** CANADA. Altho there is still some storm noise, Blitzortung shows
only small spots on fringes of conterminous USA, far from here with
quietude in the Great Center, so with LW overall noise level abated,
Aug 18 at 0639-0647 UT I can relog a number of Canadian ND beacons as
well as Unitedstatesians, q.v.:

326-MCW, dash and YQK, 200 watts from Kenora, Ontario
332-MCW, dash and QT under IC Wichita, 1000 watts Thunder Bay, Ont.
346-MCW, dash and YXL, stronger, 500 watts from Sioux Lookout, Ont.
366-MCW, dash and YMW, 500 watts from Maniwaki, Quebec
382-MCW, dash and YPL, 1000 watts from Pickle Lake, Ontario

In reverse order as I was really downtuning (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, Aug 18 from 1444: 14850 JBA carrier,
none in 13s/12s until 12550 Chinese poor; 12210, 12190, 11460, 11440,
11120, 11100 all JBA carriers, 10870 VP Chinese. AND: good 15110 which
list-loggers would assume is VOA but confirmed // CNR1 on WOOB 12550.
Inband 13, 11 and 9 MHz not checked (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 515-MCW kHz, Aug 18 at 0634 UT, NDB PN Ponca City is
still off; 314-MCW EI Enid is still on nearby but JBA (Glenn Hauser,
Enid, WOR)

** PUERTO RICO. 391-MCW kHz, Aug 18 at 0638 UT, DDP among the US &
Canadian ND beacons, qq. vv.; it`s 1000 watts from San Juan - Dorado.
I was tuned to 389-USB. Logged previously, rarely in Jan & March this
year. 3676 km = 2284 statute miles (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY [and non]. 9830, Aug 17 at 2200, VOT timesignal about 0.5
second behind WWV, YL s/on claiming this be the 1230 broadcast on
15450! with heavy NSS RTTY QRM, still both at 2218. Something`s always
awry at Ankara (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. Lowered LW noise level allows some ND beacon logs again,
from CANADA, q.v., and, Aug 18 at 0635-0646 UT, in reverse order from
really tuning downward:

335-MCW, BV, 25 watts from Batesville - Almond, Arkansas
347-MCW, AFK, 25 watts from Nebraska City, Nebraska
365-MCW, AA, 100 watts, Fargo - Harwood, North Dakota, tuned 363-USB
389-MCW, DDP --- oops, see PUERTO RICO!
420-MCW, PK, 25 watts from Olathe - Herbb, Kansas
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2047 monitoring: confirmed UT Tue Aug 18 at
0100 on WRMI 7780, VG at UTwente SDR, Holland. Next:

2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

Thanks for financial support from Ivan Soldo, Australian
Capital Territory, for a contribution via PayPal originally
in Australian$ 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. (6159.9), Aug 17 at 2300, Area 51/61 WBCQ webcast starts
their new block of ``old tyme radio programs`` with Jean Shepherd`s
stream-of-consciousness including how Maine is like a different
country. Fun to hear him again, and once started, how can you stop?
Runs about 50 minutes. On Aug 15 we got this from WBCQ, too late to
mention on WOR 2047; to start Aug 17, and weeks to come?

``Hi Glenn, Hope you are doing well. Allan & Angela Weiner along with
Larry and Jane Will are presenting old tyme radio programs on our 6160
Khz transmitter. Monday-Friday 7pm-9pm eastern time {23-01 UT}
starting Monday August 17th. Known as Area 61 Old Tyme Radio it is a
presentation of WBCQ as a nice, pleasant, radio gift to a somewhat
troubled world. We hope all will tune in and enjoy the theatre of the
mind. Thanks, Allan & Angela Weiner``

Then these details; note the continuing patterns from night to night:

[WOR] Area 61 proposed schedule Aug 17 at 4:43 PM

Starting this evening, 23 until 01 next UT day on 6159.9 with webcast
link : (gh)

7-9PM [EDT] 6160
http://splatterbox.us:5110

Monday August 17 (2 hours)
Jean Shepherd 6/17/64 Maine
Chicken Man #1
Dragnet 6/10/49
Superman Origin #1 1939
Gunsmoke 4/26/52 Billy the Kid

Tuesday August 18 (2 hours)
Jean Shepherd 6/30/72 Old Man's Pontiac
Chicken Man #2
Dragnet 6/17/49
Superman Origin #2 1939
Martin & Lewis 9/3/49 Lucille Ball

Wednesday August 19 (2 hours)
Jean Shepherd 7/7/70 EH Scott Radio
Chicken Man #3
Dragnet 6/24/49
Superman The Shark #1 1939
Bob Hope 9/28/43 Orson Welles

Thursday August 20 (2 hours)
Jean Shepherd 2/1/68 Spy Stories
Chicken Man #4
Dragnet 7/7/49
Superman The Shark #2 1939
Dimension X 6/17/50 There will come soft rains
{Ray Bradbury, Martian Chronicles -- gh}

Friday August 21 (1 hour)
Jean Shepherd January 1975 Maine Media
Chicken Man #5
Superman 2/26/40 The Atomic Beam

Friday playlist is only one hour since AAWWW simulcasts at 8PM.

