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Saturday, October 26 2019
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Glenn Hauser logs October 23-24-25, 2019 |
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Friday, October 25 2019
** ANTARCTICA. 15476-, Oct 24 at 1932, JBA carrier, so LRA36 is active this Thursday afternoon. In B-19, HFCC has no 15475 registrants at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 346 kHz, Oct 23 at 0612 UT, dash and YXL, 500 watts from Sioux Lookout, Ontario. This NDB is not destined for decommissioning, unlike 341, YYU, Kapuskasing, no longer mixing with local NDB EI; http://dxinfocentre.com/ndb.htm now shows a bunch of other Canadians to be decommissioned as of March 26, 2020 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 15034-USB, Oct 24 at 1431, Trenton Military, ditto (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11880, Oct 23 at 1450, CRI Plus English to North America relay is S9+20 of open carrier/dead air except for some hum. Was it always thus for the entire bihour today? Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11880, Oct 24 at 1429, S9+20 of dead air from CRI in English. On WOR 2005 I have merely cited all the Something`s Always Wrong frequencies monitored the past week with no further details (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11550, Oct 23 at 1448, singing and drumming, another new frequency for Denge Welat and/or Turkish jamming, as there is nothing now on original 11530, nor recently jumped 11540 or 11520. 11550 seems to have a SAH hinting that both are on here at the moment. At 1459, talk and music continue past 1500 with no ID caught, but now I time the SAH at 2.4 Hz. 11510, Oct 24 at 1358, frequency of choice today, music and a JBA carrier on 11540, else? By 1426, only 11510; 1430 talk, S5-S7 with flutter. 11520, Oct 24 by 1921, the Kurdo-Turco radio war has shifted to here, S3-S7 of Kurdish? talk. 11510, Oct 25 at 1421, JBA carrier only here; not surprising following G2 storm as long predicted, and K index still 3 at 1500. So far this radio war has been on 11510, 11520, 11530, 11540, 11550, but they`d better avoid 11560 earlier not to collide with India. Unless one understand Turkish or Kurdish it can be hard to tell which, but Emirler could be running 500 kW vs 100 kW from DW. Wolfgang Bueschel provides this for comparison: Denge Welat Kurdish radio Livestream is 16 seconds behind, http://37.187.140.96:8000/;stream.mp3 Later I listened to it for a while to become more familiar with it. Strangely, only recently has Turkey bothered to jam the PKK station. Did Drumpf OK that too? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO. 595.9, Oct 25 at 0608, JBA carrier. Before a bandscan, see UNIDENTIFIED, I check for this first, as the low-power 50 kW Oujda transmitter of SNRT has been reported by Chris McWhinnie and Alan Pennington of the British DX Club, further off-frequency than usual 595 instead of 594, and there it is! Wolfgang Bueschel precisioned it at 595.896 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 7255-, Oct 24 at 0615, no signal from VON, which is always VG when active; not heard on 9690- or 11770- either, tho one could be on and not propagating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 341 kHz, Oct 23 at 0611 UT. Enid Woodring Airport beacon EI continues to be heard, day or night: also at 1445 UT when I note a period of 8 seconds, which means quite a pause between each pair of dits. Also Oct 24 at 1355 UT check. At night there is no longer co-channel from dash and YYU, Kapuskasing, Ontario, which http://dxinfocentre.com/ndb.htm conforms has been Decommissioned. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1580, Oct 23 at 1502 UT, a SAH denoting more than one station, but one of them per ID at 1503 is KOKB Blackwell, still underpowered; and audio cuts out irregularly, unlike // 1020 KOKP Perry, where the audio is a few seconds ahead. The other 1580 likely our second closest, KHGG Van Buren AR, normally totally blocked daytime by KOKB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PITCAIRN [non]. 14185-USB, Oct 23 at 1455, pileup of weak hams on the publicized VP6R DX-pedition frequency. Itself not heard, but someone says ``split``, implying that it (or they) should be on a separate frequency. Not to be confused with Barbados, original island called VP6; why change? No luck on the 18 MHz band either, but it seldom opens utc [under-the-circumstances] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. 7320-7325-7330, Oct 24 at 0614, DRM noise at S8; thought it might be WINB, but that`s not until 0700 in A-19, while RRI Tsiganeshti is in English and German WNW at 0530-0630. Neither scheduled in B-19 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 11670, Oct 24 at 1923, the REE African frequency is gone again while the other three are on, 9690, 11940, 12030. In B-19, the silent frequency to resume is 11685 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 353 kHz, Oct 23 at 0614 UT, confusing NDB MCW ID changes from one time to the next: INLN, four letters? NO, it`s two different beacons mixing at slightly different periods. They are exactly the same pitch and same frequency. I ran into this before, these: 353 IN USA MN International Falls - Ray 100 48 28 53 -93 16 41 353 LI USA AR LITTLE ROCK 400 34 40 8 -92 18 20 per dxiinfocentre.