** ECUADOR. HCJB, 11960 in Spanish, Feb 15 at 1429 was giving their Western Union account number for donations, but natch, the automation cut if off for the mandatory ID break at 1429:30 as always giving the two wrong frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. Checked 15630 for a few minutes Feb 15 at 1440, the experimental Olympia Radio relay; pretty weak but did not hear any breaks in carrier or modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. XEXQ, 6045, at 0713 Feb 15 with flute and piano classical music, but at 0715 it was the Ritual Fire Dance. I never hear any announcements. Seems like they are playing some CDs of best-of classics, rather than seriously programming this. XEYU, 9599.2, was audible weakly with classical music at 0707 UT check Feb 15; usually it has been inaudible this time of night, but this is what it took: (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Solar flux 73 and mid-latitude A-index 16. The mid-latitude K-index at 0600 UTC on 15 February was 5 (77 nT). Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level occurred. Space weather for the next 24 hours is expected to be minor. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level are expected (SEC via DXLD) ** TURKEY. Live from Turkey, Thu Feb 15 at 1352 was much better on 11735 than 12035, the latter being weak and echoey, the former fair and steady, the opposite of what one would expect since 12035 is aimed toward us and 11735 is aimed east. This dichotomy varies from one day to the next, as if they are exchanging the antennas and frequencies at random; otherwise we can only blame it on the vagaries of propagation. But since VOT have also been caught on completely wrong frequencies for other languages, why not wrong antennas too? No callers this time either, so the hosts gabbed and played some music breaks. Among the topics, bungee jumping, Turkish film industry improving with some new ones lately, also a TV channel plays a lot of them; and this summer`s essay contest. To keep costs down it has been decided to have only 8 winners instead of 10 getting all-expenses-paid 2-week tours of Turkey in August/September. Both frequencies went off around 1425 after less than one iteration of the IS, so this time the 1430 languages were more likely to be on the correct frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. DRM on 9720-9725-9730, with DGS Costa Rica analog right smack dab in the middle of it, 0709 UT Feb 15. DRM noise could be heard mixing with him, but louder on the adjacent frequencies, so it must have been centred on 9725. Nothing listed on any of them in the DRM online schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Preorder your WRTH 2007: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2007 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] 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
