** AUSTRALIA [non]. 9265: Richard Langley, NB, replies to my report
about Unique Radio via WINB, Feb 5 at 2100-2230:

``"also had some clix about once a second, not sure if a transmission
defect or QRM; audible up to 9280 but not on the minus side"

Also heard clicks here in NB at a higher frequency (10 or 15 kHz?) as
I was tuning down to 9265 kHz. Clicks were not heard on 9265 kHz so
the program was QRM-free.

"informal discussion but hard to follow with SW reception declining"

This was the "Postcard from Poprad" news chat show with Eric Wiltsher
(former U.K.journalist, BBC, etc.), Dave Rhodes, and Rachael Brunsden.
Chatting about current events; mostly U.S. politics, CNN, and MSNBC,
and Google in Australia. Poprad is a city at the foot of Slovakia’s
Tatras Mountains. And RTI is now principally a streaming "radio"
station based in Poprad. -- Richard Langley`` (Glenn Hauser, WOR)

** ERITREA [non]. 17545.06V, Sat Feb 6 at 1537, JBA Bayto Yaikl on one
of two weekly RMI-brokered emissions via FRANCE. As always, this
Issoudun transmitter is cycling/wobbling slightly up and down in
frequency, easily noticeable with BFO if not in AM (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 4060-USB, no doubt prompted by discussion of the
``Bread and Puppet Radio`` pirate, William Hassig refers us to:

``Scrapbook of a Taos Hippie: Tribal Tales from the Heart of a
Cultural Revolution Paperback – June 1, 2000 (15)
Item Weight: 1.31 pounds
ISBN-10: 0938317504
ISBN-13: 978-0938317500
Paperback: 240 pages
Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.6 x 9.9 inches
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press, 1st Edition (June 1, 2000)``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. {Reporter`s prerogative: altho not directly related to
radio monitoring, if nowhere else, I cover earthquakes felt here ---
gh}

``UPDATED: OCC shuts down disposal wells in response to 4.2 quake
Violet Hassler | Enid News & Eagle Feb 5, 2021 Updated 22 hrs ago

https://www.enidnews.com/news/updated-occ-shuts-down-disposal-wells-in-response-to-4-2-quake/article_da03c78c-67d3-11eb-8a63-87b4f71a9a99.html

Map of disposal wells:

https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/enidnews.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/c/44/c44353e4-6810-11eb-a6f5-af7979db37df/601de0b452422.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C927

COVINGTON, Okla. — Responding to a swarm of at least 18 earthquakes —
including one measuring magnitude 4.2 — in the Covington-Lucien area
Tuesday {sic! it was Friday, Feb 5 --- gh}, Oklahoma Corporation
Commission has ordered disposal wells in the area to cease or reduce
operations.

Disposal wells within three miles of the largest earthquake’s
epicenter have been ordered to cease operations, while wells from 3 to
10 miles of the epicenter must reduce volume to no more than 50% of
the current 30-day average, according to an OCC news release.

The decision was made by OCC’s Induced Seismicity Department. It is
estimated the actions will reduce disposed volumes by about 9,000
barrels a day, according to OCC.

“Researchers are in broad agreement that disposal into the Arbuckle
formation in parts of Oklahoma can raise risk of induced seismicity,”
said Matt Skinner, OCC spokesman. “Commission ISD directives since
2015 limiting or eliminating such disposal are among the actions
credited with the sharp decrease in Oklahoma’s seismicity rate since
2015.

The quakes — about four miles east and 1.5 south of Covington and 21
miles southeast of Enid — started at about 10:17 a.m., with magnitudes
3.5 and a 3.7 shaking the region, respectively, about 40 seconds
apart, according to U.S. Geological Survey. Both were between about
2.5 and 3.7 miles deep and centered in the same area.

