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Glenn Hauser logs March 26-27, 2021 |
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Saturday, March 27 2021
** AUSTRALIA. 12365-USB, March 26 at 1444, down-under accent with marine weather, S1-S3; lots of geo coords cited such as 50S/134E, which is about halfway between South Australia and Antarctica; high seas forecast. EiBi shows it`s VMC Charleville, Queensland (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 6060, March 26 at 0614, RHC in English with humbuzz, // clear 6100 and overmodulated 5040. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 9700, March 27 at 0140, RHC manages correct language English, tonight, instead of TV novela audio last night, S9+20 here // 6000 S9+40 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 12360, March 27 at 0141, CRI English relay is S9, harmonic of S9+20 6180 X 2. Also checked X 3 = 18540 but not heard; possibly with a little sporadic E. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also USA [non] 6080 ** GUATEMALA. 4055, March 27 at 0139, no signal from R. Verdad: gone again. A report to the WOR iog at 0609 UT March 26: ``Radio Verdad, Chiquimula, out of air again --- Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain: Asking via email, Édgar Madrid says transmitter burned out again. Here the mail from the station: "Se nos volvió a quemar. En eso estoy. Édgar Madrid"`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6960-AM, UT Sat March 27 at 0129, S6-S8 pirate music, bet it`s Ball Smacker Radio, which with eQSL last week said they`d be back Fridays at 9 on EDT on this frequency. Pirates not usually so open about scheduling plans, but getting bolder in view of lack of FCC SW enforcement. Some rapid-clicking QRM for a minute or two until 0134. 0137 yes, B-S-R- ID by YL and QSL offer prompting guesses about the musical topic, like last week it was ``green``, but I don`t recognize any of the tunes this week until 0152, ``Who Ya Gonna Call?``, a song with spoken parts, faux phone number sounded like 1-500-989-3500. 0200 again asking for reports, signing off? Not quite, more music, then 0205 SSTV now hitting S9+10. Pause and 0207 another SSTV image ending at 0209 and carrier off at 0209.5*. Now let`s see what others reported at: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,79542.0.html Keyword has been ``call`` and SSTV shows `Get Smart` with shoephone (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 1140, March 26 at 1755 UT on caradio, NO signal from KRMP OKC; sure it`s off as when on, 1 kW groundwave is equal to or greater than 1150 KSAL KS, and much more than 1120 Tulsa. Recheck on DX-398 at home, 2223, now it`s on with ``Heart & Soul 92.1 and 1140,`` OKC traffic. 92.1 is, natch, a mere translator wagging this dog. While it was off, wished I were in a low-noise area in case GW or SW remnant of KXRB Sioux Falls could make it here, as it has been at night when not supposed to: unlikely, but half its frequency 570 WNAX Yankton SD is always audible under KLIF. Nothing directly between OK and SD on 1140 but MO and AR might be problem; and closer 50 kW 1110 KFAB Omaha barely daytimes here (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** TURKEY [and non]. 5960, Fri Mar 26 at 2331, VOT is on today, VG S9+35 into UTwente, yet Chinese undercurrent is audible from East Turkistan, standard remark, i.e. CCCCCCI, or C6I which means ChiCom Chinese language Co-Channel Interference. VOT plugs itself as ``with you every hour of the clock`` [NO, it is not], then 2-minute segment, ``Did You Know That?``, but no idea about what, as I was not severely concentrating vs the heavy accent. A bit of music, 2339 ``VOT, always by your side`` [No, it is not]. Checked again at 2355 as IS is still playing, 2356 starts interspersing IDs in German, ``Die Stimme der Türkei`` twice or thrice before 0000 March 27 opening the spurious German hour with Nachrichten rather than satellite info. Still on past 0015, but finally went off sometime before next check 0026 when a good signal is still on the meter, but now in Chinese. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [non]. 6080, March 26 at 0612, VOA SAO TOME in English, marred by pulse jamming. I think I have figured it out: leapfrog mixing product of the strong jammers against nothing on 5980 and 6030 another 50 kHz away. Broadcast signals leapfrog; why not jammers? Something`s always wrong at the DCJC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2079 monitoring; next: 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400] 1130 UT Sunday WRMI 15770 [Wolfgang Bueschel alleges WOR is on at this time; please check] 2200vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 2300 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE 1801 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy [ex-1901] 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 2200 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 