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VOLUME 39 DECEMBER 11.1971 NUMBER 9

"Thank you v e r y much f o r the supe rb work you (plura l ) a r e doing. You m a k e the hobby understandable and enjoyaille. I ' ( L a r r y Bal lard , S. C. )

N E W M E M B E R S T H I S W E E K . . . *Mike Scheel, Davenport, Iowa + P e t e r Burge r , Freehold , N. J. +Char l e s A. Tay lo r , San Diego, Ca. *A1 Pe te r son , Oak Ridge, Tenn.

R E N E W A L S . . . Long ... Daller . .. Buczynski.. . Vitti.. . Ter r i to . . . Kilroy.. . Holland.. . Feidt . . . Dangerfield.. . McClain.. . Har t . . . Pi rna t . . . Drogin.. . Briggs . . . Brauner . . . Nordquist . . . Lagattuta. . . Purdy. . . Driscol l . . . Macdonald.. . Coombs ... Cavaseno. .. Greene.. . Truax. . . White.. . Worcester . . . J

Critchett . . . Hutchinson.. . Junker. .. Tull. .. Tanker s l ey ... Brockway. .. Freqeau . . . Swiger . . . Bal lard . . . Sinunonds. . . Hathaway.. . Geary.. . Eaves . . . Mappin. .. Duffy.. . Kocsan.. . T H I S W E E K ' S H O L D I N G P A T T E R N . . . L a s t i s s u e w a s a 40 pager ; i n o r d e r t o conform with o u r 20140 a l ternat ing page count we've had to hold 14 pages of Musings for the next i ssue . In s i tuat ions l ike th i s i t ' s HQ policy t o give p r io r i ty t o the t ime-da ted sect ions such a s IDXD and DDXD ; Musings pages a r e then taken a t r andom t o f i l l the remaining space. Next week's 40 pager i s going t o be quite a n i s sue !

Get u s your $5.75 by December 15th o r you'll m i s s out on our specia l deal. A l a t e note f r o m Gilfer c lar i f ies the policy on refunds f o r those who've a l r eady placed o r d e r s with Gilfer ( r e l a s t i s s u e page 19): the refund will only be f o r 75 f ; specify t o t h e m tha t you want to t ake advantage of the NRC deal and they'l l send u s the 75f which we in t u r n will send t o you. Got that now?

LAST MINUTE PHONE CALL FROM VOA CONFIRMS THE BOSTON AREA RECEPTIONS OF THE OKINAWA TEST ON 1 0 / 1 4 ; SOME QUESTION REMAINS ABOUT THE BEAM ORIENTATION FOR THE 1 0 / 2 1 TEST HOWEVER - VOA IS CHECKING. "GPN

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Williamsburg, Virginia 500 1:15 - 1:30 VDXA Morgantam, West Va. 5 , 0 0 0 / 5 ~ 2:00 - 4:00 NRC Wanchese, North Carolina 250 4:00 - 4:30 NRC Oklahma City, Oklahoma 5,000 3:00 - NImC Cap Haitien, Hai t i 2,500 2:00 -3:OO VDXA Garden City, Kansas 5,000 2:OO - 2:30 NRC

every F i r s t Monday through and includiw 5/1/72) Williamsburg, Virginia 500 l : l5 - 1:30 VDXA Crp Haitien, H a i t i 2,500 2:OO - 3:OO VDXA

w M B G . We do not have the detai ls , but t h i s is t h e i r regular frequency check accordine; t o the V i r g b i a DX Association. It USED t o be from 12 t o 12:15 a.m. on the th i rd Friday - we s u g e s t t rying both times.

W A J R . This TEST w i l l be with music and many IDS. ' During the f i r s t hour, they w i l l use t h e i r night f a c i l i t i e s , with 500 watts, and from 3 t o 4 it v i l l be t h e 5 kw. d m i m e equipment b e i w tested. A couple of a l l nighters t o buck, but most should get 'em? Send your reports t o M r . David H. Mitchell, Assistant Qlief Engineer, Rddio Stat ion WAJR, 440 Spruce Street , Morgantam, West Virginia - 26505. WFS BOYD

W 0 B R . Their regular frequency check is generally heard much ear l i e r , but they are runninpj t h i s one l a t e r so as t o be on a coast-to-coast c&ear channel, with both UCItl & KFEK off! This s ta t ion real ly gets out, so EVERYBODY t r y f o r them! Reports go t o M r . G. F. Williams, Chief Engin- eer, Radio Stat ion I.lOBR, Box 158 - Wanchese, North Carolina - 27981. This s ta t ion serves the h t e r Banks, where many a hurricane has h i t land - be sure t o tune for them l2/20? ERNITST R. COOPER

W K Y . Story i n next issue, but with the Christmas mails s o heavy, here's the verie-signer: M r . Fred Hendrickson, WKY Radio - Vox 14,668, 73114.

W T C L - Originally sked for December 6, was not on - t h e i r engineer went t o Florida - t h i s TEST w i l l get a new date when he returns! WES BOYD

HEARD SINCE LPST ISSUE "AN " SITUATION

1440 C J 0 I Wetaskiwin, Alta. (NSP-rr) OFFS: 1540 K X E L MMs, is AN-^. 1580 K C I M Carroll, Iowa 1560 W D X R s/off around 1.

S C m BROCKS~W - 112 North Crescent Drive - Rome, New York - 13440 Zorch! Have you ever sent i n a reception report t h a t you knew

was correct and got a l e t t e r back saying it wasn't? MY attempts a t ~ t t i n g S.C. have been thwarted again by klKYZ-1070. Somebody ouefit t o plug the drains of I.E'MA -1250 Fi W Z , or some such retal ia tory method. Veries in: WOKY-920 WSIR-1350 WEIT-gG0 \,JGIR-610 WWDJ-970. PP/CS from: WECE-993 WWLE-1170. P. few stat ions in: WW-540 Md. @ 4:3bpm W/MOR, I.JTHB-1550 w/a f / c @ 12:37am on 10/18. I haven't bem D X i x too much of l a t e for some reason o r other, tco much hard work i n school, I mess, hi . Although the f ina l s are only a scant three weeks a~4c1.Y - grok. But then, I ~ e t a month off for Winter vacation - aren't the s t a t e universities gen- erous? I see my subscription t o NRC renewal time i s here, so off goes my hard- earned (? ) money for another year i n t h e best radio club around. And who e l s e cm boast about the club's am Kaptain Klutz, e r - G l d z ? The Ranyers and the Stanley Cap i n '72! WE SAJXCS AIL mCGE bi'H0 MADE I.RTSIIJCS SO TREIGNDWS THIS ISSUE! AlMOST ALL THEE REPOES ~m D:(-FIDD Nm.;SY, JUST TH9 WAY WE /ILL WflIT THE?-1.' BE SURE TO FOL-

LDI TKLS PJ,TTTRTJ AID MAKE YOUR ~RJSIIJGS HEIP~TL TO CJTHER ~DBEFS BY TEI;LING OF YOUR LCGGINGS, DAY BY DAY. USE OITLY E.S .T - I N YOUR MUSINGS, PTJXSE DOUBU SPACE! PLEASE DO NOT MAKE up ABBREvIATI~JS YOUR EDITOR DOESI~'T I J I ~ E ~ T ~ !

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DAN PHIUPS - X-2 Seminary Village - Iouisville, Kentucky - 40207 1've had some quite interesting DX i n the Last couple of months

with about 30 new stat ions added. DX as follows: 10/1- WJRC-1510 s/off @ 6 ~ m followed by WAKE-1500 RS @ 6:04. 10/4- wwaT-970 logged @ 2:30em for a much-we&- ed s tat ion. I t r ied for years t o log it a s WJRZ w/no luck, then they change ca l l s & BINGO! Also WKXO-1500 RS @ noon. 10/6- WIOU-l350 Ind. RS 9:lOpm. 10/8- WlY-580 RS 1:22am w/talk show. 10/12- KSUD-730 Ark. s/off 6:30. lo/=- KPCA- 1580 RS 6:30pm. 10/22- KLM-1570 @ 6:45 s/off. I a l so had KAMI-1580 s/off @ 7pm but not a clear I D . 10/23- WDXC-1140 Fayetteville, Tenn. RS 4:50pm. Is tha t correct e l l ? 11/1- WAMB-1190 TEST I:@-1:24 ~ / ~ o o d signal followed by WYDK-1480 TEST @ 2~36-2:48. 11/2- WMEE-1380 PS k:3 m f o r new cal l . 11/5- KCRV-1370 Mo. Q 5:45p s/off followed by WRC-1370 111. 5% e/off. I believe I a l s o had KVIX- 1370 OkU. s/off Q 6:15 but no clear ID. WAM-1600 @ 6:3+ m RS. 11/8- CJ~-730 @ 7pn. I had heard them l a s t year a t the same time but w$o clear ID. 11/10- CKVM-710 @ 6:p-7pm O/WOR. 11/14- R. ~ropical-1040 Q 3am. 11/15- La Voz de Cuba 740 @ 4, a l so ~0RL-650 coming i n qui te well 3:W-&:lo. 11/18- WFMD-750 s/off Q 4:45pm. 11/22- W i l l i s Iewis here & we were DXing from Volga, Ind. where line noise t o t a l l y corrupted the lower end of t h e band but the hi& end was doing quite well. Five new ones added t h i s morning: WSWN-900 r /c 1-1: 15 (a little l a t e r than l i s ted) , WAAB-1440 RS 2:30-2:35am for excellent catch. KW-1450 la . @ 2:38am o/ a l l . KLCL-1470 s/off 3am for new c a l l & f ina l ly WISM-1480 Q 3:32am. I ' m l ike EIC - I can't believe Eart Cronin l ives on Robber's Roost Road. Makes om mnder i f A 1 Capone is s t i l l al ive. The TP a r t i c l e by Jay Murley was excellent & a t least gives u s Bs te rners sanething t o shoot for. DX NEWS continues t o insDire me t o continue t o CO( even though every frrquency seems t o be cJuttered w/A&. I ordered *

reprint of loop skewing a r t i c l e & wonder i f it was one tha t was stolen? Keep up the good work, Boston crew! 73.

