GLENN HAUSER`S EQUIPMENT. Some editors keep reproducing out-of-date list. Notably, FRG-7, out of service for many years. I still have two of them, neither funxional, on the table next to my primary Icom R75. Other primary is JRC NRD-545. I have several portables but the only ones in regular use as backup or mobile are Tecsun PL-880 and Radio Shack DX-398. Antennas, besides telescopic are indoor random wire clipons, Wellbrook ALA 330S loop indoor permanently aimed E/W for the JRC; and 100 foot E/W longwire for the Icom. And BSR-1 caradio, with fender antenna of about one foot which still gets amazingly a lot.
** ITALY. 18135 USB, June 7 at 2105, IZ5UGP says it`s too hot for him, 33-35 C, contact with weaker K4LZZ in NC. Found this after no activity on 28, 27, 24 and 21 MHz bands. 17855 Spain inbooming as usual so there ought to be more Eurohams on 18 MHz. But no other phone QSOs heard at all on band. QRZ.com:
IZ5UGP Italy flag Italy
Fabrizio Battini
Via Della Cartiera, 12
56025 Pontedera, PI
Italy
Pontedera is in Pisa province, Tuscany; original Latin name: Pons Herae, per Wikipedia (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** OKLAHOMA. 515 MCW kHz, June 7 at 2111, PN, ND beacon at Ponca City, a regular here 24h, is OFF. Still audible are 341 EI Enid, and 350 RG OKC; not sure about 255 SW Stillwater in the storm noise (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)
** TURKEY. 9830, June 6 at 2225, VOTuerkiye English, VG into UTwente but with some hum, feature whose name is illegible in my scribble, about eroticism leading to dementia --- what?? Listening more closely, it`s neuroticism, whew; or unwhew? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** UKRAINE [non]. 7730, June 7 at 0501.5, UR1 via WRMI, `Ukraine: Security Issue` by YL, including: there`s a 2-day queue among survivors in Mariupol to get drinking water. Russia has set up ``looting centers`` where stuff stolen in Ukraine is for sale. VG via Maryland SDR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. No sporadic E FM DX today, and an hour earlier nothing on 28 MHz beacon subband, but a bunch are audible after 2307 UT June 7:
28231 CW, June 7 at 2307, WA4FC/B, preceded by 25 T`s in a row -- at least, sound dahs long enough not to be E`s. Sometimes the T loop runs twice in a row. Lookups from WJ5O roster and then qrz.com: C=CONTINUOUS I=INTERMITTENT #=CONFIRMED AS ACTIVE OR HEARD 28.231 WA4FC I PRINCE GEORGE, VA # 5W, VERTICAL new` 29 July 08
WA4FC USA flag USA
James H Lovelady Jr
FIELDCOMM ASSOCIATION
PO BOX 4006
Chester, VA 23831
Beacon info (we want your reports!!): visit www.fieldcomm.org/beacon to send your report to us and for station details.
28231.3 CW, June 7 at 2308, JBA and too close to above on, only partial call copied, VVV N3T##/B, but must be this:
28.2313 N3TVV I JIM THORPE, PA # 5W, VERTICAL Tentative coordination
20 Feb 2014
N3TVV USA flag USA
Eric T Bott
824 Center St
Jim Thorpe, PA 18229-2208
If you copied the N3TVV 10 meter beacon on 28.2313 and would to e-mail a signal report ,please send it to n3tvv at ptd.net or just spot it on your favorite dx cluster both are greatly appreciated ..You can find more information @ https://www.qrz.com/db/N3TVV/B
28297 CW, June 7 at 2322, EEEE DE NS9RC EN61BE CHICAGO:
28.297 NS9RC C HIGHLAND PARK, IL # 5W, VERTICAL QTH Change 30 May 17
fades up strong later, best of the lot
NS9RC USA flag USA
DONALD K WHITEMAN
NORTH SHORE RADIO CLUB INC
PO BOX 1066
Highland Park, IL 60035
Welcome, NS9RC is the club call of the North Shore Radio Club near Chicago. Our club's web site is: ns9rc.org
To help discover 10M band openings, the NSRC has operated a propagation beacon on 28.297 MHz since 2001. It is located at the Heller Nature Center in Highland Park, IL about 27 miles north of downtown Chicago. The beacon was built from a Radio Shack HTX-100 running 5 watts to a Cushcraft AR-10 half wave vertical. CW message keying is performed by an Ultimate PicoKeyer. The 10M band is open a lot more than you may think, even during periods of low sunspot activity, so be sure to check the beacon portion of the band between 28.200 and 28.300 regularly, you may be pleasantly surprised with what you hear. Reception reports on our beacon are always welcome and over the years we have received them from over 30 countries and every continent except Antarctica. We will gladly send a QSL card if requested, please send your report to KK9H.
