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Glenn Hauser logs April 10-11, 2020 |
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Saturday, April 11 2020
** ARGENTINA [non]. 9395, Friday April 10 at 2100, the nominal ``Italian`` hour of RAE relay via WRMI starts in Spanish by host Fernando Farías, 2102 into the voz of Arnaldo Slaen with abbr`d Actualidad DX, about IRRS War Room Pandemic show, Honduran FM station, Radio Cuarentena. 2110 into French introduced as the second of their multi-lingual shows from homes; very much like if not identical to what I was hearing last night, April 10 at 0100 on 9395. I am afraid that listeners abroad may not appreciate the baggage and credibility issues Steve Bannon drags with him into WRP, one who bears considerable responsibility for the presence of the ignorant, incompetent, forever-impeached acting president Drumpf (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 5025, April 10 at 0553, R. Rebelde is S9+20/30 but JBM/suptorted. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba; 5040 RHC in English at same signal level and with usual squealy defective modulation but readable. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 5025, April 11 at 0217 check, now it`s off, let us hope for much-needed repairs; while 4765 R. Progreso and 5040 RHC remain on (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, April 11 at 0218 check, R. Verdad is off; despite local noise level of S9+20, I should be able to detect at least a carrier. A ``Good`` Friday thing? The perennial question: should pious broadcasters transmit more, or less, upon holy days? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6931-USB, April 10 at 2323, pirate music S7-S8, 2326 W&M folksong with guitar; 2330 DJ maybe ID but caught only ``all-natural radio``, more music to close; 2342 another announcement, being heard in northern New England; long reverb repeats every few words. 2344, ``Yeti Radio signing off``, another song, still going until 2350*. Oops, just a break, soon back on. More logs here: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,65375.0.html I thought I heard some John Prine, as did others; End of log above for Free Radio Weekly with 0000 UT deadline nigh. But this station really keeps going: 2357, mentions Walmart, cut off for music. April 11: 0009 announcement; 0023 WALMART plug as others have noted; 0041 still going but frequent cut-outs. Without a carrier we keep getting faked out that they`ve pulled the plug. 0110 ``gonna keep goin` for a helluva long time``, ``Here Comes the Sun`` song to 0121* apparently final stop (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6880-USB, April 10 at 2324, another pirate with music at S5-S6. Many more logs here again as Radio 48: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,65371.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 15434.985, April 10 at 1518, poor signal in Arabic; also seems to be a weaker carrier low-hetting closer to 15435.000, but nothing else is scheduled. Not even KSA is in HFCC of course, but Aoki/NDXC shows it at 1450-1700-1800 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, April 10 at 2229, with the Bogotá SDR still running after monitoring WOR on 9955, I check whether VOT makes it to air today: yes, poor signal there, but to my surprise it`s the IS and ID in English, 2230 timesignal and sign-on --- 30 minutes late! A new something-erroneous at Emirler, unless they have without notice and inexplicably decided to retime the eastern North American service. After a few minutes of news, now monitoring direct a bit better, back to Turkish music fill, except at 2252 a brief spot with the also-American advice about coping with COVID-19, and back to more music until cut off the air right at 2300* when presumably only slightly more than half of today`s broadcast has radiated (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2029 monitoring: confirmed first American SWBC, Friday April 10 at 2200 on WRMI 9955, VG via Bogotá SDR with no jamming audible. Since there were some problems with podcasts, I monitor the whole thing to be sure it`s totally intact; it is. Also confirmed starting at 0130 UT Sat Apr 11 and ending at 0159 on all three WRMIs: 5010 VP, 5850 VG, 7780 JBA with erratic uteblasts on the plus side. Next: 0900 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB or 5045-USB 1130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 to SSE 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 3210-USB or 5045-USB 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 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 