** ALBANIA [non]. See USA: WRMI 5850 ** BELGIUM. 14266-USB, Jan 30 at 1615, OQ4U making quick pro-forma contacts with US stations, some kind of contest, giving signal reports as ``S9-315-VB``, consecutively increasing to 316, etc. Call fonetix always clear as ``Ocean Quebec Four Uniform`` -- doesn`t he know that O = Oscar in this paramilitary system? So many hams mix their fonetix, out of ignorance, or just to be distinctive? QRZ.com: ``OQ4U Belgium flag Belgium, MARC MICHIELS, HALENSEBAAN 137, TIELT-WINGE 3390, Belgium`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** BENIN. 1476 kHz TWR: See UNIDENTIFIED; and TA carriers ** CANADA. 223-MCW kHz, Jan 29 at 0707 UT, dash and YYW, 1000 watt ND beacon at Armstrong, Ontario. Often like now the first one audible tuning up the band; tho there are plenty more Canadians and Unitedstatesians listed starting at 200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 242-MCW kHz, Jan 31 at 0744 UT, ND beacon dash and XC, which is 500 watts from Cranbrook BC; undermixing with FS, which is really on 245 from Sioux Falls SD, a regular. 263-MCW kHz, Jan 31 at 0747 UT, dash and YGK, 230-watt NDB from Kingston, Ontario; presumably this tho copied as YMK, one dit off. 341-MCW kHz, Jan 31 at 0754 UT, dash and ZLP, mixing with my local EI Enid, and its #1 competitor OIN in Oberlin, Kansas. ZLP is 40 watts from Toronto - Meadowvale, Ontario, and per dxinfocentre.com ``to be decommissioned 2021-02-25``; pleased to have caught in time. Distancefromto goes to a Meadowvale beyond Ottawa, not Toronto; distance from Toronto is 1764 km = 1096 stmi or 27.4 miles per watt (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA [and non]. 362-MCW kHz, Feb 1 at 0715 UT, dash and YZS, ND beacon which is 1000 watts from Coral Harbour, Nunavut --- finally a log from that territory! C.H. is on Southampton Island [colonial name?] at the north end of Hudson Bay, 3239 km = 2013 statute miles = 1749 nautical miles from Enid. Wikipedia says: ``Coral Harbour (Inuktitut: Salliq/Salliit, Syllabics: ᓴᓪᓕᖅ/ᓴᓪᓖᑦ),[6][7][8][9] is a small Inuit community that is located on Southampton Island, Kivalliq Region, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Its name is derived from the fossilized coral that can be found around the waters of the community which is situated at the head of South Bay.`` More about it here: https://coralharbour.ca/ --- and not to be confused with another Coral Harbour in somewhat less Arctic Bahamas. This one is mixing with AA, which is in Fargo, North Dakota on 365 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. 11520, Jan 29 at 2348-2350, JBA algo, suspected CNR1 jammer, so look for more below: 11170 S1 in Chinese? 11150 two? JBA carriers slightly apart; 10820 fluttery. 11520 chex as vs RFA Tinian; 11170 & 11150 & 10820 vs Sound of Hope, all per Aoki/NDXC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA [non?]. 11590, Jan 31 at 1602, Chinese; in this case not sure if RFA via TINIAN as sked this hour daily, or CNR1 jammer (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. 9230, Jan 31 at 0120, S4-S6 Chinese with flutter; and a weaker suspicious signal on 9120; both in Aoki/NDXC as CNR1 jammers with Sound of Hope, Taiwan (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** COLOMBIA. Correxion to a recent log: 600, VOA via HJHJ started at 0059 UT January 27, not 2359 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11820, Jan 29 at 0325, JBA carrier from presumed 2 x 5910 CRI relay; equivalent to 11850 JBA carrier of RHC itself. If putting out as much signal as before, still not propagating. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11820, Jan 30 at 0332, no signal from CRI relay harmonic 2 x 5910, which is S9+30/40. I keep checking for a reprise of the bigsig it achieved four nights ago but not since; operational or propagational? Latter continues poor with lower MUFs as 11850 is also inaudible if on, and 11670 is a JBA carrier; it seems 11760 is always off before now, which BTW briefly jumped to 11755 per Harold Sellers, Jan 29 at 2132. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6060, Jan 30 at 0637, RHC in English, S9/+10, reactivated! This frequency had been off for months despite originally scheduled before 0500 in Spanish, afterwards in English. Is it back to stay? Also // 6000 & 6100 all with adequate modulation and 9700 undermodulated. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13636 & 13765, Jan 30 at 1527, RHC extremely distorted FMish spurblobs with F# tone approx. plus/minus 64-65 kHz from fundamental 13700-AM; also second-order traces about 13572, 13828, vs Martí 13820. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15140, Jan 30 at 1530, this RHC is S9+20 but modulation severely suptorted = suppressed & distorted; other frequencies sound OK, 13700, 11760, 9650. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA [non]. 6060, Jan 31 at 0113, JBA algo presumed IRAN, no RHC, yet? which had resumed last night after 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6060, Jan 31 at 0515, RHC English is on again via frequency reactivated last night; maybe starts at 0500 for English? If not Spanish earlier. 5040, 6000, 6060, 6100, 6145 or 9700, Sunday January 31 at 0803 when I am unfortunately still awake, all RHCs are off when Esperanto is supposed to air on one of them. (However, SW Radiogram has just started on WRMIs 5850 & 7730). Something`s always wrong at RHC. 15140 // weaker 11760, Sun Jan 31 at 1602, this airing of Esperanto is starting a bit late with themesong and sign-on (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13496, 13564, 13632 S9, 13768 S9, 13837, 13906 all approx., Jan 31 at 1518, FMish RHC spurblobs out of 13700-AM, with reconfirmed F# tones; approx. 68-kHz intervals, the fringe ones JBA traces. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15700, Jan 31 at 1558, CRI English relay with discussion ending just in time as `The World Today`, rather than a 5-minute language-lesson buffer; S9+30, somewhat distorted and JBA F# tone like on the 13 MHz spurs. Mod stops by 1600 but carrier stays on a while. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6060, February 1 at *0315 approx., reactivated RHC is on with open carrier. Exploring when it may start, I had turned on the extra ATS-909 with whip antenna only a few minutes earlier to nothing, but now the frequency quietens with carrier. I let it run, and it turns out it`s dead air only for hours and hours! 