** ALGERIA [non]. 7295, May 20 at 0548, S9+10/20, RTA in unQur`an Arabic, and *no* self-QRM beepery via FRANCE; whenever logging this, please note whether there is or is not that anomaly. Another anomaly noted by Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria: ``FRANCE NO SIGNAL of Telediffusion d'Algerie via TDF Issoudun, May 20. 0400-0459 on 6050 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf open carrier plus tx TWEET -- 73! Ivo Ivanov`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) What means TWEET in this context? ** CHINA [non]. 11880, May 14 at 1441 check, CRI Plus English relay via CUBA again absent; May 15 sometime after 1500 it is not absent. So apparently the first hour has been dropped (Glenn Hauser, WOR) ** CHINA. 13020, May 17 at 1332, huge S9+20 CNR1 with Chinese talk, not music as previously during this Sunday hour. Really a standout with nothing else around this WOOB area; but encourages me to do full bandscan for other jammers to Sound of Hope, 10-16 MHz: 13835, May 17 at 1338, CNR1 jammer at S5-S7 with echo; off by 1412 11440, May 17 at 1340, CNR1 jammer at S3-S5; no others above 10 MHz this hour and this one also off by next check 1412. But see 11460: After 1400 I resurvey 10-18 MHz way-out-of-band areas: 13020, May 17 at 1412, instead of bigsig last hour, now a JBA carrier, tremendous change in jamming or maybe really SOH trace now 11460, May 17 at 1413, CNR1 jammer at S9-S6 11150, May 17 at 1414, CNR1 jammer at S9-S7 11070, May 17 at 1414, CNR1 jammer at S4-S7 10920, May 17 at 1415, CNR1 jammer at S3-S5 10820, May 17 at 1415, JBA presumed CNR1 jammer 13130+, May 17 at 1418, JBA slightly off frequency, so could really be SOH without jamming 13150, May 17 at 1419, JBA carrier, CNR1 jammer? See below 14400, May 17 at 1420, JBA carrier, presumed CNR1 jammer EiBi shows all above as CNR1 or Firedrake jammers of SOH, except: 13150 not listed: rather a local mix RHC 11760 + KCRC 1390 = 13150 13835 against RFA Tibetan via Tajikistan 15110, May 17 at 1421, regular CNR1 jammer against VOA Chinese via Philippines this hour only; there may be others in-band not sought (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA [and non]. 13130, May 18 at 1333, CNR1 jammer, poor S3-S7, 1401 off. 9465, May 18 at 1408, mixture of at least two Chinese about equal. CNR1 jammer(s) vs VOA Chinese via PHILIPPINES this hour only. 10920, May 18 at 1403, CNR1 jammer, S4-S8, //: 11100, May 18 at 1403, CNR1 jammer, S3-S6 11150, May 18 at 1403, CNR1 jammer, S3-S6 11440, May 18 at 1404, CNR1 jammer presumed, JBA 11460, May 18 at 1404, CNR1 jammer, S6-S9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. 9215, May 19 at 1426, Chinese S2-S4, CNR1 jammer. 9230, May 19 at 1426, Chinese S6-S8, // CNR1 jammers vs SOH 12800, May 19 at 1433, S6-S8 CNR1 jammer. No other WOOB ones found in scan 8-15 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jamming survey May 19 at 1354-1400*: 13070, S9/+10 13030, S9/+10 but sounds slightly weaker 12880, S5-S9 12870, S7-S9 12820, S7-S9 12500, S7-S9 12190, JBA then by 1358 I tune upward from where I had started downward: 13160, VP; and further downward: 10820, VP 10870, stronger than 10820 By now it`s 1400 as I tune above 11000 to hear nothing, and rechecking the above frequencies, they are *all* off (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6100, May 15 at 0604, this is the strongest RHC English frequency by far, S9+20 --- except it`s dead air. Weaker 6060 only S9+10 is modulated; much weaker S9 6145 is modulated; 6000 and 5040 are off already. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13660, May 15 at 1340, RHC leapfrog mixing product JBA // 13700 and 13740, 40 kHz beyond; also audible weaker on reverse 13780. 13700 is S9+10/20; 13740 is S9+20/30. No spurblobs today. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 9790, May 16 at 0308, CRI relay S9+30 with music but very distorted. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11800, May 16 at 0312, RHC S9+20 of dead air, or rather a trace of music with volume turned way up. 11670 has a bit more modulation but badly distorted. 13740 is still on and propagating at S9+10, undermodulated but not distorted. NZ 13840 is stronger. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15140, Sunday May 17 at 1504, RHC Esperanto is starting on heavily distorted transmitter // clear but weaker 11760. Note the OM announcer insists on mispronouncing ``politiko`` with stress like in Spanish on second rather than penultimate syllable as absolutely required in Esperanto unless a marked diphthong counts as one syllable. Earlier today Sun May 17, Wolfgang Bueschel monitored remotedly: ``6100 kHz sign-off at 0700 UT. Both 6060 and 6145 kHz channels carried Esperanto program only short time. Surprisingly 0702:45 UT 6060 kHz outlet switched OFF. 0703:28 UT 6145 kHz outlet switched OFF. (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 17)`` Something`s always wrong at Radío Havano Kubo. Listeners would have even less chance of hearing the first Espo broadcast if they tune in at announced time of 0800 Sunday on 6100! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11670, May 19 at 0321, RHC S9+30 but huge hum, distorted and undermodulated; wiggle that patchcord! Something`s always wrong at RHC. 11800, May 19 at 0322, this RHC is merely undermodulated. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 13740, May 19 at 0323, RHC S9+10 and hum not quite as bad as 11670. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15370, May 19 at 2005, RHC S9, but JBM in Brazuguese; more mod on distorted 15140 in French. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15730, May 19 at 2236, S8-S9, RHC is JBM and suptorted --- so bad that I can`t be 100% sure whether it`s Kriyol or Brazuguese. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13820, May 20 at 1404, noise jamming still here despite this being a B-season-only RM frequency, on 13605 instead during A-seasons. Something`s always incompetent at the DentroCuban Jamming Command (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13740, May 20 at 1404, S9+20/30 of dead air from RHC, after presumed nominal finish circa 1400, while weaker S9+10/20 13700 is still musically modulating; but without any spurblobs. I do have JBA carriers on 13660 and even weaker 13780 as probably leapfrog mixing products, except by 1414, 13740 is off and 13660 is still there, which now could be only BBC Somali via UAE even tho it`s not significantly off-frequency. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** IRAN. 9855, Just checking via UTwente, May 17 at 2006 tune-in for full ID from IRIB/VIRI and English schedule. Good modulation level now but rather tinny, // much weaker 9835. The 1920 broadcast. Ullmar Qvick, Sweden, SW Bulletin had recently notified station of barely audible modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) see also USA [non] ** ITALY [and non]. 7290, May 20 at 1759, I`m checking IRRS via secret unknown site, via UTwente Holland SDR, whether today there be any breakups in modulation feed like there were on Monday during WORLD OF RADIO. ``Aïda`` theme is already playing, VG signal and not too much ACI either, 1800 IRRS sign-on from ``Milano`` without any frequency or mode details, right into `Feature Story News`, not just headlines but 5 minutes` worth leading with Pompeo vs China; 1805 into `News in Brief from the United Nations`, which also seems current; 1809 to music, folk/rock ballad in English followed by a song in Chinese(?). 1819 starts `Astronomy Cast`, W&M informally chatting, first 4 minutes about how they are coping with COVID-19, then not about astronomy but satellite repair in orbit and other space travel, not the same thing. So far so good, no interruptions, until 1845 dumps off to dead air except for the ute-warble background and ACI splat presumably from 7280 VOV German as there is nothing on first-adjacents 7285 or 7295. I let it run whether it will ever resume by 1900*? Yes, but not until 1857 when rock music fill is playing, 1859 standard sign off with another opera tune, chopped off at 1900* before it finish. 594 kHz, May 20 at 1837, meanwhile, I check for the publicized IRRS MW frequency during this hour only, and indeed there it is with same unsynchronized show plus some humbuzz via KiwiSDR near Venezia. 594 is 1 kW Challenger Radio from Villa Estense, which is only 60 km = 37 miles away on opposite sides of Padova. Meanwhile, `Astronomy Cast` is news to us since NEXUS/IBA schedule https://www.nexus.org/member-services/radio-and-tv/schedules/wednesday-program-schedule/ for Wednesday merely shows in MESZ of UT+2: ``20:00 Streaming + 7290+594 kHz English EGR Hope For Today 20:15 Streaming + 7290+594 kHz English News and features from our studio`` So there was no Hope for Today, and generic info for 1815z could include what we heard, but is it on every week? Here it is: http://www.astronomycast.com/about-us/ It looks like this be episode #567 from a month(?) ago: http://www.astronomycast.com/2020/04/ep-567-when-satellites-need-a-house-call/ but the podcast with video starts as if already in progress, not where I heard it start on IRRS; it`s 61 minutes long originally (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also USA [and non], WOR, IRRS ** KOREA SOUTH. 12935-CW, May 17 at 1334, ``CQ CQ CQ DE HLG3 HLG3 HLG3 QSX --- K``; and same style CQ marker at 1335 on 12923-CW from HLW2; weak compared to 13020 CNR1 jammer, but sufficient, encountered as I bandscan for more jammers. EiBi shows both these as Seoul Radio, but calls without numbers. Some of few marine CW markers left on SW --- but do they really make any QSX contacts? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9925, UT Sun May 17 at 0014, The Mighty farty KBC via GERMANY [ex-EAST], is S9+10/20, inbooming this week for the first time on its summer frequency after nogood past two weeks. But will it hold up into deep North America until 0200*? At 0157 still there but weaker at S9-S6 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NEW ZEALAND. 5945, May 18 at 0603, oh oh, RNZI is already on here with news mentioning radio signals, instead of 11725 which used to be at good level but 5945 is only fair this early and adjacent to 5950 WRMI. RNZI have made another abrupt mid-season schedule change, gearing down for southern winter. Yes, website How To Listen now shows: ``RNZ Pacific (RNZI) broadcasts at the following frequencies and times to different parts of the Pacific Region. Expect schedule changes from time to time to take account of propagation to our target audience. NB: Every month on the first Wednesday is Maintenance day at our transmitter site from 2230 - 0600 UTC. (Thursdays 1030 - 1800 NZST) During this period there may be interruptions to our programmes. 29 Mar 2020 - 25 Oct 2020 [sic, altho sked below did NOT start 29 Mar] UTC kHz Target Days 00:00 - 04:58 13840 Pacific Daily 04:59 - 05:58 9700 from 18 May Pacific Daily 05:59 - 09:58 5945 Pacific Daily 09:59 - 12:58 5945 Solomon Isl and PNG Mon - Fri 12:59 - 19:58 6170 Pacific Sat 12:59 - 16:50 6170 Pacific Sun-Fri 16:51 - 17:35 6115 DRM Cook Isl, Samoa, Tonga Sun-Fri 17:36 - 18:35 7285 DRM Cook Isl, Samoa, Tonga Sun-Fri 18:36 - 20:58 9760 DRM Cook Isl, Samoa, Tonga Sun-Fri 19:59 - 20:58 1725 Pacific Sat [sic: typo for 11725 presumably] 20:59 - 00:00 13840 Pacific Daily`` Note: as presented above, there are NO broadcasts Sat & Sun at 0959-1258! I find this hard to believe (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6950-USB, May 17 at 0039 tune-in to only pirate around this Saturday night, S5-S6 of hard rock, DJ announcements. No problem overcoming local KCRC fifth harmonic, but I have Alexandria SDR up so tune to that, where it`s VG, incessant hard rock and frequent DJ talkovers with WDOG IDs and/or SFX of barx, whines. Even some songs about dogs. 0050 ID; 0100 ToH ID saying this WDOG is east of the Mississippi, so KDOG should stay on the other side. 0113 barx and yelps; 0114 comment and song re dogs; 0124 for first time hear a WDOG ID in CW mix with music, again at 0128, 0129. 0131 voice ID, thanks for tuning in on ladies` night; 0144 ID and woofs; 0150 ID, etc, etc. Many more logs here: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,67172.0.html and it seems the counterpart KDOG was on 6925-USB, https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,67176.0.html Not checked here until 0158 when there`s an AM carrier on 6924.73, but KDOG went off at 0145 after some SSTV of its fiery four letters one by one (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** PUERTO RICO [and non]. NAU vs NSS RTTY frequencies: TURKEY [and non] ** ROMANIA. 9850, May 16 at 0305, RRI English VG S9+20/30, and // 7375 S9+10/20, and even // 11825 much weaker at 0310 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 11940, May 19 at 2230, S9/+10, now this is the dead-air frequency of REE instead of 9690 which is VG; fair 12030 also modulating as is very poor 11670. 0015 May 20 recheck, 11940 still dead air. More than a sesquihour of wasted watts this time. Something`s always nonsensical at Noblejas (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 11940, May 20 at 2219, dead air from REE, just like yesterday, while 9690 is VG, 12030 fair with modulation, but 11670 without a signal. I would not be surprised if 11940 have been dead for entire transmission spans today and/or yesterday, 1800-0200. Congrats to Antonio Buitrago, who has received this honor: https://gruporadioescuchaargentino.wordpress.com/2020/05/16/antonio-buitrago-director-de-radio-exterior-de-espana-premio-nacional-de-radio-2020/ He also does the Spanish DX program, but perhaps he should pay a bit more attention to whether Noblejas be doing its job. As always, critiques will be moderated if COVID-19 can be reasonably blamed (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TAIWAN. Re: ``According to the announcement from RTI, the inaugural ceremony of the 15th President will be held in Taiwan on May 20. At 0200 UT President Ts’ai Ing Wan will make her 2nd inaugural speech. Broadcasting Corporation of China (BCC) will make special live broadcast of her speech to mainland China and South East Asia, on 1557, 9660, 11880, 12020, 15245, 15310, 15460 kHz. Takahito Akabayashi, Tokyo, Japan``, 0023 UT May 20, WOR iog. Just after 0200 May 20, woman speaking