** ALASKA. 9580, April 27 at 1454, ending `Creation Moment`, anti-science nonsense, then rock music, and KNLS closing with English schedule for ``New Life Station`` including 13760 at 03 for S Asia, i.e. via Madagascar. This confirms that not all the English hours from MWV Mahajanga are African Pathways Radio as one schedule asserted. Alaska had resumed on April 23 after 3+ weeks off, not clear exactly why, expenses? Supposedly current sked for both is here: https://www.worldchristian.org/welcome/who-we-are/how-to-listen/ including KNLS English: 08 on 9695; 10 on 9580; 12 on 9795 and 7355; 14 on 9580 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ALASKA. 9730, April 27 at 1502, rock song at S4-S6, clearly a station that does not believe in news on the hour --- or any news at all about the *real* world. 9730 is heavily used by China, North Korea, Vietnam and Myanmar, but Aoki shows this one-hour window for KNLS in Russian; only possible competition being SOH Taiwan relaying RFA up to 20 hours a day including this one {and jamming of course should it really be active}. In fact, it`s the same KNLS-2 transmitter I just heard in English before 1500 on 9580, but now 30 degrees clockwise at 300 degrees for ``East Central Russia`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ARGENTINA [non]. 9395, UT Sat April 25 just after 0100, via WRMI, RAE ATTW in English, and also in English closing at 0128 as ``lockdown edition #2``, so maybe the entire semihour was English. 0129 the way outdated ``Son-power Radio`` WRMI ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ARGENTINA [non]. 5800, UT Tue April 28 at 0230, via WRMI, RAE AAM opening octolingual hour in Spanish. Fernando says it`s ``Made in Casa`` #5, but impression from further comments is that was recorded last week, not today. German YL a few minutes later, usw., etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** AUSTRALIA. 12362-USB, April 25 at 1432, S2-S3, coastal marine weather in Oz-accented robOM, mostly wind direxions and speeds in knots, seas in metres, times in UTC? forecasts at least until Tuesday; geographical references unrecognized, except 1434 two tones, then Northern Territory. EiBi shows it`s VMW, Wiluna WA on air 24 hours. Nothing heard from companion VMC Charleville QL on 12365-USB supposedly also on air now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 248 kHz, April 23 at 0622 UT, ND beacon dash and WG, which is 1000 watts from WinnipeG; not often heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA [non?]. 15110, April 23 at 1455-1500* Chinese talk at S9+10, cut off at ToH amid first/one timepip. Presumably CNR1 jammer against VOA Chinese via Philippines, this hour only, same as heard yesterday but now much better, and no signal from a second station; nor any similar signals on the 15 or 13 MHz bands. A pipeline, from where? 11675, April 23 at 1541, one Chinese signal at S6-S7, CNR1 jammer against RFA Saipan, this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2031) ** CHINA. 9680, April 27 at 1501, S5-S9 open carrier, presumably CNR1 jammer against Taiwan not turned off yet, but could be vice versa. Aoki/NDXC shows jammer site as Kunming (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA [non]. 11640, April 26 at 2125, chat in English about the value of reading books, African accent, S4-S5. It`s CRI via MALI, that odd half-hour broadcast until 2130, or is it expansion of the previous one-hour? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6060 & 6000, April 23 at 0612, RHC English is OFF these two, still on 6100 & weaker 6145; 5040 also off. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 5025, April 24 at 0541, R. Rebelde is S9 but just barely modulated. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11880, April 25 at 2232, RHC Portuguese is S9+20 but very distorted. 11 seconds later the same thing is heard on 11700 at S9+10, a bit crackly but not distorted. The former bodes ill for the quality of English to follow at 2300. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 15370 also supposed to be on now but a JBA carrier and nothing else on 19m is any better, degraded propagation (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11760 // suptorted 15140, April 26 at 1512 check, RHC in Spanish, another Sunday missing Esperanto. Plenty of it can be read at http://www.radiohc.cu/eo including items with recent dates and linx to audio of April 5, 12 and 19 shows, and maybe will add 26 yet missing from SW. Something`s always wrong at Radio Havano Kubo (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15140, April 26 at 1932, NO signal from RHC English. But: 15370, April 26 at 1932, RHC French is S9+20, OK modulation. Something`s always wrong at RHC. On rare occasions 15140 programs go out instead on spy-numbers frequency 16180, but not now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 5040, April 27 at 0550, RHC in Spanish instead of English during this hour, S9+30. Something`s always cockeyed at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13763 & 13637 approx., April 27 at 1406, RHC `Sonido Cubano` music back on big distorted S9 spurblobs, about plus/minus 63 kHz out of 13700-AM transmitter. Useless in SSB tuning but audible in AM or FM, and with the F# tone in FM. JBA on second-orders circa 13573 & 13827. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11950, April 27 at 2217, this RHC on earlier than nominal *2300 for alternate `Mesa Redonda` TV soundtrack. It`s a speech by some Commie, perhaps a live event, distorted here, but // mainstream RHC Spanish on 11760, undermodulated 11850 and its spur on 11840; while 11700 is in Portuguese, 13740 and 15370 are off. 6000 is on at 2225 and the SSOB at S9 --- except it`s dead air. Normally it would be // 11950 for the separate M.R. at 23-24. By 0214 Apr 28, 6000 is JBM, perhaps in English like louder 6145. Something`s always wrong at RHC ::: (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11670, April 28 at 0219, RHC Spanish is S9+20, overmodulated and distorted. 11760 is off already. Not on at 2217, but 13740 is on now, S9+20. Something`s always wrong at RHC. Just for giggles, let`s check own website frecuencias schedule at: http://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/frecuencias It`s still the B-18 sked! headed ``HORARIOS, BANDAS Y FRECUENCIAS EN ESPAÑOL PERIODO NOVIEMBRE 2018/MARZO 2019 CAMBIO DE HORARIO Y FRECUENCIA 11 DE NOVIEMBRE`` not including any 11760 in the tarde; but EiBi A-20 shows 21-02 while 11670 is 23-04, 11850 21-05. As for the Esperanto broadcast missing at least the last two weeks from Sunday 1500 on 11760 & 15140, now the Esperanto page http://www.radiohc.cu/eo does provide audio of the April 26 show, which 2+ minutes into announces the schedule as Sundays: 08 UTC on 6100; 16 on 11760; 2230 on 15730 --- those are winter times! Should be at 07 and 15, but maybe still at 2230. I`ve checked neither the first nor the last, and who knows, maybe sometech axually believe it`s supposed to be at 16?(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13502, 13568, 13634; 13766, 13832, 13897 approx., April 28 at 1418, extremely distorted spurblobs out of S9+30 13700-AM of RHC. The inner pair are much stronger than the rest at intervals of about 66 kHz; more readable in AM than FM mode which also bears the earmark F# tone above Cmiddle. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11980, April 29 at 0020, CRI relay in stilted Spanish, S8/S9+10 which could be mistaken for a fundamental instead of the second harmonic of 5990 which is S9+10/30; also on non-harmonic weaker // 15120. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. Both fundamentals are Quivicán per Aoki/NDXC but fails to acknowledge the existence of 11980. Nor does Eibi, but ``harm`` 12000 for RHC, and the Vanuatus, nothing else despite what I and others may hear. Aoki does not even include the widely-reported Vanuatu multiples of 3945. I find it perplexing how some DX sources are so reluctant to publish harmonix and other monitored spurs. Sesquidecades ago I had a column in NASWA FRENDX, `Hunting Harmonics with Hauser`, and got the impression that some `DXperts` were reluctant to admit that they really exist, that I was not imagining them, or suffering from receiver-produced images (which can also happen, but, know how to tell the difference!) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6000 & 6145, UT Wed April 29 at 0030, at tune-in the mit-week edition of RHC `DXers Unlimited` is just starting right at the midpoint of its widely variable timing during each English hour --- assuming that started on time, not always the case. First topix are the sporadic-E season about to start (meaning on VHF, it already did, April 13/15, and before that on HF); and sunspot signs of two solar cycles at once --- but reception is so poor on the only two frequencies, due to heavy storms in central and NE Oklahoma, and undermodulated/weak signals, that I give up. Why, in the noisy, insolated summer, are all RHC English eggs in one 6 MHz basket after 00 UT, plus even lower 5 MHz, not always, after 05 UT? Makes one wonder how well frequency manager Arnie really understand propagation. I would not call him a ``self-styled expert`` as he once honored me. Something`s always wrong at RHC, and this is just another thing, self-defeating its anti-American propaganda --- so, way to go! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13740, April 29 at 1334, RHC back on here instead of 13780: they can`t decide which one to keep. // 13700 as usual, and it`s the one also producing extremely distorted spurblobs circa 13637 and 13763. This time no readable program audio on them in SSB, AM or FM reception modes. 1424 check, 13700 still on, spurs off and 13740 off. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15730, April 30 at 0013, RHC on and propagating, but suptorted with cutouts, French not // 5040 Kriyol. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 15230, April 30 at 0013, RHC in Spanish! This frequency has been running only in the mornings, 13-15 per Eibi, 11-15 per Aoki/NDXC. This is only the start of various new frequencies/times now heard: 11800, April 30 at 0016, new RHC in Spanish // 11760, and // ripple/distorted 11670 as if two carriers? but 11700 and 11850 are both OFF. So the 11850 parasites on 11840 & 11860 also off. Which one does 11800 replace, or both? 11800 better not be on before 0000 as the others were, due to Romania in Spanish! Something`s always wrong at RHC. The 11980 harmonic of 5990 CRI in Spanish also audible now. 9340, April 30 at 0021, RHC on brand new frequency in Spanish, but missing from 9535 & 9640 the normal 31mb tarde channels; replaces both, or error, or? Another change reported by wolfie the morning of April 29 was 7350 instead of 7340. Remains to be heard if all these changes stick, and what more there may be; Arnie just getting around to post-seasonal juggling? Or maybe to celebrate May 1: ``patria o suerte, ¡pensaremos!`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 4765, April 30 at 0037, Radio Progreso is S9+10/20 of dead air until cut off at 0043.5*, back on *0051.8-0052.3* still with no modulation. Lite CODAR swishing QRM only on the LSB side. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA [non]. 7335, April 27 at 0554, Radio Martí music at S9+20, apparently hit parade having reached #1, no jamming audible at first unlike slightly weaker // 7365 S9+10/20. 0559 elaborate ID, ``siempre contigo``. 0600 becomes `Radio Revoltillo`, show of revolting comments, dated jueves 23 de abril, so a replay; also counts number of days to end of year. Jamming now audible under 7335. Nothing on 5980 now except jamming as no RM until 0700; and 6030 audible under jamming. Comments about how the Great October Revolution was really in November due to calendar changes. 0613 takes phone call to a 305 number, evidently from another exile; or contact via radiorevoltillo@gmail.com RM has other music shows late at night. Better enjoy all this while you can, as overnight 04-10 UT transmissions on SW are to be canceled effective May 2, apparently due to a major budget cut. RM is the main output of Grimesland, vs only a few VOA transmissions in Bambara, French, Hausa, English, so we fear this could be the beginning of the end for the ``Greenville`` site (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** FRANCE. 15130, April 26 at 1932, JBA music S2-S3; listed as NHK Japanese relay; hardly anything else trans-Atlantic on band and even Cuba missing from 15140 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, April 26 at 0616, TGAV is still on late and stronger than usual at S9+10/20 during sermon in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** HAWAII. 5000, April 26 at 0619, WWVH with jittery Doppler flutter on carrier when heard with BFO, sign of severe prop disturbance, very unusual over such a low-latitude path; and NO signal from WWV Colorado which is normally atop here; it can be heard on 2500 tho weaker than usual. Just missed the 0618 propagation report on WWV, but 3-hourly e-mail from WWV says at 0600 the K-index was only 2, SF 69, and no storms observed or predicted (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** JAPAN [non]. 5985 WRMI & 6195 WHRI, April 25 at 0400-0429, NHK relay entirely in Spanish, no English insert here like in so many other language services. 