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Glenn Hauser logs August 22, 2021 |
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Sunday, August 22 2021
** CANADA. 346-MCW, Aug 22 at 0611 UT, NDB dash and YXL, 500 watts at SiouXLookout, Ontario; also on 332-MCW, dash and QT Thunder Bay atop nodash, IC Wichita KS (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6950-USB, Aug 22 at 0121, pirate music S9/+10, 0123 Wolverine Radio reverbing ID, into SSTV beepery and off by 0125* Many reports here of keyword theme ``Angel`` and SSTV images of one: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,85410.0.html Gotta hand it to Mr Wolverine for creativity (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, Aug 22 at 0136, screaming, unreadable talk; then QRM from weak AM carrier on 6926.5, and nothing further heard. These say it`s a Zekey station, Choir Boy Radio or Quiet Boy Radio?: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,85409.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. 18155-USB, Aug 22 at 1350, W1K in contact with someham with a 5 in its call, unheard: could axually be in the traditional #5 call area of S Central USA from NM to OK to MS; but these days you never know, as hams can move or travel without changing calls or even slanting them. W1K quite a vanity call, only heard uttered once without fonetix, so not 100% certain. QRZ.com leads to no individual, but: W1K USA flag USA Wireless Society of Southern Maine P.O. Box 6833 Scarborough, ME 04074 USA The OSOB except for beepery around 18100; some 1600 miles away, more likely F2 MUF barely edging up to here than sporadic E. Inside 16m, hardly any 17855 Spain, but signs of 17560 & 17650 in French, CRI via East Turkistan, land of ChiCom Imperialist genocide against Uyghurs and other Moslems (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2100 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday August 22 at 0030 on WRMI 5950, VG S9+20/30. Also confirmed, UT Sun Aug 22 from 0402 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, VG into KB0FX SDR but storm crashes altho none closer than OK & MS. Next: 2000 UT Sunday IRRS 918-Italy 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE 0300vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 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; via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com One may also contribute by MO or check in US funds on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7489.9v, UT Sun Aug 22 at 0048 check, WBCQ playing music instead of repeating `AAAWWW` rant about FCC, WHRI purchase kaput. Program guide still does show AAAWWW during this hour. It`s never totally correct; another example: 7490 Mo 2300 0000 UTC Mo 07:00PM 08:00PM EST Uncle Bill's Melting Pot 7490 Mo 2330 0000 UTC Mo 07:30PM 08:00PM EST Camp Constitution Radio Well, it can`t be both at 2330-0000, can it? In fact, UBMP always plays only the first 30 minutes, for many months. As a `filler`, Uncle Bill does not want to publicize it. Also all the times are mislabeled EST instead of EDT: they are NOT the same, rather one hour difference. But the times shown are really EDT, UT minus 4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5085, UT Sun Aug 22 at 0026, TOUTA has just started with `Mr Sandman`; due to storms here, computer is disconnected as is the LW antenna thru the trees, so must listen to WTWW-2 only in mono shortwave, still plenty strong via the indoor LW; ends at 0054, back to Ted and his commercials and rock (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1130, Aug 22 at 0602 UT just as I tune across, ID for KLEY on 1130 & 100.3, Wellington KS; surely 250 watt day power, not one watt night power, enough to overcome KWKH here (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 1939 UT August 22
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Glenn Hauser logs August 21, 2021 |
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Sunday, August 22 2021
** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-RCUSB, Aug 21 at 1455 check via two Brasil SDRs, still no signal this Saturday from LRA36. Someone in Moskva has been listening for an hour upon whom I camp (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 6100, Aug 21 at 0345, RHC with jazz, // Spanish service 9710. Nothing on 6060 where this is supposed to be, 6100 not turned on until English at 0500. Now there is heavy ACI from Japan via FRANCE on 6105 scheduled until 0400. Aoki shows RHC starting 6100 English at 0400: could happen, but not supposed to. At 0345 RHC English is properly on 6000 & 6165. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 7157, 7215, 7335 and stronger 7375, Aug 21 at 0610, Cuban pulse jammings against nothings (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ERITREA. 7140, Aug 21 at 0347, JBA carrier presumed VOBME, but nothing on the other VOBME program 7180 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ROMANIA. 9850, Aug 21 at 0350, RRI English is S8/9+10 unusually with heavy flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2100 monitoring: confirmed Sat Aug 21 after 1600 on WRN webcast of N American service. Also confirmed Sat Aug 21 from 1800 on IRRS Shortwave via AM Italia, 918 kHz into nearby Noale SDR; and 6 seconds later via Romania 7290 into UTwente SDR. Before that as usual: 7290 from 1757 tune-in with weak S6 Chinese station audible on LSB, while USB has that warbling. S9+30 IRRS open carrier on at *1757.7, still warbling unless LSB tuning. 918 cuts from another program to Aïda theme about 1758.8, S9+25; while 7290 JIP a minute later about 1759.8. Also confirmed Sat Aug 21 from 1932 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, Wentzville MO, VG steady S9 into nearby Warrenton SDR. Next: 0030 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0430] 2000 UT Sunday IRRS 918-Italy 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE 0300vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 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; via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com One may also contribute by MO or check in US funds on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9455, Aug 21 at 2322, WRMI-5 finally back on air after at least 10 days silence - music during TOMBS moan-n-groan hour // 9980 WWCR. Poor only S7/S9 vs storm noise from next county, weaker than 9395 WRMI with othermusic (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 6885, Aug 21 at 0343, JBA carrier, probably a pirate. But nothing reported now nor recently in HF Underground (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 2348 UT August 21
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Glenn Hauser logs August 20-21, 2021 |
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Saturday, August 21 2021
** FRANCE [non]. 7780 & 5800, UT Sat Aug 21 at 0200, another TRSW Europirate relay hour courtesy of TRSW via WRMIs: Atlantic 2000, alternating announcements in English and French, start with Beatles, and Born In The USA, but finally at 0210 a French cover of Sinatra`s My Way. Then the original. Everything pop/rock so far; is there any other genre? This one does not know about 7780 either, opener just announcing 5800, but 7780 is better here via remote in Maryland (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6935-USB, Aug 20 at 0555 final check, pirate Radio Genix is still running late; continued from previous report from 0412 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2100 monitoring: confirmed Friday August 20 at 2030.5 on IRRS SW via Italia AM 918 kHz, VG S9+33 steady into Noale SDR nearby; previous American talkshow about credit/debt was chopped off by 2030.0 for ID and then WOR. Also confirmed UT Sat Aug 21 at 0130 on WRMI 9395 VG into Maine SDR S9/+10. This time a WRMI ID inserted after Argentina before WOR. Next: 1801 UT Saturday IRRS 7290-Bulgaria to WNW, 918-Italy 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0030 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0430] 2000 UT Sunday IRRS 918-Italy 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE 0300vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 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; via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com One may also contribute by MO or check in US funds on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. (7489.9v), UT Sat Aug 21 at 0000-0100, WBCQ webcast of `Allan and Angela Wiener WorldWide`. After WTO theme, mandatory fiddling with mics, does Angela`s work? [I dispense with all the quotation marks; some of this is paraphrased, but accurate; gh`s own remarx in these brackets.] Console is screwing up. Something wrong with the 6160 audio amp. It`s hot and humid, 80s and 90s [presumably in Maine, not Florida]. Been a rough week. It`s 20th of August, YOOLF 2021 for this original live broadcast. Complaining about masking. 0017, COVID restrixions prevent maintenance workers coming in from other countries. 0022, annoying Tim calls in, voted for Trump four times including primaries. [Quickly get rid of Tim.] Angela does not believe anything she hears, reads or sees. 0025, quadri-casting on 3265, 4790, 6160, 7490 [confirmed on quick check of Maine SDR, VG on the bottom two, VP on the top two, skipping over]. 