** CUBA. 15369.22, Feb 16 at 2248, RHC Spanish distorted at S9+20.
Altho not checked yesterday, this should make the sixth day in a row
of such offfrequenciness. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 9329.237, Feb 17 at 0715, Spy number station bigsig is way
off-frequency (and WBCQ apparently finished testing at 0500). Note how
closely its offset matches that of 15370-minus RHC as heard now for
seven days in the afternoons; same transmitter? Something`s always
wrong at RadioCuba.

Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, also caught the offset: ``NUMBERS STATION Cuban
Spy HM01 on very odd freqs 9329.2 & 9064.2 kHz, February 17:
0700-0720 9329.2 BEJ 050 kW / Eu/Am Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri, not 9330
0730-0750 9329.2 BEJ 050 kW / Eu/Am Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri, not 9330
0800-0850 9064.2 BEJ 050 kW / Eu/Am Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri, not 9065
NO SIGNAL 9330.0 BCQ 250 kW / 270 deg WBCQ-6,test was till 05 UT
from 0900 on nominal 9240, but from 1000 on very odd 9154.2`` Does
this also infect many other HM01 broadcasts? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15369.234, Feb 17 at 2134, RHC distorted Brazuguese still way
off-frequency for seventh day in a row; usual // 11880 is missing, and
15140 is already off. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7340-7345-7350, Feb 16 at 2224, DRM noise continues from
Grimesland, presumably still Radio Martí only, at S9+20, while RM is
nearby in AM stronger, 7355 S9+40 and 7375 S9+30, both well over
jamming. No jamming detected vs DRM, but it might be hard to tell them
apart by sound rather than disrupting decoding. The DRM-capable
listenership in Cuba must be minuscule (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2021 monitoring: confirmed Sunday
February 16 at 2130 on WRMI 7780, fair on the portable PL-880.

Also confirmed UT Mon Feb 17 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, good S9, as always
cutting off Bob Zanotti who tries to squeeze in another ID just
prior.

Also confirmed UT Mon Feb 17 at 0230 via UTwente SDR, VG on WRMI 7780,
fair on 9395; and also coincidentally on WRN webcast.

Also confirmed UT Mon Feb 17 at 0400 on WBCQ-6 9330.0, while testing
with // 5130 Area 51 programming, VG here direct, and also checked
some KiwiSDRs: VG to Marahau, New Zealand, but inaudible to one in
Australia; nor heard in Japan; not good in Colombia, but good at
Pardinho, Brasil. VG at Rockport, Maine, surprisingly, supposedly too
close for skywave, but too far for groundwave? Maybe not with that
much power, or backscatter: 256 km = 159 stmi from Monticello, on the
south-central coast beyond Bangor.

Also confirmed UT Mon Feb 17 at 0430 on WRMI 9955: JBA in Colombia
where 9955 is usually VG, but much further away, VG in São Paulo with
no jamming audible. Rockport ME starts mixed with jamming but by 0443
under pulse jamming.

Not checked Mon 1901 on IRRS 7290; did anyone hear it? Next:

0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780
0900 UT Wednesday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780
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. 9330.0, Feb 16 at 2227, WBCQ-6, first noted with carrier at
1917, now testing // 7490+ WBCQ programming, this hour being `Marion`s
Attic`, much better than we ever get it on 7490. Seemed to stay with
this audio source, including `Encore` classical music amid hour at
0129 UT Mon Feb 17 check, only S8-S9; and TOMBS at various times after
0200. That block ends at 0400, and just as I dared to hope, then
switched to // 5130 Area 51, just in time for WORLD OF RADIO! q.v.
Wish they had to ``test`` more often. By Monday afternoon, Feb 17,
Arabic from World`s Last Chance Radio is back (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9395, Feb 16 at 2230, WRMI not in RAE Italian, scheduled
this hour M-F on System G, but an oldie, ``The Men in My Little Girl`s
Life``; 2233 IDs by BB and JW, ``remembering generations of great
music`` says Bob and more of it. Does not axually call this on air
``Oldies``. Skedgrid shows on Sat & Sun, and // 7780, Oldies at
2200-2230 but `Walking in Power` at 2230 = no-show. I wondered if like
RAE Spanish, Italian would also repeat on weekends (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A. re: ``414 kHz, Feb 15 at 0732, ND beacon SD, which is 40
watts from Sioux City, Iowa; was tuned to 412-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)``

