** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-CUSB, LRA36 publicized a big broadcast for Sat Aug 29, alternating Spanish and German at 1500-2030, then English at 2030-2200. But: Not a trace from 1500 past 1540 on any Brazilian or Argentine SDR I can access. Is anyone hearing it anyhow? There has been a propagation disturbance as long predicted. Note admission of low power 800 watts. WRTH 2020 said ``1 x 10 kW (operated at 1.5 kW). F.pl: increase output to 10 kW`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR iog) Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, replies at 1612: ``Hi, transmission suspended due to bad weather. Best 73,s`` (Glenn Hauser, WOR) ** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-CUSB, Re August 29 missing LRA36 broadcast of Buenos Aires productions, Wolfgang Bueschel sends an automatic translation: ``-------- Original message -------- Fw: Shipments from the Antarctic (LRA 36), among others in German :-( Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 14:46:14 +0000 (UTC) From: RAEDeutsch Dear friend! We have just been informed that the program scheduled for today unfortunately not broadcast due to a severe storm, so a new date is planned for it. Pity! LG from rainy Buenos Aires and have a nice weekend! Rayén Braun - German editorial team`` --- what`s LG? At 2150 I recheck Brasil remote, just in case it came on in time for English, but nothing. Some hours later I consult Accuweather for conditions at Esperanza: ``Current Weather 9:05 PM: -31°C, RealFeel® -60°, Air Quality Fair, Wind SW 87 km/h, Wind Gusts 120 km/h, Cloudy`` --- that is certainly extreme, but the people and the equipment are stuck there anyway, so why not broadcast? Was there damage to rhombic antenna? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-CUSB, Sept 2 at 1450, LRA36 is on this Wednesday; neglected to check a week ago; via Brazil KiwiSDRs, S5-S7 talk at first, all Spanish about something in 1945y, arbor day and forestation which is probably not concerning Antarctica; via another remote only S1-S2 and starting to fade out by 1545; 1554 usual canned `Corazón Antártico` program ID and song, 1606 still audible but not at 1610, presumed off. Nominal 1400-1600, but Manuel Méndez, Spain says it opened around 1350; he too could only hear it via Brasil. At one point I downtuned to 15475.00, reconfirming on USB that there is still a reduced carrier. Presumably to be repeated circa same hours or later on Saturday, weather permitting (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** AUSTRALIA. 11900, Aug 31 at 1354, south Asian music and then talk by YL in unrecognizable language; S7-S9, outstanding SSOB except for the Cubans and nons. 1359-1400*, Reach Beyond, Australia, sign-off in English sounding more `merican than `strine, not Ecuadorian. Now to figure out language: Day 2 = Monday at 1345-1400 Aoki/NDXC shows it is Cha; EiBi shows CHG --- I guess they both refer to Chhattisgarhi as in WRTH 2020 but now outdated B-19 sked had no such DOW, TOD, nor frequency for it. But the revised A-20 update as of May 26 confirms it. Now, where and how many Chhattisgarhi speakers are there? EiBi`s readme.txt shows: ``CHG Chhattisgarhi: India-Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Bihar (13m) [hne]`` So there we have three different abbrs. for this obscure language but spoken by more than the population of e.g. Illinois, who must be Christianized! 11825, but wait, there`s more: Mon Aug 31 at 1449, gospel huxter in English also bigsig S7-S9. While E Asian signals like CNR1 jammers are JBA carriers. This is RBA daily at 1430-1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** BRAZIL. 6134.8, Aug 29 at 0554, weak signal sounds like Brasilian talk, but cuts off air 0555* before I can measure it exactly; presumed R. Aparecida. Nothing audible on 9630v by 0558 while RVM is audible, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** BRAZIL. 5939.5, Aug 29 at 0557, music and soon announcement in Brazilian, sounds like official RVM canned ID, S4 vs S9 noise crashes, and not too much 5935 WWCR now. Within a few Hz of 5939.500 producing equal hets, SSB tuned to 5939 and 5940. 9664.808, Aug 29 at 0559, Brazilian talk at S4-S6 from always-off-frequency RVM. Only ZY audible now on 31 or 49m (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** BRAZIL. 11780, Aug 29 at 2134, RNA is S4-S7 and suptorted. Don`t they know at Rodeador Park site, or don`t they care? Hardly the only SW station which keeps transmitting despite severe defects, reflecting very poorly on the station and the nation (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA [and non]. 