** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-RCUSB, Sept 11 at 1500 and later chex, LRA36 misses another Saturday broadcast, no signal into Brasil SDR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-RCUSB, Sept 15 at 1429, LRA36 is on, good S5-S8 into Brasil SDR. 1431 ``Nacional Antártida Argentina, en todo el país, la radio pública``, Celsius temps, ``El Lejano Sur``, LRA36 and RNASG IDs; more and more songs and IDs; 1510 ``noticias`` and Antártida song; 1514 ``a partir de`` as if just starting; 1548 the multilingual IDs. Usual stuff, past 1635+. Meanwhile, Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, informed as early as 0518 UT: ``ANTARCTICA, 15476usb, LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza. The station staff announces via whatsapp that they will be on the air today Wednesday with a marathon program, 24 hours uninterrupted. I guess they will start at 1400 UTC, like other Wednesdays with its usual program.`` All day and all night? Maybe, but NO signals into 3 Brasilian SDRs at recheck 2258; obviously they need a lower band at night. The whatsapp jpg includes a truncated direct audio link: ...mp3.icecast.magma.edge-access.net... (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ARGENTINA [non]. 9395, Sept 14 at 0100, RAE, ``Argentina to the World``, via WRMI, English announcer Fernando Farías explains that for the past sesquiyear since March 2020 they have all been working from home and producing one program per week; hope before long to get back into the studio for five per week, M-F. Plugs address for eQSLs: QSLRAE@gmail.com BTW, it doesn`t matter whether e-mail addresses are in caps or not or both; unlike URLs after / (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** BRAZIL. 9665.854V, Sept 13 at 0610, Brazuguese talk fair from RVM, frequency wobbling slightly to the ear. Its overall variation is much wider. Also a JBA het from something closer to 9665.00, no doubt KCBS Pyongyang on here 22 hpd. No hint on Aoki that RVM varies widely; EiBi shows 9665.2 as if it were steady there. Better than Aoki which refuses to show a single variable, split-, off- or decimal frequency, even perpetual long-established ones. Better than HFCC which refuses to recognize that there is any SW from Brasil (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 328-MCW kHz, Sept 13 at 0555 UT, ND beacon dash and YTL, which is 1000 watts from Big Trout Lake, Ontario. 284-MCW kHz, Sept 13 at 0556 UT, ND beacon dash and QD, which is 500 watts from The Pas, Manitoba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 6754-USB, Sept 14 at 0040, CHR is back at least on night frequency; still nothing earlier in Sept 13 daytime chex on 15034-USB. Recent aviation weather for Keflavík succeeds; but the other infostream, terminal forecasts, gets ``No Report Received``, from Shannon, Prestwick, Keflavík!, Lajes. ``Trenton Military`` timecheck at 0042 claims it`s only 0040 zulu, typical. Then Shearwater av wx succeeds (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 6754-USB, Sept 15 at 0147 UT, CHR is inaudible again; despite high storm noise level should still be detectable if on. 15034-USB, Sept 15 at 1418, Trenton Military finally reactivated here, in aviation weather without ``no-report-receiveds``, but then terminal forecasts are NRRs from several including Trenton itself. At 1422 ID and wrong timecheck as 1420 zulu. Day frequency had been unheard for about a month (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammers Sept 12 at 1359: JBA carriers on 12880, 12820 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA [and non]. 6030, Sept 10 at 0707, traces of comedic CFVP Calgary but now Cuban jamming dominates and also strings of beeps, like 16 in a row, then pause, as sometimes also infect jammed frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 12000, Sept 11 at 0618, RHC English is S8-S9, easy copy in routine bandscan, which means fundamental 6000 is running past usual 0600v*; yes, it`s S9+20/30 there. Midnight MUF from Cuba is hot tonight; but no sign of harmonix on 12120=RTTY, 12200 or 12330. At 0631 check, 6100 is off but 6060 still on at S9+10/20 with horrible intermittent humbuzz; 6165 S9+30 with lite hum and distortion. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 11930 & 11860, Sept 11 at 0621, residual pulse jamming against nothing are also propagating in the nightmiddle. SAWA. 11462, Sept 11 at 0623, also has S9+20 of dead air, no doubt Spy Numbers transmitter at one of same sites as RHC & its harmonix, but per EiBi sked 0454-0550 & 0854-0950 only on days 246 = UT Tue/Thu/Sat. SAWA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 12000, Sept 13 at 0601, RHC English heard just in time on 2 X much stronger 6000 before both turn off. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6145, Sept 14 at 0050, S9+20/30, RHC English is here on alternate frequency to 6165! // 6000, but I doubt it will last. Something`s always wrong? at RHC. Good news for WBCQ Area 61, now in the clear on 6159.951 --- see U S A. 6145, Sept 14 at 0617 next check, S9+30, still here not 6165, during wide-ranging N America weather info from Chief Meteorologist, typically around :15 into one of the English hours. 