Lw (Larry Will)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Cursory trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier check Aug 18 at
0122: two on 684 kHz, Spain being the one off-frequency; 891 no doubt
Algeria, but no 711 at this time.

From 0327: 531, 621, 684, 693, 774, 855(2), 898, 1098(2), 1107*
strongest, 1215, 1305; and 711.0, so is that Cuba or not? No DFing.

At 0630, JBA carrier about 710.4, not 711. Months ago, Steve Wiseblood
in the RGV presumed he was getting Rebelde on 710.5 but I never did.
Also 621 presumed Canary, 846 Kiritimati/Pacific, maybe 1098,
Marshalls.

WOR iog discussion of my previous log: ``CUBA [and non]. 711.0, Aug 17
at 0602, JBA het presumably one of the Radios Rebeldes knocked
off-frequency again like a few months ago. Something`s always wrong at
RadioCuba. Too weak to get DF on it, but the only TA carrier this late
is 621 presumed Canary Islands (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)``

``When nearby 621 kHz from Canary Islands could be heard easily in
North America, why not the 711 kHz Moroccon transmission too?

Right 3 kilometers distance to the Atlantic Ocean coastline.

MRC_Laayoune 711 / 864 kHz 300kW (El Aaiun), del 567/657 kHz 5/50kW
location G.C. 27°10'21.58"N 13°21'40.93"W

https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=e578e77b-a265-46e5-90e5-f86f630f0b38&cp=27.17377~-13.362753&lvl=18&style=h&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027
73 wb``

``Maybe SNRT antenna is too directional in El Aaiún. But I don't know
how it is behaving in practice. I also have no idea if the EMWG data
is valid or not today. In the former Euro-African Medium Wave Guide
(EMWG), the following data were:

711 kHz: AOE - SNRT Al-Idaâ al-Amazighia (El-Aaiún), El Aaiún (300,
directional 180°) - 24h in Tamazight (Berber), Tachelhit, Rifain,
Arabic exc. when local programmes are on air: Mo-Th 1800-1900 Arabic,
Fr 1800-2300 Arabic, Sat 0000-0200 Arabic, Sat 1800-2300 Arabic, Sun
1000-1300 Arabic, Sun 1800-0200 Arabic; relay of SNRT El-Aaiún: Fr-Sa
2200-2300 Arabic; Mon 0900-1300 Rabat programme; local ID "Maghribiyya
Laayoune"; very low audio - offset frequency of 710.9970 kHz (Tibor
Gaal, Hungary)``

Months ago when Cuba was skewed before, we had this same problem. If
it`s too weak to DF, another way to rule out Eurafrica is hearing it
later when it`s daytime there, still dark between here and Cuba, so
when I rouse circa 0900 UT Aug 18, quick check hears nothing above
710, so inconclusive. Need further chex (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, August 18 at 1151
UT, on the DX-398 so DFing: 657, 792 and 1008 all WSW; two? on 1242.
Enid LSR 1152, so almost too late but that was when I happened to
awaken. All of these have NZ or eastern Australia possibilities, under
50 kW except for one. Then a check of lowband 10-kHz channels for
Mexicans found none (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1901 UT August 18

** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, Aug 17 at 1414, after most of them have
evaporated at 1400 --- below 15 MHz, no WOOBs found until 11120 JBA
Chinese, 11100 & 10920 JBA carriers (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA [and non]. 711.0, Aug 17 at 0602, JBA het presumably one of
the Radios Rebeldes knocked off-frequency again like a few months ago.
Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. Too weak to get DF on it, but
the only TA carrier this late is 621 presumed Canary Islands (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 12200, Aug 17 at 0624, RHC English in mailbag from Utah,
S6-S9 from much stronger fundamental 6100. Something`s always wrong at
RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** KIRITIMATI. 846 kHz, Aug 17 at 0609, JBA carrier but with some
decent peaks, surely R. Kiribati, Xmas Island and not Europe, whence
this late the only TA carrier trace is 621 Canary/Africish. 846, 10 kW
is the closest TP split-frequency station, and it`s already well after
dark there; and anyway there are no Europeans on 846 more than 3 kW.
Additionally I get a rough DX-398 DF as closer to E/W than NE/SW. True
bearing is 252 degrees, distance only 4500 miles, and due south of
Hawaii, in the *western* hemisphere. As measured on my trusty NGS
globe.

