BRAZIL, 9695.35+ R. Rio Mar, Manaus. 10:02 - 11:00+. Just a het at tune in,
but audio switched on in mid-sentence about 30 secs later. Man and woman
talking in Portuguese, ID jingle at 10:03:30. Talk and ads, some vocals. Good
level at tune-in, but faded to poor within about 10 minutes. At 10:30, still
good enough to catch full ID with list of frequencies. Frequency drifted up
and down a bit between 9695.30 and 9695.40. There's a het from an inaudible
sig on 9695.05 -- suspect Japan from Kranji since it disappeared after 10:30
and reappeared around 11:00, in accordance with their sked. Stig Nielsen
recently reported Rio Mar on 6160, but found nothing on 9695, but they are here
-- and I'm glad, because when I accidentally came across them here sometime in
about 1960, it was my first encounter with the thrill of DXing foreign
domestics, and it began my lifelong fascination with the vagaries of the
ionosphere and the way in which it lets us listen in on other cultures.!
(Delibert, Maryland, 8/18) Art Delibert, N. Bethesda, MD, Excalibur Pro/
Collins 51j-4 with Sherwood SE-3, Pennant antenna with DX Engineering amp
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