[HCDX] AM DX NewsFlash - 3/21/01
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[HCDX] AM DX NewsFlash - 3/21/01
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WELCOME TO THE AM-DX NEWSFLASH - March 21 2001
Vol 6 No 51
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A day early since I'm on travel tomorrow... pb
Deadline for next issue - Thursday, March 29 2001 @ 1400 UTC
Send all contributions to me @ phil@xxxxxxxxxxx
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CPC Chairperson (IRCA) - Lynn Hollerman - lynnhollerman@xxxxxxxxxxx
3/25/01 Sun - 0000-0400 - WMIB - 1660 - Marco Island FL (NRC)
Sunday, March 25, 2001 - WMIB-1660, Marco Island, FL will conduct a DX
test from 12:00-4:00 am EST. The test will consist of rock 'n' roll,
old jingles, and "general silliness". The Ops Manager at WMIB says that
while he doesn't have the ability to do code IDs, he will try to run a 1
kHz tone at the top of each hour.
Reception reports (with return postage) may be sent to:
Phil Beckman
Ops Manager
WMIB-AM
601 Elkam Cir #5
Marco Island, FL 34145
Mail: philbeckman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(Arranged by Phil Beckman for the NRC.)
PLEASE NOTE: Even if you don't hear a test, be sure and drop a card,
letter, or e-mail to the station personnel, thanking them for going to
the trouble to run a test!
Also, if you hear a test, PLEASE, PLEASE let me know, via either e-mail
or in rec.radio.shortwave! And if you send a reception report to a
station, please remember to include return postage with your report...
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HOT ITEMS
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The IRCA/DecalcoMania convention will be held on August 24-26 2001 at the
Best Western Airport Inn, 10232 Natural Bridge Rd, St Louis MO 63134.
DecalcoMania member Mike Sanburn (PO Box 1256, Bellflower CA) is your
host (mikesanburn@xxxxxxxxxxx). For reservations 1-800-872-0070 or (314)
427-5955. Rates are $73/night (up to 4 people/room). Registration is
$35/person. Contact Mike for more information.
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The WTFDA Convention will be held on July 27-29 2001 at the Super 8
Lodge, 2773 Elder St, Boise ID 83705. Host is Frank Aden (4096 Marcia Pl,
Boise ID 82704 - N7SOK@xxxxxxx). For reservations (208) 344-8871
(mention Frank Aden). Rates are $62.10 (for a double). Registration is
$20.
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PREPARED ON 3/20/01 1100, Lee Freshwater
FREQ. CALL SIGN OLD INFO NEW INFO
540 WYLO JACKSON, WI WZER WYLO // WYLL 1160
850 WSPO JOHNSTOWN, PA WODZ - SPTS SPORTS - FOX
920 KLOC CERES, CA SILENT JAZZ // KRVR FM
WGHQ KINGSTON, NY TALK STNDS - JONES
930 WDLX WASHINGTON, NC MAY BE OPERATING WITH LOWER POWER
ie: 500 WATTS DUE TO TOWER DAMAGE. NOW
SIGNING OF AT 0000
960 WTGM SALISBURY, MD GOSPEL
CFFX TIMMONS, ON OLDIES TALK/OLDIES
990 WVSC SOMERSETT, PA SPORTS - FOX OLDIES
1020 WRHB KENDALL, FL NEW ETHNIC
1150 KBIS HIGHLAND PARK, TX KDMM - ETHNIC BUSINESS
1290 WCAS SALINE, MI WYBN - BUSINESS ADLT STNDS
1300 KROP BRAWLEY, CA KKSC - SPORTS ABC REAL COUNTRY
1340 KRNX VICTORIA, TX KAMG - NEWS/TALK C&W - ABC REAL C&W
1400 WEEP VIRGINIA, MN WHLB- STNDS RELIGION
1450 KIOV PAYETTE, ID NEWS-TALK TO BE SPORTS 4/01
1460 WZNZ JACKSONVILLE, FL CONT. CHRIST BUSINESS
1570 WWCK FLINT, MI CHR // WWCK FM BLK GSPL - ABC
KVTK VERMILLION, SD OLDIES SPORTS - ESPN
ACTIVITY
620 WTGH CAYCE, SC CHANGES XMTR SITE TO 33-57-34
81-02-28
690 KGGF COFFEYVILLE, KS REDESCRIBES XMTR SITE AS 37-08-42
95-28-42
980 WPRE PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, WI DECREASES TO 30 WATTS NIGHTS
1050 KEYF DISHMAN, WA DECREASES TO 260 WATTS NIGHTS
CHANGES XMTR SITE TO 47-36-27
117-21-40
1190 KVCU BOULDER, CO INCREASES TO 6800 WATTS DAYS
1340 KXEO MEXICO, MO DECREASES TO 960 WATTS DAY & NIGHT
REDESCRIBES XMTR SITE AS 39-09-59
91-51-43
1700 KTBK SHERMAN, TX DECREASES TO 700 WATTS NIGHTS
NEW CONSTRUCTIONS PERMITS
NS TRURO 600 CKCL TO 99.5
ON TIMMINS 750 CKGB TO 99.3
NB WOODSTOCK 920 CJCJ TO 104.1
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**David Braun - Wyoming DE - dcbraun@xxxxxxxxxxx
Apparently a format change for WTGM-960-MD, now Gospel.
960 WTGM MD Salisbury - 3/14 1201 - Noted with new Gospel format, ID
as "Rejoice 960, WTGM Salisbury". (DB-DE)
Kenwood R-5000, Quantum Loop
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Bill Smith - W5USM@xxxxxxx
I am trying to locate a MW and SW DXer named Jim Conrad who lived at
Waterloo, Iowa in 1980. Any help would be appreciated via DX NewsFlash
or otherwise.
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**John Sampson - jsampson@xxxxxxxxx
Per article in today's Arizona Republic, local KSLX (1440) will be
changing call KAZG on April 1. Format will be oldies (call stands for
"Arizona Gold".
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INDIVIDUAL LOGGINGS
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Bogdan Chiochiu - Pierrefonds PQ - chiochiu@xxxxxxxxx
Equipment: AM/FM radio with tape recorder and CD player and a relativly
long ferrite bar antenna compared to the other doemstic radios wich make
good Pan-American reception !
530 South Caicos, Turks and Caicos. RVC Radio Visíon Cristiana
Internacíonal - religion px in SS, fair signal 750 Caracas,
Distrito Federal, Venezuela YVKS Radio Caracas Radio - talk about
the education and schools in Venezeula by a woman and
occasionnaly by a man. At a few moments, the talk-shows about
Venezuelan education and schools was interrupted by some RCR
jingles and spots. Fair-to-good with no sign of WSB at all this
wensday evening 760 Barranquilla, Colombia HJAJ Radio Cadena
Nacíonal - with "La Copa de Todorte" futboll (soccer) match and a
mention of Gran Colombia. Poor, but readable due to the lack of
QRM.
890 Chambas, Cuba. CMDZ Radio Progreso - cuban mx. Barely audible with
some WCBS-880 splatter.
I have heard my first trans-atlantic het. It was on Sunday, March 10
2001. I have`n`t mentioned it in my last Latin American DX repport, as
it don`t comes form Latin America, but from somewere in Europe. Details
follow:
1215 It was only slops from domestics in the beginning. I have press
tape/rec. and my radio, suprinsgly have transformed the AM signal
into a SSB carrier. This have happened several times, it is what
I mistaked from tape noises on unwanted freq. I could hear the
SSB carrier, only when my radio has the tape recorder play/rec.
If I don`t have the tape running, it is only heavy spletter from
the 1210 and 1220 domestics. It have heavy flutter with relativly
few slops from 1210 and 1220 with no audio, except from 1 second
or 2 wich I believed to be a folk-pop song, but it refaced
surface so short, that it was way too difficult to understand
exactly what it was. Perphaps this het comes from Spain (Cadena
COPE) or from the UK (Virgin Radio), but no audio was heard
except from 1 second surfacing with what I believed to be folk-
pop. It`s my first TA het. I used only my AM/FM radio with tape
recorder, CD player and it`s own internal ferrite bar antenna. I
have`n`t used a communication receiver like Icom or Drake for
exemple as I don`t have one and no aerial. Perphaps using better
equipment, I would have some audio on 1215 enough to ID them.
Does anyone in the Montreal Island (Pierrefonds is on Montreal
Island) have monitored this freq. the last sunday and can tell
for sure what trans-atlantic he or she was heard ? It is the
first TA signal that I caught in only 5 months of DX-listening.
Also does someone can help me, in what trans-atlantics are easier
to hear in North America ? Any commentaries, suggestions and ides
about TA reception in the Montreal area are welcome.
Here is my last version of my MW logbook. I sent it to you, since it's
include some new logs from the past week and also because I like to know
what you think of it. I have heard all these stations using only a
simple AM/FM radio with tape recorder and CD player and it's own
internal ferrite bar. Also, does anyone know about a Boston station with
the slogan "Radio Cadena 13-30". I heard them almost nightly, but I've
never have been able to identify their call-letters and the exact QTH.
