** ALBANIA [non]. See USA: WRMI 5850

** CHINA. 11520, Jan 29 at 2348-2350, JBA algo, suspected CNR1 jammer,
so look for more below: 11170 S1 in Chinese? 11150 two? JBA carriers
slightly apart; 10820 fluttery. 11520 chex as vs RFA Tinian; 11170 &
11150 & 10820 vs Sound of Hope, all per Aoki/NDXC (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** CUBA. 11820, Jan 30 at 0332, no signal from CRI relay harmonic 2 x
5910, which is S9+30/40. I keep checking for a reprise of the bigsig
it achieved four nights ago but not since; operational or
propagational? Latter continues poor with lower MUFs as 11850 is also
inaudible if on, and 11670 is a JBA carrier; it seems 11760 is always
off before now, which BTW briefly jumped to 11755 per Harold Sellers,
Jan 29 at 2132. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** CZECHIA [non]. See USA; WRMI 5850

** NORTH AMERICA. 4060-USB, Jan 30 at 0303, weak S6-S7 pirate with
ballad, still at 0330 but off by 0342. These logs say it`s Bread and
Puppet Radio International, another Zekey thing, altho no later than
0250; and as usual those further east reporting much better signals:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,77372.0.html
No pirate activity heard on 42 mb, but there`s more on 74 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 4030-AM, Jan 30 at 0305, weak music S6-S8, still
0330 and JBA past 0342. A few reports here say Ball Smacker Radio:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,77375.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SLOVAKIA [non]. See USA: WRMI 5850

** TURKEY. 5960, Jan 30 at 0002, VOT is still on opening German at
S9/+10 direct, having failed to turn off by 2355 after English. Still
going at 0023 when I tune via KB0FX remote in MO, also S9/+10 and
finally turns off during music at 0036*. Should this recur 24 hours
later, another collision with The Mighty KBC. Jim Leppard, PTSW iog,
had wondered if I had anything to report about Romania or Turkey? No
and yes. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2071 monitoring, next:
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

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. 5850, Jan 29 at 2300, R. Tirana via WRMI is marred by loud
squeaking intermittently. It gets worse and worse and continues into
R. Prague after 2330, so at 2334 I notify WRMI:

``Urgent --- 5850 squeaking! Since 2300 trying to listen to Tirana on
5850, heavy squeaking interrupting, getting worse. I thought it was a
their problem. But it`s still happening after 2330 with Prague relay
so it must be your problem. I think it stopped briefly during the ID
up to 2330.``

And at 0048: ``It was still there after 2330 but abating. Did not
listen continuously. After 0003 Jan 30 in Slovak it was gone. I`m
rather sure this was coming out of your transmitter rather than QRM.
At its worst toward the end of Tirana, it interrupted the program
modulation. Initially on Tirana it did not, but was in addition to
continuous program mod. "Is there a mouse in the house?"

Unlike the jamming-like QRM from a carrier CW-like beeping on 7571.6
which I had last night UT Jan 29 at 0234, rate of about 160 per
minute. Glenn``

If anyone hear the 5850 squeaking again, let WRMI know ASAP. BTW, I
was getting this both on my own rx and the KB0FX remote in MO.

As for the 7570 QRM problem, it`s happening again, Jan 30 at 0238
check vs BS, beeps from 7571.6, but different, à la ``bonker`` utes
--- every fourth beat would be prolonged and mushy rather than a pure
tone; and not always 4 apart (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 6159.92v, Jan 30 at 0057, WBCQ concluding Area 61 truncated
old-time-radio hour with ``we`re all being played`` --- at first I
thought it was about 45-politix; S8 into KB0FX remote in MO which in
SAM mode reads carrier minus 80v Hz from 6160.000.

7490.188v, Jan 30 at 0058, then I check the other WBCQ, when tuned to
7490.000 reads plus 188.3v Hz, stronger S8-S9, but the air is dead
until just before 0100 ID and WTO opening `AAAWWW` which by now is
also on 6160-. By the end of hour recheck, 7 has faded down to weaker
than 6. As for what ensued between, welcome back to John Carver,
mid-north Indiana, who is again online and able to hear it; his report
has been posted on the WOR iog (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6925-USB, Jan 30 at 0230, occasional weak syllables,
unsure of language or piracy while two will be active 4+ MHz; see
NORTH AMERICA (Glenn Hauser OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 10790 very approx. and broad, Jan 29 at 2351 after
tuning for CNR1 jammers, here`s a terrible spurblob with talk cadence
modulation, occasional bits of music, totally unreadable, not even in
FM mode, nor can I be sure it`s English or Spanish.

