my final log for AIR

11560 AIR NEW 1410 typical old Bollywood songs*-55dbm 1412 ‘Her is Delhi’ dara india radi,o  Afghanistan .Lang seems** Farsi also mentioning coronaAudio problems  with broken or over modulated that sounds as ‘beats’  Not on eibi
* I m very sure for that
** seems, not  is That can mean also  Dari or Pushtu ----

Logs for

 5/5/20 with 50m bandscan
 the date of the greek lockout with only 12 new cases and no deaths

6320 pirate  1755 with -90dbm and rather poor modulation with rave style music
9270 V of Iran 1757 talks by YL wit another man , then mentioning to Ramadan while ourdoors -63dbm
6195 BBC  1759 with self advert on the coronavirus mentioning bbc com , 1800 ID YL with main news -55dbm
6175  signal just -75-85dbm very poor reception CRI in French noted on eibi
6160 Shortwave radio 6160 1805 with rock song ‘Our radio ‘ radio shortwave a song ‘looking for ‘ style of punk rock good songs
6110 your typical Fana from Ethiopia on 1816 with talks and a rather traditional  tune with flute -69dbm max
6020 in the bands with some operator 1820 talking in Russian ‘I ss priyom ‘ repeatedly
6030 R Ormiya 1822  with man talking iin Oromo  with a YL poss news ?
6005 station from D – Kal Krekel 1824 woman singing with orchestra and  a guitar . better reception with USB 1830.13 with the ID of Albania  -85dbm the next program form the V of Mongolia at 1831
6003 clear jammer from Notth  KOrea of -90dbm with 15 db depth !1
6020 CRI in Bulgarian 1837 with -55db many  mentions of Kitai and someone called Sam
5995 RTV Mali 1840 with a nearly monotonous rhythm for more than 4 minutes , YL with shotrt talks in French (nonidentified )then several people singing without music Quite funny to listen -78dbm max to  min -100
5920 pos Vo Andes 1849 talks in German hearing Macedones 190048 with ID Mixed with another under .5945 started on 1900 with-45dbm signal and 5910 Romania  was in the freq with -57 in Russian
4625 an angry buzzer today !!1
6205 laser hot hits 1910 with pop songs Just -85db
6195  BBC WS with only -80dbm signal (just S7 )
6991.5 operators in Spanish , temperatures -92  and -65dbm
7210 VoK 1919 with operas . very string QRM fron 7215 CRI Cantonese
9420 of the few cases to listen VoG with quite better signal without not relying ERA2 or 1. Time of reception 1918 with traditional  Greek songs.  
Lockout is now over also for the ERA personell even the ERT1 service still continues to air the same program as in the pervious week with the continuous news program

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Icom  R75 /PL380 /  De1103  radios
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** CUBA [and non]. 7380, May 6 at 2300, RHC English still here, not
11880.

11800, May 6 at 2312 RHC Spanish still colliding with and atop RRI
Spanish from Romania; its // 11990 in clear while 11700 remains
vacant.

13740, May 6 at 2315, this RHC is off, so no spurs either; 13650 CRI
distorted music relay instead of Portuguese is on.

15730, May 6 at 2316, RHC Kriyol is VP S9 and suppressed/distorted
modulation; 15230 also on with Spanish, amounting to the SSOB and OSOB
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NICARAGUA [non?]. 8989-USB, May 6 2309, JBA talk, seems like speech
rather than 2-way, can`t even be sure it`s Spanish, but it looks like
the fisher-preacher may have resumed (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2032 monitoring: confirmed Wed May 6 at 2122
check, the 2100:20v on WBCQ 7490+, VP S4-S5 as always in the summer
thru the dayside.

Also confirmed UT Thu May 7 0100 on WRMI 7780, good via remote in
Maine.

WOR 2033 should be ready early UT Friday May 8, first US SWBC Friday
at 2200 on WRMI 9955.

