Subject: NRC IDXD 63-30a Date: 96-09-07 09:10:12 EDT From: JIMRENFREW@delphi.com To: plsbcbdxer@aol.com, Janalv@oslonett.no, DPHT10A@prodigy.com, bjohn@master.ceat.okstate.edu, MarkWa1ION@aol.com, bc@lexicon.com, radiohc@tinored.cu, hightext@delphi.com, MJ@icbr.ifas.ufl.edu, moore@acc.mcrest.edu, mrodrigu@dino.conicit.ve, djms@bear.com, btaylor@nbnet.nb.ca, bwink@galstar.com, steve.whitt@zoo.bt.co.uk, msittel@ncdc.noaa.gov, neilkaz@interaccess.com, 73564.203@compuserve.com, dxsftlk@aol.com, 100657.2376@compuserve.com, ben-dangerfield@msn.com, 71311.2677@compuserve.com, msnl77a@prodigy.com, radiomatt@aol.com, michael.rolph@mcc.com.au, george@pangea.ca, swbcsked@grove.net, jwoods@orednet.org, donley@audio.apana.org.au, gnbc@alpha.wcoil.com, radiorob@serix.com, dxfool@aol.com, merriman@shore.intercom.net, andy.gardner@ibm.net, jlm@algonet.se, ken.alexander@odxabbs.tor250.org, alcue@albany.net, JGarzon@arrakis.es, Decrawf@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu, clarkb@sparc.org.nz, jburnell@plato.ucs.mun.ca, 74367.3305@compuserve.com, sponder@milleniuminc.com, 100135.54@compuserve.com, paulorm@es.co.nz, rmcvicar@jcjb.org.ec, saxelrod@mb.sympatico.ca ______ ______ ___ ___ ______ |_ _| | _ \ \ \ / / | _ \ | | | | \ \ \ \/ / | | \ \ | | | | | | \ / | | | | | | | | | | / \ | | | | _| |_ _ | |_/ / _ / /\ \ _ | |_/ / _ |______| (_) |______/ (_) /__/ \__\ (_) |______/ (_) ** The following is the electronic version of "International DX Digest" ** which appears 30 times each year in "DX News", the 63 year old publication ** of the National Radio Club (a non-profit corporation chartered in the ** state of Kentucky). For subscription and other information about the NRC ** please write to: DX News Subscription Center, P.O. Box 118, Poquonock, CT ** 06064-0118 USA. Annual subscriptions (US funds only, please): ** ** USA: $24.00 new subscriber, $22.00 renewals ** Canada: $25.00 new subscriber, $23.00 renewals ** Mexico/Caribbean: $29.00 new subscriber, $27.00 renewals ** All other countries: $36.00 new subscriber, $34.00 renewals ** ** Items appearing in IDXD may be reprinted in other hobby publications ** provided that the original reporter or publication is credited, and that ** the issue number or date be noted. Except for radio clubs having a ** formal reciprocal relationship with the NRC, you may not reprint or ** electronically distribute the entire column without permission from the ** NRC Board of Directors. RELEASE DATE: SEP 5, 1996 THE IDXD REPORTERS CUP ~ Last season, reporters from Canada won the first IDXD Reporters Cup, based on the high percentage of provinces reporting DX. This year the Cup goes to the USA. One more Canadian province would have achieved a tie, but wait until next year, eh! Here are the final Volume 63 standings, with last minute additions of ME, WI and NB! ~ USA: AZ,CA,CO,CT,DC,DE,FL,GA,HI,IA,IL,IN,KS,LA,MA,MD,ME,MI,MN,NC,NH,NJ,NY,OH, OK,OR,PA,RI,SC,TN,TX,VA,WA,WI = 34/51 = 67% ~ CANADA: AB,BC,MB,NB,NF,ON,PQ = 7/12 = 58% ~ Thanks to all reporters who submitted loggings to IDXD during the last year! And welcome to Michael Manning, another DXer from Delaware. Congratulations to Bill Dvorak who heard the last HCJB test from Wisconsin! ~ SPECIAL REPORT FROM NRC CONVENTION ~ NRC and DXAS members had the opportunity to hear TA DX at the NRC Convention site in Knoxville, TN, with Croatia-1134 booming in on Sunday night (SEP 2 UTC). Besides the clear reception of Croatia, several strong TA hets were noted, including Algeria-891, Germany-1017, and Libya-1251, and this was just with two 15-m wires in the less than ideal RF environment of the hotel building! Longer antenna wires of at least 30-m would've likely produced audio on some of the hets. But at least this was evidence that you don't have to be located on the coastline to hear TA DX. Midwest DXers may want to keep an ear on these and other TA frequencies such as Spain-585, 684, 855, England- 1053, 1089, 1215, and Norway-1314, as we are now in what has been a peak period for TA activity over the past couple of years with the sunspot cycle bottoming out. 73 [Conti-TN] ~ TRANS-ATLANTIC DX ~ 153 ALGERIA, Bechar, AUG 3 0442 - // 549 with drums, strings, group AA vocal with slight reverb (as if in large hall). Massive signal during a powerful dawn enhancement run into North Africa. [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 31 0215 - Woman speaking to male caller in AA, good. [Manning-DE] ~ 162 FRANCE, Allouis, JUL 21 0145 - FF vocal in the style of early '60s Paul Anka; good. [Connelly*Y-MA] AUG 3 0441 - woman in FF // 1375; excellent. [Connelly*H-MA] ~ 183 GERMANY, Saarlouis, JUL 21 0352 - dance-rock music, then female FF talk; good. [Connelly*Y-MA] AUG 3 0440 - man & woman in FF; to good peak. [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 31 0220 - Man and woman speaking FF, good. [Manning-DE] ~ 198 UNITED KINGDOM, BBC WS synchros, Droitwich et al., JUL 21 0143 - man & woman in political discussion // 6175; fair. [Connelly*Y-MA] AUG 3 0439 - light jazz, woman in EE; good. [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 31 0225 - Pop music program, IDs as BBC, male DJ. [Manning-DE] ~ 207 MOROCCO, Azilal, JUL 21 0147 - AA music mixed with "QI" beacon. [Connelly*Y- MA] AUG 3 0439 - AA male vocal & violins; LOCAL-LIKE. [Connelly*H-MA] ~ 216 FRANCE, Roumoules, JUL 21 0351 - FF pop vocal, man & woman in FF with some telephone callers; good to excellent. [Connelly*Y-MA] AUG 3 0438 - FF vocal, talk; fair. [Connelly*H-MA] ~ 234 LUXEMBOURG, Junglinster, JUL 21 0138 - mellow guitar music; fair to good. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 252 IRELAND, Clarkestown, JUL 21 0348 - techno-dance music; fair to good. [Connelly*Y-MA] AUG 3 0436 - US pop-rock vocal; excellent. [Connelly*H-MA] ~ 531 SPAIN, RNE5 synchros, AUG 3 0123 - SS teletalk; over others. AUG 25 0037 - bits of SS talk in RVC-530 slop. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 531 ALGERIA, Ain El Beida, AUG 3 0443 - AA music // 153, 549; poor to fair in mix with Spain. [Connelly*H-MA] ~ 549 ALGERIA, Les Trembles, AUG 3 0434 - exciting modern AA (rock-influenced) vocal; good. [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 25 0036 - het, bits of AA talk. [Connelly*P-MA] AUG 26 0335-0356 - Loud and clear with Middle Eastern music, man and woman in AA. Virtually no fading and no problem from domestics on 550. [DeLorenzo-MA] ~ 567 IRELAND, R. 1, Tullamore, AUG 25 0035 - recent hit "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Deep Blue Something; good, apparent Spain RNE5 station in background. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 576 ALGERIA, Bechar, AUG 3 0445 - AA vocal // 153, 531, 549; poor with possible co-channel Spain. [Connelly*H-MA] ~ 576 SPAIN, RNE5, Barcelona, AUG 24 2336 - man in SS; to fair peak. Other stuff (likely Algeria, Portugal) under. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 585 SPAIN, RNE1, Madrid, AUG 3 0122 - SS talk / teletalk with man & woman; LOUD. AUG 23 0357 - woman in SS over low growl. [Connelly*Y-MA] AUG 24 2335 - man in SS; loud. [Connelly*P-MA] SEP 7 0201 - News in SS // 684, weak in noise. [Renfrew-NY] ~ 594 PORTUGAL / unID (MOROCCO or SAUDI ARABIA), AUG 24 2335 - bits of PP talk & AA talk mixing; fast resultant SAH. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 603 SPAIN, RNE5 (/RNE1) synchros, AUG 3 0447 - // 585 with fast SS talk by 2 men; over other station that turned out to be Madeira. AUG 13 0336 - // 684 with upbeat male SS vocal; good, alone on channel. [Connelly*H-MA] ~ 603 MADEIRA / SPAIN, AUG 24 2334 - PP vocal mixed with SS talk; poor to fair. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 603 MADEIRA, RDP, Pico de Arieiro, AUG 3 0513 - male pop-soul vocal definitely // Azores-693 and Portugal-666. Atop Spain at this time. [Connelly*H-MA] ~ 612 MOROCCO, Sebaa-Aioun, AUG 3 0448 - // 207 with between-show fanfare music, man in AA; good. AUG 13 0335 - AA male vocal. [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 24 2332 - AA male a cappella vocal at huge level (almost pinning R8A S-meter); annihilating WGIR/others on 610. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 621 CANARY ISLANDS, Santa Cruz, Tenerife, AUG 3 0519 - HUGE with SS teletalk. [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 24 2333 - SS newstalk; good. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 639 SPAIN, RNE1 synchros, La Coruna et al., AUG 3 0115 - SS talk; in bad slop. AUG 24 2330 - uptempo SS pop vocal, then fast SS talk by man; strong, drilling a big hole in WNNZ-640. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 648 SPAIN / unID, AUG 3 0116 - bits of SS talk; atop unID with Afro/AA- sounding music. UnID probably Gambia or the Libyan; Saudi Arabia less likely. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 648 unID's, AUG 24 2329 - multi-station jumble including AA-sounding music and operatic vocals / classical music. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 657 SPAIN, Madrid, AUG 24 2328 - pop vocal, then man in SS; getting by WFAN slop. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 666 PORTUGAL, RDP, Lisboa, AUG 3 0112 - John Lennon song // Azores-693; good. [Connelly*P-MA] AUG 13 0333 - PP teletalk; strong carrier, weak audio. [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 24 2326 - PP male vocal; barely over a graveyard-like mess of others. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 675 NETHERLANDS, R. Ten Gold, Lopik, AUG 25 0032 - excellent with oldies including "I Put a Spell on You" by Screamin' Jay Hawkins. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 675 FRANCE Marseille, SEPT 5 0235 - Fair signal with man and woman in FF. Has been heard several times recently and is // to 162 which is usually stronger. [Dangerfield-PA] ~ 684 SPAIN, RNE1, Sevilla, AUG 3 0022 - excited SS talk; to good peak with WRKO nulled. [Connelly*P-MA] AUG 13 0256 - man in SS with interspersed jazz; good at 0256 with WRKO nulled, up to excellent level by 0313. [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 23 0351 - loud with romantic vocal, then man in SS. [Connelly*Y-MA] AUG 24 2321 - fast SS talk; good. [Connelly*P-MA] AUG 31 0135 - Man and woman speaking SS, incredible signal +10 dB. [Manning-DE] SEP 7 0139 - Very good, but fadey at times, with woman talking to people on the telephone // 585. [Renfrew-NY] ~ 693 AZORES, RDP, Santa Barbara, Terceira, AUG 3 0112 - LOCAL-LIKE with John Lennon's "I'm Just the Jealous Kind" // 666. [Connelly*P-MA] AUG 13 0340 - fast PP newstalk by man; atop BBC. [Connelly*H-MA] ~ 693 UNITED KINGDOM, BBC synchros, Droitwich et al., AUG 3 0024 - BBC discussion briefly over Azores. [Connelly*P-MA] AUG 23 0355 - EE talk by woman; fair, over others. [Connelly*Y-MA] AUG 25 0032 - BBC EE report by man; over Azores pop music. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 711 WESTERN SAHARA, Laayoune, AUG 24 2320 - bits of AA talk noted in (rather ineffective) loop null of WOR. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 711 FRANCE Rennes, SEPT 5 0459 - Strong and clear with FF fem vocal. Not // to the other B network stations before the hour, but all went to news at 0500. [Dangerfield-PA] ~ 729 SPAIN, RNE1 synchros, AUG 3 0024 - SS talk // 684; poor in slop. AUG 25 0031 - // 738 with female operatic vocal from Bizet's "Carmen"; to good peak. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 738 SPAIN, RNE1, Barcelona, AUG 3 0108-0117 - SS sportstalk, fair at 0108, loud by 0117. [Connelly*P-MA] AUG 23 0345 - folk vocal (style similar to Gordon Lightfoot), then SS talk; getting by CHCM slop. [Connelly*Y-MA] AUG 25 0030 - female operatic vocal from Bizet's "Carmen"; excellent. [Connelly*P- MA] ~ 747 CANARY ISLANDS, Las Palmas, AUG 3 0110 - SS teletalk mixed with Netherlands; poor to fair. [Connelly*P-MA] AUG 13 0325 - SS female vocal; mixed with others. [Connelly*H-MA] ~ 747 NETHERLANDS, Flevoland, AUG 3 0119 - "Mrs. Robinson" by Simon & Garfunkel [1968]; atop Canaries SS talk. AUG 25 0029 - Gladys Knight style soul vocal, Dutch talk; very good to excellent with full modulation like a US station. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 756 GERMANY, Braunschweig-Ravensburg, AUG 3 0118 - classical piano music; fair over probable Spain/Romania mix. [Connelly*P-MA] AUG 4 0117 - woman in GG gave weather and temperatures for several cities. [Connelly*W-MA] ~ 756 SPAIN, R. Euskadi, Bilbao, AUG 13 0324 - poor to fair with man & woman in SS; over others. [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 25 0038 - mellow SS vocal with a '50s feel, then SS talk; over probable Germany. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 765 SWITZERLAND, RSR, Sottens, AUG 3 0119 - light classical music; fair through WABC slop. [Connelly*P-MA] AUG 25 0025 - classical piano music; to good peak. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 774 SPAIN, RNE1 synchros, AUG 13 0321 - // 684, 855 with Latin-American influenced uptempo male SS vocal, then man in SS; fair. [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 31 0140 - Man and woman speaking SS, deep fades. [Manning-DE] ~ 774 EGYPT, Abis (t), AUG 24 2318 - AA music briefly came up to huge level and buried Spain. Egypt suspected, based on power and on strong propagation from the 819 and 864 outlets. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 792 SPAIN, SER, Sevilla, AUG 13 0320 - fast SS teletalk; fair. [Connelly*H- MA] AUG 24 2317 - SS talk; poor to fair (starting fade-up). [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 792 FRANCE Limoges, SEPT 5 0454 - Clear signal with man in FF doing novelty vocals. Was // to other Net B stations I heard at this time. [Dangerfield-PA] ~ 801 JORDAN, Ajlun (t) / SPAIN, RNE1 synchros, AUG 25 0023 - AA vocal mixed with SS teletalk; poor to fair. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 819 EGYPT, Batra, AUG 3 0027 - AA vocal; in jumble. AUG 25 0022 - AA male / female vocal duet; HUGE signal, killing 820. [Connelly*P-MA] SEPT 5 0141 - Strong with what sounded like man doing the Koran. Did seem // to 864 but then the Koran always sounds the same. [Dangerfield-PA] ~ 819 MOROCCO, Rabat, AUG 3 0525 - good carrier, but very light audio on AA monologue by man // 207. Transmitter dawn is the best time to hear this, because co-channel Egypt has faded out by then. [Connelly*H-MA] ~ 828 SPAIN, OCR, Barcelona, AUG 25 0022 - sounded like bits of operatic SS vocal; in bad slop. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 836 AZORES, RDP, Barossa, AUG 3 0028 - PP talk about workers; very good to excellent. [Connelly*P-MA] AUG 13 0318 - soft music; fair. [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 25 0021 - PP male vocal back on 836 old-plan channel, so frequency correction to 837 was short-lived. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 837 CANARY ISLANDS // SPAIN, AUG 3 0029 - fast-talk SS announcer, (possibly horserace coverage), cheering sounds; good strength, but QRM'ed heavily by stronger Azores-836. [Connelly*P-MA] AUG 13 0318 - two SS male announcers, restricted / tinny audio quality; good strength. [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 25 0021 - man in SS with het from 836. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 837 FRANCE Nancy, SEPT 5 0453 - Atop the frequency and no sign of the COPE station heard earlier. Nancy featured a male vocalist and was // to other B's. [Dangerfield-PA] ~ 846 ITALY, Rome, AUG 13 0201 - classical music; fair. [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 25 0020 - heldentenor operatic male vocal; to good peak, but WEEI slop tough at times. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 855 SPAIN, RNE1 synchros, AUG 3 0031 - sports-related SS talk by man; fair over SAH & second audio (likely Romania). WEEI pest nulled. [Connelly*P-MA] AUG 13 0321 - // 684, 774 with Latin-American influenced uptempo male SS vocal, then man in SS; good. [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 24 2315 - SS teletalk; fair. AUG 25 0019 - extremely loud with female operatic vocal, equal to WEEI at times. [Connelly*P-MA] AUG 31 0145 - Man and woman speaking SS, good. [Manning-DE] ~ 864 EGYPT, Santah, AUG 3 0032 - AA vocal over Spain; fair. AUG 25 0019 - AA Koranic male vocal at monster level. Spain, with SS vocal, way under. [Connelly*P-MA] SEPT 5 0138 - Strong with Koran and seemed // to 819. [Dangerfield-PA] ~ 864 FRANCE Paris, SEPT 5 0452 - Super signal with man doing FF novelty songs. Was // to other B Net stations. At 0434 there had been a huge OC here. [Dangerfield-PA] ~ 873 SPAIN, SER, Zaragoza, AUG 3 0033 - fast SS talk by man; over others; some 880 slop. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 873 SPAIN, SER, Zaragoza / unID, AUG 25 0018 - SS man over unID station with female vocal. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 882 UNITED KINGDOM, Washford et al., AUG 3 0034 - EE talk in tough WCBS slop. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 891 ALGERIA, Algiers, AUG 3 0035 - AA flutes, drums, strings, & vocal; local- like at S9+50! AUG 24 2311 - AA male vocal & drums; already good at this time in WBPS null, local-like (killing WBPS) later in the evening. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 909 MOROCCO / UNITED KINGDOM / SPAIN, AUG 25 0016 - a local-strength 3-way battle with AA, EE, & SS programs alternating. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 918 SPAIN, R. Intercontinental, Madrid, AUG 25 0015 - woman in SS; to good peak. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 936 SPAIN, RNE5 synchros, AUG 3 0037 - SS talk by man; over AA-sounding station that was probably Morocco. AUG 25 0015 - dominant with SS teletalk. [Connelly*P-MA] AUG 31 0150 - Woman speaking in SS, poor. [Manning-DE] ~ 954 SPAIN, R. Espana, Madrid, AUG 3 0038 - man in SS over music station (Czech, Turk, or Qatar ?) & ripply SAH; loud, hitting S9+35 peak. AUG 25 0014 - SS talk over others; some WPEN-950 slop. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 963 PORTUGAL, R. Renascenca, Seixal, AUG 3 0429 - woman in PP, then religious-sounding vocal; poor in CHNS slop. [Connelly*H-MA] ~ 981 ALGERIA, Algiers, AUG 24 2308 - AA chanting, then AA talk by woman; strong, about equal in strength to the 980 (WCAP/CBV/WTRY) domestic cluster. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 999 SPAIN, COPE, Madrid, AUG 3 0039 - loud with SS sports coverage. AUG 24 2307 - fast SS talk fading up over CKBW slop. AUG 25 0013 - HUGE at this time with SS talk by man. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1008 CANARY ISLANDS // SPAIN, AUG 3 0039 - SS talk in WINS slop. [Connelly*P- MA] ~ 1017 GERMANY, Rheinsender, AUG 3 0335 - woman in GG; slightly over Spain, others. [Connelly*H-MA] ~ 1017 GERMANY?, AUG 31 0155 - Strong carrier, above S-7 at times, modulation extremely low. [Manning-DE] ~ 1026 SPAIN, SER synchros, AUG 3 0040 - HUGE (S9+30 average) with SS teletalk show. AUG 25 0012 - man & woman in SS; just over fast SAH pile. [Connelly*P- MA] ~ 1035 ITALY (t), AUG 3 0041 - classical music; poor, in slop. Mystery 1034 het noted at times. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1035 ITALY Milan & synch, SEPT 5 0401 - Fair with music after which a man and woman spoke in IT. Was // to a stronger 1116. [Dangerfield-PA] ~ 1044 SPAIN, SER synchros / MOROCCO, Sebaa-Aioun, AUG 3 0043 - SS teletalk over AA-sounding talk; massive S9+35 level. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1044 SPAIN, SER synchros, AUG 25 0009 - SS talk with guitar interludes; excellent. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ [END, PART 1] NRC IDXD 63-30, part 2 ~ 1044 MOROCCO, Sebaa-Aioun, AUG 24 2250 - woman in FF; fair to good. AUG 24 2305 - fast AA/Berber group vocal & percussion; LOCAL-LIKE! Spain way under. [Connelly*P-MA] AUG 31 0020 - Man speaking in AA, Arabic-type music, very strong. [Manning-DE] ~ 1053 UNITED KINGDOM, Talk Radio synchros, AUG 3 0044 - man & woman in EE; fair, but tough WEVD slop. Spain under at times. [Connelly*P-MA] AUG 23 0320 - EE talk by man over music station that was likely Romania (as hints of 1152 were in). [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 1053 MOROCCO, RTM "A", Tanger, AUG 24 2306 - AA vocals // 1044; mixed with Spain & UK. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1053 SPAIN, COPE synchros / UNITED KINGDOM, Talk Radio, AUG 25 0010 - SS talk & EE talk mixing; both loud. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1062 DENMARK, Kalundborg, AUG 3 0307 - excellent with R.E.M. song, then old- time blues vocal. [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 23 0301 - news by woman in Danish; good to excellent. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 1089 UNITED KINGDOM, Talk Radio synchros, AUG 4 0109 - talk about doctors, attorneys; loud, over unID GG (or Slavic ?) sounding station. [Connelly*W-MA] AUG 25 0011- EE talk mixed with other (Albania or Russia); some WBAL slop. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1098 SPAIN, RNE5 synchros, AUG 3 0046 - metallic-sounding SS talk & bad growl, just over Slovakia. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1098 SLOVAKIA, Nitra, AUG 3 0325 - light classical music, then Slavic talk; dominant, strong. [Connelly*H-MA] ~ 1098 SPAIN / SLOVAKIA, AUG 25 0011 - SS talk over Slovakia's music; a bit of slop from pest daytimer WHLI-1100. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1107 SPAIN, RNE5 synchros, AUG 3 0050 - SS talk & music; just over other music station that was probably Egypt. [Connelly*P-MA] AUG 4 0106 - SS talk; loud. [Connelly*W-MA] AUG 23 0227 - soft SS talk; fair. [Connelly*Y-MA] AUG 25 0006 - SS teletalk; excellent. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1116 ITALY Bari & synch, SEPT 5 0402 - Good with brief music, then a man and woman in IT. Was // to 1035. Radio Two program, I guess. [Dangerfield- PA] ~ 1126 unID, AUG 3 0049 - probable off-frequency Spain with SS-sounding talk; hetting other 1125 Spain synchros. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1134 SPAIN, COPE synchros / CROATIA, Hrvatska Radio, Zadar, AUG 3 0048 - man in SS with futbol match; loud, well over Slavic talk by woman. [Connelly*P- MA] ~ 1134 CROATIA, HRT Zadar SEP 2 0215 - Slavic-style rock music, clear reception on strong fade-ins, gone by 0400. [Conti-TN] SEP 7 0103-0505 - Noted off and on with news and local pop music, very strong allowing for wide-band reception. First TA of the new season. [Renfrew-NY] ~ 1134 SPAIN, COPE synchros / CROATIA, Hrvatska Radio, Zadar, AUG 25 0004 - fast SS talk by man; huge, way over Croatia's polka music. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1143 SPAIN, COPE synchros, AUG 4 0105 - woman in SS; over others. [Connelly*W-MA] ~ 1152 SPAIN / 2 unID's (ROMANIA / UK ?), AUG 3 0052 - 3-station mess with woman in SS, operatic music, and talk. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1179 SPAIN // CANARY ISLANDS, SER synchros, AUG 25 0003 - SS news by man & woman. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1197 UNITED KINGDOM, Virgin Radio synchros, AUG 23 0433 - // 1215 with bits of "Roll to Me" by Del Amitri; poor. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 1197 SPAIN, EI, Vitoria / unID, AUG 25 0002 - SS news by woman; atop dance music that was not // UK-1215. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1206 unID, AUG 25 0000 - fat open carrier (France ?) over feeble 1 kHz het that was probably from Caymans-1205. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1206 FRANCE Bordeaux, SEPT 5 0448 - Strong and clear with vocals in FF by a man. // to 864 and other B Net stations. Must sign on 15 minutes before the hour. [Dangerfield-PA] ~ 1215 UNITED KINGDOM, Virgin Radio synchros, AUG 3 0054 -"These Dreams" by Heart; loud; way over SS talker. [Connelly*P-MA] AUG 21 0339 - Pop mx by Average White Band and Robert Palmer. SIO 332 [Burnell-NB] AUG 23 0252 - Springsteen vocal, EE talk, then 1980 oldie "Echo Beach" by Martha & the Muffins; to good peak. [Connelly*Y-MA] AUG 24 2359 - rock vocal, then announcer mentioned a "special combination"; Spain QRM then got worse. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1224 UNITED KINGDOM, Virgin Radio / SPAIN (t), AUG 24 2358 -EE rock vocal // Virgin-1215 mixed with light pop female vocal that may have been SS; tough slop at times. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1242 unID, AUG 24 2356 - het against WUOK-1240: France or Ukraine most likely. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1251 LIBYA, Tripoli, AUG 3 0414 - AA male Koranic a cappella vocal; good. [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 23 0230 - AA talk; fair. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 1269 GERMANY, Neumunster, AUG 4 0100 - GG talk, big het against WTSN (but tough slop). [Connelly*W-MA] AUG 24 2357 - classical music; in tough slop. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1287 SPAIN, SER synchros / unID's, AUG 24 2355 - SS talk in a graveyard-like jumble. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1296 SPAIN, COPE, Valencia, AUG 24 2354 - SS teletalk mixed with others. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1305 SPAIN, RNE5 synchros, AUG 24 2354 - romantic female SS vocal, then SS talk by man; atop persistent low growl. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1314 NORWAY, NRK Kvitsoy, JUL 24 0213 - Talk by man in NN, folk song, strong, almost equal to 1310 domestics, as usual the first TA of the season. JUL 29 0311 - Good with pop song. [Yocis-NY] AUG 3 0057 - cool '50s-type vibraphone tropically-influenced jazz, Norwegian talk; huge on peaks, beautiful signal in 4 kHz bandwidth position. [Connelly*P-MA] AUG 4 0120 - excited Norwegian talk (sporting event: possibly Olympics coverage); good. [Connelly*W-MA] AUG 4 0315 -strong with oldies fest with back-to-back '60s / '70s hits including ELO's "Showdown". [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 21 0341 - Man in Norwegian. SIO 232 [Burnell-NB] AUG 23 0232 - Eagles' "Hotel California"; loud / local-like at S9+30 and above. [Connelly*Y-MA] AUG 24 2353 - folk-rock vocal in the style of Jethro Tull; to good peak, well over Spain SS talk. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1332 ITALY, RAI R. Uno, Roma et al., AUG 23 0410 - II talk by man, classical music; poor to fair. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 1341 NORTHERN IRELAND, BBC Radio Ulster, Lisnagarvey, AUG 23 0440 - man in EE; poor, in slop. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 1349 MAURITANIA, R. Mauritanie, Nouakchott, AUG 24 2225 - AA talk fading up to good strength about an hour before local sunset. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1359 SPAIN, Arganda, AUG 4 0314 - bits of SS talk; in slop. [Connelly*H-MA] ~ 1377 FRANCE Lille, SEPT 5 0455. Fair, not as good as some of the other B Net stations heard at this time. Had FF male vocals. High banders were weaker. [Dangerfield-PA] ~ 1395 NETHERLANDS, Lopik, AUG 23 0308 - smooth soul-influenced jazz instrumental; fair to good. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 1395 ALBANIA Fllake, SEPT 5 0239 - Fair, with man in Albanian. [Dangerfield-PA] ~ 1422 GERMANY, Heusweiler, AUG 3 0100 - man said "Deutschlandradio", then time pips, GG news; excellent. AUG 24 2350 - orchestral music; fair. [Connelly*P- MA] ~ 1431 unID, probably Ukraine, AUG 23 0234 - killer het, but the cluster of 1430 stations (WNJR / several others) was essentially unnullable. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 1485 SPAIN, SER synchros, AUG 3 0101 - SS sports, crowd noises // 1575; over carrier jumble. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1521 SAUDI ARABIA, Duba, AUG 4 0304 - AA male vocal; to good peak, but WWKB slop not fully nullable. [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 23 0304 - male AA Koranic vocal; good. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 1530 SAO TOME & PRINCIPE, VOA, Pinheira, AUG 3 0400 - jazz-rock fusion music, then announcer "This is the Voice of America", into EE news; good S9+25 peak, sometimes over WSAI. [Connelly*H-MA] ~ 1539 GERMANY, ERF, Mainflingen, AUG 4 0305 - choral music, strong het; tough WDCD slop. [Connelly*H-MA] ~ 1544 ALGERIA - CLANDESTINE, Tindouf, AUG 24 2252 - AA group vocal; fair through early (pre-sunset) WDCD skip slop. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1575 SPAIN, SER synchros, AUG 3 0102 - SS sports // 1485; poor. AUG 24 2348 - fast SS talk // 1584; fair. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1584 SPAIN or CEUTA (?), AUG 3 0103 - disco music. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1584 SPAIN, SER synchros, AUG 24 2348 - fast SS talk // 1575; poor, in tough CBJ slop. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1602 SPAIN, EI, Vitoria, AUG 3 0103 - fast SS talk not // SER outlets. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1602 unID (probably EI, Vitoria, SPAIN), AUG 24 2346 - mellow modern-jazz vocal interpretation of old song "Sidewalks of New York"; briefly loud, but soon succumbed to WWRL/WUNR slop. It was NOT // SER-1575, 1584. I was hoping for an Ascension Island ID, but turned up with no ID at all. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1608 unID RTTY, AUG 4 0309 - teletype station looping Europe. [Connelly*H-MA] Shawn Axelrod already has an ID for Mark: The station you had with RTTY is: DHJ59 in Wilhelmshaven, Germany." [Axelrod-MB] ~ 1620 NETHERLANDS, PCH, Scheveningen, AUG 3 0103 - "PCH" Morse code; excellent. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ 1629 UNID, AUG 16 0323 - Strong het in with KXBT. WHo's on 1629? [Kitze-VA] (see next item? - Jim) ~ unID expanded-band carriers: 1608, 1628, 1631, 1636.8, 1690. Maybe Dutch pirates in some cases? [Connelly-MA] ~ PAN-AMERICAN DX ~ 526 BAHAMAS, ZLS, Stella Maris, AUG 13 0306 - "ZLS" Morse code beacon; good. [Connelly*H-MA] ~ 530 TURKS AND CAICOS, RVC, AUG 4 0331 - SS religion; loud. [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 16 0205 - Very loud, S(+20, back on this frequency with SS religion. Very weak CIAO in null. [Kitze-VA] AUG 23 1252 - SS talk in on groundwave, mixed with Mass. Turnpike (Weston, MA) TIS "WPHG709"; just above loop noise floor. [Connelly*Y-MA] RVC South Caicos SEP 2 0310 - Excellent; preaching in Spanish. [Conti-TN] ~ 535 GRENADA, GBC, St. George's, JUL 21 0150 - soca dance party; fair. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 540 MEXICO, Monterrey, XEWA, AUG 3 0555 - slogans "X de Mexico" and "Voz en el Camino"; good, over others. [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 16 0630-0700 - Dominant, S9+, splashing WGR-550, and blowing away WWCS/WDAK/WQTM, with light Mexican and some ranchera music, nice armchair copy, mention "150 watsa de potencia" and "La WA" female IDs during songs, fanfare, etc. No longer gives EE IDs on the quarter hour marks. [Kitze-VA] ~ 540 COLOMBIA, HJKA, Bogota, AUG 23 0447 - "Autentica" net ID, SS preaching; briefly strong over a pile of others. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 550 VENEZUELA, Mundial, YVKE, Caracas, AUG 3 0556 - festive SS music, "Esta Mundial" jingle; atop others. [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 23 0450 - jazz-influenced mellow SS vocal, Mundial ID & jingle; loud / dominant. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 550 CUBA, R. Rebelde synchros, AUG 23 1002 - SS talk, music // 670. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 555 ST. KITTS & NEVIS, ZIZ, Basseterre, JUL 21 0027 - calypso/soca music, EE talk; fair. JUL 21 0357 - good with reggae version of Joe South oldie "Games People Play". AUG 16 2350 - In many nights hetting WGR/WIND with most loud drum and tone Carib-beat music. [Kitze-VA] AUG 24 0158 - live outdoor broadcast with man & woman announcers, then rhythmic music; good. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 570 CUBA R.Reloj SEP 2 0300 - Good with usual clock and beeps, Cuba dominant on many other frequencies as well. [Conti-TN] ~ 590 CUBA, R. Rebelde, CMHI, Santa Clara, AUG 3 0600 - SS vocal music, Havana mentions // 600, 710; under WBNW. [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 23 0456 - SS male / female discussion // 600; u/ WBNW. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 600 COLOMBIA, HJHJ, Barranquilla, JUL 21 0152 - excited speech with phrase "para los Colombianos"; over others. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 600 BRAZIL, probably Porto Alegre, ZYK278 (as logged on other occasions), AUG 3 0558 - PP talk by man, mixed with Colombia; usual Cuban dominant in loop null. I generally log this Brazilian and 740 (Salvador) best at Harwich, whereas most others do better at W. Yarmouth. [Connelly*H-MA] ~ 600 CUBA, R. Rebelde, CMKV, Urbano Noris, AUG 3 0600 - old-fashioned SS vocal music, Havana mentions // 590, 710. [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 23 0456 - man & woman in SS // 590; strong, atop HJHJ. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 600 COLOMBIA, HJHJ, Barranquilla, AUG 23 0458 - R. Libertad mention, slogan "en Colombia, en el mundo"; briefly over Cuba. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 600 VENEZUELA, most likely previously-logged R. Sucre, YVQB, Cumana (although YVSW also possible), AUG 24 0204 - several Venezuela and Maracaibo mentions; just over mess. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 620 CUBA, R. Rebelde, Colon et al., AUG 24 0743 - // 600 with slow romantic '40s-style SS vocal; slightly over domestics. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 630 PUERTO RICO, WSKN, San Juan, JUL 21 0029 - SS fast-talk Puerto Rican sports report, over WPRO/CFCY. [Connelly*Y-MA] AUG 24 0800 - SS newstalk, Super Cadena ID; over/under WPRO/CFCY. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 640 CUBA, Guanabacoa/Las Tunas, JUL 21 0237 - "servicio musical de R. Progreso"; over mess. AUG 23 1000 - rooster crow, then revolutionary SS talk // 660, 740; good. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 640 GUADELOUPE, RFO, Pointe-a-Pitre, AUG 3 0216 - FF talk about China; dominant. [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 23 0505 - slightly-reverberated FF talk / teletalk; good. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 640 VENEZUELA, YVQO, Puerto La Cruz, AUG 3 0612 - ID sounded like "Union Radio de Caracas". [Connelly*H-MA] ~ 650 COLOMBIA Antena Dos, Bogota, AUG 12 0350 - good with Colombian accordian stuff, male DJ with ID. [Krueger-FL] JUL 21 0030 - RCN mention, SS newstalk; good. [Connelly*Y-MA] AUG 3 0604 - tropical music, Antena Dos ID; good, alone on channel. [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 9 0105 - Mostly on top of WSM with "las noticias", music, and "RCN Antena Dos". This station is in many nights probably hampering WSM listeners. [Kitze-VA] AUG 23 0510 - rustic SS group vocal with folk guitar, slogan "Antena Dos, Musica Alegre", then uptempo vocal; huge with no trace of WSM. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 650.85 CUBA UNID, AUG 1 1100-1800+ - Crawford's 650.84 noted throughout the day here, definitely looping central-ish Cuba, but never any audio. Just a rapidly warbling carrier making it, unsure if Sandino or something else. [Krueger-FL] ~ 650.9a CUBA, unID site, AUG 3 0612 - apparently the same station noted by Crawford & Krueger in FL is making it up the coast to here. Bits of audio, but mostly just a het against powerhouse HJKH. [Connelly*H-MA] ~ 660 CUBA, AUG 23 0511 - Reloj program just a bit behind WFAN. AUG 23 1000 - Progreso program // 640, 740; good. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 670 VENEZUELA, R. Rumbos, YVLL, Caracas, JUL 21 0245 - hot merengue music, talk "en R. Rumbo, La Emissor de Venezuela", timecheck; way atop WMAQ/Cuba/others. AUG 24 0206 - advert for something "en Caracas"; slightly over jumble of others. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 670 CUBA, R. Rebelde, CMQ, Arroyo Arenas, JUL 21 0249 - SS Cuban political talk // 710; mixed with YVLL/WMAQ. [Connelly*Y-MA] AUG 3 0606 - Cuban dance music // 600; good, over WMAQ/others. [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 23 0515 - // 710 with fast old-style Cuban dance music, female vocal; excellent. AUG 23 1002 - SS talk, music // 550. AUG 24 0750-0805 - solidly dominating the channel during this "wee hours" check for Bruce Conti's unID. SS news at 0800 (// 600 kHz) had lead item about Mother Teresa's failing health. Domestics (likely WMAQ with EE news and CKXB with C&W music) and another SS talk station were way under. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 676 unID, AUG 13 0258 - bits of music on "oddball" frequency; hetted by 675 TA's and slopped by WRKO-680. [Connelly*H-MA] ~ 678.14 unID, AUG 23 0350 - het, possibly same station as the 676 log of AUG 13. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 690 ANGUILLA, Caribbean Beacon, The Valley, JUL 21 0128 - US EE preacher; good over CBF, Cuba growl, & apparent Brazil. [Connelly*Y-MA] JUL 29 0427 - Dr. Gene Scott program, phone numbers to call, fair in CBF null. [Yocis-NY] AUG 23 0521 - preacher; fair with others in CBF null. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 690 ECUADOR, HCJB Quito, SEP 1 0521 - Heard with CW during its monthly DX test. First time I have ever heard an Ecuador station on MW! Rich McVicar has confirmed my HCJB reception report via e-mail. Boy, it's hard to get used to this idea of e-mail reception reports! Verification in hours-- whatever happened to the good old days when you sweated for months, waiting for a response? [Dvorak-WI] (You'lll get that good old sweaty card in a few weeks with an additional special gift via the regular mail! - Jim) ~ 700 COLOMBIA, CARACOL, HJCX, Cali, JUL 21 0229 - CARACOL ID; in mess of others with WLW phased. AUG 24 0207 - SS operatic vocal // 810; slightly over others. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 705 ST. VINCENT & THE GRENADINES, Kingstown, AUG 4 0323 - soca music; poor to fair. [Connelly*H-MA] ~ 710 CUBA, Rebelde synchros, JUL 21 0249 - SS political talk // CMQ-670; good with WOR phased. [Connelly*Y-MA] AUG 3 0600 - SS vocal music, Havana mentions // 590, 670; under WOR. [Connelly*H-MA] AUG 23 0515 - // 670 with fast old-style Cuban dance music, female vocal; under WOR. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 720 VENEZUELA, YVQE, Porlamar, JUL 21 0227 - ID "en Radio Oriente", excited shouting popped up over CHTN. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 722 UNID Latin American, AUG 12 0404 - carrier-only making it. [Krueger-FL] ~ 730 MEXICO XEX, Mexico City, AUG 3 0649 - Pop music, man and woman talking and laughing in SS, many mentions of "X," fair in partial CKAC null. [Yocis- NY] AUG 11 0750-0802 - In the clear, with easy music, then "La Equis de Mexico ... la frecuencia libre", followed by taped history program, "la historia de la ciudad". [Kitze-VA] ~ 740 CUBA, Progreso synchros, JUL 21 0954 - outlets running the R. Reloj service at this time. Dominant signal on channel until daytimer WJIB signed on. AUG 23 1000 - rooster crow, then revolutionary SS talk // 640, 660; good. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 748.7 unID, maybe Cuba (or Nicaragua ?), AUG 23 0341 - SS man mentioned Cuba, Nicaragua, and "anti-imperialistas"; in "het sandwich" with Netherlands-747 and YVKS/CBGY-750. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 750 VENEZUELA, YVKS, Caracas, JUL 21 0037 - SS talk about women's issues, interview with EE-speaking man with translation into SS, RCR mentioned. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ [END, part 2] NRC IDXD 63-30, part 3 ~ 760 COLOMBIA, HJAJ, Barranquilla, JUL 21 0126 - callsign "H-J-A-J" ID in SS, RCN net ID; good over pile-up of others. JUL 21 0959 - RCN still fair at this late time. AUG 23 0956 - SS talk, RCN mentions; atop jumble. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 770 COLOMBIA, HJJX, Bogota, JUL 21 0403 - RCN ID just behind WABC. [Connelly*Y-MA] Pretty much eliminating WABC's Curtis Sliwa with SS programs, and "Radio Cadena Nacional" IDs. [Kitze-VA] ~ 780 BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS, ZBVI, Roadtown, Tortola, JUL 21 0040 - reggae music; good, over CFDR. [Connelly*Y-MA] AUG 4 0116 -remote live Carib-EE broadcast from a local shopping area; fair to good with CFDR nulled. [Connelly*W-MA] ~ 790 CUBA, R. Reloj, CMAQ, Pinar del Rio, AUG 24 0807 - Reloj news and time show with "boxy" telephone-like audio; atop channel. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 790 UNID, SEP 2 0238 - Not sure if Mexican or domestic. Man mentioned FM 105.9 along with garbled slogan. [Hall-CA1] ~ 800 NETHERLANDS ANTILLES, PJB, Bonaire, JUL 21 0100 - SS hymns, Transmundial ID, initially mixing with CJAD, then way atop. [Connelly*Y-MA] AUG 16 0300 - Near local strength, wiping out CKLW with religion, in many nights. [Kitze- VA] ~ 810 COLOMBIA, CARACOL, HJCY, Bogota, JUL 21 0105 - SS news with item about Luxembourg, CARACOL ID // 5075; mixed with WGY. AUG 23 0952 - CARACOL ID, Cali news item; peaking over WGY. [Connelly*Y-MA] AUG 16 0200 - Strong, with loud CARACOL IDs and talk, making it hard to listen to WGY. [Kitze-VA] ~ 830 ST. KITTS & NEVIS, TBN, Basseterre, JUL 21 0108 - // 7510 with EE female religious folk vocal, crowd applause, then preacher; mixed with WCRN. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 860 VENEZUELA, Mundial 860, YVOL, San Cristobal, AUG 24 0812 - sign-on with what may have been the longest-ever version of the Venezuelan National Anthem, then Mundial and 860 SS ID's finally came at 0815 UTC. Atop Cuban Reloj and a pile of others; CJBC nulled. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 869.8 UNID Latin American, AUG 12 0420 - fragments of music, at first thought Progreso off-frequency. However, // 900, 890, 880 Progreso to an eventually fading-up 870.0 Progreso outlet. Maybe the lower power (second) Progreso listed, or one of the Musical Nacional outlets? [Krueger-FL] (probably the only way to log two Cuban stations on the same frequency - when one is off- frequency! - Jim) ~ 880 VENEZUELA YVYM Puerto Ordaz, AUG 11 0700-0800 - In loud over two other SS unIDs with "Onda Mundial" Ids during an amazingly rare WCBS silent period. Still audible in null when WCBS signed on. [Kitze-VA] ~ 890 CUBA R Progreso (site?), AUG 12 0416 - powerhouse, unlisted, // 900, 880, 870. [Krueger-FL] ~ 895 ST. KITTS & NEVIS, VON, Charlestown, JUL 21 0115 - fast soca male vocal with tune similar to Bob Marley's "No Woman No Cry" (maybe influenced by recent Fugees version); good. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 900 MEXICO XEW Mexico DF, AUG 4 0257 - In strong at this early hour with Olympic Futbol reports, and quick "LV de la America Latina" ID. Some QRM from WKDW (100 miles away), who seems to be staying on with 5 kW instead of powering down. [Kitze-VA] ~ 930 MEXICO XEU, AUG 9 1048 - quick male ID as "La U de Veracruz" in passing, into ranchera music, good over domestics during peak. [Crawford-Oak Hill FL] ~ 940 CUBA, R. Reloj, Holguin/Colon, AUG 23 1011 - Reloj program mixed with CBM, others. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 1000 COLOMBIA, RCN, HJAQ, Cartagena, JUL 21 0052 - RCN ID in multi-station jumble. [Connelly*Y-MA] AUG 16 0600 - In with RCN musical IDs, over/under WMVP. [Kitze-VA] ~ 1000 MEXICO XEOY R. Mil, Mexico DF, AUG 16 0300 - In often over WMVP with R. Mil IDs, music and SS talk pertaining to Mexico City. [Kitze-VA] ~ 1020 VENEZUELA, Mundial Margarita, YVRS, La Asuncion, JUL 21 0054 -"Mundial Margarita" ID, fast SS talk, promotion for Sunday music programs; loud / alone on channel. Turks & Caicos off? [Connelly*Y-MA] AUG 3 0332 - festive dance music vocal, Mundial Margarita ID, over KDKA; no trace of "CCR". [Connelly*H- MA] ~ 1020 TURKS & CAICOS CCR, AUG 16 0100 - With Super Power Caribbean Christian Radio ID. Back here now and under KDKA. [Kitze-VA] ~ 1035 UNID, AUG 12 0427-0430* - frequency aproximate, huge FMing blob here. Checked local WMTX on 1040, which appeared clean (and no slop above 1040), suddenly off 0430 (and WMTX continued). [Krueger-FL] (a curious frequency to find something - Jim) ~ 1050 MEXICO XEG Monterrey NL, AUG 11 0736 - S(+ over WCMS/WEVD/CHUM/XEQOO with ranchera music and "La Ranchera de Monterrey", timecheck. Also heard another form of ID which sounded like "El Gigante de Monterrey con mil wats de potencia". I thought this one was 150 kW. My favorite XE to listen to in the early mornings. [Kitze-VA] ~ 1050 MEXICO XEQOO R. Pirata, Cancun QR, AUG 4 0404 - Weak in XEG/WEVD/WCMS null. Still here, but no longer so strong. The format seems to have changed to older Mexican music and hardly any rock or new wave at night (may be a seasonal thing - Jim). This used to be my loudest and easiest XE at this location, power reduction? [Kitze-VA] ~ 1090 CUBA R Reloj, (site?), AUG 1 1138-1140 - briefly surfaced with usual "RR"'s, man with ID and news atop local daytime dominant Radio Guama. No WRTH-96 (yawn) listing. [Krueger-FL] ~ 1110 VENEZUELA, R. Carupano, YVQT, Carupano, AUG 24 0310 - old-fashioned SS folk vocal & guitar, frequent refrain repetitions, then talk with Venezuela & Carupano mentions, then more old-style SS folk balladry; strong, over WBT at times. [Connelly*Y-MA] ~ 1130.3 UNID, AUG 12 0434 - weird, rapidly-warbling and pulsing transmitter under all the others on 1130. [Krueger-FL] ~ 1170 MEXICO XEIB Caborca, AUG 18 0615 - Fair, mixing with KVOO in partial null of local KCBQ. Lots of local ads. [Hall-CA] ~ 1180 CUBA, R. Taino, Villa Maria, AUG 3 0422 - much SS talk about Havana; dominant over Latin American mess & bits of WHAM. [Connelly*H-MA] ~ 1280 BERMUDA, VSB2, Hamilton, JUL 22 0551 - Bible Broadcasting Network program and ID, good over WADO, WHTK, WYVE. [Yocis-NY] ~ 1280 MEXICO UNID, AUG 1 *1100-1145 - Burned the 7-10am (1100-1400 GMT) portion of my life on 1280 today. Chronology was rather interesting: *1100 tune-in to clear, rather strong XE NA, uncopiable ID by man, into rancheras format. No 1280 XE listed with an *1100 s/on in the WRTH-96, but then we all know how useless they are on accurately portraying real-life Latin American MW. Mixing with another definite XE, mentioning "Monterrey" often (possibly XEAW, listed 24 hrs). Also heard ments of Guadalajara, but unsure which station was referencing said at this point. By around 1140, WODT, New Orleans joined in, with EE news and traffic, multi-ID's. About the same time, semi- local WTMY, Sarasota surfaced ("Health & Talk Radio" slogan, with mostly paid- for investment hawkers--note: "M Street Radio Directory 1996" lists this as Business/Talk/Spanish--well, not SS daytime, at least. They also apparently alternate news feeds ToH, with NBC noted at 1200, USA Radio News 1300, NBC 1400, etc.). Also, by about 1140, WIPC, Lake Wales began to rear its exceptionally ugly head with ranchera format, lots of Lake Wales/Lakeland area mercado, auto insurance etc. ads, SS woman DJ after 1200. Signal on latter really lousy throughout, through. This one could very easily be confused with a real XE on sunrise. Anyway, who's the definite XE I heard s/on at 1100? [Krueger-FL] ~ 1375 ST. PIERRE ET MIQUELON RFO, AUG 16 0310 - Het is here many nights, thonight, hover, there was some FF audio in with the domestic adjacents. Wish I had a narrower IF in my radio. [Kitze-VA] (try working with // 640 or 5055 - Jim) ~ 1500 MEXICO XEAI, Mexico, AUG 12 0441 - blowing in with program of Cuban son and merengue, male DJ with brief description of song styles, "Radio Aah-Eee" ID. [Krueger-FL] ~ 1505 ANGUILLA, The Valley, AUG 3 0407 - bits of EE political speech; in WNRB slop. [Connelly*H-MA] ~ 1540 CUBA UNID, AUG 12 0400-0401* - caught tail end of sign-off, man saying "patria o muerte, venceremos" into short version choral NA, off, leaving ZNS alone. Will try to check tonight to see which this is. [Krueger-FL] ~ 1580 FLORIDA WFAV? Ft. Lauderdale, AUG 8 0000 - ID as such mentioning 102.5 also, valley girl cart & rock music. Ex-WSRF? Fair level. But, noted more usual French programming on AUG 9 at 1050. What goes on? (Crawford - Oak Hill FL] ~ 1610 ANGUILLA, Caribbean Beacon, The Valley, AUG 3 0104 -EE preaching mixed with TIS stations. [Connelly*P-MA] ~ TRANS-PACIFIC DX ~ 153 RUSSIA, Komsolosk, Far East, AUG 31 1229 - Vocal music with an Arabic sound; fair signal with QRM from GWEN. [Woods-OR] ~ 243 RUSSIA, Razdolnoye, FE, AUG 31, 1231 - Fair // 153. [Woods-OR] ~ 279 RUSSIA, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, FE, AUG 30, 1209. Poor signal with speech in RR. [Woods-OR] ~ 693 JAPAN, JOAB Tokyo, AUG 31 1328 - Fair to good with EE lesson; sample sentence; "I'm sorry I got sick on the helicopter" [Woods-OR] ~ 774 JAPAN, JOUB Akita Aug 30 1051 - Foreign language lesson, believed PP. Fair signal. [Woods-OR] ~ 850 HAWAII, KHLO Hilo, AUG 31 1300 - Fair with ID; into news. [Woods-OR] ~ 1566 SOUTH KOREA, HLAZ Cheju Aug 31, 1325 - Fair with man speaking Asian language. [Woods-OR] ~ STATION NEWS ~ ARGENTINA: Authorization given for three stations in extended band (10 kW max power): 1620 R. Universidad de Buenos Aires (5 kW), 1650 R. Municipal (5 kW), 1680 Universidad Tecnologica de Avallenada (1 kW). [Nestor Rubio in ARC JUL 27] (doesn't mean they are on the air - Jim) ~ CEUTA: The SER network only keeps this 1584 station "R. Ole Costa del Estrecho" (an FM relay) to avoid losing the MW license for this area. In order to QSL the station, they have an address in Ceuta for administrative purposes, but DXers should address letters to Radio Algeciras 1260, the station that maintains 1584. Regarding the drifting of the station, this is a normal situation with several MW stations in Spain. When there is a problem with 1584 they have to take a ferry across the Strait of Gibraltar, and sometimes they don't bother taking the trip, leaving the signal on 1585. [summarized from a detailed report by Jorge Garzon, Medi Grupo DX] ~ GERMANY: Deutschlandradio 207 has not been heard for some time. When Kyyiv is off Morocco is heard. [Olle Alm in ARC JUL 27] ~ HAITI: 860 4VMK Les Cayes, 1100-0100; 1280 4VAM R. Metropole, Port-au- Prince, slogans "La Dynamisme", "La plus forte ecoute", "Metropole c'est ca". [direct, in ARC JUL 27] ~ MEXICO: Station slogans: DF Mexico XEPH-590 Sabrosita; DF Mexico XEX-730 La X de Mexico; DF Mexico XEUN-860 Radio UNAM; DF Mexico XEW-900 La Voz de America Latina; DF Mexico XEQ-940 Q 940 AM; DF Mexico XEOY-1000 Radio Mil; DF Mexico XEQR-1030 Radio Centro; DF Mexico XERED-1110 Radio Red; DF Mexico XEJP- 1150 Radio Variedades; DF Mexico XECMQ-1320 Formato 21; DF Mexico XEBS-1410 Radio Sinfonola; DF Mexico XEFAJ-1560 Radio Consentida; JA Guadalajara XEZZ- 760 Radio Gallito; JA Guadalajara XEWK-1190 W Guadalajara; NL Monterrey XEG- 1050 La Ranchera de Monterrey; NL Monterrey XECT-1190 Nucleo Deportes; NL Monterrey XEQI-1510 Radio Nuevo Leon (relay FM?); PU Puebla XEEG-1280 La Tribuna. [WWW via Doug Smith-TN] ~ NORTHERN IRELAND: Radio 1521 - Power? Has the N Ireland station Radio 1521 upped its power or done something with its antenna? Recently reception in SE England has improved considerably; at night it now dominates the 1521 kHz frequency. [Steve Whitt, Medium Wave Circle Web Page] ~ PARAGUAY: 720 R. Pa'i Puki is a new station broadcasting on an experimental basis since APR 28 at 0100. The station has two transmitters, 15 kW each, and it transmits with a power of 25 kW. The station broadcasts from a site called 25 Leguas in Chaco, about 350 km from Asuncion. Station is operated by the Catholic church. [LI via FK in MWC in ARC JUL 27] 650 R. Uno inaugurated JUN 1, 09-04 MF, 09-03 Sa, 0930-03 Su, but noted on the air at 0830 with continuous music. [Tetsuya Hirahara in Asuncion in ARC JUL 27] ~ SWITZERLAND: Two mediumwave frequencies formerly used by public broadcasters in Switzerland have been franchised to commercial radiostations, being: 531 Musikwelle 531 - This programme is due to start on 1 October with a format of 'volkstuemlicher musik', traditional popmusic in the German language. 