Note: all logs in this report between 2340 UT March 28 and 1330 UT March 29
employed my ``inside longwire`` strung around the ceiling to the R75, because of
heavy storms. This virtually got rid of the line noise the regular outside LW
has been picking up; I was hoping long-needed 3+ inches of rain would have
washed off the lines/insulators, but the noise was still there with the external
LW rehookedup, altho maybe somewhat diminished.
** BRAZIL. 6180 &
11780, March 28 at 2347 check, RNA/RNB still missing for the ninth day in a row
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1871, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and
non]. 7465, March 29 at 0546, R. Martí is loud & clear, no jamming, while
7435 is jammed against nothing. The DentroCuban Jamming Command still hasn`t
figured out the new RM schedule, which is in HFCC for all to see, i.e. 7435 only
at 03-05, preceded and succeeded by 7365.
9805, March 30 at 1142, wall
of noise jamming are strongest signal on 31m now, can`t hear R. Martí which is
on 9805 at 10-13. Strangely, RHC 31m frequencies, 9850 & 9820 are JBA
carriers, as are WRMIs on 9955, 9395. A Greenville frequency not jammed is 9610
for Vatican relay but also JBA carrier. I wonder if the jammers on 9805 are from
the eastern end of Cuba which would be propagating better this early (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 7425, March 30 at 0717,
RNZI is good at S9+10 with PNG news, on its latest new frequency, now scheduled
0659-1258 daily, the last bihour on the NNW antenna worse for us (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA [non]. 5960.03, March 29 at 0540,
African language at S9 plus some hum, mentions Nigeria at least twice. I think
the hum is really caused by two stations, the other one closer to 5960.00. HFCC
shows at 0500-0600 only ASCENSION, with a BaBcoCk transmission in the Kau
language, 250 kW at 55 degrees, so what is it, really? Per EiBi`s readme.txt
language table, it`s not the Kau Bru language of India, but Kanuri of Nigeria
and neighbors. Therefore the station is Dandal Kura Radio International,
presumably ex-7415 in B-16. HFCC shows the only other thing on 5960 now is R.
Kuwait in Arabic, but we have no confirmation that they have really transformed
from wooden to alive. So maybe there is really only Ascension, which does suffer
from some hum on certain transmitters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Earthquake felt at WOR HQ, chair shaking for a few
seconds, and heard house creaking, March 29 at 1538:01 UT. USGS initially
reported it as ``4.1, 10km E of Medford, Oklahoma, 2017-03-29 15:37:41 (UTC),
2.9 km [deep]``. According to the Enid Eagle it was later upgraded to 4.4, 32
miles NNE of Enid, 1 mile deep. Note the time delay from the USGS clock, of 20
seconds, which seems to be typical for quakes near but not exactly in Enid. No
RF effects were noted, but significant (felt) quakes are recorded along with my
radio log reports here. Tnx a lot, you frackers!
Another quake the next
morning: ``2.8, 20km W of Perry, Oklahoma, 2017-03-30 14:48:30 (UTC), 5.0 km``
was also uncomfortably close to Enid, but not felt (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, March 29 at 0028, JBA carrier from R.
Chaski even detectable on my inside-longwire required because of heavy storms,
until autocutoff at 0103:57*, which is 12.5 seconds later than two nights ago,
March 27 to 0103:44.5*, averaging only 6.25 per (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1870 monitoring: confirmed
Tuesday March 28 at 2130 on WRMI 15770, good, and 6855, very poor. Also
confirmed Tue Mar 28 at 2340 the 2330 broadcast on WBCQ more than 1 kHz
off-frequency, 9328.99v-CUSB, fair. Also confirmed Wed March 29 at 1323, the
1315.5 WOR broadcast on WRMI 9955, fair, but no longer with // 6855, which has
switched to duplicate Oldies on 9395. Lite jamming is audible on 9955 by WOR
finish at 1344; tnx a lot, Arnie! Also confirmed Wed March 29 at 2100 on WBCQ,
7490.05v-AM, S9 vs noise level of S6. Also confirmed Wed Mar 29 at 2330 on WBCQ
9329.1v-CUSB, fair.
WORLD OF RADIO 1871 ready for first airings March 29:
CONTENTS: Afghanistan, Albania and non, Algeria, Angola, Argentina,
Bougainville, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China non, Colombia, Congo DR,
Cuba non, Czechia non, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan and non, Korea
North non, Korea South, Kurdistan non, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lithuania, Madagascar,
Romania, Spain, Turkey, USA, Vatican
Thu 1130 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Thu
2130 WRMI 11580 to NE
Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Fri 2230 WRMI
11580 to NE, 5950 to S
Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0630 HLR
6190-CUSB to WSW
Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB to WSW
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM
ND
Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun
1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to SW
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0300v
WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Mon 2330 WBCQ
9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to
SSE
Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE, 6855 to WNW
Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to
WSW
Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 6855 to WNW
Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to
SSE
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW
Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to
WSW
WOR 1871 monitoring: not confirmed Thu March 30 at 1141 on WRMI 9955
which is a JBA carrier, but presumably with WOR. We still haven`t recovered from
latest G1 storms, K index 3 at 1200, altho solar flux for March 29 was higher
than predicted, a hefty 83, per WWV.
