** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey Aug 16 at 1342-1345: 13160 S5-S7, 13020, 12880, weakest 12820; today no chance to check any other Way-Out-Of-Bands (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 13357, 13426, 13495, 13563, 13632; 13769, 13827, 13906, 13975 approx., Aug 16 at 1350, extremely distorted spurblobs out of RHC 13700 transmitter, not tuned in that order but first noted 13563; two closest pairs are very strong, trailing off to JBA edges with F# tones at least, up to 5th multiple of ~69 kHz intervals; much like yesterday morning. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** DJIBOUTI [non]. 17870, Sunday August 16 at 1453, nice Horn Of Africa music on VG bigsig S9+10/20 via UTwente SDR, i.e. La Voix de Djibouti weekly clandestine listed as Issoudun site, FRANCE. No announcements until chopped off at 1459*. When last logged a biweek ago I had to go to Kuwait to hear it as hardly any UTwente sig, to be expected so close to FRANCE and skipping over: distance from Issoudun to Enschede is 684 km = 425 statute miles. If site has not changed, I suppose well audible now because plenty of sporadic E MUF over western Europe short-skipping (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** MEXICO. 28166-CW, Aug 15 at 1854, JBA beacon a bit chirpy, VVV XE2O/B. Also heard recently, sporadic E, as in WJ5O roster: ``28.166 XE2O C ALLENDE, NL, MEXICO # 5W, VERTICAL NEW 30 Aug 2010 new call 7 Aug 11`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also USA
** U S A [and non]. 13200-USB, Aug 16 at 1351, Andrews [AFB, MD near Wash DC] in contact with some tactical call, don`t recall hearing them here before despite numerous CNR1 jammer bandscan passovers. However this is a major USAF comms frequency, in 2002y Klingenfuss guide, not only for AFA Andrews but also: AFI McClellan CA, AFS Offutt NE, AGA Hickam HI, AIE Andersen Guam, AIF Yokota Japan, AJE Croughton UK, AKA Elmendorf AK, CUW Lajes Azores, NAU USN Roosevelt Roads PR, XPH Thule Greenland. I wonder which of these still be active? And if those callsigns are ever uttered (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 28290.8-CW, Aug 15 at 1851, beacon AR AR AR DE K5TLJ/B, heard again, sporadic E from adjacent state: ``28.2908 K5TLJ C TRUMANN ARKANSAS # 5W, VERTICAL testing 10 Jan 12`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) One other: see MEXICO
** U S A. 28214-CW, Aug 16 at 1834, VVV N4PAL N4PAL BCN QSL, i.e. ``28.214 N4PAL C LONGWOOD, FLORIDA # 5W, VERTICAL NEW 15 Dec 07`` without a /B
28217.5-CW, Aug 16 at 1838, VVV VVV DE K4PAR/B and very long pauses: ``28.2175 K4PAR ? EATONTON, GEORGIA # ?,? un-coordinated 28 May 19 reported by Richard SWL`` or is it --- ``28.2177 K4PAR C EATONTON, GEORGIA NEW 1 JUNE 2019``
28289.3-CW, Aug 16 at 1840, WJ5O beacon as in his own roster: ``28.2893 WJ5O C TROY ALABAMA # 2W VERTICAL New Frequency 25 Jan 14``
28286.5-CW, Aug 16 at 1842, WB0BIN beacon with slow and fast WPMs: ``28.2865 WBØBIN C SABIN MINNESOTA # 7W GP VERTICAL New 22 April 18``
28290.8-CW, Aug 16 at 1903, AR DE K5TLJ/B: ``28.2908 K5TLJ C TRUMANN ARKANSAS # 5 W VERTICAL testing 10 Jan 12``
All of which have been heard recently before. Frequencies not measured exactly but listings seem correct. Note that some zero-land hams do not use the real figure zero in their calls, which is not crossed in most fonts, but the Scandinavian *letter* Ø which is, and which means you will not get a search hit unless also employed.
This time a few widely-spaced phonehams also to be found on 10m:
28665-USB, Aug 16 at 1850, K4LO with repeated unfonetik but clear calls in contact, per QRZ.com: ``K4LO USA flag USA, PHILLIP N WILSON, PACE, FL 32571-2850``
28425-USB, Aug 16 at 1847, CQ CQ CQ, KC4TVZ with fonetix, heavy southern accent, sounds like a recording, exactly same intonation with each repeat, and he barely leaves enough time between for a reply. Again/still at 1902. From his page is a big contester/certificate collector: ``KC4TVZ USA flag USA, Todd Burnette, Flowery Branch, GA 30542``
28433-USB, Aug 16 at 1850, unID ragchewer about tubes no hurry to ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2047 monitoring: confirmed Saturday August 15 starting at 1945 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, VG via nearby Warrenton KiwiSDR.