0029, SuperStition update: still on backup low-power transmitter. $ 200K replacement PA tube is to be shipped [from Europe?] on August 31. Hope to get back on air early Sept with techs from Continental and own staff working on it. [Most of rest of show ranting about the WHRI purchase attempt:] Heard a year ago from Hans [Johnson, founder of Jihad-DX], that it was for sale; WBCQ offered opportunity to buy it. Got financing together with borrowed money, to save the SC SW station from scrap. Purchase and sales agreements made, application filed with FCC for licensing, not the assets. Filing fee about $ 1000. Normally takes 6-8 weeks to go thru for domestic purchases. This was in August 2020 --- and then we waited and waited and waited, etc. There was the usual 30-day period for any comments and objexions to be filed: there were none. Finally in APRIL 2021, got a phone call from someone at FCC apologizing for the delay, said they were sending some paperwork to WBCQ`s attorneys. WBCQ has always been upfront with its listeners, Allan claims: [brief mute]; In the mail, got an *informal* objexion which was filed Oct 15, *two weeks after* the filing window for those: should have been trashed. And WBCQ did not get it for 6 months! It`s absurd, defamatory. AW replied, waited, groveled, by phone, email, appealed via Sen. Collins, begged. Finally on August 10, 2021, one year from the original application, it *expired* because Family Broadcasting decided they had had enough and would not renew the matter. AW does not blame them for that. WBCQ does not *need* WHRI, but was trying to save one major SW station. AW says his constitutional rights were violated, his good name besmirched. FCC treatment was reprehensible. Angela interjects: ``Watch who you vote for, idiots in power!`` [Right: this all started under TRUMP, don`t you realize?] We`re not in it for the money, hoped merely to break even like at WBCQ. FCC purposely delayed and delayed and delayed this. AW is really angry. We don`t need the extra headache of WHRI, but wanted to save what would have been WBCQ transmitters 7, 8 and 9. This is not over. Maybe a petition? Listeners should file complaints about this matter with their congressmen, with FCC itself. WBCQ has been wronged, censored, bollixed up. Further legal remedies are not being divulged. Angela warns, ``They`re coming for you, next.`` 0052 [a few items from just published Free Radio Weekly. Allan again refers to ``single sideband television`` instead of slow-scan TV]. E-mailer advises that the WBCQ webcast drops off at :53 past every hour: [just did it for me too!] Will continue to fight. 0059 prayer, A&A agree, ``We`ve got the biggest balls of them all``, into Hal Turner. Can anyone dig out of FCC files the notorious informal objexion? Who made it and what did they say? You may want to listen to this AAAWWW yourself. Scheduled repeats all on 7490 from 0030 UT Sunday, 2230 Monday, 2130 Tuesday, 2230 Wednesday. Larry Will`s version: ``8/21, 0000, 7490am, WBCQ. Typical Angela and Allan Weiner broadcast starting with animated discussions of vaccine conspiracy theories, whining about McDonald's not serving breakfast all day because of Covid, a few Covid deaths don't matter when millions of babies are aborted every year, etc. "Tim from Connecticut" calls with some more unhinged commentary; he'll never take the vaccine, ever. Then they start talking about the proposed WHRI purchase. At 38: Allan says that the original purchase agreement with WHRI expired on August 10 and was not renewed, so the deal is off! The rest of the broadcast was spent on railing against the insidious delaying tactics employed by the FCC who knew that if they just kept delaying, then the deal was likely doomed. Of course, Angela implies that it's the fault of the Biden administration. Larry Will, Mount Airy, Maryland`` John Carver`s version ``Tonight's AAWWW show started on time on 4790, 6160 and 7490. Allan in the studio with Angela. Very brief talk about a movie then Allan had to tell us once again how beautiful Angela is. Very hot in Maine this week with high humidity and temps in the eighties and nineties. As is usual anymore, some equipment problems in the studio. Longish talk about Covid with Angela getting a little loud. Phone call at 0020 from Tim again who riles up the Covid talk and vaccine talk. Angela goes into a mini rant. Allan says they should have the replacement tube for the superstation by the end