7850-USB, Aug 31 at 0610, CHU is weak, but even weaker is CCI from 2-way USB almost same frequency, maybe Brazilian or Spanish. Not first time such intrusion has been detected (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) {Brasil is propagating well on 9665-; at least we can still make out CHU`s minute markers} ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey Aug 27 at 1410: none in the 16s; only 15110 JBA; 11440 JBA carrier; 11150 JBA Chinese; 11120 S2-S3; none in the lower 9s (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey Aug 29 at 1352: none higher than 12880 JBA carrier; also 11460, 11170, 11150, 11120, 10960; 10160 trace of Chinese; 9215 S3-S5 of Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, Aug 31 at 1355-1359: none audible in the 16s, 15s, 14s, 13s, 12s, until JBA carriers: 11500, 11460, 11440, 11170, 11150, 11120, 11100; none in the 10s; 9300; finally 9215 music achieves S3-S5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, Sept 2 at 1355-1400: nothing in the WOOBs of 13, 12, 11, 10 or 9 MHz, tuning past all the usual spots. K-index at 12 and 15 was 2, SF 70, no storms per WWV. This will present a problem for frequency-order editors, who have got to have some kHz to hang it on; even tho this obs of no signals heard is no less significant than when some are. Well: there was a JBA carrier on 9680 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 4765, Aug 31 at 0238, no signal from R. Progreso, quick check on TWR Boa Vista just as I am mentioning its absence on WOR. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 4765, Sept 2 at 0321, R. Progreso is still OFF; what`s wrong? Something, always at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11950, Aug 27 at 2215, RHC on here during the hour earlier than scheduled, with non-// alternative Spanish programming to 11760 mainstream. Something`s always wrong? at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13820, Aug 29 at 1315, noise jamming where there has been no RM since March. Something`s always wrong at DCJC. Also jams its real frequency 13605 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13740, Aug 29 at 1315, RHC on here but not 13700 and no spurs, with report on COVID-19 statistics in Cuba by provincias, municipios, barrage of figures I don`t try to copy but I think he said the mortality rate was under 3%; from echoey venue. Still no 13700 at 1352, but by 1454, 13700 is on and 13740 is off. Nominal skeds for these two: 13700, 13-15 to San Francisco; 13740, 11-14 to Buenos Aires, but not noticeably weaker here. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11670, Aug 29 at 2342, RHC in Spanish // 11760. Checking since Rick Barton, AZ, heard English on 11670, Aug 23 at 2320. That hour is supposed to be on 7385 and 5040. I do hear it poorly vs HSNL on 5040, but only a JBA carrier on 7385, surely something else, probably TIBET tho WHRI is also registered. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6145 & 6100, UT Mon Aug 31 at 0616, RHC `DXers Unlimited`, Arnie`s prop info seems a bit dated, then outro as the mit-week edition, so despite `Ed Newman` then pointing out that there are two per week, must have been playing the wrong/old one, and 0619 into his `Mailbag`. Something`s always wrong at RHC. But the two last frequencies on air this late both enjoy good modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6100, Sept 1 at 0612, RHC English is S9+30 but JBM; 6145 is S9+20 but sufficiently modulated. Last night`s parity is long-gone. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13740, Sept 1 at 1837, RHC Kriyol at S9+10/20, // 11760. And not on 15140 where it is supposed to be with 13740 off air between 14 and 21, 11760 off between 18 and 21. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6145, Sept 2 at 0330, RHC English is only S5-S8 and JBM, sounds like Arnie as to be expected for `DXers Unlimited`; while the only //, 6000 is S8-S9 and also just barely modulated, so listeners are out of luck until maybe some better frequency after 0500 such as 5040, 6100. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 9790, Sept 2 at 0342, CRI Cantonese relay hour is only S7-S9 maybe due prop disturbance instead of blasting in, yet also open carrier/dead air. What a waste. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA [non]. 