** AUSTRIA. 6155, March 6 at 0701, legacy Ö1 with news in Austro-German, S9 and
good modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 6180,
March 7 at 0106, RNA/RNB is back on after missing a few nights, and no spurblobs
detected below it, hopefully having fixed that problem in the interim.
Modulation on 6180 itself is sufficient now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11855.18V, March 5 at 2348, R. Aparecida is S5 and
just barely modulated, frequency audibly varying.
11855.26V, March 7 at
0120, R. Aparecida is up to here, still wobbling, and still JBM (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 332 kHz, March 6 at 0654 UT, beacon
QE and long dash (a Canadian characteristic). Can`t find any listed at
dxinfocentre.com but think it must have been QT in Thunder Bay, Ontario. I was
debating whether the second letter was a T or an E, since the ID was sent so
slowly, but opted for E, and again seemed to center on 333 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 7540, March 5 at 2326, VP S6 signal with talk
echoing, maybe long/short path? More likely double CNR1 jamming against RFA
Tibetan ``bod`` dialect via KUWAIT as scheduled this hour only (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11840 and parasites 11850, 11830,
Sunday March 5 at 2351, `En Contacto` DX program from RHC seems to be relying
more and more on Prof. Arnaldo Coro Antich. This segment is a `new` one called
`Frecuencias del Mundo`, as Arnie finally tries to provide some real DX info
rather than going on and on about propagation, Cuban stations, home-brew
equipment. He used to denigrate the competition for giving out so many numbers,
i.e. frequencies where one might really hear something other than RHC. Not off
to a very good start, as the only ones he mentions are 6180 Brasil and weaker
6185 Mexico, clueless that 6180 has been off the air for several days (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6060, March 6 at 0437, RHC is
off, so no leapfrog across 6165 on 6270 either, which someone has reported
hearing again.
5025, March 6 at 0437 check, R. Rebelde is back on. I
wonder if a transmitter shortage accounts for this: when 5025 is on, 6060 is off
and vice versa? March 7 at 0102, 5025 is off again, and 6060 is on (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ECUADOR. 6050, March 6 at 0703, S8
Spanish religious talk, so HCJB is still testing here all-night. And we thought
they were deferential to coreligionist ELWA. Will eventually contract to old
0500*? (Glenn Hauser, oK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 11530.6,
March 6 at 2232, once I find MWV Arabic, Radio Feda quite strong on 11790, I go
looking again for a spurblob like accompanies 11610 in Chinese during previous
hour, plus and minus 258.5 kHz from that frequency --- and here it is, but 259.4
kHz below 11790. Eventually manage to match enough // modulation to the
fundamental. Opposite should be on 12049.4, probably there but can`t detect it,
far too close to the bigsig from 12050.0 WEWN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, March 7 at 0101, JBA carrier from R. Chaski until
cutoff at 0103:42* approx., which would be 14.5 seconds later than two nights
ago, March 5 until 0103:27.5*, or averaging 7.25 each. Tonight`s reading is not
as accurate, fighting huge S9+20 storm noise level, from a lightning band from
OKC to Tulsa and beyond, tho nothing around here. It could have been more like
0103:41, exact cutoff obscured by staticrash, which would fit with the usual
slippage rate circa 6.75 seconds/24 hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SOUTH AMERICA. As the ARRL phone DX contest enters its final
semihour, March 5 from 2329 to 2334, I find ``15`` meters open from all over S
America ---
(yet not a single SW broadcast station on the continent
cares to use adjacent 13m --- in fact, as of 1991, there were no SAm stations
except HCJB on 21480, just foreign relays in French Guiana and (almost SAm)
Bonaire. If the hams can do this with 100 or 1000 watts, think what a full power
high-gain SWBC station could achieve!)
Here`s what I quickly log in 5
minutes from Uruguay, Venezuela, Brasil, Argentina, fortunately all giving calls
fonetikaly, and I won`t bother looking up their own details or copying contacts`
calls:
2329 on 21381-USB, CX2DK
2330 on 21360-USB, YV6YV
2330 on
21307.5-USB, PY3PA
2331 on 21282.5-USB, PX2B
2332 on 21246-USB, ZV2C (100
watts), with CF7XNL, British Columbia
2333 on 21230-USB, PS2T
2334 on
21227-USB, LU5FF
15m is just right, while 20m is full of pileups every
few kHz; forget it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 198
kHz, March 6 at 0658 UT, beacon DIW with long pause. I`d rather hear BBC Radio
4. Dxinfocentre.com shows this is in Dixon, NC, class HH which means HIGH POWER
HOMING BEACON (2000W / 200NM or more)
and W meaning Without Voice Facilities.
