** ALASKA. 9580, Aug 23 at 1451, English S7-S9 starting `Creation Moment`, in KNLS English hour. What a pity any airtime be wasted on that anti-scientific nonsense by this and other gospel huxter stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-CUSB, Saturday August 22 at 1442, LRA36 already on with songs at S2-S4 via Brasil KiwiSDR; 1444 usual canned ID for `Corazón Antártico` and phone, e-mail contact info. 1517 song, 1518 another ID; still going 1603 music, by 1700 down to S1-S3. Still past 1735. JBA by 1748. No telling how much longer. Not really readable now or earlier. We were expecting this to start at 1630 like previous Saturdays, presumably replaying the Wednesday show; tnx to Manuel Méndez, Spain, who was barely getting it direct from sign-on *1409 with Morse code (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-CUSB, continued from last report, of the Sat Aug 22 broadcast of LRA36: by 1700 was down to S1-S3 via one Brazilian SDR, still detectable past 1800; at 1902 I switch to another SDR which is getting it better at S4-S7 as they are again talking about San Martín and an escuela; 1944 recheck going from talk to music which runs still past 2000+. No further chex, unknown when they closed (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** BRAZIL. I soon published a correxion but at least two editors ignored it and published the original error. Correct frequency was 5939.506, while 5939.806 was a typo (or misreading my scribbled original log note). So here it is AGAIN. Please publish it correctly. Glenn 5939.506, Aug 11 at 0635, JBA carrier in 5935 WWCR splash, but no problem from 5945 NZ, no doubt also RVM, always off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) BTW, Wolfgang Bueschel has just remeasured this at 5939.507, Aug 24 at 2338 ** CANADA. 248-MCW kHz, Aug 21 at 0555 UT, dash and WG, 1000 watt ND beacon from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Only Canadian ever heard among seven listed on 248, two of them also a kilowatt, and four of them also with 2-letter calls lacking a Y- or -Z, but all with a dash of course. 346-MCW kHz, Aug 21 at 0601, dash and YXL, 500 watt NDB from Sioux Lookout, Ontario. It`s way NW of Thunder Bay, not an area we associate today with the Sioux First Nation. This does not explain where the name came from: https://www.northernontario.travel/sunset-country/7-interesting-facts-about-sioux-lookout but a ``Lac Seul`` figures in its history so I wonder if Seul was mistaken as ``Sioux``? -- pronounced soo/sue. Such interesting learning experiences provided by beacon DXing (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 11232-USB, Aug 21 at 2352 selcall tones, and 2-way mentioning maybe Lajes (Azores) but this is EiBi-listed as Trenton (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, Aug 20 at 1449: 15110, 14850 S3-S5, 13130 JBAC, 12020, 11460, 11440, 11170 Chinese, 11100 JBA carrier, 10920, 10160 S4-S7, 9660?, 9230 JBA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, Aug 21 at 1341-1352, not in the order logged: 9200 S9/+10, 10820 S3-S5, 10870 S4-S7, 11150 S4-S6, 11440 S9/+10, 11460 & 12800 JBAC, 12820 S7-S8, 12880 S9/+10, 13130 S4-S6 vs CODAR, 13160 S7-S9, 13835, 14850 S3-S7, 15130, 15165 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. Why not, check a different daypart than usual circa 1400 for CNR1 jammers, Aug 21 at 2347, and there are a few on typical frequencies: 13530 JBA vs CODAR, 13160 & 14850 JBA fluttery carriers, 14920 Chinese at S5-S7; none in the 15s, 16s, 10s or 11s (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, Aug 22 at 1355-1400*; none in 16s; 15165 & 15130; JBA carriers 14920, 14870, 14850; 13920 S4-S6, 13835, 13530, 13150, 13130; 12190; more than JBA on 11170, 10870 S7, 10820. Aug 22 at 1425: JBA on 10870, 11100, 11150, 11170; 11440 two JBA carriers beating; 12820 & 12835 S8-S9, 12880; none in the lower 9s (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, Aug 23 at 1330: only JBA carriers with flutter: 13835, 13160, 13130, 12880, 12500. Other WOOBs not checked as Arnie Coro is imminent, see CUBA. At 1447 I check the lower 9s only: JBA carriers 9155, 9170; but Chinese on 9215 at S5-S8, 9255 at S5-S7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey Aug 24 at 1410, after most of them have quit at 1400*: none in the 16s, 14s, 13s or 12s, but 15110 good and confirmed as such by // 10820 at 1454 an echo apart. Meanwhile only ones detected at 1410 are 11460 JBA carrier, 10870, and at S2-S4, 10820; none in the 11s or 9s either (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, August 25 at 1354-1400*: none in 16s; 15165 good; none 14s; 13835 JBA; 12230, 12190, 11460 JBA carriers; 11440 Chinese S3-S8; 11170, 11150, 11120, 11100 JBA carriers; 11070 reached just in time for 1400* timesignal (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, Aug 25 at 2354: 14980, JBA probably Chinese with Doppler flutter; no others in the 15s, 14s, 13s or 12s until 2400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, August 26 at 1414: none in 15s, 14s, 13s nor any higher than 12190, S4-S6; skipping 25m inband; 11440 S4-S6; 11100 S5-S7; skipping 31m inband; 9155 S7-S9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6012-6048, Aug 20 at 0545, noise jamming against no Martí audible out to plus/minus 18 kHz range from very strong center 6030. Something`s always wrong at the DentroCuban Jamming Command (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 7310-7385, Aug 24 at 0600, jammming bleed over this entire range from the combined heavy noise centered on 7335 and 7365 which is completely unnecessary with Radio Martí totally off the air after 0400! Something`s always wrong at DentroCuban Jamming Command (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. Something`s always wrong at RHC: extremely distorted spurblobs out of 13700 transmitter, more than usual, 14 of them, Aug 21 at 1352-1401, approx., stronger closer ones spreading up to 10 kHz wide tuned in FM mode always with F# tone, not in the order logged: 13172 & 13235 traces, 13298, 13365, 13432, 13502, 13569 & 13632 S9+10; 13767 S9+10, 13832 S9, 13900 S4-S5, 13966 S5-S6, 14033 S3, 14098-trace, the last two intruding into 20m hamband; at 63-68 kHz intervals. Except for the trace ones, some program modulation could be heard on all (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 5055, Aug 22 at 0614, mixture of talk and music, NOT 4KZ, AUSTRALIA! But leapfrog mixing product another 15 kHz beyond, of 5025 Rebelde over 5040 RHC English, the latter on later than usual, and with same extreme modulation breaking up `Ed Newman` on both. 5055 is S9+10; 5040 is S9+20/30; 5025 with good music modulation is also S9+20/30. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. Both fundamentals listed as Bauta site. There is no reverse leapfrog on 5010, luckily for WRMI earlier. 0616 Rebelde YL ID and TC for 2:16 am (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13700 & 13740, Aug 23 at 1330, RHC fails to provide any spurblobs, but seemingly live briefing in an echoey venue about COVID-19 rates in leading countries, USA, Brasil, India, compared to Cuba. Keeps running past 1335, outro as from a doctor in the public health service; also mentioned meteorological events, i.e. the two hurricanes, one of them named for a Cuban-American. At 1340, `En Contacto` starts 5 minutes late, first the YL co-host with platitudes, finally bringing up the fibre-optic link from Arnie at home. QSL OTA to Uruguay and elsewhere; emergency nets on 2, 40 and 80 meters, but his almost-self-garbled lickety-split pace prevents me from copying the frequencies; Aug 22 was 90th anniversary of radio in Cuba; propagation info; music fill until 1355, and then the medical no-show. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 5055, Aug 25 at 0048, Rebelde/RHC leapfrog mixing product again of 5025 over 5040 another 15 kHz, S3-S6, but no reverse on 5010 leaving WRMI in the clear. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 4765, Aug 25 at 0057, R. Progreso is OFF again, rather than normal start at 0030. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13740, Aug 26 at 1411, RHC S9+20 but JBM during `Sonido Cubano` music, while // 13700 is only S9+10 but fully modulated. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA [non]. 5800, UT Sun Aug 23 at 0300, routine check for WORLD OF RADIO at a good WRMI time we have enjoyed for a few weeks --- but instead, CUBAN NA plays and then Radio República! See my comments under USA: WOR monitoring. Until now, RMI has brokered R.R. broadcasts only via Issoudun, France on 9490, where the noise jamming also goes, but those have been ending at 0300 during DST. Now they have another hour, announced at 0356 as new frequency on Thursdays thru Sundays at 11pm-midnight = 0300-0400 UT Fri thru Mon. Not jammed yet, but this will surely subject another WRMI frequency besides 9955 to that, and by the shoddy Cubans not only during this hour or those days. 5800 goes off at 0400*. HFCC A-20 shows RMI via ISS registered at 0300-0500, but also Nauen at same time with NHK Japanese to ME, and confirmed by UTWente monitoring 9490 as only the latter really on (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 13710, Aug 26 at 1411, M&W conversation in American English, which means it must be CRI: yes, scheduled this hour only via Kashgar, land of ChiCom persecuting Uighurs. I was expecting Sa`udi Arabia but that`s not till later, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** FRANCE. 5970, Aug 26 at 1516, via UTwente SDR, marine weather in French by OM, keeps talking about whiskey --- those sailors! British DX Clubbers, who don`t need a remote, first reported this yesterday, for another Atlantic yacht race, HFCC-registered ``for new organisation`` at 1500-1600 on this and four other ISSoudun frequencies, 6105, 13730, 15300 and 17800, but no signals there. Available for entire A-20 season, mixture of 225, 255 and 250 degrees and 100 or 250 kW, but 5970 is 255 degrees at 250 kW, to CIRAFs 27SW & 37NW which basically means the Bay of Biscay between France and Spain; unneeded 17800 would go as far as CIRAF 81S = middle of North Atlantic, into 11 = Caribbean. Recheck at 1522, now marine weather by YL in English with considerable French accent; SW and NW direxions are clarified by fonetix including whiskey. 1524, ``that`s all for the weather`` and says will be no broadcast tomorrow as most should have arrived at destination by then, Azores? and ``Mission: Impossible`` theme. 1525.4 to dead air until off at 1530.1*. However there is a trace of some other talk modulation, QRM or Issoudun leakage? BBC Pashto via Oman is also sked, but don`t hear it after ISS off. It seems the current race is only along the coast of France; Azores curtailed: http://lessables-lesacores.geovoile.com/2020/tracker/ https://www.classemini.com/course-fr-les-sables---les-acores-en-baie-de-morlaix-1.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** GERMANY. 9670, UT Sun Aug 23 at 0400, Bill Tilford experimenting with a 10 kW ND relay via Channel 292 of his FTIOM and UBMP. Into Maine, propagation from Europe seems fine, e.g. 9420 Greece S7-S9. On 9670, hardly anything audible at UTwente over all-dark, minimum-MUF, too-close path; via SDR in Maine he`s detectable at 0403 with multi-lingual intro, but JBA VP S4-S5, unusable. 0440 recheck, inaudible. He was hoping to serve North America; maybe better eastward into the dayside. I reminded the 900 members of the WOR iog about this at 0340 as imminent, but not a single other report received (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ITALY [non]. 7290, Wed Aug 26 at 1801, IRRS via Bulgaria via UTwente, `Feature Story News` headlines, *then* 1802 IRRS Aïda theme and sign-on, into `Life Matters`, anti-abortion show from California. But also about the George Floyd case and BLM; somehow connecting the murderous officer`s name to chauvinism and the godless French Revolution. This is under the European Gospel Radio subset rather than NEXUS-IBA or IPAR. Usual heavy splash from both 7280 and 7300 and the warbling from 7291 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KIRITIMATI. 