** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RC USB, Wed Feb 23 at 1522 tune-in: both Brasília SDRs are offline; at Pardinho is JBA, but Campo gets S2 from LRA36: music and talk; 1528 ``Nacional Antártida Argentina, en todo el país, la radio pública`` --- I assume they think this is relayed all over Argentina on the Nacional network: is that true? Music and talkbits alternate, frequent IDs. 1533 ``Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel`` ID; 1536 ``Nacional, la radio pública``. 1541 something about Poland. 1543 email, song mentioning Esperanza but not the themesong, never heard today. 1546 LRA36 & RNASG IDs.
BTW, it`s 10 degrees F in Enid, colder than Esperanza? Yes, much! See https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/antarctica/esperanza-base checked at 1740 UT, it`s a balmy +40 F there, melting. But at South Pole it`s minus 50 F, whew! And guess from which direxion the wind is blowing? North! Back to my logging:
1555 LRA36 & RNASG IDs. 1558 email, historical talk. Now it`s peaking at S3. 1601 ID, efemérides, = historical/anniversary items, something from the 1800s, more likely about continental Argentina than this outpost. 1612 email, 15476. 1614 song with birdchirps. 1616 NAA, LRP IDs. 1620 ID, song. 1623 the SDR times out after one hour. Check Corral one in Argentina, JBA; nothing at LU4AA; 1625 nothing at west Iceland; 1626 nothing at Montevideo. Maybe have just signed off, as it`s high time. 1627 Pardinho check: only S8 noise level! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 6060, Feb 23 at 0718, only RHC still on but S9+10 of nothing but hum. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** EGYPT. 9899.608+, Feb 23 at 2124, R. Cairo, S9+30 into UTwente with extreme distortion, presumed English, totally unreadable. Something remains egregious in Egypt (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** KIRITIMATI. 846 kHz, Feb 23 at 0553, definite carrier already, surely R. Kiribati a sesquihour after London sunset, rather than anything TA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** MEXICO. 6185-, Feb 23 at 0713, XEPPM with song in English about monkeys with droning bassline, S9/+10 and better modulation than usual. Eclectic music format and sometimes listenable. Always slightly off-frequency-minus but not measured, compared e.g. to 6155 Austria. Last report Feb 13 from Gianni Serra, Italy, put it on 6184.97 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** OKLAHOMA. 515 MCW kHz, Feb 23 at 0551, PN, 25-watt NDB at PoNca City is back on after latest outage; was still off during day Feb 22 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** SPAIN. 9690, Wed Feb 23 at 2307 after the news, REE token triweekly English semihour N American frequency is not off the air, others not checked as I`m tuned for content via VG Maryland remote: by Amy Egan about Rosalía de Castro, Galician poet who promoted the Gallego language which had been denigrated. Her collexion `Cantares Gallegos` also set to music with some examples. Interview clips in Castilian handled the right way, minimizing voice-overing into English (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY. 5960.017+, Feb 23 at 2300, VOT English is not off the air today, VG via UTwente, but at first I`m mainly listening to simulSpain. ToH timesignals about 2 seconds apart. 2315 plays same commentary as yesterday by the PhD student at Exeter about ``US provoked Russia in order to maintain its global primacy`` --- huh?? Enough of that. Yet I get the impression that Turkey is siding with Ukraine. Recheck 2354, already in IS, this time with English IDs, rapid SAH and off at 2356* before it can switch to German, uncovering PBS Xinjiang, East Turkistan, land of imperialist ChiCom genocide against Uyghurs and other Moslems. If I were listening from within N America, there would be less CCCCCCI from it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2126 monitoring: ``From: Richard Lemke, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada, the desk of Richard’s listening Post, Radio: JRC NRD-535 HF, Antenna: random long wires in the trees. Dear Glenn:
5850 kHz, slept almost past it, later start but heard #2126, 1042, 1046, 1050 (55444), (55434), 1059, Feb 23 UTC 2022 (Lemke, Richard-AB)``
Also confirmed via UTwente, Wednesday February 23 from 2200:19.5 on WBCQ 7490.061v kHz as carrier offset plus, accurate since calibrated against WWV 10000 the next minute varying slightly plus/minus 1 Hz. --- Next:
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
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This report dispatched at 0024 UT February 24
