** CUBA. 11950, Oct 11 at 1338, RHC `En Contacto` DX program as CO2IR is
reporting on his group`s DX-pedition to a cayo off Pinar del Río, for ILLW ---
the International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend. Despite mosquitos, breaks
for electrical storms, erratic propagation, they made over 2000 contacts, also
with 17 other ILLW participants. Followed by a now regular Arnaldo Coro segment
by phone, this time about how Edwin Armstrong invented the regenerative circuit
in 1912, which is still used today, such as in car remote-control locks. In
native Spanish, AC speaks extremely rapidly, as he tries to cram as much info as
possible into the few minutes available, at times taxing my comprehension. No
jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 4750-, Oct
11 at 1309, RRI Makassar, W&M chatting in Indonesian, also with LAH from a
4750.0 station, Bangladesh or China. By 1311, however, no LAH heard, as a
child`s voice joins them and makes noises with some toy(?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. Eike Bierwirth replies:
``Gotta see that Mars movie, thanks for the review. NASA is not sure about
lightning on Mars, but deems it possible, per:
while
the University of Michigan in 2009 reported Martian lightning in
dust storms
observed in 2006:
73,
Eike`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRELAND NORTHERN [non].
9330.2-CUSB, Oct 10 at 2341, I remember to check for the Radio Northern Ireland
make-good that Allan Weiner Worldwide said would be on this hour Saturday, due
to nil propagation during original Oct 7 airing (which we didn`t find out about
anyway until it was over). Fair-good signal now, but nowhere near as strong as
9350 WWCR. Hard rock music is playing; 2345 ID as ``RNI, Radio Northern Ireland
on 6070 kHz`` [original airing via Germany], tnx to sponsor Stephen Cooper for
hosting on http://shortwave.am - Address for
e-QSLs, radionorthernireland @ outlook.com and also via Facebook.
It`s
only 2346 but Brandon seems to be signing off, ``looking forward to next week at
2100 on this frequency``. But more hard rock plays rest of hour, starting at
2349 with song about paramilitary, soldiers I couldn`t follow. Same genre as
before so I guess this was still coming from RNI, not WBCQ fill. BTW, ``RNI`` is
already a WBCQ abbr., for Radio New York International (I`ve always wondered
what became of the Y). 2359 to familiar 16-note ``Lincolnshire Poacher`` IS
repeated several times. 0000 Oct 11, ``WBCQ, The Planet`` IS and ID a few times,
and canned AW sign-off by a ``concerned family`` with classical music, then cut
off the air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEWFOUNDLAND. Re
2598-USB, CCG site St. Lawrence, Eike Bierwirth replies: ``Hi Glenn, if you use
Canadian Coast Guard's website
then
you can find not only transmission schedules but also transmitter site
coördinates, such as
St. Lawrence
46°55'06?N
055°22'45?W
which is
in southern Neufundland`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
TAJIKISTAN. 4790-, Oct 11 at 1309, very poor signal with talk, presumed BBC
Uzbek relay. No ChiCom jamming reported anywhere I`ve seen, so maybe this tactic
is working. Over here, CODAR is the enemy (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 1860-AM, Oct 11 a 0353, I don`t get to checking WA0RCR
until now, and some ham news show other than WORLD OF RADIO is on, so presumably
it had already completed, started no later than 0324. Next:
Sun 2300 WRMI
11580 to NE
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to
SSE
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 2100
WBCQ 7490v to WSW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
12160, Sat Oct 10 shortly after 1900 UT on BST-1 SW caradio, blues music, even
from Beale Street, via WWCR-2; periodic announcements by Allan Gray as `The Last
Radio Playing`, continues past 1930 for a full hour as I then listen during
lunch on my G8, tnx to the usual bigsig from this unit, allegedly azimuthed 85
degrees. Checking the WWCR program sked later, dated Oct 1 (times should shift
one UT hour later in Nov after DST), TLRP airings are:
Sat 00 4840 [monthly
after first Friday]
Sat 05 3215
Sat 06 4840
Sat 19 12160
Mon 20
9350
Tue 23 9350
WWCR deviously sprinkles worthwhile music programming
among the muck of gospel huxters, far right wackos, boring logs from DU, thus
discouraging people from totally eliminating its frequencies from their
memories. So far haven`t detected any politico-religious agenda on this, just a
DJ and his music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED.
6131.5 approx., heavy RTTY INTRUDER centered approximately here has been
infesting the 49m exclusive SWBC band ever since I first reported it Sept 19.
It`s been constant whenever I have checked any evening, and perhaps all-night. I
have yet to see *any* other logs of this. Apparently utility DXers don`t bother
to check the SWBC bands, and SWBC DXers just avoid the frequency. Many of them
have RTTY-decoding capability, so why doesn`t anyone ID it? Or at least try to?
I myself do not decode RTTY and have no interest in doing so.
Searching
into the UDXF yg, I found only these old oblique refs to anything on 6131, which
may well be totally unrelated:
``VOICE: 6516.0 ---: unid station, 2004,
J3E/USB, Security Havnoy over, poor copy, QSY 6131 (30 Oct 2013)(PPA) (Peter
Poelstra, The Netherlands, ALA 1530 loop antenna, Winradio
G31DDC)``
``6131.0, dig Link-11 CLEW, 2 channels tfc, UNID NATO MIL
Station (on ISB) 0040:57 UT (2013-09-09) (mco1 in Portland, ME USA on
StarChat#wunclub) These are the loggings from the NSA logbot on several IRC
channels. They are listed by Freq, Mode, Comment, UTC time, nickname, QTH and
IRC channel``
If not 6135 and 6125, this of course makes 6130 unusable
for broadcasting in the Americas; HFCC B-15 shows no usage of it during our
evening except for Tibet. Current Aoki adds Laos, both never going to be heard
here when it`s daytime there. Fortunately, CHNX Halifax has been gone for
decades.
Still this utility has no business inside the SWBC band, when
there is plenty of open space on the fixed and other utility bands. The least we
should do is identify where it`s coming from. Attention, SWBC-only editors, who
are about to delete this as off-topic, a mere unID utility. It`s relevant (Glenn
Hauser, Oct 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1632 UT
October 11