HI Glenn - I'm thinking, unless something has changed up there, that
beacon ID should be "SU". Near Salix IA, there has been an NDB there
for a long time called "Salix", IDing as SU (the Airport and Vortac
are SUX). It is/was the LOM for Rwy 31 at Sioux City Gateway, the
scene of the famous United Flight 232 landing years ago. 73, - rb``

Yes, thanks to Rick Barton, AZ; I did log it as SU, made typo in
reporting it (Glenn Hauser, WOR)

** U S A [non]. Correxion: Radio Coro is in Venezuela, not Cuba!

780, Feb 16 at 0814 UT, I happen to awaken, too late or in time for
the KKOH Reno 50 kW ND DX test starting at 0800? I get a good null on
WBBM, but nothing heard except Spanish music. Others say this was
Radio Coro, Venezuela, and KKOH did test, but when did it stop? Shux
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 840, Feb 17 at 0331 UT, WHAS KY is off, so now the station
which must be nulled is KVJY in the RGV, Spanish gospel music from the
south. KVJY can normally be heard in WHAS null and/or QRMing it. I
listen carefully for the next quarter-hour but hear only traces of
somethings else; expect CMHW Cuba to be the main one, indeed some
other talk in Spanish at 0344; and at 0340 could almost imagine it was
Kriyol language, i.e. 4VEH Haiti.

Many tnx to Chris Gay, for more than an hour`s advance notice to the
WOR iog, which I soon forwarded to the major MW groups:

``840 WHAS Louisville says they will go off the air "for a short time"
for tower maintenance at 10:30 PM ET Sunday (Feb. 16). Chris KU4A``.
Some others monitored the free-of-WHAS hole until it resumed at 0435
UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0022 UT February 18

** CANADA. 300 kHz, Feb 16 at 0720 UT, ND beacon dash and YIV, which
is 500 watts from Island Lake, Manitoba.

317 kHz, Feb 16 at 0722 UT, NDB dash and VC, which is 1000 watts from
La Ronge, Saskatchewan.

366 kHz, Feb 16 at 0729 UT, NDB dash and YMW, which is 500 watts from
Maniwaki, Quebec. Also two from USA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 6060, Feb 15 at 0717, RHC is S9+30 of dead air; 6145 S9+10/20
with sufficient English modulation; 6000 & 6100 are off; at 0721, 5040
is also S9+30 of dead air plus hum; 5025 Rebelde distorted.
Something`s always wrong at RHC/RadioCuba.

Steve Henderson, N6RHH, earlier replied: ``Hi Glenn, I always get a
chuckle out of your There's Always Something Wrong At RHC comments.
And yes I've heard some really nasty sounding transmissions. It's
amazing they turn those loose on the airwaves. But anyway I haven't
seen you mention their broadcasts on 6145. Their 10 kHz wide audio
actually sounds good. Last night they were an S9+30 here in Las
Cruces, NM. It may be their only listenable frequency these days. 73,
Steve, R-8600, Wellbrook loop`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13771, 13842-trace, 13629, 13558, Feb 15 at 1531, RHC very
distorted spurblobs from RHC 13700-AM, 71-kHz intervals. Something`s
always wrong at RHC. 13740 is still on with S9+10 of dead air.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13700, Sun Feb 16 at 1436, `En Contacto` in progress with a
new voice besides Marta Rios, outroed as Luis Alberto Santander, if I
read my scribble correctly. Lots of fluff with bits about Cuban radio
history, yawn, and no Arnie until 1445 via impressive fibre-optic
hookup to his home. Arnie is getting harder and harder to understand,
mumbling rapidly. Give the man an extra minute so he can slow down!
This time something about hams helping out forest fire-fighters (now?
in Cuba?), and no sunspots for 13 days.