32100-USB or 5045-USB 1800vUT 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 Thanks this week for financial support from Doug Brown of London, Ontario and Seminole, Florida who sent a US$ cheque to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. (7490.1v), UT Sat Apr 11, tune-in WBCQ webcast with `Allan & Angela Weiner WorldWide` in progress, as the couple are axually arguing about some issue to do with COVID-19. At 0021 the 7490 webcast goes silent but keeps running connected. So I switch to (5130) Area 51 webcast and hear them still going a little longer, until it too stops, then several starts and stops; 0024 music fill as the outage is upline, like between FL and MD or ME. Then 7490 webcast is back while 5130 in music. Maybe they eventually got back together. Dipping in and out, seems to be same CV19 topic until last few minutes when he gets into his repair super-power searchlights including virus-killing UV; they were once used at Cape Canaveral to light up night launches. Still not hearing from our regular monitor of AAAWWW, John Carver in mid-north Indiana; hope it`s only continued computer problems and he can get a message to us that he`s OK. Meanwhile, mark your calendar for May 5, per this from A & A April 9: ``Hi Glenn, Radio has been a beacon of hope and a way to spread good feelings in bad times for over a century. In that spirit, WBCQ The Planet will present WBCQ's Big Broadcast of 2020 as a special simulcast on 5130 and 7490 on Tuesday, May 5 from 2200 to 2300 UTC [presumably meaning 21-22 UT] (5pm-6pm EDT in the US). This special broadcast will feature the presenters and music of some of WBCQ's most innovative music offerings including Marion's Attic, Uncle Bill's Melting Pot, From the Isle of Music, Behavior Night and the Lost Discs Radio Show. This is a chance to escape that COVID-19 gloom for an hour and maybe discover a new favorite program in the bargain. Hope you are well and safe, Allan & Angela`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5085, April 10 at 0552, WTWW-2 is so weak at only S9/+10 that I can`t hear the spurs on 5072.1 and 5097.9! Since neighbor 4840 WWCR is just as weak, we know the MUF has dropped out, a propagation problem. The 5830 & 5935 pair are similar at JBA level. 18 hours later, 5085 is already on and almost up to usual strength with spurs (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 87.9 FM, a church in Detroit is transmitting services to cars, per a tip from TRMS: https://www.freep.com/story/life/2020/04/06/metro-detroit-churches-drive-in-coronavirus-pandemic/5100571002/ I haven`t heard it of course, but serves as a reminder to look for more of these especially over Holy-Day weekend; others might be on AM or even CB. Michigan is already full of 87.9 pirates, judging from Harold Frodge`s logs around Midland (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report despatched at 0409 UT April 11
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Glenn Hauser logs April 9-10, 2020 |
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Friday, April 10 2020
** ARGENTINA [non]. 9395, April 10 at 0105, RAE via WRMI with Spanish in progress instead of English; generic comments by Fernando Farías about the quarantine situation with regular programming unavailable.
0111 switches to French, soon devoting its time to summary of DX info: IRRS with schedule of Bannon`s Pandemic show; Catholic station at Gracias a Dios, Honduras; Radio Cuarentena; letter from a francophone DX club. 0119 back to Fernando who also does the English segment, from home. This is the second, apparently once-a-week pandemic program featuring all the RAE language services. How April 2 is a significant date, anniversary of the Malvinas War in 1982y; shortened edition of the normally-Friday 7-10 minute DX Actuality feature: again about War Room Pandemic, sked via IRRS; Honduras station. President has extended lockdown in Argentina to April 13. 0127 outro in Spanish gives names of announcers in all 8 languages as if we have just heard them all, ``Made en/in Casa`` on RAE/Argentina al Mundo: Italian, Portuguese, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, English, in that order --- but we`ve heard only three of them this semihour and I don`t think it started at 0030 tho I was not listening then, rather to pirates. 0130 WRMI Spanish ID by Dino and into Radio Prague International in English. No other WRMI frequencies checked tonight except 5800 just after 0100 when it sounded again like Radio Taiwán Internacional (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15140, April 9 at 1403, RHC is S9+20 but extremely distorted. 