** ALBANIA [non]. 15770, Mon Apr 13 at 2015, WRMI amid Radio Prague
International in English as usual; recheck at 2050, nothing but music,
from Radio Tirana? Yes, 2058 Tirana theme and 2059 its IS before cut
to JIP TOMBS at 2100.

It appears that over two weeks since the stupid clock change in
Europe, automated recording of RT for this and the German relay have
not been reset an hour earlier, instead keeps picking up music fill on
that stream at the former UT feed time. I`ve had to point this out
season after season, but am not responsible, nor is anyone else, not
even Radio Tirana itself which pretends it`s not on SW at all!

But WRMI has inserted a new time for RT even if it`s defective: 2230
UT on 7780, as noted by Richard Langley on April 12. This now shows on
the transmission schedule, as System H, but not below on System H or
any other program schedule at http://www.tinyurl.com/WRMIfqs
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. Missed SW repeats of April 12 `En Contacto`, but audio here:

https://cdn.teveo.cu/media/5W/Sn/EUZJjbRZny4c/artifact/R7WGgRVSHpVUkwQq.mp3

Hostess intro as Maya Quiroga. Pedro did not blow the 1300 in WWCR`s
address (any number would do, as there is nothing else on ``WWCR
Avenue``, but chosen to match their WNQM MW frequency; why not 15825
WWCR Ave.?); he said ``trethe-thero-thero``. Altho he pronounced it
Nashville, he spelt the city starting clearly with an H. Altho he`s in
Spain, Russian-influenced Cuban commies could easily confuse H with N.
Never mind the Greex (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15370, April 13 at 1950, RHC in English, good audio on
unscheduled frequency; has it been on since 1900 at least? // only
regular frequency 15140 which is as usual distorted. The same
continued after 2000 in French. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA [and non]. 11670, April 12 at 2338, RHC Spanish, S9+20 but
undermodulated with big hum: wiggle that patchcord! // much better
11760 which is S9+20/30. Something`s always wrong at RHC. No clash
with REE, which per Eibi is now running no later than 2300* and RHC
not until *2300 but it might be interesting to monitor at that time,
as REE often runs its IS for several minutes after closing (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MADAGASCAR [and non]. 5010v, April 13 at 0315, LAH between two weak
signals; one is surely RNM as always offset minus, and the other?
Maybe WRMI on past nominal 0230* --- or a Cuban 5040/5025 leapfrog?
Too late for India (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 9545, April 13 carrier until 0500:45*, no doubt
SIBC about to QSY to 5020 which won`t be audible till latere (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, April 13 at 2227 check, VOT already on in music fill
rather than signing on 30 minutes late as monitored April 10; perhaps
they even started at 2200 today (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2029 monitoring. Confirmed UT
Monday April 13 at 0130 & 0230 on WRMI 7780, both fair-good via
eastern remotes and both without any //, as it`s settled that 9395 &
5800 at 0130 have been overtaken by Radio Prague. WOR also confirmed
on WRN webcast at 0130.

Also confirmed from 0301 UT Monday April 13 on WBCQ 6159.93v but
ripple carrier disturbing modulation: this transmitter again
substituting like last night for 5130 during Area 51.

Also confirmed UT Monday Apr 13 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, JBA here. Too
bad VG 5800 cut off just in time as until 0330 had been // 9955 with
RPI.

Also confirmed Monday April 13, from 1802 JIP during initial Alaska
item, on IRRS 7290. After 1800 ID, and FSN headlines, but drops to
dead air except for some hum, before finishing first one, not resuming
till WOR 2029 playout is already running. Still going at 1822 check,
but 1829 DA again just before WOR finishes; and there may have been
more breaks earlier.

