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Glenn Hauser logs March 2-3, 2020 |
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Tuesday, March 03 2020
** ANGUILLA. 6090, Tue March 3 at 0055, S9+10/20 of dead air from TCB/DGS/PMS/TUN, while 5935 WWCR is modulating music break. Totally overriding Iran, warming up for the *0100 broadcast UT Tue/Wed/Fri per EiBi. There is a schedule for this and 11775, however convoluted (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 15370.0, March 2 at 2248, RHC is finally back on frequency! S9 with OK modulation. Failing to transmit on 15369.23 where I think it was still March 1 tho did not make it into logbook. That would have been day 19. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA [and non]. 13650, March 2 at 2304, CRI relay with Chinese music fill instead of Portuguese, S9+20 but suptorted; had been absent when last checked Feb 29. Today the // 6100 direct from Beijing is JBA carrier. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6060, March 3 at 0726 UT, this time RHC English is still on here, much stronger than // 6145, which is much weaker than // 5040; while 6000 & 6100 are off. You never know which combo of The Cuban Five will be on air this final hour. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 13560, March 2 circa 2200 UT, I am checking various spots in Enid with insensitive portable, whether the constant noise I get at home is any stronger elsewhere: Yes, outside Walmart; yes, around Aldi, but very different sound outside the store vs inside. Also audible downtown at the PO. I suspect this stuff is pervasive anywhere there are security systems and/or checkout scanning devices; really impossible to pinpoint without being right next to sources and turning them off and on. Hey, retailers, may I? I don`t see reports of such from elsewhere. Does everybody hear this stuff and just put up with it? Also suspect hospitals, doctors with ISM medical equipment (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** PHILIPPINES. 9450, March 2 at 2256, ``Jesus [allegedly] Saves`` music box IS; by 2301 into language, listed as Iu via FEBC Bocaue site. Fair but with 9455 WRMI ACI. 9795, March 2 at 2258, same IS here but keeps going until 2302 finally opening a different language, listed as Mon via Iba site. I thought it sounded like Lao, probably related (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ROMANIA. 5910 & 7340, March 3 at 0215, RRI in French instead of scheduled Romanian, and also on the proper French frequencies 6130 & 7410. Checked because JRX Brasil had reported the previous hour 0105-0125 had 5910 in English instead of Romanian. Maybe they have their feed routing mixed up. Romanian is supposed to be for two hours at 01-03 on 5910 & 7340 both Tsiganeshti, with English & French one hour each on the other two via Galbeni. Check again whether this recur? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 9690, March 2 at 2303, REE English to North America this Monday is off the air; 11940 JBA maybe same station; 12030 JBA carrier. This and Turkey, q.v. are the only significant overseas stations still broadcasting English to us at this hour, but one or both may be missing on any occasion (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 5960, March 2 at 2303, VOT is on today for English to us, but poor S6-S8 and undermodulated, unusable. See SPAIN, our only alternative, off the air today; they take turns? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [non]. 7290 via UTwente, concluding the WORLD OF RADIO 2023 monitoring report for Monday March 2: Almost made it to conclusion at 1929, cutting off only the last syllables of ``disclaimer``, ID this time giving an IRRS phone number, into Feature Story News in more detail than the headlines earlier. Also confirmed UT Tue March 3 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, JBA S7-8 about equal to noise level here. Not much better at UTwente where it usually is; but much better at Rockport ME KiwiSDR. Next: 0900 UT Wednesday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2200 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. 15825, 13845, March 3 circa 2000, WWCR usual JBA carriers, and more on 12160; after 2100 usual bigsigs on 9980 and 9350; ops normal, not hit by tornado in downtown Nashville, as site is on the NW outskirts. In the ABDX.org group, David Slate in Hendersonville TN said, ``Hey Gang, Last night there was a tornado that went though Nashville. We in Hendersonville were lucky, just rain and wind at my QTH. The east Nashville and Germantown {Memphis suburb} areas got hit and so did Mt Juliet and Lebanon. It came close to WTVF TV ch 5 . In the Cookeville market they also got hit hard. Just wanted to let you all know I'm OK`` Good, and we surely hope all our other DX friends and broadcasters in TN are too. Lebanon? That`s the site of WTWW. You never know whether