** ALBANIA [non]. 15770, June 30 at 2030 I happen to tune across here as the Radio Tirana IS plays via WRMI; soon canned sign on claiming it`s only on internet, as if this SW relay be inconsequential or even unknown at HQ! Well, it is just about, as the original 6-day-a-week schedule has been pared down and down to only one, on Tuesdays, presumably ceded to paying customers. Off the side here, this one anyway is unusable, S9-S7 but too much noise level (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ALGERIA [non]. 9620, June 28 at 0607, RTA Qur`an is S9 but with rapid beepery, this frequency the lucky one drawing the defective Issoudun, FRANCE transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey June 27: 12820 & 12190 at 1325 vs high local line noise level; at 1432 still 12190 but not 12820. At 1435, 12835 and stronger 12880, both confirmed // 15110. (Almost?) all Sound of Hope frequencies end in -0, consequently also the jammers; so 12835 is unusual, and not in the Aoki/NDXC schedules. At 1437, 13070 in Chinese, S3-S5; at 1440, 9200 JBA //; 1442, 10920 is JBA and 11170, no others in the area (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, June 28 at 1334-1345, lots of them: 13530; 13160 & 13070 & 12820 all S7-S9; 12190 JBA; 14550 Open carrier, else?; 14850 S7-S9; 14980 S9/+10 and only one with a fast SAH implying other signal SOH being jammed; 15110 strangely a JBA carrier only today, maybe VOA not jammed? 11460, 11440, 11170, 11150 JBA; 11120 S4-S6; 10920 & 10820 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, June 29, I am checking unusually before 1300; at 1258, 13070, 12870 in Chinese; 1259, 12800 JBA carrier; 13550 with 5+1 timesignal to 1300*. 1302, 15130, which is vs VOA Mandarin via Philippines this hour only. At 1354, 12870; 12190 vs CODAR; 11120, 10920, 10820 JBA; at 1358, 14400 JBA carrier; 1359, 9230 & 9215 music (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey June 30 at 1329: 14850 S9-S6 fluttery; 14400 JBA carrier algo; 15130; 12880 JBA; 12870 S9-S7; 12190 JBA carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 12200, June 27 at 0541, RHC English at S9+10/20, undermodulated but sufficient. Could easily be a fundamental! But really 2 x 6100, which is S9+30/40. Harmonic leakage must be combining with enhanced propagation, such as sporadic E. Not a trace of RHC on 12000 or 12290, tho the other two 49mb frequencies are also still on the air, 6000 & 6145. Stronger than anything else on 25m. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13820, July 1 at 1402, noise jammer grinding away vs nothing, since that`s a B-season-only Radio Martí frequency, instead on 13605 now, also heavily jammed. Something`s always incompetent and excessive at the DentroCuban Jamming Command (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. 11990, Sat June 27 from 1626 I am monitoring via UTwente, tuned to 11989.0-USB so I will hear a 1-kHz het when the carrier come on. It does, at 1631, but only for a split/second and off again. The same thing happens repeatedly for the next semihour, as I note the times, once or twice a minute, but may have missed some as I was simulistening online to `The Score` on KUCO-FM! Many repeated attempts to turn on the transmitter but it goes right back off again: 1631, 1633, 1635, 1635, 1636, 1638, 1639, 1640, ... 1643, 1643, 1644, 1644, 1644, 1645, 1647, 1647, 1648, 1649, 1650, 1651, 1652, 1654, 1656, 1657, 1657 1658, 1659, 1700... That`s enough for me, so I quit. This is a new IRRS broadcast in Oromo for East Africa, which Ron Norton publicized June 24 without a name or transmitter site as: ``11990 kHz (250 kW) from 1630-1730 UTC on Mon, Wed & Sat to East Africa in Oromo language`` Meanwhile, Ivo Ivanov, very near the ``Secretbrod`` = Kostinbrod transmitter site of Spaceline in Bulgaria, reported: ``NO SIGNAL at 1630 & 1634 UT on 11990, only QRM from 11985 Radio Free Asia in Korean via Saipan. And nothing at 1656, congratulations for SPL Secretbrod. Fair signal at 1707, but unknown broadcaster.`` So I resumed via UTwente at 1714. Now fairly good signal with Horn-of-Africa music and talk in presumed Oromo. Listening closely to sign-off at 1728, sounds like they mention Kenya, but maybe some other word, and quick ID in passing something like ``Radio Otzutaki`` [or Opuzaki??]. Fortunately Ivo posted a clip including that at 1:38 into; what do you think? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXRlgX4_7s4&feature=youtu.be along with two clips earlier via: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/06/irrs-unknown-broadcaster-on-11990-khz.html Meanwhile2, I sent my earlier obs of nothing but carrier attempts to Ron Norton of NEXUS-IBA/IRRS and got this reply from Alfredo Cotroneo in Ireland at 1736: ``Hi Glenn, We are on 11990 with 250 kW. Propagation is crazy today, but we got reports from Russia. Antennas are pointing away from Twente. Alfredo`` To whom I replied: ``Alfredo, I`m sure the signal failed before 1700 as described. Retuned at 1714, then it was on steadily and sufficiently audible until 1729*. Could you reveal the name of this broadcaster, maybe website and/or contact info? Glenn`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KOREA NORTH. 