In this area I suspect 10.7 MHz IF radiation from some neighbor`s FM
radio, so I quickly scan localish signals thruout the FM and AM bands
on another receiver, but nothing matches. Then I check 31m for strong
signals such as RHC, REE --- no match either. Goes off at 2400* which
make it non-local, but likely originating on SW. R. Martí might have
been, but Grimesland turned off 9565 several seconds earlier. Ideas?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0530 UT January 30

** CANADA. 223-MCW kHz, Jan 29 at 0707 UT, dash and YYW, 1000 watt ND
beacon at Armstrong, Ontario. Often like now the first one audible
tuning up the band; tho there are plenty more Canadians and
Unitedstatesians listed starting at 200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** COLOMBIA. Correxion to a recent log: 600, VOA via HJHJ started at
0059 UT January 27, not 2359 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11820, Jan 29 at 0325, JBA carrier from presumed 2 x 5910 CRI
relay; equivalent to 11850 JBA carrier of RHC itself. If putting out
as much signal as before, still not propagating. Something`s always
wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NIGERIA. 7255-, Jan 29 at 0615, no signal from VON, not detectable
on 9690- nor 11770- either. It`s been quite a while since the *0555 IS
and Hausa on 7254.9 has been heard; when active it`s very strong but
not always well modulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** PERU. Correxion to a recent log: 4810 is Radio Logos, not R.
Chazuta, which is the location (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SWITZERLAND. 18165-USB, Jan 28 at 1545-1555, quick pro-forma
contacts with North American pileups; as usual have to listen multiple
minutes to catch the callsign correctly, uttered too quickly altho
fonetikaly by station and seldom by the pileuppers. Spells his name
ROLF and is in NW Switzerland: HB9RDE

With views of his antennas, etc.:
https://www.qrz.com/lookup/hb9rde

HB9RDE Switzerland flag Switzerland
Rolf Oppler
L`Oiseliere 4
CH-2912 Roche-d Or / Kt.JU
Switzerland
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 379-MCW kHz, Jan 29 at 0721 UT, ND beacon DL, mixing with
weaker RUE, at slightly different pitches and periods. Normally only
or dominant here is RUE, 25 watts at RUssellvillE, Arkansas. DL is 50
watts from DuLuth - Pike Lake, Minnesota. RNA Signal list explains:
DL LSB/USB = 1028/1020, period 5.9 5 (means 5.95??) named `Pykla`
RUE LSB/USB = 1015/1127, period 4.4 seconds
These mostly JBA LW/MW logs are always on E-W longwire which I assume
provides more gain than the DX-398 internal antenna which however
would maybe allow nulling choices for such as these at right angles
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2070 monitoring: confirmed final
repeat UT Thursday January 28 at 0130 on WRMI 5010, VG S9/+15 into
Bonaire SDR.

WORLD OF RADIO 2071 contents: Albania non, Argentina, Australia and
non, Bhutan, Brasil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba and non,
Egypt?, Finland, France, Germany, India, Korea South,, Lithuania,
North America, Perú, Russia and non, Spain, Sri Lanka, USA; and the
propagation outlook

{slight correxion: USA, the AZ log of COVID TIS on 1650 was at
``1100`` which I now realize must have been EST, even tho it`s
inapplicable in AZ! I converted to 18 UT as if it had been MST +7,
instead of +5 = 16 UT}

WOR 2071 is available as of 0130 UT Friday January 29, 2021
(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2071.m3u
(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2071.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

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.

First broadcast of WOR 2071 just minutes after completion, confirmed
UT Friday January 28 at 0130 on WRMIs: 5850 VG direct; 7780 G S8/S9+10
to UTwente (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7571.6, Jan 28 at 0234, WRMI TOMBS on 7570 has unusual QRM
from rapid beeping at rate of about 160/minute, i.e. carrier cutting
on and off from the upper side as if it were deliberate SE Asian style
jamming. Normally blasting 7570 is only S9+10 with noisy modulation of
its own as often the case out of Walterboro. 0326 recheck, QRM is off
and 7570 has ascended to S9+10/20 but with undermodulation (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5830, Jan 29 at 0230 and still 0333, dead air from WTWW-1
instead of SFAW, SOB. During the hour signal had dropped from S9+10 to
S7-S9; meanwhile, 5085 WTWW-2 continued rockmusicking distortedly at
both times. Ted`s stuff is obviously primary, even tho the heirs of
Laporte`s passé Pastor Pete Peters own the thing (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search January 29 at 1335
since I`m unfortunately awake before sunrise now right at 1335; on the
DX-398 so I can rotate DFing: 1566 from NW, no doubt FEBC S Korea,
flanked by even weakers 1557 and 1575, but none lower by now, not even
972 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report despatched at 1927 UT January 29

