** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RC USB, Wed Oct 12, best Argentine remote is
back, no signal yet from 1435 tune-in. LRA36 cuts on S7/S9 during song
at *1443.8, better than via Montevideo. Music thru hourtop 1500; 1502
finally canned sign-on, multi-lingual including English that this will
be in Spanish, concluding with what sounds like a mashup of Russian
and Korean; staff names, ``Nacional, la Radio Pública``; 1503.5
themesong; 1507 recitation, song; 1513 ``live`` YL chat on the 25th
program of the season; about kids in school; 1517 weather but hard to
copy: temp 7 degrees, menos? 9 degrees also mentioned, winds from
south, 97? kph, with harp music background; 1519 phones and other
contact info; 1520 says Wed broadcast repeats on Fri & Sat --- always
or this week? Also a special broadcast on Thursday as it`s the
anniversary of LRA36 --- this week only? 1522 song; 1526.6, ``Radio
Arcángel San Gabriel`` ID, ``su compañía``; YLs talking more about the
kids in school #38; on Friday got a greeting from astronaut on ISS;
1535 This Week in History starting with something in 1820y; 1540 song;
1542 about Race Day Oct 12 = Día de la Raza, cultural diversity; 1550
male voice guest; constant musical background, which I consider a
crutch by speakers who think their own voices alone would be too
boring, but also amounts to self-QRM as at 1603 the music is singing;
1613 to song only; 1616 repeat the ID with staff, which is the defacto
sign-off as well as -on, and off? No, pause, a couple more notes of
music and then gone at 1617*. LRA36ers have never learned how to do
proper smooth signs-on-and-off (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** BRAZIL. 28270.5 CW, Oct 11 at 2306, VVV PY4MAB ... dash, only
beacon on band, and maybe my first from Brasil: 28.2705 PY4MAB C POÇOS
DE CALDAS BRAZIL 10W VERTICAL coordinated 2 Dec 2021 --- It`s JBA and
fading, not sure of all the letters after the number, but only this
one fits on the WI5V roster. PdC, a spa city in Minas Gerais, is 8418
km = 5231 miles from Enid by great circle, not bad for 1 dekawatt =
523.1 mi/W; considerably closer thru the earth. A bit further really
via ionosphere above the surface; QRZ.com:
PY4MAB Brazil flag Brazil
MAURICIO BERALDO
LUIZ ZANGIACOMI 145
POCOS DE CALDAS MG ZIP CODE 37704-274, MG
Brazil
``- I have a Radio Beacon on the frequency of 28.270.5 CW, 24 hours a
day, vertical antenna, 10 watts of power. In 2020 it will be 10 years
since Beacon is on the air. Whoever receives the signals and sends me
a confirmation by letter I will respond to everyone and send a special
QSL card from my city.``
Huge gallery of equipment, the city, wildlife, but hardly any humans:
https://www.qrz.com/db/PY4MAB
I soon also have a PY on 10m phone:
28425 USB, Oct 11 at 2310, PY5HO contacting unheard VE3JAR; QRZ.com:
PY5HO Brazil flag Brazil
ADILSON JANKE
RUA VENEZUELA 286
CURITIBA - PARANÁ CEP 82510-100
Brazil
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CANADA [and non]. 28483 USB, Oct 11 at 2312, VE9XX with ZL1WN, both
with good signals here. ZL says VE is 100 watts from dipole in his
attic.
VE9XX Canada flag Canada
Donald Gerard Whitty
936 Route 315
Dunlop, NB E8K 2M7
Canada
Not clear why he keeps a 9 call in a #1 call area. More unique? And:
ZL1WN New Zealand flag New Zealand
ROSS BIGGAR
210 Oroua Rd, R D 5
Palmerston North 4475
New Zealand
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CHINA. 13130 and weaker 13020, Oct 12 at 1358, CNR1 jammers against
SOH until TS 1400*. Also suspicious open carrier on 13190 which stays
on. 13190 had seemed to replace another jammer on 13170 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)
** EGYPT. 9439.995, Oct 12 at 2203, R. Cairo is on at S9+40 into
UTwente, but usual horrible distortion in presumed English. Let`s try
Turkey. Something`s always egregious in Egypt (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** KIRITIMATI. 846, Oct 12 at 0635, can`t detect a JBA carrier here
from R. Kiribati; but despite being Wednesday, Gary Pence reports:
``Hi Glenn, 846 kHz heard at 0602z peaking S8 with audio heard in AM
narrow and shown in the waterfall with periods of deep fade also on
NM7A SDR Deer Harbor, WA. And Smeter.net SDR in Newport, Oregon. 73,
Gary`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** NIGERIA. 7255-, Oct 12 at 0623 direct, VON at S9+10/15 of dead air,
or maybe a trace of modulation.
