sabato 29 agosto 2020

Glenn Hauser logs August 29, 2020

** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-CUSB, LRA36 publicized a big broadcast for Sat Aug 29, alternating Spanish and German at 1500-2030, then English at 2030-2200. But: Not a trace from 1500 past 1540 on any Brazilian or Argentine SDR I can access. Is anyone hearing it anyhow? There has been a propagation disturbance as long predicted. Note admission of low power 800 watts. WRTH 2020 said ``1 x 10 kW (operated at 1.5 kW). F.pl: increase output to 10 kW`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR iog)

Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, replies at 1612: ``Hi, transmission suspended due to bad weather. Best 73,s`` (Glenn Hauser, WOR)

** BRAZIL. 6134.8, Aug 29 at 0554, weak signal sounds like Brasilian talk, but cuts off air 0555* before I can measure it exactly; presumed R. Aparecida. Nothing audible on 9630v by 0558 while RVM is audible, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** BRAZIL. 5939.5, Aug 29 at 0557, music and soon announcement in Brazilian, sounds like official RVM canned ID, S4 vs S9 noise crashes, and not too much 5935 WWCR now. Within a few Hz of 5939.500 producing equal hets, SSB tuned to 5939 and 5940.

9664.808, Aug 29 at 0559, Brazilian talk at S4-S6 from always-off-frequency RVM. Only ZY audible now on 31 or 49m (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey Aug 29 at 1352: none higher than 12880 JBA carrier; also 11460, 11170, 11150, 11120, 10960; 10160 trace of Chinese; 9215 S3-S5 of Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13820, Aug 29 at 1315, noise jamming where there has been no RM since March. Something`s always wrong at DCJC. Also jams its real frequency 13605 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13740, Aug 29 at 1315, RHC on here but not 13700 and no spurs, with report on COVID-19 statistics in Cuba by provincias, municipios, barrage of figures I don`t try to copy but I think he said the mortality rate was under 3%; from echoey venue.

Still no 13700 at 1352, but by 1454, 13700 is on and 13740 is off. Nominal skeds for these two: 13700, 13-15 to San Francisco; 13740, 11-14 to Buenos Aires, but not noticeably weaker here. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NIGERIA. 7254.9v, Aug 29 at 0602, VON is AWOL again, and not on 9689.9v either (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2049 monitoring: almost confirmed
Saturday August 29 at 1310, the 1300 on WRMI 15770, JBA traces of talk.

Also confirmed at 1615 the 1600 Saturday on all WRN webcasts, presumed International-Vacuum satellites too. Next:

1930vUT Saturday  WA0RCR 1860-AM
2300 UT Saturday  WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Sunday    WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400]
0030 UT Monday    WRMI 7730 to WNW
0130 UT Monday    WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday    WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800-NEW to SSE
0300vUT Monday    WBCQ 5130v Area 51 or 6160v
0330 UT Monday    WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
1800vUT Monday    IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy
0100 UT Tuesday   WRMI 7780 to NE
0330 UT Tuesday   WRMI 5800 NEW to SSE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday  WRMI 7780 to NE
0130 UT Thursday  WRMI 5850 to NW & 5010 to S NEWs

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

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** U S A. 1070, Aug 29 received this reply to my report of the WCSZ DX test: ``Hi Glen[n], Thanks for your report - it confirms your reception of WCSZ on August 22, 2020. This was non-DA, at 50 kW the entire time. They were DA daytime until about ten years ago, when that equipment was removed. Three towers at night, aimed at the ocean with Greenville [SC] in it's main lobe.  Indianapolis kills them in their fringes at night. Al Hajny`` --- that`s it, no eQSL attached.

S.S. is an ~8K suburb on the NW side of Greenville. My Collins Gem pocket dixionary, originally owned by G. B. Hancock for a 5th hour French class, says souci means: care, worry, anxiety, solicitude, marigold; but Google says the expression, without any of those = carefree. The Arizonans skipped the French for their Carefree, as Paul Harvey used to remind us, north of Phœnix, presumably a retirement community (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)       

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Aug 29 at 0606: nothing but 621, presumed CANARY ISLANDS (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1725 UT August 29