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Glenn Hauser logs March 20-21, 2020 |
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Saturday, March 21 2020
![Hauser](http://www.hard-core-dx.com/images/hcdx/wor.gif) ** ARGENTINA [non]. 9395, UT Sat March 21 at 0100, RAE in English via WRMI: no news, whole program about a rock group, Almendra, on the exact 50th anniversary of their album. But that was in January 1970, so evidently a 2-month-old program repeated to fill, because:
``Argentina: "RAE ARGENTINA AL MUNDO --- INFORMACIÓN IMPORTANTE Ante la grave crisis causada por la pandemia del Covid 19 y que el Gobierno de la Republica Argentina ha decretado una serie de medidas excepcionales para atenuar sus efectos, RAE Argentina al Mundo emitirá la señal de LRA Radio Nacional." https://www.radionacional.com.ar/rae-nueva-web/ undated (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener 20 March 2020)`` My reply: ``So like Spain and probably more to come -- replacing external services with domestic programming. OK if this is really necessary due to workplace environments, etc. Doing away with foreign language services does NOT improve the situation, as their rationale implies, diminishing contact with the rest of the world. Glenn`` The ``Friday`` show should have included their DX Actuality program. Still no sign of RAE Spanish even if a domestic relay: see USA for another full survey of WRMI 0100-0300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 218-MCW kHz, March 20 at 0610, dash and RL, ND beacon of 975 watts at Red Lake, Ontario. 223-MCW kHz, March 20 at 0611, dash and YYW, ND beacon of 1000 watts at Armstrong, Ontario. 245-MCW kHz, March 20 at 0612, dash and YZE, ND beacon of 1000 watts at Gore Bay, Ontario. None new here but pleased to be able to copy at least these hi-power ones vs all the storm and line noise, worse at the lower end of the LWB band (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13620 & 13860, March 20 at 1401, RHC S1 JBA as leapfrog mixing products of 13700 & 13780, another 80 kHz beyond in both direxions; while no plain ole FMish spurblobs at all are emanating out of 13700. By 1403, 13780 has dropped to dead air at S9+30 while 13700 is still modulating S9+40, reducing what little audio croak out of the `frogs. By 1418, however, 13780 dead air has some just-barely modulation. BTW, this proves that 13700 & 13780 are now from the same transmitter site. Despite Aoki showing 13700 Bauta, not caught up with new 13780 but had ex-13740 at Bejucal. EiBi doesn`t list either 13740 or 13780, but 13700 as b for Bauta. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. RF 25, turns out that KWTV OKC not decoding here was not due to DX interference, but low tower. Reply, interchange with Jack Mills, Director of Engineering, March 19: ``Mr Hauser: Sorry you had reception issues yesterday but two antennas (old KFOR and old KOPX) were being removed from the tower we are located on. I had to put our signal on an auxiliary antenna that is lower on the tower. Attached is a pic of the work being done. We may have some signal issues this month and maybe next month while this work is being completed, but should be back to the main antenna each evening. Jack Mills, Director of Engineering KWTV - KSBI`` Mr Mills, Many thanks for the reply and explanation. Will look forward to everything back to normal. (And I suppose KSBI signal is not going to be improved?) Glenn ``We did lose 1/3 of the transmitter last week. I just now got it back up, it had High Voltage issues. Are you having better luck receiving it?`` I assume you are referring here to KSBI 23? No, it is still at the usual Bad level, insufficient. KWTV 25 however is back in solid; as of noon Friday, and I think also last night (Glenn Hauser, Enid, March 20, via WOR) ** TURKEY. 