Glenn Hauser logs November 17-18, 2018

https://www.bclnews.it/2018/11/18/glenn-hauser-logs-november-17-18-2018

** CUBA. 9720, Nov 17 at 2315, RHC English is still here at wrong hour, JBM but S9+40, while 5040 is off. Nov 18 at 0014, 5040 is still off, and 9720 is S3-S4, dead air or just barely modulated? Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6100, Nov 18 at 0647, this RHC English is off and so is 5040, leaving only 6000, 6060 and 6165 to choose from, still overkill. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 15140, Nov 18 at 1439, RHC missing from here, supposed to start at 1200; still on 15230, 13780, 13700, 11760, etc. during `En Contacto` with ailing Arnie about some new hamsat launch. Something`s always wrong at RHC. Recheck at 1705, now 15140 is back on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** FRANCE [non]. 5950, UT Sun Nov 18 at 0559, WRMI with Zanotti ID, 0600 WRN ID and opening Radio France International in English dated November 18, headlines, so this is really a new (almost?) live show, the last one the English sexion will be allowed to produce in the morning, so what will occupy this hour from tomorrow? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GERMANY. 11800, Nov 18 at 1441, special-English offering a booklet, not a Bible, from Frank & Ernest, at a PO Box in NY NY 10016, or 800 #, outro to be sure to include the call-letters of this station --- but 1444 to dead air and off 1445* with NO c/l nor any ID! Clearly a domestic show not arranged properly for ISWBC. From HFCC we know I was extremely lucky to catch a once-weekly quarter-hour eastward from Nauen. Of more interest, besides an otherwise vacant frequency, what caught my ear was a short/longpath echo. LP is almost 5 X further than SP (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) F&E: See also USA: WRMI PP

** GERMANY [non]. 15200, Nov 17 at 1828, S9 African language mentions Bonn, Nigeria several times --- two clues leading right to this hour in Hausa from DW via FRANCE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KUWAIT. 11629.756, Nov 18 at 1448, G signal S9-S6 with Qur`an but interrupted for ordinary Arabic talkbits, as R. Kuwait is still way off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA [and non]. 9689.909, Nov 17 at 2004 talk in the clear from VON Hausa, no sign of REE Spain 9690.00 to het it, presumed AWOL again today. However, an hour earlier, John Figliozzi informed the WOR iog:

``9690 kHz NIGERIA - VoN Abuja very strong and virtually obliterating REE Spain in English at 1900 UT with discussion about African elections. SINPO 44444. John Figliozzi, Sarasota FL, Sony ICF-2010, 45' longwire`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RWANDA [non]. 15420, Sat Nov 17 at 1826, African language S9+10. It`s amid the weekly hour of Radio Itahuka, 250 kW, 320 degrees also USward from Talata, MADAGASCAR. Even WRTH 2018, page 517 claims the language is Kirundi, as do online listings even tho it should be fairly obvious that the no doubt related but distinct Kirundi pertains to neighboring Burundi; rather than Kinyarwanda in --- Rwanda! BTW, it`s based in Washington DC. Except for 15140 Cuba, this and 15200 DW France are the SSOB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 9555, Nov 17 at 1840, ME song poor S4-S5, 1842 announcement. Presumed SBC as longly scheduled for program 1 at 1755-2300, 500 kW, 295 degrees from Riyadh (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNID 11820

** THAILAND [and non]. 9940, Nov 18 at 1414, R. Thailand in English, S4-S6 poor with flutter and really unreadable despite no QRM.

9940, Nov 18 at 1431 now some otherlang, which per HFCC is FEBC in Uighur, 100 kW, 323 degrees from Bocaue, PHILIPPINES at 1430-1500.

Q: will Christian Uighurs be less persecuted and brainwashed by the ChiCom than Moslem Uighurs in East Turkistan? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1956 monitoring: Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria reports: 

``GERMANY World of Radio via HLR on 6190 kHz CUSB, Nov 17

https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-world-of-radio-via-hlr-on_18.html

0731-0800 on 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sat, fair

Wrong frequency announcement: HLR on 7265, instead of 6190 kHz!``

Confirmed here UT Sunday November 18 at 0428 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, about 5 minutes in, so started circa 0423; good S9+20. Next:

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

0400vUT Monday    WBCQ   5130v Area 51 to WSW

0430 UT Monday    WRMI   9955 to SSE, NEW 5010 to SSE*

*For a while, the WRMI skedgrid showed 5010, 160 degrees at 0100-0500 duplicating System C on 9955, which would have affected WOR at 0430 UT Monday and 0200 UT Tuesday --- but as of 1643 UT Nov 18, neither XMTR 3 nor 14 is shown on 5010 during those hours, no hours at all on #3. At this time Jeff is logged in with his portrait, accompanied by Anonymous: Iguana, Alligator, Blobfish [not Blowfish], Grizzly, Wolverine.

