** BRAZIL. 9665.067, July 24 at 0650, RVM music measured direct, I
think accurate to a few Hz; but earlier at 0508 via Maryland remote,
9665 - 77 Hz = 9664.923. Using sync readouts on remotes, one must be
sure they be calibrated accurately by tuning them to WWV: this varying
within 2 Hz of 10000, no doubt receiver instability not transmitter.
Wolfgang Bueschel took issue with measurements in my previous report,
but seems RVM vary considerably in short term (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. Since Spain closes early on weekends, hardly anything on
16m, UT Monday July 24 at 0033; best is 17565, JBA in Chinese? CNR1
not sked per Aoki & EiBi until 0100 with nothing to jam. JBA carriers
on 17595, 17580, 17495. EiBi & Aoki agree 17595 & 17580 also CNR1 but
nothing on 17495 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA [and non?]. Re my UNID 6100 DRM log, David Crawford, FL
replies: ``gh, RHC Spanish was actually in that mess last night,
checked/heard on 6100 at 0515 and 0605, via Bauta site, parallel 9700
Bauta at first check, with 9700 gone at second check. The 6100 audio
was mostly some kind of noise with low real audio, 9700 was clean.
15230 had a signal on it, probably RHC SPN, but too weak to copy in
cx, which would be via Quivicán site. No Bejucal signal has been noted
since 9 July.``

What I heard at 0534 was nothing but DRM noise; or are you suggesting
that the ``mess`` was not really DRM but some other kind of crap out
of Cuba? BTW, my ref to the DRMRX sked not listing anything on 6100
was really A23, not A22 typo.

6100 checked again July 24 at 0506 into Maryland remote, 0531 direct,
NO signals, AM, RHC nor DRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11850, July 24 at 0040, RHC S9/7 but JBM, ho hum, as usual
where always something`s wrong (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 93.9, July 24 at 1949 UT, lower-half bandscan on caradio
finds no Es nor any expected but can`t help but notice dead air from
KIMY Watonga, `The gospel station` - still dead a semihour later
check, 2019. And *still* dead at another recheck 2359 UT. Standard
remark about no one at station paying attention (Glenn Hauser, Enid,
WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 90.9 & 91.1, July 24 at 1948 UT, the two Air One stations
are not // with separate announcements, rejoining then for music. On
one caradio I cannot tell if exactly synchronized, but doubt it. I
don`t think there were any local contents to the anmts, so don`t know
why they bother.

90.9 is KOKF Edmond/OKC; 91.1 is local KKRD Enid. As long as branding
spelt Air1, WTFDA DB displays 10 of them in OK, 6 of them translators
each with a different primary and KKRD also as a relay: of KYRA 92.7,
unlike any of the others; where`s that? Thousand Oaks CA, why not? Is
that network HQ? Guess not: money goes to Omaha (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** SPAIN. 17855, Monday July 24 at 2200, token English from REE
previews repeat of a 2-parter from last October about Witch-Hunts,
just before Hallowe`en, ``no news since it`s summer``! Had made
special point of listening today for indepth coverage of yesterday`s
national elexion! Fail. VG into Maryland SDR, and other 3 also
audible, 15520, 17715, and with usual squeal, weakest 11670. Over to
simul-TURKEY (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY [and non]. 11785.009, July 23 at 2227, VOT English is not
off the air. S9+40/50 into UTwente, repeat of the `DYKT` feature about
600-year-old castle voiced by the badax; 2224 ``Always with you``
promo, music; 2234 `New Day, New Choices` about e-waste --- hmm,
electrons are really, really tiny. That feature name I don`t often
hear, maybe only Sundays as promised return next week; I had not been
listening on Sundays because of `UBMP` on WBCQ 7490-, but this week
it`s some drama filler. 2241 song; 2249 different song; I missed s/off
but 2253 IS to 2255*, failing to run an extra hour or two in German,
Portuguese (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 11785.003, July 24 at 2202, VOT English not off the air
today, S9+40/50 into UTwente. Tune-in during news, as Spain q.v. is
broken, Hallowe`en repeat instead of breaking news anything about
yesterday`s elexion! 2209 `Review of the Tuerkiyeish Press`, over as
barely started by 2211. Distorted modulation thruout, worst during
music breax. 2217* dumps off the air; *2219 back on and off again, now
offset .009, different unit? *2222 back on at .007, different2 unit?
with dead air at first, stays on so brings up modulation at 2223, just
in time for theme of `Feeling Supreme/The Healing Spring`, which is
about the benefits of persimmons, especially Trabzon dates.
Multi-lingual ID filler reel. 2232 `Did You Know That` by the badax,
about Ottoman Empire WWI peace treaty. 2235 brief dropoffair. 2236
distorted music. 2241 `Always By Your Side` promo and `New Day, New
Choices` different subject than yesterday but missed it. 2246
distorted music. 2251 s/off. 2252 IS.

