A-22 SCHEDULES Linx to several varieties are on the WOR homepage http://www.worldofradio.com Look for A22; some not yet updated still go to B21, or even A21. The *final* free major WRTH updater covering A22 is expected in early May ** ANTARCTICA. [non]. 15475.98 RCUSB, April 9 at 1420-1425, NO LRA36 signal into the 4 KiwiSDR remotes in Brasil, so misses another Saturday (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ANTARCTICA [non]. 15475.98 RCUSB, Apr 13 at 1428 and 1520 chex, NO LRA36 signal into Brasília #1 KiwiSDR. Misses another Wednesday (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** BOTSWANA. UNIDENTIFIED [originally]. 15580, April 10 at 2214 routine bandscan direct encounters something very odd here --- excited colloquial Portuguese, a silly ballgame, like futebol? But the announcer keeps mentioning Angola, Luanda, and basquetebol! Quickly rule out Brasil as this has Luso accent, and RNA is musicking on 11780. Of course, Portugal, Angola and all former colonies quit international SW many years ago, so some site hired for a special event? Google on Angola basquetebol and you quickly find that BKB is a Really Big Deal in Angola and some other African countries. Can`t find anything about a championship or any game right now, and it`s a bit late in the evening over there if this really be live. It`s S5/S7 direct and with some hum. 2225 mentions Africa do Sul, so RSA might be the opposing team. By 2232 I`ve switched to remotes: no good at RSA; poor at UTwente but SAM as -9v Hz offset; Best at Missouri near me, S6/S9. At 2245 Bonaire only gets S4/S6. Then I run TDOA using TWR Boa Vista, TWR RGV, and WB8CXO, which is in Munroe Falls, Ohio. ``Most probable`` according to that: -17.50 South, +24.00 east, pinpointed to Sesheke, Zambia. That is on the very southern border next to the Namib strip, with northern edge of Botswana just beyond that. The only conceivable SW site anywhere near there on 15580 is USAGM Moepeng Hill, which is in eastern BOTSWANA. It`s normally scheduled until 2200* in VOA English, so apparently co-opted after that for the big game. But was this unorthodox usage OKayed in Washington??? I notified the WOR iog a few minutes before 2300 to be alert for anything identifiable at hourtop. But shortly after that was posted, programodulation stopped at 2257, for just a big hum. That stopped at 2257.6, but the carrier was still on, registering -10 Hz offset, until it`s cut off at 2300.6*. Ideas? Ron Howard finds that VOA is heavily involved in this, at least online, with a 2.5-hour audio file, but it`s in English: Cape Town (S. Africa) vs Petro de Luanda (Angola) https://www.voanews.com/a/6519163.html I never heard anything hinting this was VOA programming, but of course it does still have a Portuguese-to-Africa service between 1630 and 1830, much of it via Botswana site but on different frequencies. Then Hansjörg Biener found this from 11 months ago: https://www.usagm.gov/2021/05/14/voa-named-radio-broadcast-partner-of-new-basketball-africa-league/ May 14, 2021 ``VOA named radio broadcast partner of new Basketball Africa League WASHINGTON, D.C. — Voice of America is now the radio broadcast partner of the new 12-team Basketball Africa League, a partnership of the National Basketball Association and the International Basketball Federation. VOA radio will simulcast BAL broadcasts in English and French and provide play-by-play coverage in Bambara, Kinyarwanda, Wolof, and Portuguese for the games involving teams from Mali, Rwanda, Senegal, Angola, and Mozambique, respectively. The 2021 season tips off May 16 from Kigali Arena in Rwanda, the site of all 26 scheduled BAL games. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the league postponed its original 2020 launch date, as well as its plan to play games across the continent. “We are excited to extend the NBA’s global reach to an even wider African audience,” says Acting VOA Director Yolanda López. “With the influx of more African players in the NBA and through the additional exposure of the African Basketball League, it has truly become a major international amateur and professional sport. VOA is proud to play an important role in this partnership.” VOA broadcasts will air on more than 30 VOA-owned and operated FM radio stations in 16 African countries and will be available to VOA’s extensive network of commercial and public radio stations across Africa. VOA Africa websites in 15 languages will carry game highlights and links to live radio broadcasts in English and French`` And Mauno Ritola replied on the WOR iog, about this year: ``Coming shortwave transmissions: Friday 15 April: 2030-2300 6195 & 15580 kHz Saturday 16 April: 1700-1930 5940 & 15580 kHz`` Looks like those would pre-empt regular VOA broadcasts; in Portuguese? and/or English? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** BRAZIL. 9666.862, April 7 at 0436, RVM, S6 into Bonaire SDR; at 0622, I measure it direct to here, JBA music on 9666.858: close enough in slight variation or margin of error (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** BRAZIL. 28409 USB, April 8 at 2128, PT9SS calling CQ DX, only S3 about equal to noise level and one of only two or three signals audible on 10m TE. QRZ.com with some photos: PT9SS Brazil flag Brazil Sandro Rodrigues Pereira (SAN) Viela José Daniel, 1971 Jardim Cangalha cep 79604-214 Tres Lagoas, MS Brazil His fonetix are ``papa tango nine sugar sugar`` --- look, the proper S going with those P and T is sierra! So many hams mix up their fonetix (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA [non]. 15265, April 9 at 1456, VP gospel huxter in English, not TOMBS or YHWH voice. Aoki shows it`s Bible Voice, via Nauen, GERMANY, Saturdays only at 1400-1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. 9420, S9+20 into UTwente, April 9 after 1600, pop song in English, ``nobody sings...``, 1610 announcement NOT in Greek. Much more music variety past 1700, which except for occasional non-Greek talk atop music bed, like 1619, 1629, 1650, could be mistaken for Voice of Greece format, and not what you would expect from the ChiCom targeting their genocide victims in East Turkistan, for Aoki and EiBi agree it`s CNR13 in Uyghur/Uighur: 9420 1600-1805 CHN CNR 13 Uyg Lingshi 725 1-7 9420 1400-1805 CHN China National Radio 13 UI TWN L TWN in EiBi means target area Taiwan, really? in UIghur? L = Lingshi. The music is generally soft, low-key, as if for the insomniax in occupied Xinjiang -- or the enslaved shift-workers. Still going past 1756 and off 1805* as scheduled. Meanwhile no Greece at all on 9420, active M-F only circa *1230v-1700v* (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** COLOMBIA. 6010, April 7 at 0700, JBA signal in Spanish? Yes, later April 7 at 2230, Rafael Rodríguez reported it reactivated after a long time with preaching by Stendahl, NA at 2300; and RR is the 100% e-QSL manager to rafaelcoldx@yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2133) ** COLOMBIA. The ``it`` in my last report was of course: La Voz de tu Conciencia = The Voice of Thy Conscience: 6010, April 8 at 0705, heard LVC again, better S8/S9 with song in Spanish. No, nothing on 5910, its former sibling station, Alcaraván Radio. Might that revive too from Puerto Lleras? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA [and non]. 9955, April 7 at 0625, Brother Scare on WRMI vs Cuban pulse jamming, tsk2, long after there is ever any Spanish programming, let alone exile. This jamming is weaker than on 9805 which is stronger than on 9565; 11930 & 11860 also still jammed against no Martíes (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 9778-9833, April 8 at 0613, approx. range of bleed from wall-of-noise jamming against nothing on 9805, i.e. plus/minus 27/28 kHz, overkill. Always incompetent and unconcerned about collateral damage, the DentroCuban Jamming Command (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 5040, April 10 at 0153, S9+10/20 of dead air in French from RHC, where something`s always wrong (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 5055, April 10 at 0153, JBA carrier. Certainly not Australia at this hour. N American pirate has been here recently; but could be leapfrog mixing product of 5025 Rebelde over 5040 RHC another 15 kHz beyond. YES, recheck at 0614, now there is enough music audio at S7/S8 to make 5055 // 5025, both of which must be from same site, Bauta. However, no reverse leap can be detected on open 5010. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6060 & 6165, April 10 at 0612 are by chance the two remaining RHC English frequencies, while 5040 is still on in Spanish. 6060 at S9+20/30 reads weaker than 6165 at S9+40, but modulation is slightly louder on 6060. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15230, April 10 at 2213, RHC Brazuguese is just barely modulated; something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11880, April 10 at 2221, RHC S5-S6 of dead air in French. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6060, April 11 at 0622, RHC at S9 of dead air; only other is 6100, S9+10 of undermodulated English. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11760, April 11 at 2138, S9 of humbuzz cutting off and on, no programming. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 7355, April 12 at 0655, three distinct styles of jamming against nothing, probably from at least three different sites, against no Marti: ``normal`` pulsejamming rate; slow PJ; and a different sound hard to describe (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 5010, April 12 at 0658, S9/+10 leapfrog mixing product of 5040 RHC English over 5025 Rebelde Spanish another 15 kHz beyond. Just as English is promising a second hour to follow. On 5010 their modulation levels are about equal, while the reverse leap on 5055 is but a JBA carrier. Last time I logged these, most of the mix was on 5055 not 5010. What changed? At 0701, 5040 defaults to dead air, but the carrier remaining means the 5010 leap continues, but only with 5025 audio. Any such 5010 mix allowed could be a big problem for WRMI during its hours: 2100-0300 at 181 degrees. But I have yet to capture such a collision. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. I am not kidding when I point out better uses for the cost of juice for jamming: The Other Side, you will never hear from RHC: DIARIO DE CUBA Food --- There's no hunger in Cuba? The hunger map developed by the World Food Program to monitor food security globally states that there is not... Sergio Ángel, Bogotá 11 Abr 2022 - 16:38 CEST https://diariodecuba.com/cuba/1649687938_38740.html Feeding a prisoner: a heavy burden for thousands of Cuban families Jorge Enrique Rodríguez, La Habana 12 Abr 2022 - 15:55 CEST Getting food and other essentials to a prisoner drains the finances of thousands of families in a dollarized economy like Cuba's. The alternative, not doing so, entails condemning a loved one to depend on the paltry and generally inedible rations at the island's prisons. https://diariodecuba.com/cuba/1649771719_38764.html (via Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also USA: WOR monitoring: 9955 ** EGYPT. 9440, April 11 at 2132 and later, no sign of R. Cairo in English, nor anything around ex-9890, 9900, 9910; not any 9440 even unto UTwente at 2202 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. 15340, April 13 at *1729.5, carrier on vs CNR co-channel as heard from 1725 tune-in; 1730 starts talking in unID language, as monitored via UTwente; 1740 some Horn-of-Africa music and off at 1744* re-uncovering China. Meanwhile there was a lot of ACI from much stronger but dead Brother Scare from Bulgaria on 15335. I never heard any ID but this is it, from Tony Rogers in the British DX Club: ``Thanks to a recording sent to me by Wolfgang von Poellnitz in Austria, a target broadcast to Ethiopia has been identified as "Radio Axumite" on 15340 kHz at 1730-1745 UT. Further investigation by Wolfgang and myself indicates that this is produced by Axumite Media: https://axumitemedia.com/ Their profile says "Axumite Media Ltd is an independent media organisation based in Nairobi-Kenya, with a radio and online presence and aspiring to be on satellite TV soon. Axumite is established by visionary journalists and media professionals who fled Ethiopia due to the ongoing genocidal war in the country, ethnic profiling, a total lack of media freedom, and communication blackout in Tigray, one of the regional states in Ethiopia. All of the journalists working at Axumite Media Ltd have horror personal stories and difficult times to remember; escaped arrest and persecution, and most of them were working in media institutions in Addis Ababa and Tigray." https://axumitemedia.com/profile/ [for lots more]`` So I still wonder how in the world they pronounce Axumite. Obviously this is pro-Tigray; site on 15340? Not in HFCC or EiBi, while Aoki shows a Tig cland just before this which was not to be heard: 15340 1700-1730 F Dimtse Wegahta (V. of Dawn) Tig Issoudun 1-7 15340 0000-1703 TWN * SOH relay RFA Chi Pingtung 1-7 However, EiBi indicates SOH could be 24h on 15340, but with ChiCom jamming stopping at 1700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** GERMANY [and non]. 6030, April 8 at 1559.5, Artists for Peace special event, live benefit concert from Königswusterhausen, via AUSTRIA on this frequency, VG S9+35/40 into UTwente, much better than // 9580 via Nauen. Opening with orchestra and chorus but not the now-familiar Ukrainian national anthem. Huge variety of music and performers, instruments, with lots of commentary mostly in German, but occasional Ukrainian. One English heard at 1656 about power of music, with frequencies. 1646 accordion. 1747 a Russian pianist with a flutist. Publicity said there would be 31 performers from seven nations. Could hardly fit all those into only two hours scheduled, 1600-1800. Both continue past 1800, but those tuned to 9580 find it soon off. 6030 keeps on going as I listen via UTwente. 1832 YL in Ukrainian; 1840 finally wrapping up in German, 1842 Ukrainian, 1842.7* uncovering something else weakly on 6030. See https://www.kulturwerk.info/Classic-meets-Jazz-694265.html https://museum.funkerberg.de/benefizkonzert/ (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** GREECE [and non]. 9420, April 7 at 1648, VOG has not shut down yet, but only slightly weaker CCI from the China station, some say is in Kazakh, others in Uighur. ERT does stop at 1700* leaving the other in clear, S9+15/20 into UTwente with music, 1702 ``Burasi ---`` Turkic ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2133) ** GREECE [and non]. 9420, Fri Apr 8 at 1659, S9+45 unGreek music with heavy reverb, very exotic so presumably China already? No, must have been ERT since this chops off at 1700 uncovering what is really a China minority service on 9420.002, S9+30/40 into UTwente (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** IRAN [non]. (5910), we`ve lost track of the weekly Friday-only clandestine at 1730-1800v of Channel 1 TV, which had been regular in B21; but in A22, Romania has overtaken that slot, in Serbian. Did Ch 1 move to another frequency and/or time due to DST in Iran? Lots of luck finding anything about radio, let alone SW, even if converted to English, at https://ch1.cc/ I`m far too busy at 1730 April 8 to go on a random hunt for it by tuning, but I do check the latest HFCC for any likely-looking replacement from TAChkent site at 1730 on day 6: No fits. Then I search on all the broadcasts starting at 1730 from all sites: no fits either. So is the SW relay of this still going anywhere? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ITALY. 918 kHz, Fri April 8 at 1915, Spanish PSA from OMS = WHO, 1916 `Counterspin` on IRRS via AM Italia, not only on MW 1323 kHz Villa Estense, but reactivated on 918, which is much better with no QRM into nearby Noale SDR, since Madrid 918 has gone dark. See also USA [and non] WOR monitoring. Counterspin is chopped off only halfway thru at 1930 for IRRS Milan ID and Feature Story News. Airing fragments of programs is the most annoying thing about IRRS even when not done to WOR. 1935 joins VOA News rather than `Flashpoint Ukraine` which follows VOA news at 1930 on WRMI 15770. 