Glenn Hauser logs December 23-24, 2012

** ARGENTINA. 16150-SSB, Dec 23 at 1945, NON LOG of feeder with Radio Metro, first chance I had to check it after report via Horacio Nigro from Claudio in Chile of 54555 reception there at 1843 with dance music. I include this as a heads-up of a new frequency to watch out for. Also checked 15810, 13363.5, other/former feeder channels, but nothing heard there either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake Dec 24: none found 12-18 MHz in 1425-1430 bandscan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 11635, Dec 23 at 2048, very good open carrier on this well-known numbers frequency; 2124 recheck now there are digital noises, pausing for one 5-digit group, 35364 by roboYL in AM, and back to different digital noises.

9810 and 6120, Dec 24 at 0532 check, RHC is again in unscheduled English on these two instead of Spanish, 6120 being an echo apart from 6125 at the other transmitter site, and regular English frequencies all accounted for, 6165, 6125, 6060, 6010 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: WRMI

** GREECE. 7475, Dec 24 at 0617, ERT is back on with R. Filia service not // 9420, two different musix (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. Channel A2 NTSC, Dec 24 at 1436 UT, signal fades in with antenna south, video only, but surely Mexico, with Spanish lettering, large letters E and N in blox, maybe a news promo? Gone again in less than a minute, but apparently sporadic E, despite no significant activity on the 6 m ham DX maps (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Dec 24 at 0603 UT, KMOX has a SAH but no music audible even with KMOX nulled. Believe daytimer KEOR Sperry/Catoosa/Tulsa is still transmitting, but not modulating at night. At 1448 still usual SAH with remnant of KMOX, and weak Spanish music audible. I`m surprised how few DXers outside OK have reported KEOR when it was 24/7, and may be again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PHILIPPINES [non]. 15320, Dec 24 at 1503, good signal with some LP echo from R. Veritas Asia, indirectly via VATICAN back toward the ME, M&W announcers with ``programa bilingual``, seamlessly going back and forth between English and Filipino (Tagalog), from one phrase to the next, chatting and laughing about Xmas in a rather secular way, with musical background. 1512 finally just music, song in Filipino (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 15385, Dec 24 at 1430, open carrier/dead air instead of Emisión Sefarad which is supposed to start at 1425 Mondays toward ME. Keep monitoring and carrier goes off at 1433, but back on at 1444, apparently playing opening of program with Emisión Sefarad ID, contact info. Long-path echo too. As expected, cut off far incomplete at 1455* sharp, as transmitter/frequency are needed for regular daily Spanish service from 1500. This has happened a few times before, total screwup by REE studios and/or transmitter in lack of coördination for the oddly-timed Sephardic service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** UGANDA. 4976, another NON LOG, but heads up for those who may not have heard about it: R. Uganda has been reported reactivated, heard in the African evenings and also with carrier on same slightly off-frequency around 0430 by Ron Howard in California. WRTH shows sign-on should be at 0200, so I look for carrier at least, Dec 24 at 0235, 0345, but the only one I can detect is on 4975, perhaps Peru or Brasil (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. 9740, Dec 24 at 1523, one tradition which BBCWS hasn`t abolished yet, FONLAC --- Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, live from King`s College, Cambridge. Checked here after first hearing it via KCSC FM 90.1 in OK, which turned out to be 9 seconds behind SINGAPORE. I enjoy the harmonious music if not the banal Biblicisms and phony piety, from a country where church = state; no, thank you (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. 15580, Sunday Dec 23 at 2100 VOA `Music Time in Africa` ends, and VOA News starts, obviously with a site change from loud & clear to not so much. There is a brief open carrier overlap but the modulation transition is flawless: from Greenville to Botswana. No doubt those in the skip zone of Greenville found the opposite, an improvement in reception (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1648 monitoring: UT Monday Dec 24 at 0528, 9955 WRMI with fill Xmas music in Spanish; after ID, 0531 WOR starting. I can hear some pulse jamming behind, but WOR is atop except during brief fades. However, at 0557 recheck I hear nothing but the jamming. Tnx a lot, Arnie! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WTWW has been trying to locate the cause of spurious signals from WTWW-2 9905. Dec 23 around 2100 I was on the phone with the transmitter site as they made various tweaks. The last two days the spikes were heavy, peaking circa 9705, but today I could barely hear a few closer to 9720, and with spectrum analyzers at the site, WTWW could not detect them, so are they receiver-caused? At least three independent monitors at skip distances have heard them. Fundamental here is extremely strong, but so are some others which produce no such effects. Would others please check in the 20-24 UT period whenever 9905 is on the air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ZANZIBAR. 11735, Dec 23 at 2049, fair signal with music from ZBC, no announcements heard until cut off the air rudely at 2055:18* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Glenn Hauser logs December 23, 2012

** CHINA [and non]. 9480, Dec 23 at 0154 check, a very poor signal, presumably R Free Asia Uighur via Kuwait and/or Chicom jamming, with slight splash but not spurs from 9490 Guiana French. Still, better than zero signal from EMR DX special supposed to follow from Germany with 1 kW at 0200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 15230, Dec 23 at 1408, open carrier/dead air from RHC, while 15340 is modulated with VG signal. At 1414, 13780 is not off the air yet this Sunday, along with 11760 and several //s playing a Brazilian song about carnaval, during `Amigos de Cuba` show. Next check at 1523, however, 13780 is off before scheduled 1600* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GREECE. 7475, Dec 23 at 0558, and still at 0625, no signal from ERT during the Radio Filia hour, off the air, while 9420 mainstream VOG remains poorly audible with Greek-Orthodox cantors, as usual on Sundays.

9420, Dec 23 at 1405, open carrier/dead air, presumably VOG, while 15630 is audible with music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KURDISTAN [non]. 11510, Dec 23 at 1440-1450+, wonderful Kurdish music and better reception than usual from Denge Kurdistan, presumably via PRIDNESTROVYE. Marred, however, by IADs averaging maybe 4 per minute at very irregular intervals. Why don`t BRB fix that? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KUWAIT [and non]. 9750, Dec 23 at 1351, Qur`an with poor signal, surely can only be R. Kuwait.

21540, Dec 23 at 1412, usual mix of R. Kuwait with Spain, but now with additional QRM: regular squishy pulses, 4 at a time, pause, repeated. This fades independently of the other two signals; not heard anywhere else on this or other bands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NETHERLANDS [non]. 21600, Dec 23 at 1502, The Mighty KBC, via Wertachtal, GERMANY, another special one-hour broadcast with rock music, jingles, 1510 ad for a world receiver from KBC with phone numbers in Netherlands. 1511 ID, Motown Sound. VG signal, 1549 check fading a bit. There are to be two more of these, Dec 25 and 26, but not on December 24.

This demonstrates what could be accomplished if there were a single national broadcaster left in Europe interested in shortwaving to North America in our mornings. Instead, we get a commercial station with rock music which is hardly in short supply here, but appreciate it nonetheless (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 4790, Dec 23 at 0200, choral music, very poor with lo het and CODAR QRM. Presumed R. Visión; no other broadcasters known on 4790. Listed as only 500 watts, like some other Peruvians on 60m which have better signals (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA. 11895, Dec 23 at 1418, almost open carrier, with flutter, just-barely-modulated music. EiBi shows only V of Russia, Turkish at 14-16 via Saint Petersburg. Aoki agrees and adds 200 kW, 247 degrees. That azimuth must be a typo as HFCC has the more believable 147 degrees toward Turkey. But what about the lack of modulation?? The Popovka site has been mentioned as possibly due for closure at yearend, along with Samara, and others? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5085, UT Sunday Dec 23, WTWW-2 must have gone off circa 0400, when checked at 0415, unlike most weeks staying on 2+ hours more. Before then was GFRN show with Rod Hembree. No sign of the 5086v unID now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1648 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday Dec 23 at 0500-0529 on WTWW-1 5830. Heard beginning, checked middle, and still on air at end, so presumed thruout. Next: UT Monday 0530 on WRMI 9955, also Tue 1200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 910, Dec 23 at 1425 UT, report about polio in Pakistan. Sure sounds like NPR `Weekend Edition Sunday`, and yes, it`s // but not synchro with KOSU 91.7, so has to be WSUI Iowa City IA, our ex-WORLD OF RADIO affiliate, rarely heard here. Direxional day pattern has minor lobe at 245 degrees, null at 208 degrees, with major lobe almost due north. While our true direxion is close to 225 degrees (SW) (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 930, Dec 23 at 1345 UT, infomercial about some brain remedy, 888-928-6928, in WKY null; KPDQ website posts that toll-free number as from ``Quincy Bioscience / Pre Vagen``. 1359 a different 1-800 number and maybe different station; 1359 IDs for ``Newstalk 930, KLUP Terrell Hills-San Antonio``, plug Bill Bennett show, 1400 SRN ``News``. Suspect call alludes to Loop 410, the ring-around-the-Alamo. This is well past local sunrise of 1315 in Dec (1330 in Jan), so on 5 kW non-direxional daytime facilities.

Another successful log by carefully nulling my semi-local 930, WKY OKC. AM Switch in NRC DX News Dec 3 reported that WKY had requested extension of an existing STA due to antenna problems making them 5/1 kW non-direxional, rather than 5 kW day and night, direxional N/S at night.

Special temporary authorization from FCC may explain why I can
rather easily null WKY and pull in some other stations. So not looking
forward to resumption of 5 kW direxional toward Enid at night. December WKY official sunrise is 1330 UT; January 1345, so this log is on daytime facility anyway.

WKY`s correspondence file at FCC includes this from May 22, 2012, expiring 6 months later, authorizing extending the STA at that time:http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=34004
This shows authorized N/D night power of 1.25 kW, not 1 kW. And there are also previous letters in the correspondence file (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1060, Sunday Dec 23 at 1434 UT, Mormon Tabernacle announcer introducing a series of Xmas carols, loops NW/SE, surely KRCN Longmont CO. Yes, matches their sked, `Music and the Spoken Word`, Sun 7:30 am:http://krcnradio.com/schedules/krcn-am-1060
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1070, Dec 23 at 1330 UT, SRN ``News``, ``AM 10-70 KNTH`` ID, plug Iheartradio streaming, i.e. U4 10/5 kW Houston TX, ``Intelligent Talk Radio`` per NRC AM Log. I beg to differ if they affiliate with far-right far-Christian SRN. Found this after rotating from Mormon Tabernacle, probably KNX; and unusually not much from KLIO Wichita except a fast SAH. Official KNTH sunrise in Dec and Jan is 1315 UT, so must be on day power and pattern using 11 towers vs only 9 at night! Here`s the day pattern with major lobe to SSE, secondary NNW usward:http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/58118-6865.pdf
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 680, Dec 23 at 1322 UT, in KFEQ cowboy-show null, sports talk with an echo. One is surely KNBR, so the other must also be ESPN. NRC AM Log possibilities: WCNN Atlanta, WHBE KY, but most likely WMFS Memphis TN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1080, Dec 23 at 0608 UT, something in English CCI to KRLD in its null, SAH of 216/minute = 3.6 Hz. Unusual to hear any such thing; altho there are several US stations with significant night power, none of them should be getting into an area this close to Dallas.

