** CHINA. Re my log on 12035 & 11820, CRI sites, Wolfgang Bueschel
replies: ``see screenshots, Baoji Xinjiezhen jamming center is 140
kilometers distance away of Xian / Xianyang sites, are only 11
kilometers away of each other. 73 wolfie`` (Glenn Hauser, WOR)

** CUBA. 15700, Jan 17 at 1605, CRI relay is still on with dead air at
S9+10/20, wasting kilowatts and kilopesos which might have helped feed
under-nourished cubanos. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. Re 12200 and 11980, which transmitters produce harmonix,
Wolfgang Bueschel replies: ``re 5990 Cuba 11980 kHz hx, they have 5 x
250 kW txs at this Quivican site at their disposal. Not to compare
with 6100 kHz outlet, which is another installation at Bauta site,
with different antenna design`` (Glenn Hauser, WOR)

** CUBA. 15230, Jan 17 at 1606, RHC Spanish is still on here late at
S9 undermodulated; 15140 is S9+20 but overmodulated/distorted. It and
11760 are supposed to run past 1600, and at 1610, 11760 is on but
unusually very poor, S8-S9 and suptorted. Something`s always wrong at
RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 417-MCW kHz, Jan 17 at 0637 UT, ND beacon IY, which is 25
watts from Charles City, Iowa (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 13565-CW, Jan 17 at 1601, K6FRC HIFER beacon from CA is JBA.
Maybe latest in day I have heard it; never in the afternoons or
evenings. Confess there have been a few other instances lately of
audibility before 1600 I did not log as the programming is rather
boring (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. Reminder that new WORLD OF RADIO 2017 first airs
from N America, Friday Jan 17 at 2300 on WRMI 9955, no doubt with
jamming; and UT Sat Jan 18 at 0130 on WRMIs 5850, 5010, and presumably
like last week, no longer on 7780 tho still shown on System D sked
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 15770, Jan 17 at 1605, zero signal from WRMI, off? Made a
note to check it via UTwente SDR, but not until 1730 when it is on but
JBA over there. Bad propagation today (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. 9455, Jan 17 at 1612, TOMBS from WRMI but
undercurrent in Chinese. Am surprised USAGM agreed to share 9455 with
WRMI extended to 24 hours; Radio Free Asia is on here from various
sites, this hour only on M/W/F via SAIPAN. Also daily 17-19, 20-22,
Tibetan 02-03. Or maybe not surprised as writeoff frequency bound to
be jammed anyway, so what`s a little more QRM? I am probably hearing
CNR1 rather than Agignan Point. Side benefit, QRM to the BS from SC
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9330, Jan 17 at 1730+, no signal from WLCR via WBCQ, even at
UTwente; Ivo Ivanov has reported: ``USA ZERO SIGNAL of WBCQ-6 "World's
Last Chance Radio" between 0600 and 1600 UT January 17, pls check all
other [times]`` --- So far not a twit from Allan Weiner about this;
circa 18 UT, last one was 22 hours ago implying 9330 was on as usual.
NWS predicts for Caribou/Monticello area:

``Widespread blowing snow, mainly before 1pm. Sunny and cold, with a
high near 1. Wind chill values as low as -21. Northwest wind 15 to 17
mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5085, Jan 17 at 0511, WTWW-2 remarkably weak at S6-S8 with
rock music, so weak I cannot even detect the spurs 5072.1 and 5097.9!
Other TNs are also weaker than usual, 4840, 5830, 5935. K index at 06
is only 1; SF 72, no storms (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 580, Jan 17 at 1246 UT, WIBW Topeka KS is dominant here, but
nulling it I have some Rosary from NW/SE, then gospel tune. Presumed
KJMJ Alexandria LA, U2 5/1 kW now with REL format and RMN network per
NRC AM Log; i.e. Radio Maria Network, bilingual.

