** BRAZIL. 11780, March 21 at 0308, no signal from RNA/RNB, but hardly anything
at all on 25m, near-blackout? K index is only 2 and ``no storms`` per WWV. Upon
closer inspexion, weakling ZYs are detectable on 11764.60 S1, 11856.13,
11934.86, amounting to the OSOBs! So 11780 has to be off, and soon at 0327 find
6180 off too. 31m bandscan still finds at 0315 a sufficient S4 signal in
Portuguese on 9664.95 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA.
3330-CUSB, March 21 at 0334, CHU is still AWOL, but audible on 7850-CUSB. Then
at 1226, Richard Langley, NB reports to the DXLD yg, ``I've received an update
from the NRC technician: "We have found that the antenna cable has failed. As it
is under the frozen ground we can’t fix it yet. We are still deciding what to do
next." -- Richard Langley`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
COLOMBIA. 5910.04, March 21 at 0330, Alcaraván Radio with tropical music at S8,
in the clear after collision earlier with Romania, when I could tell HJDH had
re-adjusted frequency closer to nominal after varying way upward. Recheck at
0618, 5910.051 still clear with more music at S9-S7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 9790, March 21 at 0314, CRI relay
which normally blasts in, is JBA at S3; 9570 ALBANIA relay, however, manages S6,
as Eurosigs overcome Amerisigs on 31m, no WRMIs either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9935, March 21 at 0313, ERT with Greek music
at S9-S6; when I get to 9420 at 0319, it`s S7-S8, while 9935 has weakened way
down to S3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9445, March
20 at 2208, Very poor signal vs noise level with YL sounding English, must be
AIR GOS scheduled here until 2230, 500 kW, 325 degrees from Bengaluru. Since AIR
has always dissed the Western Hemisphere, it`s tough to get a listenable signal
from them here, including this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
MEXICO [and non]. 6185, March 21 at 0327, S9+10 R. Educación stands out in
absence of 6180 Brasil, and is even modulating adequately, discussion about the
Suprema Corte. And well atop the Vatican CCI which is almost over (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 7615, March 21 at 0239, very
poor signal here, barely recognizable as Station YHWH. Only frequency he has
been reported on lately. Gone by 0320 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 9480, March 21 at 0319, S9+30 in stilted Spanish,
what`s this? Soon ID as RRI in strange propagation favoring SE Europe over even
Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 6020, March
21 at 0629* VOA French is chopped off in progress, as scheduled 0530-0630 M-F
only via SAO TOME. SW listeners don`t get no respect as program presumably
continues on FM or online; not the only such case with VOA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955 & 9395, March 21 at 0313 & 0319,
no signals from WRMI. These are normally the last North American signals to go,
but MUF must have plunged even lower. K index is only 2 and no storms. The 7 MHz
trio, 7780, 7730 & 7570 are still G to VG at 0320 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5850 // weaker 7730 but still plenty, March
21 at 0621, WRMI with melodic overly nasal Qur`an recitation, shortly segué to
Arabic pop song. Jeff probably picked up some new CDs around the Dead Sea. At
0627 next song smax of Hebrew language, but not sure.
6855, March 21 at
0622, this WRMI is not //, but balancing the other Abrahamists with gospel song
in English about Bethlehem (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S
A. 5810, March 21 at 0623, R. Católica Mundial with mariachi style song, ``Viva
Cristo Rey`` plus her father and La Virgen de Guadalupe as well; DJ follows with
program ID `Fe Hecha Canción`, as WEWN is lightening up its boring programming,
no more ``por su dolorosa pasión`` recited every few seconds??
The latter
is the content of `Paz a la Luz de la Luna` which is still on schedule at 04-06
UT Mon-Fri; while FHC is repeated Tue-Sat at 06-07, originally 15-16 M-F, first
repeat 02-03 Tue-Sat. Per:
Transmission
schedule
now
is dated March 3 to October 30, 2017, admittedly with only two frequencies at a
time, not including spur fields. Why *March 3? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 9265, March 20 at 2206, WINB with gospel huxter in
Spanish, a rare language for them. Sked effective March 12 shows for Mondays
only:
06:00P / Mon-2200...La Voz Alegre
06:30P / Mon-2230...Day of
Decision (Spanish)
Strangely enough, La Voz Alegre must be in Spanish, even
tho not specified. Is this the same LVA which produces all the Spanish hours on
Madagascar World Voice? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
ZAMBIA. 5915, March 21 at 0242, ZNBC1 S7-S9 with fish eagle IS, always a treat.
I guess Zambians set their alarm clox to hear it at 4:42 am every morning. 0249
switch to choral NA. LSB tuning is better since there is more ACI from 5920 WHRI
than from 5910 RRI/HJDH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This
report dispatched at 1610 UT March 21
