** ALGERIA [non]. 13820, Tuesday October 13 at *1800, TDA relay via FRANCE cuts on just in time, opening in Arabic with VG signal into UTwente, atop self-jamming beepery also audible. Last summer it was discovered that this hour, only, of RTA would often contain an English segment out of the domestic international network, usually around the half hour, but no one has reported it in a long time, so I am rechecking today, listening after 1825 either live or by recording, but the signal has faded down a lot. I can`t make out any English after 1830, but at 1841 seems to have switched to French. After that, so weak I can`t discern the language. Try another day, and/or another remote site. Drastic move down to 7375 for B-20 should improve close-in reception, and if the segment shift one UT hour later between 19-20 due to going off DST, both 7375 and 7315 will be available per: http://hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=B20&broadc=TDA which also shows extensive imaginary schedule of RTA via the two sites inside Algeria which have been ``under construxion`` for many, many years, always with wooden HFCC schedules (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ALGERIA [non]. 13820, Wed Oct 14 at 1810, another try at English from RTA via FRANCE. Again poor signal at UTwente, and even worse to Spain, South Africa, Qatar and Kuwait SDRs, but ICELAND is sufficient off the back S4-S6 and echoey as I pay attention from 1825: now in French; 1835 pause for Qur`an; 1838 back to French; 1844 météo avec musique; 1846 item about Nations-Unies; 1851 Arabic to 1859* off. No English during this period, so is there ever, anymore? BTW, météo meaning weather is missing from my neat handy little Collins French/English 760-page pocket dixionary first published in 1952y: must be a neologism (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-CUSB, Oct 10 at 1518, another sporadic Saturday broadcast from LRA36, almost all chat in Spanish, S4-S7 to Brasil SDR, brief music break at 1605 and ``Nacional`` ID at 1607; still yak until 1640 with brief songs and canned ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-CUSB, Oct 10 at 1715, continuing previous report of LRA36 Saturday special, still going with improved signal via Brasil KiwiSDR, but at this time briefly hit by clix and het; 1716 into *German*; 1719 commemorating 40th anniversary; long string of English fonetix, spelling out contact info including yankee-alfa-hotel-oskar-oskar; old off-air recording; ``Antártida`` song; 1722 full IDs in Spanish, German: English saying this broadcast is in Spanish, huh? 1745 back really into Spanish, speech about Patagonia, and music, Pat songs; 1758 plug this as the Wednesday 11-13 `Corazón Antártico` show; mostly songs after 1800; 1814 ID and Rio Gallegos song; cut off the air by 1821 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) {not checked here Wed Oct 14, ~14-16~ but no other reports of it} ** BRAZIL. 4885, Oct 8 at 0349 dead air from presumed R. Clube do Pará, S8-S9 via Bonaire SDR vs some CODAR. No signal on 4875 from the other ZY, nor German pirate Mystery Radio which was reported to have moved there from 4700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 248-MCW kHz, Oct 14 at 0614 UT, ND beacon dash and WG, which is 1000 watts from WinnipeG, Manitoba, *much* stronger than the others now and often: 250-MCW kHz, Oct 14 at 0613 UT, ND beacon dash and FO, which is 1600 watts from Flin Flon, Manitoba. ``Flin Flon shares the distinction of being named after a character in an adventure novel with Tarzana, California.`` --- bing. 2066 km = 1284 statute miles from Enid. 258-MCW kHz, Oct 14 at 0612 UT, ND beacon dash and ZSJ which is 1000 watts from Sandy Lake, Ontario, not South Africa. I was tuned to 257-USB. Wikipedia: ``Sandy Lake First Nation (or Negaw-zaaga'igan Nitam-Anishinaabe, Oji-Cree: ᓀᑲᣞ ᓵᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ ᓂᑕᒼ ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯ) is an independent Oji-Cree First Nations band government. The First Nations community, in the west part of Northern Ontario, is located in the Kenora District, 227 km (141 mi) northeast of Red Lake, Ontario.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 317-MCW kHz, Oct 10 at 0620 UT, dash and VC, ND beacon 1000 watts from La Ronge, Saskatchewan, which is toward the end of civilization beyond the 55th parallel. 328-MCW kHz, Oct 10 at 0621 UT, dash and YTL, NDB 1000 watts from Big Trout Lake, Ontario, in the remote northwest, roughly 54 N/90 W, 580 km N of Thunder Bay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchenuhmaykoosib_Inninuwug_First_Nation (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA [and non]. 351-MCW kHz, Oct 8 at 0615, dash and YKQ, 500-watt ND Beacon from Fort Rupert - Waskaganish, Quebec. Axually I was tuned to 350-USB for my nearby RG in OKC, and where I was also hearing mixed in LI, 400 watts from Little Rock, Arkansas, which is really on 353; but not its often companion, IN from International Falls, Minnesota. See also USA [and non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 6754.8-USB, Oct 8 at 0623, CHR Trenton Military still off-frequency from 6754.0-USB. 15035.8-USB, Oct 8 circa 1355, no signal from Trenton Military here nor on correct 15034.0-USB; not sure if closed or merely in a break, but Canadian reaxions to my previous reports: ``Trenton VOLMET ODXA Logs --- Glenn, Just checking if this is you who is posting the reception logs to the ODXA group. I have been following your last 2 days of Trenton VOLMET being off frequency. I did not have a chance to check the 15 MHz frequency today but can confirm that the 6 MHz frequency is currently, no pun intended, off frequency. I work for DND so I definitely can have someone look into this abnormality. Thanks Richard Lacroix,`` 0047 UT Oct 8 ``Trenton off air --- Hi Glenn, I dropped a note to a friend that used to work at the facility, he contacted them but they initially insisted nothing was wrong, but since they are off the air today, he must have convinced them that there is a problem. 73 Don VE6JY`` Moman, 2011 UT Oct 8 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2055) ** CANADA. 