7255-, Oct 12 at 1728, JBA signal into Canary SDR at S9/+10 including
storm crashes from Morocco, western Algeria, but mainly squeal vs
undermodulation, and offset -67 Hz signature so really VON 7254.933,
but totally unusable. Ditto still at 1850 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** OKLAHOMA. 515 MCW kHz, Oct 11 at 2316 UT, PN, ND beacon is back on
again from PoNca City. Had been off whenever checked since Oct 7 and
still off earlier today; so sporadic (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** OKLAHOMA. Governor vetoed funding for emergency rural warnings
via OETA:
``PBS WARN
https://www.oeta.tv/about/warn/
OETA and our infrastructure across the state plays a crucial role in
protecting Oklahoma communities by ensuring uninterrupted distribution
of Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEAs), including severe weather warnings
and AMBER alerts to every corner of the state. This service is part of
public television’s commitment to strengthening the safety of all our
communities.
PBS WARN (Warning, Alert, Response Network) uses OETA’s unique reach,
reliability, and local connections across the state of Oklahoma to
provide a vital backup path for the WEA system, which allows local,
state and national government agencies (like FEMA) to instantly send
short message warnings from geo-targeted cell phone towers directly to
a nearby user's mobile device.
If a cybersecurity incident or internet disruption to a carrier
facility breaks its primary connection to FEMA, PBS WARN provides an
immediate alternate source of inbound WEA messages.
See PBS WARN in action! The map below shows all active WEAs in the US,
which WARN is broadcasting in real time.``
{also: OETA coverage map from 18 antennas}
``Special Notice {with embedded linx}
https://www.oeta.tv/
On October 5th, we were disappointed to learn that House Bill 1009
was vetoed. This bill was authored to appropriate a reasonable portion
of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to allow Oklahoma
Educational Television Authority (OETA) to make essential
infrastructure upgrades to maintain and enhance datacasting, emergency
alerting communications and broadcasting capabilities to all
seventy-seven counties in Oklahoma. HB1009 represents many months of
planning and bi-partisan cooperation to ensure the longevity of vital
statewide infrastructure and the safety and security of Oklahomans
across our great state, especially in rural communities. Our hope is
that legislative leadership will soon come together once more to
address this action. We are grateful for our many supporters who have
reached out to us and we will continue to pursue our mission of
providing essential educational content and services that inform,
inspire, and connect Oklahomans to ideas and information that enrich
their quality of life.``
Enid News & Eagle:
``Governor's veto of funding for rural Oklahoma upsets lawmakers
Janelle Stecklein | CNHI Oklahoma Oct 6, 2022
OKLAHOMA CITY — Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed two bills designed to increase
emergency response infrastructure.
Stitt said “the long-term, strategic value” of the appropriations had
not been clearly established, but one lawmaker said Thursday it
amounts to a declaration that he does care about emergencies in rural
Oklahoma.
Stitt vetoed three legislative American Rescue Plan Act funding
priorities, catching some legislators and Oklahomans off guard. Those
vetoes included:
• $ 6 million to build nine regionally located emergency operations
centers across the state.
• $ 8.19 million so the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority
(OETA) could make necessary upgrades to its emergency alerting
communications.
• $ 10 million to Oklahoma Arts Council to distribute to struggling
nonprofits negatively impacted by the pandemic.
Legislative leaders hadn’t decided by late Thursday afternoon if they
would return to special session next week to try to override the
vetoes. They have until Oct. 14 to return.
