Hard-Core-DX.com: Glenn Hauser logs April 20-21, 2023

Glenn Hauser logs April 20-21, 2023

Friday, April 21 2023


** COLOMBIA. 10125 CW, April 20 at 0635, once again the strange
station sending keyboard letters slowly in sequence: ``QWERTYUIOX
ASDFGHJKLÑ ZXCVBNM`` and then much faster: ``VVV DE HK3QQ BOGOTA
COLOMBIA`` --- note the error? of X instead of P, like reversed dits
and dahs? And the Enye after L; maybe that`s where it lies on a
Spanish keyboard. QRZ.com:

``HK3QQ Colombia flag Colombia, Jesús Ernesto Reyes Castro, Bogotà
111156, Colombia
Escuela de telegrafia Marconi ilustrado - Colombia
Frecuencia: 7.070 CW
Beacom VVV De HK3QQ Bogotá Colombia 5W``
Previous logs of this filed under UNIDENTIFIED (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WORLD OF RADIO 2187)

** CUBA. 6100, April 20 at 0655, RHC English still on here with some
rumble, and this time nowhere else on 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13 or 15 MHz
bands. Had not heard 6100 for weeks. Nominal sked was 05-07 English,
extended to 0730 for Esperanto, Sundays. Something`s not wrong at RHC
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 221887)

** NORTH AMERICA. 7400, April 20 at 0642, JBA music, then ``Mayak``
interval signal, and unreadable talk mixed with music: from R.
Vostochnaya Zvezda: first reported moved from 7320 to 7400 at 0419 UT
April 19 by Lucas Bandura, BC:

``[WOR] Radio Channel Eastern Star now on 7400 AM -- He moved
yesterday at 0423 UTC April 18. I was talking to him in the HF
Underground Discord chat and he moved to get away from the Radio Martí
QRM. Today he is having issues with his audio that is causing
distortion. I have also heard the English ID as “Radio Channel Eastern
Star” now.``

Per EiBi, 7400 is a good clear spot - except Brazilian Pará pirate R.
Antares could be there at any hour; nothing broadcasting at night on
7395 or 7405 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2187)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2186 monitoring: ``9395 kHz, 0030,
0045 S7, S8 signal, 0059, April 20 UTC 2023 [Thu] (Lemke, Richard
-AB)``

Also confirmed UT Thursday April 20 at 0030 on WRMI 9395, S9+20/30
into Missouri SDR.

Also confirmed UT Thursday April 20 at 0130 on WRMI 5010, S8/9+10
into Bonaire SDR

WORLD OF RADIO 2187 contents: Algeria, Argentina, (Bahamas),
(Belarus), Brasil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador,
Germany, Greece, Italy non, Netherlands, North America, Perú,
(Romania), Russia, (Sa`udi Arabia), Spain, Sweden and non, UAE, UK,
USA, Vanuatu, Vatican, Vietnam, Yemen non; unID Music4Joy; NASB
cruise; WRTH app available; propagation outlook (countries mentioned
with others not in order)

WORLD OF RADIO 2187 available from 0147 UT April 21:
(mp3 stream) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2187.m3u
(mp3 download) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2187.mp3

Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
Also linx to podcast services.

The shortwave+ broadcasts should be:

1430 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE [usually, or webcast only?][jammed by
Cuba?]
2030 UT Friday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW
0400 UT Saturday WBCQ Radio Angela 5130v to WSW [off air till May?]
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
2230 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW
2230 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW
0245vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0457]
0800 UT Sunday Unique R, Australia 5035 USB [low power]
0830 UT Sunday Unique R, Australia 5035 USB [previous episode]
2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW
0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW
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

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

Like our website, a noncommercial service for which financial support
is appreciated; thanks this week to Dan Sheedy, Encinitas CA, for a
generous contribution to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702;
``Just wanted to wish you a happy birthday and throw a donation into
the `WOR vat of consistently useful and accurate DX info`. Thanks for
all your efforts to keep DX info non-trivial. Cheers, Dan``

One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to
woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. What about Radio Angela? 5130, still no WBCQ R Angela
signal from 0200 UT April 20. Yet, 6160 & 7490 are both carrying
military medley, SSB amid extended Hal Turner show.

R Angela must be of lowest priority - so the usual 5130 xmtr is
broken: why not let it be on one of the others temporarily? Other
nights would deprive dead Brother Hystairical of one frequency among
many.

And what about all the extra transmitters supposedly at Monticello?
Jeff White gave them one from WRMI. 3265 could be turned on at same
time as all the others, so why not use it now, preferably on 5130 or
higher instead?

``Bad tubes``, hard to find. R Angela & listeners may be in for a long
wait unless some alternative is used (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO
2187)

``Uncle Bill responds: At the moment I anticipate Radio Angela not
returning to the airwaves before May. There are actually two
components to the problem, parts and labor. The late Tom Barna was the
engineer in residence on the spot who might have been able to jury rig
something together, and he is missed more than ever right now. Timtron
and (at the moment) Allan are both some distance away.

The 5130 transmitter does legitimately need new tubes which are both
hard to find and expensive, hence our increasingly-frequent appeals
for financial support. But even with enough benefactors to buy "new"
tubes, the station does also need to hire another engineer as well and
has been actively recruiting. 7490 is full enough that throwing us
there isn't practical and the other frequencies aren't ideal options
just now either for other reasons. It would be nice on general
principles if listeners who miss us wrote the station to remind it
that we are missed when we are gone. --Uncle Bill [Tilford], Curator,
Radio Angela, WBCQ The Planet`` (April 21, WOR iog via Glenn Hauser;
not in time for WOR 2187)

** U S A. 9975, UT Fri Oct 21 at 0110, still no signal from KVOH,
which had started to run on Thursday nights too (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0201 UT April 21

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