0325, 0415, 0450, 0506, 0522, 0657 ---! Think of all the nutritious meals semi-starved Cubans could have been served for the cost of all this 250+ kWh wasted juice! Something`s always wrong at RHC. At 0657, besides 6060 deadair I check all the others and find English still emanating on 5040, 6000, 6100, 9700; but at 0708 recheck all these including 6060 are OFF. The final repeat at 07-08 UT during Standard Time is certainly iffy. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. Doug Brown, FL/ON, asks, UT Mon Feb 1 at 0223, ``I haven't heard Arnie on the radio for some time now. Do we know if he has retired? There is no one else doing his DX program. D Brown.`` I replied, ``Doug, I think he has been semi? retired for quite a while and/or in ill health. I haven`t tried to hear him in English or Spanish lately, but when last checked the programs were still on, mostly Marta Ríos in Spanish reading his scripts. Did you mean ``some``one else instead of no one? DXers Unlimited totally missing? Glenn`` Before any reply, I start to check this out in addition to the dead air on 6060. The weekend edition of DXers Unlimited had been appearing during the first half of the English hour on Sundays into UT Mondays, as early as :09 to as late as :23 per DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS, so with 6000 managing to modulate in English, I monitor starting at 0408 UT Mon Feb 1: `The Week in Cuba` until 0414; `Mailbag` with ``Ed Newman`` from 0415, soon replying to a listener, ``Arnie Coro has been ill; he`s home resting and recuperating.`` By 0428, the YL with the annoying voice is reading a script about Star Wars movies, etc., etc. 0445 finally music starts. So, no DXUL. Arnie had long been working-from-home anyway, feeding via snazzy fibre-optic cable, but apparently now he has even been unable to send in scripts for someone else to read. The mit-week edition typically appeared about halfway into the English hours on Tuesdays, into WZ Mittwoch, so check then too. I haven`t looked for `En Contacto`, his Spanish DX program, but approx. times for that were Sundays 1440, 2340, UT Mondays 0140. He also did a science show on Saturdays, `Breakthrough`` --- is that suspended too? Anyhow, despite certain policy differences, we wish him well (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13430-trace, 13497, 13565 S9, 13632-3, 13767-8 S9+10, 13835 S9, 13897, 13966-7, 14028-trace, all approx., Feb 1 at 1538 during `Sonido Cubano` music, spurblobs out of RHC 13700-AM, with signature F# tone; distorted but readable best in FM, not AM modes the first- and second-order ones. Strongest ones quite broad, but approx. intervals of 67.5 kHz. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15700, Feb 1 at 1545, *no* signal from CRI English relay, which is usually a bigsig, often with sufficient modulation. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA [and non]. 6060, Feb 2 after 0200, I start checking for when RHC may come on; Iran is there with lots of Qur`aning until it goes off at 0226*, fair signal into Bonaire and a good idea for RHC to hold off. Not checked again until 0305, this time direct, to find that RHC has appeared, VG S9+20/30 and managing to modulate in Spanish, instead of last night`s dead air for almost 4 hours. 0500 recheck, medianoche timecheck and more Spanish: I guess another hour before English from 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6060, Feb 2 at 0558, RHC still in Spanish ID & IS, but at 0558.5, cut roughly to end of English hour and then 0600 re-opening English hour. I was hearing no trace of it before 0300, but Ivo Ivanov thinx it start at 0100; and there is another conflict at 04-05 with Algeria via France, an hour I was not checking. Recheck at 0710, ¿qué pasa? 6060 is still on unlike last night, and in English, good modulation, the best of the lot, as 6000 is off; 6100 // 9700 are both suptorted but 9700 signal holding up to S9+10. 5040 is unusually still on this late, but in Spanish. Something`s always wrong at RHC. Checking 6060 next night, UT Feb 3 at 0200, again no sign of Cuba here, just JBA Iran; 0315 recheck, now RHC is on with VG signal in Spanish; so approx. start 0300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13892, 13829, 13764 S7-S9, 13636, 13573, 13508 trace, all approx., Feb 2 at 1511, FMish spurblobs with F# tones out of 13700-AM, at ~64 kHz intervals. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6000, UT Wed Feb 3 from 0420 to 0440, RHC English, checking for the mid-week edition of Arnie Coro`s `DXers Unlimited`, its former slot on Tuesday/UT Wednesday broadcasts --- no sign of it, just various other features including sports report, `Connecting the Dots`. However, the Spanish equivalent DX program, `En Contacto` was heard by Claudio Galaz, Chile, Sunday January 31 from 2340 on 13740, with typical content, but he does not say who presented it or whether they said anything about Coro. Spanish podcasts including `En Contacto` are here: http://www.radiohc.cu/podcasts but they are quite sporadic lately, the last being from 17 enero. Never the voice of Arnie, but the usual Arnie-like topix including ham DX-peditions, propagation. I listen carefully to the closing credits, and Arnie is NOT mentioned; instead, ``escribe: Luís Milán Roldán; su locutora y amiga: Marta Ríos``. Has Arnie become a nonentity at RHC? Searching website on Coro brings up instead a whole bunch of recent COVID-19 stories. As "Coro" in quotes, zilch. But there may not be anything about the people who do work there now, not even Marta (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13634 & 13766 approx., Feb 3 at 1518, RHC FMish distorted spurblobs out of 13700-AM today are only JBA, but enough to bother algo on 13765-AM. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CZECHIA [non]. See USA; WRMI 5850 ** EAST TURKISTAN. About corporate complicity in Uighur slave labor, as heard on NPR Weekend Edition Saturday Jan 30 via KOSU: http://www-cf.npr.org/2021/01/30/962358073/amelia-pangs-book-explores-the-human-cost-of-our-cheap-goods (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** EAST TURKISTAN. This could be appended to my next log of Urumqi or Kashgar, but why wait? These are the people and culture the ChiCom are trying to wipe out by brainwashing, genocide: Uyghur Folk Song Mitiz Meshrep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hef5OXHr5I YT will of course sidebar many more examples (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. 