** BANGLADESH. 15505, Oct 3 at 1358, Bangladesh Betar carrier very poor at S2-S5, but stronger than usual, enough to perceive the IS starting at 1359:30, and the 5+1 pip mis-timesignal not ending until 1400:41.5! as Urdu service opens (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6145, Oct 3 at 0636, this RHC English is AWOL again, still on the others, 6100, 6060, 6000; ahh, redundancy! Something is always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. 6170, Oct 3 at 1327, RNZI still here, not yet moved to 5980 as registered if that is really a plan (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1898, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 7254.93, Oct 3 at 0635, Voice of Nigeria is S9+10 but just barely modulated, presumably Hausa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. 9890, Oct 3 at 2359, B-B-C- chimes very poor. It`s SINGAPORE, 250 kW at 330 degrees, about to start a semihour in Myanmarianese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. All frequencies of WRMI OFF the air at 0632-0635 UT check October 3: 5850, 7570, 7730, 7780, 9395, 9455, 9955, 11580 all inaudible (tho 9 & 11 MHz might have faded out); Other US stations on 5, 6 and 7 MHz are still audible. Reawake at 1326, they are all still off except for very poor signals on 9395, 9455, not WRMI? 11825, Oct 3 at 1329, good dead air presumably WRMI about to come back? No, from 1330 it`s KSDA GUAM signing on in Thai! 9455, Oct 3 at 1342, open carrier, so WRMI starting to come back, then some music; others still off except JBA carrier on 9395. 9455 // weaker 9395, Oct 3 at 1401, now in `The Power Hour` with paranoid commentary about the Deep State, paedophilia, Trump in danger? Still, no other frequencies. Next check at 1427 Oct 3, now // 7780 is very poor as usual; 9955 back with BS; 11580 back with Argentina in Spanish, 11825 BS; 21525 JBA with Radio Africa. Then I check WRMI FB to find what Jeff is saying: ``WRMI Radio Miami International --- 1130 UTC Tuesday October 3 - WRMI is experiencing an unusual power outage, perhaps caused by the recent Hurricane Irma damage in the area. All of our transmitters are off the air except for 9395 kHz on low power. Florida Power & Light is investigating and repairing the problem at this time and we hope to be back on the air soon. Our live stream of 9955 kHz is online on our website, wrmi.net and via services such as TuneIn. 1400 UTC Tuesday October 3 - OK, our power has just returned and we will be bringing all of our transmitters back on the air within a few minutes. Some overhead power lines in the area of our transmitter site, possibly damaged by Hurricane Irma, fell to the ground. Florida Power & Light fixed the lines just a few minutes ago`` He has also added dozens of photos from HFCC B-17 in Cape Town. I pause in WOR 1898 produxion to check 9955, October 3 at 2054 to discover what extra program is on at 2030 Tuesday: another gospel huxter in English, unknown which (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1898 contents: Australia, Bolivia, Brasil, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia and non, Falkland Islands and non, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Kashmir non, Korea North non, Kurdistan non, Lebanon, Mongolia, New Zealand, Perú, Puerto Rico, Solomon Islands, Spain, Ukraine, UK, USA, unidentified, and the propagation outlook WORLD OF RADIO 1898 monitoring: confirmed first SW broadcast less than one semihour after completed, Tuesday October 3 at 2130 on WRMI 9455, good (and still not on // 15770, but would have been splashed by 15760 WHRIBS); also confirmed Tue Oct 3 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330.130v-CUSB, S9+10. Next: Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 9455 to WNW Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2030 WRMI 9955 to SSE [NEW] Wed 21000 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW Sat 1431 HLR 7265-CUSB to WSW Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2130 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW [ex-2230] Sat 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 to NE Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 0231 UT October 4 _ 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