6105 Japanese via FRANCE went off at 0400 April 25. Ira Holmes in central Florida reported that on April 23, 6105 had English at 0415-0500; but it was off April 24 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, April 24 at 1849, S9+10 signal but just barely modulated, Qur`an? Dengê Welat expected, via France or maybe Pridnestrovye, and subject to Turkish blockage; but suspect the bigsig suppressing atop is the Cuban numbers transmitter which is supposedly not on 11530 now, but earlier and later (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NEW ZEALAND. 13840.007, April 24 at 0129, RNZI S9-S7 better than usual on this channel, and very slightly off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NIGERIA. 7254.9, April 27 at 0554 tune-in, big VON carrier cuts off immediately, unknown if ever came back. At least they tried (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 267 kHz, April 23 at 0623 UT, NDB HET, which is 25 watts from HenryEtTa OK, not often heard. I was tuned to 265-USB, but 2 kHz away it was as weak as could be (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 1600, April 28 at 1456 UT during talkshow, KUSH Cushing carrier is rapidly rippling, unlike any of its neighbors (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. For Lane Whitesell --- I am not a big opera fan, and rarely listen to an entire opera, unless maybe Mozart or Glass, but I want to thank you for the wonderful music you play afterwards until 5:00 including today April 25! Do keep doing it. Glenn Hauser (a former classical music programmer and announcer, myself) [on KUCO 90.1 contact webform] Thanks for the comment --- It's nice to be appreciated for what I try to do well in the studio (at KUCO). Thanks! (Lane A. Whitesell, April 26 to gh) I am referring to vocal/choral music, not necessarily operatic, often keyed to performers` birthdays, to fill out the widely variable space following Met or other Saturday opera broadcasts which generally start at 1700 UT, up to 2200 UT when you may also want to stay tuned for `Footlight Parade` from elsewhere, Broadway to operatic, this time all: the great Russian basso Fyodor Chaliapin. Also webcast via: http://www.kucofm.com and here`s Mr Whitesell. who be blown up to hi-res closeup: https://www.kucofm.com/about/staff/m.staff/130/view/18 His ~2-hour filler does not show as a separate entry on the skedgrid: https://www.kucofm.com/programs/program-schedule-grid/ a station which makes it almost bearable to live in Oklahoma (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** PRIDNESTROVYE. 12160, April 28 at 1434, VP talk in unknown language vs lite CODAR. Aoki/NDXC shows TWR-India via MDA/Grigoriopol`/KCH site at 1345-1445 on a complex language schedule per quarter-hour, this one in Hindi on M-F only; off earlier other days. Just so gone by *1500 when WWCR-2 ascend from 7490 to 12160 --- not *1600 as in Aoki, outdated standard timing? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ROMANIA. 11650, April 24 at 2055, S6-S7 open carrier, somewhat noisy; what`ll it be? 2058 RRI IS and 2100 opening Spanish via Tsiganeshti (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also CUBA 11800 ** ROMANIA. 7310, Sat April 25 at 2245, RRI S3-S7 poor concluding DX Mailbag until 2246 just as in DX/SWL/MEDIA programs starting at 2240 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SAUDI ARABIA [and non]. 11820.042, April 24 at 1818, for the first time this year, I think, decent S9/+10 signal from the HQS, sufficiently soporific music for a nap; a Ramadan gift? Always off-frequency+plus here; 2 minutes of pause from 1838 before resuming. // 11914.987 is always weaker, S4-S7, at 1845 April 24. ARS is still absent from A-20 HFCC info, but in B-19, both 500 kW from BSKSA Riyadh at 320 and 295 degrees respectively, with 320 closer to OKward, altho intended only for W Europe. Spans for both were 18-23 UT and probably still are. By 2053 recheck, however, 11820.042 has faded to S4-S6 and anyhow are now in W&M talk. Originally it was the best signal on band from beyond the Atlantic. So how about the other Sa`udis? 11745.002, April 24 at 1846, presumably the AFRTS of SA, Al-Azm for the forces attacking Yemen, music at S6-S8 with a fast SAH from USAGM in Chinese Mandarin, 250 kW, 70 degrees from KUWAIT; or vice versa. Not in B-19 HFCC, and classified as clandestine by WRTH 2020 on page 516 along with the next one: 11860, Republic