** CHINA. 9545, July 28 at 2321, Chinese maybe echoing, S7/S9 with
heavy flutter. That would be CNR1 jamming against RFA Tibetan via
Tajikistan. Several similar sigs on 31m band only, the sweet spot now
for such propagation. BTW Aoki still has Solomon Islands the only
other on 9545, at 22-05, but believed inactive, not reported in
longtime (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11760, July 28 at 0715, overtime RHC Spanish S9+10 but JBM.
Something`s always wrong at RHC. It`s the only log I make this
late-night due to horrible S9+10 noise level all over the bands:
suspect from neighbor and/or thru power lines. I may have to rely even
more on remote receivers, but many of them also have `line noise`
problems. Abated by 15 UT enough to tell that propagation is now
degraded (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15230, July 28 at 2316, RHC S9/+10 of dead air. Something`s
always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. 17855, Fri July 28 at 2200, token English from SNR, intro as
interview with some French composer/singer living in Spain, still no
news. Good into Maryland SDR, confirmed also active on 17715, 15520,
11670 and over to TURKEY instead (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 11785.006, July 28 at *2159, VOT tries to start, cuts right
off, comes back at *2201 to stay on 11785.009. Heavy modulation almost
tolerable distortion in talk, horrible in music. Top news about Niger
coup. 2210 `Review of Turkish Press`. 2212.5 music. 2220 multi-lingual
ID filler reel. 2222 `Feeling Supreme/The Healing Spring`, repeat
about persimmons. 2229 music. 2234 ``Always By Your Side`` promo. 2238
`Did You Know That`, by badax, repeat about WWI peace treaty during
Ottoman Empire. 2242 two more distorted musix. 2249 ``With You Every
Hour`` promo, music. 2253 always defective s/off announcement,
fragment of IS chopped off at 2254.6*, no finesse. Something`s always
erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2201 monitoring. WRMI 9955 JBA Fri
July 28 at 1455, enough to tell it`s not WOR for the third week tho
still on the websked.

Confirmed Friday July 28 at 2051 the 2030 on IRRS SW via AM Italia,
1323 kHz only, still no 918 or 207; S9/+15 with a few storm crashes
and only slight CCI presumably England. Next:

0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW
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
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-LSB
1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-LSB [previous #2200]
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 William T Hassig, Mt Prospect IL, ``Congrats on
2200 World of Radios`` with a generous check in US funds on a US bank
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. 9955, Fri July 28 at 2323, WRMI with email in English for, I
think, backwoodsradioshow@gmail.com certainly not RAE relay in
Portuguese as claimed thrice in schedule grids. No such name anywhere
on the skeds, nor on the Programming page. We do wish Jeff would
assign someone to keeping his displayed skeds up to date. Assumed
music, but maybe this drama podcast I searched out:
https://www.backwoodspod.com/ with horrible disgusting illustrations,
nothing about WRMI, and a different email (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. (7490), UT Sat July 29 at 0000 on WBCQ webcast, minute of
dead air after lo-fi feed from FKB gospel huxter finishes; 0001 JIP
`AAAWWW` theme, and soon obvious it`s a repeat of last week where he
goes political despite audience hating it. Is it quadricast again? At
least I recheck sigs into Maryland SDR: 7490 -72 Hz = 7489.928; 6160
-68 Hz = 6159.932; 5130 & 3265, no signals, just storm crashes (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0048 UT July 29
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O, I have not forgotten. OKC ``needed`` another VHF to serve as ABC affiliate, so sucked in KGEO 5 from Enid.

Same thing happened in Tulsa, KTVX 8 from Muskogee becoming KTUL.

No doubt similar raids in many other markets

Glenn

On Friday, July 28, 2023 at 05:10:06 PM GMT+1, fmerrilljr--- via Hard-Core-DX <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com> wrote:

Glenn, don't forget that Enid had a full service "regular" TV station once. KOCO-5 Oklahoma City originally started out as KGEO-5 Enid. I think they may have moved south even by 1960...
Frank Merrill
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2023 01:26:28 +0000 (UTC)

** OKLAHOMA. RF17, July 26 in daytime, K17JN-D is definitely back on
air at usual local translator strength with satellator panoply of 3ABN
subchannels; Enid`s only local TV signal, embarrassingly for a city of
50K. For a while we had locally programmed LPTV, KXOK 32, ``TV-OK``,
gone as of 8 years ago. See my log report of July 21, 2015. At least I
still have their mug as a souvenir (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

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Glenn, don't forget that Enid had a full service "regular" TV station once.  KOCO-5 Oklahoma City originally started out as KGEO-5 Enid.  I think they may have moved south even by 1960...
Frank Merrill
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2023 01:26:28 +0000 (UTC)

** OKLAHOMA. RF17, July 26 in daytime, K17JN-D is definitely back on
air at usual local translator strength with satellator panoply of 3ABN
subchannels; Enid`s only local TV signal, embarrassingly for a city of
50K. For a while we had locally programmed LPTV, KXOK 32, ``TV-OK``,
gone as of 8 years ago. See my log report of July 21, 2015. At least I
still have their mug as a souvenir (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)
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Glenn, don't forget that Enid had a full service "regular" TV station once.  KOCO-5 Oklahoma City originally started out as KGEO-5 Enid.  I think they may have moved south even by 1960...
Frank Merrill
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2023 01:26:28 +0000 (UTC)

** OKLAHOMA. RF17, July 26 in daytime, K17JN-D is definitely back on
air at usual local translator strength with satellator panoply of 3ABN
subchannels; Enid`s only local TV signal, embarrassingly for a city of
50K. For a while we had locally programmed LPTV, KXOK 32, ``TV-OK``,
gone as of 8 years ago. See my log report of July 21, 2015. At least I
still have their mug as a souvenir (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)
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** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 10125 USB, July 27 at 0653, Oz accented hams
again in QSO or net but JBA and still can`t copy any individual calls;
on same frequency CW is HK3QQ, Bogotá, slowly sending letters in
keyboard sequence with errors (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** COLOMBIA. 5909.952, July 27 at 0641, tropical music at S8/S9,
better signal than usual from always off-frequency Alcaraván Radio.
Brief burst of ``running water`` ute QRM.

