martedì 2 ottobre 2018

Glenn Hauser logs September 30-October 1-2, 2018


** BOLIVIA. 3310, Oct 2 at 0127, M&W conversation, uncertain language, presumed R. Mosoj Chaski, Quechua? I had long given up hearing this one due to a local mixing product of KGWA 960 x 2 plus KCRC 1390, but now the audio does not match either one of them. To boot, has ACI from 3308-USB, probably MARS (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 5025, Oct 2 at 1346, R. Rebelde is still S9-S6 an hour after sunrise here, and much more there, but dead air or maybe JBM. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6099.238, Oct 1 at 0656, RHC English via the off-frequency transmitter again (later that same day, Wolfgang Bueschel reported via remote SDRs in New Jersey and/or Alberta: ``6099.9975 CUB RHC Bauta site, Spanish language 11-13 UT scheduled, S=9+10dB heard at 1224 UT on Oct 1st. Heavy distorted audio channel, QRM interference oddly of co-channel strange peak signal on odd fq 6099.239 kHz`` --- but as I have logged several times before during both transmissions, the latter is RHC as modulated, and no 6100.0 to go with it). 

Back at 0656, the other RHCs: 6000 is off; 6060 on with music; by 0701, 6165 is in unscheduled Spanish news instead of English. By 0702, 6099.238 and 6060 have dropped to dead air, carriers still on. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 13700, Oct 1 at 1409, this RHC is off; supposed to run at 13-15. Something`s always wrong at RHC. Next day at 1348 check it`s on again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6060, Oct 2 at 0613, RHC English is VG but overmodulated so that it splatters up to plus/minus 10, bothering 6070- CFRX. 6165 is off; 6000 = 6100 at S9+10 and same undermodulation. At 0622, S9+30 open carrier is still on 5040. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 7335 & 7365, Monday Oct 1 at 0704, nothing but jamming, making me wonder if Radio Martí has resumed a MM silent period? But still audible on 6030 over jamming. Maybe the MUF has plunged. Now I have a chance to check 11860 which allegedly is also on M-F from 0700 --- nothing audible there, of course.

23 hours later, Oct 2 at 0605, both 7365 and 7335 are VG inbooming over jamming, with RM at S9+10/20, ending a VOA Editorial in Spanish about human rights, i.e. the Fourth Amendment which is totally inapplicable in Commie Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 3344.862, Oct 2 at 1213, JBA carrier, surely the reactivated RRI Ternate, and much weaker than 3325. First measured here, and then find it matches exactly where Wolfgang Bueschel found it later that hour: ``3344.862 INS RRI Ternate mx program heard at 1247-1250 UT, just above threshold S=5 level, S=4-5 or -94dBm level much fluttery noted in SDR unit at Brisbane Queensland`` (Glenn Hauser, OK DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA. 7254.937, Oct 2 at 0608, VON with two audios mixing equally, both Hausa? What a mess; but at 0611 I can tell one of them is in accented English; unseems a voice-over translation situation. If so, extremely clumsy and self-defeating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 17615.064, Oct 1 at 1413, SBC is poor S8-S9 with Qur`an and markedly off-frequency, unlike // 17895, or not // 17705, which in fact are the OSOB. Similar situation 23 hours later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 4102.9, Oct 2 at 1218, JBA CW sending W as ID, and several number sequences. HF Undergrounders refer to this beacon as Windy, since it allegedly broadcasts wind speeds from some remote southwestern desert. Frequency seems to vary in the 4102-4103 range (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1949 monitoring: confirmed Sunday Sept 30 on WRMI at 2130, not only 7780 but for at least the second week also on unscheduled 9955, very poor, and poor respectively. Also confirmed UT Monday October 1 until 0333:15 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5129.84, S9-S9+10, so must have started at 0304:30. Also confirmed UT Mon Oct 1 after 0330 on WRMI webcast but inaudible on 9955, just pulse jamming.