1566 Radio Eviva/Evangeliumsrundfunk - This frequency is going to be shared between these two stations. Eviva's format is also 'volkstuemlicher musik' I think, and Evangeliumsrundfunk broadcasts programmes with a religious orientation. [Stienstra via SatelliText on 3SAT Medium Wave Circle Web Page, SEP 6] ~ CONTRIBUTORS @ = via e-mail ~ @Jean Burnell, DXing from Fredericton NB; unmodified Sony 2010, internal antenna [jburnell@plato.ucs.ca] ~ @Mark Connelly, DXing from East Harwich MA [*H], Plymouth MA [*P], Wellfleet, MA [*W], West Yarmouth MA [*Y]; Drake R8A, RL-1 Remotely-Tuned Loop, RW-1 Active Whip, 25 m sloper, DCP-2 Dual Controller / Phaser, Mini-MWT- 3 regenerative tuner [MarkWA1ION@aol.com] ~ @Bruce Conti, NRC Convention, Knoxville, TN; Lowe HF-225 Europa, MWDX-5, two 15-m longwires. ~ @David E. Crawford, Gainesville FL; [decrawf@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu] ~ @Ben Dangerfield, Wallingford PA; Drake R8A, 2 slopers, DL2 phaser, KIWA loop. ~ Marc DeLorenzo, Auburndale MA, JRC NRD-525, Quantum Loop. ~ @Bill Dvorak, Madison WI; GE Superadio III, built-in antenna. ~ @Tim Hall, Chula Vista CA; ICF-2010, KIWA Loop; also DXing 1 mile from home with ICF-2010, 1650' terminated beverage aimed East. ~ Jeff Kitze, Boyton VA; GE Super II. ~ @Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL; NRD-535, HQ-180A, GE SuperImage III ~ Michael Manning, Wilmington DE; HF-1000, SE-3 synch. det., RF system, DX one professional antenna. ~ @Jim Renfrew, Rochester NY; R-8, Radio West Loop. [JimRenfrew@Delphi.com] ~ @Jack Woods, Waldport OR; Lowe HF-225 Europa, ALN-1 outdoor untuned loop. ~ @David Yocis, South Nyack NY; R71A, Kiwa loop [73564.203@compuserve.com] ~ [END, part 3] IDXD 63-30 SUPPLEMENTAL SECTION Editor's note: Mark Connelly is sending his loggings in two forms, one in frequency order with program details, the other in chronological order without program details. In months to come I will run the frequency order stuff in IDXD, unless I have too much stuff, in which case I will use the chronological material. In the latter case, the frequency order report will appear here in the e-mail supplement, with a few of the most interesting logs included in IDXD. I'm not sure if this will actually save time, since I enter reports into my IDXD file as I receive them so as not to get behind, and I will need to hold Mark's stuff up to the deadline until I know which way I'm going to go with it. I will continue to offer feedback to reporters regarding the work load in months to come! Remember, the key word here is DISCRETION (yours) in submitting your reports! Focus on what is new and unique Jim MARK CONNELLY (excerpt of response to Bruce Conti's report): It's interesting to see Mauritania-1349 back. No one reported it for several months and, knowing the lack of technical expertise on their end (with the continued old-plan occupancy as Exhibit A), it's quite likely that they were off, running low power, or using an antenna with the radiation efficiency of a wet piece of spaghetti. I had Steve Whitt in the UK look for it in July and he also came up dry at that time. It's good that this useful propagation 'beacon' is back on to help us evaluate sunset / pre-sunset conditions. Azores going back to 837 is another useful news tidbit, inasmuch as it had been on 836 for much of the spring and early summer. I have little doubt that 760 is Fortaleza, based upon definite ID's heard during several DXpeditions / mini-DXpeditions in NF and MA (and Neil's Maine logs from the '80s). 750 is probably more speculative, with both Brasilia and Belo Horizonte having been heard during Newfie-4. Hearing either of these past "blowtorch" YVKS is an accomplishment. The transmitter dawn enhancement boost can make the difference - just as sunset greyline can give the Natal/Fortaleza/Joao Pessoa area Brazilians a brief edge over the YV's, as heard from Cape Cod, Cape Ann, and the Maine/NH coastal areas. 1116 tones are probably UK or Italy. Morocco is also possible, I suppose. There are Venezuelan, Ecuadorian, and Cuban DXers on Jim Renfrew's IDXD distribution list: maybe one can solve the East Indian music 670 unID. Then there are the guys in Florida. What we need is somebody positioned at the eastern end of the Caribbean and someone on the north coast of Brazil to snag some of the stuff we get in the Northeast (but which is blocked in major metropolitan areas farther west in Latin America). Maybe Jean Burnell can take a stab at this, if he can null out CKXB Musgravetown. I'm so seldom awake at the posted 0840-0905 UTC reception time that my best bet would be to load a 6-hour tape into the VCR and set a connected receiver to 670 just before going to bed. Of course, this would have to be done from somewhere other than home (since WRKO-680, on a direct line with South America, totally trashes 650 - 710 here). (Mark, one of the e-mail reporters to Medi Grupo DX (Spain) lives in northeast Brazil, and we may be able to recruit him to give feedback on Brazil unids - Jim) The 1040 Puerto Rican is a superb catch and it further reinforces my statement that 1040 is a "Latin American DX candy store", perhaps even better than 640, 760, 840, 860, and other proven "happy hunting grounds". At the home base, there's too much 1030 slop (on the southeast bearing) to make 1040 usable for much more than WHO, but it's definitely a wide-open DX "buffet bar" from the Cape and other coastal sites outside the WBZ splash zone. You'll have to do an autumn / early winter Camden, ME outing with antennas (... preferably Beverages) set up and ready to go a couple of hours before sunset so you can get those first murmurs of TA activity coming over the horizon. In December, from Harwich, I had the Saudi-1521 het at 1 PM local once (1800 UTC) and audio by 1:30 PM EST. Some stations with limited schedules (e.g. Vatican-1611) can only be heard pre-sunset. You could do a 2 PM to 6 AM DX overnighter and then "crash" till afternoon brings DX again (a la Cappahayden). With the right conditions, many pages of loggings would result. Most interesting would be an auroral run with Nigerians and the like, but a good high latitude opening with Oman, India, etc. would be nothing to sneeze at either. MARK CONNELLY (Cape Cod initial summary): Some DX highlights of last weekend's Cape Cod trip include a tantalizing tentative - Jordan-801 (Arabic music mixed with Spain) - and a "gaggle" of more common European and North Africans. The best TA run was at an on-the-way- home stop (Saturday, 24 AUG) at the Robbins Road site near a beach in Plymouth. Mauritania-1349 was already kicking in a big signal at 2225 UTC (6:25 PM local, well before sundown) and, while the sun was still bright, Morocco-1044 and the Algerian clandestine on 1544 boomed forth. Egypt (most likely) blasted in with Arabic music over Spain-774 for a brief spell (2318 UTC); cruncher signals from the Egyptian juggernauts on 864 and 819 soon followed. After about 2330 UTC, the floodgates were open and the dial was full of TA's, especially from throughout the Mediterranean zone from Portugal all the way to Egypt. Morocco-612 (almost pinning the S-meter at 2332 UTC) totally nuked WGIR-610. Incidentally, Azores (recently noted by Bruce Conti as being on 837) has gone back to 836 and is easily splittable from the Spain // Canaries stations. Aside from the wild TA run from Plymouth, I got a number of Latin Americans from West Yarmouth (a site that works better than Plymouth to that area). Friday night's session was good, although there was nothing rare like the long-haul deep South Americans of June, but a few less- commonly reported stations were noted. Venezuela was well represented with Carupano-1110 blowing out WBT at times, likely YV briefly atop 600, good 860 sign-on, etc. The Colombian "Autentica" on 540 blasted in for a while, with suspected YV, HI, XE, Florida, and Newfie bubbling under. Cuba (or Nicaragua?) in with revolutionary chatter in Spanish on the "weird" frequency of 748.7 (buffeted by Holland-747 on one side and YVKS/CBGY-750 on the other). Some other "strangeness", maybe Cubano, showed up in the 676 to 678.2 range at various times. I did check out 670 from 0750 to 0805 UTC to see if I could find Hindi music (as Bruce Conti heard from Maine), but there was just a killer signal from Cuba, with bits of WMAQ and (probable) NF C&W music way underneath. The south-facing West Yarmouth site, although vastly inferior to Plymouth for TA's, still gave good Holland-1395, local-like Norway-1314, possible Ukraine-1431, Italy-1332, and a number of other strong Europeans. MARK CONNELLY (DX Travelogue: Marconi Beach - Wellfleet, MA) I came across a great QTH on the Outer Cape (and one with DX tradition at that): the Marconi Beach & Historical Site in Wellfleet. This is part of the sprawling Cape Cod National Seashore. The entrance is right off Route 6. You can park until midnight and the amount of land out there is unbelievable. Much of it is easily walked with substantial open terrain intermingled with a typical sand-dune cover of shrubs and salt-spray-stunted pitch pines and cedars. There's a big water-tower along the Marconi site access road: an Afro-sloper off the top of that tank would be awesome. I was out there Saturday night (3 AUG local) and only noted a few other cars coming through. The VERY dense fog probably