2256 restart IS with German IDs. 2300 still on with timesignal and
opening German, still going past 2315. 2318, multi-lingual ID filler
reel. 2326 off air, but false stop, right back on with music.
Something`s always erroneous at Emirler. We hear the same program
themes as in English, like `Feeling Supreme` ending at 2338. I wonder
if the German titles make any more sense than English. 2342, `Wussten
Sie das?` Google says original Tuerkiyeish would be ``Bunu biliyor
muydun?`` Entire extra hour succeeds, 2356 IS now with Portuguese IDs,
but finally off at 2401 check, opening frequency for weaker China
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2200 monitoring: confirmed Sunday
July 23 at 2000 on IRRS SW via AM Italia, 1323 kHz, S9+5/15 over CCI
presumed Brighton making medium SAH.

Also confirmed UT Monday July 24 at 0030 on WRMI 7780, JBA S5/S7
direct --- but no 14-second noise blast QRM to start; I usually but
not always hear that on 7780 via various remotes.

Also confirmed UT Monday July 24 at 0302 on Area 51 via WBCQ 6160 -67
Hz = 6159.933, S9/+5 into Maryland SDR. JL had gotta go by 0301.
Next:

0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-LSB
1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-LSB [previous #2199]
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW

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** U S A. More replies July 23 to my WBCQ 5130+ reports: Larry Will:
``According to Timtron, the transmitter on 5130v is a BC-610-I putting
out about 300 watts. Lw``

``I have been told that this is being tested 24/7. Maybe this will
prove to be a bone for the hard-core dx crowd, at least during the
daylight hours when it truly will be a difficult catch. In the dx
world, perhaps less truly IS more. --Bill Tilford``

So I do try it direct circa 0025 UT July 24: yes, JBA carrier on
approx. 5130.45 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9455, UT Mon July 24 at 0042, this WRMI-5 is S9/+25 but just
barely modulated, language uncertain, Spanish? Italian? Hyper
enthusiasm smax of a stupid ballgame. Transmitter skedgrid claims RAE
Japanese relay this hour from System K. But System K sked itself
claims Legends. And the separate RAE grid shows nothing at this hour.
Transmitter grid shows Legends not until 0100 on 5050, which indeed is
not on yet. Contradixion after contradixion (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** VATICAN [non]. 7305, July 24 at 0047 S9+20/30 of dead air,
obviously USAGM Grimesland `warming up` for VATICAN Portuguese &
Spanish relays at 0100-0200, violating Separation Of Church And State.
?? You see, the secular USG is showing extreme favoritism for one
particular sect. All other gospel huxters could insist on equal
access. Are the Catholix billed for burning an extra quarter-hour of
juice? The finances of this deal would be very interesting; since VOA
also goes out via SMG, it`s an ``exchange``, but I doubt the hourspans
and kW match, let alone the true bottom-line expenses (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