Also confirmed UT Sunday August 16 at 0300 on WRMI 5800, VG to OK SDR
Also confirmed UT Sun Aug 16 starting at 0323 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO again via Warrenton SDR well above noise level. Next:
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 [jammed?] to SSE
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 for financial support from Ivan Soldo, Australian Capital Territory, for a contribution via PayPal originally in Australian$ to woradio at yahoo.com
One may also contribute by MO or check in US funds on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 5085, UT Sun Aug 16 at 0020, after a hamadstring and WTWW plea for listener $$, `TONITO` starts and runs until 0050. Bob Heil is presenting a recording of his performance in 1966 on the Hammond Organ he built for a Holiday Inn in Columbus OH; I have switched to #2 webcast where $tereo is possible, and it does sound so on a rather noisy old tape (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. The sporadic E VHF DX season is winding down now, but keeping an eye on the DXMAPs, afternoon of Aug 15, some MUF spikes above 90, even above 108 MHz, so it`s worth a try on the radio in the garaged but very hot parked car. Unfortunately, fringe Kansans are above normal messing up some `open` frequencies, so I wind up mainly exploring them for a dekaminute, 2235-2245 UT:
At 2238, 101.3 Wichita with national and local ads such as Cavender`s, but CCI mentioning ``K-Love``. WTFDA Database shows this extensive network with 6 stations on 101.3, none of them near, max power 6 kW ERP, two of them translators in: NY, WA, CO, MS. I would not expect this to be overload from a local K-Love faraway frequency.
At 2243, 105.9 with romusic in Spanish, none known in OK, JBA and fading, but likely just: ``KSSA 105.9 INGALLS KS 100.0 kW H&V, 203.0 m HAAT, 37-46-48 100-27-36 Spanish 415C KE BUENA KSSA...KSSA REGIONAL MEXICAN KE BUENA 105.9`` which is between Garden City and Dodge City (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 27385-LSB, Aug 16 at 1445, among freebander pileup one reveals he`s in northeast Tennessee; a prime such frequency, another being 27375-LSB; but no 10m hambeacons heard less than one MHz higher. DXMAPs show MUF spikes above 90 MHz, but FM band not checked yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 1956 UT August 16 just after feeling an earth tremor yet to be checked
** CUBA. 13357, 13426, 13495, 13563, 13632; 13769, 13827, 13906, 13975 approx., Aug 16 at 1350, extremely distorted spurblobs out of RHC 13700 transmitter, not tuned in that order but first noted 13563; two closest pairs are very strong, trailing off to JBA edges with F# tones at least, up to 5th multiple of ~69 kHz intervals; much like yesterday morning. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** DJIBOUTI [non]. 17870, Sunday August 16 at 1453, nice Horn Of Africa music on VG bigsig S9+10/20 via UTwente SDR, i.e. La Voix de Djibouti weekly clandestine listed as Issoudun site, FRANCE. No announcements until chopped off at 1459*. When last logged a biweek ago I had to go to Kuwait to hear it as hardly any UTwente sig, to be expected so close to FRANCE and skipping over: distance from Issoudun to Enschede is 684 km = 425 statute miles. If site has not changed, I suppose well audible now because plenty of sporadic E MUF over western Europe short-skipping (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** MEXICO. 28166-CW, Aug 15 at 1854, JBA beacon a bit chirpy, VVV XE2O/B. Also heard recently, sporadic E, as in WJ5O roster: ``28.166 XE2O C ALLENDE, NL, MEXICO # 5W, VERTICAL NEW 30 Aug 2010 new call 7 Aug 11`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also USA
** U S A [and non]. 13200-USB, Aug 16 at 1351, Andrews [AFB, MD near Wash DC] in contact with some tactical call, don`t recall hearing them here before despite numerous CNR1 jammer bandscan passovers. However this is a major USAF comms frequency, in 2002y Klingenfuss guide, not only for AFA Andrews but also: AFI McClellan CA, AFS Offutt NE, AGA Hickam HI, AIE Andersen Guam, AIF Yokota Japan, AJE Croughton UK, AKA Elmendorf AK, CUW Lajes Azores, NAU USN Roosevelt Roads PR, XPH Thule Greenland. I wonder which of these still be active? And if those callsigns are ever uttered (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 28290.8-CW, Aug 15 at 1851, beacon AR AR AR DE K5TLJ/B, heard again, sporadic E from adjacent state: ``28.2908 K5TLJ C TRUMANN ARKANSAS # 5W, VERTICAL testing 10 Jan 12`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) One other: see MEXICO
** U S A. 28214-CW, Aug 16 at 1834, VVV N4PAL N4PAL BCN QSL, i.e. ``28.214 N4PAL C LONGWOOD, FLORIDA # 5W, VERTICAL NEW 15 Dec 07`` without a /B
28217.5-CW, Aug 16 at 1838, VVV VVV DE K4PAR/B and very long pauses: ``28.2175 K4PAR ? EATONTON, GEORGIA # ?,? un-coordinated 28 May 19 reported by Richard SWL`` or is it --- ``28.2177 K4PAR C EATONTON, GEORGIA NEW 1 JUNE 2019``
