** ALGERIA. 891, Sept 12 at 0421, big het upon WLS 890, and can barely separate a bit of audio, presumed this usual bigsig from RTA, and setting me off on a complete TA bandscan, see UNIDENTIFIED (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-CUSB, Sept 12 at 1825, and a couple hours earlier, no signal at Brasil remote from LRA-36 nor any expected this week, but the multi-hour Spanish/German/English special from RAE Bs. As. has been rescheduled for Sat Sept 19, weather permitting (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-CUSB, Wed Sept 16 at 1551, no signal from LRA36 to Brasil remote, despite nominal weekly 14-16 UT schedule. Big RAE special in Spanish, German and English is planned for Saturday Sept 19 at 1500-2200, weather permitting (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ARGENTINA [non]. 9395, Sept 15 at 2131, RAE via WRMI is listed as Italian this hour, but since COVID-19 hit, each language hour could be filled by bits in any or all of their 8 languages, which explains why they are in English now talking about the 100th anniversary of the first radio broadcast on August 27, which presented Wagner`s `Parsifal` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** BRAZIL. 4985, Sept 14 at 0621, S6-S9 music, presumed R. Brasil Central, in the clear as RTTY is off! Ivo Ivanov also reports it tonight at 0800 & 0900 via Brasilia SDR as ``reactivated``. Was it really ever unactivated? Normally totally blocked here by RTTY from NSS. EiBi shows both as 24 hours. Checked 11815v for RBC but nothing there, maybe off and not only not propagable (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** BRAZIL. 11780, Sept 11 at 2225, RNA is S7-S8 but sup-torted modulation as usual; why bother to broadcast? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 278-MCW kHz, 0625 UT Sept 15, JBA, dash and ND beacon NM, 500 watts from Matagami, Québec; new for me? Not quite, last logged: ``278 kHz, Dec 14 [2018] at 0717, beacon NM and dash: 500 watts from Matagami, Quebec. Matagami is in a remote off-road area near 78 W/50 N, NNE of Rouyn-Noranda.`` Value-added info to this log per Wikipedia: ``Toponymy --- In Cree, "matagami" means "meeting of waters", in reference to the large rivers that join.`` And the town exists because of a zinc+ mine. Interesting that its neighbor at DXinfocentre.com is at almost the same latitude in SK within 16 seconds; no sign of that now: 278 N1 CAN SK Assiniboia 200 49 43 42 -105 56 57 278 NM CAN QC MATAGAMI 500 49 43 26 -77 44 30 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA [and non]. Bedtime ND beacon scan 0638-0645 UT Sept 11, finds several MCW Canadians remaking it, including: 317, dash and VC, 1000 watts from La Ronge, Saskatchewan 326, dash and YQK, 200 watts from Kenora, Ont. tuned to 325-USB 351, dash and YKQ, 500 watts from Ft Rupert - Waskaganish, Québec 362, dash and SB, 500 watts from Greater Sudbury, Ontario; mixing with 365, AA, 100 watts from Fargo - Harwood, North Dakota 401, dash and YPO, 500 watts from Peawanuck, Ont. tuned to 400-USB 413, dash and YHD, 250 watts from Dryden, Ontario (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 395-MCW kHz, Sept 16 at 0624 UT, NDB dash and YL, which is 1600 watts from Lynn Lake, and which appears to be at the end of the road in NW Manitoba. 401-MCW kHz, Sept 16 at 0621 UT, ND beacon dash and YPO, which is 500 watts from Peawanuck, Ontario. Must be this but had copied as YWO, missing a dit (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA, 15034-USB, Sept 12 at 1421, VOLMET from CHR, Trenton Military, Ontario, with ``no report received`` from Trenton itself and several other locales. Usual situation (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 WOOB jammer survey, Sept 11 at 1356-1400: JBA 13835 & 13530, < 12880, < 12870, > 12210 & 12190. I don`t get to the lower 11s and upper 10s before massive closedown time 1400* (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, Sept 15 at 1417: none in the 13s or 12s; at 1419, JBA or JBA carriers on 11150, 11120, 11100, 10920 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** COLOMBIA. 600 kHz, new VOA relay via HJHJ: See VENEZUELA [non] ** COLOMBIA [and non]. 4940, Sept 10 at 0244, via TWR Bonaire, JBA carrier only, which may be R. San Antonio, Peru, eclipsed by the new nameless Colombian? when it`s on but not tonight nor later. Several monitors and I find it connected with LV de tu Conciencia, and one even heard an ID for its inactive frequency 6010 probably from an old recording, but nothing definite about real name or location now, remote Puerto Lleras like 6010 & 5910 were? Rafael Rodríguez says he has no info about that yet. I`ve also asked a Canadian charity backer but no reply. Alan Pennington, BDXC-UK recorded via Bonaire a *2300 sign-on Sept 9 with no ID but 3rd verse of truncated Colombian NA. 4940 is back on, Sept 11 at 0039 check via Bonaire, S9 with carrier -4 to -5 Hz on SynchAM, preacher droning. 0045 into mariachi song, but this is not Mexico. After that preacher says he is confined to home because of coronavirus, in April. Sounds like the same spiel I heard a few nights ago. BTW, Brandon Jordan found the other weak carrier, Peru? on 4939.71. I never hear any such het but a much closer SAH now. So are they deliberately obliterating fellow Christians? Evangelicals do not get along with Catholix (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) 4939.971: see below ** COLOMBIA [and non]. 4939.971, not 4939.71 --- as I suspected, Brandon`s carrier presumed Perú left out a 9 as Wolfgang Bueschel measured it on 4939.971, and that closely matches the SAH of about 25 Hz I have been getting, beating with anonymous Colombian, Sept 11 at 0121 direct. WB: ``4939.995 1/2 kHz measured in Edmonton at 0059 UT on Sept 11, only S=5-6 -94dBm poor and tiny signal in Canada, Spanish recognized. 