** CHINA. 7410, Oct 25 at 1523, JBA pop music, S9/+10; 1527 maybe
Chinese talk, continues 1530+. EiBi and Aoki show CRI Japanese via
Jinhua 831 site. Also on 7410 at this hour, Iran in Arabic via Zahedan
site. I`m checking whether anything still audible on 7 MHz band this
late. 1523 UT = 0851 LMT, and today`s Enid sunrise was 1248 UT, some
2.5 hours earlier. No sign of RNZP on 7440 now, to be 7390 from Oct
29. Not quite the OSOB: see 7300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CHINA. 7300, Oct 25 at 1525, JBA music and talk at S4/S6, past
1530+. Aoki & EiBi show both in Mandarin, R. Taiwan Int`l and CNR1,
i.e. jamming. Only broadcast signal still audible this late on 7 MHz
band except 7410, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 11985, Oct 25 at 1516, humroar obscuring
talk and wobbling frequency, S6/S7. Scheduled is RFA Korean via SAIPAN
at 15-19, per Aoki & EiBi, neither shown as jammed as this seems to be
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** SPAIN. 15520, Wed Oct 25 at 2200, token English from SNR is
slightly better here off the back to ME, S9+20/30 vs 17855 direct to N
America, S9+10/20. Begins with Amy Egan giving the new sked for
``winter`` from Oct 29, broadly but no details about English, who
cares? which will surely become M/W/F only at 2300-2330. Notably she
cites the African frequency as 17755, rather than 17775 which has been
widely publicized by AER sourced to REE itself; which is wrong? HFCC
agrees it`s 17755. It also includes a number of frequencies which are
never mentioned, must be alternates but not labeled as such woodenly:
21620, 15500, 15390, 15110, 11940. The ``new`` HFCC website is now
intercepted by a warning as certificate has expired as of today:
https://new.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=B23&broadc=REE
2203 news; following feature is interview about the first private
rocket launch from Spain (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TAIWAN. 9685, Oct 25 at 1520, choral harmony, gospel? S3/S6. No,
Aoki shows Nippon no Kaze in Korean via Paochung at 1500-1559 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY. 11785, Oct 25 at 2200, VOT not off the air today.
Something`s not always erroneous at Emirler; VG S9+20/30 direct. After
news, 2209 `Review of the Turkish Press`, something about UN Day. 2211
new promo marking the 100th anniversary of the Turkish Republic, which
will be Oct 29. 2212 `Whipping Piles` about the gig economy for jobs.
2240 outro `Feeling Supreme/The Healing Spring`, something about
honey. 2250 100th anniversary promo again; after s/off, 6 notes of IS
to chopoff at 2255*, no finesse, thus fails to emit any extra German
at 2300 from feed (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U K [non]. 9440, Oct 25 at 0628, French S7/S9 until 0629*; back on
a few seconds later slightly weaker S5/S8 at *0629.4 in unID language.
Per EiBi this is BBC in French via VATICAN, then Hausa via ASCENSION.
There is another of the latter preceding at 0529-0600. I can never
recognize Hausa; are there any keywords like in IDs or other clues we
can use? I don`t know if they axually utter this, but ``this is the
BBC`` per Google translate becomes: ``wannan shine BBC" (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2213 monitoring: ``From: Richard
Lemke, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada, the desk of Richard’s listening
Post, Radio: JRC NRD-535 HF, Antenna: random long wires in the trees,
Dear Glenn: confirming WOR #2213, WRMI, 9395 kHz:
0030 (55343), S9 signal, confirmed; 2330 (45343), S7, S8 signal, 2359,
[both] October 24 UTC 2023 [Tues]. 73’s, Richard, October 25, 2023
12:10 am``
Confirmed Tuesday October 24 at 2330 on WRMI 9395, S9/+10 into UTwente
which I happen to have running, surprisingly good despite way offside
of 355 degree beam from Okeechobee.
Also confirmed Wednesday October 25 at 2100 on WBCQ 7490 -73 Hz =
7489.927, S9+10/20 into Maryland SDR. Next:
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
Thanks this week for financial support from Arnold Heiles,
Heinerscheid,
Luxembourg. See previous log reports for his unsolicited testimonial.
One may contribute in US funds but not necessarily, via PayPal to:
woradio at yahoo.com
Or MO, check on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 9475, Oct 25 at 1925, WTWW reactivated day frequency for
brief test, notified by George McClintock. It`s VG here as expected,
S9+40 with gospel music and Biermann`s IDs as ``Ancient Word Radio on
5085``, and again at 1934, cut off at 1938*. George says will
officially start tomorrow at 3-5 pm CT, then change to 5085; i.e.
20-22 UT and 22+ onwards until Oct 29 when CDT becomes CST, so
presumably UT will then be 21/23 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Oct 25 at 0653:
684, 711*strongest so WESTERN SAHARA is back on; 774, 837, 855 kHz.
The others likely SPAIN (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1210 kHz, Oct 25 at 0701 UT, CBS News with audio
dropouts every second or two; figured it would be WPHT Philadelphia,
but KGYN Guymon OK is also with CBS per NRC AM Log. KGYN tends do
dominate here despite supposedly nulling toward WPHT (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6833-LSB, Oct 25 at 0637, same kind of tones we have
been hearing on 7828-USB, HF trading test from AL or IL? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 2352 UT October 25
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