Maybe it`s CKKY Wainwright AB, which per NRC AM Log 2012 has a 9 kW direxional at night CP to move from 830? Unlikely: website http://www.key83.com/ shows it`s still Key 83, and wikipedia says a month ago they applied for FM 101.9 instead, another attempt to get off 830: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKKY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Glenn Hauser logs December 21-23, 2012

** BRAZIL. 4815, Dec 23 at 0011, Brazilian Portuguese sounds like preaching, so R. Dif. Londrina, ZYG640.

Speaking of callsigns, I see that the WRTH 2013 perpetuates the error in the callsign for 15190v R. Inconfidência as ZYE622 instead of ZYE522 to match their 6010 frequency which is ZYE521. Aoki agrees that 15190 is ZYE522 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BULGARIA. 9450, Dec 23 at 0019, The Mighty KBC with another UT Sunday broadcast, fair signal and somewhat distorted modulation during ``Jukebox with Eric van Willigen``. Not as strong as last week and progressively weakening. By 0153 it`s very poor. Kim`s digital tests ought to be in the first half hour rather than the last one, and this week he says it cut off the air before the final one (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. 4800, Dec 23 at 0009, poor signal definitely in Chinese, so CNR1 Geermu grayline over the pole. Not much from Latin America on 60m at this time, but also Chinese? on 4920, PBS Xizang but listed by Aoki as in Tibetan. And algo on 4820, probably also Xizang in Chinese. All three frequencies also bear All India Radio stations, but supposedly not opening until 0015, 0020 or 0025. The two greatest Asian nations cannot get their acts together, or rather apart, so they don`t interfere with each other! For starters, it would be a simple matter for one to use frequencies in -0, the other in -5, but that would make too much sense.

Adjacent Colombia and Venezuela used to split up the 60m band this way when each had lots of stations, Venezuela in -0 and Colombia in -5. Even today, it`s no accident that every single Brazilian 60m station ends in -5, plus or minus some variants, leaving the -0s to the rest of South America, but Bolivia and Peru are all over the place (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 5025, Dec 23 at 0013, R. Rebelde audio in Spanish is breaking up constantly. Feeder problem or transmitter problem? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GERMANY. 9480, Dec 23 at 0200 and 0237, no signal from European Music Radio DX test, scheduled 0200-0300 this UT Sunday, nor was I expecting to hear this 1 kW if really on, since KBC Bulgaria 9450 with 100 kW was hardly audible before 0200. EMR would do well to emulate Europirates broadcasting to North America in our mornings/their afternoons over full day path on 15, 17 or 21 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 89.5, Dec 23 around 0030 UT, the Singing Xmas Trees are at it again with a few secular Xmas songs same as last year from the oil well lot at West Oak & Oakwood in Enid. The well pumps away quietly to the side.

99.9, Dec 23 around 0115 UT, the home on Pheasant Run on the west side of Enid is again running Xmas music and light show; maybe some different tunes, including soul renditions, but did not stay for the whole 35-minute cycle. As before, range of this transmitter is less than 89.5, but plenty if you are parked across the street to watch it (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 1521, Dec 23 at 0102 and 0143 chex, 1 kHz het upon KOKC OKC 1520, no doubt the 2-megawatt behemoth in Duba, the sure pilot to trans-Atlantic MW openings. There could be some others on more split frequencies, but the het makes it easy to recognize on the 10-kHz-step caradio while out on an Xmas-lite-and-sound expedition; see OKLAHOMA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9665-9725, Dec 21 at 2105, very bad spurs from WTWW-2, 9905 with Brother Scare. Maybe peaks 9705, but blocking anything else over this range. Extremely distorted on modulation peaks. Upper spurs not as strong, audible from 10100 to 10125. These are roughly plus and minus 205 kHz from 9905 fundamental.

Also Dec 22 at 2023 check, spurs from 9905 now ranging 9660-9735, and 10105-10115, as QSO Show is being simulcast with 9479 WTWW-1. Mark Sills, W5JXY in Dallas, was also hearing the FMy spurs around 9705, so I checked them out.

More problems on WTWW-2, 5085, UT Dec 23 at 0013, Ted is about to play a clip for a caller when dumps off the air. From his remote studio with no air monitor, he may not be aware of this. Cuts back on at 0017, but meanwhile I had something UNIDENTIFIED, q.v.

Next check 0153, 5085 has double audio, both the QSO Show with Ted and a preacher about repentance, roughly equal levels, and not // 5830 WTWW-1. At 0158 now we are getting the QSO Show only but with a weaker echo four or five words behind. At 0237, only one QSO Show discussing EME and the 2.5 second delay. Hmm, was that moonbounce I was getting earlier? Hi. At 0305 check it`s on to preacher and pseudo-scientist Rod Hembree.

Let us hope there are no problems disrupting the last best chance to hear WORLD OF RADIO 1648 on SW this weekend, UT Sunday 0500 on WTWW-1 5830, since the first airing Thursday at 2200 on 9479 suffered a transmission outage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 5085.8, approx., Dec 23 at 0014-0017, while WTWW has dumped off the air from 5085, I hear a very weak broadcast signal slightly off that frequency. Possibly in Spanish; I scramble to measure it using the DX-398 on the porch, but WTWW is back on before I can be certain or pull any other program details. Far too weak to produce even a het once WTWW is back on. No known broadcasters besides WTWW around this frequency, and not a likely image or harmonic either. Better luck next time WTWW is missing around this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Ascolti AM Luca Botto Fiora

Ascolti AM (orari UTC)

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


Venerdì 21 dicembre 2012 (!?)
15.30 - 6970 kHz
Parlato femminile in cinese: sembrava il tipico stile di SOUND OF HOPE TAIWAN e, casualmente? La frequenza di 7970 era completamente vuota, così come quelle vicine. Segnale sufficiente-insufficiente
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15.45 - 6290 kHz
Musica rock e annunci OM in sottofondo ad un forte QRM UTE digitale. Europirata? Segnale sufficiente-insufficiente
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16.08 - 6260 kHz
CVC VOICE ASIA - Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
Hindi, parlato OM.
Segnale sufficiente-insufficiente
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Qualche settimana fa, durante un po' di manutenzione delle antenne, ho capito perché non riuscivo più a sentire le bande tropicali (a parte il fatto che non ci andavo più per mancanza di...tempo?): due cavi coassiali su un commutatore erano *invertiti*!!! Ora, non è che il monitoraggio che segue offra granchè, però i segnali erano abbastanza numerosi e buoni.
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16.10 - 5010 AIR THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Mx locale e annuncio YL. SF-IN
16.11 - 5060 XINJIANG PBS - Urumqi (Cina), Mandarino, teatro. BN-SF QRM UTE-DIG
16.12 - 4980 XINJIANG PBS - Urumqi (Cina), Uighur, audio molto distorto. SF-IN
16.14 - 4950 AIR R. KASHMIR - Parlato OM. SF-IN QRM UTEs
16.15 - 4920 AIR CHENNAI (sitar) + CHINA TIBET (EE YL/OM). BN-SF
16.16 - 4910 AIR JAIPUR (portante) + forte ronzio (non penso un jamming). SF
16.17 - 4905 CHINA TIBET in // 4920. SF
16.18 - 4895 AIR KURSEONG - nxs YL (PL-660 SINCH-LSB x UTE). BN-SF
16.20 - 4880 AIR LUCKNOW - Teatro o comizio YLs. SF-IN
16.23 - 4850 XINJIANG PBS - Kazako, chitarra melodica. BN-SF
16.25 - 4840 AIR MUMBAI - annuncio YL e musica carnatica. SF-IN
16.25 - 4835 tent. ABC Alice Springs (Australia), EE, tk OM. SF-IN
16.26 - 4820 XIZANG PBS (dominante) + AIR KOLKATA (tk OMs). SF-IN
16.27 - 4800 AIR HYDERABAD (tk YL) + CNR 1 (musica locale). BN-SF
16.28 - 4780 R. DJIBOUTI + VO RUSSIA EE (non era meglio 4975?). BN-SF
16.29 - 4765 TAJIK R. - Musica locale e annunci OM/YL. SF-IN
16.30 - 4760 TWR SWAZI - Lingua shangaan (WRTH 2013), Int/sig e OM. SF-BN
16.33 - 4557 VO THE PEOPLE (OM)+Jamming NK. BN-SF
16.34 - 4500 CNR 8 - Urumqi (Cina), Mongolo, tk OM/YL. MB!
16.36 - 4450 Jamming NK tipo 4557 + sirena!
16.38 - 4319USB AFRTS - Diego Garcia, EE, musica R&B rap. SF-IN
16.40 - 4010 KYRGYZ R. - Parlato OM. SF-IN
16.41 - 3990 XINJIANG PBS - Urumqi (Cina), Uighur, adv. OM/YL. BN-SF
16.41 - 3985 ECHO OF HOPE (YL) + Jamming NK. SF-IN
16.42 - 3950 XINJIANG PBS - Urumqi (Cina), Mandarino, tk OMs. BN-SF
16.44 - 3912 VO PEOPLE + Jamming NK. SF-IN
16.45 - 3905 Musica techno, IDs OM. R. POLARIS (tnx Achim's FRD). SF-IN

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Luca Botto Fiora

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

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Rack 1 (LW-MW-SW)
RICEVITORI
R7 Drake
VR5000DSP Yaesu
PL-660 Tecsun
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ANTENNE
1) Da 70 kHz a 2 MHz:
Loop in ferrite di 75 cm ACA modificata per LW-VLF
Preamplificatore RF K0LR-WA1ION autocostruito (escludibile)
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2) Da 2 a 5-6 MHz:
Loop magnetico interno tipo KR1ST 150x100 cm su finestra
Preamplificatore RF kit LX1456 NE (escludibile)
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3) Da 5-6 a 30 MHz:
Dipolo aperto esterno 21 m
Balun 1:32 su toroide FT-140/43 ACA
Eliminatore di QRM MFJ 1026 modificato W8JI (escludibile)

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ACCESSORI
Splitters 0-1000 MHz a 2 vie GBC


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RICEVITORE
E5 Etón
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ANTENNE
Loop in ferrite di 75 cm ACA

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

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Audacity 2.0.2 (acquisizione-conversione audio)
DXToolbox 4.1.1 demo (propagazione)
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Glenn Hauser logs December 21, 2012

** CHINA. Firedrake search Dec 21 at 1345-1352: none found 12-19 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 11760, Dec 21 at 1327, 1344, this is a missing RHC frequency as at least one transmitter continues to be down. Still going in Spanish on 9540, 11690, 11750, 11860, 15230, 15340;. At 1351, 17730 is also absent while 17580 is VG; by 1440, 17730 is back on too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN [and non]. 13750, Dec 21 at 1346, VOA Spanish from Greenville has CCI from Qur`an(?) and fast SAH, i.e. VIRI Arabic at 0830-1430, 500 kW, 178 degrees from Kamalabad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAINT HELENA. Tnx to a tip from Robert Kipp, listened to the final hour of Saint FM online. It closed down at 1600 UT Dec 21. Rather emotional comments and plenty of resentment against HM government, as this community radio station had been free to criticise it. In case the website survive a while longer, it`s http://www.saint.fm/index.htm

Robert says that rival Radio Saint Helena will also be closing down after a final broadcast (and we hope webcast, but not SW), December 25 at 1800-2400* --- ``The new St. Helena Broadcasting (Guarantee) Corporation , Ltd. (SHBC) (Darrin Henry (CEO)) has promised to make a live-audio-stream of the "Last Day" broadcast from Radio St. Helena, and Ralph Peters, the RSH Station Manager, has put together a special program with many interesting audio clips with greetings from people around the world.`` SHBC`s own replacement stations may not be on the air until January (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOMALILAND. 7120, Dec 21 at 1352, HOA vocal music, initially with QRhaM in Spanish SSB with Radio Hargeisa as BFO; and as always, CW QRhaM just to one side. 1359 playing usual military band anthem, 1400 brief OC and off at 1400:35* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN [non]. 7435 & 7220, Dec 21 at 1358, REE IS audible from CRI Kunming site prior to Nepali. 7435 also has some CCI, perhaps overlap from CRI Nanning in Chinese scheduled to end at 1400; if not Vietnam which is registered 24 hours in HFCC and Aoki says is on 7435 before and after 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1648 monitoring: On 5050 and 3195, WWRB, UT Friday Dec 21 at 0430, Pastor Larry Cain in SC (praise God!), is running a bit late with his usual wrapup; finally ``amen & amen`` at 0434:05. Then Dave Frantz comes on with a live announcement that WOR is coming right up after the computer ``spools up`` or something, and so it does, starting at 0434:58.

