** CUBA. 5025, Nov 4 at 0636, R. Rebelde is on with efemérides about
some event in year 1929. The word in English refers to astronomical
calculations, but much broader in Spanish, like almanac = this day in
history (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 6165, Nov 4 at 0635, only one of The Cuban Five still on air,
RHC English, S9 but undermodulated. See also UNID 5040. Something`s
always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 11670, Nov 4 at 2321, RHC Spanish, music overmodulated,
distorted with growl, // clear 11760 where it`s about the 120th
anniversary of relations with Belgium, so this is Belgian Culture
Week, in Cuba: how nice. Also // 11880, what became of English? It`s
also distorted but not as bad as 11670. Something`s always wrong at
RHC. 11850 not on, and 11950 as usual separate Spanish Mesa Redonda TV
soundtrack (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** EGYPT. 9439.995, Nov 4 at 2132, NO signal into UTwente from R.
Cairo in English, where something`s always egregious (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)
** ITALY [and non]. Checking the IRRS hour from which WORLD OF RADIO
at 1815 has been removed, Friday November 4: 1323 kHz, AM Italia,
Villa Estense into nearby Noale SDR, at 1756 totally buried by talk in
Hungarian, the minolity service from Romania but still no usage of
relatively clear ex-918 kHz, nor experimental LW 207. By 1758 into
UTwente, 7295.000 carrier is on already, presumably still BULGARIA,
but at different local time no longer delayed until *1800.8 and indeed
we can hear the real ``IRRS signing-on`` just seconds before 1800, and
into `Feature Story News`. 7295 escapes first-adjacent QRM from East
Turkistan, but it`s so huge on 7285 that some second-adjacent QRMs
7295. Hungarian is still way over 1323. The 7295 harmonic would now
fall on 14590 - not heard at 1802 but some ute QRM locked onto at
14589.970.85v. 1803, `FSN Spotlite`. 1804, 1323 now atop the CCI, and
1805 VOA News, by remote, instead of UN News, until 1810 into fill
music, while at 1809 AMI was = RomHung. Still music past 1815; 1818
UNESCO PSA in Spanish about masking; music. 1825 to `Country
Jamboree`, fragments of which have been filler before. DJ explains how
this was recorded in early October and when it might repeat; dedicated
to the just-deceased Oct 4 Loretta Lynn, playing a number of her
songs, still past 1844; 1855 recheck now in some talk show.
Henceforth, no WOR to recheck for (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** JAPAN. 28460 USB, Nov 4 at 2310, JJ2IJU contacting a US station:
JJ2IJU Japan flag Japan
AKIRA "AKI" HONDA, 9-39-1 AKO-DAI, KUWANA-CITY 511-0935 MIE-JAPAN ---
among quite a bit of activity on 10m now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** MALDIVES [non]. 11620, Nov 4 at 1525, English for a change, about
Protestant Reformation; 1529 closing only in English as V of Martyrs
Korea, Maldives service with address maldives@vomkorea.com, off at
1530*. Unlike yesterday`s closing which I recorded via UTwente. I
cannot figure out the word between www and .com in her Dhivehi(?)
announcement, then same English as today. VG signal S9+10/20 direct
from secret site (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** NIGERIA [non]. 7255-, Nov 4 at 0630, no signal direct from VON. C.
1730 into Canary SDR, nothing but huge CRI English (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)
** OKLAHOMA. 1170, Nov 2 at 2337 UT on caradio, KTSB Tulsa mentions
the BetQL network. I knew they were sportstalk, ``The Blitz``, now
bettalk? Website sked does not mention that net but at 6-7 pm CT only,
``Bet MGM``. BTW, a strange, can it be coincidental? As my left
fingers were misaligned, typing one character to the left of KTSB, I
wrote to my surprise, KRAV --- another Tulsa station!! Could this
happen in any other market? A project. BTW, ``BlitZ`` branding would
fit much better on another Tulsan call, 1430 KTBZ, but that`s `The
Buzz``, also sports nonsense. Date correct, overlooked in previous
report (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)
** SPAIN. 9690, Friday Nov 4 at 2313, token English from REE about
vaccines: altho stronger on the S meter, good signals on 12030 & 11940
are preferable with less fading and noise. Also VP 11685 avoiding
Habana now on 11670. 2325 an acrobat about not being afraid (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. 15150.03, Nov 4 at 1527, R. Tamazuj ID,
obviously off-frequency but estimated rather than precisely measured
to the Hz; much stronger than // 15550. The lower one is MADAGASCAR,
the higher, VATICAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY. 5960, Nov 4 at 2313, no signal direct from VOT, presumed
off again, erroneous at Emirler, but no chance to check later into
UTwente (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2163 monitoring: confirmed first SW
airing, UT Friday November 4 at 0330 on WRMI 7780. As usual on this
system, first 10-15 seconds marred by self-imposed noise burst! Same
heard briefly again at 0337. Poor reception via Georgia, Maryland,
Texas remotes.