846 kHz, Aug 23 at 0608, JBA carrier presumed R. Kiribati, with no other 9-kHz audible from Eurafrica (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KIRITIMATI. 846 kHz, Aug 24 at 0629, the only 9-kHz JBA carrier is here, presumed R. Kiribati, an hour really too late for Eurafrica even if propagable before, yet too early for further Pacificans --- well, almost, just after sunset in wintry NZ (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KIRITIMATI. 846 kHz, Aug 26 at 0636 UT, JBA carrier from presumed R. Kiribati, quite a regular now, and should be pullable well further north and east of here. I don`t expect to get any audio, and for some DXers that means they don`t care just to detect the carrier, no matter how certain and obvious it may be (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MADAGASCAR. ``Hi Ron, Today at 1404 I had JBA talk on 6135 as 49m is almost faded out here except for 6170 NZ. Could this 6135 today be anything but Madagascar long path? I thought maybe you would have checked today as I have not yet gone thru all recent or new reports about this. Glenn`` to Ron Howard, Aug 24. ``Hi Glenn, Was not at the beach this morning, but I'm very confident you were in fact hearing Madagascar, because recently they have been having very decent reception on 6135, about 1330+. Here is a typical recent reception of their African music/singing - http://bit.ly/2EmlyoO Ron, California`` Also in the NASWA Flashsheet, Ralphus W Perry, IL, reports Mad on 6135.01 Aug 23 at 0408 with ``unmistakable chanting``, 0410 Christian hymn on Sunday; vs presumed Brasil on 6134.82 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MADAGASCAR. 6135, Aug 25 at 0408, Maine SDR is getting a weak S4-S5 signal singing, presumed RNM; no het from another just below, like Brasil (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MALI. Posted to the WOR iog at 1853 UT Aug 22: ``Re: [WOR] Check for Radio Mali on 5995 kHz. --- Of course 1850 UT Saturday is normally the time for weekly English segment, right now. So far at 1852 only African singing, via UTwente. Glenn`` and still past 1900 African music. A bit disrupted over there (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9925, UT Sun Aug 23 at 0022, The Mighty KBC is VP S2-S4, no good propagation this week. Assume they will revert to 5960 in September, none too soon, but no confirmation of that yet; except HFCC registrations show the descent happening between Sept 5 and 6. via Nauen, Germany (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NIGERIA. 7255-, Sat Aug 22 at 0605, no signal from VON, nor any on alternatives as have happened: 9690-, 11770-, let alone 15120 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NIGERIA. 7254.9, Aug 23 at 0602, no signal from VON --- oh, cuts on in progress at *0603, but JBM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. Saturday evening is supposedly prime-time for pirates, but UT Sun Aug 23 at 0015, I find not a one in the 6.9s or 5.1s. So I am trying, and other evenings have been barren too despite other specialized DXers reporting lots of them (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 515-MCW kHz, Aug 21 at 0601 UT, NDB PN Ponca City still off; 341-MCW kHz, EI Enid still on but JJBBA (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 13710.014, Aug 26 at 1501, SBC Qur`an service has taken over from CRI East Turkistan, q.v. Aoki shows the handover at 1457 as if closely coördinated despite SA no longer active in HFCC. By 1519 I check it via UTwente SDR, where there is an excellent S9+40 local-quality signal on AMSynch matching my measurement, and wideband 9 kHz does it justice. I keep the incomprehensible classical Arabic beautiful music with lite reverb, artificially applied? Or really from inside a mosque? going in background past 1715; occasional interruptions for ID or brief spoken sermonizing like 1645-1648; and longer talk-only after 1650; still Qur`aning at 1740 recheck; off at 1759, scheduled until 1757*. All violating Separation of Mosque and State, ha2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 9690, UT Wed Aug 26 at 0006, REE is S9+25/35 with bird calls, then morphing into mixing with unfamiliar orchestral piece, announcement soon as subject ``canciones de pájaros en la música clásica``, then 0010 excerpt of Ottorino Respighi`s ``Pines of Rome`` with song of nightingale [ruiseñor]. REE may be deficient in English but certainly provides some excellent programming in Castilian. Via WOR Hitlist, program sked at https://www.rtve.es/radio/radio-exterior/programacion/ shows 0130-0230 UT Wednesday is: `En Clave de 5`. What? The sked labels the times UTC but they are really UT+2! So axually 2330 UT Tuesday to 0030 UT Wednesday; also on 11940. Each program has an individual hotlink but not this one, rather back to a generic page! But I finally find it among huge roster of programas, https://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/en-clave-de-5/ with 199 podcasts, but not latest episode originally last Saturday is something else; maybe a repeat from long ago but searching the entire file does not find it. The title means ``In the Key of 5``, referring to the Radio 5 network (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. Re previous report of birdsong show on REE, 9690: later found it in podcast archive from original broadcast last March under title ``Las aves``: ``Radio 5 En clave de 5 --- Sábados a las 21.05 horas. En Radio Exterior miércoles a las 11.05 UTC [NOT when I heard it] En clave de 5 - Las aves - 21/03/20 21 mar 2020 Desde el comienzo de los tiempos el canto de las aves ha inspirado a los compositores. Escucharemos ejemplos de Janequin, Rameau, Rautaavara, Saint-Saëns, Messiaen y otros. https://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/en-clave-de-5/2105-clave-cinco-140320-aves-2020-03-20t11-39-39197/5542672/ reproducir audio`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, Aug 25 at 0057, S Asian song, S1-S3 and fluttery on near-transpolar path, very brief announcement and off at 0058* as SLBC is now scheduled (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, Aug 22 at 2211 check, NO signal from VOT English to us even at UTwente, instead weak signal from CNR1 Beijing site, which is scheduled southward at 2025-0100 --- fortunately never hear any QRM from that over here. Now I have missed two weeks of `Letterbox` and hope to get around to listening to the Radio360 podcasts for Weds Aug 12 & 19 or Sats 15 & 22. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. Replying to my report of missing VOT `Letterbox` the past two weeks, Alan Roe, UK, says, ``Glenn - the "Letterbox" programme of 12/15 Aug was, I think, a repeat of the previous week's edition, and there was no "Letterbox" programme on 19/22 Aug --- so you haven't missed anything! Hopefully there'll be a new edition this coming week. Alan Roe, Teddington, UK.`` And Hansjoerg Biener, Germany, says, ``According to information received from the German service earlier this month, the Voice of Turkey is still operating in a covid19 mode. It is said that only one technician is in the studio building at a time taking up all responsibilities. During the German broadcast, only one member is present taking care of the news segment and some bureau work. Other parts of the programmes are repeats. The mailbag is cancelled for the time being. The producers are expected to leave the building after the broadcast. One might think that the situation at the transmitter site is similar which would explain the additional scheduling errors observed by others short wave listeners (Dr Hansjoerg Biener 24 August 2020)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, Aug 25 at 2244, VOT is on today with Turkish music fill reading S9-S7, but much weaker than 9690 Spain (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, Wed Aug 26 at 2214, VOT S9+50! VG via UTwente but with some hum, not even tried directly, already finishing `Turkey`s Tourist Attraxions` and next into `This Day in History`, the latter voiced by the `Letterbox` guy which is what I am expecting, ranging from something Turkish in 1071y (when ``August 26`` if any, was somewhen else) to the death of Charles Lindbergh in 1974y. 2217 his canned COVID-19 PSA; 2218 music break but no `Letterbox`; 2224 the YL with `Did You Know That?` about Hatay, UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy --- Well, the only Turkish city in the Top Ten here is #8, Gaziantep! https://lifeofdoing.com/unesco-creative-cities-of-gastronomy-foodie-destinations/ By 2230, more music fill, it`s quite clear this is another week with no Letterbox (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U K. 11254-USB, Aug 21 at 2353, roboyl with VOLMET for a number of ``xxx international`` airports, hard to copy names. EiBi lists as RAF. ``No information available`` for several; maybe mentions Congo, Brazzaville. Still there at 0142 Aug 22 recheck (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 400-MCW kHz, Aug 26 at 0648 UT, ND beacon AHQ, which is 25 watts from Wahoo, Nebraska. 417-MCW kHz, Aug 26 at 0651 UT, ND beacon IY, 25 watts from Charles City, Iowa (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 13565-CW, Aug 24 at 1408, JBA IDs only from HIFER beacon K6FRC in Patterson CA. I check for this almost every morning, nor do I anymore hear anyothers in the 13550-13570 ISM band, but K6FRC last logged June 9, tho I did hear the 10-watt, 10-meter K6FRC/B on 28300 from Tracy on July 28; and July 2 when I see I typoed the frequency to 29300! The one on 13565 is notable whenever heard with publicized power of only *1.8 milliwatts*! And I never hear it any other time of day so can only wonder whether it`s always on or not (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2047 monitoring: confirmed Wed Aug 19 from 2100.5 on WBCQ 7490v, theme JJBBA here, but at 2117 check good S8 at Rochester NY SDR. Also confirmed UT Thu Aug 20 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, poor S8-S9 direct. WORLD OF RADIO 2048 contents: Antarctica, Austria, Belarus non, Canada, China, Congo, Cuba, France, Germany, Kiritimati, Korea South, Laos, Madagascar, Mali, México and non, Perú, Puerto Rico, Russia, Sudan South non, Tibet, USA, Vanuatu, Vatican; and the propagation outlook WOR 2048 is available as of 0227 UT Friday August 21 (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2048.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2048.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 7780 to NE, 9955-[jammed?] to SSE 0700 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400] 0300 UT Sunday WRMI 5800 to SSSE 0700 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 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 for financial support from Samuel Sánchez, podcast listener, for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com - not necessarily in US funds as PP 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 USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2048 monitoring: confirmed first WRMI airing, Friday August 21 at 2210 the 2200 on 9955, good into BSR-1 caradio on a non-DXpedition a few statute miles north of Enid; no jamming audible. Also confirmed UT Sat Aug 22 at 0130 on WRMI 9955, S3-S6 to TWR Bonaire SDR, S5-S7 to TWR DR; 7780 VG S9+20 into UTwente. 