13760.201, July 1 at 1403, VOK way off-frequency, JBA talk in unID language. Much weaker 13650 is on 13649.964. The other ones closer to nominal but unmeasured: 11735, 11710-strongest, 9435 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, June 27 at 0544 presumed Kurdish music, S5-S7, long pause, and more music. Denge Welat via FRANCE until 0600 switches to Pridnestrovye site per Aoki/NDXC. Also could be Turkish jammer ``Radio Recep Erdogan``, but only one signal heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MEXICO. FM DX: see USA [and non] ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9900, UT Sun June 28 at 0005, The Mighty [Farty] KBC found here with S9+20 VG signal presumably still via Nauen, GERMANY, since it`s missing from scheduled 9925! Mistake? No word of any planned QSY nor any need for it. Notified WOR iog immediately and a couple thanked me for the tip. Back on 9925 next week? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NIGERIA. 7255- & 9690-, June 26 at 0557, VON missing from both possible channels (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NIGERIA. 7255- & 9690-, June 27 at 0601, another day off for VON, no signals (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NIGERIA. 7255- & 9690-, June 29 at 0614 check, VON AWOL from both. Must be disheartening for the program producers back in Abuja or Lagos; or do they even know or care about the weakest link, ultimate SW situation? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NIGERIA [and non]. 7254.9v, June 30 at 0550, VON is on already with open carrier except for some hum; 0559 recheck in IS and sign-on Hausa; after missing a few nights. This does not deter a ham QSO on 7253-LSB at 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NIGERIA. 11769.903V, June 30 at 2033, VON in unknown talk, Hausa scheduled, S9-S7 but noisy and undermodulated? Often detected in the afternoons here, always way off-frequency, but haven`t measured it in quite a while. Carrier slightly unstable too (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA [and non]. Another reply from Texas Radio Shortwave June 26: ``Ahoy Matey Glenn - There weren't any ships to raid and burn to the waterline last night so Cap'n Ric was catching up with your logs on the W4UVH website. (Actually, Cap'n can't read so Third Mate Susan was reading the best parts to him, you know, the mentions of TRSW.). He was as pleased as pirate "punch" (i.e. rum) to see TRSW's Roy Orbison tribute eQSL on the site. Third Mate Susan downloaded WOR2040 to give Cap'n something to listen to while her voice recovers. Now we know why you sometimes sound hoarse on the programs. First Mate Mr. Turkey said TRSW may curtail broadcasts to NAm in favor of its monthly programming over Channel 292 in Germany. Or at least until the Fall-Winter holidays. TRSW has a growing listener base in Europe and a relatively fixed group of DX enthusiast listeners in NAm, so the thought is to concentrate on Europe. Right now, based on listeners' feedback, TRSW programs music about Texas and lesser-known songs by Texas artists. Second Mate Mr. Bunny sent his regards and seven already-issued TRSW pirate trading cards. The remaining three cards will be released later this year. Enjoy and collect 'em all. [were attached] 73 and Arrgghh. P.S. When raiding ships, Crew wears protective masks and practices social distancing. Always be yourself. Unless you can be a pirate. Then always be a pirate. https://www.facebook.com/texasradiosw Texas Radio Shortwave Sailing to your ears from the Lone Star State`` (via Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 515 kHz, June 25 at 0640 UT, open carrier is on, but no PN MCW IDs from Ponca City NDB (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 515 kHz, June 26 at 0559 UT, ND beacon PN from Ponca City is once again IDing in MCW with considerable pauses, rather than dead air the last time checked. Overall 25 watt (?) signal seems weaker than it had been, but storm noise levels are high (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 1270, June 30 daytime I can`t get enough signal from KRXO Claremore/Tulsa; UT July 1 at 0158 now some skywave helps as I hear Spanish, ``tu música`` and indeed music right across 0200 hourtop; 0202 ID mentions ``107.9 FM y 1270 AM``; 0510 UT recheck I again hear ``107.9``. Plenty of QRM but this station is generally atop on my E-W longwire. More music across 0600, until 0603 full ID, the first few words pronounced sorta English, ``KRXO, Claremore-Tulsa, 1270 AM y 107.9 FM ---- nueva frecuencia``. I was checking it out after seeing this in Bill Hale`s FM News column in July WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest: ``OK Oklahoma City 107.9 KRXO-FM Spanish CHR: ‘Ritmo 107.9’`` That can`t be right, as the real full-power KRXO-FM is still on 107.7 in OKC, with stupid sports talk, in English; certainly no room for another, one channel up! Same owner Tyler Media does have a 107.9 translator in Tulsa of KRXO (AM) 1270; and a CP to move it to nearby Broken Arrow, per FCC FM Query. However, WTFDA FM Database shows K300CY, the 107.9 in Broken Arrow is Spanish CHR, Ritmo 107.9, relaying KRXO 1270. 1270 must be a recent flip, not sure when; believe I still had 1270 in English sports talk early in June. Radio-locator.com still has it sports, ``The Franchise``. Site is between Owasso and Claremore, NE of Tulsa, but plenty coverage of entire metro. 5 kW day pattern does have a notch toward Enid; 1 kW night pattern less of a notch. Why move the FM to Broken Arrow, SE of Tulsa? Census data indicates most Hispanic neighborhoods are in central Tulsa. Maybe it`s going up on a high-tower antenna farm. Radio.locator.com coverage map for ``K300CY-FM`` [sic] shows from east side of Tulsa near ``New Tulsa``, local contour not reaching all of Tulsa but the distant one does (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 92.3, June 30 circa 1430 UT on caradio, on the way to Primary poll to advance Sen. Inhofe`s opposition, Oklahoma news where normally only fringe remnants of somethings, KS dominant; non-ID as ``Z-92``, soon obviously the Woodward station which is only 10.5 kW H&V ERP, altho ``Z-92`` is not in the WTFDA DB: ``KMZE 92.3 WOODWARD OK 10.5 368.0 m 36-16-23 99-26-45 TALK/SPORTS TRI STATES NEWS TALK SPORTS``. Searching 92.3 on ``Z-92`` (hyphen required) would lead instead to stations in FL, NE. Minor tropo enhancement westward (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. FM DX: see also USA [and non] ** OKLAHOMA. 