7290 monitored via a substitute UTwente SDR explained at:
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
which is sufficient for this purpose:

``This WebSDR is a temporary replacement for the University of Twente
WebSDR. It is a makeshift setup at PA3FWM's home, with unfortunately
quite some local noise sources. The university receiver is currently
unusable due to an antenna malfunction since April 8. Because of
access restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it is unclear if and
when it can be repaired. Hence this replacement``

Also confirmed UT Tuesday April 14 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, fair via
UTwente. Next:

2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

Thanks this week for financial support from Doug Brown of
London, Ontario and Seminole, Florida who sent a US$ cheque
to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US
funds, to woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 6159.959v, Sun April 12 at 2325, WBCQ is on here again like
last night instead of 5130 off for maintenance; music but
undermodulated. See also WOR monitoring (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5850 & 7570 & 7730, April 12 at 2329, surprised to find
WRMIs 11-12-13 all off the air. All had been BSing from 2300 as
confirmed on the April 10 edition of EiBi; but WRMI websked is now
updated as of April 11 showing no BS on these until 0000 (5850
Slovakia), except Fridays when 5850 starts another gospel huxter at
2230 and stays on with BS from 2300. Perhaps adding all those
transmitters for TOMBS on Sabbathday morning entailed some reduxions
elsewhere (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5800, April 13 at 0317, WRMI with R. Prague, sacred choral
music on easter Sunday, maybe St Matthew Passion excerpt as not IDed
before closing at 0328 and then applause; bit of other music but 0330
cut to dead air, and off by 0331*, just in time to avoid simulcasting
9955 for WOR as until now it has been //. 5800 is supposedly scheduled
now with RAE in Spanish at 0230-0330*. See also MADAGASCAR (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9350, April 13 at 2001, this WWCR has during a pause,
cross-talk from something else, presumably bleeding out of another
WWCR transmitter. It would have been clearly readable without self-QRM
and volume upturned (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

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Logs 7-4
https://zliangaslogs.blogspot.com/2020/04/logs-on-794.html
Fast track  reception morning 7-4 with R75 on 0425 -0445 and then sorted by freq
4775 Tarma 0442 talx no S indic
4840 WWCR 0441 S7
4885 Clube de para S5
4980 Spanish on 0440 S9
5025 Rebelde  talx S5
5040 RHCuba  S5
6070 0426 apres toi by Vicky Leandros
6165 NHK 0447 in RU S20
9420 ERA  with greek  program S3 only
9490 NHK Japanese  S20
9525 Denge Welat S20
9620 RFI in French S20
9825 WHRI 2 0428 in English S3 only

 
Logs on 9/4
6181 1304 iceceak sinlang servet ..nor uc , opewrator tlking I turkish -86dbm max
9250 harmonic? Of buzzer 1322 with -110/-130 dbm
9370 Farda 0729 pesian pop songs -110dbm 0730 clock then YL with news headlines
9370 RFA 1324 with tlaks in Bamar , fist by YK then by OM over a airhorn audio -85dbm. Modeate audio quality at 2x2.8 kHz
9420  CNR13  my beacon station of the band 1319 with man talking over some nice flute music
9650  Guinee 0752 tlask in French local afro music -95dbm Also on 0805 after returing  back to mini pc the songs remind me the yeke yeke song of the past
9947 kontayner OTHR burst at-95dbm and on -107/120dbm
Just look on the photo on how both sigls are totally in synchro! In he left you an see the signal of R Japan
11740 CNR1 instead of Al Azm missing in 11745 with -80dbm but with better audio fidelity to 2x8.5 khz adverts on 1258 Beijing time 2000 pao she zhongguo zheshen . CNR Xindi zheshen and once again with adverts one of them with Italy (what? !!!) then with talks Also on 11790
15090 0841 tlks about Talibans  and Afganistan in farsi .Also phone ins on 0845 -85dbm max
15135 CRI 0851 Indo , <-85 dbm with lessons of Chinese 0858 with news . Alsooon 15135 with Chinese song partly similar to let it be on 0920 There is also a noise from the modem Meanwhile 21670 S Arabia Intl with indo too with Quran talks and -80 dbm better audio and nasyid song 2x4700 kHz
15320 in //synchro wih 15300 RFI in French -53dbm vs-70 , phone ins by YL2 YL . tlas about  the usage of face masks
17490 CRI English 0846 with just -84/-130dbm today Seems as making Chinese lessons

