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Glenn Hauser logs December 10-11, 2019  View Printable Version 
Thursday, December 12 2019

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SPAIN Tonight soccer matches in European team football,

24 x matches occur today Dec 12 European night time,
at 17.55 UT and 20.00 UT,
amongst them
Espagnol Barcelona vv Moscow Russia teams
and
Nikosia Cyprus vv FC Sevilla

Heard REE Noblejas at 19.28 UT in western Europe
(SW skip zone rather) in remote Perseus net
12030 S=9+10dB -64dBm
11940 S=9+10dB -64dBm
11685 S=9+10dB -65dBm
9690 nil

at 19.45 UT in No / Ce Brazil Kiwi net locations
12030 S=6-7


11940 S=9+10 -69dBm
11685 nil
9690 nil

at 19.52 UT in Brazil SP state Kiwi net locations
12030 S=6-7 -87dBm


11940 S=9+15 -60dBm
11685 S=7-8 -82dBm
9690 nil

at 20.15 UT in (TWR) Bonaire Kiwi net location
12030 S=9+10 -72dBm


11940 S=7 -88dBm
11685 nil
9690 nil

at 19.55 UT in Dominican Rep Kiwi net location
12030 S=9 -76dBm


11940 S=7 -84dBm
11685 nil
9690 nil

at 20.00 UT in Maine NoEa state USA Kiwi net location
12030 S=4 only

at 20.10 UT in Orlando FL state state USA Kiwi net location
12030 S=6 -91dBm

at 20.13 UT in Key West FL state state USA Kiwi net location
12030 S=7-8 -82dBm

nothing in Iceland Kiwi location.

73 wolfie df5sx

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <>


To: "Glenn Hauser" <wghauser@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 10-11, 2019


Glenn,
I don't understand this 'technical issue' at Noblejas bcast center
now and then :

program-wise yesterday Dec 10 night
we had all european-wide 'silly game' LIVE transmissions,

all European countries + Israel intruder,
had at least 2 teams on the competition.

Like Milan Italy vv FC Barcelona Spain

in French language see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7RSNIyxXHU


so, why REE had no soccer live transmission yesterday ?

73 wolfie


SPAIN. 12030, Dec 10 at 2006, REE is S7-S9 of dead air; stronger than
11940 also DA; and at 2009, S7-S9 of DA on 9690. Recheck 2301, all three
are *still* in dead air, and 11685 also detectable JBA carrier.
Something's
very wrong at REE. Could the powers that be not know the Noblejas
transmitters are running for hours with no modulation?

Mike Bott also reported to the WOR iog yesterday Dec 9 at 2216 UT: "REE
9690 Sounds like some technical issue occurring at REE this evening.
Nothing but static being transmitted peaking at S9+10 here in central
Ohio. Seems to be the same issue heard 2 days ago. Verified on multiple
Kiwis and Utwente. > Mike"


(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)


This report despatched at 0646 UT December 11
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JRX Logs December 11, 2019  View Printable Version 
Thursday, December 12 2019

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CHINA** 9615. Dec 11, 2019. 1830-1840, China Radio International, Urumqi-Changji-CHN, in German. Man talks; 1836 A song by female singer. Man talks. Good reception, 45544.


CLANDESTINE** 9635. Dec 11, 2019. 1841-1853, Radio Ndarason International, Woofferton-G, in French. Music; 1842 More songs; Man and woman announcers talks news, presumed, all in french language; ID. Fair reception, 35433.

INDIA** 12015. Dec 11, 2019. 1813-1828, All India Radio, Punjabi-IND, in Malayalam. Indian songs during all log. Barely audible reception, 25411.

KOREA SOUTH** 9515. Dec 11, 2019. 1758-1808, KBS World Radio, Kimjae-KOR, in Korean. A song; 1800 Woman announcer talks, ID; 1806 Man voice. Very poor reception, 25422.

MALI** 15125. Dec 11, 2019. 1741-1753, China Radio International, Bamako-MLI, in Swahili. A song; Man and woman voices talking about Tanzania, presumed; Conversation between them. Fair reception, 45433.Note: Parallel log on 13645 relay Bamako, 45544.

SRI LANKA** 11835. Dec 11, 2019. 1725-1740, SLBC Thendral FM, Trincomalee-CLN, in Tamil. Man announcer talks; A song; 1730 Man and woman announcers talk, ID and pieces of songs; Other song. Good reception, 45444.

