Some check log entries of July 14 at 00-01 UT slot, taken in remote SDR's
at Cape Canaveral FL east coast, and at Edmonton Alberta in Canada.
7490.155 USA  WBCQ old TX unit, noted at S=9+20dB level at 00.22 UT
        on July 24, mx of the 50ties.
9330even USA  WBCQ new TX #6 unit undoubtedly nice audio of 13.2 kHz
        wideband, S=9+15dB in FL US state. 00.25 UT on July 14,
        WLCR id heard few times.
9420.002 GRC  Voice of Greece Avlis, played nice Greek folk mx at
        00.27 UT on July 14, S=8-9 in FL state. 9.2 kHz wideband.
11780.009 BRA  R Nacional Brasilia, Brazilian folk music played, 00.31 UT on
         July 14, S=8-9 signal level tonight noted in Cape Canaveral FL
         state. 16 kHz wideband audio.
11660.002 IRN  VoIRIB Spanish talk program, sidelobe noted at S=8-9 level in
         Cape Canaveral FL, at 00.35 UT on July 14.
13740.002 CUB  20 kHz wideband signal, seemingly RHC Bauta's unit TX#5 has
         been repaired recently during their break off air in past weeks.
         Excellent audio quality at 00.37 UT on July 14, S=9+20dB strength
         noted in remote SDR at Edmonton, Alberta, Canada post.
         At 00.40 UT noted sport news of Copa America soccer tournament
         and football item at FC Barcelona Spain.
13840.008 NZL  R NZi Rangitaiki, boring female discusion talk program,
         00.46 UT on July 14, S=9+15dB strength in Alberta Canada SDR unit
         11 kHz wideband audio signal though.
15120even CUB  CRI in Spanish language via their Latin America relay site at
         Quivican San Felipe TITAN 250 kW bcast center. S=9+25dB strength
         at Alberta Canada remote SDR unit. 18 kHz wideband signal,
         but audio feedline crackled and distorted quality a little bit.
15340even CHN  CNR1 jammer against SOH Taiwan in progress, at 00.52 UT
         on July 14, S=8-9 signal strength in Canada, via Anadyr Alaska
         path.
15565even THA   Most of the IBB BBG Thailand relay site TX units have been
         exact aligned by the technicians in past two months now.
         VoA Chinese program via Udorn Thani, S=8-9 in Alberta Canada,
         00.56 UT on July 14.
but
15590.005 THA   5 Hertz on upper sideband though, S=6-7 only,
         Radio Thailand Bangkok via Udorn Thani US base site, 01.00 ID
         in Thai language, 01-02 UT scheduled, started 01.00:24 UT exact
         with Thailand  National Anthem played and sung by crowd, July 14
[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz]
(wb  df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 14)
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Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2019 6:16 PM
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs July 12-13, 2019

CUBA. 11980, July 13 at 0019, Chinese song at S1, same as on
stronger 5990 CRI relay of which 11980 is second harmonic. Same as
also on CRI Spanish 15120 fundamental, but this transmitter has
crackling audio altho at 0021 the carrier is steady and not breaking
up. Something's always wrong at RadioCuba.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
CUBA. 13740, July 13 at 0023, RHC Spanish is on again via sporadic /
unscheduled frequency, VG S9+40. Something's always wrong? at RHC.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
CUBA. 15140, July 13 at 1322, RHC is absent, but audible on 15230
at only VP S2-S3. 13700 & 13740 are also both off at 1357, 11760 off
at 1358; but 9640 and 9535 are still on.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

U S A. 9330 is also off at 1936 check. But on in Arabic at 2037, VP S6-S7,
so presumably started at 2000. Off at 2358 retune, but that's the
antenna-rotation break; *2359:20 amid IS loop, now inbooming and reopening
WLC Radio in English.
7490.18, UT Saturday July 13, can barely detect William Tell Overture
opening 'AAAWWW', due to hi local line noise level. The NRD-545 noise
blanker does a fine job of eliminating the buzz but also makes the
remaining program audio virtually unintelligible. Strangely, someone
on the phone is more readable than AW, so I give up. By 0056 or so I'm
listening to the loud & clear webcast, and some comments sound very
familiar --- is it a repeat? No, by 0100 AW mentions the two new
frequencies 15.180 and 11.705 to be used in daytime once they have
been programmed into the antenna/transmitter. It's still a work in
progress, which must account for all the downtime in the daytime.
Artie Bigley heard from AW that AAAWWW would be carried on 9330 but
not this time. I'd think the contract would have reserved some hours
for WBCQ's own programming. John Carver heard it all, and reports:
''Tonight's show on 7490 started on time after a few minutes of fill
music. Allan and Angela in the studio. I move to 5130 as the signal is
much better there. Phone call at 0007 from Freddie. Allan says that in
the future AAWWW will also air on 9330 but tonight is on 7490, 5130
and 3265. Allan refuses to say what the electric bill is for the
superstation but says it's in the high five figures every month. Says
it takes 900 kW for the transmitter to put out 500 kW. Allan got
Freddie off the phone in fifteen minutes this evening.

