** ANDORRA [non]. 7400, Feb 5 at 2157, another Radio Andorra Revival special for a bihour, this time via ARMENIA. S9+5/15 into UTwente, signal good but modulation level fading down and up, and it`s quite lo-fi, deficient feed to site? Zach Liangas had same reaxion:
``Andorra 7400 final report! 7400 heard at 2133 via local SDR with S9 signal but rather poor reception with lots of local noise and with very trebly sound. Rather under modulated as like someone turned off Dolby while playing a cassette and with full treble! Spectrum analyzer shows that very clearly. In my radio it's much more noise. Check in central Italy with S10 and splitter in the lab with very trebly sound lacking bass and up to 35 db of fades. Also test in Brasília with signal to S10 but strong fading -- Zacharias Liangas, Temp Litohoron, Greece`` in the WOR iogroup.
Anyhow. at my check there was conversation in French rather than music. First of four airings earlier at 12-14 UT across N America on WRMI 5850 should have been well received here if anyone were awake. It seems this is a really big deal in Europe among fans of R. Andorra way back when. I did QSL it 62 years ago direct on 5972 kHz:
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(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RCUSB, February 5 at 1544 tune-in, LRA36 is on! this Saturday to belie my WOR 2124 remark that it had not been appearing Saturdays, correct as of then. Via Brazil SDRs: Pardinho is still not getting it: antenna broken? Only S2-S3 into Campo and about the same to Brasília #2. Music at first, 1545.5 ``Nacional, la Radio Pública`` ID. 1552, LRA36 ID; still 1619 another ID but fading to JBA music, 1628 ``NLRP``, 1650 trace; 1715 now better into Campo with Antártida themesong past 1709; recheck at 1748 now gone. I later see that Sam Sánchez, Orygun in the WOR iog heard it first at 1352 today via same remotes (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 5040, Feb 5 at 0720, RHC Spanish is still on here, S9+40. This happens so often that we wonder if it`s intentional rather than accidental. One STL is still carrying English past 0700, today at 0722 check, into 6060 which is S9+20/30 and no humbuzz! and only 9700, S9+10 with usual anti-American propaganda unworthy of detailing. Something`s always wrong at RHC. The Other Side:
``Cuban pastors and 11J: A turning point in the repression of evangelicals --- Yoe Suárez La Habana 29 Ene 2022 - 04:16 CET
Although clashes with the State and acts of punishment or intimidation of these churches had multiplied since then, they had not escalated to the point where a large number of pastors were imprisoned for days, weeks or months. Until ‘11J’ came along...`` https://diariodecuba.com/derechos-humanos/1643426194_37148.html
``Crime in socialist Cuba: the economic crisis fuels crime, but it is not the only cause - DIARIO DE CUBA spoke with Cuban lawyers Julio Fernández Estrada and Laritza Diversent, and Mexican professor Vidal Romero --- Yusimí Rodríguez López, Madrid 02 Feb 2022 - 19:14 CET
Why has crime increased in Cuba in recent months? Is it an effect of the increase in poverty? Are the regime's grip on power and the delay in the democratic transition threatening citizen security? DIARIO DE CUBA talked to two Cuban lawyers and a Mexican professor about these questions...`` https://diariodecuba.com/cuba/1643825652_37234.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 6100, UT Sun Feb 6 at 0727, this RHC English remains on at
S9+30, maybe to prolong until 0830 with weekly Esperanto? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** SAIPAN. 11550, Feb 6 at 1550 tune-in, surprised to hear English ID,
``You are listening to Radio Free Asia --`` and back into Korean,
scheduled 1500-1900 via Agignan Point (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2124 monitoring: Confirmed Sat Feb 5 at 1700 on WRN North America webcast.
Also confirmed Saturday February 5 at 2032 UT already underway on
WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, VG into nearby KB0FX SDR; and ending at 2056, so
started circa 2027. Altho most of my opening billboard country roster
has to be cut because of the music, that time is made up for by
interruptions every dekaminute for WA0RCR IDs, FCC requirements.
Also confirmed UT Sunday February 6 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, VG S9+20 into Missouri remote.
Distracted, I missed checking the WA0RCR 1860 AM airing nominal 0415 UT Sun Feb 6; did anyone hear it?
As usual, slept thru the 1330 Sunday Feb 6 on WMRI Europe via Channel 292, Germany, 9670; did anyone hear it? Next:
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
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. 5085, UT Sun Feb 6 at 0052.6, WTWW ends hamstuff for canned ID treating snippet of Star Spangled Banner as if it were a jingle, but not into `Theatre Organ Under The Arch`, as often happens at odd hour, and for which I was checking. Instead filled with rock music and a couple more of same ID, until axually starting at 0100! As if trying to begin it at hourtop for a change. Unfortunately it`s also time for `Encore` classical music on WRMI 5850, so over to that for me; as TOUTA also clashes with The Giant Jukebox on 5960 and Texas Radio Shortwave on 5950 in the Saturday evening musicglut. I do listen to second hour of TRSW blues at 0200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 7505.052, Feb 6 at 0720, WRNO unusually off-frequency and undermodulated in English, music (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 620, Feb 6 at 0708 UT, KTNO ID as ``Radio Luz, Dalas``, then rabid Spanish gospel huxter. KTNO is dominant here on the frequency hijacked from KWFT Wichita Falls TX, which was a good talk station; I was even on its program schedule P-mailing list for years. In Spanish you would pronounce it ``Dah-yahss`` with two Ls. CoL is axually Plano, and physical address in Irving (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6018 approx., Feb 5 at 0724, very rapid FSK/RTTY, a new intruder while the slower 6114 one is absent. At least not QRMing any broadcaster except the jamming spillover from 6030!
Probably unrelated, but look at this in the WOR iog from
``Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol: UNKNOWN, Mexican? station, 6017, heard for about ten minutes, 0605-0615*, 06-02, Mexican songs, at 0614 anthem, I think was the Mexican National Anthem and close. Weak but clear signal here in Friol, also checked via SDR Kiwi remote receiver in Iceland and exactly the same frequency, 6017 kHz with a bit better signal, via Pardhino, Brazil, no signal``
Well, Radio Mil, XEOI, used to be on 6010, gone for many years. Its AM base on 1000, XEOY is now ``Stereo Cien`` as an FM simulcast. BTW, in Spanish the calls are clever: OY can be pronounced ``oye`` = listen, and OI = ``oí``, I listened. Of course, Aoki has never removed ``6010 XEOI Núcleo Radio Mil``, daily 22-05 UT! The last definite log of it I can find is Sept 23, *2013* by Ron Howard with a recording on 6009.97. At that time, had been reactivated on evening-only schedule after a previous absence (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. RF 10, 12, 31, 35, Feb 5 at 1550 UT, BAD DTV signals into the STB, none decoding. Both tropo maps call for a lot of level 1-2 enhancement around here today and next week: it`s been frigid, but a little warmup over snowpack sets it off. At of 15 UT, area affected is most of OK and eastern KS. However tropo maps the next morning Feb 6 show much less of it expected (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 1955 UT February 6
