** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-CUSB, Sat Sept 26 at 1526, LRA36 is underway with chat mostly by two YLs, S6-S8 at Brasil SDR, mentioning LRA-4 in Santa Fe - I thought they said, but that`s in Salta on 690. In WRTH you have to hunt thru the entire MW frequency list since the LRAs are mixed in with the non-governmentals. Fortunately this one is in lowband. Anyhow, altho Antarctica occasionally mentioned, it`s all about Argentina instead. Abruptly interrupted by local neighborhood power failure at 1542 until 1707. By 1735 they are still gabbing, 1803 a song. 1902 the Brazilians are busy, a trace of music at Buenos Aires and Santiago. Latest info about this broadcast per Manuel Mendez was 15-20 in Spanish, preceded and followed by a semihour in German, no English (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-CUSB, Sept 30 from 1520 past 1540, no signal at Brasil SDR from LRA-36 despite word sent to Manuel Méndez a few hours earlier that they would be on this Wed at 14-16. Really on but not propagating, off early, or not at all? Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, then replies: ``I think despite they announced it, there was no transmission today. Best 73,s`` And later, Horacio Nigro, Uruguay to the WOR iog: ``Bad weather at location. The info was delivered from the own station on his Facebook account, later today`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** BRAZIL. 6180, Sept 27 at 0032, R. Nacional ID after some Brazo-rap; S9+30 peaks but distorted. // 11780 is even more distorted and weaker at S6-S9. Double loss, and neither in crystal-clear DRM, ha2. Far more than 5 kW as listed in WRTH. Near on-frequency now, but Ivo had found it on 6173.5v: ``BRASIL Radio Nacional da Amazonia on very odd frequency 6173.5v September 25 from 1400 on 6173.5vBRA 250 kW / 344 deg to BRA Portuguese and drifting down. Very distorted audio and without carrier via SDR Brasilia in Brasil - Parallel at same time 11780.0 BRA 250 kW / 360 deg to BRA Portuguese, good signal/audio`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** BRAZIL. 11780, Sept 28 at 2048, RNA at S4-S5 with music, distorted as usual. DRM promoters were in contact with someone who was going to notify the Rodeador engineer about this, which should not have been necessary and bodes ill for their handling of DRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. Re: ``371-MCW, Sept 18 at 0619, JBA NDB dash and GW i.e.: ``371 GW CAN QC KUUJJUARAPIK 2000 55 17 5 -77 45 5`` - dxinfocentre. A new one on me; wow, what a name! I wonder if the French Canadians find it any more daunting than the English?`` and my stab at pronouncing the place in WOR 2053: Glenn, try 'koo jew wack" for something close. 73 Joe ``kay ber lynn`` Caberlin, Ont. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 2749-USB, Sept 27 at 0040 UT, marine weather by synthyl in English, JBA. DXinfocenter.com shows starting at 0040 is VCO, 500 watts from Sydney NS; nothing audible on 2598-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA [and non]. Don`t be fooled by CNR1 jamming as Sound of Hope It can be very misleading to rely on some frequency-list references. First of all, the way-out-of-band SOH transmitters are extremely low power, maybe 100-watts. The ChiCom attempt to jam most of them with high-power regular SWBC transmitters carrying CNR1 programming (rarely Firedrake music). Thus if you hear Chinese on one of these frequencies, your first assumption should be that it is CNR1 jamming, unless definitely proven otherwise by specific ID, or *not* being in // to many other CNR1 frequencies, even legitimate ones which are not jamming. Aoki/NDXC indicates the presence of jamming in some versions merely with an *, easily ignored or overlooked. EiBi has separate entries for the jammers; but not always are all included in either. Altho China participates in HFCC, while preventing Taiwan and any clandestines from doing so, China does not bother to register its jamming transmissions. Would they even deny them if confronted? I know copying real IDs in Chinese is difficult for us, but Ron Howard quotes SOH: "Xiwang zhi sheng guoji guangbo diantai" (Sound of Hope international broadcast station) ID given twice (once by OM and once by YL). Wolfgang Bueschel has done extensive surveys of these with remotes, finding that Sound of Hope is usually slightly off-frequency while the jammers are not. CNR1 programming includes timesignal on the hour, while SOH does not. I often monitor until many of these close at 1400* after TS. CNR1 jamming also applies to high-power inband transmissions including RTI, VOA, RFA, and a few SOH, some of those in turn relaying RFA.. Voice of Tibet and other broadcasts in Tibetan, and Uighur, and even English are also subject to such jamming. Every time some Westerner reports CNR1 jamming as if it were SOH, the ChiCom must be very amused. 