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

Thanks this week for financial support from Anne Fanelli, Elma NY, who
sent a US$ cheque to
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US
funds, to woradio at yahoo.com
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0201 UT May 7
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** ALASKA. 9580, May 6 at 1452, KNLS is again on correct frequency
instead of 9695, S5-S7 ID as ``Your New Life Station``, P O Box
address in Anchor Point (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ALGERIA [non]. 13820, May 6 at 1753, via UTwente I am standing by
for RTA/TDA relay via FRANCE to start, meanwhile nothing but band
noise on frequency. Issoudun does cut on a few seconds before *1800
and at exactly the same time the beepery, so it does surely seem to be
defect of own transmitter, not jamming from somewhere else. The
relative level of beepery continues same thruout hour as I keep
listening. Altho the Qur`an Service, it`s far from total recitations;
first news in French, then a lot of talk in Arabic, various music
mixed with recitations.

That`s the only frequency for the first hour, but at 1900 I find the
beepery has switched to 11985; while the second frequency 12060 is
free of it. Both go off at 1957. *2000 next pair come on, 9655 beeped,
9510 clear, immediately into nothing but Qur`an.

If this self-QRM has been going on for years, it`s strange that so few
random logs by others mention it. Maybe worse now? Or people just have
ignored it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA [and non]. 711.00, May 6 at 0205, off-frequency het upon legit
710 stations such as KCMO; even stronger at 0222. Also a beat of about
3 Hz between two off-frequency 1 kHz het signals when tuned to
710-USB; At 0225, I isolate 711 as much as possible and attempt to
hear any modulation to match Radio Rebelde on 5025; JBA but not 100%
positive.

711 still there at 0601, vs Mexican NA in the 710 mix. At this time
there are no TA 9-kHz signals on the lower half of band; one JBA
carrier on 846, presumed from night-path Kiritimati.

Steven Wiseblood, Harlingen TX in the RGV, replied April 21-22:
``2-3 weeks ago Rebelde was measured at 710.5 kHz. As of April 15th
they have returned to nominal 710.00 kHz. When they were off frequency
they were producing a MASSIVE HET agaisnt semi-local 710 KURV
Edinburg.

I seem to remember a few years ago Rebelde was on 711 for a few days,
and were easily strong enough to be separable from 710. This time I
measured the audio beat to 710 kHz. At least on one early morning I
measured the audio beat from Rebelde at 510 Hz.``

However, I, gh, never caught anything around 710.51. Remember, there
are SEVEN Rebelde transmitters on 710 per WRTH 2020 page 172, ranging
from 200 to 1 kW, plus a Radio Guamá 10 kW in Pinar del Río. We really
can`t tell which two are on 711, and it`s definitely not right to say
``Radio Rebelde on 711 instead of 710`` as if there were only one of
them. DXers in FL might be able to sort this out; except for QRM from
``wacky`` WAQI 50 kW Miami, which is why all these CMBAs converged on
710 in the first place. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. Ask
Arnie? Ha3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15140, Tue May 5 at 1934-1941, RHC English with `DXers
Unlimited` over this variable span. Hard to follow; I think he was
mainly talking about ham QRP operation; distorted, but less so this
time than French on 15370. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13700, May 6 at 1350, no spurblobs from RHC today but 13700
itself is splattery. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11880, May 6 at 1448 check, CRI Plus English relay is gone
again after resuming yesterday after two days gone. Something`s always
wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MEXICO [and non]. 6185, May 6 at 0617, XEPPM fair modulation,
enough to tell that it`s the finale of Beethoven`s Ninth, but played
on keyboard, with a bit of choral; 0620 segué to Pomp & Circumstance.
They used to have a detailed playlist but now can`t even find a
program grid schedule at
https://radioeducacion.edu.mx/

