domenica 14 ottobre 2018

Glenn Hauser logs October 12-13-14, 2018

** CUBA. 13660, Oct 13 at 1332, RHC is S7 here, sufficient on leapfrog mixing product of 13740 over 13700 another 40 kHz lower; but no reverse audible on 13780. 13740 is S9+20, 13700 is S9+30 and no FM spurfield from it today. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6100, Sunday Oct 14 at 0701, RHC opening Esperanto, while all the other frequencies are off. Unlike a week ago, when Esp`o showed up at 0600 on a bunch of them. Something`s not wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [non]. 13820, Oct 14 at 1415, lite pulse jamming against no Radio Martí ---- lest we forget, RM uses this in the B-seasons, instead of 13605 in the A-seasons; why? HFCC B-18 now available confirms 13820 GB at 14-20, nothing on 13605 (and new 11860 remains M-F at 14-22) (Glenn Hauser, OK DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA [non]. More on Radio Nigeria, Kaduna, new relay via WRMI 11580. Further info from Jeff White, a bit too late for my last report:

On Friday, October 12, 2018, Glenn Hauser wrote:
``Tnx. So what will be the regular schedule? Modulation was really cutting off and on a lot today. Glenn``

Jeff: ``0500-0900, 1100-1500, 2000-2300. But it may change to just 2000-2300 in the near future. Sent from AOL Mobile Mail``

And I see these have already been entered on the WRMI skedgrid, XMTR 10 at 87 degrees, as System L in brown, but no further details.

This is the FRCN regional station, in Kaduna, formerly active on 6090. Federal government, *not* clandestine this time.

Paul Walker received another reply from Jeff: ``That's us with Radio Nigeria Kaduna in the Hausa language, on daily now at 0500-0900, 1100-1500 and 2000-2300 UTC on 11580, till further notice. It's beamed to West Africa``

My further monitoring of 11580: at 2022 Oct 12 VP S6-S8; better S9+10 with music at 2048. At 0611 Oct 13, JBA carrier, OSOB except for slightly stronger Aparecida, Brasil on 11857-. Sure hope the night MUF is holding up better eastward from Okee. At 1413, S9+10 in Hausa talk. Oct 14 at 0630, JBA carrier again. 

11580, Oct 14 at 1447, non-African music on good signal, 1449 canned Biermann WRMI ID as in the Oldies stream, and indeed followed by an obviously Oldies tune. (9395 currently with TOMBS); so this transmission is already gone from Nigeria, but still on the air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1951 monitoring: confirmed Saturday October 13 at 1255 the 1231 on Unique Radio via WINB, 9265, S9+10. 

Next WOR broadcast, at 1431 via Hamburger Lokalradio, has been missing from 6190-CUSB the past three weeks with no info from station about the status. But Alan Gale, England, found a new schedule effective today on their website, with 9485-CUSB replacing 6190 for this transmission, WOR at the same times as before:
http://hamburger-lokalradio.net/?page_id=2229

Samstag
06.00 – 11.00 UTC – 6190 kHz (49mB)
11.00 – 15.00 UTC – 9485 kHz (31mB)
Sonntag
09.00 – 12.00 UTC – 7265 kHz (41mB)

So 9485-CUSB, at 1430 via UTwente, gets a JBA carrier, with huge splash, especially during music, from 9490 CRI Bengali, 150 kW, due west from Kunming. HLR might have a chance if it were on LSB instead of USB. Which HLR frequency is only 150 watts? As shown on website, the other two 1 kW. 9485 means an even greater skip distance at 1431, less likely reception as close as UTwente. But further in England, Alan reports:

``Hi Glenn, HLR on 9485 at fair strength. I've been listening to HLR since it came on 9485 at 1100 UT, not booming in, but fair and listenable, though at around 1440 there is some QSB starting to build up during the World of Radio slot. Nice to listen to it without theusual PBS carrier, and to be able to use AM rather than CUSB. No splatter noted here on either sideband, thankfully. Alan``

From Northern Ireland, Jordan Heyburn reports: ``World of Radio - Glenn Hauser: 9485 kHz CUSB at 1435 UT good signal. Perseus SDR - Beverage (Facing South) - Remote QTH Finland``.

WOR 1951 confirmed UT Sunday October 14 at 0328 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, Missouri, good signal about 11 minutes into show so started circa 0317. 

Next HLR airing should be Sunday 1030, HLR on new 7265-CUSB, ex-9485. Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, confirms during the previous program: ``7265-CUSB. Now on air 1005-1013, 14-10, with poor signal, program "Media Network Plus"``  Next:
2130 UT Sunday    WRMI   7780 to NE, 9955 to SSE
0300vUT Monday    WBCQ   5130v Area 51 to WSW
0330 UT Monday    WRMI   9955 to SSE

#1952 should be ready for first airing UT Tue 0030 on 7730 WRMI.

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9265, Saturday Oct 13 at 1301, right after WOR finished on Unique Radio via WINB, Tim Gaynor`s own `Sounds of Your Life` show starting with ``Happiness`` song, nice (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. (7490v), Oct 13 from 0004, `Al Weiner Worldwide` on WBCQ is instead inhabited by CE Tom Barna, with Robert aside, since AW and Angela are away at some hamfest. Takes a lot of phone calls, bits of music, and mainly talks about Superstation progress. About 65 to 75% complete now. Need to hook up antennas and transmission line. 500 kW Continental transmitter expected to be delivered about November 5. Tom will be working long hours 6 days a week for two months, installing it along with TimTron and the rep from Continental. Tom has already moved into the apartment in the new octagon building (seen on website) which will house master control and the transmitter. Building has copper faraday cage screening built in already. Hope that most of the RF out of antenna will be directed away from the MCR. 

Depending on whether the Ampegon antenna is ready, maybe start testing (presumably meaning on the air), early December. To be installed, a kilofoot of 9-inch transmission line. Tom says working on a 500 kW unit will be new for him, only 50 kW previously. Maybe ready to go on air in five months (which would be mid-March, already). One caller asks if they have icing problems there in northern Maine --- not much, he says; it`s either too cold or too hot for ice to build up. No e-mail reading, since he can`t get into AW`s inbox (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6135-USB, Oct 13 at 0626, INTRUDER 2-way in Spanish repeating digits 5-8-6-5, presumably a QSY notice. So I retune to 5865 at 0627 and do hear weaker JBA 2-way in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report despatched at 1637 UT October 14