JRX Current Logs: February 10, 2021
Receiver (s): Degen DE1103
Antenna (s): Sony AN-71
All times and dates in UTC-GMT

AUSTRIA
** 7275. Wed, Feb 10, 2021. 1913-1923, Adventist World Radio, Moosbrunn-AUT, in Hausa. A song; 1914 Man talks, preaching, presumably; 1921 Man talks, says ID and more. Good reception.
** 11955. Wed, Feb 10, 2021. 1836-1846, Adventist World Radio, Moosbrunn-AUT, in Arabic. A religious long song by female singer, "Hallelujah"; 1844 Man talks, preaching, presumably. Very good reception.

CHINA
** 6020. Wed, Feb 10, 2021. 1946-1956, China Radio International, Shijiazhuang-CHN, in Albanian. A song; 1949 Man and woman talk and other more songs; 1955 Woman says ID and frequency and next the IS station. Good reception.
** 6110. Wed, Feb 10, 2021. 1924-1934, China Radio International, Xian-CHN, in Russian. Woman announcer says ID "Radio Kitay" and continues talking; 1928 Man and woman talk, now, with music background. Very good reception.
** 7255. Wed, Feb 10, 2021. 1934-1944, China Radio International, Kashgar-CHN, in Turkish. A song; 1938 Woman talks, says Coronavirus and more, all with music background; 1942 Man says ID and other song by male singer. Very good reception.
** 7325. Wed, Feb 10, 2021. 2011-2021, China Radio International, Urumqi-CHN, in Serbian. A song; 2012 Man and woman announcers talk and some words in chinese language; 2015 A song by chorus. Very good reception.
** 7360. Wed, Feb 10, 2021. 1826-1836, China Radio International, Xian-CHN, in French. Man and woman announcers talk about chinese life and conversation with local people; 1834 Man talks with music background. Good reception.

FRANCE
** 9810. Wed, Feb 10, 2021. 1848-1859, Radio France International, Issoudun-F, in French. Man and woman announcers talk and say about Music Festival and a conversation with attendees; Brief pieces of songs; 1856 News. Very good reception.

THAILAND
** 7475. Wed, Feb 10, 2021. 2000-2010, Radio Thailand, Udon Thani-THA, in German. IS-ID by male voice and next a Newsletter by woman announcer; 2008 ID and a song by woman singer. Fair to good reception.

VATICAN
** 12075. Wed, Feb 10, 2021. 1902-1912, Voice of America, SM di Galeria-CVA, in French. Man and woman announcers present VOA News. Good reception.

JRX (Jose Ronaldo Xavier)
SWARL Callsign PR7036SWL
Cabedelo-Paraiba, Brazil (UTC-3)
QTH Locator HI22NXx
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re 4765 kHz R Progreso from old USSR relay site
Bejucal (RadioCuba #2) of the 1965 years era,
each 50 kW;
and combined also to 2x times as 100 kW in total.
(11840 kHz R Moscow relay .... for example)
13 SW masts of 1965 Sowjetunion Leningrad firm design
at  22°51'55.24"N  82°20'11.10"W
instead
clean free WONDERFUL Latin AM music program Radio Rebelde
heard instead:
a thousand times 'I like it'
https://www.radiorebelde.cu/audios-bajo-demanda/radio_rebelde_en_vivo_frecuencia_am.html

Bauta {former Brown Boveri gear of 1962}
RadioCuba #1 site
is refurbished a decade ago and replaced
by latest BBEF Beijing Made in P.R. of China gear.
6 x 100 kW BBEF, 1 x 50 kW reserve unit.

Quivican San Felipe TITAN, RadioCuba #3 site.
Soviet antenna design - mid/end of 80year era,
16 x curtains,
2 x NVIS fountain non-directionals
5 x 250 kW is also different gear.
Maintained, and refurbished in 1999 ... 2001years,
by  Radio Comunicaciones del MICOM (Ministerio de Comunicaciones),
(thanks Olle Alm-SWE)

MW origin TXs was NEC Made in Japan in 1970,
TESLA CSSR in 80ties,
Chinese from 2002y onwards,
and also some NAUTEL - Made in Canada - origin.

