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Glenn Hauser logs March 2, 2019 |
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Saturday, March 02 2019
DX/SWL/Media Programs updated: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html
World of Radio sked updated: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html ** CANADA [and non]. 6070-, March 2 at 0327, CFRX with medium-fast SAH, maybe about 10 Hz, as CFRX is always offset slightly-minus, but what else could there be? Channel 292 Germany could be 24 hours, but Manuel MÃndez, Spain has reported that ``eclipsing`` CFRX sometime after 0500, so is that when it signs on? But EiBi has the answer: IRAN in Arabic at 0320-0420 on 6070 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 5040, March 2 at 0325, RHC is S9+10 of dead air in Spanish, ha2; 5910, CRI English relay is S9+30 of JBM; 6000 RHC English is undermodulated somewhat distorted; 6165 RHC English is less undermodulated and not distorted; 6060 RHC Spanish is *off*. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. (7490), UT Sat March 2 at 0100, WBCQ webcast with bits of music and silence as if trying to bring up the wrong feeds; finally `William Tell Overture` starts and then lo-fi audio as A&A interject. Says they just flew down from Bangor ME to Sanford FL, so they must have skipped the Winter SWL Fest along the way near Philadelphia. At 0121 checking the SW frequencies: 7490.2 is VP; 9330.17 is VP but identifiably // AWWW; 3264.9 JBA carrier of unknown content; 5130.48 is VP best of the lot but with something else. I hope John Carver heard more of it; he already reports as of 0140: ``Tonight's AWWW --- Music, dead air, station promo before the top of the hour, dead air, snippet of music, dead air, music snippet and then the familiar theme starts. Both Allan and Angela doing voice overs during the theme. Poor signal on 7490. Allan and Angela flew to FLA this morning and are doing the show from there this evening. Mr. Transistor Norm called at 0107. Lost the signal at 0108. 5130 has the militia, no signal on 9330 so I end up on 3265 again. Fair signal and then it almost sounds like the transmitter went down and was restarted. then the noise came up making it difficult to copy. By 0116 I can copy nothing on either frequency. After the previous weekend's terrible 26 hour windstorm with gusts as high as 65 mph I checked all the antennas this week and the only one that didn't survive was the TV antenna. So I guess it's Allan Weiner only in certain areas instead of world wide. John, Mid-North Indiana``. Meanwhile I was wondering if there would be any live broadcasts from the Fest: I asked Larry Will if there will be any (non-pirate); he replies: ``Jane and I are planning to be live from the Fest Sunday 0100-0200 UTC on 5130 and the Area 51 webcast. Lw`` i.e. Saturday night I also asked Jeff White of WRMI, and he replied, no, not this year, but he is there recording a bunch of interviews which will be on Wavescan next weeks (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. (7490), March 2 at 0248, I notice that the WBCQ webcast I had up earlier for AWWW is still running with someone talking; so I listen in: It`s about the Unity Bible Fundamentalist Church planning its very own ``DMR``-only SW transmitters, the next big thing, as a second ``free speech`` station like WBCQ but reaching parts of the world it does not: western US, Russia, China, India, Europe. Huh? WBCQ 500 kW and rotatable antenna expects to cover everywhere from Maine. Appeals for funds, anything from $ 1 to $ 5000 welcome --- hey, if Brother Starr [sic] and Scriptures for America can raise hundreds of thousands for SW broadcasts, why not? Altho he ``hates money``, and will get this done, even without major financial support. Says he already got a positive response from FCC. Keeps referring to ``DMR``, but slips once calling it ``DRM``. Needs to be on SW, since he is banned from FB, Twitter and other social media. This turns out to be Pastor Cody Serafeld(?), and a sidekick, from a ``little bitty church`` in Conroe TX, on the `Far Right Radio Show` --- so as a Free Speech station, he will certainly welcome the Far Left! The FRRS still has not achieved any visibility on the WBCQ program sked; UT Sat 02-04 on 7490 still shows as `Dead Frog Radio` which has passed away. Still listening to webcast, at 0301 the standard WBCQ sign-off, so I guess the 7490+ transmitter was still running if inaudible here. And after that still more music on the webcast, at least. At 0324, 5130.43 is still on JBA trace of modulation, with what? The 5 MHz unit has been showing up at unexpected times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 0526 UT March 2
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Glenn Hauser logs February 28-March 1, 2019 |
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Friday, March 01 2019
