** CHINA. CNR1 WOOB jammer survey Nov 7 at 2321-2324 hitting traditional frequencies vs Sound of Hope: 13920, JBA music, flutter and Doppler flutter; 13160 & 13130 likewise. 13020 Chinese S5-S3, both flutters; 12880 S3-S2 Chinese; 12820 & 12500 JBA carriers (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CHINA [non?]. 11525, Nov 7 at 2325, Chinese S9-S6 with flutter; RFA via TINIAN scheduled, not clear whether this or jammer (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. 11790, Nov 7 at 2325, S5-S3 discussion in English of fossil fuels; it`s CRI via Xianyang 59 site per Aoki/NDXC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15140, Nov 7 at 1951, RHC in Kriyol, via Missouri SDR; 2000 into English with some humbuzz. Something`s always wrong at RHC. As expected, one hour later in B-21 than in A-21 at 1900. As a running dog of Yanqui Imperialism, Cuba goes off and on DST at exactly same dates as USA, and delays any seasonal frequency changes; that may take another week. We cannot expect any accurate info immediately on website, so monitoring will be required (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11880, Nov 7 at 2313, RHC French instead of English, undermodulated and hum, S9/+20, not // 5040. Something`s always wrong at RHC. Nonsensically, the ``Africa`` English broadcast normally moves one UT hour *earlier* in B-seasons instead of later. Not checked yet, but expected to be at 22-23; probably moving to a lower band within a week (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 5040, Nov 8 at 0726, RHC still on in Spanish with music, `Somos Jóvenes` program, heavily distorted, carrier wobbling, overmodulated, splattering, S9+50. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6165 & 6060, Nov 8 at 0728, RHC still on in English, S9+10/20 and S9+30 respectively, enough to produce a JBA carrier on 6270, the leapfrog mixing product another 105 kHz beyond. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 6100 & 6000 are off, and 5040 in Spanish. The multi-hour evening English to N America is probably nominally now at 0100-0800 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** FRANCE. 17800.06V, Nov 8 at 1537, JBA carrier keeps cutting off and on, and audiwobbling, obviously the MiniTransAt yacht race weather broadcast from a defective Issoudun transmitter. Supposed to last until Nov 12 when all the yachts should have arrived in Guadeloupe. Also at 1700 in DRM, unrechecked (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** PHILIPPINES. 9335, Nov 7 at 2327, ``VOA, Washington DC, signing on``, very poor. Listed as Tinang for Burmese at 2330-0030. Once upon a time, VOA relay sites would identify individually, but then host countries became ``protected`` from such bad publicity on air announcements, even tho sites are no secrets in public scheduling info (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ROMANIA. Nov 7 is annual ``Listeners Day`` on RRI, since Nov 1 is anniversary of public broadcasting there in 1928. For a few weeks, RRI has been inviting listener comments on this year`s topic, fake info about COVID in the media. I make a point of listening to this entire hour on its penultimate SW repeat, UT Nov 8 at 0100-0200. No doubt I could hear it sufficiently direct, but am at computer so check remotes for 5990 & 7325. UTwente is all I need, on the first hop from RRI toward N America: 7325 cuts on just in time at *0059.6, S9+40, and so is 5990: in fact signals so steady and clear that could easily pass for webcast or direct line from studio, LOCAL quality! No fading audible nor visible, not even selective fading distortion. In fact, I can widen the bandwidth to max of 13.53 kHz. They are only S7-S9 into Maryland. And a few minutes before 0100, 5990 was occupied by distorted CRI relay via CUBA, fortunately off just in time. After the news, special starts at 0106. I take notes, but deciphering my original scribbles is a problem 16 hours later. 0115 breaks for a folk song, ``I Know You Did Good``. 0118 first listener quoted is a name I recognize, Artur Fernandez Llorella in Spain. Then someone from Germany. Then an old clip from a BBC guy. 0125 lamenting having to miss live concerts. 0129 someone from India. 0130 someone from China, France; 0133 song; 0137 about some outlandish conspiracy theories in Romania. 0139 another listener I recognise, Christian Ghibaudo in France. Many of the other names I don`t attempt to spell nor does RRI. 0141 song by jazz crooner, ``Among the Clouds``. 0146 back to topic, 0147 Algerian listener. 0149 Italy. 0152 goodbye with song ``Transylvania Dance``. 