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13565-CW, Oct 24 at 1426, K6FRC HIFER beacon again audible from Patterson CA, and no others on this band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2004 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday October 23 starting at 2100:30 on WBCQ 7490.1, poor S6-S8; their clock is running late, or previous program always runs over/tight, not leaving enough time for full ID; but no problem, this flexibility is an advantage as nothing is cut off. Also confirmed UT Thu October 24 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, poor S8-S9. WORLD OF RADIO 2005 Contents: Albania non, Antarctica, Argentina non, Canada, China non, Cook Islands, Cuba, Ecuador, Eritrea non, France, Germany, Hawai`i, Iran*, Ireland, Japan* and non, Kiribati, Korea South and non, Kurdistan non, Mali, México, Morocco, New Zealand*, North America, Oklahoma, Pitcairn, Pridnestrovye, San Andrés, Sudan non, Turkey, Ukraine and non, USA, Zambia; propagation outlook; *B-19 schedules. WOR 2005 is available as of 0414 UT Friday October 25 (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2005.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2005.mp3 Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html Also linx to podcast services. The shortwave broadcasts should be: 2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5850 to NW, 5010 to S 0629vUT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW 1000 UT Saturday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [alt weeks, Oct. 26] 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 [NEW] to NE 1430 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] 1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany [ex-1030] to WSW 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 6160v? to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW 1130 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW 1816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania to WNW 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW 0830 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [another episode] 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, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17850, Oct 24 at 1928, JBA carrier, suspected 3 x 5950 WRMI; 17775 KVOH is already off, but 17530 Grimesland is still on; and that`s it for 16m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENNG DIGEST) ** U S A. 4840, Oct 24 at 0620, WWCR S9+20 of dead air; tsk2, guess TOMBS feed failed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15555-USB, Oct 24 at 1430, WJHR preaching is JBA. In B-19 it`s the only registrant on 15555, claiming unbelievable 50 kW, at 5 degrees; and if they shift to 15550 again will collide with France at 1530-1630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 12050, Oct 25 at 1422, WEWN Spanish is S5-S6 but JBM; at least it`s not spurring around (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 750, Oct 25 at 1207 UT, ad string in Ukrainian looping NE/SW, one for auto parts, ID mentioning Ukrainian Radio, 1211 song. We know this is WNDZ, Portage IN, Ethnic/brokered for the Chicago market. No problem yet from KMMJ and this is axually better than WBBM which has to contend with KSPI. WNDZ is 15 kW direxional daytimer, from 1200 UT in October, 1230 in November. Pattern centered on NW, but broad with considerable to the SW, notch SE toward Atlanta (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 900, Oct 25 at 1214 UT, nulling KSGL Wichita, I have something else roughly E/W with ID mentioning 900 and 94.9 --- so most likely KHOZ, Harrison AR, U1 1000/62/64 ``Bootz 94.9`` where the FM is a mere translator; per NRC AM Log, tho there`s one other 94.9 combo, WATV in AL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1440, Oct 25 at 1226 UT, RCC discussion in English, as KEXB, University Park TX, has stopped stunting referring to KTNO move to 620; Paul Walker says it`s Relevant Radio. Can a call change be far behind, since KEXB signified the kaput format, Excellence in Business? Soon overtaken by Topeka, KMAJ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Oct 25 at 0609-0618: this time on the R-75 I am tuning LSB, 1 kHz above 9 kHz channels, instead of the usual USB 1 kHz below; this could turn up some different ones with different 10-kHz channel QRM/splash situations: 531, 585, 603, 612, 621, 666(2), 684, 693, 711, 729(2), 747*, 774(2), 792, 801, 837, 8446, 855(2), 882, 936, 999, 1017, 1098, 1107, 1125(2), 1179(2) but none higher. * means stronger than the others; (2) means at least two carriers beating. See also MOROCCO! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 3272-USB, Oct 25 at 1234, 2-way discussing other frequencies which may be better such as ``zero-3-9``; ``A7A`` also mentioned, maybe this one or net designator; MARS? Nothing further heard here. No significant hits on 3272 or 3.272 searching the entire UDXF io group (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9341.25-USB, Oct 24 at 1356, 2-way in Spanish; Intruder if we consider the 31m SWBC extend beyond (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 2027 UT October 25
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Glenn Hauser logs October 22-23, 2019 |
