** ALASKA. 11755, Feb 8 at 1511, expressive/assertive talk by OM in
Russian, presumably gospel huxter, response by YL with some laughter.
KNLS is now scheduled here this hour in HFCC as the only 11755
anywhen, anywhere (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** BRAZIL. 9665-9667, Feb 9 at 0142, no signal from Voz Missionária,
usually the strongest ZY remaining on 31m; propagation OK since I have
a JBA signal on 9818.6 where R. Nove de Julho resides. Aparecida
appears on 9630.3 much weaker than VM would be, hetting another weakie
on 9630.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CANADA. 346-MCW kHz, Feb 7 at 0706, ND beacon dash and YXL, which
is 500 watts from Sioux Lookout, Ontario. I was tuned to 347-USB.

382-MCW kHz, Feb 7 at 0708, NDB dash and YPL, which is 1000 watts from
Pickle Lake, Ontario. Both audible despite storm noise crashes from SE
USA and I hope temporary local buzz noise level. See also USA (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CANADA. 335-MCW kHz, Feb 8 at 0708 UT, dash and YLD, ND beacon,
1000 watts from Chapleau, Ontario.

351-MCW kHz, Feb 8 at 0710 UT, dash and YKQ, NDB, 500 watts from Fort
Rupert - Waskaganish, Quebec.

406-MCW kHz, Feb 8 at 0718 UT, dash and YLJ, NDB 40 watts from Meadow
Lake, Saskatchewan; noise level is lower in the 400s than the 300s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also USA for two more

** CANADA. 399-MCW kHz, Feb 11 at 0720 UT, ND Beacon dash and ZHD,
which is 25 watts from Dryden - Barclay, Ontario.

406-MCW kHz, Feb 11 at 0721 UT, NDB dash and YLJ, which is 40 watts
from Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, I was tuned to 405-USB (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** CANADA. 6977-USB, Sunday Feb 9 at 2223 while checking the Pirate
Band, instead find a CFARS net, mostly JBA inviting checkins from the
600`s. ``This is CIW311``, then contacting CIW401 loud and clear, and
CIW444. Most CFARS info is classified, login for members only, but

This has the net roster as public info:
http://www.cfarsoperations.ca/vncs.html

200 calls are BC, 300 Alberta then increase to 800's in the Maritimes.
Also linx to this:
http://cfarsoperations.ca/nr2020.html
showing CIW311 is Darcy, supposed to be NCS Feb 16, not today (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA [non]. 15700, Feb 7 at 1502, CRI Plus relay via CUBA is
S9+10/20 but undermodulated; in news all about how China is coping
with the Coronavirus; did they explain why the late Dr Li was
persecuted? Missed the first part; only one other item, about Iowa
caucuses before 1505 `World Today` discussion, calling up scholars(?)
in Glasgow and Barcelona who appear to be great admirers of China.
Enough of that. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 6000, Feb 7 at 1451, RHC is still on here at S9, but JBM,
suptorted during `Estampas de Cuba`, non-philatelic. Something`s
always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13505, 13570, 13635, 13765, 13830, 13895, 13960 approx., Feb
7 at 1455, FM/AM spurblob constellation with F# tone, out of RHC 13700 at plus and
minus 65 kHz intervals. 13505 only a trace; 13895 louder than closer
13830 at least when I tune by. 13765 wipes out Radio Farda via
Lampertheim, Germany scheduled for a dekahour, 0530-1530. Something`s
always wrong at RHC.

