** AUSTRIA. 6155, March 6 at 0701, legacy Ö1 with news in Austro-German, S9 and
good modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 6180, March 7 at 0106, RNA/RNB is back on after missing a few
nights, and no spurblobs detected below it, hopefully having fixed that problem
in the interim. Modulation on 6180 itself is sufficient now (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11855.18V, March 5 at 2348, R. Aparecida is S5 and just barely
modulated, frequency audibly varying.
11855.26V, March 7 at 0120, R. Aparecida is up to here, still wobbling, and
still JBM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 332 kHz, March 6 at 0654 UT, beacon QE and long dash (a Canadian
characteristic). Can`t find any listed at dxinfocentre.com but think it must
have been QT in Thunder Bay, Ontario. I was debating whether the second letter
was a T or an E, since the ID was sent so slowly, but opted for E, and again
seemed to center on 333 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 7540, March 5 at 2326, VP S6 signal with talk echoing, maybe
long/short path? More likely double CNR1 jamming against RFA Tibetan ``bod``
dialect via KUWAIT as scheduled this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11840 and parasites 11850, 11830, Sunday March 5 at 2351, `En
Contacto` DX program from RHC seems to be relying more and more on Prof.
Arnaldo Coro Antich. This segment is a `new` one called `Frecuencias del
Mundo`, as Arnie finally tries to provide some real DX info rather than going
on and on about propagation, Cuban stations, home-brew equipment. He used to
denigrate the competition for giving out so many numbers, i.e. frequencies
where one might really hear something other than RHC. Not off to a very good
start, as the only ones he mentions are 6180 Brasil and weaker 6185 Mexico,
clueless that 6180 has been off the air for several days (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6060, March 6 at 0437, RHC is off, so no leapfrog across 6165 on 6270
either, which someone has reported hearing again.
5025, March 6 at 0437 check, R. Rebelde is back on. I wonder if a transmitter
shortage accounts for this: when 5025 is on, 6060 is off and vice versa? March
7 at 0102, 5025 is off again, and 6060 is on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** ECUADOR. 6050, March 6 at 0703, S8 Spanish religious talk, so HCJB is still
testing here all-night. And we thought they were deferential to coreligionist
ELWA. Will eventually contract to old 0500*? (Glenn Hauser, oK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 11530.6, March 6 at 2232, once I find MWV Arabic, Radio Feda
quite strong on 11790, I go looking again for a spurblob like accompanies 11610
in Chinese during previous hour, plus and minus 258.5 kHz from that frequency
--- and here it is, but 259.4 kHz below 11790. Eventually manage to match
enough // modulation to the fundamental. Opposite should be on 12049.4,
probably there but can`t detect it, far too close to the bigsig from 12050.0
WEWN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, March 7 at 0101, JBA carrier from R. Chaski until cutoff at
0103:42* approx., which would be 14.5 seconds later than two nights ago, March
5 until 0103:27.5*, or averaging 7.25 each. Tonight`s reading is not as
accurate, fighting huge S9+20 storm noise level, from a lightning band from OKC
to Tulsa and beyond, tho nothing around here. It could have been more like
0103:41, exact cutoff obscured by staticrash, which would fit with the usual
slippage rate circa 6.75 seconds/24 hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SOUTH AMERICA. As the ARRL phone DX contest enters its final semihour, March
5 from 2329 to 2334, I find ``15`` meters open from all over S America ---
(yet not a single SW broadcast station on the continent cares to use adjacent
13m --- in fact, as of 1991, there were no SAm stations except HCJB on 21480,
just foreign relays in French Guiana and (almost SAm) Bonaire. If the hams can
do this with 100 or 1000 watts, think what a full power high-gain SWBC station
could achieve!)
Here`s what I quickly log in 5 minutes from Uruguay, Venezuela, Brasil,
Argentina, fortunately all giving calls fonetikaly, and I won`t bother looking
up their own details or copying contacts` calls:
2329 on 21381-USB, CX2DK
2330 on 21360-USB, YV6YV
2330 on 21307.5-USB, PY3PA
2331 on 21282.5-USB, PX2B
2332 on 21246-USB, ZV2C (100 watts), with CF7XNL, British Columbia
2333 on 21230-USB, PS2T
2334 on 21227-USB, LU5FF
15m is just right, while 20m is full of pileups every few kHz; forget it (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 198 kHz, March 6 at 0658 UT, beacon DIW with long pause. I`d rather
hear BBC Radio 4. Dxinfocentre.com shows this is in Dixon, NC, class HH which
means HIGH POWER HOMING BEACON (2000W / 200NM or more)
and W meaning Without Voice Facilities. Why not DIX? There are no beacons
listed with that call; maybe someone
