Path: news.cs.tut.fi!news.funet.fi!lgw!news.funet.fi!not-for-mail From: mrodrigu@conicit.ve (Manuel Rodriguez T. (Hosp. Militar)) Newsgroups: sfnet.harrastus.dx-kuuntelu Subject: Tropical Tuning #33 Date: 29 Dec 1994 16:14:46 +0200 Organization: Finnish University and Research Network Lines: 230 Sender: daemon@news.funet.fi Distribution: sfnet Message-ID: <9412291407.AA13392@dino.conicit.ve> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.funet.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: dx-kuuntelijat@nic.funet.fi, PAYRAS@sara.cc.utu.fi, jeo@nesterc.neste.fi, andy.sennitt@almac.co.uk, DURHAM%TRANSY.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu, RMCVICAR@mhs.hcjb.com.ec, kmacharg@mhs.hcjb.com.ec, 101042.1210@compuserve.com, 71163.1735@compuserve.com, gst@gagme.wwa.com, Larry.Nebron@pcgfx.com, diego@pinos.com, 72700.31@compuserve.com, 70760.3540@compuserve.com, JimRenfrew@aol.com, jann.larsson@swedx.ct.se, anders_hultqvist@online.Idg.se Cc: patrick.mcdonald@f605.n713.z3.fido.zeta.org.au, moore@acc.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, 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@stat.com, zap@hacktic.nl, nieuw@nioz.nl, tijoma@uta.fi, r.dangelo3@genie.geis.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Length: 11495 TROPICAL TUNING _________________________________________________________________ DECEMBER 28, 1994 NUMBER 33 Editor: Manuel Rodriguez Lanza e-mails: mrodrigu@conicit.ve manuel.a.rodriguez@spacecom.uunet.ve Address: P.O.Box 65657, Caracas 1066-A, Venezuela. Tel: +58 (14) 258359 (cellular) _________________________________________________________________ Indonesia 5030,4 KHZ? _________________________________________________________________ FROM: ANDY SENNITT Date: 12-21-94 11:03 JM>Yes, several Finnish dx'ers have heard both stations at the same time. Malaysia is a little bit below 5030 while this mysterious Indonesian station can be heard at the same time on 5030,4 kHz. The station has been hear sometimes at 1300 with RRI news - so it is 100% sure from Indonesia, but local ID is very unclear and bassy. Why is this station "mysterious" ? I am beginning to think you must not have seen my earlier posting in which I mentioned that this is almost certainly RRI Sibolga which we list on 5030 in the 1995 edition of WRTH . _________________________________________________________________ LATIN STATION ON 4779 _________________________________________________________________ FROM: BEN KREPP Date: 12-19-94 17:59 Permit me to correct myself: When I first read the base posting, I misread "4779" as "4799", hence my (incorrect) suggestion of Radio Buenas Nuevas. A better bet is Radio Cultural Coatan (nominally) on 4780 kHz. _________________________________________________________________ TROPICAL UNIDENTIFIED _________________________________________________________________ FROM: PAUL DRENTH Date: 12-20-94 22:35 Could anyone help me out with the following unidentified stations? 4890.0 - religious programme in English. Time given was GMT +10. heard 19/12 and 20/12 around 1945Z 4923.3 (drifting 4923.5) - Latin American, in Spanish heard 18/12 and 19/12 around 2230Z 3276.0 - very weak, language unrecognizable 18/12, 19/12 20/12 around 2000Z - 2300Z. Also heard stations (weak) on 3275 and 3277, but find them less interesting than 3276 as I have nothing listed on3276. _________________________________________________________________ UNIDENTIFIED LATINS _________________________________________________________________ FROM: DON MOORE Date: 12-21-94 16:21 < 4664 kHz variable, drifting erratically. Lots of huaynos played and many time checks. ID is something like "Radio Federash," but the audio is so tinny I can't be too sure. I hear them every morning here after 1100 UTC or so. Per Henrik Klemetz in Bogota, this is a new Peruvian, Radio Soledad, in Porcoy, Pataz, Department. Soledad means lonliness, which is an odd name for a station, however, Porcoy was the adminstrative center for the old district of Soledad before it was merged into Pataz in 1916. This per Klemetz, too. Yes, 1916. Long memories, I guess! < 4299.96 kHz