28284.8 CW, June 7 at 2330, VVV N9TNY/B EN51PS[?]:
28.2848 N9TNY C GENEVA, ILLINOIS # 5W VERTICAL New 21 May 2020
N9TNY USA flag USA
MICHAEL J KUPP
1000 MANCHESTER COURSE
GENEVA, IL 60134
Listen for my 24/7, 10 Meter, 4 Watt Beacon on 28.284.8 Mhz. Tx is every 15 Seconds. Pse QSL with RST. Direct, RBN, QRZ, Lotw, or Email: Mkham@aol.com
28290.8 CW, June 7 at 2334, partial copy K####/B, but I bet it`s this one on exact frequency and heard before last year:
28.2908 K5TLJ C TRUMANN, ARKANSAS # 5 W, VERTICAL testing 10 Jan 12
K5TLJ USA flag USA
Terry L Jones
700 Smith St
Trumann, AR 72472
his qrz.com page is animated
28289.7 CW, June 7 at 2335, WJ5O/B himself, maybe mismeasured?:
28.2893 WJ5O C TROY ALABAMA # 2W, VERTICAL New Frequency 25 Jan 14
WJ5O USA flag USA
WILLIAM H HAYS
100 Rick Street
Troy, AL 36079
Regardless of where We are in the sunspot cycle....... I'm 99% a 10 Meter Operator. The WJ5O propagation beacon can be heard on 28.289.3 MHz and has been in operation since June 1992 running two Watts into a roof mounted Vertical.
This and some of the others are also familiar from last year(s). At 2337 local noise level bumps up so a good time to quit. About midway thru the session there was a phone QSO already on 28310 USB. And nothing else higher. WJ5O list shows a few foreign beacons up to 28322.6 but the top USA one is 28304.6 in OR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2141 monitoring: confirmed UT Tuesday June 7 at 0030 on WRMIs 9395 & 9455, both VG into PL-880.
Also confirmed Tuesday June 7 at 2230 on WRMI 9955, S9 direct with Cuban pulse jamming under, and about the same at 2259.
Also confirmed Tuesday June 7 at 2330 on WRMI 9395, S6/S9 direct. Next:
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 generous Dan Sheedy, CA, who sent to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, ``some $ to help out your always helpful WoR info group. Cheers from DX-less Encinitas``
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** U S A. 15770, June 7 at 1905, checking now 1-hour WRMI relay of VOA, S9+5/10 into Maryland remote but sounds like a local: introducing `International Edition` after presumed news, but cuts to music fill at 1908; VOA resumes at 1927 just in time for Editorial; 1930 news, 1935 `Flashpoint Ukraine` uncut today to 1959 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 1130 kHz, June 7 at 2100 UT check, KLEY Wellington KS is OFF: station which alternated between weeks of 24h dead air and weeks of 24h rock. Finally given up? We`ll hear (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** VANUATU. 11835, June 7 at 0627, RV S8/S9 with YL in Bislama; 7890 has some JBA talk rather than JBA carrier; and even 15780 has a JBA carrier, hard to believe it`s anything but RV on 4X 3945 as well as 3X and 2X. 15780 has been reported by Pacificans. Now how about 5X = 19725? A remote westward into the dayside may be required. As for 11835, Ron Howard has posted some amazingly strong clips of it, you would never guess were harmonic (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report despatched at 0234 UT June 8