DoUGIAs B. SEfAW - 5524 West W i l l o w Kighway - Iansing, Michigan - 48917 H i everyone! DX has been off/on due t o my rigorous work-

schml sked. , Most DX has been done on rqy car radio t o & fran work. I logged CJKL-560 t h i s ray on 11/16 around midnight. Also, I heard WIW waver while caning hane 11/22, so I warmed up the se t when I got home & picked out JBC-700 w/~orld Tomorrow @I 12:X)am. Also heard the same night was KSWS-1020. For those of you who are confused by Herbert W. Amstrong's brmdcast, write '?he Sword of the Lord Foundation" Murfreesboro, -nn. and ask f o r t h e i r booklet on him - 2%. There's a lso an a r t i c l e on him i n '?he Kingdom of the Cults" by Walter Martin, available st your library. I hope t o erect a Beverage antenna made out of tough baling wire. It w i l l probably be erected N/B. I ' m bwing a new RX t h i s Frid - an A l ied DX-150. My t a t a l s haven't been too bad with just IQJ ponable w ~ o p s t k k wj652 heard. My computer program worked pret ty well, calculating power/distanceb for each of my catches. AccoI.din@; t o the program, rqy best catches are m-534 & WKUF-l6OO. 73s & good DXing, a l l .

GARY ATKINS - 2200 West amnet t Aveenhe- Iouisvi l le . Kentuckv - 40210 -- No Musing since April so I guess i t ' s7 t ime t o kt up t o date on my

DX. I was s t r i k e for two months during t h e u r but s ngr DXing hours on other bandsqis SW a cuss word i n t h i s Sectim?T Tm! -&$ Additions since las t M u s i r g : 4/24- WAEW-1330 @ 7pm, WAEIG-1130 @ 7:12. 4/26- WDEN-1500 @Pam w/m, 5/2- YND-675 8 12:30am. 5/3- CFD'I-680 @ lam. 5/10- XTwO-1030 d 2:50m. 5/17- HJDK-750 @ 3am. 5/23- WRCD-1430 5: 58 s/on, WEJG-1430 w/s/on @ 6:01, WSm-930 @ 6:06. 5/31- HJc~-lloO @ 1: loam. 6/1- WGW-930 @ aPm. 9/20- Y S ~ - 1 1 5 5 @ 12:20am 10/6- WO-1500 @ 2:25pm, W - 1 0 0 0 @ 1:05 W/TEST on 10/18. 10/23- WW-1520 @ 6 Olpm. 10/27- UEFN-1500 @ 1: 35am w/TT. 10/31- WRIP-1570 7:20pm s/off. 11/3- n m -664 @ 12:50am. 11/13- PJA~-925 @ 6pm w/a beautiful signal. ll/lf;- WFBR-UOO @ 1:50am O/URBC, I wonder why I never heard them before, recently AN? Total heard 1,067. I had a great time a t the ANARC Convention i n Indianapolis t h i s Sumer.73

4 W T H BIRUNGMAIR - Route 1 - Box 44P - Rockton, I l l i n o i s - 61072

~ i , everybody. Not much DXing in the l a s t two weeks - I was

i n the school play, 'Don't mink t h e water" by Woody Allen. ERC, I ' m workin$ on

w typing; we -can use erasers now! Sam veries: WSIX-980 KFVS-960 v/l; WMIR-

1550 v/l, v/c, CM, & UNM-1UO WAAX-570 WKZ0;t590 WKBW-420 & ~elize-834 v/cs, the l a t t e r country 6. ( k n ' t you mean , Keith? -ERC) KFVS also sent a pamphLet on t h e i r TV tower - 1,676 feet . I f dad would l e t me send for a Cuban verie, it would be country &). Semi-super pest WIRIr1290 v/c, & KM'H-U70 v/ l , mentioning they own WGEZ i n Beloit. I know the brother of t h e CE a t WGEZ, who says tha t h i s brother is building new studios fo r the station. I'll watch fa'

an address change. I stzyed up for the VOA TIST - nothing. Wrong time! Moving r ight alone, after four months (!) f ina l ly received q pair of Utah 12" Celesta speakers. They sound nice, but real ly , four months! I join with others i n ad- vising against h feye t te . Allied or Megee are much b e t t e r companies. One last question - does anyone know i f smw ef fec t s a Beverage antenna? You'd think it would, since it's water. That's a hot one! 11126- WUs1550 i n readably w/m, WX @ 12:32. 11/27- KGLC-910 unn, noted @ 3:15; WFIR-$O w/HI logged @ 4. H I seemed t o end then. Last1 KFI noted i n weakly d 4:28. I called t h e number fo r A f R info 11/26 (201-246-4021) & didn't get en answer. What gives here? Address is log for CJRL-1220 is wrong - returlled rqy l e t t e r as unknovn. 73. Mistake on

AfR number, cor rec t # is 303-499-1000 ext 3171, a s k for "ABO count" - BGK

JOHN OLDFIEU) - 11623 84th Street - Eamonton 20, Alberta CH~lC-860 Inuvik, NWT, heard three days i n a rar nar. They sure

sound l ike lOkw, although I've seen no CP l is ted. I f they are lOkw, t h i s mey just be t h e beginning of high parer i n Canada's Northland. A n engineer a t the CBC had mentioned they wanted FOUR i n t h e NWT & Yukon. That's CFFB CFYK CKAX & CFWH. I've written cFFB r e t h e i r I210 CP, which I think is a mis-print. I'd bet it 's f a r 1 , 0 0 3 ~ on the old 5202 spot. Concerning t h i s SILLY business of D.C., Y. T., & NWT. I count 12 prwinces and 51 s tates . W P is licensed t o D. C. How can it be counted as part of Maryland? My only N.J . catch is WPAT-930, caught years ago before loca l CJCA went NSP. My WADO-1280 verie counts as N.Y., a l - though t h e i r XR is i n N. J. Call it a Distr ic t or State - it's i n the U.S., isn ' t i t ? Prwince or Territory? The only difference is the lack of people (not s ta- t ions) . Provincial s ta tus won't change the s ize or shape of t h e Yukon. Are we DXers or pol i t ic ians? While we're on the subject, maqy years ago, a bunch of DX- e r s decided t o count the 1,000,000 square miles of the NGPT as om gigantic DX "Area". Before you "vote" take a good look a t your maps, and consider counting our big blob of the Nh'T as TWO DX areas - prwinces, t e r r i t o r i e s . The w o r d s NWT stand for Terr i tor ies , three big d i s t r i c t s ; not ow. Franklin has CFFB, close t o Greenland. MacKenzie has CFYK CFCC & CHAK (ERC'S semi-local). CHX has always come i n the same as Yukon & Alaskan s tat ions. Between these two d i s t r i c t s l i e s Keewatin. Nothing there, DX-wke. I ' m probably t h e only DXer counting 13 pro- vinces, but consider haw our ancient Gods of DX divided the USSR in to areas, for convenience. The NWI has s tat ions now, AND they're being heard! Next week's controversy is a discussion on What is a foreign station. I f you l ive i n Detroit & log CKLW, across the r iver , you have a deytime dmest ic , but i f you log XETRA etc. from Sen Diego, you've bagsd a bunch of foreign daytimers, hi. It must be ze language. 74. (s ic -ERc)

KEN CNYSCHUK - Homewood, I l l i n o i s 11/16. I took las t MM off from work t o heal a sore hip, so I t r i e d

t o f i l l some channels fo r the contest. I picked Up 17 t o t u t a l 126 stat ions i n 15 days: I.lSGW-790 I.lich., 9:15-9:20@,' a good fadein near WBm null , WSGW weak a t PM. WKZI-800 Ill. rel igion 8:~)-8:30, then MoR, it 's one of npi toughest @ 157 miles & 2 5 0 ~ . ~m.1-810 Mich. 9:31-9:34; WAIT-820, stock market report every hour on the half-hour. WKAR-870 Mich. c l m, WKNR W E @ 9:44. WBAA-920 Purdue U. Campus @ 9 46. WBCK-930 Mich. MoR 8:47-8:49; WJOR-940 Mich. contest d 8:50; WGRC-950 soul mc B 9:52; ~ . ~ m - 9 6 0 Ind. MoR 9 ~ 5 3 ; WHA-970 U. Of w i s . , 9:55-9:59; W~PY-980 ILL I D & IT): @ 10; wCAZ-990 Ill. wlrRM from WCFL, 10-10:30. A t night, 10:40-llpm, ww -1180 N.Y. w/opera i n background, WHAM had TK program on- Possible KOF'I, but too

weak for I D . A l i t t l e e a r l i e r a t around 9, ~1s-89 null, on 880, a wK 'Mexican" TK, thou& barely audible. R. Winsor of Valpo. Ind. mused about 6 ~ ) in 3 9 4 W / ,, WMJ nulled, I've DXe? weak CKCK/KWFT. How the heck they get Arizona? So for rqy toughest frequencies have been deytim 570, deSd u/WI~~-560; WILL-580; 650 660 680 710 730 750 839 880 900 910 990. Clear channels are a b a l l t o l i s ten to. &I favorite is WHO-1040 Des Moines. Anybody a Weather W t ch l i s tener a t :05 of each hour? Best weather s ta t ion i n MOW. Since our NX 88 is s i m i l a r t o our NX RX 78 i n Chitam. I have t o dr ive 20 miles N of WIS-890 i in ley park) kust t o nu l l it out. Otherwise imp. Only other DX, KAAY-1090 NX 19:55 11/16; Thassit u n t i l Thanksgiving. Don't get drunk on eggnog! 73.

1 RXER GIANNINI - Apt. A - 33 Ben Louis - Belleville, I l l i n o i s - 62223 11/22, 7pm, WM00-1550 w/reliEious ?./off followed by KOKA W/KJLTO

looped. KRBC-1470 f a i r W/WMBD looped, 7:45. ll/23- wSAO-1550 W/FF mcuncer , s/ off 5:58 ~/WOKJ, TA act ivi ty has taken a nosedive las t several days. Semi-Aurorg PM. IrlKY-930 looped & I found WSLI a t good level w/a weak WAD noted, 9:23. 920 , had KARK "Mx 92" looped par t i a l ly t o get WGST f a i r w / ~ o u l 10: l2 but KARK soon

I cwered WGST. 950 had KIMN w/strong s ignal w/veak WSPA & no trace of CMBF. 960 had a Mmican, XEK? 11/25 PM sav these catches between the FB games. WMOX-1010 w / r r W/CFRB looped @ 6:35. WAKR-1590 looped & WLAG??assumed t o be the one w/~a. Ga. Tech FB @ 10:33 w/eood signal. 11/26 PM- 6, KOKA-1550 atop WUJX. 1550 has been an interesting frequency for Dixie w/WM00 WSAO WOKJ KOKA WIUX. I hope I can get t h e two Ga.s plus Fla. WYOU, no chance for WCGO. 11/28 semi-Aurora again. 6 pm saw CMCA-830 strong w/no t race of WCCO. H J C Y - ~ ~ ~ o/WGY & strong @ 6:08. CMCD 760 atop W J R . YNX-750 giving WSB a r e a l b a t t l e @ 6: 10. KRMG-740 w/no t race of CBL, 6:15. ~ ~ ~ - 6 6 0 & no trace of WE3C. I forgot t o wntion, KBAT-680 strong, 6:17. KIKK-650 sneaking up behind WSM par t ia l ly looped, 6:19. CM~-640 strong & clear @ 6:20. XERR-1500 sl ight ly O/STP 6:26. KCMA-1520 I & C @ 6:27. ZNS-1540 w/no t race of KXEL @ 6:30. They had a t a l k of imprwing the current XR fac i l i - t i e s , then an unlD Texan w/H. C1. FB (??-EXC), KBUY? 1580 had KF'IK, then detuned the tuner and had an.unID w/light mx, definitely not W. However, WCLS a l l a- lone Q 7:14. Loggiw was a t 6:50. I ordered the SM-2 on 11/23 so it should be here by the time t h i s is read. I replaced t h e 22 gauge w/~elden #075 18 gauge. Cost is $3.12 for 199'. It's a lot easier t o p u l l thrzugh than #22. Even a f t e r t h e SM-2 arrives, I .m going t o experiment using 16 gauge Belden $8074. I would l ike t o know t h e number of turns Ron Schatz used i n h i s 8 ' s p i r a l loop. 73.