4939.971 next adjacent likely R San Antonio Peru similar poor signal`` 4940, final check 0605 Sept 11, only one JBA carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** COLOMBIA. 4940, Sept 12 at 0053, anonymous missionary station is on tonight with S6-S9 signal into TWR Bonaire SDR, amid English! Or rather sermon with consecutive Spanish translation, occasional clapping congregation. Heard Pastor Stendal mentioned, but is this him? Sounds very much like acting president Drumpf; from the same benighted Queens barrio? A Brother Allen/Allan/Alyn/Alyn/Alan mentioned later as runs past 0100 with no break. 0108 about testimony on a mission trip. 0118 retune, bit of music, and back to studio with the long-winded predicador heard previous nights only in Spanish --- no native languages---, citing Isaiah XVII. Retune at 0150, signal has faded way down to S5-S6 vs storm noise level. There`s a tiny one on the Carib coast of Colombia, but lots further circa Nicaragua, Yucatán, Cuba, per Blitzortung (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** COLOMBIA. 4940, Sept 13 at 0021, JBA direct anonymous missionary station; from 0117 via Bonaire KiwiSDR: S9 and with typical AMSynch carrier offset minus 3.2 to 3.5 Hz, usual long-winded gospel huxter in Spanish citing Isaiah 11, 12. 0120 prayer and cut to produced promo for ``la película La Montaña, gratis`` via internet, usual URL which dispenses with ñ for just plain n; song; 0135 same promo again; 0320 recheck weakened to S5-S7, preacher in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** COLOMBIA. 4940-, Sept 14 at 0346, new anonymous missionary station is VP S5-S6 even at Bonaire which in AMSynch now shows carrier -5.4 Hz. Last check direct here at 0623 finds S8-S9 of talk and music, but not enough vs noise level. In the WOR iog, Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec in Embu, SP, Brasil was hearing it even later, 0600-0808 mostly with Spanish sermons being translated to English, and never any IDs even at hourtops. Earlier log from me was English to Spanish --- sure about that? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** COLOMBIA. 4940-, Sept 15 at 0134 via TWR Bonaire KiwiSDR, anonymous missionary station with M&W talk in Spanish only, reads S4-S5 in USB reception, but S8-S9 in SynchAM, carrier offset varying from -2.8 to -6.1 Hz. 0200 it`s peaking S9+15 at -4.3 to -4.6 Hz, protracted sermon about Apocalipsis = Revelation. 0311 tropical music. 0356 yelling preacher in echoey venue, with music. Outro program with club para niños, addresses: Apartado 260, San José, 2120, Costa Rica, or Historia Preferida, Casilla 14-23, Cochabamba, Bolivia; 0359 NO ID, into songs; 0455 still/again music with automated? timecheck as 12:54, 0458 preacher, still past 0527. That`s UT-4 while Colombia is UT-5. Others also report such timechex; this implies 4940 is for Venezuela if not from inside that country. Of course they had been heard playing part of the Colombian national anthem at *2300; but that could be misdirexion. I posted to the WOR iog: ``OK, since the perpetrators are mum about what and where this station really is, it`s about time to get on it with the TDOA direxion-finding technique, triangulation or multiangulation using remote receivers. First place to rule in or out is Puerto LLeras, which is in central Colombia, SE of Bogotá, where 6010 & 5910 were located. Let us know your results first!`` --- I myself have never tried this Timed-Delay-Of-Arrival technique, and am not familiar with the procedure, but others in our group have in other cases; yet no replies, so far (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** COLOMBIA. 4940, Sept 16 at 0115, quick check for anonymous new missionary station, via TWR Bonaire SDR, after concentrating on 600, finds a JBA signal here, probably only the Peruvian. No TDOA tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** COLOMBIA? 4940, Sept 16 before 2400 UT, anonymous missionary station is on with good signal into TWR Bonaire SDR, so since no one else is doing it, I try TDoA direxion-finding for the first time. I am not impressed, but maybe I am insufficiently expert in application. To get to it, find TDoA under extensions on the player. Get the map zoomed appropriately. Enter up to six SDRs to employ. Run it as each tries GPS for one minute. Then algorithm gets to work. First try comes up with -10.50, -134.50, i.e. somewhere in the S Pacific; I think not. It seems I can`t use Bonaire itself since that one of the three SDRs for TDoA is ``all busy`` including by me. Another try with Vilhena western Brasil participating, comes up with 12.40, -64.60 which is Caribbean between Grenada and Curacao; Getting warm?? Bogotá SDR is receiving a poor signal on 4940, so now I start from there, and can bring up three closest TWRs, Bonaire, Boa Vista and DR to do the TDoA. At 2350 these come up with 3.80, -65.60, which is Marahuaca National Park, Amazonas, in remote S Central Venezuela! This might be believable, not too far from Boa Vista, Brasil. But almost an hour later at 0045 UT Sept 16, I retry with exactly same parameters still entered, and this time it finds ``most likely`` 18.60, -63.80 which is between BVI and Anguilla. I`m afraid Timed-Delay-of-Arrival is so unreliable, self-contradictory, as to be useless. Anyhow, none of these tries came up with anywhere inside Colombia. For giggles, I finally enter some known frequencies as picked up in Bogotá: 5800 WRMI it places at 9.40, -70.80, in Trujillo, Venezuela! 