** CUBA [and non]. 6060, Feb 2 after 0200, I start checking for when
RHC may come on; Iran is there with lots of Qur`aning until it goes
off at 0226*, fair signal into Bonaire and a good idea for RHC to hold
off. Not checked again until 0305, this time direct, to find that RHC
has appeared, VG S9+20/30 and managing to modulate in Spanish, instead
of last night`s dead air for almost 4 hours. 0500 recheck, medianoche
timecheck and more Spanish: I guess another hour before English from
0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2071 monitoring, via UTwente SDR:
confirmed Monday February 1 on IRRS 7290 via Bulgaria, starting at
1900:50. The splash from both sides is not so bad this week; 7295 East
Turkistan weaker than usual, and 7280 Vietnam much weaker than usual,
so LSB listening is best. Seems to be intact at spotchex, and not
chopped off short at 1929:50. Earlier, open carrier cut on at
*1856:34; modulation cut on at 1859:49 at end of something, IRRS
sign-on by a different accented voice than usual, really an Italian?
With P O Box contact. 1900:20 FSN headlines before WOR start. Next:

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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** VENEZUELA. 6200+RCUSB, Feb 2 at 0156 via Bonaire SDR, ROCV in SAM
mode displays carrier +2.6 Hz: VP S4-S7 noisy, seems to be citing
phone numbers, tropical music; 0159 TC for 58 minutes past the hour,
6200 kHz. I have raised the question whether this be a pirate, lacking
any YV- callsign implying a government-licensed station.

It is true that when it was newly on 6906-RCUSB, it did claim not to
be a pirate with CONATEL authorization pending; and of course it was
relaying FM & AM real stations in El Tigre; isn`t it about time to be
legalized? See this originally from Oct 15:
http://ea1uro.com/radio/rocv/

``Visto en elradioescucha.net - via CADENA DX facebook
6.906 KHZ RADIO ONDA CORTA VENEZUELA -R.O.C.V- EL TIGRE, ESTADO
ANZOÁTEGUI . 50w

En período de prueba y en trámites de permisos ante Conatel -organismo
rector de las telecomunicaciones-.

Actualmente están retransmitiendo la programación de Venezuela 93,7
FM, pero también lo harán con Radio La Voz del Tigre 980 kHz.

Al respecto Robert Lozada, jefe de programación nos comenta lo
siguiente en el grupo “Radiofrecuencia” de whatsapp:

“Buenas tardes grupo espero disfruten de la música que suena en
nuestra onda corta R.O.C.V desde venezuela y tranquilos que ya estamos
es los permisos de conatel no es una emisora pirata o como usen sus
términos que pasen feliz tarde…Transmisión de prueba ya va a salir
independiente pronto”.

Noticia actualizada 15 octubre via CADENA DX:

Según lo conversado telefónicamente con el técnico Gregorio «Polaco»
Kinia y con el Jefe de Programación Robert Lozada si todo sale según
lo planeado después de subsanar unos problemas con sus equipos dañados
por una fuerte descarga eléctrica; ROCV saldrá con su programación
independiente el próximo sábado 17 de Octubre a partir de las 14:00
horas UTC (10 am hora local en Venezuela).

Por ahora han estado retransmitiendo en principio la programación de
la radio «Así Suena Venezuela FM» y en la actualidad «La Voz del Tigre
780 AM».

ROCV utiliza un pequeño transmisor de 50 vatios en la frecuencia de
los 6.906 kHz y en la actualidad es la única emisora que opera desde
Venezuela en la onda corta y agradecen a los radioescuchas y Diexistas
del mundo todo el apoyo prestado hasta ahora sus transmisiones las 24
horas!``

Later on CadenaDX FB, it was suggested that Polaco might want to apply
to WBCQ to help engineer the 500 kW.

BTW we are wondering if WBCQ`s purchase of WHRI is still pending,
stalled? Nothing said about it lately. No twits from Allan since
January 20 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Feb 2 at
0320-0324: 531(2), 549, 558(2), 603, 612, 621(2), 639, 684*, 693,
711(2), 747(2), 774(2), 837(2), 881.5-birdie?, 882, 891, 1044, 1125,
1476. If I had the time and/or the patience, I could compute the (2)
SAHs, ranging from ``slow`` to ``medium``. *684 with some music audio,
strongest of the lot, no doubt RNE Spain.

