** ALBANIA [non]. 5800, March 18 at 0130, WRMI starts Radio Tirana IS, usual canned opening by Klara that ``you can hear us only on internet``, yeah right; then I find also on // 9395 after Argentina, q.v., concluded. Mixup in System feeds? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ANTARCTICA [non]. 15475.97-CUSB, March 17 by 1904, no signal from LRA36; they had told Manuel Méndez, Spain of a special `Corazón Antártico` show at 1900 today. Not only no signal here but via several SDRs checked; not could anyone else hear it. Then Manuel agrees it was a no show but he heard it on webcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ARGENTINA [non]. Since WRMI 5800 has been running either Hal Turner or Taiwan relay test, has RAE Spanish just been deleted at 0100 on 5800? Last UT Saturday I was surprised to hear Hal Turner on there // 9455. Whither RAE Spanish? Outdated sked has long shown 2200-2300 M-F on 5010 System D. The transmission schedule shows 5010 not starting until 2300, and indeed no signal here at 2200 & 2215 March 16. And the Argentine DX bulletin Conexión Digital continues to publish every week totally wrong info about their own RAE, including 6060 which was soon replaced by 5800: ``ARGENTINA: RAE, Radiodifusión Argentina al Exterior: HORA UTC KHZ DIAS 0100-0200 O-6060 23456 2200-2300 O-5010 12345`` Maybe another correxion like this will be noticed tho in English? (Glenn Hauser, OK, 0036 UT March 17, WOR iogroup) ** ARGENTINA [non]. 9395, UT Wed March 18 at 0124, RAE English via WRMI, concluding Ten Argentines who became world-famous, with Daniel Barenboim, as the finale of Beethoven`s Ninth is playing, then applause. 0125 into multi-lingual RAE ID reel; S9+20 while some nights it`s JBA. 0130 into Radio Tirana which is also on unscheduled 5800 which before 0130 was testing TAIWAN, q.v; see also ALBANIA [non]. As for RAE in Spanish, skedgrid updated March 8 now shows half an hour of it at 0130 on 9395 --- where we just heard Albania following RAE in English; and a full hour at 0100 on 5800 --- not, either! Where we just heard Taiwan and Albania (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 258-MCW kHz, March 15 at 0552, dash and ZSJ, which is a 1000-watt ND Beacon from Sandy Lake, Ontario, the only one on 258 per dxinfocentre.com -- first time heard since Dec 28. 340-MCW kHz, March 15 at 0558, dash and YY, 500-watt NDB at Mont-Joli, QC. See also UNIDENTIFIED 278 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 2598-USB, March 12 at 0616, YL in French marine weather, poor, at a time when nothing is supposed to be active among the NL stations. 2749-USB, March 12 at 0616, another collision between Canadian coast guard stations, and again at a time unscheduled for any of them in the Nova Scotia-Quebec area. Better signals than 2598. Same RoboYL voice, at first one in English, the other in French, 0619 both in French. Almost every sentence ends before a pause with `vendredi soir`` = Friday evening. Isn`t anyone paying attention at CCG? Are no mariners complaining to them about this? By 0621, just one is on, and at 0627 in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** COLOMBIA. 6010, March 13 after 0000 UT and recheck 0320, still no signal again from Alcaraván Radio, nor the Voice of Thy Conscience (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** COLOMBIA. 6010, March 13 after 2200 & 2300 check, no signal from HJDH to Bogotá KiwiSDR. Not heard since test? UT March 10 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6000, March 12 at 0014, RHC is S9+20 but JBM and suptorted in English, also some Spanish crosstalk; then English mod faded up a bit, and it`s // clear undermodulated English on 6145, S9+20. Last night RHC seemed to be starting the two English frequencies around 0100 but tonight evidently they are trying for 0000. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6010v, March 12 at 0020, trying for COLOMBIA, I have a JBA signal which is wobbling, perhaps caused by Doppler flutter, or two stations slightly apart beating, one of them unstable. A slight peak sounds like Chinese; or is it Spanish? Not Portuguese. Nothing else is scheduled at this time but BRAZIL. Then I remember a previous finding: another Cuban leapfrog mixing product of 5990 over 6000 another 10 kHz beyond. At 0035 on second radio I can CONFIRM // audio 6010 and 5990, so that`s exactly what it is now. The fulcrum RHC frequency 6000 has to be on air at same time, and so it is tonight with undermodulated English. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2025) ** CUBA. 13780, March 12 at 1352, RHC here ex-13740; change or mistake? Have used 13780 before; no obvious reason to move back and forth. By 1437, 13780 is off. Still on 13700, spurless. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11880, March 12 at 2255, RHC in Brazuguese, and 2300 into English. Finally four days after the imposition of yanqui-inspired DST, RHC have found this transmission, moved one UT hour *later* instead of logical earlier, ex-2200. Now probably at 2200 is French ex-2100. 11880 was back on air yesterday but in Spanish before and after 2300. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11880, still off the air March 13 at 2120 & 2155, but *2200 RHC on weakly direct in French. Via Bogotá KiwiSDR, in Portuguese before 2300, 2300 switch to English, first item about someone killed near the RHC studios. Sufficient but not super reception, while // 5040 is not making it there at all. Somethng`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13780, March 14 at 1343, RHC again here ex-13740 and // much stronger 13700. By 1417, 13780 is still on with noisy dead air. 13756.580, March 14 at 1419, RHC spur VP. Not like the loud FM/AM spurblobs sporadically out of 13700, rather clearly audible in AM mode and precisely measurable with BFO; also is 56.58 kHz displaced, rather than 66-70 kHz. I look for a match on the minus side and find a JBA carrier on 13644.53, but calculated spot would be 13643.42 so maybe that`s just a birdie. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15370, March 14 at 2015, RHC S9+20 in distorted Brazuguese, while 15140 is in French. Both these had been scheduled at 2100-2130, so bumped one real hour earlier. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 17480, March 14 at 2247, 5-digit spy numbers alternating with digibeepery, S1-S4 and nothing higher on the 17 or 18 MHz bands (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6000, March 15 at 0543, RHC English JBM with crackle; 6060 VG S9+10/20; 6100 S9+10 undermodulated; 6145 VP S7-S9; 5040 S9+10/20 and distorted. Something`s always wrong at RHC(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15140, March 17 at 1529, RHC S9+20, distorted and hummy as usual. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15370, March 17 at 1936, RHC S9/+10 of dead air except for some hum. Wiggle that patchcord. Something`s always wrong at RHC. Recheck at 2114, now in Spanish, big hum still at S9+35 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11880, March 17 at 2300, RHC starting English // much weaker 5040; as they now seem certain (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6145, March 18 at 0024, S9+20 of dead air from RHC -- so are they attempting to start English at 0000? But at 0026, 6000 is JBM in Spanish // much stronger 6060. Something`s always wrong at RHC. At 0129, both 6145 and 6000 feature Arnie Coro and both undermodulated so impossible to make out what he is mumbling (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15700, March 18 at 1555, CRI relay is undermodulated with hum, tone and crackle, otherwise excellent. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15370, March 18 at 1930, RHC still not on here, but later with distortion (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 13570, March 12 at 1353, poor signal in French; CRI via Kashi/Kashgar at 1200-1357. Not usually audible here on the edge of the ISM band (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** GUAM. 12035, March 15 at 1456 VP music; thought it might be another Turkey overrun past 1430, but KSDA is scheduled 1430-1500 in Myanmarianese; VOT sandwiched between this and Kununurra in Hindi before 1330. Much weaker than really TRT 11815v still on in Turkish (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, March 12 at 0604, Radio Truth signing off in English requesting reports to PO Box 5, Chiquimula, address! Then same in German. Yet Dr Madrid has said over and over that there is no postal service in Guatemala, e-mail only, certainly for outgoing eQSLs. Is there postal or isn`t there? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** GUATEMALA. Re TGAV announcing a postal address on 4055: So I wonder what happen if a North American send p-mail to P O Box 5. Is it intercepted and returned before it go there? Or just vanish, along with any r.p. enclosed. Someone must have tried it, perhaps unaware of the ban. Is there any other country in the world which has dispensed with postal service?? Harold Sellers, Vernon BC, Canada replies: ``I was in Guatemala in January. The people there told me that there has been no postal service for a number of years. If important documents have to come in or go out of the country, private courier companies must be used.`` And Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA replies on the WOR iog: Hi Glenn, Curious situation with Guatemala mail. Found this online: "The privatised Guatemalan postal service is currently suspended, due to a years-long contract dispute with the government. For the time being, the only option for sending or receiving mail / packages is through an international courier. FedEx, UPS and DHL all operate in Guatemala." https://www.lonelyplanet.com/guatemala/post US Postal Service website currently shows service to Guatemala. https://postcalc.usps.com/ Online I noted: "Effective April 6, 2019, the U.S. Postal Service™ restored mail service to Guatemala." http://accessworldwide.net/2019/04/25/mail-services-to-guatemala-resumes/ Ron, California`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** GUATEMALA [and non]. 4055, continuing postal discussion: Vince Ferme, Ottawa ON, replies: ``I remember when this was announced. It likely went to the UPU as well. In this case, any competent postal service would not accept this piece of mail. Now, check the following links, nothing newer, so the current situation is anybody's guess: https://www.canadapost.ca/web/en/blogs/announcements/details.page?article=2017/10/05/guatemala&cattype=announcements&cat=updates https://www.canadapost.ca/web/en/blogs/announcements/details.page?article=2018/11/06/mail_and_parcel_serv&cattype=announcements&cat=updates Service on paper does not mean service in reality. The mailbags may all be ending in a paper recycling facility in Guatemala City. Regards, Vince, Ottawa, ON`` And from Leonardo Santiago, Mérida, Venezuela: Hi Glenn, in a previous contact with Dr. Madrid at the end of 