** ARGENTINA [non]. 5800, UT Sun Feb 2 at 0120, RAE AAM is on now via WRMI with porteño-accented Spanish item about progress of gender equality in different countries, led by Iceland; 0142 music rather than DX program, so evidently not the original ``Friday`` edition we have been hearing repeated on UT Mondays; apparently this RAE relay is going out daily altho produced only M-F; altho sometimes missing on UT Tuesdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** BOLIVIA. 5952.4v, Feb 2 at 0041, JBA carrier vs heavy splash from 5950 WRMI music, i.e. signature split frequency of Emisoras Pio Doce, occasionally on the air (Saturday nights?). About 24 hours earlier I tuned across and it was not to be detected. Still going at 0132 recheck, no better than before. Walt Salmaniw was also hearing it in BC tonight, and Ron Howard in CA last week (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CANADA. 2749-USB, Feb 1 at 0732 UT, YL voice marine weather in English; overlain by CCI at 0733 from human OM voice ID as ``Halifax Coast Guard Radio``, sharper modulation and more easily readable, then same voice in French but English accent with ``securité``, i.e. warning about something until 0735:45* off while the YL is still going. CCG reference shows VCO Sydney via site Port Caledonia, NS starting at 0740 on 2749-USB, nothing immediately earlier.
https://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/publications/mcts-sctm/ramn-arnm/part2-eng.html
2749-USB, Feb 2 at 0053 UT, YL in English weather, also VCO Sydney NS via Port Caledonia scheduled from 0040. Same synth voice as on 2598-USB but not // (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CANADA. 2598-USB, Feb 1 at 0738 UT not earlier, but after activity on 2749 I check sibling frequency, now with something, YL voice in English citing several events in Newfoundland Standard Time; visibility less than one mile (sic), gale warning, etc. VCP Placentia NL via St. Lawrence (not the river/seaway) site starts at 0737.
2598-USB, Feb 2 at 0053 UT, YL in English with forecasts; same station and site scheduled to start at 0048. Same synth voice on 2749-USB but not // (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** COLOMBIA. 2940+, Feb 1 at 0730, JBA carrier, presumably Radio Huella, Cali, 2 x 1470+, which I have not detected in months. Don Moore visiting Colombia just reported to the MARE Tipsheet:
``Colombia, 2940, Radio Huellas, 0345-0357, Weak & somewhat distorted signal with ID at 0356. 2 x 1470 harmonic. Brett Saylor has logged this in Pennsylvania. Has been around for a while as I also heard it in Colombia in 2018 (Jan 26, Don Moore, near Armenia, Colombia)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 6010-6045, Feb 2 at 0047, jamming splatter out of 6030 messing up this frequency range. Something`s always wrong at the DCJC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA [non]. 5040 & 5025, Feb 2 at 0049, both RHC and Rebelde are absent! Uncovering a JBA carrier on 5040, probably INDIA; and slightly stronger signal on 5025+, presumably Quillabamba, PERÚ. Power failure at Bauta site? No chance to check other RHC frequencies, but no break in the priority jamming just logged around 6030. Something`s always wrong at RHC/RadioCuba. By 0129, both 5s are back on and so is open carrier on 4765, then Progreso modulating (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** NORTH AMERICA. 4103-LSB, UT Sun Feb 2 at 0102, piano jazz music at S9+5, a pirate now here, bad news for the ``Windy`` W-beacon in the SW desert on 4102.3, which I cannot detect now nor lately. It`s Ze-ke`s Attic, DJ frequently with off-the-wall comments, says Ma (Maud?) is helping pick the music; 0108 something about QSL cards, available? But sidetracked to comments about no fires at the house. 0109 ``Redwing Blackbird``; wife`s name is Arlene, a.k.a. Arlie, or Harley, ha2; 0111 plays his pick, Santana; 0119 says there is a thunderstorm there but stays on air; going to play ``Abilene`` which he has not heard in 25 years; 0122 ``Dominique`` in French; 0126 a tune he knows nothing about, ``Just My Funny City of Laughter``; 0129 says is being heard in Mojave Desert, so: 0130 ``California Dreamin```; 0133 ID for listeners in Calif; 0134 song about dog walking cats(?), sandwiched between comments about corned beef and cabbage; etc. Many more logs here until 0155*: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,62840.0.html
NOTE: my previous log of Ze-ke, on 4117-USB, had the wrong UT date: was really Jan 31, not 30! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** OKLAHOMA.1320-, Feb 1 at 1851 UT, bandscan on caradio finds dead air here from our nearest daytime dominator, KCLI Clinton; trace of some other audio, maybe leakage or KWHN Fort Smith AR, second closest. KCLI has been off-frequency minus for years, causing LAH against anything else at night. At 1906-1908 UT still dead air when I measure it on the R-75: 1319.96! And beating against a much weaker signal. Then I check mwoffsets which is close: KCLI on 1319.9615 as of two years and one week ago (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)
** TURKEY. 5960, Feb 1 at 2357, VOT after English is still on with IS and starting to intersperse German IDs; so prospects are good for an imminent collision with the weekly The Mighty Farty KBC; Nauen carrier for that *on just before 2359, mixing with TRT producing a SAH --- but then, Turkey turns off, just in time! Shux. From 0000 Feb 2, KBC starts modulating its 125,000 watts of Dave Mason in the clear. BTW, I noticed one editor censored the word ``Farty`` from a previous report of mine. But where would KBCB without fart mentions? During Uncle Erix second hour, anyway (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2019 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday February 2 at 0423 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, about 7 minutes into so started circa 0416; fairly good at KiwiSDR in Peoria IL. Next:
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 9395
0400vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51
0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB
0930 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB [another episode]
1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania?
