** CANADA [non]. E-QSL received April 26 from STF Radio International; it`s an animated .gif, neat, with view of some of the radiogrammic content shimmering in the ether: http://www.w4uvh.net/STF_Program01_026_GlennH.gif
and #68 via http://www.worldofradio.com/QSL.html
Only from the `card` do we learn the transmitter site for the April 20, 04-05 special on 17630, 17760 and 21490: Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. While 9925 and 6025 were indeed Nauen, Germany. Accompanying e-mail from Jason/6955:
``Hi Glenn, Thanks so much for tuning in to the show, and your thorough logging of the show. I hope you enjoyed it! It was a real treat to put it all together. So, here's what happened with the no-shows:
5050 (WWRB) - I had to mail a CD(!), sent it Express, didn't arrive. I got a call yesterday from FedEx. I needed to fill out a special customs form including a synopsis of the program since it was being mailed to a radio station. Amazing.
5110/7490 (WBCQ) - a misunderstanding of when April 20 0400 UT is. I should have stuck to Eastern time in the correspondence with them. :/ I had them air it the following evening anyways.
There were also some mix-ups on other freqs: 17630 was supposed to be a DRM broadcast of an alternate "Music From Toronto" program; it went out on 17760 as a regular AM broadcast, and 17630 played the STF program, also in AM mode. Still unsure what went wrong there.
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9925 was like a local here in Toronto, it was quite impressive. WRMI was really solid up here as well. A few good reports on the Asia freqs, some fantastic youtube videos, one in West Bengal, the other in seaside Hokkaido, both picking up 17760. :)
West Bengal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8z-lPtCWro
Hokkaido: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7mgeE3iDvc
I am happy to send you eQSL card #026 confirming your report, featuring different decodings of one of the images sent by MFSK64. We will be printing real QSL cards soon, and we'll send them along to the address you provided.
Here's a rough remix of one of the quieter tracks from the show, using recordings from 3 different transmitters and a bit of the studio version underneath. Enjoy!
http://soundcloud.com/6955s/ap-3ptrn-swmix-rough
Thanks again for tuning in the show!
Jason/6955
STF Radio International
PS. If you had a recording of the program (wav, mp3, SDR), I'd love to get it from you!`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Referred him to my website where posted earlier today
** CUBA. 4709 approx., April 26 at 0055, extremely distorted Spanish giving a website; no specific carrier frequency, but somewhere around 4708-4709. Much too strong to be anything from South America, and quickly matched to R. Progreso, 4765, as a parasitic spur about 56 kHz below, and yes, matched by another one roughly as strong circa 4821. I had also noticed the blob around 4710 a night or two before, but weaker then and unID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11670, April 25 at 2122, RHC is still on here, totally blocking All India Radio General Overseas Service; stronger than // 11760 which is stronger than // 11840. Also on now is 13740, which has been on the belated RHC A-14 schedule but was not immediately in use. 13740 is still going at 0050 recheck April 26 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 7475 // slightly weaker 9420 and much weaker 15630, April 26 at 0110, Greek Music from HR, active on all three Avlis transmitters at the moment (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 11620, April 26 at 0052, AIR Urdu service is fair with flutter as usual around sunset here; while same frequency for the 1330 AIR GOS in English is inaudible, altho // 9690 and 13710 make it as in April 25 log. But at 1330, Aoki listed 11620 site is Delhi (Khampur), while at 0015 it`s Bengaluru, with azimuths only 5 degrees different, 245 vs 240 respectively, neither anywhere near USward; in fact close to off the sides (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CUBA: 11670
** NORTH AMERICA. 9775, April 26 at 0104, bandscanning catches YHWH pirate preacher back on this frequency, poor-fair with noise, deep fading, and cuts off the air abruptly at 0105:10; still off when I quit monitoring at 0111. Was slightly weaker than 9770 Turkey. 