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Peru, 5039.18, Radio Libertad, 1039-1115,   Don't know if I was having 
antenna problems or a shortwave fadeout, but accidentally tuned
to this freq and noted Libertad with a fair signal while a male was in 
Spanish comments between music.  This was totally unexpected because Rebelde 
just 14 KHz lower was very weak when I tune there (5025KHz) a few seconds 
earlier.  I usually have just a weak carrier and weaker audio from Libertad. 
At 1049, Libertad's signal improves to a good level.  It's getting scary 
here all of the sudden.  The sun is high on the horizon now and I am being 
blasted by a Peruvian station.  It's nice!  Signal dropped to threshold by 
1115.(Chuck Bolland, July 23, 2009)


Note:  The signal improvement from 1049 only lasted a couple of minutes.  I 
dropped Libertad and scanned a few Peruvian and
Bolivian frequencies at that time- La Voz de la Selva, Radio Sicuani, and
Radio Maranon - and noted a similar improvement, but by 1053 the signals had 
all dropped to fair or poor.  I figured Bolivia's Radio Logos might be 
fading in too, but I only heard a Brazilian on 4865.10 KHz.  Maybe I am 
exaggerating this phenomena because I am usually walking my dogs around the 
block at this time and leave the radio alone.  Consequently, I miss any 
brief openings that might occur after sunrise here in Montura Ranch Estates.

This morning however, I left my receiver tuned to 4835.40 KHz as I typed 
the above and at 1108, Radio Maranon faded back in from being nil heard to a 
fair level. I am seriously thinking about changing my exercise routine to a 
different time at least for one or two days during the week.  I have too 
many early morning responsibilities to make it a regular change however.

At 1115 Radio Maranon is still at a fair level.  I checked the higher band 
of 9 megs for a minute just to see what it was doing?  I could not hear 
anything on 9680 KHz where RRI Jakarta is usually booming in, and
Radio Australia on 9580 KHz was not at the armchair quality I usually have 
for it either.   There is definitely something strange going on this 
morning?

At 1121 I went to recheck Radio Libertad on 5039.18 KHz and still heard it, 
but the signal was now threshold.  Still on 4835.41 KHz, Radio Maranon was 
readable at a fair level; but I could tell there wasn't going to be much 
more signal left in a few minutes.  The noise was increasing and Maranon's 
signal was being gobbled up by it.  So I decided to secure the receiver and 
take my dogs for their walk.

Chuck Bolland
27.27N 080.56W

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