QRM from irregular tones of same pitch; not clear whether own
transmitter defect or QRM. RHC on 6145 is intoning about plus/minus 4
kHz at music peaks, and so are 6100 & 6060, so a defect in their
program feed, maybe multiplied (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** PHILIPPINES. After several weeks off, VOP is reported resumed by
Jose Jacob to the WOR iogroup May 5: ``Message is received from Radyo
Pilipinas that they are back on air from 1 May 2020. - Thanking you,
Yours sincerely, Jose Jacob, VU2JOS``

Alan Holder, Isle of Wight: ``Great to hear this good news. I tuned in
yesterday (May 5) at 1730 and heard them as follows:
9960 – poor signal strength, noisy, but in the clear;
12120 – fair signal – clear – but with atmospheric noise;
15190 – no propagation to the U.K. currently.
The broadcast opened with many public information ads on Covid-19.
A shame they do not have a mixture of Filipino and English on both the
0200 and 1730 releases. Alan Holder, Isle of Wight, U.K.``

However, no signals detected on any of the three frequencies scheduled
at 0200-0330, when I tried at 0305-0310 UT May 6 remotes in Vietnam,
India, Philippines, China, New Zealand. All are generally beamed
westward. 12010, 15640, 17820
http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A20&broadc=PBS

But Ron Howard replies, ``Hi Glenn, Listening May 6, at 0238 UT, on
15640; was clearly in English, but not very readable; on 12010 and
17820, only had a carrier, with no audio. At least they are back on
the air again! Ron California``.

Keep in mind VOP is Duterte`s government station. Meanwhile he has
closed the largest commercial radio/TV network, ABS-CBN:

Among several press reports about it, via Matt Francis to WOR iog:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52548703

Via Vince Ferme, Ottawa, IRCA iog:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/philippines-largest-tv-network-abs-cbn-ordered-shut-200505084440098.html

Via Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA), ibid.:
https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/05/05/20/abs-cbn-shutdown-comes-at-worst-possible-time-amid-pandemic-says-rights-watchdog
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, May 5 at 2200, another day off for VOT English to N
America; possibly came on late, unrechecked (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 366-MCW kHz, May 6 at 0609 UT, ND beacon EGK(?) I`m certain
of the last letter but not the middle one. Best fit at
dxinfocentre.com is EOK, 25 watts in Keokuk, Iowa. Only thing unusual
vs spring noise level (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [non?]. 9885, May 6 at 0616, VP signal in French? VOA
Grimesland has been scheduled here M-F at 0600-0630, but wondering if
they would keep it with no OCB or anything else to diffuse overnight.
HFCC as of May 5 shows it still GB for the rest of A20. The previous
semihour is via Woofferton and could probably be extended from that or
some other site. This time of night, prop even from NC on this band
could be this poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2032 monitoring: next and last:
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

WOR 2033 should be ready early UT Friday May 8, first US SWBC Friday
at 2200 on WRMI 9955.

