** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-RCUSB, June 26 at 1414, LRA36 confirmed another Saturday underway with song, only S1-S2 via Brasilia #2 KiwiSDR, 1416 ``La Radio Pública, Nacional`` ID; next check at 1541 is already off (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-RCUSB, June 30 at 1445 tune-in via Brasília remote, LRA36 is on again this Wednesday, only S2. There are very frequent canned IDs and mostly music. 1447.5 LRA36 ID. 1508 NAA ID = ``Nacional Antártida Argentina``. 1511.5 LRA36. 1516.7 NLRP ID = ``Nacional, La Radio Pública``, now up to S2-S3. 1527 closing announcement: ``todo por hoy; nos despedimos`` and Antártida song until 1530.5. BUT it does NOT go off, soon starts more music! 1540.8 LRA36 ID. 1544 NLRP ID and talk for a while, JBA. 1552 music. 1601.7 LRA36 ID, music. 1608 NLRP ID, music, 1617 talk. 1618 NAA and LRP IDs. 1619 15476 mentioned. 1624 ``NAA, En Todo el País, LRP`` ID, music. 1627 mentions Base Esperanza. 1630 music. 1636 stops and off without closing (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** AUSTRALIA. On 06/26/2021 9:25 AM Glenn Hauser wrote: ``Tim, I see no mention whatsoever of shortwave on your website now, so please confirm whether 3210 is off the air and what your plans for that now are. I also see no mention of World of Radio, not even a link to it. So are we done? 73, Glenn`` ``Hi Glenn, yes unfortunately I have decided to discontinue shortwave and to continue with music online podcasts of which seem to be more popular. Therefore if you want to remove the mentions of Unique Radio Australia being on Shortwave, then you can of course do that please. Thanks for supplying the program over the years and I wish you well, all the best, Tim Gaynor, Unique Radio, Australia`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** BRAZIL. 9665.3V, June 24 at 0547, off-frequency JBA carrier must be RVM, and now it`s also audibly wobbling (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey June 24 from 1320: more or less in reverse order than monitored: either Chinese talk or carrier on known frequencies, the stronger ones with flutter: 12820 S7-S9; 13020 S6-S8; 13130 S9-S5; 13530; 13640; 13870 S6-S9; 13920; 14900; 15970 S6-S8; 16100 S6-S8; 16160 S6-S8; 16300 S6-S8 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, June 27 at 1411: 13530 JBA; rest JBA carriers on known frequencies: 13160, 13130, 16100; none in the 11 MHz WOOB area (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. 13920, June 28 at 1359, tune-in just in time for CNR1 jammer to timesignal and off 1400* --- but wait, there is now a much weaker signal offset to the plus side but not measured. That could really be Sound of Hope, Taiwan. Wolfie may have measured it precisely sometime, but I haven`t found it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA [and non]. Re my log of something 13920+ after CNR1 jammer off 1400* June 28, could it be Sound of Hope? Inconclusive, but Wolfgang Bueschel replies, ``TAIWAN 13919.991 kHz a tiny poor signal noted at 1352 UT June 29 remotedly on Tokyo SDR unit.`` And previously on March 7, 2012: ``13920.004 SOH Xi Wang Zhi Shen. Miaoli, Mandarin. S=5, 0756 UT. 73 wb df5sx``. My CNR1 jammer logs June 29 at 1421: 13530 JBA vs CODAR; 13130 weaker Chinese; 12880 even weaker S5-S8; 12820 & 12500 JBA carriers (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6060, June 24 at 0603, RHC English has the most modulation here but still below the humbuzz, S9+10/20. 5040 is off but the other three are all just barely modulated: S9+10 on 6000; S9+10/20 on 6165; S9/+10 on 6100. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6165, June 25 at 0547, RHC is S9+20/30 of dead air in English; 6100 is OFF; 6060 usual humbuzz S9+10/20; 6000 sufficient at S9+20/30; 5040 is S9+20 with best modulation but storm noise. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13700, June 25 at 1401, RHC S9+20 of dead air in Spanish; but no spurs; 13740 is also on and fully modulated. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11850, June 26 at 0402, RHC is S9/+10 but just barely modulated, flanked by JBA parasite spurs on 11840 & 11860. But 11670 is fully modulated S9+20 Spanish. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA [and non]. 13820, June 27 at 1349, residual pulse jamming against nothing since this is R. Martí`s B-season-only frequency; now it`s blasting in on 13605, obscuring here any possible jamming. Something`s always wrong at the DentroCuban Jamming Command (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11850, June 28 at 0352, RHC undermodulation with pulsing dropouts also bumping the carrier around. Exactly same thing on the JBA carrier spur parasites 11840 & 11860. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13740, 11850, 11760, 11670, June 28 at 2324, all these RHC frequencies scheduled now are absent; but 9710 & 9535 audible, as are CRI relays on 13650 and probably 11980 harmonic. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. Something`s always wrong at RHC, and here is something stranger than ever. June 29 at 1424 I start tuning for spurs on the 13 MHz band, first finding 13580 with extremely distorted music blob with reconfirmed F# tone, that`s 120 kHz down from 13700 so next one should be around 13640: yes, but as soon as I get there it vanishes while 13700 has been replaced by fax?? sounds at S9+10. Beepery goes on and on and seems deliberate rather than random, some brief pauses. Reminds me some of fax and some of SSTV. I cannot decode either. Briefly at 1430 there is a mixture of this and undermodulated music at S9+10/20. One zero-beat is at 13703. At 1432 I check for more on the plus side: 13762 has F# blob, also weakers around 13825, 13886, 13948, trace 14013; and JBA trace circa 14075 where it collides with that hamband beepery, whatever it be. Back to the fundamental, which is now centered on 13705 with the SSTV/fax beepery; spurs now circa 13579, 13518 trace. 13705 continues past 1458. At 1459 I measure JBM carriers with F# tones on 13761.73 and 13638.29. At 1502, 13700 is off, but now 13705 is playing RHC music, no beepery, 1503 dead air and 1504* off! I wonder if the RHC broadcast sites, besides being shared with jammers, spies, also be shared with utility services (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13762 & 13638 approx., June 30 at 1435, weak F# FMish spurblobs plus & minus 62 kHz out of 13700-AM; something`s always wrong at RHC. And again with beepery adjacent on 13705, see USA! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** EGYPT. In the British DX Club, Peter Jones reported June 30: ``Radio Cairo English back on?? I had an email from Radio Cairo today (I was asking about the possibility of returning to Shortwave), and apparently the live streaming is now working (not sure how long this has been the case). https://www.onlinehorizons.net/livestreaming3/Player/NS/EN_EUR.html 2115 UT with the link. I will listen in.`` So will I: First feature on webcast lasts only a few minutes; bit of music and then another, with modulation widely variable. I heard a bit of English and then music on that link at 2117; 2120 resume talk presenting ``Features, a new feature each day`` about an Olympic swimmer. Buzz on modulation. 2131 timesignal and `News in Brief`, one-liner headlines, including heat wave in SW Canada, so appears to be current. 2133 ``presents: This week in History``. What about SW? 9720 is the imaginary A-21 frequency for 2115-2245 English per WRTH Update. Nothing there via UTwente (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ETHIOPIA [and non]. Arthur Pozner reported June 25 at 1515 UT: [WOR] New frequency used for another Ethiopian program. 17750 kHz at 1500 UT. Not sure of the actual language. White noise is used for very strong jamming`` Nothing listed anywhere. In EiBi I find this which we need to check whether still on 17870 - might have moved. ``1500 1600 ETH DimtseTigray MediaHouse TIG EAf 17870/F[RANCE]`` I too had the white noise jamming on 17750 after 1500 today via UTwente, and a JBA carrier amid it. Are we only assuming 17750 has to be for Ethiopia since it`s jammed this way? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Re June 25 report: ``I too had the white noise jamming on 17750 after 1500 today via UTwente, and a JBA carrier amid it. Are we only assuming 17750 has to be for Ethiopia since it`s jammed this way? Nothing listed anywhere. In EiBi I find this which we need to check whether still on 17870 - might have moved. ``1500 1600 ETH DimtseTigray MediaHouse TIG EAf 17870/F[RANCE]`` 17750, June 27 at 1515, via UTwente again JBA carrier amid DRM-like noise jamming. More of the understation is audible via Kuwait SDR, 1521 HOA music and reverb announcement. At both locations there is *no* signal on 17870, so further evidence that the 17750 transmission is the one listed for 17870: Dimtse Tigray Media House. 17750 programming and jamming have continued past 1600, 1645+ unlike the one-hour ex-17870 schedule from 1500. Wolfgang Bueschel was also monitoring, and convinced the jamming is from the Gedja, Ethiopia site. He and I both heard a few seconds` pause in jamming at 1530 for them to reconfirm target still running. How effective could jamming from inside Ethiopia be on such a high frequency due to skip zone? Could the Ethiopians be getting help from an outside site? Toward the end, 17750 programming well audible into Kuwait until cut off at 1658*. Noise remains but now is not the jamming which may have stopped earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ITALY. 18125-USB, June 26 at 2050, IZ2ZSF calling QRZ North America, one of only three phone signals on band but I stay with this one with an accent who must be extracontinental; of course Spain is blasting in on 17855 with silly ballgame. QRZ.com: ``IZ2ZSF Italy flag Italy STEFANO BERGAMASCHI Via G.Capra, 12, 26040 Gussola No paper QSL, IT Italy Hi, I'm Stefano, I was born in 1980 and in 2013 I got my ham license. My qth is in a small village in the countryside of CREMONA, in the center of the Po valley, a few hundred meters from the biggest Italian river (Po river). https://www.facebook.com/101187861741290/live/ My facebook page Panoramic aerial photo of the town; and of his antennas and rigs, of course at: https://www.qrz.com/lookup/iz2zsf (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KASHMIR [non]. 