** CRIMEA. Re RCV on 5916-CW, derivation of ``-opol'`` place names,
Jimmy James answers: ``"-opol" ending means "city" --- it is from the
Greek "polis". That's because those cities on the border of the Black
Sea in Crimea area were founded by ancient Greeks. (same as
"Constantinople" = the city of Constantin ([emperor)). Thx.``

And from Arthur Pozner: ``Just about all Crimean and many other Black
Sea towns used to be ancient Greek colonies long ago. Modern names
were given during the Russian expansion after a series of wars with
the Ottoman Empire: Sebasto-polis. Simfero-polis etc. Even some cities
in Ukraine have a similar history. Melitopol, Ternopol, Mariupol,
Nikopol and others.`` --- I should have thought of that (Glenn Hauser,
WOR)

** CUBA. 13772-trace, 13628/13627 best S7-S9 with F# tones, 13556 S5,
13485-trace, 13414-trace vs CODAR, Feb 25 at 1453, extremely distorted
spurblobs out of 13700-AM at 71-73 kHz intervals; should have been
more on the plus side, undiscovered. Something`s always wrong at RHC
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2075)

** CUBA. 15700, Feb 25 at 1531, China Plus relay is S9/+10 but JBM;
something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF
RADIO 2075)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2074 monitoring: missed checking
final scheduled repeat on WRMI, UT Thu Feb 25 at 0130 on 5010: did
anyone hear it?

WORLD OF RADIO 2075 contents: Algeria, Brasil, Canada, China and non,
Crimea, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia non, France, Hong Kong and non, India,
Korea South, Mali, Perú, Sweden, Taiwan and non, USA, Vanuatu,
unidentified 2960-; propagation outlook

WOR 2075 is available as of 0112 UT Friday February 26, 2021
(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2075.m3u
(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2075.mp3

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

The shortwave broadcasts should be:

0130 UT Friday WRMI 5850 to NW, 7780 to NE
1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
2230 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0500]
2300vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE
1901 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2300 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

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Our non-commercial broadcasts and website depend on voluntary
financial support: thanks this week to Chuck Ermatinger, now in
Eureka! Missouri, who has sent two contributions via PayPal to woradio
at yahoo.com - not necessarily US funds

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

First broadcasts confirmed UT Friday February 26 at 0130 on WRMIs, hot
off the press uploaded to System F server with minutes to spare: 5850
VG direct; 7780 unusually inaudible at UTwente SDR - K index 3, SF 80;
but making it very well as far as Maine Kiwi, S9+10 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A. 1509.84, Feb 26 at 0307 UT, no signal, no het against
1510.00 stations from KCTE Independence MO, 10 kW daytimer either off
the air or not off-frequency; mainly hear a classic rocker mixing with
a talker, one of them at 0359 recheck being Nashville`s WLAC with
diminished power. To be sure, I check the same and only Kansas City
Kiwi where I confirmed KCTE overtime and underfrequency two nights
ago, and yes, no sign of it now there either.

Did Union Broadcasting get religion, fix it forever following the
negative publicity I gave them about their flaws being so obvious not
only to Oklahoma, but Scandinavia? Chat fance. QRX for resumption of
decade+long, if sporadic escapes from required parameters. Also I
mention on this week`s WOR 2075. At least, KGBC Galveston is still
LAHing below 1540. And I bet KCTE still be askew in the otherwise
legal daytime. Licensed SR/SS span in February: 1315-2400 UT; March:
1230-2430 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0537 UT February 26
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......Using fathers PL550 and 10 m wire above the banister inparallel  to the road . radio is  inductively tuned with the antenna

9420 CNR 13 at 1610 with semi pop songs Nice an good signal

9490 TRT? 1613 with talx in Turkish Mentions of XinjiangGood 

9515 KBS 1616 very intense dance songs fair

9570 CRI in English 1618 with go to the doctor a kindof theatric style of discussion with underground music Fair signal  

9630 CNR17 with traditional Kazakh song at 1620 Goodsignal

9690 RNE mixed with another  unknown signal 1626

5830 with Inja Iran as ID at 2027 referring to DushanbeTajikistan that I can suppose as the transmission site

