** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RCUSB, Sat Dec 17 at 1458, LRA36 is already on with songs, S5/S8 into Argentine SDR I am sharing with someones in Chicago, Bochum; 1502 another song, but disappears at 1505* before any sign/on. I jiggle tuning to 15475.00 USB, but cannot detect any reduced carrier. Just in case, I keep listening to the noise until 1549 but never resumes. Quite a bust today and barely managed a semihour back on Wednesday (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 5040, 6000, 6060, 6100, 6165, 10080, etc., Dec 17 at 0721, NO signals at all from RHC. At least one of them is usually remaining. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA [and non]. 5025, Dec 17 at 0724, R. Rebelde music is S9+20/30 but somewhat overmodulatedistorted. Nothing on 10050, clear for Gander VOLMET 10051 USB. That station should have been raising a ruckus about the harmonic, if they knew what was happening; and still could (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** FINLAND [non]. 3955, Dec 17 at 1952, I remember that the Radio Strömsö special should be on at 19-20, instead of erroneous originally publicized time of 18-19. Yes, there it is into UTwente SDR, S5/S7 in music, best heard at <6 kHz bandwidth on AM or AM Synch. 1953 English talk about visiting S. island; 1955 contact info; 1956 old Xmas carol; 1958 Texas R SW outro; 1959 TYROT IS but cut to Channel 292 = GERMANY ID; and that soon overridden by very strong open carrier producing medium SAH which proves to be from 2000 KBS World Radio in German, listed via Woofferton UK relay (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KIRITIMATI. 846 kHz, Dec 17 at 0732, JBA carrier from R. Kiribati. See UNIDENTIFIED for a few others at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MALI [and non]. 5995, Dec 17 at 1852, since it`s Saturday I remember to tune in for ORTM`s token English broadcast weekly. Canary SDR gets it S7/S8 but must use AMNarrow, LSB or SAL mode to avoid stronger signal ACI from 6000, NHK via France until 1900. Also weaker CCI on 5995: only listed is Korean radio war, if it`s this week`s Echo of Hope frequency. Something about friendly relations with China, Tunisia also mentioned, a coalition. M reader is enunciating slowly and clearly but still a struggle to follow the gist. Alternating W has heavier accent and speaks faster. Presentation by ambassador about students learning Chinese, English, a ceremony in November? 1903 till next week and into music. 1907 I go back to The Met via KUCO for the first intermission feature during Rigoletto. Next week: The Magic Flute, in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NIGERIA. 7255-, Dec 17 at 0720, no signal from VON (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. Now we know what really accounts for the drastic changes at 90.1, KUCO FM we have previously covered. Found on the homepage Dec 17: ``What's Happening with KUCO Programming? Many of you have probably noticed some changes taking place with KUCO's programming. KUCO is the ONLY radio station still playing CDs. Our CD players are failing at an alarming rate and there are no options to repair or replace them. It's crucial we digitize our music library as soon as possible. This is a MASSIVE undertaking with a projected timeline of five years. In order to speed up this process, we are TEMPORARILY using a streaming service so our extremely small staff can spend their time converting our CDs. All of KUCO's current on-air staff is still here and we are all working feverishly to complete this critical upgrade. We appreciate your patience and we will be back with our local hosts in January. Thank you for your support and Happy Holidays! Best, Jeff Hagy`` Other disruptions continue: `From the Top` dropped off at 1646 UT Dec 17, soon replaced by backup music from KUCO for 4 minutes. After 1703 I`m hearing jazz piano and percussion instead of `The Score` as scheduled. Faked out: that really is `The Score` or transition to it at 1706 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2169 monitoring: confirmed UT Saturday December 17 at 0130 on WRMI 5850, S9+20/30 into Missouri SDR. Also confirmed UT Saturday December 17 at 0500 on WBCQ Radio Angela, 5130 minus 17 Hz into NH SDR = 5129.983, S9/+15. Also confirmed Saturday December 17 at 1700 on WRN N America webcast. Next: 2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW 0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0530] 2100 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW 0400vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW 0130 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW 0030 UT Wednesday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0130 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 to Ron Howard, Monterey CA, for a check on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, ``Am sending it to you in memory of Brian Alexander (May 1, 1957 - Dec. 26, 2012). I once enjoyed his many African logs. Thank you for your many excellent contributions to our radio hobby over the decades!`` One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to: woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. (7490v), UT Sat Dec 17 at 0100-0201, WBCQ webcast of `AAAWWW`, starts with a sneeze, somehow relates that to Free Speech; A&A arguing about whether microphoniums are open, usual banter. 