Neither gaisma.com nor distancefromto.net can cope with the fact that
*this* part of Kiribati, the Line Islands, is *far* removed from the
main part to the west, giving out false readings for London,
Kiritimati as if it were on HQ island Tarawa, 6114 miles away and with
local time as UT+12 instead of +14! LSS varies only half an hour over
the course of a year, only 2 degrees from the Equator. It should be
similar to Honolulu which was 0500 UT today. But this gets it:
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/@11185877
with LSS at 18:38 minus 14 hours = 0438 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** KOREA NORTH. 11735, Aug 17 at 0627, too-sweet orchestral music so
typical of this Eden, VOK, then YL talk in French so fraxured I have
to concentrate a while to be sure of language until ``bombe atomique``
heard, their signature subject; and onward with vocal songs in Korean?
Cuts off circa 0655* rousing me from my doze; for Latin America,
French at this hour a marvel of optimism. Returned on at 1404, there
it is again during Korean (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 515-MCW kHz, Aug 17 at 0617, NDB PN Ponca City is still
off, and 341-MCW kHz, EI Enid JBA is still on (Glenn Hauser, Enid,
WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 88.1, Aug 17 at 1741 UT, KMSI Moore Oasis Network cuts to
dead air briefly during interview; at 1742 their local translator on
89.1, K206CA is dead air too, but OK at 1747 recheck when it`s
confirmed // 88.1.

106.7, Aug 17 at 1747 UT $ tereo dead air here from KTUZ-FM Okarche,
the Spanish station, vying to outdo Oasis. I was bandscanning for Es
DX after a 100 MHz MUF spike was reported west of here: nada (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, Aug 16 at 2200, VOT English to us is not off today
but might as well be vs strong NSS RTTY adding up to S9. These
entities evidently do not recognize each other as problematic! Nor
does it speak well for their official? monitors (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A. 13089-USB, Aug 16 at 2159, somewhat distorted OM robovoice
obsessed with nothing but winds in knots and seas in feet --- what`s
the conversion factor between knots and feet per second, to make the
units match?? --- day by day thru Friday, then back to tonight for
Caribbean between 64 and 72 west, down to Venezuela. This is a shared
USCG frequency; per Eibi at 2130-2205 it`s NMN Chesapeake VA, elsewhen
Guam, Hawaii or California (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 25000 & 20000, Aug 16 at 2150, WWV is S9 on both tnx to
sporadic-E short-skip under 500 miles from CO to here, but there is
*no* activity to be heard on adjacent hambands 12, 15 meters. A couple
unID phoners are audible on 18134-USB and 18136.5-USB (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2047 monitoring, our Sunday evening
extravaganza of 5 opportunities on SW not to mention WRN satellite and
webcast:

Confirmed UT Monday August 17 on WRMI 7730, VG S9+20/30.

Also confirmed UT Mon Aug 17 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, good at UTwente, VG
at Maine; also via WRN.

Also confirmed UT Mon Aug 17 at 0245 the 0230 on WRMI 7780, S8-S9
direct.

Also confirmed UT Mon Aug 17 starting at 0302.5 on Area 51 via WBCQ
5130, S9+10 but high storm noise level.

Also confirmed UT Mon Aug 17 after 0330 on WRMI 9955 and/or webcast, I
think but missed logging it.

Also confirmed Monday August 17 from 1801.7 on IRRS 7290 Bulgaria,
S9+20 via UTwente but with storm crashes worse than the plus/minus 10
AACI. Runup check this week: carrier *1755.5 takes over from JBA algo,
dead air until 1758.9 sounds like Feature Story News --- yes, as not
chopped off before its outro; 1759.9 to UNESCO PSA in Spanish! about
CV; then IRRS sign-on again with deactivated? P O Box 10980 in Milano;
1801.3 FSN again where it usually inserts just before 1801.7 WOR,
which continues airing intact. Next:

1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

Thanks for financial support from Ivan Soldo, Australian
Capital Territory, for a contribution via PayPal originally
in Australian$ 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. 15610, Aug 16 at 2155, NO signal from WEWN, AWOL again from
English day transmitter, which should be more than JBA with sporadic E
inbooming neighbor 15825 WWCR S9; and even 15555-USB WJHR S3, 15770
WRMI S8. WEWN 12050 Spanish on when checked at 2301. And 9385 WEWN
night frequency in English VG at 0621 August 17 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

Note: previous report should have been subjected August 15-16

This report dispatched at 1827 UT August 17

** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey Aug 16 at 1342-1345: 13160 S5-S7, 13020,
12880, weakest 12820; today no chance to check any other
Way-Out-Of-Bands (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13357, 13426, 13495, 13563, 13632; 13769, 13827, 13906, 13975
approx., Aug 16 at 1350, extremely distorted spurblobs out of RHC
13700 transmitter, not tuned in that order but first noted 13563; two
closest pairs are very strong, trailing off to JBA edges with F# tones
at least, up to 5th multiple of ~69 kHz intervals; much like yesterday
morning. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** DJIBOUTI [non]. 17870, Sunday August 16 at 1453, nice Horn Of
Africa music on VG bigsig S9+10/20 via UTwente SDR, i.e. La Voix de
Djibouti weekly clandestine listed as Issoudun site, FRANCE. No
announcements until chopped off at 1459*. When last logged a biweek
ago I had to go to Kuwait to hear it as hardly any UTwente sig, to be
expected so close to FRANCE and skipping over: distance from Issoudun
to Enschede is 684 km = 425 statute miles. If site has not changed, I
suppose well audible now because plenty of sporadic E MUF over western
Europe short-skipping (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MEXICO. 28166-CW, Aug 15 at 1854, JBA beacon a bit chirpy, VVV
XE2O/B. Also heard recently, sporadic E, as in WJ5O roster:
``28.166 XE2O C ALLENDE, NL, MEXICO # 5W, VERTICAL NEW 30 Aug 2010 new
call 7 Aug 11`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also USA

** U S A [and non]. 13200-USB, Aug 16 at 1351, Andrews [AFB, MD near
Wash DC] in contact with some tactical call, don`t recall hearing them
here before despite numerous CNR1 jammer bandscan passovers. However
this is a major USAF comms frequency, in 2002y Klingenfuss guide, not
only for AFA Andrews but also: AFI McClellan CA, AFS Offutt NE, AGA
Hickam HI, AIE Andersen Guam, AIF Yokota Japan, AJE Croughton UK, AKA
Elmendorf AK, CUW Lajes Azores, NAU USN Roosevelt Roads PR, XPH Thule
Greenland. I wonder which of these still be active? And if those
callsigns are ever uttered (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 28290.8-CW, Aug 15 at 1851, beacon AR AR AR DE K5TLJ/B,
heard again, sporadic E from adjacent state:
``28.2908 K5TLJ C TRUMANN ARKANSAS # 5W, VERTICAL testing 10 Jan 12``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) One other: see MEXICO

** U S A. 28214-CW, Aug 16 at 1834, VVV N4PAL N4PAL BCN QSL, i.e.
``28.214 N4PAL C LONGWOOD, FLORIDA # 5W, VERTICAL NEW 15 Dec 07``
without a /B

28217.5-CW, Aug 16 at 1838, VVV VVV DE K4PAR/B and very long pauses:
``28.2175 K4PAR ? EATONTON, GEORGIA # ?,? un-coordinated 28 May 19
reported by Richard SWL`` or is it ---
``28.2177 K4PAR C EATONTON, GEORGIA NEW 1 JUNE 2019``

28289.3-CW, Aug 16 at 1840, WJ5O beacon as in his own roster:
``28.2893 WJ5O C TROY ALABAMA # 2W VERTICAL New Frequency 25 Jan 14``

28286.5-CW, Aug 16 at 1842, WB0BIN beacon with slow and fast WPMs:
``28.2865 WBØBIN C SABIN MINNESOTA # 7W GP VERTICAL New 22 April 18``

28290.8-CW, Aug 16 at 1903, AR DE K5TLJ/B:
``28.2908 K5TLJ C TRUMANN ARKANSAS # 5 W VERTICAL testing 10 Jan
12``

All of which have been heard recently before. Frequencies not measured
exactly but listings seem correct. Note that some zero-land hams do
not use the real figure zero in their calls, which is not crossed in
most fonts, but the Scandinavian *letter* Ø which is, and which means
you will not get a search hit unless also employed.

