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Today's Topics:
1. radio-archives - new website (Michael Schnitzer)
2. Lapland DXpedition report on DXing.info (Mika Makelainen)
3. March 12-13 Logs (brian384...@aol.com)
4. Glenn Hauser logs March 12-13, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
5. HF1000 DX (Charles Bolland)
6. Glenn Hauser logs March 12-13, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:15:57 +0100
From: Michael Schnitzer <schnitzer-mich...@web.de>
To: hcdx <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: [HCDX] radio-archives - new website
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Hello,
here ist my new website:
http://home.arcor.de/radio-archiv
This radio archives contains recordings of shortwave and mediumwave
radio stations. The oldest recordings were made in the year 1969 when I
started my DX-activities. Essentially I received the stations at home in
Germany. Some of the transatlantic mediumwave stations I heard on
DX-camps in Denmark by using more appropriate antenna technology.
Unfortunately many of the recorded radio stations have stopped
broadcasting on shortwave and cannot be heard any more. On that reason
this web page can be regarded as a historical document, too.
Happy listening to the audio files!
Michael Schnitzer, Germany
http://home.arcor.de/radio-archiv
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:12:43 +0200
From: Mika Makelainen <m...@makelainen.com>
To: m...@yahoogroups.com, hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com, Suomalaisten
DX-lista <d...@kotalampi.com>, News BDXC <bdxc-n...@yahoogroups.com>,
topn...@wwdxc.de, IRCA <i...@hard-core-dx.com>,
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condigl...@yahoogroups.com, Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>, Tapio
Kalmi <tapio.ka...@ssf.sas.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Lapland DXpedition report on DXing.info
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In case you haven't already noticed, there's a new Lapland DXpedition
report on DXing.info at http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/lem291rep.dx
The 291st DXpedition to Lemmenjoki did not yield coveted Aussies or
Kiwis, but AM conditions to North America and the Far East were pretty
good most of the time. Also a bunch of interesting stations from Mexico
and the rest of Latin America were heard. And as you can see in the
photos, Lapland is very beautiful this time of the year.
73
Mika
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:34:49 EST
From: brian384...@aol.com
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] March 12-13 Logs
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** ARGENTINA. 11710.74, RAE, 0211-0230, March 12, tune-in to
English programming with feature on local music. ID. English news
at 0225. Fair. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** BRAZIL. 5939.93, Radio Voz Mission?ria, Florian?polis, 0515-0605,
March 13, Portuguese religious talk. Religious music. Announcements.
Jingles. Echo announcements. Poor in noisy conditions. Weaker on
// 11749.85. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** BRAZIL. 11765, Super Radio Deus ? Amor, Curitiba PR, 0355-0410,
March 13, emotional Portuguese preacher. ID announcements at 0402.
Local religious music. Poor in noisy conditions. // 6060 - weak under
Cuba. // 9565.22 - poor with adjacent channel splatter. (Brian Alexander,
PA)
** ETHIOPIA. 5980, Voice of Tigray Rev, *0256-0310, March 12, sign
on with IS. Vernacular talk at 0300. Horn of Africa music. Poor. Weak.
// 5950 - weak but in the clear until Okeechobee came on the air at
0300. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** MADAGASCAR. 5010, Radio Madagasikara, *0247-0320, March 13,
sign on with local music. Choral music. IS at 0257. Choral National
Anthem at 0258. Talk at 0300 in presumed Malagasy. Religious music
at 0302. Religious talk. Weak but readable. Reduced carrier USB.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
** MADAGASCAR [non]. via Pridnestrovye, 15660, Radio Mada Int,
*1529:30-1600*, March 13, sign on with pop tune. Talk in presumed
Malagasy at 1530. Speech by man at 1531. Crowd noise. Poor to fair.
Sat, Sun only. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6924.7 AM, MAC Radio, 1635-1737*,
March 13, ?Ultraman Show? with music by the Beatles, Stepenwolf,
and others. IDs. email address: _macshortw...@yahoo.com_
(mailto:macshortw...@yahoo.com) . Theme
music from ?Get Smart? TV show. Sign off with National Anthem.
Strong. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6952.55 AM, WHYP, 1503-1518+,
March 13, punk music. IDs. James Brownyard announcer.
Acknowledged listeners? reports. Fair to good. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** SUDAN. 7200, SRTC, 0226-0315+, March 13, tune-in to Qur`an.