** CANADA. 392-MCW kHz, Jan 27 at 0734 UT, dash and ML, 500-watt NDB
at La Malbaie / Charlevoix, in far Québec, down the SL Seaway beyond
Quebec city almost to Rivière-du-Loup. Again, not to be confused with
unheard *no* dash and ML on 392 which is 25 watts in Monroe, Louisiane
(Glenn Hauser, OK) See also USA for more logs this session

** CUBA. 11820, Jan 27 at 0344, maybe a JBA carrier; what a difference
a day make. Last night there was a bigsig here from CRI relay, 2 x
5910. Propagation is now degraded, as RHC fundamentals on 25m are also
JBA carriers on 11850, 11670. 25m is almost dead; and even 31m also
bears little with Cuba & USA signals very weak. K-index at 03 was 3.
BTW, earlier when CRI was on 5990, checked x 2 = 11980 where it
sometimes harmonizes but not this time. Something`s always wrong at
RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13838, 13770, 13632 S8-S9, 13564, 13492, 13420; 13905, 13974,
all approx.,Jan 27 at 1455-1500, extremely distorted and broad
spurblobs from RHC 13700-AM; all with F# tone, and the closer ones
almost clear in FM reception mode; 68-72 kHz intervals. Something`s
always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ERITREA [non]. 17545.065V, it`s Wednesday Jan 27 at 1534, so time
for another check of Bayto Yaikl, the RMI-brokered clandestine via
Issoudun, FRANCE, S5-S9, talk in local language. It`s the very last
entry at the bottom of the WRMI skedgrid as ``Bayto Yaikl L`` --
what`s the L for? still claiming it`s only on Day 6 = Saturday despite
having added Day 3 several weeks ago. As usual, the frequency is
audibly wavering slightly, making it difficult to nail to the 3rd
decimal place (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 397-MCW kHz, Jan 27 at 0725 UT, further checking of this
anomaly ND beacon, evidently CIR in Cairo (Kay-roh), Illinois. Now the
third letter sounds more like N -. than R ._. --- but there is not a
clear space between the dash and dot, making it more like a T, single
dash, as it seemed to sound in my previous log.

388-MCW kHz, Jan 27 at 0731 UT, mixture of two NDBs copied as OD and
BR. BR would really be on 390, 25 watts at Burlington, Iowa - Burns,
but there is no OD listed anywhere around here: maybe really OK in
Okmulgee - Preston, OK on 388.

404-MCW kHz, Jan 27 at 0736 UT, XCR, 25-watt NDB at Little Falls /
Camp Ripley, Minnesota; I was tuned to 402-USB.

412-MCW kHz, Jan 27 at 0737 UT, CMY, 30-watt NDB at Sparta / Fort
McCoy, Wisconsin; I was tuned to 410-USB.

426-MCW kHz, Jan 27 at 0738 UT, UV, 25-watt NDB at Oxford / Tunng,
Mississippi; I was tuned to 424-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2070 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday January
27 at 1050 check, the 1030 on WRMI 5850, VG. Next:

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 support:
thanks this week to anonymous, for a contribution via PayPal to
woradio at yahoo.com and commenting: ``My usual anonymous seasonal
donation to your always informative broadcast!``

One may also contribute by MO or check in US$ on a US bank to
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA.

Next WOR 2071 should be ready for first broadcast UT Friday Jan 29 at
0130 on WRMIs 5850, 7780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. 9455, Jan 27 at 1504, checking for WRMI as
reactivated here yesterday, but not on now, only a JBA carrier,
presumably CRI Chinese via Kunming as scheduled this hour only; while
9395 WRMI BS is S8. But recheck at 1532, now 9455 is on with TOMBS at
S9-S7, quite weaker than // 9395 S9/+10.

The skedgrid at http://www.tinyurl.com/WRMIgrid still has not been
updated beyond January 15, showing WRMI-5 as on 4980 24 hours; but I
noticed no signal from 4980 last night. Ivo Ivanov concludes that`s
the transmitter now on 9455; and if on same antenna it would be 285
degrees, same as 7730 - which is *much* stronger here, at night. WRMI
never got 4980 up to full strength, so have they given up on it?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 18000, Jan 27 at 1537, open carrier; maybe CUBA 3 x
6000? Only JBA carrier there probably Asian, nor on 2 x = 12000. By
the time I`m shortly back on 18000, it`s off.