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Wednesday, October 23 2019
** ANGUILLA. Re my ham log missing one letter, Chuck W3ON replies: ``Glen[n], I just checked the K3LR DX cluster. The following stations are currently operating. VP2ETE VP2EIH VP2EKG``
``Anguilla Island: I took another look at the K3LR DX cluster. Most likely what you heard from Anguilla was VP2EIH. The station was spotted on the K3LR DX cluster on October 20th on 18121 kHz at 2133 UT`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 2749-USB, Oct 22 at at 0623 UT, YL weather in English, gale warning mentioned repeatedly; 0625 ``This is Halifax Coast Guard Radio; out`` but immediately resumes briefly in French, back to English. S6 vs an S5 noise level. Winterish conditions are looking up. Maybe special broadcast as it`s 3:25 am in NS. 2598-USB also with a weaker YL voice at 0627, too weak. This frequency covers NL and vicinity. There are a few other 2 MHz channels listed further north and west which I have never managed to hear, if they still exist (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 15034-USB, Oct 22 at 1354 check, Trenton Military, ditto (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15230, Oct 22 at 1353, RHC S9+10/20 but suptorted while // 15140 is OK. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11880, Oct 22 at 1420, China Plus relay in English is S9+30 but extremely suptorted; wiggle that patchcord or render a refund to the ChiCom! Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 9620-9660, Oct 22 at 1425, the RHC 9640 transmitter is still spewing a buzzfield at least plus/minus 20 kHz, worst peaks circa 9630 & 9650. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11760, Oct 22 at 2146, RHC S7-S9 but only a trace of modulation, unlike sufficient 11850. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 11561, Oct 22 at 1418, AIR 11560 with a song has a 1 kHz het/carrier on the hi side; whence? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 9095, Oct 22 at 1346, algo JBA, no doubt Echo of Hope, clandestine on its latest shift as also heard yesterday, and nothing on original 9100 nor interim 9105. The Oct 21 edition of Aoki has it only on 9095, but what about tomorrow (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11520, Oct 22 at 1417, something new here, talk in unID language, S4-S7, unused frequency per Aoki. Nothing now on 11530 and maybe some noise on 11540, so suspect another shift by Dengê Welat. Or is it Turkey jamming? The situation could change from day to day or even hour to hour. Ivo Ivanov indicates when I heard it, both were on 11520: Pro Erdogan Radio Recep & Denge Welat in 25mb, October 21: from 1500 NF 11540.0*EMR 500 kW/105 Turkish, good+STANAG, ex 11530 * co-ch same 11540.0 KCH 300 kW/130 Kurdish BRB Denge Welat - weak from 1600 on 11540.0#ISS 250 kW/090 Kurdish BRB Denge Welat-strong # co-ch same 11540.0 EMR 500 kW/105 Turkish Pro Erdogan TRT - weak https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/10/pro-erdogan-trt-px-brb-denge-welat-on.html Pro Erdogan Radio Recep & Denge Welat on new 11520 kHz, Oct. 22 0600-1300 Pro Erdogan Radio Recep & Denge Welat are on 11530, instead of 11540 Oct. 21! 1315&1515 NF 11520*EMR 500 kW/105 Turkish, good signal ex 11530/11540 * co-ch same 11520 KCH 300 kW/130 Kurdish, Denge Welat - very weak from 1400 NF 11520*KCH 300 kW/130 Kurdish, fair signal ex 11530/11540 * co-ch same 11520 EMR 500 kW/105 Turkish TRT Radio Recep, weak https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/10/pro-erdogan-radio-recep-denge-welat-on.html October 22 from 1600 UT Radio Denge Welat is on 11530 ISS and TRT broadcast of Turkish secret services on 11520 EMR Denge Welat on 11530 & Pro Erdogan Radio Recep on 11520, Oct. 22 from 1600 on 11530 ISS 250 kW/090 Kurdish R. Denge Welat, very strong from 1600 on 11520 EMR 500 kW/105 Turkish TRT Radio Recep, very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/10/denge-welat-on-11530-erdogan-radio.html I assume ``Radio Recep`` is Ivo`s nickname for it, not a real ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6907-USB, Oct 22 at 2345, S9 pirate music, with abrupt breaks in modulation = transmission, but YL ``CNR`` IDs at 2345, 2353, apparently stays off from 2357*. Many earlier logs here: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,59435.0.html It`s not so Clever when Clever Name Radio be initialized (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 341 kHz, Oct 22 at 2153 UT, EI is back! EnId`s 25-watt MCW ND beacon at Woodring airport. The manager and others I visited yesterday had no direct knowledge of it or its status, referring me to FAA; but maybe my inquiry led her to look into turning it back on? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1580, Oct 22 at 1930 UT, KOKB Blackwell is cutting off and on the air, and when on is weaker than normal, compared to other stations and the noise level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 90.1, Oct 22 circa 2115 UT in a pledge break, KUCO says it will be moving to ``beautiful new studios in downtown OKC`` --- thus following in the footsteps of KOSU which could not resist the allure of the Big City, both forsaking their original campi in Edmond and Stillwater. At least KGOU remains at OU in Norman. If only KUCO would spend some of that expense to attain a local-quality translator signal into Enid. At least we may hope its recently refurbished transmitter/site will remain on the north side (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2004 monitoring: confirmed UT Tuesday October 23 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, JBA. 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, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9330, Oct 22 at 2132, WBCQ-6 is off today; why? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see UNID 12120.4 ** U S A. 17850, Oct 22 at 2138, JBA carrier, presumed WRMI 5950 X 3, but still too weak to audiblize a match of BS; would be OSOB & SSOB if 17775 KVOH were not running late. I always check too for any trace of Kuwait to us on 17550 which propagates only at midsummer, but zilch (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17774.99 approx., Oct 22 at 2135, praise music in Spanish registering only S1, as KVOH is still on past nominal 2100* on Tue & Thu; remains slightly off-frequency and have never answered my query whether this be the old or ``new`` transmitter. It`s the SSOB but not the OSOB tnx to WRMI? on 17850, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UZBEKISTAN. 12160, Oct 22 at 1415, S Asian language talk vs CODAR, S9-S7. Amid the TWR India 1345-1545 broadcast via Tashkent in a complex compendium of tongues; Aoki shows M-F at 1400-1430 it`s Sin which per EiBi means Sinhalese, not Sindhi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1690, Oct 22 at 2156 UT, heavy SAH of about 2.5 Hz, between WVON Chicago --- and?? Retén lo que Tienes, Bâton Rouge pirate? There is certainly a second station to cause the SAH. This long before sunset, possibly KDMT Arvada CO is already propagating here at the Top End; WMLB further east could be if it`s no longer silent in GA, but seldom/never heard here. I compare this SAH to another one later at 0038 Oct 23 which is more like 2.8 Hz and definitely between KDMT and WVON. MWOffsets had those 3.9 Hz apart so it`s all inconclusive (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 12120.4, Oct 22 at 2149, S4-S7 of open carrier; could it be WBCQ-6, not on 9330 now? Surely not, so off-frequency, but originally registered here for A-19 afternoons, with 11730 to be next in B-19, should they attain higher-frequency capability. More likely NAU Isabela PR RTTY idling (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15330-USB, Oct 22 at 1351, 2-way in colloquial Spanish altho the other way inaudible, INTRUDERS upon the ex-AFRTS frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 0446 UT October 23
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Glenn Hauser logs October 20-21, 2019 |
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Tuesday, October 22 2019
** ANGUILLA. 18121-USB, Oct 20 at 2132, CQ DX from VP2E#H; can`t copy the middle letter on two or three utterations. On QRZ.com lookup went thru entire alfabet and found four fitters: VP2EEH, EIH, EMH and EQH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANTARCTICA. 15476-, Oct 20 after 2300, no signal from LRA36 for final repeat of anniversary special, via the S American remote which did forward it as late as 1930. Not too surprising as post-sunset down there, a good reason not to regularly broadcast evenings if nothing but such a high frequency be available (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARMENIA. 9300, Oct 21 at 1313, TWR music box IS, S4-S6 with flutter; preceding the TWR Indian broadcast at 1315, which on Monday and Tuesday is in the MUNdari language spoken by 1.1 million in Jharkhand, Odisha, per EiBi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 9818.483, Oct 21 at 0621, JBA signal with some modulation, no doubt R. 9 de Julho with R. Aparecida programming. What else? Own Aparecida appears to lack an apparition on 9630+, but there is a much stronger: 9664.859, Oct 21 at 0623, Brazuguese conversation at S9-S7, from Voz Missionária well heard overnight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9180, 9215, 10960, 11440, 11460, 12880, Oct 21 at 1312-1321, only WOOB CNR1 jammer/carriers found in a sweep from 9 to 15 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 774 & 828, Oct 21 at 1225, JBA YL talk, no doubt the superpower NHKs in Akita and Osaka, tho can`t be sure of language and not necessarily Japanese during language lessons. I also have no doubt I`m getting same stations when they are JBA carriers looping NW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also UNIDENTIFIED ** KOREA SOUTH. 3480, 3910, 3984, 4450, 4880, 5995, 6515, 6600, 9095, Oct 2 at 1256, quick survey of EOH/VOH/VOP clandestine frequencies find some have shifted a further 5 kHz than before, some back on originals; also Japan 3925 seems to have CCI SAH and nothing on 3930! Can`t tell if on 6250 due to uteblob. Some also have jamming noise, some not, or JBA carriers, but presumed since nothing 5 kHz away where previously landed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, Oct 20 at 1715, S9+20 of Cuban spy numbers and diginoise overrides any possible Turkish clandestine here. 11540, Oct 20 at 1715 has some weak talk presumably Dengê Welat. Above should have preceded my subsequent obs at 1940 as in last report. 