** BRAZIL. 6135.096 et al., R. Aparecida: see UNIDENTIFIED

** CHINA. CNR1 jammer search, May 24 at 1349: 12880 VP S3-S6, best of
the WOOB lot, some only JBA carriers, presumed: 11460, 11070, 10870,
10820 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13650, May 23 at 2302, S9+20 of dead air from CRI Portuguese
relay which for a year or more has been filled by nothing but Chinese
music; recheck at 2313: OFF. That`s progress? Something`s always wrong
at RadioCuba - not to mention CRI. BTW, 13740 RHC is not there at this
time either, usually comes on later (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MALI. 15125, May 24 at 1740, nice African hilife song, S7-S9, i.e.
CRI Swahili hour via Bamako; listed // 13645 not noted (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 5100.0, May 24 at 0615, JBA rock music, mushy audio,
better in USB tuning, but trace of a wobbly reduced carrier? Or part
of the music. 0621 unreadable announcement, peaks S8 in OK storm noise
level, past 0627 but just too weak. This frequency could be harmonic
of MW 1700 or 1020, but no matches there. 5085 WTWW is off already so
not a spur from that. One report from Tom Quinn, west of Cleveland OH,
says Sycko Radio was on 5100 earlier, testing in PSK at 0530,
switching to RTTY at 0537 with texts as copied:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,67472.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SCOTLAND [non]. 5850 // weaker 5010, UT Sun May 23 0100-0200,
another enjoyable `Encore` hour via WRMI, good via various Rochester
KiwiSDRs. Website now provides current and previous playlists, but
sometimes difficult to figure out composers being heard. Another
repeat coming UT Monday 02-03 on 9455 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 7490, May 23 at 2244, WBCQ again this Sat
with TOM instead of scheduled (and long-gone?) `Great Sounding
Oldies`; TOM also on 9455 WRMI but totally different. Possibly far
out-of-synch feeds and I am not listening to this crap long enough to
figure it out; or one of them is playing a pre-recorded backup? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, May 23 at 2243, VOT is on today with music, off by
2258 recheck, so no extra German today (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2035 monitoring: confirmed UT Sun
May 24 at 0300 on WRMI 5800, good S9+20 vs storm noise from
western/southern OK, missing us directly.

Also confirmed UT Sun May 24 starting way late at 0357 on WA0RCR,
1860-AM, MO, vs storm noise from IN/IL picked up by IN SDR. Next:

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 Romania? 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 William Hassig, Mount
Prospect IL, who sent a contribution via PayPal to woradio at
yahoo.com PayPal not necessarily US funds as they will convert.

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 (Glenn Hauser, May 22, WOR)

** U S A. ``If you get a chance to hear this program when it's
repeated or can find it in the archives, give it a listen as Allan
described what was on every level of the tower as they went up the
ladder. Six or eight sections on top of each other. Too fast for me to
copy it all and my memory is not what it once was. John Carver``

OK, it did repeat 24 hours later on 7490+ webcast, UT Sun May 24; from
0035 I grit my teeth past the Trumpraise provoked by Freddie the
Caller, until finally near the end Allan does that, but also too fast
for me to copy, and my scribbled notes make it worse. Seven levels,
apparently including ATU, switching. Aha, John Carver got it the
second time around, reporting May 24:

``Glenn, Tried to listen to Area 51 last night. 5130 was not up at
2300. Checked the other frequencies and the only one working was 7490
which was moaning and groaning with Brother Stair. Parked the receiver
on 5130 and just listened to the noise till 0000. Checked the other
frequencies again and 7490 was running a rerun of last night's AAWWW.
Went back to 5130 to listen to some more noise and at approximately
0045 the 5130 transmitter came up, carrying the audio from 7490 so
listened to the last fifteen minutes of last night's AAWWW.

The antenna tower has seven sections. Bottom section is grounding
section. Second level contains the gears and motors to turn the
antenna. Third section has pumps and tanks to cool the fourth section
which has the antenna balun. And now I realize I have forgotten what
one section contains but six and seven contain all the gearing and
motors to change the configuration of the antenna.

