Pavanello's last log

1116    7/9 21.58 R. Pontevedra - SS ID e pubblicità locale buono
1566    7/9 21.20 TWR - Parakou Vern. predica buono
1566   12/9 17.00 R. Challanger - Villa Estense IT Studio DX by Roberto Scaglione buono
1575    7/9 20.50 R. Pamplona - SS ID e pubblicità locale buono
1620   12/9 04.10 WDHP - Christiansted EE BBC NX suff.
3330   12/9 03.50 CHU - Ottawa EE/FF UD e pip pip buono
3810   12/9 04.05 HD21OA - Guayaquil pip pip buono
3895   12/9 21.50 Henk Skyline Int. R - EE ID e MX buono
4770   12/9 22.15 FRCN - Kaduna Vern. MX afro buono
4790   12/9 04.00 R. Vision - Chiclayo SS predica buono
4805   12/9 22.45 R. Dif. Amazonas - Manaus PP sport buono
4915   12/9 03.55 R. Difusora - Macapà PP MX buono
5025   12/9 21.45 VL8K - Katherine EE intervista // a 4835 e 4910 KHz buono
5815   13/9 08.55 Orion R. - EE ID e MX buono
5910    6/9 23.10 Marfil Estereo - Bogotà SS MX buono
6305    6/9 13.50 R. Malaisy - EE ID e MX buono
6310   13/9 09.00 Grensstad R. - EE ID e MX buono
6321   13/9 08.30 R. Quintus - EE ID e MX buono
6870   13/9 08.45 R. Playback Int. - EE ID e MX buono
7550   13/9 08.50 R. Amica - IT ID e MX buono
9504.9 12/9 22.20 R. Record - Sao Paulo PP sportr suff.

Roberto Pavanello
Vercelli - Italia

Glenn Hauser logs September 11-13, 2009

** ANGUILLA. Caribbean Beacon still off the air Sept 12, nothing on 6090 at 0510 check, nor on 11775 at various daytime chex. Must be a fairly serious problem. Bryan Clark in NZ, however, says MW 1610 was still heard Sept 7 at 0503, so it`s only about SW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BIAFRA [non]. Voice of Biafra International was still on 15665 WHRI Sept 4 for the Friday-only 19-20 broadcast, but Sept 11 they had made the switch to 17520. Checking at 1915, at first could not hear anything on either frequency, but persisting on 17520, very weak carrier briefly faded up enough to recognize The Orator. Alan Roe in England also confirms 17520, JBA at 1900, and not audible at 1915. The question is, why the change now and is it really for the better in the target area? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. It`s rare for both WWV and WWVH to be inaudible on 10000 kHz, without a total blackout; but Sept 12 at 2245 that was the case allowing some much weaker tix and pips to be audiblized with BFO helping. One station was making a beep every ten seconds correctly, and altho I could hear a murmur of audio, could not make any voice out. The 10-second pattern fits for PPE, Observatório Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, the new timesignal station which came on a few months ago with less than 1 kW. Also at the top of each minute there were three heavy beeps at seconds 58, 59 and 60. Is that PPE too? Some weaker tix from I know not where, and some station added binary code at 2249-2251. By 2252 I could hear a trace of the same pitch tone as on WWV 5000. Listened carefully at 2259-2301 but did not hear any announcements when at least WWV and WWVH would have given full IDs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: 2500

** CHINA [and non]. 7365 with mixture of two Chinese stations, Sept 12 at 1317. Per Aoki it`s VOA Cantonese via Tinang and CNR1, which now becomes a jammer unlike before 1300. 7305 with single Chinese audio was not // the main signal on 7365, so the latter must have been VOA.

Firedrake, Sept 12 at 1314: fair on 9000, none on 8400; at 1320 fair on 10210; none heard higher.