This time a few widely-spaced phonehams also to be found on 10m:

28665-USB, Aug 16 at 1850, K4LO with repeated unfonetik but clear
calls in contact, per QRZ.com:
``K4LO USA flag USA, PHILLIP N WILSON, PACE, FL 32571-2850``

28425-USB, Aug 16 at 1847, CQ CQ CQ, KC4TVZ with fonetix, heavy
southern accent, sounds like a recording, exactly same intonation with
each repeat, and he barely leaves enough time between for a reply.
Again/still at 1902. From his page is a big contester/certificate
collector:
``KC4TVZ USA flag USA, Todd Burnette, Flowery Branch, GA 30542``

28433-USB, Aug 16 at 1850, unID ragchewer about tubes no hurry to ID
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2047 monitoring: confirmed Saturday August 15
starting at 1945 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, VG via nearby Warrenton
KiwiSDR.

Also confirmed UT Sunday August 16 at 0300 on WRMI 5800, VG to OK SDR

Also confirmed UT Sun Aug 16 starting at 0323 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO
again via Warrenton SDR well above noise level. Next:

0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 or 6160v to WSW
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB
1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

Thanks for financial support from Ivan Soldo, Australian
Capital Territory, for a contribution via PayPal originally
in Australian$ 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. 5085, UT Sun Aug 16 at 0020, after a hamadstring and WTWW
plea for listener $ $ , `TONITO` starts and runs until 0050. Bob Heil is
presenting a recording of his performance in 1966 on the Hammond Organ
he built for a Holiday Inn in Columbus OH; I have switched to #2
webcast where $ tereo is possible, and it does sound so on a rather
noisy old tape (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. The sporadic E VHF DX season is winding down now, but
keeping an eye on the DXMAPs, afternoon of Aug 15, some MUF spikes
above 90, even above 108 MHz, so it`s worth a try on the radio in the
garaged but very hot parked car. Unfortunately, fringe Kansans are
above normal messing up some `open` frequencies, so I wind up mainly
exploring them for a dekaminute, 2235-2245 UT:

At 2238, 101.3 Wichita with national and local ads such as Cavender`s,
but CCI mentioning ``K-Love``. WTFDA Database shows this extensive
network with 6 stations on 101.3, none of them near, max power 6 kW
ERP, two of them translators in: NY, WA, CO, MS. I would not expect
this to be overload from a local K-Love faraway frequency.

At 2243, 105.9 with romusic in Spanish, none known in OK, JBA and
fading, but likely just:
``KSSA 105.9 INGALLS KS 100.0 kW H&V, 203.0 m HAAT, 37-46-48 100-27-36
Spanish 415C KE BUENA KSSA...KSSA REGIONAL MEXICAN KE BUENA 105.9``
which is between Garden City and Dodge City (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK,
WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 27385-LSB, Aug 16 at 1445, among freebander pileup one
reveals he`s in northeast Tennessee; a prime such frequency, another
being 27375-LSB; but no 10m hambeacons heard less than one MHz higher.
DXMAPs show MUF spikes above 90 MHz, but FM band not checked yet
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1956 UT August 16 just after feeling an earth
tremor yet to be checked

** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-CUSB, Sat Aug 15 at 1640-1730+, no signal from
LRA36 via Brasil SDR --- original plans were to broadcast from 1700,
but missed regular Wednesday 14-16+ airing Aug 12 due to bad weather,
so maybe it`s still bad, or skipped without a new `Corazón Antártico`
show to repeat for starters.

[and non]. I had wondered whether the RAE special via LRA36 on July 25
would also show up on WRMI relay, and now Ron Howard confirms:

``Hi Glenn, Happened to tune by 5800, on Aug 14 (Friday), at 0304 and
heard WRMI with the special LRA36 program you reported hearing on July
25. My four minute audio [in English] is at
http://bit.ly/3kQdflI
Ron California`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey August 15 at 1350-1400: none in the 16s;
15165; 14940 JBA carrier, 14920, 14850; 13130, 13020 S7/S9+10, 12880,
12870 S9/+10; 12210 vs CODAR; 25mb inband skipped; 11500, 11460 S9+10,
11440 & 11150 JBA carriers, 11120 S9+; 31m inband skipped; 9300 S9
unusual, the only in lower 9s but confirmed // (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** CUBA. 13632 & 13564 approx., Aug 15 at 1351, my CNR1 jammer survey
is interrupted by reactivation of broad RHC spurblobs out of 13700
transmitter, missing for quite a while, but never permanently fixed.
No programming audible in SSB mode, but in FM and AM. These at approx.
68-69 kHz intervals; after 1400 China finished, back to look for more
as RHC runs multi-lingual ID (including abolished Guarani, Quechua??):
also on plus side around 13769, 13838; and trace of the F# tone circa
13908 and 13427, the lower vs CODAR. Something`s always wrong at RHC
(Glenn Hauer, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 515-MCW kHz, Aug 15 at 0626, NDB PN in Ponca
City is still off; 341-MCW EI in Enid is still on.