Manuel Méndez in Spain reports: ``Alcaravan Radio 5910 on air again
after about 10 days out. Log in Oleiros, La Coruña, NW of Spain,
Sangean ATS-909X, cable antenna, 8 meters. COLOMBIA, 5910, Alcaraván
Radio, Puerto Lleras, 0450-0526, 27-07, religious and Latin American
songs, Spanish, religious comments, Colombian songs “Llaneras”.
25432.``

However, I don`t think it had been totally off. In regular bandscans I
had been crossing a JBA offset carrier, but not logged. Now there is
also a JBA carrier on 6010, probably Brasil rather than still inactive
sibling station LV de tu Conciencia.

Ron Howard also replied: ``Greetings, Manuel, from California. July
27, at 0742 & 0910 UT, heard a decent level carrier on 5910 kHz, but
no audio at all; normally in the past I always had good audio here.``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2201)

** CUBA. 6100, July 27 at 0646, undermodulated Spanish wIth
humbuzzwhine, no doubt RHC where something`s always wrong.

5025, July 27 at 0650, S9+20/30 of dead air except for some humbuzz,
from R. Rebelde, something`s always wrong at Radio Cuba. David
Crawford, FL replied to my previous reports, July 27 at 0156 UT:
``Tonight's treat is what sounds like video buzz, rather than the
recently-typical Rebelde FM audio, on 5025. And after the one reported
active "sunset" session, HM01 has been quiet again since, at least for
the local midday and sunset schedules. I have not checked the
madrugada scheduled times and freqs.``

Ron Howard, CA replies later on July 27: Cuba (5025) noted at 0743 &
0909 UT, with strong carrier, along with a strong hum, but no audio.
Ron`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2201)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6869.1, July 27 at 0628, JBA presumed Late Night
Lunatix, pirate, as Lucas Bandura, who got it identified, also noted
it at 0453: ``On right now with music. Weak direct in British
Columbia, S7 on the Northern Utah KiwiSDR.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 7620, July 27 at 0633 UT, JBA sportstalk, surprisingly
here. Sounds like one of my strongest locals, 1390 KCRC, indeed
matches and synchronized. Same program is on 1640 KZLS, but out of
synch. How does this get on 7620? It fades a bit and is gone a few
minutes later. Suspect external mixing with some strong real SW
signal, but plus or minus 1390 leads to nothing likely on 6230 or
9210. Not an obvious harmonic: only even fundamental on MW would be
1270 X 6. Could be some station there on same net, but not in OK
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO )

** OKLAHOMA. RF17, July 26 in daytime, K17JN-D is definitely back on
air at usual local translator strength with satellator panoply of 3ABN
subchannels; Enid`s only local TV signal, embarrassingly for a city of
50K. For a while we had locally programmed LPTV, KXOK 32, ``TV-OK``,
gone as of 8 years ago. See my log report of July 21, 2015. At least I
still have their mug as a souvenir (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** SPAIN. 17855, 17715, 15520, 11670, Wed July 26 at 2200, token
English from SNR not checked at all as I was concentrating on ROMANIA
in the absence of TURKEY. But I didn`t miss anything worthwhile.
English is repeated at 0200 on webcast only July 27 - a retrospective
about Spanish footballers! No news, no apology; I wonder how the
elexion went? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2201)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2200 monitoring: ``9395 kHz, 0030,
0058 (45433); 9395 kHz, 0130, 0159 (45433), July 27 UTC (Lemke,
Richard -AB) 73’s, Richard, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada``

Confirmed UT Thursday July 27 at 0030 on WRMI 9395, VG S9+10/20
direct.

Also confirmed UT Thursday July 27 at 0130 on WRMI 5010, S7/S9 into
Bonaire SDR.

Also confirmed UT Thursday July 27 at 0130 on WRMI 9395, S9+10/20 into
Maryland SDR.

WORLD OF RADIO 2201 contents: Antarctica, Australia, Botswana, Canada,
Chile, China and non, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala non, Indonesia,
Japan/Korea North non, Kyrgyzstan, (Oklahoma), Perú, (Poland),
Romania, Singapore, (Slovakia), Spain, Sudan, Sweden non, Thailand,
(Tibet), Turkey, (UK non), USA; unidentified 4040; propagation
outlook (countries mentioned along with others out of order)

WORLD OF RADIO 2201 available from 0103 UT July 28:
(mp3 stream) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2201.m3u
(mp3 download) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2201.mp3

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

The shortwave+ broadcasts should be:
2030 UT Friday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW
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
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-LSB
1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-LSB [previous #2200]
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 William T Hassig, Mt Prospect IL, ``Congrats on
2200 World of Radios`` with a generous check in US funds on a US bank
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. 5130v, July 27 at 0649, no signal for a change, from the
24/7 WBCQ low-power transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2201)

This report dispatched at 0126 July 28
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