! 1303 on to pop song in English. Anyhow now in the clear with CRI/Sackville defunct [de-funked?] on 9650 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** AUSTRALIA. 5995, June 25 at 1227, RA with interesting item on language diversity concluding `Asia-Pacific` show; good signal here, surely Shepparton, but missing from 6020 which is supposed to be on, and 5995 is supposed to be in DRM from Brandon. Maybe a sign of further schedule disruptions if RA is finally about to get a series of DRM frequencies activated from Shep? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. THE LAST DAY for RADIO CANADA INTERNATIONAL, June 24:

15330, at 2005 `Maple Leaf Mailbag` sounds awfully familiar; yes, introduced as the ``Pentultimate`` edition, references to June 17 and going to present the final edition a week later. RCI is playing back last week`s show, depriving Terry Haig of his farewell program!! Was it pulled by management as too ``emotional``?? I listened incredulously to the entire hour, again, in case something new was edited in, but it was all the same as last week, ending with song ``Get a Haircut, Get a Real Job``. Then Terry`s final words were ``You people are a total gas. Thank you, thank you, thank you``, into canned closing, and 15330 cut off the air while // 15235 switched to French.

Then checked the website, but found audio of the same last-week show of June 17 is now presented as the ``last show`` of June 24!

Harry Brooks points out: Also available at WRN to play and download:http://www.wrn.org/listeners/#radio-canada-international
But their ``June 24`` file of 1800 UT is also a repeat of June 17.

Tony Malloy points out: The RSS feed has the last broadcasthttp://www.rcinet.ca/audio_on_demand/Audio/english/The_Maple_Leaf_Mailbag/EN_1200_The_Maple_Leaf_Mailbag_Balado-20120624.mp3
so I listen to that immediately before it gets deleted, and Terry does intro it as the June 24 podcast, but it`s not the same as the broadcast would have been, much shorter with music and what else removed? He said something about listening to the broadcast to hear more letters.

I asked Wojtek Gwiazda of the RCI Action Committee about this and he replied: ``Hi Glenn, I don't know what happened. I very seriously doubt the programme was censored. I'll check in with Terry tomorrow. If something screwed up, I want him to at least have a quiet night of sleep tonight. He will be devastated to know the last programme was not broadcast. I may be wrong, but there are a number of steps before a program is ready for broadcast, enough steps for something to go wrong.``

On June 25 at 1640, we find that the MLM archive page has a ``June 24`` show recorded June 22 with this link:http://www.rcinet.ca/english/archives/program/the-maple-leaf-mailbag/archives/episode/12-11_2012-06-25-/
Note, it says June 25, as if it may have just been corrected, but there is no audio play link!

15455, June 24 at 2100, ``último programa em português de RCI,`` `Canadá Direto`, // stronger 17860. As far as staff were concerned, it was all over June 22, since the pattern had been to play this same half hour nine times each weekend, three each on Fri, Sat and Sun, and there would be two more June 24 at 2200 and 2300.

15455, June 24 at 2302, now it`s Spanish with finale of mailbag `El Castor Mensajero` = ``The Messenger Beaver`` which loses something in translation. This also on weaker 11990, along with Portuguese on 13760 were really the final, final, RCI SW transmissions. At 2328 inserted a bit of French and English, including ``the last of all RCI shortwave programs``. But it was not the last language! Inexplicably at 2329.5 to 2330.5* we heard Arabic! Plugged their website, opened program till cut off. I suppose this is what followed on a satellite feed which didn`t belong on SW, never any Arabic scheduled at this hour.

What about other relays via Sackville?

CBC Northern Quebec: 9625 is still on at 0202 June 25, CBC news in English, as usual blasted away by Spain/Costa Rica 9630 but at least in analog instead of DRM as before 0200.

NHK World Radio Japan: 5960 for Japanese from 0200 June 25 is missing; instead Qur`an with weak signal, still at 0203, presumably Kuwait. However, NHK must have come on late, as it`s there at 0256 and beyond. The 0500-0529 English still exists too, thankfully, very good at 0513. 11655, 1259 June 25, NHK IS starting the bihour in Japanese. Bill Patalon III also confirms English still at 1200 on 6120. So NHK relays are lasting longer, until ---?

Voice of Vietnam: 6175 is still going including English from 0100, altho when I tune in at 0114 it`s Vietnamese, soon voiced-over. Also for the rest of the evening, plus 9555 after 0430 at 0519 check with happy kidsongs. How much longer? But:

CRI is gone from all these previously scheduled and heard broadcasts: 0100 on 9790, 0300 on 9560, 0400 on 6020, 6080, 0500 on 6020, 6190, 1300 on 9650, 15260. Also missing: Cantonese after 1200 on 11850. I`m rather surprised at this, since SAC was the #1 way for CRI to cover N America. These transmissions have still not been deleted fromhttp://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A12&broadc=CRI
showing effective until Oct 28.

That leaves inferior signals from Cuba, Albania, Spain. If they wanted to, plenty of frequencies could also reach us intentionally direct from China. Maybe CRI thinx the increasing numbers of relays on MW stations in the US are sufficient? Hardly!

KBS World Radio: 9560, at 0200 June 25, ID pronounced in English, then opening Spanish with constant audio artifacts as always from them. I assumed the 0230 English would follow, but it`s not there at 0253 check, following inquiry from Mick Delmage who was not hearing that broadcast at 0235, nor the previous night; how come?

9650 at 1232 check, the KBSWR 1200 English broadcast is still going, and so is the 1400 Korean at 1407 check. Jean-Michel Aubier confirmed the 0600 Spanish is still going too on 6045.

Vatican Radio: The 0250 English broadcast is still there with VG signals on 9610, 7305. Did not awaken in time June 25 to check the 1130-1214 on 13730. VR is making their own cuts as of July 1, so these may only last one more week (via BONAIRE 15470 also still on in Spanish at 0200).

There is no more RCI to be heard on SW, except: still a few RCI IS and IDs accompanying relays of other stations: 0529 on 9555 after Vietnam; 1259 on 9650 after KBS. O, Canada (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake June 25, after 1300:
15560, poor at 1312

Before 1400:
17450, JBA at 1359
16920, very poor with flutter at 1359
16100, very poor with flutter at 1359
15900, JBA at 1359
14700, very poor at 1359
Started too late, unknown if any below 14 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA [non]. All the Sackville relays of CRI appear to have been canceled as of June 25: see CANADA. This leaves inferior signals via CUBA, ALBANIA, SPAIN intended for us, plus numerous off-beam broadcasts direct.

13740, June 25 at 1401 no signal tho RHC is big on 13780. CRI English finally cuts on late at *1402 JIP news with undermodulation, hum, lo-fi audio. Sometimes this transmitter is warming up already by 1350 with open carrier. This 14-16 relay and equally defective 13-14 on 9570 are all that`s left for CRI English in the morning to us. Whatever became of the new transmitters China was installing in Cuba? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** COLOMBIA. 14950, June 25 at 0113 I have set up my 87.85 MHz feeder with Salem Stereo programming in order to compare its delay with the SW relay tuned on the porch --- but no signal at all heard now, at 0119, or later. Is it gone for good? If so, we got it identified just in time. I did find a JBA carrier on 14885, not necessarily from any broadcaster. Timechex on the webcast only 3 minutes fast now. My nearest streetlight as it flickers on is still blasting RF at *0205 but only briefly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. Another UT Monday, and another week with the DentroCuban Jamming Command ignoring the truce offered by R. Martí`s silent period at 0300-0900: still wall-of-noise jamming at 0511 on 6030, 0516 on 7405. Not exactly ``against nothing`` on 6030, as this impossiblizes any DX from Calgary, Central African Republic, or Ethiopia. Tnx a lot, Arnie! While Cubans go hungry as all this electrical expense is wasted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CHINA [non]

** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, June 24 at 1951, still no signal from R. Africa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN. 9595, R. Nikkei, Monday June 25 good at 1318-1325 with English lesson explaining in Japanese various expletives, such as ``Holy Hell`` (more like ``Hoary Hair``), ``O My God``, ``Holy Moses``, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MAURITANIA. 7245, Monday June 25 at 0517, IGIM is on early for a change on a non-Fribbath, Arabish with phone calls, poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. Signs of sporadic E analog TV DX June 24, UT:
1931 on 2, fade-in some video from south; 1933 it`s fútbol. Nothing more (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 6185, June 25 at 0203, XEPPM with good modulation for a change and no ACI from either side; talking about Turquía, Malta (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA. 15115-15120-15125, Sunday June 24 at 1951, with BFO on, can detect DRM here from VON; have they expanded to 7 days a week now? Tho useless to all but a few enthusiasts, and more with take-it-or-leave it capability (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1622 monitoring: 9955, UT Monday June 25 at 0521 via WRMI, about equal level to pulse jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 12105, June 24 at 1951, WTWW-3 is again in Arabic at unscheduled time. Unseems Arabible, instead Arabic talk with lively music. Maybe this is the dramatic programming George McClintock had been wanting to add (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7555, June 25 at 0516, another night off for WEWN Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 13570, June 25 at 1257, 1310, no signal from WINB with Brother Scare, but audible poorly at next check 1404. Propagation degraded, so maybe it was really on from 1200, but I doubt it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** USTRALIA. See AUSTRALIA

UNIDENTIFIED. 6045, June 25 at 0509-0512, a JBA carrier. Looking for reactivated R. Sarandí, Uruguay, which Horacio Nigro says is 24 hours with 300 watts on LSB. But is there any reduced carrier? They are hearing it well in Argentina, and even Bryan Clark in NZ is pulling it in. The only other possibility at this hour would be Zimbabwe, also supposedly 24 hours, but sunrise there is around 0430 now.

Don`t you believe Aoki and EiBi listings for XEXQ on 6045, long inactive. Huge problem for us here is the bigsig from Habana on 6050; but those awake should try after 0700 when that`s off and so is Korea/Canada 6045. While you`re at it, check 6075+ for LV de Artigas, also active from Uruguay (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Glenn Hauser logs June 23-24, 2012

** CANADA. Reminder to monitor the very last `Maple Leaf Mailbag` on RCI today Sunday June 24, at 1800-1900 on 17810 & 11765 Skelton, 9530 Kashgar; and at 2000-2100 on Sackville 15235, 15330, 17735 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake June 24, before 1200:
14700, good at 1158
14950, fair at 1158-1200*

Before 1300:
13920, good at 1237; none in the 12s
14700, very good at 1240
15555, very good at 1242
15780, very good at 1241, way over 15775 VOA Korean Tinang USward
16100, very good at 1244
16920, very good at 1244
17450, JBA at 1245

After 1300:
15555, good at 1304; the only one still on past hourtop
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA [non]. 13650, June 24 at 1206, CRI English with CCI, surely V. of Korear, followed 5 or 6 words later by 13645. 13650 is via Cerrik, ALBANIA; 13645 is via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** COLOMBIA. 14950.7, June 24 at 0058, another try at the station previously filed under UNIDENTIFIED. Much better signal than before! Peaks at 6 bars on the DX-398 instead of the usual zero, maybe 1. As I tune in, again mentioning ``Ciudad de Pasto`` with a phone number.

0059, plug for Cristo, 0100 Mexican music.

0107, music segué, lyric includes ``la salvación``, quote from Isaías, YL timecheck, more music

0113, announcement includes ``ellos no pueden esperar``, song.

0117, Bible quote, then timecheck in a different format by YL only, ``---- Estéreo informa la hora: 8 de la noche, 22 minutos``. But she`s still 5 minutes fast! Unfortunately the canned IDs are somewhat muffled, harder to copy than the music. And now it`s weakening.

0121 quoting another Bible versículo, timecheck, weaker still.

On the Pasto lead I had researched all the radio stations there, starting with AM. There are only a few, with the best bet being per WRTH on 1250, Radio Vida/Radio María. I later got their webcast to work and it did not have this religious element.

The official Colombian government station list is here:http://www.mintic.gov.co/images/documentos/radio_difusion_sonora/listado_emisoras.xls
In three different categories. Once I heard ``stereo`` I knew the originating station was very likely FM, not AM. Again there are only a few possibilities in Pasto, all with webcasts: Tropicana Estéreo 97.1, certainly not the right format; Amor Estéreo 94.1, but that`s RCN and 14950 is local; Romántica Stereo 88.1 HJU86 looks promising, as licensee is the Cooperativa de Trabajo Asociado Arca de Noé, implying religious connexion with Noah`s Ark, but it sounds secular too.

I`m running this on my FM feeder 87.85 MHz as I resume monitoring 14950 on the porch at 0158. Switching back and forth, no match.

0202, announcement about something with dates in junio.

0205, the street light photocell again fires up the arc starting with a big RF blast on SW. This is the current dusk time with a clear sky.

0205 another automated timecheck, 0210 announcement, 0214 fading and I quit. Final recheck at 0343 to find it gone, probably off much earlier.

Meanwhile I check one more Pasto station, R. Capital Pasto, 104.1, which despite the seemingly secular name is obviously religious from its Facebook, but again the announcements and music style don`t fit.

Another check in the morning June 24: at 1158 Firedrake is dominating 14950, off at 1200, with JBA signal uncovered maybe from Colombia, but now one of my DTV cable boxes has decided to vary to this frequency with its bubble-jamming, still at 1224.

So nothing fits for Pasto. Since 14950 is obviously piratical, maybe the FM station is too, and not in the official lists? No, Pasto turns out to be a mislead. Fortunately, I need pursue this no longer, as Henrik Klemetz reports:

``Thanks to Torolf Johnsson, of Stockholm, for providing two good audio files. The programming heard on 14950.6 is that of Salem Stéreo, which operates on 106.5 FM from Rioblanco, Tolima, Colombia. I am inclined to believe that the SW frequency is being operated by some local or semilocal ham. Pasto is mentioned in an ad as the home town of Freddy Noguera, who is co-hosting a youth meeting June 26-26 [sic].``

BTW, this station does not appear on the official list! Here`s its website:http://www.salemstereo.com/
and stream with strange title Radio Ipuc:
[hmm, maybe means something like Iglesia Pentecostal Unida Colombiana]http://www.salemstereo.com/radio/salemstereo.html

Format matches checked at 1511 UT with timecheck only 2 minutes fast. ID is pronounced ``Salén Estéreo``. I would not rule out possibility that other times in past and future, 14950 may relay some other station. And since Salem Stereo does webcast, the relay really could be anywhere, unless 14950 is suitably ahead of the webcast delay.

I later read that Terry Krueger, FL, had also IDed it: ``14950.68 COLOMBIA Salem Stereo, Ibagué or Río Blanco, Tolima. 2145 June 23, 2012`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GERMANY. 7265, Sunday June 24 at 0459 past 0500, no signal from Hamburger Lokalradio, just North American SSB hams in their Field Day frenzy, overfilling the bands once a year; they were even atop Vatican on 7250. Thomas Voelkner had tipped us that HLR would be on today, including a special airing of WORLD OF RADIO at 0630. Aoki shows it`s only 1 kW, 230 degrees from Bremen, starting this early only on Sat & Sun (but not always?), so how was reception in Europe for WOR?

