** ARGENTINA [non]. 5800, UT Sat Jan 11 at 0133, RAE AAM, Spanish via
WRMI is in Friday DX program whose name is ``actualidaddx.com.ar`` ---
something about a station on 12005; then far-advance news about the
Radio Öömrang annual broadcast Feb 21 at 1600-1700 on 15215; then a
long item about stations in Perú, until closing at 0142; 0143 next
program is `Migrantes y refugiados`. I wonder if same DX content in
English translation appear next semihour 0200-0230 on 9395? Did not
get to check that.

Despite my numerous reports of the correct frequency and time for RAE
Spanish via WRMI, Conexión Digital continues to ignore them and
publish totally wrong info about their own station:
``RAE, Radiodifusión Argentina al Exterior:
HORA UTC KHZ DIAS
0100-0200 O-6060 23456
2200-2300 O-5010 12345``
BTW, the weekly C.D. is taking a summer break to resume sometime in
February. The condiglista is moving from yg to iog (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** CUBA. 13564, 13632, 13768, 13836 approx., Jan 11 at 1539, AM/FM
spurblobs out of 13700-RHC; even second-order 13836 registers S9, but
no third-orders heard. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2016 monitoring: Confirmed at 2300
Jan 10 via WRMI 9955 --- jamming did not abate a bit until about 2318,
and finally gone by 2327.

Confirmed much better jamming-free, UT Sat Jan 11 at 0130 on WRMI
5850, and much weaker 5010 which fades out to storm noise by 0148;
while 7780 has been replaced by music --- APS Radio! Without notice.
BTW, following WOR at 0200 on 5850 was a VORW dated 8 August 2019!
That`s a *lot* of weeks ago.

Not confirmable Sat Jan 11 at 1300 on WRMI 15770 --- JBA carrier only
here as usual. Maybe Ivo has checked it over there? Yes:
``Reception of World of Radio#2016 via WRMI tx#09, January 11:
1300-1330 15770 RMI 100 kW / 044 deg WeEu English Sat, fair`` Next:

2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415]
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9395 to NNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 6160v? to WSW
0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
0930 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB [another episode]
1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
0900 UT Wednesday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. Some minor updates/correxions to WORLD OF RADIO
2016:

About Mongolia 7260 English scheduling: the one-hour-earlier Saturday
broadcast is at 00-01 UT; the time 08-09 was local time.

About beacon A on 2097.3: I meant to say Oct 11 as the date I noted it
had been missing, not Aug 11.

Also, we have learnt later that SPAIN has resumed 9690 as of Jan 10;

About Radio Onda ASBL, Brazilian music via Netherlands at new time
00-17 on 5940, but has anyone ever heard it? A later report:

``Rádio Onda has moved to 5940 kHz from 6060 kHz. Heard testing today
at 1100 on 5940.05v kHz, weak here in Finland. (Mauno Ritola on WRTH
Facebook group, 5 Jan)

(Radio Onda's entry is on page 459/460 of WRTH 2020 under Belgium -
though SW licence is for 1 kW from site in Netherlands see:
https://www.radioonda.be/ondes-courtes)

"Welcome to Radio Onda's website! We are broadcasting in DAB+ from
Brussels. Here you can listen, in addition to the good French music,
the best international hits 80s and 90s, and of course, the beautiful
Brazilian music! Listen to the broadcast of Radio Onda also on 6060
[sic] kHz" https://ondaasbl.wixsite.com/english

"Radio Onda is managed by ASBL Onda, a non-profit association based in
Bruxellas [sic], Belgium. Our activities are aimed at the
dissemination of Brazilian culture by the old continent. In addition
to webradio, we have a 6030 [sic] kHz Shortwave broadcaster from
Holland, with 1 KW of power, covering much of Europe. The programming
of the station is quite varied, and here you will hear from MPB,
National Rock, Samba, Country, among other national styles. This way,
we bring you a great variety of music, with lots of humor and
information, for an audience not only Brazilian, but also Belgian and
European. ASBL Onda is a member of HFCC, an international organization
for shortwave radio frequency coordination, in addition to the
Geneva-based ITU." (translated from Portuguese at
https://ondaasbl.wixsite.com/home/a-radio)

(N.B. Voz Missionaria, Brazil also uses 5940 kHz, though off channel
around 5939.7 kHz)(Alan Pennington, bdxc-news iog)``

{many others then report hearing it Jan 10-11, at least via remotes}

To which Wolfgang Bueschel replies:

``Yes is A-20 season registered already, start as from March 29, 2020.
5940 kHz 0000-2400 UT ITU CIRAF zones 27E,28NW MRT 1 kW
0=non-directional, ITU antenna type '700

HFCC Conference A-20
The A-20 Global Coordination Conference will be held
from 10th to 14th February 2020 in China.
{last China location of HFCC conference was a decade ago
on tropical Hainan Island close to Dong Fang site}

Only on restricted website area:
[17-Dec-2019] - A20 upload opened.
[15-Nov-2019] - A20 Conference registration opened``
(Glenn Hauser, WOR iog)

** U S A. (7490, 5130), UT Sat Jan 11 at 0000, monitoring WBCQ 7490
webcast, FKB preacher runs over mixing with canned ID; `WTO` theme of
`AAAWWW` plays, but soon interrupted by Pirate Joe substituting, and
he fades out the WTO, enough of that, before it finishes. Meanwhile,
both 7490v and 5130 are JBA, so I leave it to John Carver to report on
whatever fill this hour:

``Tonight's show started on time this evening. Very poor signal on
7490 and a little better signal on 5130. Pirate Joe is the host this
evening. He starts off by telling the listeners to create their own
shows and put them on WBCQ. Some talk about fun and our country's
history of not allowing fun going back to the original Puritan
settlers. 5130 started to go downhill about 0115 and getting difficult
to copy. Will listen to the noise in case the signal picks up again.
Later on I hear George Bush being mentioned and a bit later something
about Iraq wanting us out. It sounded like he may have started playing
music around 0147. At 0155 there was a station ID but only one so they
must have corrected the problem of constant station IDs for five
minutes in a row. As near as I can tell program ended on time. John,
Mid-North Indiana``

Too bad, isn`t it, that none of the Superstation project is available
to make Classic WBCQ programming somehow audible on SW (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** U S A. 12160, Sat Jan 11 at 1607, WWCR church choir with modulation
breaking up. Scheduled this hour is `The Church of the Lord Jesus
Christ of the Apostolic Faith` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1090, Sat Jan 11 at 0702 UT, KAAY Little Rock with series of
jokes to a laughing audience, stand-up? Not the usual
gospel-huxtering; XEAU Monterrey at right angle needs to be nulled
instead of vice-versa; 0705 ads; 0708 opening the NBC-TV Today show
hour with Hoda and Jenna for January 10! but no video here. Seems a
drastic format change. Maybe this is not `Beaker Street`, but a
related story sent on by Rick Barton, AZ; very vague about when B.S.
would be on:

“Beaker Street,” Clyde Clifford’s pioneering late-night radio show, is
back on the air. The program debuted on 50,000-watt AM radio station
KAAY in 1966 and established itself as an underground dispatch — and
as an antidote to commercial radio’s milquetoast formulas and
penchants for repeating the same 100 classic rock tracks on a
carousel. Clifford favored deeper and longer album cuts than daytime
mainstream radio had patience for, and because he broadcast the show
from KAAY’s Wrightsville location, where the station’s transmitter was
located, he set his mellow narration to a backdrop of freaky space
sounds to muffle the transmitter’s hum — a trademark that so defined
the show that it had to be kept, even when “Beaker Street” found life
in other, more noise-controlled studios.

Now, with Clifford’s (real name: Dale Seidenschwarz) retirement from a
decades-long day job in the rearview mirror (barely), the beloved rock
radio bulletin is slated for a revival on Arkansas Rocks, a coalition
of veteran radio talent that, like Clifford, skews less toward stuff
like “Hotel California” and more toward the likes of “Traveller in
Time.” Stay tuned for more on Clifford’s return to the airwaves,
scheduled for February 2020. Until then, here’s Arkansas Rocks’ air
talent Tom Wood bringing the good news...
https://arktimes.com/entertainment/2020/01/07/beaker-street-is-back
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1860-AM, Sat Jan 11 at 1611 UT, WA0RCR in full daytime is
S9+20 with ham news; unfortunately my local noise level on 160m is
also S9+20. But it does achieve wide coverage, especially wintry
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15373.7-USB, Jan 11 at 1527, weak 2-way in Spanish
INTRUDERS (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1857 UT January 11

** ALBANIA [non]. 15770, Jan 9 at 2030, R. Tirana via WRMI opening
with IS, but transmitter is breaking up, split-seconds off the air and
back on; still occasionally doing this around 2039. Winds shorting out
antenna elements? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CANADA. 272-MCW kHz, Jan 9 at 0710 UT, dash and YQA, ND beacon, 400
watts at Muskoka Falls, Ontario, per dxinfocentre.com one of those to
be decommissioned on March 26.

