** BRAZIL. 28400 USB, Sept 30 at 2203, PU2OPR calling CQ. QRZ.com:
``PU2OPR Brazil flag Brazil, Jose Jacinto de oliveira, Rua Afonso
Martos Filho, 294, Jd. Itamaraty, OURINHOS, SP 19904250, Brazil``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 6000, Sept 30 at 0510, RHC dead air or JBM? into ATS-909
portable. SAWA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 13780, Sept 30 at 1454, S7/S8 of JBM RHC Spanish; even weaker
JBA on 11760 maybe //. 15230 with S7/9+5 of dead air. Something`s
always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 13780, Sept 30 at 2159, RHC in Spanish, S9+10/20
undermodulated; at 2210, 15230 is S9/+10 of deadair and 13780 S9+20
undermod. SAWA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** FRANCE. 17545, Tue Sept 30 at 1511, Issoudun with Mini Trans-At
yacht race weather info, S3/S6 into Azores SDR but quite sufficient.
YL in French with spoken rather than faxed weather maps. I can`t
imagine how contestants could make any sense of this as their boats
rock around. They are supposed to copy all this data and draw their
own maps? Direxions N/E/W/S are obvious in coordinates, but every time
she clarifies the letter with November, EEcho, Whisky, or Sierra. 1514
switches to English, with forecasts at least into Thursday. 1528
closing, ``happy birthday`` to whom? and song. 1528 French and English
talking about a Portuguese song, ``à demain``. But songs with heavy
beat keep playing for a semihour until abrupt chop at 1557*.
Unclear to me status of race which had been suspended due to
hurricane. Anyhow the wx broadcasts continue. Previous few days others
reported the broadcasts lasted only a few minutes from 1500. All the
info here:
https://www.minitransat.fr/
Evidently after a 9-day delay, restarted Sept 29 from Portugal bound
for Canaries (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** IRAN [non]. 12025, Sept 30 at 2213, no signal of R. Farda via
Woofferton. For the record: other reports of it being canceled earlier
in Sept (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** MADAGASCAR. 9765, Sept 30 at 2215, S9+20 poorsig in Portuguese
referring to a versículo, so a gospel huxter. Yes, MWV sked this hour,
*much* weaker than SimulArabic on 11610 thisaway by coincidence. Was
down for a day or two due to disturbances in the country (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6950 USB, Sept 30 at 2217, pirate music poor S9+10,
Thunder Chicken reported here from 2037 altho not quite this late:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,151059.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** PARAGUAY. 28410 USB, Sept 30 at 2202, ZP9HTL working US stations in
English. Only a couple other phonesigs audible on 10m, see BRAZIL.
QRZ.com: ``ZP9HTL Paraguay flag Paraguay, Juan José "JJ" Rios
Maciel, km9 Acaray, Ciudad del este, Paraguay`` (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)
** SPAIN. 17715, Sept 30 at 2157, REE S9/+10, VP and noisy direct,
rather than usual bigsig, and 15390 JBA, still no 15500 & 15520;
propagation disturbed (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY. 11785.004, Sept 30 at 2158, VOT not off the air, but IS VP
S9/+10 direct. At 2250 into UTwente when measured, VP noisy S7/S9 with
music. 2254 s/off, 2255 IS, off by 2255.5*: rarely so horrible into
UTwente, propagation degraded (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2314 monitoring: confirmed UT
Tuesday September 30 at 0330 on WRMI 7780, S9+15/30 into S Texas SDR.
Also confirmed Tuesday September 30 at 1300 on WRMI 9955, S5/S7 JBA
direct.
Also confirmed Tuesday September 30 at 1400 on WRMI 9955, S5/S6 JBA
direct.
Also confirmed Tuesday September 30 at 2000 on IRRS SW via AM Italia,
1322.996-, S9 into UTwente across Europe. Next:
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. 17790 S9+30 and unusually // 15770 S9+20, Tue Sept 30 at
2157, WRMI closing ``God Is Just A Prayer Away`` gospel huxter from
Lynchburg OH. By next check 2208, 17790 is off, no PRES Poland via WRN
like yesterday, and 15770 in usual Taiwan Spanish. GIJAPA is on System
F redsked supposedly on 15770 only, Tue only (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 15150, Sept 30 at 1450, no signal from WMLK, just as there
was no 17525 yesterday afternoon. And again Sept 30 at 2158, 17525
off. Something`s botched at Bethel (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15460, Sept 30 at 1451, drumming and other music, S7/S9
the SSOB. Nothing listed in Aoki, EiBi or latest HFCC Sept 28, just
Reach Beyond Australia at 1200-1400 only, in complex sked of S Asian
languages in quarter-hour blox depending on day of week. This signal
does reek of RBA anyway with TE advantage, high K-index of 5 and 2/3
at 1500.
Still going at 1630 as David Ross asks me about it - at 1635 playing
`Somewhere/Someday` from W Side Story, instrumental, then jazz. I
check remotes in India and Thailand, which are *not* getting it.
At 1648, UTwente has S7 in noise on 15460.013+.
Then I try TDOA, but only get two running, Brazil and South Africa,
who declare at 1654, ``most likely`` FWIW not much, 39.50/75.00, i.e.
somewhere in central Asia, like Kashgar? Off at 1700*, no
announcements ever heard.
It came back on after 1800, again nothing but music, mostly jazz?,
until 1901*. Others hearing it, suggest from inside USA, like a
Greenville test (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)