Nothing usually heard on 1476; and there is nothing much in Europe
since ORF Austria destroyed its 60-kW transmitter; instead likely 100
kW TWR BENIN in Hausa, scheduled to start just now at *0320 M-F per
WRTH, finding the schedule, where else? under South Africa on page
494. 1476 is their second Benin transmitter; the first one on 1566 is
also supposed to start at 0320, in English, unheard now, but reported
more often into North America, presumably less unfavorably directed.
As for tonight, I`m rather surprised to find afterwards that the K
index at 03 was 4, with G1 geomag storming. It`s true the northern
Europeans, i.e. UK frequencies were not so strong, but Iberia, NW
Africa still arriving (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0531 UT February 2

** CANADA [and non]. 362-MCW kHz, Feb 1 at 0715 UT, dash and YZS, ND
beacon which is 1000 watts from Coral Harbour, Nunavut --- finally a
log from that territory! C.H. is on Southampton Island [colonial
name?] at the north end of Hudson Bay, 3239 km = 2013 statute miles =
1749 nautical miles from Enid. Wikipedia says:

``Coral Harbour (Inuktitut: Salliq/Salliit, Syllabics:
ᓴᓪᓕᖅ/ᓴᓪᓖᑦ),[6][7][8][9] is a small Inuit community that is located on
Southampton Island, Kivalliq Region, in the Canadian territory of
Nunavut. Its name is derived from the fossilized coral that can be
found around the waters of the community which is situated at the head
of South Bay.`` More about it here:
https://coralharbour.ca/
--- and not to be confused with another Coral Harbour in somewhat less
Arctic Bahamas. This one is mixing with AA, which is in Fargo, North
Dakota on 365 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 6060, February 1 at *0315 approx., reactivated RHC is on with
open carrier. Exploring when it may start, I had turned on the extra
ATS-909 with whip antenna only a few minutes earlier to nothing, but
now the frequency quietens with carrier. I let it run, and it turns
out it`s dead air only for hours and hours! 0325, 0415, 0450, 0506,
0522, 0657 ---! Think of all the nutritious meals semi-starved Cubans
could have been served for the cost of all this 250+ kWh wasted juice!
Something`s always wrong at RHC.

At 0657, besides 6060 deadair I check all the others and find English
still emanating on 5040, 6000, 6100, 9700; but at 0708 recheck all
these including 6060 are OFF. The final repeat at 07-08 UT during
Standard Time is certainly iffy. Something`s always wrong at RHC
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. Doug Smith, FL/ON, asks, UT Mon Feb 1 at 0223, ``I haven't
heard Arnie on the radio for some time now. Do we know if he has
retired? There is no one else doing his DX program. D Brown.``

I replied, ``Doug, I think he has been semi? retired for quite a while
and/or in ill health. I haven`t tried to hear him in English or
Spanish lately, but when last checked the programs were still on,
mostly Marta Ríos in Spanish reading his scripts. Did you mean
``some``one else instead of no one? DXers Unlimited totally missing?
Glenn``

Before any reply, I start to check this out in addition to the dead
air on 6060. The weekend edition of DXers Unlimited had been appearing
during the first half of the English hour on Sundays into UT Mondays,
as early as :09 to as late as :23 per DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS, so with
6000 managing to modulate in English, I monitor starting at 0408 UT
Mon Feb 1: `The Week in Cuba` until 0414; `Mailbag` with ``Ed Newman``
from 0415, soon replying to a listener, ``Arnie Coro has been ill;
he`s home resting and recuperating.`` By 0428, the YL with the
annoying voice is reading a script about Star Wars movies, etc., etc.
0445 finally music starts.