Noel Green, Blackpool, England reports: ``Hello Glenn, Yes, WOR was heard on 7265 today (24th) at tune in around 0635 till close at 0800. Their signal was varying from nil on the meter with surges up to 9, but mostly about S2. That's not strong enough to over-ride my local noise level and so I missed hearing clearly some of the programme. But, I hope they will do it again another weekend`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KUWAIT. 15540, June 23 at 1809 check, R. Kuwait is in Arabic intonations, not Qur`an recitation, then into English translation, fair signal. So it`s the regular Islamic-evangelism show, not default to total Arabic today; fair signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX  LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. Sporadic-E analog TV DX June 23, UT:

1649 on 2, fade-in Spanish from south. Grafix showing Mesa 5, Mesa 6, Mesa 7, audio announcing premio after premio in the 20s. Some kind of game show, auxion, lottery? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1622 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW 5755, UT Sunday June 24 at 0400. Once again like Thursday, the ID causes my opening to be upcut in progress. Remaining airings on WRMI 9955: Sunday 1530, 1730, Monday 0500, 1130; on HLR 5980: Tuesday 0930 [see also GERMANY]. On WRN via SiriusXM channel 120: Sunday 1730 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9990, Saturday June 23 at 1730, no signal from WTWW-2 despite advance publicity from Ted Randall that he would be doing a live show from Field Day near Nashville at 12-6 pm (=17-23 UT). Next check at 1745 it was on with music; 1815 a live interview and onward for at least two hours, alternating with classic rock/country. Meanwhile after 1800, his pre-recorded regular QSO show was airing on WTWW-1 9479.

12105, June 23 at 1813, noticed that WTWW-3 was in Arabic, which is normally heard from *1400, but now with piano music background, so not Arabible? I don`t think languages they really broadcast have ever matched the nominal schedule on website:

``Transmitter 3 Scripture readings 12.105 Mhz New schedule to start shortly:
Central                        UTC     
6 - 9 am      Russian      1200 - 1500
9 - 12 noon   Arabic       1500 - 1800
12 - 3pm      French       1800 - 2100  
3 - 6pm       German       2100 - 0000
6 - 9pm       Spanish      0000 - 0400
9 - 12 midn   Portuguese   0400 - 0600
12MN - 3am    English      0600 - 0900
3 - 6am       English      0900 - 1200``

Note the time conversions are for MDT/CST, not CDT. And not really on the air between 0500 and 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9980, June 23 at 1910 I notice that WWCR-4 is off early, so no competition for 9990 WTWW; but June 24 at early 1223, I notice that 9980 is on with ``The Last Radio Program``, VG signal, Alun(sp?) giving his e-mail address. This show does not appear anywhere on the WWCR program schedule.

So they are messing with the schedule again. According to their own PDF program schedule dated June 4, on Saturdays, 9980 goes off at 2000 after BS; Sunday sign-on not until 1400 with more BS. Don`t you believe it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 12050, June 23 at 2028, open carrier/dead air from WEWN Spanish, while 13830 is crackly. 7555, June 24 at 0501 and still 0511, no signal from WEWN Spanish which is missing a lot, but not every night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 17605, June 24 at 1306, good signal in Burmese from YFR, so presumed still on substitute site Grigoriopol/Kishinov, Pridnestrovye/Moldova, instead of originally scheduled Tashkent, Uzbekistan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ZIMBABWE [non]. 9870, June 24 at 0453, African language with distortion; I remember that Saudi Arabia, Iran and India use this frequency, but it`s none of those now. Aoki shows:

``9870 R. VOICE OF PEOPLE 0400-0500 1234567 English/Shona/Ndebele 50 265 Talata-Volondry 3 MDG 04737E 1843S RVP a12``

So apparently the 50 kW Madagascar transmitter has its problems. I don`t think it was jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15725, June 24 at 0510, music with very poor signal, 0511 YL maybe in Urdu; 0517 intonation sounded more like English, then music. The choices are: R. Pakistan, and V. of South Sudan Revolutionary Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Glenn Hauser logs June 22-23, 2012

** CANADA. 6110, June 23 Sackville does not turn on the NHK World R. Japan relay in English until the opening minute is almost over, *0500:40. I was getting worried (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake June 23, befoe 1200:
 9970, fair-good at 1142, none higher until:
15900, very poor at 1146
16100, JBA at 1146

After 1200:
15435, poor at 1209
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6000, June 23 at 0501, RHC is late again in turning this frequency off and turning 6125 on for the last bihour of English, // 6010, 6050 and 6060.

5955, June 23 at 1136, lite pulse jamming marring CRI English direct, so the DCJC still thinx R. República, Costa Rica is here, altho probably only in the evenings; Commies vs Commies! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, June 22 at 1917 no signal from R. Africa (nor Philippines, nor Brasil). Last log I`ve seen for it was June 15, altho I had not logged it since June 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN. 13785, June 23 at 1215, assertive speaker in Arabic, poor signal. It`s the 6-sesquihour transmission of IRIB, 500 kW, 178 degrees from Kamalabad at 0530-1430 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KUWAIT. 15540, June 22 at 1916, quick check of R. Kuwait finds it with western pop music, not Arabic today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. Sporadic E analog TV DX, June 22, UT:

1430 on 2, first signs of video today from south

1612 on 3, Televisa program promo, loud audio, then non-comedic dark animation for younguns; so probably net 5, probably XHBQ Zacatecas

1613 on 2, TeleVer bug in UR, novela, so XHFM, Veracruz

1633 on 5, CCI including a discussion

1633 on 4, speech, maybe political

1635 on 6, MUF briefly reaches video here; tried FM but none heard

1636 on 5, TeleVer, video only, novela, so XHAJ, Las Lajas

1651 on 4, MUF down to here, net-5 toon, with zero-CCI beat bars

1651 on 5, briefly parallel 4 above

1659 on 2, hoy, net-2 program at conclusion?

1708 on 2, +tv bug in UR, i.e. másTV, i.e. XEWO, Guadalajara

1803 on 2, convoluted bug in UR I have not seen before; looks like a large lower-case a with other stuff overlain; maybe Cristina or similar talkshow, Televisa closing credit, then Televisa Música with a video

1810 or so the opening finishes

2300 on 2, Es fades in again

2332 on 2, classic video of a concert aria or lied; TELEACTIVA in upper right, so XEFB Monterrey NL; surprisingly cultural

UT June 23:

0011 on 3, Televisa promo, net-5. Opening continued but I switched to SW trying to ID the Spanish station on 14950+, see UNIDENTIFIED

0245 on 2, next check opening is still going, CCI in and out for more than an hour more

0351 on 2, newscast, with constant crawler, Televisa bug in LR

0412 still some video on 2 but almost gone as I call it a night

(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA. 15115-15120-15125, Friday June 22 at 1917, DRM noise confirming VON is active, presumably to take Saturday & Sunday off as usual. 15110 Spain behaving itself, no spurs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 17530, June 22 at 1919, big open carrier, atop station in French, ergo it`s VOA vs VOA! At 1930, São Tomé hands 17530 over to Greenville for continuation of French, but GB is already on. It should be warming up on some open nearby frequency instead, as is often the case. I don`t blame GB but IBB HQ for scheduling such an unnecessary site swap in the middle of a transmission and failing to assure there will not be such overlaps (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15385, June 22 at 1916, still no trace of KJES; nor on 7555 at 0142 June 23 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7490, June 23 at 0503, open carrier, WBCQ not turned off yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VATICAN [non]. 15470, June 23 at 0143, VR IS on VG signal via BONAIRE; 0145 opening Spanish again. I think they run the same half-sesquihour twice at 0100 & 0145. VR says their Portuguese service preceding at 0030 will continue past July 1, but I haven`t found a similar statement about Spanish.

13765, June 23 at 0515, VR in African English, this time with a mosquito-like buzz/whine of slightly varying pitch. Is due west from Madagascar; I remain uncertain whether this is self-inflicted. Has anyone noticed such on other relays from there?

13730, June 23 at 1210, VR in English, what was suspected to be the final one via Sackville, since there`s no English on Sundays, but now it seems post-RCI, the site may keep some other relays going for a while longer. We`ll see on Monday. Story about PBXVI being concerned about the growth of non-Catholic sects in Latin America, pentecostal and evangelical; solution: be better ``Christians``.

