[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 7-8, 2022 [more]
** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RC USB, Oct 8 start listening via Argentine remote circa 1440 but nothing until cuts on during song at *1449; 1456 canned standard sign-on, multilingual including English that this is in Spanish, 1457 staff names, 1458 themesong, 1502 recitation, but gone by 1505 already. It was very weak from the start and during my breakfast did not have a chance to fish for better signal via other SDRs, so at first thought it might have been fade-out or hit by SID; but nothing further following hour. Another bust. WWV reported: ``Geophysical Alert Message Solar-terrestrial indices for 07 October follow. Solar flux 160 and estimated planetary A-index 15. The estimated planetary K-index at 1500 UTC on 08 October was 3. No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours. Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be minor. Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level are likely.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** AUSTRALIA [non]. Monthly `Calling All Radio Nutzzz` on Unique Radio webcast, from 1800 Sat Oct 8: 1811, Jen in Denver starts a segment on language recognition. It`s the late Dr Richard E Wood, but he is never credited! About distinguishing among the Romance languages, as he perfectly pronounces words likely to be heard in IDs. 1818 change to another voice introducing longer examples of French, Italian, Rumanian, Portuguese, until 1822, on to GB with recordings of radio from Ivory Coast. From 1835 or so they are paging thru NASWA FRENDX of exactly 50 years ago, reminiscing about all the SW stations which no longer exist. CARN is monthly, until 2100 via http://uk4-vn.mixstream.net:8104/index.html?sid=1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 9665v, Oct 8 at 0630, unusually NO signal from RVM; bot some weak music on 9670, probably Channel 292, Germany (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA [and non]. 5800, Oct 8 at 0336, WRMI reactivated with Spanish, presumed R. República as scheduled, with heavy jamming at about equal level here. Now all other hours on 5800 are subject to jamming. At least that`s not a WOR frequency; jamming on 9955 is bad enough (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** FINLAND [and non]. Sat Oct 8 is a date for almost-monthly Scandinavian Weekend Radio; no chance of hearing its 100 watts direct, but I have another go at it via UTwente, at 1608, without checking first which of its two alternate frequencies on each band now be scheduled: 5980 weak in English about Mongolia, must be New Zealand. 6170 weak music, heavy ACI de 6165 Chinese music. 11690 VG French from CGTN Kashgar. 11720 weak music, Vietnam sked, with heavy ACI from 11725 Chinese music, i.e. CGTN German service from Site-x. At 1614, UTwente measures 6169.992 at S7. Sked at http://www.swradio.net/schedule.htm shows the pair at 15-17 are 6170, 11720, so maybe I`ve really heard SWR on one or both. Earlier in the British DX Club: ``Fair signal of SWR, Finland at 0635 UT tune in on 11690, actually 11689.91 kHz with their monthly broadcast. Some deep fades SIO 343. Russ Cummings, SDRplay RSPdx,18m long wire, North Ferriby, East Yorkshire, UK`` Paul Watson at 1648: ``Scandinavian Weekend Radio being heard on 5800 via unknown relay, probably a Dutch pirate. Strong signal``. 24-hour transmission to end at 21 UT. From first? Saturday in November, should be 22 UT Fri to 22 UT Sat (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KIRITIMATI. 846 kHz, Oct 8 at 0703, JBA carrier from R. Kiribati; no other 9/kHz splits in quick scan of longer MW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NIGERIA. 