** CUBA. 13508-trace, 13572, 13636; 13765, 13831, 13896, 13958
approx., Feb 12 at 1448, spurblobs out of RHC 13700-AM; the closer
stronger ones more readable FM than AM mode, not at all in SSB.
Averaging only ~64 kHz intervals, never landing on OCB/jamming.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15369.233V, Feb 12 at 2139, RHC way off-frequency for second
day, S9/+10 in Brazuguese, and // abnormally weak 11880.0 S7. 15140.0
is still on but dead air, after all-day distortion. Usually all three
are in Portuguese at 2100-2130 rather than 3 different languages. At
2130 supposedly scheduled are Arabic on 15370, Portuguese on 11880.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** EL SALVADOR. 18120.06-USB, Feb 12 at 1919, one signal making it on
``17m`` phone: mostly repeating only callsign over and over
fonetikally, occasionally inserting CQ or QRZ. Accent makes it hard to
read, plus mixture of official ICAO and unofficial fonetix: at first I
thought he was saying ``Ocean United one ---`` something; then pretty
sure the suffix ``Delta Lima`` --- but then the first letter more like
``Hotel``. Only a few minutes later does he get a real contact. Yup,
QRZ.com lookup goes nowhere to OU1DL which might be in Belgium, but
hits upon HU1DL as:

``German DXpedition 2020
La Paz, El Salvador
QSL: OQRS, DL4SVA
Page managed by DL7VEE Lookups: 114976

German DXpedition to El Salvador from January 30 to February 13, 2020
Operators: Andy DH8WR, Tom DJ6TF, Werner DJ9KH, Frank DL1KWK, Dietmar
DL2HWA, Norbert DL2RNS, Georg DL4SVA, Olaf DL7JOM, Rolf, DL7VEE, Franz
DL9GFB

Thanks to YS1AG, YS1GMV, YS1MAE, YS1MS, YS1RS, CRAS, SIGET.
Planned are three kW-stations 24/7 from 160 to 6 m with wire
antennas.

Homepage: https://hu1dl.mydx.de
9927109 Last modified: 2020-02-10 00:29:10, 575 bytes``
Lots of info on homepage with photos, frequency list, etc. Hasten
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2020 monitoring: confirmed Wed Feb
12 after 2100 on WRMI 7780, JBA on portable.

Also confirmed Wed Feb 12 starting at 2200:20 on WBCQ 7490.110V,
S9+10/20 initially but soon fading down to S7-S9. Next:
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1090, Feb 12 at 0702 UT, KAAY Little Rock drops to dead air
after lengthy PSA about veterans. The exact time this happens varies
somewhat (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Feb 12 at
0643-0649 UT: 585, 612, 639, 711, 747, 774(2), 837, 855, 882, 891,
909, 936, 1044, 1053, 1089, 1107, 1125, 1134, 1215, 1314 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1477 & 1503 kHz approx., Feb 12 at 1432 UT, spurblobs
out of some 1490 station are still audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 2325 UT February 12
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** CANADA. 399-MCW kHz, Feb 11 at 0720 UT, ND Beacon dash and ZHD,
which is 25 watts from Dryden - Barclay, Ontario.

406-MCW kHz, Feb 11 at 0721 UT, NDB dash and YLJ, which is 40 watts
from Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, I was tuned to 405-USB (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13491, 13558, 13630; 13770, 13841, 13911, 13982-trace
approx., Feb 11 at 1532, spurblobs at 70-71 kHz intervals out of RHC
13700-AM. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15369.234, Feb 11 at 2124, RHC in Brazuguese knocked way
off-frequency, and distorted, S9/+10; and also // much better 15140.0
same S reading, but OK modulation; and just as they are all going into
music, also // 11880.0, S9+20 OK mod. Lest we forget per EiBi, these
are supposed to be in 3 different languages at 2100-2130, Portuguese,
Spanish and Arabic respectively. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 2337
recheck, has faded way down to S5-S8 in Spanish, audibly wavering and
remeasured at 15369.236 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MEXICO. 6185.75, Feb 11 at 1544, S5-S7 JBM carrier from XEPPM still
way off-frequency and way off-time according to own schedule (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 1210, KGYN Guymon, in the Panhandle continues to be quite
audible here in Enid at night, usually the dominant station on
frequency, making me suspect it`s not really nulling toward WPHT
Philadelphia; however, we are a bit south of that direxion. Closer to
the null line would be Wichita and Saint Louis, and points in between.
Could some listeners around there check whether KGYN be audible, and
more significantly, is there any change in signal at its nominal SS/SR
times which in February are officially: 0030/1330 UT (March: 0045/1300
UT). 10 kW day pattern is ND; 10 kW night pattern of three towers in a
row, is a somewhat broad cardioid favoring WSW with deep notch ENE
toward Philadelphia.