15230 and 13700 are OK, VG, no spurs; after 1900 in English, 15140 is relatively clean today, different transmitter? 11760, April 9 at 1413, RHC is S9-S7 of dead air. Somethings` always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6953-USB, April 9 at 2324, pirate music at S3-S5; 2329 two announcers talking vs high storm noise level from south of San Antonio and the southern half of Louisiana. ``Virus-19 Radio``, maybe back tomorrow, maybe not. Radio conditions pretty damn good tonight, getting up into New England. ``Good night, stay well``, playing out on ``When I Die`` by Blood, Sweat & Tears until off at 2336*. More logs here with variations on ID with Zeke as host: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,65317.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6880-USB, April 9 at 2326, S4-S6 soul music, 2328 announcement but too much reverb, etc., to copy; blues music. 2337 jive music with some cut-outs, YL ID at first sounds like ``Four AM Radio`` with hotmail address like that; Mix Radio International ID, jazz piano; 2342 ID I then realize is ``Cool AM Radio``. More logs: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,65319.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6916-USB, April 10 at 0044, S9 of wild rock, lots of yelling over the music as if a `live` event rather than any studio announcements. Past 0100 when I switch to 9395 for Argentina. 0131 recheck still going with more of same hard rock. These say it`s Radio 48 via MRI, having started on 6880-USB but moved to 6916 at 0028: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,65322.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 341-MCW kHz, April 9 at 0613 UT, ND beacon OIN, which is 25 watts from Oberlin, Kansas; as EI Enid is still gone, but there are loads of others on 341 I would like to hear (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5214-USB, April 10 at 0139, MARS? net mostly with abbr`d calls, such as 8AM, 8HQ; one full call starting with AAR---; at 0141, M8A in contact with 8HS, fonetikaly, declaring ``the net is free``. Next few minutes occasional calls are ``closing stations``. Most signals weak, a few good (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2029 contents: Alaska, Algeria non, Anguilla, Antarctica, Armenia, *Australia, *Austria, Canada, China/East Turkistan, Eritrea non, India, *Iran, Korea South and non, Kurdistan non, Kuwait, Laos, Madagascar, México, North America, Oman, Philippines, *Romania, Sa`udi Arabia, Somalia, *Thailand, Turkey and non, USA, Vanuatu; and the propagation outlook' *with A-20 info WOR 2029 is available as of 2357 UT Thursday April 9 (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2029.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2029.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 3210-USB or 5045-USB 2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 [maybe jammed?] to SSE 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5010 to S, 7780 to NE 0900 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB or 5045-USB 1130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 to SSE 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 3210-USB or 5045-USB 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 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 32100-USB or 5045-USB 1800vUT 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 Thanks this week for financial support from Doug Brown of London, Ontario and Seminole, Florida who sent a US$ cheque to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0308 UT April 10
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Glenn Hauser logs April 8-9, 2020 |
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Thursday, April 09 2020
** AUSTRIA. John Figliozzi replies on the WOR iog to my 6155 log: ``OK, it’s not on HF and it’s not classical music… but those looking for English language news from Austria will find plenty of it on the bilingual (German/English) ORF domestic youth network fm4 streamed over the Internet from: https://fm4.orf.at John Figliozzi`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 13650, April 8 at 2329, CRI relay `Portuguese` service of music only is S9+20/30 but extremely suptorted. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. Why in the world haven`t they just turned off this failed service months ago? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MEXICO. 