THAILAND** 7475. Dec 11, 2019. 1854-1900, Radio Thailand, Udon-Thani-THA, in Thai language. A song; 1857 Radio Thailand IS carillon and ID: HSK9-RTWS, broadcasting in Bankok; Ends thai program at 1859. Good reception, 45544.
** 7475. Dec 11, 2019. 1900-1922, Radio Thailand, Udon-Thani-THA, in English. Time pips, IS carillon, ID and a piece of the National Anthem; Men announcers present news in "Thailand News"; 1910 Woman talks, ID and says about the country. Good reception this afternoon here, 45544.


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Glenn Hauser logs December 10-11, 2019  View Printable Version 
Wednesday, December 11 2019

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** ARGENTINA [non]. 5800, Dec 11 at 0110, RAE via WRMI Spanish about
Argentina with porteño accent; there was big news there today but
seemingly not about that right now. Fair signal here but never very
good aimed south, but more than the JBA carrier. See also USA [and
non] WRMI (Glenn Hauser, oK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 13632 & 13768, Dec 10 at 1509, spurblobs from RHC 13700 which
is S9+10 with music; 68 kHz above and below, and much weaker
second-order+plus circa 13836, S4, better detectable in FM than AM.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** CUBA. 15700, Dec 10 at 1514, CRI Plus relay is S9+20 of dead air;
something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6060, Dec 10 at 2353, RHC Spanish on earlier than before; it
was not on at previous check 2328. Anyhow, WRMI is already on 5800
contrary to own skedgrid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6145, Dec 11 at 0314, RHC is S9+20 of dead air in English;
while // 6000 is same at S9+30. These are supposedly two different
sites so problem must be upstream like in the STLs, studio output.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** CUBA. Last time I computed the possible leapfrog mixing products of
the Bauta RHC frequencies on 49m. This time, where could land the
Quivicanes/Titanes, i.e. 6000 RHC with CRI relay first on 6180 at
0100-0300, then 5910 at 0300-0500:
6000 & 6180: 6360 and 5820
6000 & 5910: 6090 and 5820
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GREECE. 9420, Dec 10 at 2020, VOG music and talk are S9+10 but
unusually overmodulated, distorted. Don`t station operators monitor
how their own signal sounds off the air? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** MADAGASCAR. 5009.923V, Dec 11 at 0248, music weak off-frequency
after WRMI 5010 0200*, no doubt RNM signature. Is also slightly
unstable, wavering. Now if we could pinpoint the LAH to WRMI after
2300 when RNM is not expected to be on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** MALI. 15125, Dec 10 at 1731, S7 to S9+10 echoey Swahili, the SSOB
except for 15140 Cuba; I bet it`s CRI via Bamako: Yes, as scheduled
this hour, 100 kW eastward. Figured there would be a // on 13 MHz, but
none found; later found listed at 13645 per EiBi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, Dec 10 at 2303 and 2328, JBA carrier from Radio Chaski
under wall-of-noise Cuban jamming against nothing else; and retune at
2354 to catch the timer cutoff at 2354:59*, which is 8 seconds earlier
than last check 4 nights ago December 6 until 2355:07* = averaging 2.0
seconds slippage earlier per (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA. 6020-6025-6030, Dec 10 at 0752, DRM noise, whence? HFCC
shows Voice of Russia at 0600-1000, 100 kW, 34 degrees from K/A =
Komsomol`sk/Amure in DVR, at that azimuth onward to N America. First
time I have noticed any of these new DRM tests(?) from Russia,
supposedly domestic programming not revived external VOR. Tho I have
not sought them out deliberately. Aoki/NDXC instead designates this as
GRFC with music, not only at 06-10 but also at 20-22 & 01-06 daily.
Komsomol`sk sunset was 0648, so only now is it getting into nighttime
there. The earlier broadcasts would be in local daytime intended for
domestic coverage. (Romania also emits DRM around 6025 at 1700-1757)
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAO TOME. 13590, Dec 10 at 2000, tune-in to open carrier and soon
off* - AGM is scheduled 1900-2000 in English, a.k.a. VOA (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 11820.043, Dec 10 at 2025, Qur`an JBA from SBC,
signature off-frequency. First time audible at all in a week or more;
was off or just not propagating? Still not enough for lullaby
listening; and our alternative Greece is distorted, q.v. (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 12030, Dec 10 at 2006, REE is S7-S9 of dead air; stronger
than 11940 also DA; and at 2009, S7-S9 of DA on 9690. Recheck 2301,
all three are *still* in dead air, and 11685 also detectable JBA
carrier. Something`s very wrong at REE. Could the powers that be not
know the Noblejas transmitters are running for hours with no
modulation?