9490.028V, Aug 28 at 0242, R. República via RMI via Issoudun, FRANCE, with song blending ME and Cuban elements? Soon 0244 into complaints of a political prisoner; S9+10/20 and no jamming audible now. Frequency is varying slightly, difficultizing measuring. After 0300, the UT Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon extension hour has resumed on 5800, WRMI itself, confirmed at 0344 check Aug 28 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA [non]. 5800, UT Wed Sept 2 at 0324, WRMI with R. República, and no jamming audible yet, tho the signal is quite strong even here, yet aimed SSE toward Cuba. Originally this extension after 9490 France to add 0300-0400 was UT Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon only, so now 7 days? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) {if on UT Tue, would bump off WOR at 0330} ** EUROPE. Free Radio Service Holland, Aug 30: S8-S9 but noisy on both 5789.910v and 7700.136v via UTwente at 1755 rock music, 1757 as 200th broadcast, acknowledging web receiver listener in Buenos Aires. Supposed to be running until 2100. Is site really in Netherlands? Plenty of private stations are now licensed, but this remains pirate? Sorry, but I would rather listen to `Pipedreams` $tereo organ music as usual Sundays 17-19 UT, and `With Heart and Voice` at 19-20 via WYSU webcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** GERMANY. On Friday, August 28, 2020, 01:52:33 AM GMT+1, Bill Tilford via groups.io wrote: ``There will be a test of FTIOM & UBMP on 9670 kHz (Channel 292 from Germany) from 1600-1800 UTC. The rest of the week's schedule follows:`` My sequence of WOR iog posts: ``What date for this? Like before, Friday, 28th? Glenn`` ``Yes, it`s today Fri Aug 28. Listening via UTwente, signed on late at 1603, VP signal. By 1623 only a JBA carrier or bits of music and hash on frequency; something on 9665 but not enough to QRM. Nothing at Portugal KiwiSDR, which should be better skip distance. 1719 still nothing at Lisboa; wild jazz S7 audible at UTwente but far too much noise/hash to enjoy. But fading up by 1725 to S9+15 peak on 9670.00439 locked, almost tolerable, back down to S7. Is anyone else listening anywhere with better reception? Glenn`` By 1730 tuneout, Bill is plugging his Sept 7 specials on Channel 292 and WBCQ. Wolfgang Bueschel replies: ``Such mini 10 kW non-directional antenna broadcast to either western Europe, nighttime across ocean to Maine and Massachusetts, or UTC nighttime to European Russia target IS INEFFECTIVE. It is necessary to r e n t the real broadcaster 100 kilowatt or 300 kW powerful units in ORS Moosbrunn Austria, MBR Nauen Germany or CJSC Yerevan Gavar Armenia. 73 wb`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** GERMANY. 9670.00439v, re my report of FTIOM & UBMP test via Channel 292, Friday Aug 28: ``...But fading up by 1725 to S9+15 peak on 9670.00439 locked, almost tolerable, back down to S7. Is anyone else listening anywhere with better reception? Glenn`` --- Dave Kenny, UK, replies Aug 29 to the WOR iog: ``Reception on 9670 was very good on SDRs in Ireland and in the west of England yesterday. I also checked on a couple of Spanish receivers where it was OK too – but not as good as Ireland/UK. Twente is far too close for the skip at 9 MHz and the Lisbon receiver seems fairly deaf and noisy. 73s Dave`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ISRAEL [non]. (9955), WRMI webcast UT Mon Aug 31 at 0400 I check what`s on it after SW turns off: news all about Israel, Gaza, i.e. Israel Radio or whatever they call it now as scheduled for a full hour on WRN web/satcast. But by 0450 or so, wild world music with WRMI ID by BB (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9925, UT Sun Aug 30 at 0000, The Mighty KBC via Nauen, GERMANY, is opening at only S5-S7. Kraig Krist now confirms that from next week, the Sunday-only 0000-0200 broadcast will revert to 5960. I check that now and hear nothing, tho CNR 100 kW ND from Urumqi, EAST TURKISTAN, land of ChiCom persecution of Uyghurs, is still in HFCC from 2330 until 1800, and presumably still off-frequency-minus, a CCI problem further east, especially circa Europe, but KBC won`t move (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NIGERIA. 7254.9, Aug 27 at 0558, no signal from VON which should be running IS by now for 0600 broadcast, but not rechecked later here or elsewhere (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NIGERIA. 7254.9, Aug 28 at 0623, VON is on for a change, S9+10/20, and with good modulation for a change, talk in presumed Hausa about COVID-19 -- number pronounced in English -- and demokrasi (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NIGERIA. 7254.9v, Aug 29 at 0602, VON is AWOL again, and not on 9689.9v either (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NIGERIA. 