[HCDX] tfw 106 1/2
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[HCDX] tfw 106 1/2
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
THE FOUR WINDS ON LINE - Copyright Part 1
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Year 5 Number 106 - Rome, September 4, 2000
E-MAIL: gio.ser@xxxxxxxxxxx
---------------------------------------------------------------------
FOR ANY PROBLEM OF RECEPTION PLEASE,
DROP ME A LINE !
---------------------------------------------------------------------
The Four Winds on Line - Copyright - DX newsletter edited by
Giovanni Serra, Rome - Italy.
TFW on Line Policy
1) TFW on Line covers only the SW Broadcasting Specrum.
2) Subscription rate: as a non commercial newsletter,
there is no fee to subscribe TFW on Line.
3) TFW on Line is distributed to Individuals, DX Editors,
Clubs and Organizations, asking for the reciprocal exchange of
DX Bulletins and / or contributions.
4) Excerpts may be reprinted,translated, e-mailed and / or
transmitted with appropriate credit as well TFW as the last source,
unless Copyright indicated.
5) Not to be redistributed or reposted without permission.
6) Suggestions and ideas are welcome.
7) If you no longer wish to receive TFW on Line please,
drop me a line.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
loggings in order of TIME; frequencies in kHz; times UTC;
ham codes as usual; Reporting signal quality: Loc = local
signal; E = excellent; G = good; F = fair; P = poor;
VP = very poor; A = avoid. (also in SINPO or SIO code)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
FROM THE EDITOR- I am back again ! But just a little break for
radiolistening and my newsletter in reduced version (without gleanings)
for this summertime...BTW I am very busy for scanning beautiful pictures
of my town (I took about 300 pics last July) and content compilation for
my business web pages (not radio related), ready, may be, the next
autumn ...but really, my radio shack was very cold, so I just spent my
spare time for catching some stations during this very hot summertime.
And now the bad news: .....few weeks ago, my sister cut my 60 ft AD
Sloper antenna in the garden of our parent's villa in Anzio....and I was
very angry for one week too !!! Thanks to all DX-Friends for
continuing to email their contributions !! --- Gianni, Ed.
THANK YOU FOR ALL OUR CONTRIBUTORS
(Any change of Equipment, Web Pages?? Please, drop me a line)
BRUNO PECOLATTO, Pont Canavese (TO) Italy for Radiorama Pirate News,
via e - mail RX: Kenwood R5000, Lowe HF150 ANT.: Yaesu FRT7700, Daiwa
AF606K, longwire 15 mt < http://www.arpnet.it/~air/welcome.htm > <
http://www.radiorama.it >
DAVID J. VALKO, USA for DX News via e-mail RX: JRC NRD-535D -
Collins R-388 ANT.: 33 meter (NE-SW) Longwire "T"
DAVID ROSS, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada via e-mail, RX: Drake R8B, Icom
ic-r75 ANT.: a 50' inverted "L" antenna
GIOVANNI SERRA, Roma, Italy (ed.) RX: JRC NRD 525 ANT: Alpha
Delta DX SWL-S Sloper (40 feet) ; JPS NIR 10 filter and Oregon
Scientific clock, tuned with the standard frequency station DCF 77 in
Mainflingen, Germany on 77.5 kHz.
GLENN HAUSER (GH), Enid OK, USA for Dx Listening Digest via e-mail <
http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio> <http://www.dxing.com/dxr.htm>
JEFF WHITE, Miami, FL, USA, WRMI, General Manager, Miami, Florida via
e-mail
MARK J.FINE, Remington, VA, USA via e-mail
<mark.fine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> RX: JRC NRD-535D ANT.: 66' longwire that
slopes slightly southeast <http://www.fineware-swl.com>
PAUL ORMANDY, Oamaru, New Zealand via e-mail RX: Drake SPR-4
ANT: from home 2 x 25 metre dipoles in a V - from Waianakarua, 3 x 300m
Beverages aimed at the USA, 1 x 450 metre aimed at South America and 1 x
300m aimed at Hawaii/Alaska.
