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Re: [HCDX] Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 75, Issue 3-Subject: Tamil Radio
Hi,
The Tamil broadcasts might be from All India Radio.
Although the according to the All India Radio schedule,Tamil language broadcasts are not on 6045KHz, I strongly believe that the broadcast is from India.
The time (0030-0100 UTC) is the popular broadcast time for the Tamil transmissions, the intended audience are not only from Srilanka but also from Singapore,Malaysia and the Andamans.
I will try to get hold of this Station during the weekend and will try to confirm this.
Thanks
Natarajan-9V1AE
QTH= Singapore.
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> 1. DX Listening Digest 9-019; WOR 1449 (Glenn Hauser)
> 2. foreign LW-MW-SW logs from the past week or so (aurel
> chiochiu)
> 3. Logs - Feb 23 - Memphis, TN (Brandon Jordan)
> 4. Escutas (Antonio Laurentino Garcia)
> 5. Glenn Hauser logs March 2, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
> 6. Tamil Radio (ka4prf@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
> 7. Logs from NH-USA, March 1-2 (Scott R. Barbour Jr.)
> 8. * Police track rise of pirate radio * (Paul)
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> Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 22:28:07 -0800 (PST)
> From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: swl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [HCDX] DX Listening Digest 9-019; WOR 1449
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> DX Listening Digest 9-019 has now been posted at
> http://www.dxld.org
> or http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt or
> http://dxld.worldofradio.org
> and now also without delay at
> http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld9019.txt
>
> CONTENTS:
>
> WOR 1449 / AFGHANISTAN / ALBANIA +non / ANTARCTICA /
> ANTIGUA & BARBUDA / AUSTRALIA AM 1710 / AUSTRALIA ABC /
> BAHRAIN / BANGLADESH / BRAZIL +non / CANADA +non CBC/RCI /
> CANADA CHHA / CHINA +non / COLOMBIA / CONGO DR / CUBA /
> ECUADOR +non / ERITREA / ETHIOPIA +non / EUROPE Pirate /
> FRANCE / GERMANY B08+ / GUINEA-BISSAU / INDONESIA +non /
> INTERNATIONAL ham 40m / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM STO /
> INTERNATIONAL WATERS Pirates / IRAN +non / IRELAND / KOREA
> NORTH non / KOREA SOUTH +non / KURDISTAN / LAOS / LIBYA /
> MALAYSIA/SARAWAK / MANCHURIA non / MICRONESIA / MONGOLIA /
> MYANMAR / NEWFOUNDLAND +non / OKLAHOMA +non Paul Harvey /
> OKLAHOMA KXTD / PALAU / PHILIPPINES / PORTUGAL / ROMANIA
> +non / RUSSIA / SAUDI ARABIA / SIERRA LEONE non / SLOVAKIA /
> SOLOMON ISLANDS / SOUTH AMERICA Pirate / SRI LANKA / SUDAN
> non / SYRIA / TAIWAN non / TURKEY +non / UKRAINE / USA
> WRMI/WOR / USA non IPAR/WOR / USA WBCQ/WWCR/WOR / USA WBOH /
> USA non TWR / USA WYFR / USA WPSO/WXYB / USA WJDM /
> USA WESO / USA LPFM / USA Univision / USA Citadel / USA
> Paul Harvey / VENEZUELA +non / VIETNAM non / ZIMBABWE non /
> UNIDENTIFIED 3337 / UNIDENTIFIED 3905 / UNIDENTIFIED 6074 /
> UNIDENTIFIED 6220 / UNIDENTIFIED 7191 / PUBLICATIONS /
> DIGITAL BROADCASTING / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION
>
> For restrixions and searchable 2008 contents archive see
> http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html
>
> NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of
> DX news but
> have not been sending it directly to us, please consider
> yourself
> obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn
>
> NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1449
> Mon 2300 WBCQ 7415 [confirmed Feb 9]
> Tue 1200 WRMI 9955
> Tue 1630 WRMI 9955
> Wed 0600 WRMI 9955 [or new 1450]
> Wed 1630 WRMI 9955 [or new 1450]
>
> WBCQ is also airing new or archive editions of WOR M-F 2000
> on 7415
>
> Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM,
> satellite
> and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is
> at:
> http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or
> http://schedule.worldofradio.org or
> http://sked.worldofradio.org
>
> For updates see our Anomaly Alert page:
> http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html
>
> WRN ON DEMAND:
> http://new.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24
>
> WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN NOW AVAILABLE:
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> OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO:
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> Regards, Glenn Hauser
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:11:28 -0500
> From: aurel chiochiu <acq@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [HCDX] foreign LW-MW-SW logs from the past week or
> so
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> Warm greetings to all of you !
>
> I have been hit by grippis since barely past a week, so
> aside from a rather
> limited DX (with, coincidentally, some of the most mediocre
> condx noted this
> season, at least as far as LW and MW TAs go), I
> couldn't see my girlfriend
> and I'm late with several works for school. As I'm
> writing this repport, I
> still have some cough to deal with.
>
> I'm report mainly to keep in touch (especially since I
> rejoined the NRC -
> National Radio Club), since there wasn't really
> something to get excited
> with, this time, NO exception. I can't think, right the
> top of my head, of
> one single more elusive catche I may have caught during the
> past few weeks.
>
> We are approaching the end of the traditionnal MW DX season
> and, like
> usually around the equinoxes, some auroral enhancement can
> always bring
> unexpected DX from the south on top of North American
> pests, as far as
> mediumwave DX is concerned.
