** ALGERIA. 9455, April 19 at *0303, RTA Béchar cuts on with Qur`an in
progress. But WRMI has just reactivated this frequency, q.v. From 0250
or 0255 I`m standing by via UTwente, Maryland and Missouri SDRs. At
UTwente there has been a VP signal from WRMI, but now Legends is
totally overriden by Qur`aning, S9+20, making a slow SAH as both are
close to .000. At Maryland, RTA is S6/S8 but well atop RMI. At
Missouri, RMI rules, but we can hear Qur`an underneath, what a culture
clash. Only Aoki shows RTA on 9455 at 0300-0600; EiBi shows 9470 &
9500 but neither is on now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM [non]. (106.3), April 18 at 0000 UT, KGOU
Norman OK webcast opens `Fresh Air` teaser, 0001-0006 `National Native
News`; and NO `Stardate` which thinx it`s on KGOU daily at 7 am & 7 pm
CT; amend my previous item. It is on KENW but as early as 0058 rather
than 0100 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 11785, April 18 at 2156, VOT English ID and IS, S5/S8
direct, so not off the air today. And not on the air circa 2310 for
any extraneous German. In between I have better things to do than
frustratingly try to understand her (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2186 monitoring: confirmed UT
Tuesday April 18 at 0042 the 0030 on WRMI 9395, S9+10/20 direct.

Also confirmed Tuesday April 18 at 2330 on WRMI 9395, S9+10/20 into
Missouri SDR. Gary Pence, KM5X, also reports on this: ``Hi Glenn, I
just enjoyed listening to WOR 2186 from WRMI`s 9395 kHz xmtr at 2330z.
I copied it real well, S9+25/35db from Central Vermont rSDR K1VL
Shrewsbury VT. Nice audio.

Also. Last night when I was operating late night 20 meter CW, I worked
evidently a maritime mobile Russian craft over the North Pole at
0930z, somewhere and has an interesting page at QRZ.com. His call is
RI41POL.``

Next WOR airings:
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, Australia 5035 USB [low power]
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

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** U S A. 9455, April 18 at 2101, WRMI-5 is back!! First noted missing
March 24, after a splatter problem March 19. It`s TOMBS, probably same
as on much stronger 9980 WWCR but not synchro. Now 9455 is S9/S5
direct, about the same as the other RMIs on 9395, 9955. In summer
daytimes, all these should be on higher band, 11 or 13 MHz. 9455 still
TOMBSing at 2330, S9+10/20 into Missouri SDR. At 0000 April 19
switches to Legends.

It shall be very interesting to note whether WRMI and Algeria be
colliding at 03-06 on 9455 as I have been hearing the latter Qur`aning
lately! Answer: see ALGERIA above.

Coincidentally, the WRMI skedgrid has been updated as of today April
18, more than a month after March 12. It always pretended 9455 was
running, but FWIW here`s the System/lineup for it now, all at 285
degrees close to usward:

00-02: K, i.e. Legends except for KBC one day a week.
02-04: C, Legends
04-05: F, Truth [sic] 2Ponder [sic]
05-07: J, SMTV
07-08: F, Fámily Radio
08-09: E, TOMBS
09-10: D, RAE Argentina
10-11: J, SMTV
11-24: E, TOMBS
That`s just consulting the transmission grid atop; there may be
further details or contradixions in the System/programming skeds
below. I have not tried to match up. Ahá: at 0159, RAE in Italian cut
off incomplete, 0200 to music // 5050 so Legends, but break for a
Bible quote. RAE in Italian is not scheduled on any System or
frequency at 0130 or 0200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5130, April 19 at 0233, still no signal from WBCQ Radio
Angela, into Maryland SDR. That makes six nights off, I believe. Must
be serious, what? R. Angela depended on broadcasting every night from
0200 to 0400 or a bit later, never webcasting. Finally circa 1330 UT
April 18, on disgraced Twitter: ``Allan Weiner @AllanWBCQ · 13h [ago]
Radio Angela 5130 kHz is down. Sorry. Bad tubes. Some 40+ years old.
Working on it. Timtron to the rescue. It’s what we do to keep the free
speech flowing. Some tubes not made any longer. Got to dig. WBCQ is a
living radio museum. It’s [sic] staff too😆. More to come🙏.`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9275, Tue April 18 at 2059, again no signal from WMLK, a day
and hour supposedly active. What`s become of deceased EJOM tapes?
Neighbor in more ways than one, WINB 9265v is audible but poor (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5085, WTWW-2 continues to be off the air, not clear why,
because it`s the other transmitter, WTWW-1 that George McClintock has
been working on; another update from him in the form of captions to
multi-MB closeups, received April 19:

``WTWW: transmitter damage & power --- THEY used plastic sheets to
cover up the damaged burned up power module holes. They were burned up
when the transmitter changed frequency because they did the change in
high power, out of tune --- not lightning damage. The plastic sheets
kept the air flow over the modules. I always went to low power for the
frequency change to avoid the transmitter coming up OUT OF TUNE in
high power causing module damage.