0106 announces that Angela became a US citizen last Friday which is why there was no new show. The process took some 4 years and would have lasted longer without some legal help: but they did it the right way. Never mentioned whether she renounced Canadian citizenship, which the US considers optional despite wording of the Oath. They go thru some typical citizenship test Q&A. Quick check of the SW frequencies into NH remote: 6159.936, 7489.938, 5129.997; while 3265v & 9330v are off. 0125 datestamp of 16 Dec YOOLF 2022 and trimulcasting. SuperStition has been off since Monday Dec 12 and hope to have it back on by following Monday; as a crew has been retuning the antenna. ``Glenn Hauser, get it right``, accusing me of getting it wrong. Anything ``wrong`` has been due to lack of explicit info out of AW about what is really going on, forcing us to speculate! Asks for prayers for some staff who are hurting. Does not mention ``electrocuted`` this week as twice before, never with any details of how it happened, how serious if not deadly, and who exactly is suffering. God knows? Ant has been under maintenance since summer. It was almost built when they got it in 2017/18 but then Ampegon went bankrupt and knowledgeable engineers could not come over from Switzerland, because of pandemic. Now someone from Germany is leading the work. Expensive, e.g. a single cap costs $ 20K. Supporting tube is 10 to 15 ft diameter. Ant is 4 vertical x 4 horizontal dipoles = 16. SS antenna is as impressive as the Grand Canyon when you stand under it, rather than just looking at photos. Maintenance should be completely finished by end of next week = 24 Dec. It`s 52 degrees in Fla which they consider frigid, and worry about how cold it has to get before Angela`s horses need to be blanketed. 0137 excerpts of articles from Radio World, in defense of AM radio in cars; and of analog by WFMU GM; 0149 BBC planning to be online only by 2030y ``only 8 years from now`` -- make that 7. 0054 a few emails only from political supporters. Yes, they could not resist some digs at Biden vs their ``real`` president T****. Usual wrapup, prayer, joining Hal Turner about a minute late (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7730, Dec 17 at 0716, for first time since hurricane destruxion, a carrier here as I tune across every night, S7/S9 and maybe a trace of modulation, presumed WRMI. This was on NE antenna, and since then 15770 has had to substitute for it even tho totally inappropriate propagationally at night, so will 15770 now be off or reduced? Compared to 7780 on SW antenna, which is S9 with TOMBS. AND, 7570 on NW antenna with TOMBS, is OFF! The 7554-7584 range is occupied by some kind of noise presumably ute not DRM, which 7570 normally overrides. Lou Johnson, GA, posted to WRMI fb circa 23 UT Dec 16 that 7730 is back! with no further info or replies. 7730 is also audible Dec 17 at 1916 with gospel huxter, S7 into Maryland SDR and // much stronger 15770, S7/S9+15. WRMI skedgrid shows 7730 as WRMI-1, 44 degrees to Europe at NO times 24h! While 15770 is WRMI-9, also 44/Eu and scheduled 24/7. So what antenna is 7730 really on now? There are about two dozen entries of 7730 in several program skedgrids, never removed while imaginary. BTW the waterfall shows a 45-degree-angled ionosonde running upward, and I do hear it blip as it crosses 15770 at 1928; and another at 1929, 1932 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VANUATU. 7260, Dec 17 at 0720, S7/S9 music from RV still here, no 7890 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-oceanic JBA split MW carrier search, December 17 at 0732: besides 846 KIRITIMATI, q.v.: 855-two making slow beat about 1 Hz, likely Spain; 1098 slower beat about 32/minute = 0.53 Hz. At this late hour I would assume one be 25 kW, V7AB, Marshall Islands; other maybe RNE5 Spain of which there are four ranging 5 to 25 kW, if not too late for 25 kW from Slovakia, where all MW is being turned off. And there are numerous further 1098 TPs, including a megawatt from somewhere in China. And one more JBAC on 1107, likely Spain, of which there are five RNE5 ranging 10 to 25 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 88.1 FM, Dec 17 at 0224 UT, partial announcement in Spanish ``escúchenos las 24 horas ... mejor compañía`` vs CCI from maringal Okies KMSI & KWOU. Probably UStation rather than Mex. For the first time this winter, checking for DX on the cold caradio, as DXMAP showed Es FM DX between PA & AR an hour ago up to 100 MHz, and it might have slipped into OK. But that`s all I get in bandscanning bottom half of FM band continuously since 0213 when there was some lite classical on 88.1 unexpected from either Okie: sked on KGOU/KWOU at 8 pm Fri is `Snap Judgment` about storytelling: https://www.kgou.org/show/snap-judgment - nothing else unusual but some stupid ballgames with horrible modulation on 92.1, mentioning Spencer, OK?; 93.5, Cougars, KS? Quit at 0235 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING The 14th Amendment, Section 3, Plainly States What to Do with an Attempted Coup https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/14th-amendment-plainly-states Section 3: Disqualification from Holding Office “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.” with a gallery of the 121 ``traitors`` re-elected by Republicans This report dispatched at 2014 UT December 17 _ 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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