of Yemen Radio, strangely enough, was not even registered in B-19, since it`s clandestine, but everyone thinx it`s also via Riyadh --- and totally inaudible here vs Cuban jamming and Radio Martí. Not even its off-frequency carrier as measured by Wolfgang Büschel, ``11859.965 kHz 14.57 UT on April 18`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, April 24 at 2247, checking VOT English via Bonaire SDR, Turkish music and just in time for YL sign-off claiming again this has been the 1230 broadcast on 15450! NOT. IS plays until 2253.7*, shux, no extra German today. Something`s always awry at Ankara if not erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, April 25 at 2228, VOT English is on today, Turkish songs at S7-S9; no RTTY now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, April 27 at 2214, zero signal from VOT English to North America. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler, and/or awry at Ankara (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, April 28 at 2234 check, another failed non-broadcast of VOT English to North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, April 29 at 2242, VOT makes it on air today, S9+5 during Turkish music fill. Seems their success rate on this transmission is less than 50%; and when it is on they claim it`s the 1230 on 15450. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler and/or awry at Ankara (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. 12098-USB, Sat Apr 25 at 1436, CAP net, YL NCS Aspen Gold 99, each transmission ending with beep rather than ``over``; classic paramilitary lingo like ``wilco``; Yellowbird 73 one contact; 1439 asks for relays before we close. No, off at 1440* with net ID as Heartland. Aspen Gold is the Rocky Mountain Region tactical callsign, not specifically Colorado which is Blue Mesa. Maybe it was Yellow Brick, which is Kansas, get it? It seems we never hear any real axion on these CAP nets, such as rushing to scenes of plane crashes, but rather extremely rigid pro-forma exchanges. No problem from the weak SWBC on 12095, which would be BBC Somali; HFCC, EiBi and Aoki all agree that on Saturdays only during this hour, BOTH Madagascar and Uzbekistan sites are in use. Surely it`s only one or the other (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 14902-USB, Thursday April 23 at 1855, YL as Triblade 19, so a Civil Air Patrol net, calling Red Fire and several other tactical handles; long silence until 1900 she asks for relays, with Triblade 31, White Tail 51; agree to QSY to secret frequency designated N-E-H, for traffic, calls for more traffic or relays; 1902 Yosemite 80 with Triblade 60. Red Fire is Indiana; Yosemite of course California (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [non]. 9410, April 25 at 1446, tune-in to end of a song, sounds like Nat-King Cole, then a non-English song, S5-S9. Of course, it`s VOA Korean via PHILIPPINES, also // weaker 12080 at 1451 check. If you hear classic tunes from The American Songbook, chances are it`s VOA Korean service, which plays a lot of it. Is this a big thing among Koreans, or by the VOA-K music director; or retaliation for K-pop? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 17530, April 28 at 1435-1436* open carrier cuts off shortly after tune-in; presumably IBB Grimesland routine transmitter check a few hours before scheduled broadcast on same (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2031 contents: Antarctica, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bougainville, Bulgaria, China, Congo DR, Cuba, Denmark, Equatorial Guinea, France, Greece, Indonesia, Iran, Italy and non, Japan non, Korea South & North, Madagascar, Malaysia, México, Mongolia, New Zealand, Nigeria, North America, São Tomé, Sa`udi Arabia, Somalia, Thailand, Tinian, Turkey, UAE, UK, USA and non, Vanuatu; and the propagation outlook from SWPC, Boulder WOR 2031 is available as of 0215 UT Friday April 24 (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2031.