NOTE: storm with high winds up to 80 mph blew thru Enid about 0845 UT May 22; tree limbs down, power brown- and blackouts repeatedly but then stayed on here. When we reawoke after sunrise, found Suddenlink cable and internet out, and must have been widespread. Automated reply by phone said they were working on it, but remained out all day and into next night. One cable box retained last frame from a channel with time label converting to 1402 UT. Meanwhile, we also found that main direxional rooftop TV antenna was blown down. Later, surprised to find most of the OKC signals 100 km away were still being received from its random position where it landed on the roof! The main SW/MW longwire survived, but not much time for monitoring with other repairs and cleanup to be done. We were lucky as thousands of other Enidians were without power all day including businesses circa downtown Enid, traffic signals here and there. https://www.enidnews.com/news/updated-storms-knock-out-power-to-thousands-in-enid-area-damage-trees-structures/article_4259d2e4-9c51-11ea-a362-9fb7d45d9ae5.html Here at WOR HQ, cable and internet resumed sometime during the night/early morning of Saturday May 23 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR) ** ALGERIA [non]. 6125, May 22 at 0529, Qur`an from RTA via FRANCE, no self jamming vs storm noise from Kansas, and no signal on 7295, but: 7295, *0530 May 22 cuts on with open carrier at S9/+10, no beepery here either --- presumed, or could have been a hAM. 9620, May 23 at 0604, Qur`an also JBA tonebeeps, Issoudun-imposed on frequency used this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ASCENSION. 17745, May 25 at 1825, JBA carrier, off at 1833 check. 16m stations propagating are so precious that any sign of them is notable. This is the BBC Ethiopia hour, 1730-1830 one-third each in Amharic, Oromo, Tigrinya per EiBi; strangely, Aoki has the last third an hour later at 1910-1930. It would be the OSOB except for VOA 17530 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** BRAZIL. 6135.096 et al., R. Aparecida: see UNIDENTIFIED ** BRAZIL. 4885, May 26 at 0606, JBA carrier. It`s rather too early for the Korean clandestine to be propagating, and besides, Ron Howard reports it`s on 4880 this week. 4885 overnight used to be a standout frequency for Rádio Clube do Pará, sometimes even with a SAH from the other ZY, always weaker Rdif. Acreana, Rio Branco, altho WRTH 2020 shows them both not on the air 24 hours. So what is this signal now, Acreana, or Pará on reduced power? Aoki does show Pará 24 hours, and Acreana off 0400-0900. On May 23, Eduard Korsakov in Moskva asked the DXLD yg, ``Clube do Pará is off air on 4885 kHz (due to COVID-19?) for a while. Is it planned reactivation?`` Not sure how he concluded it was off. So I have been checking Brasil KiwiSDRs as night approaches after 2030 UT May 26: Closest is the one at Boa Vista, 1434 km = 891 statute miles city-to-city, but the local on 4875 has terrible audio and wide splatter blocking 4885. Almost as close is the one at Caruaru, Pernambuco, 1581 km = 983 stmi, and on this one I do have a VP signal in Brasilian, which is surely Pará rather than Acreana, much further on the other side of Brasil --- and besides, the KiwiSDR nearest that, in Vilhena has nothing but noise on 4885. Back on Caruaru, at 2059 reception is no better, sounds like an enthusiastic produced ID with music but I can`t copy a single word for sure. Perhaps later hearage by this one will improve to confirm it`s Pará even with a degraded signal? No, at 2157 there is still a carrier but no audio in the noise. At 2206 I try 4885 on the superior tho further Pardinho SP SDR, 2405 km = 1495 stmi due south in the dark, and now there is almost readable Brazilian talk, news, likely official hour on most/many stations, A Voz do Brasil without local IDs. By 0054 UT May 27 recheck, Pardinho has only a JBA carrier which could be Acreana if Pará now be off for the evening (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** BRAZIL. 4885, following up my last report about monitoring for Radio Clube do Pará, Belém: May 27 at 0455 I am hearing a poor signal via Pardinho KiwiSDR, during a talk/interview show and it matches a few seconds later the RCP webcast brought up via Streema --- but the IDs after 0458 are for Rádio Bandeirantes, 840 et al., São Paulo! A station which had abandoned SW some years ago, 6090, 9645, 11925 which are no longer mentioned. Now it`s available to other stations at least as an overnight network feed. 0459 IDs again only for it, not RCP, 2 am timecheck and news. The 4885 signal direct to here remains a JBA carrier, must be very low power. BTW, our condolences to those rational Brazilians who never supported ascension to power of the world`s second-most-stupid president (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA [and non]. 