5960, March 20 at 2259, TRT IS fair-poor but averaging S9, 2300 opening English after timesignal which this time is 3.5 rather than 1.5 seconds late compared to WWV. Something`s always inaccurate at Ankara (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2026 monitoring. Confirmed first north/west hemisphere SW broadcast, Friday March 20 at 2200 on WRMI 9955, fair-good over lite pulse jamming. Also confirmed UT Sat Mar 21 at 0130 on WRMIs: 5010 poor // 5850 very good // 7780 fair here, good at UTwente. Next: 0900 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] 0900 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9395 to NNW 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5130, March 20 at 2351, this WBCQ is already on for music, so should also be on for the next hour of `Allan and Angela, Angela and Allan, Worldwide` as well at 7490.17 now with the FKB gospel huxter phoner. 7490.17, UT Sat March 21 at 0000, WBCQ `A&AA&AWWW` gets off to usual rough start with pause, WTO theme interrupted, but again they`re live from Deland of Fla, ``Studio Numero Nine``, delaying plan to return to Maine and do some transmitter work; only a few minutes into confirming date as 20 March YOOL 2020. Trouble is, they immediately start talking about COVID 19, which I`ve had enough of already all week+ from the major media; and I hardly need to hear his pious take on it being godswill, and faith will get us thru it. Recheck at 0050, drifted down to 7490.05 as reading 1710 pirate log from new FRW just out; then some e-mails and benedixion. (I believe John Carver has computer problems again so no version from him, at least not yet. If anyone heard any significant WBCQ info about programming, technical, future plans, etc., do tell.) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. Again tonight, UT March 21 at 0100-0300 I survey what`s happening on each WRMI frequency, whatever the skedgrids may imply: 0100: 5010 // 5800 // 5850, Alameda robobibling in Spanish 5950, SMTV 7570 // 7730, TOMBS 9395, RAE in English, see ARGENTINA [non] 9455, Hal Turner (I don`t need to hear his take on COVID 19 either) 9955, jamming and gospel huxter in English - Walking in Power sked 0130: 5010 // 5850 // 7780, WORLD OF RADIO 2026 5800, Radio Tirana`s secret SW broadcast // 9395 5950, SMTV 7570 // 7730, TOMBS 7780, WORLD OF RADIO 2026 // 5850 // 5010 9395, Radio Tirana`s secret SW broadcast // 5800 9455, Hal Turner 9955, gospel huxter in English - Circuit Rider scheduled 0200: [mostly monitored via Rockport ME SDR, also 0230] 5010 & 5800, OFF, unlike last night 5850, VORW, again about COVID 19, but music later 5950, music, talk in English & Spanish about COVID 19; is this SMTV? 7570 // 7730, TOMBS 7780, Radio Prague in English // 9395 9395, Radio Prague in English // 7780 9455, music, Oldies? 9955, Radio Praga in Spanish 0230: 5800, still off, unlike last night with Tirana repeated from 0130 5850, presumed more VORW 5950, same as 0200 7570 // 7730, TOMBS 7780, Ukrainian Radio, English, folk tale continued, UTwente 9395, VORW // 5850 rock music [note: first half on 9395 Prag NOT //] 9455, music, Oldies? 9955, Eslovaquia in Espanish; well audible only at Colombia SDR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 9294-9320 approx., March 20 at 0605, wideband multi-carrier ute whine of some sort, S9, apparently not blocking any broadcasters around here. Heard once before recently; rather like we used to find around 17450 in the daytime. Ideas? And this from *2017y*, 3+ years ago: ``UNIDENTIFIED. 9258-9272, Feb 1 at 0444 and still 0457, S9 multi- carrier ringing sound producing a single hi-pitched tone when tuned in AM, centered on the only WINB frequency, 9265, which is normally off the air by now. What in the world? Are they testing something new, or is this something else? Another check for this 25 hours later, Feb 2 at 0523, not heard. 9265, Thu Feb 2 at 1302, there it is again at totally different daypart, whine at S9+10. If this were Sunday, WINB would be on already. Will be interesting to see whether this ever QRM WINB during its normal schedule. Still going at 1420 past 1442 during which I try to locate the carrier peaks on the hi side at least, approx. 9265.5, 9266.1, 9266.8, 9267.5, 9268.2, 9268.8, 9269.4, 9270.1, 9270.7, 9271.3. Then I pull out the keyboard and find a close match at E above hi C = 659 Hz, within a very few Hz of that. Any ideas what and whence this is? It`s similar to some others I have heard, such as circa 17450 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1863, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0457 UT March 21
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Glenn Hauser logs March 19-20, 2020 |