#1 transmitter has 6 modules down and is capable of about 90 KW, my
personal goal. The FCC classifies 100 KW as 90 KW below or 105 above.
Technically any power authorized as 90% below or 105% above.

THEY wrapped the power connections permanently in electrical tape and
made no plan to repair the modules. Jason said he saw the person
repairing electrical stuff. Ted hired this gentleman and what Jason
saw was all FAKE. I would ask what happened to the insurance 100,000
dollars to repair #1 transmitter that never got repaired. George
McClintock 4-17-2023`` (via Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 10125 USB, April 18 at 0618, phone ham with Oz accent,
weak and does not ID as he cambios to another who is JBA. Same
frequency/area where oddball phone on ``30m`` I`ve logged a few times
before, but 24 hours earlier, CW sending keyboard letters in sequence.
I wish ARDXC would investigate or clarify what is going on there
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0321 UT April 19

** CUBA. 15140, April 17 at 0623, RHC English, S9+10 here and nowhere
else, not on 5, 6, 9, 10, 11 or 13 MHz bands. 15140 is supposed to be
daytime only including English at 19-20, so something`s even more
wrong than always at RHC. At least shows it`s propagable (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** KURDISTAN [non]. 17470, April 17 at 2145, something talking here,
either Dengê Welat or Recep the Jammer; but marred by that wideband
multi-carrier whiner expanding further than usual from center 17450,
audible out to +/- 40 kHz = 17410/17490. What IS that?? (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. 11669.993, Monday April 17 at 2200, token English from SNR,
good via UTwente which I already have running for Turkcheck on 11785.
Due to best skip distance, I know this is better than 15 or 17 MHz at
Holland remote; but has RTTY warble QRM unless bandwidth squeezed to 4
kHz or less. Opens with acknowledgement that in Spain [on double-DST],
it`s already World Amateur Radio Day April 18, and plays clips of
greetings in Spanish from several hams, seemingly recorded off the
air. News delayed until 2203. Then I check it at Maryland SDR which
agrees it`s minus 7 Hz, but also sounds like some CCI. Aoki, EiBi and
HFCC show nothing else scheduled until China at 2230, Cuba from 2300
or 0000 --- but you never know when its 11670 or any frequency will be
running at wrong hours. However, this CCI is very weak (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 11785.009, April 17 at 2224, VOT English as S9+45 into
UTwente, canned salute to foreign S&R teams - are they still searching
& rescuing this long after the EQ? Music on this and music only
following are horribly distorted and I refuse to listen any further as
today`s announcer also has been the horribly-accented lady.
Something`s always awry at Ankara and/or erroneous at Emirler (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2186 monitoring: confirmed Sunday
April 16 at 2000 on IRRS via AM Italia, 1323 kHz only, S9+10/20 but
somewhat overmodulated and noisy, slight CCI from understation
presumably Smooth Radio, Brighton, England, UK.

Also confirmed UT Monday April 17 at 0030 on WRMI 7780, JBA in HSNL
direct; S5/S7 into Georgia SDR; S7/S9+5 into Maryland SDR.

Also confirmed UT Monday April 17 starting only 8.5 minutes late at
0308.5 on WBCQ Area 51, 6160 -67 Hz = 6159.933, S9/+15 into NH SDR
with warbleed de 6165 Turkey not Cuba; JL ran only 8 minutes over this
week. Next:

0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, Australia 5035 USB [low power]
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

