venerdì 27 maggio 2022

Glenn Hauser logs May 26-27, 2022

** CUBA. 6060, May 26 at 0644, RHC English S9+10/20 under humbuzz but also still on 6100, S9/+10 in mailbag but overmodulated/distorted. 6165 also still on weaker. Something`s always wrong at RHC. The other side:

``READ TODAY THE CUBA OF TOMORROW May 26, 2022 SHORTAGES Blackouts and No Food: A Miserable May for Cubans Inhabitants of Mayarí, Holguín say that the last few weeks have been the most trying since the 'situation' began. OSMEL RAMÍREZ ÁLVAREZ | Mayarí --- A line to buy oil in Mayarí, Holguín. O. Ramírez Álvarez (Diario de Cuba)

"This month is proving the most critical, the most difficult to keep our heads above water. The rice from the store was short, there’s no oil or sugar on the street and, unfortunately, we have no electricity, with one blackout after another," said Yoandris, a health worker in Mayarí, Holguín, who lives with his elderly parents and also has a son to support.

"This is no way to live. I wish I had money to leave, even if it were for Haiti, for my mind’s sake. Living in Cuba is torture," he said...`` https://diariodecuba.com/cuba/1653570245_39772.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 255 MCW kHz, 0619 UT May 26: SW, ND beacon, Stillwater is still on, JBA.

``Hi Glenn! In your report of beacon SW on 255 kHz, “u/s” means “unserviceable” and is an abbreviation used in NOTAMs. Steve Howe, Saint Albans, VT``

Tnx, so does that mean they have tried and tried to fix it, but can`t, or merely that it is out of service?

350 MCW kHz, May 26 at 0623 UT, NO signal from RG, 400 watt NDB at Will RoGers World Airport, OKC. This one has been the most reliable Okie. Local line? noise level has spread below 350 kHz but not enough to inaudiblize RG totally (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2140)

** U S A. 245 MCW kHz, May 26 at 0623 UT, FS, 400 watt NDB at Falls, Sioux, SD. A regular in winter but not heard for a long time, with storm noise level somewhat abated (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2139 monitoring: ``From: Richard Lemke, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada, the desk of Richard’s listening Post, Radio: JRC NRD-535 HF, Antenna: random long wires in the trees

Dear Glenn: World of Radio, monitoring and confirming the latest for #2139, Go, Oilers Go, WRMI:

9395, static, QSB fading, 0029, 0044, 0059, S7, S8 signal, 0059, May 26 UT [Thu]
9395, signal S9, static noise, other noise, 0130, 0131, 0159 (45433), 0159, May 26 UT [Thu] Good listening, Richard, May 26, 2022``

These two also confirmed: 0030 UT Thu May 26 on WRMI 9395, S9+15/20 into Missouri SDR, 9455 still off;

0145 UT Thu May 26 the 0130 on WRMIs: 9395, S9/+10 direct; 5010 S6/S9.

WORLD OF RADIO 2140 contents: (Algeria), Antarctica, Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba, France, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, México, Myanmar non, New Zealand, North America, Oklahoma, Perú, Romania, Russia, Sa`udi Arabia, Scotland non, Solomon Islands, (Taiwan), Tibet, Ukraine, (UAE), UK, USA, Vanuatu, Vietnam; propagation outlook () countries mentioned not in order

WOR 2140 is available as of 0120 UT Friday May 27, 2022

(mp3 stream) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2140.m3u
(mp3 download) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2140.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, 7730 to NE
0330 UT Friday WRMI 7780 to SW [NEW]
1430 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed by Cuba]
1815 UT Friday IRRS 7290-Bulgaria to WNW, 14580; 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
2030 UT Friday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0400 UT Saturday WBCQ 5130 to WSW [ex-4790]
0700 UT Saturday Unique R, Australia 5035-USB or 3210-USB
1930 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0430]
1324vUT Sunday WMRI Europe via Ch 292 Germany 9670
2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
2230 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 to NNW [to be canceled? still May 22]
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW
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

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

For these noncommercial services, voluntary financial support is much appreciated, thanks this week to Sandip Nambiar, EI7IJB, ``To support GH’s excellent World of Radio programme. Thank you`` via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com

Or by MO or check in US$ on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

First airings confirmed UT Friday May 27 at 0130 on WRMIs: 5850, VG direct; 7730, VG S9+10/20 into Maryland SDR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1570, May 26 at 0627 UT, dominant signal not XERF but Bott Radio Network promos without any ID, after `Focus on the Family`. No doubt KBCV Hollister MO, 5/3 kW U4. Night pattern is NW/SE with null toward Ciudad Acuña, but enough more clockwise thisaway from site axually near Branson. Address in Springfield, but ``distant`` night contour barely reaches there (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0147 UT May 27