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Glenn Hauser logs March 9-10, 2020 |
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Tuesday, March 10 2020
![Hauser](http://www.hard-core-dx.com/images/hcdx/wor.gif) ** COLOMBIA. 6010.0, March 10 at 0308-0312+, S9 to S9+10 in Spanish and it is religious ``la palabra de dios``, like La Voz de tu Conciencia used to be. Also getting it on Colombia KiwiSDR. I keep listening until 0400 UT definite ID as Alcaraván Radio --- that`s the sibling station to LV de tu Conciencia, nominally on 5910 but it was not unusual for them to swap programming. Presumably Alcaraván has kept active on MW 1530. But does LVC have a MW frequency?
So at least one of the HJDHs has been reactivated. Long-winded sermon continued until 0341 switch to another speaker with Bible reading, 0346 hymn in Mexican style, 0349 announcements, more tunes including tropical rhythms; 0354 ``continúe con nosotros`` but no ID. 0358 song about carnaval. 0400 mentions México norteña and Colombia, finally definite ID in passing ``Alcaraván Radio`` [never vice versa], more tropical music, occasional chex such as 0420, 0442 music. They do play a lot of nice music, but ruin it with interruptions for predication. I`m mostly listening via the two KiwiSDRs in Colombia; the Bogotá one is less noisy; still music past 0500. Two Alcaraván Radio IDs at 0520. Then I check 5910 which until 0500 is blocked here by CRI via Cuba. There, the signal is much weaker, and still a carrier, presumably Cuba overrun. At 0616 when I quit, nothing on 5910 but 6010 still audible direct very poor with music. Probably runs all-night. Manuel Méndez, Spain was hearing 6010 as late as 0720, direct? Via a FL remote, Wolfgang Bueschel says it`s on exactly 6010.000 at 0636. The old transmitter was off-frequency. Tnx to Mike Newland, Morgantown KY, G5RV and Icom IC-7300, who first reported this to the WOR iog as unID at 0251 --- per short-wave.info would be either LVC or Mexico, Radio Mil --- incredibly, that long-gone station is still on the list --- doesn`t anyone keep it up to date??? It was helpful however to retain LV de tu Conciencia, but should have been flagged as inactive for a few years --- until now. There had been reports that visiting American gospel huxter engineers might be refurbishing these outlets. A few days ago, Bob Wilkner in FL had something in Spanish on 5910 before 0100 but which we could not confirm the next night. After 0100, Romania may or may not be active on 5910, and after 0300 it`s China via Cuba until end of B-19. WRTH 2020 lists 5910 & 6010 as DC stations --- as if they were in Bogotá, solely because that`s the postal address of QSL manager Rafael Rodríguez R.! They are really in remote Puerto Lleras, Meta. [non] Brasil is also active on 6010, altho I heard none of it in Colombia but did not try SDRs in Brasil; so beware and be sure of which language you are hearing. On the radioescutas group March 10: ``Bom dia amigos. Rádio Inconfidência sintonizada (6.010 Mhz) aqui em Marília(Sp) neste momento ((8h10) da manhã [0510 UT], programa "Em boa companhia". Ivan Evangelista Jr`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11880, March 9 after 2200 and 2302, no signal from RHC on the second day of its needless transmission jumbling due to the imposition of DST which ought to be irrelevant. Until March 8 had been at 22-23, and ``normal`` A-season shift was *later* to 23-24 UT on 11880 or 9720 --- and nothing there either. I also scan the entire 15, 13, 11, 9, 7 and 6 MHz bands and do not find RHC English anywhere on old or new frequencies during either hour. Maybe got lost in shuffle or coincidental transmitter downage? Keep checking. Something`s always wrong at RHC. If RHC management were not such a total mess, Arnie could have broadcast the exact new times and frequencies on DXers Unlimited March 8 or preferably earlier. But he never deals with such significant mundane matters. WRTH used to list him as the frequency manager, but lately only as ``advisor consultant to the director general``. My further RHC chex: English on tropical 5040 has indeed shifted an hour *earlier* from 00-01 UT to 23-24 UT March 9, confirmed beginning at 2301 but no //s anywhere. After 2200, Spanish is on 11950, 6000, 11850, 15370 at least; at 2244, 11700 in Portuguese; at 2305, 15730 in distorted Kriyol. Something`s always wrong at RHC. Late night, March 10 at 0618, 6060 is S9+30 of dead air; 6000 & 6100 are off; 6145 at 0620 in undermodulated English. