** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-CUSB, Sat July 25 at 1636 tune-in via Brasil
SDR, another LRA36 special is already early on the air again,
asserting ``este es el ritmo de mi tierra``, but I seriously doubt it
be genuine traditional Antarctican music. Manuel Méndez, Spain was
hearing it already at 1624. Music with occasional IDs, such as 1650
plugging the regular Wednesday broadcast.

1700 officially starting the special, ID in Spanish, says English will
be included. 1703 mentions using rhombic antenna but nothing about its
heading, surely not due south. 1708 music; 1710 chat with Adrián
Korol, head of RAE in Bs. As. BUT 1715 dumps off the air. I keep
listening hopefully to the noise. 1738 back on discussing pandemia
problems; 1743 ID as special RAE produxion for LRA36, and playing old
``cortina`` = theme for DX program. 1749 I think they say this is
running only 1 kW, and e-mail address. 1750 ``llegando al final`` of
the RAE/RNASG special between Korol and Fernando Farías, host of both
the Spanish and English RAE Argentina To The World programs, and
English to follow; music. 1756 plug again `Corazón Antártico`
Wednesday show; more music past 1804 and no English yet. 1806 another
C.A. plug, more songs.

1822, English segment finally starts, by Fernando Farías intro as on
15476-USB, excited to be doing this 30-minute special on RAE sister
station LRA36; 1826 e-mail address; plus Arnaldo Slaen`s classic DX
segment, formerly done by Gabriel Iván Barrera; song about Juana Jujuy
who in the war for independence was promoted to general, which serves
as background music to the DX segment, 1834 outro as sung by the late
Mercedes Sosa. 1835 that RAE broadcasts in 8 languages, on website,
YouTube (but no mention now of WRMI); QSLRAE@gmailcom but not for
this. Rating S4-S5 on the KiwiSDR but quite readable. All the language
announcers are not in the studio, an historic building locked down,
but working from home. Email for this: tranalra36@radionacional.com.ar
--- glad he spelt trana to be sure.

Since Antarctica is free of coronavirus, School #38 for Esperanza kids
is still open, the only Argentine one. 1845 plays Waldo de los Rios
song for DXers; it was RAE ATTW opening theme for many years. 1849
program is available on Radio Nacional website. 8-language service is
only weekly due to CV and aired M-F. 1850 coming to the end of this
special. Now mentions RAE being on Miami Radio International, 5800
(but will this Antarctic show air there too?). 1852, thanks to
everybody at Esperanza Base; 1854, ``all the best, ciao``. And more
and more songs past 1942, few announcements but something unreadable
at 1908 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey July 25 from 1322; many JBA but a few
sufficiently audible: none higher than: 13530; 13020; 12870 S5-S8
choppy; 12820; 12795 best S7-S9 also choppy; 12550 S3-S5; 12500 JBAC
but with 2-way SSB QRM offset; 12190; 11460; 11440; 11150; 11120;
11100; 11070; 10960; 10920; 10870; none in the lower 9s (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** KOREA SOUTH. 9100, this week`s jumparound frequency, July 25 at
1342, Echo of Hope, S5-S7 in OM Amerenglish news about conflict along
the Turko-Syria border involving the PKK; alternating with YL in
Korean; presumably olds as language lesson (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, July 24 at 2157, VOT already in programming, not just
IS & ID prélude, English about Turkey, maybe opening schedule. VP
signal seems slightly offset+plus; as always I have to cope with a
local birdie, but at least no NSS RTTY QRM today. By 2200 is off? Or
break or weakening. No, by 2207 I`m on UTwente instead with a good
signal, AM synch readout as 9830.021v, and annoying squeal in the
modulation which seems always to infect it now. This early it`s not
the news but some historical feature, 2208 outro as `This Day in
History`, and on to next unID feature. So it seems they are running
several minutes fast/early; clock-on-the-wall needs resetting? 2230
and 2251 chex, still squealing with music; I thought they might be
signing off early too, but now back in synch, 2255 YL sign off falsely
claiming this has been the 1230 broadcast on 15450, 2256 IS and one
German ID, but cut off at 2257:20* before spurious German hour can
commence today. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler, awry at
Ankara (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 28289.3-CW, July 25 at 1504, only beacon making it, barely,
is WJ5O/B, i.e. proprietor of the beacon reference himself:
``28.2893 WJ5O C TROY ALABAMA # 2W VERTICAL New Frequency 25 Jan 14``
DXMaps.com, run by a ham in Spain, shows some North American sporadic
E MUFs occasionally spiking above 88 MHz, typically not worth
attempting FMDXing here (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2044 monitoring: confirmed first
WRMI broadcast, Friday July 24 at 2200 on WRMI, 9955, poor S6-S8 here
but no jamming; only fair at TWR Bonaire SDR.