they will be on air with day or night frequencies, but the three active lately, 9475, 5830 and 5085 are all absent March 3 at 1858, 2056 and 2248 UT chex. If any remain, #1 priority will be 5085 evenings with Ted`s rock and ham stuff. I also checked the WTWW webcasts; while the website wtww.us still loads, nothing played, but I don`t know if this be unusual in the daytime anyway (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. I don`t normally watch the Dr Oz show, but ran across it today March 3 when the topic is the Tony Alamo cult, and the horrible things that monster did to his followers. You may be able to find it today via a local syndicated affiliate; or see website: https://www.doctoroz.com/episode/true-crime-child-bride-christian-sex-cult-speaks-out?video_id=6137735476001 https://www.doctoroz.com/episode/true-crime-child-bride-christian-sex-cult-speaks-out
``Dr. Oz Logo Now Playing Sneak Peek: Behind Closed Doors of Tony Alamo’s Christian Sex Cult True Crime: Child Bride From Christian Sex Cult Speaks Out Autoplay: Originally aired on 3/03/2020 Dr. Oz investigates Christian cult leader and convicted child sex abuser Tony Alamo, who controlled his devoted followers by fear and punishment and took child brides as young as 8 years old. Investigative reporter Mara Schiavocampo shares the story.`` This is on the first half hour of the TV show only. At its end Oz sez they got no response from Alamo Ministries --- so we know that exist. Unfortunately this is still relevant because dead Alamo has shown up again on shortwave, thanks to MBR. Maybe someone should clue them in about him: EiBi: 1600 1700 Su USA Tony Alamo E ME 6120/D-n 1630 1730 Su USA Tony Alamo E SAs 5945/UZB 6060/UZB Aoki: 5945 1630-1730 UZB Tony Alamo Christian Min Eng Tashkent 1 6040 1630-1730 UZB Tony Alamo Christian Min Eng Tashkent 1 6120 1600-1700 D Tony Alamo Christian Min Eng Nauen 1 HFCC: 5945 1630 1730 42,43,44 TAC 100 90 0 911 1 031119 280320 D 10650 Mul UZB MBR MBR 16202 A.Asia 6040 1630 1730 41 TAC 100 163 0 911 1 031119 280320 D 9050 Mul UZB MBR MBR 16204 A.ind 6060 1600 1630 29,3 NAU 250 80 0 146 7 271019 280320 D 9600 Mul D MBR MBR 16066 A.345 6120 1600 1700 39 NAU 125 128 0 216 1 031119 280320 D 9600 Mul D MBR MBR 16205 A.meara And Ron Howard replies to this on the WOR iog: ``Hi Glenn, Is hard to believe he can still be heard on SW today. Am amazed that there is still an active Website http://www.alamoministries.com/audiomessages/index.html with his recorded audio files available. Years ago you and I often heard his programs via Equatorial Guinea. The programs were provided back then by Pan American Broadcasting (PAB), via their Radio Africa Network, which was broadcasting via shortwave. PAB is still located in Pleasanton, CA. https://www.radiopanam.com/ {and broadcasts via WRMI on 21525 --- gh} Here is one of my logs from 2013: EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, Radio Africa at 1603, on Nov 14, 2013, with the start of Tony Alamo's program #493 (per his website - originally recorded back on Nov 28, 2007); almost fair with good audio; transmitter holding up well after having been recently fixed. http://alamoministries.com/Programs4/program493.mp3 Ron California`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1460, March 3 at 1410 UT, YL anchor with world news in AmerEnglish --- more than some network news-on-the-hour, and no commercials, dominant at first. Like public radio, but certainly not NPR Morning Edition. The only fit around here is KHOJ, St Charles MO, which is Catholic, and there was one item about the Pope testing negative for CoronaVirus but cancelling his public events, and at 1417 mention website mycatholic-something.com Finally got KHOJ program schedule to load https://ourcatholicradio.org/sites/default/files/station-schedules/WRYT-KHOJ%28Group-1-WEB%29_38.pdf which shows Tuesdays at 8-9 am CT, `Catholic Connection` (Live), which seems like a call-in rather than a newscast. 1460, March 3 at 1415 UT, overcoming KHOJ briefly, ``Welcome to the Voice of America, in Vietnamese!`` And VOA jingle. The VV station around here is KCLE Burleson TX, address in Cleburne (The Metroplex), now on 11 kW day power. At first I thought it said Japanese, surely not, and Vietnamese talk soon followed (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 5050, March 3 at 0729, no mystery open carrier now, which had been running the past several nights with no clues but lots of guesses (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 2300 UT March 3
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Glenn Hauser logs March 2, 2020 |
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Monday, March 02 2020
** BULGARIA. 11660, March 2 at 1527, surprised to find a signal here when none is scheduled. JBA, sounds like a few raspy words of Brother Scare, then dead air past 1530; 1539 recheck someother voice or language; 1604 check, off.