276-MCW kHz, Jan 9 at 0712 UT, dash and YEL, NDB --- have I got
Yellowknife? NO, it`s just ELliot Lake, Ontario, 200 watts.
(Yellowknife is ZF on 356 kHz, 3800 watts --- should be on lookout for
that) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. 11640, Jan 10 at 0706, VP signal sounds Cantonese; yes, Yue
scheduled from CRI, 500 kW, 59 degrees from Jinhua site (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** CHINA [non]. 13630 via MALI, Jan 10 at 1933, S9-S6 Chinese music
only, suitable for napping, finally 1954.5 Brasilian accent recites
entire CRI Portuguese sked with no explanation what happened to all
the programming; 1956.5 dead air to 1958*. *1958.5 back on OC and 2000
opening China Plus Radio, news in English, seems a bit stronger? But
both are supposed to be 100 kW at 111 degrees from Bamako so no need
for transmission break: Portuguese 1930-2000, English 2000-2130, plus
French 2130-2230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 12200, Jan 9 at 0646, RHC English steady S9+10, NF? Strong
enough to be a fundamental but in fact is 2 x 6100, even stronger at
S9+20/30, both with slight squeal but otherwise good modulation.
Hardly anything inside 25 mb, except residual pulse jamming on 11930
and NZ on 11725. The other 6 MHz channels are still on, 6000, 6060 and
6145, but not a hint of harmonix from any of them which would have
been on 12000, 12120, 12290. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2016)

12200, Jan 10 at 0702, no signal since 6100 is off already. Only one
on now is 6145 RHC English at S9+30 (Glenn Hauser, WOR)

** CUBA. 13631 & 13769 approx., Jan 9 at 1524, weak spurblobs from
13700, plus/minus ~69 kHz. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13430 < 13498 < 13566 < 13633; 13907 < 13839 < 13769, Jan 10
at 1517, AM/FM spurblobs out of 13700 at 67-68 kHz intervals, weakest
at the outskirts. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** CUBA. 15140, Jan 10 at 1932, RHC overmodulated/distorted in Kriyol;
something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MADAGASCAR. 11965, Jan 9 at 2028 bandscannng hits this SSOB from
APR via MWV, as they utter ``...slippery slime oozes from its
skin...`` so I keep right on tuning! They sure know how to turn off
listeners; probably pseudo-science during a so-called `Creation
Moment` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 7470, Jan 10 at 0335, anti-Christ pirate Station
YHWH very poorly audible with medium SAH, presumably Lampertheim as
scheduled in Pashto until 0400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 4600, Jan 10 at 0332 UT, SBG // 1390, i.e. a mixing
product from local KCRC ESPN, but how? It`s almost always weakly
audible as transmitted rather than receiver overload. The only formula
I can come up with for a combination with our other local, KGWA 960,
is: 4 x 1390 = 5560; 5560 minus 960 = 4600! (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** SPAIN. 9690, Jan 9 at 2026, REE North American frequency is still
off, while the other three transmitters are on during stupid ballgame,
11685, 11940, 12030. If I`m not mistaken, 9690 has not been heard at
all this year so far; hope it`s not closed for good, but not unusual
for one or two Noblejas transmitters to be down (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WORLD OF RADIO 2016)

9690, Jan 10 at 2135, now it is back on as bestsig, not ballgame; also
audible on 12030 but 11940 & 11685 JBA carriers. So now we may expect
mostly-music English resumed at 2300-2330 M/W/F on 9690, 11940 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [non]. 12075, Jan 9 at 2029*, VOA cuts off a song just as I
tune in; indeed French via BOTSWANA is scheduled daily until 2030
only, tho the programming continues if listening on web or FM. HFCC
also shows this French frequency resumes at 2100-2130 M-F only. What
nonsensical transmission scheduling! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2016 contents: Australia,
Bougainville, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea,
India, Indonesia, Iran, Korea South, Mongolia, Netherlands, North
America, Puerto Rico, Sweden, Turkey, USA; and the propagation
outlook.