15220, CRI in Mandarin via Sackville, VG signal as always, Sat Sept 12 at 1428 gave me pause as ``O Sole Mio`` was being performed in Italian. After interruption for jingle and ID, from 1434 onwards all the announcements were in English, apparently by the conductor from the podium of a concert recorded in China, including: Star Trek medley of TV and movie themes; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon themes featuring Yo Yo Ma; La Donna è Mobile, by quite a tenor as earlier but not one of the Big 3; Magnificent Seven theme; Bridge Over Troubled Waters by children`s and women`s chorus of the China National Symphony Orchestra; 1454 cut back to Chinese for outro talking over music with e-mail pronounced in English sounding like kzxt@cri.com.cn and 1456 dramatic promo, ID with china@cri.com.cn, 1500 IS and ID for another hour. I was almost convinced some of the announcements were in Cantonese, but skeds show all in Mandarin. Not to mention English  (Glenn Hauser,
 OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. RHC re-jumbles which frequencies are in English and which in unscheduled Spanish after 0500: Sept 12 at 0513, 6140 and 6060 were in English, while 6120, 6010 and JBA 6000 were in Spanish. 6010 had been the most reliable channel for English tho sometimes missing completely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ECUADOR [non]. HCJB test via CVC Chile, 11745 ex-11755, Sept 12 at 0035 check, Brazilian service, VG signal unlike 11755 previously which they left to avoid RHC 11760, and still not // Pifo direct on 11920. Competing against itself? 24 hours later, not heard on 11745, brief test period presumably over (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 4750, Sept 12 at 1257, rapid Indonesian talk right thru hourtop past 1302, seemingly atop some co-channel. RRI Makassar is certainly the prime 60m signal from Indonesia of the few that remain (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN [non]. 17670 with some really enjoyable music with 4 beats at first, presumably in Persian, since it`s Radio Farda, Sept 12 at 1413, // much weaker 17755 colliding with Spain, on the air this early only on weekends per Aoki. Farda sites are Wertachtal and Biblis, GERMANY, respectively (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KUWAIT [and non]. RNV, 11670 via CUBA, Sept 12 at 2224 in Spanish, with continuous roar of QRDRM from the hi side, i.e. MOI Kuwait 11670-11675-11680 as scheduled to NAm also starting at 2200. The AM QRM to the DRM must also have been significant, probably enough to ruin decoding (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. As suspected the day before, WBCQ did leave the second transmitter, 9330-CUSB on the air during WORLD OF RADIO 1477, Friday Sept 11 at 1900-1930, much better here than // 7415. Hope this applies Tuesday thru Friday for all the 1900 WOR repeats (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Unlike Friday when it signed off by talking over the National Anthem at 1259, on Saturday Sept 12, WINB was still on 9265 at 1315, with a non-Brother Stair preacher not // 9385 WWRB, but probably became // later that Sabbath with usual asynchronicity (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9825, not a familiar frequency for a gospel huxter, Sept 12 at 0448, YL preacher with very bad miking, scraping sounds, probably amateur using amateur equipment (and I don`t mean ham); could be new frequency for Radio Africa, it was so bad! 0458 cut off for outro by pro announcer with good modulation, giving her Georgia address and website, but signal faded out before could get ID if there was any, and no further reception, apparently signed off. Aoki says this is WHRI in use only on day 1=Sunday at 0400-0500, but this was day 7=UT Saturday. WHR does its best to confuse everyone about days of week on its online schedules. EiBi has it right as Saturday only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9825, Sept 12 at 2305 onward with continuous light music, some jazzy, never any announcements. VG signal and during pauses could hear DentroCuban Jamming Command noise. Kept listening and finally at 2359 VOA YDD sign-off announcement and off by 2401. Per EiBi and Aoki this is supposed to be the Spanish hour from VOA. Did they lose the entire feed forcing fill music from Greenville? How hard is it to get a reliable signal from Washington? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Is WWV having some transmitter problems, or is it just strange propagation? 2500 normally remains audible here considerably after sunrise (but not all day); however, Sept 12 at 1256 could not hear any trace of it on 2500, tho 5000 was fine as usual.

Then at 2245-2300 I could not hear WWV, or even WWVH on 10000, normally a good daytime frequency, allowing in some weaker pips including, I think, BRAZIL, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1329.9, approximately, still hearing a het on 1330 from an off-frequency station, Sept 12 at 0527; but no longer one off 1280 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 4865, TADIL-A beeps at 1305 Sept 12, much more noticeable with BFO on; these had 4 short beeps before the longer one with data burst. May not be an intruder since this is not only a broadcast band but a utility band, depending on location (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9600.4, not hearing the very weak het all the time, but it was audible again Sept 12 at 1318, possibly XEYU? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

Log Saverio De Cian 13/09

Buona propagazione questa mattina con i soliti canali ma anche qualcosa di nuovo, almeno per me:

1200 13/09 0420- WKOX Newton MA (USA) 2/3
Px musicale, ID alle 0430 "La Nueva Rumba"

1330 13/09 0420- WRCA Watertown MA (USA) 2
Px musicale, ID alle 0430 "WRCA Boston"

1580L 13/09 0439- non identificata possibile Dominicana R. Amanecer ? 2
Px mx, parlato in S, segnale orario

Buona domenica

-----
Saverio De Cian
QTH: Sedico (Belluno)
RX: JRC-535

Buoni segnali dagli USA a Sedico (BL)

Questa mattina buoni segnali dagli USA:

1390 11/09 0415- WEGP Presque Isle ME (USA) 2
Px parlato in E, ID "1390 WEGP"

1620 11/09 0420-0453 WDHP Frederiksted (USA) 3/4
Vari annunci "BBC News", ID alle 0429 "WDHP", commenti e notizie di economia

1510 11/09 0430- WWZN Boston MA (USA) 2
Px religioso, canti spirituals

-----
Saverio De Cian
QTH: Sedico (Belluno)
RX: JRC-535, SDR-14
ANT: K9AY

LA ROSA DE TOKYO PARA HOY: Programa dedicado a Radiodifusion Argentina al Exterior

La Rosa de Tokyo, el programa semanal de DX y medios de comunicación irradiado a través de LS11 Radio Provincia de Buenos Aires (AM1270 Khz; www.amprovincia.com.ar y una importante red de emisoras de frecuencia modulada, amplitud modulada y onda corta de la Argentina y el resto del mundo) estará dedicado este fin de semana a la queridísima RAE-Radiodifusión Argentina al Exterior.

En efecto, se analizará el pasado, presente y futuro de RAE, la "Embajada Radial" de la Argentina ante el mundo.
Hablarán para ustedes Luis Maria Barassi, a cargo de la dirección de Radiodifusión Argentina al Exterior y miembros
de varios de los servicios en lenguas extranjeras de la emisora.

No se pierdan los registros sonoros históricos con los cuales se "ilustrará" el programa.

La Rosa de Tokyo se irradia los sábados  desde las 0900 hasta las 1000 hora de la Argentina (1200 a 1300 horas UTC).- De esta forma, la emisión no estará afectada por las transmisiones deportivas de la emisora en las cuales se siguen las campañas de los equipos platenses de primera división.

