mercoledì 20 ottobre 2021

Glenn Hauser logs October 20, 2021

See also my separate post, ``Fun & Games at HFCC B-21`` Here`s another one, INDIA full of inactive or kaput domestic and externals: http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=B21&broadc=AIR

** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-RCUSB, Oct 20 at 1534, LRA36 on again for a Wednesday broadcast; of four KiwiSDRs in Brasil, best via Campo tho only S3-S5, less buzzclick QRM than the others, OTH radar? Not local to any of them. Later abating. 1538 ``sign-on`` routine in middle of transmission, ``a partir de ---``, for miércoles 11-13 broadcast = 14-16 UT, also on 96.7 FM; history of station from 1979 -- or 1969? And claiming to be first broadcast station in Anta.; but when did AFAN start? Never mind the Yanquis. Says initially on 6036 kHz, meaning 6030? Raised power to 10 kW and moved permanently to ``15476 AM`` --- no, it`s NOT AM, and now it`s NOT 10 kW, admittedly 700? watts. More usual mix of songs, talkbits and frequent IDs such as 1555; chopped off at 1607*, a minute before Campo SDR times out for reload, still off.

Meanwhile, the 2022 crew for LRA36 has been selected, for the first time all-female. Does this mean, about to close down for the summer until Feborso? Via Manuel Mendez, WOR iog where it`s Englished: https://admin.radionacional.com.ar/cuatro-mujeres-estaran-a-cargo-de-lra-36-radio-nacional-en-la-antartida/

This got the FM frequency wrong, ``97.6`` instead of 96.7 as I heard it and as also in WRTH (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 5040, Oct 20 at 0140, RHC at S9+10/20 of dead air. Something`s always wrong at RHC; 5025 & 4765 are nominal.

5040, Oct 20 at 0553, RHC is off already instead of 0600+ in Spanish last night, clearing for JBA carrier presumably VANUATU (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMREICA. 6930-USB, Oct 20 at 0050, rock music at S9; 0054 unreadable announcement and off. No logs here but unID from 0101: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,87964.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SAUDI ARABIA [and non]. 17895.070, Oct 20 at 1412, Qur`an JBA from always askew SRI/SBA, and about to dub it the OSOB till I detect a JBA carrier on 17770, which should be TURKEY in Arabic; thus the upperone rates SSOB status only. No sign of other Sa`udi carriers supposedly on 16m now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 3370.5-USB, Oct 20 at 0128, 6TX1, MARS net designator fonetikaly, and AFA6DT, the NCS calling some other AF- stations, without great success; lingo of ``roger`` and ``wilco`` -- the opposite of ``wonco`` are uttered, then nothing more.

This frequency net last logged UT Fri March 18, 2016y at 0125, with different calls as in: https://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1612.txt. The MARS link then no longer worx: http://www.afmars.net:8080/qilan/MARS/list_RMS_stations and a broad search now on AFA6DT gets only one significant hit: https://www.dxfuncluster.com/spots/AFA6DT log by WS5ADV OKC: ``WS5ADV [Usuario de LOTW] 5332.0 [kHz] AFA6DT 60m Interop Net Ham-MARS 17:00 01-May-21`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2108 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday October 20 at 1045 check the 1030 on WRMI 5850, VG. Next:

2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 9455 to WNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

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** VANUATU. 5040, Oct 20 at 0553, JBA carrier in early absence of RHC, suspect RV which appears to be stuck on this frequency only at all hours instead of 4 others as sequentially registered with HFCC for B-21. Port Vila sunset less than an hour away at 0649. Sob, if only they would resumed 11835 as 3 x 3945 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 4940, Oct 20 at 0554, S9/+20 open carrier past hourtop to 0602* --- seems too strong for Maicao Montana missionaries, but no sign of that signal under it. Maybe testing a power increase? Also too strong for VOA Botswana or São Tomé, compared to 4960 STP in fadey dead air at only S9/S6; also far too early for China on 4940 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1646 UT October 20