Once this is over, at 1451 I check around 13700 for spurs --- and they
are everywhere! Instead of 66-70 kHz intervals, first one found is
circa 13732, only 32 kHz away, but it`s wobbly, soon up to 13744, or
is that another one? Also 13785, 13833, 13870, 13922, 13968, but there
is a lot of hash in between them. Another check at 1454, circa: 13744,
13655, 13615, 13566, 13523, i.e. mostly 44-45 kHz intervals. Very
ill-defined and none of them with readable audio in FM or AM.
Fundamental 13740 is already off so not in the way. Something`s always
wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MADAGASCAR [and non]. 17570, Feb 15 at 2000, poor signal with music
and language, scheduled AWR in ``Mos``, 250 kW at 295 degrees, so
favoring us beyond and at this hour is the Only Signal On Band.

Also circa 2000, I keep checking 17550-AM whether there be even a
trace of Kuwait staring a 4-hour Arabic service for central and
western North America, supposedly 365 days a year but only makes it
circasummer. Is it really on the air every day? Not a trace. Need to
check remote in Europe, but may not even reach there since it`s
starting out in the middle of their night: rather inept frequency
management (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 17895.0, Feb 15 at 1449, Qur`an at S7-S9. Spring/MUF
is looking up as hardly a JBA carrier from this all winter. No signal
on 17705 which is supposed to run at 12-15 like 17895, but General
program. Also 17615.065, always off+frequency, Qur`an same level as
17895, S7-S9. If anything make it on 16m, these do, would be the OSOBs
except for JBAC 17885 Mali, but still the SSOBs.

17895 is registered 12-15, 500 kW at 295 degrees; 17705 same at 310
degrees would be USward; 17615 at 13-16, 190 degrees.

15435, Feb 15 at 1458, Qur`an here is better than usual, S7-S9;
13710+, Feb 15 at 1534, more Qur`an, this one commonly heard and
always slightly off+frequency.

This MUF map showed only 13 MHz between there and here:
https://qrznow.com/real-time-band-conditions/

Before I checked 16m, I had one unID phoneham on 18142-USB at 1446, so
I knew there was some propagation, but probably not HZ1AB = Hot
Ziggity One American Boy, QSLed sesquidecades ago (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** TURKEY. 5960, Sat Feb 15, carrier on only a few sex before *2300,
whew, so English to us succeeds. Still starts with canned sign-on
giving WRONG English sked info, for A-season! Only a sesquimonth to go
before it`s right again, barring any further changes. I.e. at 1830,
2030, 22-23 on 9830, 15520 at 1930-2030 instead of 1630 instead of
1730, 03-04 on 9515, 06-07 on 6165 --- the last one would have been
local time, axually was at 03-04 UT, same time as on 9515! Yet
advisory at end of announcement that news is pre-recorded during the
23-00 and 04-05 broadcasts, which *are* the correct winter times.

No one ever notices all these mistakes; evidently same announcer comes
on non-live with the olds. I resume at 2322-2333 for his `Letterbox`,
very ad-hoc as if he is opening mail for first time rather than
scripted; from Philippines, Xingyang for first time, Java, more than
one each from India and Russia, finally Lithuania. Only name I
recognize is Anatoly Klepov, Moskva. Some write to English service,
lacking another common language. Nothing from W Europe or N America!
He says ``thank you, thank you`` to everyone, more to answer but out
of time. Closes saying would be back in two weeks, altho this has been
showing up every Saturday - repeats? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 329 kHz, Feb 16 at 0723 UT, ND beacon PMV, which is 25 watts
from Plattsmouth, Nebraska.

342 kHz, Feb 16 at 0726 UT, NDB PFT, 25 watts from Pine Creek - Piney,
Minnesota. The F and T without a space so it seemed like a 5-character
letter! Later figured must be this. Also three from CANADA, q.v.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 414 kHz, Feb 15 at 0732, ND beacon SD, which is 40 watts
from Sioux City, Iowa; was tuned to 412-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2021 monitoring: Ivo Ivanov,
Bulgaria, reports: ``Fair signal of World of Radio#2021 and Shortwave
Radiogram#139 on February 15
1300-1330 15770 RMI 100 kW / 044 deg WeEu Sat World of Radio #2021
1330-1400 15770 RMI 100 kW / 044 deg WeEu Sat Shortwave Radiogram``