MW

1700 big net from 7 greek radio  operators : TD , untuned, Jim and a few I didn’t notice 1340 with various levels D with -45dbm
1650 local pirate with old songs from a wellk nown love singer parios of 70-80s  -55dbm
1630 unknown station with songs mostly from the same very good singer of  1980-2013 Mitropanos who leves te freq on 1400 with -77dbm
1026 Iran 2021 usign RSP with -73dbm with phone ins

https://sites.google.com/site/zliangas/sdr

Zacharias LiangasRSP1a  with Console & Uno &2x16 m antena
Icom  R75 /PL380 /  De1103  radios
https://del.icio.us/gr_greek1/ZAK (all pages)
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I did some Africa checks using TWR's Kiwi SDR in Kempton Park, SOUTH
AFRICA. All times are UTC, all frequencies in kHz.

BRAZIL
Voz Missionaria, 5939.6 - 10 April 2020 - 2004, very weak signal, but 
during fading peaks the talk was clearly in Brazilian Portugese. 25311 
(EiBi - TWR KiwiSDR Kempton Park, RSA).
CONGO (REP.)
Radio Congo, 6115 - 10 April 2020 - 1819, French, health advice. 35322
12 April 2020 - 1715, Talk in local language (presumably Kituba), 
mentioning Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire frequently, with audio clips of 
speeches in French. Trying to find a schedule for this station, but they 
don't even a website. 1801: News in French, 1809 Covid case numbers by 
district from Lumumba arondissement, Pointe-Noire, Brazzaville, hospital 
occupation rates. 44433. Close down at 1832 (EiBi - TWR KiwiSDR Kempton 
Park, RSA).
ESWATINI
TWR, 1170 - 10 April 2020 - 1822, English, Sermon: Death. 55555 (EiBi - 
TWR KiwiSDR Kempton Park, RSA).
KUWAIT
Radio Kuwait, 11629.77 - 12 April 2020 - 1423, Arabic singing, 42432 
with a strong het from 11630.0 - China National Radio 17 from Lingshi, 
32432 (EiBi - TWR KiwiSDR Kempton Park, RSA).
MADAGASCAR
Radio Madagasikara, 5009.92 - 10 April 2020 - 1827, African music with 
short, fast IDs between songs. Enjoyable listening. At 1901 News 
program, including - guess what - "coronavirus", c/d in mid-sentence at 
1904. 35322 in the beginning, 45322 toward the end.
Same, 11 April 2020 (Saturday) - 1856, songs, 1901: Jingle with multiple 
IDs "Radio Madagascar" (that's what it sounded like, maybe that's the 
Malagasy pronounciation of Madagasikara, as all other words were 
Malagasy, no French heard at all). News with many items about 
"coronavirus". Today (Saturday) they transmit longer. Still running with 
reports (still mentioning coronavirus all the time) at 2040. Still 
running with cheesy popmx at 2217.
Sunday 12 April, on air at 1512 with African music, 45343 (EiBi - TWR 
KiwiSDR Kempton Park, RSA).
NIGERIA
Voice of Nigeria, 11769.9 - 12 April 2020 - 1517, Interview in Swahili, 
at 1532 heard in Arabic. 54433, with slightly muffled audio (EiBi - TWR 
KiwiSDR Kempton Park, RSA).
TANZANIA (non)
10 April 2020 - 1821: No signal from Zanzibar on 11735, empty channel 
(EiBi - TWR KiwiSDR Kempton Park, RSA).
VATICAN CITY
Vatican Radio, Special transmission of the Pope's Good Friday service 
"Stations of the Cross" monitored in the target area - 10 April 2020 - 1907:

 7360 English: 45333
 9450 Arabic: 45333
 9620 Portuguese: 55433
 9705 French: 35322
(EiBi - TWR KiwiSDR Kempton Park, RSA).
YEMEN (non)
Yemen Radio via Saudi Arabia, 11860 - 12 April 2020 - 1449, singing in 
Arabic, strong signal here in the extension of the signal beam from 
Riyadh toward Yemen. 55433 (EiBi - TWR KiwiSDR Kempton Park, RSA).
ZAMBIA
ZNBC, 5915 - 10 April 2020 - 1817, End of English section with a 
commercial, then into local language mentioning Lusaka. 45333. Later at 
2002: 55433 (EiBi - TWR KiwiSDR Kempton Park, RSA).
73!
Eike
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** CUBA. 11830-11855 & 11908-11955 approx., April 11 at 1454, expanse
of jamsplat if not full pulse jamming. Tuning upwards I at first think
it`s centred about 11845, a long-gone Radio Martí frequency. But there
is full jamming against current RM on 11860 and more splat on its plus
side, obscured by 11880 CRI relay. And another range certainly coming
out of the other RM jammed channel, 11930. In their zeal to suppress
any dissent, the Cuban Commies don`t give a damn about what collateral
damage it may cause, even to their own other broadcasts (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15370, April 11 at 2016, RHC French at S9/+10 but distorted
with hum; while in a switch, // 15140 has OK modulation at S9+20.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 5025, April 12 at 0013, Radio Rebelde back on air at S9+25
after missing last night, and now with OK modulation; but for how
long? Something must be wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11850, April 12 at 0457-0502*, dead air averaging S9 and the
SSOB. Got to be RHC; also much weaker 11700 with JBA Spanish goes off
about same time. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** CUBA. 13700 // 13780, April 12 at 1343, last half of EHC `En
Contacto`, acknowledging reception report for 11840! That frequency
was replaced last year by 11850, demoting 11840 to only that minus 10
kHz JBA spur, so was it what they really heard?! Or is this another
oldshow rerun? On to Pedro Sedano`s monthly report from AER in Spain
with the current sked for WWCR Spanish, L-V 21-22 on 15825. He always
laboriously spells out postal addresses of stations which are anything
but Spanish, including H-A-S-H-V-I-L-L-E [sic]! I think he also blew
the ``1300`` but will have to listen again. Then the Spanish skeds for
safely Commie stations VOK and VOV, with their addresses. Final
segment back to Arnie at home via marvelous fibre-optic line for
propagation, but all he does is somehow connect the pandemic with
900-km DX between E & W Cuba on 2 meters --- tropo or Es? This week`s
hostess seems named Maya Quiroz. Of course, any announcer can handle
it, since Arnie writes the whole script, including third-person
references to himself. Also filled some time with vintage Radio
Rebelde clips.

6000, April 12 at 1343, presumed RHC carrier still on here, JBM,
before I ascend to 13 MHz for En Contacto.

13620, April 12 at 1350, leapfrog mixing product of RHC 13780 over
13700 another 80 kHz lower, this time with enough // modulation to
make it certain. Reverse leap on 13860 is however a JBA carrier.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA [and non]. 15140, April 12 at 1558, JBA carrier means RHC must
be off instead of continuous, uncovering OMAN. 11760 RHC is still
running for midday. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, April 12 at 0502, NO signal from RNZI tho
scheduled here daily 0459-0658; nor other nights. If really still on
there, zero propagation where it used to be a standout, SSOB by far on
25m, in fact its best frequency of all (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, April 12 at 0010, S9 of rap music. These
logs say it`s Texas Radio Shortwave on an Easter theme until 0030:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,65462.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 15205.060, April 12 at 1600, S8-S9 in Arabic, not //
15435v, not measured. These fit for B-19 schedule from SBC, Qur`an and
General services respectively (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2029 monitoring: Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria:
``Reception of World of Radio#2029 via WRMI-09 Okeechobee, April 11:

https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/04/reception-of-world-of-radio2029-via.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC3Y9FhuqJk&feature=youtu.be
1300-1330 on 15770 RMI 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English Sat, weak``

