This report, keyed as MPDX, consists of a quick 40-minute bandscan just before and after local sundown, performed at Meadowlake Park, Enid, with DX-398 on battery power, and its reel-out antenna running ENE-WSW next to the lake, a pleasant setting and the usual shoreline gooseshit missing; also away from household, neighborhood noise levels, but a T-storm was approaching, so QRT earlier than planned.
** ARGENTINA [and non]. 15820, looking for LTA, LSB program feeder, instead heard hi-speed RTTY, quite an obstacle, April 5 at 0031.
15345.2, R. Nacional, UT Monday April 5 at 0035, tango on bandoneón, then ID as ``Radio Nacional de Santa Fe, y 40 emisoras, pasan a transmitir un sorteo``, fair and clear signal, nothing to het it. Appears that this regional station regularly feeds programs to the national LRA network. I suppose one might try for its own QSL (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRIA. 9820, looking for ORF`s remaining sesquihour to the Americas at 0000-0130, April 5 at 0058: nothing audible. Not on UT Mondays, or maybe missed them during a beamchange? (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 13725, April 5 at 0039, RCI with El Castor Mensajero (``The Messenger Beaver``) mailbag in Spanish, VG signal reciting complete A-10 RCI Spanish schedule, ``en vigor desde hoy 28 de marzo``, so this was a replay of last week`s show! Staff off for Easter holiday weekend? In English, the mailbag is attributed to a maple leaf instead of a beaver; why? (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHILE [and non]. 11900 & 11940, big dirty mushy spurs with plenty of modulation from fundamental 11920 via CVC, April 5 at 0041 with HCJB Portuguese ID in passing. So CVC enters another season having done nothing to fix these, which we have reported repeatedly, and surely are heard all over the Americas and beyond.
6070, CFRX with heavy QRM in Spanish causing fast SAH, April 5 at 0058, // clear 11665 with CVC La Voz ID. Unfortunately, CVC has resumed using 6070 at 23-02 on 30 degree azimuth, so forget about listening to CFRX during those two sesquihours.
All we can do is anticipate the scheduled reduxion to only two hours, 23-01, from October 10 when DST resumes in Chile, a seemingly irrelevant event having nothing to do with Miami. BTW, Manuel Méndez asked CVC and they admitted that the Sunday morning program pretending to come out of Santiago is axually from Miami like everything else (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake, April 5 at 0037: fair on 14970, poor on 15970 (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 6020, April 5 at 0059 CRI in English mixing with music from another station. Another long-term case of frequency mismanagement by those who fail to observe what happens in the real world rather than the computer models. CRI is 305 degrees via Albania to CIRAF zones 7-10, i.e. USA and Mexico, while REE via Costa Rica at 110 degrees to northern S America, so no conflict, right??
Maybe not if REE could keep its nearby signal from going in any other direxion, impossible. Also ignored is the persistent het from 6019.3 Radio Victoria, Perú, bothering them both in respective targets. But serves the ChiCom right for jamming or blocking countless other station-frequencies (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. MW DXers have been reporting ``the wobbler`` active lately on 730 kHz, and now so do I, April 5 at 0106 check, like someone playing a musical saw, obscuring whatever stations are trying to make it on the frequency. The same has appeared previously on many other MW frequencies traced to Cuba, as some kind of transmitter defect, since there appears to be no reason to employ this technique for deliberate jamming. Indeed this looped to the southeast/northwest (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 17705, RHC at 0030 April 5, going from Spanish to open carrier. My bandscan downward continued inexorably so don`t know what eventually followed, but not supposed to be in Spanish before or after this hour. Axually the end of the Quechua broadcast, so about to close down.
13820, April 5 at 0038, lite DCJC noise and pulsing against nothing, long after Radio Martí is finished with frequency.
11600, April 5 at 0043, DCJC pulse jamming against nothing at the absolutely regular rate of two per second.
9810, April 5 at 0046, heavy DCJC noise jamming against nothing on long-abandoned R. República frequency --- wait a minute, there is a trace of some broadcast underneath, which must be V. of Russia, now in A-10 season via GUIANA FRENCH in Spanish to South America at 00-02, per sked in DXLD 10-13.
Commies vs ex-Commies! Cuba jams Russia, whee. At 0200 VOR/GUF switches to 9735 which is a super signal USward; see separate report (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 15180, at 0036 April 5, VOK in Spanish, with a roar on the transmitter; last time heard a few days ago, modulation had been OK (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 6185, April 5 at 0056, heavy mix of two different musical signals about 12 Hz apart, i.e. XEPPM and ZYE365 (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 17820 at 0028 April 5, heavy flutter on poor signal with YDD and VOA sign-on. This is 21 degrees from Tinang, ergo USward, and quite fortunate was I to catch it as only in use for this semi-hour in Spe-cial Eng-lish (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 17525, at 0031 April 5 with ``99 Luft Balloons``, so I bet it`s DW. Uplooked later, yes, DW amid English hour via Komsomolsk/Amure, weak and fluttery (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330-CUSB, UT Monday April 5 at 0048, rock music with SFX such as sirens, // 5110-CUSB almost as good, in another weekend experiment by Area 51 via WBCQ. But 7415 was absent (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 6985, April 5 at 0055 organ music with hymn, what else but ``Gott sei die Ehre``. WYFR now scheduled here 2245-0445 at 355 degrees. I should think some MARS nets just below 7000 would object. OSOB as The Crystal Ship must have finished with 6876 by then (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** ARGENTINA [and non]. 15820, looking for LTA, LSB program feeder, instead heard hi-speed RTTY, quite an obstacle, April 5 at 0031.
