** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RCUSB, Saturday March 5 at 1520, LRA36 is on,
S1/S2 into Campo, Brasil, SDR, slightly better than into Brasília #2,
during Antártida themesong; 1521 LRA36 ID, `El Lejano Sur`, also FM
96.7; hi & lo temps: -2 and +6 C, not bad. 1524 surges to S3/S5, talk
about a rare Catholic chapel in Antarctica, at Esperanza? 1530
``Nacional Antártida Argentina, en todo el país, la radio pública``,
songs. 1542 another talk segment, off at 1545*. Sam Sánchez, Órygun
was also hearing it remotedly as early as 1413. We`ve been checking
for it only on Weds & Sats per normal behaviour, altho it could be
otherdays for special occasions; and had been no-show on Feb 19, 26
and March 2 but heard on Feb 23. It`s about time for the new
all-female crewe of four to take over as publicized last year (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2128 monitoring: checking out new
time of 0500 UT Saturday, March 5 on WBCQ 4790, appendage to Radio
Angela bihour, tnx to Bill Tilford and the Weiners: starts a bit early
at 0459. UTwente: S7-S8, pretty good for off the back. Bill says it
was getting further into Europe. Synch shows 4789.9985, occasional
uteblaaps. At KB0FX Missouri: S9+10 also blaaps. At VE6JY Alberta: S8
would be good except for heavy CODAR. At Ohio SDR: good S9 with lite
CODAR. blaaps, whine. At Alexandria VA: S9/+20 but with loud whine not
CODAR. At Maryland SDR; S9 with some whine but better than Alexa. At
PEI: S6/S7 with same whine. At OKC, JBA with S9+ of noise level! At
0517 direct to Enid: S9+10/20 with CODAR and storm crashes from
Nebraska, not too bad. At 0522 to Rockport, Maine: S9/+10 with whine,
what is that? Reads -14.7 Hz offset carrier. 0526 way offbeam at St
Lucia, S7/S9 fair with no QRM except occasional uteblaaps. Wanted to
check Maui but it`s maxed out with WSPR.

Also confirmed at 1716 Sat March 5 on WRN N America webcast. Next:

2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0530]
1330 UT Sunday WMRI Europe via Ch 292 Germany 9670
2100 UT Sunday IRRS 1323-Italy
2330 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 to NNW
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW
0130 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed?]
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

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HAM DX on 10, 12, 15 metres

It takes a contest for hams to exploit MUFs rather than assuming bands
are closed with no activity. Nice thing about 10m is that skip
distances are so long that anything is likely to be DX rather than
domestic. Logged all this in 17 minutes, March 5 at 1603-1620, with
qrz.com lookup info:

21426 USB, at 1603, V31XX says he is QSYing to .495 on 10 meters.
Bill Kollenbaum, Consejo Shores, Corozal District, BELIZE

28420.8 USB, at 1605, HK3X:
HK3X Colombia flag Colombia
PEDRO J. ALLINA, CALLE 155 # 9 - 45 APP 1221 T 1
QSL MANAGER CHARLES.WILMOTT@M0OXO.COM COLOMBIA
So there`s his street address, but not his city! Says has previously
been active from Malpelo - separate radio country island, but is he
there now??

28405 USB, at 1607, XQ3PC, contesting. After ``5,9`` this and others
may say ``K`` presumably meaning both 1000 watts and, over to you:
XQ3PC Chile flag Chile
James Thurston, Capitan Orella 2775 Ñuñoa, - Santiago, CHILE
lots of info and photos at
https://www.qrz.com/lookup/xq3pc

28390 USB, at 1612, ZF5T with 100 watts:
ZF5T Cayman Islands flag Cayman Islands
Brac Radio Contest Club, PO Box 73, Siloam Springs, AR 72761 USA
Another one hiding exact location: presumably somewhere on CAYMAN BRAC
rather than Grand Cayman or Little Cayman