At 0100 Shortwave Saturday Night started and approximately five or six
minutes into the program the audio changed to that of Larry and Jane
and Lumpy Gravy. Sorry my memory isn't what it was. If it's any help I
can still name most of my classmates in the first grade :) John``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. Ray Robinson of KVOH replies May 23 on the WOR iog to my
latest report that 17775 was still missing: ``Hi, Glenn. It looks like
KVOH will be off the air a few more days yet. We needed more parts
than anticipated, and obtaining them is proving more difficult than
normal under the present restrictions. We now expect to be back on the
air by Thursday 28th. Ray`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5050, Sat May 23 at 2307, Jim Roland, PO Box in Tullahoma TN
37388 repeatedly spelling out this and website address. (How many
other ways are there to spell Tullahoma?). S9+10/20, no ID, but
certainly WWRB Manchester TN, active weekends only and belatedly for
A-season ex 3215/3195; first reported last week by Bob Butterfield.
Beware: pirates have also appeared on 5050, and WWRB has been known to
fill with jazz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. (5085), UT Sun May 24 between 00 and 02, numerous spotchex
of WTWW-2 stream hear nothing but hamgab, TONITO no-show (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6135.096, May 24 at 0609, JBA carrier where normally
there is none; first thought maybe MADAGASCAR which has been reported
active here much later, but it`s too late into daytime now for that.
Rather, Radio Aparecida, BRAZIL, which Manuel Mendez, Spain measured
on 6135.1, May 22 at 2010-2023. And Wolfgang Buschel measured Mad at
6135.001, May 24 at 1507. As for Aparecida, I suspected gone from SW
for good as not heard them in weeks/months on 9630v or 11856v when I
check in the nightmiddle, but there was something unlogged on 9630.0,
maybe CNR-1 Golmud per Aoki/NDXC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 12000.83, May 24 at 1742, JBA carrier, but can`t make
out any modulation; maybe local birdie but unseems. Looking for
Station YHWH which was on 12000 yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1925 UT May 24

NOTE: storm with high winds up to 80 mph blew thru Enid about 0845 UT
May 22; tree limbs down, power brown- and blackouts repeatedly but
then stayed on here. When we reawoke after sunrise, found Suddenlink
cable and internet out, and must have been widespread. Automated reply
by phone said they were working on it, but remained out all day and
into next night. One cable box retained last frame from a channel with
time label converting to 1402 UT.

Meanwhile, we also found that main direxional rooftop TV antenna was
blown down. Later, surprised to find most of the OKC signals 100 km
away were still being received from its random position where it
landed on the roof! The main SW/MW longwire survived, but not much
time for monitoring with other repairs and cleanup to be done.

We were lucky as thousands of other Enidians were without power all
day including businesses circa downtown Enid, traffic signals here and
there.

https://www.enidnews.com/news/updated-storms-knock-out-power-to-thousands-in-enid-area-damage-trees-structures/article_4259d2e4-9c51-11ea-a362-9fb7d45d9ae5.html

Here at WOR HQ, cable and internet resumed sometime during the
night/early morning of Saturday May 23 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR)

** ALGERIA [non]. 6125, May 22 at 0529, Qur`an from RTA via FRANCE, no
self jamming vs storm noise from Kansas, and no signal on 7295, but:

7295, *0530 May 22 cuts on with open carrier at S9/+10, no beepery
here either --- presumed, or could have been a hAM.

9620, May 23 at 0604, Qur`an also JBA tonebeeps, Issoudun-imposed on
frequency used this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. CNR1 jamming survey, May 21 from 1323 tuning down from
13300:

12880, first one found, poor in Chinese;
12820, another here;
12190, poor vs CODAR;
11440, JBA carrier;
11070, JBA carrier;
10960, S6-S9;
10820, S2-S5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 6100, May 23 at 0542, RHC English instead S9/+10 of dead air;
others remain modulable, 6145, strongest 6060, and weakest 6000, while
5040 is in wrong language this hour, Spanish. Something`s always wrong
at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 9805, May 23 at 0603, noise jamming here despite OCB on this
frequency only at 10-13 UT! Typical incompetence/wastage of the
DentroCuban Jamming Command. Altho RM frequency usage is needlessly
complex, once set, they stick to it and don`t even try to surprise the
jammers by running out-of-schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MALI. 15125, May 23 at 1730 S5-S7 African language, Hausa? No,
Swahili scheduled from CRI Bamako relay (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, May 23 at 0024, quick check of pirate band
finds Elvis? here at S6-S8. O, it`s the Roy Orbison tribute from Texas
Radio Shortwave. Many more reports here:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,67385.0.html
including someone else noting he sounded like Elvis at 0024. Wish I
could have heard more of it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 12000-AM, May 23 at 1553, routine bandscan
encounters urgent screed from Josiah, usual ``pushing-it`` modulation
on new daytime frequency, S7-S8 for anti-Christ pirate Station YHWH.
Trace still JBA at 1734 check. Did not seem off-frequency to me, but
Harold Frodge, MI, also notes: ``Weak carrier detectable here at 1708
with imaginary level audio. Carrier seems to center about 11999.8``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN [and non]. 12030, 11940, 11670, 9690, May 21 at 1845, all
four REE frequencies are on and modulating, in quick UTwente SDR
check. 9690 has some heavy ACI, presumably CRI Bulgarian via Kunming
on 9695 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2035)

** TURKEY. 9830, May 22 at 2200 & 2226 chex, NO signal from VOT
English to us; nor RTTY. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2035 contents: Albania and non,
Anguilla and non, Antarctica, Australia, Bangladesh and non,
Bougainville and non, Canada, China, Congo, Congo DR, Finland,
Germany, Greece, Iran and non, Italy non, Korea North non, Korea
South, Madagascar, México, New Zealand, North America and non, Papua
New Guinea, Perú, Puerto Rico, Sarawak non, South Carolina non, Spain,
Sudan, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Turkey, USA, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Zanzibar;
and the propagation outlook

WOR 2035 is available as of UT Friday May 22
(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2035.m3u
(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2035.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 [jammed] to SSE
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5010 to S, 7780 to NE
0900 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB
1130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [jammed] to SSE
1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315]
0300 UT Sunday WRMI 5800 to SSE
0900 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB
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 Romania? 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 William Hassig, Mount
Prospect IL, who sent a contribution via PayPal to woradio at
yahoo.com PayPal not necessarily US funds as they will convert.

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 (Glenn Hauser, May 22, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2035 monitoring: confirmed first WRMI
broadcast, Friday May 22 at 2200 on 9955, very poor weak signal vs
pulse jamming. No better at 2226 check.

Also confirmed UT Sat May 23 at 0130 on WRMIs: after ABF in Spanish
and BB ID, poor in storm noise on 5010; VP altho with noise reads S9
on 7780; VG as usual on 5850 aimed thisaway, S9+20/30.

Also barely confirmed Sat May 23 at 1305 & 1325 chex, on WRMI 15770,
sounds like my voice but totally unreadable. Slightly better to
Bulgaria as Ivo Ivanov reports:

``Weak signal of World of Radio#2035 via WRMI-9, May 23
1300-1330 on 15770 RMI 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English Sat

https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2020/05/weak-signal-of-world-of-radio2035-via.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj8XFvzCSi8&feature=youtu.be
73! Ivo Ivanov`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5130 & 6160, May 22 at 2356 just before `AAAWWW` on WBCQ, no
signals yet on these frequencies, but 7490 is VG with FKB preacher
mis-wrapping up as usual with plug for his later broadcasts on wrong
WINB frequency, ``9625`` instead of 9265, Saturday at 9 pm ET; and on
WWRB Sun 8 pm on 3215 --- tho last week they had finally made the
summer shift to 5050, as yet unconfirmed here:

[``WWRB, Morrison, Tennessee, 5050, May 17, 0151, EE with religious
program from Challenge Ministries International until 0156, ID at 0157
"This is Radio Station WWRB, Manchester, Tennessee", into filler
gospel music selection; 44444 (JRC NRD-535D; antenna 45m longwire with
9:1 Unun) (Robert Butterfield, Columbia, MD, USA``), WOR iog]