WORLD OF RADIO 1950 contents: Armenia, Australia, Brasil, Canada, Chad non, China, Colombia, Cuba, France, Germany, Greece, Hawaii, India and non, Italy, Japan, Kurdistan non, Kuwait and non, México, Nepal, Netherlands non, Perú, Sikkim, South Carolina non, Tibet non, USA; receivers; and the propagation outlook.

WOR 1950 ready for first airing UT Tuesday October 2 at 0030 on WRMI 7730; confirmed, very good. Alan Gale, England, reports: ``WoR on WRMI Live Stream 0100 UT Tuesday 2100 EDT --- Hi Glenn, I'm just listening to World of Radio on the WRMI Live Stream, though the programme isn'tlisted in the WRMI schedule, just a religious programme called'Coming Home'. Time is 0100 UT on Tuesday 2nd October here. This wasn't shown in your latest post so I thought you'd want to know about it. Alan`` Indeed, that`s news to me, so must also have been on 9955 immediately repeating after the 0030 on 7730. Next:

2030 UT Tuesday   WRMI   7780 to NE
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI   5950 to WNW
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ   7490v to WSW
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI   9955 to SSE
0629 UT Saturday  HLR    6190-CUSB Germany to WSW [off last 2 weeks]
1231 UT Saturday  WINB   9265V via Unique Radio to WSW
1431 UT Saturday  HLR    6190-CUSB Germany to WSW [off last 2 weeks]
1930vUT Saturday  WA0RCR 1860-AM non-direxional
0300vUT Sunday    WA0RCR 1860-AM non-direxional
1030 UT Sunday    HLR    9485-CUSB Germany to WSW [off last 2 weeks]
2130 UT Sunday    WRMI   7780 to NE, 9955 to SSE
0300vUT Monday    WBCQ   5130v Area 51 to WSW
0330 UT Monday    WRMI   9955 to SSE
2330 UT Monday    WBCQ   9330v [maybe] to WSW

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite:
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7570, Sunday Sept 30 at 2123, this WRMI is already on, and in Japanese, so another expansion with Alameda Bible Fellowship. More and more outdated skedgrid still shows 7570, WRMI-11 starting at 2300 with TOM, except Sundays 2200 with VORW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5850, Monday Oct 1 at 0655, WRMI IS & ID loop prior to top-of-hour; 0703 beepery underway from Broad Spectrum Radio // even stronger 7730 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9395, Tue Oct 2 at 0222, WRMI with Oldies including ad at 0228, NOT Wavescan, which had been stripped 7-days-a-week at 0200. Sked still shows it but a blank in the frequency box. 0230 abrupt switch to R. Tirana IS and opening English ``on internet only`` as scheduled UT Tue-Sun (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5010, Tue Oct 2 at 1226, WRMI S9/S9+10 Bibling in French, no doubt ABF; WRMI-14 supposedly on air only at 2200-0100 & 1100-1200(Friday 1230). Recheck at 1237 is in Portuguese (not Brazuguese); rerecheck at 1345 is off. Also regularly found after 0100 often in French. On 181-degree antenna to Caribbean; reception of RMI`s lowest frequency has been improving seasonally (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5970, Oct 2 at 1229, WEWN with *no* carrier but extremely distorted modulation, more to the lower side. No good with BFO either, but clearest when tuned in FM mode circa 5966-5967! S9+20. As usual after 1230 is live translation into Spanish of morning mass in English, voice under. Recheck at 1347, now back in whack, including 5970 carrier in AM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Oct 2 at 0133-0138: 531, 549, 585, 621, 774(2), 837, 882, 909, 936, 954, 999, 1017, 1044, 1089, 1098, 1107, 1125(2, one of them minus, Belgium?), 1134(2), 1215 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, Oct 2 at 1158-1202: 1098, 837(2), 774, 1035, 1548. Again at 1204-1209: 1017, 882(2), 828, 747, 702, 612, 594(2). Also something on about 1367.904 which I suspect is from a local device (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 4810, Oct 1 at 0655, JBA carrier vs CODAR, hash on plus side. I have been wondering if previous logs of this could be Radio Logos, Perú, but no one has reported it during waking hours so unlikely it would be on at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report despatched at 1724 UT October 2