At 1213 announcement that as of July 1, this transmission will no longer be audible in Europe on MW, or in America on SW, but still on internet. Off at 1214* without any IS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 14950.7, June 22 at first check 2311, JBA signal from the mystery LA station, so I`ll get back to it later as TVDX from Mexico is still incoming.

June 23 at 0040, can hear some music, unseems religious but maybe Mexican; 0045 it`s a JBA carrier; 0054 announcement.

I find slightly better reception on the porch with the DX-398 and a few meters of wire, than on the FRG-7 in the shack with much longer wire.

0054 announcement, maybe sermon past 0100, mentions Satanás at 0103.

0122 is no better so I quit for a while again. Annoying regular noise bursts from some local source at the rate of 90/minute.

From 0159 I start recording some of the peaks when there are announcements. Now it`s Mexican style but it`s also religious music mentioning ``oración``; 0200 announcement, 0201 timecheck ending ``6 minutos``, more music.

0205-0206 as I am recording again, announcement interrupted by street light firing initially with a large RF burst, but noise level then settles back down, by when music has resumed.

More announcements at 0209, 0214, nothing copiable. 

Around 0220 I hear that very weak het again, likely Firedrake starting up on 14950 even.

0224 music peaks stronger, unseems religious or Mexican.

0225 YL timecheck for 9:29, so 4 minutes fast: OM voice says ``La hora exacta en --- (fade)``, YL voice says automatically, ``9 de la noche, 29 minutos``. That`s the UT-5 zone, same as here, and also: México, Panamá, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú – one of those. The sporadic E into VHF might be boosting this a bit, but on HF the geographic span affected is much broader than on VHF, so not necessarily Mexico.

0227 fades up, religious music mentions ``mi señor``. Another TC I can`t copy.

0229 announcement, ID, I think mentioning ``Ciudad de Pasto`` i.e. Colombia. If not Pasto it`s fonetically similar.

0231 timecheck in same format as 9:36: ``La hora exacta en CVC(?? Or something fonetically similar; doubt it is really CVC La Voz), so 5 minutes fast, then an Aleluya song.

0234 announcement but weaker; 0235 het grows

0240 still on later than last night, but weaker, het and I quit

1219 I check again and singing is barely audible, in and out, then JBA;

1237 a brief peak with harmonies, and now het from presumed Firedrake

1240 mentions ``una vida nueva`` but this is certainly not KNLS; pitch of het compared to keyboard is approx. 750 Hz.

1301 the het is still heard, after I expected FD to make its usual break, but nothing more copiable from the unID.

I have put up a clip of the Pasto (?) mention, and the 9:36 ID and timecheck, and welcome any ideas about what others hear them say:
http://www.w4uvh.net/14950.rm
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Ascolti AM Luca Botto Fiora

Ascolti AM (orari UTC)

Martedì 19 giugno 2012
06.46 - 15725 kHz
(mi ero sbagliato, c'è sempre)
VOICE OF SOUTH SUDAN REVOLUTIONARY R.
Vernacolo, dialoghi OMs.
Segnale buono-sufficiente
Chissà, però, perché persevera sopra a R. Pakistan...
-
06.54 - 15255 kHz
CHANNEL AFRICA - Meyerton (Sud Africa)
EE, annunci OM/YL e s/off.
Segnale sufficiente-insufficiente
-
06.57 - 15120 kHz
VOICE OF NIGERIA - Ikorodu
EE, mx afropop e IDs OM.
Segnale buono-molto buono
-
08.45 - 6095 kHz
TRANSPORT R. - Wertachtal (Germania)
Olandese, phone-in show.
Segnale molto buono
Dal lunedì al venerdì.

***

Venerdì 22 giugno 2012
07.32 - 15725 kHz
VOICE OF SOUTH SUDAN REVOLUTIONARY R.
Vernacolo, parlato OM.
Segnale sufficiente-insufficiente
R. Pakistan s/off alle 07.00.

***

Sabato 23 giugno 2012
03.49 - 15120 kHz
AIR GOS - Bangalore (India)
Hindi, mx locale e annunci YL.
Segnale buono-sufficiente
Co-ch CRI EE.
-
03.53 - 15265 kHz
FIREDRAKE + VOA Tibetan
Segnali sufficienti-insufficienti
Not CNR 1 Jammer?
-
04.04 - 11760 // 11840 kHz
R. HABANA CUBA
Spagnolo, nxs OM/YL.
Segnale buono
11760 co-ch IRIB. 11840 NF?
-
04.06 - 11765 kHz
SRDA - Curitiba (Brasile)
PP, canzone e sermone OMs.
Segnale sufficiente-insufficiente
-
04.15 - 9705 kHz
prob. VOBME 2 - Asmara (Eritrea)
Riferimento OM all'Eritrea.
Segnale buono-sufficiente
Co-ch altra portante, forse R. Etiopia.
-
04.19 - 9665v kHz
VOZ MISSIONARIA - Camboriu-SC (Brasile)
Portoghese, tk OMs.
Segnale sufficiente-insufficiente
-
04.21 - 9625 kHz
CBC NORTHERN QUEBEC SERVICE
Sackville (Canada)
EE, canzone pop YL e annuncio OM.
Segnale sufficiente-insufficiente
Splash REE 9620.
-
04.24 - 9565 kHz
BBC Farsi (dominante) + Bubble Jamming
Segnale buono-molto buono
-
04.28 - 9558,86 kHz
prob. VOICE OF ERITREA - Gedja (Etiopia)
Canzone OM, annuncio YL e s/off 04.34.
Segnale sufficiente-insufficiente
Modulazione un po' bassa.
Per EiBi solo lunedì-mercoledì-venerdì. New?

***

Luca Botto Fiora

***

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

***

RICEVITORI
Rack 1 (LW-MW-SW)
R7 Drake
VR5000DSP Yaesu
PL-660 Tecsun
-
Rack 2 (LW-MW)
E5 Etón

***

ANTENNE
Loop in ferrite ACA di 75 cm interna (@70 kHz-2 MHz)
Loop magnetico 150x100 cm su finestra (@2-5,5 MHz)
Dipolo aperto esterno 20 m (@5.5-30 MHz)
Controllate regolarmente i vostri collegamenti d'antenna.

***

ACCESSORI D'ANTENNA
Amplificatore RF K0LR-WA1ION per loop in ferrite
Amplificatore RF LX1456 NE per loop magnetico e dipolo aperto
Balun 1:1 a choke di RG174 (6 spire - diametro 15 cm) per dipolo aperto
Eliminatore di QRM MFJ 1026 (modificato W8JI)
Splitter 0-1000 MHz a 2 vie
Check regularly your antenna connections.

***

REGISTRATORI
Digitali Sony
ICD-B500 (R7)
ICD-BX112 (VR5000DSP - E5)
ICD-BX800 (PL-660)
-
Musicassette
TRC-1149 Sanyo (R7)

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SOFTWARE (Mac OSX)
Audacity 2.0.0 (acquisizione-conversione audio)
DXToolbox 4.0 demo (propagazione)
EarthDesk 5.8.5 demo (scrivania-orologio mondiale)
HourWorld 3.4.3 demo (orologio mondiale)
Multimode 6.2.4 demo Black Cat Systems (UTEs)
TimePalette 6.0.7 demo (orologio mondiale)

HH Lokalradio Radio Gloria and E.M.R. this weekend

Radio Gloria, European Music Radio and HH Lokalradio are on the air this weekend.

