** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RC USB, Thursday Oct 20 at *1430 LRA36 cuts on during song exactly as scheduled for special station anniversary broadcast; good into Argentine remote. 1433 lyric during song sounds like ``voy a buscar una señal``, or am I imagining? 1434.5 cut to standard sign-on procedure; 1536 theme song; 1540 recitation this time mentioning 43rd anniversary, ``una historia con futuro``; 1441.5 music; 1446 ID ``su cía``, and into live chat among YLs, even more excited than usual, for the 27th program of the season; 1448 mention Adrián Korol, head of RAE; 1453 geo coords of base; clima: +1 C, winds of 32 or 55 kph? sunset around 20 local; 1456.5 phone and other contact info; recorded voices with greetings, seem to be mostly officials rather than listeners, but first one never identified; 1502 frequencies as 15476 and ``97.6`` -- even she can mix up the digits instead of 96.7. 1503 we hear Korol; 1507 song; 1510 historia: from 1978 first radio was on met frequencies; Sept 1979 an icebreaker from Bs. As. brought broadcast equipment to base; antenna up and first on air Oct. 20; ID recording mentioning original frequency 6030; then a long phone conversation with Juan Carlos ---, the first announcer as he fondly recollects; still going enthusiastically at 1525 until 1530, then the first song they played in 1979, a milonga; 1535 more chat, but 1537* cut off amid talk and never to return, altho planned to run until 1630. This is how it often happens even on ordinary days. Wonder if this will repeat Saturday or of Wednesday`s (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 5025 & 5040, Oct 20 at 0615, Rebelde and RHC are off; on 6 MHz band: only RHC English 6060 undermodulated, and 6165 just barely modulated. Something`s alwys wrong at RadioCuba/RHC. The Other Side: ``Policy --- Is Cuba a failed state or not? DIARIO DE CUBA spoke to three experts on the categorization that the regime does not want to acknowledge, as it would mean accepting that a historical process has failed. --- José Luis Reyes, La Habana 17 Oct 2022 - 16:26 CEST Cubans in line in Havana. DIARIO DE CUBA [caption] In the wake of the disaster wrought by Hurricane Ian in western Cuba, the first secretary of the Communist Party in Havana, Luis Antonio Torres Iríbar, gave a speech in which he sought to refute the growing perception on social media and outside the country that the regime on the island is a "failed state."``... https://diariodecuba.com/cuba/1666016797_42899.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KIRITIMATI [and non]. 846, Oct 20 at 0634, no signal from R. Kiribati, but this is Thursday. It may be erratic; Bruce Portzer noted from his Grayland WA DXpedition circa Oct 12 mainly logging Kiribati on 1440, ``I was surprised to discover that the other Kiribati station, Kiritimati 846, was carrying separate programming and signed off at 0730z. Bruce in Seattle``. While 846 was inaudible here, Oct 20 at 0635+, I did have JBA TA carriers on 855, 882, 774, 711, 612, presumably, Spain, Canary, Morocco (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NIGERIA. 7255-, Oct 20 at 0618, no signal from VON. I wonder if the flooding around Abuja affects this. SW sites, of course, should be built on high ground. Also no signal into Canary SDR at 1825 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2160 monitoring: confirmed UT Thursday October 20 at 0030 on WRMI 9395, S9+20 into Missouri SDR. Also confirmed UT Thursday October 20 at 0130 on WRMI 5010, S8/9+10 into Bonaire SDR. NEW WORLD OF RADIO TIME effective immediately, tnx to Jeff White: UT Saturday 0130 on WRMI 5850 to the NW, just reactivated, and also on 15770 instead of 7730, probably to the NE but widely heard. WORLD OF RADIO 2161 contents: Alaska, Antarctica, Austria, Brasil, China, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia and non, (France), Germany, Guatemala and non, Indonesia, (Iran), Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kaliningrad, Korea South, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Myanmar, Netherlands non, New Zealand, North America, Russia non, Sa`udi Arabia, Tibet non, (UAE), UK, USA, Vanuatu; Frodgisms; propagation outlook WORLD OF RADIO 2161 available from 0207 UT October 21: (mp3 stream) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2161.m3u (mp3 download) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2161.mp3 Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html Also linx to podcast services. The shortwave+ broadcasts should be: *WRMI frequencies not yet restored as of October 21! But check all other frequencies at scheduled times for possible substitutions 0330 UT Friday WRMI *7780 to SW; but last weeks on 9455!! 1430 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed? by Cuba] 1815 UT Friday IRRS 7290-Bulgaria to WNW, 14580?; 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy [still pre-empted on 3rd Friday?] 2030 UT Friday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW, 15770 to NE? [NEWS] 0400 UT Saturday WBCQ Radio Angela 5130v to WSW 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0030 UT Sunday WRMI *7780 to SW 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0430] 2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy 0030 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to NNW 0030 UT Monday WRMI *7780 to SW 0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW 0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW [missed last week by mistake] 2230 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed by Cuba] 2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html A noncommercial service for which financial support is appreciated. Thanks this week to Andy Reid, Ontario, for a contribution via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com Or by money order or check on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5010, Oct 20 at 0615, this WRMI is off, rather than extended. So are all other 5 & 7 MHz channels: 5800, 5850, 5950, 7570, 7730, 7780. At 0620, 9455 is splattering again down to 9420. But the latest from WRMI at 1539 UT Oct 20: ``5850 kHz back on the air --- The repairs on 5850 kHz have been finished, and we tested it on the air at 1445 UTC today, October 20. It's off at the moment, but it will come on at its normal sign-on time of 2200 UTC this evening. We know that a lot of listeners in central and western North America will be happy to hear this. We will continue to work on 7570 and 7780 kHz in the coming days as we make more repairs to those transmission lines that were damaged by Hurricane Ian. Thank you again for all of your messages of support. Jeff White, General Manager WRMI Radio Miami International 10400 NW 240th Street Okeechobee, Florida 34972 USA Tel +1-305-559-9764 Fax +1-863-467-0185 www.wrmi.net`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1140 kHz, Oct 20 at 0642 tune-in, immediately hear ID for 100.1 & 1140, KXRB, Sioux Falls. 100.1 is 2.15 kW from Brandon. Night pattern has only minor lobes southish, major to the NW. No open carrier from KLTK(?) tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VANUATU. 7260, Oct 20 at 0618, RV is JBA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 1130 kHz, Oct 20 at 0642 UT, `C2CAM` under illegal KLEY rock music from KS; normally would be KWKH, but all-sports, right? NRC AM Log shows two biggies with C2CAM: KTLK Minneapolis, and WISN Milwaukee, both of which are supposed to go all-north at night; yeah, right (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 5080, Oct 20 at 0614, S7/S9 open carrier; no broadcasters known; ute? 5085 WTWW off now, of course (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0242 UT October 21 _ 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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