As seen in mv-eko, KGYN is often heard and QSLed from Scandinavia, but
that great circle is more northerly. It still has to get past WPHT et
al. The Feb issue reports three QSLs of KGYN, two of them signed by
owner Greg Steckline (who presumably is at corp HQ in Kansas), and in
fact NO other OK MW stations reported heard or QSLed, altho those guys
pull in hundreds of US stations more challenging than KGYN (Glenn
Hauser, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2020 monitoring: missed checking UT
Tue Feb 11 at 0100 on WRMI 7780; did anyone hear it? Next:
0900 UT Wednesday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1090, Feb 11 at 0651 UT, KAAY Little Rock AR in dead air
already, so not limited to hourtops; but 0656 resumed with music; did
not get back in time before 0705 to hear the usual news hole tonight
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1477.15V & 1502.85V, Feb 11 circa 0700 UT, distorted
weak matching spurblobs, unreadable FModulated, must be out of
defective 1490 kHz transmitter exactly halfway between them.

At 2340 UT, before 0008 UT sunset here, not being heard, implying, but
not certainly that this be westish rather than eastish from here.

1477.235V & 1502.765V, Feb 12 at 0021 UT, now they are reaudible, same
type of pairing varied to slightly different tho more closely measured
frequencies, i.e. plus and minus 12.765 from 1490.000. So far on the
R75 with E-W longwire only.

At 0110 UT Feb 12, I employ the hand-held wrist-altazimuth DX-398 with
BFO offset, to try to get a DF on them: peaks NE/SW on both of them.
This might imply out of my local 1390 KCRC, which used to be a bad
spur-producer closer in --- but does not work out mathematically, and
besides, the spurs are fading. Nevertheless, just in case, I check the
same displacements on the minus side of 1390, i.e. 1277.24 & 1302.76,
and hear nothing. On 1490 itself, of course, a pileup of graveyarders,
impossible to make any modulation peak match. There are none near
enough to here to dominate.

NE/SW axis implies most likely MO or TX, or possibly a state neighbor
to those, with TX the top choice because they were lacking pre-sunset.
So what stations are in that area? There are a dozen TX on 1490!
Closest to the SW axis are KZZN Littlefield and KBST Big Spring; a
little further CCW are KVWC Vernon (closest), KWMC Del Rio.
Also possible, XECJC Ciudad Juarez in the right direxion, one of few
Mexicans which may still be active on 1490. The three MO 1490s are
KDMO Carthage, KTTR Rolla and KDRO Sedalia.

I recall there was a similar pair of unID blobs a good many months ago
but haven`t been able to find them in archives by frequency searches.
I don`t believe that mystery was resolved.

Now it would be very helpful if others in the area from different
angles could at least get a DF bearing on them (they should match), if
not any readable audio to ID them directly, such as by matching
modulation peaks to a local 1490 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Feb 11 at
0653-0657 UT: 666, 693, 711, 747, 774(2), 846, 855, 882, 936(2), 1044,
1053, 1107, 1125, 1215, 1305. (2) means at least two carriers
beating.

Notably missing are the big Algerians, 531, 549, 576, 891 --- by now
they may be too far into the dayside; not much from BBC either. 846 is
extremely weak but is the only one suspected of being TP instead:
Kiritimati, where it`s still way after sunset, but I had not been
hearing any of it for some weeks; is it still on? (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 356-MCW kHz, Feb 11 at 0716 UT, ND beacon PJ. None
listed at dxinfocenter on this or adjacent frequencies; no dash, but
if it were on 329 it would be in Whitehorse YT. Possibly a mixture of:
PI in Peoria IL, and SJ in San Angelo TX: .--. .. and ... .--- (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report despatched at 0347 UT February 12
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JRX Logs_ February 11, 2020Receiver (s)_ Tecsun S-2000Antenna (s)_ Longwire

ASCENSION ISLAND** 11660. Feb 11, 2020. 1942-1952, BBC, Ascension Island-ASC, in Hausa. Man announcer in conversation with a nigerian citizen; Woman announcer also participates; 1946 ID and news continues, including a nigerian report from Abuja. Very good reception.

CHINA** 6020. Feb 11, 2020. 2041-2100, China International Radio, Shijiazhuang-CHN, in Polish. A instrumental song; 2044 Woman talks and other songs; 2059 Man talks and IS. Fair reception.

CLANDESTINE** 12050. Feb 11, 2020. 1917-1928, Radio Ndarason International, Ascension Island-ASC, in Kanuri. Man announcer talks; 1922 A short song by female singer; 1923 Woman talks; Next, man talks news, presumed. Very good reception.