Cordiales 73

Omar Somma y Arnaldo Slaen

Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA

CHILE CVC La Voz 17680 1544 Spanish 333 Sept 8 Vocal pop music.

ENGLAND Voice of Germany Relay-DW 15620 1612 French 333 Sept 8 YL and OM with comments.

FRANCE Radio Japan Relay-NHK 17735 1540 Japanese 333 Sept 8 OM with comments. Vocal music 1543. //12045[333]via Singapore.

GREECE Foni Tis Helladas 15630 1603 Greek 333 Sept 8 YL with comments and some vocal folk music.

SOUTH AFRICA BBCWS Relay 17640 1546 English 333 Sept 8 YL with comments plus an OM at times.

SPAIN Radio Exterior Espana-REE 17595 1549 Spanish 444 Sept 8 YL and OM with comments plus some pop music. //15130[444] Relay via Costa Rica.

UNITED STATES WWRB 17485 1554 English 433 Sept 8 OM with comments on Brother Stair Overcomer program. Suddenly off the air 1559. //9385[333].

UNITED STATES, Pennsylvania WINB 13570 1630 English 333 Sept 8 YL with comments from Gospel of the Bible.

Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, USA
"World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive"
ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC
SCADS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCADS

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Glenn Hauser logs September 10-11, 2009

** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36 detectable carrier Sept 10 at 1910, 2036 with a bit of music mixing with Greenville DRM, certainly unexpected, but both signals quite weak. Later found that some other North Americans were getting LRA36 better this date (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA [and non]. 6070, CFRX, Sept 10 at 1218 with local Toyota ad; also fast SAH of about 10 Hz, and no roar from ailing North Korean transmitter which normally runs until 1250 or so. Therefore, I suspect the SAH, also noted previously around 1256, is from that same NK transmitter which has been remedied at least for now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. We are still suffering from local hi noise levels, especially on the trop bands, but signals must be picking up as on Sept 10 between 1229 and 1234 I was getting some audio on 4950, Chinese? should be V. of Pujiang, and 5050, Vietnamese? should be Beibu Bay Radio. Also 4460 CNR1. 5030 CNR1 is audible just about every morning, tho overshadowed by Cuba 5025, so I rarely bother logging it. Plus several Korea North frequencies, q.v.; also CNR1 at 1243 with kids voices including artificially higher-pitched, sped-up, // on 7365, 7305. Per Aoki, both 7365 and 7305 at this hour are genuine broadcasts from Shijiazhuang 724 site and not jammers!

Firedrake, Sept 10 at 1247 on 8400, good with flutter, also 9000. Sept 11 at 1310 poor on 10210 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 4750, becoming audible vs the noise level, Sept 10 at 1233, Indonesian, so RRI Makassar, vs the co-channel stations which should go elsewhere than 4750. Also audible Sept 11 at 1245 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 5890, VOA Korean, usually in the clear, but Sept 10 at 1225 had roaring jammer and still at 1332; 24+ hours later, in the clear again. Ron Howard theorizes that The Dear Leader doesn`t have enough jammers to go around, so targets vary from day to day. See also CANADA [non], where 6070 is supposed to be an intentional NK broadcast in Japanese rather than jamming.

The KNDF clandestine frequencies from N to S Korea: Sept 10 at 1233 on 4557, this one making the oscillating jamming sound, so that`s from the South? Also CODAR in the mix; at 1235 singing on 4450, flutter, CODAR, no jamming heard. At 1236 on 3480, jamming and het like on 4557.

The 105-meter band was back with 2850 KCBS audible in music at 1239 Sept 10 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NETHERLANDS [non]. RNW via Tinang, PHILIPPINES, 9650, Sept 10 at 1312 just barely audible under CRI via Sackville, and virtually on same frequency, unlike the day before when RNW was relatively strong and hetting (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3385, Sept 10 at 1237 a bit of Pidgin? talk and music audible, presumed Radio East New Britain, best of the PNG channels here at this still too-late hour shortly after local sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ROMANIA. 11920, RRI with lively pop music show, Friday Sept 11 at 1320-1340, IDs in Romanian for Actualitatsi service. Fair signal tho not aimed usward, 285 degrees from Galbeni. Still miss their defunct morning hour in English, but this will have to do (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 11620, Sept 10 at 1940 with accordion music, announcement in English soon recognized as Justin Coe, ergo REE, weekday hour to Africa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DGIEST)

** U S A. WINB continues to show disrespect for the Stars & Stripes and the National Anthem: 9265, Sept 10 at 1259 sign-off announcement starts by talking over the Star Spangled Banner (as if their airtime were too precious to separate them), 1300 off. It seems they do not come up on 13570 ASAP as per schedule. That was still inaudible at 1319. Does it start around 1400? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WEWN spurs: Sept 10 at 1403, Spanish on 11550 accompanied by filthy FM rackets on 11540 and 11560. At 1408, 11550 had weakened a bit and suffered itself from the Taiwan off-frequency het (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WBCQ, 7415, JBA here during 1900-1930 UT Thursday Sept 10 first airing of WORLD OF RADIO 1477. Before 1900 I had noticed 9330-CUSB on air with usual financial infomercial, and 9330 was also on at 1933 check with Amos & Andy, which is scheduled on 7415 only. So did much better daytime signal on 9330 too stay on air between 1900 and 1930 with World of Radio? Wish I had thought to check. Try that henceforth in case (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 5970, Sept 10 at 1215, chant-like speech in Asian language causing fast SAH of approx. 15 Hz with REE Costa Rica. 1227 ``Know Redeemer Liveth`` hymn theme, Korean, contact addresses for Family Radio. Per Aoki at 12-13 this is YFR via Komsomol`sk-na-Amure, DVR, while REE is direct from Spain, the latter obviously incorrect (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ZANZIBAR. 11735, RTZ, provided some nice Arab music to doze by, Sept 10 from 1950 to 2020 when went back to mostly talk. Lo audible het thruout but Zanzibar atop and not too bothersome. Is Radio Rossii active there, or was the het internally produced? Nothing else listed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 5785-5845, presumed OTH radar clix from China, Sept 10 at 1225. And 4840-4890 at 1232 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. SSB intruders, 11789.9, again being heard on apparently regular morning schedule in tonal Asian language, Sept 10 at 1405, intermittent conversation, last heard around 1428 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

