** CUBA. 5040, April 19 at 0615, RHC is still on but in mushy Spanish when no SW frequency is supposedly scheduled; maybe it was in English at 05-06. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 13700 & 13780, Sunday April 19 at 1335, RHC `En Contacto` canned opening by voice of Marta Ríos, as outroed by this week`s co-host María Elena Calderín, reading the script by Prof. Coro Antich.. Arnie says he`s working from home due to CV isolation --- but he`s always phoning in from home. Spends first 5 minutes on World Music Radio, Denmark, q.v. Then, 6.1 earthquake hit western Cuba. Record hi temps lead to tropo DX; hams from neighboring Jamaica, Bahamas, Florida, Mexico have been getting into the nationwide 2-meter repeater network. Also JBA on 13620 & 13860; see separate log. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 13620 & 13860, April 19 at 1349, RHC `En Compañía del Doctor` JBA enough modulation on these two leapfrog mixing products between S9+30 13700 & 13780, another 80 kHz plus and minus. Once again, not topic-V, but the value of aspirin vs infarxions. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 11760, S9+10/20 clear // 15140 S9+10/20 distorted, April 19 at 1508, RHC in Spanish instead of Esperanto Sundays, kio okazis? Io ĉiam estas malĝusta ĉe RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** DENMARK. 15805, Sunday April 19 at 1325, no signal direct from World Music Radio, as reactivated weekends only. This time by 1521 I bring up the KiwiSDRs in Europe to check it. Of the three in Spain, only Barcelona has a trace of it. Of the 13 in Italy, the first one I try, Rome, is getting it, but awful distortion from wobbling unstable carrier tuning USB or LSB. Isn`t SHN monitoring his own output? 1525 break in pop music as YL mentions Denmark in English; can`t stand any more of it by 1533.
1600 recheck still awful, unlistenable until I switch to AM, by which it`s not so bad. Maybe this is why SHN advises not to tune in SSB, which otherwise could improve such weak-signal reception! 1643 cuts off suddenly, or at least most of the modulation as the mushy carrier still seems there vs Roman noise level: nothing but squealing when tuned to 15804-USB. 1856 recheck, much weaker with distorted music. Earlier at 0915-0935, Manuel Méndez in Spain called it a ``clear signal``.
BTW, in yesterday`s report I said WTWW has not been on 15805 for months; in fact the frequency it has not been on is 15810. BTW2, Arnie Coro devoted the first 5 minutes of his RHC Spanish DX show this week to WMR, derived from SHN`s notice about it as on HCDX. Sked is Sat/Sun only 0700-2000, 200 watts southwards. AC suggests yagi would raise ERP to 800 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** ECUADOR. 6050, April 19 at 0558, S8-S9 of hymn in Spanish, 0600 no timesignal nor any announcement but another hymn, 0603 yet another. Got to be HCJB running overtime instead of closing by 0500*. Only QRM when the RHC news sounder bursts from 6060. HCJB has been reported overnight before, by Wolfgang Bueschel March 15 = also Sunday, at 0750-0805 via remote in Rochester NY (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, April 19 at 0604, JBA carrier, so it seems Bata is back on air again, probably starting an hour earlier. Ron Howard had found it absent April 16-17-18, and Manuel Méndez agrees it was back today when checked at 0515 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** OKLAHOMA. RF 23, KSBI ``52``, April 19 at 1300-1430+ is carrying `CBS Sunday Morning`, which has been shunted here from RF 25 KWTV ``9`` because the big 4 OKC TV stations are all carrying a pre-recorded commemoration at the 25th anniversary of the OKC bombing --- normally they would all go live for the ceremony including reading names of all 168 victims. At least KWTV provides this alternative on its sub-station. I believe I previously denied that 52 is known as ``News 9 Plus``, but now I see such an ID slide at breaks, at least when it is carrying KWTV programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** SAO TOME E PRINCIPE. 15460.069, April 19 at 1506, JBA talk, i.e. VOA Hausa from the frequency-offable Pinheira site (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY. 15450.025, April 19 at 1321, I`m awake barely early enough to check VOT 1230 English to WEu and NAm beyond: S4 to S8 peaks with music, typically off-frequency, but could be worse. Brief unreadable YL announcement and off 1325*. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 2097.3-CW, April 19 at 0610 UT, single-letter beacon A once every dekasecond is back! I bandscan across here almost every night and it`s been missing since my last log February 21; or rather I first reported it missing as of March 4. A has been previously located as anywhere but Quartzsite, Arizona (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. Next WORLD OF RADIO 2030 SW airings:
