** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RCUSB, Saturday March 5 at 1520, LRA36 is on, S1/S2 into Campo, Brasil, SDR, slightly better than into Brasília #2, during Antártida themesong; 1521 LRA36 ID, `El Lejano Sur`, also FM 96.7; hi & lo temps: -2 and +6 C, not bad. 1524 surges to S3/S5, talk about a rare Catholic chapel in Antarctica, at Esperanza? 1530 ``Nacional Antártida Argentina, en todo el país, la radio pública``, songs. 1542 another talk segment, off at 1545*. Sam Sánchez, Órygun was also hearing it remotedly as early as 1413. We`ve been checking for it only on Weds & Sats per normal behaviour, altho it could be otherdays for special occasions; and had been no-show on Feb 19, 26 and March 2 but heard on Feb 23. It`s about time for the new all-female crewe of four to take over as publicized last year (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2128 monitoring: checking out new time of 0500 UT Saturday, March 5 on WBCQ 4790, appendage to Radio Angela bihour, tnx to Bill Tilford and the Weiners: starts a bit early at 0459. UTwente: S7-S8, pretty good for off the back. Bill says it was getting further into Europe. Synch shows 4789.9985, occasional uteblaaps. At KB0FX Missouri: S9+10 also blaaps. At VE6JY Alberta: S8 would be good except for heavy CODAR. At Ohio SDR: good S9 with lite CODAR. blaaps, whine. At Alexandria VA: S9/+20 but with loud whine not CODAR. At Maryland SDR; S9 with some whine but better than Alexa. At PEI: S6/S7 with same whine. At OKC, JBA with S9+ of noise level! At 0517 direct to Enid: S9+10/20 with CODAR and storm crashes from Nebraska, not too bad. At 0522 to Rockport, Maine: S9/+10 with whine, what is that? Reads -14.7 Hz offset carrier. 0526 way offbeam at St Lucia, S7/S9 fair with no QRM except occasional uteblaaps. Wanted to check Maui but it`s maxed out with WSPR.
Also confirmed at 1716 Sat March 5 on WRN N America webcast. Next:
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0530]
1330 UT Sunday WMRI Europe via Ch 292 Germany 9670
2100 UT Sunday IRRS 1323-Italy
2330 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 to NNW
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW
0130 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed?]
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
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HAM DX on 10, 12, 15 metres
It takes a contest for hams to exploit MUFs rather than assuming bands are closed with no activity. Nice thing about 10m is that skip distances are so long that anything is likely to be DX rather than domestic. Logged all this in 17 minutes, March 5 at 1603-1620, with qrz.com lookup info:
21426 USB, at 1603, V31XX says he is QSYing to .495 on 10 meters. Bill Kollenbaum, Consejo Shores, Corozal District, BELIZE
28420.8 USB, at 1605, HK3X:
HK3X Colombia flag Colombia
PEDRO J. ALLINA, CALLE 155 # 9 - 45 APP 1221 T 1
QSL MANAGER CHARLES.WILMOTT@M0OXO.COM COLOMBIA
So there`s his street address, but not his city! Says has previously been active from Malpelo - separate radio country island, but is he there now??
28405 USB, at 1607, XQ3PC, contesting. After ``5,9`` this and others may say ``K`` presumably meaning both 1000 watts and, over to you:
XQ3PC Chile flag Chile
James Thurston, Capitan Orella 2775 Ñuñoa, - Santiago, CHILE
lots of info and photos at https://www.qrz.com/lookup/xq3pc
28390 USB, at 1612, ZF5T with 100 watts:
ZF5T Cayman Islands flag Cayman Islands
Brac Radio Contest Club, PO Box 73, Siloam Springs, AR 72761 USA
Another one hiding exact location: presumably somewhere on CAYMAN BRAC rather than Grand Cayman or Little Cayman
28431 USB, at 1613, HK3C:
HK3C Colombia flag Colombia
John QTH is north of Bogota
Bogotá, COLOMBIA
http://www.hk3c.ca/ lots of info but does he ever reveal where he is? Surname on QSL is Bartlett
28450 USB, at 1613, HP9SAM:
HP9SAM Panama flag Panama
Stephen A. Myers, Pocri, Province of Los Santos 0758, PANAMÁ
28469 USB, at 1615, TI7W, CQ Contest, K:
TI7W Costa Rica flag Costa Rica
Contest Call, QSL VIA M0URX, Guanacaste, COSTA RICA
28480 USB, at 1615, CE1VP, S8, CQ Contest:
``Your Search by Callsign found no results for CE1VP. CE1VP looks like a callsign from CHILE (DXCC Entity #112). Would you like to add CE1VP to the database?`` Well, no, but I`ve logged only ones with certain fonetix, or so I thought
28486 USB, at 1616, PY2PT, CQ Contest:
PY2PT Brazil flag Brazil
RICARDO RODRIGUES, Caixa Postal 42066, SÃO PAULO, SP 04082970, BRAZIL has made lots of DX-peditions, especially Pacific islands: https://www.qrz.com/lookup/py2pt
28514.5 USB, at 1617, V31XX: finally find BELIZE on 10m QSY from 15
28524 USB, at 1619, CX5A, CQ contest:
CX5A Uruguay flag Uruguay
Radiogrupo Sur, P. O. Box 950, 11000-Montevideo, URUGUAY
lots of info and photos https://www.qrz.com/lookup/cx5a
On 10m seems all phone activity is below 28550; No beacons heard in the 28200-28300+ range, are they all off? Not much phone activity on 12 or 17m, bands not eligible for contest, but:
24980 USB, at 1620, one QSO concludes without ever giving own call
Later circa 1850 on caradio, the Crazy Band is hopping on 27025v-AM but all sound very domestic.
DXMAPS at 2010 UT show 6m Es MUF at 72 MHz across N America, not unusual, but never breaching 88 for FMDX. At 28 MHz, huge contacting N/S America mostly F2 or TEP, not sporadic E (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 2022 UT March 5