>
> On SW, I tryed in vain to get XEOI Radio Mil, and only got
> a jumble
> containing 1 or maybe 2 Spanish signals with nothing even
> close to Mexican
> Radio Mil (on 6010 kHz).
>
> On LW, this must have been the worst run of conditions,
> since I got the PK's
> Shielded Magnetic longwave loop. We are seriously
> considering buying a
> similar loop for mediumwave, as for having a backup combo
> to the
> Sanyo-MCD-S830 barefoot and also for getting more DX in the
> 800-1000 kHz
> range area where the Sanyo MCD-S830 sucks (sorry for such a
> harsh word
> against my favorite receiver) !
>
> Into the logs now:
>
>
> Trans-Atlantic DX
>
> The LW TAs were heard on the Sangean CST-818 / PK's
> Shielded Magnetic
> longwave loop combo !
> The SW TAs were heard on the Sangean CST-818 / shortwave
> southern random
> wire combo !
>
> 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis FEB 21 around 0350 -
> Woman in French.
> Fair-poor, not threshold, but still too mushy with all the
> additional
> slight, albeit annoying buzz, to understand. Steady though.
> SINPO 35332.
> Almost surprised to get this one under such mediocre
> ionospheric conditions
> ! (Chiochiu-QC)
>
> 171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador FEB 17 2305 - Assumed with
> barely noticeable
> audio. Very, very weak with some growl from computers in
> the neighborhood
> (not our own). Of course, during such mediocre conditions,
> logging
> Russia-171 would be unthinkable and Russia-171 and
> Morocco-171 are the only
> signals that are reported in eastern North America on this
> channel with the
> probable exception of a LowFER ! (Chiochiu-QC)
>
> 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg FEB 21 0605 - with repport
> from a
> psychoveterinary who was trying to understand the
> animal's feelings. Good
> through some slight buzz. SINPO 35354. The only longwave
> broadcaster to
> reach the Montreal area with, at least, a half-decent
> signal ! I got to
> understand that animal's feelings issue, because the
> signal was in French,
> not in German. In fact, until 1981, in France (as well as
> in most of
> Europe), private radio was illegal. If you were caught
> running a radio
> station (a pirate one in this case), the Police will be
> visiting your home
> in less than a hour. They were continuously monitoring the
> whole LW, MW, SW
> and VHF FM spectrum for that purpose ! So, a few guys had
> the bright idea of
> running private radio from neighboring countries such as
> Luxembourg, Germany
> or Monaco and in the case of other European countries, from
> aboard a ship
> out in the International Seas ! While the latter one is
> known as being an
> offshore pirate, the former one is known as being a
> "radio p?riph?rique".
> Otherwise, I have quite some trouble with my German, as I
> missed the class
> last Friday and I did not do yet the small homework for the
> private German
> teacher I see twice each month ! (Chiochiu-QC)
>
> 189 ICELAND Rikis?tvarpid, Gufuskalar FEB 21 0607 -
> Assumed this usual
> blaster with music and talk heard weakly. (Chiochiu-QC)
>
> 198 ENGLAND BBC Radio 4, Droitwich FEB 21 0603 - Man
> talking in
> British-accented English. When the PK's Shielded
> Magnetic longwave loop was
> set to amplify 198 kHz, while attenuating everything below
> and above,
> including nearby 201, the local beacon on 201 kHz went
> unreadable (even
> though it's in Morse which is known for cutting through
> all sorts of QTM
> c.f. Cuban Radio Reloj) as this one violently overspilled 3
> kHz above ! Fair
> and mushy and unreadable for me, as I'm not QUITE as
> fluent in English, as I
> am in French, Romanian and, to a lesser extent, Spanish,
> though sounded
> vaguely like a weather repport, as I barely picked out 1 or
> 2 words out of
> the mush ! Not // ZIZ-555 (BBC Radio 4 realays BBC World
> Service overnight)
> anymore at this time ! (Chiochiu-QC)
>
> 9575 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador FEB 20 2014 - with a nice set
> of traditionnal
> Arabic music, very monotonous but full of monotonous, yet
> emotional
> fullfilling powerful vocal harmonies. Fair-good until
> killed by some
> powerful buzz around 2020 that ruined several LW, MW and SW
> frequencies. I'm
> not as much into shortwave as I was several years ago, but
> after seeing on
> YouTube some videos of Romanian FM DXers catching Middle
> Eastersn stations
> via sporadic-E layer skip, my appetite caught on ! The LW
> outlet on 171 kHz
> was very threshold at best during the past few listening
> sessions ! SINPO
> 33543 ,with some splatter from 9570 rather than from the
> rather weak
> Gabon-9580 signal from which I sucessfully escapted by
> swithching to 9576
> kHz in AM Narrow Mode instead of 9575 kHz in AM Wide Mode,
> until the buzz
> appeared at 2020 UTC (1520 EST / 3:20 PM local). Was DXing
> this semi-regular
> North African shortwave broadcaster mainly because I was
> absent from school
> last Friday due to the cough ! (Chiochiu-QC)
>
> 9580 GABON Africa Num?ro Un, Moyabi FEB 20 2015 - briefly
> tuned to this
> one as to see the source of splatter against Morocco-9575
> and found it at a
> rather weakish strength before it got completly killed by
> an awful buzz at
> 2022 UTC (3:22 PM local / 1522 Eastern Standard Time). The
> rather weak
> strength of this powerhouse enabled me to listen to Medi Un
> 9575 very
> slightly detuned to 9576 kHz in AM Narrow Mode !
