** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RC USB, Sat Sept 16 at 1921 tune-in via Argentine remote, LRA36 ID and credits, into another anniversary salute with a song, S7/9+5. I guess they signed on somewhat earlier, but nothing there at previous chex before and after 1800. Still going at 1943 check with `Uniendo Voces`; at 2108 with LRA36 mention; 2126, ``comunicad``. Still at 2242 music, off by 2300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ASCENSION. 21645, Sept 16 at 1507, JBA S4/S5 is the OSOB except for 21550 Algeria. EiBi shows it`s BBC Hausa, only on Saturdays at 1300-1700; for anything besides stupid ballgames? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** AUSTRALIA. 11620.412, Sept 14 at 1523, VOMK Maldives service is way off-frequency, first time ever noted such, as measured direct; after the Missouri SDR also displayed it at 11620.408, and accurately calibrated compared to WWV 10000.000; 1459 open carrier, 1500 s/on in English, 1501 English preaching. All the evidence points to RBA Kununurra being the true site for this. Reception inferior today into N America with geomag disturbance, only S8/S9 but still no signs of transpolarity. Also, on HCDX, Craig Tyson in Perth says, ``Heard at very good strength signing on at 1500 on 11620 in English on the 12/9 here in Perth. Very likely this is from KNX as the signal strength and fading patterns were very similar to 11825 Burmese which is definitely from KNX. Local quality at times from 1500-1530. Craig-Perth``. Aoki still shows Uzbekistan as if there were no doubt, but EiBi shows [XUU] site = unknown and calls it ``clandestine``. USAGM RMS monitoring files still hide the site as [XXX] (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2208) {O, yeah? See further reports at MALDIVES [non]} ** CANADA. 6754 USB, Sept 16 at 0418, Trenton Military, CHR reactivated after weeks of silence whenever checked at random, likewise day frequency 15034 USB. But it`s an exercise in futility as it`s ``No report received`` from everywhere, at first Canadian locations only, both for aviation weather and terminal forecasts; by 0434 ditto for Thule and European airports. At 0419 UT, time announced as ``0020Zulu`` when it`s really almost that hour EDT!! Same kind of error always happened last time it was active. This was via Georgia remote. I was not hearing it direct at first due to? underpowered? propagation? R1 blackouts have occurred. My high line noise level. Richard Lacroix and I may take credit for its reactivation. Since I had asked him if he had any news from his contacts at Trenton about its status, whether it would ever come back. He tells me at 0248: ``Hummmm, I left a message today with one of my contacts, the LF/HF Team Lead, and interesting enough, 6754 is now back on-air, loud and clear, with "no report received" and still not in the EST, not UTC time zone. No response to my e-mail yet. I will be curious about the explanation. Richard`` Maybe they just needed a reminder? By 0640, 6754 USB has become JBA direct, about equal to my S9 noise level. Richard said it should switch to 15034 USB at 1100 and he was hearing it at 1300, but not me at 1504 nor at 1555 into Maryland SDR. At 1616 it`s audible at Missori remote; still only ``no report received``. By 1818 I finally detect 15034 JBA direct. Well, that`s a start (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 6754 USB, Sept 17 at 0109 nothing from CHR; must have been pause until starts at 0110 but JBA vs S9+25 line noise, still nothing but ``no report received``s during brief monitoring of Trenton Military. EiBi implies starts at :10 past the hours, but unclear the extent of pauses/breaks (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA [non?]. 17855, Sept 19 at 0600, surprised to hear some Chinese JBA on frequency left tuned after Spain at 2200. Not accounted for in Aoki, but EiBi shows RFA via Tinian, and CNR1/Firedrake jamming this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) {See also EAST TURKISTAN} ** CUBA [and non]. 15140, Sept 14 at 1912, dead air in English from RHC; yet the SSOB along with WRMI 15770 as other signals are degrading; inaudible 15825 WWCR, 15610 WEWN, 15555-USB WJHR. Something`s always wrong at RHC. The Other Side: ``READ TODAY THE CUBA OF TOMORROW September 14, 2023 LAWS Cuban ranchers: controlled, helpless and turned into criminals No meat producer in Cuba actually owns their animals, as demonstrated by the fact that they need authorization from the State to sell or slaughter their animals. LUCÍA ALFONSO MIRABAL | La Habana...`` https://diariodecuba.com/cuba/1694623805_49735.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2208) ** CUBA [and non]. 