1940, 918 into music; 1945 American PSA for brushing teeth. 1946 starts `Shortwave Report` with Dan Roberts; will it be halved as well? He starts with Sputnik Radio, then to be NHK Radio Japan, Radio Habana Cuba --- seems Dan is still stuck on the same old stations. Shortwave! indeed, Sputnik is not on SW, but recorded from web probably like the others. Dan says he has now completed 25 years of the `SW` Report. Starts NHK segment but has QRM from Turkey`s `Feeling Supreme` theme! So maybe really from SW, or did IRRS do that? 1958 anyway SWR chopped off by IRRS for more VOA News! across hourtop; 2003 Feature Story News again. 2007 songs. Then another talk program about pavilions, from UN? 2020 Spanish PSA about COVID19/UNESCO/OMS, more songs until 2030 ID with PO Box address otherwise discouraged, and WOR 2133. Alfredo Cotroneo replies: ``Glen[n], There are and will be occasional, unscheduled, tests on 918, but we are more interested in propagation outside Italy into Central and Northern Europe, including the war zones. 1323 is doing better than 918 for long time propagation. Good news that the Spanish station in not interfering now on 918, but they may come back, who knows? Alfredo`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) Note: earlier reports about 11620 filed below as UNIDENTIFIED 11620 ** MALDIVES [non]. 11620, April 12 at 1520, I`m checking Voice of Martyrs Korea, still in English for Maldives via secret site at 1500-1530. First into one of the Kuwait SDRs: S9+10 and offset about 1 Hz plus, but with heavy AACI from S9+35, 11600 in American English, which of course is CGTN Radio/CRI via Kashgar, East Turkistan, std denunciation. At 1526, Missouri SDR finds 11620 S5/S7 and +3/5 Hz. 1528 at Kuwait, S9+10/20. At 1530 there is only a split-second break before Vatican in Arabic takes over: extremely well-coordinated transition. After 1530 into Missouri, VR signal is somewhat weaker S4/S6 and carrier offset +5/6 Hz; implying that probably two different sites are involved (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MALDIVE ISLANDS [non]. 11620, April 13 at 1522, checking Voice of Martyrs Korea, still preaching in nothing but English: VP S9/S6 into Kuwait SDR#3, with heavy ChiCom 2ACI from both 11610 & 11630. Not any better elsewhere, like S4/S6 into Missouri; S7 into RSA. Perth is best, S9/+10 with carrier offset +2.4 to 3.0 via secret site. Preacher calls for listeners to refer to their Bible, as if they might have one! In MI where Christianity is banned?? God`ll get`em by inundation; or Allah`ll save them? Closing ID as Voice of Martyrs Maldives Radio. After a few seconds carrier break, *1530 Vatican SMG with `Laudetur Iesus Christus` tagline, stronger into Perth and carrier offset +0.8 to 1.6 Hz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MEXICO. 18140 USB, April 11 at 2130, XE1RK, VG S9, the SSOB, no doubt sporadic E at almost 2 megameters, contact with KI5KI and quickly on to KG5LWL in Arkansas. QRZ.com: XE1RK Mexico flag Mexico Rafael (Ralph) Kuri Paseo de los Ahuehuetes Sur # 320-A Mexico City 11700 Mexico Some nice photos of family, equipment, Lincoln Center: https://www.qrz.com/lookup/xe1rk He doesn`t want to QSL SWLs; fortunately I don`t want his QSL either: ``QSL´s two way direct only. Please include a valid IRC or US 2.00 with a self addressed envelope. I can´t use foreign stamps. No eQSL or LoTW yet. Due to the pandemic I am not able to go to my post office to reply your cards as I usually do. The postmen doesn´t pick up mail in Mexico, they only deliver. Sorry for the delay but be sure that I will send you my QSL in return as soon as possible. 73 and stay safe!`` 21272 USB, April 11 at 2159, quick check of 14m finds only one signal, Spanish failing to ID; and nothing on 10m (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 15785 AM, Fri April 8 at 1508 in routine bandscan, I discover anti-Christ pirate Station YHWH on new frequency, the signature vocalizations of Josiah needing no explicit ID. No problem from the 1 kW DRM in Germany allegedly 24h on 15780-15790 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 15785 AM, April 11 at 2129, JBA carrier at first, but bet it`s Station YHWH again as I discovered it on same frequency a few days ago. By 2135 it`s surged to S6/S7 with Josiah railing against corporate banksters. 2143 `Days of Hard Life` themesong, 2145 clear ID and says time is about 3:46 pm PST, as if live. Trouble is, PST is not now observed anywhere so is he in never-never land? If he means PDT, the minute is about right but the hour would be 2:+. 3:46 at 2146 UT = UT -6 zone = MDT or CST, duh. So is he really somewhere in a Pacific zone, or is this clever deception? Still good copy so I listen for a while, paraphrasing but close: There is no other besides me x3, sez Yahweh. All religions have failed horribly, and so have all governments. Why is he buying so much gas to run his generator, putting fumes into his RV? All preachers are liars, Christians, Moslems; there will be no rapture. ``Now going dark`` and pulls plug abruptly at 2149.4* (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 341 MCW kHz, April 10 at 0622 UT, ND beacon EI at Woodring Airport is OFF again, as I can copy only OIN in Oberlin KS. I listen intently for at least a minute, but no trace of . .. which was amazingly weak anyway for 25? watts a few km away. EI had been consistently heard active since last reactivation March 30, after a long absence since early August. 341 MCW kHz, April 10 at 1815 UT almost local noon, EI is again on, and audible every octosecond (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 341 MCW kHz, April 12 at 0705 UT, both EI Enid and OIN Oberlin KS are JBA ND beacons alternating (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 1430 kHz, April 8 at 2105 UT on caradio in Enid I am finally checking out KALV, in the occasional spots where the powerline and stoplight noise abates a bit. Two weak signals but the dominant is country music, not sports or talk, making a SAH of about 5 Hz. By 2127 I`m on home rig with similar reception, slightly better on N/S internal shortwire: ``Hometown radio station Stereo 1430, KALV; tell a friend``. No mention of FM; they had a translator on 99.5. FCC info in NRC DX News as of April 4 reported: ``KALV OK Alva – Granted STA, U1 60/60 (maybe using D1 60), wildfire damage.`` Its licensed parameters are U4 500 500 psra 500 per NRC AM Log. Among all the wildfires around OK, I missed hearing about KALV when it happened, but searching on wildfire Alva leads right to several versions of March 21-22, including: https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-wildfire-alva-destroys-radio-station/39495071 Own website does not load properly https://kalvradio.com/?page_id=72 But coverage maps are also at https://radio-locator.com/info/KALV-AM Day pattern is slightly pulled in from the east, presumably to protect sportstalk KTBZ Tulsa but which is more like ESE, and Enid is more like SE --- but KALV has never had much of a signal in Enid. Distance is only 70 km = 43 statute miles. Night pattern quite different, very pulled in from the NE, presumably to protect St Louis, the 50/5 kW station whose license was canceled two years ago and which I think is no longer on the air, most of the KALV night signal broadly from NW to SW to SE. So the question is, are KALV still running only 60 watts STA? That much non-direxional might be better here than the old higher-power direxional facility. What kind of antenna now? Stations under duress sometimes even use longwires to transmit. Or maybe the towers survived unlike the transmitter (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** RUSSIA [non]. 9370, April 9 at 1850, into UTwente, S9+30 open carrier already on, R. Svoboda modulation starting early about 1858, suspected site Armenia (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** RUSSIA [non]. 