Fortunately the SW frequencies stay on past 0500 for the full WOR, and at 0504 Dave is back with another live announcement, about his NDB on 529 kHz, LYQ, which he says he is keeping non all-night for the benefit of DXers, altho it is not currently needed at his airstrip with no night flights scheduled, the previous contract having run out --- but a new one will start in a few weeks. Reception reports for LYQ are wanted via the website http://www.wwrb.org (I can usually hear it weakly, het against Cuba 530).

Dave also muses that he started DXing in 1968, discovered SW by accident. An old AM transistor radio of the 1960s or 1970s (but probably not modern ones) can be forced to pick up SW by wrapping a few turns of wire around the loopstick, and hooking that up to 25-30 feet of antenna wire. Near the 1600-1700 kHz range at the top end, he could then hear RHC, VOV and R. Moscow, but never found out what the original frequencies were.

I explain: Some modern portable radios with poor selectivity also get powerful 6 MHz band SW signals above 1600 kHz, the usual formula being multiply by 3 and add twice the IF, e.g. RHC on 6000 could appear on 1700 = x 3 = 5100 plus 2 x 450 = 900 leads to 6000. It`s not that they are really tuning SW; it`s that they are incapable of rejecting such SW image signals, and adding more antenna gain just overloads the units, making this more likely.

It`s a good thing I was listening on 5050, since as usual, the webstream carrying WOR automatically cuts off at 0500 to the default KJV Bible readings, whether WOR is over or not. Dave finishes at 0508 and SW transmitters go off.

Next chances for WORLD OF RADIO 1648: UT Saturday Dec 22 at 0230v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; UT Sunday Dec 23 at 0500 on WTWW-1 5830.

On WRMI 9955: Sat 0900, 1600, 1830, Sun 0900, 1630, Mon 0530, Tue 1200
On HLR: Sat 0630 on 7265, 1630 on 6190
On WRN via Sirius XM 120: Sat 1830. On other WRN services via satellite: to Europe, Sat 1000 UT; Africa/Asia/Pacific, Sun 1500 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1410, Dec 21 at 1316 UT, ad for Hi-Gain Feedlot in Farnam (not about antennas!), also mentions Eustis which is the next town down the road. This must be nearest 1410 station, KOOQ in North Platte NE, which NRC AM Log shows as 24 h with ESPN, but some of them also do some local non-sports programming. 5000/500 U2 with PSRA of 500, and this is of course pre-sunrise, 1400 UT in Dec, 1415 in Jan. Direxional night pattern has a broad lobe to the south and a slightly smaller one to the north (Glenn Hauser, OK, FRG-7 with E/W longwire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1420, Dec 21 at 1314 UT, KTOE ID in passing and ad for Kia of Mankato. This is 5/5 kW U2 from Mankato MN; heard on the FRG-7 as I tuned by dominating frequency with E/W longwire. Night pattern is figure 8 NE/SW, favorable for us, while day pattern is ND. Official sunrise in Dec & Jan is not until 1345 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific carrier search just before local 1340 UT sunrise here Dec 21, at 1332-1336: very weak carriers detected on 747, 774, 828, 873, 882, 972, 1053, 1566; and maybe on 612, 693 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX-398, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9330, Dec 21 at 1326, banshee blob is slowly crawling across WBCQ as I tune in, on its way upward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 13645, Dec 21 at 1347, DRM noise, from what? Nothing in the big three online schedules (nor 13640, 13650), nor from DRM itself: http://www.drm.org/?page_id=151
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

European Music Radio and Radio Gloria to Europe & the World

European Music Radio and Radio Gloria to Europe & the World 

 

Sunday 23rd:

00.00 – 02.00 UTC, R.G.I    on  9480 KHz    radiogloria@aol.com World Service

02.00 – 03.00 UTC, E.M.R  on  9480 KHz    studio@emr.org.uk   World Service

 

10.00 – 11.00 UTC, R.G.I   on  6005 KHz     radiogloria@aol.com to Europe

10.00 – 12.00 UTC, R.G.I   on  9480 KHz     radiogloria@aol.com to Europe

12.00 – 14.00 UTC, R.G.I   on  7265 KHz     radiogloria@aol.com to Europe
  
  

16.00 – 18.00 UTC R.G.I "coloRadio.org" internet

EMR now have "NEW design" Verification of Reception QSL's for Christmas!

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our Listeners from European Music Radio!

 

Good Listening

 

73s

 

Tom & Mike

Glenn Hauser logs December 22, 2012

** MOROCCO [and non]. 9579, Dec 22 at 0635, weak het with 9580, so apparently both Africa No. One, GABON, and Médi Un, are on with the usual clash. Gabon had been missing at various previous chex. Aoki and HFCC show the only other station on 9580 during this hour is Lhasa, Tibet, but I don`t recall ever seeing it reported (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NETHERLANDS [non]. 21600, Dec 22 at 1540, KBC Radio special, tnx to reminder from Larry Cunningham. VG signal, stronger than Spain 21610 or WHRI 21630. But there is some regular fading, hinting at a SAH, but no other modulation. Site surely Wertachtal, GERMANY, but are they running two transmitters instead of one? Could and/or be Nauen.

Country music, outro as Allison Krauss (sp?), ``country music classic, for truckers all over the world``; then ``Six Days on the Road``. Also very poor on // 15470, and JBA carrier on 9835, the two other frequencies listed. Apparently live DJs with American accents remark, ``Trucker radio on KBC, not KFC,`` expecting to be asked back.

1544 ad with British accent for I-phone.nl, sounds like, until spelt as hifun.nl, then KBC Radio singing ID; 1545 promo by Bob for his `On the Road` show at 10-noon CET weekdays, for Belgian truckers; on ``shortwave AM 60-95, transportradio.nl`` plus E- and P-mail addresses. 1548 another song, and more; 1557 wrapping up till tomorrow and off at 1559*.

I then check the website and find this from the KBC Forum dated way back on Nov 16, 2012:http://www.kbcradio.eu/forumwp/?p=1641

``December 2012: The Mighty KBC Blasting Out Of Your Tranny!! The extra frequencies and transmitters for 22, 23, 25 and 26 December are:

EU (German time) UT +1
9835 kHz, 1500-1600 UT, Non Directional, 125 kW

USA (East Coast time) UT -5
21600 kHz, 1500-1600 UT, 300°, 250 kW

Asia (Vietnam time) UT +7 / Australia (Sydney time) UT +11
15470 kHz, 1500-1600 UT, 75°, 250 kW

And on 22, 23 December we also have our 6095 transmitter on the air as well with 100 kW 0900–1600 UT.

During weekdays we also have The Mighty 6095 on the air between 0900–1100 UT with 100 kW.

And on December 23 we also use 9450 kHz from Bulgaria beamed to the USA, Canada and South America between 0000–0200 with 100 kW`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 15225, Dec 22 at 1443, open carrier; 1452 recheck now somewhat undermodulating in Arabic, 1500 mentions Saudi, theme music.
HFCC shows Riyadh starting at 1500, 500 kW, 295 degrees, but Aoki says the Call of Islam service starts at 1450 (I was not hearing Qur`an). KTWR Guam supposedly is also on 15225 with English at 1400-1523/1535, but no sign of it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1648 monitoring: confirmed on webcast of Area 51, UT Saturday Dec 22 at 0230, and presumably also on WBCQ 5110v-CUSB. Next: UT Sunday 0500 on WTWW-1 5830; Sunday 0900, 1630, Monday 0530, Tuesday 1200 on WRMI 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1310, Dec 22 at 1357 UT, ``Puede Ser`` romantic sounding song, but I think it`s gospel; 1400 brief announcement I can`t copy and into another Spanish song. Still suspect it`s KKNS in Corrales NM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Ascolti AM Treviso 21 dicembre

5965 21/12 600 R. Exterior Espana, Cariari Ts Px Noticias Nx  Es 23333
6165 21/12 608 Rdiff.Nat. Tchadienne, N'Djamena Mx QRM R. Habana F 22322
657  21/12 620 RAI Radio 1, Pisa-Coltano TGR Toscana It 33343

73 da N. Marabello
Treviso, Italia

RX: SONY ICF SW7600G
ANT: VHF esterna azimuth 230 gradi  

Glenn Hauser logs December 20-21, 2012

** CUBA. 11760, Dec 20 at 2136, RHC is still on in French, supposed to end at 2130, but off at next check 2145; must have been running late.

11880, Dec 20 at 2136, RHC Portuguese. If NHK Portuguese via GUIANA FRENCH is still there, I can`t detect it underneath; nor anywhere else on the 25m band in case they have moved as they need to in the face of bullying from Arnie Coro.

6000, Dec 21 at 0014, RHC is starting the `Sonido Cubano` music fill show, also on 6060, 6120, 9640, echoing on 11760, 11840. 6000 and 9640 are reserved for the separate `Mesa Redonda` TV soundtrack at 00-01 when there is one, but not tonight.

6165, Dec 21 at 0212, RHC English is back on the air tonight, with an Arnie Coro report, // 6000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUIANA FRENCH. Never mind my recent remark about the 9490 transmitter carrying R. República being spur-free. Sometimes it is, but spurs are back tonight, Dec 21 at 0023 check, squeals at multiples of about 7 kHz above and below, circa 9476, 9483, 9497, 9504 --- the same displacements as I was hearing the night before surrounding the 11740 English relay of R. Japan after 0500; no coincidence.

At 0218 Dec 21, I also look for the different set of spurs which have long infested the 5960 relay of R. Japan in Japanese at 02-04: yes, they are still there, blobs circa 5844, 5926, 5994 and 6076, i.e. plus and minus 34 and 116 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 13570, Dec 20 at 2137, WINB is just barely modulated, which is helpful since the YL gospel huxter appears to be screaming; the CODAR QRM is as loud as she is (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1648 monitoring: oh oh, 9479 WTWW is off the air Dec 20 at 2139, and so are the other two WTWW frequencies, 9905 and 12105. (I notice that other Tennessean WWRB is also missing from 9370 and if on 3185 instead that is inaudible this early; but all four WWCR transmitters are still on, 6875, 9350, 9980, 13845.)

