** ARGENTINA [non]. 9395, April 10 at 0105, RAE via WRMI with Spanish
in progress instead of English; generic comments by Fernando Farías
about the quarantine situation with regular programming unavailable.

0111 switches to French, soon devoting its time to summary of DX info:
IRRS with schedule of Bannon`s Pandemic show; Catholic station at
Gracias a Dios, Honduras; Radio Cuarentena; letter from a francophone
DX club.

0119 back to Fernando who also does the English segment, from home.
This is the second, apparently once-a-week pandemic program featuring
all the RAE language services. How April 2 is a significant date,
anniversary of the Malvinas War in 1982y; shortened edition of the
normally-Friday 7-10 minute DX Actuality feature: again about War Room
Pandemic, sked via IRRS; Honduras station. President has extended
lockdown in Argentina to April 13.

0127 outro in Spanish gives names of announcers in all 8 languages as
if we have just heard them all, ``Made en/in Casa`` on RAE/Argentina
al Mundo: Italian, Portuguese, French, German, Japanese, Chinese,
Spanish, English, in that order --- but we`ve heard only three of them
this semihour and I don`t think it started at 0030 tho I was not
listening then, rather to pirates. 0130 WRMI Spanish ID by Dino and
into Radio Prague International in English.

No other WRMI frequencies checked tonight except 5800 just after 0100
when it sounded again like Radio Taiwán Internacional (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15140, April 9 at 1403, RHC is S9+20 but extremely distorted.
15230 and 13700 are OK, VG, no spurs; after 1900 in English, 15140 is
relatively clean today, different transmitter?

11760, April 9 at 1413, RHC is S9-S7 of dead air. Somethings` always
wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6953-USB, April 9 at 2324, pirate music at S3-S5;
2329 two announcers talking vs high storm noise level from south of
San Antonio and the southern half of Louisiana. ``Virus-19 Radio``,
maybe back tomorrow, maybe not. Radio conditions pretty damn good
tonight, getting up into New England. ``Good night, stay well``,
playing out on ``When I Die`` by Blood, Sweat & Tears until off at
2336*. More logs here with variations on ID with Zeke as host:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,65317.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6880-USB, April 9 at 2326, S4-S6 soul music, 2328
announcement but too much reverb, etc., to copy; blues music. 2337
jive music with some cut-outs, YL ID at first sounds like ``Four AM
Radio`` with hotmail address like that; Mix Radio International ID,
jazz piano; 2342 ID I then realize is ``Cool AM Radio``. More logs:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,65319.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6916-USB, April 10 at 0044, S9 of wild rock, lots of
yelling over the music as if a `live` event rather than any studio
announcements. Past 0100 when I switch to 9395 for Argentina. 0131
recheck still going with more of same hard rock. These say it`s Radio
48 via MRI, having started on 6880-USB but moved to 6916 at 0028:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,65322.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 341-MCW kHz, April 9 at 0613 UT, ND beacon OIN, which is 25
watts from Oberlin, Kansas; as EI Enid is still gone, but there are
loads of others on 341 I would like to hear (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5214-USB, April 10 at 0139, MARS? net mostly with abbr`d
calls, such as 8AM, 8HQ; one full call starting with AAR---; at 0141,
M8A in contact with 8HS, fonetikaly, declaring ``the net is free``.
Next few minutes occasional calls are ``closing stations``. Most
signals weak, a few good (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2029 contents: Alaska, Algeria non,
Anguilla, Antarctica, Armenia, *Australia, *Austria, Canada,
China/East Turkistan, Eritrea non, India, *Iran, Korea South and non,
Kurdistan non, Kuwait, Laos, Madagascar, México, North America, Oman,
Philippines, *Romania, Sa`udi Arabia, Somalia, *Thailand, Turkey and
non, USA, Vanuatu; and the propagation outlook' *with A-20 info

WOR 2029 is available as of 2357 UT Thursday April 9
(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2029.m3u
(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2029.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 or 5045-USB
2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 [maybe jammed?] to SSE
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5010 to S, 7780 to NE
0900 UT Saturday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB or 5045-USB
1130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 to SSE
1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315]
0900 UT Sunday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB or 5045-USB
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 32100-USB or 5045-USB
1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW
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 Doug Brown of
London, Ontario and Seminole, Florida who sent a US$ cheque
to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