BRUCE WTNKlllMAN - 1404 Alumni P' ace - Lawrence, Kansas - 66044 I just returned t o school following a much-needed Thanksgiving

break from classes. DX from Ellinmod w/my A-2515 & SM-1 w a s good, though not l ike l a s t Thanksgiving break when I logged 125 stations. But then I was just s t a r t i n e q new log & counting everything I heard! DX: 11/24- K A Y Q - 1 1 9 @ 6am d I D , WX, mixed W/KWF/WOWO etc. This one heard maqy times here i n Iawrence, but my f i r s t time from Ellinwood! XEW-900 had TT from 6:306:42am, then OC u n t i l s/on @ 6:45 w/an S-9 plus 20 signal. WIT-730 W/ID & in to what sounded Eke a religion . program B 7am. 11/25- WIZN-1410 c a l l change logged w/m, I D @ 6 ~ 4 8 8 ~ ; KQYx-1560 W/NX, commercial, WX @ 7am; KUJN-1320 my local here i n Lawrence but heard for the f i r s t time a t Ellinwood @ 7:35am w/NX; TGJ-880 w/very clear 'p. Nuevo Mundo" ID @

lO:55pm by female announcer. R. Belize-834 ID @ llpm i n EE folLoved by bi-lin- g a l NX ( EE/SS). TGRI'464 w/"Fabulosa" I D @ ll:52pm in to ss vocal mx, mentioned FB & BB & I D @ 12. This was what seemed t o be a good Auroral night W/SS a l l over the low end of the dial , one i n WGN null, another i n KOB null. 11/26- KHGY-690 comercial Santa promo, I D @ 8:49pm, then in to c/w. 11/2'jf- KRVN-880 heard w / ' m of 50kw directional XR t o provide field intensity measurements"; I D @ 12:30pm, heard again driving t o work @ lpm. This had a good strong S-9-20 si 1 on OC. When w e they going t o go on I1S on 880? They were t e s t i q i n March c e ng. Muse past issue) already. Does pre-I1S tes t ing usually take t h i s long? 11128- mUP-99 w/NX WX I D u/WKY @ 9:45am. Thanks t o Roger Winsor for help on w un1~-560. What ever happened t o t h e shipments of mechanical f i l t e r s ? I sent q check i n February for one, no w r d on it Yet. I ' d l ike t o t r y fo r some TAS. Totals from ~lli-4 336, hoping for 350 by 1/1. Best wishes for a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.

ROBERT FOXWORTH GPO BOX 2111 NEW YORK. N.Y. 10001

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Algeria. Hrd with chanting 0010-0045 1116 // 548 but much stronger. Heavy beacon QRM from North Bay and Uplands, Ont on 530, l a t t e r a local . 529 hrd well again 11/7 same time but not since although 548 i s i n many eve- nings. (~sborne , Gnt.) (Welcome t o IDXD -ed.) Ain Beida was powerful nightly thru Ramadan, 1116 logging notable (see above rpt.ed) and was // 548; woman doing playlet i n Arabic interspersed with male Koranic chanting, uptempo instrumental excerpts up t o s/off anmt by woman, ins t r . anthem a t 0100. (Page Taylor, NJ) Dom. Rep. HICM hrd well a t 0930 s/on 10/30, f rq t I D S and TCs. (~sborne,Gnt) Mexico. XEWA hrd 0407-0423 11/22 with election ads and ID a t 0415 with good strength. (Dildine, Va.) (Welcome, too, t o IDXD -ed.) Eire. Athlone has been noted on several occasions between 2200 and 2300 with news, uptempo music and commentaries during t h i s hour. Notable on 11/17. This 2300 s/off sounds l i k e a sked change. (Taylor, NJ) Germany. Berlin Sender-Freies excellent a f t e r pat tern change a t 0415 with female ancr, l i g h t mx pgm in typical German tradi t ion. 10128, ( T a y l o r , ~ ~ ) Dominican Rep. HIMS "Radio Cristal" f i r s t noted all-nighting 1111 between 0455 and 0505 o/u semilocal WMCA with potent signal: fiesta-type mx, ex- ci ted ancr, TC a t 0401 f o r 2:31 AM and I D complete with reverb: "Cristal" etc. They are now a regular ANer. ( ~ a y l o r , N J ) Puerto Rico. WKAQ here i n Spanish with IDS as Radio El Mundo and singing English IDS a t 0000 11/23 and 24, l o t s of QRM. (Dildine, Va. ) Bolivia. Cml not yet in operation. Target daye unk. Is i n La Paz.(~leason) Spain. Presume La Coma, RNE ID and chimes hrd weakly 0600 11/14(0sborne) Panama. HOS22 Radio Mia loud with semi-el mx 0835 11/15. ( s t a r r y 0hio) W I D . A SS here MM 11/15 f i r s t noted 0845 with rapid talking by male ancr, frequently mentioning "Asuncion" and "Paraguay". The brand of Spanish was gut tural with f i n a l "r" and "rr" combinations (e.g. ferrocarr i l , primavera) rol led with great gusto. Bearing 160'. Music consisted of WS's famous

"sad f lutes" and vocal harmony i n thirds , moderate tempo. Perhaps t h i s i s ZP-16 drif ted from 640? ( ~ a y l o r , NJ) England. BBC Daventry a surprise here 1113 with BBC news i n progress weakly a t 0602 tunein. Several news items hrd weak but c lear ly as were the words, This news comes t o you i n the World Service of the BBC." That a t 0605. News lasted u n t i l around 0610 when they faded. Only b i t s of audio noted a f t e r t h a t u n t i l 0625 tuneout. My f i r s t European catch! (Portzer, Wash) (Welcome t o IDXD Bruce. A great low-band catch; nice! -ed) Hawaii. KOFZ reasonably clear during 10-15 second peaks around 0800 11/15 and best with car ad 0807, l a s t time hrd here was Dec. ' 6 7 . ( ~ e ~ o r e n z o , ~ A ) KORL noted 0800 11/15 with exc. sig. This one i s get t ing t o be a pest,hi. (Leamy, Ohio) (Interest ing t o note tha t t h i s i s when Tarawa peaked -ed) unID. Two car r ie r s here 11/10 0740-0815. One was on 655.02 and the other was 655.26 and one was probably Ecuador since snatches of what sounded l i k e Spanish were heard. Other probably No. Korean. On 11/15 noted pips here a t 1100; man and woman i n Korean. (Pejza, Cal.) Asiatic RSFSR. Verkhoyansk probably the ca r r ie r here in snatches 11/10 a t 0740-0815. No audio pulled on t h i s one yet. (Pejza, Cal i f . ) Guatemala. TGRT here 0130 t o 0226 s/off 11/22 with music, D s , ads. Fair reception. (Dildine, Va. ) Colombia. Sistema de Emisoras Atalaya here 11/13 0333 with BKB l ive bdcst. Signal quite eas i ly separable from WAPA-680. (Love tha t R-390!) Someone het t ing t h i s one, too. leason on, P.R.) Puerto Rico. WAPA quite strong and v i r tua l ly alone MM 11/29 a r m d 0700 t o 0720, no fades, taped some local mx for the h e l l of it. Usually get a bunch of weak &RM behind 'em. Cx seemed quasi-auroral t h i s AM. foxw worth,^^)

We'llback up and s t a r t again, t o accomodate some just-received material. 7 525 Costa Rica. TICAL Cartago 11/16 0340, bothered by beacon QRM and a SAH

(from spurs?-ek) but f a i r modulation with man i n lengthy Spanish t a l k folo by Spanish mx and Radio Rmbo I D a t 040$. Grundig 6001md. ( ~ s a n )

540 Colombia. Radio Horizonte, HJKA // many other Colombians with soccer game apparently vs. Cuba 0218 11/27. (Edmunds, NJ)

548 Portugal. New Norte out let even with Oran with MoR 2343 11/24. (Edmmls) 566 Ireland. Athlone 1118 0720 with strong, clear open carr ier , man and woman

i n English 0730 folo by mx and frequent loud promos, an I r i sh " j ig" with accordion a t 0750, pips on the nour. Needed. Hrd W/HQI~O. (Kocsan, NJ)

630 Colombia. XJFD Manizales with soccer // 540, 640, 700 etc. 0210 1 1 / 2 7 . ( ~ j ~ ) * 650 Panama. Radio Mia 1118 0923 very good with WABC/WOR spur nulled, 2 men with

stream of promos and defini te I D i n Spnish 0932. (Kocsan) ( ~ o t e freq -ed.) +w 656 Ibm. Rep. HyiT 11/23 0457 on top of mix with typical D.R. uptempo mx and

frequent Radio Universal IDS, bothered by hets and SAH (?). Needed. ( ~ o c s a n ) 680.82 Colombia. HJAQ, Radio Miramar, Cartagena with soccer 11/27 0155 (~dmunds) 690 Ibm. Rep. Radio Guarachita, Sto. Dgo hrd with many IDS under Cuban on 11/21

with CBF s i l e n t u n t i l 1100. ( ~ r e g e r , L.I., NY) 690 Cuba. CMBC "Alegria de l Progreso" pgm a t 0018 11/24 U/CBF. (Dildine, Va.) 692 E. Germany. ~uhl/Wachenbrunn noted 10128 on a good high-latitude night with

MoR instrumentals, a few US standards mixed in, but vocals i n German. Also had Karl-Marx-Stadt on 602 but didn't note whether //. (page ~ a ~ l o r , N J )

697.5 unID. C 1 mx here 0830 on l l / l5 , gone by 0900, no anmts, weak on Beverage. (Starr, Ohio) his might be 647.5, writing not clear, looks l ike 697 tho)