6000 is off but 6100, 6060 humbuzzy and even 5040 are still on in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6165, Sept 15 at 0150, RHC English is back here after jump to 6145 yesterday only; // 6000. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 6100, Sept 15 at 0621, RHC in wrong language Spanish instead of English, which does remain on 6165, 6060 under humbuzz, while 6000 and 5040 are off. Wolfgang Bueschel explains the 6060: 6060even CUB, RHC Bauta in Spanish, BUZZ STRING bad audio / modulation performance, 9 x heavy strings visible either sideband, each 9 X times at 120 Hertz distance apart. Bad main power serving. 1080 Hertz broadband buzzy audio. Log 0150 to 0245 UT on Wednesday September 15, at AJ1L Massachusetts eastern US state, and at VE6JY at Edmonton Alberta Canada SDR remotedly`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** FRANCE [and non]. Correxion: my chex for RFI on 11m band during the 15-16 UT hour in Swahili, 25800, should have been on 25775 as registered in latest HFCC with 500 kW. I was thinking 25800 for 11m but that`s the frequency allegedly in use by World Music Radio, Denmark. It originally planned a frequency right next to RFI, but escaped to 25800. Axually, HFCC Sept 10 shows it could equally land on 25795, 25800 or 25805, 2 kW due south. Anyhow, we know WMR is inaudible into South Africa or Kuwait SDRs on 25800, while RFI has stayed on 21690, presumably alone. But from now on, 25775 is the one to check. Wolfgang Bueschel confirms that 25775 was not to be heard Sept 10. While we`re at it, anything else in HFCC on 11m? Yes, three, all possibly 24 hours a day but more likely for local groundwave than trans-oceanic: 26000, 50 kW, 306 degrees from Spaceline, Bulgaria to W Europe. They register wooden frequencies all over the bands, just in case. 26010, 100 kW ND from Vatican, placeholder in the !IRDR! Disaster Relief service, which perhaps beyond some tests, AFAIK has never been activated, as if the world is not experiencing plenty of disasters. Looks good on paper, tho. 26040, 1 kW ND from Berlin, Germany, probably experimental; only one specified N = DRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** FRANCE. 25775, Sept 11 at 1546, no signal from RFI Swahili into Kuwait or RSA SDRs, but RSA still gets S5-S6 on 21690 until 1559*. I also check both for WMR Denmark on 25795, 25800, 25805, but zilch (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** FRANCE. 21690, Sept 12 at 1524, JBA carrier into Kuwait SDR, presumed RFI Swahili, and still nothing on S-21 registered 25775 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** FRANCE. 21690, Sept 14 at 1532, RFI Swahili JBA into Kuwait SDR, nothing yet on registered 25775 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KASHMIR [non]. 15170, Sept 14 at 1524, Kashmir Civitas reconfirmed this Tue, S8-S9 into UTwente, passionate speech in presumed Urdu with background noise; 1527 back to quiet studio talk with strumming background until chopped off at 1529.2*, via IRRS via ROMANIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MALI. 5995, Sept 15 at 0628, ORTM better than usual S9/+10 with strumming and yelling, into non-French talk. Normally audible by 0600 whether or not RHC has closed 6000 by then (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. MRI writes me early UT Sept 9: ``Hello Glenn. I am working on another classical show. I may load it into radio broadcast software I am testing. If the propagation is good and band noise is low maybe this Thursday or Friday or Saturday evening around 2200 UTC. I will try to use the 43M band. You can publicize it. Thank you for posting your QSL on WOR. By the way if you listen on a Kiwi SDR move the left slider little below into LSB. This will pick up my bass audio. Move the right slider out to 6K for the highs. You can also use IQ mode and open the right slider all the way to 6 Kc. I mostly use IQ mode on kiwi. My audio response is from 10 Hz up to (12.5 Kc SSB sometimes). This is a air check of MRI done by a listener with a SDR opened up to our full bandwidth. He is just a little off frequency otherwise a great recording. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4k6jDbVxHA&t=1s 🎵MIX🎵 MRI Antenna Logo 2.jpg Thanks Mix.Radio.International@protonmail.com`` Busy producing WOR Thu Sept 9 at 2200, couldn`t check but no reports of it yet in HFU. Time later in evening would be better like before until 0340* (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. As in last report, Mix Radio International planned to be back with a new classical music broadcast on Friday or Saturday evening. That`s confirmed on the WOR iog at 0125 UT Sat Sept 11: ``[WOR] Mix Radio International 6.880 MHz USB is quite loud in central NC tonight with relaxing classical music (55545 with a small amount of QSB). Doug, KA5ETS`` White. 