Just before CBS News at 1300 UT on WIBW, I also hear a mention of
Grand Junxion, i.e. U2 5/1 kW KUBC Montrose, Colorado (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1090, Jan 17 at 0704 UT, KAAY in dead air yet again, 0705
starts gospel music. John Wesley Smith, Hallsville MO, replies:

``This is in response to your info about KAAY, Little Rock. This past
Friday evening I heard them after 11:00 PM running TV audio with
weather info. I didn't catch what channel they were simulcasting.
There were tornadoes in the area at the time. Audio was choppy. If it
was an Internet connection to the station, it was poor. If it was a
satellite feed, or if they piped in the station from a TV antenna,
weather may have hindered reception. Obviously, somebody forgot to
switch KAAY back to normal programming for a couple of days, as you
noted. 73, John Wesley Smith`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 2182, Jan 17 at 0509 UT, the mystery open carrier is
still running, four hours after first noticed (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 13751-USB, Jan 17 at 1602, 2-way in Spanish INTRUDERS,
the stronger one with engine noise; in a couple minutes did not hear a
single ``puta`` or ``madre``, but conversation seems inconsequential,
no mention of pescados or kilos either that I could make out (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

this report despatched at 1813 UT January 17

** CHINA. 12035, Jan 17 at 0018 YL in Chinese with musical background,
and same thing but far from synchronized on much stronger 11820. Both
read about the same on meter, S9 to S9+10 but 11820 sounds much
louder. Per Aoki, both are CRI via Xiangyang 59 site. HFCC says both
at 500 kW, 200 degrees from Xi`an. All agree that this hour 11820 is
in Cantonese, 12035 in (Standard) Chinese (rather than same language
not in synch). Xi`an and Xiangyang appear to be the same place as on
page 662 of WRTH 2020 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 6100, Jan 16 at 0651, RHC English is very strong here
tonight, and splatter up to plus/minus 12 kHz. Something`s always
wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15700, Jan 16 at 1543, China Plus relay in English is S9+10
but just barely modulated. Something`s always wrong at RadiioCuba
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11980, Jan 17 at 0015, CRI in Spanish, S9, i.e. the second
harmonic of 5990 which is S9+30. But the two-timer could easily be
taken for a fundamental; 5990 is on for two hours, 2300 CRI English
too. Neither EiBi nor Aoki, nor HFCC has any entry for this 11980!
Should they not show transmissions which really exist?

Wonder if same transmitter as 6100 RHC after 0500 which, MUF
permitting, also comes in strong on 12200, unlike other transmitters.
Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** PERU. 5980, Jan 16 at 2352, JBA carrier from R. Chaski vs heavy
Cuban jamming against nothing else, until autocutoff at 2353:44.5*.
This time I compare it to the first timing I made in the current
cycle, which was 2355:29.5* on Nov 26, 51 days ago, so long-term
average is 105 seconds divided by 51 days = 2.0588235 seconds earlier
per noctem; altho some more recent short-term slippages have come out
slightly less than 2 seconds. Fortunately there is never enough signal
to hear any gospel programming from Radio Chaski, so this is the only
thing of interest about it.

But for the record, WRTH 2020 shows it`s OBX4M, 5 kW from Urubamba at
1000-1500 & 2200-0100! I imagine its other on/off times are slipping
by the same amount, but am not about to arise circa 4 am to find out,
which may be wrong anyway, like 0100 UT, which was shifted ~an hour
earlier a couple years ago. EiBi seems to present a more accurate
schedule; 1100-1630 & 1730-2355. In WRTH it`s CUsco station 72) with
this further info: Ca Belen 600, 08031 Urubamba; tel. 99 6783272;
radiochaski.com and chaskiradio@hotmail.com and FM on 94.9 MHz.

Guess what? that website, axually http://www.radiochaski.com is very
colorful and commercial, not religious at all, and hard to find on it,
but is a *different* Radio Chaski, this one in Trujillo, La Libertad!

Not too surprising that a common Quechua name like Chaski could be
appropriated by more than one broadcaster. I`m trying to remember what
Chaski means; like a message, communication? Google translate is no
help, not including Quechua or Kechwa on its roster, so its first
guess about chaski is Bulgarian, plural of chaska which can mean: cup,
calyx, drink, thalamus, bell, shot, chalice, receptacle, pony, or
envelope. But I digress!