5950 KBS in French 2037 with nervous K pop songs and talksin between short song descriptions Fair signal

6020 CRIn  2044in ?? with nice calming traditional Chinese harp music No talks

7225 CRI 2100 signing on with program in Croatian butstarted immediately with songs Fair

 
22 and only : 9630 /9420 and 9890 CNR local with programin Chinese til 1600 with long talks and short intervals from the melody of  “I love you China“ In the second half of the program, someone talking to the agriculture and the new technologies and showing aguidance with an 6 point listing  and various dexterities. Use of Google translate app for getting this info. Allthese freqs with neatly local signals
 

Zacharias LiangasAirspyHF+Discovery   with SDRConsole & 2x16 m antena
Icom  R75 /PL380 /  De1103  radios
https://del.icio.us/gr_greek1/ZAK (all pages)
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ONDA MEDIA.

** ARGENTINA. 690. LV DEL COMAHUE. Feb. 25. 0017 - 0027 UTC. Avisos
comerciales y luego programa deportivo. 44444 sobre R. SANTIAGO. (Claudio
Galaz, Receptor: TIVDIO V-111; Antena: TECSUN AN20, Lugar de escucha:
Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile)

** BOLIVIA. 1570. R. BENDITA TRINIDAD. FEB 24. 0045-0105 UTC. Mujer atiende
el teléfono y la gente canta canciones cristianas, algunas en idioma
aymara. 34322 con mucho fading y permanente splatters de emisoras de
canales aledaños. (Claudio Galaz, Receptor: TIVDIO V-111; Antena: TECSUN
AN20, Lugar de escucha: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile)

** CHILE. 800. R. MARÍA DE VALPARAÍSO. Feb 25. 0029 - 0039 UTC. Predicación
de sacerdote que critica los efectos del "Mayo del 68" y el subjetivismo
moral. 44444 con leve interferencia de otras emisoras y fading poco
permanente pero largo. (Claudio Galaz, Receptor: TIVDIO V-111; Antena:
TECSUN AN20, Lugar de escucha: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile)

** ONDA CORTA.

** COLOMBIA. 4940. FUERZA DE PAZ RADIO. Feb 24. 0150 - 0200. Música. 25322.
(Claudio Galaz, Receptor: TIVDIO V-111; Antena: Hilo largo de 50 metros,
Lugar de escucha: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile)

** England. 7445. BBC. Feb 24. 0130 - 0139 UTC. Noticias en idioma Dari.
45444. (Claudio Galaz, Receptor: TIVDIO V-111; Antena: Hilo largo de 50
metros, Lugar de escucha: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile)

** IRÁN. 5980. IRIB. FEB 24. 0203 - 0250 UTC. Entrevista al respecto del
"acuerdo nuclear" con Irán. Desde las 0213, programa acerca del Islam hasta
las 0217. Luego, informaciones del "Tratado de no proliferación nuclear" de
Irán, gas natural en México, declaraciones de Irán sobre tratado,
vacunación en Venezuela, fiesta del Nouruz, protestas en Panamá, Covid-19
en Perú, elecciones mexicana, Remesas en el Estado de Chiapas. A las 0245,
se emite despedida con lectura de emisiones y horarios. 45433 a 45444 desde
las 0233 en adelante. Archivo:
https://archive.org/details/0-aud-20210224-wa-0023 (Claudio Galaz,
Receptor: TIVDIO V-111; Antena: Hilo largo de 50 metros, Lugar de escucha:
Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile)
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JRX Current Logs: February 21-22 & 25, 2021Receiver (s): Degen DE1103, Tecsun S-2000 & XHDATA D-808Antenna (s): Degen 31MS, Longwire & Sony AN-71All times and dates in UTC-GMT

