** ALASKA. HAARP tests: see UNIDENTIFIED 3200
** BRAZIL [and non]. 4985, March 1 at 0725, JBA carrier again audible
from presumed R Brasil Central, unheard last night. Only other 60m SAm
signal the 4810 Perú carrier; 4940 Venezombia still absent (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** ITALY [non]. 7290, Friday March 1 at 1919, checking what IRRS is
running in the SW slot it removed from WOR some months ago:
`Flashpoint Global Crisis` from VOA, story about some virus, not about
Ukraine any more, where not enough was happening? to keep that in the
title. Note: WRMI is still running `FGC` at 1935; is that its `live`
time on VOA itself? If so, is the episode on IRRS really from
yesterday? After lunch, at 1951 referring to globalresearch.ca and
Canadian items, something about Calgary and fluoridation. S8/9+15 into
UTwente, best on LSB to avoid 7295 ChiCom ACI. At *1957 more ChiCom
ACI hits from below, 7285, making IRRS unlistenable even by narrowing
bandwidth to 3 kHz. 1959 IRRS s/off referring to continuing on MW 1323
is chopped off by SW site, Bulgaria or Romania? at 2000* before it`s
finished. But later at 2130 no signal on 1323 during WOR (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. Ken Zichi replies in great detail to this log
of mine:
``267 MCW kHz, Feb 26 at 0729 UT, HET, 25-watt NDB at HenryEtTa; but
better copy tuned to 265 USB. In 2007y someone reported it on 263.
Occasionally noted but not always logged, JBA vs noise level. RNA and
DXinfocentre.com show it the only 267 anywhere!``
Altho I`m DXing these only by ear on my own regular radios, non-SDRs.
``This 'what frequency is it on' is a source of confusion for many ---
but it has a simple explanation.
An MCW signal consists of a carrier and an audio tone (the CW). Audio
tones, as you may remember can generate 'harmonics' so a 1 kHz tone
will also 'sound' at 2 and 3 and sometimes even 4 kHz.
NOW -- imagine if you were able to 'see' radio waves, and looked at
the radio spectrum. If you did that you would 'see' not only the
'carrier' at dead zero, but also see the code 'tones' at 1 kHz above
and if it is full AM MCW also below that carrier. If the signal has
'harmonics' present you will ALSO see code peaks at 2 kHz and maybe
even more remote away from that carrier.
NOW imagine you set your radio to only receive a TEENY TINY slice of
the radio spectrum as many people do to reduce noise when tuning CW. I
mean, the rest of the spectrum isn't sending any useful info so why
not filter it out? If you tuned in wide bandwidth AM none of this is
'obvious' but the minute you narrow down the bandwidth the details
come screaming to your attention.
NOW tune the radio to EXACTLY the carrier (267 in this example). What
do you hear? With a narrow bandwidth, you hear the solid tone of the
carrier and that's it. NOW, keep that bandwidth narrow and tune the
radio instead to 266 or 265 -- NOW you get the code, To add to the
confusion, if your radio is AT ALL 'off channel' when you TUNE to 265
you may really be tuning to 266 --- well I think you see what is
happening.
But even if your radio is 'dead on' if you tune to the 'carrier', you will
get nothing. Tune slightly lower or higher and voila, there's the code
with much better copy.
A photo of the spectrum from an SDR (so you actually CAN 'see' radio
waves!) may help (the one I can find quickly is a 400 Hz tone rather
than 1 kHz but the principles are the same.):
Note the radio is 'tuned' to 325.430 (+250 Hz) kHz. The station VV was
broadcasting on 326 with an 'audio tone' of about 400 Hz (Most US
stations use around 1000 Hz) and unlike most Canuks they used DSB
rather than RCUSB modulation so that 'lower' sideband is also there
'peaking' at 325.6 kHz. If you look at the 'waterfall' you'll actually
SEE the 'Dash Dot Dot Dot' code drawn out vertically on the screen but
NOT at 326 kHz where the carrier is. THAT is just a solid line. The
code is offset from the carrier at 325.6 and 326.4 kHz.