15170, it`s another Tuesday already June 29, so I remember just in time at 1525 to check UTwente for what`s on this week from IRRS: last week from 1500 it was ` Sounds Irish` music, and before that it was Kashmir Civitas clandestine. It`s back to the latter, S9+20/30, talk in presumed Urdu mentioning Kashmir with strumming musical background. 1527.5 ``salaam aleikum`` greeting in closing; 1528 a bit of other music and cut off air early? at 1528:15*, soon back on for a split second before gone for good. Others had been hearing this earlier: Arthur Pozner near NYC, Harold Sellers in BC, and Paul Walker in AK. Pozner says: ``Confirmed about the actual language. It is the same "Kashmir" program in Urdu and was received in several countries with various results. And a station ID came on in Russian: "This is Inter-Radio Romania"!`` Sellers says: ``fair-good in southern British Columbia at 1519 with presumed Kashmiri. Man with stringed instrument music in background into an on location report of some kind. Missed sign off which was before 1528. Was good at 1523`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 9525, June 28 at 0339 ululating song from Dengê Welat. Aoki shows 9525 via FRANCE at 0230-0600 & 1558-2100. But EiBi shows 0230-0530 via France, and 1600-2100 via Moldova. No Turkish jamming audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KUWAIT. 15539.705v, June 24 at 1738, R. Kuwait in Urdu, typical off-frequency, S9+10 into UTwente until 1759 NA by military band, off precisely at 1800* after timesignal. Nothing on 15530, which Alan Holder, Isle of Wight, reported 24 hours before was also briefly on testing, and 15540 stayed on a bit into English. Not DRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MADAGASCAR. 11824.937V, June 26 at 0405, JBA slightly wobbling carrier, no doubt MWV as scheduled on 11825 this hour in English, African Pathways Radio, way off-frequency. Tweak that Continental! Which I visited at their Dallas factory. Last time June 4 I measured on 11824.934 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NIGERIA. 7254.9+, June 24 at 0549, VON already on with prélude of songs, S9+10/20; compensation for all the missing or late starts for the 0600 Hausa? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6960-AM, UT Sat June 26 at 0125, pirate music, S9 vs nearby storm noise, presumed Ball Smacker Radio on usual schedule from 0100 UT - Friday nights (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6950-USB, June 27 at 0049, pirate music at S9/+10 including storm noise, probably Wolverine Radio; yes: convenient two-word ID interjected at 0051 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 7475, June 28 at 0332, anti-Christ pirate, Station YHWH registers S9 but Josiah`s intonation on thin modulation is unreadable vs noise level. Ran across him before getting Rick Barton`s tip that he was very strong into AZ at 0325 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 341-MCW kHz, June 26 at 2042 UT, ND 25-watt beacon EI at Woodring Airport, Enid, reconfirmed on the air but JBA at near-local range (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 515-MCW kHz, June 26 at 2043 UT, 25 watt NDB PN at PoNca City is back on the air! I tune across here almost every night, and it`s been gone until now checked in the daytime, vs storm noise. Last logged July 30, 2020 but not noticed missing until August 11. Classaxe.com however says it was last logged September 3. Before July there had been other outages. It had been reported from many states but hardly any of their listings come from OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. Quick check of nearby 25-watt ND beacon status, June 29 at 2255 UT: 255 SW Stillwater still off; 342 EI Enid and 515 PN Ponca City still ON (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 93.9, June 27 at 1824 UT, open carrier, dead air in $tereo, no doubt my semi-local KIMY gospel huxter in Watonga. On the caradio in a futile bandscan for sporadic E which is bouncing around elsewhere. On the DX-398, KIMY signal attempts to energize RDS icon but never an RDS display for definite ID. Still dead at later chex such as 2317 UT. My God! Imagine how many souls have not been saved in the meantime!! (I also have dead air vs stations on 95.1, but think this be algo RF-feeder left on somewhere nearby.) (BTW, the KIMY translator in Enid on 93.1, K266BR, I last heard May 6, 2013! with noise before it totally crashed, and then noted as of May 28, 2013 that it had been off for a few weeks. It`s still in the WTFDA FM Database but now flagged as silent, so I suppose it`s still licensed after 8! years?! Meanwhile, Enid lax any local translator of any public radio station, tho I have suggested to one or two they should go after this frequency. Meanwhile, it`s semi-open for DX, fringely dominant KHMY Pratt KS, ``My 93.1`` with 100 kW and identifying more as a Hutchinson station.) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ROMANIA. Robert Scaglione, Sicily, reported June 25 at 1427 UT: Radio Romania International off air? No Italian on 9520 and no German on 9600. Roberto`` Checked via UTwente, at 1518, three frequencies are scheduled: nothing heard on 5910, 11810, but DRM noise on 9580. All these listed as Tsiganeshti. After 1530: 5910, 9810, 11830, 11900, 13660 all Arabic except 5910 Srp = Serbian? 9810 & 11900 Galbeni At 1531 into UTwente, only 13660 is on air, VG in Arabic. For further checking after 1600, per HFCC: http://hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A21&broadc=RRO ``5910 1600 1630 28SW Radio Romania International ROU Ita Tiganesti 44N42 026E06 270 100 1234567 28-Mar-2021 31-Oct-2021 7265 1600 1700 39NW Radio Romania International ROU Ron Tiganesti 44N42 026E06 142 300 1234567 28-Mar-2021 31-Oct-2021 9500 1600 1700 27SE Radio Romania International ROU Fra Galbeni 46N44 026E50 285 300 1234567 28-Mar-2021 31-Oct-2021 9590 1600 1700 39NW Radio Romania International ROU Ron Tiganesti 44N42 026E06 142 300 1234567 28-Mar-2021 31-Oct-2021 11975 1600 1700 27SE Radio Romania International ROU Fra Galbeni 46N44 026E50 285 300 1234567 28-Mar-2021 31-Oct-2021 5910 1630 1700 28SW Radio Romania International ROU Rup Tiganesti 44N42 026E06 240 100 1234567 28-Mar-2021 31-Oct-2021`` By 1601, 11975, 9590 and 9500 are on; 7265 and 5910 are not (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR iog) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 17895.072, June 28 at 1437, Qur`an is JBA on always off-frequency; even weaker JBA carrier on 17614.989, the pair amounting to the only stations on band (OSOB) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 5850 & 7570 & 7730, June 28 at 0325, Dead Brother Hystairical, long ago, then more than ever apropos nickname, audio is cutting out frequently for several seconds making him more incomprehensible than ever via WRMIs; while not doing so on more or less // 5890 WWCR & 7489 WBCQ (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U K [non]. 9880, June 28 at 0336, Farsi talk keeps mentioning Iran, good signal here. Aoki shows BBC via BULGARIA this hour among a 2.5-hour span involving 2 or 3 languages and switching among 4 sites. Is that really necessary or somehow advantageous? No jamming audible. 9880 0200-0230 ARM BBC Pas Yerevan-Gav 1-7 9880 0230-0300 ARM BBC Dar Yerevan-Gav 1-7 9880 0300-0330 OMA BBC Pas Al Seela 1-7 9880 0330-0430 BUL BBC Per Kostinbrod( 1-7 9880 0430-0530 UAE BBC Per Al-Dhabbiya 1-7 BTW, Iran persecutes family of BBC Persian staff: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-57599746 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 13565-CW, June 27 at 1351, K6FRC HIFER beacon repeating nothing but ham callsign, JBA vs CODAR swirshes. Bandscan across here virtually every morning unfinds its 1.8 milliwatts, so whenever audible is notable, and always around 1400. On June 3 I had a trace of CW but not definite ID like today. Last log previous to that was May 9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 15185, June 26 at 2054, surprised to find VOA in English, S9+25. Interview with a YL university student from Central African Republic who has lived in WDC for seven years. Hostess asks her to ``slow down``. Refers to keeping gender info off business cards, but optional to title herself Ms. Deep selective fading, maybe sporadic E, and marred by audio dropouts. Is it that tough to get a reliable feed from Washington to Grimesland? 2057 reverts to French, this having been LL called ``Anglais - Télé``, so a TV spot? 15185 runs weekends only for this semi-hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 13705, June 30 at 1435, beepery again adjacent to 13700 RHC. At 1443, I ask for help on the WOR iog: ``Again today at 1435 I have some kind of beepery on 13705 just above weaker RHC. Could anyone identify what kind of transmission this is, decode or even identify it? Glenn``. Walt Salmaniw, BC, replies: ``Glenn, it's the VOA! Here's what I decoded in MFSK32 at 14:59 from Victoria, best on 13705 LSB (using FLdigi): `Gracias por recibir y decodificar este texto por radio de la Voz de América. ϵbnd Envíe su informe de recepción a mdail@usagm.gov Please send your reception report to mdail@usagm.gov` OK, now to figure out from where? 