700 Colombia. Radio Sutatenza 11/15 0917 replying t o a l e t t e r from Quindfo concerning vaccine. (Hauser)

711.71 Colombia. HJFT Ibague hrd with soccer 0145 11/27. (Edmunds) 720 Venezuela. YVQR Cumana i n well under Cuban with WGN nulled; quasiauroral cx

with Afr = 21 a t 0350 11/25. (~dmunds, NJ) 728 E. Germany. Deutschlandsender hrd i n German on 11/10 around 2330 with German

pop mx and interspersed propaganda. (Breger, NY) 730 Trinidad. Hrd 11/26 a t 1000 with local ads and a yunwiy ad for Nestle's

stay-fresh UHC which supposedly solves a l l your problems. More ads.. ( ~ r e g e r ) 730 Colombia. Radio Melodia, Bogota dominaniwing most of the night of 11/26

w/typical Colombian mx, plenty of IDS. Note frequent mention of capi tal and once even called i t s e l f Radio Capital. (Breger, NY)

730 Mexico. XEX hrd 11/29 around 0530 with sports event, plenty of ads m e n t i o a Mexico. One of the teams was Mexican. Loop bearing cf'ms. ( ~ r e g e r , NY)

735 unID LA hrd again 040C-0430 11/26 with U.S. rock oldies, some Spanish mx and male-female ancrs. Voice audio poor, couldn't ID. IS appears t o be a ser ies of 3 high-pitched rooster crows. Loops consistently 2000. (~dmunds)

* 735 unID. 11/13 very strong signal w i t h a l l kinds of mx. Voice not par t icular ly clear 0335. Sloppy WIAC-740 did not help. Reception cx would indicate the l i s t e d HC, but bears checking as t h i s was e. national music s tat ion the l a s t time heard. (Gleason, P R ~ (more on t h i s ) On 11/19 I D often as "Canal 740" with US and LA rock. Hrd mention of a c a i l with "H" a t s t a r t . Suspect HRXW, Radio Comayaguela, Tegucigalpa, l i c t o 740, ex-1200. (Gleason, PR)

735 North Korea. Pyong Kang poor, only snatches 1118 1042. ( ~ e j z a ) @ng?) 737 Egypt. Asyut exclnt over RNE 1116 2346 with very slow and sedate chanting

by man, i n well t o about 0000 when Barcelona took over. (Taylor, NJ) 750 Jamaica. Point Galina relay 1118 0945 with 5-note IS, pause, "This i s JBC,

the Voice of Jamsica", vocal NA, then giving AM and l!4 f h q s . &RM from Antioquia and others. ( ~ a u s e r , Texas )

755 Rumania. Boldw on 10126 ending news by woman 0407 folo by l igh t mx; ano- ther TA under about 40 Hz higher, by "pitch-pipe method". (Taylor, hW)

756 Colombia. HJ-- strong a t s/off with Colombian NA 0510 10126. ( ~ o r t z e r , ~ a ) 760 Mexico. XEABC f a i r t o good o/u WJR with I D 0302 11/14 during a predominantly

Mexican opening. Normally dominant Re jo j Nacional was nowhere. (~tewart,Mo) 764 ~enegal /~witzer land mixing it up a t 2225 on 11/15, both were a t the same

level, both i n French, both could be easi ly separated on loop. (Kelley,Mass) ---please note tha t we had t o "s ta r t twicef' and s t r i c t sequence i s missing.Tnx---

unID. On U/2, while waiting t o tape Sottens s/on 0400, noted Arabic chants, bunch of ringing be l l s , wailing and fenale chants accompianed by f lu tes i n unison with the voices f r o m 0356 t o the deafening b las t of Sottens IS a t 0359. I s Ondurman possible? Not counted, natch. (Taylor, NJ) Jamaica. RJR Mandeville l l /15 0949 dwotional, j ingle ID; l l02 RJR news 'where the news comes f i r s t " (Hauser, TX) Syria. Aleppo f a i r with chanting, on l a t e fo r Ramadan 0130 ll/7, clear and steady while i n but tends t o disappear fo r 2 or 3 minutes a t a time. Weaker with wailing female 0228-0240 ll/15. Ctry #69. ( ~ e ~ o r e n z o , Mass) Tartus on ll/9, 0140 with long female chanting up and down the scale Mozart- s ty le and orchestral accompaniments. ( ~ a y l o r , NJ) E. Germany. Burg noted 1117 a t b l l0 with Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 a t excellent l w e l with t races of Tartust Arabic behind; noted // 7 2 8 . ( ~ a ~ l o r ) Cuba. unID CM- hrd here with soccer game 0304 ll/27, seemed weak f o r CMCH&@ Mexico. I assume I had XEFW a t 0126 11/14 with Latin mx and mentions of Tam- pico. Signal was strong but so were KCMO and WGY, not t o mention the color s e t i n the den..TVI i s a f rus t ra t ing problem here. (Stewart, Mo.) Colombia. HJCY with U.S. instrumentals between 0505 WGY s/off and 0514 WYRE s/on 11/26 f a i r strength. Clear channel. (Dildine, Va.) Egypt. Batra I1 0303 11/16 with chanting. Weak but separable frm 820. (Starr) Surinam. Radio Apintie f i n a l l y hrd here MM I l l 1 5 0855 with WED s i len t ; what a strange sounding format: a completely strange language by male ancr inter- spersed with equally strange mx which I conjecture i s Hindi. Loop bearing so f a r east fo r So Amer, a t f i r s t l i s t e n I thought I had a UFO but no such luck. Suddenly realized there's only 1 Inu Japs there . (~ay lor ) (+ CHF1s unI~,hi-ed) Cuba. CMCA seemed t o be // CMQ a t 0134 ll/14. Sounded l i k e a Castro speech with l o t s of PA system feedback. Do Cubans // often? (Stewart, Mo.) China, Nanchang with YL ta lker , l o t s of slop 1057 ~ / 8 . ( ~ e j z a ) Canary Is . Radio Popular de Las Palmas was atop 836 mess from 2329 t o 0009 on 10119. Veri rcvd on l l / g fo r t h i s one. Also logged 894 and 953.(Gustafson) Gilbert & Ell ice I s . Tarawa noted with audio f i r s t time t h i s season U/15 0700-0930, looped 270° on SM. Sigs exhibited very l i t t l e fading and was qui te readable a t times. Bri t ish accented Eng commentary by a man who sounded sanavBat l i k e the Caribbean stations. Talked about the UN and disarmament. Possibly t h i s was a BBC program. Interval s ig a t 0800 consisting of 2 ascen- ding chimes and 4 descending. Later pgmg consisted of music with drum rhythm or a t times what appeared t o be rel igious hymns. Woman anncr i n lang. This one should have made a p re t ty good showing on E m . (Leamy, Ohio) ( I had re- ported 4 chimes, 2 asc & 2 desc but suppose some were l o s t i n noise here -ed.) Tarawa rptd "very strong. F i r s t audio t h i s season" 0800-0815 11/15 by Nittler, Colorado i n IRCA. Reptd tentat ive on a C a r radio i n Astoria, Oregon i n IRCA. Tarawa on 11/15 beginning t o squeeze audio already by 0655, by 0720-0730 a whopping s ignal with a discussion p@, al ternate ma31 and woman ancrs i n B g - l i s h ; i n sp i te of WHAS' sloppy 02-TT continued t o come thru it a l l . A recheck a t 0835 found them i n vernacular with lady reminding one of the Dolly Holiday of the South Pacific. LBnguage has a "Scandinavian lilt" t o it. ( ~ a y l o r , NJ) Interest ing note about 1118 a t 0745; they played an ESlglish vocal version of

"Happy Birthday" sung i n Polynesian-style harmony and segue t o popular song: a request pgm. Other Tarawa receptions: l l / 5 a t 0720, l l / 3 0700 with het a- gainst Rome (:) and 10125 a t 0730. (also, Taylor, NJ) Spain. RNE Murcia 11/17 peaked a t 2345 f o r about 2 minutes and the only de- cipherable audio with man and woman reading items i n Spanish. ( ~ l s t e r , NJ) Murcia joins the ranks of NSP; noted i n passing l l /9 a t 0315 with Grande Valse Br i l l i an te by Chopin folo by (of a l l things) "Turkey i n the Straw" i n Spanish! One gets var iety on RNE, a t l eas t . ( ~ a y l o r , NJ) Honduras. HRU Tegucigalpa probably the one with "R. Centro" I D , Spanish t a l k and mx weakly under LPRT carr iers 1221 11/7. However, the i r ISR would've been about $. hour ear l ier , leaving many doubts. Anyone else here use t h i s slogan? (Portzer, Wa.) (Might be well t o consider, f i r s t , the angle of sun t r a v e l a t ISR there i f skallow, and a low-angle skip, ionization buildup a t $. hour past =R c o d a well be insuff icient t o block skip, e.g. BBC etc.-ed)

9 Mexico. If you heard Martian sounds emanating f r o m here. 10131 0530-0600 it was just XEUN doing electronic tape music by Stockhausen. ERBA members, take particular note. ( ~ a v l o r . N.T\

~ " , , .8 unI6 s ta t ion with very f l u t t e r y signal signed off just before 2400, or

wening here l l /g . Bearing seemed 350° t o Go. (or, 170-1-80' f o r the spoil- sports.) I came upon it jus t before it went off. There seemed t o be some audio but s/off came as I was taking bearings. Have hrd nothing since 1119 except a very weak, f l u t t e r y carr ier on 867.8 br ie f ly just a f t e r 2300 on l l / l 2 . The original reception on 865.8 had an "Asiatic Flutter."(Moore,~ass) Japan. JOGB Kunamoto presumed the Japanese here with English lessons f a i n t under WWL OC 1054 1118; WWL s/on 1059 cut off any chance of an ID. JOGB i s presumed, since f req change recently. ) (Pejza, C a l i f . ) Spain. Zaragoza very good with l ive ly mx and man 2208-2215 ~ 1 1 5 . (DeLzo,Ma) U.K. B B C ~ 1117 a t 2220 with discussion pepl eas i ly separable from WCBS, exc- e l l en t audio and not a t race of WCBS l e f t .. . (good-ed) Note tha t B B C ~ s tns (692, 1052 etc. ) are staying on till lgOO daily, a schedule change. Pgm from 1800 t o lgOO consists of some discussion, mainly easy-listening armchair type mx. (Taylor. NJ)

885 ~ o n t s e r r a t . k J B , . ~ ? ~ ~ o u t h with Eng anmts, hymns l l /15 1000. (Hauser, TX) @ ZJB presumed t o be the one here (Do they weruuse t h i s callsign?-ed) with

m g l i s h news between 0008 fadein and 0015 fadeout ll/25; QRM de WLS. ( ~ i l d i n e ) 914 Surinam apptly the one here l l /23 0040 i n God-knows-what lang with extended

talk pgm, chanting 0046. (Gleason. PR) 915 Guatemala. unID s t n with &t in mx; ad$, "Guatemalteca" mentioned, 0339-0349