7254.9v, Aug 30 at 0558, again no signal from VON. Wolfgang Bueschel says at 0851 Aug 30, ``7254.9v 06-11 UT requested - vague imprecise -, nothing heard here in past days, empty channel this Aug 30 morning also`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NIGERIA. 7254.9, Aug 31 at 0614, once again no signal from VON, not on 9689.9 nor 11769.9; altho the latter is still being reported in their evenings. But 11770 at 1714 Aug 31 via UTwente only Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NIGERIA. 7254.9v, Sept 1 at 0610, again zero signal from VON to begin another month. It`s been so sporadic that we do not yet draw any conclusions of a permanent QRT. Besides, 11769.894, Sept 1 at 1519, S6 VP signal in African? language, typical VON offset, vs. RHC 11760 splash out to plus/minus 20 kHz. 1859 recheck, still a JBA carrier. Wolfgang Bueschel agrees: ``11769.894 kHz, Voice of Nigeria from Abuja, requested as Igbo service. Talk by male presenter. At 1620 UT on Sept 1st. Proper S=9+30 or -46dBm powerful signal into Europe today. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 1)`` and four days earlier: ``11769.893 kHz, Voice of Nigeria from Abuja, probably in English. At 1804 UT on Aug 28. Sideband splash signal disturbtion of S=9+35 or -39dBm powerhouse, from adjacent CRI Beijing in Germany, via big bcast center in Kashgar, western China {East Turkistan}. Noted in Liverpool England and Netherlands Perseus server-net. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 28)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. I haven`t kept rereporting this daily, but as of 1409 UT Aug 27 daytime, no change since last report Aug 21, concerning 515-MCW kHz, ND Beacon PN, Ponca City, still OFF; and 341-MCW kHz, NDB EI, Enid, still on (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 515-MCW kHz, Aug 30 at 1451 daytime, NDB PN Ponca City is still OFF; 341-MCW, EI locally Enid is still on but JBA. Yesterday afternoon could hear EI on the N/S shortwire, but not on the magloop which may be having problems (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, Aug 27 at 2212, no signal here from VOT, surely off; remote not checked since 9420 neighbor Greece accomplishes S8-S9. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, Aug 31 at 2200 and still 2220, no signal from VOT English to us. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler. 9830, Sept 1 at 2200, VG S9+40 VOT signal at UTwente as YL yet again opens this broadcast claiming it is at 1230 on 15450. Now it may well be necessary to do one English broadcast per day at mid-afternoon, and play it back for all the subsequent English times. But they should say so, so at least the sign-ons make sense. Of course, we`re lucky they are even uttering the correct current season time and frequency for the original. Something`s always awry at Ankara (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 7275.057, Sept 2 at 0334, VOT English to us intruding into our 40m exclusive hamband, only S5-S9, JBA with Turkish music fill, and markedly off-frequency. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, Wed Sept 2 at 2200, VOT cuts on just in time, allaying fears of yet another no-show, S9+40 as monitored via UTwente. Usual features; news, press reviews, `This Day in History`, `Did You Know That?` between music breaks, COVID-19 PSA, but by 2220, yet again no `Letterbox`, just more great Turkish music (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U K [non]. 12095, UT Sun Aug 30 at 0431, BBCWS via OMAN, VG to UTwente at 320 degrees, with première of new show until November, `Comedians vs The News`. Alan Roe found the only other SW frequencies would be 13580 also Oman, which goes out at 10 degrees and much weaker; and 9915 via Madagascar, which I was trying before 0430 but not as good on remotes altho it should be the only possibility directly into North America if checked. The co-hosts say they are a Canadian Lesbian married couple, also bi-cultural obviously from their names. Their two other foreign guests this week are from India and Mexico, as they satirize current news; fun show, and can be found on podcasts via https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct0x37 where Alan says he also will have to get it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2049 contents: Algeria, Antarctica, Belarus non, Bolivia, Bougainville, Canada, China, Cuba and non, France, India, Indonesia, Korea South & North, Laos, Madagascar, México, Mongolia, Netherlands and non, New Zealand, Perú, Poland, Spain, Sudan, Tajikistan/Tibet non, Turkey, UK, USA; and the propagation outlook WOR 2049 is available as of 2318 UT Thursday August 27 (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2049.