Thanks Glenn,yes, ROCV Venezuela and TWR Bonaire combination ... excellente signal noted this morning around 07-08 UT on March 24 VENEZUELA 6205.032 kHz at 07.20 UT, Radio Onda Corta Venezuela, pop mx, different audio levels noted: S=1 or -122dBm JBA tiny in Rochester NY, S=5 or -96dBm in Seattle WA west coast USA, but excellente on remote KiwiNet SDR at TWR Bonaire Caribbean Netherlands installation http://bonaire.twrmon.net:8073/ at 07.24 UT S=8 or -79dBm signal. CW pips at exact 07.31 UT, used SyncAM mode, 75dB gain glider, switched AGC-OFF; "Manual Gain" option. Pop mx in Spanish "Esta noche ...". [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 24) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Hauser via Hard-Core-DX" Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 22-23, 2021 BONAIRE. VOA attempted to get airtime on TWR 800 Bonaire last year, in order to reach adjacent Venezuela without the inconvenience of shortwave, but first started after 0000 UT with HJHJ 600 Barranquilla, Colombia, as I monitored last summer. Now a TWR deal is in effect per this via El Dial, Spain:``Antillas Holandesas AER, 20/03/2021 18:39, https://aer.org.es/archivos/26720, EA2-0800 Según Erminy Fernando en el grupo de FB Cadena DX, la VOA ha iniciado transmisiones a Venezuela desde las instalaciones de TWR en Bonaire (800). Reportado 2100-2230 con el programa “Venezuela 360”, presumiblemente de lunes a viernes. (Rafael Rodríguez en el grupo DXing.info fb, vía Ydun’s Medium Wave Info).(via El Dial)`` Now that it`s Monday March 22, I check for it via TWR`s own Bonaire SDR. At 2142 an interview is underway with someone fluent in Spanish but with obvious American accent -- I wonder why such people don`t make a little more effort to tighten up their dixion. Seems to be about the border situation; and then another one about the pandemic in the US, neither of which very pertinent to Venezuela. 2159 VOA ID and sign-off, quick ID as ``PJB-98, Apreciamos su sintonia`` and back for more VOA. 98? What`s that about, an FM frequency? There`s no PJB or any other Bonaire FM station in the 98s listed in WRTH 2021. While sufficient, the 800 signal is not superstrong on TWR`s own SDR --- they must be deliberately attenuating it, understandably. On the waterfall, much stronger signals show on 550, 710 and 910 which are obviously Caracas, and 860 from Curacao (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
VENEZUELA. 6205.031v, March 23 at 0005, 0007, 0010.5 between tunes, Radio Onda Corta Venezuela is now inserting Morse Code IDs as ROCV. S7 into Bonaire SDR, the AM signal remains rather distorted but sounds less so when tuned in SynchAM mode. Another one at recheck 0120 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0300 UT March 23 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list
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