WORLD OF RADIO HITLIST update
Hi Glenn, My latest Hitlist update.
https://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm
1) Australia - Unique R: added entries for frequencies and programmes
2) Israel - KAN: Updated entry for KAN English news (Thanks to Daniel
Rosenzweig)
3) USA - KVOH: Deleted entries for schedules and live streams as all
have been discontinued
The next update is scheduled for early September. Best wishes and 73,
Alan Roe
** CUBA. 11670, August 1 at 0646, tonight`s extra RHC, Spanish,
S9+10/20 and undermodulated; also with squeal and dirty spurs about
plus/minus 3 kHz. Same symptom I logged July 29 at 0704 on 11760.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** EGYPT. 9439.995, August 1 at 2139 check via UTwente, R. Cairo is on
at S9+35/40 with extremely distorted and undermodulated music during
``English`` sesquihour. Something`s always egregious in Egypt, abysmal
at Abis. WRTH shows 2 x 125 kW at Abis only (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 17450.002, August 1 at 1546, S7/S9 into UTwente,
ME music. 1550 there is slightly offset CW QRM, mainly sending
numbers. Now there are two stations making fast SAH, one talking and
one musicking; obviously Dengê Welat and Recep`s jammer. Later by 1615
the additional warbling QRM is like fast RTTY.
Why doesn`t D.W. move away? Perhaps the jamming be not nearly so
effective as it seem from afar. Basic propagation tells us that the
higher the frequency, the further the skip zone. Uzbekistan to
Kurdistanish Turkey may be optimum, while Emirler as a jamming source
in central Turkey may be way too close, but makes Recep feel good, at
least trying to censor it. Emirler to Diyarbakir is 785 km = 488
miles, per distancefromto.net which pinpoints Emirler considerably NW
of Ankara near the Black Sea cost, and Bolu, Duzce, Karabuk --- but
WRTH 2023 map page 57 nestles Emirler right close to Ankara, just to
the south of the capital. Ankara/Diyarbakir: 674 km = 419 miles, even
worse.
Of course it would require constant monitoring by D.W. PKK HQ,
wherever that may be, Belgium per page 673 or WRTH 2023; which also
asserted the 11 and 7 MHz frequencies were via Bulgaria; and constant
contact with the ops in Tashkent effectively to jump around mousily vs
the cattily Turx, but they have done so in the past.
I am checking this after hearing nothing in the 17450-17495 range
direct, nor had noticed anything for several days at random tunethrus,
so could D.W. have made a total frequency change, even to a different
band? Apparently not, but direct propagation from Uzbekistan, even
Turkey has been degraded.
Still clashing past 1800, jamusic generally atop. At 1810, UTwente
displays as 17450.010. By 1847 the rapid rippling SAH is even more
severe, indicating both signals strong and near equal level. At 1921
again with RTTY warble QRM too. Still past 2000.
At 2003 I check direct: two JBA carriers approx. 17450.15 and 17450.26
-- maybe that`s the RTTY transmitter. On UTwente at 2050 now there is
only one VG signal with singing, presumably the jammer, on 17450.002.
By now D.W. may have closed or faded out near midnight. Still no other
signals up to 17500. Still VG music on 17450 past 2137.
At 2158 I make a quick switch to 11785 for VOT English. Cuts on
shortly after 2200 for a few sex without modulation, then off again.
At 2203 I go back to 17450 and find it`s finally off, just the warble
QRM. At 2205 I go back on 11785.008 and find it`s back on to stay amid
news in English, S9+20. I would not be surprised if it`s the very same
transmitter tho can`t be certain on a single receiver whether they
overlapped. For B22 WRTH 2023 showed DW until 2200*, but version 17
Aug 1 of the A23 updater shows 17460v until 2100*.
I`ve been on UTwente continuously for over 6 hours. It`s a great
resource, huge capacity so you can always get on, and no timeouts
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY. 11785, opening of VOT English August 1 at 2200 is covered
under KURDISTAN [non], following 6+ hours of jamming 17450 Dengê
Welat. Not really paying attn to content this time, but off around
2255, no extra German or Portuguese (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2201 monitoring: confirmed UT
Tuesday August 1 at 0030 on WRMI 9395, S9+10/20 into Missouri SDR.
Next:
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
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2200 World of Radios`` with a generous check in US funds on a US bank
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Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702
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** U S A. 15610, August 1 at 2006, RCC talk, S5/S6 direct; 2019 EWTN
ID in passing -- so ``more Catholic than the Pope`` WEWN English is
definitely back, gone since last summer. Still registered for entire
A23 at 19-24 UT, 250 kW at 85 degrees. What about at other hours? Was
9385 at 00-09, but IIRC was different transmitter and crashed even
before 15610. And 9470 at 09-13, even rarer if ever. Before that,
15610 also ran 1300-1900, not this morning (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 2315 UT August 1
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/article.php?story=2023080200150343