PEDRO F. ARRUNATEGUI, Lima, Peru for Chasqui DX via e-mail RX:
Icom IC-R 71 E ANT: 42 meters dipole
ZACHARIAS LIANGAS, Thessalloniki, Greece via e-mail RX: Lowe HF 150 -
Philips 2935 - Sony ICF 7600 D - :ICOM ICR75 - YupiMVT7100 ANT: antena
2x 6 m & 16 m / 1x1 m2 - accessories: MFJ 1040,MFJ1025,MFJ
752c,MFJ16010,MFJ462
< http://www.geocities.com/zliangas > SHORTED ! <
http://users.compulink.gr/zliangas >
MAILBOX
PAUL ORMANDY- Hi all, More articles posted to the PRHC pages recently
including stories on radio in: Cook Islands
Samoam, Norfolk Island, New Caledonia, New Zealand. Joining articles
from: Canton Is (WXLE) Radio Sunshine, Niue
Visit the URL below and follow the links...Contributions, e.g. photos,
images and anecdotes regarding any Pacific radio
station are most welcome. And plenty more to come...Cheers, Paul ----
Paul Ormandy, 33 Greta Street, Oamaru, New Zealand,
aul@xxxxxxxxxxx --- Join me for the "South Pacific DX Report" on Radio
New Zealand International, HCJB, AWR, and NZ's Radio Reading Service -
ZLXA. Full details available from the South Pacific DX Resource
web-site:
http://radiodx.com/spdxr Or you can listen to RNZI's "Mailbox" here:
http://www.audionet.co.nz/ranz.html
PAUL ORMANDY- Hi all, Am researching KYOI for an article and wonder if
someone can tell me the date they stopped broadcasting please? ---
Just loaded a new links page for Pacific broadcasters web-sites. Some
new-comers are added e.g. Radio Vanuatu and Solomon Islands Broadcasting
Corporation. Also, e-mail addresses for R Kiribati and R Nauru. You can
find it at: http://radiodx.com/spdxr/rhc_links.htm Regards, Paul
paul@xxxxxxxxxxx
JEFF WHITE- Amigos: With regard to the summary of the Sixth National
Meeting of Mexican Dxers that I recently sent you, thanks to Glenn
Hauser for pointing out that the frequency for Radio Mil should be
6010 -- not 6105, as I put in the report. (I got it confused with the
Grupo Rasa station in Merida on 6105 kHz, which is currently off the
air. The manager of the Yucatan Rasa group was at the meeting, and says
he plans to have that station back on 6105 kHz by January of next
year.) --- Jeff
SUMMARY OF THE SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF MEXICAN DXERS, by Jeff White,
Radio Miami International. The sixth annual Meeting (or "Encuentro,"
as they call it in Spanish) of Mexican DXers and Shortwave Listeners,
held August 4-6 in the southern city of Oaxaca, was almost a "sacred"
experience. It took place in the Santo Domingo Cultural Center, which is
part of the ex-Convent of Santo Domingo, located immediately adjacent to
the famous Santo Domingo Church, one of the most spectacular colonial
churches in Oaxaca and all of Mexico. The Cultural Center now houses a
modern art museum, and if you walked through the museum area, around an
inner courtyard, through another doorway and down a flight of stairs you
would come to the air-conditioned, almost cave-like meeting hall where
the shortwave event took place. It was really a miracle that this
meeting took place at all. At last year's Mexican National DX Meeting in
August of 1999, the member clubs voted to accept Gerardo Iraizos' bid to
hold the 2000 Meeting in Oaxaca. Tragically, less than two weeks after
the 1999 meeting ended, Gerardo Iraizos was killed in a traffic
accident. But the Iraizos family - some of whom are also shortwave
listeners -- soon announced that they were determined to organize the
Oaxaca DX meeting in 2000 as a memorial to Gerardo. Several family
members participated in the organization, including Gerardo's son
Amilcar in Oaxaca and his son Martin and daughter-in-law Thalia in
Mexico City. In the end, over 70 persons from throughout Mexico and as
far away as New York, Denmark and Ecuador attended the event. The Santo
Domingo Cultural Center is located in the downtown historical district
of Oaxaca, not far from the bustling "zocalo," or main plaza, which is