11/22. (Dildine. Va. I 925 ~ e t h . kt. PJA-& kiti Eds, ID, timecheck, Hour of Decision 0029-0100 11/25,

poor with fadinn. (Dildine. Va.) PJA-6 Aruba 11/16 0045 ~ r k , religious, i n h g . (Alster, NJ) unID. Stn l l /10 0040 with Arabic female chanting, unaccompanied, looping 58-600. Possibi l i t ies? Best ME opening of any during Ramadan, with the Syrians all excellent, Kuwait good. (Taylor, NJ) (Likely Izmir, Turkey?-ed) Belgium. Bruxelles 11/14 2218 with a landmark s ignal i n Flemish playing up- tempo and contemporary Euro-rock with male ancr. (Taylor, NJ) Morocco. Agadir 11/16 2355 chanting t o 0000 then Arabic t a l k steady t o 0015 and r e a l rough because of splash from loca l WPAT on 930; CBM. (Alster,NJ) Germany. The "presumed" East G e m on 935 s t i l l bothers me. German i s hrd qui te regularly from 0000 t o 0030. Howwer, the other evening the bearing on t h i s one appeared t o be toward Central or Southern Africa which doesn't make any sense a t a l l ? It defini te ly i s not Morocco. There i s a carr ier cutoff a t 0030 sharp and Morocco is hrd underneath. I'll do some further checks on t h i s one during the week. (Grant, Mass.) (HOW'S t h i s fo r a r e a l longshot? Did not Deutsche Welle propose powerful relays i n mid-Africa some years back? Like i n the Congo (now Zaire)? Who knows about this??-ed) Czechoslovakia. Brno on =/I5 0355 exclnt w/folk mx and accordions doing polka-type s tu f f ; a beaut iful signal. ( ~ a y l o r , N.T) , Tunisia. Tunis presumed t o be the one here a t 2317 with typical Arabic mx. Poor; hrd 11/20. (Dildine. Va.)

967 SO. Korea. HLSA Seoul surely the or iental ta lker here 1440 11/13 thru hor- rendous slop from KJR-950 and KOMO. (Portzer. 1.7"-h 1 ' T Y Y ' A . ,

985 Peru. Lima, apparently R.P.P. Radio hopamas d e l Peru l l /23 0130-0200 with music show, very weak. Often mentioned R.P.P. or similar. (Gleason, PR)

990 Puerto Rico? WPRA l l /15 1005 hrd ment of P.R. here..(Hauser, B) 995 Ecuador. Radio SUC~SO, cal l ing i t s e l f "Ia'S Din&icat' a t best l eve l w e r

here i n P.R. U/23 0015-0030 with Latin and U.S. rock. The 975 HC was wen bet ter , but had deeper fades. leason on. P.R.) , - -,

998 unID. Maybe KishinjG, toad have been Spanish or not, audio around 0350 I l l 1 6 with male ancr. LOOP 20 or 200'. (Edmunds, NJ)

1000 Brazil. S ~ O Paulo ~ / 8 0814 with good "R. Record" I D fo lo by band mx playing I variety of musical types with TC each minute with pip and YL anmt; some RI I f r o m SAH and nulled "inactive" Radio National, Bogota. Unn. (Kocsan, NJ)

see 2010 (Hauser) Haiti. ~ V E F Cap Haitien noted by accident on 1111 a t 0259 menticning ex- tended hours effect ive U/1 which a re 0300-0400 daily. (Taylor, KT) China. Peking fading i n and out with WHO llu ll/15. Martial mx, chorus ll59-1201; no pips noted. SAH with WHO. (Pejza, Cal) o ow many beatslmin?) Colanbia. H J A I 0725 ~ 1 1 4 Fair t o poor with WHO off. "R. Tropical" D and mention of Todelax net a f f i l i a t i on a t 0730. Taped. (Stewart, MO.) Radio Tropical strang with ID 0625 m 10/30 a s "esta es Radio Tropical, 1& kcs, en Barr8nquilla. Radio Tropical, la emisora Caracd en Barranquma Colanbia." (Portzer, Wash. s t a t e ) E. Gemany. 5 pips m the hour fo lo by ment of Deutscher Democratischer Rundfimk; audio for about 3 minutes, 0400 10123. (Asul Peter-, Bellevue, Wash., mCA, v i a Pejza) Panama. HCJ2, Ondas del Canajagua, U/14 1027 giving "numeros para hof, probably ei ther religious, gambling or mystic, a s opposed t o spy; 1031 a TC in ET; dl ID. Laves 1045 re la t ive ly clear for the new Guatemalan reparted last time. (Hauser) E l Salvador. According to YSU, they have 3 new relays i n Ahuachapan, Usulutan and Scascnate on 1050 although it i s suspected tha t these, all with 1 kw, are on adjacent charnels i.e. 1030, 1040, 1060 etc. (Gleasm, PR) IiLbya. Tripoli an ll/10 a t 0030 with Arabic uptempo mx by male, brass and percussim accaqcmiment similar t o Algeria-548 fare. (Taylor, NJ) Rmania. I a s i again cm U/g 0406 with accordion mx, f a s t polka tempo and folk mx; lang on a weak signal could be mistaken for I tal ian. However, t h i s signal is far f r o m weak, and makes Rumania an easy target. ( ~ a y l o r , ~ ~ ) Ron Schatz's cryptic reference t o music mesco-style, IDXD ll/13, refers t o George mescu ( i n French, mesco), Rumanian v io l in i s t , cauposer and ar- ranger of Ihananian folk music. Most Rummian names end in -escu, cf. Ida Lupescu (Wolf), the playwright Imesco (originally Imescu, = ones), etc. (Woo3, Ia.) (Tnx f o r dlariflcatinn, Richard -ed.) Colanbia. RJ-- 11/15 1020 a stat+.cn wizu reverb I D mentiming Colanbia; not sure which. Rwezb should be Lamed on DX stations, hi. (Homer) Cuba. CMgC Baracoa i s the one hrd here 11/27 0254 with soccer, per RFS (WE) Pbrtugal. Rarte good but fady with man in Portuguese 2205 ll/12, easi ly separable; SAH. ( ~ e ~ m e n e o , -8) Dan. Rep. HlMC is here again, apparently moved again since last reported 11/13 IDXD; hrd 0345 11/16. (Etb.mds, KT = WE) U.K. Droitvich U/15 2320 with news report, foreigu and domestic items, footbal l scores and stock reports to 2340. (Alster, W ) Iilthuania. V i l n i u 11/15 0350 with l i gh t 5 and female ancr in Russian, excellent and atop m. ( ~ a y l o r , KT) Mexico. good cwer KFAB 0224 ll/14. With few exceptims, the only LAs hrd this evening were Mexicans. (Stenut, Mo. ) unlD. See 2220. Could a lso be harmcnic of 740. (Hauser) Costa Rica. TI(;W Ia t in rn with Radio Capital ID6 8nd TC between each sel- ecticm a254 11/23. (Dildine, Va. ) Ecuador. fW a quick Radio Centro ID here U/16 0530 falo by s/off and in- str ve r s im of the sang "Tilln, then OC. Does this f i t H C P ~ J ~ ? If so, one of my best IAs If Usted 300 watts is (-on, Pa.) PugoeLsvia. What is the i r setup for time pips? a ser ies of l m g pips of about 1 seccad or so, f a l o by m e very h 4 3 one on the hour of 2 or 3 secs. Any help frcm the !PA experts an the mt Coast? (Shannon, Ps.) Zagreb hrd with a beautiful signal m LO/^ from 0427 to 0449. Ran 0427 to &30 they vere cm with t he i r IS. (Gustafsm, Ill.) Mexico. XlME fair cwer WRVA with many mentiCnS of Monterrey in n m a& ID a t 0233 ll/14, Lote of TV sweep buzz. (stewart) =ti. ~ V A B logged in Plnally w i t h no &IIM for a change, with excellent audio vlth good IA ex 0340 U/16. (-9 KT) Rumnmia. Cluj finally hrd Ill15 0400 S f a by bop-almg accordim ntx and c-entary by m. was ~ r n / 8 d , 1052 etc. (%lor, KT)

11 11553 Guatemala. TGRR with man talking, with "teh heh erray erray" ID at 0344

11/24. (Dilciine, Va . ) 1160 France. ORTF Strasbourg hrd 11/10 2145-2200 with man and womn anncrs,

l igh t mx pgm; a good signal with WJJD nulled, and an excellent possibi l i ty for an even-frequency TA! (!Caylor, NT)

1178 Egypt. Tape replay and re f i l t e r ing of tape of t h i s channel 11/10 2348-0010 hrd defini te Arabic male chanting and msle "vocalist" under Hdrby and Spain. (Edmunds, NJ)

1178 FQdgu Is. VoA Okinawa awfully weak here 11/14 on special. Taped a "Yankee Doodle" I S a t 1059 for a short time, then anmt by man, very weak and muf- fled. My notes also show a man speaking a t l l 06 but checking tape shows t h i s t o be marginal. This was the only audio heard. Carrier f i r s t noted a t 1052 and was hrd until1133:30 except for a couple of brief fadeouts. An average of 7 bearings was 34p . Certainly not enough t o count a s a new country but auy reception frm the Far East i s a r e a l t h r i l l for me. Sun- r i s e here 1136 per GPN universal SR/SS tables. Reception here on 40-inch square loop with 3lTlh.0 preamp. Signal not so good on my 250 foot longvlre at 50' height. (Moore, Mass. )

@ Obi- a psthetic signal on =/14 DX, weak b i t s of audio around 1105 when local KAYO-1150 splaah minimal (both loop i n the same direction from here). m e 11/21 t e s t t o t a l l y nonexistant here; not even a carrier. ( ~ o r t z e r ~ ~ a a h )

@ VoA i n Chinese 1123 on 11/15. ( ~ e j z a j (Rot the Special. ) 1178 Sweden. IIiirby very strong with female ancr i n Swedish a t 2230 on 11/15 w/

some Wcelona under it. Ctry #69. ( ~ e l l e ~ , Mss. ) @ Hsrby hrd well l l /10 a t 2250 i n English with news items about Sweden; on

11/14 a t 0642 i n Swedish; ~ / 1 4 a t 2142 possibly i n French; t h i s also sounds l ike a schedule change? Spain and Arabic chanting also hrd on the freq around 2200 over and under. (Taylor, lU)

