** BRAZIL. 4885, Feb 8 at 0313, just as I tune by, ``Belém, Pará``, easiest log ever, from ZY`s #1 signal on 60m, but only fair at best (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11747 & 11813, Feb 7 at 0646, crackling spurs from 11780.1v, RNA/RNB; circa 11713 also an occasional modulation spike spur; these being only approx. peaks with no carriers to pin. 11747 & 11813, Feb 8 at 03027, crackling spurs, but none heard circa 11714 (Glenn Hauser, oK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9455, Feb 7 at 2034, Firedragon, poor with heavy flutter 9355, Feb 7 at 2034, Firedragon, JBA, but // 9355. These now seem to be our best chance to hear this kind of jamming rather than CNR1 programming; both vs. Radio Free Asia, Saipan, unheard. Firedragon? Yes, as David Kernick has suggested, this is more culturally apt than Firedrake (Peking Duck?), so I`m going to start calling it that now. I doubt that either would mean anything to the ChiCom, if they have any name at all for this particular raucous jammusic. There could however be a play on ideographs we would not get unless it were explained. How about it, native Chinese? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9905, Feb 7 at 2032, very poor with humbuzz, distorted talk, unknown language, signatures of R. Cairo. At this hour it`s supposed to be French on 315 degree beam to Europe, also North America beyond 9860, Feb 8 at 0324, R. Cairo, suppressed/distorted modulation seems English, closing headlines? They had such a good deal going to get a decent transmitter on 9395, WRMI, Global 24, Sunday 1300-1420, but it`s been missing for a few weeks, failing to send G24 a file; and now? 9905, Feb 8 at 0324, R. Cairo, good with flutter, Qur`an 9965, Feb 8 at 0325, R. Cairo, ME music, undermodulated but not distorted, yay; Arabic service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUYANA. 3290-, Feb 7 at 0651, Voice of Guyana with BBCWS relay in English, SINPO 25432. Feb 8 at 0310, only a JBA carrier; wonder if the power level has dropped from 1 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9380, Feb 7 at 1353, open carrier/dead air, fair with flutter, then 1357 a trace of music, so AIR National Channel is not a total total loss. Same situation a few days ago. Can`t they tell at Aligarh that modulation is missing?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [and non]. 9710, Feb 8 at 0324, Iran NA attempting to introduce the so-called Voice of Justice = English to North America, at only slightly louder level than collision with Cuba in Spanish, which looks like it will last the rest of B-14 season due to mutually incompetent frequency management (and don`t they get reception reports from real listeners complaining about it??). In A-15 VIRI plans to resume last A-14`s collision on 11780 with Brazil!!!! (not in HFCC, so that 250 kW does not exist). And // 13650 which maybe will clash with Egypt`s Swahili service from 0400 if it isn`t imaginary. Geez. 13650 is also a well-known (to listeners) North Korean frequency, currently in use at that very hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 17550, Feb 7 at 2022, JBA carrier with Doppler flutter; and at 2023, 15540, very poor with music, can`t be sure it`s Western, but probably; so R. Kuwait`s 500 kW each at 310 degrees, Arabic and English respectively, are starting to propagate to North America, after wasting their watts all winter, hardly even reaching Europe for ignorance of Propagation 101. My eyebrows remain raised at their frequency mis-management (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NAVASSA. 28305-USB, Feb 7 at 2019, K1N calling QRZ, with ACI and CCI; pileups circa 28330, 28345, 28350, 28355 presumably all for him. A few minutes earlier, nothing on 21205 where last I heard K1N, but pileups on ``15`` m ranged from 21280 to 21300, so presumably he too was higher. Instead I bagged St. Martin, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Earth tremors detected in our second-floor radio room: UT Feb 7 at 0047:10 and another at 0049:35. These don`t show on the USGS roster, I suppose under 2.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Feb 7 at 2057 UT, KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa is still open carrier dead air. How long has it been? Latest spate I first noted January 19, so that makes 19 days at least so far (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1360v & 1420v, Feb 7 at 2038 UT, spurhets are back from strongest local, 1390 KCRC. This time I`m on the porch, nice sunny afternoon, DFing with the DX-398, and they do point to KCRC. Stronger het is on 1360, since victim KPHN El Dorado KS, EWTN has more of a signal than 1420, KTJS Hobart OK. The pitches are slightly different, estimated per my keyboard which doesn`t go that low, but trying to match an octave higher: approx. 170 Hz on 1360, 155 Hz on 1420. (At night on 1420 there is a much bigger rumble, some other station way off.) (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 90.1, Sat Feb 7 circa 2000 UT, I notice that the stream from KUCO Edmond is silent instead of Metropolitan Opera; and 90.1 on the air is also silent at 2006! Remodulating by next check 2033 UT. I suppose their computer automation failed again and a staffer such as Kimberley Powell had to rush into the studio to reset it on a day off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 7325-, Feb 7 at 1357, JBA carrier once CRI is off, again suspected Wantok Radio Light. Now we`ve heard from Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, California, who confirms he has been hearing it Feb 2 thru 6, but not always with audio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAINT MARTIN. 