[Lowfer] TALCAHUANO

[Garry Hess]

On 021615 at 0820Z I saw a weak 518 kHz Navtex signal key up, after 
Bermuda went QRT and just before being overwhelmed by area 12, station C 
in San Francisco, which in turn was overwhelmed a bit later by area 4, 
station C in Rivière-au-Renard, QC. According to my latest Navtex 
schedule, the only other station that might have been active at that 
time and receivable was area 15, station J in TALCAHUANO, Chile. 
However, my brief, noisy decode signed the message as CU76.

I note that just like Kodiak, AK and PUERTO MONTT, Chile, TALCAHUANO, 
Chile has a pair of stations assigned letters J and C. I have been 
receiving Chile surprisingly well the last few weeks so I'm reasonably 
sure the source I saw was transmitter C even though it's supposed to 
come on 4 hours sooner and later.

Station J has been logged by others in AZ, CO, FL, and MO at 0820Z and 
Station C has been logged by others in AZ, MO, and NS at 0420Z. But I 
know the schedule is not followed some times because it claims stations 
D and K both broadcast in English and I've definitely copied station K 
in Spanish.

J.B. and others, any comment?
-- 
73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL