Send Hard-Core-DX mailing list submissions to
[email protected]
To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx
or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
[email protected]
You can reach the person managing the list at
[email protected]
When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
than "Re: Contents of Hard-Core-DX digest..."
---[Start Commercial]---------------------
World Radio TV Handbook 2011 is out.
Order yours from
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011
---[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://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
Today's Topics:
1. Radio Senado great in Milan (Giampiero Bernardini)
2. Glenn Hauser logs March 11-12, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
3. LOgs 10-12 /3 (Zacharias Liangas )
4. Mar. 10 and 12 logs (L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec)
5. March 12 Logs ([email protected])
6. Glenn Hauser logs March 12, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Message: 1
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:00:53 +0100
From: "Giampiero Bernardini" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Senado great in Milan
Message-ID:
<5b9bd0362fae1340b6aab3c4ca7afe77057d3...@exch04.local.avvenire.it>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Few tips here in Milan. Radio Senado and Voice of Indonesia very strong.
1368 11/3 1450 VOA, via tx Radio Challenger (Villa Estense, Padova),
Italy, in English, talks and ids, fair clear signal in South Milano
(suburb of Chiaravalle) while driving. RX: Blaukpunt car radio Opel
version.
5990 11/3 2115 Radio Senado, Brazil, political talks about federal
government. Also ids with internet URL. At 2129 very nice Brazilian
songs and music. Stopped at 2159 by Radio Poland. Fair to very good
9505 11/3 2050 CVC OneAfrica, Zambia, pop songs, several ids on the
hour, great signal, very good
9526 11/3 1827 Voice of Indonesia, German program,talks, ids, Indonesian
music, pop songs, very good
9535 11/3 2103 Radio Thailand, in Thai, talks like reports mentioning so
many time Thai and Thailand. Id at 2109. Very Good
9730 11/3 2111 Radio Vietnam, French program, talking about Vietnam and
international politics, fair
11725 11/3 *1850 R. New Zealand International, Interval signal, at 1852
id in English and start program in unid language (reported as Samoan).
Very good signal, it went over DW co-channel
15190 11/3 1945 Radio Inconfidencia, Brazil, Brazilian love songs, over
another station (Radio Africa?), fair. Good at 2025
15345 11/3 2033 RAE, Argentina, program in French, good
RX: Collins 51S-1 & Drake R8
ANT: T2FD
QTH: Milano city, Italy
SW Blog: http://radiodxsw.blogspot.com/
Giampiero Bernardini
Milano, Italy
------------------------------
Message: 2
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 09:49:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 11-12, 2011
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
** ANGUILLA. 6090, after missing several nights, PMS is back March 12 at 0653,
VG signal doing away with the hets uncovered in her absence. Day frequency
11775 had also come back midday March 11. PMS = Pastor Melissa Scott, widow of
Dr. EuGene Scott who inherited his business. Some guess she must be his
daughter; probably young enough to have been, but afraid not: a porn star he
reformed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 6060-, March 12 at 0702, opening Voz da Liberta??o gospel-huxtering,
with RHC already off the air (and even it had almost faded out from 6050 and
6060 before 0700). This is ZYE726, SRDA (Super Radio God is Love), 10 kW from
Curitiba, Paran?, slightly on low side compared to Brother Scare on WLNO 1060,
mixed with XEEP (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LITENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake March 12:
8400, JBA at 1349
10300, very poor with flutter at 1353
No others found up to 16 MHz by 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. 5910, March 12 at 0643, lengthy ID mentioning music styles they
play, including cumbias from Panam?, norte?as from M?xico, ``Alcarav?n Radio,
m?sica s?lo por dios``, I think they said, not sure of last word but would be
typical, as Latin Americans would not say ``por vos``. Fair signal, S9+12 while
North Americans on 49m were almost outwiped by auroral conditions.
I continue to see some list-logs of 5910 as Marfil Est?reo, or LV de tu
Conciencia. It`s all the same transmitter in Puerto Lleras, currently
simulcasting their AM 1530 station, so that`s the proper ID (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 7520, 5-digit Spanish YL spy numbers, strong March 12 at
0225, making slight SAH and mixing at about equal level with WYFR in
Portuguese! She also used to collide with WYFR on 6875 at 2100, IIRC. Does
anybody notice or care, e.g. the YFR frequency manager?
WYFR currently on 7520 0100-0745 in several languages. First time noticed here,
but not my favorite time to monitor; new frequency for numbers, or ongoing for
years? Schedule could depend on day of week: UT Saturday.
7390, surprised to find pulse-jamming here, March 12 at 0655, instead of usual
7365, used by R. Mart? earlier. Much weaker than wall of noise against Mart?