                                Schedule for Saturday

Station                   Time in UTC           Channel      Relay Station

HH Lokalradio           05.00  to  17.00           7265 kHz          via MVBR

                                Schedule for Sunday: 

Stations                Times in UTC          Channel      Relay Stations

HH Lokalradio          05.00  to  07.00           7265 kHz       via MVBR

E.M.R.                         07.00  to  08.00           7265 kHz       via MVBR  (repeated due to bad conditions)

E.M.R.                         08.00  to  09.00           6005 kHz       via Radio 700 (repeated due to bad conditions)

Radio Gloria              08.00  to 10.00            7265 kHz       via MVBR

Radio Gloria              09.00  to 10.00            6140 kHz       via Media Broadcast                                               

Radio Gloria              09.00  to 10.00            6005 kHz       via Radio 700 + shortwaveservice.com                 

HH Lokalradio           10.00  to 11.00            7265 kHz       via MVBR                                                                

Radio Gloria              11.00  to 13.00            9480 kHz       via MVBR                                                                   

HH Lokalradio           13.00  to 17.00            7265 kHz       via MVBR                                                                

Radio Gloria              15.00  to 16.00               -------            via ColoRadio.org

EMR Internet repeats on Sunday and Monday     

Programme repeats are at the following times: 07.00 to 09:00,UTC

All Reception reports to:

E.M.R: studio@emr.org.uk     Radio Gloria: radiogloria@aol.com    HH Lokalradio: m.kittner@freenet.de 

                                                   

Good listening!    73s Tom

Glenn Hauser logs June 21-22, 2012

** ANTARCTICA [non]. As I expected, hardly any signal making it way out here from the UK or Ascension for the BAS annual special June 21 at 2130-2200, but we were glad to give it wide advance publicity for a few more listeners besides the 44 Antarcticans.

At 2130, JBA carrier on 9850 UK, nothing on 7360 ASC; by 2145, 7360 had also acquired a JBA carrier, and of course never anything on 5950. But it was widely heard further east in North America, and no doubt very well in Eurafrica, South America, and perhaps Antarctica. Anyhow, this and previous years` programmes may now be heard easily via:http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/2012/06/120620_antarctic_midwinter_broadcast_2012.shtml
with the new one autolaunching if you are plugged in correctly. I`ve just enjoyed listening to it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ARMENIA. 18121-USB, June 21 at 2137, ham EK6TA was 5&9 giving his call several times fonetikally. I never can remember these CIS E-prefixes, so pleased to look him up later in QRZ.com as:
EK6TA Armenia, Hovik Tarzyan, Artik, QSL direct via DJ0MCZ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. 9625, June 22 at 1329, CBC NQ in English with interview, but hard to copy with somewhat muffled usual undermodulation, despite only slight CCI from occasional fast SAH; 1330 CBC regional news, from where?

HFCC listings for RCI athttp://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A12&broadc=RCI
now show all its transmissions terminating June 24 (except for its relays via South Korea, surely an oversight), but CBCNQ on 9625 is still shown lasting until Oct 28. We hope so, but don`t read too much into this, since Oct 28 is the default end-of-season A-12 date in HFCC listings, also shown for many stations which have no real intention of using a frequency until then. And all the Sackville relays of CRI athttp://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A12&broadc=CRI
are still shown in effect thru Oct 28, FWIW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHILE. 11880, June 21 at 2144, NHK in Portuguese, fair signal signing off? No, just concluding a program before usual dekasecond break in automation, which at 2145 would start `Enfoque de Rádio Japão`. This is 100 kW, 60 degrees from Calera de Tango near Santiago at 2130-2200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake June 22, after 1300:
15555, fair until 1317* cutting off just as I tuned in; none lower
16100, very good at 1318; none higher. Poor propagation today

Before 1400:
15490, very poor at 1351, het on lo side; none lower
16100, good at 1352; none higher
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNIDENTIFIED 14950.68

** ECUADOR [non]. 12025, June 21 at 2143, Arabish announcement about Facebook, poor signal from Woofferton UK about to sign off, service starting at 2100 in Tachelhit from HCJB, except there are no such letters in Arabic. They`ll have to find some other solution in the B-season, than switching same frequency to Sackville as they have done for years, making for much better signal back here and supposedly in NW African target (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, June 21 at 1938, nothing heard from R. Africa, nor for the past few days at this or morning times. Are they gone again? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KUWAIT. 15540, June 21 at 1937, R. Kuwait in English today, YL probably concluding `This Day in History` feature, into music, poor signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MAURITANIA. 7245, UT Friday June 22 at 0532, IGIM is on with lively W African music, poor signal but much better than presumed Vatican on adjacent 7250, solstitially too far into the dayside now. Another instance of on-early (or all-night) for the Fribbath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. Signs of NTSC video on channel A2 fade in from south at 1430 UT June 22, but nothing develops by 1500. But 1515 video plus Spanish audio start infading (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGESTE)

** MOROCCO [and non]. 15349, June 21 at 2140, no signal from IMM. I haven`t been paying much attention since it`s been keeping to itself on this off-frequency, but apparently signing off circa 2100 now with DST in effect from April 29* to Sept 30*, per timeanddate.com which does not explain what their a*terisks mean; during standard time it`s on until 2200. Resultantly, RAE on 15345 escaped any 4 kHz het; very weak but maybe French? No, listed German this hour weekdays. IMM is still operational, tho, this off-frequency carrier confirmed at 1450 UT June 22 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9385, June 22 at 0534, WWRB has once again failed to switch to night frequency 3185 for the Brother Scare End-of-World Service, VG S9+25 signal and nothing on 3185. Seems to happen about once a month. As often noted recently, TOM feed has a slight echo self-imposed upon it, certainly not long/short path. Compensating for this intrusion, 9330 WBCQ was missing, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9330, June 22 at 0535, no signal from WBCQ which is summerly very good even in the nightmiddle; compensates for WWRB, q.v., using up 9385 when it`s supposed to be on 3185. Next check at 1247, WBCQ reduced carrier is on but no mod; then cuts on for a few words two or three times, and right back off. 1252 stays on with `Unshackled` closing plus organ music fill, 1254 plug for Quick Study Ministry, but with some breaks; 1310 still on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Missing stations department: 11715v, no signal at all from KJES, June 22 at 1312, 1410, 1450 chex, including the hour when they have supposedly rotated the LP to send max signal right across Oklahoma, 70 degrees at 13-14. Nor has it been heard lately on 15385v during the 18-20 UT broadcast. Need to check the third scheduled frequency, 7555 at 0100-0230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15610, June 21 at 1938, WEWN is back on the air, morning English frequency 15615 having been missing earlier today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1622 monitoring: Thursday June 21 at 2100, 9479 WTWW goes from SFAW feed to local ID, but WOR playback must have started at same time, as upcut to my opening already in progress after the ID. O, well. Puts in terrific uninterrupted signal for the rest of the show.

Next airing confirmed on 5050 WWRB, first checking convenient webcast, to hear again a healthy sesquiminute of respectful dead air after the SC preacher until 0329, WOR starting about 0330.5 UT Friday June 22. And well heard on 5050 itself at 0350 check.

After that: UT Sat 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; UT Sun 0400 on WTWW 5755; on WRMI 9955: Sat 0800, 1500, 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730, Sun 0500, 1130. On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 14950.68 as measured by Brian Alexander, PA, tnx for this tip: ``0015-0025+, June 22, I'm hearing this unidentified station again with Spanish music. Very weak in noisy conditions at this time.`` He also heard it later past 0105.

So I tuned in at 0046 UT June 22 to find a weak signal with deep fades, but a few words readable occasionally at peaks. It`s carrier plus USB (less modulation but some also on LSB), but soon found it was really more readable in the AM mode on the DX-398. Immediately heard ``hoy ha venido la salvación``, and it`s definitely a religious station. 0049 hymnic harmonies; 0051 mentioned ``la luz``, more music. 0055 announcements past hourtop, but too weak to make anything out.