Also confirmed UT Sat July 25 at 0130 on WRMIs trimulcast: after 0129
double ID on 7780, VP and equally VP on 5010, but VG S9+20/30 on 5850
aimed thisaway; Remotes checked circa 0135: 5010 VG at Bonaire; 7780
unusually VP at UTwente but VG at Maine.

Also confirmed Sat July 25 at 1305 the 1300 on WRMI 15770, JBA here to
the NW like 7780 at night, but presumably much better to the NE.

Has anyone found any of our 2044 podcasts cutting off after 20
minutes? We`ve had a complaint that this one does, also confirmed by
my non-Canadian check:

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/glenn-hausers-world-of-radio/id1123369861

Our podcast manager, Keith Weston has just replied:

``Glenn, Thanks for being in touch. I’ve fixed the file so that it
should play back appropriate. It may take iTunes/Apple a day or so to
become aware of the change. And, yes, it’s listed at Apple Podcast,
and it`s replicated at dozens if not thousands of services that use
Apple or Google as templates for their own feeds. It’s in the wild, as
they say. Best, - Keith Weston https://keithweston.com`` Next:

1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
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 to SSE [jammed?]
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 this week for financial support from Richard Langley,
Fredericton NB, for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at
yahoo.com -- not necessarily in US funds as they will convert

One may also contribute via MO or check in US funds on a US bank to:
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. Area 51 and WBCQ 7490 webcasts, UT Sat July 25 at 0001 both
playing William Tell Overture theme to AAAWWW. Angela is tropically
dressed tonight, but they are back in Maine where air conditioning is
not really necessary, since the AC in the studio broke years ago; they
do have a fan? to cool the equipment. Angela does not like AC anyway
as unhealthy.

Allan soon answers my question about why WBCQ-6 is missing from 9330
so much: has been off 6-7 hours in the daytime while riggers and crew
have been working to replace supports for transmission lines; in
winter winds they had been too loose allowing the lines to short out.
Checking Rochester remote, 6160 & 5130 also on now but not
synchronized. 0058 recheck, in benedixion, and 7490 on to Hal Turner
precisely joined at 0100.

It seemed other frequencies were not on earlier during 23 UT hour, but
checked direct at 0101, 6160- and 7490+ about equally good levels with
HT while 5130 is in sign-off classical music I am trying to remember
what it be. However, at 0104, 5130 joins HT, also // 9455 WRMI. But
0134 recheck, 5130 is off.

9330, July 25 at 1341 is off again, but had been on at night (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 17775-, Sat July 25 after 1500, JBA carrier? from KVOH here;
1541 checking TWR remotes in Bonaire and noisy DR, definitely JBA
carriers, so seems that `Wavescan` at 1500 was going nowhere, even if
were modulating unlike yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1090, July 26 at 0600 UT, KAAY Little Rock ID as a Cumulus
station but again no dead air, just filling with a PSA string; nulling
it hears somethings but can`t tell if XEAU, and nothing in Chinese,
but heads up on the WOR iog:

``Glenn, for your monitoring of activity on 1090: If you hear Chinese
programming, it would be coming from KULF in Bellville, Texas,
targeting the Houston market. Although a daytimer, it has been
recently noted operating at night, though I haven't checked the past
few days. Directional pattern towards the Gulf, but some RF may escape
elsewhere. The Chinese programming has been said to originate with
some CRI related entity, but I have been unable to verify this.
Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Correct date for the JBA TP MW carrier search at
1122-1130 was July 24, not 23 (gh)

