** CANADA. 15034-USB, Oct 12 at 2118, CHR **still** ``no report
received`` from anywhere, and still somewhat distorted modulation; add
another anomaly: ``Trenton Military``, now giving the ``time: 2115``,
``repeating aviation weather`` consisting of more no-reports-received,
even from Trenton --- hey, they could have a courier hand-deliver it!
Let`s hope Canadian Forces be epter in axual aviation, or godforbid,
combat (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6100, Oct 12 at 0610, RHC English, normally best frequency,
now is S9+30 of dead air! 6165 is only S9 but also DA. 6000 and 6040
are off. Strikeout! Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 13570, Oct 12 at 1411, RHC-FM spur with F# tone is just far
enough from 13565 not to impact q.v. USA K6FRC beacon; where else out
of 13700-AM? 13635, 13765, 13832, 13897, 13961, 13503; closer ones
broad, outer ones JBA at approx 66 kHz interval multiples. They were
all late coming on, still nothing several minutes after 1300.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11760 & 11850, Oct 12 at 2113, RHC Spanish is JBM on both,
making it even harder to hear anything but a JBA carrier on spur
11840, and no threat at all to the jamming or RM on 11860. Something`s
always wrong at RHC. At the sites, don`t they ever check the incoming
programming feedline STL for anyaudio? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. Oct 12 at 1257, Radio Martí plugging program `La Habana
- Miami`, lunes a viernes 9 AM = 1300, soon 1400 UT, evidently rubbing
in how great the gusanos have made Miami in contrast to decaying
Havana; and in next hour add 13605 (which in B-19 will revert to
13820; why?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE. 13730, Oct 12 at *1459 carrier, 1500 music with drumming,
1501 French announcement, as the marine weather special continues for
the Mini-Transat yacht racers; best I`ve heard this yet, but still
unreadable. Supposed to be mixed with English. Richard Langley heard
it better today via UTwente SDR despite proximity to Issoudun: ``First
yachts expected to complete the first leg of the race tomorrow
morning``; i.e. Tenerife, Gran Canaria. Second leg on to Caribbean is
not until November? So they have to kill time in the Islas? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. 4890, Oct 12 at 1252, Korean VP vs building
local noise level of S9+10, not on 4885; at 1308 a quick check of
other EOH=VOH/VOP frequencies finds carriers or modulation, some
noise-jammed, some not, on: 9105, 6600, 6350, 6250, 5995, 4450, i.e.
some back on original frequencies, some not (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6950-USB, Oct 13 at 0026, S9 of classic rock --- I
bet it`s Wolverine Radio. After ``True to Myself`` song, 0040 yes, ID
Wolverine Radio with echoechoecho--- and SSTV during which I hear some
JBA talk under, another pirate? Or more likely fifth harmonic of my
strongest local 1390 KCRC, which can sometimes be detected in absence
of pirates. 0042 ID once, more music; 0047 ``White Sports Coat``, 0049
ID, 0054 `White Shade of Pale`, so the keyword must be white; 0058 ID,
0103 QRM de VFO sweeping, 0107 ID, 0112 clicking QRM, 0113 ID. Recheck
at 0133 is already off. Many other logs here including good captures
of the SSTV:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,59072.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SURINAME. 4990, Oct 12 at 0613, not even a JBA carrier from Radio
Apintie, nor have I noticed one in quite some time in nightmiddle nor
earlier. Suspect they are OFF, another SWBC country gone. The latest
logs I can find were 2.5 months ago:
4990 2147-2157, 25/7. Música pop'; 24331 (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal)
4990, Radio Apintie, Paramaribo, 0530-0540, 26-07, pop songs. 15321
(Manuel Méndez, Spain, WOR iog via DXLD) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13565-CW, Oct 12 at 1410, HIFER beacon K6FRC is on a roll,
audible again today. Whew, Cuban FM spur is just far enough away
around 13570. This happens to be right at its local sunrise time, but
of course refraxion patch halfway to here has been insolated for an
hour or so. Patterson, 2010y population 20K, is still too
insignificant to make it on gaisma.com`s long list of CA localities;
closest bigger city is Modesto; now how about all those other HIFERs
east or north of here which I never detect anymore? (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17016.8-CW, Oct 12 at 2122, marker repeating loud & clear,
or RST 599, starting: ``VVV VVV VVV DE KPH KPH KPH QSX ---``, but I`m
in no position to QSX. Presumed regular weekend-only activity from the
Marine Radio Historical Society in Point Reyes CA. Other listed
frequencies which I did not remember: 12808.5 and 8642, Such markers
really stand out these days with so few maritime CW stations still in
service rather than historical legacies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2003 monitoring: Ivo Ivanov,
Bulgaria, reports our first two airings via HLR; he seldom monitors