Too much storm noise from KS to detect much else, but two signals seem
mixing on 420, probably PK in KS and FQ in MN, from previous
experience, both 25 watts (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** THAILAND. 9390, August 15 at 1359, lovely deep chimes of HSK9 on
good signal vs 9395 WRMI, just in time for 1400 English --- but cuts
off briefly and comes back with much weaker signal before 1400, still
chiming. Shux, at 1330-1400 it`s in Thai on 54 degree beam for CIRAF
45 & 50 --- but 50 is Philippines eastward, while 45 is Japan NE.
After 1400 in English has switched to 132 degrees for CIRAF 49 thru
60, i.e. all of SE Asia, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand, but
skipping 52, 53 and 57 which are central and southern Africa, the
strange way CIRAF zones are numbered. If only they could stay on 54
degrees or even less for English so we could hear them, much better in
our mornings than the supposedly intentional NAm broadcasts in our
evenings after 0000 on JBA at best 15590 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2047 monitoring: slept thru the
Saturday August 15 at 1300 on WRMI 15770; did anyone hear it? Also
please check Sat 1130 on 9955 which persists on their skedgrid but
months ago WOR had been replaced by something else. Next:

For WA0RCR a nearby KiwiSDR is available:
http://kb0fxkiwisdr.hopto.org:8073/
already well heard at 1756 check during extensive ham news sked

1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM [started earlier last week]
2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 [NEW] to NE
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400]
0300 UT Sunday WRMI 5800 to SSE
0700 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 or 6160v to WSW
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB
1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

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** VANUATU. 11835, Aug 15 at 0613, RV 3 x 3945 reaches S4-S8 with talk
in presumed Bislama; JBA carrier on 7890, none on 15780 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1801 UT August 15

PRECISE FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES

In response to an inquiry from Rodney Johnson, I wrote on WOR iog:

Yes, the AMSynch frequency readout is the way to go on UTwente SDR.

Most of my measurements are on the R-75, the old-fashioned way.
Normally I step-tune bandscans at 1 kHz intervals in USB. Thus 1000-Hz
hets are everywhere when 1 kHz below a correct frequency; if something
is slightly plus or minus, it`s immediately obvious from a different
pitch. Then to measure it, I downtune -200 or -300 Hz exactly on the
readout to three decimal places, hear that pitch and then in 1 Hz
step-tuning mode, go up to the plus side until I hear the same pitch,
then comparing by punching in xxxx.800 or whatever where previously
heard. Usually takes a few tries back and forth to get an exact match
to my ear. Then I note the exact frequency which makes a match on the
plus side, and add the total Hz between upper and lower. Divide by two
and add that to the lower spot, and that produces the wanted exact
carrier frequency --- almost. On this receiver it`s slightly off so I
have a correxion factor to subtract according to a table I have
compiled, since the factor increases with higher frequencies. Finally
the exact frequency to be logged. However after all this indirect
``measurement`` I will not claim accuracy to better than about 2 Hz.

On the NRD-545 there is a similar procedure except it reads out to
only .01 kHz instead of .001.

I would encourage other DXers with receivers capable of this to carry
out such measurements. And all editors to respect them rather than
rounding off or deleting the extra decimal places.

Additionally: in some cases with a strong stable signal and
headphones, one can zero-beat a frequency in SSB mode, by rocking
tuning back and forth until no subaudible beat can be heard (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey Aug 14 at 1357-1400: 14920 JBA, 14850
S5-S7, 14690 S8-S9, 14635, 14500? carrier only, 13160 S9+10, 13130,
12880 S9 which is as far as I get until timesignal and 1400* (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** GERMANY. 9670, Aug 14 at 1655, From the Isle of Music test via
Channel 292: it`s good at UTwente, S9/+10 closing in English, part
Tilford-Spanish and even a bit in German. It seems that Bill did not
post this reminder before to our group, but sent Aug 13:

``Subject: Test broadcast August 14 from Germany
TIME: 1600-1800 UTC FREQUENCY: CHANNEL 292, 9670 KHZ
PROGRAMS: From the Isle of Music 1600-1700 UTC
Uncle Bill's Melting Pot 1700-1800 UTC
Last Friday's test had both propagation and transmitter issues so we
are retrying the time/frequency``

Still good after 1700 with UBMP on 9670 via UTwente. At 1711 I began
recording rest of hour for later hearance, but then found it soon
started fading down by 1714 during Urdu songs he was trying to
pronounce, 1717 some fade-outs, and by 1720 almost lost vs high local
storm noise level at the SDR; still useless when I next checked at
1745 and stopped recording. At least there was no QRM from co- or
adjacent stations since moving all of this to before 1800. Wolfgang
Bueschel had been listening since 1633 and had S3-S9 signals at
several different European SDRs, but ``nil - nothing at Hanson,
Massachusetts state in USA; at AJ1L location. 73 wb`` (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** GERMANY. 9670, UT Sat Aug 15 at 0155 I have a JBA carrier here,
maybe Channel 292, no better after 0200 when Texas Radio Shortwave has
scheduled a monthly-on-third-Saturday test with 10 kW ND hoping to
reach us. I try UTwente first, but find it is offline! Now we`ll hear
if TRSW make it to northeast America, on the Maine SDR: yes, but very
poorly with country tunes; 0223 sounds like Willie Nelson; that SDR
times me out at 0230* (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** INDIA. All India Radio specials for Independence Day details, the
second part from 0135 UT Saturday:

https://alokeshgupta.blogspot.com/2020/08/special-broadcasts-by-air-for.html
Since it`s after sunrise, don`t expect to get the lower HS frequencies
at any great distance --- I reminded in advance on the WOR iog. For
the record I check all the frequencies on his list, and of course
nothing to be heard on 4, 5 or 6 MHz. From 0133:

11620 very poor; 15030 JBA carrier; 5010 possible SAH vs WRMI or from
Madagascar; 7420 blocked by RRI. All of this direct, not trying
remotes.

7380 turns out to be best altho VP, USB necessary to minimize 7375 RRI
splash. All I hear is S Asian songs, vocal with drumming, until a bit
of talk at 0149, but back to music by 0153. Forget it after 0200 as
7385 WHRI is also on now squeezing from opposite side. 7380 is Chennai
where VP Kámala (Lotus) Harris` mother came from, Madras.

After that I am mainly monitoring remotes for TRSW on 9670, so missed
the main event in India, but probably not in English anyway. At 0228
Maine Kiwi was poorly pulling a speech in Hindi? on 11620. Apparently
better received a bit further east by Richard Langley in NB (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6960-AM, Aug 15 at 0124, music at S8/S9+10, some
pirate but am far too busy chasing INDIA and checking WOR on WRMI.
Rechex finds music still going at 0137, 0205. Many logs here say it`s
Ballsmacker Radio:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,70483.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) [non] TRSW: See GERMANY

** OKLAHOMA. 515-MCW kHz, Aug 14 at 0600 UT, NDB PN Ponca City is
still off; 341-MCW, EI Enid is still on (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2047 monitoring; confirmed first
WRMI broadcast Friday August 14 at 2200 on 9955, S7-S9 with lite pulse
jamming, improving soon to S9+15.

Also confirmed UT Saturday August 15 at 0130 on new at this time 9955
WRMI, VG S9+20 despite aiming SSE from Okee; and also 3 seconds later
on VP 7780 separate playout; and still canceled from 5850 & 5010.

Next:
0700 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB
1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 [NEW] to NE
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400]
0300 UT Sunday WRMI 5800 to SSE
0700 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 or 6160v to WSW
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB
1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

Thanks for financial support from Ivan Soldo, Australian
Capital Territory, for a contribution via PayPal originally
in Australian$ 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. (7490), UT Sat Aug 15 from 0000, WBCQ webcast of `AAAWWW` is
almost all fiery politix, 1000% pro-Drumpf and anti-Democrats who are
the same as Communists. 0024 finally mentions quadri-casting on 3265,
5130, 6160 and 7490 which I soon confirm on a Rockport ME SDR check,
except 7490 is mostly skipping over there, altho 9330 WLCR inbooms.
Angela sounds more extreme than Allan, playing off each other?
Discussed social media; anti-IRS.

Notable quotes from Allan: ``330 million blockheads`` referring to all
Americans, and ``dickhead Pelosi``, twice --- well, at least that
could not be qualified as sexist? Takes phone call at 0049 from
someone just as reinforced; then some e-mail, and not until the last
minute 0059 does someone ask about buying WHRI, which he confirms
briefly matter-of-factly, more about that ``huge transition`` to come.
I had also e-mailed him for a comment about that.