UNIDENTIFIED. 12543-USB, July 25 at 1328, 2-way in Spanish, OM
mentions puta and much weaker answeress sounds feminine (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1942 UT July 25

** CANADA. 332-MCW kHz, July 24 at 0609, NDB dash and QT, 1000 watts
from Thunder Bay, Ont., overcoming nearby 400-watt IC in WIChita KS

335-MCW kHz, July 24 at 0610, ND beacon dash and YLD barely copiable
vs HSNL, i.e. 1000 watts from Chapleau, Ont., which is between Timmins
and Sault Ste Marie (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, July 24 at 1328-1339, mostly presumed
JBA carriers: 13530, 13130, 13020 best S6-S9; 14920, 14900, 14850;
11460, 11440, 11150, 11120, 11100, 11070, 10920, 10845?; 9180, 9215
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MEXICO [non]. 1090, July 24 at 0601 UT, KAAY Little Rock no longer
dead air but filling the news hole with a string of PSAs for suicide,
MS, veterans, etc., etc. So our fun is over for now, but worth
periodic rechecking, also at other hourtops. Even nulled not getting
much of anything from XEAU tonight. IRCA Mexican Log editor Tim Hall
replies to my previous report:

``Reports coming out of Monterrey in recent months (on some Mexican
radio groups I belong to on Facebook) have said that XEAU has been
jumping back and forth between "FM Tu" //XHFMTU-103.7 and "Milenio
Radio"/"Milenio Noticias." There is speculation that they are just
about ready to turn off the AM. In my annual Border Inn sessions (last
October, a couple months after the deadline for the Mex Log) they were
indeed using Milenio Radio slogan. 73 Tim``

Could it be gone for good? I thought AMs were more likely to survive
in major cities where FM bands are full (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NIGERIA. 7254.9, July 24 at 0550, VON is already on S9+10/20,
prélude of drumming and singing, nice (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 379-MCW kHz, July 24 at 0612 UT, ND beacon RUE, 25 watts
from Russellville AR; not many in the adjacent-state region arriving
tonight except this (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also CANADA

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2044 contents: Antarctica, China,
Colombia, Cuba, Ethiopia, Germany, Guyana, India, Korea South, México,
North America and non, Philippines, Scotland non, Turkey, USA; and the
propagation outlook

WOR 2044 is available as of 0020 UT Friday July 24
(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2044.m3u
(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2044.mp3

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

The shortwave broadcasts should be:

0900 UT Friday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB
2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed?]
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NE, 5010 to S, 7780 to NE
0700 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB
1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
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 to SSE [jammed?]
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 this week for financial support from Richard Langley,
Fredericton NB, for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at
yahoo.com -- not necessarily in US funds as they will convert

One may also contribute via MO or check in US funds on a US bank to:
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9330, July 24 at 1339 & 1509, no signal from WLCR via
WBCQ-6; is the schedule deliberately less than 24/7 now, or random
breakdowns/maintenance periods? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 17775-, July 24 at 1410, KVOH is on and propagating at S9+10
but dead air except for some hum; or is there a trace of JBM? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 670, July 24 at 0619 UT check, NO IBOC noise from WSCR
Chicago infesting 657 & 683 kHz, and may this ever be so (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1680+, July 24 at 0558 UT, fast SAH as before between KRJO
Monroe LA to the SE and presumed WPRR Ada MI to the NE, no longer open
carrier but playing different musix, new format ``The Ride`` as
reported by Jack Amelar quoted in last report. Surely a call change
will be forthcoming as no longer Public Reality Radio (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, July 23 at
1122-1130: I haven`t done this since March 13 once DST was in effect,
as I dearly want to sleep past sunrise, staying awake usually until
0630 or so UT. But I happen to awaken today at 1120 so I risk making a
check. There might well have been many more instances even in deep
spring/summer had I searched. Sometimes I use the DX-398 with internal
ferrite, which allows DFing whether signals be from Asia to the NW or
Pacific WSW, but this time it`s the R75 for greater gain but E-W
longwire, so no DFing. Usually both preamps are off to minimize
overloading, but this time I need at least #1 to get enough signals to
detect, by 9-kHz step tuning USB at 1 kHz below the channels to hear
tell-tale 1 kHz hets. LSR today is 1132 UT, and if any on the low end,
have already outfaded. The rest are just this side of
imagination-level, and are typical from Pacific rather than Asia,
altho some could be either:

738, 774, 828, 837, 855, 882, 936(2 beating), 1017, 1098, 1152, 1161,
1314, 1566? 936 pair are intriguing: no higher powers than two 10 kW
eastern Aussies, and a 1 kW NZer. East Asia has 200 kW from China, 50
from Thailand.

I don`t get back to sleep by 1200, but keep trying and maybe get a few
winx past 1300. It shall be another 5 weeks before our SR laten to
1200 when some NHK timepips might audiblize like in March, but that
will still be 7 am CDT while I want to keep sleeping (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1635 UT July 24

** CANADA. 248-MCW kHz, July 23 at 0633 UT, ND beacon dash and WG,
which is 1000 watts from Winnipeg. Good to hear a Canadian again on
LW; some storm noise but lower than usual as nothing lightning much in
the Great Center of America, just scattered spots further to the west
and east. Also logged several from USA; Q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, July 23 at 1354-1400, some audibly
Chinese, some JBA carriers: 13530, 13160, 13150, 12880, 12500, 12190,
11170, 11150, 11120, 11100, 10960, 10920, 10820 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** CUBA. 6082-6118, July 23 at 0619, range of splatter out of S9+40
suptorted 6100 RHC English. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 9580, July 24 at 0146, CRI English relay is S9+20 but
suptorted. Wiggle that patchcord. Something`s always wrong at
RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MEXICO [and non]. 1090, July 23 at 0600 UT, once again KAAY Little
Rock AR drops to dead air, so I amplify the opportunity and also null
it for what else may right-angly audiblize: Spanish, timecheck for 1
AM, brief announcement mentions milenio.com but I don`t hear a
specific ID. The IRCA Mexican Log has lots of details about each
station but does not mention milenio in connexion with this or any
1090 station. In fact ``milenio`` does not appear once in the huge
file, so such info is beyond its scope.

Wikipedia however soon confirms this: ``XEAU-AM is a radio station on
1090 AM in Monterrey, Nuevo León. It is owned by Multimedios Radio and
carries Milenio Radio along with sister station XHFMTU-FM 103.7
HD3.``

ToH is not for news on either station; XEAU plays music, first a
familiar instrumental non-Mexican song, and then 0603 one in English
before KAAY remodulate at 0605 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO
2044)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6930-USB, July 24 at 0126, rock music S5-S7 vs HSNL;
0129 ``You are listening to Black Star Radio`` by synth? bass voice.
0153 interrupted by buzz for a few sex, probably my streetlight
igniting circa sunset, but not in a position to view it. Keeps going
with dense rock and occasional unreadable announcements, nor are the
song lyrix, past 0219+ but off at next check 0237. Several logs here
agree it was Blackstar Radio,
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,69772.0.html
between 0042 and 0138 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS. 13795.049, July 23 at 1438, VP talk, on
such an offset must be USAGM here: yes, RFA Cantonese via TINIAN, this
hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 341-MCW, July 23 at 0632 & 1349 UT, NO signal from local
Woodring Airport, Enid NDB, EI. Easy go, easy come?

515-MCW, July 23 at 0640 UT, however, PN in Ponca City is back after
missing a few days (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** U S A. ND beacons audible now that storm noise level has
diminished, July 23 at 0633-0640 UT:

251-MCW, AM, 100 watts from Amarillo TX
326-MCW, MA, 400 watts from Midland TX
332-MCW, IC, 400 watts from Wichita KS --- QRM from a weaker, CZX?
Nothing similar listed fits at dxinfocentre.com --- but there it is at
classaxe.com which digs deeper:
CZX Crosbyton TX, power unknown. Where`s that? Just east of Lubbock
and south of Floydada
341-MCW, OIN, 25 watts from Oberlin KS, in absence of Enid`s EI; but
even when EI is on, OIN can be audible too
353-MCW, LI, 400 watts from Little Rock AR; vs 350 RG in OKC, when
tuned first to 351-USB.