Mike Bott also reported to the WOR iog yesterday Dec 9 at 2216 UT:
``REE 9690 --- Sounds like some technical issue occurring at REE this
evening. Nothing but static being transmitted peaking at S9+10 here in
central Ohio. Seems to be the same issue heard 2 days ago. Verified on
multiple Kiwis and Utwente. -- Mike`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** U S A. 5950, Dec 10 at 0753, S9+10/20 of dead air from this WRMI-5,
again, during SMTV block. RAE in Japanese is supposed to start at 0800
weekdays; unknown whether it came to life by then. But at best 5950 is
undermodulated, and 285 degree beam is far off targeting Japan (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. 5800, Dec 10 at 2303, WRMI is S9 but
undermodulated in Spanish, 2328 music, presumably SMTV and not on 6060
per misleading skedgrid. Could be on 6060 as RHC is not up yet, rather
a JBA carrier from Zahedan or Chengdu. RHC expected before 0000, and
in fact already going at next check 2353. See also ARGENTINA [non].
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Strange things are happening around here on 87.7-88.0
MHz; extremely intermittent big carrier, some with tones, enough to
QRM reception of 88.1 KWOU on home radios, like around 1445 UT Dec 10.
These I suspect are from malfunxioning K202BY Family Radio Enid
satellator, which has not been on 88.3 even with a dead carrier for
months now.

87.7 or 87.9, on caradio along west Garriott in Enid around midday Dec
10, such as 1827 UT, gospel/country music for a few minutes. Maybe
winter sporadic E from a Franken FM circa channel 6 analog audio
frequency? Maybe a local Xmas display, but stayed too long likely to
come from another car`s RF feeder. Earlier had a split-second like a
meteor burst, a Geminid? That shower peaks Dec 13-14 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report despatched at 0646 UT December 11
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JRX Logs December 10, 2019  View Printable Version 
Wednesday, December 11 2019

Logs

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CHINA** 6010. Dec 10, 2019. 1827-1837, China Radio International, Urumqi-Changji-CHN, in Amoy. A song; 1830 Man and woman announcers talking and pieces of songs. Good reception, 45444.
** 6020. Dec 10, 2019. 1838-1848, China Radio International, Shijiazhuang-CHN, in Bulgarian. Man talks; 1841 Man and woman talk with instrument music background; ID -"Radio Kitay" to Radio China (pronouce in bulgarian, russian, ukrainian, etc...). 1845 A chinese lesson. Very good reception, 55544.
** 6070. Dec 10, 2019. 1724-1736, China Radio International, Xian-Xianyang-CHN, in Russian. Woman and man announcers talk; 1729 Woman talks; ID sometimes: "Radio Kitay", pronouce to Radio China in russian language. Poor reception, 25422.
** 6100. Dec 10, 2019. 1737-1747, China Radio International, Beijing-Matoucun-CHN, in English. Man announcer in long conversation with a woma. Good reception, 45444.
** 6150. Dec 10, 2019. 1748-1758, China Radio International, Shijiazhuang-CHN, in Chinese. Men announcers talk; 1750 A brief music and woma and man talk; ID in chinese. Good reception, 45544.

COLLISION** 9525. Dec 10, 2019. 1900-1914, Dengê Welat relay Issoudun-F & Anti-Kurdish Tape relay Emirler-TUR: Man announcer talks in kurdish, in Dengê Welat, and turkish songs on background in Anti-Kurdish recorded audio!

GREAT BRITAIN
** 6040. Dec 10, 2019. 1849-1859, KBS World Radio, Woofferton-G, in Russian. Man talks and many brief  music pause between them; 1858 Woman talks, ID. Fair reception, 35433.