245-MCW kHz, May 27 at 0624 UT, dash and YZE, ND beacon which is 1000 watts from Gore Bay, Ontario, on the north shore of Manitoulin Island between Lake Huron and Georgian Bay, and which dxinfocentre.com says is slated for decommissioning 2020-09-10. Nice to be hearing this under summer conditions, with plenty of storms across TX, 1664 km = 1034 stmi away. Simulaudible underneath weaker and at a much different pitch is FS, which is 400 watts from Sioux Falls - Rock, South Dakota (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. MUST SEE! If you haven`t already and can spare almost two hours, especially if you ever listened to RCI on SW; and most especially if you ever broadcast over it! Or even as an appreciation of *all* the now destroyed SW stations. Mick Delmage reminds us: ``[WOR] Amanda Dawn Christie's "Spectres of Shortwave" about the closure and demolish of the Radio Canada International transmitter site near Sackville, NB. is now free to enjoy from May 26 to Monday June 1st 6PM EDT. https://en.dazibao.art/online Enjoy 73 Mick Delmage`` I bring it up at 23 UT May 26; it`s on Vimeo; not clear what the 6 pm EDT refer to, when it stops June 1? Not taking any chances, I watch it straight thru. Presumably one could play, stop, pause or resume it whenever during the week`s availability window. There are many different narrating voices, but we never see a one of them, in fact hardly any humans during the entire film. Nor are they named before the closing credit roll. Lots of shots of the towers, inside the buildings, highway travel, etc. Final narration is by Marc Montgomery breaking up as he says goodbye on the final transmission, and then during the last quarter with only the guy-wire-strumming? undercurrent accompanying, the towers start falling, excruciatingly, one by one (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jamming survey, May 21 from 1323 tuning down from 13300: 12880, first one found, poor in Chinese; 12820, another here; 12190, poor vs CODAR; 11440, JBA carrier; 11070, JBA carrier; 10960, S6-S9; 10820, S2-S5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer search, May 24 at 1349: 12880 VP S3-S6, best of the WOOB lot, some only JBA carriers, presumed: 11460, 11070, 10870, 10820 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR-1 jammer survey, May 26 at 1440-1450: 14700 & 14500 JBA carriers; 12820 S3-S5; 12580 JBA; 11150 S9/+10; 11100 JBA carrier; 11070 S6-S9; 10920 JBA. All these listed in Aoki/NDXC as jammers of Sound of Hope, except: 14700 and 12560. EiBi has 12560 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, May 27 at 1358; 13020 VP, 12820 S5-S9, against Sound of Hope. Started too late to find others this hour. At 1444-1448: 12190 S3-S7; 11460 JBA carrier; 11440 JBA; 11170 JBA carrier; 10960 S3-S5; 10820 S1-S3; 10720? JBA carrier. Aoki/NDXC shows all vs Sound of Hope except 10960 vs RFA via SOH; and 10720 not listed: instead, I compute that instead as a local mix, 9330 WBCQ plus 1390 KCRC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6100, May 23 at 0542, RHC English instead S9/+10 of dead air; others remain modulable, 6145, strongest 6060, and weakest 6000, while 5040 is in wrong language this hour, Spanish. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 9805, May 23 at 0603, noise jamming here despite OCB on this frequency only at 10-13 UT! Typical incompetence/wastage of the DentroCuban Jamming Command. Altho RM frequency usage is needlessly complex, once set, they stick to it and don`t even try to surprise the jammers by running out-of-schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13650, May 23 at 2302, S9+20 of dead air from CRI Portuguese relay which for a year or more has been filled by nothing but Chinese music; recheck at 2313: OFF. That`s progress? Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba - not to mention CRI. BTW, 13740 RHC is not there at this time either, usually comes on later (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6000, May 25 at 0548, RHC English is S9+20 but just barely modulated/suptorted; 6060 is S9+20 but good modulation during music; 6100 is good, S9+20/30; 6145 is S9 but JBM; 5040 is S9+20/30 but with usual squeal. Somethings` always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15140, May 27 at 1935, RHC English somewhat less distorted than usual as ``Ed Newman`` opens a mailbag, mentions special frequency for Africa, 11880! What does he know? This was replaced weeks ago by 7380. Something`s always wrong at RHC. There is very good reason they never announce full or current English frequencies: they are totally unreliable! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA [and non]. 9340, May 27 at 2200, RHC Spanish again on unlisted frequency I logged before on one date only, May 1 at 0020. Is // weaker 9535, and at 2236 check // 11760, but 9640 is something else in Spanish, i.e. CRI via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN, land of imprisoning and brainwashing Uighurs, Commies vs Commies when RHC is on proper frequency 9640 instead of 9340, evidently another keypad slipdigit punchup error. Something`s always wrong at RHC. Also Commies vs Commies on 9340 where the only listee is CNR1 jamming/Sound of Hope, but none of that audible now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ITALY [non]. 