73, Walt`` ``!Surely Grimesland/Greenville. Does Kim Elliott know anything about this? Glenn`` From: Volodya S Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2021 11:06 AM To: Macon Dail Subject: Reception on 13705 ``I read about an unknown transmission on 13705 using a digital mode. This morning, just before 15:00 UTC, I quickly tuned to the channel and was able to decode the following using FLDigi software. I'm located in Victoria, BC, Canada and used a Perseus SDR radio, and a Flag antenna. I'd appreciate information on where this transmission originates, the power, antenna azimuth, and purpose of the transmission. I recall the old VOA Radiogram show from years ago from Kim Elliott. Many thanks! Walter Salmaniw MD`` Reply: ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Macon Dail Date: Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 3:41 PM Subject: RE: Reception on 13705 To: Volodya S ``Hi Walter, Thank you for inquiring about our transmission. This was just a generic test transmission using the familiar Radiogram format. The transmitter power was about 70 kW. If you would like a QSL card, I would be glad to send one to you. Best regards, ------------------------------------ Macon M. Dail, Jr. Supervisory Electronics Engineer Transmitter Plant Supervisor Engineering and Technical Operations Edward R. Murrow Transmitting Station 3919 VOA Site B Road Grimesland, NC 27837-8977 mdail@usagm.gov 252-758-2171 cid:image001.png@01D2090F.CA155200`` [USAGM Seal] ``OC after 15:00 and carrier cut about 1502:30. Pretty much confirms Greenville, Glenn. Note that Kim Elliot is included in the response! Cheers! Walt`` Still questionable is how this was mixed up with RHC audio yesterday, and why VOA happened to pick such an adjacent frequency? (Glenn Hauser, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2091 monitoring: Richard Lemke, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada, reports: ``From, the desk of Richard’s listening Post, Radio: JRC NRD-535 HF Antenna: random long wires in the trees Dear Glenn: I checked, confirmed, and heard World of Radio #2091 although with the voice your sore throat, I hope things are getting better I hope it wasn’t covid 19 related just a seasonal allergy, it will pass, Next week it might be too hot listening to my shortwave even outside it will be close to 90 F (32C) and even up to 36C (99 F). Is this climate change even for being up North is getting ridiculous, Broadcaster (shortwave): WRMI, Time used UTC: 0130 - 0159, 2230 - 2259, 0030 - 0059, Time used UTC: 0230 - 0259, 1030 - 1100, 2200 - 2230, Date heard in UTC: June 18, 20, 21, 23 UTC 2021, Monitoring, 5850 khz, QRN, 5850 kHz, 0130 (45443), 0158 (55343), (55434), 0159, 5850 kHz, June 18 UTC 2021 [Fri] 9955 khz, 9955 kHz, 2230, just heard jingle, 9955 kHz, 2259, June 20 UTC 2021 [Sun] 7730 kHz, 7730 kHz, 0031, 0058, sore throat, 0058, 7730 kHz, June 21 UTC 2021 [Mon] 5800 kHz, pinball noise, siren, static, 5800 kHz, 0230 (55343), 0259 (55333), 0259, 5800 kHz, June 21 UTC 2021 [Mon] 5850 kHz, 5850 kHz, 1029, 1041 (55433), 1044, 5850 kHz, June 23 UTC 2021 [Wed] 9955 kHz, 9955 kHz, 2227, S 5 signal, 2229, 9955 kHz, June 23 UTC 2021 [Wed] (Lemke, Richard -AB)`` ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2091 monitoring: confirmed UT Thursday June 24 at 0130 on WRMI 5010: S9+20 into Pardinho, Brasil WOR 2092 is available as of 0029 UT Friday June 25, 2021 (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2092.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2092.mp3 Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html Also linx to podcast services. WORLD OF RADIO 2092 contents: Antarctica non, Australia, Brasil, Canada, Cyprus, Ethiopia non, Greenland, Iran and non, Ireland non, Japan, Kashmir non, Korea North non, Korea South non, Myanmar, Nigeria non, Perú, Russia, (Taiwan), (UK), USA, Vanuatu; propagation outlook The shortwave+ broadcasts should be: 0130 UT Friday WRMI 5850 to NW, 7780 to NE 1100 UT Friday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB 2030 UT Friday IRRS 918-Italy 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 1300 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB 1801 UT Saturday IRRS 7290-Bulgaria to WNW, 918-Italy 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400] 1100 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB 2000 UT Sunday IRRS 918-Italy 2200vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE [new] 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE 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 to Gerald T Pollard, Raleigh NC, for a generous quarterly check in US funds on a US bank starting each season, to: Glenn Hauser, Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) WORLD OF RADIO 2092 monitoring: confirmed first SW broadcasts, UT Friday June 25 at 0130 on WRMIs direct: 5850 S9+20/30 yet not completely solid; 7780 S9/+20 vs storm noise. Next: 2030 UT Friday IRRS 918-Italy 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE 1300 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB 1801 UT Saturday IRRS 7290-Bulgaria to WNW, 918-Italy 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400] 1100 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB 2000 UT Sunday IRRS 918-Italy 2200vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE [new] 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE 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 2092 monitoring: confirmed new UT Sat 0130 June 26 on WRMI 9395, S9+10 but noisy. Abrupt cut from end of RAE English with no ID break - I think they are in English here only on UT Saturdays? Also confirmed Sat June 26 at 1315 the 1300 on WRMI 15770, JBA but sounds like me. Also confirmed Sat June 