6754-USB, Oct 9 at 0612, Trenton Military still off pending frequency fix. 15034.0-USB, Oct 9 at 1421, CHR is back on air and back on frequency after foray to 15035.8-USB and then silence. Replies to my previous: Richard Lacroix at 0203 UT October 9: ``Glenn, In reference to your Oct 8 post, I was in conversation and worked with the technical crew at MACS Trenton Thursday morning in reference to your initial post and the off frequency issue. Upon initial investigation, MACS confirmed that there was no apparent fault being reported from the remote transmitter site but this was apparent when we monitored it from a remote receiver site and the spectrum / waterfall display. A decision was then made to broadcast using a different transmitter, but as noted, this seems to be silent. MACS Trenton is aware of the issues and have dispatched a technical crew to the site. The services are not closed or taking a break but merely experiencing some technical difficulties and will resume once corrective maintenance has been completed. Richard`` Don VE6JY Moman, Alberta, Oct 9: ``just checked this morning at 1556 Z, Trenton weather broadcasts are back on 15034. Guess they got the problem resolved.`` Art Delibert, Maryland at 1839 Oct 9: ``Glenn -- FYI, I heard a broadcast from Trenton on 15034 beginning at 1830 today. Extremely weak -- I'm probably in the skip zone for such a high frequency, but they were there and on frequency. I know Bill Hepburn lists them as starting at 10 minutes after hour; I didn't hear anything then`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, Oct 9 at 1357: none WOOB in the 13s, 12s, or 11s, but 10920 JBA until 1400*. Retune at 1420, however, JBA carrier back on 10920; maybe really Sound of Hope? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer search, Oct 11 at 1343-1355, mostly JBA carriers at known spots: 13835 S7, 13530 vs CODAR; 13130, 12820, 12500, 12190 vs CODAR; 11500, 11440, 11100, 10820, 9230 S3-S6, 9215 S7-S9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, Oct 13 at 2336-2348, not in the order tuned, mostly fluttery JBA carriers at known spots, u.o.s.: 9180, 9200, 9280, 9300, 11070, 11100, 11460, 11500, 12210 Chinese, 12880, 13130 S9+10 Chinese talk and music, why so big, the rest so small? 13160, 14870, 14920, 15920, 16160 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** COLOMBIA? 4940, Oct 8 at 0348, anonymous mystery missionary station with only poor S5-S6 signal into TWR Bonaire SDR, but typical g.h. programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** COLOMBIA? 4940, Oct 9 at 2209, no signal yet via TWR Bonaire SDR, from anonymous mystery missionary station; probably opens circa 2300, and underway with gospel huxter in Spanish at 2342, S9+5 peaks, SAM carrier offsets varying minus 5 to 6 Hz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** COLOMBIA? 4940, Oct 11 at 0022, tropical music S5-S7 direct from anonymous mystery missionary station (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** COLOMBIA? 4940, Oct 12 at 0144, anonymous mystery missionary station with gospel huxter in Spanish is S8-S9 into TWR Bonaire KiwiSDR, showing characteristic minus 5.1 to 5.6 Hz carrier offset in SynchAM mode (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** COLOMBIA? 4940, Oct 13 at 0338, anonymous mystery missionary station, with gospel huxter in Spanish, S9/+5 into Bonaire SDR with characteristic minus 6.2 Hz carrier offset. Recheck direct at 0627, same at S9 but poor in noise level here (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 5025, Oct 8 at 1344, R. Rebelde still propagating with S8-S9 of dead air. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 4765, Oct 11 at 0023, R. Progreso is on already with S9+30 of dead air, presumed warmup for *0030 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 5025, Oct 12 at 0607, R. Rebelde is S9+30 of dead air except for some crackle --- something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11880, Oct 12 at 1516, CRI English relay is S9+10 but undermodulated: turn up the volume. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA [and non]. 7345, Oct 13 at 0602, BBCWS in English, poor with Cuban pulse jamming. A fine example of Cuba not giving a damn about collateral damage its excessive jamming may cause; since it`s ``needed`` only before 0200 UT when Radio Martí quits DRMing 7340-7345-7350. BBC to Africa at 06-07 is via Ascension, but also on 7345 at 05-06 via Vatican and 07-08 via São Tomé --- why change sites every hour; because they can? 7345 once was useful here (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** FRANCE. 7390, Oct 12 at 0555, French with very heavy African accent, then more Parisian speakers, about megawatts, power discussion? S9+10, is RFI at 0500-0600, 500 kW, 150 degrees from Issoudun (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** IRELAND [and non]. 5505-USB, Oct 12 at 0602, VOLMET in English by roboyl; and similar sounding competing VOLMET on 5450-USB, which are respectively: Shannon; and RAF somewhere in UK (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MADAGASCAR. 13710, Oct 14 at 2109, something new: ``His mother waited up for him``, repeated over and over --- a secret spy message? No, alternating with something in Chinese, so a language lesson; first thought VOA? But next phrase to learn is ``The Bible tells us to wait patiently on the Lord`` --- oh, oh, better not be VOA. Nothing is scheduled in the big three on 13710 at this hour, but MWV is on 13710 until 2100 in Arabic. Chinese follows supposed to be on 11610 where it`s always good here, aimed at Europe, so failed to change frequency! Wish I had figured this out in time to check whether 11610 were missing today (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 5960, UT Sun Oct 11 at 0101, The Mighty farty KBC, Giant Jukebox with Uncle Eric is playing ``Jump``, no doubt a late Van Halen tribute from the Dutch. VG S9/+15 direct from Nauen, GERMANY, and no het from Xinjiang, land of Chicom brainwashing of Uyghurs (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR. 2598-USB, Oct 8 at 0624 UT, no signals from two CCG marine weather stations colliding unscheduledly like happened 24 hours ago; or is there? JBA SSB male voice sounds like 2-way at 0625 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NIGERIA. 