Unfortunately I had a date with the lawnmower, so had to suspend monitoring, but at 0137 brief recheck, it was in Spanish preaching, well worth more mowing. When I had finished the lawn at 0214, praise-music was playing, sounded like a child singing. A couple times including 0220 sounded like an automated timecheck by a YL, but couldn`t read it for a very good clue. Assertive OM informing us about pecados (sins). 0222 an even weaker het started, probably trace of Firedrake and/or Sound of Hope, on a typical frequency and start-time for them, 14950 even. 0226 Bible lesson.

I was torn between keeping listening or heading for the shower, escaping the mosquitos on the porch where I was monitoring to minimize household computer/TV noise, and/or getting POV on PBS taped, when the station solved that problem by cutting off the air abruptly at 0229:10*. It might have come back on, but I didn`t give it a chance. Toward the end the signal was a bit stronger than at first. For the record, I also checked semi-frequency 7475 around 0055 and it was definitely not // the music from Greece.

Surely from somewhere in Latin America. Perú has a history of unofficial out-of-band stations; remember there was one above 10 MHz several years ago. This is no hobby pirate, but a professional-sounding gospel huxter. I`m sure some IDs must have gone by during fades or while I was not monitoring. Next time!

Note: this religious format is at variance with the ``Mexican music`` several NASWA listeners reported the last time it was heard, UT June 17. This increases the possibility that it`s some pirate picking up and relaying different local stations. Should also look for it in our mornings, if Firedrake isn`t on the frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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Glenn Hauser logs June 20-21, 2012

** CHINA. Firedrake June 21, before 1300:
12320, fair at 1255
13920, fair at 1256
14700, good at 1257
14950, very good at 1257
15555, good at 1258
16100, very good at 1258
16980, very good at 1258
17170, fair at 1259; none in the 18s

Before 1330:
 7365, poor at 1319 with flutter // 15565. Unusual on this band, especially 7365 which is scheduled this hour with VOA Cantonese via Thailand, and the Beijing ChiCom don`t normally bother to jam this minority language! Getting tougher, even more paranoid?
15485, fair at 1310
15560, fair at 1310, ex-15555 above
15565, good at 1320, ex-15560

Before 1400:
 7365, JBA at 1357; see above
15495, good at 1349
15605, fair at 1320

After 1400:
13430, fair at 1423 vs CODAR; recently new, first heard in May; wondered if it was a punch-up error by SOH or FD for previous 13130
14700, fair at 1422
15605, fair at 1403; this one only stayed on from before 1400 above
15615, very poor at 1412, ex-15605, and WEWN is missing
17450, fair at 1420
17565, poor at 1420 with CCI; so V of Tibet via Madagascar is here today instead of 17560 or 17570
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 11860, June 21 at 1356, RHC Spanish is very undermodulated, tho strength is only a little less than OK 11760 // synchronized from same site. It was that way too much earlier in the hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CYPRUS. 15490-15515, June 21 at 0453, OTH radar pulses, presumed from here, like 24 hours earlier, but this time no matching twin area a few hundred Hz higher (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. 13695, June 21 at 1203, S Asian pop music, good with flutter: no news on the hour/half hour here, AIR`s Tamil service at 1115-1215, 500 kW, 108 degrees from Bengaluru per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ITALY. UNIDENTIFIED. 10000, June 21 at 1210, as I tune across, hear some music and talk in unID language --- could it be the new Italian station widely heard in Europe, Italcable? Probably not, as peaking preselector got rid of it, so overload from some other signal on 31m, maybe WTWW; see U S A.

Italcable, which used to transmit point-to-point voice mirrors on SW sesquidecades ago, merged with something else, and now someone has acquired that name and put a transmitter on 10 MHz with time signals and even music! See <http://www.italcable.it>
That site is registered to one Marco Volpe in Viareggio, and the location is in grid square JN53DV. See also Andrea Lawendel`s blog:
<http://radiolawendel.blogspot.de/2012/06/10-mhz-nelle-onde-corte-sempre-piu.html>
translated if necessary and especially the comments appended, where Marco says it`s not a pirate.

Anyhow, our best chances for hearing this are during the minutes when neither WWV nor WWVH is making an announcement or intoning, such as this one, 10 minutes past the hours. I wish I had a handy list of when all of them are (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KUWAIT. 15540, June 20 at 1820, R. Kuwait is back in English, just as I tune in, ``in the name of God, most gracious`` by pompous host of the Islamic evangelism show, still a rarity on SW compared to all the infidel Christians doing it. 1821 on to western pop music; 1830 & 1836 news theme bracketing YL in English, but too poor to copy; 1836 back to C&W song now, ``Tell Her I Love Her``. Next check 2040, still in pop music rather than Qur`an. Who knows what they will put on this 18-21 UT transmission from one day to another (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. Sporadic-E analog TV DX June 20: Just as I am starting my WORLD OF RADIO 1622 recording session, June 20 at 1905 UT, notice CCI on ch 2 and 3 in Spanish from south. All I can do is keep one eye on the monitor and occasionally check as I pause, but nothing definite IDed, and it was a pretty good opening with signals soon up to ch 4 and 5 from 1907 for quite a while, in and out, all gone by 2037 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 17530, June 21 at 1325, open carrier and brief tonetest, off, typical behaviour of IBB Greenville checking out creaky transmitter, hours before needed for later transmission today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9479, June 21 at 1214, WTWW-1 is already on with SFAW discussing B-vitamins, usual huge signal causing some overload here on 31m. As of today, the switchover time from 5755 has been moved up from 1300 to 1200, and the evening switch from 9479 to 5755 had already been moved later from 0000 to 0100 UT, due to the current paucity of darkness (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WEWN anomalies, June 21: 15615, English channel absent at 1350, so no QRM to Firedrake; see CHINA. WWCR 15825 was inbooming with sporadic E help from approx. same distance in somewhat different direxion; 1412 still no trace of WEWN on 15615. Spanish frequencies at 1424: 12050 distorted and crackling; 11550 better, breaking up less (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1622: completed in time for first airing UT Thursday June 21 on 9955 WRMI; repeats: Sat 0800, 1500, 1730; Sun 0800, 1530, 1730; Mon 0500, 1130. Also:

Thu 2100 on 9479 WTWW; UT Fri 0330v on 5050 WWRB; UT Sat 0130v on 5110v-CUSB Area 51 via WBCQ; UT Sun 0400 on 5755 WTWW. Full schedule including FM, webcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 7077, June 21 at 1221, ``polytone`` transmissions, presumably hams using this strange mode. First one heard has very regular alternation of several tones, each lasting the same amount of time. Seems to be regular AM, with this as modulation, rather than CW cutting carrier on and off. Finishes and a much weaker signal replies. At 1226 a different one comes on with tones which are much faster and less regular; the last note prolonged before cutting carrier. This is not Morse code being sent in A2 instead of A1, but must be conveying messages somehow. Polytone is what Richard W Parker, PA called this in a log on 80 m which he thought was spy-numbers, but doubtful within the ham band, tho I don`t find any use of polytone in ham radio terminology, rather in music. What is this really called and how does it work? How are the tones generated? Probably mechanically or electronically, altho playing a flute, recorder or keyboard would suffice. The
 7077 area is a favorite for this stuff at many different hours. The ARRL bandplan is far too vague: http://www.arrl.org/band-plan-1
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Glenn Hauser logs June 19-20, 2012

** AUSTRALIA. 16546-USB, June 20 at 0504, marine weather for coast of Victoria, 0506 South Australia citing timezone as ``Central Standard Time`` = UT +9.5, by masculine voice. Sounds human rather than robotic, but maybe too well emulated. Distracted by some 2-way SSB on 16540; retuned at 0507 and it was off, so missed an ID if any. Here`s a schedule by time of world`s marine weather broadcasts:http://www.hfunderground.com/wiki/Maritime_Weather_Transmissions
showing this frequency is VMC Charleville, Queensland, at 0430 and 0530, etc. VMW Wiluna WA`s frequency on this band is 16528 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. 11780, June 20 at 0520, RNA back up to VG signal tonight, and still absent from 6180 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake June 20, before 0400:
16980, JBA at 0347. No others found