14580, May 26 at 1757, JBA carrier via UTwente SDR, as 7290 is already on with open carrier prior to IRRS broadcast via mystery/unknown/secret site. Wolfgang Bueschel had already reported the harmonic. Ivo Ivanov, who has no connexion with Spaceline, the present Bulgarian SW company, has long maintained that this could not be via that site as all three transmitters are occupied, so Romania? But Alexander Busneag says RRI scheduling shows all their transmitters are also in use elsewhere at this hour. Ivo has often pinned various clandestine or other emissions on ``Secretbrod``, = Kostinbrod, the SW site near Sofia, some 20 km from him, if he can hear them on second harmonic. Today on same broadcast he recorded 7290 and several switches to 14580 where same audio could be barely heard at times. But he says 7290 is not very strong at his location, which it should be? ``SECRETLAND, NEXUS IRRS EGR/UNR and AWR Wavescan#587 via SPL Secretbrod on May 26 1800-1830 on 7290 SCB 050 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English Tue EGR/UNR+2nd harmonic 14580, weak 1830-1900 on 7290 SCB 050 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English Tue WS#586+2nd harmonic 14580, weak: BUT signal on 7290 is not strong and 2nd harmonic is weak here, around 20 km from Secretbrod https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/05/irrs-egrunr-wavescan587-via-spl.html -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLfmLlGztrY&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWO_s5vcnT8&feature=youtu.be 73! Ivo Ivanov`` His 7290 recordings also clearly exhibit the ``RTTY`` warble especially during breaks in program modulation, same as I hear via UTwente. He reluctantly? agrees that 7290 is probably from Secretbrod even tho he thinx all their transmitters are otherwise occupied. So I wonder if it could be from some other site in Bulgaria, mainly utility, where there is also RTTY bleeding into 7290? Another factor leading to Bulgaria instead of Romania is the bandwidth of 7290 compared to other known frequencies of both countries, per Wolfgang Bueschel: almost 12 kHz wide from 7290 and Bulgarians, only almost 10 kHz from Romanians (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MALI. 15125, May 23 at 1730 S5-S7 African language, Hausa? No, Swahili scheduled from CRI Bamako relay (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MALI. 15125, May 24 at 1740, nice African hilife song, S7-S9, i.e. CRI Swahili hour via Bamako; listed // 13645 not noted (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 5100.0, May 24 at 0615, JBA rock music, mushy audio, better in USB tuning, but trace of a wobbly reduced carrier? Or part of the music. 0621 unreadable announcement, peaks S8 in OK storm noise level, past 0627 but just too weak. This frequency could be harmonic of MW 1700 or 1020, but no matches there. 5085 WTWW is off already so not a spur from that. One report from Tom Quinn, west of Cleveland OH, says Sycko Radio was on 5100 earlier, testing in PSK at 0530, switching to RTTY at 0537 with texts as copied: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,67472.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6880-USB, May 25 at 2353, pirate bandscan finds one here, S8 with soul song; 2358 ``Mix Radio International, in collaboration with Cool AM Radio``, jazz special. Many frequent canned IDs in different variations, some by YL voice, some by OM, as the music plays on. Another one at 2359 ``This is Mix Radio International, Worldwide``. 6878.5-USB, May 26 at 0010, I notice QRM on lowside from USB talking. It`s an Army MARS net, discussing QSY to alternate frequency M06 (?), then ``all stations, move to mike zero six eight``. In MARS, frequencies can never be uttered in clear speech! From now on I am monitoring both at same time, always USB: Mix RI on PL-880 with reelout which is sufficient; and MARS on NRD-545 with magloop. And so this report *mixes* them together, I hope clearly: 0011 on 6880, MRI YL ID. 0012 on 6880, OM ID over music, mostly smooth-jazz now. 0013 on 6880, YL ID 0015 on 6818.5-USB, now I`ve found the alt. MARS frequency designated M068, obviously same net group and away from the pirate QRM. Mentions going back to check the other frequency, out. 0016 on 6878.5-USB, here they are again with QRM, but advising to go back to the other one to send message. 0017 on 6878.5, digital mode sent, voice: did you copy? No. They off and on utter abbreviated calls of 6 plus two letters, not always fonetikaly. Like: 0018 on 6878.5, 6AU and Charlie Hotel, are you ready? Affirmative. Ute-blast putting heavy QRM onto 6880 MixRI, but briefly. 0019 on 6880, YL M-R-I- ID 0027 on 6880, OM ID as before about Mix Radio International in collaboration with Cool AM Radio, this time only, heard with e-mail address for reports: mix.radio.international @ cruzanmail.com ? I am not at all sure of cruzan and it was not spelt, but seems like an apropos pirate name. 0028 on 6818.5, net contacts, 0029 digital blaaps; ``This is 6-C-B, all I got in your message were my call letters; send again; and again, this time with the other`s call. Finally some full callsigns: AAR6CU with AAR6AU; one advises the other about why message didn`t work, because cursor was at end of msg in MT-63. 0035 on 6818.5, AAR6CE spelt with a message to exchange 0036 on 6880, YL M-R-I ID and ``This is Mix Radio International Worldwide``; 0037 ``thanks for listening`` but not a closing yet 0038 on 6880, YL ``mix-mix`` 0039 on 6818.5, 6CB with 6CH; alternative is to transmit message by voice or get a relay. ``This is an exercise`` so time to work out the bugs now before a real emergency with a priority message. By voice, the code groups should be read with pauses between them, but this increases possibility of errors; and he examples a few random alfanumerix. 