About an hour later, two smaller quakes hit — a 2.3 at 11:27 a.m. and
2.6 at 11:29 a.m. — with the largest quake of the morning, a magnitude
4.2, centered in the same area at 11:48 a.m., according to USGS. It
also was at a depth of 3.1 miles. Smaller quakes continued with a 2.6
at 11:59 a.m.; a 2.2 at 12:03 p.m.; a 2.3 at 12:14 p.m.; a 1.5 at
12:44 p.m.; a 1.9 at 1:12 p.m.; a 2.1 at 1:59 p.m.; a 1.8 at 2:20
p.m.; a 1.5 at 3:59 p.m.; a 1.9 at 4:31 p.m.; a 1.7 at 4:36 p.m.; a
1.7 at 5:08 p.m.; a 1.8 at 6:40 p.m.; and a 1.3 at 8:23 p.m. {altho
USGS uses UT, these times converted to CST = UT -6}

The quakes were reportedly felt nearby and as far as downtown and
western parts of Enid, according to posts on social media. One
Covington resident said the earlier twin quakes knocked items from the
walls of her home.

Oklahoma has in the past been the location of several earthquakes with
the upsurge of oil and gas activity in the region starting prior to
2010. Temblors have decreased with action from Oklahoma Corporation
Commission and practices undertaken by the industry to curtail
wastewater injection in many places.

In 2020, there were only 36 earthquakes with a magnitude greater than
3.0 throughout the state, with 16 of those in Northwest Oklahoma.``
(via gh, Enid)

** U S A. 13565-CW, Feb 6 at 1530, K6FRC, HIFER beacon in Patterson CA
is JBA, nothing but IDs repeated; no Cuban spurblobs today. LWCA list
shows it on 13565.040. Own website claims 1.8 milliwatts, plus two
much stronger Paul Shinn beacons on 10 and 6m:
http://www.k6frc.com/

13555-CW, Feb 6 at 1532, WV, the #2 HIFER beacon sometimes audible
here, unusually at same time as K6FRC 10 kHz higher. Series of ten?
dits=E`s alternating with about six times WV. Fading below to slightly
above the band noise level. LWCA roster shows it in Richwood, West
Virginia on ~13554.98 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2072 monitoring: as often, slept
thru the Sat Feb 6 at 1300 airing on WRMI 15770; anybody hear it?
Next:

2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
2230 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0500]
2300vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE
1901 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2300 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

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This report dispatched at 1833 UT February 6

** AUSTRALIA [non]. At 1902 UT February 5 I remind the WOR iog:

``UNIQUE RADIO VIA WINB IMMINENT

9265 kHz AM - VIA WINB From Feb 5
Fri. 4:00 - 5:30 PM EST (2100 - 2230 hrs UTC)
Sounds of Hope and Inspiration Presented by Aussie Tim (30 minute
version)
DJ Danny Sun Interviews and some laidback tunes (30 Minutes)
Unique Radio Australia 'News in review' & Radio Tatras International
with Eric Wiltshire & Dave Rhodes (30 minute Version)

Sat 8:00 - 9:00 AM EST (1300-1400 UTC)
Sounds of your life (oldies) or Aussie Tim's 'Generations'``

At 2112 I reply: ``Or not! Still at 2112 it`s Main Street Church of
Christ, ignorant self-righteous gospel huxter. Running late? I`m
listening via website live stream, not tried 9265 yet. Sked futurely
dated Feb 7 shows:

ET / UT - - Friday(ET) - -
03:00P / Fri-2000...Worship At home
04:00P / Fri-2100...Unique Radio
05:30P / Fri-2230...Words of Life - Back to the Bible

So maybe Uniq does not start until next week? Glenn`` --- but then:

``Guess what: when I do tune 9265V direct at 2114 something totally
different with Oz accent. So their stream is not live at all // 9265.
That`ll teach me. Glenn``