1180 Mexico. XEFR good with Spanish vocal mx and a couple of "Felicidad" IDS 07b0800 U/U. ( ~ o r t z e r , Wa. )

@ Mexico City very goad here 0818-0900 s/off 11/14 with naqy "R. Felicidad" 1l)s and U.S. and Latin pop mx. Carrier was s t i l l on at 0908 when I called '

it quits. Also had traces of what mgy have bean a weak het around 1178 between 0830 and 0900. (~tewart, Mo. )

@ XEFR hrd with deep fades and Spanish Top40 mx on 11/14 wlth I D a s RBdio Felicidad, L.V. de Musical de Mexico a t 0840 d t h WHAM off. (Breger, W)

1187 Hungary. Szolnok with news by warnan =/17, 2305 very strong; not often hrd a t sunset. Spoken Hungarian i s W e anything e l se one i s apt to hear on the BCB as it has no near relat ives i n a l l of Europe (Finnish is another odd lmguage i n its awn class -ed.) So, i f it 's not Speaish you're hearing i t ' s Magyar. (Tagrlor, KT) (Wat may be an easier way t o hear Hungarian i n clear f o r m i s to go to E. 82 - E. 84 s t r e e t area around 2nd Avenue i n WC &ere the Efagyar ccsnrmnity is. lhey can xla te Saolnok tapes, too, h i -ed)

1190 Colombia. Radio Cordillera, Bogota noted i n passing on 11/29 a t 0635 with 2 IDs. ( m g e r , m)

11% Germeqy,W. VoA Munich noted SL/12 0245-0300 i n Polish folo by "Yaukee Doo- dle" I S in syncopated rock version on the hour! lhis followed by standard V d ID and "wtrs in Munich" b i t . Schedule ch . (Taylor, m)

1205 Sierra Leone. Per stan krss ' t i p i n DX Revs v 1 3 , logged a f t e r Bodeaux s/off with female ancr i n Eng. Ctry #78. Easy ones l a s t ? ( m a s , RT)

12U.6 Cuba. CMgD Holguin hrd with soccer, med here 0248 ll/27. (Bimnds) 1214 kngland. BBC fair-poor 11/17 with MoR vocal mx 0620, male t a l k 0630 recog-

nizable 88 Brit ish Eng. but not qui te readable. (Portzer, We.) 8 with rock p g u 0010 11/12. (Alster, KT)

1214 Estonia. Tallinn first hrd 0449 10/21 wlth xmn speaking i n Estonian and then popular Estonian dance music to 0551. (~ustafson, I l l . )

1214.8 udlD h e r detected with BFO, no one l i s t ed here; het f m m 1214, a t 0310 ll/19. (Gleason, PR)

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~ / d f 1743 11/3, same time a s i n DEC. S/aff 1746 11/4, eame time a s in DK. S.off 1715 11/7, DEC: 1700 (RL) Hrd well u/KFAB w/ many ID 'S br c& mx 1841 11/26 (BL) s) FW 1730 11/11 th ru mess w/ ID. then c&v Helms. Ft. Mill Roae t o top 1736 11/11 w/ -seemingly endless local ads- to 1745 d o f f , no SSB (AH) Barely atop jumble 1746b 11/11 w/ 2 loca l ads, both mentioning Walnut Ridge, but l o s t quickly t o the mess (AH) In 11/10 1755 v/ racin resul ts , then m & ID'S a s c C-HW (See-HOW) radio ?AH) 11/21, 1800 mixinn w/ KRLD w/ d o f f . no anthem (BL) God 1817 11/24 ;/ -ID In vhet ~so&ed l i k e rr show (BL) S/df 1729 11/5, SSB (RL) I D 1734, good about 5 mins, l o s t b4 doff (RL) S/df 1746 11/5 (a) s/aff 1 7 ~ iih (RL) S/df 1745 1127 ( a ) S /df 1929 11/1 ( a ) S /df 1802 11/3 w/SSB (RL) Veried by 15-yr-old DJ (RL) ~ / d f 1813 11/3 w/ Evening Prayer, by the l a t e Jim Reeves (RL) S /df 1820 11/3 w/ SSB, 5 mine l a t e (IU) S/df 1845 11/4 (RL) S /df 1845 11/16 w/ SSB (RL) S/df 1801 11/13 (RL) S /df 1831 11/15 w/ SSB (RL) S /df 1832 11/15 ( a )

A few notes here b4 we go an: I've had t o hold a l o t of stuff which arrived Tuesday 11/30, a s quantity of t i p s necessitated it. I ' m a l so holding PT's and my orm DX'ings a s next i s m e w i l l be a 40-pager, and v i l l have more room, and w i l l a l s o only be a week between issues, so eame effect a s a moved up by a couple of days deadline. -RjE .

miantgal 10 sunrise + 550 WGB -NY Qi MM 11/15 w / r r , so maybe now NSP ( ~ a v e Schmldt, Wilmington DE)

620 UUNR-WV Q 0500 w / r r , well atop in WATE null(wes Boyd, Y O U U ~ ~ ~ O W D Q I O H ~

830 KBOA-M3 About even w/WCCO w/ ID, nx 11/24 0738 (EL) + 860 WDM3-GA Seems t o s/m 0500 nw, w/ u-1 &, hrd 11/15 (as was 620

itewRjE) ( ~ o y d ) 8'70 WCu-hY Hrd 11/15 tes t ing O W L w/ ID 0 0 0 ( J E K = J O ~ ~ w e h ) 8% WRFD-OH Poor u/WWL slop w/ nx f o r Columbus 11/24 0'726 (EL) 910 KILN-AR Good w/ c&v 11/21 0741 (BL)

KGLC-OK Hrd 11/16 w/ Country AN show, local ads & ID 0100 (JEK) CHRGQU Iird 11/16 u/rr & ID in FF 0050 (=I()

920 KDHLMj B d 11/16 on past soh. 0200 s / d f v/c& & freq. ID'S, not t ice t h i s was a l so hrd in MA, recently, must oe a wild w t t e r n t o protect WOKY,CKCY, etc. (JEK)

I..;GST-GA Beautiful m W/ ux 0330 11/20 (PKH) WMEGFL Noted w/ Ah rr 11/1,11/15, usually tops channel here.(^^^)

930 WIT#-NC Atop W/ SSB, s/an an&, 0559-0601, unn. (Boyd) **all 3 WIZIGNY W/ AM 8: FM s/on & nx 0601-03 in WDN n d l , unn. (Boyd) items WCIUR-PA W/Ai nr, jx where WITN was b4 0604-06 (Boyd) 11/15 CFBC-I4B W / r r f o r new log 71/2 0120 ( Z K )

940 WCKD-KY h d TT 11/2, ID 0015 (JEK) WIIvZ-FL Sl ight ly amora l cx put t h i s atop af ter CBM s / d f 0120 11/10

(JEK) ** If it takes auroral cx t o put t h i s one apl top, vhaddya here normally here a f te r CB14 off. This m e ' s always atop here

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15 New log w/rr 0100, only t h i n e m ~hanne l but KIOA faded up by 0130 (JEK) kXR t e s t , I D hrd 0200 11/22 (PKII) Hrd 11/15 w / r r 6. ID 0100 (JEK) Hrd I D in ET 0102 11/15 wk u/ powerhouse CFCB(PI~E~) C l r w/ local nr & d f 11/15 0012 (JEK) Hrd t e s t 11/15 t o 0141 v/ ID every minute, Iowa #IO(JEK) +30/s9 signal in POP, IDIS 0315, 0319 11/22 (Ym) CC, TTas during t e s t sessicm 0100-0200 11/22 (YKH) S/on caught 0800 11/17 just b4 KLIF switch t o 50 kw. (pH) F i ta l ly s ta te # 45, u aver mess 0104 11/15 (JEK) Is NSP. ( ~ a v e ~chrnidtr Is off M M 8 s again ( 3 ~ ) Good 11/8 0440 u/rr, ID (BL) tes t ing AXR v/TT from b4 0400 11/15 (PIE) Test hesdd 0239 11/22, believe is i r r e a s a l so hrd 2 / 1 ( ~ ~ ) Copied ID 0500 11/22, poor, but end. ?h) Hrd 11/16 v/ tele-talk 0145-0203 n/kl '~~~~(Boyd) (Boyd) Finally hrd w/nx. a, promo 0502-08 u/WMh-WEMl'-WPbE CC 8: lrm Fair o/u KYA v/rr, TC, ID 0457 11/8 (BL) Hrd t e s t 11/15 0150 ID, but a l l audible was s t a t e (JEK) Hrd 11/15 a2 w/ID 0108 (JEK) ikd v/ LEC nx, local m, sx 6- mx 11/11 0002-08 (Boyd) Hrd A l i v/rr 11/10 (JEK) Hrd 111'15 0111 u/rr o/u WIFE,WLOB. I s WJLK A&?? (JEK) ** lo- off 0100 - RJE Hrd s / d f SSB 0107 11/10 (XK) Hrd mx t e s t 11/3, ID a f te r each song 0145-0200/ (JEK) ** This may 3c f /c , n o l is t here t o check - RSE Hrd again 11/17n w/ m tee t , ID'S a f t e r each song, 0130-01LO+ (JEK) ** .hybe that k i l l s tha t theory. hi -RjE - - F I r d AN w/ c h 1117 0105 (JEK) Hrd d o f f 0005 a f t e r nx 11/1 (JEK) Good w/ c&v, promo 0150 11/22 (BL) Endin ET-TT 0111 11/11 ( ~ e r r y Starr, Youngstown, 0hio) Hrd Jeff 0057 11/22 U/ looped KXOL, i s t h i s MM only??(pIC~) Hrd 11/2 abt. even w/ WSPD t o 0130 %off (JEK) Unusual reception of t h i s day-local a f te r SS 11/8 0135 (JEK) Fair W/ ID 0506 11/8 IBL) . - .--, ET-TT 0030-50+ 11/11 (Starr) Noted o/uKQV in WING n u l l 0035- 0100 11/11 ( ~ o v d ) In WHK &1'00+0103 11/16, n w e r b4 hrd w/ WHK on(Boyd) AN w / r r 11/10 (JEK) Fair U/KLO W/ ID 0131 11/14 (BL) Good 11/8 0 0 7 w/ ID'S, ads, EST TC's & rr (BL) D~minant 11/11 0655 w/ t h r i l l i n g report on Boy Scout papre drive in Dalton (HH) Out of nwhere t o zap W K D 0658 11/11 w/jingle, then lu (HH) In 0708 11/11 w/ pest WQOK nulled, loca l ads f o r blue field(^^^) GOO^ W/ spot f o r r n ~ ch. 2 0524 11/22 (BL) Noted on 'ti1 0005 11/18 w/ Ali-f ight-spot s & doff SSB-less