of the month and hopefully have the transmitter up and running early in the next month. Then he finally talked in depth about the sale of WHRI. Explained about all the hoops they had to jump through and all the delays. Holdup was because a complaint about the sale that was filed after the due date and shouldn't have caused a problem. It was announced earlier this month that the seller was tired of waiting for the sale to be approved and has backed out of the deal and cancelled the sale. I'm very sorry as at this time one of my granddaughters with some of my great grandchildren showed up at my door and I had to go to deal with them and missed the end of the sale story. Reading of emails at 0053 s starting with this week`s Free Radio Weekly. Closing prayer at 0058 and program was off the air at 0100. John, Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1090, Aug 20 at 0600 UT, dead air again from KAAY AR, facilitating understations, the stronger making medium SAH and 0602 Fox Sports Radio ``live`` ---- really? Or when it was recorded. Presumed again to be 5000-watt ND *daytimer* WAQE, Rice Lake, Wisconsin on the Fox SR network, as previously caught Aug 16 at the same hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1130, Aug 20 at 0602 UT, song in English dominating 50 kW KWKH Shreveport; once again the allegedly one-watt-at-night reactivated KLEY Wellington KS; also a 250-watt semi-local still in the daytime (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0231 UT August 21
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Fw: The Desert Whooper Beacon 4095.65 KHz - Corrections |
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Saturday, August 21 2021
----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Desert_Whooper <desert_whooper@protonmail.com> To: wghauser@yahoo.com <wghauser@yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2021, 06:37:05 PM GMT+1 Subject: The Desert Whooper Beacon 4095.65 KHz - Corrections
Hello Glenn!
In your August 4th logs a person offered some incorrect information about DW's transmit format. For your readers' interest, here are some technical details of the one watt beacon that provides fascinating propagation performance.
The beacon started development in November of 2020. It was built from scratch and has a hybrid controller consisting of two 555 CMOS timers to key the transmitter along with an Arduino Nano controller to generate Morse code and collect data for performance telemetry. The 555 timers will independently key the transmitter if the Nano fails for any reason. (Fortunately the Nano has functioned for 10 months without issue.) The 4.09565 MHz transmitter is crystal controlled and features a MV1403 varactor diode circuit for the upward frequency sweeps of 150 Hertz. The sweeps provide distinctive audio for the SWL'er as well as an easy to spot visual pattern on the waterfall display of Kiwi SDRs. The transmitter has 4 transistors and the final amplifier is a IRF510 MosFet followed by a low pass filter, all inside a shielded box.
The beacon is powered by a sealed lead acid battery which is kept charged with a solar panel. The battery is protected from over discharge by a low voltage disconnect (LVD) circuit that is independent of the Nano. Time has shown that the solar panel size provides good charge current even in cloudy weather and the beacon does not draw much battery power overnight.
The antenna is a 111 foot long, 1/2 wave dipole oriented North/South and it's about 0.1 wavelength above the dry desert soil to create a more vertical but omni-like pattern. The 1:1 balun is home made and the antenna's measured VSWR is close to 1.1 to 1
There are six cycles of DW in Morse along with 29-30 "whoops"; then the DW identification is sent along with four different telemetry numbers.
Telemetry is in slow Morse code as follows:
BAT is the battery's voltage to tenths of a volt using a precision resistor divider and the Nano's A2D function. Normal values range from 12.8 to 14.4 volts
OTMP is in degrees F with a calibrated 10k NTC thermistor located outdoors, about 100' from the beacon.
ITMP is in degrees F provided by a digital one-wire DS18B20 microLAN sensor located within the weathertight equipment box. The reading runs 5 to 10 deg warmer than OTMP.
PV is given in milliAmps to monitor solar panel performance and battery charge current. Measurements are based on an INA219 current sensor board. The values of the current can range from 0 to 2000. Note that a value of 4 or 5 is just the idle current consumed by the solar controller because the battery is fully charged.