WOR 2021 also confirmed UT Sunday Feb 16 at 0429 UT on WA0RCR,
1860-AM, MO, VG S9+20/30, about 7 minutes into so started circa 0422,
closer to nominal 0415-. Next:

2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 9395
0400vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51
0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
0930 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB [another episode]
1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania?
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780
0900 UT Wednesday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780
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. 9330.0, Feb 16 at 1917, S9+10/20 open carrier, so WBCQ-6
superstation is reactivated after a month. Per previous info, was
going to test this weekend, and resume World`s Last Chance nonsense
sometime Monday Feb 17. Probably aimed away toward Arablands now, as
would be even biggersig if thisaway (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. John Carver now reports on UT Saturday 0100 Feb 15 WBCQ:
``Glenn, Was too cold in the command center for the computer to boot
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and this morning. Don't know when I'll be
able to boot again.

As for the last AAWWW, no readable signal on 7490 although a couple of
hours earlier Brother Scare was S9. Tuned in 5130 two minutes before
the top of the hour and heard an irritating high pitched tone. At one
minute before the top of the hour a bell rang and Steve Cole gave a
station ID and the tone started again. Tone continued until 0133 when
it slowly stopped and Pirate Joe faded in. He was talking about the
politics of the previous week and then got sidetracked. Program was
off at 0159 and instead of going into the poetry show they ran an old
AAWWW. At a minute before the top of the hour the bell rang again and
the Steve Cole ID ran once so they at least fixed that problem on
5130. John, mid-north Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, WOR)

** U S A. 5085, Feb 15 at 2214, WTWW-2 is already on since it`s
Saturday, ham stuff about AMSAT, S9+20/30 and overmodulated. Once upon
a time they ran day frequency 9930 for this but not heard there in
ages; maybe also pre-empting SFAW on 9475 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5085, UT Sun Feb 16 at 0112-0144, anonymous theater organ
show occupies this span, always a bit more than 29 minutes and never
during a specific half hour; I soon switched to WTWW-2 stereo webcast.
Then right into disco music (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9475, Sun Feb 16 at 1918, WTWW-1 day frequency is rarely on,
PPPP on SFAW this Sunday at S9+30 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 3215, UT Sun Feb 16 at 0159, Dave Frantz with live? WWRB QSY
announcement to 3185, finishes just in time for *WWCR steel drum and
its sign-on, while open carrier overlaps with a SAH for several more
seconds.

3185, Feb 16 from *0200, WWRB sign-on and into first gospel huxter who
does not explicitly identify but says will be off WWRB at end of
January [sic] since has been getting absolutely no listener response
there; instead funds will go to missionary work in northern Luzon.
Also with big hum. ``Challenge`` mentioned, maybe as name of show?
Recheck at 0429, I notice 3185 is still on, but only on weekends
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1020 kHz, Feb 15 at 0704 UT, Spanish promos mention
RadioVisión Cristiana a few times, overriding semi-local KOKP Perry
OK, making fast SAH with it. KOKP can only be somewhat heard by
nulling: KCKN Roswell NM, the RVC 1330 NYC relay station, recently
restored after damage causing low power operation for over a year. Now
sounds like original 50 kW, but certainly NOT with a null toward KDKA,
as we are very close to that line on the way, so non-direxional?

Licensed day pattern is also very direxional with tight lobes at 155
and 325 degrees (toward Albuquerque), essentially nothing thisaway.

https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1795705-136765.pdf
Licensed night pattern is quite similar, peaks at 175 and 320 degrees,
alleged null at 55 degrees:

https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1795705-136766.pdf
Before it crashed, it was often heard here as if not within spex then
either (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [non]. 780, Feb 16 at 0814 UT, I happen to awaken, too late
or in time for the KKOH Reno 50 kW ND DX test starting at 0800? I get
a good null on WBBM, but nothing heard except Spanish music. Others
say this was Radio Coro, Cuba, and KKOH did test, but when did it
stop? Shux (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1140, Feb 15 at 1832 UT, exactly local mean noon here, on
caradio at certain spots I am getting fast SAH QRM to KRMP OKC,
apparently ``power-line beverage`` enhancement. Suspect KCXL Kansas
City, the Russian relayer; but also in area are KLTK in NW Arkansas,
and KHFX Cleburne, N Texas, but direxional away from here: both
Spanish, if only I could make out a language. Shortly on home rig I
can tell there are two beating signals on 1140 but mostly KRMP.