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13635 & 13765 approx., March 10 at 1407, RHC FM/AM spurblobs out of RHC 13700 distorting `Sonido Cubano` music now during its earlier hour; just a trace on 2 x 65 kHz second-orders 13570 & 13830. 13740 is still on with bigsig of dead air. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15700, March 10 at 1410, CRI English relay is just barely modulated. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ITALY [non]. 7295, March 10 at 1818, IRRS with `War Room Pandemic` episode 39, very strong via UTwente, but considerable undercurrent QRM from Iran`s IS until it cuts off at 1822* --- for VIRI is already on 7295 in German at 1720-1820, 500 kW at 313 degrees! Now IRRS ex-7290 is colliding with that in order to evade China on 7285. At 1823, WRP mentions being on SW NEXUS IRRS to various targets but no time or frequency details (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2024 monitoring: on Monday March 9, Ron Norton sent an IRRS notice that they would be on 7295 instead of 7290 at 18-20 UT, to avoid CRI QRM on 7285 for the Coronavirus program at 1800. I quickly check UTwente and find nothing on 7285, 7290 or 7295 at 1848, but suddenly at *1851, 7295 comes on with music fill; and 7285 is also there with CRI. Maybe receiver had been out of order. BUT CRI is scheduled on 7295 at 1900-2100 in English from East Turkistan. This had been ACI to IRRS after 1900, and now will be CCI!!! Including WORLD OF RADIO about to start at 1901! At 1857 the 7285 CRI signal cuts off and now we have a full collision of CRI and IRRS on 7295. To avoid QRM, the second hour at 19-20 should shift to 7285. I, gh, posted preceding at 1859. At 1902: Contrary to new sked from IRRS, has switched back to 7290 at 1900, WOR good on LSB avoiding ACI from 7295. Then at 1910, Alfredo Cotroneo of IRRS tells me: ``Glenn, You will be on 7290, as usual from 19-20 UTC. We will assess 7295 from 18-19 and decide whether to stay on 7295during that period, since 7290 18-19 UTC suffered from interference from 7285 (CRI) in some parts of the EU``. [see also ITALY [non]] WOR 2024 also confirmed UT Tue March 10 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, good via UTwente and also reported: ``WRMI, Okeechobee, FL, 7780, Mar 10, 0100, EE with GH’s “World of Radio No. 2024”, followed by "Wavescan", 45344 (JRC NRD-535D; antenna 45m longwire with 9:1 Unun) (Robert Butterfield, Columbia, MD, USA)``. Next: 2100 UT Wednesday 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. 990, My log of KWAM Memphis struck a nerve of Greg Hardison: ``Glenn: -- "KWAM, The Voice" -- This thing is moving under its new ownership by extremist Todd Starnes. Fox News-Talk radio had the wisdom last year to fire Starnes, after he sat back on his show in silence, while esteemed guest "Pastor" Robert Jeffress asserted, "all Democrats worship Moloch", a medieval demon-deity who allegedly advocated child-sacrifice. Perhaps Starnes will offer Jeffress his own daily show, to further propagate that kind of "patriotic" bilge, thus countering all them damn libtards in the media! Already trumpeting the NRA, no doubt we'll hear endless loads of this sort of crap on KWAM under Starnes' far-far-right guidance. Such a fine use for the "public" airwaves. Fine, fine people! -- GREG HARDISON`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 1834 UT March 10
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Glenn Hauser logs March 8-9, 2020 |
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Monday, March 09 2020
![Hauser](http://www.hard-core-dx.com/images/hcdx/wor.gif) ** CANADA. 284-MCW kHz, March 9 at 0626 UT, dash and ND beacon Ya-S, i.e. dit-dah-dit-dah, dit-dit-dit. As discussed in detail with my last November 15 log this is really QD in The Pas, Manitoba, miskeying the Q which should be dah-dah-dit-dah.
