** 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
