** ALASKA. 6.8 MHz area, March 27 at 0623, no HAARP noise as heard last night after 0700. Walt Salmaniw says it was a no-show tonight even later (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** ARMENIA. 1395, March 27 before 1800, no signal into Izhevsk, but R. Svoboda relay in Russian on by 1800, S6/S9 vs hi noise level which had not been before at this Kiwi, while // 1386 Lithuania has a slightly better S/N ratio. I was concerned this might be gone since yesterday the next hour on SW 9370 had vanished: see RUSSIA [non].
Checking other W Russia remotes for 1395 just after 1800 March 27: Khimki is not connecting. Pskov gets a good S7/S8 signal with ACI from 1386, SAH, and slight musical CCI but no jamming. On the same remote I hear that 1395 is running about 5 seconds behind 1386. Also heard via Tambov, and guess what, at 1907, 1395 is still on with TOMBS in SC English I at first thought was an unknown language; VG S9+5/15, same wacko as on 9980 WWCR but not synch (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** BOTSWANA. 15610, March 27 at 1453, non-English talk, and not WEWN which still does not start before 1900, if even then. HFCC A22 shows USAGM in Kur language this hour only. Quick bandscan of 19m finds lots of new/different signals (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 11880, March 26 at 2259 past 2300, NO signal from RHC whose so-called ``African`` service in English had been more-or-less at this hour since DST started March 13. Now, what? A-22 might bring a frequency if not time change. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA [and non]. 7345, March 27 at 0628, BBCWS in English, this hour only via ASCENSION, suffers from jamming splash from Wall of Noise on 7355 against nothing; also some on 7365. Something`s always wrong at the incompetent DentroCuban Jamming Command (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. March 27 at 0701, all RHC signals are off 49m, at a time when Esperanto should be airing on Sundays only. But Ivo Ivanov did confirm it last Sunday at 0700 on 6100.
15140, March 27 at 1501, no signal from RHC, but still on 11760, opening weekly Sunday Esperanto with schedule cluelessly claiming still to be at 0800 UTC on 6100; ???? on 11760 only - they never realized 15140 had been // until now; and 2230 on 15730. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA [and non]. 13605, March 27 at 1448, R. Martí is back here as always in the A-seasons instead of 13820 in the B-seasons: for no particular reason but always catching the DentroCuban Jamming Command off guard, still jamming the old frequency against nothing but no jam audible on the L&C new one. Or rather there is some carrier now amid the 13820 jam, but what? HFCC A22 shows USAGM in Pashto via KUWAIT at 1300-1700, and imaginary Moskva in Russian until 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CZECHIA [non]. 7780, March 26 at 2306, WRMI in French, and // 5850, i.e. R. Prague; but at 2330 they are scheduled to split, 7780 to Argentina, 5850 Prague in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 15590, March 27 at 1453, S8/S9+10 with heavy flutter, American English so must be CGTN Radio. Yes, Urumqi 310 degrees toward Europe at 12-15, still called CRI in HFCC; from the land of imperialist ChiCom genocide against Uyghurs and other Moslems (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** GERMANY. 15690+, March 27 at 1451, algo audibly off-frequency-plus. Only A-22 is USAGM in Farsi via Biblis, i.e. R. Farda. Too big a hurry to measure exactly. What in the world is going on with USAGM engineering standards? More and more sites don`t, won`t or can`t hit near-exact frequencies within a few Hz.
