Band i
Band 1 DX Log June 2009
 
For last months final log please click here.
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1/6/09
1032   E2-   TLA     Music video then the Maestro!
1033   IA    TLA     // with 47MHz
1033   IB    RAI Uno Angela Lansbury then news
1206   IA    RAI Uno offset was 53.749.77x which is unusual.
1325   E2    STV     Cameroon carrier peaked S5, weak syncs seen.
1640   IC-   TLC     M Vesuvius. Pop video & advert. new logo brc.
1641   E2    unid    carriers only. A mix of RAI Uno and Kenya!
1645   E2-   TLA     S9+30dB! Telesales
1649   E3    e21     Adverts
1654   E2-   A.Blu   Vague shapes, severe CCI with TLA. (tent. logging)
1803   E4    TV7     Tunisia. Soap opera.
1814   E2    TVE     News? Item about Tibet.
1827   E2/3  RTP1    O Preço Certo. 'The Price is Right'

STLs
1045 56.00MHz Telesia Radio  PI:20FE
1042  55.00   Jonica Radio   PI:505A
JONICA__/RADIO___/ SMS_329__/ 2955028_/

1701  60.32   R. Abruzzo Mar PI:5742 
IL_SUONO   (dyn)      
1702  65.35   Radio Mondo    PI:5846 
R._MONDO   *new PI*   
1705  63.75   Radio Milano   PI:53E1 
RETE_96__  (dyn)      
1708  60.80   R. LatteMiele  PI:5355 
LATMIELE   *new log*  
1710  56.80   Radio Studio X voice ID. 'medium wave 1584'
1726  52.55   Nuova Rete     PI:5E75 
__NUOVA_
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2/6/09

1654   E3    RTP1    OM singing.
1704   E4    TV7     Parliament speech and documentary
1704   47/IA TLA     Shopping. Very strong both channels
1742   E2    TVE     News?
1756   IA    RAI Uno Gameshow
1757   E3    RTP1    Weather
2206   E2    TVE1    YL dancing closeup shot

A very intense opening south today brought some interesting results. TV7 Tunisia puts out a spur on 56.75MHz which is a mix of audio and video, both can be resolved at once! TLA on IA also puts out a spur on 58.25MHz, this one sounds like strong vision buzz and the picture looks like smeary inverted video. The band finally closed at 2100z when Tunisia on E4 and IA RAI from Sicily faded out. The most intriguing signal was during the high MUF into North Africa, across 52MHz was some form of data that could only be heard in wide FM, I've recorded some while watching Portugal, a short video can be seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXTgO4XHllw
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3/6/09
An early start to Es today, the Jordan signal was very strong at times but was often buried in CCI with Serbia on the same frequency and the first hop.

0550    R1    m1       Hungary. Breakfast show, interview.
0555    IA    RAI Uno  Election news
0611    E4    HRT1     women talking in studio
0620    E3    JRTV     adverts then magazine show. Youtube video.
0703    R2    RTL Klub adverts
0723    E4    TV7      Interviews and Arabic text at bottom
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4/6/09
0906   E2/3   RTP1    Adverts
1049   IB     RAI Uno Strong MS ping. Logo brc
1147   E2     TVE     'Ultima Hora' News.
2006   IA     TLA     'Cleo and Marta' programme
2122   IA     RAI Uno finally faded at 2245z.
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5/6/09

1103   E4     RUV     Swimming competition
1322   IB     RAI Uno more MS. OM seen with logo brc
1623   E2/3/4 NRK1    Wildlife prog.
1652   R1     1+1     'TCH'  News? farming article.
1705   R1     Nova    Football
1725   R1     m1      Cartoon trailer
1919   47/IA/B        All Monte Faito channels very strong.
1921   L2     Canal+  Encrypted programme.
1933   E4     HRT1    subtitled programme.
1940   47MHz  Ablu    AntennaBlu, Italy. logo tlc

First time I've seen Antennablu on 47MHz, the signal was weak and only reason I know it was Antennablu was due to Hugh Cocks ID and photo but the shape and position of the logo match as does the frequency.
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6/6/09

