JRX Logs_ Wednesday, December 2, 2020Receiver (s)_ Tecsun S-2000Antenna (s)_ Longwire
All times and dates are Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

CHINA** 6100. Wed, Dec 2, 2020. 2011-2021, China Radio International, Xian-Xianyang-CHN, in Arabic. Man talks; 2015 Begins other program: Man talks, with music background; 2020 A song by female singer. Very good reception.
** 6135. Wed, Dec 2, 2020. 2120-2132, China Radio International, Beijing-Matoucun-CHN, in Croatian language. Songs, only. Very good reception.
** 9645. Wed, Dec 2, 2020. 1959-2010, China Radio International, Kashgar-CHN, in French. Woman announcer interviews a french man. Very good reception.
Parallel log on 7350uru, fair reception.

MADAGASCAR** 9515. Wed, Dec 2, 2020. 2021-2028, Adventist World Radio, Talata-Volonondry-MDG, in French. Man talks; 2025 A short song; Man and woman talk; 2026 ID and song. 2028 Ends. Fair reception.

ROMANIA** 5920. Wed, Dec 2, 2020. 2031-2040, Radio Romania International, Tiganesti-ROU, in Spanish. Woman announcer talks and a romanian folk music; 2034 ID and a program "Vale la pena visitar Rumania" presented by male announcer. Fair to good reception.

SÃO TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE** 5930. Wed, Dec 2, 2020. 2145-2200, Voice of America, Pinheira-STP, in Bambara. A song; Man and woman announcers talk; 2152 Men in conversation; 2159 IS. Poor reception.
Parallel logs on 15120asc, good reception and ends at 2158; 12075bot, out; 5885kwt, very poor to barely audible.
** 6195. Wed, Dec 2, 2020. 2133-2144, Voice of America, Pinheira-STP, in English. Songs, only. Fair to poor reception. Parallel log on 11720grv, very good reception.
** 11900. Wed, Dec 2, 2020. 1941-1958, Voice of America, Pinheira-STP, in French. Man announcer talks news; 1949 Woman announcer talks, says ID and a news program "L´Actualité Africaine" continues; 1950 News continues. Fair to good reception, with fading.
Parallel log on 15730grv, good reception.

USA** 15610. Wed, Dec 2, 2020. 2201-2213, EWTN-Global Catholic Radio, Vandiver-AL, in English. Two men talk and say about Jesus and catholic church, in conversation, too. Good reception.

VATICAN** 6010. Wed, Dec 2, 2020. 2042-2052, Vatican Radio, SM di Galeria-CVA, in French. Woman announcer talks; 2050 Man talks. Poor reception.
Parallel log on 7365smg, barely audible.

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** GUAM. 12085.013, Dec 1 at 1509, unknown language, S Asian? but
often pronouncing the word ``Bible`` as in English with long I, so
suspect a gospel huxter, S6-S9 and slightly off frequency. Aoki & EiBi
agree it`s KSDA AWR, but can`t agree on language: Lus in Aoki, MZ in
EiBi. His readme.txt leads to ``Mizo / Lushai: India-Mizoram (0.7m)
[lus]``, so that covers it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WO)

** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, Dec 1 at 1504, S7-S9 in presumed Kurdish,
apparent news with clips from Dengé Welat via PRIDNESTROVYE, also with
fast SAH from another carrier, but no other audio, probably Turkish
jammer; also some lite long-path echo as previously measured and
explained (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. 11705, Dec 1 at 1507, S8-S9 Arabish talk, i.e.
Juba dialect from R. Tamazuj this hour via MADAGASCAR. Altho the
furthest landmass near our antipodes, we get lots of good reception
from this island, especially when beaming across Africa USward beyond
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 8502-USB, Dec 1 at *2315, NMG USCG New Orleans cuts on just
as scheduled in EiBi with marine weather, and better modulation than
last time when I thought it was 8501-USB. Apparently between several
voice broadcasts there are longer spans of fax from same? transmitter
listed as 8503.9. Is there still heavy usage of fax mode in this
context? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2062 monitoring: Next:

2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2300 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

Our non-commercial broadcasts and website depend on voluntary support:
thanks this week to James F. Leppard, Anderson SC, for a check in US
funds on a US bank 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. We have discussed how WHRI is occupying 7490 at 0430-0600 so
WBCQ cannot --- yet its skedgrid claims to be on 7490 at 0400-0600
Tue-Sat at least, but I already confirmed by monitoring that the show
in question was axually airing on 6160v. However, I also confirmed
that WORLD OF RADIO was still on 6159.9v as of 0400 UT Monday November
30. But not any more. Larry Will of Area 51 tells us:

``Hi all, WBCQ has to change the long running show "Herald of Truth"
from our 7.490 MHz service to 6.160 MHz effective this Sunday. This
will displace the last hour of Area 51 on Sundays, so I've arranged to
move World of Radio and Hobart Radio International as follows:

World of Radio, was 0400 Monday, now 2300 Sunday
Hobart Radio International, was 0430 Monday, now 2330 Sunday
This change will be effective this Sunday, December 6. Regards, Lw``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9955, Dec 1 at 1516, WRMI-3 is still on after nominal 1500*
weekdays, in English interview talking glowingly about exports of
Taiwan, hostess YL with Spanish accent. This has got to be `Freedom
Synergy Radio`, not heard or reported in a few months, come to think
of it, since stopped new programming in August. I search for it on the
WRMI programming and skedgrid pages, and is now nowhere to be found.
Here`s my last log of it under the same circumstances, one UT hour
earlier during DST:

``9955, Aug 27 at 1418, WRMI prolonged today beyond nominal 1400* with
Freedom Synergy Radio talking about Taiwan in English. You never know
whether this webcast-only time will also get shortwaved``

So I suspect the automation has pulled out an old file to replay,
unless it has just been renewed. I also noticed 9955 on air early
today, I think during the 20 UT hour with TOMBS, contrary to sked
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 4095+ CW, Dec 2 at 0110, upward sweep tones once a
second, and IDs as DW every 23 seconds. Monitored via WO7I SDR in
Winnemucca, Nevada, as tipped by Joe Caberlin, Ontario at 0054, he
having first heard it at 0032 via KFS SDR in CA on 4095.5.

I wonder if this is related to or same as the ``W`` beacon on 4102+
heard earlier this year as a ``weather`` beacon somewhere in the SW
desert, which also transmitted encoded beeps about temperature, wind,
battery charge, etc. I quickly find a current log of this on HF
Underground with more detail:

https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,74397.msg249403.html#msg249403

``Teotwaki Moderator DX Legend *****
Posts: 2190 Karma: +12/-1 California
View Profile My adventures are at Sun To The North

Re: New whooper beacon on 4095.6
« Reply #33 on: December 01, 2020, 1710 UTC »
DW still sweeps low to high with the very first whoop going from
4095.65 to 4096.20 and the next 21 whoops from 4095.65 to 4096.1 KHz.
The CW ID of "DW" is still at the low end at 4095.65 but no longer has
that chirp on the first dash. Coming in S1 on the KFS Kiwi SE radio.
Logged Jim``.

