** COLOMBIA. 10125 CW, Oct 13, 2024 at 0558-0606, the ``keyboard
alfabet`` station is back! My nightly routine has including
bandscanning from 8900 to 10125, since 10125 occasionally catches
Aussie hams in USB phone instead of CW; and also the keyboard station,
not heard for ages, and supposedly quit because license expired and
was not renewed. It`s exactly the same thing he was sending over and
over last year, including signature errors! ``QWETYUIOIX ASDFGHJKLÑ
ZXCVBN VVV DE HK3QQ BOGOTA COLOMBIA`` or starting with VVV. NOTE that
R is omitted, P is missent as X, and M is also omitted. My previous
significant logs, all FROM YEAR 2023! starting here with last time
previously heard:
2023:
** COLOMBIA. 10125 CW, Sept 26 at 0607, HK3QQ on again with
keyboard-letter-sequence beacon. Could not copy X instead of P after
O, so maybe deleted if not corrected (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
2023:
** COLOMBIA. 10125 CW, April 20 at 0635, once again the strange
station sending keyboard letters slowly in sequence: ``QWERTYUIOX
ASDFGHJKLÑ ZXCVBNM`` and then much faster: ``VVV DE HK3QQ BOGOTA
COLOMBIA`` --- note the error? of X instead of P, like reversed dits
and dahs? And the Enye after L; maybe that`s where it lies on a
Spanish keyboard. QRZ.com:
``HK3QQ Colombia flag Colombia, Jesús Ernesto Reyes Castro, Bogotà
111156, Colombia
Escuela de telegrafia Marconi ilustrado - Colombia
Frecuencia: 7.070 CW
Beacom VVV De HK3QQ Bogotá Colombia 5W``
Previous logs of this filed under UNIDENTIFIED (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WORLD OF RADIO 2187){still same info in QRZ.com as of Oct 13, 2024}
2023:
UNIDENTIFIED. 10125 CW, April 17 at 0626, series of letters between
long pauses. I soon realize it`s reading off a standard keyboard: A S
D F G H J K L --- Then faster VVV DE --- and I don`t copy any ID. Then
resumes with: Q W E R T Y U I O --- Is this default of some software,
or done deliberately? This is of course in the so-called 30m hamband
as I am listening for VKs on phone in this area (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)
** CUBA. 11860 & 11930, Oct 13 at 0552, pulse jamming against nothing,
R. Martí frequencies never on air at night, duh! So altho RHC can
barely get two frequencies defectively on air, the greatest priority
of jamming nothing survives! Std remark about undernourished Cubans
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** MEXICO. Re: "More importantly, where`s XEW? Remember when it
owned 900 at night, 250 kW? IRCA Mexican Log 2024 says it`s 24h
100/100 kW still on AM; but current mwlist and consequently WRTH 2024
still claim 250 kW, and another Mex on 900, 10/2.5 kW, XEOK Amor
Monterrey, which is totally missing from IRCA Log (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)"
Tim Hall replies: ``I checked my notes and found that XEOK turned off
their AM on or before May 2020. A listener in Monterrey reported the
shutdown of the AM to one of the many Mexican radio Facebook groups
that I follow as I try to keep the Mexican Log up to date.`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** ROMANIA. 11960 AM, Oct 13 at 0553, English talk about Timishoara,
must be RRI; it`s the SSOB at S5/S9, hardly anything else on 25m
beyond JBA carrier from France 11700. HFCC lists this as 90 kW at 300
degrees only for WEu from Galbeni:
https://new.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A24&broadc=RRO
These versions refuse to show what`s DRM and what`s AM, but reduced
power is dead giveaway that it`s supposed to be DRM; master frequency
list does mark it N for DRM. But it`s NOT! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** SCOTLAND [non]. 7730, UT Sun Oct 13 at 0100, `Encore` classical
music hour from R. Tumbril via WRMI; is 44 degree beam, so best
remotes for it are in Maryland, S9+5, and slightly better Georgia at
S9+10. This airing is supposed to be on System F, 5850 only, but
that`s one of few transmitters still not recovered from Hurricane
Milton, so I check 7730 on a hunch, as skedgrid used to show
5850//7730 on same system during this hour but was wrong. Sked now
claims System L at 0100 UT Sunday on 5950 // 7730 with `Pop Shop
Radio`, but that`s really on 5950 only (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2264 montoring: NOT confirmed
Saturday October 12 at 2300 on WTWW 9475 - never came on air unlike
last weeks when popped on just in time.
Confirmed UT Sunday October 13 at 0000 on WRMI 9955, S9+20 with
flutter into Pardinho, Brasil SDR.
Confirmed UT Sunday October 13 at 0429 about 5 minutes into so the
nominal 0315v started very late about 0424 on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, MO,
S9+17 groundwave to nearby remote.
Confirmed Sunday October 13 at 1900 on IRRS via AM Italia, 1322.995,
VG S9+8 into UTwente across Europe. Next:
2130 UT Sunday SW Radio, Germany 3975 & 6160;
2330 UT Sunday WRMI 7570 to NW;
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW;
0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW [irregular];
0830 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 6160 [resumed];
1930 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 3975 & 6160;
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to SW;
1300 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?];
2000 UT Tuesday IRRS 1323-Italy;
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW;
2330 UT Tuesday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
1930 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975 & 6160;
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW;
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S;
1630 UT Thursday SW Radio, Germany 6160.
Thanks this week to John Spicer, ``You put your life into this and I
just wanted to say thank you for your efforts. I really enjoy your
show and the updates in print and radio`` with a contribution via
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One may also contribute by MO or check on a US bank to:
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 770, KKOB, tower down by balloon hit: looking at video over
and over about that, something strange. The tower collapsing appears
to be very much in the background compared to the two balloons in the
foreground, as if one of them could not really have brushed it; false
perspective?
As for 770 being off the air, I have yet to see any timeline of
exactly what happened, but: maybe knocked off the air immediately when
tower fell, but it`s the DA tower not in use in the daytime; so if
remained on air, probably turned off shortly for evaluation of
situation and then back on (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 1953 UT October 13
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/article.php?story=20241013201502292