0934   IA     RAI Uno  OM talking to cam
1012   E4     TV7      Blank carrier
1112   E2     TVE1     VERY strong signal. 60s music and style show
1136   E3     RTP1     2nd logo trc. Diagonal red stripe with lettering
1728   R2     Lad TV   Belarus. Car advert, logo trc
1733   R1     1TV      Film. logo tlc
1739   R2     UT-1     Ukraine, new logo trc
1814   E4     unid     ORF1? Adverts seen but no logo
1821   R2     RTL Klub music video
1823   E4     unid     0 offset carrier under HRT
1842   R2     BT       Viciebsk, Belarus. Weather & Minsk Минск Caption
1912   IA     RAI Uno  Football

A couple of interesting catches today, I was surprised how strong and clear 1TV on R1 was, colour and nearly noise free after a 40dB notch! It was a 0 offset on 000 but the carrier had a regular slight chirp to it, is this St Petersburg?

Thank Janpeter for the information on Lad TV, I logged the carrier last year but it wasn't strong enough to see video from, amazing it was only 200W as it peaked at S9 on the Icom. I took some stills but it's amazing how poor the results are after being used to a capture card and noise reduction! Fortunately it was enough to ID it from Lyngsat and John Märsylä captured a real nice copy of it. Not sure what it is doing on such a high frequency though, 59.261.69x.

Logo as shown on Lyngsat is top right corner.
http://www.lyngsat-logo.com/logo/tv/ll/lad.jpg
http://www.tvr.by/eng/tvlad.asp

During the afternoon we had non stop Es on FM to North Africa, the signals from TVE and RTP were strong and stable enough to watch on our domestic flatscreen TV in the front room (that just happens to have all the B1 channels programmed in :) ) complete with colour and audio. I came across a narrowband FM signal on 45.025Mhz using a 151.4Hz subtone,  the language would seem to be French with some Arabic and heavily accented, I've linked to a clip to see if anyone can maybe work out what is being said, it could be a useful propagation indicator if the location can be narrowed down, we assume it is MRC or ALG.
http://www.ukdx.org.uk/tv/audio/45_025_060609_48k_long.mp3
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7/6/09

0425    E4   TV7    Tunisia, still on blank carrier.
0516    E4   HRT1   *MS*  News and logo tlc
0826    E2    STV1    Cameroon, weak unid video.
0827    E4    Guinea  carrier only
0917    E2-   TLA     PDA sales
0920    IA    RAI Uno Chat show
2045    47/IA TLA     both strong signals, been received all day.

Between 1057 and 1130 I logged a number of different B3 carriers via Es,
all were on the Moroccan channels, M5 and M6, the strongest on
179.250.77 peaked at S5 on the Icom.
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8/6/09

0956    IA    Rai Uno Very strong signal. S9+30dB
1252    IA    unid    Rough sounding video 9M offset.
1515    E4    RGTV    Eq Guinea People dancing. see below.
1525    E2    STV1    Cameroon. video of womens faces, French audio.
2005    E4    TV7     back on air with audio.

Highlight of the day were the African signals. Firstly Cameroon on E2
with French audio peaking S8 at times and for the first time in video,
Equatorial Guinea on E4, the carrier is very odd sounding like a broad
band of noise centred around 62.249.2, my thanks to Hugh in Portugal for
the station ID.
http://www.ukdx.org.uk/tv/guinea_e4_080609.mp4
During the opening I logged another carrier on E4, 62.247.9xx. possibly
African.

TV7 Tunisia was back on air today after a period of being off air, when it returned it airing a blank carrier for most of the day but was back to normal during the evening.

This is the Italian IA signal on the low offset, another poorly
modulated TX.
http://www.ukdx.org.uk/tv/waterfalls/53738_080609.gif
http://www.ukdx.org.uk/tv/audio/53738_080609.mp3
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9/6/09
1048   IB   RAI Uno  *MS* YL talking with logo BRC
1244   E3   RTP1     Sports news.
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10/6/09

1740   IA   RAI Uno  8M offset
1743   E2   RAI Uno  // with IA
1819   R1   Nova     Soap or drama prog
1820   E4   HRT1     subtitled prog
1850   A2   Telemundo Puerto Rico. Gameshow and adverts  MP3 here
2046   IA   RAI Uno  Football
 
Possibly my last view of Telemundo, smeary pics and good audio this
evening on its 8P offset.