7490, UT Sat May 23 at 0000, WBCQ starts `AAAWWW` with WTO and
interjexions. Good signal on this one direct. Opens about Planet Earth
spinning at 1000 mph and hope we don`t fall off. Huh? Isn`t it flat?
Discussing the different mikes he and Angela are using. Last Saturday
found a puddle of water in the kitchen when a faucet failed in the
54-year-old house. After purchasing various non-standard parts, he
fixed it altho hates plumbing. Angela is beautiful tonight, and
X-rated briefly, tease tease. Super-station ``crapped out`` a couple
days ago (that must have been when I found 9330 AWOL, May 20 at 2218).
More below.

Says quadri-casting tonight, also on 6160, 5130, 3265, e-mail
reception reports wanted. Belch. Discussing benefits of vegan diet
especially with meat prices going up. Avoid ``goo-foods``. Fresh
chicken eggs are so much better than store-bought. 0018 interrupted by
phone call from someone complaining about calling him. Allan says 78%
of Americans are overweight, and 40% of those are obese, a bad
situation. Angela starts railing against China for COVID-19; Allan
warns not to buy into conspiracy theories.

After a quick pirate-band tune at 0024, I check the other WBCQs at
0025: 6159.93V is on fairly with Iran 6160.00 het for another day or
two; 5130 is VP in noise, and 3265 as usual inaudible. 0028 Allan says
they have just now completed their 14 days of self-quarantine; but
he`s been busy, such as installing a new 200-pound modulation
transformer in the 780 AM station. 0031 Freddy calls in while on
``pump duty`` and that`s enough for me. Larry Will lasted a bit
longer:

``Glenn, to augment what I anticipate are John Carver's notes about
tonight's broadcast of "Allan and Angela Weiner Worldwide" on WBCQ,
here are my notes: 5/23, 0000 UT. 3265 poor, 5130 fair/good, 6160 very
good, 7490 excellent. Disappointing show, started okay, but quickly
devolved into ridiculous politics and covid conspiracy theories,
stereotypical right wing bashing, and trump ass-licking. Content was
so distasteful that we tuned out about 40 minutes in.
Lw`` --- and here from John Carver:

``Tonight's AAWWW show started on time on 7490, 6160 and 5130. Allan
says they are on 3265 also but I can't pull a signal there. Allan and
Angela in the studio. Opening talk about a plumbing emergency at the
studio and how he dealt with it. He announced early on that the
superstation had crapped out this past week and then got sidetracked
as usual talking about how beautiful Angela was. Then he got onto diet
and Allan commented that hamburger was selling for seven dollars a
pound in upper Maine.

Phone call at 0019 from a very angry man who accused Allan of blowing
up his phone and wanted him to stop. Then back to health and how the
virus was affecting it. Then Angela said out of the blue that we
should cut China out of everything and Allan, while agreeing with her
to a point, tried to soften what she said.

Phone call at 0031 from Freddie and then things turned political with
lots of Trump talk. Another phone call at 0046 about regulations
affecting churches being relaxed. Finally gets back to the
superstation at 0049 but goes off on a bit of a tangent again.
Eventually back to the superstation; Allan says their quarantine
finally ended and they could visit the superstation.

He said that the new antenna went down last Wednesday. Allan and
Angela climbed up inside the antenna tower and went from level to
level checking things out. Didn't notice anything wrong so had someone
in the building fire up the transmitter at low power and they listened
and watched. Allan could hear something arcing and they started
climbing down checking each level again. Finally Allan could see
"lightning" below him and decided the problem was on the first level.
They shut down the transmitter and moved down. Had them start again at
even lower power and could see and hear the problem. A grounding plug
has several "fingers" which make contact and something had caused them
to arc and they were now all melted off. Allan had all the people
working at the superstation come to the antenna tower and the entire
crew along with Allan and Angela worked for better than eight hours to
clean the area up and fashion new "fingers" from material that they
had at the station. He said it didn't cost them anything but time to
repair the problem. He stops the tale there to give us the closing
prayer at 0058 and the program was off the air at 0100. John Mid-North
Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 17775-, May 21 at 1834, still no signal from KVOH, two days
after Ray hoped a component would be repaired (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD
OF RADIO 2035)

** U S A. 17775-, May 23 at 1520, still no signal, having reached
another Saturday when in English and `Wavescan` should be airing.