7254.9, Oct 13 at 0604, NO signal from VON; it had been reliable for quite a while checked almost every night after this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6930-USB, Oct 11 at 0026, really wild guitar riffs, S9+5 but drops off in a minute. No other pirates audible now or in following semihour despite Saturday night. Several logs here earlier and later include SSTV IDs as Pee Wee: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,72760.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. RF 19, Oct 9 circa 1500 UT, no DTV signal from KAUT ``43``, OKC. There is some tropo with fog around, but no DX decoding. The other OKCs are nominal or even better such as iffy RF 16 KOCM. KAUT is either off the air, QRP, or blocked by a DX signal: great ATSC 1.0 DTV system makes it impossible to be sure of which. I look for possible QRM sources but W9WI.com is currently showing only Canadian listings, computer problems accessing FCC data. No 19 on either of my outside antennas; and at 2051 UT check, not on my third set with rabbit ears which normally gets it when positioned just right. As I recall, KAUT has been chosen as ``host transmitter`` for other stations in the new ATSC 3.0 system, so maybe it`s down now for some reconfiguration. After 2 or 3 months down on the roof following a windstorm, my Ch 7-13 and 14+ Hi VHF/UHF antenna has been reërected, a 2-hour, 2-person job accomplished Oct 7 at 15-17 UT. It`s as good as before, which is not good enough to capture a solid signal from, KETA ``13``, PBS with three subchannels, World, Create, and Kids. -3 and -4 are not available on cable! And 1 and -2 are usually degraded to monophonic on cable. I continue to blame this on the second harmonic of local KNID 107.1 messing up the RF 13 videoband at 214.2 MHz, roughly off the back of the antenna aimed SSE toward OKC. A better front/back ratio might help but should not be necessary (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. RF 19, Oct 10 from 1530 UT, again today zero DTV signal from KAUT OKC ``43``, down for some reason. Nothing found about the outage on website https://kfor.com/freedom-43/ --- who cares? It`s still on cable (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. RF 19, Oct 14 at 1515 UT, still no signal from KAUT OKC. Rabbitears.info shows it has transitioned to ATSC 3.0 as of October 8, the only Market 50 station so far, and as related to KFOR. None others in OK or KS, and in TX only in Austin and DFW. Very few overall. No signal registers visibly, of course, nor even on the STB meter, but presumably is there, and enough to block any DX of either standard. KAUT ``Freedom 43`` programming in ATSC 1.0 is allegedly now on the RF 27 KFOR transmitter, but I am not getting any sign of it, just KFOR and its usual -2, -3 and -4 subchannels. Surely the STB would step on to -5 or whatever? Rabbitears.info is not showing programming transfer to KFOR. I asked KWTV/KSBI engineering director Jack Mills about this, and he thinx the only way to get KAUT in would be to rescan. But STBs should not require that, and my other TV which does, Sanyo, I never want to rescan since it may miss marginal signals at the moment which are already scanned in! Never buy a TV which can be set up for tuning *only* by scanning! Cannot even add or delete channels at will (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. If you have any interest in Oklahoma, or need continuous online access to PBS programming, perhaps more conveniently scheduled than whatever you have locally, note this: https://www.oeta.tv/blogs/pressroom/oeta-announces-new-247-livestream/ ```OETA Announces New 24/7 Livestream by Aaron Morvan • Published on October 5, 2020 • Last modified on October 7, 2020 OETA Livestream PRESSROOM Free Digital Option for Watching OETA Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – The Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA) has launched a free 24/7 livestream of its primary channel across OETA and PBS digital platforms. “As Oklahoma’s statewide public television station, it is our responsibility to bring informative, educational and inspirational content to all Oklahomans,” says Polly Anderson, executive director. “Livestreaming our content allows us to reach a wider audience; such as those without access to a reliable broadcast signal and cord-cutters. We’re proud to launch this new feature as OETA prepares to host Stephanie Bice and Kendra Horn in a debate Thursday, October 8 at 7 p.m., and in anticipation of the all-new format of The Oklahoma News Report Friday, October 16 at 7 p.m. I encourage all Oklahomans to take advantage of this free service by downloading the free PBS app.” The new livestream mirrors OETA’s primary channel—featuring children’s programming from 6 a.m.–5 p.m. followed by fan-favorites like Antiques Roadshow, NOVA, PBS NewsHour, and The Oklahoma News Report. Viewers can access the livestream at OETA.tv/live or through the PBS app for Android and Apple devices, ROKU, Amazon Fire tablets, iOS, tvOS and Chromecast. Viewers do not need to be Passport members or have a PBS.org account to enjoy the benefits of this free service.``` You may also reach program schedules for all four channels and display them in any timezone from Eastern to Chamorro. Chamorro?? Ex-Guam, ChST, always UT+10, now inclusive of the NMI. Further: ``The Oklahoma News Report Celebrates 40 Years with a New Format Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – This October marks many new beginnings for the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA). Not only do several big dramas hit the small screen, but the station celebrates the fortieth anniversary and debuts an all-new format of its news and current affairs program, The Oklahoma News Report. Starting Friday, October 16 at 7 p.m., The Oklahoma News Report expands its weekly newscast, which Oklahomans know and trust, from a half-hour to a full hour. In addition to its regular reporting, the new format features a panel discussion composed of the state’s top thought leaders, journalists and investigative reporters. The program will also launch a new logo, graphics and set. For more information about The Oklahoma News Report, visit OETA.tv/pressroom.