So, no DXUL. Arnie had long been working-from-home anyway, feeding via
snazzy fibre-optic cable, but apparently now he has even been unable
to send in scripts for someone else to read. The mit-week edition
typically appeared about halfway into the English hours on Tuesdays,
into WZ Mittwoch, so check then too. I haven`t looked for `En
Contacto`, his Spanish DX program, but approx. times for that were
Sundays 1440, 2340, UT Mondays 0140. He also did a science show on
Saturdays, `Breakthrough`` --- is that suspended too? Anyhow, despite
certain policy differences, we wish him well (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13430-trace, 13497, 13565 S9, 13632-3, 13767-8 S9+10, 13835
S9, 13897, 13966-7, 14028-trace, all approx., Feb 1 at 1538 during
`Sonido Cubano` music, spurblobs out of RHC 13700-AM, with signature
F# tone; distorted but readable best in FM, not AM modes the first-
and second-order ones. Strongest ones quite broad, but approx.
intervals of 67.5 kHz. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15700, Feb 1 at 1545, *no* signal from CRI English relay,
which is usually a bigsig, often with sufficient modulation.
Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** EAST TURKISTAN. This could be appended to my next log of Urumqi or
Kashgar, but why wait? These are the people and culture the ChiCom are
trying to wipe out by brainwashing, genocide:
Uyghur Folk Song Mitiz Meshrep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hef5OXHr5I
YT will of course sidebar many more examples (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. John Carver replies January 31: ``Re today's WOR
pirate report. For some unknown reason Sycko Radio is pronounced
Psycho Radio.

As for the report on Zekey's Goat Cheese Radio --- I might be really
reaching on this one, but the most successful and well-known commune
in New Mexico was New Buffalo. When it was formed, they got into an
argument about whether they should raise beef or something else for
meat. One of the early members was a "goat whisperer" and he convinced
them to go with goats. Goats weren't real popular in that area but
they raised goats, sold goat meat, goat milk and --- lots of goat
cheese. As I work through the back emails I will watch for any other
references to Zekey and see if they might be commune-related. John``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U K [non]. 17545.007, Feb 1 at 1455, HOA talk and bit of music
S9-S4, slightly off-frequency until cut off at 1459.5*. Per Aoki/NDXC,
it`s BBC Somali via UAE at 1430-1500; also at 1100-1130 via
Madagascar, plus Saturdays only UAE starting at 1130 filling in the
gap - for silly ballgames? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 382-MCW kHz, Feb 1 at 0715 UT, ND beacon SP, which is 25
watts from Springfield, Illinois. I was tuned to 380-USB.

353-MCW kHz, Feb 1 at 0717 UT, mixture of NDBs IN in INternaional
Falls, Minnesota; and LI in LIttle Rock, Arkansas; overlapping at
first they sounded like ``IOI``.

350-MCW kHz, Feb 1 at 0719 UT, NDB LA under near-local RG in OKC; but
no LA listed on this or 351, 352 kHz. ?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 4033-USB, Sunday January 31 at 2308, MARS net with AAR6TB
and AAR6DG contacting, one or both sounding like NCS. I was of course
patrolling for pirates around here but none now.

My last log of AAR6TB was in April 2012y! As in DXLD 12-15:

``Texas Army MARS website search on AAM6RE leads to Ken Miller, a.k.a.
AAR6TB, Region Emergency Officer. One gets a lot more hits searching
on that second call, such as this:
https://www.txarmymars.org/news/news.php?id=138
concerning Collin Country, which is just north of Dallas near the KAIJ
ruins.`` But now Firefox warns of a potential security risk at that
site. Websearch on AAR6TB leads to this:

``Submitted by AAR6TB on Tue, 2014-08-26 20:05 --- HELLO MY NAME IS
KEN AND I'M THE SYSOP OF ARMY MARS RMS TRIMODE STATION AAR6TB...``
https://winlink.org/content/rms_trimode_station_aar6tb
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2071 monitoring: confirmed Sunday
January 31 on Area 51 via WBCQ 6159.935, but not from 2300: no signal
thru 2305, but recheck 2310, now we`re on in progress, so playback may
have started on time before transmitter cut on. Earlier at 2258, when
the WBCQ IS & ID loop should have been radiating, I was getting some
weak unresolved SSB 2-way circa 6162.

