Hard-Core-DX.com: Glenn Hauser logs September 13-14, 2022

Glenn Hauser logs September 13-14, 2022

Thursday, September 15 2022


** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RC USB, Wed Sept 14 at 1450 nothing yet into
Argentine remote, but LRA36 cuts on S4/S8 at *1452 amid musical
prélude; 1500.5 standard opening with sign-on, 4-lingual warning that
it`s in Spanish, 2022 cycle of Esperanza Audaz, staff names; 1502
Esperanza themesong I never tire of hearing; 1505 brief scripted
almost poetic piece also about memorias; 1506 song with martial beat;
1511 ID with ``su compañía``, into live YL chat, intro as the 20th =
vigésimo programa of the season; also mention 21st? maybe referring to
next week. 1513 geo coordinates, date as 14 Sept, temp 1 degree, or
low? was -6, winds from north at 20 kph gusting to 37; 1516 contact
platform info; 1518 homage to some rock star; 1520 ID with ``Nacional,
nos une``; this-week-in-history starting with something on Sept 11,
1888; International Chocolate Day, etc. 1527 song; 1531 ID,
``Nacional, nos une`` again; historical talk about Sarmiento in the
1800s; 1544 weather again; 1545 song now peaking at S9 but chopped off
air at 1546.4*, never back by when I quit at 1611. Something`s always
audacious at Antarctica (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CANADA. 1010 kHz, Sept 14 at 0628 UT, adstring atop CCI, trying to
hear any AC 904 or Jax refs from WJXL, but 0630 finally a ``NewsTalk
10-10`` ID, CFRB Toronto again. It seems one cannot find a pattern map
thru FCC which merely linx to CRTC, but I again point out that per NRC
Antenna Pattern Book, CFRB`s at night is very unfavorable thisaway,
most of it going NE up, or down, the St. Lawrence. But Canadian AM
stations are notorious for not `protecting` USA co-channels as
supposedly licenced. Of course major competitor in the east is WINS
NYC into Atlantic, never heard here; and KXEN Festus no longer matters
but did protect CFRB. Aha, this
https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=CFRB&service=AM&s=F&h=N
shows a very different CFRB at night, considerable lobes to SW as well
as NE, null toward WINS. I wonder what 1010 be like in mid-NY state.
However, this shows coverage *area*, not pure antenna pattern, so
obviously influenced by proximity to two Great Lakes (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** CANADA. 15034 USB, Sept 14 at 2220-2224, CHR, Trenton Military
robot uttering ``no report received`` over and over from: Bagotville,
Trenton itself!, Ottawa, Toronto, 4 times in a row, restarting
``Terminal Forecast`` for a 5th run; then ID and timecheck, ``Aviation
Weather``, nothing but NRRs for Calgary, Cold Lake, Winnipeg,
Edmonton, and repeating that once more before I quit. Obviously
nohuman is paying attention. Let`s hope that Canadian Forces
monitoring of, say, incoming ICBMs, be a bit more efficient. BTW, I
often tune across no signal at all on 15034 and wonder if it`s even on
air as much as ``required``. Likewise night channel 6754-USB (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 6165, Sept 14 at 0243, RHC S9/+10 of dead air in English,
while 6000 is S9+20/30 of undermodulated English. At 0245, 11670 is
also dead air at S7/S9, possibly would be English instead of correct
Spanish. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 5025, Sept 14 at 0253, R. Rebelde is off; 5040 RHC is weak;
4765 R. Progreso S9+10/20 more or less normal, the 60-m situation in
electricity-short Cuba where something`s always wrong (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** EGYPT. 9439.994, Sept 14 at 2230, R. Cairo, S9/+10 of humwhine only
into Virginia SDR, no attempt at program modulation; at 2210 direct
had been a JBA carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** KIRITIMATI. 846 kHz, Sept 14 at 0621, JBA carrier from R. Kiribati
and no other 9/kHz splits at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MADAGASCAR. 6179.963, Sept 14 at 0246, JBM music, probably La Voz
Alegre MWV most likely to be off-frequency, rather than CRI Russian
via East Turkistan, std denunciation; nor RNA Brasil apparently off,
leaving also a JBA carrier on 11780 which could be Romania in Spanish.
RNA nominally until 0305* on both (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NIGERIA [and non]. 7255-, Sept 14 at 0637, VON is on but poor S7/S9
undermodulated. Sept 14 at 1850 check via Canary SDR, it`s absent.
1857 huge S9+20 carrier from China cuts on prior to 1900 fanfare and
Turkish (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1120 kHz, Sept 14 at 0627 UT, ``clear`` channel
KMOX with heavy QRM in Spanish, mentions 97.9 so surely KETU
Catoosa/Tulsa, 10 kW ``daytimer`` or maybe only 7 kW ``critical
hours``, neither applicable now. 97.9 is the 250-watt translator
K250BN wagging the dog of 1120. Have caught them cheating before to
KMOX` detriment. The pair make a fast SAH counted about 8 Hz. MWoffset
shows 7 Hz, with KETU on 1119.9932, but that was in January 2019
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830.001, Sept 13 at 2226, VOT is on via UTwente, heavily
accented YL about Türkiye/Hellas relations. (No, Greece does not
really demand we call it Hellas in English; but why not?)