> (Chiochiu-QC)
>
>
> Pan-American DX
>
> 555 ST KITTS ZIZ, Basseterre FEB 21 0608 - running BBC WS
> feed ! Fair-good
> with British nx announcer talking about the foreign
> reaction to the politics
> managed by Russian president Dmitri Mvedevev. Not // 198
> which was obviously
> running the domestic BBC Radio 4 broadcast rather than the
> BBC World Service
> one ! I'm surprised to get this run-of-the-mil
> Caribbean outlet during such
> abysnal conditions toward all directions ! (Chiochiu-QC)
>
> 780 VENEZUELA YVNM, Radio Coro, estado Falc?n FEB 15 0047
> - Presumed with
> melodic ranchera vocal heard at a poor-fair level with
> splatter from local
> CJAD-800 that was playing music on Saturday night. If them,
> this is the
> first showing of this Venezuelan powerhouse in over a month
> ! Mexican
> ranchera is very popular in Venezuela as well and often
> heard on this
> station, so I'm not even claming Mexican XEMF in
> Monclava. This was almost
> certainly this old visitor, Radio Coro, which I'm
> enjoying right now, as I
> type this, with special Carnaval programming over their
> website at
> http://www.radiocoro.com/ ! Is Colombia still on 780 kHz ?
> I never heard
> HJZG La Voz del Valle in Cali (a Todelar station) or even
> HJZW Radio
> Almirante in Riohacha ? In some corners of eastern North
> America, during the
> mid-90s, Radio Almirante used to be slightly more commun
> than Radio Coro on
> 780 kHz, right ? Why are they missing nowadays ?
> (Chiochiu-QC)
>
> 1070 SOUTH AMERICA unID country and station FEB 15 0055 -
> Spanish-sounding
> music and talk heard at a very threshold level with very
> slight splash from
> WTIC-1080 wich, thanksfully, is keeping their IBOC crud
> silent at night ! In
> the latest DX News issue, I see Radio Santa F? (HJCG)
> reported by Chris
> Black in South Yarmouth, MA (Massachussets for the
> non-DXers out there who
> are receiving this message as well) on Cape Cod which I
> heard only once
> before, just like the two other commonly reported South
> Americans: Emisora
> Atlantico (HJIJ) out of Barranquilla and Mundial Zulia
> (YVMA) out of
> Maracaibo, estado Zulia from which a nice real-audio clip
> was posted by me
> several years ago on the excellent LatinMWDX Yahoo! group !
> That being said,
> domestic North American WNCT in Greenville, NC (North
> Carolina - Bogdan) is
> also remotely possible, though the very weak music
> didn't sound Mexican, as
> far as I can remember (didn't had tape running as this
> very threshold signal
> quickly faded away). (Chiochiu-QC)
>
>
> Additionnal comments: I went through the whole last DX News
> last issue and
> noticed a big mistake ! As the Boston area pirate on 1710
> kHz got heard by
> Bruce Conti, he commented that compas music is the Haitian
> equivalent of
> AFRICAN zouk music (?). This is almost totally wrong ! Zouk
> music came from
> the overseas FRENCH departments of Martinica, Guadelupa and
> French Guyana.
> The first zouk album LOVE AND KA DANCE by Kassav',
> recorded in 1979 and
> received by the public somewhere in December of 1979 or
> January of 1980 was
> recorded in Guadelupa and Martinica and has more Caribbean
> roots than
> African ones (though it has a few and enjoy a huge amount
> of popularity in
> Western African nations such as Congo and used to be HUGE
> in the Ivory
> Coast, before they replied with their afro-zouk equivalent
> more precisely
> known as "coup?-d?call?" which is a blend of
> Afro-zouk and traditionnal
> Western African melodies) ! While there are a few African
> ZOUK artists out
> there, they almost always copy the FRENCH CARIBBEAN TRUE
> ZOUK MUSIC. If
> you'd like to hear some great ZOUK music, please try to
> check out Battery
> Cr?mil, Eric Brouta, Eric Virgal (not quite as good as the
> former ones, but
> very typical of classic zouk-love; which is a slower
> extremely popular
> variation of ZOUK music), Tanya Saint-Val (AWESOME voice,
> vocals and songs
> !), Zouk Look, Zouk Machine, Kassav' (the godfathers of
> Zouk !), David et
> Corinne (a borther-and-sister duo who play more original
> ZOUK-LOVE than the
> rahter unsinspired and generic zouk-love singer ERIC
> VIRGAL), Edith Lefel
> (which died from a heart attack in January of 2003 - he was
> popular between
> 1984 and 2002 releasing ALMOST year after year some
> astonishingly great
> records), Harry Diboula, Thierry Cham, Cyrielle (a new one,
> not as good as
> the oldschool "zouk r?tro" artists) and several
> ones... I used to be a big
> fan of zouk music, though my musical tastes changed over
> time, and I get
> insulted by people affirming zouk comes from Africa and not
> GUADELUPA or
> MARTINICA where, when one gets bored with zouk, tends to
> enjoy Haitian
> kompas as well... One tend to forget the overseas FF
> departments ! In fact,
> zouk is a mixture of kompas, calypso, urban African music
> (to a small extent
> !) and American funky music with, originally, a mixture of
> traditional and
> electric instruments, even though nowadays the artistical
> part of zouk is
> gone and artists such as CYRIELLE, JEAN-MARIE RINGALD, SLA?
