** ITALY [non]. 14589.997, Fri Feb 10 at 1836, music at S7 into
UTwente. This is the second harmonic of IRRS SW via presumed BULGARIA,
which I have saved in a memory tho WOR is no longer available on IRRS
SW. Fundamental 7295 is *much* stronger S9+25/35 but there is
considerable overmodulation? distortion which I did not detect on X2.
1838 playing orchestral `Danny Boy`, so I guess it`s the unID Irish
music show I have run across elsewhen next to WOR. What does their
sked show at 1915 CET Friday on 7295 & 1323? ``News and features from
our studio``, the generic entry occupying most of the schedule. 1842,
DJs outro as by 101 Strings, a.k.a. ``Londonderry Air``, and more
songs; horrible distortion. Over at odd time 1853 or cut off for promo
of some show ``Wednesday at 8 pm``, IRRS SW ID, 1854 anti-COVID PSA
from UNESCO/WHO about masking and handwashing (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
see also USA [and non]. WOR Monitoring of IRRS via 1323 kHz

** NEW ZEALAND. 11725 & 13755, Feb 10 at 0740, JBA audio and JBA
carrier respectively, very unlike last night when the RNZI duplicates
were inbooming.

Stephen Luce commented to the WOR iog: ``RNZ’s newly ordered Ampegon
transmitter isn`t supposed to be in operation until late this year or
early 2024, so it appears that the old Thomson unit from 1990 has been
sufficiently repaired to the point where it can be trusted with an
extended schedule alongside the younger 2006 transmitter. Stephen
Luce, Houston, Texas``

And now another new pairing: ``Strong reception of RNZ Pacific on
unscheduled 9700 kHz at 1400 UTC on February 10, 2023, with news and
weather as part of the "All-Night Programme". Weaker on 7390 kHz,
which is where they are expected to be heard at this hour. 73 Ricky
Leong, Calgary, Alberta, Canada`` --- but the How To Listen page still
shows 9700 AM, only after 1651. Another reply:

``I expect this is to provide a bit of extra coverage during tropical
cyclone season. Cyclone Gabrielle is wandering around the South
Pacific at the moment, due to reach New Zealand on Sunday via Norfolk
Island. It will be the existing second transmitter - the new unit
isn't due for months. Not sure of the beam though. Chris Mackerell,
Sandy Bay-Marahau Road, Marahau, RD2, Motueka 7197, New Zealand,
chris@owdjim.gen.nz`` (Glenn Hauser, oK, WOR)

** RUSSIA. 9310 USB, Feb 10 at 0551, Soviet Hymn, a.k.a. Russian
national anthem, starts with a male soloist really belting it out,
then joined by chorus. Tnx to tips from Walt Salmaniw, BC and Chris
Mackerell, NZ, so I bring up an NZ SDR to hear it. I started to time
the duration of each looped repetition but they stopped at 0603*
before I was finished -- somewhere between 3 and 4 minutes.

This has been reported on a number of frequencies, apparently doing
nothing else. On Feb 3, Lucas Bandura, BC, commented: ``This is a
Russian military beacon, operates on several frequencies including
7700, 8001, 9041, 9310, 9900, 10200, & 10420 USB`` (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** SPAIN. 9690, 12030, 11940, 11685, all four, Fri Feb 10 at 2308, REE
token English with news about Turquake by heavily accented YL, neither
Hélena nor Amy, and mispronouncing Erdoğan with a hard G instead of W;
outro as the correspondent in Beirut: that`s closer. 2310 Justin with
report about medical workers striking in Spain. Another demo called
for Sun Feb 12 ``tomorrow``. 2320 interview with Gorka and José Luís,
Basque flamenco artists at Galileo club. I`ve been listening to 12030
via Maryland remote, which is quite adequate today (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** TURKEY [and non]. 5960.003, Feb 10 at 2304, VOT English, VG S9+40
into UTwewnte, newscaster on lofi line, from home? Helps a bit to make
AMsync bandwidth max at 13.53 kHz. Does VOT ever have any reports from
the scene like numerous world news services? Seems not, everything
read from a studio, home or not. By 2307 XJPBS is on with undertalk
CCCCCCI. `Review of the Tuerkiyish Press` until 2313 about effect of
the TQ on sports clubs. 2314 `Weekly Analysis` about 3 major EQs on
Feb 6, some kind of record, and more statistix, 13.5 megapeople
affected by them. 2319 `Feeling Supreme/The Healing Spring` on the
benefits of carrots, at least the fourth time! Back to Spain, q.v.
Back to here: songs until 2341 `DYKT` about a photographer. 2343
music. 2351 multi-lingual ID filler reel. 2353 s/off and off 2354*
after only first two notes of IS, how rude! Uncovering XJPBS, East
Turkistan, standard denunciation (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 11720, Fri Feb 10 after 2105, VOA Grimesland with secret but
longstanding airing of `Music Time in Africa`. Occasionally
announcements by hyper Heather Maxwell are reverbing as if long/short
path echo turning on and off, but rather an unwanted studio effect?
Far too little `traditional` music, if any, but frenetic contemporary
rap etc., and far too much talk, like interviewing Black Sheriff at
2145. Conclusion: not worth going out of my way to hear. Listening via
remotes in Tenerife where it`s aimed, and north Texas off the back
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2177 monitoring: confirmed first
SWBC, UT Friday February 10 at 0330 on WRMI 7780, VG S9/+10 into
Louisiana SDR -- and yes, still with noise burst superimposed over
first 14 seconds. But this time strangely, not visible on waterfall as
external QRM.

