** ASCENSION. 21630, Feb 18 at 1557, S4/S5 open carrier, 1558 Bow Bells, i.e. BBC about to open one hour only of English aimed 114 degrees at half power 125 kW per HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 9700, Feb 18 at 0740, S9/+20 of dead air from the only RHC still transmitting; sleepyrators zzz? Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** FRANCE. 21690, Feb 18 at 1557, exploring 13m beyond 21525 WRMI, JBA signal here, i.e. end of Swahili hour of RFI. Very few signals are even on the 13m air during out daytime. See also ASCENSION (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** IRAN [non]. 5910, another check Feb 18 for the weekly Friday new clandestine, Channel 1 TV originating in Canoga Park, California. Last week it was half an hour of dead air but meanwhile, the source was identified. Monitoring Feb 18 via UTwente heard abrupt *1730, S9/+10 of dead air again with lite hum, but 1732 cut on abruptly modulation in progress. Talk in presumed Farsi, bit of music, crowd noise, mentions Iran, and a few times, Kordestan, anthem-like choral music; interview for a while, then monolog until 1753.5 a snippet of the same music, DA and 1754.6* cut off air already. Occasionally was a bit of breakup, not sure if transmitter or receiver-caused. Never heard a word of English, nor the reported ID in Farsi of ``Kanal Yek TV``, but could have missed it. Site believed Uzbekistan, as in EiBi presumably derived from WOR iog research, but still not in HFCC or Aoki. Website is https://ch1.cc/ (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** MADAGASCAR. 15605, Feb 18 at 1517, S9/S6 talk in unknown language, already off at 1528 check. Per HFCC it`s AWR, 250 kW, 35 degrees from MDC in ``Lus`` language. But WRTH 2022 page 299 under, where else? Thailand shows Mizo language to S Asia, daily 1500-1530. EiBi agrees MZ language, Aoki Lus from Talata. EiBi`s readme.txt accounts for both: ``MZ Mizo / Lushai: India-Mizoram (0.7m)[lus]`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** OKLAHOMA. 515 MCW kHz, Feb 18 at 0742 and still 1515, PN, 25-watt ND beacon at PoNca City, is back. Latest outage started Feb 11 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2126 monitoring: confirmed first broadcasts, UT Friday February 18 at 0130 on WRMIs: 5850 VG direct; 7780, S9/+10 into UTwente. Once again WRMI overrides the last few words of my closing as heard on 7780.
Also confirmed UT Friday February 18 at 0330 on WRMI 5985, as usual JBA S9 direct and noisy, but surely better southwards.
Also confirmed Friday February 18 at 1530 on WRMI 9955, S9/+10 direct with no jamming. Next:
1915 UT Friday IRRS 7290-Bulgaria to WNW, 14580?; 1323-Italy [but this broadcast to be pre-empted on this third Friday in Feb!]
2130 UT Friday IRRS 1323-Italy
0230 UT Saturday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0530]
1330 UT Sunday WMRI Europe via Ch 292 Germany 9670
2100 UT Sunday IRRS 1323-Italy
2330 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 to NNW
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW
0130 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW [NEW]
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed?]
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
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** U S A. 7505, Feb 18 at 0722, no signal from WRNO. Had been running all-night for some months (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** VANUATU. 5040, Feb 18 at 0720, with CUBA off, JBA carrier, presumably RV, despite 7260 showing as only SW frequency in use on website if there were cyclone warnings, via Ron Howard: https://www.vmgd.gov.vu/vmgd/index.php/forecast-division/tropical-cyclone No signal now on 7260 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 1820 UT February 18