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

This report dispatched at 0308 UT April 10

** AUSTRIA. John Figliozzi replies on the WOR iog to my 6155 log:
``OK, it’s not on HF and it’s not classical music… but those looking
for English language news from Austria will find plenty of it on the
bilingual (German/English) ORF domestic youth network fm4 streamed
over the Internet from: https://fm4.orf.at John Figliozzi`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13650, April 8 at 2329, CRI relay `Portuguese` service of
music only is S9+20/30 but extremely suptorted. Something`s always
wrong at RadioCuba. Why in the world haven`t they just turned off this
failed service months ago? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MEXICO. 6185-, April 8 by 1907 UT, now I can pull a JBA carrier
slightly off-frequency-minus as a 2-megameter day-path remnant of
reactivated XEPPM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 27186, April 8 at 1910 and still 2243 recheck, some lokel
yokel is jamming the prime CB frequency with continuous S9+10 buzz.
Well, there are plenty of other channels, all with zero activity
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, April 8 at 2244, JBA signal presumed VOT active
today. Wonder if something else be erroneous at Emirler, like reduced
power, reception has been so poor lately even when on.

7275, April 9 at 0258, VOT IS & English IDs, fair via Alexandria SDR,
but undermodulated with some hum; timesignal one second late but may
have been internet delay. This time YL instead of usual OM announcer,
opening without full wrong English schedule but only ``this`` is the
1230 on 15450! plus satellite info; something`s always awry at Ankara;
into news of topic-V; 0307 enough already, into Turkish song. At least
no QRhaM to be heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2028 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday April 8
at 2100:20 on WBCQ 7490.1v, fair via Alexandria SDR.

Also confirmed UT Thu April 9 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, JBA in storm noise
level from along the Ohio Valley; good via Alexandria VA SDR; and not
via UTwente, now with this bad news in red:

``On April 8, the antenna seems to have developed a defect, so only
very few signals are still detectable. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic,
university buildings are closed, so it is currently unclear if and
when a repair can be attempted.``

WOR 2029 should be ready by early UT Fri April 10 and first American
SWBC at 2200 on WRMI 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5970, April 8 at 2327, S9+10 of dead air; must be WEWN on
early from second Spanish transmitter not scheduled to start until
0000; first one is still on 12050, VP with music. BTW, HFCC shows they
also employ two different antennas, a 206 and a 218 respectively at 5
degrees difference in azimuth, and both 500 kW transmitters run at
only 100. I wonder if they are still operable if desired or affordable
at 500? IIRC they used to be registered as 350 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0315 UT April 9

** ALGERIA [non]. 7295, April 8 at 0543, Arabic talk, not Qu`ran, as
RTA via FRANCE is scheduled this hour only. But strangely, also jammed
by rapid tone pips, or carriers beating, measured about 0.7 kHz both
above and below, circa 7294.3 and 7295.7. Nothing else scheduled here
worthy of jamming. Maybe by Ameriham p-o`d over this intrusion? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** AUSTRIA. 6155, April 8 at 0549, classical music at S9/+10, better
signal than usual, but noisy, in the last remnant of SW programming
from this country, the token relay of Ö1 scheduled with 300 kW ND at
0500-0620 except Sat/Sun to 0610. Remember when the end of this used
to include a few minutes of news in English? Not any more.

But I go looking for the website (not included on Hitlist --- Alan?)
and finally find this for today at 7:33-7:52 am local time:
https://radiothek.orf.at/oe1/20200408/600688
Audio and playlist of this `Guten Morgen Österreich` segment starting
with Brahms. The transmission is on the news network but includes bits
of classical music apparently promoting what will be played in full
later (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. 7810, April 7 at 2222, JBA talk vs S5-S6 noise level.
Unusual to hear anything here, but yes, it`s one of a multitude of
Sound of Hope frequencies; Aoki/NDXC shows 24 hours including the
single hour in Cantonese at 15-16, 1 kW via Miaoli, Taiwan site and of
course *jammed, surely what I am hearing instead, CNR1.

Looking for any other E Asian signals on 7 MHz band, finds JBA talk on
7395, which could be CNR2 via Xianyang 594 site or CRI Chinese via
Urumqi, EAST TURKISTAN, land of imprisoning and brainwashing Uyghurs.