Whew, at 2150, 9479 is back on with PPP, and WORLD OF RADIO 1648 starts at 2200. New 9905 ex-9990 is also on with Brother Scare. But at next check 2214, 9479 is off again, and so is the rest of WORLD OF RADIO, still off at 2245; however, 9905 is still on with open carrier at 2214, and by 2227 BS is back. Sometime around 0015 UT Dec 21, I notice that 5830 has resumed, the night counterpart of 9479; and 5085 is also on, the night side of 9905.

Let us hope for better luck during the next airing of WORLD OF RADIO, UT Friday Dec 21 at 0430v on WWRB 3195 and 5050 --- both of them confirmed on the air at 0217.

After that try 5110v-CUSB, for WOR on Area 51 via WBCQ, UT Saturday Dec 22 at 0230v - last week did not start until 0255.

On WRMI 9955: Sat 0900, 1600, 1830, Sun 0900, 1630, Mon 0530, Tue 1200
On HLR: Sat 0630 on 7265, 1630 on 6190, plus special holiday airings
On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat 1830 UT.

Since WORLD OF RADIO is primarily about the dynamic medium of international shortwave, between the AM and FM bands, it should be listened to on SW if at all possible. If not, there are many webcasts scheduled (including the ones simulcast on SW), via
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
and one may even hear it on demand, via
http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
or even subscribe to the podcast via WRN:
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/customize-panel/addToPlaylist/98/10:00:00UTC/English
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Ascolti AM Luca Botto Fiora

Ascolti AM (orari UTC)

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

Lunedì 17 dicembre 2012
19.10 - 1368 kHz
CHALLENGER R. NORD ITALIA
Villa Estense-PD (Italia)
Vecchia registrazione di WYFR (E. Bacoccina)
Segnale buono-sufficiente
-
23.02 - 1566 kHz
(dopo lo spegnimento di Portofino 1575!)
RADIO KOLBE SAT - Schio-VI (Italia)
Italiano, riflessioni OM, ID YL e corale.
Segnale buono-sufficiente

***

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

***

Rack 1 (LW-MW-SW)
RICEVITORI
R7 Drake
VR5000DSP Yaesu
PL-660 Tecsun
-
ANTENNE
1) Da 70 kHz a 2 MHz:
Loop in ferrite di 75 cm ACA modificata per LW-VLF
Preamplificatore RF K0LR-WA1ION autocostruito (escludibile)
-
2) Da 2 a 5-6 MHz:
Loop magnetico interno tipo KR1ST 150x100 cm su finestra
Preamplificatore RF kit LX1456 NE (escludibile)
-
3) Da 5-6 a 30 MHz:
Dipolo aperto esterno 21 m
Balun 1:32 su toroide FT-140/43 ACA
Eliminatore di QRM MFJ 1026 modificato W8JI (escludibile)

-
ACCESSORI
Splitters 0-1000 MHz a 2 vie GBC

***

Rack 2 (LW-MW)
RICEVITORE
E5 Etón
-
ANTENNE
Loop in ferrite di 75 cm ACA

***

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

***

SOFTWARE (Mac OSX)
Audacity 2.0.2 (acquisizione-conversione audio)
DXToolbox 4.1.1 demo (propagazione)
EarthDesk 6.0.2 demo (scrivania-orologio mondiale)
HourWorld 3.4.3 demo (orologio mondiale)
Multimode 6.3 demo Black Cat Systems (UTEs)
TimePalette 6.1 demo (orologio mondiale)

New info program on IRRS

Dear Listeners and Friends of IRRS-Shortwave,

It's the time of the year when we are usually summing up our activities, and deciding whether and how to follow up in the next. At the end of the year we will be having our annual board meeting, but I can anticipate that we will continue broadcasting on Shortwave, focusing even more to far away countries, besides our usual targets in Europe, North Africa and Middle East.

Just before Christmas I would like to inform you of a new, exceptional news program that will be broadcasted effective Dec. 22, 2012 weekly each Saturday at 20:45 CET (19:45 UTC) on 7290 kHz and 1368 kHz Medium Wave. The program is a 15 minute program in French and English specifically created for Shortwave about issues related to Europe and interesting to our European audience. I will not reveal the name just now, just listen and send your reception report directly to the address that you hear on the air. They also QSL directly.

Lastly if you have not sent a reception report for our newly started Medium Wave broadcasts, we will sending out a special QSL card for reception reports received ONLY for broadcasts in the following time slots, as heard ONLY until Dec. 31, 2012:

- 20:00-21:00 UTC (21:00-22:00 CET) on 7290 kHz and 1368 kHz MW
- 06:00-07:00 UTC (07:00-08:00 CET) on 1368 kHz MW

Please do write us, tell us about our content, what you like and you do not like, besides technical quality, and send your email or letter to:

- email: reports@nexus.org - or:
- by snail mail to: IRRS, PO Box 10980, I-20110 Milano, Italy

All letters and comments are greatly appreciated, and help demonstrating to our broadcasters that Shortwave is still viable, and really help us to stay on the air.

During the Christmas and New Year break will be working on a new system to send QSL cards almost in real time. All those who sent a reception report recently will be notified by email on how to receive our new QSL card.

In the meantime, have a wonderful Christmas time with your families, and a very Happy new year 2013 from all of us here in Milano.

73s,

Ron
--
Ron Norton                       NEXUS-Int'l Broadcasting Association
email: ron@nexus.org          http://www.nexus.org

Glenn Hauser logs December 20, 2012

** AUSTRALIA. 11945 & 9580, Thu Dec 20 at 1410-1458, RA intriguing interview from R. National, with author of a book about the CIA, ``The Interrogator: a CIA Agent's True Story``, Glenn Carle, who was pressured by the Bush-Cheney regime to torture a prisoner for Al-Qaida info, but was really a low-level banker with only remote connexions to the terrorists. 9580 cuts off the air abruptly at 1458.

The show is ``Conversations`` with Richard Fidler, and here`s the page with audio link:
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2012/12/10/3651275.htm?site=conversations
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. 9955, Dec 20 at 1505, Firedrake vs something in Chinese; first time I`ve heard it on WRMI`s frequency, but which WRMI is not using after 1500 on weekdays. Well, of course! It`s R. Free Asia, Tibetan via TINIAN at 15-16. CNR1 or noise jamming might also be employed. And this will impact WRMI on weekends when it stays on the air all day.

Did not scan entire 7-19 MHz range for other Firedrake this morning, as that has proven to be unproductive for some weeks now. Maybe will start propagating higher frequencies again after Solstice (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. RHC transmissions are all screwed up again, Dec 20; compared to official schedule at
http://www.radiohc.cu/index.php/de-interes/frecuencias.html

9810 at 0505 is just barely modulated, in English instead of Spanish until 0600. Still English at 0515, 0555, but off at 0605 check.

6165, the English frequency scheduled 01-07, is off the air at 0508 and all further chex to 0605, opening up for CHAD, q.v.

6120, supposed to be Spanish until 0600: at 0516 is in English // 6125 but an echo apart from other site. Also at 0555, but off at 0605.

Meanwhile, the other English frequencies before 0600 were as usual: 6010, 6060.

Besides wrong language on two frequencies, one transmitter is evidently down; we can hardly hope 6165 has been abandoned permanently, and no replacement has been found. At 1356 check, 13780 is off, and 11760 is in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHAD. 6165, Dec 20 at 0508, very poor signal seems French, presumed RNT, in absence of RHC, surely only temporarily (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** DJIBOUTI. 4780, Dec 20 at 0345, Horn-of-Africa music, vs CODAR and also TADIL-A bonker on the low side, no doubt R. Djibouti (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUATEMALA. 4055, Dec 20 at 0610, TGAV is running a bit later than usual with majestic choral NA still playing until 0613*.

Also on Dec 19 received in the P-mail R. Verdad`s 2013 calendar, which is a single sheet featuring small color portraits of 13 station personnel from Dr. Madrid to 6 locutores, to Ralph Borthwick, ingeniero; and also a hi-angle photo of the ``Templo Radio Verdad, San Esteban, Chiquimula, Cerro de la Gloria``. Schedule given as ``3:20 AM a 12:05 PM`` [UT -6]. Reminds us that 25 Feb 2013 is the thirteenth anniversary of Radio Verdad.

Also enclosed another sheet with a calendar on one side, tract in Spanish on the other, published in Federal Way, Washington. And a note of greeting from Dr. Édgar Amílcar Madrid, Director y Gerente. No pennant or QSL since I haven`t axually sent a reception report lately. The air-mail envelope now bears no stamps, but a print-out label from El Correo, ``Concesionario del Correo Oficial de la República de Guatemala``, Agencia PPP, dated 05 Diciembre, for Q.6.50 and it`s stuck on the left side of the envelope rather than the upper right. That = about 82 cents US (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUIANA FRENCH. 11740, Dec 20 at 0512, NHK English to NAm has excellent signal, but accompanied by squealing spurs at approx. 7 kHz intervals: 11768, 11761, 11754, 11747, 11733, 11726, 11719, 11712. The 11726 one is especially noticeable, putting squealing QRM on RNZI 11725. Fortunately this only lasts until 0530. The 11761 and 11768 ones also bother SRDA Brasil between them on 11765.

As the last remaining major SW relay site in the Americas, what a shame that Montsinéry is so technically deficient. Need to recheck the 5960 transmitter at 02-04 with NHK Japanese, whether it still puts out multiple spurs at far greater intervals. The 9490 with Radio República at 00-02 seems to be OK as far as the spur situation. Are they all from the same transmitter? WRTH 2013 says there are 4 x 500 kW, and 1 x 250 kW in GUF (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOMALILAND. 7120, Dec 20 at 0335, R. Hargeisa still better heard here just after morning sign-on, than before midday 1400v*. Presumed Somali talk, and with very slow CW QRhaM sending CQ, but no repeat as I prepared to copy callsign from that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 900, Dec 20 at 1402 UT, CBS News, in E/W null of KSGL Wichita gospel huxter; based on listings in the NRC AM Log, and proximity, the only possibility is KHOZ in Harrison AR, now on non-direxional 1 kW day power. Naturally losing it by 1406 when there might have been something local (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. 960, Dec 20 at 0600-0605 UT during another Fox-hole from local KGWA Enid, with its dead-air carrier nulled as much as possible, a mix of ABC News, ABC News slightly echoing against the first one, blues music, and Mexican music. The last two probably WABG in Mississippi, and XEK Nuevo Laredo; the first ABC, KMA in Iowa.

