** ARGENTINA. 28480-usb, March 6 at 2114, LU8YE, fair signal making quick contacts in Spanish and English, such as WD9IDV at 2115. When vox is open, background noise of other voices so must be a multi-operator station. The Y after the number indicates it`s in a remote part of Argentina (Z would even be Antarctic), as call-regions are lettered rather than numbered. Yes, QRZ.com shows: LU8YE RADIO CLUB DE LOS ANDES LOS PEHUENES 1 Y LAS RETAMAS SAN MARTIN DE LOS ANDES - PATAGONIA, NQ 8370 Argentina ``The Radio Club de los Andes, located in the city of San Martin de los Andes, besides the Lanin National Park with superb natural surroundings, offers big lakes and clear water rivers. It is a beautiful tourist place, we invite you to visit (video of our city)`` http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At9aEk5DJSY They are gearing up for this weekend`s ARRL DX contest which doesn`t start until 0000 UT March 7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA. 24950-USB, March 6 at 2111, virtually the only phone signal on 12m, and certainly the biggest, is TI5/M0DXR, making quick contacts, maybe warming up for the ARRL DX Contest? Which does not start until 0000 UT March 7. Someone mentioned 5-9 as if that were also a contest name. Mostly contacting US stations, weak here as most of the country is beyond skip range at this frequency and/or they certainly aren`t aiming at OK (unless in the Pacific Northeast). One worked is N1DS at 2113. Per QRZ.com, while he`s operated from many extra-UKOGBANI locales, nothing in particular about the current TI5; just home info: Mark Haynes 196 The Downs Harlow, Essex. CM20 3RH England (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6000, March 7 at 0127, RHC is off, leaving English only on 6165 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9900, March 6 at 2126, R. Cairo English to Europe first seems dead air, then can make out some suptorted just-barely modulation, also some hum, poor with flutter. Suptorted == suppressed & distorted. 12035, March 7 at 0119, R. Cairo, good signal but dead air 9860, March 7 at 0124, R. Cairo, fair signal, dead air 9905, March 7 at 0125, R. Cairo, Arabic music, talk, whine, distorted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 28500-USB, March 6 at 2117, TG9AHM calling CQDX, poor signal. From Guatemala City, has quite a gallery of family, pets, certificates, shack on his QRZ.com page: TG9AHM EMMANUEL H. MIERES G. (Manny) P.O. BOX 2,789 CORREO CENTRAL, ZONA 1 , 01001 Guatemala (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU [and non]. 5980, March 7 at 0101, JBA carriers beating; one, i.e. R. Chaski, goes off at 0104:23.5, which is 6 seconds later than last night, while BBC/UAE remains. I can usually hear this on both the PL-880 and DX-398, but now on the latter only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 9555, March 6 at 2122, ME music, very poor with flutter, not // better Holy Qur`an on 11815, 11915, as unlike them, this is the BSKSA General First Program. Tuning on up, I hear the same music but considerably unsynchronized, why? on much better 9870, good signal. And why such a disparity in quality? Both are registered as 500 kW: 9555 at 295 degrees from Riyadh and 9870 at 310, which is certainly closer to USward, but only 15 degrees difference (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, March 7 at 0118, very poor signal with flutter, seems unmodulated, quite a change from the usual good signal from SLBC Trincomalee (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1763 monitoring: confirmed Friday March 6 at 2130:30 on WRMI 7570 & 15770, about equal levels here. Next: Sat 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Sat 1000 on WRMI 5850 Sat 2030v on WA0RCR 1860-AM Gateway 160 Meter Radio Newsletter, MO Sun 0415v on WA0RCR 1860-AM Gateway 160 Meter Radio Newsletter, MO Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580 [USA DST shifts now in effect!:] Mon 0300v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v Tue 1100 on WRMI 9955 Wed 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1315 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2100 on WBCQ 7490v As chances to hear WOR on SW are reduced, I suggest you may want to subscribe to a podcast: three different sources are linked atop http://www.worldofradio.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5111.0, UT Saturday March 7 at 0102, William Tell Overture, but no Allan Weiner, as Tom is substituting tonight (and I don`t think he interjected a word when the theme paused a beat). 0110 checking WBCQ // 7490.0, and find that program on 5111 is 29 seconds behind (travelling to Maryland and back on the internet?). Yes, measured very close to 5111.0 but Tom says ``5110``, and 7490.0 is not 1 kHz off. Tom seems to be vamping, as he is multi-tasking, also running the AM station; opens to calls and soon hears from John in Bermuda at 0116 (Glenn Hausr, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11580, March 6 at 2127, ute chirping QRM about 11578 on the lo side of WRMI with BS. Not the continuously repeating sweeps upward (and downward in het) previously logged. Same thing still happening at next check 0122 March 7. 7730, March 7 at 0109, WRMI now has BS on here // much stronger 7570; I think this is a change, 00-02 for WRMI-14 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 12105 & 9930, March 6 at 2129, two thirds of WTWW are silent, but the other third remains blasting supremacy nonsense on 9475 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 720, March 7 at 0138 UT, WGN Chicago with conclusion of the ``Star Spangled Banner``, really belted out by an unID baritone with cheers, back-announced as preceded by ``O Canada``, as it`s a match involving the Edmonton Oilers, so a silly puck game presumably against the Blackhawks. This will have to do, as US NSP stations don`t bother to play Our National Anthem at local midnight or any other predictable time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1400, March 7 at 0135 UT, Ad Council for Food Bank/Feeding America, then promo for Cornhuskers game mentioning KLIN twice --- so the 1 kW graveyarder in Lincoln NE, despite two closer Kansans on 1400 (plus 3 Okies); Lincoln city-to-city is 502 km = 312 miles, half a megameter, not bad. And quite a surprise: I normally DX MW on the DX-398 which has better sensitivity and tighter nulling than the PL-880, but the `398 batteries just died so I switch to the PL-880, and discover that its selectivity is better so that I can get DX on a channel adjacent to strongest local 1390 KCRC, even without nulling KCRC! Unthinkable on the DX-398. A few minutes earlier at 0133 UT when I was nulling KCRC, almost sounded like some Spanish on 1400: in adjacent states, only 3 or 4 of the 13 Texans are SS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** URUGUAY [non]. 6125, March 7 at 0105, not even a JBA carrier where Radiodifusión Nacional del Uruguay was reported active again by Rodolfo Tizzi in Montevideo, March 4 at 2050 UT, but with 300 watts it was weak even in the neighborhood. WRTH claimed it was already active, 24 hours. As I pointed out already in the DXLD yg, we might have a chance during the window for NO QRM on 6125, now that Spain has departed, 01-10 UT between CNR1 broadcasts from China, during its local daytime anyway, and overnight in the Oriental Republic. Propagation from S America is funxional if not very good, with the usual het between stronger stations in Brasil and Bolivia on 6135v. Rodolfo put up this clip of it: http://youtu.be/XDmvszvdXjY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VENEZUELA. 28445-USB, March 6 at 2118, YV1KK with good signal, 2119 quickworking KK4SYB. On QRZ.com displays all his homebrew antennas and contest scores. No doubt this too is a prélude to the big one by ARRL starting at 0000 UT March 7. Does not want to give a postal address, just: YV1KK JULIO RIVERO Trujillo Venezuela (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 0502 UT March 7 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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