94.3, June 29 at 1650 and still at 1815 UT, KLGB-LP Enid in dead air, unusual. This would have been helpful if there were any DX on 94.1 or 94.5. Most of the time it`s just playing gospel rock, not even predicating. It started out from a local church and one can still see it on N Van Buren, but unseems anything else is going on in that building. LP tower also hosts 99.9 LPFM. Website provided by radio-locator is blocked by Firefox as security risk. Says ownership is now Covenant Life Ministries; searching for that leads to a different address in Enid. I think the station is just plugged into some satellite feed, except when it fail (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 5890, June 30 at 0552, WWCR-4 is off again, no Brother Scare here. Daytime channel 9980 also gone, June 30 at 1743 check. So maybe the transmitter be broken, or Overcomer`s virtually 24/7 buyout be over already in less than a full month? Had not paid attention to whether the previous few hours a weekday with otherhuxters remain on #4 air: 9980 M-F 20-21; 5890 Tu-Sa 02-04. But June 30 at 2025, 9980 is also OFF. Maybe we shall see a revised program schedule after July 1, mostly blank (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, June 26 at 2246, VOT is on with Turkish music which would have been enjoyable were it not for the choppy signal and noise level, could not copy whether sign-off still claims to be the 1230 on 15450; cut off at 2255* so no spurious German today (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, June 27 at 2202 check, VOT is on today but poorly audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, June 30 at 2221, VOT is detectable, but very weak and unreadable vs no RTTY, but local persistent birdie, talk rather than music fill. Try UTwente, and find excellent reception, `Turkey`s Tourist Attraxions` about Mardin, ending into music at 2223 --- one of the talk programs still being aired if not produced, probably evergreens. Mardin is in the southeast, i.e. Kurdistan and has a majority-Kurdish population who spell it Mêrdin. I`ll bet TRT didn`t emphasize that or even mention it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** UKOGBANI [non]. 9410, UT Sun June 28 at 0604, BBCWS news mentions that Andrew Jackson was US president 1855-1859!? Really 1829-1837. Followed at 0606 by one of their COVID-19 programmmes, but ID as BBC OS. What means that? ``OS Conversation``: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct0vzd Barely sufficient reception, this bihour via USAGM SAO TOME, as BBC continues to ignore North American SWLs (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U K [non]. Re my 9410 BBC via SAO TOME log, ``Followed at 0606 by one of their COVID-19 programmmes, but ID as BBC OS. What means that? ``OS Conversation```` --- Richard Langley replies: "Outside Source": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_OS (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 11121-USB, Friday June 26 at 2300, fortnightly AF MARS broadcast just barely audible, mostly uncopiable despite slow pace, fade-outs, but originates (message, or transmission?) from Scott AFB, Illinois. Three more chances so will try later: but next one at 2320 on 7324-USB is a no-show at least until 2323. 7324-USB, UT Sat June 27 at 0100, repeat of MARS broadcast starts abruptly, despite AM carrier on 7325, which is Iran in Spanish until 0120. Why in the world would MARS pick such a frequency, and USB instead of LSB, no less. Fortunately Iran is weaker and the R75 ANF rids most of the het. So I take some notes, more detailed at the start: ``MARS, MARS, this is MARS-COM. Do not answer. Authentication FGHEZQ [fonetik]. 26 June 2020. HQ message #1-2`` Paragraph 1: July X, 2020, on or about 20 July-24 July, on-line communications... Paragraph 2: A-6 leadership changes, AFW4C and AFW0C Paragraph 3: [missed: quick check of 11121-USB which is scheduled duplicative at this hour only, to hear weaker different voice reading presumed same text but not synchronized; where from? No callsign IDs heard on either frequency] Paragraph 4: COVID-19 - standard advice for coping. Paragraph 5: more than 50 trainees are in the pipeline; mentor volunteers needed Paragraph 6: AF MARS Special Operations seeks volunteers Paragraph 7: Thanks for support; from HQ --- ``Next broadcast will be on 10-11 July 2020; on 10 July at 2300z on 11121.0; 2320z on 7324.0; 11 July at 0100z on 11121.0 & 7324.0; 0120 on 7324.0. Supported by the 12th Air Force Military Support Squadron; contact AFH1C [is that a callsign or an abbr.?]. End. This is MARS-Com, out`` until 0109. I did not try for the final repeat at 0120 on 7324. Thanks to Chuck Gessner, W3ON, for notifying us on the WOR iog about this after the previous biweekly broadcast, including that reception reports go to reception@xcvrs.com (Glenn Hauser, USAF Ret., OK, WOR) ** U S A. Received a detailed reply, if not explicit QSL from anonymous Broadcast Manager at MARS to my June 26-27 monitoring of 11121-USB and 7324-USB fortnightly broadcasts. Here I will just post the ``red`` reply portions: ``Glenn: Thank you for your reception report. I am going to insert comments below in red. The red is only for ease of identification and infer no other meaning. Broadcast Manager To: reception@xcvrs.com Subject: 7324 and 11121 broadcasts monitored in Oklahoma [11121-USB, Friday June 26 at 2300:] ``This broadcast was from Northern Virginia just southwest of the DC metroplex.