** BANGLADESH. 15505, March 6 at 1357, BB open carrier, poor with flutter; IS begins at 1359:05.5, mistimesignal ends at 1359:24.5, theme and opening Urdu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOTSWANA. 15580, March 6 at 1458, overmodulated and distorted music on fair signal, presumably VOA Music Mix, 1500 VOA theme and news less distorted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4885, March 6 at 0609, lively Brazilian music vs CODAR swooshes, so R. Clube do Pará, Belém, is back to 24-hour service after missing a week or so; at 0710 some ads mentioning Pará. The other 4885 ZY, in Rio Branco, is listed in WRTH as 09-04 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11745 & 11815, March 5 at 2323, crackling spurs from 11780.1v RNA/RNB are already barely audible, surely to build up along with the fundamental as the night progresses (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 9875, March 5 at 2315, Chinese talk, CNR1 jamming // 9825 mixing with Firedragon and something else: i.e., RFA Tibetan via LITHUANIA during this hour only. 9825 is vs RFA Mandarin via Tinian this hour only.. 11945, March 6 at 1504, CNR1 jammers with echo, good with flutter and CCI, which is victim RFA Mandarin via TAJIKISTAN during this bihour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9870, March 6 at 1352, CRI English, fair with flutter, and ahead of // Cuba 9570. Not a trace of AIR VBS from Bengaluru supposed to be here at 1230-1740. CRI listed as Xi`an site at 1300-1557 (and BTW another collision on 9870 is Iran in Arabic from 1430). Why won`t these stations/nations get their acts together, or rather, apart? 9585, March 6 at 1355, CRI English is gone from here after unexplained appearance yesterday, reaudiblizing Iran in Japanese, very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 9845-9855 at least, March 6 at 1351, huge dirty noise blob as this RHC transmitter is totally out of order. By tuning precisely to center 9850 one can make out some program modulation // 11760 and all the other frequencies which are OK. If there was any doubt the same unit moves to 15370 around 1400, it`s now removed: 15365-15375 at least, March 6 at 1357, huge dirty noise blob as this RHC transmitter is totally out of order; they just moved it up from 9850 without noticing the problem! By 1435 recheck it`s back in whack (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 12035, March 5 at 2321, open carrier, dead air from R. Cairo. Nice clean signal, no hum or traces of distorted modulation; congratulations! O, really just warming up, Abis at 2330-0045 Arabic, 0045-0200 Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, March 6 at 0609, R. Verdad in national anthem by children`s choir. Much like the Mexican, it goes on and on with repeating multiverses (but different lyrix?), too much distortion to understand anything. Cadence slows down for finale, ending at 0613.5 and carrier on a while longer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU [and non]. 5980-, March 6 at 0059, two JBA carriers beating against each other with BFO, at least one slightly on the lo side compared to MW 980 signals. One of them, R. Chaski, goes away about 0104:17.5* which is 37 seconds later than last check a sextanight ago, i.e. averaging 6+ seconds per; margin of error as I could not get a precise timing on the cutoff under these difficult circumstances. At least no Cuban pulse jamming against nothing this time. Remaining carrier no doubt is BBC via UAE. What will the situation be in A-15? Of course, Perú is too out of it to participate in HFCC; BBC will be gone from 5980, but ``YFR`` will be back on 5985 from 0100. Maybe with Jeff White now heading HFCC, he can get the YFR abbr. retired and replaced by RMI? Or OKE? RMI is on the roster for the defunct Hialeah Gardens original site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 9620, March 5 at 2317, REE is still on air instead of closing at 2300, political news, not even a silly ballgame! Very good here // poor-fair 11940, not heard on presumed unpropagating 17755, nor on 15490 until at 2325 I find that // JBA. Finally at 2330, into sign-off routine ``until 1900`` cluelessly announcing out of date frequencies! ``11685, 11940, 9620, 12030``, plus irrelevant satellite frequencies and polarizations --- don`t you have to give all the satellite transmission parameters for them to be of any use? Forward error correction gets a bit too technical? And how do you express that in Castilian? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9395, March 5 at 2320, WRMI with TruNews here and not on 11550, which used to run 18-24 UT, and same transmitter from 01 is not heard on 5015 either, so 24h on 9395 appears to replace them both, and then some. Checked at 1713 UT March 6, the WRMI grid has been updated as of March 8, showing no use at all of transmitters 1, 3 and 5, and some others swapped around. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nEVwCMB9RSKowLzLXamyayVpCzjmPAw_SB1r3YOdzQc/edit?pli=1#gid=0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1763 monitoring: Not to be heard any more on Global 24, UT Friday at 0001 on 9395 --- however, G24 on Facebook says WOR was the second most popular program on their schedule, after `The Rock Pile`, and they are planning a comeback; while financial contributors are upset about the lack of glasnost. Anyhow, WOR remains: Fri 2130 on WRMI 7570 & 15770 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. 700, March 6 at 0602 UT, Spanish religion easily audible with WLW nulled, i.e. KHSE Wylie/The Metroplex whose major daylobe is aimed right at Cincinnati! Also may be day power 1500 instead of 920 watts night; KAZ was getting it near Chicago. I have it here easily on daytime groundwave (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Checked 24 hours later around 0700 March 5, 50 kW daytimer WAMB is no longer colliding with WOAI, altho with WOAI nulled I hear some weak signal. Regarding the confusing situation about WAMB 1200 Nashville and its FM relays, I asked Doug Smith, TN, to sort it out: ``98.7 ---- Currently occupied by WCRT-FM1. It's licensed as a booster*, under Special Temporary Authority to address Cuban interference to WCRT-1160. Latter station *was* WAMB but switched calls (and format to religion) when sold to Bott Broadcasting a few years back. The booster switched with it. Permit for new translator W254CK. Which is currently authorized to use one of the WAMB-1200 towers northwest of Nashville. There are four on the site, even though WAMB is non-directional. The site was built for WWGM-1560, which *was* directional. WWGM moved to Gallatin years ago, becoming non-directional WMRO. 98.9 --- WANT, Lebanon. Co-owned with WAMB-1200 and WCOR-1490, Lebanon (and WKDA-900 Lebanon). WAMB IDs with WCOR & WANT. Yes, the format is Real Country. 99.3 --- does do surprisingly well for 3 watts. Not sure why. 106.3 --- will apparently be the new home of WCRT-FM1 once W254CK bumps it`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 1726 UT March 6 _ 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