LIBERIA
** 6050. Dec 10, 2019. 1915-2005, Radio ELWA, Monrovia-LBR, in Vernacular languages (No english during all log!). Man baritone announcer presents a musical program with many liberian local songs: Good songs and rhytms! Woman announcer participation at 1922 and more; 1945 Man Pastor makes a preaching, presumably, till 1959; 1959 A short song; 2002 Returns baritone announcer and talking. Poor reception, 35422.Note: The Monrovia transmitter has 1kW, only ! It will be ? It´s hard to bilieve... !

MALI
** 5995. Dec 10, 2019. 1816-1826, RTV du Mali, Bamako-MLI, in French. Man announcer presents news, including a commentary about local economy; Interview. All in french, not in bambara language at this log  time. Good reception, 45544.

ROMANIA
** 5990. Dec 10, 2019. 1805-1815, Radio Romania International, Galbeni-ROU, in Romanian. Woman announcer talks; 1809 Woman and man talk; In conversation; ID. Poor reception, 25422.

UAE
** 6090. Dec 10, 2019. 2007-2020, KBS World Radio, Al-Dhabbiya-UAE, in Arabic. Man presents news, presumably; 2010 ID; 2014 ID for three times: KBS, KBS, KBS... 2015 Woman announcer presents a program "Panorama". Good reception, 45544.


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Glenn Hauser logs December 9-10, 2019  View Printable Version 
Tuesday, December 10 2019

Logs
** ALGERIA [and non]. 531, Dec 10 at 0332, Jil-FM quite separable from
weak 530 signals, and some talk modulation, presumably ``Algerian
Arabic`` as in WRTH which also shows F`kirina is location, 600 kW, 24
hours, and BTW this is in AM, not FM! Could this be the grandest AM
station in the world which has lost its identity to FM? 30X the power
of WSB. Weaker het tho same power on 549 I can`t separate so well from
550s; BTW, nothing much on 576 which was an Algerian sensation a
couple weeks ago; is it off again? Usual set of other JBA TA MW
carriers at least on bottom half of band, I relent and don`t enumerate
this time, but also note some music on 774 at 0334 from the RNE1 Spain
synchros (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. 11150, 10870, 10845 JBA carriers, stronger 10820 in Chinese,
Dec 10 at 0022, presumed all CNR1 jammers against SOH. More WOOB ones
not found higher or lower (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. 11885 // 11790, Dec 10 at 0015, CRI English good on both:
Xian 500 kW at 200 and 190 degrees respectively.

11820, Dec 10 at 0016, CRI in Cantonese, good at same parameters as
11885.

11770, Dec 10 at 0016, CRI in Vietnamese, resembling 11820 Yue, this
one 500 kW, 193 degrees from Beijing site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 5040, Dec 10 at 0028, RHC English is distorted and squealing;
and no parallel alternative at this hour. Something`s always wrong at
RHC.

BTW, to mark Human Rights Day, Dec 10, RHC English has mailed out a
quotation from Fidel Castro Ruz, huge violator of human rights as
multi-sesquidecade Commie dictator (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 6000, Dec 10 at 0353, RHC English JBM/suptorted,
while only // 6145 is merely undermodulated; also with splash from
6150 Romania in Spanish with full schedule about to sign-off; yet its
signal is hardly stronger. Somethings always wrong at RHC.

Aoki shows 6000 is Quivicán site; 6060, 6100 and 6165 [sic: still
haven`t QSYed it to 6145!] all Bauta site. So the possible Bauta
leapfrog mixing product spots would now be:

From 6060 & 6100: 6020 and 6120
From 6060 & 6145: 5975 and 6230
From 6100 & 6145: 6055 and 6190
But I haven`t heard any of these lately; are they being
suppressed/filtered better now, or one of the fundamentals too weak?
You might hear Spanish and/or English, depending (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA SOUTH. 9105, Dec 9 at 2025, JBA carrier from presumed Echo of
Hope. Ron Howard agrees and provides all the other landings this week,
the lower ones mostly audible in our mornings: ``Today (Dec 9): 3985
// 4890 // 6000 // 6255 // 6355 // 9105`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** MALI. 13630, Dec 9 at 2021, W&M drama in rather slow English,
S9-S7. What`s this? CRI via Bamako as scheduled eastward, but not
noticed here lately and suspect it`s sporadically active (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 475.1 kHz, Dec 10 at 0319-0328 UT, very slow CW beacon, JBA
but as previously reported it is indeed the one Dave Frantz runs at
WWRB, Manchester TN. The message roughly twice a minute is: WWW WA4SZE
COM WA4SZE/BEACON K. Not sure what the COM mean amid. And WWW, not
VVV?

