domenica 11 novembre 2018

Glenn Hauser logs November 10-11, 2018

** ANGUILLA. 11775, Sat Nov 10 at 1903, DGS is S9+10 with some hum and rather distorted, but no spurs found plus/minus ~100 kHz as before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 9570, Nov 10 at 1431, S9+10 of dead air, obviously still transmitter for CRI relay which ended at 1400. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 11760, 11840, 11860, Nov 10 at 2239, RHC Spanish on all these big, plus 12000 small (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** FRANCE [and non]. 5925, Nov 10 at 0657, ID in French for RFI, which is 500 kW, 195 degrees from Issoudun.

5950, Nov 10 at 0657, a different RFI in English via WRN via WRMI, about WWI armistice commemoration (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: WRMI

** MADAGASCAR. 11610, Nov 10 at 2237, S9+10/20/30 in Arabic, mentioning ``Greenwich`` several times, evidently reciting its schedule or quoting reports? And contact via radiofeda.com. MWV bigsig good for music when they get to it.

11965, Nov 10 at 2240, Chinese here which must also be MWV, S9+10/20. Now running 11965 four hours straight, 19-23 in Arabic, English, Portuguese, Chinese, each on different beam, the lastter toward Asia, not Europe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 12160, 9395, 9330v, 7780, Sat Nov 10, Brother HyStairical has three stations tied up on four frequencies, also heard in order of decreasing signal strength: WWCR, WRMI, WBCQ, WRMI. More, more!!! Bulgaria too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 9690, Nov 10 at 1907, REE Castilian silly ballgame coverage, music bits mixed in, but NO LAH from Nigeria minus, off for a change? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1955 monitoring: 

Ivo Ivanov, Observer, Bulgaria, reports:
``World of Radio via HLR on 6190 CUSB & 9485 CUSB, Nov 10:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcKr-L0srSM&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Uv-pPt8cc&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4wAJTt7eAk&feature=youtu.be
0731-0800 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sat, weak signal
1531-1600 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sat, fair signal``

Confirmed Saturday November 10 at 1210, the airing retimed to start at 1200 via Unique Radio, Gunnedah via WINB Red Lion, S9+10 with some wobble. 

Also confirmed UT Sunday November 11 at 0449 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, about 21 minutes into, so started circa 0428. Next:
1130 UT Sunday    HLR    7265-CUSB Germany to WSW
2130 UT Sunday    WRMI   7780 to NE
2230 UT Sunday    WRMI   9955 to SSE
0230 UT Monday    WRMI   5950 to WNW, NEW 9395 to NNW per Jeff White
0400vUT Monday    WBCQ   5130v Area 51 to WSW
0430 UT Monday    WRMI   9955 to SSE, NEW 5010 to SSE

Complete updated WOR sked, all affiliates, satellite, webcast, AM&FM:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9395, Nov 10 at 0229, tuning in to check whether R. Tirana relay via WRMI is back in whack --- surprised to hear a YL ID for ``SonPower World Radio, from the studios of WRMI --- on 5850, 7455 and 9395`` --- but I am not sure of the first two unexpected frequencies, as could have said 5950, 9455. 

SonPower, you may recall, was the Rick Wiles thing subtitled TruNews that used to be on WRMI --- is he making a comeback, or was this just an old ID that surfaced somehow? Anyhow, neither SPR nor Tirana follows at 0230, rather World Music fill including some of the same tunes heard 24 hours ago, breaking for a canned Spanish ID at 0243, and now confirmed // 5950.

9955, Nov 10 at 1435, WRMI has some annoying QRM, not conventional jamming noise; rather, multi-tone whine co-channel, which fine-tuning with BFO seems to come from carriers about 292 Hz apart up to 1460 Hz, beating against each other and WRMI as I tune upwards, during Japanese-accented `Living the Bible`, still past 1502 with Blalock the Blaster. STILL same whine QRM to 9955 at quick 2242 recheck.