`` [7324-USB, UT Sat June 27 at 0100:] ``This broadcast was transmitted from central Kentucky. The DoD and NATO standard for HF broadcasts is Upper Sideband regardless of frequency. USB applies to both voice and digital modes. (The arbitrary convention adopted by amateur radio worldwide of using Lower Sideband below 14 MHz is simply a convention with no reason based on science.) Regarding the use of 7325 kHz, there was no interference 500 Hz below the center of the channel when we began using the channel. We have requested a small move of that channel based on long-term SDR logging of nearby activity. The change process is not simple. Because it is a DoD frequency it has to be coordinated up thru the Air Force and DoD. When DoD approves they make a request to The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) in the Department of Commerce for frequency coordination. Here is a graphic of the complex spectrum management workload at NTIA. https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/2003-allochrt.pdf So, as you see, when a country decides to start transmitting on an interfering frequency it is not easily solved overnight.`` ``The broadcasts are transmitted by the Air Force MARS Military Support Network which uses the on-air callsign of MARSCOMM. We do not transmit the callsign of the transmitting station in accordance with DoD directives regarding protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII).`` ``At 0100 we had simultaneous broadcasts on 11121 from Nevada and 7324 from South Dakota. Both of those stations are always very strong. From Oklahoma I copied both stations Loud & Clear on two different channels on an ICOM IC-7610.`` ``At 0120 there was a single broadcast on 7324 from South Dakota. It too was Loud & Clear at all reporting stations.`` ``Thank you for your signal report. We hope to hear from you again in the future. MARSCOMM Broadcast Manager`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. No sporadic E FM DX captured June 26 despite a few chex when there were scattered 100+ MHz MUFs on DXMaps; but at least 30 MHz, as I log a few more beacons on the 10m hamband: 28251.5-CW, June 26 at 2145, long message and long pauses --- so you could easily miss it in bandscanning; after several iterations - minutes, managed at least to copy the ID: KE5JXC/B. It starts with that, no VVV, or DE; and ends with figure 9, probably grid square. Per WJ5O beacon roster, it`s: ``28.2515 KE5JXC C PECAN ISLAND, LOUISIANA # 5W, VERTICAL new 10 Sept 15`` --- ooh, I love pecans, but not the hassles of harvesting them before the squirrels, blanching and cracking and extracting. Pecan Island is a town of 400 less than 10 miles from the coast due south of Alexandria; beware: distancefromto.net measures some place NW of Baton Rouge. QRZ.com: ``KE5JXC USA flag, Arnold J Lemaire, 13630 La Hwy 35, Kaplan, LA 70548 -- 10 Meter Beacon 28.251.5 MHz CW, 5 watts output, Vertical @ 20' AGL located in Grid EL39sp Pecan Island, LA``. Kaplan is about 25 miles north of there, at 547 miles, so P.I. would be about 565 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) 28224.5-CW, June 26 at 2153, K5GJR/B, ending with figure-7. It`s: ``28.2245 K5GJR C CORPUS CHRISTI, TX # 5W, VERTICAL`` ``K5GJR USA flag, Randy L Bates, Corpus Christi, TX 78415 USA Hello All, I'm active on most bands 160-70cm's.I have a 10mtr beacon that runs 24/7 at 28.224.5,consisting of a Radio Shack HTX100, putting out 2.5 watts,using a Pico keyer kit I assembled, into a Antron A-99 vertical antenna at 40'.73s Randy k5gjr``. 957 km = 595 statute miles (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 28236.5-CW, June 27 at 2140, 10-meter beacon activity lacking any 3-meter FMDX, long message with ID finally copied as W0KIG/B, and --DO, but had to be this, missed a dit making it -Z instead of -G, from WJ5O roster: ``28.2365 WØKIZ C DENVER, COLORADO # 5W, 1/2 VERTICAL`` i.e. from https://www.qrz.com/lookup/w0kiz ``W0KIZ USA flag USA, ROBERT E GOLD, CASTLE ROCK, CO 80104 USA QSL: CORRECT ZIP CODE 80108 --- The second picture is my 10 meter beacon on 28.2365 mhz running about 9 watts with 5 watts to the antenna on my barn. The 5763 final tube is approaching 80,000 hours of continuous operation. Yes, properly designed equipment with the correct voltages running ccs operation can last as long as solid state. This beacon is never disconnected for lightning.`` At this time there was lots of activity on 10m, non-beacon CW at bandbottom, phone USB above 28.3; also lots on 11m CB. WWV in well on 25000, correlating with short-skip beacon also from CO, under 500 miles. Yet even when this happen, find near/zero activity on 12 or 15 m. I look for any on the latter and do find one: 21363-USB, June 27 at 2200, YL K5RZA, YL participating in Field Day with quick QSOs: ``K5RZA DEBORAH S BOWEN, P O Box 2856, Fredericksburg, TX 78624 USA`` BTW, UT Sun June 28 circa 0600, 40m is crammed with LSB Fieldayers --- nighters? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 28298-CW, June 29 at 0118, beacon in slow CW, including K5TLL/B, EM51gg, good between fades. WJ5O roster shows: ``28.298 K5TLL C HATTIESBURG, MISSISSIPPI # 25W, VERTICAL New Freq 14 Dec 08`` No FM DX now, but from opposite direxion, Es MUF also provides WWV on 25000 at 0124 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 28224.5, June 29 at 1402, at least enough sporadic E MUF to re-audiblize beacon K5GJR/B plus uncopied grid square. It is: ``28.2245 K5GJR C CORPUS CHRISTI, TX # 5W, VERTICAL`` ``K5GJR USA flag USA Randy L Bates, Corpus Christi, TX 78415 USA`` 28209+, June 29 at 1407, VVV VVV VVV DE K7EMX/B ``28.2093 K7EMX C KEARNS, UTAH # 3W,VERTICAL New 5 August 2016`` ``K7EMX USA flag USA, PAUL R LARSON, KEARNS, UT 84118 USA`` Kearns is a SW suburb of SLC. He has the largest qrz.com page I`ve ever run across: huge supply of stills and videos, many political and/or funny: https://www.qrz.com/lookup/k7emx Several mentions of his 6m beacon but unfound anything about 10m (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2039 monitoring: confirmed UT Thu June 25 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, JBA in noise level. WORLD OF RADIO 2040 contents: Armenia, Australia, Bulgaria, China, Djibouti non, East Turkistan, Ethiopia non, Germany, Guatemala, India, Iran non, Iraq, Italy non/Kashmir non, Korea North & South non, México, Nigeria, North America, Tibet non, UK, USA, Vanuatu; and the propagation outlook WOR 2040 is available as of 0100 UT Friday June 26 (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2040.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2040.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 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400] 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 Bulgaria 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 Gerald T. Pollard, Raleigh NC, who sends a generous quarterly contribution marking Solstices & Equinoxes, by check in US funds on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 One may also contribute via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com PayPal not necessarily in US funds as they will convert. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2040 monitoring: confirmed first WRMI broadcast, Friday June 26 at 2200 on 9955, poor but no jamming audible. Also confirmed UT Saturday June 27 at 0130 on WRMIs: 5010 & 7780 VP in storm noise; 5850 VG way over still audible storm noise on only beam toward OK; I listen critically to whole thing; note a couple minor upcuts in editing, but no background noise. Next: 0900 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400] 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 Bulgaria 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 2040 monitoring: confirmed Saturday June 27 at 1325 the 1300 on WRMI 15770, JBA but sounds like my intonation. Next: 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400] 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 Bulgaria 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 2040 monitoring: the Sat June 27 at 1930v UT on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, Wentzville MO, I try to hear circa 1955 via closest remotes to there in IL, IN, IA, but no signal reaching them in summer daytime. May well be on anyway. Confirmed UT Sun June 28 at 0300 on WRMI 5800, VG via TWR Bonaire SDR Confirmed UT Sun June 28 starting at 0324 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, fair-good. 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 Bulgaria 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 2040 monitoring: I was not aware of it at the time, but ``From, the desk of Richard’s listening Post, Richard Lemke, City: St. Albert, Province: Alberta, Country: Canada Radio: JRC NRD-535 HF, Antenna: random long wires in the trees Dear Glenn: heard World of Radio rescheduled now on 7730 kHz at 0030 June 29 UT (I don’t know if this was the first time heard or longer period this frequency I gave [up?] on monitoring), USA, WRMI, 7730 kHz, 0030-0059 UTC, heard World of Radio #2040, 0031, 0044 signal S 7 (453), June 29 UTC (Lemke, Richard -AB) Good Listening, June 29, 2020`` Yes, I see it now in the System D schedule for UT Mondays, without notice a significant change since last checked. (BTW it still shows imaginary WORings at 1030 on 5950, several times 21-22 on System D without frequencies, Wed 21 on 7780, Sat 1130 on 9955.) I reconfirm: UT Mon June 29 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, JBA weak vs high storm noise level, but at 0143 good via UTwente, VG via Maine SDR; and also on WRN webcast. Also confirmed UT Mon June 29 at 0230 on WRMI 7780, again JBA vs HSNL, but 0240 VG at Maine. Also confirmed UT Mon June 29 from 0303 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5130, good at Rochester NY SDR; ``The Show Is Over`` intoned JL until 0301, then a couple minutes of A51 wildness, before WBCQ ID and WOR start. 5130 direct is useless; Blitzortung map shows lots of storms including: SW NE to S MB; E AR; MN/WI; SC; VT/NH. Also confirmed UT Monday June 29 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, good at TWR Bonaire KiwiSDR. Also confirmed Monday June 29 from 1800:37 on IRRS 7290 Bulgaria as monitored via UTwente SDR; tuned in at 1757 to open carrier vs RTTY wobble on 7291, evitable on LSB, and inevitable splash from 7280 Vietnam, 7300 Iran; a few seconds before 1759 cut on modulation which I immediately recognize as within a `Wavescan` as Ray starts talking about Gough Island. IRRS also stix fragments of WOR on air as filler unpredictably. That`s chopped off a few sex before 1800 for IRRS sign-on, the n/a one recommending synch tuning to reduced carrier USB which this is not; FSN Washington very quick headlines and then WOR. Running OK past 1810; and 1820 recheck; (but sudden thunder here thrice around 1824/1826/1828 despite none predicted, and no storms anywhere near per Blitzortung which does also detect them: popups, and hasten to close down antennas and computers.) Next: 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. WORLD OF RADIO 2040 monitoring: confirmed UT Tue June 30 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, JBA here, good at UTwente SDR. 