** ARGENTINA [non]. 5800, Jan 22 at 0100, RAE AAM vamp theme and
opening Spanish, 0102 into news, so this WRMI relay off to a good
start. Not rechecked until 0153 however when fill music, Oldies is
already playing, so unknown how much of the 54? minute program axually
played (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15370, Jan 21 at 2035, RHC in Brazuguese, fair S9 but
distorted. This semihour is supposed to be in French with BB not until
2100, so whatlang then? Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13670 & 13811 & 13881 & 13598 approx., Jan 22 at 2314, FM/AM
spurblobs out of RHC tarde transmitter 13740, the closer ones S9+10.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15140, Jan 22 at 1556, RHC is suptorted; 15230 is weaker but
better modulated. By 1820, 15140 is so suptorted I cannot be sure of
language; only by comparing to 11760 is it Spanish as scheduled.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. From a few km away, Richard Allan, IRCA
independently matched my obs of January 20 under UNIDENTIFIED about
1566 being heard beyond 1345 UT:

``Oklahoma TP DX 1/20/2020 Richard Allen Jan 20 #5927 --- Like
yesterday, only HLAZ provided any audible signal again this morning.

828 JOBB? weak het at 1330.
972 HLCA? carrier signal at 1320; still heard at 1358.

1566 HLAZ trace of a signal noted at 1319; barely audible talking at
1320 and 1332; poor signal from 1341 until close of Japanese broadcast
at 1344 (LSR 1339). Surprisingly heard with barely audible signal at
1348 deteriorating to a trace by 1355-1400. Receiver: Skywave with
ALA1530LNP aerial. Richard Allen, near Perry OK USA``

DXers in NW USA/SW Canada also reported that was a banner day for TP
MWDX which they were still getting a bihour later (Glenn Hauser, Enid,
WOR)

** TURKEY. 5960, Jan 21 at 2356:47, VOT IS still playing and now
starts German IDs twice a minute; 0000:02 Jan 22, timesignal ending
two seconds late and into spurious German hour. Something`s always
wrong at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 245-MCW kHz, Jan 22 at 0709 UT, ND beacon FS, which is 400
watts from Sioux Falls - Rock, South Dakota. I heard it first, tuned
to 243-USB, where it seems not a single station is listed by
dxinfocentre.com nor at classaxe.com.

329-MCW kHz, Jan 22 at 0717, ND beacon PMV, which is 25 watts from
Plattsmouth, Nebraska (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 6159.875v, Jan 21 at 2312, WBCQ-4 is off again, after
continuous(?) for a couple days with Brother Scare, so was a test?
Never appeared on WBCQ or TOM skeds. But this twit from AW:

``Allan Weiner @AllanWBCQ · Jan 20 Hey. 6160 khz on the air 24/7
testing. Please listen. Reception reports to wbcq@wbcq.com. It’s your
shortwave - do use it folks. Cold at the transmitter. Cold in FLA.
Here doing RF research. Fun. 😎`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [non]. 9330, Jan 22 at 0658, big carrier S9+20/30 with some
hum, NOT WBCQ coming back, but Cuban spynumbers about to start as
scheduled 4 nights a week at 0700. Yes, WBCQ still AWOL later in the
day by 1845; how much longer? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5830, Jan 21 at 2048, WTWW-1 night frequency is on in the
daytime with PPPP. Continued on air whenever checked into evening, and
still at 0648 Jan 22, S9+10 but undermodulated.

5085, Jan 21 at 2048, WTWW-2 night frequency is also on in the
daytime, but open carrier S9+20, even stronger than 5830. Parasitic
spurs are also JBA carriers circa 5072.1 & 5097.9. 5085 still on with
dead air at 2110, 2208, 2354, why such a waste of watts? Probably
started modulation circa 0200 as usual.