kept the crowds down. DX was good, but I only stayed about 20 minutes because everything was the same stuff I'd heard in Plymouth the previous night just after sunset. I got out to Wellfleet about an hour after sunset and the domestic QRM was tough by then. The place could howl for Africa / eastern-tip Brazil around sunset, especially if you string out a couple of Beverages and if there's some domestic-skip (/Euro-pest) inhibiting aurora. MARK CONNELLY (Cape Cod blow-by-blow account): Summer Cape Cod road-trip edition 1996 [Connelly*H-MA] = East Harwich, MA (GC = 70.02 W / 41.71 N) [Connelly*P-MA] = Plymouth, MA (GC = 70.68 W / 41.98 N) [Connelly*W-MA] = Wellfleet, MA (GC = 69.73 W / 41.91 N) [Connelly*Y-MA] = West Yarmouth, MA (GC = 70.22 W / 41.68 N) Receiver used: Drake R8A; Antenna systems: RL-1 Remotely-Tuned Loop, RW-1 Active Whip, 25 m sloper, DCP-2 Dual Controller / Phaser, Mini-MWT-3 regenerative tuner Session of JUL 21 (W. Yarmouth, MA) * 0027-0059 UTC * St. Kitts/Nevis-555, Puerto Rico-630, Colombia-650, Venezuela-750, British VI-780, Colombia-1000, Venezuela-1020 * 0100-0159 UTC * Neth. Antilles-800, Colombia-810, St. Kitts/Nevis-830, St. Kitts/Nevis-895, Colombia-760, Anguilla-690, Luxembourg- 234, UK-198, France-162, Morocco-207, Grenada-535, Colombia-600 * 0200-0259 UTC * Venezuela-720, Colombia-700, Cuba-640, Venezuela-670, Cuba-710, Cuba-670 * 0300-0403 UTC * Ireland-252, France-216, Germany-183, Algeria-153, St. Kitts/Nevis-555, Colombia-770 * 0954-0959 UTC * Cuba-740, Colombia-760 Session of AUG 3 (Plymouth, MA) * 0022-0059 UTC * Spain-684, UK-693, Spain-729, Spain-774, Egypt-819, Azores-836, Canaries//Spain-837, Spain-855, Egypt-864 (o/Spain), Spain-873, UK-882, Algeria-891, Spain-936, Spain-954, Spain-999, Canaries//Spain-1008, Spain-1026, Italy(t)-1035, Spain/Morocco-1044, UK-1053 (o/Spain), Spain-1098 (o/Slovakia), Spain-1134 (o/Croatia), unID-1126 hetting Spain-1125, Spain-1107, Spain o/(t)Romania & other-1152, jumbles on 1143 & 1197, UK-1215 (o/Spain), Norway-1314 * 0100-0123 UTC * Germany-1422, Spain- 1485, Spain-1575, Spain-1584, Spain-1602, Netherlands(PCH)-1620, Anguilla- 1610, unID carriers: 1608, 1628, 1631, 1636.3, 1690; Spain-738, Canaries-747, Portugal-666, Azores-693, Spain/unID Afro-648, Spain-639, Germany-756, Switzerland-765, Netherlands-747 (o/Canaries), Spain-585, Spain-531 Session of AUG 3 (Harwich, MA) * 0216 UTC * Guadeloupe-640 * 0300-0359 UTC * Denmark-1062, Slovakia-1098, Venezuela-1020 (Turks & Caicos OFF), Germany-1017 (o/Spain) * 0400-0459 UTC * Sao Tome-1530, Anguilla-1505, Libya-1251, Cuba- 1180, Portugal-963, Algeria-549, Ireland-252, France-216, Morocco-207, UK-198, France-162, Algeria-153, Algeria-531, Algeria-576, Spain-603, Morocco-612 * 0500-0559 UTC * Madeira-603 (//666 & 693) (o/Spain), Canaries//Spain-621, Morocco-819 (//207), Mexico-540, Venezuela-550, Brazil(t)-600 (mix Cuba/Colombia) * 0600-0612 UTC * Cuba-600, Colombia-650, Cuba-670, Venezuela- 640, Cuba-650.9a Session of AUG 4 (Wellfleet, MA) * 0100-0120 UTC * Germany-1269, Spain-1143, Spain-1107, UK-1089, British VI-780, Germany-756, Norway-1314 Session of AUG 4 (Harwich, MA) * 0304-0331 UTC * Saudi Arabia-1521, Germany- 1539, unID RTTY-1608 (loop Europe), Spain-1359, Norway-1314, St. Vincent-705, Turks & Caicos-530 Session of AUG 13 (E. Harwich, MA) * 0256-0342 UTC * Spain-684, unID-676, Bahamas(ZLS)-526, Canaries//Spain-837, Azores-836, Spain-792, Spain-855, Spain-684, Spain-774, Spain-756, Canaries-747, Portugal-666, Morocco-612, Spain-603, Azores o/UK-693, Italy-846 Session of AUG 23 (W. Yarmouth, MA) * 0227-0300 UTC * Spain-1107, Libya-1251, Norway-1314, unID(Ukraine?)-1431, UK-1215 * 0300-0359 UTC * Denmark-1062, Saudi Arabia-1521, Netherlands-1395, UK(o/poss. Romania)-1053, Pan-Am unID (Cuba?)-748.7, Spain-738, unID-678.14, Spain-684, UK-693, Spain-585 * 0400- 0459 UTC * Italy-1332, UK-1197, N.Ireland-1341, Colombia-540, Venezuela-550, Cuba-600, Cuba-590, Colombia-600 * 0500-0521 UTC * Guadeloupe-640, Colombia- 650, Cuba-660, Cuba-670, Cuba-710, Anguilla-690 * 0952-1011 UTC * Colombia- 810, Colombia-760, Cuba-740, Cuba-660, Cuba-640, Cuba-550, Cuba-670, Cuba-940 * 1252 UTC (day) * Turks & Caicos-530 Session of AUG 24 (W. Yarmouth, MA) * 0158-0207 UTC * St.Kitts-555, Venezuela- 600, Venezuela-670, Colombia-700 * 0310 UTC * Venezuela-1110 * 0743-0812 UTC * Cuba-620, Puerto Rico-630, Cuba-670, Cuba-790, Venezuela-860 Session of AUG 24 (Plymouth, MA) * 2225-2259 UTC * Mauritania-1349, Morocco- 1044, Algeria (cland.)-1544 * 2300-2359 UTC * Morocco-1044, Morocco (o/UK, Spain)-1053, Spain-999, Algeria-981, Algeria-891, Spain-855, Spain-792, Egypt(t)-774, Western Sahara-711, Spain-684, Portugal-666, Spain-657, unID's- 648, Spain-639, Morocco-612, Canaries-621, Madeira/Spain-603, Portugal/unID AA-594, Spain-585, Spain o/other-576, unID(EI Spain?)-1602, Spain-1584, Spain-1575, Germany-1422, Norway(o/Spain)-1314, Spain-1305, Spain-1296, Spain/others-1287, unID-1242, Germany-1269, UK/Spain(t)-1224, UK(o/Spain)- 1215 Session of AUG 25 (Plymouth, MA) * 0000-0037 UTC * unID-1206, Spain/unID-1197, Spain//Canaries-1179, Spain o/Croatia-1134, Spain-1107, Spain-1044, Spain/UK- 1053, UK o/other-1089, Spain o/Slovakia-1098, Spain-1026, Spain-999, Spain- 954, Spain-936, Spain-918, mess(=Morocco/UK/Spain)-909, het-882 in WCBS slop, Spain o/other-873, Egypt way o/Spain-864, Spain-855, Italy-846, Azores-836, Canaries//Spain-837, Spain-828, Egypt-819, Jordan(t)/Spain-801, Switzerland- 765, Spain o/other-756, Netherlands-747, Spain-738, Spain-729, UK o/Azores- 693, Netherlands-675, jumble-702, Ireland-567, Algeria-549, Spain-531 TIM HALL: The full log report will be sent out by the beginning of September. It will include a handful of other stations heard about 2 weeks earlier. Just thought I'd throw out some wire before the rest of this area gets developed. This was a nice gradual slope with a valley in the distance. Expected better results, as my preliminary tests indicated I was aiming away from both Northern (SD/LA/SF) and Southern (Tijuana/Rosarito) pests. New QTH is not too bad. Generally a bit quieter than my old location. PAUL ORMANDY (logs from Down Under): 780 0642 USA WBBM Chicago IL, "WBBM news-time 1:42: then article on State auto- workers. Ormandy 18/8 840 0735 USA KVEG Las Vegas, gd sig w/promo for Barcelona Hotel & Runway 21. Ormandy 18/8 860 0603 CANADA CJBC Toronto ON, FA w/nx in FF then into classical mx. Ormandy 18/8 900 0520 COLOMBIA HJEY La Voz de Cali, Cali, up briefly w/Todelar net ids. Mostly spoken prog. Ormandy 18/8 1010 0720 MEXICO XEHL Guadalajara, ids as "La Poderosa" gd sig w/SS version of "Loch Lomond" as theme tune, canned id & more pops. Ormandy 18/8 1120 0707 USA KMOX St Louis MO, giving Internet home page for visitors bureau then Lotto numbers. Ormandy 18/8 1140 0704 USA KXNO N Las Vegas, NV, fr u/KHTK but audible w/cinema news for Las Vegas. Ormandy 18/8 1170 0508 COLOMBIA CARACOL Cartagena, fr sig w/net nx way o/NZer. Ormandy 18/8 1320 0637 USA KDIA Oakland CA, w/contest giveaways on "San Fransisco's American Soul". Ormandy 18/8 1350 0634 MEXICO XEQK La Hora Exacta, Mixico C, usual reg ids & time pips every minute, all nx format. Ormandy 18/8 1410 0724 USA CFUN Vancouver BC, w/prog "People helping People" on "C-Fun, talk radio with attitude". Ormandy 18/8 1470 0627 PERU Antena Uno, Lima, still id'ing as this but mentioned Cadena Peruana de Noticias in promo. Was playing salsa mx. Ormandy 18/8 1611 1745 VATICAN Vatican R, pr-fr sig w/relig prog in GG, in the clear. Ormandy 20/8 (apparently signs off earlier, making NA reception difficult - Jim) MORE BUZZING WITH BEN Reception of TAs has been getting better, as one would expect for this time of year, and up through last night most of the good signals have been from such as RNE-585, 684 and 855; UK-1089, Croatia-1134, and Norway-1314. Lots of others, too, but at lesser degrees of strength. But last night [Sept. 4/5] France, Italy and others made an appearance. Fortunately my buzz, which had stayed on for hours the two previous nights, suddenly went off early in the evening. I am back to square one on that problem. When my vacationing neighbor returned in mid July she very kindly switched on and off all the equipment in her house and nothing beyond the previously disengaged rear floodlight timers and sensors was found to be the culprit. So back to the power lines and the electric company. My DL2 phaser helps considerably and I am working with Mark and Al on ground systems. I also plan to put up a third sloper, but in an opposite direction. [Dangerfield-PA] NEWSFLASH Yes, it's true, that I your humble editor found some time for DX. Tonight SEP 6 (SEP 7 UTC) I noted a strong signal from 1134 Croatia and a somewhat weaker signal from RNE on 585/684. Looks like we have a season here! [Renfrew-NY]