Arabic talk at 0244. Vocal chants. Chirping birds. Local music. Fair.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
** SUDAN [non]. via Ascension, 17700, Southern Sudan Interactive
Radio Instruction, *1600-1700*, March 13, opening SSIRS theme
music. Arabic talk. Local music. SSIRS listed here but I am only
hearing IDs as Sudan Radio Service and mention of sudanradio.org
website. Good. (Brian Alexander, PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:40:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
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Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 12-13, 2010
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** AUSTRALIA. Monitored R. Australia from before 1400 UT March 13 to see which
frequencies would go or not: at 1358*, 9580 cut off the air amid country music
without so much as a goodbye, or retune-to advisory. 9590 remained on the air,
1359 announced as Saturday Night Country program from ABC Local Radio to resume
after the news which at 1400 came instead from ABC National. 1440 recheck, 9590
still on unlike yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CRETE. Here`s a radio-country you will never hear on SWBC. March 13 at 1548,
only a couple of signals on 14m, the better being an SV9 on 21272-USB. He was
making contact after contact, mostly with 20 over 9 North Americans, merely by
saying QRZ? After previous contact.
Apparently contest-inspired, but he was still saying a few unnecessary words
prolonging the exchanges just a bit, including handle as Mike. Altho he gave
call fonetically, his last three letters were difficult to copy since he did
not enunciate them clearly, signal was very weak and fading at the wrong
instants. Finally at 1555 made out SV9CVY on Crete, and this chex with QRZ.com
listing:
SV9CVY
MICHAEL DIMITRAKAKIS
P.O.BOX 257
RETHYMNO CRETE 74100,
Greece
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. RHC check March 12 at 2050: 11760 in English, 11730 in
Spanish, open carrier on 11770, no signal on 11800; heavy jamming against
nothing on 11600, 11930. More down time, possibly caused by installation of new
Chinese copies of American transmitters.
15360, March 13 at 1455 had heavy mix from something in Persian, but RHC
stopped at 1458, uncovering RFI closing announcement until 1500*. Since as an
outlaw nation, Cuba refuses to participate in HFCC, TDF may be officially
unaware that Cuba is colliding (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also
USA: WRMI
** INDONESIA. 4750, RRI Makassar presumed the musical signal still holding up
more than an hour after local sunrise, March 13 at 1353, but local noise level
has gone up. Likewise on March 12.
VOI missing again from 9526v, March 13, before 14 during the English hour and
after 14 during the Indonesian hour, while RRI 9680 was incoming well from same
Cimanggis site. But at 1607, a signal with Qur`an, which must be VOI, on
9524.9, not 9525.9, but no het from Kashgar.
Ishida says the VOI 16 UT hour is sometimes in Indonesian, sometimes Arabic,
tho his most recent entry of March 7 had it in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR [non]. 15660, presumed R. Mada International, Saturday March 13
at 1540 with speech, poor signal via PRIDNESTROVYE, but unusually better than
ex-collider Miraya FM via SLOVAKIA on 15670 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, RNZI, March 13 at 0606, SSOB, YL giving cyclone Thomas
warning for Tuvalu and Fiji with distances in miles, Cyclone Ului for Vanuatu
with distances in kilometres. 0608 joining RNZ National with birthday music
request show in progress, classical at the moment with Radetzky March.
I wasn`t sure of the name of the U- cyclone, but figured it would be easy to
look up. Not: There are multiple name-lists for Pacific storms depending on the
region and on the country submitting them, some of them lacking any U-s. But
the RNZI website had the info; alternate spelling of Thomas is Tomas (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 15170, RRI Romanian service, QRM-free since on Saturdays only,
REE/Costa Rica is absent, March 13 at 1435 with Bach organ music, interrupted
at 1438 to move on to Handel, and every few minutes to other composers, Liszt,
Franck.
Great music and very good reception, but RRI suffers from ADD, or expects its
audience to, thus airing only snippets of longer worx which deserve full
treatment. Cut off abruptly at 1456*. Much weaker 11940 was //, and subject to
DentroCuban jamming spreading from 11930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WINB, 13570, with disgraced child-marrying evangelist `Tony Alamo`,
March 12 at 2048, and quite distorted modulation as is only apropos (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. In a previous report I said that the WTWW transmitter is a Harris
100; George McClintock corrects this March 12: no, it`s a Continental 418,
solid state modulated, very reliable. (We had also been discussing the Harris,
which he is glad he does not have because of various problems with that model.)