15640, Lampertheim does better, March 27 at 1452, S9/S7 with flutter, SW Asian language not off-frequency. Listed as Pst, presumably Pashto, one of the Afghanistan-area surrogates (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** GUADELOUPE. 7190 LSB, March 27 at 0636, TO3Z with contest contacts, call clearly copied fonetikaly. Where in the world? QRZ.com shows:
``TO22C Guadeloupe flag Guadeloupe, alias for: TO3Z. Gildas Le Cloitre, F6HMQ, 6 Allee Du Petit Chene, 77380 Combs-La-Ville, Guadeloupe``
As Saul Broudy explains on the WOR iog to my Belize log, ``Hi Glenn, No need to guess which contest: it's all on WA7BNM's https://www.contestcalendar.com/ It's the CQ WPX Contest (SSB version; CW & RTTY are held on other weekends). The basic idea is to work as many callsign prefixes as you can, so participants often use unusual alternate callsigns such as club calls. For instance, I am using my local club's call WM3PEN (stands for "William Penn", founder of Pennsylvania), which we also use to represent Philadelphia in the annual 13 Colonies special event around the US Independence Day. Cheers, Saul Broudy (W3WHK), Philadelphia, PA USA`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** ITALY. 7100 LSB, March 27 at 1907, accidental log of 4U9A in contest contacts, as I advance from queue to direct access on Tambov, Russia, SDR which is already tuned here; QRZ.com: ``4U9A Italy flag Italy, 4U1GSC Contest Callsign, Global Service Centre ARC 4U1GSC, Piazza Del Vento 1, Brindisi 72100, Italy. QSL: 9A2AA`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** RUSSIA [non]. 9370, March 26 at 1919 and later chex, NO signal from the new R. Svoboda relay, checked both via UTwente and Izhevsk, Russia SDRs. What happened? This was a Shortwaves-for-Freedom project via secret site, believed Armenia. An anomaly or gone for good? Need to keep checking, also the 18-19 hour on MW 1395 definitely Armenia, q.v.: 1395 is still on March 27 before and after 1900, but 9370 is again absent into Russian SDRs after 1900 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also USA: WRMI: 7780
** RUSSIA [non]. A quick update to my just sent report: 9395, March 27 until 2000*, via Pskov SDR, R. Svoboda in Russian just finishing at 1959 and off. This frequency must have come on very late during the hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** SPAIN. 17855 & 15520, March 27 at 1447, REE confirmed on new A22 frequencies, Spanish. Ex-9690, 17855 to NAm is S8/S9+10 and the SSOB. Remains to be heard how well it may hold up at least until 2200-2230 for M/W/F English, let alone until 0200*. Weekday opening is *1800. Ex-12030, now 15520 to ME is S9/+10 at 1454, a valuable alternative off the back if 17855 be MUFing out; yet HFCC has 15520 at 1730-2200 M-F only: that can`t be correct. REE`s own sked shows 15520 until 2200 Sat & Sun, until 2300 M-F (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY [and non]. 9830, March 26 after 2200, no signal from VOT, just RTTY from PR. As we are about to transition into A22, new time and frequency for English to us. But no signal either an hour later on the B21 schedule, 5960 at 2308, just Chinese at 2320 check into UTwente. 9830 might have been on instead already, since it`s March 27 in Turkey; 9830.4 however bears a carrier amid the RTTY at 2308; A22 CNR Beijing also scheduled 2025-0100 on ``9830`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY. 15375.733, March 27 at 1455, ME music way off-frequency. It`s VOT Turkish now scheduled on ``15375``, 310 degrees toward W Europe and beyond, N America. Dead air 1459-1500*, altho registered 1300-1600. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS. 7225-LSB, March 27 at 0634, VP5P with contest contacts; I notice that on 40m, most of them are crammed below 7200 even tho Region 2 goes up to 7300. Only to be avoided is 7255 area of VONigeria. QRZ.com:
``VP5P Non-DXCC Entity flag Non-DXCC Entity, Harold Ross Lambert, QSL via N2OO, PO Box 345 Tuckerton, NJ 08087, Turks and Caicos Islands``
?? Why is it a non-entity? And which T&C island? Photo shows a group on Provo = Providenciales, where I once visited (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** UKRAINE [non]. 7780, March 27 at 0500, Ukrainian Radio relay via WRMI after brief Uk language opening, right into English `Ukraine Security Issues`, very well-done newscast with stingers, axualities and a new YL anchor who speaks less rapidly and more understandably than the previous OM. Lasts until 0512, back to UU.
Into UTwente, 7780 is VG S9 +10/15; A22 plan was to swap to 7730 on NE antenna. 7730 over there is now only S6/S8 with TOMBS as if still aimed NW. At Missouri SDR they compare: 7730 S9+15; 7780 S9/+10 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U K [non]. WMRI Europe: I meant to get this out before March 27, but on March 15, Neil Gates sent me this in response to my request not to earlify WOR time from 1330 to 1230 Sunday, in order to avoid possibly resuming A-season collision with Vietnamese clandestine via Taiwan at 1230-1300. Unknown yet whether that`s still on, banned from HFCC by the ChiCom, but was still reported a few weeks ago.
