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Glenn Hauser logs March 25-26, 2020 |
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Thursday, March 26 2020
 ** ARGENTINA [non]. See USA: WRMI
** CUBA. 6060, March 25 at 0611, RHC is S9+30 of dead air in English; 6100 sufficiently modulated at S9+20, better than 6145; while 6000 and 5040 are off. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13764, 13636, 13572, 13828 approx., March 25 at 1440, they`re back! After quite a break, the extremely distorted FMish spurblobs out of 13700 RHC transmitter. So bad I can barely tell that the original modulation is musical. These at approx. plus/minus 64 kHz multiples. Meanwhile, 13780 is off already. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15700, March 25 at 1446, CRI Plus relay is undermodulated and crackly; something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15120, March 26 at 0012, CRI Spanish relay is S9+10 but suptorted. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK,, WOR) ** CUBA. 15730, March 26 at 0014, RHC in French is S9+10 and distorted; 5040, March 26 at 0014, RHC in Kriyol is S9+30, distorted and hummy as usual on this frequency. Kelka shows twojure mowvay a RHC (that`s Pidgin Creole) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MEXICO. 800, March 25 at 0050, amid a TA carrier search including one on 801, gospel huxter in Spanish dominant here at least on the E-W longwire, despite KQCV OKC gospel huxtering in English. Again March 26 at 0042; got to be XEROK Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua as there are no USA SS:REL, at least not in the SW quadrant; SSS enhancement? Right around our LSS. Much of the night XEROK is VP or inaudible, with CKLW if anything besides KQCV to be heard. Originally 150 kW ND, one never knows how much power they really run at any moment (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TAIWAN [non]. See USA: WRMI ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2026 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday March 25 from 2100:20 on WBCQ 7490.1v, JBA. NOT confirmed, Wed Mar 25 at 2100 on WRMI 7780 tho still shown on sked, instead JBA music, presumed secret airing of TIAMS which started two weeks ago. Wed 2100 is also an imaginary time for WOR on System D with *no* frequencies. No, I do not find me on any other: 9395 RAE Italian, no doubt an ancient airing; 9455 Oldies; 9955 playing ``Wipeout``, 15770 TOMBS. Nothing on 5010, 5800, 5850, 7570, 7730. Confirmed UT Thu Mar 26 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, fair S9. Next WOR 2027 should be audible by early UT Friday March 27, first N/W Hemisphere airing at 2200 on 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5850, March 25 at 0610, WRMI is unusually off; no doubt because of distorted modulation I told them about a few hours ago. By next evening back on OK repaired, 0011 Slovak from RSI, VG S9+10, not distorted (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. Another survey of what`s really on WRMIs, UT March 26: 0015: 5800 // < 7570, SMTV 5950 // < 9395, gospel huxter in English about sociopaths 9455, Brother Scare with clip about Trump blowing it 9955, wall-of-noise jamming 0100: 5800, Taiwan Spanish prueba fecha 18 de marzo hace una semana 5010 // < 5850 music, which? 7780, WORLD OF RADIO 2026 9395, RAE ATTW in English with news --- make that olds!!! including Juan Guaidó just recognized at State of the Union as the true president of Venezuela --- that was on UT February 5!! 0130: 5800 // 9395, Spanish ID, World? music 5010 // 5850, different music, which? 7780, Wavescan, from HFCC KL repeat 9955, gospel huxter in English 0200: 5010 & 5800 off 5850, music 7780, Spanish via UTwente; probably Taiwan repeat (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5830, March 25 at 0610, S9+20 of dead air with some hum from WTWW-1; much stronger signal than neighbour 5935 WWCR, anyway (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 711.00, March 26 at 0010, carrier hetting 710 KCMO has become audible unlike before 0000. Fades stronger, so at 0032 I can make out a SAHof 192/minute = 3.2 Hz. No modulation detectable. This time I also DF it on the DX-398 and it`s NW/SE, certainly not from Europe --- but the SAH may well be, such as Morocco. After last night`s report I found many more reports of this mystery in the IRCA iog, including: https://groups.io/g/IRCA/topic/72538278 ``Mark Pettifor 4:16am #7391 --- First noticed by Bill Frahm on Facebook. Looks like some kind of transmitter that's way off frequency, or accidentally transmitting on 711. By nulling, the signal seems to be coming from the direction of Cuba. Indeed, when tuning to the Key West SDR, it's quite strong, with a hum. No regular audio, just the hum (which I don't hear from my location). Attached is a