28431 USB, at 1613, HK3C:
HK3C Colombia flag Colombia
John QTH is north of Bogota
Bogotá, COLOMBIA
http://www.hk3c.ca/
lots of info but does he ever reveal where he is? Surname on QSL is
Bartlett

28450 USB, at 1613, HP9SAM:
HP9SAM Panama flag Panama
Stephen A. Myers, Pocri, Province of Los Santos 0758, PANAMÁ

28469 USB, at 1615, TI7W, CQ Contest, K:
TI7W Costa Rica flag Costa Rica
Contest Call, QSL VIA M0URX, Guanacaste, COSTA RICA

28480 USB, at 1615, CE1VP, S8, CQ Contest:
``Your Search by Callsign found no results for CE1VP. CE1VP looks like
a callsign from CHILE (DXCC Entity #112). Would you like to add CE1VP
to the database?`` Well, no, but I`ve logged only ones with certain
fonetix, or so I thought

28486 USB, at 1616, PY2PT, CQ Contest:
PY2PT Brazil flag Brazil
RICARDO RODRIGUES, Caixa Postal 42066, SÃO PAULO, SP 04082970, BRAZIL
has made lots of DX-peditions, especially Pacific islands:
https://www.qrz.com/lookup/py2pt

28514.5 USB, at 1617, V31XX: finally find BELIZE on 10m QSY from 15

28524 USB, at 1619, CX5A, CQ contest:
CX5A Uruguay flag Uruguay
Radiogrupo Sur, P. O. Box 950, 11000-Montevideo, URUGUAY
lots of info and photos
https://www.qrz.com/lookup/cx5a

On 10m seems all phone activity is below 28550; No beacons heard in
the 28200-28300+ range, are they all off? Not much phone activity on
12 or 17m, bands not eligible for contest, but:

24980 USB, at 1620, one QSO concludes without ever giving own call

Later circa 1850 on caradio, the Crazy Band is hopping on 27025v-AM
but all sound very domestic.

DXMAPS at 2010 UT show 6m Es MUF at 72 MHz across N America, not
unusual, but never breaching 88 for FMDX. At 28 MHz, huge contacting
N/S America mostly F2 or TEP, not sporadic E (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 2022 UT March 5

** EGYPT [and non]. 9899.6, March 4 at 2229, no R. Cairo signal into
UTwente, no lock until 2230 when Chinese oncomes at 9899.999.8v: in
fact two Chinese mixing, i.e. a China radiowar, CNR1 jamming vs R.
Taiwan International both from *2230; but no QahiRM which would last
until 2245 if on the air at all today from 2115 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** ROMANIA [and non]. 7220, March 4 at 2325, RRI English with lots of
CCCCI as well as QRhaM direct. It`s CRI Vietnamese via Xianyang 59
site (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. 9690, Fri Mar 4 at 2300, token English from REE is VG direct
at S9+10/20, 2306 feature about an art thief I can skip. 12030, 11940
and 11685 also audible. First chex of 9690 via Virginia, St Lucia
remotes were noisier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 5960, March 4 at 2310, VOT English is poor direct, S5-S9,
tho VG into UTwente (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2128 monitoring: confirmed Friday
March 4 at 1915 on reactivated 7290, IRRS via Bulgaria. Tuned in
earlier, 7290: 1859 carrier already on 7289.999, S9+45 into UTwente
with 1377 users at the moment, but dead air until 1900.8 JIP Feature
Story News, 1905 IRRS ID and UN News in Brief, then music fill.
Harmonic 14580 not audible at UTwente or Carlow.