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2049.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] 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, 5800-NEW to SSE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 or 6160v 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 0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 NEW to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5850 to NW & 5010 to S NEWs Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Thanks for financial support from Eric Lund, Karlsborg, Sweden for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com - not necessarily 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 2049 monitoring: confirmed first WRMI broadcast, Friday August 28 at 2200 on 9955, good via TWR Bonaire SDR and no jamming audible. Also confirmed UT Sat Aug 29 at 0130 on WRMIs: 9955 better S4-S6 via Boa Vista than Bonaire; 7780 good S9+10 via UTwente. From Unique Radio, Australia website, https://www.uniqueradio.biz/ --- ``Unique Radio SHORTWAVE FEED 5045 kHz & 3210 kHz has ended due to relocation. Podcasts and online continue as usual. Unique 2SG & Classic Hits from the 60's to the 80's and beyond · The Sound of Gunnedah and the Northwest - New Local Radio Coming Soon`` Is 2SG a legal, licensed unique callsign, in NSW pattern as if were on MW? Since this weekly WOR schedule deals with SW, not webcast-only, Unique Radio will no longer appear here, but WOR times remain: 0900 UT Fri & Mon; 0700 UT Sat & Sun. Will its SW ever resume? Next: 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] 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800-NEW to SSE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 or 6160v 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 NEW to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5850 to NW & 5010 to S NEWs (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2049 monitoring: almost confirmed Saturday August 29 at 1310, the 1300 on WRMI 15770, JBA traces of talk. Also confirmed at 1615 the 1600 Saturday on all WRN webcasts, presumed International-Vacuum satellites too. Next: 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400] 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800-NEW to SSE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 or 6160v 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 NEW to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5850 to NW & 5010 to S NEWs (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2049 monitoring: confirmed Sat Aug 29 at 1949 UT at Algeria, so just started, on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, Wentzville MO, S7 via KiwiSDR in nearby Warrenton. Missed Sat Aug 28 at 2300 on WRMI 7780; did anyone hear it? Also confirmed UT Sun Aug 30 at 0328 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, sufficient but high storm noise level [HSNL], over Arkansas, not Missouri, about 2 minutes in so started circa 0326. Next: 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800-NEW to SSE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 or 6160v 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 NEW to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5850 to NW & 5010 to S NEWs (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2049 monitoring: confirmed UT Monday August 31 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, VG direct but some deep fades: this week #13 transmitter does not dump off air before 0100. Also confirmed UT Mon Aug 31 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, VG S9+10 via UTwente; also on WRN webcast. Also confirmed UT Mon Aug 31 at 0230 on WRMI 7780, VG S9+20 via UTwente; and also for second week surprise 5800, S9+10/20 via TWR Boa Vista KiwiSDR. Also confirmed UT Mon Aug 31 from 0259.5 on Area 51 webcast; and WBCQ 5130, S3-S7 via Rochester SDR; closing 0328.5 on 5130 direct S9+10 including HSNL. Also confirmed UT Mon Aug 31 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, S9+10/20, no jamming, better than where aimed at TWR Bonaire and Boa Vista. 