2019, he told me the same thing; they cannot send out any postal correspondence due to the lack of postal services in Guatemala since about a couple of years (as far as I can remember). In fact, he sent me a scanned QSL card instead of a printed one along various e-souvenirs for an e-report on Radio Truth. You also asked if there was another country in the world with a similar situation, and I wanted to add my country. Venezuela is facing a similar problem with the national public postal service known as IPOSTEL, standing for Instituto Postal Telegráfico. It happens that they are unable to send letters and packages out, but they are handing out what enters to the country only. According to them, it is due to the lack of transport, car parts and lack of gasoline (this is what they have told me in my recent visits to the local post office). Notwithstanding, although dxer Jorge Medina in Punto Fijo, Falcon, told me that he was receiving some QSLs in November last year, I sadly say that I personally haven't received anything yet, although many QSLs and packages were announced to me via e-mail even since June the 2019. So, just in case somebody is reporting a radio station from Venezuela attempting a QSL verification, my recommendation is to add his e-mail address or WhatsApp contact for a more probable answer, although many stations can be contacted via FB or e-mail. 73s, Leonardo Santiago, Mérida, Venezuela`` Please do not attach any punxuation, like () or periods, to URLs (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** GUATEMALA. This isn`t a log but wrapping up(?) discussion of postal service here, following my log of 4055, Radio Truth announcing a postal address, P O Box 5, Chiquimula. From Chuck Gessner, W3ON to the WOR iogroup: ``Hi All, I sent an email to Dr. Madrid, the General Manager and Director of Radio Verdad Guatemala yesterday, regarding postal mail to and from Guatemala. His comments were very interesting. Here is some of what he wrote. `Here's how Postal Mail is in Guatemala: Private mail ceased permanently, as they never got an agreement with the government. The government is now operating to some extent the old official Post Offices. The problem is that it is not operating fully. They are operating on a partial way. We are not allowed to send any mail out, but we may receive mail from other countries (very scarcely). I have received several mail from the US and from Mexico, but not many. Mail from other countries take much time to arrive, although they may eventually get to us. I have been checking for your registered mail you sent in January, but is has not arrived yet. I was informed that we may send postal mail within Guatemala already, but not to other countries. They have announced several times that postal mail will start functioning normally, but it hasn't happened yet. Dr. Édgar Amílcar Madrid General Manager and Director Radio Truth Chiquimula, Guatemala, C. A.` ------------------------------------ Glen[n], et al., In my perspective the best way to reach Radio Verdad is via the 'radioverdad5@yahoo.com' email service. I do know that when I asked for a QSL card for some monitoring a few months ago, he responded via email, with email attachments. I had tried to send Radio Verdad a donation via PayPal. But it was suspended at the time. I don't know if that situation has been sorted out. I have also sent a donation via U.S. Registered Mail in late January. As of this date in mid March, Radio Verdad has not received it. So, to say that regular postal mail is somewhat elusive, is not to exaggerate. In my correspondence a while ago, I was going to try to send a donation via some of those overseas banking systems, as it appears that Radio Verdad can get monies that way. But my local bank balked when I requested that. I suppose that one could send Radio Verdad an email, and ask for guidance. To me, its such a shame that the Guatemalan government doesn't have this straightened out as this is a long time problem. I have read where one can use services such as FedEx to send stuff to Guatemala. I have not tried that. Anyway, that's what I know. I sure hope that gets straightened out. Radio Verdad Guatemala does IMHO, very good work in its coverage area. All you have to do is look at the Radio Verdad Guatemala YouTube channel to see some of its activities. I believe there may be a link to it on the Radio Verdad web page. 73 de Chuck W3ON`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** INDONESIA. 7165-LSB, March 14 at 1409, YD3BIH ham in contact and foneticizing his call, so I can look it up for sure at QRZ.com: ``YD2BIH flag Indonesia AGUNG DWI SETYAWAN, KENDAL 51355, Indonesia`` Kendal is in Central Java. I was looking for special VI3RA in this area of the 40m band, no luck (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ITALY [non]. 7295, March 17 at 1800 via UTwente SDR, IRRS VG signal but intolerable CCI from Iran which was already here until 1820v. I was going to listen to a bit of `War Room Pandemic` with an abundance of skepticism since Steve Bannon is behind it (his voice?). Check again concluding at 1850 saying second hour is coming up --- but not here: 7290, March 17 at 1900, abrupt frequency jump amid IRRS ID, to avoid CRI on 7295, and into EGR gospel huxter from a town called Cuba, no more WRP (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** JAPAN. 774, March 13 at 1157 I`m awake so hasten to check out some TP carriers -- NHK has some audio here, heralded by the ToH TS chime prolonged at 1200. See UNIDENTIFIED for what else (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** JAPAN [non]. 