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: thanks this week to Kelley Sprout, Hughesville PA, for a check to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 One may also contribute, not necessarily in US funds, via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com First broadcasts confirmed UT Friday March 26 at 0130 on WRMIs: 7780 S7-S9 poor here off the side and seems undermodulated, but VG on 5850, S9+20/30 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. (7490), UT Sat March 27 from 0000, WBCQ webcast of `AAAWWW` casually monitored as I am paying more attention to MSNBC. Starts with temp 80 in FLA after hi of 90? First topic is cassette tapes, sparked by news of death of inventor. This goes on surprisingly long, still 0024, caller 0025, into EL versions, 8-trax, etc. 0047 Angela complaining about masked people in fast cars. Too much of the time Angela is yelling and overmodulating into the red, even worse when both of them are talking at same time with no stereo separation. 0056 Allan briefly mentions death of George Zeller, a supporter of free radio, 0059 benedixion and immediately into Hal Turner blasting pencil-necked geeks. Here`s John Carver`s version: ``Tonight's show started on time on 6160 and 7490 with 6160 having the better signal. Allan and Angela in the studio and apparently back in FLA again. Allan is shirtless in the studio. Opening talk is reading an article about the man that invented the cassette tape and later CDs. Long talk about cassette tapes follows and they mention several variations. Phone call at 0026 which continues the cassette talk followed immediately by another call at 0037 which continues on with the cassette talk until the caller mentions politics which gets Angela started. She continues till 0052 when Allan starts reading emails. First email is political which causes Angela to comment again. A few emails later Allan mentions the loss of George Zeller and talks of him briefly. Closing prayer at 0059 and closing comments cut off at 0100 and move to dead air as happened last week also. John, Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7505, March 27 at 0157, two WRNO Worldwide IDs overlapping as I tune in, asking for reports, but cut off 0159 to start ``Welcome to Maranatha Radio with pastor Ray Bentley`` citing Philippians. Had been VP to JBA signal lately but now it`s S9+20; jacked up closer to full power or just improved propagation? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1540.197 approx., March 27 at 0217 UT, way-off-frequency het against 1540.00 stations is back, as previously traced, WKVQ, Eatonton, Georgia. Not present every night, and should never be as a 10 kW daytimer direxional west (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 12152-USB, March 27 at 1443, 2-way in colloquial Spanish, QRMing CODAR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0412 UT March 27
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Glenn Hauser logs March 25-26, 2021 |
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Friday, March 26 2021
** CUBA. 13700, March 25 at 1431, RHC is S9+30, plenty strong yet no spur galaxy around it today. // 15140 during `Sonido Cubano` music is S9+10 but overmodulated/distorted. Something`s still always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 12360, March 26 at 0112, CRI English relay at S9+10/20 somewhat undermodulated yet louder than S9+20 6180 of which this is X2. 6180 has QRM from Brasil or even CRI East Turkistan; 12360 in the clear but some deep fading. I should WOOBandscan around here more often. CRI relays on 5990 and 5910 have also harmonicized on 11980 and 11820. Shortly in A21, 12360 and 6180 will be gone, and so will 5910 and 11820 as CRI/HABana as usual ascends to 9580 at 01-03, and 9790 at 03-05 whose 19-20 MHz harmonix are unlikely to propagate except maybe for a lucky summer sporadic E opening (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11840, March 26 at 0116, RHC is S9 with suptorted Spanish modulation, and also S9 on 11860, but QRMing the noise jamming against nothing --- or rather Cuba is jamming itself, yay! These two are the parasitic spurs 10 kHz from fundamental 11850 which is S9+30 and suptorted. For quite some time 11850 was parasite-free, but now has resumed better than ever; as they used to be JBA carriers with modulation hard to detect. Have they reswapped different transmitters? Meanwhile, // fundamental 11760 is S9+10 and undermodulated; 11670 is S9+10/20 undermodulated and distorted. Somethings` always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 9700, March 26 at 0124, something very strange which has got to be RHC transmitter, but not in English as scheduled, left to 6000 only. S9+10 with drama dialog in Spanish but long pauses of background noises, music. Smax of TV soundtrack on a novela! Also overmodulated, distorted. Not // RHC Spanish either, 11760 etc., nor the domestic SW frequencies 5025, 4765. A totally wrong program feed is going into and out of this unit. Still thus past 0217. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 9590, March 26 at 0122, weak S7-S9 YL in Spanish with flutter; still past 0132+. It`s CRI scheduled at 01-03 from Kashgar. Here`s something else about SW City, also land of ChiCom imperialist genocide against the Uyghurs, I happened to see on CNN: China's crackdown in Xinjiang has separated Uyghur children from their parents. CNN found two of them - CNN https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/18/china/xinjiang-uyghur-families-china-amnesty-report-exclusive-dst-intl-hnk/index.html 15+ minute audiovideo as seen on AC360 UT March 25 circa 0530. Also transcript with photos, maps, graphs (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 341-MCW kHz, March 26 at 0205 UT, EI, Woodring Airport, EnId ND beacon is back on! Latest outage started March 15. I check at random times day or night, and assume once it`s off it stays off until heard again. But I wonder if this or some other LW/MW beacons at minor airports operate only irregularly depending on when there are really incoming flights needing them, on request? Power saving of 25 watts would hardly justify the trouble of turning them off and on. BTW, Deirdre Gurry, the new AP director I met on a visit about EI in October 2019, has already moved on after receiving an award; she was replaced the following September by Keston Cook (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2078 monitoring: confirmed UT Thursday March 25 at 0130 on WRMI 5010, VG S9/+15 into Bonaire SDR. WORLD OF RADIO 2079 contents: *Algeria non, Antarctica, Ascension, Armenia, Bonaire, Chile, *China, Congo, Cuba, France, India, Iran, *Japan and non, Korea North and non, Korea South and non, *New Zealand, North America, Philippines, *Romania, Singapore, Sudan South non, Taiwan, *Thailand, USA, Vanuatu, Venezuela; propagation outlook; *A21 schedules WOR 2079 is available as of 0023 UT Friday March 26, 2021 (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2079.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2079.mp3 Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html Also linx to podcast services. The shortwave broadcasts should be: 0130 UT Friday WRMI 5850 to NW, 7780 to NE 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400] 2200vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 2300 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE 1801 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy [ex-1901] 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 2200 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 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: thanks this week to Kelley Sprout, Hughesville PA, for a check to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 One may also contribute, not necessarily in US funds, via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com First broadcasts confirmed UT Friday March 26 at 0130 on WRMIs: 7780 S7-S9 poor here off the side and seems undermodulated, but VG on 5850, S9+20/30 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1370, March 26 at 0232 UT, a bandscan hits some C&W music, and a produced ID barely readable in the QRM, sounds like KVRD or KBRV or something similar rhyming. The only fuzzy fit in NRC AM Log is: KCRV, Caruthersville MO, which is on the River in the Bootheel, east of Kennett where it`s addressed; U1 1000/63 watts, really? E-W longwire does favor it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VANUATU. 11835, March 25 at 0606, JBA carrier presumed R. Vanuatu, 3945 x 3; but nothing heard on 7890 = 3945 x 2. Will 11835 have a CCI problem in A-21? Yes, tentative HFCC shows nothing on 11835 but CNR China, 150 kW, 257 degrees from Xi`an site at 0000-1300! There was nothing at all in B-20 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIAL +++++++++++++++++++++++ Glenn, I appreciate your dedication to the broadcast medium and information that you provide to DXers world wide. I have been a listener and shortwave DXer since 1967. Thanks again. Pat Zapalac, Texas This report dispatched at 0507 UT March 26
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Glenn Hauser logs March 24, 2021 |
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Thursday, March 25 2021