Further monitoring: 9265V means the frequency is always wobbling
slightly, unstable transmitter; also had some clix about once a
second, not sure if a transmission defect or QRM; audible up to 9280
but not on the minus side. At 2114 had a discussion about the web.
There was not a break circa 2130 but same program continued. 2137
started playing songs; 2200 WINB ID by Tim, and on to Radio Tatras
International, RTI, from Slovakia, informal discussion but hard to
follow with SW reception declining. At this time there is competition
from `Behaviour Night` on weaker 7490.2 and stronger `VORW` on 9955,
but both of them do webcast. Aussie Tim later replies that the WINB
webcast was supposed to accompany 9265V (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11820, Feb 6 at 0307, JBA carrier presumed 2 x 5910 CRI
relay, but nowhere the bigsig it recently achieved. Compared to much
stronger active RHC fundamentals 11670 and JBM 11850. Something`s
always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** EAST TURKISTAN. 4980, Feb 6 at 0040, JBA carrier, but not WRMI
which has abandoned it; since there are equally JBA carriers from the
Urumqi Four on 5060, 4850 and 4500, i.e. Xinjiang PBS in the morning,
land of Chicom genocide against the Uyghurs. I was going to link to
some more Uyghur music, but instead, about it being suppressed:

``“Eating Hanness”: Uyghur Musical Tradition in a Time of Re-education
--- Amy Anderson and Darren Byler, p. 17-26

Abstract

In February 2019, two major musical performances by residents of the
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region were widely circulated on Chinese
social media. These two performances, one a Mekit County Harvest Gala
and the other a performance by a Uyghur school teacher from Qumul,
featured Uyghurs dressed in Han cultural costumes performing Beijing
Opera.

Over the past five years, since the “People’s War on Terror” started,
the space for Uyghur traditional song and dance performance has deeply
diminished. Simultaneously, the space for Uyghurs performing Hanness
through Chinese traditional opera and Red songs has dramatically
increased.

Drawing on open source Uyghur and Chinese-language media, ethnographic
fieldwork, and interviews with Uyghurs in diaspora, this article
analyses the changing role of music in Uyghur religious and ritual
life by tracing the way state cultural ministries have dramatically
increased their attempts to separate Uyghur music from its Sufi
Islamic origins in order to produce a non-threatening “permitted
difference” (Schein 2000).

Since 2016, the re-education campaign of the Chinese government on
Uyghur society has intensified this disconnection by promoting an
erasure of even the state-curated “difference” of happy, exoticized
Uyghurs on stage. Han traditional music is now replacing Uyghur
traditional music, which shows an intensification of symbolic violence
toward Uyghur traditional knowledge and aesthetics.

In a time of Uyghur re-education, musical performance on stage has
become a space for political rituals of loyalty to a Han nationalist
vision of the Chinese state.

Amy Anderson and Darren Byler, « “Eating Hanness”: Uyghur Musical
Tradition in a Time of Re-education », China Perspectives [Online],
2019-3 | 2019, Online since 01 September 2019, connection on 06
February 2021. URL:
http://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/9358
https://doi.org/10.4000/chinaperspectives.9358

About the authors

Amy Anderson is the pen name of a Uyghur scholar who lives in North
America.

Darren Byler is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the
University of Washington. His research focuses on Uyghur
dispossession, culture work, and “terror capitalism” in the city of
Urumqi, the capital of Chinese Central Asia (Xinjiang). He has
published research articles in Contemporary Islam, Central Asian
Survey, and the Journal of Chinese Contemporary Art and has
contributed essays to volumes on ethnography of Islam in China,
transnational Chinese cinema, and travel and representation.
dbyler@uw.edu`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. Earthquake report: I feel a slight tremor at 1749 UT
February 5, so check USGS immediately. Within a couple minutes it
registers:
magnitude 4.1, 1748:43, 4 km NNW of Lucien OK, 5.0 km deep
but later modified, and accompanied by one earlier and one later from
same tiny town area about 35 km ESE of Enid, neither of which I felt:
magnitude 2.6, 1729:35, Oklahoma, 5.0 km deep
magnitude 4.2, 1748:43, 5 km WNW of Lucien OK, 6.7 km deep *****
magnitude 2.6, 1759:13, 5 km WNW of Lucien OK, 5.0 km deep
Lucien is probably closer to where Richard N Allen, MW DXer lives
outside of Perry; how were those for him? (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** U S A. 5085, Feb 6 at 0242, WTWW-2 with rock music, distorted and
very strong S9+40/30 frequency is wobbling unstably. I measure the
parasitic JBA spurs one can`t help but notice in 1-kHz step
bandscanning: 5097.991 and 5072.010, surely matching within margin of
error and/or fundamental could be very slightly high, not measured
directly. O yeah? Why doesn`t anyone else report them? At 0247 there
are some modulation breaks within the music (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0517 UT February 6

DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS updated Feb 5:
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html

** CANADA. 223-MCW kHz, Feb 5 at 0715 UT, dash and YYW, 1000-watt ND
beacon at Armstrong, Ontario.
http://visitnorthwestontario.com/communities/armstrong/
``Armstrong is a small, rural community 250 km north of Thunder Bay at
the end of Highway 527 and northwest of Lake Nipigon, Ontario’s
largest inland lake. It is accessible by road but also by Via Rail and
charter air services to the Armstrong airport. The community of
Armstrong is the gateway to Wabakimi Provincial Park.``

340-MCW kHz, Feb 5 at 0715 UT, dash and YY, 500 watt NDB at Mont Joli,
Québec; I was tuned to 339-USB. It`s just NE of Rimouski on the Gaspé
peninsula, right bank of the St-Laurent (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 6060, Feb 5 circa 0330, RHC Spanish is on again, tho missing
last night. It and all others are off at 0700 check - 6000, 6100,
9700, some maybe just moments ago but 5040 is still on with Spanish ID
until off at 0701*. Something`s always wrong at RHC. So the final
English hour repeat gets lost. Depends on when the night shift has had
enough? And who cares, who will notice at HQ when it`s 2 am? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15700, Feb 5 at 1604, S9+30 of dead air, as CRI relay
transmitter has not been turned off by 1600. Standard remark about kWh
wastage. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** CUBA. 15140, Feb 5 at 1608, RHC is S9+10 but just barely modulated,
and what remains sounds distorted. Something`s always wrong at RHC
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NIGERIA [and non]. 11769.92, Feb 4 at 0703, presumed VON on wrong
morning frequency instead of 7254.9, altho undermodulated, signature
askew-minus like always. There is also a het from algo closer to
11770.00 -- PBS Xinjiang in Chinese is scheduled from Urumqi, East
Turkistan, land of ChiCom slavery and genocide against Uyghurs (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 269-MCW kHz, Feb 5 at 0705 UT, ND beacon BEX, which is 25
watts from Bloomfield, i.e. east of Brazil and west of Lebanon, in SE
Iowa. I was tuned to 267-USB where normally resides HET in Henryetta
OK, but not heard now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2071 monitoring: confirmed UT
Thursday February 4 at 0130 on WRMI 5010, VP S6-S9 direct, but S9+10
tho noisy at Pardinho, Brasil, KiwiSDR.

WORLD OF RADIO 2072 contents: Alaska, Australia, Bougainville, Canada,
China, Congo, Cuba, East Turkistan, Egypt, Ethiopia non, France,
India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Korea North and non, Korea South, Kurdistan
non, Kuwait, Madagascar, México, Myanmar and non, Nigeria, Palau,
Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Russia and non, Slovenia, Tajikistan,
Turkey, Ukraine, UK, USA, Vanuatu, Vietnam and non, Zambia; and the
propagation outlook

WOR 2072 is available as of 0132 UT Friday February 5, 2021
(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2072.m3u
(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2072.mp3

Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
Also linx to podcast services.

The shortwave broadcasts should be:

0130 UT Friday WRMI 5850 to NW, 7780 to NE
1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
2230 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0500]
2300vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE
1901 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2300 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

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WOR 2072 first broadcast confirmed, minutes after completion, UT
Friday February 5 at 0130 on WRMIs: 5850 VG direct; 7780 VG S9+15/20
into UTwente SDR, Netherlands (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** VANUATU. 11835, Feb 4 at 0701, R. Vanuatu, presumed third harmonic
of 3945, JBA modulation. Happened to check now but per Ron Howard,
previous fundamental 7260 has extended an hour until 0659* so no
harmonix before then; often audible also on X2 = 7890 but not now
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2072)

This report dispatched at 1735 UT February 5

** CUBA. 13634 & 13766 approx., Feb 3 at 1518, RHC FMish distorted
spurblobs out of 13700-AM today are only JBA, but enough to bother
algo on 13765-AM. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** ETHIOPIA [non] 15160, Feb 3 at 1520, JBA carrier with flutter; just
enough to lead to further info from others on the WOR iog:

Ivo Ivanov concludes it is this from there:
``FRANCE Dimtse Tigray new clandestine broadcast via TDF Issoudun
1500-1700 15160 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Tigrinya Tigray Media House
Good here in Sofia and via SDRs Heimiswil Switzerland and Sokyriany
Ukraine -- 73! Ivo Ivanov``

Chris Smolinski, Maryland: ``Generally a good signal here at 1529 UTC,
but frequent OTHR bursts completely block it out now and then``

Arthur Pozner, near NYC, who discovered it yesterday, Feb 3 at 1620:
``The program yesterday made very frequent announcements of "R. Tigray
Media House". Today it is fading very often and that interference only
lasted for a few minutes at 1525-1530. Sounded like variable white
noise, and it blocked the transmission totally.``

``No one seems to specify explicitly the language heard. Radio T-M-H-
is obviously in English but anything else? They do do English
programming on YouTube. Glenn``

Wolfgang Bueschel, Germany: ``KIWInet option TdOA direction finding
give some - all is probably -, two different disappointing image
outputs. For a 19 meter band of signal direction finding you need a rx
triangle 2500 km distance away at least. Likely Issoudun or Nauen
bcast center origin. FMO is Broadcast Belgium
<http://www.broadcast.be/> <ludo.maes@broadcast.be>
73 wolfgang``

Dr Hansjoerg Biener, Germany: ``Ethiopia (Tigray): The English section
of „Radio Tigrai Media House“ at https://tmhtv.org/ is not too
informative.

https://tmhtv.org/en/2018/05/31/ethiopia-a-stable-peace-or-an-impending-crisis/
does not seem to be against the central government.

https://tmhtv.org/blog/2019/06/07/alarming-ethnic-based-attacks-and-targeted-killings-of-civilians-in-ethiopia/
is critical of the central government/the Amhara state.
There are many uploads to YouTube, including this advertisement for
„T-M-H-R“/“Radio Tigrai Media House“:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UafDL6owQMs.
Judging from the right column, there have been a lot of uploads in
recent days.(Dr Hansjoerg Biener 3 February 2021)``

Last YT is 2 minutes, but only pronouncing the names in English; also
``kilohertz`` presumably about this new SWBC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 5960, Wed Feb 3 at 2305, no signal from VOT English,
checked at UTwente and Brasil SDRs; something`s always erroneous at
Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 335-MCW kHz, Feb 3 at 0702 UT, ND beacon BV, 25 watts from
BatesVille - Almond, Arkansas. I was tuned to 333-USB.

395-MCW kHz, Feb 3 at 0656 UT, ND beacon CA, 25 watts from Newton -
Harvs, CAnsas. I was tuned to 393-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2071 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday February
3 at 2100 on WRMI 7780, S8/9+10 into UTwente but noisy.

Also confirmed Wed Feb 3 from 2200:24 on WBCQ 7490.2v direct, S9/+15
but noisy.

Also confirmed Wed Feb 3 at 2300 on WRMI 9955, JBA under jamming at
TWR DR SDR, S9/+15 at Pardinho, Brasil SDR, no jamming audible.

Next, and last: 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

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New WOR 2072 should be ready by early UT Friday February 5 for first
broadcast on WRMIs at 0130 on 5850, 7780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 2325 UT February 3

** CUBA. 6060, Feb 2 at 0558, RHC still in Spanish ID & IS, but at
0558.5, cut roughly to end of English hour and then 0600 re-opening
English hour. I was hearing no trace of it before 0300, but Ivo Ivanov
thinx it start at 0100; and there is another conflict at 04-05 with
Algeria via France, an hour I was not checking.

Recheck at 0710, ¿qué pasa? 6060 is still on unlike last night, and in
English, good modulation, the best of the lot, as 6000 is off; 6100 //
9700 are both suptorted but 9700 signal holding up to S9+10. 5040 is
unusually still on this late, but in Spanish. Something`s always wrong
at RHC.