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2031.mp3 Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html Also linx to podcast services. The shortwave broadcasts should be: 0900 UT Friday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 [maybe jammed] to SSE 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5010 to S, 7780 to NE 0900 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 1130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [maybe jammed] to SSE 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] 0900 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 and/or 6160v to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [maybe jammed] to SSE 0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW, 594-Italy 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Thanks this week for financial support from Dan Sheedy, Encinitas, CA, who sent a generous US$ cheque to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2031 monitoring: confirmed first US SWBC, Friday April 24 at 2200 on WRMI 9955: Bonaire SDR hears it OK over Cuban jamming; Pardinho, Brasil better without jamming; while direct to here, only a JBA carrier under the jamming. Also confirmed UT Sat Apr 25 at 0130 on 3 x WRMI: 7780, poor with storm noise; 5010 better S9+10/20 but also storm noise; and 5850 VG S9+20/30 yet not enough to overcome all the storm noise. Blitzortung shows a heavy band of lightning from SW MO to NE TX, along the OK/AR border and the TX/LA border. Next: 0900 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 1130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [may be jammed] to SSE 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] 0900 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 and/or 6160v to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [may be jammed] to SSE 0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW, 594-Italy 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2031 monitoring: confirmed Saturday April 25 at 1134 the 1130 on WRMI 9955, S3-S6 vs pulse jamming. April 25 at 1300 on WRMI 15770: JBA carrier here at 1305. Barely better in Bulgaria, reports Ivo Ivanov: ``Reception of World of Radio#2031 via WRMI-09 Okeechobee, April 25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynGlIQkk5gw&feature=youtu.be https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/04/reception-of-world-of-radio2031-via.html 1300-1330 15770 RMI 100 kW / 044 deg WeEu English Sat, very weak`` - Next: 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] 0900 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 and/or 6160v to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [may be jammed] to SSE 0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW, 594-Italy 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2031 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday April 26 starting at 0311, good on WA0RCR, 1860-AM via Edinburgh IN SDR south of Indianapolis. Next: 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 and/or 6160v to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [may be jammed] to SSE 0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW, 594-Italy 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2031 monitoring: confirmed UT Monday April 27 at 0130 on WRMI 7780 - only, VG via Maine SDR; repeated at 0230. Also confirmed UT Mon Apr 27 starting at 0305 on Area 51 via WBCQ, 5130-, stably a few Hz on minus side, after an ancient Jean Shepherd stream-of-consciousness monolog ran over, concluding with his peppy themesong - what was it? Axually better here, S9+10/20 than to a Rochester remote where there were storms. Alternate 6160v NOT on the air. WOR 2031 presumably confirmed UT Mon Apr 27 at 0330 on WRMI 9955; checked previous semihour during RPI it was S9+10. Next: 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW, 594-Italy 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2031 monitoring: confirmed Monday April 27 at 1800:40 on IRRS 7290, VG via UTwente SDR. Open carrier already on at 1755 (and Iran in Italian already off, this week!); 1759:40 IRRS sign-on, 3 headlines from Feature Story News, then WOR. There is no ACI plus/minus 5 on the tuner, but still some QRM on 7290, apparently splashing out of 7280 Vietnam. After lunch, 1829 recheck just as WOR has ended, FSN from Washington yet British accent, with more detail, but cut to dead air at 1832 and still dead past 1838 when The Shortwave Report should be playing. I hope there were no such interruptions to *our* SW report. Also confirmed UT Tue April 28 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, S9/+10 here but noisy so only fair; at 0127 check, poor at UTwente, but VG at remote in Maine. 