Also note that as of March 29, Keith
Weston says all the podcast versions of WORLD OF RADIO have been restored after
a server crash.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
6855, March 29 at 0029, this WRMI is now // 9395 with Oldies format, as soon
also canned ID. Continues same at 0106 check; 0132 canned ID still mentions 9395
only: Bob Biermann will have to re-do all of those. Still same at 0203. But at
0312, has become // 5985 in Spanish, i.e. Taiwan relay as before. By 0543, 6855
is back to duplicate 9395, a song ``I heard you`re getting married``. At 1323
still music // 9395, so no more alternative for WORLD OF RADIO Wed at 1315.5. We
knew 6855 was no longer // 9955 before 1200, but also Thursday March 30 at 1142,
``I`m Sorry`` song and ID for 9395 only, which is a JBA carrier at this hour.
Then I look up the WRMI skedgrid, and find that 6855 WRMI-5 has been changed to
show Oldies same as WRMI-6 on 9395 during these hours, never duplicating 9955
any more:
0000-0300 (except UT Thu 00-01 V. of the Report of the Week on
both)
0430-1000
1100-2000
2200-2400
That leaves these hours when
6855 is still // other frequencies:
0300-0400 RTI Spanish //
5985
0400-0430 NHK Spanish // 5985
1000-1100 various // 5850 including WOR
Wednesday 1030
2000-2100 various // 11580
2100-2200 various // 15770
including WOR Tuesday 2130
It also shows one hour of Overcomer now on
9395 at 23-24 (the moanin` & groanin` evening worship service).
The
separate program schedule below the transmission schedule still shows 6855 only
at 0000-0100 with Xmas Radio on UT Mondays, which recently had been showing up
some other days too on 6855. Unclear whether that is still the case (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1871, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11580, UT
Wed March 29 at 0136, Keith Perron with a PCJ program on WRMI, plugging becoming
a patron of patreon, fund raising to digitize recording archive from R.
Nederland`s Happy Station, see https://www.patreon.com/pcjradio ---
I didn`t hear him spell it so first sought it as patrion, no go. Current goal is
only $200: ``When Happy Station reaches a goal of 200$ a month. We will produce
special programs for broadcast on shortwave.`` Good signal now at S9+10,
fortunately not fading out yet as there is no lower frequency available for
this. After some jazz music, 0151 he`s already wrapping up, saying goodbye in
Spanish, English, French, German, Japanese (I think all those), but never
Chinese. 0155 Happy Station promo, for upcoming 90th anniversary, plug patreon
again; there are also some 16mm films needing restoration and digitizing. 0200,
over to R. Ukraine International relay on 11580, starting with the latest (?)
war casualty statistics caused by Putinic Russian imperialism.
5850, Wed
March 29 at 1003 check, `Wavescan` confirmed on now, presumably to be followed
by WORLD OF RADIO at 1030. MUF has fallen so low before sunrise that 7570 WRMIBS
is JBA, and can`t confirm 6855 is still // 5850 as scheduled. Back to
sleep.
5850 // weakened 7730, UT Thursday March 30 at 0707 I am
unfortunately awake so check WRMI and yes, the PCJ show is still airing now
instead of Fridays as on skedgrid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, UT Wed March 29 at 0420, WRMI is playing ``Hey
Jude``, but not // 9395 Oldies; O, it`s FG Radio as now scheduled 0415 Wed &
Fri, squandering its airtime to play old Beatles tunes rather than any news from
Cyprus (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7490.06v-AM, Tue
March 28 before 2400, it`s the `Alan Sane` show on WBCQ; he has an obvious
website unlike the next show: recheck at 0038 UT Wed March 29, now `Dead Frog
Radio` including plugs for WBCQ fundraising. Faux ads for Lake City, apparently
the one in Florida, also mentioning Ocala, phone 731-6875. Is that where DF`s
prison is located?
9338.934V-CUSB, March 30 at 1420, Brother Scare via
WBCQ is more than 1 kHz low now, and audibly varying as I try to measure it
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZANZIBAR. 11735, March 29 at
2055, ZBC presumed the S4-S7 carrier seems just barely modulated, but can`t make
out noise others report it is emanating; can only detect that it cuts off at
2059:40*. I wonder if the morning frequency c. 0300, 6015 is likewise affected?
Haven`t heard it well enough to tell, either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1841 UT March 30