11540, Oct 21 at 1316, Kurdish? talk presumed from Dengê Welat, maybe jamming but nothing on 11530 from new Turkish counterpart. Other reports about these today; from Ivo Ivanov, Observer, Bulgaria: ``TURKEY/KURDISTAN Pro Erdogan Radio Recep & Denge Welat, October 21: from 1500 NF 11540.0*EMR 500 kW/105 deg Turkish, good+STANAG ex 11530 * co-ch same 11540.0 KCH 300 kW/130 deg Kurdish BRB Denge Welat -weak from 1600 on 11540.0#ISS 250 kW/090 deg Kurdish BRB Denge Welat-trong # co-ch same 11540.0 EMR 500 kW/105 deg Turkish Pro Erdogan TRT- weak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOddHnIREDE&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDXyGVuogW0&feature=youtu.be `` Kai Ludwig, Germany: ``Earlier in the evening, before everything faded out, clearly two different signals, with carriers hetting against each other, could be noted on 11540 while no trace of any carrier was on 11530 anymore. So indeed Emirler followed Denge Welat, thus their intention is not to take over the established frequency and its Kurdish audience but merely to jam Denge Welat. Meanwhile also routing for this "special broadcast" has been found: http://en.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.php?mux=11096&pid=28&live=89&sec=0&lang=en The ID of this channel indicates that it was the feed for the Arabic broadcasts on 630 and 1062 kHz, which apparently have been discontinued recently. So TRT is really deeply involved in this jamming operation. Kai`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 15090, Oct 21 at 1409, JBA carrier. EiBi shows R. Liberty all the way from 0430 to 1430 alternating Dari and Pashto for IRAN --- shouldn`t that be AFGHANISTAN? With inband 19m SWBC so little-used, there is no reason for a major broadcaster to intrude into the aero band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1090, Oct 21 at 0559, YL promo for `Milenio Diario` newscast at L-V times, 0600 into infomercial. Still no ID, but another match for XEAU, Monterrey, since searching immediately finds: ``XEAU-AM is a radio station on 1090 AM in Monterrey, Nuevo León. It is owned by Multimedios Radio and carries Milenio Radio along with sister station XHFMTU-FM 103.7 HD3. Wikipedia``. Of course that does not prove that no other 1090 station airs M.D., but surely XEAU, our closest 1090 anyway is the one I have been hearing. As usual, KAAY from the east can be nulled, but not the annoying 1089 het from the 700+ kW of UK synchros (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Re my ID of the 1130 station as XEYZ Aguascalientes2, still on the AM air, Tim Hall, editor of the IRCA Mexican Log, replies, first on the ABDX yg: ``Thanks for the update. This is very odd. I can't imagine what they would be doing back on the air. They surrendered their AM license almost a year and a half ago (see URL below for a copy of the self-cancellation letter). I haven't heard anything about them being forced to turn the AM back on (a "continuity obligation" can be invoked if the Mexican government determines that the AM shutdown leaves even a few people with no remaining radio or TV coverage). The AM license was not restored as of the August 2019 IFT list. Maybe it will show up on the next list? http://rpc.ift.org.mx/rpc/pdfs/35226_181212173840_5224.pdf 73 Tim`` And directly Oct 21: ``For now I've added the note to the Mex list database. I'll see if I can re-log XEYZ from the Border Inn next weekend. Hopefully I'll catch XECHAP too, if they made their projected on-air date of Oct 4th. XEYZ-1130 is still including AM 1130 in their ID: 1 File 381.6 kB https://www.w4uvh.net/20191020_2302_XEYZ_1130_web_stream_ID.mp3 ...despite surrendering the AM license almost a year and a half ago. The attached ID was taken from their web stream a few minutes ago. 73 Tim`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 341 kHz, EI, Enid`s only NDB, 25 watts at Woodring Airport, has not been heard since Sept 7 when it was audible along with YYU in Kapuskasing, the latter scheduled for decommissioning Oct 10. That leaves on 341 OIN, Oberlin KS and many others listed. It appears EI has also been. I finally visited Woodring the afternoon of Oct 21 and asked their new diector, Deirdre Gurry, about it: https://www.enidnews.com/news/local_news/new-airport-director-introduced-at-woodring/article_7b3a48aa-1630-51ce-b23b-1cf313604d26.html It`s the FAA`s responsibility and I should seek out a NOTAM notice about it, but she thinx it used to be on the south side of the runway, and that such LW beacons are being phased out as who needs them with GPS? Maybe it failed naturally and will not be fixed. Here it is, as if still extant, but as of 12 September 2019: http://www.airnav.com/cgi-bin/navaid-info?type=NDB&id=EI&name=GARFY which was linked from everything else you need to know about KWDG: http://www.airnav.com/airport/KWDG (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1580, Oct 