WORLD OF RADIO HITLIST updated: http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm just a few changes by Alan Roe concerning Taiwan, UK. Next edition mid-March concerning American DST changes DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS updated March 3 http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html ** BRAZIL. 11905-11910-11915, Feb 27 at 0013 on the NA5B SDR near WDC which I had been pulling WBCQ on, EBC DRM noise is easily audible in SAS mode with ``stereo`` sound, but is too weak to decode except for occasional bits, 5v+ dB SN, 14.76 kbps, S5. Since it`s neither from nor for Amazonas we cannot call this RNA, unlike the 11780-AM programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 335-MCW kHz, Feb 26 at 0711 UT, dash and YLD, 1000-watt ND beacon at Chapleau, Ontario. I was tuned to 334-USB. The best Canadian I could copy vs storm noise from NE Texas and degraded northerly propagation. Reminding myself where that is? Between SSM and Timmins (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 346-MCW kHz, Feb 27 at 0705 UT, dash and YXL, which is 500-watt NDB at SiouX Lookout, Ontario. Commonly heard, but about time I relog it for the record; tuned to 345-USB. See also USA [and non] for YLD on 335. Tonight there is heavy S9 buzz blocking most signals above 380, but clearer below (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CRIMEA. Re RCV on 5916-CW, derivation of ``-opol'`` place names, Jimmy James answers: ``"-opol" ending means "city" --- it is from the Greek "polis". That's because those cities on the border of the Black Sea in Crimea area were founded by ancient Greeks. (same as "Constantinople" = the city of Constantin ([emperor)). Thx.`` And from Arthur Pozner: ``Just about all Crimean and many other Black Sea towns used to be ancient Greek colonies long ago. Modern names were given during the Russian expansion after a series of wars with the Ottoman Empire: Sebasto-polis. Simfero-polis etc. Even some cities in Ukraine have a similar history. Melitopol, Ternopol, Mariupol, Nikopol and others.`` --- I should have thought of that (Glenn Hauser, WOR) ** CUBA. 13772-trace, 13628/13627 best S7-S9 with F# tones, 13556 S5, 13485-trace, 13414-trace vs CODAR, Feb 25 at 1453, extremely distorted spurblobs out of 13700-AM at 71-73 kHz intervals; should have been more on the plus side, undiscovered. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2075) ** CUBA. 15700, Feb 25 at 1531, China Plus relay is S9/+10 but JBM; something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2075) ** CUBA. 13700, Feb 26 at 1540, RHC is S9 but undermodulated, and NO spurs. Occasional spurless morns I don`t always bother to note, but it`s the least I can do now & then. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6100, Feb 27 at 0619, RHC S9+10 in Spanish instead of English. What else? The rest in English: 6060, but only poor S7-S9; 6000 and 9700 are both VG S9+10/20; At 0658 I catch 6060 just cutting off, and find also off are 9700, 6100 and 5040. But at 0700, 6000 still on at S9+30, re-opening the English hour with ``jam-packed1`` program previews per ``Ed Newman`` hype. O, my, countless listeners are going to be frustrated, since at 0715 recheck and probably long before, 6000 too has been turned off; all gone. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13634 S3, 13766 S1, 13833-trace, all approx., vs 13830-AM station, FMish spurblobs with F# tones out of RHC 13700-AM which is S9/+10 but undermodulated. ~66 kHz intervals, but can`t detect one circa 13568, nothing to block 13565 K6FRC beacon. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6000, Feb 28 at 0709, RHC in S9+30 of dead air, but 6100 is still modulating English at S9+10/20; while 6060, 5040 and 9700 are all off. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. Sunday February 28 at 2338, I`m tuning known RHC Spanish frequencies at Bonaire SDR, about to monitor `En Contacto` to tell if Arnie is back or mentioned at all? But they are *all* unusable! 13740 is strongest at S9+5 but extremely suptorted with listener postal addresses --- it`s not QSL OTA but the ending of `Mundo de la Filatelia`, stamp collectors trading. `En Contacto` does not start until 2343, but I give up for now and attend UBMP on 7490 webcast, music from Uganda. The other RHCs: 11760 like 13740; 11850 & 13680 crackly; 11670 off; 9650 & 9535 weak. Recheck at 0005 March 1: now mod is OK on 13740, 13680 is off, 11850 suptorted, 11760 semi-suptorted. Next and final `EC` airing is ~3 hours later. This week starts UT Mon at 0237 when I find 5040 VG into Bonaire; ham DXpedition late in March; 0243 PJ2LJG Curaçao speaks Spanishish about something; 0245 CO7SF; 0246 from studio about clima espacial, pronóstico hasta 20 de marzo; 0240 quick QSL en el aire to someone in Bogotá, closing theme with flute/CW already, with no credits, Arnaldo never mentioned, finished in time for `Doctor` show to start at 0250.6 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6180, March 3 at 0104, algo JBA but not CRI relay; its S9/+10 carrier comes on late at *0105 but open for a while; by 0113 recheck modulating in English. Understation maybe Brasil, but unseemed // 11780 with SBG excitement. In fact CRI has a 6180 simulcast English via Kashgar, East Turkistan, land of brainwashing Uighurs to become good little Mandarins. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CURACAO [and non]. 