0358 Maine SDR at S9/+10. As always cuts off the air by 0400* before ID can finish. See also below for 9955 webcast 0400+. Next: Also confirmed UT Mon Aug 31 from 1800.6 on IRRS 7290 via Bulgaria; S9+20 via UTwente with Synch readout as 72900003.71 Hz. Autonotch checked somewhat reduces the 7291 warble, but no way to get rid of the heavy splash from 7280 Vietnam and 7290 Iran. Continues intact past 1810. However, tuned in earlier: *1755 carrier on; 1758.4 bumps up power so quieter; 1758.8 JIP WOR already running for a few minutes in Belarus [non] item; 1800 interrupted for quick IRRS ID only, FSN headlines, 1800.6 restart WOR. Next: 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 NEW to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5850 to NW & 5010 to S NEWs (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2049 monitoring: confirmed UT Tuesday September 1 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, VG S9/+20 at UTwente. Also confirmed UT Tue Sept 1 at 0330 on WRMI 5800, VG at TWR Bonaire S9+5/15. I leave it on in the background but notice about 0350 that music is playing! ME-ish world music fill, so for some reason dumped out of this new WORtime well before it finished. Rarely does a week go by without some problem with WOR playbax, so we are fortunate with redundancies. Next: 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5850 to NW & 5010 to S NEWs (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2049 monitoring, next: 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5850 to NW & 5010 to S NEWs Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Thanks for financial support from Eric Lund, Karlsborg, Sweden for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com - not necessarily 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. 6159.9v, Aug 28 at 2347, S8-S9 but noisy, WBCQ `Old Tyme Radio` is opening an episode of `Amos `n` Andy` as re-produced by Ed Bolton; a little late if to finish by hourtop? But it does, now listening to Area 51/61 webcast, 2357 organ theme and outro. 0000 Aug 29 into `Crusader Rabbit` instead of `AAAWWW`, which has already started WTO theme and interjexions on 7490 webcast. Allan soon plugs OTR show but says he is now on 6160; random conversation with Angela, including benefits of vertical antenna to reduce horizontally-polarized noise. 0023 false-start to politix he always says he doesn`t want to get into on show, is quadri-casting on 3265, 5130, 6160, 7490. Angela is wearing soft, sexy, pants he hasn`t seen her in before. 0026 I check Rochester SDRs and indeed AAAWWW is heard on 6160 and the others; but still NOT on the A51/61 webcast; at 0027 it exclaims, ``Dr Becker`s Magic Mushrooms on the Lumpy Gravy Show``. Back on AAAWWW, 0032 confirms date as 28 August YOOL 2020; then A&A really get into politix: hypocrisy, ``deep state`` conspiracy nonsense; they can`t comprehend how anyone could vote for Biden instead of Trump, thus ending freedom and everything in America. (Me, if I had to choose lesser of evils, it would be Socialism instead of Trump`s Fascism; in fact Democratic Socialism is not evil at all but successful in much of N/W Europe; but the populace needs to be unselfish, a tough call for Americans, and a Canadian.) Reads long anti-Democratic screed e-mailed by more than one listener; Angela is also anti-vac, but Allan claims to be pro-science. 0059 prayer and 0100 over to Hal Turner. Here`s John Carver`s version: ``Tonight's show started on time on 7490 and just a few seconds later on 5130 and 6160. I don't check 3265 as it's such a pain to do so. Allan and Angela in the studio. Opening positive talk about the Area 61 Old Time Radio program on 6160 and all the positive comments they have received about it. Then a plug for shortwave listening in general. Some antenna talk then into antennas on dumbphones. Angela broke in and said they should have a picnic on top of the superstations antenna and Allan quips that they are the only two people at the station that could climb to the top and still function. Then into TV antennas and finally back to radio antennas. Then talk of antenna problems in FLA because of all the noise down there. By 0023 they start to slowly drift into some political talk even though Allan said he didn't like to do political talk during his show. Allan distracted us by talking about how Angela was dressed and when the discussion restarted we were back to talking of dumbphones again. Angela brought up Pirate Joe and Allan stated that he was a communist, left wing liberal and we're back into politics. Then Allan read an older email from Ross on the Cape and it had to do with the election and the general conditions in this country at this time. Angela got animated after this and Allan started to read another email that had to do with draining the swamp. Reading of regular emails began at 0052 and Angela got a little wild. Closing prayer at 0058 and program was off the air at 0100 again in