** 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

** CUBA. 13508-trace, 13572, 13636; 13765, 13831, 13896, 13958
approx., Feb 12 at 1448, spurblobs out of RHC 13700-AM; the closer
stronger ones more readable FM than AM mode, not at all in SSB.
Averaging only ~64 kHz intervals, never landing on OCB/jamming.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15369.233V, Feb 12 at 2139, RHC way off-frequency for second
day, S9/+10 in Brazuguese, and // abnormally weak 11880.0 S7. 15140.0
is still on but dead air, after all-day distortion. Usually all three
are in Portuguese at 2100-2130 rather than 3 different languages. At
2130 supposedly scheduled are Arabic on 15370, Portuguese on 11880.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** EL SALVADOR. 18120.06-USB, Feb 12 at 1919, one signal making it on
``17m`` phone: mostly repeating only callsign over and over
fonetikally, occasionally inserting CQ or QRZ. Accent makes it hard to
read, plus mixture of official ICAO and unofficial fonetix: at first I
thought he was saying ``Ocean United one ---`` something; then pretty
sure the suffix ``Delta Lima`` --- but then the first letter more like
``Hotel``. Only a few minutes later does he get a real contact. Yup,
QRZ.com lookup goes nowhere to OU1DL which might be in Belgium, but
hits upon HU1DL as:

``German DXpedition 2020
La Paz, El Salvador
QSL: OQRS, DL4SVA
Page managed by DL7VEE Lookups: 114976

German DXpedition to El Salvador from January 30 to February 13, 2020
Operators: Andy DH8WR, Tom DJ6TF, Werner DJ9KH, Frank DL1KWK, Dietmar
DL2HWA, Norbert DL2RNS, Georg DL4SVA, Olaf DL7JOM, Rolf, DL7VEE, Franz
DL9GFB

Thanks to YS1AG, YS1GMV, YS1MAE, YS1MS, YS1RS, CRAS, SIGET.
Planned are three kW-stations 24/7 from 160 to 6 m with wire
antennas.

Homepage: https://hu1dl.mydx.de
9927109 Last modified: 2020-02-10 00:29:10, 575 bytes``
Lots of info on homepage with photos, frequency list, etc. Hasten
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2020 monitoring: confirmed Wed Feb
12 after 2100 on WRMI 7780, JBA on portable.

Also confirmed Wed Feb 12 starting at 2200:20 on WBCQ 7490.110V,
S9+10/20 initially but soon fading down to S7-S9. Next:
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. 1090, Feb 12 at 0702 UT, KAAY Little Rock drops to dead air
after lengthy PSA about veterans. The exact time this happens varies
somewhat (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Feb 12 at
0643-0649 UT: 585, 612, 639, 711, 747, 774(2), 837, 855, 882, 891,
909, 936, 1044, 1053, 1089, 1107, 1125, 1134, 1215, 1314 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1477 & 1503 kHz approx., Feb 12 at 1432 UT, spurblobs
out of some 1490 station are still audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 2325 UT February 12

** CANADA. 399-MCW kHz, Feb 11 at 0720 UT, ND Beacon dash and ZHD,
which is 25 watts from Dryden - Barclay, Ontario.

406-MCW kHz, Feb 11 at 0721 UT, NDB dash and YLJ, which is 40 watts
from Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, I was tuned to 405-USB (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13491, 13558, 13630; 13770, 13841, 13911, 13982-trace
approx., Feb 11 at 1532, spurblobs at 70-71 kHz intervals out of RHC
13700-AM. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15369.234, Feb 11 at 2124, RHC in Brazuguese knocked way
off-frequency, and distorted, S9/+10; and also // much better 15140.0
same S reading, but OK modulation; and just as they are all going into
music, also // 11880.0, S9+20 OK mod. Lest we forget per EiBi, these
are supposed to be in 3 different languages at 2100-2130, Portuguese,
Spanish and Arabic respectively. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 2337
recheck, has faded way down to S5-S8 in Spanish, audibly wavering and
remeasured at 15369.236 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MEXICO. 6185.75, Feb 11 at 1544, S5-S7 JBM carrier from XEPPM still
way off-frequency and way off-time according to own schedule (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 1210, KGYN Guymon, in the Panhandle continues to be quite
audible here in Enid at night, usually the dominant station on
frequency, making me suspect it`s not really nulling toward WPHT
Philadelphia; however, we are a bit south of that direxion. Closer to
the null line would be Wichita and Saint Louis, and points in between.
Could some listeners around there check whether KGYN be audible, and
more significantly, is there any change in signal at its nominal SS/SR
times which in February are officially: 0030/1330 UT (March: 0045/1300
UT). 10 kW day pattern is ND; 10 kW night pattern of three towers in a
row, is a somewhat broad cardioid favoring WSW with deep notch ENE
toward Philadelphia.

