** ARGENTINA [non]. 5800, Jan 23 at 0100, RAE AAM, via WRMI runs OK;
0126 rock music but it`s Spanish and still RAE with 0130 multi-lingual
IDs, then conversation with an Argentine who went to Thailand.

Next night, UT Jan 24 I am listening to the second half to assure it
air intact; seems so: 0129 talk about the FSLN; 0130 multi-lingual ID,
then `Géneros y Diversidad` about sexism in sports; 0147 multi-ID
again, chat about 23 de enero being some national day; 0151 headlines
and ``Piano Man`` --- no sign-off heard, but this music may have been
filler from WRMI; another song until 0159 WRMI ID and off at 0200*
sharp.

9395, then should follow RAE ATTW in English, but it`s a JBA carrier
as often the case after dark, altho sometimes recovers later at night
when TOMBS is on. How about putting RAE English on reliably propagable
5800 instead --- plus Tirana at 0230? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** BRAZIL [non]. 6090, Jan 23 at 2350, a weak signal here presumed
Iran in Spanish as scheduled; *2356 open carrier from ANGUILLA making
a fast SAH atop the other, and shortly after 0000 Jan 24, join Dead
Gene Scott in progress, without a sign-on, let alone an ID, which
*never* come out of what is listed as The Caribbean Beacon. By then it
sounds like Qur`an and ME music underneath.

I`m checking this because someone has just reported hearing Rádio
Bandeirantes on 6090 last night, ``at 0120 in Portuguese with an
excited male preacher``. That station has been gone from SW for over a
year, thought to be forever. 6090 and its other frequency 9645 were
deleted from WRTH 2019 already and still absent in 2020. Yet it
survives on the Aoki list, which is full of defunct Latin American
stations, leading some to expect still to hear them. And this mis-info
is likely copied into other SW schedule aggregators.

All I ever get on 6090 evenings when Anguilla is absent (most of
them), is Iran in Spanish which is scheduled all the way from 2350 to
0250. Tonight I am hearing two stations, not three, but check on a
non-Anguilla night just to be absolutely sure. If you can`t get an
Iran ID or tell Spanish from Portuguese, maybe catch the odd closing
time of 0250?

It should be noted that last February, a ``Radio Livre Bandeirantes``
was reported from Brasil on 6090, an unrelated low-power pirate. If
still active, hearing it here vs Anguilla and/or Iran is extremely
unlikely (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** BRAZIL. 9666.553V, Jan 24 at 0043, Voz Missionária is S7-S9 in
Brazuguese preaching as it continues to wander back down toward
nominal 9665, after last caught Jan 19 way up on 9667.478. As I listen
it is slightly unstable (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CANADA. 406-MCW kHz, Jan 23 at 0711 UT, dash and YLJ ND beacon,
which is 40 watts from Meadow Lake, Sask., and the only one listed on
this frequency, a clear-channel! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. Time and date were omitted from this item; added:

13568, 13634, 13767, 13834, 13901, 13967, 14033, 14100-trace,
approx., 1527 UT Jan 19, spurblobs out of RHC 13700, readable both in
FM and AM but not SSB, and with the F# tone in FM, progressively
weaker toward the outskirts where only the tone may giveaway. Now
intruding into 20m hamband where maybe some of them will notice and
complain; to CO2KK? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 6099.6 & 6100.4 approx., Jan 23 at 0657, RHC English S9+40 on
mushy 6100 plus squealspurs about 400 Hz above and below. Something`s
always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 13906, 13838, 13769, 13631, 13562, 13493, 13423, Jan 23 at
1519, FM>AM spurblobs out of RHC 13700, weaker and weaker toward the
outskirts, approx 69 kHz intervals. Something`s always wrong at RHC
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15140, Jan 23 at 1819, RHC in Portuguese? Distorted and
overmodulated; then announcer in real Spanish. May have been a clip
from a Brazilian trying to speak Spanish = Espanhuguês. Something`s
always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 9545, Jan 23 at 0450, JBA carrier, presumed SIBC
since it cut off at 0500:07*; doubt I will ever get more than this
from it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2017 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday January
22 at 2100 on WRMI 7780, VP.

Also confirmed Wed Jan 22 from 2200:17 on WBCQ 7490.28v, fair S9+.

Also confirmed UT Thu Jan 23 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, fair declining to
poor by 0122.

WOR 2018 is available as of 0228 UT Friday January 24
(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2018.m3u
(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2018.mp3

Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
Also linx to podcast services.

WORLD OF RADIO 2018 contents: Albania, Antarctica, Argentina non,
Armenia, Brasil, Canada, China, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea non,
India, Indonesia, Iran non, Korea South, Oman, Perú, Sudan South non,
USA, Uzbekistan; Kiwi SDRs; and the propagation outlook

The shortwave broadcasts should be:

0900 UT Friday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
2300 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE
[usually starts with heavy jamming but maybe abates]
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5010 to S, 7780 to NE
1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415]
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9395 to NNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
0930 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB [another episode]
1901 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
0900 UT Wednesday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. Jan 24 at 0216+ UT, I quickly scan the entire MW band, and
hear not a single station broadcasting live coverage of something
rather important in the US Senate! Not even talk stations whose format
would be disrupted the least, but most of them are secretly if not
overtly controlled by the Far Right, as obvious from their entire
daily schedules. And golly, how are you going to fit in 20+ minutes of
commercials an hour? Somehow, major cable TV networks manage to do it.
But radio listeners should also be able to hear the Trump Trial.

How about FM, public radio? KOSU has been airing from NPR the first
parts in the afternoons, but not in evening prime-time, still owned by
sub-station The Spy with OK/indie music, far too vital to pre-empt. So
The Spy wags the rest of KOSU.

I also know better than even bother to check US SW stations --- No
public service sentiment there! Just leave Brother Scare all over the
dial (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Just noticed a typo 12 days later to this report before
anyone else bring it to my attention. In the frequency list should
read 1017, not 2017 kHz; fixed:

Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search Jan 12 at 0006-0013 UT: 531*
strongest; 558(2), 576, 585, 639, 657, 693(2), 711, 729, 738, 774(2),
801, 819, 837, 855, 882, 891, 909, 936(2), 999, 1008, 1017, 1044,
1089, 1098, 1107(2), 1125(2), 1152, 1179, 1215(2), 1296, 1305(2),
1422, 1485, 1539 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0417 UT January 24