Glenn Hauser logs September 30, 2020

 ** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-CUSB, Sept 30 from 1520 past 1540, no signal at Brasil SDR from LRA-36 despite word sent to Manuel Méndez a few hours earlier that they would be on this Wed at 14-16. Really on but not propagating, off early, or not at all?

Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, then replies: ``I think despite they announced it, there was no transmission today. Best 73,s``

And later, Horacio Nigro, Uruguay to the WOR iog: ``Bad weather at location. The info was delivered from the own station on his Facebook account, later today`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** COLOMBIA? 4940, Sept 30 at 0605, continued from last report, anonymous mystery missionary station now heard direct, S9 vs storm noise, with tropical music, Spanish talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 5025, Sept 30 at 0606, R. Rebelde at S9+10/20 and very suptorted as often the case now. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. 15410, Sept 30 at 1720, Eye Radio via Issoudun, FRANCE, good S9 signal into UTwente SDR despite proximity; discussion with someone on phone in presumed Juba Arabic about COVID-19, but at 1730 I realize it`s heavily-accented English; better English by the studio host. Mention there being a toll-free phone number about this, 22-22 ---? is that all? 1738 back into language, 1740 bit of English, continues in and out of English, apparently common parlance in the country. 1756 with standard advice about the pandemic until chopped off air abruptly at 1759*, just as now scheduled. Dr Hansjoerg Biener had just reminded us that this extra COVID hour M-F after 16-17 UT daily, as Ivo Ivanov had earlier reported, is now underway. Overall are several other languages, maybe some of them now? ``Dinka/Nuer/Shilluk/Bari/Zande/Lutoho``.

HjB replied at 1729: ``Most of the programme up till now was in English (recognizable/understandable to me). Maybe I should add that whenever I check on Eye Radio I seem to come across English segments. Maybe, at least for their short wave hours, the working language is English. This morning, I came across the final quarter hour of their regular programme. It was in English, and I think in some part, the moderator just translated a part of this English segment into another language. This afternoon, I started listening at 1620 and the programme was in. English changing later to an African language.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, Sept 30 at 2205-2222+, VOT English to us at first is good via UTwente, but then fading down; with the usual mini-features, not including any `Letterbox` on yet another Wednesday (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 475.4-MCW kHz, Sept 30 at 0614 UT, WA4SZE, ham beacon by Dave Frantz at WWRB, Manchester TN, weak but at some peaks appears to be with carrier A2 and not straight CW A1; measured with difficulty due to other carriers in the area amid the 7-kHz-wide ``630m band``, maybe other hams, including one momentary very strong spoiler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2053 monitoring: confirmed Wed Sept 30 from 2100:17.5 on WBCQ 7490, poor S8-S9 vs high noise level. Next:
0100 UT Thursday  WRMI 7780 to NE

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UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier survey, Sept 30 at 0609: 621, 684, 774, 846(TP), 936, 1017(2), 1125, 1503, 1710(2-domestic) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 2346 UT September 30