Here`s an interesting discussion about this from 2+ years ago:
https://www.eham.net/forum/view?id=topic=117878.0

I wonder if this beacon be recently reactivated? Can`t say I pay much
attention to ``630 meters``, but ran across this on the way to or from
the NDB band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15730, Dec 9 at 2019, VOA Grimesland in French with big
short/long path echo. See my Sept 16 log where I explained how this
worx and calculated the delay as one-eighth of a second (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2011 monitoring: confirmed Monday
December 9 from 1900:36 on IRRS, 7290, as monitored via UTwente SDR;
now WOR starts at the beginning, preceded by: 1858 tune-in big OC
already on; 1859:27 cut on modulation with Aïda theme joined in
progress, very brief IRRS sign-on announcement; 1900:05 FSN news
headlines: eruption in NZ, Russia banned for doping, UK supermarket
sold in China, taking only 31 seconds before WOR. After a bit of
music, 1930 FSN same stories in more detail; 1933 FSN Spotlight about
WTO vs Trump; 1935 pause and music; 1951 recheck DJ talking about
`Sounds Irish`. Alexander Busneag says all Romanian SW transmitters
are back in service, but this still sounds the same bigsig as before.

Also confirmed UT Tue Dec 10 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, VP S9 which = the
noise level when tuned to open 7770 etc. But good clear signal at 0107
when checked via UTwente where it`s aimed. Hello to all our 1/2/3 am
listeners in Europe. Next:

2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5800, Dec 10 at 0026, no signal from WRMI, which a week ago
moved here once RHC reclaimed 6060 where nothing but RHC is audible.
By 0157, maybe JBA carrier on 5800, while 5850 and 5950 are nominally
very good and poor-fair. Skedgrid now shows XMTR 3 on 5800 at 00-01
SMTV, 01-02 RAE Spanish (but what about weekends?), while at the
bottom inserts old 6060 as if still in use for SMTV at 2100-2400
before RHC cuts on.

Say, if this be the new reality and you still want to honor RAE by
reviving its legacy frequency 6060, why not move their hour to 2300
UT, which is prime time in Argentina, anyway? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 13845, Dec 9 at 2023, no signal from WWCR-3. Since 15825 is
audible poorly and 12160 fairly, I conclude 13845 must be off the air
amid its very long 13-01 UT span (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** U S A. 560 [non]. Replying to my query about Roman-numeral
frequency calls other than KLVI Beaumont: Carl Dabelstein: ``At one
time, the station in Phoenix on 1400 had the call KXIV.``

Rick Dau: ``Glenn, at least one other example comes to my mind
immediately -- WXVI-1600 in Montgomery, Alabama. The "XVI" portion, of
course, is the Roman numeral for "16", an affectionate reference to
WXVI's position on the AM dial. This is a station for which I have a
soft spot -- it was the very first to which I ever sent a reception
report. On February 13, 1988, while I was a student at the University
of Iowa (in what would turn out to be my final semester there), I did
a report on WXVI, which was airing Alabama State University men's
basketball that evening and identifying as "Sunshine 16". Being
somewhat new to serious DXing (my Iowa City AM logbook was just a
month old at that point and NRC member and Iowa City resident Earl
Higgins was still helping me get my feet wet), I was rather naive
about reporting pertinent (and verifiable) details of their
programming. In fact, my letter to them simply stated that I had heard
their broadcast of ASU basketball and IDs as "Sunshine 16", but it
included nothing solid, like local ads. As you can imagine, I did not
get a QSL for the report, but WXVI was at least kind enough to send me
a "Sunshine 16" bumpersticker. Fortunately, my 2nd report mailed, this
one for a reception of WOWO-1190 two weeks later, DID include mentions
of commercials, and I did get a nice QSL card in early March signed by
then-CE Eric Culp for QSL #1. 73, Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska``

Well, well, I also got an earlier QSL when it was WAPX; call changed
to WXVI in the mid-1970s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 0628 UT December 10
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