The only other signals, JBA on band are 17815, presumed WHRI weekends
only, and 17615+ Qur`an, far Sa`udi Arabia. KVOH is approaching ten
days off. Still no 17775 at 1728.

No HF sporadic E to boost it? Yes, there is Es on hamband just above,
18130-USB, op who is becoming a fixture, KW6J/7 in AZ just as he is
ending a contact at 1548 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5072.005 & 5097.993, May 23 at 0556, very weak parasitic
spurs out of 5085 WTWW-2 with rock music still on at S9+40/50!,
measured at slightly different offsets than before, which were approx.
12.9 kHz above and below, now much closer to 13.0. Did Ted touch them
up? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9378-9392, May 23 at 0607, S9+20 9385 WEWN Mother Angelica
lexuring, but outsplattering with peaks plus and minus ~7 kHz. Rarely
this transmitter so strong; mid-night HF sporadic E? (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

This report despatched at 1904 UT May 23

** SPAIN. 11940, May 20 at 2219, dead air from REE, just like
yesterday, while 9690 is VG, 12030 fair with modulation, but 11670
without a signal. I would not be surprised if 11940 have been dead for
entire transmission spans today and/or yesterday, 1800-0200.

Congrats to Antonio Buitrago, who has received this honor:

https://gruporadioescuchaargentino.wordpress.com/2020/05/16/antonio-buitrago-director-de-radio-exterior-de-espana-premio-nacional-de-radio-2020/
He also does the Spanish DX program, but perhaps he should pay a bit
more attention to whether Noblejas be doing its job. As always,
critiques will be moderated if COVID-19 can be reasonably blamed
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, May 20 at 2216, VOT English is on at S7-S9 but
undermodulated. Something`s erroneous at Emirler; but no RTTY anyway
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2034 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday May 20
from 2100:20 on WBCQ 7490.03v, VP S6-S8 across daypath.

Also confirmed UT Thursday May 21 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, VG via Maine
SDR near the boresight.

Next WOR 2035 should be ready by early UT Friday May 22, first WRMI
broadcast at 2200 on 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9330, May 20 at 2218 check, no signal from the WBCQ
SuperStation. Normally weak at this hour awayward, but totally off now
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0151 UT May 21

** ALGERIA [non]. 7295, May 20 at 0548, S9+10/20, RTA in unQur`an
Arabic, and *no* self-QRM beepery via FRANCE; whenever logging this,
please note whether there is or is not that anomaly.

Another anomaly noted by Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria: ``FRANCE NO SIGNAL of
Telediffusion d'Algerie via TDF Issoudun, May 20. 0400-0459 on 6050
ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf open carrier plus tx TWEET -- 73! Ivo
Ivanov`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) What means TWEET in this context?

