** CANADA. Bedtime beacon bandscan concentrating on less- or never-heard ones, Feb 13 at 0711-0719 UT finds these from four provinces:
392-MCW kHz, dash and ML, 500 watts from La Malbaie - Charlevoix QC
385-MCW kHz, dash and QV, 100 watts from Yorkton, Saskatchewan
355-MCW kHz, dash and YWP, 200 watts from Webequie, Ontario. Where`s that, and how is it pronounced? http://www.webequie.ca/
``Webequie is a growing Ojibway community located on the northern peninsula of Eastwood Island on Winisk Lake, 540 km north of the city of Thunder Bay. The 850+ community members originate from all over Northwestern Ontario, and enjoy a life that embraces traditional cultural practices. Surrounded by Winisk River Provincial Park, Webequie provides tourists a pristine natural landscape with some of the best fishing and hunting in Northern Ontario``
353-MCW kHz, dash and PG, 25 watts from Portage-la-Prairie, Manitoba; mixing with IN and LI, the confusing MN/AR overlapping pair
340-MCW kHz, dash and YY, 500 watts from Mont-Joli, Quebec (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 5040, Feb 13 at 0646, RHC still in Spanish instead of English, and suptorted altho S9+30; also with a big hum. Wiggle that patchcord. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA [and non]. 7405, Feb 13 at 0641, Cuban wall-of-noise and pulse jamming altho not very strong, IIRC a frequency abandoned years ago by OCB. Also jamming against nothing on 7335, where RM is never currently scheduled; and Radio Martí over jamming on 7435 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 13700, Feb 13 at 1538, NO spurs today --- how is it that other days they are all over the band from same frequency? But 13740 is still on with dead air, so something`s still wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 15369.23, Feb 13 at 2150, for third day, this RHC way off-frequency at the same offset, S9+10/20 but suptorted in Brazuguese. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 11850, Feb 14 at 0114, RHC is S5-S7 and JBM, also with a JBA spur carrier on 11840; but carrier on 11860 bears non-// music, see UNIDENTIFIED. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** MEXICO. 6185.716v, Feb 14 at 0105, XEPPM is still way off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** PERU [and non]. 5980, Feb 13 at 2329, Cuban noise jamming is running, altho could not detect it for a day or two; JB allowing the Radio Chaski carrier to be heard, until autocutoff at 2352:50.5*. Last check was Feb 8 until 2352:59.5*, 9 seconds later, 5 days ago, averaging 1.8 earlier each night (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY. 5960, Feb 13 at 2353, VOT English is not only on today, but still on running much later into the hour than usual, with headlines, only at 2354 sign-off claiming this has been the 1330-1430 broadcast on 12035! Well, maybe it was as recorded without bothering to update any `news` as supposedly done thru the 2130 show. 2354.6 starts playing IS but I don`t stay with to tell if German succeed. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler and/or Ankara (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 2097.3-CW, Feb 13 at 0651 UT, single-letter beacon A is absent again. Last few nights had tuned across and heard it when I paused for at least 10 seconds, without bothering to relog (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2020 monitoring: confirmed UT Thursday February 13 after 0100 on WRMI 7780, JBA here, but F-G via UTwente SDR, and VG via Rockport ME KiwiSDR.
WORLD OF RADIO 2021 contents: Alaska, Australia, Bhutan, Bougainville, Brasil, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, France, Germany, Indonesia, Iran non, Israel, Japan, Korea South, México, Myanmar, New Zealand, North America, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sweden non, Turkmenistan, USA, Vanuatu, unidentified; SWLfest.com; propagation outlook
WOR 2021 is available as of 0007 UT Friday February 14
(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2021.m3u
(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2021.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
[usually starts with heavy jamming but maybe abates]
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850, 5010, 7780
1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415]
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. 5950, Feb 13 at 2329, this WRMI is finally back on with usual weakish signal, TOMBS // much stronger 7570 & 7730. It had been off due to damage since Feb 8 and still off early UT Feb 13, which is what I based my WOR 2021 comment upon (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11860, Feb 14 at 0113, music JBM at S5-S7, and not // RHC 11850 which puts out spurs on 11840 & 11860. Could it be Saudi`s Republic of Yemen Radio which I have not heard clearly in over a year? Thanks to the Cuban radio war in the daytime. Aoki says Yemenish does not start until *0200; EiBi *0300. Anything else? CRI Nepali service not until *0130. Or could it really start at 0115, due to Nepal`s wacko +5:45 timezone? BTW I can`t help but wonder if timezone confusion has led to any Everest fatalities among all the visiting foreigners (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Feb 14 at 0212-0216: 531, 549, 558, 567, 576, 621, 711(2), 774(2), 837, 855, 891=strongest, 909, 936(2), 1053, 1089, 1215, 1305 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1477+ & 1503-, Feb 14 at 0118, no sign of the FMish spurblobs presumed to emanate from some defective 1490 kHz graveyarder. Meanwhile, a resounding lack of interest, no replies found to my previous reports of these posted ASAP to MW groups, requesting other DXers try to get a DF fix on them. Should they recur I shall certainly report them (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 0421 UT February 14