screenshot of 5-minutes' worth of signal from my location here in northern Indiana (1020-1025 UTC), showing some audio artifacts on 60 and 120 Hz. This was on the south DKAZ, and Cuba on 710 was also coming in well at that time. Mark Pettifor, Goshen, IN, KC9DOC / en71ao`` ``Nick Hall-Patch 8:48am #7399 --- If it's a spur, it's widespread. Noted as late a 0630 UT in Victoria (also viewable on the respective DXFishbarrel), and seemed to be 711.000. At that time, I just assumed that it was Laayoune and tried to get audio, but didn't stay up late enough to see if it faded out at sunrise there. Nick`` Bill Whitacre 9:21am #7402 --- It was ‘in’ here [VA] ’til after sunrise. Be interesting to see when/if it ‘fades in’ tonight — here and there`` The only reason Radio Rebelde is on 710 is to block ``wacky`` WAQI, Miami; main one is 200 kW but there are 6 more across The Greatest Violator of Human Rights of the Antilles, ranging from 1 to 50 kW. It seems quite likely one of those is off-frequency; from a transmitter with exact 1-kHz step tuning. Or almost, earing the het compared to 720 WGN, this one seems slightly on the plus side tonight. Overall, not as outstronging as last night. BTW, as I was monitoring this, there was a burst of RF noise at 0052 --- sure enough, it`s my nearest street light igniting, horizon almost clear at sunset 0048 UT. Usually I notice when tuning on SW; quite wideband. Fortunately it diminishes as the light brightens (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA carrier search, starting at 0029 UT March 26, 19 minutes before LSS: 1215, 1044, 936, 909, 774, 711 q.v., 549; by 0043 also 891. As for 774 which I reported with maybe 3 carriers beating last night, I would tonight also, but remember that before, there has been a spoiler in there, something local, unclear if receiver birdie or external, but even more offset below 774.000, matching something without any NDB ID, just below 387.0 of which 774 is 2 X. Previously, but not now, this has also been detected on X 3 = 1162, and X 4 = 1548, both of which could also be taken for legit 9-kHz bandplan signals (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0405 UT March 26
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Glenn Hauser logs March 24-25, 2020 |
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Wednesday, March 25 2020
 ** ALBANIA [non]. 5800 // 9395, UT Wed Mar 25 tune in WRMIs at 0140, nothing but songs in unID language, Tirana as usual? Not for sure until 0159 a few notes of IS before RMI ID and onward. See also USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** ARGENTINA [non]. 9395, UT Wed Mar 25 at 0100, RAE ATTW English relay via WRMI, opening a ``new edition via WRMI 9395 at 2 AM [sic]`` --- but subject is conductor Daniel Barenboim as one of ten legendary Argentines (well, at least born there), same evergreen edition we heard last week; only wish I had time to listen to it straight thru. RAE has supposedly closed down for COVID-19 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15370, March 24 at 1858, RHC is S9+20/10 of dead air; next check 1952 is musicking. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15140, March 24 at 1900, RHC opening English, first broadcast of day, and as always this transmitter-frequency is awfully distorted. Don`t they notice or care? Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11880, Tue Mar 24 at 2330, RHC English with `DXers Unlimited` underway, Arnie talking about QRP antennas; mentions he [CO2-kaka] tried one with 4 watts on 14060-CW and made 3 contacts. His speech is fairly readable today, but MEGO subject matter of no interest here. Wraps up at 2338. 11880 is becoming reliable so I will not remark ``SAWA`` this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11850, March 24 at 2330, RHC is JBM with music // 11760, 11700, and distorted 11670; plus and minus the 11850 JBA spur carriers on 11840 & 11860. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 11950 is also on with separate Mesa Redonda TV soundtrack, S9+20 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TAIWAN [non]. 5800, UT Wed Mar 25 at 0100, RTI relay test via WRMI is *still* running in Spanish, and handily announces the original date in the opening, ``miércoles 18 de marzo``, so here`s another auto-repeating a week-old file. 9395 // 7780 // 5010, UT Wed Mar 25 at 0200, RTI Spanish yet again (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 5960, March 24 at 2347, VOT English to N America was on today! By now in post-IS loop, S9/+10 but noisy. Pause at 2356 restarting loop about to lead-in to German, but shortly cut off* (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9455, March 24 at 1853, TOMBS on WRMI is S9-S7, NVG but much stronger than JBA carrier 9395. Both are on the same azimuth 355 degrees, same antenna type 805 