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woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5950, April 17 at 0635 open carrier and off in a few sex
before I can even read the S-meter. Must be WRMI testing; 5950 now
sked: WRMI-8 at 2100-0400 with System L (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5130, April 17 at 0255, no signal from WBCQ R. Angela into
NH SDR. Unchecked Apr 16 but probably AWOL that date too, as it surely
was on UT April 15 & 14. What`s wrong, for how long? Not a twit from
AW on disgraced Twitter, since earlier on Apr 14 forecasting that
AAAWWW would be on 5130 that night. UB must be faced with a lot of
long-planned Angela programming rescheduling (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 6160-, April 17 at 0636 with S9/+10 of dead air from WBCQ.
No loss as it would have been TOMBS. Standard remark about stations
not realizing they are modulating nothing. Fault could well be at
W-A-L-T-E-R-B-O-R-O or somewhere in between, international vacuum?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9275, April 17 at 2143, no signal from WMLK, nor have I run
across it lately. A23 HFCC sked is 17-22 on 9275, 04-09 on 15150 both
daily except Sabbathday. But 15150 never activated. B22 was same, so
no adjustment for local DST; kudos for that. I last logged it March 8
at 1855. Harold Frodge in MI a bit later:

``9275 WMLK Bethel PA (p); 2000, 3/10; Uh, uh Jacob O. Meyer. S9
w/very muted audio. Jake would never make it at Toastmasters. +++
1713, 3/16; Elder Jake singing on a 2009 b’cast; Jake said, “There are
approximately 30,000 mistakes in the Bible.” (How does he know?) So,
he published his own version. (The Gospel according to Jake) S10,
audio a tad muddy (I still want to know where the people of Nod came
from.) +++ 1849-1854, 3/16; I turned on the Jake Uh-meter; 15 uh’s in
5 min. (Frodge-MI)`` He also noted it not on 9275, April 7 at 2045
when he was getting WINB.

Now its own website won`t load: http://204.236.242.90/wmlk-radio/
Hitlist also leads to it on disgraced FB, bit nothing since this:

``WMLK Radio February 7 · Broadcast Note: The engineers have decided
to swap out our original tube and to install the secondary one. The
tube change is complete but there are start-up tests that need to be
confirmed before going on the air. We should be on later when those
tests are completed. Thank you for understanding.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** VANUATU. 7260, April 17 at 0642, missing last night but now
resumed, YL in Bislama talk, S7/S9. Ron Howard agrees and adds hearing
it on 11835 at *0659-0858* (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 10125 CW, April 17 at 0626, series of letters between
long pauses. I soon realize it`s reading off a standard keyboard: A S
D F G H J K L --- Then faster VVV DE --- and I don`t copy any ID. Then
resumes with: Q W E R T Y U I O --- Is this default of some software,
or done deliberately? This is of course in the so-called 30m hamband
as I am listening for VKs on phone in this area (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15253 USB, April 17 at 2149, 2-way in Spanish,
INTRUDERS, with lower-class-Mexican accents; but 19m mostly devoid of
SWBC, so why not? Certainly not QRM with anything around here (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report despatched at 2353 UT April 17

** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RC USB, UT Sun Apr 16 at 0205, no signal from
LRA36 into Argentine or Brazilian SDRs; missed checking it earlier.
Was reported by Walt Salmaniw, BC at 0100; presumably started circa
2100 Sat Apr 15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 11785.009, April 15 at 2211, VOT English is not off the air
today, S9+40 into UTwente; 2214 ``Gripping Piles`` but so
overmodulated/distorted and horribly accented that I refuse to try to
eke out the subject. It`s over already at 2218 music; recheck 2253
s/off as usual citing only 4 other English broadcasts and not in
order: 1230, 1830, 2030, 1630. 2255 IS to 2255.7* Something`s always
erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2186 monitoring: confirmed Saturday
April 15 at 2230 on WRMIs: 15770, S9+5/15 into UTwente, S6/S8 into
Georgia; 5850, S8/S9 into Georgia.

Also confirmed UT Sunday April 16 at 0030 on 7780, S7/S9 with storm
crashes into Maryland SDR, but *no* noise blast audible first 14
seconds. Into Louisiana SDR, S9/+10 but heavy storm crashes from SE TX
to SE IA and Gulf of Mexico.

Also confirmed UT Sunday April 16 at 0327 on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, S9+18
with heavy storm crashes nearby to MO SDR about 13 minutes into so
started close to on time at 0314. Next:

2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW
0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW [? not last two weeks]
0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, Australia 5035 USB [low power]
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

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** U S A [and non]. 9975, UT Sun April 16 at 0043, no signal from
KVOH, nor some later attempts. I never got around to checking last
weekend; were they ever on? To be sure, one must try sometime between
00 and 05 UT on Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon. Say, if they really wanted to be
heard somewhat in N & C America, they could run their Zambia
transmitters during that idle time period locally overnight. Not that
I should give them ideas. However one of the two transmitters there
was reported out of order too in April BDXC Communication, the one for
6065 and 11680, leaving only 9680 and 4965. However the latter two are
N-D, while 6065 & 11680 would be on 315 degree antenna, just right for
NAm beyond WAf. Could they exchange antennas? Not that I should give
them ideas! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5085, April 16 UT, WTWW still missing whenever checked.
Dated April 13, George McClintock sent some close-up photos of damaged
equipment he has been working on, with captions:

``Harris SW100 really dirty water drained. Clean distilled water
added. The meter tells when to change water that cools the tubes ---
.2 1/2 to change.``

``burned power module repair --- The amount of clean up required for
this burned up power module to be returned to service. Top. Bottom.
Damaged switcher module.``

``Harris SW100 air flow restricted --- foam was factory used to seal
the fan air flow to cool a radiator. The foam deteriorated and blocked
the flow of air. They did not notice this problem. Plastic used to
accomplish the seal.``

``WTWW: additional repair work --- The repair job on a previously
shown picture, required some additional work. The traces required
soldering to bridge the gap. 2 resistors needed to be added and a
solder bridge completed. Unfortunately when tested, these 2
transformers turned out to be bad. I previously ordered 8 black
transformers and will be replacing the original burned up ones. George
McClintock 4-13-2023`` (via Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** VANUATU. April 16 at 0645, not even a JBA carrier from RV on 5040,
7260, 7890 or 11835 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1947 UT April 16

** BRAZIL. 9664.411, April 15 at 0623, S9/+15 with good musical
modulation, R. Voz Missionária has been way off frequency again for
several nights, so I finally measure it direct. Gary Pence also
reports: ``9664.408 as of 0814z 4/15/23 rSDR Utah East Ant`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM [non]. Re how to hear `StarDate`, reply on
internetradio:

``StarDate airs weekdays 7:40 AM ET (1140 UT currently) on WRTI
Philadelphia. Don't know of other airings. A nice feature of WRTI is
their "WRTI Replay" feature that archives two weeks of the programming
produced by the station, so you don't
have to listen live.

On the web site, look for "Listen & Connect", then "WRTI Replay".
You'll want "Classical Weekdays with John T. K. Scherch". StarDate
airs at approximately 1 hour 32 minutes to 1 hour 33 minutes into the
webcast.

https://www.wrti.org/classical-archive-classical-weekdays-with-john-t-k-scherch
Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** JAPAN [non]. 9490, April 14 at 0347, ``Clang3, Went the Trolley``,
vintage song in English, whence in the world? It`s NHK in Japanese
relay via Issoudun, FRANCE for north Africa at 0300-0500, why so
early? Wonder if it`s // 6105 which is NHK via France to Central
America but with VG signal into NAm, refusing to speak English, but at
0200-0400. EiBi shows no overlap with RMI`s R. República, ending 9490
at 0300 UT Thu to Mon. But such adjacency is asking for trouble from
residual Cuban jamming altho none audible this time. [Date correct,
overlooked in previous report; when quoting this report elsewhere,
omit this as irrelevant] (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** KURDISTAN [non]. 17450, April 15 at 1817 direct, talk underneath
the wideband whinecarrier; Dengê Welat must have jumped down even
lower than before; also one other signal below 17500, on 17460.

Confirmed via UTwente at 1821, 17450 with YLs conversing in presumed
Kurdish, VG S8/9+10; and Turkish music jammer on 17460, S9. Anyhow,
nothing of the whine audible at UTwente. Same situation at 1925. But
at 1930, 17450 jumps to 17470, now in music too, while 17460 remains.
Wolfgang Bueschel suggested they could be differentiated by amount of
offfrequenciness, but they were almost the same: 17450.008 and
17460.010.

``Easy task: D.W. mostly on exact x.000 kHz aligned, TUR TRT Emirler
mostly oddly 5, 9, or 11 Hertz distance on upper flank. Compare same
programm with website player check at
<http://www.denge-welat.org:8002/;stream.mp3>`` (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** TURKEY. 11785, April 14 at 2200 and later chex direct, NO signal
from VOT in English to us. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 13564+ CW, April 14 at 2225, finally a HIFER beacon other
than K6FRC or PCO: FJB callsign over and over, JBA direct --- but
nothing like it on the LWCA roster, so I have to do a broad search for
it, leading to:
https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/s7x2b2/22_meter_beacons/

``[name deleted] • 1 yr. ago --- I found this looking for the info on
beacon FJB. Couldn't find it starting from the LWCA index page or
using the search engine; maybe I'm dumb.
https://www.lwca.net/sitepage/part15/calllist.html

FJB (AA0RQ) is in Colorado. 13563.45 kHz 3.5 mW into a Dipole. Strong
signal, well above the noise at times but not moving the needle. Edit:
FJB is getting About 246 miles per milli-Watt today.``

So I look up AA0RQ on QRZ.com:
AA0RQ USA flag USA, WILLIAM A HENSEL, 28307 Grove St., Pine, CO 80470,
USA

! That`s the same guy who runs PCO and sent me an unsolicited QSL for
that. No mention whatsoever of FJB on his large QRZ.com page, just
PCO.