> and most of the
> other ones, are seeking for money and fame rather than
> artistic
> accomplishments... Also, if you want to check some kompas,
> try for ZENGLEN,
> GARCIA REIZA, SWEET MICKEY, DAAN JUNIOR, TOP VICE, T-VICE,
> DJAKOUT MUZIK,
> MISTY JEAN, ALAN CAV?, ZIN, BLACK PARENTS and for FUNKY
> KOMPAS -> ZEKLE
> (which means lightning in French creole) and if you like
> old-school kompas
> which sounds like a polished version of Dominican merengue,
> try for TABOU
> COMBO (70's). Prior to the 70's, during the 50s and
> 60s, kompas sounded
> fairly close to the Venezuelan "orchestras
> bailables" of Los Melod?cos and,
> especially, Billo's Caracas Boys, so if you want to
> check some pre-Tabou
> Combo, please try for Coup? Clou?, Les Shleus, Shleus and,
> especially, the
> legendary Tropicana d'Ha?ti... L'Orchestre
> Tropicana / Tropicana d'Ha?ti is
> definitively a Haitian version of Billo's Caracas Boys
> ! I play lots of
> French Caribbean music at the college radio station from
> both Haiti and
> Guadelupa ! I used to be really into both zouk and kompas,
> though mostly
> into the former one, as kompas isn't catchy enough.
> Some salsa and cumbia
> tropical songs or trad. gaita ones are way more catchy than
> most of the
> kompas, though a few kompas are borderline catchy with some
> pretty amazing
> melodies !
>
> Another good news for those on the west coast still reading
> me is that while
> WTIC-1080 has learned to keep their IBOC crud off at night,
> KNX-1070 has
> quickly learned to do the same ! Nothing to do with DXing
> properly, as WTIC
> is directionnal NORTH-SOUTH to protect KRLD in Dallas,
> Texas (on the same
> channel), but if the trend continues I may once again hear
> HJKH RCN Antena
> Dos on 650 on a semi-regular basis. Just wait for
> co-channel WSM to learn
> complaiining about nighttime secondary coverage areas
> stolen by WFAN-660 !
> If I wasn't that sick with cough et al, I would have
> wrote a complaint to
> the FCC regarding WSM/HJKH-650, but for the next few days,
> doing this is
> beyond me, as I'm quite lazy !
>
> Last, but certainly not least, I had the warm pleasure of
> receiving a phone
> call from one of Ontario's top-notch FM/TV DXers (and
> also a mediumwave
> "zealot" - is that word appropiate for that
> circumstance ?), Saul Chernos,
> before heading to Bahamas with a great receiver along with
> his Radio Shack
> loop ! BOGDAN SPEAKS: Saul Chernos was calling the operator
> and asked for
> Chiochiu in Montreal and there wasn't any, but the
> operator was nice enough
> to suggest him to try for Pierrefonds, the western suburb
> where I live, so
> he came upon me. This was just before the grippis ! We had
> talked for
> several minutes with a huge amount of pleasure... The TV DX
> issue was
> particularly serious, as he is better equiped than me, I do
> have a Yagi
> antenna since a few months, but do not have a sensitive
> low-VHF tuner
> anymore for double-hop Sporadic E TV DXing. I broke the TV
> telecommand
> during the chemo, as my father was insulting myself for
> vomiting (my father
> is a bit narcisistic !) and the Magnasonic TV tuner was put
> to the garbage,
> because one couldn;t change the channels anymore. For FM,
> it's a different
> story ! The newly purchased Degen 1103 which overloads
> badly on both long
> and mediumwave is great on both SW and FM ! Since Venezuela
> is about 2400
> miles from Montreal, it is definitively within 2Es range
> from me, so I could
> always get the most powerful signals using the Degen 1103
> whip on FM and
> then, connected to the soundcard, make .WAV and / or MP3
> files of those...
>
> We also had a lengthy talk about mediumwave DX. Since
> during excellent TA
> condx of December, 2008, I had audio from Algeria-549
> trying to break
> through the weak adjacent North American signals on 550 kHz
> with CHLN gone
> forever, I suggested him to try for that one from Bahamas,
> which is slightly
> closer to Algeria than Montreal... I don't know if he
> had the time to write
> it down in the logbook, though I gladly hope he had at
> least a poor signal
> out of this Algerian blaster ! Very warm, we spent almost a
> half-hour
> talking... Too bad, we didn't DX althogether, or we
> would have had the
> chance to hear both that very weak elusive Latin on 1070
> kHz mediumwave
> which is the only SLIGHTLY, ALBEIT DEFINITIVELY more
> interesting catche
> among that ugly repport ! There is also Cuba on 1070 kHz.
> Saul Chernos is a
> great journalist with a great deal of experience and he may
> come to Montreal
> another time for analysing an important event or something
> like that...
>
> As far as DXing in group, I had two friends, an older
> Qu?b?cois one and a
> Colombian one with whom I DXed, two occasions with each,
> during the
> 2008-2009 winter holidays and in less-than-stellar
> conditions, we did hear a
> few things of interest; it was, nevertheless, a good
> introduction to what
> can be heard on AM. The Colombian friend almost
> couldn't believe I had the
> Colombia-760 signal so huge (back in early January, 2009)
> using a normal
> radio and I have him a CD recording containing an MP3 file
> converted from
> the HJAJ-760 tape.
