WORLD OF RADIO HITLIST by Alan Roe, April 5 Hi Glenn, my latest Hitlist update. https://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm 1) UTC offset notations updated for DST changes in New Zealand 2) USA - World Harvest Radio: Removed links to SW (frequencies, programmes, live streaming). Retained link to home page for now. Unless there's a major change anywhere, the next update will be in May. Best wishes and 73 Alan ** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-RCUSB, Sat April 3 at 1459 via Brasília SDR, LRA36 is JBA S1-S2, historical narrative, Malvinas war timeline as we are into another April anniversary. They won`t get over it. 1504 insert non-ID as ``Nacional, la Radio Pública`` --- could be this stuff originate in Bs. As., and now on the only SW station of, if not in, Argentina? 1510 music, 1521 announcement that this will repeat Saturday at 15 horas. Yup. Then closing until next Wednesday, song about another base, Marambio until 1527. Now I`ve switched to Pardinho which gets a better S7-S8 signal. 1537 ``sign-on`` with IDs in Spanish, German, English and algo. 1542 the Antarctica song, 1545 about the Malvinas war again, but dumped off the air unceremoniously at 1547.5*. Early on I did check own receiver for any trace of a JBA carrier, but none (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-RCUSB, April 7 at 1530, no signal from RNASG/LRA36, checked via Iceland, Bonaire SDRs as I can`t connect to any of those in Brasil. Suspect it`s really AWOL this Wednesday, or maybe already dumped off air early. No other reports of it have appeared yet today, not even from Manuel Méndez, Spain. Try Saturday as early as 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** AUSTRIA. 7385, April 2 at 0241, S Asian choral music, 0244 talk S7-S9, i.e.. AWR as scheduled via Moosbrunn in Punjabi. Off after 0300 --- when WHRI is registered to start but no sign of it, missing here like from 5920, see ZAMBIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** BOLIVIA. 3310, April 1 at 0040, S7-S9 carrier but can`t make out much mod, also with QRM from the 3308-USB MARS net. Since I logged R. Mosoj Chaski direct last night, I proceed to S American SDRs to hear it better? tonight: JBA carrier at Bonaire; at 0125 it`s JBA at Vilhena, Brasil, better at Brasilia #2, and slightly better2 at Pardinho tho further away. All are storm-noisy. Mostly YL talking in Quechua, then some music mixed in by 0152. 0159 maybe a Spanish ID; at least I copy ``3,310 kHz`` which may be bilingual. Then there`s that 200+ Hz tone! again from 0200.5 but off* before 0207. Next time: I`ll listen to the live stream but which probably lax the postlude (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** BOLIVIA. 3310, April 4 at 0135, R. Mosoj Chaski is doing well, S5-S7 into Brasília #2 Kiwi SDR, Andean music, intervals of Quechua talk, but tonight I want to listen to their stream at sign-off. Listen Live link at website goes to: mail.galcom.org:8000/Mosoj-Chaski-Radio but it won`t connect. mail? Same link for pre-recorded broadcasts. Galcom, they of the fixed-tuned radios so you`re stuck listening only to the station that distributed it. Back to 3310 via Bsla2 before 0200 to hear the big hum resume at 0201.5 until off at 0207*. This would be the best time for Quechuans to listen to it, avoiding being evangelized out of their original religion (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** BRAZIL. 9664.914, April 6 at 0625, Voz Missionária is S7-S4 with music, frequency wavering slightly as I measure it. Except for WRMI, WBCQ, it`s the SSOB. 9818.823, April 6 at 0620, JBA carrier, presumably R. Nove de Julho, and no other Brazilians on 31m except 9664.914, which is *much* stronger, implying that 9dJ be underpowered. Both ZYE890 and ZYE971 nominally 10 kW per WRTH 2021. Occasionally I hear 9630v at night, and one other, 9550 is sometimes reported at other dayparts, but these still in WRTH 2021 must be long gone: 9675, 9695, 9725 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA [and non]. 328-MCW kHz, April 2 at 0636 UT, ND beacon dash and YTL, which is 1000 watts from Big Trout Lake, Ontario. 335-MCW kHz, April 2 at 0635 UT, NDB dash and YLD, 1000 watts from Chapleau, Ontario; mixing with BV, 25 watts from Batesville, Arkansas (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 366-MCW kHz, April 4 at 0604 UT, ND beacon dash and YMW, which is 500 watts from Maniwaki, Quebec. Where`s that? North of Gatineau on the way to Mont-Laurier. Where`s Gatineau? Probably the most under-rated city in Canada, overlooked as a mere suburb of Ottawa across the river/border. In fact, population of Gatineau is 265K, i.e. more than 4X Victoria BC which everyone has heard of; while Ottawa is 883K; but eclipsed by Maniwaki of only 4K yet with this continental signal. 413-MCW kHz, April 4 at 0603 UT, NDB dash and YHD, 250 watts from Dryden, Ontario. I am savouring the ones I can still detect as we head into the spring storm season. Tonight there is only a bit of Blitz in southern TX and the SE corner of NM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 700, CJLI possibly with WLW off: see MEXICO [and non] ** CANADA. 2749-USB, April 2 at 0306 UT, French robotic YL with marine weather for vendredi, etc., S9 but so is the noise level. DXinfocentre.com shows the latest starter was at 0240, VCS-21, Halifax NS, 1500 watts but not as bilingual. Nothing on NL channel 2598 now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 15034-USB, April 2 at 1251 UT, Trenton Military still hasn`t reset its own clock, not 60, but 61 minutes slow announcing ``time: 1150``. But then wx condx timestamped 1200 from Calgary, Cold Lake. I`ve often found CHR missing, not sure if bad propagation, curtailed sked, or problems, tho it does take breaks during every hour; 6754-USB also heard at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. 13795, April 2 at 1256, Chinesish music S2-S3, continues right thru hourtop. It`s CRI Malay service via Kunming site at 1230-1330. Of course Malaysia is no longer on UT +7.5 but 8.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. 11825, April 2 at 1257, big Chinese vs Chinese radio war collision, i.e. CNR1 jammer vs VOA via Thailand this hour. Since this is propagating, I am again encouraged to search for the WOOB CNR1 jammers mostly against Sound of Hope which used to occupy multiple slots in the 10.8-11.2 and 12.8-13.2 MHz ranges --- not a one, except: 10960, VP only S1-S3. Aoki shows this one is vs SOH relaying RFA; but I suspect SOH itself is no longer on multiple peanut-power channels, at least not at these hours. Either that or no longer subject to high-priority jamming, megawatts vs watts. Now at 1338 April 2 there`s another inband collision making a SAH on 11785, which is VOA Chinese via Philippines (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15370, April 1 at 1910 and 1930 chex, big open carrier, no doubt RHC warming up as has previously been heard later in afternoon. I`m thinking, too bad English on 15140 is not on better signal 15370. In fact, it was on March 28, per Harold Frodge: ``15370 Radio Habana Cuba; 1927, 3/28; “The Mailbag Show” to 1930:24 w/letter from Phil Dampier. S9+ peaks w/strong whistle QRM. (Frodge-MI)`` However I see that Aoki shows the only timespan of RHC on 15370 as 1600-1900, in which case it would have been running late rather than early. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11880, April 1 at 2220, RHC in French as scheduled, but off at 2227, so no Portuguese at 2230, nor English at 2300, after which I survey all bands 5-15 MHz without finding it anywhere else. But: 15730, April 1 at 2322, RHC S9+20 with Kriyol modulation trying to break thru when peaking, barely recognizable. Something`s very wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6060, April 2 at 0225, S9+10, RHC humbuzz with undermod Spanish; by 0342 recheck S9 but no buzz, still undermod. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 9790, April 2 at 0337, no CRI English as always relayed in A-seasons and in current HFCC. Good thing I flagged it as unconfirmed on WOR 2080, as when I try to, cannot; nor find it anywhere else on 6-11 MHz bands. Maybe just another transmitter temporarily out of order? Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6000, April 2 at 0342, this RHC English frequency is off; but fortunately the other one is on and VG, 6165. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13626 & 13774 approx., April 2 at 1327, weak spurblobs with no readable Spanish program audio from RHC 13700 S9+20; notable for the giveaway tones again close to F# above Cmiddle = 370 Hz, further displaced than usual, about 74 kHz; so I also seek X2 = 148 away second-orders, which are only traces circa 13492 and 13848. This time the tone is more obvious in AM than FM tuning. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11760, April 2 at 1340, RHC Spanish is S9+10 but distorted/ Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11880, April 2 at 2216, RHC is on in French, S8-S9 but undermodulated. Instead of dumping off the air before Brazuguese at 2230, it manages to stay on, not // 15230 which was already in PP at 2219 check, S9; sounds like same speaker, subject, maybe non-synchronized playouts. Something`s always wrong at RHC: hereafter: SAWA. Today 11880 remains even past 2300 switching to English which has been missing most of the days so far in A-21. At least we now know it is still supposed to be on 11880. And should stop at 2400* but keeps going in Kriyol or French, staying on until about 0015*. SAWA. But English no longer // on 5040: at 2300 it starts frequency list in Spanish, 13740, 11760 --- and then it dumps off the air. Just as well, because 13740 is wrong anyway, nothing there; no Cuban on 13 MHz except Chinese music in non-Portuguese on 13650. SAWA. What else from RHC? 15370 at 2219 in Spanish, S9+35 but lofi with hum; 15230 S9 in Brazuguese; nothing on 15730. 15370 is off by 2303, while 15230 has switched to Spanish now // distorted 11760 and 11670. SAWA. 11850, April 2 at 2222, RHC Spanish is JBM, S7-S9 along with parasite JBA carrier on 11840, the twin on 11860 buried in Cuban jamming against no Martí. At 2303, 11850 is suptorted, mod spikes only. SAWA. 15730, April 2 at 2239, now this one is on, S9+20, but as usual distorted modulation only at peaks; wiggle that patchcord! I think it`s in Kriyol. At 2300 still same breakup, now in real French? SAWA. 6165 English does not come on April 3 at 0000 as nominally has been; I keep checking along with AAAWWW on 6159.930v WBCQ, which remains clear of ACI. Not until 0034 do I check 6145, and by golly, now RHC English is there instead of 6165! Maybe they took my advice, which of course I would never send to them directly. SAWA. 11850, April 3 at 0133 I return to receiver I had left tuned here, and guess what? Now this is in English from RHC! S9+10 with good modulation unlike earlier; but is it a mistake, and for how long? Now we have 3 x EE, // 6000 & 6145. SAWA. 6060, April 3 at 0252, RHC Spanish is S9+20/30 but still with the big buzz. SAWA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6060, April 3 at 0551, RHC English with the perpetual buzz; 6000 OK, 6100 off, 6145 VG, 5040 in Spanish. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6165, April 4 at 0537, RHC English is back here after 6145 last night; can`t decide which? Hard-soul music during `Music with a Message`, concentrating on 1971 US anti-war era. 6100 is S9+30 but now developing a squeal à la WWCR-1. 6060 is S9+10 not buzzy for a change but distorted. 6000 is S9+30 but lo-fi A/B comparing to audio bandwidth on 6060. 5040 is back in English for a change, S9+30. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15140 // 11760, Sunday April 4 at 1501, RHC opening weekly Esperanto; OM announcer still can`t shake his first-language Spanish, misaccenting politíko as polítiko --- those stripping accents out of my reports when quoting may have no idea what I`m talking about. Then standard sign-on announcement with schedule, so I listen closely: yes, still outdated as the Esperantists are clueless about their own SW broadcasts: claims Sundays at 0800 on 6100, but which wolfie just confirmed is really at the summer timing of 0700; 1600 for this one on 11760, only, the more recent addition of 15140 unknown to them; and 2230 on 15730, which maybe will chance to be correct, TBD. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13568, 13634, 13767, 13834, approx., April 4 at 1358, FM/AM spurblobs out of RHC 13700-AM, all with F# tone, at 66-67 kHz intervals and X2. But can`t hear any X3 third-order blobs. 13834 also QRMing a weak AM on 13835, which would be RFA Tibetan via Tajikistan about to close or more likely its ChiCom jammer. Spurs resumed after missing a few days; something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15370, April 4 at 1926, open carrier at S9; 1930 RHC starting French program, cleaner modulation than on 15140 English with mailbag at S9+10. This is evidently the start of the European service, which RHC French page still shows at 2030 for B-season: https://www.radiohc.cu/fr/de-interes/frecuencias Something`s always wrong at RHC. Aoki/NDXC shows 15370 only at 1600-1900 in Spanish, which I think has never been correct (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15730, Sunday April 4 at 2237, RHC in Esperanto, so only the third time and frequency they announce is correct --- but it`s a bust, extremely suptorted S7-S9, as so often on this transmitter. I can barely recognize the language, and there is no alternative, no //. Other days of week, this slot is filled by French, I think. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11760, Sunday April 4 at 2238, S7/S9+10, over-modulated & distorted; a little better on 9650, just somewhat distorted, RHC in Filatelia show with postal addresses of would-be stamp traders. I`m about to confirm the middle broadcast time of `En Contacto` DX program as shifted for Yanqui-imposed DST. Yes, it runs from 2243.5 to 2259.0. Padded, the first two minutes billboard what will be on the rest of it, including the 169th edition of the AER DX report from Spain voiced by Pedro Sedano. At 2245.5 main topic is the ICAO/NATO fonetik alfabet, running thru all the words from A to Z, which of course are originally in English. Maria Elena then spells her own name that way. And next the alternative list, some matching, some not, like Japan, Nancy and Radio instead of Juliet, November and Romeo. Then a bit about some current ham DXpeditions; RHC/program contact info. Next, about how the Q-codes came about but only mentioning a few of them. Pedro Sedano`s DX report runs from 2254.5 to 2257.0 = only 2.5 minutes allowing for three topix: Tajikistan on 1143 & 7245 including English at 13-14; three BDXC-UK pdf publications for free download; and Angola on 4950, each with contact info. Last, ``glosario HF`` about ``onda estacionaria`` = standing waves, briefly. Closing credit for guión by Malin? whose name I copied before, with call CO7CW --- pretty sure of that but QRZ.com says he died 8 years ago: ``CO7CW Cuba flag Cuba, WILFREDO LEON, SILENT KEY On 3/09/13 Fallecio En La Fecha Indicada, CIEGO DE AVILA, Cuba``. Maybe call has been reissued? And Arnaldo Coro, CO2KK also credited as a colaborador. Next and final airing at 0140 UT Monday, confirmed in progress at 0144 on 11850, S9+20 but suptorted; altho Sedano thought there was a 4th at 0735, which would now be at 0635 if you can find a frequency still on air in Spanish, like 5040 instead of English or off; or maybe webcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6165, April 5 at 0159, RHC English frequency of choice tonight instead of 6145, // 6000 and not 11850 which is back in Spanish. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. Correct number of the AER DX report on RHC En Contacto April 4 was 169, not 569; if always monthly, that = 14+ years (Glenn Hauser, WOR) ** CUBA. RHC check at 0455 UT April 5: 6060 Spanish with humbuzz, 6100 Spanish with squeal, 5040 good in Spanish; 6165 // 6000 music presumed English service. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6165, April 6 at 0235, RHC English, instead of alternate 6145; 6060 nothing but big humbuzz. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 6100, April 6 at 0610, RHC final English repeat is OFF. So is 6000. Still ON are 6165, VG S9+30, and 6060 S9+10/20 but still with big humbuzz only. SAWA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15730, April 6 at 2221, no RHC here, but is on 15370 distorted and squealing, S9+20/25; and nothing on 13 MHz band. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 11880, April 6 at 2224, S3-S8 undermodulated music, presumed RHC when French is scheduled; at 2258-2300* music to dead air to shutoff just when English is supposed to start. QSY or forget it? No chance to search all bands for it elsewhere, which was fruitless before. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 11850, April 6 at 2225, RHC S5-S6 and undermodulated Spanish, along with JBA parasite carriers 11840 & 11860. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6000 & 6100 off, 6060 S9+20 big humbuzz over English; 6165 S9+20 lite hum and undermodulated, 5040 off. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13246-trace, 13318, 13388, 13459 vs CODAR, 13527, 13598, 13669; 13811, 13882, 13953 all approx., not in the order logged, April 7 from 1359, extremely distorted FMish spurblobs with F# tone, all in the *wrong* places since they are obviously coming out of 13740 instead of 13700 which is not on air. 13740-AM itself is undermodulated during music. Intervals are about 71 kHz apart. 1439 recheck: spurs audible around 13596, 13668, 13812-trace; while 15140 fundamental is squealing. Something`s always wrong at RHC. As I have long suspected, RHC swaps transmitters/sites at will, yet some loggers are always specifying Bejucal, Bauta or Quivicán as if they know for sure. Latest Aoki/NDXC shows: 13700 Bauta at 14-16, 13740 Bejucal at 12-15 (& 22-05). But A-21 EiBi now available shows both as b for Bauta, not be for Bejucal: 13700 at 13-15 and 13740 at 11-15 (& 22-05). Incredibly, neither of them lists any of these horrible spurs -- but then their intervals vary widely. And now, also their source-frequency, obviously one single transmitter with this defect. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ERITREA [non]. 17545, Wed April 7 at 1537, zero signal from Bayto Yaikl via France, direct or via remotes in India, Bonaire; Kuwait not available. So far no luck since A21 began of hearing this Wed & Sat 1530 broadcast brokered by RMI so suspect kaput. Only trace of a signal on 16m is 17630 = CRI Mali. But MUF is not totally down as I`m hearing one Utah ham on ``17m``, see U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** FRANCE. 17545, no sign of Bayto Yaikl Saturday April 3 at 1530, via UTwente, Kuwait remotes. Had been Wed and Sat. Bottom of WRMI own skedgrid not updated after B-20. RMI clients via Issoudun --- HFCC A-21 info, trimmed, has all these registrations. First group effective: 28-Mar-2021 30-Oct-2021 9490 0100 0200 11 Spa 285 150 1234567 [R República] 9490 0200 0300 11 Spa 285 150 5671 [expanded ThuFriSatSun] 17545 1530 1600 48 Mul 120 250 1234567 BYUSA [Bayto Yaikl] 15285 1600 1700 46S,47N,47SW,52NW Mul 170 250 1234567 RM [R Manari] 11760 1630 1700 48 Mul 125 250 36 NEW [Tue & Fri] 15340 1700 1800 48W Mul 127 250 1234567 DTWT [Alameda BF?] 15445 1700 1730 48W Mul 127 500 1234567 NEW These are all NOT effective until: 03-Oct-2021 30-Oct-2021: 9490 0300 0359 11 Spa 285 150 1234567 DD 9490 0400 0459 11 Spa 285 150 1234567 DD 13710 0700 0800 46S,47N,47SW,52NW Hau 170 100 1234567 RM 13770 0700 0759 46S,47N,47SW,52NW Mul 170 100 1234567 DD 11860 1900 1929 37S,46 Fra 200 250 1234567 DD [Alameda BF?] 11860 1930 1959 46E Mul 180 500 1234567 DD All but two are available 7 days a week, but we know some of the broadcasts are only weekly, or NOT daily. Meaning of some of the letters in last column unknown (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR iog) See UNIDENTIFIED 15340 ** GUAM. 12040, Fri April 2 at 2225, S Asian music, VP S3-S6, then seeming English; no, KSDA sked in English Sun/Tue/Thu 2200-2230, including `Wavescan` on Sundays; elsedays in SuNdanese. Would like to confirm these days once and for all, as I have feared they could be confused about local days vs UT days, i.e. English M/W/F mornings over there (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** GUAM. 12040, UT Sat Apr 3 at 2200, JBA SE Asian music rather than Wavescan on KSDA, so guess that really is on UT Sundays, and rather in Sundanese today --- very poor signal on all SDRs checked over there, including Bandung (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** GUAM. 12040, Apr 4 at 2206, KSDA confirmed with `AWR Wavescan` on UT Sunday, local Monday morning; Ray Robinson finishing something about Brasil, handing it back to Jeff. S9+10/20 into Bandung SDR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** HAWAII. 10000, April 7 at 0250, WWVH tail of announcement spelling something fonetikaly; what`s that? Need to catch it another hour. No WWV audible at this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ITALY. 11390-USB, April 5 at 1642, Marconi Radio International during publicized broadcast with 250 watts; very marginal via UTwente SDR but I leave it there rather than fishing around for better Kiwis. S5 is the noise level and MRI about the same; a song at first; 1643 a 4+1 time?signal and ID in English; a few notes of ``Wheels``, ``playing more music at the weekends`` [sic]; 1645 Italian announcement; 1650 almost fadeout, music. 1711 mentions R. Aparecida in Portuguese, a DX segment clip? Then some Italian; clip of RHC in Spanish; 1715 music; 1724 talk and music; 1728 fade up for ID in Italian with piano chords IS, then English ID a few times looping and apparently off 1730 as sked, tho JBA traces of algo a bit longer (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, April 2 at 1339, Kurdish? talk S4-S6; and 11540 at same time, Turkish? music S5-S7, as Dengê Welat and the TRT jammer can`t seem to get together; or possibly vice versa (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, April 7 at 1446, assertive YL sounds more like Türkish than Kurdish, and we know Dengê Welat utters both languages, fluttery S9-S5, and no second jammer signal audible here nor on alternate 11540. Except for CUBA & non, 11530 is the SSOB. EiBi shows DW on 11530 switching from PRIDNESTROVYE to FRANCE not until 1600, with ``anti-Kurdish tape`` from Emirler only until 1500 on 11540. Aoki, on the contrary, shows DW, 11530 going from PRIDNESTROVYE to FRANCE at 1500, with ``TRT Radio Recep Erdogan`` on 11540 at 0500-2100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MALI. 17880, April 2 at 1349, Chinese lesson in French, S9 the SSOB by far beyond JBA Sa`udis, q.v. It`s CRI this hour via Bamako II per Aoki/NDXC. In that, Bamako I refers only to R. Mali itself on 5995, 9635. However there are two CRI relay transmitters, none designated Bamako III (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MEXICO [and non]. 700 kHz, April 1 at 0501 UT, WLW goes off for maintenance, tnx to tip from MARE. It made a false stop at 0500, came back on to include ID but nothing said about going off nor for how long. This uncovers two weak Spanish signals at almost the same SW/NE DF, inseparable. Main one has to be XEGD, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua: one music, one talk then both music, making SAH of 152/minute = 2.53 Hz. Mwoffsets is no help, no Mexican entries on 700. At 0516, ``La Poderosa / 700 AM y 90.3 FM`` or vice versa at 0528, which nails it as XEGD, per IRCA Mexican Log, but music is predominantly romántica, not GRU/AC. At 0520, clear Poderosa MST TC as ``10:19``. Of course, its power is nothing to crow/brand about except as a Big Lie, 5/1 kW. Not unusual to get it around sunrise. The only further Mexicans per IRCA Log are in Jalisco and Michoacán, but considerably CCW from HdP bearing. With these nulled, I hear nothing from the few other USA/Canadians at night on 700, in AB. AK, CA, OR, TX, UT, WA, which are low-powered and/or too far and/or aiming away from here. At 0555, WLW still off and something Spanish mentions ``101``, likely an FM frequency but no known matches to 700 stations. At 0600 choral Mexican NA, and suspect XEGD or something goes off, as the weak mix after that is different. IRCA Log shows 0500* for it. The two Texans, DFW and Houston to the SSE were not showing earlier with their unfavorable patterns; by 0630 there is gospel music in English roughly NNW/SSE but not the format of either TX. That could be CJLI Calgary, 50/20 kW, or even KGRV Oregon, 23/0.47 kW. Has KDAZ Albuquerque moved from 730 to 700 yet? I QRT at 0640*, causing me to sleep far too late past 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MEXICO. 