6880-USB, I tune in at 0200, S9/+10 into Maryland SDR, while mainly audioviewing Fahrenheit 9/11 on Youtube as provided by Michael Moore. This time there are too-frequent ID breaks and requests for reports of Mix Radio International WorldWide, by YL robovoice, so the music is only in snippets despite the well-developed attention spans of classical fans. Great for DX IDing, however, as some pirates never/hardly ever ID. I note all these breaks but may have missed a few more: 0219, 0223, 0227, 0230, 0235, 0242, 0248, 0257, 0308, 0311, 0318, 0320, 0334, 0341, 0345, 0351, 0353, 0400 until 0401* by when it has faded to S5/S6. A few of the musix noted: Water Music, William Tell Overture, Also Sprach Zarathustra (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 11840, Sat Sept 11 at 1534, Station YHWH is on at S9 direct, usual earnest anti-Christ assertions. This time I beat Rick Barton, AZ in notifying the WOR iog by only one minute, but he was not hearing Josiah Elias until 1540 tune-in (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6950-USB, Sept 13 at 0230, I`m trying to hear something else on a TN SDR but it`s busy, but someone in Houston is tuned to 6950-USB, so it must be a pirate, so I camp on that too. It`s a recording of an old C2CAM show with Art Bell interviewing someone about pirate radio. Someone here thinx it`s Andy Yoder: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,86351.0.html apparently as displayed on the SSTV. Some storm noise and fades, 0236 pitch for QSL cards from a PO Box in zip 49016, which is Battle Creek MI; then plays a clip of some pirate. 0244 clip about wine? and a bit of `Also Sprach Zarathustra`. 0246 interrupted by SSTV until 0247* (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 515-MCW kHz, Sept 12 at 0635 UT & still 1516 chex, 25-watt NDB PN at Ponca City is OFF! It had returned June 26 after a 10- or 11-month absence. Certainly the best NDB signal here, even better than ``local`` 341 EI when it was on; and PN had been noted daily/nightly ever since but not logged. So taking another 11-month break? NO, it`s back on at next check 1829; never mind. BTW, 255 kHz SW Stillwater is still gone. The new https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rna/signals shows only a dozen currently or recently active in OK. The ones I still need: 201 BV Bartlesville, 388 OK Okmulgee, 393 BZ Clinton, 400 AI Ardmore. Marked out are *42* more, gone (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 515-MCW kHz, Sept 14 at 0625 UT, PN, Ponca City, NDB is off again. Seems is becoming sporadic. Still off at 1712 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 515-MCW kHx, Sept 14 at 2212 UT: NDB PN, Ponca City, is now ON (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 960, Sept 13 at 0630 UT, KGWA Enid with promo by J. Curtis Huckleberry for `What`s Up, Enid`, weekly talkshow with guests about local events, Fridays at 8:05 am = 1305 UT. It must preëmpt the first hour of far-right Fox extremist Brian Kilmeade (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 1170, Sept 10 at 0656 UT, ``The New Blitz`` in stupid sportstalk, and the call letters no longer sound like KFAQ; 0659 has a fast SAH vs algo, and BTW, Tulsa station is still very much IBOC ruining KSL 1160 from 1157 and whatever on 1180 from 1183. Does KSL still return the disfavor on 1173? Too comparably weak to be sure. Then ID as ``The Blitz, KTSB``. So as suspected, not only format flip by same owners as KWTV & KOTV, but also new calls, goodbye to KFAQ. FCC AM Query can no longer find any KFAQ, since KTSB replaced it as of Sept 6; KFAQ replaced original KVOO on May 10, 2002, ``Voice of Oklahoma``. Original license, as KVOO? started July 19, 1926. Later lent its letters to the original channel A2, KVOO-TV, later the ugly call KJRH. I wonder what KTSB signify? The Sports Blitz? They could have made it KBTZ or KBLZ, neither of which is applicable to any existing AM station (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR) ** PUERTO RICO. 391-MCW kHz, Sept 12 circa 0630, among almost nightly chex, I`m alert for beacon DDP at Dorado, as frequently but not always audible in winter, my only LA NDB, but no sign of it yet. Could it be off? No, still reported at classaxe.com as of 9/11, with speculation that power be 3 kW instead of only 2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ROMANIA. 13660, Sept 11 at 1529, RRI IS, 1530 opening Arabic as scheduled this hour. Wasn`t sure of language at first, Romanian-accented? Our SWBC bands will be even more vacant once RRI give up (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9670, Sept 12 at 2212, JBA S3-S6 talk, sounds same as on huge 9980 WWCR, but not // synchro, i.e. Brother HyStairical, which Channel 292, GERMANY, has sold it soul to for time-filling $$$. Rolling in dough, TOM no more now than under BS himself, has any concept of spending it wisely, i.e. C292 is useless in `serving` NAm while they are also on numerous high-power US frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 17855, Fri Sept 10 at 2200, token English first ID in Spanish as ``Radio Exterior de España``, then ``English language service``; the other three also on, but all much weaker, 15520, 11940, 11670 direct. First, Justin Coe with a good roundup of news about Spain. He said something musical would follow, but it starts at 2210 without introduction, sounds like modern classical music for wind and piano (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 17855, Mon