9830, Sept 14 at 2230, NO signal from VOT in English to Virginia SDR.
Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2155 monitoring: Confirmed Tuesday September
13 at 2230 on WRMI 9955, after BBB ID claiming this be ``9395`` ---
obviously he is not paying attention, then `Everglades` ID, S8/9+10
into Maryland SDR with lite pulse jamming at first, and not much worse
by 2256, and in fact Radio Libertad still well audible atop it, at
least for all the Cubenidians.

Also confirmed Tuesday September 13 at 2330 on WRMI 9395, S9+10/20
into Maryland SDR. Compared to whatever be on 9955 now, the modulation
level on 9395 is lower.

Also confirmed Wednesday September 14 from approx. 2100:22 on WBCQ
7490 minus 71 Hz = 7489.929, S7/9+5 into Virginia and Maryland SDRs.
Next:

0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

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New WOR 2156 should be ready for download early UT Friday September 16
and first SWBC at 0130 on WRMIs 5850 & 7730 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. Re W6F, 18164.2 USB, Route 66 On the Air special: main
w6jbt.org site shows dates Sept 10-18 only. There are many more
participating in the W6# series from CA to IL including some in OK,
even the tiny corner of KS (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9940, Sept 14 at 0235, WTWW on here instead of 5830 with
gospel huxterism, while 5085 is a-rockin. S9+30/40 with caller
discussing weather in South Dakota ``this morning``, hard to tell if
new or similar season decades ago from the Scriptures for America
archive; then right into assertion that ``Satan has done a great job``
concerning 501C3s, the ``anti-Christ church`` and the good ole days of
blue laws so you could not dine out after church Sundays. I guess it
be the #1 programming if not the #1 transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A. 5970, Sept 14 at 0242, WEWN Spanish still absent. However,
Ivo Ivanov reports it in the morning before change to day frequency
12050: ``Very good signal of WEWN-3 Radio Católica Mundial in Spanish
on 5970 kHz via Vandiver, September 13:

https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2022/09/wewn-3-radio-catolica-mundial-on-5970_14.html
1200-1356 on 5970 EWN 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm Spanish, instead of
00-14 UTC via SDR Boca Raton, FL in USA``

<3 minute clip implies it cut on air at 1200. But from his format you
cannot tell whether he monitored the entire span, or just assumes it.
BTW at this time there was a lot of English liturgy being translated,
or not (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** VANUATU. 7932+, Sept 14 at 0642, R. Vanuatu still here on 2 x
3966+, S4/S5 music vs CODAR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Sept 14 at 0301
finds 1044 kHz only. I was thinking that Spain was there but no more
than 5 or 10 kW listed now; used to be 300 kW Morocco but inactive as
of WRTH 2016. Biggest power now is 200 kW from much further Ethiopia,
which should be on by now if not 24h, and today`s Mekele sunrise 0311
UT. 1044 still audible at 0340, when I`m not getting any Benin on 1476
or 1566, nor those at listed *0320.

One more TA JBA carrier, tho, on 855 at 0341, axually sounds like two
beating. SPAIN, RNE1 synchros are here, 300 and 50 kW and several less
per WRTH 2022. A few months ago, several ``300`` kW RNE outlets were
being powered down, but my follow-up that some of them were already
listed at less than 300 was hardly noticed. Anyhow, I expect TA JBA
carriers will be much less evident now on such as 585, 684, 738, 855.
774 used to be a good spot too but already only 100 kW max (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 2353 UT September 14

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