26 at 1615 the 1600 on WRN webcast. See AUSTRALIA: no more WOR nor any SW 3210 from Unique Radio! Next: 1801 UT Saturday IRRS 7290-Bulgaria to WNW, 918-Italy 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400] 2000 UT Sunday IRRS 918-Italy 2200vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE [new] 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE 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 2092 monitoring: confirmed Saturday June 26 at 1800 on IRRS 7290 via Bulgaria and 918 kHz MW via Italy. Monitored on UTwente SDR and Noale SDR respectively simultaneously; disregarding internet delays: 918 tune-in at 1753 during music, S9+16 weaker than usual at local range, and undermodulated? At 1758:49 it switches to Aïda theme as it starts, for about a minute and brief IRRS sign-on, pause, and WOR starts. 7290 S9+25 open carrier with warble on upper side, stays on until 1759:49, abruptly joining Aïda in progress. As WOR gets underway it`s received about 5 seconds later on 7290 than on 918. Also confirmed UT Sunday June 27 from 0320 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO. Heavy storm noise direct; nearby KB0FX SDR is offline. Audible on KS SDR and Muscatine IA SDR. Next: 2000 UT Sunday IRRS 918-Italy 2200vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE [new] 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE 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 2092 monitoring; next: 2000 UT Sunday IRRS 918-Italy 2200vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE [new] 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE 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 2092 monitoring: NOT confirmed Sunday June 27 at 2000 as scheduled on IRRS via AM Italia, 918 kHz, as monitored via nearby Noale SDR: music keeps playing past 2001 and the signal is weaker than usual, only S9+17. I let it run in the background, and think I hear me at 2012, but turned up at 2015 it`s their local YL ID ``Have a good listening``, and more music. NOT confirmed Sunday June 27 at 2200 on Area 51 via WBCQ, 6159.878v. I don`t get to check until 2227 when the air is dead on an S7-S9 carrier into Maryland SDR; did not get webcast checked before WOR would have ended at 2229. 6160- continues dead air past 2230 into HRI slot, but at 2241 it`s now modulating and also webcasting. (Other WBCQ with `UBMP` is S9 on 7488.861v.) Confirmed Sunday June 27 at 2240 the 2230 on WRMI 9955, S9/+10 atop Cuban pulse jamming. Also confirmed UT Monday June 28 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, S9+10/20. Also confirmed UT Monday June 28 at 0130 on WRN webcast to N America. Also confirmed UT Monday June 28 at 0230 on WRMIs into Maryland SDR: 7780 VG S9/+20; 5800 S8/S9+10, but the latter better out here. Nexts, not until Wednesday: 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 2092 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday June 30 at 2100 on WRMI 7780, S7-S8 into Maryland SDR; and 19 seconds later on WBCQ 7488.882, S9 to same SDR, showing minus 118 Hz carrier offset. NOT confirmed Wed May 30 at 2200 on WRMI 9955! Another cancellation without notice; still on skedgrid but instead some gospel huxter in Spanish. Next, and last: 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 to Gerald T Pollard, Raleigh NC, for a generous quarterly check in US funds on a US bank starting each season, to: Glenn Hauser, Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com. New WOR 2093 should be ready by early UT Friday July 2 at 0130 on WRMIs 5850 & 7780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. (6159.9v), UT Sat June 26 at 0010-0100 I monitor the Area 51/61 WBCQ webcast for `Allan And Angela Weiner World Wide` - AAAWWW; but tuned in 10 minutes late. Allan is in a big rant for the whole hour, seems like bordering on paranoia, but I`m sure he would not see it that way. I take more notes than I should have, but some of them may be illegible as I try to transcribe them, may be paraphrased rather than verbatim quotes: Unnamed forces are trying to take down this SW station, out of jealousy, ignorance, hatred. They will be punished! As of July 1 there will be *more* Overcomer on WBCQ frequencies. We are under attack right now. We know who the perpetrators are and they will not succeed, and will be punished severely for what they have done. I`m sick of being treated like crap. Stealing is a broad term; can apply to trust, faith, confidence, privacy, not necessarily tangible things. 0019 false stop to rant. It`s getting harder and harder to run these beloved stations against Satanic forces. My peace, love and understanding generation failed. 538 people should be charged with treason. [538: that is the name of a well-regarded political podcast known for elexion predixion accuracy; but 538 is also the number of Electors in the College: 100 senators + 435 reps + 3 miscellaneous --- gh] Money laundering; Satan is always grabbing at your soul. These beautiful radio stations are under attack, trying to destroy them. WBCQ does not make any money; staff are paid, but Angela worx for nothing except access to Allan. No one makes money in SW -- ask Jeff White or WWCR. WBCQ should be charging $200 an hour for airtime. 