Also confirmed UT Monday February 1 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, VG S9+20
direct.

Also confirmed UT Mon Feb 1 at 0230 on WRMI 5800, S9+20; and 7780 JBA
carrier here, S7-S9 noisy into UTwente; also WRN sat/webcast. Next:

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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http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

Our non-commercial broadcasts and website depend on voluntary
financial support: thanks this week to Steve Zimmerman, West Allis,
Wisconsin for a generous check on a US bank to
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

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

** U S A. 7780 before 2300 UT Sun Jan 31 and 5850 after 2300, WRMIs
are not squealing or squeaking, unlike the past two days around this
hour, so apparently fixed the problem. Notice how the two related
words are identical except for one letter! There could also be
squeaming? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1833 UT February 1

** CANADA. 242-MCW kHz, Jan 31 at 0744 UT, ND beacon dash and XC,
which is 500 watts from Cranbrook BC; undermixing with FS, which is
really on 245 from Sioux Falls SD, a regular.

263-MCW kHz, Jan 31 at 0747 UT, dash and YGK, 230-watt NDB from
Kingston, Ontario; presumably this tho copied as YMK, one dit off.

341-MCW kHz, Jan 31 at 0754 UT, dash and ZLP, mixing with my local EI
Enid, and its #1 competitor OIN in Oberlin, Kansas. ZLP is 40 watts
from Toronto - Meadowvale, Ontario, and per dxinfocentre.com ``to be
decommissioned 2021-02-25``; pleased to have caught in time.
Distancefromto goes to a Meadowvale beyond Ottawa, not Toronto;
distance from Toronto is 1764 km = 1096 stmi or 27.4 miles per watt
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA [non?]. 11590, Jan 31 at 1602, Chinese; in this case not sure
if RFA via TINIAN as sked this hour daily, or CNR1 jammer (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 6060, Jan 31 at 0515, RHC English is on again via frequency
reactivated last night; maybe starts at 0500 for English? If not
Spanish earlier.

5040, 6000, 6060, 6100, 6145 or 9700, Sunday January 31 at 0803 when I
am unfortunately still awake, all RHCs are off when Esperanto is
supposed to air on one of them. (However, SW Radiogram has just
started on WRMIs 5850 & 7730). Something`s always wrong at RHC.

15140 // weaker 11760, Sun Jan 31 at 1602, this airing of Esperanto is
starting a bit late with themesong and sign-on (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** CUBA. 13496, 13564, 13632 S9, 13768 S9, 13837, 13906 all approx.,
Jan 31 at 1518, FMish RHC spurblobs out of 13700-AM, with reconfirmed
F# tones; approx. 68-kHz intervals, the fringe ones JBA traces.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15700, Jan 31 at 1558, CRI English relay with discussion
ending just in time as `The World Today`, rather than a 5-minute
language-lesson buffer; S9+30, somewhat distorted and JBA F# tone like
on the 13 MHz spurs. Mod stops by 1600 but carrier stays on a while.
Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1230 kHz, Jan 31 at 0738-0742 UT, concentrated continuous
listening to my R75 with E-W longwire for any sign of the KCUP Toledo
Oregon DX test, but nothing. That`s enough for me, but I have already
heard it via remotes over a megameter away. Some guys were going to
record the entire 8 hours and sift for it later; beyond me. Fleshing
out my previous report starting two hours before the official test:

It so happens that there is a KiwiSDR in Newport OR, which
city-to-city is only 6 miles from Toledo. Near-local quality KCUP it
uppix but still with QRM audible under.

Surprised to be hearing Xmasmx! That`s the kind of thing out-of-season
DX testers sometimes employ since it stands out sorethumbly. Could
this be an intentional prélude to the test, or would KCUP really be
playing that for local audience a month+ later?

