** ARGENTINA [non]. 9395, March 30 at 2130, WRMI, expecting to hear
Italian hour from RAE, but instead it`s in Brazuguese! talking about
this being a special program, due to COVID-19 quarantine; RAE relaying
Radio Nacional domestic; no new programs now via WSMI [sic!], but
replays of old shows, and these announcements in the 8 languages; see
website for news. 2139 a bit of tango and into same info in German.
Probably would have heard the other six during the whole hour.

Then I see a report from Ivo Ivanov that today at 1300-1330 on 15770,
RAE relay was in Spanish/Italian/French/Chinese.

7780, March 30 at 2352 I check the RAE `French` semihour via WRMI, and
hear English, music, 2353 into Chinese.

5800, March 31 at 0241, this WRMI is still on with music, RAE French
announcer from home with same info, part of 8-language rotation. 5010
is off and no //s on 5, 7 or 9 MHz bands. 5800 retuned at 0249, has
gone off in meantime at odd hour. (No full survey of WRMIs this
evening) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA [and non]. 6125, 7355, 7435, March 31 at 0227, the incompetent
DentroCuban Jamming Command with wall-of-noise jamming on all three
against nothing, since in A-20, Radio Martí this hour is now on 5980,
7335 and 7365 all with NO jamming! Also 6030 with jamming as usual but
unusually atop it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, March 30 at 2059 tune-in, good signal with
ME song but cut off at 2100*. It`s Denge Welat, best heard here in a
long time; must tune in earlier. Ivo Ivanov also reports today:

``BRB Denge Welat via Grigoriopol/Issoudun March 30
0600-1600 on 11530 KCH 300 kW / 130 deg to WeAs Kurdish, weak+TRT*
1600-2100 on 11530 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish, very good
* co-ch same 11530 EMR 500 kW / 105 deg to WeAs Turkish R. Erdogan!``
No TRT jamming heard before or after 2100 here (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 7475, March 31 at 0211, there he is, anti-Christ
pirate Station YHWH with usual screed, thin modulation, but mostly
readable S8-S9; weaker but still on past 0302. Walt Salmaniw was
hearing him better than ever in BC; while Richard Langley heard him
not at all in NB. This time I beat Rick Barton to YHWH; he in AZ tuned
in at 0315.

Walt continues: ``Unlike most other evenings heard, YHWH has remained
at good/very good level for the last hour I've monitored, with only
occasional fades. Continues at 0335 with, "Christianity, the greatest
hoax". An old program heard many times in the past. Josiah promises to
come back after this hour canned program. 7475 went off at 0402:47 UT
with his brief time check (9:04, but actually was only 9:02 PM Pacific
Time). Can anyone make out his last name? Josiah ??? He mentions it,
but with the tinny audio, it's difficult to hear. 73, Walt`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. Correxion to one virtual channel cited, 52-1 MyNetwork,
not 51-2, fixed:

RF 23, March 30 circa 1525 UT, underpowered KSBI OKC is decoding thru
one of my antennas with a little tropo help, viz.: 52-1 KSBI-DT, 52-2
BOUNCE, 52-3 LAFF, 52-4 GRIT, 52-5 MYSTERY, each PSIP all-caps. This
matches rabbitears.info with 52-1 as MyNetwork, but not a.k.a.
nickname ``News 9 Plus`` --- that`s only on RF 25, KWTV 9-2. 52-1
takes CBS programming sometimes when bumped off KWTV 9-1, especially
tornado season and now CV to boot (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. 9690, March 30 at 2323, REE is VG S9+30/40 in Spanish; if
M/W/F English were to resume it would be at 2200. 9690 was reported
absent yesterday; anyhow it`s all RNE1 domestic relay now (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, March 30 at 2200+, nothing from VOT English as A-20
scheduled to N America; just RTTY de NAU PR; nor at 2227. Something`s
always erroneous at Emirler.