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 and/or 6160v to WSW
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210
1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE
Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
Thanks this week for financial support from Gerald T. Pollard, Raleigh NC, who sent a generous US$ cheque to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702
One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. 9839.8 approx., Sunday April 19 at 1328, lite het upon WHRI weekend-only broadcast catches my ear, 9840 with gospel huxter closing from Warsaw, Indiana, 1330 on to Kimberly Ann who thinx it`s Friday. I`m expecting perpetual off-frequency Voice of Turkey as sked on 9840 daily at 13-16, but Vietnam is also on here until 1530, IIRC also off-frequency like 9839.9, but hard to find any recent logs of that since Harold Frodge on 6 March 2011.
O, here`s a recent 2020 one indicating my het is Vietnam, not Turkey:
``9840.004, TRT Turkish mx program, S=9+15dB noted at Doha Qatar SDR unit. And noted some adjacent whistle tone likely VoVTN Son Tay in Japanese on 9839.774 kHz odd fq at 14.36 UT on March 31 (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 31)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** VANUATU. 7890 & 11835, April 19 at 0606, JBA carriers on the second and third harmonix of inaudible 3945. R. Vanuatu multiples are quite the sensation for Pacificans, Ron Howard and remote receivers. So far have seen no reports of harmonix of their other frequencies. See previous log report for those to seek (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report despatched at 1956 UT April 19
** CUBA. 13700 & 13780, Sunday April 19 at 1335, RHC `En Contacto` canned opening by voice of Marta Ríos, as outroed by this week`s co-host María Elena Calderín, reading the script by Prof. Coro Antich.. Arnie says he`s working from home due to CV isolation --- but he`s always phoning in from home. Spends first 5 minutes on World Music Radio, Denmark, q.v. Then, 6.1 earthquake hit western Cuba. Record hi temps lead to tropo DX; hams from neighboring Jamaica, Bahamas, Florida, Mexico have been getting into the nationwide 2-meter repeater network. Also JBA on 13620 & 13860; see separate log. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 13620 & 13860, April 19 at 1349, RHC `En Compañía del Doctor` JBA enough modulation on these two leapfrog mixing products between S9+30 13700 & 13780, another 80 kHz plus and minus. Once again, not topic-V, but the value of aspirin vs infarxions. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 11760, S9+10/20 clear // 15140 S9+10/20 distorted, April 19 at 1508, RHC in Spanish instead of Esperanto Sundays, kio okazis? Io ĉiam estas malĝusta ĉe RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** DENMARK. 15805, Sunday April 19 at 1325, no signal direct from World Music Radio, as reactivated weekends only. This time by 1521 I bring up the KiwiSDRs in Europe to check it. Of the three in Spain, only Barcelona has a trace of it. Of the 13 in Italy, the first one I try, Rome, is getting it, but awful distortion from wobbling unstable carrier tuning USB or LSB. Isn`t SHN monitoring his own output? 1525 break in pop music as YL mentions Denmark in English; can`t stand any more of it by 1533.
1600 recheck still awful, unlistenable until I switch to AM, by which it`s not so bad. Maybe this is why SHN advises not to tune in SSB, which otherwise could improve such weak-signal reception! 1643 cuts off suddenly, or at least most of the modulation as the mushy carrier still seems there vs Roman noise level: nothing but squealing when tuned to 15804-USB. 1856 recheck, much weaker with distorted music. Earlier at 0915-0935, Manuel Méndez in Spain called it a ``clear signal``.