Also confirmed Friday November 4 at 1430 on WRMI 9955, S9/+10 direct
following Blalock the Blaster; no jamming audible. Maybe at 1530 from
next week, but was not available last year in A22 season.
Also confirmed Friday November 4 at 2130 on IRRS via AM Italia, 1323,
S6/S8 into nearby Noale SDR, not much QRM now; preceding talk maybe
Counterspin chopped off for ID and WOR. Next:
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW, 15770 or 7730 to NE
0400 UT Saturday WBCQ Radio Angela 5130v to WSW
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0430]
[some non-DST changes start here]
2100 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW
0130 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to NNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW
0130 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed by Cuba]
0030 UT Wednesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
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** U S A. 9330v, Nov 4 at 0632, still no signal from
WBCQ/WLCR. Nothing about this in recent twits (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)
** U S A. (7490v), UT Sat Nov 5 at 0000, WBCQ webcast of `AAAWWW`,
bound to be anti-Democratic political ranting, so am zoning out until
0031 starts to talk about radio: SuperStition 9330 remains off the
air, since the transmitter has been causing a lot of trouble; and one
engineer, Jeff, has been badly hurt -- apparently electrocuted but
nothing specific. Altho listeners are entitled to know everything
about WBCQ (?). Then cites a dozen or more staff and volunteers who
work on it in Maine, by first names only. 0038 reads Radio World story
about FCC vs property owners hosting PIRATEs. 0049 FCCommissioner
calls for ban of TikTok. 0054 Free Radio Weekly items with names and
frequencies only. Prayer, as always runs over Hal Turner JIP at 0101.
At the start I checked Maryland remote for frequency offsets: 5130 -
13 Hz = 5129.987; 6160 - 64 Hz = 6159.936; 7490 - 70 Hz = 7489.930.
Not on the air: 3265+, 9330+ (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** VANUATU. 7260, Nov 4 at 0630, no signal from RV. See also UNID
5040.
UNIDENTIFIED. 5040, Nov 4 at 0636, JBA carrier compared to loud Cuba
5025. What could this be? Remnant exciter of RHC? MW harmonic, 6 x 840
or 3 x 1680 or 8 x 630 or 4 x 1260 or 9 x 560? Amazing, all the
possibilities. Aoki shows only other 5040 SW stations are Jeypore,
India, but x = off the air, and if on, certainly not at this time nor
propagating from noonday; and 5040 is a R. Vanuatu alternate at
2000-2400, not quite too early for that, and it`s missing from 7260.
Ahá! Ron Howard`s independent report received later: ``VANUATU. heard
on their alternate frequency of 5040 (ex: 7260), Radio Vanuatu,
0649-0659* UT, Nov 4. Tuned in to check the usual 7260, but clearly
not there; found on 5040, with island songs and announcers; not as
good as ex 7260. *0659 UT, heard very poor reception on 2nd harmonic
(7890); while both 3945 and 11835 were totally unusable; later, after
0720+, had decent 11835 reception, even with CODAR QRM, but overall a
very poor day for Vanuatu reception. Ron, California`` (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR) CODAR inside the 25m BC band??
UNIDENTIFIED. 11494 USB, Nov 4 at 2319, ``014JS1``, requesting a
change in the primary. Smax of US military. Lots of logs in UDXF,
lately and primarily US Coast Guard (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13579 LSB, Nov 4 at 2317, very weak 2-way in Spanish;
cambio (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 0119 UT November 5
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