** CANADA. 15034 USB, Feb 24 at 1625 UT, Trenton Military ID and
``time: 1525 zulu``! amid ``no report received`` from various
locations. Standard derision (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. 9690, Mon Feb 24 at 2300, token English from SNR VG direct,
also on 17715 for SAm, and audible on 17755 for Africa, unlike vacant
12030 for ME.

But they are not giving up on SW, unlike so many other countries. Via
RUS-DX:

``Director of Radio Exterior de España on the fate of shortwave
broadcasting:
Only a complete upgrade of radio transmitters can guarantee the
survival of Spanish radio

Luís Manuel Fernández Iglesias in an interview with the Russian
section of REE reported the latest information on the process of upgrading transmitters at the Noblejas transmitting center.

"Another major goal that we have is the renewal of radio transmitters.
It is too early to talk about a complete victory, but we have already
taken a number of important steps in this direction. A couple of
months ago, the board of directors of the Spanish Broadcasting Corporation (RTVE) unanimously voted to renew all five radio transmitters that are located in our Noblejas broadcasting center.

Only a complete renewal of all radio transmitters can guarantee the
survival of Radio Exterior de España (REE) as the only Spanish radio
station broadcasting on short waves around the world. Details in
Russian:
https://kolkeradio.blogspot.com/2025/02/radio-exterior-de-espana.html
(Igor Kolke, Moscow, Russia /`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9610, Sun Feb 23 at 2200 quick check of VOT English into
UTwente reveals `Letterbox` show in progress, so I`ll make a point of
catching it all on the 2300+ repeat:

5960.004-, Sun Feb 23 at 2257, VOT IS underway, S9+35/45 into UTwente;
2300 TS and s/on English as if it were 1330 on 13635, previews `Review
of the Turkish Press` to follow the news which starts with Israel tanx
in West Bank for first time in ? years. There is a constant low
humroar, and 6CI = Chinese Communist Chinese language co-channel
interference, but VOT still listenable.

`Agenda` segment ends at 2319, goodbye till next week. 2320 repeat of
piece written by someone at UNC Chapel Hill, about linguistix,
emotional concepts depend on languages.

2325 `The Letterbox Program` theme, familiar YL voice hostess, but
doesn`t give her name. Not the heavily accented one. Very happy to be
back after 1.5 months. L`box may also be heard during the week. What
happened: TRT Global launched to be multilingual, but English Desk
downgraded to a support role, translating material in English into
Turkish, for further translation by various other language
departments. More and more email from listeners came in objecting to
this, so she compiled a report of this constructive criticism, for
management which then went to department heads. Two weeks later,
decided to put the English department back in charge. This had been a
disservice to TRT radio broadcasts, she dares to say.

Then reads emails, some from familiar names: Alan Roe in UK, very sad,
with TRT World TV soundtrack replacing VOT from Jan 1; someone in
Germany. John Jurasek, USA; someone else from USA. Terry Moore? from
UK. 2333 music break. 2338 mail about English received by the German
dept: Helmut, Ralf; Hj Biener who mentions at 2342, Glenn Hauser who
had been listening daily; Alan Holder on WOR no longer interested if
it`s TRT World TV audio.

Finally mentions some new programs for 2025, but I can`t catch all the
names: Monday, new travelog; Tuesday, The First Quarter of the
Century; Wednesday, Sports Panorama. ... Foreign Policy Analysis.
There will be only one program about politix. Contact info; 2345
folksong to close, 2349 outro and more music. 2353.6 s/off as if 1330;
2354 IS to 2354.8* uncovering the 6CI.

Before compiling the above complete report, I tipped the WOR iogroup
about catching the final repeat at 0425 UT Monday Feb 24 on 6125, 7285
- which I then quickly confirm indeed on the air, but no other reports
of it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY [and non]. 5960.004-, Feb 24 at 2300, JBA carrier direct
from VOT if that`s it -- we are getting into springish conditions
where that frequency is really too low to reach into deep North
America at such an early hour, but gotta stay there until A25 more
than a month away when presumably will ascend to 25 m like 11785 last
year. But at 2341 check into UTwente, when measured, 5960+ is VG S9+40
with music only, but heavier than usual CCCCCCI; 2353 s/off as if it`s
the 1330 on 13635; only 6 notes of IS before no-finesse chopoff at
2354.6* uncovering Chinese music from PBS Xinjiang RTV, Urumqi, East
Turkistan, land of imperialist ChiCom genocide against Uyghurs and
other Moslems. Aoki shows it starts relaying CNR1 at 0000. BTW my
invoking that does not minimize the Ottoman genocide of Armenians
which today`s Turkey still denies (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 400 MCW kHz, Feb 24 at 0708 UT, AHQ, ND beacon at wAHoo,
Nebraska, the main/only somewhat notable one during this LW bandscan,
not always audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 26110 NBFM, Feb 24 at 1617, S7 so not full quieting, KMK282,
aux of KOVR 13 Stockton/Sacramento, discussion about ``organizing your
life``.