** ALASKA. 9535, March 24 at 1502 as I tuned in, the KNLS IS heard once and then VP algo. But sked for Chinese at 1400-1500 only, so next language/frequency must have come on late. Was checking whether Cuba were off already instead of 1600* during standard time (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-RCUSB, March 24 at 1521, LRA36 is on the air again on a Wednesday afternoon; good S7-S8 into Pardinho, Brasil SDR; music, frequent IDs, talk segments. Waterfall tuned as above displays signal with sharp edges 15476.2 to 15478.7, i.e. 2.5 kHz wide, on the upper side. But since it still shows same after sign-off with no signal, that must be an artifact of the remote`s USB bandwidth rather than of the incoming signal alone. Back to 1525: another canned ID; talk segment concludes with despedida until next miércoles --- but does not sign off, back to music. Seems they are playing brief pre-recorded segments. 1538 as if signing on again, ``a partir de este momento``, then in German and English saying that they are in Spanish, duh, and a fourth language, at first I thought Italian? At 1545.5 yet another ``sign-on``, this time fourth language more like Japanese? 1549 song about Antarctica; 1549.5 YL greeting in the ``17th`` program, mentions station personnel, discussion; 1556 contact info. 1605 another canned ID, part of which goes, ``Nacional, Antárdida Argentina --- la radio pública``. 1615 ID and more talk about COVID-19; 1618 email address, QSL offer; mostly discussion about the ejército, as after all, this a paramilitary if not totally military operation; ``en todo el país``; 1648 recheck still talking but chopped off air abruptly at 1650*. Come to think of it, never noted them with the name ``Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel``, but maybe missed it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NIGERIA [non]. 11985, March 24 at 2107, S7-S9 sorta English: it`s AWR MADAGASCAR in Nigerian Pidgin --- heavy accent, but occasional words and phrases in clear English, all mixed up (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA [non]. 341-MCW kHz, March 24 at 0606, still no EI Enid, ND beacon, but after several stops and restarts, I still expect it back, sometime. Instead, JBA DNI, which is 25 watts from Sherman-DeNIson, Texas just across the Red; not often audible, but now instead of or atop, OIN, Oberlin, Kansas. I`ve yet to hear plenty of other 341s listed in the Conterminous, Alaska, Canada, Greenland (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** PHILIPPINES [and non]. 12120, March 24 at 1454, Chinese under RTTY and CODAR; VOA Tinang and jamming scheduled 1400-1500. 9825, March 24 at 1457, rock music S5-S7 with flutter, off at 1500. Another VOA Chinese via Tinang and jamming, 1000-1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 9690, Wed Mar 24 from 2300, REE token English, VG on NAm frequency as heard in VA SDR, S9+10/40, Alison Hughes with a well-done comprehensive news review - of the whole past week? Since most broadcasts do not deal with hard current events. I also like her voice and style, but could not help noticing her mispronouncing Sergei, and Angela; interspersed bits of music until 2327 flamenco fill playout. From next week this is expected to shift one real UT hour earlier to 2200 M/W/F, as usual due to the irrelevant imposition of DST in Spain. This is totally irrational. First of all, by longitude, most of Spain should be on GMT, as the Greenwich zero-meridian goes down the east coast. The zulu timezone should extend 7.5 degrees east and 7.5 degrees west from there. Which means that the NW corner, Galicia, *should* be on UT minus 1! Since Spain normally is effectively on DST already, UT+1, this means most of the country will be *two* hours ahead of mean `solar` time, and Galicia, *three*!! Furthermore, advance publicity of A-21 schedule claims that the NAm beam will be only on 17855, from morning on the weekends, all afternoon, and as long as on air evenings until 0200* UT = 9 pm CDT, after sunset here and the entire path in darkness. We can only hope REE come to its senses and QSY down to, say, 9690, no later than 2200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 5960, March 24 at 2302, VOT English to us manages to be on the air today unlike yesterday, VG with ID and announcer name during the news; as heard at UTwente, VG S9/+20. From next week, March 28, this is to shift to 2200 on 9830 vs NAU PR RTTY, whenever it manage to be on air at all. Last year the RTTY would sometimes be off by 2200, but not dependably (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 8992-USB // weaker 15016-USB, March 24 until 1506*, last part of alfanumeric crypto message with deliberate echo and whine, outro as ``message of 37 characters; this is Uncle Joe, out``. unID US military exercise with ever-changing tactical calls, suspected originating from Andrews (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2078 monitoring: Richard Lemke, Alberta, confirms the Wed Mar 24 at 1030 on WRMI 5850. Also confirmed here Wed Mar 24 at 2100+ on WBCQ 7489.97v, S5-S7. Also confirmed Wed Mar 24 at 2100 on WRMI 7780, JBA here but poor S7-S8 to UTwente, VG S7/S9+10 at Maine SDR. Also confirmed Wed Mar 24 at 2200 on WRMI 9955, S9/+20 to Maine over jamming. Next, and last: 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: thanks this week to Gerald T Pollard, Raleigh NC, for a generous check to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, with comment, ``Equinoctial greetings to the Recording Angel of Shortwave, who is in especially fine voice these days`` [sic] One may also contribute, not necessarily in US funds, via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report despatched at 2354 UT March 24
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Glenn Hauser logs March 23, 2021 |
