** CUBA. 15140, Sept 27 at 1900, RHC English not off the air, but VP
direct; not on 11760 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA [non]. 13605, 11930, 11860, Sat Sept 27 at 1903, LV del
Trumpismo not off the air this weekend, but music instead of news on
the hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** FRANCE [and non]. 17545, Sept 27 at 1528, JBA carrier direct from
Issoudun, but into Azores SDR, VG S9+10/20. For the Mini Transat yacht
race, maritime weather voiced rather than faxed maps! YL in English,
heavy French accent so a real person? Surely a robot could speak clear
English. Frequent mentions of ``November`` refer to the direxion
North, as in Geo coördinates; likewise South = sierra, West = whiskey;
and East = echo pronounced eek-oh. I thought this race had been
suspended due to hurricane in the way? Anyway, forecasts for next few
days.
1543 she starts saying ``finally...``; 1544 ``that`s all for today,
take care, talk to you tomorrow, à demain`` - the only French heard;
entirely in French earlier in the 1500 hour. 1544 heavy beat music.
1545 open carrier to 1546*. Supposedly also on 7340 from ISS, but no
signal into Azores, and at UTwente, only something else, presumably
East Turkistan, PBS Xinjiang, Urumqi in Kazakh at 2300-1800!
Alan Pennington posted all about it yesterday to the British DX Club:
``The biennial Mini Transat single-handed yacht race (sponsored by La
Boulangère) began on Sunday 21st September with 90 small (6.50m) boats
sailing from Les Sables d'Olonne in France, with a destination on the
first stage of the race, Santa Cruz de la Palma in the Canary Islands.
(The second stage is scheduled to begin from La Palma on 25th October,
destination Guadeloupe.)
One feature of the race is participants use paper charts and only have
a VHF radio (with around 10 mile coverage). But there is a daily
shortwave broadcast in French and English giving them weather
conditions.
Two frequencies are registered on HFCC for these daily Mini Transat
(MT) weather forecasts at 1500-1600 UTC: 7340 and 17545 kHz (both 250
kilowatts from Issoudun).
17545 kHz was heard yesterday (25th Sept) at 1500 UTC by Adam
Amirkhanov in Bucharest on WRTH Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18mRyaXsEg/
However, the first stage of Mini Transat has now been cancelled with
boats sheltering in ports on the Portuguese coast because of the
impending Category 4 Hurricane Gabriele approaching from the Azores,
expected to hit the coast of Portugal on Saturday.``
https://www.minitransat.fr/
https://www.facebook.com/LaMiniTransat
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** MADAGASCAR. Re my obs of MWV R. Feda, missing from 11610 at 22 Sept
26:
``Hi, MWV is temporary off-air because of unrest in Madagascar. 73,
Dmitry Mezin``
``The unrest in Madagascar is related to power and water cuts.
MGLOB was still on the air with BBCWS on 12095 at 0400 UT September
27, and Radio Dabanga on 11640 at 0430. Later in the day BBCWS via
MGLOB was on 21565 as usual around 1300. All heard direct here in
Houston. Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas`` (via Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2314 monitoring: as expected, WTWW
still not on air 5085 at 0300 UT Saturday Sept 27, but back next
week?
Confirmed Saturday September 27 at 1448 the 1431 on SW Gold Radio,
Germany, 6160.001+, S9+5 into UTwente.
Also confirmed Saturday September 27 at 1600 on WRN N America and
Europe streams, and also part of WRN relay via WRMI, VG 9395 and much
weaker 7730 into Georgia SDR.
Also confirmed Saturday September 27 at 1731 on SW Gold Radio,
Germany, 6160.000+, S9+10/15 with RTTYditty on plus side; slightly
delayed on 3975.001-, S9/+10, both into UTwente.
Also confirmed Saturday September 27 at 1930 on WRN N America stream;
and via WRN on WRMI 9395, S6/S8 into N9AZZ remote.
Also confirmed Saturday September 27 at 1945 about 15 minutes into so
started on-time circa 1930 on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, MO, S5 with lots of
noise and fading into N9AZZ remote in IL, but much better than the two
right next to St Louis.
Also confirmed Saturday September 27 at 2021 the 2000 on WRN Europe
stream. Next:
2100 UT Saturday WRMI 9395 to NNW;
2230 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE;
2300 UT Saturday WTWW 9475 [suspended];
0230vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400];
1030 UT Sunday WRN via WRMI 7730 7780 9395 9955;
1830 UT Sunday SW Radio, Germany 3975 & 6160 [ex-2130];
1900 UT Sunday IRRS SW via AM Italia 1323;
2100 UT Sunday WRMI 15770 to NE;
2300 UT Sunday WRMI 9395 to NNW;
2330 UT Sunday WRMI 9455 to NW;
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW;
0830 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 6160 [suspended];
1930 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 3975 & 6160;
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to SW;
1300 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast];
1400 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast];
2000 UT Tuesday IRRS SW via AM Italia 1323;
2330 UT Tuesday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
0030 UT Wednesday WRMI 9395 to NNW;
1930 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975 & 6160;
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW;
2330 UT Wednesday WRMI 9395 to NNW;
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S;
1630 UT Thursday SW Radio, Germany 6160.
Thanks to Gerald T Pollard, Raleigh NC, for a generous seasonal check
marking autumnal equinox 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 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 5920, Sept 27 at 0623+, horrible galaxy of spurs: I`m
finding numerous extremely distorted spurblobs above and below this
WTWW frequency with TOMBS matching modulation. These are the approx.
ranges, with the middle frequency being the approx. peak, but no
specific carriers. Of course, they get progressively weaker the
further out. They are approx. multiples of ~86 kHz displacement. Note
that the peaks are closer to the upper edge than the lower edge, but
maybe because of tuning in USB. Not in the order monitored. First one
found, 5834, read S9+25:
5657-5661-5663
5741-5747-5750
5831-5834-5835
6001-6006-6008
6087-6093-6095
6175-6179-6182
6260-6265-6268
6347-6350-6352
JBA: 6436
Paul Walker, Alaska, also reported to NASWA: ``At 0500 UTC Sept 27,
WTWW 5920 has very distorted spurs on 6005 and 6092`` (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)
** VANUATU. 9960, Sept 27 at 0648, RV not off the air, S5 of music.
Ron Howard reported earlier: ``Radio Vanuatu not heard 0545+ UT, Sept
27 -- Hi Glenn - Was just checking for Radio Vanuatu, via New Zealand
remotes and found no signal at all on
9960, 7260, 5040, 3945 or 2485 kHz. Probably another power outage that
tripped off their transmitter? As usual, I have alerted Pryce
Aptenbel, at the station. Ron (Monterey, Calif.)``
And from Gedas in Indiana: ``I just checked at 06:45 UTC and they have
a very strong signal on 9960 directly into Indiana. Your note to them
seems to have worked. However I am also hearing a very strong
broadband QRM signal coming and going that really messes up reception.
73 Gedas W8BYA`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 2029 UT September 27
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