This week`s FRONTLINE on PBS is an excellent hour about this issue:
"China Undercover" New, 4/07/2020, Season 37 / Episode 18,
Investigative, Documentary, Politics, Public Affairs, Social Topic

"Frontline" delivers a special undercover report from China's
secretive Xinjiang region, where the communist regime has imprisoned
masses of Muslims and is testing sophisticated surveillance technology
on the population. Credits: Will Lyman (Narrator)

Also streamable, 54+ minutes:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/china-undercover/
altho wolfie laments it`s geoblocked from reaching Germany (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 6145 >> // JBM 6000, UT Wed April 8 at 0001 tune-in, RHC
English already on amid Arnie on `DXers Unlimited` mit-week edition,
in fact closing at 0002. This segment is normally in the middle of
each English hour, like :25-:35 as in DX/SWL/MEDIA programs. RHC clox
must be way off. Was English axually running on these frequencies from
a semihour earlier? At 23-24 it would normally be on 5040 & 11880. Did
not get around to checking whether subsequent repeats were also askew,
at 01-07. Following DXUL, report from Puerto Rico on the COVID 19
situation there. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** MEXICO. 6185, April 7 at 2211, no trace of even JBA carrier from
XEPPM. Manuel Méndez, Spain had reported it:

``6185, Radio Educación, Ciudad de México, back on air, heard
1820-1830, 06-04 via SDR Kiwi remote receiver in Brownsville, South
Texas, identification and songs.``

6185, April 8 at 0001, now I have a carrier, just barely? modulated,
as so often before.

6185, April 8 at 1725, I myself tune the Brownsville SDR, courtesy of
TWR, and find a fairly good and well-modulated signal in Spanish,
interview about economy, water supply in Mexicali, class warfare, 1730
song break, slightly off-frequency-minus as usual; which has to be
XEPPM during its secret daytime broadcast; why can`t they do so well
at night? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. Convoluted tropo blobs over OK forecast by Bill Hepburn,
so I bandscan from 1513 UT April 8: Lots of BAD signals on open
channels including RF 45, no doubt KOTV Tulsa, but only two are
decoding, from Tulsa market:

RF 28, 44-1 Ion
RF 20, 19-1 KQCW-HD during Dr Oz show. This one in solid until finally
starts to break up and lose out at 1705 UT. And BTW has *no*
subchannels, unusual waste of spectrum but assures its only program
can be as HD as possible (GLenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, April 7 at 2211, VP signal from VOT, JBA talk,
unusable but at least is on today. Alan Roe reported to WOR iogroup:

``Programming on the Voice of Turkey (at least in the English service,
I've not checked other languages yet) seems to be reduced to a 5
minute news programme and a repeat of "Turkey's Tourist Attractions"
with the rest of the 50/55 minutes comprising Turkish music without
announcements. Noted today (7 April during 1230 transmission on 15450
kHz) and also a couple of times over recent days when checked. I'm
assuming another casualty of the Covid-19 pandemic. Alan Roe,
Teddington, UK`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2028 monitoring: last two SWBCs:
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
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. What`s really on WRMIs, UT Wed Apr 8 at 0100?

5010 // 5850, music with BB IDs, Oldies?
5800, Taiwan in Spanish, maybe new show but missed hearing date
9395, RAE in Spanish only here; maybe to be multilingual
9455, Hal Turner
9955, Wavescan (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9330, April 8 at 1359-1400+, no signal from WLCR via WBCQ,
nor on 13590 now registered starting at 1400. Are they keeping trying
to get the 500 kW monster to QSY?

9330, April 8 at 1708, now it`s on and audible but VP in English. Hard
to believe it`s even half-power 250 kW at 300 degrees as registered if
it were on 15105 at 15-19.