1140, Sunday Feb 16 at 1410 UT, American English W&M discussion of
brain cancer, loops NE/SW, over KRMP but soon losing out. This is when
KCXL is scheduled to carry Sputnik Radio, Russian propaganda, 6-9 am
CT 7 days a week = 12-15 UT now, 11-14 UT during imminent DST. KCXL
got lots of negative press about relaying Russia, supposedly another 3
hours in the evening but own sked shows only mornings:
http://www.kcxl.com/shows.html
Yet, KCXL brands its homepage with an *American* flag. Rest of sked is
a strange mixture of various religions and far-right extremist talkers
(Glenn Hauser, OK, SOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 2097.3-CW, Feb 16 at 0643 UT, one-letter beacon A is
audible again, with QRM from 2098.0, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 2098.0, 2166.0, 2231.0, 2298.0, 2800.0, Feb 16 at
0643-0713 UT, things that go beep in the night, CW carrier pips
exactly 3 seconds apart = 20 per minute on these even frequencies,
first noticed when I was checking beacon A on 2097.3. Then found more
as I tuned up, always on exact kHz, but not equally spaced: intervals
of 68, 65, 67 kHz but none around 2365 nor below around 2032 by 0653.
Not until 0713 did I find another, way up on 2800.0 but no others
around it. What in the world? Can`t totally rule out a local device,
but random frequencies would not all be exact; seems intentional
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report despatched at 1956 UT February 16

** CANADA. Each DX log a potential learning experience, I say. And
making NDB beeps much more enlivening are replies like this:

``Re: [WOR] Webequie 355 MCW --- Webequie is an interesting place,
Glenn. I spent a few weeks there in mid-winter in the late 70s as a
senior medical student. Only way in and out was via plane. My
clinic/residence then had no power, and only wood heat. Besides the
Hudson's Bay store manager, I was the only non-Ojibway person there.
Very cold, in the order of -20 to -40 deg C. The Northern Lights were
spectacular. I admit to getting cabin fever there after a few weeks,
and was eager to move on after that! 73, Walt Salmaniw`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13837, 13769; 13632, 13565 approx., Feb 14 at 1511, RHC FM/AM
spurblobs with F# tone out of 13700-AM at 67-69 kHz intervals, during
`Sonido Cubano` multi-tone music. 13740-AM is still on with dead air.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15140, Feb 14 at 1555, RHC is S9+20/30 and distorted as
usual, while // 15230 is weaker S9/+10 but OK modulation. Something`s
always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15369.236, Feb 14 at 2139, RHC Brazuguese off-frequency for
the fourth day, always measured within a few Hz of here. // 11880 also
Brazuguese and undermodulated; 15140 already off. Something`s always
wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 5025, Feb 14 at 2358, R. Rebelde is S9+20 and very distorted;
5040, RHC is merely distorted. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 5960, Feb 14 at 2352, VOT English with five headlines, 2353
sign-off as the 1330-1430 broadcast on 12035 --- like yesterday. Maybe
it`s a ``weekend`` thing to close the newsroom early. At least the
announcement gives a correct time and frequency if not for the current
airing. Stronger than usual at S9+20 VG, into IS; and not on after
2400 in German (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 408 kHz, Feb 14 at 0628 UT, ND beacon JDM, which is 25 watts
from Colby - Wheatfield, Kansas. Only one I log tonight (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2021 monitoring: confirmed first
NAm SWBC, Friday February 14 at 2300 on WRMI 9955: mixed with heavy
jamming direct; VG at Colombia KiwiSDR; good at Rockport ME with some
jam audible under.

Also confirmed UT Sat Feb 15 at 0130 on WRMIs, checked via Rockport
only: 7780 VG, 5850 G, 5010 fair with low audible het, and traces of
music, but not // 5040 RHC which might have leapfrogged here over
5025. Madagascar? Not supposed to be on this early but is
off-frequency when heard about 5009.9; or India: is it off-frequency?
At 0200* when WRMI goes off 5010, Rockport is getting some very weak
talk.