>
> Me and Saul Chernos, also talked about the ultralight
> receivers (the Degen
> 1103 is one of them!) and about the Newfoundland
> DXpedition. What can I do
> in order to attend a DXpedition ? I have been on and off
> DXing, with the
> same amount of enthousiasm on peaks, such as now, since
> 2000 and a
> DXpedition for someone young like me would be such an
> awesome adventure !
>
> Since Chernos is also an NRCer and I hope to see his
> Bahamas repport in the
> next DX News's IDXD issue ! I really hope, that in
> Bahamas, thanks to it's
> coastal situation and, in spite of the huge amount of Cuban
> QRM, one could
> get some South American, African and, who knows,
> south-western European
> (i.e. France and Spain) MEDIUMWAVE DX with some nice
> reception quality ! I'm
> not only curious to read the Saul Chernos's results
> from Bahamas, I can't
> wait !!! Is the Radio Shack Saul Chernos suing THAT good ?
> I mostly heard
> bad things about it, it is cheap, it's nulling
> abilities are poor and can't
> compare even with a Select-A-tenna. For myself, during our
> next trip, I'll
> take a magnetic loop... Is a MW magnetic loop quite good,
> even though it's
> inferior to a LW magnetic loop ? Is a MW magnetic loop
> SLIGHTLY worse than a
> Beverage or WAY MUCH worse than a Beverage ! I heard from
> an old DX friend
> in British Colombia that a longwave magnetic loop is better
> than the average
> Beverage, but on mediumwave it's a different story. To
> what extent, it is
> worse than a Beverage ?
>
> We are heading for Romania in a few months, toward the end
> of May, after
> c?-gep ends and, then, I may see a completly different
> perspective on DXing
> from my own country, I place where I did some DXing when I
> was young, nut
> very casual and uninspired as you can imagine DXing from a
> brick house or on
> the 4th floor of a builiding with concrete walls and
> ceiling, you would get
> just some 500 kW short-skip nighttime mediumwave signals
> from the
> neighboring countries, nothing to really get excited like
> the Pan American
> DX and, to a lesser extent, Trans Atlantic DX I'm used
> to enjoy from here
> that captivated my attention since the past few years. But,
> there is the
> possibility of DXing from outdoors, i.e.: from a park ! I
> will try to get in
> contact with some of Romania's top DXers during the
> course of the several
> weeks, as my health improves !
>
> {END OF THE BOGDAN SPEAKS part}
>
> I have nothing to add anymore, time to get back to DXing or
> fighting against
> that damned grippis !
>
> This repport is brought to you by Bogan Chiochiu DXing from
> Pierrefonds
> (Montreal's West Island), Quebec, Canada DXing using
> the Sanyo MCD-S830
> barefoot and the Sangean CST-818 along with the PK's
> Shielded Magnetic LW
> loop for longwave and the random wire (along with the same
> Sangean rx) for
> shortwave !
>
> May the good DX be with you !
> Bogdan Chiochiu
> Btw.: Coming soon, my ratings for this season, as far as
> LAs and TAs are
> concerned !
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:42:34 -0600
> From: Brandon Jordan <bcdx.org@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: dxld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, cumbredx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, HCDX
> CONTRIBUTIONS
> - LATEST
> <hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, NASWA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [HCDX] Logs - Feb 23 - Memphis, TN
> Message-ID: <49A3184A.3000109@xxxxxxxxx>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> ** AUSTRALIA 6020, R. Australia, Shepparton, 23 Feb,
> *0900-1315; a few
> bars of Waltzing Matilda IS into Pidgin service. English
> service at 1100
> lasting until tune-out. Good signal throughout except
> during the
> 1228-1314 UTC Vatican Radio via Philippines. No sign of R
> Ga?cha during
> the 0700-1315 UTC recordings. (Jordan-TN)
>
> ** BOLIVIA 6024.99v, (tent) R Patria Nueva, La Paz, 23 Feb,
> 0850-1134
> fade-out; weak carrier-on at 0850, unsure if modulated.
> Signal slowly
> increasing until peaking from 1030 to 1045 UTC, coinciding
> with sunrise
> in La Paz. Threshold audio with woman speaking is possible
> Spanish, best
> in LSB to avoid R Marti mess on 6030. Fading until the
> carrier finally
> dropped below noise floor at 1134 UTC. Transmitter slowly
> drifted
> downward to 6024.98 kHz at fade-out. (Jordan-TN)
>
> ** CANADA 6030, CFVP, Calgary, 23 Feb, 0613-0645; Barn
> Dance Saturday
> Night show, country music, a few ads, multiple
> "Classic Country AM
> 10-60". Rather weak but nicely readable and stable
> signal in the UTC
> Monday morning UTC absence of R Marti. (Jordan-TN)
>
> ** COLOMBIA 6009.96v, La Voz de Tu Conciencia, Lomalinda,
> 23 Feb
> 0700-f/out - Programs of easy listening vocals and
> instrumentals, low
> key talks, inspirational sounding radio dramas. Nominally
> at equal
> levels as co-channel R. Mil up to almost an hour after 1110
> UTC sunrise
> in Lomalinda, although better modulation gave Conciencia
> the edge.
> Transmitter very slowly drifting between 6009.95-.97 kHz.
