DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS update March 10: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html including many DST changes for Cuba, USA
** BRAZIL. 9666.720, March 10 at 0713, RVM with S4-S7 of secularish music, representing ZY on 31m, altho sometimes I have a JBA carrier 9819+ (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA. 9700, March 10 at 0716, RHC only S4-S7 of dead air while all other frequencies are off already. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** EGYPT. 9899.617v, March 9 at 2142, today`s R Cairo check via UTwente: very strong but extremely suptorted with hum, awful, can`t even be positive it`s in English. Something`s always egregious in Egypt (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2129)
** ETHIOPIA. 7110, March 10 at 0400, another check for anything but the INTRUDER, R. Ethiopia which has been here for months, but Robin Harwood, Tasmania, had reported something European in French. All I hear now is incomprehensible African language, presumably Amharic, with the ID, ``Yeh ---`` something, as in WRTH. No French or Slavic. No second station, no QRM except occasional adjacent SSB QRhaM; fading down a lot by 0445 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2129)
** TURKEY. 5960, March 9 at 2316, VOT VG signal and mod unto UTwente this time, with `Feeling Supreme` about natural remedies against pain (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2128 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday March 9 at 2200 on (7490.1v) webcast -- BUT NO SIGNAL on 7490 direct or to Virginia, Missouri SDRs; yet 9330 VG and even 6160- could be detected. From next Wednesday at 2100, even more daysorbtion.
Also confirmed UT Thursday March 10 after 0130 on WRMI 5010 VP, 9395 S9/S7 directs.
Note: imposition of useless DST March 13 will force several WRMI airings to one UT hour earlier, viz.:
Fri 1430 9955
Sat 0130 9395
Sun 2230 5950
Tue 0030 9395 - and 9455?
Tue 2230 9955
Thu 0030 9395 - and 9455?
All other airings on 5010, 5850, 7730, 7780 stay at the same UTs
All airings on WBCQ will shift: Sat 0400 4790, Mon 0300 6160-, Wed 2100 7490+, we hope.
WORLD OF RADIO 2129 contents: Afghanistan, Australia, Chad non, (China), Cuba, Czechia, Egypt, Ethiopia and non, France, (Germany), Iran and non, Japan and non, Korea North & South, Kuwait, Kygyzstan and non, Lithuania, Netherlands and non, North America, Russia, Solomon Islands, UKRAINE, UK and non, USA, (Uzbekistan); propagation outlook --- () countries mentioned with another not in order
WOR 2129 is available as of 0158 UT Friday March 11, 2022
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(mp3 download) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2129.mp3
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Also linx to podcast services.
The shortwave+ broadcasts should be:
0130 UT Friday WRMI 5850 to NW, 7780 to NE
[but was not quite ready by 0130!]
0330 UT Friday WRMI 5985 to S
1430 UT Friday WRMI 9955 [to resume next week]
1915 UT Friday IRRS 7290-Bulgaria to WNW, 14580?; 1323-Italy
2130 UT Friday IRRS 1323-Italy
0230 UT Saturday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0500 UT Saturday WBCQ 4970 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
[DST changes start here:]
2230 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 to NNW
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW
0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455?
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?
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
Our non-commercial broadcasts and website depend on voluntary support. Thanks this week to James Gershman, Warwick RI, for a contribution via PayPal in US$ but not necessarily, to woradio at yahoo.com
One may also contribute by MO or check in US$ on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 7780, March 10 at 0200, WRMI has replaced Argentina relay with Radio Svoboda = R Liberty in Russian of the USAGM, which refuses to put it on any of our SW transmitters closer to Russia, e.g. ideally situated in Germany. Continues for the hour all-talk, S9 into UTwente; JBA S4-S6 into Pskov, Russia, SDR, next to Estonia near the western border; someone in Arlington VA is already monitoring same, so I camp on him. Meanwhile, Argentina remained on 5800. This deal was prompted by crowdfunding campaign, like VOA at 2105 on 15770, but Jeff indicates he`ll keep doing it no matter what.
0259 WRMI ID, 0300 into surprise beepery, seems unlike SW Radiogram but only going by ear. I never hear any voice announcements, but the sound changed at 0313; 0329 cut to music and WRMI ID; 0330 into a gospel huxter with a heavy accent from Brampton, Ontario. That would be Soteriah International Ministry, daily except UT Sunday. The beepery came about without any notice or publicity that I am aware of. I ask Jeff White and Kim Elliot about this, and they reply:
``Glenn: Actually it's a test that Kim prepared in four different modes. The content is an article in Russian about the 75th anniversary of the Russian service of the VOA. Jeff``
``Testing text modes in Russian. Via SDR in Russia, signal is too weak to understand more than the occasional voice word. But our slower text modes are decoding 100%. Screenshot attached. Kim``
I check again next night UT March 11 on 7780: again R. Svoboda opening with its long-unheard interval signal. Not another beepery at 0300, back to R. Slovakia International, in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2129)
** U S A. 9390-9400, March 10 at 0709, heavy wideband noise at S8-S9, almost blotting out TOMBS on WRMI 9395; almost as if deliberate jamming, and not the sound of DRM nor Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9517-USB, March 10 at 0711, weak 2-way, in Spanish?, intruding (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 0356 UT March 11