surrounded by the Cathedral, hotels, small stores and outdoor
restaurants. Especially at night, the zocalo comes alive with marimba
and mariachi music, religious celebrations and vendors selling a wide
variety of handicrafts from around Oaxaca, such as the famous black
ceramic pottery of the region. Most of the meeting participants made
their way to Oaxaca on Friday, arriving in time for the late-afternoon
opening sessions. Rafael Grajeda, of the Veracruz-based Society of
Radio-listening Engineers (SIR), gave a presentation about aeronautical
utility station DXing. This was followed by a philosophical lecture
about the meaning of radio by Cesar Fernandez, president of the SIR. At
night, the action shifted mostly to the zocalo, with some persons
attending an impressive show of folkloric music and dance from around
the state of Oaxaca at the Monte Alban Hotel. On Saturday morning, the
first speaker was Pepe Gonzalez, a well-known Dxer and singer of
children's songs, who unveiled his new book about the history of
shortwave radio in Mexico. An impressive guide full of history, data and
pictures, the book is the only one of its kind and has instantly become
an important historical archive. (More information on how to obtain the
book -- which costs about US$7 -- is available from Pepe Gonzalez by
e-mail at: iyoco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Other presentations on Saturday morning
were by the director of Radio EducaciÃn (about their experience with
separate programming on the AM and shortwave frequencies of the station)
and Radio Miami International (a video of our recent visit to
international broadcasters throughout Asia). Next was a walking tour to
the nearby Philatelic Museum of Oaxaca, the only one of its kind in
Mexico. The director, Alejandra Mora, gave DXers a personal tour of the
museum, pointing out that DXers use the international mail services so
much that they often become stamp collectors as well. After a break for
lunch, Roger Chambers -- a U.S. DXer from New York -- spoke about the DX
Edge and tropical band DXing. Then Allen Graham, host of the popular DX
Partyline program on HCJB Radio in Quito, Ecuador, talked about
developments at his station. The final presentation of the day was in
English (with simultaneous translation into Spanish) by Anker Petersen
of the Danish Shortwave Club International, who told the Mexican Dxers
about the Danish club's experiences with the Internet and its influence
on shortwave clubs. His message was clear: In Europe, DXers have more
and more access to the Internet and they are spending more and more time
on it. A wealth of timely DX information is available for free on
Internet sites maintained by clubs and stations, and DX clubs have found
it necessary to produce electronic DX bulletins in addition to their
printed publications. This seems to be the wave of the near future in
Europe, but it may be quite some time before regular Internet access by
most Mexican DXers becomes commonplace. Several broadcasters donated
souvenir items to a raffle which was held. The local Radio Shack store,
which had an exhibit booth at the Encuentro, donated a shortwave
receiver to the raffle as the grand prize. The winner was Porfirio
Mendez, head of "DX-Istmo," a club based in the Istmo region of southern
Oaxaca state. And DX-Istmo became the newest member (#5) of the Mexican
DX clubs which organize these annual Encuentros. The day ended with a
"DX Night" where participants brought their shortwave receivers and
pulled in some exotic stations from Africa among other places. After a
late night of DXing, the meeting participants continued Sunday morning
with a talk by Julian Santiago of Mexico City about a new
Spanish-language DX program he is hosting on the shortwave frequency of
Radio Mil (6105 kHz) and about some audience research he has been doing.