I had previously figured that WERC in Alabama was the most likely second ABC station, as listed in the NRC AM Log, but Kevin Redding in TN says WERC is now running Fox news. So I look thru the NRC Log again; altho there are a few ABC affiliates in further reaches of the US, with 2-digit watt night power, the most likely one I am getting is KNEB in Scottsbluff NE, with 350 watts night, and NRC Pattern Book 2005 showed at night it`s a N/S figure-8, meaning some signal should be coming our way to the SE thru KGWA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ZIMBABWE [non]. 12105, Thu Dec 20 at 1640, weak music, and 1643 some talk, presumably Radio Dialogue FM as scheduled this hour via MADAGASCAR, (ex Zimbabwe Community Radio). Others have reported QRM from WTWW in Arabic, but not today. While it`s difficult to pin down a reliable schedule from WTWW-3, I think it is more likely to be on the air weekends, especially Saturdays following Russian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 880, Dec 20 at 1358 UT, open carrier from the E/W, zero-beat with KRVN Nebraska to the north; only evident by the loss of KRVN modulation when that is nulled and the signal meter still with several bars on the DX-398. Still OC past 1400. Suspect it`s KLRG 50 kW in Arkansas, then fading, instead of `Canada Calling` from the WTAN network as previously heard at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Glenn Hauser logs December 19, 2012

** AUSTRALIA. 5995, Dec 19 at 1416, RA has VG signal and no spurs this time around 5982 or 6008. At 1435, also on 11660, which is 329 degrees toward Asia, sufficient but much weaker than // 11945 and 9580 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 11760 & 13780, Dec 19 at 1357 check, RHC is back in Spanish unlike English on these two frequencies only, 24 hours earlier. Meanwhile, José Elías Díaz Gómez in Venezuela also heard English on the wrong frequency, Dec 18 after 2000 UT, on 15340 instead of Portuguese, when English is supposed to be on 11760 only. On Dec 19 after 2030 check I found 15340 in Arabic as it is supposed to be (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NORTH AMERICA. Re: ``UNIDENTIFIED. 6955.3-AM, Dec 16 at 2239, a much weaker pirate is here at same time as R. Casablanca on 6939.7; see NORTH AMERICA. Only thing copied here was at 2246 ``My Favorite Things`` maybe Sinatra; off by 2259 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)``

DXLD yg member Gilles Letourneau was listening at the same time Dec 16 and IDed it: ``another pirate with fair signal in Montreal, WMPR on 6955 kHz AM mode, 2235 UT with Xmas music`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOMALILAND. 7120, Dec 19 at 1358, R. Hargeisa playing anthem with fanfare, drumming, poor signal, CW QRhaM, and off by 1400* -- same as heard a minute or two later on previous dates (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1648: ready for first airing UT Thursday 0430 on WRMI 9955; repeats are Sat 0900, 1600, 1830, Sun 0900, 1630, Mon 0530, Tue 1200. Other stations:

Thursday 2200 on WTWW 9479, UT Sunday 0500 on WTWW 5830
UT Friday 0430v on WWRB 3195 and 5050
UT Saturday 0230v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB [last week: 0255-]
UT Saturday 0630 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265; 1630 on HLR 6190
[and some special HLR broadcasts following week including WOR; TBA]
Saturday 1830 on WRN via SiriusXM 120
Full schedule including many more webcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1350, Dec 19 at 1402 UT, CBS News, but only one minute, 1403 optional cutaway employed by KMAN Manhattan KS which just can`t wait to get on with local news; briefly atop channel (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1480, Dec 19 at 1405 UT, paranoid preacher on Tru News show who claims we aren`t getting the real story from mainstream media and things are much worse than they seem. Again mentions at 1410 expanding audience as now covering N Texas and as far as Stillwater OK on 1480 --- this is KBXD Dallas --- and also on four SW frequencies. I estimate the SAH as about 7 Hz, and on the low side compared to BFO pitches of neighboring frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9420v, Dec 19 at 0617, the banshee blob is crossing Greece going upward, and at 0619 is crossing 9480, VOA French via SÃO TOMÉ. I only hear this in the 9.3-9.5 MHz range, but am now less than positive that it is not something local. So is anyone else hearing it around this time or elsewhen? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Dx Re Mix News # 760

===========================================================================
DX RE MIX NEWS # 760 from Georgi Bancov & Ivo Ivanov. Date: Wed Dec.19,2012
Also visit:, sections "DXPeditions"&"Schedules"
===========================================================================
BANGLADESH    Updated winter B-12 of Bangladesh Betar:
1230-1300 NF  7250 DKA 250 kW / 140 deg to SEAs English, ex 15105
1315-1345 on  7250 DKA 250 kW / 320 deg to SoAs Nepali
1400-1430 NF  7250 DKA 250 kW / 290 deg to WeAs Urdu, ex 15505
1515-1545 NF  7250 DKA 250 kW / 305 deg to SoAs Hindi, ex 15505
1600-1630 on  7250#DKA 250 kW / 290 deg to N/ME Arabic
1630-1730 on  7250#DKA 250 kW / 290 deg to N/ME Bangla
1745-1900 on  7250*DKA 250 kW / 320 deg to WeEu English
1915-2000 on  7250^DKA 250 kW / 320 deg to WeEu Bangla
# co-ch All India Radio in Persian to N/ME 1615-1730
* co-ch All India Radio in Malayalam to N/ME till 1830
^ very, very strong co-ch Voice of Russia in Russian

BURMA(non)    Frequency change for Democratic Voice of Burma from Dec.15:
1430-1530 NF  6225 DB  100 kW / 125 deg to SEAs Burmese, ex 11560
2330-0030 on  7510 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to SEAs Burmese unchanged

GERMANY    NDR on shortwave again! German public broadcaster Norddeutscher
Rundfunk NDR will air its special X-mas program "Gruss an Bord" for German
sailors on merchant ships. Here is the schedule for Mon December 24, 2012:
Part 1:
1900-2100 on  9850 WER 100 kW / 285 deg to North Atlantic Ocean
1900-2100 on 11720 NAU 100 kW / 163 deg to SoEaAf, Indian Ocean, SoWeAf
1900-2100 on 11840 WER 100 kW / 120 deg to Western Indian Ocean
1900-2100 on 11840 NAU 125 kW / 200 deg to South Atlantic Ocean
1900-2100 on 11965 WER 125 kW / 090 deg to Eastern Indian Ocean
1900-2100 on 13780 NAU 125 kW / 235 deg to WeAf, Atlantic Ocean
Part 2:
2100-2300 on  7335 WER 100 kW / 270 deg to North Atlantic Ocean
2100-2300 on  9490 NAU 125 kW / 200 deg to South Atlantic Ocean
2100-2300 on  9490 WER 100 kW / 120 deg to Western Indian Ocean
2100-2300 on  9650 WER 125 kW / 090 deg to Eastern Indian Ocean
2100-2300 on  9735 NAU 100 kW / 163 deg to SoEaAf, Indian Ocean, SoWeAf
2100-2300 on 11655 NAU 125 kW / 235 deg to WeAf, Atlantic Ocean

GUAM    Upcoming frequency change of AWR/KSDA in Khmer from Jan.1
1300-1330 NF 15675 SDA 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs, ex 17680 Daily
1300-1400 NF 15675 SDA 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs, ex 17680 Sun

IRAN    Frequency changes of VOIRI/IRIB in Japanese from Dec.9
1330-1427 NF  9585 SIR 500 kW / 060 deg to EaAs, ex  9785
1330-1427 NF  9665 KAM 500 kW / 060 deg to EaAs, ex  9540
2100-2157 NF  5990 SIR 500 kW / 060 deg to EaAs, ex  6145 // 7395 SIR

ISRAEL    Another frequency change for Kol Israel in Persian from Dec.14:
1500-1600 NF 11595 ISR 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Fri/Sat, ex 13850 // 9985
1500-1630 NF 11595 ISR 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Sun-Thu, ex 13850 // 9985

MALAYSIA(non)    New time and frequency for Radio Free Kenyalang:
0900-1000 NF 15360 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Iban from Dec.17*via T8WH
*according IBB RMS. Strong signal in Jakarta, Manila & Singapore
History of changes:
1200-1400 on 15650 TAC 100 kW / 132 deg to SEAs Iban Dec.1-Dec.4 via WRN
1300-1500 on 17815 TIG 300 kW / 100 deg to SEAs Iban test Dec.13 via IRRS