7275, March 31 at 0256, carrier cuts on and off and on at least
thrice; 0259 IS & ID JBA in English, VP around S7 but no QRhaM as they
are perfectly entitled to impose. Don`t TRT know that in the Americas,
this is a hamband? Did no one at HFCC clue them in? Timesignal at 0300
is accurate with WWV, not late! Usual VOT sign-on to W N America with
schedule including 9785, 9830 for earlier airings, but can`t copy it
completely to detect any errors to be prolonged for the next 7 months.
// 6165 to Asia is a JBA carrier. An earlier tentative version of HFCC
A-20 had this on 9515 like last year, thus our expectation, rather
than down to 7275 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 9795, March 30 at 2158-2200+, no signal, nor
at 2227-2230+, unlike yesterday with something SE Asian(?). Sometime
after 2300 however, when my inkpen failed, 9795 does contain something
like that, presumed FEBC Philippines. Maybe they start an hour earlier
on Sundays (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0442 UT March 31
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WORLD OF RADIO HITLIST UPDATE MARCH 30

Hi Glenn, My latest Hitlist update.
https://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm

1) Updated UTC offsets under Croatia, Germany, Greece, Romania
2) Japan - R Japan: Added second link for archived/on-demand shows

The next update will be 5 April to reflect change to UTC offset due to
DST change in New Zealand. Best wishes and 73, Alan Roe

** ANTARCTICA. 15475.97-CUSB, March 30 at 1531, RNASG, LRA36 on again
with a special, tnx tip from Manuel Méndez. Of three Brazilian
KiwiSDRs, Pardinho is maxed out as too often the case: the best one
has been getting too much publicity; wish they could increase its
capacity. JBA via the one near Rio; better at Campo, so I stick on
there for some Spanish mostly too weak to copy but ID in passing at
1538; 1545 brief feedback loop in talk, then music; 1553 full ID; 1602
this SDR times out after 30 minutes but may be restarted; Signal gone
sometime between 1615 and 1620 tho did not hear a sign-off (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** BRAZIL. 6010, March 30 at 1530, good signal with song in
Brazuguese, on the Rio KiwiSDR still tuned here from my last Colombia
check; so R. Inconfidência is certainly active from BH, at least now
in the daytime; on my way to ANTARCTICA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CANADA. Re my two logs of VY2ZM, PEI on 1845-LSB and 1838-LSB:

``Hi Glenn, I just wanted to comment on this. WPX is the Worked
Prefixes contest, one of the big ones where they activate rarer call
letters for different countries. During contests, which go on for many
hours, the phone operators would lose their voices if they had to keep
calling CQ. So they have it pre-recorded. It often sounds much
different than their voice when they speak to stations which comes
back to the CQ. Contests are only allowed on the older bands 160 to
10, not the newer ones like 17. All the best from Ireland, and keep up
the good work. Regards, Patrick Fitzpatrick``

I was also going to enquire why bother with a VY- call instead of VE-
(or VA-). Not to deny anyone their fun, but this PX tactic seems
totally artificial; still from the same common place, PEI in this
case; administrations complicit in the game (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA [non]. 11880, March 30 at 1505, CRI Plus relay via CUBA is
now here for A-20, ex-15700 at 14-16; S9+20 and undermodulated but
sufficient today. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** IRAN [non]. 12005, March 30 at 1509, S9-S5 of song, good ME music;
in HFCC parlance it`s USAGM in Fas via WOF, i.e. Radio Farda in
Persian via Woofferton UK at 13-18; also 11-13 via LAMpertheim,
Germany (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** KOREA SOUTH. 9100, March 30 at 1517, JBA carrier, no doubt Echo of
Hope; Ron Howard and I agree it was on 9095 yesterday (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. RF 23, March 30 circa 1525 UT, underpowered KSBI OKC is
decoding thru one of my antennas with a little tropo help, viz.: 52-1
KSBI-DT, 52-2 BOUNCE, 52-3 LAFF, 52-4 GRIT, 52-5 MYSTERY, each PSIP
all-caps. This matches rabbitears.info with 51-2 as MyNetwork, but not
a.k.a. nickname ``News 9 Plus`` --- that`s only on RF 25, KWTV 9-2.
52-1 takes CBS programming sometimes when bumped off KWTV 9-1,
especially tornado season and now CV to boot (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SWAZILAND [and non]. 9585, March 30 at 1523, fast SAH between two
equal signals colliding, one in Chinese? HFCC shows TWR in
Malgache/French until 1525 and CRI Japanese from Xi`an during whole
hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TAIWAN [non]. 5800, UT Mon Mar 30 at 0129, tune-in WRMI just in
time to hear Spanish closing of RTI yet again, another week of tests
at 0100 --- or is this now permanent? Then at 0130.5 into R. Prague //
9395, replacing WOR which aired on both exactly one week ago (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY [non]. 9830, March 29 at 2200, NO signal from VOT English to
N America on the first day of A-20, but no NAU RTTY either, just my
internal birdie. 2222 checking via UTwente, nothing there either, nor
on ex-5960 which was starting at 2300. Something`s always erroneous at
Emirler --- sporadic operation then and now (long before any CV
excuse).