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Friday, March 20 2020
![Hauser](http://www.hard-core-dx.com/images/hcdx/wor.gif) ** AUSTRALIA. 11865, March 19 at 1325, S Asian song, 1330 RBA signing off until 1230 tomorrow. Per EiBi, the last quarter hour on Thursday would have been in Bengali (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CHINA. 9215, March 19 at 1351, Asian language unseems Chinese, not like CNR1 or Sound of Hope, but those are the only listees (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11462, March 19 at 0513, 5-digit spy numbers in Spanish and digibursts, S9-S7; absolutely nothing audible broadcasting on 11 MHz band, at least on my indoor longwire. EiBi shows schedule on this frequency is Tu/Th/Sa 0454-0520 & 0854-0920 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA [and non]. 6125, March 20 at 0358, Radio Martí above wall-of-noise jamming plugging USG policy on immigration; 0359 QSY announcement, pronto en 5980, 6030 y 7435. What? 5980 does not start until 0600, and it better not now! adjacent WRMI NHK on 5985. 6030 is buried in jamming, really on 7355 instead of 5980, and also 7435, both VG with midnight music hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) see TURKEY ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9705, March 19 at 1345, Japanese talk, VP. It`s Furusato no Kaze via TAIWAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MEXICO [and non]. Wolfgang Büschel reports: ``They have fixed the recent faulty transmitter in Mexico City D.F. now at 0210 UT on March 20 fine sound, heard canciones in Spanish language. 6184.992 kHz XEPPM and noted S=9+5dB signal in Cape Canaveral Florida remote SDR`` However, when I check 6185 at 0424, there`s a heavy SAH of about 6 Hz, with AWR Austria in Turkish; some music audible. After 0430 in clear at S9+10/20, music almost sufficient but still undermodulated compared e.g. to neighbor 6175 VOA Botswana (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9395, March 19 at 1348, Brother Scare on WRMI has QRM from ute noise across both sides but slightly less with LSB tuning (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 5960, March 19 at 2302, I can tell VOT is on today! But too poor in storm noise level to copy. We can hardly wait another dekaday until A-20 with the usual lift to 9830 and a real UT hour earlier, so it will seem to remain at the same local time in the studio? Not any more, Turkey`s last year observing DST was 2016y, per timeanddate.com, but old habits die hard. 9830 should propagate better, but as always will confront that constant RTTY from NAU Puerto Rico, unless they turn it off by 2200. The other English to North America will again be at 0300 on 9515, ex-0400 on 6125; and also USward at 1230 on 15450 ex-12035 at 1330. 6125, March 20 at 0400, Radio Martí has just quit but jamming prolongs, with VOT English becoming detectable under but would still be tough without the jam (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2026 contents: Albania non, Antarctica, Argentina non, aUstralia, Bougainville, Chile, China, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany non, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, *Iran, *Italy non, *Japan and non, Korea North & South, Kurdistan non, Kuwait, Malaysia, México, North America, Papua New Guinea, Romania, Russia, Spain, Taiwan non, Tibet, *UK, *USA, Vanuatu; propagation outlook * = with A20 sked info WOR 2026 is available as of 0014 UT Friday March 20 (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2026.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2026.mp3 Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html Also linx to podcast services. The shortwave broadcasts should be: 0900 UT Friday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 [maybe jammed?] to SSE 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5010 to SSE, 7780 to NE 0900 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] 0900 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9395 to NNW 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9330, March 19 at 0510, WLCR via WBCQ-6 is S9+50 even on inside longwire due to storms, and splattering 9320-9340. 