** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RC USB, July 29 at 1756, LRA36 already on with
music for a regular Saturday broadcast, S6/S8 into Argentine SDR.
After another internet outage here, at 1809 talking about weather and
how cold Base Esperanza has been in midwinter, -25 and -35 C. Which
reminds me to turn on my AC: 98F outside, 82 inside, tolerable but
getting uncomfortable. 1813 to song, and live greetings with full ID,
`Uniendo Voces` with staff present named. On a windy afternoon, 25
kph, only -13 C. 1817 about other Base, Marambio, where there are
birthdays. 1826 LRA36 ID with reverb, music, then RAE multi-lingual
ID, back to chat, about two FM stations inside Argentina relaying
this. 1829 greeting listeners including Manuel Méndez in Spain.
Crediting Univ. Nac. de Quilmes for produxion. 1830 contact info,
whatsapp, email, website. Renovation of program, Estudio 9. 1845
interviewing a child. 1850 song. At 1905 it`s still -13. Next check at
2054, still going but weakening. Allegedly also scheduled now before
18 on Fridays, unchecked here July 28 nor any reports of it (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** AUSTRALIA. See MALDIVES [non]

** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 10125 USB, July 27 at 0653, Oz accented hams
again in QSO or net but JBA and still can`t copy any individual calls;
on same frequency CW is HK3QQ, Bogotá, slowly sending letters in
keyboard sequence with errors (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** BRAZIL. 9665.36, July 31 at 2354, RVM definitely now on the plus
side direct, about 9665.35; while Brasil SDR a few minutes later shows
9665.37 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CANADA. 15034 USB, July 31 at 1522, no signal from CHR, Trenton
Military; nor at 1635-1655 as I am running Maryland SDR. Come to think
of it, have not run across it lately. Perhaps the Time Lords have
banned it until they fix their clox. Still no signs of it at many
random chex later, direct and via Maryland. Altho propagation has been
degraded. Also check for night frequency 6754 USB. And/or compare to
Gander VOLMET on USB: 3485, 6604, 10051, 13270 at :20, :50. 13270 OK
into Maryland before 1900 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CANADA. Further random check of 6754 USB during the night of August
1 UT, and of 15034 USB during the following day have not found any
signals from CHR, Trenton Military VOLMET. Nor on August 2. EiBi shows
one more Trenton frequency, 11232, not VOLMET but presumably for 2-way
contacts; anything there? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CANADA. See U S A [and non], FMDX of Bingo on 88.1

** CHINA. 9545, July 28 at 2321, Chinese maybe echoing, S7/S9 with
heavy flutter. That would be CNR1 jamming against RFA Tibetan via
Tajikistan. Several similar sigs on 31m band only, the sweet spot now
for such propagation. BTW Aoki still has Solomon Islands the only
other on 9545, at 22-05, but believed inactive, not reported in
longtime (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. 21490, July 31 at 2339, JBA carrier with flutter is the only
signal on band - OSOB. CNR1 jammer vs Sound of Hope from 2300 per Aoki
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also EAST TURKISTAN

** COLOMBIA. 5909.952, July 27 at 0641, tropical music at S8/S9,
better signal than usual from always off-frequency Alcaraván Radio.
Brief burst of ``running water`` ute QRM.

Manuel Méndez in Spain reports: ``Alcaravan Radio 5910 on air again
after about 10 days out. Log in Oleiros, La Coruña, NW of Spain,
Sangean ATS-909X, cable antenna, 8 meters. COLOMBIA, 5910, Alcaraván
Radio, Puerto Lleras, 0450-0526, 27-07, religious and Latin American
songs, Spanish, religious comments, Colombian songs “Llaneras”.
25432.``

However, I don`t think it had been totally off. In regular bandscans I
had been crossing a JBA offset carrier, but not logged. Now there is
also a JBA carrier on 6010, probably Brasil rather than still inactive
sibling station LV de tu Conciencia. 