QSLs

Algeria
RTA Radio Laoughat 702 kHz, Cartolina QSL e adesivo in 175 giorni. No RP. QTH: Radio Algerienne - 21 Boulevard des Martyrs - DZ-16000 Algeri. Inviato CD MP3.
***
Clandestine
La casella di Free North Korea R. mini6915@hanmail.net potrebbe non essere più valida perché un rapporto d'ascolto mi è tornato indietro.
***
Francia
GOSPEL FOR ASIA Issoudun 15390 kHz, Cartolina QSL e lettera in 45 giorni. RP: 1$. QTH: 1800 Golden Trail Court - Carrollton TX 75010 (USA). Inviato CD MP3.
***
Germania
CHEETAH POWER Wertachtal 11730 kHz, Cartolina QSL in 12 giorni. E-rpt con ID MP3 allegato spedito a: radio@cheetahlearning.com
-
RADIO FREUNDES-DIENST Wilsdruff 1431 kHz, Cartolina QSL e materiale religioso in 159 giorni. No RP. QTH: PF 1432 - DE-79705 Bad Sackingen.
***
Italia
RADIO UNIVERSAL 87.5 MHz, Lettera QSL in 8 giorni. RP: Francobollo da 0,60 Euro. QTH: Via Tolomeo 6 - 37135 Verona. V/s: Giampaolo Bassi. Inviato CD MP3. (ascoltata a Velva Santuario-GE)
***
Pirata
RADIO AMICA 7550 kHz, E-QSL PDF in 19 minuti!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! E-rpt con ID MP3 inviato a: radioamica@gmail.com V/s: Michele.
-
SW COMBINATION HOLLAND 6380 kHz, E-QSL JPEG in 3 gorni. E-rpt con ID MP3 inviato a: swch@live.nl
***
Portogallo
RADIO PRAGUE Sines 11700 kHz, Cartolina QSL, biro e depliant in 23 giorni. No RP. QTH: Vinohradska 12 - CZ-120 99 Praga 2 (Rep. Ceca).
***
Regno Unito
RADIO NEDERLAND Rampisham 6040 kHz, Cartolina QSL in 39 giorni. No RP. QTH: PB 222 - NL-1200 JG Hilversum (Paesi Bassi).
***
Spagna
EUROPA FM Sevilla 89.2 MHz, E-QSL in 11 giorni. RP: 1$. QTH: Calle S. Fernando 25 - ES-41004 Sevilla. V/s: José Manuel Fernandez Fernandez-Director Regional Andalucia jmfernandez@ondacero.es (ascoltata a Rapallo-GE)
***
Uzbekistan
CVC INTERNATIONAL Tashkent 15555 kHz, Cartolina QSL e lettera in 100 giorni. RP: 1$. QTH: P.O. Box 6361 - Maroochydore BC QLD 4558 (Australia). V/s: George. Inviato CD MP3.

Luca Botto Fiora
 
QSLs AM-FM
(1983-2009)
Emittenti di
Radiodiffusione
EUROPA: 630
AFRICA: 111
ASIA: 183
AMERICA: 118
OCEANIA: 28
CLANDESTINE: 50
PIRATA: 320
FM ITALIA: 171
---------------
TOTALE: 1611

LA ROSA DE TOKYO PARA ESTE FIN DE SEMANA

La Rosa de Tokyo, el programa semanal de DX y medios de comunicación irradiado a través de LS11 Radio Provincia de Buenos Aires (AM1270 Khz; www.amprovincia.com.ar y una importante red de emisoras de frecuencia modulada, amplitud modulada y onda corta de la Argentina y el resto del  mundo) estará dedicado este fin de semana a la queridísima RAE-Radiodifusión Argentina al Exterior.

En efecto, se analizará el pasado, presente y futuro de RAE, la "Embajada Radial" de la Argentina ante el mundo.
Hablarán para ustedes Luis Maria Barassi, a cargo de la dirección de Radiodifusión Argentina al Exterior y miembros
de varios de los servicios en lenguas extranjeras de la emisora.

No se pierdan los registros sonoros históricos con los cuales se "ilustrará" el programa.

La Rosa de Tokyo se irradia los sábados  desde las 0900 hasta las 1000 hora de la Argentina (1200 a 1300 horas UTC).- De esta forma, la emisión no estará afectada por las transmisiones deportivas de la emisora en las cuales se siguen las campañas de los equipos platenses de primera división.

Cordiales 73

Omar Somma y Arnaldo Slaen

Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA

CHINA   China Radio Intl-CRI   9665  1633  Chinese  333  Sept 5  YL with opera style vocals. OM ancr 1634. Tis a noisy frequency.

