WORLD OF RADIO SCHEDULE updated for DST, to be posted by 0500 UT March 10: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS updated for DST, two sesquiweeks of confusion, to be posted by 0500 UT March 10: https://www.w4uvh.net/dxpgms.html ** ANTARCTICA. At 2204 March 9, LRA36 already on, good into Arg SDR, seems more like 15476.00 CUSB. 2209 weather conditions. Maybe nom. sked is now 22-24 UT Sats. Was not on much before 2200. M&W conversations, musix. 2355 wrapping up today`s program with some credits, music, ceases at 2400.6* Seems like still a hum, but no reduced carrier visible or audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 15034 USB, March 10 at 0053, Trenton Military is still on and receiving reports; EiBi shows 1100-2400, with 6754 USB at 2310-1100; but is there only one transmitter? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 28301 CW, March 13 at 2216, VVV DE VE3CKN/B -- and long pauses between repeats. Strangely, the OBOB in a quick bandscan. WI5V beacon list still inaccessible, but in the WJ5O list not updated since 2016y?: ``28.3002 VE3CKN ? GLOUCESTER, ONT, CANADA # ?,? Un-coordinated beacon reported Dec 12``. But QRZ.com: ``VE3CKN Canada flag Canada, Donald Greene, 139 CURTIS PVT, GLOUCESTER, ON K1V 7L7, Canada. Good Day All, The VE3CKN/B is a 10m beacon using a HTX-100, 5 watts into a Butternut HF6V. Also a 40m beacon using a Vectronics 40m CW Transmitter 1 watt and a CW IDer. 73' Don (ve3ckn at gmail . com)`` WTF,K? No offence, but I`ve always felt Gloucester be a rather ugly name for any place; not even indexed in my Rand McNally. Where is it? Just SE of Ottawa now absorbed into that more euphonious city (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA [non]. 17550, March 11 at 1431, hymn theme S3/S5 with flutter. EiBi & Aoki show Bible Voice via Nauen, GERMANY at 1430-1500 in Nuer language, spoken in Sudan and Ethiopia (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. JBA carriers with FE Doppler flutter in OOB ranges + 18 & 21 MHz bands, March 10 at 0052: 14980, 15920, 18900, 21530. Stronger flutterers with some Chinese modulation: 18970 S3/S6, 21490 S2/S4, and 21800 which cut off after 0100* timesignal. Then I recheck the others and they`re all gone too. No doubt jammers against Sound of Hope or something. Quite a few other inband signals of similar quality (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA [and non]. 11660, March 11 at 1437, two Chinese clashing with LAH = low audible heterodyne, totalling S9/+20. Also // 12120 at 1442, S9+10/30 well above the JBA CCI. Both CNR1 jammers against VOA Mandarin: 11660 via THAILAND at 1430-1500, 12120 via TINIAN at 1400-1500, per Aoki & EiBi (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 5025, March 8 at 0823, S9+25 of dead air once again from R. Rebelde. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13650, March 8 at 2314, no signal from CRI music default instead of Portuguese relay; 15230 no signal either which once substituted. BUT 15140 is on late with RHC Spanish S9+, good modulation. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, oK, WOR) ** CUBA. 9650, March 10 at 0048, music and RHC IDs in Spanish, S6/S9. 11760 is off, but 15230 is on at S3/S4 seems same but suppressed/distorted = suptorted modulation. Nowhere else found until at 0111, 6000 S9+20/30 but JBM; and deadair or maybe JBM on 6180, S9+20, presumably failing to relay China. And 5025 Rebelde is AWOL at 0108. Some things always wrong at RHC, RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15140, March 10 at 1932 check, RHC English, S7 into Maryland SDR, thus confirming that as a Running Dog of Yanqui Imperialism, Cuba has advanced to EDT on the same date as their detested escapees in Miami; so much if not all RHC programming, transmissions a real UT hour earlier, to the extent that there be any ``schedule``. 11760 not on, and one never knows whether 15140 will be. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 5025, UT Mon March 11 at 0649, S9+25/40, NOT Rebelde, but RHC Spanish wrapping up `En Contacto` DX program with CW/theme music, must have started at 0635; RHC ID and 0652 `En Compañía del Doctor`, med advice show. WWDXC DX program sked for B23 shows `En Contacto` Sun 1435, 2335, Mon 0235 - but not 0635. I`ve heard this further repeat before when some frequency happen to be active. The others probably shifted an hour earlier now, on any RHC frequencies that can be found. Also Thu 2335, needs to be confirmed. Why not Rebelde? So many RHC SW transmitters are nearly/dead (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** EGYPT. 9440v, March 8 at 2157, again no signal from R. Cairo in English; SAWA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** EGYPT. 9440v, Mar 12 at 2228, no signal from R Cairo into UTwente. Earlier it had been reported active on 9900 during French. Something`s always egregious in Egypt (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** FRANCE. 21610-21615-21620, March 12 at 1556, DRM noise at S9 and nothing else on 13m band. It`s TDF ISS spanning 1530/1900 per EiBi (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** GUAM. 15215, March 12 at 2205, ``Silent Night`` in oriental language, S0/S2, Vietnamese as sked this hour from KSDA. Could it be the 7DA hint their saviour was really allegedly born in springtime, not that pagan winter solstice nonsense? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** GUAM. 15680, March 13 at 2159 open carrier S7/S9, 2200 KSDA AWR English ID, following program in Dayak. Believe it or not, this is the SSOB, or at least roughly equal to offside 15770 WRMI aimed NE. As to be expected, HFCC shows 100 kW aimed WSW = 255 degrees, so how do they manage such a signal over here? Ideal propagation pipeline? Hardly anything else on band from PacAsia. Shows lang is Nij which per readme at EiBi is: ``NJ Ngaju Dayak: Indonesia-Borneo (0.9m)[nij]`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. 4885, March 11 at 1350, OSOB is JBA carrier vs S7 noise level, Echo of Hope and/or N Korean jamming. Unfortunately am awake this early so bandscanning. An hour+ past Enid LSR of 1247 UT - axually 0615 LMT, but forced by legislation to call it ``7:47`` am! 49 mb still with lots of sigs mostly JBA or JBA carriers: 5915, 5925, 5945, 5955, 5965, 5975, 5980, 5990, 5995, 6000, 6015, 6030, 6035, 6045, 6055, 6065, 6070, 6075, 6100, 6105, 6125, 6145, 6165, 6180, 6185, 6190, 6200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MALI. 5995, March 11 at 0646, no signal from ORTM, unlike the noise blob last night, surely problems there. Hope it`s not over; at least Mali still hosts all those ChiCom relays via Bamako. Ron Howard replied: ``Recently Jorge Freitas (Brazil) and I have noted that Mali has been absent. Thanks to Jorge for the alert that something was up with Mali. I checked 5995, on March 8, after 0615+ UT and heard what sounded like N. Korea jamming(?) (against Echo of Hope - VOH), but no Mali. Didn't check 9635, for their later sign on. Ron`` ``Thanks, Glenn, for your observations. You are right. Believe what I heard was not jamming from NK, as it seemed rather early for that and too strong. Was a significant noise whatever it was! Ron`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MALI. 5995, March 13 at 0651, non-DRM noiseblob again S9+25 and no program audio from ORTM. Zacharias Liangas also monitored this today via Canary SDR: ``5995 today a strong noise white type jammer kills reception of a station airing stringed music. Sign off together with the noise at 0759. Listen here`` https://app.box.com/s/fyxetlzkl6sbi5nsmd5j0wvyopukcc98 On the recording both stop at the same time just before 0759, so I still think the noise is from ORTM itself rather than external ``jamming`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MALI. 17630, March 12 at 1557, American English discussion of AI, S7/S9 one of best signals on band. Therefore must be CRI as scheduled via Bamako toward E Africa. So this keeps Mali on SW despite absence lately of ORTM. The Malians ought to insist as part of the relay deal, the ChiCom keep their own transmitter working properly (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 11514.9, March 11 at 1435, JBA signal on signature offset, no doubt pirate Hikari FM from Sonora or Arizona (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1120, Mar 13 at 2214 UT, no signal, trying the refurbished Wellbrook loop; nor on the internal shortwire, yet JBA carrier daytime from NE or TX on 1110. Suspect KETU Catoosa = Tulsa mkt in Spanish, be off. Licensed 10 KW D4, CH 7 kW. D4 means two different patterns for day and critical hours. Never a bigsig here. Day pattern favors N/S with a notch to the NW but we are close to due west. CH pattern almost identical but a bit smaller, both also with a notch toward KMOX. Recheck at 2305-2310 UT on two other radios, still no KETU --- but with the DX-398 I do get a DF fix on the horrible line noise level, totally different than the source a mile or so away that OG&E repaired a few months ago. Then I`m getting a JBA 1120 carrier from the direxion of KMOX. I reported KETU a lot in 2022y but not 2023y, yet I think it was mostly there last year. Nor have I found any FCC news about it from IRCA in 2023 or 2024 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. RF 17, K17JN-D, still misIDing due to someone`s stupid typo as K17JI-D, March 13 at 1533 UT: I am bandscanning during enhanced tropo reception. Signal here is diminished no doubt due to DX interference, but as I go thru the channels this one displays as 17-3 3ABN-IN! Yet it`s black and silent. See my Feb 11 report in detail of what`s on this transmitter, Enid`s only local TV signal. At that time it was simply NO SIGNAL, not 3ABN-IN. I have no idea what sub-network that indicate, but it`s obviously useless. Just like Feb 11, there *is* a signal on 17-3 but it`s black and silent. And I can`t get the 3ABN-IN PSIP to display again. Rabbitears.info is still mostly outdated for this, ignoring the update I sent more than a month ago. FWIW, for 17-3 it says call sign is SmrtLfS, sic cases, and Network/Programming of Hope Channel. Meanwhile I was getting BAD signals on many of the `open` UHF channels and some VHF. The only one decoding was usual RF 20, KQCW ``19`` Tulsa market (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ROMANIA. 17790, March 11 at 1433, music and presumed Romanian talk from RRI Galbeni, S9+5/10. At first I thought WRMI carrier on earlier than 1500, but maybe only RRI undermodulated. In any event, overlaps 1500-1600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 11915, March 7 at 2223, again today horrible buzz from scheduled Riyadh, S8/S9 into Maryland SDR. Gone by several minutes after 2300 recheck. Unknown whether attempting Yemenish programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2233) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 11915, March 8 at 2156 and still 2309, horrible noiseroar continues from SBA, direct (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 11915, March 11 at 1440, buzzroar at S5 but sounding very loud, defective transmitter the earliest heard yet, presumably failing to emit Republic of Yemen Radio. It`s a mystery why they keep running this in such a useless condition. Perhaps bureaucratic: transmitter ops just following orders to turn it on no matter what, while HQ boss, not an SWL, has no idea how it sound? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 11915, March 13 at 1512, buzzroar from defective transmitter, S6/S7 direct (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 9690, Friday March 8 at 2300, token English from SNR, skipping any news, right into `special` about an art fair north of Madrid, with 200 galleries from around the world, called ARCO? S9+10/30 direct, interviewing various participants, such as at 2315 from the Caribbean with blue ice cream, visual elements left entirely to the imagination (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 9690, not monitored March 11 or 13: see TURKEY comments ** SWAZILAND [and non]. 9585, March 13 at 1518, FMish blob unreadable but cadence of talk, atop JBA AM carrier, i.e. listed TWR in Malagasy at 1455-1525 M-F but French on weekends. Probably remnant by longpath. Blob could be spur of bigsig nearby? Modpeaks do not match blaster 9980 WWCR TOMBS. Could be of local origin? Then should be constant, but nonesuch at 1727 recheck (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TIBET [non]. 11734.80, March 10 at 0105, something S4/S7 but JBM; first guess would be Korea North, but not sked until 0300. Nothing at this time in Aoki, but EiBi shows Akashvani in Tibetan and ChiCom jamming. Bad mod and inaccuracy favor INDIA. Only one signal; maybe jammers correctly figured that was unnecessary. VU2JOS confirms ``11735`` is the current AIR Tibetan frequency, from Delhi (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 5960, March 8 at 2313, JBA carrier direct, and 9610 a stronger JBA carrier, so which is VOT? By 2324 I check UTwente: neither! Chinese on 5960, Mongolian on 9610, the understations promoted to overstations. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler. Both close to .000 unlike TRT (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 5960.002, Sat Mar 9 at 2303, VOT English not not off the air, S9+40/45 into UTwente with news; 2318 about geothermal, 2321 outro `The Energy Agenda`, music. 2327 two-minute multilingual ID filler reel, music. 2335 ``always-by-your-side`` promo, music. 2342 `Turkey`s Geomarked [sic] Products`, brief and missed subject. 2344 ``with-you-every-hour`` promo, 2345 music. 2351 totally wrong sign-off schedule. Something`s always awry at Ankara. Fragment of IS and chopoff at 2353* unconvering XJRTV, std. denunciations (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY [and non]. 5960.005, Sunday March 10 at 2316, VOT English not off the air, S9+35/40 and VG mod into UTwente with constant understation XJRTV audible during talk and pauses, but not bothering much, commentary about Gaza & Israel, 2319 outro as `Weekly Analysis`, the various writers` names never understandable even if they be Westerners. 2320 `ABYS` promo, music. 2325 `WYEH` promo, `Letterbox`, top of the stack from Siddartha? location not given, but he writes every day so mentioned repeatedly. Then Pakistan, or was that he? Ricky Hein from somewhere in USA: I know him, SD. FL, A. Klepov from Moscow; China. 2336 time`s up, music -- but only then, 2340 outro for L`box, `ABYS`, 2346 `ABYS` again, music. 2350 multi-lingual ID filler reel. 2352 s/off for the 1330 only: something`s always awry at Ankara. 2353 IS, chop at 2353.6* uncovering XJRTV, std denunciations (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY [non]. 5960.000, March 11 at 2304, NO signal from VOT English, rather S9/+15 into UTwente of Chinese already on from XJRTV, EAST TURKISTAN, which usually cuts on around *2311. So VOT on overrun 9610 instead? No, not there either, only S8/S9 on 9610.000 presumed Mongolian from CNR Beijing. 2340 recheck, still no TRT on 5960. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler. Meanwhile missed my chance to pay more attention to tokEnglish from Spain at 2300-2330 on 9690. Maybe I`ll find its podcast later or read all about it from kvz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 5960.005, March 12 at 2300, VOT not off the air in English, VG S9+35/45 into UTwente as usual M announcer signs on the 1330 broadcast -- only, which is also often the only one mentioned at sign-off, and into news - or rather olds, no newer than 9.5 hours ago! Something`s always awry at Ankara (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY [and non]. 5960.002, March 13 at 2339, VOT music S9+30/45 into UTwente, so not off the air. Tnx to DST, 6pm CDT is a less convenient time for me vs. PBS NewsHour, so I also missed tokEnglish from Spain completely again. 2343, weekly `Sports Panorama`, mainly stupid ballgame, football. Could not understand team names even if I cared. 2349 `ABYS` promo, music. 2354 TRTWorld promo, s/off for the 1330 emission only, about 9 notes of IS before 2355* chopoff uncovering XJRTV in Chinese, std. genocidal denunciations (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U K Q O G B A N I [and non]. 5450 USB, March 7 at 0727, JBA VOLMET, weaker than 5505 USB Shannon, Ireland. EiBi listed as 24h from RAF: Site? ``ic = one of: Inskip (Lancashire) 53N50-02W50 / St.Eval (Cornwall) 50N29-05W00 / Crimond (Aberdeenshire) 57N37-01W53`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U K [non]. 