** CANADA. 7555-7585 approx., wideband DRM-like noise field, July 7 at
0622, presumed CGA984, HF trading station licenced to 7570 from Essex
County, Ontario. Lucky for them, WRMI is no longer on 7570 overnight.
See my previous reports of April 19 & 29 for much more about this
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6869.9 AM, S9/+10, July 7 at 0624, pirate from last
night is on again late, bells and chirps right now, quite diverse
music/SFX noises. Never heard any announcements past 0701 but I may
have dozed. A few more reports as unID on July 6; and 7 when it was on
6869.93 until 0726*:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,115692.0.html
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,115709.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. Noticed this mixup in the WTFDA FM DB. The listing for
90.1 KUCO says it is a relay OF: KCSC-FM 95.9!
KUCO relay of:KCSC-FM 95.9 90.1 EDMOND OK USA HD CLASSICAL CLASSICAL
RADIO 90.1/91.9 100.0 100.0 256.0 256.0 35-34-24 97-29-08 4512
LISTENER SUPPORTED CLASSICAL MUSIC FROM UNIV OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA //
KBCW-FM 91.9 & KCSC 95.9

On the contrary, all programming originates at KUCO, fed to its two
satellites KCSC 95.9 in Woodward and KBCW 91.9 in McAlester. Perhaps
confused because the original call of 90.1 was KCSC - for Central
State College, not to be confused with something in Chico, California.
Some years after the school was renamed University of Central
Oklahoma, the 90.1 calls were changed in accordance. By then had also
acquired the relay facility on 95.9 in Woodward from KCCU Lawton, so
as a legacy, KUCO applied the KCSC calls to that. Standard legal IDs
used to add HD1 to 90.1 and 91.9 but not to 95.9; now dispensed with
that. IIRC, HDs of 90.1 include some totally unrelated gospel huxter
renter and/or a student station? (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. July 7 at 1733 UT, tropo up away from Enid toward Tulsa,
OKC, providing BAD RF DTV signals on: 11, 14, 17, 28, 31, 34, 35, 36.
17 is notable since a DX signal must be baddenizing Enid`s only local
TV signal, K17JN-D, no loss since it spews 7 subchannels of
gospelhuxtering (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. 17855, Friday July 7 at 2200, token English from SNR: news
about the bull-run at Pamplona festival until July 15: so far only
three Americans have been trampled, not by bulls but humans. 2207
feature which is a repeat about exhibition of art by Lucian Freud; so,
never mind. VG direct and the other three frequencies audible to
detectable (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 11785.008 into Maryland SDR S9+5/20, July 7 at 2157, VOT
already on with IS: seemed some QRM but nothing else scheduled just
before 2200 here unlike on ex-5960 in B22 an hour later. Recheck at
2251, multi-lingual ID filler reel, 2252 canned jumbled s/off and
briefly IS to 2255.5* (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2198 monitoring: confirmed Friday
July 7 at 1430 the first SWBC on WRMI 9955 --- but it`s just barely
modulated! both direct and via Maryland remote. This transmitter has
had reduced modulation before but now it`s almost gone. Webcast level
seems OK. Emailed WRMI ASAP at 1445 but nothing was or could be done
about this before 1459. Following music fill also JBM. Webcast
continued with DW via WRN. Something`s odd at Okeechobee. See if it be
fixed when System B WRMI-3, 9955 resume at 2100? Not checked until
2330 when it also seems u/mod but also facing jamming and some other
noise, local? into Maryland SDR.

