** ALBANIA. 7465-, Jan 24 at 0227, R. Tirana IS, about S8, a little better than last night. But 0230 sign-on is lower modulation and hard to copy. I can tell that she has fixed the time on the earlier English to correct 2100-2130 instead of ``2100-2030`` on 7465; but there`s a fade when she`s giving the frequency for this 0230 broadcast, we hope changed from 7470 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA [and non]. 6134.8, Jan 24 at 0235, humbuzz with no discernible program modulation, as the R. Santa Cruz transmitter is apparently out of order. It`s about S8, while R. Aparecida is JBA at S8 on 6135.2 and can`t make out modulation from it either. Wolfgang Büschel already noted this problem 6 nights ago: ``6134.812, ONLY BUZZY CARRIER - 0648 and 0715 UT Jan 18, S=7, Radio Santa Cruz Bolivia TX on air? wb`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 900, Jan 24 at 0251 UT, monolog about goal tenders, team formerly with AHL, now at First Ontario Center, recap of a ``fun hockey`` game tonight. Surely 50 kW CHML Hamilton. Its night pattern has a notch toward us, so not normally audible. Could it be non-direxional for benefit of winter storm? But heavy snow there no big deal. Maybe just VG conditions from the east tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 4765, Jan 24 at 0239, NO signal from R. Progreso, competing with 6185 Mexico for unexpected silence (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11845, Jan 23 at 0434, weak pulse jamming vs nothing, a Cuban unit which hasn`t been needed since the A-11 season, when R. Martí quit using this frequency at any hour, and never at night! 5955, Jan 24 at 0213, weak pulse jamming against nothing, another leftover from even longer ago than on 11845, when there was Radio República on 5954v via Costa Rica(?). The ever-vigilant DentroCuban Jamming Command is all set for a comeback!! Now it QRMs poor Radio Pio XII, Bolivia, on 5952.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6185-, Jan 24 at 0234, NO signal from XEPPM, R. Educación. Hope this is only temporary! That means essentially nothing above 6175 Vietnam-UK on 49m at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 6040, Jan 24 at 0221, The Mighty KBC going into Kim with VOA Radiogram; S9+15, but constant het on hi side from Brasil 6040.4 or so. I can eliminate it by LSB tuning, bandwidth 3 kHz or less, passband shifted to lo side. I wonder what the ``tone`` does to Radiogram decoding otherwise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEWFOUNDLAND. Re: ``2598-USB, Jan 23 at 0101, YL in English with weather, S8-S9. Canadian CG site shows starting at 0048 is MCTS Placentia / VCP, with ``Radiotelephony --- Technical marine synopsis, forecasts and wave height forecasts for marine areas 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237 and 238. Weather and Wave height forecasts for marine area 213``. In a few minutes at 0107 it must cede the frequency to VOK Labrador via St Anthony.`` I should add that the site for this particular VCP broadcast is: St. Lawrence, island of Newfoundland (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6930-USB, Jan 24 at 0224, pirate music, but stops at 0225 and some talk I can`t make out; nothing further during next semihour nor any other pirates noted this Saturday night. Three other logs of it as unID; I did not find it to be Spanish: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,25931.0.html (Glenn Hauser, oK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 960, UT Sun Jan 24 UT at 0249 on the way to 900 CHML, I notice that local KGWA is running `Our Miss Brooks` oldtime radio featuring Mr. Conklin. Checking website http://kgwanews.com I find a contradixion: ``ON AIR NOW --- Tom Torbjorsen 8:00pm - 10:00pm America’s Car Show`` He`s also on the very disorganized ``LINEUP`` at http://kgwanews.com/lineup and nothing about OMB (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 6080, Jan 23 at 0555, VOA Greenville with weekend rock music instead of news magazine, still operational with VG signal, despite widespread power outages in NC. Does GB have full generator backup capability? IIRC they do depend on local power grid normally (and defunct Greenville-A was deliberately on a different one) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1809 monitoring: Nino Marabello in Treviso, Italy gave the Sat 0729 broadcast on HLR 7265-CUSB a SINPO of 15522. Checking the 1530 Sat Jan 23 broadcast from Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB, on UTwente remote at 1557 I can barely make out somebody with intonation like mine, under China Radio International. Next: Sun 0410v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND? [was good signal here 2 hours earlier] Sun 0900 WRMI 5850 to NW Mon 0400v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 to WSW Mon 0430.6 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 1415.6 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 3185 & 3195, Jan 24 at 0217, WWRB is back on after missing from all frequencies 25 hours earlier; 3185 with BS of course, and 3195 with non-Dave preacher (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. I`m hearing WRVA 1140 Richmond VA from 0247 UT Sunday Jan 24 with ``continuing winter storm coverage`` taking callers, dominant over XEMR. They say this will continue till midnight and resume at 6 AM (ET). Tho I occasionally hear it, this is unusual; day and night 50 kW patterns are both unfavorable for here, being NW/SE, so I wonder if they could or would go ND for the emergency? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re: 1340 Springfield MO, KADI Jan 7 log by gh: Glenn, the calls here have been KICK again since November (David Yocis, NRC DX News Jan 25 via DXLD) ** YEMEN [non]. 11860, Jan 23 at 1435, R. Sana`a is mostly talk instead of music; but by 1453 oft-heard triumphal theme; cut to Maghrib call to prayer at 1457:15.5, which is 2:53 later than yesterday at 1454:22.5, finally catching up to the latening sunset. 1500 back to music instead of usual talk at least on weekdays. IBB Kuwait can be heard underneath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7297-USB, Jan 23 at 1419, very informal ham net on USB instead of LSB (one must be careful on the R75 as settings may fool one with one sideband ``folding over`` onto the other). I listen until 1427 and never an ID. Not an ``over`` either, resulting in numerous talk-overs. Discussing overkill of something, country living, taxes in Denmark. One is named Glenn (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 0426 UT January 24 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@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