More meaty issues were tackled in a presentation about the challenge of
getting more women interested in shortwave listening, and
representatives of Radio Mexico International talked about the future of
shortwave broadcasting and their campaign to promote awareness of
shortwave radio among the general public in Mexico. Dramatically, just
as the meeting was coming to an end, an e-mail message was received from
Jose Ruben Rivera in Guanajuato (some 360 kilometers northwest of Mexico
City) accepting the organization of the Seventh Meeting of Mexican DXers
and Shortwave Listeners, to be held in his city in August of 2001.
Guanajuato, he explained, is another colonial town rich with cultural
treasures, museums, churches and much more items of interest to the
tourist. After the official closing of the Meeting, a majority of the
attendees stayed on to take a four-hour bus tour to the ancient Zapotec
ruins of Monte Alban on the outskirts of Oaxaca. One could marvel at the
pyramids, tombs and ball courts composing this city which flourished
from around 700 BC to 700 AD. And it was certainly enjoyable to tour
this piece of history together with radio colleagues from throughout
Mexico and beyond. In fact, it is the human contact which is generally
the most enjoyable aspect of these Mexican national DX meetings. Beyond
the seminars and lectures, the personal contact creates friendships that
last for many years. Most of those who attend the Mexican DX meetings
have very limited financial resources. Some spend several weeks' worth
of salary to travel to the event, showing their great dedication to the
hobby. Until now, there has never been a registration fee for the
Encuentros; everyone just pays their own transportation, lodging and
meals. Local governments have provided the meeting places free of charge
or at very low cost, and the organizers have paid most of the expenses
out of their own pockets. That will change next year, as the clubs voted
to institute a 50-peso-per-person registration fee. (That's about 5 U.S.
dollars.) More details should be available about the Encuentro 2001 in
Guanajuato during the next few months. Those who would like to receive
complete details when they become available can send an e-mail to:
info@xxxxxxxxx As for this year's Encuentro, Radio Netherlands'
Spanish-language DX program "Radio Enlace" plans to broadcast a complete
report on its September 1 edition (repeated September 3).
ZACHARIAS LIANGAS - My web page has been retructured a bit ( still
requiring construction and corections) In the web adress
www.geocities.com/zliangas/index.htm (l) the index.htm is now with
frames and consists: -two updates on R75 (RT75.htm) shown with blue
colours with more infos on modes experiments with NB under AM filters
and DSB operation
receiver's harmonics and carriers found on R75 and comparisons with
150 -modified personal web page with bullets (RADIO.HTM and soem
addons ) -new web page with other personal interests (INTERESTS
HTM) -list of freqs found on Pelio (PELIO.HTM) duiring my fecent ( JUne)
trip to there - List of shacks ( each shack has a separate web page
SHACK?.HTM) -upadated logs.htm with all the logs from JUne and later
as posted per my mailing list a 160 kB file )
DAVID J. VALKO - Recently bought and have been experimenting with a
Sony portable MZ-R70 MD player/recorder. Amazingly small. I thought it
would be just the ticket for DXpeditions, but there are a few things I'm
not very pleased with. First of all, its rather noisey. "Chugs" about
once every minute which is annoying when you're trying to concentrate on
DX. It has the option of recording in either stereo or mono, but
defaults back to stereo every time its turned off. Recording in mono
gives you 148 minutes on a 74 minute MD which is a plus. I like the idea
of labeling the tracks, but its time consuming. Time wasted when you
could be listening. Its understandable though...they certainly couldn't
put a complete keyboard on it!! I suspect that with all the button
pushing, they could wear out in short time. The unit isn't much bigger
than a regular minidisc itself and looks kind of fragile. Granted, I'm
just looking at the disadvantages, but they are important to consider if
its going to be used while DXing. I'm hoping to use it on some
micro-DXpeditions this DX season. 73's Dave
SW LOGGINGS
0000- 5026 - UGANDA- R.Uganda, // 4976, Noticed their carriers have been
staying on at least to 0000 the last couple nights. Couldn't detect any
audio. (Valko, USA 7 August)
0000- 3270- NAMIBIA- NBC, 0000, 4+1 time ticks, ID by man as "This is ??