One is also hard-pressed to find *any* radio frequency on its website,
MF, HF or VHF! They do webcast with some nice Andean music when I
bring it up at 0310 UT Jan 17, and suspect it`s a web-``radio`` only.
Guess what, music with no announcements until two different super-hype
IDs at 0322 and 0326 from ``1540 AM, Radio Mundial, la primera potecia
musical del norte``; and at 0329, ``Radio Mundial, éxitos de toda la
vida``. More similar IDs follow every few minutes, all
hyper-enthusiastic.

So the station $ tereo webcasting as Radio Chaski is really (relaying?)
OBU2A, 2 kW on 1540 in Trujillo, which is on the northern coast
between Chiclayo and Chimbote. Does *our* 5980 Radio Chaski have any
web presence? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. 9690, Thu Jan 16 at 2259, REE starting `Amigos de la Onda
Corta`, media magazine but hardly a DX program despite the name,
revived a few months ago, at the hour reported a week ago by JRX in
Brasil; due to press of real world news, I listen only to first
pentaminute, when there is only info about domestic media in Spain; is
there ever any SW info, let alone real DX news? Recheck of skedgrid at
http://www.rtve.es/radio/radio-exterior/programacion/
now shows it added to this hour (0000 Friday local time) as well as
Thu 18 UT and Saturday 14 UT (when not on SW). It seems the Thursday
airings are repeats of Saturday. 23 UT is of course the same time that
the token mostly-music English service airs on M/W/F.

Need to find time to listen to a whole show to judge content properly;
309 of them are in archive,
http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/amigos-de-la-onda-corta/
including this latest for Jan 11 lasting 55 minutes, subtitled Radio
Valdivieso, whatever that be? ``Damos voz a una pequeña emisora de
radio, una estación comunitaria ubicada al norte de la provincia de
Burgos...`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2017)

** TURKEY. 5960, Jan 15 at 2301, VOT English is back on after a binite
AWOL, poor-fair (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2017)

** U S A. 13089-USB, Jan 16 at 1545, marine weather very distorted as
usual from USCG Chesapeake VA, NMN as scheduled 1530-1605. Incredible
they never fix this, as anyham would have enough savvy and pride to
prevent such a sound from private SSB. This frequency is timeshared
with NRV Guam, NMO Hawaii, and NMC Point Reyes CA, skeds as in EiBi.
We may hope the others are not out of whack (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2016 monitoring: confirmed final SW
repeat, UT Thu Jan 16 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, good via UTwente SDR.

WORLD OF RADIO 2017 contents: Afghanistan, Antarctica, Australia,
Brasil, Canada, China and non, Cuba, Germany, Guam, India, Iran,
Japan, Korea North & South, Madagascar, Maldive Islands, Mongolia,
Netherlands, New Zealand, North America, Oklahoma, Spain, Sudan South
non, Turkey and non, USA, Vietnam, Zanzibar; and the propagation
outlook

WOR 2017 is available as of 2320 UT Thursday January 16
(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2017.m3u
(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2017.mp3

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

The shortwave broadcasts should be:

0900 UT Friday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
2300 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE
[usually starts with heavy jamming but maybe abates]
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5010 to S; 7780 canceled
1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415]
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9395 to NNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
0930 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB [another episode]
1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
0900 UT Wednesday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

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

** U S A. 7490.245, Jan 15 at 2258, WBCQ in dead air, no telling for
how long after Goddess Irina, but into BS at 2300. Seems quite stable
on this off-frequency now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5890, Thu Jan 16 at 0648, WWCR on again with S9+10/20 of
dead air; why? Misprogrammed automation? This one not supposed to be
on air at all at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1090, Jan 16 at 0701-0705 UT, another check of KAAY Little
Rock AR finds dead air again at top-of-hour, news? hole unfilled, till
0705 gospel music starts up. Should be helpful for local LR DXers
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2017)

** U S A. Re KMPX 30 ``29`` tropo log from Cedar Hill antenna farm
site SW of Dallas, despite city of license Decatur, which is way NW of
Fort Worth, Stephen Luce in Houston replies: ``Glenn, the "Estrella
Dos" you found on KMPX also runs on co-owned KZJL here in Houston on
virtual 61.2. Both stations are owned by LBI Media, operator of the
Estrella TV network, so the carriage of Estrella Dos may be limited to
network O&O's as far as OTA availability.``