18133-USB, March 3 at 1908, PJ2/N1ZZ with rapid pro-forma contacts as he says he`s trying to make as many as possible during his stay. Mostly weak US & Canadian, but now one with stronger XE1C, Jean-Paul en Guadalajara. Still going at 1941 check tho he says the band is dropping out. Here, no other phone activity noted except on this frequency. I hope he is OK, since he pronounces / as ``stroke``. I prefer ``slant``, not ``slash`` either as too violent. -..-. Is he from New England? Not any more. QRZ.com: ``My direct mailing address is: Daniel Gravereaux, N1ZZ, 1221 Seminole Drive, Indian Harbour Beach, FL 32937, USA. Email is n1zz@arrl.net 73, N1ZigZag`` As for XE1C, Jean-Paul Gütter is apparently semi-Canadian, with a huge photogallery including lots of radios, cruise ships where he worx, and a few of his beloved anonymous wife compared to classic cheesecake: https://www.qrz.com/lookup/xe1c (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** FRANCE. 17545v, Feb 27 at 1538, JBA carrier, presumed Biato Yaikl clandestine via off-frequency Issoudun site, only on Sat & Wed (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** FRANCE. Re my unID 17850 open carrier, Feb 26 at 1542*, maybe RFI/TDF which is on there at 07-11 only, Wolfgang Bueschel replies: ``Previous seasons also to NoWeAF and WeAF target: 17850 1700 1800 37E,38W,47,52,57 ISS 500 153 -9 196 Fra F RFI TDF`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MEXICO. XE1C: see CURACAO [and non] ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 5960, UT Sun Feb 28 at 0006, no signal from The Mighty KBC via GERMANY, altho a weak JBA carrier on plus side about 5960.5 --- maybe local birdie as East Turkistan, land of genocide is normally minus less than that. But 0022 recheck, now KBC is on with rock, S9/+10 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NEWFOUNDLAND [and non]. 11279-USB, Feb 27 at 1554, Gander Radio ATC with a flight, referring it to 5616, selcalls. 5616 is also a Gander channel for North Atlantic shared with Keflavik and Shannon. 11279-USB, Feb 27 earlier at 1548, thought I heard Andrews mentioned, and with very heavy echo-delay, at equal level, too much for mere long-path, rather as if from two unsynchronized sites, or some looping in one`s output? Or was this really Gander, too, sounding similar. Strangely enough, EiBi`s thoro ute info shows nothing but VOLMET from Tashkent on 11279, 24 hours! More 2-way at quick recheck 1906. Searching 11279 on the UDXF iog gets many more Ganders and aha, this: ``Re: long or medium delayed echoes --- Dave 07/28/18 #83761 As I recall, 11279 is used by Gander for Arctic region coverage using remote transmit/receive site(s) in the Canadian north, including near Iqaluit. It is possible they had more than one site keyed, but more likely than not you simply caught some interesting X/O mode interaction with/through the Auroral Oval which is currently dipping down into central Canada. -- Dave Wright K3DCW, FM18qt, Maryland, USA, "Real radio bounces off the sky"`` Also, strangely enough, 11279 kept showing up as a frequent group in 5-digit spy numbers copying (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 4060-USB, Feb 28 at 0432 UT, Voice of Pancho Villa, annual tradition for, if not from, the Winter SWL Fest, is underway according to schedule publicized in HF Underground. I`m listening via the NA5B remote near WDC, where it`s S4-S7 and noisy. Mixed with Andean music, someone calls me, gh at 0432 and my actor replies uncertainly. It seems that I, gh, am a recurring character in these things. It`s all very disjointed, and my log notes reflect this! Something about Viagra. Tommy Kneitel can`t be here because of a problem with his pants. TK also recurs with different excuses each time. WorldWide Crackpot Radio, gospel huxter asserts that gh is the first Beast in Revelation. QSL offer via voiceofpanchovilla@yahoo.com. Stops at 0445 so seems it`s a 15-minute show, and just in time for next airing, legally via WBCQ 6160-, q.v. At 0500 possible frequencies publicized are 3185, 4020, 3200, all USB, and 5875-5915 AM. The only one the NA5B remote can hear is 3185-USB, poorly at 0501 and seems to be a repeat of the 0430 and 0445 content (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 4060-USB [only], e-QSL soon received Feb 28 from Voice of Pancho Villa, alternating pink & purple letters, for 0432 2-28, illustrating ``Cocina de Prueba de Tamales Secretos de Pancho!``: https://www.w4uvh.net/VOICE_OF_PANCHO_VILLA_QSL_GlennHauser_2021.jpg or #113 via: http://www.worldofradio.com/QSL.html with this note: ``VOPV QSL --- Thank you sir for tuning in to the show! 73 Pancho`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6932-USB, Feb 28 8at 0010, dense rock music, S9; 0017 fade for quick announcement and more mx; 0025, ``looks like the band has gone out; have a nice weekend; KIND`` and gone. Many more logs here: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,78529.0.html that Zeke was the DJop; he uses numerous identities (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. Earthquake report: as I was semi-napping and listening to `Wind & Rhythm` band music show on KUCO 90.1, my bed shook for maybe 3 seconds, at 2138:56 UT Feb 28. Later consulting USGS: it was a mag 3.7, 3 km SE of Meno OK, which is the second town just west of Enid on 412/60, 7.2 km deep, at 2138:38 UT. So it took about 18 seconds to be felt here. There was another weaker one several hours earlier in southern OK, unfelt. Time for more fracking crackdowns (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 341-MCW kHz, March 2 at 0215 UT, ND beacon EI, Enid, is back on! Had been off since February 9, leaving the channel to OIN and/or DNI in KS & TX. Here`s a reception map for EI: https://www.classaxe.com/dx/ndb/rna/signal_map_na/1360 That leaves 255 SW Stillwater still AWOL, as well as for much longer, 515 PN Ponca City (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** PANAMA. 