Neither WBCQ nor WLCR make it easy to find their basic SW schedule!
Finally reached this:
https://www.worldslastchance.com/wlc-radio-broadcast-schedule.html
which shows nothing but 9330 for unnamed WBCQ, but also what we know
is via Woofferton UK, in Arabic:
18-21 on 9800, 21-24 on 6015

Haven`t looked at AW`s twitfeed lately: just generic promotion;
hunkered down in FL and lately working on high-power spotlights,
another of his passions; and promoting UV light to kill virus (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 15555-USB, April 7 at 2216, WJHR gospel huxter is still on
past 2200 but even propagating at S5 level; must benefit from a bit of
HF sporadic E (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1753 UT April 8

** ANTARCTICA. 15475.97-CUSB, April 7 at 1420 tune-in past 1435+, JBA
carrier direct over the almost all-water path from Esperanza to Enid,
as I have not been able to detect for some time amid several special
LRA-36 transmissions; it`s about equivalent to 15825 WWCR normal
signal now without any sporadic-E boost.

By 1452 I`m on the Campo Brasil KiwiSDR for poor partially readable
signal: mainly two YL voices, with saludos; 1456 song; 1502 contact
info; then my pause for breakfast of waffle; 1531 music; 1536 echo
feedback announcement, deliberate? more song; 1540 ID, contact info;
1552 fading up a bit stronger, song; 1556 full ID, and bit of English
in a song about telephone; 1603 sounds like an old-time-radio clip,
1606 gone and apparently not coming back. Anyway, used up my 60-minute
per day limit on this SDR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NEW ZEALAND. Correxion: the UT Friday time is 2005 not 2300; fixed:
Updating WORLD OF RADIO times on World FM, and webcasts, with DST off
in NZ as of April 5: all shifted one real UT hour later to: Thursday
0930 and 2300 UT; UT Friday 2005. Unfortunately due to my current
produxion schedule on Thursdays, the first two airings there are
almost a week old. Lots of other good programming; see:
http://www.worldfm.co.nz/sched-db.php?offset=0
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SCOTLAND [non]. Correcting date on this: April 5, not 6, fixed:
5850 // 5010, UT Sun April 5 at 0100-0200, `Encore`
classical music reconfirmed on both WRMI frequencies...
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. 11670, April 5 at 2152+, I mentioned as a poor signal of RHC
among others --- but as noted by wb and HFCC, Spain is now on 11670 in
A-20 like previous A-seasons instead of 11685 in Bs, for Africa. Not
clear yet whether Cuba have totally left 11670, or at least not
overlapping with Spain (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TAIWAN [non]. 7780 // 9395 // 5010, UT Tue April 7 at 0201, RTI
Spanish on three WRMI frequencies, but 5800 has gone off. Opening
announces that it`s the test program for Tuesday March 17!! Still
nothing new on these relays. All programs (ahem) should announce
original recording or airdates so we can keep track of them. Usual
delayed start following fragment of BZ ID and about a minute of music
before off-timesignal and opening. Subject already COVID 19
originating in Hubei province, ``continental China``, refuting Big Lie
that it`s a ``People`s Republic`` rather than a Commie dictatorship.

BTW, Dr Fauci, it`s Hoo-bay, not Hoo-by, but everything else he says
is of the greatest reliability. Should you rely on forever impeached
acting president Drumpf instead of him, you`ll be SORRY or even dead
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 359-MCW kHz, April 7 at 0622 UT, ND beacon SDR, which is 25
watts from Snyder, Texas, NW of Sweetwater, on US 84 toward Post and
Lubbock; 495 km away.

251-MCW kHz, April 7 at 0627 UT, NDB ID as AM, which is 100 watts from
Amarillo TX; seldom logged here at 400 km. Still gone is Stillwater
OK, SW from 255 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2028 monitoring: confirmed UT Tuesday April 7
at 0100 on WRMI 7780, good via UTwente SDR in 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
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) see also NEW ZEALAND

** U S A. 7780, UT Tue April 7 at 0130, WRMI with a ``pilot program``
of music; intro gives what sounds like a callsign to be looked up on
FB --- but not if you can`t be sure of the letters or join the
disgraced group. Maybe WVZJ or something fonetikaly similar. Also
promises a ``surprise`` at the end of the program, so I retune at 0157
and hear nothing but music, until, surprise, cut off for Rudy Espinal
ID at 0159.5. What is this? I heard the same thing exactly two weeks
ago on UT Tue March 24. WRMI skedgrid shows Wavescan at 0130 Tue not
only on 5010 // 5850 as reconfirmed, but also 7780 which is the way I
entered it on DX/SWL/MEDIA programs (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. Level 5 strong tropo bullseye right over central OK
predicted by Hepburn, so I hasten to bandscan, April 7 from 1545 UT.
Almost all ``open`` DX channels have a BAD signal on them, in the
repack range, plus 45 no doubt still KOTV Tulsa; except nothing on 34
and 9; and two `local` OKC channels are BAD, caused by DX QRM, 7 and
15. 15 would most likely be KSNW Wichita, ex-45. 7: full-powers still
exist in Hays and Pittsburg KS; Amarillo, Austin, Odessa, Tyler TX
plus numerous low-powers; nothing in OK except KOCO.