15160, Feb 2 at 1639, JBA music S6-S7 vs ambient band noise level S6; gone at 1719 recheck. Investigating, since Arthur Pozner had reported to the WOR iog at 1603: ``[WOR] Radio Tigray Media House. New broadcast on 15160 kHz. Strong transmission. Started around 1500 UT. Heard on HF-225 E and a 20 ft. random wire indoor a antenna. Location is outside of NYC.`` To which Dave Kenny, UK, replied, ``Thanks for the tip, strong signal here in UK also, from tune-in at 1605 UT with Horn of Africa music and frequent IDs “Tigray Media House” and “Dimtse Tigray”. 73 Dave`` Nothing listed yet between 15 and 17 on 15160, in HFCC, the latest dated 27 January; nor in Aoki/NDXC, EiBi. I would have guessed site Issoudun or Nauen, but those might not be strong into UK. TMH is apparently well-established on disgraced FB and as a video/web and satellite broadcaster, but nothing found yet about SW: https://tmhtv.org/en/about-us/ This implies it`s based in Washington DC, and also a new Feb 1 item about updating English broadcasts: https://twitter.com/tmhtvnews?lang=en This leads to a 24-minute YouTube which indeed starts out in English, but not about their own broadcasts per se. Wolfgang Bueschel replies: ``a lot of Ethiopian Political News at https://twitter.com/tmhtvnews?lang=en https://tmhtv.org/en/about-us/ https://tmhtv.org/en/topics-issues/ https://rackmintsys.com/ Website shows mail address and international phone call of Ethiopia`` The last one is a website developer in Mekelle - may not be connected to TMH itself. WB replies again: ``ISS[oudun FRANCE], or GRI[goriopol` PRIDNESTROVYE]? FMO of Belgium Radio Ludo Maes 15.00-17.00 UT, like entry SMTWTFS 15:01:45 BRB TIGR 15160 AM XXX So let`s try KiwiNet TdOA feature next time. 73 wb`` BRB does not disclose transmitter sites (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ETHIOPIA [non] 15160, Feb 3 at 1520, JBA carrier with flutter; just enough to lead to further info from others on the WOR iog: Ivo Ivanov concludes it is this from there: ``FRANCE Dimtse Tigray new clandestine broadcast via TDF Issoudun 1500-1700 15160 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Tigrinya Tigray Media House Good here in Sofia and via SDRs Heimiswil Switzerland and Sokyriany Ukraine -- 73! Ivo Ivanov`` Chris Smolinski, Maryland: ``Generally a good signal here at 1529 UTC, but frequent OTHR bursts completely block it out now and then`` Arthur Pozner, near NYC, who discovered it yesterday, Feb 3 at 1620: ``The program yesterday made very frequent announcements of "R. Tigray Media House". Today it is fading very often and that interference only lasted for a few minutes at 1525-1530. Sounded like variable white noise, and it blocked the transmission totally.`` ``No one seems to specify explicitly the language heard. Radio T-M-H- is obviously in English but anything else? They do do English programming on YouTube. Glenn`` Wolfgang Bueschel, Germany: ``KIWInet option TdOA direction finding give some - all is probably -, two different disappointing image outputs. For a 19 meter band of signal direction finding you need a rx triangle 2500 km distance away at least. Likely Issoudun or Nauen bcast center origin. FMO is Broadcast Belgium 73 wolfgang`` Dr Hansjoerg Biener, Germany: ``Ethiopia (Tigray): The English section of „Radio Tigrai Media House“ at https://tmhtv.org/ is not too informative. https://tmhtv.org/en/2018/05/31/ethiopia-a-stable-peace-or-an-impending-crisis/ does not seem to be against the central government. https://tmhtv.org/blog/2019/06/07/alarming-ethnic-based-attacks-and-targeted-killings-of-civilians-in-ethiopia/ is critical of the central government/the Amhara state. There are many uploads to YouTube, including this advertisement for „T-M-H-R“/“Radio Tigrai Media House“: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UafDL6owQMs. Judging from the right column, there have been a lot of uploads in recent days.(Dr Hansjoerg Biener 3 February 2021)`` Last YT is 2 minutes, but only pronouncing the names in English; also ``kilohertz`` presumably about this new SWBC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NIGERIA. 7255-, Jan 29 at 0615, no signal from VON, not detectable on 9690- nor 11770- either. It`s been quite a while since the *0555 IS and Hausa on 7254.9 has been heard; when active it`s very strong but not always well modulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 4030-AM, Jan 30 at 0305, weak music S6-S8, still 0330 and JBA past 0342. A few reports here say Ball Smacker Radio: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,77375.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 4060-USB, Jan 30 at 0303, weak S6-S7 pirate with ballad, still at 0330 but off by 0342. These logs say it`s Bread and Puppet Radio International, another Zekey thing, altho no later than 0250; and as usual those further east reporting much better signals: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,77372.0.html No pirate activity heard on 42 mb, but there`s more on 74 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 4060-USB, John Carver replies to my pirate log: ``Bread and Puppet Radio --- Glenn, just finished reading your most recent log report. It might not be anything but I've always been fascinated by the sixties communes. Have three or four dozen books on the subject. About a year ago I read an overview of communes around Taos, New Mexico and right after that about communes in Vermont. I think it was in the New Mexico book but there was a piece about some crazy old fart who had been in the theater for most of his life. He built life sized puppets and started a commune to train people to build puppets and put on shows with them. His real passion though was baking bread and would make hundreds of loaves of bread at the same time. He'd sell it door to door, give it to people on street corners and when he had enough people to put on the puppet shows he'd give a loaf of bread to everyone in the audience. It was called the Bread and Puppet Theater. Perhaps Zekey has a thing about communes also. I'd have to dig out the books and look it up but I think the book was called Memoirs of a Taos Hippie or some such. At any rate that was the first thing that popped into my head when I read Bread and Puppet Radio. A hell of a coincidence. John`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. John Carver replies January 31: ``Re today's WOR pirate report. For some unknown reason Sycko Radio is pronounced Psycho Radio. As for the report on Zekey's Goat Cheese Radio --- I might be really reaching on this one, but the most successful and well-known commune in New Mexico was New Buffalo. When it was formed, they got into an argument about whether they should raise beef or something else for meat. One of the early members was a "goat whisperer" and he convinced them to go with goats. Goats weren't real popular in that area but they raised goats, sold goat meat, goat milk and --- lots of goat cheese. As I work through the back emails I will watch for any other references to Zekey and see if they might be commune-related. John`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. Re 6935-USB, my R. Nova eQSL and SSTV, https://www.w4uvh.net/RN-QSL34.jpg ``but what is it?