JAPAN   Radio Japan-NHK   444  Sept 5  YL in a music program. Audiemnce clapping often. OM ancr. A music contest?

NORTH KOREA   Voice of Korea   9325  1603  German  333  Sept 5  YL and OM with comments.

NORTH KOREA   Voice of Korea   9335  1610  French  333  Sept 5  YL and OM with comments. //11710] 444.

SAIPAN   Radio Free Asia-RFA   9390  1619  Language Unknown  333  Sept 5  YL and OM with comments plus an OM being interviewed. A very noisy freq.

SAIPAN   Radio Free Asia-RFA   9455  1625  Chinese  333  Sept 5  OM with comments. Also a YL and OM with comments in the background Jammer.

SYRIA   Radio Damascus   9330  1807  Turkish  333  Sept 5  YL and OM with comments.

USSR, Dushanbe   Radio Free Asia Relay-RFA   9350  1615  Unknown language
333  Sept 5  Two OMs with comments plus a Jammer in the background.

Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, USA
"World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive"
ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC
SCADS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCADS

Nuova QSL da RTI Taiwan

Ecco i dati relativi a una conferma QSL ricevuta da RTI Taiwan nei giorni scorsi.

 

R. TAIWAN INTERNACIONAL 3965 Khz via Issoudun - P.O. Box 24-38 Taipei - Taiwan con una  QSL in 18 giorni. Rapporto inviato via Web Report form all'indirizzo http://spanish.rti.org.tw/customerservice/ReceptionForm.aspx.  La Qsl è visionabile alla URL: http://acquamarina.blogspot.com

 

Nino Marabello

Treviso - Italia

HJJW in onda media a Sedico (BL)

Questa mattina deboli segnali sempre dalla Colombia:

1460 10/09 0435- HJJW Em. Nuevo Continente, Bogotá (CLM) 2
mx e px religioso con riflessioni su pagine della Bibbia e menzione alla Colombia e all'Ecuador.

... ancora sui 1400 l'Emisora Mariana ma più disturbata di martedì

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Saverio De Cian
QTH: Sedico (Belluno)
RX: JRC-535, SDR-14
ANT: K9AY

Glenn Hauser logs September 8-9, 2009

** CHINA . Firedrake check Sept 9 at 1359 before pause: fair on 9000, poor on 8400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA [non]. 9650, at 1320 Sept 9, worse than usual mix of CRI via Sackville in English and RN via Tinang in Dutch, because they are roughly 25-30 Hz apart, making rippling SAH, and the Dutch audio is stronger than usual. If I had to guess, I would say Sackville is more likely to be off-frequency. 1327 made usual switch to RN in English for two sesquiminutes; could make out ``verbally attacking`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA . RHC, Sept 8 at 0607: this time instead of one frequency for English there are three: 6010, 6060 and 6140. You never know (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA . VOI, 9524.9, Tue Sept 8 at 1325, can barely tell that another weekly excursion to Banjarmasin is underway, as too undermodulated vs noise and fading, YL mentioning Banj, 1329 conversation with the guy there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA . VOR, 15605, Sept 8 at 1502 YL with news in English manages to squeeze between WEWN on 15610 and WEWN spur on 15600; more problem was the splash from fundamental 15610 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH AFRICA. 15660, Sept 8 at 1509 in Swahili mentioning a number of African countries: Channel Africa as scheduled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WEWN, Sept 8 at 1458 on 11520 with Salve Regina IS; 1500 Spanish ID giving 11520 and 11550, and now 11550 is also on the air; meanwhile 15610 in English has the old spurs detectable on 15600 and 15620; see RUSSIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