Despite storm crashes from southern Nebraska and local line noise level, I proceed: 326-MCW kHz, March 9 at 0628 UT, dash and NDB VV, which is 133 watts from Wiarton, Ontario (once a channel 2 TV DX city), per dxinfocentre.com ``To be decommissioned 2020-03-26`` but William Hepburn also says, ``Beacons are being decommissioned at such a rapid rate that many listed here may already be off the air. By 2026, most of these beacons will be gone with only a few left, __mainly in remote areas. Also, it has been noticed recently that many decommissioned beacons have been unexpectantly returning to the air (I call them "zombie beacons").`` I, gh, was tuned to 325-USB. 340-MCW kHz, March 9 at 0630 UT, dash and YY, 500 watt NDB at Mont Joli, Québec. I was tuned to 339-USB; yet QRM from local 341, EI Enid. 351-MCW kHz, March 9 at 0631 UT, dash and YKQ, 500-watt NDB at Fort Rupert - Waskaganish, Québec. I was tuned to 350-USB, yet no sign of RG at Will Rogers World Airport, OKC; off? 355-MCW kHz, March 9 at 0634 UT, dash and YWP, 200-watt NDB at Webequie, Ontario. I was tuned to 354-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 15034-USB, March 9 at 1526, Trenton Military is JBA instead of usual good signal; yet 14670 CHU is at normal good level, so I suspect CHR is now underpowered. Also yesterday noticed it very weak but still on air (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11880, March 8 at 2128-2130+, first day of DST to keep in step with the Gusanos en Miami, this RHC only S5-S6 is not in Arabic as before but Spanish during piano music and // 5040, 11760. Also // 15370 at 2132 S9+30 distorted. Something`s always wrong at RHC. Also // weak 9535 & 9640 at 2136. Unfortunately did not get around to confirming yet whether English have shifted from 22-23 to 23-24 on 11880 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. Further chex of RHC now that DST is in effect: UT Monday March 9 at 0036, 6000 is in Spanish, 6145 not on; 5040 is squealing and in Kriyol. At 0038, 11850 in Spanish and suptorted, 11760 OK, 11700 Spanish, 11670 distorted; 9640 and 9535 weaker all with discussion of béisbol. 6000 & 6145, March 9 at 0130, now these are on in English but both JBM. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 6060, March 9 at 0030, MUCH better signal and modulation in Spanish, S9+30. `En Contacto` ending an hour earlier at 0150 UT Monday after monthly AER DX report so starts at 0135; and also should be Sunday 1335 on all the morning frequencies, and Sunday 2245 on tarde channels (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6060, March 9 at 0610, checking all the RHC English frequencies, this one is S9+20 of dead air; 5040, 6000, 6100 are OFF; 6145 is the only one still on, S9 but undermodulated; with `DXers Unlimited` at 0613-0622, so I listen to it all and try to understand Arnie: topic 1) 35 days with no sunspots; 2) lamenting lack of ham activity except weekend contests; 3) something about broadcast training?; 4) dipole antennas. DXUL is the most popular program on RHC, as he frequently asserts. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13740, March 9 at 1429, RHC carrier still on with crackling, rapid cutting off and on, 1430 goes off for good. 13700 is still running OK with no spurs. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 11560, March 8 at 1941, Station YHWH is S7-S9 but suptorted modulation; by 1959 a JBA carrier. Tnx to tip from Rick Barton, AZ to the WOR io group (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SCOTLAND [non]. 7490.05v, UT Monday March 9 after 0000, WBCQ with `Encore` classical music, also webcast, shifted without notice one UT hour earlier as The Planet operates on local time, not UT. Good signal direct anyway at 0040 check. 9455, UT Monday March 9 at 0215, the new `Encore` broadcast via WRMI has also shifted a UT hour earlier to 0200 after debut last week at 0300, again without notice (and yesterday`s WRMI on 5850 was a no-show). We hope everything will be back in sync next weekend. At least the current playlist was already available on website (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 774, March 9 at 0456, of all the TA carriers (see unID), this one manages some audio, Castilian talk from RNE synchros, 0500, six-pip timesignal, talk and music. Still very heavy splash from 780 WBBM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2024 monitoring: confirmed Sunday March 8 at 2130 on WRMI 7780, JBA here; at 2153, poor-fair via UTwente SDR. Also confirmed UT Monday March 9 at 0130 on WRMI 9395, which has just shifted one UT hour earlier from 0230; and still preceded at 0129.5 with far-outdated ``Son-power Radio`` ID with long-gone 7455 frequency, followed by some 10 seconds of dead air, and a note of music fill before WOR start, but anyhow VG S9+10/20. And also at 0130 still on much weaker, JBA/VP 7780. But VG at UTwente and Rockport ME. Also confirmed UT Monday March 9 at 0230 on WRMI 7780, VG at Rockport; and also still at this unchanged time on WRN webcast (so Sat 1700 will also stay then until BST in April). Also confirmed UT Monday March 9 at 0300 (ex-0400) on Area 51 webcast; 5130 WBCQ poor-fair on SDR in Virginia but not ones closer to Maine; at 0327 here, fair S9/+10. Also confirmed UT Monday March 9 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, good via SDR in Pardinho, Brasil, no jamming; not audible in much closer Colombia; and here JBA carrier vs wall-of-noise jamming. Next: 1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday 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. 