21660, March 11 at 1403, OSOB mentions Modi, BJP, but language is listed Somali from BBC; 1429 some echo past 1430. Per EiBi & Aoki, site is VATICAN M-F at 14-15, so another instance of abnormally bigsig in our opposite direxion. Two other sites are involved on 21660, Sat & Sun: 12-14 Madagascar, 14-1530 UAE (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 245 MCW kHz, March 10 at 0724 UT, ND beacon struggling against OG&E noise level, something new/unusual. Call maybe FU, but can`t be sure. The closest match in RNA list is: FS, 100 or 300 watts `Rokky`, Sioux Falls, SD. I logged once before, Sept 6, 2022 at 0642 UT when it was listed as 400 watts, as still per dxinfocentre.com. Another 245 possibility now would be HU, Terre Haute IN (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 4875 USB, March 10 at 0109, Airforce MARS type net with NCS asking about relays. Net designator: 4TX1 - does that refer to Texas? Sounds familiar; yes, my previous log from 2021y: ``UNIDENTIFIED. 4875-USB, Oct 10 at 0046, MARS net designator 4IX7, and some Airforce-type calls like AFZ4W#`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 17680, March 11 at 1939, S9+20/25 surprise signal in Spanish, nothing in latest HFCC March 8. I was seeking some music to nap by, maybe 17600 Algeria, till I hit this; medical discussion, then 1942, about IWD and Ukraine with a song, apparent program title `Abriendo Espacios`. What could this be. Unsounds like RHC which presumably supports Putin but no //s on to check, not even 15140 English. Not // Spain on 17715. VOA? Deleted SW Spanish years ago. Not // R. Martí 13820, 11930, 11860 --- BUT at 1947 ID as ``Martinoticias AM 1180 y onda corta``. So it is Grimesland! I recheck on another receiver the lower Martí frequencies and they are // each other but NOT this, altho subject is also Ukraine. Maybe same but far out of synch, not merely a few seconds. How could that happen? 17680 off before next check 2201. Maybe a test. If permanentized could obscure NZ 17675, not even noticed today. Also, I occasionally check 35790 for 3 x 11930 which made it to Alberta, but mostly not even a JBA carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 17680, after yesterday`s surprise appearance of R. Martí at 1939, checking earlier in the day March 12, not on before 1700, but on by 1744 recheck, probably from 1700, VG S9+15/25 signal into UTwente. It`s Spanish but all about Ukrussia rather than Cuba, first playing satirical folk?song in Ukrainian or Russian with Putin in the lyrix. 1746 RM 1180 ID. 1747 phone interview about topic A. 1755 VOA sounder and USG editorial, in Spanish, about you-know-what. 1800 contact info on social nets, email, and `Abriendo Espacios` show opening, half an hour about ``Cuban women`` but also really about Ukrussia, and lasts until 1842 IDs again. UTwente is getting nothing but carriers at best from 11860, 11930, 13820, as to be expected aimed at Cuba; checking Maryland remote, again totally non-// programming to 17680. Meanwhile a source at Grimesland says it`s a new service to reach Cubans fighting for Russia in Ukraine -- volunteers, or convicts? -- as if they had time or inclination to listen to RM! 250 kW at 45 degrees. Further listening to 17680 is nothing but topic-A in Spanish. 1849 repeating the VOA editorial. Interviewing native-Spanish speaking Ukrainians, 1857 a profesora Tatiana in Odesa; 2030 Anastasia Schmidt? from Mikolaiv, with some accent. At 1856 had mentioned podcasts, and that may be source of this audio, accounting for no breaks at top-of-hours as to be expected on a `live` broadcast. Would not be surprised at considerable repetition from hour to hour or day to day, but would have to listen a lot more to determine that. 2034 a very dramatic poem with music. 2036 discusses pronunciation of names correctly in Ukrainian versions rather than Russian. 2043 the stirring Ukrainian national anthem, not in Spanish. 2045 interview of Russlan -- enumerating Russian losses in the war. 2100 VOA Yankee Doodle Dandy s/ON, played twice, by mistake, pause, then 2102 VOA YDD s/OFF and off*. So 17-21 UT daily? Or temporarily (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. 17865, March 13 at *1649, continuous OTH radar clickery cuts on. I have been monitoring this via UTwente since 1544, as it`s on the GB-6 schedule for R. Martí, 250 kW, 45 degrees for Ukraine at 13-17 UT, same parameters as 17680 at 17-20 -- but 17865 for that obviously not yet activated. 17680, March 13 at 1658, into UTwente, S9/+20 open carrier is on. I`m distracted by other things at ToH but modulation starts at 1700 in unknown language, not Spanish or Ukrainian, wrong program input! 1701 switches to Martinoticias. Again today all the content seems to be about the Russian war on Ukraine, and Cuban involvement. At 1723 refers to this? being a podcast - rather than `live` programing like for Cuba itself on usual lower bands. Richard Langley has more info about that: ``On 16 February, there was an article in the Wall Street Journal entitled "How Russia Recruits Soldiers From Cuba to Fight in Ukraine; Eager to escape Communist island's poverty, Cubans are joining Russian army." In that article, we find: "Ambassador Ruslan Spirin, Ukraine's special representative to Latin America and the Caribbean, said the government believes that about 400 Cubans are fighting in the country. 