9330, March 19 at 2305, no such splatter, since it`s off the air again (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. UT Friday March 20 at 0100-0300, I monitor what every WRMI frequency is really doing, somewhat contrary to schedules, see http://www.tinyurl.com/WRMIfqs --- now that the Taiwan experiments have concluded; but will they be back? At 0100: 4980, JBA carrier, not checked further 5010, Robobibling in English, presumably Alameda, // 5850 and 6-7 seconds behind also on 5800; no Argentina 5950, SMTV 7570 & 7730, Brother Scare 7780, VORW about virus --- can he add anything to media blitz about? 9395, RAE in English 9455, Hal Turner 9955, Acontecer Venezolano [sked shows 0000; Yesterday Hoy 0030-0130 --- what`s that?] 0130: 5010, World Music, fill or what? // 5850; Brazilian, Mideastern 5800, Radio Tirana, // 9395 5850, World Music, fill or what? // 5010; Brazilian, Mideastern 5950, SMTV 7570 & 7730, Brother Scare 7780, different music, presumably more VORW 9395, Radio Tirana, // 5800; again at 0230! 9455, more Hal Turner 9955, Blues Radio International 0200: 5010, Radio Prague in English // 5800 // 7780 // 9395! 5850, VORW 5950, unknown music, not SMTV? Oldies on program grid 02-03 7570 // 7730, Brother Scare 7780, Radio Prague in English, // 5010 // 5800 // 9395! 9395, Radio Prague in English, // 5010 // 5800 // 7780! 9455, music, Oldies? No info on sked for 9455 at this hour 9955, R. Praga in Spanish 0230: 5010, off 5800, R. Tirana, again after 0130 on two frequencies 5850, VORW rock music // 9395, not // 9455 5950, music, Oldies? SMTV supposed to run straight thru 01-08 UT 7570 & 7730, Brother Scare 7780, English Service of Ukrainian Radio, YL reading long folk tale about animals, with bits of music, to be continued; OK via UTwente 9395, VORW rock music // 5850, not // 9455 9455, music seems Oldies; no info on sked. Not // 5950 9955, unknown under pulse jamming; higher frequencies fading [Eslovaquia escheduled] NOTE: RAE in Spanish is still nowhere to be found, despite schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 7225-AM, March 19 at 1314, open carrier off at 1315*. Only broadcaster would be PBS Sichuan in Tibetan, but supposed to span long before and after this hour. Maybe just a hAM, who are normally LSB reserving top end below 7300 for AM diversions (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0445 UT March 20
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Glenn Hauser logs March 18-19, 2020 |
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Thursday, March 19 2020
![Hauser](http://www.hard-core-dx.com/images/hcdx/wor.gif) ** CUBA. 15700, March 18 at 1555, CRI relay is undermodulated with hum, tone and crackle, otherwise excellent. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 15370, March 18 at 1930, RHC still not on here, but later with distortion (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MEXICO. 6185.0, March 18 at 2355, XEPPM JBM with Mexican music, S9 signal; rather than no modulation audible yesterday. BTW, Radio Educación has much more important matters on its mind: holding on to MW 1060 after migration to FM is complete; seems 100 kW on MW has better coverage than FM. Not a word however about SW here, tnx via GRA blog: https://www.americaeconomia.com/negocios-industrias/radio-educacion-busca-retener-la-historica-xeep-am-1060-de-la-ciudad-de-mexico (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. RF 25, March 18 around 1600 UT, KWTV ``9``, OKC is not decoding, and still not at 2115. Normally it`s in solid. I sent this on webform to the news department: ``Why is there no way to reach the Chief Engineer via the website?? Just ``signal issues`` by phone only. Please pass this on to the CE. Here in Enid today March 18, have not been able to decode KWTV on RF25 all day. Almost all other OKC signals are normal. Is it low-powered? The signal level is BAD barely registering on set-top-box from my rooftop antenna. If not reduced power, I think the problem is DX interference. There is currently enhanced strong level 5 tropospheric in this area, and I see in listings there are low-powered channel 25 stations in about a dozen other OK towns! {closest probably Ponca City; also Lawton, Tulsa...