DX Listening Digest 19-07 has now been posted at
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1907.txt
and also soon, sometimes delayed at
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt
Alternatively, latest DXLD 19-07 is also here until next issue:
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxlatest.txt

CONTENTS:
WOR 1969 / ABKHAZIA / ALASKA +non / ALBANIA / ANDAMAN ISLANDS / ANGUILLA / ARMENIA / AUSTRALIA Unique / AUSTRALIA non HRI / AUSTRALIA 4KZ / BAHAMAS / BOLIVIA / BOTSWANA / BOUGAINVILLE / BRAZIL / BULGARIA +non / CANADA Mary McFarland / CANADA +non CFRB+ / CANADA CCG Weather / CHILE / CHINA +non / CUBA / DENMARK / EAST TURKISTAN / ECUADOR non / ERITREA +non / ETHIOPIA non / FRANCE / GERMANY +non / GREENLAND / GUATEMALA / GUINEA / INDIA / INTERNATIONAL INTERNET VOA/VR/AFN / IRAN / IRAQ / IRELAND +non / KOREA NORTH non / KURDISTAN non / KUWAIT / KYRGYZSTAN / LAOS non / MADAGASCAR +non / MALAYSIA +non / MALI / MEXICO / MOLDOVA non / MYANMAR / NETHERLANDS non / NEW ZEALAND / NICARAGUA / NIGERIA +non / NORTH AMERICA Pirates / OKLAHOMA +non John Bryant / OKLAHOMA KFAQ / OKLAHOMA KOKC / PALAU / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PARAGUAY / PHILIPPINES / ROMANIA / RUSSIA / SAN MARINO non / SAUDI ARABIA / SEYCHELLES non / SLOVAKIA non / SOMALIA / SOUTH AFRICA / SOUTH CAROLINA non / SPAIN / SRI LANKA / SUDAN SOUTH non / TAIWAN / TAJIKISTAN / THAILAND +non / TIBET +non / TURKEY B18+ / TURKMENISTAN / UKRAINE / UK Streaming / USA Don Schimmel / USA HRU / USA FQ/PK / USA W / USA USAF / USA +non WOR/WRMI/WBCQ/WA0RCR/HLR/Unique/IRRS / USA WBCQ/KJES / USA WRMI / USA WTWW / USA WHRI / USA WEWN / USA WRNO / USA WWCR / USA WINB / USA Ralph Carlson/KUSW+ / USA SOTU+ / USA KTNN / USA KBNN/KMMJ / USA KONO / USA KGNO / USA KZQZ / USA KBXD / USA KRZD / USA KFCS / USA KWOD / USA WMLB / USA WPEX+ / USA WCBE / UZBEKISTAN / VATICAN +non / VIETNAM +non / YEMEN non / ZANZIBAR / UNIDENTIFIED TP carriers / UNIDENTIFIED 880 / UNIDENTIFIED 5005/5020 / UNIDENTIFIED 5055 / UNIDENTIFIED 6159 / UNIDENTIFIED 9354 / UNIDENTIFIED 9706 / UNIDENTIFIED 15196 / UNIDENTIFIED 15345 / UNIDENTIFIED 15635 / UNIDENTIFIED 27185 / TESTIMONIALS / PUBLICATIONS / CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES / DX-PEDITIONS / LANGUAGE LESSONS / WORLD OF HOROLOGY / MUSEA / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION

For restrixions and searchable 2019 contents archive see
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html
[also linx to previous years]

DX LISTENING DIGEST IN PDF, HTML VERSIONS

Jacques Champagne in Ville-Marie, QuÃbec, has developed programs to
convert DXLD .txt into PDF and HTML versions for his own use, and now
has made them available to the rest of us. Starting with 18-24, they have
been posted as attachments to the WOR iog. He says it takes about an
hour to do this, once each issue is published. Merci, Jacques!

INTRODUXION to DXLD in HTML and PDF:
http://www.worldofradio.com/DXLDformats.htm

HTML and PDF versions converted by Jacques Champagne are now
also posted shortly for open access [temporarily? suspended]:
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1907.html
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1907.pdf

NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but
have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself
obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn

WORLD OF RADIO 1969 contents: Alaska, Andaman Islands, Australia,
Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, Eritrea non, France, Germany, Italy non,
Madagascar, Malaysia, Netherlands non, Nigeria and non, Palau,
Romania, South Carolina non, Sudan South non, Thailand, Turkey, USA;
and the propagation outlook.

SHORTWAVE AIRINGS of WORLD OF RADIO 1969, February 12-18, 2019

Mon 2330 WRMI 9955 [1968 replayed]
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 [confirmed]
Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 [confirmed]
Wed 0930 Unique 5045-LSB NSW Australia low-power
Wed 1030 WRMI 5950 [confirmed]
Wed 2200 WRMI 9955 [confirmed]
Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v [confirmed]
Thu 0100 WRMI 7780 [confirmed]
Fri 0930 Unique 5045-LSB NSW Australia low-power
Sat 0730 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Sat 1200 Unique 5045-LSB NSW Australia low-power [alt weeks, Feb 16]
Sat 1230 WRMI 9955 [confirmed]
Sat 1531 HLR 9485-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM
Sat 2200 WRMI 9955 [confirmed]
Sun 0400v WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415][confirmed 0435]
Sun 0830 WRMI 5850 5950 7730
Sun 1130 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Sun 2130 WRMI 7780
Mon 0230 WRMI 5950 9395
Mon 0400v WBCQ 5130v-AM Area 51
Mon 0430 WRMI 9955
Mon 0930 Unique 5045-LSB NSW Australia low-power
Mon 2330 WRMI 9955 [or new 1970]

Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite
and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or
http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org

For updates see our Anomaly Alert page:
http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html

WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS:

Tnx to Dr Harald Gabler and the Rhein-Main Radio Club.
http://www.rmrc.de/index.php/rmrc-audio-plattform/podcast/glenn-hauser-wor

Tnx to Keith Weston:
https://blog.keithweston.com/2018/11/22/world-of-radio-podcast/

http://feeds.feedburner.com/GlennHausersWorldOfRadio
tunein:
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https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/glenn-hausers-world-of-radio/id1123369861
Google Play Music:
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DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS:
Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of
them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated,
inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to
manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues:
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser

Best DX wishes, Glenn Hauser

** ANGUILLA. 11775, Feb 17 at 1426, 1528, no signal from CB despite it
being prime Sunday-morning time --- or not so prime yet in LACA; by
1553, dead-air carrier is on, maybe about to start at 1600, but not
tracked further. Its transmissions are extremely irregular (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHAD [non]. 12050, Feb 16 at 2045, weak African music surely isn`t
WEWN Spanish, rather that`s off again, opening up for R. Ndarason
International via ASCENSION at 19-21 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6100 & 6000, Sunday February 17 at 0657, RHC English
frequencies are distorted, while 6060, 6165 and 5040 are already off.
But did not get back to 6100 after 0700 before outzonking to tell
whether Esperanto resumed. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 13779.241, Feb 17 at 1428, this RHC has again knocked way off
nominal 13780. Something`s always wrong at RHC. But no spurs found on
the 13 or 15 MHz bands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 15700, Feb 17 at 1430 and 1538 chex, CRI English relay very
strong as usual, but extremely suptorted, i.e. only modulation spikes
audible, completely unreadable. Wiggle that patchcord! Something`s
always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NETHERLANDS [non]. 5960, Feb 17 at 0002, The Mighty Farty KBC with
hard rock VG S9+20, but with a SAH --- oh2, there is CCI and I bet
it`s TURKEY again overrunning after English supposed to end before
2400 (when I did not tune in in time to check before Nauen came on).
Only when music diminishes and DJ talks at 0003 can I hear the
understation, and yes, it`s in German, i.e. a VOT SWBC which is not
supposed to exist on anyfrequency. Don`t know how long it lasted again
this week, but by 0100 S9+10/20 when KBC switches to `The Giant
Jukebox` with super-hyped intro, there is no QRM. Uncle Eric had said
the Germans were going to get with the Turx about this after last
week`s debacle. Sometimes all you can do is get away from the
incompetent interferers ASAP (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NEW ZEALAND. 9765, Feb 17 at 0710, RNZI VG as usual, but on this
frequency for only one hour now; at 0759-1258 since Feb 12 per sked is
on 7330 to Solomon Islands and PNG, rather than general ``Pacific``
for all other non-DRM transmissions, i.e. implying that the NNW-only
antenna has been expanded from 2 to 5 hours a night, bad news for
North America resulting in weakened 7330 signal thisaway (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEEST)

** NIGERIA. 7255-, Feb 17 at 0605, VON is already on tonight in Hausa
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NORTH AMERICA. 4095-AM, Feb 17 at 0423 weak music S6-S8, 0449 still
on with DJ live TC as ``11 before 5 o`clock`` and ID ``X-FM
Shortwave``, offering QSL for e-reports. Off by next check 0556.
Earlier in eve I had patrolled the three main pirate bands and found
nothing: 3.4-3.5, 4.0-4.1 and 6.8-7.0 MHz. Tnx for tip on 4095 from
Mike Newland in KY at 0235, then reported from across North America.
Many more logs of this between 0127 and 0511*:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,51099.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 13590.056, Feb 16 a 1943, JBA carrier with talk
catches my ear not only for being off-frequency, but the OSOB except
for 13820 Cuban radio war. I hardly expected it to be VOA English via
SAO TOME, as listed in Aoki. 13590 used by a number of IBB sites
between 13 and 20 for various services: Thailand, Germany, Kuwait, the
others presumably closer to nominal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1969 monitoring: Ivo Ivanov,
Bulgaria, confirmed: ``World of Radio 1530-1600 on 9485 GOH 001 kW /
230 deg to CeEu English Sat as scheduled B18`` (but at 1200-1400 were
on 6190 instead).

Confirmed Saturday February 16 after 2200 on WRMI 9955, fair.

