** ARGENTINA. 28480-usb, March 6 at 2114, LU8YE, fair signal making quick
contacts in Spanish and English, such as WD9IDV at 2115. When vox is open,
background noise of other voices so must be a multi-operator station. The Y
after the number indicates it`s in a remote part of Argentina (Z would even be
Antarctic), as call-regions are lettered rather than numbered. Yes, QRZ.com
shows:
LU8YE
RADIO CLUB DE LOS ANDES
LOS PEHUENES 1 Y LAS
RETAMAS
SAN MARTIN DE LOS ANDES - PATAGONIA, NQ 8370
Argentina
``The
Radio Club de los Andes, located in the city of San Martin de los Andes, besides
the Lanin National Park with superb natural surroundings, offers big lakes and
clear water rivers. It is a beautiful tourist place, we invite you to visit
(video of our city)``
They
are gearing up for this weekend`s ARRL DX contest which doesn`t start until 0000
UT March 7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA.
24950-USB, March 6 at 2111, virtually the only phone signal on 12m, and
certainly the biggest, is TI5/M0DXR, making quick contacts, maybe warming up for
the ARRL DX Contest? Which does not start until 0000 UT March 7. Someone
mentioned 5-9 as if that were also a contest name. Mostly contacting US
stations, weak here as most of the country is beyond skip range at this
frequency and/or they certainly aren`t aiming at OK (unless in the Pacific
Northeast). One worked is N1DS at 2113. Per QRZ.com, while he`s operated from
many extra-UKOGBANI locales, nothing in particular about the current TI5; just
home info:
Mark Haynes
196 The Downs
Harlow, Essex. CM20
3RH
England
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6000,
March 7 at 0127, RHC is off, leaving English only on 6165 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9900, March 6 at 2126, R. Cairo English to
Europe first seems dead air, then can make out some suptorted just-barely
modulation, also some hum, poor with flutter. Suptorted == suppressed &
distorted.
12035, March 7 at 0119, R. Cairo, good signal but dead
air
9860, March 7 at 0124, R. Cairo, fair signal, dead air
9905,
March 7 at 0125, R. Cairo, Arabic music, talk, whine, distorted
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 28500-USB, March 6 at
2117, TG9AHM calling CQDX, poor signal. From Guatemala City, has quite a gallery
of family, pets, certificates, shack on his QRZ.com page:
TG9AHM
EMMANUEL
H. MIERES G. (Manny)
P.O. BOX 2,789
CORREO CENTRAL, ZONA 1 ,
01001
Guatemala
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU
[and non]. 5980, March 7 at 0101, JBA carriers beating; one, i.e. R. Chaski,
goes off at 0104:23.5, which is 6 seconds later than last night, while BBC/UAE
remains. I can usually hear this on both the PL-880 and DX-398, but now on the
latter only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA.
9555, March 6 at 2122, ME music, very poor with flutter, not // better Holy
Qur`an on 11815, 11915, as unlike them, this is the BSKSA General First Program.
Tuning on up, I hear the same music but considerably unsynchronized, why? on
much better 9870, good signal. And why such a disparity in quality? Both are
registered as 500 kW: 9555 at 295 degrees from Riyadh and 9870 at 310, which is
certainly closer to USward, but only 15 degrees difference (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, March 7 at 0118, very poor signal
with flutter, seems unmodulated, quite a change from the usual good signal from
SLBC Trincomalee (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD
OF RADIO 1763 monitoring: confirmed Friday March 6 at 2130:30 on WRMI 7570 &
15770, about equal levels here. Next:
Sat 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger
Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Sat 1000 on WRMI 5850
Sat 2030v on WA0RCR 1860-AM
Gateway 160 Meter Radio Newsletter, MO
Sun 0415v on WA0RCR 1860-AM Gateway
160 Meter Radio Newsletter, MO
Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580
[USA DST shifts
now in effect!:]
Mon 0300v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v
Tue 1100 on WRMI
9955
Wed 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Wed 1315 on
WRMI 9955
Wed 2100 on WBCQ 7490v
As chances to hear WOR on SW are
reduced, I suggest you may want to subscribe to a podcast: three different
sources are linked atop
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5111.0, UT Saturday March 7 at
0102, William Tell Overture, but no Allan Weiner, as Tom is substituting tonight
(and I don`t think he interjected a word when the theme paused a beat). 0110
checking WBCQ // 7490.0, and find that program on 5111 is 29 seconds behind
(travelling to Maryland and back on the internet?). Yes, measured very close to
5111.0 but Tom says ``5110``, and 7490.0 is not 1 kHz off. Tom seems to be
vamping, as he is multi-tasking, also running the AM station; opens to calls and
soon hears from John in Bermuda at 0116 (Glenn Hausr, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 11580, March 6 at 2127, ute chirping QRM about 11578 on
the lo side of WRMI with BS. Not the continuously repeating sweeps upward (and
downward in het) previously logged. Same thing still happening at next check
0122 March 7.
7730, March 7 at 0109, WRMI now has BS on here // much
stronger 7570; I think this is a change, 00-02 for WRMI-14 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105 & 9930, March 6 at 2129, two thirds
of WTWW are silent, but the other third remains blasting supremacy nonsense on
9475 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 720, March 7 at
0138 UT, WGN Chicago with conclusion of the ``Star Spangled Banner``, really
belted out by an unID baritone with cheers, back-announced as preceded by ``O
Canada``, as it`s a match involving the Edmonton Oilers, so a silly puck game
presumably against the Blackhawks. This will have to do, as US NSP stations
don`t bother to play Our National Anthem at local midnight or any other
predictable time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1400,
March 7 at 0135 UT, Ad Council for Food Bank/Feeding America, then promo for
Cornhuskers game mentioning KLIN twice --- so the 1 kW graveyarder in Lincoln
NE, despite two closer Kansans on 1400 (plus 3 Okies); Lincoln city-to-city is
502 km = 312 miles, half a megameter, not bad.
And quite a surprise: I
normally DX MW on the DX-398 which has better sensitivity and tighter nulling
than the PL-880, but the `398 batteries just died so I switch to the PL-880, and
discover that its selectivity is better so that I can get DX on a channel
adjacent to strongest local 1390 KCRC, even without nulling KCRC! Unthinkable on
the DX-398. A few minutes earlier at 0133 UT when I was nulling KCRC, almost
sounded like some Spanish on 1400: in adjacent states, only 3 or 4 of the 13
Texans are SS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** URUGUAY [non].
6125, March 7 at 0105, not even a JBA carrier where Radiodifusión Nacional del
Uruguay was reported active again by Rodolfo Tizzi in Montevideo, March 4 at
2050 UT, but with 300 watts it was weak even in the neighborhood. WRTH claimed
it was already active, 24 hours. As I pointed out already in the DXLD yg, we
might have a chance during the window for NO QRM on 6125, now that Spain has
departed, 01-10 UT between CNR1 broadcasts from China, during its local daytime
anyway, and overnight in the Oriental Republic. Propagation from S America is
funxional if not very good, with the usual het between stronger stations in
Brasil and Bolivia on 6135v. Rodolfo put up this clip of it:
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA. 28445-USB, March 6 at
2118, YV1KK with good signal, 2119 quickworking KK4SYB. On QRZ.com displays all
his homebrew antennas and contest scores. No doubt this too is a prélude to the
big one by ARRL starting at 0000 UT March 7. Does not want to give a postal
address, just:
YV1KK
JULIO RIVERO
Trujillo
Venezuela
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0502 UT March
7