It's on my logbook.
Overall, conditions to Latin America this week in Montreal were well
below-average. This evening, I haven't yet DX, I will try now to see, if
something interesting may pop up. I also add comments to some older
catches in my logbook and I plan to make a version of my logbook in a
couple of weeks which will include transcribed IDs of some Latin
Americans and domestics. Not all, as many of them are presumed or
tentative catches, or if I hear the station's name, it's only as a
mention, not a canned ID or a more professional ID, etc...
This summer, I will travel for a week or so in my native country, in
Romania. I plan to DX the longwave band (150 - 280 kHz) which there is
use by high-power domestic broadcasters (here in North America is just
utility and aeronautical beacons here). My AM/FM portable with CD layer
and tape recorders is quite sized, even if it's just a portable and my
other radios hardly receive the clear-channel 50 kW stations on AM and
at home in Romania, most radios don't have good MW reception, but on
longwave they are great. Back circa 1996/97, before immigrating to
Canada, I have heard some russians, bulagarians, arabic and french-
speaking stations here, but the reception was poor and at that time I
haven't be interested in DXing, so I have not listened them longer to
get an ID. But now, I will do some nice LW-DX. Even during the day-time,
as longwave frequencies are so low, groundwave conduction is so good
that reception of stations like France-162, Bulagria-261, Poland-225 and
Russia-171/261 should be easy day-time groundwave catches. In fact as
frequencies get longer, groundwave range is longer and skywave is
shorter. In fact, I plan that most longwave DX sessions will take during
the day-time, as night is very short during the summer, here in Northern
Hemisphere and also because, if I remember well, I have heard some
french/arabic stations during the day-light hours a few years ago, but I
haven't ID them, due to my lack of interest in DXing at that moment, but
now... Around the middle of August, when I will get back from Romania, I
will post my longwave DX reception in Hard-Core-DX and AM-DX News Flash.
Also, if some of you do longwave band DX-ing please let me know. For
equipment, at my grand-parents houses, there is a radio with valves
which no surprisingly received longwave and shortwave very well, but on
medium-wave and FM, it can do better ! I remember hearing with it some
nice LW during day-time by ground-wave as well as some euro-pirates
around 48 meters, but I haven't been interested in DX at that time.
(again, I have a copy of the log if anyone is interested - pb)
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*kevin redding - Mesa AZ - amfmtvdx@xxxxxxxxx
Rick Lewis, moderator of the AMFMTVDX list and I went out in the Tonto
National Forest about 10 miles east of town and did a little DXing where
there is NO electrical noise. This was Rick's first time out there and
he seemed to enjoy it a great deal as did I.
Yes, believe it or not, life can actually be good at times and you get
to enjoy your 15 minutes in the sun. I got 8 new stations and that
surprised me.
Heard on a Radio Shack DX-398 and a Radio Shack 15-1833 loop:
860 KTRB CA, Modesto 3/15 1840 with a traffic report for the Modesto
area. The traffic reporter was female. [new] (KR-AZ)
920 KBAD NV, Las Vegas 3/15 2047 with basketball and an ad saying that
Oldsmobile was the official car of the NCAA basketball
tournament. [new] (KR-AZ)
940 KICE OR, Bend (t) 3/15 2104 with ESPN sports talk. [ t- new]
1010 CBR AB, Calgary 2115 with a CBC news story about a trial in
progress. [new] (KR-AZ)
1090 KMXA CO, Aurora 3/15 2101 has a Radio Tricolor slogan with SS ad
for Century Chevrolet. [new] (KR-AZ)
1190 KEX OR, Portland 3/15 2110 with call in phone show and gave the
local number and was giving prices of phone calls. [new] (KR-AZ)
1470 KEAN TX, Abilene 3/15 2123 // to KEAN 105.3 [?] and playing C&W.
1570 KPRO CA , Providence 3/15 2225 with religion program. Black
preacher giving it all and going to town on things.
Most of these are hidden under locals and we went just far enough out of
town to get away from the noise, splatter and max powers being run all
the time.
Heard on a Radio Shack DX398 and Radio Shack 15-1853 loop:
800 KLDC CO, Brighton 3/17 0745 Playing some very high energy gospel
music by a black choir and band. Broke at 0800 for ToH ID was
over KHIS and XEROK both. (KR-AZ)
800 KHIS CA, Bakersfield 3/17 0800 Way under KLDC and XEROK with ToH
ID and network news but can't tell which network under all the
hash from the other two stations. (KR_AZ)
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***BERGLUND JOHAN - Trollhättan SWEDEN - johandx@xxxxxxxxx
1680 14-Mar 0445 WTTM, Princeton, NJ. QSA 3, but SSB QRM from
Russians. What is ESPN acronym for ? I can only guess.
"Exclusively Sports Network ??"
1485 SPAIN 20-Mar 0715 Radio Santander, Cadena SER, local program at
this time. This is the Spanish station domination the QRG here.
QSA 3 in this sallad of signals. JB
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**Frederick R. Vobbe - Lima OH - fredv@xxxxxxxxxxx
06:05ELT - 3/16 Noted the usual 640 Cuban, however there was another
Cuban station on 660 that made no trace of WFAN. This was
unusually strong, but the other Cubans in the 550-590 and 710
were not noted.
06:08ELT - I wish I would have caught the top of the hour on 540.
Usually I get CBEF-Windsor here, but unless they have changed to
English, someone else was on this channel. It was strong, and
there was not a trace of Canadian accent, so I don't think CBEF
is even a possibility. They ran news, female newscaster, until I
had to bail at 06:11.
FYI, WLIO(TV) had problems with ice this morning. The weather changed
from drizzle to snow and ice by 07:00, and we had to reduce power to
30%. Normally the deicers take care of it, but this was such a quick
freeze that there was buildup before the antenna deicers could come on.
Look for possible AM stations with wacky arrays this evening if this
storm continues up to New England.
1580 3/19/01 @ 06:40. Black Gosple station rocking away this morning.
In the 15 minutes it took to go from home to McDonalds and then to work,
never heard an ID. Just music segues. Believe it to be WPGC
Morningside MD.
**Saul Chernos - schernos@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sounds like WPGC. It's usually strong at that hour here.
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*Richard Toebe - Davis CA - richtoebe@xxxxxxx
Delco radio in '97 Pontiac
1340 KEWE CA Oroville 3/16 1458-1502 now noted with "La Zeta"
Spanish programming, ex-NOS; ID on hour for "KHHZ (FM 97.7) and
KEWE, Chico-Oroville" in English. (RT-CA)
1580 TIS? CA Benicia? 3/16 1600+ While driving 680 between
Fairfield and Walnut Creek this afternoon, caught the strangest
signal; a continuous tape loop of what you'd hear if you are
being kept on hold for a customer service line! "Thank you for
your patience--you will be assisted momentarily, please stay on
the line." Messages by both a male and a female, with music
playing in the background. Loop lasts about 2 and a half
minutes, then repeats. No IDs given. Signal strongest as I was
crossing the Benicia Bridge, in Concord it was much weaker, and
was inaudible in Fairfield. (RT-CA)
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*Albert Lehr - Livermore CA - ALehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
1620 KSMH Sacramento, CA off the air 1746 EST 03/17, leaving WGJ634,
Milpitas in the clear.
1660 KAXW Merced, CA on with strong open carrier 1728. ID at about
1759:30 as "KAXW 1660 AM, Merced", then back to OC.
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**Bruce Conti - Nashua NH - BACONTI@xxxxxxx
Pan American DX
1080 CUBA R.Cadena Habana, Guines MAR 18 0635 - Good; woman with
Cadena Habana mention, romantic nostalgia, over WVCG with WTIC
off. [Conti-NH]
1080 VENEZUELA R.Barcelona, Barcelona MAR 18 0723 - Poor; ID and salsa
music heard through WVCG and Cuba with WTIC off. [Conti-NH]
Transatlantic DX
1062 DENMARK Danmarks Radio, Kalundborg MAR 18 0545 - Good; urban
contemporary music including Christina Aguilera "What a Girl
Wants," het wiping out KYW 1060. [Conti-NH]
1089 ENGLAND Talk Sport synchros MAR 18 0505 - Fair; headlines and
scores, "1089 and 1053, this is Talk Sport" and talk at phone
number 700-40-50-60, interference from WBAL 1090. [Conti-NH]
R8B, MWDX-5, 30-m wire, 30-m east sloping wire, noise reduced via 4:1 RF
matching xfmrs and buried coax.
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**David Braun - Wyoming DE - dcbraun@xxxxxxxxxxx
While tuning around waiting for the 1080 stuff, noted WRVA on OC only
(although the ABC news came on at 0100, then back to OC). Was hearing
some weak music looping NW (and, yes, the "motorboating sound"), and
then at 0119 finally "Southern Alberta's family radio station", what
sounded like a promo/psa, and a mention of the station phone number as
"652-...", then another slogan as before "Southern Alberta's family
radio station". My first AB station logged from anywhere!!