Also confirmed UT Sunday April 12 starting at 0313 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM,
Wentzville MO during the Gateway 160 Meter Radio Newsletter; tried via
different KiwiSDRs nearby in IL, KY, none in MO; and got best results
from Edinburgh, Indiana. Next:

0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE [presumably still not 9395]
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW [or 6160v?]
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 32100-USB or 5045-USB
1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

Thanks this week for financial support from Doug Brown of
London, Ontario and Seminole, Florida who sent a US$ cheque
to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US
funds, to woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 6159.91, April 12 at 0009, WBCQ at S9/+20 with music, yet
rough copy in noise level. Last-minute notice came from Larry Will
that due to maintenance, Area 51 would be on 6160 instead of 5130
Saturday night from 2300. Unknown yet whether that will still apply
for the Sunday night span, including WORLD OF RADIO at 0300v UT Monday
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7570, Sat April 11 at 1534, survey of all WRMI frequencies,
10! of which are scheduled for Brother HyStairical`s live Sabbath
service --- any social distancing in the tabernacle? --- finds no
signal on this one but TOMBS or at least a carrier on 5800, 5850,
5950, 7730, 7780, 9395, 9455, 9955; 5010 also listed but not checked.
Only 15770 is on with something else, SMTV (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5085, April 12 at 0012, WTWW-2 tune-in finds TONITO already
running earlier than usual, S9+30/40 somewhat distorted organ music
and I`m not near the computer for the $ tereo webcast. Applause between
selexions, and considerable hum, background noise during pauses, but
doesn`t sound like air compressor. 0030 during final piece other
extraneous noises, animal? 0032 outro as again a performance by guest
Len; 0033 finished, into a Morse CQ as hamstuff resumes (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** U S A. 3215, April 12 at 0019, gospel huxter on presumed WWRB
before 3215 switch to WWCR at 0100. On air weekends only, but in
A-season normally ascends to 5050. Not yet, so when? (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. 18143-USB, April 12 at 1847, KW6J/7 contact with
someone in Waukesha WI, unheard. We have sporadic E opening from AZ
per DX MAP showing MUF of 30 MHz over NM in between (but nothing heard
on 21 MHz band except JBA carrier from 21525 WRMI). QRZ.com:
``KW6J/7, BRIAN C STAPLETON, 642 RAMONA DR, CORONA DEL MAR CA 92625``
But I think he`s in AZ now, says he goes back and forth to CA.

18131-USB, April 12 at 1851, another OM in Phœnix judging from local
refs, inviting check-ins to YL-System net or something like that. But
neglecting to sign his own call.

18145-USB, April 12 at 1852, among a few other phone sigs on band, Oz?
accent, says he is ex-RAF, worked in Saudi Arabia as civilian, VE7UHS.
DX Map unshows any Es UHF over this path, Rob Hatch in West Kelowna
BC, with lots of photos:
https://www.qrz.com/lookup/ve7uhs
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 11895, April 12 at 0503, after 11850 & 11700 CUBA go
off, this is the OSOB, S8-S9 and JBM? Aoki shows CRI English via
Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN, land of imprisoning and brainwashing native
Uyghurs; but also RFA Chinese via SAIPAN which of course requires
additional CNR1 jamming; still there at 0602 sounds like Chinese, so
likely the latter. If really Saipan, could be noticeably off-frequency
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

75, Glenn

This report dispatched at 1947 UT April 12
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Fixing a couple of minor 1-or-2 letter typos:

** CUBA. 13700 // 13780, April 12 at 1343, last half of RHC `En
Contacto`, acknowledging reception report for 11840! That frequency
was replaced last year by 11850, demoting 11840 to only that minus 10
kHz JBA spur, so was it what they really heard?! . . .

18145-USB, April 12 at 1852, among a few other phone sigs on band, Oz?
accent, says he is ex-RAF, worked in Saudi Arabia as civilian, VE7UHS.
DX Map unshows any Es MUF over this path, Rob Hatch in West Kelowna
BC, with lots of photos:
https://www.qrz.com/lookup/ve7uhs
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

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