Also confirmed Friday July 7 at 2053 the 2030 on IRRS SW via AM
Italia, 1323 kHz only, no 918 or 207 into nearby Noale SDR, S9+10/15
above the understation presumably Smooth Radio, Brighton. Next:

0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
2230 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW
2230 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE [& 7730? Has been off air again]
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW
0130 UT Sunday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0245vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0457]
1330 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE
[also phonecast, webcast][jammed by Cuba?]
2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW
0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW
0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW

Thanks this week to John, N9JL: ``Hello Glenn, I routinely listen to
your weekly podcasts, and really enjoy them. You consistently provide
your listeners with a broad cross-section of SW and BC band related
information. In only 30 minutes I know the stations I should be tuning
for over the following several days. Please accept this small
contribution in support of your on-going efforts. 73, John, N9JL,
Lutz, EN51vm, Shorewood IL`` -- with a check to Glenn Hauser, P O Box
1684, Enid OK 73702

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

** U S A. (7490-), UT Sat July 8 at 0000, WBCQ stream of `AAAWWW`:
first half hour musing about cosmology; finally 0028 datestamp at 7
July YOOLF 2023, so it is live. Angela on remote phoneline so lofi
it`s hard to understand her. 0035 he starts referring to some stuff in
trade press, like ranking of markets with greatest proportion of
listeners to AM radio. #1 is Buffalo NY; but Florida nowhere on the
list. About 0030 I check the quadricast frequencies into Maryland SDR:
7490 - 70 Hz = 7489.930; 6160 -67 = 6159.933; 5130 -25 = 5129.975;
3265 + 106 = 3265.106. 0057 reading email. Wraps up about a minute
over, why always? So JIP Hal Turner late, not that I care. Starts by
siding with Russia (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. Possibility of Es so caradio bandscan July 7 at 2024 UT:
finds none, but notice that semi-local 91.5 is in deadair, still so
past 2044. Standard remark: if a station be so out of it that it does
not even have one staff member or another constantly monitoring for
dead air or any other problem, even if automated, and/or a
silence-sensor alarm, how can they expect any listeners to stick with
them, and more importantly, why should they deserve continued
licensing, especially if there be any other/better demand for the
frequency? WTFDA FMDB shows:

KSNS 91.5 MEDICINE LODGE KS CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN KEEP SINGING NEW
SONGS" 0.0 96.0 0.0 141.0 37-14-02 98-39-55 A4EC KSNS --- or ``Keep
Sending No Sound``! Anyhow there is a lot of spoken gospel-huxtering,
not just music when they manage to modulate. It`s just over the OK/KS
frontier. This one is also unusual in that it`s full power and
vertically polarized only, as the 0.0 means kW ERP-H and the 96.0
means kW ERP-V. Maybe that`s why I hear it better on the caradio.
However there is another 91.5 in KS likewise, KARF Independence (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0111 UT July 8

** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RC USB, July 5 18/21 UT, I neglected to check
this Wednesday for LRA36, and have seen no other reports of it; here
is why, via Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain:

``15476usb, LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel new schedule.
According with a whatsapp from the station here is the LRA 36 new
schedule: Mondays and Fridays from 1300 to 1500 UTC, Saturdays from
1800 to 2300 UTC. Mondays and Fridays they probably will issue the new
program "Ecos de la Antártida" and Saturdays the current program
"Uniendo Voces"`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2198)

** CUBA. 9700, July 6 at 0621, RHC with huge humwhine atop talk mod in
Spanish rather than English, only frequency still on air. Something`s
always wrong at RHC. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2198) The Other
Side:

``Cuba is a failed state, and there are at least 14 signs
demonstrating it ---
Before 1959 the economy was among Latin America′s best, with per
capita income higher than that of several European countries. Under
Communism, it became parasitic, and cannot even survive without
foreign subsidies.

Roberto Álvarez Quiñones Los Ángeles 05 Jul 2023 - 21:32 CEST

A few days ago I saw a photo of a group of people in front of the High
Court in London. They had turned out to support the lawsuit against
the Castro regime for its debt of 72 million euros. They carried a
large sign that read: "Cuba is a failed state."