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****Mike Brooker - Toronto ON - aum108@xxxxxxxxxxx
Receivers: Panasonics RF-2200, RFB-45
850 WEEI MA Boston - 03/16, 1849 - presumed with sports talk and promo
for Jim Rome on "Sports Radio 850" in fight with Cleveland and
Johnstown, PA pests. (MKB-ON)
1080 KRLD TX Dallas - 03/18, 0205 - fair and reasonably steady during
WTIC silent period with end of CBS news, "KRLD Metroplex traffic
and weather together", promo for krld.com web site. K.O.ed when
WTIC returned at 0230. (MKB-ON)
1080 unid _________ 03/18, 0145 - poor-nil with both WTIC and KRLD
off, SS talk, Latino ballads or soft C&W ("ranchera"?) music.
1260 WWJQ MI Zeeland - 03/16, 0800 - top of hour ID: "Western
Michigan's alternative talk radio, 1260 WWJQ AM, Zeeland-Grand
Rapids", into SRN news. (MKB-ON)
1410 WELM NY Elmira - 03/16, 1800 - over CKSL with talk on NCAA
tourney, into top of hour ID: "Imus in the morning, One on One
Sports all day, WELM Elmira-Corning". (MKB-ON)
1420 WACK NY Newark - 03/16, 1811 - over CHKT slop with ad for City
Mattress in Canandaigua, "Stormwatch" detailed local weather for
Finger Lakes, public service reminder about new student
registration at Finger Lakes Catholic schools. (MKB-ON)
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*Pat Martin - Seaside OR - mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx
810 WHB MO, Kansas City, once again QRMing KGO off Eastern Beverage
at 0050 EST 3/18 with Sports talk, local break "WHB" Ids in
promo. This is getting common. (PM-OR)
990 KHBZ HAWAII, Hololulu, good on top of KTMS (KTMS phased), with
Hawaii Business, many KHBZ IDs and promos, even a promo for a
Sports show on KHBZ, at 0700 EST (1200 UTC) 3/20, ex KIKI.
1080 UNID Station running talk at 0125 EST 3/18, sounded like break
at 0127, followed by spots or other anmts, lost in KOTK music bed
at the half hour point, signal came back at 0131 EST with what
sounded like a newcast, but not net, local sounding, but pretty
much buried under KOTK. At one point around 0132 I think there
was some weather, sounded like the ancr mentioned "snow". But
again, pretty much buried by KOTK.After 0135 I didn't hear it
again. WTIC? No KRLD, as they were off. After 0205 EST, noted a
strong KRLD once again tearing up KOTK. (PM-OR)
1220 CHSC CANADA, Ont. St Catherines, fair on top of C&W station with
Brian Adams song at 0534 EST 3/18, followed by "12-20 CHSC" ID.
This is the most common station heard on 1220, since CJOC moved.
Drake R8, MFJ 1026 Phasing unit, EWE and K9AY Antennas
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**Rick Kenneally - Wilton, CT - woodlandview@xxxxxxxxx
610 CKTB ON Saint Catharine - 3/17 2000 - Ad for leasing Acura, ad
for another local dealership "Claire's?", then violent-voiced M
recorded promo "The Dominator Show - You've got the Sabre's on 6-
10 CKTB." Back for conclusion of game. (RWK-CT)
780 CFDR NS Dartmouth - 3/16 0000 - In WBBM null with C&W, "Your
Superstore for classic country" then top of hour ID. (RWK-CT)
920 WIRD NY Lake Placid - 3/11 2200 - Presumed with hardish rock -
Supertramp song, then man "You're listening to the best air in
the Adirondacks, WLPW 105.5 and WRGR 102.3" then into track with
Hendrix-like guitar. Thought the ID was live - sounded
unrehearsed. But the exact ID was used at the top of the next
two hours. Over WHJJ-RI. I don't have a recent NRC log, so my
data says 87 watts. Too dominant all night for that power.
920 WGHQ NY Kingston - 3/13 0700 - Muffled audio compared to WHJJ.
WGHQ ID by woman, then local nws and spots. Several mentions of
WGHQ by man during spots. (RWK-CT)
1080 WVCG FL Coral Gables - 3/18 0200 - Spanish religious talk, man
and woman non-stop from WTIC s/off until top of hour. Then
barely audible EE "WVCG Coral Gables, Florida." (RWK-CT)
1080 KRLD TX Dallas - 3/18 0205 - Faded in during network news, then
local spot of some kind w/"KRLD" making it above mush. Finally,
into Bruce Williams as it continued to fade up in strength.
1200 WTLA NY North Syracuse - 3/17 2100 - Instrumentals bordering on
muzak then "AM-1200, WTLA in North Syracuse and AM 14-40, WSGO
Oswego" then some sort of network news, but too buried by WLIB-
1190 slop to make it out. Mixing with someone with ESPN (RWK-CT)
1570 WNST MD Towson - 3/3 2300 - Way over WISP w/"Nasty Nationwide ...
only on Baltimore's 24-hour all-sports station - Nasty 15-70
Sports - WNST Towson/Baltimore." (RWK-CT)
Interesting conditions to Latin America. Alas, most of the Spanish
speakers left on the air later in the evening when I can DX are Cubans.
The entire lower end of the band was Spanish last night, but less heard
higher up. Someone reported WBZ getting knocked out, but here just
north of NYC WBZ was as strong as ever last night.
610 COLOMBIA R. Difusora Nacional Uribia? MAR 21 0400 - Huge signal -
no WIP detected. Top of the hour: "Ustedes escuchen Radio
Difusora Nacional de Colombia (then something like "ingracio" -
city name?). Later "La Voz de la Cultura". Is R. Dif. Nac. a
network, or do the stations ID independently? [Kenneally - CT]
620 CUBA R. Rebelde MAR 21 0415 - in and out of mush with sporting
event. Clearly //670. [Kenneally - CT]
670 CUBA R. Rebelde MAR 21 0415 - alternating with WWFE with no
Chicago presence at all, only WFAN-NY-660 slop. Sporting event
//620. [Kenneally - CT]
630 CUBA R. Progresso MAR 21 0425 - Deep in mush, but clearly
parallel its stronger sibling on 640 with man talking.
690 CUBA R. Progresso MAR 21 0500 - Good signal with very clear ID
at top of the hour. [Kenneally - CT]
830 CUBA R. Reloj MAR 21 0445 - Way down deep under an UnID domestic
instrumental. Typical Reloj pips with "RR" in code every couple
minutes. [Kenneally - CT]
1200 UNID MAR 20 2230 - Someone in the clear on an empty 1200 faded in
with man talking in what I think was Spanish, but with a soft,
almost French-like accent. Interesting in that it was very
early, before our local sunset. Tape is set for tonight so we'll
see. [Kenneally - CT]
1080 CUBA MAR 18 0645 - With WTIC & KRLD off, this was the dominant
station between 0635 and 0645 with nice, slow SS ballads. As
reported on list, "Amigos de la Madrugada" program ID between
songs. [Kenneally - CT]
Sony 2010, SM-2, new Quantum QX loop
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Larry Russell - Flushing MI - ak473@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
1030 KTWO Casper WY 0959-1006 3/16 slightly over and mixing with WBZ,
heard "Wyoming's Radio station KTWO ... Truckin Bozo show on KTWO
Casper" after news heard another good ID, and promo for return of
sports-talk. Conditions to west were good, but since I've never
had a trace of them before, I suspect they may have forgotten to
switch to night pattern. Heard on Kenwood R-11 portable with
built-antenna. (Russell)
Kenwood R-11
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Tim Hall - Chula Vista CA - halls@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
ICF-2010, KIWA Loop
DX and EQUIPMENT TESTS
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1080 (KRLD) TX Dallas 3/18 0112 Off the air, leaving KSCO, UNID XE
(presumably XEDY), and another talk station very weak. Nothing
new logged in their absence. Back on the air before too long.
REGULAR LOGGINGS:
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1230 KOTS NM Deming 3/18 0249 Noted C&W music on 1230, so I stuck
around and was eventually rewarded with two "AM 12-30 KOTS" IDs,
the second of which I caught on tape along with part of a local
weather forecast. Did not seem //FM as listed, and a check of
their web site (www.demingradio.com/index.asp) confirms this.
Network is Ap (was Ae). Schedule is now 24h NSP. New, NM #46.
GYDXA record? (TRH-CA)
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**Sheldon Harvey - ve2shw@xxxxxxxxx
Cuban dominating 1180 kHz. here in Montreal this evening (3/20) at
0320 UTC. Hardly a trace of WHAM Rochester.
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HELP WITH...
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**Robin G Plitt - plittr@xxxxxxxx
I have been using a Select-a-tenna for several years and am pretty
happy with the results.
I see now that CCrane Co. is selling a new super select-a-tenna that
has a regeneration circuit. Do any of yuu use this? What are your
thoughts?
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**John Sampson - jsampson@xxxxxxxxx
Has anyone on this list ever received an reply from KYET, Williams,
Arizona, on 1180? In fact, does anyone have a valid address for them?