1323 kHz: first trying KiwiSDR at Tambov, Russia, just east of Ukraine
and 418 km SSE of Moskva. Headed by this with translation: ``I see an
extraordinary number of scripters. It's not good. I'll think about
what can be done so that the network flood from them does not
interfere with others. In the meantime, so as to cool the interest a
little. All of this temporarily.``

This one at http://sdr.tambov.gq:8901/ is labeled as covering only
1.6-10 MHz! But is tuning 1323, where at 1906 at S9 I am hearing
German only, i.e. the 15 kW Romanian station belying IRRS` claim to
get into Ukraine and Russia on 1323. At 1908 I compare it to Noale SDR
near 1323 where Romania now in music is mixing with IRRS music.

At 1915 I can hear WOR starting almost synch with 7290. But at 1920,
some horrible noise hits 7290, whine, roar with breakup, and I hear
the same via Carlow, Eire SDR, so it`s not an SDR problem. At 1923 I
can make out the same noise vs the other QRM on 1323, so it`s a
problem on the feed from `Milano`.

Via the Tambov SDR now at 1925 I am only hearing the music from
Romania. The noise continues on both frequencies past 1930 when I quit
in frustration. Recheck at 1959 finds 7290 clear with Ray Robinson
talking about Philippines, so it`s AWR Wavescan until he`s chopped off
for IRRS QSL offer which is also chopped off the air before finishing
with address. A ~29 minute program cannot possibly fit into a ~15
minute slot, assuming WOR played to completion at 1944. Just a WS
fragment as filler.

At 2001 I recheck Tambov on 1323 and hear a 1 kHz tone, presumably
Romania which has not turned off yet. Underneath is the Verdi theme of
IRRS. Vice versa which dominates at Noale, Italy. At 2005, Feature
Story News again detectable, but at Tambov more QRM in Hungarian:
another Romania broadcast not in WRTH, I guess until 2100? Recheck at
2115, Romania finally off allowing AM Italia into Tambov, American
English program about Black History, which turns out at 2120 to be
`Counterspin` from FAIR, also on many US public radio stations; then
about the Tulsa Race Massacre.

At 2130 the next WORLD OF RADIO 2128 broadcast on 1323 can be heard
both at Tambov and stronger at Noale.

Later at 0040 UT March 5 I bring Tambov up again to investigate its
tuning because as I noted earlier at 1800 March 4 it was blocked from
tuning 9770 for BBC in Russian which was not on air anyway. It turns
out that Tambov is blacked out for everything above 7200! The 40m
hamband 7000+ works except for blox at 7045-7055, where we know there
has long been a Russia/Ukraine ham radio war. I notice a user in North
Carolina tries it briefly on 4625, the buzzer frequency, but that is
also blocked.

WORLD OF RADIO 2128 also confirmed UT Saturday March 5 at 0230 on WRMI
9395, S9+5 into Minneapolis SDR. Next:

0500 UT Saturday WBCQ 4790! to WSW [NEW]
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0530]
1330 UT Sunday WMRI Europe via Ch 292 Germany 9670
2100 UT Sunday IRRS 1323-Italy
2330 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 to NNW
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW
0130 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed?]
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

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** U S A. (7490.1v), UT Sat March 5 from 0100, WBCQ webcast of
`AAAWWW`, a new one, starts with Uranus joke, which can be seen just
above the crescent Moon Sunday evening. Allan says that Moon ``rises``
just after sunset: axually it *sets* after sunset. Discussion of
horses, horseless carriages. Wreck closed all 4 lanes of I-95; thank
god for radio for info about it. Says WBCQ has 6 transmitters, the #6
one being the 9330. But there are only three other frequencies active,
so what about the other two? Does that include the one Jeff White gave
him?

A new music show began tonight at 6-7 pm ET [23-24 UT] Friday,
`Quality Control Live`. I missed the frequency so is it on the
websked? Of course not!

Electric bill expected to double in one or two years --- till a real
president comes back. WBCQ is running at a loss. Lots of maintenance
to be done this summer, postponed because of COVID. Would like to buy
more antennas and stations, and not just for religious programming.
Would welcome $ 5 or 10 million to do that, hint hint. Allan trying to
avoid politix, but Angela can`t help it, blasts left-wing media,
especially, under her breath, Rachel Maddow whom she can`t stand. Is
convinced elexion was stolen.

