WORLD OF RADIO HITLIST update December 3
Hi Glenn, my latest Hitlist update.
https://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm
1) Albania - R Tirana: Updated links to new website (thanks to Dr Hansjoerg Biener in WOR iog)
2) China - CRI: Removed links to obsolete english.cri.cn domain
3) Cuba - R Habana Cuba: Updated links to new freq pages (thanks to Jean-Michel Aubier in WOR iog) and updated link to live stream
4) Denmark - R 208: Added entry for this station
5) Denmark - WMR: Added alternative link for live stream
6) Germany - R Joystick: Added entry for this station
7) Germany - R Marabu: Deleted entry (no longer broadcasts via SW)
8) Netherlands - Mike Radio: Added entry for this station
9) Netherlands - R Piepzender: Added entry for this station
10) UK - BBC WS: Updated (and re-labelled) links to BBC Progs A-Z and BBC WS Prog Info
11) USA - WBCQ: Updated link to WBCQ schedules
12) USA - WEWN: Removed link to Shortwave program grid (page/pdf no longer reachable)
13) USA - WTWW: Added links to the WWTW Official Facebook page and to the WWTW Fan Listeners Club Facebook page
Unless there's a major change anywhere, the next update will be end of December. Best wishes and 73 (Alan Roe)
** AUSTRIA. 6155, Dec 4 at 0133, no signal from Ö-1 into UTwente, so the hours of classical music we enjoyed last night must have been a fluke or a test (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** BRAZIL. 11905-11910-11915 DRM, Dec 4 at 0145, RNA DRM is VG into TWR Bonaire SDR, 16.9-17.0 SNR, 14.06 kbps, with only occasional quick dropouts, altho only S8 on the meter. Now has a larger variety of one-line headline texts. All-music except for `Nacional` ID at 0147, and it`s the same as on 11780-AM. Really, when 11780 is loud & clear, the DRM version is only a minor improvement. The DRM sked with the SDR has now been amended to show 11910 instead of 11880 for 24 hours. At 0155 I check 6180 into Bonaire for the other RNA AM frequency, but all I hear is China via Cuba, so RNA must be off. Is it the same transmitter for DRM? How many usable transmitters have they, anyway? Can`t tell from WRTH 2020 since EBC is treated as just another station among many in the Domestic sexion, and there is no Brazil in the International sexion where normally the number of and powers of transmitters are shown. Still going with music at 0241, ``Rádio Nacional, 980 kHz``. 0302 and 0401 fuller ID for 980, 11780, 96.1 and Rio frequencies, 1130 and two more, but no mention of 11910 or 6180. Still VG past 0415 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** OKLAHOMA. 13785.27 & 13724.21 & 13663.14, Dec 3 at 1604, among the many birdies I have to deal with are these which measure 61.06 or 61.07 kHz apart, surely from some local device, but I am reluctant to start unplugging everything one by one or throwing breaker switches. Of course one wonders if they have something to do with AC which is supposedly at 60.0 Hz. These do not divide out to integral harmonix of 61+ kHz either. The same spans are found on many other parts of the SW dial. Any ideas? (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)
** U S A. 515-MCW kHz, Dec 3 at 0705, the only NDB I log before shut-eye is here, OS, which is 25 watts from Columbus - Fuler, Ohio, whatever that mean. First time I`ve ever heard this in nightly bandscans, in case our own 515, PN in Ponca City OK, ever revive. I see there are two other 515s listed, in MT and WA. Nor have I heard in an even longer time, 512, HMY in Lexington OK. The 510-529 band is normally vacant except for some utenoise 518 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 21420.3-AM, Dec 3 at 1932, hamgab about equipment, apparently WA6JKN altho often hard to tell if a call mentioned is own or contact`s. Then reply from a K1, and when he hands it back, nothing further heard. The K1 also on a different split frequency, 21420.17-AM, all too obvious when tuning in SSB. These are the OSOB, otherwise you might think 14m be closed, with 21525 WRMI the default JBA carrier. A coast-to-coast contact on 21 MHz would mean climbing F2 MUF, or much less likely double-hop sporadic E. However here I am halfway between them where Es would fit. The DXMAP mainly shows Es MUFs, but also F2 paths if you seek them. WA6JKN is:
WA6JKN USA flag USA, KEVIN P LEVONIUS, GILROY, CA 95020 USA LOTS more illustrated info about his setup and background: https://www.qrz.com/lookup/wa6jkn (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2063 contents: Alaska, Australia, Austria, Bougainville, Brasil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cuba, Eritrea non, France, Germany, Greece, Iran non, Japan non, Jammu & Kashmir, Korea South & North, Netherlands, North America, Oklahoma, Scotland non, South Carolina non, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, USA, Vanuatu, Zambia, Desert Whooper, Radio Shack; propagation outlook
WOR 2063 is available as of 0041 UT Friday December 4
(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2063.m3u
(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2063.mp3
Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
Also linx to podcast services.
The shortwave broadcasts should be:
0130 UT Friday WRMI 5850 to NW & 5010 to S
0130 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed?] [see below]
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE
1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0500]
2300vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 61 to WSW [new, ex 0400 Mon]
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE
0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 to SSE
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2300 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE
Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
Our non-commercial broadcasts and website depend on voluntary support: thanks this week to Jack Amelar, NY8D, Lowell MI, who says, ``Glenn, Thank you for many years of WOR and loggings which I have enjoyed and used. Enclosed find my contribution to help keep your service to the monitoring hobby going``; with a check in US funds on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702
One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to: woradio at yahoo.com
But checking the first airing, UT Friday December 4 at 0130, gone already from WRMI 9955, as we have been replaced by the same gospel huxter which knocked us off UT Tue 0200 this week. Now we are back to only two airings on 9955, Mon 0430 & Wed 2300; but at 0130 Friday we remain on 5010, VG S9/+10 into Bonaire SDR, and on 5850 VG direct aimed NW, but under a noise blob into Bonaire where unneeded (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 0421 UT December 4