18150-USB, March 1 at 2015* tune-in just in time for HP9SAM to go QRT. No fonetix, thought at first HP9FAM, but there is none, rather per QRZ.com: ``HP9SAM Panama flag Panamá, Stephen A. Myers, Pocri, Province of Los Santos 0758, Panama --- The town is 1/2 the distance between Las Tablas and the surfer hangout of Pedasi. It is 3/4 the way down the Azuero peninsula on the Eastern side. This is literally a "cow town" as the cows are driven through town 2 or 3 times a year to change pastures.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** PERU. 4775.05, March 2 at 0150, lively vocal music vs lite CODAR, S8-S9 better signal than usual from presumed R. Tarma; 0158 Spanish announcement probably full ID, including ``1,110 kHz``; 0200 some Andean music. Checking the Progreso Cuban 4765 spurblob range, 4781-4785 so not a problem for this, but when I get back to 4775+ at 0205, it`s off, just when I was going to refine its frequency to third digit. Is 1110 a match for their MW? No, per http://www.radiotarma.com/informaciongeneral/ it`s 1510 but in VP reception, quinientos easily mistaken for ciento. WRTH shows evening span of 0.5 kW OCX4E on weekdays as 2200-2400 only. No het as Brazilian is long gone from almost same frequency. BTW, WRTH 2021 page 315 shows 5 F.Pl = future plan Peruvian SW stations on: 3270, 3295, 4800, 4935, 6090 --- be on the listen-out (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** POLAND. 85th anniversary of Radio Poland --- I listened to the March 1 1900-2000 English via WRN Europe webcast. Quite interesting about its history for most of the hour except for a middle segment. Maybe is available on demand? 73, (Glenn Hauser, Oklahoma, WOR iog) Dr Hansjoerg Biener replies, ``Maybe this helps --- Special anniversary edition of our current affairs magazine to mark 85 years of Radio Poland https://podcasty.polskieradio.pl/track/ead10494-79a8-49c7-af77-fa6b6d935906 The Anniversary Gala A celebration of Polish Radio's External Service https://podcasty.polskieradio.pl/track/7dd35ef4-a946-45b1-ac57-defccaada11c Kind regards, Hj.`` ``I think this is the podcast of their 1st March special: https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7789/Artykul/2688594,News-from-Poland-Anniversary-Special-01032021 73, Alan`` Pennington, bdxc-news iog (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** PUERTO RICO. 391-MCW kHz, Feb 26 at 0707 UT, ND beacon DDP, which is 1000 watts from San Juan - DoraDo, PR. Also had been hearing it last few nights but not logged. Presumably some semi-auroral southern enhancement, coinciding with fewer Canadians. Now it has to combat storm crashes from NE Texas. I`m still waithoping for *any* other LW/MW beacons from Carib, Cuba, Mex or beyond. DXinfocentre.com lists only two others from PR: 254, MAZ, Mayagüez, 25 watts but decommissioned; and 330, SJ, San Juan / San Patricio, 50 watts. What else? 14 in Mexico, mostly 200 or 100 watts, predominantly at Camps in Campeche. 4 in Cuba but all decommissioned. Also some USA ones *in* the Gulf of Mexico - oil platforms? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SCOTLAND [non]. 7570, Sat Feb 27 at 23-24; and 5850, UT Sun Feb 28 at 01-02, `Encore` classical music from Radio Tumbril via WRMIs, I listen each week to most of it on the first, and pick up anypart missed, or rehear on the second, both of which are our best bets for frequencies aimed right at us NW from Okeechobee, so reliably VG. One more chance is UT Mon at 0300 on 5950 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SWAZILAND. 9584.968, March 1 at 1510, African language S9-S5 and off-frequency-minus. Aoki shows TWR Africa, Manzini in Malagasy M-F at 1455-1525; same span Sat/Sun it`s French (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. 338-MCW kHz, Feb 27 at 0703 UT, ND beacon RYN, 400 watts from Tucson - Ryan, Arizona, but tuned to 335-USB; mixing with dash and YLD, which is really on 335, 1000 watts from Chapleau, Ontario. Unusual to hear a non-local 3 kHz away (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 356-MCW kHz, Feb 26 at 0709 UT, few beacons making it past the NE TX storm front, but here is ODX, 25 watts from Ord, Nebraska. I was tuned to 358-LSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 392-MCW kHz, March 1 at 0502, ND beacon FMZ, which is 25 watts from Fairmont - Beklof, Nebraska, or spelt sdrawkcab, Aksarben, Folkeb - Tnomriaf; with QRM from DDP Puerto Rico on 391. If the call were also reversed, it would be ZMF, or in CW, ЮMЛ (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 420-MCW kHz, March 2 at 0717 UT, FQ, 25-watt ND beacon `Montz`, Fairmont, Minnesota. 415-MCW kHz, March 3 at 0342 UT, IY, 25-watt NDB `Chukk`, Charles City, Iowa. A regular here, not bothered to log, but note that classaxe.com shows CBC Cayman Islands active as recently as January altho it was thought to be off by last year; also reported in February on 415 was SLU, St. Lucia, both of which I would rather hear; but G1 storm and K=5 are insufficient. 395-MCW kHz, March 3 at 0343 UT, CA, 25-watt NDB `Harvs`, Newton, Kansas. I was tuned to 393-USB. I would rather hear on 393, EVG in El Vigia, Venezuela, 100 watts active last year but keying ``EVO`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 4027-USB, UT Sun Feb 28 at 0013, brief bit sounds like MARS net talk, into digital blaaaps. Seems last time I logged this frequency was at a totally different daypart in 2017y: ``4027-USB, Wed Oct 11 at 1123, MARS net discussing decodifying, abbr`d calls as AL, WX or 4WX, AQG.