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re. 9664.901 kHz ??? NEVER -  that's wrong-string fq measured ?!
Checked twice July 21 and tonight 23 / 24
BRAZIL   Voz Missionaria measured much ODD fq of 5940.217 kHz at 06.06 UT
S=8-9 strength, and UNSTABLE TX unit in 31 mband on
9665.002 to x.012 kHz, S=9+30dB at 06.01 UT, unstable wandered up and down
today of some 10 Hertz vary, also  much strong in 25 meterband
11750.038 kHz S=9+10dB at 06.04 UT July 21.
But tonight on UT Sunday July 23:
9665.084 variable to x.091 and 11750.018 kHz Port sermon, via
Edmonton-AB-CAN on Perseus net.
and very poor 5940.215 kHz.
Latter S=9+10dB at 00.10 UT July 24 on Perseus unit in
Swiss St.Gallen IP  62.2.184.6:8022
(73 wb  df5sx)
check Voz Missionaria via Pardinho local KIWI set.
much odd Voz Missionaria Brazil signals measured this Friday UT morning
and confirmed too via KIWI  SDR net unit direct in Pardinho Brazil,
see KIWI unit map
<http://rx.linkfanel.net>
<http://pardinho.kiwisdr.com.br:8073>
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From: Glenn Hauser via Hard-Core-DX

Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2023 9:50 PM
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs July 23, 2023
BRAZIL. 9664.837, July 23 at 0527, R. Voz Missionária with music
and ID.  So down 64 Hz since last measurement one pentaday ago July 18
at 0627 on 9664.901 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
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re. 9664.901 kHz ??? that's wrong-string fq measured ?!
Checked twice July 21 and tonight 23 / 24
BRAZIL   Voz Missionaria measured much ODD fq of 5940.217 kHz at 06.06 UT
S=8-9 strength, and UNSTABLE TX unit in 31 mband on
9665.002 to x.012 kHz, S=9+30dB at 06.01 UT, unstable wandered up and down
tday of some 10 Hertz vary, also  much strong in 25 meterband
11750.038 kHz S=9+10dB at 06.04 UT July 21.
But tonight on UT Sunday July 23:
9665.084 variable to x.091 and 11750.018 kHz Port sermon, via 
Edmonton-AB-CAN on Perseus net.
and very poor 5940.215 kHz.
Latter S=9+10dB at 00.10 UT July 24 on Perseus unit in Swiss St.Gallen IP 
62.2.184.6:8022
(73 wb  df5sx)
check Voz Missionaria via Pardinho local KIWI set.
much odd Voz Missionaria Brazil signals measured this Friday UT morning
and confirmed too via KIWI  SDR net unit direct in Pardinho Brazil,
see KIWI unit map
<http://rx.linkfanel.net>
<http://pardinho.kiwisdr.com.br:8073>

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Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2023 9:50 PM
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs July 23, 2023
BRAZIL. 9664.837, July 23 at 0527, R. Voz Missionária with music
and ID.  So down 64 Hz since last measurement one pentaday ago July 18
at 0627 on 9664.901 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
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** BRAZIL. 9664.837, July 23 at 0527, R. Voz Missionária with music
and ID. So down 64 Hz since last measurement one pentaday ago July 18
at 0627 on 9664.901 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** EUROPE. 6185, July 23 at 1849 tune-in via UTwente, S8/S9 pop song
in Dutch? prior to much-publicized *1859-2104* reactivation of Free
Radio Service Holland. Nothing on 7700 yet, just clix. Also good sigs
of music on 5800 & 5810 but neither // 6185, so other pirates? At
1858, 6185.003 goes to open carrier, 1859 resuming with `CE3K` tones
in music. By 1900, 7700 is on with ID in English. Now 6185 sounds like
two different musix mixing. At 1903, measured 7699.900/907, 6185.014,
and 5790 doesn`t want to synch but occasionally flashes around
5790.277. 1911 frenetic DJ in Dutch with frequencies. Using UTwente
only, I`m on only one frequency at a time, but switching back and
forth, I hear that 6185 and 7700 are several seconds out of synch, so
playouts from separate sites? Only 6185 is a known listed frequency,
for Piepzender in Zwolle, licensed. It seems FRSH wants to remain
unlicensed. In their publicity it looks like the streams from July 26
will be running one real UT hour earlier from 1759, unless conversions
mixed up (Glenn, Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2200 monitoring: confirmed UT
Sunday July 23 at 0030 on WRMI 7780, S7/9+10 but noisy into Durango2
SDR. Later S8/9+15 into Louisiana also noisy.