the 1430:
``GERMANY, World of Radio#2003 via Hamburger Lokalradio, October 12
https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/10/world-of-radio2003-via-hamburger.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSUCL3oDN8M&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W1NSVQaQjg&feature=youtu.be
0630-0700 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu English Sat CUSB, good
World of Radio#2003 via Hamburger Lokalradio, October 12
https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/10/world-of-radio2003-via-hamburger_12.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz3jMoqczx8&feature=youtu.be
1431-1500 on 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CEu English Sat CUSB, fair,
QRM same time 9490 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg WEu Romanian R.Romania Int.``
I don`t get the computer on in time to check UTwente, but own SW gets
a JBA carrier on 9490, so presumed RRI blasting into Europe unlike
missing last week. Shortly Alan Gale reports from England:
``Hi Glenn, Very strange conditions on 9485 kHz today. HLR was a very
good signal and no sign of splatter from 1300 to around 1432 UT, but
then the signal went right down just after your segment started. I
could tell you were there right up to the sign off at 1500, but the
signal wasn't strong enough to read anything other than the opening
part with the details of it being programme 2003. So it's back to the
usually very strong IRRS broadcast on 7290 kHz [1816.5 UT] on Monday
for me again then. Alan``
WOR remains WRMI-less and WBCQ-less on Saturdays but not WA0RCR-less:
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315]
1030 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 6160v? to WSW
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE
0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW
1130 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW
1816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania to WNW
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW
0830 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [another episode]
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, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1680, Oct 12 at 1235 and still at 1249 UT, dead air looping
SE/NW, surely KRJO Monroe LA, the usual dominator. Initially atop some
other weak modulator(s), likely remnant of WPRR MI, maybe KGED CA. The
only other three 1680 Unitedstatesians never heard here, from WA, FL,
NJ.
BTW a DXer in Bâton Rouge told me Oct 7 that his local pirate, Radio
Retén Lo Que Tienes has reactivated but on 1690 instead of 1710; which
will make it much tougher to DX. Maybe nulling WVON early evening
before KDMT fade-in. See:
https://www.radioretenloquetienes.com/radio-tv-live/
Pretty snazzy website. One of the slides in their show mentions 1690
AM, but I don`t see an FM frequency anywhere, ``Radio`` is 24/7 but
not clear if that means 1690 and/or websteam audio/video (gh)
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17850, Oct 12 at 2127, JBA carrier which I again suspect be
the third harmonic of 5950 WRMI. For the next 5+ minutes I struggle to
match traces of audio with 5950 on another receiver, and am almost
certain that`s it: music going to Brother Scare talk. 17850 registers
just S1 on the NRD-545 meter, better than the ambient noise level of
S-0.5. If #5 transmitter were better modulated, that could make the
difference on X3. 5950 is now TOMBS at 11-24 UT, 285 degrees, second
most favorable azimuth for here at 315. Sporadic E responsible, as
15770 WRMI-9 is much stronger than usual, offside of its alleged 44
degree beam; meant to check 6m DXMap ASAP, but still at 2318 there`s
one 31 MHz MUF blob over Biloxi, just about right for a skip from
Okeechobee. Normally JBA 13845 & 15825 WWCR also getting a big boost
from Es at 2120 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, a good idea as Jim
Renfrew, NY has been reporting lots of stuff now and recently: this on
the handheld DX-398 to be sure they DF approx. NE if not SW, but
facing lots of splatter from those pesky North Americans on even
frequencies:
612, 621, 693, 774, 783, 837, 855, 882, 936(2), 999, 1017, 1053, 1062,
1089, 1125, 1179, 1215, 1296(2), 1305, 1413, 1422, 1502, 1512.
(I also have off-frequency-minus hets below 774 and 1548, but as
previously divined, those two are harmonically related to each other
and to 387-, so something local; never mind) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9557.0-USB, Oct 12 at 2109, 2-way in Spanish INTRUDERS,
far enough from the Cuban radiowar on 9565. I think at yearend I may
compile all these I have monitored, a lot, vs deafening lack of
interest elsewhere (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17388.1-USB, Oct 12 at 2125, 2-way in Spanish, somewhat
noisy background. Possibly legit ship contacts in marine band altho
off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0225 UT October 13
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/article.php?story=2019101303150278