Many other reports of FJB here, from 2021 & 2022, including from AA0RQ
himself implying that it`s his; besides PCO. Former callsign was just
T.
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?topic=87747.0
Note that I was hearing it on the plus, not minus side of 13564, but
did not try to pinpoint it. Is FJB the same rig as PCO, and why?
(Glenn Hauser, OOK, WOR)

** U S A. 13565 CW, April 14 at 2227, another HIFER beacon too close
to FJB: dash and RF sent several times in a row with hardly a pause.
JBA direct. Thought maybe I had heard it once before, but unfound in
my archive, but many reports by others. LWCA roster: ``13565.05~ RF
Winston-Salem NC EM96ve CW+DA7ID (h,r 2023/02)`` Usual occupant of
13565, K6FRC, not audible now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2186 monitoring: confirmed Friday
April 14 at 2030 on IRRS SW via AM Italia, 1323 kHz, S9+10/20 into
nearby Noale SDR.

Also confirmed UT Saturday April 15 at 0130 on WRMI 5850, S9+10/30
direct, but still noisy tnx to storms just across the KS border.

NOT confirmed UT Saturday April 15 at 0400 on WBCQ Radio Angela, 5130,
because it`s off the air, ``transmitter issue``, for how long? Was
already absent last night.

Confirmed Saturday April 15 at 1600 on WRN North America webcast.

Also confirmed Saturday April 15 starting at 1957 the nominal 1930 on
WA0RCR, 1860 AM, MO, S9-15 with storm crashes from W MO, W KY, NE IL.
Next:

2230 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW
2230 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW
0245vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0457]
0800 UT Sunday Unique R, Australia 5035 USB [low power]
0830 UT Sunday Unique R, Australia 5035 USB [previous episode]
2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW
0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW [? not last two weeks]
0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, Australia 5035 USB [low power]
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

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a PMO to
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA; also address for checks
on a US bank

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

** U S A. 5130, re my obs of no signal from R Angela, April 14 at
0343, Uncle Bill responds on the WOR iog:

``Hope to have 5130 back to normal tonight; it was a file issue so web
stream would not have helped. The first hour (Heart of Fiction, Plain
Old Doug, Line Break) will air next week, that chapter of Enciclopedia
Musical will air next month (Andrew Yoder's Hobby Broadcast Radio has
the time slot next week). Meanwhile, fans of Uruguayan music can enjoy
this weekend's UBMP, which is dedicated specifically to candombe
jazz rock fusion from Uruguay in the 70s``

Well, still no 5130 signal April 15 at 0027 into Virginia SDR besides
S7 noise level. Normally it`s on early to trimulcast AAAWWW as per
another twit today from AW. An update from Uncle Bill at 0057 April 15
to the WOR iog:

``Update: Turns out there is a transmitter issue with 5130 after all,
we don't expect to be on the air tonight on that frequency. 7490 and
6160 should be normal. --Bill Tilford`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. (7490-), April 15 from 0000, `AAAWWW` on WBCQ webcast.
Before 5 minutes are up, AW insults President Biden as a ``puppet``
and a ``babbling idiot``; everyone else as ``moonbats`` --- `bye,
tuneout. Wonder if he ever explained what`s wrong with 5130 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 2011 UT April 15

** ALGERIA. 9455, April 14 at 0346, Qur`an, S9+15/25, and still no
sign of WRMI (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CANADA. 6754 USB, April 14 at 0336, S9+15, CHR, Trenton Military
with usual VOLMET, including lots of ``no report received`` from Italy
et al. Now giving own time checks only 4 minutes slow instead of 64,
e.g. ``0335Z`` at 0339. I suppose extra hour resulted from DST/non
confusion. The correxion first reported by Ricky Leong, Calgary at
0549 April 10 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 9700, April 14 at 0350, RHC English ending `Arts Roundup`. It
seems Turkey is no longer here; and there`s a window in RRI usage
between 0300 and 0530. VG signal here but not measured; // 6000 hits
S9+50 with hum and undermod. And still 6165 is off. Something`s always
wrong at RHC. The Other Side:

``READ TODAY THE CUBA OF TOMORROW - April 13, 2023 - REPRESSION
The harsh reality of the children of Cuban political prisoners and
their hunger strikes in protest -- Dixán Gaínza Moré remains at
Camagüey, and Erisdel Benítez Moya's protest cost him solitary
confinement. DDC | Madrid
Yuneisy Santana and her son visit 11J political prisoner Samuel Pupo
Martínez. (Yuneisy Santana González/Facebook)[caption]

While the children of Cuban political prisoners suffer separation,
their parents are resorting to hunger strikes in protest. For some,
this costs them even harsher situations within the already serious
conditions entailed by incarceration...``
https://diariodecuba.com/derechos-humanos/1681327825_46441.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** IRELAND. 5505 USB, April 14 at 0625, ``Shannon VOLMET`` ID by YL
voice among numerical obs, S9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** KURDISTAN [non]. 17480, April 14 at 0330, S4/S7 with flutter, one
station with sad wailing song of ME music; lotsa weak sigs on 16m band
but this is biggest and the only one below 17500; probably Turkish
jammer, if not Dengê Welat, which per Eibi starts at 0330 via
Uzbekistan (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MEXICO. 6185-, April 14 at 0630, S7/9+10 of dead air again from
XEPPM, a shame (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 7475, April 14 at 0335, S5/S8 of JBM Josiah on
Station YHWH, the anti-Christ pirate. Walt Salmaniw, Rick Barton and
others catch him almost every night at times varying around this
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY [and non]. 7275, April 14 at 0332, S8/9+20 as VOT English
fails to be on totally wrong frequency 11875 tonight; horrible
accentedess ending `Did You Know That` segment. Also // 6165 much
weaker, then ``every hour always with you`` VOT promo, NOT. Of course
they are required to pronounce it ``Tuerkiye``. [see also KURDISTAN]

That reminds me, just in the previous semihour via OETA Create channel
on KETA 13-3 from PBS, `Travels with Darley` was about Turkey. Must be
a new one, as she keeps pronouncing it Turkey-Ay, stress on the final
long-A. Happens to be sponsored by Go-Tuerkiye, in closing credit
correctly pronounced (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2186 monitoring: confirmed first
SWBC, Friday April 14 at 1430-1459 on WRMI 9955, S7/S9 with deep fades
into noise but no jamming audible.

Joe Hanlon says one Vatican frequency changed since HFCC English sked
I cited: ``VATICAN STATE: On April 1 I noted good signal on Vatican
Radio's English service to West Africa at 2022 UT on new 11870,
ex-11825, // to 9705. It's 20-2030 daily, both fqs are direct from SMG
site.`` Next WORs:

2030 UT Friday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW
0400 UT Saturday WBCQ Radio Angela 5130v to WSW
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
2230 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW
2230 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW
0245vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0457]
0800 UT Sunday Unique R, Australia 5035 USB [low power]
0830 UT Sunday Unique R, Australia 5035 USB [previous episode]
2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW
0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW [? not last two weeks]
0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, Australia 5035 USB [low power]
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

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** U S A. 5130, UT Fri April 14 at 0343, NO signal from WBCQ Radio
Angela, so this is what was missed per sked:

``April 13 (April 14 world date to 11:50 EDT/0350 UTC)
Enciclopedia musical de las Américas (Language: Spanish/Español)
Guest Host: Bill Tilford (US)
Format: Music from around the Americas. This month will feature music
of Uruguay``

Unfortunately, by design there is no alternative, webcast backup, not
even archived?? Was the entire 02-04 UT emission lost? Other BCQs were
operational: 6160- & 7490- both with TOMBS, 9330 WLCR nonsense (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 4876 USB, April 14 at 0621, 2-way including laughter in
unknown language, unseems Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9683.9, April 14 at 0349, S5/S7 open carrier, fading
implying it`s not a local birdie. What could it be? Nothing listed
exactly here, of course. On 9685 only CNR5, Cross-Strait Radio from
Beijing site to Taiwan, unlikely to be off-frequency. On 9680, nothing
but VOH Africa, Zambia from 0400, per EiBi and Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 13755, April 14 at 0608, JBA carrier. This may
explain why RNZP moved to 13840 which is inbooming; but nothing listed
now on 13755 in Aoki, EiBi or HFCC. Or could it be exciter from RNZ
other transmitter? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1751 UT April 14