`` Jonathan Rice replies: https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g186245-d7278109-i337938524-Tintagel_King_Arthur_Walk_South_West_Coast_Path-Tintagel_Cornwall_Englan.html ``Photo: La statua in ferro di Re Artù --- Bossiney Road, Tintagel PL34 0AJ, England. Description: A 3.6 mile walk on part of the South West Coast Path around Tintagel`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** PERU. Correxion to a recent log: 4810 is Radio Logos, not R. Chazuta, which is the location (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SLOVAKIA [non]. See USA: WRMI 5850 ** SWITZERLAND. 18165-USB, Jan 28 at 1545-1555, quick pro-forma contacts with North American pileups; as usual have to listen multiple minutes to catch the callsign correctly, uttered too quickly altho fonetikaly by station and seldom by the pileuppers. Spells his name ROLF and is in NW Switzerland: HB9RDE With views of his antennas, etc.: https://www.qrz.com/lookup/hb9rde HB9RDE Switzerland flag Switzerland Rolf Oppler L`Oiseliere 4 CH-2912 Roche-d Or / Kt.JU Switzerland (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 5960, Jan 30 at 0002, VOT is still on opening German at S9/+10 direct, having failed to turn off by 2355 after English. Still going at 0023 when I tune via KB0FX remote in MO, also S9/+10 and finally turns off during music at 0036*. Should this recur 24 hours later, another collision with The Mighty KBC. Jim Leppard, PTSW iog, had wondered if I had anything to report about Romania or Turkey? No and yes. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY [non]. 5960, Sat Jan 30 at 2332, no signal from VOT English into UTwente, just Chinese from Xinjiang PBS, EAST TURKISTAN; so The Mighty KBC via GERMANY will not get a collision from TRT German this week after 0000; however, at 0032 Jan 31, the QRM in Europe from XPBS is pretty bad about equal level. Over here, just KBC to be heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 5960, Wed Feb 3 at 2305, no signal from VOT English, checked at UTwente and Brasil SDRs; something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U K [non]. 17545.007, Feb 1 at 1455, HOA talk and bit of music S9-S4, slightly off-frequency until cut off at 1459.5*. Per Aoki/NDXC, it`s BBC Somali via UAE at 1430-1500; also at 1100-1130 via Madagascar, plus Saturdays only UAE starting at 1130 filling in the gap - for silly ballgames? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 335-MCW kHz, Feb 3 at 0702 UT, ND beacon BV, 25 watts from BatesVille - Almond, Arkansas. I was tuned to 333-USB. 395-MCW kHz, Feb 3 at 0656 UT, ND beacon CA, 25 watts from Newton - Harvs, CAnsas. I was tuned to 393-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 379-MCW kHz, Jan 29 at 0721 UT, ND beacon DL, mixing with weaker RUE, at slightly different pitches and periods. Normally only or dominant here is RUE, 25 watts at RUssellvillE, Arkansas. DL is 50 watts from DuLuth - Pike Lake, Minnesota. RNA Signal list explains: DL LSB/USB = 1028/1020, period 5.9 5 (means 5.95??) named `Pykla` RUE LSB/USB = 1015/1127, period 4.4 seconds These mostly JBA LW/MW logs are always on E-W longwire which I assume provides more gain than the DX-398 internal antenna which however would maybe allow nulling choices for such as these at right angles (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 382-MCW kHz, Feb 1 at 0715 UT, ND beacon SP, which is 25 watts from Springfield, Illinois. I was tuned to 380-USB. 353-MCW kHz, Feb 1 at 0717 UT, mixture of NDBs IN in INternaional Falls, Minnesota; and LI in LIttle Rock, Arkansas; overlapping at first they sounded like ``IOI``. 350-MCW kHz, Feb 1 at 0719 UT, NDB LA under near-local RG in OKC; but no LA listed on this or 351, 352 kHz. ?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 4033-USB, Sunday January 31 at 2308, MARS net with AAR6TB and AAR6DG contacting, one or both sounding like NCS. I was of course patrolling for pirates around here but none now. My last log of AAR6TB was in April 2012y! As in DXLD 12-15: ``Texas Army MARS website search on AAM6RE leads to Ken Miller, a.k.a. AAR6TB, Region Emergency Officer. One gets a lot more hits searching on that second call, such as this: https://www.txarmymars.org/news/news.php?id=138 concerning Collin Country, which is just north of Dallas near the KAIJ ruins.`` But now Firefox warns of a potential security risk at that site. Websearch on AAR6TB leads to this: ``Submitted by AAR6TB on Tue, 2014-08-26 20:05 --- HELLO MY NAME IS KEN AND I'M THE SYSOP OF ARMY MARS RMS TRIMODE STATION AAR6TB...`` https://winlink.org/content/rms_trimode_station_aar6tb (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7265-LSB, Sat Jan 30 at 1603, WB5ALM, as NCS of Salvation Army net reading boilerplate, reference website SATERN.org; says also liaison with another SA net on 14265 daily except Sundays at 16 (15?) UT. Also have a digital mode net on 14065. SA is currently still working on the Alabama tornado aftermath. 1605 opening for check-ins, but no replies! Some may have checked in earlier, then starts calling them. QRZ.com shows this is a club station: ``WB5ALM USA flag USA, WILLIAM H FEIST III, SATERN ALM Division, PO BOX 4857, Jackson, MS 39296 USA`` While Feist`s own call is WB8BZH. But what does ALM stand for? First, what does SATERN mean? ``Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network``. Nothing about ALM on the About page. Maybe just refers to the word ``alms`` as in being helpful? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2070 monitoring: confirmed final repeat UT Thursday January 28 at 0130 on WRMI 5010, VG S9/+15 into Bonaire SDR. WORLD OF RADIO 2071 contents: Albania non, Argentina, Australia and non, Bhutan, Brasil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba and non, Egypt?, Finland, France, Germany, India, Korea South,, Lithuania, North America, Perú, Russia and non, Spain, Sri Lanka, USA; and the propagation outlook {slight correxion: USA, the AZ log of COVID TIS on 1650 was at ``1100`` which I now realize must have been EST, even tho it`s inapplicable in AZ! I converted to 18 UT as if it had been MST +7, instead of +5 = 16 UT} WOR 2071 is available as of 0130 UT Friday January 29, 2021 (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2071.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2071.mp3 Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html Also linx to podcast services. The shortwave broadcasts should be: 0130 UT Friday WRMI 5850 to NW, 7780 to NE 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2230 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE 0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0500] 2300vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE 1901 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 2300 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Our non-commercial broadcasts and website depend on voluntary financial support: thanks this week to Steve Zimmerman, West Allis, Wisconsin for a generous check on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 One may also contribute via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com not necessarily in US funds. First broadcast of WOR 2071 just minutes after completion, confirmed UT Friday January 28 at 0130 on WRMIs: 5850 VG direct; 7780 G S8/S9+10 to UTwente (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2071 monitoring, next: 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2230 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE 0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0500] 2300vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE 1901 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 2300 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2071 monitoring: barely confirmed Saturday January 30 at 1315 the 1300 on WRMI 15770 JBA but sounds like my voice cadence. Next: 2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2230 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE 0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0500] 2300vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE 1901 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 2300 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2071 monitoring: confirmed Saturday January 30 at 2046 UT on WA0RCR, 1860-AM MO, via KB0FX nearby remote at S9+10 local quality, just started with Australia item; ending at 2114. Also confirmed Sat Jan 30 at 2240 the 2230 on WRMI 9955, fair on caradio; 2250 check on homerig, VG S9+20/30 with pulse jamming JBA underneath. Also confirmed Sat Jan 30 at 2300 on WRMI 7780, VG S9+5/15 into UTwente. Also confirmed UT Sun Jan 31 at 0422 UT on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO via KB0FX neighbor remote, about 7 minutes in so started ontime 0415; VG but with heavy CWQRM on both sides. Got to be another 160mb contest, and they won`t give our AM station any leeway. Next: 0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0500] 2300vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE 1901 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 2300 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2071 monitoring: confirmed Sunday January 31 on Area 51 via WBCQ 6159.935, but not from 2300: no signal thru 2305, but recheck 2310, now we`re on in progress, so playback may have started on time before transmitter cut on. Earlier at 2258, when the WBCQ IS & ID loop should have been radiating, I was getting some weak unresolved SSB 2-way circa 6162. Also confirmed UT Monday February 1 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, VG S9+20 direct. Also confirmed UT Mon Feb 1 at 0230 on WRMI 5800, S9+20; and 7780 JBA carrier here, S7-S9 noisy into UTwente; also WRN sat/webcast. Next: 1901 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 2300 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2071 monitoring, via UTwente SDR: confirmed Monday February 1 on IRRS 7290 via Bulgaria, starting at 1900:50. The splash from both sides is not so bad this week; 7295 East Turkistan weaker than usual, and 7280 Vietnam much weaker than usual, so LSB listening is best. Seems to be intact at spotchex, and not chopped off short at 1929:50. Earlier, open carrier cut on at *1856:34; modulation cut on at 1859:49 at end of something, IRRS sign-on by a different accented voice than usual, really an Italian? With P O Box contact. 1900:20 FSN headlines before WOR start. Next: 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 2300 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2071 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday February 3 at 2100 on WRMI 7780, S8/9+10 into UTwente but noisy. Also confirmed Wed Feb 3 from 2200:24 on WBCQ 7490.2v direct, S9/+15 but noisy. Also confirmed Wed Feb 3 at 2300 on WRMI 9955, JBA under jamming at TWR DR SDR, S9/+15 at Pardinho, Brasil SDR, no jamming audible. Next, and last: 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Our non-commercial broadcasts and website depend on voluntary financial support: thanks this week to Steve Zimmerman, West Allis, Wisconsin for a generous check on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 One may also contribute via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com not necessarily in US funds. New WOR 2072 should be ready by early UT Friday February 5 for first broadcast on WRMIs at 0130 on 5850, 7780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7571.6, Jan 28 at 0234, WRMI TOMBS on 7570 has unusual QRM from rapid beeping at rate of about 160/minute, i.e. carrier cutting on and off from the upper side as if it were deliberate SE Asian style jamming. Normally blasting 7570 is only S9+10 with noisy modulation of its own as often the case out of Walterboro. 0326 recheck, QRM is off and 7570 has ascended to S9+10/20 but with undermodulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5850, Jan 29 at 2300, R. Tirana via WRMI is marred by loud squeaking intermittently. It gets worse and worse and continues into R. Prague after 2330, so at 2334 I notify WRMI: ``Urgent --- 5850 squeaking! Since 2300 trying to listen to Tirana on 5850, heavy squeaking interrupting, getting worse. I thought it was a their problem. But it`s still happening after 2330 with Prague relay so it must be your problem. I think it stopped briefly during the ID up to 2330.