'We take it seriously,' he said. "Others think the numbers go higher. Maryan Zablotskyi, a member of the Ukrainian parliament who has studied the issue, estimates that between 1,500 and 3,000 Cubans have enlisted as the island's state-controlled economy crumbles." The whole article is quite interesting but is behind a paywall unless you have a WSJ subscription or access through a university library, etc. -- Richard Langley`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2232 monitoring: ``From: Richard Lemke, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada, the desk of Richard’s listening Post, Radio: JRC NRD-535 HF, Antenna: random long wires in the trees, Dear Glenn: Update, 49, 31 meter yesterday March 7 UTC heard military radar type noise, WRMI, 9395 kHz: 0030, 0045, 0059 (4-55433), (45433), 0059, March 6 UTC 2024 [Wed] 0230, 0238, 0244 (55433-4), 0259, March 7 UTC 2024 [Thu] (Lemke, Richard -AB)`` Confirmed UT Thursday March 7 at 0130 on WRMI 5010, JBA direct; at 0149 S7/S9 into Maryland SDR, S9/+15 into Bonaire. Also confirmed UT Thursday March 7 at 0230 on WRMI 9395, S9+32 into Missouri SDR. From next week: 0130. Also confirmed Thursday March 7 at 1730 on SW Radio, Germany, 3975.001, S9+5 into UTwente. WORLD OF RADIO 2233 contents: Alaska, Antarctica, Australia, Brasil, Canada, China, Cuba, Egypt, Finland, Indonesia, Iran, (Lithuania), (México), Netherlands, North America, Poland, Russia and non, (Sa`udi Arabia), Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine non, (UAE), UK (and non), USA, Vanuatu, Yemen non; Solar Eclipse; propagation outlook - (countries mentioned along with others not in order) WOR 2233 available from 0249 UT Friday March 8: (mp3 stream) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2233.m3u (mp3 download) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2233.mp3 Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html Also linx to podcast services. Full schedule: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html # one UT hour earlier from next week 2130 UT Friday IRRS 1323-Italy 2300 UT#Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also webcast, phonecast; jammed?] 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW 0500 UT#Saturday WTWW 5085 [NEW] 1530 UT Saturday SW Radio, Germany 6160 1830 UT Saturday SW Radio, Germany 3975 2030vUT#Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0100 UT#Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?] 0330vUT#Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0600] DST changes start here: 1030 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 [also webcast, phonecast; jammed by Cuba?] 2100 UT Sunday IRRS 1323-Italy 2230 UT Sunday SW Radio, Germany 3975 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW 0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW 0930 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 6160 2030 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 3975 0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to SW 1300 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?] 2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1200 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB or 3210-USB 1230 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB or 3210-USB [previous #2232][SW suspended but still streamed?] 2030 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1730 UT Thursday SW Radio, Germany 3975 As noncommercial services, financial support appreciated, by MO or check in US funds on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702. One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to: woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2233 monitoring: confirmed Friday March 8 at 2130 on IRRS via AM Italia, 1323 kHz, S8 into UTwente across Europe but noisy. Also confirmed Friday March 8, JIP the last few minutes from *2155 cut-on of WRMI 9955, S9+5/10 into Maryland SDR. It was already running from 2130 on the System B program feed, supposedly internet only. I was checking whether it would come on an hour earlier by 2055 with IS & ID loop, like yesterday, but not today. Who knows how this will go with EDT? Also confirmed Friday March 8 at 2310 the 2300 on WRMI 9955, S9/+10 direct, no jamming audible. From next week: at 2200 UT; also a real hour earlier then marked #. Next: 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW 0500 UT#Saturday WTWW 5085 [NEW] 1530 UT Saturday SW Radio, Germany 6160 1830 UT Saturday SW Radio, Germany 3975 2030vUT#Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0100 UT#Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?] 0330vUT#Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0600] DST changes start here: 1030 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 [also webcast, phonecast; jammed by Cuba?] 2100 UT Sunday IRRS 1323-Italy 2230 UT Sunday SW Radio, Germany 3975 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW 0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW 0930 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 6160 2030 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 3975 0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to SW 1300 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?] 2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1200 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB or 3210-USB 1230 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB or 3210-USB [previous #2232][SW suspended but still streamed?] 