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Wednesday, March 24 2021
** CUBA. 6100, March 23 at 0630, S9 humbuzz from the only RHC still on the air, otherwise just barely modulated if that`s the audio source. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 13435 trace, 13500, 13567 vs CODAR, 13633 S9; source 13700 S9+30; 13767, 13834, 13900 S5, 13967 & 14034 & 14100 traces at least of F-natural tone, March 23 after 1418, distorted spurblobs today at ~65 kHz intervals, the closer ones with readable audio in NBFM; not in the order tuned. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11760, March 23 at 2332, the #1 historic RHC frequency is humbuzzing at S9+20, much like that heard 17 hours ago on 6100: suspected very same transmitter, except now it`s also fully modulated. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 7300, March 23 at 2327 S7-S9 Chinese with flutter. HFCC shows CRI in Chinese via Urumqi this hour; from the land of Chicom imperialist genocide against the Uyghurs. I have just been way-out-of-bandscanning below 15 MHz, just above and below 13 and 11 MHz, but no sign of CNR1 or Firedragon jammers which used to occupy many frequencies in these ranges. I`m not hearing them morning or evening, even when there are some such inband signals. During the winter I assumed propagation was just not working, but now I wonder if they and/or Sound of Hope are still all over those areas? Wolfgang Bueschel was still hearing them in those three ranges, March 7 between 08 and 09 UT via remotes in Japan (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MEXICO. 1050 kHz, March 23 at 0617 UT, choral Mexican war-mongering NA is just ending rather late after HCM/CST midnight, and then full florid legal ID for XEG, which I should record and copy verbatim, including street address in Monterrey NL, and 100,000 watts ``efectivos`` --- as in ERP? AM stations normally are known by their transmitter power, altho ERP can be calculated in different direxions if they are not non-direxional, which XEG supposed be, day and night. 100/100 kW, WRTH and IRCA Log agree. At the moment it`s atop, but plenty of QRM. Much of the time it is buried in all the Unitedstatesian QRM vs this traditional Mexican ``clear`` channel. NRC AM Log shows 44 US stations at night, one 50 and one 10 kW at distances, likewise in Canada, but US mostly under 1000, under 100 or even under 10 watts! But it all adds up, piles on. I could easily believe XEG really run much less than 100 kW. Remember in the good? ole days when it was a border-blaster in English with a simple address of Fort Worth, 11, Texas? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 5960, March 23 at 2315, once again no signal here from VOT English to North America. By 2340 I`m checking UTwente SDR: Not there either, but East Turkistan, land of Chicom imperialist genocide against the Uyghurs, which is now exactly on-frequency. In case something failed to get turned off on time, like often happens to 5960 when it manages to come on in the first place, I proceed to check all the other TRT frequencies which were scheduled to end in the last few hours, -2030, -2130, -2200, -2230, i.e. 5970, 6050, 6120, 9610, 9625 --- either nothing heard at all or more China/Turkistan. So much for that. BTW, I was amused by a report from Europe which said, ``Last night I got a surprise; a new station that does not exist within the latest Handbook appeared on 11540 kHz shortwave. It was TRT Radio Recep Erdogan, who showed that the cult of personality has reached unimaginable heights in Turkey.`` While one could easily imagine Recep E. naming a station after himself, apparently the reporter does not realize that the name is merely an ironic handle that Ivo Ivanov first deployed upon the jammer against Dengê Welat; no doubt a spare Ermirler transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 400-MCW kHz, March 23 at 0605 UT, ND beacon AHQ, 25 watts from Wahoo, Nebraska. Yahoo! Gotta log this one every so often. Wahoo is a 4K town sorta between Omaha and Lincoln at the junxion of US 77 and State 92, i.e. between Prague and Ithaca; between Colón and Valparaíso. Obviously the Wahoonians were looking for a less derivative name than their neighbours (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2078 monitoring; next: 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 2200 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 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: thanks this week to Gerald T Pollard, Raleigh NC, for a generous check to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, with comment, ``Equinoctial greetings to the Recording Angel of Shortwave, who is in especially fine voice these days`` [sic] One may also contribute, not necessarily in US