** BRAZIL. 28409 USB, April 8 at 2128, PT9SS calling CQ DX, only S3
about equal to noise level and one of only two or three signals
audible on 10m TE. QRZ.com with some photos:
PT9SS Brazil flag Brazil
Sandro Rodrigues Pereira (SAN)
Viela José Daniel, 1971
Jardim Cangalha cep 79604-214 Tres Lagoas, MS
Brazil
His fonetix are ``papa tango nine sugar sugar`` --- look, the proper S
going with those P and T is sierra! So many hams mix up their fonetix
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** OKLAHOMA. 1430 kHz, April 8 at 2105 UT on caradio in Enid I am
finally checking out KALV, in the occasional spots where the powerline
and stoplight noise abates a bit. Two weak signals but the dominant is
country music, not sports or talk, making a SAH of about 5 Hz. By 2127
I`m on home rig with similar reception, slightly better on N/S
internal shortwire: ``Hometown radio station Stereo 1430, KALV; tell a
friend``. No mention of FM; they had a translator on 99.5.
FCC info in NRC DX News as of April 4 reported:
``KALV OK Alva – Granted STA, U1 60/60 (maybe using D1 60), wildfire
damage.``
Its licensed parameters are U4 500 500 psra 500 per NRC AM Log.
Among all the wildfires around OK, I missed hearing about KALV when it
happened, but searching on wildfire Alva leads right to several
versions of March 21-22, including:
https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-wildfire-alva-destroys-radio-station/39495071
Own website does not load properly
https://kalvradio.com/?page_id=72
But coverage maps are also at
https://radio-locator.com/info/KALV-AM
Day pattern is slightly pulled in from the east, presumably to protect
sportstalk KTBZ Tulsa but which is more like ESE, and Enid is more
like SE --- but KALV has never had much of a signal in Enid. Distance
is only 70 km = 43 statute miles.
Night pattern quite different, very pulled in from the NE, presumably
to protect St Louis, the 50/5 kW station whose license was canceled
two years ago and which I think is no longer on the air, most of the
KALV night signal broadly from NW to SW to SE.
So the question is, are KALV still running only 60 watts STA? That
much non-direxional might be better here than the old higher-power
direxional facility. What kind of antenna now? Stations under duress
sometimes even use longwires to transmit. Or maybe the towers survived
unlike the transmitter (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)
** UKRAINE [non]. 7730, Sat April 9 at 0500.6-0507.6, UR1 via WRMI
with now reliable English segment `Ukraine: Security Issues` leading
of course with the RuSSian airstrike on the train platform killing
many; VG S9+15 into Maryland remote (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [non]. 15580, April 8 at 2133, S3-S8 of VOA presumably `Music
Time in Africa` scheduled Fridays at 2105 tho the DJockesse has been
unaware of this airing; Via BOTSWANA, 100 kW at 350 degrees. And not
perceptibly off-frequency. The best we can do in A-seasons, lacking GB
11720 in B-seasons this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2133 monitoring: confirmed just in
time at 0158 UT Sat April 9 the 0130 on WRMI 9395, S5/S6 into UTwente
which I happen to have running after Ukraine check at 0000 on 1386.
Also confirmed UT Sat April 9 at 0400 on R Angela via WBCQ 4790, S9+15
into Maryland SDR.
Once again there are uteblaaps QRMing, and I time them occurring on a
regular schedule other than exactly 4:00 minutes apart as last time.
Now there are two different cycles each exactly 3:00 minutes apart:
one at top of minutes 0415, 0418, 0424, 0427; and another at about :45
seconds past these minutes: 0416, 0419, 0425, 0428. (Assume I missed
the ones at 0421, 0422+.) I leave the same remote running after WBCQ
off at 0430* --- and no more blaaps! I had always assumed this was
some kind of external QRM, but now I am forced to wonder if they were
also coming out of a defective 4790 WBCQ transmitter? OR, if external,
they were not coincidental, accidental, but deliberately to annoy ---
hardly jam --- WBCQ? I have not been paying much attn to the SDR
waterfalls, but I do spot some rectangles a few kHz above and below
4790 line which could represent the blaaps. But there is no time
calibration on vertical scale of the H2Ofalls. Curious. Next:
0700 UT Saturday Unique R, Australia 5035-USB or 3210-USB [new]
1930 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0430]
1324vUT Sunday WMRI Europe via Ch 292 Germany 9670
2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323-Italy
2230 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 to NNW [to be canceled? still Apr 3]
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW
0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to WNW
2230 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed]
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, Australia 5035-USB or 3210-USB [new]
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to WNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S; 9395 to NNW
Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
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** U S A. (7490v), UT Sat April 9 at 0000, WBCQ webcast with `AAAWWW`.
Gives date right at the start! So we know it`s new, altho with same
old far-right rants. Angela`s mike is on already this week. Angela has
been picking up tix out horseback-riding, so Allan grooms her body?
Plugs great Trump rallies every Saturday: Trump has got to come back
``to fix everything`` --- they axually believe that. Both require
reading glasses, where are they? Allan is a Man of Science: believes
in vax, not in max. Two print mags he has subscribed since highschool
are Star & Telescope, and Scientific American. Fast fwd:
By 0030 he`s amid James Careless` Radio World article about BBC at 90.
Approves of Elon Musk who has bought controlling interest in Twitter,
so will promote Free Speech. ? I thought it was less than controlling
interest? 0038 Allan remarx that the Russians are jamming Ukrainian
broadcasts. Really? Capture and/or destroy transmitters like 549 kHz,
but jamming?? Uncle Bill`s comments about radio being a medium which
bonds with listeners, unlike internet. 0048 datestamp as 8th of April
YOOLF 2022, presumably trimulcasting u.o.s. Next month will be doing a
lot of transmitter work, both SuperStition and Classic; also needs to
get 2 MW generator hooked up. 0056 decrying perceived ``war on
gender`` -- there are only two and you are stuck with however you were
born. 0100 prayer; 0101 JIP Hal Turner late as always (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 0527 UT April 9
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/article.php?story=20220409061502638