9955 WRMI at 16.20, -71.00, asea south of DR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 5040, Sept 11 at 0607, RHC English still on here, S9+10, and still at final check 0648 instead of closing by 0600. At 0607 usual 6100 is JBM, and 6145 sufficient but only S7-S8. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11800, Sept 11 at 2224, RHC is S8-S9 but JBM; even less so the parasitic spurs 11790/11810. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 4765, Sept 12 at 0142, R. Progreso is finally back on with music. Have not checked absolutely every night, but had been missing ever since at least August 25, i.e. 17 days. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6100, Sept 12 at 0636, RHC English suptorted here during a COVID-19 PSA. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6145, UT Mon Sept 14 at 0616, RHC English with Arnie wrapping up `DXers Unlimited` until 0618.5, then `Ed Newman` with Mailbag Show. Ed makes it sound so normal to be living in a Commie dictatorship! 6145 is S8-S9 with good modulation, while 6100 is S9+20 but undermodulated, suptorted. 5040 and 6000 are off already. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15370, Sept 15 at 2112, RHC Spanish is suptorted/JBM; wiggle that patchcord! Something`s always wrong at RHC. I am beginning to suspect sabotage somewhere along the line from studio to STL to transmitter to monitoring; someone preventing clear distribution of Commie propaganda. Or maybe just low morale, don`t-give-a-damn attitude. All it takes is one weakest link (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15140, Sept 16 at 1428, RHC is S9+10 but extremely suptorted as usual, ruining the music of `Sonido Cubano`; // 15230 is only S5-S6, undermodulated but not distorted; // 13700 is loud and clear, lacking spurs. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ITALY. 14222-USB, Sept 15 at 2115, IZ0GYR, Antonio in Rome, CQ 20, working N1EW, and being repeatedly called by WA7TEN. Sometimes under an open carrier. Look at his profusely illustrated website as he is an artist and famous? actor: IZ0GYR Italy flag Italy Antonino Iuorio Viale dei Quattro Venti 10 Rome 00152 Italy https://www.qrz.com/lookup/iz0gyr (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** JAPAN. 774, Sept 12 from 1139: first check as always of 774, on the PL-880 finds a considerable carrier from the NW, no doubt NHK, so worth a complete bandscan on the R75 with E-W longwire before going back to sleep: there is some audio on both 774 and 747 from NHK2 500 kW superpowers, JOUB Akita and JOIB Sapporo, respectively, which may be decommissioned next year; at first seem Japanese, but careful, these include various language lessons. At 1159 I`m back on 774 but cannot make out any distinctive 1200 timesignal. At 1207, 747 still audible with talk; sunrise here today 1212 UT. See UNIDENTIFIED for more (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MALI. 13630, Sept 15 at 2121, dead air at S7-S8; then bits of talk breaking thru in American English, so must be CRI relay, altho now supposed to be toward end of sesquihour in Arabic. Wiggle that patchcord (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NIGERIA. 7254.9v, Sept 11 at 0611, VON is gone again. IIRC, had been on last few nights, unremarked (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6960-USB, Sept 13 at 0024, pirate rock music S5-S6; I`m mostly monitoring on the backup PL-880 with reelout while bandscanning on the JRC, and DJ keeps interjecting brief comments the starts of which I miss until retuned on main rx. 0028 says the tune is one he has not heard before. 0034 refers to music from years 1974 & 1975; 0045 another break with Morse code; 0047 sudden CW mixing with music, partially copied as WDOG. 0048 weaker with voice ID? 0052 wild SFX; 0100 SynthYL ID over music sounds like ``Radio Station E-X-P``. Many other logs of WDOG, but none with CW IDs, nor EXP as I heard: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,71552.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. Area tropo levels 1-2 and barely 3 over northern OK per Hepburn maps predicted for 1500 UT September 13, so UHF/VHF bandscan via my still-broken antenna from 1507 finds the following situation, by RF channels only: OKC channels no good due to DX QRM: 33, 29, 27, 23, 18, 15, 13, 7 BAD DX signals only, not decoding: 36, 35, 32, 30, 26, 21, 11, 10, 9 DX decodes: Tulsa mkt 34, 28, 22, 20; Wichita tho beyond map area: 31 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. RF 7, KOCO-TV ``5``, Sept 16 at 2205 UT, surprised to find besides local news on 5-1, its only extra channel, 5-2 is running an acting-president Drumpf, Liar-in-Chief press conference apparently live, instead of MeTV which per onscreen guide is supposed to be in The Flintstones; o, if only! KOCO is Hearst-owned. Have not noticed them putting any other live or Breaking ``news`` on 5-2 except for an extra hour-early local news at 9 pm CT, before 5-1 does so at 10 pm (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** SCOTLAND [non]. 5800, UT Thu Sept 10 at 0300, `Encore` on WRMI, new time Brice Avery is unaware of, and indeed it is not yet a prepeat but a repeat of previous weekend`s I already heard including a Passacaglia (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 684, Sept 12 at 0424, among numerous TA carriers, two are beating here with some music audio, presumed RNE as usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 11940, 9690 & 12030, Fri Sept 11 at 2223, REE English succeeds but Justin Coe is presenting some jazz eulogizing Bryant Park in NYC --- what`s that to do with Spain?! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830v, Sept 11 at 2222, VOT English to us is on but with music buried under NSS RTTY (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, Sept 15 at 2220, via UTwente, VOT is VG with music, 2222 COVID PSA; while at 2248 direct to here I find it S5-S6 poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, Wed Sept 16 at 2215, VOT and NSS RTTY add up to S9/+20, but already in music fill, no Letterbox; 2219 ID and more music. Cannot notch out the RTTY CCI, but I can notch out the VOT carrier itself. Something`s always awry at Ankara, i.e. in frequency management; and programming failures (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 395-MCW kHz, Sept 16 at 1421 UT, ND beacon CA, which is 25 watts from Newton - Harvs KS north of Wichita; still tuned here after YL from Manitoba 8 hours earlier; not then, but now there is very weak CCI, probably from ULS, 395, Ulysses in western KS (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 8502-USB, Sept 14 at 0315, NMG USCG New Orleans. Mark Sills, Dallas, reminds us of marine weather on 8502 and 4316 - the unflappable robot despite hurricane bearing down. Before 0400 I`m getting 8502-USB fairly via Bonaire SDR I happen to have up, but there are probably better ways to hear them; 4316-USB not heard. Don`t expect any breaking news of hurricane hits. EiBi shows nominal schedule: 8502 0330-0405 USA NMG USCG New Orleans E NAm nm 8502 0515-0550 USA NMG USCG New Orleans E NAm nm 8502 0930-1005 USA NMG USCG New Orleans E NAm nm 8502 1115-1150 USA NMG USCG New Orleans E NAm nm 8502 1530-1605 USA NMG USCG New Orleans E NAm nm 8502 1715-1750 USA NMG USCG New Orleans E NAm nm 8502 2130-2245 USA NMG USCG New Orleans E NAm nm 8502 2315-2350 USA NMG USCG New Orleans E NAm nm Similar sked on 12788, and in between the voiceblox are lengthier fax transmissions centered 1.9 kHz higher (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [non]. New VOA relay for VENEZUELA: See COLOMBIA ** U S A [non]. 9740, Tue Sept 15 at 2128, too-well-e-nun-ci-a-ted Q&A about where`s the A-mer-i-can room in a mu-se-um, i.e. a language lesson, S7-S9 in English only: ``Go down-stairs, then turn right...`` and chopped off the air at 2129.5*, leaving us hanging. It`s VOA French via Woofferton UK, supposedly at 2100-2130 M-F only. Don`t blame Encompass for the chop, but VOA where it no longer matters to match programming to SW transmission times (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2050 monitoring: confirmed final SWBC of this edition, UT Thu Sept 10 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, poor S9. WORLD OF RADIO 2051 contents: Antarctica, Bhutan, Bougainville, Brasil, Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Mali, México, New Zealand, Perú, Poland, Sikkim, Spain, Tajikistan/Tibet non, Turkey, UK, USA, Vietnam and non; and the propagation outlook WOR 2051 is available as of 2341 UT Thursday September 10 (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2051.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2051.mp3 Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html Also linx to podcast services. The shortwave broadcasts should be: 0130 UT Friday WRMI 5850 to NW & 5010 to S NEW FIRST AIRING 2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9955-[jammed?] to SSE 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400] 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800-NEW to SSE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW [from Sept 21 changing to 6160v] 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 NEW to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Thanks this week for financial support from Robert W Gruska, Glendale NY, who has been contributing periodically since at least 2009; a PMO to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702; [not PP, gh mistake]; if by check please in US funds on a US bank. Financial support may alternatively be sent via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com - not necessarily US funds as PP will convert (Glenn Hauser, OK WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2051 monitoring: confirmed first airing, UT Fri Sept 11 at 0130 on WRMI 5850 VG S9+20/30, // 5010 noisy S9/+10. Next: 2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9955-[jammed?] to SSE 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400] 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800-NEW to SSE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW [from Sept 21 changing to 6160v] 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 NEW to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2051 monitoring: confirmed Friday September 11 at 2200 on WRMI 9955, S9+30/35 so jamming under is almost inaudible. NOT confirmed UT Saturday September 12 at 0130 on WRMI 9955, as something else has replaced without notice, gospel huxtress in English. Skedgrid shows `Circuit Rider` with a different 15-minute program each weekday, plugged in at various times. Might also bump some Vivas Miamis filling quarter-hour ATS, haven`t investigated. BUT WOR is still on 7780 at this time, VG to Maine SDR, but only clickbuzz at UTwente, local problem? Next: 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400] 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800-NEW to SSE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW [from Sept 21 changing to 6160v] 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 NEW to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2051 monitoring: confirmed Saturday Sept 12 at 1148 the 1130 on WRMI 9955, S9+10 over some jamming audible. Several weeks ago this