9515, March 30 at 0337, trying again for VOT English to W North
America on new A-20 schedule from 0300. Oops, latest HFCC shows NOT
sked on 9515 like A-19, but on 7275 not only for Europe but North
America, invading our 40m hamband! and 7275 was heard the night before
by Jon Collins in UK. That I must check; the // for Asia now 6165
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2027 monitoring: reconfirmed gone
from Sunday March 29 airing at 2130 on WRMI 7780, rather something
musical on poor signal. Attrition of 7780 airings in the 21 UT hour to
zero means the remaining ones are all in the middle of the night in
European target, altho good in the evening for NE America, SE Canada
on the way.

7780, UT Mon Mar 30 at 0130, confirmed on WRMI, fair --- but NOT on
5800 like last week, nor 9395 which had been // before then. Both of
those are now carrying R. Prague International, in English, Sunday
Music Show. Permanent change, or confusion?

WRN via webcast and satellite, UT Mon Mar 30 at 0130, WOR 2027
confirmed here one UT hour earlier now that UK is on BST, even tho
this service is for N America, which timeshifted two sesquiweeks ago.

Also confirmed UT Mon Mar 30 at 0230 on WRMI 7780, fair.

Also confirmed UT Mon Mar 30 starting at 0303.5 on Area 51 webcast,
after raucous laughter from Julie`s Wild Kingdom; fair S9+10 on WBCQ
5130 at 0313 check.

Also confirmed UT Mon Mar 30 at 0337 the 0330 on WRMI 9955, fair S9
and no jamming.

Also confirmed Mon Mar 30 from 1800.5 on IRRS 7290, VG via UTwente
SDR, now shifted one UT hour earlier for summer time. Already on 7290
at 1757 with music fill, 1800 ID and one semi-minute of three FSN
headlines. And now, NO ACI from either side, nor is any sked in HFCC.
However there is some splash from 7280 Vietnam in Spanish, when
musical. Finishes at 1829.5, more FSN for about 5 minutes, then the
so-called `Shortwave Report` which if really 30 minutes (29?) long is
going to get chopped off by 1900*

Next WORs:
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

Thanks last week for financial support from Gerald T Pollard, Raleigh
NC, a generous seasonal check in US funds on a US bank, to Glenn
Hauser, PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

Thanks this week for financial support from Robert Brunner via PayPal
to woradio at yahoo.com --- PP not necessarily in US funds

Full updated schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. (7490v), UT Mon March 30 circa 0010 check, WBCQ webcast is
still encoring `Encore`, which supposedly ended a biweek ago. Heard an
announcement for Schumann Fantaisie in C, something by Rameau which
are not on this week`s playlist dated 28/3:
https://www.tumbril.co.uk/playlists
and apparently previous playlists are inaccessible. No complaints
about keeping classical going! Encore is still on the WBCQ 7490
program schedule for UT Monday 00-01.

9455, March 30 after 0200, `Encore` on WRMI with a good signal via
Rochester NY KiwiSDR.

