From dx-kuuntelijat-owner@ftp.funet.fi Wed Nov 17 22:31:51 1993 Received: from nic.funet.fi (ftp.funet.fi) by cs.tut.fi with SMTP id AA11894 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Wed, 17 Nov 1993 22:27:32 +0200 Received: from nisc.jvnc.net ([128.121.50.7]) by nic.funet.fi with SMTP id <91408-5>; Wed, 17 Nov 1993 22:26:39 +0200 Received: from dino.conicit.ve by nisc.jvnc.net (5.65/1.34) id AA21981; Wed, 17 Nov 93 15:21:20 -0500 Received: by dino.conicit.ve (4.1/SMI-4.1/RP-1.2) id AA04542; Wed, 17 Nov 93 16:21:14-040 From: mrodrigu@conicit.ve (Manuel Rodriguez T. (Hosp. Militar)) Message-Id: <9311172021.AA04542@dino.conicit.ve> Subject: The Radio NEWS #11 To: patrick.mcdonald@f605.n713.z3.fido.zeta.org.au, moore@tmu1.mcrest.edu, 71311.2677@compuserve.com, 73737.3453@compuserve.com, 76635.615@compuserve.com, rko@cs.tut.fi, 73042.3644@compuserve.com, 76477.1665@compuserve.com, A.Bottonelli@it12.bull.it, avolk@BLABEL.PPP.INFORMATIK.UNI-MUENCHEN.DE, jkearman@arrl.org, hermod.pedersen@swedx.ct.se, 0003382983@mcimail.com, swl-l@cuvmb.bitnet, rec-radio-info@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca, zap@hacktic.nl, nieuw@nioz.nl, tijoma@uta.fi, damico@ipmel1.polimi.it, r.dangelo3@genie.geis.com Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1993 22:21:13 +0200 Cc: dx-kuuntelijat@ftp.funet.fi (TRN) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Length: 8844 Status: RO THE RADIO NEWS ELECTRONIC ISSUE ----------------------- The Tropical Band's Bulletin Compiled by: Manuel Rodriguez Lanza e-mail: mrodrigu@dino.conicit.ve Address: P.O.Box 65657, Caracas 1066-A Venezuela ------------------------------------------------------- Date: October 16th, 1993 Number: 11 ------------------------------------------------------------------- LOGGINGS Sorry, no loggings this week from Venezuela. Tnx! for the colaborations. --------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1993 17:09:41 GMT From: Tom Roach Subject: Weekend logs 23/24 October Partial weekend listening results for weekend of 23/24 October 1993 Location: San Jose, California Receiver(s): NRD-525 & NRD-535D Antenna(s): 100 foot inverted "L", 450 foot inverted "L", 16 MHz dipole, 8.6 MHz dipole Note: Frequencies measured to plus/minus 5 Hz unless otherwise noted. All times UTC. Signals noted as recorded were taped on a Sony DAT recorder. RF(kHz) DATE TIME MODULATION COUNTRY == ==== ==== ========== ======= 4820.090 10/23/93 04:56 AM Honduras La Voz Evangelica; woman giving inspired (??) harangue; ID on hour 4890.000 10/23/93 05:55 AM ??? SINPO: 25342; only audible on 450 ft longwire 3235.000 10/23/93 07:52 AM Papua New Guinea R. West New Britain (Kimbe); only readable in USB (fax QRM); recorded 3355. 10/23/93 07:55 AM Papua New Guinea R. Simbu (Kundiawa); RF not measured exactly; only readable in LSB with passband in use; recorded 3345.000 10/23/93 07:59 AM Papua New Guinea R. Northern;recorded; now readable, wasn't a bit earlier 3395.000 10/23/93 07:41 AM Papua NewGuinea R. East Highlands; singing, recorded on four separate cuts; best in LSB;sometimes "ukelele" music. Bizarre pulsing noise sometimes present (OTH radar??) 3205.000 10/23/93 07:51 AM Papua New Guinea R. Sandaun (Vanimo); singing; recorded To make a long story short also heard Papua New Guinea on: 3219.990 3374.990 3384.990 3304.990 3314.990 3334.990 all of the above recorded on DAT. Failed to hear: 3260, 3290, 3325, 3365 and 3905 (uncaring hams sat atop the 3905 frequency :-) Other highlights were RFO Tahiti on 6135.310 kHz at 08:19 UTC 10/23/93, and on 5643 USB (ICAO South Pacific) heard Aukland, Sydney, Tahiti and numerous aircraft. Made a special effort to hear Tennant Creek, Australia and R. Rum Jungle (2325 kHz and 2485 kHz respectively) after their 08:30 sign-on(s). At 08:48 Tennant Creek was clearly readable (and recorded), but R.Rum Jungle was not at all readable but the BFO and Spectrum Analyzer confirmed its presence. Winter listening is starting off on a good note. Tom Roach troach@netcom.com 76347,1025 (CI$) --------------------------------- Date: 04 Nov 93 23:04:12 EST From: David Clark <71311.2677@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Loggings LOGGINGS Print Date: Nov 4/93 -------- David M. Clark (DMC) Rcvr: 2 Drake R7's /Drake R8 R.R. #3, St. John's S/R, Hammarlund HQ-180C Newmarket, Ontario, Ant: - 400+ ft Two-Wire