ASCENSION ISLAND** 15400. Sun, Feb 21, 2021. 1801-1811, BBC, Ascension Island-ASC, in English. Man and woman talk during transmission game, live, and a people manifestation. Very good reception.
** 15490. Sun, Feb 21, 2021. 1812-1822, BBC, Ascension Island-ASC, in French. Man presents sport news, says Barcelona and Real Madrid; 1815 Woman and man announcers talk news, with a external news reporter participation from Senegal. Very good reception.
** 17780. Sun, Feb 21, 2021. 1659-1713, BBC, Ascension Island-ASC, in English. IS; 1700 ID and next, man and woman announcers talk, say about football transmission game, assistance manifestation. Excellent reception.
Parallel log on 17830asc, very good reception.

BENIN** 1566. Sun, Feb 21, 2021. 0428-0445, TWR Africa. Parakou-BEN, in Twi language. IS-ID; Man Pastor makes a preaching; 0445 A brief song and beginning new program edition. Fair reception.

BOTSWANA** 15580. Sun, Feb 21, 2021. 1823-1833, Voice of America, Selebi-Phikwe-BOT, in English. Man and woman talk news and a news reporter participation. Fair reception.
** 17895. Sun, Feb 21, 2021. 1714-1725, Voice of America, Selebi-Phikwe-BOT, in English. Man and woman announcers talk news; ID; 1720 News continues. Fair reception.

BRAZIL** 9665. Thu, Feb 25, 2021. 2043-2055, Radio Voz Missionaria, Camboriu-SC, in Portuguese. Men announcers present news; 2045 ID; Station´s religious announcements; 2052 A song by female singer. Fair reception. 
** 11780. Mon, Feb 22, 2021. 2201-2211, Radio Nacional da Amazonia, Brasilia-DF, in Portuguese. Station transmitting the mandatory official program "A Voz do Brasil", with news of the three powers: Executive, legialative and Judicial, presente by man and woman announcers and a news reporters participation. Good reception.
** 11780. Thu, Feb 25, 2021. 1248-1258, Radio Nacional da Amazonia, Brasilia-DF, in Portuguese. News by man announcer and news reporters participation; 1255 News by woman announcer, too; Brasilia time and ID. Fair reception.
** 11815. Thu, Feb 25, 2021. 1259-1309, Radio Brasil Central, Goiania-GO, in Portuguese. Man announcer talks. Very poor to barely audible reception.

CHINA** 9655. Sun, Feb 21, 2021. 1951-1957, China Radio International, Kunming-Anning-CHN, in Turkish. A song by male singer; 1956 Man announcer says CRI sked in turkish with frequencies; 1957 Ends programming of the day. Very good reception.
** 9800. Sun, Feb 21, 2021. 2311-2321, China Radio International, Kashgar-CHN, in Spanish. Woman announcer says about food waste within the program that talks about sustainable development in China; ID. Very good reception.

CUBA** 13740. Thu, Feb 25, 2021. 1236-1246, Radio Habana Cuba, Bauta-CUB, in Spanish. Man announcer talks sport news: Deportes; 1241 Man and woman present news in "Nuestros corresponsales informan"; ID. Fair reception.

FRANCE** 6040. Mon, Feb 22, 2021. 2228-2238, Radio Algerienne, Issoudun-F, in Arabic. Man talks; 2231 The Qur´an chant; 2233 Qur´an recitation; 2237 Qur´an chant. Good reception.
** 9635. Sun, Feb 21, 2021. 1940-1950, Radio France International, Issoudun-F, in French. Man and woman announcers talk about pandemia of the coronavirus in Africa; 1947 Woman says ID and a short music; 1948 Now, they talk about the Iran, mainly iranian economy and life. Very good.
** 15300. Sun, Feb 21, 2021. 1748-1758, Radio France International, Issoudun-F, in French. Man announcer in conversation with a woman. Excellent reception.
** 17660. Thu, Feb 25, 2021. 1218-1228, Radio France International, Issoudun-F, in French. Man and woman announcers present news; 1221 ID and news continues. Very good reception.