BTW, Brice Avery says his day job is a hospital doctor, so he`s plenty
busy. He says there will be another Encore broadcast this Tuesday
March 31 at 1300 on WRMI 15770, which is NE toward Europe (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 13685-13690-13695, March 30 at 1425, DRM noise from WINB is
gone for A20, not around 15115 either, but forgot the NF:
15745-15750-15755 at 11-17 M-F; the rest, per HFCC: 0830-1100 M-F on
9975-9980-9985; same frequency Sat & Sun 0700-1000 --- really on
weekends too now?? 0700-0830 M-F 7310-7315-7320 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A. 17774.991 approx., March 30 at 1501, KVOH propagating S4-S6
with jazz, nice for a change, but not for long: ID in English as on
``17.775``, into Spanish about CV-19 with some more jazz mentioned
with accompaniment; unseems like `Frecuencia al Dia` as sked now on
Monday & Friday. As always slightly off-frequency minus from old(?))
transmitter; also as compared to WWV/H carrier on 15000.000. I don`t
see jazz explicitly on the Spanish program schedule, but there is a
`Jazz Session` hour in English, at 1600 Saturdays (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A. 17815, Mon Mar 30 at 1504, no signal from WHRI which could
be on here daily now; heard yesterday so more likely Sundays, a
Special Day for such adherents (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9795, March 29 at 2229, S9 tonal language, SE Asian?
Rising intonation at end of phrases like Burmese, but unseems that.
HFCC A-20 as of March 28 has a 9795 gap between 21 and 23: NHK
Japanese before, FEBC Iba multilingual westward afterwards. My guess
would be the latter, Philippines in some minolity language. No clues
in expired B-19 skeds either (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report despatched at 2035 UT March 30
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CUBA   5999.995 kHz  RHC Spanish, probably from Quivican bcast center,
S=9+35dB signal strength of empty carrier at 10.55 UT on Monday March 30.
Program start exact at 11 UT.
7340even RHC Spanish from Bejucal site towards Antilles azimuth target.
not on air at program start at 11 UT,
but later in full service when checked at 11.05 UT.
7335 kHz adjacent.
Heavy sideband QRM splash signal of powerhouse US Radiostation Marti of
AGM United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) at Greenville - B site in
North Carolina.
9535.003 kHz RHC Bejucal noted at S=9+5dB level in Bonaire Antilles remote
SDR rx unit. At 11.06 UT on March 30.
11760even  RHC Bauta towards all-Carribean bassin. S=9+15dB or -63dBm at
12.00 UT on Monday March 30.
13700 kHz nothing / empty channel at 12 UT.
13780even  RHC Bauta in Spanish, S=9+10dB at 12.03 UT on March 30.
(ex 13740 kHz in B-19, now TDF RFI French from Issoudun in A-20 season).
At Bonaire remote SDR S=9+25dB or -54dBm towards Antilles azimuth target.
15140 kHz TOTALLY DISTORTED AUDIO as observed terribly in past 2 - 3 weeks
on that channel/hour. RHC Bauta site ?  S=9+10dB or -70dBm at 12.04 UT.
15230 kHz off air at 11-12 UT, rather scheduled now 13-15 UT.
Excellent audio at remote Bonaire Kiwiset, S=9+10dB or -70dBm.
Coming probably from Quivican San Felipe TITAN 250 kW site towards Brazil
Argentina target.

9570even CUB  CRI via Latin American relay site Quivican San Felipe TITAN
250 kW site, S=9+10dB or -66dBm strength, carrier from 11.57 UT, and CRI
Beijing Cantonese sce start at 12.00 UT in A-20 season now.
[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz]
(wb  df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 30)

ps. others heard on Bonaire (TWR KIWIset remotedly)
15275 TDF Mandingo language to WeAF via Issoudun bcast center
at 12.00-1230 UT, S=8-9 signal, at 12.26 UT.
17845 UAE  BBC Somali via Al Dhabbaya S=7 or -85dBm to North-East Africa,
heard at 12.19 UT in Kiwiset at Bonaire island.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel"Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2020 4:42 PM

Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 26-27, 2020

log 13.30 - 14.00 UT in A-20 season on Sunday March 29
CUBA   5999.995 kHz  RHC Spanish, probably from Quivican? bcast center,
S=9+35dB signal strength at 13.30 UT on Sunday March 29.
7340even RHC Spanish from Bejucal site towards Antilles azimuth target.
Heavy sideband QRM splash signal of powerhouse US Radiostation Marti of
AGM United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) at Greenville - B site
in
North Carolina, at 13.40 UT.
9535.004 kHz RHC Bejucal noted at S=8-9 level in Edmonton Alberta Province
remotedly, at 13.42 UT on March 29.
11760even  RHC Bauta towards all-Carribean bassin. S=9+15dB at 13.45 UT.
13700even  RHC Bauta Spanish S=9+5dB at 13.56 UT.
13780even  RHC Bauta Spanish S=9+10dB at 13.58 UT, but audio cut-off at
14.00 UT, still 14-15 UT empty carrier same strength.