In the case of OETA’s veto, Stitt wrote that it is “preferable that
these funds be used for infrastructure and water projects and
long-term strategic investments that will change the trajectory of our
state.”
He did sign over a dozen other bills approving the expenditures of
over a $ 1 billion in both federal ARPA money and state Progressing
Rural Economic Prosperity funding. Measures approved include broadband
expansion funding, economic and workforce development, investments in
mental health and improving healthcare access.
“It is my hope that these one-time funds will help us move the needle
in integral areas like improving crumbling infrastructure, addressing
the opioid epidemic, and expanding broadband services across Oklahoma
to get us closer to becoming a Top 10 state,” Stitt said in a
statement.
But state Rep. Logan Phillips, R-Mounds, said Stitt’s decision to veto
infrastructure upgrades to two of the biggest systems that help rural
Oklahomans during times of emergency came as an “absolute surprise.”
He said it followed a year of public meetings in which Stitt’s office
gave “zero input.”
Phillips said he’s concerned about Stitt’s decision to veto OETA’s
funding. In addition to providing public television statewide,
lawmakers have tasked the public station with operating the state’s
emergency warning systems. With no statewide cell phone network, it’s
OETA that coordinates with cell phone providers to warn rural
Oklahomans of pending tornadoes and flash flooding threats, wildfire
evacuations and issue missing children and elderly alerts.
The specialized system, which has been in place for 40 years, hasn’t
seen many upgrades, yet OETA towers are about the only system that
reaches the entire state.
A rural lawmaker, Phillips said Oklahoma has seen 400,000 acres of
land burn in the last eight years from wildfires.
“We’ve had a global pandemic. We’ve had massive tornados. We’ve had
earthquakes, freezes, fires and floods that have taken the land and
life of Oklahomans,” he said. “This is the system that rural
Oklahomans depend on to get warnings those events are happening.”
He said the nine emergency management centers would have served as
coordinating points when rural communities need people or supplies on
the ground during times of emergency.
“And the governor wholeheartedly said he does not care about
emergencies in rural Oklahoma,” Phillips said of Stitt’s vetoes.
Phillips is urging his colleagues to return to special next week to
override Stitt’s vetoes. He said he’s made his opinion known that the
vetoes are not OK and endanger Oklahomans. But he said it’s possible
that legislative leadership might not return and instead try to find
another workaround outside of the executive branch to get Oklahomans
what they need.
State Rep. Kyle Hilbert, R-Bristow, who oversaw the ARPA expenditure
efforts for the state House, said the three measures were good bills.
If lawmakers don’t come back, they could reconsider them in February.
But he said a new Legislature will be seated by February, so the
future of the proposals is unclear.
Still, Hilbert said there’s a need to replace OETA transmitters and
take care of the state assets, but said there may need to be a larger
conversation about infrastructure around towers with the departments
of public safety and transportation, too.
He said Thursday morning, just before Stitt publicly announced the
vetoes, two rural community theaters reached out interested in
receiving grants for their facilities.
He told them that bill just got vetoed and it’s no longer an option..
“I know there’s a desire for that as well because those facilities
certainly took a hit from the pandemic,” Hilbert said.``
(via Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)
** SPAIN. 17855, Wed Oct 12 at 2208, token English from REE/SNR
appropriately marks ``Día de la Hispanidad`` for which there have been
various celebrations the past week = Columbus Day, or in some
countries contrarily, ``El Día de la Raza``, leading into interview
with a novelist, Ricardo Fernández González.