At 1400 July 13 check, 9330 is off again. Apparently no longer
bothering to turn Brother Scare on the old transmitter when the new
one be down; nor have I noticed him at additional hours on 7490+,
continuing at 22-23 weekdays anyway.

(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1616 UT July 13
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** CUBA. 11980, July 13 at 0019, Chinese song at S1, same as on
stronger 5990 CRI relay of which 11980 is second harmonic. Same as
also on CRI Spanish 15120 fundamental, but this transmitter has
crackling audio altho at 0021 the carrier is steady and not breaking
up. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 13740, July 13 at 0023, RHC Spanish is on again via
sporadic/unscheduled frequency, VG S9+40. Something`s always wrong? at
RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 9570, July 13 at 1305, CRI relay is S9+20 but
overmodulated/distorted, introducing `China Theatre`. Something`s
always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 12000, July 13 at 1326, RHC is S3-S5 but just barely
modulated, matching the situation on fundamental 6000 which is S8-S9.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** CUBA. 15140, July 13 at 1322, RHC is absent, but audible on 15230
at only VP S2-S3. 13700 & 13740 are also both off at 1357, 11760 off
at 1358; but 9640 and 9535 are still on. Something`s always wrong at
RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 9654-9663 approx., July 13 at 0015, extremely distorted weak
spur talk, peaking circa 9660, immediately suspected to be coming from
9690 Spain --- and so it is, by matching modulation peaks and pauses
on another receiver. 9690 itself sounds fine. I then look for more of
these and find them, not quite as strong as 9660: 9715-9719-9727,
9745-9752-9755, i.e. approx. 30-kHz intervals --- but not on the minus
side circa 9630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 8764-USB, July 13 at 0534, Tropical Storm Barry info with
G.C., by robot who has trouble pronouncing ``quadrant``. Also confused
about calendar asserting ``Saturday July 14`` and ``Sunday July 15``
which are one day off for this year but correct for 2018y! Let`s hope
their life-and-death weather info be more accurate. Per EiBi this must
be USCG Chesapeake VA, NMN, scheduled 0515-0550 alternating with
Honolulu and Port Reyes; again audible at 1536 during the 1530-1605
NMN span. Other NMN frequencies are 4426, 6501, 13089, maybe 17314,
some probably day-only or night-only. Time to tune in WWL 870 with
real humans (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1990 monitoring: missed checking
the first USA SWBC, Friday July 12 at 2200 on WRMI 9955; did anyone
hear it?

Confirmed UT Saturday July 13 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, poor in local high
noise level.

Also confirmed Saturday July 13 at 1130 on WRMI 9955, good S9,
immediately following ``Sandunga`` on marimba music fill, no ID break
and no upcut.

Not confirmed Sat July 13 at 1430-1500 on HLR 9485-CUSB via UTwente
--- as usual for weeks now, not even a trace of signal, just huge
splash from 9490 Romania. Haven`t heard from Alan Gale either who
would sometimes hear it in UK when UTwente could not. Next:

1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
2100 UT Saturday WRMI 9955
0130 UT Sunday WRMI 5850
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315]
1030 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780
0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 7780-new
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955
0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW
1816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780
0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [2 editions]
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780
0930 UT Friday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW

[it appears we will now be running on a Friday-to-Thursday
cycle, so freshest new airings are on weekends]

(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor1990.m3u
(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor1990.mp3

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15180, July 12 at 1920, still no signal from WBCQ-6 500 kW,
the new frequency erroneously registered at 07-10 UT, really meaning
19-22 UT (more below).

9330 is also off at 1936 check. But on in Arabic at 2037, VP S6-S7, so
presumably started at 2000. Off at 2358 retune, but that`s the
antenna-rotation break; *2359:20 amid IS loop, now inbooming and
reopening WLC Radio in English.

7490.18, UT Saturday July 13, can barely detect William Tell Overture
opening `AAAWWW`, due to hi local line noise level. The NRD-545 noise
blanker does a fine job of eliminating the buzz but also makes the
remaining program audio virtually unintelligible. Strangely, someone
on the phone is more readable than AW, so I give up. By 0056 or so I`m
listening to the loud & clear webcast, and some comments sound very
familiar --- is it a repeat? No, by 0100 AW mentions the two new
frequencies 15.180 and 11.705 to be used in daytime once they have
been programmed into the antenna/transmitter. It`s still a work in
progress, which must account for all the downtime in the daytime.