I recheck at 0212 via NV remote and it`s better at S6-S7. Worse at
0236, S5-S6 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6840-AM, Dec 2 at 0002, open carrier ex-6860, and in the
meantime I also had it on 6880 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6935-LSB, Dec 2 at 0004, 2-way in Brazuguese; one was
humsinging a bit making me wonder at first if it were a broadcast
pirate (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0242 UT December 2
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** CANADA. 340-MCW kHz, Dec 1 at 0137 UT, dash and YY, 500-watt ND
beacon at Mont-Joli, Québec; louder than my 25?-watt local EI on 341.
Mont Joli is not even in closest QC but way up on the Gaspé Peninsula,
right bank of the St-Laurent, 2761 km = 1715 statute miles. Not much
else from Canada audible now (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 6950, Nov 30 at 1500, RHC again on wrong-punch frequency,
nothing on 9650; S7-S9, also with het from an open carrier on 6948.0,
pirate jamming? 6950 still at 1538 but no 6948. Something`s always
wrong at RHC. 6950 had also happened again the morning of Nov 29 at
1330, reported by Chris Smolinski; and by Ivo Ivanov at 1350 with a
Boca Ratón SDR. Ivo also Nov 30 after 1200; and by Wolfgang Büschel at
1243 via a Rochester NY SDR where it was 4 Hz high. Would it rerepeat
the evening of Nov 30? No, not heard around 0115 UT December 1. If
neither frequency be heard, could be another lysdexic sloppyrator
mixup, possibilities: 6590, 5690, 5960, 6059, 6095, 9560, 9605, 9506,
9065, 9056, 0569, 0659, 0695, 0956, 0965 --- did I miss any? Etc.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 6000, Dec 1 at 0112, RHC English is S7/S9+10 but suptorted
and JBM; only possible // 9700 is JBA, maybe RHC too. Something`s
always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** EAST TURKISTAN. 4980, Dec 1 at 0156, JBA carrier; could WRMI-4 be
back ex-silent 11710? Quick way to find out is checking the other
three 60m frequencies of PBS Xinjiang, Urumqi`s four language services
which always arrive as a group, and there they are, also JBACs: 5060,
4850, 4500. I was thinking it a bit late to propagate, but not,
especially in winter, with LSR at 0124. That`s 9:24! local time, as
the Beijing Han imperialists force all of China to go by UT+8, even
the west which ought to be UT+6 by longitude; amounts to double-DST
yearound. But that`s the least of Uyghur problems, facing cultural
genocide and brainwashing to wipe out Islam (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. Re my obs of K17JN-D Enid changes, Trip Ericson
replies: ``Good morning, Thanks. I've updated K17JN-D accordingly on
RabbitEars. I'd never heard of QVTV either, but I think I tracked it
down.

The way it's supposed to work is that any program that has captions
are supposed to be passed through. Local programming for small enough
stations, or networks under a certain size who produce their own
programming and would have to pay to have that specific programming
captioned, are exempt. There's more to it than that, but I'm not
familiar with the ins and outs. Have a great one, and stay safe. -
Trip`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** SPAIN. 684, Dec 1 at 0140, strongest of JBA carriers, enough for
some audio in Castilian, then jazz, and // 774, i.e. RNE1 network,
Sevilla, and on the upper, Valencia strongest among synchros (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 475v-MCW kHz, Dec 1 at 0120 UT, WA4SZE/BEACON in very slow
CW, as we are amid another sporadic spurt of activity. Easy copy as
seems quite stronger than your MW/LW aerobeacons. It`s at WWRB / ATC
airstrip in Manchester, TN, a plaything of Dave Frantz on the
so-called 630-meter hamband (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2062 monitoring: confirmed Monday
November 30 from 1900:43 on IRRS 7290 Bulgaria, S9+5/15 via UTwente.
Prelude: *1856:10 open carrier on; 1859:53 IRRS ID with Milano Box,
1900:15 FSN headlines, then WOR. Usual rough modulation but intact
past 1915, less splash than usual as no signal on 7295 from CRI, but
still plenty from 7280 Vietnam despite 10 kHz away, especially when
musicking. Best in SynchAM at 5.59 kHz bandwidth but VOV ACI
inevitable. It`s S9+20 as I continue impressed by their signal into W
Europe direct from Hanoi, 100 kW over an all-overland Eurasian path.

As for no 7295, HFCC shows that as 500 kW due west from Urumqi, CRI
English at 1900-2000. Maybe it`s one of the transmitters off for
maintenance until December 10, as they had notified German service
listeners about other frequencies. Urumqi = East Turkistan, land of
Chicom imperialist cultural genocide and brainwashing of imprisoned
Uyghurs.

WOR 2062 also confirmed UT Tuesday December 1 at 0100 on WRMI 7780,
S9+10 into UTwente, but VP S7-S8 here.