73, (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 2053) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer search, Sept 25 at 1445-1447: none higher than 11460 & 11170 JBA carriers, the latter with flutter; and 9155, S2-S3 trace of Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, Sept 28 at 1350: NONE found WOOB in the 14s, 13s, 12s, 11s or 10s. Propagation is degraded. WWV reported: ``Geophysical Alert Message Solar-terrestrial indices for 27 September follow. Solar flux 74 and estimated planetary A-index 24. The estimated planetary K-index at 1500 UTC on 28 September was 4. Space weather for the past 24 hours has been moderate. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G2 level occurred.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, Sept 29 at 1355: not even JBA WOOB carriers found in the 13s, 12s, 11s or 10s. Propagation continues degraded: K-index 3 at 1200 and 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** COLOMBIA? 4940, Sept 25 at 0203, again no signal from anonymous mystery missionary station last heard on UT Sept 19. Such non-logs may get a bit tiresome, but we need to keep checking as it originally appeared without notice and recould; while awaiting any word from connected? South American DXers about what and whence it really were, subjunctively (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** COLOMBIA? 4940, Sept 26 at 0100 quick check via Bonaire TWR SDR, still no signal of anonymous mystery missionary station, now gone for a week (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** COLOMBIA [and non]. Colombia? 4940 is back on --- The anonymous mystery missionary station is back on after missing since Sept 19 - 4940, synch carrier minus 5 or 6 Hz to Bonaire SDR, 0233 UT Sept 28, poor-fair S6-S7 with storm crashes. Typical programming of M&W chat, dramatization. About an hour earlier when I checked, it was not on but detected the -29 Hz carrier of R. San Antonio, Perú (Glenn Hauser, 0238 UT September 28, WOR iogroup) sparking others, below Continued to be heard, but at 0329 dead air, still carrier at -3.5 Hz; 0336 suddenly resumes modulation, biblical dramatization, bit of music; but 0337 starts long-winded Spanish preacher, exactly the same recording I heard weeks ago UT Sept 9, soon after it first appeared: saying it`s 8th of April, he is restricted to house due to coronavirus, citing Isaiah chapters; still going past 0412, 0429. Meanwhile I tried TDOA again, but could get only two SDRs to participate, Key West and Dominican Republic --- they came up with somewhere in the Caribbean north of Venezuela. Wouldn`t it be something if this 4940 thing really were on a boat? Other reports following via HCDX: ``Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain --- COLOMBIA, 4940, new religious station, 0605-0645, 28-09, after days off, today on air again. First noticed by Glenn Hauser, heard here in Reinante, North West of Spain with Colombian songs and religious comments in Spanish. Very weak. 15321.`` ``Manuel, thanks for your alert. Today the station was playing still at 1050. Time announcements remain strange. At 0756 they announced 4:04 local. At 0957 they played the national anthem of Colombia. After one week off air they perhaps changed their schedule. One thing which is still missing is an ID. Karel Honzik, Czechia`` ``Good signal via TWR Bonaire SDR between 0430 and 1100 UT September 28 but from 1200 no signal on 4940 -- Ivo Ivanov`` Ivo, you heard no signal at 1200 probably because the daylight has already come to the transmitter area and the propagation disappeared. I heard the signal at 1050 but then I left the KiwiSDR receiver on Bonaire. The access is 180 minutes/day and my limit was over at that time. Karel`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** COLOMBIA? 4940, Sept 29 at 0110, anonymous mystery missionary station is on again for second night, S9 into TWR Bonaire SDR showing characteristic carrier offset varying slightly around -4.9 Hz, YL gospel huxtress in Spanish. 0200 now OM g.h. with never ID break, S9/+10, -4.9 Hz. For kix, I run a TDOA at 0206, using Bonaire and DR SDRs which come up with 15N/92W = San Pablo, SW Guatemala, west of Q-tenango! Later another run lands in Chile! 0326 now a hymn. 0328, auto-timecheck as 11:28, which is UT-4, now correct, for Venezuela, Bolivia, Chile, DR, western Brasil, back to predication citing Lucas. 0439 still going with tropicalmusic; background music to talk before and after 0500 are Xmas carols, Venid, Fieles Todos, y Noche de Paz: `tisn`t the season. Back at 0250 checked 4940 direct and had a JBA signal, accompanied by weaker Spanish 2-way about 4941.75-USB, cambio (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** COLOMBIA? 4940, Sept 30 at 0312, anonymous mystery missionary station is on again, S8-S9+ via Bonaire SDR, signature carrier offset -5v Hz, with `Lecciones de la Historia`, one of their regular shows (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** COLOMBIA? 