7450, March 17 at 0542, poor in high noise level, S6-S7; in French thought I heard a Voix de l`Amérique ID, but scheduled as NHK World Radio Japon, 0530-0600, 500 kW, 190 degrees via Issoudun, FRANCE (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KUWAIT. 17550.550, March 14 at 2012, JBA carrier as I am trying to hear the alleged 20-24 UT RK broadcast to C&W NAm in Arabic, contrary to Propagation 101. Last Sept 17 at 2121, I had an unID JBA carrier on 17550.6. While it was propagating last summer, heard in August and June on 17550, not offset; in May it had been offset-minus. However, Radio Kuwait often aired off-frequencies by 0.6 or 0.7 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MALI. 11640, March 17 at 2117 VP S1-S3 M&W conversation in English. It`s a rare half-hour transmission from CRI at 2100-2130, 100 kW, 111 degrees away from Bamako (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MEXICO. 650, March 13 at 1229 some Mexican music mostly atop WSM, 1230 into choral NA, 1232 Radio 65 jingle and opening `Buenos Dias, Yarderos`, signature wake-up show. Not a bigsig, but glad still to hear XETNT Los Mochis, Sinaloa, which really gets out; no other XEs heard now in the 540-730 range. LSR here: 1244 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MEXICO. 6185.00, March 18 at 0021, XEPPM S9/+10 carrier, maybe JBM, XEPPM back on frequency after stuck on 6185.7v equally useless for several days altho I did not keep logging them (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MEXICO. 6185.0, March 18 at 2355, XEPPM JBM with Mexican music, S9 signal; rather than no modulation audible yesterday. BTW, Radio Educación has much more important matters on its mind: holding on to MW 1060 after migration to FM is complete; seems 100 kW on MW has better coverage than FM. Not a word however about SW here, tnx via GRA blog: https://www.americaeconomia.com/negocios-industrias/radio-educacion-busca-retener-la-historica-xeep-am-1060-de-la-ciudad-de-mexico (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 7480, March 17 at 0248, dulcet tones from Josiah of anti-Christ pirate, Station YHWH, S9-S7; tnx to tip from Walt Salmaniw on the WOR iog, noting the time as earlier than usual (could he be on DST, i.e. not Arizona?); and also heard next hour by Rick Barton AZ, who also reported him the night before on 7475 instead of 7470 instead of 7480, so check them all (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 341-MCW kHz, March 17 at 1517 UT, no signal from my only local ND beacon, EI at Woodring Airport; it goes and comes. I strain vs high noise level and there seems to be a trace of another, most likely OIN in Oberlin KS; both 25 watts. Had not been hearing EI either for a couple of nights; at best it`s always much weaker than constant day & night 515-MCW kHz, PN in out-of-town Ponca City, despite also nominally 25 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 88.3 WBFM, March 14 at 1721 UT, NO signal from K202BY, even as we drive close by the site on a jaunt into the country west of Enid. This was the original Family Radio satellator which crashed or messed up the band for many months, then sold to translate 99.1 KJIL Copeland KS, and came back on air Feb 1 with much improved signal -- new transmitter? in fact causing new ACI to 88.1 KWOU Woodward, and I had to move my RF feeder frequencies somewhere else. May have been off for a day or two but until now had seemed funxional with no problems. Still off March 15 circa 1630 check. BTW, via KWOU I heard GM Dick Pryor claim that thru its relays, KGOU reaches 46 (of 77) OK counties. I wonder if he includes Garfield here where the signal is so marginal. Absence of K202BY helps, especially on the west side of Enid and/or with some tropo (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 88.3 WBFM, March 16 circa 2230 UT, K202BY Enid is back on after off a few days, with KJIL IDs, its new translator primary, and again blocking not only 88.3 stations but 88.1 KWOU, and my RF feeders (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. RF 25, March 18 around 1600 UT, KWTV ``9``, OKC is not decoding, and still not at 2115. Normally it`s in solid. I sent this on webform to the news department: ``Why is there no way to reach the Chief Engineer via the website?? Just ``signal issues`` by phone only. Please pass this on to the CE. Here in Enid today March 18, have not been able to decode KWTV on RF25 all day. Almost all other OKC signals are normal. Is it low-powered? The signal level is BAD barely registering on set-top-box from my rooftop antenna. If not reduced power, I think the problem is DX interference. There is currently enhanced strong level 5 tropospheric in this area, and I see in listings there are low-powered channel 25 stations in about a dozen other OK towns! {closest probably Ponca City; also Lawton, Tulsa...