Then at 0203 I get this reception report from ``ORA ET LABORA``, a.k.a
locojoe: ``Great to hear you again. It's been a few years since I have
really been on shortwave. Excellent reception show # 2021 in
Mooresville NC. Take care`` -- but WTFK? Next:

1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415]
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 9395
0400vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51
0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
0930 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB [another episode]
1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania?
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780
0900 UT Wednesday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780
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. (7490), Feb 15 from 0100, WBCQ monitored on webcast only
during `AAAWWW`, with Pirate Joe again substituting. Talks over the
theme and keeps on ``rambling``, first with info for techies, so I
keep listening: SuperStation will return to air on Monday, exact time
unknown, because the tube socket has been replaced --- make that
repaired --- with very fine careful machining to the millimeter. After
it had failed for the third time. Now the 500,000 watts should run
``flawlessly``. It`s the output tube to the transmitter which with
that much power is ceramic, not solid-state. It looks like an inverted
wedding cake, with fins on the side which are for cooling and also
connecting. The ring had been arcing. Is only 900 volts at 1.5 amp.
Original design was ``right on the edge, not taking into account the
what-ifs``. Also explained that AW is still taking time off because of
all the stress with the SS problems.

Pirate Joe does not get around to introducing himself until 0114, then
other topics: plugging for takers on 6160 while all time is available,
before it fills up as it eventually will; especially pirates should
get on it. He can`t take email but gives his own phone number, so
someone calls in about reception problems nearby for his own station
WHVW 950 Hyde Park NY and its translator.

That`s as far as I monitored. John Carver advised that he might not be
able to file a report this week. Then I check AW`s twits and the
latest one from Friday says,

``Allan Weiner @AllanWBCQ · 19h --- Working on the 9330khz 500kw
transmitter. So far-so good. PA tube socket back in place. Testing
this weekend. Sorry for the delay folks, as with anything “new” there
are always problems. A&A Worldwide on tonight at 8pm on 7490 kHz.
Always something going at WBCQ.`` Does he mean testing on the 9330 air
before Monday? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5085, Feb 14 at 1439, WTWW-2 is on at this odd hour with
rock music, S9+20/30; and so is 5830 WTWW-1 with SFAW; night
frequencies; did they stay on all night? Often but not always 5085 at
least is running past 0700. By 1510, ham ad on 5085 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1502.8v, still no longer hearing the spurblob nor the
match around 1477.2v, but this caught my eye, surely coincidental
around one of the times I was hearing them, from BC-DX:

``BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA. On Feb 4 at 0600 UT MW bcaster on odd 1502.9 kHz
was heard with pips, gong & ID "Radio Bosnie i Herzegovinie, Viesti
(=News)". (Rumen Pankov-BUL, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 8)`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0317 UT February 15

** CANADA. Bedtime beacon bandscan concentrating on less- or
never-heard ones, Feb 13 at 0711-0719 UT finds these from four
provinces:

392-MCW kHz, dash and ML, 500 watts from La Malbaie - Charlevoix QC

385-MCW kHz, dash and QV, 100 watts from Yorkton, Saskatchewan

355-MCW kHz, dash and YWP, 200 watts from Webequie, Ontario. Where`s
that, and how is it pronounced? http://www.webequie.ca/

``Webequie is a growing Ojibway community located on the northern
peninsula of Eastwood Island on Winisk Lake, 540 km north of the city
of Thunder Bay. The 850+ community members originate from all over
Northwestern Ontario, and enjoy a life that embraces traditional
cultural practices. Surrounded by Winisk River Provincial Park,
Webequie provides tourists a pristine natural landscape with some of
the best fishing and hunting in Northern Ontario``

353-MCW kHz, dash and PG, 25 watts from Portage-la-Prairie, Manitoba;
mixing with IN and LI, the confusing MN/AR overlapping pair