Have submitted several reports to them while living here during the last
four plus years with no success. Most recent one (sent to the address
in the NRC AM Log) was returned a couple of days ago with a "moved, left
no address, unable to forward, return to sender".
**David Gleason - david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have 138 W. Rte. 66, Williams 86046. The FCC website has no address
at all.
**Pete Taylor - taytac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have a two line handwritten verie on stationery from Pete
Christensen, GM at 138 West Route 66, Williams 86046. This ia from a
year ago. One followup required.
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***Mike Brooker - Toronto ON - aum108@xxxxxxxxxxx
RE: UNID LAST ISSUE AS FOLLOWS: "Monitoring a possible French language
station on 1375 Khz 3/15@0230 Playng a variety of music, talk and news
at 0300. Quite strong signal and easily heard above the adjacent noise.
This doesn't fit any freq plan that I know of. Also getting het on 1377
as expected."
St. Pierre & Miquelon. (Two islands off the coast of Newfoundland,
that remained a French colony after the British victory on the Plains of
Abraham in 1759). QSLed in 1979, with an unmistakeble sign-off. Played
"La Marseillaise".
Gerd Opalka - gerdopalka@xxxxxxxxxx
The Station on 1375 khz is RFO-St.Pierre et Miquelon.
***Alpo Heinonen - alpo.dx@xxxxxxxxxx
RFO Saint-Pierre et Miquellon 1375 kHz...
***Al Merriman - merriman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
This is St Pierre. Been here for many years.
***gig.alassi@xxxxxxxxx
Your log was probably St.Perre & Miquelon, Jeff
***Graham Powell - graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
While on DX-Peditons to Sheigra in Northern Scotland I have heard RFO
St. Pierre et Miquelon, on 1375 kHz on many occassions. This has been
with programming in French.
***jas84756@xxxxxxxxxxx
I think it's RFO Saint Pierre et Miquelon, relaying France Inter
programmes.
***Mark Connelly - MarkWA1ION@xxxxxxxxxx
It's St. Pierre et Miquelon, off the south coast of Newfoundland,
Canada. This has been on this non-standard channel for many years. It
should be listed in any recent version of the World Radio-TV Handbook.
***Olivier Lomax - olom@xxxxxxxx
Possibly RFO St-Pierre & Miquelon.
Olivier Lomax
Paris - France
***Dario Monferini - playdx@xxxxxxxxxxx
Your log is surely St.Perre & Miquelon.
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*Nigel Pimblett - Medicine Hat AB - ntp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
While listening last night (3/16) I noted there was a 1080 khz station
off frequency, apparently to the SE. Several stations were audible,
including one in Spanish, so I wondered if it's the Cuban off channel.
Anyone else noted this?
Also, 820 CHAM was in nicely again last night. For whatever reason,
it's been very regular over the last month, something that hasn't been
the case for several years. Anyone out west looking for it, now's the
time!
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*Bob Pietsch - Foster City CA - marbob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Saturn Car Radio
1700 UNID While driving along US101 in Mountain View (3/16 @ 1330),
noticed continuous tape of what you'd hear while on hold waiting
for a customer service rep (like elevator music and reminder on
stay on the line for the next available person). I really thought
I was hearing things until I saw that Rich Toebe heard a similar
signal on 1580! The TIS for NASA at Moffet Field in Mountain View
on 1700 has been off for a while, so don't know if it's them
testing or somebody entirely different. I checked again (3/17 @
1430) while driving along the same route, but nothing heard.
Wierd! (BP-CA)
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*Pat Martin - Seaside OR - mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx
Has Radio Ponderoa, XERF become a relay for Radio Mexico
International? I heard their ID tonight and I didn't even catch a
location. They gave the call letters XERF, Radio Ponerosa, and then some
address that sound like District Federal.
I have not been able to QSL this, by sending my reports to Cd. Acuna.
Do they have a DF address?
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****Dave Kenny - dave_kenny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
The following UNID stations were heard on the latest DXpedition to
Sheigra which took place from 24 Feb-9 March - any suggestions would be
welcome:
600 Colombian with slogan:"Voz de Colombia" and "En Colombia Mundial"
0830 UTC on 7 March
1490 US station with continuous announcement saying "Home Town Radio
14-90 W??? - now in our 50th (or 60th?) year" 0915 UTC on 9 March
1540 station carrying United Nations Radio news in English at 2325 UTC
on 8 March (possibly CHIN Toronto or Radio Bahamas - anyone know
if either station carries UN Radio at that time?)
1550 LA mx with clear ID in Spanish "Radio Impacto". 0933 UTC on 8
March.
1570 US station with ident "from the home of (?Winola college) football
W???" 0920 UTC on 2 March
1570 Light orchestral music and Spanish IDs sounding like "Radio
Institucion" 0400 UTC on 27 Feb
We had some surprisingly good conditions for this late in the MW season
- the first week with strong North American signals, the second week
favouring the Caribbean, South America and southern US states. The full
logbook is still being compiled but hope to have it ready to circulate
soon.
***Glenn Hauser - wghauser@xxxxxxxxxxx
1570 ''Institucion'' could be XERF mentioning its parent organization
Instituto Mexicano de la Radio (IMER)
***Tuomas Talka - Tuomas.Talka@xxxxxx
1490 On February I heard on my expedition to Lemmenjoki, Finland, WMRN
from Marion OH announcing as "Hometown Radio 1490, WMRN". They have
news/talk format.
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*Richard Toebe - Davis CA - richtoebe@xxxxxxx
Anyone have an idea who the Mexican on 1070 might be that I heard?
While listening to KNX-1070 as the old radio show hour was ending at
11pm PLT 3/19, heard another signal fade up with Spanish talk, then into
Mexican National Anthem on the hour! At peak of fade up, was still
under KNX.
using Grundig 3400 Satellit with Radio West Loop
*Bob Carter - KC4QLP@xxxxxxx
Not knowing any Spanish or having listened to 1070 at night in a
while...it could possibly be WNCT out of Greenville NC.They run spanish
programming on that station. Just a wild guess and possibility.
*Tim Hall - halls@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
XEOBS is commonly heard throughout the southwest. They put a nightly
dent in KNX here in San Diego. 73, Tim
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Ginnie - Ithaca NY - ginnie@xxxxxxxxxxx
Just heard something id-ing itself as "radio disney", on 540 khz...
picked it up at 6:18 est, reception was lousy, signal was under a really
loud hum. programming went into music i couldn't identify. at 6:21 it
disappeared entirely. station must have gone to night-time power.
**Russ Edmunds - wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxxxx
Canonsburg, PA
**Lee Freshwater - LFreshwate@xxxxxxx
You heard WWCS from Canonsburg, PA. I believe its just outside of
Pittsburgh. They switched to Radio Disney a few weeks ago. Our web site
link page has a link to a good Disney list.
http://www.geocities.com/amlogbook/main.htm
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QSLs
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***Mickey Delmaga - Sherwood Park AB - cidxqsl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I just received a nice reply from XEAI-Radio Formula, Mexico City with
a pcc and personal letter from v/s Ing. Isaac Castillo L., Technical
Manager. This was for a taped report from 1998 when I heard them on
1500 kHz. XEAI is now on 1470 while 1500 in another Radio Formula
station XEDF. This reply came with the great assistance of Mexican DXer
Ernesto Hernandez who delivered my report in person for me after a
couple of f/ups to the station. I am very pleased with this reply and
Ernesto's help. Isn't this what the hobby is all about.
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Henrik Klemetz - dhv599n@xxxxxxxxx
QSL letter dated Feb 20 from "WGIT 1660 AM" received by Rolf
Fredriksson, Sweden, who says he heard the station on Feb 3, at 0415.
The letter was written in Spanish and signed by Olga Rosario de Matos,
Presidente. The address used by Rolf - and now confirmed by station - is
P O Box 7, Moca, PR 00676. Rolf says that address info was provided by
fellow countryman Kurt Norlin, who suggested the address for WZNA 1040,
whose owner Aurelio Matos is listed by the FCC as one of the WGIT
licensees.
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MISC ITEMS
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1080 KRLD/WTIC OFF THE AIR "TEST" (** - from NRC reflector)
**JohnCallarman - Krum TX - JohnCallarman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
KRLD off as advertised. Two Spanish-speakers all I can hear in first 10
minutes 43 miles north of KRLD transmitter site. Neither ID'ed yet.
0025 CST ... one latin did "Besame Mucho" and other slow-paced
standards, very short annct. between "Amigas de ...."; other Latin doing
more rapid paced songs ... maybe even a "son" and leaving a couple of
seconds of silence between songs. I did catch a wisp of an English-
speaking talk show giving phone numbers in 831 area code... one began
with 479, the other was 477-1340 ... surely Santa Cruz.
0050 cst ... big carrier popped on; nulls same as KRLD... reads 20 over
non-nulled as KRLD does.
KRLD audio began again at 0101 CST in middle of CBS News.... lady broke
into news to say "KRLD, Dallas-Fort Worth," and local news continued
0105.
Both my Latins remain unidentified, and the only other signal I was
able to raise was the California talker ... second time it broke through
heard only "475" in phone number, and that may have been a commercial...
the vocal inflections sounded like ads.