13600, April 12 at 1537, S9+10/20 in Russian, a new target broadcast, good signal into Kuwait SDR; 1550 drops to dead air but carrier stays on until 1559*. But who is behind this? Tnx to tips in British DX Club: ``New high power broadcasts listed on C292 schedule from today Hi All, The Channel 292 schedule is now showing that the 'Prawda dlja Rossi' broadcasts will also take place with a 100 kW transmission from 1500 to 1600 utc on 13600.0 kHz on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays until at least the middle of May. These are only shown on the 9670 kHz schedule page, and listed as beaming east, but I don't think C292 have a 100 kW transmitter, so maybe Moosbrunn, but I can't confirm that, perhaps someone knows for sure? https://www.channel292.de/schedule-9670-khz/ The first of these higher powered broadcasts is today (12th of April). (Alan Gale)`` ``Thanks for the update, Alan. HFCC data base shows 13600 kHz as Moosbrunn Austria 1500-1600 UTC from today on days 3,5 and 7: 13600 1500 1600 29,30 MOS 100 55 0 218 357 120422 291022 D Rus AUT C29 ORS 4764. 73, Alan Pennington, Caversham, UK`` Thanks for that, Alan, I should have thought to check there. The signal is coming in very well here, and a good choice of frequency as CRI had their Russian service on there before it, so hopefully a ready made audience in the target area. Alan Gale`` ``Address-Info from Radio DARC for radio prawda: Twitter @Radio22_HF email: radioprawda@outlook.com 73 paul gager, vienna`` ``Full schedule per @Radio22_HF on Twitter today: 0500 UTC 9670 kHz (Mon Wed Fri) (low power) 1500 UTC 13600 kHz (Tues Thurs Sat) (high power) 1900 UTC 6070 and 9670 kHz (Tues Thurs Sat Sun) (low power) (only 40 minute programmes re DARC post below?) DARC on Facebook says this about the station: "Uncensored radio for Russia --- New short wave program for Russia, Belarus and Ukraine Under the name "Radio Prawda dlja Rossii" started on the 09th April 2022 a new radio program specially for Russia. The targets of the broadcast are serious and uncensored reporting as well as unfiltered news for the Russian population. Due to the increasing state censorship and administrative restrictions on the Internet as well as the satellite broadcasts in reporting about Russia, this program will be broadcasted again on short-term. It is available nationwide throughout Eastern Europe and Siberia. This program was founded by engineers and journalists in collaboration with radio stations, which in part come from Russia and Ukraine. The journalists already have years of experience in renowned public broadcasting agencies. That's about. The 40-minute program in the journal format is produced voluntarily in the spare time and is funded entirely from private donations. Although the first test broadcasts were only aired with low broadcast performance and were little known so far, the editorial office received a large number of feedback from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. The desire was expressed to continue the broadcasts and please repeat it several times. The radio station considers this as a clear signal for the need for such uncensored news." 73, Alan Pennington`` Back to gh monitoring: at 1900 UT Tue April 12 via UTwente, 6070 is VG S9+20 opening in Russian, Ol`ga first with novosti, 1902 over to Yulya. Not much on 9670, maybe too close skipping over. Keeps going past 1940, and 1950; ID Radio Pravda dlya Rossii, again just before ending at 2000; Ch 292 on to some other music. Yes, same hour as R Svoboda via Armenia on 9370, still putting VG unjammed signal into Pskov SDR; not to mention `Flashpoint Ukraine` on VOA [non] 15770 WRMI at 1935. Must be prime time over there (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SLOVAKIA [non]. 5985, April 9 at 0420, NO signal from RSI into Virginia SDR, as this WRMI-2 is really off the air despite new schedule listing R. Eslovaquia at 0400-0430 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 15520, April 11 at 2157, REE with hum in Arabic, stronger than // 11685; while 17855 >> // 11940 is in Spanish. By 2205 they have combined, all in English with 17855 best via Virginia and later Maryland SDRs at S9+15/25, Mexican author of book `Privacy is Power` is speaking; 2222 to some Rachmaminov music. By 2300, 17855 has faded way down to S4/S5, yet 3 hours of N American service remain. They should really descend to lower band by 2300, like 9690 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SRI LANKA. 15529.9, April 8 at 1509, JBA carrier off-frequency, not taking time to measure it more precisely. HFCC at 1500-1600 has AWR in Kxf language via Trincomalee. Kxf?? Aoki abbreviates it Kar. EiBi KA which means Karen, as in the Myanmar minority; not scheduled as such in WRTH 2022 for B-21 season (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SRI LANKA [and non]. 15529.875, April 11 at 1523, JBA music and talk past 1530, offfrequenciness attracting my attention on bandscan, again AWR Karen via Trincomalee at 1500-1600; like my April 8 log when I did not get it measured. VP propagation today, yet this trans-polar makes it while 15745-15750-15755 WINB hybrid DRM noise is much attenuated and nothing strong on 19m (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SWAZILAND. 11879.971, April 10 at 1456, off-frequency open carrier; 1458 music box IS and ID ``TWR from Eswátini``, twice or thrice, 1500 into African language, music. Note how they pronounce the country, stress on the A just like in Swáziland, not Eswatíni as I and others had been guessing. They should know. Somali scheduled 1500-1530, plus another 15 until 1545 on Sundays. This hour is squeezed between Romania`s and China`s 11880 usage. I would not be surprised if it`s long-path (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 7275, correxion to my previous report of VOT English at 0300 to N America, NOT 7270 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830.001, April 9 at 2309, still past 2321, S7 open carrier with a bit of hum into UTwente, presumably VOT still on air but failing to modulate any bonus German. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY [non]. 9830, April 11 at 2201, nothing but S5/S6 of Chinese even unto UTwente instead of huge VOT English to N America. Nor later chex during hour. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler and/or awry at Ankara. CC would be CNR1, Beijing 572 site, at 2025-0100 as well as earlier blox (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** UKRAINE [non]. 1386 kHz, via R. Baltic Waves, LITHUANIA, Ukrainian Radio 1 during new overnight relay 2100-0330, April 7 at 0001.5-0006.8, `Ukraine: Security Issues` English war news segment, VG into UTwente SDR; and another, April 8 at 0000-0009 approx. I still need to check UR1 webcast whether this originally air at 1700+ UT as 20h timecheck would imply (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** UKRAINE [non]. 7730, Sat April 9 at 0500.6-0507.6, UR1 via WRMI with now reliable English segment `Ukraine: Security Issues` leading of course with the RuSSian airstrike on the train platform killing many; VG S9+15 into Maryland remote (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** UKRAINE. UR1 = YP1 webcast, April 9 at 1700 continues in Ukrainian, no English segment as I hypothesized. Richard Langley: ``I believe that "Ukraine: security issue" is only broadcast once per day and is likely recorded and inserted into the audio feed around 0000 UT (3 a.m. local time). At least it's not mentioned at other times on the schedule: http://www.nrcu.gov.ua/schedule/period-items.html?channelID=1&date=2022-04-08 (example for yesterday; any date can be selected). But it might be that certain hours of the schedule are repeated in whole or in part during the 24-hour schedule including the one at 0000 UT. This is the middle of the night after all. -- Richard Langley`` on the WOR iog (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** UKRAINE [non]. 