Also confirmed UT Sun Feb 17 at 0449 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO with some
CW QRhaM, about 14 minutes into, so started circa 0435. Next:

2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW
0430 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE
0930 UT Monday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND
2330 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE
* also webcast; direct linx to these and many others at:

Complete WOR sked, all affiliates, satellite, webcast, AM&FM, podcast:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 3264.9, Feb 17 at 0013, WBCQ song not // 7490+, 5130+ or
9330+. 0058 enough signal to be sure it`s not // any of the others
such as TimTron on 5. I wonder if the 24/7 ``burn-in`` initiation of
3265v is just plugged in to WHVW relay as others have noted at various
times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 17775-, Feb 16 at 1940, no signal from KVOH; surely would
propagate at least a trace by this hour if on; Saturday-only English
is scheduled 1600-2100. Maybe downtime due to work on `new`
transmitter? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENINIG DIGEST)

** U S A. 5970, Feb 17 at 0655, WEWN dead air again at S9/S9+10 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15555-USB, Feb 17 at 1547, gospel huxter is JBA, a notable
event for WJHR to be on and propagating with its pretend-SWBC
transmitter. WRTH 2019 still says it`s 250-watts run at 1 kW PEP. Last
time I logged was Jan 20, altho Wolfgang Bueschel heard it Feb 1
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15809.977, Feb 17 at 1548, S9+10 fading to S7, WTWW-3 is on
after long silence, with gospel huxter // still much stronger 5085
WTWW-2 instead of rock or ham stuff, unusual, and so not // 9475-
WTWW-1 SFAW. Tree of Life church, Woodland TN is finishing, 1550 odd
time for WTWW ID and address break by Ted. Last time I heard it was
Jan 6, on .983, and also reported by Ivo Ivanov. Today too he reports
it from 1343, weak/fair (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 5780.000 & 5840, Feb 17 at 0005, JBA carriers while KBC
5960 is inbooming from Germany, so I wonder if QRP Europeans are
showing? 5780 could be Irish pirate Radio Harmony, and 5840 Danish
non-pirate World Music Radio; nothing however on 5825, the other Dane
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 1806 UT February 17

** AUSTRALIA. 5055, Feb 16 at 1225, JBA carrier presumed 4KZ, but as
usual nothing detectable on 5045-LSB, where WORLD OF RADIO should be
running on Unique Radio this alternate Saturday; next: March 2 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. 4885, Feb 16 at 0702, R. Clube do Parà is S9+10, as the
best ZY signal on 60m is even better than usual; hyper DJ and music on
``Madrugada`` show, NOT for the dozing at 4+ am local. With BFO there
always seems to be a second slightly offset undersignal, presumably
the other ZY if not later Korea South.

DST in Brasil ends Feb 17; not including Parà which is on UT-3
yearound. Here`s a useful map showing DST/non-DST areas. DST observed
roughly in the southern (not eastern) half:
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/brazil
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 5910, Feb 16 at 0357, Chinese/English les from CRI relay,
S9+20 but suptorted. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6100, Feb 16 at 0700, S9+10/20 of dead air, implying that
this frequency missing for a couple of weeks may have been back for
the 05-07 English bihour. Maybe 6100 will also succeed for Esperanto
24 hours later? 6000 carrier also still on with samehum, while 6165 &
6060 are already off. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 11760, Feb 16 at 1400, I copy the complete RHC frequency
announcement: now closing 11950 and 6150 (but 11950 was already off as
I tuned by it); continuing until 1600 on: 15140, 11760, 9535, 9640,
13700. In that disorder, and that`s all, NOT mentioning 13780 and
15230 where it is also still running past 1506! Nor mentioning the FM
and non-FM spurs out of 13700 and 15140, but not much of them today,
only traces circa 14969, 15168, 15311. Something`s always wrong at RHC
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ERITREA [non]. 9540, Sat Feb 16 at 0500, no signal in OK, from the
new clandestine/target broadcast Radio Sinit for Eritrea, as first
reported in WRTH Update, but I am getting it well via UTWente SDR, all
talk so far at 0507; I remind WOR iog that it`s time for their only
weekly broadcast, as first reported here:

``RADIO SINIT ERITREA (NEW ENTRY)
E: info@radiosinit.net
W: www.radiosinit.net; www.facebook.com/RadioSinit
Winter Schedule 2018-2019
Arabic Days Area kHz
0530-0600 .....s. ERI 9540iss
Tigrinya Days Area kHz
0500-0530 .....s. ERI 9540iss
(WRTH Update Feb 4 via WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DXLD) Sinit --- first news
of this one (gh)

FRANCE, New clandestine via TDF Issoudun - Radio Sinit Eritrea
https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/new-clandestine-broadcast-via-tdf.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.:

0500-0600 on 9540 ISS 250 kW / 139 deg to EaAf Tigrinya/Arabic Sat
ÐÑÐÐÐÐÑÐÐÐÐ ÐÑ Observer Ð 4:26 PM (via DXLD)``

But no one replies as having monitored it directly or indirectly, just
me for the rest of the hour:

0508 OM speech; 0511 mention al-Qa`ida; 0515 HOA music and YL talk;
0517 vocal HOA music; 0525 OM talk; 0527 instrumental music; 0529 YL
announcement, music, mention of Eritrea; 0530 switch to Arabic, ID,
long speech; 0545 mix including several long YL IDs, 0547 song, 0551
ID and more speech; 0556 mentions Phoenix, Arizona, and many mentions
of Amerikiya; 0558* cuts off air incomplete.

I could not make out any ID during the Tigrinya half; more familiar
Arabic, something like ``huna idhaat al watan eritrea`` which google
approx. translates as ``Here are the sermons of the homeland of
Eritrea``; and some longer YL IDs with more words in them.