21260-USB, Feb 7 at 2009, FS5PL is making simplex contacts with lots of US stations, French accent, some contacts in Spanish, en français disant, ``sur les Antilles``, finally mentions Saint-Martin, and name Lionel, as per QRZ.com: FS5PL France PHALIER LIONEL 241 PARC DE LA BAIE ORIENTALE 97150 ST MARTIN France (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 11685, Feb 7 at 2030, no carrier at all detectable from REE; altho this is always the weakest, suspect only three are on air today, as rest with good signals: 12030, 11940, 9620, Spanish sports (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13564 approx., Feb 7 at 2027, GNK, HIFER beacon in Madison WI, very poor but readable. MARE ranged it from 13562 to 13564 last year. I am still trying to break 5 or 6 total HIFER beacons logged over and over on this band. I wonder how many others are active at all, let alone 24/7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13557 approx., Feb 7 at 2025, MTI, HIFER beacon in Stone Mountain GA is very poor but enough to copy, vs pipper on the hi side, and 13560 hash from ISM devices, local? Harold Frodge reported MTI Feb 1 on 13556.3, which I will accept tho it may vary; MARE summary ranges it from 13555 to 13557 last year (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 28300-CW, Feb 7 at 2018, beacon sending callsign only slowly with long pauses: K6FRC/B --- same one I have heard on the 13-MHz HIFER band. QRZ.com reminds us he is: Paul Shinn P.O. Box 175 Valley Springs, CA 95252. He will QSL in kind via P-mail (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1759 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday Feb 8 at 0231 on KVOH, 9975. Very good signal, usual audio not crisp, which we can hope will improve once the replacement transmitter is in use. How much longer to wait? 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) ** U S A. 9395, Sat Feb 7 at 1352, Global 24 via WRMI, Keith Perron wrapping up a PCJ show with final music piece; per G24 sked it`s `Happy Station`. 1405 now classical music, not filler, but `Classics & Beyond` also adhering to schedule; fair signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5109.96-AM approx., Feb 8 at 0316, WBCQ with music, almost on-frequency rather than 5111+ last night. 7490 is Brother-Scaring, and 9330 remains off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11870, Feb 7 at 0645, WEWN, R. Católica Mundial, now has big humwhine atop ``por su dolorosa pasión``, the catch-phrase constantly repeated on ``by the light of the moon`` show. Carrier also wobbles with BFO. English on 11520 is OK. Haven`t noticed this latest defect on one of the daytime Spanish frequencies, but not seeking it. 11870, Feb 8 at 0331, still big humwhine over Spanish, but talk understandable if you can put up with it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7505.38 approx., Feb 8 at 0318, WRNO preacher on VG signal, but accompanied by hi-pitched whistling sound varying a bit and also intermittent, and quite evident by side-tuning. Also was hearing same sound on unrelated stations such as CFRX perhaps due to receiver overload (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1290, Feb 8 at 0705 UT, ID only for ``102.7 WIRL``, and classic rock, loops NE/SW. Search leads right to Peoria IL, and 102.7 isn`t WIRL at all but another FM translator, W274BM, wagging this dog of an AM station, which is really WIRL on 1290, 5/5 kW U4, officially ``Good Time Oldies``. Night pattern has major lobe to NNE, somewhat lesser lobe to the SSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1490, Feb 7 at 0702 UT, CBS Sports Radio, briefly atop the graveyard, roughly ENE/WSW I thought, but http://radio.cbssports.com/stations/ which has a good quick search funxion on the frequency or whatever, immediately comes up with the station I feared, KTOP, Topeka KS, which at 200+ miles to the NE is my most usual nighter on 1490. Other six are in CO, IA, MS, OR, VA, WI. Dubuque`s WDBQ would be second choice from here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZANZIBAR. 11735, Feb 7 at 2029, ZBC no doubt with ME music, poor with heavy Doppler flutter. Anticipating springtime improvement (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4990+, Feb 8 at 0314, JBA carrier, a tad above channel compared to WWV. Could it be SURINAME? Last log from Dave Valko had it 10 Hz below 4990 on Feb 2 about this same hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 11821, Feb 8 at 0328, 2-way conversation on NBFM, 11820 being off-tuned, and 11822 not at all. No // found on CB 27 MHz. Always a hum when keyed on, steady, so suspect image of a local ham repeater probably 2 meters, something to do with DX-398 IF? Never heard anything like this on 11821 before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 0605 UT February 8 _ 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. 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