Glenn, you should include the technical infrastructure
used at RadioCuba centers in the discussions.
Your description of intermodulations on the SW bands
from low transmission strengths portion -
also FM-like scratching audio tones appearance,
you have to look at each transmission center separately,
not to mix Bejucal 4765 kHz
with 13700 kHz Bauta gear example intermodulations.
technical knowledge.
The equipment provided by RadioCuba is very different
in year of construction and design.
73 wb
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn Hauser via Hard-Core-DX"

Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 5:58 AM
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 9-10, 2021

CUBA. 4747 & 4782 approx., Feb 10 at 0259, extremely distorted
S9+10 spurblobs out of S9+20/30 4765 Radio Progreso, matching
plus/minus ~17.5 kHz. These are unlike the ones out of 13700 RHC; no
F# tone, totally unreadable in SSB or FM, but music recognizable in AM
mode // 4765. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. I`ve heard these
spurs occasionally before. Could this be why R. Huanta 2000, Peru,
jumped from 4747 to 4764, in retaliation? BTW, WRTH 2021 page 315 says
its new frequency be 4755; not (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 0458 UT February 10
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I`ll gladly leave discussion of the gear in Cuba to wb. I already said the 4765 spurs were *not* like the 13700 ones. Glenn

On Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 09:44:52 AM GMT+1, Wolfgang Bueschel <dg1sbn@t-online.de> wrote:

re 4765 kHz R Progreso from old USSR relay site
Bejucal (RadioCuba #2) of the 1965 years era,
each 50 kW;
and combined also to 2x times as 100 kW in total.
(11840 kHz R Moscow relay .... for example)

13 SW masts of 1965 Sowjetunion Leningrad firm design
at 22°51'55.24"N 82°20'11.10"W

instead
clean free WONDERFUL Latin AM music program Radio Rebelde
heard instead:
a thousand times 'I like it'

https://www.radiorebelde.cu/audios-bajo-demanda/radio_rebelde_en_vivo_frecuencia_am.html

Bauta {former Brown Boveri gear of 1962}
RadioCuba #1 site
is refurbished a decade ago and replaced
by latest BBEF Beijing Made in P.R. of China gear.
6 x 100 kW BBEF, 1 x 50 kW reserve unit.

Quivican San Felipe TITAN, RadioCuba #3 site.
Soviet antenna design - mid/end of 80year era,
16 x curtains,
2 x NVIS fountain non-directionals
5 x 250 kW is also different gear.
Maintained, and refurbished in 1999 ... 2001years,
by Radio Comunicaciones del MICOM (Ministerio de Comunicaciones),
(thanks Olle Alm-SWE)

MW origin TXs was NEC Made in Japan in 1970,
TESLA CSSR in 80ties,
Chinese from 2002y onwards,
and also some NAUTEL - Made in Canada - origin.

Glenn, you should include the technical infrastructure
used at RadioCuba centers in the discussions.

Your description of intermodulations on the SW bands
from low transmission strengths portion -
also FM-like scratching audio tones appearance,
you have to look at each transmission center separately,
not to mix Bejucal 4765 kHz
with 13700 kHz Bauta gear example intermodulations.

technical knowledge.
The equipment provided by RadioCuba is very different
in year of construction and design.
73 wb

----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Hauser via Hard-Core-DX"
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 5:58 AM
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 9-10, 2021

> CUBA. 4747 & 4782 approx., Feb 10 at 0259, extremely distorted
> S9+10 spurblobs out of S9+20/30 4765 Radio Progreso, matching
> plus/minus ~17.5 kHz. These are unlike the ones out of 13700 RHC; no
> F# tone, totally unreadable in SSB or FM, but music recognizable in AM
> mode // 4765. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. I`ve heard these
> spurs occasionally before. Could this be why R. Huanta 2000, Peru,
> jumped from 4747 to 4764, in retaliation? BTW, WRTH 2021 page 315 says
> its new frequency be 4755; not (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
> This report dispatched at 0458 UT February 10

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** BRAZIL. 4885, Feb 10 at 0300, no signal detectable from R. Clube do
Pará, which is normally reliable; could it be off? And/or the other ZY
on 4885, R. Dif. Acreana. By 0329 I`m checking 4885 on Bonaire
KiwiSDR, now with a good S7-S9 signal; and 5 auto-timepips at 0330,
0345, 0400 during a talk show first about vaccinations, then
Bolsonaro, Banco Central. Never heard an ID, not even at ToH. Are
those quarterly time signals a signature of Pará? I can`t get its
stream to play via 3 different routes for comparison. SDR in SAM mode
shows carrier offset varying plus 18-26 Hz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** BRAZIL. 11905-11910-11915-DRM, Feb 10 at 0143, Nacional FM 96.1
with music, 0145 ``Come Together`` in English, frequent IDs. At
Bonaire SDR it`s S8 but VG and sufficient SNR up to 13 dB, sufficient
for minimal dropouts, still 12.46 kbps. Journaline with no headline
rotation, just notice of DRM experimental (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 4747 & 4782 approx., Feb 10 at 0259, extremely distorted
S9+10 spurblobs out of S9+20/30 4765 Radio Progreso, matching
plus/minus ~17.5 kHz. These are unlike the ones out of 13700 RHC; no
F# tone, totally unreadable in SSB or FM, but music recognizable in AM
mode // 4765. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. I`ve heard these
spurs occasionally before. Could this be why R. Huanta 2000, Peru,
jumped from 4747 to 4764, in retaliation? BTW, WRTH 2021 page 315 says
its new frequency be 4755; not (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 4980, Feb 10 at 0302, WRMI reactivated here, metering S8-S9
but JBA talk // much stronger 9455, i.e. SMTV. 9455 programming was
moved to 5950; and 5950 to 4980? But then 4980 went off and 9455
replaced it; now sounds like 4980 is once again the very underpowered
one, perhaps just exciter. What does skedgrid now show? 4980 is
XMTR-4, but with NO hours of broadcast; no longer 11710, which never
has been activated. I guess the 4980 unit now is just a placeholder
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. Checking which cable/TV channels are carrying live coverage
at the outset of Drumpf`s Impeachment-trial-2, Feb 9 circa 19 UT an
hour into it: KFOR (NBC, but had been in a break); KOCO (ABC); KWTV
(CBS); Univision but with anchors aside; Telemundo, ditto; C-SPAN2;
Fox News; CNN; MSNBC; Cheddar; PBS-World; CourtTV. NOT: Newsmax! But
by 2040 UT, when it`s Trumpsters` turn, YES! No such thing as
Fairness. And now, the Spanish channels are back to novelas.