Also confirmed Friday February 10 at 1530 on WRMI 9955, preceded by
Blalock the Blaster from tune-in at 1527; S9/S5 direct but fading to
JBA by 1545. Into Maryland SDR, 9955 is S7/S8 for ID and continuing
past 1600 with TOMBS. We never know whether 9955 will be turned off
before WOR, but lucked out this week.

Also confirmed Friday February 10 at 2130 on IRRS SW via AM Italia,
1323 kHz only, S9+15/20 into nearby Noale SDR, following ID which cut
off some talk show, unseems `Wavescan` as scheduled 2100, unless it
started way late. My first 8 words were heard twice, playback
incompletely replacing last week`s? Or anomaly of SDR? There is a
light rippling SAH from a JBA understation with music, probably
Brighton. The CCI is considerably worse by my 2158 closing. 2159
``IRRS signing off 1323, to resume at 19 CET tomorrow`` and right into
Feature Story News. Still after 2205 recheck as I realize they have
switched to AP news via VOA News! 2210 songs. 2211* finally cut off
uncovering Smooth Radio songs? But still fast ripple SAH from algo
else. Next WOR airings:

0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW
0500 UT Saturday WBCQ Radio Angela 5130v to WSW
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
2230 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW
2230 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0530]
0800 UT Sunday Unique R, Australia 5035 USB [low power]
0830 UT Sunday Unique R, Australia 5035 USB [previous episode]
2100 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW
0130 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0030 UT Wednesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, Australia 5035 USB [low power]
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

Like our website, a noncommercial service for which financial support
is appreciated. Thanks this week for ``My yearly anonymous
contribution to WoR. Thanks again, Glenn, for allowing me to
participate in your historic radio show``, generously via PayPal to
woradio at yahoo.com

One may also contribute by MO or check on a US bank to:
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7490-, Fri Feb 10 at 2230 trying to listen to `Behaviour
Night` of oldtime recordings via the WBCQ webcast but it keeps
stopping. I`m better off tuned to 7490- itself via Maryland remote
after finding the N TX remote I still have accessed is getting
nothing. I gather that this is also on several other
stations/webcasts. And don`t spell it Britishly despite Sir Scratchy`s
patrician accent. Also the preferred spelling is ``beHAVior Night``. I
see his FB has not been updated since last May - but it does link to
https://myspace.com/sirscratchy where his real name appears, John
Landry, saving me the trouble of searching for it; and location as
Dobbs Ferry, NY, which in 2010y was an 11K town west of White Plains,
north of Yonkers on the Hudson. Did not get around to measuring it
until recheck during unlistenable FKB gospel huxter at 0023 Feb 11
when it`s about minus 68 Hz into Maryland = 7489.932.

Will there be a new `AAAWWW` this week at 0100 UT Saturday? Two last
twits illustrated with portraits of Tom Barna:

``Allan Weiner @AllanWBCQ · 11h [= ~1330 UT Friday] If the weather
holds. It’s Angela & Allan Worldwide on the air tonight. 8pm eastern.
Tune 7490/6160/5130 khz. Important stuff to discuss. Don’t miss the
show. Email your comments to wbcq@wbcq.com. With free speech radio-the
show must go on. Two left❤️ RIP`` [with more emojis]

``Allan Weiner @AllanWBCQ · Feb 8
Lost our beloved Tom Barna, chief engineer of the world’s
Superstation. He will be missed. RIP radio brother. With our Lord and
Savior in that big station in the sky. Cary on. The free speech must
continue. Free speech radio WBCQ. 9330/7490/6160/5130/3265 khz More
radio to come🙏⚡️``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 4840, Fri Feb 10 at 0722, S9+30/40 of dead air except for
big hum, as WWCR-3 fails once again to modulate TOMBS. Wiggle that
patchcord? Only other frequency on now, 5935 WWCR-2, remains nominal.
Something`s nullified in Nashville (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** VANUATU. 7260, Feb 10 at 0720, R. Vanuatu is JBA here and not on
7890 or 11835. Gary Pence agrees that this seems to be the new normal.
But we never know when they may revert to 3945 plus harmonix at least
after 0700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 4753-, Feb 10 at 0723, I happen to be tuned to 4752 USB
during a bandscan where there are CODAR swirshes over a considerable
range, when suddenly I hear some CW at a pitch slightly less than 1
kHz --- could it be a CODAR transmitter ID, as Ken Zichi had reported
previously? Sent twice at moderate speed, but I do not manage to copy
it beyond the first two letters which I think are WR+ something and
ending in 7? Did the CODAR pause during this? Not sure: if so, that
would definitely tie them together. Nothing further for a few minutes,
but at 0743 I`m listening again when the CW refires --- so maybe this
happen at 20-minute intervals? Or 10? I keep listening past 0753 but
no more and I`m off before 0803. Further monitoring required! (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 5051.0, Feb 10 at 0721, JBA open carrier. Had not noted
it lately but weeks ago was a regular mystery with good signal (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9234 CW, Feb 10 at 0727, DE 3RA, tentatively as I tune
in, a partial ID? In long CW message, no more DE heard for a while,
but pauses and restarts at 0732. A few sequences copied seemed to be
random letters, not intelligible words, so maybe encrypted (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report despatched at 0042 UT February 11
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