} You should realize that this situation reduces your effective coverage area! I don`t suppose you could do anything about it in the short term, but you might in the long term. BTW, KSBI on RF 23 has never been an adequate signal here like it was on 51 (? I recall that was it). Most of the time it doesn`t decode including now. Yes, we have cable, but these stations are supposed to be ``local``. Suddenlink has KSBI itself but not its extra channels. Of course we have to depend on that when you pre-empt CBS on KWTV`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** PERU. 5980, March 18 at 2351, JJBBA carrier from Radio Chaski, so weak that I can`t tell exactly when it cut off despite not much jamming now. Increasing daylight on path may finish audibility before the Cuban radio war does in A-20 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** PUERTO RICO. 391-MCW kHz, March 18 at 0700, ND beacon DDP, no dash but very long pauses. It`s San Juan - Dorado, LMM airport, 1000 watts. Classaxe.com shows it with unusually long cycle duration, 20.87 seconds. Format is ID + 6 second gap [what`s the difference?]. Last logged here January 2 at 0714: both then and now I am tuned to 389-USB. Distance 3676 km = 2284 statute miles (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ROMANIA. 7220, March 18 at 2350, RRI English fair, 300 kW at 300 degrees from Galbeni, supposed only for NW Europe but here we are beyond, QRMing our extended hamband. 6035-6040-6045, March 18 at 2352, DRM noise, which is RRI English, only 90 kW, 300 degrees from Galbeni also for Europe only. 6040 is in further use for Spanish on AM at 00-01 as heard before; 06-07 in French & English back to DRM; and 15-16 in German AM, the last from Tsiganeshti (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TAIWAN [non]. 5800, March 19 at 0100, checking what`s on WRMI now that the 3-day RTI test should be over: It`s still running, Spanish, and 0129 Chinese music, 0130 two WRMI IDs in Spanish by Dino & Jaime, squeal, into unID music, Spanish? NOT Tirana which was showing up here, nor on // 9395 where Albania is supposed to be. After 0200 RTI yet again, including 0214 Chinese lesson for Spanish, not only on 5800 which normally stops at 0200, but on 7780, and with a good signal into Colombia, 5010. What`s next? Has RTI decided to permanentize the tests, or just haven`t reverted yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 383-MCW kHz, March 18 at 0702, NDB CNP, which is 25 watts from Chappell, Nebraska. Chappell is on I-80 west of Ogallala, just above the NE corner of Colorado (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2025 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday March 18 at 2100 on WBCQ 7490.2v, very poor. Also confirmed UT Thu Mar 19 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, good via UTwente, poor direct. WOR 2026 should be ready by early UT Fri Mar 20 for first NAm broadcast Friday at 2200 on WRMI 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 2098.0, March 18 at 0548 UT, beep exactly every three seconds, noticed as checking for 2097.3 beacon A, which has not been heard in some time. Once before I had this beep and then found several more at odd intervals up the 2 MHz band. This time there is lots of storm noise and only other one found is on 2440. Previous: ``UNIDENTIFIED. 2098.0, 2166.0, 2231.0, 2298.0, 2800.0, Feb 16 at 0643-0713 UT, things that go beep in the night, CW carrier pips exactly 3 seconds apart = 20 per minute on these even frequencies, first noticed when I was checking beacon A on 2097.3. Then found more as I tuned up, always on exact kHz, but not equally spaced: intervals of 68, 65, 67 kHz but none around 2365 nor below around 2032 by 0653. Not until 0713 did I find another, way up on 2800.0 but no others around it. What in the world? Can`t totally rule out a local device, but random frequencies would not all be exact; seems intentional`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0325 UT March 19
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Glenn Hauser logs March 16-17-18, 2020 |
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Wednesday, March 18 2020