was replaced by a gospel huxter scheduled for same time on Sunday, and believe it happened more than once, so I gave up on this airing and removed it from my schedules, despite its remaining on the WRMI skedgrid. Let`s hope it stix now. Resnoozing, missed checking 1300 Sat on WRMI 15770. Did anyone hear it? Next: 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400] 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800-NEW to SSE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW [from Sept 21 changing to 6160v] 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 NEW to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2051 monitoring: confirmed Sat Sept 12 at 1932 UT on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, Wentzville MO, VG S9+10 at the KiwiSDR nearby in Warrenton, about 2 minutes into, so started circa nominal 1930. Also confirmed Sat Sept 12 at 2323 the 2300 on WRMI 7780, poor S8-9 here. Also confirmed via Warrenton SDR, UT Sun Sept 13 at 0322 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, about 3 minutes into so started circa 0319. But ending at 0347.6. Altho originally 29.0 minutes long, timing is skewed by removal of most of my opening due to music banned from ham, but WA0RCR IDs inserted every dekaminute. Next: 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800-NEW to SSE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW [from Sept 21 changing to 6160v] 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 NEW to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK WOR) ** U S A [and non]. World of Radio 2051 monitoring: missed checking UT Mon Sept 14 at 0030 on WRMI 7730; anyone hear it? Confirmed UT Mon Sept 14 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, S8-S9 at UTwente. Also WRN webcast. Also confirmed UT Mon Sept 14 at 0230, VG on WRMI 7780 via UTwente; and also VG on 5800 via some closer SDR, Rochester? Also confirmed UT Mon Sept 14 starting late on Area 51 webcast, from 0308.8, after some Mantovani music and closing by a monthly DJ whose name I did not catch; while WBCQ 5130 achieves only a JBA carrier into Rochester, likely less here; and no signal on 6159.9. Meanwhile Larry Will explained: ``Hi Glenn, American Debauchery with Duane Bruce ran a little late tonight, so WOR will be on about 7 or 8 minutes late on 5130. Hope you like the good music from Frederick Moe on "Herman's Radio and Record Room," nominally 0230 UTC, but delayed tonight because of Debauchery's over-run. Cheers, Lw`` ``Next week, 6159.9 still planned, right? Glenn`` ``Yes, we are planning to complete the switchover to 6159.9 on September 19. There are two shows on 5130 that aren't produced here that will be displaced - one is probably going to move to an open time slot on 7490, the other's fate is not determined yet. I hope to have an updated schedule completed by mid-week and I'll post a note to the WOR list when it's done. Also, 5130 is poor to fair here and very noisy at this time. It's definitely on the air but propagation isn't happy tonight. Lw`` Also confirmed UT Mon Sept 14 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, S6-S8 at Pardinho SDR, Brasil. Also confirmed Mon Sept 14 from 1800:54 on IRRS, 7290 BULGARIA, S9+30 via UTwente, and apparently intact until 1829:54 as my final words are not! cut off but Feature Story News opening is upcut. Earlier monitoring of 7290: 1753 JBA carrier from algo; *1757:10 cut-on strong open carrier; 1758:49 JIP rock music; 1759:53 IRRS ID, offering numbered QSL for reports to P O Box 10-980, N-20110 Milano, Italy; contrary to web info from IRRS that they are no longer accepting postal mail! 1800:27 FSN headlines, always only 3 quickies before WOR start. Again this week no 7291 warble, hope gone for good, but always annoying inevitable splash from 7280 Vietnam and 7300 Iran; the latter should be off after 1820. Next: 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 NEW to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2051 monitoring: confirmed UT Tuesday September 15 at 0330 on WRMI 5800, VG S9+10/20 at Bonaire SDR; but recheck 0350 just in time to hear me cut off at 0350:40 for two IDs in Spanish by Rudy and some Mexican, then fill music starting with a version of ``Chariots of Fire``. I quickly asked WRMI to look into this anomaly and prevent it from happening again. 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 2051 monitoring: confirmed, JBA in HNL, Wed Sept 16 at 2127 the 2100 on WBCQ 7490v. Also confirmed UT Thu Sept 17 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, fair at UTwente. Next WOR 2052 should be ready by early UT Fri Sept 18 for first broadcast at 0130 on WRMIs 5850 & 5010 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7570 // << 7730, Sept 12 at 1437, extended Sabbathday TOMBS WRMI broadcast is strangely reversed in signal strength, as 7570 is the one closest to our direxion and normally stronger (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7490, Fri Sept 11 at 2215, WBCQ sounds like drama, old tyme radio? 6160v not on yet for that to start at 2300. Guess it is as scheduled at 2200 Fri on 7490v, ``Challenge Ministries``. BTW equivalent times on sked are still labeled ``EST`` while they are really EDT. Those are NOT THE SAME! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7490v, 5130, 6160v, UT Sat Sept 12 at 0000, WBCQ starting `AAAWWW`, in that order as they are not synchronized and I hear the WTO starting over and over as I tune from one to another. Final interjexion in the theme is ``flummoxed``. 