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, Sat Nov 17 at 2304, `Voice of the Report of the Week` is on this WRMI, John musing how he is having to reduce SW broadcasts in December due to lack of sufficient funding, but how he will always promote the SW medium. Major cut will be broadcasts on 4840, which he says served N American listeners better than any, but apparently too expensive. He never mentions which *stations* go with which frequencies, but we know of course 4840 is WWCR --- and I was unaware he was even on there, not for very long? Says VORW will continue on 5850, 5950, 7730, 7780, 9395, 9955, all WRMIs, which ought to suffice. 4840 is on the Nov WWCR sked with VORW Sat at 7-8 pm CST = UT Sun 00-01, for one more week. Only from ``John`` as usual suppressing his surname, which I suppose he would not want me to mention (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9955, Sat Nov 17 at 2316, surprised to hear WRMI in Luso Portuguese --- it`s Frank & Ernest as now scheduled for a quarter-hour. More F&E: see GERMANY 11800 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5950, UT Sun Nov 18 at 0229, WRMI again fires the off-the-wall ``Sonpower Radio`` canned ID just before R. Tirana relay; strange (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5950, Nov 18 at 1408, WRMI is VP in `Wavescan`, so now confirmed for 1400 Sundays, and also on the System G sked carved out of mostly-Oldies elsewhen; meanwhile 9395 is BSing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. 7490+, Nov 17 at 2311, WBCQ off-frequency-plus with VP signal now has a het from somestation really on 7490.0 --- nothing scheduled now, but in previous seasons, BBC has been here from an Asian site. Otherwise WBCQ lux out with no CCI despite being off-frequency, which if fixed would at least avoid hets. At 0015 Nov 18, WBCQ in clear again as I measure it on 7490.165V --- the exact frequency wavers very slightly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

WWCR timeshares 7490 in mornings, but I see WHRI is also registered 47 degrees at 0430-0600, never heard so far, but watch out during that sesquihour from assuming algo be WBCQ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5129.356V, Nov 18 at 0019, WBCQ poor with music, and still on the much lower off-frequency than before. 22 hours earlier I had measured it on .362. We have recently heard it on three distinct spots around 5130v, so are these three transmitters, or one which keeps being readjusted? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9475-, Sat Nov 17 at 2002, WTWW-1 in dead air, finally 2005:46 mod cuts on amid ham net relay via QSO show deviating from SFAW. Altho 2-way contacts are heard, no sign of SW reception, so either from VHF or webfeed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5085, UT Sun Nov 18 at 0643, WTWW-2 is off and still off after 1400, unlike last night when it was on late, very late with rock music; very flexible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 11820.00, Nov 17 at 1834, upbeat music at S9+10, rather repetitive, in a loop? 1835 fade down and then another more jazzy instrumental. Retune at 1858 just in time to hear more music and off at 1859* without announcement. Not the kind of testing Babcock/Encompass/Woofferton does. I know it`s not Saudi Arabia since that one is always significantly off-frequency+plus above 11820, altho nothing heard from it before or after 1859. Coincidental simulmonitoring by Mark Coady, Ontario DXA:

``11820 Unidentified at 1832 with someone testing with a loop of light Europop and light jazz instrumentals with occasional brief breaks in transmission where a man tried to speak in Arabic then more music and an OC at 1835 and a man with brief talk in Arabic and back to the music to 1842 and another bit of OC with a woman trying to talk in Arabic then back to the music to 1859 and off – Very Good Nov 17 

– At first I thought that the music was filler while the Saudis tried to fix a break in their normal program feed. But the Saudis were there all along and it was them during the transmission breaks and brief bits of open carrier and they had the Islamic Call to Prayer in progress with a poor signal when the carrier was finally cut at 1859. There were no [sic] announcements during the test so it will be interesting to see if anyone owns up to it`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 1738 UT November 18