6185-, April 8 by 1907 UT, now I can pull a JBA carrier slightly off-frequency-minus as a 2-megameter day-path remnant of reactivated XEPPM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 27186, April 8 at 1910 and still 2243 recheck, some lokel yokel is jamming the prime CB frequency with continuous S9+10 buzz. Well, there are plenty of other channels, all with zero activity (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, April 8 at 2244, JBA signal presumed VOT active today. Wonder if something else be erroneous at Emirler, like reduced power, reception has been so poor lately even when on. 7275, April 9 at 0258, VOT IS & English IDs, fair via Alexandria SDR, but undermodulated with some hum; timesignal one second late but may have been internet delay. This time YL instead of usual OM announcer, opening without full wrong English schedule but only ``this`` is the 1230 on 15450! plus satellite info; something`s always awry at Ankara; into news of topic-V; 0307 enough already, into Turkish song. At least no QRhaM to be heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2028 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday April 8 at 2100:20 on WBCQ 7490.1v, fair via Alexandria SDR. Also confirmed UT Thu April 9 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, JBA in storm noise level from along the Ohio Valley; good via Alexandria VA SDR; and not via UTwente, now with this bad news in red: ``On April 8, the antenna seems to have developed a defect, so only very few signals are still detectable. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, university buildings are closed, so it is currently unclear if and when a repair can be attempted.`` WOR 2029 should be ready by early UT Fri April 10 and first American SWBC at 2200 on WRMI 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5970, April 8 at 2327, S9+10 of dead air; must be WEWN on early from second Spanish transmitter not scheduled to start until 0000; first one is still on 12050, VP with music. BTW, HFCC shows they also employ two different antennas, a 206 and a 218 respectively at 5 degrees difference in azimuth, and both 500 kW transmitters run at only 100. I wonder if they are still operable if desired or affordable at 500? IIRC they used to be registered as 350 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0315 UT April 9
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Glenn Hauser logs April 7-8, 2020 |
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Wednesday, April 08 2020
** ALGERIA [non]. 7295, April 8 at 0543, Arabic talk, not Qu`ran, as RTA via FRANCE is scheduled this hour only. But strangely, also jammed by rapid tone pips, or carriers beating, measured about 0.7 kHz both above and below, circa 7294.3 and 7295.7. Nothing else scheduled here worthy of jamming. Maybe by Ameriham p-o`d over this intrusion? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** AUSTRIA. 6155, April 8 at 0549, classical music at S9/+10, better signal than usual, but noisy, in the last remnant of SW programming from this country, the token relay of Ö1 scheduled with 300 kW ND at 0500-0620 except Sat/Sun to 0610. Remember when the end of this used to include a few minutes of news in English? Not any more. But I go looking for the website (not included on Hitlist --- Alan?) and finally find this for today at 7:33-7:52 am local time: https://radiothek.orf.at/oe1/20200408/600688 Audio and playlist of this `Guten Morgen Österreich` segment starting with Brahms. The transmission is on the news network but includes bits of classical music apparently promoting what will be played in full later (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. 7810, April 7 at 2222, JBA talk vs S5-S6 noise level. Unusual to hear anything here, but yes, it`s one of a multitude of Sound of Hope frequencies; Aoki/NDXC shows 24 hours including the single hour in Cantonese at 15-16, 1 kW via Miaoli, Taiwan site and of course *jammed, surely what I am hearing instead, CNR1. Looking for any other E Asian signals on 7 MHz band, finds JBA talk on 7395, which could be CNR2 via Xianyang 594 site or CRI Chinese via Urumqi, EAST TURKISTAN, land of imprisoning and brainwashing Uyghurs. This week`s FRONTLINE on PBS is an excellent hour about this issue: "China Undercover" New, 4/07/2020, Season 37 / Episode 18, Investigative, Documentary, Politics, Public Affairs, Social Topic "Frontline" delivers a special undercover report from China's secretive Xinjiang region, where the communist regime has imprisoned masses of Muslims and is testing sophisticated surveillance technology on the population. Credits: Will Lyman (Narrator) Also streamable, 54+ minutes: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/china-undercover/ altho wolfie laments it`s geoblocked from reaching Germany (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6145 >> // JBM 6000, UT Wed April 8 at 0001 tune-in, RHC English already on amid Arnie on `DXers Unlimited` mit-week edition, in fact closing at 0002. This segment is normally in the middle of each English hour, like :25-:35 as in DX/SWL/MEDIA programs. RHC clox must be way off. Was English axually running on these frequencies from a semihour earlier? At 23-24 it would normally be on 5040 & 11880. Did not get around to checking whether subsequent repeats were also askew, at 01-07. Following DXUL, report from Puerto Rico on the COVID 19 situation there. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MEXICO. 6185, April 7 at 2211, no trace of even JBA carrier from XEPPM. Manuel Méndez, Spain had reported it: ``6185, Radio Educación, Ciudad de México, back on air, heard 1820-1830, 06-04 via SDR Kiwi remote receiver in Brownsville, South Texas, identification and songs.`` 6185, April 8 at 0001, now I have a carrier, just barely? modulated, as so often before. 6185, April 8 at 1725, I myself tune the Brownsville SDR, courtesy of TWR, and find a fairly good and well-modulated signal in Spanish, interview about economy, water supply in Mexicali, class warfare, 1730 song break, slightly off-frequency-minus as usual; which has to be XEPPM during its secret daytime broadcast; why can`t they do so well at night? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. Convoluted tropo blobs over OK forecast by Bill Hepburn, so I bandscan from 1513 UT April 8: Lots of BAD signals on open channels including RF 45, no doubt KOTV Tulsa, but only two are decoding, from Tulsa market: RF 28, 44-1 Ion RF 20, 19-1 KQCW-HD during Dr Oz show. This one in solid until finally starts to break up and lose out at 1705 UT. And BTW has *no* subchannels, unusual waste of spectrum but assures its only program can be as HD as possible (GLenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, April 7 at 2211, VP signal from VOT, JBA talk, unusable but at least is on today. Alan Roe reported to WOR iogroup: ``Programming on the Voice of Turkey (at least in the English service, I've not checked other languages yet) seems to be reduced to a 5 minute news programme and a repeat of "Turkey's Tourist Attractions" with the rest of the 50/55 minutes comprising Turkish music without announcements. Noted today (7 April during 1230 transmission on 15450 kHz) and also a couple of times over recent days when checked. I'm assuming another casualty of the Covid-19 pandemic. Alan Roe, Teddington, UK`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2028 monitoring: last two SWBCs: 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. What`s really on WRMIs, UT Wed Apr 8 at 0100? 5010 // 5850, music with BB IDs, Oldies? 5800, Taiwan in Spanish, maybe new show but missed hearing date 9395, RAE in Spanish only here; maybe to be multilingual 9455, Hal Turner 9955, Wavescan (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9330, April 8 at 1359-1400+, no signal from WLCR via WBCQ, nor on 13590 now registered starting at 1400. Are they keeping trying to get the 500 kW monster to QSY? 9330, April 8 at 1708, now it`s on and audible but VP in English. Hard to believe it`s even half-power 250 kW at 300 degrees as registered if it were on 15105 at 15-19. Neither WBCQ nor WLCR make it easy to find their basic SW schedule! Finally reached this: https://www.worldslastchance.com/wlc-radio-broadcast-schedule.html which shows nothing but 9330 for unnamed WBCQ, but also what we know is via Woofferton UK, in Arabic: 18-21 on 9800, 21-24 on 6015 Haven`t looked at AW`s twitfeed lately: just generic promotion; hunkered down in FL and lately working on high-power spotlights, another of his passions; and promoting UV light to kill virus (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 15555-USB, April 7 at 2216, WJHR gospel huxter is still on past 2200 but even propagating at S5 level; must benefit from a bit of HF sporadic E (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 1753 UT April 8
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Glenn Hauser logs April 5-7, 2020 |
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Tuesday, April 07 2020
** ANTARCTICA. 15475.97-CUSB, April 7 at 1420 tune-in past 1435+, JBA carrier direct over the almost all-water path from Esperanza to Enid, as I have not been able to detect for some time amid several special LRA-36 transmissions; it`s about equivalent to 15825 WWCR normal signal now without any sporadic-E boost.