28289.3-CW, Aug 16 at 1840, WJ5O beacon as in his own roster: ``28.2893 WJ5O C TROY ALABAMA # 2W VERTICAL New Frequency 25 Jan 14``
28286.5-CW, Aug 16 at 1842, WB0BIN beacon with slow and fast WPMs: ``28.2865 WBØBIN C SABIN MINNESOTA # 7W GP VERTICAL New 22 April 18``
28290.8-CW, Aug 16 at 1903, AR DE K5TLJ/B: ``28.2908 K5TLJ C TRUMANN ARKANSAS # 5 W VERTICAL testing 10 Jan 12``
All of which have been heard recently before. Frequencies not measured exactly but listings seem correct. Note that some zero-land hams do not use the real figure zero in their calls, which is not crossed in most fonts, but the Scandinavian *letter* Ø which is, and which means you will not get a search hit unless also employed.
This time a few widely-spaced phonehams also to be found on 10m:
28665-USB, Aug 16 at 1850, K4LO with repeated unfonetik but clear calls in contact, per QRZ.com: ``K4LO USA flag USA, PHILLIP N WILSON, PACE, FL 32571-2850``
28425-USB, Aug 16 at 1847, CQ CQ CQ, KC4TVZ with fonetix, heavy southern accent, sounds like a recording, exactly same intonation with each repeat, and he barely leaves enough time between for a reply. Again/still at 1902. From his page is a big contester/certificate collector: ``KC4TVZ USA flag USA, Todd Burnette, Flowery Branch, GA 30542``
28433-USB, Aug 16 at 1850, unID ragchewer about tubes no hurry to ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2047 monitoring: confirmed Saturday August 15 starting at 1945 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, VG via nearby Warrenton KiwiSDR.
Also confirmed UT Sunday August 16 at 0300 on WRMI 5800, VG to OK SDR
Also confirmed UT Sun Aug 16 starting at 0323 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO again via Warrenton SDR well above noise level. Next:
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 [jammed?] to SSE
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 for financial support from Ivan Soldo, Australian Capital Territory, for a contribution via PayPal originally in Australian$ to woradio at yahoo.com
One may also contribute by MO or check in US funds on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 5085, UT Sun Aug 16 at 0020, after a hamadstring and WTWW plea for listener $$, `TONITO` starts and runs until 0050. Bob Heil is presenting a recording of his performance in 1966 on the Hammond Organ he built for a Holiday Inn in Columbus OH; I have switched to #2 webcast where $tereo is possible, and it does sound so on a rather noisy old tape (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. The sporadic E VHF DX season is winding down now, but keeping an eye on the DXMAPs, afternoon of Aug 15, some MUF spikes above 90, even above 108 MHz, so it`s worth a try on the radio in the garaged but very hot parked car. Unfortunately, fringe Kansans are above normal messing up some `open` frequencies, so I wind up mainly exploring them for a dekaminute, 2235-2245 UT:
At 2238, 101.3 Wichita with national and local ads such as Cavender`s, but CCI mentioning ``K-Love``. WTFDA Database shows this extensive network with 6 stations on 101.3, none of them near, max power 6 kW ERP, two of them translators in: NY, WA, CO, MS. I would not expect this to be overload from a local K-Love faraway frequency.
At 2243, 105.9 with romusic in Spanish, none known in OK, JBA and fading, but likely just: ``KSSA 105.9 INGALLS KS 100.0 kW H&V, 203.0 m HAAT, 37-46-48 100-27-36 Spanish 415C KE BUENA KSSA...KSSA REGIONAL MEXICAN KE BUENA 105.9`` which is between Garden City and Dodge City (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 27385-LSB, Aug 16 at 1445, among freebander pileup one reveals he`s in northeast Tennessee; a prime such frequency, another being 27375-LSB; but no 10m hambeacons heard less than one MHz higher. DXMAPs show MUF spikes above 90 MHz, but FM band not checked yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 1956 UT August 16 just after feeling an earth tremor yet to be checked