after 1100 UTC usually. I haven't heard rural music at all on this one, so my feeling is that it is Bolivian. Signal has been extremely weak over the past week. Radio Naylamp used to be here, but Klemetz reports that they are now on 4549, which was an UNid somebody (you, Nick?) reported here a week or so ago. Radio Moderna in Celendin has been off of here for a long time and are believed to have sold their transmitter to Radio Naylamp, explaining why Naylamp ended up here. < 6237.96 kHz after 1030 UTC. Signal here has been pretty weak, too. Lots of huaynos and time checks, usually. Only ID I have heard is "La Perla!" Many mentions of the coast and sierra. Estacion Yurimaguas in Yurimaguas, Loreto Department, just north of Tarapoto in San Martin Dept. I have this numerous times, sometimes with good signals. To tell you the truth, I've never heard an ID, but there are many mentions of Yurimaguas in the ads. _________________________________________________________________ LOGGINGS _________________________________________________________________ FROM: MICHIEL SCHAAY Date: 12-21-94 15:26 In a message of to All (), you wrote: JM> Hmm... Ecos del Atrato should be 5020,0 kHz while Radio Horizonte, Chachapoyas, Peru has been on 5019,9 kHz (according to my Icom R71E which has 0,1 kHz frequency accuracy). However, Horizonte usually has sign off at around 0030 UTC. Ecos del Atrato was logged with an identification on Dec. 2 around 03.30 at 5019.8 kHz. _________________________________________________________________ RE: 9200KHZ @ 2230-2300? _________________________________________________________________ FROM: BEN KREPP Date: 12-22-94 00:50 John O'Donnel writes: > I heard a station in Arabic, with music, today (12-19) from 2230-2300UTC fade out. Does anyone know what this might have been? Since your subject line says you heard the station on 9200 kHz, it *might* be Radio Omdurman from Sudan. I thought, however that they'd moved to 9170 kHz. _________________________________________________________________ A MESSAGE FROM ARNIE CORO _________________________________________________________________ FROM: GEORGE THURMAN DATE: Dec-26-94 0:23am From: acoro@tinored.cu (Arnaldo Coro,CO2KK Radioaficionado) Subject: HAPPY NEW YEAR 1995 AMIGO GEORGE !!! Date: Sat, 24 Dec 94 08:02:00 EST 0 Dear George: Wish you and yours a very nice 1995 !!! I hope that it will be a better year, that we may advance further into the liftning of the embargo, at least for medicines and foodstuffs! In our wonderful hobby I wish you lots of DX and success in every endeavor. Thanks for your nice reports and comments about my program. I wish it could reach more listeners every day, as Y believe that radio works for the promotion of understanding and frindship. Now some news for your FIDONET Radio Metropolitana Havana CMBL moved from 860 to 950 kilohertz. Now using a new Czech built 5 kilowatt into a nice 300 ft. tower. Should be a good catch for AM MW Dxers in the US and Canada. The station is located in Havana, the capital city and has a pararell FM outlet on 102.9 mHz Radio Ciudad de la Habana CMCH is still on 820 kHz running its 1977 vintage NEC 10 KW rig. They have a lot of music programming in the evenings.Also a pararell FM on 98.7 mHz Radio COCO ( still uses the CO, callsign, grandfathered because it was the first cuban station on short wave with 5 k w back in 1937 ) they are on 980 kHz with a 5 kW Czech by Tesla SRV-5 and 300 ft tower. They also have a pararell FM on 97.7 mHz. QSL requests written in Spanish are easier to answer for them. Hope this little info will help fellow AM and FM band Dxers. Remind them that the postal service is veryvery slow and sometimes correspondence is simply lost. _________________________________________________________________ BRIEFS OF NRC IDXD VOL. 62-14. _________________________________________________________________ FROM: JIM RENFREW Ray speaks: "Strange goings on recently on 1575 and 1566 kHz enlivened an otherwise poor fall TP season here in the tropics. I make no claims regarding these stations. I have had fairly good audio on both frequencies in the past from