11850, Sept 15 at 0018, S9+20 RHC Spanish air not dead, merely undermodulated; even the spurs on 11840 & 11860 exhibit traces of mod; the upper blasted by Sa`udi Yemenia buzzmitter. Something`s always wrong at Riyadh and RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11850, Sept 17 at 0122, RHC at S9/+15 [direct u.o.s.], but mainly a hum with trace of modulation, and JBA parasitic spur carriers on 11840 & 11860. That`s more like it: somethings` always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 9600, Sept 17 at 0127, RHC Spanish and S9/+20 // 11760. Seems 9600 not be a mistake, keeps happening, avoiding Romania 9700 clash at 0200-0300. EiBi & Aoki still haven`t caught up with 9600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 15140, Sept 20 at 1925, RHC English on BST-1 caradio, YL is muffled and soft-spoken, can`t follow her, 1928 OM is quite readable outroducing her as Alejandra García, and into sports. Also squeal on carrier. Something`s always wrong at RHC. The Other Side: READ TODAY THE CUBA OF TOMORROW September 19, 2023 EMIGRATION Cuba: the country of broken families The industry uses the suffering of Cuban families as a bargaining chip. In many cases, they rupture. In the best ones, they are separated for many years. YOAN MIGUEL GONZÁLEZ PIEDRA | Holguín A senior in Havana's Central Park. (Diario de Cuba) Sandra, a 31-year-old Holguin mother, is struggling tremendously to care for her two children, alone, because her husband has recently left the country. Doybel, her eldest son, is 11 years old, and Lesly is just two. Alexey, her spouse, is another young Cuban father who is in Mexico "waiting for his turn on the application to enter the United States," she explains....`` https://diariodecuba.com/cuba/1695048377_49822.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** EAST TURKISTAN [and non]. 17640, Sept 17 at 0115, CRI English chat about education, AI, surprisingly good signal this hour via Kashgar, land of ChiCom imperialist genocide against Uighurs and other Moslems, toward Europe so rather USward too, in fact the SSOB, S4/S7 with some flutter. It sounds better in plain USB than in ECSS. I then survey other signals, mostly JBA or JBA carriers on band+ without further research, likely mostly China from NE or NW: 17490, 17530, 17565, 17580, 17605 + noisejam?, 17740, 18900, 18970. At this hour I would have expected better signaling from east China over NW path than west ``China`` over NE path. 9580 at 0126, CRI English also, CUBA relay undermodulated and a few seconds behind // 17640 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** EGYPT. 9442.43, Sept 15 at 2129, can`t get UTwente synch to lock on R. Cairo at usual 9439.995 or anywhere close to 9440 but reads S9+30, extremely sup/torted modulation, unusable, wiggle that patchcord; try Parma SDR instead, seems to peak around here then with offset fluxuating from +1 to -21 Hz, later -42 to -67 Hz. Finally at 2158, UTwente lox on to 9440.002. Something`s always egregious in Egypt (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** EGYPT [and non]. 9439.995, Sept 16 at 2143, no signal from R. Cairo during 2115+ English sesquihour, into UTwente. Something`s always egregious in Egypt. Of course they will try again and fail again over and over. By 2200 there is some other weak signal just above 9440. That hour is listed as BBC English via Philippines to Indonesia. Qahira could QRM that when on (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KOREA SOUTH [non]. See USA: 11880 ** KURDISTAN [non]. 17450, Sept 16 at 1505, JBA carrier and nothing else below 17500, presumed Turkish jammer which has not caught up with major schedule -- and name! change of Dengê Welat, as reported by Tony Rogers to BDXC-UK: ``Dengê Gel on 11510 kHz --- Dengê Gel (Voice of the People) has a new schedule according to their website. The station was previously called Dengê Welat. Translated from denge-gel.org "Our radio, the Voice of the People, goes to the winter frequency. From September 15 onwards, our radio will broadcast on 2 frequencies. According to this, the new frequencies are as follows. Diyarbakır time from 06:30 to 19:00 on frequency 11.540 kHz. It is on the frequency of 7.460 kHz from 19:00 to 01:00." Converted to UTC this would be 0330-1600 on 11540 kHz and 1600-2200 on 7460 kHz. Presumably this is via Tashkent. However, I found them at 1115 UTC today (16 September) on 11510 kHz instead, matching the live stream on their website. They were previously on the 16 metre-band around 17450-17485, shadowed by a Turkish music jammer (which is still on 17450 today). 73's Tony`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11540, Sept 20 at 1500, sounds like Turkish music, i.e. jammer against and/or Dengê Gel, which recently quit the 17 MHz band for 11510, but once jammer caught up, into the cat-and-mouse jumparound. No other significant signals now below 11600 such as 11510. Later 11540 confirmed as I see this Sept 20 on the WOR iog: ``Dengê Gel has started using alternate frequencies to avoid the Turkish jammer. Noted today at 0640 on 11540, with Erdogan speech on 11520. When Pridnestrovye was used in the past, signal strength here in the U.K. was much stronger. Probably still via Tashkent. Alan Holder, G4ZBH, Isle of Wight, U.K.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MALDIVES [non]. 