} You should realize that this situation reduces your effective coverage area! I don`t suppose you could do anything about it in the short term, but you might in the long term. BTW, KSBI on RF 23 has never been an adequate signal here like it was on 51 (? I recall that was it). Most of the time it doesn`t decode including now. Yes, we have cable, but these stations are supposed to be ``local``. Suddenlink has KSBI itself but not its extra channels. Of course we have to depend on that when you pre-empt CBS on KWTV`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** PERU. 5980, March 12 at 2351, another Chaski-check finds JBA carrier autocutoff at 2351:53.5*, which is 18 seconds earlier than last check 9 days ago, March 3 at 2352:11.5*, i.e. right on the mark of 2.0 seconds each. Not much jamming with which to contend this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** PERU. 5980, March 18 at 2351, JJBBA carrier from Radio Chaski, so weak that I can`t tell exactly when it cut off despite not much jamming now. Increasing daylight on path may finish audibility before the Cuban radio war does in A-20 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** PUERTO RICO. 391-MCW kHz, March 18 at 0700, ND beacon DDP, no dash but very long pauses. It`s San Juan - Dorado, LMM airport, 1000 watts. Classaxe.com shows it with unusually long cycle duration, 20.87 seconds. Format is ID + 6 second gap [what`s the difference?]. Last logged here January 2 at 0714: both then and now I am tuned to 389-USB. Distance 3676 km = 2284 statute miles (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ROMANIA. 7220, March 18 at 2350, RRI English fair, 300 kW at 300 degrees from Galbeni, supposed only for NW Europe but here we are beyond, QRMing our extended hamband. 6035-6040-6045, March 18 at 2352, DRM noise, which is RRI English, only 90 kW, 300 degrees from Galbeni also for Europe only. 6040 is in further use for Spanish on AM at 00-01 as heard before; 06-07 in French & English back to DRM; and 15-16 in German AM, the last from Tsiganeshti (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SAO TOME. 13590.059V, March 17 at 1944, very weak talk, S5-S6, language uncertain; carrier is wavering slightly as I measure it. Scheduled is VOA via Pinheira, 19-20 UT in English. Yes, one of the USAGM sites with broken frequency control (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SCOTLAND [non]. 5850 // 5010, UT Sun Mar 15 at 0100, `Encore` classical music from Radio Tumbril via WRMI succeeds this week, not only on publicized 5850 but also on companion 5010; thisaway 5010 is much weaker; at Bogotá KiwiSDR, 5010 is better but not very strong. Next airing is to be the final one on WBCQ, UT Mon Mar 16 at 0000 on 7490.2v; and then at 0200 on WRMI 9455. Unfortunately this week`s playlist is not up yet, rather last week`s for 07/3, at: https://www.tumbril.co.uk/playlists (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SLOVENIA. 14275-USB, March 14 at 1427, CQ Contest over and over from S57DX; see https://www.qrz.com/lookup/s57dx ``S57DXflag Slovenia, SLAVKO CELARC, OB IGRISCU 8, 1360 VRHNIKA, Slovenia`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TAIWAN [non]. 7430, March 13 after 0100, no signal from the publicized RTI Spanish test via unknown site. Via Nino Marabello, a third series of tests has been scheduled, all these frequencies obviously WRMI, so should be fulfilled: ``Estimado oyente, Las anteriores pruebas de frecuencia por la onda corta de la sección española de Radio Taiwán Internacional no fueron exitosas, por lo que realizaremos nuevas pruebas por 3 días, entre lunes 16 y miércoles 18 de marzo de 2020. Destinos: Sudamérica 16 al 18 de marzo 01:00-01:30 UTC 5800 kHz; Centroamérica y Cuba 16 al 18 de marzo 02:00-02:30 UTC 5010 kHz; España 16 al 18 de marzo 22:00-22:30 7780 kHz.`` 5800 at 0100?? Won`t that pre-empt Argentina in Spanish, or has that been moved? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TAIWAN [non]. 5800, March 16 at 0059.5, WRMI ID by BZ after SMTV, and instead of RAE Spanish relay repeat, 0100 into music, unseems the publicized RTI relay test, but at 0102 I am hearing YL in Spanish with Chinese accent, talking about Dia Mundial de la Radio which was back on 13 febrero; S9+20/30. Soon mentions Radio Taiwán Internacional, so that`s it with old program for test; includes music breaks and sounders. 0129 RTI contact info; 0131 into some kind of music/fill. The third series of relay tests, after two which went bust, is supposed to be UT March 16-17-18: 0100 on 5800, 0200 on 5010, 2200 on 7780. 5010, March 16 at 0228 I barely tune in time to catch closing of RTI, poor here, but guess what? It`s also on very poor 7780, and much better 9395! (Just before WOR follows at 0230 on 7780.) 7780, March 16 at 2214, jazz music, 2221 RMI Spanish ID, more music. Not RTI relay, maybe APS Radio as originally scheduled. However,RTI did show here yesterday as Richard Langley, NB reported: ``Noted in Spanish on my recording of yesterday (15 March) at 22:00 UTC on 7780 kHz instead of Voice of the Report of the Week``. That was a UT day before the tests were supposed to start. Let`s see what happen to these & other WRMI frequencies March 17-18. See also ARGENTINA [non]. (Glenn Hauser, OK, 0036 UT March 17, WOR iogroup) And here`s what happens UT March 17: 5800, at 0100 WRMI starts Hal Turner, who claims to have secret info about virus suppressed by mainstream media; monitored via Colombia SDR, but at 0102 abrupt switch to Spanish before HT can spill the beans. This proves to be the RTI tests rather than RAE, as no Italian accent; they also about CV, and sino-fobia, which surely affects Taiwanese too by the ignorant. 0112, RTI ID. At 0115 checking own receiver: both routes include a squeal on the 5800 transmitter. 9455 at 0115 is still carrying Hal Turner on his only nominal frequency. At 0200, another scheduled test of RTI in Spanish via WRMI. Again on three frequencies, not just one: 7780 good via UTwente; 5010 fair in Colombia; 9395 good at Rockport (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TAIWAN [non]. 