** CANADA. 346 MCW kHz, Aug 26 at 0636 UT, dash and YXL, 500 watts still on the air from Sioux Lookout, ON, despite missing last night. Noise level barely low enough to reaudiblize some others:
351 MCW kHz, Aug 26 at 0637 UT, dash and YKQ, 500 watts at Waskaganish QC. This is at the southern tip of James Bay, which is below Hudson Bay; 2259 km = 1403 stmi from Enid; my most distant NDB? 353 MCW kHz, Aug 26 at 0644 UT, dash and PG, 25 watt NDB at PortaGe la Prairie MB. Why doesn`t it start with Y? Well, a lot of them don`t. Depends on who runs? See also USA. Notes heading the Hepburn list at https://dxinfocentre.com/ndb.htm -- ``* Most radio beacons have now been decommissioned. Many listed here may be off the air or on low power. Because of this, many more high-power foreign beacons have been added as DX targets. Note that some previously decommissioned beacons have been unexpectantly returning to the air (I call them "zombie beacons"). Powers are authorized antenna input powers in watts. Beacons may be transmitting with less than authorized power, especially those whose importance has diminished. Typical powers are 25 watts for terminal beacons & ILS markers, 400 watts for enroute beacons, and 2000 watts for oceanic coastal beacons. OPS ONLY = During aerodrome operations only. Standard Beacon Formats : USA : A2 (DSB) 1020 Hz no dash - CAN : A2H (USB + full carrier) 400 Hz with dash - CAN MIL : A2 (DSB) 1020 Hz with dash`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MALI. 5990-6000, Aug 26 at 0621, ``rough noise`` has resumed instead of Bamako modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 5140 USB, Aug 26 at 1400 UT, WPFY721 NCS opens the Wednesday weekly Oklahoma Operations Secure HF Test Net; JBA in noise level like most of the respondents. Always with calls fonetikaly of 4 letters and 3 numbers as in many previous logs. See my May 13 log for more details of calls and handles. Called this time: Beckham County, Broken Arrow, Byng*; WQYW412? Duncan - not usually called and Ernie implies he should not have included this one? Durant** ``loud & clear`` for them, but unusually only JBA here. Leflore County; Moore; Ponca CIty** Jason L&C for them; Pontotoc County* Chad - discuss status of lowband radio? Stillwater. Any others? Missouri Jeff City*; Camden County. 1408 closing at 9:08, says got 5 answers, but then discuss with WNBE830 whether Missouri net (at 1430) is weekly or on first & third? Says has been weekly. Finished at 1410. *got a reply; **a reply also audible by me (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** SPAIN. 15500, Wed Aug 26 at 2200, token weekly English from REE, S9+20/30 direct // 15520 & 17715 both S9+10/20, and S0 on 15390. Topic preview: anniversary of The Geneva Convention on refugees; interview UNHCR person; video games provide disinfo. 2202 summary of news of week: Ceuta & Melilla: National Security Council convened; vaccines to Ceuta vs claims of no risk of contagion; still some wildfires, and earthquaxe peaking 4.8. 2207 international news: vs sanxions to crush Iran economy; it`s time for countries to side with the US or Iran; 2-state solution illegal; Israel army kills people; Ukraine independence day was Monday; EU sanxions on Russia; Zelenskyy values Spain`s support. 2211 sports: field hockey, cycling, tennis. 2215 MRNA vaccines in cancer trials like for COVID. 2217 partial lunar eclipse before dawn Friday {maximum at 0412 or 0413 UT}; 2218 La Canción del Verano, since the 60s and 70s, for summer holidays, clips of several songs past 2223+ (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 11785, Aug 26 at 2158, VOT not off the air, IS & IDs JBA direct (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. Beginning to hear some beacons barely against high noise level: 356 MCW kHz, Aug 26 at 0646 UT, ODX, 25 watt NDB at Ord NE. 392 MCW kHz, Aug 26 at 0647 UT, FMZ, 25 watt NDB at Beklof NE; also ``regular`` carriers at least, not specifically relogged on: 251, 255, 293, 305, 326, 329, 332, 338, 344, 395, 404, 407, 515, 521 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also CANADA ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2361 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday August 26 at 1930 on SW Radio Gold, Germany, 6160.000-, S9+10/20 and 3974.999+, S9+20/25 into UTwente. Also confirmed Wednesday August 26 at 2330 on WRMI 9395, S9+15/30 into Georgia SDR. Next: 1630 UT Thursday SW Radio, Germany 3975 6160; 2330 UT Thursday WRMI 5950 to NNW. Financial support appreciated for this non-commercial service, via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds to: woradio at yahoo.com Or by money order or check in US funds on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. 580, Aug 26 at 0701 UT, NBC News now on WIBW Topeka; atop Spanish presumably XELRDA Piedras Negras, which stands for La Rancherita Del Aire (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 6180, Aug 26 at 0622, JBA carrier; Amazônia not on at this hour, EiBi & Aoki show Deutscher Wetterdienst, Pinneberg at 0600-0630. WRTH says 10 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 2336 UT August 26 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. 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