Around 1925 UT, a quick check of the AM & FM bands for major signals,
not digging deeply: FM: Nothing but 91.7 KOSU OKC (NPR, of course).
AM: NOTHING but KRMG 740 Tulsa --- that`s a bit surprising as
therefore pre-empts the disgraced and dying Lush Rambo; Biden should
revoke his Presidential Medal of Freedom; and after 20 UT, when the
trial has switched to the Retrumplicans, instead of Hahn Shannity.
BTW, the website https://www.krmg.com shows nothing whatsoever about
KRMG being anywhere but 102.3 FM, unfortunately inaudible here; who
cares about 50 kW on AM? Throwaway (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** VENEZUELA. 6200-RCUSB, Feb 10 at 0142, VP S3 but no long waits for
ID from ``ROCV, 6200``, tropical music; via Bonaire SDR. Must be still
plugging along with 50 watts, espering licensure (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

This report dispatched at 0458 UT February 10
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re 4765 kHz R Progreso from old USSR relay site
Bejucal (RadioCuba #2) of the 1965 years era,
each 50 kW;
and combined also to 2x times as 100 kW in total.
(11840 kHz R Moscow relay .... for example)
13 SW masts of 1965 Sowjetunion Leningrad firm design
at  22°51'55.24"N  82°20'11.10"W
instead
clean free WONDERFUL Latin AM music program Radio Rebelde
heard instead:
a thousand times 'I like it'
https://www.radiorebelde.cu/audios-bajo-demanda/radio_rebelde_en_vivo_frecuencia_am.html

Bauta {former Brown Boveri gear of 1962}
RadioCuba #1 site
is refurbished a decade ago and replaced
by latest BBEF Beijing Made in P.R. of China gear.
6 x 100 kW BBEF, 1 x 50 kW reserve unit.

Quivican San Felipe TITAN, RadioCuba #3 site.
Soviet antenna design - mid/end of 80year era,
16 x curtains,
2 x NVIS fountain non-directionals
5 x 250 kW is also different gear.
Maintained, and refurbished in 1999 ... 2001years,
by  Radio Comunicaciones del MICOM (Ministerio de Comunicaciones),
(thanks Olle Alm-SWE)

MW origin TXs was NEC Made in Japan in 1970,
TESLA CSSR in 80ties,
Chinese from 2002y onwards,
and also some NAUTEL - Made in Canada - origin.

Glenn, you should include the technical infrastructure
used at RadioCuba centers in the discussions.
Your description of intermodulations on the SW bands
from low transmission strengths portion -
also FM-like scratching audio tones appearance,
you have to look at each transmission center separately,
not to mix Bejucal 4765 kHz
with 13700 kHz Bauta gear example intermodulations.
technical knowledge.
The equipment provided by RadioCuba is very different
in year of construction and design.
73 wb
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn Hauser via Hard-Core-DX"

Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 5:58 AM
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 9-10, 2021

CUBA. 4747 & 4782 approx., Feb 10 at 0259, extremely distorted
S9+10 spurblobs out of S9+20/30 4765 Radio Progreso, matching
plus/minus ~17.5 kHz. These are unlike the ones out of 13700 RHC; no
F# tone, totally unreadable in SSB or FM, but music recognizable in AM
mode // 4765. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. I`ve heard these
spurs occasionally before. Could this be why R. Huanta 2000, Peru,
jumped from 4747 to 4764, in retaliation? BTW, WRTH 2021 page 315 says
its new frequency be 4755; not (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 0458 UT February 10
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