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

Thanks this week for financial support from Anne Fanelli, Elma NY, who
sent a US$ cheque to
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US
funds, to woradio at yahoo.com
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7490.12v, May 5 at 2053, checking WBCQ direct just before
the heavily publicized `Big Broadcast of 2020`. Yep, VP S4-S5 in
daytime noise level, so useless. Instead I listen to the entire hour
via webcast 2100-2200, and enjoy presentations of several different
music shows; some of it even sounds $ tereophonic. 7490 reception is
just as bad toward the end recheck at 2157. Now if they can put it on
after dark, everyone will have a better chance to hear it on SW.
Meanwhile the 500 kW remains dedicated to flatearthism on 9330 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 2024 UT May 6
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Much more RadioCuba transmissions monitored on May 5th:
CUBA  Noted speech to the people in crowd hall in Spanish in 22-24 UT,
accompanied by short pieces of music.
Same common speech program in 60 mb on both 5025 and 5040 kHz in 22-23 UT,
excellent audio feed from the speech hall into the transmission center
at Bauta to state.
It's always a matter of given feed lines on the tropical island ...
S=9+25dB strength on both 60mb at 22.20 UT, noted in Cape Canaveral Perseus
SDR rx unit remotedly.
5999.996 kHz, empty powerhouse carrier of S=9+40dB noted at 22.25 UT,
only poor 5 % modulated  5025 and 5040 kHz program.
7380even RHC Portuguese transmission from Bauta RadioCuba txioncenter site.
Not on 11880 kHz tonight, African sce heard in eastern Recife Brazil tip
towards Africa, also on two Kiwis in Antilles bassin.
22.45 UT on May 5th. S=9+20dB -70dBm.
Then RHC ID in English and newscast heard at exact 23.00 UT.
9535.002 RHC Sp speech to crowd at 22.40 UT from Bejucal site, S=9+15dB
strength.
9640.002 RHC Sp speech to crowd at 22.42 UT from Bejucal site, S=9+10dB
strength.
11760 RHC fundamental RHC 'workhorse' from RadioCuba Bauta transmission
center, via fountain like signal characteristic to all-Caribbean target,
S=9+25dB at 22.46 UT.
11800 kHz the Quivican San Felipe TITAN 250 kW signal,
screened to the north, poor S=7 in Alberta northwestern CAN,
but S=9 or -73dBm in Sao Paulo Brazil target. 22.47 UT.
Nothing - non.  European sce on 15370 kHz off after 22 UT.
Nothing on 11950 kHz 'Mesa Retonda' usual weekday Spanish special at 23 UT.
15230 kHz RHC Portuguese S=9+15dB in Brazil at 22.49 UT.
15730 kHz distorted audio, faulty transmitter ? same TX unit which appears
on 15140 kHz on other time of the day ?
RHC French sce at 22.52 UT, only S=8-9 limited level.

And CRI foreign radio sce from Beijing China D.P.R. via RadioCuba shortwave
relay center Quivican San Felipe TITAN site:
5990even CRI English, S=9+25 or -53dBm strength on remote KiwiNet rx at TWR
Bonaire Antilles installation. At 23.05 UT on May 5th.
13650 CRI Portugese relay transmission via RadioCuba Quivican txion center
- China-music ONLY service, S=9+20dB or -56dBm given on Kiwi-Sets in Brazil
azimuth target installations.
 via 15600 kHz at Beijing China outlet.
73 wb  df5sx
ps. re RHC 7350 kHz at 13 UT via Bejucal site,
was never strong on former 9640 kHz towards western Caribbean target.

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Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 7:24 PM
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 4-5, 2020

** CUBA. 7350, May 5 at 1347, RHC still here but poor, ex-7340 where
there is algo, presumably NK clandestine from Tajikistan; but QSY may
be more to avoid own jamming and Radio Martí, very strong on 7335.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 11760, May 5 at 1354, RHC is S9+10 but suptorted, unusual for
this legacy frequency; wiggle that patchcord!
13740, May 5 at 1358, S9 and suptorted even worse. Somethings always
wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 13490, 13559, 13630; 13771, 13841, 13910, 13981 approx., May
5 at 1355, spurblob panoply at 70-71 kHz intervals out of RHC
13700-AM. Best audible in FM mode, always with F# tone above Cmiddle.
13559 and 13770 are VG S9, the outermost ones JBA. But at 1400 all go
silent as modulation stops; after breakfast of pineapple, next check
at 1432 they are all back. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 11880, May 5 at 1518, CRI English relay is back on, after at
least two days` missing. Something`s not wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
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** CUBA. 7350, May 5 at 1347, RHC still here but poor, ex-7340 where
there is algo, presumably NK clandestine from Tajikistan; but QSY may
be more to avoid own jamming and Radio Martí, very strong on 7335.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11760, May 5 at 1354, RHC is S9+10 but suptorted, unusual for
this legacy frequency; wiggle that patchcord!