Meanwhile I try to find out more about it. Google translate does not
extend to Tigrinya or even Oromo, so in case it`s similar I try
Amharic for Sinit. It comes up with some words similar to sinit, but
probably misleading: meaning drunkenness, seduxion, or stingy. No hits
for Sinit in Arabic.

Then to the website WRTH provided. It has some English, and audio
going back to their first broadcast on Dec 1, 2018, but no leads as to
who`s behind it or what their mission may be (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** ERITREA [non]. 17545, Sat Feb 16 at 1509, JBA music, HOA? Except
for JBA 17615+ Saudi Arabia, it`s the OSOB: station I discovered a few
weeks ago and rendered thus in Feb 4 WRTH Update:

``SOWT AL-SOMOOD (VOICE OF STEADFASTNESS) (EX ALSMOOD)
W: Audio files available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzTbHWHyuUo&;
(3rd party uploads.)
Revised complete schedule
Arabic Days Area kHz
1520-1600 .....s. ERI 17545iss
Tigrinya Days Area kHz
1500-1520 .....s. ERI 17545iss``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 730, Feb 16 at 1342, amid Mexican music, ``La Mexicana,
107.1``. So this remnant 50 kW XEHB from Hidalgo del Parral, is not
even worth mentioning; but AM is to stay per IFT in the IRCA Mexican
Log. It`s the best/only lowband XE propagating this long after 1318
LSR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 6184.992, Feb 16 at 0023, XEPPM is S8-S9 but as usual very
undermodulated with music; 0029 Spanish announcement; 0040 PSAs
including SecretarÃa de Salud, plug a concert at 5pm in the Palacio de
Bellas Artes; then some jazz. I`m rechecking it following this news
from JuliÃn Santiago DÃez de Bonilla in Mexico City, Feb 15:

``Hola Glenn, A partir de hoy, XEPPM Radio EducaciÃn onda corta 6185
kHz està haciendo pruebas con su antiguo transmisor Elcom Bauer con
capacidad de 5 kW. Al parecer su transmisor de 10 kW està averiado.
La escucho en estos momentos con un SINPO de 5. Saludos, JuliÃn
Santiago, Enviado desde mi iPad``

Says starting today it`s testing with old 5 kW transmitter. Apparently
their 10 kW is out of order. But I find that it`s no better here than
it had been before.

I had not measured 6185 precisely lately, but a sesquimonth ago it was
on the plus side per Wolfgang Bueschel: ``6185.011, upper side of the
channel now, R Educacion Mexico D.F. fluttery S=8-9 signal at 0311 UT
on Dec 29, logs from Cape Canaveral Florida state``

Unless one or both transmitters vary more than this difference of 19
Hz, that might be a way to differentiate them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA. 7254.95, Feb 16 at 0657, S9+20, VON IS of fluting and
drumming, normally heard one hour earlier prior to Hausa at 0600.
Unknown if they start an hour late, or is really interval before
switching to Fulfulde or something at 0700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 960, Sat Feb 16 at 1323 UT, local KGWA Enid found to be
in dead air as I am doing JBA TP MW carrier bandscan, so no splatter
on 954 or 963, but nil heard there.

I also null 960 as much as possible, hearing only a trace of another
station. By 1340, KGWA remodulates. O, how I long for the good ole
days when KGWA often provided for months a ``Fox-hole``, 5 minutes of
dead air at local midnight allowing me to accumulate a number of other
960 logs from as far away as Calgary straight thru KGWA (Glenn Hauser,
Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. 6125.0, Feb 16 at 0400, VOT timesignal and manages to
modulate today! But opens with canned intro of WRONG English schedule
for A-season, which even then was not entirely correct, as I
previously noted. Poor S8-S6 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY [and non]. 12035.0, Feb 16 at 1403, VOT is blasted away by
rather heavy stray(?) Cuban pulse jamming during what may have been
Letterbox; gaining a bit later when only filling with music. 11815.0
Turkish is also not +0.7 kHz off-frequency today.

13685.716, Feb 16 at 1423, instead the Emirler shifter is here today
for the end of the VOT Uighur hour, JBA carrier vs no WINB QRDRM since
it`s Saturday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1969 monitoring: Ivo Ivanov,
Bulgaria, reports: ``GERMANY, Reception of World of Radio via HLR on
6190 kHz CUSB on Feb.16
https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/reception-of-world-of-radio-via-hlr-on_16.html
0731-0800 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu English Sat, fair/good``

WOR 1969 confirmed Saturday February 16 from about 1229:53 on WRMI
9955, thus overlapping World Music fill and no ID, VG S9+10/20

Not confirmed the Sat Feb 16 1531 on HLR 9485-CUSB: as usual inaudible
here, nor at UTwente. Tried the Italy Kiwi SDR but it`s fully occupied
by max 4 users at a time -- listening to me, I hope, hi. Next:

2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM MO non-direxional
2200 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415], ND
0830 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5950 to WNW, 7730 to WNW
1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW
0430 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE
0930 UT Monday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND
2330 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE
* also webcast; direct linx to these and many others at:

Complete WOR sked, all affiliates, satellite, webcast, AM&FM, podcast:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 3264.9, Feb 16 at 0020, JBA carrier from WBCQ-4? or -5?