NOT confirmed UT Tue Dec 1 at 0200 on WRMI 9955, too poor to be sure
here, but via Pardinho Brasil SDR, it`s a gospel huxter in English.
WOR was unexpectedly added to sked grid at this time only a few weeks
ago and still shows there; easy go, easy come.

Also confirmed UT Tue Dec 1 at 0330 on WRMI 5800, VG S9/+15 to Bonaire
SDR. Next:

2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2300 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

Our non-commercial broadcasts and website depend on voluntary support:
thanks this week to James F. Leppard, Anderson SC, for a check in US
funds on a US bank 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)

** VENEZUELA. 6906.06, Dec 1 at 0200, JBA carrier direct, looks like
ROCV could be back; but nothing there when I get around to checking
Bonaire SDR at 0320 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search Dec 1 at 0122-0133:
531, 558, 576(2), 612, 621, 639, 684*, 693, 774(2), 801, 855(2),
882(2), 891, 909, 936(2), 954 & 963 despite 960 local, 999, 1017,
1044, 1053(2), 1107(2), 1125(2), 1152, 1179, 1215(2), 1224, 1251,
1296(2), 1305(2), 1431, 1575(2). (2) = at least two signals beating.
*strongest, see SPAIN (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0341 UT December 1
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JRX Logs_ Monday, November 30, 2020Receiver (s)_ Tecsun S-2000Antenna (s)_ Longwire
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ASCENSION ISLAND** 15490. Mon, Nov 30, 2020. 1818-1830, Ascension Island-ASC, in French. Woman announcer in conversation with a french man; 1822 Now, a conversation with a woman; Man talks with music background; 1829 Ends conversation, ID; 1830 Ends programming. Excellent reception.

CUBA** 15140. Mon, Nov 30, 2020. 2020-2031, Radio Habana Cuba, Bauta-CUB, in English. Woman announcer talks; 2024 Man talks, too; 2030 ID by female voice. Poor to very poor reception.

GREAT BRITAIN** 6090. Mon, Nov 30, 2020. 2040-2053, KBS World Radio, Woofferton-G, in Arabic. Man and woman announcers talk; 2043 Man talks. Fair reception.

MADAGASCAR** 11985. Mon, Nov 30, 2020. 1946-1958, Adventist World Radio, Talata-Volonondry-MDG, in Arabic. Man pastor makes a preaching; 1956 Man says ID and website and repeats at 1958; 1959 A song; 2000 Ends programming. Fair reception.
Parallel log on 6120nau, good reception. 
** 13670. Mon, Nov 30, 2020. 1843-1858, MWV-African Pathways Radio, Mahajanga-MDG, in English. Man talks and says ID and website; 1845 A song; 1848 Man talks; 1852 Man and woman announcers: Questions and answers about christian themes; 1857 ID, website; 1858 IS and ends programming. Good reception.
** 13670. Mon, Nov 30, 2020. 1932-1942, MWV-Radio Feda, Mahajanga-MDG, in Arabic. Woman and man announcers in conversation; 1935 Man says ID and website; 1937 Man preaching, presumably. Fair to good reception.

MALI** 5995. Mon, Nov 30, 2020. 1914-1930, RTV du Mali, Bamako-MLI, in Bambara language. Man announcer talks; 1922 Conversation with a woman; 1926 ID by female announcer and a song. Fair to good reception.

OMAN** 9600. Mon, Nov 30, 2020. 1831-1841, BBC, Al-Seela-OMA, in Amharic language.Man announcer talks news, presumably, and a long conversation with a man reporter. Fair reception.

SAUDI ARABIA** 11820. Mon, Nov 30, 2020. 1900-1913, Saudi Radio International, Riyadh-ARS, in Arabic. Man talks; 1902 Begins the Qur´an chant and recitation. Good reception.

SPAIN** 11685. Mon, Nov 30, 2020. 1802-1812, Radio Exterior de España, Noblejas-E, in Portuguese. Woman announcer in conversation with a brazilian woman. Fair reception.