Off topic on the IRCA MW iog, and quoted on WOR 2020, Phil Karn
explains: ``I'm thinking of how these spurs could have been generated.
Given that they seemed to be centered around the main transmission, I
can easily see how a conventional plate-modulated class-C AM
transmitter could develop spurious oscillations that would appear as
harmonically related sidebands of the main signal, with the varying
high voltage (due to the modulation) frequency modulating those
spurious emissions. They could really use a new transmitter, but I
suspect they won't get one for a while. Phil``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15140, Feb 7 at 1508, RHC is S9/+10 of dead air; while weaker
// 15230 is OK. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** CUBA [and non]. 6145, Feb 8 at 0528, RHC English undermodulated
S9+10 mixing about equally with another station, better modulation,
i.e. RRI in Romanian this hour intended no further than France. Both
would be in clear if RHC had stayed on 6165; but before and after
05-06, would conflict with other Europeans. Meanwhile, 6100 is
S9+20/30 but JBM, and so is 6000; 6060 is still in Spanish; and so is
5040 at 0534 and squealing too.

6145, Feb 8 at 0655, S9+10 and undermodulated; 6100 S9+30/40 and UM;
6000 S9+20/30 and suptorted; only 6060 with good modulation and
S9+30/40 now in English and so is 5040 and squealing too. Something`s
always wrong at RHC ::: (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15230, Feb 8 at 1501, this RHC is S9 but distorted; usually
its mod is OK, while // 15140 at S9+30 continues to be distorted.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13835, 13767, 13633, 13566, 13495 approx. vs CODAR, Feb 8 at
1504, FM/AM spurblobs with F# whine out of 13700-AM RHC, ~67 kHz
intervals, but each so wide it`s hard to pin them. Something`s always
wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13610, 13674, 13806 approx., Feb 8 at 2318, FM/AM spurblobs
with F# tone at about 65 kHz intervals out of 13740-AM RHC, no doubt
same defective transmitter as in the mornings on 13700. Another might
be around 13870 but blocked by RTTY. Something`s always wrong at RHC
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15370, Feb 8 at 2320, RHC Spanish S9+20 but distorted, OSOB,
about the same sound as on mushy // 5040. Something`s always wrong at
RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 5820, Feb 9 at 0110, VP M&W in English mentioning some www.
and music. Nothing listed here and doubt it`s one of those Denmark
stations. Rather a leapfrog mixing product of 6180 CRI relay over 6000
RHC another 180 kHz beyond, both Quivicán site per Aoki/NDXC. But
neither he nor EiBi will make an entry for this real transmission on
5820. I did not think at the time to check for // audio, but this has
been reported before. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 5010-5040, Feb 9 at 0135, Radio Rebelde is splattering out to
this range from 5025; while RHC is also splattering out to 5030-5050
from its 5040; axually, can`t tell where one transition to the other
between 5025 and 5040. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15140, Feb 9 at 1452, RHC is distorted here and much stronger
than // 15230, which is not only distorted but also suppressed
modulation = suptorted. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13491, 13558, 13630; 13770, 13841, 13911, 13982-trace
approx., Feb 11 at 1532, spurblobs at 70-71 kHz intervals out of RHC
13700-AM. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15369.234, Feb 11 at 2124, RHC in Brazuguese knocked way
off-frequency, and distorted, S9/+10; and also // much better 15140.0
same S reading, but OK modulation; and just as they are all going into
music, also // 11880.0, S9+20 OK mod. Lest we forget per EiBi, these
are supposed to be in 3 different languages at 2100-2130, Portuguese,
Spanish and Arabic respectively. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 2337
recheck, has faded way down to S5-S8 in Spanish, audibly wavering and
remeasured at 15369.236 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13508-trace, 13572, 13636; 13765, 13831, 13896, 13958
approx., Feb 12 at 1448, spurblobs out of RHC 13700-AM; the closer
stronger ones more readable FM than AM mode, not at all in SSB.
Averaging only ~64 kHz intervals, never landing on OCB/jamming.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15369.233V, Feb 12 at 2139, RHC way off-frequency for second
day, S9/+10 in Brazuguese, and // abnormally weak 11880.0 S7. 15140.0
is still on but dead air, after all-day distortion. Usually all three
are in Portuguese at 2100-2130 rather than 3 different languages. At
2130 supposedly scheduled are Arabic on 15370, Portuguese on 11880.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** EL SALVADOR. 18120.06-USB, Feb 12 at 1919, one signal making it on
``17m`` phone: mostly repeating only callsign over and over
fonetikally, occasionally inserting CQ or QRZ. Accent makes it hard to
read, plus mixture of official ICAO and unofficial fonetix: at first I
thought he was saying ``Ocean United one ---`` something; then pretty
sure the suffix ``Delta Lima`` --- but then the first letter more like
``Hotel``. Only a few minutes later does he get a real contact. Yup,
QRZ.com lookup goes nowhere to OU1DL which might be in Belgium, but
hits upon HU1DL as:

``German DXpedition 2020
La Paz, El Salvador
QSL: OQRS, DL4SVA
Page managed by DL7VEE Lookups: 114976

German DXpedition to El Salvador from January 30 to February 13, 2020
Operators: Andy DH8WR, Tom DJ6TF, Werner DJ9KH, Frank DL1KWK, Dietmar
DL2HWA, Norbert DL2RNS, Georg DL4SVA, Olaf DL7JOM, Rolf, DL7VEE, Franz
DL9GFB

Thanks to YS1AG, YS1GMV, YS1MAE, YS1MS, YS1RS, CRAS, SIGET.
Planned are three kW-stations 24/7 from 160 to 6 m with wire
antennas.

Homepage: https://hu1dl.mydx.de
9927109 Last modified: 2020-02-10 00:29:10, 575 bytes``
Lots of info on homepage with photos, frequency list, etc. Hasten
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MEXICO. 6185.7, Feb 8 at 0117, undermodulated talk; 0153 still with
jazz, also suptorted, typical of Radio Educación --- and there is no
signal on 6185.0. Someone must have bumped the XEPPM transmitter. At
least puts it a little further from the collision on 6180 but still
getting splashed (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MEXICO. 6185.69, Feb 9 at 2221, music JBM as XEPPM is still way
off-frequency; 6185.771, Feb 10 at 1504, JBM carrier remeasured, at a
time when otherwise it is difficult to confirm it`s really Radio
Educación on the air far beyond its nominal evening-only schedule. Or
was: WRTH 2020 says 1400-0500 and calls it instead Señal Cultura
México with 5 kW. Of course during standard time until first Sunday in
April it runs until 0600v* UT = local midnite, but starting when?

Current program grid here below several other outlets shows on air
only at 17-24 local time = 23-06 UT:
https://radioeducacion.edu.mx/carta-programatica-del-mes
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MEXICO. 6185.75, Feb 11 at 1544, S5-S7 JBM carrier from XEPPM still
way off-frequency and way off-time according to own schedule (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 4045-USB, Feb 9 at 0119, S9+20 of blues, but already
off at 0124 check after some other tuning.

Many posts here say it`s Ze`ke`s Attic, which moved to 4107 at 0126:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,63065.0.html
This thread covers logs on both frequencies.

4107-USB, I independently find him here at 0147, blues? song at S9+10,
0148 DJ Ze-ke recognized saying he`s waiting for a report from the
Mojave Desert; 0149 a familiar torch song, which someapp IDs as
``What`s New`` by Billie Holiday (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 11560, Feb 9 at 2106, anti-Christ pirate, Station
YHWH is back, JBA voice of Josiah, tnx to tip from Rick Barton, AZ, on
the WOR iog. Already off at 2136 recheck. Sweeps past 7470 following
evening did not find him back on his prime frequency, where Rick and I
had last logged him January 10. And no other reports since then (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 1210, KGYN Guymon, in the Panhandle continues to be quite
audible here in Enid at night, usually the dominant station on
frequency, making me suspect it`s not really nulling toward WPHT
Philadelphia; however, we are a bit south of that direxion. Closer to
the null line would be Wichita and Saint Louis, and points in between.
Could some listeners around there check whether KGYN be audible, and
more significantly, is there any change in signal at its nominal SS/SR
times which in February are officially: 0030/1330 UT (March: 0045/1300
UT). 10 kW day pattern is ND; 10 kW night pattern of three towers in a
row, is a somewhat broad cardioid favoring WSW with deep notch ENE
toward Philadelphia.