STLs
1757  56.57MHz 50C9   Radio Calolzio.             Calolziocorte (LC)
/ON_THE_/__AIR.../ON_THE_/_NET..../__WWW.__/RADIO___/CALOLZIO/.IT...../
1803  60.33MHz 5742 
/RADIO___/IL_SOUND/MARCHE__/ Radio Abruzzo Marche
1805  63.75    53E1 
/_RETE_96/_MI.MA._/          Monte Cavallo?
1808  52.60    5099  
R._RADAR                    Bologna
1809  52.10    5A37  
ERREVUTI                    Sansepolcro (AR)?
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11/6/09

0415  R2     BT1         OM reading news
0450  R2     L1          Lithuania. OB about bears
0545  R2     RTL Klub    OM being interviewed
0547  R2     UT1         animated trailer
0915  IA     TLA         Cleo and Marta
0920  E3     e21 Network jewellery sale.
0937  E2-    AntennaBlu  dubbed drama, logo TLC
0952  E4     TV7         logo TRC
1142  IC     unid        0 offset clean carrier. RAI Turin?
1353  E4     TVE         logo brc. Short skip 850km
1044  L2/3/4 Canal+      cards advert and logo fullscreen.

11m was already open to the east when I switched on at 0345z, shortly
after R1 opened to Ukraine followed by Belarus upto R3 by 0420.

STLs
0951  56.50MHz 5488  
MEPRADIO    Rieti (RI)?
0953  52.60    5099  
R._RADAR
0957  61.50    51FF  
R.STELLA
1000  60.80    5355  
LATMIELE
1004  59.90    53AD  
R.CARENA
1005  52.10    5A37  
ERREVUTI
1008  ?????    5560  
IN..BL._
1028  60.00    5198  
MONITO??
1114  61.30    5499   ??????
O?  (tent. RDS log)
1114  61.30    5206  
RAI_GRPR
1117  67.50    5362             Radio Delta (voice ID)
1129  68.70    5846             (tent. RDS log)
1130  63.40    unid             no ID or RDS but very strong signal.
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12/6/09

1040   E4    TV7    Soap or drama
1041   E2/3  RTP1   OB, singers on stage
1052   E2    IRIB2  YL in studio, election programme
1352   E2    TVE1   Publicidad
1530   47/IA TLA    Jewellery sale
1952   R1    m1     OM talking

STLs
1534   52.55MHz 5E75 
__NUOVA_   Nuova Rete
1538   53.00    505A
/RADIO___/  Jonica Radio
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13/6
1049   E2-  TLA     Sales
1512   A3   WIMP-TV Puerto Rico. Nightlight service. +offset.
1835   IA   RAI Uno General px. Monte Faito

WIMP Nightlight service showed two males talking in Spanish about
installing digiboxes to continue receiving TV.
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14/6

0449   R1   2Plus    Moldova
0506   E2-  TLA      also IA and RAI IB, all Monte Faito
0813   E4   TV7      Q+A prog (like question time)
1015   E2   NRK1     General px and logo trc
1130   IB   RAI Uno  TG1 News, 9P offset
1303   E2   TVE1     Formula 1 prog
1650   E3   JRTV     Jordan. studio interview, YL presenter.
1702   E2   IRIB2    election px
1704   R2   RTL Klub Adverts
1812   L2/4 Canal+   Spitting image type px
1918   E4   RUV px,  audio as well.
2041   IA   RAI Uno  TG1 News

STLS
1236   61.00 Radio Supersound, Sardinia. (voice ID) no RDS
1810   65.80 Radio Flash, Turin. (voice ID) no RDS
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15/6

1736   IA   RAI Uno  Gameshow
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16/6

1004   E2   IRIB2    On screen captions and scrolling text.
1005   R2   Mold1    Balti TX, logo trc
1045   IA   RAI Uno  Adverts
1847   E4   TV7      Film or drama in Arabic.
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17/6

1750   IA   RAI Uno General px. Monte Caccia
1808   IA   TLA     Tarot reading with Lenora
1815   R2   Mol1    Moldova. logo trc
1821   R2   STV     Bratislava. logo trc
1828   R2   RTL K   documentary
1844   R4   unid    Pretty sure this is ORF1 Austria (1w ERP)
1845   R1   m1      Football

During the opening there where various unid carriers not seen before on
IA including a reasonably strong one on 53.764.x. Since then Hasse
Mattisson in Sweden has reported seeing another shopping channel on IA
with a white X logo in trc. Other carriers heard were on E3 55.251.8
while other middle east signals could be seen and on E4 62.240.45 just
after RTL Klub which I think could be ORF1.
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19/6

1145   E2   TVE1     News
1149   E4   TV7      Prayers, strong Arabic audio
1412   E2-  TLA      Watch sales
1413   IA   RAI Uno  Drama/soap
1537   L3   Canal+   Encrypted px
1614   R1   m1       Adverts
1615   E3   RTP1     logo tlc
1633   R1   1+1      TCH caption blc
1636   R2   UT1      Ukraine with new logo trc
1653   R2   Mol1     Moldova, logo trc
1655   R2   1+1      Uzgorod, Ukraine. logo trc
1754   R2   1TV      Russia. 1 logo tlc
1806   R2   RTL Klub Formula 1 news

STLs
1416 59.90 PI:53AD R.CARENA Radio Carena
1419 60.33 PI:5742 Radio Abruzzo Marche
1448 53.00 PI:505A Jonica Radio, new PI for this frequency.
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20/6

1323   E4   TV7     End of news graphics
1446   IA   RAI Uno px about Penguins
1639   E4   HRT1    Talent show.
2250   IC-  TLC     Music show and videos

For a couple of hours around 1900 Caribbean carriers were monitored upto
channel A5 77.25MHz, only A3 made it to smeary video, A2 being wiped by
a very strong Portugese signal.

not often E4 looks like this at gone 11pm!
http://www.ukdx.org.uk/tv/waterfalls/62239_200609.gif
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21/6

0528   R2   UT1      channel e logo
0536   R2   ETV1     Cartoon
0541   R2   L1       Vilnius. Cartoon
0546   R2   RTR      Adverts with logo
0552   R1   1+1      Adverts
0753   R3   LTV1     Riga. People in garden.
0800   R2   unid     59.237MHz
0811   R1   1TV      Russia. Military programme.
0833   IA   RAI Uno  religious px.
0859   E2   NRK1     px and logo
1002   E4   RUV      Cartoon. Also radio on 87.7.
1122   R2   RTL Klub Eddie Murphy px.
1124   IA   RAI Uno  Logo seen
1317   R1   Nova     F1 racing
1945   E2-  TLA      3 piece band playing

STLs
1127 61.20MHz Radio Punto Zero (Trieste?) voice ID (new logging)
http://www.radiopuntozero.it/frequenze.php
http://www.ukdx.org.uk/tv/audio/rpz_6120_210609.mp3

B1 didn't completely close overnight, at midnight local I was still
watching TLC Monte Vesuvius below IC and this is a Spectrum Lab
recording of channel IA, rx frequency 53.749MHz.
http://www.ukdx.org.uk/tv/waterfalls/53749_overnight_210609.gif

At 1103 I received the American forces Radio Network on 48.500MHz IDing
as AFN The Eagle, presumably this is another STL as there is a
pronounced 150Hz tone on the transmission.
http://www.ukdx.org.uk/tv/audio/48500_afneagle_210609.mp3

The RAI Uno logging at 1124 is worth a mention because it is on a very
low offset of 53.737.52x

For over an hour this morning, Canadian TV was heard and very briefly
seen on A2 with further carriers on A3, sadly a very strong RTP Portugal
on E3 stopped me seeing any detail.