WOR 2016 is available as of 0219 UT Friday January 10
(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2016.m3u
(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2016.mp3

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

The shortwave broadcasts should be:

0900 UT Friday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
2300 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE
[usually starts with heavy jamming but maybe abates]
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5850 to NW, 5010 to S
1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415]
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9395 to NNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 6160v? to WSW
0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
0930 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB [another episode]
1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
0900 UT Wednesday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5130, Jan 10 at 0345, WBCQ is on with an `Allan Weiner
Worldwide` but VP, rough copy; referring to some story Artie sent him,
mentioning local origination and city of license; an old repeat; 0400
sign-off theme from the ``family`` at WBCQ. Sked shows 5130 on air UT
Fri at 0200-0400 with `Christian Missionary Radio Evangelism` and
`Radio for Peace International` at 0300 --- but now that presumably in
French is apparently gone. Own website
https://www.rfpi.eu/nous-ecouter/comment-ecouter-radio-for-peace-internationale.html
shows both summer and winter schedules. Summer had 5130 from unknown
station at 0200-0300 but only on the first Thursday [sic] of the
month, while winter eliminates that completely (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A [and non]. 9330, Fri Jan 10 at 0708, Cuban spynumbers and
digital blaaps are overriding World`s Last Chance Radio via WBCQ.
Everyone should have seen this collision coming, since Cuba has been
on 9330 forever during this hour four nights a week; but who cares?
Neither counts upon rational listenership (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 15555-USB, Jan 9 at 1522, WJHR gospel huxter very poor but
audible, which is seldom. Is this because of irregular operation, or
just the need for enhanced propagation? 6m map showed a bit of HF
sporadic E up to 15 MHz over Alabama, not the right spot but close
enough? WWCR 15825 a bit more than JBA carrier now too. Someone
reported WJHR going off at 2000 instead of registered 2200 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5890, Jan 10 at 0333, WWCR with lots of buzzhiss especially
on the sidebands; maybe due to program audio source as seemed to clear
up later (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 2238 UT January 10

** CANADA. 335-MCW kHz, Jan 8 at 0712 UT, dash and ND beacon YLD,
which is 1000 watts from Chapleau, Ontario.

353-MCW kHz, Jan 8 at 0715, dash and NDB PG, which is 25 watts at
Portage-la-Prairie, Manitoba. CCI from two USA stations, q.v. (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CANADA. 2598-USB, Jan 8 at 0655 UT, marine weather in English by
roboyl, with slight reverb: could there be two transmitter sites
emitting the same feed? S7 vs S5 noise level and hard to copy. 0658
mentions ``northern Grand Banx`` i.e. off Nfld. ``storm warnings in
effect``. 0701 `` ----- radio, out``. But none of the three references
checked show any broadcasts on this frequency just before 0700!
Placentia NL VCP supposedly starts at 0737. Nothing was on sibling
frequency 2749-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 9965, Jan 8 at 1551, pulse jamming against nothing. The only
reason for Cuban jamming of this frequency was Radio República when it
was still running an ELCOR transmitter in COSTA RICA. As of July
*2011* we were noting that it was no longer there, and relays via
Sackville had already started on 9490 (later replaced by Issoudun, to
this day). A fine example of jammed once, jammed forever, as Cuba
continues to pollute the SW bands for no reason whatsoever, not even
the evil reason of jamming *something* (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15230, Jan 8 at 1543, `Sonido Cubano` but just barely
modulated music at S9; while // 15140 is OK at S9+10; as is 13700,
S9+10 without spurs. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11850 undermodulated, // 15140 overmodulated/distorted, //
15370 good modulation, Jan 8 at 2126 with fill music in Spanish, too
late to ascertain program language this date from 2100, but surely all
the same rather than three different as scheduled. At 2130, 15140 to
dead air and off; 15370 off; 11880 into Brazuguese (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** PERU. 5980, Jan 8 at 2353, carrier from R. Chaski vs Cuban jamming,
until autocutoff at 2354:01.5, which is 3.5 seconds earlier than 48
hours ago, averaging 1.75 each (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 5960, Jan 8 at 2350, VOT has made it on the air today,
perhaps as early as 2300 for English; now it`s over and into IS, which
keeps playing and from 2356 includes IDs every semiminute in German:
``Hier ist die Stimme der Türkei``; at 0000 January 9 timesignal
ending a sesquisecond late! Look, if you can`t do better than that,
don`t do a timesignal at all, which imply precision like from a legit
TS station, CHU I was comparing this to. And opening program in
German, news, unknown for how much longer this spurious broadcast.
Something`s always wrong at Emirler. Wolfgang Büschel picks this up
today:

``Man gönnt sich ja sonst nüscht, TUERKEI 5960.004 kHz TRT Deutsch.
Glenn Hauser berichtet oft über liederliche Arbeitsweise bei den TRT
Emirler Technikern, d.h. man schaltet nach der Englischsendung 23-24
UT nicht ab, sondern überträgt munter weiter die auf dem web
livestream anliegende TRT DEUTSCH Sendung. Heute um 0022-0024 UT einen
Reisebericht der folklore feature Ecke, gehört auf den remote Perseus
in New Jersey östliche USA Küste mit S=9+20dB. 73 wb`` (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 353-MCW kHz, Jan 8 at 0715, besides PG from CANADA, q.v.,
two US NDBs mixing, IN and LI. Same pitch but different pitch than PG;
IN and LI have slightly different periods, so if you listen long
enough they are more or less alternating rather than conflicting
making for ``strange`` Morse code. IN is 100 watts from International
Falls, Minnesota; LI is 400 watts from Little Rock, Arkansas (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2015 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday January
8 at 2100 on WRMI 7780, fair; for at least the second week at this
secret time represented by a blank space on the System F skedgrid.
There is another blank at the same time Friday which should be
checked.

Also confirmed Wed Jan 8 from 2200:20 on WBCQ 7490.252v, good S9/+10,
further off-frequency but not a problem as long as there is no QRM.
(EiBi shows CNR1 at 2023-2400 on 7490 but no trace of it here.)

Also confirmed UT Thu Jan 9 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, fair S7-S9.

New WOR 2016 should be ready early UT Friday Jan 10 and first SWBC at
0900 on Unique Radio 5045-USB; 2300 on jammed WRMI 9955 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** VIETNAM [non]. 7315, Jan 9 at 0001, VOV opening English via WHRI.
During first couple minutes there was ``running water`` QRM followed
by some crosstalk briefly; strange. But this relay is certainly still
in effect, despite absent last night at 0140. Also in Vietnamese from
0100 check when it`s S9+30/40. Tnx to Alan Roe, Wolfgang Bueschel,
Paul Walker, all of whom reported hearing this earlier in 2020y (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0210 UT January 9

** CANADA [and non]. 245 kHz, Jan 7 at 0735 UT, ND beacon dash and
YZE, 1000 watts at Gore Bay, Ontario, mixing on same frequency but
different pitches with stronger 400 watt FS, Sioux Falls - Rock, South
Dakota (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 5040, Jan 7 at 0721, RHC English still on here with squeal,
// 6060 stronger than 6145. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 5040
needs to get out of way for Vanuatu from 0630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13629 & 13770 approx., Jan 7 at 1509, spurblobs from
13700-AM, 70-71 kHz displaced. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11880 & 15140 & 15370, Jan 7 at 2108, all three RHC in
choking Arabic today. You never know what combo of scheduled or
non-scheduled languages will occupy the 2100 semihour. Something`s
always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 6145, Jan 8 at 0457, RHC English is just barely modulated
while only // 6000 is suptorted. Something`s always wrong at RHC
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 7470, Jan 8 at 0300, JBA carrier fades up enough to
recognize Station YHWH sermon by anti-Christ pirate. At S8-S9 still
tough copy. Was also a JBA carrier on 7480 where instead he was caught
a few nights ago by Ron Howard, so check both (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 6125, Jan 8 at 0445, S9+10 of dead air; by 0447 some JBM
music; 0452 headline in English from VOT, off by 0454*. Something`s
always wrong at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 2097.3-CW, Jan 7 at 0728 the single-letter beacon A is back!
ID every dekasecond. Also Jan 8 at 0220. Have included this in
bandscans despite last reported by Steve Zimmerman, WI on Aug 20. It
was so regular that I did not always log it but noted Oct 11 that it
was no longer to be heard. Last time I did log it was August 3.
Originally thought to be in Quartzsite AZ, but then denied to be
there, yet presumably somewhere in SW USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5850, Jan 8 at 0144, WRMI playing familiar World Music
including Cayman holiday, mbira on VG signal // weaker 5010, since
there are now a number of blank fields on the System F schedule such
as today 0130-0300 on #12 5850 and #14 5010. We don`t see World Music
by name deliberately anywhere on the sked (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5935, Jan 8 at 0458, the DGS/PMS/TUN WWCR transmitter is
AWOL, no trace, while the other three are inbooming: 5890 S9+30 not
quite signed off yet; 4840 S9+30, 3215 S9+20. Furthermore, 5970 WEWN
Spanish is S9+10/20 about the same distance and nominal (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** VIETNAM [non]. 7315, Jan 8 at 0140, No VOV in Vietnamese, as WHRI
is OFF. Back on at 0256 with WHRI own gospel-huxtering at S9+20.
Wonder if the relay contract ran out at yearend? Had not noticed or
checked for it yet this year (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9961.5-USB, Jan 7 at 1515, 2-way in Spanish, very poor
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0557 UT January 8