710, April 2 at 1206, choral Mexican NA ends and full sign-on? ID ONLY for XHDP, 89.7, 10 kW, La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, street address; no mention of this nonentity AM XEDP listed as 7000/100 watts. Then live YL announcer with 6-past timecheck and right into Low German laconic-sounding gospel huxter. This out-of-place language is a regular on XEDP. Not as in IRCA Log, ``once aired German programming at times``. Earlier from 1200 were Mex NAs on 770, 730, 720, 700, 690 at least. It`s been months since I`ve been up to check these at sunrise which here today would be at 1216 UT. Most of Mexico not already on DST will suffer from it from April 4, pushing these events one real UT hour earlier. Except Sonora which stays on MST UT -7 yearound to match alta Sonora, a.k.a. Arizona, EUA (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6960-AM, UT Sat April 3 at 0200-0204+, rock music S9/+10, probably Ball Smacker Radio which is scheduled Friday nights from 9 pm ET = 0100. I check out another pirate on 6930, then back to this at 0217 when music is quiet, some deep fades; 0225 YL, ``from some wires strung up in the trees, Ball Smacker Radio``, and tenpins SFX. More rock music I don`t recognize. 0233 plug for their new website; off before 0245 recheck. Many more logs here: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,79836.0.html Keyword for song titles tonight was: ``fool``. After 0315 there was a repeat reported on 4030-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6930-USB, April 3 at 0204, pirate music S9, louder than BSR on AM 6960; 0206 unreadable announcement with organ background. 0215 ``Desert Rat here, comments appreciated to twodogradio@??.com and off 0216*. Many more reports from 0045: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,79835.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ROMANIA. 11880, April 2 at 1402, S7-S9 German in strange accent, but mentions Bukarescht and Rumänien, so obviously RRI as sked this hour, 300 kW at 300 degrees from Ziganeschti, also USward far beyond (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ROMANIA. Checking the RRI 2030-2100 English to N America, April 5, *2027 IS via Alexandria SDR is good on both 13650 and 11850. Here at 2043 however, 11850 is JBA carrier and 13650 is JBA. By 2058 RRI is off but there`s a big OC on 11850, no doubt CUBA. It may well be on earlier blocking those ex-Commies (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 17615 & 17705, April 2 at 1348 JBA carriers, the only ones on band besides much stronger 17880, see MALI. The pair of course correlate with Riyadh which per WRTH is now known as SRI = Saudi Radio International, or SBA = Saudi Broadcasting Authority, no longer the legacy BSKSA = Broadcasting Service of the Kingdom of Sa`udi Arabia. And there are no longer any RIY entries in HFCC as they have withdrawn; something to hide? Aoki/NDXC shows these frequencies: 17615 at 0855-1157 & 1250-1557; 17705 at 1155-1457. Also 17895 but unheard today: 0255-0800 & 1155-1457. BTW this 17615 does not seem to be offset plus as had been for ages (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 7730, April 5 at 0100, right after WOR on WRMI, Overcomer Ministry announces death of Brother Stair on April 3. It`s also on TOM website, and we have stories from Charleston TV stations, forwarded by several DXers: Ralph Stair, Colleton County preacher accused of sex crimes, passes away --- by Matt Dillane Sunday, April 4th 2021 https://abcnews4.com/news/crime-news/ralph-stair-colleton-county-preacher-accused-of-sex-crimes-passes-away Colleton County pastor Ralph Stair dies https://www.live5news.com/2021/04/04/colleton-county-pastor-ralph-stair-dies/ How would you like your obit to be about your sex crimes? Or merely connected to some unknown county rather than worldwide impact as the Last Day Prophet of God? I`m sure we`ve not heard the last of BS --- most of his 24/7 stuff was already playbacks, sometimes decades old. As long as deluded psychophants keep the $$$ flowing, he may live forever like PPP, DGS and other broadcast gospel huxters. Stations subsisting on that cash may be nervous and in for cutbacks --- WRMI, WWCR, WBCQ. TOM homepage lost its signature image of a boneyard years ago. 5890, April 5 at 0203, BS sounds very lively on WWCR-4 pleading for people to contact him. His was such an individual ego-trip that the deluded are in for a big disappointment (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 7780 & 7570, April 6 at 0614, these TOMBS frequencies of WRMI all-night are OFF the air. Looks like QRT of BS is already impacting, less Overkill; still VG on 7730, 5850, 5950, 9395. WRMI skedgrid still shows them all, so possibly the two be off for some other reason. Bishop Bob Biermann, sort of with WRMI, says to the WOR iog: ``Being that Brother Stair has paid in advance a month or more at most stations, you will keep hearing him until the money runs out. If he paid for April, then you have 25 more days, if he paid even more (which he sometimes does), even longer. I would guess his “Board of Directors” will have to make that decision, depending if people keep sending money to his compound`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 7570, April 7 at 0241, this WRMI is off again as TOMBS is phasing out? 7780 JBA carrier, but BS still blasting out of the grave on 7730, and 7490- WBCQ. April 7 at 0557: 7570 & 7780 are off again, BS still on WRMIs 7730, 9395, 5850, 5950; also WWCRs 5890, 4840 and squealy 3215 as he attempts to sing. 9955, April 7 at 1449, WRMIs 9955 and 9455 are off instead of BS, still on 9395 and WWCR 9980. The WRMI skedgrid http://www.tinyurl.com/WRMIgrid still has not been updated to delete the ex-BS blox, obviously now no accident (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 17855, Friday April 2 at 2214, final token English semihour of the week from REE is songs hosted by Justin Coe, but not on this frequency to North America, still AWOL. Other three are audible: 15520 good S5-S8; 11940 S9+5/15; even 11685 is fair S5-S7 and no RTTY, better than the nothing we get (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 17855, Sat Apr 3 at 1407, REE has still not managed to get its N American transmitter back on the air, even on weekend morning when it would have been a tremendous daypath improvement over 9690; if not overestimating the MUF (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 17855, April 5 at 2025, REE has managed to get its North American frequency running again after a week AWOL! I proceed to monitor it and the others the rest of the afternoon, since I have feared it wouldn`t propagate until 2230, let alone 0200* as scheduled. Gaisma.com says today`s sunset at Madrid, near Noblejas, was 2044 CEST = 1844 UT. Of course maybe an hour later for signals to the west thru the critical first refraxion point, before MUF drop. First, via the Alexandria VA SDR for a good idea of how it reach the east coast, bound to be better than into deep North America OK. Presumably started at 1800 when I was busy monitoring WOR on IRRS. At 2025 tune-in, 17855 is S9+10, good. By 2047 has faded to S8-S9. 2102, down to S6-S4. 2110, S5-S4 now fighting the band noise level. 2113 about gone! but presumably still transmitting. Here into my R75: at 2042, 17855 is S8-S5, BUT 15520 aimed away from us is much better already, S9/+10. 