11620.00, Sept 15 at *1459.7 carrier on, 1500 s/on of VOMK Maldives service; seems English but very undermodulated S9/+10 vs HLNL here. Back on-frequency after yesterday on 11620.41. As soon as we are more or less convinced it`s the RBAustralia Kununurra site, this comes in from Mauno Ritola: ``[WOR] 11620 1500-1530 site --- Sorry, wrong info, Reach Beyond Australia confirmed now, that it is not (any more?) via them. So maybe TWN or TAC. Best regards, Mauno``. I still say it`s not Tashkent. I also compare it to 11825, RBA in Burmese: weaker S9 = HLNL, and slight wobble of carrier, similar to 11620. At 1527 I try one of the five KiwiSDRs on Taiwan, BM2KVV #1: 11620 is JBA and on-frequency. Of course that is inconclusive, as could be too far for groundwave and too close for skywave. I wonder which of the five may be real close to any of the three major SWBC sites on island? Off shortly after 1530* From my angle it`s not Tashkent. But Wolfgang Bueschel says 11620 signal characteristix today for AWR Burmese on 11850 before 1500 via Uzbekistan were identical to 11620 afterwards (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MALDIVES [non]. 11620, Sept 20 cuts on late at *1500.5, VOMK in unreadable English, S6/S9+10; by 1503 changed to the YL in presumed Dhivehi. Propagation degraded so not as strong as usual, but more than one could expect from Uzbekistan site rather than Australia. Which is continuing to be a matter of controversy; another possibility is that more than one site may be in use on different days (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MEXICO. 18084.5 CW, Sept 17 at 0112, sounds automated in several repeats: CQ CQ CQ CQ DE XE2AD - something else followed probably gridsquare. QRZ.com: ``XE2AD Mexico flag Mexico, DAVID MORO-FRIAS, AP 006, Aguascalientes, Ags 20000, Mexico --- ​Website: http://www.xe2ad.com Hi! I am David, born in 1980 and ham radio operator since 2006. I´m an Electronic engineer with a MSc and PhD in microelectronic design. Actually I work in the semiconductor industry as analog integrated circuit designer and as an university lecturer`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) `` ** MEXICO. I haven`t caught any 10 m beacon activity for quite a while, but now at least two main XEs by sporadic E, Sept 19 at 2222 & 2225: 28171 CW, XE1FAS/B, not listed at WI5V but only 24929.5 from Puebla 28276 CW, XE1JAL/B, 5 watts from Xalapa [not Jalapa? XAL?] (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6950 AM, Sept 16 at 0026, JBA carrier direct, the OPOB. My HLNL makes my pirate DXing even more minimal. By 0102, NH SDR is getting drumming at S7. 0108 dinging and YL ID as ``W-A-V-E Radio`` as also reported here: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,118198.0.html 0117 ID again this time adding it fonetikaly (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6950 AM, Sept 16 at 0125 just a bit after posting my previous log, another ID: ``WAVE Radio, we are very existential, ride the wave`` as heard via NH remote (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6960 AM, Sept 16 at 0059, JBA carrier direct, slightly stronger than 6950. 0102 into NH SDR, S7 with rock. Bet this one is Ballsmacker, regular frequency and UT Saturday time. Yes, as here: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,118204.0.html I am trying to be helpful by linking to other reports at HFU, but some editors delete them from my reports! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6952 USB, Sept 17 at 0105, weak talk from pirate way below what sure seems like jamming, much stronger random tone beepery like someone wiggling a VFO a few kHz above and below, S9+30 also vs line noise at S9+12. By 0133 recheck, none of this. Many reports here of Zeke taking requests and being jammed: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,118250.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. LW/MW beacon reception has been pitiful. Still plenty of summer storm noise and also my OG&E line noise. The only reliable regulars are 515 kHz, PN, Ponca City; and always JBA despite proximity, 341 kHz, EI, Enid. Former regulars 350 kHz, RG, WRWA OKC, and 255 kHz, SW, Stillwater remain absent, maybe forever. I have been hesitant to conclude the 332 kHz, IC, Wichita KS, is off, but unconfirmed for weeks. At 0102 Sept 17 I get a trace, maybe of a 332 carrier. I`ll be delighted to hear any further beacons, let alone several Canadians regular in the winter, if they still exist. There was one on 332 mixing with and atop wIChita (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. ``Hi Glenn, About your NDBs mentioned. 350 RG is decommissioned; this happened several times but it kept coming back, it appears to finally have taken effect, last reported 1/23. 255 SW still on, reported 8/29/23; 332 IC still on, reported 8/27/23. https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rna/signals 73, Steve AA7U in Arizona`` Ratzlaff (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 101.5, Sept 18 at several chex on caradio around Enid, circa 19, 20 and 21 UT, dead air in $tereo, again at original level like months ago leading me to conclude it has to be KOCD Okeene transmitter, altho R. Salvación claimed to have gone off the air last January. It`s not local level, but plenty to dominate any signs of further 101.5s. Once back at home QTH I try the DX-398 with RDS capability, but not enough signal to display that icon if unlikely in use, nor even stereo icon. May have to take the time and trouble to drive the ~80 mile roundtrip to Okeene, SW of Enid, to be sure. One FCC map indicates site is right in center of town, slightly NW of junxion of state hwys 8 & 51; but another shows it on east side, just north of hwy 51 and just east of N2660 Rd. The 60 