``Hello Glenn, The program schedule for WMRI Europe effective from Sunday March 27 is
12.00 Sixties Slice with Barnaby Wild
12.30 Bex Carter including news headlines in Russian at 13.00
13.30 World of radio with Glenn Hauser
14.00 News headlines in Russian followed by Rick Slick Classic Rock Show
16.00 News headlines in Russian followed by Mario Marconi who wraps up your shortwave Sunday on WMRI Europe
All times UTC, Also available online http://wmrieurope.com
73 Neil Gates, WMRI Europe 9670`` via Channel 292, Germany of course. Note another station adding Russian (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U K [non]. 11825, March 26 at 2300, BBCWS news in English, S9/S6, more or less sufficient tho aimed 200 degrees from Tinang, PHILIPPINES this hour only in A22 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2131 monitoring: confirmed Saturday March 26 at 1930 on WRMI 15770, S8/S9+10 into UTwente. I`m pleased that WRMI chose to air me instead of President Biden`s ``major`` 1716 UT speech in Warszawa on an extra `Flashpoint Ukraine` which VOA was streaming this Saturday in addition to M-F at 1935.
Also confirmed Saturday March 26 at 1931 on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, MO, S9+10 into near-local SDR, about 2 minutes into so started circa 1929.
Also confirmed UT Sunday March 27 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, S9+5/10, so not yet made the switch to 7780, now with Slovakia relay at S9+10/15. 7780 should not be stronger than 7730 if they are still on NE, NW antennas respectively. Or maybe the reactivated 7730 is underpowered and/or on an inferior repaired antenna?
WOR 2131 also confirmed UT Sunday March 27 ending at 0351.9 on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, MO, S9+10 to nearby SDR, so started circa 0323.
Also confirmed Sunday March 27 at 1350 the still-at-1330 UT on WMRI Europe via Channel 292, Germany, 9670: S9+20 into UTwente showing +14 Hz offset; no QRM but modulation rather than signal is steadily fading twice per second, even more so at 1506 check. Not making it to Iceland SDR. Alan Roe, UK, also confirms WOR but no fading like that on his radio, ending at 1354 so must have started early circa 1325. See also UK [non] for more about WMRI. Next:
2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323-Italy [ex-2100]
2230 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 to NNW [to be canceled?]
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to WNW [ex 7730]
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW
0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to NNW
2230 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed?]
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S; 9395 to NNW [new]
Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
Thanks this week for financial support from Gerald T. Pollard, Raleigh NC, who sent a generous equinoxial check on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702
One may also contribute, via PayPal not necessarily in US$ to woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 7780, March 27 at 0352, R. Svoboda in Russian via WRMI, S9+15 into Missouri SDR to the NW; while reactivated 7730 with TOMBS is only S8/S9, presumably on NE antenna unless underpowered. For A22 R. Svoboda is supposed to be on 7730 to the NE, ex-7780 to the NE. Hope they get these untangled ASAP.
Another check direct at 0631: 7780 with TOMBS cult is S9+10/20; 7730 now also with TOMBS, only S9/S8 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 7505, March 27 at 0630, WRNO is gone again instead of all-night. Unknown if on at all earlier from 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
WORLD OF RADIO HITLIST UPDATE
Hi Glenn, my latest Hitlist update. https://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm
1) UTC offset notations updated for DST changes 13 March in Cuba (R Progreso, R Havana Cuba) and USA (R Marti, VOA, WRMI)
2) UTC offset notations updated for DST changes 27 March in Croatia, Germany (HCJB), Greece, Romania, Spain (REE)
3) ~Aggregator: Radio 360.eu - Deleted entry as this service, sadly, seems to be permanently discontinued (since early February). Also deleted individual station entries in the list for podcasts formerly hosted by Radio360, ie: Albania, Argentina, RHC Cuba, Czech Rep, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Taiwan, Turkey. NB: I did email the last known email address of this service with no reply and posted to their Facebook page, which seems dormant.
4) Spain - REE: Amended link to new frequencies page for A-22 schedule. Note that this page will auto-start audio. I will update this page when an alternative becomes available without audio
5) USA - R Bulgaria: Updated link to BNR daily English podcasts
6) USA - WWCR: Added link to "Ask WWCR" podcast
The next update is scheduled for early April (for DST change in new Zealand). Best wishes and 73, Alan Roe
DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS
updated March 27
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html
WORLD OF RADIO schedule
updated March 27
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
This report dispatched at 1948 UT March 27