11940 for S America is almost as good, S8-S9. Alexandria obs of the others: At 2058, 15520 is S9/+5, already much better than 17855 S7-S4. By 2135, 11940 surpasses 15520, and BTW still inaudible on 17855 and ex-9690. By 2143, 15520 has faded out, leaving 11940. By 2157, 11940 remains, better than 11685, the African frequency I had not checked before, way off-beam and vs 11687.5 RTTY. 11940 still audible at 2200 for timesignal and starting token English on Monday. Alison says after some news items, feature will be on the 275th anniversary of artist Fsco. Goya, but even this is fading down and out by 2203. Back to my own rx: 11940 has held up better here, S9/+10 at 2211; Goya feature finally starts at 2212 by another YL announcer, but soon fade-out of the last frequency lasting. If they were on 9 MHz, like 9690 by now, the 2200 M/W/F English would surely still propagate as the MUF continues to fall. Those of us who have been listening to SW for a few years or 60+, have a feel for Propagation 101, as what I have monitored above should be obvious and predictable, but not to REE frequency management. Or they could have checked the WRTH 2021 page 43 for the table of Most Suitable Frequencies: From Europe to E North America in March-April 2021: 15-23 UT 15 MHz, 23-03 UT 9 MHz; same to W North America: 16-20 UT 15 MHz, 20-24 UT 11 MHz, 00-04 UT 7 MHz. NEVER 17 MHz! Central North America? Who cares (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 17855, April 6 at *1755:10, REE carrier on with IS, managing to run it two days in a row! I`m on Alexandria VA SDR for east-coast reception then compared to my own in Deep North America. At outset, S4-S7 at Alexa, S5-S8 here. 15520 to ME, so off the back to here and Alexa, is already on air from 1500, now with silly ballgame or hyper sports report; E Hemisphere frequencies start and end 3 hours earlier on weekdays. It`s S4-S7 here too. At 1758 schedule announcement. 1800 one pip timesignal, time check as 8, 7 en Canarias, and ``24 Horas`` news program. At Alexa, 15520 at S5-S7 is already much better than 17855. Alexa at 1816: 15520 poor S5-S7, 17855 S7-S8; but by 1818, 17855 is fading out, while 15520 is S9. At 1844 here, 17855 is S7-S9 but noisy, roughly equal to 15520; while 11940 for S America is much weaker. By 1955 here, 17855 is JBA carrier, and 15520 VP. Already by 2000, we need REE to be on lower bands aimed thisaway, 13, or 11, and before much longer, say 2200-0200*, 9 MHz. The registered NAm azimuth with 200 kW is 290 degrees, which hits the continent around Walterboro SC; but CIRAF zone targets are for all of NAm and Caribbean except for C & W Canada, Alaska, and Greenland (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 17855, further chex April 6 of REE`s too-high-if-on-the- air-at-all NAm frequency. Here at 2218 during Tue Sefarad show but really speaking castellano, JBA carrier, while 15520 is good S6-S7; 11940 S5-S8; 11685 S3-S7. REE forces us to tune off-beam channels in order to hear it at all. 17855, April 7 at 1809, direct today is JBA already and so is 15520, while at 1823, the other two, 11940 & 11685 are JBA carriers. Strike out, but 17855 is probably well-heard in Outer Space (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TAIWAN [non]. 7570, April 2 at 1353, really cute song in Chinese, loud & clear WRMI at S9+20. It`s Supreme Master TV audiotrack, of course; wish they would play more music; applause at end, evidently from a live event, English announcement, more traditional music with percussion, but chopped off at 1359 for ``Everglades`` ID and off the air; how rude. It would be helpful to announce what frequency be next, as SMTV is 24h on a variety of channels, one at a time. Current skedgrid shows: 0100-0700 9455 0700-1000 9395 1000-1100 9455 1100-1400 7570 1400-2000 15770 2000-2200 9395 2200-0100 5800 Indeed I figured 15770 would be next but this early, and often much later, it`s JBA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, March 31 at 2200, no signal from VOT English; and no RTTY either; tsk2. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 7275, April 1 at 0343, ME music at S9/+10. This is the resumed A-21 frequency for VOT English to N America at 0300, INTRUDING into our ham band. // 6165 eastward would be blocked by Cuba. Was there no place for TRT above 7300? Note that 7275 is weaker even than VOA via Vatican thataway on 7260 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 13635, April 2 at 1254, Turkish talk good S9, SSOB except for 13740 Cuba, but cuts off at 1256*; sked until 1258 per Aoki. What frequency follows? No longer on 11815. Uplooked later, it`s 9840 from 1300, both on 310 degree beam to W Europe but same beyond toward us. Not checked yet but 9840 is also registered all-day but more so on weekends, for WHRI, which however may have closed down: see USA. TRT 13635 *much* better than 15450 JBA carrier for English on same 500 kW beam at 1230-1320v (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, April 2 at 2213, checking direct VOT English to us: no RTTY and S6-S9 but undermodulated, hardly readable. For comparison, 15520 Spain is axually weaker on meter, S5-S8 but good, well-modulated. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY [and non]. 9830, Sat Apr 3 at 2258, VOT is on the air without RTTY but German IDs & IS; after English hour of mostly music, promos and COVID-19 warnings, no mailbag. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler. Sloppyrators haven`t turned it off, so German news starts at 2301, good into Virginia SDR, but off before 2316 recheck. At least The Mighty KBC no longer has to be concerned about TRT overruns on 5960 --- if it ever was, and in a month it`s to resume 9925 just like Croatian Radio Zagreb used to do (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY [non]. 9830, Apr 4 at 2200, NO signal from VOT English, just heavy S9+20 RTTY into KB0FX SDR --- but RTTY stops at 2205* uncovering still no VOT. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, April 5 at 2159 I can hear the VOT IS via Virginia SDR but fighting the RTTY. At 2204 it`s useless with the two adding up to S9. Something`s always awry at Ankara (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, April 6 at 2220, VOT reads S5-S7, no RTTY, but I think the RTTY carrier is still on causing a fast SAH; undermodulated and unusable. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler, awry at Ankara (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 263-MCW kHz, April 4 at 0608 UT, CVM, 25-watt NDB at Alton - CiVic Memorial, Illinois. 347-MCW kHz, April 4 at 0605 UT, AFK, 25-watt NDB at Nebraska City, NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 475v-MCW, Dave Frantz`s MW beacon WA4SZE/BEACON last logged on Dec 31; it was so regular that I stopped logging it tho it stayed on a while longer, but has been gone again since maybe mid-January. Here`s the last? log of it by Harold Frodge: ``474.7 WA4SZE Manchester TN; 0318, 1/13; Sending WA4SZECOMWA4SZE/BEACON (Frodge-MI)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See below, tho, his WWRB is back on air ** U S A. 4011-USB, UT Fri April 2 at 0215, JBA MARS net, think I heard an AAR9-- call. They have just as much trouble hearing each other, repeatedly trying to exchange phone numbers, which should provide better contact! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 13565-CW, April 6 at 1420, HIFER beacon K6FRC is JBA, and fades up a bit to BA, nothing but call repeating, from Patterson CA. No variety whatsoever in programming, but with alleged 1.8 milliwatts only, any and every reception is notable. Once again, I never hear this at any other daypart and wonder if like any beacon should, it be constantly transmitting? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 18140-USB, April 7 at 1540-1608+, when hardly anything is on the 17 MHz broadcast band, at least one ham is heard on 18 MHz, W7YO, lengthy ragchew with never-audible KB4OIF -- I think, as fonetix never applied. Says he had ear surgery in Dec removing inner cartilage, and is just now recovering. He`s 67 and concerned with ``end-of-life`` tasks, such as building towers and antennas while he still can climb. ARRL FCC lookup shows: ``GURNEY, GLENN M, W7YO, BLANDING, UT 84511``. This probably a bit of HF sporadic E, distance only 645 miles, so nothing to do with lack of F2 TA propagation. Seems familiar: yes, I logged him last year: ``18131.778-USB, June 6 at 2049, W7YO is the OPSOB (only phone station on band), Glenn running 100 watts from the 4-corners area...` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [non]. 7260, April 1 at 0341, S9+10/20 strong but lo-fi talk, mentions Somalia --- as it is VOA Somali via VATICAN, violating Separation of Church and State, as sked 0330-0400 only. At this time 7260 also bears Vanuatu, East Turkistan, Mongolia per Aoki/NDXC. American hams cannot be too happy about this intrusion by their own VOA, ignoring the fact that SMG is notorious for sending bigsigs the wrong way (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [non]. 