** BRAZIL. 9664.943, Sept 27 at 0658, RVM, S6/S9 of music with always
good modulation but frequency slipping a bit again from 9665.000
nominalness (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 5025, Sept 27 at 0654, RHC in English! Rather than Radio
Rebelde. All real RHC frequencies are off: 5040, 6000, 6060, 6100,
6165. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 9965 & 9955, Sept 27 at 0701, pulse jamming against nothing
despite imminent hurricane hitting western Cuba. Quite different pulse
rates: faster on 9965, slower on 9955. WRMI is currently silent
overnight, but when on it would be deceased Brother HyStairical, never
exile programming nor anything in Spanish. 9965? That was a Radio
República via Costa Rica, gone for a decade or more. 9965 used by
Palau now but not before 0807/1250 and mostly weekends only, altho
`HBN` registered HFCC available 24/7/365! Something`s always
incredible at the incompetent DentroCuban Jamming Command (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA [and non]. 11760 & 15140, Sept 27 at 1526, NO signals direct
from the usual RHCs for midday, no doubt blown off by Hurricane Ian;
and still nil into Maryland SDR at 1840.
How about jammers around 1530? Cannot detect any on current Martí
frequencies, 11860, 11930, 13605. The 11s are not very strong anyway
and 11860 has fast SAH, presumably QRyeMen; 13605 so strong cannot be
certain no J now. One would expect some SW jamming to continue from
sites further east in The Greatest Antille, but winds aside, they
already have electricity supply problems. RM helpfully covers weather
warnings for Cuba. But at 1845, definite jamming on all three, 13605
worst, as heard by Maryland SDR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 11950, Sept 27 at 2305, the *only* RHC or Rebelde SW
frequency on air, quick check of all possible fundamentals 5.025 to
15.73 MHz into Maryland SDR. EiBi shows 11950 site Bauta, but so are
most of those missing. With hurricane info (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** EGYPT. 9439.994, Sept 27 at 2141, R. Cairo manages to be on air
today, S7/9+10 into Maryland SDR, but humwhine only, no programod. By
2159 some supressed music, 2200 timesignal 4+1 really cuts thru, news
theme, a grand march, but unreadable. Something`s always egregious at
Egypt (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** KIRITIMATI. 846 kHz, Sept 27 at 0702, cannot detect a JBA carrier
from R. Kiribati, local noise level is higher than usual. But Ron
Howard heard and recorded it at 0658 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** NIGERIA [and non]. 7255-, Sept 27 at 0652, VON is off. No signal
either at 1642 into Canary/Fuerteventura SDR. But at 1727 recheck VON
is on, concluding some listener contact show in English, minus 67 Hz =
7254.933, and dumps off air at 1729*, no longer impeding Tibet close
to 7255.000 nor huge splash from S9+10/20 7265 CRI Russian via Urumqi,
EAST TURKISTAN, std denunciation, 1730 clip-clops and historical
dramatization again; and during brief pause, English audible under,
which is BBC via MADAGASCAR, I daresay a horrible collision around
Africa. VON still off at 1827 check.
The studio staff at VON must be very demoralized, what sounds like
very well-produced programming being mistreated this way; OR, like so
many SW services, clueless about what happen to their product on the
way out to the world (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** SPAIN. 15520, Tuesday Sept 27 at 1457, still 1520, S5/S7 of dead
air direct from REE for the third? day in a row, no one noticing at
Noblejas? Geez. Still DA at 1832 check into Maryland SDR.
15520, Sept 27 at 1643, absolutely dead air at S9/+12 into Canary
SDR.
11670 is only other frequency on this early, 1644 in Arabic this
semihour M-F, with squeal, S8/9+12. To be followed by Russian
1700-1730 M-F despite azimuth 161 across Africa! No antenna toward
Russia. Each 200 kW frequency is stuck on a single angle, no matter
what the language or presumed `target`. Something`s always nonsensical
at Noblejas, messed up in Madrid. Wait a minute! 1700 into Brazilian
Portuguese, about Venezuelan migration, not in Russian. Would RR have
been on 15520 if modulated?