0029, time for a tutorial against Socialism which is what Democrats and the Left are bringing on. 0030, interrupted by a phone call from Tim [not Tron!], who is allowed to go on and on for a dekaminute; 0040 finally blows him off after he starts quoting Aryan Resistance` Tom Metzger in Iowa. Datestamp as 25 June YOOL 2021. 0041 starts to read from 1966 World Book Encyclopaedia -- remember those? about evils of Communism. But interrupted by a call from cosmikdebris = Larry Will, objecting to previous caller`s white supremacism which Allan did not contradict. It`s all Free Speech! Until 0049, as prompted, Allan denounces KKK, Nazis, etc., but defends putting them on air. 0053 back to WBE on Communism. 0057 e-mail from Patrick denouncing Biden as being controlled by the CCP = Chinese Communist Party; prayer and off. Here`s John Carver`s summary: ``Tonight's AAWWW --- Tonight's show started a few seconds early on both 6160 and 7490. Storming here, so neither one has a great signal. Allan and Angela in the studio in Maine sharing a microphone as one is broken. Allan is in a bad mood this evening. Allan is upset about everything around him. Then a small rant about communism and socialism. Keeps repeating that the station is under attack as is free speech. Phone call at 0029 breaks the rant briefly as it was turning political but it continues with the phone call. At 0041 Allan starts to read from the World Book Encyclopedia about communism but is interrupted by a phone call from Larry Will complaining about the previous caller. Allan responds with the usual free speech talk but does thank Larry for calling to rebut a call that he didn't agree with. Back to reading from the encyclopedia at 0052. Reading of emails at 0056 and closing prayer at 0059. Program is off the air at 0100. John, Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5800, June 29 at 0553, NO open carrier this Tuesday from presumed WRMI after-hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) However: ** U S A. 7730, June 29 at 0557, open carrier/dead air from this WRMI TOMBS frequency, while the others, 7570, 5850, 5950 and 9395 are OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also SOUTH CAROLINA [non] ** U S A. 5085, UT Sun June 27 at 0025, WTWW-2 has TOUTA underway for a few minutes since I last checked with hamstuff. Also earlier checked 9940- but not running it today. S9+20/10, closing with `Mr Sandman` until 0048, back to rock (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 15825, June 27 at 1417, WWCR-1 gospel huxter is the SSOB rather than JBA, tnx to sporadic E boost; enough to tell that it`s a bit overmodulated, distorted, but no squeal (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5050, June 28 at 0016 on caradio, memory stops on a loud dial tone! Then dead air for at least two minutes 0018+; typical for WWRB on its weekend-only ``schedule`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 750, June 27 at 2233 UT, on caradio a few miles N of Enid on US60/64/81 - northward, eastward and westward at same time all on the same rough stretch of 2-lane highway but being improved? I can get some music, probably gospel in Spanish, vs 740 KRMG splash and storm noise. It`s KMMJ, Grand Island, NE, which resumed recently after months of silence, with new owner and format. LSS for June and July is 0200 UT, as late as it can be for this strange station, so I`m relistening on the DX-398 from 0152 UT June 28. Definitely loops N/S, fortunately just in the null E/W WSB which is gaining by now. YL is singing a slow song which could be mistaken for sad romantic, but surely of praise; can`t make out much of the lyrix. Chops off the air at 0200* sharp, no ID, no goodbye until tomorrow, certainly no formal sign-off. How rude! Who cares? This dog is being wagged by its FM translator tail which does not sign off. Here`s a story about the new KMMJ, site good for regional radio news: https://www.northpine.com/blog/2021/06/21/spanish-christian-format-launches-in-nebraska/ I see the radio-locator.com is up to date except you`d never know it is in Spanish! FCC classifies KMMJ as 10.5 kW direxional same pattern day and night, and UNLIMITED, but it still has to go off at official local sunset. https://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=9937 NRC classifies it L3, as direxional and ``limited time`` annotated as signing-on not at its own sunrise or PSRA, but at *Atlanta* sunrise, which in June and July is 1030 UT. Why bother? Pattern is irregular but a notch toward Atlanta and majorish lobes to north and southwest (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1240+, June 26 at 0604 UT het on the plus side of this graveyard on the DX-398 looping WNW/ESE? Roughly 1240.2. Likely KCRT Trinidad CO, long askew. But *still* not on MWOffsets list. Here`s a review of my logs over the years and the original report, reverse order: 2018: ** U S A. 1240+, Feb 23 at 1453 UT, het on hi