KRLD carrier blotted out everything except the Latin who seemed to say
nothing ... even at top of hour ... when break between songs was about a
minute ... music on this one was what I would expect from Cuba or
Colombia or Venezuela.
"Amigas de ..." played big band and ballad stuff in Spanish ... the
singers all seemed to be female vocalists ... thus the "Amigas de ... may
have been a program name. The other station, the one that seemed to say
nothing between songs, could still be discerned as KRLD signal could be
nulled from S9+20 to about S7. Other stations peaked at about S5 prior to
KRLD's carrier return.
It's now 0112, KRLD talk program continues, so I think I'll assume the
great silent period is over and go to bed.
**John Tudenham - Joplin MO - w0jrp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
1232am cst heard chief eng of WTIC announce that they would be leaving
the air. Mention NRC and KRLD, fair copy in splash of KAAY. WTIC was
heard with a super radio 2 and built in antenna. Had better copy than my
Radio shack DX400 with radio shack loop. Now hearing some weak spanish.
**Joe - Providence RI - k1cr@xxxxxxxx
0150 EST 1080. Hearing 2 stations. One with male and female speaking
Spanish and other station with slow tempo music. Some heavy splatter
from WBAL.
0225 EST. 1080. Still hearing just Spanish speaking stations, but did
hear an English speaking station fade up for a minute. Sounded like
Bruce Williams show. KRLD perhaps?
**Patrick Griffith - Westminter CO - AM-DXer@xxxxxxxxx
1080 KRLD TX Dallas - 2/18 0059 - KRLD night signal is local quality
here. After KRLD s/off for maintenance had UNID EE talk with 2 males.
Very weak signal but little fading. Seemed to loop north by slightly
northwest. Was still there after WTIC planned s/off so probably not them.
Heard mention of "environment" at 0123 and call sign beginning and ending
with "K" at 0135 (KOTK?). Splatter here from local SS KMXA/1090. Drake
R-8 and Kiwa loop
**Mike Brooker - Toronto ON - aum108@xxxxxxxxxxx
WTIC-1080 signed off as scheduled, at 0135, following local news.
0135-0200: more or less zilch heard, except some very weak SS,
"ranchera" (or whatever you call Latino C&W) mx, and a CHUM-1050 mixing
spur.
0205 EST: KRLD coming in fair-good with end of CBS news, local news
and wx, promos for krld.com web site. Not needed. QSLed in 1977
Pat Martin - Seaside OR - mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx
Before KRLD left the air, 1080 was a 50/50 mix of KOTK/KRLD. After that
I could hear some local weather at 0104, but not sure who it was. Then
KOTK took over channel, At 0134 EST, sounded like news popped up again.
It didn't sound network, but was hard to tell, QRM from KOTK and Unid
C&W. There was some "local" sound to the news, but I couldn't make out
anything certain. I may try a tentative taped report to WTIC. Maybe the
CE can make it out, if it was them. Then after 0135, the "news"
disappeared. Maybe it was WTIC that went off. I just wish KOTK would
have been off.
On a side note, WHB-810 must be running 50KW ND tonight, as they are
tearing up KGO.
**Tom Dimeo - Harrisburg PA - tjdx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Heard WTIC signoff at about 1:35 eastern time than heard two latins,
one talking and the other playing music. At about 2:01 eastern time
heard KRLD come on with CBS news and a quick ID of KRLD Dallas Fort Worth
shortly after. Following CBS news heard the Bruce Williams show -- he
was talking to a woman about making a will. At about 2:12 eastern time
KRLD went into the mix with the Latins, probably switched from day
pattern to night pattern.
**Rick Kenneally - Wilton CT - woodlandview@xxxxxxxxx
Had two SS stations. The "talker", I believe, turned out to be WVCG
Coral Gables on the top of the hour. The "singer" with the "Amigas ?"
program faded away completely. Anybody know what this was?
KRLD came in very weak here at the ID, but Bruce Williams was pretty
strong if I tilted the loop almost vertical. Alas, I didn't figure this
trick out until after the ID.
That's it - WVCG, KRLD and the "Amigas ?" Spanish.
**kevin redding - Mesa AZ - amfmtvdx@xxxxxxxxx
Heard KSCO from CA.
**Kent Plourde - Bristol CT - kplourde@xxxxxxxx
I also heard the two Spanish stations that Joe in Providence and Rick
in Wilton heard after WTIC's sign-off at 1:35. The 'talker' sounded like
it could be religious. It could be WVCG, no ID heard. The SS ballad
station is a mystery. If I had to guess, I would say it was Venezuelan.
After 2:00, I heard a third station way under SS. It also sounded like
Bruce Williams, however, I could not get a good copy. One snippet of an
ad for "jobs" came up with a 214 telephone number and internet address.
That's the best I could do with the Sony-2010 with the synch detector set
on lower sideband to avoid the WBAL splash with Select-a-tenna. I am
located about 10 miles SW of the WTIC transmitter on Avon Mountain.
**Phil Greenspan - Marchfield MA - PGreen1950@xxxxxxx
Tom, I can confirm what you heard on 1080. got ID at 1:04 CST and temp
of 41 degrees. mention of automobile crash in corpus christi. soon
afterwards into bruce williams who was lecturing some poor woman about a
will. soon faded out into ss.
Can anyone identify the SS which was "constantly" repeating
"hallelujah!" between 0100 and 0115? is this the Venezuelan or one of the
US stations?
**Ginnie - Ithaca NY - ginnie@xxxxxxxxxxx
I too heard Bruce Williams discussing a will with a female caller.
Turned on the radio at 2:08 am est, this was the first thing i heard. It
held for 2 minutes, max, then faded out never to return. of course i
didn't get a station id or any local identifying info. dx-398 and
select-a-tenna
**Kent Plourde - Bristol CT - kplourde@xxxxxxxx
I could be wrong, but I thought the "hallelulah" station was the WVCG
from Coral Gables, FL.
**Tony Simon - Miami FL - WLMCBuzzed@xxxxxxx
Hallelulah... That would definitely be a step in WVCG's direction, they
are brokered ethnic, and most of their schedule is filled with Spanish
preaching...What you just described fits WVCG's sound quite well.
It might have been tough to catch an ID from them, too, as many times
when they are running a prerecorded evangelist (or a remote from a
church), they merely throw a poor audio quality ID over the program
wherever it lands, catching off guard anyone who might have actually been
waiting for a real station break...
Had it been during an English show, you might have been aided by the
ca. 1970s "WVCG--We've Got It All!" MOR-esque jingles they still throw on
there every now and then...Pretty cool, but I digress.
**David J. Twiggs - Bristol CT - aa1jm@xxxxxxxx
Managed to stay awake for entire hour...
WTIC had a growth hormone infomercial on just before sign off, followed
by a couple of ads, a short news and weather update into a leaving the
air announcement by Jeff Hugabone where he announced the intent of the
down time, asked for reception comments to the previously announced
address, mentioned the NRC and advised all listeners to try and hear
distant stations on the clear frequency... Overall a nice plug for the
hobby, Thanks Mr. Hugabone.
Three stations heard after WTIC carrier gone...
1. Spanish ballad station. Back to back ballads and
instrumentals. I also heard the "Amigas de...." comment issued once
between songs. This station went to spanish talk near the top of hour...
and also faded below the other spanish talker.
2. Spanish talk station. This one started off with a man with rapid
fire chat, (he sounded slightly winded.) Then he took what I think was a
phone call from another man, (audio sounded tinny like phone-in.) At
conclusion of this exchange a female announcer took over at about 5
minutes before hour. This woman was talking about religion, distinctly
heard "espirtu santos" and "palabra de Dios" mentioned. At top of hour
was what sounded like an ID in the noise. Is this format consistant with
WVCG as Rick Kenneally reported? I'm sure we hearing the same thing.
3. KRLD. came on at about 2 minutes past already in CBS newscast. ID
about 30 seconds after that. Followed by local news chock full of IDs,
then into Bruce Williams show.
Nearly blew my headphones off when KRLD first fired up, but by Bruce
Williams the #2 spanish station was dominant again. (Perhap KRLD started
off non-directional then went to their night pattern?)
This continued until WTIC switched back on at about 0231 local, with a
simular sign on announcement by Jeff Hugabone.
I have a tape I'm going to run through again today, especially the top
of hour.
Thank you to all the participants in setting this up, it was FUN!
Just a couple of more thoughts....
1. Does anyone have a direct address at KRLD for reports?
2. I tried pointing the loop east/west during the silent period and
nada... only signals coming north/south.
3. I have since "scrubbed" the tape and didn't gleam any more off the
spanish stations than previously reported, so I'm going "(p)" with WVCG
and "who the heck knows" with the ballad station.