4940, Sept 30 at 0605, continued from last report, anonymous mystery missionary station now heard direct, S9 vs storm noise, with tropical music, Spanish talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 5080, Sept 24 at 0128, filthy spurblob with tell-tale F# tone when tuned in FM mode, just like RHC often provides on 13 or 15 MHz bands. This must be coming out of 5040 transmitter, so are there others at 40 kHz intervals? Yes, but JBA on 5120 and 4960; surely one on 5000 but totally blocked by strong WWV; in less favored locales may well be QRMing WWV/H. By 0144 there is also a trace of program modulation on 5080 as well as blob traces on 5120, 5160. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 5025 Rebelde is still distorted but not involved. Conveniently off the air clearing band for these is 5085 WTWW-2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 5080, Sept 27 at 0018, distorted spurblob out of 5040 RHC transmitter, this time abutting 5085 WTWW, and not a defect of the latter as I first thought; since 5080 was also heard last time when 5085 was off. No program audio to compare, but tell-tale F# tone above middle C especially when tuned in FM mode; and also at other 40-kHz intervals from 5040, but far weaker than 5080: 5120, the rest JBA: 5160, 5200, 4960, 4920; surely 5000 too but blocked by WWV. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR0 ** CUBA. 11670, Sept 27 at 0034, RHC S9 but extremely suptorted. 11760 is somewhat distorted but not suppressed in baseball talk vs Japan. 11800 weak S6-S7 suptorted; plus/minus 10 spurs JBA carriers. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 4765, Sept 28 at 0108, R. Progreso is AWOL again after having stayed back on for a few nights. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 5081 & 5122 approx., Sept 28 at 0111, distorted spurblobs out of 5040, now about 41 kHz intervals despite 5085 WTWW-2. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15230, Sept 28 at 1345, zero signal from RHC here, while 15140 is S9, the SSOB by far and almost the OSOB. 15230 is supposedly scheduled 1200-1500 for western N America per EiBi, but when on is always much weaker than 15140 supposedly for S America. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 4765, Sept 29 at 0032, again no signal from R. Progreso --- but cuts on at *0032.7, S9+10/20 but just barely modulated. 0109 recheck now weaker S9 but more mod; can`t have everything. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA, 5081, Sept 29 at 2344, spurblob with F# tone, out of RHC English 5040, and WTWW-2 is not on 5085 yet. Original simulcast on 7380 for Africa is still absent as has been for many weeks. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 5025, Sept 30 at 0606, R. Rebelde at S9+10/20 and very suptorted as often the case now. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) {Yup, nothing this week in the D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L; altho SUDAN SOUTH [non] = FRANCE} ** MALI. 5995, Sept 26 at 0619, no signal from RTM at a time it is normally heard; could be due to K index of 5 as WWV reported: ``Solar-terrestrial indices for 25 September follow. Solar flux 73 and estimated planetary A-index 20. The estimated planetary K-index at 0600 UTC on 26 September was 5. Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level occurred.`` 6005, BBC Ascension, however is still audible weakly as usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MEXICO. 6185-, Sept 29 at 2337, no signal from XEPPM, which is normally running by 2300 and earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 5960, UT Sun Sept 27 at 0028, check for weekly Mighty KBC broadcast to us via GERMANY beyond: terrible, only a JBA het of two very weak signals. K=3 and not recovered from G1 storm: ``Solar-terrestrial indices for 26 September follow. Solar flux 73 and estimated planetary A-index 26. The estimated planetary K-index at 0000 UTC on 27 September was 3. Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level occurred.`` --- WWV Of course it`s the CCI that KBC and MBR have chosen to live with, the always-off-frequency-minus PBS Xinjiang, Urumqi, EAST TURKISTAN, land of brainwashing Uyghurs. 0043 recheck, now they add up to S3-S5 with trace of rock music from one of them. UTwente checked at 0107: same LAH where both signals are stronger but about equal adding up to S9, unusable there and here. AMSynch locks onto 5959.93075 for Wulumuchi, which means about 69 Hz apart (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. 15410, Sept 30 at 1720, Eye Radio via Issoudun, FRANCE, good S9 signal into UTwente SDR despite proximity; discussion with someone on phone in presumed Juba Arabic about COVID-19, but at 1730 I realize it`s heavily-accented English; better English by the studio host. Mention there being a toll-free phone number about this, 22-22 ---? is that all? 1738 back into language, 1740 bit of English, continues in and out of English, apparently common parlance in the country. 