Checking 6060 next night, UT Feb 3 at 0200, again no sign of Cuba
here, just JBA Iran; 0315 recheck, now RHC is on with VG signal in
Spanish; so approx. start 0300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13892, 13829, 13764 S7-S9, 13636, 13573, 13508 trace, all
approx., Feb 2 at 1511, FMish spurblobs with F# tones out of 13700-AM,
at ~64 kHz intervals. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 6000, UT Wed Feb 3 from 0420 to 0440, RHC English, checking
for the mid-week edition of Arnie Coro`s `DXers Unlimited`, its former
slot on Tuesday/UT Wednesday broadcasts --- no sign of it, just
various other features including sports report, `Connecting the
Dots`.

However, the Spanish equivalent DX program, `En Contacto` was heard by
Claudio Galaz, Chile, Sunday January 31 from 2340 on 13740, with
typical content, but he does not say who presented it or whether they
said anything about Coro.

Spanish podcasts including `En Contacto` are here:
http://www.radiohc.cu/podcasts
but they are quite sporadic lately, the latest being from 17 enero.
Never the voice of Arnie, but the usual Arnie-like topix including ham
DX-peditions, propagation. I listen carefully to the closing credits,
and Arnie is NOT mentioned; instead, ``escribe: Luís Milán Roldán; su
locutora y amiga: Marta Ríos``.

Has Arnie become a nonentity at RHC? Searching website on Coro brings
up instead a whole bunch of recent COVID-19 stories. As "Coro" in
quotes, zilch. But there may not be anything about the people who do
work there now, not even Marta (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ETHIOPIA [non]. 15160, Feb 2 at 1639, JBA music S6-S7 vs ambient
band noise level S6; gone at 1719 recheck. Investigating, since Arthur
Pozner had reported to the WOR iog at 1603: ``[WOR] Radio Tigray Media
House. New broadcast on 15160 kHz. Strong transmission. Started around
1500 UT. Heard on HF-225 E and a 20 ft. random wire indoor a antenna.
Location is outside of NYC.``

To which Dave Kenny, UK, replied, ``Thanks for the tip, strong signal
here in UK also, from tune-in at 1605 UT with Horn of Africa music and
frequent IDs “Tigray Media House” and “Dimtse Tigray”. 73 Dave``

Nothing listed yet between 15 and 17 on 15160, in HFCC, the latest
dated 27 January; nor in Aoki/NDXC, EiBi. I would have guessed site
Issoudun or Nauen, but those might not be strong into UK. TMH is
apparently well-established on disgraced FB and as a video/web and
satellite broadcaster, but nothing found yet about SW:
https://tmhtv.org/en/about-us/

This implies it`s based in Washington DC, and also a new Feb 1 item
about updating English broadcasts:
https://twitter.com/tmhtvnews?lang=en
This leads to a 24-minute YouTube which indeed starts out in English,
but not about their own broadcasts per se.

Wolfgang Bueschel replies: ``a lot of Ethiopian Political News at
https://twitter.com/tmhtvnews?lang=en
https://tmhtv.org/en/about-us/
https://tmhtv.org/en/topics-issues/
https://rackmintsys.com/
Website shows mail address and international phone call of Ethiopia``

The last one is a website developer in Mekelle - may not be connected
to TMH itself. WB replies again:

``ISS[oudun FRANCE], or GRI[goriopol` PRIDNESTROVYE]?
FMO of Belgium Radio Ludo Maes 15.00-17.00 UT, like entry
SMTWTFS 15:01:45 BRB TIGR 15160 AM XXX
So let`s try KiwiNet TdOA feature next time. 73 wb``

BRB does not disclose transmitter sites (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7505, Feb 3 at 0206, no signal from WRNO here; but at 0336
via KB0FX SDR in MO, S9+20 with gospel rock (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1476, Feb 3 at 0313, besides the usual lower-band JBA TA
carriers, there is already one on 1476, suspected TWR Benin. I was
hoping to hear it cut on for presumably the first morning show, Hausa
from 0320 but it`s already on. Nothing detectable on the English
frequency 1566. BTW, it`s no accident that 1476 was picked: WRTH 2005
showed 1476 as the main Cotonou outlet of ORTB except it was already
inactive (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0530 UT February 3