** CUBA. 6100, Feb 4 at 0710, RHC with dead air in English; also 6060
still on with humbuzz; 9700 is on but JBA, probably also DA; while
5040 is VG in Spanish. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** U S A. 257 MCW kHz, Feb 4 at 0717 UT, JYR, 25 watt ND beacon at
York, Nebraska. Whenever I log this, brings back memories of my total
solar eclipse expedition to that area, even tho I was not tuning it at
that time.

341 MCW kHz, Feb 4 at 0715 UT, in the continued absence of EI Enid,
25-watt OIN Oberlin KS is the usual sole NDB occupant, but now it`s
mixing with seldom-heard DNI, 25 watts at Sherman-Denison TX. Even
when EI was operative it was so weak that OIN could also be heard
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2124 monitoring: confirmed second
airing, UT Friday February 4 at 0337 the 0330 on WRMI 5985, aimed
south so as usual here JBA vs hi storm and line noise; but at 0343
also JBA to Argentina SDR, S5-S7 to Knoxville but line noise; S4-S6
but less noisy to Maryland; JBA S7-S9 to Missouri SDR; Colombia SDR
still receiving nothing; TWR Bonaire still missing; best I can find at
0348 turns out to be the J68HZ SDR in St. Lucia, S7-S9 and less noise
than elsewhere. Put on some sandals?

Also confirmed Friday February 4 at 1530 on WRMI 9955, good S8-S9 but
seems undermodulated, no jamming audible direct. Maybe my file is
undermodulated, but stations ought to boost it to their own level.

BTW, the first airing at 0130 on 5850 was a few seconds short as final
edit had not been completed, but my closing was still overridden by
WRMI ID break. BTW2, upload to WRMI System F server was completed with
only 30 seconds to spare before 0130 with unexpectedly slow ftp
transfer, whew. Hot off the `press`! Next:

1915 UT Friday IRRS 7290-Bulgaria to WNW, 14580?; 1323-Italy
2130 UT Friday IRRS 1323-Italy
0230 UT Saturday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0530]
1330 UT Sunday WMRI Europe via Ch 292 Germany 9670
2100 UT Sunday IRRS 1323-Italy
2330 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 to NNW
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed?]
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

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support. Thanks this week to Joe Caberlin, Port Colborne, Ontario for
some US$ to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, USA

One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to:
woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** VATICAN [and non]. 13830, Feb 4 at 1535, VR Amharic from own SMG
site in extraterritorial ITALY, as I pointed out before can be
amazingly strong here in the wrong direxion, as typical for this
station and can`t help but wonder if their antenna aiming is 180
degrees off! Or at least not restricting radiation off the back.
However, yesterday with poor propagation it was not equivalent to
13820 Cuban radio war; today it`s only S5-S8 and with heavy flutter.
And also a short/long path echo.

Last time, Jan 10, I computed that the long path at surface level
measures 31289 km, resulting in an echo delay of about 1/13 second.
This time I inspect my NGS Globe to track the long path: along the
west coast of the Red Sea, out of Africa from northern Somalia, across
the vast Indian Ocean, way south of Australia, south even of NZ across
Auckland Island, across the vast Pacific near Tubuas Islands (as
labeled, ever hear of those before? Wikipedia spells Tubuai or
Tupua`i), Tuamotu Archipelago, i.e. near Tahiti, Marquesas Islands,
Revilla Gigedo, the Mexican Islands which seem to have no other
funxion, La Paz, western Texas, to Enid. The VR // 11935 is stronger
S9/+10 without flutter.

Further bandscan on 9, 7 and 6 MHz finds all the Chinese and other
east Asian signals with Doppler flutter, i.e. unstable frequencies as
processed by the disturbed ionosphere. Even NZ 7390 not near any polar
path has some flutter at 1545. WWV reports at 1500 Feb 4, K-index of 4
but no storms past or future (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15475.00 USB, Feb 4 at 0343, checking the LU1HLW SDR in
Argentina for WOR on 5985, I find it first tuned to 15475.98 USB for
LRA36 which I or someone must have last employed it for --- and I am
hearing some off-frequency talk! Turns out to be INTRUDING Spanish
2-way in the middle of their summer night, probably nothing to do with
Antarctica; also have heard 2-way here before (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1750 UT February 4
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