dbu contour of 14 kW does not reach Enid. Digging further at FCC, I see nothing about it being off the air, nor having been a relay of the 93.9 LPFM in OKC. In fact, guess what, the main studio of record is in Liberal KS! Where there is another station on 101.5 I have been getting: ``LICENSED License Expires: 06/01/2029 Status Date: 08/29/2016 Facility Id: 191552 Community of License: OKEENE, OK Service: FM Station Facility Type: Commercial [CDT] Licensee: Calvario Communications, LLC Licensee Address: 10628 Lakeridge Run Oklahoma City, OK 73170 4056641323 [phone] Main Studio Address: 531 South Kansas Blvd Liberal, KS 69705 6206268282 [phone]`` (Glenn Hauser, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 101.5, Sept 19 at 1500 UT on caradio, again dead air with stereo icon, presumed KOCD. Recheck at 1703 on DX-398 with telescopic antenna only and at ground level, now enough signal for RDS icon and to display: KOCD-FM_ static! So now it`s 100% certain that all this DA has been from the Okeene station which supposedly went off the air last January. At this time RDS worx, but not enough signal for $tereo icon (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. RF 20, Sept 16 at 0206 UT, area tropo is up visiblizing KBZC-LD, OKC, virtual 42. Logged a number of times before but now I compare it to rabbitears.info info. Unlike most multi-subchannel stations, this one displays the same PSIP ID on all of them, KBZC-LD. Makes it harder to ID the individual subs, not always with clear bugs of their own. Like 42-1 illegible algo #LFN ? in UR. Has open captioning in English altho the audio is already in English. As far as I can tell, they do correlate with rabbitears.info info: 42-1 20.1001 720p DD2.0 KBZC-LD Visión Latina 42-2 20.1002 480i (w) DD2.0 KBZC-LD beIN Sports Xtra 42-3 20.1003 480i (w) DD2.0 KBZC-LD BUZZR 42-4 20.1004 480i DD2.0 KBZC-LD RVTV 42-5 20.1005 480i DD2.0 KBZC-LD [Blank] 42-6 20.1006 480i DD2.0 KBZC-LD Infomercials 42-7 20.1007 480i DD2.0 KBZC-LD Shop LC I have not found what (w) means. 42-6 at the time was about Legal Help. On the way to oblivion, but by 0231 has faded to breakups providing ever-changing unique views of DTV art! R-e info: Technical Data: 7.2 kW ERP, 292' 7.2 kW ND (C) (Vertical ERP: 7.2 kW) (1 kW + 8.57 dB gain = 7.2 kW ERP) 31.5 mile contour / 3126.2 sq. mi. area / Est. Pop. 1,143,298 328' AGL; 1430' AMSL; (1045226) NAD83: N 35° 35' 52.1", W 97° 29' 23.2" (35.597806, -97.489778) That is: the NE OKC antenna farm, just south of Kilpatrick Tpk near NE 122nd St. and Kelley. Operator: HC2 Holdings From that we can link to all other HC2s including in same market: 22 (22) KTOU-LD OKLAHOMA CITY OK 42 (20) KBZC-LD Oklahoma city OK 45 (31) KOHC-CD OKLAHOMA CITY OK Licensee: DTV AMERICA CORPORATION There is also a link to stations sharing this tower: https://www.rabbitears.info/tower.php?request=site&asrn=1045226 RF DTV: 25 13 20 23. FM: 102.7 94.7 96.1 101.9. Xltrs: 89.5 90.5 I was not aware of that before, very handy as it would be very tedious to compare the exact G.C. of all other local FM and TV sites. With full details including exact heights and callsigns I have omitted. KWTV atop at 1568 feet AGL, i.e. it`s their original tower for analog 9, first hyped as 1572 feet, the tallest anywhere. KBZC-LD last logged May 6, 2023 and multiple times in 2016, 17, 18, 19, 20. It was originally licensed to Enid on 42 in 2016 but never seen as a local. First seen Nov 10, 2016 from OKC on RF 42 before repack. At the outset of latest log, besides several BAD signals, the only other LP decoding was RF 34 33-1 KWRW-LD (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. KAUT ``43`` is no longer ``Freedom 43``, but ``CW 43``, that network branding taken from KOCB, ``CW 34`` on RF 33. KOCB is now merely ``independent``. KAUT is mainly on RF 19 but the only transmitter around here so far in unvisable ATSC 3.0. As KAUT is also owned by NexStar, i.e. KFOR ``4`` RF 27 with NBC, we can really see KAUT via RF 27.5, in ATSC 1.0 as virtual ``43-1``. Altho when I first noticed this at 2359 UT Sept 16, it was via Optimum Cable 2 in Enid. I soon found that rabbitears.info already made the change, so don`t know exactly when it happened, as there is little reason to watch KAUT or KOCB. Except: NBC or other KFOR programming such as `Discover Oklahoma`, the state-sponsored travelog, is shunted to KAUT when stupid ballgames or maybe BREAKING NEWS or WEATHER, takes over KFOR, as happened today. Last week KAUT also had a stupid ballgame so `Discover OK` was out of luck! (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** SPAIN. 17855, Friday Sept 15 at 2200, token English from SNR, previews features after the news to be about a ``Prado on the Prairie`` art museum in Dallas featuring worx of Spain; and Lebanon correspondent about sustainable tourism in the Mediterranean. Even before the news, fan mail from a John in Florida. 2208 interview about art with Frank Warden? 2222 Leb report. 