0143 checking these here direct: 7780 poor S6-S7 in HSNL; 9955 good S9+10 with fadedowns, no jamming audible. Slept past 1330 UT Sat Aug 22; did anyone hear 1300+ on WRMI 15770? Or 1130 on 9955 where it`s still on sked but gone weeks ago? Next: 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400] 0300 UT Sunday WRMI 5800 to SSSE 0700 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 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 2048 monitoring: confirmed Sat Aug 22 at 2002 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, Wentzville MO, via KiwiSDR a few km away in Warrenton, VG S8 about 4 minutes into so started circa 1958 instead of nominal 1930. Also confirmed Sat Aug 22 at 2300 on WRMI 7780, newish time, S9+10 at UTwente. NOT confirmed UT Sun Aug 23 at 0300 on WRMI 5800. I wrote to Jeff White: ``Hi Jeff, Well, that was a shock - Cuban NA and R República on 5800 at 0300 instead of WOR, no such thing on your skeds or website or FB yet. If it`s one hour, maybe you can still run WOR at 0400? I`m guessing they wanted to run past 0300 and 9490 France is unavailable as NHK via Nauen is on it. Now, stand by for jamming on 5800 at this and times beyond! And/or if you could find *any* time for WOR on 5850, 7570, 9395 or 9455, that would be great. Glenn``. See also CUBA [non]. Confirmed UT Sun Aug 23 starting at 0326.8 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM via Warrenton MO SDR, S5-S8 sufficient vs storm noise level. Next: 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 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. WORLD OF RADIO 2048 monitoring: Confirmed UT Monday August 24 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, VG direct --- but 0054 recheck, the transmitter is off! Unknown for how long. Also confirmed UT Mon Aug 24 at 0130 & 0230 on WRMI 7780, VG S9+20 at UTwente; also WRN webcast at 0130. Also confirmed UT Mon Aug 24 ending at 0258 on WRMI 7780 after tip from Walt Salmaniw, BC: ``I did note WOR on 5800 at 02:53 tune-in at excellent level. 73, Walt`` --- surprise! the 0230-0300 block on 5800 is blank, unaccounted for all days of week on WRMI skedgrid. So replaces 0300 UT Sun on 5800? Hope it stix. More change info below. Also confirmed UT Mon Aug 24 from 0259.6 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5130, S8-S9 at a Rochester NY KiwiSDR. BUT cuts off the air for 2 minutes as I am listening, 0311*-*0313. Also confirmed UT Mon Aug 24 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, unusually inaudible where it`s aimed, at TWR Bonaire SDR, but S5-S7 at Rochester; 0338 check here, S7 to S9+10 but keeps fading down further to at least S5. Meanwhile, Jeff White replied to my request for some new times: ``Glenn: WOR 0130 UTC Thursday 5850 and 0330 UTC Tuesday on 5800, effective immediately. Jeff``. So adding those to NEXTs: 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 to SSE [NEW] 2100+UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5850 to NW [NEW] Good but unfortunately this means the best broadcast across USA on 5850 will be the last airing of the week rather than the first, as I am not inclined to change my produxion schedule to earlier than Thursday afternoons. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2048 monitoring: confirmed Monday August 24 from 1800:47 on IRRS, 7290 via Bulgaria, S9+25; tuned in earlier via UTwente at 1745, Iran still on; retune 1758 I think the IRRS carrier has just cut on, and a few sex before 1759 cuts on music modulation but with heavy pumping, slow SAH from another carrier maybe still Iran but fortunately no mod from it. RTTYish warble from 7291 as always, and rough IRRS mod, some plus/minus 10 splash. Just before 1800 IRRS sign-on with deleted? Milano PO box, Feature Story News headlines before WOR starts. Spot-checked every 5 minutes or so on my recording finds it intact, no more pumping, but ending just before 1830, my closing cut off after ``standa --- [rdisclaimer]``. My editor is leaving a second or two of dead air at end of file, which worx on WRMI to prevent overlap, but not enough for IRRS. Also confirmed UT Tue Aug 25 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, poor S6-S8 direct and somewhat undermodulated but improving. Also confirmed UT Tue Aug 25 at 0330, brand-new time on WRMI 5800, good S7-S9 to Maine SDR, altho aimed SSE. Next: 2100+UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5850 to NW [NEW][System F sked adds 5010 to S] (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2048 monitoring, Next: 2100+UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5850 to NW [NEW][System F sked adds 5010 to S] (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2048 monitoring: Re: ``Slept past 1330 UT Sat Aug 22; did anyone hear 1300+ on WRMI 15770?`` --- Yes, direct here in NB. Reception very good. Preceded Shortwave Radiogram. Recorded both. -- Richard Langley`` Also confirmed Wed Aug 26 from 2100:17.5 on WBCQ 7490v, good via Rochester SDR. Also confirmed UT Thu Aug 27 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, good S8-S9 via Rochester SDR. Also confirmed UT Thu Aug 27 at 0130, new time on WRMI 5850, good S9+10 via Rochester and VG direct; and new 5010 VG S9+15 via TWR Bonaire. Next WOR 2049 should be ready by early UT Friday August 28 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. (6160, 7490), UT Sat Aug 22 at 0000, Area 61 webcast, which otherwise is 5130 programming, is running late with `Old Tyme Radio`, an Amos & Andy reproduxion episode by Ed Bolton, which used to be a regular on WBCQ, and NOT on the ``proposed`` schedule we got, instead of Superman, so will have to join `AAAWWW` late, as WTO theme has already started on 7490 webcast. I listen more or less to whole hour hoping for more info on the WHRI acquisition, but not much other than waiting for the deal to close. Looking for engineers and operators in Maine: pay is good but not much benefits, and cost of living is low, good place if you like winter sports. Applicants will be interviewed (remotedly?). Over the years some 50 expensive tubes have been returned for rebuilding. 0020 sez quadri-casting tonight on 3265, 5130, 6160, 7490, 21 August YOOL 2020; and now it`s dark at this hour as summer is latening, days shortening. 0022 A&A get into vicious political rants totally anti-Democratic and pro-Trumpic. Democratic states are Communist-controlled. Biden and Kamala are jokes. Need mega-landslide for Trump. They go on to accuse Dems of elexion hijinx which are really what the Trumpublicans are doing! 