5800, March 17 at 0121, Chinese lesson for Spanish, practicing tones, so it`s the last of three RTI experiments via WRMI. At 0130, 5800 goes into Radio Tirana // 9395; maybe a System switching anomaly? See ALBANIA [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TAIWAN [non]. 5800, March 19 at 0100, checking what`s on WRMI now that the 3-day RTI test should be over: It`s still running, Spanish, and 0129 Chinese music, 0130 two WRMI IDs in Spanish by Dino & Jaime, squeal, into unID music, Spanish? NOT Tirana which was showing up here, nor on // 9395 where Albania is supposed to be. After 0200 RTI yet again, including 0214 Chinese lesson for Spanish, not only on 5800 which normally stops at 0200, but on 7780, and with a good signal into Colombia, 5010. What`s next? Has RTI decided to permanentize the tests, or just haven`t reverted yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 12035, Sat Mar 14 at 1356-1403+, VOT English S8-S3 with Turkish songs, a time when I was expecting to hear `Letterbox`. 5960, Sat Mar 14 at 2317, no signal from VOT English to us, another no-show; so the Mighty farty KBC should have no worries this week from 5960 after 0000. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also GUAM ** TURKEY. 5960, March 17 at 2300, no signal from VOT English to us, another day AWOL; or late maybe; did not recheck later (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 383-MCW kHz, March 18 at 0702, NDB CNP, which is 25 watts from Chappell, Nebraska. Chappell is on I-80 west of Ogallala, just above the NE corner of Colorado (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5896.5-USB, March 18 at 0028, ``Region 6 SHARES net`` headed by NCS 307 and stronger NCS 387; 0031 contact from even stronger AFA6AG [fonetik] vs storm noise crashes. Fortunately no broadcasters on 5890, 5895 or 5900 now. Who and where is AFA6AG? MARS IDs seem well-concealed: no significant hits on web search, but lots of crazy stuff including Latin. Search of UDXF iog gets a few hits, this being latest: ``5896.5 (USB) SHARES night primary / Coordination Nets FEMA joint amateur/government (digital) 5378.0 (ALE) FEMA 5402.0 (ALE) FEMA 5403.5 (USB) FEMA Regions 1-4, 6; MERS Maynard, Thomasville, Denton 5732.0 (ALE) COTHEN 5821.0 (ALE) FEMA 5896.5 By Utility World (Hugh Stegman) · #88956 · 09/01/19`` My previous log of this: ``5896.5-USB, UT Wednesday April 18, 2018, at 0008, MARS net headed by NCS387 with much weaker contacts AFA6AG and AFA6TG. I wonder if FCC ordered WWCR off 5890 because of this, besides their {temporarily! gh, 2020} banning Brother HyStairical with no replacement; so could it resume that frequency if it wanted to?`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13963.5-USB, March 17 at 1523, intermittent contacts, JBA, involving BX, 1525 stronger 2AO, Tango, whether 030 be copied? Calls fonetik, anyway. Correlates with this recent UDXF iog log: ``13963.5 HIGH CARD TANGO (US ARMY MARS Strategic Net) 1521 UTC ALE to HIGH CARD GULF who passed MIL STD 110A to other stations but had tech problems (31/01/20) (GWR) Gary W Russell, Central, IL`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2025 contents: Antarctica, Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Ethiopia non, Guinea, Ireland, Italy non, Korea South, México, Monaco non, North America, Oman, Perú, Romania, Scotland non, Taiwan non, Turkey, USA, Vanuatu; DRM; propagation outlook WOR 2025 is available as of 0057 UT Friday March 13 (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2025.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2025.mp3 Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html Also linx to podcast services. The shortwave broadcasts should be: 0900 UT Friday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE [usually starts with heavy jamming but maybe abates] 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5010 to S, 7780 to NE 0900 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] 0900 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9395 to NNW 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 1901 UT 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 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2025 monitoring: confirmed Friday March 13 at new time of 2200 UT, first American SWBC, fair-good S9/+10 on WRMI 9955 -- just a trace of pulse jamming at first, not later. About the same quality via Bogotá KiwiSDR. Next: 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5010 to S, 7780 to NE 0900 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] 0900 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9395 to NNW 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 1901 UT 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 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2025 monitoring: confirmed 0130 UT Saturday March 14 on WRMIs: 5010 fair as I am listening to Bogotá remote; 7780 sufficiently fair via UTwente SDR; Direct: 5850 VG S9+20, 7780 JBA, 5010 VP S9 in noise. Next: 0900 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] 0900 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9395 to NNW 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 1901 UT 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 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2025 monitoring: 15770, Sat Mar 14 at 1340 I awaken to a JBA carrier from WRMI, so was probably also on at 1300 for WOR. Yes, Ivo Ivanov reports from Bulgaria with clips of the first and last parts; but did it join 3 minutes late after BS?: Weak/fair signal of World of Radio #2025 and Shortwave Radiogram #143, March 14 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/03/world-of-radio2025-and-shortwave.