Another check 1349-1353 after sunrise but maybe some skywave remain:
293-MCW, FBY, 25 watts from Fairbury NE
404-MCW, HU, 25 watts from Hutchinson KS; tuned to 402-USB
See also CANADA; OKLAHOMA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2043 monitoring --- this from Harold Frodge:
``7490.02 WBCQ Monticello ME; 2112-2131+, 7/22; Glenn Hauser’s World
of Radio #2043; item from me at 2123:50 but couldn’t copy; mentioned
1680 WPRR Ada MI off the air; WOR to 2129:25 WBCQ ID into Goddess
Irina promo. SIO=453+ at tune-in with muted audio till about 2118 when
got downright distorted; 2126:13 suddenly much better but still with
muted audio (patch cord got wiggled?) Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA,
Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in
real time. ----``

Also confirmed UT Thu July 23 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, VG at UTwente.

WORLD OF RADIO 2044 contents: Antarctica, China, Colombia, Cuba,
Ethiopia, Germany, Guyana, India, Korea South, México, North America
and non, Philippines, Scotland non, Turkey, USA; and the propagation
outlook

WOR 2044 is available as of 0020 UT Friday July 24
(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2044.m3u
(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2044.mp3

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

The shortwave broadcasts should be:

0900 UT Friday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB
2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed?]
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NE, 5010 to S, 7780 to NE
0700 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB
1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
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 to SSE [jammed?]
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 this week for financial support from Richard Langley,
Fredericton NB, for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at
yahoo.com -- not necessarily in US funds as they will convert

One may also contribute via MO or check in US funds on a US bank to:
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9315-9345, July 24 at 0145, WLCR in English via WBCQ-6 is
certainly on 9330 at S9+40/50 such that it`s splattering out over 30
kHz range. Maybe a touch too much modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7505, July 24 at 0142, WRNO is still AWOL; does anyone care?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1680, another late night I was not hearing the open carrier
from presumed WPRR, but meanwhile this reply about it from Jack
Amelar, July 24:

``WPRR 1680 Ada, MI --- Glenn, I am copying you what I am sending to
the MARE (Michigan Area Radio Enthusiasts) tip sheet about WPRR 1680
Ada/Grand Rapids MI. I hope you find it at least somewhat informative,
and as always, you may reprint any or all if you wish.
73 Jack NY8D

So here’s what I have observed in the past week with 1680 WPRR Ada /
Grand Rapids.

1680 WPRR Ada, MI, 0015 July 18, 555 AM EE --- Back on with dead
carrier to 0026 when R&B music pops in, ID “The Ride” then dead
carrier again at 0037 to 0145 when I quit for the night. Next morning
check at 1340 still dead carrier and again 0505 July 19, 1700 July 20
+ subsequent checks.

0333 July 22, back on with R&B music, 0336 YL voice “WPRR Grand
Rapids”. 0347 ID YL voice “102.5 The Ride”. 102.5 is LPFM W273DD
located in Alpine Twp just NW of Grand Rapids. 1348 YL ID “WPRR 102.5
FM The Ride Ada-Grand Rapids”

July 23 1308, on air, 2239 off air, 2347 WTTM Philadlphia fading in.
Found the a website about the new WPRR-AM [1]
“Welcome to 102.5 The Ride, Find all the information of this radio
station here very soon!”

And their Facebook page, [2] "102.5 The Ride R&B Station. Grand Rapids
M.I. We are back! Steve Harvey, DJ Z Tyrone and Portia Bynum and The
Legendary Commissioner Robert S, Womack! Black Radio at it's finest.
Black Media Matters.”