SAUDI ARABIA** 9555. Feb 11, 2020. 2008-2018, Saudi Radio International, Riyadh-ARS, in Arabic. Woman announcer in conversation with a man. Fair reception.** 9870. Feb 11, 2020. 2019-2029, Saudi Radio International, Riyadh-ARS, in Arabic. Woman announcer in a long conversation (interview, presumably) with a man. Good reception.** 11820. Feb 11, 2020. 2030-2040, Saudi Radio International, Riyadh-ARS, in Arabic. Man announcer talks; 2036 Begins The Qur´an chant. Good reception.** 11915. Feb 11, 2020. 1930-1940, Saudi Radio International, Riyadh-ARS, in Arabic. The Holy Qur´an chant. Good reception.

JRX_José Ronaldo XavierSWARL Callsign PR7036SWLCabedelo, Brazil (UTC-3)
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JRX Logs_ February 5-6, 2020
Receiver (s)_ XHDATA D-808
Antenna (s)_ Mini Loop to SW

BULGARIA
** 9400. Feb 5, 2020. 1918-1928, End Times Coming Radio, Sofia-Kostinbrod-BUL, in English. Man Pastor makes a sermon. Poor reception.

CANADA
** 7850. Feb 6, 2020. 0149-0159, CHU Ottawa, Otawa-CAN, in Englis. Time Signal Station; Man says UTC time each a minute; Bips each a second. Fair reception.

CHINA
** 9770. Feb 5, 2020. 1907-1917, China Radio International, Kashgar-CHN, in Cantonese. Woman announcer voice; 1910 A chinese melody; 1914 Man and woman voices. Good reception.

CLANDESTINE
** 9100. Feb 5, 2020. 0038-0120, Echo of Hope-Voice of Hope, Seoul-Taereung-KOR, in Korean. Woman announcer talks during this long log with brief space of musics. Poor to barely audible reception.Note: WRTH 2020 says about variable transmission, with a 100kW presumed power.

COLLISION
** 7375. Feb 5, 2020. 1943-1956, Radio Algérienne in Arabic (Not french!) and Radio Romania International in Romanian language.Note: A very slight advantage to RRI transmission!

FRANCE
** 6040. Feb 5, 2020. 2211-2232, Radio Algérienne, Issoudun-F, in Arabic (No french during this log!). The Holy Qur´an chant; 2221 Woman talks and next some songs; 2228 Qur´an recitation. Good reception.

GERMANY
** 7646-LSB. Feb 6, 2020. 0114-0124, DWD Pinneberg RTTY, Pinneberg-D. RTTY transmission, better on LSB mode, arrives with a fair reception here.

INDIA
** 9445. Feb 5, 2020. 2000-2011, All India Radio, Bengaluru-IND, in Hindi. Man talks news, presumed; 2010 ID by woman announcer. Fair reception with a slight to moderate interference by CRI on 9440kHz.

KUWAIT
** 7530. Feb 6, 2020. 0103-0113, Deewa Radio, Kuwait-KWT, in Pashto. Man talks; 0105 A brief audio radio telegram and return voice communication; Poor reception and noise to this VOA transmission in pashto language.

NEW ZEALAND
** 11725. Feb 5, 2020. 2012-2022, Radio New Zealand Pacific, Rangitaiki-NZL, in English. Man and woman announcers in conversation with a man. Poor reception.

NORTHERN MARIANA ISLAND
** 9580. Feb 5, 2020. 2200-2210, Vatican Radio, Saipan-MRA, in Chinese language. IS, ID; Woman and man announcers present news, presumably. Fair reception.

SOUTH AFRICA
** 7508-LSB. Feb 5, 2020. 2233-2245, ZSJ Cape Naval Meteo Fax, Cape Town-AFS. Meteorological transmission by fax transmission. Fair reception here.

TAJIKISTAN
** 7510. Feb 6, 2020. 0044-0102, Radio Free Asia, Dushanbe-TJK, in Burmese. Woman an man announcers talks, with a very brief space music between them (talks); 0059 A very brief music and man announcer says a ID; 0100 Man talks, ID and burmese program continues. Fair reception.

TURKEY
** 7280. Feb 6, 2020. 0200-0240, Voice of Turkey, Emirler-TUR, in Spanish. IS, VOT sked in spanish and programming of the day, including "El Buzón"; Woman and man announcers present news; 0216 ID in various languages; 0229 DX program El Buzón. Very good reception.

UNLAWFUL
** 7595. Feb 5, 2020. 1929-1942, Radio Fronteira, Cabedelo-PB, in Portuguese.A musical program -Years 70 songs; ID and frequency by male voice. Good reception this afternoon.

