** CUBA. 11760, Sun Mar 8 at 1501, RHC with Esperanto theme and
opening, still giving long-gone first time of 0800 Sunday on 6100;
this, the second one and third time not copied, but likely all wrong
too. Anyhow, this confirms that as a Running Dog of Yankee
Imperialism, Cuba has indeed switched from EST to EDT of UT -4, since
Esperanto had been at 1600v UT. Must keep in step with the gusanos in
Miami! Otherwise I have not heard a live timecheck yet on any Cuban
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9660.018, Sun Mar 8 from 1744, VOT with `Letterbox`,
S9+15/25 into UTwente. Very little intro by Cemre, right into mail: 1)
Mr --? Albanese, Palermo, Sicily, heard Italian on 11970. 2) Anatoly
Klepov, Moscow, weekly report, wants March QSL. 3) Chris Marbov?, Port
Alberni BC; had Chinese QRM to 9610. 4) Mr Jian? Chiang?, Guangzhou,
again mispronouncing ou as oo instead of oh, a 14-year-old Cantonese
or was it 40? 5) Shivanda? Pol?, secretary of a radio club in W
Bengal. At 1757 OTH clikQRM starts, worse on lower side, diminished
but not banished by USB tuning. 6) Maurizio --?, Rome with ham call.
7) A physical letter! from Annan? Bayn?, president of SWL club in
India. Ran a quiz about VOT, what`s it called in Turkish, how many
langs on SW? was 25, now 26 with Uzbek, and about that lang. Cemre
says they read *all* the letters and emails on the program -- which
means they don`t get much! 8) Mr Francis Waller?, Dublin, Ireland.
1808 ending, contact info, 1809.6 theme (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO monitoring: confirmed Sunday March
8 at 0730 UT on WRN via WRMIs: 5850 S9+20/25; 5950 on again for this
but not other nights, S9+25/30; 7570 S9+25 undermodulated compared to
the others; 7730 JBA; 7780 S9, all direct. DST ostensibly started at
0700 UT in FL, 2 am EST renamed 3 am EDT, but did not affect these
broadcasts.

Also confirmed Sunday March 8 at 1138 the 1130 on WRN via WRMIs 7780
S8/S9; but S9+30 of dead air on 7570, still so at 1150. Not heard on
any other WRMI frequencies.

Also confirmed Sunday March 8 until 1500 on CKUT Montreal webcast --
huh? https://ckut.ca/listen-live/ Sheldon Harvey & Gilles Letourneau
had a last-minute problem uploading their own International Radio
Report and asked to run latest WOR instead this week. Glad to be of
help. Sheldon says, ``I have to say it was really neat to hear WOR
coming over CKUT's airwaves! We are going to re-record our IRR show
today and post it on our YouTube channel, even though it didn't air on
CKUT. Sheldon Harvey, Greenfield Park, Quebec``

Next:
2000 UT Sunday IRRS SW via AM Italia 1323;
2230 UT Sunday SW Radio, Germany 3975;

{DST changes start here:}
2300 UT Monday WRMI 9395 to NNW;
2330 UT Sunday WRMI 9455 to NW;
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;
1300 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast];
1400 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;
0030 UT Wednesday WRMI 9395 to NNW;
2030 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;
1730 UT Thursday SW Radio, Germany 3975 & 6160?;
2330 UT Thursday WRMI 5950 to NNW [NEW].

Thanks this week to Peter Robinson, Preston UK, for a contribution
via PayPal in US funds but not necessarily, to: woradio at yahoo.com

One may also contribute via MO or check on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser,
PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** VIETNAM [non]. Re my 1480 log mentioning KNGO Dallas: Ngo is a
common? name, or once well-known, as in Ngo Dinh Diem or rather, Ngô
Đình Diệm, a president of Vietnam South. But what does ngo mean as a
word? Google translate says `dainty` without any accent, but with the
circumflex, means ``corn``. Now we know. There are websites trying to
explain exactly how to pronounce his full name. It seems that the
crossed-D is like English D, while the plain D is more like our J - or
``dj``. There is huge info about him at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem -- but does KNGO Dallas
callsign allude to him, to dainty, or to corn? The 1560/1480 website
https://vietradio.com/ displays the ID in VV but not copyable with all
the diacritix: Dai Phat Thanh Viet Ngu but Google translate transforms
it to: Đài Phát Thanh Việt Ngữ (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1951 UT March 8