mid-sentence. John, Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9315-9345, Sept 2 at 0340, WLCR in British via WBCQ is splattering out to this range from S9+30/40 fundamental 9330. Seems to me this is excessive despite the very strong signal. Wondering if it`s 500 or only 250 kW, as some of the closer targets were so registered, I check HFCC, which displays imaginary info: Nothing on 9330 between 0100 and 0900, rather 6195 at 0300-0400 in German! Despite WBCQ-6 *never* able to reach any frequency but 9330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9955, Aug 27 at 1418, WRMI prolonged today beyond nominal 1400* with Freedom Synergy Radio talking about Taiwan in English. You never know whether this webcast-only time will also get shortwaved (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5850 // much weaker 5010, UT Fri Aug 28 at 0129 WRMI abruptly cuts off Robobibling in English from ABF for ID and 0130 Bob Bierman ``Greatest Music of All Time``, first Middle Eastern, by 0144 Cuban, ``MiLonga``, etc. Filling a blank field on the System F skedgrid (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5950, Aug 30 at 0601, SMTV via WRMI with double audio feed echoing; has happened before, wonder how? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5950, Aug 31 at 0620, SMTV repetitive music beat suspected of double audio feed but not so obvious until 0623 talk which is horribly duplicated, or is it triplicated. Evidently no one at Okee is monitoring, like no one beyond cares to listen to this cult, as it was thus 24 hours ago; and also in between on 15770 as Wolfgang Bueschel noted: ``15770even WRMI, two time double echo program, SMTV - echo some 1 1/2 second audio later repeat, S=9+20dB at 1610 UT on Aug 30; in Detroit MI, Rochester NY, and Aberdeen NJ US states Perseus server net (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 30)`` --- I could not find this by searching on 15770 since he attached `even` to it! See also ISRAEL [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. (5085) $tereo WTWW-2 webcast, UT Sun Aug 30 starting at 0026 after hamstuff, anonymous theatre organ music show from Bob Heil in Belleville IL. Yes, he never mentions any program name, so I still call it `Theatre Organ [NOT] in the Ozarx`. or TONITO. Most of this show is ``virtual`` performance by Len Larsen(sp?) who sent some kind of memory card which Bob inserts into his own organ to run it, pulling stops, etc., but without keys going up and down. LL had previously sampled the best thorgans around the country for each simulated instrument! Runs until 0056.5, back to rock. After this at 0100-0200 UT Sundays, I habitually listen to `Encore` classical music, VG via WRMI 5850 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9265V, Sat Aug 29 at 1356, WINB playing Dixieland, `Saints Go Marchin` In`, 1359 ID distorted. As always the frequency is constantly wobbling, as no one else ever mentions. Is on air mornings, only weekends (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 4840, Sun Aug 30 at 0604, S9+10/20 of dead air again from WWCR, while 3215 & 5890 are Brother HyStairical. Happens over and over in nightmiddle, automation misprogramming? as if, zzz, no one at 1300 WWCR Ave know or care (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 15825, Aug 31 at 1451, WWCR-1 S9+10, while an hour before was a JBA carrier. Sporadic E has hit it; DXMAP shows some MUFs to 27 MHz, altho not directly between us. By now it will be a rare day for any FM DX but at least had a few good openings this summer (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7505, Sept 2 at 0321, WRNO is still OFF; what`s wrong? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1070, Aug 29 received this reply to my report of the WCSZ DX test: ``Hi Glen[n], Thanks for your report - it confirms your reception of WCSZ on August 22, 2020. This was non-DA, at 50 kW the entire time. They were DA daytime until about ten years ago, when that equipment was removed. Three towers at night, aimed at the ocean with Greenville [SC] in it's main lobe. Indianapolis kills them in their fringes at night. Al Hajny`` --- that`s it, no eQSL attached. S.S. is an ~8K suburb on the NW side of Greenville. My Collins Gem pocket dixionary, originally owned by G. B. Hancock for a 5th hour French class, says souci means: care, worry, anxiety, solicitude, marigold; Google says expression, `sans souci` without any of those = carefree. The Arizonans skipped the French for their Carefree, as Paul Harvey used to remind us, north of Phœnix, presumably a retirement community (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1130 kHz, Aug 27 at 1410 UT, KLEY Wellington KS, is still on steadily S9 but only a trace of music modulation; maybe the 250-watt daytime rating, but useless except for the 100.3 FM translator to pretend to relay it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VANUATU. 