BTW, in yesterday`s report I said WTWW has not been on 15805 for months; in fact the frequency it has not been on is 15810. BTW2, Arnie Coro devoted the first 5 minutes of his RHC Spanish DX show this week to WMR, derived from SHN`s notice about it as on HCDX. Sked is Sat/Sun only 0700-2000, 200 watts southwards. AC suggests yagi would raise ERP to 800 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** ECUADOR. 6050, April 19 at 0558, S8-S9 of hymn in Spanish, 0600 no timesignal nor any announcement but another hymn, 0603 yet another. Got to be HCJB running overtime instead of closing by 0500*. Only QRM when the RHC news sounder bursts from 6060. HCJB has been reported overnight before, by Wolfgang Bueschel March 15 = also Sunday, at 0750-0805 via remote in Rochester NY (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, April 19 at 0604, JBA carrier, so it seems Bata is back on air again, probably starting an hour earlier. Ron Howard had found it absent April 16-17-18, and Manuel Méndez agrees it was back today when checked at 0515 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** OKLAHOMA. RF 23, KSBI ``52``, April 19 at 1300-1430+ is carrying `CBS Sunday Morning`, which has been shunted here from RF 25 KWTV ``9`` because the big 4 OKC TV stations are all carrying a pre-recorded commemoration at the 25th anniversary of the OKC bombing --- normally they would all go live for the ceremony including reading names of all 168 victims. At least KWTV provides this alternative on its sub-station. I believe I previously denied that 52 is known as ``News 9 Plus``, but now I see such an ID slide at breaks, at least when it is carrying KWTV programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** SAO TOME E PRINCIPE. 15460.069, April 19 at 1506, JBA talk, i.e. VOA Hausa from the frequency-offable Pinheira site (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY. 15450.025, April 19 at 1321, I`m awake barely early enough to check VOT 1230 English to WEu and NAm beyond: S4 to S8 peaks with music, typically off-frequency, but could be worse. Brief unreadable YL announcement and off 1325*. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 2097.3-CW, April 19 at 0610 UT, single-letter beacon A once every dekasecond is back! I bandscan across here almost every night and it`s been missing since my last log February 21; or rather I first reported it missing as of March 4. A has been previously located as anywhere but Quartzsite, Arizona (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. Next WORLD OF RADIO 2030 SW airings:
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 and/or 6160v to WSW
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210
1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE
Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
Thanks this week for financial support from Gerald T. Pollard, Raleigh NC, who sent a generous US$ cheque to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702
One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. 9839.8 approx., Sunday April 19 at 1328, lite het upon WHRI weekend-only broadcast catches my ear, 9840 with gospel huxter closing from Warsaw, Indiana, 1330 on to Kimberly Ann who thinx it`s Friday. I`m expecting perpetual off-frequency Voice of Turkey as sked on 9840 daily at 13-16, but Vietnam is also on here until 1530, IIRC also off-frequency like 9839.9, but hard to find any recent logs of that since Harold Frodge on 6 March 2011.
O, here`s a recent 2020 one indicating my het is Vietnam, not Turkey:
``9840.004, TRT Turkish mx program, S=9+15dB noted at Doha Qatar SDR unit. And noted some adjacent whistle tone likely VoVTN Son Tay in Japanese on 9839.774 kHz odd fq at 14.36 UT on March 31 (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 31)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** VANUATU. 7890 & 11835, April 19 at 0606, JBA carriers on the second and third harmonix of inaudible 3945. R. Vanuatu multiples are quite the sensation for Pacificans, Ron Howard and remote receivers. So far have seen no reports of harmonix of their other frequencies. See previous log report for those to seek (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report despatched at 1956 UT April 19