By 1452 I`m on the Campo Brasil KiwiSDR for poor partially readable signal: mainly two YL voices, with saludos; 1456 song; 1502 contact info; then my pause for breakfast of waffle; 1531 music; 1536 echo feedback announcement, deliberate? more song; 1540 ID, contact info; 1552 fading up a bit stronger, song; 1556 full ID, and bit of English in a song about telephone; 1603 sounds like an old-time-radio clip, 1606 gone and apparently not coming back. Anyway, used up my 60-minute per day limit on this SDR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NEW ZEALAND. Correxion: the UT Friday time is 2005 not 2300; fixed: Updating WORLD OF RADIO times on World FM, and webcasts, with DST off in NZ as of April 5: all shifted one real UT hour later to: Thursday 0930 and 2300 UT; UT Friday 2005. Unfortunately due to my current produxion schedule on Thursdays, the first two airings there are almost a week old. Lots of other good programming; see: http://www.worldfm.co.nz/sched-db.php?offset=0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SCOTLAND [non]. Correcting date on this: April 5, not 6, fixed: 5850 // 5010, UT Sun April 5 at 0100-0200, `Encore` classical music reconfirmed on both WRMI frequencies... (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 11670, April 5 at 2152+, I mentioned as a poor signal of RHC among others --- but as noted by wb and HFCC, Spain is now on 11670 in A-20 like previous A-seasons instead of 11685 in Bs, for Africa. Not clear yet whether Cuba have totally left 11670, or at least not overlapping with Spain (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TAIWAN [non]. 7780 // 9395 // 5010, UT Tue April 7 at 0201, RTI Spanish on three WRMI frequencies, but 5800 has gone off. Opening announces that it`s the test program for Tuesday March 17!! Still nothing new on these relays. All programs (ahem) should announce original recording or airdates so we can keep track of them. Usual delayed start following fragment of BZ ID and about a minute of music before off-timesignal and opening. Subject already COVID 19 originating in Hubei province, ``continental China``, refuting Big Lie that it`s a ``People`s Republic`` rather than a Commie dictatorship. BTW, Dr Fauci, it`s Hoo-bay, not Hoo-by, but everything else he says is of the greatest reliability. Should you rely on forever impeached acting president Drumpf instead of him, you`ll be SORRY or even dead (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 359-MCW kHz, April 7 at 0622 UT, ND beacon SDR, which is 25 watts from Snyder, Texas, NW of Sweetwater, on US 84 toward Post and Lubbock; 495 km away. 251-MCW kHz, April 7 at 0627 UT, NDB ID as AM, which is 100 watts from Amarillo TX; seldom logged here at 400 km. Still gone is Stillwater OK, SW from 255 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2028 monitoring: confirmed UT Tuesday April 7 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, good via UTwente SDR in Holland. 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) see also NEW ZEALAND ** U S A. 7780, UT Tue April 7 at 0130, WRMI with a ``pilot program`` of music; intro gives what sounds like a callsign to be looked up on FB --- but not if you can`t be sure of the letters or join the disgraced group. Maybe WVZJ or something fonetikaly similar. Also promises a ``surprise`` at the end of the program, so I retune at 0157 and hear nothing but music, until, surprise, cut off for Rudy Espinal ID at 0159.5. What is this? I heard the same thing exactly two weeks ago on UT Tue March 24. WRMI skedgrid shows Wavescan at 0130 Tue not only on 5010 // 5850 as reconfirmed, but also 7780 which is the way I entered it on DX/SWL/MEDIA programs (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. Level 5 strong tropo bullseye right over central OK predicted by Hepburn, so I hasten to bandscan, April 7 from 1545 UT. Almost all ``open`` DX channels have a BAD signal on them, in the repack range, plus 45 no doubt still KOTV Tulsa; except nothing on 34 and 9; and two `local` OKC channels are BAD, caused by DX QRM, 7 and 15. 15 would most likely be KSNW Wichita, ex-45. 7: full-powers still exist in Hays and Pittsburg KS; Amarillo, Austin, Odessa, Tyler TX plus numerous low-powers; nothing in OK except KOCO. I sit on RF 32 which shows signs of reaching decode threshold, and it does briefly at 1620, with a CW 33 bug in LR, and PSIP as 33-1 KDAF-DT --- that`s 780 kW in Dallas TX; gone before I can check out its subchannels. RF 26, April 7 at 1625, this one decodes as 24-1 FOX, which isn`t very helpful, but must be 350 kW from the opposite direxion, KSAS-TV Wichita; subs are 24-2 TBD and 24-3 Comet; contrary to W9WI.com which has 24-2 as GetTV. The only other 24-1 Fox on RF 26 is Macon GA, no way here (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 1709 UT April 7
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Radio Portal is a highly specialized seach engine for radio aficionados.
More on how best to use Radio Portal.
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