Australia/New Zealand stations. However, I do not believe these were down-under stations this time because (1) they did not "sound like" down-under carriers but were reminiscent of the Urumchi, China, station which I logged many times in 1525 and 1521 kHz in the 1970's as did many other DXers in the Northeast, (2) on at least two of the occasions almost none of the usual down-under stations were coming in, (3) there were no nulls which is characteristic of trans-polar signals arriving via multiple paths." Ray, you carefully make no claims, but I wonder - given your observations - if you received India 1566 or Thailand 1575 over the top? A VOA W-94 schedule released OCT 17 (via Jean Burnell) shows the following on VOA Thailand relay 1575: 1130-1200 Burmese 1000 kW, 145 azimuth, 1230-1300 Laotian 1000 kW, 145 azimuth. The Voice of Free Asia also uses 1575 Mon-Fri 1030-1130 Thai, SaSu 1030-1100 Thai and 1100-1130 Malay. India 1566 (1000 kW) is also on during the times you mentioned, according to the WRTH 94. It has been reported in Europe with Switzerland 1566 now off the air. Anyone with a sophisticated a computer program may be able to give some additional insights regarding exact gray-line location on those mornings when you listened. By the way, a variety of articles in Proceedings, DX Ontario and the NASWA Journal in recent years show a pattern of signal enhancement when reciever and/or transmitter are on the gray-line. At the risk of over-simplifying, the edge of the signal-reflective atmospheric layer may concentrate signals arriving from different angles for a limited period of time. When the signal path is entirely along the gray-line amazing things can occur, albeit briefly. John Bryant and David Clark may have a more scientific explanation, but I can only give the theological explanation for your report: wow! - Jim) STATION NEWS AUSTRALIA: 1PPP Canberra on 1620 was scheduled to move to 1125 kHz with a new 2 kW transmitter and a new callsign 1RPH on OCT 17, being the last of these stations to move in band. [Chris Rogers in New Zealand DX Times DEC 1994] MARSHALL ISLANDS: Here's the facts about the 1557 mystery previously mentioned in these pages - B7RR "Micronesia Heatwave" is 10 kW on 1557, with address of P.O. Box 1, Majuro 96960, Marshall Islands. Transmission schedule in local time is 8 AM to 8 PM Monday to Saturday, 8 AM - 3 PM Sundays. Station Manager is Mr. Arden Sorimle. [Chris Rogers in NZDXT DEC 1994] NEW ZEALAND: Radio Reading Service ZLXA Levin now using 4 transmitters 1930-0600 on 1602, 3935, 5960 and 7290 kHz. From 0600-0900 they are using 1602 and 3935. There is no broadcast on Saturday from 0900 to Sunday 0500. [A. Cushen in NZDXT NOV 1994] VANUATU: The two new MW transmitters, each of 2 KW, are expected on air by the end of 1994 - one will replace the existing Port Vila 1125 sender, the other will operate from Santo, on 1179 kHz. [Chris Rogers in NZDXT DEC 1994] UNIDS Charles Taylor, an NRC member and VOA employee at the Greenville relay site, called to comment on Terry Krueger's report of Radio Marti on 1020 kHz. He points out that many things that get on the air from a transmitter site would not necessarily be known by the people opening mail in Washington (or even higher-ups). (As an example, I once heard VOA's Botswana relay during an intial transmitter testing period, but the QSL office denied my initial request because it wasn't listed on their frequency use schedule.) Charles explained that Greenville is sometimes on the air for testing purposes using VOA programs without anyone's knowledge in Washington. He says they try to do it when it will not interfere with other broadcasters. In the case of the 1020 reception, for example, it may be that someone in the military was playing around with an airborn or mobile transmitter for later use in Haiti or for expanded broadcasts to Cuba, and they were using a R. Marti feed. Officials at Marti, VOA or the military might not know anything about this; you would have to somehow connect with the person who actually turned on the transmitter. Thanks for your thoughts, Charles. An interesting subject!