![Hauser](http://www.hard-core-dx.com/images/hcdx/wor.gif) ** ALBANIA [non]. 5800, March 18 at 0130, WRMI starts Radio Tirana IS, usual canned opening by Klara that ``you can hear us only on internet``, yeah right; then I find also on // 9395 after Argentina, q.v., concluded. Mixup in System feeds? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** ANTARCTICA [non]. 15475.97-CUSB, March 17 by 1904, no signal from LRA36; they had told Manuel Méndez, Spain of a special `Corazón Antártico` show at 1900 today. Not only no signal here but via several SDRs checked; not could anyone else hear it. Then Manuel agrees it was a no show but he heard it on webcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ARGENTINA [non]. 9395, UT Wed March 18 at 0124, RAE English via WRMI, concluding Ten Argentines who became world-famous, with Daniel Barenboim, as the finale of Beethoven`s Ninth is playing, then applause. 0125 into multi-lingual RAE ID reel; S9+20 while some nights it`s JBA. 0130 into Radio Tirana which is also on unscheduled 5800 which before 0130 was testing TAIWAN, q.v; see also ALBANIA [non]. As for RAE in Spanish, skedgrid updated March 8 now shows half an hour of it at 0130 on 9395 --- where we just heard Albania following RAE in English; and a full hour at 0100 on 5800 --- not, either! Where we just heard Taiwan and Albania (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15140, March 17 at 1529, RHC S9+20, distorted and hummy as usual. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15370, March 17 at 1936, RHC S9/+10 of dead air except for some hum. Wiggle that patchcord. Something`s always wrong at RHC. Recheck at 2114, now in Spanish, big hum still at S9+35 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11880, March 17 at 2300, RHC starting English // much weaker 5040; as they now seem certain (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6145, March 18 at 0024, S9+20 of dead air from RHC -- so are they attempting to start English at 0000? But at 0026, 6000 is JBM in Spanish // much stronger 6060. Something`s always wrong at RHC. At 0129, both 6145 and 6000 feature Arnie Coro and both undermodulated so impossible to make out what he is mumbling (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ITALY [non]. 7295, March 17 at 1800 via UTwente SDR, IRRS VG signal but intolerable CCI from Iran which was already here until 1820v. I was going to listen to a bit of `War Room Pandemic` with an abundance of skepticism since Steve Bannon is behind it (his voice?). Check again concluding at 1850 saying second hour is coming up --- but not here: 7290, March 17 at 1900, abrupt frequency jump amid IRRS ID, to avoid CRI on 7295, and into EGR gospel huxter from a town called Cuba, no more WRP (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** JAPAN [non]. 7450, March 17 at 0542, poor in high noise level, S6-S7; in French thought I heard a Voix de l`Amérique ID, but scheduled as NHK World Radio Japon, 0530-0600, 500 kW, 190 degrees via Issoudun, FRANCE (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MALI. 11640, March 17 at 2117 VP S1-S3 M&W conversation in English. It`s a rare half-hour transmission from CRI at 2100-2130, 100 kW, 111 degrees away from Bamako (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MEXICO. 6185.00, March 18 at 0021, XEPPM S9/+10 carrier, maybe JBM, XEPPM back on frequency after stuck on 6185.7v equally useless for several days altho I did not keep logging them (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 341-MCW kHz, March 17 at 1517 UT, no signal from my only local ND beacon, EI at Woodring Airport; it goes and comes. I strain vs high noise level and there seems to be a trace of another, most likely OIN in Oberlin KS; both 25 watts. Had not been hearing EI either for a couple of nights; at best it`s always much weaker than constant day & night 515-MCW kHz, PN in out-of-town Ponca City, despite also nominally 25 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 88.3 WBFM, March 16 circa 2230 UT, K202BY Enid is back on after off a few days, with KJIL IDs, its new translator primary, and again blocking not only 88.3 stations but 88.1 KWOU, and my RF feeders (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SAO TOME. 13590.059V, March 17 at 1944, very weak talk, S5-S6, language uncertain; carrier is wavering slightly as I measure it. Scheduled is VOA via Pinheira, 19-20 UT in English. Yes, one of the USAGM sites with broken frequency control (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TAIWAN [non]. 