** CHINA. CNR1 jamming survey May 19 at 1354-1400*:
13070, S9/+10
13030, S9/+10 but sounds slightly weaker
12880, S5-S9
12870, S7-S9
12820, S7-S9
12500, S7-S9
12190, JBA
then by 1358 I tune upward from where I had started downward:
13160, VP; and further downward:
10820, VP
10870, stronger than 10820
By now it`s 1400 as I tune above 11000 to hear nothing, and rechecking
the above frequencies, they are *all* off (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15370, May 19 at 2005, RHC S9, but JBM in Brazuguese; more
mod on distorted 15140 in French. Something`s always wrong at RHC
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15730, May 19 at 2236, S8-S9, RHC is JBM and suptorted --- so
bad that I can`t be 100% sure whether it`s Kriyol or Brazuguese.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13820, May 20 at 1404, noise jamming still here despite this
being a B-season-only RM frequency, on 13605 instead during A-seasons.
Something`s always incompetent at the DentroCuban Jamming Command
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13740, May 20 at 1404, S9+20/30 of dead air from RHC, after
presumed nominal finish circa 1400, while weaker S9+10/20 13700 is
still musically modulating; but without any spurblobs. I do have JBA
carriers on 13660 and even weaker 13780 as probably leapfrog mixing
products, except by 1414, 13740 is off and 13660 is still there, which
now could be only BBC Somali via UAE even tho it`s not significantly
off-frequency. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** ITALY [and non]. 7290, May 20 at 1759, I`m checking IRRS via secret
unknown site, via UTwente Holland SDR, whether today there be any
breakups in modulation feed like there were on Monday during WORLD OF
RADIO. ``Aïda`` theme is already playing, VG signal and not too much
ACI either, 1800 IRRS sign-on from ``Milano`` without any frequency or
mode details, right into `Feature Story News`, not just headlines but
5 minutes` worth leading with Pompeo vs China; 1805 into `News in
Brief from the United Nations`, which also seems current; 1809 to
music, folk/rock ballad in English followed by a song in Chinese(?).
1819 starts `Astronomy Cast`, W&M informally chatting, first 4 minutes
about how they are coping with COVID-19, then not about astronomy but
satellite repair in orbit and other space travel, not the same thing.
So far so good, no interruptions, until 1845 dumps off to dead air
except for the ute-warble background and ACI splat presumably from
7280 VOV German as there is nothing on first-adjacents 7285 or 7295. I
let it run whether it will ever resume by 1900*? Yes, but not until
1857 when rock music fill is playing, 1859 standard sign off with
another opera tune, chopped off at 1900* before it finish.

594 kHz, May 20 at 1837, meanwhile, I check for the publicized IRRS MW
frequency during this hour only, and indeed there it is with same
unsynchronized show plus some humbuzz via KiwiSDR near Venezia. 594 is
1 kW Challenger Radio from Villa Estense, which is only 60 km = 37
miles away on opposite sides of Padova.

Meanwhile, `Astronomy Cast` is news to us since NEXUS/IBA schedule

https://www.nexus.org/member-services/radio-and-tv/schedules/wednesday-program-schedule/
for Wednesday merely shows in MESZ of UT+2:

``20:00 Streaming + 7290+594 kHz English EGR Hope For Today
20:15 Streaming + 7290+594 kHz English News and features from our
studio``

So there was no Hope for Today, and generic info for 1815z could
include what we heard, but is it on every week? Here it is:
http://www.astronomycast.com/about-us/
It looks like this be episode #567 from a month(?) ago:

http://www.astronomycast.com/2020/04/ep-567-when-satellites-need-a-house-call/
but the podcast with video starts as if already in progress, not where
I heard it start on IRRS; it`s 61 minutes long originally (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. 11940, May 19 at 2230, S9/+10, now this is the dead-air
frequency of REE instead of 9690 which is VG; fair 12030 also
modulating as is very poor 11670. 0015 May 20 recheck, 11940 still
dead air. More than a sesquihour of wasted watts this time.
Something`s always nonsensical at Noblejas (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TAIWAN. Re: ``According to the announcement from RTI, the inaugural
ceremony of the 15th President will be held in Taiwan on May 20. At
0200 UT President Ts’ai Ing Wan will make her 2nd inaugural speech.
Broadcasting Corporation of China (BCC) will make special live
broadcast of her speech to mainland China and South East Asia, on
1557, 9660, 11880, 12020, 15245, 15310, 15460 kHz. Takahito
Akabayashi, Tokyo, Japan``, 0023 UT May 20, WOR iog.

Just after 0200 May 20, woman speaking Chinese to applause, all SW
frequencies audible via Jakarta KiwiSDR, 15310 best. No sign of
QRM/jamming on any of them! Shenzhen SDR offline... Only traces of
some of them audible via Bengaluru. Still going loud & clear past 0218
as I stay on 15310 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) However:

``Using the U. Twente SDR receiver, could detect woman in Chinese on
12020 and 15460 kHz. 12020 was the better of the two and then at about
0209, the noise jamming started on 12020 swamping the signal. Noise
jamming could be detected on some other frequencies, too, but not on
15460, which was still in the clear and audible but fairly weak at
0216. Still recording. After about 0230, there seemed to be two
Chinese stations on 15460. Taiwan had a frequency of 15459.994 kHz
while alone on the frequency with the second one (CNR jamming?) a bit
stronger at 15459.999 kHz. -- Richard Langley`` NB, WOR iog.

