MADAGASCAR
6180 0300 0400 12S,12NE,13,14N,14SE,15W MWV 100 250 -15 218 Spa MDG MWV WCB
9765 2100 2200 12,13NW                  MWV 100 265   0 218 Por MDG MWV WCB
9845 1900 2000 19,20,29,30W             MWV 100 355  30 218 Rus MDG MWV WCB
9880 1800 1900 19,20,29,30W             MWV 100 355  30 218 Rus MDG MWV WCB
11610 2100 2200 27S,28SW,37N             MWV 100 325   0 218 Chn MDG MWV WCB
11825 0400 0500 36SE,37,38W,46,47W       MWV 100 295 -30 218 Eng MDG MWV WCB
11965 2000 2100 36SE,37,38W,46,47W       MWV 100 295 -30 218 Eng MDG MWV WCB
13670 1800 1900 36SE,37,38W,46,47W       MWV 100 310 -15 218 Eng MDG MWV WCB
13670 1900 2000 38E,39,40S,40NW,48NW     MWV 100 340 -15 218 Ara MDG MWV WCB
13710 2000 2100 38E,39,40S,40NW,48NW     MWV 100 355  15 218 Ara MDG MWV WCB
13760 0300 0400 41,42S                   MWV 100 40  -15 218 Eng MDG MWV WCB
17530 0400 0500 43,44W,49NW              MWV 100 55  -15 218 Chn MDG MWV WCB
(B-20 from Oct 25; 251020-270321)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Arthur Pozner <aspozner@gmail.com>

Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2020 1:41 AM
Subject: Re: [WOR] Madagascar log?

What is the frequency?
On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 6:05 PM Liz Cameron via groups.io wrote:

MDG: MWV World Christian Radio (t) at 2155+ in Portuguese. Music. What is
MWV? This is my first SW log on the SDRUno and I'm not sure what I'm
doing but I think I got the settings right. 9/30/20.
73/Liz
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** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-CUSB, Sept 30 from 1520 past 1540, no signal
at Brasil SDR from LRA-36 despite word sent to Manuel Méndez a few
hours earlier that they would be on this Wed at 14-16. Really on but
not propagating, off early, or not at all?

Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, then replies: ``I think despite they
announced it, there was no transmission today. Best 73,s``

And later, Horacio Nigro, Uruguay to the WOR iog: ``Bad weather at
location. The info was delivered from the own station on his Facebook
account, later today`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** COLOMBIA? 4940, Sept 30 at 0605, continued from last report,
anonymous mystery missionary station now heard direct, S9 vs storm
noise, with tropical music, Spanish talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 5025, Sept 30 at 0606, R. Rebelde at S9+10/20 and very
suptorted as often the case now. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. 15410, Sept 30 at 1720, Eye Radio via Issoudun,
FRANCE, good S9 signal into UTwente SDR despite proximity; discussion
with someone on phone in presumed Juba Arabic about COVID-19, but at
1730 I realize it`s heavily-accented English; better English by the
studio host. Mention there being a toll-free phone number about this,
22-22 ---? is that all? 1738 back into language, 1740 bit of English,
continues in and out of English, apparently common parlance in the
country. 1756 with standard advice about the pandemic until chopped
off air abruptly at 1759*, just as now scheduled. Dr Hansjoerg Biener
had just reminded us that this extra COVID hour M-F after 16-17 UT
daily, as Ivo Ivanov had earlier reported, is now underway. Overall
are several other languages, maybe some of them now?
``Dinka/Nuer/Shilluk/Bari/Zande/Lutoho``.

HjB replied at 1729: ``Most of the programme up till now was in
English (recognizable/understandable to me). Maybe I should add that
whenever I check on Eye Radio I seem to come across English segments.
Maybe, at least for their short wave hours, the working language is
English. This morning, I came across the final quarter hour of their
regular programme. It was in English, and I think in some part, the
moderator just translated a part of this English segment into another
language. This afternoon, I started listening at 1620 and the
programme was in. English changing later to an African language.``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, Sept 30 at 2205-2222+, VOT English to us at first is
good via UTwente, but then fading down; with the usual mini-features,
not including any `Letterbox` on yet another Wednesday (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** U S A. 475.4-MCW kHz, Sept 30 at 0614 UT, WA4SZE, ham beacon by
Dave Frantz at WWRB, Manchester TN, weak but at some peaks appears to
be with carrier A2 and not straight CW A1; measured with difficulty
due to other carriers in the area amid the 7-kHz-wide ``630m band``,
maybe other hams, including one momentary very strong spoiler (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2053 monitoring: confirmed Wed Sept 30 from
2100:17.5 on WBCQ 7490, poor S8-S9 vs high noise level. Next:
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
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Thanks this week for financial support from Gerald T Pollard,
Raleigh NC, for a generous quarterly seasonal check on a US
bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

