** CANADA. 15034 USB, Sept 29 at 1450, CHR Trenton Military is JBA with ``no report received`` perceived a few times. Is it prop, or altho on, is it QRP? I don`t have the patience to monitor such a poor signal for complete several-minute sequences, but random chex since reactivation have heard nothing but NRRs here nor on 6754 USB at night. Has anyone, or is this completely pointless? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** FRANCE [and non]. 6100, Sept 29 at 1524 tune-in, `La Boulangère` MiniTransAt special hour via TDF Issoudun, S9+25 and nothing yet on alternates 5975, 13735 nor 15300 into UTwente. Weather info in French, alternating immediately with same in heavily-accented English by same announcer. La Boulangère means female baker, why?? At 1527 switch to recitation of rankings in the yacht race so far with distances traveled. 1534 closing, ``à demain`` and into rock music which I expect to fill out the hour like last time, a James Bond theme. By 1540 I realize it has gone off but am hearing some weak talk instead. During the bc there was also slight CCI from this understation, i.e. CRI in Russian via Kashgar, East Turkistan, land of imperialist ChiCom genocide against Uyghurs and other Moslems. HFCC shows it`s 100 kW ND, so not much signal toward Europe, target area rather CIRAFs 30SE, 31SW and 40E (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ITALY [non]. 7290, Fri Sept 29 at 1815, IRRS SW is S9+5/15 into UTwente, and nil on second harmonic 14580, in `Shortwave Report`, recordings of DW and other stations, i.e., the time slot from which WORLD OF RADIO was canceled months ago. But Dan Roberts is chopped off halfway thru at 1830 for IRRS SW ID and Feature Story News; 1833 S Asian song, and plug their alt identity as European Gospel Radio, same repeated at 1845 after non-gospel music fill, then more of that. 1852 cut to discussion of AI. *1857 ACI starts from 7295 CRI English via Kashgar. 1858 back to a song. 1859 IRRS s/off 7290, to continue on 1323 kHz. Aoki and EiBi claim the secret 7290 site is Bulgaria. See also USA [and non] WOR monitoring (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11535.0, Sept 29 at 1458, algo JBA, only signal in 11500-11600 range, presumably Dengê Gel via Uzbekistan? and/or Recep the Turkiyeish jammer. Listening carefully across 1500 hourtop, continues with no timesignal, so not CNR1 jammer; and since not off-frequency, not Sound of Hope either (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MALDIVES [non]. 11620, Sept 29 at 1500, Voice of Martyrs, Korea, intro in English of Dhivehi -- pronounced DEE-veh-hee, 1501.5 switch to YL in that language quoting from Proverbs. Only S6/S9 direct but much better than Asian signals on band generally weak and/or disturbed, so whence? Australia, Taiwan, or Big Secret? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 101.5, Sept 29 circa 2030 UT, still dead air in $tereo into caradio from KOCD Okeene. Along a busy rush-hour artery street, also found dead air on 87.9 and 93.1, the latter at least also in $tereo; obviously unfed hungry RF feeders in vehicles (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** SWITZERLAND [non]. 15420-15425-15430, Sept 29 at 1601, Claudius Obrecht`s special hour of his electronic music, as publicized, 100 kW via Woofferton UK eastward toward target India. After finding Pune and Bengaluru SDRs blocked due to something (else?) DRM requiring full resources, I get it via #3 of the four 9K2RA SDRs in Kuwait. First time I have listened to one of his music specials, and enjoyed till 1659*. He makes frequent announcements in German, sometimes also very heavily accented English, and sometimes talking over his music. Plugs his website. No dropouts or QRM. Display shows 10.26 kbps, not sure of bandwidth but nothing hifi for music, and mono of course. I bet he made it originally in stereo. Is stereo possible with DRM? If not, why not: that could be a major selling point, but no doubt if employed would make it even less robust. ID at 1620: ``This is C. M. Obrecht Shortwave Radio`` - perhaps he need a catchier title? CMOS Radio? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2210 monitoring: confirmed Friday September 29 at 2054 the 2030 on IRRS SW via AM Italia, 1323 kHz only, S9+10/13 into nearby Noale SDR, and for a change no CCI, so Smooth Radio, Brighton, England, UKQOGBANI, may have already closed down forever. 2059 usual false s/off, 2100 Feature Story News, 2108 start `The Shortwave Report` again with Dan Roberts, but bound to be chopped off air in a few more minutes. Yup, -2111.7*, and still nothing else on open frequency. See also ITALY [non]. Be prepared for disappointment, but WRMI sked shows a new time for WOR, Friday 2200 on 9955, shortly to be confirmed, i.e. Next: 2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE [NEW; also webcast, phonecast] [to be confirmed] 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0000 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE [was planned late in Sept] 0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW [? not last week] 0245vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0457] 1030 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 [jammed by Cuba?] 2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW 0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW 0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1300 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [planned] 2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB 1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB [previous #2209] 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1400 UT Thursday WRMI 9955 to SSE [NEW; also webcast, phonecast] No new financial support this week, which might have been sent via MO or check on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702. Or via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds to: woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7505, Sept 29 at 0630, S9+48 of dead air again, presumably WRNO, but why? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5085: George McClintock confirms WTWW resuming UT Tuesday October 3 after an hour of PPP, 4 hours 7dpw have been purchased at 01-05 UT by: ``Bishop`` Bob Biermann! That`s `Your Weekend Show` and `Truth 2 Ponder` guy with lotsa hours already on WRMI: far-Christian and far-right. He had been engineering at WRMI but I think for some time he has been living somewhere else, fighting cancer or something. His voice is still on many recorded WRMI IDs (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR UNIDENTIFIED [non]. 17790, Sept 29 at 0209, checking 24h after the gospel huxters in English on `Radio PanAm`, maybe a WRMI test: none of that now, but there is something weak S5/S8 in Burmese! into Utah SDR. that`s listed in Aoki as clandestine, Radio NUG, 0200-0230 via Paochung, TAIWAN. Strangely enough, last night there was no sign of this to QRM WRMI(?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 2125 UT September 29 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html