** AUSTRALIA. 11945, March 18 at 1350, VG S9/+10 discussion about word
games improving cognition, seems reasonable but winds up invoking
Jesus. Of course it`s RBA with the Ozish accents, closing before 1400*
ID and to resume at 1330 tomorrow for India -- way offbeam over here
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA [and non]. 6165, March 18 at 0611, RHC English is back here,
but about equal level to Arabic! which is NHK via FRANCE at 0600-0630,
adding up to S9+20. But RHC English in the clear on 6060, 6100.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** IRAN [non]. 5910, Friday March 18 at 1730 another check for the
weekly Channel 1 TV audio clandestine from Canoga Park, believed via
Uzbekistan: into UTwente, no signal promptly but carrier with hum on
at *1730:28, S9/+10 and cut on modulation bit of music at 1732:07,
soon YL talk in presumed Farsi; may have mentioned ``megahertz``? Like
last week, not only starts late but ends late, running past 1800 until
1802 cut mod, 1802:15* cut carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** ITALY [and non]. 7290, Friday March 18 at 1900:49, IRRS modulation
starts on Bulgacarrier already on, rock music which must be Radio City
as expected pre-empting other programming on 3rd Friday of month
including WOR at 1915; occasional hyper DJ such as at 1910. Usual ACI
from 7295 ChiCom.
1323 kHz, AM Italia, Villa Estense with same instead of WOR but heavy
CCI from Romania`s ethnic German minority service also playing music
at 1906 March 18; as heard by Noale SDR near AM Italia (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)
** OKLAHOMA. 350 MCW kHz, March 18 at 0623 UT, cannot copy any ID from
RG, 400 watt NDB at Will RoGers World Airport, OKC, just the carrier,
unusual. This one has persisted while PN, EI and SW are AWOL, tho PN
just came back, q.v. RG ID is there at 1817 UT (Glenn Hauser, Enid,
WOR)
** OKLAHOMA. 515 MCW kHz, March 18 at 0620 UT, 25-watt ND beacon PN at
PoNca City is finally resuscitated! Had been silent since February 23.
Also still on at 1811 check (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) See U S A
** RUSSIA [non]. 9370, March 18 at 1903, R. Svoboda probably via
Armenia, but with quite a racket QRM - jamming or feed or transmission
or local QRM to UTwente SDR or SDR own problem? I then check 9370 via
Izhevsk, Russia SDR and find it clear! 1905 R. Svoboda ID and English
blurt ``murderous dictator``. If it be deliberate jamming, by skip
zone it`s bad in Holland but not at all in that part of Russia! (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** SPAIN. 9690, Friday March 18 at 2300, REE English succeeds today,
VG, and almost as good on 11940, 12030 into Maryland SDR; even 11685
is sufficient with slight RTTY QRM. In A-22 from March 27, 17855
replaces 9690 with quite different propagation, 15520 ex-12030. 2309
today`s feature is about the ILO and COVID, seems a rerun (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY [and non]. 5960, March 18 at 2300, VOT English to us is
absent today, no signal even unto UTwente, nor at 2324 check when
nothing but EAST TURKISTAN, XJPBS Xinjiang in Chinese, land of ChiCom
imperialist genocide against Uyghurs and other Moslems.
6125, however, next broadcast is poorly audible at 0440 March 19, hum
and undermodulated thin-voiced YL, music, into Ohio SDR (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)
** UKRAINE [non]. 7780, March 19 at 0508 tune-in, Ukrainian Radio hour
via WRMI is in English with very rapid news summary until 0510 back to
UU. Is it safe to assume there will not be another English segment
later in hour? Need to catch it from 0500 opening whether English
start immediately, VG S9+15 into Ohio SDR I still have running
conveniently while at the computer completing this lengthy report
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 407 MCW kHz, March 18 at 0621, HRU, 25-watt ND beacon at
Herington KS is finally copiable vs slightly diminished local
neighborhood high noise level. For weeks could only detect the carrier
of one of my closer day & night signals, altho the storm noise level
is higher, maybe an inverse relationship? Also at 1813 JBA. Noise
peaking circa 395 kHz altho slightly diminished, not enough to
audiblize two other KS beacons (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 18155.9 USB, March 18 at 1819, W1AW, the ARRL station in
Newington CT operated by Nick making contacts, slightly off-frequency
- or no such thing within hambands, but odd (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2130 monitoring: since the UT
Friday 0130 broadcast has been canceled by WRMI, first airing is now
0330 UT Friday on 5985, which just signs on at that bottom-of-the-hour
time; in the run-up announced repeatedly as ``top-of-the-hour`` by the
clueless BBB. Unfortunately aimed south, March 18 as usual VP here.
Best signal should be grabbed in Colombia but no active Kiwis there
now, let alone Bonaire. Boca Ratón FL is too far for groundwave, too
close for skywave. Other Caribbean, S American sites are not getting
listenable signal if any, nor even Maryland. Best results are directly
off the back at a reasonable distance to Athens GA S8-S9 with fading
but less noise than stronger Knoxville TN S9+10. They all need USB or
AM-narrow to avoid Cuban jamming bleed from 5980.
9955, now with DST, WOR is to resume on WRMI at 1430 Friday --- but
it`s off the air! Confirmed anyway on webcast. Still off at 1809
check, unknown when resumed but going circa 2300.
Also confirmed UT Saturday March 19 at shifted time of 0130 on WRMI
9395, S9+20 into Maryland SDR, but fading way down by 0157 check.