At 1845 UT Jan 22, neither is on the air again, yet? (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5890, Jan 22 at 0408, WWCR-4 is S9+20 of dead air during the
abbreviated 03-05 UT Tue-Sat block it`s supposed to be on plus
modulating. By 0433 the Worship show can be heard. 0648 still on with
dead air, having failed to turn off the transmitter at 0500 as seems
to happen one or two nights per week (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1090, Jan 22 at 0703 UT as I tune in, KAAY Little Rock ID
and into its ToH dead air, presumably for another 2 or 3 minutes as
usual. Someone else reported DA atop another hour, 0400 UT. It seems
multi-station owner Cumulus is incapable of running this to minimal
expectations (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

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** ARGENTINA [non]. 5800, UT Tue Jan 21 at 0100, RAE Spanish opening
via WRMI, but in less than a minute switches to hymns in English which
fill the rest of the hour; normally those fill only the final 5
minutes as the RAE hour is that much shorter. I suspect today`s RAE
file was corrupted, thus causing the default. I notified WRMI people
about this by 0110 but evidently nothing could be done to bring RAE
back upon such short notice. It`s critical to be sure a complete file
be uploaded to the proper System with the proper exact file name, to
succeed onto the air. Last Monday/UT Tuesday RAE Spanish also failed
to appear with hymns such as `Onward Christian Soldiers` instead
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CANADA [and non]. 392 kHz, Jan 21 at 0734 UT, ND beacon ML and
dash, which is 500 watts from La Malbaie - Charlevoix, Quebec, and not
to be confused with the listed 25-watt ML on 392 from Monroe,
Louisiana; and mixing with FMZ, which is 25 watts from Fairmont -
Beklof, Nebraska. Similar pitches but slightly different periods
helping to unravel them. Note that Beklof spelt backwards is Folkeb
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CANADA [and non]. 530-CLSB, Jan 21 at 0726 UT, Asian language with
much more modulation on LSB than USB, i.e. CHLO Brampton Ont., 250
watts night, ethnic. AM 530 provides only 4-year-old program sked!:
http://am530.ca/AM-530-Program-Schedule-February2016.pdf
with generic ``South Asian (Punjabi/Hindi)`` overnights.

But LSB! I don`t recall anyone ever noting this anomaly before, as
most MW DXers are not alert for it, like on certain stations in
AZ/NM/CO we have monitored before. The effect of this, on longwire
with no antenna manipulation, is that tuning USB, Cuba is on top;
tuning LSB, CHLO is atop. Now if Enciclopedia would suppress its LSB,
we`d have a more equitable share (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CANADA. RE: unscheduled weather on 2598-USB before 0700 UT, Rick
Wald, Taber, Alberta, Canada, replies Jan 20 on the ptsw iogroup:

``Canada USB Broadcast 2598 is marine weather station. Labrador &
Newfoundland just had a Winter Storm of epic/historic proportions;
eclipsing every historic record they had. All in the last 96 hours!!
Any chance the 2 are related??`` -- that may well explain extra
broadcasts. I was merely wanting to find out from which of the six
possible stations without being able to hear an ID (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** CUBA. 15140, Jan 20 at 2033, RHC English distorted with hum, as
heard on caradio. Wiggle that patchcord! Something`s always wrong at
RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11850, Jan 20 at 2207, RHC Spanish S9+10 but Just Barely
Modulated. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 6145, Jan 21 at 0714, this is the only RHC English frequency
of The Cuban Five still on the air, and it`s only S7-S8 and JBM.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 5025, Jan 21 at 0715, Radio Rebelde is splattering plus/minus
10 kHz. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15700, Jan 21 at 1544, China Plus relay is S9/+10 but JBM.
Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** KOREA SOUTH. 9095, Mon Jan 20 at 2245, JBA carrier vs utehash on
the plus side, presumed this week`s jumparound frequency from Echo of
Hope, instead of 9100 or 9105; indeed only 9095 is shown in the
current Aoki/NDXC listing. Perhaps Ron Howard will soon compile a
rundown of the other Monday changes this week; all the lower ones more
likely to be heard in our mornings (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS. 9790.028, Jan 21 at 1550, Chinese at
S9-S7, of course, SAIPAN site scheduled this hour only with RFA. No
CNR1 jamming audible for a change against perpetually off-frequency
site (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. 379 kHz, Jan 21 at 0737 UT, ND beacon RUE, which
is 25 watts from Russellville Arkansas; and mixing with DL, which is
50 watts from Duluth - Pike Lake, Minnesota. Same pitch but different
periods. Also at 0739 mixing with BRA, which is 400 watts from
Asheville - Broad River, North Carolina.