7405, but unseems spurious, so could be a tipoff that now there is something,
sometime, on 7390 needing blockage from the poor oppressed and
information-starved DentroCubans by their unelected, dictatorial and repressive
government (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ECUADOR. 3810-LSB, HD2IOA, March 12 at 0640, Spanish timesignals every ten
seconds in the clear with no QRhaM at the moment. Announcement is ``Al oir el
tono, ser? la una hora, 40 minutos, 40 segundos``, for example, and still quite
accurate compared to WWV. Many nights is not audible and I continue to wonder
if they are only sporadically on air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUYANA. 3290, March 12 at 0634 I manage to hear a bit of talk in English
somewhat separable from the ute carrier on low side. Presumed GBC. Could have
been BBC relay, sounded similar to what was on 5875, but either not // or too
far out of synch to match. GBC is supposedly looking for a new frequency to get
away from all the QRM. Wish they`d uphurry (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** JAPAN [and non]. Around 1410 UT March 12 I wanted to hear news in depth from
ANY English-speaking SW station, but scanning all bands, I could not find a
single one! NHK not making it on 9875 due to degraded propagation and not
intended for us, anyway. No VOA, no BBC; RA 9590 has gone back to `Saturday
Night Country` music. The only good signals in English are gospel huxters for
whom journalism, i.e. dealing with objective reality, is anathema.
O well, there`s always NPR, so tune to KOSU 91.7 for `Weekend Edition` --- or
maybe NOT always, if the Republicans manage to have their way (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA. 17725, VOAf from the GJ, again March 12 at 1400 Swahili running
overtime, 1403 opening English, 1405 usual totally wrong canned frequency
announcement. Same old stuff; 1530 check had declined to just barely audible
carrier, meanwhile 21695 still missing, altho 13m was barely propagating from
anywhere but Furman (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, XEPPM, March 12 at 0645 dead air, I feared another breakdown,
but it was just a pause, as well-modulated music soon started, cha-cha with a
name shouted periodically, ``Julia``? 0647 YL DJ outros as P?rez Prado, but
Julia unfound in his discography,
http://www.laventure.net/tourist/prezdisc_3_45s.htm
DJ in Spanish wishes us an excellent Saturday March 12, and more great music by
same artist, making me want to upstay to enjoy it. Henceforth until Mexico DF
goes on DST too April 3, I would already have to stay up an hour later by local
time just to hear start of their eclectic music circa 0632 UT (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MICRONESIA. 4755.4+, JBA carrier compared to remnant of WTWW 5755.0, March
12 at 0709 check, presumably PMA The Cross. I might get something more from it
later, but not worth losing sleep over, unless unavoidable; and from now on I
would have to stay up an hour `later` by DST even to get this (Glenn Hauser,
oK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 31m was almost dead before 0700 UT March 12, even WYFR
frequencies not making it, so at 0658 I stood by on 9765 to see if RNZI at
least would upshow --- yes, bell bird, 0700 timesignal and first news I had
heard of the radiation leaks in Japan. Also audible weaker, R. Australia on
9710, 9660, but not much else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PALAU. 9930, T8WH, March 12 at 1352 with WHR ID, send a SASE with 37 cents
postage for a program schedule to Box 12, South Bend! That`s over five years
out of date. The rate went up to 39 cents on January 8, 2006, per
http://www.akdart.com/postrate.html
and subsequently increased to 41, 42, and currently 44 cents. Finding any such
stamps might be rather inconvenient in most of Palau`s coverage area, but nice
of WHR to take on the burden of adding seven more cents to each such request.
Make that a LOT more cents to any address outside the US. Domestic US rates do
apply to and from Palau per http://pe.usps.com/text/imm/immctry.htm
despite it strange dual status, as T8WH is a.k.a. its former (?) US call KHBN,
and Palau also issuing its own stamps since ``independence`` in 1994 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1555 monitoring: confirmed loud & clear on WWCR-1,
7465, Friday March 11 at 2130, and WWCR-2, 12160, Saturday March 12 at 1700.
Remember, from next week due to stupid DST, 2130 moves to 2030 UT, and
presumably back to 15825 for the rest of the year until November, altho WWCR
does not post its new transmitter schedules even one day in advance; and 1700
shifts to 1600 UT, still on 12160. Final repeat at ``1:30 am`` CT Sunday on
3215 is in that grey zone when CST is officially in effect until 2 am = 0800
UT, so should be at 0730 UT one more time before shifting to 0630 next week.
