** BRAZIL. 9665.36, July 31 at 2354, RVM definitely now on the plus
side direct, about 9665.35; while Brasil SDR a few minutes later shows
9665.37 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CANADA. 15034 USB, July 31 at 1522, no signal from CHR, Trenton
Military; nor at 1635-1655 as I am running Maryland SDR. Come to think
of it, have not run across it lately. Perhaps the Time Lords have
banned it until they fix their clox. Still no signs of it at many
random chex later, direct and via Maryland. Altho propagation has been
degraded. Also check for night frequency 6754 USB. And/or compare to
Gander VOLMET on USB: 3485, 6604, 10051, 13270 at :20, :50. 13270 OK
into Maryland before 1900 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CHINA. 21490, July 31 at 2339, JBA carrier with flutter is the only
signal on band - OSOB. CNR1 jammer vs Sound of Hope from 2300 per Aoki
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 6000, July 31 at 0642, RHC English JBM with humwhine,
S9+20/30. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 11950, July 31 at 2349, S9/S4 of dead air from `Mesa Redonda`
alt. Spanish frequency; supposed to be // 6000, which at 2355 is DA or
maybe JBM. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 13650, July 31 at 2347, all-music CRI `Portuguese` relay, now
with dirty spurs about 2.5 kHz plus/minus. Something`s always wrong at
RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OOK, WOR)
** MALI. 17630, July 31 at 1518, JBA OSOB, listed CRI English via
Bamako. Not even a JBA carrier on 17790 from WRMI, off? But plenty of
signals on 15 MHz band including 15770 WRMI. At 1500 K-index was 2;
had been and would be R1 blackouts (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** ROMANIA. Re my July 30 logging of RRI English at 2200 on four
frequencies, one of them dead air:
https://www.rri.ro/en_gb/two_transmitters_discontinued-2687864
``Two transmitters discontinued
2023-07-31 13:39:00
România Internaţional
Two out of the five transmitters broadcasting RRI's programmes are
temporarily suspended as of 1 August
The Tiganesti transmitter centre [illustration]
Dear friends, the Radio Romania Board of Administrators decided to
temporarily suspend the use of 2 out of the 5 Radiocom shortwave
transmitters that ensure the broadcast of Radio Romania International
programmes, because of budget cuts. As of August 1, our programmes are
aired via one transmitter in Ţigăneşti, one in Săftica (both of them
near Bucharest) and one in Galbeni (east). As soon as the budget of
the institution is restored, we will resume broadcasts on all 5
transmitters.
The RRI programmes in Romanian, English, French, German, Spanish,
Russian, Arabic, Chinese and Hebrew are affected. All of them may be
received on only one frequency instead of 2, as of August 1, 2023. The
frequencies as well as any other prospective changes operated by
Radiocom further to reception monitoring and to your feedback on
reception quality will be announced in our broadcasts, on our web page
and on Facebook.
Budget restrictions also prompted a reduction of the night time power
of medium wave transmitters that broadcast Radio Romania News and
Current Affairs programmes and of some regional stations.
We invite you to follow RRI's programmes online at www.rri.ro
(including on demand), on SoundCloud, on Android and iOS apps, via
TuneIn and via satellite. You can find more details on our home page.
You can also follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube,
LinkedIn and Spotify.``
Richard Langley replies: ``This message was included verbatim during
the half-hour English broadcast today (31 July) starting nominally at
20:30 UTC although there was a minute or so delay for the start today
at least for the DRM transmission on 11975 kHz. Remains to be seen if
the DRM broadcasts will be axed as of tomorrow.``
July 31 at 2217, `The History Show` is already 50% - only 11800 & 9790
on air, cut 11650 & 9740. Was all AM, no DRM this hour. If it`s all
about the SW power bill, and have really been running 300 kW each,
which not keep them all going at 150? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** SPAIN [and non]. 17855, Mon July 31 at 2200, token English from SNR
reminds us that since it`s summer, there is no news. Really? Then I
guess nothing really bad can happen. Via UTwente, other three also on,
17715, 15520; and 11670 with usual squeal, and splash from:
11660 RCI French, which per HFCC is 500 kW, 308 degrees via Kashgar,
i.e. occupied EAST TURKISTAN, land of ChiCom genocide against Uighurs
and other Moslems. Related BBC report today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B57mkAA-Ogw
Goes to dead air at 2227-2230*, French bihour sked 2030-2230 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY. 11785, July 31 at 2215, VOT not on air in English; no
signal into Maryland or UTwente SDRs. Something`s always erroneous at
Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2201 monitoring: confirmed UT
Monday July 31 at 0048 the 0030 on WRMI 7780, S9/+10 but noisy. QRM
noise at 0057, but much louder at 0100 vs next program.