5130.49, UT Sat Feb 16 at 0059, WBCQ concluding the ``Far Right Radio
Show`` (or was it ``Alt-Right``?), no ID and 0100 into march theme of
weapons show ``from bare hands to AR-15``, S9 and getting louder now,
``Weapons Wednesday`` is apparently the title regardless of current
DOW, with Mark & Don.

So `Allan Weiner Worldwide` will not be on here, despite being better
received than weakening VP primary 7490.18, while 9330 is inaudible,
off? and 3264.9 still JBA carrier. The latter is totally useless here
even during primetime; must be very low-powered.

AWWW starts barely audible on 7490.18v, enough to hear his first
exclamation ``No more hamburgers!`` before fadeout. Usually the last
~10 minutes contain some station info, reading and replying to e-mail,
some pirate info from FRW, so I bring up the webcast about 0150, and
glean one tidbit of use: says ``3265`` is 24/7 like 9330. What could
John H Carver hear? He mailed already at 0154:

``5130 is back to the militia. 7490 is too noisy to copy. No signal on
9330 but I find them on 3265. Noisy but able to copy; however that
quickly changes. Allan and a very animated Angela in the studio
discussing different forms of energy besides oil. Compares Elon Musk
to Thomas Edison. Sounds like Tom Barna is in the studio with them but
it's difficult to tell. Difficult to copy but they seem to be on the
same topic. Allan announces that 3265 is running 24/7 for awhile. I'm
receiving the signal at almost S3. At 0141 show becomes very difficult
to copy and I lose the signal at 0146. John, Mid-North Indiana``

Only other reports of 3265v:

``Hi Glenn, Feb 15, noted for the first time a new signal on 3264.9,
during my local morning, at 1058 & 1120, with faint music, but
extremely weak; by 1207, too weak for any audio (only carrier). Ron
Howard, California``

``USA WBCQ Monticello Maine, near New Brunswick Canada border line.
3264.912 --- x.917 unstable wandered upwards signal around 1058--1110
UT on Feb 16. Guitar pop music traced at NJ-US remote installation.
S=9+20dB at peak reception much better closer to Maine/New Brunswick-
CANADA [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (wb df5sx,
wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 16)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7780, Feb 16 at 1446, this WRMI-1 is unusually on, poor with
music. Transmission sked grid shows SMTV from 1400 only on Sundays but
this is Saturday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9265V, Feb 16 at 1435, WINB carrier is *really* wobbling
during gospel huxter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7490, Feb 16 at 1440, huge S9+40/50 WWCR signal overloads my
poor R75 unless I turn off preamps: 8880, I expect usual mixture with
strongest local KCRC (7490+1390), but I also have weak // 7490 WWCR
audio on 8210, which is 720 kHz above, and there is certainly no local
signal there to mix. Possibly it`s a leapfrog over 7850-CHU, which is
halfway between, 360 kHz above and below, but not very strong and
cannot hear any timesignals on 8210 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** U S A. 750, Sat Feb 16 at 1343 UT, ``Accentuate the Positive`` tune
playing, 1345 Bible fund-raiser talk, 1346 ``Footsteps from TWR`` with
Lauren Libby, president; says they use 230 languages, and shortwave
listening is increasing, getting back in style (?); Xmas special on
KTWR got good response from China, etc.; also plugs several-country
coverage of hi-power AM without detailing Bonaire or Central Asia.
Looping N/S, this is obviously via KMMJ Grand Island, Nebraska, 10.5
kW-limited sked. While now, and never do I hear one of my most-wanted
Okies, 220-watt daytimer 750 KSEO Durant! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** ZAMBIA. 13680, Sat Feb 16 at 1401, VOH Africa weekend-only
transmission, `Your Weekend Show` with Bob Biermann musing about radio
technology. (See also his comments in next DXLD about how there is no
new crop of engineers coming along to replace those who know SW and
AM). 13680 is good and fully readable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search Feb 16 from 1318:
747-NW, 702-WSW, 693-?, 594-?, 882-?, 972-NW, 1098-W, 1188-?, 1503-?;
1566-NW at 1327, the strongest and FEBC S Korea of course. Could not
get DX-398 DF on some of the others, too weak and/or both FE and DU.
1566 seemed to have a second carrier causing very slow beat, maybe
also WSW, but a 5 kW from Victoria would be unlikely; how about 200
watts from Norfolk Island? Hi. Enid LSR today: 1318 UT, just when I
started (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9777.8-USB, Feb 16 at 1432, 2-way in Spanish, INTRUDERS
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 1927 UT February 16

** CUBA. 5990 CRI relay, 6000 RHC, Feb 15 at 0051 both are suptorted,
so cannot make anything out of their leapfrog on 6010; likewise
suptorted is 5025 Rebelde, while 5040 & 6060 RHC are OK, presumably
reflecting contrary situations at two different sites. Something`s
always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 15700, Feb 15 at 1523, CRI Plus English relay is S9+20 and
suptorted. This is hardly unusual, but qualifies for ``something`s
always wrong at RadioCuba`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MADAGASCAR. 13670, Feb 14 at 1812, MWV is back in English with
`African Pathways Radio`; and also the next English hour from 2000 on
11965, rather than Arabic which occupied both hours yesterday, another
of their too-frequent mixups. 2000 preview mentions opening music, and
closing music, then proceeds to play the closing music now, something
from their ``beloved Madagascar``. So they are mixed up even within
the programs. Good signals as usual from the near-antipodes (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA. 9690-, Feb 14 at 1814, VON JBA with off-frequency carrier
before Spain or Madagascar collide; and also DRM noise 15115-15120-
15125, presumably both in English now, and are they //? By next check
at 1950, no DRM audible. Wolfgang Bueschel reported on same date:

``Wonderful English language program audio from Abuja today Febr 14
at 1745 UT on 9689.920 kHz, S=8-9 or -77dBm signal here in southern
Germany. And also at 1804 UT still on 2nd Abuja unit in DRM mode on 19
meterband: S=9+10dB data block of 10 kHz broadband, 'notch snick'
central visible on 15119.861 kHz exact, and a separate 'string'
visible on 15120.610 kHz exact. 73 wolfie df5sx`` (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 17615.066, Feb 15 at 1410, JBA carrier from SRI, and
also JBACs on not-way-off-frequencies 17705, 17895. This is notable
only because these Saudisigs are almost the only signs of life on 16m
after sunrise here, but even they have been inaudible lately. Always-
skewed 17615.066 suffers a transmission break at 1414. By 1458 only
the lowest is audible, still at 1520 when I measure it. But at 1525,
much stronger SRIs on 15435, 13710. HFCC info for each:
17895 12-15 295 degrees
17705 12-15 310
17615 13-16 190
15435 15-18 320
13710 15-18 295
HFCC doesn`t care, but WRTH shows the two different programs: Qur`an
on 17895, 17615 [sic], 13710; General Arabic on 17705, 15435 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 7570 & 7730, Feb 15 at 0154, WRMI dead air
during TOMBS, but soon resumes. Both frequencies much weaker than
usual, only S9 max, propagation disturbance? 7730 is always somewhat
weaker than 7570 here which is beaming right at us while 7730 is 30
degrees CCW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 4840, Feb 15 at 0710, S9+30 of dead air from
WWCR when supposed to be TOMBS; may well last all-night but I`m going
to sleep (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. 7355, Feb 15 at 1529, B-B-C- chimes at S9, 1530 opening
Korean; 5845 shortly at 1533 find VP //. Both are 250 kW, 25 degrees
via SINGAPORE until 1830. 1530-1830 scheduling originated when KOREA
NORTH was temporarily on half-hour time-zone. But 7355 supposedly has
been extended to start at 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15770, Feb 14 at 1952, dead air from WRMI, supposed to be
Supreme Master TV. I continue monitoring silence until 1959.5 WRMI ID
autofires and cut off the air. 5950 is supposed to take over SMTV at
2000, and do have a JBA carrier already but can`t tell what if
anything be modulating it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5130.5, VP UT Fri Feb 15 at 0059, this WBCQ is on, contrary
to never-up-to-date websked showing nothing between 0330 Wed and 0100
Sat --- now ending some talk show with phone 323-2943; ID and 0100
into another show, all about guns, mentioning Wednesday, so delayed a
day? 0200 abrupt cut to ID and some music; 0203 someone ``proclaiming
the gospel`` from P O Box 23110(?), definitely in Bethlehem PA. Still
VP signal.

7490.18, UT Fri Feb 15 at 0157, WBCQ with `Allan Weiner Worldwide`
mentioning that `Dead Frog Radio` is coming back from next Friday for
two hours following AWWW at 9 pm ET, produced by an inmate at a
federal prison; how does he do it? Then e-mail from the guy who has
arranged to be QSL manager for XEG-1050 Monterrey NL. I already heard
this episode months ago, but random listeners to this filler might
assume it`s current about DFR. Such are the drawbax of playing
unedited old live episodes which do not refer to specific dates. 01-02
UT Fri on 7490 is indeed an ``available time slot``, to be followed at
02-03 by VORW --- NOT, as 7490 then goes off the air.

3264.9, Feb 15 at 0200, JBA carrier so presumably WBCQ still testing
here; has it been on every might since Monday, all night? Sked still
says ``There are no scheduled transmissions on 3265 KHz at this time``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5072.166, Feb 15 at 0702, WTWW-2 is running late again, all
-night? with rock music, so I pin down exact frequencies of the
parasitic spurs always accompanying 5085, the opposite one measured on
5097.838, i.e. 12.838 plus and 12.834 minus. So the fundamental should
be slightly askew too: but measured independently as 5085.000, so
within 2 Hz margins of error (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 13685-13690-13695, Friday Feb 15 at 1408, no signal from
WINB non-DRM carriers below 13690, nor DRM noise above 13690, supposed
to run M-F at 11-17. This hugely asymmetrical transmission, unique to
WINB on 13690 (& 7315 M-F at 07-09, neither registered as DRM),
remains to be explained why it occur. What does it look like on
dreamscreens? And was this on air in time for `SW Radiogram` at 1500
Fri? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 17775-, Feb 15 at 1522, still no signal from KVOH, off or
not propagating? Still zilch at 1942 check. After my last report, Ray
Robinson of KVOH replied, ``There are views of the KVOH antenna site,
transmitter building and Harris SW100 transmitter in this month's
Voice of Hope video update, here [9:36]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG4YXoopZOM
The Harris is finally fully refurbished and all hooked up, almost
ready to turn on. The RCA transmitter's days are numbered! Ray.``

Amid all the platitudes, bits of info are gleanable: Tayloe says power
will be ``doubled`` --- does that mean running both transmitters? The
``new`` Harris is axually an old one from KTWR Guam, which has been
``totally rebuilt`` with ``thousands of hours of work over three
years``, ``we are within weeks of signing on``; and it will be ``good
for 20 years unless the Lord comes first``. Programming will also be
increased on all three stations, Israel and Zambia too.