Meanwhile, 11600 has been off thruout, where TOMBS is scheduled via Secretbrod at 1400-1700 - Aoki, or 1400-1555 - EiBi, and usually poorly audible here. Therefore I conclude a punch up error putting 11660 on air instead of 11600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 5040, March 2 at 0702, RHC in Spanish with this-day-in-history, still on at an hour there is supposed to be no Spanish. Was it in English during the previous hour? Some 6 MHzs are still on in English. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13700 is off, 13740 is on VG, March 2 at 1525, instead of vice-versa as allegedly scheduled. Something`s always wrong at RHC. BTW, QRX for even more mixups and uncertainty during a month of confusion from March 8 as the running-dog of yanqui imperialism goes on DST along with us, but any A-20 changes not fully in effect until at least a week after the season begin everywhere else March 29 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 17720.026, March 2 at 1518, JBA music/talk, significantly off-frequency, i.e. VOT Arabic this hour only; almost the OSOB except for 17615+ Sa`udi JBA carrier. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2023 monitoring: via UTwente SDR, tune in Monday March 2 at 1854, to find something already on 7290 with rock music, heavy ACI from 7285 CRI. Stronger carrier comes on 7290 at *1857 but music, main lyric ``everybody`` still audible. 1858.7 change to another song, ``You Do Something to Me``, stops just before 1900 for IRRS sign-on ID, 1900 FSN news headlines, vs ACI now from 7295 CRI, and 1900:47 starts WORLD OF RADIO. So it seems the music was coming all along from IRRS even tho not supposed to start before 1900, and two different carriers / sites / transmitters were involved today. Or one transmitter with power bumpup? Aoki says Tsiganeshti, ROMANIA, or would if respelt fonetikaly, during this hour without listing WOR. EiBi, OTOH says Saftica including WOR; anyhow heard well with no CCI, and ACI evitable by LSB tuning; some lightning crashes. Noel R. Green also reports on this: ``Re World of Radio - A good signal at 1905 UT tune in today March 2 on 7290 averaging S9, peaking to S+5 and down to S7 in NW England`` Next: 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0900 UT Wednesday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2200 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 `Encore` new broadcast on WRMI, UT Sun March 1 0100-0200 on 5850, Dr Hansoerg Biener points out, ``The programme was also noted on 5010 kHz.`` Yes, the two are normally in tandem during that hour, e.g. WORLD OF RADIO 24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 2028 UT March 2
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Glenn Hauser logs February 29-March 1-2, 2020 |
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Monday, March 02 2020
** CANADA. 6070, re my hearing the TED Radio Hour on CFRX, Eric Bueneman, MO, ptsw iog replied:
``Eric Bueneman 4:54am #8688 TED is NOT an NPR show. It is a Canadian show aired on commercial stations throughout Canada`` I reply: NPR thinx it`s an NPR show! https://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour?showDate=2020-02-28 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TED_Radio_Hour It`s a joint TED/NPR produxion, carried on NPR in USA, but iHeart in Canada, CBC not being interested? I believe I have also heard it on RNZ(I). Or is this a totally different TED show in Canada? I think not. I did hear NPR mentioned on CFRX as it started (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13740, March 1 at 1518, RHC still on with S9+40 of dead air, or rather with volume all the way up, trace of modulation, maybe same as modulated 13700 which is much weaker than usual, only S9+10 and spurless. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15700, March 1 at 1519, CRI Plus relay is much weaker than usual, only S9-S8 and undermodulated to boot. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MEXICO. 6184.974, March 2 at 0038, XEPPM is S9+10 but JBM --- close, but not exactly back on-frequency. Wolfgang Bueschel independently measured same offset via FL SDR at 2230 March 1, after Vatican closed 6185.000 at 2230:03, having mixed with it from 2224 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 267 kHz, March 1 at 0730, ND beacon HET, which is 25 watts from Henryetta OK, not heard before, I think. Copying the very weak signal, tuned to 265-USB, I was not sure whether there were a space between the E and the T, or single letter A, i.e. HA, but there is no HA anywhere around this frequency (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1520, March 2 at 0259 UT, bit of music from KOKC and a minute of dead air --- just what we need to check for sporadic daytimer KYND Cypress TX, which Paul Walker reported on air last night with business barker loop it used to run a lot last year --- but no sign of it now, just weak CCI from who knows what until KOKC resume at 0300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** RWANDA [non]. 