This is the ONLY such station I have heard in a long time, but be
alert on other 11mb frequencies, especially this one from Terry L
Krueger:

``25950 (NBFM) UNIDENTIFIED 1755 17 FEB 2025. There is definitely
someone with an STL here. I've noticed this for a while. Today, super
tiny snatches of audio for the first time, but it never breaks
through. Wasn't there an Oregon or Washington state here ages ago?
Surely whatever it is, it's west coast USA propagationally. Anyone
else? Terry L Krueger, Boggy, Florida Occidental, IC-R75, NRD-535,
ICF-7600GR, Tescun PL-360, active loop, random fence-stapled wire,
misc. junk``

My understanding is that these are not studio-transmitter-linx, which
is accomplished more likely on microwave, but studio audio on a
non-delayed basis for accurate cuing/conversation with reporters in the
field.

Current EiBi:
25910  0000-2400  USA WBAP Fort Worth, TX     E  USA    wb
25950  0000-2400  USA KOA Denver, CO          E  USA    de
25990  0000-2400  USA KSCS Arlington, TX      E  USA    kc
26110  0000-2400  USA KOVR Sacramento, CA     E  WNA    ws
26190  0000-2400  USA KSL Salt Lake City, UT  E  USA    ks
26450  0000-2400  USA WLW Cincinnati, OH      E  USA    ci

Last column are transmitter sites per his readme.txt listings.
In June 2021, I quoted EiBi which had additional ones:

25870  0000-2400  USA WFLA Tampa, FL          E  USA
25910  0000-2400  USA KLDE El Dorado, TX      E  USA
25950  0000-2400  USA KGON Portland, OR       E  USA
25950  0000-2400  USA KTCL Denver, CO         E  USA
25990  0000-2400  USA KLDE El Dorado, TX      E  USA
26100  0000-2400  USA KCCI Des Moines, IA     E  USA
26110  0000-2400  USA KOVR-TV Sacramento, CA  E  USA
26130  0000-2400  USA WIBC Indianapolis, IN   E  USA
26450  0000-2400  USA WLW Cincinnati, OH      E  USA
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2283 monitoring: confirmed Sunday
February 23 at 2000 on IRRS SW via AM Italia, 1322.998-, S7/S9 into
UTwente across Europe.

Also confirmed Sunday February 23 at 2234 the 2230 on SW Radio,
Germany, 3975.003+ into UTwente.

Also confirmed Sunday February 23 at 2337 the 2330 on WRMI 7780,
S9+20/35 into S TX SDR; and also on WRMI 7570, S9+20/30.

Also confirmed UT Monday February 24 at 0030 on WRMI 7780, S9+25/30
into S TX SDR.

Also confirmed UT Monday February 24 starting at 0359, a bit early
after WBCQ ID on Area 51 webcast only. Did not get 5130v checked but
they try to turn it off before WOR.

Also confirmed Monday February 24 at 2030 on SW Radio, Germany,
3975.002, S9/+5 into UTwente. Next:

0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to SW;
1400 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?];
1500 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?];
2100 UT Tuesday IRRS 1323-Italy;
0030 UT Wednesday WRMI 9395 to NNW;
0030 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
2030 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW;
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S;
1730 UT Thursday SW Radio, Germany 3975.

Thanks to Ron Howard, Monterey CA who sent a check on a US bank to
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, and ``Happy Chinese
New Year``

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

** U S A. 9917.1 & 9942.9, Feb 24 at 1631, matching JBA carrier spurs
equidistant from 9930 WTWW with TOMBS, which is S9+25, briefly hit by
``running water`` QRM. These spurs are at exactly same displacement,
plus/minus 12.9 kHz, as long accompanying 5085, on 5072.1 & 5097.9!
Trouble is, 9930 is supposedly WTWW-1 transmitter and 5085 WTWW-2
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Re my unID carrier on 1549.83, replies on ABDX:
``Neil Kazaross --- I had a carrier there from here in IL during the
early Jan AU cx on my South DKAZ. I do hope you can DF this or maybe
someone knows who they are. It just wasn't strong enough for audio. 73
KAZ``

``Tim Hall -- For what it's worth, the 1549.829 (approx) carrier was
all over my recordings from the Nevada-Utah border last October, and
audible past 1200 UT which eliminates South America.``

``Neil Kazaross -- This is good to know. So this is domestic or
Mexican it seems``

1549.82 approx., Feb 24 at 0540 UT, there it is again; I try to DF it
on portables but too weak (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 0141 UT February 25
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