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 2040 monitoring: confirmed the Wednesday July 1 at 2100+ on WBCQ 7490v, good at a Rochester NY SDR checked at 2121, while poor at Alexandria VA, and JBA here so I could not be positive it were I speaking. Next: 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 Gerald T. Pollard, Raleigh NC, who sends a generous quarterly contribution marking Solstices & Equinoxes, by check in US funds on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 One may also contribute via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com PayPal not necessarily in US funds as they will convert. Next WOR 2041 should be ready by early UT Friday July 3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9330, June 25 at 0055, WBCQ-6 is off as it was at earlier chex June 24, but now just for antenna swivel, as *0100 back on just in time with AW ID and WLCR. No explanation yet of the daytime outage by AW twit as of 0136 UT June 26 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9330, 7490, 6160, 5130, June 26 at 2312, all WBCQs are absent, so bodes ill for `AAAWWW` in following hour. 7490.04, UT Sat June 27 at 0000, this WBCQ is back on, but poor in storm noise, after FKB gospel huxter, then that commercial for SDRs before WTO and AAAWWW starts. After noting that there is a problem with 6160 & 5130 as if they are nowhere near Maine, A&A launch right into Trump-forever commentary, so back to MSNBC for me. Recheck at 0022, 6159.90 is on now and about as poor as 7490.04, and 5130.0 is detectable but unusable. 0051 recheck just in time to hear him admit that they are back in ``Studio 9 in Deland of Fla`` --- even tho it`s high summer, nor is it yet a repeat but live on ``26th of June, YOOL 2020``. Current storm areas marring reception here are: NW TX/OK Panhandles; but major line along the KS/CO border, and a long line across KS, S IA, N IL, N IN, S MI, N OH as far as Cleveland. I`ve been listening only on SW direct, not webcast or remotes (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5085, UT Sun June 28 at 0024-0053, WTWW-2 with Theater Organ [NOT] in the Ozarx, Bob Heil presenting guest performances from elsewhere, as I listen instead to $tereo webcast; time always varies if at all. 5850, UT Sun June 28 at 0100-0159, `Encore` classical music via WRMI, I can`t get on webcast, but VG SW reception via one of the numerous Rochester NY KiwiSDRs; to repeat 25 hours later on 9455 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 4980, June 29 at 0227, JBA carrier, presumed still/again WRMI few watts of exciter only as marker, in case they want to resume 100 kW upon it. I can`t make out any modulation, nor at 0615, but Anker Petersen, Denmark, reported earlier to the NASWA Flashsheet: ``4980 USA. WRMI, Okeechobee, FL, 0150-0155, 25.6. English talk, music and song. 15231 // 5010 (25333). (Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark. Equipment: AOR AR7030Plus with 28 metres of longwire`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WRMI: see ALBANIA [non] ** U S A. 9395, July 1 at 1417, this WRMI-6 is off, no signal, while 9455 WRMI-8 with TOMBS on same parameters is S9+10. Recheck at 1836, 9395 is back on (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 17775-, Saturday June 27 at *1453, KVOH carrier on as I have been waiting for it; 1455 music; 1458 English ID & IS; 1500 sign-on; 1501 hymn so no Wavescan? No, that`s the way WS starts this week, a DX program without a constant themesong for sesquidecades. Signal is S6-S9 and somewhat undermodulated. I want to check how it sound closer to Carib target, but little or no signal at TWR Key West, Bonaire, DR remotes, nor the one at Alexandria VA. Therefore KVOH is failing to reach its intended audience. There is plenty of single-hop HF sporadic E between Simi and here, MUF beyond 18 MHz, getting it here, but would require improbable double hop to Carib, if not non-sporadic F2 prop which obviously is not funxional (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. I recently remarked that `Wavescan` did not have a regular themesong; in fact it does, as in script for June 21 edition, it`s: ``Opening Theme (00:00) Birthday Serenade: Willi Glahe`` But it was surprisingly replaced by something else when I listened June 27 at 1501 on KVOH 17775, probably first advance airing of June 28 edition: ``Opening Theme (00:00): Youtube: Quarantine Anthem`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5050, June 29 at 0226, WWRB with gospel huxter at S9+30/40; only active frequency and only on weekends; the most underutilized of US SW stations, wonder why? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5890, June 29 at 0620, WWCR-4 is OFF, so no TOM, sob! But he`s still on squealy 3215; 5935 DGS is on but weakish; 4840 VG with OTR drama, instead of scheduled Overcomer (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WWCR: see SOUTH CAROLINA [non] ** U S A. 9980, July 1 at 1830, WWCR-4 is still AWOL; crashed? Outdated June 1 program schedules still display (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7315, June 29 at 0128, horrible squeals coming out of WHRI during Voice of Vietnam relay, making own audio hard to follow; spreads 7305-7325 but somewhat elbowed by VOA/Vatican violating SOCAS on 7305. With BFO I try to zero beat the multiple peaks to approx.: 7309.4, 7313.2, 7313.7, 7316.3, 7317.5, 7319, 7321 as they beat against each other as well as the fundamental. Tuned directly to 7315.0, one can also tell modulation is distorted; first thought it was Spanish instead of scheduled Vietnamese. 