Does this clear up why an MCW station may 'appear' somewhere on the
radio dial other [than] the carrier frequency? [Indeed it will NEVER
actually appear on the carrier -- that is a solid tone and not the
code you're looking for.] The code will be 'offset' from the carrier
by a specific amount depending on the tone sent. Those 'offsets' can
be as distinctive as fingerprints and you'll note them listed in the
RNA database. 73 //Ken Z`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** SPAIN. 9690, Fri Mar 1 at 2300, token English from SNR, VG direct
S9+10/20. Before news, preview about interview with Dr Lindsey
Stonebridge, biographer of Hannah Arendt, and later, Beirut
correspondent about Spanish people living in Lebanon. But at 2313
check the topic is drawbacks, crisis concerning social media (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY [and non]. 5960.002, March 1 at 2259, JBA carrier from VOT
direct vs noise level. By 2325 I`m on UTwente, where it`s S9+30/35 and
measured, `Weekly Analysis` concluding, something about Ukraine. 2326
multi-lingual ID 2-minute filler reel; meanwhile, understation CCCCCCI
clearly audible. 2329 sounds like a `Folk Tale`, music. 2342
``with-you-every-hour`` promo, music. 2347 `That`s Why` about physical
activity and health, voiced by the badax, so fortunate to have made
out that much: it`s not just her heavy accent, but her modulation is
not crisp; music. 2352 the canned s/off, English schedule with
all-wrong times in local UT+3 but called UTC. No one at TRT has ever
noticed how wrong this is, or if they have, do not care. This
recording should be destroyed!!! Then only 6 notes of IS until chopoff
a bit before 2354* uncovering XJRTV from EAST TURKISTAN, land of
imperialist ChiCom genocide against Uighurs and other Moslems (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2232 monitoring: Not confirmed Fri Mar 1 at
2130 on IRRS via AM Italia, 1323 kHz: no signal into UTwente,
apparently off the air, nor at 2159, while nearby Noale SDR is tied up
with six ``digiskr`` in Milan tuned to ham frequencies starting at
exactly same time.
Confirmed Friday March 1 at 2300 on WRMI 9955, S7/S9 direct. Next:
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW
0500 UT Saturday WTWW 5085 [NEW]
1530 UT Saturday SW Radio, Germany 6160
1830 UT Saturday SW Radio, Germany 3975
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0100 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?]
0330vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0600]
1130 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 [also webcast, phonecast; jammed by Cuba?]
2100 UT Sunday IRRS 1323-Italy
2230 UT Sunday SW Radio, Germany 3975
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW
0930 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 6160
2030 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 3975
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to SW
1400 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?]
0030 UT Wednesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1200 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB or 3210-USB
1230 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB or 3210-USB
[previous #2231][SW suspended but still streamed?]
1500 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [unsked, reconfirmed every week but Feb
28]
2030 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW,
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
0230 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1730 UT Thursday SW Radio, Germany 3975
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** U S A. 5085, March 1 at 0519, WTWW-2 is still on with music, and ID
as `Ancient Word Radio`, again at 0529 and off abruptly at 0533*.
Apparently flexible. I thought they were finishing at 0500, thus
choice of 0500 UT Saturday for resuming WORLD OF RADIO. Perhaps a dry
run for that, 24 hours earlier on UT Friday. Also back on air before
2330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. 5000+, March 1 at 0725, NO broadcast signal at all
just above WWV, all off: USA 5010, 5050, 5085, 5130.3v; Cuba 5025.
Also, unlike last night, Thu, TOMBS gone again from 5890 WWCR (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** VANUATU. 7260, March 1 at 0732, RV back on with weak talk after
missing several nights. Also reported around now by Chuck Albertson,
Eric Fetters-Walp, Manuel Méndez and Zacharias Liangas (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 3200, March 1 at 0726, S9+25/30 of open carrier until
0728.5* Suspect HAARP Alaska, which has been testing on 3250, and
earlier 5800, 6800, 7000?, 4600, 5400 as mostly monitored by Walt
Salmaniw; but I hear only dead air, no tones. Some of his earlier
reports to the WOR iog:
``I suspect HAARP is on 7000 right now with a whopping S9+40 signal on
all my antennas into Masset at 0447 tune-in. A huge unmodulated
carrier. Massive! Can't think what else it could be. Walt``
``An interesting pattern emerged on 3250 after going off for a few
seconds at 0630. Carriers were noted strongly also on 3100 and 3400,
and weakly below on 2950! Very interesting, for sure! Wish they'd
announce the experiments a bit more to understand them! 73, Walt``
This includes a schedule of times and frequencies for tests Feb 28-Mar
3 UT, with some but not all the frequencies reported:
https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2024/02/notice-upcoming-haarp-ionospheric-tests.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7735-7775 approx., March 1 at 0735, multi-carrier,
multi-tone uteblob in a frequency span as if chosen to fit exactly
between the WRMIs 7730 & 7780, barely far enough away not to bother
them. Center peak would be 7755 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report despatched at 0112 UT March 2
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/article.php?story=2024030201150248