True! This is one of the most powerful and patriotic flags that Cubans
can fly today because, without a doubt, Cuba today is a failed
state...``
https://diariodecuba.com/cuba/1688585564_48319.html
(via Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6869.911 AM, July 6 at 0622, surprised to find some
pirate music this late here, S9+10/20, at first something like rap.
Only two other logs of this as unID:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,115692.0.html

Quite a while since I have logged and reported any pirates except YHWH
and Eastern Star on 7.4 MHz; noisy summer condx, and usually otherwise
occupied during evening pirate primetime weekends (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2197 monitoring: ``15770 USA WRMI
2230. Open of World of Radio with F/G, choppy, signal. Heard here
Saturday afternoons local at 3:30P, monitored on Drake SW1 and
longwire -- Fair/Good Jul. 1 Rick Barton-AZ``

``9395 WRMI FL Okeechobee w/ID and into GH World of Radio #2197
w/items about Andorra, Antarctica’s absence, the reactivation of Mali,
the end of wefax from NZ, and others, including a discussion of the
type of communication available to the “Titan” sub-submersible before
it imploded. 45*444 (RTTY intruding into USB so no QRM on LSB sync,
but pretty significant in DSB or USB. 0130-0200 2/Jul [Sunday] RSPdx
+SDRuno +randomwire --Kenneth Vito Zichi, Thumb MI2``

Confirmed UT Thursday July 6 at 0030 on WRMI 9395, S9+10/25 into
Missouri SDR.

Also confirmed UT Thursday July 6 at 0130 on WRMI 5010, S9+10 direct
including high storm noise level [HSNL]

Also confirmed UT Thursday July 6 at 0130 on WRMI 9395, VG S9+20
direct.

WORLD OF RADIO 2198 contents: (Alaska), Antarctica, Canada, Congo,
Cuba, Ethiopia non, France, India, Iran and non, Japan, Korea South
and non, Liberia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mongolia, Morocco,
Netherlands, New Zealand, North America, Pakistan, (Romania), Russia,
Singapore, Solomon Islands, Syria, (Taiwan), Thailand, Turkey, (UK),
USA, Vanuatu; propagation outlook --- (countries mentioned along with
others not in order)

WORLD OF RADIO 2198 available from 0107 UT July 7:
(mp3 stream) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2198.m3u
(mp3 download) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2198.mp3

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

The shortwave+ broadcasts should be:
1430 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE
[also phonecast, webcast][jammed by Cuba?]
2030 UT Friday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
2230 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW
2230 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE [& 7730? Has been off air again]
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW
0130 UT Sunday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0245vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0457]
1330 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE
[also phonecast, webcast][jammed by Cuba?]
2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW
0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW
0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW

Thanks this week to John, N9JL: ``Hello Glenn, I routinely listen to
your weekly podcasts, and really enjoy them. You consistently provide
your listeners with a broad cross-section of SW and BC band related
information. In only 30 minutes I know the stations I should be tuning
for over the following several days. Please accept this small
contribution in support of your on-going efforts. 73, John, N9JL,
Lutz, EN51vm, Shorewood IL`` -- with a check to Glenn Hauser, P O Box
1684, Enid OK 73702

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

** VANUATU. 7260, July 6 at 0627, RV is back after missing a couple
nights, island music, 0631 drumming intro to public notices segment,
S9/+10 but storm noisy. Ron Howard has received a prompt eQSL
specifying power at 10 kW -- as we have suspected, quadrupled from
last known listings of 2.5:

``Thanks very much to Pradip Chandar Kundu (Agartala, Tripura, India),
via ADXR (July 2023), for the contact info! Sent off a reception
report, with audio file, to Robert Warren < robertw @ vbtc.vu > and
received the attached e-QSL in about two hours. Please notice the
power "10 Kw." He is the senior technical officer at VBTC. Very happy
to have their current QSL! Ron California``. They are staying on 7260
after 0700, contrary to sked from Spain claiming 3945 and harmonix
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2198)