21 at 1304 UT, KOKB Blackwell is still AWOL after sunrise, leaving us to hear mariachi borracha music from the NW = KFCS Colorado Springs, which is not supposed to go from 140 watts night to 10000 day until 1315 UT in October (1345: November), but soon fading while KHGG AR talk ascends. By 1900 UT check, however, KOKB is back on alone (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 88.2V, Oct 21 at 1335 UT, big hum and carrier around 88.3, very intermittent, blocking KWOU 88.1 during `Stardate` at 1342.5; not my transmitter and heard on at least 3 radios, again suspected to be the rotten K202BY Family Radio translator for Enid, otherwise AWOL. There it is again, Oct 21 at 2351 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7293.9-AM, Oct 20 at 2143, weak VP hAM S7-S3 helped by ECSS, says he is using a 160-m dipole now; sure sounds like TimTron altho belchless, known to hang out around here; indeed 2144 ID as WA1HLR. His contact is much stronger S8-S9, and asks him about his WBCQ work (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13565-CW, Oct 21 at 1323, K6FRC HIFER beacon from Patterson CA; seems I usually hear it around this time rather than later in the day when MUF should be higher (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2004 monitoring. Confirmed Sunday Oct 20 at 2130 on WRMI 7780, S8-S6. Also confirmed UT Monday Oct 21 at 0130 on WRMI 9395 VP; 7780 JBA. Also confirmed UT Monday Oct 21 at 0230 on WRMI 7780, VP. Also confirmed UT Monday Oct 21 from 0301:40 on Area 51 webcast (after a flurry of F-words; standard disclaimer); and at 0314, S9+10 on WBCQ 5130- but considerable storm noise from the other side of OKC Also confirmed UT Monday Oct 21 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, S9 but noisy. Next: 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW 0830 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [another episode] 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, DX LISTENING DIGEST) NEW TIME FOR WORLD OF RADIO ON WRMI: Saturday 1300 on 15770 to the NE. Tnx to Ivo Ivanov who noticed this on Oct 19. I had asked Jeff for some time, any time on Saturday since all the previous ones had gone away. No reply, and skedgrid still shows blank spaces for System D 15770 at 1300-1400 on Sat & Sun; on weekdays that hour has variety programming, unlike TOMBS before 1300 and Supreme Master TV after 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9330.00, Sunday Oct 20 at 2127, I notice that WBCQ-6 is on with preaching in English about Yahweh (sp?); only S9+15/20 so probably still on the 60 degree beam awayward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 12070, Oct 21 at 1318, spurblob from WEWN which on fundamental 12050 is distorted with hum and crackling carrier, S9+20, much stronger than usual, Radio Católica Mundial ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 910, Oct 21 at 1243 UT, Iowa Public Radio is seeking a professional engineer, i.e. WSUI Iowa City, onetime WORLD OF RADIO affiliate; soon losing out to an iHeart station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1440, Oct 21 at 1239 UT, KEXB Dallas is still running the Spanish/English loop about KTNO moved to 620; now with growing CCI probably Topeka (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1700, Oct 21 at 1302 UT, open carrier/dead air from KKLF Richardson TX, as confirmed by DF; KBGG Des Moines modulation also audible by rotation of the DX-398 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, presunrise 1244 UT Oct 21 at 1230-1237; on the R75 with E-W longwire this time, so no DFing to separate the NW from the WSW: 567, 594, 693, 702, 729, 747, 756, 774, 828, 837, 873, 882, 891, 918, 972, 1008, 1017, 1035, 1053, 1107, 1512, 1548 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1059.95 approx., Oct 21 at 1248 UT, something in Spanish making a LAH against 1060 stations; suspect KIJN Farwell TX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1490, Oct 21 at 1308 UT, ``APR Network News`` plug, perhaps outro of `cast, loops E-W, briefly atop jungle. Figure it must something from Arkansas, of which there are 3, but no connexion to any such network in the NRC AM Log or by searching; closest is KWXT Dardanelle; more easterly but further, KDRS Paragould; and more to the SE, KXAR Hope. Alabama Public Radio calls itself APR, but all on FM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6841-USB, Oct 21 at 2103, ``Mister Rock, this is Mountain Radio, I hear you loud and clear``; 2105 ``How copy: loud & clear, split operations working OK. Standing by on this frequency``. So his contact was on some other frequency; nothing else heard here. What`s this, military? UDXF iog searches on frequency, calls unproductive (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9630.0, Oct 21 at 0627, JBA 1 kHz tone, like carriers on 9629 & 9631, in the absence of R. Aparecida unlike two other ZYs just measured on 31m. Only thing scheduled is CNR1, besides an alternate channel for RNZI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 12665, Oct 21 at 1321, JBA CW, unusual in marine band; UDXF iog search comes up with a 5-year-old log of 12665, FUG La Regine/Saissac, France? but as STANAG, not straight CW. EiBi has Meteo Fax from Rio, PWZ33 but not at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15490, Oct 21 at 1411, S9 dead air and right off. Maybe Nauen or Ascension testing for later use of this channel; or Greenville which likes to test on frequencies not otherwhen active (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 17765, Oct 21 at 1412, S7 open carrier and right off, like what I had just heard on 15490. Only thing sked on 17765 is BBC Ascension at 1200-1230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report despatched at 0032 UT October 22
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Glenn Hauser logs October 19-20, 2019 |