2228 song ``El Fin del Mundo`` which became popular with the COVID pandemic. Three other frequencies also weakerly audible into Maryland SDR, 11670, 15520; and 17715 with some strange fluxuation (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 17855, Monday Sept 18 at 2200, token English from REE, first feature after news is interview about a Spanish film festival in London. VG here direct with the other three quite inferior, 17715, 15520, 11670 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 17855, Wed Sept 20 after 2200, token English from REE main feature on quick midcheck, VG into Maryland SDR, interview about Hemingway and his connexions to Spain (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SWAZILAND. 9585, Fri Sept 15 at 1453, S6/S8 open carrier, then starts music box IS and IDs as ``This is TWR, broadcasting from Eswátini``. HFCC shows 64 degrees for CIRAF 53SE, i.e. Madagascar, in Malgache language except French on weekends. This has got to be longpath. My NGS globe shows the route would be roughly ESE from Manzini, across southern Indian Ocean, Australia, Tarawa, Hawai`i, to Enid. CRI in Japanese also sked at 1500 on 9585 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 11785.009, Sept 15 at 2200, VOT English is not off the air, VG strength into UTwente, but heavy overmodulation distortion. Altho mostly understandable, I refuse to subject myself to that and move on to Spain. 2312 recheck, already off the air, so little or no extra German this time. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 11785.009, Sept 16 at 2158, VOT IS & English IDs, not off the air today, S9+50/55 into UTwente. Timesignal about 10 sex early before 2200 even considering internet delay. What`s the point? False implication of general accuracy. Modulation starts OK this time. First news about aid to Libya. 2211 song, now distortion is annoying. 2215 two-minute multi-lingual ID filler reel. 2217 song with drumming. 2221 travelog about Ephesus, some other place on Black Sea; with lots of distorted musical intervals. 2228 finishes, another distsong. 2231 `Gripping Piles` about a neural network, language learning. 2234 music. 2237 multilingual ID filler reel crutch *again*. Song. 2243 `Turkey`s Geomarked [sic] Products` on carpets. 2246 another song: now the music distortion is terrible. A pity TRT ruin some otherwise nice music thus. 2252 sign/off. 2254 IS. 2256 restart IS, now with German IDs interspersed twice a minute to 2257* depriving us of any accidental German hour. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY [and non]. 11785, Sept 18 at 2200, VOT English not off the air today, but quite inferior direct compared to 17855 Spainglés. Not on the air after 2300 in German. BTW, Recep is interviewed on today`s PBS Newshour, jumps on interviewer for interrupting and disrespecting him; weasely otherwise (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 11785.009, Sept 19 at 2200, VOT English is only S7/S9 with noise, fading, even unto UTwente where normally can hit S9+50. About the worst I`ve ever heard it there. So a good excuse not to attempt any detailed logging today. I really need to break away from such a habit: better ways to spend a few hours per week. WWV reported at 2100: ``Solar-terrestrial indices for 19 September follow. Solar flux 166 and estimated planetary A-index 52. The estimated planetary K-index at 2100 UTC on 19 September was 3.67. Space weather for the past 24 hours has been strong. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G3 level occurred. Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level occurred.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 11785.009, Sept 20 after 2200, VOT English back to VG signal into UTwente; `Weekly Commentary` - or was it `Weekly Analysis` started shortly after 2230 until almost 2250 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 11880, Sept 17 at 0123, KBS World Radio in Spanish mailbag calling someone in México but suppressed/distorted modulation, so something`s wrong at Grimesland since this is the relay hour via VOA. KBS cares enough about Spanish to maintain this relay service, not so for English to North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. VOA: See WRMI 15770 below, `Flashpoint Ukraine` ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2207 monitoring: confirmed UT Thursday September 14 at 0030 on WRMI 9395, S9+10/20 direct. Also confirmed UT Thursday September 14 at 0130 on WRMI 5010, S9+20/25 into Georgia remote; and S9/+12 at 0145 into Bonaire. Also confirmed UT Thursday September 14 at 0130 on WRMI 9395, S9+5/20 into Maryland SDR. ``Dear Glenn: Confirming World of Radio #2207, notes, loggings, 9395 kHz, WRMI: S8, S9 signal, 0030, 0045, 0059 (45443), 0130, 0145 (45443), September 14 UTC 2023 [Thu] (Lemke, Richard -AB) 73s, Richard`` WORLD OF RADIO 2208 contents: Antarctica, Australia, Colombia, Cuba, (Ethiopia non), France, Germany, Korea South, Madagascar, (Maldives non), Monaco, Netherlands non, (Oklahoma), Perú, Russia, (Slovakia non), Spain, Turkey, Ukraine and non, UKQOGBANI and non, USA, (Uzbekistan), Vanuatu, Vatican; propagation outlook -- (countries mentioned with others not in order) WORLD OF RADIO 2208 available from 0240 UT September 15 (mp3 stream) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2208.m3u (mp3 download) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2208.mp3 Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html Also linx to podcast services. 