Also confirmed UT Monday July 31 from 0259.6 on Area 51 via WBCQ 6160
-68 Hz = 6159.932 into Maryland SDR at S7/S9. Next:
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 #2200]
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
Thanks this week to William T Hassig, Mt Prospect IL, ``Congrats on
2200 World of Radios`` with a generous 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. Updates from George McClintock July 31, notes from a phone
call:
KVOH: transmitters have already been scrapped. George would like to
have been able to get some parts. Not clear about antennas yet. Their
LPFM is still running, but depends on lease for site continuing.
Apparently are looking for a new SW site in the area, rather than
moving into the WTWW site.
WTWW: still has not returned to the air at all. He is ``tearing
apart`` the #1 transmitter to get it fixed and operational. Owners
must come up with minimum $ 1800/month electric bill whether used or
not. House on site is in VG condition, liveable. A church is
considering buying the property, wanting 9 acres but is only 7.1.
Realtor thinks it`s worth more than $ 600K. Original cost for WTWW to
buy it was #275K, underpriced. Previous owner was a perpetual motion
scammer who skipped town after a phony demonstration which was really
hooked up to powerline (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 15610, July 31 at 2344 discussion of angels and demons,
S1/S4 - since American accents, first guess is CRI, but no ChiCom
listed, rather WEWN English until 2400 as still registered in HFCC and
listed in Aoki despite having been off air for many months. But not in
EiBi. Maybe finally comeback. Should be easy to confirm with more
monitoring (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non?]. DXMAPS keep showing possible sporadic E paths
reaching OK, so I brave the oven car for some quick bandscans, finally
installing the box fan in the back seat. But not much to show for it,
UT July 31:
94.9 at 0023, country music bigsig briefly and gone; could be MS too.
88.1 at 0030, lucky ID in passing as ``WKNC Raleigh``, in & out:
WKNC-FM 88.1 RALEIGH NC VARIETY THE REVOLUTION 25.0 80.0 35-47-15
78-40-14 A764 KNC88.1 - North Carolina State University
92.1 at 0032 ``find a dentist near me`` seems skip, not enough info
93.5 at 0041, Mexican music, another brief peak, got to be Es. Thought
I heard ``que buena`` as it faded, as music lyric or could it be a
slogan ID? Let`s see in the WTFDA FM DB: NO 93.5 brandings anywhere
with that spelling, but two with the cutesy ``let`s use a letter not
in the Spanish alphabet`` Ke Buena, which gets two hits, neither of
which is enough for any certain assumption' and both are even below
average terrain:
XHLU-FM 93.5 CD. SERDÁN PUE MEX Spanish REGIONAL MEXICAN KE BUENA 6.0
-59.84 18-59-15 97-27-17
TGJA 93.5 JALAPA JA GTM Spanish RANCHERA JALAPA ESTÉREO - KE BUENA
10.0 -79.0 14-38-05 89-58-50
88.1 at 0134, BINGO numbers being called, fades in and out, also with
rattling noise between numbers, unusual format. Seems Es, could be
from east or west; CCI from gospel music which would be Okie fringe
KMSI, and certainly not public radio KWOU either. 0140 recheck,
recapping the numbers, 0142 to `break`, filled by music tho that could
be transfade to anotherstation. Later I search on RADIO BINGO 88.1 and
discover that this is mainly a Canadian thing. CJWE in Alberta is part
of a province-wide network of RB, but dates of games do not include
this one.
Another one is CFRH in Ontario, claiming it`s bilingual bingo, but
obviously French is primary. I heard no hint of anything Canadian,
certainly not francophone. Furthermore, it`s not resuming until
September.
Another2 one is in Perth ON, Lake 88.1 = CHLK-FM. But it`s Tuesdays at
6:10 pm. Further down the search results are too many other stations,
some of which may have only bingoed years ago, or not really on 88.1:
WYPR, KDHX, WWER, CKBW, KJCB, KBTL, KDNK, CHEC, CKBI, CJEC. Not really
worth deep searches into all of those for a bingo show right now. Does
anyone know of a station, even in America, that calls bingo on a
Sunday night? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. Re: ``NORTH AMERICA. 6964.00, July 29 at 0645, JBA
carrier seems silent, probably a pirate. At HFU many logs around this
frequency going back years, but nothing tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)``
Mark Taylor replies: ``There is an unmodulated /open het here many
nights. As best known by folks on HF Underground, it is not a pirate.
It is thought to be a ute (maybe military) holding the frequency.
Mark`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11841 USB, July 31 at 0620, JBA 2-way INTRUDERS,
Spanish? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13493, July 31 at 0623, wideband Morse code ID fires as
I happen to be here, but last repeat not prepared to copy; presumably
usual CODAR. Just to reconfirm the ID minute, presumably :03, :23, :43
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report despatched at 0035 UT August 1
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