5800, March 17 at 0121, Chinese lesson for Spanish, practicing tones, so it`s the last of three RTI experiments via WRMI. At 0130, 5800 goes into Radio Tirana // 9395; maybe a System switching anomaly? See ALBANIA [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 5960, March 17 at 2300, no signal from VOT English to us, another day AWOL; or late maybe; did not recheck later (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5896.5-USB, March 18 at 0028, ``Region 6 SHARES net`` headed by NCS 307 and stronger NCS 387; 0031 contact from even stronger AFA6AG [fonetik] vs storm noise crashes. Fortunately no broadcasters on 5890, 5895 or 5900 now. Who and where is AFA6AG? MARS IDs seem well-concealed: no significant hits on web search, but lots of crazy stuff including Latin. Search of UDXF iog gets a few hits, this being latest: ``5896.5 (USB) SHARES night primary / Coordination Nets FEMA joint amateur/government (digital) 5378.0 (ALE) FEMA 5402.0 (ALE) FEMA 5403.5 (USB) FEMA Regions 1-4, 6; MERS Maynard, Thomasville, Denton 5732.0 (ALE) COTHEN 5821.0 (ALE) FEMA 5896.5 By Utility World (Hugh Stegman) · #88956 · 09/01/19`` My previous log of this: ``5896.5-USB, UT Wednesday April 18, 2018, at 0008, MARS net headed by NCS387 with much weaker contacts AFA6AG and AFA6TG. I wonder if FCC ordered WWCR off 5890 because of this, besides their {temporarily! gh, 2020} banning Brother HyStairical with no replacement; so could it resume that frequency if it wanted to?`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13963.5-USB, March 17 at 1523, intermittent contacts, JBA, involving BX, 1525 stronger 2AO, Tango, whether 030 be copied? Calls fonetik, anyway. Correlates with this recent UDXF iog log: ``13963.5 HIGH CARD TANGO (US ARMY MARS Strategic Net) 1521 UTC ALE to HIGH CARD GULF who passed MIL STD 110A to other stations but had tech problems (31/01/20) (GWR) Gary W Russell, Central, IL`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WRMI: see ALBANIA [non], ARGENTINA [non], TAIWAN [non] ** U S A. 9330, March 17 at 1532, WLCR via WBCQ is on today, unlike yesterday morning, gospel huxter in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5130, March 18 at 0035, surprised to find this WBCQ on early with an AAAWWW replay of last week`s show where he reads a piece by an anti-socialist young woman grad student; S9 but storm crashes from S/SW of here hit S9+10. Then I find same on 7490.2, much stronger. At 0126, 5130 with presumed weekly UT Wed W5KUB ham show, discussing launching $ 200 balloons (vs much stronger ham show on 5085 WTWW -- but W5KUB has the advantage of mainly being a video webcast). 5130 is not sked to be on before 0100 with `Amateur Radio Roundtable`, while 7490 at 00-01 is an Available Time Slot (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 13785, March 17 at 1521-1522* gospel music, abruptly cut off the air. What`s this? Nothing normally here. Saudi is scheduled until 1400 and Oman after 1600, one or both probably imaginary. Possibly WHRI test, which plans to use 13785 in A-20, Sundays only at 20-22 in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0443 UT March 18
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Glenn Hauser logs March 15-16-17, 2020 |
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Tuesday, March 17 2020
![Hauser](http://www.hard-core-dx.com/images/hcdx/wor.gif) ** ARGENTINA [non]. Since WRMI 5800 has been running either Hal Turner or Taiwan relay test, has RAE Spanish just been deleted at 0100 on 5800? Last UT Saturday I was surprised to hear Hal Turner on there // 9455. Whither RAE Spanish? Outdated sked has long shown 2200-2300 M-F on 5010 System D. The transmission schedule shows 5010 not starting until 2300, and indeed no signal here at 2200 & 2215 March 16. And the Argentine DX bulletin Conexión Digital continues to publish every week totally wrong info about their own RAE, including 6060 which was soon replaced by 5800:
``ARGENTINA: RAE, Radiodifusión Argentina al Exterior: HORA UTC KHZ DIAS 0100-0200 O-6060 23456 2200-2300 O-5010 12345`` Maybe another correxion like this will be noticed tho in English? (Glenn Hauser, OK, 0036 UT March 17, WOR iogroup) ** NORTH AMERICA. 7480, March 17 at 0248, dulcet tones from Josiah of anti-Christ pirate, Station YHWH, S9-S7; tnx to tip from Walt Salmaniw on the WOR iog, noting the time as earlier than usual (could he be on DST, i.e. not Arizona?); and also heard next hour by Rick Barton AZ, who also reported him the night before on 7475 instead of 7470 instead of 7480, so check them all (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TAIWAN [non]. 5800, March 16 at 0059.5, WRMI ID by BZ after SMTV, and instead of RAE Spanish relay repeat, 0100 into music, unseems the publicized RTI relay test, but at 0102 I am hearing YL in Spanish with Chinese accent, talking about Dia Mundial de la Radio which was back on 13 febrero; S9+20/30. Soon mentions Radio Taiwán Internacional, so that`s it with old program for test; includes music breaks and sounders. 0129 RTI contact info; 0131 into some kind of music/fill. The third series of relay tests, after two which went bust, is supposed to be UT March 16-17-18: 0100 on 5800, 0200 on 5010, 2200 on 7780. 5010, March 16 at 0228 I barely tune in time to catch closing of RTI, poor here, but guess what? It`s also on very poor 7780, and much better 9395! (Just before WOR follows at 0230 on 7780.) 7780, March 16 at 2214, jazz music, 2221 RMI Spanish ID, more music. Not RTI relay, maybe APS Radio as originally scheduled. However,RTI did show here yesterday as Richard Langley, NB reported: ``Noted in Spanish on my recording of yesterday (15 March) at 22:00 UTC on 7780 kHz instead of Voice of the Report of the Week``. That was a UT day before the tests were supposed to start. Let`s see what happen to these & other WRMI frequencies March 17-18. See also ARGENTINA [non]. (Glenn Hauser, OK, 0036 UT March 17, WOR iogroup) And here`s what happens UT March 17: 5800, at 0100 WRMI starts Hal Turner, who claims to have secret info about virus suppressed by mainstream media; monitored via Colombia SDR, but at 0102 abrupt switch to Spanish before HT can spill the beans. This proves to be the RTI tests rather than RAE, as no Italian accent; they also about CV, and sino-fobia, which surely affects Taiwanese too by the ignorant. 0112, RTI ID. At 0115 checking own receiver: both routes include a squeal on the 5800 transmitter. 9455 at 0115 is still carrying Hal Turner on his only nominal frequency. At 0200, another scheduled test of RTI in Spanish via WRMI. Again on three frequencies, not just one: 7780 good via UTwente; 5010 fair in Colombia; 9395 good at Rockport (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2025 monitoring: confirmed Sunday March 15 at 2130 on WRMI 7780, fair via UTwente SDR. Also confirmed UT Monday March 16 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, S9/+10. But 9395 is playing something else until WOR start about 35 seconds late, separate playout, good S9+10 but sounds better than 7780. Also confirmed UT Monday March 16 at 0230 on WRMI 7780, fair. Also on WRN webcast. Also confirmed UT Monday March 16 at 0300 on Area 51 webcast; at 0327 also on WBCQ 5130, fair S9+10/20. Also confirmed UT Monday March 16 at 0330 on WRMI webcast, and 9955 VG S9/+10. Also confirmed Monday March 16 from about 1900:40 on IRRS 7290 after QSY from 7295, and a few seconds of FSN headlines. No CCI but heavy ACI/splatter from 7295 and 7280 (not 7285); via UTwente SDR. Also confirmed UT Tuesday March 17 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, JBA in Colombia but good at UTwente; and at 0115 check fair here. Next: 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5850 // >> 5010, March 17 at 0115, WRMIs Spanish robobibling. See also ARGENTINA [non] and TAIWAN [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9330, March 16 at 1555, NO signal from WLCR via WBCQ; what`s wrong? A-20 registrations so maybe not yet in use, call for relays via Woofferton, UK. After spending millions to build the 500 kW ``Super-station`` at WBCQ site, to cover the whole flat world, they discover need for a relay closer to the Mideast! To convert all those Egyptians to nihilism (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0447 UT March 17
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