`` For many years the ONR was 5-nightly half hour, but a drastic reduxion a few years ago to only one semihour per week. Now at least that is being doubled; on the original airing UT Saturdays at 0000, bumping aside `Washington Week In Review` to 0100, with the 0130 slot filled by a prepeat of `Firing Line` with the cute but Republican Margaret Hoover, descendant of Herbert, who always worx in a clip of original William F Buckley despite disclaimers that this FL has nothing to do with the previous show, which IIRC did air in that same Friday evening slot (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** PALAU [and non]. Re: T8WH PALAU firing back up: Correspondence with Scott Reppert of Hope Radio: ``Mr Reppert, We are getting reports the last few days of Radio Free Asia testing in Vietnamese at 1330-1430 UT on 9955 kHz. Is this via Palau? Can you definitely confirm whether or not? Are you also planning to lease it to RFA? Thanks, Glenn Hauser``, Oct 8. ``Glenn: It was not us. A link to our frequencies is below. We do not have any plans to lease to anyone right now, but would possibly consider it should something come our way. https://www.hoperadio.net/frequencies Scott Reppert``, Oct 12. Viz.: ``Winter Frequencies Angel 3 0800-2300 UTC M-Sun 9930 Angel 4 0100-0500 UTC [days not specified] 15675 Angel 5 0800-1200 UTC [days not specified] 9965 *winter frequencies commence on October 25, 2020*`` ``Scott, When do you expect to start testing? Since you are still referring to the transmitters as Angels, will LeSea/FBC still be involved in this, such as your leasing rather than buying them outright? Glenn`` ``I will have to check with our engineer on site to see when the repairs we are making to the facilities will be done. When he gives us the go-ahead, I'll let you know. Even though the Angel names were kept (in honor of Dr. Sumrall), we own the stations outright. Scott`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, Oct 12, WOR iog) {later: first test to be Oct 15 at 0800 on 9900, not 9965 yet} ** SAUDI ARABIA. 17615.069, Oct 11 at 1442, S9+10 Arabic talk and then Qur`an, from the signature off-frequency SBC. 17705 is off, but // 17895.024, reading S9+10/20 but sounds slightly weaker. The SSOB by far; finally getting an October propagation bump? Yet WWV forecast A and K indices today a slight heft to 10 & 3; back to 5 & 2 until Oct 20-29 elevating, peaking 30 & 6 on Oct 25 with G2 storms. Axual K-index at 1500 today is 0. Only 17615+ is still on at 1518 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SCOTLAND [non]. 5850, UT Sun Oct 11 0100-0200, `Encore` VG via WRMI, best time to hear it on only beam thisaway, also weaker 5010 to south. Great classical music movements I was going to summarize from playlist, but both of them are from last two weeks, not yet this: https://www.tumbril.co.uk/playlists https://www.tumbril.co.uk/playlist-2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 684, Oct 12 at 0612, among 9-kHz TA carrier search, this one is strong enough and far enough from 10-kHz adjacents to pull some Castilian audio, i.e. RNE Sevilla, which WRTH lists one place as 600 kW, another as 200 kW; a bit off frequency causing a het with something else: 50 kW TUNISIA the only likely and seemingly too close to Seville superpower; any direxional arrays? mwoffsets shows RNE normally only -1 Hz low but sometimes +70-74 Hz high (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TAIWAN. 15665, Oct 10 at *0200, RTI cuts on just in time for special live coverage in English of National Day #109. Good signal via S Korea SDR; Chinese language version was already running well on two other 19mb frequencies. Hosted by informal W&M, saying national anthem is to play right away at ``10:00 precisely``, but I don`t hear it. Some of their comments seem scripted, others off-the-cuff describing what is going on or translating portions of speeches. Of course celebrating the greatness of Taiwan, not least the low rate of COVID-19. There is constant Chinese in the background, which in this case is self-imposed QRM. It`s annoying to English speakers, and Chinese-speakers would not get anything out of it either with English constantly talking over it! At 0222, ``you are watching live coverage on Radio Taiwan International`` --- oh yeah? this is a radio station, and no less on shortwave. By 0250 the closing ceremony is starting, when I go hunting on the RTI website for a video feed, and finally find it as a thumbnail, finally2 figure out how to enlarge it. Audio and video there are asynchronous, let alone with the SW feed, but labeled ``Join 磊神 Leslie Liao and Natalie Tso 竺瑞娟 as they bring you live coverage of the 109th National Day Celebrations in Taiwan!`` So anyway get to see them at their anchor desk, if not any of the preceding pageantry. Soon they wrap up and off both by 0300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** THAILAND. 9390, Oct 9 at 1304, R. Thailand in English news, VP S6 and LSB required to avoid 9395-TOMBS via WRMI. 1309 commercials and IDs/promos for ``FM 88`` its main domestic ID, also FM 95.5 and AM 918 from Radio Thailand, Public Relations Department of the Royal Thai Government. The latter is only 10 kW in Bangkok, vs 600 kW from Cambodia`s #1 frequency, and which had some news in English when I was in Korat 50 years ago. A bit more international news until 1314 gongs, pause, 1315 resume, English announcement introducing Mandarin. The point of this is: 1300-1315 is supposed to be in Japanese, but one of the languages temporarily? suspended. Dr Hj Biener suggests it`s because funding for free-lance language staff run out before a fiscal year end, as the same has happened with German. There is a minor beam change at 1314 from 54 to 30 degrees, both of which are much more favorable for us than 132 degrees for the original English semihours at 1230 & 1400: if only those could be aimed USward and axually reach us in mornings while the so-called North American service evenings after 0000 on 15590 does not. All of course via USAGM Udorn, while HSK9 should insist on using Grimesland NC for us. As expected, at 1422 presumably in English, 9390 is now JBA. Substitute English at 1300 should be savoured while it last (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, Sat Oct 10 at 2208, VOT English? Nothing but heavy RTTY direct, and shortly no VOT into UTwente either, another missed opportunity as something`s always erroneous at Emirler. I wonder if any further Wed/Sat `Letterboxes` have been produced since last heard sometime in August (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, Oct 14 at 2205, VOT English inbooming to UTwente at S9+40 with usual features, but after same old COVID-19 PSA and `Today in History`, just music fill after 2218, no `Letterbox` on yet another Wednesday. But the music is really nice (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. 