Ron Howard also replied: ``Greetings, Manuel, from California. July
27, at 0742 & 0910 UT, heard a decent level carrier on 5910 kHz, but
no audio at all; normally in the past I always had good audio here.``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2201)

** CUBA. 6100, July 27 at 0646, undermodulated Spanish with
humbuzzwhine, no doubt RHC where something`s always wrong. 

5025, July 27 at 0650, S9+20/30 of dead air except for some humbuzz,
from R. Rebelde, something`s always wrong at Radio Cuba. David
Crawford, FL replied to my previous reports, July 27 at 0156 UT:
``Tonight's treat is what sounds like video buzz, rather than the
recently-typical Rebelde FM audio, on 5025. And after the one reported
active "sunset" session, HM01 has been quiet again since, at least for
the local midday and sunset schedules. I have not checked the
madrugada scheduled times and freqs.``

Ron Howard, CA replies later on July 27: Cuba (5025) noted at 0743 &
0909 UT, with strong carrier, along with a strong hum, but no audio.
Ron`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2201)

** CUBA. 11760, July 28 at 0715, overtime RHC Spanish S9+10 but JBM.
Something`s always wrong at RHC. It`s the only log I make this
late-night due to horrible S9+10 noise level all over the bands:
suspect from neighbor and/or thru power lines. I may have to rely even
more on remote receivers, but many of them also have `line noise`
problems. Abated by 15 UT enough to tell that propagation is now
degraded (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15230, July 28 at 2316, RHC S9/+10 of dead air. Something`s
always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11760, July 29 at 0704, RHC extension still on, in Spanish,
S9/+10 and somewhat undermodulated. Also unusually with dirty
parasitic spurs plus/minus 3 kHz. Something`s always wrong at RHC
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 6000, July 31 at 0642, RHC English JBM with humwhine,
S9+20/30. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11950, July 31 at 2349, S9/S4 of dead air from `Mesa Redonda`
alt. Spanish frequency; supposed to be // 6000, which at 2355 is DA or
maybe JBM. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13650, July 31 at 2347, all-music CRI `Portuguese` relay, now
with dirty spurs about 2.5 kHz plus/minus. Something`s always wrong at
RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OOK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11670, August 1 at 0646, tonight`s extra RHC, Spanish,
S9+10/20 and undermodulated; also with squeal and dirty spurs about
plus/minus 3 kHz. Same symptom I logged July 29 at 0704 on 11760.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11760, August 2 at 0629, RHC Spanish prolongation here
tonight, S9+20 and good modulation for a change, no spurs either.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** EAST TURKISTAN. 11660 QRM: See SPAIN [and non]

** EGYPT. 9439.995, August 1 at 2139 check via UTwente, R. Cairo is on
at S9+35/40 with extremely distorted and undermodulated music during
``English`` sesquihour. Something`s always egregious in Egypt, abysmal
at Abis. WRTH shows 2 x 125 kW at Abis only (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** EGYPT. 9440.004, August 2 at 2155, R. Cairo horribly distorted
English, first reading by UTwente, maybe synching on a mod peak other
than carrier center, then settling on usual 9439.995 at S9+20/40;
totally unlistenable. Something`s always egregious in Egypt (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** GUAM. 11590, July 29 at 1457, unID language, fair signal and off.
This one really was KTWR in Kazakh at 1445-1500 per EiBi, as I tuned
on to 11880, see SWAZILAND (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** KURDISTAN [non]. 17450.002, August 1 at 1546, S7/S9 into UTwente,
ME music. 1550 there is slightly offset CW QRM, mainly sending
numbers. Now there are two stations making fast SAH, one talking and
one musicking; obviously Dengê Welat and Recep`s jammer. Later by 1615
the additional warbling QRM is like fast RTTY. 

Why doesn`t D.W. move away? Perhaps the jamming be not nearly so
effective as it seem from afar. Basic propagation tells us that the
higher the frequency, the further the skip zone. Uzbekistan to
Kurdistanish Turkey may be optimum, while Emirler as a jamming source
in central Turkey may be way too close, but makes Recep feel good, at
least trying to censor it. Emirler to Diyarbakir is 785 km = 488
miles, per distancefromto.net which pinpoints Emirler considerably NW
of Ankara near the Black Sea coast, and Bolu, Duzce, Karabuk --- but
WRTH 2023 map page 57 nestles Emirler right close to Ankara, just to
the south of the capital. Ankara/Diyarbakir: 674 km = 419 miles, even
worse. 

Of course it would require constant monitoring by D.W. PKK HQ,
wherever that may be, Belgium per page 673 of WRTH 2023; which also
asserted the 11 and 7 MHz frequencies were via Bulgaria; and constant
contact with the ops in Tashkent effectively to jump around mousily vs
the cattily Turx, but they have done so in the past.

I am checking this after hearing nothing in the 17450-17495 range
direct, nor had noticed anything for several days at random tunethrus,
so could D.W. have made a total frequency change, even to a different
band? Apparently not, but direct propagation from Uzbekistan, even
Turkey has been degraded. 

Still clashing past 1800, jamusic generally atop. At 1810, UTwente
displays as 17450.010. By 1847 the rapid rippling SAH is even more
severe, indicating both signals strong and near equal level. At 1921
again with RTTY warble QRM too. Still past 2000.