1756 with standard advice about the pandemic until chopped off air abruptly at 1759*, just as now scheduled. Dr Hansjoerg Biener had just reminded us that this extra COVID hour M-F after 16-17 UT daily, as Ivo Ivanov had earlier reported, is now underway. Overall are several other languages, maybe some of them now? ``Dinka/Nuer/Shilluk/Bari/Zande/Lutoho``. HjB replied at 1729: ``Most of the programme up till now was in English (recognizable/understandable to me). Maybe I should add that whenever I check on Eye Radio I seem to come across English segments. Maybe, at least for their short wave hours, the working language is English. This morning, I came across the final quarter hour of their regular programme. It was in English, and I think in some part, the moderator just translated a part of this English segment into another language. This afternoon, I started listening at 1620 and the programme was in. English changing later to an African language.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, Sept 30 at 2205-2222+, VOT English to us at first is good via UTwente, but then fading down; with the usual mini-features, not including any `Letterbox` on yet another Wednesday (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 349-MCW kHz, Sept 25 at 0629 UT, ND beacon GW; I`m tuned to 348-USB yet there is still QRM from nearby 350 RG in OKC. No dash, so not Canadian like the GW I recently logged on 371; and there is another USonian GW on 227. 349 is in Greenwood - Teoc, Mississippi, 25 watts. 353-MCW kHz, Sept 25 at 0630, mixture of ND beacons IN and LI; I have to listen a while until they are not overlapping as periods are slightly different. Classaxe.com shows 6.03 seconds for ``Raize`` IN, and 6.2 seconds for ``Lasky`` LI. IN is 100 watts from International Falls, Minnesota of renown as often the coldest place in the Conterminous - after all it`s right next to Fort Frances, Canada; and LI is 400 watts from Little Rock, Arkansas. Strangely enough among the I.F. attraxions there is no significant waterfall, but there is lake flowing into a river thanks to a dam enabling some hydro power for paper mills (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 379-MCW kHz, Sept 27 at 0614 UT, ND beacon BRA, which is 400 watts from Asheville - Broad River NC. I was tuned to 377-USB. 379 normally occupied by much closer RUE, Russellville AR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 410-MCW kHz, Sept 29 at 0646 UT, ND beacon BA, which is 25 watts from Columbus - Clifford, Indiana. I was tuned to 408-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 475-CW kHz, Sept 27 at 0629 UT, JBA very slow Morse as WA4SZE, maybe more in the loop but I stop once I have the call. It`s the BEACON by Dave Frantz, Manchester TN at the WWRB SW 5050 site. I tune across here almost every night, but last time heard this was May 31 and before that last December 10 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 475-CW kHz, Sept 29 at 0650 UT, Dave Frantz`s BEACON at WWRB Manchester TN, very slow Morse loop starts out WWW rather than VVV, WA4SZE, also with COM. Fades down before can copy it all. This is the recent ``630-meter`` ham band, only 472-479 kHz and secondary to maritime, as explained at http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-proposes-to-permit-amateur-access-to-2200-and-630-meters (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 475.4-MCW kHz, Sept 30 at 0614 UT, WA4SZE, ham beacon by Dave Frantz at WWRB, Manchester TN, weak but at some peaks appears to be with carrier A2 and not straight CW A1; measured with difficulty due to other carriers in the area amid the 7-kHz-wide ``630m band``, maybe other hams, including one momentary very strong spoiler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 13565-CW, Sept 25 at 1448, HIFER beacon with IDs only, K6FRC JBA; another notable occasion when its asserted 1.8 milliwatts from Patterson, California make it, as at no other daypart (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. Michael Pack, USAGM refuses supboena to testify; PBS Newshour reports Today Sept 24 was the day when Trump`s man heading the USAGM, Michael Pack, was scheduled to testify before congress, but he ignored the subpoena! Will he be held in contempt? Charlie Harlich received a notice from CSPAN about the hearing this morning, but it did not appear at the time mentioned, nor can we find it anywhere on their extremely flexible schedule. Perhaps it will become available in their archive? Meanwhile, PBS Newshour aired a 7:38 segment about this during the third quarter of the show today; likewise I can`t find it yet at the PBS website, but surely it will show. Searching on USAGM, or VOA, or Pack, or Jamie Fry, one of the interviewees, ex-RFE/RL president, should find it. This deals with the scandals in general, such as refusing to renew visas, as two VOA Indonesian reporters are seen being deported. Anyhow I have recorded it for my archive. Glenn Later: here it is, audiovideo and full transcript: CEO of Voice of America’s parent agency defies subpoena despite bipartisan concerns Sep 24, 2020 6:30 PM EDT Michael Pack, CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, ignored a congressional subpoena over concerns he has politicized and mismanaged media outlets that helped the U.S. win the Cold War. One of those outlets is Voice of America. Nick Schifrin reports and talks to Jamie Fly, formerly the