** BRAZIL. 4885, March 3 at 0650, no signal from ZYG362, R. Clube do Pará, Belém, which had reliably been the best/only Brazilian signal overnight on 60m; believe it has also been missing for a few nights previous. Is it totally off or just no longer 24h? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11747 & 11813, March 3 at 0109, crackling spurs from 11780.1v, RNB/RNA are audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 1610, March 3 at 0124 UT, early/baroque music catches my ear, from the NE/SW, must be CHHA Toronto, in better than usual. http://chha1610am.ca/program/ schedule shows 8-9 pm ET is still supposed to be Portuguese. At 0127 UT I notice an especially heavy bass beat strumming, 0129 UT into rap, 0131 UT tones/IS and English ``CHHA 1610-AM`` ID. At 0655 UT I am again getting a heavy bass beat, tune recognizable as ``Tristeza não tem fim`` from Orfeu Negro by Jobim. The 12-6 am ET span is merely `Latin Music Mix` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 16530, March 3 at 1359 tune-in to a bit of music, and timesignal to 1400:00, then only carrier, very poor. Must have been CNR1 jammer against a listed Sound of Hope frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also TIBET [non] ** EGYPT. 15865 approx., March 3 at 1416, very distorted bubbling talk and music, humroar, poor signal, then find exactly same but weaker sounds around 15845 and 15885, plus and minus 20. Eight(?) pulses ending about 1430:15, apparent attempt at a timesignal, and music theme, too bad to be certain it`s Cairo`s, and talk, still at 1439, and 1458 past 1502 when weaker on all three. Cairo typically plays mistimesignals to open news, even if scheduled at quarter-hours. Iran and Pakistan are also capable of such crap, but I think Cairo is most likely. Nothing scheduled on any of the three, of course. But Aoki and HFCC have multi-hour Cairo broadcasts nearby: 15790 in Persian from Abu Zaabal, 15800 in Arabic from Abis. I did not notice any signals on those, altho I did not know to check them until researched later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6876-AM, March 3 at 0105, fair signal with song calling upon a mother, more segués, 0109 ``You are listening to The Crystal Ship on the Crystal Ship relay network``; synth YL with QSL address, [email protected] and back to music. 0112 unreadable exclamations and off. This broadcast heard as tipped more than an hour earlier by John Poet`s mailing list. Several more logs here: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,20883.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU [non]. 5980, March 3 at 0103, JBA carrier, so I stand by for a cutoff between 0103:55 and 0104:00 as to be expected from last check 3 days earlier --- but no change and continues past 0104, so this is BBCWS via UAE, and no sign of R. Chaski. Monitoring difficultized this time by much stronger Cuban pulse jamming against nothing; tnx a lot, Arnie! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 15490 & 9620, March 2 at 2119, REE with good signals, much weaker on 11940 and no 12030 or 17755, during `Españoles en la Mar` hour, which is now the prime reason for being back on SW; this show is not totally nautical, but various magazine topix for seafarers, or anyone, such as 2155 about a Cuban singer; earlier repeated ``en la mar`` several times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, March 3 at *0114:11 strong carrier comes on with flutter, 0114:47 usual musical prélude starts, 0115:20.5 mistimesignal ends and SLBC ID pronounced in English, opening Bengali or Hindi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. 15400 & 15550, March 3 at 1459, R. Tamazuj opening via VATICAN with VG signals, clear on 15400 and vs WJHR on 15550, so SMG has successfully connected to programming today, unlike yesterday, in this de-facto North American service. Let`s hope some signal is also getting into Sudan and South Sudan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. 15525, March 3 at 1408, CNR1 jammer // 9530, poor until cutoff at 1410.4*. Meanwhile, target V. of Tibet via MADAGASCAR is already on 15530, presumably having jumped as usual at 1407 from initial 15525. After CNR1 cutoff, not heard on 15530 either, still VOT in clear; gave up? At 1422 I hear a Chinese ``guanbo diantai`` ID on 15530, apparently interjected by VOT, since not // CNR1 15745 jammer, then back to Tibetan. Music at 1426 with non-Chinese announcement, more music until cut off at 1427:45* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1762 monitoring: confirmed Monday March 2 at 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395. Next: 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) ** U S A. 720, March 3 at 1316 UT, weak Spanish station instead of WGN; phone 618-5921, not certain. Call-in with host asking each, ``¿qué necesita Vd. esta mañana?`` but couldn`t copy the replies; wish list for the disadvantaged? Some music earlier and mixed in, 1320 UT music only; 1324 UT adstring including 379-0437, for an abogado; think I heard an AC 210; Ford dealer in dólares; briefly WGN CCI makes a last gasp. 1328 UT, ID with an FM, ``la estación de la raza``. These clues point to a US, not Mexican source, which would have to be KSAH Universal City (San Antonio) TX, which is supposedly with ESPN Deportes, but nothing about sports now: maybe still does local morning general call-in show? Googling on the Raza slogan with 720 leads right to KSAH, also FM 104.1, as here: https://es-es.facebook.com/Norteno1041 ESPN Deportes affiliate list as of 5 Feb, however, still has KSAH 720 http://espndeportes.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/226774/lista-de-afiliados If it led to Mexico, the candidates would have been XEDE Saltillo and XEJCC Ciudad Juárez. DF was closer to SSW = San Antonio & Saltillo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1060, March 3 at 0137 UT, EWTN programming from NW/SE, about 1 second behind 11520 WEWN. No doubt KRCN Longmont CO: not totally dominant like last time when obviously on 50 kW ND day power, but too much for mere 111 watt night power either; usual LAHs from off-frequencies XERDO and KIJN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1680, March 3 at 0653 UT, the rapid SAH I hear against dominant KRJO Monroe LA music has finally become strong enough to copy with KRJO nulled: discussion in English about job retraining. 0700 UT outro as program ``Women Libs --- produced at WPRR, Public Reality Radio``; then full ID for that on 1680 AM plus three FMs, 95.3, 90.1 and 88.3 in different towns, and into `Sierra Club Radio`. Besides 1680, homepage http://www.publicrealityradio.org/ mentions only 95.3 in the lower right; 95.3 and 91.9 in the upper left. Maybe the others are mere translators. Linx to shows: `Women Libs` http://www.publicrealityradio.org/programs/womenlibs is at 10 am Mondays, and `Sierra Club Radio`: http://www.publicrealityradio.org/programs/sierraclubradio is at 5 am Mondays, so these must be extra repeats, or outdated info. http://www.publicrealityradio.org/schedule shows neither for Tuesday morning March 3. Whatever the contradixions, a rare left-wing radio station, which ought to get 50 kW clear-channel status, and shortwave. Fat chance. Ada is an eastern suburb of Grand Rapids MI, pop. 2300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 702, March 3 at 1308 UT, JBA carrier seems from W rather than NW, and no signals from the 500 kW NHK outlets. This is probably Australia. A bit too late to start checking, as today`s sunrise was 1300 UT; in a month it will have earlied to 1216 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report despatched at 1742 UT March 3 _ 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
