venerdì 6 dicembre 2019

Glenn Hauser logs December 3-4-5-6, 2019

** ARGENTINA [non]. 5800, Dec 5 at 0115, RAE ID in Spanish; relay via WRMI still here after Cuba reclaimed 6060. Unfortunately, I have a blob from a local device right on 5800. I could tell 5800 went off the air at 0200 sharp Dec 6. I notified the condiglista about this ASAP last night so everybody in Argentina should be aware of it, perhaps even RAE (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2011, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. 7850-CUSB, Dec 5 at 2054, the middle frequency of CHU is still off the air for another week (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2011, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 4765, Dec 6 at 0201, R. Progreso music is suptorted, S9+20 with CODAR QRM too. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 5040, Dec 5 at 0707, this RHC is still on in English, VG S9+20/30, // only 6145. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRELAND [non] [Fixing typo in portion of last report]: . . .by 1930 recheck some longer talk program. 1959 sign-off with the other theme, and now with CRI English ACI from *both* sides 7285 & 7295 [not 7290 as I wrote originally]. Before 1900 it`s on 7285 only, after 1900 on 7295 only. . . (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN [non?]. 9890, Dec 5 at 2154, NHK Japanese is S9-S5, fair with long/short path echo. I`m checking now becaus Rich D`Angelo on a DX-pedition in Pennsylvania reported this going off the air at 2200.But it`s scheduled until 2300, and around 2230 I have been hearing an unreasonably strong signal for a broadcast aimed in the opposite direxion; so could it be there is a secret site or azimuth shift at 2200? No, no break in transmission, no abrupt change in strength after 2159 ID, 2200 NHK timesignal and onward. However the signal steadily grows to S9+10, and by 2231, S9+20/30. It appears there currently be a ``pipeline`` Yamata to Enido around this hour, perhaps graylinish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KURDISTAN [non]. 11540, Dec 5 at 1435, two stations mixing about equally including chanting. The Kurdo-Turco radio war is getting to be rather routine, ``Radio Recep Erdogan`` vs Denge Welat. BTW it appears that Pridnestrovye site has been ordered not to QSL or reply to listeners, apparently to prevent site info about clandestines from getting out to the public (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2011, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NORTH AMERICA. 5126-USB, Dec 5 at 0014, pirate with rock classics, 0020 ``Tutti Frutti``; 0027 ``Are You Lonesome Tonight`` by Elvis; 0027 quick YL ID as Mix Radio International. Still on at 0113 recheck, fair and steady signal. Tnx to tip from Robert Butterfield, Maryland, to the WOR iogroup, who was hearing it as early as 2205 Dec 4. Many more logs here as early as 1931: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,60902.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2011, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, Dec 4 at 2353, JBA carrier under Cuban jamming, from R. Chaski, this time until autocutoff at 2355:11.5.

5980, Dec 5 at 2353, 24 hours later, now the cutoff is at 2355:09.5, i.e. another 2 seconds earlier as the slippage continues (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2011, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2011 contents: Algeria, Antarctica, Australia, Bougainville, Canada, China, Cuba, Denmark, Finland, Iran and non, Japan non, Luxembourg, México, Myanmar, Nicaragua, North America, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Perú, Pridnestrovye, Romania, Sarawak non, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, USA, unidentified 5955, Vietnam; Hitlist, DX/SWL/Media Programs; and the propagation outlook

WOR 2011 is available as of 0341 UT Friday December 6
(mp3 stream)    http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2011.m3u
(mp3 download)  http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2011.mp3

Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
Also linx to podcast services.

The shortwave broadcasts should be:

2300 UT Friday    WRMI 9955 to SSE
0130 UT Saturday  WRMI 7780 to NE, 5850 to NW, 5010 to S
1300 UT Saturday  WRMI 15770 to NE
2030vUT Saturday  WA0RCR 1860-AM
0400vUT Sunday    WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415]
2130 UT Sunday    WRMI 7780 to NE
0130 UT Monday    WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday    WRMI 7780 to NE, 9395 to NNW
0400vUT Monday    WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW 6160v?
0430 UT Monday    WRMI 9955 to SSE
1900vUT Monday    IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW
0100 UT Tuesday   WRMI 7780 to NE
2200 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
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9330, Dec 5 at 1423, WBCQ-6 SuperStation is off again; must be having further problems. Still absent at rechex: 1543, 1918, 2009; finally on in Arabic at next check 2026, only S7-S9 beamed away toward main target supposedly Morocco instead of Egypt (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2011, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. [Fixing minor typo in portion of last report:] ...6060, Dec 3 at 2332, WRMI in accented English, presumably the Supreme Master herself, weak and undermodulated but in the clear. After 2355 I am standing by for RHC to come on and so it does at *2357:14 as in separate log, blowing away WRMI: I can`t even tell if it`s still on.... (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5970, Dec 5 at 0711, S9/+10 of dead air from WEWN Spanish, as frequently happens this time of night. Is no one paying attention at Vandiver or Irondale? Of course not! Who would be listening to RCC stuff at this ungodly hour? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5890, Dec 5 at 0712, WWCR another station competing in the dead-air sweepstakes, in this case not even supposed to be on air now with modulation. S9+30, same as modulated 5935. Seems like UT Thursday is a favorite DOW for this; why? Mis-programmed automation while they snooze? 100 kW for nothing. Of course most of their modulated 100 kWs are also for nothing but gospel huxters and far-right extremist nuts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7505, Dec 6 at 0204, no signal yet from WRNO; but on at 0424, just as W&M prompt for contacts if we have tuned in by mistake; something about haven in their names. S9+10 peaks but not a solid signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 12000-USB, Dec 5 at 1430, weak 2-way in Spanish about a puta --- what else? Strangely, no trace of RHC harmonic even tho 6000 is still audibly on the air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 0455 UT December 6