Ethan Best, KC9YDN, and I, wonder ``Will 9975 kHz be returning soon?``
No reply about that. During long inactivity, KVOH has kept imaginary
registrations of it in HFCC as 00-08 UT, 100 kW and 100 degrees, like
17775 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1130, Feb 15 at 1535 UT, KLEY Wellington KS is still off the
air; random daytime chex have not found it since last logged Dec 2,
altho I wasn`t paying much attention until late January. Have they
notified FCC that they are off or applied for STA? (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1480, Feb 15 at 1537 UT, 50 kW KBXD Dallas is still in
Vietnamese and still propagating 2+ hours after sunrise as QRM to much
closer groundwave KQAM Wichita in English, and making a slow SAH of
45/minute = 0.75 Hz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1540, Fri Feb 15 at 1540! UT, blues music with narration,
loops NE/SW with some fades past 1549, suspected KXEL Waterloo IA
still skywaving, best on the E-W longwire, while Spanish from Dallas
dominates on the DX-398. Confirmed at:

http://www.kxel.com/program-schedule/
Our American Stories with Lee Habeeb | 8-10am
which does not link to show site, but I find it:

http://www.ouramericannetwork.org/
``There's no politics at Our American Network, just stories. Daily
bringing the campfire scene to your ears with our first show Our
American Stories.``

And a large archive of listenable episodes, probably this one:
http://www.ouramericannetwork.org/story?title=The-Fred-Davis-Blues
``The Fred Davis Blues --- Howard Husock shares a story of music,
friendship, and tremendous talent lost to violence.``

Seems like a worthwhile show and a much-needed respite from AM radio
politix, like Redeye Radio and Rush also on the KXEL sked, which is
yet somewhat diverse. Or find another station:
http://www.ouramericannetwork.org/find_station
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report despatched at 1955 UT February 15

** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 9740, Feb 14 at 1458, RBA sign-off in English
until tomorrow at 14 UT = 19:30 IST. HFCC-registered as 100 kW, 335
degrees in Hindi only. In fact, per Aoki/NDXC there is an extremely
complex sked of 14 languages in 15-minute segments, with Hindi only
once a week on Sundays at 1400-1415 --- and English only thrice a
week, Mon/Tue/Wed at 1445 ---- but this is Thursday! The canned sign-
off includes just a hint of Kookaburra, but is it Jacko?

9740-, meanwhile by 1459 a low-audible-heterodyne (LAH) is also
audible, from the next station, AWR in Nepali via the always off-
frequency Trincomalee, SRI LANKA, in the clear after 1500 but only a
JBA carrier today, despite a 15-degree aim closer to USward and with
25 kW more power, but having to penetrate polar absorption. Also over
a much shorter path to target, could start off at a higher takeoff
angle, reducing further bounces; who knows? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. Whoopee! After quite a dry spell, RHC has resumed its FM
service on 22m: Feb 14 at 1427-1431, up to 10-kHz-wide FM spurs circa:
13445, 13508, 13574, 13634, 13766, 13829, 13888, 13954, 14020,
intervals of very roughly 65 kHz. The outermost are mere traces,
progressively stronger up to the innermost S9+10 out of the
fundamental 13700-AM at S9+30. All include the F# tone. Even the
closest are not totally clear, but in SSB or AM mode are just blobs.
Meanwhile, no spurs audible on 19m where 15140 is relatively weak to
start with. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** MADAGASCAR. 11965, Feb 13 a 2045, S7-S9, MWV is in Arabic, not
English! Later I see a report from Mark Coady that today`s other
English hour at 18 UT on 13670 was also in Arabic instead.

WCBC stations KNLS and MWV had announced a curtailment of 4
transmitter-hours per day each, due to Diesel fuel costs, but
supposedly no other changes and not including these hours.

This would hardly be the first time that MWV has mixed up its own
transmissions, wrong language on wrong frequency and/or wrong time! So
what will happen with African Pathways Radio today Feb 14?

