** ITALY. 18125-USB, June 26 at 2050, IZ2ZSF calling QRZ North America, one of only three phone signals on band but I stay with this one with an accent who must be extracontinental; of course Spain is blasting in on 17855 with silly ballgame. QRZ.com:
``IZ2ZSF Italy flag Italy STEFANO BERGAMASCHI Via G.Capra, 12, 26040 Gussola No paper QSL, IT Italy Hi, I'm Stefano, I was born in 1980 and in 2013 I got my ham license. My qth is in a small village in the countryside of CREMONA, in the center of the Po valley, a few hundred meters from the biggest Italian river (Po river). https://www.facebook.com/101187861741290/live/ My facebook page`` Panoramic aerial photo of the town; and of his antennas and rigs, of course at: https://www.qrz.com/lookup/iz2zsf (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6950-USB, June 27 at 0049, pirate music at S9/+10 including storm noise, probably Wolverine Radio; yes: convenient two-word ID interjected at 0051 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 341-MCW kHz, June 26 at 2042 UT, ND 25-watt beacon EI at Woodring Airport, Enid, reconfirmed on the air but JBA at near-local range (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 515-MCW kHz, June 26 at 2043 UT, 25 watt NDB PN at PoNca City is back on the air! I tune across here almost every night, and it`s been gone until now checked in the daytime, vs storm noise. Last logged July 30, 2020 but not noticed missing until August 11. Classaxe.com however says it was last logged September 3. Before July there had been other outages. It had been reported from many states but hardly any of their listings come from OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 15185, June 26 at 2054, surprised to find VOA in English, S9+25. Interview with a YL university student from Central African Republic who has lived in WDC for seven years. Hostess asks her to ``slow down``. Refers to keeping gender info off business cards, but optional to title herself Ms. Deep selective fading, maybe sporadic E, and marred by audio dropouts. Is it that tough to get a reliable feed from Washington to Grimesland? 2057 reverts to French, this having been LL called ``Anglais - Télé``, so a TV spot? 15185 runs weekends only for this semi-hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2092 monitoring: confirmed Saturday June 26 at 1800 on IRRS 7290 via Bulgaria and 918 kHz MW via Italy. Monitored on UTwente SDR and Noale SDR respectively simultaneously; disregarding internet delays: 918 tune-in at 1753 during music, S9+16 weaker than usual at local range, and undermodulated? At 1758:49 it switches to Aïda theme as it starts, for about a minute and brief IRRS sign-on, pause, and WOR starts. 7290 S9+25 open carrier with warble on upper side, stays on until 1759:49, abruptly joining Aïda in progress. As WOR gets underway it`s received about 5 seconds later on 7290 than on 918. Also confirmed UT Sunday June 27 from 0320 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO. Heavy storm noise direct; nearby KB0FX SDR is offline. Audible on KS SDR and Muscatine IA SDR. Next: 2000 UT Sunday IRRS 918-Italy 2200vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE [new] 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 2200 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Our non-commercial broadcasts and website depend on voluntary support: thanks to Gerald T Pollard, Raleigh NC, for a generous quarterly check in US funds on a US bank starting each season, to: Glenn Hauser, Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5085, UT Sun June 27 at 0025, WTWW-2 has TOUTA underway for a few minutes since I last checked with hamstuff. Also earlier checked 9940- but not running it today. S9+20/10, closing with `Mr Sandman` until 0048, back to rock (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0427 UT June 27 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/
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