`` But it`s often reported in the MARE Tipsheet (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 13565-CW, Feb 27 at 1539, JBA CW, too weak to copy but well-presumed to be the usual 1.8-milliwatt K6FRC, Patterson CA, HIFER beacon in a rare appearance; vs trace of CODAR QRM which is much more prevalent below 13500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2074 monitoring: missed checking final scheduled repeat on WRMI, UT Thu Feb 25 at 0130 on 5010: did anyone hear it? WORLD OF RADIO 2075 contents: Algeria, Brasil, Canada, China and non, Crimea, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia non, France, Hong Kong and non, India, Korea South, Mali, Perú, Sweden, Taiwan and non, USA, Vanuatu, unidentified 2960-; propagation outlook WOR 2075 is available as of 0112 UT Friday February 26, 2021 (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2075.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2075.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 Chuck Ermatinger, now in Eureka! Missouri, who has sent two contributions via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com - not necessarily US funds One may also contribute via MO or check in US funds on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, USA First broadcasts confirmed UT Friday February 26 at 0130 on WRMIs, hot off the press uploaded to System F server with minutes to spare: 5850 VG direct; 7780 unusually inaudible at UTwente SDR - K index 3, SF 80; but making it very well as far as Maine Kiwi, S9+10 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2075 monitoring: awake at 1309 Sat Feb 27, JBA algo on 15770 from WRMI, probably me, but can`t be positive. Did anyone hear it? Ken Zichi, MI, often reports this by his following Thursday log roundup. Confirmed Sat Feb 27 at 1700 on WRN to North America webcast; preceded by FSN headlines and ``next, Guangdong Today``, erroneous announcement n.a. to Saturdays which they are going to fix. 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 2075 monitoring: not confirmed on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO via KB0FX remote, tune-in at 2042 to ARNL at S9+10; after St Louis area meeting info, still no WOR but starting ARRL News at 2058. Maybe we were on way earlier than nominal 2030; or way later. Sat Feb 27. Confirmed Sat Feb 27 at 2239 the 2230 on WRMI 9955, S9/+25 with jamming litely underaudible. Also confirmed Sat Feb 27 at 2300 on WRMI 7780, JBA here, but presumably much better eastward. Also confirmed UT Sun Feb 28 from 0430 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, via nearby KB0FX remote. Next: 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 2075 monitoring: Sunday February 28 at 2258, WBCQ Area 51 is but a JBA carrier on 6159.93. A few minutes before 2329, I try to hear the 2300 airing on remotes: at Alexandria VA, algo, me? JBA S9 including noise level, but enough to display SAM carrier offset from 6160.00 as minus 85v Hz. Rockport ME expected to be in skip zone, no good, yet shows offset minus 48v. Is it really on the air or not, and if so, is WOR on it? The A51/61 webcast is silent, but the 7490 cast with UBMP is OK, so I can listen to that the rest of this hour, and retrieve the first half UT Tue at 0000. BTW, last week, U. Bill mentioned this fact just before the first half ended for those who were about to get lost on the semi-repeat. Only after 0003 March 1 do I recheck on my own main rx: surprisingly, now 7490.2 is S9/+10 and 6159.9 is also S9/+10. Maybe recovering from a propagation disturbance, as WWV reported K-index rising from 2 to 3 between 21 and 24 UT. WOR 2075 confirmed UT Monday March 1 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, VG S9+30 direct, following double ID at 0029 by Zanotti & Graham. Also confirmed UT Mon Mar 1 at 0230 on WRMIs 5800, S9+15/20 to Bonaire SDR; 7780 S9+20/30 but not making it TA to UTwente. Also confirmed on WRN webcast a few seconds behind those which were only an echo apart. 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, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2075 monitoring: confirmed Monday March 1 from 1900:58 on IRRS 7290 via Bulgaria via UTwente SDR Holland; S8-S9 with usual heavy bilateral splash. Earlier, carrier on at *1853:22; IRRS sign-on with Milano PO Box at 1859:50, Feature Story News headlines at 1900:28. Within a few minutes, considerable fadedown making it really unlistenable, skip lengthening? So I try an Iceland SDR, but that`s too far, very weak. Then at 1915, Carlow, Ireland, KiwiSDR, which is just right, S9+10/15. 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, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2075 monitoring; missed checking March 3 the Wed 1030 on WRMI 5850 and 2100 on WRMI 7780; did anyone hear them? Confirmed Wed March 3 from 2200:22 on WBCQ 7490.205v, S5-S7 to KB0FX. Also confirmed Wed Mar 3 at 2300 on WRMI 9955, S9+15/30 to Pardinho, Brasil SDR, well atop Cuban jamming. 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 Chuck Ermatinger, now in Eureka! Missouri, who has sent two contributions via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com - not necessarily US funds One may also contribute via MO or check in US funds on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, USA. Next WOR 2076 should be ready by early UT Fri March 5 for first SW airings at 0130 on WRMIs 5850 & 7780 (Glenn Hauser, WOR) ** U S A. 5800, Feb 27 at 0200-0300, Shortwave Shindig in Exile via WRMI, sent my full report to David Goren and got his reply 24h later: ``Hi Glenn: Thank you for the thorough report and for publicizing the show prior to broadcast. And I’m so glad you enjoyed it. It was great to get the CMS2 piece out to a wider audience. Here’s a link to the program as received at my QTH in Brooklyn, NY. https://soundcloud.com/murray-street/shortwave-shindig-wrmi-broadcast-recording-022721 73, David davidgoren.net pirateradiomap.com `` That`s the full hour. And the eQSL is here: https://www.w4uvh.net/Shindig_emailQSL_2021_4x6.jpg Or #112 via http://www.worldofradio.com/QSL.