332-MCW kHz, Oct 8 at 0618, dash and QT, 1000 watts strong NDB from Thunder Bay, Ontario, but nothing heard from nearby 400-watt IC in Wichita, Kansas. See also CANADA [and non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 420-MCW kHz, Oct 9 at 0622 UT, ND beacon FQ, fading out; it`s 25 watts from Fairmont, Minnesota, which is right next to Iowa at the center of the southern border between Albert Lea and Worthington. I was tuned to 418-USB. 379-MCW kHz, Oct 9 at 0625 UT, ND beacon DL, which is 50 watts from Duluth -- Pike Lake, Minnesota. Tuned to 377-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 395-MCW kHz, Oct 11 at 0040, NDB ULS, which is 25 watts from Ulysses KS; surprisingly good signal, maybe sunsetskip enhanced? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 4985-RTTY, Oct 8 at 0351, NSS Maryland strong and fast is back here covering up RBC if any, after mistaken excursion to 4895 last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2055) 4905-RTTY, Oct 9 at 0601, heavy fast RTTY here, but not on 4985 or 4895. I wonder if all these be NSS in Maryland, jumping to different frequencies intentionally or not? Vs some CODAR here too (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) 4985, Oct 10 at 0109, heavy RTTY is here, not 4895 or 4905 as previous nights. Unless I hear more than one at a time, I shall suspect it`s a single transmitter, NSS nominal 4985 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5202.0-USB, UT Sun Oct 11 at 0035, S9+, Foxtrot unable to copy somebody; AAR6EM replies about copying AAR6UK, i.e. an Army MARS net; seems the are only setting up for digibursts, rather than engaging in genuine human voice contacts. From UDXF iog logs, I gather that 5202 is also an active Russian military frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 10194-USB, Oct 14 at 1407, WGY945 definitely IDed twice in contact with anotherstation, informal weather discussion, digiblast and nothing further for a few minutes. Searched out an ancient 27-year-old list by Richard Bak of FEMA frequencies, not including this one, and calls, this one having been in Columbus OH; http://www.redwaveradio.com/11_0fce4e49481b7ea0_1.htm (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 13565-CW, Oct 11 at 1346, another banner day for micro-propagation, JBA but sufficient beacon ID from K6FRC, Patterson, California, which says it runs only 1.8 milliwatts. I`m still *never* hearing any other HIFER beacons in the 13550-13570 band, nor K6FRC at any other daypart (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 18155-USB, Oct 14 at 2103, ham in ``western Washington`` in contact with weaker station, but he is in deep fades avoiding ID, typical of sporadic E. First catch on ``17`` m in a few weeks despite frequent scanthrus. DXMaps did not catch this opening MUF even unto <19 MHz. OSOB and also not a thing on 16m SWBC band, and probably not either a single transmission now from anywhere in Hemisphere West (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. 9955, Oct 9 at 1302, WRMI with no QRM here but there could be, especially further west, as Radio Free Asia has been reported testing? 9955 in Vietnamese and other languages before and after this hour. Some jumped to the conclusion that site must be T8WH PALAU, which per our exclusive info last week, is planning a comeback November 1 as Hope Radio out of West Virginia, but would be testing before then; but 9955 was not mentioned or registered as one of their frequencies, and furthermore someone found that it was inaudible at Hanoi SDR, yet audible via Russia into Europe. Wolfgang Bueschel now says those tests are really via Dushanbe, TAJKISTAN. {see PALAU} This also applies to 9930 which was the #1 frequency of KWHR/T8BZ/T8WH, and which here at 1303 has nothing, but at 1305 seems VP 2-way in unknown language on LSB. 9965 is another possible Palau frequency and there is a JBA carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [non]. 12080, Sat Oct 10 at 1425, VOA with ``space music``, very pleasant and good S8-S9 signal, the best extracontinental on band. Once again the VOA Korean service presents some VG music; soon 1429 announcement in Korean, more music. This is at 1200-1500, 250 kW, 21 degrees from Tinang, PHILIPPINES, thus fortuitously also aimed right back CONUSward far beyond target. And never any jamming noted. This is also on 9410, same parameters at 1400-1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [non]. 9320, Oct 11 at 1355, Andean song with guitar, quena, VG rivalling 9330 WBCQ, S9+10/20 with flutter, what in the world? VOA Korean of course, as soon announcement in Korean, then ``Hush, Little Baby`` in English. Soon found // 12080 and weaker 12045, while 9320 cuts off at 1359* so I retune to 9410 which pops on about *1359.5 amid song, S9+10/20. HFCC shows 9320 & 9410 & 12080 all are 250 kW, 21 degrees USward from Tinang, PHILIPPINES. 12045 is 250 kW, 38 degrees USward from THAILAND. Never any jamnoise heard vs; the Juche are more interested in jamming themselves (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2054 monitoring: confirmed UT Thu Oct 8 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, S9+10. WORLD OF RADIO 2055 contents: Angola, Armenia, Bolivia, Brasil, Canada, Colombia?, Cuba and non, Eritrea non, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Iran, Japan, Korea North non, Madagascar, México, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda non, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, USA, Venezuela; propagation outlook WOR 2055 is available as of 0032 UT Friday October 9 (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2055.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2055.