ROMANIA    Updated winter B-12 schedule of Radio Romania International:
Arabic
0730-0756 on 15155 GAL 300 kW / 245 deg to NoAf
0730-0756 on 15330 TIG 300 kW / 142 deg to N/ME
0730-0756 on 17500 GAL 300 kW / 245 deg to NoAf
0730-0756 on 17810 TIG 300 kW / 142 deg to N/ME
1500-1556 on  9655 GAL 300 kW / 140 deg to N/ME
1500-1556 on 11620 GAL 300 kW / 140 deg to N/ME
1500-1556 on 15280 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to NoAf
1500-1556 on 17540 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to NoAf
Aromanian
1530-1556 on  6060 SAF 100 kW / 210 deg to SEEu
1730-1756 on  5960 SAF 100 kW / 210 deg to SEEu
1930-1956 on  7345 SAF 100 kW / 210 deg to SEEu
Chinese
0500-0526 on 17870 TIG 300 kW / 067 deg to EaAs DRM
0500-0526 on 21500 TIG 300 kW / 067 deg to EaAs
1400-1426 on  9725 TIG 300 kW / 067 deg to EaAs
1400-1426 on 11825 TIG 300 kW / 067 deg to EaAs
English
0100-0156 on  6145 GAL 300 kW / 310 deg to NEAm
0100-0156 on  7325 GAL 300 kW / 310 deg to NEAm
0400-0456 on  6130 GAL 300 kW / 320 deg to NWAm
0400-0456 on  7305 TIG 300 kW / 337 deg to NWAm
0400-0456 on 15220 GAL 300 kW / 100 deg to SoAs
0400-0456 on 17870 TIG 300 kW / 097 deg to SoAs
0630-0656 on  7310 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu
0630-0656 on  9600 GAL 300 kW / 300 deg to WeEu DRM
0630-0656 on 17780 GAL 300 kW / 100 deg to SEAs
0630-0656 on 21600 TIG 300 kW / 097 deg to SEAs
1200-1256 on 15460 GAL 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu
1200-1256 on 17530 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu
1200-1256 on 17765 GAL 300 kW / 165 deg to EaAf
1200-1256 on 21570 TIG 300 kW / 157 deg to EaAf
1800-1856 on  7300 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu
1800-1856 on  9780 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu DRM
2130-2156 on  6030 GAL 300 kW / 300 deg to WeEu DRM
2130-2156 on  7310 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to NoAm
2130-2156 on  7380 GAL 300 kW / 300 deg to WeEu
2130-2156 on  9435 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to NoAm
2300-2356 on  6015 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu
2300-2356 on  7220 GAL 300 kW / 290 deg to WeEu
2300-2356 on  9530 TIG 300 kW / 052 deg to EaAs
2300-2356 on 11810 TIG 300 kW / 052 deg to EaAs
French
0200-0256 on  5975 GAL 300 kW / 310 deg to NoAm
0200-0256 on  7325 GAL 300 kW / 310 deg to NoAm
0600-0626 on  9650 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu DRM
0600-0626 on  9690 TIG 300 kW / 217 deg to WeAf
0600-0626 on 11740 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu
0600-0626 on 11790 TIG 300 kW / 217 deg to WeAf
1100-1156 on 15150 TIG 300 kW / 292 deg to WeEu
1100-1156 on 15255 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu
1100-1156 on 17820 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu
1100-1156 on 17870 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to NoAf
1700-1756 on  9690 TIG 300 kW / 292 deg to WeEu
1700-1756 on 11635 TIG 300 kW / 292 deg to WeEu
2100-2126 on  6030 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu
2100-2126 on  7370 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu DRM
German
0700-0726 on  9450 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu DRM
0700-0726 on 11810 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu
1300-1356 on  9810 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu
1300-1356 on 11700 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu
1900-1956 on  6010 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu
1900-1956 on  9805 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu DRM
Italian
1500-1526 on  7390 SAF 100 kW / 270 deg to SoEu
1700-1726 on  7415 SAF 100 kW / 270 deg to SoEu
1900-1926 on  7345 SAF 100 kW / 270 deg to SoEu DRM
Romanian
0100-0156 on  5910 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to NoAm
0100-0156 on  7340 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to NoAm
0200-0256 on  5910 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to NoAm
0200-0256 on  7340 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to NoAm
0500-0556 on  6145 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu
0500-0556 on  7220 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu
0800-0856 on 15370 TIG 300 kW / 142 deg to N/ME Sunday Curierul romanesc
0800-0856 on 15430 GAL 300 kW / 110 deg to WeAs Sunday Curierul romanesc
0800-0856 on 17850 GAL 300 kW / 110 deg to WeAs Sunday Curierul romanesc
0800-0856 on 17860 TIG 300 kW / 142 deg to N/ME Sunday Curierul romanesc
0900-0956 on 15380 GAL 300 kW / 175 deg to EaAf Sunday Curierul romanesc
0900-0956 on 15430 TIG 300 kW / 142 deg to N/ME Sunday Curierul romanesc
0900-0956 on 17745 GAL 300 kW / 175 deg to EaAf Sunday Curierul romanesc
0900-0956 on 17775 TIG 300 kW / 142 deg to N/ME Sunday Curierul romanesc
1000-1056 on 15260 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Sunday Curierul romanesc
1000-1056 on 17780 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to NoAf Sunday Curierul romanesc
1000-1056 on 17870 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Sunday Curierul romanesc
1000-1056 on 21500 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to NoAf Sunday Curierul romanesc
1300-1356 on  7420 SAF 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu
1300-1356 on 11870 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu
1300-1356 on 15170 GAL 300 kW / 290 deg to WeEu
1400-1456 on 11870 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu
1400-1456 on 15170 GAL 300 kW / 290 deg to WeEu
1600-1656 on  9655 GAL 300 kW / 290 deg to WeEu
1600-1656 on 11870 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu
1700-1756 on  5995 GAL 300 kW / 140 deg to N/ME
1700-1756 on  7325 GAL 300 kW / 140 deg to N/ME
1800-1856 on  5990 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu
1800-1856 on  7350 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu
1900-1956 on  5990 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu
1900-1956 on  7430 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu
2000-2056 on  5990 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu
2000-2056 on  7380 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu
Russian
0530-0556 on  6175 TIG 300 kW / 037 deg to EaEu DRM
0530-0556 on  7210 TIG 300 kW / 037 deg to EaEu
1430-1456 on 11690 TIG 300 kW / 052 deg to CeAs
1430-1456 on 15735 TIG 300 kW / 052 deg to CeAs
1600-1656 on  7300 TIG 300 kW / 037 deg to EaEu DRM
1600-1656 on  9810 TIG 300 kW / 037 deg to EaEu
Serbian
1630-1656 on  6030 SAF 100 kW / 270 deg to SEEu
1830-1856 on  6030 SAF 100 kW / 270 deg to SEEu
2030-2056 on  7425 SAF 100 kW / 270 deg to SEEu
Spanish
0000-0056 on  7315 GAL 300 kW / 280 deg to SoAm
0000-0056 on  9525 GAL 300 kW / 280 deg to SoAm
0000-0056 on 13590 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to SoAm
0000-0056 on 15110 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to SoAm
0300-0356 on  9765 GAL 300 kW / 310 deg to CeAm
0300-0356 on  9870 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to SoAm
0300-0356 on 11825 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to SoAm
0300-0356 on 11850 GAL 300 kW / 310 deg to CeAm
2000-2056 on  6010 TIG 300 kW / 277 deg to SoEu
2000-2056 on  9895 TIG 300 kW / 277 deg to SoEu
2200-2256 on  9790 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to SoAm
2200-2256 on 11870 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to SoAm
Ukrainian
1600-1626 on  5960 SAF 100 kW / 030 deg to EaEu
1800-1826 on  6090 SAF 100 kW / 030 deg to EaEu
2000-2026 on  6170 SAF 100 kW / 030 deg to EaEu

ROMANIA(non)    Updated winter B-12 on NEXUS IRRS Shortwave:
NEXUS-IBA/EGR/IPAR in English:
0900-1000 on  9510 SAF 150 kW / 290 deg to WeEu Sat
1030-1300 on  9510 SAF 150 kW / 290 deg to WeEu Sun
1900-2000 on  7290 SAF 150 kW / 290 deg to WeEu Fri/Sun
1900-2000 on  7290 SAF 150 kW / 290 deg to WeEu 2nd/4th Sat

Radio Joystick in German:
1900-2000 on  7290 SAF 150 kW / 290 deg to WeEu 1st Sat

Radio City in English:
1900-2000 on  7290 SAF 150 kW / 290 deg to WeEu 3rd Sat

Universal Life (Radio Santec) in English:
1500-1530 on 15190 TIG 300 kW / 100 deg to SEAs Sun

Brother Stair TOM in English:
2000-2100 on  7290 SAF 150 kW / 290 deg to WeEu Daily

SPAIN    Updated winter B-12 of REE with some corrections of azimuth:
Arabic
1700-1900 on 21610 NOB 250 kW / 110 deg to NEAf
1900-2100 on  7265 NOB 250 kW / 170 deg to NWAf Mon-Fri
2000-2200 on  7265 NOB 250 kW / 170 deg to NWAf Sat/Sun
English
0000-0100 on  6055 NOB 250 kW / 290 deg to NoAm back on SW from Dec.4
1900-2000 on  9605 NOB 250 kW / 168 deg to NWAf Mon-Fri
2200-2300 on  6125 NOB 250 kW / 038 deg to WeEu Sat/Sun back on SW Dec.4
French
1900-2000 on  9590 NOB 250 kW / 168 deg to CeAf Sat
1900-2000 on 12030 NOB 250 kW / 110 deg to NEAf Sun
2000-2100 on  9570 NOB 250 kW / 168 deg to NEAf Mon-Fri
2000-2100 on  9605 NOB 250 kW / 110 deg to NEAf Mon-Fri
Portuguese
2100-2200 on 11680 NOB 250 kW / 230 deg to SoAm Mon-Fri
Russian
1700-1730 on 11755 NOB 250 kW / 038 deg to EaEu Mon-Fri
Sefardi
1425-1455 on 15385 NOB 250 kW / 092 deg to N/ME Mon
0115-0145 on 11780 NOB 250 kW / 248 deg to SoAm Tue
0415-0445 on  9690 NOB 250 kW / 290 deg to CeAm Tue
Spanish
0000-0100 on 11815 CRI 100 kW / 110 deg to SoAm DRM
0000-0200 on  9630 CRI 100 kW / 340 deg to NoAm DRM
0000-0400 on  9765 CRI 100 kW / 110 deg to SoAm
0000-0400 on  9620 NOB 250 kW / 230 deg to SoAm
0000-0500 on  6125 NOB 250 kW / 242 deg to SoAm
0000-0500 on  9535 NOB 250 kW / 272 deg to CeAm
0200-0600 on  3350 CRI 100 kW / 000 deg to SoAm
0400-0800 on  5965 CRI 100 kW / 150 deg to SoAm
0500-0700 on 11895 NOB 100 kW / 098 deg to N/ME
0500-0900 on  9780 NOB 050 kW / 050 deg to WeEu DRM
0900-1500 on 21540 NOB 250 kW / 161 deg to WCAf
1100-1300 on 13720 NOB 250 kW / 000 deg to WeEu DRM
1100-1700 on 21610 NOB 250 kW / 110 deg to NEAf
1200-1400 on 11910 BEI 500 kW / 138 deg to SEAs
1200-1500 on  9765 CRI 100 kW / 000 deg to CeAm Mon-Fri
1200-1500 on 11815 CRI 100 kW / 110 deg to SoAm Mon-Fri
1200-2300 on  9765 CRI 100 kW / 000 deg to CeAm Sun
1200-2300 on 15125 CRI 100 kW / 110 deg to SoAm Sun
1300-1500 on 17595 NOB 250 kW / 248 deg to SoAm Mon-Fri
1500-1700 on 15385 NOB 250 kW / 161 deg to WCAf Mon-Sat
1500-1700 on 17595 NOB 250 kW / 248 deg to SoAm Sat/Sun
1500-1900 on 17715 NOB 250 kW / 230 deg to SoAm Mon-Fri
1500-2200 on 17755 NOB 250 kW / 161 deg to WCAf Sun
1600-2300 on  9765 CRI 100 kW / 000 deg to CeAm Sat
1600-2300 on 15125 CRI 100 kW / 110 deg to SoAm Sat
1700-1900 on 17715 NOB 250 kW / 230 deg to SoAm Sat/Sun
1700-1900 on 17755 NOB 250 kW / 161 deg to WCAf Mon-Fri
1700-2200 on 17755 NOB 250 kW / 161 deg to WCAf Sat
1800-2000 on  9765 CRI 100 kW / 000 deg to CeAm Mon-Fri
1800-2000 on 15125 CRI 100 kW / 110 deg to SoAm Mon-Fri
1900-2300 on 11940 NOB 250 kW / 242 deg to SoAm Sat/Sun
2200-2300 on  7265 NOB 250 kW / 170 deg to NWAf
2200-2300 on 11625 NOB 250 kW / 161 deg to WCAf Sat/Sun
2300-2400 on  6125 NOB 250 kW / 242 deg to SoAm
2300-2400 on  9535 NOB 250 kW / 272 deg to CeAm
2300-2400 on  9620 NOB 250 kW / 230 deg to SoAm

U.K./UAE    Frequency changes of Radio Damal, Voice of the Somali People:
1830-1930 NF 11615 WOF 250 kW / 128 deg to EaAf Somali, ex 11740
1930-2130 NF 11955 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Somali, ex 11970
0400-0700 on 15700 DHA 250 kW / 205 deg to EaAf Somali unchanged

USA    Frequency change of WTWW-2 in English from Dec.17:
2000-2400 NF  9905 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm, ex  9990
Brother Stair TOM will be on air daily 2100-2400

USA(non)    Updated winter B-12 schedule of WYFR Family Radio:
1100-1200 on  6220 HUW 100 kW / 265 deg to SEAs Burmese
1100-1200 on 11520 BAJ 100 kW / 180 deg to SEAs Tagalog
1100-1300 on  6240 BAJ 100 kW / 310 deg to EaAs Chinese
1100-1300 on  9280 PAO 100 kW / 335 deg to EaAs Chinese
1300-1400 on  7540 TAI 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Vietnamese
2200-2300 on 17575 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to SoAm Portuguese, ex 2200-2245
2300-0100 on 13695 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to SoAm Spanish, ex 2300-0045
2300-0100 on 11565 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to SoAm Portuguese
2330-0400 on  6115 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg to NoAm English, ex 2300-2400
0000-0200 on  5985 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg to SoAm Spanish, ex 0000-0145
0100-0200 on 11730 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to CeAm Spanish
0100-0200 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to SoAm Spanish
0200-0400 on  6875 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to CeAm Spanish
0200-0400 on  9930 YFR 100 kW / 222 deg to CARB Spanish

