** CUBA. 15140, April 17 at 0623, RHC English, S9+10 here and nowhere
else, not on 5, 6, 9, 10, 11 or 13 MHz bands. 15140 is supposed to be
daytime only including English at 19-20, so something`s even more
wrong than always at RHC. At least shows it`s propagable (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 17470, April 17 at 2145, something talking here,
either Dengê Welat or Recep the Jammer; but marred by that wideband
multi-carrier whiner expanding further than usual from center 17450,
audible out to +/- 40 kHz = 17410/17490. What IS that?? (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)
** SPAIN. 11669.993, Monday April 17 at 2200, token English from SNR,
good via UTwente which I already have running for Turkcheck on 11785.
Due to best skip distance, I know this is better than 15 or 17 MHz at
Holland remote; but has RTTY warble QRM unless bandwidth squeezed to 4
kHz or less. Opens with acknowledgement that in Spain [on double-DST],
it`s already World Amateur Radio Day April 18, and plays clips of
greetings in Spanish from several hams, seemingly recorded off the
air. News delayed until 2203. Then I check it at Maryland SDR which
agrees it`s minus 7 Hz, but also sounds like some CCI. Aoki, EiBi and
HFCC show nothing else scheduled until China at 2230, Cuba from 2300
or 0000 --- but you never know when its 11670 or any frequency will be
running at wrong hours. However, this CCI is very weak (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)
** TURKEY. 11785.009, April 17 at 2224, VOT English as S9+45 into
UTwente, canned salute to foreign S&R teams - are they still searching
& rescuing this long after the EQ? Music on this and music only
following are horribly distorted and I refuse to listen any further as
today`s announcer also has been the horribly-accented lady.
Something`s always awry at Ankara and/or erroneous at Emirler (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2186 monitoring: confirmed Sunday
April 16 at 2000 on IRRS via AM Italia, 1323 kHz only, S9+10/20 but
somewhat overmodulated and noisy, slight CCI from understation
presumably Smooth Radio, Brighton, England, UK.
Also confirmed UT Monday April 17 at 0030 on WRMI 7780, JBA in HSNL
direct; S5/S7 into Georgia SDR; S7/S9+5 into Maryland SDR.
Also confirmed UT Monday April 17 starting only 8.5 minutes late at
0308.5 on WBCQ Area 51, 6160 -67 Hz = 6159.933, S9/+15 into NH SDR
with warbleed de 6165 Turkey not Cuba; JL ran only 8 minutes over this
week. Next:
0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, Australia 5035 USB [low power]
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. 5950, April 17 at 0635 open carrier and off in a few sex
before I can even read the S-meter. Must be WRMI testing; 5950 now
sked: WRMI-8 at 2100-0400 with System L (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 5130, April 17 at 0255, no signal from WBCQ R. Angela into
NH SDR. Unchecked Apr 16 but probably AWOL that date too, as it surely
was on UT April 15 & 14. What`s wrong, for how long? Not a twit from
AW on disgraced Twitter, since earlier on Apr 14 forecasting that
AAAWWW would be on 5130 that night. UB must be faced with a lot of
long-planned Angela programming rescheduling (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 6160-, April 17 at 0636 with S9/+10 of dead air from WBCQ.
No loss as it would have been TOMBS. Standard remark about stations
not realizing they are modulating nothing. Fault could well be at
W-A-L-T-E-R-B-O-R-O or somewhere in between, international vacuum?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 9275, April 17 at 2143, no signal from WMLK, nor have I run
across it lately. A23 HFCC sked is 17-22 on 9275, 04-09 on 15150 both
daily except Sabbathday. But 15150 never activated. B22 was same, so
no adjustment for local DST; kudos for that. I last logged it March 8
at 1855. Harold Frodge in MI a bit later:
``9275 WMLK Bethel PA (p); 2000, 3/10; Uh, uh Jacob O. Meyer. S9
w/very muted audio. Jake would never make it at Toastmasters. +++
1713, 3/16; Elder Jake singing on a 2009 b’cast; Jake said, “There are
approximately 30,000 mistakes in the Bible.” (How does he know?) So,
he published his own version. (The Gospel according to Jake) S10,
audio a tad muddy (I still want to know where the people of Nod came
from.) +++ 1849-1854, 3/16; I turned on the Jake Uh-meter; 15 uh’s in
5 min. (Frodge-MI)`` He also noted it not on 9275, April 7 at 2045
when he was getting WINB.
Now its own website won`t load: http://204.236.242.90/wmlk-radio/
Hitlist also leads to it on disgraced FB, bit nothing since this:
``WMLK Radio February 7 · Broadcast Note: The engineers have decided
to swap out our original tube and to install the secondary one. The
tube change is complete but there are start-up tests that need to be
confirmed before going on the air. We should be on later when those
tests are completed. Thank you for understanding.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)
** VANUATU. 7260, April 17 at 0642, missing last night but now
resumed, YL in Bislama talk, S7/S9. Ron Howard agrees and adds hearing
it on 11835 at *0659-0858* (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 10125 CW, April 17 at 0626, series of letters between
long pauses. I soon realize it`s reading off a standard keyboard: A S
D F G H J K L --- Then faster VVV DE --- and I don`t copy any ID. Then
resumes with: Q W E R T Y U I O --- Is this default of some software,
or done deliberately? This is of course in the so-called 30m hamband
as I am listening for VKs on phone in this area (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15253 USB, April 17 at 2149, 2-way in Spanish,
INTRUDERS, with lower-class-Mexican accents; but 19m mostly devoid of
SWBC, so why not? Certainly not QRM with anything around here (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report despatched at 2353 UT April 17
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