** BANGLADESH. 15505, March 1 at 1359, tune in very poor BB signal just in time to hear mistimesignal ending at 1359:30 today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11747 & 11813, March 1 at 0633, very poor but audible crackling from RNB/RNA 11780.1v; standard remarx (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 13740, March 1 at 0634, very big open carrier, obviously an RHC transmitter used earlier in evening; 13820 residual pulse jamming against Martí[non] is also well audible, so MUF is up. Furthermore, RHC is still audible but weaker on the only Spanish frequency intentionally scheduled until 0700, 15230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9420, March 1 at 0629, ERT good signal with a speech, might be political but there is no audience applause, so suspect it is a sermon, this being Sunday morning when ERT used to broadcast wonderful Orthodox singing/chanting. I hope that eventually come back under the new regime`s revived ERT. Still such talking at 0638. Lately have been hearing ERT on 9420 only, if at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. (4055-), March 1 circa 0130-0230, monitored R. Verdad conveniently on webcast in case their fifteenth anniversary celebration could be heard, but only normal programming of preaching while I suppose they were having a party at the station between 2300 and 0330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, March 1 at 1444, no signal detectable from VOI nor at 1504. Atsunori Ishida`s http://rri.jpn.org log for today so far indicates it`s been intermittent: ``9526 kHz 0945c/on-1200- (No signal at 1255), 0945-1000- ??, 1059 (CC), 1159 (JJ), *1305- (No signal at 1355)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [and non]. 15120-, March 1 at 0635, big open carrier with lite whine; off-frequency to the lo side, typical of V. of Nigeria which is supposed to have an English broadcast at +05-07, but not even a carrier heard in months, let alone modulation. Thorsten Hallmann and Alan Roe, who keep closer track of VON, say they have usually been playing filler programming, and often in the wrong language at the wrong time. Propagational coöperation may be a fluke, but bears further checking into spring; 15580 Botswana also audible, weaker, but has the advantage of modulating with VOA music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 15490, March 1 at 1457, REE IS on second day of new frequency; good strength but quite a short/long path echo. Quick check of 17 MHz finds nothing yet, and when I get back to 15490 have missed part of sign-on frequency announcement including 15490, 9620, 12030 plus irrelevant satellite frequencies. Then I can only detect JBA signals on 12030, 17755, but at least this one is now on, // 15490 at 1506. Running 9620 to North America across the noon meridian is madness, inaudible; maybe it reaches the first hop into the Atlantic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. 15400 & 15550, March 1 at 1525, R. Tamazuj via VATICAN, no tone jamming yet. 13800 via MADAGASCAR checked at 1527 is way out of synch with the others and still so at 1554 during Dabanga; too weak to figure out how far off, or which comes first. At 1554, there is a fast SAH open carrier QRMing 13800, i.e. warmup for imminent site switch, then it`s off. 1556:54 the MAD transmitter cuts off and there is nothing for about 5 seconds until VAT comes up weaker, and now it`s synchro with 15550. So the changeover time of 1600 in Aoki, EiBi and HFCC are all incorrect instead of 1557. There is tremendous pressure to round things off, which databases need to confront and combat in the face of monitoring evidence, or even standard operational procedures (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1762 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday March 1 from 0230 on KVOH 9975, now following the 0130 sacred soccer show and starting at 0230 instead of 0231. WOR 1762 also confirmed on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, Wentzville MO, again this UT Sunday March 1 from 0424, 9 minutes after nominal 0415, which I suppose is the earliest it might start some weeks, depending on length of previous segments. Once you hear when the ARRL news starts, circa 0410 tonight, you know it`ll be another ~14 minutes before WOR. Vern has edited out the few seconds of WOR theme when I am not talking over it, to make the music ``incidental``. He also must interject WA0RCR IDs at 10-minute intervals, 0435 and 0445. LSB ham QRM is almost constant, due to a 160m contest underway which fills up the 200-kHz span; normally the other hams keep far enough away from this 375-watt AM signal. Once local noise sources are minimized, it`s quite listenable here with occasional fade-downs. Unlike almost every other MW broadcast frequency, there are no subaudible hets from other transmitters making a mess of non-propagational fading, altho at once point I had some weak co-channel, maybe Spanish SSB from Mexico? Next: Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580 Mon 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v Mon 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955 Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Wed 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 1707 UT March 1 _ 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