0409: ``This is K-Cup``; ``O Little Town of Bethlehem``
0414: ``K-cup`` 2-syllable ID; ``I`ll Be Home for Xmas``
0418: ``O, Tannenbaum`` in German
0421: ``K-Cup``, PSA about adoption
0424: ``White Xmas``
0426: ``Favourite Things``
0428: ``I Want a Hippopotamus for Xmas``
0431: ``Silent Nite``
0433: ID about enjoying something
0442: ``K-Cup``, heart & stroke PSA; ``Lifestyles of the Central
Oregon Coast``
0448: ``We Three Kings``

0600 again listening on local remote as DX test officially starts,
robo-announced as such, Morse ID as VVV DE KCUP with repetitions.

At 0601 I switch to one of the KiwiSDRs in Northern Utah, labeled as:
``© bluebison.net Northern Utah SDR KiwiSDR #1 Corinne, Utah U.S.A.
(TCI-530 Omni) Corinne, Utah | Grid: DN31uo, ASL: 1310, [map]``. The
map link shows its G.C. as: 41-35-24 N / 112-16-12 W, or decimally:
41.59 / -112.27. I have not tried to compute exact distance with G.C.
but city-to-city and distancefromto.net worx out to 632.58 statute
miles. This is the one I checked earlier during Xmasmx with no go.

Now I *am* hearing KCUP over a megameter away, tuning LSB = USB mode:
0601: Morse ID, sweeps
0602.5: phone-off-hook, upward sweeps
0606: 1 kHz tone
0647: another final check into Utah: upward sweeps, 0650 tone.
Simultaneously have local Newport SDR still running, and easily
compared and confirmed as //, tho hardly necessary after copying
definite KCUP Morse ID in Utah. BTW, about 3 other further-flung DXers
were also running Newport on 1230! But not this Corinne.

At first I was reluctant to try Corinne as it might be too close to
the UT on 1230 in Murray, KJJC in the greater SLC market, but not a
problem. Murray is SE of SLC; Corinne is quite further north, 30 miles
from Idaho. For this path, Corinne #1 is at optimum distance, not too
far, but not too close still to qualify as real DX.

Meanwhile I have also checked several other possible remotes, to find
no KCUP or not funxioning: in CO, TX, AZ, HI, NZ. I was about to try
VE6JY in Alberta but Malwarebytes blox, claiming possible trojan. Don
Moman thinx it`s OK anyway, and any malware would have had to come
from Kiwinet updates.

At 0615 UT I try Prince George BC`s VE7AV remote, and there is KCUP:
beeps going upward // Newport; 0618 CCI in Korean! That would be
intervening KWYZ in Everett WA; 0620 tone; distance city-to-city 644
miles with no G.C. provided by this remote.

FCC shows G.C. for KCUP:
44° 37' 52.00" N Latitude 44.631111
123° 56' 40.00" W Longitude -123.944444

Here`s the latest notification about the test, including grafik of the
``Cup`` logo:
https://groups.io/g/IRCA/message/16676
Under the rules, as an NRC member, I could claim a new graveyard
record distance for KCUP beyond Tim Hall`s standing one, except I am
sure others heard it further, even without a remote. I would however
like a QSL for picking it up in BC and UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1904 UT January 31

** CHINA. 9230, Jan 31 at 0120, S4-S6 Chinese with flutter; and a
weaker suspicious signal on 9120; both in Aoki/NDXC as CNR1 jammers
with Sound of Hope, Taiwan (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA [non]. 6060, Jan 31 at 0113, JBA algo presumed IRAN, no RHC,
yet? which had resumed last night after 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY [non]. 5960, Sat Jan 30 at 2332, no signal from VOT English
into UTwente, just Chinese from Xinjiang PBS, EAST TURKISTAN; so The
Mighty KBC via GERMANY will not get a collision from TRT German this
week after 0000; however, at 0032 Jan 31, the QRM in Europe from XPBS
is pretty bad about equal level. Over here, just KBC to be heard
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2071 monitoring: confirmed Saturday
January 30 at 2046 UT on WA0RCR, 1860-AM MO, via KB0FX nearby remote
at S9+10 local quality, just started with Australia item; ending at
2114.

Also confirmed Sat Jan 30 at 2240 the 2230 on WRMI 9955, fair on
caradio; 2250 check on homerig, VG S9+20/30 with pulse jamming JBA
underneath.