7730, April 10 at 0501-0507, YP1 via WRMI, `Ukraine: Security Issue` another English segment of war news, preparing for great attack on Donbas, etc., very well done summary, sufficient direct to NW tho aimed NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. April 12 I`ve just received word from his son that John H Carver, Indiana, died on April 8, in hospital of multiple ailments. John was best known lately for his monitoring of Allan & Angela Worldwide on WBCQ. He shall be missed, RIP (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) [WOR] John Henry Carver, Jr. RIP Apr 13 at 2:25 AM From Douglas Rosenbush, April 12: Glenn, this is Douglas, John Henry`s [step]son. Father passed away April 8th shortly after 10:30 in the morning. This is the first chance I've had to tell any of his email friends that I've sent for him in the past when his computer was down. I don't have many contacts for Father's radio world or anything. I'd appreciate it if anybody both knew in common you would let them know that he passed peacefully at the hospital and he was fully aware of his faculties. He was just in crank pain, had many things wrong, they couldn't even guarantee a very short time if they tried to save him, and Father did not want tubes, did not want to be institutionalized, so we followed his wishes to the best of our ability except for when I called the ambulance. I'm sure when my day comes, I will definitely hear about that day when I see him again. Thanks for being a good friend to him and I'm sorry it took a few days. This is the first chance with everything I was able to contact the few friends that I know he has online. From Glenn: Not having heard from John for several weeks, I was afraid something had happened. John was best known lately for his monitoring of Allan & Angela Worldwide on WBCQ, which he always made a point of reporting for World of Radio iogroup readers and of my logs. He shall be missed, RIP From Larry Will: One of our most dedicated listeners and a long time friend and supporter of our programming on WBCQ, has passed away. We'll miss his friendship and letters greatly. https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/24538957/john-henry-carver-jr Lw [Viz.:] Obituary John Henry Carver Jr., 73, of Bringhurst, passed away 10:35 am Friday April 8, 2022, at Ascension St. Vincent – Kokomo. He was born in Kokomo on March 24, 1949, the son of the late John Henry Carver Sr. and Amelia Ann (Krych) Carver. On April 15, 1985, he married Ellen Rosenbush, and she preceded him in death on August 16, 2006. John graduated high school at St. Joan of Arc. He worked as a foreman at Pepco Springs and conducted inspections. He loved model trains, gardening, and assisting others with short wave radio broadcasting. John was an avid reader and he dabbled in writing. He is survived by his children, Doug Rosenbush, Michal Noble, Jon Patrick Carver; brothers, Jim Carver, Tom Carver; best friend, Sherry Farnsworth; grandchildren, Danielle Featherstone, Robert Rosenbush, Joshua Rosenbush, Aleshia Marie Lair, Jacob Noble, Jonathan Noble; and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, John Henry Carver Sr. and Amelia Carver; and wife, Ellen Carver. There are no public services scheduled at this time. Cremation has been entrusted to Stout & Son Funeral Home. Messages of condolence may be left online at www.stoutandson.com To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of John Henry Carver Jr. please visit our Tribute Store (via gh, April 12, WOR) ** U S A. 293 MCW kHz, April 10 at 1816 UT, FBY, ND beacon at FairBurY, Nebraska. This is the only one commonly audible from a second-adjacent state in full daytime. Fairbury is in SE NE some 15 km from the KS border; 422 km or 262 stmi from Enid. That is, 17 km per watt or 10.5 miles per watt (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 13565 CW, April 12 at 1456, HIFER beacon K6FRC is JBA; seldom so and never beyond these morning hours despite bandscans at manytimes; from Patterson CA, if really only 1.8 milliwatts as claimed, each catch is of note (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [non]. 15580, April 8 at 2133, S3-S8 of VOA presumably `Music Time in Africa` scheduled Fridays at 2105 tho the DJockesse has been unaware of this airing; Via BOTSWANA, 100 kW at 350 degrees. And not perceptibly off-frequency. The best we can do in A-seasons, lacking GB 11720 in B-seasons this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) V. also BOTSWANA ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2132 monitoring: confirmed UT Thursday April 7 at 0042 the 0030 on WRMIs 9395, S9/+10 direct, and 9455, S9+10/20. Also confirmed UT Thursday April 7 at 0130 again on WRMI 9395, S9+20; and WRMI 5010, S9+10/20 into Bonaire SDR. Also monitored by: ``Richard Lemke, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada, from the desk of Richard’s listening Post, Radio: JRC NRD-535 HF, Antenna: random long wires in the trees, Dear Glenn: World of Radio #2132, confirmed, below with Details: 9455, heard also 9395 kHz, 0030; 9455, 0030, 0040, 0043, 0058 (45443), 9395, 0055, 0059 (45433), 0059, 9455, April 7 UT [Thu] 9395, 0130, 0143 (45433), 0159, April 7 UT (Lemke, Richard -AB)`` WORLD OF RADIO 2133 contents: Armenia, (Ascension), (Austria), Botswana, (Bulgaria), Chile, (China), Colombia, Cuba, Egypt, Europe, (France), (Germany), Greece, Iran, Italy non, Japan/Korea North, Korea South, Kurdistan non, Lithuania, (Madagascar), Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Netherlands, North America, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Perú, Pridnestrovye, (Romania), Sa`udi Arabia, (Singapore), (South Carolina [non]), Turkey, Turks & Caicos, Ukraine non, UKOGBANI and non, USA, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, unidentified 11620; propagation outlook --- () countries referred to not in order along with others WOR 2133 is available as of 0116 UT Friday April 8, 2022 (mp3 stream) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2133.m3u (mp3 download) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2133.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, 7730 to NE 0330 UT Friday WRMI 5985 to S [canceled?] 1430 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed?] 1815 UT Friday IRRS 7290-Bulgaria to WNW, 14580, 1323-Italy 2030 UT Friday IRRS 1323-Italy 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 9395 to NNW 0400 UT Saturday WBCQ 4790 to WSW 0700 UT Saturday Unique R, Australia 5035-USB or 3210-USB [new] 1930 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0430] 1030 UT Sunday IRRS 9510-Romania to WNW [new? on sked but not Apr 3] 1324vUT Sunday WMRI Europe via Ch 292 Germany 9670 2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323-Italy 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 to NNW [to be canceled? still Apr 3] 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to WNW 2230 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed] 1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, Australia 5035-USB or 3210-USB [new] 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to WNW 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S; 9395 to NNW Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Thanks this week for financial support from Russell Lay, Nags Head NC, for a contribution via PayPal not necessarily in US$ to woradio at yahoo.com One may also contribute by MO or check on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 Confirmed first airings UT Fri Apr 8 at 0130 on WRMIs: 7730 S9+10/20 and 5850 S9+20/25 both into Missouri SDR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2133 monitoring: 5985 WRMI-2 still off the air at 0330 April 8, since NHK Spanish at 0400 quit after March 31. I did not check after 0400 but the WRMI skedgrid now shows R. Eslovaquia = Spanish from System B on WRMI-2 at 0400-0430. Yet the System B program grid below, mainly about 9955 does not, only Prague on 9955. The System D program schedule for the 0330-0400 segment on ``5985`` still appears with WOR and various other programs during the week. Contradixion after contradixion. Missed checking Friday April 8 at 1430 on WRMI 9955; anyone hear WOR? Confirmed Friday April 8 at 1815 on IRRS via AM Italia, 1323 kHz, but even at nearby Noale SDR, under QRM from Romania in German. I also check 918 kHz, and surprise2, it`s also on the air with WOR, and much better with no QRM as R. Inter, Madrid has gone silent again. AFAIK there has been no publicity from IRRS about 918 still in use. I had not even sought it for several