International ?? Namibia Broadcasting Corporation...". Then into R.
Australia news by man!!! Fair strength but very high thunderstorm QRN
levels. (Valko, USA 7 August)
0014- 4840- INDIA- AIR Mumbai, *0014-0021, AIR IS, stepped out for a
minute and returned to hear usual sign on Indian vocal tune, man with ID
and announcement, into local haunting Hindi music, and then weak live
talk by man. Fairly decent signal for this. Clear too. Also heard 4800,
3315, 3345, and of course 5010. (Valko, USA 5 August)
0016- 6535.7- PERU- R. Difusora Huancabamba, Huancabamba, Piura; 8/08
0016-0043 33333 advs ID "mx y dicen: Radio Difusora Huancabamba, la
emisora del PerÃ.. en Radio Difusora Huancabamba" px Comunicados mx
pasillos advs Transporte Palacios ID "TambiÃn nos estÃn escuchando en
los 102.4 FM de Radio Difusora Huancabamba". (Arrunategui, Peru,/
Chasqui DX)
0020- 5699.9- PERU- R. Frecuencia San Ignacio, Cajamarca; 10/08
0020-0100 22222 mx ID "Por Radio Frecuencia San Ignacio " px Comunicados
ID "Mantenerse en la sintonÃa de Radio Frecuencia San Ignacio" mx
pasillos ID Radio Frecuencia San Ignacio trasmitiendo en los 5700KHz
para todo el territorio nacional..." (Arrunategui, Peru,/ Chasqui DX)
0028- 4855.6- PERU- R. La Hora, Cusco; 0028-0100 33333 px Noche
bailables en Radio La Hora de los 1400KHz. de amplitud modulada mx ID
"Somos Radio la Hora" mx ID Radio La Hora en los 1400KHz" (Arrunategui,
Peru,/ Chasqui DX)
0032- 3494.57- BOLIVIA- R. Padilla (pres.), 0032-0106, Nonstop LA Pops
and ballads. Still going at 0106, but much weaker. Could've IDed it at
tune in but not one announcement heard. Slowly drifted up to 3494.68,
and wobbly. (Valko, USA 6 August)
0036- 6797.6- PERU- R. Ondas del RÃo Mayo, 17/08 0036-0118 33333 ID
"Amigos de la sintonÃa de Radio Ondas del RÃo Mayo en este distrito de
Nuevo Cajamarca" mx huayno ID "Que ustedes escuchan Ondas del RÃo
Mayo.." (Arrunategui, Peru,/ Chasqui DX)
0038- 4789.9- PERU- R. AtlÃntida, Iquitos; 247/08 0038-0105 444444 px
Informativo Reportaje 2000 nx ID "A travÃs de Radio AtlÃntida.." nx ID
"A travÃs de las poderosas ondas de Radio AtlÃntida..." (Arrunategui,
Peru,/ Chasqui DX)
0045- 4885.0- BRAZIL- R. Difusora Acreana, Rio Branco,8/08 0045-0120
44444 advs ID Acreana de Brasil 1460KHz y 4855KHz, Acreana esta en
primera posiciÃn..." (Arrunategui, Peru,/ Chasqui DX)
0055- 6479.7- PERU- R. Altura, Huarmaca, 0055-0130 33333 px Ramillete de
Canciones, saludos a HipÃlito Julca Canchan mx san juanitos ID. (QTB?
G. Maroti y D. Hodgson) (Arrunategui, Peru,/ Chasqui DX)
0100- 5637.21- PERU- R. Peru, 0100-0156, Lively OA campo music.
