Hard-Core-DX.com: Glenn Hauser logs February 16-17, 2019

Glenn Hauser logs February 16-17, 2019

Sunday, February 17 2019


** ANGUILLA. 11775, Feb 17 at 1426, 1528, no signal from CB despite it
being prime Sunday-morning time --- or not so prime yet in LACA; by
1553, dead-air carrier is on, maybe about to start at 1600, but not
tracked further. Its transmissions are extremely irregular (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHAD [non]. 12050, Feb 16 at 2045, weak African music surely isn`t
WEWN Spanish, rather that`s off again, opening up for R. Ndarason
International via ASCENSION at 19-21 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6100 & 6000, Sunday February 17 at 0657, RHC English
frequencies are distorted, while 6060, 6165 and 5040 are already off.
But did not get back to 6100 after 0700 before outzonking to tell
whether Esperanto resumed. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 13779.241, Feb 17 at 1428, this RHC has again knocked way off
nominal 13780. Something`s always wrong at RHC. But no spurs found on
the 13 or 15 MHz bands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 15700, Feb 17 at 1430 and 1538 chex, CRI English relay very
strong as usual, but extremely suptorted, i.e. only modulation spikes
audible, completely unreadable. Wiggle that patchcord! Something`s
always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NETHERLANDS [non]. 5960, Feb 17 at 0002, The Mighty Farty KBC with
hard rock VG S9+20, but with a SAH --- oh2, there is CCI and I bet
it`s TURKEY again overrunning after English supposed to end before
2400 (when I did not tune in in time to check before Nauen came on).
Only when music diminishes and DJ talks at 0003 can I hear the
understation, and yes, it`s in German, i.e. a VOT SWBC which is not
supposed to exist on anyfrequency. Don`t know how long it lasted again
this week, but by 0100 S9+10/20 when KBC switches to `The Giant
Jukebox` with super-hyped intro, there is no QRM. Uncle Eric had said
the Germans were going to get with the Turx about this after last
week`s debacle. Sometimes all you can do is get away from the
incompetent interferers ASAP (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NEW ZEALAND. 9765, Feb 17 at 0710, RNZI VG as usual, but on this
frequency for only one hour now; at 0759-1258 since Feb 12 per sked is
on 7330 to Solomon Islands and PNG, rather than general ``Pacific``
for all other non-DRM transmissions, i.e. implying that the NNW-only
antenna has been expanded from 2 to 5 hours a night, bad news for
North America resulting in weakened 7330 signal thisaway (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEEST)

** NIGERIA. 7255-, Feb 17 at 0605, VON is already on tonight in Hausa
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NORTH AMERICA. 4095-AM, Feb 17 at 0423 weak music S6-S8, 0449 still
on with DJ live TC as ``11 before 5 o`clock`` and ID ``X-FM
Shortwave``, offering QSL for e-reports. Off by next check 0556.
Earlier in eve I had patrolled the three main pirate bands and found
nothing: 3.4-3.5, 4.0-4.1 and 6.8-7.0 MHz. Tnx for tip on 4095 from
Mike Newland in KY at 0235, then reported from across North America.
Many more logs of this between 0127 and 0511*:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,51099.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 13590.056, Feb 16 a 1943, JBA carrier with talk
catches my ear not only for being off-frequency, but the OSOB except
for 13820 Cuban radio war. I hardly expected it to be VOA English via
SAO TOME, as listed in Aoki. 13590 used by a number of IBB sites
between 13 and 20 for various services: Thailand, Germany, Kuwait, the
others presumably closer to nominal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1969 monitoring: Ivo Ivanov,
Bulgaria, confirmed: ``World of Radio 1530-1600 on 9485 GOH 001 kW /
230 deg to CeEu English Sat as scheduled B18`` (but at 1200-1400 were
on 6190 instead).

Confirmed Saturday February 16 after 2200 on WRMI 9955, fair.

Also confirmed UT Sun Feb 17 at 0449 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO with some
CW QRhaM, about 14 minutes into, so started circa 0435. Next:

2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW
0430 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE
0930 UT Monday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND
2330 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE
* also webcast; direct linx to these and many others at:

Complete WOR sked, all affiliates, satellite, webcast, AM&FM, podcast:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 3264.9, Feb 17 at 0013, WBCQ song not // 7490+, 5130+ or
9330+. 0058 enough signal to be sure it`s not // any of the others
such as TimTron on 5. I wonder if the 24/7 ``burn-in`` initiation of
3265v is just plugged in to WHVW relay as others have noted at various
times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 17775-, Feb 16 at 1940, no signal from KVOH; surely would
propagate at least a trace by this hour if on; Saturday-only English
is scheduled 1600-2100. Maybe downtime due to work on `new`
transmitter? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENINIG DIGEST)

** U S A. 5970, Feb 17 at 0655, WEWN dead air again at S9/S9+10 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15555-USB, Feb 17 at 1547, gospel huxter is JBA, a notable
event for WJHR to be on and propagating with its pretend-SWBC
transmitter. WRTH 2019 still says it`s 250-watts run at 1 kW PEP. Last
time I logged was Jan 20, altho Wolfgang Bueschel heard it Feb 1
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15809.977, Feb 17 at 1548, S9+10 fading to S7, WTWW-3 is on
after long silence, with gospel huxter // still much stronger 5085
WTWW-2 instead of rock or ham stuff, unusual, and so not // 9475-
WTWW-1 SFAW. Tree of Life church, Woodland TN is finishing, 1550 odd
time for WTWW ID and address break by Ted. Last time I heard it was
Jan 6, on .983, and also reported by Ivo Ivanov. Today too he reports
it from 1343, weak/fair (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 5780.000 & 5840, Feb 17 at 0005, JBA carriers while KBC
5960 is inbooming from Germany, so I wonder if QRP Europeans are
showing? 5780 could be Irish pirate Radio Harmony, and 5840 Danish
non-pirate World Music Radio; nothing however on 5825, the other Dane
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 1806 UT February 17
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