Chinese to applause, all SW frequencies audible via Jakarta KiwiSDR, 15310 best. No sign of QRM/jamming on any of them! Shenzhen SDR offline... Only traces of some of them audible via Bengaluru. Still going loud & clear past 0218 as I stay on 15310 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) However: ``Using the U. Twente SDR receiver, could detect woman in Chinese on 12020 and 15460 kHz. 12020 was the better of the two and then at about 0209, the noise jamming started on 12020 swamping the signal. Noise jamming could be detected on some other frequencies, too, but not on 15460, which was still in the clear and audible but fairly weak at 0216. Still recording. After about 0230, there seemed to be two Chinese stations on 15460. Taiwan had a frequency of 15459.994 kHz while alone on the frequency with the second one (CNR jamming?) a bit stronger at 15459.999 kHz. -- Richard Langley`` NB, WOR iog. ** TURKEY. 9830, May 15 at 2230, VOT English to NAm is on with Turkish music. 7275, May 16 at 0304, no signal from next VOT broadcast; must be OFF, since 7375 Romania is in well. But 0325 recheck, now it`s on with music INTRUDING into the 40m hamband; still there at 0352, poor during IS. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY [and non]. 9830, May 16 at 2200, no signal from VOT English to North America, tuned via Alexandria SDR, but plenty of RTTY from NAU Isabela, Puerto Rico. Usually I dismiss VOT as another day off but this time I leave 9829-USB on in the background, and at *2236 VOT suddenly cuts on amid music adding to the RTTY. 2249 the virus hints. 2252 multi-lingual ID reel mixed with music --- Ivo says there are 36 of them. No sign-off heard but at 2254.5 already playing IS; 2256 restart IS in time for one ID in German before chopped off at 2257* --- and today RTTY is still running past 2300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY [non]. Mike Agner, KA3JJZ, says, ``The reported callsign for 9830 RTTY is listed as NSS in the UDXF logs, not NAU. The transmitter site was TDoA'ed to be Davidsonville Maryland, not Puerto Rico per past UDXF logs. Mike`` --- Indeed EiBi also shows this. Just to keep them straight, from EiBi here are all the frequencies shown for NSS ``Annapolis``: 4005, *4985, 6487, *9830, *12015, 15959 --- And for NAU, Isabela, Puerto Rico: 5340, 5716, 6831, *7455, 7830, 10153, *11688, *12120, 13229, 16123, 16213 *some of them near-constant RTTY/STANAG QRM to broadcasts, all frequencies available 24 hours. Thanks, Mike (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, May 17 at 2229 quick check hears music, so VOT English is operative today, but who knows if it started on time? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY [and non]. 9830, May 19 at 2226, VOT English is on with music, but buried under heavy high-speed RTTY from cochannel NSS. ANF feature on R75 helps a lot; Recheck 2255, IS is playing, 2256 restart with German IDs interspersed twice minutely; 2300 German sign-on vs RTTY *still* going rather than sometimes finished by 2200. Not rechecked until 2323 by when phantom German from VOT is off. This collision has been going on A-seasons for years. It`s incredible that VOT doesn`t know or doesn`t care to change to any of numerous open frequencies on the band. Don`t they ever get reception reports from listeners complaining? Is there no internal communication between Letterbox and TRT Engineering? Don`t they read my monitoring? Ha! Likewise NSS: it should not still be utilitizing [coinage, not a mistake] a broadcast band, but is the QRM from TRT insignificant, its RTTY so robust that AM CCI does not matter? Or is it just robotic with nomilitary really trying to receive it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, May 20 at 2216, VOT English is on at S7-S9 but undermodulated. Something`s erroneous at Emirler; but no RTTY anyway (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 417-MCW kHz, May 19 at 0540 UT, ND beacon IY, which is 25 watts from Charles CItY, Iowa. I was tuned to 418-USB. Storm noise level not too bad now with closest lightnings over Montana and South Carolina. So look for more: 400-MCW kHz, May 19 at 0541, NDB AHQ, which is 25 watts from Wahoo, Nebraska. 