** BRAZIL. 4885, following up my last report about monitoring for
Radio Clube do Pará, Belém: May 27 at 0455 I am hearing a poor signal
via Pardinho KiwiSDR, during a talk/interview show and it matches a
few seconds later the RCP webcast brought up via Streema --- but the
IDs after 0458 are for Rádio Bandeirantes, 840 et al., São Paulo! A
station which had abandoned SW some years ago, 6090, 9645, 11925 which
are no longer mentioned. Now it`s available to other stations at least
as an overnight network feed. 0459 IDs again only for it, not RCP, 2
am timecheck and news. The 4885 signal direct to here remains a JBA
carrier, must be very low power. BTW, our condolences to those
rational Brazilians who never supported ascension to power of the
world`s second-most-stupid president (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CANADA [and non]. 245-MCW kHz, May 27 at 0624 UT, dash and YZE, ND
beacon which is 1000 watts from Gore Bay, Ontario, on the north shore
of Manitoulin Island between Lake Huron and Georgian Bay, and which
dxinfocentre.com says is slated for decommissioning 2020-09-10. Nice
to be hearing this under summer conditions, with plenty of storms
across TX, 1664 km = 1034 stmi away. Simulaudible underneath weaker
and at a much different pitch is FS, which is 400 watts from Sioux
Falls - Rock, South Dakota (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, May 27 at 1358; 13020 VP, 12820 S5-S9,
against Sound of Hope. Started too late to find others this hour.
At 1444-1448: 12190 S3-S7; 11460 JBA carrier; 11440 JBA; 11170 JBA
carrier; 10960 S3-S5; 10820 S1-S3; 10720? JBA carrier. Aoki/NDXC shows
all vs Sound of Hope except 10960 vs RFA via SOH; and 10720 not
listed: instead, I compute that instead as a local mix, 9330 WBCQ plus
1390 KCRC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 15140, May 27 at 1935, RHC English somewhat less distorted
than usual as ``Ed Newman`` opens a mailbag, mentions special
frequency for Africa, 11880! What does he know? This was replaced
weeks ago by 7380. Something`s always wrong at RHC. There is very good
reason they never announce full or current English frequencies: they
are totally unreliable! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA [and non]. 9340, May 27 at 2200, RHC Spanish again on unlisted
frequency I logged before on one date only, May 1 at 0020. Is //
weaker 9535, and at 2236 check // 11760, but 9640 is something else in
Spanish, i.e. CRI via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN, land of imprisoning and
brainwashing Uighurs, Commies vs Commies when RHC is on proper
frequency 9640 instead of 9340, evidently another keypad slipdigit
punchup error. Something`s always wrong at RHC. Also Commies vs
Commies on 9340 where the only listee is CNR1 jamming/Sound of Hope,
but none of that audible now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TAIWAN [non]. 5800, May 28 at 0100, RTI Spanish via WRMI is still
here, opening the May 27 program; while last night we found all the
0200 RTI Spanish frequencies had been usurped by Freedom Synergy Radio
in English. At 0130, 5800 again switches to FSR (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)
** TURKEY. 9830, May 27 at 2156, apparently local blob of noise here
vs NSS RTTY but no carrier detected from VOT now or at 2202. By 2224
under the QRM I do have a carrier and trace of TRT modulation.
Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2035 monitoring: not confirmed Wed May 27 at
2100 on 7490v, since WBCQ is off the air, as reported in next item.
Confirmed UT Thu May 28 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, good via Rochester SDR,
VP into OK.
Next WOR 2036 should be ready by early UT Friday May 29, for first
WRMI broadcast at 2200 on 9955.
Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
Thanks this week for financial support from William Hassig, Mount
Prospect IL, who sent a contribution via PayPal to woradio at
yahoo.com PayPal not necessarily US funds as they will convert.
One may also contribute by MO or check in US funds on a US bank to:
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, May 22, WOR)
** U S A. 7490, Wed May 27 at 2051, no signal from WBCQ and still
missing after 2100 instead of WORLD OF RADIO`s only broadcast on this
frequency. At 2201 I notice that the Super-station 9330 is also OFF!
Must be some serious problems at Monticello. As of 0010 UT May 28, no
May 27 twits from AW; his latest dated May 26 was promoting ``more
great programming`` on 3265 at 9 pm [EDT = 0100 UT]. Guess what, there
is NO info about what programming that may be at
http://wbcq.com/schedule/index.php?fn=sked&freq=3265
And under summer bandnoise conditions, 3265 range is very limited.
Coincidentally I am getting some huge spurblobs on the 7 and 9 MHz
band, tempted to think they could be out-of-order WBCQs, but surely
not, as not heard on SDRs in TX or VA; see UNIDENTIFIED. 7490v is back
on air at 0045 UT May 28 check with rock music but 9330 is still off
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 17775-, May 27 at 1452, KVOH back on after about two weeks`
absence, S9/+10 with gospel music and Spanish alabanzas; as before, a
few Hz on the minus side. I asked Ray Robinson to explain about the
``Shoffner-Harris`` transmitter designated on their website:
``Hi, Glenn. What you are hearing is the RCA running at 50 kW. The
'Shoffner Harris' is the transmitter we acquired from WTWW (who got it
from KTWR in Guam). It was originally a Harris SW100 (not SW100A or
B), with many components missing or damaged beyond repair. Over the
past five years, it has been radically modified by our chief engineer,
Jim Shoffner, and has thus become a rather unique machine. In
recognition of Jim's efforts, our president, John Tayloe, dubbed it
the 'Shoffner Harris'. It is still being worked on, but at this point,
it is not yet on the air. Ray Robinson, Strategic Communications
Group, http://www.voiceofhope.com Voice of Hope World Radio Network``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7330-7350, May 27 at 2051, horrible wideband blob of
extremely distorted audio, the cadence of continuous rapid speech but
totally unintelligible in AM or FM modes, let alone SSB. Separate from
and stronger than Grimesland DRM centred on 7345. I tune around and
find more of same thing, very approx. ranges: 7650-7720 peaking 7680
or 7690; weaker ones 6935-6970-6995, and circa 6610, 6260, 5900. At
2156 checking 9830 for Turkey, another such blob has landed here, and
circa 9470.
Since WBCQ is AWOL from both 7490v and 9330.00, I wonder if those
transmitters could be extremely out of order; but surely not, as at
2237 VA and TX SDRs are not hearing any of these. Must be something
local, and I sure hope temporary. The ``modulation`` does not match
any of our three AM talk stations on 960, 1390 or 1640, compared at
2242.
Not rechecked until 0115 May 28: blobs in the above 7 and 9 MHz ranges
are still there! And I tune around WOOB to find some more altho not as
strong, circa: 8400, 8760, 9115, 10200, 10550. I don`t see any pattern
relating these frequency/ranges (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13658-USB, May 27 at 1350, 2-way INTRUDERS, very weak,
not Spanish, intonation somewhat like Brazilian but not that either
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report despatched at 0152 UT May 28
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/article.php?story=20200528021502441