DX MIX NEWS # 589

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DX MIX NEWS # 589                                         09 September 2009
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DRM   Schedule of DRM broadcasts on short waves. Part one of two:
0100-0200 on  6080 SAC 070 kW / 288 deg to NoAM CRI English
0100-0300 on 15735 K/A 090 kW / 213 deg to Asia VOR Russian
0200-0300 on  9500 SOF 020 kW / 306 deg to NoAm Radio Bulgaria English
0230-0330 on 15295 KAJ 090 kW / 133 deg to AUS  RTM English
0300-0500 on 15735 K/A 090 kW / 213 deg to Asia VOR English
0300-2100 on  6085 ISM 010 kW / non-dir to WeEu BR-B5akt German
0400-0500 on  3995 SIN 090 kW / 040 deg to WeEu BBC/DW various
0400-0700 on  9400 SOF 020 kW / 306 deg to WeEu BNRHorizont Bulgarian Fri
0459-0658 on 11675 RAN 050 kW / 000 deg to Pac  RNZI English
0500-0600 on 17525 TRM 090 kW / 045 deg to EaAs DW English
0500-0700 on  3995 SKN 100 kW / 120 deg to WeEu BBC/DW English
0500-0900 on  9780 NOB 100 kW / 050 deg to WeEu REE Spanish
0600-0700 on  6130 SIN 090 kW / 030 deg to WeEu BBC/DW English
0600-0900 on 11900 SOF 020 kW / 306 deg to WeEu BNRHorizont Bulgarian Sa/Su
0630-0715 on  6095 JUN 050 kW / 060 deg to WeEu RTL Radio German
0630-0900 on 17660 DRW 100 kW / 340 deg to CHN  CVC Chinese
0659-1058 on  7285 RAN 050 kW / 000 deg to Pac  RNZI English
0700-0800 on 17755 DRW 040 kW / 314 deg to SEAs TDP Radio Dance Music
0700-0800 on  5790 WOF 100 kW / 114 deg to WeEu BBC/DW English
0700-1000 on  9545 SIN 090 kW / 030 deg to WeEu BBC/DW English
0700-1100 on  9925 WAV 100 kW / 167 deg to SoEu RTBF French Tue/Thu
0715-0730 on  6095 JUN 050 kW / 060 deg to WeEu MW Heukelbach
0730-0800 on  6095 JUN 050 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Radio Freundesdienst German
0800-0900 on 12095 TRM 090 kW / 345 deg to IND  DW English
0800-0900 on  6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu TDP Radio Dance Music Mon
0800-1000 on  9730 KLG 015 kW / 220 deg to WeEu VOR Russian
0800-1000 on 12060 MSK 035 kW / 265 deg to WeEu VOR English
0800-1400 on 13810 SIN 090 kW / 040 deg to WeEu BBC/DW English
0800-1615 on  6095 JUN 050 kW / 060 deg to WeEu RTL Radio German
0830-1000 on 11995 SIN 090 kW / 052 deg to WeEu RDP Int Portuguese Sat/Sun
0900-0930 on 11900 SOF 020 kW / 306 deg to WeEu BNREuranet English Sat/Sun
0900-1000 on  6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu TDP Radio Dance Music Tue
0900-1200 on 11900 SOF 020 kW / 306 deg to WeEu BNRHorizont Bulgarian Mo-Th
0900-1200 on  6100 DEL 050 kW / 134 deg to IND  AIR various
1000-1100 on  6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu TDP Radio Dance Music Wed
1000-1200 on  9730 KLG 015 kW / 220 deg to WeEu VOR German

U.K.(non)    Summer A-09 Schedule of VT Communications Relays. Part 3 of 3:
WYFR
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 / 105 deg to SoAs Marathi
1400-1500 on 15520 DHA 250 kW / 090 deg to SoAs Hindi
1500-1600 on 15520 DHA 250 kW / 090 deg to SoAs English
1600-1700 on 11850 DHA 250 kW / 090 deg to SoAs English
1700-1800 on  9790 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Amharic
1700-1800 on 13700 SKN 300 kW / 110 deg to ME   Arabic
1700-1800 on 17545 ASC 250 kW / 085 deg to EaAf English
1700-1900 on 15760 WOF 250 kW / 102 deg to ME   Turkish
1800-1900 on  6180 MEY 250 kW / 005 deg to SoAf English
1800-1900 on  9505 RMP 500 kW / 095 deg to CeEu Czech
1800-1900 on  9770 DHA 250 kW / 230 deg to SoAf English
1800-1900 on 11875 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to CeAf Igbo
1800-1900 on 13720 SKN 300 kW / 140 deg to NoAf Arabic
1800-1900 on 15435 WOF 300 kW / 170 deg to WeAs English
1830-1930 on 17585 ASC 250 kW / 085 deg to WeAf French
1900-2000 on  3230 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg to SoAf English
1900-2000 on  3955 MEY 100 kW / 076 deg to SoAf Portuguese
1900-2000 on  5930 MEY 250 kW / 019 deg to EaAf Swahili
1900-2000 on  6100 MEY 100 kW / 335 deg to SoAf Portuguese
1900-2000 on  9685 DHA 250 kW / 260 deg to WCAf Hausa
1900-2000 on  9775 DHA 250 kW / 210 deg to WeAf English
1900-2000 on 11855 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to WCAf English
2000-2100 on 15195 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to CeAf English
2200-2300 NF  6035 ASC 250 kW / 250 deg to SoAm English, ex 9835, but now deleted
2300-0100 NF  7235 ASC 250 kW / 250 deg to SoAm English, ex 9835, but now deleted
0000-0300 on  7335 ASC 250 kW / 245 deg to SoAm English, deleted
0000-0300 on  9420 ASC 250 kW / 265 deg to SoAm English, deleted

AWR in italian B09

As you know, at the end of october, the 25th, we will change the frequency. Like last year we'll use 9610 kHz - 31 meter band starting at 1000 UTC with Studio DX

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!!!TIPS!!!

buoni segnali dall'Argentina questa sera ,ottimo LRA36!!

Date           utc        khz

08/09/2009 1805      15476    LRA36   R Arcangel S Gabriel                   ATA   px mx       Buono                                     
08/09/2009 1801      15345            RAE                                ARG    signal + ID English        Buono                     
07/09/2009 1912      6130             TWR Radio Trasmundial                SWZ    px in P        SUFF                                  
07/09/2009 1906      15476    LRA36   R Arcangel S Gabriel                ATA    px mx + ID      SUFF                                  
07/09/2009 1800      153              R Antena Satelor                     ROU    px nx wx + id  Loped ALA1010 OTTIMO    

 

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Glenn Hauser logs September 7-8, 2009

** ANGUILLA [and non]. Seems there is an extended outage at Caribbean Beacon. still absent from 11775, Sept 7 at 1344 check; nor on 6090 at 0013 Sept 8 allowing the Brazilian to be audible weakly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA [and non]. Noticed two DRM signals rather close together, Sept 7 at 2315, 9750-9755-9760 scheduled as Vatican, but what`s on 9775-9780-9785? I was quite sure that was its range until I looked up the schedules and saw that TDP via Sackville was supposed to be on 9785-9790-9795. Did they make a change, mistake or did I? What about tomorrow? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHILE. Calera de Tango transmitters: see ECUADOR [non], USA [non]