7315 squealing still at 0225 during WHRI`s own gospel music (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7315, WHRI, not multi-squealy at 0100 June 30, OK with VOV relay, unlike 24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. Sporadic-E FM DX, June 25 from 1624 to 1730 UT on the caradio; with portable DX-398 backup hardly needed. Later hours of research rely on WTFDA FM Database; and distances city-to-city via https://www.distancefromto.net/ 1624, 90.3, classical CCI to nearby OK station; 1627 it`s `Exploring Music` like on 90.1 KUCO-FM but not // or at least not synchro. Widely syndicated but affiliate list at https://www.wfmt.com/where-to-listen matches only: Muskegon, Michigan, WBLV-FM, 90.3, M-F, 12n [EDT] WBLV 90.3 TWIN LAKE MI 100.0 kW H&V, 186.0 m HAAT, 43-33-08 86-02-31 Bluelake BLUE LAKE FINE ARTS CAMP News CLASSICAL/JAZZ BLUE LAKE PUBLIC RADIO; 1249 km = 775 mi; and there`s more DX soon from MI 1625, 87.7, two ads in English with 800 numbers, must be a Franken FM, or could be 87.75, soon fade out 1630, 93.1, CCI to KS fringe station, mentions Miami Beach; and a furniture? store named Houston`s? Suspect it`s this: WFEZ 93.1 MIAMI FL 98.0 kW, 307.0 m, 25-58-02 80-12-34 HD SOFT AC EASY 93.1; 2051 km = 1274 mi 1633, 93.9, CCI to OK gospel music semi-local normally dominant 1635, 95.3, CCI to KOKC OKC which tho a translator normally dominates 1636, 96.7, YL rock DJ, claims mosquitoes seldom bite, her super-power?, ``in northern Michigan``. Well there are four full stations at 44+ latitude, WLXV Cadillac, WUPG Republic, WRGZ Rogers City, but they are all Country except for: WMJT 96.7 MCMILLAN MI 50.0 kW, 126.0 m, 46-32-02 85-35-24 HOT AC 96.7 FLASH FM; 1499 km = 931 mi, northern side of U.P. 1639, 97.3, YL conversation about the arts. There are a few if we are still in Michigan, but none with a format implying that 1640, 97.5, weak station turns out to be KMOD Tulsa. Today and during previous openings I have not been hearing our closer 97.5, KPAK Alva, 50 kW at 150 m, ``The Quake``, which I should be unless it`s OFF (we have been quaking around Enid lately) 1641, 97.3, now country music, but no such format in MI either 1644, 93.1, CCI to KS, phone 344-3517, ArizonaLottery.com atop, ``Z-93, Outlaw Country``, ``Today in Yuma`` with phone lines, but only hear two YLs in studio chatting about water safety; still past 1653: KLJZ 93.1 YUMA AZ 100.0 kW, [only!:] 25.0 m HAAT, 32-39-06 114-39-04 HOT AC Z-93 TODAY'S BEST MUSIC; 1584 km = 984 stmi In again at 1720, with ``Z-93 latest Yuma news``, phone 1652, 92.1, CCI to weak Okies, PSA in Spanish, a la mejicana. Perhaps this since I definitely have Ensenada a few minutes later on 92.9: XHHC-FM 92.1 ENSENADA BC MEX 6.0 kW, -131.79 m, 31-53-27 116-34-46 Spanish GRUPERA LA LUPE However, a ``height above`` average terrain of minus 132 meters is not promising, unless it`s a clear shot to the east. No SS in southern California or Nevada, but there is one such AZ station: KCMT 92.1 GREEN VALLEY AZ 50.0 kW, 150.0 m, 32-00-11 110-47-49 Spanish REGIONAL MEXICAN LA CALIENTE 92.1 Y 95.7; 1307 km = 812 mi, between Tucson & Nogales, quite a bit closer than PTA 1658, 91.5, ``KSNS, Medicine Lodge-Pratt-Alva, New Song 91.5`` so it`s including OK from site in KS, impinging on 91.7 KOSU coverage to the N and W of Enid; but KOSU adds IBOC noise, usually unnoticed. KSNS 91.5 MEDICINE LODGE KS 0.0 kWH 96.0 kWV. 141.0 m, 37-14-02 98-39-55 A4EC KSNS CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN KEEP SINGING NEW SONGS" Note it`s vertically polarized only; wish it were horizontal only to lessen caradio QRM. 1700, 92.9, Spanish briefly overcomes Okies, luckily during ToH full legal ID which normally includes street address; I can`t copy much of it, but definitely ``Ensenada, Baja California``, so it is: XHFZO-FM 92.9 ENSENADA BC MEX 15.0 kW, 392.0 m,31-44-30 116-43-35 Spanish FFFF AMOR MIO 92.9FM SEMPRE CONTIGO, ROMANTICA 92.9 FM 1806 km = 1122 mi 1701, 92.1, ad for Midwest Machinery, 1702 ``Little Falls Radio``, news about Pierce School District; plans for August 11 primary vs COVID, Morrison Country, fade-out. All this including M.M. operative in Little Falls among other MN towns makes it: WYRQ-FM 92.1 LITTLE FALLS MN 6.0 kW, 91.0 m, 45-56-58 94-17-46 COUNTRY Q 92; L.F. is between St. Cloud and Brainerd in central MN. 1117 km = 694 mi. The Es patch from UP MI must have blown westward 1710, 92.3, Spanish music CCI to KS briefly; 1717 another fade-in, ``es jueves``, how do you say ``duh!`` in Spanish? More helpful would have been city or call, and we already know the frequency too. If we are still in BCN, could well be this one: XHMMF-FM 92.3 MEXICALI BC MEX 21.9 kW, 48.08 m, 32-38-18 115-38-17 Spanish SPANISH HITS BALADAS LA BESTIA GRUPERA; 1637 km = 1017 mi In AZ there is a negligible 92.3 SS translator in Parker, 1509 km = 937 mi, N of Yuma; none in NV; and in all of Alta California, only 92.3 SS is a translator in Delano. 