As seen in mv-eko, KGYN is often heard and QSLed from Scandinavia, but
that great circle is more northerly. It still has to get past WPHT et
al. The Feb issue reports three QSLs of KGYN, two of them signed by
owner Greg Steckline (who presumably is at corp HQ in Kansas), and in
fact NO other OK MW stations reported heard or QSLed, altho those guys
pull in hundreds of US stations more challenging than KGYN (Glenn
Hauser, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1320.0, Feb 7 at 1621 UT check on the R75 with
E-W longwire, dominant signal is in political talk, not sports, so
KWHN, Fort Smith AR; with the rotatable DX-398 on 1319.96, I can
separately get sports talk from SW, which is modulation from KCLI
Clinton (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 1319.96 kHz, Feb 9 at 1859 UT, KCLI Clinton continues to
modulate, partial ID mentions KWEY HD-4(?), 1900 into Fox Sports
Radio. This time soon after local mean noon, no CCI from KWHN Fort
Smith. KWEY is 1590 in nearby Weatherford, once(?) a competitor yet
now jointly owned with KCLI, so there could be some cross-pollination,
but is there any such thing as HD-4? Maybe I misheard. Usual
references FCC and otherwise do not provide full, or any, info about
what`s on all those IBOC subchannels! It seems that neither KCLI nor
KWEY has a full FM counterpart, only translators (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. Re my report of 1319.96, KCLI Clinton, mentioning in ID,
KWEY HD-4, Fredrik Douren points out that KWEY does have an FM, 18+ kW
on 95.5 -- but no info about its HD subchannels. Stephen Luce, Houston
TX, also replies:

``Glenn, yes, there are FMs with HD-4 subchannels; we have a few of
those here in Houston. Probably the limit as available allocated
bandwidth would otherwise be too narrow for decent audio--I have never
heard of anyone running an HD-5.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** PERU. 5980, Feb 8 at 2344, JBA carrier, and like the last few
nights I am not hearing any Cuban jamming above the general band noise
level. It won`t be long before Radio Chaski cutoff be too much before
night here if it stay around this time. At 14 degrees south, its
sunset varies only about one hour over the course of a year, as early
as 2230 in June, currently 2320; but ours gets later and later, 0005
UT now, a semihour later in a month. Anyhow, tonight the autocutoff
comes at 2352:59.5* having surpassed 2353:00. Last check was Feb 3
until 2353:10.5, i.e. 11 seconds later, 5 days earlier, averaging 2.2
seconds earlier per noctem (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY [and non]. 5960, Feb 7 at 2322, zero signal English to North America
from VOT, so expect no bonus German either at 0000. There is however a JBA carrier offset-minus from Xinijiang PBS, East Turkistan (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** TURKEY [and non]. 5960-, Feb 8 at 2328 no signal from VOT English,
only a JBA carrier offset-minus from XJPBS, EAST TURKISTAN, so Mighty
KBC may be clear tonight. Oops, 2343 recheck, VOT is on very late with
music at S9/+10. 2355 IS is still running; 2356 pause and restart IS,
now with one German ID at 2356:48 before cuts off at 2357:45*, just in
time for The Mighty Farty KBC, which lux out again (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A. 365-MCW kHz, Feb 7 at 0707, ND beacon AA, which is 100 watts
from Fargo - Harwood, North Dakota. Was tuned to 363-USB.

400-MCW kHz, Feb 7 at 0709, ND beacon AHQ, which is 25 watts from
Wahoo, Nebraska. Vs storm noise from SE USA and local buzz. See also
CANADA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 379-MCW kHz, Feb 8 at 0712 UT, ND beacon copied as RSE on
380, but nonesuch listed. Probably really RUE, 25 watts in
Russellville, Arkansas.