funds, via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. Greg Hardison, CA, in the WOR iog, replies to my log of Rollye James on WGN: "...Rollye James is sounding like a DXer..." ``Certainly one of the most amazing and fascinating minds with which I've ever interacted belongs to Rollye. I was very happy to hear of her new home at WGN/720, and hope they have the wisdom to keep her there for just as long as she will stay. Rollye James has graced the airwaves at many a station. She was briefly on the old KFMB/760 in San Diego, where I went on with her via phone a few times, whilst running the board up the coast/dial at KABC/790, unbeknownst to 790 mgmt., of course! She is a true radio-fanatic, in the same manner as the late great Art Bell, and can build a fine show around any subject in the known universe. A few nights ago on WGN, Rollye was working on an obsession with old R&B love ballads of the early-to-mid 1960s. Heard some tunes then & there I hadn't even thought of in nearly 60 years!) Rollye is a born natural for WGN -- well, actually for any worthwhile station, but especially for 'GN, which is mostly maintaining its unique style under "new" ownership of Nexstar. Jim Bohannon is a small step down for WGN as he fiddles with the world of right-wing blatherhood beneath his talents, and it seems the only blatant mistake Nexstar has made so far is the addition of proto-fascist Trump-worshiping syndicated assclown Bill Cunningham on Sunday nights --- although once again WGN is unique, in presenting both the best (Rollye) and the worst (Billy) in commercial Talkradio! I hereby declare my undying love and mighty recommendation for Rollye James and her most-excellent weeknightly show on WGN. And if you can't hear the huge signal, there's always www.wgnradio.com`` -- Greg Hardison https://wgnradio.com/rollye-james/rollye-james/ ``Rochelle "Rollye" James is an American radio talk show host. She hosted The Rollye James Show nationally and on international shortwave on WWCR from 2000 to 2011. Rollye revived her show, broadcasting weeknights 10p.m.–midnight, via live stream and podcast on June 19, 2013. Wikipedia`` (via Glenn Hauser, WOR) ** U S A. 1140, March 23 at 0619 UT, once again tonight, KXRB Sioux Falls SD is dominating the channel to the south instead of legally aiming all its night power NW: 0622 between C&W tunes, convenient simple ID only as ``KXRB``. Oook, last night`s log was misdated March 29 instead of 22, as were two others I`ve had to reissue corrected! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 7360, March 23 at 2328, S8-S9 open carrier with flutter, marred by Cuban noise jamming splash from 7355/7365. Something interesting about to open? But still no modulation heard past 2331. HFCC shows Iran in French due west for W & C Africa, an hour from 2320. Could also be CNR in Tibetan from Beijing site until 2400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0104 UT March 24
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Glenn Hauser logs March 21-22, 2021 |
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Tuesday, March 23 2021
Three of my logs in this report were misdated March 29 instead of 22! Fixed:
** U S A. 15825, March 22 at 1409, instead of JBA carrier, WWCR inbooming at S9+10/20 clearly audiblizing the horrible squeal on #1 transmitter. Shares SSOB status with 15140 Cuba. Must be sporadic E opening but unaccounted for by any MUF spot on DXMAP. At one megameter distance, on 15 MHz, Nashville is too close for F2 propagation but not too close for Es (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 720, UT Monday March 22 at 0554, tuning across WGN Chicago, I pause because Rollye James is sounding like a DXer, discussing whether WEDO is off the air as a caller claims; they`ve had a CP to diplex non-direxional with something for 3 years but it should have expired. Was simulcasting EZL from WKGO. Apparently this is a trivia/quiz segment during her show. WEDO is or was an 810 daytimer in McKeesport PA - Pittsburgh market. Per WGN sked, Rollye James is supposed to be Mon-Thu at 10 pm-1 am CDT = 03-06 UT Tue-Fri; after 05 UT Mondays it`s `WGN Showcase`, reruns of previous week`s shows.
[non] BTW, at 0558 UT under WGN, I can hear the Mexican NA playing from somewhere in the CST = midnight zone, so most likely XEDE Saltillo, 24h as in IRCA Log; two of the three others supposedly daytimers (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 1140, March 22 at 0355 UT, C&W music, ``100.1 and 1140 AM, KXRB`` ID, plug a game with wine, mention Sioux Falls. From the north dominating anyway on my E-W longwire despite night pattern supposed to be totally to its NW from SE SD; likely really on ND day pattern, 10/5 kW -- unless it has an STA like more and more stations are getting to run ND all the time with reduced power at night. Again at 0603 UT check, KXRB country music jingle (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
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