** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RCUSB, March 2 at 1510, no signal from LRA36 into three Brazil KiwiSDRs, missing this Wednesday. Someone in Salem OR was also checking, no doubt Sam Sánchez (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** AZORES. 6114, March 2 at 0715, RTTY again vs 6115 Japan. Now I see that Lou Johnson, Atlanta told me at 1330 Feb 27, presumably referring to monitoring before 0200 when WWCR is on 6115: ``For the last 3 nights (2/24, 2/25. 2/26) I can hear some teletype, but it`s weak, maybe 15% of the signal, and generally not a problem. Lou`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** BELIZE. 21282-USB, March 2 at 2058, V31XX with quick contacts, pileups, then says he is taking a break to rest his butt. QRZ.com: ``V31XX Belize flag Belize. QSL MANAGER: K4XS DIRECT ONLY WITH SASE/GREEN STAMPS. Bill Kollenbaum, Consejo Shores, Corozal District, Belize. I QSL 100! V31XX has been on the air since October 2021``. It`s easy to assume 15m is not open, but full scan encounters a few scattered DX signals, as 21525 WRMI is much more than usual JBA carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 9700, March 2 at 0712, S9+30 of dead air, the only RHC still on air where something`s always wrong (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CURACAO. 21275-USB, March 2 at 2101, QRZ and CQ15 de PJ2/AF4Z making quick contacts; is a contest underway? Someone asks him, ``where`s Curacao`` -- NE of South America. Oh. QRZ.com: ``PJ2/AF4Z Curacao flag, DONNIE L WINN, 1882 BARKLEY AVE, MELBOURNE, FL 32935, Curacao. I will be in Curacao operating from Febuary 25 to March 5 2019 [sic]. I will at the contest station PJ2T and also operating with a team in the ARRL International DX Contest as PJ2T. While at PJ2T contest Station, I will be operating as PJ2/AF4Z during the week as time permits. QSL will be via LOTW or Direct only`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** EGYPT. 9899.60, March 2 at 2221 direct, no need for a remote to detect Cairo crashingly on the air, S9+30/40 of extreme distortion, presumably English. Something`s always egregious in Egypt (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ITALY [non]. 7290, March 2 at 1902, checking how IRRS is doing this Wednesday via Bulgaria: at UTwente weak vs heavy rapid steady pulsing and heavy ACI from CRI on 7295. 1926 clear of pulsing with anti-abortion show from AC 916, `Life Matters`; what has that to do with Ukraine vs Russia? 1930 IRRS ID, `Feature Story News`; 1952 recheck, the rapid pulsing is back, also heard via Carlow, Eire SDR at 1902, so definitely something external, perhaps OTH radar (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KUWAIT [non?]. 11765, March 2 at 1547, surprisingly strong S9/+10 signal next to Cuba, in Chinese, music, not much else from Asia on band. Scheduled is RFA via Kuwait this hour on M/W/F, so it could be CNR1 jammer instead. Jumps around to: 11590 Sat/Sun, 11725 Tue/Thu (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. RF 28, March 2 at 1515 UT, only one DX signal decoding with marginal tropo enhancement, Ion on virtual 44, including the only subchannel of any value, Newsy on 44-6, unlike 62-7 in OKC. This is KTPX Okmulgee = Tulsa market. Rabbitears.info shows it`s direxional toward the NE, but thisaway very much off the side close to a null, belying it being one of the top `Tulsa` stations decoding here. There were also BAD sigs into the STB on at least: 10, 12, 34? The other major TV info site, W9WI.com is gone and Doug Smith says it`s not coming back; now goes to a Wordpress sample page (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** SPAIN. 9690, Wed Mar 2 at 2300, REE English VG into Maryland SDR; after news at 2307 Amy introduces interview in Beirut with an expeditioner to South Sudan to get acquainted with primitive tribes and enjoying? being included in a flesh-cutting ritual. Just as this is getting interesting, segment over already, 2311 on to Justin visiting Madrid bookshops presumably with flesh intact (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY [non]. 5960, March 2 at 2300, after BBC 2259*, no signal from VOT English into UTwente; by 2305 the CCCCCCI is on already: make that CCCC as there is nothing to CCI with: PBS Xinjiang, land of imperialist ChiCom genocide against Uyghurs and other Moslems. Still no VOT by 2315 and not checked further, so SPAIN q.v. without competition (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 4095+, March 2 at 0718 UT, upward sweeps and DW ID on CW for Desert Whooper, heard twice in less than a minute. Very weak, JBA as always (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 21282-USB, March 2 at 2059, KN2CZZ, John, close to center of NY state, contacting unheard W5ZXV. Is he a novice?? Surely not now, but displays his original novice license dated 4/17/53: https://www.qrz.com/lookup/kn2czz ``KN2CZZ USA flag USA, John W Bell, 106 Stockton Pl, Syracuse, NY 13219, USA``. So you can still opt to op with novice call? 15m finally a bit open but no activity on 12 or 10m, not even beacons (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2127 monitoring: zzz thru Wed Mar 2 at 1030 on WRMI 5850; anyone hear it? Confirmed Wed March 2 at 2222 the 2200:21 on WBCQ 7490.1v, S3-S6 in the noise level. On average reception here will get worse and worse into spring and summer, markedly March 16 when shifted to 2100:21, an hour further into the dayside. I hope it`s listenable further east. Next: 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Our non-commercial broadcasts and website depend on voluntary support. One may contribute via PayPal not necessarily in US$, to woradio at yahoo.com One may also contribute by MO or check in US$ on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, USA. New WOR 2128 should be ready early UT Fri March 4 for download and first SWBC at 0130 on WRMIs 5850 & 7780 (Glenn Hauser, WOR) ** U S A. 9955, Wed March 2 at 1548, music, then ``pigs in space`` on WRMI. That would be Hobart R Intl. Seriously? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0048 UT March 3 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html