0133, finally datestamp for those who just tuned in [why?], 4th of
March YOOLF 2022, trimulcasting on 7490, 6160, 4760. Alan can`t take
the cold in Maine, as when he visited in January for maintenance.

0136, plugs Radio Angela programming -- a neat name, Angela thinx.
Tonight at 10pm ET it`s FTIOM [no, at 0340 check it`s Canadian Content
Radio, S9+10 to Missouri SDR but with storm crashes from SE Nebraska,
FTIOM from 0400 UT]; and at midnight [05 UT Sat], Glenn Hauser`s World
of Radio, the last true program of listeners digest news emphasizing
shortwave. Allan can`t remember when gh was not on SW. R. Angela is
for entertainment, ``anti-political`` on SW only, no streaming.

COVID diminishing, time to throw stupid masks away. Diet advuce: avoid
white food, like rice, milk, potatoes, and hydrate with lots of plain
H2O, not juice or soda.

0147, for nth time, Allan claims that Canadian government does not
allow any private ownership of SW stations! I reply equally nthly,
what about CFRX and CFVP??? Except for the SuperStation, WBCQ tries to
keep its equipment simple. 0150 items from Free Radio Weekly, just
out. Finally catches himself that SSTV means slow-scan TV, not ``SSB``
TV. 0155 some email, 0159 prayer, 0201.7 JIP Hal Turner late. Standard
disclaimer (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0404 UT March 5

** AZORES. 6114, March 4 at 0718, RTTY at S9+10 reportedly US Navy,
seems to be more active now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** IRAN [non]. 5910.000, March 4 from 1727 no signal into UTwente from
Channel 1 satellite TV audio from Canoga Park clandestine via
Uzbekistan? S9+5/15 carrier with hum finally cuts on late at 1738.2 or
so and JIP talk modulation in Farsi? from 1739. Fridays only and no
one reported it last week. Two men conversing, nothing resembling an
ID heard, and they stop at 1753 while humcarrier stays on until
1800.5*. Previously also lasted well less than 30 or even 29 minutes
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MALI. 5995, March 4 at 0717, ORTM S5-S8 in French, back on air
after missing last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** PERU. 4810, March 4 at 0714, no JBA carrier from R. Logos vs
STANAG, but sometimes there is (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SOLOMON ISLANDS [and non]. Tonight March 4 from 0436 past 0500 past
0527, S5-S8 open carrier on 9545 into Maui SDR. Don`t see how it could
be anything but SIBC; unknown when may switch to 5020 and even
modulate it. 9545 finally cut off at 0549.5* - but 5020 not on yet by
0611. 9545 carrier was within 1 Hz of accurate. Recheck direct at
0711, JBA carrier now on 5020, as well as 5040 presumed Vanuatu.

Later replies via WOR iog: Lucio Otavio Bobrowiec: ``Hi all, At 0845
on 5020 male and female talks, poor signal, unreadable, must be SIBC.
73 Lucio, Embu Brasil``

Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, California: ``SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020,
SIBC, 1022 UT, March 4. Thanks to Glenn for noticing their
reactivation after a considerable silence; better audio level than
heard in the past, but still unreadable.