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 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE 1130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400] 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 61 to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Thanks for an anonymous contribution by money order or check in US funds on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 Financial support may alternatively be sent via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com - not necessarily US funds as PP will convert (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2055 monitoring: confirmed first broadcast UT Friday October 9 at 0130 on WRMIs: 5850 VG S9+30; 5010 S9+10 but noisy. Next: 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE 1130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400] 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 61 to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2055 monitoring: confirmed UT Sat Oct 10 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, S9 here vs S7 noise level; at 0137, S7-S9 and noisy at UTwente, VG S8-S9 and not noisy at Maine SDR. Also confirmed Sat Oct 10 at 1130 on WRMI 9955, JBA on PL-880 whip. Also confirmed Sat Oct 10 at 1322 the 1300 on WRMI 15770, poor-fair S9. 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 to SSE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 61 to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2055 monitoring: confirmed Saturday October 10 at 2300 on WRMI 7780, VG S9+10 at UTwenre. Also confirmed UT Sunday October 11 at 0326 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, good via Warrenton MO SDR, about 7 minutes into so started circa 0319. Next: 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 61 to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2055 monitoring: Next: 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 61 to WSW [but off last night] 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2055 monitoring: confirmed UT Monday October 12 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, VG direct. Also confirmed UT Mon Oct 12 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, JBA direct and undermodulated; S8-S9 at UTwente; also almost synchronized on WRN webcast. Also confirmed UT Mon Oct 12 at 0230 on WRMI 5800, VG S9+15 at Bonaire KiwiSDR; and on 7780, S9 at UTwente SDR. Also confirmed UT Mon Oct 12 starting at 0306 on Area 51 webcast; while WBCQ 6159.93v is still off the air as it was last night and earlier chex this night; 5130 also still off. Preceding program `Shortwave Music Library` ran overtime. Also confirmed UT Mon Oct 12 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, good into Brasil SDR. Next: 1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2055 monitoring: confirmed Monday October 12 from 1801.1 on IRRS, 7290 Bulgaria, VG S9+15/25 at UTwente. Continued OK past 1810 but always with splash from Vietnam 7280 and/or Iran 7300. 7290 open carrier already on at 1757; 1758.8 JIP rock song; 1759.8 IRRS/NEXUS ID with Milano PO Box and phone; 1800.6 Feature Story News headlines then WOR. AMSynch frequency reads out 7289.99830 varying to 7289.99845 or so. Also confirmed UT Tue Oct 13 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, JBA here and sounds undermodulated; but clockwise at a Rochester SDR closer to the beam angle, it`s VG S9+5/10. Also confirmed UT Tue Oct 13 at 0330 on WRMI 5800, Good S7-S8 at Rochester; S9+15/20 at Bonaire; fair to portable/rod ATS-909 here. 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 2055 monitoring: final two airings: 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2055 monitoring: confirmed Wed Oct 14 from 2100:18 on WBCQ 7490.06v, S6-S8 direct as reception gradually improves; jump to 2200 in November will help more. Also confirmed surprise new time on WRMI 9955, Wed Oct 14 at 2200, caught by Richard Lemke, Alberta; and now it is on the skedgrid too. Next: 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE {confirmed} Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Thanks for an anonymous contribution by money order or check in US funds on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 Financial support may alternatively be sent via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com - not necessarily US funds as PP will convert. WOR 2056 should be ready by early UT Friday October 16 for first broadcast at 0130 on WRMIs 5850 & 5010 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7490.10, Oct 9 at 2107, `Behaviour Night` on Fridays via WBCQ off-frequency+plus again after a while slightly minus. Poor reception still but should be improving with earlier sunsets into winter, and airing one real UT hour later from November (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7490.1 & 6159.9, UT Sat Oct 10 at 0048, both WBCQs with `AAAWWW` slightly better on the first, as Allan is talking about some special upcoming program marking 100th anniversary of broadcasting; did anyone get details? Also says Jason will be on at 10 pm [02 UT Sat] on 6160 with Rock show. 0055 finally reveals it is 9th of October, YOOL 2020 from Studio 9 in Deland of Fla. Says 5130 is temporarily for standby use. Reads a bit from Free Radio Weekly starting with the 6906 Venezuelan which seems not to be a pirate, but with no details; benedixion and off. Back at start 0000, I was listening to Area 51 webcast; after WTO theme, usual fumbling with mikes and compliments to Angela. I can only assume he`s always running late, or does it this way to initiate an air of informality. Right into politix so I skip to the end (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7489.99, Oct 11 at 0019, WBCQ back on the minus side with `AAAWWW` playback from last night, politix; but NO signal on 6159.93v where Area 51/61 should be, nor of course suspended 5130. Still no 6159.93v at 0157 check. What had been scheduled in EDT = UT -4: Saturday 10 October 2020 7:00pm : Radio Timtron Worldwide 8:00pm : Grits Radio 9:00pm : The Lumpy Gravy Radio Show 10:00pm : The Eric Dolphy Mystery Hour 11:00pm : Zombo In Your Brain Sunday 11 October 2020 7:00pm : Radio Timtron Worldwide 8:00pm : American Debauchery with Duane Bruce 10:30pm : Shortwave Music Library October 2020 11:00pm : Glenn Hauser's World of Radio 11:30pm : Hobart Radio International Let`s hope it be restored by UT Monday; no computer handy for: ``You can listen to us on the internet at splatterbox.us `` Not heard when I checked 5130, but then I see Area 51 `Lumpy Gravy` show was widely heard on 5130-USB around 0030, via Sycko Radio, per https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,72762.