Any interruptions in transmission now are because he turns it off to work out
some ``tiny bugs`` before programming begins in earnest at the end of March.
At 2052 UT March 12, 9480 was just going from open carrier to off. Next check
at 2157, it was on with PPP.
I was standing by to hear WTWW`s new 5080 ex-5755 from the very first instant.
At 2358 March 12, 9480 was in open carrier and shortly off the air. It took a
few minutes to come up on 5080 with open carrier, starting at *0003:30.
Meanwhile I was listening to the utility on 5078 by tuning to 5080-LSB on the
DX-398. It was sending out data pulses 26 times per minute, each consisting of
multiple quick tones. After WTWW came on, I could still hear it on the side
when tuned to 5080-AM, but stepping up to 5081 with narrow bandwidth got rid of
it. Wide bandwidth required stepping up to 5083, getting a bit too far off WTWW
itself.
Next check of 5080 at 0212 March 13, just as PPP was mentioning the new
frequency and asking for reports on it, along with the other two frequencies he
was on, 5070 and 5890. 5070?? Yes, I was not aware that besides 24h on WWCR-4
5890/9980 he is also scheduled for one hour live UT Tue-Sat 02-03 on WWCR-3
5070 [from next week, 01-02]. Hmm, how convenient having him on two frequencies
only 10 kHz apart for comparison. Strength seemed about the same here, maybe
WTWW a little stronger.
On 9480 at 1402, double audio on the PPP feed, one of them giving outdated WTWW
frequency info including ex-9475 and ex-5755! 307-AC phone number and e-mail
for reception reports. At 1405 only one audio, but modulation problems, same as
via WWCR 9980, ergo Scriptures for America fault (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WWCR-3 streaming silently March 13 at 1745 check during WORLD OF
RADIO, both on the mp3 and the real. Then at 1749 the real player starting
cutting in and out of extremely sped-up audio, as if a tape in fast-forward
were sporadically hitting the heads. WWCR-1 streaming did not have this problem.
Fortunately, VG broadcast of WORLD OF RADIO on 12160 was unaffected and this
week did not go into looping either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See
also WTWW above
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6297, R. Nacional de la RASD, March 13 at 0715 with
some really nice traditional music; 0720 YL DJ in Arabic dialect, good
reception (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, WRMI, Saturday March 13 at 1441 voice of gh in WORLD OF RADIO
1503 detectable under Cuban pulse jamming, and so weak that 9950 Palau was
stronger and hetting.
We are still waiting for WRMI`s 317-degree antenna USward to be repaired and
back in service at certain hours; meanwhile everything is on the 160-degree
toward Caribbean and S America.
>From March 14, all WRMI program times move one UT hour earlier, so this airing
>of WOR will be Sat 1330, when jamming could be even worse. Tnx a lot, Arnie!
>(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13845, WWCR-2 missing, Saturday March 13 at 1447, tho WWCR-1 was
quite audible on 15825. However, this allowed the hash from WEWN 13835 to be
clearly detectable around 13844, as well as 13826 close to R. Mart?.
At 1541 on 15825, Martha Garvin`s Musical Memories was running, as she
reminisced about her disabled Uncle Henry who still praised God from the pew.
1530 Sat is one of her intentional times on current schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9300-USB, Spanish 2-way, March 13 at 1405 spirited conversation,
still going at 1436 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:34:33 -0000
From: "Charles Bolland" <ka4...@peoplepc.com>
To: "ALF" <alf.e.pers...@telia.com>, "Arnaldo slaen"
<sl...@ciudad.com.ar>, "Bob Wilkner" <r...@earthlink.net>,
"brainman214" <brainman...@gmail.com>,Carlos
GonA?alves<carlos-rel...@sapo.pt>, "Cumbre" <cumbr...@n2jeu.net>,
"DSWCI" <l...@directbox.com>, "Gayle Van Horn"
<gaylevanh...@monitoringtimes.com>, "Glenn Hauser"
<wghau...@yahoo.com>, "Hard-core-dx" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>,
"Marie Lamb" <mal...@cumbredx.org>
Subject: [HCDX] HF1000 DX
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Peru, 6019.30, Radio Victoria, 1057-1105, Reported
this earlier today, but using a different
receiver, the WJ HF1000. Noted a male in regular
Spanish comments this morning. After
the hour a female comments. Music follows. Signal
was poor with Het QRM. (Chuck March 13, 2010)
Russia, 6075, Radio Rossii, 1100-1120, Noted a
program of commentary and news by male and
female in Russian language. Signal was fair after some
adjustment of the frequency. At 1112,
bridge music here. (Chuck, March 13, 2010)
Indonesia, 4749.94, RRI Makassar, 1120-1135, At tune
in, noted usual local type popular music.