392 kHz, Jan 21 at 0734 UT, ND beacon ML and dash, which is 500 watts
from La Malbaie - Charlevoix, Quebec, and not to be confused with the
listed 25-watt ML on 392 from Monroe, Louisiana; and mixing with FMZ,
which is 25 watts from Fairmont - Beklof, Nebraska. Similar pitches
but slightly different periods helping to unravel them. Note that
Beklof spelt backwards is Folkeb.

400 kHz, Jan 21 at 0731 UT, ND beacon AHQ, which is 25 watts from
Wahoo, Nebraska.

408 kHz, Jan 21 at 0730 UT, ND beacon JDM, which is 25 watts from
Colby - Wheatfield, in the NW corner of Kansas (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A [non]. 15580, Jan 20 at 2034, VOA `The African Beat` music VG
and pause for some MLK info; on caradio. Unusually strong for BOTSWANA
site scheduled this hour aimed 10 degrees; wonder if GB substituting?
Still more fading than we get from single-hop Grimesland (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2017 monitoring: re what happened
to at least half of the IRRS airing missing, Mon Jan 20 at 1918 on
7290, Alfredo Cotroneo replies: ``Hi Glen[n], There was a tx failure
and we had to switch on another tx. 73 Alfredo``

As I said, popped back on air at *1930 as soon as WOR was finished;
FSN for a few minutes and at 1935.5 `Shortwave [sic] Report`, which
provides non-SW recordings of a few of Dan Roberts` favorite stations,
always RHC, usually DW, NHK, etc. Tsk2, in such a rut when he could
include far more diversity of sources, especially recording off
webcasts instead of direct via SW.

WOR 2017 also confirmed UT Tue Jan 21 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, fair via
UTwente -85-100 dBm, while here it`s a JBA carrier. Propagation
pitiful tonight with zero WRMI signals on 9955, 9455, 9395; very
degraded on the two 7s which are always stronger than 7780 due to
azimuths, 7730 and 7570. Next:

0900 UT Wednesday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2200 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
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 6159.875v, Jan 20 at 2242, WBCQ reactivated with Brother
Scare, S7-S9. This transmitter has been languishing for months; AW
wanted to sell much time to a single client and apparently now BS has
bitten, despite already being on several other US SW frequencies so
this one hardly necessary. Is he on the WBCQ schedule? Of course not!
Only 6160 listing is the live AAAWWW UT Sat at 0100, even tho 6160v
has not been active then either. (It also still shows 9330 with WLC at
2030-0300 only instead of 23 hpd, or rather zero currently with latest
failure.) Is 6160 on the BS schedule? Of course not: ``Overcomer
Ministry Radio Log June 2019``. Still going at 0047 check Jan 21 at
poor S6-S7; and at 0713. May well be running 24 hours -- plug in, turn
him on and forget it. 6159.9v, WBCQ-4, was first noticed by Ivo in
Bulgaria, Jan 20 at 0815, but expected to be blocked there by WIS
Germany ``Shortwave Radio`` on 6160.0 from 0858 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A. 7490.25v, Jan 21 at 0129, `From the Isle of Music` is JBA on
WBCQ; propagation even worse than usual tonight. WBCQ ought flexibly
to put all its power into 3265v during these dark winter nights at
solar minimum, for a much greater propagational advantage (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 2097.3-CW, Jan 21 at 0153, single-letter beacon A is JBA
again altho I could not hear it last night; from somewhere in SW USA
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 4930-USB, Jan 21 at 0716, JBA 2-way in Spanish with
talkovers, cambios. Available now after VOA Botswana at 03-06 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

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** CANADA. Re my 2598-USB mystery, marine weather from NL area on the
air before 0700 UT when none is scheduled, sent my last report to Bill
Hepburn of dxinfocenter.com and he replies:

``Warnings are broadcast on receipt. I'm guessing they included
amended forecasts at the same time.

