** COLOMBIA. 10125 CW, Oct 19 at 0627, HK3QQ at S5, usual Spanish
keyboard letters with errors (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11860 & 11930, Oct 19 at 0630, Cuba fails to jam against
nothing, since there is an island-wide power failure! 5025 Rebelde
also absent, but not unusual even when power is on. Press about that:

2041 GMT Oct 18, New York Times via Brock Whaley, Aiken, SC:
``Power Outage Plunges All of Cuba Into Darkness -- The Cuban
government had just announced emergency measures to reduce electricity
use — then the power went out across the entire nation.

Cuba’s power grid failed and the entire nation plunged into darkness
Friday, less than a day after the government stressed the need to
paralyze the economy to save electricity in the face of major gasoline
shortages and large-scale, regular outages.

The electricity went out nationwide Friday morning after a failure at
a thermoelectric power plant in Matanzas, east of Havana, Cuba’s
Energy Ministry said on X.

The blackout came less than a day after the prime minister, Manuel
Marrero Cruz, held a late-night television address with state
officials to discuss the ongoing electricity crisis, which experts
said was the worst the nation — long accustomed to food and
electricity shortages — had ever experienced.

For weeks, the country has lacked the fuel to run the power grid,
which has left large parts of the nation without electricity for 15 to
20 hour stretches.``

Via Vince Cavaseno, Mashpee MA, IRCA:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/world/americas/cuba-power-plant-blackout.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TE4.RWck.J1POdodh4z49&smid=url-share

And from RHC itself via Mike Cooper:

https://www.radiohc.cu/en/noticias/nacionales/367734-cuba-combatting-the-electro-energy-challenge
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 11529.896, Oct 19 at 1510, JBA carrier direct from
Hikari FM pirate, allegedly in Sonora; at 1539 into Utah SDR when
measured, correctly calibrated with WWV, music with heavy disco beat,
S9; 1601 pause for quick produced announcement, unreadable but unseems
Hikari ID. Also still at 1916, S8 disco beat = twice per second or
120/minute. See also UNIDENTIFIED (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 27184.50 AM, Oct 18 at 2336, gospel music bigsig // 105.5
FM, K288FX, translator of KYLV 88.9 ``K-Love``, from local Enid CB
pirate, first time heard again in a while, but with equally strong
spoiler AM carrier on 27184.91 making huge het, but can be avoided by
LSB tuning. Same on 27224.81 AM with no spoiler.

Also: 27184.50 AM, Oct 19 at 1514 // 105.5 Hallelujah song, no spoiler
carrier but plenty of skip QRM; and also 27224.83 AM (Glenn Hauser,
Enid, WOR)

** SPAIN. 17855, Fri Oct 18 at 2201, token English from SNR, S9+20/30
direct, also audible on 17715, 15520, never 15390. Already missed
preview of topic as news is starting. For B24 from Oct 28, expect this
to be on 9690, M/W/F at 2300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 11785.007-, Oct 18 at 2159, VOT not off the air with IS,
2200 accurate timesignal and s/on, S9+20/30 direct. At 2227 into
UTwente when measured, S9+15/25 but much clearer, with `Turkish Folk
tales`. 2252 s/off as if it had been the 1230 broadcast on 17620 --
something`s always awry at Ankara; 2253 IS; 2256 restart IS with
German IDs to chop 2259* -- something`s always erroneous at Emirler.
BTW, as expected in B24, this shifts to 5960 at 2300 UT (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2265 monitoring: confirmed Friday
October 18 at 2200 on WRMI 9955, S9+10/20 direct but undermodulated;
no jamming as entire Cuba is blacked out, tsk3.

Also confirmed Friday October 18 at 2230 on SW Gold Radio, Germany,
3975.003-, S7/S9 into UTwente.

NOT confirmed UT Saturday October 19 at 0300 on WTWW 5085: cut off the
air at precisely that time, I know not why.

Confirmed Saturday October 19 at 1436 the 1430 on SW Gold Radio,
Germany, 6160.001-, S9/+5 into UTwente with dittering QRM from 6164.
Followed after 1500 by Weekend Music Radio at 1525 check.

Also confirmed Saturday October 19 after 1600 on WRN North America
webcast.

``World of Radio heard on 6160 on Shortwave Gold at 1730 via a SDR in
Netherlands - Ron Trotto-WDX4KWI, Virden, Illinois, USA``

Also confirmed Saturday October 19 at 1734 on SW Gold Radio, Germany,
6160.001+, S9+15 into UTwente but heavy ACI from 6165 CRI English and
6164 RTTY - unless LSB tuned with reduced bandwidth. Also a few
syllables behind on 3975.003-, S9+8 with no QRM.

Also confirmed Saturday October 19 at 1930 on WRMI webcast only, and
on WRN North America stream.

Confirmed Saturday October 19 from 1940 the 1930v on WA0RCR, 1860 AM,
MO, S9+17 by groundwave into nearby SDR. Next:

2300 UT Saturday WTWW 9475 [irregular];
0000 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?];
0230vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0500];
1900 UT Sunday IRRS 1323-Italy;
2130 UT Sunday SW Radio, Germany 3975 & 6160;
2330 UT Sunday WRMI 7570 to NW;
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW;
0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW [irregular];
0830 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 6160;
1930 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 3975 & 6160;
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to SW;
1300 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?];
2000 UT Tuesday IRRS 1323-Italy;
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW;
2330 UT Tuesday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
1930 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975 & 6160;
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW;
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S;
1630 UT Thursday SW Radio, Germany 6160.

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** U S A. 9475, October 19 before 0100, WTWW not on air here nor 5085,
but on by 0101 with SFAW? preacher, S9+40/52 direct, so bodes well for
WOR at 0300 --- NOT! 9475 unseems on the air at all lately, which may
nullify the only other scheduled WOR airing Saturday at 2300, which
was missing last week (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7489.93, October 19 at 2359, S9+15/20 direct, FKB preacher
gets 1-minute warning tone on WBCQ, quickly wraps up, but then dead
air; Oct 20 at 0000, one canned ID interrupted by another, and finally
Wm Tell Overture theme of `AAAWWW`. Considerable storm noise and I
can`t copy all his interjexions. A&A are at home = Studio 9 in Deland
of Floriduh, right into discussion of Hurricane Milton which hit them
last week, so this one is live, and the Oct 12 one a rerun. Storm
damage there but they hunkered down and were OK with power out for
only 3 days. They were ready with Coleman stove for some hot meals.
Also advises running lamps with charcoal starter fluid. Lots of big
oak trees were blown down, not much damage to own property. HM spawned
137 tornados, one of which went nearby. Angela ``dresses up`` for the
radio - I guess not seminude this time? Thanks God for Gov. Desantis
in a ``MAGA state``. I suspend at 0015. At 0048 reads some Free Radio
Weekly items from last week`s issue as this week`s not in yet,
including ``new`` Hikari FM, my log on 11529.9 but not credited. Runs
a minute overtime, 0101 JIP Hal Turner. Also checked 3265 and 5130
finding no signals, and 6160- was JBA direct (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** VANUATU. 9960, Oct 19 at 0625, R. Vanuatu, S7/S8 with announcements
in Bislama; unchecked after 0700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** VATICAN. 15595, Oct 19 at 0632, VR in English, S7/S9, the SSOB
along with = 15770 WRMI in Spanish. Lucky me, English quarter hour at
0630 to ME is scheduled Saturdays only per EiBi (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 11515, Oct 19 at 0628, JBA carrier direct, and a
slightly stronger JBA carrier on 11530.02, probably Kurdo/Turko radio
war; see also NORTH AMERICA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1951 UT October 19
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