USA {OCB organization outlet to East European battle field target}Four weeks test series of OCB Spanish to Ukraine battle field target via
USAGM Greenville-NC bcast center stopped 17870 kHz on April 28 at 17.00 UT.
(wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 1)
USAGM monitoring at Kiev Ukraine embassy. OCB program in Spanish;
look-out 'OCB SPAN' Organisation via Greenville-NC state
Mon-Fri 17690 kHz 17-21 UT
Sat & Sun only
April 20/21 13-17 UT 17865 kHz
April 27/28 13-17 UT 17870 kHz
<https:ibbmonitor.appspot.com/status/RMS_LOG_KIEV_240429_133213.TXT>
USA 17690 kHz May 1 at 1710 UT, again NO signal of R. Marti to Cuban
mercenaries for Russia in Ukraine. Was also missing and found nowhere
else on April 30. Again May 1 at 1720-1725 UT I do a quick but thorough
bandscan and find it nowhere else on the 21, 17, 15, 13 or 11 MHz bands.
Propagation is degraded but VOA still manages a good signal in English
from Grimesland on 17530 kHz, and Marti to Cuba on 13605 kHz, while 11930
& 11860 kHz are JBA absorbed. It's done for now but unconfirmed whether
permanently canceled. Could it be they got zero listener response? I'm on
a Martinoticias mailing list and never saw any reference to this secret?
service.
Now I search the website on Ucrania and get loads of hits on stories men-
tioning it but nothing about the broadcasts; however this brief about the
mercenaries:
<https:www.martinoticias.com/a/mercenarios-cubanos-en-la-invasi%C3%B3n-
rusa-en-ucrania-7-meses-de-silencio/387853.html>
Then no significant hits searching on the 4 frequencies used:
17680, 17690, 17865, 17870 kHz, but no hits on 13605 or 13.605 kHz either
as if SW were irrelevant.
(Glenn Hauser-OK-USA, wor May 1)
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
From: Glenn Hauser via Hard-Core-DX
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 30-May 1, 2024U S A. 17690, May 1 at 1710, again NO signal of R. Martí to Cuban
mercenaries for Russia in Ukraine. Was also missing and found nowhere
else on April 30. Again May 1 at 1720-1725 I do a quick but thorough
bandscan and find it nowhere else on the 21, 17, 15, 13 or 11 MHz
bands. Propagation is degraded but VOA still manages a good signal in
English from Grimesland on 17530, and Martí to Cuba on 13605, while
11930 & 11860 are JBA absorbed. It`s done for now but unconfirmed
whether permanently canceled. Could it be they got zero listener
response? I`m on a Martinoticias mailing list and never saw any
reference to this secret? service.
Now I search the website on Ucrania and get loads of hits on stories
mentioning it but nothing about the broadcasts; however this brief
about the mercenaries:
https://www.martinoticias.com/a/mercenarios-cubanos-en-la-invasi%C3%B3n-rusa-en-ucrania-7-meses-de-silencio/387853.html
Then no significant hits searching on the 4 frequencies used, 17680,
17690, 17865, 17870 -- but no hits on 13605 or 13.605 either as if SW
were irrelevant.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 0015 UT May 2
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