The official Canadian information can still be found at

https://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/publications/mcts-sctm/ramn-arnm/part1-eng.html
pdf version here ...

https://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/publications/mcts-sctm/ramn-arnm/docs/RAMN-ARNM-2019-eng.pdf
wrh``

I replied: ``Bill, I searched on 2598 in each file, and it is only
mentioned once each in the tables of frequencies for something or
other, NO details about stations, or times. I already hunted for that
at the site referred from sexion 1.1.1 without finding it. Glenn``

``Part 2 is loaded with station information

https://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/publications/mcts-sctm/ramn-arnm/part2-eng.html
as is the .pdf which contains the entire publication. wrh``

``Bill, Tnx, that`s what I was looking for --- I wasn`t getting any
hits on ``2598`` because every entry is ``2598J3E``. 39 of them, and
not one accounts for any broadcasts just before 0700 UT, my original
question. Other than your previous comment apparently meaning they
could show up at any time. 73, Glenn`` (Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15140, Jan 20 at 1520, RHC `Sonido Cubano` music is
overmodulated and distorted; OK on // 15230 on late, and 13700, with
no spurs today either. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS. 11570.023, Jan 20 at 1452, VOA Korean is
S9-S7; figured it would be SAIPAN so far off-frequency, and yes, it
is, at 14-15 per Aoki/NDXC. Previous bihour of same, however, 12-14 is
via Philippines (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2017 monitoring: confirmed Sunday
January 19 at 2130 on WRMI 7780, but JBA.

Also confirmed UT Monday January 20 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, good via
UTwente SDR Holland.

Also confirmed UT Monday January 20 at 0230 on WRMI 7780, good via
UTwente, and // 9395 poor. Then directly here, 7780 is good and 9395
JBA carrier. Also confirmed #2017 via WRN webcast.

Also confirmed UT Monday January 20 at 0400 on Area 51 webcast; at
0410 JBA on WBCQ 5130.

Also confirmed UT Monday January 20 at 0430 on WRMI webcast, but JBA
carrier on 9955.

Also confirmed Monday January 20 from 1901+ on IRRS 7290, Romania? via
UTwente SDR -- VG this week at -45 to -55 dBu readings, soon
increasing to 65-75. *1857 came on big carrier, 1859.5 JIP Aïda theme,
IRRS sign-on, 1900:40 FSN headlines and right into WOR.

HOWEVER, at 1918 I notice the signal is GONE! Probably some minutes
earlier; did not have headphones on but could still hear some audio
from them beside me until the noise now. Still OFF until *1930 WOR
over and comes right back on with FSN(?) news. Next:

0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
0900 UT Wednesday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2200 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
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. Doug Smith replies on the WTFDA Forum to my observations of
flashing PSIP calls on KMPX-30 ``29``, 01-16-2020, 09:15 AM:

``My guess (this is a guess) is KMPX has two "PSIP generators"
connected and they're programmed slightly differently -- one with the
"HD" and "-2" and one without the HD & dash.

The "PSIP generator" is a computer attached to the "stream
multiplexer". The multiplexer interleaves "packets" of PSIP data with
packets of audio and video data from the MPEG encoder(s).

PSIP packets are to be transmitted at varying intervals, depending on
what type of data is being transmitted (the "Virtual Channel Table",
or TVCT, is responsible for the way channel names display. There are
roughly a handful of other "tables" that do things internal to your
TV).

I'm guessing you're seeing data first from one generator & then from
the other. Presumably they have a backup unit & left both running at
the same time`` (Glenn Hauser, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search January 20 from 1343
to 1354, local sunrise being 1341, now 3 minutes earlier than our
yearly latest a biweek ago, first on the R75 with E-W longwire so no
DFing, starting at top end:

1566, presumed FEBC Jeju Island, Korea South, the strongest up here
and I am carefully listening for it to go off between 1344 and 1345 at
scheduled beam change from Japanese to Chinese --- almost at 1344.5,
but it`s still there! past 1345 and the next 5 minutes, when finally
at 1354 I DF it on the handheld DX-398 as definitely from the NW, not
WSW. So was it so strong (I almost heard some audio at first) that
remained incoming after beamswitch, or did not change it on time
today? Just yesterday, my neighbor Richard Allen said it did:

``Oklahoma TP DX 1/19/2020, Richard Allen, Jan 19 #5906 IRCA
Except for hearing HLAZ closing down its transmission to Japan, TP DX
was non-existent here this morning. 1566, HLAZ barely audible signal
at 1337 (LSR 1339); barely audible talking and some music at
1341-1342: poor Japanese language talk before close at 1344. This was
the first trace of a TP signal here is nearly a fortnight. Usually
audible JOUB was last heard on 1/6. Receiver: Skywave with ALA1530LNP
aerial. Richard Allen, near Perry OK USA``

Meanwhile a quick check of some other 9-kHz channels: also carriers on
1593, 1557, 1548, 1143, 1044, 972 but lower ones are just about gone
after sunrise here.

AND at 1349, 1206-, off-frequency-minus. What could that be? MW
offsets has a VG choice:
``1205.96, CHN, Yanbian RGD Korean News General (Yanji/Longjing),
2000-1600, 2016-08-09``

That`s right next to Korea North, and at 200 kW is by far the
strongest PRC station, or any east Asian, on 1206. The only other
significantly below 1206 is an Indonesian, 1205.4, too far in more
ways than one (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15805, Jan 20 at 1518, buzz centered here covering about
10 kHz, but does not sound like usual DRM. Only thing scheduled here
was World Music Radio, Denmark, weekends only (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

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My SW Logs

*Date : January 18, 2020Receiver: Tecsun PL660Antenna: TelescopicStations
received at Chennai (Madras), India.*
Station: Voice of America Khmer Service
Time : 13.30 UTC
Freq. : 11695 Khz
SINPO : 4444

Programme details: When I tuned into VoA Khmer Service at 13.30 UTC I heard
station id of Voice of America followed by demale announcer speaking.

Station: Voice of America Chinese Service
Time : 13.20 UTC
Freq. : 11660 Khz
SINPO : 3333

Programme details: When I tuned into VoA Chinese Service at 13.20 UTC I
heard male announcer speaking and there was lot of transmission noise and
interference.

Station: Voice of America Korean Service
Time : 13.15 UTC
Freq. : 11570 Khz
SINPO : 3233

Programme details: When I tuned into VoA Korean Service at 13.15 UTC I
heard male and female announcer speaking.

Station: Radio Free Asia Chinese Service
Time : 04.20 UTC
Freq. : 11980 Khz
SINPO : 2222

Programme details: When I tuned into Radio Free Asia Chinese Service at
04.20 UTC I heard male announcer speaking.

Station: RTM Wai Limbang FM Malaysian
Time : 13.20 UTC
Freq. : 11665 Khz
SINPO : 2222

Programme details: When I tuned into RTM Wai Limbang FM Malaysian at 13.20
UTC I heard male announcer speaking and there was lot of transmission noise
and interference by some other station.

Station: Maashal Radio Pashto Service
Time : 04.13 UTC
Freq. : 12110 Khz
SINPO : 2222

Programme details: When I tuned into Maashal Radio Pashto Service at 4.13
UTC I heard male announcer speaking and there was lot of transmission noise
and interference.

Station: Republic of Yemen Radio Arabic Service
Time : 04.08 UTC
Freq. : 11860 Khz
SINPO : 3333

Programme details: When I tuned into Republic of Yemen Radio Arabic Service
at 04.08 UTC I heard male announcer speaking.

Station: Radio Thailand Japanese Service
Time : 13.02 UTC
Freq. : 9940 Khz
SINPO : 2222

Programme details: When I tuned into Radio Thailand Japanese Service at
13.02 UTC I heard a male announcer speaking.

Station: World Christian Broadcast KNLS English Service
Time : 03.57 UTC
Freq. : 13760 Khz
SINPO : 3333

Programme details: When I tuned into World Christian Broadcast KNLS English
Service at 03.57 UTC I heard a song "This is the best day of my life" being
played.