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. Re Shortwave Shindig in Exile, more ways to hear it: ``My recording of the program via 7780 kHz may be found here: https://shortwavearchive.com/archive/shortwave-shindig-in-exile-via-wrmi-february-27-2021 and here: https://archive.org/details/shortwave-shindig-in-exile-via-wrmi-7.780-mhz-27-february-2021-0200-utc -- Richard Langley, NB`` (WOR iog via gh, WOR) ** U S A. 5800, UT Sat Feb 27 from 0200, portion of David Goren`s ``Shortwave Shindig in Exile`` from the virtual SW Winterfest, as publicized to be broadcast via WRMI on 5800 & 7780. For convenience at the computer, I`m listening via the KB0FX SDR in MO, with VG reception, but turn on my own radio briefly for the record, where it`s also VG. This was a really enjoyable hour, and I hope many heard it following our advance publicity, or will hear it from some archive. The first 13 minutes are a mixture of classic shortwave interval signals and announcements. There is background noise thruout of ``SW sounds``, lite QRM for effect. In addition I am listening in synthetic stereo mode which enhances the effects. Finally at 0213 David Goren introduces, excerpts from C M Stanbury`s fixion book involving SW, ``Anti-Matter`` from 1977y. Hmmm, that voice sure sounds familiar --- o yeah, it used to be me, and now I remember recording that first-person narration performance about the KIA, for David several years ago when it was for a previous non-virtual Fest - but which I have never attended in persona, to far PA in the winter. Nice to be rerun. I hope someone was recording it off the air this time, as I was not prepared to do so. This lasts from 0216 to 0222, and then Bob Zanotti takes over for more CMSII referring to the TIA, at 0222-0228. Later: It was for the Fest 2012y, after which David told me this: ``I can't tell you how much your contributions were appreciated by everyone who heard your readings. You really brought Stanbury's tech noir musings to life. You will hear that I added some effects live as I played back the recordings. For Glenn's segment I mixed in WWII era shortwave recordings that Myke Weiskopf pried loose from the National Archives. And for Bob's Brentwood segment our resident bluesman Saul Broudy contributed some blues guitar to the earthy "Euridice" segments. The success of these segments and further research into the life of CM Stanbury has led me to begin work on a fuller documentary on him...`` And I`ve found my original <6 minute recording a bit noisy converted: https://www.w4uvh.net/cms2.mp3 Back to the future: 0231, some shoutouts; 0240 or so, Dan Robinson`s recording of Radio Tawantinsuyo; 0243, Richard Langley`s archive recording of ``Gruss an Bord``. 0245, ``Meditation on Darkness``, by Thomas R. Miller; ``Heavenly Static`` to 0254. 0254, Everglades song and interview with Jeff White, about more SWLing due to COVID, and no dropoff in business. 0257 country song about radio on the road. Goren`s closing offers QSL for reports to shortwaveology@gmail.com then closing credits until 0259:30 when Bob Zanotti is back for a WRMI ID and fragment of another one before Freedom Synergy Radio. Hmmm, some of the background noise is still heard on 5800 via KB0FX after the SWS is over --- and I thought it was all part of the show. Yep, at Bonaire, no such noise (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9955, Mon Mar 1 at 1518, world music, Chinese? ballads instead of scheduled Brother Scare, interrupted by Bob Biermann to intone, ``Memories are the music from WRMI``. TOMBS still nearby on 9980 WWCR, whew! The anti-ChiCom, pro-Falun Gong, `Freedom Synergy Radio` used to appear in this slot (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. 4980, March 3 at 0058, S7-S9 but undermodulated in Asian language, Vietnamese or Chinese. Must not be Xinjiang PBS, Urumqi graylinish, land of ChiCom genocide against the Uyghurs; but rather WRMI with the multilingually unpredictable cultshow, `Supreme Master TV`. However there is a hum/low audible het from a slightly different frequency which likely *is* East Turkistan, also JBA carrier on its clear next frequency up, 5060. As for WRMI, its next frequency up, 5010 is stronger S9+10/20 and better modulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 6160-, Feb 26 at 2305 tune-in, Larry Will`s Free Radio Forum is underway at the virtual SWL Winterfest. He speaks for about a semihour with general info about the scene, such as FCC not bothering with enforcement against SW pirates, and just a little vs much more publicized FMs, due to funding and viral restrixions. I`m on the Area 51/61 webcast first, but soon pick a Kiwi SDR for remote SW reception, the NA5B one near Washington DC, which gets it just fine and I discover for the first time there, that the second button, SAM for Synch-AM has three other options if you keep punching it --- SAS which must mean synthetic stereo from the way it sounds; SAL and SAU for Synch-LSB and Synch-USB; on USB the audio sounds off-tuned as to be expected from a transmitter on the minus side. I keep listening in SAS. About 2324, Larry deals with QSLing, that he can take them or leave them, but implies that I, gh, am a big QSLer with hundreds of