410-MCW kHz, Feb 8 at 0720 UT, ND beacon JU, but nonesuch listed at
dxinfocentre. Maybe 25-watt JUH, Jefferson - Ashe, North Carolina.
Could it be miskeying? Was not hearing an H. Classaxe.com in fact does
show that one as JU only (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 410-MCW kHz, re my log of NDBeacon JU, Harold Frodge agrees
that he and Ken Zichi in Michigan have also logged it, not JUH:
``410 JU 1.0 Jefferson NC, Ashe County A/P; 02, 23 Nov, 03 Dec (HF),
04 Nov (KZ,HF)`` --- meaning 2019y? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 12788-USB, Feb 7 at 2205, VP S1-S3, marine weather broadcast
obsessed with nothing but wind direxion and speed in knots; and seas
in feet, for various Atlantic ocean grids. EiBi shows only station on
this frequency is USCG New Orleans, NMG, with several broadcasts
including this one at 2130-2245. Unlike some other USCG, like
Chesapeake, NMG with decent modulation by OM robovoice (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7340-7345-7350, Feb 7 at 2312 check, Radio Martí well received with few dropouts via Colombia KiwiSDR; no problem tuning it here like some have been reporting; I understand the mode at GB is DRM-B. Readout shows only RM, nothing on a second channel; bring back Willis Conover! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2020 monitoring: confirmed first
WRMI airing, Friday Feb 7 at 2300 on 9955, VG via Colombia Kiwi SDR; direct at 2321 check, S9+10, G/VG with no jamming audible.

Also confirmed UT Sat Feb 8 at 0130 direct on WRMIs: 5010, S7-S9 but
noisy; 5850 VG S9+20/30; 7780 good S9/+20. Next:

1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415]
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 9395
0400vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51
0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
0930 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB [another episode]
1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania?
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780
0900 UT Wednesday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780

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

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2020 monitoring: no confirmation in yet from
Ivo or anyone for the Sat 1300 on WRMI 15770. Next:

0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415]
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 9395
0400vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51
0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
0930 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB [another episode]
1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania?
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780
0900 UT Wednesday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780

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

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2020 monitoring: Ivo Ivanov,
Bulgaria reports: ``Fair signal of World of Radio#2020 and Shortwave
Radiogram#138 on February 8: 1300-1330 on 15770 RMI 100 kW / 044 deg
to WeEu English Sat World of Radio #2020``

Also confirmed UT Sun Feb 9 at 0524 UT about 16 minutes into so
started very late circa 0508 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO. Earlier was good
reception direct but later I`m listening via Peoria IL KiwiSDR.
Houston AMSAT net recording was playing until 0456 when ARRL News
started, so if no WOR was lost, ARRL must have lasted only 12 minutes.
Next:

2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 9395
0400vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51
0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
0930 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB [another episode]
1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania?
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780
0900 UT Wednesday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2020 monitoring: confirmed Sunday
February 9 at 2130 on WRMI 7780, JBA here at S9 vs noise level.

Also confirmed, UT Monday February 10 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, fair-good
via UTwente SDR in Holland.

Also confirmed, UT Mon Feb 10 at 0230 on WRMI 7780, good via UTwente;
and 9395 aimed NNW is JBA over there. Also confirmed on WRN webcast
almost synchronised with 7780.

Also confirmed, UT Mon Feb 10 starting at 0401 on Area 51 webcast; via
WBCQ 5130 checked at 0427 it`s good here S9+10, altho not making it to
the Peoria IL KiwiSDR.

Also confirmed, UT Mon Feb 10 at 0430, JBA carrier here vs Cuban pulse
jamming; but VG at Rockport ME KiwiSDR, way atop JBA jamming.

Also confirmed, Mon Feb 10 from about 1901 on IRRS 7290 via Romania?
VG via UTwente SDR. Carrier already on at 1857, JIP Aida theme about
1900:18, lost internet connexion here but WOR must`ve started. Next:

0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780
0900 UT Wednesday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780

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

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2020 monitoring: missed checking UT
Tue Feb 11 at 0100 on WRMI 7780; did anyone hear it? Next:
0900 UT Wednesday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780

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

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2020 monitoring: confirmed Wed Feb
12 after 2100 on WRMI 7780, JBA on portable.