This time NAm`s 17855 is still best at S9/+15 but with slight
modulation distortion; SAm 11940 at S9/+8; ME 15520 at S7/S9 noisy; Af
11670 S6/S8 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** SRI LANKA [and non]. 11905, Oct 12 at 0030-0036, no signal direct
from SLBC. I used to listen to this a lot a few years ago on a
somewhat different schedule, never knowing exactly when it would flip
on after 0100. Back then probably not the Trincomalee site. It is
being reported in North America lately at 0030-0100 when it`s Bengali
or Hindi. Trans-polar from here, so a difficult path, K index now 2,
after R1 blackouts the past 24 hours, so just not propagating? By 0040
I`m trying the three KiwiSDRs in India, and none of them are getting
even a carrier either, but plenty of noise. So SLBC must not be on air
this morning. There`s another Hindi broadcast scheduled at 0200-0230:
at 0208, two/thirds of them get a JBA carrier, surely still
insufficient for SLBC, rather CNR6 from Beijing site scheduled after
0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY. 9830.021, Oct 12 at 2203, VOT English manages to be on but
with that awful squeal. Pass, over to Spain. Something`s always
erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2159 monitoring: ``From: Richard
Lemke, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada, the desk of Richard’s listening
Post, Radio: JRC NRD-535 HF, Antenna: random long wires in the trees,
Dear Glenn: World of Radio, monitoring and confirming the latest for
#2159, 9395 kHz and 5950 kHz only heard until the antenna farm can be
fixed up, Hurricane Ian, Hope to hear soon 5850 kHz, 1030 UT Wed. Oct
10, 2022 happy turkey day to the Canadians, WRMI:
5950, fading, solar wind noticed, 0030, 0044, 0058 (45433), (45333),
0059, Oct 10 UTC 2022 [Mon]
9395, QRN, 2330, jingle, 2345, 2356 S8 signal, 2358, Oct 11 UTC 2022
[Tue] (Lemke, Richard -AB) 73’s, Richard``
Confirmed Tuesday October 11 at 2240 the 2230 on WRMI 9955, S9+10
direct, over a trace of jamming. After 2300 during R. Libertad,
certainly more jamming.
Also confirmed Tuesday October 11 at 2330 on WRMI 9395, S9/+10 but
undermodulated compared to 9455, 9350, 9330.
Also confirmed Wednesday October 12 at 2120 the 2100 on WBCQ 7489.9v,
JBA S3/S5 direct; only after straining about 6 minutes can I recognize
a mention of BBC World Service as on my recording this week. Next:
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
A noncommercial service for which financial support is appreciated to
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, preferably by money order
or check on a US bank.
Or via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. WRMI update from FB, Oct 11: ``After 15770, we will still
have to work on 5850, 7570, 7780 and 21525 kHz.``
From FB, Oct 10: ``On Wavescan, beginning October 16: Hurricane Fiona
and the early shortwave scene on Guadeloupe in the Caribbean. Update
on Hurricane Ian repairs at WRMI. How shortwave stations survived the
pandemic. Bangladesh DX Report.``
I`ve just found out about this, which started a week ago:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-our-shortwave-wrmi-hurricane-ian-damage/donations
``Hello, WRMI has a rich history of supplying news, information and
entertainment to the world from our Okeechobee, Florida Transmitters.
Hurricane Ian damage to our antenna farm is so extensive, it has
knocked us off the air to Europe and Africa.
We need your help to get us back on the air again to transmit to
Europe and Africa news, information, religious programming and
entertainment.
We have no insurance for the antenna farm due to the huge cost of
insurance premiums.
We are desperately asking for help around the world to get us back on
the air again to Europe and Africa. Your help is paramount to WRMI
returning to the air in the many countries in Europe and Africa.
Your help will allow WRMI to rebuild the transmission towers destroyed
by Hurricane Ian that are pointed towards Europe and Africa.
We thank you for your support of WRMI. Hurricane Ian knocked us down
pretty hard. But we know with your help, we can rise back up and
provide programming in many languages again to Europe and Africa.
Sincerely,
Jeff White
General Manager WRMI
Okeechobee, Florida
$ 530 raised of $ 60,000 goal`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** VANUATU. 7260, Oct 12 at 0624, RV reconfirmed but JBA, soon asleep
but Gary Pence, KM5X tells me: ``Also on at 0705z after song, OM and
YL reporting news in Bislama on 3945, 7890 and 11835, from S7 moderate
QRN to S9 and S9+5db on the X2 and X3 frequencies, on KFS SW antenna
at Halfmoon Bay, CA. Gary`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 2332 UT October 12
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/article.php?story=20221013001503345