2030 UT Friday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0000 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE [planned later in Sept] 0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW 0245vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0457] 1030 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 [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 1300 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [planned later in Sept] 2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB 1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB [previous #2207] 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 No new contributions this week which might have been sent via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com One may also contribute by MO or check on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. Additional WORLD OF RADIO time appears on WRMI skedgrid checked Sept 15: Thursday 1400 UT on 9955; to be confirmed. Two other 9955 airings have been pending for ``later in Sept``: UT Sun 0000 and Tue 1300. WORLD OF RADIO 2208 monitoring: confirmed Friday September 15 at 2045 the 2030 on IRRS SW via AM Italia, 1323 kHz only, Villa Estense; nearest SDR Noale is busy but Parma gets it poorly, S6/S7 very noisy with music QRM understation. I guess that`s still Brighton, also earlier: At 1800, I checked 7290 via UTwente, IRRS SW during the hour WOR formerly aired. FSN at first; 1810 VOA-One ID, I guess after VOA news and music followed. Not audible on 14580 second harmonic. 1845 after music, `Shortwave Report` starts: I thought media programs had been canceled on SW -- but a semi-hour show doesn`t quite fit into a quarter-hour slot, so chopped off for 7290 sign-off at 1900 but to continue on 1323. Fragments of WOR could also appear somewheres on the NEXUS-IBA `schedule`, so much of which is generic on the website. If anyone run across such, let us know. Note that some items quoted on WOR 2208 are no longer correct already: Ben Dawson says WFME 1560 does not use a ``slant-wire antenna``, but rather a slant-wire *feed* to a vertical tower, which is entirely different. Also outdated: as in MALDIVES, VANUATU, this report. Next: 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0000 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE [planned later in Sept] 0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW 0245vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0457] 1030 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 [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 1300 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [planned later in Sept] 2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB 1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB [previous #2207] 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 1400 UT Thursday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed by Cuba? to be confirmed] (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2208 monitoring: confirmed first SWBC, UT Saturday September 16 at 0130 on WRMI 5850, S9+30/40 into Georgia SDR. Also confirmed Saturday September 16 at 1600 on WRN N America webcast. Also confirmed Saturday September 16 at 1930 on WRN N America webcast; and also on WRMI webcast only. AND a minute or so later via WA0RCR, 1860 AM, MO, S9 into nearby SDR. Next: 0000 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE [planned later in Sept; or now?] 0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW 0245vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0457] 1030 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 [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 1300 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [planned later in Sept, or now?] 2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB 1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB [previous #2207] 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 1400 UT Thursday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed by Cuba? to be confirmed] (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2208 monitoring: not yet UT Sunday Sept 17 at 0000 on WRMI 9955 as supposedly planned for ``later in September``, rather another Viva Miami repeat, and at 0015 some gospel huxter. That leaves one more week, Sept 24. Confirmed UT Sunday September 17 at 0030 on WRMI 7780, S5/S3 with storm crashes, offbeam into Maryland SDR. Also confirmed not starting until 0358 UT Sunday September 17 the 0315v on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, MO, VG into nearby SDR, after ARRL News which started at 0345. ``World of Radio is the premiere news and information radio service produced by respected shortwave journalist Glenn Hauser.