GUAM** 11610. Mon, Feb 22, 2021. 2240-2250, AWR Guam-KSDA, Agat-GUM, in Vietnamese. Man talks, preaching. Fair to poor reception.
** 11870. Mon, Feb 22, 2021. 2212-2222, AWR Guam-KSDA, Agat-GUM, in Chinese. Woman talks, preaching, presumably; 2215 A song by choral; 2218 Man and woman talk; Man preaching. Good reception.

PHILIPPINES** 9795. Sun, Feb 21, 2021. 2257-2310, FEBC Radio, Iba-PHL, in Mon language. IS till 2301; 2301 A brief song and man talks; 2303 A song; 2307 Returns man communication and other song, "Jesus". Good reception.
** 9795. Sun, Feb 21, 2021. 2333-2343, FEBC Radio, Iba-PHL, in Lao. Man Pastor talks, preaching, presumably. Fair reception.
** 12120. Thu, Feb 25, 2021. 1849-1910, Radyo Pilipinas, Tinang-PHL, in Tagalog. Man talks, speechs, says about The Philippines country; 1906 Ends man speech with applauses; 1907 Man ann says ID; Woman announcer talks. Very good reception.

SAUDI ARABIA** 15205. Sun, Feb 21, 2021. 1726-1736, Saudi Radio International, Riyadh-ARS, in Arabic. The Holy Qur´an chant; 1729 Man says ID; 1730 The Qur´an recitation. Good reception.
** 15225. Sun, Feb 21, 2021. 1737-1747, Saudi Radio International, Riyadh-ARS, in Arabic. Woman announcer talks during this log. Poor reception.

TURKEY** 9625. Thu, Feb 25, 2021. 2032-2042, Voice of Turkey, Emirler-TUR, in French. Man and woman talk news, with a brief music space between them; ID. Fair reception.

USA** 6195. Sun, Feb 21, 2021. 0400-0410, NHK World Japan, Furman-SC, in Spanish. IS-ID; Woman announcer presents NHK Newsletter. Very good reception.
** 7355. Mon, Feb 22, 2021. 2251-2300, Radio marti, Greenville-NC, in Spanish. Man announcer presents sport news, with a conversation by a external news reporter; 2255 A song, ID and more; marti IS. Fair reception.
** 9330. Sun, Feb 21, 2021. 2350-0005, WBCQ-World´s Last Chance Radio, Monticello-ME, in Portuguese. Man talks about religious theme; 2354 Woman talks, too; 2355 A song, a IS song; 0000 IS song and begins the second part of the portuguese edition; ID and two man announcers says about religious themes with questions and answers. Good reception. 
** 9980. Sun, Feb 21, 2021. 2322-2332, Brother Stair, Nashville-TN, in English. Man talks, preaching; 2330 Other man talks. Fair reception.
** 15610. Sun, Feb 21, 2021. 1905-1915, EWTN-Global Catholic Radio, Vandiver-AL, in English. Man and woman announcers talk, say about religious themes, with a very brief music between them. Fair reception.
** 15770. Sun, Feb 21, 2021. 1916-1926, WRMI-Supreme Master TV, Okeechobee-FL, in English. Woman talks; 1917 Man talks, preaching. Poor reception.
** 15825. Sun, Feb 21, 2021. 1928-1938, WWCR, Nashville-TN, in English. Pastor makes a preaching during this log. Good reception.