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 6160v, Oct 13 at 0005, Larry Will explains absence this weekend: ``Hi Glenn, There was a lightning event at WBCQ on Saturday evening at around 0030 UT Sunday October 11 that damaged some equipment at the classic WBCQ facility, including the 6160 transmitter and some of the support equipment for the AM and FM systems. 6160 is back online this evening as I write this, although it is running on lower power as repairs proceed. We expect full service to resume sometime this week if all goes well. Thanks, Lw`` So then I check it at 0009 via Rochester SDR, VP S4-S6 with AMSynch carrier offset reading minus 80 Hz, i.e. 6159.92. At 0013 direct to here, JBA but measured 6159.920. Yet 7490.06 is S9+10 with cool jazz on FTIOM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 6159.903, Oct 14 at 0021, JBA carrier, trace of mod? Presumably the ailing WBCQ transmitter during `Old Tyme Radio`, close to known offset but could be a local birdie. Nothing about this on the program schedule website, but plans for a Thanxgiving special: http://zappahead.net/#2020-1126-wbcq-thanksgiving (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 4840, Oct 13 at 0626, WWCR with S9+40 of dead air as often during this frequency-hour; ho, hum (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5970, Oct 9 at 0607, no signal from WEWN Spanish, normally regular and other US stations are loud on 5850, 5890, 5935, 5950. Also absent is 9385 WEWN English altho that could be above the MUF. 15610 English and 12050 Spanish are apparently back on, Oct 9 at 2056 and 2102 as JBA carrier and JBA respectively (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7505, Oct 9 at 0609, the revived WRNO still gospel huxter in English, S8-S9; had been reported overnight in Chinese or something, but must start later (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7505, Oct 10 at 2210, surprise, WRNO is on already, S9+10 with screaming gospel huxter in English; also Oct 11 at 0024 check but now gospel huxtress is just barely modulated. Has long been registered available 22-16 UT on 7505, so can easily expand beyond curtailed 01-04 only until crash in June; they have a lot of lost time to make up for. Furthermore, altho never used for many years, also registered 16-22 UT on 15590, both 50 kW at 20 degrees into western Ontario; so keep an ear on that imaginary one too (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7490-7520, Oct 12 at 0549, WRNO extended broadcast is splattering out to this range from overmodulated, distorted 7505 as `Maranatha Radio` from California is wrapping up in English. Fortunately, WWCR and WBCQ do not need their threatened frequencies at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7505, Oct 13 at 0025 and still at 0200 chex, NO signal from WRNO, gone again. Maybe crashed after last night`s distorted overmodulation and splatter (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 17775-, Sat Oct 10 at 1506, zero signal here from KVOH, but at 1517 check via Brasil SDR, good S9/+5 during `Wavescan` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 17775-, Oct 12 at 1510, KVOH surprisingly strong and steady S9+20/30, smax of HF sporadic E boost over 1100+ mile path, but DXMap depending on ham contacts shows no Es MUF at all. Meanwhile, US stations eastward remain JBA carriers: 15825, 15770, tho 15750 DRM WINB is stronger. Meanwhile, K6FRC HIFER 1.8-milliwatt beacon is not making it on 13565-CW, tho admittedly from different Cal-part. KVOH is amid `Frecuencia al Dia` with Célio Romais` DX news in Brazilian-accented Spanish, or Portunhol or Españuguês; then Happy Birthday song and Dino greets listeners completing years in octubre (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5085, UT Sun Oct 11 at 0020, WTWW-2 still ham news, but by 0032, `TOUTA` has started, S9+45! but distorted, what a shame. Also with JBA parasitic spurs plus/minus 13 kHz. Anyhow at 0039 before I give up, I recognize Bob Heil`s comment about a Hammond Organ he built, so this is a rerun. Not handy to switch to webfeed for pristine $tereo (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5043.2 & 5056.8, Oct 11 at 0021, never heard before JBA parasitic spurs matching 6.8 kHz plus/minus out of 5050.0 WWRB, which is S9+40, extremely lo-fi and splatter QRM to the spurs; 0108 check, 5050 still on, but spurs are gone. Say, how about Dave`s BEACON? 475.2-MCW kHz, Oct 11 at 0038, WA4SZE beacon at WWRB TN site is indeed JBA with extremely slow CW ID. I know that other hams were complaining long ago about this eating up so much of the 7-kHz-wide 630-m band (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) {but not heard lately} ** U S A. 880, Oct 13 at 0610 UT, amid TA carrier search including one on 882, I notice that KRVN Lexington, Nebraska is still carrying Jim Bohannon during this hour, despite missing from his website station-finder, as has just appeared in NRC DX News (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1539.95 approx., Oct 11 at 0055 UT, TexMexmx, then mention of ``Canal 57.5 - Houston``; Biden and other political ads in English while music still plays. Not sure which is from the off-frequency, which is surely KGBC Galveston TX, vs KEDA San Antonio. Virtual Channel 57.5 in Houston = the fifth of six virtuals of KUBE RF 41 Baytown TX megawatt, ``Viene``, per W9WI.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1540-, reply to my off-frequency log: ``Glenn, KGBC 1540 Galveston is running a Spanish language religious format, also audible in parts of Houston metro on K269GS 101.7 in Pasadena, Texas. The same programmer also has "RTVH" on KUBE 57.5, which is actually one of ten subchannels on the station. The radio and TV frequently cross promote, so that is obviously what you heard. Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. RF 20, Oct 14 at 1513 UT, KTXS 12-1 is decoding, tnx to tropo blob as forecast by Hepburn, from marginal here to levels 5-6 SSW into W central TX, i.e. Sweetwater station at 494 km = 307 miles city-to-city. With ABC, The View sporadically decoding, and also at 1532, CW on 12-2 and MeTV on 12-3. Otherstation in market, KRBC NBC ``9`` is now on RF 29 so blocked here by KTUZ or maybe QRMing it. I had both 9 and 12 many times back in the analog VHF TVDX era. KTXS runs 530 kW ERP from 1319 feet HAAT per rabbitears.info and is also direxional skewed eastward toward Abilene, also with beam tilt. Level 1 tropo into S Kansas is enough to inbring sporadically KDCU RF 31 ``31``, Derby-Wichita with Univision bug LR at 1523. Both to my bent-mast and broken antenna at roof-level (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VENEZUELA. 