Contributions may alternatively be sent via PayPal to
woradio at yahoo.com - not necessarily US funds as PP will convert.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier survey, Sept 30 at 0609:
621, 684, 774, 846(TP), 936, 1017(2), 1125, 1503, 1710(2-domestic)
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

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** COLOMBIA? 4940, Sept 30 at 0312, anonymous mystery missionary
station is on again, S8-S9+ via Bonaire SDR, signature carrier offset
-5v Hz, with `Lecciones de la Historia`, one of their regular shows
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA, 5081, Sept 29 at 2344, spurblob with F# tone, out of RHC
English 5040, and WTWW-2 is not on 5085 yet. Original simulcast on
7380 for Africa is still absent as has been for many weeks.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MEXICO. 6185-, Sept 29 at 2337, no signal from XEPPM, which is
normally running by 2300 and earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7570, Sept 29 at 2336, WRMI with non-TOMBS gospel huxter. I
was wondering what the new program `Challenge`` is about this hour,
and now we know (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. During Drumpf`s disastrous ``debate`` debacle with VP Biden,
Sept 30 at 0142 UT, I make a quick scan of major MW signals and find
quite a few of them carrying it, never synchronized with a TV channel
I am comparing it to, but with some notable exceptions besides music,
or sports-format outlets which could not be expected to cover this
game. IDs are assumed from usual dominators:

580 WIBW, 680 KFEQ, 690 KGGF, 700 WLW, 740 KRMG, 750 WSB, 760 WJR, 770
KKOB/WABC?, 780 WBBM, 820 WBAP, 840 WHAS, 850 KOA, 870 WWL, 890 WLS,
1000 KTOK, 1040 WHO, 1080 KRLD, 1110 KFAB, 1120 KMOX, 1160 KSL, 1170
KFAQ, 1200 WOAI, 1480 KQAM.

NOT carrying it: 650 WSM music, 670 WSCR sports, 810 WHB, 860 KKOW
music, 960 KGWA talk, 980 KMBZ talk, 1100 WTAM! even tho originating
in Cleveland, 1500 KSTP sports, 1520 KOKC talk, 1530 WCKY, 1640 KZLS
talk.

Oddities: 900 heard both in English and Spanish, apparently running
translation -- XEW?? Not enough signal to tell, auroral? 720 WGN, 830
WCCO, 1510 WLAC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0417 UT September 30
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** BRAZIL. 11780, Sept 28 at 2048, RNA at S4-S5 with music, distorted
as usual. DRM promoters were in contact with someone who was going to
notify the Rodeador engineer about this, which should not have been
necessary and bodes ill for their handling of DRM (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, Sept 29 at 1355: not even JBA WOOB
carriers found in the 13s, 12s, 11s or 10s. Propagation continues
degraded: K-index 3 at 1200 and 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** COLOMBIA? 4940, Sept 29 at 0110, anonymous mystery missionary
station is on again for second night, S9 into TWR Bonaire SDR showing
characteristic carrier offset varying slightly around -4.9 Hz, YL
gospel huxtress in Spanish. 0200 now OM g.h. with never ID break,
S9/+10, -4.9 Hz. For kix, I run a TDOA at 0206, using Bonaire and DR
SDRs which come up with 15N/92W = San Pablo, SW Guatemala, west of
Q-tenango! Later another run lands in Chile! 0326 now a hymn. 0328,
auto-timecheck as 11:28, which is UT-4, now correct, for Venezuela,
Bolivia, Chile, DR, western Brasil, back to predication citing Lucas.
0439 still going with tropicalmusic; background music to talk before
and after 0500 are Xmas carols, Venid, Fieles Todos, y Noche de Paz:
`tisn`t the season. Back at 0250 checked 4940 direct and had a JBA
signal, accompanied by weaker Spanish 2-way about 4941.75-USB, cambio
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 4765, Sept 29 at 0032, again no signal from R. Progreso ---
but cuts on at *0032.7, S9+10/20 but just barely modulated. 0109
recheck now weaker S9 but more mod; can`t have everything. Something`s
always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 410-MCW kHz, Sept 29 at 0646 UT, ND beacon BA, which is 25
watts from Columbus - Clifford, Indiana. I was tuned to 408-USB (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 475-CW kHz, Sept 29 at 0650 UT, Dave Frantz`s BEACON at WWRB
Manchester TN, very slow Morse loop starts out WWW rather than VVV,
WA4SZE, also with COM. Fades down before can copy it all. This is the
recent ``630-meter`` ham band, only 472-479 kHz and secondary to
maritime, as explained at

http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-proposes-to-permit-amateur-access-to-2200-and-630-meters
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2053 monitoring: local power
failure, again at same transformer, Mon Sept 28 at 1718 UT prevented
remote monitoring of 1801 UT on IRRS 7290 via Bulgaria; did anyone
hear it?