At 2003 I check direct: two JBA carriers approx. 17450.15 and 17450.26
-- maybe that`s the RTTY transmitter. On UTwente at 2050 now there is
only one VG signal with singing, presumably the jammer, on 17450.002.
By now D.W. may have closed or faded out near midnight. Still no other
signals up to 17500. Still VG music on 17450 past 2137. 

At 2158 I make a quick switch to 11785 for VOT English. Cuts on
shortly after 2200 for a few sex without modulation, then off again.
At 2203 I go back to 17450 and find it`s finally off, just the warble
QRM. At 2205 I go back on 11785.008 and find it`s back on to stay amid
news in English, S9+20. I would not be surprised if it`s the very same
transmitter tho can`t be certain on a single receiver whether they
overlapped. For B22 WRTH 2023 showed DW until 2200*, but version 17
Aug 1 of the A23 updater shows 17460v until 2100*.

I`ve been on UTwente continuously for over 6 hours. It`s a great
resource, huge capacity so you can always get on, and no timeouts
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MALDIVES [non]. 11620, August 2 from a few sex past *1500 open
carrier on, S6/S9 direct; finally at 1502 English ID as VOMK,
undermodulated; 1503+ switch to YL in presumed Dhivehi with better
modulation. This is totally normal daily reception despite target
opposite side of globe; and K-index at 15 is 4, which should be
disturbing high-latitude paths. 1529 quick ID and s/off in English
before 1530*. For over a year this has been listed as Uzbekistan site
and some accept that, but I do not. Tashkent does not provide such
good reliable reception here for any other broadcast, and V. of
Martyrs Korea will not disclose true site for some reason. Reasonable
guesses are Taiwan or Reach Beyond Australia, which carries some other
VOMK broadcasts. In fact, the latest WRTH update of August 1 now shows
under Korea South, 11630knx for this, i.e. Kununurra, Australia. It`s
still missing from HFCC; Aoki says Tashkent, and EiBi as clandestine,
/XUU = unknown. TDoA direxion-finding in past sometimes pointed to one
or the other, but is extremely unreliable. At 1525 I decide to try it
again, while hearing it well via Western Australia KiwiSDR: picking 3
sites: Hanoi, Qatar and South Africa. It runs and comes up with ``most
likely`` 12.00 S, 18.00 E, i.e. Kuemba, ANGOLA. Yeah, surely not. And
what are the chances of a true reading landing on exact .00
coördinates? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MALI. 17630, July 31 at 1518, JBA OSOB, listed CRI English via
Bamako. Not even a JBA carrier on 17790 from WRMI, off? But plenty of
signals on 15 MHz band including 15770 WRMI. At 1500 K-index was 2;
had been and would be R1 blackouts (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6869.91, July 27 at 0628, JBA presumed Late Night
Lunatix, pirate, as Lucas Bandura, who got it identified, also noted
it at 0453: ``On right now with music. Weak direct in British
Columbia, S7 on the Northern Utah KiwiSDR.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6869.912 AM, July 29 at 0639, much better signal
than before from pirate presumed Late Night Lunatix, S9+10/20 direct
in a song. Many more logs now in HFUnderground, this date:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,116418.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6964.00, July 29 at 0645, JBA carrier seems silent,
probably a pirate. At HFU many logs around this frequency going back
years, but nothing tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) see UNIDENTFIED

** OKLAHOMA. The local S9+10 high line noise level again blocking most
DX tuning July 30 until suddenly quits at 0651*. While running, it
would typically exhibit split-second breaks every several seconds; as
if discharging and building right up again? Does anyone recognize what
kind of device might behave thus? (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 1600 kHz, Saturday July 29 at 1506 UT, KUSH Cushing, not
with ``Americana`` main music format, but story about bison, 1507
outro National Native News! and ID as Native Voice One, the native
American radio network, right into drumming & chanting past 1515. What
could be more ``Americana`` than this? NNN had a CPB funding credit,
as mostly on public radio. Kudos to private/commercial KUSH for
devoting at least an hour a week to this.

https://www.1600kush.com/ 
leads to listen link:
http://crystalout.surfernetwork.com:8001/KUSH_MP3
which I switch to as more convenient and hifi than off-air direct
1600.
Website has everything except a plain old program sked, but see this:
https://www.1600kush.com/onair/native-air-with-hugh-foley