6906.08-CUSB, Oct 8 at 0348 check via TWR Bonaire SDR: no signal from Venezuela 93.7 relay, off already? Had been sounding stronger than alleged 50 watts; power increase planned (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VENEZUELA. 6906.08-CUSB, Oct 9 at 2208 via TWR Bonaire SDR, numerous ``Venezuela 93.7`` or vice-versa IDs in program promotions, good S6-S7. Still at 2342 with romantic music (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VENEZUELA. 6906.08-CUSB, Oct 11 at 0029 direct, VP S5 Spanish and music, i.e. 93.7 relay (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VENEZUELA. 6906.08-CUSB, Oct 12 at 0145, Venezuela 93.7 with songs at S4-S6 into Bonaire SDR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) {not Oct 1 - typo} ** VENEZUELA. 6906.08-CUSB, Oct 13 at 0340, no signal into Bonaire from ROCV. I wonder if it adhere to a specific schedule, or erratic. Manuel Méndez, Spain, reports to the WOR iog that instead of Venezuela 93.7, it`s now relaying LV del Tigre, 980, and he was still hearing it later on same date: ``6906.1, R. O. C. V., Radio Onda Corta Venezuela, El Tigre, heard here in Friol today, 0425-0555, 13-10, extremely weak signal, Venezuelan and pop songs, audible only at times, strong fading, no identification can be heard due to the extremely weak signal. 15311. Via SDR Kiwi remote receiver in Bonaire, heard with fair to good signal, 0530-0640, 13-10. and I could observe that R. O. C. V. has left relaying "Venezuela, 93.7 FM, Así Suena", and now is relaying "La Voz del Tigre, 980 AM", Venezuelan and pop songs in English, identifications: "Todo el día complaciendo a sus oyentes, La Voz del Tigre", "Desde El Tigre, 980 AM", "980 en el dial, La Voz del Tigre", "La Voz del Tigre, 980, la pionera", "980 AM, La Voz del Tigre". The programming manager of the station confirms, via Whatsapp, that the actual power is 50 watts, but in about 12 days they increase the transmitter power, he also says R. O. C. V. means Radio Onda Corta Venezuela`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 539.95 approx., Oct 11 at 0040, het upon 540 stations. Nicaragua has been reported off-minus; mwoffsets shows: 539.860 NCG Radio Corporación (Managua/Tipitata) 0900-0600 2020-03-11 539.973 MEX XEWA Los 40 (San Luis Potosí) 24h 2020-03-11 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) {later: XEWA does make a ``fast SAH`` with 540.0 stations, but this het was further off below.} UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Oct 8 at 0604: 531, 549, 558(2), 576, 612(2), stronger than 621; 684, 693, 729, 738, 747, 774(2), 801, 837(2), 846(TP-Kiritimati), 855(strongest), 882, stronger than 891; 909, 936(2), 954, 1044, 1053(2), 1098(2), 1107, 1116, 1125(2), 1152, 1215, 1305(2), 1710(2-domestic) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Oct 9 at 0613-0618: 576(2), 585, 612, 621, 657, 684(2), 747(2), 774(2), 837, 846(TP), 855, 882(2), 891, 1026(2), 1044, 1107, 1125(2), 1134(2), 1152, 1215, 1314(2), 1413, 1503; 1710-domestic (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Oct 10 from 0629: 531, 549, 558, 585, 603, 612, 621, 684(2), 711, 774(2), 837, 846(TP), 855(2), 882, 909, 1098, 1125, 1215, 1710(domestic) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carriers, this time not a thoro search in 9-kHz steps, but obvious hets upon 10-kHz stations, Oct 11 at 0047: 621, 711, 891 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search Oct 12 at 0610-0620: 558, 585(2), 612, 621, 639(2), *684(2), 693(2), 747, 774(2), 837(2), 846(TP), 882, 936, 999, 1026, 1035, 1044, *1053, 1089, 1098, 1107(2), 1116, 1125(2), 1134(2), 1152, 1215. *strongest; in the case of 684 also audio, see SPAIN (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Oct 13 from 0610: 576, 621, 774(2), 855, 882, 936, 1044, 1089, 1098, 1107, 1116(2), 1125, 1134(2), 1305, 1503(2); 1710(domestic) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 1710, Oct 13 at 0618 UT, JBA talk at the end of my TA carrier search, probably the Hudson County NJ TIS. BTW, I wonder what happened to that religious pirate in Bâton Rouge on 1690? Not heard since sometime last year. Website emphasizes streaming of radio and TV but still claims 1690 toward the bottom of this page: https://www.radioretenloquetienes.com/ And even displays the FCC logo with a reference to Part 15. They used to claim an FM frequency too (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 5040, Oct 9 at 0604, JBA carrier after RHC normally closes, while 5025 Rebelde retains S9+20 tho undermodulated. Could be RHC on exciter, not completely off? Or VANUATU? 5040 is one of their registered frequencies but has not been in use. Aoki shows starting at 0700 but we know they are extremely flexible (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 9675, Oct 9 at 2104, 1 kHz tone at S3-S4, DSB, not a het. Only schedulee is Iran in Spanish until 2120, but Saudi in Turkish would have just ended at 2057 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 9991.44-USB, Oct 14 at 1411, 2-way in colloquial Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 11665, Oct 12 at 1517, JBA talk: could it be the sporadically active Wai FM, Malaysia? No, EiBi shows that only until 1420, with CRI Pashto via Kunming at 1500-1600. However, Aoki/NDXC shows RTM overlapping until 1600; the only two stations on 11665 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Keith Olbermann Goes To Town On ‘Creature’ Donald Trump In Return To Punditry --- The commentator launched his “WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD” video series on YouTube with zinger after zinger about the president’s coronavirus failings. By Lee Moran... https://www.huffpost.com/entry/keith-olbermann-donald-trump-worst-man-in-the-world_n_5f7edb33c5b6e48b16840d91 His first new video https://youtu.be/rE-GxWyhw_Q Keith has a small professional announcement to make ;-) https://www.pscp.tv/w/1vAxRrwoOQRxl (via gh) IAN BREMMER, GZERO MEDIA: WHY I`M NOT VOTING FOR TRUMP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_rZ1D-Mtac (via gh)