Sept 13 at 2200, REE, English token semihour still propagating sufficiently on daring MUF-abutting frequency starting out at ``midnight`` local time -- really less than 2200 local *mean* time; but, still I may listen on the PL-880 portable with nothing more than a few meters clipped on; altho it fades somewhat, and this old PL-880 annoyingly keeps switching between wide and narrow bandwidths without any buttonic intervention. Justin Coe forecasts, after current events, another edition of the `DX Program` which is really nothing but a mailbag --- and the issue of naming, or re-naming it does not come up this week. The first dekaminute is really more about the René Magritte art exhibition opening tomorrow in Madrid --- https://www.museothyssen.org/en/exhibitions/magritte-machine and a singer dying, than about hard news. 2210 a song. 2212 DX Program starts: first got a card portraying Myrtle Beach SC from Otto? Schwartz just across the border in Calabash NC. It was sent on August 23 but just arrived. Quotes his reception report of the 8/18 program with some of the topix, which is rather incestuous if not pointless now. Including music by Javier García who it seems J.C. has featured more than once. SINPO 45544 into his DX-440; and he also heard the 7/24 program. Then a brief voice mail from WOR iog member Peter Jones in GB, who was hoping for a resumption of the English-language podcasts, never mind SW. J.C. explains they are still missing due to a staff shortage but hopes that will soon, unknown when, be rectified, ¿mañana? Rest of program is a song, `Noche Tranquila y Serena`, the lyrix of which J.C. first reads in translation. 2220 song starts with SFX of waves lapping? 2228 outro that the song was dedicated to both writers-in, adiós and a bit more music to semihour timepips and into French. One wonders if any more than two English listeners had contacted in the last month? Is there an e-mail address direct to Justin, in addition to p-mail and v-mail? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 15520, Sept 14 at 1514, REE in Spanish, S6-S9. Off the back, to ME but best chance for us if we want to hear it before 1800 M-F, when 17855 opens thisaway (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, Sept 10 at 2159, VOT is JBA for English to N America direct, totally blocked on USB by RTTY, but escaping that on LSB tuning, it`s still unreadable S5-S7 because it`s just barely modulated. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, Sept 12 at 2208, VOT English is on but heavy RTTY adding up to S9+20/30. Sometimes RTTY can be evited by LSB tuning, but now it`s equal on both sides. Something`s always awry at Ankara -- in this case, ever choosing an RTTY-occupied frequency! Which they keep doing A-season after A-season (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9540, Sept 13 at 1428, S8/S9+10 YL talk with very heavy flutter, presumably VOT Arabic hour as scheduled, rather than CNR1 jamming vs SOH (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, Sept 15 at 2200, VOT English strong but with RTTY QRM on plus side into Maryland SDR; by sign-off 2248 the RTTY is hardly audible, IS until 2254* uncovering it still there (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 400-MCW kHz, Sept 13 at 0552, ND beacon AHQ, which is 25 watts from Wahoo, Nebraska (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 402-MCW kHz, Sept 12 at 1356 ND beacon HU, 25 watts from Hutchinson KS. Seldom heard. 414-MCW kHz, Sept 12 at 0647 UT, seems two JBA NDBs mixing; including an S - probably SU, 40 watts from Sioux City IA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 13565-CW, Sept 15 at 1414, HIFER beacon K6FRC is JBA with call repeating only, allegedly 1.8 milliwatts from Patterson CA, and never audible more than an hour later than this (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO monitoring: Richard Lemke, Alberta, reports: ``breaking news, new air time 0030 UTC, Dear Glenn: Just ran across your show on 9395 kHz, with good signals at 0030 - 0100 just before Argentina to the world begins, Sep 9 UTC, 2021 Richard 73’s`` Then I check the WRMI program skedgrid and find not only that but some other additions: UT Friday 0330 on 5985* - first time on this frequency, to South UT Sunday 0030 on 7730 to WNW [in addition to same UT Monday] UT Monday 0030 not only 7730 but also 9395 NNW, 9455 WNW UT Thursday 0030 not only 9395 but also 9455 WOR 2102 confirmed UT Thu Sept 9 at 0130 on WRMI 5010, as usual VP direct as it`s aimed south, reads S9 but high noise level. WORLD OF RADIO 2103 contents: Afghanistan non, Antarctica, (Armenia), Australia, Brasil, Canada, China/East Turkistan, Eritrea/Ethiopia, France, (Germany), Guinea, Japan and non, Korea North and non/Korea South, Macedonia North, Mauritius, North America, Portugal, (Taiwan), UK, USA, (Uzbekistan); Beacon of Hate; Havana Syndrome; propagation outlook (countries mentioned with others not in alfabetical order) Confirmed first broadcasts UT Friday September 10 at 0130 on WRMIs: 5850 VG direct S9+20/30; 7780 S9+10 but sounds much weaker and had started fading down just before WOR. *New airing UT Fri 0330 on 5985: NOT confirmed Sept 10; instead, Wavescan is running! I`ve asked Jeff whether WOR will start next week, and to confirm or deconfirm the other new airings as above which I also cited opening WOR 2103. From 0328, 5985 ran IS & ID loop, BBB convinced that programming will start at ``top of the hour``!! Except when it`s the BoH, S9/+10 VG into Bonaire SDR but needs narrowing or uppering to avoid Cuban jamming from 5980. Note: 5985 frequency is WRMI-14 on 181 degree antenna, same as 5010 at 2100-0300. WRMI-2 is also on 5985 zero hours per day at 222 degrees to Central America. WOR 2103 is available as of 0013 UT Friday September 10, 2021 (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2103.