** BRAZIL. 28309 USB, Oct 26 at 2208, ZZ5K with quick contest
contacts. QRZ.com: ``ZZ5K Brazil flag Brazil, Contest Special Callsing
{sic} OP PP5RT, Rua Rio Ganges 130, Rio Do Sul, SC 89161510, Brazil``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)** CUBA. 15230, Oct 26 at 2218, S9+10 of open carrier and trace of modulation, RHC finally making a comeback to usual uselessness following hurricanes and apagones nacionales (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** GUIANA FRENCH. 28445 USB, Oct 26 at 2213, FY5FY, quick contest contacts including N7RVD. QRZ.com: ``FY5FY French Guiana flag French Guiana, DIDIER BIRONNEAU, 35 rue LEOPOLD HEDER, BP 57026, CAYENNE CEDEX 97307, French Guiana`` 10m is fuller than usual but only up to 28.7 MHz or so, the top MHz mostly vacant (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MALI. 13630, Oct 26 at 2220, S9+10/20 of Chinese language lessons in French, as CRI Bamako scheduled 2130-2230 to East Africa. ?? No FF ex-colonies there unless stretched to Rwanda/Burundi, Djibouti - hmm, the latter important to the ChiCom with a base there (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 7475, Sat Oct 26 at 0657, Station YHWH on very late again, Josiah JBA S8. Also noted independently by Ron Howard at 0637 until 0737*; as well as Walt Salmaniw, Eric Fetters-Walp (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 11529.9, Oct 26 at 2221, JBA signal presumed Hikari FM on signature offset, allegedly in Mexico; altho I see Rick Barton, AZ, classifies it as USA. If really just across the border in Sonora, Rick should be in 11 MHz skip zone, not getting him so well -- or, close enough for groundwave? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** PUERTO RICO. 391 MCW kHz, Oct 26 at 0630, ND beacon DDP, San Juan/Dorado, 1 kW, often inaudible, but now with better signal than a bunch of USA ones, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 11785.008-, Oct 26 at 2203, VOT not off the air, olds in English, S9+10/20 direct. Into UTwente when measured at 2232, S9+45/50 with music, nothing but music until 2254 s/off as if 17620, 2255 IS to 2255.6*. From tomorrow for B24 should change to 5960 at 2300. Did they warn listeners about this abrupt total change? Of course not! No doubt the s/on/off of the 5960 will assert it`s at 1330 on 13635 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. LW/MW ND beacon bandscan, still a struggle vs local noise level, but I note every frequency even if only a carrier, to be guessed, from dxinfocentre.com NDB listings, Oct 26 from 0618 UT in A2/MCW: 227, JBA carrier; closest: TNZ Walnut Ridge/Lawrence County AR, FZ St Louis MO 245, FS, Sioux Falls SD 251, AM, Amarillo TX 255, SW, Stillwater OK 272, two mixing? closest: LD Lubbock TX, RU Austin TX, OLY Olney IL? 305, RO, Roswell NM 326, MA, Midland TX 329, PMV, Plattsmouth NE 332, IC, Wichita KS 335, KV? - now it`s 0627. CV, Clovis NM or BV, Batesville AR? 338, JBAC, RYN Tucson AZ heard before 341, JBAC, not EI Enid; DNI Sherman/Denison TX or OIN Oberlin KS 365, AA, Fargo/Harwood ND 375, JBAC, DS Searcy AR? or LF Lafayette LA or LQ Springfield/Lincoln IL? 379, RU, really RUE Russellville AR 382, JBAC, MW Marion IL or SP Springfield IL? or YPL Pickle Lake ON heard before but not enough to perceive even a dash 385, JBAC, HO, Hot Springs AR? 391, DDP, see PUERTO RICO 395, CA, Newton/Harvs KS 400, JBAC, AHQ Wahoo NE? heard before 404, JBAC, HU Hutchinson KS 407, HRU, Herington KS 515, PN, Ponca City OK (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR) ** U S A. 28208+, Oct 26 at 2205, short dash and VVV VVV DE AK2F/B - alternating with same but different call, WN2A/B. WGB list: ``28208 WN2A/AK2F - Budd Lake NJ USA FN20ou - #0/1 (17 Oct 2024) Note: Alternating IDs both /B - Tx homebrew antenna vertical A-99 pwr 3w - 320m asl -- QRZ.com: ``AK2F USA flag USA, HAYWOOD S PEITZER, 10 BERRY LN, RANDOLPH, NJ 07869, USA, 10 Meter Beacon with WN2A on 28.208`` and: ``WN2A USA flag USA, MICHAEL J MASTERSON, 7 HUDSON RD, BUDD LAKE, NJ 07828-2607, USA -- Co-own 10 meter Beacon with AK2F (28.2082 MHz- FN20ou). Homebrew system in operation "continuously" since March 1997 - see`` http://www.qsl.net/wn2a/beacon.html 10m beacon band is crammed again, and so is phone with CQ WW DX Contest -- I log only an FY5 and a ZZ5 --- too much! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2266 monitoring: altho not aired Fri Oct 25 at 1300 on WRMI 15770, Jeff White says it shall be going forward. Confirmed UT Saturday October 26 at 0300 on WTWW 5085, VG S9+15/22 into Maryland SDR. Not confirmed Sat Oct 26 after 0930 on WRMI 9455 as I happened to awaken, as this transmitter is still off the air. Not confirmed Sat Oct 26 after 1430 on SW Radio, Germany, 6160 into UTwente, has been replaced by Pop Shop Radio. Confirmed Saturday October 26 at 1600 on WRN North America stream. Confirmed Saturday October 26 after 1730 on SW Radio, Germany, 6160.001+, S9+10/15 into UTwente but with ACI from 6164 RTTY dittering as usual at this hour and also splash from 6165 CRI English from Beijing site to ME this hour only - but plenty more 6165 usage scheduled. AND, 3975.003-, S9+5/10 in the clear. From next week: 1830 instead, on 3975 only. Also confirmed Saturday October 26 from 1931 on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, Wentzvlle MO, VG S9+17 into nearby Warrenton MO SDR. Still not confirmed Sat Oct 26 at 2300 on WTWW 9475, still on restricted schedule, not on air now. Next: 0000 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?]; 0230vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0500]; {European time changes start here} 2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323-Italy; 2230 UT Sunday SW Radio, Germany 3975; 2330 UT Sunday WRMI 7570 to NW [or 7780, last week]; 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW; 0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW [irregular]; 0930 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 6160; 2030 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 3975; 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 [reported, not confirmed] 0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to SW; 1300 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?]; 1400 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [NEW, to be confirmed]; 2000 UT Tuesday IRRS 1323-Italy; 2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 0030 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975; 2030 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975; 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW; 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S; 1730 UT Thursday SW Radio, Germany 3975. As a noncommercial service, financial support welcome such as a contribution via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com One may also contribute by MO or check on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 17790, Oct 26 at 2217, gospel huxter in English, S9+30, surely WRMI-7 much stronger than usual, and on air beyond nominal 2100*. Maybe R. Africa Network making up for lots lost time tnx to Milton and a couple weeks` silence (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VANUATU. 9960, Oct 26 at 0654, R. Vanuatu gone again; nor 7260. Ron Howard also reports it absent today (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 810.46 approx., Oct 26 at 0647 UT, carrier/het upon 810. Nothing so far at mwoffsetts; anyone hearing this? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 25570-25580, Oct 26 at 2214, weak DRM noise vs CODAR pulses at 2/second. I don`t have DRM capability, but earlier today this was reported as KTWR GUAM. Earlier I could not get anything on Pacific-area SDRs where KTWR should have been propagating. Discussion about this on the WOR iogroup with Chris Mackerell, NZ: ``That isn`t even in the 11m SWBC band, starting at 25600 - Glenn`` ``If the "Test 2" tab is being pressed this is a DRM self-test sample built in to the KiwiSDRs, so not a real signal at all. Cheers, Chris`` ``The "KTWR" will almost certainly be reckless clicking of buttons in the KiwiSDR. The Kiwis have two short DRM recordings built-in so users can experiment with settings. "Test 1" plays a recording of BBC with Journaline, "Test 2" plays a recording of KTWR with slideshow. These will play regardless of what frequency the Kiwi is tuned to. I expect someone saw this DRM-like signal (nothing visible here in NZ around 22:45 UTC), and was clicking buttons to see what happens and magically "decoded" KTWR 🙂 --- Based on your hearing it along with CODAR I'd suspect a DRM-like utility broadcast of some type rather than a broadcast standard DRM signal. Cheers, Chris`` ``OK - I can see digital hash on 25575 kHz via the KPH HF Kiwi. http://198.40.45.23:8073/ --- If it is DRM it is wider than standard broadcast DRM its 18 or 20 kHz wide so would be undecodable with the Kiwi anyway. Cheers, Chris`` at 2255 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 2355 UT October 26 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. 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