** TURKEY [and non]. 9830, May 19 at 2226, VOT English is on with
music, but buried under heavy high-speed RTTY from cochannel NSS. ANF
feature on R75 helps a lot; Recheck 2255, IS is playing, 2256 restart
with German IDs interspersed twice minutely; 2300 German sign-on vs
RTTY *still* going rather than sometimes finished by 2200. Not
rechecked until 2323 by when phantom German from VOT is off. This
collision has been going on A-seasons for years. It`s incredible that
VOT doesn`t know or doesn`t care to change to any of numerous open
frequencies on the band. Don`t they ever get reception reports from
listeners complaining? Is there no internal communication between
Letterbox and TRT Engineering? Don`t they read my monitoring? Ha!

Likewise NSS: it should not still be utilitizing [coinage, not a
mistake] a broadcast band, but is the QRM from TRT insignificant, its
RTTY so robust that AM CCI does not matter? Or is it just robotic with
nomilitary really trying to receive it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2034 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 Chris Campbell, Columbus
OH, who sent a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com with
this comment: ``For your long and excellent dedication to a hobby that
has expanded my knowledge for a lifetime``

PsyPal not necessarily US funds as they will convert. 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.

Next WOR 2035 should be ready by early UT Friday May 22 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9395, May 19 at 1857, WRMI-6 is missing from 24-hour
schedule; obviously because 9455 is still on as usual. 9395 still off
at 2228 check; and at 0011 May 20 -- this time I confirm that all
other active WRMI transmitters are on as usual, at widely divergent
modulation levels and strengths to this angle. Except 5800 S9+10/20 of
dead air instead of SMTV. Finally at 0224 May 20 check, 9395 is back
on with music, Oldies? No, Taiwan in Spanish scheduled (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5130, UT Wed May 20 at 0101, no signal from this WBCQ where
W5KUB`s Amateur Radio Roundtable is supposed to run; but it`s on
poorly in noise at 0108 check.

6159.967V, UT Wed May 20 at 0101, this WBCQ is back on for Hal Turner,
with het from Iramadan closer to 6160.00; also // 7490.1 and WRMI on
9455 for his hatetalk (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5085, UT Wed May 20 at 0107, WTWW-2 with rock music instead
of competing QSO ham show (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 17775-, May 19 at 1957, still no signal from KVOH, which Ray
Robinson hoped would be back on air by this Tuesday. The March 8
program grid if still correct shows M-F Spanish closing times as 1905*
on Monday, 2100* on Tuesday & Thursday, 1900* on Wednesday and Friday;
English on Saturday until 2000*.

Wed May 20 at 1400 nominal Spanish s/on, no 17775 signal. 1659, maybe
trace of JJBBA carrier here despite some HF Es between us, but
absolutely no signal at Miami SDR. 1757 no signal here nor there
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1931 UT May 20

** CHINA. 9215, May 19 at 1426, Chinese S2-S4, CNR1 jammer.

9230, May 19 at 1426, Chinese S6-S8, // CNR1 jammers vs SOH

12800, May 19 at 1433, S6-S8 CNR1 jammer. No other WOOB ones found in
WOOB scan 8-15 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11670, May 19 at 0321, RHC S9+30 but huge hum, distorted and
undermodulated; wiggle that patchcord! Something`s always wrong at
RHC.

11800, May 19 at 0322, this RHC is merely undermodulated. Something`s
always wrong at RHC.

13740, May 19 at 0323, RHC S9+10 and hum not quite as bad as 11670.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 417-MCW kHz, May 19 at 0540 UT, ND beacon IY, which is 25
watts from Charles CItY, Iowa. I was tuned to 418-USB. Storm noise
level not too bad now with closest lightnings over Montana and South
Carolina. So look for more:

400-MCW kHz, May 19 at 0541, NDB AHQ, which is 25 watts from Wahoo,
Nebraska.