Also confirmed UT Saturday March 19 from 0359.8 on R. Angela WBCQ
4790. This time I`ve settled on the WB8CXO remote in Ohio, S9/+10 and
not too much whine except in fades, no CODAR, but sporadic uteblaaps.
Next:
1930 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE [NEW]
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7730 to WNW [but 7730 down until Tuesday]
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0430]
1330 UT Sunday WMRI Europe via Ch 292 Germany 9670
2100 UT Sunday IRRS 1323-Italy
2230 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 to NNW
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW [but 7730 down until Tuesday]
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW
0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to NNW
2230 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed?]
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
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** U S A. (7490v), UT Sat Mar 19 at 0000, new hour-earlier time for
`AAAWWW` on WBCQ webcast, SW not even checked. Not a repeat. Mostly
monolog by Allan: first arguing with Angela over whether her mike be
on. Temp today was 90F, now just heard some thunder with lightning
[yes, Blitzortung shows storm line right over FL]. ``Radio strikes
back`` against the ills of the age. Some dickhead has been jamming
7490 during Hal Turner, says has had jamming before, which is close to
being treason, punishable by death.
We are now in Cold War 2.0. SW stations are becoming more important.
Could Classic BCQ broadcast to Russia, Ukraine? Not really with
antennas for N America. SuperStition could do it but not sure whether
WLC is going to. Needs to upgrade other transmitters to 100 kW, and
has started a gofundme. Still charges same rates as when signed on in
1998 since most programmers could not afford the real cost. Will add
more programs before/after the Radio Angela 2-hour block on 4790. See
website for schedule of that [NO, it is still not on there, as I
check:
http://wbcq.com/schedule/index.php?fn=sked&freq=4790
which still shows nothing but Dead Brother Scare!]
Bill Tilford also tells him that, so Allan calls for Larry Will,
webmaster, to get with it. Apparently Allan doesn`t inspect his own
website very often. Allan says he is ``always upfront, doesn`t hold
anything back``, e.g. from the winter cold in Maine he ``almost died``
which is why they operate remotely from Deland of Fla, depending on
their great staff back in Maine. A&A hold a daily lunch-hour Soviet on
the porch to discuss station and marital issues, recommended.
`BCQ should be around for years; it`s totally owned by A&A, debt- and
mortgage-free. Their cellphones are on 24/7 like the broadcast
business in case there is an emergency.
0043 finally datestamp as 18th of March YOOLF 2022, from Studio 9
where it`s 78 degrees, humidity 70% and rising, and 0044 introduces
`Angela`s Angle`, for her own commentary/rant -- but she is not
prepared to render it. They had a great St Patrick`s party last night
at a neighbor`s, best corned beef he had ever had, breaking his mostly
vegetarian diet.
Fishing around for reading glasses which both of them need; to refer
to a Radio World article by Rick Wagner about a Denon TU68? radio from
the 90s which had CQUAM AM stereo; and how great AM sound can be if
bandwidth allowed up to 9 kHz rather than 3. That might give AM radio
a new lease on life. At BCQ they push the AM bandwidth on SW as far as
they can with the 5 kHz limit.
0054 to email. Goal is to raise $ 10 million in order to buy and
preserve operational some other SW facilities [not including WHRI, I
assume]. Ultimately maybe an endowment, privately owned, NOT
governmental. Guess what: someone else tells him the donate button on
website does not work either, nor does it yet show gofundme. Larry?
0059 prayer; running late again, joining Hal Turner when he has
already started at 0101 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 15770, March 18 at 1902, quick check of WRMI via UTwente:
poor but in English, presumably still back with R. Prague after
Wednesday-only test of RFPI in Russian. But that`s now on the RFPI
skedgrid as Wed only rather than daily at 1900-1930 on 15770 within
the otherwise mostly-9955, blue-green System B sked! RFPI already has
several 1-hour blox, presumably French, but the only 15 minute one, UT
Fri 0145-0200 blowing away the first airing of WOR, is now suffixed UA
- meaning UkrAine? Altho we thought it was in Rusky Yazik (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. On that `CBS4` Miami interview about WRMI, Jeff White said
they have fourteen 100-kW transmitters. However, WRTH 2022 shows 12 x
100 kW, and 1 x 50 kW. There are never 14 transmitters on the air at
once per the skedgrid; but all are running for at least a few hours.
In past one or two have been totally `standby`. The most active hours
are 00-02 with twelve frequencies running; all other hours have eleven
or less.
Another oddity at Okeechobee: 9395 & 9455 are allegedly both 100 kW
and same azimuth 355. But comparing them on remotes such as Maryland
at 0130 March 18, 9395 is *much* stronger, S9+20 while 9455 is JBA
S6-S7 and barely makes a trace on the waterfall (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)
** U S A. 5085, March 18 at 0614, WTWW-2 is S9+20/30 of dead air, or a
trace of modulation, and some hum; and the JBA parasitic spur carriers
circa 5072 & 5098. Ted offdozed? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 4840, March 18 at 0617, S9+30 of dead air from WWCR,
competing for the Tennessee DA Sweepstakes with 5085 WTWW. But the
other three WWCRs are nominally modulating, 3215, 5890, 5935. No one
paying attention at 1300 WWCR Ave, yay! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 333 MCW kHz, March 18 at 0624 UT, JBA beacon, second
letter V, and the first seems like 6. At DXinfocentre no fits and
nothing at all on 334, but could really be 335 as I am tuning USB: BV
in Batesville AR would be a close fit, 25 watts heard before; also CV,
Clovis NM, 25W (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 0518 UT March 19
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