** CUBA. 11850, Sept 13 at 0132, RHC with S9+10 of dead air in
Spanish, flanked by usual JBA carrier parasitic spurs on 11840 &
11860. At least not a roar now from Saudi Yemenia on 11860, just a bit
of residual Cuban pulse jamming for mutual QRM. Dead air or
just-barely-modulation is *normal* for 11850; what incompetence.
Somethings` always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** SPAIN. 17855, Wednesday September 13 at 2200, token English from
SNR, this NAm frequency is much weaker than usual but still sufficient
into Maryland SDR, not sufficient direct. 2205 feature by Justin Coe
about some musician connected with composer of Looney Tunes music,
Raymond Scott. Initially S8 with deep fades to S4, but fades
completely out by 2225. At first the second best was 11670 for Af
rather than 15520 for ME nor 17715 for SAm. After 17855 was gone,
11670 became best/and/only by default for French after 2230, but
barely usable with RTTY warble. G1 level geomagnetic storms are
ongoing per WWV (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY. 11785.009, Sept 13 at 2200, no signal direct from VOT
English; but also zero signal into UTwente past 2245 which ought to
get at least a trace, so assumed AWOL despite geomag storm.
Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. Re the Route 66 On the Air special ham event as logged on
18164 USB Sept 12, website https://w6jbt.org/ says datespan is Sept
9-17, no bands or frequencies seen but lots of calls roughly in order
from West to East from LA to Chicago, W6A to W6N, skipping W6O, and
W6P to W6U; includes many towns along the way but not Santa Rosa or
Tucumcari (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2207 monitoring: ``Dear Glenn: Confirming
World of Radio #2207, notes, loggings, 9395 kHz, WRMI: S8 signal,
aurora QSB, 2330, 2345, 2359 (45443), September 12 UTC 2023 [Tue]
(Lemke, Richard -AB)``
Confirmed Tuesday September 12 at 2330 on WRMI 9395, S9/+15 VG into
Maryland SDR.
Missed check Wed Sept 13 at 2100 on WBCQ 7490v; anyone hear it? Next:
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
The new WOR 2208 should be ready by early UT Friday Septembet 15 tho
not Shortwaved until UT Sat Sept 16 at 0130 on WRMI 5850.
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** U S A. 101.5, Sept 13 at 1955 UT on caradio, bits of Spanish and
partial ID as ``Mexicana ... y 93.9``, so of course it is again KSMM
Liberal KS which is also on 93.9 Dodge City KZRD --- not a relay of
92.9 KMML as there is no such station tho still shown that way in
WTFDA FM DB for 101.5.
Still no longer hearing any dead air in $ tereo on 101.5, as per
numerous logs in August, which I assumed was out of my nearest, KOCD
Okeene. But of course never heard ID; could have confirmed only by
driving closer to Okeene, but R. Salvación website claims it and its
own LP primary on 93.9 in OKC had both gone off the air in January. So
if true, the DA might have been from the other Okie in Collinsville
near Tulsa. Or a remote possibility, an abandoned Part 15 RF feeder in
some parked car or residence in Enid, no input but left turned on. I
doubt this because of its wide range in town, not just around home
QTH.
In July I had a 101.5 log from KSMM and explained the confusion
between 92.9 & 93.9. At least since then, the ``silent`` notation
disappeared from 101.5 in the WTFDA DB. Except for a log in June on
101.5 also referring to 93.9 which I assumed was the OK pair rather
than KS, I had not had an Okeene 101.5 log since July of 2022,
including none since January 2023 -- tho as a semi-local would not
have paid much attention to it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 2354 UT September 13
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