BTW, 18 MHz hamband hopping with phone signals, but no time to weed
out any inter/extra-continentals. There is intra sporadic E up to 70
MHz over eastern N America at least; in fact 92 MHz by 1757; FMDX??
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1810 UT January 27

** COLOMBIA. 600, Jan 27 at 0105, continued log of VOA Spanish via
HJHJ, Barranquilla: ``Enlace Internacional`` now the program name, but
taking a pause for some music; via Bonaire SDR (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 1550, Jan 27 at 0255 UT, another check of my unID ESPN
station, whether it`s KICS Nebraska or KYAL in Sapulpa: string of ESPN
promos; no ID at 2 minutes before the hour when I thought there was a
hole in that network; but just before 0300: mentions Tulsa FM
translator-style call, and `The Sports Animal`, which is the
silly-ballgame subnetwork in OK. The real KYAL-FM is down in Muskogee
on 97.1.

NRC AM Log does not have an FM frequency for it; on 1550, U4 2500/40
watts. Far be it from me to suggest the C-word that they might be on
more than 40 watts these nights, near be it to me, only 164 km = 102
stmi city to city from that SW Tulsa suburb. Radio-locator shows 1550
site is axually just north of Sapulpa, night and day patterns with a
notch to the NW, but a fair lobe to the west, but the distant night
contour only goes about 20 miles.

However, with 100 kW, 97.1 is branded as Tulsa, and website fine print
also claims 96.1 Vinita, 101.1 Bartlesville. WTFDA database says 97.1
is // 96.1 KITO which is 50 kW in Vinita. But no 101.1 in
Bartlesville: in that market T.S.A. is on 99.1 and 1500 KPGM. Of the
three 101.1s in OK, none near B`ville. How about nearby KS? Nor. Maybe
KYAL`s 101.1 in BV be a pirate?

Wait: a big graphic on website equates ESPN Tulsa on 1550 AM and 99.9
FM! What`s that? WTFDA shows K260CR // KYAL-1550, ``Sapula`` which is
of course a 250-watt translator a bit far from central Tulsa.

But wait! There`s more: on this page:
http://sportsanimalradio.com/animal-lineup/
which is underlain with ``The Sports Animal Tulsa – 97.1 Tulsa and
96.1 Grand Lake (sportsanimalradio.com)`` And overtly says this: ``The
Sports Animal-Tulsa programming is aired on 97.1 FM (Muskogee/Tulsa),
96.1 FM (Vinita), AM 1470 (Vinita) & 101.1 FM (Caney, Kansas).`` So
that explains the 101.1 ``Bartlesville``? Caney is 29 km = 18 stmi =
15 nautical miles north of B`ville, just across the KS border. But
WTFDA db has 101.1 there as KEOJ, Contemporary Christian, 6/6 kW. And
above adds yet another outlet, 1470 which is 500/88 watt KGND as in
``Grand``.

Well, that`s the scoop despite my total disinterest in such silly
sports programming. BTW, in DX research I have run across some other
sports stations with cheesecake photo pages, but apparently not this
one; no redeeming value (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** U S A. 397-MCW, Jan 27 at 0331 UT, ND beacon CIT. Or so it sounds,
JBA, but on 397, dxinfocentre.com shows no CIT, rather a CIN in
Carroll, Iowa, decommissioned; and CIR, Cairo, Illinois, both 25
watts. While the more detailed RNA Signal List (classaxe.com) says of
CIR: ``20181130 - Bill Stewart reports a 'hic-up' on the 'R'. Often
sounds like CIN``. At 0518 I check it again, but it`s JBA to NAAA =
not audible at all. Now I am hearing only two letters, CI. But seems
like it`s CIR having even more trouble uttering its third letter
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Jan 27 at
0322-0329: 531, 549, 558, 567, 576(2), 585, 612, 621(2), 639(2), 657,
684(2), 693, 711, 729(2), 747, 774(2), 801, 837, 855, 882, 891, 909,
936, 999(2), 1053, 1089, 1107, 1152, 1215 - and none higher, not even
1548 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0619 UT January 27