Before 0500:
15980, JBA at 0459 with QRM de OTH radar up to 15983. No others found

After 1200:
12320, fair at 1220; break a few sex at 1221, bad edit?
13920, fair-good at 1219
14700, fair-good at 1219
14950, fair-good at 1219
15445, poor at 1215, het on lo side
16100, very poor at 1217
16920, fair at 1217

Before 1500:
14700, very poor at 1442; none higher or lower 11-18 MHz
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** COSTA RICA. 9430-9830, June 20 at 0515, REE relay on 9630 is putting out decreasing modulation spike spurs to this extent. 9630 itself is crackly, distorted. The crap was strong enough to be heard underneath Vietnam via Canada on 9555 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CYPRUS. 15798-15823, June 20 at 0345, OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here, matched by another one making the same noise at 15490-15515, barely missing R. Australia if you side-tune upward. Checking again at 0458, now one has shifted slightly to 15803-15832 or so; and the lower one has been replaced by 15958-15983, bothering Firedrake 15980, see CHINA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN. 15480, June 20 at 0500, NA, 0501 Russian announcement, quickly into Qur`an, the standard MO of IRIB, as indeed scheduled, 0500-0530, 500 kW, 320 degrees also USward from Sirjan. Fair signal with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KUWAIT. 15540, June 19 at 1914, R. Kuwait has again replaced English service with Arabic, i.e. Qur`an --- did they get religion? Still the same at 2023 and now // weaker 17550, altho interrupted by brief non-musical narrations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA. 15120, June 20 at 0502, open carrier, no modulation, fair signal. Despite the absence of some hum, surely it`s VON. Still mum at 0525 tune-out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 13570, June 19 at 1913, WINB is back on with Brother Scare; as in last report it had been missing earlier this day at 1241 and 1327. Also BS is back the next morning, June 20 at 1213 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7555, June 20 at 0514, WEWN, R. Católica Mundial is gone again from one of its Spanish frequencies, still audible on the other, 11870, and English on 11520. Next check at 1206, 7555 is still AWOL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Ascolti FM Luca Botto Fiora

Ascolti FM (ora italiana)

Martedì 19 giugno 2012 (Rapallo-Santuario-GE)
13.56 - 100.7 MHz
FRANCE BLEU AZUR - St. Raphael-Pic de l'Ours (Francia)
Molti annunci locali e nxs OM/YL.
Segnale buono-sufficiente

***

Mercoledì 20 giugno 2012 (Rapallo-GE)
08.55 - 100.4 MHz
RF CORSE FRE QUENZA MORA - L'Ile Rousse (Corsica)
Francese, conversazione e annunci OMs-YLs.
Segnale sufficiente-insufficiente

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Luca Botto Fiora)

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

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RICEVITORI
Satellit 500 Grundig (filtri FM 110-110-80 kHz)
DE1103 Degen (filtri FM 110-80 kHz)
VR5000DSP Yaesu (OIRT)

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ANTENNE
Yagi 3 elementi telescopica (sperimentale)
Dipolo telescopico
Controllate regolarmente i vostri collegamenti d'antenna.

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ACCESSORI D'ANTENNA
Baluns ferrite RG174 www.northcountryradio.com
Splitter 0-1000 MHz a due vie
Check regularly your antenna connections.

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VARIE
Decoder RDS Manager Conrad (Satellit 500)

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REGISTRATORI
ICD-B500 Sony

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SOFTWARE (Mac)

Audacity 2.0.0 (acquisizione-conversione audio)
DXToolbox 4.0 demo (propagazione)
EarthDesk 5.8.5 demo (scrivania-orologio mondiale)
HourWorld 3.4.3 demo (orologio mondiale)
TimePalette 6.0.7 demo (orologio mondiale)

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QTH ESTERNO
G.C. 09E13 - 44N21 / 612 m. s.l.m.
Rapallo-Santuario di Montallegro (Genova)

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RICEVITORE
DE1103 Degen (filtri FM 110-80 kHz)

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ANTENNE
Telescopica incorporata max 3 elementi
Dipolo telescopico max. 3 elementi
Controllate regolarmente i vostri collegamenti d'antenna.

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ACCESSORI D'ANTENNA
Balun ferrite RG174 www.northcountryradio.com
Splitter 0-1000 MHz a due vie
Check regularly your antenna connections.

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Dx Re Mix News # 736

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DX RE MIX NEWS # 736, also visit: 20 June 2012
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INDONESIA    New additional transmission for Voice of Indonesia in Chinese:
1500-1600 on  9526 JAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs, but good reception in BUL.

RUSSIA     Voice of Russia cut transmissions on a MW 1548 from Grigoriopol:
1300-1500 in Russian WS and 1500-1700 in Serbian. Here is the new schedule:
1700-1800 VOR in Russian
1800-2000 TWR in various
2000-2130 VOR in Serbian
2130-2230 VOR in Italian

U.K.(non)    British Antarctic Survey Special annual mid-winter broadcast
to staff in Antarctica will be on Wed or Thu or Fri, June 20 or 21 or 22:
2130-2200 on  5950 SKN 300 kW / 195 deg
2130-2200 on  7360 ASC 250 kW / 207 deg
2130-2200 on  9850 SKN 250 kW / 195 deg

U.K.(non)    Summer A-12 schedule of Babcock relays. Part 3 of 3:
Trans World Radio Africa
1300-1315 on 13660 KIG 250 kW / 030 deg to EaAf Afar Thu-Sun
1800-1815 on  6120 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Mon-Wed
1800-1815 on  6120 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Amharic Thu/Fri
1800-1830 on  6120 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Tigre Sat
1800-1830 on  6120 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Kunama Sun
1815-1845 on  6120 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Mon-Fri
1830-1845 on  6120 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Amharic Sun

WYFR Family Radio
1700-1900 on 17690 WOF 250 kW / 102 deg to SEEu Turkish
1800-1900 on 11875 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to WeAf Igbo
1830-1930 on 17550 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to WeAf Hausa
1830-1930 on 17585 ASC 250 kW / 085 deg to WeAf French
1900-2000 on 11855 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to WCAf Yoruba
2000-2100 on 15195 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to CeAf English
2100-2200 on 12070 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to CeAf English
1700-1800 on 17545 ASC 250 kW / 085 deg to EaAf English
1700-1800 on  9790 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Amharic
1700-1800 on 15600 WOF 250 kW / 128 deg to EaAf Somali
1800-1900 on  9610 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf English
1900-2000 on  5930 MEY 250 kW / 019 deg to EaAf Swahili
1600-1700 on  6100 MEY 250 kW / 076 deg to SEAf Malagasy
1800-1900 on  5905 MEY 100 kW / 015 deg to SoAf English
1900-2000 on  9775 DHA 250 kW / 210 deg to SoAf English
1900-2000 on  3955 MEY 100 kW / 076 deg to SoAf Portuguese
1900-2000 on  6100 MEY 100 kW / 330 deg to SoAf Portuguese
1300-1400 on 17735 DHA 250 kW / 100 deg to SoAs Kannada
1300-1500 on 17715 DHA 250 kW / 100 deg to SoAs Telugu/Tamil
1400-1500 on  9595 DHA 250 kW / 090 deg to SoAs Hindi
1400-1500 on 15520 DHA 250 kW / 105 deg to SoAs Marathi
1500-1600 on 13690 DHA 250 kW / 105 deg to SoAs English
1500-1600 on 15520 DHA 250 kW / 090 deg to SoAs English
1600-1700 on 11850 DHA 250 kW / 090 deg to SoAs English
1100-1200 on  9955 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to EaAS Korean
1200-1300 on 17880 DHA 250 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Thai