Artie Bigley heard from AW that AAAWWW would be carried on 9330 but
not this time. I`d think the contract would have reserved some hours
for WBCQ`s own programming. John Carver heard it all, and reports:

``Tonight's show on 7490 started on time after a few minutes of fill
music. Allan and Angela in the studio. I move to 5130 as the signal is
much better there. Phone call at 0007 from Freddie. Allan says that in
the future AAWWW will also air on 9330 but tonight is on 7490, 5130
and 3265. Allan refuses to say what the electric bill is for the
superstation but says it's in the high five figures every month. Says
it takes 900 kW for the transmitter to put out 500 kW. Allan got
Freddie off the phone in fifteen minutes this evening.

Another phone call at 0023 moves the conversation to TV. Phone call at
0031 continues the TV discussion. Phone call at 0040 brings us back to
radio. Caller doesn't care for the DSP in most of the new radios today
and wonders if there's any way to bypass it. They also discussed HD
radio and FM. The general consensus was that digital should get out of
radio.

It was announced that Angela recorded her first radio commercial today
for their FM station. It was mentioned that construction was ongoing
at the superstation so Angela hasn't been able to plant flowers there.
Some more talk of Angela's gardens. Phone call at 0056 from Pirate Joe
with signal reports. Reading of emails at 0059 and after one email
program was cut off with no closing prayer or comments. Program was
off at 0100 and immediately they went into a rerun of an old AWWW.
John, Mid-North Indiana``

At 1400 July 13 check, 9330 is off again. Apparently no longer
bothering to turn Brother Scare on the old transmitter when the new
one be down; nor have I noticed him at additional hours on 7490+,
continuing at 22-23 weekdays anyway (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** U S A. 5800, July 13 at 0532, Oldies at S8 and WRMI ID by Bob, //
9395; secret transmission still missing from the WRMI skedgrid. I
often detect a JBA carrier on 5800, but not often definite modulation.
At this hour only one other transmitter of the 14 is scheduled, 5950
with SMTV, so who knows which of the other dozen, and which antenna
are on 5800, not to mention *why*? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 1616 UT July 13

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JRX Logs_ July 12, 2019
Receiver (s): Tecsun S-2000
Antenna (s): Longwire

CHINA** 6100. Jul 12, 2019. 2005-2013, Chile Radio International, Xian-Xianyang-CHN, in Arabic. Man announcer talks news, presumably. Good reception, 45444.** 9645. Jul 12, 2019. 1940-2000, China Radio International, Kashgar-CHN, in French. Man and woman talk news; A song; 1955 Woman talks; ID. Very good reception, 55544.
FRANCE** 9790. Jul 12, 2019. 2014-2020, Radio France International, Issoudun-F, in French. Man and woman announcers present a musical program, hit songs; ID. Good reception, 45544.
SAUDI ARABIA **** 9780. Jul 12, 2019. 2020-2029, Saudi Radio International, Riyadh-ARS, in Arabic. A song; 2023 Man talks; In conversation with a woman; 2027 A song. Reception with good signal and fair modulation, 45433.
** Correct frequency is 9870, not 9780kHz. Thanks.
VIETNAM** 9730. Jul 12, 2019. 2033-2040, Voice of Vietnam, Sontay-VTN, in French. Woman announcer talks news; ID. Fair to poor reception here, 35433 to 35322.

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JRX Logs_ July 12, 2019
Receiver (s): Tecsun S-2000
Antenna (s): Longwire

CHINA
** 6100. Jul 12, 2019. 2005-2013, Chile Radio International, Xian-Xianyang-CHN, in Arabic. Man announcer talks news, presumably. Good reception, 45444.
** 9645. Jul 12, 2019. 1940-2000, China Radio International, Kashgar-CHN, in French. Man and woman talk news; A song; 1955 Woman talks; ID. Very good reception, 55544.

FRANCE** 9790. Jul 12, 2019. 2014-2020, Radio France International, Issoudun-F, in French. Man and woman announcers present a musical program, hit songs; ID. Good reception, 45544.
SAUDI ARABIA
** 9780. Jul 12, 2019. 2020-2029, Saudi Radio International, Riyadh-ARS, in Arabic. A song; 2023 Man talks; In conversation with a woman; 2027 A song. Reception with good signal and fair modulation, 45433.

VIETNAM
** 9730. Jul 12, 2019. 2033-2040, Voice of Vietnam, Sontay-VTN, in French. Woman announcer talks news; ID. Fair to poor reception here, 35433 to 35322.