In case the Nano fails, the number of whoops can decrease from 30 down to 29 as a crude measure of rising temperatures. On some recent days the internal temperature has peaked at 120 degrees F when outside air temperature was measured at 112 degrees! The box is in shade but the electronic circuitry generates waste heat that causes the temperature rise. Monitoring the temperatures during night and day provides for some interesting deltas..
DW was officially deployed to the Western desert on February 21, 2021. It has been heard in Canada, California, Hawaii, Maryland, Utah, Arizona and many other locations. Some SWL logs can be seen here: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?board=9.0 and eQSLs are being provided.
Best regards,
The DW Team
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Fw: The Desert Whooper Beacon 4095.65 KHz - Corrections |
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Saturday, August 21 2021
----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Desert_Whooper <desert_whooper@protonmail.com> To: wghauser@yahoo.com <wghauser@yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2021, 06:37:05 PM GMT+1 Subject: The Desert Whooper Beacon 4095.65 KHz - Corrections
Hello Glenn!
In your August 4th logs a person offered some incorrect information about DW's transmit format. For your readers' interest, here are some technical details of the one watt beacon that provides fascinating propagation performance.
The beacon started development in November of 2020. It was built from scratch and has a hybrid controller consisting of two 555 CMOS timers to key the transmitter along with an Arduino Nano controller to generate Morse code and collect data for performance telemetry. The 555 timers will independently key the transmitter if the Nano fails for any reason. (Fortunately the Nano has functioned for 10 months without issue.) The 4.09565 MHz transmitter is crystal controlled and features a MV1403 varactor diode circuit for the upward frequency sweeps of 150 Hertz. The sweeps provide distinctive audio for the SWL'er as well as an easy to spot visual pattern on the waterfall display of Kiwi SDRs. The transmitter has 4 transistors and the final amplifier is a IRF510 MosFet followed by a low pass filter, all inside a shielded box.
The beacon is powered by a sealed lead acid battery which is kept charged with a solar panel. The battery is protected from over discharge by a low voltage disconnect (LVD) circuit that is independent of the Nano. Time has shown that the solar panel size provides good charge current even in cloudy weather and the beacon does not draw much battery power overnight.
The antenna is a 111 foot long, 1/2 wave dipole oriented North/South and it's about 0.1 wavelength above the dry desert soil to create a more vertical but omni-like pattern. The 1:1 balun is home made and the antenna's measured VSWR is close to 1.1 to 1
There are six cycles of DW in Morse along with 29-30 "whoops"; then the DW identification is sent along with four different telemetry numbers.
Telemetry is in slow Morse code as follows:
BAT is the battery's voltage to tenths of a volt using a precision resistor divider and the Nano's A2D function. Normal values range from 12.8 to 14.4 volts
OTMP is in degrees F with a calibrated 10k NTC thermistor located outdoors, about 100' from the beacon.
ITMP is in degrees F provided by a digital one-wire DS18B20 microLAN sensor located within the weathertight equipment box. The reading runs 5 to 10 deg warmer than OTMP.
PV is given in milliAmps to monitor solar panel performance and battery charge current. Measurements are based on an INA219 current sensor board. The values of the current can range from 0 to 2000. Note that a value of 4 or 5 is just the idle current consumed by the solar controller because the battery is fully charged.
In case the Nano fails, the number of whoops can decrease from 30 down to 29 as a crude measure of rising temperatures. On some recent days the internal temperature has peaked at 120 degrees F when outside air temperature was measured at 112 degrees! The box is in shade but the electronic circuitry generates waste heat that causes the temperature rise. Monitoring the temperatures during night and day provides for some interesting deltas..
DW was officially deployed to the Western desert on February 21, 2021. It has been heard in Canada, California, Hawaii, Maryland, Utah, Arizona and many other locations. Some SWL logs can be seen here: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?board=9.0 and eQSLs are being provided.
Best regards,
The DW Team
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