0035 phone call finally from someone contradicting them, disappointed they are ignoring the incredible misconduct and lies of Trump, complete failure handling the pandemic. Angela shouts him down, while Allan accepts his free-speech right to disagree. It`s Bryan in West Chester PA. 0050 into e-mails, about WHRI? Going to fix up the facility in Furman. Dedicated to keeping SW alive at that 250/500 kW level. There are good people at WHRI; and he keeps referring to ``Le-See-A``. Here`s John Carver`s version: ``Tonight's show started on time on 7490 and a few seconds later on 5130 and 6160. Voice over during the theme song set the tone. Something about rioting, looting, pillaging, cop shootings all brought about by the Democrats. Allan and Angela in the studio along with some sexy talk and then into a rundown of all the equipment in the studio. Brief mentions of the MW and FM stations. Also another plea for qualified engineers to help run the superstation. Then into full blown political talk and Angela becomes animated. Among other things she suggested that all Democrats be loaded on a pod and sent to Mars. Phone call at 0035 from a gentleman attacking Trump's stand on the Covid thing and his mishandling of the problem which sent Angela from animated to agitated and a shouting match erupted between the caller and Angela. Allan did his best to calm things down. Reading of emails at 0050. First email asked about the purchase of WHRI and Allan stated that the facility would be broadcasting a lot of programming from WLC and that more details would be available later. Allan stated that they had been getting a lot of positive emails about the Old Time Radio show on 6160. Allan asked Angela to lead the closing prayer this evening and she started but was cut off by the end of the program at 0100. John, Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5800, UT Tue Aug 25 at 0230, WRMI amid a Spanish DX program about Guyana rejecting VOA MW relay to Venezuela, not sure what but is // 7780 where RAE is scheduled on System D. This matches last night when WOR 7780 at 0230 also appeared on 5800. But the System H sked still has a gap at 0230-0300 daily for 5800 or any other frequency it might employ. The 0300-0400 block on System H 5800 is also empty on UT Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon, where we already discovered Radio República has just been inserted --- but keeping it a secret? To stave off jamming sure to follow eventually (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9955, UT Thu Aug 27 at 0000, WRMI with Radio Emma Toc presenting its first global request show, at first good atop Cuban jamming except during brief fades; 0015 `Song of Joy` with no credit to Beethoven; 0020 something obscure by ABBA but now losing out to jamming. Sorry, I don`t have a backward B; shouldn`t every font provide one just for this? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7505, Aug 20 at 0102 check, WRNO still AWOL (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7505, Aug 25 at 0129, WRNO is still off, surprise2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5085, UT Sun Aug 23 at 0023, WTWW-2 with hardsell Tedad, no TONITO yet; 0035 recheck is underway presenting performance by someone else, now deceased, ending at 0057 so started circa 0027 this week. I immediately brought up the $tereo webcast instead. BTW, besides the degraded audio on 5085, it`s still always accompanied by JBA spurcarriers circa 5072.1 & 5097.9. And this: ``I know WTWW on 5085 KHz has contained very noticeable audio distortion for years. Sounds like a portable with weak batteries. It has low-end punch, mind you, but is totally ruined with this annoying distortion in the mix. If one uses narrower IF bandwidth filters, this will not be so noticeable. "Dave's Radio Receiver Page" https://www.qsl.net/n9ewo/ Dave N9EWO`` Zantow (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 4840, Aug 26 at 0632, this WWCR is S9+30 of dead air. 3215 with perpetual #1 squealing is S9+10/20 of BS. 5890 is also S9+10/20 but with double audio! BS plus some other talk slightly lower, or seems so because BS is always screaming, maybe what is supposed to be on 4840? Soon a Silver Solutions ad for ingesting metal, not a good idea. Then resuming talkshow, name sounds like Bosent Mopela?? But 0635 stops, leaving BS audio only. NO, program sked shows after 0600 weekdays, TOMBS is supposed to be on all three. Maybe intruder was from 1300 WNQM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. At 0428 UT Aug 22 I first posted 1070 to several DX groups: ``WCSZ DX test from SC, OK to OK --- I am posting before reading reports from anyone else about this. On R75 with {100-foot} E-W longwire, already aimed in right direxion. 0357 UT Aug 22 tune-in to usual jumble of presumed KNX, KFTI and more jumble. 0402 UT: suddenly absolutely clear Morse code ID: VVV DE WCSZ, twice or was it thrice? No voice IDs or any announcements heard so far. But none needed after the above. 0404 UT: Handel`s Messiah, Hallelujah Chorus until 0410. Then some other music, no ID heard but may have been lost in QRM. 0412 tune-out but may recheck later. Unknown how long test runs, on 1070. Sometimes atop, generally mixing with news/talk presumed KNX, and country music presumed from KFTI Wichita which is low power {1 kW} at night, but too close to here and always an annoyance since it`s significantly off-frequency-minus. Now {on USB} I have been adjusting the PBT to get rid of the LAH if not all of its modulation. Tnx for the test. Pse QSL if possible. New NRC AM Log says: U4 50000/1500; STA U1 2000/375 - tech issues. U4 means different direxional patterns day and night. But FCC AM Query says ND day, direxional night. NRC Pattern Book 2013 shows ND day circular pattern, I think, very crowded map with all those other 1070s in the SE. So was this test really ND, and how much power at the start? Until the next, Best of DX and 73 de Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702`` I did recheck a couple more times just as Morse IDs played again: VVV DE WCSZ WCSZ WCSZ, at 0443.5 and 0459.5 UT. Later widely reported as far as Norway, and Seattle --- but I bet not much closer to KNX. 1404 km = 873 stmi from Sans Souci SC to Enid. Greenville market. The code IDs were a welcome surprise as earlier publicity said there would be no such thing, nor sweep tones, etc. Test committee chairman Les Rayburn in AL now says: ``The DX Test was operated by engineer Al Hajny. His e-mail address is: alhajny@gmail.com Mr. Hajny has a history of