379-MCW kHz, May 19 at 0544, NDB RUE, 25 watts from Russellville,
Arkansas. I was tuned to 380-USB [or was it LSB?] (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A. Re: <<< 10127-CW, May 18 at 1411, CQ DE W9EBE K over and
over, probably recorded but originally by a distinctive fist,
prolonging the dahs and/or shortening the dits. >>>

Yes, the prolonged dahs are often part of an "accent" heard from users
of bugs (semi-automatic keys)

<<< You *must* take a look at Chip`s page, including autobiography:
https://www.qrz.com/lookup/w9ebe
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)>>>

Thanks for the recommendation, Glenn; I enjoyed reading his page. I
see he's a fellow member of the CWops club, though I’ve yet to run
into him during our on-air events. Best, Saul W3WHK [Broudy],
Philadelphia, PA USA``

Also a quick search found Chip, W9EBE appeared once before in DXLD,
commenting on CFRX modulation problems, Nov 11-12, 2008y:
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld8120.txt
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2034 monitoring: detailed listening
for IRRS broadcast of 1800 UT Mon May 18 on 7290, via UTwente SDR in
Holland, via home feeder on 90.7 MHz, notes transferred from original
Little Caesar`s tan napkin during today`s home lunch of something else:

1750, 7290, Iran in Russian concluding and into IS, no IRRS yet

1753, Iran still on, opening Italian, of all languages, on wrong
frequency! Again! and national anthem

1754.5, Iran starts Qur`an but then cuts off air, whew. Allah`ll get
`em for that

1755.5, maybe carrier from IRRS, as the slight warble it conveys
becomes audible; heavy ACI continues

BTW, consensus among reliable monitors in Europe is that 7290 IRRS is
NOT from Bulgaria or Romania, but UNKNOWN site

1757, IRRS power seems bumped up now, quieter but still ACI splash

1759, two bits of music mod cut on and off, presumably IRRS feed

1800-1805, dead air continues, no IRRS sign-on, no FSN headlines and
missing WOR start

1805, WOR audio starts cutting on and off; again at 1806

1806.5, WOR audio stays on about 5 minutes into program, still ACI
splash

1808, cut to dead air again

1809, cut WOR audio back on; I continue semi-listening and do not
notice any further breaks but there may have been some

1829, cut off during my IRCA plug, back briefly, off again and rest of
program lost, more dead air

1831, cut on Feature Story News JIP

1835, start The Shortwave Report as usual this late so its ending will
get chopped off by 1859

Meanwhile after lunch I am checking the adjacent QRM which is
unreasonably annoying, and find that Voice of Vietnam in German is on
7285 instead of 7280, at 1834-1836*

1836, 7290 IRRS SWR interrupted again by dead air except for hum, back
at 1837 and not monitored further

*1837, VOV German comes back on correct frequency 7280, which helps a
little but still splashes upon 7290, 10 kHz away.

Also during WOR, AM Synch, USB, LSB, AM, various bandwidths tried can
never eliminate the QRM. But whenever modulating, still readable if
you put up with it

WOR 2034 also confirmed UT Tuesday May 19 at 0100 on WRMI 7780 direct,
S8/S9+10, fair vs noise. 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 Chris Campbell, Columbus
OH, who sent a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com with
this comment: ``For your long and excellent dedication to a hobby that
has expanded my knowledge for a lifetime``

PayPal not necessarily US funds as they will convert. 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 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 2097.3-CW, May 19 at 0551, single-letter beacon, A,
every dekasecond JBA vs noise level, as it has been almost every
recent night checked, for the record; from anywhere but Quartzsite AZ
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9290-9295, May 19 at 0331, non-DRM buzz I have also
noticed before. Suspected spur out of supersig 9330 WBCQ, but probably
not, as no match on plus side; only way to be sure would be
correlating going & coming with 9330 switches off and on. Defective
9265V WINB transmitter, also DRM-capable, would be off by now (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1632 UT May 19