** ASCENSION. 5960, Sept 21 at 0555, Dandal Kura with better reception than last night, and yes, still humming; while 6005 ASC with BBCWS is not. BTW, at this time all USA signals on 4, 5, 6 and 7 MHz are weakened to poor/very poor, except 5850 WRMI, still inbooming with BS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6100, Sept 21 at 0554, RHC English is off again from this frequency; 6060 is VG at S9+10/20; 6000 is S9+10, sufficient modulation; but 6145 is unusually weak, S8-S7, and undermodulated: very poor overall. By 0558, 5040 is already off.
5025, Sept 21 at 0558, R. Rebelde is undermodulated but listenable
9535, Sept 21 at 1242, RHC Spanish open carrier/dead air; 9640 is audible but poor, and all three on 49m are OK: 6000, 6060, 6100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [and non]. 9255, Sept 21 at 1243, JBA talk. Only thing in NDXC is SOH 0.1 kW jammer*attractor at 1115-1600, which is probably what I am hearing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1896 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday September 20 at 2100 on WBCQ, 7490v-AM, very poor in daytime noise level; also confirmed Wed Sept 20 at 2330 on WBCQ 9330.035v-CUSB, S9+10 but deep fades. Next:
Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW
Sat 1431 HLR 7265-CUSB to WSW
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE
Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 to NE
Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW
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
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11825, Sept 20 at 1810, this WRMI BS-only frequency is back on air for first time I`ve heard it, but only poor signal. // 7780 remains on the air all day, but now a JBA carrier. Still not back is 15770. Jeff White tells me that still silent 7730 may resume soon once its feedlines are back up.
9955, Sept 21 at 1248, WRMI relaying REI ID and pulse jamming, which is really uncalled for, but why should Cuba care about a country that overthrew the yoke of communism? Even if it`s not anti-Castro broadcasting. Bad enough that Eslovaquia is in Spanish and otherwise audible in Cuba.
9955, Sept 21 at 1300, I am making a point of checking WRMI now, since this semihour on Thursdays has been re/re/re/peating ad infinitum the May file from Informativo G24 before it otherwise vanished. I had re-reminded Jeff about this, and offered to fill the slot with something more recent, such as a new World of Radio each week; instead I hear `Frecuencia al Día` starting, but in the next minute switching to fill music, songs which sound like praise in English, altho I can`t make out the lyrix, for the rest of the 30 minutes, and jamming continues. So I`m not so sad WOR was not accepted.
I also made this comment to Jeff White, first in his capacity as chairman of HFCC:
``Jeff, Is IRDR ever going to be activated? In this hemisphere at least, there could not be a better time for it.
And/or an emergency SW service for Puerto Rico, with many of the stations there off the air (I heard WAPA remained on). And power completely out. Hmmm, what mainland station could do that? 73, Glenn``
IRDR is International Radio for Disaster Relief, as explained here, with a schedule of frequencies reserved for it in A17 & B17:
http://hfcc.org/humanitarian/
As for PR, somestation which is still able to produce news programming --- WAPA 680? --- if its audio could be sent out by satellite or anymeans, could be relayed on SW back to PR, where power is 100% out and likely to be down or greatly diminished for months. What a great public service this would be (and the same could apply for USVI, not to be forgotten despite a greater disaster in PR, but I don`t know how many if any local radio stations remain on there).
The nay-sayers will allege that there is not much SW listening in PR ---- well, that applies all over the US in real terms, but doesn`t keep several stations from domestic SWBC anyway for other objectives. No reply from Jeff, but at least the seed has been planted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1622 UT September 21
