** CUBA. 4746 & 4784 approx., March 18 at 0118, scratchy spurblobs out of 4765 R. Progreso still pollute the band, plus/minus ~19v kHz. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK,, WOR)
** CUBA. 5040, March 18 at 0112, RHC in dead air except for some hum; something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 5040, March 18 at 0601, RHC still in Spanish instead of English; which is on 6100, but 6060 is off, and 6000 OC at first and turning off; while 9700 continues S9+20 in English. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13773 S5 & 13626 S7 approx., March 18 at 1359, wide spurblobs out of RHC 13700-AM; also 2nd-order 13553; with program audio almost clear along with tone which I have been denoting F# above middle-C, but not rechecked against keyboard until now when I find it closer to F-natural (where`s that ♮ symbol?) i.e. closer to 350 than 370 Hz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** GUATEMALA. 4055.00, March 18 at 0113, TGAV, R. Verdad, reactivated, S9 but unreadable vs storm noise; as Dr Madrid answered me last week he planned to do by March 17. Just after I had closed down last night, his notice of resumption went out at 0546: ``Le informamos que Radio Verdad Onda Corta YA ESTÁ EN EL AIRE CON 250 WATTS. SEGUIREMOS TRABAJANDO PARA LOGRAR TODA LA POTENCIA DEL TRANSMISOR. Gracias a Dios y a la ayuda de los Ingenieros Jhaír Ramírez, quien hizo el trabajo, y Rafael Borthwick, de Canadá, quien lo dirigió. Éste es el link directo: https://youtu.be/fij_pMsUAOo radio verdad tv, Día 171.83, Anuncio RV`` Full power is listed as only 700 watts, but definitely weaker now than it had been. Recheck at 0600 it`s S9 but still VP vs noise. At 0617:40 I can tell that the lengthy national anthem starts at sign-off (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KOREA SOUTH [non]. 9605, March 18 at 0111, KBS in Spanish via WHRI is still here and not on 11880 via VOA Grimesland, where it tested for a few days a week ago. However, A-21 tentative HFCC no longer shows 9605 but 11880 instead (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ROMANIA. 7325 > // 6130, March 18 at 0122, RRI in English going from `Society Today` to `Visit Romania` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2077 monitoring: confirmed final repeat UT Thursday March 18 at 0130 on WRMI 5010, S9+10 vs storm crashes. WORLD OF RADIO 2078 should be ready by early UT Friday March 19 for first airings at 0130 on WRMIs 5850 & 7780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7490.053V, March 18 at 0124, remeasuring WBCQ since it`s lowered from the 7490.2 maximum area. Slightly wavering making it difficult to pinpoint (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VENEZUELA. 6205, March 18 at 0216, zero signal from ROCV into TWR Bonaire KiwiSDR where it`s normally audible even in daytime; now what? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 7571, March 18 at 0131, ``bonker`` ute QRM audible on the plus side of TOMBS via 7570 WRMI (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 9267, March 18 at 0134, fast CW QRM on the plus side of 9265V WINB (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 1607 UT March 18
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