379-MCW kHz, May 19 at 0544, NDB RUE, 25 watts from Russellville, Arkansas. I was tuned to 380-USB [or was it LSB?] (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 10127-CW, May 18 at 1411, CQ DE W9EBE K over and over, probably recorded but originally by a distinctive fist, prolonging the dahs and/or shortening the dits. W9EBE USA EMERSON A COX PO BOX 717 DE SOTO, IL 62924 You *must* take a look at Chip`s page, including autobiography: https://www.qrz.com/lookup/w9ebe (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ``Yes, the prolonged dahs are often part of an "accent" heard from users of bugs (semi-automatic keys) Thanks for the recommendation, Glenn; I enjoyed reading his page. I see he's a fellow member of the CWops club, though I’ve yet to run into him during our on-air events. Best, Saul W3WHK [Broudy], Philadelphia, PA USA`` Also a quick search found Chip, W9EBE appeared once before in DXLD, commenting on CFRX modulation problems, Nov 11-12, 2008y: http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld8120.txt (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2034 contents: Albania non, Antarctica, Armenia, Bougainville, Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran non, Japan, Korea South and non, Laos, Mali, México, Netherlands, Nicaragua non?, North America, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Spain, Sudan, Turkey, USA, Zambia, Zanzibar; publications; and the propagation outlook WOR 2034 is available as of 0138 UT Friday May 15 (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2034.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2034.mp3 Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html Also linx to podcast services. The shortwave broadcasts should be: 0900 UT Friday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB 2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 [jammed] to SSE 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5010 to S, 7780 to NE 0900 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB 1130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [jammed] to SSE 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] 0300 UT Sunday WRMI 5800 [NEW] to SSE 0900 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 or 6160v to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed] to SSE 0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW, 594-Italy 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Thanks this week for financial support from Chris Campbell, Columbus OH, who sent a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com with this comment: ``For your long and excellent dedication to a hobby that has expanded my knowledge for a lifetime`` PayPal not necessarily US funds as they will convert. One may also contribute by MO or check in US funds on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2034 monitoring: confirmed first NAm SWBC, Friday May 15 at 2200 on WRMI 9955: good at Bonaire and Colombia SDRs, no jamming until a bit of pulse starts to show by 2225 at Bonaire. Also confirmed UT Sat May 16 at 0130 on WRMIs: 7780 & 5010 JBA vs storm noise level across TX into southern OK but not here; 5850 S9+30/40 VG but storm noise still audible under. Next: 0900 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB 1130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [jammed] to SSE 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] 0300 UT Sunday WRMI 5800 [NEW] to SSE 0900 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 or 6160v to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed] to SSE 0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW, 594-Italy 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2034 monitoring: confirmed Saturday May 16 at 1303 on WRMI 15770, JBA here; Ivo Ivanov reports: ``Fair signal of World of Radio#2034 via WRMI-9, May 16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwvEhtbM3M8&feature=youtu.be https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/05/fair-signal-of-world-of-radio2034-via.html 1300-1330 on 15770 RMI 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English Sat`` Next: 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] 0300 UT Sunday WRMI 5800 [NEW] to SSE 0900 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 or 6160v to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed] to SSE 0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW, 594-Italy 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2034 monitoring: reconfirmed new time of 0300 UT Sunday May 17 on WRMI 5800, good S9+10/20 altho aimed SSE like 9955, and no jamming (but I have blob from local device). Also confirmed UT Sun May 17 at 0328 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, about 6 minutes into so started circa 0322. Next: 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 or 6160v to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed] to SSE 0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW, 594-Italy 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2034 monitoring: confirmed UT Monday May 18 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, VP after double-ID by BZ and RE in English, uteblapp immediately as I start talking. Also confirmed UT Mon May 18 at 0230 on WRMI 7780, VG via Rochester. Also confirmed UT Mon May 18 at 0301 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5130, VG