them including lots of pirates. Axually I have not been a big QSLer for sesquidecades; there are just over 100 on my website, dating back to when I started in 1957y but many more are yet to be scanned. It so happens that a lot of the more recent ones are pirates, some of whom have been nice enough to eQSL even if I don`t request them directly. Then announcement of those inducted this year into the North American Pirate Radio Hall of Fame: TimTron, a good friend of Larry`s; and the late John Cruzan, 2018*. Among web resources he includes the WOR iog, tnx. He is archiving this forum at his zappahead.net site. 2332 over to chat Q&A. 2338, Dan Robinson plugs the NA5B KiwiSDR near Washington DC as a good one for pirate monitoring, as later discussed, most activity is in the northeast/mid-Atlantic area. It was totally coincidental that I picked NA5B to be listening at this very time, but I thought it was named NASB, like National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters! That would have been something. Most popular shows on SW, WBCQ in particular? Larry says it`s hard to know, but he does know which ones get the most traffic to his web server: AAAWWW, and after that, unfortunately, Hal Turner. At 2357, 6160- cuts to the WBCQ IS & ID loop, as that would be its normal sign-on time, so I go back to webcast which continues. By 0005 UT Feb 27 I try NA5B again, and the Fest Forum has resumed, as giveaways are being announced, but 0006 Larry says he`s signing off from WBCQ and about to start Old Time Radio with Jean Shepherd; but first, some music heard on both (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 6159.93, UT Sat Feb 27 0100-0200, AAAWWW on WBCQ, first monitored on webcast, then sufficient on SW direct. Starting sounds familiar, fiddling with mikes, too hot in Deland of Fla, stripping, Angela is so beautiful, etc. Is it a repeat? No, then something new about WBCQ having a YouTube channel to be linked from website. But can`t go for more than a few minutes without declaring that Trump is still president, on and on, so I banish them to the background, just noticing at 0127 a current datestamp for 26 Feb YOOL 2021. I expect John Carver will have a more complete report, standard disclaimer: ``Tonight's show started on time on 6160 and 7490. Allan and Angela in the studio in a warm Fla. Allan removes his shirt and states that Angela was running around half naked. They're drinking brandy this evening. Allan says that the station now has a YouTube channel and they should start broadcasting video of his show. Angela shouts out a request to Larry to put the address of the channel on the webpage and then wonders if he listens to the program anymore. Allan say he thinks that he does as long as they don't get too political but says that TimTron and JP have been drinking the moonbat kool aid and no longer listen to his show. Allan stated that they no longer watch network TV and watch DVDs, stream things and watch NetFlix. A discussion of all the old TV shows they watch ensues. Tonight's Angela's Angle has to do with an old episode of Bewitched in which George Washington is resurrected in today's world and gets arrested for talking in the park without a permit and he goes on at length about the Constitution. In the second part of Angela's Angle she attacks the gender wars and the people that are trying to do away with gender. Discussion also includes Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head and the Coca Cola Polar Bear. Another quick attack on the current administration by Angela who hopes that our real president, the beloved Trump returns soon and takes over the country to straighten things out. Last week she said this country was born on the gun and the bible. This week she says this country was born on blood and the bible. Reading of emails at 0153. Allan starts the closing prayer at 0159 and the program runs till 0201. John, Mid-North Indiana`` Standard disclaimer (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 6159.93, UT Sun Feb 28 at 0328, Texas Radio Shortwave via WBCQ, song about water, and roboyl ID with eQSL offer. 0343 it has switched to German. I thought this would be a repeat of previous show already heard, but I don`t recall that song. So I`m mainly attentive to Weekend Radio on WCLV webcast. TRSW no good to remotes in VA or KC, but fair S6-S7 to KB0FX in MO, tho noisy. Blitzortung shows storms all across Missouri from Joplin to St Louis; also along the KY/TN border (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. TRSW eQSL received without direct request, for 0328 UT Feb 28 via WBCQ 6159.93: ``Ahoy Glenn - Cap'n Ric's pleased that you listened to a little of our program via WBCQ. He thinks you'd enjoy the music if you listened longer, although it's not classical. Here's your limited edition eQSL. The program was unchanged from what aired earlier in the month on WRMI and Channel 292. IDs and announcements were in EG and GM. The latter for our many Channel 292 listeners in Germany. Here's a copy of the program playlist, which may help you ID the song about water: TRSW - Texas Outlaw Music Tribute - Playlist The Yellow Rose of Texas - The Suntrees Sky (Part) Ladies Love Outlaws - Waylon Jennings (Live) Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground - Willie Nelson All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight - Hank Williams, Jr. Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers - ZZ Top Desperados Waiting for a Train - The Highwaymen Don’t Let the Sunshine Fool You - Gary Clark Deep Eddy Blues - Jimmie Dale Gilmore Night Thunder - Michael Martin Murphey The Damage Done - Butch Hancock The Lady’s Not for Sale - Kris Kristofferson How Many Times Must the Piper Be Paid for His Song - Mickey Newbury I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I’m Gonna be a Diamond Someday) - Billy Joe Shaver 18 Wheeler Fever - Scott H. Biram We’re Gonna Dance - Cody Jinks More Pretty Girls Than One - Lyle Lovett That’s All There is to This Song - Willie Nelson The Yellow Rose of Texas - The Suntrees Sky (Part) Aired February 7, 2021 (WRMI), February 20 and 28, 2021 (Channel 292), February 28, 2021 (WBCQ). Runtime = 58:51. Our regular March program features Ladies of Texas Music, and we'll have a special midmonth program via WRMI and Channel 292 to introduce a German country and western singer with Austin roots. Details are published on our Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/texasradiosw 73 and Arrgghh. Always be yourself. Unless you can be a pirate. Then always be a pirate. Texas Radio Shortwave Sailing into your ears from the Lone Star State`` eQSL is here, the colorful beat-up pickup: https://www.w4uvh.net/TRSW_Texas_Outlaw_Music_Tribute_eQSL_WBCQ_Hauser.pdf or #114 via http://www.worldofradio.com/QSL.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. (6159.93), Feb 28 at 0445 I`m listening to WBCQ Area 51/61 stream for perfect reception of Voice of Pancho Villa, after just hearing it on some 4060-USB pirate; see NORTH AMERICA. Music is in $tereo! This seems to be a duplicate of the 4060 airing: T.K. can`t be here; PV sad because can`t find Bob Brown [so this is new, original Festmeister just deceased]. Where the hell is Enid. Further expletives say hemp instead of hell. YL knox on gh` door and something? ensues. Party for Gerry Dexter`s 100th birthday. 0452, 1-800-PAYGLEN[n]. gh ``hasn`t had an erexion in a sesquimonth`` [o, yeah?]. WWCrackpotR again. HLV? to Bob L Brown; YL with QSL address. 0459 cut to WBCQ ID, and I assume it`s over -- but no, more VOPV theme music and here we go again: Some of it is the same as before but some not. Apparently they are replaying VOPVs from years goneby, judging from dated current event references. This keeps going past 0600 when I bail out. But first: 1-900-PAYGLEN[n]; something about DX Partyline, and gh`s DX DAILY [remember that?]. Beavis & Butthead take I-80 to visit gh in Enid, who is allegedly ``looking for a woman who appreciates RF`` -- as in rough foreplay? ``Take me to sidebar!``. IRS vs Gerry Dexter. At 0512, I try to hear this on 6160-, but no signals at KB0FX or NA5B remotes; evidently WBCQ turned off at 0500 while webcast kept on. 0520 seems to start another episode; 0530 Hillary & Bill Clinton-like voices; Bob Dole says Bob Dole is out of Viagra; Jay wants to touch Hillary [Jay was an odd character who attended Fests back then.] 0532 about the elexion and Palm Beach; going to see Allan Weiner in Tallahassee -- brief voice sounds like really him; 0535 Katherine Harris playing dominatrix; 0537 about getting Bin Laden; General TimTron in his real voice. gh asks Osama for loggings, gets shot. A.W. about Free Speech, offers Osama time on WBCQ at good price; back to Brother Scare. United Patriot Radio guy; PV`s secret weapon: Britney Spears. 0544 Franco dead over 25 years. ``From the pink and purple room of the Fiesta Motor Inn in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania`` as mentioned several times before. PV gets sex change in Sweden to Panchita, going to Iraq to look for WMD... (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9330, March 3 at 0112, no signal from WBCQ WLCR; nor on 9333. G1 storm and K index of 5 may have propped it out, but you`d think at least a smidgin of its 500 kW would be detectable; all gobbled up in the ionosphere; or serving International Vacuum (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) We had a snow with high winds yesterday in New Brunswick. Lost commercial power for six hours at my house. Eastern Maine may have had issues, too. (— Richard Langley, later March 3, WOR iog) Earlier, Feb 28, Richard posted this: ``[WOR] WBCQ Power Supply? Blame Canada --- The northeastern part of Maine gets a lot of their electricity from Canada -- New Brunswick to be exact. Maine's electricity network north of Houlton is not connected to the rest of the network in Maine. Yes, there are a couple of small power stations in the region on the Maine side of the border but a lot of power is imported. This was one of the many dependencies of the U.S. on Canada that had to be made clear to the Trump administration when they were attempting to "punish" Canada with duties on alumin[i]um, etc. I hope Angela and Allan Weiner realize that whenever they criticize Canukistan. -- Richard Langley`` Ironically, Angela herself is also Newbrunswickianne. Still/again, March 3 at 1933 & 2010 chex, zero signal on 9330/9333 altho WBCQ-6 is always weak at this time, in German to Europe. It`s not an electricity issue now, as at 1936, WBCQ-1 is JBA with BS on signature off-frequency 7490.192V. Richard Langley, too: ``9330 kHz is still off as far as I can tell (checked at 2000 UT today, 3 March) using my own receiver and the U. Twente SDR receiver. -- Richard Langley`` WOR iog. ``They had a wind storm with very cold temperatures for a few days. Winds over 50 MPH and wind chills around -40 degrees F. Peter W Hansen`` -- WOR iog. The WBCQ-6 White Elephant ``Super-Station`` keeps breaking down for some reason or another. Perhaps AW will mention it on next WW. Once again there`s a hiatus in his twitting, not since Feb 20, altho almost all of those were generic ``free speech`` promotions (Glenn Hauser, OK, March 3, WOR) ** U S A. 5830, Sat Feb 27 at 1917, WTWW-1 night frequency