15420, Feb 29 at 1857 African song S9-S8, cut off at 1859* with no announcement; but scheduled as Radio Itahuka, weekly target/clandestine, Sat 18-19 via MADAGASCAR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) [Date correct, overlooked for previous report] ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2023 monitoring: confirmed Sunday March 1 at 2130 on WRMI 7780, JBA vs high noise level (HNL) Also confirmed UT Monday March 2 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, fair-poor via UTwente SDR, deep fades. Also confirmed UT Monday March 2 at 0230 on WRMI 9395, VG via Rockport ME KiwiSDR; 7780 fair-poor via UTwente; also confirmed on WRN webcast. 0256 recheck direct on R75: 7780 good S9+10, 9395 JBA carrier. Note: from next week the 9395 airing *may* move back to 0130 UT Monday. Also confirmed UT Mon Mar 2 at 0400 on Area 51 webcast; 5130 WBCQ good via KiwiSDR in Maryland but not Massachusetts. Note: from next week this will be at 0300 UT Monday. Also confirmed UT Mon Mar 2 at 0430 on WRMI webcast, but 9955 direct is JBA carrier; nor can I find it on any of several SDRs in South and North America; maybe a trace of it at Ottawa. Note: from next week this will be at 0330 UT Monday. Next: 0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB 0930 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB [another episode] 1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0900 UT Wednesday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2200 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. (7490.16v), March 1 after 2300, WBCQ webcast of `Uncle Bill`s Melting Pot` continues filling second half of hour with repeats of vintage shows, rather than `Radio Free Chicago`, deal must have fallen through, and UB says from April new UBMPs will be a full hour long each week both on WBCQ and Channel 292. Note, DST in North America starts already next Sunday March 8, so UBMP will then be Sundays at 22-23 UT, as WBCQ operates by local time despite being an international SW station. `Encore` classical music from Radio Tumbril still on WBCQ 7490/webcast after 0100 UT Monday March 2; not clear whether this be the last time like it was on WWCR Feb 29 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9455, March 2 at 0256, this WRMI is JBA S4-S6, like 9395, boding ill for `Encore` classical music on new relay at 0300. Recheck at 0325 via Rockport ME KiwiSDR, it`s L&C VG! during operatic arias. Almost as good via Bridgewater MA, but not so good further west (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0458 UT March 2
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Glenn Hauser logs February 29-March 1, 2020 |
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Sunday, March 01 2020
** ASCENSION [and non]. 15685, Feb 29 at 1900, hyper Hausa talk at S8-S7, where normally there is nothing. This is BBC on Saturdays only at 1700-1930, existing solely to broadcast silly ballgames; how considerate. There is also some scratchy splatter on the plus side, but no bigsig nearby to produce it. I think that as in times past it`s spurious from afar 15825 WWCR-1, which is getting a sporadic E boost to S9+10 also audiblizing the squeal. But I can`t hear anything like it equally plus circa 15963; it`s asymmetric (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CANADA [and non]. 245 kHz, Feb 29 at 0707 UT, dash and YZE, 1000 watt NDB from Gore Bay, Ontario; mixing with FS at different pitch, which is 400 watts from Sioux Falls - Rock, South Dakota (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 332 kHz, Feb 29 at 0710 UT, dash and YFM, 2500 watt NDB from La Grande 4, Quebec. New one here, from where, and why is there a figure 4 in the place? ``The La Grande-4 is a hydroelectric generating station on the La Grande River that is part of Hydro-Québec's James Bay Project. The station can generate 2,779 MW and was commissioned in 1984–1986. It generates electricity through the reservoir and dam system. Wikipedia``. Atop a weaker co-channel I can`t copy (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 6070-, always offset-minus, Feb 29 at 2304, `TED Radio Hour` from NPR is starting! Bet you did not know that CFRX is an NPR station. You would still not know that by consulting the sked which hides it among `Viewpoints` at 6-9 pm ET Sat = 23-02 UT now, but in a biweek 22-01 UT: https://www.iheartradio.ca/newstalk-1010/shows/viewpoints-1.1761551 Evidently on other Canadian iHeart stations, and don`t depend on TED being at the same, or any time, from week to week. Poor reception and busy so I don`t try to determine the topic. Too bad there are no US SW stations wanting to pick up NPR shows (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA [and non]. 