** BULGARIA. 5890, Apr 12 at 0154, Persian?, S9/+10, presumably Iran
International TV; unseemed on 5890.3, nor any spurs detectable +/- 19
kHz, tho a JBA carrier on 5910 presumably Colombia (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)
** BULGARIA [and non]. 5900, Apr 12 at 0212, TOMBS S9+10, not // 5920
WTWW which tonight has big humroar unlike 5085 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)
** CUBA. 5025, Apr 12 at 0129, no signal from Rebelde, nor at 0153 any
RHC or CRI relay frequencies, so another apagón? However, by 0205,
5025 is back on at S9+20 and then find RHC too: at 0210, 9710 is in
Portuguese - not Brazuguese S9+30/40 // much softer and howlier 11760
tho reading S9+30. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)
** CUBA [and non]. 9710, Apr 12 at 0638, S8 of dead air from RHC, but
traces of understation, presumably Vatican in Ukrainian Sundays only
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 13600, Apr 12 at 0207, talk about China and Amerika
in S Asian language: CRI Tamil via Kashgar (Glenn Hausre, OK, WOR)
** NORTH AMERICA. Lots of pirate axion Saturday night, UT Sunday April
12 tuning between 0130 and 0202, up to six stations at once, all
playing rockish music of some sort I don`t recognize nor try to ID,
nor except for the first one did I catch any announcements, even
around hourtop; of course, as pirates they are urged NOT to identify
at ToH; but I can rely on HFU`ers to ID most of them:
** NORTH AMERICA. 6959.1 USB, April 12 at 0130, pirate music; and
address sounded like GPSshortwave@gmail.com but not at all sure of the
first 3 letters. It was off by 0156, but something was on 6960 by
0202, as below. 6959 per HFU is The Crystal Ship:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,161772.0.html
The real op of TCS says it was a recording of his own show more than a
dekayear ago, and does not know who is playing it now. But he would
QSL this now at TCSshortwave@gmail.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6950 USB, Apr 12 at 0131, pirate music S9+20 and
still at 0156. Per HFU it`s WTF Radio Worldwide:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,161776.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6945 AM, Apr 12 at 0132, pirate music, still at
0156.
Per HFU it`s Liquid Radio:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,161793.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6923 AM, Apr 12 at 0133, pirate music, still at
0157.
Per HFU it`s Sternradio:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,161789.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6850 USB, Apr 12 at 0134, pirate music, still at
0157. Per HFU it`s Radio 48 / MRI, with waterfall images:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,161769.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6955 USB, Apr 12 at 0155, hard rock pirate music;
now that 6959.1 is off. Per HFI it`s Outhouse Radio, with lots of SSTV
images:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,161800.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6960 USB, Apr 12 at 0202, S9+20/40 pirate music. At
this minute there are six stations going at once on the pirate band.
Per HFU this one is 7 Radio:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,161801.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** NORTH AMERICA. 7200 LSB, Apr 12 at 0141, hams behaving badly, lots
of swearing and naughty words back and forth, but no IDs! (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** SPAIN. 15500, Sun Apr 12 at 1427, no signal direct from REE, N
American transmitter still OFF, as is 15390 for Africa; only poor-fair
on remaining 15520 & 17715; so Noblejas at 50% capacity (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)
** TAIWAN [non]. 17790, Apr 12 at 0123, RTI via WRMI, S9+20/30 direct
and not // 15770, but much stronger than // 5800, two YLs with mailbag
show in Spanish, birthday greetings to a number of listeners during
the following week, including Jeff White on April 15; but not me! One
briefly sang `HBD` in Chinese. Another name recognized, Anatoly Klepov
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY. 11660.004-, Apr 12 at 1640, VOT English in news, S9+25/30
backwards into UTwente; narrowed bandwidth to 5.08 kHz necessary to
eliminate het. 1642 the new time-filler of English broadcasts
schedule. It`s not in time or frequency order, but by target area, as
11785 is mentioned I think thrice, but seems some known broadcasts not
mentioned at all. Will have to copy to analyze in detail. This
apparently compensates for lack of full sked info at s/on/off.