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Sunday, October 20 2019
** ANTARCTICA. So did anyone hear directly or indirectly, the publicized LRA36 anniversary special today? I did get the JBA 15476- carrier at 1400. Altho scheduled to be 3 hours long from 1200, including multi-lingual segments, 2-hour repeats are scheduled for 18-20 and 23-01 UT, with music in between (Glenn Hauser, 1615 UT Oct 20, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
No positive replies to that. Around 1830 Oct 20, I start trying to hear it via remote KiwiSDRs --- most in S America either busy or no signal. By 1842 I get one outside Brasil with a very weak S2v signal on 15475.93-USB as tuned. Immediately hear ``Arcángel San Gabriel`` mentioned and an occasional copiable word later or by a man, a break for a song, and more conversation past 1930 but just about gone. With my paltry further details I may yet try for a QSL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 15034-USB, Oct 20 at 1435, for the record, Trenton Military is still distorted and ``no report received`` from anywhere (presumably, altho I do not listen to entire cycles, but always such at random chex) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 9659.95, Oct 20 at 1439, some off-frequency talk vs weaker 9660.0. CNR1 jammers are usually on-frequency, but this makes it a bit worse, vs RTI, both 1000-1600 per Aoki and nothing else on 9660 during this span (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11540, Oct 20 at 1530, VP S2-S3 signal, and a noisy weaker one on 11530. 11540 is much better at 1940 but still poor S5-S7 talk, sounds like Türkish, no QRM audible; and 11530 is a JBA carrier. Best I can do, but there has been heavy discussion on the WOR iog by those further east: Dengê Welat, the PKK clandestine transmitted from France or Pridnestrovye, has shifted from 11530 to 11540, after Turkey usurped 11530 with some kind of anti-PKK clandestine, while also jamming 11540. Note that DW is not all-Kurdish language, has long been partly in Turkish. Roger provides TDOA map showing 11540 coming from eastern Romania: 11540 kHz Radyo ya Dengê Welat so ca. östliches Rumänien: https://www.dropbox.com/s/j1jvw1z5q4w38yo/2019-10-20_11540_kHz_1015z.png?dl=0 And roger provides TDOA map showing 11530 site now surely Emirler: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fc1mlsuhett94da/2019-10-20_11530_kHz_0940z.png?dl=0 Similar thing happening to other DW frequency 9525. Wolfgang Bueschel reported: ``9525even kHz Dengê Welat {ex 'Radyoya Dengê Kurdistane'} program regularly from Radiotelecentr (PRTC) transmitter Grigoriopol Maiac in Moldova Pridnestrovie, now jammed by Turkish station on odd 9525.782 kHz and result accordingly as 800 Hertz whistle BUZZ tone. 7350 / or 9525 kHz at 0330-0500 UT 11530 kHz at 0500-2100 UT or 11530 / or 9525 kHz at 1330-2100 UT. 73 wolfie df5sx`` On Oct 20, Kai Ludwig, Germany, tells me: ``Yes, Dengê Welat from Grigoriopol is now on 11540 kHz while some other transmission is on 11530 kHz. The audio of this other transmission sounds like Emirler transmissions typically do (no high-pass filtering, no hard multiband compression), and the frequency deviations are typical as well. Thus there should be little doubt about Emirler being the origin of this RF signal. Next question is, of course, about the program audio TRT puts on these war transmissions. A quick, first impression is that it is indeed heavy war propaganda. So the next steps would be, of course, to work out the ID this program uses (do they operate it in "clandestine station" style?) and to determine if it goes out anywhere else, too (like on Turksat satellites). [later:] The Emirler transmission on 11530 kHz is a loop of 30 minutes and a few seconds, with no obvious station/program name being noted so far. A detailed monitoring report is here [in German]: https://www.radioeins.de/programm/sendungen/medienmagazin/radio_news/beitraege/2014/denge_kurdistane.html So in all likelihood no other distribution platforms are in use for this, ahem, audio product. Still it could be worth to check if this program audio is on Türksat, which could be the case if TRT has terminated the terrestrial circuits to Emirler and this loop is not played out locally. The evening transmission of Dengê Welat via Issoudun has been moved to 11540 kHz, too. So what remains to be determined is what they do with the 31 metres morning slot. Kai`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1090, Oct 20 at 0622, Spanish from the south finally with a non-mattress infomercial, instead sounds like ``Derma-Wand`` some product for women`s anti-aging skin care. Yes, there is such a thing, with very mixed reviews in English. XEAU Monterrey still suspected but no ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1130, I am still trying to ID the Spanish here, which has seemed like it must be the newly activated XECHAP, Chapingo, EdoMex, educational station in the new IRCA Mexican Log as Radio Chapingo, 10/5 kW, ex-1610 XEUACH, projected to start 10/4/2019. However: October 20 at 0631, amid tunes I hear a non-ID as ``El Poder de --?