9535, Feb 29 at 2315, Chinese overcoming weak RHC Spanish with a medium SAH: CNR1 jamming against RFA Tibetan via Kuwait this hour only (also sked: CRI English via Kunming). Commies vs Commies vs Commies! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA [and non]. 13650, Feb 29 at 2329, JBA signal must be NHK, as there is NO Chinese music fill from CRI via CUBA --- must be off the air, as 13740 RHC is inbooming S9+45. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. 6100, fortunately can still be heard Feb 29 at 2327 with Chinese music fill instead of CRI Portuguese direct to Brasil longpath from Beijing site, S9+ (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11760, Feb 29 at 1907, RHC with S9 of dead air; while 15140 modulation is distorted as always. Somethings` always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15369.2+, Feb 29 at 2325, RHC JBA S3-S4, remaining way off-frequency for day 18. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also CHINA [and non] ** MEXICO. 6185.0, Feb 29 at 2306, undermodulated music must be XEPPM since no signal any more on 6185.7, where it had been off-frequency since Feb 8, two sesquiweeks ago. Someone must have rebumped the transmitter. By 0052 March 1, better modulation and S9+30 with a song on 6185.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 341 kHz, Feb 29 at 0711 UT, after inaudible a few days, Enid`s own NDB, EI, is again audible despite HNL (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 1210 kHz, UT March 1 at 0029 UT, KGYN Guymon is blasting in S9+25 on presumed 10 kW ND day pattern. No one replied, not even me until now, to my request to check whether it`s going direxional at official LSS in Feb, 0030. During stupid ballgame involving some ``Lady Rebels`` and stays same past 0030, but signal suddenly drops down at 0031:25 to only S9 and CCI is now audible. So yes, they are --- but still seems more than it should be with null toward Philly. Remains quite dominant. From tomorrow, the switch time will be 0045 UT (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 27185, Feb 29 at 1942, the #1 CB channel is jammed locally by a big noise, which is on a lot of the time. Some signals override it, or is it the same transmitter alternating modulation? If you hear this during an opening, it could well be from Enid. 27025 is full of hetting AM signals from the skip pileup (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 5960, Feb 29 at 2302, VOT manages to transmit today, only fair; at 2328 I can tell a `Letterbox` is underway but modulation and signal too low to copy (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 6993.0, February 29 at 2309, at least two JBA carriers beating a few Hz apart, i.e. presumed propagation researchers in Florida, WH2XWF as explained in previous report (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 21305-USB, Feb 29 at 1948, ``CQ South Carolina QSO Party`` over and over from N4XL, Greenwood SC. Once in a while gets an unheard reply surely from outside SC on this band. N4XL is Kevan K. Nason, recently retired and into contesting. About to declare him the OSOB until I hear an unID on 21285-USB. Also checked the 10, 12 and 17 m bands, but heard no activity at all, unlike 11m CB. MUF maps show sporadic E blobs in the 20/30 MHz range east of here (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2023 monitoring: Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria reports that WRMI-9 did not come up on 15770 until 1400 Saturday February 29 with SMTV, thus missing WOR at 1300 and SWRG at 1330. Has happened before; what about next weeks? Confirmed UT Sunday March 1 at 0422 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, good via Peoria KiwiSDR, about 8 minutes in so started circa 0414. Next: 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9395 to NNW 0400vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW 0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB 0930 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB [another episode] 1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0900 UT Wednesday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2200 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. 