We had been discussing it all day on the WOR iog since Stephen Luce
posted a matter-of-fact station-sales resumen from Lance Venta:

``[WOR] Allan Weiner/WBCQ buying WHRI
Allan Weiner buying WHRI for $ 1.25 Million, from RadioInsight:
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/195902/station-sales-week-of-8-14/

Perhaps not a surprise in light of the apparent shutdown of the Palau
operation. Will the lower powered WBCQ transmitters in Maine stay on
the air, or will everything outside the 500kw WLC transmitter get
moved to Furman? Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas`` viz.:

``Station Sales Week Of 8/14
Lance Venta by Lance Venta August 14, 2020

World Harvest Radio International WHRI Allan Weiner
Family Broadcasting Corporation is selling shortwave Christian “World
Harvest Radio” WHRI Furman SC to Allan Weiner for $ 1.25 million.
Weiner also owns shortwave Talk “The Planet” WBCQ Monticello ME as
well as Talk/Rock 780 WXME/98.3 W252DW and Classic Country “Kixx 94.7”
WBCQ-FM Monticello. The seller owns multiple Christian television
stations as well as Christian AC “Pulse-FM” 103.1 WHME South Bend IN,
96.9 WHPZ Bremen IN, and 92.1 WHPD Dowagiac MI``

``Wow, what a deal. Seems like a bargain depending on how many Furman
transmitters are really operable. Not a hint from AW before that this
was in the offing. We can only hope that this is not financed too by
World`s Last Chance or some equally odious entity, and that WBCQ
programming will axually be radiated. Glenn`` --- other replies:

``If I had to guess, I'd imagine this was financed by the Flat
Earthers since they have VERY deep pockets and it's already
established that WBCQ on its own isn't all that "well off" financially
(after some fire damage in late 2017, they tried to raise money
through donations to repair/replace one of their classic transmitters)
but hopefully some alternative programming will be relayed via the
powerful WHRI transmitters. A very unexpected development either way!
73 John Jurasek``

``There may still be a third 500 kW (including the one moved in from
Greenbush) and a second 100 kW (ex-Noblesville). Well, a bargain: At
least they found someone who takes the station, after nobody wanted
Palau anymore. And I indeed assume that World's Last Chance has
something to do with this, considering their use of Woofferton and
Encompass-brokered Kostinbrod. Probably Encompass wants to keep its
access to Furman for the time being, because otherwise Woofferton
would be all they still have for NHK, KBS and Voice of Vietnam while
in Asia they still can offer transmissions from Taiwan, resulting in
Palau being dispensable for them. Kai Ludwig``.

And now, John Carver`s version of AAAWWW notes:

``Tonight's show started on time on 6160 and 7490 and a few seconds
later on 5130. An energized Allan and slightly agitated Angela who
blurts out Communism in the opening political statement touching on
the peace agreement in the Middle East and then China which Angela
equates with Black Lives Matter, bleeding hearts and the communists in
general. Allan finally stops the political talk after seventeen
minutes to tell Angela how beautiful she is and then they move into
talking about Face Book. Allan stated once again that Angela was being
groomed to take over the radio station when he could no longer do it.
He mentioned that they were broadcasting again on 3265 which I didn't
try to check as I would have to adjust pre-selector and antenna
tuner.

Back to political talk before the half hour mark with Angela being the
rabble rouser and then they moved to talking about the IRS. Phone call
at 0050 which did nothing to change the topic. Reading of emails at
0053 which caused Allan to drop a bombshell this evening with the
reply to an email about WHRI as he stated that WBCQ was buying WHRI.
Said he would give us more information in the future. Closing prayer
at 0059 and program was off the air at 0100. John Mid-North Indiana``

After barely joining Hal Turner in time at 0100 on 7490, by 0110 I
find 5130 is off while 6160- continues // (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 600 kHz, Aug 14 at 0605 UT, ``Newsradio 600, WMT`` ID after
Fox ``news`` and then local weather, from a TV station; dominant
signal on its 1.25? kW ND day facility with the direxional nite tower
downblown by the derecho in Cedarapids IA. I can`t be too sympathetic
to WMT plight as they spew loathsome Limbaugh and hateful Hannity; but
a much wider variety of talkshows on weekends (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 12478.34-USB approx., Aug 14 at 1400, colloquial Spanish
2-way; encountered of course during WOOBandscan for CNR1 jammers
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0456 UT August 15