7490.2v, Sunday March 8 at 2127, WBCQ with `Marion`s Attic` amid its summer-shifted hour, fair S8-S9, but reception will steadily worsen until Solstice with more and more insolation over daytime path. Same hour, 21-22 UT on Sundays I am more disposed to listen to 90.1 KUCO-FM, or via webcast, to `Feminine Fusion` presenting classical music composed and/or performed by women, which originates at WCNY in Syracuse: https://exchange.prx.org/series/38388-feminine-fusion I wonder if hostess (sorry), Diane Jones, knows Marie Lamb, ex-`DXing with Cumbre`, if she still be there. Marie was more into jazz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9330, March 8 at 2135, WLCR on WBCQ still in Arabic, S9+25/30 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9474.97 approx., March 8 at 2129, WTWW-1 is on at S9+40 but with big hum; as always off-frequency-minus (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search March 9 at 0448: 531, 549, 558, 567, 585(2), 603, 612, 621, 639, 666(2), 693*, 711, 774*(2), 783, 801, 837, 846 (TP Kiritimati?), 855, 882, 891, 909, 936(2), 999, 1026, 1044, 1053*, 1089, 1125(2), 1134(2), 1152, 1215, 1314, 1341, 1575. There could be more above 1200 but the splash/QRM levels are worse there. (2) = at least two carriers beating; * = strongest; see also SPAIN 774. At 0652 QRT a quick incomplete rescan finds 576, 639, 693, 711, 774 at least (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 18135-USB, March 8 at 2141, VG ham discussing microphones with inaudible contact, no IDs with several exchanges, grrr! Soon fades down and out, like a sporadic E HF opening few have noticed. Was the OSOB and nothing on 16m SWBC either (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 1840 UT March 9
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Glenn Hauser logs March 7-8, 2020 |
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Sunday, March 08 2020
![Hauser](http://www.hard-core-dx.com/images/hcdx/wor.gif) DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS updated for North American DST season http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html
WORLD OF RADIO HITLIST by Alan Roe updated for Cuban & USA DST season: http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm WORLD OF RADIO SCHEDULE updated for North American DST season http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html ** BRAZIL. 9630v & 11856v, Sat March 7 at 2220, no signals at all from R. Aparecida just when we wanted to hear their DX program. Propagation OK with 11780 S9+10 RNA in SBG; some weak distorted talk on 11815, probably RBC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. 9155, March 8 at 0041, JBA maybe Chinese on one of the CNR1 jammer frequencies against Sound of Hope; no others around in the lower 9`s (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** COLOMBIA [non]. 5910, March 7 around 2330 I check the two KiwiSDRs in Colombia for any signal here or on 6010, but none; 47 hours ago, Bob Wilkner in FL had a tentative something in Spanish where Alcaraván radio used to abide, and there have been implications visiting gospel huxters might refurbish it. At 0005 UT March 8 on one of my radios I do get a JBA carrier offset-minus from 5910, but no trace at 0014 on the other, so probably a local birdie. 6010, March 8 at at 0018, JBA carrier, probably Brasil (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11760, March 7 at 2219, RHC is S9 but very distorted --- just in an axuality clip, OK once the announcer resume. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 17480, March 7 at 2222, JBA carrier, the OSOB if you count this as part of the 16 mb --- only thing listed in Aoki is Cuban Spy Numbers at 2155-2350 on days 357 = including Saturday (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13635 & 13766 approx., Sunday March 8 at 1427, RHC spurblobs out of 13700-AM transmitter, ending music show presumably `Sonido Cubano` now one UT hour earlier, and plugging 22 de marzo as ``Dia mundial del agua -- fuente de vida``; 1430 Música del Cine. 13740 is off but 15230 and distorted 15140 are still on. At 1508, 13700 is still on with dead air, making the spurs less obvious; and weekly Esperanto confirmed on 11760 and distorted 15140 --- now one UT hour earlier for DST season in step with Yankee Imperialists. Something`s always wrong at