1524 another ID and more drumchant: lots of tribes do that so I can`t
guess which one now. 1533 National Native News again, in English; 1546
solo singing amid internet outages provided by subOptimum. By 1555
more Native News, about Guatemala. More outage until 1609 check now
with gospel huxter (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 7620, July 27 at 0633 UT, JBA sportstalk, surprisingly
here. Sounds like one of my strongest locals, 1390 KCRC, indeed
matches and synchronized. Same program is on 1640 KZLS, but out of
synch. How does this get on 7620? It fades a bit and is gone a few
minutes later. Suspect external mixing with some strong real SW
signal, but plus or minus 1390 leads to nothing likely on 6230 or
9010. Not an obvious harmonic: only even fundamental on MW would be
1270 X 6. Could be some station there on same net, but not in OK
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO )

** OKLAHOMA. 90.1, KUCO: I had been catching up on episodes of `A Day
to Remember` via ``samples`` on the PRX website, but that halted in
June, so I asked KUCO about it. As a result they are now available via
own website:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-day-to-remember/id1699463301
as of Sat July 29 apparently only the past 5 weekday 2-minute episodes
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. I see that the WTFDA FM Database as of July 30 still has
not corrected the mistake I outpointed July 7, that 90.1 KUCO is NOT a
relay of 95.9 KCSC, but vice versa. Furthermore, the 95.9 KCSC entry
does not show it as a relay of 90.1 KUCO, or anything, but remarx that
it is // KUCO 91.1, getting that frequency wrong (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. RF17, July 26 in daytime, K17JN-D is definitely back on
air at usual local translator strength with satellator panoply of 3ABN
subchannels; Enid`s only local TV signal, embarrassingly for a city of
50K. For a while we had locally programmed LPTV, KXOK 32, ``TV-OK``,
gone as of 8 years ago. See my log report of July 21, 2015. At least I
still have their mug as a souvenir (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA [and non?]. Large tropo blob to the east of Enid, August 2
at 0456 UT when I start checking. BAD signals on RF: 7, 9, 11, 14, 16,
17, 18, 24, 26, 28, 29, 34, 36. Note that 7, 18, 24 and 29 are major
`local` OKC signals which must be disrupted by DX QRM: extremely
unusual especially for KOKH 24, probably by KFSM Fort Smith? No, KFSM
is on both low-power 24 and high-power 18. 16 KOCM is normally on the
BAD side. 17 is also Enid`s only local: can`t be sure whether it`s off
or QRMed, but next morning it`s normal. Only decodes around 0500:

RF 31, KOET 3-1 = OETA Eufaula
RF 20, KQCW 19-1 for Tulsa
RF 21, KHBS-DT 40-1 Fort Smith AR from OK site, so explore all subs:
40-2 ARK-CW, 40-3 MeTV-AR, 40-4 STORY. These match rabbitears listings
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ROMANIA. 11800.000, July 30 at 2239, RRI S9+30/40 into UTwente with
dead air! in English. Tuned up to here after finding Turkey 11785
distortion intolerable. I guess that`s an improvement? But something`s
gone wrong at Galbeni. Its other frequency is finely modulated and
even stronger, 9740 at S9+30/45, going from `Living Romania` to `In
the Spotlite` about the new foreign minister. Both aimed at WEu and
t/hence NAm. Also Tsiganeshti VG on 9790 and 11650 for FE, all exactly
.000. At 2253, 11800 is still dead; 2255 cut to S7/S8 but apparently
not totally off, antenna change, soon powered back up by 2258 and
finally modulating IS, 2300 Spanish. At this hour 11650 also continues
but the other two frequencies change, per EiBi (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** ROMANIA. Re my July 30 logging of RRI English at 2200 on four
frequencies, one of them dead air:

https://www.rri.ro/en_gb/two_transmitters_discontinued-2687864

``Two transmitters discontinued
2023-07-31 13:39:00
România Internaţional

Two out of the five transmitters broadcasting RRI's programmes are
temporarily suspended as of 1 August

The Tiganesti transmitter centre [illustration]

Dear friends, the Radio Romania Board of Administrators decided to
temporarily suspend the use of 2 out of the 5 Radiocom shortwave
transmitters that ensure the broadcast of Radio Romania International
programmes, because of budget cuts. As of August 1, our programmes are
aired via one transmitter in Ţigăneşti, one in Săftica (both of them
near Bucharest) and one in Galbeni (east). As soon as the budget of
the institution is restored, we will resume broadcasts on all 5
transmitters.