9775 is the frequency where I first heard YHWH, also at 0105 UT, October 8, 2013 as in DXLD 13-41, and WORLD OF RADIO 1690 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, April 26 at 0051, R. Chaski with JBA carrier vs 5990 CRI/CUBA splash; at 0059 that splash is off, but now there is rather heavy pulse jamming on 5980 itself as the Chaski carrier is still on past 0100. Unfortunately I was distracted and missed timing its exact cutoff tonight, but which projected 5.5 seconds later than last night, would have been at 0109:24.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, April 26 at 0114, open carrier from SLBC, but another late start with no music before 0115 and no mistimesignal after, tsk2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 9955, UT Saturday April 26 at 0103, WRMI with PCJ Radio International, supposed to be replay of last Sunday`s hour-long discussion of the future of shortwave radio, as aired originally on webcaster, Global Voice Radio, and publicized on WORLD OF RADIO. BUT, too much jamming, unreadable; tnx a lot, Arnie. Cuban jamming normally diminishes during the hour, but too much else going on, so one more thing I`ll have to try to find time for later listening ondemand online (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 21430-AM, April 25 at 2126, WB6QKO calling CQ, soon makes contact, unheard, says his name is Larry. This seems to be a favorite spot on ``15`` meters for hAMs. ARRL FCC lookup leads to:
COX, LAWRENCE A, WB6QKO
1204 PINE ST
SANTA MONICA, CA 90405
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9475, April 25 at 2121, I notice that WTWW-1 is off (good thing it was on 24 hours earlier); 12105 is also off and has not been noticed for a few days now; 9930 however with BS is on and blasting in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7505.26 approx., April 26 at 0107, VG signal with gospel/soul/rock, obviously WRNO reactivated, and almost back on frequency! Had been off since last report March 17 as in DXLD 14-12, so in the past 5+ weeks they must have been working on adjusting the frequency down from 7506.6, but still not quite there. Did they ever get an FCC citation for being so far out of legal tolerance? Unlikely.
(Meanwhile, WBCQ is close to 7490.0 during `Allan Weiner Worldwide`, with a belching guest; who could that be?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0304 UT April 26
and #68 via http://www.worldofradio.com/QSL.html
Only from the `card` do we learn the transmitter site for the April 20, 04-05 special on 17630, 17760 and 21490: Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. While 9925 and 6025 were indeed Nauen, Germany. Accompanying e-mail from Jason/6955:
``Hi Glenn, Thanks so much for tuning in to the show, and your thorough logging of the show. I hope you enjoyed it! It was a real treat to put it all together. So, here's what happened with the no-shows:
5050 (WWRB) - I had to mail a CD(!), sent it Express, didn't arrive. I got a call yesterday from FedEx. I needed to fill out a special customs form including a synopsis of the program since it was being mailed to a radio station. Amazing.
5110/7490 (WBCQ) - a misunderstanding of when April 20 0400 UT is. I should have stuck to Eastern time in the correspondence with them. :/ I had them air it the following evening anyways.
There were also some mix-ups on other freqs: 17630 was supposed to be a DRM broadcast of an alternate "Music From Toronto" program; it went out on 17760 as a regular AM broadcast, and 17630 played the STF program, also in AM mode. Still unsure what went wrong there.
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9925 was like a local here in Toronto, it was quite impressive. WRMI was really solid up here as well. A few good reports on the Asia freqs, some fantastic youtube videos, one in West Bengal, the other in seaside Hokkaido, both picking up 17760. :)
West Bengal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8z-lPtCWro
Hokkaido: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7mgeE3iDvc
I am happy to send you eQSL card #026 confirming your report, featuring different decodings of one of the images sent by MFSK64. We will be printing real QSL cards soon, and we'll send them along to the address you provided.
Here's a rough remix of one of the quieter tracks from the show, using recordings from 3 different transmitters and a bit of the studio version underneath. Enjoy!
http://soundcloud.com/6955s/ap-3ptrn-swmix-rough
Thanks again for tuning in the show!