** CUBA. 15140, Feb 28 at 1539, RHC carrier off and on and off and on. When it comes back, dead air at first, then music modulation re- applied. 11760 also dead Feb 28 at 1543 before music cuts on. Something`s always wrong at RHC. During brief 15140 offnesses, probably a trace of OMAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 13780, March 1 at 1510, RHC still on but undermodulated; off by 1525 check when 13700 is S9+30 of dead air; 15700 CRI relay at 1510 is undermodulated but not distorted, sufficient with volume up. 15140 at 1526, RHC is dead air, while 15230 is undermodulated. Somethings are always wrongs at RHC/RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SAUDI ARABIA ** SAUDI ARABIA [and non]. 11820.02, Feb 28 at 2240, SRI/SBA Qur`aning poor signal but enough to lullabye my nap, until abrupt chopoff at 2300* -- Allah`ll get`em for that? Trying again March 1 at 2220 for a more precise reading, SA is JBA, vs another even weaker carrier closer to 11820.00 --- since nothing is scheduled there, suspect it is a second-order spur from 11840 RHC, doubled beyond the constant first-order one on 11830. While checking 11820 in EiBi, I see an adjacent interesting entry: ``11825.5 1300-1330 HKG FEBC Radio Liangyou KHA Tib /PHL-b`` i.e. a Hong Kong ``station`` in the Khams dialect of Tibetan via FEBC Bocaue, Philippines site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LSTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 12030, Thu Feb 28 at 2236, REE VG S9+10 discussing The Virgin Mary in Spanish, monogamy, alternating with ARABIC --- not clear which one is translating the other originally; but not // 11945 & 9690 in Castilian only. WRTH 2019 mentions that REE webcasts in Arabic, but does not show any SW schedule for it; and nothing at all about Spain in the Feb 4 update. 12030 is the ME-beam frequency which nevertheless arrives here well off the back (sometimes propagating better than 9690 direct). EiBi does not show any Arabic either, but there is Sephardic/Ladino Sundays only at 2230-2300 on 12030. WRTH asterisks that as a cutaway from Spanish at same time on all four frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. 5960, UT Fri March 1 at 0045, German at S9+10 fading to S7, so yet again VOT sloppyrators at Emirler have left this transmitter on an extra hour after English; will The Mighty Farty KBC stay here, taking their chances on UT Sundays, until the bitter end of B-18? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7490.19, UT Fri March 1 at 0055, WBCQ with `Camp Constitution Radio``, 0100 ``WTO`` and into an `AWWW` repeat, which must be plenty old since ``it`s a balmy night``, and the tenth monthiversary of A&A togetherness (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 3215, 4840, 5890, Feb 28 at 0721-0725, 75% of WWCR transmitters are on the air without modulation. Only 5935 is modulating, S9-S7 poor. 3215, S9+20 with hum and 5890, S9-S7, would normally be off the air at this time, while 4840, S9+20 would be TOMBS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775, Feb 28 at 1929, no signal audible from KVOH, unlike yesterday. Wolfgang Bueschel explained Feb 27 while 17774.989 was well audible on the east coast, ``17 MHz reception behind 1st skip at least need 2500 kilometers distance. To Enid_OK 1890 kilometer distance only`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 880-CUSB, March 1 at 0701, praise music mixing with KRVN Fox ``News``, while tuning LSB I have KRVN Nebraska without the QRMusic; therefore it is KHAC Tse Bonito NM/Window Rock AZ, secretly known for suppressing its LSB; not especially strong and maybe really not on 10 kW ND day power now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1130, Feb 28 at 1534 UT check, KLEY Wellington KS is still on the air with rock music; and also March 1 at 2216 UT. It could crash again at any moment (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re my hearing a Spanish, Radio Vida on 1480 instead of Vietnamese, KBXD The Metroplex: ``Glenn, to further the update on 1480: In just the past few days KLVL [Pasadena TX] has started running the Radio Vida religious format // to KRCM 1380, so that is what you heard. Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas``, Feb 27, WOR iog via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 2940.129, March 1 at 0049, JBA carrier presumed second harmonic from some LAm or NAm broadcaster on 1470.65 or so. Another measurement March 1 at 0658 puts it on 2940.132. Others closer and/or with better antenna gain and/or with less noise should be able to ID this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST This report dispatched at 2247 UT March 1
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Glenn Hauser logs February 27-28, 2019 |
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Thursday, February 28 2019
** CUBA. 12140, Feb 27 at 1345, JBA carrier, so I try again to match trace of modulation to RHC and barely do so // 11950 as leapfrog fulcrum of 11760; rather than Quwait fundamental. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15700, Feb 27 at 1512, China Plus relay of CRI English is S9+20 but suptorted. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 6055, Feb 27 at 1321, R Nikkei 1 with English lesson, phrases by OM alternating with Japanese by YL, something about yuan market prices in Shanghai, perhaps a regular Wednesday feature. A bit earlier it was not heard on 3925 which is supposed to be on from the other site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAO TOME. 13590.058, Feb 27 at 1933, S7-S9 of off-frequency news in Special English about Indo-Pak conflict, i.e. VOA as scheduled via Pinheira; their 6080 is also noticeably askew (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 9335, Feb 27 at 1328, 1 kHz tone, 1329 Yankee Doodle and VOA sign-on, 1330 Cambodian via Tinang, S3-S4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1971 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday February 27 at 2200 on WRMI 9955, fair and 4 seconds later on WBCQ 7490+, good S9+10. At 2220 I noticed another WBCQ is on the air, 5130.469, JBA, and yes, it`s WOR. But off at next check 2230. Also confirmed UT Thursday February 28 at 0000 on WRMI 7730, VG, but by 0015 recheck it`s dumped to music fill, same as last week when first discovered by Richard Lemke. Yes, WOR is now on the sked for half an hour. 0030 starts Wavescan with no problem. I miss checking next airing at 0100 on WRMI 7780. Next, not until: 0930 UT Friday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 0729 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW 1200 UT Saturday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND [alt weeks: March 2/16/20] 1230 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE 1531 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW 2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM MO non-direxional 2200 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE 0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7730 to WNW [NEW] 0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415], ND 0830 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5950 to WNW, 7730 to WNW 1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW 0400vUT Monday WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW 0430 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE 0930 UT Monday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 1901 UT Monday IRRS/NEXUS-IBA/IPAR 7290 Romania [NEW] 2330 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE * also webcast; direct linx to these and many others at: Complete WOR sked, all affiliates, satellite, webcast, AM&FM, podcast: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5130.035, Feb 27 at 0734, surprised to find JBA carrier here with a trace of modulation; WBCQ running this transmitter on a frequency adjusted closer to nominal. Now also JBAC around 3264.9. 5 MHz frequency also on during WOR at 2220, but back to higher offset (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775, Feb 27 at 1512 and 1705, no signal audible from KVOH, but Ray Robinson assures me it`s back on the air. Finally at 1926 I can hear it propagating with praise music in Spanish, S9 to S9+10 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 2940.133, Feb 27 at 0729, JBA carrier from suspected second harmonic such as Cali, which would make the fundamental about 1470.655. Or MWoffsets has WBCR, Alcoa TN on 1470.63; NRC AM Log says 77 watts at night. Perhaps a DXer in Maryville/Alcoa could confirm the offset and harmonic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 0621 February 28
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Glenn Hauser logs February 25-26, 2019 |
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Wednesday, February 27 2019
** CUBA. Re: ``12140, Feb 18 at 1237, JBA carrier as I check for possible leapfrog of both very strong 11760 over 11950 another 190 kHz beyond; 12140 is weaker than 12300 = 2 x 6150. Something`s always wrong at RHC. At this early hour, 15140 & 15230 are JBA carriers, while 13780.0 not way-off frequency today, has built up to good level, the OSOB, and no spurs on 13 or 15 MHz``
Altho I am of course partial to Cuban leapfrogs, as a JBA carrier, 12140 at this time could also have been fundamentally IBB Kuwait, 250 kW at 70 degrees, during the scheduled multi-hour Dari/Pashto Radio Azadi service (Glenn Hauser, Feb 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15700, Feb 26 at 1448, CRI Plus relay is S9+30 but suptorted with modulation spikes only, continuing a slightly different wrongness from one day to the next (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 9690, Monday Feb 25 at 2309, REE`s Justin Coe ending some news about the Catalunya demonstration situation, before he can get back to some flamenco guitar music, his continuing tribute to Paco de LucÃa, apparently on the fifth anniversary of his death. Ken Zichi has also noted how this service is mainly music, evidently according to Coe`s preferences, rather than an emphasis on news (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 4102.3, Feb 26 at 0730, the ``W`` beacon somewhere in the California desert. Sends that ID a few times a minute, but in between series of dits which signify wind speed on its anemometer, and other readings, battery voltage and temp. Steve McGreevy explains in the WOR iog how he located the thing almost 20 years ago; and that the `A` (only) beacon on 2097.3 we also hear is not in Quartzsite AZ, altho he does not know exactly where (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1971, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1970: confirmed Monday Feb 25 at 2345 the 2330 on WRMI 9955, fair but fading by 2355. NOT confirmed UT Tuesday Feb 26 at 0045 the 0030 on WRMI 7730, which is off the air (while 7570 and 7780 continue). JBA in noise level Tuesday Feb 26 at 2055 the 2030 on WRMI 7780. I`m about 24 hours behind in accumulating material so WOR 1971 not ready until early UT Wednesday February 27: WORLD OF RADIO 1971 contents: Australia and non, Benin, China, Cuba, Denmark, Equatorial