at Rochester SDR. Also confirmed UT Mon May 18 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, fair at Anna TX KiwiSDR I picked at random; poor at TWR Bonaire and fading out by 0400; good at Maine SDR. Next: Controversy continues about the IRRS site on 7290. Someone should perform multi-receiver TDOA on this and settle it once and for all. Those in a better position to know are sure it is neither Bulgaria nor Romania. Alexander Busneag, Germany says to the WOR iog: ``So in conclusion, there are many reasons why IRRS 7290 kHz cannot be via Romania, and Mauno now also got a confirmation from RADIOCOM that this transmission is not from them. While it is clear that 9510 kHz EVIDENTLY is via Romania, there is absolutely not the slightest hint that IRRS 7290 kHz would come from Romania! ;-) As Ivo states that IRRS 7290 kHz is not via Bulgaria either, I would suggest to mark the TX location as "unknown": 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 UNKNOWN? 594-Italy`` 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2034 monitoring: detailed listening for IRRS broadcast of 1800 UT Mon May 18 on 7290, via UTwente SDR in Holland, via home feeder on 90.7 MHz, notes transferred from original Little Caesar`s tan napkin during today`s home lunch of something else: 1750, 7290, Iran in Russian concluding and into IS, no IRRS yet 1753, Iran still on, opening Italian, of all languages, on wrong frequency! Again! and national anthem 1754.5, Iran starts Qur`an but then cuts off air, whew. Allah`ll get `em for that *1755.5, maybe carrier from IRRS, as the slight warble it conveys becomes audible; heavy ACI continues BTW, consensus among reliable monitors in Europe is that 7290 IRRS is NOT from Bulgaria or Romania, but UNKNOWN site 1757, IRRS power seems bumped up now, quieter but still ACI splash 1759, two bits of music mod cut on and off, presumably IRRS feed 1800-1805, dead air continues, no IRRS sign-on, no FSN headlines and missing WOR start 1805, WOR audio starts cutting on and off; again at 1806 1806.5, WOR audio stays on about 5 minutes into program, still ACI splash 1808, cut to dead air again 1809, cut WOR audio back on; I continue semi-listening and do not notice any further breaks but there may have been some 1829, cut off during my IRCA plug, back briefly, off again and rest of program lost, more dead air 1831, cut on Feature Story News JIP 1835, start The Shortwave Report as usual this late so its ending will get chopped off by 1859 Meanwhile after lunch I am checking the adjacent QRM which is unreasonably annoying, and find that Voice of Vietnam in German is on 7285 instead of 7280, at 1834-1836* 1836, 7290 IRRS SWR interrupted again by dead air except for hum, back at 1837 and not monitored further *1837, VOV German comes back on correct frequency 7280, which helps a little but still splashes upon 7290, 10 kHz away. Also during WOR, AM Synch, USB, LSB, AM, various bandwidths tried can never eliminate the QRM. But whenever modulating, still readable if you put up with it WOR 2034 also confirmed UT Tuesday May 19 at 0100 on WRMI 7780 direct, S8/S9+10, fair vs noise. Next: 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2034 monitoring, next: 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Thanks this week for financial support from Chris Campbell, Columbus OH, who sent a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com with this comment: ``For your long and excellent dedication to a hobby that has expanded my knowledge for a lifetime`` PsyPal not necessarily US funds as they will convert. One may also contribute by MO or check in US funds on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2034 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday May 20 from 2100:20 on WBCQ 7490.03v, VP S6-S8 across daypath. Also confirmed UT Thursday May 21 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, VG via Maine SDR near the boresight. Next WOR 2035 should be ready by early UT Friday May 22, first WRMI broadcast at 2200 on 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7490.057, UT Sat May 16 at 0000, WBCQ starts playing WTO theme to `AAAWWW`, then interrupts it with ID, but no further interjexions, so is Allan really there? Yes, with Angela, spends first few minutes in Monticello master control fiddling with mikes and transmitters instead of setting those up in advance. Says they moved back from Florida about a week ago, at 80 mph up I-95; and since then have been self-quarantined at home near transmitter site until next week, not clear exactly why, working on `classic` transmitters and other projects, but not yet gone to the Super-Station site nor approached other staff. Says on *four* frequencies, 7490, 6160, 5130, 3265, except the remote keeps turning 6160 off, guys