The language lineups in Aoki are not identical: 15520 with Spanish M-F
1500-1730; 11670 breaking away to Arabic & Russian M-F 1630-1730; and
never Portuguese on either.
How about EiBi? 11670 at 1630-1730 M-F in Arabic, Portuguese, no
Russian. 15520 differs: 1630-1700 M-F Arabic, but 1700-1730 depends on
DOW: M/W/F Russian, Tue Sephardic, Thu/Sat/Sun Spanish; no Portuguese
ever. This resembles WRTH 2022 sked for B-21 with 12030 & 11685
instead, and everything one real UT hour later since REE caves in to
stupid DST during A-season, inapplicable in many targets, but more
convenient in studio keeping times the ``same``.
But by 1715, 15520 still dead air, of course! and 11670 with that
annoying squeal. It`s equally bad on LSB and USB tuning, so part of
the DSB modulation. AMNarrow is not enough to escape it either. 15520
still DA, S3/S8 direct at 2021 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY. 9830.0027, Sept 27 at 2200, VOT opening English, VG today
S9/+30 into Maryland SDR, top news story: Tuerkiyeish Language Day
lauded by pres, Sweden should be rid of PKK, all the way until 2216
Review of Tuerkiyeish Press; 2219 Weekly Commentary to 2229 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2157 monitoring: confirmed UT
Tuesday September 27 at 0030 on WRMI 9395, S9+10/20 direct,
undermodulated.
Also confirmed Tuesday September 27 at 2230 on WRMI 9955, S9/+12 into
Maryland SDR, no jamming audible, wonder why? And still not at 2258
closing, but when Radio Libertad starts at 2300 with hurrican news,
there`s the jamming starting to build, but way under for Marylanders.
Next:
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
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** U S A. Sept 27 at 1830, all scheduled frequencies of WRMI are still
on the air into Maryland SDR: 21525, 15770, 9955, 9455, 9395, 7730;
mostly with Brother Scare, who assures us there were no dinosaurs, let
alone anything 10 megayears ago.
21525, Sept 27 at 2016, this WRMI, `Radio Africa` hits S9+10 during
`Healing Word` program; normal JBA carrier getting sporadic E boost.
Hurricane Ian plans to landfall Florida at Venice, then up the length
of the state, so WRMI won`t get a direct hit but high circumwinds may
well cause voluntary or involuntary absences, as may power outages.
Keep an ear on WRMI frequencies.
In a lengthy thread on the WOR iogroup about SW station expenses, Ken
Zichi suggests that WRMI might install lots of solar panels, and/or
wind power on all that farm/ranch property it occupies. However, I
think it`s not owned outright; hydro power not an option in flat Fla,
unlike it was for HCJB, and tsunamis, storm surges cannot be depended
upon, nor hurricane force winds. Now Jeff White just replied:
``Well, it’s a nice idea. Certainly electricity is our largest
expense. It would be nice if we could use solar power. But we have had
a number of companies visiting us over the years proposing such a
thing, and when they find out how much electricity we use, they
realize it’s useless. You would have to cover the whole square mile
with solar panels, and I don’t know if that would even be enough.
And we don’t own the property. We lease it, and our lease only permits
us to use a certain amount of area for the antennas. The rest of it is
for the owner’s cows to graze.
Like I said, it’s a great idea in theory. But there’s just no
substitute for electricity at this point. We could do like many if not
most other stations are already doing or planning — reduce power.
Most listeners wouldn’t even notice it. At the HFCC in Bulgaria in
August, everybody was talking about it. It would be a better
alternative than reducing the number of hours of transmissions. One
station in the US has just had to do this, and it’s a real shame.
Jeff`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 9940, Sept 27 at 0700, Scriptures for America ID on WTWW, -1
or -2? This late at night, MUF has diminished normally blasting signal
to weakish only S5/S9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 9330v, Sept 27 at 1454, 1501 and still 1639, 1834, NO signal
from WLCR/WBCQ SuperStition. Back on by 2140 check (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)
** VANUATU. 7890, 7932, 8620, Sept 27 at 0651, RV still absent from
previous harmonic spots. Also no 11835 or 11898 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)
This report dispatched at 2328 UT September 27
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