15660, April 3 at 1820, S7-S8 dead air. Scheduled is USAGM in Amharic via WOoFerton, UK; failed? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2079 monitoring: Richard Lemke, Alberta, rounds up his confirmations, including Wed 1030 on 5850: Program heard: World of Radio #2079, Date heard in UT: March 26, 29, 31 UT 2021. Monitoring, checking signal using SINPO code, 5850 kHz, QSB fading, 5850 kHz, 0132, 0145, 0150 (55444), (55443), 0159, 5850 kHz, March 26 UTC 2021 [Fri] 7730 kHz, static, QSB fading, QRN, 7730 kHz, 0059 (45333), (45433), QRN, 0059, 7730 kHz, March 29 UT 2021 [Mon] 5800 kHz, 0248, 0250 (55433), 0257, 5800 kHz, March 29 UT [Mon] 5850 kHz, 1045 (554), 1044 half way mark, 1045, 5850 kHz, March 31 UT 2021 [Wed] 9955 kHz, S5 signal, QSB fading, 2214, words “This is, 9955 kHz, finally heard ID at 2229, “2079” 2229, 9955 kHz, March 31 UTC 2021 [Wed] (Lemke, Richard -AB, Canada)`` Confirmed here Wednesday March 31 at 2100 on WRMI 7780, JBA theme direct; and starting ~20 seconds later on WBCQ 7490-, slightly better direct, VP. Also confirmed Wed Mar 31 at 2200 on WRMI 9955, S9+25/30 over Cuban pulse jamming, which is now running this early. Also confirmed UT Thursday April 1 at 0130 on WRMI 5010, S5-S7 into Brasil SDRs but stormy. Next WOR 2080 should be ready by early UT Fri April 2 for first broadcasts at 0130 on WRMI 5850 & 7780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2079 monitoring: Harold Frodge, Midland MI, reports to the WOR iog: ``7780 WRMI Radio Miami Int’l (presumed); 2107, 3/31; Hauser’s World of Radio; poor at QRN level; // 7490.0 WBCQ(p) a tad better, but not much (Frodge-MI)`` WORLD OF RADIO 2080 contents: Antarctica, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Bolivia, China, Cuba, Eritrea non, Finland, France, Germany, Guam, Guatemala, India, *Iran and non, Japan, *Korea North non, *Korea South and non, Kurdistan non, Perú, Pridnestrovye, Romania, Spain, Taiwan, *Turkey, USA, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican, Venezuela; Maritime Day; Domestic Broadcasting Survey; propagation outlook; *A-21 schedules WOR 2080 is available as of 0118 UT Friday April 2, 2021 (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2080.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2080.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, 7780 to NE 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400] 2200vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 2300 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE 1801 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy [ex-1901] 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 2200 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Our non-commercial broadcasts and website depend on voluntary support: thanks this week to Benn Kobb, Arlington VA, for a check to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 One may also contribute, not necessarily in US funds, via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com First broadcasts of 2080 confirmed just minutes after completed: UT Friday April 2 at 0130 on WRMIs: 5850 VG here; 7780 VG S9+5/15 to UTwente SDR in Holland (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2080 monitoring; next: 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400] 2200vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 2300 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE 1801 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy [ex-1901] 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 2200 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2080 monitoring: slept thru the Sat Apr 3 at 1300 on WRMI 15770; did anyone hear it? Confirmed Sat Apr 3 at 1600, now a real UT hour earlier on WRN webcast. Confirmed Sat Apr 3 at 1957 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM via neighboring KB0FX remote, about 3 minutes into so started late circa 1954. NOT confirmed Sat Apr 3 at 2130 on WRMI 9955: this airing started without notice a few weeks ago and now it`s gone again without notice, replaced by some Galcom program. A quick search of WRMI skedgrid shows the other known WOR airings still displayed. Confirmed Sat Apr 3 at 2300 on WRMI 7780, G-VG S9/+10 into UTwente; and VG S9+20 into Virginia. Confirmed from 0331 Apr 3 on WA0RCR 1860-AM, VG into KB0FX SDR. Next: 2200vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 2300 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE 1801 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy [ex-1901] 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 2200 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO monitoring: confirmed Sunday April 4 at 2200+ on Area 51 via WBCQ 6159.926 varying to .927, via KB0FX SDR in SAM mode showing carrier offset from 6160.000 of minus 73 to 74 Hz --- but it`s last week`s 2079!! Despite 2080 having been available for almost 3 days. S7-S8 anyway. 2080 confirmed Sun Apr 4 at 2300 on WRMI 7780, S8-S9 into MO SDR. Also confirmed UT Mon Apr 5 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, VG direct. Also confirmed UT Mon Apr 5 at 0230 on WRMI 7780, S8-S9 into KB0FX, and on 5800, S9+20/30. Next: 1801 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy [ex-1901] 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 2200 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2080 monitoring: confirmed on IRRS 7290 via UTwente, Monday April 5, modulation cutting on at 1800:49 as WOR opening with theme is already in progress, same as happened last week, by misprogrammed automation? Then I lunch, but seems intact until ending at 1829:30, some music and finally IRRS ID and contact info, Feature Story News. I was monitoring earlier from 1750 when there was nothing on 7290 but CNR in Chinese, music, S7 with splash. *1757 IRRS open carrier with some hum, but China still audible under, with 5+1 timesignal at 1800, and CNR1 theme, but I don`t think it stayed on until 1805 as alleged. By the time WOR starts JIP, ACI splash has abated, finding nothing closer than 7300 with Iran in German, so LSB or narrow synch tuning minimises that; Iran quits at 1820 anyway. Next: 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 2200 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2080 monitoring: not confirmed Wed Apr 7 at 1030 on WRMI 5850 as I was totally asleep; did anyone hear it? Next: 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE {confirmed} 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW {confirmed} 2200 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE {confirmed} 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Our non-commercial broadcasts and website depend on voluntary support: thanks this week to Benn Kobb, Arlington VA, for a check to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 One may also contribute, not necessarily in US funds, via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5800, April 6 at 0613, S9+20 open carrier, surely WRMI-10 transmitter, supposed to be OFF the air 0430-2200 except daytime TOMBS Saturdays only. Every so often I find this on air in nightmiddle, why? Test or misprogrammed? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also SOUTH CAROLINA [non] ** U S A [and non]. 6159.93, April 1 at 0050, WBCQ Area 61 Old Time Radio with `Amos `n` Andy` recreation by Ed Tilton, S9+10 but with ACI splash from S9+30 6165 RHC English, which unexpectedly resumed here ex-9700, from about 0000, messing up the second hour of A61 and anything later, even when tuned in LSB. Now I am not so eager to get WOR back on at 0300 UT Mondays: bad choice between CubaRM or daytime absorption. RHC could easily have resumed 6145 instead of 6165. And at least before 0100, nothing on 6155, 6150 or 6145, where WBCQ could shift if not RHC. But QSY is not so easy at WBCQ, by regulatory approval, or by grinding new crystals. A further look at HFCC for openings: nothing on 6155 until VOA at 0330, discounting wooden Bulgaria until 0300. 6150 totally open our evenings. 