** EGYPT [and non]. 9899.6, March 4 at 2229, no R. Cairo signal into UTwente, no lock until 2230 when Chinese oncomes at 9899.999.8v: in fact two Chinese mixing, i.e. a China radiowar, CNR1 jamming vs R. Taiwan International both from *2230; but no QahiRM which would last until 2245 if on the air at all today from 2115 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** ROMANIA [and non]. 7220, March 4 at 2325, RRI English with lots of CCCCI as well as QRhaM direct. It`s CRI Vietnamese via Xianyang 59 site (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** SPAIN. 9690, Fri Mar 4 at 2300, token English from REE is VG direct at S9+10/20, 2306 feature about an art thief I can skip. 12030, 11940 and 11685 also audible. First chex of 9690 via Virginia, St Lucia remotes were noisier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY. 5960, March 4 at 2310, VOT English is poor direct, S5-S9, tho VG into UTwente (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2128 monitoring: confirmed Friday March 4 at 1915 on reactivated 7290, IRRS via Bulgaria. Tuned in earlier, 7290: 1859 carrier already on 7289.999, S9+45 into UTwente with 1377 users at the moment, but dead air until 1900.8 JIP Feature Story News, 1905 IRRS ID and UN News in Brief, then music fill. Harmonic 14580 not audible at UTwente or Carlow.
1323 kHz: first trying KiwiSDR at Tambov, Russia, just east of Ukraine and 418 km SSE of Moskva. Headed by this with translation: ``I see an extraordinary number of scripters. It's not good. I'll think about what can be done so that the network flood from them does not interfere with others. In the meantime, so as to cool the interest a little. All of this temporarily.``
This one at http://sdr.tambov.gq:8901/ is labeled as covering only 1.6-10 MHz! But is tuning 1323, where at 1906 at S9 I am hearing German only, i.e. the 15 kW Romanian station belying IRRS` claim to get into Ukraine and Russia on 1323. At 1908 I compare it to Noale SDR near 1323 where Romania now in music is mixing with IRRS music.
At 1915 I can hear WOR starting almost synch with 7290. But at 1920, some horrible noise hits 7290, whine, roar with breakup, and I hear the same via Carlow, Eire SDR, so it`s not an SDR problem. At 1923 I can make out the same noise vs the other QRM on 1323, so it`s a problem on the feed from `Milano`.
Via the Tambov SDR now at 1925 I am only hearing the music from Romania. The noise continues on both frequencies past 1930 when I quit in frustration. Recheck at 1959 finds 7290 clear with Ray Robinson talking about Philippines, so it`s AWR Wavescan until he`s chopped off for IRRS QSL offer which is also chopped off the air before finishing with address. A ~29 minute program cannot possibly fit into a ~15 minute slot, assuming WOR played to completion at 1944. Just a WS fragment as filler.
At 2001 I recheck Tambov on 1323 and hear a 1 kHz tone, presumably Romania which has not turned off yet. Underneath is the Verdi theme of IRRS. Vice versa which dominates at Noale, Italy. At 2005, Feature Story News again detectable, but at Tambov more QRM in Hungarian: another Romania broadcast not in WRTH, I guess until 2100? Recheck at 2115, Romania finally off allowing AM Italia into Tambov, American English program about Black History, which turns out at 2120 to be `Counterspin` from FAIR, also on many US public radio stations; then about the Tulsa Race Massacre.
At 2130 the next WORLD OF RADIO 2128 broadcast on 1323 can be heard
both at Tambov and stronger at Noale.
Later at 0040 UT March 5 I bring Tambov up again to investigate its tuning because as I noted earlier at 1800 March 4 it was blocked from tuning 9770 for BBC in Russian which was not on air anyway. It turns out that Tambov is blacked out for everything above 7200! The 40m hamband 7000+ works except for blox at 7045-7055, where we know there has long been a Russia/Ukraine ham radio war. I notice a user in North Carolina tries it briefly on 4625, the buzzer frequency, but that is also blocked.
WORLD OF RADIO 2128 also confirmed UT Saturday March 5 at 0230 on WRMI 9395, S9+5 into Minneapolis SDR. Next:
0500 UT Saturday WBCQ 4790! to WSW [NEW]
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
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. (7490.1v), UT Sat March 5 from 0100, WBCQ webcast of `AAAWWW`, a new one, starts with Uranus joke, which can be seen just above the crescent Moon Sunday evening. Allan says that Moon ``rises`` just after sunset: axually it *sets* after sunset. Discussion of horses, horseless carriages. Wreck closed all 4 lanes of I-95; thank god for radio for info about it. Says WBCQ has 6 transmitters, the #6 one being the 9330. But there are only three other frequencies active, so what about the other two? Does that include the one Jeff White gave him?
A new music show began tonight at 6-7 pm ET [23-24 UT] Friday, `Quality Control Live`. I missed the frequency so is it on the websked? Of course not!
Electric bill expected to double in one or two years --- till a real president comes back. WBCQ is running at a loss. Lots of maintenance to be done this summer, postponed because of COVID. Would like to buy more antennas and stations, and not just for religious programming. Would welcome $5 or 10 million to do that, hint hint. Allan trying to avoid politix, but Angela can`t help it, blasts left-wing media, especially, under her breath, Rachel Maddow whom she can`t stand. Is convinced elexion was stolen.
0133, finally datestamp for those who just tuned in [why?], 4th of March YOOLF 2022, trimulcasting on 7490, 6160, 4760. Alan can`t take the cold in Maine, as when he visited in January for maintenance.
0136, plugs Radio Angela programming -- a neat name, Angela thinx. Tonight at 10pm ET it`s FTIOM [no, at 0340 check it`s Canadian Content Radio, S9+10 to Missouri SDR but with storm crashes from SE Nebraska, FTIOM from 0400 UT]; and at midnight [05 UT Sat], Glenn Hauser`s World of Radio, the last true program of listeners digest news emphasizing shortwave. Allan can`t remember when gh was not on SW. R. Angela is for entertainment, ``anti-political`` on SW only, no streaming.
COVID diminishing, time to throw stupid masks away. Diet advuce: avoid white food, like rice, milk, potatoes, and hydrate with lots of plain H2O, not juice or soda.
0147, for nth time, Allan claims that Canadian government does not allow any private ownership of SW stations! I reply equally nthly, what about CFRX and CFVP??? Except for the SuperStation, WBCQ tries to keep its equipment simple. 0150 items from Free Radio Weekly, just out. Finally catches himself that SSTV means slow-scan TV, not ``SSB`` TV. 0155 some email, 0159 prayer, 0201.7 JIP Hal Turner late. Standard disclaimer (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 0404 UT March 5