1644, `Letterbox` theme starts. Cemre says rain has finally given way
to sunshine and some flowers are blooming. Hopes Friday was last day
to scrape ice off her windshield! 1) Bryan Baines McGuire?, County
Dublin, Ireland, uses 75-year-old Pye radio. 2) Chris Campbell,
Columbus OH, says 11785 at 2200 is useless, wasteful, due to Brazil on
11780, report forwarded to Emirler engineers.
3) At 1651: Glenn Hauser, Enid OK USA, also about the 11785 problem,
suggestion of move to 11790, 11795 or 11800; also sent on to
engineers. ``thanks for decades of listening``. 4) Chris Malbrook?,
Port Alberni BC. 5) Siddartha Pattajarjee, W Bengal, is Autism
Awareness Day April 2 observed in Turkey? Yes, 400,000 diagnosed with
it. 6) Kuznetsov, Riga, Latvia. 7) Anatoly Klepov, Moscow wants
another QSL. 8) A--?, Pakistan, listened via remote in Germany. 9)
finally, ??, Tampere, Finland heard report about a Turkish olympic
runner. 1705 ending, 1706 wishing clear skies, strong signals and good
company. 1706 theme, and 1707 `Geoeconomix Diary` about 33% of food
produxion going to waste (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2342 monitoring: as in last report,
I thought WTWW was going to play it again UT Sunday at 0300 on 5085;
but instead `T2P weekend edition` started at 0300 Apr 12, with BB
talking about his medical treatments; since it`s an hour long, maybe
WOR at 0400? But recheck at 0341, 5085 is already off the air. Anyhow
its modulation was clear, while the other WTWW, 5920 with TOMBS had a
horrible hum roar.
WOR confirmed UT Sunday April 12 at 0358 about 8 minutes into so the
0315v started about 0350 on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, MO, S7/9 into N9AZZ IL
remote.
Also confirmed Sunday April 12 at 0630 on WRMIs: 5850, S9+45/50
direct; 7780 S9; and 7730 JBA S6 which had not been confirmed
before.
Also confirmed Sunday April 12 at 1900 on IRRS SW via AM Italia
1322.996-, S9 into UTwente, right after 7290 s/off announcement.
Next:
2000 UT Sunday IRRS SW via AM Italia 1323;
2130 UT Sunday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
2300 UT Monday WRMI 9395 to NNW;
2330 UT Sunday WRMI 9455 to NW;
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW;
1930 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to SW;
1300 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast];
1400 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast];
2000 UT Tuesday IRRS SW via AM Italia 1323;
2230 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast];
2330 UT Tuesday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
0030 UT Wednesday WRMI 9395 to NNW;
1930 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW;
2330 UT Wednesday WRMI 9395 to NNW;
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S;
1630 UT Thursday SW Radio, Germany 3975 & 6160;
2330 UT Thursday WRMI 5950 to NNW.
Thanks this week to Kelley Sprout, Hughesville PA, for a postal MO 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)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1349.85 approx., Apr 12 at 0626 UT, JBA carrier hetting
1350s. Probably domestic, but lowest below 1350 in mwoffsets is from
20+ years ago: ``1349,9 CLM Radio Armonía (Cali) 2005-06-13``, 5 kW
HJEN still in 2026 WRTH; and I found another off-frequency report of
the 1350 station in Bahia, Brasil, 50 kW Súper Rádio Cristal, ZYH521,
also still in WRTH tho ZY AM`s are flocking to FM (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9100, Apr 12 at 0635, open carrier with clix at the rate
of 32 per minute; also JBA detectable out to plus/minus 15 kHz,
9085/9115. What is this? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report despatched at 1953 UT April 12, 2026
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