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uUhYmGpgt0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2OEkzsEfy0 ``1200-1303 on 15770 RMI 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English Brother HySTAIRical TOM and 1303-1330 on 15770 RMI 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English Sat World of Radio#2025 and 1330-1400 on 15770 RMI 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English Sat Shortwave Radiogram#143`` Also confirmed UT Sunday March 15 starting at 0330 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, Wentzville MO, sufficient at Peoria IL KiwiSDR, VG direct to here S9+20/30 but with storm crashes from NE Texas. Next: 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9395 to NNW 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 1901 UT 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 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2025 monitoring: confirmed Sunday March 15 at 2130 on WRMI 7780, fair via UTwente SDR. Also confirmed UT Monday March 16 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, S9/+10. But 9395 is playing something else until WOR start about 35 seconds late, separate playout, good S9+10 but sounds better than 7780. Also confirmed UT Monday March 16 at 0230 on WRMI 7780, fair. Also on WRN webcast. Also confirmed UT Monday March 16 at 0300 on Area 51 webcast; at 0327 also on WBCQ 5130, fair S9+10/20. Also confirmed UT Monday March 16 at 0330 on WRMI webcast, and 9955 VG S9/+10. Also confirmed Monday March 16 from about 1900:40 on IRRS 7290 after QSY from 7295, and a few seconds of FSN headlines. No CCI but heavy ACI/splatter from 7295 and 7280 (not 7285); via UTwente SDR. Also confirmed UT Tuesday March 17 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, JBA in Colombia but good at UTwente; and at 0115 check fair here. 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 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2025 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday March 18 at 2100 on WBCQ 7490.2v, very poor. Also confirmed UT Thu Mar 19 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, good via UTwente, poor direct. WOR 2026 should be ready by early UT Fri Mar 20 for first NAm broadcast Friday at 2200 on WRMI 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9330, March 13 at 1825, WLCR via WBCQ is off, still off 1905, but on with Arabic at 2006. Why the lapses? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7490.20V down to 7490.19V to 7490.18V during the hour, 2358 UT Friday March 13 to 0100 UT Saturday March 14, WBCQ at first closing by the FKB gospel-huxter referring us to his further broadcasts, Saturday 9-9:30 pm on WINB 9625 [sic], and 8-9 pm [zone?] on WWRB 3215. This is the guy who phones in his show in real time. 5130 never comes on tonight, but I am listening to 7490V direct on SW, not webcast. At 0000 except for a few beeps, dead air until 0102:35 join in progress the end of ``William Tell Overture`` theme with time for only one final interjexion, ``pot roast``, on `Allan and Angela Weiner Worldwide`. He starts wondering how long they`ve been ``off the air``. Referring to preceding gap, or ``has it been 3 months since the last live show?`` Says interrupted hiatus because of ``craziness``, i.e. run on toilet paper, on and on about that. It`s God`s will to unfurl these particles visible only through an electron microscope. ``God help us if we had any other president.`` He`s already been taking calls including annoying Freddie. ``It`s hot in Florida; Angela likes to go around half-nekkid all the time.`` Finally at 0030 confirms it`s the 13th of March, YOOL 2020. Reads an opinion piece by an anti-socialist college student who thinks the Mainstream Media are brainwashing younger generation, until 0043. 0058 benedixion thanking God for something, again cut off incomplete at 0059:45, no Amen, by automation switch to canned ID and into Hal Turner show right on time 0100. [see also WRMI: 5800] Here`s John Carver`s version: ``Tonight's AAWWW --- show started a bit over two minutes late this evening on 7490. There was no signal on 5130. Allan and Angela in the studio in Fla. Says they decided to do a show because of all the craziness in the world. Opens with talk of the Corona Virus and the shortage of toilet paper. Phone call at 0006 from the April Time Lady which generates more toilet paper talk. Phone call at 0011 from Freddie and more toilet paper talk. Then a serious talk about the virus and other Corona types. Stressed that the manufacture of medicines should be brought back to the US instead of overseas. Long reading of an inspirational paper forwarded to the station. We are reassured several times that WBCQ will continue on for us no matter what happens. Several spot checks during the first forty-five minutes of the program never found a signal on 5130. Allan did say that in the near future 6160 and 3265 would be returning to the air with programming. Reading of emails at 0055. Closing prayer at 0058. Program was off the air at 0100 in the middle of the closing prayer. Other than the mention of 6160 and 3265 there was no station info this evening. John, Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9330, March 