being very friendly to DX’ers. Let’s be respectful of that relationship. He has not stated if he plans to verify reception reports. I know he’s a busy guy, so if he doesn’t respond quickly, please be patient`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) I sent him this; no reply yet ** U S A. Minor DX-pedition to 35 km north of Enid on US 81 to carry out AM & FM bandscans on caradio, Sunday afternoon Aug 23 from 2140 to 2215 UT: 750, at 2140 no KMMJ Grand Island NE, apparently still temporarily off by STA pending sale. Has unusual L3 license, i.e. almost daytime, direxional tangent west with 10.5 kW, but used to be JBA here; and neighbor 880 KRVN is always audible daytime tnx to the Ogallala Aquifer. However at 2208 I can detect a slow SAH of 64/min, slightly over 1 Hz apart. The only others nearby are KSEO Durant OK, 220 watt daytimer on the other side of the state, very difficult here; and KBNN Lebanon, center of MO, 5 kW ND daytimer which I have heard several times; unless KMMJ really be on but QRP like 1130 KLEY (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) 1130, Aug 23 at 2142, I expect silence as KLEY Wellington KS, just across from OK, has not been heard at Enid HQ for months, after transmitter troubles, and suspected off for good. But now I have JBA music, certainly not sportive KWKH Shreveport, which despite 50 kW ND daytime does not reach this far some 500 km by groundwave. We drive a few km further north, to about a km south of the US 64/60/81 intersexion, helpfully away from some powerlines, and hear at 2154 a partial ID of ``point 3`` and rock song playing just past 2200; 2201, ``KLEY 1130 AM and --- 100.3 FM --- wellington.net -- The home of --- sports, wheat capitol of the world``. [Enid disputes that!] {NOT ``what`` capitol typo in original report!} This is still a really tiny signal, vs many other further loud Kansans like 1150 KSAL, 1280 KSOK. KLEY is licensed for 250 watts day, ONE WATT night, and I can easily believe this *is* that one watt if not whatever the exciter may rate. Their 100.3 FM translator, really K262CQ, ``The Wave`` is what counts, and this much ittybitty AM to simulcast keeps it legal. Anyway this makes KLEY 1130 quite a DX target further away since I can`t even hear it inside Enid. OTOH, note my report from 2019y: ``1130, Sept 20 at 1853 UT check, KLEY Wellington KS is OFF again. Still off at 1705 UT check Sept 21. It had been on since August 26 after a long hiatus since at least May 3`` --- another scenario is that it really has been totally off and just barely turned back on now to keep its license before a full year be elapsed. I had never heard it since then. {more, below} 1157 & 1183, at 2203, IBOC noise is definitely ON from 1170 KFAQ Tulsa at this time, blocking anything possible on 1160 & 1180. 1370, still no trace of KGNO Dodge City KS at 2205, which I have not been able to detect in years, day or night, 5000/230 watts, and suspect OFF but it continues to be listed as if active. It would be nice if we had someone in Dodge to try to hear it, maybe QRP too? It used to be easy to Enid at least SR/SS. I check 1370 whenever I am N/W of Enid. 1440, gospel huxter in English, VP at 2205, must be KEXB University Park (Metroplex) TX in its latest incarnation, Relevant Radio, barely making it here with 50 kW daytime this high in band, not Topeka. On FM, not much of interest and am running out of time, but: 105.7, at 2214 ``Classic Hits 105.7``, adstring and rock music --- and same stuff on 106.1! but with one radio can`t tell whether synchronized. 105.7 is 50/50 kW KRDR Alva, while 106.1 is weaker with CCI from something else. Nearest ``classic hits`` format if not slogan on 106.1 in WTFDA DB is 60/60 kW KYVZ Atwood KS, way up in the NW corner beyond Colby. But 100 kW KXKU Lyons KS is closer, in between. Other possible 106.1s in OK are KBZI 50/50 kW in Mooreland west of here almost Woodward, with ``80s hits`` -- close enough to classic by now? and KTGK 100/100 kW Owasso almost Tulsa, country (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1130, Aug 25 at 1521 UT, now there is an S9+10 carrier here on the R75 and longwire, but just barely modulated; as KLEY Wellington KS is attempting a comeback after yesterday`s JBA when I was mobile north of Enid. Circa 1830 I`m back in the car inside Enid hearing a trace of something --- on that radio it`s hard to tell if an open carrier is involved, no strength meter. At 2128 again on the R75 like earlier, S9 and JBM vs noise level of S8. By 2312 on the NRD-545, KWKH sportstalk is propagating but with a fast SAH maybe remnant of KLEY (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1420, Aug 25 around 0105 UT, Mexican music mixing [Mexmxmix] with English weather sounds like ``KWTE first forecast``, the two making a medium SAH. No fuzzily-similar call listed on 1420, but so many radio stations rely on TV stations for weather, and the closest-fuzzy TV rhyme to that is KWTV right here in OK, which would correlate with nearest, Hobart OK, KTJS on 1420. Checking the KTJS+ cluster website http://www.foxradiook.com/ there is no indication of wx source, but there is a link to KWTV9 for news; so that all seems circumstantially likely. Soon there`s Sean which would be a third station, not country KTJS. 1420 Spanish loops more E/W than N/S so probably Unitedstatesian. At 0107 UT, automated wrong TC for ``Las 8 de la noche con 6 minutos``, so that narrows it down to CDT. Then 0109, ``no se equivoque --- La Zeta`` which is the slogan of KBHS Hot Springs AR, 5000/87 watts ND. Oh2, official sunset there in August was 0100 UT! Sept: 0015 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. UT Aug 25 at 0115 UT, as the Republican national ``convention`` is underway, at least on TV, I make a quick sweep across the MW band while some woman is talking as if in a venue, and hear her only on these major signals: 750 WSB Atlanta, 1170 KFAQ Tulsa, 1510 WLAC Nashville. Otherwise most of them continue with silly ballgames or their own far-right talk. Ho, hum. [I did not do any such survey last week Democratically]. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. `Feminine Fusion` is an excellent show I have been following on KUCO OKC 90.1 or webcast, Sundays at 2100-2200 UT -- usually a few minutes late due to preceding programs overrunning. About classical music composed or performed by women. I haven`t found an affiliate list for it and it`s totally missing from publicradiofan.com --- which I fear is not being updated, but it`s so huge that that would be a full-time job? Searching out I have found a few other stations carrying FF on Saturdays or Sundays including this one in Philadelphia, UT Mondays 0200 in case we miss it on KUCO: https://www.wrti.org/programs/feminine-fusion Also WIAA and WXXI. More about it from the distributor: https://exchange.prx.org/series/38388-feminine-fusion where it seems you may listen to any of 100+ episodes. The KUCO scheduling clashes with another all?-feminine show, `Marion`s Attic` on WBCQ, and I bet neither program realizes that (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VANUATU. 11835, circa 0600 UT Aug 25, no signal at all from R. Vanuatu x 3, apparently off --- or intermittent per other reports: ``Aug 25 - From 0355+ (last checked 0550), had no signal from R. Vanuatu (harmonic 11835); only CNR2 being heard. Very unusual for RV to be off the air; there are no weather issues there. Ron California`` ``Fair signal of Radio Vanuatu on 3rd harmonic 11835 kHz at 0645 UTC, but around 0655 only CNR-2 being heard. Fair signal on 2nd harmonic 7890 kHz at 0700 and poor signal on 3945 at same time via SDR Brisbane`` - Ivo Ivanov, Aug 25 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VANUATU. 11835, Aug 26 at 0625, Radio Vanuatu 3 x 3945 back to normal, music at S3-S5; while 2 x = 7890 is S4-S5 but JBA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VIETNAM [non]. 7315, Aug 23 at 0018, WHRI is S9+25 but JBM with music, presumed VOV English relay; then bumps up to merely undermodulated; also has Cuban pulse jamming splash all the way from 7335. People are speculating whether these relays continue after WBCQ takeover; may depend on renewal or prolongation of contracts with Encompass (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. JBA MW carrier search of 9-kHz frequencies, Aug 20 at 0617: only 711, 846 and 1071. 846 no doubt regular Kiritimati but never with audio; 711 Cuba or Morocco barely? 1071 intriguing with no Europeans more than 10 kW, no NZ/Australians more than 5. Several ME/Africans but too daytime. Of course there`s that megawatt in India, but way too early for that. Note that het/carriers 1 kHz off 10 kHz frequencies are often easier to detect than further in between with lots of splash from both sides (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. JBA MW carrier search Aug 21 at 0550: 621, 846, 882, 1125 with two beating. Presumed Canary, Kiritimati; 882 has another low-powered Canarian; and 1125 several low-powered continental Spaniards (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. JBA 9-kHz MW carrier search Aug 22 at 0607: 936 the only one, Morocco? Not even 711 or 846-Kiritimati, off? K-index at 0600 was 2, no storms per WWV (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also KIRITIMATI UNIDENTIFIED. 710.4, Aug 26 at 0637 UT, het upon the 710.0 stations, not 711! So not Morocco, getting too late anyway for that. It`s strong enough to DF on the hand-held altazimuth wrist-mounted DX-398 as slightly clockwise from E-W, like 100/280 degrees which isn`t SE enough for Cuba and not NE enough for Eurafrica, so likely an off-frequency domestic, and certainly neither of my closest dominants, KGNC and KCMO. So what else is near that axis? KFIA Carmichael CA, U4 25000/1000 i.e. Sacramento; WNTM Mobile AL, U2 1000/1000; two in GA, one in SC, which cannot be ruled out despite being daytimers. Locals near these areas please check for offfrequenciness; apparently intermittent, as not audible a bit later at 0651 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 6135, Aug 24 at 1404, JBA talk as the 49mb is almost outfaded here except for 6170 NZ; could this be anything but MADAGASCAR long-path? I`ve asked Ron Howard (Glenn Hauser, OK WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 7348-CW, or slightly less, Aug 22 at 0619 long string of numbers in fast CW, but also some letters. Ends with K, but never heard any DE and ID. Probably unrelated to this in EiBi: ``7345 0600-1600 CHN V26 Numbers Station USB M FE xx`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 7348-CW, Aug 25 at 0607, too fast CW for me to copy much, but starts with VVV and ends with K; no DE after VVV but maybe later inside repeating marker. Then goes into a non-marker contact including a lot of numbers. Recent UDXF iog logs of this frequency as FEMA ALE/USB from places such as Denver, Kansas City, Thomasville GA, Maine, Maryland, by patrice privat earlier around 0400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 15151.42-USB approx., Aug 23 at 1444, 2-way in Spanish on a longtime occasional INTRUDER frequency, keywords barco and puta (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING Note: with the suspension of compiled DX LISTENING DIGEST issues, our kicker finale sexion has also disappeared. But gh would still like to provide access to some rational not always on-topic commentary, not really intended to provoke any further discussion. Here`s one from our local newspaper by their best columnist: WE NEED AMERICA'S WOMEN TO DOMINATE THE POLLS, AND SAVE OUR FUTURE By James Neal Staff Writer Aug 21, 2020 https://www.enidnews.com/opinion/columns/column-we-need-americas-women-to-dominate-the-polls-and-save-our-future/article_75a1d69d-ec91-5e45-a386-872b1611e5f7.html (via gh) TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER, Friday night satire on HBO, you may think you have to pay for a subscription, but segments soon show up free on YouTube. Once you go to one, YT will of course bring up more, plus related content like THIS WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER, etc., e.g.: Bill Maher is Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfJq1K20YZg (via gh)