martedì 24 maggio 2022

Glenn Hauser logs May 22-23, 2022

** CANADA. 14670, May 23 at 1504, JBA carrier S8 but no CHU pips audible; and nothing on 7850. Ontario & Quebec hit by a storm May 21 with heavy damage including to CHU. Richard Langley, NB reported at 2110 May 23:

``I have been in touch with the CHU technical officer and he reports: "We are still assessing the situation, we should know more soon. I have not even been allowed on the site yet."

Note that CHU is controlled remotely from the NRC Montreal Road (Ottawa) campus. Following (presumably) resumption of power at the station, the transmitters went into some sort of default mode. -- Richard Langley``

NRC webpage detailing CHU outages, had not been updated since last September: https://nrc.canada.ca/en/chu-short-wave-station/ but by 2200 May 23 shows all three offline since 2000 UT May 21, but never any details as to why. Via Ron Trotto here`s about the storm but not mentioning CHU: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6462627 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** RUSSIA [non]. 9369.9985, May 23 at 1913, UTwente is getting S9+20/30 in Russian, R. Svoboda 1900- unofficial relay, via Armenia? Or Uzbekistan? 1959 ID and runs until abrupt cutoff at 2001*. This transmission had been missing at my last check May 21 on the Izhevsk, Russia SDR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830.018, May 23 at 2207, VOT English, S9+40 into UTwente but huge squeal vs the talk. Somewhat obscured at 2227 during loud music, but still infesting when talk resumes at 2238 and 2243 soft music. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** UKRAINE [non]. 7730, May 23 at 0500-0507.8, UR1 via WRMI, immediately into English `Ukraine: Security Issue`, war summary for Day 88 = May 22, by the YL anchor who does the best job. Final story about a woman muralist who has painted a huge 5 x 6 meter image of the F-you postage stamp against the Russian warship. She had a hard time getting the original stamp to go by. VG into Maryland SDR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2139 monitoring: confirmed Sunday May 22 at 2230 still on 5950, S8/S9 into Knoxville SDR, altho still not shown on skedgrid.

Also confirmed UT Monday May 23 at 0030 on WRMI 7780, S9/+10 into Maryland SDR with storm crashes.

Also confirmed UT Monday May 23 from 0300 sharp on Area 51 via WBCQ 6160, minus 56 Hz into Maryland SDR = 6159.944, S9+5/15. Preceded by multiple loops of ``WDCD Radio`` IDs from previous program. Next:

0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to WNW
2230 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed by Cuba]
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW [NEW]
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, Australia 5035-USB or 3210-USB
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to WNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S; 9395 to NNW

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** U S A. 15770, Sunday May 22 at 1930, WRMI after Prague relay, classical music fill mostly solo `cello, instead of scheduled `Wavescan` --- another no-show like no WOR except 6 words Sat May 21 at 1930; otherwise M-F should be VOA news + Flashpoint Ukraine. 2000 C&W music apparently Memphis Weirdos as sked from System H, also shown on Sys B sked but as ``internet only`` this hour. On caradio (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7490v, Sunday May 22 at 2230, WBCQ with second half of `UBMP` on webcast, but conx out at 2240, 404 unfound. So I am forced to listen on SW for the rest of it, sufficient into Maryland SDR. The first half hopefully will repeat Monday at 2300 on both. Yes, stream is working May 23, says first aired in June 2021, starting with original version from Rhodesia of `The Lion Sleeps Tonight` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** VANUATU. 11835, May 23 at 0623, still no R. Vanuatu on 3 x 3945. It came back only on May 19, but keep checking (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 16m bandscan May 23 at 0616-0620 UT finds multiple carriers mostly JBA from the dayside, now penetrating into the nightside tnx to north polar summer midnight sun: 17485, 17510, 17500, 17530*, 17540, 17615, 17650, 17680, 17710, 17720, 17730, 17740, 17780, 17790*, 17810, 17830, 17865. No doubt most if not all could be list-logged referencing EiBi/Aoki/HFCC with few collisions. *the stronger ones, no doubt MADAGASCAR as previously logged. Nonesuch on 13m however, also surveyed (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0021 UT May 24