** ASCENSION. 11660, Feb 28 at 0727, song in English S9/S6, chopped off air at 0729* without any announcement. Aoki shows BBC French at 0700. Romania in Arabic supposed to follow at 0730 but unheard before 0730 tune-out; should have been running IS. Well-coördinated scheduling also shows Turkey on 11660 at 0450-0656; not so well-coörd, also CNR2 at 01-09, no sign of that. It`s off for siesta after 0600 on Day 4 only, but this is Day 3 = Tuesday (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 11760, Feb 28 at 0726, S9/S7 open carrier from RHC on way late again. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** EAST TURKISTAN. In case you find my denunciations of ``imperialist ChiCom genocide against Uyghurs and other Moslems``, excessive whenever XJPBS comes up such as QRM to Turkey 5960, consider this: ``How a search tool offers overseas Uyghurs harrowing insights William Yang, Taipei, 02/23/2023 February 23, 2023 Leaked data and a search tool have allowed some overseas Uyghurs to gain insights into their family members in China's Xinjiang region. Some say they feel a deep sense of guilt while others are filled with fear. [...] https://www.dw.com/en/tech-gives-overseas-uyghurs-chilling-insights-into-plight-of-relatives/a-64796343 via Hansjörg Biener`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** GUATEMALA [non]. 4055, R. Verdad, which has been off the air from Chiquimula for more than a year: Dr Madrid is still believing that by paying some organization, which has no web presence, the 4055 SW signal will soon be available worldwide via satellite. And claims that testing is now underway. A few days ago it was ``heard`` in China, and the perfect-Spanish ``reception report`` he forwarded is pretty obviously fabricated. This has been discussed in more detail in the WOR iog. For once, he publicized the latest test in advance: Feb 28 from 2200 UT past 0300, the first part to be heard in Europe only. Guess what, UTwente is getting no sign of it at 2237, 2321, 2355 chex, but there is a roaring noise centred 4050 with no specific carrier. Later he says the worldwide test would be around 3 am - I guess local time? so 09 UT. We are 99% sure that poor Dr Madrid is letting himself be conned out of scare funds, and have warned him repeatedly in the past. If any legit DXer ever hear this directly or via any remote, we may have to reconsider; meanwhile beware of a pirate possibly pretending to be this on 4055. He seems to be implying that the SW frequency 4055 is being transmitted from multiple satellites, as if HF 4 MHz were not totally inappropriate for direct satellite broadcasting; has promised to explain how this worx once it`s successful (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KIRITIMATI. 846 kHz, Feb 28 circa 0745, no sig detected from R. Kiribati, maybe due prop storms even on a trans-eq path. Gary Pence confirmed it earlier at 0425z with a screenshot from Oahu SDR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 5960.003+, Feb 28 at 2256, VOT IS is already on blotting out BBC OMAN, S9+30/40 into UTwente. 2300 TS and s/on again mentions only the 1330, 1930 and 0400 broadcasts. First news item is like this, 412-2 vote in US House: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mtg-house-turkey-syria-earthquake-b2291044.html Modulation level is loud enough, in fact too loud causing some distortion, more so during music. Before sports, ends with report that Antarctic sea ice area is the lowest in 45 years. 2314 `Review of Turkish Press` quoting Recep et al. always brief, hardly more than a few extra headlines. 2316 salute to S&R teams from all over the world. 2317.5 `Weekly Commentary` by Brad McDermott? an Australian psychiatrist, a guide to healing from EQ depression, PTSD. 2327 ``TRT VOT is with you`` promo, distorted music break. 2331 multi-lingual ID filler reel. 2334 about aromatic apples produced somewhere in Turkey, was `Turkey`s --algo-- Products`. 2336 salute to S&R teams again. Just realized I`m not hearing the CCCCCCI from East Turkistan, q.v. Maybe buried further than usual. 2337 music. 2343 third salute to S&R teams, music. 2348 ``always by your side`` promo, more music. 2352 s/off again citing 1330, 1930, 0400 bcs only, why? 2354 IS gets to repeat a few times before chopoff* uncovering XJPBS (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2179 monitoring; next: 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, this week from Greg Putz, KI7UED, Bountiful UT, ``Thank you for your work!`` with a generous check to Glenn Hauser, PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA One may also contribute by MO or cheque on a US bank to above address; or via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VANUATU [and non]. 7260, Feb 28 at 0741, RV still here but VP unreadable; and no Nigeria 7255-. However, at 0730 I was listening to 13755 RNZP, VG with `Melanesian Update` warning about Cyclone Judy hitting Vanuatu: in some pidgin with plenty of English terms. Earlier about that, at 0408, Ron Howard recommended to the WOR iog: ``Hi Glenn - Would be a good idea for folks to listen to Radio Vanuatu (7260 kHz.) over the next 24 hours. Certainly there will be active coverage about cyclone Judy. https://zoom.earth/storms/judy-2023/ Ron, California`` -- and before that: ``Thanks to alerts from Art Delibert and Ralph Perry today (Feb 27), Radio Vanuatu (7260) with extended broadcasting, well past normal closing down time of about 1100* UT! https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/02/27/tropical-cyclone-judy-forms-near-vanuatu/ https://www.vmgd.gov.vu/vmgd/index.php/forecast-division/tropical-cyclone/warning Tropical Cyclone Warning Number 4 for TORBA, PENAMA, SANMA and MALAMPA.`` And from Tony Rogers, BDXC-UK: ``I have been listening on the KiwiSDR in Brisbane, Australia, but it’s interesting to follow the programme content more clearly on their online stream at https://www.vbtc.vu/en/listen-online-2/ 73’s Tony`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0012 UT March 1
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