0043 on 6818.5, -CH and -CE, both with AAR6 prefices. 0044 on 6880, YL ID for Mix Radio 0044 on 6818.5, 6AU and 6CH will get together after the net to provide info about ``finding the frequency``. At this point I have enough and take a nap/rest; recheck at 0108, the MARS and MRI are all off. Many more reports here of Mix Radio International: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,67556.0.html only one refers to some ``ham QRM``; went off at 0058* I also search out the two MARS frequencies, and find that in years past, I had 6818.5 once and Harold Frodge had both. Of the full callsigns in this log, the only one getting useful hit on google search is AAR6CH, leading to a 33-page, 10+year-old embedded pdf about Texas Army MARS, including a photo of that op, http://docplayer.net/44567846-Texas-army-mars-lewis-thompson-aaa6tx-february-17-2010.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, May 23 at 0024, quick check of pirate band finds Elvis? here at S6-S8. O, it`s the Roy Orbison tribute from Texas Radio Shortwave. Many more reports here: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,67385.0.html including someone else noting he sounded like Elvis at 0024. Wish I could have heard more of it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 12000-AM, May 23 at 1553, routine bandscan encounters urgent screed from Josiah, usual ``pushing-it`` modulation on new daytime frequency, S7-S8 for anti-Christ pirate Station YHWH. Trace still JBA at 1734 check. Did not seem off-frequency to me, but Harold Frodge, MI, also notes: ``Weak carrier detectable here at 1708 with imaginary level audio. Carrier seems to center about 11999.8`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SCOTLAND [non]. 5850 // weaker 5010, UT Sun May 23 0100-0200, another enjoyable `Encore` hour via WRMI, good via various Rochester KiwiSDRs. Website now provides current and previous playlists, but sometimes difficult to figure out composers being heard. Another repeat coming UT Monday 02-03 on 9455 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 7490, May 23 at 2244, WBCQ again this Sat with TOM instead of scheduled (and long-gone?) `Great Sounding Oldies`; TOM also on 9455 WRMI but totally different. Possibly far out-of-synch feeds and I am not listening to this crap long enough to figure it out; or one of them is playing a pre-recorded backup? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also USA: WWCR ** SPAIN [and non]. 12030, 11940, 11670, 9690, May 21 at 1845, all four REE frequencies are on and modulating, in quick UTwente SDR check. 9690 has some heavy ACI, presumably CRI Bulgarian via Kunming on 9695 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2035) ** TAIWAN [non]. WRMI distributed this notice May 25: ``Freedom Synergy Radio - New Program on WRMI Beginning Monday, May 25, WRMI will broadcast a new program called Freedom Synergy Radio. The program, which will be in English and Spanish, will advocate for Taiwan, Republic of China. Freedom Synergy Radio will air on WRMI at 9:30-10:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time Monday through Friday (0130-0230 UTC Tuesday-Saturday) on 5800 kHz beamed primarily to the Caribbean and on WRMI’s Internet stream. It will also be heard at 10:00-11:00 am Eastern Daylight Time (1400-1500 UTC) Monday-Friday only on the Internet stream, which can be heard at www.wrmi.net and on popular radio streaming services such as TuneIn, Streema and Radio.Garden. Reception reports are welcome and will be answered with a WRMI QSL card by regular mail. Reports can be sent to info@wrmi.net or they can be submitted online on our web page, www.wrmi.net. They can also be sent by regular postal mail to WRMI, P.O. Box 526852, Miami, Florida 33152 USA. http://www.freedomsynergy.world --- You can find more information about Freedom Synergy Radio on their website`` To which I replied on the WOR iog: ``So that replaces R. Prague in English at 0130 and Radio Taiwan International in Spanish at 0200 on 5800. However, RTI remains on 5010, 7780, 9395; and Prague at 0130 remains on 9395 per current webgrid not yet showing Synergy, which is also, of course, anti-PRC. But who is really behind this? Address in Coral Gables - - gh`` I missed the first broadcasts UT May 26 but monitor them UT May 27: at 0130, FSR is on 5800 in English, not Spanish for a 30-minute program, and found also // stronger 9395, contrary to the above. Begins with recent news such as inauguration of Taiwan president, against China`s attempts at ``colonization`` of Taiwan, which was never part of PRC. YL host has slight Spanish accent, not Chinese. After song next topic at 0141 is what a great tourist destination Taiwan is, told in first person, reminds her of Hawaii. Goes on and on until 0156, ID and website ending program, 0157 WRMI fill music. Still on both 5800 and 9395, 0159.5 Spanish IDs by Alfonso Montealegre & Jaime Báguena, and 0200 start *another* English semihour by FSR, not Spanish, but with different content, 0210 about how Taiwan should be recognized instead of China. But wait --- from 0200 not on two frequencies but four, adding // 5010 & 7780 very poor signals here. So this completely replaces Radio Taiwan International which had been in Spanish at 0200 on all four. Maybe RTI retain 5800 an hour earlier at 0100-0130 when I did not check. WRMI websked grid still has not been updated to show anything from Freedom Synergy Radio. With a snazzy generic name like that, why should it be limited to propagandizing Taiwan? Also note that Jeff says the 0130-0230 FSR broadcast on 5800 is also on WRMI webcast --- that normally means the 9955 System B stream, so cut into that only for FSR? or otherwise? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TAIWAN [non]. 5800, May 28 at 0100, RTI Spanish via WRMI is still here, opening the May 27 program; while last night we found all the 0200 RTI Spanish frequencies had been usurped by Freedom Synergy Radio in English. At 0130, 5800 again switches to FSR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, May 22 at 2200 & 2226 chex, NO signal from VOT English to us; nor RTTY. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, May 23 at 2243, VOT is on today with music, off by 2258 recheck, so no extra German today (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, May 25 at 2200, no signal here from VOT. Must have come on late; 2229 check via UTwente it`s VG with music, and nothing else noticed until 2252 COVID-19 advice; 2253 multi-lingual ID reel, no sign-off announcement, 2255 IS; 2256 restart IS with German IDs twice a minute but cut off air at 2259*. Something`s always awry at Ankara, erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, May 27 at 2156, apparently local blob of noise here vs NSS RTTY but no carrier detected from VOT now or at 2202. By 2224 under the QRM I do have a carrier and trace of TRT modulation. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 6878.5-USB and 6818.5-USB, Texas Army MARS: See NORTH AMERICA mixed in with Mix Radio International 6880-USB ** U S A. 13565-CW, May 25 at 1406, HIFER beacon K6FRC in Patterson CA is JBA with repeating IDs. First time heard since March 28 despite almost daily bandscans, and never heard at any other hour later in the day. HF sporadic E today, DXMAP not checked until 1735, across much of the US altho not directly amid this path. The point of a beacon is for it to be always transmitting, alerting whenever there be a propagational opening, but I have my doubts about this one (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. 17530, May 25 at 1825, VOA with African News, finishing by 1830 but when I detect a few-Hz SAH from a second transmitter until one of them goes off at 1832, presumably Grimesland despite poor signal with no sporadic-E boost, leaving a weaker single carrier with no modulation detectable, but scheduled until 1900 is another half hour M-F of VOA, in Kinyarwanda via ASCENSION (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2035 contents: Albania and non, Anguilla and non, Antarctica, Australia, Bangladesh and non, Bougainville and non, Canada, China, Congo, Congo DR, Finland, Germany, Greece, Iran and non, Italy non, Korea North non, Korea South, Madagascar, México, New Zealand, North America and non, Papua New Guinea, Perú, Puerto Rico, Sarawak non, South Carolina non, Spain, Sudan, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Turkey, USA, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Zanzibar; and the propagation outlook WOR 2035 is available as of UT Friday May 22 (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2035.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2035.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 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 William Hassig, Mount Prospect IL, who sent a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com 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, May 22, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2035 monitoring: confirmed first WRMI broadcast, Friday May 22 at 2200 on 9955, very poor weak signal vs pulse jamming. No better at 2226 check. Also confirmed UT Sat May 23 at 0130 on WRMIs: after ABF in Spanish and BB ID, poor in storm noise on 5010; VP altho with noise reads S9 on 7780; VG as usual on 5850 aimed thisaway, S9+20/30. Also barely confirmed Sat May 23 at 1305 & 1325 chex, on WRMI 15770, sounds like my voice but totally unreadable. Slightly better to Bulgaria as Ivo Ivanov reports: ``Weak signal of World of Radio#2035 via WRMI-9, May 23 1300-1330 on 15770 RMI 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English Sat https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/05/weak-signal-of-world-of-radio2035-via.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj8XFvzCSi8&feature=youtu.be 73! Ivo Ivanov`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2035 monitoring: confirmed UT Sun May 24 at 0300 on WRMI 5800, good S9+20 vs storm noise from western/southern OK, missing us directly. Also confirmed UT Sun May 24 starting way late at 0357 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, vs storm noise from IN/IL picked up by IN SDR. 