weeks, assuming it was gone once 1323 had replaced it. But without QRMadrid, 918 would be better to use than 1323. Also checked LW 207 kHz, with some music not // but presumably not Iceland. See also ITALY! Of course, WOR also on 7290 via Bulgaria from 1815 Friday VG into UTwente, and also JBA on 14580 second harmonic vs RTTY on plus side. Also confirmed Friday April 8 at 2030 UT on AM Italia, equally VG S9+5/10 at Noale on both 918 & 1323. Next: 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 9395 to NNW 0400 UT Saturday WBCQ 4790 to WSW 0700 UT Saturday Unique R, Australia 5035-USB or 3210-USB [new] 1930 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0430] 1324vUT Sunday WMRI Europe via Ch 292 Germany 9670 2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323-Italy 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 to NNW [to be canceled? still Apr 3] 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to WNW 2230 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed] 1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, Australia 5035-USB or 3210-USB [new] 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to WNW 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S; 9395 to NNW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2133 monitoring: confirmed just in time at 0158 UT Sat April 9 the 0130 on WRMI 9395, S5/S6 into UTwente which I happen to have running after Ukraine check at 0000 on 1386. Also confirmed UT Sat April 9 at 0400 on R Angela via WBCQ 4790, S9+15 into Maryland SDR. Once again there are uteblaaps QRMing, and I time them occurring on a regular schedule other than exactly 4:00 minutes apart as last time. Now there are two different cycles each exactly 3:00 minutes apart: one at top of minutes 0415, 0418, 0424, 0427; and another at about :45 seconds past these minutes: 0416, 0419, 0425, 0428. (Assume I missed the ones at 0421, 0422+.) I leave the same remote running after WBCQ off at 0430* --- and no more blaaps! I had always assumed this was some kind of external QRM, but now I am forced to wonder if they were also coming out of a defective 4790 WBCQ transmitter? OR, if external, they were not coincidental, accidental, but deliberately to annoy --- hardly jam --- WBCQ? I have not been paying much attn to the SDR waterfalls, but I do spot some rectangles a few kHz above and below 4790 line which could represent the blaaps. But there is no time calibration on vertical scale of the H2Ofalls. Curious. Next: 0700 UT Saturday Unique R, Australia 5035-USB or 3210-USB [new] 1930 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0430] 1324vUT Sunday WMRI Europe via Ch 292 Germany 9670 2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323-Italy 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 to NNW [to be canceled? still Apr 3] 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to WNW 2230 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed] 1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, Australia 5035-USB or 3210-USB [new] 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to WNW 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S; 9395 to NNW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2133 monitoring: confirmed Saturday April 9 at 1930 on WRMI 15770, S9+5 into Maryland SDR; and 12 seconds later on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, MO, VG into nearby MO SDR. Next: 0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0430] 1324vUT Sunday WMRI Europe via Ch 292 Germany 9670 2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323-Italy 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 to NNW [to be canceled? still Apr 3] 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to WNW 2230 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed] 1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, Australia 5035-USB or 3210-USB [new] 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to WNW 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S; 9395 to NNW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2133 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday April 10 at 0030 on WRMI 7780: S8/S9+5 into Knoxville SDR. Now aimed 222 degrees so how is this log periodic off the back in Europe, which would be 42 degrees, close to the direct-to-Europe antennas centred on 44? S7-S8 very poor in noise level. Also checked Bonaire to the south: S5/S8. Also confirmed UT Sunday April 10 at 0323 just started about 0322 on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, MO, S9+10 groundwave into nearby SDR. Next: 2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323-Italy 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 to NNW [to be canceled? still Apr 3] 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to WNW 2230 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed] 1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, Australia 5035-USB or 3210-USB [new] 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to WNW 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S; 9395 to NNW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2133 monitoring: confirmed Sunday April 10 from 2000.8 on IRRS SW via AM Italia, again active on both 918 & 1323 kHz from Villa Estense. 1323 is clear S9+10, but 918 has some QRMusic underneath causing a slow SAH adding up to S9+10. Inter, Madrid, is supposedly gone from 918; checking Sevilla SDR I hear neither. What else is on 918? Superpowers from Cambodia, China, India; more proximately, 50 kW Iran, 30 kW Nigeria, 10 kW Egypt, 50 & 100 watts in Holland; something in Greece per WRTH 2022. Tuned in earlier at 1951 a music show dedicated to Ukraine. Not confirmed Sunday April 10 at 2230 on WRMI 5950 as I was distracted by the 15580 Portuguese basketball; did anyone hear this WOR airing? Confirmed UT Monday April 11 at 0030 on WRMI 7780, S9/+10 into Missouri SDR. UT Monday April 11 at 0259 tune-in to Area 51 via S9/+10 WBCQ 6160-, I hear the last few minutes of WOR 2133! Must have started way early circa 0230, or some kind of miscue. But after quick ID, WOR 2133 starts over at 0302. Still going at 0329 check so presumably played to completion, as thunder calls for me to get off. Last week I heard dead air before WOR should have finished. Next: 0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to WNW 2230 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed] 1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, Australia 5035-USB or 3210-USB [new] 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to WNW 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S; 9395 to NNW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2133 monitoring: ``From: Richard Lemke, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada, the desk of Richard’s listening Post, Radio: JRC NRD-535 HF, Antenna: random long wires in the trees. Dear Glenn: World of Radio #2133, confirmed, below with details, A shorter week because of Easter, Happy Easter everyone, Details: WBCQ: 6160, times are different each time, 0240, 0245 noisy again, this time 6165 kHz, in the clear [no Cuba?], 0245, 6160, April 11 UT [Mon] WRMI: 5850, noisy evening, 0130, 0141, 0144 S9 signal level, 0159, April 8 UT [Fri] 9395, QRN, 0129, 0142, 0151 (45433), 0159, 9395, April 9 UT [Sat] 9395, 0031, 0044 (45433), 9455 kHz, 0029, 0047 (45433), 0059, April 12 UT [Tue] (Lemke, Richard -AB) Good listening, Richard`` Confirmed UT Tuesday April 12 at 0030 on WRMIs: 9395, S9+30 into Virginia SDR, but 9455 only S8/S9; into Missouri SDR, closer to the azimuth of 9455, S9+20. Next: 2230 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed] 1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, Australia 5035-USB or 3210-USB [new] 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to WNW 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S; 9395 to NNW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2133 monitoring: confirmed Tuesday April 12 at 2230 on WRMI 9955: sometimes over, sometimes under heavy Cuban jamming, adding up to S9+30. Let no one ever criticise me for hostility toward never-jammed RHC, since Cuba has no