Station: World Christian Broadcast Africa English Service
Time : 04.18 UTC
Freq. : 11825 Khz
SINPO : 3333

Programme details: When I tuned into World Christian Broadcast Africa
English Service at 04.18 UTC I heard a male announcer speaking about army
and some test after which music was played.
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*N. Arun Kumar*
*Chennai*
*India*
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** BRAZIL. 9667.4, Jan 19 at 0154, Brazuguese from Voz Missionária
noted in quick bandscan jumped way further off frequency than usual
circa 9664.9; fair signal. JBA carrier on 9818.6 presumed R. 9 de
Julho. Both refined at 0330: 9667.478v and 9818.633 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** CHINA. 9415, Jan 18 at 2320 some country music adjacent to 9420
Greece, 2322 Vietnamese talk, lite long/short path echo. It`s CRI
Beijing site this hour only, 500 kW at 193 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** CUBA. 6000 & 6145, Jan 18 at 0650, RHC English JBM; 6100 better,
5040 better yet, and 6060 also now in English and best by far of The
Cuban Five. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13326-trace, and progressively stronger FM/AM spurblobs at
68-70 kHz intervals circa 13394, 13462, 13532, 13601, 13677, Jan 18 at
2330 out of RHC 13740, with some matchers on the plus side circa
13809, 13880, 13947. Obviously same transmitter which does the same
thing most mornings when parked on 13700; and when 13740 is also on
the air from a different non-spurring unit. 13740 fundamental is
rather irregular in the evenings, and not heard at all a couple hours
later. It`s been a long time if ever since I`ve found a tarde spur
constellation like this on 13 MHz band. Something`s always wrong at
RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SAO TOME E PRINCIPE. 6080+, Jan 18 at 0648, rap music, must be VOA
relay as always significantly off-frequency+. Yes, 03-07 UT English in
three segments, 138 degrees until 05, then 20, and from 06, 0. Antenna
changes from type 156 to 106 at 0500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 5960, Sat Jan 18 at 2300+, no signal from VOT English to N
America, so no chance for 2400 German either. Something`s always wrong
at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5085, UT Sun Jan 19 at 0100 I notice that theatre organ
music is playing already, instead of usual 0130v start on WTWW-2; soon
I switch to $ tereo webcast. Final tune is ``Mr Sandman``, until 0133.5
finishes with ID and into ``real music``. I have yet to hear a
specific *name* for this show now out of Ozarx (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A [and non]. 1090, Jan 18 at 0659 UT, finally I tune in KAAY LR
AR early enough to tell what happen around hourtop: gospel song is cut
short for full legal ID proudly claiming to be a Cumulus station; two
or three PSAs, 0701 quick ID again and into dead air for four minutes
until 0705 resumes music.

Meanwhile I find main QRM is from a 96/minute SAH = 1.6 Hz, not XEAU
which is also barely audible, but something with stupid sports talk in
English, roughly NE/SW, which also means there is still a TA carrier
1089 het from Talksport UK. Format can`t be Catholic KEXS MO daytimer
which anyhow hasn`t been cheating lately. Most likely fit around that
axis is KVOP Plainview TX, U4 5/0.5 kW which is partially sportive
with FSR but supposedly nulling thisaway; not WBAL or the IL, IN, IA,
1090 stations; but there is less likely WCAR Livonia MI, U4 250/500
watts with SBN (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1120, Jan 18 at 0710, KMOX St Louis with `Our American
Stories`, an engrossing and touching one. On UT Sats this is scheduled
1-5 am = 07-11 UT, while Mon-Fri it`s only 2-4 am = 08-10 UT. Details
of this nightly bihour of ``no politix``:
https://www.ouramericannetwork.org/recent_shows

KMOX has quite a variety of programming beyond a*s*o*e Rush;
https://kmox.radio.com/shows/show-schedule
-- even `Meet the Press` Sundays 8-9 pm = UT Mondays 02-03, which last
I checked was on a competing network. I guess such distinxions no
longer matter. No sign of `Face the Nation`! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 2023 UT January 19
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