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, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2035 monitoring: confirmed UT Monday May 25 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, VG at Maine SDR. Also confirmed UT Mon May 25 at 0230 on WRMI 7780, VG at Maine, good at UTwente, but VP in high noise level here in OK off beamside. Also confirmed UT Mon May 25 at 0301 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5130, good at Maine SDR which might have seemed too close. Also confirmed UT Mon May 25 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, fair at Maine SDR generally above jamming; fair-good at Bogota SDR with no jamming audible. Also confirmed, UT Mon May 25 from 1800:45 on IRRS 7290 via unknown site, monitored via UTwente SDR, no cutouts past 1809. Tuned in at 1758 to hear open carrier except for constant low warble/RTTY which could be a clue as to site; 1759 JIP music; 1800 IRRS brief sign-on with only contact info the P O Box 10980 in N-20110 Milano, Italy; quick FSN headline news and right into WOR before 1801. Now there is no ACI from 7285 or 7295, but 7290 still sounds ``scratchy``, maybe splatter from 7280 Vietnam stilted Spanish and/or 7300 Iran in German. Also confirmed UT Tue May 26 at 0109 check the 0100 on WRMI 7780, VP here in storm noise level and with intermittent uteblaaps on LSB side or carrier QRM; VG at Maine SDR; G at UTwente but with rapid buzz/click QRM. Next: 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2035 monitoring: not confirmed Wed May 27 at 2100 on 7490v, since WBCQ is off the air, as reported in next item. Confirmed UT Thu May 28 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, good via Rochester SDR, VP into OK. Next WOR 2036 should be ready by early UT Friday May 29, for first WRMI broadcast at 2200 on 9955. Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Thanks this week for financial support from William Hassig, Mount Prospect IL, who sent a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com 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, WOR) ** U S A. 5130 & 6160, May 22 at 2356 just before `AAAWWW` on WBCQ, no signals yet on these frequencies, but 7490 is VG with FKB preacher mis-wrapping up as usual with plug for his later broadcasts on wrong WINB frequency, ``9625`` instead of 9265, Saturday at 9 pm ET; and on WWRB Sun 8 pm on 3215 --- tho last week they had finally made the summer shift to 5050, as yet unconfirmed here: [``WWRB, Morrison, Tennessee, 5050, May 17, 0151, EE with religious program from Challenge Ministries International until 0156, ID at 0157 "This is Radio Station WWRB, Manchester, Tennessee", into filler gospel music selection; 44444 (JRC NRD-535D; antenna 45m longwire with 9:1 Unun) (Robert Butterfield, Columbia, MD, USA``), WOR iog] 7490, UT Sat May 23 at 0000, WBCQ starts `AAAWWW` with WTO and interjexions. Good signal on this one direct. Opens about Planet Earth spinning at 1000 mph and hope we don`t fall off. Huh? Isn`t it flat? Discussing the different mikes he and Angela are using. Last Saturday found a puddle of water in the kitchen when a faucet failed in the 54-year-old house. After purchasing various non-standard parts, he fixed it altho hates plumbing. Angela is beautiful tonight, and X-rated briefly, tease tease. Super-station ``crapped out`` a couple days ago (that must have been when I found 9330 AWOL, May 20 at 2218). More below. Says quadri-casting tonight, also on 6160, 5130, 3265, e-mail reception reports wanted. Belch. Discussing benefits of vegan diet especially with meat prices going up. Avoid ``goo-foods``. Fresh chicken eggs are so much better than store-bought. 0018 interrupted by phone call from someone complaining about calling him. Allan says 78% of Americans are overweight, and 40% of those are obese, a bad situation. Angela starts railing against China for COVID-19; Allan warns not to buy into conspiracy theories. After a quick pirate-band tune at 0024, I check the other WBCQs at 0025: 6159.93V is on fairly with Iran 6160.00 het for another day or two; 5130 is VP in noise, and 3265 as usual inaudible. 0028 Allan says they have just now completed their 14 days of self-quarantine; but he`s been busy, such as installing a new 200-pound modulation transformer in the 780 AM station. 0031 Freddy calls in while on ``pump duty`` and that`s enough for me. Larry Will lasted a bit longer: ``Glenn, to augment what I anticipate are John Carver's notes about tonight's broadcast of "Allan and Angela Weiner Worldwide" on WBCQ, here are my notes: 5/23, 0000 UT. 3265 poor, 5130 fair/good, 6160 very good, 7490 excellent. Disappointing show, started okay, but quickly devolved into ridiculous politics and covid conspiracy theories, stereotypical right wing bashing, and trump ass-licking. Content was so distasteful that we tuned out about 40 minutes in. Lw`` --- and here from John Carver: ``Tonight's AAWWW show started on time on 7490, 6160 and 5130. Allan says they are on 3265 also but I can't pull a signal there. Allan and Angela in the studio. Opening talk about a plumbing emergency at the studio and how he dealt with it. He announced early on that the superstation had crapped out this past week and then got sidetracked as usual talking about how beautiful Angela was. Then he got onto diet and Allan commented that hamburger