** COLOMBIA. 6010, March 13 after 2200 & 2300 check, no signal from
HJDH to Bogotá KiwiSDR. Not heard since test? UT March 10 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 11880, still off the air March 13 at 2120 & 2155, but *2200
RHC on weakly direct in French. Via Bogotá KiwiSDR, in Portuguese
before 2300, 2300 switch to English, first item about someone killed
near the RHC studios. Sufficient but not super reception, while //
5040 is not making it there at all. Somethng`s always wrong at RHC
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** GUATEMALA. Re TGAV announcing a postal address on 4055: So I wonder
what happen if a North American send p-mail to P O Box 5. Is it
intercepted and returned before it go there? Or just vanish, along
with any r.p. enclosed. Someone must have tried it, perhaps unaware of
the ban.
Is there any other country in the world which has dispensed with
postal service??
Harold Sellers, Vernon BC, Canada replies: ``I was in Guatemala in
January. The people there told me that there has been no postal
service for a number of years. If important documents have to come in
or go out of the country, private courier companies must be used.``
And Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA replies on the WOR iog:
Hi Glenn, Curious situation with Guatemala mail. Found this online:
"The privatised Guatemalan postal service is currently suspended, due
to a years-long contract dispute with the government. For the time
being, the only option for sending or receiving mail / packages is
through an international courier. FedEx, UPS and DHL all operate in
Guatemala."
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/guatemala/post.
US Postal Service website currently shows service to Guatemala.
https://postcalc.usps.com/
Online I noted: "Effective April 6, 2019, the U.S. Postal Service™
restored mail service to Guatemala."
http://accessworldwide.net/2019/04/25/mail-services-to-guatemala-resumes/.
Ron, California`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** JAPAN. 774, March 13 at 1157 I`m awake so hasten to check out some
TP carriers -- NHK has some audio here, heralded by the ToH TS chime
prolonged at 1200. See UNIDENTIFIED for what else (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)
** MEXICO. 650, March 13 at 1229 some Mexican music mostly atop WSM,
1230 into choral NA, 1232 Radio 65 jingle and opening `Buenos Dias,
Yarderos`, signature wake-up show. Not a bigsig, but glad still to
hear XETNT Los Mochis, Sinaloa, which really gets out; no other XEs
heard now in the 540-730 range. LSR here: 1244 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)
** TAIWAN [non]. 7430, March 13 after 0100, no signal from the
publicized RTI Spanish test via unknown site. Via Nino Marabello, a
third series of tests has been scheduled, all these frequencies
obviously WRMI, so should be fulfilled:
``Estimado oyente, Las anteriores pruebas de frecuencia por la onda
corta de la sección española de Radio Taiwán Internacional no fueron
exitosas, por lo que realizaremos nuevas pruebas por 3 días, entre
lunes 16 y miércoles 18 de marzo de 2020.
Destinos: Sudamérica 16 al 18 de marzo 01:00-01:30 UTC 5800 kHz;
Centroamérica y Cuba 16 al 18 de marzo 02:00-02:30 UTC 5010 kHz;
España 16 al 18 de marzo 22:00-22:30 7780 kHz.``
5800 at 0100?? Won`t that pre-empt Argentina in Spanish, or has that
been moved? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2025 monitoring: confirmed Friday
March 13 at new time of 2200 UT, first American SWBC, fair-good S9/+10
on WRMI 9955 -- just a trace of pulse jamming at first, not later.
About the same quality via Bogotá KiwiSDR. Next:
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5010 to S, 7780 to NE
0900 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210
1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315]
0900 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9395 to NNW
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210
1901 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE
Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 9330, March 13 at 1825, WLCR via WBCQ is off, still off
1905, but on with Arabic at 2006. Why the lapses? (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, March 13 from 1200
after hearing the NHK chime timesignal at 1200 on 774; on the DX-398
with DF where obvious: 702, 693-NW, 666, 594-NW, 567 kHz.
702, at 1209 a slow SAH, one from WSW; also until 1215: 747-NW, 792,
828, 882-WSW, 972, 1035, 1125-WSW, 1297(2), 1512 kHz.
Then I switch to the R75 with E-W longwire, so no DFing, 1219-1229 UT:
657(2), 828, 1035, 1242, 1422, 1521; 558, 567, 594, 693, 729, 747(2),
711. Enid LSR: 1244 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 2321 UT March 13
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/article.php?story=20200314001502165