please figure out why. It`s on when I am measuring them about 0010: 6159.909 with fair signal almost equal to 7490; heavy storm noise here from all across TX into southern OK makes 5130 JBA and 3265 inaudible --- why is he running 90m mainly in the summer instead of winter? Callers intrude by 0010; not until 0020 does he announce that it`s the 14th of May, YOOL 2020. Over to John Carver for a fuller report: ``Tonight's AAWWW --- Tonight's show started a few seconds early on 7490 and 5130. No signal on 6160 as of yet. Allan and Angela back in Maine at studio one. 6160 transmitter doesn't want to turn on and Allan asks over the air for Tom or Jason to go take a look at it. He says they're also broadcasting on 3265 this evening. Some talk about the trip North. Allan said the average speed on the interstate was eighty miles an hour and people were passing him. Phone call at 0009 from Adam in Indiana who called a couple of weeks ago. General talk about moving around to places in this time of lock down. Phone call at 0020 from Freddie. In answer to Freddie, Allan said that he and Angela had been working on the house there and around the grounds and on the classic transmitters as they are staying in semi lock down for two weeks and haven't even been to the superstation as of yet. Lots of things done to the classic transmitters. Freddie calls again at 0033 and after that call Allan goes back to the transmitter work. Said he'd increased the power on the 7490 transmitter by a factor of four. He also had to do a lot of work on the 5130 transmitter as it didn't want to start. Then a longer discussion with Angela explaining how radio tubes work. Phone call at 0051 from Larry and Jane and tales swapped about the lock down. Closing prayer at 0058 and program off the air at 0100. John Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7490+, Sat May 16 at 2308, moanin-n-groanin on WBCQ, got to be vespers from TOM, yes indeed // 9455 WRMI. No wonder I haven`t heard `Great Sounding Oldies` as still on WBCQ sked at 2200-2340 --- unless that refer to dulcet tones of BS and his psychophants instead of classic tunes as I had assumed. TOM supposedly runs Saturdays at 1600 only until 2200. [and non] 7490+, UT Sun May 17 at 0038, WBCQ with an AAAWWW filling an Available Time Slot, probably replay from 24 hours ago. So, what else? VP 5130 not // music, presumably Area 51. VP 6160 not // either YL talking --- but wait, checking that at 0042 via Alexandria, it`s in Turkish, so Iran for Ramadan one more week, no WBCQ to het (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7490.1, Sunday May 17 after 2100, checking WBCQ webcast, rock music instead of `Marion`s Attic`, as #1 fan Mark Coady, Ontario had just complained. Wonder what happened? Poorly on SW at 2210 should be `Uncle Bill`s Melting Pot`, but unlike usual fare, rather woman lecturing to laughing audience. Soon I recognize it`s Anna Russell`s hilarious take on Wagner`s Ring Cycle. So now there are comedy routines on UBMP. Finally at 2229 Bill comes on with UBMP announcement and sponsor which I do not endorse; also plugs the upcoming special repeat. As for Anna Russell, wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Russell ``Among her best-known works are her concert performances and famous recordings of The Ring of the Nibelungs (An Analysis) – a humorous 22-minute synopsis of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen – and (on the same album) her parody How to Write Your Own Gilbert and Sullivan Opera.[1]`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5130, UT Wed May 20 at 0101, no signal from this WBCQ where W5KUB`s Amateur Radio Roundtable is supposed to run; but it`s on poorly in noise at 0108 check. 6159.967V, UT Wed May 20 at 0101, this WBCQ is back on for Hal Turner, with het from Iramadan closer to 6160.00; also // 7490.1 and WRMI on 9455 for his hatetalk (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9330, May 20 at 2218 check, no signal from the WBCQ SuperStation. Normally weak at this hour awayward, but totally off now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9955, May 15 at 1418, once again this Friday, WRMI on late with ME song, presumably from World Music loop; S9 fading to S5; off by 1422 recheck (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9395, May 19 at 1857, WRMI-6 is missing from 24-hour schedule; obviously because 9455 is still on as usual. 