cause to jam my English DX broadcasts, even out of stupidity. There is hardly any exile programming on 9955, except for R. Libertad at 2300-2400 M-F but jamming expands to a much longer span. See CUBA above in this report for The Other Side to their lying propaganda. Next WORs: 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to WNW 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S; 9395 to NNW Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Thanks this week for financial support from Russell Lay, Nags Head NC, for a contribution via PayPal in US$ but not necessarily, to woradio at yahoo.com One may also contribute by MO or check on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9950 & 9960, April 8 at 0616, JBA carriers, parasitic spurs out of 9955 WRMI which is S9+20. Difficult to distinguish any audio on 9950 & 9960 with huge splash out of 9955 itself. And some poor 2-way USB is trying to communicate about 9960.2. But there`s more: 9965, April 8 at 0618, a further spur with TOMBS audio JBA // 9955. And a matching JBA carrier on 9945. Something`s odd at Okeechobee (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 4980, April 10 at 0616, WRMI-4 is back, with TOMBS. Missing ever since first noted March 31; I have never seen nor found any explanation of why. Also resumed is parasitic JBA spur on 4975. At S9+30 subjectively 4980 seems stronger than before, antenna change? Still allegedly 160 degrees, same as 9955 & 5800 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7570, April 11 at 0627, this WRMI is normally a TOMBS blowtorch aimed NW right at us, but now it is remarkably weak, less than 7730 even, aimed NE, and also with some noise, hard to tell whether internal or external. Something`s odd at Okeechobee (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. (7490v), UT Sat April 9 at 0000, WBCQ webcast with `AAAWWW`. Gives date right at the start! So we know it`s new, altho with same old far-right rants. Angela`s mike is on already this week. Angela has been picking up tix out horseback-riding, so Allan grooms her body? Plugs great Trump rallies every Saturday: Trump has got to come back ``to fix everything`` --- they axually believe that. Both require reading glasses, where are they? Allan is a Man of Science: believes in vax, not in max. Two print mags he has subscribed since highschool are Star & Telescope, and Scientific American. Fast fwd: By 0030 he`s amid James Careless` Radio World article about BBC at 90. Approves of Elon Musk who has bought controlling interest in Twitter, so will promote Free Speech. ? I thought it was less than controlling interest? 0038 Allan remarx that the Russians are jamming Ukrainian broadcasts. Really? Capture and/or destroy transmitters like 549 kHz, but jamming?? Uncle Bill`s comments about radio being a medium which bonds with listeners, unlike internet. 0048 datestamp as 8th of April YOOLF 2022, presumably trimulcasting u.o.s. Next month will be doing a lot of transmitter work, both SuperStition and Classic; also needs to get 2 MW generator hooked up. 0056 decrying perceived ``war on gender`` -- there are only two and you are stuck with however you were born. 0100 prayer; 0101 JIP Hal Turner late as always (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. 4790, April 9 at 0352 during R. Angela with `Uncle Bill`s Melting Pot` on WBCQ, I am alert for the ``uteblaap`` QRM, listening via Maryland remote --- and there it is, 2-second bursts every 3 minutes near top of these minutes: 0352, 0355, 0358. Also separate 3-minute cycles from about 0359.7; but WBCQ signs off circa 0400. Now will the blaaps continue? Yes, so they are external to `BCQ and rather weaker tonight than before. The first cycle still noted at 0401, 0404, 0407; and the second at 0402.7. On the waterfall some of these small sharp images appear right on 4790, such as the 0404; others a few kHz above or below. Those may have been within the audible bandwidth when hearing WBCQ tuned to 4790. But who or what is doing this, and why? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9975, April 10 at 0631, KVOH is still on past nominal 0600* with praise music, not the usual bigsig but S7/S9 with Doppler flutter as the ionosphere is disturbed. Same signal strength and Dfl even affects 9955 WRMI. No wonder: K index of 7! WWV reported at 0600: ``Solar-terrestrial indices for 09 April follow. Solar flux 107 and estimated planetary A-index 19. The estimated planetary K-index at 0600 UTC on 10 April was 7. Space weather for the past 24 hours has been strong. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G3 level occurred. Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be strong. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G3 level are expected.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 12050, April 11 at 241, WEWN Spanish S5/S9 with big hum. Wiggle that patchcord! something`s ironic at Irondale (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [non]. 9940, April 12 at 1505 no signal from WTWW like previous days, as Ted has forsaken Ukraine, depriving them of his preaching or rock music; rather, two Chinese signals, i.e. CNR1 jamming and RFA via KUWAIT, this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 990, April 10 at 0447 UT, Morse code ID barely copied as WWKY, direct into my R75 via E/W longwire which happens to be aimed close to KY already; but lots of QRM, led by CBW to the north side with Debussy at 0444. 1150, April 10 at 0452 UT, 1 kHz tone with brief breaks; 0454, VVV VVV VVV DE WMST ID marker, 0457 sweeps upward. For this I`m on the DX-398 in order to null KSAL Salina KS to the north which otherwise dominates at night here with major lobe thisaway. So I managed to DX both direct; tnx for the tests. 990 WWKY is in Winchester KY running 1 kW ND day power; 1150 WMST in Mount Sterling KY with 2.5 kW ND day power. Earlier, I listened to them both via the Lexington KY SDR to familiarize myself with what they were sending. Surprised it was not maxed out until I logged on, already in use by someones in California, New Zealand, and Ukraine! Glad one can still do some non-DX listening there. The NZer is Dene Lynneberg, editor of an NZ DX Times column about SDR DXing specifically, segregated from direct DX logs. My notes: Starting at 0415 April 10 on 990: tone here stronger than on 1150. 0416 upward tones, jingle ID, more tones; S9 with some storm noise from the Atlantic. 0418 singing ID and sweeps upward; 0419 phone off hook pulses, more upsweeps. 0420 VVV VVV VVV DE WWKY [8 times, good!] back to VVVs. 0426 phone off hook, YL full WWKY test announcement explaining it. Are 1150 and 990 separate or //? 1150, at 0421 upsweeps while 990 is in VVVs. I quit web at 0439 and over to my direct radios, as above. Did not record anything, so despite all this detail, cannot get QSLs (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) {From the CPC, but have sent this report direct to stations} ** VANUATU. 11835, April 13 at 0627, amazingly good S9/S7 signal as if it were a fundamental, but axually the reactivated 3rd harmonic of R. Vanuatu 3945. Tnx to tip from LOB in Brasil that at 0600 they had moved from 7260 to 3945 but he could only hear them on 7890 and 11835. 7890 is only a JBA carrier. But NZ 11725 inbooms at S9+20. 