13740, May 5 at 1358, S9 and suptorted even worse. Somethings always
wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13490, 13559, 13630; 13771, 13841, 13910, 13981 approx., May
5 at 1355, spurblob panoply at 70-71 kHz intervals out of RHC
13700-AM. Best audible in FM mode, always with F# tone above Cmiddle.
13559 and 13770 are VG S9, the outermost ones JBA. But at 1400 all go
silent as modulation stops; after breakfast of pineapple, next check
at 1432 they are all back. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11880, May 5 at 1518, CRI English relay is back on, after at
least two days` missing. Something`s not wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7457-USB, May 5 at 1345, MARS net 4TX2, presumably referring
to Texas, NCS AFA4VO calling for contacts and one comes from AFA4WP
with relays, both fonetik.

Much more detailed logs of this frequency including AFA4VO:
https://www.w4uvh.net/dxld8031.txt
from 12+ years ago, and briefly 3- years ago:
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1735.txt
Google searching on AFA4VO it`s amazing how many non-MARS false hits,
like license plates, stuff in Chinese, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2032 monitoring: confirmed Monday
May 4 from 1800:40 on IRRS 7290-Romania? via UTwente.

Strong carrier came on at *1756 diminishing but not eliminating splash
from 7280 & 7300; 1759 cut on modulation talking about crisis, RNA;
soon cut that off for canned IRRS sign-on again advising, wrongly,
that this is on compatible reduced-carrier USB, best tuned in that
mode! NOT, never by this site, just full carrier AM/DSB, but probably
was long ago when really out of Milano. 1800 three FSN headlines, then
into WOR. Despite no ACI from 7295 & 7285, even with narrow bandwidth,
7290 still suffers some kind of QRM, apparently splash from SSS -
stilted Spanish from 7280 Vietnam. And 7300 German is also strong from
Iran until 1820. 1830 longer FSN stories from Washngton, into Dan
Roberts` `Shortwave Report`; again his final brief item is from
Sputnik about dying Capitalism, but not brief enough, not to be
chopped off in time for 1859 IRRS sign-off.

WOR 2032 also confirmed UT Tue May 5 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, S9+10 but
noisy here from heavy storms in SE OK. 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

Thanks this week for financial support from Anne Fanelli, Elma NY, who
sent a US$ cheque to
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US
funds, to woradio at yahoo.com

Just noticed May 5 on the WRMI skedgrid an additional time for WOR on
WRMI, finally back on the air Saturday night: UT Sunday 0300 on 5800
(and follows revived Radio Tirana at 0230 UT Sun & Mon); to be
confirmed. 5800 is WRMI-10 at 160 degrees, same as WRMI-3 on 9955, but
5800 is always good here, never MUFed out nor jammed like 9955 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. What`s on WRMI, UT Tue May 5 at 0112+:
5010 // 5850, Alameda Bible Fellowship Robotnik
5800, RTI in Spanish
9395, RAE in English, S9+10/20
9455, Hal Turner insanity, S9+10/30

This is another anomaly example: 9395 & 9455 are supposed to be on
exactly the same antenna azimuth 355 degrees, and 100 kW power, only
60 kHz apart so propagation identical. Yet, 9455 is noticeably
stronger.

As for Turner, Dr Hansjoerg Biener comments on my previous log:

``I was there too, but earlier. You should have heard what Hal Turner
had to say in defence of President Trump's disinfectant injection
ideas or rather his insulting politicians and anyone else who was not
really understanding what the President said. When I first saw the
press conference excerpt I was shocked that nobody of the medical
experts stood up against it immediately. In Germany, remarks like
these add to the view of a dysfunctional presidency and to fears that
this will carry on for another term. I was rebuked on this group for
getting off topic, but in my humble opinion the short wave listening
hobby is not only about logging and verifying rare stations, measuring
off frequencies or noting irregularities, but mainly and mostly about
learning about cultural differences and reflecting about what you hear
(Dr Hansjoerg Biener 1 May 2020)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

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