> (Jordan-TN)
>
> ** COLOMBIA 6035, La Voz de Guaviare, San Jos? del
> Guaviare, 23 Feb
> 0859-1030; transmitter cut-on at 0859 in mid song. Ballads
> with male
> announcer between songs with IDs. Full ID at 0957, also
> mention Radio
> Cadena Nacional. Young female voice at the top of the hour
> with a long
> monologue with constant mentions of Santa Maria. Slop from
> the mess on
> 6030 kHz began affecting readability at 1000 UTC, and
> station beginning
> to fade by 1015 UTC. Transmitter started on 6030.1 kHz and
> had slowly
> drifted down to a few Hz above 6030 by 1000 UTC.
> (Jordan-TN)
>
> ** ETHIOPIA 6030, Radio Oromiya, Addis Ababa, 23 Feb,
> 0415-0435;
> vaguely Horn of Africa type music at tune in and lasting
> until 0430,
> then brief musical bridge, Radio Oromiya ID then talk by
> multiple
> speakers in presumed Oromo, possibly news. Poor to fair
> levels in the
> UTC Monday morning absence of R. Marti + jammers.
> (Jordan-TN)
>
> ** MEXICO 6010, XEOI, R. Mil, M?xico D.F., 23 Feb,
> 0700-1315; mainly
> musical content, Radio Mil jingles, brief chatter. Good
> signal level but
> lack luster modulation usually gave the upper hand to
> co-channel
> Colombia until they began to fade. Transmitter stable a few
> Hz above
> 6030 kHz. (Jordan-TN)
>
> ** PERU 6047.19v, (pres.) R. Santa Rosa, Lima, 23 Feb,
> *1111-1250
> fade-out; audio only started being heard a few minutes
> ofter the
> transmitter was turned on. Decent carrier but only just
> slightly above
> threshold audio, man in possible Spanish with low-key
> religious sounding
> monologue. Much slop from booming HCJB on 6050. Transmitter
> steadily
> drifting, up to 6047.22 kHz by carrier fade-out at 1250.
> (Jordan-TN)
>
> ** PHILIPPINES 6020, Vatican Radio, Palauig, 23 Feb,
> 1228-1314; sudden
> cut-on at 1228 with Chinese service. At times at equal
> levels, but
> usually underneath co-channel R Australia English service.
> (Jordan-TN)
>
> ** THAILAND 6040, Voice of America, Udon Thani, 23 Feb,
> 1157-1314;
> transmitter on at 1157 into Chinese programming at 1200.
> Weak and noisy
> but steadily improving to almost fair by 1314 tune-out.
> (Jordan-TN)
>
> Receivers: WinRadio G313e, RFSpace SDR-IQ
> Antenna: ALA100 Loop
>
> --
> Brandon Jordan - Memphis, TN, USA
> bcdx.org@xxxxxxxxx - http://www.bcdx.org
> DXTests.Info web site: http://www.dxtests.info
> Editor: IRCA DX Worldwide-East
> Submit loggings via: dxww.east@xxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 07:32:21 -0300
> From: "Antonio Laurentino Garcia"
> <alaugar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <radioescutas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> <hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, DX Clube do Paran?
> <dxclube@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Associa??o DX do
> Brasil
> <cartas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [HCDX] Escutas
> Message-ID: <471E8FD8FF004CF7AC5C10E3A51D5D83@TOTA>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> Escutas realizadas em Camboinha/Cabedelo-PB
>
> IC - R1500 - Loop coaxial
>
>
> 21.630,0 1411-1414 28/2 BBC Worldservice, Ascension,
> ASCENSION ISLAND (U.K.), (HA) falas de OM, por suposi??o,
> entrevista a convidado - 1414 fim TX. 35544
>
> 15.115,0 2046-2053 28/2 WYFR (Family Radio), Okeechobee, FL
> UNITED STATES, (EE) m?sica sacra. - s? ?udio 25333
>
> 15.195,0 2054-2058 28/2 WYFR (Family Radio), Ascension,
> ASCENSION ISLAND (U.K.), (EE) por suposi??o, entrevista a
> convidado (falas de YL e OMs). 35444
>
> 5.850,0 2356-2359 28/2 WHRA (Le Sea Broadcasting),
> Greenbush, ME UNITED STATES, (EE) falas de OM, 2359 fim tx
> 35333
>
> 5.900,0 0003-0009 1/3 Radio Bulgaria - Presumida, Plovdiv,
> BULGARIA, (EE) falas de YL, por suposi??o, boletim de
> not?cias. 35333
>
> 5.930,0 0011-0017 1/3 Radio Prague- Prov?vel, Litomysl,
> CZECH REPUBLIC, (SS) falas de OM e YL, tx boletim de
> not?cias 25232
>
> 6.100,0 0023-0030 1/3 China Radio International, Beijing,
> CHINA, (PP) falas de OM e YL, boletim informativo 25332
>
> 7.305,0 0038-0043 1/3 Vatican Radio, St. Maria di Galeria,
> VATICAN CITY, (PP) falas de OM com boletim informativo 35333
>
> 7.375,0 0045-0053 1/3 Voice of Croatia - Prov?vel,
> Wertachtal, GERMANY, (EE) sequencia de m?sicas 35343
>
> 9.535,0 0058-0103 1/3 Radio Exterior de Espa?a, Noblejas,
> SPAIN, (SS) m?sica rom?ntica; ID; YL e OM com informativo.
