** AUSTRALIA [and non]. R. Australia, 7240, 50 degrees from Shepparton to Pacific, is a good reliable signal here after 1400, and usually hams avoid it, but Feb 20 at 1519 I was hearing a QSO precisely on frequency, so they could give their BFOs a rest, but I should think it would have been tough to talk with RA mixing in. Were they QRMing it deliberately? One of the calls was N5MUF, using the obvious fonetix, who per ARRL lookup is: BRUMFIELD, THOMAS R, N5MUF (General), Pearl, MS 39208 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHAD. RNT, 4905, still having problems. Fairly good carrier at 0608 Feb 20, but talk barely modulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. RHC, the UT day after Fidel finally resigned, Feb 20 at 0610-0625 or so, checked 6060 and heard nothing at all about that, not even mentioning Fidel. Did not rate among top three news headlines, starting with something about US forces in Iraq. Perhaps instruxions on just how to play this somewhat momentous story were slow to trickle down, so they just said nothing. Wait till he really dies --- maybe then RHC will pull out all the stops, tho it may take a while to find out, following their Soviet models. 0611 topic: sister cities Quito and Cienfuegos (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. R. Verdad, 4052.4 (or at least a smidgen below 4052.5), Feb 20, 0550 playing Johnny Cash`s Were You There? slow hymn, joined by a soprano harmonizing, June? 0553 dead air; 0554 Lord`s Prayer in English; 0555 sign-off until 5 AM (1100 UT), ``good night from your speaker (preacher?), Edgar Madrid``, then hymn to waltz beat, 0557:30 YL Spanish sign-off, 0558 National Anthem by band and choir running several verses to 0602:30 and carrier stayed on a while longer. Rated S9+12 on my E-W longwire to FRG-7, or SINPO 35333. Modulation was somewhat muffled, fuzzy thruout. One should really monitor TGAV and report on their real eighth anniversary, Feb 25 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MAURITANIA. ORTM, 4845, which I had heard a couple recent nights, was missing again Feb 20 at 0607; just the constant utility pulsing on same frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. XEYU, Radio Unam, 9599.3, quite good with continuous classical music, `cello et al., Feb 20 from 2235 until at *2311:30 hit by Vatican Radio on 9600.0 joining program in progress, then IS at 2314, producing a bad het making both unlistenable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** POLAND [non]. And I do mean non! Checking 9660, scheduled for PRES 2200-2300 back to Europe via GUIANA FRENCH, 250 kW, 40 degrees, analog, all I heard was an unmodulated carrier at various chex between 2210 and 2235. Something must really be wrong at Montsinéry, as a number of other transmissions were moved away from there, and it seems this one should be, or has been? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Robotic female voice on 4396-SSB, Feb 20 at 0605, weather for Gulf of Alaska. Audio was choppy with clix; also, she ignorantly transformed 4:00 pm into ``four hundred PM``, at least twice. Can`t they do better than this? I see numerous logs on this frequency in UDXF forums of WLO Mobile AL, tho more likely geographically I would expect its robotic sister station KLB in Kent WA. Their website http://www.shipcom.com/frequencies.html does not match what I heard. It shows WLO, not KLB on 4396, and at 0600 is supposed to be for the Caribbean; offshore Alaska supposed to be at 0800, apparently meaning direct from WLO, with no specific schedule given for KLB which is ``Enhanced Coverage of the Pacific and Alaskan waters`` and might have been relaying if I had checked 4405 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9000, looking for Firedrake/Sound of Hope as reported, Feb 20 did not hear that, but instead something odd with the BFO on: ``siren`` sound, oscillating carrier would come on about every five minutes for half a minute or so, but not precisely every five minutes; in between, no sign of SOH or any broadcaster. Heard at 1355, 1401, 1406, 1411, 1415, 1420, 1424, 1434; again 1504, 1514, 1519 Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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