`` http://wbcq.com/schedule/index.php?fn=p&id=18 Tnx, but don`t you believe the imaginary first time shown, ``5130 Su 0400-0430 UTC Su 12:00AM 12:30AM EST`` [sic] which was never correct. Not awake to check the Sun 1030 on WRMI 9955; anyone hear it? Next: 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 1300 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [planned later in Sept, or now?] 2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB 1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB [previous #2207] 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 1400 UT Thursday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed by Cuba? to be confirmed] (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2208 monitoring: confirmed UT Monday September 18 at 0030 on WRMI 7780, S9+10 into Maryland SDR. Also confirmed UT Monday September 18 from 0300.8 on Area 51 via WBCQ 6160 -68 Hz = 6159.932, S8/S9 into Maryland SDR, after JL ``gotta go`` at 0300. Next: 0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1300 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [planned later in Sept, or now?] 2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB 1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB [previous #2207] 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 1400 UT Thursday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed by Cuba? to be confirmed] (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2208 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 #2208, notes, loggings, WRMI: 5850, 0130, 0141, 0159 (45443), 0159, Sep 16 UTC 2023 [Sat] 9395, S8, signal, 0030, 0044, 0059 (45343), September 19 UTC [Tue](Lemke, Richard -AB) 73’s, Richard, September 19, 2023, 9:13 AM`` Confirmed UT Tuesday Sept 19 at 0030 on WRMI 9395, S9+10/20 into Missouri SDR; usual intervention by fragment of Jeff`s ``The World is in Turmoil...`` ad between ID and WOR. Still not confirmed, rather music fill, Tuesday Sept 19 after 1300 on WRMI 9955, supposedly planned for ``later in Sept`` -- so maybe 26th? Next: 2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB 1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB [previous #2207] 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 9955 to SSE [NEW on sked; to be confirmed] 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1400 UT Thursday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed by Cuba? to be confirmed] (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2208 monitoring: ``Dear Glenn: Confirming World of Radio #2208, notes, loggings, WRMI: 9395 khz, weak heard voice beginning, 2344, S5 signal, ID 2359, Sep 19 UTC 2023 [Tue] (Lemke, Richard -AB)`` Confirmed Tuesday September 19 at 2330 on WRMI 9395, S9+25 into Missouri SDR. Also confirmed Wednesday September 20 at 2100 on WBCQ 7490 -72 Hz = 7489.928, VG S9/+10 into Maryland SDR. Next: Note that per WRMI websked, WOR may appear thrice in a row on three different frequencies Wednesday evenings, toward the end of our weekly produxion cycle. 0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW {confirmed} 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 9955 to SSE [NEW on sked; confirmed] 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S {confirmed} 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW {confirmed} 1400 UT Thursday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed by Cuba? to be confirmed] No new contributions this week which might have been sent via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com One may also contribute by MO or check on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5130+, Sept 14 at 0612, still no signal from the WBCQ ex-Angela transmitter repurposed for 24/7 ``R. Trump International``, following lightning strike has been off since Sept 7. I wonder how much ``original`` material was collected for this disservice before repeating (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2208) ** U S A. 6160 -68 Hz = 6159.932 into NH SDR, Sept 16 at 0000, WBCQ with `AAAWWW`. In first triminute I recognize as repeat of a recent, like ``what does VU stand for?``, so never mind. 5130+ is still off the air, no Trump, SOB! 3265+ not on either; only also 7490 -74 Hz = 7489.926 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9330, Sept 17 at 0125, no signal from WLCR/WBCQ-6, but Classic WBCQs maintain on 7490 & 6160 at 0130 check. Wonder if that huge rotatable antenna could not tolerate sub-hurricane force winds from Lee. NWS info for Caribou/Monticello predicted winds gusting to 46 mph and declining, probably more than that earlier. `BCQ is of course pretty far inland, while the ME/NS/NB coasts were getting pummeled. Back on by 1730 Sept 17, JBA direct but S9+18 into Maryland SDR. 7489.9 at 0130 Sept 17 had some crackles and dead air, not unusual during Pirate Joe`s `Shortwave Saturday Night` live from WHVW 950, but S9+20/30 here (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5130+, WBCQ`s Trumpmitter is still off at 0300 check Sept 18 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9330, Sept 20 at 0141, no signal from WBCQ-6 W.L.C.R., tho Classix on 7490- & 6160- are nominal. 9330 still off at 0620 while 6160- is still on with TOMBS. Wonder what`s the problem now? Next chex at 1656 and later, 9330 back on (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. George, I have not noted any activity on 5085, tho I could have missed it. Could you update as of now what the situation and plans are? (Glenn to George McClintock, Sept 13) ``WTWW coming back --- Glenn, I have paid programming starting within 2 weeks, if all goes as planned. 5085 to start 7 to 11 pm central [00-04 UT]. Then 9475 later. George McClintock 9-13-2023`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2208) ** U S A. 5085 & 5130+, Sept 20 at 0036, still no signals from WTWW planning to resume, nor WBCQ Trumpmitter. 