My remark that Estrella Dos was only on KMPX based on rabbitears.info
search on that `network` turning up nothing but KMPX. Just rechedked
directly, that still has only Estrella 61-1 for KZJL, physical 21.1. I
guess if the horoscope show be simulcast, local Houston phone numbers
replace Metroplexians? It`s not often we are ahead of rabbitears info
(Glenn Hauser, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 2182.0-AM, Jan 17 at 0106 past 0121 UT, S9 open carrier
with slight fading. This used to be a very important frequency,
maritime phone calling and distress, but fell into disuse many years
ago, and I`ve rarely heard any activity on it as I bandscan across. I
figured it was deliberately not 2180 to avoid MW harmonix from 1090.
Despite all his utility info, EiBi shows nothing on 2182 now. UDXF
logs indicate most 2182 activity in Europe, but this carrier is
obviously quite close (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0428 UT January 17

** CANADA. 370-MCW kHz, Jan 15 at 0725 UT, dash and YBV, ND beacon,
50 watts from Berens River, Manitoba, which is more than halfway up
the eastern shore of long Lake Winnipeg (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15140, Jan 15 at 1956 tune-in, RHC with weather advisory in
Spanish, but modulation fades down to nothing! Resumes, then cut again
during ID; 1900 back on as choking Arabic is opening with some more
cutouts; wiggle that patchcord. 1929 opening Kriyol. Something`s
always wrong at RHC. At least the languages are correct as alleged inn
WRTH 2020 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. Tropo TV DX opening: see USA with OK logs mixed in

** U S A. Tropo TV DX opening, UT Jan 15 from ~0435 tune-in bandscan,
starting with RF30, DTV 29-1, KMPX-HD. The ``HD`` on the PSIP ID is
flashing on and off, something I have never seen happen before on
anystation. Do most including myself not know that is possible? It`s
an Estrella TV affiliate, CoL Decatur TX, i.e. The MetroPleX market.
W9WI.com shows no subchannels, but I find a 29-2 labeled KMPX-2, and
in this case the ``-2`` is alternately flashing with a `2`` lacking
the hyphen or a space. Program here is a live(?) call-in show of
horoscope advice, showing the guy doing it and large Ft Worth and
Dallas phone numbers. Rabbitears.info does have this one listed as SD,
``Estrella Dos``, but there are no other such substations accompanying
any other Estrella affiliates, such as our KOCY `48`.

Hepburn tropo map predixions show for 0300 & 0600 UT a `strong``
level-5 enhancement blob over most of eastern OK, extending into north
TX. As usual, Enid is barely on the edge of lesser rings. I am also
getting solid signals from RF 26 KTEN-10 Ada; Tulsa markets: RF 45
KOTV-6 -- yes, still not repacked; RF 28 ``Ion`` 44; RF 20 KQCW-19; RF
11 KOED-11; and strangely on RF 10, PSIP almost invisible, as if not
``enabled`` which says DTV 8-1 ABC --- that has to be KTUL, also with
subs: 8-2 Comet, 8-3 Antenna, 8-4 TBD. RF 34, DTV 41-1 KMYT has subs
but not explored during brief peak.

Another Metroplex signal decodes at 0507: RF 36, 39-1 KXTX-DT, along
with 39-2 Exitos with a cop show originally in English.

And one more from Dallas: RF 14, 13-1 KERA-HD; 13-2 Kids; 13-3 Create,
the PBS subs. Interspersed with RF-13 KETA OKC also virtual 13 which
has World on 13-2, but Create also on 13-3 and Kids on 13-4.

The opening also extends barely into AR at 0610: RF 21, 40-1 KHBS-DT
which is 325 kW ERP in Fort Smith. All this via my partially broken
rooftop ch 7-50? antenna pointed roughly SE.

Also a few unID BAD signals, such as something on RF 9.

Next check around 16 UT Jan 15 finds NO TV DX; Hepburn map shows the
enhanced area now extends from SW Missouri to SW Texas, but is
narrower and the edge is too far away from here (Glenn Hauser, Enid
OK, WOR)

** U S A. 426-MCW kHz, Jan 15 at 0719 UT, ND beacon UV, which is 25
watts from Oxford - Tunng, Mississippi. I was tuned to 424-USB.

