** CHINA. 21530, Oct 20 at 0055, JBA Chinese is the OSOB so also the
SSOB: CNR1 jammer against SOH; EiBi shows CNR1 DRM could also be on
here, but not now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA [and non]. 1141 kHz, Oct 20 at 0304, the het upon 1140
stations mainly XEMR, is back from presumed Cuba so the power must be
back on. Immediately retune to 890 to check for 889/891 carriers, not
yet, but WLS news is just now saying that power has been restored
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 6000, Oct 20 at 0109 still no signal from RHC which might be
on if power be restored. Nor at 0306, but now 5025 R. Rebelde is back
with normal bigsig S9+20/40 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** MEXICO [and non]. 800, Oct 20 at 0101 UT, heavy distorted music
QRMing KQCV, so now I have heard XEERG NL earlier than late at night
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6965 USB, Oct 20 at 0057, music and right into
Wolverine Radio ID and then SSTV beepery, S9/+15. Many more reports
here including a clear image of that same SSTV:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,135373.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6950 usb, Oct 20 at 0058, song at S8 vs high storm
noise level = HSNL from eastern New Mexico. These say it`s Sycko
Radio, which I understand is pronounced ``psycho``:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,135371.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6970+ AM, Oct 20 at 0308, S9+10/20 of dead air,
presumably an unID pirate, now the OPOB. Others reported music
earlier, on and off:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,135382.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** NORTH AMERICA. 11529.9, Oct 20 at 1449, JBA music S5/S6, presumed
pirate Hikari FM allegedly in Sonora, signature offset (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 930, Oct 20 at 0659 UT, dead air from WKY OKC,
past 0700 during which I catch an ID for KCCC, Carlsbad NM, which is
only 60 watts at night. WKY resumes about 0700.5 with `sports animal`
WWLS ID. That`s 98.1, also on 640. No mention of WKY itself? Not sure
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1000 kHz, Oct 20 at 0302 UT dead air obviously
from my nearby KTOK OKC, presumably during newshole, maybe failed to
switch inputs compared to surrounding talk programming. Allows me to
hear under it some ESPN station, surely 50 kW WMVP Chicago, not
100-watt KSOO Sioux Falls (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY [and non]. 11785.004, Oct 19 at 2200, VOT English not off
the air, but might as well be, VP *marginal* signal into UTwente,
S8/S9 on meter but with flutter. Propagation disturbance? K index at
21 only 3 and 2/3. Unlistenable but I let it run and recognize some
program outros/themes: 2221 `The Energy Agenda`, music. 2230 `Turkey`s
Geomarked Products`, music. 2251 headlines of the olds. Now it`s
drifted to 11785.002+ and slightly stronger S9/+5. 2254 s/off as if
this had been the 1230 on 17620. Something`s always awry at Ankara.
2254.7 IS for a semiminute until off 2255.3*.
I immediately retune UTwente to 11800 and catch the sign-off of
simulEnglish from ROMANIA: It`s blasting in loud and clear, VG S9+25
and one IS to 2256*. Therefore, awful reception of VOT is *not* due to
propagation: could be on much reduced power and/or more likely totally
wrong antenna not aimed toward WEu as supposed to be, 500! kW at 325
degrees from Emirler, where something`s always wrong. RRI 11800 is
only! 300 kW at 300 degrees from Galbeni, per HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2265 monitoring: not confirmed Sat
Oct 19 at 2300 on WTWW because 9475 is still off the air; tho 9930 is
L&C with TOMBS.
Confirmed UT Sunday October 20 at 0000 on WRMI 9955, good into Georgia
SDR, and sufficient into Pardinho, Brasil SDR.
Also confirmed UT Sunday October 20 at 0402 about 3 minutes into so
started the 0315v circa 0359 on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, MO. Heavy storm noise
direct but S9+18 into nearby remote.
Also confirmed Sunday October 20 at 1900 on IRRS SW via AM Italia,
1322.996- kHz, S9 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;
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.
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** U S A. 4840, WWCR: one biweek ago I happened across this frequency
after 0315 UT Sunday Oct 6, and was astounded to hear an `Australian
DX Report` by Bob Padula that was soon very obviously more than FOUR
YEARS OUT OF DATE! See my log about that. I planned to check the
following week to hear what they would do then, but missed it. So this
week I make a point of monitoring it from the start. He never
explicitly gives a date it was recorded or to be originally broadcast.
This contains some of the *same* totally outdated DX loggings, but
it`s not identical. He starts by saying it`s almost summer time, so
would that be November? Certainly not June as previously. The dead
giveaway part about ``upcoming`` HFCC in Bulgaria canceled - which
would have been August *2020*, is never mentioned. Also dead giveaways
are the prop figures he cites initially: 10.7 cm flux at 70, SSN of
only 5, IPS says NO sunspots, so the new cycle has not yet started
(Now, of course, we are at solar max! someone could research exact
date for those). All his logs were between 1800-1830 UTC on some
unknown date, as if those would be of any particular use elsewhere
even when they were fresh. For amusement, I copy down all his tips. If
any of these are still correct, it`s pure coincidence!
7210 CRI Urumqi in Russian. 7235 VIRI in Hausa from 1820. 7265
Madagascar BBC English. Music pause at 0318. 7280 VOV Spanish. 7290
Romania with IRRS English [YES! still so, tho IRRS announces 7285!].
7315 CRI Kunming. 7340 CRI Kashi English. 7355 Singapore BBC Korean.
7395 CRI Kashi German. 7415 CRI Xian Persian. 7445 Madagascar BBC
English. 7465 Singapore BBC English. 7485 VOA Philippines Korean. 7540
VOA Udorn Pashto. 9360 RFA Kuwait Chinese. 9420 Voice of Greece Greek.
9460 Voice of Turkey Turkish. 9500 TWR Swaziland English. 9540 BBC
Oman Oromo. 9750 BBC Vatican French. 9800 WBCQ Woofferton Arabic! 9820
KBS Woofferton French. 9900 BBC Tajikistan Korean. 9920 R Thailand
Thai. 9940 TWR Swaziland Tigrinya. 9775 Woofferton with R. Ndarason
International in KANNADA [SIC, it`s Kanuri, don`t you know that this
is for Chad and Kannada is spoken in India?!?!]. Finishes at 0324, cut
to music.
I repeat, what a disservice WWCR provides with 4-year-old DX `news`.
Nor does Bob Padula himself know or care about this, or he could tell
them to stop it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** UZBEKISTAN. 9509.9, Oct 20 at 0117, S5/S6 JBA talk off-frequency;
what could it be? Of course, as in EiBi, BBC English via Tashkent at
00-02; a site well-known? for offfrequenciness, and BBC apparently
oblivious to such damage to its reputation (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15140, Oct 20 at 1444, S9/S6 JBA carrier, but soon off.
Could it be RHC? This frequency had been absent for weeks, long before
the latest National Blackouts. Nothing else scheduled now, but maybe
RFA Tajikistan tuning up for later Uighur at 16-17 or even VOA English
via Woofferton at 17-18? After 1500 nothing into Maryland SDR when RHC
would have been Esperanting on Sundays (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 1958 UT October 20
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/article.php?story=20241020201502345