5010 WRMI is on but not yet 5050 until 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 15770, Wed Sept 20 at 1930, WRMI relaying VOA News, and 1935 `Flashpoint Ukraine`; final item is interview with CEO of DragonFly about how drones in private hands will soon be as fun and ubiquitous as the internet. 1959 VOA ID sung by sounds like Louis Armstrong, neat -- but NO WRMI ID and 2000 immediately into gospel huxter. The casual uninformed listener would conclude that VOA is now a religious outlet, violating Separation Of Church And State (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 860, Sept 20 at 1854 UT, KKOW Pittsburg KS, is off! During routine bandscan from ~25 km north of Enid. Did not know it had any problems; neighbor 690 KGGF Coffeyville KS is VG as usual, both 10 kW. On 860 seems a JBA fast SAH but would not expect any daysigs from others nearest in TX, AR, IA. On 860 and above there is lite line noise audible even tho no powerlines in sight where parked along US 81/60/64 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1130 kHz, Sept 19 at 1635 UT, no signal on caradio from KLEY Wellington KS; despite high storm and line noise level, should be audible as usual daytimes. At 1655 I get a JBA carrier on the R75; on the DX 398 I can`t get a DF fix. Could be image, or: how about running ``one watt`` night power in day rather than 250 watt day power at night? So KLEY seems totally off the air, and not merely dead air as often. Meanwhile sibling KKLE Winfield KS 1550 is quite audible with bluegrass, altho always weaker than KLEY when it`s normal, and DF for NNE/SSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR){Or: daytime GW remnant of KWKH LA?} ** U S A. 1130, Sept 20 at 1656 & 1855 UT chex, KLEY Wellington KS is still silent (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1290, Sept 20 at 1857 UT, ``Texhoma`s NewsTalk 1290`` slogan, i.e. KWFS Wichita Falls TX, with barely an undertrace of KMMM Pratt KS, on caradio north of Enid (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 104.3, Sept 20 at 1952 UT, `B 104-3 The Point``, and rock. Don`t ever hear this back in Enid, with 104.1 OKC adjacent, but 25 km north on expedition, no problem; WTFDA FM DB: ``KVGB-FM 104.3 GREAT BEND KS CLASSIC ROCK THE POINT 96.0 kW 247.0 m HAAT 38-25-54 98-46-18 4811 Song/Artist - B 104/3 "THE POINT" -KVGB-FM Classic Rock`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VANUATU. 7260, Sept 15 around 0615, no signal detected from RV in routine bandscan but vs high line noise level. Manuel Méndez, Spain says 7260 had resumed: ``Vanuatu today on air on 7260, 0550-0641, 15-09, male, comments, female, songs. Very weak here in Reinante, NW of Spain at the moment. 15421. Good via SDR Kiwi remote receivers in New Zealand``. It had been on 5040 instead for a short while. Probably still QSY to 3945 only at 0700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VANUATU. 7260, Sept 16 at 0644, RV is JBA in HLNL. At least showing it hasn`t changed frequency schedule again (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 7300V, Sept 17 at 0501, the gospel huxter pirate is back, sermon about Daniel stuff. I last logged it Sept 2, no luck since on occasional but not nightly chex. Tnx to tip from Lucas Bandura at 0454: ``WOR] UNID religious 7300v AM --- Glenn’s UNID station on this frequency is on tonight, I finally got it. S7 on TWR Raleigh, North Carolina KiwiSDR. Just a carrier direct in British Columbia, no audio heard. Preacher now, music at tune in around 0450 UTC. Interesting, at 0513 UTC I saw the operator bump the VFO up [with screenshot]. I have heard religious pirates on AM mode in the 80 meter ham band, I’m sure this is another one of them. Likely using an antique transmitter and VFO tuned right up to the top of its range for 40 meters.`` I`ve brought up the TWR NC SDR too and let it run for quite a while. Very steady signal strength but noisy, maybe near local range. Frequency constantly varying, and SDR calibration is accurate compared to WWV 10000. At first it`s on 7300.125, shortly downward to +100.5, 97.5, 72, 69. 0522 no ID but cut to ``holy`` hymn, but not the well-known ``Holy3``. Now it`s offset minus 30 Hz. 0527 back to preacher IDing self as Robert Breaker ? sounds like, with website southchurch.org - I go there and find that`s in New Britain CT, but searching on name with as many alternate spellings as I can think of finds no one. Visual reference, and podcast mentioned. 0541 happens to attain 7300.000 but not for long! Still going 0608 at +155 Hz. 0639, +368 Hz. At 0648 I finally tune in direct and he`s S9+10 but due to noise, JBA on 7300.389 varying upward to 7300.425 by 0652 when I quit. Ron Howard reported from CA: ``Sept 17 - Hearing 7300 at 0730 UT with extremely weak signal at Asilomar Beach. Ron`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 7410-7415-7420, Sept 17 at 0135, DRM noise at S9+25. Nothing listed in Aoki, EiBi, HFCC or drmrx.org -- whatsit? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) {Sept 21 IDed by Richard Langley as TDF FRANCE} UNIDENTIFIED. 15835-15855 approx., Sept 15 at 1458, strong multi-frequency beepery just far enough not to bother 15825 WWCR, which is at the defacto upper edge of this SWBC band (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)