RHC. Despite being an international SW station, RHC allows local DST to bump most but not all of its transmissions and programming around. Something`s always wrong at RHC. Based on what happened in the A-19 season, we expect first English to be at 19-20 instead of 20-21, still on 15140? Next at 23-24 instead of 22-23 on 11880 --- yes, one real hour *later* rather than earlier in this case. While the 5040 English at 00-01 should earlyize to 23-24, i.e. same time as the 11880 --- but will that frequency maintain now and/or into real A-20? Sometimes it`s been on 9720. Evening to NAm, will English start at 00 reliably instead of 01? Will end at 07 rather than 08 on constantly shifting batch of frequencies? TBD. 15140, March 8 at 1713, RHC still on here at S9+10 but suptorted while // 11760 modulation is OK during music. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 15140, March 8 at 1830, RHC starting Kriyol, moved an hour earlier from the winter timing of 1930, so expect English too at 1900. But this frequency is very suptorted. Something`s always wrong at RHC. Yes, English now confirmed March 8 from 1900 on 15140, but who would want to put up with its crummy modulation? Something`s always wrong at RHC. 11880 has reliably provided the best signal and modulation back here even tho it`s supposedly for Africa, now at 23 instead of 22? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13605, March 8 at 1827, lite pulse jamming altho Radio Martí will not move here from 13820 until A-20 March 29. Something`s always wrong at the DentroCuban Jamming Command (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Here`s my eQSL for Oromia Media Network via IRRS: http://www.w4uvh.net/20200306-11990-kHz--Hauser-Glen-IRRS-QSL-2020-CoronovirusPandemic.pdf BTW, while WRTH 2020 has only one cland to Ethiopia, not this one, the 2019 edition had four more. Have they all really disappeared, and why? Situation improving? And why has OMN just started up along with IRRS` expanded Corona virus broadcasts --- related? So far Ethiopia has had very little infexion (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** GUINEA. 9650, March 8 at 0044, no overtime signal from RTG tonight. Ron Howard replies to last night`s report: ``Hi Glenn, There have been several cases recently of Radio Guinea being on the air well beyond their normal schedule. Believe this has to do with ongoing local events happening there. Here is the "Security Alert – U. S. Embassy Conakry, Guinea": https://gn.usembassy.gov/security-alert-u-s-embassy-conakry-guinea-6/ Ron, California`` That`s about avoiding areas of violent protests, but no info what they are about (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** IRELAND. Re my unID carrier on 5780, March 5 at 0715, here`s a possibility from the logs of Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal: 5780.0 2145-... 03/3 IRL Harmony R - pir. Oldies. 35343 CGS 5780.0 1439-... 04/3 IRL Harmony R - pir. Mx. 15341 CGS (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ITALY [non]. Re my obs of transmission overlap on 7290 IRRS just before 1900 UT March 2, Richard Langley, NB, replies: ``Listening / watching carefully today (7 March) at 19:00 UTC using the U. Twente SDR receiver, I heard/saw no suggestion of a transmitter change from before to after 19:00 UTC. Frequency stayed in the vicinity of 7289.998 kHz. -- Richard Langley`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 5960, UT Sun Mar 8 at 0135, The Mighty Farty KBC is VG as usual; Alan Roe reports already, ``NETHERLANDS/GERMANY. KBC posted this on their Facebook page on 5 March: "On March 29 The Mighty KBC is moving back to 9925 kHz for the summer period. Sunday 00:00 - 02:00 UTC." This is via Nauen. Alan Roe, Teddington, UK`` But normally 9925 is in use only May-August, following the Croatian Radio Zagreb model. We`ll see whether MUF support 9925 a month+ earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6923-LSB, March 8 at 0025, pirate with rock song, 0027 segué, 0030 ``Taste of Honey``, 0035 DJ says ``from the capital of Argyle`` and something about Ireland, ``across the Great Plains of the North Atlantic``; also pronounces ``oot`` Canadianish. 0043 ``Come Together``, and gone by 0045. These logs say it`s Zekey`s Attic, first heard at 1943 March 7 and another transmission in the evening: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,63871.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ROMANIA. 