**Randy Stewart - Springfield MO - jrs555t@xxxxxxxx
Here in Springfield MO I too heard WTIC signing off at 0135 EST,
preceded by local weather & sports... until then there were just snatches
of English talk, mostly overwhelmed by the Spanish "romantica" music. By
the way, the female voice between songs was saying "Amigo (amigas?) DE LA
MADRUGADA" (i.e. Friend in the early morning), which sounds to me like
Radio Cadena Habana (unneeded here). After KRLD's open carrier came back
on at 0150 EST it was more difficult to pick out much in the way of
details under it, but I didn't hear ANY IDs at the top of the hour
(figures, doesn't it?) They (the "Amiga" station) were basically dominant
here the whole time, and pretty much unnullable for some reason. Was
also battling some slop from WDIA-1070 and HUGE slop from KAAY-1090.
Best reception usually in lower-sideband mode, or in AM de-tuned down to
about 1078.5 or so. (Yaesu FRG-100 with 15" amplified Sanserino box
loop). First-EVER logging of WTIC (or Connecticut period!) here--will
send taped report. There were occasional bits of Spanish talk (couldn't
make out if it was religious or not) and English talk as well, but
nothing I could ID. Still, the morning was worth losing some sleep over
just to get WTIC!
**Bruce Conti - Nashua NH - BACONTI@xxxxxxx
1080 WTIC CT Hartford - 3/18 0100 - Jingle ID, infomercial for GHR-
15 growth hormone releaser, at 0130 news followed by sign off with
announcement of radio experiment coordinated with KRLD and the NRC, good
signal but with deep fades under WVCG and Cuba at times. 1080 WVCG FL
Coral Gables - 3/18 0200 - Good; religious talk in Spanish, ID in Spanish
and English, over R.Cadena Habana-Cuba with WTIC off.
1080 KRLD TX Dallas - 3/18 0204 - Faded up with traffic, weather,
help wanted ad, promo for health info on KRLD.com, and Bruce Williams,
briefly over WVCG with WTIC off.
The religious talk in Spanish was definitely from WVCG Coral Gables,
heard here with an ID in Spanish and English at the top of the hour. The
nostalgic romantic ballads were from Radio Cadena Habana, Cuba, the
station with the "Amigo" announcement. KRLD appeared here after the top
of the hour, later with Bruce Williams. Before WTIC signed on, a weak
signal from Radio Barcelona, Venezuela was heard. The two widely heard
Spanish stations (WVCG and Cuba) were dominant here.
Sample reception of WTIC, R.Cadena Habana, WVCG, and KRLD on 1080 will
be in the DX Digest report on the next issue of the DXAS audio magazine.
I'll also have sample reception of John Bowker's favorite frequency,
Cuban jammer reception on 820 and 1140, plus info from WWV and WWVH.
**Glenn Hauser - Enid OK - ghauser@xxxxxxxxxxx
** U S A [non]. I monitored the KRLD silent period on 1080, March 18 at
0600 UT with my TRF in bed. KRLD said nothing about a special silent
period for DXers, just that it would be back on the air shortly. Only
heard two Spanish speaking stations when they faded up, but never any
IDs, more often from the SE, presumably Cuba`s R. Cadena Habana, which
was playing romantic music, such as Bésame Mucho at 0615 and around 0605
gave EST TC, so not Venezuela. Name of the program mentioned almost every
break was ``Amigos de la Madrugada``, including 0615, 0620. Took turns
with a station from the SW, presumably Mexican, with more upbeat tropical
music, such as at 0617 Cómo se mueve esta morena. Mostly the two stations
took turns fading up, but easily separable when both were in. Same
pattern as I dozed, but by 0654 KRLD carrier was back on, and joined CBS
news in progress at 0701. Only traces of other signals were heard,
possibly WTIC before 0630. BTW, KRLD`s show before s/off about lost
records was somewhat interesting.
**Barry McLarnon VE3JF - bm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
0134: WTIC carrier off after announcement from CE. All that remained
was some romantic SS music of unknown origin, probably Cuba.
0159: Weak music in unknown language, then at 0200 heard an ID from
WNWI. Back to music, then KRLD chimed in around 0201 with news, slowly
building in strength over WNWI. Dominant with excellent signal at 0205-
0207, with traffic reports, ads, program promos, several IDs, into Bruce
Williams.
0229: WTIC carrier popped up, followed by another announcement from CE,
mentioning an "AM propagation experiment" in cooperation with the NRC,
and requesting reception reports. KRLD still audible way underneath.
Nothing new for the log, but it was interesting nonetheless. I'm
surprised that nobody else has mentioned hearing WNWI. They are not
uncommon here in the evenings, burbling under WTIC.
**Robert Foxworth - rfoxwor1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Just got back home, so I can post, have read the postings so far. You
all have got it sorted out well. Although I had pieces of KRLD pretty
clear around 2100 EST Saturday, they were well under Cuba and WVCG at
0100, I did hear a faint KRLD ID. Cuba and WVCG took turns here in Tampa
going from inaudible to loud. Cuban // pgm on 1090 and 1100 hrd as well,
the 1090 was very faint under KAAY, and the 1100 fair to good and did not
fade when the 1080 did, but smothered by raspy het on 1100.
WVCG was hrd with promo for a place in Hialeah (FL.) at 0102 or so. So
I knew it was them, did not catch other IDs from them. I hrd the songs
such as Besame Mucho very clearly at 0115, amigos de la madrugada is
correct, as spoken by lady. They had some really nice ballads, a pleasure
as it was so strong.
My questions - at 0125 trace of man in EE, if this was WTIC it is my
only logging of them. And at 0127 hrd ad in EE mention "stamina", "30
days" and "800-569-9766" when Cuba faded. Was this WTIC??
Third SS occasionally, weak, this may be Venezuela as rptd by others.
Never anywhere as good as the others.
At 0202 ad with Mariette Hartley, probably KRLD back on but did not
hear them come on. At 0205 definitely 3 SS speakers here, and did get
KRLD ID and into Williams so I quit then. KRLD was always poor at best
here.
Receiver RS DX-390 with RS small loop inductively coupled. DXed from
Pat's house as it is too noisy at home with computers on, etc. Tampa, FL.
Any help on the ad at 0127?? (but it's not enough for me to send a
report to anyone on it)
I am surprised that WTIC is so difficult here. I get WBZ on occasion,
WCBS often (at varying levels) and WTOP is frequently hrd here. I may in
fact be the most distant person to hear anything from WTIC this morning?
But this freq is normally so crowded here, I never thought I'd get
anything from them.
**Rick Kenneally - Wilton, CT - woodlandview@xxxxxxxxx
Definitely WTIC running an infomercial about human growth hormone (you
might have heard several HCG mentions). Call the 800 number and try it
free for 30 days.
Just to be certain, the "amigos de la madrugada" program you mentioned
was Cuba, not WVCG, correct? That agrees with Bruce Conti.
**Pete Taylor - Tacoma WA - taytac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
KYCW-1090 had local basketball (rather than music) so I was able to
tune into 1080. KOTK Portland was on top; country music from presumed
KVNI was under. That's all, folks...
**Mark Connelly - MA - MarkWA1ION@xxxxxxxxxx
WVCG-1080 Coral Gables, FL - MAR 18 - This was the dominant station
here during the WTIC silent period (1:35 - 2:30 a.m. EST / 0635-0730
UTC). The programming was Spanish talk including some religious
references (hallelujah, etc.). There were one or two other Spanish
stations on channel at various times, but at the top of the hour (2 a.m.
EST) - when it mattered - WVCG dominated with local names, addresses, and
telephone numbers then an ID first in Spanish then clearly in English as
"WVCG, Coral Gables, Florida". I used the Drake R8A at the home QTH with
two different antennas, a sloper and a broadband loop. Slop from 1070
and 1090 was less severe on the sloper, so this was the preferred antenna
even though its feedpoint and part of its lower end were covered with
snow.
**Niel Kazaross - neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm quite surprised that more DXers didn't report WNWI as well. Their
strongish (even nulled 20+ dB) presence here and the fact the I cleaned
up on this channel before they went nights caused me to get some needed
sleep.
**Scott D Fybush - Rochester NY - fybush@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
I stayed up...and loved Jeff Hugabone's plug for the DX hobby just
before taking WTIC silent. I've been on the phone with Jeff quite a bit
over the last few weeks, and I have to say this guy is truly a friend to
the hobby. When I talked to him Friday afternoon, he was worried that he
wouldn't get any DX reports. "Just wait, you'll be amazed," was my
response to him, and if everyone we've heard from on the reflector sends
him a report, he will truly be pleased.
Once WTIC went off, I was hearing the same two SS signals, presumably
Cuba and WVCG, that everyone else has been reporting. I have to go back
and listen to the tape again for the 0200 top-hour; I didn't pick out
anything "live" that resembled an ID.
The big surprise to me was how good the KRLD signal was here in
Rochester. Assuming KRLD was using its directional night signal when it
returned to the air, I suspect it would be a regular catch here if I had
something effective to get a better null on WTIC (right now I'm using an
R8A and a vintage McKay-Dymek DA5 amplified ferrite rod). I was able to
null KRLD completely with just the DA5 and picked out Cuba several more
times in the half-hour before WTIC came back on -- and even under WTIC
during quiet spots I could still pick out bits of audio that I now know
must be KRLD.