Also confirmed UT Sunday July 23 at 0320 on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, MO,
S9+10/20 into nearby SDR about 5 minutes into so started circa nominal
0315.

Also confirmed Sunday July 23 at 1356 the 1330 on WRMI 9955, S7/S9
direct, no jamming audible. As for the Fri 1430 on 9955 being
replaced: on Sunday at 1430, Wavescan is still running among the three
dozen weekly times scheduled on WRMI. Next:

2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW
0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW
0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-LSB
1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-LSB [previous #2199]
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW

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** U S A. 5130.496, July 23 at 0653, WBCQ again S7/S9 on secret
frequency varying ever upward, music, 0656 DJ mentions ``BCQ 7490``;
0700 canned Weiner ID and WBCQ jingle, and back to hyper DJ. Replying
to my previous report, Bill Tilford, Indiana, says ``I'm not involved
with it, but I have been advised that they are testing a lower-powered
transmitter on 5130`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6095-6100-6105, July 23 at 0534, DRM noise S9/+10.
Nothing listed. RHC AM still appears listed on 6100 at 05-07 but
unheard for a long time. KCBS P`yongyang would be on 6100 AM now, and
does have DRM capability but it`s too early to propagate. EiBi alone
shows Radio France DIGITAL on 6100 but at 0000-0030 only; also not DRM
at 1500-1600 22 July only for MiniTransat Sailing. It seems another
yacht race in the N Atlantic is underway so there should be more such
broadcasts maybe not yet known to what extent. The DRMRX A-22 sked
updated July 22 has nothing on 6100 either. I continue to object to
in-band DRM noise polluting AM SWBC bands. Let them DRM as much as
they wish on fixed utility bands (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

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BEWARE RF-NOISY LAMP. A nice bright LED ring lamp on a totally
adjustable gooseneck turns out to be source of S9 RF noise across the
LF, MF and HF spectra on my nearby R75. As long as it`s plugged in,
whether turned on or not. It also has USB port we had been using for
charging a small fan, which makes it even worse. Here`s the
boilerplate info, not admitting explicitly to ``made in China``, but
surely is. We got it at, where else, Walmart:

INTERTEK 5005686 - Model: MTSLL 1038AHG
WM ITEM No. :MS3128087567007
Ratings: 120Vac, 60Hz, 4W
Date: 2109
CONFORMS TO UL STD. 153 [really!]
CERTIFIED TO USA STD. 022. 2 No. 250.4
ZheJiang YanKon Group Co Ltd
DRY LOCATIONS ONLY

Also with logo in a circle: ETL with smaller letters: C US cm listed.
Now it`s banished to elsewhere in the house and/or unplugged while
DXing (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RC USB, Friday July 21 circa 1455, quick check
of Argentine remote finds NO signal from LRA36, despite this latest?
sked revision via Manuel Méndez: ``Whatsapp received 12-07 Translation
from Spanish; "This year we are on air for now, on short wave,
Wednesday and Friday from 1300 to 1800 UTC, and on Saturdays from 1800
to 2300. I also inform you that we are analysing being able to
broadcast in a few weeks from Monday to Friday, from 1600 to 2000 UTC,
and on Saturdays from 1800 to 2300 UTC``