** ALBANIA [non]. 15770, Mon Jan 6 at 2057, rock music on WRMI, feared
not R. Tirana relay until I hear their IS at 2059 closing (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** AUSTRALIA. Reply from Tim Gaynor Jan 6, about bushfires: ``Hi
Glenn, No fires in my area at Gunnedah. Just smoke from other fires
elsewhere. Appreciate your concerns but we're ok here, Best regards,
Tim Gaynor, Unique Radio, Gunnedah NSW, Australia`` (Glenn Hauser,
WOR)

** COLOMBIA [non]. 5910, Jan 7 at 0226, S9 music and Romanian
announcement from RRI // 7340, as scheduled 0100-0300, 300 kW, 307
degrees to E North America. NO sign of Alcaraván Radio as reported by
a DXer in New Jersey to the NASWA Flashsheet, with ID at 0214 UT Dec
31, and no mention of RRI. Alcaraván has been off the air for about a
sesquiyear. Possibly back the night before NY eve?? RRI would have had
to be missing simultaneously. 5910 is further blocked at 0300-0500 by
China via Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15370 // 15140 // 11880, Jan 5 at 2111, all three RHC are in
Kriyol, rather than supposedly Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, as in
EiBi; or Portuguese, French and French as in WRTH 2020. Something`s
always wrong at RHC :::: (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** PERU. 5980, Jan 6 at 2353, JBA carrier from R. Chaski vs Cuban
jamming, until cutoff at 2354:05*, My last check was Dec 29 until
2354:22, i.e. 17 seconds earlier now, 8 days later, averaging 2.125
seconds slippage per noctem (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ROMANIA. Re: ``7345, Dec 30 at 0718, RRI mailbag in German reading
letters at some length; 307 degree beam from Ziganeschti also serves
North America beyond. Spelling it fonetikaly into German raises the
question whether the name be related to Gypsies, or rather Roma. Say,
could that name be linked to Romania? Altho hardly Latinate``

Erich Bergmann, Germany, replies: ``Hi Glenn, It is difficult to say
if Tiganesti is related to the Romanian term “tigani” which means
Gipsy. There are a few villages in Romania with this name. By the way
the village Tiganesti with the transmitter site was included in 1968
in the village Ciolpan and took also this name. Originally the village
Tiganesti took its name about the year 1800 from the nearby monastery
and lake with the same name. The term “tigani” is generally
substituted nowadays by Sinti and Roma, they have their origins in
some parts of India from where they migrated to Europe a few hundreds
years ago. On the other hand Roma and Romania are not linked. 73s
Erich`` (Glenn Hauser, WOR)

** TURKEY. 5960, Jan 6 at 2352, VOT English is on tonight, and a
little later than usual, just now getting to closing headlines (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 379-MCW, Jan 6 at 0712-0715 UT, two ND beacons mixing, DL,
500 watts from Duluth - Pike Lake MN; and BRA, 400 watts from
Asheville - Broad River NC. I was tuned to 377-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2015 monitoring: confirmed Sunday
January 5 at 2147 check the 2130 on WRMI 7780, S9-S7.

Also confirmed UT Mon Jan 6 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, F-G, S9+10/S8.

Also confirmed UT Mon Jan 6 at 0230 on WRMI 7780 fair, 9395 JBA.
Checking these two via UTwente SDR, both JBA as MUF down this week.
Also confirmed #2015 on WRN webcast.

Also confirmed UT Mon Jan 6 from 0401 on Area 51 webcast; JBA on WBCQ
5130 at 0418 check.

Also confirmed UT Mon Jan 6 at 0430 on WRMI webcast, JBA carrier vs
JBA pulse jamming on 9955.

Also confirmed UT Tue Jan 7 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, JBA S5-S8. Hope it
lasted until 0129, for by 0137 check, JBA with unknown 7780.5 het.
Next:
0900 UT Wednesday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 [new January 1]
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7780, Monday Jan 6 at 2100, this WRMI plays World Music
fill, including the Cayman Islands tourism promo, to fill a blank
field on the skedgrid, rather than another surprise airing of WOR;
2130 into ABF in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0425 UT January 7