** CHINA. Firedrake Sept 7: at 1336 fair on 8400 and 9000, 1342 about the same on 10210. Fair on 13970 at 2325, monitoring at unusual time for me, on interior antenna because computer and outside antenna disconnected in deference to storms moving thru, as are all my Sept 7 logs between 2153 and 2416. Aoki indicates these OOB Sound of Hope frequencies and consequently Firedrake jamming could be on the air 24 hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. DCJC cohetes against nothing: even UT Monday Sept 7 at 0550 on 6030 when there is supposed to be a weekly truce during Radio Martí`s silent period. However now the irregular noise bursts were blocking something weak in English, presumably CFVP Calgary. A few minutes later found same sounds on other frequencies in no need of jamming: at 0556 on 7365 and 7405, also silent Martí channels, at 0609 on 9565, another; at 0600 on 9955 against inaudible WRMI; at 0609 on 9545 vs absent Radio República. These all had the same sound of overlapping pulsing rather than a wall of noise when full-force jamming is running, so I wonder if this comes from one or two rogue jamming sites among the many all over Cuba, who just won`t stop no matter what?

Meanwhile, what was RHC doing? In English on 6010 at 0550, Arnie`s science talk about how the Isla de Juventud has no electrical grid connexion with the rest of Cuba so has to generate its own power and at greater expense. No other English found, as 6060 was off the air, while 6000, 6120 and 6140 were in Spanish.

CRI relay on 9570, Sept 7 at 1352 had modulation audible only at peaking spikes, unlistenable: wiggle that patchcord!

RHC, 17660, Sept 7 at 2157 in distorted Spanish about the same sound as // 11800, unlike VG signal and modulation on // 11770. Not only have no frequencies been carrying English at 2030-2130, but now not at 2300-2400 either: Sept 7 at 2323, the only scheduled English channel for that, 13790, is in Spanish // 13760 and 11690, music at the moment. 11760 is taking a break audiblizing something in Chinese, i.e. Mandarin, R. Free Asia via Tinian and/or ChiCom jamming.

At 2334, 17705 hum and RHC in French obsession about Zelaya and Honduras; trouble is, per RHC`s own schedule, this semihour is supposed to be in Guaraní. How many of them also understand French rather than Spanish or Portuguese?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ECUADOR [non]. HCJB`s new test in German via CVC CHILE: 9865, Sept 7 at 2345 mixture of music and talk, good signal, and not // 12040 Die Stimme der Anden still extant direct from Pifo to where else, S America. 9865 gone at 0001 recheck; the following hour to be trying Portuguese on 11755, but inaudible there with big splash from RHC 11760 which had just reopened for evening transmission // 11690 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. VOI, 9524.9, Sept 7 at 1340, finally better modulation level than the past fortnight, only with music, vocal at first, 1345 instrumental, but presumably English service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NEW ZEALAND. Once again this fortnight, RNZI Mailbox starts early, and fortunately I tuned 6170 in early, Monday Sept 7 at 1328 as it began at 1328:30. This time Myra Oh is on vacation and Adrian Sainsbury is back ``from a great vacation in the USA``, doing the whole show, starting with Simon & Garfunkel`s ``America``. John Durham`s DX news to follow, so altho 6170 was still readable, I left that for playing back the audio file later where I could pause or repeat it as needed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ROMANIA. RRI, 9745 // 9655 at 2354 Sept 7 ending Spanish hour with Hotbird 5 frequency, full Spanish SW sked including 6100 among the four frequencies at 2300! Despite RCI also there but it`s to E NAm while RRI is to CAm, still too close for comfort. Next occupant of 9745: see U S A [non] CVC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SERBIA [non]. Looking for IRS on 9675, nothing there Sept 7 until just before 0000 Sept 8 carrier on, theme music and opening in Serbian, fairly good signal. English presumably followed at 0030, not checked (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. Have noticed that some schedules of REE show the weekly Emision Sefarad in Judeo-Español to the Middle East for A09 is on 15325, Mondays at 1425-1455, but it`s really on 15385, the same frequency as in B08, as confirmed Sept 7 at 1445 with music and talk which almost sounds like Castilian until you notice some strange slurred pronunciations more like Portuguese or Galician. YL with closing announcement at 1453 also claimed to be on 15325, but what does she know? REE has a 6-daily broadcast from 1500 on 15385, so perhaps they don`t want to bother with changing the frequency in between. She also gave schedule for the two other Sephardic repeats, UT Tue 0115 on 117_5, could not copy one digit, but Aoki has 11795 for that, correct? and to NAm UT Tue 0415 on 9650, confirmed Sept 8 with VG signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WRMI, 9955, not audible before 2400 UT Sept 7, so probably off the air during the WRN fill-time; but at 0007 Sept 8 with M&W preachers in English, bit of Andean music, and into Spanish XYL talking about investing in the Dominican Republic, Punta Cana in particular, later some words from Jeff White. 0015 into AWR Wavescan in English as scheduled, Jeff doing it despite laryngitis he contracted in the DR, no episode number heard but the one starting with world`s largest eclipse. The 0000 eighth of an hour is Bible Pathway/Upper Room, and the second eighth is Viva Miami, the XYL surely being Thaïs White. No jamming audible at this time, altho the S antenna is scheduled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. Have been trying to confirm whether IBB has finally got its act together not to interfere with itself when making the totally unnecessary site switch at 1430 in the middle of the 14-15 hour in English from VOA News Now. After pointing out repeatedly that Botswana was coming on before 1430 and Greenville going off after 1430, the latter finally started dropping carrier immediately (DCI) at 1430, as easily observed here previously. But Botswana usually inaudible anyway here unlike in African target area. On Sept 7, however, Greenville was relatively weak, and Bots relatively strong, so at 1428 I could hear them still starting up with the Yankee Doodle Dandy sign-on routine mixing with Today in History feature via Greenville. So Bots still hasn`t implemented instruxions from HQ to crash-start at 1430.