2030 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1730 UT Thursday SW Radio, Germany 3975 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2233 monitoring: confirmed UT Saturday March 9 at 0130 on WRMI 5850, S9+35/40 direct. Also confirmed UT Saturday March 9 at 0500 on WTWW 5085, S9/+10 into NH SDR; at 0513, S9+40/52 direct. I also check for the parasitic spurs which were JBA at best; now only a trace on 5072.1, while the match on 5097.9 is totally obscured by huge uteblob. Before and after, IDs as Ancient World Radio on WTWW; played a bit of music until 0531* & 0531* - came back on again at least once before finished. From next week: 0400 UT Sat. Also confirmed Saturday March 9 at 1550 the 1530 on SW Radio, Germany, 6160.001, S9+10 into UTwente, but ACI from 6165 - I thought it was Russian, but listed as Pashto from CRI via Urumqi, EAST TURKISTAN. Also confirmed Saturday March 9 at 1700 & 2030 on WRN N America webcast, and at 2100 on WRN Europe. Also confirmed Saturday March 9 at 2030 on WRMI webcast only, 9955 not on. Also confirmed Saturday March 9 at 1830 on SW Radio, Germany, 3975.002, S9/+20 into UTwente. Also confirmed Saturday March 9 from 2031 on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, S9+20 groundwave into nearby SDR. From next week: 1930v. Next: # = one UT hour earlier from next week 0100 UT#Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?] 0330vUT#Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0600] DST changes start here: 1030 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 [also webcast, phonecast; jammed by Cuba?] 2100 UT Sunday IRRS 1323-Italy 2230 UT Sunday SW Radio, Germany 3975 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW 0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW 0930 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 6160 2030 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 3975 0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to SW 1300 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?] 2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1200 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB or 3210-USB 1230 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB or 3210-USB [previous #2232][SW suspended but still streamed?] 2030 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1730 UT Thursday SW Radio, Germany 3975 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2233 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday March 10 at 0100, S9/+10 direct on WRMI 9955 with Cuban pulse jamming audible underneath. From next week: 0000 UT Sunday. Also confirmed UT Sunday March 10 at 0514 about 3 minutes into so started circa 0511 on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, MO, S9+15/20. The Houston hamsat net playback from March 5 did not start until 0400 UT, an hour later than nominal 9 pm CST. From next week: WOR at nominal 0315v UT. Not confirmed Sunday March 10 at 1030 on WRMI 9955: I happen to awaken just then and hear instead TOMBS before and after 1030 //5890 WWCR. WOR should have earlied from 1130 to 1030 UT to stay at 6:30 am ET -- but closer inspexion of the skedgrid shows System B is now on Internet only until 1100. If you have WRMI skedgrid bookmarked, it still goes to the old B23 one. The new ``A24`` one, jumping that gun, restoring Xmtr 2 and Tuesday columns, is at a different google spreadsheet link you need to reach from here: https://www.wrmi.net/index.php/programming/ Next: 2100 UT Sunday IRRS 1323-Italy 2230 UT Sunday SW Radio, Germany 3975 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW 0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW 0930 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 6160 2030 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 3975 0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to SW 1300 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?] 2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1200 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB or 3210-USB 1230 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB or 3210-USB [previous #2232][SW suspended but still streamed?] 2030 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975 2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1730 UT Thursday SW Radio, Germany 3975 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2233 monitoring: confirmed Sunday March 10 at 2000 on WRMI webcast only; 9955 not on until 2055 today with IS & ID ToH loop. Also confirmed Sunday March 10 at 2100 on WRN Europe webcast. Also confirmed Sunday March 10 at 2100 on IRRS via AM Italia, 1322.997 kHz, S9+5/10 into UTwente across Europe. However, at 2123 recheck, canned English IDs for 207, 918 and 1323 kHz, and correct timecheck in Italian for 22:24, then vamp music default. Must have lost program feed well before WOR was over! I then check UTwente and Parma for 207 & 918 but they are not on, nor ever? at least during WOR for over a year. Also confirmed Sunday March 10 from 2231.5 on SW Radio, Germany, 3975.002, S9/+5 into UTwente; preceded by ADDX in German, and before that US hamnews in English. Also confirmed UT Monday March 11 at 0030 on WRMI 7780, S9+10/15 into Durango2 SDR, better than usual there. Also confirmed UT Monday March 11 from 0300 sharp on Area 51 via WBCQ 6159.931, S9+5 into NH SDR. Also confirmed Monday March 11 at 2030 on SW Radio, Germany, 3975.002, S9 into UTwente. Next: 0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to SW 1300 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?] 2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1200 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB or 3210-USB 1230 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB or 3210-USB [previous #2232][SW suspended but still streamed?] 