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Finally a clr . ID 0359 11/22 then in to religiapl. NSP~??(PKH) Ending mx-test 0025 11/15 (JEK) ch l a t e 11/13 covering plane hijack, s / d f 0316 (Starr)

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Verie from 11/6 ET-mr mres hope t o do 1 s t p r o d ard. 12/1, aiming f o r RS by holidays, ADD: Bax 343, ZIP 62565. (Starr) ** You musta miased this one, Jer - ran It during the sumwrr sometime - RjE Caught just in time 11/9 0715 f o r ID @ s/m (HH) Destroyed WQX a few seconds after 0715 11/9 v/ s/on and SSB, soon destroyed in turn b WCx in Chytosl (mIH) ET-TT-mx noted 0030+ 1 1 5 1 (Starr) Loug t e s t without ID u n t i l 0345 11/22 (PKH) Big OC from b4 0110 t o a f t e r 0130 11/22 (PKH) Hood ID U/KATZ OC 0110 11/22, my best Eastern catch an a reg. channel (PKH) ** The old OC-~hal ted oarr ier routine, eh, hi,

nice catch... -RjE

Finally reached the end - auroral ex 11/29 & 30 AMt s a s v e l l a s prev. eve8 here resulted in m y new LA & Deep South US logs. FtX 1s somevhat bet ter due t o much-needed alignment. Next job t o replace some r capacitors, real ign the WO, and check out the input c i rcu i t , hi. 1'11 n a i l t h i s aideband splash yet. Solar f l u x 171, A=3 this AM ( 12/1 ) vmder vhat t h a t means... no r e a l auroral ex last nl ta , and a good thing, too - I've almost f i l l e d a l l my available blank tapes a s continupus maitors . N o w about 6-8 hrs. dubbing duff off a f t e r I f ind 'em again, yecch. 73, RjE w *

LagT MNDTE PIDm TIP FROM N F M M!NBER STEVEN DILTIINE OF BALTO., MD. ON KTIa931 on 650 kHz. : The s ta t ion i s operated by WFBR v/ Ikw Non-dirsctional, f o r the specified pupose of test ing antenna pa t te rn measurerments as per FCC. Address f o r ver if icat ions is Baltimore Radio Shows, Inc.; 1 3 E. 20th St., Baltimore, Md. 21218

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0100 then newscast. M x was soft rock. M x again a t 0103. Monumental on 1462.5 was also good. leason on, P.R. )

1525 China, P.R. Urumchi, Slnkiang i s now being regularly hrd between 2145 and up t o 0030 dai ly 1119 t o ll/17. There is a 1 kc he t and some j&ng present as well. 11/14 a t 2200, I S Qn chime or celeste followed by instru- mental "East i s Red" and anmt "Govorit Pekin" twice - once by man, once by woman. Russian commentary by woman followed. A l l taped. Discussion has t o do with improving Sino-Soviet relations, while a t the same time, haranguing about "imperialist Soviet agressions and workersy i n f i l t r a t i o n s in to the domestic a f f a i r s of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam." Look for cer tain

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key Russian phrases l ike "Kitai" (china) and "SovyetsMi-Kltaiskii" ( ~ i n o - Sovlet ). (Taylor, N J )

1529 Asiatic RSFSR. In very well i n Chinese 1120 11/15; Kremlin b e l l s a t 1130, no reply yet f o r my report of ll/1. ( ~ e j z a , Cal.)

1550 Mexico. XENLT excellent 11/14 0030-0100 s/off, no fade, well over K K J O with typ ica l Mexican mx and ads fo r Monterrey and Nuevo Laredo. Call l e t t e r s given rather slowly a t s/off. Speaking of Mexico, r e your question-taark when I referred t o XEG as "my ole buddyt' i n IDXD 39-5, they were the f i r s t Mexican s t n ever logged, away back i n the winter of '68. ( ~ t e w a r t , ~ ~ )

1570 Mexico. XERF "Radio Bible Hour" i n English a t 0200 11/26 ( ~ i l d i n e , Va.) 1586 USSR. Tartu even with WDR i n wimd cx 0345 11/22, female vocal mx. (~dmunds) 2010 unID way down i n noise, some Spanish mx 1240 11/16, believe ESP TC, seemed

t o be L.V. de -- ( ~ a u s e r ) (~undamental should be 1005, a s p l i t -ed) 2220 unID, Spanish, weak, 1248 11/16. (Hauser) ( ~ m o n i c ) 2800 Mexico. XELH here 0032 10/11, good signal; inaudible i n 1400. (Hauser) 2880 Colombia. R. Tulua again 0030 11/10, good; on harmonic. (Hauser )

JCGEPH FELA Jr. - 150 Robert Place- South Plainfield, New Jersey - 07080 1'7

Greetings again. Recent ver ies are v/fs from W - 9 3 0 & WYDK- 14904EST, a v/q from CFCN-1060, & a v / l from GOO-1140. NOW 1,016 QSbd w/1,823 heard. Recent DX: 11/6- 12:05am, s/on WJAX-930 - s/on of anotheri24-hour broad- cast day, thht is. hpm, WWR-1050 W/WGPY/W&MR headlines; 4:11, WIRD-920 briefly ~ / ~ r o m o ; 4: 15 WI-1370 way on top but it seems t o be routine (odd, WMHI was sel- dom heard a t SSS frm ~ewwl i ) ; &:53, l,TTTT-930 W/ID, then out; \U-!130, u - 9 3 0 s/off a t same time - WPAT barely i n here. 5: 15, WW-1290 s/off ~ n t i o n i w 100.5 FM, 5:29 wKKE-1380 on top for a whkle w/record offer, rr, etc . ( ~ e y ~ a d i o ) . 5:4& WEUP-1600 again @ s/off , 5:45 s/off WCRL-1560 a f t e r WX, 5:59 wVOW-1290 mentioning chrngeover a t t h i s time t o nighttime f a c i l i t i e s . 11/8- 2:Olam, GOO-1140 strong on E T / ~ / T T ; 244 KWK ET/mx, 3, CFCN-1060 w/beautiful signals W/HI program; 6: 18p, KU-M-1520 W/WKBW looped, 6:33-6:48 s/off KCTA-1030 W/WEZ, nulled. 11/20- 3:47pm, CKEW-1000 noted w/announcement about changing t o nighttime pattern, then Out it went. 4:45, WREO-970 compld~ly demolishing WWDJ as was WCAR-1130 doiw t o WNEW. 5 s /off , WAYZ-1380 'bays. " 11/21- 3: 59pm, CBI-1140 w/air pollution message & I D & then W t , leaving a weak WRVA b WNEd splash. (1've been a f t e r CBI for Only 115 ydars). 4:30 s/off WAU-1420 (they m u s t have been i n a rush as they cut off the s p i r i t u a l message i n the middle & went in to a f a s t s/off announcement). 5:02, WCIR-1070 W / ' ~ C I R Cared" promo, 5:03 WCEF-1050 very nice signal, rr, 5:13$ s/off WNS-1080, 5:14 s/off WMAP-1060 u/strong KYW, 5:18 WOK-1270 i n the mess w/a FB promo, 5:22-5:30 s/off a preacher on 1130, s ignal o/u WCAR (both U/WNEW), who? 5:31 s/off on 930, I just missed it - I would love t o know who tha t was. 6:08 KWKR-1130 doins r e a l nicely ending WX, then i n t o rr. I got a nice tape of it. Other things: WBRW-1170 (I think tha t ' s the c a l l ) Somerville, N.J . is doing much mine W/OC days. Unfortunately, they w i l l be a strone local here. 73.

PAGE TAYLOR - Box 282 - m t l e r , New Jersey - 07405 Gadzooks! Great Grok! A Musing, f i r s t i n three years. SO I sup-

pose a br ief re-irrtro is i n order: I ' m 29 years old, married & teach elementary school vocal mx. I have been DXing since 1954 on an 5-85 a t f i r s t , & now an SX- '

130 since 1968. Until about a month or so ago, I had been using the World-famed Space Magnet as an antenna, but now, thanks t o RjE & Steve Bohac, I have acquired a REAL antenna - the fantast ic NRC Altaz! Briefly, som comparison notes: m r o x imately 40db gain on a l l signals with the FET Altaz over the SM-1, more TAs with '

readable audio, Middle Esst & Pacific inaudible on the SM-1 can be respectably heard on Altaz (~arawa-&4 S-4 het on SM-1, S-9 & audio on NRC; Kuwait-1345 a het just above HNL on S-1 produced a l0db o/S-8 w/audio on NRC. Long Live the FET Altaz! No, the SM-1 is N d for sale per rumor, as it is s t i l l an excellent l i t t l e grdget for such unforeseens as dead bat ter ies , blown FEI's & vacations. Allah has been good t o u s t h i s Ramadan with several new goodies added t o the log, notable b e i w the Kuwaitian on 1345 with "Joyous chantings per Quoran and snake-charmer f lut ines as accompaniment". (SO says my abundantly wordy log on them). ,.Speaking of Ramadan, am I correct i n assuming that a l l these chantiws, wai l iws & weepi= ere over the f l i g h t and landiw of a three-toed winged horse? UnID Depmment: ERC, your "cavalry Charge" is indeed "R. Globo", Rio, and makes for an easy ID for those neediw a Brazilian. Best time is, of course, SM when WHAM-1180 is off. They were heard MM 11/15 @ 3:45 EST. An SS on 645 w/frequent mentions of Paramay, Asuncion. Brand of SS was harsh-sounding, rather gu t te ra l & the f i n a l "R" and "RR'~ combinations rolled with great gusto l ike machine-gun f i r e . Help, REW &/or Cesar! A w i l d conjecture says ZP-16 off from 640?? Beariw: 160. Milestone: CountT #lo0 gotten with Kuwait; 25 more t o catch GPN! MM 11/15- WSLR-1350 s i l en t . I logged & taped s/off of KTOH @ 4 EST for second Hawaiian & obviously, f i r s t re- gional, h i - 73. (welcome back t o Musings, Page - please make it more often? -&)

STANWOOD R. MORSS - Route 3 - Bradford, Massachusetts - 01830 N.Y. C.A.T.V. has public access channels open t o aqv non-com-

mercial group - an opportunity for the NRC t o e;et some publicity? I believe S t e r l i w does change $10 for "use of f a c i l i t i e s " Nice tape for CFML-1110. Four so fa r on 1110 using 'hagnet" and s t i l l trying for WBQ - not yet!