I sit on RF 32 which shows signs of reaching decode threshold, and it
does briefly at 1620, with a CW 33 bug in LR, and PSIP as 33-1 KDAF-DT
--- that`s 780 kW in Dallas TX; gone before I can check out its
subchannels.

RF 26, April 7 at 1625, this one decodes as 24-1 FOX, which isn`t very
helpful, but must be 350 kW from the opposite direxion, KSAS-TV
Wichita; subs are 24-2 TBD and 24-3 Comet; contrary to W9WI.com which
has 24-2 as GetTV. The only other 24-1 Fox on RF 26 is Macon GA, no
way here (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1709 UT April 7

** ANGUILLA. 11775 nor 6090, April 5, it`s dawning on me that the
so-called Caribbean Beacon has not been heard for a while, a week or
more. Easy to miss due to convoluted ``schedule``. Mark Coady on the
ODXA iog April 5:

``A fellow ham radio operator from Peterborough, Ontario, winters for
over a month or two with his wife on the island of Anguilla. They
recently had their first cases of the COVID-19 virus on the island,
apparently brought in by recent tourists from the US and his return
flight has been cancelled.

On top of not knowing when he can come home, he noted that he hasn't
heard the Caribbean Beacon on 1610 lately and I haven't heard them on
shortwave either. Pastor Melissa Scott is still on WWCR but I wonder
if the Caribbean Beacon is another COVID-19 casualty for now. Has
anyone been hearing them on 6090 or 11775 lately?`` 1610 has been off
for a long time (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15370, April 5 at 2152, RHC is S9 of dead air; also 13740
S9+20 but cut off at 2153*. 11850 DA. 11880 DA at S8, this one warming
up prior to nominal 2200 start, but what about the others? Spanish
tarde supposedly starts at 2100, already modulating `Formalmente
Informal` show on 11760 and much weaker 11670; at 2158, 9640 is too
but suptorted. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** CUBA. 11760, Sunday April 5 at 2254, second play of `En Contacto` I
make a point of hearing, trying to copy details missed earlier tnx to
Arnie`s hard-to-understand speech. The azimuth for 6145 he might have
said 335 instead of 325 degrees (treinta sounds a lot like veinte),
and still unreadable that for 6000. Closing credits uttered by the one
who speaks, sounds like Yalina Cascaret, but no certainty about either
spelling, instead of Marta Rios. This via Alexandria SDR, arriving
somewhat distorted. Something`s always wrong at RHC. Searching for
name on website goes nowhere.