6145 only maybe China, and alternate for The Mighty KBC UT Sundays only, surely not to be used before next winter, if ever. Aoki/NDXC sked has nothing significant to add (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 6159.924 V to 6159.930, UT Sat April 3 from 0000, WBCQ `AAAWWW` via KB0FX SDR in MO, offset frequency readout in SAM mode. Surprisingly clear of RHC ACI since it has jumped from 6165 to 6145 --- see CUBA. I half listen; first quiz question, what is a BFO? Soon answered by an e-mailer or caller. It`s cold in Fla, 50 degrees, yet the wife Allan adores is scantily-clad as he puts his hand somewhere on her. Was there nothing political?? Major subject, on and on and on, is standard shifts and clutches, wondering if young people would even know how to drive such cars. 0151 reads part of Radio World article about FCC maybe enforcing PIRATE act from April 26 with big fines --- but he misses the point as already discussed in NASWA and WOR groups, that by definition, this applies to AM & FM bands only, nothing about SW! Yet AW takes the opportunity to encourage would-be pirates to buy time on WBCQ instead. Squeezes in a few pirate names and frequencies from new issue of Free Radio Weekly just published; prayer and ID. 0100-0101 dead air on this transmitter before Hal Turner starts. I never did check 7490v this week, direct or remotedly, nor WBCQ webcasts, but AW said that the 7490 stream server has been maxing out. I keep hoping he will have some news about his attempt to purchase WHRI, which appears to have closed down. Nothing significant either in his recent twits. Here`s the version of John Carver, who was paying more attention: ``Tonight's show started on time on both 6160 and 7490 with 7490 having the better signal this evening. Opening question was, what is a BFO? Angela is scantily dressed this evening according to Allan. The opening question is answered by someone named Scott and Allan proceeds to describe a BFO for the audience. Then he asks how many young people were able to drive a car with a manual transmission and quickly after that asks how many would know how to double clutch. A short tale of Angela driving his antique cars which morphed into a discussion in general about antique cars. Phone call at 0028 from a woman that has been enjoying the talk of Angela driving the antiques and she admits that she owns and drives an older car, just one not as old as Allan's. Angela started to give us a brief Angela's Angle but was interrupted by a phone call at 0043 from Mr. Transistor Norm who talks about old cars and motorcycles. Allan then reads a short piece about the larger fines for pirate radio operators and ends with a plea for the pirate operators to buy time on WBCQ. Into emails at 0054 and a reading of the newest Free Radio Weekly. Closing prayer at 0058 and off the air at 0100 and once again into dead air. Only one political reference this evening when Allan lost his train of thought and stated that he'd had a Biden moment. John, Mid-North Indiana.`` 6159.93, recheck 0250 after Hal Turner hour, WBCQ still on with rock music. That would be `Rock Wave` originating on WBCQ-FM 94.7 a.k.a. Kixx-FM. But off the air after 0300 as I have also noticed previous nights, so `Late Nite in the Heartland` far-right talk show is gone tho still on the 6160 sked as 0300-0500 Tue-Sat. Its website still claims to be on 7490 https://www.jeffreydaugherty.com/about-us but that`s off the air too at 0340 April 3 check. O, the 7490 sked shows it as 0300-0330 only UT Tue-Sat; so need to recheck whether that fragment survive. At 02-03 Brother Scare has been appearing on 7490 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 7489.983V, Monday April 5 at 2300, WBCQ with semirepeat of `Uncle Bill`s Melting Pot` 25 hours after original full airing, but missed most of it since thru no fault of my own it conflicts with WORLD OF RADIO on the other WBCQ, 6159.93, Sunday at 2200; even if it be last week`s edition. UB doesn`t publicize this airing much but I often find it more convenient. This week starts with music from Solomon Islands, at 2318, ``This Land is Your Land`` with choir and bamboo tuned pipes, to be viewed on his site at disgraced FB. More music to come from Tonga and Vanuatu. Signal noticeably improves at 2325 to S9+10, but chopped off at 2330 for ID and *spot commercial* for Peacock, newish streaming service of NBC. Spot ads are extremely rare on US SW stations, no doubt hard to sell; have heard one or two occasionally on WRMI; and into Camp Constitution Radio on WBCQ. Did CCR have anything to do with the Peacock adjacency, or does it run at random, or BCQ choice? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5885 & 5895, April 2 at 0235, huge buzz peaking on the sidebands of S9+30/40 WWCR-4 during E. C. Fulcher Truth House Ministries, SOP for that program. An hour later during Kelly Lawson Worship no buzz but much weaker. BTW, WWCR pdf program schedule now dated March 14 as if to take into account DST -- yet still showing 6 hour difference from UT! The Central times are correct. How many years has WWCR been going, and they still don`t have their basic act together (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. As noted last night in my ZAMBIA 5915 log, WHRI absent tho scheduled on 5920, ditto 7385, making us wonder if WHRI have shut down totally at end of B-20; after all, the KBS relay moved to Greenville. WHRI sale to WBCQ still pending FCC approval? Maybe WHR have had it with SW. Alan Holder also notes to the WOR iog today: ``World Harvest Radio short wave no more? All short wave schedules and reference to World Harvest Radio have now been deleted from the "Family Broadcasting Corporation" web site. But there are links to World Harvest Television as well as to "Real Family TV" and the other domestic US radio stations run by FBC. However, I found a web page with a donation form for World Harvest Radio short wave. I guess they forgot to remove this. Alan Holder, G4ZBH, Isle of Wight, U.K.`` Just in case, FCC A-21 http://hfcc.org/data/schedbyfmo.php?seas=A21&fmor=FCC still has 50 LeSea! entries. Search on that and highlight all for further frequencies to check. Of course the registrations already far exceeded axual usage. Much of it had been in use only on weekends, so check Saturday and Sunday. It`s complex, but here are all the possible frequencies in first time order without the details: 5920, 7315, 7385, 9505, 9825, 9710, 9840, 9605, 17815, 21610, 11750, 13785, 17510. The lower ones allegedly resume later in the UT days (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9840, April 3 at 1407, no signal from WHRI, nor 17815, which might have been active on a weekend; nor encountered it anywhen else altho not thoroly checked. JBA carrier on minus side of 9840 likely Vietnam always off-frequency, which must be glad WHRI be gone (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5050, Sat April 3 at 2359, WWRB is on already with gospel huxters, lo fi, who believe in UFOs but not in ungodly vaccines, S9+30 into Virginia SDR and of course also well audible here. At 0000 April 4, same g.h. inserts legal ID for `WWRB outta Manchester, Tennessee`. Still going at 0135, 0208 chex, the latter also into Brasília I had up to hear Chaski. And still at 0309; 0342 a screaming YL huxter. So WWRB is back in business. Dave let his license expire last fall and had to stay off the air while going thru FCC red tape to get it back again. Harold Frodge had reported WWRB on 3185 last UT Sunday but did not mark it as a momentous event: ``U.S.A.: 3185 WWRB Manchester TN; 0150-0203+, 3/28; Hymns to 0200:32 EE religihuxter interrupted @0202:18 w/WWRB ID into dif-ferent religihuxter on “Challenge”. S20 peaks. 3185 not listed on their web program guide (Frodge-MI)`` Meanwhile, switched to summer frequency 5050, presumably as before only active at weekends (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also USA: 475 kHz ** U S A. 5050, UT Mon April 5 at 0147, WWRB on again, S9+30/40 with screaming high-pitched southern-accented gospel huxtress same as heard last night; presumably shortly to be silent again until next Saturday night (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WEWN and EWTN Easter stuff: see VATICAN [and non] ** U S A. 700, WLW silent period: see MEXICO [and non] ** U S A. 1319.718, April 2 at 0252 UT, tell-tale het as previously IDed from way off-frequency WCOG, Greensboro NC. This has been going on over two weeks; how much longer? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1319.717, April 3 at 0145 UT, KLWN ID on 1320.00 with het from here by the AM/SSB pitch match method, so still WCOG Greensboro NC. No het tonight vs 1540.00 KXEL (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) {BTW, I saw somewhere that KLWN Lawrence verifies by QSL card; CE is a ham.} ** U S A. 1540.200, April 5 at 0503 UT, WKVQ still making big het here; 1319.715, April 5 at 0504 UT, detectable het from WCOG still here (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. Here`s my latest strategy to view `CBS Sunday Morning`: timer-record it on KWTV; if awake, check to be sure they haven`t shunted it to KSBI. Anyway, primarily watch it at: https://www.cbsnews.com/sunday-morning/ as I did this week April 5 of the April 4 edition, after which I can re-use my own back-up tape of it. The website playback was correct and OK, except went into incessant buffering two or three times, but after noting the timer, refreshed and picked it up where left off. This week totaled 64 instead of 62 minutes, all commercials excised, but adding 2 minutes to the closing nature segment, more than ever goes on the CBS air (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VANUATU. 11835, April 6 at 0628, JBA ``island music`` I would not expect to hear from China`s CNR2, so presumed R. Vanuatu, 3 x 3945; S3-S5 better than usual JBA carrier. 0631 announcement when I almost hear Vanuatu mentioned? Still going past 0641+, only one signal. As I pointed out before, now in A21 confronts QRM from high-power China fundamental, but that seems to be in regular Tuesday-only siesta after 0600. Hardly anything else on 25m, e.g. China. Nothing audible now on 7890 = RV X 2. I still think I heard only RV, but a contradictory report from Ron Howard, CA, to the WOR iog: ``CHINA / VANUATU. 11835, random monitoring on April 6 (Tuesday), from 0510 to 0705; CNR2 dominating the whole time over Radio Vanuatu (harmonic); CNR2 didn't close down at 0600, as they did last week; by 0615, started fading in of RV on 7890, with 3945 not heard; at 0701, could make out the distinctive start of the RV news underneath CNR2``. Of course to here more so than to CA, RV has a lower-latitude advantage (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) {or, China has a higher-latitude disadvantage} ** VANUATU. 11835, April 7 at 0558, one signal with W&M talk, goes right thru hourtop and 0600.7 a bit of music, news theme? and more talk. S2-S4. Again I think it is R. Vanuatu X3 despite co-channel CNR2 from China, which I assume would have a ToH timesignal and break, right? Also a JBA carrier on X2 = 7890 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VATICAN [and non]. Due to a Catholic festival, Vatican Radio scheduled some special broadcasts this weekend, April 2-3-4. Original publicity labeled the skeds as in Vatican time rather than God`s Mean Time. I checked out the one publicized as: ``3 April 2021 1925-2120 h [MESZ] Veglia Pasquale presieduta da Papa Francesco. Arabic - Middle East: 7425 kHz Chinese - Asia: 7225 kHz English - Africa: 11935 kHz Français Africa: 13830 kHz Português - Africa: 15565 kHz (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener 1 April 2021)`` Started out with real old-testament stories, Exodus etc., Jews vilifying Egyptians. What`s that got to do with the much later alleged crucifiction? From 1741 UT tune-in, 7425 is S9/+25 good into Kuwait SDR --- but Arabic announcer keeps talking over the pope and the cantors! BTW, original language is Italian --- whatever became of Latin, at least at RCC HQ? It would not be until the very end, 1925, that the catch-phrase in Latin would be uttered, ``Laudetur Iesus Christus``. 7425 stayed on with organ postlude until chopped off the air at 1930* sharp. Back at 1745, 7225 also well audible to Kuwait, but secular music, something else for sure unless a feed were lost. O, BBC Somali is sked via UAE. 11935, English is JBA with ACI from 11940 Spain; direct to here at 1820 check, JBA carrier on 11935. 13830 and 15565 JBA to Kuwait, but of course they are aimed more clockwise for Africa, if direct from SMG. 12050, RCM WEWN is carrying Spanish voice-over but can`t be bothered to turn on their English frequency 15610 earlier than *1900 even for such a special occasion. I do confirm 15610 at 1900 via Bonaire SDR. After 1900, 12050 likely to be collided by Ndarason as usual. All this is also on EWTN Spanish and English cable TV channels. Radio-only cannot do justice to the cavernous splendour of the basilica with gilded ornamentation. Crowd appears to be masked, alternate seating less than 2 meters apart. Choirguys are not masked, not even ready below the chin for long intervals they have nothing to sing. Pope himself is not masked, which would be too worldly and defeatist for this special person who could have been a role-model, but most of the assistants around him are. I think the masks nicely complement the mitres, but they are inconsistent in color-matching, mostly white, some blu. There has been considerable speculation about transmitter sites which of course VR failed to specify with the scheduling publicity. Who cares? We know that they normally do use Madagascar for several broadcasts to Africa; USAGM Grimesland for Latin America, and Tinang, Philippines for east Asia; both violating Separation of Church and State. Here`s the next and final VR special, but they obviously don`t care about a Western Hemisphere audience, scheduling it in middle of our night, 0755-1020 UT: ``4 April 2021 Easter Sunday 0955-1120 h Santa Messa del Giorno di Pasqua presieduta da Papa Francesco 1155-1220 h Messaggio Pasquale e Benedizione Urbi et Orbi Arabic - Middle East: 15605 kHz English - Africa: 17820 kHz Français - Africa: 15575 kHz Português - Africa: 17805 kHz (Dr Hansjoerg Biener 1 April 2021)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VENEZUELA. 6205, April 1 at 0013 tune-in via Bonaire SDR, immediately hear ROCV Morse code ID, and spoken ID in Spanish with numbers, phone? followed by --- Polish! Why not? S7-S8; had been AWOL last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ZAMBIA [and non]. 5915, April 2 at 0227, African singing and heavy drumming past 0233, wake up! at 4:30 AM? S6-S9, and 0336 JBA; no doubt ZNBC Radio 1, no longer squeezed by bigsig ACI from 5910 Romania or Cuba and 5920 WHRI, the latter still scheduled but absent. Is it closing down? Check other frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. For the first time in months since last fall, I`m awake pre-sunrise and instead of trying to resleep, turn on and tune in for trans-Pacific JBA MW carriers, April 2 at 1156, finding only 774, 747 and 828 from strongest to weakest, obviously the NHK2 big guns from Japan, i.e. 500 kW from Akita and Sapporo, only 300 kW from Osaka, respectively. But file as unID, since no modulation detected; and on R75 longwire, so no DFing. Tried for ToH timechimes at 1200 on 774, but too much splash from 780 KSPI Stillwater OK and/or an XE on 770. Today`s Enid sunrise 1216 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search April 5 at 0457, early enough for NW & SW Europe still to skywave: 531, 558, 576, 585, 612(2), 639(2), 684, 693, 738, 774(2), 837, 855, 882, 891, 909, 1053, 1089, 1125(2), 1134, 1152(2), 1215, 1296(2), 1305(2). Also 1710(2), likely domestic. (2) = at least two carriers beating (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 1081.3, April 3 at 0151 UT, het against 1080 KRLD. Nothing this far off in mwoffsets; possibly local device, but the MW band is otherwise `clean` tonight, no TA carriers either (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 6060-USB, April 5 at 0200, weak intermittent 2-way in Spanish INTRUDERS, partly demodulated by fluttery JBA carrier, presumably Iran, as RHC not on quite yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 15340, April 3 at 1705, I`m checking an A-21 frequency HFCC-registered for RMI via France, q.v.: there is a JBA carrier, but it`s surrounded by DRM-like noise, where nonesuch is scheduled. Weak, and I can`t get any remote to lock and decode it as DRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)