0155 sign-off referring to next ENAm broadcast at 2130; Enescu theme, IS and off. There was remarkable agreement among listeners quoted that public broadcasting such as RRI is the best source for accurate COVID info, NOT social media, tho Internet may be carefully used for research. Guess what, no one from N America participated. Nor have I yet seen any reports of anyone else listening to this, despite my advance promotion efforts and reminders in the WOR iog and on the air. RRI promotion for this allowed audio files to be sent or recorded via phone calls, but not a single listener voice could be heard. They were all quoted by the announcers. Final repeat at 0400 to W North America, which I confirm at 0407 check, S8-S9 on 6020 into Maryland SDR. Not even checked scheduled // 7410 on the broken Tsiganeshti transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 420-MCW kHz, Nov 8 at 0738 UT, mixture of three ND beacons; strongest is TU, 25 watts from Tupelo MS; weaker at higher pitch PK, which is 25 watts from Olathe/Herbb KS, but QRM from another at same pitch I can`t unravel, but likely FQ, 25 watts from Fairmont MN, as heard before. This is as far as I get before dozing off (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2111 monitoring: confirmed Sunday November 7 at 2100 on IRRS via Italia AM, 918 kHz, Villa Estense, S9+8 into nearby Noale KiwiSDR. Hopefully all of it but not checked or rechecked until 2129. 9955 & 5950, confirmed NO WOR at 2230 Sun Nov 7, but other WRMI programming. Confirmed both shifted to 2330+, S9+10 on 5950 into Maryland SDR which gets nothing but jamming on 9955, but that`s audible at Vilhena, Brasil SDR, S9/+10 with no? jamming. Confirmed UT Mon Nov 8 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, VP only S6-S4 into Missouri SDR, but NO signals on 9395 & 9455 which had been //, but expected to shift one hour later. 9395 audible at Winnipeg with elsemusic. Confirmed UT Mon Nov 8 at 0130 on WRMI 9395, poor S7 into Maryland SDR; no signal on 9455, but at 0133 to northern Utah SDR, 9455 audible NOT with WOR, while 9395 is sufficient. Rechecking WRMI skedgrid: System G still shows WOR on both at 8:30 pm ET, but the frequency schedule atop shows at 0100 UT, 9455 switches to SMTV. So this also affects WOR UT Thursdays at 0130 to be on 9395 only, as well as all other Sys G programming at 0100-0200. NOT confirmed UT Mon Nov 8 at 0400 on Area 51, usual timeshift ex-0300: NO signal detectable via MD, ME, MO SDRs on 6160-, nor direct, so this WBCQ off the air? Possibly propagation as 7489.9 is a JBA carrier direct, and 4790 is JBA. NO signal on 3265 which I guess be totally inactive again, not even mentioned as a multi-cast frequency during AAAWWW. It would be propagationally advantageous to run that lowest frequency during winter nights, but it only seems to appear sporadically in noisy summer! WOR *is* running loud and clear on Area 51 webcast. Next: 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW [ex 2100] 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW [ex 0030] 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. Contributions via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com One may also contribute by MO or check in US funds on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7490.06 approx., Sun Nov 7 at 2309, `Uncle Bill`s Melting Pot` at latened hour on WBCQ, plus side of 7490 for a change but normally settles about 7489.9; S9+25/10 direct. I plan to catch this first half on secret playback via webcast UT Tue at 0000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5050, 3215, 3195, 3185, Sunday Nov 7 at 2315, NO signals from WWRB, normally leaving 59m for 93m in B-seasons, active weekend evenings only. 0022 UT Mon Nov 8, 5050 is still on with gospel huxter, S9+15 into Maryland SDR. Maybe to 3 MHz band next weekend? HFCC B-21 shows WWRB registered: 3185 available 24h; 3195 at 0100-0400 only; 3215 at 2200-0200; meanwhile working around WWCR also registered for 3195 and 3215, but I think has never used/needed 3195. There is certainly no need for WWCR and WWRB to timeshare 3215 but they keep doing it, to confuse listeners? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7375-7385, Nov 8 at 0720, hybrid DRM noise, got to be WINB: Yes, now scheduled M-F 0700-1030 on ``7380`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 6980-LSB, Nov 7 at 2311, 2-way in Spanish, sounds like a ham QSO. No pirates to be heard on band (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report despatched at 1914 UT November 8
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