18 THOMAS R. SUNCGTROM - Box 2Q5 - W i l l i ~ y ~ ~ New p s e y - 08046

No luck on the 1 21 OA 11 DX here. A s I write t h i s on 11/22 IW is t e l l i n g me t h a t the 11/21 A-index is t e n with the g e m a g m t i c f ie ld unsettled. The 11/15count was zero. Thereafter, 01, 01, 04, 06, & 04. N o t par- ticularl; . outstanding f o r low-haul DX, hi. Someone want t o venture a guess as to how VCAU-1210 can generate a signal on 1177? Only with the n u l l of my loop does it disappear, w/a 23/54 knocked down t o a 5/9 on the S-meter of the HQ-150. For- tunately it did not a f fec t the aiming for Okinawa as t h e two were a t r ight angles. This shows up regardless of which antenna I use - the LW, the vert ical , or the loo ( l a t t e r when aimed w). Re Giannini's (of Belleville, I l l . ) request i n the 1 1 6 3 DX NEWS M u s i r g s fo r FB l is t ings, etc., I collected a few: Princeton U., WHWH-1350. U. of Pa., WCAU-l.210. ( ~ n d 1177, h i -ERC) Villanova U., WAR-1110. For professional teams, Philadelphia teams, Eagles on WIP-610, 76ers on Wpm-950, Flyers on WCAU-1210. I have noted WNBC-660 carrying N.Y. Knicks and Rangers, ~ p p a r e n t b the former i f t h e two clay games a t t h e same time. I also noted WGY- 810 carrying N.Y. Knicks. I also think WCAU-1210 carr iers N.Y. Je ts , but I ' m not , positive on t h i s . They did last season a f t e r dropping the Eagles. And how could I f o q e t t h e N.Y. Giants? WNEW-1130 and WBCB-1490. 73. (N.Y. Jets on WOR-710-IAC)

GENE DeLORENZO - Eox 17 Roberts, Colby College - Waterville, Maiae - 04901 It's been quite a long while since I've been i n these pages -

l ike about three years. With school, BKB, e tc . qy interest i n BCB dwindled, but, t h d s t o a g i f t membership, I ' m back t o DX. I 've a l so got a new location & new to ta l s . From Hyannis over an ekht-year span t o t a l s were about 875 from 4.4 coun- t r i e s - so f a r i n Waterville they 're 109 f r o m three countries! I've been here since Sept. & have noted a lack of TAs - due t o mountains, I guess. Also, I ' m us- ing a Soqy portable M/FM that has good sensi t ivi ty and poor select ivi ty . b t s a hets on good days, but l i t t l e audio! E.G., I 've only heard audio from Iangenburg three times. Otherwise, domestic DX is not much different from Hyannis- more Carr ucks, and less water paths receptions. DX so far: 10/18- WSm-1050 6:30 s /off . 10/28- WMCR-1250 6:02. UnID-1030 w/religious mx & n U/WBZ @ 7: 56pm till 8 when it faded out or s/off, very weak & fady, not XEQR & seemed EE, but, no I D heard. (sounds l ike it 's got ta be KCTA -DC) Also that night un1~-740 w/Nfld. ER //-CBY @ 8:30, went r igh t over half-hour without IDing. 11/3- Daytime CX get l i v l i e r e a r l i e r up here - CHW-1350 @ 3 02pm, maqy other Canucks i n by 3:30 most every af- ternoon. 11/12- CJCH-9M 3:lfjpm, new WGRG-1110 ~ / ~ r o g r e s s i v e rr @ 3:30, WR-1420 3:45, TAs a l l over today ( j u l t hets, mainly) 1124 1394 1403 1457 1578 t o name a few i n by 4pm. Audio from what seemed t o be Portugal on 1034 @ 4:01pm, very good signal. That's it for "DX" ( i f you want t o c a l l it that!) from t h e backwoods of Maine. S o a ~ of the locals up here have t o be heard t o be believed! Particularly WGRM-1150 - and 1160,70,80, e tc . i f they're playing mx! And w thought WRKO was bad! See you men the t o t a l s ge t vay up there - how 'bout 200? elco come back!)

NANCY GANTZER - 67 Liberty Street - Fredonia, New York - 14063 It seems l ike a 10% time since I last wrote a Musing, but there

hasn't been anything interest ing t o write about. So, here's m1 recent meager DX: 11/7- WIRV-1550 QJ. s/off very good @ 5:32 w/no SSB. 11/14- KT'UF-1580 Ariz. ( ~ i - nelly) 7: U-7:15pm w/c/w & Key-Tuf I D . 11/16- w C C R - ~ ~ ~ O Ill. 6:28-6:36pm poor/ good w/c/w & Ae NX. 11/17- ~ C R - 1 5 8 0 Qh. 6:30 s/off f a i r W/SSB. REW: I did not report WCAU- I checked.

.- DAVID F. GLEPSON - WUNO - Eox Q - Hpto Rey, Fuerto Rico I noticed t h e front-page blurb about a NYC get-together f o r

Jenuery a t about the same time the $100 round-trip t o S n Juan was announced - so I'll trj t o be there? Due t o my work a t WUNO, I hwe t o plan a l i t t l e ahead, soif a date has been se t , maybe you can l e t me know. Also as I've been i n NYC only orre i n my l i f e , I 'll have t o be oriented as t o how t o get where t h e action is (or d o 1 take a DF on WABC-~~~O?) A seiee of s t a t i c (the scourge of the ~ r o p i c s ) se t i n 11/10, & things are pretty awful - onky new catch is HJGI frcm 1360, on 1355 (m- isora Jose Antonio Galan, ~ o c o r r o ) very strong - it had t o be t o beat the static!

E D L E Y SIMMONCG - 1.48 Fairfield Avenue North - Hamilton, 27, Ontario I haven't written t o the Club in quite a few years - due t o the

fact I was working a steady night sh i f t for t h e best part of 30 years, so t h i s eliminated DXing as you w i l l agree. But I have received DX NElG i n order t o keep i n touch with what is going on i n the w o r l d of radio listening-in. I have Can-

pletrd a log of something l ike 2,861 heard & 2,711 verified. I have been l is ten-

ing since 1924 & can r e c a l l maqy of the s tat ions now defunct & spelrt many an hour l is tening t o the DXprograms while I was working day shifts but have done practic- a l ly nothiw since. I have now been ret i red by my employers since 4/68 & am m v rather lonely as I have had both my parents pass away - mother i n 1954 & fath-

er. i n 1960. I do not have any brothers or s i s t e r s & did not marry, S O YOU Can understand my lonliness. IXle t o t h e f.ad I ' m past 70 & not able t o do very much, only keep the house i n order & work around t h e garden amongst the few flowers we have had for many years, I do not, even now, do much listening i n a s I cannot af- ford the expense of writing for ver ies especially as I do not now receive U.S.. stamps t o send t o the s ta t ions as I was able t o do when WUrkiXIg & have not done s, since NRC mwed t o Cambridge fr m &Buffalo. Ray Edge, who w a s President a t tha t time, used t o send me U.S. stamps f o r my use & I kept him supplied with funds Po apply t o nv '%tamp Fund" he kept fo r that purpose. A s you know, he was k i l l ed on Columbus Day some years aeo while taking h i s grandchildren t o the Corning Works for a v i s i t . I m i s s h i s friendly le t t e r s , I can assure you. I did hear WAMB on 11/1, I was surprised a t t h e i r powerful signal, despite interference f r o m time t o time from some stat ion I was unable t o I D . This other s tat ion seertled t o be e i ther SS or PP but was not IDed by me. I've written WAMB but no reply yet. I heard several NRCers acknowledged by the announcer who gave the names- & towns of each who called. I em wondering i f you could send one of the NEW MEWEX KITS t o me? That'd explain the various symbols used i n DX NEWS. I received a sheet fran one of t h e o f f ic ie r s i n Cambridge sane time ago when NRC mwed t o Cambridge but I've misplaced it. I note some I do not understand, l ike "Ae". Please let me know the date qy subscription expires as it is not given on the notice sent on 11/23.

ERNEST R. COOPER - 438 East 21 Street - Carrier Route 56 - Brooklyn, N.Y. 11226 v/f f rom WYDK & KAYQ, heard while WAMB was TFSTing 11/1. They

say they me 250w a t night, beamed DUE WEST! Well, here's the act ivi ty fran here for the l a s t fortnight: MM 11/22- WCBS-880 off again, but doing a lo t of Tl'ing. No wOKJ-1550, they m u s t be AN-6. A very weak SS on 1550 @ 3:01, couldn't be logged - it '11 take a good Auroral morn. Somebody TTed a g i t on 1170 during tha t magic hour, 1-2am when both WWVA & KVOO are s i l en t , but no IDS. Somabody EPing w@lvis records on 1380 @ 2:21 & on, no IDS noted - who? The c/w t e s t e r on 1000 first noted @ 3:18 turned out t o be welcome WKBQ, Garner, N.C. 250w W i m e r W/ID

@ 3:42. Thanksgiving AM, 11/25- Two or three SSes and one FF fighting it out on 540 before midnight t o 1 & on, too up-and-dmey t o follow aqy of them. A very unique sounding TI? on 1560 @ 1:Ogam. WCRV-1580 was having a fun-filled ET w/two engineers exchanging small banter, @ 1:19 & on, unn. WOILT-1550 was quite gcod AN WHIY-1530's r/c-TT came through WCKY very well on an Auroraish AM, I D every min- ute. The tone sounded l ike the motor of a model airplane, not a d i a l tone! 11/26 - TEST i n f r o m w ~ ~ ~ - 8 1 0 , Md., quite fady, S 6-8 here W/WGY off. An SS s/off just ahead of the start of t h e i r t e s t on t h e i r channel. Nice timing, WYRE! MM 11/29- Nothine new, but t h i s is what was jotted down a s interesting. WMCA-TO, local, 4 off @ 1:05-1:09 w/three stanzas of the SSB sung by chorus! That weak SS on 1550 noted @ 12;45am but no dice again. No Sign of WGS-730 TEST - i n fact, no sign of CKAC e i ther ; only Colombia X M . Quite Auroral today. U r n WSER had a long m/m( on 1550, f i r s t noted @ 2:02. ETP-1500 has also dropped KI. - they now have a te le- talk show MMs. Remember 'Rello, Dolly"? Well, now it's "Good-bye, ~ o l l y . " A t e s t e r again on 1380 with no announcer on hand, with Negro vocals @ 2:47-2:53 & OC continued over the 3am conventional I D time without one. Could t h i s be WKKE? Well, lads, you sure did give me a S e a t section for t h i s issue - my thanks t o a l l - and now, how about resolving t o keep up t h i s g o d work? And may I wish you a l l a verf Merry Christmas and/or Happy Chanukah. Remember tha t Christmas morning is a da;' when almost every FFC runs AN, f i r s t with midnight Mass, then with gay Christmas mx, and mw LAs do likewise. Remember also WWVA is OFF l2/25, t rad i - t ional ly, a f te r Mass is over! C U N 7!