** ALBANIA [non]. 9395, March 31 at 0216, WRMI in Italian, i.e. still R. Tirana in wrong language instead of English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 9514.957, March 31 at 1004, off-frequency song, 1010 Brazuguese talk at S3-S6, 1012 ``Old Rugged Cross`` hymn. It`s Rádio Marumby, Curitiba, Paraná, which I never hear in the evening, or daytime. Aoki/NDXC showed sked of 08-21 UT. Also lite het from something close to 9515.0 which would be CNR2, Beijing. Other off-frequency ZYs also showing on this band now around 9630, 9725 and strongest 9665 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6060, March 31 at 0358, RHC closing English hour // 6000 and 6165. 6060 of course is supposed to be in Spanish until 0500 switch to English, and it often is, but this re-justifies my including ``6060?`` in pre-0500 timings for `DXers Unlimited` in DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 9490, March 31 at 0217, wall-of-noise jamming, and perhaps a trace of a carrier, really from Radio República? For A-18 it`s supposedly changed to 7350 at 02-04 UT (Sat & Sun -05, meaning UT Sun & Mon?), but there is NO carrier and no jamming either on this frequency via France. Same situation at 0335 recheck. So not yet clear what`s going on here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CZECHIA [non]. 5850, Friday March 30 at 2330, WRMI is on with Radio Prague in English. Per skedgrid, apparently applies to Fridays only with unspecified programming after Yeshua at 2230-2300; what was at 2300, maybe still Tirana English? This is also a secret airing of R. Prague, not shown on schedule for this or any frequency at 2330. Other days, 5850 is not starting until *0000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 7260, March 31 at 0347 conversation with reverb in presumed Somali, since scheduled is VOA in Somali 0330-0400 via VATICAN, violating Separation of Church & State (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 6080, UT Sat Mar 31 at 0530, VOA starting `Press Conference USA` about Russian imperialism; this is São Tomé site at 04-07, 100 kW, 138 degrees so right off the back to here. Before 0400 it`s Botswana at 350 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1923 monitoring: confirmed Friday March 30 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330v-CUSB, good, equivalent signal to 9265 WINB and 9395 WRMI, rarely the case. Also confirmed Saturday March 31 at 1447, the now 1431 on Hamburger Lokalradio, via UTwente SDR, still on 6190-CUSB: poor but mostly readable against noise level rather than QRM. By 1457 there is lite CCI, 1459 as HLR goes off, increasing from CRI, and heavy ACI. Alan Gale, England, also reports on this:
``Hi Glenn, In spite of the earlier time, World of Radio was audible right the way through today, though the signal was a bit weaker than in recent weeks up to around 1450, when the signal started to come up in strength. Prior to that there had been no sign of the Chinese station, but that started to appear around that time as well, though was fairly weak. Unusually, I was even able to hear the final words plus the HLR short announcement at 1500 UT, which is usually masked by an Interval Signal.
With the Mighty KBC remaining at 1500 UT on 9400, there was no clash
between the two programmes this week, and I was able to record World of Radio, so a short clip of the final minute is attached so you can hear how it sounded here. 73, Alan`` --- Tnx, Alan; sounds a bit weaker than on UTwente this time. Next:
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat 2130 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 2300 WRMI 7780 to NE
Sun 0200 WRMI 7780 to NE
Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW
Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1924?]
Tue 2130 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1924?]
WOR schedule on all outlets, podcast access:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9455, March 31 at 1002, JBA carrier, presumably WRMI still on with System F as scheduled, 285 degrees close to usward, but MUF at its lowest diurnal dip pre-sunrise. Should be on 5 or 7 MHz band at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. (7490), March 31 at 0000, WBCQ webcast with almost-dead air, but I can barely hear the closing comments of the previous program `FKB Radio Sermon Time` being played back, before the William Tell Overture theme to `Allan Weiner Worldwide` starts. I think this is what happens: instead of monitoring 7490 direct off the air in FLA, Allan is also listening to delayed webfeed to take his cue.
Starts off with religious stuff. Recheck at 0043 refers to ``my lovely girlfriend Angela``, altho last week he called her ``mate``. We`re dying to see her, and the WBCQ website has some obscure linx to photo galleries.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/28334187@N07/
This shows lots of equipment and humans, some out of favor or deceased, including the late Jennifer, but I don`t find any shots of Angela. You have to hover over each one to see a caption.
John Carver`s report: ``Show started on time this evening after some seconds of dead air. Listening on 5130 this evening with a strong S7. Allan and Angela on the air. I assume from studio 9 in FLA, but he never actually says, this evening.
Opening monologue equates Passover with freedom and talk continues in this vein until interrupted by an early phone call from Dave in Indiana who is complaining of problems with the VA. Talk drifted to school shootings again and the lack of God in schools of late. Talk of depression, mental illness, psychotropic drugs, etc. Another impassioned talk about people's rights and attempts to modify the constitution. Allan stated that the general mood of the country's whackos implied that he was responsible for all the country's problems since he was a white, christian male.
Talk drifted to portions of an interview with Elon Musk talking of the dangers of AI. Then a warning to listeners about new legislation being written to deal with pirate radio.
Reading of emails began at 0055. Closing prayer began at 0057 after an attempt to get Angela to lead tonight's prayer. Show was off the air at 0059 although Allan and Angela could be heard talking very low until Brother Stair started at 0103. John, Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7385, March 31 at 0349, WHRI gospel huxtress at meter maximum, S9+60! HFCC has a complex set of registrations implying at this hour it`s only 100 kW, at 315 degrees, while we are more like 300. But 250 kW transmitter is also used at various other times on 315 or 25 or 47 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5830, March 31 at 0355, WTWW-1 is S7 of dead air; wile 5085, WTWW-2 is S9+40 with C&W music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1656 UT March 31
