** CANADA. 15034-USB, April 21 at 1731, CHR Trenton Military ID with
own timecheck almost correct as 1730z, only one minute off instead of
61, which went on for months and months. Maybe fixed a while ago as I
don`t often happen to tune across when this datum emit (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)
** CUBA. Correxion: I neglected to add: ``Something`s always wrong at
RadioCuba``, to: 711, April 20 at 0600, presumed off-frequency Radio
Rebelde is still very much here making big het against legal 710
stations. Someone reported hearing RR audio on 711, but I never have
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. Correxion: I forgot to add: ``Something`s always wrong at
RHC``, to: 6060 // 6100 // 6145, April 20 at 0550, all three RHCs are
splattering plus/minus 10 kHz during music, e.g. QRMing 6050 ECUADOR,
q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 6000, April 21 at 0607, RHC English is suptorted while the
other three, 6060, 6100 and 6145 are well-modulated. Something`s
always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, April 21 at 0600, RNZI timesignal and news,
S8-S9, good to hear them again, not only on the air but also
propagating; the SSOB by far and virtually the OSOB except for a few
JBA carriers. Even 9 MHz band is empty except for domestix WRMI, WEWN
and WBCQ (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** NIGERIA. 7254.9, April 21 at 0604, VON again audible at S9-S6,
weaker than usual. Would expect it to propagate from the tropix even
when signals from Europe be outwiped, but this may be relevant for
missing signals the night before, from https://spaceweather.com via
Mike Terry to the WOR io group:
``The first geomagnetic storm of 2020 (category G1) took forecasters
by surprise on April 20th when a CME hit Earth's magnetic field,
sparking bright auroras over Canada and some northern-tier US states.
The cause of the storm appears to be a faint slow-moving CME (coronal
mass ejection) that left the sun on April 15th. This CME was not
squarely Earth-directed, and forecasters did not think it was likely
to hit our planet. Nevertheless, it apparently did. Solar wind data
suggest that the CME sideswiped Earth with a snowplow-like buildup of
plasma shortly after 0130 UT on April 20th``
Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach near Monterey, California, also
replies April 20: ``Hi Glenn, My last VON reception was briefly noted
in tuning by on April 16, on 7254.94, at 0554, with African religious
song, in English and vernacular, titled "In The Name Of Jesus"(?);
0557, start of their usual musical IS; strong signal. Ron``
And on April 21: ``VON, on 7254.94, checking 0623-0630; heard with
fair-good signal; in vernacular; 0627, brief musical IS and sounded
like COVID-19 PSA. Ron, California`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** OKLAHOMA. 1020 // 1580, April 21 at 1742 UT, two-thirds of the
Triple-Play sport stations, KOKP Perry and KOKB Blackwell,
respectively, are instead carrying what sound like a live event,
probably from Oklahoma News Network, chief of Otoe-Missouri tribe and
Gov. Stitt about to sign a ``gaming compact`` about sharing earnings
from stupid gamblers between tribe and state, which has been a very
contentious issue in OK, and presumably still so concerning several
other tribes.
A quick tune across the MW band finds *no* other stations carrying
this, not even talk formats in OKC and Tulsa --- after all, that would
pre-empt Rush on some of them! TPS has always had a secondary
non-sports talk format, evidently expanded with nothing to lose (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 15205.055, April 21 at 1732, SBC with Qur`an, VP
S4-S5 and stable frequency. But:
15434.986V, April 21 at 1734, SBC in Arabic other General Service not
so far off-frequency but audibly wobbling as I measure it, slightly
stronger S6-S9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY. 9830v, April 20 at 2227 check, no signal from VOT English
to N America. I did not try April 19, but Wolfgang Bueschel found it
absent also then: ``9830 kHz 22-23 UT TRT English - NOT ON AIR -
tonight. Not 22, 2205, nor at 2215 UT, only co-channel CNR1 Beijing
Chinese Mandarin sce, here in Western EUR at S=6-7 signal level``.
Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 245 kHz, April 21 at 0617 UT, ND beacon FS, which is 400
watts from Sioux Falls SD - Rock. Apparently the CV-19 outbreak there
has not yet silenced it. Under spring storm conditions, logging any of
these is difficult (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2030 monitoring: confirmed UT Tue Apr 21 at
0100 on WRMI 7780, fair-good via UTwente SDR, Holland. Next:
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
Thanks this week for financial support from Gerald T. Pollard,
Raleigh NC, who sent a generous US$ cheque to
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702
One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to
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** U S A. 7780, UT Tue April 21 at 0138, WRMI playing World Music fill
including own canned ID at 0141: instead of the unID ``pilot program``
of music I had heard on March 24 and April 7. So the pilot burned out?
What was it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 5800, UT Tue April 21 at 0610, S9+10 open carrier, no doubt
WRMI on way late, but why? I had this before, but what day of week in
case it`s regular? As yet unfound that log (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 4980, April 21 at 0610, JBA carrier, presumed still the WRMI
exciter-only test; and not even that much from 4990 if Suriname were
active (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 2097.3-CW, April 21 at 0613, single-letter beacon A is
audible barely vs storm noise level (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report despatched at 1938 UT April 21
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/article.php?story=20200421201502125