** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RC USB, Sat Oct 29 from 1440 tune-in via Argentine remote, NO signal from LRA36. SDR connexion keeps stalling, have to reload. Listening to noise for over an hour pays off, however:
15475.83 LSB!, Oct 29 at 1548 I notice some offside SSB talk QRM while still tuned to 15475.98 USB, eventually resolved by LSB tuning to this frequency, Spanish talk about Marambio base, so this is certainly LRA36 on a new frequency and maybe new/different transmitter! YL host is chatting with OM guest. I can never get the audio to sound just right, stepping up and down at 10 Hz intervals; even more so during music breaks. Initially there was a reduced carrier which should have made it easier to pinpoint, but then no carrier, pure LSB, S6/S7. 1557 ``aquí en Base Esperanza``; 1600 music; 1604.5 standard canned ID for LRA36 with staff names, ``Nacional, nos une``, a defacto sign-off, and music for some time but did not notice exactly when it went off, well before 1624 check; I let it run until 1637, but nothing further (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6000, Oct 29 at 0547, only RHC on air now, English S9+20/30 with good mod except for some hum, no others of The Cuban Five on 5/6 MHz bands. Usually 6000 is off before the others. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ITALY [non]. 7290, Sat Oct 29 at 1801, IRRS SW via BULGARIA, no signal on X2 = 14580; good into UTwente with Feature Story News, 1805 India music bit, then song in English; 1810 start `Country Jamboree` filler until 1830 cut to gospel music and 1833 gospel huxter. Instead of the first half of WOR which ran last Saturday at 1814-1830. Also, Ron Norton of IRRS notifies us: ``the second program in memory of Dario Monferini, with excepts of the Play DX news program in English and Italian, as well as fragments of our earlier tests broadcast from 1988-89, including short segments from Radio Stella International (Scotland), World Music Radio, Jonathan Marks from Media Network (Radio Nederland), and more, will be repeated at the following times [one hour each]: - On Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022 (A22 season): 22:00 UTC (19:00) CET on 1323 kHz MW to Europe (+ streaming) - On Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022 (B22 season): 12:00 UTC (13:00 CET) on 9510 kHz SW to Europe (+ streaming) 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET) on 7290 kHz SW to Europe (+ streaming) 20:00 UTC (21:00 CET) on 1323 kHz MW to Europe (+ streaming) with repeats and also in the coming week at various times via streaming at https://nexus.org/mp3 .`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NIGERIA. 7255-, Oct 29 at 0551, no signal from VON; but I am checking too early: ``Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Lugo, NW of Spain, Tecsun PL-880, cable antenna, 8 meters, NIGERIA, 7254.9, Voice of Nigeria, Abuja Lugbe, *0555-0610, 29-10, open with songs, at 0557 interval signal, at 0601 Vernacular, comments. Very strong carrier, very weak audio. It seems to have transmitter problems. 15321`` 7255-, Oct 29 at 1756, no VON signal into Canary SDR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5000, Oct 29 at 0548, sweep tones apparently from WWV itself during this minute rather than QRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2162 monitoring: confirmed UT Saturday October 29 at 0130 on WRMI 5850, S9+20 into Virginia SDR, S9+20/30 into Missouri SDR, S8/9+10 into KFS CA on SE antenna, VG S9+20/30 direct. What about // 15770 instead of 7730? Nothing but traces at VA, MO, direct; S9+10/25 into KFS. Also confirmed UT Saturday October 29 at 0400 on WBCQ Radio Angela, 5130 minus 16 Hz = 5129.984, S9/+5 into Maryland SDR. Also confirmed Saturday October 29 at 1600 on WRN NAm webcast. Next: 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 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. 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. 7780, Oct 29 at 0552, WRMI-13 is finally back on air, as forecast by end of this week, the last one (almost) to be restored following Hurricane Ian; rock music at S9/+10 with slight distortion. I had not yet seen this, which went on FB circa 23 UT Oct 28: ``WRMI Radio Miami International 17h · Dear WRMI Listeners: We just repaired 7780 kHz today, and it will come on the air at 0000 UTC tonight (UTC Oct 29). We now have all of our regular frequencies back on the air except for 7730 kHz. We did put 7730 back on the air on October 10 at low power, but we have been unable to bring it up on high power using the current antenna. However, we have transferred all of the programming which was previously on 7730 kHz to 15770 kHz on our European beam. We will keep working on 7730, and we may be able to return that frequency to the air within the next couple of weeks. We lost three antennas during Hurricane Ian on September 28 – one to Europe and the Middle East, one to Africa and one to Central America and Oceania. We have placed one of those frequencies (7780 kHz) on a different antenna to the same target areas. We replaced 21525 kHz with 17790 kHz to a different target area. And, as mentioned above, we are still working on 7730 kHz. We are consulting with engineers to see how the three damaged antennas might be repaired or replaced in the future. We want to thank everyone who has contributed to our hurricane repair funds on PayPal and GoFundMe. Your contributions have made it possible for us to do all of this work in just 30 days, and they will make it possible for us to continue with permanent repairs. Thank you all very much!`` The gridspan for 7780 at 222 degrees for WNAm - otherwise same azimuth designated for CAm on silent 5985 - is 0000-1100 only with quite a mixture, besides disposable TOMBS and SMTV, variety at: 00-01, 03-04, 05-06, 08-09; presumably including WOR UT Fri 0330, Sun & Mon 0030 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5129.984, UT Sat Oct 29 at 0230-0259, WBCQ Radio Angela with weekly `Greek Music Refuge`. UB has Zach Liangas on at first to briefly introduce the music from a name I don`t catch, as he has chosen it. Then solid segués for rest of show, enjoyed but noisier here than would have been on VOG 9420. At end UB offered to ID pieces to email requestors (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VANUATU. 7260, Oct 29 at 0551, JBA signal from R. Vanuatu (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic split JBA MW carrier search, Oct 29 at 0621: 711-Morocco, 774-Spain, 846-TP Kiritimati, 855-2-Spain, 882-Canary or Spain (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report despatched at 1913 UT October 29
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