USA  13604.997 kHz   R Marti from US Radiostation
AGM United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) at Greenville - B site
powerhouse signal of S=9+30dB at 13.55 UT on March 29.

[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz]
(wb  df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 29)

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log at 07.45 UT in A-20 season on a sunny Monday March 30 morning
here in southern Germany
INTERMODULATION  SIGNAL of CRI French service towards Europe
at KASGHAR site in western China noted here.
CHINA  17435 kHz S=8-9  French signal string heard here in Europe.
A 215 kHz apart distance intermodulation signal of this China superpower
station.
Mandarin Chinese - French language translation lesson broadcast.
Formula / Fundamentals, both 500 kW at 308 degrees to Europe azimuth.
17865 kHz CRI Kashgar in French language, TX sign-off exact at 07.57:10 UTC
17650 kHz CRI Kashgar in Mandarin language.
Others on 16 meterband at this time
17490 CRI Kashgar English, same powerhouse strength
17540 CRI Kashagr English
17670 CRI Kashgar English at 269degr to CEAS, ME, NE, Eastern Medit
17550 CNR1 Beijing to CeAS
17580 CNR1 Lingshi to CeAS
17605 CNR1 Beijing to CeAS
17615 CRI Kunming Mandarin
17625 CNR2 Beijing music program
17680 CRI Kashgar Spanish
17710 CRI Beijing English to SoEaAS
17740 CRI Xian in likely 'Min Nan Chinese' acc ITU language table
17815.004 IRN  IRIB Sirjan in Spanish, music px, S=9+15dB at 07.55 UT.
17840 CRI Kashgar Mandarin
17890 CNR Beijing Mandarin
[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz]
(wb  df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 30)
ps. and Taiwanese SoH veiled sce on 17440.235 kHz
and empty strong carrier of China mainland jamming parked on 17440even at 
09.15 UT. 


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JRX Logs_ March 28, 2020
Receiver (s)_ XHDATA D-808
Antenna (s)_ Mini Loop to SW

ASCENSION ISLAND
** 15490. Mar 28, 2020. 1805-1817, BBC, Ascension Island-ASC, in French. Man talks news, including about football; 1809 A song; 1815 Woman talks, ID. Very good reception.

CUBA
** 15730.  Mar 28, 2020. 2304-2314, Radio Habana Cuba, Bejucal-CUB, in Creole. Man talks; 2307 A conversation with a woman and man, haitians citizens; ID. Fair reception.

MADAGASCAR
** 13670. Mar 28, 2020. 1852-1858, MWV-African Pathways Radio, Mahajanga-MDG, in English. Man makes a preaching; 1853 Man talks and says ID and frequency, website; A song; 1856 Ends programming. Fair reception.

MALI
** 5995. Mar 28, 2020. 1900-1915, RTV du Mali, Bamako-MLI, in English (till 1903), French (1903-1905) and Bambara after 1905. News magazine by man announcer till 1902, in english and a song; 1903 Woman says ID and frequency in french; 1905 Begins the program in Bambara: Man and woman voices, ID and a very brief song between news, probably. Good reception.
** 13645. Mar 28, 2020. 1818-1828, China Radio International, Bamako-MLI, in Hausa. A chinese class by man and woman announcers; 1826 Man talks and IS. A song pause to next edition at 1830. Very good reception.

PHILIPPINES
** 9450. Mar 28, 2020. 2316-2326, FEBC Manila, Bocaue-PHL, in Mien language. Woman announcer talking, preaching; Man and woman voices; 2324 Music; 2328 Man talks; 2329 IS. Poor reception.

SAUDI ARABIA
** 11915. Mar 28, 2020. 1842-1852, Saudi Radio International, Riyadh-ARS, in Arabic. Holy Qur'an chant by Muslim cleric. Very good reception.

SINGAPORE
** 7465. Mar 28, 2020. 1831-1841, BBC, Kranji-SNG, in Pachto. Man and woman talk news, probably. Fair reception with noise and slight fading.

VIETNAM
** 7280. Mar 28, 2020. 1916-1926, The Voice of Vietnam, Son Tay-VTN, in English. Man and woman talk; 1920 A song by female singer; 1924 Woman talks, ID, sked in english and bye bye; 1926 Other song; 1927 Ends. Fair reception.

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