On WRMI 9955: just barely audible at 1525 Saturday March 12, sounds like me;
not jammed but very weak signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Propagation conditions were quite degraded March 12 around 0641 from
North America. Signals OK on 90m, but these were very poor from WWCR, WTWW:
4840, 5755, 5890, 5935. WWV reported:
# Geophysical Alert Message
#
Solar-terrestrial indices for 11 March follow.
Solar flux 123 and mid-latitude A-index 25.
The mid-latitude K-index at 0600 UTC on 12 March was 2 (14 nT).
Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level occurred.
Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level occurred.
Space weather for the next 24 hours is expected to be minor.
Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level are expected.``
At 0300 the K-index had been 4, and conditions after 0600 seemed more like that
than 2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. America`s two SSB SW stations were both in well, March 12 around
1700: WBCQ 15420, USB + carrier; and WJHR 15550-USB with no carrier, both
gospel-huxtering (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1540, figured I should have a good chance at the WKVQ DX test, 10 kW
daytimer in Eatonton, Georgia (midway between Athens and Macon, ESE of
Atlanta), with my FRG-7 longwire aimed E-W already, and there it was, March 12
at 0612 UT, announcing mailing address, but always underneath dominant 1540
talk station // KOKC 1520, and with multiple SAHs from numerous other signals.
WKVQ played various Xmas music, such as ``Winter Wonderland`` heard first, 0615
``Let it Snow`` on piano, 0618 ``Sleigh Ride``, 0622 ``Santa Claus is Comin` to
Town``, 0629 ``Sleigh Ride`` again.
These alternated with code IDs, each twice, as WKVQ, and it sounded like the
tones employed were not a pure single tone, at 0615, 0622, 0629, 0630; plus
voice IDs but I could never copy a complete announcement due to QRM, at 0612,
0618, 0627, 0630. I tried the DX-398 but could not get any significant
improvement trying to null the other station, which turned out to be KXEL on
the Midnight Radio Network as IDed at 0626 when it came in stronger.
Tune-out after 0630, assuming the test part I was over. The 0600-0630 DX test
was supposed to be for Europe before sunrise, in addition to originally
scheduled 0700-0730 for North America, but hardly necessary to stay up for that
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6297.1, SASASAM is back, March 12 at 0710 with usual
chanting, fair signal. Carlos Gon?alves in Portugal has been hearing it on MW
1550, but SW missing for several days (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
###
------------------------------
Message: 3
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:35:19 +0200
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[email protected]>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] LOgs 10-12 /3
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/341
Logs for 10.3 early local morning :
1888U meteo station in Italian on 0507
6165 Tchad? 0509 with hilife songs S9
12240 Firedrake 0518 marginal
Logs for 11+ 12.3
9835 RTM Sarawak 1945 /11.3 with signal S9 and nice pop songs ' masih
ada cinta' (Tidi Dj I think ) and 'clear environment for a SINPO 34433 ' The
16 m inv V antenna offers better signal that day. Also on 12.3 on 1745
with S7 signal 32443 , with strong QRM from 9840 Arabic lang station
8500 Libya 'rebels' 1957 with a military march (folks singing ) but signal is
only S5 max 11.3 For 12,3 on 1115 with talks and S5
9780.12 Yemen 1152/12.3 with poor signal S1-2 and talks in Arabic. Martial
music at 1200
11955 CRI 1250 /12.3 with music program: nice Chinese songs followed
or previewed by YL in Malaysian, passed TOH with song, At 1328 there was
ID with Y:L mentioning the transmission and the language
Standard rig : ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser
Please read and distribute this 15 year research article
http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e
Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd
________________________
http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE
http://www.delicious.com/gr_greek1/@zach (all mypages !!)
........
Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece
greekdx @ otenet dot gr ---
Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108,
Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000
Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop
------------------------------
Message: 4
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:24:30 -0300
From: L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, "Anker Petersen" <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Mar. 10 and 12 logs
Message-ID: <000f01cbe0eb$305c68d0$26628bc8@home>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
5005, Equatorial Guinea, R. Nacional, Bata. March, 10 2118-2128 male and female
in Spanish talks. Weak, 24232 (lob-B).
3945, Japan, R. Nikkei 2, Chiba-Nagara. March, 12 0835-0846 soft instrumental
orchestrated music selections. Statics, Vanuatu was underneath, 22232 (lob-B).
3925, Japan, R. Nikkei 1, Nemuro. March, 12 0846-0854 male and female in
Japanese talks, female on music. Statics 24232, (lob-B).
11945, R. Australia, Shepparton. March, 12 0901-0910 female in English talks,
news program mainly about Japan "nuclear assault", "R. Australia, Welcome".
34433, (lob-B).