15475.98 RC USB, is certainly on air Saturday July 22, S3/S5 via
Argentine remote from tune-in 1803: nothing but songs, no
announcements until finally at 1828 CW, 1829 LRA36 standard
multi-lingual s/on; 1830 opening recitation in Spanish, credit to Walt
Guzman? or was it Whitman, surely not. 1833 seems live now with
afternoon greetings on `Uniendo Voces` program, joint produxion with
RAE, Univ. de Quilmes; names of staff present; mention of a fiesta;
rebroadcast by 95.7 in Catamarca and another; 1844 mentions miércoles
19 de julio, so possibly this was recorded then; 1848 LRA36/RAE joint
ID, Fiesta Nacional de -- algo; 1859 songs; 1903 canned IDs, contact
info; 1905 weather check including temp -11 now; 1908 discussing
events this week in 1969, notably Apollo 11; 1915 songs; continues
chatting with music breaks; 1958 ID with reverb. I`m not fluent enough
to follow much of it in casual colloquial conversations, less than
perfect reception. Past 2000 now there is rapid noise QRM. 2006 ``RAE
Argentina al Mundo`` and multilingual ID. Not heard by 2130 recheck
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11670, July 22 at 0635, RHC Spanish extra frequency tonight.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** GUATEMALA [non]. Ex-LV de Atitlán, 2390 kHz manager gets shrined in
Oklahoma -- the Blessèd Stanley Rother, that is, as we`ve reported
before, the RCC is being pressured to sanctify this martyr, a big
thing on the way being an expensive shrine/tourist attraxion which
opened this year in SE OKC.
https://www.travelok.com/listings/view.profile/id.32231

He`s the subject of the weekly travelog, `Discover Oklahoma`, which
adds some other Guatemaltecan stories, and his hometown Okarche beyond
the opposite corner of OKC. Not there yet, but look for the new July
22 edition via https://www.discoveroklahomatv.com/episodes
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2200 monitoring: confirmed UT
Saturday July 22 at 0145 to 0130 on WRMI 5850, now the first weekly
airing, S9/+10 direct with some hum?

Also confirmed Saturday July 22 at 1930 on WRN North America webcast.

Also confirmed Saturday July 22 from 1932 on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, MO, VG
into nearby SDR with no storm noise. Next:

0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW
0245vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0457]
1330 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE
[also phonecast, webcast][jammed by Cuba?]
2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW
0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW
0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-LSB
1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-LSB [previous #2199]
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW

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** U S A. 9395, 5010, 7780, July 22 at 0121/0129, these WRMIs are OFF,
and 7570 is JBA while it ought to be much stronger than 7730. Why? All
these confirmed ON: 5050, 5800, 5850, 5950, 7730, 9455, 9955, 15770.
This is evening prime-time when 12 of the 13 transmitters are supposed
to be active; one more, #1, is never running per skedgrid; and #7 on
17790 only in daytime (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. (7490), UT Sat July 22 at 0000, WBCQ webcast of `AAAWWW`,
seems like a new one. Allan admits right off, that whenever they go
political, people hate it, and then proceeds to do exactly that along
with Angela on phone. Basically their delusion is that in the past 2/3
years, terrible things have happened to our country since the elexion
was ``stolen``. And e.g., there would be no Russian war in Ukraine if
``Our President`` were still in office. Proving a negative? Enough,
turn off. But said quadricasting, so I do check out the 4 SW
frequencies, into Maryland remote:
3265.151, JBA
5130.442, S6/S7 in HSNL
6159.933, S8/S9
7489.928, S9+5/20
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5130.396, July 22 at 0635, JBA talk, music? in HNL until I
get rid of that ringlamp. At 0651 music, S3/S6, 0653 talk; 0657 seems
like ID for AM and FM stations, Planet; 0700 finally recognizable WBCQ
jingle ID!! 48 hours ago had carrier on 5130.21, and once before, R.
Caroline programming.

Note how closely this match the WBCQ measurement a few hours earlier,
5130.442. The R. Angela transmitter was never so far up, only a little
bit down, so presumably another test of another unit. Has AW said
anything about this on air, on twit or on website? BTW, strangely
enough, there is another non-pirate OOB broadcaster closer to 5130.0,
Kyrgyzstan, unlikely to be confused with, I hope (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

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