was selling for seven dollars a pound in upper Maine. Phone call at 0019 from a very angry man who accused Allan of blowing up his phone and wanted him to stop. Then back to health and how the virus was affecting it. Then Angela said out of the blue that we should cut China out of everything and Allan, while agreeing with her to a point, tried to soften what she said. Phone call at 0031 from Freddie and then things turned political with lots of Trump talk. Another phone call at 0046 about regulations affecting churches being relaxed. Finally gets back to the superstation at 0049 but goes off on a bit of a tangent again. Eventually back to the superstation; Allan says their quarantine finally ended and they could visit the superstation. He said that the new antenna went down last Wednesday. Allan and Angela climbed up inside the antenna tower and went from level to level checking things out. Didn't notice anything wrong so had someone in the building fire up the transmitter at low power and they listened and watched. Allan could hear something arcing and they started climbing down checking each level again. Finally Allan could see "lightning" below him and decided the problem was on the first level. They shut down the transmitter and moved down. Had them start again at even lower power and could see and hear the problem. A grounding plug has several "fingers" which make contact and something had caused them to arc and they were now all melted off. Allan had all the people working at the superstation come to the antenna tower and the entire crew along with Allan and Angela worked for better than eight hours to clean the area up and fashion new "fingers" from material that they had at the station. He said it didn't cost them anything but time to repair the problem. He stops the tale there to give us the closing prayer at 0058 and the program was off the air at 0100. John Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. ``If you get a chance to hear this program when it's repeated or can find it in the archives, give it a listen as Allan described what was on every level of the tower as they went up the ladder. Six or eight sections on top of each other. Too fast for me to copy it all and my memory is not what it once was. John Carver`` OK, it did repeat 24 hours later on 7490+ webcast, UT Sun May 24; from 0035 I grit my teeth past the Trumpraise provoked by Freddie the Caller, until finally near the end Allan does that, but also too fast for me to copy, and my scribbled notes make it worse. Seven levels, apparently including ATU, switching. Aha, John Carver got it the second time around, reporting May 24: ``Glenn, Tried to listen to Area 51 last night. 5130 was not up at 2300. Checked the other frequencies and the only one working was 7490 which was moaning and groaning with Brother Stair. Parked the receiver on 5130 and just listened to the noise till 0000. Checked the other frequencies again and 7490 was running a rerun of last night's AAWWW. Went back to 5130 to listen to some more noise and at approximately 0045 the 5130 transmitter came up, carrying the audio from 7490 so listened to the last fifteen minutes of last night's AAWWW. The antenna tower has seven sections. Bottom section is grounding section. Second level contains the gears and motors to turn the antenna. Third section has pumps and tanks to cool the fourth section which has the antenna balun. And now I realize I have forgotten what one section contains but six and seven contain all the gearing and motors to change the configuration of the antenna. At 0100 Shortwave Saturday Night started and approximately five or six minutes into the program the audio changed to that of Larry and Jane and Lumpy Gravy. Sorry my memory isn't what it was. If it's any help I can still name most of my classmates in the first grade :) John`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7490, Wed May 27 at 2051, no signal from WBCQ and still missing after 2100 instead of WORLD OF RADIO`s only broadcast on this frequency. At 2201 I notice that the Super-station 9330 is also OFF! Must be some serious problems at Monticello. As of 0010 UT May 28, no May 27 twits from AW; his latest dated May 26 was promoting ``more great programming`` on 3265 at 9 pm [EDT = 0100 UT]. Guess what, there is NO info about what programming that may be at http://wbcq.com/schedule/index.php?fn=sked&freq=3265 And under summer bandnoise conditions, 3265 range is very limited. Coincidentally I am getting some huge spurblobs on the 7 and 9 MHz band, tempted to think they could be out-of-order WBCQs, but surely not, as not heard on SDRs in TX or VA; see UNIDENTIFIED. 