Confirmed UT Tue Sept 29 at 0106 the 0100 on WRMI 7780, poor S9/+10
direct and undermodulated; 0122 check, NO signal unusually into
UTwente, in degraded propagation, but VG S9+10 at Maine SDR.

Missed checking 0330 UT Tue Sept 29 on WRMI 5800; anyone hear it?
Next:
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
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Thanks this week for financial support from Gerald T Pollard,
Raleigh NC, for a generous quarterly seasonal check on a US
bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

Contributions may alternatively be sent via PayPal to
woradio at yahoo.com - not necessarily US funds as PP will convert.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7780, UT Tue Sept 29 at 0130, WRMI following WORLD OF RADIO
I keep listening via Maine SDR, and instead of scheduled one of dozens
of weekly repeats of `Wavescan` there is a strange show billed as
``the first shortwave broadcast of WVDC International, a pilot, hope
you enjoy the music`` by announcer without a downunder accent; 0138
breaks for some SSTV. I remember the same anomaly from about 6 months
ago during this semihour altho did not get a WVDC ID then. Nothing
about it on WRMI website or FB. Now I go searching and find:
https://chirpie2014.wixsite.com/wvdc
which is orthographically challenged, and quote parts of it [sic]:

``WVDC --- G'day How Ya goin we are brodcastin from the USA hope you
have fun cheers - Timmy H --- Best classic hits from USA Australia New
Zealand and more on 100.7 FM and news on our live stream --- You may
wonder How your supposed to here us ? you can here our classic hit
station on 91.3 FM but not far its part 15 station --- can i here you
out of our coverage area ? how to lession to us --- yes you can here
our international station by stream and phone but we only do news on
there and animal radio its 24/7 AT https://zeno.fm/WVDCradio OR BY
phone broadcast at 1-667-930-9246``

However, no stream will play and number in the URL implies it
originated in 2014y. But autolinx to current propagation info and
weather in Auckland NZ. A really strange website. HP link to Spanish
goes nowhere.

​Area code 667 is around Baltimore, Maryland. WVDC is not an FCC
callsign for any licensed AM or FM station. What could WVDC mean? An
ARRL abbr. list shows: ``​working voltage, direct current``

WVDC first aired on WRMI last March; and as a pilot may be an orphan
file which keeps on playing back, every week? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7490v, UT Tue Sept 29 after 0000 on WBCQ I`m listening to
`From the Isle of Music` with sufficient reception until it really
drops out about 0032 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Sept 29 at 0629:
621, 711, 774, 837, 846(TP), 882 kHz. Propagation remains degraded:
K-index still 3 at 0600 after G1 storms with G2s predicted (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1720 UT September 29
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** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, Sept 28 at 1350: NONE found WOOB in the
14s, 13s, 12s, 11s or 10s. Propagation is degraded. WWV reported:

``Geophysical Alert Message
Solar-terrestrial indices for 27 September follow.
Solar flux 74 and estimated planetary A-index 24.
The estimated planetary K-index at 1500 UTC on 28 September was 4.
Space weather for the past 24 hours has been moderate.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G2 level occurred.``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** COLOMBIA [and non]. Colombia? 4940 is back on --- The anonymous
mystery missionary station is back on after missing since Sept 19 -
4940, synch carrier minus 5 or 6 Hz to Bonaire SDR, 0233 UT Sept 28,
poor-fair S6-S7 with storm crashes. Typical programming of M&W chat,
dramatization. About an hour earlier when I checked, it was not on but
detected the -29 Hz carrier of R. San Antonio, Perú (Glenn Hauser,
0238 UT September 28, WOR iogroup) sparking others, below

Continued to be heard, but at 0329 dead air, still carrier at -3.5 Hz;
0336 suddenly resumes modulation, biblical dramatization, bit of
music; but 0337 starts long-winded Spanish preacher, exactly the same
recording I heard weeks ago UT Sept 9, soon after it first appeared:
saying it`s 8th of April, he is restricted to house due to
coronavirus, citing Isaiah chapters; still going past 0412, 0429.

Meanwhile I tried TDOA again, but could get only two SDRs to
participate, Key West and Dominican Republic --- they came up with
somewhere in the Caribbean north of Venezuela. Wouldn`t it be
something if this 4940 thing really were on a boat?