Also confirmed Wed Feb 12 starting at 2200:20 on WBCQ 7490.110V,
S9+10/20 initially but soon fading down to S7-S9. Next:
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780

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

** U S A. 7490.25v, UT Sat Feb 8 at 0009, checking reception of WBCQ,
as I tune in the FKB huxter is saying ``we had eight years of black
Barack Obama, a homosexual, and his transvestite wife``. What horrible
nonsense; ain`t Free Speech great?! Tnx to WBCQ, how many people will
be persuaded of that?

(7490.25v but via webcast), UT Sat Feb 8 at 0103, after WTO, `AAAWWW`
is
starting, but quickly familiar as a repeat: beautiful Angela is in a
string bikini,
as she likes to run around the house in her underwear when it`s warm,
i.e. 75 degrees in DeLand vs colder temps further north. But NWS now
shows it`s really only 52 degrees in DeLand. A twit from Allan Feb 7
says he`s still ``on sabbatical`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5130.0, Feb 8 at 2355, this WBCQ is S9/+10 as IS and ID loop
plays prior to Saturday`s Area 51. Seems a better signal now than we
had been getting from it. Sometime after 0100 Feb 9, it`s GRITS Radio
with someone sounding rather like Marion (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7490.15v, Sun Feb 9 at 2220, WBCQ S9+20 with `Marion`s
Attic`.

BTW, I understand that a similar voice heard on GRITS Radio was Brad
Read, the host of GRITS. Someone who heard more of the latest show
says it was announced by his wife, Val, that he has a malignant tumor
on vocal cords or larynx. Doctors believe that radiation will take
care of the problem and he is scheduled to do so shortly and expected
to recover fully (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5950, Feb 9 at 0124, WRMI is OFF, a rarity for this 24-hour
service; but no help for 5952.4v Bolivia, which is also off despite
being Saturday night. If 5950 still off around 0300, would be good for
Ethiopia; but I`m busy listening then to `Weekend Radio` on WCLV
webcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5085, (and parasitic JBA spurs 5072.1 and 5097.9), UT Sun
Feb 9 at 0120, Bob Heil is talking on WTWW-2, evidently just starting
his anonymous theatre organ show at very odd time, which I continue to
enjoy from one radio to one ear while DXing another radio into the
other ear. Ends at 0152 with WTWW ID and promos (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A. 15825, Feb 9 at 1857, WWCR-1 hits S9+10/20, far more than
usual JBA, plenty to audiblize the squeal still spouting from this
transmitter: ergo, winter HF sporadic E opening. 15610 WEWN also
stronger than usual, S6-S8, getting ready to start with Salve Regina
prologue. Lower WWCRs also abnormally strengthened, 13845 S8-S9; 12160
S9+20/30 with `Martha Garvin Musical Memories` after 1900. Then I
check the dxmap for Es and some paths show just the right spots
between us for MUF blobs of 15 and 28 MHz. In these solar cycle
doldrums we cannot even depend on a bigsig daytime from 12160 WWCR.
BTW, WWCR program schedules have now been updated as of Feb 1:
http://www.wwcr.com/program-guides/WWCR_Program_Guide.pdf
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 15825, Feb 10 at 1545, WWCR-1 again boosted to S9+20 by
winter HF sporadic E, still squealing; 13845 also way above normal
level. DXmap shows MUF of 21-29-56 MHz over MI and adjacent ON, not
the right spot for this path which must have a blob at least 16 MHz
halfway between here and Nashville. By 1748 recheck, there`s 23 MHz
over NW corner of TN (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. 1090, Feb 8 at 0700:50 to 0705:30 duration of SRN
News hole of dead air after illegal ID as ``AM 1090 KAAY`` failing to
specify Little Rock CoL, and before resuming with gospel music. During
this, XEAU Monterrey dominant from south, Spanish infomercial making
SAH and another very weak unID with music (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1090, Feb 11 at 0651 UT, KAAY Little Rock AR in dead air
already, so not limited to hourtops; but 0656 resumed with music; did
not get back in time before 0705 to hear the usual news hole tonight
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1090, Feb 12 at 0702 UT, KAAY Little Rock drops to dead air
after lengthy PSA about veterans. The exact time this happens varies
somewhat (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** VATICAN. 15460, Feb 8 at 1459-1500* vocoder song, poor. HFCC shows
it`s USAGM 14-15 Sat & Sun only in Kin-yarwanda, i.e. VOA via SMG
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 356-MCW kHz, Feb 11 at 0716 UT, ND beacon PJ. None
listed at dxinfocenter on this or adjacent frequencies; no dash, but
if it were on 329 it would be in Whitehorse YT. Possibly a mixture of:
PI in Peoria IL, and SJ in San Angelo TX: .--. .. and ... .--- (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1477.15V & 1502.85V, Feb 11 circa 0700 UT, distorted
weak matching spurblobs, unreadable FModulated, must be out of
defective 1490 kHz transmitter exactly halfway between them.