Radioinsight [3] reports, “95.3 LPFM W237CZ Grand Rapids sold to Grand
Valley State University now relays 88.5 WGVU-FM Allendale. 90.1
WPRR-FM Clyde Twp (NW of Allegan and FWIW very close to the now remote
controlled FCC Allegan monitoring station-JA) continues Public Reality
Radio.”

For WPRR-FM it appears the website [4] remains but needs updating.

As far as the Movie Theater side of Goodrich Theaters and
Broadcasting, according to Wikipedia [5], “In July 2020, Mason Asset
Management, Namdar Realty, and VIP Cinemas purchased Goodrich Quality
Theaters under the name Goodrich Theater Newco”

[1] https://www.radioking.com/radio/102-5-the-ride
[2] https://www.facebook.com/1025-The-Ride-RB-Station-109255857531096
[3]
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/192611/102-5-the-ride-returns-adult-rb-to-grand-rapids/
[4] http://www.publicrealityradio.org/
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodrich_Quality_Theaters

As to who owns or will own WPRR is unclear to me.`` (Jack Amelar,
Lowell MI via Glenn Hauser, WOR [but too late to include on WOR
2044])

UNIDENTIFIED. 15867-USB, July 23 at 1434, 2-way in Amerenglish, maybe
military; nothing further but merits further surveillance. Search of
UDXF iog hits USCG/DHS net recently logged (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0432 UT July 24

** TURKEY. 9830, Wed July 22 at 2214-2231, VOT `Letterbox`, glad
Emirler manages to be on the air today. I`m listening via UTwente with
a very strong signal, no RTTY there, but quite a big hum on the
carrier. Something is still always erroneous at Emirler.

After complaining it is unusually hot in Ankara, Anatolia, 39-37-36
degrees even tho it snowed last August, host starts with a very
personal item: his longtime friend in Malaysia, he knew for 11 years
there, ethnic Chinese, Tan-Seu-Yung (sp???), 64, altho a non-smoker,
has lung cancer and is in the ICU. Via whatsapp, doctor answered his
call but friend could not respond. Please pray for him. Caused host to
cry which he says he does a lot. This occupied the first 5 minutes.

Then acknowledged letters/reports from: Konstantin Barsenkov in St
Petersburg, Russia; Malaysia; Peshawar, Pakistan; Italy, and host
*sings* bits of two Italian songs from his childhood; south India;
Allan Willie in Newfoundland with a 5-page report; Poland. At
conclusion again asks for (Islamic) prayers for his friend, and also
for himself; ``I love all of you, from my heart.``

I am always pleased when at least one subject on a mailbag show is
known to me; this time, two: also heard directly from Konstantin last
month with a QSL from him since he heard me mention him on WOR; and
Allan Willie, better known as an ace MW DXer.

2231, on to next program, about a monastery, architecture and/or
tourism? Carrier off at 2255* before there can be any extra German.

Who is this host of `Letterbox`, who makes it such a touchingly human
show? Alan Holder upon the Isle of Wight told us all about him last
November: ``I have been corresponding with TRT on and off since 1970.
The current presenter’s name on “Letterbox” is Halibrahim Sarıkaya (no
dot on the ‘i’ – it is pronounced Sarekaya.``

I quoted Alan`s complete opus in my log report of Nov 16-17, 2019,
which among many other places resides here:

https://groups.io/g/odxa/topic/glenn_hauser_logs_november/60008098?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,20,60008098
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 15610, July 22 at *1858.6 carrier cuts on from WEWN as I
have been standing by to confirm their other English frequency /
transmitter is also back on air after 9385 appeared last night. But
it`s JBA, can barely perceive any modulation, as propagation is
pitiful today, no sporadic E boost for this, nor 15825 WWCR (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched July 22 at 2351