3945, R. Vanuatu, Port Vila. March, 12 0911-0920 two male and female in local
language discussion. Statics, 25222 (lob-B).
3960, Korea, North, KCBS Pyongyang, Kanggye. March, 12 0920-0926 male in Korean
talks, instrumental music. Quick degrading, statics 25222 (lob-B).
73's
L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec
Embu SP
SW40 - Dipoles and Longwire
------------------------------
Message: 5
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 19:40:15 -0500 (EST)
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] March 12 Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
** BRAZIL. 15189.96, Radio Inconfid?ncia, 2255-2310, March 12,
Portuguese pop/ballads. IDs. Ads. Portuguese talk. In the clear with
a good signal. // 6010 - very poor with co-channel QRM. (Brian
Alexander, PA)
?
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, Radio Africa, 1750-1800, March 12,
Presumed with English preacher. Fair level but poor, muffled audio.
Sounded like Radio Africa audio. Also heard later at 2050-2245 with
audio varying from muffled to fairly clear, depending on the program.
Started to get some co-channel QRM from Brazil after 2225. Radio
Africa off the air around 2255. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** ETHIOPIA. 6110, Radio Fana, *0256-0315, March 12, sign on with
IS. Vernacular talk at 0300. Some Horn of Africa music. Poor in noisy
conditions. // 7210 - poor to fair with occasional HAM QRM. (Brian
Alexander, PA)
?
** GUINEA. 7125, Radio Guine?, 0604-0620, March 12, French talk.
Afro-pop music. Poor to fair with occasional HAM QRM. (Brian
Alexander, PA)
?
** GUYANA. 3289.99, Voice of Guyana, 0245-0420, March 12, mostly
continuous local music until 0400. BBC News at 0401 followed by BBC
World Service programming about Japan?s earthquake. Surprisingly
good signal. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** ZIMBABWE [non]. via MADAGASCAR. 11610, Radio Voice of the
People, 0425-0447, March 12, vernacular talk. English at 0436 with
IDs and contact information. English talk about the Zimbabwe people.
Poor in noisy conditions and difficult to understand due to accents.
Station lost in the noise at 0447. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
?
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
?
?
------------------------------
Message: 6
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:35:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 12, 2011
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
** BRAZIL. After hearing R. Africa reactivated(?) on 15190, seemingly with a
second carrier interfering, as early as 2131 March 12, still at 2236 with
EQUATORIAL GUINEA [q.v.] atop, by 2257 I am hearing only Portuguese, equatorial
flutter, 2300 ending program `Sertanejo Moderno`, Inconfid?ncia IDs and
announcements with hyped enthusiasm. Brian Alexander, Pennsylvania, was
listening at exactly the same time and put ZYE522 at 40 Hz low, after also
hearing `Africa until 2255.
Then I looked for Brazilians besides 11780 RNA on 25m: 11815 had a
Portuguese-speaking preacher at 2311, modulation a bit distorted, fair signal.
I sure hope R. Brasil Central has not sold out completely to the gospel-huxters
like so many Brazilian SW stations! At least this one is low-key, no wailing
David Miranda. 2317 hymn, 2321 R. Brasil Central ID in passing. Hope this is
just a brief program breaking their usual music or `full-service` format (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. After hearing the VY0SNO beacon on 10m, I kept looking for some SSB
DX higher up, and soon logged two Paulistas from nowhere near Nunavut, March 12:
28406-USB, at 2151, PY2XC, making 5-9 contacts with US stations including a
WB9. Sounds like a North American, but his QRZ.com lookup page shows: CARLOS
SILV?RIO, P. O. Box 210, ITUPEVA, SP 13295000, Brazil, with photos of himself
and his rig.
