** BOLIVIA. 4958.0, July 8 at 0058, JBA carrier, still suspecting R. Trópico, Trinidad, as reported reactivated yesterday. Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin was also checking for this July 7 at 0005 and found a carrier with sidebands but no audio on 4957.98, also exactly same frequency July 5 and 6 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 5952.44, July 8 at 0044, Pio Doce is off; 6155-, Fides is inaudible vs noise level, maybe off; while 6135-, Santa Cruz is on but weaker than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 4915, July 8 at 0040, Portuguese, poor signal but better than others on 60m, vs CODAR here, presumed R. Daqui not signed off yet. Nothing audible on // 11835v. 4915 played music across hourtop past 0101 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 17720, July 7 at 2020, open carrier/dead air from RHC, stronger than Spain 17715 (with 16m mostly vacant, why are any signals adjacent??). RHC is supposed to be in Portuguese during this semihour, and on 17720 from 1930 to 2300 (not -0300 as in Aoki).
I was not checking RHC after that, but maybe lots more dead air today? Dave Marthouse says 6000 was unmodulated at 0000, and both 6000 and 6165 were still unmodulated at 0300. I started listening at 0315, still dead air on both, but 6000 came up with music in English service at 0332, and 6165 then too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 9658-9683, July 8 at 0050 and still at 0106, strong OTH radar pulses in the middle of the 31m SWBC band! Mainly tearing up VOR English 9665 (and its Brazilian het), while Serbia 9685 is strong enough and aside enough to escape it. Cyprus is just a guess for these typical 25-kHz wide messes. Then there is more noise, DRM from COSTA RICA 9630 extending out to 9605-9655 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY. 15785, Sunday July 7 at 1808, one more check for the 1 kW Hamburger Lokalradio test, but no signal at all audible. The 100 kW Greek on 15650 is very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, July 8 at 0045, JBA carrier from R. Chaski in splash and noise level, but still sufficient to clock the cutoff at 0104:40.5* which is 5.5 seconds later than yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1676 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-2, 9930, Sunday July 7 at precisely timed start of 2328:43. Next: Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955; Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB (Glen Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17775, Sunday July 7 at 1720, KVOH is testing again for two hours from 1700. Just noted that it`s on, not fully checked until 1805, when signal is VG, slightly better than VOA GB 17895 which fades from peaks while KVOH does not. Same test material as 8 days ago, Spanish and English requests for reports, bits of gospel programming. Propagation is closer to normal this time. I check for spurs around 17920v as with the old KVOH, but none heard despite very strong fundamental and good modulation. I was getting some distorted blob around 17925-17935 but could not match modulation to 17775: could be local FM breaking thru which is a problem on the DX-398.
Besides VOA, the only other signals on 16m are much, much weaker, 17715 Spain, and 17850 France (in French so not REE/CR which is also still registered!) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9445, July 8 at 0043 nor after 0100 no distorted blob here unlike 24 hours earlier. And the 9490 Cuban jammer is not bleeding much either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 5952.44, July 8 at 0044, Pio Doce is off; 6155-, Fides is inaudible vs noise level, maybe off; while 6135-, Santa Cruz is on but weaker than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 4915, July 8 at 0040, Portuguese, poor signal but better than others on 60m, vs CODAR here, presumed R. Daqui not signed off yet. Nothing audible on // 11835v. 4915 played music across hourtop past 0101 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 17720, July 7 at 2020, open carrier/dead air from RHC, stronger than Spain 17715 (with 16m mostly vacant, why are any signals adjacent??). RHC is supposed to be in Portuguese during this semihour, and on 17720 from 1930 to 2300 (not -0300 as in Aoki).
I was not checking RHC after that, but maybe lots more dead air today? Dave Marthouse says 6000 was unmodulated at 0000, and both 6000 and 6165 were still unmodulated at 0300. I started listening at 0315, still dead air on both, but 6000 came up with music in English service at 0332, and 6165 then too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 9658-9683, July 8 at 0050 and still at 0106, strong OTH radar pulses in the middle of the 31m SWBC band! Mainly tearing up VOR English 9665 (and its Brazilian het), while Serbia 9685 is strong enough and aside enough to escape it. Cyprus is just a guess for these typical 25-kHz wide messes. Then there is more noise, DRM from COSTA RICA 9630 extending out to 9605-9655 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY. 15785, Sunday July 7 at 1808, one more check for the 1 kW Hamburger Lokalradio test, but no signal at all audible. The 100 kW Greek on 15650 is very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, July 8 at 0045, JBA carrier from R. Chaski in splash and noise level, but still sufficient to clock the cutoff at 0104:40.5* which is 5.5 seconds later than yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1676 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-2, 9930, Sunday July 7 at precisely timed start of 2328:43. Next: Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955; Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB (Glen Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17775, Sunday July 7 at 1720, KVOH is testing again for two hours from 1700. Just noted that it`s on, not fully checked until 1805, when signal is VG, slightly better than VOA GB 17895 which fades from peaks while KVOH does not. Same test material as 8 days ago, Spanish and English requests for reports, bits of gospel programming. Propagation is closer to normal this time. I check for spurs around 17920v as with the old KVOH, but none heard despite very strong fundamental and good modulation. I was getting some distorted blob around 17925-17935 but could not match modulation to 17775: could be local FM breaking thru which is a problem on the DX-398.
Besides VOA, the only other signals on 16m are much, much weaker, 17715 Spain, and 17850 France (in French so not REE/CR which is also still registered!) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9445, July 8 at 0043 nor after 0100 no distorted blob here unlike 24 hours earlier. And the 9490 Cuban jammer is not bleeding much either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