president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, who was fired by Pack. He is now at the German Marshall Fund... https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/despite-bipartisan-concerns-global-media-agency-ceo-ignores-congressional-subpoena (Glenn Hauser, WOR) ** U S A. Re: Oversight of the United States Agency for Global Media and U.S. International Broadcasting Efforts Glenn: Here is a link to the hearing: https://youtu.be/Xi7BsQa8NaU (via Charles Harlich) We asked for it - O, o, it`s 3 hours and 9 minutes. Now even the HOROTUS is using YouTube. Cue in 4:40 when Chairman Engel explains what is going on, next 5 minutes, how Pack weaseled out of his commitment to testify ... (Glenn) viz.: ``Oversight of the United States Agency for Global Media and U.S. International Broadcasting Efforts 1,121 views •Streamed live on Sep 24, 2020 House Foreign Affairs Committee 4.27K subscribers --- Location: 2172 Rayburn House Office Building and virtually via Cisco WebEx WITNESSES: The Honorable Michael Pack (subpoenaed) Chief Executive Officer United States Agency for Global Media {what about Panel I?} Panel II The Honorable Karen Kornbluh Chair of the Board of Directors Open Technology Fund (Former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) Ms. Amanda Bennett Former Director of the Voice of America Mr. Jamie Fly Former President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Mr. Grant Turner Chief Financial Officer U.S. Agency for Global Media The Honorable Ryan Crocker Board Member Open Technology Fund (Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait, and Lebanon)`` (Glenn Hauser, WOR iog) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2053 contents: Antarctica, Brasil [5995 item should be credited to Rudolf Grimm], Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba, Czechia, Ireland, Italy non, Kiritimati Island, Korea North and non, Mali, Newfoundland and non, UK, USA, Uzbekistan, Venezuela non; sporadic E; propagation outlook WOR 2053 is available as of 0013 UT Friday September 25 (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2053.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2053.mp3 Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html Also linx to podcast services. The shortwave broadcasts should be: 0130 UT Friday WRMI 5850 to NW & 5010 to S 2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE 1130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 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 to SSE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 61 to WSW 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 to SSE 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, for a generous quarterly seasonal check on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 Financial support may alternatively be sent via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com - not necessarily US funds as PP will convert. First airing confirmed, UT Fri Sept 25 at 0130 on WRMIs, 5010, S7-S9 direct, // 5850 VG S9+10/20, and intact altho the post-music hit a bit too quickly before my last word could finish, ``disclaimer`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2053 monitoring: confirmed Friday Sept 25 at 2200 on WRMI 9955: confirmed via TWR Bonaire SDR S9/+10 over pulse jamming; about the same S9 direct but some deep fades when the jamming seems to surge. Next: 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE 1130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 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 to SSE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 61 to WSW 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 to SSE 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 2053 monitoring: confirmed UT Saturday Sept 26 at 0130 on WRMI 7780 only, S9/+15 at Maine SDR, noisy S8-S9 at UTwente. Follows 0129.5 ID by Ian McFarland, and then Bob Zanotti tries to too, but is chopped off after only his name. I think this happens every week to this broadcast, programmed as such into automation; not my doing! 0140 check here, 7780 is S9+10 but undermodulated. ZZZ, I miss checking the nexts, Sat 1130 on WRMI 9955, 1300 on 15770; did anyone hear them? Next: 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM [confirmed starting at 1940] 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 to SSE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 61 to WSW 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 to SSE 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 2053 monitoring: confirmed Saturday Sept 26: ``Yes, at 1300 UT on 15770 kHz. Signal started out strong but got noisy after some minutes and stayed that way part way into Shortwave Radiogram and then returned to the initial good level. Short-lived propagation anomaly? -- Richard Langley`` Missed checking Sat 2300 on WRMI 7780; did anyone hear it? Confirmed UT Sunday Sept 27 at 0330 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, Wentzville MO, S9+20 direct to here; about 11 minutes into so started circa 0319. Next: 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 