in HFCC, and same power 100 kW. How can this be? Something`s unequal. Rated powers of SW stations are just that --- doesn`t mean they are really running anywhere near that level. Propagation is pitiful today so even the Superstation on 9330 is a JBA carrier, leaving 9455 as the SSOB! Yet at 18z WWV reports K index 0, solar flux 70, no storms past or future (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. Pro-forma search of all possible WRMI frequencies, March 24 at 2154, finds no sign of WORLD OF RADIO, despite System B scheduling for Tuesday 2130 but with no frequencies shown. The 21-22 hour for this and many other imaginary programs has been on the grid for many months. WRMIs are either inaudible/off, JBA carriers, or emanating something else (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WRMI survey 0100-0300 UT Wed Mar 25; see also ALBANIA, ARGENTINA, TAIWAN: 0100: 5010 // distorted 5850, 0103 BB ID and rockified `Joy to the World`! 7780, La Rosa de Tokio repeat about AWR 0140: 5010 // distorted 5850, Mideast music, so World? 7780, JBA, still LRT 9455, Hal Turner 9955, gospel huxter in English 0200: 5800, music of some sort 5850, different music, ME/World, distorted 9955, R. Praga, Spanish 0230: 5010 & 5800 now off 5850 // 9395, Slovakia in English 7780, Ukraine in English, VG at a NY state SDR 9455, music of some sort VG 9955, no signal, off? ought to be algo with 9395, 9455 arriving. I`ve notified WRMI about the distortion on 5850 tonight and last night and they were looking into it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1539.96 approx., March 25 at 0035 UT, low audible het stix out vs KXEL 1540.00 et al., no doubt KGBC Galveston TX. Splitting with LSB tuning, I think the classic rock I hear is coming from it while KXEL talx (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, March 25 at 0040-0053 UT, right across our LSS at 0047; starting at top end, as I have just got the KGBC het below 1540. 1584, 1575, 1539, 1521, 1511.99, 1503(2), 1485, 1467, 1458, 1431, 1422, 1305(2), 1296, 1215, 1179, 1107(2), 1053, 999, 936, 891, 882, 855(2), 837, 801, 774(3?), 747, 729, 711*, 693, 684+, 621 --- but none lower this close to sunset. Note 1521 where Saudi presumably still closes at 2230? Maybe it`s East Turkistan instead. First one, TA tipping me off was 1512, and I tried to measure it as a possible domestic spur. Lowest off-frequency in mwoffsetts is the megawatt Saudi at Jeddah on .992 or .993. Big het from 711 is by far the strongest, but not much modulation, at 0051, nor any timesignal audible at 0100. 300 kW from Morocco most likely; also hi powers in Egypt, Iran, and Spain has 25 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0517 UT March 25
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Glenn Hauser logs March 23-24, 2020 |
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Tuesday, March 24 2020
 ** ALASKA. 11755, March 24 at 1515, praise song in English, 1517 Russian announcement from KNLS, fairly holding its own against slightly stronger 11760 RHC; still at 1556+ (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 13780, March 24 at 1512, RHC still on in dead air, while 13700 is still modulating; no spurs at all. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ITALY [non]. 7295, March 23 circa 1845, end of the detestable Steve Bannon`s `War Room Pandemic` via IRRS, expecting a second hour which is not aired here; music fill until 1859 IRRS ID explaining that its transmissions are in ``compatible USB``, so best reception by USB tuning. This is NOT the case via current Romania (or Bulgaria?), but may have been years ago when they were really out of Milano! The only reason now to choose USB or LSB on these full DSB/AM transmissions is to avoid adjacent channel interference from the opposite side; of which there is plenty. All this via UTwente SDR. Even 7290 has splatter from 7280 - Vietnam listed, not 7285, as IRRS immediately jumped down to 7290 at 1900 for WORLD OF RADIO this Monday, socially distant 5 kHz from 7295 CRI Urumqi, East Turkistan, land of brainwashing Uighurs. Note: from next week in A-20, different situation with IRRS shows one UT hour earlier. Registered to jump from 7295 to 7290 at 1800, whatever the adjacents may then be (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TAIWAN [non]. 