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2103.mp3 Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html Also linx to podcast services. The shortwave+ broadcasts should be: [NOTE SOME NEW TIMES ON WRMI] 0130 UT Friday WRMI 5850 to NW, 7780 to NE [confirmed] 0330 UT Friday WRMI 5985 to S [new][NOT, yet? See above] 2030 UT Friday IRRS 918-Italy 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1801 UT Saturday IRRS 7290-Bulgaria to WNW, 918-Italy 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7730 to WNW [new] 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0430] 2000 UT Sunday IRRS 918-Italy 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 to NE [new] 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW; 9395 to NNW, 9455 to WNW [news] 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 9455 to WNW [news] 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; via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com One may also contribute by MO or check in US funds on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2103 monitoring: confirmed Friday September 10 from 2030.6 on IRRS Shortwave via Italia AM, 918 kHz, Villa Estense, following ID which cut off previous unID talk program, as usual; VG S9+32 into nearby Noale SDR. Next: 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1801 UT Saturday IRRS 7290-Bulgaria to WNW, 918-Italy 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7730 to WNW [new] 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0430] 2000 UT Sunday IRRS 918-Italy 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 to NE [new] 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW; 9395 to NNW, 9455 to WNW [news] 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 9455 to WNW [news] 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; via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com One may also contribute by MO or check in US funds on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2103 monitoring: confirmed UT Saturday September 11 on WRMI 9395, VG S9+5/10 into Maryland SDR. Next: 1801 UT Saturday IRRS 7290-Bulgaria to WNW, 918-Italy 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7730 to WNW [new; to be confirmed] 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0430] 2000 UT Sunday IRRS 918-Italy 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 to NE [new] 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW; 9395 to NNW, 9455 to WNW [news] 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 9455 to WNW [news] 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2103 monitoring: confirmed Saturday September 11 at 1804 tune-in to the 1800.6 on IRRS SW 7290 via Bulgaria into UTwente SDR, VG S9+20/30. Also a few seconds apart on Italia AM, 918 kHz, S9+27 into nearby Noale SDR. Also confirmed Sat Sept 11 from 1933 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO VG via nearby KB0FX SDR. Also confirmed UT Sun Sept 12 at new time 0030 on WRMI 7730, VG direct. Also confirmed UT Sun Sept 12 from 0338 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, Wentzville MO via nearby Warrenton SDR, S9 with a few storm crashes tho per Blitzortung none closer than NW Nebraska. Next: 2000 UT Sunday IRRS 918-Italy 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 to NE [new] 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW; 9395 to NNW, 9455 to WNW [news] 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 9455 to WNW [news] 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2103 monitoring: confirmed Sunday September 12 after 2000 in IRRS SW via Italia AM 918 kHz, S9+23 into nearby Noale SDR, but unusually with a hint of music CCI beneath. Probably R. Inter, Madrid, 20 kW which reactivated since WRTH listing as inactive; shows other 918s in Egypt, Greece, Holland, Iran, Nigeria. Rock music was playing at 1959; 2000 interrupt for IRRS ID, and WOR by 2001. Also confirmed, Sun Sept 12 after 2230 on WRMIs: 9955 S9+23 and new 5950 S9+20 into Athens GA SDR. Also confirmed UT Mon Sept 13 at 0030 on WRMIs: 7730 VG direct; also on new 9395, S3-S8 into Maryland SDR but not getting 9455; on new 9455, S9/+10 into Missouri SDR. Also confirmed UT Mon Sept 13 at 0130 on WRN webcast to N America. At 2238 UT Sept 12, I posted: ``[WOR] SuperStition back on 9330 --- At 2215 Sept 12, WBCQ 9330 at S9+40/50 so must be the 500 kW -- a rock opera, so a test? Hardly what would be coming from World`s Last Chance. Not // 7490- or 6160-``. Followed at 0118 UT Sept 13: ``[WOR] 9330 testing, Area 51 relay --- Hi Glenn, the superstation is relaying Area 51 tonight on 9330 while they're testing the transmitter's new tube. I expect to hear WOR at the usual time // 6160. {500 kW, WBCQ. 0300v UT Monday} Lw (Larry Will, 0112:46 UT Sept 12)`` ``Yes, WOR started at 0303.5 on 9330, but checked at 0304, 6160 has switched to Brother Scare! Let`s hope the 9330 test last at least until 0332..5. BTW a Kiwi shows 9330 plus 32 Hz, S9+40/50 into TN. Glenn`` ``No worries, Glenn. The entire WOR played as did the program after. Most of the evening Brother Scare would return to 6160 at the top of the hour until someone would switch it back. I believe it was all Brother Scare all the time after 0100 or thereabouts. I quit checking after 0130 and left it on 9330. John [Carver] Mid-North Indiana`` at 0449 UT Sept 13. ``Larry, Tnx, it sure did while 6160 went back to BS already. Too bad my unexpected closing remark was cut off. Glenn`` Next: 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 9455 to WNW [news] 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2103 monitoring: asleep thru the Sept 15, Wed 1030 on WRMI 5850; anyone hear it? ``From: Richard Lemke, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada, From the desk of Richard’s listening Post, radio: JRC NRD-535 HF, Antenna: random long wires in the trees. Dear Glenn: I heard this week’s World of Radio #2103, they will be posted below the details, 9395 kHz, s7, s9 near end, 9395 kHz, 0038, 0044, 0059 (45443), 0058, 9395 kHz, Sep 9 UTC 2021 [Thu, NEW] 0130-0159, static, 5850 kHz, 0135, 0140, 0156 (55434), 0159, 5850 kHz, Sept 10 UTC 2021 [Fri] 0130-0159, static QRN, 9395 kHz, s9 signal, 0159, 9395 kHz, Sept 11 UTC 2021 [Sat] 2230-2259, QSB fading, static QRN, 9955 kHz, 2230, 2242 (45442), 2259, 9955 kHz, Sep 12 UTC 2021 [Sun] 0030-0059, Static noise, two frequencies heard 7730 and 9395 kHz, 9395 kHz, 0045 (45433), 7730 kHz, 0044 (ID half way mark), 0059, 7730 kHz, Sep 13 UTC 2021 [Mon] 5850 kHz, 1030, 1031 (45443), 1059, 5850 kHz, Sep 15 UTC 2021 [Wed} (Lemke, Richard -AB)`` Wed Sept 15 at 2100 direct, not checking webcast or remotes: WRMI 7780 JBA. WBCQ 7490 NO signal, nor on 9330, closed for storm? Blitzortung shows a nearly straight lightning front all the way from Knoxville to New Brunswick. Not the first time that WOR`s slot has been so vulnerable. By 2123 recheck both are audible including WOR on 7489.9v. Next: 0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 9455 to WNW [news] 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; via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com One may also contribute by MO or check in US funds on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. (7489.9v), UT Sat Sept 11 at 0000, WBCQ webcast of `AAAWWW` as I quickly confirm via Maryland SDR that all four are on air: 3265, 4790-, 6160-, 7490-, but still no SuperStition on 9330. From the outset it`s clear this is going to be another Biden-bash relating to 9/11 anniversary, Afghanistan, and COVID-19; the latter of which however A&A admit they have got shot against the ``synthetic virus``. Yet Angela goes on her anti-vax rants making Allan sound reasonably moderate. Annoying caller Freddie soon allowed to butt in. 0027 finally date stamp as 10 Sept YOOLF 2021. Then a call from Ryan who asks what med school Allan went to? Did not, but as he frequently asserts is ``a man of science``. 0031 says quadri-casting, asks for emails. [Allan likes to utter ``kilocycles`` as if it were the same as ``kilohertz``. They are NOT; as a Man of Science, I know that ``kilocycles`` by itself is meaningless, unless it is PER A UNIT OF TIME, i.e. kilocycles PER SECOND, which is how Kilohertz is defined, including the ``per second`` without having to specify it, otherwise ``kHz/sec`` would be accelerating.] Working on SS now. Got replacement tetrode about a week ago. Crate has 10 steel suspension springs, must be worth 5 grand. Tube sits in red cradle. Going to get some fittings; warm up tube tonight. Filament struxure is fascinating. Takes 19 v at 1000 amps = 19,000 watts. About size of a large tomato can; unknown what kind of alloy, whole can lights up and glows, takes 10-15 minutes to warm that filament up to avoid short-circuit. Tube is water-cooled. 10 psi, 35-40 gallons per minute, circulating thru anode sexion. Controls up to a megawatt of power; losses tho is pretty efficient. At average modulation, draws 950 kW off powerline. ``FCC and other idiots out there will see their day in court.`` Etc., etc. 0054 checking email: Cosmikdebris from beach in DE reception report; tomorrow evening, their `Lumpy Gravy` thousandth episode 8 PM ET on 6160- live from DE. Four minutes ahead of time, someone complains that stream drops out at 53rd minute of each hour --- NOT for me tonight! SS hopefully back on air by Monday. 