** AZORES. 6114, March 3 at 0717, believed to be USN sending RTTY
intruding in broadcast band, now S9+10, vs 6115 Japan only S6-S8.
Another comment about it from Lou Johnson, who is concerned that it
QRM WWCR when on 6115 until 0200:
``6115 Heavy RTTY Interference --- last night (3/1). BUT, prior to
that, for the previous 3 days, it was only about 50/50 interference so
the programs were intelligible. With the crisis in Ukraine, I don't
see it letting up. Lou KF4RCA Atlanta`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 9700, March 3 at 0719, RHC is S9+10 and for a change managing
to modulate in English; all others are off. Something`s always wrong
at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** IRAN [non]. 13600, March 3 at 1504, S5-S8 in Farsi: it`s R. Farda
via Lampertheim, GERMANY, 0530-1530 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** MALI. 5995, March 3 at 0718, no signal from ORTM; nor on day
frequency 9635. 5995 had been a staple after 0600 tho seldom bothered
to log (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** OKLAHOMA. March 3 at 1533 UT, Level 1 tropo enhancement shows BAD
DTV signals on RF 10, 12, 14, 20, 21, 22, 31, 34, 35, 36 --- and again
only one DX signal decoding, RF 28, virtual 44 from KTPX Okmulgee
including Newsy on 44-6 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020, March 3 at 0722, JBA carrier maybe trace of
music in splash from 5025 CUBA; presumed SIBC, first trace of it here
in some weeks. Believe SW had been silent. Equivalent to 5040 JBA
carrier presumed Vanuatu. On Jan 31, Bryan Clark reported to WOR iog:
```I have been in dialogue with Martin Hadlow who has been the WRTH
collaborator for Solomon Islands. At my request he has been in touch
with SIBC and he has just advised:
``Have had a response from the SIBC in Honiara. Their MW transmitter
is on and working OK. The problem is with the Japanese manufactured
transmitter on shortwave. (I think the one TX runs both 5020 and 9545
frequencies). The SIBC technical team is getting advice from the
Japanese manufacturer. The equipment came back on-air briefly a few
days ago, but is off again now. They are working as hard as they can
to get it fixed.`` Regards, Bryan -- Mangawhai - Northland - New
Zealand```
Ron Howard`s last report on this from California: ``Also no signal
from SIBC (5020, nor on 9545) on Feb 7, from 0825+ UT. Ron`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TIBET [non]. 12125, March 3 at 1508, S9/S7 unID language, must be
Tibetan as scheduled this hour, RFA via TINIAN; and with CCCCCCI
underneath from CNR1 jammer (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U K [and non]. 9770, March 3 at 1800, no signal from BBCWS in
Russian yet, checked at UTwente, and still not at 1818 when also
checked at Tambov, Russia SDR. Ivo Ivanov had reported a new
registration in HFCC effective today for 1800-1830, 250 kW at 66
degrees from Woofferton. If and when it appear, will it be jammed?
On the WOR iog, Richard Langley, NB, asks, ``How long has it been
since BBC last broadcast on SW? Will they get jammed?`` Arthur Pozner,
NY, replies: ``The last BBC WS Russian language was in March 2011. I
cannot remember if it was ever jammed.``
Michael, 2E0IHW in the UK, says ``Critical though I am of current BBC
criteria, we must commend BBC for its shortwave resurrection. It
should now be multilingual 24/7. That said, Al Jazeera still provides
the most balanced news``
Mark Bailey replies: ``Keep in mind that MW stations around the
Ukrainian perimeter could capture the BBC SW broadcasts and then
rebroadcast them on MW. This was done for Radio Moscow and Radio
Habana Cuba in a few places beamed into the US back in the day. It was
weird listening to RM on MW in your car, you betcha! But at such times
as these, I don't think it's out of the question to solicit one or
more MW stations to help out along these lines`` (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)
** U S A. 2097.3 CW, March 3 at 0726 UT, single-letter beacon A, still
JB audible every dekasecond from anywhere but Quartzsite AZ; for the
record (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 13565 CW, March 3 at 1503, HIFER beacon K6FRC audible vs
CODAR with continuous IDs only; allegedly 1.8 milliwatts from
Patterson CA; never heard beyond daytime morning hours. Very rarely
any others audible in this ISM band 13550-13570 despite listings
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2127 monitoring: From: Richard Lemke, St.
Albert, Alberta, Canada, the desk of Richard’s listening Post, Radio:
JRC NRD-535 HF, Antenna: random long wires in the trees. Dear
Jeff/Jane and Glenn: World of Radio #2127, confirmed, below Details:
5950, 2359, (45433), jamming, noisy, 2358, February 27 UT [Sun]
9955, 2331, 2344, 2357 (45433), 2359, March 1 UT [Tue]
5850, half way mark, 1037 (55444), (55443), 1059, March 2 UT [Wed]
9395, slight QRN, 0130, 0153 (45433), 0158, March 3 UT [Thu]
(Lemke, Richard -AB)``
Also confirmed UT Thursday March 3 at 0130 on WRMIs: 9395, S7/S9 into
Minneapolis SDR; 5010, S9/+15 into St Lucia SDR.
New WOR 2128 should be ready for download early UT Fri March 4 and
first SW broadcasts at 0130 on WRMIs 5850 & 7780 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)
** U S A. [WOR] South Park parodies Putin --- South Park is on the
ball, with a new episode `Back to the Cold War`, starring V. Putin et
al. Premiered last night UT Thu March 3 at 0100 on Comedy Central,
when all new episodes first appear. CC is crammed with old SP repeats,
but per TitanTV, this one, season 25, episode 4 is due to repeat,
times and days strictly UT, so mark your calendar: Sunday March 6 at
0614; UT Thursday March 10 at 0030. There is even some Russian dialog,
and the national anthem (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report despatched at 1936 UT March 3
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