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. 4980, Feb 1 at 0715, JBA music, unID; another possibility would be 3 x 1660 something, but not // the two closest to here mainly talking. Later I ask Jeff White if it`s WRMI low-power and he confirms it is, just testing. No reply when I ask for further basic info about it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 5130, UT Sun Feb 2 at 0001, WBCQ playing that novelty tune I mentioned last week, connected with TimTron, then opening Radio TimTron WorldWide, to be a generic program but produced Feb 1, 2020, and to repeat on Sunday [UT Monday] on Area 51; originating from WXMZ-LP in Skowhegan. The tune led to replies, first from John Carver:
``Glenn, In reference to your comment about the novelty tune before AAWWW started. That originated with TimTron and is played when there is a problem with his internet feed connecting. I don't know how it is triggered as if his feed isn't connecting he can't send anything. At any rate it is a snippet of some sort of ethnic music folk song done by a youngish female that Tim has slowed down to sound as it does. Could be Hungarian or Gypsy or something. At any rate it's quite familiar to listeners of Area 51.
Several years ago I heard it played one time at normal speed on Area 51 and immediately recognized it. I wrote to Larry Will and asked about it. He replied with the story behind it and gave me a Wiki link to the story behind the tune and if I remember correctly it contained a link to the actual tune at normal speed. When I was finally able to boot the computer today I did a search through the headers of every message Larry has sent me since sometime in 2010 and couldn't find it based upon the subjects listed in the headers. If you're really curious I suppose you could ask Larry Will if he remembers. John``
Voilà, Larry Will also replies, on the WOR iog February 1:
[WOR] Radio Timtron Worldwide's interval signal --- John Carver and Glenn recently mentioned the foreign language interval signal loop that Timtron WA1HLR uses before he starts broadcasts of his show, Radio Timtron Worldwide, and occasional guest spots on Allan and Angela Weiner Worldwide. This interval signal sometimes makes it on the air on WBCQ because of the timing issues associated with the internet delivery of audio to WBCQ master control.
The music loop is a pitch-altered version of the audio from the 2006 Internet meme "Leekspin", also known as "Loituma Girl":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loituma_Girl
...which itself is based on a selection from a traditional Finnish folk song "Ievan Polkka" performed by the Finnish group Loituma on their 1995 album "Things of Beauty":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yh9i0PAjck
Timtron has been using this interval signal since at least 2009. At the 2009 SWL Winterfest, I recall that Tim used a low power AM transmitter that ran on 650 AM in the late afternoon, using what he called his "WSM crapstal." Later in the day he switched crapstals and used 7415 AM. When the frequency switch was happening, he used this interval signal as audio input. I also remember that this transmitter was capable of a very wide AM bandwidth and the fidelity was outstanding; Tim brought along a Hallicrafters S-38 to the Winterfest that was modified to receive the full bandwidth signal. We have some recordings of this event, directly from the audio output from the Hallicrafters receiver, in the WBCQ archives:
https://archive.org/details/timtron2009
Larry Will`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 9350, Sat Feb 1 at 2111, `Encore` via WWCR pre-announces `William Tell Overture` and then plays its famous finale; but just before that we were already hearing previous movements of WTO, which has just been back-announced as prelude to act 3 of Wagner`s Parsifal --- but that was interrupted a few minutes earlier for WTO. Must be an editing problem. This week`s playlist not yet up, to tell exactly what was intended altho does not show timings. Always very strong signal, but marred not only by occasional selective fading distortion, but also transmitted distortion at modulation peaks causing me to tune away, sorry. May have been OK on the webcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 3215, Feb 2 at 0057, WWRB gospel huxter at S9+30/40 but with clix, and S-meter shows signal fluxuating with those and modulation peaks. Something`s wrong (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 5085, UT Sun Feb 2 at 0122, WTWW-2 theater organ music show has started after a bunch of ham radio news. 0144 outro ``Deep Purple`` and closing nameless show until 0147 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7597.4, Feb 2 at 0116, S9+25/30 open carrier; reminds me of this last log on frequency more than a sesquiyear ago:
``UNIDENTIFIED. 7597.4, June 9 at 0212 and 0542, rapid RTTY clattering away now from unknown source rather than open carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7696.7-USB, Feb 2 at 0115, 2-way in Spanish conversation (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report despatched at 0452 UT February 2