** BRAZIL. 11780, July 21 at 2126, RNA is S8/S9+10 but JBM suptorted
and some squeal. Wake up at the site (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. CNR1 jamming survey, July 22 at 1346-1400: 11460; 11440;
11150; 11120; 11000- JBA carrier; 10920; 10820; 12500; 12550; 12795
S9; 12835 S9-S7; 12880; 13020; 13130; 13160 S5-S8; 13630; 13835;
13920; 14850; 14920; 16065?; 16160; 9230 timesignal to 1400* (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11628 & 11712 approx., July 22 at 0114, extremely distorted
spurblobs from 11670 RHC; F# tone also audible especially in FM tuning
mode. Plus & minus 42 kHz, but no further multiples noted this time.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MEXICO [and non]. 1090, July 22 at 0600 UT, another dead-air hole
provided by KAAY Little Rock, facilitating when nulled other hearage.
Filled by music, brief unreadable Spanish announcement, then that song
in English with strumming, morphing from ``Somewhere Over the
Rainbow`` into ``What a Wonderful World``. Lovely, like this by IZ:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z26BvHOD_sg
So I do expect it to be XEAU Monterrey NL, 5/0.5 kW, which is
conveniently close to right angle from KAAY, and could also be source
of the English song last night. A fraxion of Mexistations do
specialize in English music; sure beats TV infomercials. 0605 KAAY
resumes with gospel music (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 28227.3-CW, July 22 at 1454, beacon VVV VVV DE KC0VDY/B:
``28.2273 KC0VDY C FRUITA, COLORADO 5W New 9 June 2018``
Fruita is just west of Grand Junxion on I-70 near Utah border. QRZ.com
shows:
``KC0VDY USA flag USA, James C Jeffery, Ii, Fruita, CO 81521 USA
I have a 10 Meter beacon that is on 28.2273 MHz running 5 watts
through a vertical antenna. Let me know if you hear it. 73s`` Not as
long as QRZ.com has this restrixion: ``Email: (Ham members only)``

28224.5-CW, July 22 at 1500, beacon K5GJR/B ..., heard before:
``28.2245 K5GJR C CORPUS CHRISTI, TX # 5W, VERTICAL``

29300-CW, July 2 at 1502, K5FRC/B, no further message, just ID like on
13565, which I`ve not heard in quite a while. WJ5O roster has this
rather confusing info as it includes historical/outdated entries:

``28.300 K6FRC/B3 TRACY, CALIFORNIA 10W, VERTICAL QRT prior to 2016
28.300 K6FRC C TRACY, CALIFORNIA # 100W, "POGO stick" VERTICAL Freq
change 8 July 09
28.300 K6FRC/B2 TRACY, CALIFORNIA 10W, VERTICAL Backup transmitter
for K6FRC/B`` --- but no listing for the call I do hear, K6FRC/B.
However most of the hundreds of listees omit the /B which most of them
do transmit (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2043 monitoring: 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 this week for financial support from Wayne Davis,
Trenton NJ, for a generous check in US funds on a US bank to
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, with this note:

``Please accept this long overdue token of my appreciation for your
decades of enrichment of our radio pursuit``

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

** U S A. 6159.9v, UT Wed July 22 at 0054 open carrier; 0055 start
``WBCQ The Planet`` ID & IS loop, 0100 music and faux time signal, Hal
Turner theme. Now it`s // 7490+ and 9455 WRMI.

5130.0 is not // the other WBCQs, 0057 music, 0100 `Whiter Shade of
Pale`, 0106 brief talk unreadable, maybe attempt to start `Amateur
Radio Roundtable` as sked, right back to music 0111+; too noisy (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9330, July 22 at 1400, WLCR via WBCQ-6 is gone again (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9385, July 22 at 0116, WEWN English is finally back on after
missing some 18 days, first noted absent July 4. Now it`s S9+20/30,
seems stronger than before, rivalling WBCQ-6 9330, so maybe really
refurbished with more power output.

Back on July 13, frequency manager Glen Tapley had replied to my
inquiry, ``Filament and cable repair. Should be back in a day or
two``. Program now is discussing Planned Parenthood, no doubt
negatively by the Catholix who prefer Random Parenthood, and who cares
about overpopulation, a root cause of many of this world`s problems?
15610, afternoon frequency should also be back at 19-24; did not
notice it in random tuning July 21 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7505, July 22 at 0124 and 0216 chex, no signal from WRNO,
not unusual, nominally 0100-0400; is it frustrating for transmitters
and receivers or does no one really care? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1720 UT July 22