** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, August 26 at 1414: none in 15s, 14s, 13s
nor any higher than 12190, S4-S6; skipping 25m inband; 11440 S4-S6;
11100 S5-S7; skipping 31m inband; 9155 S7-S9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 13740, Aug 26 at 1411, RHC S9+20 but JBM during `Sonido
Cubano` music, while // 13700 is only S9+10 but fully modulated.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 13710, Aug 26 at 1411, M&W conversation in American
English, which means it must be CRI: yes, scheduled this hour only via
Kashgar, land of ChiCom persecuting Uighurs. I was expecting Sa`udi
Arabia but that`s not till later, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** FRANCE. 5970, Aug 26 at 1516, via UTwente SDR, marine weather in
French by OM, keeps talking about whiskey --- those sailors! British
DX Clubbers, who don`t need a remote, first reported this yesterday,
for another Atlantic yacht race, HFCC-registered ``for new
organisation`` at 1500-1600 on this and four other ISSoudun
frequencies, 6105, 13730, 15300 and 17800, but no signals there.
Available for entire A-20 season, mixture of 225, 255 and 250 degrees
and 100 or 250 kW, but 5970 is 255 degrees at 250 kW, to CIRAFs 27SW &
37NW which basically means the Bay of Biscay between France and Spain;
unneeded 17800 would go as far as CIRAF 81S = middle of North
Atlantic, into 11 = Caribbean.
Recheck at 1522, now marine weather by YL in English with considerable
French accent; SW and NW direxions are clarified by fonetix including
whiskey. 1524, ``that`s all for the weather`` and says will be no
broadcast tomorrow as most should have arrived at destination by then,
Azores? and ``Mission: Impossible`` theme. 1525.4 to dead air until
off at 1530.1*. However there is a trace of some other talk
modulation, QRM or Issoudun leakage? BBC Pashto via Oman is also sked,
but don`t hear it after ISS off. It seems the current race is only
along the coast of France; Azores curtailed:
http://lessables-lesacores.geovoile.com/2020/tracker/
https://www.classemini.com/course-fr-les-sables---les-acores-en-baie-de-morlaix-1.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** ITALY [non]. 7290, Wed Aug 26 at 1801, IRRS via Bulgaria via
UTwente, `Feature Story News` headlines, *then* 1802 IRRS Aïda theme
and sign-on, into `Life Matters`, anti-abortion show from California.
But also dealing the George Floyd case and BLM; somehow connecting the
murderous officer`s name to chauvinism and the godless French
Revolution. This is under the European Gospel Radio subset rather than
NEXUS-IBA or IPAR. Usual heavy splash from both 7280 and 7290 and the
warbling from 7291 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** KIRITIMATI. 846 kHz, Aug 26 at 0636 UT, JBA carrier from presumed
R. Kiribati, quite a regular now, and should be pullable well further
north and east of here. I don`t expect to get any audio, and for some
DXers that means they don`t care just to detect the carrier, no matter
how certain and obvious it may be (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 13710.014, Aug 26 at 1501, SBC Qur`an service has
taken over from CRI East Turkistan, q.v. Aoki shows the handover at
1457 as if closely coördinated despite SA no longer active in HFCC. By
1519 I check it via UTwente SDR, where there is an excellent S9+40
local-quality signal on AMSynch matching my measurement, and wideband
9 kHz does it justice. I keep the incomprehensible classical Arabic
beautiful music with lite reverb, artificially applied? Or really from
inside a mosque? going in background past 1715; occasional
interruptions for ID or brief spoken sermonizing like 1645-1648; and
longer talk-only after 1650; still Qur`aning at 1740 recheck; off at
1759, scheduled until 1757*. All violating Separation of Mosque and
State, ha2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** SPAIN. Re previous report of birdsong show on REE, 9690: later
found it in podcast archive from original broadcast last March under
title ``Las aves``:
``Radio 5 En clave de 5 --- Sábados a las 21.05 horas. En Radio
Exterior miércoles a las 11.05 UTC [NOT when I heard it]
En clave de 5 - Las aves - 21/03/20 21 mar 2020
Desde el comienzo de los tiempos el canto de las aves ha inspirado a
los compositores. Escucharemos ejemplos de Janequin, Rameau,
Rautaavara, Saint-Saëns, Messiaen y otros.
https://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/en-clave-de-5/2105-clave-cinco-140320-aves-2020-03-20t11-39-39197/5542672/
reproducir audio`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 400-MCW kHz, Aug 26 at 0648 UT, ND beacon AHQ, which is 25
watts from Wahoo, Nebraska.
417-MCW kHz, Aug 26 at 0651 UT, ND beacon IY, 25 watts from Charles
City, Iowa (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2048 monitoring, Next:
2100+UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5850 to NW [NEW][System F sked adds 5010 to S]
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** U S A. 4840, Aug 26 at 0632, this WWCR is S9+30 of dead air. 3215
with perpetual #1 squealing is S9+10/20 of BS.
5890 is also S9+10/20 but with double audio! BS plus some other talk
slightly lower, or seems so because BS is always screaming, maybe what
is supposed to be on 4840? Soon a Silver Solutions ad for ingesting
metal, not a good idea. Then resuming talkshow, name sounds like
Bosent Mopela?? But 0635 stops, leaving BS audio only. NO, program
sked shows after 0600 weekdays, TOMBS is supposed to be on all three.
Maybe intruder was from 1300 WNQM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** VANUATU. 11835, Aug 26 at 0625, Radio Vanuatu 3 x 3945 back to
normal, music at S3-S5; while 2 x = 7890 is S4-S5 but JBA (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 710.4, Aug 26 at 0637 UT, het upon the 710.0 stations,
not 711! So not Morocco, getting too late anyway for that. It`s strong
enough to DF on the hand-held altazimuth wrist-mounted DX-398 as
slightly clockwise from E-W, like 100/280 degrees which isn`t SE
enough for Cuba and not NE enough for Eurafrica, so likely an
off-frequency domestic, and certainly neither of my closest dominants,
KGNC and KCMO. So what else is near that axis? KFIA Carmichael CA, U4
25000/1000 i.e. Sacramento; WNTM Mobile AL, U2 1000/1000; two in GA,
one in SC, which cannot be ruled out despite being daytimers. Locals
near these areas please check for offfrequenciness; apparently
intermittent, as not audible a bit later at 0651 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)
This report dispatched at 1820 UT August 26
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/article.php?story=20200826191502625