On the half hour, a male comments in Indonesian
language. Signal was poor to fair. (Chuck
March 13, 2010)
Indonesia, 9680, RRI Jakarta, 1136-1145, At tune in
heard music. At 1140 promos or ADs, not
sure which? Signal was good at this point. (Chuck
March 13, 2010)
Watkins Johnson HF1000
26.27N 081.05W
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:05:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com
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Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 12-13, 2010
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** CHINA [and non]. 15550, March 13 at 2324, Chinese with flutter and also SAH?
over another station with music, i.e. ChiCom jamming and R. Free Asia in
Mandarin via TINIAN during this hour only.
Evening here/morning there with plenty of Firedrakes, March 13-UT 14, all //:
13970 at 2327, VP and fluttery with drumming segment
17970 at 2328, much better
16700 at 0035, good signal with flutter, better than 17970
13970 at 0037, better than before, but now weaker than 17970
17645 at 0040, stronger than something mixed with, i.e. VOA Chinese via Tinang,
00-03
18180 at 0041, just barely audible
16700 at 0041, has declined to JBA too
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC observations March 13-UT 14: 17705 at 2320 in Creole (definitely
not French), mentioning Cuban cities, P- and E-mail addresses; audio distorted
but S9+12. This semihour is supposed to be in Portuguese, both per WRTH 2010
and RHC online sked presented in Spanish. Creole is supposed to be at 0100-0130
on 13790. By 0038, 17705 was inaudible, presumably off, but French (definitely
not Creole) was on 13790, as scheduled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** HAWAII [and non]. Pipeline from here on 10 and 12 meters March 13 at
1949-2000 UT; at least nothing else from the Pacific or anywhere was heard
besides these S9+10 hams, but huge uninhabited areas may have been propagable,
even other islands with negligible hamactivity.
They were all mainly working mainland stations as far as W4. I am not bothering
to copy the calls of most of the contactees, as I am not interested in QSLing
any of them, but such details might be scavenged by bellabarbas. All these
calls are definite tnx to fonetix.
At 1949 on 28454, KH7HI on the southeast side of the Big Island
At 1952 on 28420, KH6CB
At 1955 on 28325, KH7TI, 100 watts
At 1958 on 24932, KH7XS, calling DX outside N America only, but at first had to
settle for WP4EJH. QRZ.com says it`s a club contest station up for sale. Did
Hawaii run out of KH6 calls? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 5920, March 13 at 0019 just tuned in as NHKWNRJ English
broadcast was ending with frequencies including 5970 via Rampisham. Thought
they had made a mistake as this was heard and scheduled on 5920 via Skelton,
until I remembered that the frequencies announced at the end of any broadcast
are only for the *next* one, i.e. 0500 when there is 5975 via Rampisham (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 6185, March 13 at 2335 romantic music in Spanish, so XEPPM
already on earlier than scheduled *0000, and advantageous since there is no QRM
at this hour. It might come back at any moment, but RNAmaz?nia is still missing
from 6185. From April 4, the slightly more sensible start-date for DST in
M?xico, 6185 will normally begin at *2300, but now?
Here are the program grids ``for the month`` updated 15 Feb, first concerning
MW 1060 and then the separate evening schedule for SW 6185:
http://www.radioeducacion.edu.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1319&Itemid=254
After 0000 a long conversation about earthquaxe. The Saturday 18+ CST show was
Planeta 1060 in November, and now it`s shown as Los Contertulios. Google
translates that as The Coterie; while the word is unknown to my Random House
dixionary. Planeta 1060 sounds more likely for an earthquake discussion.