0059 prayer. John Carver`s version: ``Tonight's show started on time on 4790, 6160 and 7490. Allan and Angela in the studio. Opening talk about 9/11 and the anniversary tomorrow. Phone call at 0009 from Freddie. Quickly turns into some Biden bashing and Covid talk. Results in an argument between Allan and Angela. Another phone call at 0028 asking Allan where he studied for his medical degree. Then some talk about the ongoing work being done to get the superstation going again. Talk about how much power needed to heat the tube and how much water must be pumped to keep it cool. Also a passing reference to a a veiled threat to take the FCC to court over the WHRI sale. Long conversation between Allan and Angela where Allan spends most of his time trying to calm Angela down and rein her in. Reading of emails at 0054. Closing prayer at 0059. Allan also mentioned that the superstation might be up and running again as early as Monday. Program was off the air at 0100. John, Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9330, WBCQ-6 SuperStition reactivated with new PA tube: first see discussion under WOR monitoring. By 0248 UT Mon Sept 13, 9330 is carrying Area 51 instead of 6160-. S9+40/50 into TN SDR, rock music. 0300 WBCQ ID but ``Debauchery`` show runs over, wrapping up, DJ says he is turning 60, refers to current events; finally 0303 singing ID and into WOR. Recheck at 0603, now it`s USA Radio News, down to only S8-S9 direct, 0606 into rock music with no ID. I suspect it`s now relaying WBCQ`s FM or AM station in Monticello, as USA R Nx is not normally heard on WBCQ-SW itself; but still not handed back to World`s Last Chance flat-earth nonsense. Next check 1425, VG with American-accented gospel huxter, maybe WLCR but I await that exaggerated British accent to be surer (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 6159.951, UT Tue Sept 14 at 0052, Area 61 via WBCQ is in the clear thanks to RHC on 6145 instead of 6165, but don`t count on it to last. Cowboy song finishes, then lament for someone who has died, a member of the Grand Ole Opry; 0053 classic Camel cigarette ad in full, which would be illegal today but OK as an historical relic? Trouble is, Camels still exist, I think. Credit to G.O.O. on AFRS, NBC and WSM, NBC Monitor; Yes, G.O.O. from 13 Sept 1958y is on this week`s Area 61 sked: http://zappahead.net/#2021-0913-area61 BTW, as a non-zappahead, I now know that Larry Will`s `cosmikdebris` handle derives from a Frank Zappa song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp6LT2MdaPI --- and into WBCQ The Planet ID, a few more minutes of music fill before another ID and 0100, Hal Turner touting reaching 70 countries on SW via WRMI & WBCQ, is that all? in addition to his pipsqueak AM outlet in Utah, 13-watt KYAH 540 in Delta. Well, it will be on night power if legal from 0145 in September, from 0100 UT in October. I bet Hal never mentions KYAH coverage, power, which at best is 1 kW days (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9330, Sept 14 at 1517, WBCQ-6 SuperStition is off again after resuming WLCR nonsense yesterday. Hope the new $240K PA tube did not break again? Still absent at 1700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9330, Sept 14 at 2226, WBCQ-6 is on again, only fair here off the side during WLCR Portuguese (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5920-5950, Sept 12 at 0621, splatter range out of Dead Gene Scott on WWCR 5935 at extremely strong level S9+40/50 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 5085, Sept 12 at 0626, S9+10 of dead air from WTWW. They often continue rocking past 0600, but you never know for how long (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 830, Sept 10 at 0638 UT, surprised to hear Jim Bohannon going to a commercial break. Has to be dominant station WCCO Minneapolis, unaware on the Jimbo net. In fact, Jim does not know that either per https://www.jimbohannonshow.com/station-finder/ where only three 830s are in CA, MA and PA, and none beyond the live airtime ending at 0500! Lots of MN, but no station listed in M/SP per se (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1130 kHz, Sept 10 at 2158 and still 2214 UT, KLEY Wellington KS in dead air at S7, 250 watt day power; looks like it`s on the way out again. Had been on consistently since discovered Aug 14 in the middle of the night at 0600 UT despite licensed night power of ONE WATT, after having been gone for almost a year, i.e. just in time a week before its license would have expired August 21 without any activity. Now they can take another 11 months off? Why bother. Cynically their return included illegal day power consistently at night, music often audible vs KWKH (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1130, Sept 11 at 1526 UT, KLEY Wellington KS is still on with dead air failing to modulate. What do you bet the FM translator ``relay`` on 100.3 is doing so? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1130, Sept 14 at 0654 UT, open carrier atop KWKH, no doubt still KLEY Wellington KS, still on air for nothing. 1507 UT in daytime, nothing but S9+20 dead air, ditto at 1700 UT. 1550, Sept 14 at 1508 UT and other chex, still unable to confirm its sibling station also made a license-saving comeback. Only a JBA carrier, DF for Sapulpa OK, not Winfield KS. Maybe KKLE came and went again very briefly; From NRC DX News Sept 21, published Sept 13: ``SILENT STATIONS Formerly silent stations informing the FCC they are back on the air: 1130 KLEY KS Wellington – Silent Aug. 26, 2020; back on the air Aug 12 at 1:30 p.m. local time. 1550 KKLE KS Winfield – Silent Aug. 26, 2020; back on the air Aug 12 at 12 noon local time.