6130 //> 7325, March 8 at 0058 RRI IS prior to English and no signals on Romanian 5910 & 7410, as transmitters remain OOO. 5910, March 8 at 0129 recheck, however, now RRI is on with Romanian rock and rap all with heavy beat, S9+20, but 7410 is still off. (I should have checked 7340 next to 7345 OCB DRM.) Occasional quick two or three words by YL DJ at 0138, 0149; 0157 ID barely discernible under music. Alan Roe`s Music on Shortwave shows: 0100 - 0200 Su As We Like! (hour 2) (Club/party) 5910 7340 Wish I had kept listening after 0200 for: 0200 - 0256 Su Radio Concert Season (Classical) 5910 7340 6130, UT Sun Mar 8 at 0140-0145 meanwhile, RRI had its `DX Mailbag` reading and replying to reports from Zeeland, Michigan; Finland; Japan as poorly heard in DRM via SDR in Switzerland; and Dave Harries in Bristol, England (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 420 kHz, March 8 at 0645 UT, ND beacon PK, Olathe KS, difficult to separate from another one IDing at same pitch, same time, presumably the usual FQ, Fairmont MN, both 25 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2024 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday March 8 at 0413 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, about 11 minutes in so started early around 0402, VG S9+30 --- this rivals another St Louis station with much more power, KMOX 1120! Note: from next week due to DST, nominal start will be 0315 UT. Next: 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9395? to NNW 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9395? to NNW 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 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. 5950, March 8 at 0016, WRMI with a rare spot commercial for Dish TV vs cable, then ``back to the music`` Oldies where such ads can be accommodated. The transmission sked shows 5950 during this hour is System G, but the System G grid shows that on 9395 only, among a number of contradixions (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5010, UT Sun Mar 8 at 0059, Rudy Espinal, Dominican Republic, WRMI Spanish ID, while 5850 runs a Bob Biermann English ID. At 0100 they join when `Encore` classical music is supposed to play but instead Bob introduces music, not Oldies, rather tunes from the very familiar World Music reel, the first song sounding like gibberish but maybe a real language, which? Still no Encore at 0112, 0132 chex. Such a default is what happens when there is something wrong with the proper scheduled file. I notified Brice Avery about this and he says the problem should be fixed for the next airing, UT Monday March 9 at 0300 on 9455 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9330, March 8 at 1825, WLCR on WBCQ amid German hour as previously scheduled, poor signal here. Ivo Ivanov and Alan Holder, however, have heard some mixups or changes in times, languages, azimuths now that Monticello is on EDT - which should be irrelevant to overseas broadcasts (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5085, March 7 at 2209, WTWW-2 is already on at S9+40 with music this Saturday, unlike yesterday - early UT Sat when it was not on at all. But no 5830 WTWW-1. 5085, UT Sun Mar 8 at 0113 and 0134, still rock, no sign of nameless theatre organ show nor ham news (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 990, UT Sun Mar 8 at 0106, plug for bass event in Birmingham, but no station there, then listing of fishing/hunting events in FL, MO, WY so a network program, also plugging NRA. This page https://kwamthevoice.com/page-schedule presents a ``weekly schedule`` without specifying *which* days! Apparently means M-F only ignoring very different lineup on weekends. Fortunately the host mentions his own website, bbkoradio.com which converts to: https://bigbillykinderoutdoors.com/ including KWAM-AM Saturdays 6-8 pm CT, from a well-designed affiliate map at https://bigbillykinderoutdoors.com/The-Show/Radio-Stations 0115 UT ID ``KWAM, The Voice, now on 107.9 and AM 990`` and kwamtheoice.com --- Evidently the slogan is now just ``The Voice`` rather than ``Voice of Memphis``. This is dominant on my E-W longwire, no CBW, which I do hear on the DX-398 aimed N/S; and on it E/W there is also Spanish CCI. 107.9 is --- you guessed it --- a paltry 250-watt translator, W300DE. Speaking of powers, when I heard 990 it was surely on 10 kW day power, not 450 watt night power, which is supposed to start in March at 0000 UT! Day pattern is tight east-west, night also tight slightly clockwise, both favoring us (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 5915, March 8 at 0005, very weak talk, African? At 0015 carrier is either wobbling or beating with another --- both Zambia and Myanmar? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 6966v, March 8 at 0020 as I am checking the pirate band, a hamspur here, chirpy signal constantly drifting downward, seems like negative keying so I only copy a DE W0 - something before losing it. I would have tried to match it to a fundamental above 7.0 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 9411.0-USB, March 8 at 0042, 2-way in Spanish, INTRUDERS. While 9410 is unoccupied by BBC Singapore until 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report despatched at 1917 UT March 8
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Glenn Hauser logs March 7, 2020 |
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Saturday, March 07 2020