USA(non)   Frequency change of IBB:
Voice of America
0330-0400 NF  9485 SMG 250 kW / 146 deg to EaAf, ex 11990 Somali
1730-1800 NF  9755 BOT 100 kW / 010 deg to EaAf, ex 13625 AfarOromo Mon-Fri
1800-1900 NF  9755 WER 250 kW / 135 deg to EaAf, ex 13625 Amharic
1900-1930 NF  9755 SMG 250 kW / 139 deg to EaAf, ex 13625 Tigrigna Mon-Fri
2100-2130 NF  9695 WOF 300 kW / 182 deg to CeAf, ex  9435 French Mon-Fri
Radio Free Asia
1400-1500 NF 15310 TIN 250 kW / 267 deg to SEAs, ex  9400 Vietnamese
Radio Liberty
1500-1600 NF  9480*BIB 100 kW / 063 deg to EaEu, ex 15130 Russian
* strong co-ch Voice of Russia in Serbian

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Glenn Hauser logs December 17-18, 2012

** BANGLADESH. 15505, Dec 18 at 1427, still no signal from Bangladesh Betar, and here`s why: Ivo Ivanov says all the BB external services between 1230 and 2000 are now on 7250. Why doesn`t BB notify us of such changes? Note: this is a NON-LOG, not to be transformed into a log by inattentive editing. Possibly 7250 can make it to parts of N America on a very good winter morning, such as English 1230-1300. Or not: beware! CRI English via Kashgar, East Turkistan is also on 7250 at 12-13 per HFCC, EiBi and Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 11710, Dec 18 at 0612, steady open carrier at S9+15, weaker than Brasil 11780, but much stronger than Brasil 11765, Ascension 11800, the only other signals on 25m. Mystery solved at 0620 when 5-digit YL SS numbers are going, without any preliminary ``Atención``. 0621 modulation stops, carrier continues; 0621 now breaks in transmission, off and on; 0623 a few more numbers mixed with digital noises, off again. Unusual to intrude this far inside an SWBC band; mistake? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 11760, Tuesday Dec 18 at 1322, RHC is in English instead of Spanish! Checked all other frequencies and found this also on 13780, but not on 9540, 11690, 11750, 11860, 15230, 15340, 17580, 17730 which all remained in Spanish. ``Ed Newman`` is mentioning their new English to Africa at 22-23 on 11880, which can also be heard in Europe (not to mention N America!!), but he doesn`t know about the present transmission. BBC is in the background on 11760. 1330 RHC ``news`` but it all sounds the same and no specific clues whether it`s today`s or yesterday`s. All about wishing Chávez well, enumerating US shootings since New Town, as always must include something negative about US.

So is this a first new airing of today`s English hour? No! At 1335 mentions ``for this Monday``; 1400 reopening English for Monday still on both frequencies, and 1423 repeats plug for 11880, goes to a music break, but then RHC operator wakes up and smoothly shifts back to Spanish, becoming // all the other frequencies. So yet another mistake adding to their ever-growing anomaly roster, instead of sensibly starting to broadcast some English propaganda intentionally in our mornings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CYPRUS. 15457-15482, Dec 18 at 1505, OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here; take that, any possible signal from 15476, LRA36 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA. 5930, Dec 18 at 1258.5, WWCR has just gone off 5935, so I listen to the last sesquiminute of R. Rossii via Pet/Kam, some music, closing ID, but no timesignal finale as we used to hear --- and no CW from 8GAL or 2MTL like we also used to hear on 6074 when this was on 6075, now abandoned. At 1301 I also check 6075 area and hear no CW. However, E Asian reception is poor today, even the multiple Chinese outlets weaker than normal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOMALIA [non]. 11615, Dec 17 at 1918, HOA music, poor signal. Checking this out following inquiry from Steve Handler yesterday, as
HFCC shows only: ``11615 1830 1930 48E,48SW WOF 300 122 0 216 1234567 171112 310313 D 13650 Somali G BAB BAB 18238``

Note since 17 November, but whose Somali service? EiBi says it`s an unknown station. Wolfgang Büschel has the answer: R. Damal, replacing 11970, and ``Radio Damal, The Voice of the Somali People. WRTH 2013 p507: produced in the studios of KBC in Kenya. Financed through Peoples Republic China government funds``. Now as of Dec 18, Aoki has just added the correct ID as R. Damal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOMALILAND. 7120, Dec 18 at 1506, JBA carrier and traces of modulation with usual CW QRhaM, presumed R. Hargeisa; had not much from it before 1400 so checked now after usual 1500 resumption (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9955, Dec 18 at 1317, WRMI with pulse jamming, against a rock music documentary in Spanish. Could that be a R. Martí program? They certainly do that, but not now, not // 11930 more heavily jammed with a sports discussion. 1328 ID as R. Praga on 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** UZBEKISTAN. 7505, Dec 18 at 1309 open carrier with flutter, (not 7506+ WRNO!), even here suffering from 7490 WWCR splatter and overload. 1337 now weaker but there`s talk modulation. HFCC shows TWR, 100 kW, 131 degrees via Tashkent at 1315-1615. EiBi and Aoki have the details: starts M-F at 1315 with Dogri, 1330 Hindi, and Sat/Sun Hindi from 1315 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1310, Dec 18 at 1354 UT, still trying to ID KKNS Corrales NM: at first dominant is KZRG Joplin MO mentioning Route 66 in English, but it soon fades leaving weak music in Spanish, not enough to hear any ID around 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9420v, Dec 18 at 0616, slowly moving upward noisy blob, like an ionosonde, really too strong to be coming from India, altho in the same frequency range as the ``banshee blob`` previously heard elsewhen. By 0616 it`s at 9440, and at 0619 crosses 9460 BBC Ascension. At 0633, it`s crossing Greece 9420 on the way up again.

Dec 18 at 1312, it`s the banshee going up more quickly from 9430 to 9460. At 1436 it`s crossing 9330 WBCQ upward; at 1438 across 9370 WWRB, at 1439, 9395, at 1441, 9430, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Ascolti AM 16-17 dicembre multilingue

9610    16/12  1002 AWR Europe, Issoudun  Px "Studio Dx 494" It 45444
7390    16/12  1501 Radio Romania Int., Saftica  Px It 54444
3995    17/12  0558 HCJB Deutschland, Weenermoor   Mx Px Es + D 23423
6180    17/12  0602 R. Nacional Amazonia, Brasilia ID info Mx P 24433
6045    17/12  1258 Voice of America, THA- Udon Thani Nx M 33433
5950    17/12  1300 R. New Zealand Inter. Rangitaiki  TS Nx  E 23433
5890    17/12  1302 Voice of America, MRA- Tinian Nx 35433
21680   17/12  1318 Radio Vaticana, S. Maria Galeria Nx  Info It 24433
15580   17/12  1450 Voice of America, AFS Meyerton Nx  E 33433
7370    17/12  1508 HRV Radio Rijeka, Deanovec Meteo  It 33423

73 da N. Marabello
Treviso, Italia

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Glenn Hauser logs December 16-17, 2012

** CUBA. 9504 approx., Dec 17 at 1354, approx. center of spurblob from weak 9540 RHC transmitter again; could not find one to match at +36 kHz, i.e. 9576 between very strong CRI/Cuba relay 9570, and RA 9580 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. 9425, Dec 17 at 1353, AIR ``banshee blob`` wanders across here from 9435 a minute earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN [non]. 11880, Dec 16 at 2128, NHK IS, I think I can barely still detect under RHC French, as both are about to start Portuguese at 2130. I keep expecting NHK to move its GUIANA FRENCH relay frequency, as Arnie`s incompetent frequency management choices have proven to be non-negotiable in several other instances. But it takes an agonizingly long time for some victims to react (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KURDISTAN [non]. 11510, Dec 17 at 1415-1450+, Denge Kurdistan via presumed PRIDNESTROVYE, nice continuous concert of mostly vocal Kurdish music. Latest HFCC still claims this is 300 kW, 129 degrees from SMF = Simferopol, Ukraine, from BRB (ex-TDP), but NOT to be construed only as ``Belgian Radio`` as per a log in NZ DX Times on 7390. For 11510, Aoki goes with 100 kW, 100 degrees from Kishinev-Grigoriopol, MDA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 730, Dec 17 at 0631 UT, ``La Ke Buena`` with full FM & AM IDs on the half-hour, mentions 25 kW, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, time as 11:31, back to lively music. Not sure if the 25 kW referred to FM 107.1 or AM. But Cantú shows XHEHB on 107.1 with 25 kW; and on AM:
730 XEHB Ke buena + FM 107.1 Hidalgo del Parral, Chih. 50,000 1,000
and with their dominant signal, we strongly suspect a lot more than 1 kW at night. Yet new IRCA Mexican log shows only 1000/300 watts and schedule at 13-01 UT only, from former location San Francisco del Oro. What about WRTH 2013? 50/1 kW, H del P. Cantú shows zero radio stations in SF del Oro now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1040, Dec 17 at 0602 UT, ``Chihuahua, Chihuahua`` mentioned in WHO null, so safe to assume it`s the usual per Cantú:
1040 XEHES Romántica + FM 94.1 Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 250

The new IRCA Mexican Log 2012 has arrived, so I will be comparing Cantú and WRTH info with it. For XEHES, IRCA shows: 5000 250 Radiorama Siglo 21, 24h irreg, ROM format, CIMA net, // 94.1 FM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. Channel A2, NTSC, Dec 17 at 0155 UT, Spanish signal fades in from south after observing 6-meter sporadic-E openings on map across east-central USA with MUF estimated of 74 MHz. Large net-7 bug in upper right, perhaps the easiest Mexican one to identify, just the number 7 with high contrast; and heavy ghosting at times makes it look like 77, i.e. two distinct propagation paths arriving out of phase. 0207 ads, 0208 IFE PSA; 0214 another fade-up in a suspense/horror film, still with 7 bug UR, and finally one more glimpse at 0230. There are five full-power Azteca 7s on channel 2, three of them generally southward, but the prime suspect is always XHTAU in Tampico (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6939.7-AM, Dec 16 at 2238 a pirate signal is here, 2240 ID as Radio Casablanca, e-mail; playing old WWII tunes at the same time as `Marion`s Attic` on WBCQ 7490, but no BBCCCI here. Bits sound like old-time radio, then song about the Maginot Line; 2245 ``Animal Crackers`` by Shirley Temple; 2248 ``Three Little Fishies``; 2250 flash from United Press: Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; 2251 another Radio Casablanca ID, FDR`s ``day which will live in infamy`` address to Congress; 2259 ID and ``Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition``; 2304 ``Remember Pearl Harbor``; 2307 ID email as radiocasablanca1@gmail.com and 2313 ``Bugle Boy``; 2316 ID & e-mail; 2318 ``I`ll Be Seeing You``; 2328 ID and e-mail again, dramatic bit; 2345 still on but at next check 2355 it`s off. Nothing about Casablanca or Morocco heard other than the name. Sufficient signal of S9+12, and making C# above middle C het with 6940 reference = 278 Hz, so about 6939.72 (Glenn
 Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ROMANIA [and non]. 9810, Dec 17 at 1355, RRI closing German hour with IDs, IS, but heavy CCCCCCI, as CNR Chinese, 150 kW, 155 degrees from Nanning site is also here per HFCC; any problem in Europe? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTEING DIGEST)

** SOUTH AFRICA. 15480, Dec 16 until 2101* BaBcoCk music loop; more slipshod operation by SENTECH, as this had been the two-hour Arabic broadcast of AWR via Meyerton, 250 kW, 19 degrees, but per HFCC you would not know that BaBcoCk is involved (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7490, Dec 16 at 2106, no signal from WBCQ, nor at 2127; 9330 is on as usual, but 15420 is a JBA carrier, maybe just WBCQ in a pause leaving its reduced carrier, as it`s OK in CUSB at 2127. Checking sked later, only on Sundays does 7490 start at 2200 instead of 2100. At 2233 recheck, it`s on with `Marion`s Attic` and heavy QRM from BBC as usual, also producing SAH.

