Glenn Hauser logs September 19, 2020

 ** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-CUSB, Sat Sept 19 at 1457, no signal direct of course from LRA36, nor at Brasil SDR by 1506, despite RAE special postponed to this date, 1500-2200 UT; meanwhile, Manuel Méndez Lugo, Spain, informed us: ``ANTARCTICA, 15476, LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza. According to a WhatsApp received from the station operator, today Saturday there won't be program. The operator has been in an Antarctic Chilean base for two weeks. When he returns to Base Esperanza he will communicate when the station will be on air again`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CANADA. 340-MCW kHz, Sept 19 at 0630 UT, ND beacon dash and YY, which is 500 watts from Mont-Joli, Quebec. I was tuned to 339-USB. And no probably from weak local EI on 341 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11880, Sept 19 at 1501 UT, S9+10 of dead air from CRI English relay; then, straining, a trace of JBM. Maybe will upbuild. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2052 monitoring: not confirmed Sat Sept 19 at 1300 on WRMI 15770: JBA carrier only, not enough mod to make out a note of my theme or a syllable of my voice. Next one had not started by 1935, but VG S9+10 signal into Warrenton KiwiSDR; but did just start at 1942.5:

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 to SSE
0300vUT Monday    WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW [ex-5130]
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 to SSE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday  WRMI 7780 to NE

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** U S A. Regarding the late Justice Ginsburg being treated as if she were a Christian: among the wall-to-wall TV coverage, the crowd spontaneously gathered outside the SCOTUS building broke into hymn, `Amazing Grace`. This is one of the best-known Christian hymns, not ecumenical, Judeo-Christian, from its very origins in a conversion. https://www.learnreligions.com/amazing-grace-701274  However, the original lyrix do not mention J.C. at all, and thus could be taken as more generic. But is it ever sung in synagogues? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** VENEZUELA [non]. 600, VOA via R. Libertad, COLOMBIA: I have not monitored since its première UT Sept 16, but Don Moore now reports Sept 19:

``Colombia/Venezuela: There has been discussion in Cadena DX, the Latin American Facebook group, on the VOA programs via Radio Libertad 600 kHz in Barranquilla, Colombia. Santiago San Gil in Barinas wrote that normally Radio Libertad was received there with "acceptable signals" but that since the programs began there has been significant co-channel interference. Fernando Viloria in the coastal Venezuelan state of Carabobo says he has been hearing an unlisted station calling itself "Radio Verdad" and "La Emisora de la Alegría" on 600 kHz. The station has not announced a location. Several DXers wrote of tuning the Radio Libertad programs on the remote SDR in Bonaire. They report it is putting in a good signal to Bonaire. (Don Moore)``

A great many Venezuelan radio stations have gone off the air, tnx to government persecution and/or the economic situation. Was there ever a 600? Yes, first checking a WRTH 2014 at hand:

YVSW, 15 kW, R. Alto Llano, Sta Bárbara de Barinas. I wonder if SSG remembers that one? In fact only one of two MW stations in that state at that time.

YVSW also in WRTH 2005, when there was a second 600: YVQB, 10 kW, Radio Sucre, Cumaná, Sucre, whose address was in a building called Libertad.

In 2005 WRTH there were a number of stations around the country named Radio Alegría, or Radio Fe y Alegría, probably a group or network. Do not see any with Verdad in their names.

There may have been remnants of these outlets which could be pressed into jamming disservice in short order; or any MW transmitter could soon be retuned to 600. Connecting to a proper-wavelength antenna could be quite another matter (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1945 UT September 19