** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-CUSB, Sat Sept 26 at 1526, LRA36 is underway
with chat mostly by two YLs, S6-S8 at Brasil SDR, mentioning LRA-4 in
Santa Fe - I thought they said, but that`s in Salta on 690. In WRTH
you have to hunt thru the entire MW frequency list since the LRAs are
mixed in with the non-governmentals. Fortunately this one is in
lowband. Anyhow, altho Antarctica occasionally mentioned, it`s all
about Argentina instead. Abruptly interrupted by local neighborhood
power failure at 1542 until 1707. By 1735 they are still gabbing, 1803
a song. 1902 the Brazilians are busy, a trace of music at Buenos Aires
and Santiago. Latest info about this broadcast per Manuel Mendez was
15-20 in Spanish, preceded and followed by a semihour in German, no
English (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** MALI. 5995, Sept 26 at 0619, no signal from RTM at a time it is
normally heard; could be due to K index of 5 as WWV reported:
``Solar-terrestrial indices for 25 September follow.
Solar flux 73 and estimated planetary A-index 20.
The estimated planetary K-index at 0600 UTC on 26 September was 5.
Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level occurred.``
6005, BBC Ascension, however is still audible weakly as usual (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. Re: Oversight of the United States Agency for Global Media
and U.S. International Broadcasting Efforts
Glenn: Here is a link to the hearing:
https://youtu.be/Xi7BsQa8NaU
(via Charles Harlich)
We asked for it - O, o, it`s 3 hours and 9 minutes. Now even the
HOROTUS is using YouTube. Cue in 4:40 when Chairman Engel explains
what is going on, next 5 minutes, how Pack weaseled out of his
commitment to testify ... (Glenn) viz.:
``Oversight of the United States Agency for Global Media and U.S.
International Broadcasting Efforts
1,121 views •Streamed live on Sep 24, 2020
House Foreign Affairs Committee
4.27K subscribers --- Location:
2172 Rayburn House Office Building and virtually via Cisco WebEx
WITNESSES:
The Honorable Michael Pack (subpoenaed)
Chief Executive Officer
United States Agency for Global Media
{what about Panel I?}
Panel II
The Honorable Karen Kornbluh
Chair of the Board of Directors Open Technology Fund (Former U.S.
Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development)
Ms. Amanda Bennett
Former Director of the Voice of America
Mr. Jamie Fly
Former President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Mr. Grant Turner
Chief Financial Officer
U.S. Agency for Global Media
The Honorable Ryan Crocker
Board Member
Open Technology Fund
(Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait,
and Lebanon)`` (Glenn Hauser, WOR iog)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2053 monitoring: confirmed UT
Saturday Sept 26 at 0130 on WRMI 7780 only, S9/+15 at Maine SDR, noisy
S8-S9 at UTwente. Follows 0129.5 ID by Ian McFarland, and then Bob
Zanotti tries to too, but is chopped off after only his name. I think
this happens every week to this broadcast, programmed as such into
automation; not my doing! 0140 check here, 7780 is S9+10 but
undermodulated.
ZZZ, I miss checking the nexts, Sat 1130 on WRMI 9955, 1300 on 15770;
did anyone hear them? Next:
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM [confirmed starting at 1940]
2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400]
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 61 to WSW
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 to SSE
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, for a generous quarterly seasonal check on a US
bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702
Financial support may alternatively be sent via PayPal to
woradio at yahoo.com - not necessarily US funds as PP will convert.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 5072.0 & 5098.0 approx., Sept 26 at 0147, the very weak spur
carrier parasites to 5085 WTWW-2 are back after having been inaudible
the last time I checked, different transmitter? While 5085 is now
S9+30/40. Still on and there at 0623 when I measure them exactly:
5071.990 and 5098.013 which imply the fundamental be at 5085.0015 or
so but not measured directly. The spurs used to be close to 12.9 kHz
plus and minus rather than 13.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 4840, Sept 26 at 0627, WWCR-3 not in dead air for a change,
as it had been the last few nights after 0600; but unID gospel huxter
other than TOMBS who is still on 3215 & 5890. Last few days WWCR`s pdf
program guide has refused to load below WWCR-1. Now I get the xls
version which shows at 0600 on Saturday it`s supposed to be `Worldwide
Country Radio`. Despite this note on the homepage: ``ALL WWCR streams
and transmitters are back on schedule! We appreciate our patient and
loyal listeners.`` Really? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 17775-, Sat Sept 26 at 1500, JJBBA carrier from KVOH when
`Wavescan` is supposed to be getting its first airing of the week
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. Big tropo opening east of here across Arkansas per maps tho
as usual we are on the edge. Enough to knock out some OKC DTV signals
by DX QRM, and show a few Bad signals on open channels but none
decoding, Sept 26 circa 1515 UT. Local power failure at 1542 so I
switch to portable FM on the DX-398. Tulsans are in solid.
99.1 at 1619, ad for Honda of Russellville, i.e.. Arkansas, and more
ads for Fort Smith, ``KMAG 99.1, number one for New Country``, i.e.
Fort Smith, still atop Mount MAGazine? --- hey that would be a great
place to exile Drumpf. 600 meters HAAT which isn`t that much but more
than most in these lowlands.
102.1, Sept 26 at 1623, ``102-1, The Bull, #1 FM New Country,``
Wichita. Really, KZSN, 100/100 kW from Hutchinson KS. Right adjacent,
101.9 KTST OKC, ``The Twister`` also brands itself ``#1 New Country``.
Must be a thing.
90.1, Sept 26 at 1627 UT, both KUCO OK and KHCC KS are overcome by
``Ministry 8 days of hope`` --- that matches the AFR schedule, so KBNV
Fayetteville AR, 7.1/16.0 H/V kW.
92.1, Sept 26 at 1629, also earlier, stupid sports talk, which fits
for another Fayetteville AR, KQSM-FM, 7.6/7.6 kW. Not bad overcoming
the Okies such as KTBT Broken Arrow in the way, not the source of some
C&W CCI (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Sept 26 at 0628:
621, 684, 711, 747, 837, 936, 1188. 1188 is interesting, normally with
nothing. Per WRTH nothing but superpowers in Hungary and Iran; and
Down Under, no more than 2 kW from Australia. No TP carrier from 846,
however. Otherwise correlate with lower latitude NW Africa and Spain
only, with K index of 5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 12302-USB, Sept 26 at 1503 yet another colloquial
Spanish 2-way, with ``engine noise``. These contacts always know each
other and may use nicknames, but never any proper IDs; informal
arrangements? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 1944 UT September 26
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