340-MCW kHz, dash and YY, 500 watts from Mont-Joli, Quebec
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 5040, Feb 13 at 0646, RHC still in Spanish instead of
English, and suptorted altho S9+30; also with a big hum. Wiggle that
patchcord. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA [and non]. 7405, Feb 13 at 0641, Cuban wall-of-noise and pulse
jamming altho not very strong, IIRC a frequency abandoned years ago by
OCB. Also jamming against nothing on 7335, where RM is never currently
scheduled; and Radio Martí over jamming on 7435 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** CUBA. 13700, Feb 13 at 1538, NO spurs today --- how is it that
other days they are all over the band from same frequency? But 13740
is still on with dead air, so something`s still wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15369.23, Feb 13 at 2150, for third day, this RHC way
off-frequency at the same offset, S9+10/20 but suptorted in
Brazuguese. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11850, Feb 14 at 0114, RHC is S5-S7 and JBM, also with a JBA
spur carrier on 11840; but carrier on 11860 bears non-// music, see
UNIDENTIFIED. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MEXICO. 6185.716v, Feb 14 at 0105, XEPPM is still way off-frequency
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** PERU [and non]. 5980, Feb 13 at 2329, Cuban noise jamming is
running, altho could not detect it for a day or two; JB allowing the
Radio Chaski carrier to be heard, until autocutoff at 2352:50.5*. Last
check was Feb 8 until 2352:59.5*, 9 seconds later, 5 days ago,
averaging 1.8 earlier each night (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 5960, Feb 13 at 2353, VOT English is not only on today,
but still on running much later into the hour than usual, with
headlines, only at 2354 sign-off claiming this has been the 1330-1430
broadcast on 12035! Well, maybe it was as recorded without bothering
to update any `news` as supposedly done thru the 2130 show. 2354.6
starts playing IS but I don`t stay with to tell if German succeed.
Something`s always erroneous at Emirler and/or Ankara (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** U S A. 2097.3-CW, Feb 13 at 0651 UT, single-letter beacon A is
absent again. Last few nights had tuned across and heard it when I
paused for at least 10 seconds, without bothering to relog (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2020 monitoring: confirmed UT
Thursday February 13 after 0100 on WRMI 7780, JBA here, but F-G via
UTwente SDR, and VG via Rockport ME KiwiSDR.

WORLD OF RADIO 2021 contents: Alaska, Australia, Bhutan, Bougainville,
Brasil, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, France, Germany, Indonesia, Iran non,
Israel, Japan, Korea South, México, Myanmar, New Zealand, North
America, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sweden non,
Turkmenistan, USA, Vanuatu, unidentified; SWLfest.com; propagation
outlook

WOR 2021 is available as of 0007 UT Friday February 14
(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2021.m3u
(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2021.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
[usually starts with heavy jamming but maybe abates]
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850, 5010, 7780
1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415]
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 9395
0400vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51
0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
0930 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB [another episode]
1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania?
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780
0900 UT Wednesday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780
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. 5950, Feb 13 at 2329, this WRMI is finally back on with
usual weakish signal, TOMBS // much stronger 7570 & 7730. It had been
off due to damage since Feb 8 and still off early UT Feb 13, which is
what I based my WOR 2021 comment upon (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 11860, Feb 13 at 0113, music JBM at S5-S7, and not //
RHC 11850 which puts out spurs on 11840 & 11860. Could it be Saudi`s
Republic of Yemen Radio which I have not heard clearly in over a year?
Thanks to the Cuban radio war in the daytime. Aoki says Yemenish does
not start until *0200; EiBi *0300. Anything else? CRI Nepali service
not until *0130. Or could it really start at 0115, due to Nepal`s
wacko +5:45 timezone? BTW I can`t help but wonder if timezone
confusion has led to any Everest fatalities among all the visiting
foreigners (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Feb 14 at
0212-0216: 531, 549, 558, 567, 576, 621, 711(2), 774(2), 837, 855,
891=strongest, 909, 936(2), 1053, 1089, 1215, 1305 kHz (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1477+ & 1503-, Feb 14 at 0118, no sign of the FMish
spurblobs presumed to emanate from some defective 1490 kHz
graveyarder. Meanwhile, a resounding lack of interest, no replies
found to my previous reports of these posted ASAP to MW groups,
requesting other DXers try to get a DF fix on them. Should they recur
I shall certainly report them (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0421 UT February 14