11835 & 7890, Sept 1 at 0614, R. Vanuatu X 4 and X 3 are both but JBA carriers tonight. Propagation disturbed (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VANUATU. Correxion to last log of JBA 3945 harmonic carriers only, as Ron Howard points out, not X4 and X3 on 11835 & 7890, but X3 and X2. There is a X4 on 15780 not detectable here. How about further up in the closer daytime Pacific? Check 19725, 23670, 27615, 31560, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. JBA MW carrier search, Aug 27 at 0605: 621, 711, 846, 855(2), 882, all probably Eurafrican except 846 Kiritimati (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Aug 28 at 0253-0300, not in the order tuned: 684, 711.0, 891, 936, 1098(2), 1107(2), 1125, 1152, 1215(2), 1305(2) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. JBA TA MW carrier search Aug 28 at 0622 UT: only 621, stronger than 711, presumably Canary Islands and Morocco. (No 846 from Kiritimati either) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Aug 29 at 0606: nothing but 621, presumed CANARY ISLANDS (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Aug 30 at 0607: only 621, presumed Canaries; not even 846 Kiritimati TP (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 9-kHz JBA MW carrier search, Aug 31 at 0637 UT; only 846 presumed TP KIRITIMATI, and 621 presumed TA CANARY ISLANDS. No 711, while 710 is dominated by on-frequency Rebelde CUBA // 5025 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 711.0, Sept 1 at 0616, JBA carrier while no TA`s are audible, not even 621 altho there is HSNL from OKC area which is being flooded by up to 8 inches of rain in some suburbs. But it`s strong enough to get a rough DF separable from 710s, as ENE/WSW, which rules out Cuba, and probably too clockwise for Morocco either. What Unitedstatesians are along that axis? Surely not the biggies WOR NY or KSPN LA; how about KBMB Black Canyon City [Phœnix] AZ? There is no longer a 710 in Sonora. XEDP in Chihuahua used to be off-minus by an odd amount but not for a year or two (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Sept 2 at 0310-0318 UT: 531, 549, 612(2), 621, 684(2), 711, 756(-)birdie?, 774(2, or beating against a birdie), 828, 837, 855, 891, 1044, 1098(2), *1107(2), 1125(2), 1134; none higher but the QRM splash is worst above the `clear` channels. *1107 strongest of the lot so 0319 try for some audio, and detect a bit of music which is not coming from 1100 or 1110. Big gun on 1107 is 400 kW from Afghanistan, but far more likely are the five Radio 5 synchros from Spain ranging from 10 to 25 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 5780, Sept 2 at 0324, JBA carrier, as often detectable in our evenings. Suspected one of the Euro-pirates, such as Radio Harmony if it run all-night (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING Politics --- DONALD TRUMP’S CORRUPTION WAS ON FULL DISPLAY AT THE RNC George Zornick, Jesselyn Cook, HuffPost August 25, 2020, 11:10 PM CDT https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-corruption-rnc-041022029.html THE DAILY [SOCIAL DISTANCING] SHOW, with TREVOR NOAH On Comedy Central, UT Tue-Fri at 0300-0345, repeated 0515-0600 UT, but you don`t even need basic cable. Terrific political satire so needed now, segment by segment: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=trevor+noah+daily+show This week however, another episode UT Sat Aug 29 to wrap up RNC (gh) Nina Jankowicz (Wilson Center): "Imagine leading a media organization and insinuating your reporters are spies. I have colleagues who are being forced to return to dangerous environments because USAGM won't renew their visas. They will be at risk because they've done critical, truthful reporting while at VOA. These people have USG security clearances and have been heavily vetted, usually multiple times. They join USAGM because they're committed to bringing reliable information to environments where it's hard to get. Pack's statements are endangering USAGM employees around the globe." https://twitter.com/wiczipedia/status/1299442605420412935 (and thread)(via Kim Elliott) Nina J. has also just appeared on CSPAN2, ``How to lose the information war``, 17-18 UT Aug 30, and: https://www.c-span.org/video/?474415-1/how-lose-information-war (gh)