I'm writing an article for "Radio World" (an industry trade paper)
about the silent period, and I'd love to hear from any DXers out there
who wouldn't mind being quoted about how important it is to our hobby to
get cooperation like this from station engineers. Thanks!
Forgot to mention...for those not as close to WTIC (or those who went
to bed early), I'll be posting audio of the sign-off later tonight
(Sunday/Monday) in the "NorthEast Radio Watch" column on my Web site,
<http://www.fybush.com>. Enjoy...
**John Sampson - jsampson@xxxxxxxxx
As with Kevin, KSCO, Santa Cruz, dominated 1080 here in Sun City West
(about 20 miles northwest of Phoenix). There was an unIDed SS under them
most of the time (and equal to them some of the time) that was playing
only mx while I was listening. John Sampson
Nigel Pimblett - Medicine Hat AB - ntp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
My results on listening to the 1080 event last night:
pre 0100 EST KRLD and KOTK were jointly dominating the channel.
0100 - When KRLD went off, KOTK dominated alone for a while, but then
would fade out every so often, allowing me to hear country music from
CKSA, a talk station in English, and a Spanish language music station.
For a change I had a reverse Murphy's Law experience, and KOTK faded just
prior to 0130. Heard a WTIC ID at 0129, then they were nicely in the
clear just after 0130 for the few words by the the Chief Engineer and an
ID prior to going off.
Nothing else new noted prior to KRLD returning, as KOTK dominated for
the most part. Never did ID the Spanish station, but was delighted to
get WTIC, as that's a new state for me.
**Dave Marthouse - dmart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
I stayed up to catch the WTIC silent period from my listening post in
Brookneal Virginia 30 miles south of Lynchburg. The equipment used was a
stock Sony 2010. WTIC was the dominant signal till they signed off. It
was great to hear their engineer mention the NRC and long distance am
radio listeners. After TIC dumped their carrier I heard the spanish
language stations from FLA and Cuba fighting it out on frequency. KRLA
came up at 0703UTC with CBS news and lots of station promos. Than it was
the Bruce Williams show. The KRLA signal was strong and dominated the
frequency for about 10 minutes. After that it was just a jumble of
signals with slop from WBAL on 1090. I wish I had a directional antenna
system to try to null the noise out. All in all it was fun and the first
time I was able to hear KRLA. I hope that silent periods can be arranged
in the future with other 50,000 blowtorches. This experiment reminded me
of those great Monday mornings in the 60's and 70's when lots of the big
signals signed off for maintenance. My thanks to the engineers at WTIC
and KRLA who were kind enough to coordinate this fun and interesting
experiment.
**Bob Klingler - New Cumberland PA - Rklinger97@xxxxxxx
Hi all, this may be a day late and a dollar short but haaaaaa. Got home
Saturday night (or should I say Sunday morning) about 2:00 AM after
spending a night out with my lovely wife and checked 1080 for the non-
test. There was no WTIC but a decent signal from KRLD. Heard a commercial
for what I believe was some kind of medical practice or something and the
Nolan Ryan Center. Mentioned a Dr. Kim Cooper. Then another spot giving a
web address as KRLD.com. That was followed by the soothing voice of Bruce
Williams show. So, Texas made it into Pennsylvania. Like I said earlier,
the signal was fair. I had heard them before last summer when I was out
in Minnesota but it was good getting them here! I sure hope that maybe
more stations will notify when they will be going off.
** Steve Francis - Alcoa TN - Amdxmail@xxxxxxx
Satellite nostalgia WKJK Louisville KY ruled the roost per usual. WTIC
in their null with fine signal at their 1:35 EST sign-off. WVCG Coral
Gables doing OK in WKJK's fades with religion in Spanish; my tape reveals
a weak English legal ID for WVCG 23 seconds before WKJK's CBS news
sounder at 2. Presumed Cuban station heard seldom and weakly with
Spanish ballads. KRLD loud at 2:01 with legal ID by woman over CBS news
(causing a slight echo with WKJK).
Teletalk in English was heard briefly at one point around 1:40, with
both of the Infinity stations off. Others' postings eliminate that
format from every fulltimer in the Eastern half of the continent, could
the fulltime CP for WRYT in Edwardsville IL be on?
**David Hochfelder - hochfeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Heard with a Sony ICF-2010 with Kiwa Pocket Loop Antenna, from New
Brunswick, NJ.
I started listening just before 0130, and heard WTIC sign off right at
0135, with Jeff Hugabone giving a great plug for AM DXing and the NRC.
Afterward, two Spanish language stations were audible, one religious with
frequent and tedious "Hallajeuja"s and the other with an easy-listening
format. A few weeks ago, I tentatively ID the easy-listening one as Cuba
but would like a more positive confirmation. I thought I heard a slogan
something like "Amigas de la Habana," but I really don't know Spanish.
Thanks to the ever-common top-of-the-hour fade or KRLD firing up right
then, I couldn't understand a top-of-the-hour ID, although neither
station's ID sounded English, if there in fact was a TOH ID.
Just after 0200 KRLD came in loud and clear, armchair copy, in the
middle of CBS news, then local news at 0204 (weather, 49 deg. F, traffic
report at 0205 [D-FW must have a lot of traffic for a report at 1:00
AM!]), 0206 ad for Transamerica, then Bruce Williams call-in show, with
some woman calling in about a relative's will. Either due to fading or
work on the transmitter, KRLD's armchair copy deteriorated after 0212,
briefly came back at 0215, but tough copy till WTIC's sign-on at 0230.
Mark Mohrmann - Coventry VT - mohrmannm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
NRD 535D, V-Beam 140m @ 180 degrees
1080 WTIC Hartford, CT, 18 Mar, 0633 +25dB over signal with sign-off
announcement. (Mohrmann VT)
1080 WVCG(p) Coral Gables, FL, 18 Mar 0635-0701 Spanish religious
program, fair to good signal, but faded at TOH. No ID heard but partial
phone number heard matches the stations listed number.
1080 Unidentified, 18 Mar, 0635-0701, mostly LA ballads under and
occaisionally equal to (p)WVCG.
1080 KRLD Dallas, Tx, 18 Mar, 0701, back on abruptly with CBS network
news. Then into "KRLD Local News". Fair signal but covering the other to
Spanish stations.
Mickey Delmage - Sherwood Park AB - cidxqsl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I tried here to null out CKSA but Murphy said locals will be strong
tonight!!! There was something under CSKA at 1:00 EST but could not ID
them.. One thing for sure, and I am not sure if it was propagation or
they actually came back on but at 0730 UTC (2:30EST) KRLD was in strong
as usual, not noted at 0600 UTC. Anyway no new one here and CT remains a
dream for us out west. Using a Racal RA17C with the box loop.
**Glenn Hauser - Enid OK - ghauser@xxxxxxxxxxx
I`ve yet to see anyone but myself report the Spanish station from the
SW during the 1080 experiment (or it could be NE, but that seems
unlikely). Did not get an ID or any info besides musical format, so may
never know for sure, but searching the SCT listings, I find only a few
Mexicans on 1080 in the western part of the country (tried Coahuila,
Durango, Nayarit, and all states west and north), and the first one is
surely the most likely -- being on 1080 in a state neighboring TX would
not seem a good idea:
XEDT 1080 Ciudad Cuauhtemoc Chih / R Divertida 1 kw nd
XEPAB 1080 La Paz BCS / R Celebridad 0.5/0.25
XEDY 1080 Ciudad Morelos BCN 1.5/0.25
The first two are also mentioned in Fred Cantu`s incomplete listings.
**Stewart, Randy - Springfield MO - jrs555t@xxxxxxxx
Glenn, no dice here on the Mexicans. Here in southern Missouri the
Cuban was dominant most of the time (and damn near unnullable for
whatever reason)... plus all the slop from KAAY on 1090 (and some
moderate crud from WDIA Memphis on 1070)... I'm thankful to have heard
anything at all on 1080! There was at least one other SS station in
there, but really couldn't get a bead on its direction--it could've been
an XE, or it could've been Miami. Like you say, we'll never know... Ben
Dangerfield brought up a good point as well: even when the two dominant
U.S. stations on 1080 had a concurrent silent period, the frequency was
still crawling with enough signals to make it difficult to ID anything
with certainty... and never mind the RADEX listings in the 1930s. The
frequency wouldn't have been busy like that even in the late <1960s> and
early <'70s>, when <I> started DXing. Even as recently as 30 years ago,
silent periods really MEANT something in terms of quieter band
conditions. Still, it was a marvelous, worthwhile "propagation
experiment" as WTIC's engineer calls it, and here's hoping we can
convince more stations to do the same... or at the very least, give the
DX community a "heads up!" when they're planning to be off for
maintenance!
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*Lynn Hollerman - lynnhollerman@xxxxxxxxxxx
>From the IRCA message board - please respond to this person via e-
mail:
"i want to construct a ferrite rod antenna for the am broadcast band. i
have the following parts needed: appropriate ferrite rod, 365 pf var cap
-&- various sizes of enamel copper wire. i need the following info:
amount of turns for primary -&- secondary coils, placement of coils on
the rod, should the primary be wound on top of the secondary -&- which
coil should be attached to the var cap?.... any assistance concerning
the above would be most appreciated-thank you, MARV-N3BQA
E-mail n3bqa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx to reply.