The RRI programmes in Romanian, English, French, German, Spanish,
Russian, Arabic, Chinese and Hebrew are affected. All of them may be
received on only one frequency instead of 2, as of August 1, 2023. The
frequencies as well as any other prospective changes operated by
Radiocom further to reception monitoring and to your feedback on
reception quality will be announced in our broadcasts, on our web page
and on Facebook.

Budget restrictions also prompted a reduction of the night time power
of medium wave transmitters that broadcast Radio Romania News and
Current Affairs programmes and of some regional stations.

We invite you to follow RRI's programmes online at www.rri.ro
(including on demand), on SoundCloud, on Android and iOS apps, via
TuneIn and via satellite. You can find more details on our home page.
You can also follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube,
LinkedIn and Spotify.``

Richard Langley replies: ``This message was included verbatim during
the half-hour English broadcast today (31 July) starting nominally at
20:30 UTC although there was a minute or so delay for the start today
at least for the DRM transmission on 11975 kHz. Remains to be seen if
the DRM broadcasts will be axed as of tomorrow.``

July 31 at 2217, `The History Show` is already 50% - only 11800 & 9790
on air, cut 11650 & 9740. Was all AM, no DRM this hour. If it`s all
about the SW power bill, and have really been running 300 kW each,
which not keep them all going at 150? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SAO TOME. 9525, Sun July 30 at 2209, S6/S9 of open carrier/dead
air. Nothing listed now, but EiBi shows VOA French via Pinheira at
2100-2130 on the odd schedule of Sun/Tue/Sat. Given sloppy record of
USAGM wasting taxpayer money, I don`t doubt it; even that not listed
by Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. 17855, 17715, 15520, 11670, Wed July 26 at 2200, token
English from SNR not checked at all as I was concentrating on ROMANIA
in the absence of TURKEY. But I didn`t miss anything worthwhile.
English is repeated at 0200 on webcast only July 27 - a retrospective
about Spanish footballers! No news, no apology; I wonder how the
elexion went? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2201)

** SPAIN. 17855, Fri July 28 at 2200, token English from SNR, intro as
interview with some French composer/singer living in Spain, still no
news. Good into Maryland SDR, confirmed also active on 17715, 15520,
11670 and over to TURKEY instead (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN [and non]. 17855, Mon July 31 at 2200, token English from SNR
reminds us that since it`s summer, there is no news. Really? Then I
guess nothing really bad can happen. Via UTwente, other three also on,
17715, 15520; and 11670 with usual squeal, and splash from:

11660 RCI French, which per HFCC is 500 kW, 308 degrees via Kashgar,
i.e. occupied EAST TURKISTAN, land of ChiCom genocide against Uighurs
and other Moslems. Related BBC report today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B57mkAA-Ogw
Goes to dead air at 2227-2230*, French bihour sked 2030-2230 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. 17855, Wednesday August 2 at 2200, token English from SNR:
VG into Maryland SDR, but part 2 about famous football players, no
news. Geez, isn`t anything significant happening in Spain? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SWAZILAND. 11880, July 29 at 1458, TWR music box IS, S3/S7, ID may
have mentioned pending language. Thought it would be KTWR, but no, per
EiBi it`s Manzini in Somali, and via longpath across Indian & Pacific
Oceans. See also GUAM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) 

** TURKEY. 11785.006, July 28 at *2159, VOT tries to start, cuts right
off, comes back at *2201 to stay on 11785.009. Heavy modulation almost
tolerable distortion in talk, horrible in music. Top news about Niger
coup. 2210 `Review of Turkish Press`. 2212.5 music. 2220 multi-lingual
ID filler reel. 2222 `Feeling Supreme/The Healing Spring`, repeat
about persimmons. 2229 music. 2234 ``Always By Your Side`` promo. 2238
`Did You Know That`, by badax, repeat about WWI peace treaty during
Ottoman Empire. 2242 two more distorted musix. 2249 ``With You Every
Hour`` promo, music. 2253 always defective s/off announcement,
fragment of IS chopped off at 2254.6*, no finesse. Something`s always
erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 11785, July 31 at 2215, VOT not on air in English; no
signal into Maryland or UTwente SDRs. Something`s always erroneous at
Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 11785, opening of VOT English August 1 at 2200 is covered
under KURDISTAN [non], following 6+ hours of jamming 17450 Dengê
Welat. Not really paying attn to content this time, but off around
2255, no extra German or Portuguese (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 11785.009, Aug 2 at 2200, VOT English VG into UTwente and
sufficient direct, even good modulation, usual features but am dozing
thru most of it, having missed naptime earler this afternoon. Off
before 2300 (Glenn Hauser, 104F OK, WOR)