USA
** 7730. Feb 6, 2020. 0125-0135, WRMI-The Overcomer Ministry, Okeechobee-FL, in English. Pastor "Brother Stair" makes a sermon. Fair to poor reception..
** 7780. Feb 6, 2020. 0136-0146, WRMI-Adventist World Radio, Okeechobee-FL, in English. Man talks, preaching. Poor reception.

JRX_José Ronaldo Xavier
SWARL Callsign PR7036SWL
Cabedelo, Brazil (UTC-3)

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** CANADA. 6977-USB, Sunday Feb 9 at 2223 while checking the Pirate
Band, instead find a CFARS net, mostly JBA inviting checkins from the
600`s. ``This is CIW311``, then contacting CIW401 loud and clear, and
CIW444. Most CFARS info is classified, login for members only, but

This has the net roster as public info:
http://www.cfarsoperations.ca/vncs.html

200 calls are BC, 300 Alberta then increase to 800's in the Maritimes.
Also linx to this:
http://cfarsoperations.ca/nr2020.html
showing CIW311 is Darcy, supposed to be NCS Feb 16, not today (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MEXICO. 6185.69, Feb 9 at 2221, music JBM as XEPPM is still way
off-frequency; 6185.771, Feb 10 at 1504, JBM carrier remeasured, at a
time when otherwise it is difficult to confirm it`s really Radio
Educación on the air far beyond its nominal evening-only schedule. Or
was: WRTH 2020 says 1400-0500 and calls it instead Señal Cultura
México with 5 kW. Of course during standard time until first Sunday in
April it runs until 0600v* UT = local midnite, but starting when?

Current program grid here below several other outlets shows on air
only at 17-24 local time = 23-06 UT:
https://radioeducacion.edu.mx/carta-programatica-del-mes
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 11560, Feb 9 at 2106, anti-Christ pirate, Station
YHWH is back, JBA voice of Josiah, tnx to tip from Rick Barton, AZ, on
the WOR iog. Already off at 2136 recheck. Sweeps past 7470 following
evening did not find him back on his prime frequency, where Rick and I
had last logged him January 10. And no other reports since then (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. Re my report of 1319.96, KCLI Clinton, mentioning in ID,
KWEY HD-4, Fredrik Douren points out that KWEY does have an FM, 18+ kW
on 95.5 -- but no info about its HD subchannels. Stephen Luce, Houston
TX, also replies:

``Glenn, yes, there are FMs with HD-4 subchannels; we have a few of
those here in Houston. Probably the limit as available allocated
bandwidth would otherwise be too narrow for decent audio--I have never
heard of anyone running an HD-5.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2020 monitoring: confirmed Sunday
February 9 at 2130 on WRMI 7780, JBA here at S9 vs noise level.

Also confirmed, UT Monday February 10 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, fair-good
via UTwente SDR in Holland.

Also confirmed, UT Mon Feb 10 at 0230 on WRMI 7780, good via UTwente;
and 9395 aimed NNW is JBA over there. Also confirmed on WRN webcast
almost synchronised with 7780.

Also confirmed, UT Mon Feb 10 starting at 0401 on Area 51 webcast; via
WBCQ 5130 checked at 0427 it`s good here S9+10, altho not making it to
the Peoria IL KiwiSDR.

Also confirmed, UT Mon Feb 10 at 0430, JBA carrier here vs Cuban pulse
jamming; but VG at Rockport ME KiwiSDR, way atop JBA jamming.

Also confirmed, Mon Feb 10 from about 1901 on IRRS 7290 via Romania?
VG via UTwente SDR. Carrier already on at 1857, JIP Aida theme about
1900:18, lost internet connexion here but WOR must`ve started. Next:

0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780
0900 UT Wednesday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7490.15v, Sun Feb 9 at 2220, WBCQ S9+20 with `Marion`s
Attic`.

BTW, I understand that a similar voice heard on GRITS Radio was Brad
Read, the host of GRITS. Someone who heard more of the latest show
says it was announced by his wife, Val, that he has a malignant tumor
on vocal cords or larynx. Doctors believe that radiation will take
care of the problem and he is scheduled to do so shortly and expected
to recover fully (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 15825, Feb 10 at 1545, WWCR-1 again boosted to S9+20 by
winter HF sporadic E, still squealing; 13845 also way above normal
level. DXmap shows MUF of 21-29-56 MHz over MI and adjacent ON, not
the right spot for this path which must have a blob at least 16 MHz
halfway between here and Nashville. By 1748 recheck, there`s 23 MHz
over NW corner of TN (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1913 UT February 10
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