61 to WSW 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 to SSE 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 2053 monitoring: confirmed UT Monday September 28 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, VG direct. Also confirmed UT Mon Sept 28 at 0145 the 0130 on WRMI 7780: VP S7 and noisy at UTwente, S9/+5 sufficient at Maine SDR; VP S9 and undermodulated direct; also VG on WRN webcast. Also confirmed UT Mon Sept 28 at 0230 on WRMI 7780, good S9/+10 at Maine SDR; and on 5800 also S7-S9; and S8/S9+10 with some storm noise at Brasília SDR. Also confirmed UT Mon Sept 28 from 0302:13 on Area 61 via WBCQ 6159.9, poor S5-S7 at Edinburgh IN SDR, -25 Hz carrier, after jazz running past 0300 and no ID between, but fadeout by 0307! Earlier at 0258, no signals into Rochester, Alexandria SDRs. Direct at 0323 still S5-S7 poor and measured 6159.898. Also confirmed UT Mon Sept 28 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, S7-S8 mostly atop Cuban pulse jamming at Bonaire SDR, same at 0359 finish. Checked direct at 0325, 9955 had been JBA. Propagation has been degraded, as WWV reported: ``Solar-terrestrial indices for 27 September follow. Solar flux 74 and estimated planetary A-index 24. The estimated planetary K-index at 0300 UTC on 28 September was 5. Space weather for the past 24 hours has been moderate. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G2 level occurred.`` Next: 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 to SSE 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 2053 monitoring: local power failure, again at same transformer, Mon Sept 28 at 1718 UT prevented remote monitoring of 1801 UT on IRRS 7290 via Bulgaria; did anyone hear it? Confirmed UT Tue Sept 29 at 0106 the 0100 on WRMI 7780, poor S9/+10 direct and undermodulated; 0122 check, NO signal unusually into UTwente, in degraded propagation, but VG S9+10 at Maine SDR. Missed checking 0330 UT Tue Sept 29 on WRMI 5800; anyone hear it? 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 2053 monitoring: confirmed Wed Sept 30 from 2100:17.5 on WBCQ 7490, poor S8-S9 vs high noise level. 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, for a generous quarterly seasonal check on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 Contributions may alternatively be sent via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com - not necessarily US funds as PP will convert. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. (7490), Sept 26 at 0000-0100, WBCQ webcast of `AAAWWW`, no calls but A&A conversing heatedly mostly about politix; they axually believe we must vote for Trump in order to ``save the Republic`` while Trump is really destroying it and must be thrown out. They are back in DeLand of Fla, and also discussed hotel/motel accommodations along I-95. A new show of rock music will be running at 02-03 UT Sat on 6159.93v (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7490v, UT Tue Sept 29 after 0000 on WBCQ I`m listening to `From the Isle of Music` with sufficient reception until it really drops out about 0032 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 4980, Sept 24 at 0620, weak music registering S9 on generous meter, but undermodulated; like last night and lately, presumed a WRMI transmitter as registered here but not on their website, at exciter level of few watts or maybe a bit more to audiblize it this much (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2053) ** U S A. 9395, Sept 25 at 2026, WRMI-6 with SMTV as now scheduled here at 19-21. 9455, Friday Sept 25 at 2028, WRMI-8 with Bob Biermann, `Your Weekend Show`, or is it the other one? Skedgrid has a new? System L sked dated August 30 showing YWS only on Saturday at 4 and 5 pm - 2 hours? EDT, that bihour blank all other days of week. This System L is also shown occupying 7570 M-F at 7 pm = 23 UT, unknown for how long, with `Challenge` --- what`s that?; then back to 9455 at 9-10 & 10-11 pm EDT with a mixture of `Hal Turner` and `Truth to Ponder` weekdays local; weekends: UT Sun 0100 `Texas Radio Shortwave` - starting January 21! and 0200 `Alt Radio Top 40`; UT Mon 0100 `Radio Emma toc`, 0200 `Encore` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5950, Sept 25 at 0608, WRMI is S9+10 of dead air instead of SMTV, but still outdone by WWCR with S9+40 of DA yet again on 4840 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9395, UT Sun Sept 27 at 0005, WRMI in French but very strange heavy accent; subject seems to be Afrique. Soon 0006 break for YL ID in English, ``This is Radio for Peace International``, and right back into French (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5800, Sept 27 at 0025, SMTV via WRMI, yet again with double-audio feed! This time about equal audio levels and about 12 seconds apart. M&W are alternating as they start an alfabetical listing of animal rights status in countries: Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain... That should take a while, but unlistenable. How does this happen? Is it at WRMI plugging two separate webfeeds into one transmitter? Or is it upline, SMTV somehow sending it out that way? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7780, UT Tue Sept 29 at 0130, WRMI following WORLD OF RADIO I keep listening via Maine SDR, and instead of scheduled one of dozens of weekly repeats of `Wavescan` there is a strange show billed as ``the first shortwave broadcast of WVDC International, a pilot, hope you enjoy the music`` by announcer without a downunder accent; 0138 breaks for some SSTV. I remember the same anomaly from about 6 months ago during this semihour altho did not get a WVDC ID then. Nothing about it on WRMI website or FB. Now I go searching and find: https://chirpie2014.wixsite.com/wvdc which is orthographically challenged, and quote parts of it [sic]: ``WVDC --- G'day How Ya goin we are brodcastin from the USA hope you have fun cheers - Timmy H --- Best classic hits from USA Australia New Zealand and more on 100.7 FM and news on our live stream --- You may wonder How your supposed to here us ? you can here our classic hit station on 91.3 FM but not far its part 15 station --- can i here you out of our coverage area ? how to lession to us --- yes you can here our international station by stream and phone but we only do news on there and animal radio its 24/7 AT https://zeno.fm/WVDCradio OR BY phone broadcast at 1-667-930-9246`` However, no stream will play and number in the URL implies it originated in 2014y. But autolinx to current propagation info and weather in Auckland NZ. A really strange website. HP link to Spanish goes nowhere. ​Area code 667 is around Baltimore, Maryland. WVDC is not an FCC callsign for any licensed AM or FM station. What could WVDC mean? An ARRL abbr. list shows: ``​working voltage, direct current`` WVDC first aired on WRMI last March; and as a pilot may be an orphan file which keeps on playing back, every week? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7570, Sept 29 at 2336, WRMI with non-TOMBS gospel huxter. I was wondering what the new program `Challenge`` is about this hour, and now we know (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 4840, Sept 24 at 0618, WWCR, yet again S9+30 of dead air, while 3215 and 5890 are successfully BSing. This keeps happening to the 4840 transmitter, not that I really care. Wonder if there be anyone in the 1300 WWCR Avenue building overnight who might notice? There ought to be, with hundreds of kilowatts radiating - something. The station burned down once before (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 4840, Sept 25 at 0613 and still 0631, WWCR at S9+40 of dead air yet again, as has been the case for a few nights in a row now when checked after 0600. Standard remarx; SAWA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 4840, Sept 26 at 0627, WWCR-3 not in dead air for a change, as it had been the last few nights after 0600; but unID gospel huxter other than TOMBS who is still on 3215 & 5890. Last few days WWCR`s pdf program guide has refused to load below WWCR-1. Now I get the xls version which shows at 0600 on Saturday it`s supposed to be `Worldwide Country Radio`. Despite this note on the homepage: ``ALL WWCR streams and transmitters are back on schedule! We appreciate our patient and loyal listeners.`` Really? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5085, Sept 25 at 0128 & 0245 chex, WTWW-2 is off; not WTWW-1 as I typoed before. Clears the band for spurs from CUBA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5072.0 & 5098.0 approx., Sept 26 at 0147, the very weak spur carrier parasites to 5085 WTWW-2 are back after having been inaudible the last time I checked, different transmitter? While 5085 is now S9+30/40. Still on and there at 0623 when I measure them exactly: 5071.990 and 5098.013 which imply the fundamental be at 5085.0015 or so but not measured directly. The spurs used to be close to 12.9 kHz plus and minus rather than 13.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5085, UT Sun Sept 27 at 0020, theater organ show is starting on WTWW-2, and Bob Heil never names it at the start; S9+30/50 huge signal but undermodulated, tsk2. Says two guest thorganists will be playing this week. Wrapping up around 0050 he does call it `Theater Organ Under the Arch`, no longer In the Ozarx (Glenn Hauser, OK,WOR) ** U S A. 17775-, Sat Sept 26 at 1500, JJBBA carrier from KVOH when `Wavescan` is supposed to be getting its first airing of the week (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. During Drumpf`s disastrous ``debate`` debacle with VP Biden, Sept 30 at 0142 UT, I make a quick scan of major MW signals and find quite a few of them carrying it, never synchronized with a TV channel I am comparing it to, but with some notable exceptions besides music, or sports-format outlets which could not be expected to cover this game. IDs are assumed from usual dominators: 580 WIBW, 680 KFEQ, 690 KGGF, 700 WLW, 740 KRMG, 750 WSB, 760 WJR, 770 KKOB/WABC?, 780 WBBM, 820 WBAP, 840 WHAS, 850 KOA, 870 WWL, 890 WLS, 1000 KTOK, 1040 WHO, 1080 KRLD, 1110 KFAB, 1120 KMOX, 1160 KSL, 1170 KFAQ, 1200 WOAI, 1480 KQAM. NOT carrying it: 650 WSM music, 670 WSCR sports, 810 WHB, 860 KKOW music, 960 KGWA talk, 980 KMBZ talk, 1100 WTAM! even tho originating in Cleveland, 1500 KSTP sports, 1520 KOKC talk, 1530 WCKY, 1640 KZLS talk. Oddities: 900 heard both in English and Spanish, apparently running translation -- XEW?? Not enough signal to tell, auroral? 