** U S A. 8992 USB, July 29 at 0646-0649* lengthy alfanumeric cryptic
US military message, training? with self-imposed whine, concluding ID:
``Assembly`` always a new word, never repeating? (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A [non]. 15730, Sunday July 30 at 2059, surprised to encounter
VOA in English here, S9+20 from Grimesland, interview but interrupted
for sign-off. Both EiBi and Aoki show 2030-2100 transmission is
weekends only, French on Sundays, Hausa on Saturdays. They really have
a hard time coördinating programming with transmissioning. See also:
SAO TOME (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2200 monitoring: ``9395 kHz, 0030,
0058 (45433); 9395 kHz, 0130, 0159 (45433), July 27 UTC (Lemke,
Richard -AB) 73’s, Richard, St. Albert,  Alberta, Canada``

Confirmed UT Thursday July 27 at 0030 on WRMI 9395, VG S9+10/20
direct.

Also confirmed UT Thursday July 27 at 0130 on WRMI 5010, S7/S9 into
Bonaire SDR.

Also confirmed UT Thursday July 27 at 0130 on WRMI 9395, S9+10/20 into
Maryland SDR. 

WORLD OF RADIO 2201 contents: Antarctica, Australia, Botswana, Canada,
Chile, China and non, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala non, Indonesia,
Japan/Korea North non, Kyrgyzstan, (Oklahoma), Perú, (Poland),
Romania, Singapore, (Slovakia), Spain, Sudan, Sweden non, Thailand,
(Tibet), Turkey, (UK non),  USA; unidentified 4040; propagation
outlook (countries mentioned along with others out of order)

WORLD OF RADIO 2201 available from 0103 UT July 28:
(mp3 stream) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2201.m3u
(mp3 download) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2201.mp3

Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
Also linx to podcast services.

The shortwave+ broadcasts should be:
2030 UT Friday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW
0245vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0457]
1330 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE
[also phonecast, webcast][jammed by Cuba?]
2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW
0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW
0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-LSB
1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-LSB [previous #2200]
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW

Thanks this week to William T Hassig, Mt Prospect IL, ``Congrats on
2200 World of Radios`` with a generous check in US funds on a US bank
to:
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds to:
woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2201 monitoring. WRMI 9955 JBA Fri
July 28 at 1455, enough to tell it`s not WOR for the third week tho
still on the websked.

Confirmed Friday July 28 at 2051 the 2030 on IRRS SW via AM Italia,
1323 kHz only, still no 918 or 207; S9/+15 with a few storm crashes
and only slight CCI presumably England. Next:

0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW
0245vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0457]
1330 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE
[also phonecast, webcast][jammed by Cuba?]
2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW
0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW
0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-LSB
1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-LSB [previous #2200]
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2201 monitoring: confirmed what is
now first SWBC, UT Saturday July 29 at 0130 on WRMI 5850, S9+20
direct.

Also confirmed, Saturday July 29 at 1609 the 1600 on WRN N America
webcast.

Also confirmed, Saturday July 29 at 1935 on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, MO, about
14 minutes into so started early circa 1921; so much storm noise from
north central MO that I could barely hear me, referring to Singapore
as a marker. Earlier at 1931 I thought it wasn`t me: of course, Vern
has to interrupt every dekaminute with his own ID. Next:

0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW
0245vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0457]
1330 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE
[also phonecast, webcast][jammed by Cuba?]
2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW
0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW
0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-LSB
1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-LSB [previous #2200]
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2201 monitoring: confirmed UT
Sunday July 30 at 0030 on WRMI 7780, S9/+15 into Louisiana SDR, some
storm noise; with opening blast of noise QRM first 14 seconds as
always, followed by one more brief bit. Also I think as perpetually
automated, three more brief blasts in the 0054-0055 minute. It seems
both WRMI and the QRMer are satisfied with this arrangement! Never
mind victimized programmers.

Also confirmed UT Sunday July 30 at 0309 on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, MO, about
5 minutes into, so again started early circa 0304, S9+10/25 into
nearby SDR, with storm crashes. 

Also confirmed Sunday July 30 at 1356 the 1330 on WRMI 9955, S7/S9
direct, no jamming audible. 

Also confirmed Sunday July 30 at 2021 the 2000 on IRRS SW via AM
Italia 1323 kHz, S9/+10 into nearby Noale SDR, with very little QRM.
Next:

0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW
0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW
0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-LSB
1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-LSB [previous #2200]
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2201 monitoring: confirmed UT
Monday July 31 at 0048 the 0030 on WRMI 7780, S9/+10 but noisy. QRM
noise at 0057, but much louder at 0100 vs next program.