Other reports following via HCDX:

``Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain --- COLOMBIA, 4940, new religious
station, 0605-0645, 28-09, after days off, today on air again. First
noticed by Glenn Hauser, heard here in Reinante, North West of Spain
with Colombian songs and religious comments in Spanish. Very weak.
15321.``

``Manuel, thanks for your alert. Today the station was playing still
at 1050. Time announcements remain strange. At 0756 they announced
4:04 local. At 0957 they played the national anthem of Colombia. After
one week off air they perhaps changed their schedule. One thing which
is still missing is an ID. Karel Honzik, Czechia``

``Good signal via TWR Bonaire SDR between 0430 and 1100 UT September
28 but from 1200 no signal on 4940 -- Ivo Ivanov``

Ivo, you heard no signal at 1200 probably because the daylight has
already come to the transmitter area and the propagation disappeared.
I heard the signal at 1050 but then I left the KiwiSDR receiver on
Bonaire. The access is 180 minutes/day and my limit was over at that
time. Karel`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 4765, Sept 28 at 0108, R. Progreso is AWOL again after having
stayed back on for a few nights. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 5081 & 5122 approx., Sept 28 at 0111, distorted spurblobs out
of 5040, now about 41 kHz intervals despite 5085 WTWW-2. Something`s
always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15230, Sept 28 at 1345, zero signal from RHC here, while
15140 is S9, the SSOB by far and almost the OSOB. 15230 is supposedly
scheduled 1200-1500 for western N America per EiBi, but when on is
always much weaker than 15140 supposedly for S America. Something`s
always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 379-MCW kHz, Sept 27 at 0614 UT, ND beacon BRA, which is 400
watts from Asheville - Broad River NC. I was tuned to 377-USB. 379
normally occupied by much closer RUE, Russellville AR (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** U S A. 475-CW kHz, Sept 27 at 0629 UT, JBA very slow Morse as
WA4SZE, maybe more in the loop but I stop once I have the call. It`s
the BEACON by Dave Frantz, Manchester TN at the WWRB SW 5050 site. I
tune across here almost every night, but last time heard this was May
31 and before that last December 10 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2053 monitoring: confirmed UT
Monday September 28 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, VG direct.

Also confirmed UT Mon Sept 28 at 0145 the 0130 on WRMI 7780: VP S7 and
noisy at UTwente, S9/+5 sufficient at Maine SDR; VP S9 and
undermodulated direct; also VG on WRN webcast.

Also confirmed UT Mon Sept 28 at 0230 on WRMI 7780, good S9/+10 at
Maine SDR; and on 5800 also S7-S9; and S8/S9+10 with some storm noise
at Brasília SDR.

Also confirmed UT Mon Sept 28 from 0302:13 on Area 61 via WBCQ 6159.9,
poor S5-S7 at Edinburgh IN SDR, -25 Hz carrier, after jazz running
past 0300 and no ID between, but fadeout by 0307! Earlier at 0258, no
signals into Rochester, Alexandria SDRs. Direct at 0323 still S5-S7
poor and measured 6159.898.

Also confirmed UT Mon Sept 28 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, S7-S8 mostly atop
Cuban pulse jamming at Bonaire SDR, same at 0359 finish. Checked
direct at 0325, 9955 had been JBA.

Propagation has been degraded, as WWV reported:
``Solar-terrestrial indices for 27 September follow.
Solar flux 74 and estimated planetary A-index 24.
The estimated planetary K-index at 0300 UTC on 28 September was 5.
Space weather for the past 24 hours has been moderate.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G2 level occurred.`` Next:

1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 to SSE
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 Gerald T Pollard,
Raleigh NC, for a generous quarterly seasonal check on a US
bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

Contributions may alternatively be sent via PayPal to
woradio at yahoo.com - not necessarily US funds as PP will convert.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Sept 27 at
0557-0604: 549, 558, 576, 603(2), 612*, 621, 639(2), 657, 684*(2),
693, 747, 774(2), 792, 801, 837, 846(TP), 855(2), 927, 936(2), 999,
1044, 1098, 1125(2), 1134, 1143, 1152, 1179, 1305(2), 1710(domestic).
(2)= at least two beating; * = strongest: guessing about those: 612,
Morocco 300 kW; 684, Spain 600 kW, and slightly off-frequency-minus
compared to e.g. 693 carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Sept 28 at 0546:
only a few much weaker than usual: 684, 711, 747(2), 774, 837,
846(TP), 891, 1125(2). Degraded propagation; WWV reported:

``Geophysical Alert Message
Solar-terrestrial indices for 27 September follow.
Solar flux 74 and estimated planetary A-index 24.
The estimated planetary K-index at 0600 UTC on 28 September was 5.
Space weather for the past 24 hours has been moderate.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G2 level occurred.``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 7525-7545, Sept 28 at 0104, DRMish noise centered at
7535, but nonesuch scheduled around here; and certainly not the VMW WA
meteo fax as listed in EiBi (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1625 UT September 28
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