0001 recheck of 6159.9 finds it reverted to some old jazz, but soon back to AW and I keep listening there for somewhat better reception than 7490, and 5130 unusable. He starts saying they have two rules: ``don`t steal and don`t lie`` --- yet some stuff was stolen this week but miraculously returned; has been a stressful week, like Peyton Place [an old steamy soap opera, I think: I never watched it]. 0011 says there is no audio on 6 or 5 MHz --- yes, there is, I am listening on 6. AW claims he avoids discussing politix with friends and family he knows he is not going to persuade --- [but We the Audience are neither!] 0013 call from Andrew about something. It`s Sept 11, YOOL 2020, anniversary of you know what. Then they`re both into vicious political ranting: Hillary should be in jail! Angela yells; yet at each opening he persuades her to get closer to the mike. Don`t blame the cops or defund them for killing George Floyd --- he died later! Blames George Soros for paying rioters = Democrats = communists. I can`t take any more and tune out at 0036. Just as well, as I remember it`s time to check 4940 for Colombia, q.v. Unfortunately(?) John Carver`s computer broke again so no report from him this week (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9605, Sept 10 at 0154, the KBS World Radio relay in Spanish at 0100 is still running via WHRI, Korean? song at S9+10/20, despite VOV 7315 relay stopped (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. 9840, Sun Sept 13 at 1357, JBA carrier so I measure to determine if it`s still off-frequency-minus VOV scheduled until 1530? No, 9840.004, finished measuring just in time when bigsig from WHRI cuts on with no ID. The JBA one was probably Turkey scheduled here before and after 1400; per Aoki/NDXC, WHRI weekends only, supposed to be on Sundays from 1200 until off at 1400, while Saturdays extended until 1600; not so (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5085, UT Sun Sept 13 at 0019, WTWW-2 with TONITO already underway but undermodulated, distorted despite usual very strong signal, so unlistenable. Not near computer so not switching to $tereo webfeed; probably a rerun anyway (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5085, Sept 14 at 0620, WTWW-2 is still on, S9+10 weaker than usual and modulation much weaker, JBM. It`s really ailing; hasn`t Ted noticed? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1360, Sept 12 at 0357 UT standing by for the much heralded 6 hour DX test from WNJC, Washington Twp., NJ, wherever that is; address is in Sewell, which is about 10 miles south of Camden, on Egg Harbor Road, but that`s nowhere near Sewell. Egg Harbor strangely enough is not on the coast but about 15 miles inland from Atlantic City on the Expwy. Would you believe that there are five different Wash Twps in NJ, each in a different county? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Township,_New_Jersey Washington Township, Bergen County, New Jersey Washington Township, Burlington County, New Jersey Washington Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey Washington Township, Morris County, New Jersey Washington Township, Warren County, New Jersey Gloucester County is the one inhabited by Sewell. and that`s the one just south of Camden, i.e. Philadelphia PA. Quite a pileup of signals, almost like a graveyard. Coverage maps show 1360 crammed with stations east of the Mississippi, but rather sparse to the west, yet with three in relatively small Iowa. None in OK, the nearest to us KPHN EWTN El Dorado KS, barely audible daytime. NRC AM log has a total of 61 USA on 1360, even a second one in NJ, Newton/Paterson. One signal slightly above the others mentions Iowa, and at 0400 ID for KSCJ Sioux City 1360 and FM. It`s U2 5/5 kW supposedly with a notch null thisaway in a 4-way narrow X pattern. No sign of CW or other DX test sounds thru the KSCJ net news until 0404; rechex at 0541 and 0627 also fruitless. Longer listening periods are required, and there will be another six hours UT Sunday at 0400-1000, with greater power. I wonder how far west WNJC made it? James Niven near Austin TX, got it by recording and then reviewing the first hour, 2296 km away vs only 2019 for me. East? Arctic Norway but that`s to a super-DXing setup. I`m on the R75 with E-W 100-ft longwire which should favor NJ (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1360, UT Sun Sept 13 at 0620 I`m trying for WNJC DX test on the second night, by tuning to 1361.0-USB in case I can detect some of the non-vocal SFX, and maybe I get a bit: 0623.7 JBA sweep tones briefly; 0631.7 continuous tone; 0658 one ``V`` in Morse as known to introduce the CW IDs; was it cut off? Do these match exact timings as heard by others or logged by station? FCC AM Query shows day pattern with one major lobe centered at 155 degrees --- not good for most of us. https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/503852-69972.pdf As Harold Frodge points out, here`s another version of their daytime coverage map supposedly in force during second night test, mostly going SSE out into the ocean: https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WNJC&service=AM&h=D (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1710 kHz, Sept 10 at 0637-0645+ UT, a loop heard definitely mentioning COVID-19 several times at peaks vs high storm noise level. I often have a JBA carrier on 1710 but first time I have had some audio from this. No ID caught, but often reported further east is TIS licensee despite the music, and also said to have temp authority for higher power than 10 watts, 100? from Secaucus NJ, which is 2119 km from Enid = 1317 statute miles: Harold Frodge, MI, recently: ``1710 WQFG689 Hudson County (Seacaucus) NJ may be running higher power than usual during the pandemic. They are fair-good here often now. They play music behind some of the features.