Glenn - My last check for SIBC (5020 or 9545) was on March 1, with no
signal heard. Same on Feb 28, from 0955+ UT. Was not listening at the
beach March 3`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U K. 9770, March 4 at 1800-1820+, again no signal into UTwente from
BBCWS daily in Russian, as in HFCC supposed to have started yesterday,
250 kW, 66 degrees from Woofferton. Hurry up! The war is on. No other
Russian language shown on entire BBC schedule. Also tried to check it
via Tambov, Russia, KiwiSDR. It appears to be running showing only
noise on 9770, no carrier to lock onto --- but no audio as if muted,
certainly not by me! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2128 contents: Algeria, Andorra
non, Antarctica, Austria, Belarus`, (Bulgaria), Canada and non, Cuba,
Germany and non, Italy and non, Kurdistan non, Kuwait, México, Poland,
(Russia), Sa`udi Arabia, Solomon Islands, South Carolina non, Taiwan,
(Turkey), UKRAINE and non, UK and non, USA; propagation outlook ()
countries mentioned along with others not in order

WOR 2128 is available as of 0120 UT Friday March 4, 2022

(mp3 stream) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2128.m3u
(mp3 download) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2128.mp3

Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
Also linx to podcast services.

The shortwave+ broadcasts should be:

0130 UT Friday WRMI 5850 to NW, 7780 to NE
0330 UT Friday WRMI 5985 to S
1915 UT Friday IRRS 7290-Bulgaria to WNW, 14580?; 1323-Italy
[7290 has been reactivated after missing 2 weeks]
2130 UT Friday IRRS 1323-Italy
0230 UT Saturday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0500 UT Saturday WBCQ 4790! to WSW [NEW]
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0530]
1330 UT Sunday WMRI Europe via Ch 292 Germany 9670
2100 UT Sunday IRRS 1323-Italy
2330 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 to NNW
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW
0130 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed?]
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

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Confirmed first SWBCs, UT Friday March 4 at 0130 on WRMIs: 7780,
S9/+15 into UTwente; 5850, S9+30/35 into Missouri SDR.

Also confirmed UT Fri Mar 4 at 0330 on WRMI 5985, S9/+10 direct but
flutter in noise, and ACI de 5980 WWCR 5890/5935 leapfrog (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 4905, March 4 at 0713, JBA carrier vs CODAR. Maybe
Brasil allegedly 24h; Tibet also scheduled on but too early (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 4970, March 4 at 0712, JBA carrier where no broadcaster
is listed; ghost of R. Rumbos? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 5780, March 4 at 0715, JBA carrier. It`s a Euro-pirate
frequency, Harmony Radio per EiBi; from Waterloo, Belgium per Aoki
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1820 UT March 4

** AZORES. 6114, March 3 at 0717, believed to be USN sending RTTY
intruding in broadcast band, now S9+10, vs 6115 Japan only S6-S8.
Another comment about it from Lou Johnson, who is concerned that it
QRM WWCR when on 6115 until 0200:

``6115 Heavy RTTY Interference --- last night (3/1). BUT, prior to
that, for the previous 3 days, it was only about 50/50 interference so
the programs were intelligible. With the crisis in Ukraine, I don't
see it letting up. Lou KF4RCA Atlanta`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 9700, March 3 at 0719, RHC is S9+10 and for a change managing
to modulate in English; all others are off. Something`s always wrong
at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** IRAN [non]. 13600, March 3 at 1504, S5-S8 in Farsi: it`s R. Farda
via Lampertheim, GERMANY, 0530-1530 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MALI. 5995, March 3 at 0718, no signal from ORTM; nor on day
frequency 9635. 5995 had been a staple after 0600 tho seldom bothered
to log (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. March 3 at 1533 UT, Level 1 tropo enhancement shows BAD
DTV signals on RF 10, 12, 14, 20, 21, 22, 31, 34, 35, 36 --- and again
only one DX signal decoding, RF 28, virtual 44 from KTPX Okmulgee
including Newsy on 44-6 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020, March 3 at 0722, JBA carrier maybe trace of
music in splash from 5025 CUBA; presumed SIBC, first trace of it here
in some weeks. Believe SW had been silent. Equivalent to 5040 JBA
carrier presumed Vanuatu. On Jan 31, Bryan Clark reported to WOR iog:

```I have been in dialogue with Martin Hadlow who has been the WRTH
collaborator for Solomon Islands. At my request he has been in touch
with SIBC and he has just advised:

``Have had a response from the SIBC in Honiara. Their MW transmitter
is on and working OK. The problem is with the Japanese manufactured
transmitter on shortwave. (I think the one TX runs both 5020 and 9545
frequencies). The SIBC technical team is getting advice from the
Japanese manufacturer. The equipment came back on-air briefly a few
days ago, but is off again now. They are working as hard as they can
to get it fixed.`` Regards, Bryan -- Mangawhai - Northland - New
Zealand```

Ron Howard`s last report on this from California: ``Also no signal
from SIBC (5020, nor on 9545) on Feb 7, from 0825+ UT. Ron`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TIBET [non]. 12125, March 3 at 1508, S9/S7 unID language, must be
Tibetan as scheduled this hour, RFA via TINIAN; and with CCCCCCI
underneath from CNR1 jammer (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U K [and non]. 9770, March 3 at 1800, no signal from BBCWS in
Russian yet, checked at UTwente, and still not at 1818 when also
checked at Tambov, Russia SDR. Ivo Ivanov had reported a new
registration in HFCC effective today for 1800-1830, 250 kW at 66
degrees from Woofferton. If and when it appear, will it be jammed?

On the WOR iog, Richard Langley, NB, asks, ``How long has it been
since BBC last broadcast on SW? Will they get jammed?`` Arthur Pozner,
NY, replies: ``The last BBC WS Russian language was in March 2011. I
cannot remember if it was ever jammed.``

Michael, 2E0IHW in the UK, says ``Critical though I am of current BBC
criteria, we must commend BBC for its shortwave resurrection. It
should now be multilingual 24/7. That said, Al Jazeera still provides
the most balanced news``

Mark Bailey replies: ``Keep in mind that MW stations around the
Ukrainian perimeter could capture the BBC SW broadcasts and then
rebroadcast them on MW. This was done for Radio Moscow and Radio
Habana Cuba in a few places beamed into the US back in the day. It was
weird listening to RM on MW in your car, you betcha! But at such times
as these, I don't think it's out of the question to solicit one or
more MW stations to help out along these lines`` (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A. 2097.3 CW, March 3 at 0726 UT, single-letter beacon A, still
JB audible every dekasecond from anywhere but Quartzsite AZ; for the
record (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 13565 CW, March 3 at 1503, HIFER beacon K6FRC audible vs
CODAR with continuous IDs only; allegedly 1.8 milliwatts from
Patterson CA; never heard beyond daytime morning hours. Very rarely
any others audible in this ISM band 13550-13570 despite listings
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2127 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
Jeff/Jane and Glenn: World of Radio #2127, confirmed, below Details:

5950, 2359, (45433), jamming, noisy, 2358, February 27 UT [Sun]
9955, 2331, 2344, 2357 (45433), 2359, March 1 UT [Tue]
5850, half way mark, 1037 (55444), (55443), 1059, March 2 UT [Wed]
9395, slight QRN, 0130, 0153 (45433), 0158, March 3 UT [Thu]
(Lemke, Richard -AB)``

Also confirmed UT Thursday March 3 at 0130 on WRMIs: 9395, S7/S9 into
Minneapolis SDR; 5010, S9/+15 into St Lucia SDR.

New WOR 2128 should be ready for download early UT Fri March 4 and
first SW broadcasts at 0130 on WRMIs 5850 & 7780 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A. [WOR] South Park parodies Putin --- South Park is on the
ball, with a new episode `Back to the Cold War`, starring V. Putin et
al. Premiered last night UT Thu March 3 at 0100 on Comedy Central,
when all new episodes first appear. CC is crammed with old SP repeats,
but per TitanTV, this one, season 25, episode 4 is due to repeat,
times and days strictly UT, so mark your calendar: Sunday March 6 at
0614; UT Thursday March 10 at 0030. There is even some Russian dialog,
and the national anthem (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report despatched at 1936 UT March 3