9395 still off at 2228 check; and at 0011 May 20 -- this time I confirm that all other active WRMI transmitters are on as usual, at widely divergent modulation levels and strengths to this angle. Except 5800 S9+10/20 of dead air instead of SMTV. Finally at 0224 May 20 check, 9395 is back on with music, Oldies? No, Taiwan in Spanish scheduled (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 15825, May 15 at 1531, WWCR-1 at S9+20 so getting sporadic E boost, of which there is a lot across America, but MUF below the FM band; 13845 WWCR-3 also S9+10 rather than JBA; but 12160 WWCR-2 must be off, and not on 7490 either at 1536 check. Rather, a JBA carrier on 12160 when nothing else is scheduled, so maybe WWCR exciter only (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 17775, Sat May 16 at 1508, NO signal, not even a JBA carrier from KVOH, which is supposed to start its weekly English broadcast at 1500 with Wavescan. Not unusual to have no signal here less than 2 megameters from Rancho Simi, too close for F2 skip? There is lots of HF sporadic E today but mostly east of here rather than west. When there is some westward Es, can give KVOH a good boost into OK. Now the only 16 mb signals are bits from far Sa`udi Arabia on 17895 and 17615+; JBA carriers where nothing is listed now on 17690, 17880. KVOH target is Cuba and beyond at appropriate F2 skip distance. No KiwiSDRs in Cuba of course, but also absolutely zero signal into Miami and into TWR Dominican Republic. I keep checking these periodically at 1530, 1605, 1657, 1920. Supposed to run until 2000. At 1612 I also check the closest SDR I can find to KVOH, at Laguna, but opposite side across the vast LA metro area, so maybe groundwave would not reach there anyway. So all the evidence is that KVOH is not on the air, and this is not unusual per my occasional chex of 17775 on various days. So Ray, is it just off today, or more often, or continuously, and for what reason? Is Covid-19 indirectly responsible as several SW stations say, or pervasive transmitter problems? The website describes it as ``(Shoffner-Harris)`` --- that variety is a new one on me, more about it? Searching on that combo of names leads to some individuals but nothing about transmitters. Maybe SCG named it for some benefactor? Claims 100,000 watts at 100 degrees central beam with potential audience of 900,000,000 --- minus one. {2010 combined population N & S America was just over 1 gigaperson.} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_continents_by_population I should add another possibility --- the F2 MUF eastward from L.A. is so low below 17 MHz even by local noontime today that all 100,000 watts are heading out into space with no ionospheric refraxion. Maybe makes it to Moon when properly aligned? Ray Robinson of KVOH soon replies on the WOR iogroup: ``Hi, Glenn. KVOH has been off the air for a few days due to a component failure in the transmitter, for which repairs are ongoing. We hope to be back on again by Monday or Tuesday. Ray`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 17775-, May 19 at 1957, still no signal from KVOH, which Ray Robinson hoped would be back on air by this Tuesday. The March 8 program grid if still correct shows M-F Spanish closing times as 1905* on Monday, 2100* on Tuesday & Thursday, 1900* on Wednesday and Friday; English on Saturday until 2000*. Wed May 20 at 1400 nominal Spanish s/on, no 17775 signal. 1659, maybe trace of JJBBA carrier here despite some HF Es between us, but absolutely no signal at Miami SDR. 1757 no signal here nor there (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5085, May 17 at 0607 as I am falling asleep, realize that WTWW-2 is playing the Star Spangled Banner in a piano version, but keeps cutting out toward the end before transmitter off 0609*; of course also with the spurs 5072.1 & 5097.9. Strange that hardly anyone else take note of such a long-standing defect. You can`t miss them on 1-kHz BFO step tuning (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5085, UT Wed May 20 at 0107, WTWW-2 with rock music instead of competing QSO ham show (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1190, May 16 at 0611 UT, dominant signal is `Clair de Lune` on piano, very nice to hear some classical on MW; but whence? 0613 ends with EWTN ID and into `Stories from the Heart`. The lovely piece is only 5+ minutes long, so I hope they played the whole thing. My opinion of EWTN has just ascended a notch. This is of course KDMR Kansas City MO, U2 5/0.5 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 2097.3-CW, May 19 at 0551, single-letter beacon, A, every dekasecond JBA vs noise level, as it has been almost every recent night checked, for the record; from anywhere but Quartzsite AZ (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 9290-9295, May 19 at 0331, non-DRM buzz I have also noticed before. Suspected spur out of supersig 9330 WBCQ, but probably not, as no match on plus side; only way to be sure would be correlating going & coming with 9330 switches off and on. Defective 9265V WINB transmitter, also DRM-capable, would be off by now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)