`` And from him earlier in MARE: ``1710 WQFG689 Hudson County (Seacaucus) NJ; 0136-0145+, 7/24; Talk over music at tune-in re COVID testing to 0139 call/QTH ID into traffic, activity & biz restrictions. VGood peaks! Best ever heard. (Frodge-MI)`` And from Larry Will: ``7/15, 0017, 1710am. WQFG689 Hudson County, NJ. COVID-19 PSA, Highway construction in Hoboken and Secaucus. Fair to good signal. (Will-MD)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2051) ** U S A. 1710 kHz, Sept 11 at 0615 UT, can make out some talk modulation again, presumably WQFG690, Secaucus NJ; wonder if recently bumped up power some more, further-audiblizing itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. Quick minor DX-pedition north of Enid on US 81/64/60 parked near Craig Road intersexion just south of the T, Sunday September 13 at 2148-2201 UT on caradio: 1130, at 2148 no signal or at least no modulation from KLEY Wellington KS, just some ACI splash, and a JBA fast SAH between two stations, one of them presumably KWKH Shreveport remnant. [1130 checked next day Sept 14 at 1905 UT, groundwave scarcely a semihour after local mean noon, on bigrigs at HQ, no S9 open carrier any more, but some JBA carrier too weak to DF, possibly KLEY on exciter or 1-watt night power] 620, at 2150 and still 2201, dead air from Spanish gospel huxter KTNO Plano (Metroplex) TX. 1350, at 2153, JBA mix of talk and CW music making fast SAH; normally an open daytime channel in Enid; both Okies a little too far for groundwave, 180-watt KPNS Duncan and 1000-watt KTLQ Tahlequah; also possible 500-watt KMAN Manhattan KS. KTLQ in Cherokee Country is the C&W one. 970, at 2154, 2500-watt KCFO Tulsa gospel huxter surprisingly strong here; inside Enid blocked by local 960 KGWA. KCFO has a minor lobe to its NW, so now we are closer into it. 1370, at 2155, still no trace of alleged KGNO Dodge City KS. 1460, at 2155, KZUE El Reno OK Mexmx has a fast SAH from another station. It`s early, 2 hours and 46 minutes before LSS at 0041 but skywave seems to be starting up on topend. Closests are KKOY Chanute KS, and KCLE Burleson TX. 1510, at 2156, ESPN Radio, ads, 2158-2159 fade out/in as skywave, back in time for KCTE Kansas City ID, i.e. Independence MO. With 132/minute SAH from algo = 2.2 Hz. Definitely skywave as KC/MO does not make it here on groundwave above 1.1 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VENEZUELA [non]. You may recall that VOA has been trying to get into Venezuela via a MW transmitter in an adjacent country. Guyana was approached some 6 months ago about using a 560 kHz relay, but VOA was turned down. TWR Bonaire, which owes the USA something for licensing KTWR Guam, would seem the obvious choice, but they must have higher priorities for 800 kHz, at least during prime time. On September 11, Don Moore informed me: ``COLOMBIA - Starting next week VOA Spanish programs for Venezuela will be relayed on 600 kHz (listed 50 kW) via Radio Libertad in Barranquilla, Colombia. The broadcasts are scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. on September 15th, or 0000 UTC September 16th. The schedule I received shows the relays as being three hours long Monday to Friday (local days) and two hours long on Saturday and Sunday. (VOA via Don Moore)`` So I`m all set to monitor this début via remotes in the area. Before 0000, none of them are any good for 600 kHz except TWR Bonaire, where I noticed there is also someone in Barinas, Venezuela tuned to 600: 600 kHz, Sept 15 at 2353 UT, sounds like a preacher in Spanish, with QRM. But at 0000 Sept 16, Radio Rebelde is mostly dominant, no VOA heard yet. There are basically two stations mixing. On the Key West SDR I compare to 5025, distorted Rebelde, and find no match at first, but then I can hear a match in the background of 600, and the foreground talk is about Venezuela. 600 would not seem a very good choice, but at least there are no YVs on it -- yet; there may not have been (m)any other options, and R. Libertad is a good 50 kW. Nearest major competitor may be 40 kW in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Barranquilla is 863 km = 536 statute miles from Caracas, with Maracaibo about midway. At distancefromto.net if you enter Caracas, Venezuela, looking closely at the map, that merely reaches the west end of Caracas? state, near where the map is labeled Carabobo. You have to enter ``Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela`` to get to capital city. The path is unfortunately all over-land since Bqa is on the NW coast. But this will be relying on skywave. How does that compare to the CubaRM? R. Rebelde on 600 is in the east, San Germán, Holguín, at 1494 km = 928 statute miles = 807 nautical miles from Caracas; and its bearing is NW from there. Venzies with direxional radios may be able to null it and get mostly HJHJ/VOA. Is it not convenient that this ``opposition`` service is already named Radio Libertad, but that`s coincidental as it goes way back deriving from the Bqa newspaper La Libertad: https://cadenaradiallalibertad.com.co/sitio/ Guess what, I don`t see anything about hooking up with VOA on its website, nor is there any specific program schedule to be seen. Resuming what I am axually able to hear on 600: at 0016, Rebelde is dominant // 5025 as VOA fades; 0022 RR music // 5025 via KW. 0027 ``VOA Noticias`` definitely heard, 0028 again concerning Venezuela; 0031 VOA ID, ``una producción de La Voz de America``. At 0049 I`ve brought up the ``listen live`` link here, first of seven stations https://cadenaradiallalibertad.com.co/sitio/radios/ and there is the VOA relay loud & clear, with program ID ``Buenos Dias, America`` --- so it`s anything but live! Rather played back from the morning some 12 hours ago. 0101 concluding that program, with ID again, and now also for ``600 AM, en Barranquilla, emsisora afiliada con sistema de noticias de la VOA``; Then own callsign ID as ``HJHJ, 50 mil vatios...