420-MCW kHz, Jan 15 at 0721 UT, two ND beacons mixing at same pitch;
finally unravelling them: PK, Olathe - Herbb, Kansas; and FQ,
Fairmont, Minnesota; both 25 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A WORLD OF RADIO 2016 monitoring: confirmed Wed Jan 15 from
2100 on WRMI 7780; a few bits if music inserted between the Zanotti ID
and me, good via UTwente; S7-S9 here.

Also confirmed Wed Jan 15 from 2200:22.5 on WBCQ 7490.245, S9/+10;
(BTW inaudible at UTwente off the back, while 9330 500 kW is only
poor-fair off the front. BTW2, 15770 WRMI was also inaudible over
there before 2100 when R. Tirana should have been relayed) Next:

0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE
Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0048 UT January 16

** CUBA. 13566, 13634, 13767, 13834, 13900 approx., Jan 14 at 1542,
spurblobs at 66-68 kHz intervals from RHC 13700. Something`s always
wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15370, Jan 14 at 2042, RHC in Brazuguese is overmodulated /
distorted; while 15140 in English is OK. Aoki says 2030 (``3020``) on
15370 is supposed to be in French; EiBi says English! except French on
Sundays; WRTH says French, daily, as does RHC`s own B-19 schedule.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11850, Jan 14 at 2338, RHC Spanish is S9+10 but suptorted;
also with parasite weak spur carrier on 11840, but not enough audio to
match, and probably another on 11860 vs residual jamming. Strange that
I have never found an RHC frequency in the morning with plus/minus 10
kHz spurs, tho one would expect same transmitter to be in use other
than the tardes. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** IRELAND [non]. 7290, Tue Jan 14 at 1925, via UTwente SDR, IRRS with
much better signal than yesterday when WOR was JBA, but still not up
to par; about the Bushes involved in Iraq wars, clips of them
accompanied by banjo music; what program is this? 1934 check, now in
`Wavescan` as scheduled. Good but with ACI from 7295 CRI East
Turkistan. As it`s closing by 2000, sandwiched between CRIs on both
sides (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MEXICO [and non]. 710, Jan 14 at 0707, Mexican NA is playing until
0708 when no Spanish talk heard other than Rebelde Cuba peaking from
another angle; this being from WSW, which fits for the only NW Mexican
outlet, XEDP, Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihua2 at local midnite, often heard
here despite listed night power of 100 watts vs day power 7000. IRCA
Log also shows it as 24 hours, and mentions it being off-frequency,
which was only part-time, and not heard askew here now or recently.
Considerable CCI too from English, likely Amarillo and KCMO, and
persistent 711 TA carrier het, prime suspect being 300 kW Morocco
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** PERU. 5980, Jan 14 at 2352, JBA carrier from R. Chaski under Cuban
jamming against nothing else; until autocutoff at 2353:49*. Last check
was January 11 at 2353:55.5*, 6.5 seconds later, 3 days earlier,
averaging <2.2 seconds earlier, per (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. 15400, Tue Jan 14 at 1546, poor signal with
flutter, seems like English but very heavy accent I cannot lock onto.
It`s Radio Tamazuj, 250 kW, 150 degrees via VATICAN, mainly in Juba
Arabic per Observer, but which does have 10 minutes of English on
Tuesdays & Thursdays sometime during the 15-16 UT hour, per WRTH 2020
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 5960, Jan 14 at 2332 check, VOT English to N America is
AWOL yet again (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non}. 1090, Jan 14 at 0702 UT, KAAY Little Rock AR in
dead air again, until 0705 gospel music starts in nominal format.
Meanwhile, I hear the 1 kHz het from 1089 UK Talksport headed by a 400
kW with several synchros almost doubling that (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 5915, Jan 14 at 2333, VP signal, maybe in French? But
CRI English via Kashgar to S Asia is registered; other possibilities
at this hour per EiBi, Zambia if all-night, and Myanmar, which would
not be in French either. Myanmarianese is rather distinctive (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0230 UT January 15