*Charles A./Leonor L. Taylor - calltaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
You e-mail posted to our website was relayed to the membership. Have
you received any offers of assistance from anyone Up East closer to your
QTH? If not, I shall essay to reply appropriately.
It's impossible to prescribe a number of turns for primary and
secondary without knowing the magnetic and geometric properties of your
ferrite loopstick.
Do it empirically: Wind a trial five turns around the loopstick and
use that as the secondary. Connect it to input of your receiver. Use an
intermediate gauge of wire to wind a trial primary. Start with 50 turns,
first approximation. See where this tunes with the variable cap on the
mediumwave/AM broadcast band. Then rewind the primary using the largest
practicable gauge wire of wire so that the cap just tunes the
combination to 530 kHz when fully meshed.
Generally, the larger the gauge of wire for both the primary and
secondary, the better. Aim for a single layer for the primary. The
greater the number of turns on the primary consistent with resonating
with the variable cap at 530 kHz, the better. The secondary can be about
1/10 the number of turns of the primary.
The above appear to be a mass of compromises. Get over it. If you
don't like compromises in your electronics, surrender your ham license
and get a more honest job, e.g. bank robbery. Least-ways you know as a
bank robber your likely fate. If you go into electronics as a
profession, you may end up something even your mother cannot love.
I will happy to provide you with further direction, advice, compassion
and sympathy as you undertake your loop antenna.
Seriously, try the above and let me know the results. Enjoy it, it's
fun...similar to hard drugs, only more expensive.
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***Alf Årdal - alfardal@xxxxxxxxx
Just a small reminder to all BCB or MW listeners,there is a MW list
entirely for MW news and logs,for all dxers around the world. Some might
want to hear or see what other fellow MW-dxers have logged lately and
what kind of equipment and antennas is used.
Name of the mailing list is MWDX and the link is:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mwdx
To subscribe: mwdx-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Welcome in everyone who's interested in MW:)
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**Russ Edmunds - wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxxxx
Geoclock is still available and current. The web address is
http://home.att.net/~geoclock/
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**Paul Smith, W4KNX - sunray2@xxxxxxx
Posted by Paul Smith, W4KNX, Sarasota, FL
"WHO KILLED THE DJS?
Tuesday,March 20,2001
By JOHN MAINELLI
WILL today's DJs - Big Steph Lova, Broadway Bill Lee, Funkmaster Flex,
Cane, Shaila, Bugsy and all the rest - go down in radio history along
with legends like Harry Harrison, B. Mitchel Reed and Murray the K?
Probably not - but a lot of what makes a legend is out of the hands of
today's radio personalities. (By the way, we're talking "DJs" - not talk
show hosts like Howard Stern, Bob Grant and Opie & Anthony.) "It's
pretty hard to ignore the fact that, across the country, personality
radio has taken a hit," says Scott Shannon, the original "Zookeeper" on
Z100 who's now WPLJ's program director and morning man. "All the
syndicated shows . . . have taken a lot of people out of the business
and, therefore, it eliminates the training ground, especially in smaller
markets," Shannon said. "You've got these giant conglomerates running
hundreds of stations like an assembly line and it's, 'Don't give 'em the
best radio you can give them - give 'em the cheapest.'" "Cousin" Bruce
Morrow says he was stumped when asked to suggest a DJ phone panel for
his upcoming Variety Radiothon. "I couldn't think of anybody other than
about five people, and none of them from recent years," said Morrow, one
of the legendary WABC "All-Americans" who is now with oldies powerhouse
WCBS-FM. Dan Ingram, another WABC vet who's now with WCBS-FM, says
today's young listeners probably don't even know there's something
missing.
"If people have never been fed a good, two-inch-thick steak, they
might not know what it's all about," says Ingram. "Personality radio is
infinitely more complex and challenging to the listener . . . and much
more than just 'Do the call letters, play the records and shut up.'"
WCBS-FM programmer Joe McCoy points out that radio - and America - was
different in the baby-boom era, when every station seemed to be packed
with high-profile personalities. "Before FM, DJs were a special breed
[who] were there during the early days of rock 'n' roll," says McCoy.
"In the mid-'60s, when Bill Drake came up with the more-music concept
for radio, that really changed things - like the Beatles changed the
music.
"Then FM came in and the DJs were not the high-energy personality
jocks that they were in the '50s and early '60s."
The Post put Shannon on the spot - without warning - and asked if he
could name some potential legends today.
"You've still got powerhouse personalities like Rick Dees out in L.A.
and, uh - well, you've got a good point - well, you have Elvis [Duran]
and the Morning Zoo still maintaining very respectable ratings, and
Isaac Hayes [Kiss FM] has done a pretty good job managing to corner a
niche for himself," Shannon said.
Five years from now, it may be even harder to answer that question.
A phenomenon known as "voice-tracking" and "cyber-jocking" - using
local or remote DJs to pre-record banter for one or more stations to air
between records - is spreading to the biggest cities, championed mainly
by radio's biggest conglomerate.
Clear Channel, the 1,170-station monster group, sees cyber-jocking as
a cost-cutter and has introduced it, pre-dawn, on Z-100 - using DJ
tracks recorded by acting program director Kid Kelly, who didn't return
calls from The Post. The second-largest radio company, CBS/Infinity, is
using the threat of "virtual DJs" to scare its programmers into bringing
personality back to radio.
"I hear a sameness from station to station - I hear wonderful
production [but] I don't hear any personality," Infinity co-COO John
Gehron told a recent radio seminar. "I tell our PDs to use their DJs or
we will cyber-jock and voice-track their stations," Gehron warned.
"There has never been a radio station that has been successful only
playing music. Never!"
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Martin Schoech - schoech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Update of the QSL Information Pages QIP
The QSL Information Pages for Broadcast DX'ers are currently in the
process of being updated with around 220 kB of QSL logs from the last
weeks. As it seems, more than 75 % of the pages will get additional
logs. The process will be finished before Friday I hope. Until now, the
regions of Africa, and America have been updated. The line with the date
below each country name at the index page shows you the date of the last
update. Among them you'll find for instance new qsl logs from Mauritania
of Guinea. Both logs came from direct contributors, thank you very very
much to them and to all other contributors !
In the past weeks there have been discussions in the ConDig and in the
Radioescutas - Mailing Lists about establishing QSL Data Bases. The
initiators of these databases are invited to work together with QIP. You
can contact me in Spanish or simple Portuguese of course. Its possible
to use QIP as a basis for you own work or, perhaps better, to change QIP
in a way that will fit the needs of the readers.
Of course I'm willing to follow your suggestions in order to improve
the pages. The current pages of Argentina are a first test for another
possibility of arranging the QSL logs. Of course I depend on help or
advice from readers in all regions since its very hard to keep the qsl
logs of all those 4125 stations from 220 regions free of errors. I can't
do that alone.
The latest additions to QIP include QSL logs from the magazin Conexion
Digital, from the Radioescutas mailing list, from @-tividade DX, from
Cumbre DX, from Numero Uno, from the Norwegian DX News, from the German
Radiokurier, from CIDX and ODXA, from A-DX and HCDX mailing lists and
many many other sources. (see
http://www.clandestineradio.com/martin/qip-sour.html) for a complete and
detailed list.
In order to find what you want there is a search form at the beginning
of the index page and in order to send your QSL logs to QIP, there is
also a QSL logs submitting form at the end of the page.
You'll find the QSL Information Pages QIP at http://www.listen.to/qip
or, if the V3 service fails to bring you there, you can access the pages
directly at http://www.clandestineradio.com/martin/qip-index.html.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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2001 NRC Convention will be in Pittsburgh PA over Labor Day weekend.
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**kevin redding - Mesa AZ - amfmtvdx@xxxxxxxxx
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GEOMAGNETIC INDICES
The regular Geo reports via email stopped coming Saturday 3/10 or so.
This morning, 3/20, I received a two updates... and since then, nothing.
I'm going to start getting this information via their web site. Sorry
for the gap... anyone with information during the last week or so, please
let me know.
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IRCA Mexican Log, 6th Edition
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USA - DXM $20.00, DXM/SDXM $25.00
Canada - DXM $22.00, DXM/SDXM $27.00
Overseas surface - DXM $23.50, DXM/SDXM $28.50
Airmail (Central America, Caribbean) - DXM $35.00, DXM/SDXM $40.00
Airmail (Europe, North Africa, Middle East) - $38.00,
DXM/SDXM - $43.00
Airmail (rest of the World) - $41.00, DXM/SDXM $46.00
To join the IRCA, send the appropriate dues to: IRCA HQ
PO Box 1831
Perris CA 92572-1831
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If you note any AM changes (call, format, slogan, etc), please send them
to the NRC Log coordinator (Wayne Heinen) @ nrclog@xxxxxxx
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END of 3/21/01 THE "AM DX NewsFlash"
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