![Hauser](http://www.hard-core-dx.com/images/hcdx/wor.gif) ** CHINA. 9200, March 7 at 1413, Chinese fair signal, i.e. CNR1 jammer against Sound of Hope; no others audible among several other low-9-MHz possible frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 15700, March 7 at 1403, S9+40 of dead air on CRI Plus relay; did not get around to rechecking before 1600 whether modulation ever came up. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. BTW in A-20 this transmission redescends to 11880 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15230, March 7 at 1405, RHC reactivated from absence yesterday, // distorted 15140. 1552 recheck, 15230 is dead air, 15140 is off, 11760 is on, and 11700 is also off, the latter running yesterday morning by error. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15140, March 7 at 1651, this RHC is off, despite supposed to run continuously 1200-2130 per Aoki; EiBi shows a 15-16 break, and also a strange 5-minute French broadcast Sunday at 2110. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13635, 13570, 13766, 13832 approx., March 7 at 1607, RHC succeeds in spurblobbing from 13700 transmitter, at 65-66 kHz intervals plus and minus, the first order pair stronger; readable in FM and AM, with F# tone, not in SSB. I had really been missing these: none logged since February 16, quite a spell, almost two sesquiweeks! Something`s always wrong at RHC. Are these more likely on weekends? Last batch were Fri-Sat-Sun, Feb 14-15-16 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** GUINEA. 9650, March 7 at 0347, hilife music with no break at hourtop, past 0412 at S9-S5, no announcements, still at 0450 tho weaker. Surely it`s RTG which is nominally on air 06-24 only, and nothing else normally here before North Korea at 0700. So why are they running all-night? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MEXICO. 6185.7, March 7 at 0342, XEPPM about here, not remeasured precisely, and seems to be wobbling, or caused by local QRM. 6185.755, measured March 7 at 0452, dead air; still propagating at 1512 when I measure it on 6185.792, maybe JBM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 7480, March 7 at 0352, Station YHWH is VP, JBA, S7-S9 undermodulated vs S5 noise level on vacant 7475. 7470 has a JBA carrier, thus QRM from Deewa Radio, Germany, he avoids. I did make out one mention of ``Yahweh``. Ron Howard was also hearing this with difficulty at 0324-0405+ (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2024 monitoring: I awaken at 1334 Saturday March 7 to hear JBA beepery on 15770 WRMI, i.e. SW Radiogram, so likely also on air before 1330 with WOR, unlike last week. Also confirmed Sat Mar 7 at 1700 on all three WRN webcasts. Will the NAm service have shifted to 1600 by next week, or wait till the others do in April? Next: 2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415] 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, 9395? to NNW 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 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. Re VORW time changes on WRMI: Altho I did not get the complete context of his announcement, I now suspect he was saying that VORW times would be one hour later on 5850 et al., once DST has started, i.e. by local clox, since they stay at same UT --- e.g., 0100 UT will become 9 pm EDT instead of 8 pm EST. We do not need all this confusion caused by twice-yearly shifting! In the SW context, the standard must be UT, which is *real, unchanging* time (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5830, March 7 at 0347, WTWW-1 is on again with VG signal, SFAW sounds like live call-in, but mentions current date in passing as 26 March, so at least a year old, probably many more. 5085 WTWW-2 is however AWOL (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 1729 UT March 7
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Glenn Hauser logs March 6-7, 2020 |
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Saturday, March 07 2020
![Hauser](http://www.hard-core-dx.com/images/hcdx/wor.gif) ** ANTARCTICA. 15475.97-USB, continuing previous March 6 LRA36 log: as expected not a trace of it direct to here just before 1900. After 1900 I`m listening via Iceland ``VHF`` KiwiSDR, where Dan Robinson says it`s coming in well (a lot further than Brasil, but all over-water path). All talk but mostly unreadable, then 1910 music past 1913. By 1954 JBA there; 1957 I`m back on Pardinho SP SDR which gets it best of all. Talking about the ``campaña antártica``; 2014 contacting someone at another base, Marambio until 2016, contact info, ID with frequency 15476, some music, YL acknowledging reports and saludos; brief fade-down; discussion of ``campaña de verano desde el 6 de noviembre``. 2036 mentions a base uruguaya; 2037 current weather including temp 5 grados = heatwave; 2050 music, song about Antarctica including lyrix, hielo, cielo (ice and sky, which don`t rhyme as well in English); some other songs and off before 2100.
