venerdì 24 luglio 2020

Glenn Hauser logs July 24, 2020

** CANADA. 332-MCW kHz, July 24 at 0609, NDB dash and QT, 1000 watts from Thunder Bay, Ont., overcoming nearby 400-watt IC in WIChita KS

335-MCW kHz, July 24 at 0610, ND beacon dash and YLD barely copiable vs HSNL, i.e. 1000 watts from Chapleau, Ont., which is between Timmins and Sault Ste Marie (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, July 24 at 1328-1339, mostly presumed JBA carriers: 13530, 13130, 13020 best S6-S9; 14920, 14900, 14850; 11460, 11440, 11150, 11120, 11100, 11070, 10920, 10845?; 9180, 9215 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MEXICO [non]. 1090, July 24 at 0601 UT, KAAY Little Rock no longer dead air but filling the news hole with a string of PSAs for suicide, MS, veterans, etc., etc. So our fun is over for now, but worth periodic rechecking, also at other hourtops. Even nulled not getting much of anything from XEAU tonight. IRCA Mexican Log editor Tim Hall replies to my previous report:

``Reports coming out of Monterrey in recent months (on some Mexican radio groups I belong to on Facebook) have said that XEAU has been jumping back and forth between "FM Tu" //XHFMTU-103.7 and "Milenio Radio"/"Milenio Noticias." There is speculation that they are just about ready to turn off the AM. In my annual Border Inn sessions (last October, a couple months after the deadline for the Mex Log) they were indeed using Milenio Radio slogan. 73 Tim``

Could it be gone for good? I thought AMs were more likely to survive in major cities where FM bands are full (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NIGERIA. 7254.9, July 24 at 0550, VON is already on S9+10/20, prélude of drumming and singing, nice (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 379-MCW kHz, July 24 at 0612 UT, ND beacon RUE, 25 watts from Russellville AR; not many in the adjacent-state region arriving tonight except this (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also CANADA

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2044 contents: Antarctica, China, Colombia, Cuba, Ethiopia, Germany, Guyana, India, Korea South, México, North America and non, Philippines, Scotland non, Turkey, USA; and the propagation outlook

WOR 2044 is available as of 0020 UT Friday July 24
(mp3 stream)    http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2044.m3u
(mp3 download)  http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2044.mp3

Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
Also linx to podcast services.

The shortwave broadcasts should be:

0900 UT Friday    Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB
2200 UT Friday    WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed?]
0130 UT Saturday  WRMI 5850 to NE, 5010 to S, 7780 to NE
0700 UT Saturday  Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB
1300 UT Saturday  WRMI 15770 to NE
1930vUT Saturday  WA0RCR 1860-AM
0300vUT Sunday    WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400]
0300 UT Sunday    WRMI 5800 to SSE
0700 UT Sunday    Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB
0030 UT Monday    WRMI 7730 to WNW
0130 UT Monday    WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday    WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Monday    WBCQ 5130v Area 51 or 6160v to WSW
0330 UT Monday    WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed?]
0900 UT Monday    Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB
1800vUT Monday    IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy
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 Richard Langley, Fredericton NB, for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com -- not necessarily in US funds as they will convert

One may also contribute via MO or check in US funds on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9330, July 24 at 1339 & 1509, no signal from WLCR via WBCQ-6; is the schedule deliberately less than 24/7 now, or random breakdowns/maintenance periods? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 17775-, July 24 at 1410, KVOH is on and propagating at S9+10 but dead air except for some hum; or is there a trace of JBM? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 670, July 24 at 0619 UT check, NO IBOC noise from WSCR Chicago infesting 657 & 683 kHz, and may this ever be so (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1680+, July 24 at 0558 UT, fast SAH as before between KRJO Monroe LA to the SE and presumed WPRR Ada MI to the NE, no longer open carrier but playing different musix, new format ``The Ride`` as reported by Jack Amelar quoted in last report. Surely a call change will be forthcoming as no longer Public Reality Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, July 23 at 1122-1130: I haven`t done this since March 13 once DST was in effect, as I dearly want to sleep past sunrise, staying awake usually until 0630 or so UT. But I happen to awaken today at 1120 so I risk making a check. There might well have been many more instances even in deep spring/summer had I searched. Sometimes I use the DX-398 with internal ferrite, which allows DFing whether signals be from Asia to the NW or Pacific WSW, but this time it`s the R75 for greater gain but E-W longwire, so no DFing. Usually both preamps are off to minimize overloading, but this time I need at least #1 to get enough signals to detect, by 9-kHz step tuning USB at 1 kHz below the channels to hear tell-tale 1 kHz hets. LSR today is 1132 UT, and if any on the low end, have already outfaded. The rest are just this side of imagination-level, and are typical from Pacific rather than Asia, altho some could be either:

738, 774, 828, 837, 855, 882, 936(2 beating), 1017, 1098, 1152, 1161, 1314, 1566? 936 pair are intriguing: no higher powers than two 10 kW eastern Aussies, and a 1 kW NZer. East Asia has 200 kW from China, 50 from Thailand.

I don`t get back to sleep by 1200, but keep trying and maybe get a few winx past 1300. It shall be another 5 weeks before our SR laten to 1200 when some NHK timepips might audiblize like in March, but that will still be 7 am CDT while I want to keep sleeping (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1635 UT July 24