7490.16v, March 1 at 0037, surprised to hear TOMBS --- a new time? There has long been strange gap in WBCQ online sked, 0040-0100 UT Sun after 100 minutes of `Good Time Oldies` and before `Available Time Slot` usually occupied by an `AAAWWW` repeat (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9955, Feb 29 at 2319, WRMI with gospel huxters in Portuguese2, not Brasilian, i.e. Frank & Ernest as sked Sat 2315 --- and NO jamming. Would that 24 hours earlier during WOR that were also true (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5850, UT Sun March 1 at 0100, `Encore` classical music from Scotland, first airing on WRMI, VG signal aimed thisaway but some fading. Now one cannot be tempted to listen via webcast since there isn`t any from WRMI except 9955 System B. Another play is coming UT Monday 0300 on 9455 to the NNW. Tnx to Jeff White for WRMI now `sponsoring` this (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5085, UT Sun March 1 at 0127, anonymous theatre organ show is underway on WTWW-2, unlike a few minutes earlier; recheck at 0155 is already over playing request for ``Jump``. Unfortunately now during same hour as `Encore` on WRMI (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 6920-LSB, March 1 at 0033, 2-way with squeals, Spanish talking about animalitos, Chihuahuas. No sign of any North American pirates on this or 5 or 4 MHz bands despite Saturday night and SWL WinterFest (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0516 UT March 1
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Glenn Hauser logs February 28-29, 2020 |
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Saturday, February 29 2020
WORLD OF RADIO HITLIST UPDATE
Hi Glenn, My latest Hitlist update. https://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm 1) India - All India R: Updated link to daily "cuesheet" pdf 2) Taiwan - R Taiwan Int: Updated links to frequency and programme pages 3) USA - WBCQ/WRMI: moved Encore Classical Music programme link from WBCQ to WRMI Unless there's a major change anywhere, the next update will be mid March (DST changes). Best wishes and 73 (Alan Roe, Feb 28) ** CANADA. 6754-USB, Feb 28 at 0645 check, CHR is off again - maybe just a break, not continuous; propagation OK as CHU 7850-CUSB is VG. 15034-USB, Feb 28 at 1447, Trenton Military is still on here, VG. 6754-USB, Feb 29 at 0001, ``Comox, Comox, no report received. Trenton Military, Out`` -- so on but breaking again (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15369.23, Feb 28 at 2327, RHC S9+20, overmodulated/distorted and still way off-frequency, day 17. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. Weather warm-up leads to some minor tropo; Hepburn map shows level 1 enhancement roughly over southern half of OK, not including Enid, as of 1500 UT Feb 28. Channel 51 to 7 bandscan circa 1530 UT finds two, but only two, BAD DX signals where none appear normally, RF 36 and RF 35. 35 is slightly stronger so I stay on it and it starts to partially decode; animated kidvid in English, Indian theme. E/I bug in the upper right; tiny bug in LR looks like FNN? Certainly not KUOK Woodward with Univision. Of the six LP or translators in OK on RF 35, the obvious fit in W9WI.com is 15 kW, K47MU-D in Concho, still showing its former call when on RF 47, programming being FNX. What`s that? Rabbitears.info includes it in the OKC market with new call K35MV-D, licensed to the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes, tower 2 miles west of US 81, about halfway between St Hwy 3 and El Reno, NW of OKC. And the net: https://www.rabbitears.info/search.php?request=network_search&network=First+Nations+Experience Originates at San Bernardino Community College, shows 28 scattered affiliates around the country, and leads to own: https://fnx.org/ which explains, ``First Nations Experience --- FNX is The first and only nationally broadcast television network in the U.S. exclusively devoted to Native American and World Indigenous content.`` I wonder if it Must be carried on Cox Cable OKC? Is it easily visible elsewise? Its current program sked shows what I am seeing: ``Bizou and the Groundhog #127 Friday, February 28, 09:30 am on FNX NAT - Duration: 0:22:01 Description: Come sing and dance with Bizou as she takes you on a picturesque journey into the wonderful world of groundhogs, nature's cutest little digger. [CC] Broadcast In: English`` Most likely RF 36 is in OKC proper, KUOK-CD, sibling or tail wagging dog of KUOK RF 35 in Woodward, defacto Univision affiliate for OKC. That`s why the full power UNI signal from RF 29 KTUZ Shawnee, shared with Telemundo and Estrella, remaps to ``36``, so locals might get either, or both and not tell them apart. But there are a bunch of other LP 36s around the state (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** TURKEY. 