Glenn: Thanks for the great report! Give me your snail mail address and I'll send you a QSL card...(in a month or so...)
dg PS: we're likely going to rebroadcast the program in the coming weeks. I'll let you know the details when I have them. On Mar 1, 2015, at 12:07 PM, Glenn Hauser via Hard-Core-DX wrote: > ** BANGLADESH. 15505, March 1 at 1359, tune in very poor BB signal just in > time to hear mistimesignal ending at 1359:30 today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX > LISTENING DIGEST) > > ** BRAZIL. 11747 & 11813, March 1 at 0633, very poor but audible crackling > from RNB/RNA 11780.1v; standard remarx (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) > > ** CUBA. 13740, March 1 at 0634, very big open carrier, obviously an RHC > transmitter used earlier in evening; 13820 residual pulse jamming against > Martí[non] is also well audible, so MUF is up. Furthermore, RHC is still > audible but weaker on the only Spanish frequency intentionally scheduled > until 0700, 15230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) > > ** GREECE. 9420, March 1 at 0629, ERT good signal with a speech, might be > political but there is no audience applause, so suspect it is a sermon, this > being Sunday morning when ERT used to broadcast wonderful Orthodox > singing/chanting. I hope that eventually come back under the new regime`s > revived ERT. Still such talking at 0638. Lately have been hearing ERT on 9420 > only, if at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) > > ** GUATEMALA. (4055-), March 1 circa 0130-0230, monitored R. Verdad > conveniently on webcast in case their fifteenth anniversary celebration could > be heard, but only normal programming of preaching while I suppose they were > having a party at the station between 2300 and 0330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX > LISTENING DIGEST) > > ** INDONESIA. 9526-, March 1 at 1444, no signal detectable from VOI nor at > 1504. Atsunori Ishida`s http://rri.jpn.org log for today so far indicates > it`s been intermittent: ``9526 kHz 0945c/on-1200- (No signal at 1255), > 0945-1000- ??, 1059 (CC), 1159 (JJ), *1305- (No signal at 1355)`` (Glenn > Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) > > ** NIGERIA [and non]. 15120-, March 1 at 0635, big open carrier with lite > whine; off-frequency to the lo side, typical of V. of Nigeria which is > supposed to have an English broadcast at +05-07, but not even a carrier heard > in months, let alone modulation. Thorsten Hallmann and Alan Roe, who keep > closer track of VON, say they have usually been playing filler programming, > and often in the wrong language at the wrong time. Propagational coöperation > may be a fluke, but bears further checking into spring; 15580 Botswana also > audible, weaker, but has the advantage of modulating with VOA music (Glenn > Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) > > ** SPAIN. 15490, March 1 at 1457, REE IS on second day of new frequency; good > strength but quite a short/long path echo. Quick check of 17 MHz finds > nothing yet, and when I get back to 15490 have missed part of sign-on > frequency announcement including 15490, 9620, 12030 plus irrelevant satellite > frequencies. Then I can only detect JBA signals on 12030, 17755, but at least > this one is now on, // 15490 at 1506. Running 9620 to North America across > the noon meridian is madness, inaudible; maybe it reaches the first hop into > the Atlantic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) > > ** SUDAN [non]. 15400 & 15550, March 1 at 1525, R. Tamazuj via VATICAN, no > tone jamming yet. 13800 via MADAGASCAR checked at 1527 is way out of synch > with the others and still so at 1554 during Dabanga; too weak to figure out > how far off, or which comes first. At 1554, there is a fast SAH open carrier > QRMing 13800, i.e. warmup for imminent site switch, then it`s off. 1556:54 > the MAD transmitter cuts off and there is nothing for about 5 seconds until > VAT comes up weaker, and now it`s synchro with 15550. So the changeover time > of 1600 in Aoki, EiBi and HFCC are all incorrect instead of 1557. There is > tremendous pressure to round things off, which databases need to confront and > combat in the face of monitoring evidence, or even standard operational > procedures (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) > > ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1762 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday March 1 from > 0230 on KVOH 9975, now following the 0130 sacred soccer show and starting at > 0230 instead of 0231. > > WOR 1762 also confirmed on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, Wentzville MO, again this UT > Sunday March 1 from 0424, 9 minutes after nominal 0415, which I suppose is > the earliest it might start some weeks, depending on length of previous > segments. Once you hear when the ARRL news starts, circa 0410 tonight, you > know it`ll be another ~14 minutes before WOR. Vern has edited out the few > seconds of WOR theme when I am not talking over it, to make the music > ``incidental``. He also must interject WA0RCR IDs at 10-minute intervals, > 0435 and 0445. > > LSB ham QRM is almost constant, due to a 160m contest underway which fills up > the 200-kHz span; normally the other hams keep far enough away from this > 375-watt AM signal. Once local noise sources are minimized, it`s quite > listenable here with occasional fade-downs. Unlike almost every other MW > broadcast frequency, there are no subaudible hets from other transmitters > making a mess of non-propagational fading, altho at once point I had some > weak co-channel, maybe Spanish SSB from Mexico? 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) > > This report dispatched at 1707 UT March 1 > _ > 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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