** CUBA [non]. 5025, Jan 4 at 0735, R. Rebelde is off. I don`t always
log it when it`s on, or dead air. Something`s always wrong at
RadioCuba. Audiblizes 5020 JBA carrier already, presumably SOLOMON
ISLANDS (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11760 S7/S9 // 15140 S7/9+15 with windhowl, Jan 4 at 1603,
RHC IS & ID, not opening weekly Sunday Esperanto until 1604. SAWA
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ITALY. Marconi R. International publicized a 40th anniversary
broadcast Jan 4 at 1600-1900 on 7700 or alternate 7400. At 1624 into
UTwente, I have JBA signals on both, 7699.861+ at S6/S7, 7400.051+
also S6/S7; which is which? By 1741, 7400 won`t lock onto anything but
7699.870+ lox with music S6/S7. EiBi & Aoki show nothing on either
nominal frequency. Amid music, at 1735 announcement in English,
``Hello, Marconi Radio International...`` At 1800, JBA 7699.871+.
Anyhow, 7700 & 7400 should be good clear frequency choices (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6945 USB, Jan 4 at 0208, pirate song S7/S8 vs NL of
S6/S7; 0210 DJ mentions Saturday evening on ===? Radio, then something
about helicopters? These say it`s Band-Aid Radio:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,156619.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 7475, Jan 4 at 0652, Station YHWH is JBA. Ron Howard
and Rick Barton had been reporting it on late again (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** TURKEY [and non]. 5960.005, Sat Jan 3 at 2336, VOT English not off
the air, S9+25/40 into UTwente. Only music except for stale promos:
2336 ``always-by-your-side``, 2341 ``with-you-every-hour``, 2345
``a-b-y-s`` again already! 2354 s/off as if it were the 1330 on 13635,
something`s always awry at Ankara; 2355 IS. 2356 restart IS with
German IDs, 6CI undercurrent. Still on at 0000 Jan 4 opening
extraneous German, same offset and signal as above, erroneous at
Emirler. 0008 music, 0012 German. 0020 two-minute multi-lingual ID
filler reel but chopped off air shortly at 0021* during Russian,
uncovering Chinese at S8/9+5 on slightly different offset 5959.997
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9660.018+, Sun Jan 4 at 1744 tune-in, S9+20 into UTwente,
VOT `Letterbox` already underway so missed at least one contact. Maybe
tune in a bit earlier on a repeat. 1) Ivan Lebedev, St. Pete, Russia.
2) Mr Francis Mohler?, Dublin, Ireland. 3) --- Hussein ---, Pakistan
with NY greetings. 4) Dr. Daniele --?, Torino, Italy. 5) Satoshi
Tanaka, Tokyo, Japan. I bet there be myriads with that name. 6)
finally, Mr. -- Akin? Bashir, Pakistan Listeners Club. 1759 ending,
reminder that now repeats on Wednedays, 1800 theme (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U K O G B A N I. 7445, Jan 4 at 0140 conversation in unID language,
S9+10/20. EiBi shows it`s BBC in Dari via Woofferton at 0130-0200;
Dari and Pashto alternate half-hourly from 0030 to 0300, but after
0200 site changes to OMAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 275 MCW kHz, Jan 4 at 0653 UT, ND beacon HF? JBA and hard to
tell whether HP. Aha, it`s really HIN, as in RNA list, `Whitney`
Chadron NE, 25 watts, ``ULS WRLB2706 expires 09/03/2027 // 29Jun23
Tony reports it is mis-keying as 'HF' // 15Jan24 Tony reports it is
back to normal keying`` - but not anymore. It seems these beacons have
real W+ callsigns assigned to them, but never transmitted. IN if sent
without a space comes out as F: ..-. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 293 MCW kHz, Jan 4 at 0652 UT, underneath FBY, FairBurY NE,
one of my strongest and most regularly heard is another, TOR, which
is: TORrington WY, 25 watts. Torrington is in SE WY, a few km from the
Nebraska frontier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 359 MCW kHz, Jan 4 at 0658, GGF, Grant NE unknown power
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2328 monitoring: confirmed new time
2030 Saturday January 3 on SW Radio Gold, Germany, 3975.001, S6/S8
into UTwente.

Also confirmed Saturday January 3 at 2030 on WRN via WRMI 9395, S9+38
into Georgia SDR and not at 2100 as now shown on the System E schedule
- or possibly both as not checked after 2100. Nor WRN Europe stream
checked at 2100 as long scheduled there.

Not confirmed on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, MO, nominal 2030 Saturday January 3;
JBA vs HNL into N9AZZ southern IL remote, and KM4RT in western TN; the
closest at House Springs MO is not much better and times out at only
10 minutes allowed per 24 hours! WOR still had not started by 2045,
but not unusual to be running later. TWIAR was going at 2030.

Confirmed Saturday January 3 at 2200 on WRMI 9395, S9+25/30 into
Georgia SDR.

Also confirmed Saturday January 3 at 2235 the 2230 on WRMIs 17790
S9/+5 and 15770 S9+5 into Maryland SDR.

Also confirmed UT Sunday January 4 at 0258 the 0230 on WRN North
America stream.

Also confirmed UT Sunday January 4 at 0412 the 0415v on WA0RCR, 1860
AM, MO, S9+10 into KM4RT remote Tipton County TN, better than
closers.

Also confirmed Sunday January 4 at 0733 the 0730 on WRMIs: 5850
S9+20/25, 7570 S9+25, 7730 S7, 7780 S8, but 15770 is JBA carrier.

Also confirmed Sunday January 4 at 1135 on WRN via WRMIs 7570 S9+25
and 7780 S9

Next:
2000 UT Sunday IRRS SW via AM Italia 1323;
2230 UT Sunday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
2330 UT Sunday WRMI 9455 to NW;
0000 UT Monday WRMI 9395 to NNW;
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW;
0930 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 6160;
2030 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to SW;
1400 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast];
1500 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast];
2100 UT Tuesday IRRS SW via AM Italia 1323;
0030 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
0130 UT Wednesday WRMI 9395 to NNW;
2030 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW;
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW;
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S;
1730 UT Thursday SW Radio, Germany 3975 & 6160.

As a noncommercial public service program, financial support
appreciated, by MO or check in US funds on a US bank to:
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

One may also contribute, not necessarily in US funds via PayPal to:
woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1690 kHz, Jan 4 at 0700 UT, ``Freedom 16-90, WMLB,
Avondale-Atlanta`` and Townhall News (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1700 kHz, Jan 4 at 0206 UT, open carrier atop others,
presumably KKLF Richardson TX trying to make a comeback (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR) also see unID 1700!

** VATICAN. 15490, Jan 4 at 1515, S Asian music, OOFSOB [one of few
signals on band], another example of Vatican Radio`s prowess in
serving us in the opposite direxion, Malayalam scheduled. No other
significant signals from Europe on 19m, and not much else except Cuba
15140 & 15230, WRMI 15770 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1700 kHz, Jan 4 at 0659 UT, weak Spanish in the mix. If
not KKLF TX, which has been absent, or open carrier 5 hours ago, only
other SS would be XEPE Tecate BC, nominally 10/10 kW, which IRCA
Mexican Log says: ``TuDN Deportes, Vivimos Tu Pasión 24h SPT TUDN No
FM. Active 8/25 per local monitoring, but signal strength decreased
after programming flipped to TuDN Deportes. Directional antenna?``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 2000 UT January 4
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