9330, Dec 17 at 1352 check, WBCQ in dead-air again instead of GFRN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1060, Dec 17 at 1235 UT, KIJN Farwell TX on NM border, gospel huxter in Spanish with shall we say, Chicano accent, mentions ``en el nombre de Jesús``, which is what the call letters mean in English, and introducing ``Noticiero Semanal desde Jerusalén`` in good Spanish; so KIJN does have ``news`` after all, as long as it is from the future. Usual more than sufficient signal before local sunrise, and making fast-ripple SAH with whatever else on 1060 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 970, Dec 17 at 0606 UT, local ad with phone 493-4050, no area code; Google points to LFM car repair in Louisville KY, so WGTK is a good bet there. Whatever became of WAVE, an ideal radio-station call with their sine-wave logo? Ha, FCC shows that call ended on Nov 1, 1981, and there were two others before WGTK since August 9, 2000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6904.5-SSB, Dec 16 at 2237 sounds like a MARS net, or the like (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6955.3-AM, Dec 16 at 2239, a much weaker pirate is here at same time as R. Casablanca on 6939.7; see NORTH AMERICA. Only thing copied here was at 2246 ``My Favorite Things`` maybe Sinatra; off by 2259 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Glenn Hauser logs December 16

** AUSTRALIA. 4835, Dec 16 at 1412, VL8A is still audible a semihour after sunrise here, bass-baritone with ``Joy to the World`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** AUSTRALIA. 5982 & 6008, Dec 16 at 1415, the 5995 100 kW Shepparton transmitter of RA is again putting out distorted FMy spurs plus/minus 13 kHz or so, during the Sunday-night talkshow about religion including the ``Inquisition`` quiz demonstrating how ignorant so many Aussies are about basic facts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 17580, Sunday Dec 16 at 1437, Manolo de la Rosa is back on RHC `En Contacto`, after time off for hernia surgery, plugging the Colombo-Venezuelan DX Meeting in January with Rafael Rodríguez` contact info. As usual on Sundays, 13780 is off after 1400 for no particular reason.

I was also looking up the Esperanto schedule on RHC website
http://www.radiohc.cu/eo/interesaoj/frekvencoj.html
to find:

``GEOGRAFIA REGIONO FREKVENCOJ MHZ [sic] BANDO METROJ HOROJ
Norte, Centro y Suramérica     11760 Khz 25           16-16:30 UTC
San Francisco                   6010 Khz 49           05-07:00 UTC
Suramérica                     15370 Khz 19           22:30-23 UTC``

The middle one is totally wrong, of course; presumably meant to be 0700-0730 UT as before, and all of these are Sundays only, not specified either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GREECE. 7475 & 9420, UT Sun Dec 16 at 0552, Greek Ortho harmonious canting in // from ERT. 0600 split into R. Filia on 7475 in presumed Albanian, and 9420 into news in Greek. By 0608, GO music had resumed on 9420. Did the priests really pause for the news? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN [non]. 13680, Dec 16 at 1429, open carrier; what will ensue? 1430 starts R. Farda. HFCC shows this is only a semi-hour transmission, from Lampertheim, GERMANY, 100 kW, 108 degrees, to be followed by a sesquihour via Wertachtal, 250 kW, 105 degrees. It so happens that IRIB itself also uses 13680 elsewhen, the 0400 sesquihour.

12005, Dec 16 at 1458 techno music, 1500 timesignal and fading. This too is R. Farda per HFCC, 0700-1530, 100 kW, 80 degrees from Lampertheim (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN. 6055, Dec 16 at 1414, R. Nikkei with Xmas medley including ``Greensleeves`` with orchestra and traditional instruments such as shakuhachi; poor signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KURDISTAN [non]. 11510, Dec 16 at 1424, Denge Kurdistan better than usual with wailing/plucking/droning music, and IADs; presumably via PRIDNESTROVYE. 12035 TURKEY was still on with IS at 1426, weaker than DK, but itself better than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOMALILAND. 7120, Dec 16 at 1340, soul music, poor signal but any signal is still welcome from R. Hargaysa, long path (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN [non]. 5965, Dec 16 at 0553, dead air from REE via COSTA RICA. This one frequency normally runs until 0800 for insomniax in South America. It would be more productive to maintain at least one frequency via CR for those awake in North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1647 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday December 16 at 0500 on WTWW-1, 5830. VG signal this week, no fading down like last week. Next: on WRMI 9955, Sun 1630, Mon 0530, Tue 1200.

BTW, during `Studio DX` in Italian, at 0550 UT Dec 16, WRMI had quite a good signal and no jamming audible. We can only hope for the same 24 hours later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5085, UT Sunday Dec 16 at 0552, WTWW-2, Rod Hembree mixing science with his wacky religious views, to try to lend them some credibility (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 960, Dec 16 at 0602, ABC News with echo, so presumably KMA IA and WERC AL (unless WERC is no longer with ABC, as someone reported them with Fox `news` at some other hour). 0602 was the first commercial break, but it was a PSA for Habitat for Humanity, so ABC could not sell this spot; during local KGWA Enid dead-air pause (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 970, UT Sunday Dec 16 at 0605, trying again to ID the station with oldtime radio as heard 168 hours ago: it`s there but this week with very heavy QRM. Mentions ``classic radio``, but starts with current report from Hollywood about Beyoncé, of all things. It seems that `Radio Classics` is the 24/7 SiriusXM 82 version by the same entrepreneur as `When Radio Was`, Greg Bell; packed schedules here
http://gregbellmedia.com/ShowSchedules.html
for those who can`t get enough, but no affiliate list found, if there are any at ground level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Ascolti AM Luca Botto Fiora

Ascolti AM (orari UTC)

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


Sabato 15 dicembre 2012
Questa mattina la propagazione era anomala ma gradevole, perché verso le 07.30 sono apparse le seguenti stazioni:
6160.9v tent. CKZN (CAN) in battimento con UNID 6160, notato anche altre volte. SF-IN
6070 CFRX (comedy show) + tx Röhrbach (D) con i soliti oldies. BN-SF
4915 prob. RD Macapá (B), la modulazione era appena percettibile. SF-IN
4885 R. CLUBE DO PARÁ (B) con musica locale. BN-SF
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14.00 - 1251 ID "KOSSUTH RÁDIÓ" OM (HNG). BN-SF
16.25 - 6209,8 UNID Europirata. BN-IN
16.37 - 6304,8 UNID Europirata off dopo pochi minuti. SF-IN
16.44 - 6400 KCBS (Corea N.), canzone melodica YL. SF
16.50 - 1368 CHALLENGER R. (I), canzoni di Natale pop. BN-SF
17.00 - 981 prob. RAI TS (I), Sloveno, annuncio OM e mx melodica. BN-SF
17.03 - 882 LA XARXA (in catalano) + COPE live sport. BN-SF
17.11 - 558 VoRUSSIA - Cima di Dentro (SUI), II, commento YL sugli USA. BN
17.14 - 1548 GOLD (G) + VoRussia (MDA) in // 558. BN-SF
17.26 - 1062 RAI RADIO 1, Cagliari+altro tx (ritardo audio), calcio. BN-IN
17.40 - 1062 COUNTRY R. (CZE) con picchi di max 1-2 minuti. BN-IN
17.49 - 1062 RAI TGR SARDEGNA - Il card. Bertone a Porto Vesme. BN
Naturalmente questi segnali su 1062 si mescolavano o alternavano a vicenda.
18.11 - 891 Portante muta S9 notata da circa un'ora (e sotto R. 538-NL con mx rock). BN-IN

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Domenica 16 dicembre 2012
06.49 - 5025 kHz
R. REBELDE - Bauta (Cuba)
"Baila" di Zucchero in versione latina...
...(OT) e in Italia canta "Guantanamera"!
Segnale molto buono
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1. RN da Amazonia da un paio di settimane su 6180 è di nuovo in funzione.
2. Il tx tedesco su 6070 a volte trasmette cose simili allo stile di CFRX, tipo talk shows ecc.
3. Verso le 07.03 il tx di Melissa Scott su 6090 è improvvisamente saltato. Qualche uragano?
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*07.05 - 6205,2 kHz
s/on R. ORANG UTAN.
Segnale sufficiente-insufficiente
-
Qualche cosa in MW di autunnale, a ridosso del mezzogiorno.
11.10 - 1440 RTL (LUX), Mx pop 80s. SF
11.11 - 1422 DLF (D), Tedesco, tk OM e mx piano. BN-SF
11.12 - 1323 VoRUSSIA (D), Tedesco, tk OM. BN-SF
11.13 - 1278 RF ALSACE (F), FF, tel. OM/YL. BN-SF
12.41 - 1458 SUNRISE R. (G), Mx indie-pop. SF-IN
12.42 - 1431 VoRUSSIA (D), RR, tk OM/YL. SF-IN
12.42 - 1413 RNE 5 (E), Spagnolo, tk OM. SF-IN
12.44 - 1188 MAGYAR R. 6 (HNG), Canzone locale. BN-SF
12.44 - 1107 AFN (BAVARIA?) (D), EE, canzone. SF-IN
12.46 - 918 R. SLOVENIA 1, parlato YL. SF-IN

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Luca Botto Fiora

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

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Rack 1 (LW-MW-SW)
RICEVITORI
R7 Drake
VR5000DSP Yaesu
PL-660 Tecsun
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ANTENNE
1) Da 70 kHz a 2 MHz:
Loop in ferrite di 75 cm ACA modificata per LW-VLF
Preamplificatore RF K0LR-WA1ION autocostruito (escludibile)
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2) Da 2 a 5-6 MHz:
Loop magnetico interno tipo KR1ST 150x100 cm su finestra
Preamplificatore RF kit LX1456 NE (escludibile)
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3) Da 5-6 a 30 MHz:
Dipolo aperto esterno 21 m
Balun 1:32 su toroide FT-140/43 ACA
Eliminatore di QRM MFJ 1026 modificato W8JI (escludibile)


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ACCESSORI
Splitters 0-1000 MHz a 2 vie GBC

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Rack 2 (LW-MW)
RICEVITORE
E5 Etón
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ANTENNE
Loop in ferrite di 75 cm ACA

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

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SOFTWARE (Mac OSX)
Audacity 2.0.2 (acquisizione-conversione audio)
DXToolbox 4.1.1 demo (propagazione)
EarthDesk 6.0.2 demo (scrivania-orologio mondiale)
HourWorld 3.4.3 demo (orologio mondiale)
Multimode 6.3 demo Black Cat Systems (UTEs)
TimePalette 6.1 demo (orologio mondiale)