** CUBA. 11760, Sept 2 at 0632, RHC with open carrier except for wind-howl, S9+25 the SSOB. SAWA. 15140, Sept 2 at 1447, S6 open carrier, SAWA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CHILE. 28435 USB, Sept 2 at 2223 ham calling CQDX in English, JBA, then 2226 improves as CA3PHX Mauricio, Spanish contact with Puerto Rico. 10m has been dead for weeks, not even any beacons, and none now either, but one other SSB unID. QRZ.com: ``CA3PHX Chile flag Chile, Mauricio "Mauro" Pacheco, La Florida , santiago chile, +56984082037, Chile`` with lots of photos of antennas, equipment, selfies (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MALI. 5990-5995-6000, Sept 2 at 0627, rough noise blob again instead of ORTMod. Rodney Johnson also reports Sept 2: ``Greetings From Minnesota! The "rough noise" is back. I started listening to 5995 kHz at around 0555z and it was no signal with significant background noise. Then at precisely 0601z the "rough noise" signs on! No remedy yet, unfortunately. 73s -Rodney`` Ron Howard replies: ``Hi Glenn & Rodney - Sept 2 (Wednesday), listening via southern California KSDR remote at Palomar Mt. #1, from 0825+ UT, to Radio Mali (9635); unique African pop music/singing, along with heavy QRN (static); poor reception; audio was fine so the problem you both heard seems to be fixed. My two minute musical remote audio - https://app.box.com/s/1qoje6npd6e1ggrjt02hgvi2af3eaqrr Ron, Monterey, California`` -- I don`t think that problem has ever been reported on their 9635 day frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 5140 USB, Wed Sept 2 at 1400, NCS Ernie, WPFY721 Seminole, opens the Oklahoma Operations Secure Test HF Net, anyone immediately? Then roll call. Line noise level is S9, and most signals weaker than that if at all. WPFY721 signal occasionally surges briefly; as he rotates antenna? He calls each once with callsigns I am not trying to recopy, but consult May 13 log for more details. Beckham County, Broken Arrow, Byng, Durant* Bill ``L&C``, Leflore County, Moore EOC, Ponca City* Jason ``L&C``, Pontotoc County, Stillwater. Concludes already at 1404, any other Okies? Yes, Jamie* chex in. Missouri? Jefferson City* JBA, Camden County. 1405 WPFY721 closing net as of 0906 CDT. *answered and also audible here. I wonder how they decide which ones to call, as some are no longer tried, yet others never reply. Also if there ever be a real emergency, will comms occur on this frequency? If not, where? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 27184.71, Sept 2 at 1443, S6 open carrier from Enid CB pirate; by 1454 has drifted to 27184.68, no modulation. No skip (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) {this item got truncated in the weekly log roundup; another try:} ** OKLAHOMA. 91.7, July 16 at 0157 UT, KOSU with $tereo pilot on, first time seen in a longtime, during music. They never answered my inquiry why it was stuck in mono. July 16 at 1835, $ pilot still on during talk programming: so now, stuck in $tereo even if no $ content (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. On Sept 1, I asked John Zondlo: ``Hi John, Could you check whether K17JN-D is really on the RF17 air now in OKC? Has vanished from Enid and supposedly now licensed to OKC, from the shared Tyler tower on SE 50th. With the 3ABN galaxy. Also, still mis-IDing as K17JI-D? Tnx, Glenn`` - his reply Sept 2: ``Hi Glenn, Yes, K17JN-D is on RF17 now in OKC. I was wondering why 3ABN wasn't on 21 now. BTW, 17 has streams on 1-4 and 6, but no 17-5, and the only ID is on 17-6. John`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 91.1 & 105.5, Sept 2 circa 2015 UT, the two Enid stations atop the decrepit Broadway Tower downtown, are again/still? off the air (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** SPAIN. 15500, Wed Sept 2 at 2158 and onward, REE North American frequency is OFF the air! Just in time for weekly token English; but 15520 for ME is sufficient, S9+10/20 despite off the back. 17715 for SAm also still on, and 15390 for Africa also still off. 2200 timesignal and open English `live` with the usual Alba and Daniel and their accents. Most of the time continuous musical background to accompany their rapid pace to cram a week`s worth of info into one hour. Preview topix: discussion of migration and asylum, with someone from CEAR? = Spanish Committee for Aid to Refugees; Earthquake sequence for two weeks shaking Granada. 2202 news of the week, national: local holiday in Ceuta, calling for solidarity across Spain. Spanish government response to wave of migrants called inadequate. Sánchez to visit? Russia and Israel blamed for disinformation. 2208, demonstrations in Ceuta last week against migrants; leading up to general elexion in 2027. At 2210, plug upcoming interview about 2-week quake sequence in Granada. 2211, international news: Germany accuses Russia of drone strike on Leipzig. Ukraine war intensifies, Kiyiv struck for 6 days in a row. Iceland voting referendum about EU. King Harald of Norway died Friday. 2214 Nepal flash flood, two Spaniards missing; US and Iran trade attacks. US taking Venezuelan oil. Maduro still in NY awaiting trial. 2217 cultural news: gala San Sebastián Festival on Sept 18; Spanish actor died. 2218, Alicante museum robbed of bronze age collexion 3 kiloyears old, 66 items including bracelets, gold, amber worth 5 megaeuro but doubtful there is a market for them. 2222 sports, field hockey = tune out! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2362 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday September 2 at 2030.2 on SW Radio Gold, Germany, 6159.999+, S9+15 and on 3974.999+, S9/+5 but sounds louder, into UTwente. Also confirmed Wednesday Septembr 2 at 2330 on WRMI 9395, S9+20/30 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. 7570, Sept 2 at 0625, this WRMI is extremely distorted; a carrier could be detected amid the mess. S9+25. Tried tuning FM mode, no better. If I knew how to reach by email whoever is running Okee at such a late hour, I might have tried to notify ASAP. I did check the other frequencies and they were OK. Notified Jeff later. He was on way back from Armenia, ``Glenn: It appears to be not a transmitter problem, but an audio processor problem. They’re working on it. Jeff`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7505, Sept 2 at 0624, WRNO is on late again in language, Hindi? S9+30 here but probably S-zero in India where it`s noon (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VANUATU. 7260, Sept 2 at 0623, R. Vanuatu is audible, unlike 24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Re 1 kHz tone on 660 gh heard, Jon Pearkins, AB: ``I realize that the discussion of KAPS was not about the 1 kHz tone, but I just double checked my notes and I was getting Country music from the SW, which surely would have been KAPS {Mount Vernon WA}, at the same time as the 1 kHz tone. Thinking about it now, KEYZ seems the most likely candidate for the 1 kHz tone.`` - that is, KEYZ Williston ND U4 5/5 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 15100, Sept 2 at 1446, S7 open carrier. Nothing listed in Aoki, EiBi, HFCC. Only a few other weak signals on band except SSOB 15555 USB WJHR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report despatched at 0022 UT September 3, 2026 _ 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. 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
