mercoledì 27 settembre 2017

Glenn Hauser logs September 26, 2017


** BOLIVIA. 5935/5936, Sept 26 at 2315, again no trace of a signal from R. Yura, tho several off-frequency 49m ZY carriers are detectable, including the one below 5940, as well as Pio Doce on 5952.4+. I shall be interested whether the South Americans were still hearing it yesterday and today. (Some editors will hasten to throw out these non-logs, so far, despite my attempt to be helpful for others in publicizing this) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. 12085, Sept 26 at 2315, poor signal with heavy flutter, uncertain language, a Russian word here and there? but EiBi shows this hour only is CRI in Mongolian via Xi`an site. That could be confusing, as 12085 used to be a VOM frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6000, Sept 26 at 0614 check of RHC English: this frequency`s music is suptorted, but all the others are better: 6060 OK; 6100 very good at S9+20, 6145 S9+20/30 with best mod of all for quite a change; tomorrow, who knows? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. Sept 26 at 2320, 25m is full of hi-power RHC signals, diffusing three different programs, so I go looking for all the leapfrog mixing products as I previously uncovered --- but none are heard now! Have they filtered them out? Would not give RadioCuba that much credit; there must be some other explanation. Instead I read the S-meter on the fundamentals:
11950: S9+35 with Mesa Redonda
11880: S8, English, unusually weak, really
11840: S9+30, mainstream Spanish, with some hum like on all of them:
11830 & 11850, very weak parasites as always from 11840
11760: S9+25, ms Spanish
11670: S9+20, ms Spanish
11580  WRMI with no QRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GERMANY. 15449.884, Sept 26 at 1425, weak talk sounds like SW Asian language, some hum past 1430 brief music break, song with heavy beat. Way off frequency; to compensate for Turkey on plus side earlier? HFCC shows at 1400-1600 it`s IBB = Radio Liberty in Tajik, 100 kW, 105 degrees via Biblis. Is it unusual for this site to be so out of whack? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUINEA. 9650, Sept 26 at 0606, Qur`an at S9, reminding me that RTG has not been coming in this well lately; seemingly ecumenical, also reported elsewhen with Christian programming, but no promos heard for Ron Reagan`s Freedom From Religion Foundation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** HAWAII. 6501-USB, Sept 26 at 0609, robotic masculine marine weather info, consisting of geo coordinates and millibar readings above 1000, conveying verbally a barometric map? But quite distorted modulation, which any SSB ham would be ashamed of, but not the USCG. Could not make out any locations mentioned, but EiBi`s schedule for 6501 shows NMO Honolulu at 0600-0635, time-shared with Chesapeake, Guam and Kodiak (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 532.5 & 650.8, Sept 26 at 2335 UT, steady unmodulated carriers. On a hunch, I calculate the difference, 118.3 kHz, and check for some others at the same separation: there they are! On 769.1 and 887.4, at least. I don`t have any other radio encended but this NRD-545, so suspect these are internally generated, altho unnoticed before: Yes: starting with 118.3 kHz itself on the LW band; but wait: try switching from the Wellbrook to the notverylongwire, and they go away, so it`s really the ALA-330S producing them; but, why? (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, Sept 26 at 2314, JBA carrier from R. Chaski is already audible, but recheck at 2332 is already too late, as they must have reset the timer earlier. Next chance must start monitoring no later than 2330.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1897 contents: Alaska, Anguilla, Armenia, Australia, Bolivia, Bougainville, Brazil, Chile, Cuba non, Czechia, Dominica, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Korea South & North, Marshall Islands, Mxico, Mongolia, North America, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, Sa`udi Arabia, Spain, Syria, Turkey, UK non, USA, Zambia, Zanzibar, unID 1650, and the propagation outlook

WORLD OF RADIO 1897 monitoring: confirmed first SW broadcast less than one semihour after completed, Tuesday September 26 at 2130 on WRMI 9455, S9 to S9+10 (and // 15770 remains the only still missing WRMI frequency). Also confirmed Tue Sept 26 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9329.98v-CUSB, S8-S9. Next: 
Wed 1030   WRMI 5850 to NW, 9455 to WNW
Wed 1315   WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 2100   WBCQ 7490v to WSW
Wed 2330   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
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)

This report dispatched at 0330 UT September 27