-- siete, La Poderosa``. No such slogan for any of the possible four in the current Log --- but checking the previous one on paper, 2018 edition #21, there was a Poderosa on 1130: ``XEYZ, Aguascalientes2, 10/2.5 kW, La Poderosa 107.7; La Más Famosa, 24h, //107.7 FM XHYZ. Still active on AM 10/17`` --- So now we may extend that to 10/19! And put it back into the Log. Approx. from SSW, making medium SAH with KWKH to the SE nulled as much as possible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2004 monitoring: Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, reports: ``GERMANY, World of Radio#2004 via Hamburger Lokalradio, October 19 1431-1500 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sat CUSB, good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/10/world-of-radio2004-via-hamburger_20.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ22vB--YEU&feature=youtu.be QRM same time 9490 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg WeEu Romanian R.Romania Int. Again wrong frequency announcement: HLR on 7265, instead of 9485`` Not confirmed here, UT Sunday Oct 20 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, checked at 0338 and 0401 during ham news, S9+10/20. I hope WOR already ran earlier than variable 0315 start, or much later. Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, also reports: ``GERMANY, World of Radio#2004 via Hamburger Lokalradio, October 20 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/10/world-of-radio2004-via-hamburger_8.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNuxCmI9u5w&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmNECkuv1AY&feature=youtu.be 1032-1101 7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sun CUSB, fair`` Next: 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 6160v? to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW 1130 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW 1816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania to WNW 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW 0830 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [another episode] 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, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Oct 20 at 1448 UT, some tropo DTV DX as we are on the edge of level-1 per Hepburn predixions, extending as far as DFW, KC and St Louis, with higher levels. Bandscan finds Bad signals on many channels: 8, 10, 11, 12, 21, 26, 28, 31, 35, 36, 45. And also some OKC channels are Bad, blocked by DX: 7, 13, 18, 23, 33. I wonder what`s on RF 13. There are a bunch of further full-power if not super-power Texans, but in Dallas only a 3 kW CP for KHFD-LD. Besides RF 20, 19-1 KQCW-HD in Tulsa market, two decodes from The Metroplex: RF 30, DTV 29-1 KMPX, 1448 UT Oct 20, infomercials in Spanish, 1459 ad for Luna 98.3 FM Solo Exitos, and Estrella TV logo; 29-2 a different Spanish infomercial, 1500 one in English. W9WI.com shows 29.1 only, a megawatt in Decatur TX with a 900 kW backup. Decatur is NW of Dallas, almost halfway to Wichita Falls. RF 14, KERA-HD 13-1, with PBS; 13-2 kids, 13-3 Create (like KETA but its 13-2 is World, and kids is on 13-4). Contrary to W9WI.com which shows KERA with PBS World on -2. KERA Dallas runs 975 kW ERP. Rabbitears.info matches the channeling I have monitored (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 810, Oct 20 at 0050 UT, I am hearing rapid SBG coverage in Spanish, employing pelotas, mentions Atlanta. Are The Braves playing right now, and where would they be broadcast in Spanish? The only Mexican in the NW is XERSV, Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, 5 kW daytimer (until 0200?) with news format. KSWV Santa Fe? It`s not Spanish any more, or even Spanglish with CLR FM 99.9 simulcast and more westerly than my DF of WSW/ENE. By language, proximity, direxion and legal night operation, the best US fit is KXOI Crane (Odessa market) TX, U4 1000/500 --- except it`s SS:REL. Other SS of some sort are in FL, IN, MI, TN, mostly daytimers or negligible night power and none with sports format, tho SBGs often preëmpt a station`s nominal prime format. By 0055 losing out to WHB, KC MO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1120, Sunday October 20 at 0605 UT, during ``Duffy`s Tavern`` on `When Radio Was` from KMOX, heavy fast SAH from talk in English with KMOX nulled, i.e. NW/SE, not noticed earlier. The CCI soon fades. Suspect KCRN 50 kW daytimer Limon, Colorado again on air at night; if not, maybe KANN Roy Utah 10/1.1 kW; or KTXW Manor TX 5.6/0.155 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 1957 UT October 20
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