0627 Music at first sounds like ABBA. 0629 drumming/percussion, bookending Bislama talk until again at 0632, apparently drawing attention to a significant announcement. During that biminute, I do make out mentions of ``National Radio``, and ``Radio Vanuatu`` ID in passing, ``Insight``. Also lots of ``blongs``, which is Pidgin for genitive, or ``of``. Gives telephone numbers in English, repeated: 7710128 or 26829, for information -- about what? Then briefly YL ID in English, also mentions Tonga, Solomon Islands New Zealand. This is the best I have ever heard it, direct. It`s past my bedtime, so I decide to start recording it at 0639. I don`t like to record my DX as it`s inconvenient; but mainly because I don`t have the time to deal with all that later. I happen to awaken at 1149 and stop the 5+ hour recording. Maybe eventually I will post some excerpts from the 83 MB mp3 file. Aoki and HFCC show absolutely nothing on 11835 at any time now, nor in B-21 HFCC; while EiBi shows CNR2 from site-x at 0000-1300, except for the Wednesday-only 0600-0855 siesta break, i.e. just when I started listening. However, I can`t hear anything but Vanuatu during spot chex of my recording, even toward the end as RV is fading down a lot. JBA music about 1100 sounds like it could be an anthem, at sign-off. But open carrier stays on until finally goes off about 1122*. Ron Howard was also listening live and was still hearing RV past the news at 1000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VATICAN. see below, parts of UNIDENTIFIED 11620 UNIDENTIFIED. Just in early UT April 8, a reply to my inquiry about the 11620 station, just too late to include on WOR 2133!: ``Hi Glenn, Thanks for your email and thank you for all the work you do on behalf of short-wave radio. Yes - this is a new broadcast that is intended for the Maldives. It is currently in English, but we hope to have more and more content in Dhivehi shortly. Due to our agreement with our radio broadcast partner, we are unable to share the location of the transmission. Additionally, we will be starting a Chinese language short-wave station on May 1st. These are of course in addition to our ongoing Korean language broadcasts that are intended for North Korea. We are convinced of the need and value of short-wave broadcasts in light of oppressive regimes around the world. Thanks, Tim [Dillmuth, Pastor], VOM Korea`` Meanwhile, I logged it again April 7 at *1459, joining in progress the TV soundtrack with the same preacher as before, fair-poor into UTwente and some other remotes; at 1521 direct, S8/S9+10; 1526 weakening with deep fading; 1528 `Blessed Assurance` theme; 1529:20 other music and maldives@vomkorea.com contact address quite clear this time and off before 1530*. So it`s up to us to figure out whence (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 11620, April 8 at 1502, another English sermon about ``doing good`` from Voice of Martyrs, Korea, S7/S9 direct. Pastor Tim, who is a WOR iog member, acknowledges as a test for Maldives, but site is confidential. How about Reach Beyond Australia, Kununurra?: PRO: RBA has not replied to my inquiry. They have 3 x 100 kW transmitters Only one is on their public schedule after 1400 https://www.reachbeyond.org.au/wp-content/uploads/A22-Listener-Edition.pdf Since this is a ``listener edition``, that implies there is another internal edition with secret broadcasts not to be acknowledged RBA already carries VOMK in Korean at another time RBA has many broadcasts for S Asia before 1400 with suitable antennas It`s a clear shot across the Indian Ocean, ideal distance Puts a good signal into North America otherwise tho never beamed thisaway CON: Checked the one RBA at 1520 April 8, to Myanmar on 11825, only JBA carrier Why would one VOMK broadcast on RBA be public and another secret? RBA has not replied to my direct inquiry There are still plenty of other possible sites. Everyone invited to investigate with TDOA. Why would this Korea-based ministry go after Maldivians? Sunni Islam is the only allowed religion as explained in great detail here: https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/indian-ocean/mv-religion.htm The partner station may be unwilling to risk offending their own Moslems (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 11620, another direct check of unknown site, April 9 at 1458.5 tune-in, open carrier of S9/+10 is already on. 1459.6, ``You are listening to VOMK [?], both in Dhivehi and English languages...`` , `Blessed Assurance` theme, ``Welcome to the second ... of Doing Good ... to our Enemies``. But only English, no Dhivehi heard yet. Once again, the only known RBA frequency after 1500, 11825 in Burmese, is JBA carrier to here, so RBA site really seems unlikely. At 1509 it`s S7/S9 into Brisbane SDR as I start another TDOA attempt, using Hanoi, Kuwait, Melbourne. At 1514 it finishes, displaying a broad area of SE Australia, -39.35 and +143.05: hardly! At 1510, trying Bandung, Switzerland, Perth: -62.50, -41.00 which is in the S Atlantic between S Georgia and LRA36! Hardly2! At 1524 I try KFS remote at Half Moon Bay, California: VG S9/+10. 1526 goes to music and chops off early at 1527.2* before any announcements. Dr Hansjoerg Biener replies on the WOR iog to my previous speculation about this being via Reach Beyond Australia, which: ``Offers two kinds of schedules: https://www.reachbeyond.org.au/on-air/#broadcast-schedule with the languages in alphabetical order: https://www.reachbeyond.org.au/wp-content/uploads/A22-Language-Edition.pdf with a focus on programme names: https://www.reachbeyond.org.au/wp-content/uploads/A22-Listener-Edition.pdf So the listener edition does not refer to "public" as opposed to "secret". Voice of Martyrs is an organisation mainly concerned with supporting persecuted Christians (and as you already noted there is no religious freedom to practice any other faith than the state religion Islam). I do not know in which way the Korean Voice of Martyrs might be connected to the Voice of Martyrs founded by Richard Wurmbrand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_the_Martyrs but Wurmbrand's VoM has always been an international organisation with different kinds of ministry (including broadcasts in German via Radio Luxemburg 1440 kHz many years ago). I also remember the many spots on WHRI advertising their work until the end of WHRI. In the late 90s, there were Christian broadcasts in Dhivehi to the Maldives via FEBA Radio. In April 1998 FEBA radio started a weekly programme produced by Back to the Bible in Sri Lanka. The 30 minutes featured Christian music and a Christian commentary on a general theme. There was a negative reaction from the Maldives government and the broadcast was stopped for a while. »The programmes were taken off air due to the opposition of the Maldivian authorities which included the detention of Christian believers and expulsion of several expatriates from the islands.« (FEBA Radio News Jan-Mar 1999, p.1.). It restarted in September 1999 and was also on the air in 2000, but I never researched in which year it was taken off the air (Dr Hansjoerg Biener 9 April 2022)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 11620, April 11 at 1500, VOM Korea still in English, sermon about the Word of God, S9/S6 direct. 1521 long pause, resumed; did not listen to whole broadcast whether there were any Dhivehi; 1529 ``Thanks for listening to Maldives service of VOM Korea`` [paraphrased maybe not exact quote]. Instead of going off at 1530, stayed on and switched to Arabic. I asked, can anyone ID this programming if not yet transmitter site? 1539 into Christian-sounding choral music briefly. At 1551 putting VG S8/S9+15 signal into Kuwait remote where there was reverb and carrier offset +12 Hz; but poor into New Delhi. 1555 mentioned ``Filipin``. At 1556, ``Laudetur Iesus Christus`` gave it away as VR, tho cut off at 1557 before any IS. Transmitter break until *1559 back on and then VR opening in French as sked. HFCC shows exactly same parameters for both, so why the break? Azimuth 250 which means NW Africa, yet CIRAF zones as 38E/39W = Egypt and Palestine. Another anomaly. Ron Howard points out that VR Arabic at 1530 should be // 15595; unchecked in time. Altho SMG relays some other broadcasters, even VOA and vice versa, violating Separation Of Church And State, the FMO sked http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbyfmo.php?seas=A22&fmor=VAT shows nothing but VR transmissions, like the separate Broadcasters schedule. At 1530 I did not detect any transmitter break or change in signal level as if VOMK/M were from same site. Need to monitor very carefully the 1530 transition going forward. But same SMG site is anything but certain. BTW, my previous email to the announced maldives address at VOM Korea bounced, as limited to known white-listed contacts; not a good way to hear from new listeners (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) NOTE: Later reports about 11620 filed under MALDIVES [non]