JRX_Jose Ronaldo Xavier
SWARL Callsign PR7036SWL
Cabedelo, Brazil (UTC-3)
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** BRAZIL. 11855.749, July 12 at 0533, JBA talk, S1-S2, obviously the
always off-frequency R. Aparecida. Next check at 1206 I remeasure it
at 11855.754 (11780 RNA is also audible now) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. 9255, July 12 at 1328, VP talk in Chinese? Aoki/NDXC shows
this as a *jammed Sound of Hope frequency. No others noticed in this
area (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 7435, July 12 at 1152, pulse jamming vs weak
Chinese talk, i.e. CRI eastward from Beijing during this hour. Radio
Martí is on 7435 only at 03-05 UT: the incompetent DentroCuban Jamming
Command lets it run anyway, Commies vs Commies! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 13739.243, July 12 at 1258, RHC is only S5-S7 here, and once
again knocked itself way off-frequency, 1301 ID; while // 13700.0 has
just come on much stronger, S9+20. Something`s always wrong at RHC
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1319.959, July 12 at 1220 UT, low audible het
caused by KCLI Clinton always off-frequency, beating against something
I really can`t null, probably KLWN Lawrence KS approx. opposite
direxion. With both nulled I get some music, but I am really looking
for KWHN Fort Smith AR which is news/talk, since the July/August MW
News reported from UK:

``NORTH AMERICAN NEWS --- 1320 KWHN Fort Smith, AZ ]sic] –
operating at reduced power (1 kW vs licensed 5 kW) from a longwire
antenna due to flooding, also affecting 950 KFSA which is silent``
Just how much power can a longwire tolerate?

I do not measure KCLI until 1543 UT when there is no confusing QRM.
The MW Offset list shows relatively recent data, but no KWHN:
http://mwlist.org/mwoffset.php?khz=1320

1319.9615 KCLI (Clinton, OK) 2018-01-23
1319.9947 KLWN (Lawrence, KS) 2018-01-23
i.e. 33.2 Hz apart, but KLWN off-frequency-minus itself by 5.3 Hz;
while my measurement of KCLI puts it 41 Hz below exact 1320.000 (Glenn
Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. RF 34, July 12 at 1354 UT, KMYT-TV 41-1 Tulsa is
intermittently decoding, as Hepburn tropo map forecast for 15 UT shows
Enid in a fair/level 2 band, Tulsa in moderate/level 3. A number of
other Bad VHF/UHF signals, such as somewhat decoding on RF 21, KUOT
OKC at 1410; but I stick with this one exploring its subs:
41-1 is MyTV – no surprise
41-2 is GetTv
41-3 is GritTV
41-4 is HNI per PSIP, but H&I per bugs mostly in the LR corner; it
stands for Heroes & Icons, a channel we don`t get from OKC. 1400 UT
starting `High Chaparral`. Pro arte, I snap a number of DTV pixel
breakups on 41-4, such as:
http://www.w4uvh.net/KMYT1.jpg
http://www.w4uvh.net/KMYT2.jpg
http://www.w4uvh.net/KMYT3.jpg
http://www.w4uvh.net/KMYT4.jpg
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9330.00, July 12 at 0526, WBCQ-6 with WLC Radio is holding
up tonight, still VG S9 to S9+10. Next chex starting at 1200 find NO
signal on 9330, nor at 1542. As I mentioned in previous report,
revised HFCC sked appears to be 12 hours out of whack. So if we don`t
hear 9330 at 19-24 UT, we should instead look for Arabic on 15180 at
19-22 and 11705 at 22-24. That makes a lot more sense propagationally
than starting 15180 at 2 am EST in Maine!

7490+v, July 12 at 1151, no signal from WBCQ (or WWCR yet). No sign
yet of WBCQ putting Brother Scare on this transmitter at ``all unsold
times``, since the other apocalyptix at WLC have pushed him off
9330+v. I wonder if he will be shoehorned into various `open` hour or
half-hour slots during the existing briefer span, instead of AAAWWW
playbax, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 530, July 10 when visiting Wichita, no signals heard there
or around South Haven from the Kansas Turnpike Authority`s TIS
relaying Wichita NOAA Weather Radio. The FCC TIS list does not find it
(or never?) and it`s the very bottom entry in this long roster
http://www.mwlist.org/mwlist_quick_and_easy.php?area=3&kHz=530
since no callsign was known for it. With `K530AM` Vance AFB still
silent, on a quiet day we ought to be able to detect something from
nearby Kansas if any exist (Glenn Hauser, KS, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1190, July 12 at 1215 UT, ``69 degrees at our studios in
Beloit``, i.e. KVSV, U4 2300/90 watts should now be on day power,
immediately overcome by EWTN promos, from further KDMR Kansas City MO,
U2 5000/500. KVSV in north-central Kansas, pattern is circle tangent
direxional to NW, not very good for us to the south, while KDMR is ND
(Keep Doting on Maria Regina --- what else could it mean?) (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report despatched at 1710 UT July 12

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