16 at 1555, NO signal from WLCR via WBCQ; what`s wrong? A-20 registrations so maybe not yet in use, call for relays via Woofferton, UK. After spending millions to build the 500 kW ``Super-station`` at WBCQ site, to cover the whole flat world, they discover need for a relay closer to the Mideast! To convert all those Egyptians to nihilism (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9330, March 17 at 1532, WLCR via WBCQ is on today, unlike yesterday morning, gospel huxter in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5130, March 18 at 0035, surprised to find this WBCQ on early with an AAAWWW replay of last week`s show where he reads a piece by an anti-socialist young woman grad student; S9 but storm crashes from S/SW of here hit S9+10. Then I find same on 7490.2, much stronger. At 0126, 5130 with presumed weekly UT Wed W5KUB ham show, discussing launching $200 balloons (vs much stronger ham show on 5085 WTWW -- but W5KUB has the advantage of mainly being a video webcast). 5130 is not sked to be on before 0100 with `Amateur Radio Roundtable`, while 7490 at 00-01 is an Available Time Slot (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5800, UT Sat Mar 14 at 0100, this WRMI is starting `Hal Turner` show // much stronger 9455, and also // WBCQ 7490v, but thus abolishing RAE relay in Spanish. No, it was not shifted to the previous hour as SMTV was still on 5800 past 0000. Is it somewhere else on schedule now? The transmission grid still shows RAE [Spanish] at 0100 on 5800 from System H; but the H grid only shows Alameda and Wavescan. It does show RAE Spanish at 22-23 M-F on System D 5010: I have assumed this was long outdated info but have not deconfirmed it lately. Note that in previous report, Taiwan is scheduled to experiment with Spanish on WRMI 5800, at 0100-0130 UT March 16-17-18. 9395, UT Sat Mar 14 at 0110, I`m trying to tell whether Argentina in English is now here one hour earlier, but direct and via numerous remotes tried, just too weak to be sure. And why is this so much weaker than Turner on 9455 if both are on same azimuth 355; not same powers? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5850 // >> 5010, March 17 at 0115, WRMIs Spanish robobibling. See also ARGENTINA [non] and TAIWAN [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WRMI: see ALBANIA [non], ARGENTINA [non], TAIWAN [non] ** U S A. 5935, March 12 at 0602, S9+40 of dead air from WWCR, certainly longer than necessary for a cigar puff, but DGS has resumed by 0622. Meanwhile, 5890 was off, 4840 & 3215 nominal with TOMBS (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 15610, March 12 at 1858, weak open carrier and not sure of any modulation after 1900, but WEWN is back on proper day channel instead of night channel 9385, where heard yesterday after 1900 but not now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5085, March 15 at 0546 tune-in, just in time to hear some dead air and turn off the air. WTWW-2 closings are extremely variable. Earlier I found 5830 WTWW-1 on air weakly but it too off now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 278-MCW kHz, March 15 at 0554 UT, beacon ND with long dash, implying Canadian; no such listing at DXinfocentre.com and classaxe.com --- miskeyed? Difficult copy amid lightning crashes from NE Texas (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, March 13 from 1200 after hearing the NHK chime timesignal at 1200 on 774; on the DX-398 with DF where obvious: 702, 693-NW, 666, 594-NW, 567 kHz. 702, at 1209 a slow SAH, one from WSW; also until 1215: 747-NW, 792, 828, 882-WSW, 972, 1035, 1125-WSW, 1297(2), 1512 kHz. Then I switch to the R75 with E-W longwire, so no DFing, 1219-1229 UT: 657(2), 828, 1035, 1242, 1422, 1521; 558, 567, 594, 693, 729, 747(2), 711. Enid LSR: 1244 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 2098.0, March 18 at 0548 UT, beep exactly every three seconds, noticed as checking for 2097.3 beacon A, which has not been heard in some time. Once before I had this beep and then found several more at odd intervals up the 2 MHz band. This time there is lots of storm noise and only other one found is on 2440. Previous: ``UNIDENTIFIED. 2098.0, 2166.0, 2231.0, 2298.0, 2800.0, Feb 16 at 0643-0713 UT, things that go beep in the night, CW carrier pips exactly 3 seconds apart = 20 per minute on these even frequencies, first noticed when I was checking beacon A on 2097.3. Then found more as I tuned up, always on exact kHz, but not equally spaced: intervals of 68, 65, 67 kHz but none around 2365 nor below around 2032 by 0653. Not until 0713 did I find another, way up on 2800.0 but no others around it. What in the world? Can`t totally rule out a local device, but random frequencies would not all be exact; seems intentional`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 7473-7497 approx., March 15 at 0537, OTH radar pulsing over almost 25-kHz range, Russian? Would bother 7490v WBCQ if on earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 13785, March 17 at 1521-1522* gospel music, abruptly cut off the air. What`s this? Nothing normally here. Saudi is scheduled until 1400 and Oman after 1600, one or both probably imaginary. Possibly WHRI test, which plans to use 13785 in A-20, Sundays only at 20-22 in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 15215, March 12 at 1356, S4-S5 open carrier with flutter, soon off at 1357*. No clues in the schedules (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)