Why not DIX? There are no beacons listed with that call; maybe someone typoed on
the paperwork. Dixon is between Jacksonville and Surf City, slightly inland,
with 0 population per Rand McNally (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1867 monitoring: confirmed UT Monday
March 6 at 0030 on WBCQ, 9330v-CUSB, JBA. Also confirmed UT Monday March 6
starting at 0403 on Area 51 webcast, and at 0426 check on WBCQ 5129.82-AM,
S9+10. Also confirmed UT Mon Mar 6 at 0430 on WRMI, 9955, VG S9+20! But 0458
recheck has diminished to VP only averaging S4. Note, from next Sunday March 12
all the above will radiate one real UT hour earlier but at the same Eastern
times, once DST is imposed.
WOR 1867 also confirmed UT Tuesday March 7
at 0030 on WRMI 7730, but unusually fluttery; same six seconds later on WBCQ,
9330.0v-CUSB, with high OK storm noise level from just east of here.
Next:
Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE, 6855 to WNW
Tue 2300 WRMI 9955 to
SSE
Wed 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 6855 to
WNW
Wed 1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE, 6855 to WNW
Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to
WSW
Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 6855, Sunday March 5 at 2309, WRMI-5 with jazz, `Jazz
from the Left` at unsked time? No, just part of `World Music` since staple
`Chariots of Fire` is playing at 2320; not // 5850 or 11580.
11580, Sun
Mar 5 at 2310, WRMI in `Wavescan`, Jeff White speech urging ME nations to
broadcast internationally on SW again, preferably in English, apparently his
welcoming address at HFCC A-17 secret meeting in Jordan at a hotel on the Dead
Sea, I think he said, rather than Red Sea (Gulf of Aqaba)? More to come. HFCC
website still restricts any info about the Jordan meeting to members only.
Recheck at 2358, 11580 with digibeeps during DigiDX, I suppose with VOA
Radiogram still substituting.
5850, Sun Mar 5 at 2321, WRMI with Mideast
music, not // 7730.
6855, UT Mon Mar 6 at 0000, WRMI succeeds in airing
[Countdown 2] `Xmas Radio`. No program intro after ID, just right into
recitation of `Night Before Xmas`. Recheck at 0006 now DJ is on phone apparently
taking a request which may also be made via request@c2c.audio
I get far too much
Xmasmx during the last three months of the year, so will not be deliberately
listening to this much, but some questions arise: so far, nothing Sacred has
been heard; is the program partial to Secular Xmasmx? How about variety? They
could fill a lot of their 24/7/365 time beyond SW with classical music connected
to Xmas, like oratorios, cantatas, even Mannheim Steamroller, but would they?
Website is all about secular music, and reveals Canadian base, but no address,
and phone number is AC 614, which is circa Columbus, Ohio. Hmm.
11580,
Monday March 6 at 2230, `Christian New Age Radio` episode 2 appears yet again
during this weekly bonus slot on WRMI, as Rev. Moe reasserts that he doesn`t
like the sound of his own voice. I find it quite pleasant.
5850, March 7
at 0108, this WRMI is off, no BS, but 7730 is still on.
9395, March 7 at
0113, talk show has replaced classic rock filler which had been running here for
several days since SonPower Radio quit; one world currency coming after the
dollar fails; mark of the beast on credit cards and RF ID chips. Not // 6855 or
9955 --- but it is // 7730, soon confirmed by Brother HyStairical interrupting
one of the many clips he filches off who knows what, and then interrupting
himself. So as some of us feared, the 9395 opening has been filled by more BS,
maybe also 24/7?! Still not on the Overcomer website sked, yet lots of deleted
frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7490. UT
Tue March 7 at 0101, WBCQ with `From the Isle of Music`, marred by storm noise
too close in OK; first check about 7490.02, at 0125 more like 7490.04 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3215, UT Tue March 7 at 0107,
WWRB is on with far-right gospel huxter; 0126 offering free Qur`ans for listener
requests to tableoftruth@loomis.net
--- or something like that, fableortruth@rumors.net ? He didn`t
speak clearly or spell it. Evidently to see for yourself how evil he thinx the
Moslems are. But listeners may have a problem interpreting all those squiggly
lines; and if a translation, how to be sure it`s accurate? First, let`s learn
Arabic! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9265V, March 7
at 0112 check, WINB gospel huxter on really wobbly carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11435-USB, March 6 at 1448, competing
demented singers, presumably the Indonesian QSO pirates, some talk also QRMing
each other, Indonesia mentioned. 1452 one guy says something like ``Rahdio
Love`` over and over. Sometimes there have been a lot more of these almost every
5 kHz in the 11.4`s, but not now. Nothing on 11435 at 1454 check, but at 1520
someone weaker is ululating again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
This report despatched at 0505 UT March 7
