** CUBA. 13699.812, Jan 16 at 1541, RHC off-frequency again, S8-S9; as heard yesterday but not in time to measure. As in previous report, was also askew on 9699.879 at 0227. Both also weaker than normal, and lacking spurblobs on 13 MHz, suspect a totally different transmitter has been substituted. Meanwhile, Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria found another such: 6099.86 at 12-14. He thinx the same Bauta transmitter would be on 15140v from 19 in Arabic, 20 in English; but at 1739 and 1940, it`s within a fraxion of 1 Hz from 15140.00 per Bonaire SDR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2069 monitoring: barely confirmed Saturday January 16 at 1320-1329 on WRMI 15770 - JBA but continuous talk and sounds like my intonation, nothing readable. Next:
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
2230 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE [new; to be confirmed]
2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0500]
2300vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE
1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 [to resume?] to SSE
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW [still needs confirmation]
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2300 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
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One may also contribute by MO or check in US$ on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 9395, Jan 16 at 0740, WRMI with Supreme Master TV, in English, S9+20, citing programming in Hong Kong time --- how helpful. Here`s the latest 24-hour schedule for SMTV updated Jan 15, hopping frequencies and transmitters and antennas, always one at a time, UT: 00 5800 160; 01 4980 285; 07 9395 355; 10 4980 285; 11 7570 315; 14 15770 44; 20 9395 355; 22 5800 160 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. Just watched this on OETA, highly recommended; SW angle:
``The Codebreaker --- Wife. Mother. Secret American Hero.
Based on the book The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies, The Codebreaker reveals the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst whose painstaking work to decode thousands of messages for the U.S. government would send infamous gangsters to prison in the 1930s and bring down a massive, near-invisible Nazi spy ring in WWII. Her remarkable contributions would come to light decades after her death, when secret government files were unsealed. But together with her husband, the legendary cryptologist William Friedman, Elizebeth helped develop the methods that led to the creation of the powerful new science of cryptology and laid the foundation for modern codebreaking today. Aired January 11, 2021 --- Watch Film: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/codebreaker/ or repeats may still be running this week on your PBS station (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** VENEZUELA. 6200+, Jan 16 at 1742, into TWR Bonaire Kiwi SDR, steady S5 noisy RC/USB signal with peppy Spanish songs and brief announcements; 1759, ``es la una``, ID as ``ROCV en 6,200 kHz``. SAM mode shows slight fluxuation up to 12 Hz plus; sometimes jumping to 400-500 Hz range, perhaps confused by unheard QRM. Still the same at 1940 recheck.
Totally daytime; employing distancefromto.net for distance El Tigre to Kralendijk, first try with those names and countries is totally wrong, 393 km, map pointing to a spot just east of Lake Maracaibo, while El Tigre is really SE of Caracas, S of Cumaná, Barcelona and Puerto la Cruz, midway to Ciudad Bolívar. Then I insert the state, Anzoátegui to get it right: 569 km = 354 statute miles. Always inspect the map to be sure it`s not a spurious result. Have seen no reports yet of hearing its alternate frequency 7375 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING
Opinion editor's pick COLUMN:
In the face of a reckoning, white supremacists, enablers cry 'Unity, unity!' --- James Neal | Enid News & Eagle Jan 15, 2021
... if you want to understand why this evil persists in a nation populated by people — of all colors — who are mostly not white supremacists, consider the words of that master-insurgent, Mao Zedong: “The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.”
https://www.enidnews.com/opinion/column-in-the-face-of-a-reckoning-white-supremacists-enablers-cry-unity-unity/article_2759f918-569d-11eb-8975-9f32ec1f6f1c.html (via gh)
This report dispatched at 2011 UT January 16
