BEWARE RF-NOISY LAMP. A nice bright LED ring lamp on a totally
adjustable gooseneck turns out to be source of S9 RF noise across the
LF, MF and HF spectra on my nearby R75. As long as it`s plugged in,
whether turned on or not. It also has USB port we had been using for
charging a small fan, which makes it even worse. Here`s the
boilerplate info, not admitting explicitly to ``made in China``, but
surely is. We got it at, where else, Walmart:
INTERTEK 5005686 - Model: MTSLL 1038AHG
WM ITEM No. :MS3128087567007
Ratings: 120Vac, 60Hz, 4W
Date: 2109
CONFORMS TO UL STD. 153 [really!]
CERTIFIED TO USA STD. 022. 2 No. 250.4
ZheJiang YanKon Group Co Ltd
DRY LOCATIONS ONLY
Also with logo in a circle: ETL with smaller letters: C US cm listed.
Now it`s banished to elsewhere in the house and/or unplugged while
DXing (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RC USB, Friday July 21 circa 1455, quick check
of Argentine remote finds NO signal from LRA36, despite this latest?
sked revision via Manuel Méndez: ``Whatsapp received 12-07 Translation
from Spanish; "This year we are on air for now, on short wave,
Wednesday and Friday from 1300 to 1800 UTC, and on Saturdays from 1800
to 2300. I also inform you that we are analysing being able to
broadcast in a few weeks from Monday to Friday, from 1600 to 2000 UTC,
and on Saturdays from 1800 to 2300 UTC``
15475.98 RC USB, is certainly on air Saturday July 22, S3/S5 via
Argentine remote from tune-in 1803: nothing but songs, no
announcements until finally at 1828 CW, 1829 LRA36 standard
multi-lingual s/on; 1830 opening recitation in Spanish, credit to Walt
Guzman? or was it Whitman, surely not. 1833 seems live now with
afternoon greetings on `Uniendo Voces` program, joint produxion with
RAE, Univ. de Quilmes; names of staff present; mention of a fiesta;
rebroadcast by 95.7 in Catamarca and another; 1844 mentions miércoles
19 de julio, so possibly this was recorded then; 1848 LRA36/RAE joint
ID, Fiesta Nacional de -- algo; 1859 songs; 1903 canned IDs, contact
info; 1905 weather check including temp -11 now; 1908 discussing
events this week in 1969, notably Apollo 11; 1915 songs; continues
chatting with music breaks; 1958 ID with reverb. I`m not fluent enough
to follow much of it in casual colloquial conversations, less than
perfect reception. Past 2000 now there is rapid noise QRM. 2006 ``RAE
Argentina al Mundo`` and multilingual ID. Not heard by 2130 recheck
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 11670, July 22 at 0635, RHC Spanish extra frequency tonight.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** GUATEMALA [non]. Ex-LV de Atitlán, 2390 kHz manager gets shrined in
Oklahoma -- the Blessèd Stanley Rother, that is, as we`ve reported
before, the RCC is being pressured to sanctify this martyr, a big
thing on the way being an expensive shrine/tourist attraxion which
opened this year in SE OKC.
https://www.travelok.com/listings/view.profile/id.32231
He`s the subject of the weekly travelog, `Discover Oklahoma`, which
adds some other Guatemaltecan stories, and his hometown Okarche beyond
the opposite corner of OKC. Not there yet, but look for the new July
22 edition via https://www.discoveroklahomatv.com/episodes
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2200 monitoring: confirmed UT
Saturday July 22 at 0145 to 0130 on WRMI 5850, now the first weekly
airing, S9/+10 direct with some hum?
Also confirmed Saturday July 22 at 1930 on WRN North America webcast.
Also confirmed Saturday July 22 from 1932 on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, MO, VG
into nearby SDR with no storm noise. Next:
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW
0245vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0457]
1330 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE
[also phonecast, webcast][jammed by Cuba?]
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, NSW 5035-LSB
1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-LSB [previous #2199]
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
No new contributions this week by MO or check in US funds on a US bank
to:
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702
One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds to:
woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 9395, 5010, 7780, July 22 at 0121/0129, these WRMIs are OFF,
and 7570 is JBA while it ought to be much stronger than 7730. Why? All
these confirmed ON: 5050, 5800, 5850, 5950, 7730, 9455, 9955, 15770.
This is evening prime-time when 12 of the 13 transmitters are supposed
to be active; one more, #1, is never running per skedgrid; and #7 on
17790 only in daytime (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. (7490), UT Sat July 22 at 0000, WBCQ webcast of `AAAWWW`,
seems like a new one. Allan admits right off, that whenever they go
political, people hate it, and then proceeds to do exactly that along
with Angela on phone. Basically their delusion is that in the past 2/3
years, terrible things have happened to our country since the elexion
was ``stolen``. And e.g., there would be no Russian war in Ukraine if
``Our President`` were still in office. Proving a negative? Enough,
turn off. But said quadricasting, so I do check out the 4 SW
frequencies, into Maryland remote:
3265.151, JBA
5130.442, S6/S7 in HSNL
6159.933, S8/S9
7489.928, S9+5/20
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 5130.396, July 22 at 0635, JBA talk, music? in HNL until I
get rid of that ringlamp. At 0651 music, S3/S6, 0653 talk; 0657 seems
like ID for AM and FM stations, Planet; 0700 finally recognizable WBCQ
jingle ID!! 48 hours ago had carrier on 5130.21, and once before, R.
Caroline programming.
Note how closely this match the WBCQ measurement a few hours earlier,
5130.442. The R. Angela transmitter was never so far up, only a little
bit down, so presumably another test of another unit. Has AW said
anything about this on air, on twit or on website? BTW, strangely
enough, there is another non-pirate OOB broadcaster closer to 5130.0,
Kyrgyzstan, unlikely to be confused with, I hope (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)
This report dispatched at 0001 UT July 23
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