Roger provides a 48+ minute segment starting ~1900z from the somewhat bumpy webstream .... including weather conditions, IDs: https://dl.dropbox.com/s/vkce2ndwozd663g/2020-03-06-1900z-LRA36-cut-.mp3?dl=1 And here`s that nice song he also found: https://youtu.be/o5EzpHiXU_Q Base Esperanza (Canción Corazón Antártico) - Patricia Sosa https://youtu.be/MkP18Q7wh28 Corazón Antártico - Patricia Sosa (con letra) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ARGENTINA [non]. 5800, UT Sat March 7 at 0132, RAE via WRMI with `Actualidad DX.com.ar`, playing a clip of Radio Nyawa Sarawak. Too bad this DX program is simultaneous with WOR X 3, not to mention AAAWWW but the latter will be an hour earlier from next week due to the imposition of DST and WBCQ acquiescence (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15370.0, March 6 at 2309, RHC remains on-frequency, but S9+20 of distortion and hum on modulation. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 5080-USB, March 7 at 0118, soul, jazz music, no announcements, stops at 0137 tho I tuned away a bit at 0128 to check WOR frequencies. Fair with bubbling probably from local device. In the absence of WTWW 5085! Mix Radio International per lots of reports here, as early as 2136 March 6: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,63822.0.html Could have stayed on later as no-show from WTWW by 0300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ROMANIA. 6130 // 7325, March 7 at 0116, another check of RRI finds English on these frequencies, no Romanian or anything on 5910 & 7410. Apparently two transmitters are out of order (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY [non]. 5960, March 6 at 2318, as some guy on WRMI mentions that Spain and Turkey are the only overseas stations still in English to us at this hour, I check and not today: another absence of VOT where something`s always erroneous at Emirler. 2339 recheck, I do make out a JBA carrier on 5960-minus, i.e. XJPBS. But English from Spain before 2330 succeeds on 9690 vs WOR on 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 11720, Friday March 6 at 2115, VOA `Music Time in Africa` has hyper Heather talking about some award show coming up on Saturday November 30! So this is a rerun. I wonder how often that happen less obviously (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2024 monitoring: confirmed first American SWBC, Friday March 6 at 2300 on WRMI 9955: this time very light pulse jamming soon abates, and rest of show is in the clear, 100% readable to 2329. Also confirmed UT Sat Mar 7 at 0130 on WRMIs: 5010 fair with trace of LAH, Madagascar or India? As usual, Spanish Bibling is chopped off at 0129:30 for ID. Also on 5850, VG S9+30; and 7780, VP in HNL here, but HjB in Germany confirms it at 0157 with SINPO 35443. Next: 0900 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 [not last week; please check!] to NE 2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415] 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, 9395? to NNW 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 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. 9955, March 6 at 2158, VORW ending on WRMI; John seems to be saying all his times on WRMI including 5850 will be one hour later with DST --- I don`t think so. If there were any retime they would be one hour earlier, but unless there has been a drastic policy change, most WRMIs stay on UT, except for System B on 9955; and System G which is mainly 9395 but partly involving 7780, 5950 if we believe the outdated grid. That sked in EST/EDT makes it hard to mesh with other Systems employing those frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7490.2v, UT Sat March 7 at 0100, WBCQ with some other music before WTO, and of course again ``Angela & Allan Weiner WorldWide`` without either of them, instead Pirate Joe subbing once again. Says he had only 25 minutes` notice to prepare, and that was while he was on air with WHVW classical music show; sorry, too much else is going on this hour to devote time to monitoring all his random rambling in case there be any nugget of info about what`s really going on at `BCQ. 5130 still not on air at 0100, but it is on when next checked at 0152 with PJ here too //. John Carver`s version: ``Tonight's show started on time on 7490. No signal on 5130. Pirate Joe is hosting again this evening. Stated that he only had thirty minutes notice that he was hosting and he was in the middle of a program on his station when he found out so had nothing planned for this show. Rambled on for a bit and then played some music. Spent a fair amount of time talking about the twenties. He tried several times to compare the twenties to the sixties but never completed the thought. Then he talked about prohibition, then into the Pony Express, and into traveling cross country in different time periods, and then into world travel in several different centuries. A check at 0136 revealed still no program on 5130, but during a check at 0158 the program was on 5130 so it came up sometime in the last twenty-two minutes. Show was off the air at 0200. John, Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0325 UT March 7
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