5950, Nov 11 at 0140, what`s going on WRMI UT Sunday? VOA News ending, Rudy ID in Spanish during Oldies stream, ``City of New Orleans``, but 9395 a JBA carrier cannot confirm //. At 0153 it`s in again and yes, // 5950. 0205 still Oldies on 5950, 9395 gone again.

Further changes on the WRMI skedgrid as checked at 0530 UT Nov 11:

5950 with more RFI France relays: 07-08 Portuguese (ex-DW English via WRN), 18-19 Spanish, 19-20 French, 20-21 Portuguese; and already 00-01 English. 

Unspecified WRN relays on 5950 contract to: 05-07, 15-18, 21-24; and // 9395 at 22-23. Is the 06-07 hour from WRN still RFI English? What will happen when RFI drops its morning English? 

Also: 5010 now shown as System B // 9955 at 01-05. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7490, UT Sat Nov 10 from 0000, WBCQ with Tom instead of Allan Weiner, Worldwide. Over to John Carver`s summary:

``Show started on time this evening on 7490. Tom Barna is hosting the show again with Robert sitting in as sidekick. Show opens with music after Tom states that a lot of things have been going on this past week. Opening talk about Maine's new governor. A Democrat and the first female to ever hold the office. Apparently all that happened in Maine this past week as that's all they talked about to begin with. Several songs were played.

Robert announced that a donor was paying to have the old episodes of The Hour of the Time show by Bill Cooper broadcast. It was also announced that Hal Turner would begin simulcasting his show on 7490 and 5130. There will be a special program from Germany broadcast on 5130 from one to five-thirty local time tomorrow. One airing only.

Ramsey called at 0131. Brief talk about the old radio he was using to listen to the show tonight and then some comments on the election. Another phone call at 0141 from a caller asking if they could find a donor to pay to rerun the Amos and Andy show, Tom explained that they couldn't as Ed Bolton insisted that the tapes of the show be returned to him every three months or so and they had very few episodes in their archives. The caller stated that he has a lot of CDs that Ed Bolton had sent him years ago with a lot of episodes of the program. Said if he could make some money doing so, he would be willing to send the CDs to the station if a backer could be found. Tom said he would be in contact with him. Larry Will called at 0151 to say that he had a few episodes of Amos and Andy in his archives.

No superstation news this evening. Show was off the air at 0200 in the middle of a song and 7490 also went off the air at this time. John Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5130, Sat Nov 10 at 1913, no signal from WBCQ, nor any expected way out here, 2721 km = 1690 statute miles from Monticello over a full-day path, during special booking from Universe Radio, Netherlands, as publicized for 18-22 UT today. Not checked again until 2229 when some JBA talk and music can be measured on 5130.159. Must be the other transmitter, rather than usual 5129.83 area. Still offset plus at 0147. WBCQ said that Universe would be extended to 2230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 17775, KVOH. Voice of Hope website still displays old program sked of September keyed to PDT --- Lacking any explicit answer about it from Ray, I want to confirm correct time for AWR Wavescan now, which had been Saturday 1500. Nov 10 at 1513, maybe a JBA carrier? Maybe not, as 1603 I still hear nothing; but 1627 recheck just in time, it`s faded up to poor S9-S8 for a couple words sounding like Jeff White, then classical piano music fill, so it seems WS is now starting at 1600. 1859 check: no signal, already off or faded out again? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5085, Nov 10 at 1912, WTWW-2 is on `night` frequency, achieving S9+10 over a daytime megameter, playing `Popcorn` and presumably more classic rock; meanwhile 9475, WTWW-1, S9+20 in usual QSO ham show diverging from PPPP.

5085, Nov 11 at 0100 tune-in, WTWW-2 with `Theatre Organ in the Ozarx` running late as usual from timeshifted nominal 0030 UT Sunday; speech sounds OK but some distortion on the music; finally over at 0111 for Tedad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report despatched at 0648 UT November 11