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** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, Nov 29 from 2316, mostly weak Chinese
language: 6865 S6-S7; 6850 S7-S9; 7810 S7-S8; 9180; 9200; 9215 to
2325. I also tuned the entire 8 MHz band, but not the 7 MHz band where
there might be non-jammer Chinese. All these check out in Aoki/NDXC as
CNR1 jammer channels against Sound of Hope (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** COLOMBIA? 4940, Nov 30 at 0344 check, anonymous mystery missionary
station just now at this odd time commencing another regular feature,
`Lecciones de la Historia`, good S9 into Bonaire SDR (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** JAPAN [non]. 6185, Nov 30 at 0439, NHK Warudo Radio Japan news in
English atop fast SAH from poor XEPPM which is always offset-minus,
but hardly any of its modulation penetrating. NHK relay via AUSTRIA as
tipped by Ivo Ivanov, has just moved here from 6155 for the M-F 0430
and S/S 0500 English semihour, ND 300 kW for W Europe but which would
reach us sufficiently if on a clear frequency, but NHK does not want
us North Americans as an audience. XEPPM is only 1 kW? Also blocked at
earlier 0420 check with AWR in Turkish altho supposedly toward Turkey.
Meanwhile I hear nothing on 6155; surely they did not move to avoid
6159.9v WBCQ over there (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6770, Nov 29 at 2318, JBA talk, S6-S7, presumed the
Old Time Radio pirate -- not heard in ages despite occasional chex
this far below the main pirate band. Tnx to new tip today:

``[WOR] Old Time Radio (pirate) 6770 AM 1348 UTC 29 Nov 2020 --- Not a
bad signal this morning, SIO 333 to peaks of 444.
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,74989.0.html
Chris Smolinski, Black Cat Systems, Westminster, MD USA`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. Circa 9 MHz as I am bandscanning, Nov 29 at 2324 wideband
RF noise burst for a few seconds as my nearest streetlight is
igniting, confirmed by peeking out the window. Fortunately the noise
abates once it`s fully bright, not adding to the high line noise level
continuing. LSS today 2317 UT with clear sky at western horizon, so it
sets off +7 minutes later (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 8501-USB, Nov 29 at 2323, marine weather e.g. for 45N/78W
location, robom overmodulated distorted on S9+25 peak signal. EiBi
shows NMG USCG New Orleans at 2315-2350 on 8502. Pretty sure I read
frequency correctly, so? If they would just back off the modulation
level. Very poor image for the USCG as anyham would do better with her
SSB rig (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2062 monitoring: confirmed UT
Monday November 30 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, good to the ATS-909 portable
but some deep fades.

Also confirmed UT Mon Nov 30 at 0130 & 0230 on WRMI 7780, VG S9+15 to
UTwente.

Also confirmed UT Mon Nov 30 at 0230 on WRMI 5800, S9+15/20 to Bonaire
SDR. Also almost synchro on WRN webcast.

Also confirmed UT Mon Nov 30 from 0401:06 on Area 51 via WBCQ 6159.9,
G S9+15 to Warrenton MO SDR after finding zero signals to Rochester &
Alexandria, too close for skip. At 0355, before he gotta go, JL was
doing a parody commercial about semen as a treatment for COVID, rather
poor taste. At 0418 I found 6159.9 direct VP S7-S8.

Also confirmed UT Mon Nov 30 after 0430 on WRMI 9955, under Cuban
pulse jamming at 0444, while earlier during Prague at 0419 it was
S9+10 over PJ. Next:

1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
0200 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed?] NEW
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 to SSE
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2300 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

Our non-commercial broadcasts and website depend on voluntary support:
thanks this week to James F. Leppard, Anderson SC, for a check in US
funds on a US bank 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. 5950, Nov 29 at 2312, something barely audible tho reading
S7-S9 vs HNL, can it really be WRMI? On 5800 with SMTV it`s S9+25
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** VENEZUELA. 6906v, Nov 30 at 0345, ROCV is still gone, no trace even
on H2Ofall of a signal into Bonaire SDR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0605 UT November 30
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