The papacy is not the only other institution on 6185; Vatican Radio does not
start until 0300+, but at 0056 March 14 was hearing Russian tune-up tones
underneath, 0100 VOR opening Spanish. That`s via St Petersburg-Popovka site at
265 degrees, previously obscured by Bras?lia, and of course a terrible
collision in most of Latin America with XEPPM a poor third if at all until 0600.
6185 also gets squeezed from a few sex before 0100 with very strong Vietnam via
Canada cutting on 6175, and Serbia [non] on 6190 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEWFOUNDLAND. 2598-SSB, March 14 at 0111, YL with weather for the Labrador
Coast. It was in Feb and March of last year when I logged VCP4, Placentia on
2598, as in DXLD 9-020, but during a different part of the hour rotating with
others. Per page 34 of the document referenced
http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/folios/00026/docs/part-2ae-2008-eng.pdf
starting at 0107 UT on 2598-J3E is MCTS St. Anthony/VCM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. Pirates Saturday evening March 13-UT 14: 6925, at 2336,
distorted music on SSB; 0006 ``Outhouse Radio, fixin` to get off here in a
bit``. 0006 ``Flight of the Bumblebee`` on jazzed-up electronic instrument.
Next check at 0018 it was gone. Please QSL?
6952.6 AM at 2336 weak music; 0004 stronger, M&M talk; 0018 now S+10 with music
but undermodulated. Perhaps someone can ID this by its odd frequency. In fact,
earlier on March 13, Brian Alexander in PA reported: 6952.55 AM, WHYP,
1503-1518+ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Enid`s own part-15 FM station continues to broadcast brief loops
by children, some of whom are incredibly unqualified to be announcers, on 97.7,
which can be heard with a few blox of the kilochurch on West Garriott (US 412).
Lately there has been lots of background noise on the recordings to make it
even worse. On March 13 at 2205 UT, briefer than usual without the usual
platitudes of a Bible verse, birthday greetings, historical note, but just
``Happy spring break``, ``the last sixth-grade trip``; no made-up ``WECS`` call
letters as before but ID only as ``the young voices of Emmanuel Christian
School`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 18057.9, March 13 at 2315, believe I was hearing wacky wailer David
Miranda, but at 2316 to ad for some other preacher appearing in person March
17. Most of the hams on 18 MHz at this time were SS, including an HK4. I should
have checked R. Victoria`s fundamental 6019.3 as at this hour it could also
have been audible; it certainly was an hour later hetting CRI via ALBANIA
6020.0. Chuck Bolland in FL has also measured it on 6019.30 before sunrise
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1280, KSOK Arkansas City, Kansas [the town rhymes with the state], a
semi-local, missing March 13 at 1945 UT. I believe this also happened a few
weeks ago inexplicably. By the time I was in the car, at 2200, hoping to inpull
something else, it was back on as if nothing had happened, lengthy
self-congratulatory ID, including ``The absolute best in classic country, in
south-central Kansas, and north-central Oklahoma``, KSOK, Ark City. It`s a
daytimer and I still haven`t got around to hooking up my AM stereo tuner to see
if it retains C-Quam (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Checking whether WTWW would broadcast a second night on new 5080,
despite ute QRM from and to 5078: March 14 at 0009 still not on the air, and
not on 9480 or 5755 either. OK on the FRG-7 but I noticed on the YB-400 which
is subject to 900 kHz 2 x IF images, 5080 had a weak `signal` in Spanish, from
CRI via Cuba on 5990. Tho it`s not really there, stations should anyway avoid
being 900 or 910 kHz below strong signals on many similar receivers.
I was monitoring other bands during most of the hour, but next check at 0103,
5080 was on with PPP singing, which overcame the 5078 QRM but when he started
talking it resumed audibility (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Nothing from WWRB heard at 0009 March 14: 3215 and 5050 not on the
air. But 5050 was at 0103, as were 3215 and 3185 at 0110, all with separate
programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13845, WWCR-2, altho missing earlier March 13 at 1447, was back on at
next check 2327 with DGS, and no problem from WEWN now on 13830 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** UNIDENTIFIED. 9300-SSB, Spanish 2-way (or more like multi-way), March 14 at
0047; one of them with engine noise. As in previous report, I had heard same at
1405, 1436 March 13, so this frequency may be a reliable one. I wish some
native speakers would monitor these contacts for any clues as to their
provenance (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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