> 35333
>
> ICF-SW7600GR - RGP3
>
>
> 1.512,0 2103-2107 28/2 BSKSA - Presumida, Jeddah, SAUDI
> ARABIA, (AA) OM recitando versos do Alcor?o 23333
>
> 1.521,0 2109-2114 28/2 BSKSA - Presumida, Duba SAUDI
> ARABIA, idioma NO ID falas de OMs, por suposi??o, tx de
> boletim de not?cias 33333
>
> 1.575,0 2122-2127 28/2 OldieStar Radio - Presumida, Burg,
> GERMANY, idioma NO ID falas de OMs, por suposi??o, TX de
> boletim de not?cias 23332
>
> Antonio Laurentino Garcia
>
> PR7BCP
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 09:40:19 -0800 (PST)
> From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: dxld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: swl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 2, 2009
> Message-ID:
> <441794.27230.qm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>
>
> ** INDIA. The AIR National Channel on 9425 surprises us
> with more English than expected, at least per Aoki listings,
> 500 kW, 18 degrees from Bangaluru, which shows 5 minutes of
> English [news] at 1430 and 1530, otherwise in Hindi at
> 1435-1530, 1535-1630, and the same pattern thru the night.
> (And EiBi shows 9425 entirely in Hindi.) Nevertheless,
> Monday March 2 at 1435 tune-in I was still hearing English,
> just mentioning 31 meters, so was this a special SW-only
> broadcast? A bit of music and at 1437 discussion between YL
> host and an OM about fossil fuel vs renewable energy; still
> going at 1445 and concluding at 1456 as having been some
> minister talking about global warming. 1457 the YL host says
> something about exams, so maybe this is an `educational`
> programme for credit? Music fill to 1500, Hindi announcement
> mentioning kHz and meter, traditional string and drum music;
> 1515 talk in Hindi, 1539 recheck back in English, this time
> about energy.
>
> At first I suspected there could be a feed mixup again at
> Bangaluru putting the AIR GOS in English on 9425 instead of
> 9690, but unseems, as that finishes at 1500; 9690 had a weak
> unreadable signal. Meanwhile, VBS was normal on 9870, mostly
> pop music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
>
> ** INDONESIA [non]. Altho Fri Feb 27 at 1400 I confirmed
> VOI on reactivated 11785.0 going from English to Malay, and
> totally blocked Sat and Sun by WHRI, when I check 11785 on
> Monday March 2 at 1430 I hear nothing but Mandarin Chinese
> on the frequency! Interesting show mentioning Taiwan and
> playing music ranging from solo to choral to
> American-Indian-sounding with drumming at 1445; a lot of
> flutter, and off abruptly at 1457* with no ID heard. But
> this is certainly not VOI! Not in Aoki or EiBi, but in HFCC
> we find CRI scheduled during this hour via Kashi, 308
> degrees to Europe in Chinese. Meanwhile, no sign of VOI on
> 9525 or 9526 either, and did not check the third remote
> possibility, 15150. What next? Would others please monitor
> what frequency if any VOI is using for English at 1000 and
> 1300 and the intervening hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
> LISTENING DIGEST)
>
> ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9690 with fair-good signal in Korean,
> March 2 at 1508; what`s this? Eibi: ``9690 1500-1530 CLA
> Nippon no Kaze K KRE /AUS-d`` so it`s via Darwin (Glenn
> Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
>
> ** KUWAIT [and non]. 13620-13645, Over-the-horizon radar
> pulses, presumed, this time strong enough to cause a lot of
> interference to Kuwait in Arabic on 13620, March 2 at 1511.
> Eibi shows a break in Kuwait`s transmission between 1305 and
> 1515, but Aoki shows the break 1310-1505, with the earlier
> transmission in DRM anyway. WRTH disagrees, not DRM and
> break 1315-1505. HFCC has the break at 1400-1615 with DRM
> until 1400. PWBR shows 1315(?)-1600 with no such details.
> Nobody agrees on exactly what is going on here (Glenn
> Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
>
> ** SAUDI ARABIA. 15435, Sawt ul-Buzz, March 2 at 1513, big
> signal, terrible frying sound overriding Qur`an. This Riyadh
> transmitter is getting worse and worse. Erik K?ie in Denmark
> was hearing the same problem earlier at 1010 on 17805. How
> can the engineers there be unaware of it? A total waste of
> 500 kW and an insult to the deity (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
> LISTENING DIGEST)
>
> UNIDENTIFIED. 13620-13645, Over-the-horizon radar pulses,
> presumed, this time strong enough to cause a lot of
> interference to Kuwait in Arabic on 13620, March 2 at 1511.
> See KUWAIT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 01:09:46 -0000
> From: <ka4prf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ka4prf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: cumbredx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [HCDX] Tamil Radio
> Message-ID:
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> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed;
> charset="iso-8859-1";
> reply-type=original
>
> Germany (non) 6045, Tamil Radio (pres), Relay, 0034-0100*
> Noted a halfhour
> of steady comments in Tamil Language(?) by a male. Heard
> a few familiar
> words like "Hamas" and "Isalm", but
> couldn't pick out an ID during the
> comments. Signal began as poor, but slowly improved to
> fair by the end of
> the sked. At 0055 music was presented
> until the end of the broadcast. Heard a possible ID at
> 0059, but couldn't
> make "heads nor tails" of it? (Chuck Bolland,
> March 3, 2009)
>
> http://www.orchidcitysoftware.com/IMAGE59.HTML UPDATED
>
> Clewiston, Florida, USA
> NRD545
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 19:50:47 -0800 (PST)
> From: "Scott R. Barbour Jr."