Also confirmed Sat Jan 30 at 2300 on WRMI 7780, VG S9+5/15 into
UTwente.

Also confirmed UT Sun Jan 31 at 0422 UT on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO via
KB0FX neighbor remote, about 7 minutes in so started ontime 0415; VG
but with heavy CWQRM on both sides. Got to be another 160mb contest,
and they won`t give our AM station any leeway. Next:

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

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

Our non-commercial broadcasts and website depend on voluntary
financial support: thanks this week to Steve Zimmerman, West Allis,
Wisconsin for a generous check on a US bank to
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

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

** U S A. 9330, Jan 30 at 2045, WBCQ SuperStation is still OFF, nor is
there any 9333 carrier now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. Re: Urgent: 5850 squeaking! On Jan 30 I notify WRMI:

``Jeff, No more of that last night, but now it`s doing it again: both
before 2300 on 7780 with Tirana, and after 2300 on 5850 with Tirana.
So I think it must be either a problem on the original recording, or
on your particular System(s) playback equipment. Since I also heard it
on Prague after 2330, that would imply the latter. You can see what
you hear off-air or studio monitors, and also what their original
recordings sound like. [later} 5850 still squeaking at 2344 during
Prague. Glenn``

Jeff replies that they have already been working on the problem. Maybe
audio processor is being over-driven, rather than other explanations
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7570, Sat Jan 30 at 2300-2359, `Encore` classical music VG
via WRMI; a few glitches, not clear whether on recording or playback.
Toward the end during soft passage, trace of the ``bonker`` QRM from
7571.6 also audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5085, UT Sun Jan 31 at 0122, WTWW-2 with ham talk, S9/+10 on
the meter, but VP *much* weaker than usual to the ear as ``skip is
long`` so another loss for TOUTA which probably followed soon tho
listening to webcast would have been inconvenient; before 0200 it`s
back to distorted rock music. Neighbor WWCRs are much attenuated too,
5935, 5890 and even 4840. K index went up from 0 to 1 from 00 to 03
UT, not accounting for this nor any storms (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 3215, UT Sun Jan 31 at 0157, no signal from WWRB but WWCR-1
should cut on at hourtop. As a matter of fact, WWRB`s license expired
last year, and this has been discussed on the WOR iog:

``[WOR] WWRB; Jan 27 at 6:35 PM It would appear that WWRB wants back
in to SWBC. The parent company of this presently unlicensed station
filed an application for Construction Permit with the FCC last week.

https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/ib/forms/reports/swr031b.hts?q_set=V_SITE_ANTENNA_FREQ.file_numberC/File+Number/%3D/IHFC/P2021012200001&prepare=&column=V_SITE_ANTENNA_FREQ.file_numberC/File+Number

What is the recent history of this station? Its website describes it
as an Internet station.
http://www.wwrb.org/
(Benn Kobb, WORLD OF RADIO 2071)``

``USA: WWRB - the station nobody missed?
My last logs of the station: {translated to Oct 11 & 18, 2020:}

201011 5050 0250 1110 USA WWRB, E, Predigt 15422 HjBi vergleichweise
gut verständlich // http://www.wwrb.org/wwrbonline.php Global 1-Stream
201018 5050 0210 1810 USA WWRB, E, Predigt 25422 HjBi vergleichweise
gut verständlich
I noted a surprisingly good audio as compared to earlier logs.
(Dr Hansjoerg Biener 27 January 2021, WORLD OF RADIO 2071)``

``This appears to be my last log of it: `U S A. 3215, Sat Nov 28 at
2324, WWRB is on with S9+20/30 of dead air; recheck at 2332 now a
gospel huxter about going to hell (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)`

At 0200 it would switch to 3185 when WWCR took over 3215. WWRB was
active only on Sat/UT Sun and Sun/UT Mon. Did Dave overlook renewing
the SW license? (Glenn, WORLD OF RADIO 2071)``

``Re: [WOR] WWRB Jan 30 at 11:47 AM --- And even without any RF signal
whatsoever he still wants to charge $ 25 for 59 minutes...
http://www.wwrb.org

He has two different streams running, but right now identical patterns
of random noises, over a constant floor of hum and hiss, suggest that
they are one and the same studio output. Could one go wrong by imaging
a shabby shack with a 60s vintage rotary knob mixer and so on?