7490v is back on air at 0045 UT May 28 check with rock music but 9330 is still off (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 17775-, May 21 at 1834, still no signal from KVOH, two days after Ray hoped a component would be repaired (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2035) ** U S A. 17775-, May 23 at 1520, still no signal, having reached another Saturday when in English and `Wavescan` should be airing. The only other signals, JBA on band are 17815, presumed WHRI weekends only, and 17615+ Qur`an, far Sa`udi Arabia. KVOH is approaching ten days off. Still no 17775 at 1728. No HF sporadic E to boost it? Yes, there is Es on hamband just above, 18130-USB, op who is becoming a fixture, KW6J/7 in AZ just as he is ending a contact at 1548 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. Ray Robinson of KVOH replies May 23 on the WOR iog to my latest report that 17775 was still missing: ``Hi, Glenn. It looks like KVOH will be off the air a few more days yet. We needed more parts than anticipated, and obtaining them is proving more difficult than normal under the present restrictions. We now expect to be back on the air by Thursday 28th. Ray`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 17775-, May 27 at 1452, KVOH back on after about two weeks` absence, S9/+10 with gospel music and Spanish alabanzas; as before, a few Hz on the minus side. I asked Ray Robinson to explain about the ``Shoffner-Harris`` transmitter designated on their website: ``Hi, Glenn. What you are hearing is the RCA running at 50 kW. The 'Shoffner Harris' is the transmitter we acquired from WTWW (who got it from KTWR in Guam). It was originally a Harris SW100 (not SW100A or B), with many components missing or damaged beyond repair. Over the past five years, it has been radically modified by our chief engineer, Jim Shoffner, and has thus become a rather unique machine. In recognition of Jim's efforts, our president, John Tayloe, dubbed it the 'Shoffner Harris'. It is still being worked on, but at this point, it is not yet on the air. Ray Robinson, Strategic Communications Group, http://www.voiceofhope.com Voice of Hope World Radio Network`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5072.005 & 5097.993, May 23 at 0556, very weak parasitic spurs out of 5085 WTWW-2 with rock music still on at S9+40/50!, measured at slightly different offsets than before, which were approx. 12.9 kHz above and below, now much closer to 13.0. Did Ted touch them up? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. (5085), UT Sun May 24 between 00 and 02, numerous spotchex of WTWW-2 stream hear nothing but hamgab, TONITO no-show (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9378-9392, May 23 at 0607, S9+20 9385 WEWN Mother Angelica lexuring, but outsplattering with peaks plus and minus ~7 kHz. Rarely this transmitter so strong; mid-night HF sporadic E? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5050, Sat May 23 at 2307, Jim Roland, PO Box in Tullahoma TN 37388 repeatedly spelling out this and website address. (How many other ways are there to spell Tullahoma?). S9+10/20, no ID, but certainly WWRB Manchester TN, active weekends only and belatedly for A-season ex 3215/3195; first reported last week by Bob Butterfield. Beware: pirates have also appeared on 5050, and WWRB has been known to fill with jazz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 3215, May 26 at 0609, dead air except for some hum and always squeal from WWCR-1, instead of Brother Scare who continues unabated on 4840. This happens again and again; mis-programming of automation? as if I should care. One less frequency for nonsense, and more $$$ down the drain (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 6135.096, May 24 at 0609, JBA carrier where normally there is none; first thought maybe MADAGASCAR which has been reported active here much later, but it`s too late into daytime now for that. Rather, Radio Aparecida, BRAZIL, which Manuel Mendez, Spain measured on 6135.1, May 22 at 2010-2023. And Wolfgang Buschel measured Mad at 6135.001, May 24 at 1507. As for Aparecida, I suspected gone from SW for good as not heard them in weeks/months on 9630v or 11856v when I check in the nightmiddle, but there was something unlogged on 9630.0, maybe CNR-1 Golmud per Aoki/NDXC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 7330-7350, May 27 at 2051, horrible wideband blob of extremely distorted audio, the cadence of continuous rapid speech but totally unintelligible in AM or FM modes, let alone SSB. Separate from and stronger than Grimesland DRM centred on 7345. I tune around and find more of same thing, very approx. ranges: 7650-7720 peaking 7680 or 7690; weaker ones 6935-6970-6995, and circa 6610, 6260, 5900. At 2156 checking 9830 for Turkey, another such blob has landed here, and circa 9470. Since WBCQ is AWOL from both 7490v and 9330.00, I wonder if those transmitters could be extremely out of order; but surely not, as at 2237 VA and TX SDRs are not hearing any of these. Must be something local, and I sure hope temporary. The ``modulation`` does not match any of our three AM talk stations on 960, 1390 or 1640, compared at 2242. Not rechecked until 0115 May 28: blobs in the above 7 and 9 MHz ranges are still there! And I tune around WOOB to find some more altho not as strong, circa: 8400, 8760, 9115, 10200, 10550. I don`t see any pattern relating these frequency/ranges (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 12000.83, May 24 at 1742, JBA carrier, but can`t make out any modulation; maybe local birdie but unseems. Looking for Station YHWH which was on 12000 yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 13658-USB, May 27 at 1350, 2-way INTRUDERS, very weak, not Spanish, intonation somewhat like Brazilian but not that either (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)