As seen in mv-eko, KGYN is often heard and QSLed from Scandinavia, but
that great circle is more northerly. It still has to get past WPHT et
al. The Feb issue reports three QSLs of KGYN, two of them signed by
owner Greg Steckline (who presumably is at corp HQ in Kansas), and in
fact NO other OK MW stations reported heard or QSLed, altho those guys
pull in hundreds of US stations more challenging than KGYN (Glenn
Hauser, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2020 monitoring: missed checking UT
Tue Feb 11 at 0100 on WRMI 7780; did anyone hear it? Next:
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. 1090, Feb 11 at 0651 UT, KAAY Little Rock AR in dead air
already, so not limited to hourtops; but 0656 resumed with music; did
not get back in time before 0705 to hear the usual news hole tonight
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1477.15V & 1502.85V, Feb 11 circa 0700 UT, distorted
weak matching spurblobs, unreadable FModulated, must be out of
defective 1490 kHz transmitter exactly halfway between them.

At 2340 UT, before 0008 UT sunset here, not being heard, implying, but
not certainly that this be westish rather than eastish from here.

1477.235V & 1502.765V, Feb 12 at 0021 UT, now they are reaudible, same
type of pairing varied to slightly different tho more closely measured
frequencies, i.e. plus and minus 12.765 from 1490.000. So far on the
R75 with E-W longwire only.

At 0110 UT Feb 12, I employ the hand-held wrist-altazimuth DX-398 with
BFO offset, to try to get a DF on them: peaks NE/SW on both of them.
This might imply out of my local 1390 KCRC, which used to be a bad
spur-producer closer in --- but does not work out mathematically, and
besides, the spurs are fading. Nevertheless, just in case, I check the
same displacements on the minus side of 1390, i.e. 1277.24 & 1302.76,
and hear nothing. On 1490 itself, of course, a pileup of graveyarders,
impossible to make any modulation peak match. There are none near
enough to here to dominate.

NE/SW axis implies most likely MO or TX, or possibly a state neighbor
to those, with TX the top choice because they were lacking pre-sunset.
So what stations are in that area? There are a dozen TX on 1490!
Closest to the SW axis are KZZN Littlefield and KBST Big Spring; a
little further CCW are KVWC Vernon (closest), KWMC Del Rio.
Also possible, XECJC Ciudad Juarez in the right direxion, one of few
Mexicans which may still be active on 1490. The three MO 1490s are
KDMO Carthage, KTTR Rolla and KDRO Sedalia.

I recall there was a similar pair of unID blobs a good many months ago
but haven`t been able to find them in archives by frequency searches.
I don`t believe that mystery was resolved.

Now it would be very helpful if others in the area from different
angles could at least get a DF bearing on them (they should match), if
not any readable audio to ID them directly, such as by matching
modulation peaks to a local 1490 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Feb 11 at
0653-0657 UT: 666, 693, 711, 747, 774(2), 846, 855, 882, 936(2), 1044,
1053, 1107, 1125, 1215, 1305. (2) means at least two carriers
beating.

Notably missing are the big Algerians, 531, 549, 576, 891 --- by now
they may be too far into the dayside; not much from BBC either. 846 is
extremely weak but is the only one suspected of being TP instead:
Kiritimati, where it`s still way after sunset, but I had not been
hearing any of it for some weeks; is it still on? (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 356-MCW kHz, Feb 11 at 0716 UT, ND beacon PJ. None
listed at dxinfocenter on this or adjacent frequencies; no dash, but
if it were on 329 it would be in Whitehorse YT. Possibly a mixture of:
PI in Peoria IL, and SJ in San Angelo TX: .--. .. and ... .--- (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report despatched at 0347 UT February 12