FEBA Radio
2145-2215 on 11985 ASC 250 kw / 027 deg to WeAf Pulaar/Hassinya Thu-Tue
1830-1845 on 15250 ASC 250 kW / 070 deg to CWAf French
1600-1630 on 12125 ERV 300 kW / 192 deg to EaAf Amharic Thu-Sun
1600-1630 on 12125 ERV 300 kW / 192 deg to EaAf Guragena Mon-Wed
1630-1700 on 12125 ERV 300 kW / 192 deg to EaAf Amharic
1600-1630 on 11655 KIG 250 kW / 030 deg to EaAf Afar
1630-1700 on  9820 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Sun-Wed
1630-1700 on  9820 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Amharic Thu-Sat
1700-1730 on  6180 DHA 250 kW / 215 deg to EaAf Somali
1700-1800 on  9630 KIG 250 kW / 030 deg to EaAf Orominya/Tigrinya
1730-1800 on  7475 ERV 300 kW / 192 deg to EaAf Silte
0800-0830 on 15280 MOS 300 kW / 115 deg to N/ME Arabic
1800-1930 on  9550 KIG 250 kW / 030 deg to N/ME Arabic
0230-0300 on  9790 DHA 250 kW / 045 deg to WeAs Dari(Radio Sadaye Zindagi)
0300-0315 on  9790 DHA 250 kW / 045 deg to WeAs Mixed lang
1500-1530 on 11755 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to WeAs Dari(Radio Sadaye Zindagi)
1530-1600 on 11755 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to WeAs Pashto
1200-1230 on 15215 DHA 250 kW / 085 deg to CeAs Tibetan
0000-0030 on  9390 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg to SoAs Bangla
0030-0100 on  9390 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg to SoAs Hindi
0200-0230 on  9750 DHA 250 kW / 060 deg to SoAs Urdu Sun
0200-0215 on  9750 DHA 250 kW / 060 deg to SoAs Urdu Mon-Sat
0215-0230 on  9750 DHA 250 kW / 060 deg to SoAs Mixed langs Mon-Sat
1400-1430 on  9500 TAC 100 kW / 143 deg to SoAs Urdu
1430-1445 on  9500 TAC 100 kW / 143 deg to SoAs Mixed langs
1500-1530 on  9390 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg to SoAs Bangla

Radio Australia
2200-2330 on  9695 DHA 250 kW / 105 deg to SEAs Indonesian
2200-2400 on  9855 DHA 250 kW / 105 deg to SEAs English
2300-2330 on  9490 DHA 250 kW / 085 deg to SEAs Burmese
0000-0030 on 12005 DHA 250 kW / 105 deg to SEAs Indonesian
0100-0130 on 11780 SNG 100 kW / 340 deg to SEAs Burmese
1100-1300 on  6140 SNG 100 kW / 013 deg to SEAs English
0400-0430 on 17800 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Indonesian via T8WH Angel 4
0500-0530 on 11700 SNG 100 kW / 340 deg to SEAs Indonesian
1300-1430 on  9965 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg to EaAs Chinese via T8WH Angel 4
1600-1630 on  9540 SNG 100 kW / 340 deg to SEAs English

Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation, but on air very irregular:
2215-2245 on  5925 CYP 250 kW / 314 deg to SEEu Greek Fri-Sun
2215-2245 on  7220 CYP 300 kW / 314 deg to SEEu Greek Fri-Sun
2215-2245 on  9760 CYP 250 kW / 315 deg to SEEu Greek Fri-Sun

Suab Xaa Moo Zoo
2230-2300 on  7530 TAI 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Hmong

USA(non)    Brother Stair TOM in English form European relays from June 1:
via secret/hidden transmitter site, ex Yerevan
0400-0600 on 15750 SIE ??? kW / ??? deg to EaAf Daily
0600-0700 on 15750 SIE ??? kW / ??? deg to EaAf Sat
1600-1700 on 15425 SIE ??? kW / ??? deg to SoAs Sat
1700-1800 on 15425 SIE ??? kW / ??? deg to SoAs Daily
1900-2200 on  9400 SIE ??? kW / ??? deg to WeEu Daily
via Wertachtal
1400-1500 on  9655 WER 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Daily
1500-1600 on 13810 WER 100 kW / 120 deg to N/ME Daily
via Yerevan, all cancelled
0700-1000 on 15750 ERV 300 kW / 192 deg to EaAf Sat
1600-1700 on 15425 ERV 300 kW / 125 deg to SoAs Daily
1800-2200 on  9400 ERV 100 kW / 305 deg to WeEu Daily
via Tiganesti, all cancelled
1300-1500 on 15190 TIG 300 kW / 100 deg to AUS  Daily
1500-1700 on 15700 TIG 300 kW / 100 deg to AUS  Sat

Ascolti AM Luca Botto Fiora

Ascolti AM (orari UTC)

Giovedì 14 giugno 2012
*20.00 - 11870 kHz
RADIO BIAFRA LONDON - Wertachtal (Germania)
Musica afropop, IDs-tk EE-Igbo OM.
Segnale buono-sufficiente
20.00-21.00 giovedì e domenica.

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Domenica 17 giugno 2012
Ieri pomeriggio, prima di chiudere la connessione telematica ho dato uno sguardo ai dati NOAA con il software DX-Toolbox Mac OSX ed il grafico degli indici K illustrava un valore pari a 3. Questa mattina, non so se in relazione a tale valore, dopo le 07.00 sui 49 metri si sentivano ancora segnali tipo R. Marti con jamming (5980 - 6030) e University Network da Anguilla su 6090 e sui 31 metri una portante *apparentemente* non modulata a fondo scala su 9635 ed il Niger su 9705. Più tardi, tra le 08.45 e le 08.50 - prima del fade-out completo - sono incredibilmente apparse 9835 RTM Sarawak FM, 9680 RRI Jakarta, 9560 e 9510 Xinjiang PBS, quest'ultima, forse, in parallelo con un segnale apparso per pochi secondi su 7230!!! I 25 metri, anche dopo le 9, erano sommersi da segnali cinesi, però io con un ricevitore ho ascoltato Studio DX n. 468 su 9790 kHz, il cui segnale era chiaro ma probabilmente con alcune evanescenze dovute al passaggio dai segnali anomali provenienti dall'est asiatico.

Luca Botto Fiora

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

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RICEVITORI
Rack 1 (LW-MW-SW)
R7 Drake
VR5000DSP Yaesu
PL-660 Tecsun
-
Rack 2 (LW-MW)
E5 Etón

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ANTENNE
Loop in ferrite ACA di 75 cm interna (@70 kHz-2 MHz)
Loop magnetico 150x100 cm su finestra (@2-5,5 MHz)
Dipolo aperto esterno 20 m (@5.5-30 MHz)
Controllate regolarmente i vostri collegamenti d'antenna.

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ACCESSORI D'ANTENNA
Amplificatore RF K0LR-WA1ION per loop in ferrite
Amplificatore RF LX1456 NE per loop magnetico e dipolo aperto
Balun 1:1 a choke di RG174 (6 spire - diametro 15 cm) per dipolo aperto
Eliminatore di QRM MFJ 1026 (modificato W8JI)
Splitter 0-1000 MHz a 2 vie
Check regularly your antenna connections.

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REGISTRATORI
Digitali Sony
ICD-B500 (R7)
ICD-BX112 (VR5000DSP - E5)
ICD-BX800 (PL-660)
-
Musicassette
TRC-1149 Sanyo (R7)

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SOFTWARE (Mac OSX)
Audacity 2.0.0 (acquisizione-conversione audio)
DXToolbox 4.0 demo (propagazione)
EarthDesk 5.8.5 demo (scrivania-orologio mondiale)
HourWorld 3.4.3 demo (orologio mondiale)
Multimode 6.2.4 demo Black Cat Systems (UTEs)
TimePalette 6.0.7 demo (orologio mondiale)