7255-, Oct 8 at *0637, VON S9/+10 but JBM. I had just checked Vanuatu 7260 at 0636, when VON was NOT on adjacently (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 515 MCW kHz, Oct 7 at 2034 UT, PN, ND beacon at PoNca City is OFF again; still off circa 0700 Oct 8. Had only come back Oct 4 after previous absence from at least Aug 23. And so it goes, and comes. Another check Oct 8 at 1753: 515 PN still off; still ON: 350 RG, 341 EI, 255 SW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 2097.3 CW, Oct 8 at 0716 UT, single-letter beacon A, JBA every few seconds. First time heard this `season`, as occasional chex during summer confronted too hi noise level, so I wondered if it were still on air. From anywhere in SW desert, except Quartzsite AZ (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 4095 CW, Oct 8 at 0717, immediately upon tune-in, DW and sweeps upward, the Desert Whooper beacon, JBA. Last heard Aug 21 when could not hear A on 2097.3, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2159 monitoring: confirmed UT Saturday October 8 at 0400 on WRMI Radio Angela, 5130 minus 24 Hz = 5129.976 into Maryland SDR, S9/+10. Also confirmed Saturday October 8 at 1600, the first WRN airing, webcast of N American service. Next: 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0030 UT Sunday WRMI *7780 to SW 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0430] 2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy 0030 UT Monday WRMI 5950 [NEW] 0030 UT Monday WRMI *7780 to SW 0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW
Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 7-8, 2022
- Original Message - From: Glenn Hauser via Hard-Core-DX Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2022 4:48 AM Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 7-8, 2022 CUBA [and non]. 870, Oct 7 at 0649, "wobbler" carrier QRMing WWL, roughly also NW/SE, a typical Cuban defect. WRTH shows three R. Reloj outlets of, 10, 10 and 1 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) 4765 CUB R Progreso, NOT ON AIR, 02.10 UT from exUSSR site Bejucal 5025 CUB R Rebelde Bauta site, NOT ON AIR 02.05 UT. 5039.997 RHC Spanish from Bauta bcast center, nice audio quality after Hurrican Ian break. Stn ID at 02.16 UT. 5999.999 CUB RHC En, S=9+35dB excellent audio feed after Hurricane Ian arranged now at Quivican 250 kW site. 02.27 UT. 6060even CUB RHC Sp at S=9+20dB level, talk on Raul Castro and Diaz politicians, Venzuela relations item at 02.31 UT. 6165even CUB RHC Bauta site outlet, strong carrier BUT LOW MODULATION ! 9535vCUB RHC from USSR-relay site Bejucal 100kW, IS OFF AIR at present. 02.53 UT 9650.004 CUB RHC Spanish from Bejucal site, 50 kW towards Antilles and Trinidad, S=8 at 02.57 UT. 9580even CUB CRI LatAM relay site outlet from Quivican, S=9+25dB signal proper outlet in Chinese from 02-03 UT scheduled, just noted px end and TX switch of at 02.55 UT. 9790even CUB CRI LatAM relay site outlet from Quivican, S=9+40dB signal powerhouse, stronger than 9580 Chinese sce before, 03-04 UT scheduled, at 03.05 UT. ECUADOR 6049.992 R HCJB Quito in Quechua, EQU music program, S=6-7 at 02.29 UT Oct 8. MADAGASCAR MWV in Spanish, 'La Voz Alegre' ? S=7 or -83dBm at 02.36 UT 'Jesus Christ' and christianity talk matter. BRAZIL 5938.296 kHz Voz Missionaria, mx -95dB at 02.24 UT. 9818.765 R 9 de Julho, S=5-6 at 03.09 UT. OMAN 9740even BBC London WS via Al Seela Oman at 02.57-02.59 IS chimes over and over again, then ID at 03.00 UT, S=9+15dB, Chines Peoples Party congress, Leadership, Taiwan problem. USA For the very first time I heard religious pirate YHWH in En at 7474.993 kHz channel in 41 mb. S=7 at 02.39 UT on Oct 8. USA 7505even WRNO New Orleans, powerhouse carrier S=9+35dB at 02.43 UT but ONLY LOW 15 % MODULATION poor quality. USA WRMI frequencies not yet reactivated, and may be considerable delay. At those scheduled times, check all other active WRMI frequencies in case there has been a schedule switch, at least temporarily. Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) U S A. 5800, Fri Oct 7 at 0347, the fifth WRMI transmitter back on air, in Spanish, presumed the new R. República hour three nights a week on WRMI itself in addition to from 0100 on 9490 via France. And 5800 is being jammed, as expected as I already heard jamming against nothing there at a later hour; here anyway, RR/WRMI is well atop. Once anything is jammed on a frequency, the Cubans will let it run much longer, causing collateral damage, until now restricted to only one WRMI frequency with exile broadcasts, 9955. 5800 was already on at 0130 when I heard the V of Mongolia relay starting. And for now extended beyond nominal 0400* again, still on at 0726 with Brother HyStairical about the imminent doom of Y2K! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) 5010 kHz USA WRMI not on air 02.13 UT. 5800even USA WRMI Argentine Tango mx of WRMI, excellent audio, seemingly repaired and cleaned feeder line also, after Hurricane Ian, Buenos Aires ARG 2-3 UT scheduled S=9+25dB powerful at 02.19 UT. 5850 kHz WRMI NOT ON AIR. 5950even USA WRMI Truth-2 sermon, relig talk / mx, S=9+35dB powerful 02.21 UT. 7570 and 7780 NOT ON AIR. 02.46 UT 9395even WRMI English pop mx px, S=9+35dB powerhouse at 02.49 UT. 9455even WRMI fair S=9+10dB signal, SMTV ? likely ?, mx px, 02.52 UT FRANCE: 9490.056 ... 067 kHz unstable performance, odd shift and hopping signal from TDF Issoudun France bcast center, R Republica Spanish sce, opposite the real Cuban country government. 02.53 on Oct 8. [NHK R Japan via TDF ISS on 6105 kHz is much better service technical power signal-wise.] U S A. (7489.9v), Oct 7 at 2255 tuning the end of WBCQ webcast with special airing of 'Extension 7490' as publicized. Sean was going to talk about radio, which I wanted to hear, and play music requests. I was out and set up to record from 2200 but it failed. 'AAAWWW' starting on same at UT October 8 is recognized as rerun of last week, slipping up theme at the start, etc., so never mind (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) 5129.977 WBCQ female presenter S=7 at 02.18 UT. 6159.934 WBCQ , S=8 at 02.34 UT. BAD SMALL BAND AUDIO quality like Very bad microphone, like 'watering_can' modulation. 7489.929 WBCQ MUCH ANNOYING 120 Hertz BUZZ TONE audio bad quality, talk on TIME MAGAZINE item on WW II, and Russia's TSar Wladimir's war against Ukraine country. S=9+1
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 7-8, 2022
** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RCUSB, Oct 7 at 1440 past 1600, monitoring for LRA36 via Argentine remote, in case of a Friday make-good after AWOL Wednesday, but nothing; nor did Gary Pence hear it. Better luck on Saturday? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA [and non]. Just before bedtime Oct 7, neighborhood power failure at 0610 UT! Soon notified OG, which restored it at 0733, cause unknown, fried squirrel? So meanwhile, I take the opportunity to DX during a sesquihour of no local powerline noise, quite a treat, tho my main rx are not set up for battery power, seldom needed. So I`m on the DX-398, altazimuth wrist mount. I don`t expect anything superlative, but what else is there to do? See also NICARAGUA. At 0641 on 650, I again have talk in English with WSM nulled. Previously suspected KGAB Wyoming. All I can catch is phone-in number 877-332-8255. Reversely uplooking phone numbers is often unproductive, but this goes right to: CKOM! in Saskatoon. Guess what: all its night power is supposed to go north, only a minor lobe south on day pattern, per NRC Book: Yet another Canadian invading American airspace on AM. It`s U4 10/10 kW. Radio-locator claims CKOM is direxional only at night. Last logged here Oct 28, 2018 and Sept 7, 2017. Now making a `fast SAH` with WSM. IIRC, WSM was once known as the one station always sticking to precise frequency, but MWOffsets shows it on 650.0115 as of a year ago, ranging 649. to 650.013. And CKOM: 649.9992, down to 649.9988-, as of 2020y. That means a nominal separation of 12.3 Hz or maximum 14.2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA [and non]. 