Also confirmed UT Monday July 31 from 0259.6 on Area 51 via WBCQ 6160
-68 Hz =  6159.932 into Maryland SDR at S7/S9. Next:

0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-LSB
1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-LSB [previous #2200]
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2201 monitoring: confirmed UT
Tuesday August 1 at 0030 on WRMI 9395, S9+10/20 into Missouri SDR.
Next:

2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-LSB
1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-LSB [previous #2200]
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2201 monitoring: ``From: Richard
Lemke, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada, the desk of Richard’s listening
Post, Radio: JRC NRD-535 HF, Antenna: random long wires in the trees.
Dear Glenn: Confirming World of Radio #2201, notes, loggings, 9395
kHz, rough conditions hearing sometimes no signal on 9395 kHz,  solar
blackout, WRMI: 9395, static in area, QRN, 0031, 0045, 0054 (45343),
0059, 0130, August 1 UTC 2023. 73’s, Richard``

NOT confirmed Tuesday August 1 at 2330 on WRMI 9395, because it`s OFF
the air! 9455 & 9955 are on as normal. 9395 is still off at 0639 and
1459 chex August 2. Wonder what`s wrong; it`s a major WOR frequency.
Still off at 2355 August 2; nothing about this on disgraced FB of
WRMI.

Also confirmed Wednesday August 2 at 2100 on WBCQ 7490 -72 Hz =
7489.928, S5/S7 into Maryland SDR. Next, maybe:

0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW {NOT confirmed, still OFF}
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW

Thanks this week to William T Hassig, Mt Prospect IL, ``Congrats on
2200 World of Radios`` with a generous check in US funds on a US bank
to:
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds to:
woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9955, Fri July 28 at 2323, WRMI with email in English for, I
think, backwoodsradioshow@gmail.com certainly not RAE relay in
Portuguese as claimed thrice in schedule grids. No such name anywhere
on the skeds, nor on the Programming page. We do wish Jeff would
assign someone to keeping his displayed skeds up to date. Assumed
music, but maybe this drama podcast I searched out:
https://www.backwoodspod.com/ with horrible disgusting illustrations,
nothing about WRMI, and a different email (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. Re 9955, WRMI, Friday July 28 at 2323, what I heard was not
Backwoods Radio, so never mind that link, but Backroads Radio as Mike
M advises at 0113 UT July 29: ``[WOR] Backroads Radio on WRMI Repeats
Same Two Songs --- Just listened to WRMI 9455 kHz at 0100 UT Saturday.
It is Backroads Radio. It repeats the same two songs over and over.
Not sure what is up with that.`` --- Backroads Radio is on the WRMI
skeds a few various times, but *not* when I heard it; nothing on the
Programming page (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5130v, July 27 at 0649, no signal for a change, from the
24/7 WBCQ low-power transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2201) 
Nor heard since by August 2

** U S A. (7490), UT Sat July 29 at 0000 on WBCQ webcast, minute of
dead air after lo-fi feed from FKB gospel huxter finishes; 0001 JIP
`AAAWWW` theme, and soon obvious it`s a repeat of last week where he
goes political despite audience hating it. Is it quadricast again? At
least I recheck sigs into Maryland SDR: 7490 -72 Hz = 7489.928; 6160
-68 Hz = 6159.932; 5130 & 3265, no signals, just storm crashes (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. Updates from George McClintock July 31, notes from a phone
call:

KVOH: transmitters have already been scrapped. George would like to
have been able to get some parts. Not clear about antennas yet. Their
LPFM is still running, but depends on lease for site continuing.
Apparently are looking for a new SW site in the area, rather than
moving into the WTWW site.

WTWW: still has not returned to the air at all. He is ``tearing
apart`` the #1 transmitter to get it fixed and operational. Owners
must come up with minimum $1800/month electric bill whether used or
not. House on site is in VG condition, liveable. A church is
considering buying the property, wanting 9 acres but is only 7.1.
Realtor thinks it`s worth more than $600K. Original cost for WTWW to
buy it was #275K, underpriced. Previous owner was a perpetual motion
scammer who skipped town after a phony demonstration which was really
hooked up to powerline (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 15610, July 31 at 2344 discussion of angels and demons,
S1/S4 - since American accents, first guess is CRI, but no ChiCom
listed, rather WEWN English until 2400 as still registered in HFCC and
listed in Aoki despite having been off air for many months. But not in
EiBi. Maybe finally comeback. Should be easy to confirm with more
monitoring (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 15610, August 1 at 2006, RCC talk, S5/S6 direct; 2019 EWTN
ID in passing -- so ``more Catholic than the Pope`` WEWN English is
definitely back, gone since last summer. Still registered for entire
A23 at 19-24 UT, 250 kW at 85 degrees. What about at other hours? Was
9385 at 00-09, but IIRC was different transmitter and crashed even
before 15610. And 9470 at 09-13, even rarer if ever. Before that,
15610 also ran 1300-1900, not this morning (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non?]. DXMAPS keep showing possible sporadic E paths
reaching OK, so I brave the oven car for some quick bandscans, finally
installing the box fan in the back seat. But not much to show for it,
UT July 31:

94.9 at 0023, country music bigsig briefly and gone; could be MS too.

88.1 at 0030, lucky ID in passing as ``WKNC Raleigh``, in & out:
WKNC-FM 88.1 RALEIGH NC VARIETY THE REVOLUTION 25.0 80.0 35-47-15
78-40-14 A764 KNC88.1 - North Carolina State University

92.1 at 0032 ``find a dentist near me`` seems skip, not enough info

93.5 at 0041, Mexican music, another brief peak, got to be Es. Thought
I heard ``que buena`` as it faded, as music lyric or could it be a
slogan ID? Let`s see in the WTFDA FM DB: NO 93.5 brandings anywhere
with that spelling, but two with the cutesy ``let`s use a letter not
in the Spanish alphabet`` Ke Buena, which gets two hits, neither of
which is enough for any certain assumption' and both are even below
average terrain:

XHLU-FM 93.5 CD. SERDÁN PUE MEX Spanish REGIONAL MEXICAN KE BUENA 6.0
-59.84 18-59-15 97-27-17 

TGJA 93.5 JALAPA JA GTM Spanish RANCHERA JALAPA ESTÉREO - KE BUENA
10.0 -79.0 14-38-05 89-58-50 

88.1 at 0134, BINGO numbers being called, fades in and out, also with
rattling noise between numbers, unusual format. Seems Es, could be
from east or west; CCI from gospel music which would be Okie fringe
KMSI, and certainly not public radio KWOU either. 0140 recheck,
recapping the numbers, 0142 to `break`, filled by music tho that could
be transfade to anotherstation. Later I search on RADIO BINGO 88.1 and
discover that this is mainly a Canadian thing. CJWE in Alberta is part
of a province-wide network of RB, but dates of games do not include
this one.

Another one is CFRH in Ontario, claiming it`s bilingual bingo, but
obviously French is primary. I heard no hint of anything Canadian,
certainly not francophone. Furthermore, it`s not resuming until
September.

Another2 one is in Perth ON, Lake 88.1 = CHLK-FM. But it`s Tuesdays at
6:10 pm. Further down the search results are too many other stations,
some of which may have only bingoed years ago, or not really on 88.1:
WYPR, KDHX, WWER, CKBW, KJCB, KBTL, KDNK, CHEC, CKBI, CJEC. Not really
worth deep searches into all of those for a bingo show right now. Does
anyone know of a station, even in America, that calls bingo on a
Sunday night? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Re: ``NORTH AMERICA. 6964.00, July 29 at 0645, JBA
carrier seems silent, probably a pirate. At HFU many logs around this
frequency going back years, but nothing tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)``

Mark Taylor replies: ``There is an unmodulated /open het here many
nights. As best known by folks on HF Underground, it is not a pirate.
It is thought to be a ute (maybe military) holding the frequency.
Mark`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 11487 USB, July 29 at 0707, VP 2-way in English
including a YL voice, rather informal, including some tones at
cambios. Heard before on same frequency: Russian numbers station in
2018y per Observer, Bulgaria, and various other reports. I recall
hearing 2-way English before but can`t find it; maybe slightly
different frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 11841 USB, July 31 at 0620, JBA 2-way INTRUDERS,
Spanish? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 13493, July 31 at 0623, wideband Morse code ID fires as
I happen to be here, but last repeat not prepared to copy; presumably
usual CODAR. Just to reconfirm the ID minute, presumably :03, :23, :43
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

WORLD OF RADIO HITLIST update

Hi Glenn, My latest Hitlist update.
https://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm

1) Australia - Unique R: added entries for frequencies and programmes
2) Israel - KAN: Updated entry for KAN English news (Thanks to Daniel
Rosenzweig)
3) USA - KVOH: Deleted entries for schedules and live streams as all
have been discontinued

The next update is scheduled for early September. Best wishes and 73,
Alan Roe