Here`s the current schedule on website, which also shows why Ivo
refers to xmtrs 2 and 3 at MWV, but never an (imaginary?) #1; with
blank entries for the transmissions dropped:

``KNLS & MWV BROADCAST SCHEDULE: October 28, 2018 - March 30, 2019
(revised January 30, 2019)

http://www.knls.org/broadcasting-front.html

KNLS TX 1
UT Freq Azm Lang Target
0800 9710 270 ENG Pac. Rim
0900 7370 300 RUS E. Rus
1000 9710 270 ENG Pac. Rim
1100 7320 300 RUS E. Rus
1200 7320 270 ENG Pac. Rim
1300 11785 300 CHN N. China
1400 7320 270 ENG Pac. Rim
1500 7320 300 RUS E. Central Rus
1600
1700

KNLS TX 2
UT Freq Azm Lang Target
0800 9610 285 CHN E. China
0900 9610 285 CHN E. China
1000 9605 285 CHN E. China
1100 11610 285 CHN E. China
1200 7355 270 ENG Pac. Rim
1300 11890 300 CHN N. China
1400 11890 300 CHN N. China
1500 11890 300 CHN N. China
1600
1700

MWV TX2
UT Freq Azm Lang Target
0200
0300 6180 265 SPN S. America North
0400 11825 295 A.ENG Central Afr.
1800 11885 355 RUS Euro Rus
1900 9690 355 RUS Euro Rus
2000 13710 355 ARA Central Mid East.
2100 11610 325 CHN Europe
2200

MWV TX3
UT Freq Azm Lang Target
0200
0300 15510 40 ENG India
0400 17530 55 CHN S. China
1800 13670 310 A.ENG Central Africa (N)
1900 11965 340 ARA Central Mid East.
2000 11965 295 A.ENG Central Afr.
2100 11965 265 POR Brazil
2200``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH AFRICA. Summary notes by gh of a conversation broadcast on
Feb 10 edition of AWR Wavescan, heard Feb 13 after 2230 on WRMI 9955
webcast, recorded about 3 weeks ago at the A-19 HFCC meeting in Tunis,
between Jeff White and some guy representing the Caribbean Beacon (a
station which hardly needs to spend any $ $ $ on frequency management,
let alone sending somebody to HFCC junkets all over the world twice a
year, since CB is always registered for 10-22 on 11775, 22-10 on 6090.
What PMS really needs is some kind of *transmission* management, to
keep the Anguilla thing on the air according to a reliable schedule.)
I haven`t tried to keep track of who said what in the interchange:

BREAKING NEWS: SENTECH FMO SNT, HFCC member for long time, rumor that
there may be a possible cessation of SWBC from Radio South Africa
[sic]. HFCC was held there two years ago. Not to say this is
happening, but potential for cessation. SENTECH transmitter still
government-owned but separate from Radio RSA, now Channel Africa,
selling time to other overseas broadcasters. Encompass, ex-Babcock,
ex-BBC company biggest client. BBC reducing airtime, making it less
viable proposition to continue operating the Meyerton site. Also: AWR,
SARL, and other smaller ones.

Board of SENTECH decided to cancel SWBC from Meyerton at end of B-18 =
end of March; yet have registered next season frequencies. So not cast
in stone. Larger clients encourage Sentech to keep going. Not enough,
losing money, looking at bottom line. Looking at possibility of DRM,
to promote it; SENTECH could easily modify equipment for DRM, but not
too many DRM receivers in Africa! It sent three attendees to HFCC this
time rather than one, including an accountant-type, and from
management. Indicates decision has been made, but looking for new
clients, or maybe will be transition period.

If Meyerton goes off, some may move over to MGLOB in Madagascar, ex-RN
relay. MAD could pick up broadcast time of Radio South Africa [sic].
If you want a QSL card, get it quickly. Things could change; we are
only at mid-week, midpoint of HFCC conference. Another possibility,
Sentech was talking about, some other organization like ENC might
lease the whole facility, sell airtime. Like Okeechobee. Or Bulgaria-
like, privatising takeover by Spaceline.

My own further comments: Current HFCC B18 shows MEYerton used by all
these broadcasters: BBC, SABC, Channel Africa, SARL, FPU, AWR, IBB,
DWL --- and that`s not enough? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 9690, Wed Feb 13 at 2325, REE English from 2300 has been
honoring World Radio Day with Justin Coe playing some songs about
radio, but I only catch the last few minutes as he remarx, ``Remains
to be seen how much longer [REE] foreign language services will be on
air`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1969 monitoring: confirmed
Wednesday February 13 at 2200 on WBCQ 7490.17 starting only a couple
seconds late; then tune to 9955 WRMI to find --- no signal, except
jamming (while 9395 is nominal at S9). 9955 must be late coming up,
but WOR in progress at next check 2208, and overcoming jamming. At
2226 I compare the two and find 7490.17 running about 13 seconds
behind 9955, so WRMI playback at least on webcast must have started
about 10 seconds early. Nevertheless, circa 2229 WRMI automation cuts
off the last few words I utter after ``inviting you ----`` as too
often happens, even tho I always make sure the totalshow lasts less
than 29:00. At 2229 on 7490.17, a minute of music fill, then 2230
Goddess Irena 1 asking us to contact her, unaware at the time that she
would now be deceased. 2230 WRMI goes on replay Wavescan, where I copy
some Breaking News, see SOUTH AFRICA.

WOR 1969 also confirmed UT Thu Feb 14 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, better
than usual off the side to the NW of this NE beam, S9+10/20. Next:

0930 UT Friday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND
0729 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW
1200 UT Saturday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND [alt weeks: Feb 16]
1230 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE
1531 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM MO non-direxional
2200 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415], ND
0830 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5950 to WNW, 7730 to WNW
1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW
0430 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE
0930 UT Monday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND
2330 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE
* also webcast; direct linx to these and many others at:

Complete WOR sked, all affiliates, satellite, webcast, AM&FM, podcast:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 1736 UT February 14