is on again in the daytime, fair S8-S9, SFAW? NO, it`s QSO ham show with Ted interviewing someone who has been getting hate mail. Long ago when properly on day frequency 9475, it would break away Saturday afternoons for ham stuff. Now 5085, WTWW-2 night frequency is also running in daytime with distorted rock music, S7-S9 vs noise level S7; so Ted is having it both ways, the SFAW owners in Colorado getting zero airtime for PPPP. Of course the proper WTWW-2 day frequency, 9930, has not been heard in ages (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5085, UT Sun Feb 28 at 0135, WTWW-2 with `Theater Organ Under The Arch`, but finished already at 0139 into Ted-ad. I`m listening via some remote since Malwarebytes blocked access to WTWW-2 webcast as dangerous, if not the homepage wtww.us. Anyhow must have started circa 0107, much earlier than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7505, March 1 at 0437, gospel huxter, poor signal not certain in English, peaks S9/+10 on generous meter but must also be undermodulated; and also with heavy flutter. I guess WRNO which I haven`t had a good signal from in a long time. Similar flutter infects 9385 WEWN, 9395 WRMI, even 9330 WBCQ tho a bit stronger, among others. Propagation disturbance (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 560 KWTO, 580 WIBW, 700 WLW, 720 WGN, 840 WHAS, 1040 WHO, 1100 WTAM, 1110 KFAB, 1200 WOAI, 1540 KXEL, UT Monday March 1 before and after 0500, all these stations ganging up but way out of synch, with some creep trying to convince us that Pres. Biden is mentally incompetent. Most IDs obvious, some presumed. Checking a few program schedules, the creep is Bill Cunningham, and most of them are iHeart stations. Tnx a lot (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1509.84, Feb 26 at 0307 UT, no signal, no het against 1510.00 stations from KCTE Independence MO, 10 kW daytimer either off the air or not off-frequency; mainly hear a classic rocker mixing with a talker, one of them at 0359 recheck being Nashville`s WLAC with diminished power. To be sure, I check the same and only Kansas City Kiwi where I confirmed KCTE overtime and underfrequency two nights ago, and yes, no sign of it now there either. Did Union Broadcasting get religion, fix it forever following the negative publicity I gave them about their flaws being so obvious not only to Oklahoma, but Scandinavia? Chat fance. QRX for resumption of decade+long, if sporadic escapes from required parameters. Also I mention on this week`s WOR 2075. At least, KGBC Galveston is still LAHing below 1540. And I bet KCTE still be askew in the otherwise legal daytime. Licensed SR/SS span in February: 1315-2400 UT; March: 1230-2430 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1510.000, March 1 at 1547 UT check via Kansas City KD4HSO Kiwi SDR, KCTE Independence MO is almost on-frequency, SAM displaying 0.5v Hz plus; so it can be done even in daytime (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. Re KGBC 1540 Galveston still being off-frequency-minus but format unknown: ``Glenn, Still Spanish language religion during daytime checks here in Houston. I am too far away (62 miles) from their 250 watt nighttime signal to confirm if religion is also running at those hours -- KGBC buried under other co-channels. Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1630, March 3 at 0124 UT, S9+10 of music with a heavy beat, 0127 YL DJ as ``1630 KCJJ`` fulfilling a request, soul music. I was hoping for something more than Iowa City, which has a split format of talk and AC music per NRC AM Log; way dominant over closer KKGM Fort Worth, with an NRC AM log update early January saying ``1630 KKGM TX Fort Worth – Format to UC:NWS/TLK (ex-GOS/REL); slogan to “Black Information Network,” networks to BIN. (Radio Insight)`` Does UC here mean they also music, or just euphemise Black, in this case news/talk of such genre? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. Hey Glenn: 1630 KKGM TX, does play UC (music) as a break between news segments - the station is very strong in Austin. Receiving Equipment: Drake R8B, Terminated Delta Antenna (17ft apex and 28ft base), northeast, Mini-Flag Antenna (7ft by 15ft), southeast. 73, (Mike Beu, KD5DSQ, Austin, Texas, WOR iog) UNIDENTIFIED. 2959.842, March 2 at 0207, JBA carrier, suspected second harmonic of a 1480-minus station. Later checked my previous log to find independently measured within 3 Hz: ``UNIDENTIFIED. 2959.839, Feb 22 at 0349, JBA carrier unseems birdie, again suspecting a second harmonic from a Latin American MW 1479.9195 but nothing that far off in mwoffsets`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 9330, Feb 26 at 0725, S9+20 of dead air, most likely Cuban spynumbers station, but no sign of WBCQ/WLCR, if on, its 500 kW propped out. Usually there is a big collision (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 10978-USB, March 1 at 1503, colloquial Spanish 2- or make that 3-way, some unusually good signals, keywords copied include: antena, probando, marinero; encountered in fruitless bandscan for CNR1 jammers around 11 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 17850, Feb 26 at 1542 in 16m bandscan, hardly anything but a big open carrier, SSOB, but goes off before I can even read the S-meter, not before I maybe detect a bit of Issoudunish clatter. Aoki/NDXC shows 17850 is in fact an RFI frequency but at 07-11 UT only. So strong it could have been intracontinental like a GB test frequency, but nothing to compare it with. Once I had a list of such frequencies used only for tests (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See FRANCE