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 1520, Sept 13 at 0606, `Red Eye Radio` on KOKC, OKC is getting ripped up by YL obsessed with stupid sportstalk, same voice heard on 1430, 1390 KCRC, 1300, maybe 1130. This has been the normal situation for many months: no one cares that KOLM, Rochester MN is running 10 kW day facility at night; that would be the CBS Sports Radio net as also on KCRC. Of course, KOKC would have a better chance if it cared about resuming 50 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 90.1, Sept 12 at 0600 UT, no sign of KUCO OK, rather KHCC Hutchinson KS. Is KUCO off or with some tropo help has KHCC totally captured the frequency? At 0600-0601 KHCC has double audio, ending `Nightcrossings` with IDs also for its two relay stations, and also BBC top-of-hour ID and promos, 0601-0606 BBC news alone, and stays with BBCWS programming after 0606. I had previously noted Radio Kansas signing off at local midnight, believe it or not, thus no more QRM to KUCO. But that was several months ago. Bigger changes at KHCC: ``Summer Program Schedule Effective July 4th http://www.radiokansas.net/schedule.cfm NOTE: We're losing Morning Edition and All Things Considered July 5th due to new network fee calculation. Our schedule will feature Marketplace at 5 p.m. and The World both morning and evening! New Math and the Loss of Drivetime NPR Thanks for your concern about the loss of Morning Edition (ME) and All Things Considered (ATC). We miss them too! Short story: Our cost for ME & ATC was headed up unsustainably. We’ve transitioned to new programming now rather than risk taking pledges for shows that we know we can't keep. Full story: http://www.radiokansas.net/nprmath.cfm You recognize that NPR charges local stations for most shows. Top-notch programming just can’t happen with national underwriter support alone, and so NPR tries to calculate the value these shows bring to each station and its capacity to pay. They recently changed the math. Any change was bound to increase fees for some stations and decrease fees for others. They wouldn’t want us to share the details of their fee calculation, but after a phase-in period, our fee would go up by $70,393 to keep ME & ATC. (See the screen capture to the right). No new programming to entice this additional support from listeners...`` ME & ATC remain available to Wichita-area Kansans on KMUW 89.1, but KHCC will not mention its arch-rival (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Sept 10 at 0234-0241: 531, 585, 621, 657, 684, 711, 729, 747, 774(2), 837, 855, 882(2), 909, 936(2), 954, 963, 999, 1044* strongest, 1107(2), 1116, 1125, 1152, 1215, 1224, 1305(2), 1422 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search Sept 12 at 0628: 621, 711, 882, 1179, 1296; correlating with Canary Islands - Morocco - - maybe Spain. No 846 so Kiritimati off? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Oceanic JBA MW carrier search, Sept 13 at 0617: 621, 639, 711(2), 747, 846, 882, 1098, 1107 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Sept 15 at 0155 UT, despite high storm noise level from nearby Kansas: 684, 729, 774-, 837, 855, 882, 999, 1044, 1107(2), 1125(2, closer together than the 1107s), 1179, 1305(2), 1485 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 771 kHz, Sept 15 at 0154 UT, JBA carrier, het to 770 stations; very close to 771.00 from the pitch of it but not measured. This of course is not a 9/kHz plan channel, 765 & 774. Possibly some W Hem 770 transmitter mispunched exactly 1 kHz off? Some months ago there was a Cuban on 711, causing confusion with genuine TAs on their correct channel. WRTH lists two of 10 kW on 770, a R. Artemisa and a R. Rebelde. Too weak to get a bearing on it. MW Offsets has nothing more than 19 Hz above 770; the Cubans at .987 and .0015 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 1130, Sept 10 at 0654 UT, Mexican music occasionally audible vs KWKH `The Tiger` in English. Probably WLBA Gainesville GA, 10 kW daytimer, as in my August 9 report (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 1413 kHz, Sept 14 at 0623 UT, JBA carrier a big surprise, the only significant one in 9/kHz scan after 846 no doubt Kiritimati, better than usual at 0620. Is it TP or TA? No obvious hits, per WRTH MW listings: Highest power E Asia/Pacific is 50 kW Japan, but well pre-sunset and nothing on other JJ frequencies even the biggies; lots of lower-powered, Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, NZ, Philippines, Taiwan. All too early except possibly NZ. The superpowers are surely too far east into the dayside, 500 kW Moldova, 800 kW Oman. Still circa sunrise are RNE5 synchros, Spain adding up to 35 kW; but no other obvious Spanish carriers (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 1413 kHz, Sept 15 at 0612, the JBA carrier again, see previous report, maybe Spain; now it`s weaker than 846 presumed Kiritimati, there is no 771, but there are (2) on 837, most likely Canary/Spain (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)