The Greenville DRM test continues into another week, on 15470-15475-15480 at 2153 check Sept 7, so it still shows no respect at all for the only SW station on the entire continent of Antarctica, already using 15476 until 2100 M-F while DRM starts at 2000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. CVC La Voz, Miami via CHILE, on new 9745 at 0005 Sept 8 // 11665, so CFRX has more clear hours on 6070 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Since changing its schedule around, is WEWN still radiating plus and minus 10 kHz dirty FMy screeching spurs from at least one of its three transmitters? So far had not been able to determine this due to poor reception, but Sept 7 at 1343 the answer is yes, this time emanating from the Spanish service on 11550, clashing with an innocent victim on 11540 but nothing audible on 11560 other than the spur when BFO is on. 11540 would be VOA in Cambodian via Sri Lanka. Previously it was the English service putting out the spurs, when it was on 11530. Next check at 2155, English frequency 15610 has built up some strength but no spurs heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VENEZUELA [non]. RNVCI, 13680 via CUBA, Sept 7 at 2324 YL announcer in broken English introducing excerpts of someone`s speech in Spanish, but not directly translated; 2327 about Cuba being invited back into the OAS. RNV apparently thinx its typical listeners are bilingual, accounting for all the mixtures of Spanish and English. BTW, Marty Delfín forwards a Sept 4 story from BBC Mundo which says in part:

`Con la construcción del centro internacional de radio en el estado Guárico, en la zona central del país, y la reactivación del transmisor, RNV estaría en capacidad de tener una señal 24 horas, que comenzaría a funcionar en diciembre.

Actualmente los contenidos se emiten en español, inglés y portugués. "Y ya después incorporaremos muchísimos más idiomas porque el modelo cubano ha sido para nosotros una referencia importante", dijo Salcedo.`

So now we have a target date for RNV`s own SW site in Guárico state: December. This also claims they have already been broadcasting in Portuguese, which I have never seen reported, just rather elegant Spanish and sort-of English. Portuguese, really? And surely they are not really `reactivating` some old failed transmitter, but putting in new one(s). (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6105, beside big Spanish signal from RCI on 6100, heard a bit of Spanish peaking/peeking in on 6105, Sept 7 at 2225, likely XEQM Mérida, Yucatán, México, as the only known active SS station here. Did not have a chance to pinpoint it on 6104.8 as clinch. Seems about all we can get from XEQM here are bits and pieces (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Still hearing het just above 9600, same pitch, about 9600.4 as reported previously, possibly a reactivated XEYU, Sept 7 at 0604, vs French on 9600.0, which fits for R. Bulgaria. Het too weak for any audio from it. Also at 1339 het JBA between Nikkei 9595 and CNR1 jammer 9605. I suppose it could be something local, so is anyone else hearing the carrier around 9600.4? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Intruder, 17722.5, Sept 7 at 2158 heard 2-way SSB QRM to WYFR in Portuguese on 17725, hard to tune in as WYFR caused more QRM to it, and was not sure of language until 2202 heard a `cambio`, i.e. Spanish for `over` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

Log Saverio De Cian

Riaprono le scuole e si riaprono i canali in onda media:

1499.8 8/09 0400- OBX4I R.Santa Rosa, Lima (PRU) 2
Px religioso con commenti, canti e preghiere in S

1400 8/09 0429- HJKM Emisora Mariana de Bogotà, Santa Fè de Bogotà (CLM) 2
Mx e parlato in S, Id "Colombia, Colombia"

1620 8/09 0442- non ID (USA) 4
Notizie USA in E

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Saverio De Cian
QTH: Sedico (Belluno)
RX: JRC-535, SDR-14
ANT: K9AY

Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA

BONAIRE   Radio Netherlands Intl-RNI   5975  0411  Dutch  444  Sept 5  OM interviewing an OM.

CANADA   Radio Japan Relay-NHK   5960  0407  Japanese  433  Sept 5  An OM with comments.

CANADA   China Radio Intl Relay-CRI   6020  0414  English  444  Sept 5  OM with news items from around the world. //6080[444]via Canada.

CANADA   Voice of Vietnam Relay-VOV   6175  0423  Spanish  433  Sept 5  YL and OM with comments. Choir music 0424. OM in Vietnamese with VOV ID 0430.

GREECE   Tis Helladas   9420  0445  Greek  333  Sept 5  YL ancr with Folk music.

SOUTH AFRICA   BBCWS Relay   7310  0436  English  444  Sept 5  YL interviewing a YL about Reincarnation in Africa. //6190[333] via SoAfrica.

SPAIN   Radio Exterior Espana-REE   6055  0417  Spanish  433  Sept 5  YL interviewing an OM.

UNITED STATES, Florida   Family Radio   7570  0443  Spanish  444  Sept 5
YL with comments with Maria mentioned often.

Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, USA
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