This report dispatched at 0121 UT July 7

** CUBA. 9700, July 5 at 0627, RHC English VG S9+20 on extra frequency
tonight, nowhere else; talking about baseball players, not currently
but historically in the 30s, 40s, etc., as DDC would remind us, all
the talented ones have fled Cuban Communism. Cannot detect any QRM,
but Romania may have just closed if not totally covered; and NZ stays
away this time. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. RF 28, July 5 at 1735 UT, Enid on edge of some OK tropo
eastward so a bandscan: surprised on RF 28 remapping to be getting
``2-11``, KJRH `2 News at Noon`, decoding for a few minutes. Its prime
RF has long been on channel 8, not to be confused with original analog
competitor on 8, KTUL. RF 28 is really KTPX Okmulgee, primarily ION as
44-1, not unusual to be getting that. Now rabbitears.info does show
02-11 on 28.4 as KJRH-TV, the rest of the 28s being ION and the usual
assortment of shopping and rerun channels. Searching on callsign KJRH
still leads only to RF 8 Tulsa; we have to go directly to KTPX to
explore its other hidden channels topped by 02-11 KJRH. And why such a
high number -11? on Physical 28 there are .10 lower subchannels, but
no reason for KJRH on 28.4 to be called 2-11. Its own extensive
website has nothing labeled as basic tech info such as which
channel[s] it`s really on and from where! not even under About Us,
https://www.kjrh.com/antenna which is pushing antenna equipment in
general. Seems that more and more, a single ``station`` appear on more
than one ``channel`` in same market. CBS for Tulsa, KOTV ``6`` is on
three different UHF channels (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** ROMANIA. 11800, July 5 at 2255, RRI concluding VG English hour into
UTwente, cut short during contact info at 2255.6*; something`s gone
wrong at Galbeni, in too big a hurry to change beams for Spanish at
2300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. 17855, Wed July 5 at 2200, token English from SNR, skips any
news; is this a holiday? and right into feature, interviewing four
Spaniards who are expats in other countries, starting with Poland.
S9+5/15 into Maryland SDR, also detecting that the other three
frequencies are not off the air (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY [and non]. 11785.023, July 4, continued from previous report
that bonus German from VOT was still running post-English, at 2316:
completed at 2352, into IS, still not turned off; 2356 restart IS, now
with Portuguese IDs. Still listening via UTwente. ```Stão ouvindo
Rádio TRT, Voz de Türkiye`` in Luso accent, not Brasilian.

I have no idea how we are supposed to spell ``Türkiye`` in PP. Are we
allowed to render it closer fonetikaly, like ``Túrquilhe``?? In
Portuguese there is no confusion with that low-IQ bird, which they
call ``Peru``! That opens a whole nother can of worms if that country
were as touchy as Recep. Spanish has a whole bunch of other names for
the bird per Google translate: pav@ [that means either -a or -o
depending on gender], el guajolote, el chompipe, el pato mareado,
el patoso.

July 5 UT: 0000 timesignal only 6 sex late as received, s/on in PP,
and still on past 0030, still squealing and +23 Hz offset transmitter.
We get the *whole* extra hour of PP as well as GG. That sort of
compensates for RHC failure to Portuguize at 2200 on 15230, tho I
doubt there were any collusion.

0056 resumes IS, now with IDs in Spanish, but chopped off air finally
TWO hours late at 0058*, as if intentional, uncovering a much weaker
S7 signal, still sync-locking now on 11785.000 - likely listed CNR
Xian, or CNR-2 Xianyang, which was already on air but totally covered
by TRT.

Somethings` always erroneous at Emirler if not awry at Ankara. Latest
A23 WRTH Update #13 July 1 still shows NO Portuguese at all on SW from
VOT, but Spanish at 0100 on 7260 & 9870: unknown when I was
monitoring, to check whether either be active. German: only 1130 on
15350; 1730 on 9840. Perhaps somewhere on website be total 24h sked of
langs on program feed line, beyond the scope of WRTH (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** TURKEY [and non]. 11785.019, July 5 after 2200, VOT English is not
off the air, S9+40/45 into UTwente, somewhat undermodulated and
distorted, does not compare well to neighbor RRI English on 11800.000
which is louder and clearer. 2212 `Review of the Tuerkiyeish Press`,
something about an AI radio demonstration in Geneva? 2214, `Whipping
Piles/Gripping Files`, could not understand the topic; 2218
multi-lingual ID filler reel; 2220 `Weekly Commentary` about Turkey,
Sweden, PKK and NATO; 2243, `Feeling Supreme/The Healing Spring` on
treating gas problems in babies; 2250 music. 2253 usual canned
sign-off; 2255 IS about once and off (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2197 monitoring: confirmed Tuesday
July 4 at 2330 on WRMI 9395, S9+15 into Missouri SDR.

Also confirmed Wednesday July 5 at 2100 on WBCQ 7490-, noisy S6/S9
into Maryland SDR. Next:

0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW

Thanks this week to Ron Howard, Monterey, California for a check to
Glenn Hauser, PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, ``In memory of Noel Green. I
remember all the times he helped me with Radio Pakistan info [he was
an official monitor in the UK]. Thanks for all your help over the
Decades!``

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

** VANUATU. 7260, July 5 at 0629, NO signal from RV, nor on 7890,
11835 which would be harmonix of 3945. Here we go again; where is it,
when will it resume somewhere? Manuel Méndez, Spain and Ron Howard,
California agree no signal this date but on July 4 it was on with
carrier only, no modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 7834 USB, July 5 at 0630, very weak 2-way seems Spanish
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report despatched at 2351 UT July 5

DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS updated July 4
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html

** CANADA. 15034 USB, July 4 at 2220 UT, CHR, a listed callsign
Trenton Military, Ontario, never utters with ID, ``time: 1820Z`` as
it`s still giving EDT and calling it UT!! Std remark about Forces
accuracy. To make matters worse, followed by ``No report received``
from: Calgary, Cold Lake, Winnipeg, Edmonton, and the list repeated
for good measure. But the wx obs and forecast times seem correct in Z.
Something`s always terribly wrong at Trenton (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. 17880, July 4 at 2217, Chinese music S3/S6. Is CRI Spanish
to S America beamed NW 318 degrees from Beijing site, a long way
across Eurasia, Atlantic (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. 21490 & 21530, July 4 at 2214, JBA Chinese and carrier, the
OSOBs, i.e. CNR1 jammers as Aoki lists both with nothing but * and
Sound of Hope but not until 2300. Likewise, EiBi (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** CUBA. 15140, July 4 at 1432, RHC, S8/9+10 flanked by +/- ~4 kHz
much weaker but obvious parasitic spurs which I measure individually,
15136.982 and 15144.023; but each wavering so let`s just say 15135.98V
and 15144.02V. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** CUBA. 15230, July 4 at 2222, RHC with S3/S5 of dead air. Supposed
to be in Portuguese from 2200; sorry, brasileiros, no Commie
propaganda today. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 7570, Tue July 4 at 0652, WRMI-11 is OFF,
unusual; or, not any more, as latest skedgrid dated July 1 specifies
7570 on air, with TOMBS at 04-11 UT on Sat & Sun only; that leaves
14-15 and 00-04 daily. The 04-11 S/S only now also applies to WRMI-14
on 5010. Additional restrixions to S/S only TOMBS: 11-15 on WRMI-13
7780; 13-15 on WRMI-12 5850. And extended 15-16 on Sabbathdays only:
9955, 7780, 7570, 5850, 5010 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 11785.023, July 4 at 2245, VOT English with bit by the
badaccentedess, S9+35/45 into UTwente with squeal. Must narrow
bandwidth below 4 kHz to mimimize it. Probably different transmitter
than the .009 one with no squeal. 2252 theme and outro `Weekly
Commentary``: you never in what order or what hourpart any individual
feature may appear. 2253 jumbled s/off, 2254 IS. 2256 restart IS, now
with German IDs interspersed. 2300 TS and whoopee, a bonus German
Sendung today, until?? Still going at 2316. Earlier check direct at
2210 was only S3/S8 with squeal, news item about carbon-neutral,
sports. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2197 monitoring: confirmed UT Tuesday July 4
at 0030 on WRMI 9395, S9+10/20 direct: with usual intrusion by Jeff`s
attempt to sell a receiver, ``The World is in turmoil...` between ID
and WORplay. Next:

2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW

Thanks this week to Ron Howard, Monterey, California for a check to
Glenn Hauser, PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, ``In memory of Noel Green. I
remember all the times he helped me with Radio Pakistan info [he was
an official monitor in the UK]. Thanks for all your help over the
Decades!``

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

This report dispatched at 2322 UT July 4