** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 17 at 1355, Bangladesh Betar carrier is already on, and initially pure and clean; 1356 starts tone and hum simultaneously as site brings up feed from studio; 1358:30 hum continues with switch to IS. Also parasitic peaks of noise detectable about 4.4 kHz above and below. Timesignal ends at 1359:44.5, opening Urdu. I hope no vessel is depending on this for navigation, lest it run into a reef or a peak (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11780, April 17 at 0059 tune-in, ID mentions Rádio MEC non-SW outlets in at least three cities, 0100 ``Nacional informa`` = news. Maybe they already IDed as R. Nacional da Amazônia before I tuned in? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 990, April 17 at 0506 UT, XET`s overnite multi-decade host heard recently has now reached his show no. 18,300. Fast SAH with CBW fighting over the frequency amid America. We are somewhat closer to Monterrey than Winnipeg, but if XET were on legal night pattern southward only, CBW could dominate 990 this far into El Sur, except when aurorally attenuated. Guess what: per NRC AM Log, CBW is not a 50 kW station at night, but cut to only 46 kW, why?? Don`t forget that FCC AM Query has full data not only on US stations, but Canadian, Mexican and thruout the Americas, with XET`s theoretical night pattern here: http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/309029-60021.pdf showing a southward circle, but a bit of a bump to the NNW, null apparently aimed at CBW to the NNE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, April 17 at 0050, R. Chaski carrier is detectable vs band noise, splash from 5990 CRI/Cuba, and possibly residual jamming. (My streetlite has already fired on at *0049 as it`s overcast.) By 0100, 5990 is off; at 0101 I can make out some music on 5980, and carrier cut at 0103:38.5* which is 5.5 sex later than last nite (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RWANDA. 21780, April 16 at 1852, VG signal from DW in Hausa, on otherwise almost dead band for lack of interest by broadcasters; in fact, would be the OSOB if it were not for a very weak 21630 = WHRI which is aimed back toward Africa, but inside the skip zone here. So just the SSOB. 21780 is // 15275 also VG (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9930, Tuesday April 16 at 1858, WTWW-2 is on with a Ted Randall `QSO` show, ham discussion about the ISS; keeps playing at 1900 as a canned ID also by Ted overrides it. Maybe he will slot in some World of Radio playbacks too in the expanded flexible schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9330, April 17 at 1223, WBCQ with open carrier/dead air, having lost Good Friends Radio Network. First time I have noticed this in quite a while now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1120, April 17 at 0510 UT, Mexican music causing heavy QRM to KMOX, and can`t really null it to be sure it`s KEOR cheating again. Makes SAH of 280/minute = 4 and two thirds Hz. 0515 fading out before I can decide if the music is praiseworthy (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1520, April 17 at 0520 UT, mysterious Mexican music is also QRMing KOKC with fast SAH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list hard-core...@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