`; at 0114 another joint ID. Perhaps they have now switched to the less stale tarde VOA program, `El Mundo al Día`, also available as a 32-minute podcast, but archive shows M-F only, as nothing ever happens on weekends. VOA website does not say anything about this either that I can find, but you can get their program audios --- are there any others left in Spanish? https://www.voanoticias.com/radio-buenos-dias-america https://www.voanoticias.com/radio-mundo-al-dia ``Radio en vivo`` is NOT live, but the latest 32-minute episode: https://www.voanoticias.com/episode/el-mundo-al-dia-noticiero-voz-de-america-radio-237606 And o yes, specifically for/about Venezuela, basically a TV show, but audio-only also available and surely filling some of the 600 hours, in fact probably what initiated this service at 0000: https://www.voanoticias.com/venezuela-360-television (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VIETNAM. The 1600 VOV English broadcast is still running, checked via UTwente Sept 14 at 1619, VG on 9729.952v and 7279.999+, also audible on much weaker 7219.999+ 73, (Glenn Hauser, Sept 14, WOR iog) UNIDENTIFIED. 9-kHz JBA MW carrier search, Sept 10 at 0630 UT: 621, 747, 846, likely Canaries, ???, Kiritimati (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Sept 12 from 0421, since I am not getting merely WNJC 1360 DX test; starting with a big het upon WLS 890, from 891, no doubt Algeria with traces of audio. On the R75 with E-W longwire. Then at 9 kHz intervals stepping 1 kHz below each TA channel, some of them with a beat from at least (2) signals: 531, 558(2), 567, 576, 585, 603(2), [not 621], 639(2), 657, *684(2), 693, 729, 774(2), 837, 855(2), 882, *891, 909, 936(2), 999(2), 1017, 1026?, 1044, 1053*, 1089, 1107(2), 1125, 1152, 1215, 1305(2), 1566, 1575; and no doubt domestic, 1710(2). *are strongest ones and with audio separately entered under SPAIN, as well as ALGERIA (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, Sept 12 from 1139: first check as always of 774, on the PL-880 finds a considerable carrier from the NW, no doubt NHK, so worth a complete bandscan on the R75 with E-W longwire before going back to sleep: there is some audio on both 774 and 747 from NHK2 superpowers which may be decommissioned next year, at first seems Japanese, but careful, these include various language lessons. Also carriers: 828, 891(2), 972, 1053, 1107, 1566. From 1205 another 9-kHz bandscan, axually tuning downward: 567, 657, 693, 747, 774, 828(2), 873. Sunrise here: 1212 UT. I wonder what the other 828 is besides JOBB Osaka? There`s a 50 kW in Beijing and several lesser/further Chinese; and 50 kW in Vietnam. See also JAPAN. This correlates with simulmonitoring by my neighbor, as to IRCA: `Oklahoma TP DX 9/12/20 Richard Allen 5:49am #11529 The best morning of the new TP DX season thus far (LSR 1210), 594 JOAK poor at 1205. 747 JOIB good at 1200-1157 {sic} (audible on barefoot ULR) 774 JOUB fair-to-good at 1212-1158 {sic} with severe QRM from nearby KSPI-780. 828 JOBB good-to-fair at 1155-1204. 873 JOGB fair at 1152; poor at 1208. 972 HLCA good at 1151 (audible on barefoot ULR). Skywave SSB and PL-310 with ALA1530LNP. Good DX. Richard Allen, near Perry OK USA.`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 9-kHz, JBA MW carrier search, Sept 13 at 0607 with presumed likely sources this late: 936-Morocco, 846-Kiritimati, 684-Spain, 711-Morocco, 621-Canaries, 1107-Spain. BTW, it`s neat to be getting at same time on MW both Xmas Island and Agadir, Morocco, which are this far apart: 15051 km = 9352 statute miles = 8127 nautical miles.. The direct GC path between them passes over California, Salt Lake, Lake Superior, Newfoundland (Glenn Hauser, OK WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search Sept 16 at 0614 UT: 621, 684, 711, 774(2), 837, 936, 1107, 1413, 1503 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 2097.3-CW kHz, single-letter beacon A has not been heard all summer despite frequent tunebys vs HSNL. Now this along with a contribution and unsolicited testimonial: ``The letter `A` station on 2097.3 has been QRT for some time now. It was [RST] 579 on VE6JY [Alberta remote] after dark many nights. 73, Joe Caberlin, Chester NS [with a sample VE1EJ QSL card showing Peggys Cove Lighthouse NS], ex-VE3ABG 1957-2014, 26 Aug 20`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2051) UNIDENTIFIED. 6999.9-LSB, Sept 13 at 0022, QSO in Spanish escaping the 40m band, one nicknamed Tigre; uses ham lingo like `QSL` meaning I copied you, not a card; cumpleaños greeting (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING COLUMN: On Patriot Day, let us embrace true patriotism James Neal | Enid News & Eagle | Reflexions with Purpose ...Terrorists could bring down buildings, but they could not touch what America really is — an ethos of liberty and justice, an ideal imperfectly pursued over more than two centuries. Only we could do that. Only we could deviate from and destroy our birthright. And since Sept. 11, 2001, we’ve been hard at it. No terrorist could make America abandon its core principles of individual liberty, due process and privacy. But, we did it to ourselves in the inaptly named USA PATRIOT Act... https://www.enidnews.com/opinion/columns/column-on-patriot-day-let-us-embrace-true-patriotism/article_d5aace88-306e-5ec4-b105-d0f4404c071a.html (via gh)