JRX (Jose Ronaldo Xavier)SWARL Callsign PR7036SWLCabedelo-Paraiba, Brazil (UTC-3)QTH Locator HI22NX
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** BRAZIL. Immediately after posting last log, Chris Mackerell, NZ
explains why RNA DRM is no longer making it to Bonaire: ``Change of
antenna beam. Good decoding here in New Zealand from 0400 UTC onwards.
Not 100% but some nice audio at times, and the Journaline news service
decodes. 73 Chris, Marahau, New Zealand`` --- Viz.:

``22 Feb --- In Brazil DRM on SW Being Redirected to the Populous
South-Central Part --- The Brazilian DRM shortwave transmission at
11910 kHz is now using an antenna that provides coverage for the
south-central part of the country.`` Plus the usual DRM hype:
https://www.drm.org/in-brazil-drm-on-sw-being-redirected-to-the-populous-south-central-part/
So now maybe some of the Brazilian SDRs are getting it sufficiently.
But, but, what about the dear Amazon, where DRM is so very much
needed? O wait, where were the receivers among the tribes? Is it still
carrying the Brasília 96.1 music FM channel?

Ivo Ivanov replies: ``Very good signal with decoding February 24 at
0550 UT on 11910 kHz via SDR São Bernardo do Campo, Brasil``.

So Feb 24 at 2356 I also check the SBC SDR and find an S8 signal but
solid decode of MPB and ID, 18+ dB SNR and 12.52 kbps, also headlines.
Distance 892 km = 554 stmi to SSE (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

*** CUBA. 13765 approx., S9 FMish RHC spurblob with F# tone, Feb 24 at
1517, also circa 13836, 13634, 13566, first- and second-orders out of
13700-AM at about 65 kHz intervals. Something`s always wrong at RHC. I
continue to be amazed that everyone else seems to ignore these. RHC
does not deserve a pass for constantly messing up our spectrum (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15140, Feb 24 at 1852, RHC mentioning that today is 60th
anniversary of first ``Onda Corta Experimental Cubana``, leading up to
RHC inauguration officially on Mayday. I`ve read some dispute that it
axually started a few weeks earlier. Something`s always wrong at RHC.
Must be the most self-congratulatory of SW stations. It`s always
something (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** GERMANY [non]. Re 15215, Feb 21 at 1600-1658: ``On Sun, Feb 21,
2021 at 10:58 AM, Glenn Hauser wrote: `I assume Richard Langley or
someone will archive the entire hour for more convenient hoering.`

Finally archived here:
https://shortwavearchive.com/archive/radio-mrang-february-21-2021
and here:

https://archive.org/details/radio-oomrang-15.215-mhz-21-february-2021-1600-utc
-- Richard Langley`` (Glenn Hauser, Feb 24, WOR)

** SWAZILAND [and non]. 11780, Feb 24 at 1523, S7-S9 in HOA language,
certainly not Brasil which maybe is breaking at midday; TWR music-box
IS once and off by 1530*. It`s their Somali service at 1500-1530,
extended to 1545 weekends. Not much else TA of note on band, but
11705, Tamazuj via Madagascar (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) a.k.a. ESWATINI

** U S A. 17700, Feb 24 at 1848, S7-S9 of open carrier, VOA Grimesland
already, prior to 1900-2000 French; do they really need to waste so
many kWh warming up? Taxpayers want to know. Hey, why not warm up with
a least a fragment of VOA English modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2074 monitoring: confirmed
Wednesday February 24 at 2100 on WRMI 7780, S9/+10 into Virginia SDR
but local noise bothers.

Also confirmed Wed Feb 24 from 2200:30 on WBCQ 7490.194v, S8 via
Missouri SDR.

Also confirmed Wed Feb 24 at 2300 on WRMI 9955, S8-S9 into Bonaire SDR
but rather heavy pulse jamming; at 2328 check, S6-S8 but better S/N
ratio into SJ Campo, Brasil SDR. Next, and last:

0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

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Next WOR 2075 should be ready early UT Friday Feb 26 for first
broadcasts on WRMI 5850, 7780 at 0130 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0018 UT February 25
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