Another unusual signal is on 42.771MHz, it is an AM carrier with a
number of audio tones on it. I've been logging it for a few days now, on
the TV it appears visually similar to watching two signals causing CCI
as the audio notes beat together. I'm sure it's coming from Italy, maybe
even Napoli but what it is exactly remains a mystery.
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22/6

1018   E2   TVE1    Magazine show
1026   E2/3 RTP1    Discussion prog.
1035   E4   RUV     widescreen testcard.
1103   E2/3 NRK1    logo trc
1644   E2-  Antenna blu TV Basketball game?
1815   E4   MTB     Macedonia. European football
1830   E4   HRT1    YL seen on screen, logo tlc

Yet another evening of multiple Caribbean carriers on A2 and 3 not quite
making it to video level.

Very strange conditions late afternoon, dead band apart from a very weak
Iran E2 8M and then Antenna Blu faded up, not very strong hence the poor
quality of this video and I wasn't quick enough to lock the signal. It
never reached a level that produced any visible picture on the
television. it normally takes intense Es and high MUF to receive Ablu.
Antenna Blu TV is located at Forte Begato, Genoa in northern Italy, it
only uses 80W so I was surprised to see it yesterday, normally it takes
a strong opening before I receive it and then it is buried under TLA or
RAI on E2. Although difficult to tell from the video the logo is white
text in the upper left corner.
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23/6

0950   E2-   TLA   Two people on screen, reading Tarot?
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24/6

1010   E2   RAI Uno  Jessica Fletcher
1011   E2-  TLA      Tarot reading
1013   R1   Nova     Rex (Kommissar?) (8P)
1039   R2   1+1      US drama with Ukrainian dubbing
1050   R2   Moldova1 px and logo trc
1110   E3   JRTV     OM in gutra being interviewed
1115   E3   ORTAS    Syria. Court room drama
1132   E2   IRIB2    YL talkng to cam
1504   E3   e21      OM being interviewed
1533   R3   BT1      Belarus. Drama, faint logo tlc
1610   IA   RAI Uno  TG1 news. 53.749.8 unid site?
1720   E2-  TLA      OM being interviewed
1721   E3   e21      News
1724   IB   RAI Uno  Adverts and full screen logo
1752   L2   Canal+   Wimbledon

At 1130 weak images were seen on E2 from Dubai, not strong enough to ID
or even log, seconds later Iran came over it.
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25/6

1022   E2   TVE1     caption 'sempre quise ser bombero'
1155   E3   RTP1     OM being interviewed and deaf signing blc.
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26/6

1141   E2   IRIB2    weak video logo trc
2150   A2   unid     tent. KDKA Pittsburg, USA. showing NAB loop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4Z0v9XfmzU
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28/6

1818   E2/3 RTP1     Football match
1819   IB   RAI Uno  Football match
1819   IC-  TLC      Music video
1820   E2-  TLA      TV sales
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29/6

0701   E2   TVE1     News with El Presidente speech
0703   E4   TVE1     News (short skip)
0746   IA   RAI Uno  with clock trc
0757   R2   ETV      Football
0758   R2   RTR      Film?   video here
0808   R3   Kanal 5  St Petersburg      Film?
0830   IB   RAI Uno  9p offset, unstable carrier
0831   E2-  TLA      tele sales. V strong.
1315   IA   RAI Uno  M Camarata, Sicily
1443   R2   1+1      Full screen logo
1446   R2   Mol1     Film of canoeing
1629   R3   Mol1     full colour  / and audio  / signal
1714   R3   UT1      Rivne, Ukraine. logo TRC
1726   R2   RTL Klub logo tlc
1808   R1   m1       Full screen logo into adverts
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30/6

1206   R1   m1       subtitled px
1211   R2   STV1     Slovakia, logo trc
1211   R2   RTL Klub US 'comedy'
1213   IA   RAI Uno  logo trc. 53.757.9xx
1217   E4   HRT      Labinstica TX. Western film
1218   E2-  TLA      watch sales
1624   E4   TV7      Swimming
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An update on the Arabic PMR as I have a translation for it now, it is Moroccan Arabic, southern accents (though that doesn't necessarily mean too much). Talk of '3 in sports clothes and one in military clothing'. She thinks either police or military so definitely a slot worth looking at more often. Since then I received this for two hours yesterday (1/7) so I've edited it down and sent it to my contact to see if we can narrow it down further.