side from NW/SE, no doubt the perpetually off-frequency KCRT Trinidad CO as previously identified. Too weak now to get a good measurement vs 1240.00 pileup, but keyboard says the pitch is between E and Eb above Cmiddle, i.e. about 320 Hz. Incredibly, tho this has been the major 1240+off station for years, it`s not on the list at http://www.mwlist.org/mwoffset.php?khz=1240 despite lots of other US graveyarders (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 2017: ** U S A. 1240.20, May 1 at 0427 UT, quite a het against the 1240.0 pileup, presumably KCRT Trinidad CO, reported on 1240.19, as of March 20, 2015 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 2016: KADS on 1240+ is not to be confused with KCRT Trinidad CO, which often can be heard at night with a higher het against the ~1240.00 pileup, reported as 1240.19, as of March 20, 2015. BTW, KCRT is only 250/250 watts rather than the usual graveyard power now of 1000/1000 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 2015 NM Trip Log: 92.5, Sept 14 at 1636, ``Mountain, KCRT, online at KCRT.com``, then dead air for a minute, but VG fully quiet signal. It`s 38.5 kW from Trinidad CO. (This is the one whose AM 1240 is hetting audibly off-frequency at night vs the graveyard pileup; I should have stopped and checked it here, vs remnants of the NM 1240s, if any.) 2015: UNIDENTIFIED. 1240+, March 20 at 0410 UT I am still detecting a low audio het from some off-frequency graveyarder, looping WNW/ESE, a prime suspect being KCRT Trinidad CO. First noticed this in early January, and no one has replied to my inquiries. At this time 1240 caught my attention since somestation had momentarily peaked covering some sillyballgame in English, maybe only Wichita (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 2013: ** U S A. 1240.20, KCRT, CO, Trinidad – 2/10, 1130 [EST] – Good signal. Church service from "Holy Trinity Catholic Church,” legal ID mentioning translator K##FE (99.3 FM). Tuned there and found //. LOUD HET against KRDO others on frequency. Measured at home in Phoenix as 1240.20 kHz. Has been off frequency for at least two years now. Undermodulated (Chris Knight, Walsenburg, CO. 2002 Pontiac Grand Prix car radio, whip antenna, DDXD West, NRC DX News Feb 25 via DXLD) (recap by Glenn Hauser as of June 26, 2021, WOR) ** U S A. 1370, June 26 at 0558 UT ``1370 KGNO`` ID amid music, slightly dominant from NW among the jungle jumble; a rare catch of Dodge City KS activity which cannot be heard any more in the daytime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX-398, WOR) ** U S A. 1370, June 27 at 2339 UT on caradio a few miles N of Enid, is enough to audiblize ``1370 KGNO`` Dodge City KS which I can`t get in Enid on groundwave (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VANUATU [and non]. 7260, June 28 at 0543, JBA carrier, presumed R. Vanuatu back on `normal` sked and about to QSY to 11835. So ahead of time I park on 11834-USB to hear the carrier cut on, which it does at *0559:31, still JBA vs high ~S9 local 24/7 line noise level. [I called it in to OG&E a week ago and a guy came by only to tell me that someone from OKC would have to come up and deal with it when they get around to it. There used to be a powerline noise DF guy in Enid but he`s moved on to a new position. Still QRX] Ron Howard had reported RV AWOL from 7260/11835 for three days June 25-26-27, and had this Reply from Rob Wagner (Australia) on June 27: ``"Yes Ron. Here in mid-winter, I am hearing RV on 7260 for much of the day from 0200 to s/off. My notes show that on June 25, RV was there on 7260 at 0200 but gone when I checked that band again at 0310. Irregular operations and I suspect technical difficulties. I have not checked the other freqs. Rob"`` BTW, we would not be hearing RV on 7260 as early as 0330-0400, rather VOA Somali via Vatican yet VG signal here way off-target, violating Separation of Church and State (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VANUATU. 7260, June 29 before 0559, and 11835 after 0600, JBA carriers from presumed R. Vanuatu resuming normal schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 15329.23-USB approx., June 30 at 0123, weak 2-way INTRUDERS in colloquial Spanish, very difficult to pinpoint with very brief interchanges, the stronger one with ``engine noise``. Hey, who would notice, right smack dab in the middle of an almost vacant broadcast band? Cambio (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 90.1, June 28 at 1518 UT, on household radio listening to KUCO, briefly overcome by gospel huxter in English, i.e. sporadic E trying to break thru, certainly not the usual CCI from also classical Radio Kansas KHCC; and nothing close enough to do that by Vance airplane scatter. So out to the car for DX bandscan, resulting in zilch till I quit at 1537. There is lots of Es on DXMAPs, some spots surpassing 90 or 100 MHz; and guys back east have DXed OK stations, but I am not so lucky in reverse. But then I am not constantly monitoring with a big antenna (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)