** BRAZIL. 11905-11910-11915-DRM, Jan 27 at 0110, Nacional FM with
mostly music, via TWR Bonaire KiwiSDR, SNR fluxuating 9-10 dB, which
is not quite enough to avoid dropouts and skips at 12.46 kbps;
0130-0135 break for interview about music to follow, now worsening
circa 9, 0140 classical flute/violin/guitar; $ tereo would be nice, but
too taxing on DRM bandwith, can`t even maintain solid modul in mono.
But the one-line Journaline news headlines rotating come thru
unscathed at 2.30 kbps. I was trying to show a few, but altho hilited
they will not copy (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. 6900, Jan 25 at 2353, JBA carrier with flutter, presumed
CNR1 jammer against a listed Sound of Hope frequency; with 2-way
Spanish QRM on LSB only, a major frequency for that (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** CHINA. 6850, Jan 26 at 2357, JBA S5-S6 talk sounds Chinese,
presumed CNR1 jammer against another listed SOH frequency; however
there are two signals, at least one of which is slightly on the minus
side. Cuts off a few seconds before 2400* like CNR1 but before the
timesignal (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** COLOMBIA [and non]. 600 kHz, Jan 27 at 2359, via TWR Bonaire SDR,
checking for the VOA relay via Radio Libertad, HJHJ, Barranquilla,
about which little has been seen since first report last September 19,
of this way to get into hostile Venezuela without using any SW.

Nothing about this in WRTH 2021 under Colombia, pp 163/165, but VOA
Spanish under USA, page 507 shows -- only -- 600-hjh site at 00-02
Sat/Sun, 00-03 M-F. QRM from piano riffs likely Rebelde/Cuba, but
dominant is Spanish news, mentions ``Buenos Dias``, so maybe still
replaying podcast of morning edition.

No ID for HJHJ at ToH, but 0101 switch to different W&M casters with
news about USA and COVID; ID in passing as ``La Voz de América``. A
Venezuelan MW transmitter was supposedly pressed into service to jam
this, also about which nothing further has been reported, but if
VOA/HJHJ get into Bonaire, probably also into Caracas (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** FRANCE. 5870-5875-5880, Jan 26 circa 2350, DRM noise still here,
i.e. the tests of TDF with RFI programming. Then just in on the WOR
iog, a reply that Jean-Michel Aubier got from TDF to an inquiry
forwarded from Wolfgang Büschel; in translation:

``Hello, Since January 1, we have been carrying out new DRM tests
from our Issoudun distribution center. These tests are initiated by
TDF as part of our DRMCast project.

DRMCast is a SW receiver that we have developed on our own funds which
makes it possible to locally rebroadcast DRM content over wifi.
Through this gateway-type interface, any smartphone or tablet-type
receiver is thus capable of receiving sound, text and images broadcast
in DRM.

The first tests were carried out on the Minitransat in 2019 with
a race report for boats crossing the Atlantic. We are not far enough
advanced to date to address Vendée Globle type races, but the Maritime
world is a track that we are considering for DRMCast.

For the time being, we have four 30-minute broadcasting slots with RFI
world programs and some associated data:

13:00-13:30 11735
15:00-15:30 9905
17:30-18:00 9905
23:30-00:00 5875

These slots are likely to change in the days / weeks to come. These
are tests to continue our development, we are not communicating at the
moment`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 11720, Jan 26 at 2112, VOA-One with Afro?rock, split-second
dropout of modulation, or is it also a break in carrier? S-meter also
seems to dip. I have noticed such often before on this Grimesland
transmitter. Switch to off-tuned SSB but no breaks detected in next
couple minutes. Needs further checking; watching waterfall should make
it more obvious; on air 21-22 UT only (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [non]. VOA Spanish MW relay: see COLOMBIA

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2070 monitoring; 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

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

Our non-commercial broadcasts and website depend on voluntary support:
thanks this week to anonymous, for a contribution via PayPal to
woradio at yahoo.com and commenting: ``My usual anonymous seasonal
donation to your always informative broadcast!``

One may also contribute by MO or check in US$ on a US bank to
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9455, Jan 26 at 2120, this reactivated WRMI is still on and
now not // 9395. Still no sign of 9455 on the skedgrid at 0200 Jan 27
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9265, Tue Jan 26 at 2121, no signal from WINB, but gospel
huxter going by 2208 recheck on the always-wobbly carrier. Usually
starts earlier, but depends on airtime sales. New websked dated Jan 24
now shows starting at *2000 M-F, and on Tuesday:
``04:00P / Tue-2100...Bishop S. C. Johnson
06:30P / Tue-2330...The Essentials of Life and Wellness``
End-times of shows (nor of the World) are never specified, but assumed
to run until the next one start; however that would make the Bishop
show 2.5 hours long; so takes a break? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report despatched at 0208 UT January 27