28507.5-USB, at 2152, PY2OE: Rogerio (Roger) Campos, P. O. BOX 47545,
03563-970 S?o Paulo/SP, Brazil. He has a more authentic Brazilian accent in
English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISSTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. After hearing Cuba on 12m, I tried 10m, the lower part of which is
3+ MHz higher, and thus may still be above the MUF. At first, not much in the
DX/SSB range, but at 2143 March 12, a beacon on 28183.3 approx.: DE VY0SNO
VY0SNO VY0SNO FP53RS K sent over and over. QRZ.com shows a rather northerly
location, to my surprise:
``VY0SNO, Larry L Horlick, BOX 1082, IQALUIT, NU X0A 0H0, Canada,
Beacon: 10m: 28.182, 15 watts, 1/2 wave horizontal dipole, 30m ASL; A1`` And
FP53RS chex for the grid square around Iqaluit. Poor signal with some fadeouts,
but R5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. I recently caught CO8LY, Santiago, on 12 meter CW; he must be quite a
fan of this band, since now I have him on phone/SSB, March 12 at 2138, calling
CQ 12, QRZ on 24945-USB. Making quick contacts with 5-9 reports, so must be in
a contest (unlike some DX contests which exclude this so-called ``WARC band``
as if the original hambands were not also established by previous World
Administrative Radio Conferences). One was K4IA. At 2140, VA7CQ called him, but
CO8LY did not respond. 2141 worked N5RRL. Looked for other 12m signals, and
there was some CW at the low end, but CO8LY was the OSSBSOB --- only single
sideband station on band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 11590, since there has been a recent report of decent modulation,
with very low expectations I tried R. Cairo`s English to Western North America,
March 12 at 2311, and I was not disappointed --- as almost always the case,
there was NO modulation audible, on this S9+20 signal, with flutter. No
improvement at 2316 when news should have been underway. By 2355, to be
charitable, I would upgrade it to JBM --- just barely modulated (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. As I inquired a few days ago, is R. Africa active on
15190? It may not have been for more than a month, but it`s there March 12 at
2131 with a distorted gospel huxter, perhaps mixed with Brasil. Retuned at 2155
just in time to hear outro of that show giving a .org website, no ID, and 2156
right in to program #428 from Tony Alamo --- yes, the disgraced, arrested,
charged, prosecuted, convicted and serving 175 years for child sexual abuse
evangelist is still on the air influencing dozens of listeners worldwide from
his federal prison cell in Terre Haute, Indiana (or rather, from stockpile of
old program tapes), thanks to Pan American Broadcasting and the Equatorial
Guineans who couldn`t care less what scum they put on the air as long as the
time keeps being paid for.
At 2236 I can tell there are two carriers, as Alamo is mixed with noise, but I
suspect more of that is coming from the Bata transmitter itself than Belo
Horizonte. Apparently off by 2257, only hearing BRAZIL, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 15280, yet another new frequency for Harold Camping, unlisted
in HFCC, Aoki or EiBi, March 12 at 2132, has constant hum and flutter, running
2 or 3 words behind // WYFR 17535, 17555. At 2157 the `Open Forum` discussion
was cut short for a canned closing announcement by a much-younger sounding
Camping, 2158 FR publication plug, 2159 ``Ehre`` theme to 2200*, and the hum
goes off too, uncovering a very poor signal from RN in Dutch via Saipan just
starting on 15280. Propagation is still degraded, as this RN relay is often
quite good here.
Besides the hum, modulation quality on FR was not typical of German relays,
more like something from the CIS. One suspects HC is in a hurry to spend out
his bulging bank account before Rapture-Day May 21, adding more and more relays
wherever they can be set up without notice. But where is he getting all this
dough, and will the donors be suing for fraud May 22, demanding restitution as
the world goes on? Gotcha! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15610, WEWN English, March 12 at 2133 with VG signal, perhaps HF
sporadic-E enhanced, only a megameter away, but distorted with crackling
overmodulation. Is anyone paying attention at Vandiver? Apparently not, as same
crackle at 2201 plus crosstalk, discussing Operation Ricebowl, and still at
2301 on topic A - abortion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9955, while the DentroCuban Jamming Command is normally
blasting WRMI away during the 22 UT hour on weekdays, including WORLD OF RADIO
on Thursdays, once again this Saturday March 12 at 2210 during AWR Wavescan,
the jamming is off. I will restrain myself from speculating on why this may be.
Jeff is narrating a feature sparked by the Christchurch earthquake, now already
old hat (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WTJC, 9370v modulation has been dropping and dropping, but at least
it`s not spurring or splattering lately. March 12 at 2213, for instance, it`s a
strain to hear anything on it, pale by comparison to nearby WINB, WBCQ, WWCR,
WWRB and WTWW which are all fully- or even overly-modulated and inbooming on
9265, 9330, 9350, 9385, 9479. I assume people who contribute to FBN don`t
axually try to listen to this exotic ``short wave`` service for heathens abroad
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 17680, pleased to hear dead air on CVC La Voz, Miami via CHILE,
March 12 at 2240 which lasted almost two minutes before YL in Spanish re Jes?s
cut back on. No telling how long it was silent before then (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9545, March 12 at 2246, a bit of Chinese(?) but mostly a
roaring noise, with very fast flutter. I was tempted to blame it just on very
disturbed propagation, Doppler effect, until I looked it up and found VOA
Chinese via Tinang, PHILIPPINES is scheduled during this hour, so it must have
been a form of jamming by the ChiCom. Some other 31m signals from the W
Pacific/E Asia were in, but not with this effect (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) ###
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 99, Issue 13
********************************************