2030 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1730 UT Thursday SW Radio, Germany 3975 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2233 monitoring: confirmed UT Tuesday March 12 at 0330 on WRMI 7780, S7/S9 into Maryland SDR, way offbeam but I happen to have running, and ``getouttamyfrequency`` utenoiseblast audible first 14 sex. Also confirmed Tuesday March 12 at 1300 [ex-1400] on WRMI 9955, S9 direct. Next: 2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1200 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB or 3210-USB 1230 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB or 3210-USB [previous #2232][SW suspended but still streamed?] 2030 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1730 UT Thursday SW Radio, Germany 3975 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2233 monitoring: ``From: Richard Lemke, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada, the desk of Richard’s listening Post, Radio: JRC NRD-535 HF, Antenna: random long wires in the trees, Dear Glenn: Update, confirming WOR #2233, WRMI: 5850, 0144 (55433-4), confirmed 0159, March 9 UTC 2024 [Sat] 9395, 2330, 2344, 2358 (45433), 2359, March 12 UTC 2024 [Tue] (Lemke, Richard -AB) 73’s, Richard`` Confirmed Tuesday March 12 at 2330 on WRMI 9395, S9+15/25 into Missouri SDR. Also confirmed Wednesday March 13 at 1415 the secret 1400 on WRMI 9955, S7/9+5 direct. Last week March 6, before the one-hour-earlier DSTimeshift, music aired instead after 1500, so I thought it was canceled. Continues on A24 sked to show at 1400 Thursdays instead, when it had not been airing at 1500. Also confirmed Wednesday March 13 at 2035 the 2030, S9/+10 into UTwente from SW Radio, Germany, 3975.002. Before 2100 March 13, I asked about relying on the WBCQ 7490 play for WOR, and how is reception so far into the daytime? No replies so far. Here, not even tried, but into Maryland SDR it was sufficient S9/+10 on 7489.946. Next: 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S {confirmed} 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW [ex-0230] {confirmed} 1730 UT Thursday SW Radio, Germany 3975 As noncommercial services, financial support appreciated, by MO or check in US funds on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702. One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to: woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9955, March 7 at 2025, S5/S7 open carrier when WRMI is supposed to be off; surprised at 2052 to hear their IS & ID loop run-up to start at ``top of the hour`; and 2100 into `La Rosa de Tokio`, the media program from Argentina which has nothing to do every week with Tokyo Rose, now a good signal into Maryland SDR. Had not been resuming until 2200 as still shown on skedgrid, and indeed `LRT` is scheduled on `internet only` Thu at 2100. If this keep up, WORLD OF RADIO will also get more 9955 airings, Fri 2130 & Sun 2100 -- except, from Sun Mar 10 with EDT all programming expected to shift one UT hour earlier - but what about the frequency times?? If it`s still *2100, WOR will again be at 2030 & 2000 before SW is back on. BTW, Jeff indicates he`s not going to repair the missing Tuesdays and Xmtr 2 columns on the grid till it`s completely revamped for DST by March 10 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. Pre-`AAAWWW` check of WBCQs, UT Sat Mar 9 at 0040 into NH SDR: 3265 off. 5130.226 `ATATT`. 6159.931 TOMBS. 7489.955 FKB. 9330.000 WLCR in Portuguese. At 0100 sounds like a new show, spring coming, 84 degrees today in Deland of Fla. Right into politix: ``elephant in the room``, ``our country will be destroyed`` if Biden & Democrats remain in power; how can they be so totally 180 degrees delusional, when by all objective evidence, it`s *rump and his cult who want to replace democracy with dictatorship. I can listen no further. Recheck about 0150 he`s reading-cold some items from just-published Free Radio Weekly, only frequencies, names, maybe music, including one or two of mine, with no further details (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 15555 USB, March 12 at 2159, WJHR s/off with contact info accompanied by `Old Rugged Cross` tune, and off 2200. 9275 WMLK was also still on at 2159 but goone when I got back to it after 2200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 12160, March 13 at 1515, WWCR with gospelhuxters at S9+40 and a squeal on this transmitter, both the USB and LSB sides, evitable by narrowing bandwidth (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WTWW: George McClintock informs me at 2040 March 13: 9475 tested OK today for 30 minutes, plans to start regular broadcasts sometime next week, hours not set. Still messing with modulation cards. 5085 will be full 100 kW for first time tonight. The sagging transmission line has been raised so now safely out of reach (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. 750 kHz, March 12 at 0638 UT, two weak sigs mixing, one talk, one rock. Checking since WSB had been reported off. They make a SAH of 40/minute = 0.67 Hz apart. If on at full 50 kW U1, WSB should be dominant. Shortly the music morphs to talk? Some net talkshows do have music breaks. But *0647.8 what must be WSB cuts on with bigsig talking. From experience, I know the most likely other one would be CKJH, ``Beach [sic] Radio`` in landlocked Melfort, Saskatchewan, 25/25 kW U4 despite supposed to be direxional-north at night. Many Canadian MW fail to protect US stations as licensed. For once, the SAH fits neatly per mwoffsets, both measured last August: CKJH on 749.9995, WSB on 750.0002, i.e. 0.7 Hz apart! IRCA posts in reverse order leading up to this: ``DX Alert: WSB 750 off air, Rick Kenneally, 2:06pm #40306 Wow, catching up on Slack it seems much more than Argentina was heard. Sounds like an amazing night on 750.