This report, keyed as MPDX, consists of a quick 40-minute bandscan just before
and after local sundown, performed at Meadowlake Park, Enid, with DX-398 on
battery power, and its reel-out antenna running ENE-WSW next to the lake, a
pleasant setting and the usual shoreline gooseshit missing; also away from
household, neighborhood noise levels, but a T-storm was approaching, so QRT
earlier than planned.
** ARGENTINA [and non]. 15820, looking for LTA, LSB program feeder, instead
heard hi-speed RTTY, quite an obstacle, April 5 at 0031.
15345.2, R. Nacional, UT Monday April 5 at 0035, tango on bandoneón, then ID as
``Radio Nacional de Santa Fe, y 40 emisoras, pasan a transmitir un sorteo``,
fair and clear signal, nothing to het it. Appears that this regional station
regularly feeds programs to the national LRA network. I suppose one might try
for its own QSL (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRIA. 9820, looking for ORF`s remaining sesquihour to the Americas at
0000-0130, April 5 at 0058: nothing audible. Not on UT Mondays, or maybe missed
them during a beamchange? (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 13725, April 5 at 0039, RCI with El Castor Mensajero (``The
Messenger Beaver``) mailbag in Spanish, VG signal reciting complete A-10 RCI
Spanish schedule, ``en vigor desde hoy 28 de marzo``, so this was a replay of
last week`s show! Staff off for Easter holiday weekend? In English, the mailbag
is attributed to a maple leaf instead of a beaver; why? (Glenn Hauser, MPDX,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHILE [and non]. 11900 & 11940, big dirty mushy spurs with plenty of
modulation from fundamental 11920 via CVC, April 5 at 0041 with HCJB Portuguese
ID in passing. So CVC enters another season having done nothing to fix these,
which we have reported repeatedly, and surely are heard all over the Americas
and beyond.
6070, CFRX with heavy QRM in Spanish causing fast SAH, April 5 at 0058, //
clear 11665 with CVC La Voz ID. Unfortunately, CVC has resumed using 6070 at
23-02 on 30 degree azimuth, so forget about listening to CFRX during those two
sesquihours.
All we can do is anticipate the scheduled reduxion to only two hours, 23-01,
from October 10 when DST resumes in Chile, a seemingly irrelevant event having
nothing to do with Miami. BTW, Manuel Méndez asked CVC and they admitted that
the Sunday morning program pretending to come out of Santiago is axually from
Miami like everything else (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake, April 5 at 0037: fair on 14970, poor on 15970 (Glenn
Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 6020, April 5 at 0059 CRI in English mixing with music from
another station. Another long-term case of frequency mismanagement by those who
fail to observe what happens in the real world rather than the computer models.
CRI is 305 degrees via Albania to CIRAF zones 7-10, i.e. USA and Mexico, while
REE via Costa Rica at 110 degrees to northern S America, so no conflict,
right??
Maybe not if REE could keep its nearby signal from going in any other direxion,
impossible. Also ignored is the persistent het from 6019.3 Radio Victoria,
Perú, bothering them both in respective targets. But serves the ChiCom right
for jamming or blocking countless other station-frequencies (Glenn Hauser,
MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. MW DXers have been reporting ``the wobbler`` active lately on 730 kHz,
and now so do I, April 5 at 0106 check, like someone playing a musical saw,
obscuring whatever stations are trying to make it on the frequency. The same
has appeared previously on many other MW frequencies traced to Cuba, as some
kind of transmitter defect, since there appears to be no reason to employ this
technique for deliberate jamming. Indeed this looped to the southeast/northwest
(Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 17705, RHC at 0030 April 5, going from Spanish to open carrier. My
bandscan downward continued inexorably so don`t know what eventually followed,
but not supposed to be in Spanish before or after this hour. Axually the end of
the Quechua broadcast, so about to close down.
13820, April 5 at 0038, lite DCJC noise and pulsing against nothing, long after
Radio Martí is finished with frequency.
11600, April 5 at 0043, DCJC pulse jamming against nothing at the absolutely
regular rate of two per second.
9810, April 5 at 0046, heavy DCJC noise jamming against nothing on
long-abandoned R. República frequency --- wait a minute, there is a trace of
some broadcast underneath, which must be V. of Russia, now in A-10 season via
GUIANA FRENCH in Spanish to South America at 00-02, per sked in DXLD 10-13.
Commies vs ex-Commies! Cuba jams Russia, whee. At 0200 VOR/GUF switches to 9735
which is a super signal USward; see separate report (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 15180, at 0036 April 5, VOK in Spanish, with a roar on the
transmitter; last time heard a few days ago, modulation had been OK (Glenn
Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 6185, April 5 at 0056, heavy mix of two different musical
signals about 12 Hz apart, i.e. XEPPM and ZYE365 (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 17820 at 0028 April 5, heavy flutter on poor signal with YDD
and VOA sign-on. This is 21 degrees from Tinang, ergo USward, and quite
fortunate was I to catch it as only in use for this semi-hour in Spe-cial
Eng-lish (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 17525, at 0031 April 5 with ``99 Luft Balloons``, so I bet it`s DW.
Uplooked later, yes, DW amid English hour via Komsomolsk/Amure, weak and
fluttery (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330-CUSB, UT Monday April 5 at 0048, rock music with SFX such as
sirens, // 5110-CUSB almost as good, in another weekend experiment by Area 51
via WBCQ. But 7415 was absent (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 6985, April 5 at 0055 organ music with hymn, what else but ``Gott sei
die Ehre``. WYFR now scheduled here 2245-0445 at 355 degrees. I should think
some MARS nets just below 7000 would object. OSOB as The Crystal Ship must have
finished with 6876 by then (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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