5960, Feb 28 at 2327, VOT English is AWOL again (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 11720, Fri Feb 28 around 2140 UT, caradio turned on to loud exotic ME/African music, soon proven to be `Music Time in Africa`, as Hyper Heather names herself at next and every break: what an ego trip! Despite this I listen for the music on this bigsig which will probably be deleted a month from now in the A-season, with this hour back to 15580 and back to Botswana. Toward hourend she plays only snippets and talx over them. I know I am not going to change the world about this, but as a classical music announcer I would *never* talk over the music (except during a well-established and repeated program theme), as that would be disrespectful to the music, composers and performers, and annoying to listeners. I would also apply this ethic to any genre an announcer is hosting. (Yet a lot of rock songs deliberately provide instrumental lead-ups for DJs to yammer. Great continuity?) As always, closing summary of several weekend MTIA times misses this very one; she has been adding ``hundred`` to times not ending in 00, but that happens only once this week, ``2205-hundred``. A cleaner transition than usual to Yankee-Doodle-Dandy VOA sign-off, but that is still being chopped off at 2200:39*, a few notes before it concludes: more disrespect or sloppyration (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2023 monitoring: missed checking Fri Feb 28 at 2300 on WRMI 9955; did anyone hear it; jamming? Confirmed UT Sat Feb 29 at 0145 the 0130s on WRMIs: 5010 F-G S9/+10; 5850 VG S9+30/40; 7780, VP S7-S9. Next: 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415] 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9395 to NNW 0400vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW 0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB 0930 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB [another episode] 1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0900 UT Wednesday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2200 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), UT Sat Feb 29 at 0100, WBCQ webcast filling with Loutuma Girl, so we know who`s next, despite William Tell Overture to follow. TimTron blubbers and belches before it`s over. Opening says he was not feeling well last two weeks when asked to do it, wants to do a show of significance instead of pulling one out of his ass. Thinx Lyme disease is resurging in him. Soon announces current date correctly of Feb 28, YOOL 2020. Acknowledges SWL Winterfest now underway not in Kulpsville PA any more. Into discussion of Drumpf`s PIRATE Act, or rather reading an article about it. Soon into hard rock, which AW never plays when on his show himself, except maybe in an emergency. At 0119 I switch to SW 7490.17 direct where it`s S9+10, as TTT said, ``simulcasting on 5130, I believe``. Yes, and that sounds stronger here but also reads S9/+10. Back to discussing PIRATE act, advises not to broadcast ads or QRM aeronautical, which is main objexion leading to pirate act. Mentions ham traffic nets which are no longer needed, but just social nets like ``Lonely Guys`` tomorrow. Reads part of WAPO article about someone wanting permission from UK and USA to retrieve Marconi radio equipment from the RMS Titanic wreck --- and restore it? Probably nothing any good left of it. Going inside the wreck, grave of 1500 souls, has been disallowed so far. 0132 song. 0137 suddenly conversation with a caller about PIRATE act, not worth risking $ 100K fines; until 0152 more rock; never heard him identified. 0143 both fading down, and 0147 I go back to webcast. Belch at 0158:35 as TT is upwrapping, 0159 `Happy Trails to You` not by Roy Rogers, somewhat off-key; canned singing ID with the Q of WBCQ cut short before it resolve, into Hal Turner theme, tune-out! BTW, two or three times during the hour I quickly scanned the 4+ and 7- MHz pirate radio bands and heard not a one, despite SWL Fest underway. Have they really been scared off SW by the PIRATE act? But then I seldom hear any, while others further east do. Fest`ers might be later at night than usual. Does anyone know of any live non-pirate SWBCs planned from the Fest? Not I; most likely would appear on some WRMI or WBCQ/Area 51 shows. Here`s John Carver`s summary of AAAWWW: ``Tonight's show started a bit late this evening with TimTron as host. Decent signal on 7490 this evening. 5130 had the transmitter on but no program till about three minutes after TOH. Mentions of the SWL Fest in PA going on this weekend. Tim says his Lyme disease has flared up again and he is back on heavy antibiotics again. Jumps into reading an article on the new Pirate Radio law signed last month. Then into some music. Back into pirate radio after the music and then read an article about an effort to remove the radio equipment from the wreckage of the Titanic. Back to pirate radio and makes an effort to point out the difference between a low power SW pirate and pirates that operate in the AM and FM bands and at the top of the FM band then into some more music. After the music ended Mr. Mike popped up on the air and the discussion of pirate radio continued for awhile and then into some more music. Program was over at 0200. John, Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0253 UT February 29
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