870, Oct 7 at 0649, ``wobbler`` carrier QRMing WWL, roughly also NW/SE, a typical Cuban defect. WRTH shows three R. Reloj outlets of, 10, 10 and 1 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** EGYPT. 9439.994, Oct 7 at 2123 check, no signal today from R. Cairo into UTwente. Something`s amiss at Abis (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NICARAGUA. 720, Oct 7 at 0635, nulling WGN, I hear recitation of Lord`s Prayer in Spanish. Surely it`s the closest overtly RCC Latin, R. Católica in Managua, so SS on 720 isn`t necessarily KSAH, Cuba, or Mexico, all secular. WRTH shows YNA3RC with 25 kW but at 1000-0430. During local power blackout, see CANADA, on DX-398, but should be audible anyway. Probably easiest Nickie, not unusually reported from USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830.021, Oct 7 at 2243, S9+45/50 into UTwente, VOT English with some hum, much preferable to sometimes squeal, with music, and 2250 the 2-minute multilingual ID filler spiel reel much later in hour than usual, 2252 sign-off to 2253 fragment of IS and off* Something`s erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. Sporadic E MUF commonly in the 70s MHz, but not above 88; plenty to bounce beacons on 28, checking October 7 at 2015-2033 UT. Except for BC and Veracruz outliers, all from New England in the 1400-1600 mile range, so are they long Es, double-hop, or short F2 propagation? One of these logs leads me to a better updated beacon listing than WJ5O which stopped in 2016y but is still up, so I quote WI5V from now on. Precise frequencies as listed rather than measured, but close enough; next line after my logs is the WI5V info; and after that, stuff from individual QRZ.com pages. 28197 at 2015: DE VE7MTY/B CN99 --- --- --- --- [4 dashes, as below] 28.197 VE7MTY C PITT MEADOWS, BC # 25W, VERTICAL VE7MTY Canada flag Canada Martin W Hill 19696 115A AVENUE PITT MEADOWS, BC V3Y 1P1 Canada ``I have been operating a ten meter beacon since 1995 on 28.197 MHz running 25 watts. It operates 24/7. The callsign is VE7MTY/B. The beacon uses a HTX-100 transceiver, an Antron 99 vertical antenna and a Freakin Beacon keyer. At the end of the CW message, it steps through four, 1 second power levels. 25 - 10 - 2 - 0.5 watts.`` Pitt Meadows is an 18K suburb east of Vancouver 28217.5 at 2017: E E E E E DE WA1LAD/B K 28.2175 WA1LAD C SCITUATE, RHODE ISLAND # 4.7W, DIPOLE NEW 23 April 08 QTH change 13 June 17. [RI also with a Scituate, besides MA, historic site of WRUL/WNYW near Boston] WA1LAD USA flag USA GILBERT D "Gil" WOODSIDE, III 285 3rd Ave Warwick, RI 02888 USA 28221.8 at 2020, slow, only: dash and W1DLO/B - alternates with: fast: VVV DE WA1DLO/B + more uncopied probably gridsquare, etc. 28.2218 W1DLO C CALAIS, MAINE # 10W, VERTICAL New 29 September 2011. W1DLO USA flag USA Daniel L Owen 616 BILLINGS RD HERMON, ME 04401-0808 USA * 10m CW propagation beacon: http://qsl.net/w1dlo/beacon lots of good info there including: * WJ5O's Coordinated 10m Beacon List (retired) * * WI5V's Global 10 Meter Beacon List (current/active) * https://wi5v.net/beacon-list-table-version/ 28247.5 at 2022: DE N1ME/B MAINE dash - weak and fading took several passes to copy that much 28.2475 N1ME C BANGOR, MAINE # W, VERTICAL QRT 23 Aug 2018 [O yeah?] N1ME USA flag USA KENNETH C LEWIS PINE STATE AMATEUR RADIO CLUB 104 Otis St Bangor, ME 04401 USA [Nothing about a beacon at qrz.com] 28260 at 2027: W1VCM/B -