Do you remember his Radio Munansi relays? So called elections have
just again been held in Uganda, and like five years ago there have
been severe disruptions of internet connections. But one thing was
different than in 2016: No additional attempts to reach audiences
there via shortwave have been reported this time. Back then there had
been an "Uganda Diaspora Radio" via Nauen and Issoudun and from South
Africa, thus using Meyerton, another project called "Radio Lead
Africa". The latter included Radio Munansi programming, and somehow
they afterwards ended up at WWRB.

By the way, like yesterday at http://player.radiomunansi.com the
embedded http://199.180.75.58:9001/stream.mp3 does not connect. Is it
geoblocked or just not working? Kai Ludwig``

Does not work on any player. However ``we are live`` sets off the
timer running. Nothing heard. I didn`t close the window and the clock
was still going 6+ hours later. Well, that`s something. Glenn``

``Glenn asked, "Did Dave overlook renewing the SW license?"

From FCC staff: "WWRB's license had expired. When notified of this he
stopped operation of the station and is filing applications to get a
license."

With the type of programming that station was known for, I might
describe this as a "revoltin' development." (Benn Kobb, Jan 30)``

Furthermore, WWRB`s other frequency, 3185, was occupied by a pirate:
``3185 PIRATE (No. Am.) Sycko Radio, 0315, 1/24/21. Instrumental music
into a long section of what sounded like random instruments and
singing. Later Sycko explained that it was the asylum inmates all
playing their instruments at once. Poor – fair (Mark Taylor, Madison
WI, WORLD OF RADIO 2071)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1230 kHz, UT Sun Jan 31 at 0403-0443+ UT, KCUP, Toledo,
Oregon, early check prior to 8-hour DX test to start at 0600, ``Eight
solid hours of only legal voice IDs, Morse Code, and sweeps, sweeps,
sweeps.`` 1474 miles from Enid, so I have little hope of hearing it
direct, but strange noises might possibly be detected. For starters, I
try a remote SDR 666 miles away, but just the graveyard jumble. How
about the one which is 6 miles from Toledo? Yes! That gets it, altho
not without QRM. Mostly Xmas tunes and ``Kay-Cup`` IDs, PSAs. It`s a
bit late for Xmas so this fare might well be used for DX testing too.
Will give it a try later on my own rx anyway. One could still set a
distance record via some other SDR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0502 UT January 31

** BELGIUM. 14266-USB, Jan 30 at 1615, OQ4U making quick pro-forma
contacts with US stations, some kind of contest, giving signal reports
as ``S9-315-VB``, consecutively increasing to 316, etc. Call fonetix
always clear as ``Ocean Quebec Four Uniform`` -- doesn`t he know that
O = Oscar in this paramilitary system? So many hams mix their fonetix,
out of ignorance, or just to be distinctive? QRZ.com:

``OQ4U Belgium flag Belgium, MARC MICHIELS, HALENSEBAAN 137,
TIELT-WINGE 3390, Belgium`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 6060, Jan 30 at 0637, RHC in English, S9/+10, reactivated!
This frequency had been off for months despite originally scheduled
before 0500 in Spanish, afterwards in English. Is it back to stay?
Also // 6000 & 6100 all with adequate modulation and 9700
undermodulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13636 & 13765, Jan 30 at 1527, RHC extremely distorted FMish
spurblobs with F# tone approx. plus/minus 64-65 kHz from fundamental
13700-AM; also second-order traces about 13572, 13828, vs Martí 13820.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15140, Jan 30 at 1530, this RHC is S9+20 but modulation
severely suptorted = suppressed & distorted; other frequencies sound
OK, 13700, 11760, 9650. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** EAST TURKISTAN. About corporate complicity in Uighur slave labor,
as heard on NPR Weekend Edition Saturday Jan 30 via KOSU:

http://www-cf.npr.org/2021/01/30/962358073/amelia-pangs-book-explores-the-human-cost-of-our-cheap-goods
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 4060-USB, John Carver replies to my pirate log:

``Bread and Puppet Radio --- Glenn, just finished reading your most
recent log report. It might not be anything but I've always been
fascinated by the sixties communes. Have three or four dozen books on
the subject. About a year ago I read an overview of communes around
Taos, New Mexico and right after that about communes in Vermont. I
think it was in the New Mexico book but there was a piece about some
crazy old fart who had been in the theater for most of his life. He
built life sized puppets and started a commune to train people to
build puppets and put on shows with them. His real passion though was
baking bread and would make hundreds of loaves of bread at the same
time. He'd sell it door to door, give it to people on street corners
and when he had enough people to put on the puppet shows he'd give a
loaf of bread to everyone in the audience. It was called the Bread and
Puppet Theater. Perhaps Zekey has a thing about communes also. I'd
have to dig out the books and look it up but I think the book was
called Memoirs of a Taos Hippie or some such. At any rate that was the
first thing that popped into my head when I read Bread and Puppet
Radio. A hell of a coincidence. John`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. Re 6935-USB, my R. Nova eQSL and SSTV,
https://www.w4uvh.net/RN-QSL34.jpg
``but what is it?`` Jonathan Rice replies:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g186245-d7278109-i337938524-Tintagel_King_Arthur_Walk_South_West_Coast_Path-Tintagel_Cornwall_Englan.html

``Photo: La statua in ferro di Re Artù --- Bossiney Road, Tintagel PL34
0AJ, England. Description: A 3.6 mile walk on part of the South West
Coast Path around Tintagel`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7265-LSB, Sat Jan 30 at 1603, WB5ALM, as NCS of Salvation
Army net reading boilerplate, reference website SATERN.org; says also
liaison with another SA net on 14265 daily except Sundays at 16 (15?)
UT. Also have a digital mode net on 14065. SA is currently still
working on the Alabama tornado aftermath. 1605 opening for check-ins,
but no replies! Some may have checked in earlier, then starts calling
them. QRZ.com shows this is a club station:

``WB5ALM USA flag USA, WILLIAM H FEIST III, SATERN ALM Division, PO
BOX 4857, Jackson, MS 39296 USA`` While Feist`s own call is WB8BZH.

But what does ALM stand for? First, what does SATERN mean? ``Salvation
Army Team Emergency Radio Network``. Nothing about ALM on the About
page. Maybe just refers to the word ``alms`` as in being helpful?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2071 monitoring: barely confirmed
Saturday January 30 at 1315 the 1300 on WRMI 15770 JBA but sounds like
my voice cadence. 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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** U S A. 9333.0, Jan 30 at 1601, open carrier, and *no* signal on
9330 from WBCQ SuperStation. When 9330 is operating, have never heard
9333 carrier/het on at same time, so suspect same defective
transmitter. This was direct; and again at 1742 recheck via KB0FX
remote in MO, still thus at S5-S6, with carrier offset varying minus
8.3 to 9.0 Hz. Unlikely the Cuban spy which is also on 9330 but only
after 0700. I`ve heard 9333 previously under same circumstances, July
17 and June 24, 2020.

Last night on 6160v AAAWWW, John Carver reports: ``Phone call at 0134
from a gentleman who informed them that he thought the superstation
was down again. Allan explained that they may have turned the antenna
in another direction. Jason sent them a message stating that the
superstation was indeed down due to another leak in the cooling
system.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7778 & 7782, Jan 30 at 1605, carriers flanking 7780 WRMI;
axually, 7780 is transmitting 2 kHz DSB tone, why? Trace of mod on
center frequency, TOMBS as Sabbathly modulating properly on // 7570,
7730; 9395, 9455, 9955; 5800-carrier, 5850, 5950; while 15770 remains
with SMTV and 21525 JBA carrier presumed still R. Africa, which is not
in pan-America since Pangaea (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1914 UT January 30