1728, 97.3, ``97.3 in Shawnee & Prague [with a long A]`` among multi-station/city IDs. So it has to be KKNG-FM 97.3 BLANCHARD OK USA 1.0 kW, 244.0 m, 35-10-38 97-36-10 Visit us at WWW.OKCR.ORG, RELIGIOUS TEACHING Trouble is, Blanchard is on the other side of Norman and the two towns attached to 97.3 allegedly have their own local frequencies, per Oklahoma Catholic Radio, https://www.okcr.org/stations Find Your Local Station, i.a. Oklahoma City: KKNG 97.3 FM Prague: KIOP 88.3 FM Shawnee: KOGD 107.1 FM With only 1 kW ERP, KKNG fringe contour barely reaches Shawnee: https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=KKNG&service=FM But then I just DXed it much further away, hardly enough for easy listening. BTW, KKNG was previously the call of 92.5 in OKC, EZL music as ``King FM`` long before KOMA overtook it. Sporadic-E DX sessions also allow me to encounter otherwise unheard OK stations. The DX seems to be dying out, so I QRT at 1730 UT. Besides, there`s lunch and then produxion of the next WORLD OF RADIO, 2040 for the rest of the afternoon. Sporadic chex of the Es map show MUF steadily decreasing (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR) ** U S A. 93.1, June 29 at 1642 UT on caradio, I`ve been alert for Es, altho when I departed, DXMAPs were not showing MUFs 88+ MHz. Among several semi-open frequencies, My 93.1 in Hutchinson is getting CCI, which at this time totally overtakes it with PSAs about Nebraska, mentions Rural Radio Network (as on KRVN AM 880 et al.), then ``93.1 the River`` ID. So it is per WTFDA FM Database: ``KRVN-FM 93.1 LEXINGTON NE 100.0 kW H&V, 271.2 m HAAT, 40-41-48 99-47-18, COUNTRY 93.1 THE RIVER`` Trouble is, distance city-to-city is 514 km = 319 statute miles --- too close theoretically for sporadic E, at least without a huge high-MUF opening; yet far too far for groundwave lacking a tropo opening. A fluke of some sort or other, but which could it be? (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR) ** U S A. 93.1, re my strange reception of KRVN 93.1 over a 319-mile path, there is of course a #3 possibility for propagation mode --- meteor scatter. I did not consider this at the time, since it lasted at least a minute and did not display any rapid fading, both of which are uncharacteristic of MS --- but the ``in-between`` distance is more appropriate, and a fireball might have lasted that long. I wonder if there is any reference of such events and their precise locations and timings (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VANUATU. 11835, June 26 at 0550, RV, 3 x 3945, in presumed Bislama, poorly audible S4-S7 but better than it has been for several nights; despite storm noise this high in the band from the Nebraska area; 0556 improving with ``island music``. JBA carrier on 7890 = 2 x 3945. I don`t even bother to try the fundamental this early (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VIETNAM [non]. See USA: WHRI for horrible squeals on 7315 relay UNIDENTIFIED. 7755-USB, June 30 at 0544, weak 2-way with ``cambios``, but don`t recognize any other Spanish. Do they also say ``cambio`` in Tagalog or any other languages? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 11600-11300, July 1 at 1407-1416, looking for CNR1 jammers, hear a big wideband buzz slowly drifting downward, ionosonde? Seemed steady but really slowing down, as I time approximate intervals between crossings: 11450-11400: 55 seconds 11400-11350: 80 seconds 11350-11300: 205 seconds And it`s just about stalled around 11300, 55 seconds later (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 13570, June 25 at 1400, S5-S9 open carrier past 1401+. Scheduled here earlier is CRI via Xian; later from 1600, RFA via Saipan. 14550, June 25 at 1406, another open carrier, S3-S4. Nothing sked here; the closest SOH/CNR1 jamming in Aoki/NDXC being 14560 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 28218, June 28 at 1451, two beacons near here, and another, a W1, at 28290, but none so listed, and no time to pursue. a lot later I got WJ5O himself again from AL, so 28289.3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) WORLD OF RADIO HITLIST UPDATE Hi Glenn, My latest Hitlist update. http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm 1) Germany - Channel 292: Added direct link for programming on frequency of 3955 kHz 2) Madagascar - Madagascar World Voice: Added link for African Pathways as part of MWV entry 3) South Sudan - Eye R: Updated link to Live stream 4) Spain - REE: Updated link to frequency page for A-20 schedule 5) UK - BBC WS: removed links to "Global Beats"; added links to "This is Africa" and "Music Life" Unless there's a major change anywhere, the next update will be late July. Best wishes and 73, Alan Roe DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html WORLD OF RADIO SCHEDULES http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Both updated as of June 30 UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS Many thanks to John Carver, Bringhurst IN, for a generous contribution to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, with this touching hand-printed note sent June 23: ``Glenn, Finally got my plague check and am sharing a portion with you just as you have shared DX tips and your radio knowledge with me and everyone else for all these years ever since I subscribed to the print edition of RIB. As I recall, I answered an ad in the WRTH. I have been proud to contribute a few news items to you and hope to do so again in the future. Have not been able to contact my computer guy as of yet. Really miss the WOR group and the other mailing lists as my only source of information now is the WOR radio program. Feel very isolated and alone here. Been ill a couple of times and am going through a spell of physical problems, and my eyes are getting worse. Hope you`re doing well. Thanks, man. John`` When you can finally read this, John, we all wish you the best! (gh)