`` And at 0048: ``It was still there after 2330 but abating. Did not listen continuously. After 0003 Jan 30 in Slovak it was gone. I`m rather sure this was coming out of your transmitter rather than QRM. At its worst toward the end of Tirana, it interrupted the program modulation. Initially on Tirana it did not, but was in addition to continuous program mod. "Is there a mouse in the house?" Unlike the jamming-like QRM from a carrier CW-like beeping on 7571.6 which I had last night UT Jan 29 at 0234, rate of about 160 per minute. Glenn`` If anyone hear the 5850 squeaking again, let WRMI know ASAP. BTW, I was getting this both on my own rx and the KB0FX remote in MO. As for the 7570 QRM problem, it`s happening again, Jan 30 at 0238 check vs BS, beeps from 7571.6, but different, à la ``bonker`` utes --- every fourth beat would be prolonged and mushy rather than a pure tone; and not always 4 apart (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7778 & 7782, Jan 30 at 1605, carriers flanking 7780 WRMI; axually, 7780 is transmitting 2 kHz DSB tone, why? Trace of mod on center frequency, TOMBS as Sabbathly modulating properly on // 7570, 7730; 9395, 9455, 9955; 5800-carrier, 5850, 5950; while 15770 remains with SMTV and 21525 JBA carrier presumed still R. Africa, which is not in pan-America since Pangaea (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. Re: Urgent: 5850 squeaking! On Jan 30 I notify WRMI: ``Jeff, No more of that last night, but now it`s doing it again: both before 2300 on 7780 with Tirana, and after 2300 on 5850 with Tirana. So I think it must be either a problem on the original recording, or on your particular System(s) playback equipment. Since I also heard it on Prague after 2330, that would imply the latter. You can see what you hear off-air or studio monitors, and also what their original recordings sound like. [later} 5850 still squeaking at 2344 during Prague. Glenn`` Jeff replies that they have already been working on the problem. Maybe audio processor is being over-driven, rather than other explanations (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7780 before 2300 UT Sun Jan 31 and 5850 after 2300, WRMIs are not squealing or squeaking, unlike the past two days around this hour, so apparently fixed the problem. Notice how the two related words are identical except for one letter! There could also be squeaming? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7570, Sat Jan 30 at 2300-2359, `Encore` classical music VG via WRMI; a few glitches, not clear whether on recording or playback. Toward the end during soft passage, trace of the ``bonker`` QRM from 7571.6 also audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 6159.92v, Jan 30 at 0057, WBCQ concluding Area 61 truncated old-time-radio hour with ``we`re all being played`` --- at first I thought it was about 45-politix; S8 into KB0FX remote in MO which in SAM mode reads carrier minus 80v Hz from 6160.000. 7490.188v, Jan 30 at 0058, then I check the other WBCQ, when tuned to 7490.000 reads plus 188.3v Hz, stronger S8-S9, but the air is dead until just before 0100 ID and WTO opening `AAAWWW` which by now is also on 6160-. By the end of hour recheck, 7 has faded down to weaker than 6. As for what ensued between, welcome back to John Carver, mid-north Indiana, who is again online and able to hear it; his report has been posted on the WOR iog (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9333.0, Jan 30 at 1601, open carrier, and *no* signal on 9330 from WBCQ SuperStation. When 9330 is operating, have never heard 9333 carrier/het on at same time, so suspect same defective transmitter. This was direct; and again at 1742 recheck via KB0FX remote in MO, still thus at S5-S6, with carrier offset varying minus 8.3 to 9.0 Hz. Unlikely the Cuban spy which is also on 9330 but only after 0700. I`ve heard 9333 previously under same circumstances, July 17 and June 24, 2020. Last night on 6160v AAAWWW, John Carver reports: ``Phone call at 0134 from a gentleman who informed them that he thought the superstation was down again. Allan explained that they may have turned the antenna in another direction. Jason sent them a message stating that the superstation was indeed down due to another leak in the cooling system.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9330, Jan 30 at 2045, WBCQ SuperStation is still OFF, nor is there any 9333 carrier now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also VENEZUELA ** U S A. 5830, Jan 29 at 0230 and still 0333, dead air from WTWW-1 instead of SFAW, SOB. During the hour signal had dropped from S9+10 to S7-S9; meanwhile, 5085 WTWW-2 continued rockmusicking distortedly at both times. Ted`s stuff is obviously primary, even tho the heirs of Laporte`s passé Pastor Pete Peters own the thing (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5085, UT Sun Jan 31 at 0122, WTWW-2 with ham talk, S9/+10 on the meter, but VP *much* weaker than usual to the ear as ``skip is long`` so another loss for TOUTA which probably followed soon tho listening to webcast would have been inconvenient; before 0200 it`s back to distorted rock music. Neighbor WWCRs are much attenuated too, 5935, 5890 and even 4840. K index went up from 0 to 1 from 00 to 03 UT, not accounting for this nor any storms (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 3215, UT Sun Jan 31 at 0157, no signal from WWRB but WWCR-1 should cut on at hourtop. As a matter of fact, WWRB`s license expired last year, and this has been discussed on the WOR iog: ``[WOR] WWRB; Jan 27 at 6:35 PM It would appear that WWRB wants back in to SWBC. The parent company of this presently unlicensed station filed an application for Construction Permit with the FCC last week. https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/ib/forms/reports/swr031b.hts?q_set=V_SITE_ANTENNA_FREQ.file_numberC/File+Number/%3D/IHFC/P2021012200001&prepare=&column=V_SITE_ANTENNA_FREQ.file_numberC/File+Number What is the recent history of this station? Its website describes it as an Internet station. http://www.wwrb.org/ (Benn Kobb, WORLD OF RADIO 2071)`` ``USA: WWRB - the station nobody missed? My last logs of the station: {translated to Oct 11 & 18, 2020:} 201011 5050 0250 1110 USA WWRB, E, Predigt 15422 HjBi vergleichweise gut verständlich // http://www.wwrb.org/wwrbonline.php Global 1-Stream 201018 5050 0210 1810 USA WWRB, E, Predigt 25422 HjBi vergleichweise gut verständlich I noted a surprisingly good audio as compared to earlier logs. (Dr Hansjoerg Biener 27 January 2021, WORLD OF RADIO 2071)`` ``This appears to be my last log of it: `U S A. 3215, Sat Nov 28 at 2324, WWRB is on with S9+20/30 of dead air; recheck at 2332 now a gospel huxter about going to hell (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)` At 0200 it would switch to 3185 when WWCR took over 3215. WWRB was active only on Sat/UT Sun and Sun/UT Mon. Did Dave overlook renewing the SW license? (Glenn, WORLD OF RADIO 2071)`` ``Re: [WOR] WWRB Jan 30 at 11:47 AM --- And even without any RF signal whatsoever he still wants to charge $25 for 59 minutes... http://www.wwrb.org He has two different streams running, but right now identical patterns of random noises, over a constant floor of hum and hiss, suggest that they are one and the same studio output. Could one go wrong by imaging a shabby shack with a 60s vintage rotary knob mixer and so on? Do you remember his Radio Munansi relays? So called elections have just again been held in Uganda, and like five years ago there have been severe disruptions of internet connections. But one thing was different than in 2016: No additional attempts to reach audiences there via shortwave have been reported this time. Back then there had been an "Uganda Diaspora Radio" via Nauen and Issoudun and from South Africa, thus using Meyerton, another project called "Radio Lead Africa". The latter included Radio Munansi programming, and somehow they afterwards ended up at WWRB. By the way, like yesterday at http://player.radiomunansi.com the embedded http://199.180.75.58:9001/stream.mp3 does not connect. Is it geoblocked or just not working? Kai Ludwig`` Does not work on any player. However ``we are live`` sets off the timer running. Nothing heard. I didn`t close the window and the clock was still going 6+ hours later. Well, that`s something. Glenn`` ``Glenn asked, "Did Dave overlook renewing the SW license?" From FCC staff: "WWRB's license had expired. When notified of this he stopped operation of the station and is filing applications to get a license." With the type of programming that station was known for, I might describe this as a "revoltin' development." (Benn Kobb, Jan 30)`` Furthermore, WWRB`s other frequency, 3185, was occupied by a pirate: ``3185 PIRATE (No. Am.) Sycko Radio, 0315, 1/24/21. Instrumental music into a long section of what sounded like random instruments and singing. Later Sycko explained that it was the asylum inmates all playing their instruments at once. Poor – fair (Mark Taylor, Madison WI, WORLD OF RADIO 2071)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7505, Feb 3 at 0206, no signal from WRNO here; but at 0336 via KB0FX SDR in MO, S9+20 with gospel rock (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1230 kHz, UT Sun Jan 31 at 0403-0443+ UT, KCUP, Toledo, Oregon, early check prior to 8-hour DX test to start at 0600, ``Eight solid hours of only legal voice IDs, Morse Code, and sweeps, sweeps, sweeps.`` 1474 miles from Enid, so I have little hope of hearing it direct, but strange noises might possibly be detected. For starters, I try a remote SDR 666 miles away, but just the graveyard jumble. How about the one which is 6 miles from Toledo? Yes! That gets it, altho not without QRM. Mostly Xmas tunes and ``Kay-Cup`` IDs, PSAs. It`s a bit late for Xmas so this fare might well be used for DX testing too. Will give it a try later on my own rx anyway. One could still set a distance record via some other SDR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1230 kHz, Jan 31 at 0738-0742 UT, concentrated continuous listening to my R75 with E-W longwire for any sign of the KCUP Toledo Oregon DX test, but nothing. That`s enough for me, but I have already heard it via remotes over a megameter away. Some guys were going to record the entire 8 hours and sift for it later; beyond me. Fleshing out my previous report starting two hours before the official test: It so happens that there is a KiwiSDR in Newport OR, which city-to-city is only 6 miles from Toledo. Near-local quality KCUP it uppix but still with QRM audible under. Surprised to be hearing Xmasmx! That`s the kind of thing out-of-season DX testers sometimes employ since it stands out sorethumbly. Could this be an intentional prélude to the test, or would KCUP really be playing that for local audience a month+ later? 0409: ``This is K-Cup``; ``O Little Town of Bethlehem`` 0414: ``K-cup`` 2-syllable ID; ``I`ll Be Home for Xmas`` 0418: ``O, Tannenbaum`` in German 0421: ``K-Cup``, PSA about adoption 0424: ``White Xmas`` 0426: ``Favourite Things`` 0428: ``I Want a Hippopotamus for Xmas`` 0431: ``Silent Nite`` 0433: ID about enjoying something 0442: ``K-Cup``, heart & stroke PSA; ``Lifestyles of the Central Oregon Coast`` 0448: ``We Three Kings`` 0600 again listening on local remote as DX test officially starts, robo-announced as such, Morse ID as VVV DE KCUP with repetitions. At 0601 I switch to one of the KiwiSDRs in Northern Utah, labeled as: ``© bluebison.net Northern Utah SDR KiwiSDR #1 Corinne, Utah U.S.A. (TCI-530 Omni) Corinne, Utah | Grid: DN31uo, ASL: 1310, [map]``. The map link shows its G.C. as: 41-35-24 N / 112-16-12 W, or decimally: 41.59 / -112.27. I have not tried to compute exact distance with G.C. but city-to-city and distancefromto.net worx out to 632.58 statute miles. This is the one I checked earlier during Xmasmx with no go. Now I *am* hearing KCUP over a megameter away, tuning LSB = USB mode: 0601: Morse ID, sweeps 0602.5: phone-off-hook, upward sweeps 0606: 1 kHz tone 0647: another final check into Utah: upward sweeps, 0650 tone. Simultaneously have local Newport SDR still running, and easily compared and confirmed as //, tho hardly necessary after copying definite KCUP Morse ID in Utah. BTW, about 3 other further-flung DXers were also running Newport on 1230! But not this Corinne. At first I was reluctant to try Corinne as it might be too close to the UT on 1230 in Murray, KJJC in the greater SLC market, but not a problem. Murray is SE of SLC; Corinne is quite further north, 30 miles from Idaho. For this path, Corinne #1 is at optimum distance, not too far, but not too close