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 2031 monitoring: confirmed after 2100 Wed April 29 on WBCQ 7490.1v, JBA here and UTwente; VP at Chicagoland KiwiSDR, sufficient at one of the numerous Rochesters. Also confirmed UT Thu April 30 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, S9 on generous meter but rates only poor vs noise level. Presumably much better to the NE of FL. WOR 2032 should be ready by early UT Fri May 1, for first WRMI broadcast at 2200 on 9955. BTW, I`ve been feeling OK since 2031. Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Thanks this week for financial support from Dan Sheedy, Encinitas, CA, who sent a generous US$ cheque to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 6159.917V, April 24 at 0134, WBCQ-#? is on and wavering off-frequency with talk show, presumably Hal Turner, whom I have no interest in hearing; and without // matching, sounds like same thing on 5130 and on 7490.110v; and 9455 WRMI (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9330, April 24 at 2102, WBCQ in German, only fair S5-S8. The flat-earth wackadoodles of World`s Last Chance used to be in Arabic, but having moved that to a closer site Woofferton, have favored the Germans with three hours here from 1800 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. Welcome back to John Carver with computer fixed, notes on WBCQ`s AAAWWW UT Saturday April 25 at 0000: ``Tonight's show started on time on 7490 and 5130. Allan and Angela in the studio. Show opens with a bit of talk about the Canadian shooter. Phone call at 0007 from Freddie. Talk about some of the old programs from the station that are contained in the archives. Phone call at 0015 from a new listener in Indiana asking for information about the station which quickly changed to a talk about cars. Phone call at 0036 from Ramsey which continued the car talk. Freddie called again at 0042 and the talk this time was about tractors. Reading of emails at 0055. Very quick prayer and off the air 0100. Have read most of the reports of AAWWW and the only other thing of interest was last week's show when Angela told her tale of being outside before the show and seeing sparks down the street. She went down to look and a tree limb had fallen into the "hydro" lines and they were arcing and sparking. Allan explained that they weren't called hydro lines down here in the States and Angela showed him a piece of charred tree limb she'd brought back home with her to show him. Allan called the power company and he got a robo call from the power company about half way through the show telling him that the problem had been fixed. John Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, WOR) ** U S A. 9330, April 25 at 1824, WLCR via WBCQ is in English, not German as previously scheduled, only fair S5-S8. Their sked now shows German at 19-22 UT and wrong conversion to 8-11 pm local, tho they got French to France right with a 2-hour difference (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7490.097V, April 28 at 0015-0100, WBCQ with `From the Isle of Music`, jazz as promised this week, mostly music rather than interviews, fair S9+10. I was glad to advance-publicize a WBCQ special for Tuesday May 5 at 21-22 UT, featuring this and other musical programmers. Unfortunately, we know that this time of year, reception that early in the day to this far away will be poor, mostly absorbed before it get here, just like other shows at 21, Marion`s Attic, BeHAViour Night, and World of Radio. To be on 7490; and 5130 which will be even worse in the afternoon. Why not repeat it after dark?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 15770, April 26 at 1439, no signal from this WRMI which normally achieves at least a JBA carrier; also no signal at 1512 via remotes in Maine, Holland (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9955, Sunday April 26 at 2120, WRMI with chat between W&M about their favorite TV shows; it`s `The Lab` for a semihour, easily overlooked and last reported in September as in DXLD 19-39, with quotation from WRMI program page still there, outdated info lacking this very airing, IDing them as Kate Holiday and Ryan Rivers (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5800, April 28 at 0010, ``weather around the globe`` --- followed by --- music! on SMTV via WRMI. Just another example why it`s not a good idea to run TV soundtrax on radio without ``translating`` video-only info into audio. I can just *imagine* the grafix with maps and temps, like on NHK Newsline, along with its tiresome always-same music (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9955, April 28 at 0216, WRMI relaying RPI in Spanish, but as I tune in with BFO, carrier is breaking up rapidly, then settles down. Good thing there is an adjacent standby transmitter for this System and frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5010, April 28 at 0559, S9+10/20 of open carrier; can`t see how it could be anything but WRMI-10 which nominally closes at 0330 after Argentina relay. So why on now? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 17775-, April 25 at 1457, KVOH on already and propagating S9! musical prélude to weekly Saturday English block, the SSOB with traces of 17815 WHRI? and 17615+ Sa`udi Arabia. Wavescan supposed to air at 1500, and confirmed a few minutes later when checked on a Kentucky KiwiSDR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 4840, April 28 at 0558, WWCR is S9+40 but dead air except for some hum; by 0604 has resumed with TOMBS, tsk2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7505, April 29 at 0149, just at tune-in, WRNO drops off the air, and still off by 0156 tune-out. No great loss (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 570, April 23 at 0630 UT ``We`re the Voice of the Midwest, 570 WNAX`` and 0631 locally originated ``WNAX News`` presumably during break in some talk show. Not the only slogan in NRC AM Log for 570 in Yankton SD, ``Your 5-state neighbor`` --- tho who knows, it may also be uttered. Wikipedia agrees that Voice of the Midwest is the slogan of WNAX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNAX_(AM) Searching also leads to Voice of the Midwest as title of a 1953y book about WLW Cincinnati. I think only those east of Ohio could think of it as Midwest. ``Midwest`` is certainly an ill-defined term. One source shows all the states within a ND-KS-OH triangle. But SD and others can also be considered in the Great Plains, or North Central region. Certainly not OK, tho we are the only state with a Midwest City = OKC suburb. NRC DX News of April 14, AM Switch reported: ``Applications to extend existing STA received: 570 WNAX SD Yankton – Applies to extend STA, U1 5000/1250`` WNAX nominal parameters: 5000/5000 U2, i.e. ND daytime, direxional nighttime, majorly toward NNE with two minor southish lobes. Where`s KLIF Dallas? Twice as close. Only WNAX heard now on the E-W longwire which should be equally unfavorable for both. Both day and night patterns of KLIF are nullish toward here, but in the daytime it`s atop WNAX, always audible underneath via high-ground-conductivity path, and of course the only SD day signal arriving (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1040, April 25 at 0603 UT, WHO Des Moines IA with dead air until 0606 comes to life, blasting ever-changing opening music of C2CAM // many others but not synchronized, 1100, 1110, 1000, etc., guest host tonight Jimmy Church. What would Ronald Reagan say? Is no human paying attention at WHO to its output? I should have hastened to pull something else thru it. Maybe will recur (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 11785, April 25 at 1442, open carrier with flutter, S1-S5. VOA Chinese via Philippines ends at 1400 and so too should the CNR1 or Firedrake jamming. Nothing after 1400, except in EiBi, CRI Chinese via Kashgar, East Turkistan, land of imprisoning and brainwashing Uyghurs (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WORLD OF RADIO HITLIST Hi Glenn, My latest Hitlist update: http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm 1) Austria - ORF/OE1: Added station (thanks to Glenn Hauser) 2) France - RFI: Added links to programme and Facebook pages of Musique du Monde 3) Greece - V of Greece: As VoG now relays the Proto (1st) programme, in place of the ERT external services, added links to this service. Additionally, Proto may relay overnight either the Deftero (2nd) or Trito (3rd) programme, so added links to these as well (with thanks to Richard Langley in WOR iog for initial tip) 4) Lao - Lao National R: Added links for this station (with thanks to David Kernick, Interval Signal Online, via WOR iog for initial tip) 5) UK - BBC WS: Updated link to "regional schedules" 6) UK - European Music R: Deleted entry (the former archived website/domain has now been deleted) 7) USA - R Free Asia: Added link to RFA website (thanks to an initial tip by Bill Harms in faceBook group) 8) USA - WEWN: Updated link to frequency schedules Unless there's a major change anywhere, the next update will be late May. Best wishes and 73 (Alan Roe, April 25)