720 WGN, 830 WCCO, 1510 WLAC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. Big tropo opening east of here across Arkansas per maps tho as usual we are on the edge. Enough to knock out some OKC DTV signals by DX QRM, and show a few Bad signals on open channels but none decoding, Sept 26 circa 1515 UT. Local power failure at 1542 so I switch to portable FM on the DX-398. Tulsans are in solid. 99.1 at 1619, ad for Honda of Russellville, i.e.. Arkansas, and more ads for Fort Smith, ``KMAG 99.1, number one for New Country``, i.e. Fort Smith, still atop Mount MAGazine? --- hey that would be a great place to exile Drumpf. 600 meters HAAT which isn`t that much but more than most in these lowlands. 102.1, Sept 26 at 1623, ``102-1, The Bull, #1 FM New Country,`` Wichita. Really, KZSN, 100/100 kW from Hutchinson KS. Right adjacent, 101.9 KTST OKC, ``The Twister`` also brands itself ``#1 New Country``. Must be a thing. 90.1, Sept 26 at 1627 UT, both KUCO OK and KHCC KS are overcome by ``Ministry 8 days of hope`` --- that matches the AFR schedule, so KBNV Fayetteville AR, 7.1/16.0 H/V kW. 92.1, Sept 26 at 1629, also earlier, stupid sports talk, which fits for another Fayetteville AR, KQSM-FM, 7.6/7.6 kW. Not bad overcoming the Okies such as KTBT Broken Arrow in the way, not the source of some C&W CCI (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Unfortunately awake Sept 24 at 1145 I reluctantly make a quick check for Trans-Pacific carriers on the DX-398, finding only: a trace on 846 kHz, Kiritimati? Usually heard around 0600, but now in darkness several Pacificasians could also propagate, up to 250 kW from Taiwan. It`s really too weak to DF. Walt Salmaniw, Victoria BC, said Kiribati was inbooming there as early as 0515 today, which is post-sunset at station, but no modulation to be heard. And: JBA carrier on 774, difficult to DF, WSW or NW? Maybe both, i.e. Australia and Japan. At 1152 I switch to the E-W longwire which gets JBACs on 594, 774 and 1566. Resleep (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2053) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search is now productive even after 0600 UT as with autumning, western Eurafrica remains pre-sunrise: starting at 0614 UT Sept 25: 531(2), 549, 558(2), 585, 603*, 612, 621, 639(2), 684*, 747, 774(2), 837(2), 846(TP), 855(2), 873 882, 891, 936(2), 954, 999, 1044, 1098, 1107, 1116(2), 1125, 1152(2), 1179, 1305(2), 1413, 1710(2 - domestic) * = strongest, (2) = at least two carriers beating (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Sept 26 at 0628: 621, 684, 711, 747, 837, 936, 1188. 1188 is interesting, normally with nothing. Per WRTH nothing but superpowers in Hungary and Iran; and Down Under, no more than 2 kW from Australia. No TP carrier from 846, however. Otherwise correlate with lower latitude NW Africa and Spain only, with K index of 5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Sept 27 at 0557-0604: 549, 558, 576, 603(2), 612*, 621, 639(2), 657, 684*(2), 693, 747, 774(2), 792, 801, 837, 846(TP), 855(2), 927, 936(2), 999, 1044, 1098, 1125(2), 1134, 1143, 1152, 1179, 1305(2), 1710(domestic). (2)= at least two beating; * = strongest: guessing about those: 612, Morocco 300 kW; 684, Spain 600 kW, and slightly off-frequency-minus compared to e.g. 693 carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Sept 28 at 0546: only a few much weaker than usual: 684, 711, 747(2), 774, 837, 846(TP), 891, 1125(2). Degraded propagation; WWV reported: ``Geophysical Alert Message Solar-terrestrial indices for 27 September follow. Solar flux 74 and estimated planetary A-index 24. The estimated planetary K-index at 0600 UTC on 28 September was 5. Space weather for the past 24 hours has been moderate. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G2 level occurred.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Sept 29 at 0629: 621, 711, 774, 837, 846(TP), 882 kHz. Propagation remains degraded: K-index still 3 at 0600 after G1 storms with G2s predicted (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier survey, Sept 30 at 0609: 621, 684, 774, 846(TP), 936, 1017(2), 1125, 1503, 1710(2-domestic) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 7525-7545, Sept 28 at 0104, DRMish noise centered at 7535, but nonesuch scheduled around here; and certainly not the VMW WA meteo fax as listed in EiBi (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 7707-USB, Sept 27 at 0011, weak 2-way in Spanish. 7403.5-USB, Sept 27 at 0013, more weak 2-way in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 12302-USB, Sept 26 at 1503 yet another colloquial Spanish 2-way, with ``engine noise``. These contacts always know each other and may use nicknames, but never any proper IDs; informal arrangements? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)