At 2340 UT, before 0008 UT sunset here, not being heard, implying, but
not certainly that this be westish rather than eastish from here.

1477.235V & 1502.765V, Feb 12 at 0021 UT, now they are reaudible, same
type of pairing varied to slightly different tho more closely measured
frequencies, i.e. plus and minus 12.765 from 1490.000. So far on the
R75 with E-W longwire only.

At 0110 UT Feb 12, I employ the hand-held wrist-altazimuth DX-398 with
BFO offset, to try to get a DF on them: peaks NE/SW on both of them.
This might imply out of my local 1390 KCRC, which used to be a bad
spur-producer closer in --- but does not work out mathematically, and
besides, the spurs are fading. Nevertheless, just in case, I check the
same displacements on the minus side of 1390, i.e. 1277.24 & 1302.76,
and hear nothing. On 1490 itself, of course, a pileup of graveyarders,
impossible to make any modulation peak match. There are none near
enough to here to dominate.

NE/SW axis implies most likely MO or TX, or possibly a state neighbor
to those, with TX the top choice because they were lacking pre-sunset.
So what stations are in that area? There are a dozen TX on 1490!
Closest to the SW axis are KZZN Littlefield and KBST Big Spring; a
little further CCW are KVWC Vernon (closest), KWMC Del Rio.
Also possible, XECJC Ciudad Juarez in the right direxion, one of few
Mexicans which may still be active on 1490. The three MO 1490s are
KDMO Carthage, KTTR Rolla and KDRO Sedalia.

I recall there was a similar pair of unID blobs a good many months ago
but haven`t been able to find them in archives by frequency searches.
I don`t believe that mystery was resolved.

Now it would be very helpful if others in the area from different
angles could at least get a DF bearing on them (they should match), if
not any readable audio to ID them directly, such as by matching
modulation peaks to a local 1490 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1477 & 1503 kHz approx., Feb 12 at 1432 UT, spurblobs
out of some 1490 station are still audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Feb 11 at
0653-0657 UT: 666, 693, 711, 747, 774(2), 846, 855, 882, 936(2), 1044,
1053, 1107, 1125, 1215, 1305. (2) means at least two carriers
beating.

Notably missing are the big Algerians, 531, 549, 576, 891 --- by now
they may be too far into the dayside; not much from BBC either. 846 is
extremely weak but is the only one suspected of being TP instead:
Kiritimati, where it`s still way after sunset, but I had not been
hearing any of it for some weeks; is it still on? (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Feb 12 at
0643-0649 UT: 585, 612, 639, 711, 747, 774(2), 837, 855, 882, 891,
909, 936, 1044, 1053, 1089, 1107, 1125, 1134, 1215, 1314 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)