Jason/6955
STF Radio International
PS. If you had a recording of the program (wav, mp3, SDR), I'd love to get it from you!`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Referred him to my website where posted earlier today
** CUBA. 4709 approx., April 26 at 0055, extremely distorted Spanish giving a website; no specific carrier frequency, but somewhere around 4708-4709. Much too strong to be anything from South America, and quickly matched to R. Progreso, 4765, as a parasitic spur about 56 kHz below, and yes, matched by another one roughly as strong circa 4821. I had also noticed the blob around 4710 a night or two before, but weaker then and unID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11670, April 25 at 2122, RHC is still on here, totally blocking All India Radio General Overseas Service; stronger than // 11760 which is stronger than // 11840. Also on now is 13740, which has been on the belated RHC A-14 schedule but was not immediately in use. 13740 is still going at 0050 recheck April 26 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 7475 // slightly weaker 9420 and much weaker 15630, April 26 at 0110, Greek Music from HR, active on all three Avlis transmitters at the moment (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 11620, April 26 at 0052, AIR Urdu service is fair with flutter as usual around sunset here; while same frequency for the 1330 AIR GOS in English is inaudible, altho // 9690 and 13710 make it as in April 25 log. But at 1330, Aoki listed 11620 site is Delhi (Khampur), while at 0015 it`s Bengaluru, with azimuths only 5 degrees different, 245 vs 240 respectively, neither anywhere near USward; in fact close to off the sides (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CUBA: 11670
** NORTH AMERICA. 9775, April 26 at 0104, bandscanning catches YHWH pirate preacher back on this frequency, poor-fair with noise, deep fading, and cuts off the air abruptly at 0105:10; still off when I quit monitoring at 0111. Was slightly weaker than 9770 Turkey. 9775 is the frequency where I first heard YHWH, also at 0105 UT, October 8, 2013 as in DXLD 13-41, and WORLD OF RADIO 1690 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, April 26 at 0051, R. Chaski with JBA carrier vs 5990 CRI/CUBA splash; at 0059 that splash is off, but now there is rather heavy pulse jamming on 5980 itself as the Chaski carrier is still on past 0100. Unfortunately I was distracted and missed timing its exact cutoff tonight, but which projected 5.5 seconds later than last night, would have been at 0109:24.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, April 26 at 0114, open carrier from SLBC, but another late start with no music before 0115 and no mistimesignal after, tsk2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 9955, UT Saturday April 26 at 0103, WRMI with PCJ Radio International, supposed to be replay of last Sunday`s hour-long discussion of the future of shortwave radio, as aired originally on webcaster, Global Voice Radio, and publicized on WORLD OF RADIO. BUT, too much jamming, unreadable; tnx a lot, Arnie. Cuban jamming normally diminishes during the hour, but too much else going on, so one more thing I`ll have to try to find time for later listening ondemand online (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 21430-AM, April 25 at 2126, WB6QKO calling CQ, soon makes contact, unheard, says his name is Larry. This seems to be a favorite spot on ``15`` meters for hAMs. ARRL FCC lookup leads to:
COX, LAWRENCE A, WB6QKO
1204 PINE ST
SANTA MONICA, CA 90405
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9475, April 25 at 2121, I notice that WTWW-1 is off (good thing it was on 24 hours earlier); 12105 is also off and has not been noticed for a few days now; 9930 however with BS is on and blasting in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7505.26 approx., April 26 at 0107, VG signal with gospel/soul/rock, obviously WRNO reactivated, and almost back on frequency! Had been off since last report March 17 as in DXLD 14-12, so in the past 5+ weeks they must have been working on adjusting the frequency down from 7506.6, but still not quite there. Did they ever get an FCC citation for being so far out of legal tolerance? Unlikely.
(Meanwhile, WBCQ is close to 7490.0 during `Allan Weiner Worldwide`, with a belching guest; who could that be?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0304 UT April 26