`` ``Paul Crankshaw 11:30am #40304 WSB off at 0410 utc but back on after a stutter at 0640. See my Jaguar plot of 750 kHz carriers - attached. Paul, Troon, Scotland`` ``Rick Kenneally 11:22am #40303 Oh exciting! Normally I record overnight on the west wire. But it came down in the windstorm so I’m recording overnight on the south wire. Should be interesting. Will review this weekend. Thanks Mike. Rick, Wilton, CT`` ``Paul B. Walker, Jr. 5:22am #40302 The engineer is doing work, i just saw him make a one line off handed remark in a facbeook post on his page "goign to work on the legendary AM tonight" when posting a pic of an FM transmitter. Regards, Paul Walker "The Alaska Radio Nerd"`` {sic} ``Mike Westfall 5:06am #40301 Check out 750 kHz. WSB suddenly dropped of the air at about 0410 UTC and is still off. Argentina was heard here with Tango music. -- Mike Westfall`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 960, March 10 at 0119 UT, during a TA 9/kHz -1 bandscan, I notice no slop from local KGWA Enid upon 953 or 962 kHz, is it off? No, it`s on but dead air. Its 100.9 translator tail wagging the 960 dog is also silent. Immediately I deploy my altazimuth wrist-mounted DX-398 to null what`s left of KGWA. There are several weak stations, but one is slightly more dominant. KGWA blasts back on at 0130 with adstring and weather, 0133 back to dead air. So I resume listening intently trying to pull some IDable info. It`s basketball with a team named Tigers, low score so far, 11-11; mentioned Kansas?, and at two different times worldunion.com? in ad. Must not be that as it`s something in Shenzhen, China, and the website is nothing but a placeholder. 0200 UT, KGWA blasts on again with legal ID as ``Talk 100.9``, AM 960 an afterthought, and Townhall News until 0206 legal ID again, twice, 0206.6 fraxion of a word from whatever far-right extremist network talk program is supposed to be on, and back to DA. THN not among the nets listed for KGWA in NRC AM Log. Among other 960s I`ve heard before during KGWA`s `Fox-hole` at local midnight a few years ago are KGKL San Angelo TX, and KNEB Scottsbluff NE, but searching on those does not find any Tiger games now, or ever. It`s far too common a team name. A better possibility is KZIM Cape Girardeau MO. Its website is inconclusive, but at 0238 UT the stream is carring a Mizzou Tigers vs LSU game, so that`s it! KZIM is also at a more favorable angle than the others to take advantage of KGWA`s null. KGWA has been on an STA of 250/250 U1 which expires March 19 unless renewed again; otherwise 1000/1000 U3. Maybe that help such DX a little. It was reading only S9+10/20 from a few miles away, or 1.61 times as many km. KZIM, 500 watts night, has a pretty good ``butterfly wing`` lobe thisaway; notch to the NW so not protecting KGWA at all (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, March 10 at 0118: 855-2 and 1098 are the onlies I can outmake, surely Spains and UK (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carriers, not a full 9/kHz bandscan this late, but checking a few likelies, March 12 at 0636 UT: only 711, surely WESTERN SAHARA; nothing on 774 or 855 Spain, 891 Algeria (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 891 kHz, March 13 at 0648, only TA carrier this late among lower spots checked such as 684, 711, 774, 855, is 891, surely the 300/100 kW ALGERIA, but again it has a slow beat SAH signifying one other station. Surely it`s too late into the dayside for any others of considerable power in mwlist: Ethiopia, Iran, Lesotho, Sudan, Turkey. Could Eurafricans check on this? Could there really be a second synchro transmitter in Algeria? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 1555.1, March 7 at 0347 UT, JBA carrier direct, but cannot detect at UTwente, Maryland or Missouri SDRs. Could be real spur of NAm station, or internal birdie on the NRD545; too far to be a likely variant from a TA 1557. Or Cayman Islands reactivated? Hi (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 5990-5995-6000, March 10 at 0718 UT, noise blob but does not sound like DRM. Ordinarily would hear at least remnant of MALI 5995 AM; out of order? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 11580, March 11 at 1436, some noise, not DRM, but jamming? Sound of Hope 11580.1 attracts ChiCom jamming but normally AM programming, not noise. EiBi shows Turkish jamming but would also be AM programming, if and when Dengê Gel land here among other spots in the 11.5s+. BTW, 11580 was once WRMI`s only 25mb frequency, long abandoned. WRMI total absence from 11 & 13 MHz bands is really strange, as would be much better than 9 MHz in daytime (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 17694.5, March 7 at 2025, S3/S6 open carrier with fades as if it`s really propagating rather than a birdie from a local device. What could it be? Would you believe HFCC & EiBi show nothing ever on 17695? Aoki has nothing but 06-07 jamming and RFA Tibetan via Biblis (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) THE TINY TRAP ``Taiwan - this tiny island``, says Fareed Zakaria in his concluding commentary on an otherwise excellent CNN program, `Taiwan - Unfinished Business`, ``of 24 million people``. TINY? Come on, neither by area nor pop, unless Tiny have a wholly different meaning {tiny, compared to China does not make it tiny in any absolute sense}.