15345.2, R. Nacional, UT Monday April 5 at 0035, tango on bandoneón, then ID as ``Radio Nacional de Santa Fe, y 40 emisoras, pasan a transmitir un sorteo``, fair and clear signal, nothing to het it. Appears that this regional station regularly feeds programs to the national LRA network. I suppose one might try for its own QSL (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRIA. 9820, looking for ORF`s remaining sesquihour to the Americas at 0000-0130, April 5 at 0058: nothing audible. Not on UT Mondays, or maybe missed them during a beamchange? (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 13725, April 5 at 0039, RCI with El Castor Mensajero (``The Messenger Beaver``) mailbag in Spanish, VG signal reciting complete A-10 RCI Spanish schedule, ``en vigor desde hoy 28 de marzo``, so this was a replay of last week`s show! Staff off for Easter holiday weekend? In English, the mailbag is attributed to a maple leaf instead of a beaver; why? (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHILE [and non]. 11900 & 11940, big dirty mushy spurs with plenty of modulation from fundamental 11920 via CVC, April 5 at 0041 with HCJB Portuguese ID in passing. So CVC enters another season having done nothing to fix these, which we have reported repeatedly, and surely are heard all over the Americas and beyond.
6070, CFRX with heavy QRM in Spanish causing fast SAH, April 5 at 0058, // clear 11665 with CVC La Voz ID. Unfortunately, CVC has resumed using 6070 at 23-02 on 30 degree azimuth, so forget about listening to CFRX during those two sesquihours.
All we can do is anticipate the scheduled reduxion to only two hours, 23-01, from October 10 when DST resumes in Chile, a seemingly irrelevant event having nothing to do with Miami. BTW, Manuel Méndez asked CVC and they admitted that the Sunday morning program pretending to come out of Santiago is axually from Miami like everything else (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake, April 5 at 0037: fair on 14970, poor on 15970 (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 6020, April 5 at 0059 CRI in English mixing with music from another station. Another long-term case of frequency mismanagement by those who fail to observe what happens in the real world rather than the computer models. CRI is 305 degrees via Albania to CIRAF zones 7-10, i.e. USA and Mexico, while REE via Costa Rica at 110 degrees to northern S America, so no conflict, right??
Maybe not if REE could keep its nearby signal from going in any other direxion, impossible. Also ignored is the persistent het from 6019.3 Radio Victoria, Perú, bothering them both in respective targets. But serves the ChiCom right for jamming or blocking countless other station-frequencies (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. MW DXers have been reporting ``the wobbler`` active lately on 730 kHz, and now so do I, April 5 at 0106 check, like someone playing a musical saw, obscuring whatever stations are trying to make it on the frequency. The same has appeared previously on many other MW frequencies traced to Cuba, as some kind of transmitter defect, since there appears to be no reason to employ this technique for deliberate jamming. Indeed this looped to the southeast/northwest (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 17705, RHC at 0030 April 5, going from Spanish to open carrier. My bandscan downward continued inexorably so don`t know what eventually followed, but not supposed to be in Spanish before or after this hour. Axually the end of the Quechua broadcast, so about to close down.
13820, April 5 at 0038, lite DCJC noise and pulsing against nothing, long after Radio Martí is finished with frequency.
11600, April 5 at 0043, DCJC pulse jamming against nothing at the absolutely regular rate of two per second.
9810, April 5 at 0046, heavy DCJC noise jamming against nothing on long-abandoned R. República frequency --- wait a minute, there is a trace of some broadcast underneath, which must be V. of Russia, now in A-10 season via GUIANA FRENCH in Spanish to South America at 00-02, per sked in DXLD 10-13.
Commies vs ex-Commies! Cuba jams Russia, whee. At 0200 VOR/GUF switches to 9735 which is a super signal USward; see separate report (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 15180, at 0036 April 5, VOK in Spanish, with a roar on the transmitter; last time heard a few days ago, modulation had been OK (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 6185, April 5 at 0056, heavy mix of two different musical signals about 12 Hz apart, i.e. XEPPM and ZYE365 (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 17820 at 0028 April 5, heavy flutter on poor signal with YDD and VOA sign-on. This is 21 degrees from Tinang, ergo USward, and quite fortunate was I to catch it as only in use for this semi-hour in Spe-cial Eng-lish (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 17525, at 0031 April 5 with ``99 Luft Balloons``, so I bet it`s DW. Uplooked later, yes, DW amid English hour via Komsomolsk/Amure, weak and fluttery (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330-CUSB, UT Monday April 5 at 0048, rock music with SFX such as sirens, // 5110-CUSB almost as good, in another weekend experiment by Area 51 via WBCQ. But 7415 was absent (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 6985, April 5 at 0055 organ music with hymn, what else but ``Gott sei die Ehre``. WYFR now scheduled here 2245-0445 at 355 degrees. I should think some MARS nets just below 7000 would object. OSOB as The Crystal Ship must have finished with 6876 by then (Glenn Hauser, MPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