still to qualify as real DX. Meanwhile I have also checked several other possible remotes, to find no KCUP or not funxioning: in CO, TX, AZ, HI, NZ. I was about to try VE6JY in Alberta but Malwarebytes blox, claiming possible trojan. Don Moman thinx it`s OK anyway, and any malware would have had to come from Kiwinet updates. At 0615 UT I try Prince George BC`s VE7AV remote, and there is KCUP: beeps going upward // Newport; 0618 CCI in Korean! That would be intervening KWYZ in Everett WA; 0620 tone; distance city-to-city 644 miles with no G.C. provided by this remote. FCC shows G.C. for KCUP: 44° 37' 52.00" N Latitude 44.631111 123° 56' 40.00" W Longitude -123.944444 Here`s the latest notification about the test, including grafik of the ``Cup`` logo: https://groups.io/g/IRCA/message/16676 Under the rules, as an NRC member, I could claim a new graveyard record distance for KCUP beyond Tim Hall`s standing one, except I am sure others heard it further, even without a remote. I would however like a QSL for picking it up in BC and UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) {my ``record``, however, might have stood for a few minutes!} ** VENEZUELA. 6200+RCUSB, Feb 2 at 0156 via Bonaire SDR, ROCV in SAM mode displays carrier +2.6 Hz: VP S4-S7 noisy, seems to be citing phone numbers, tropical music; 0159 TC for 58 minutes past the hour, 6200 kHz. I have raised the question whether this be a pirate, lacking any YV- callsign implying a government-licensed station. It is true that when it was newly on 6906-RCUSB, it did claim not to be a pirate with CONATEL authorization pending; and of course it was relaying FM & AM real stations in El Tigre; isn`t it about time to be legalized? See this originally from Oct 15: http://ea1uro.com/radio/rocv/ ``Visto en elradioescucha.net - via CADENA DX facebook 6.906 KHZ RADIO ONDA CORTA VENEZUELA -R.O.C.V- EL TIGRE, ESTADO ANZOÁTEGUI . 50w En período de prueba y en trámites de permisos ante Conatel -organismo rector de las telecomunicaciones-. Actualmente están retransmitiendo la programación de Venezuela 93,7 FM, pero también lo harán con Radio La Voz del Tigre 980 kHz. Al respecto Robert Lozada, jefe de programación nos comenta lo siguiente en el grupo “Radiofrecuencia” de whatsapp: “Buenas tardes grupo espero disfruten de la música que suena en nuestra onda corta R.O.C.V desde venezuela y tranquilos que ya estamos es los permisos de conatel no es una emisora pirata o como usen sus términos que pasen feliz tarde…Transmisión de prueba ya va a salir independiente pronto”. Noticia actualizada 15 octubre via CADENA DX: Según lo conversado telefónicamente con el técnico Gregorio «Polaco» Kinia y con el Jefe de Programación Robert Lozada si todo sale según lo planeado después de subsanar unos problemas con sus equipos dañados por una fuerte descarga eléctrica; ROCV saldrá con su programación independiente el próximo sábado 17 de Octubre a partir de las 14:00 horas UTC (10 am hora local en Venezuela). Por ahora han estado retransmitiendo en principio la programación de la radio «Así Suena Venezuela FM» y en la actualidad «La Voz del Tigre 780 {sic} AM». ROCV utiliza un pequeño transmisor de 50 vatios en la frecuencia de los 6.906 kHz y en la actualidad es la única emisora que opera desde Venezuela en la onda corta y agradecen a los radioescuchas y Diexistas del mundo todo el apoyo prestado hasta ahora sus transmisiones las 24 horas!`` Later on CadenaDX FB, it was suggested that Polaco might want to apply to WBCQ to help engineer the 500 kW. BTW we are wondering if WBCQ`s purchase of WHRI is still pending, stalled? Nothing said about it lately. No twits from Allan since January 20 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search January 29 at 1335 since I`m unfortunately awake before sunrise now right at 1335; on the DX-398 so I can rotate DFing: 1566 from NW, no doubt FEBC S Korea, flanked by even weakers 1557 and 1575, but none lower by now, not even 972 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Feb 2 at 0320-0324: 531(2), 549, 558(2), 603, 612, 621(2), 639, 684*, 693, 711(2), 747(2), 774(2), 837(2), 881.5-birdie?, 882, 891, 1044, 1125, 1476. If I had the time and/or the patience, I could compute the (2) SAHs, ranging from ``slow`` to ``medium``. *684 with some music audio, strongest of the lot, no doubt RNE Spain. Nothing usually heard on 1476; and there is nothing much in Europe since ORF Austria destroyed its 60-kW transmitter; instead likely 100 kW TWR BENIN in Hausa, scheduled to start just now at *0320 M-F per WRTH, finding the schedule, where else? under South Africa on page 494. 1476 is their second Benin transmitter; the first one on 1566 is also supposed to start at 0320, in English, unheard now, but reported more often into North America, presumably less unfavorably directed. As for tonight, I`m rather surprised to find afterwards that the K index at 03 was 4, with G1 geomag storming. It`s true the northern Europeans, i.e. UK frequencies were not so strong, but Iberia, NW Africa still arriving (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 1476, Feb 3 at 0313, besides the usual lower-band JBA TA carriers, there is already one on 1476, suspected TWR Benin. I was hoping to hear it cut on for presumably the first morning show, Hausa from 0320 but it`s already on. Nothing detectable on the English frequency 1566. BTW, it`s no accident that 1476 was picked: WRTH 2005 showed 1476 as the main Cotonou outlet of ORTB except it was already inactive (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 6925-USB, Jan 30 at 0230, occasional weak syllables, unsure of language or piracy while two will be active 4+ MHz; see NORTH AMERICA (Glenn Hauser OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 10790 very approx. and broad, Jan 29 at 2351 after tuning for CNR1 jammers, here`s a terrible spurblob with talk cadence modulation, occasional bits of music, totally unreadable, not even in FM mode, nor can I be sure it`s English or Spanish. In this area I suspect 10.7 MHz IF radiation from some neighbor`s FM radio, so I quickly scan localish signals thruout the FM and AM bands on another receiver, but nothing matches. Then I check 31m for strong signals such as RHC, REE --- no match either. Goes off at 2400* which make it non-local, but likely originating on SW. R. Martí might have been, but Grimesland turned off 9565 several seconds earlier. Ideas? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)