Canada L3Y 4W1 Beverages pointed NNW-SSE, N-S, & NE-SW - 300+ ft Two-Wire Beverage pointed E-W - 400+ ft NW Beverage - 400+ ft NE longwire **** 4775 SIKKIM (INDIA): AIR Gangtok first-noted w/fair carrier at 1145 when at the same time, AIR Imphal-4760, also in the nearby NE region, was fair and well-over co-channel Chinese with sub- continental vocal. Retuned 4775 at 1210 to find chants, talk by OM w/brief instrumental breaks - sounded very much like a religious pgme. Choral at 1218 and further impassioned talk by OM until 1231. YL with almost certain ID "...Gangtok", then OM+YL anmts, indigenous instrumental interlude and different OM into possible local news at 1232-37. Then vocal selection and back to OM talk at 1240. Very good signal peak at 1215-30 on direct path from NE;thereafter slowly weakening w/best signal arrival swung around to the NW. Still weakly audible at 1255. Best on LSB due to periodic CW ute on high side. Gangtok perhaps still in test phase - definitely not on air the prior Sun (Oct 24) which also rendered quite good sub-continental signals. AIR Guwahati, formerly 4775.5v and sked to 1215* may now be on 4990 per announced bandplan. Oct 31 (DMC) 9660 AUSTRALIA: VLQ9 Brisbane good at 1301 with world news,different than ABC news concurrently fair on VLW9 Wanneroo-9610, both mixed with co-channel QRM. Per report on WOR, VLQ9 has confirmed it will be leaving the air on Dec 31st; perhaps this will mark the demise of VLM4 Brisbane-4920 too. A recent edition of RNMN questioned whether VLW9 had already left the air but it's on, at least for the present. Perth has been gone for some time - the entire Domestic Shortwave Service may well be on the way out. Oct 31 (DMC) ------------------------------------ Date: 09 Nov 93 23:49:25 EST From: David Clark <71311.2677@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Re: The Radio NEWS #10 AIR Gangtok-4775 was NOT on this past weekend...makes me all the happier about my Oct 31st log but they'll be back - I suspect they must still be irregular - possibly in test mode. 73 - Dave ------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 10:49:56 +0200 From: Jorma M{ntyl{ Subject: Papua New Guinea Some weeks ago there was some discussion about the possible destruction of radio stations in Papua due to the recent earthquake. Last week-end there were relatively good conditions towards PNG thanks to the minor geomagnetic storm some days earlier. Australian staions were heard with strong signals on 2310, 2325, 2485 and 4920 kHz. Stns from PNG were audible on following frequencies: 3205, 3235, 3245 (strong), 3275, 3305, 3315 and 4890 kHz. Stn's on 3220 and 3325 were blocked by Chinese stn's. None of these Papua stn were identified but program style and conditions indicate that they were from PNG. Jorma Mantyla U of Tampere Finland ------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 10:51:39 -0600 From: Don Moore Subject: LOGGINGS SHORTWAVE LOGGINGS 2040 TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS: Caribbean Christian Radio 0246-0250 11/7 OM rel talk in EE. Weak, but clearly // 1020, which was mixing with KDKA, Pittsburg. 2x1020 harmonic & a new harmonic country here. 4825 PERU: La Voz de la Selva 0302-0304* 11/7 Caught end of s/off anmt followed by about one minute of dead air before the carrier was cut. No anthem. Fair. 5020 COLOMBIA: Ecos del Atrato 0256-0301 11/7 w/tropical mx & ID. Poor. 11785 COLOMBIA: Radio Nacional 1948-1952 11/7 EZL instr mx, ID @ 1950, mentioning onda corta. Don Moore, Davenport, Iowa Receiver: Kenwood R-5000 w/ 400 foot mini-beverage antenna. ------------------------------------ ABBREVIATIONS nx news OA Peruvian QRM interference mx music YV Venezuelan QRN natural static & noise ID identification HJ Colombian vpr very poor w/ with HC Ecuadorian pr poor TC time check CP Bolivian fr fair LV La Voz de ZY Brazilian gd good OM man TG Guatemalan vgd very good YL woman CW morse code // parallel v variable frequency Mkr Marker px program Times & Days mentioned are in GMT/UTC. All data may be copied and reproduced without permission by any organizations and individuals on condition that credit is given to: The Radio News - "Electronic Issue" and original reporter. The old numbers of this publication could be obtained through nic.funet.fi /pub/dx. 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