Announcements by familiar sounding man with many many mentions of Peru,
and Ancash, Pasco, internacional, Santa Rosa, and Cusco. TCs. Mention of
kilohertz at 0124. What sounded very much like an ID at 0133. Presumed
canned program feature at 0144 with many mentions of San Ignacio,
possibly called " ?? Informa Peru". Gave a phone number too. Went off
sometime around 0200 in mid-song. Fair. On later than usual or
reactivated?? (Valko, USA 6 August)
0121- 6520.4- PERU- R. Paucartambo, 17/08 0121-0209 33333 mxLA
romÃntica ID "Por Radio Paucartambo.." px de corazÃn a corazÃn.
(Arrunategui, Peru,/ Chasqui DX)
0140- 5404.30- UNID- Unid R. OA??, 0140-0209, Man announcer in between
what sounded like LA pops. Just too weak and varying too much. Plus some
local buzzing QRM. Still going at 0209. Who is this?? (Valko, USA 13
August)
0156- 6956.6- PERU- LV de Camposino (fqy var.), 0156-0206, Beautiful
harp music with lively man announcer giving ID amid announcement.
Fantastic S-9 clear signal. Comunicado at 0157, into nice easy set of
campo songs all done by the same vocalist/group. Haunting woman vocals!!
Played at least 4 songs in a row. Just a slight variance of the freq
between .58 and .60. (Valko, USA 13 August)
0210- 4995.6- PERU- R. Andina, Huancayo; 8/08 0210-0250 33333 px
Mensaje de vida mxf ID "Amigos del cuadrante que nos escuchan a travÃs
de Radio Andina desde esta ciudad de Huancayo" mx ID "Nos pueden llamar
tambiÃn a travÃs del telÃfono de Radio Andina" (Arrunategui, Peru,/
Chasqui DX)
0217- 5460.71- PERU- R. Bolivar (pres.), 0217-0241+, Hearing this
throughout the evening. Long speech by man when first tuned in. Nice OA
harp music at retune, then more speech by man. Possible mention of Cusco
and several possible mentions of "telefono". Occasional canned echo talk
by man during speech. Finally what was obviously, and sounded like a
canned ID by man starting with high pitched flute, mention of onda corta
following the possible ID. Studio man announcer briefly, then back to
romantic music. Possibly "El Condor Pasa" at 0241, but too weak to be
certain. Signed on the next morning at 1017. (Valko, USA 13 August)
0221- 6995- CLANDESTINE, V.O. the People of Kurdistan (DSB), 0221, End
of man in echo w/forceful talk giving IDs, music bridge, ID by man
followed by announce- ment with mention of Web site, then Koran.
Amazingly very strong S-9 signal in DSB, no carrier. Best ever hrd.
(Valko, USA 12 August)
0638- 5805- PIRATE EUROPE- R.Free London, August 13th, Mx pop,ID in EG
23232 23232 (Pecolatto, Pirate News, Italy)
0705- 6239- PIRATE EUROPE- Unid R.- August 20,Mx,px in E 22222
(Pecolatto, Pirate News, Italy)
0710- 5805- PIRATE EUROPE- R.Free London, August 20,Mx
rock(P.Gabriel),ID in E 33333 (Pecolatto, Pirate News, Italy)
0716- 6280- PIRATE EUROPE- R.Nova Int.- August 20,Mx pop,ID in E 33333
(Pecolatto, Pirate News, Italy)
0721- 6910- PIRATE EUROPE- Blue Star R.- August 20,Non stop mx,ID in G
23332 (Pecolatto, Pirate News, Italy)
0738-6295- PIRATE EUROPE- R.Marabunta via DRS, August 13th, -Latin
mx,ID,QTH in SP,EG 23232 23232 (Pecolatto, Pirate News, Italy)
0743- 6297- PIRATE EUROPE- R. AL Int.- August 20,Mx,ID in E 33333
(Pecolatto, Pirate News, Italy)
end of part 1
_______________________________________________
Hard-Core-DX mailing list
Hard-Core-DX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www2.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/
_______________________________________________
Copyright (c) 2000 Hard-Core-DX.com
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Text. A copy of the license is available in http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.txt.