5800, UT Tue March 24 at 0100, WRMI still replaying RTI relay test in Spanish, this one about the CV. 7780, UT Tue March 24 at 0200, WRMI replaying RTI Spanish relay test dated March 17, automatically from one week ago rather than restoring automation to previous whatever. See USA for another survey of what WRMI is really airing these hours on other frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2026 monitoring: Confirmed Monday March 23 at 1900+ on IRRS 7290, after a few FSN headlines, VG via UTwente SDR, just jumped down from 7295. Note: from next week WOR to be at 1800 instead on 7290. Also confirmed UT Tuesday March 24 at 0100 on WRMI 7780. Next: 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. See also TAIWAN [non]. Survey of what`s really on WRMI in the 01-03 period UT Tue Mar 24; I hope I`ve got this all right from my convoluted scribbled notes; using direct or various remotes as needed. I ignore 5950 presumed SMTV; 7570 & 7730 presumed TOMBS: 0100: 5010 // 5850, Robobibling in Spanish, Alameda Bible Fellowship (why in the world are they doing this? The entire Bible is available read and recorded by human beings, which ought to be more effective. Maybe God is really a robot? Or at least more relatable to inhumans) 5800, RTI Spanish test repeat from a week ago 7780, WORLD OF RADIO 2026 9395, RAE in English; presumably old show as closed down by CV 0130: 5010 // 5850, Wavescan 5800 // 9395, Radio Tirana 7780, ``pilot episode`` of new show! Missed name, music. Not WS. 9455, ``God Bless America`` music break in Hal Turner`s favorite rendition 0200: 5010, 5800, nothing audible at Alexandria VA, off 5850, music in Spanish; then distorted, similar to 7780 & 9395, not synchronized? 7780, another repeat of RTI Spanish March 17 test; music // 9395 at 0225 9955, Radio Praga, Spanish 0230: 5850, Slovakia in English, very distorted; // 9395 not distorted 7780, Ukraine in English 9455, rock music, oldies? 9955, Slovakia in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 4840, March 24 at 0612, S9+30 of dead air from WWCR instead of TOMBS, but still modulating on 3215; 5935 DGS at S4-S9. 5890 not on air, nor should it be (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 1736 UT March 24
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Glenn Hauser logs March 22-23, 2020 |
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Monday, March 23 2020
 GLENN HAUSER LOGS WEEKLY ROUNDUPS into one alfabetical file, posted early UT Thursdays; but I do not intend to issue weekly notifications: http://www.worldofradio.com/Hauserlogs.html
** CUBA. 13700 & 13780, March 23 at 1411, both RHC are OFF, so consequently, NO spurs or leapfrogs on this band! Still on are 15230 and extremely distorted 15140, and China relay on 15700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA [and non?]. Level 3 tropo blob over SW OK, and level 1 edge over OKC as far as Enid, leads to BAD TVDX signals on RF 20, 28, 31 and 35, March 23 circa 1500 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TAIWAN [non]. 5800 // 7780 // 9395 // 5010, UT Mon March 23 at 0200, Radio Taiwan Internacional via WRMI, opening Spanish program dated Monday March 16, with `Galería Cultural`. 5800 quickly cut off the air but the others continue. RTI tests were supposed to be last week only, so I suspect the automation has not been reprogrammed to resume `normal` programming. What`s next? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2026 monitoring: NOT confirmed Sunday March 22 at 2130 on WRMI 7780, which has been reliable for many months; instead, rock music, good signal at Rockport ME KiwiSDR; checking WRMI skedgrid, it now shows yet another time for VORW Sundays at 21-22. However it also shows resumed an old Saturday-morning time for us, 1130 on 9955; to be confirmed, not by me, zzz. But it still also shows Wed 2100 on 7780, despite having been replaced March 11 by TIAMS; not certain what happened March 18. Three WOR times continue to show on the System D schedule between 21 and 22 UT but believed imaginary, on *no* frequencies. To be certain, check all possible WRMI frequencies, Tue 2130, Wed & Thu 2100. Still confirmed UT Monday March 23 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, and 30 seconds later after double-IDs, on 9395. But that`s not all! Also on 5800, which I was checking expecting something else. It`s synchronized with 9395 delay, not 7780. 5800 is good as usual but with squeal. Also confirmed UT Mon Mar 23 at 0230 on WRMI 7780, F-G via UTwente. Also confirmed UT Mon Mar 23 from 0302 on Area 51 webcast, and also WBCQ 5130 heard via Alex VA SDR, back on air after absent last night. Also confirmed UT Mon Mar 23 at 0345 the 0330 on WRMI 9955, fair S9 here. While it`s nice for everyone to have several chances of hearing WOR half-hours on Sunday evenings, I do wish some of these could be on Saturdays; when airtime is apparently consumed by higher-priority programming. Next: 1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7490v, UT Mon March 23 at 0052, guess what, classical music still on WBCQ, altho March 16 was supposed to be the final airing of `Encore`; quick check so unknown if new show or replay of old show. Ooh, missed checking 0200 on WRMI 9455 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 1654 UT March 23
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