> <srbjrswl@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Cumbre DX <cumbredx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, DXLD
> <dxld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> DXplorer <Dxplorer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, HCDX
> <hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Gayle Van Horn
> <gaylemt@xxxxxxxxxx>,
> NASWAyg <NASWA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Al Quaglieri
> <listenersnotebook@xxxxxxxxx>, Mark Taylor
> <markokpik@xxxxxxx>, Dave
> Valko <djvalko@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [HCDX] Logs from NH-USA, March 1-2
> Message-ID:
> <385736.68350.qm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
>
> Went on a DX spree this morning...
>
> 3255, S. AFRICA, BBC Meyerton, 0356-0405, March 1, English.
> Commentary re gov't subsidies; BBC promos; rooster
> crowing & "BBC..?..Africa" at ToH; headlines
> re Africa; world nx; fair. (Barbour-NH)
>
> 4920, INDIA, AIR Chennai, 0055-0111, March 2, vernacular.
> Hindi ballads; ancr at ToH; M ancr w/ lengthy talk from 0105
> thru t/out; poor. (Barbour-NH)
>
> 5010, INDIA, AIR Thiruvananthapuram, 0113-0132, March 2,
> vernacular. M & W ancr; various mx bits-possible radio
> drama?; mx tone followed by advertisement; pips & ID at
> BoH; prg intro w/ piano/wind instrument & W ancr into
> Hindi mx; poor-fair. This winter, Thiruvan` & Chennai
> are the only AIR regionals I hear on a regular basis here
> & only at night. Nothing like at the height of the last
> Solar Cycle, during my local winter mornings, when I could
> follow the greyline across the sub-continent & log AIR
> across 60m. (Barbour-NH)
>
> 6010, MEXICO, R. Mil Mexico City, 1013-1034, March 2,
> Spanish. Ballads; ancr b/w selections w/ talk; ancments
> & occasional ID; fair-poor. (Barbour-NH)
>
> 6020, AUSTRALIA, R. Australia Shepparton, 1046-1101, March
> 2, Tok Pisin/English. Ancrs w/ talk w/ ment. of Palau &
> Cook Islands; contact info at 1052; talk over pop mx at 1057
> & freq sked; mx fill into EG ID & nx at 1100; fair.
> (Barbour-NH)
>
> 6055, JAPAN, R. Nikkei Tokyo-Nagara, 1125-1137, March 2,
> Japanese. W ancr at t/in; continuos classical mx thru t/out;
> poor; //3925-fair. (Barbour-NH)
>
> 7245, CHINA, CNR-2 Beijing, 1236-1301, March 2, Mandarin. M
> & W ancr w/ banter; mx bits & ancments; 5+1 pips at
> ToH w/ presumed ID in Mandarin &
> "China..(Business?)..Radio" ID in EG; fair at
> best. (Barbour-NH)
>
> 7395, UZBEKISTAN, presumed CVC Tashkent, 0134-0145, March
> 2, English. W ancr w/ nx items re India; Obama; pop ballads;
> way too much 7400-Bulgaria for positive ID; poor.
> (Barbour-NH)
>
> 9580, GABON, Afrique Numero Un Moyabi, 2025-2041, March 2.
> French. Mx prg w/ hi-life; French pop mx & Afropops; M
> ancr b/w selections & canned W ancr w/ numerous IDs;
> fair. (Barbour-NH)
>
> 9745, TAIWAN, presumed V. of Han Kuanyin, 1212-1231, March
> 2, Mandarin. W ancr w/ talk; M w/ same; pop ballad at 1217;
> talk from 1222 until W ancr over lite vocal mx at BoH into M
> ancr w/ talk; poor & fading by BoH. (Barbour-NH)
>
> 9750, UNIDENTIFIED, 1143-1210, March 2. M & W ancr in
> unid. language; mx bit at 1154 & more talk; 5+1 pips
> & W ancr at ToH followed by M w/ Kor'an-like vocal
> chanting thru t/out; fair-poor. Heard snatches of IS at
> 1200, presumably via V. of Malaysia s/on; both Aoki &
> Eibi list NHK/R. Japan in Japanese here; while Eibe also
> lists VOM 1000-1400 which is
> inaccurate based on recent logs. Sounded more Middle East
> than Far East to my ear. (Barbour-NH)
>
> 11590, KUWAIT, R. Free Asia Kabd, 1304-1317, March 2,
> listed Tibetan. M & W ancr w/ talk; mx bit at 1305
> followed by interview thru t/out; fair w/ big
> "hum" sound; same on //11540 via listed
> Tajikistan; a faulty Chinese jamming transmitter perhaps?
> (Barbour-NH)
>
> 15440, RWANDA, Duetsche Welle Kigali, 1322, March 2, listed
> Hausa. ID at t/in; ancr w/ nx listing several African
> countries; fair. (Barbour-NH)
>
> Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, NH-USA
> NRD545,RX350D,MLB1,200'Bevs,60mDipole
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 17:59:27 +1300
> From: "Paul" <format4nz@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Hard-Core-DX"
> <Hard-Core-DX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [HCDX] * Police track rise of pirate radio *
> Message-ID:
> <C68F6EFC68E047A5B85169490B5671DC@windowspaul001>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
>
> * Police track rise of pirate radio *
> Pirate radio stations are booming across the UK, but so are
> police efforts to catch the perpetrators.
> Full story:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/uk/7920241.stm
>
> End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 75, Issue 3
> *******************************************
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