Glenn Hauser logs September 24-25-26, 2020

 ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer search, Sept 25 at 1445-1447: none higher than 11460 & 11170 JBA carriers, the latter with flutter; and 9155, S2-S3 trace of Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** COLOMBIA? 4940, Sept 26 at 0100 quick check via Bonaire TWR SDR, still no signal of anonymous mystery missionary station, now gone for a week (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 349-MCW kHz, Sept 25 at 0629 UT, ND beacon GW; I`m tuned to 348-USB yet there is still QRM from nearby 350 RG in OKC. No dash, so not Canadian like the GW I recently logged on 371; and there is another USonian GW on 227. 349 is in Greenwood - Teoc, Mississippi, 25 watts.

353-MCW kHz, Sept 25 at 0630, mixture of ND beacons IN and LI; I have to listen a while until they are not overlapping as periods are slightly different. Classaxe.com shows 6.03 seconds for ``Raize`` IN, and 6.2 seconds for ``Lasky`` LI. IN is 100 watts from International Falls, Minnesota of renown as often the coldest place in the Conterminous - after all it`s right next to Fort Frances, Canada; and LI is 400 watts from Little Rock, Arkansas.

Strangely enough among the I.F. attraxions there is no significant waterfall, but there is lake flowing into a river thanks to a dam enabling some hydro power for paper mills (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 13565-CW, Sept 25 at 1448, HIFER beacon with IDs only, K6FRC JBA; another notable occasion when its asserted 1.8 milliwatts from Patterson, California make it, as at no other daypart (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. Michael Pack, USAGM refuses supboena to testify; PBS Newshour reports

Today Sept 24 was the day when Trump`s man heading the USAGM, Michael Pack, was scheduled to testify before congress, but he ignored the subpoena! Will he be held in contempt? Charlie Harlich received a notice from CSPAN about the hearing this morning, but it did not appear at the time mentioned, nor can we find it anywhere on their extremely flexible schedule. Perhaps it will become available in their archive?

Meanwhile, PBS Newshour aired a 7:38 segment about this during the third quarter of the show today; likewise I can`t find it yet at the PBS website, but surely it will show. Searching on USAGM, or VOA, or Pack, or Jamie Fry, one of the interviewees, ex-RFE/RL president, should find it. This deals with the scandals in general, such as refusing to renew visas, as two VOA Indonesian reporters are seen being deported. Anyhow I have recorded it for my archive. Glenn

Later: here it is, audiovideo and full transcript:

CEO of Voice of America’s parent agency defies subpoena despite bipartisan concerns
Sep 24, 2020 6:30 PM EDT

Michael Pack, CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, ignored a congressional subpoena over concerns he has politicized and mismanaged media outlets that helped the U.S. win the Cold War. One of those outlets is Voice of America. Nick Schifrin reports and talks to Jamie Fly, formerly the president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, who was fired by Pack. He is now at the German Marshall Fund...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/despite-bipartisan-concerns-global-media-agency-ceo-ignores-congressional-subpoena (Glenn Hauser, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2053 monitoring: confirmed Friday Sept 25 at 2200 on WRMI 9955: confirmed via TWR Bonaire SDR S9/+10 over pulse jamming; about the same S9 direct but some deep fades when the jamming seems to surge. Next:

0130 UT Saturday  WRMI 7780 to NE
1130 UT Saturday  WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
1300 UT Saturday  WRMI 15770 to NE
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 61 to WSW
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

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, for a generous quarterly seasonal check on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

Financial support may alternatively be sent via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com - not necessarily US funds as PP will convert. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. (7490), Sept 26 at 0000-0100, WBCQ webcast of `AAAWWW`, no calls but A&A conversing heatedly mostly about politix; they axually believe we must vote for Trump in order to ``save the Republic`` while Trump is really destroying it and must be thrown out. They are back in DeLand of Fla, and also discussed hotel/motel accommodations along I-95. A new show of rock music will be running at 02-03 UT Sat on 6159.93v (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9395, Sept 25 at 2026, WRMI-6 with SMTV as now scheduled here at 19-21.

9455, Friday Sept 25 at 2028, WRMI-8 with Bob Biermann, `Your Weekend Show`, or is it the other one? Skedgrid has a new? System L sked dated August 30 showing YWS only on Saturday at 4 and 5 pm - 2 hours? EDT, that bihour blank all other days of week.

This System L is also shown occupying 7570 M-F at 7 pm = 23 UT, unknown for how long, with `Challenge` --- what`s that?; then back to 9455 at 9-10 & 10-11 pm EDT with a mixture of `Hal Turner` and `Truth to Ponder` weekdays local; weekends: UT Sun 0100 `Texas Radio Shortwave` - starting January 21! and 0200 `Alt Radio Top 40`; UT Mon 0100 `Radio Emma toc`, 0200 `Encore` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5950, Sept 25 at 0608, WRMI is S9+10 of dead air instead of SMTV, but still outdone by WWCR with S9+40 of DA yet again on 4840 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 4840, Sept 25 at 0613 and still 0631, WWCR at S9+40 of dead air yet again, as has been the case for a few nights in a row now when checked after 0600. Standard remarx; SAWA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search is now productive even after 0600 UT as with autumning, western Eurafrica remains pre-sunrise: starting at 0614 UT Sept 25: 531(2), 549, 558(2), 585, 603*, 612, 621, 639(2), 684*, 747, 774(2), 837(2), 846(TP), 855(2), 873 882, 891, 936(2), 954,  999, 1044, 1098, 1107, 1116(2), 1125, 1152(2), 1179, 1305(2), 1413, 1710(2 - domestic) * = strongest, (2) = at least two carriers beating (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0118 UT September 26