Guinea, France/Germany non, Korea South, Nigeria and non, South Africa, South America, Spain, Switzerland, UK non, USA; and the propagation outlook 0930 UT Wednesday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5950 to WNW 2200 UT Wednesday WRMI *9955 to SSE 2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ *7490v to WSW 0000 UT Thursday WRMI 7730 to WNW [NEW] 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE 0930 UT Friday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 0729 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW 1200 UT Saturday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND [alt weeks: March 2/16/20] 1230 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE 1531 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW 2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM MO non-direxional 2200 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE 0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7730 to WNW [NEW] 0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415], ND 0830 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5950 to WNW, 7730 to WNW 1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW 0400vUT Monday WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW 0430 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE 0930 UT Monday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 1901 UT Monday IRRS/NEXUS-IBA/IPAR 7290 Romania [NEW] 2330 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE * also webcast; direct linx to these and many others at: Complete WOR sked, all affiliates, satellite, webcast, AM&FM, podcast: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5970, Feb 26 at 1456, open carrier of S9-S8 past 1500, apparently WEWN, despite daytime Spanish frequency 12050 already on too. Altho the schedule would imply a single transmitter switches between 5970 and 12050, Glen Tapley once explained to me that they axually use different transmitters for high and low bands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775, Feb 26 at 1502, 1529, 1659, 1901, still no signal from KVOH, altho Ray Robinson of KVOH notified me at 2339 UT Feb 25, ``We're back! It was a lot more complex than it appeared originally, and multiple components had to be replaced. It also took a lot longer than we anticipated, but we're back. Testing now.`` I don`t know if he meant on the air yet at that unusual hour as I was not monitoring then (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re 620, my log of KEXB, The Metroplex now in Spanish 05-11 UT, Wayne Heinen, Editor of NRC AM Radio Log replies Feb 24 on the nrc-am gg: ``Checking my overnight recording about one session a week, I find the first instance of Radio Oasis the morning of January 23 with solid KEXB ID's at TOH. Still finishing up the morning of December 29 and KEXB was still running programs from BizTalk.com overnight`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re 1120, my log of KCRN, Wayne Heinen, Editor, NRC AM Radio Log replies Feb 24 on the nrc-am gg: ``As to Limon on 1120, only calls heard so far are old canned KLIM even though the CDBS lists them as KCRN nowâ 73`` Paul Walker, Laramie, WY also replies, as I had found 1120 // 1060: ``Just an FYI guys, Catholic Radio Network has been told 1120 is IDing improperly. It became KCRN in 12/2018 and still IDs as KLIM. They had some kind of failure Saturday [Feb 23], leaving them with a dead carrier, then completely off for awhile. When they came back, they had a network-wide conga-line-style ID. Normally, KLIM/KCRN IDs by itself and its programming is usually separate from 1060 KRCN. That 1060 usually runs the same feed as KEXS 1090 Kansas City and 1120 runs something else, but when 1120 came back on, it was running the same feed at KRCN 1060, at least temporarily`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1130, Feb 25 at 1926 UT, rock music means KLEY Wellington KS, 250 watts at daytime, is back on the air after missing for weeks if not months. Yes, 1932 local weather, and ``From the Wheat Capital of the World, The Wave 100.3 and 1130``. OK signal, no breaking up. Didn`t get it checked whether still on air next day. As for slogan, Enid might dispute that, but how do you rate a Wheat Capital? Total grain elevator storage capacity, and whether full every harvest season? It seems that Enid has the third-largest capacity in the world; I bet Wellington can`t beat that, but it has made the most of the WC designation. Its county, Sumner, previously got official Kansas state designation as W.C., and it was just another step up for Wellington to the World? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, Feb 25 at 2322 UT, another check for Vietnamese on KBXD Dallas. Today it`s making a SAH of 96/minute or 1.6 Hz vs KQAM Wichita. YL is speaking, but the more I hear, the less certain am I that it be Vietnamese at this time; certainly a tonal SE Asian language, perhaps Khmer, which is sort of a mix between Viet and Thai/Lao as the geography would imply. Or maybe Viet with a peculiar accent; or a tribal dialect? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 3237.0, Feb 26 at 0740, dead air at S8, goes off, and back on. Maybe a ute (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST This report dispatched at 0631 UT February 27
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