As for the azimuths, no RHC at all in boycotted HFCC; EiBi doesn`t
deal with them at all; so that leaves Aoki/NDXC, FWIW. A-20 admits RHC
info is still from B-19: 6000, 10 degrees from Quivicán; 6165, 340
degrees from Bauta. Yes, ``6165`` as NDXC never caught up with that
change to 6145 months ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 6200, April 6 at 0551, JBA carrier, possibly leapfrog mixing
product of RHC 6000 over 6100 another 100 kHz higher; but only if both
now be really from same site rather than Titán and Bauta. Only thing
listed is Lhasa, but midday there. 6000 is S9+20/30 not undermodulated
for a change yet somewhat distorted; 6100 is S9+10/20 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** NEW ZEALAND. Updating WORLD OF RADIO times on World FM, and
webcasts, with DST off in NZ as of April 5: all shifted one real UT
hour later to: Thursday 0930 and 2300 UT; UT Friday 2300.
Unfortunately due to my current produxion schedule on Thursdays, the
first two airings there are almost a week old (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6936-USB, April 5 at 2143, ``whether you like it or
not, we`re with you again --- Col-Virus 19``, song, 2156 still on with
music; S6. Earlier than pirates usually heard here 3+ hours before
sunset. Many more logs here:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,65153.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 4955-USB, April 6 at 0327, tnx to tip on the WOR iog
from Mick Delmage who was getting a good signal in Alberta: good also
to Ohio SDR I bring up quickly, hard rock, then jazz; 0335 Mix ID,
0346 ``Mix Radio International Worldwide``, quick YL IDs every few
minutes as music runs on; 0350 heavy echoes on ID; 0355 another, but
cut off at 0359*. So much for Amauta (the legal Peruvian sporadically?
active on 4955). Mix first reported here at 2345 but none as late as
we heard it:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,65158.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ROMANIA. 6100, April 6 at 0059, RRI is S9+20 on NF in Romanian to
North America at 00-02; 0100 a bit of classical music but into
discussion of Estonian-Romanian relations; found // 7420 at 0112. This
bihour should also include a good variety of music from domestic
service (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 17615.064, April 6 at 1447, S5-S6 with music probably
Qur`an, as this always-offfrequency makes a showing despite no
registrations and nothing audible on 17660, 17705 or 17895; would be
the OSOB except for JBA 17630 CRI Mali.

Others have monitored extensively to confirm most but not all
previously scheduled KSA broadcasts are still running, notably WOR iog
members Dr Hansjoerg Biener and Wolfgang Bueschel; not including
French, per Antoello Napolitano:

``Any idea for the French broadcast scheduled at 1355-1600 on 17660
kHz? I tried a number of times in the last days but nothing was
detected. This has been quite regular for years so I am wondering if
they stopped broadcasting in French (the only European language still
used by Saudi Radio on shortwaves) or simply moved to a new
frequency. I confirm, instead, the broadcast in Indonesian on 21670
kHz heard here in the South Italy on 4th April at 1017`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SCOTLAND [non]. 5850 // 5010, UT Sun April 6 at 0100-0200, `Encore`
classical music reconfirmed on both WRMI frequencies.

(7490v) WBCQ webcast, UT Monday April 6 at 0000, after `Le Show` and a
minute of dead air, ``William Tell Overture`` starts, so after a
couple bonus weeks, Encore has been replaced by an Available Time
Slot, primarily filled by AAAWWW; however at 0050 recheck there is
music so must not have been an AW hosted show.

9455, UT Mon April 6 at 0200-0259, `Encore` via WRMI, good signal into
remotes in NY state; website playlist still for last week (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 5900, April 6 at 0103, Brother Scare on VP
signal. Who needs it, with multiple WRMI, WBCQ, WWCR frequencies? HFCC
shows BULGARIA available 24 hours with 250 kW on 306 beam toward
WEu/NWAf, not NAm in same azimuth; but Aoki/NDXC shows TOM at 23-02,
50 kW at 126 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TAIWAN [non]. 5800, April 6 at 0101, RTI Spanish via WRMI on this
frequency only, no //s heard. Supposed to be inauguration of new relay
after test phase, but unknown whether it`s really a new show yet.

Repeat of 0200 checked at 0218 via various E USA remotes, to find RTI
on *four* frequencies: 5010, 5800, 7780, 9395! 5010 goes off at 0230*
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also: USA WRMI

** U K [non]. 9615, April 6 at 1529, 1 kHz tone, then 1530 Korean at
S5-S7. That`s the start time for BBC`s recently inaugurated tri-hour
for North Korea, and indeed that`s it, on the ubiquitous 21-degree
antenna from USAGM Tinang, PHILIPPINES and onward USward (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7340-7345-7350, April 5 at 2141, DRM noise already from
Radio Martí, before any AM frequencies come up on this band. In fact,
per HFCC this starts at *1700, until 0200* --- but labeled as D for
analog rather than N for digital! Nominal 50 kW from GB site =
Grimesland NC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2028 monitoring: confirmed UT Monday April 6
at 0130 on WRMI 7780 only, no longer one or two additionals altho some
seem available;

Also confirmed UT Mon April 6 on WRMI 7780 again, only.

Also confirmed UT Mon April 6 at 0300 on Area 51 5130 WBCQ.

Also confirmed UT Mon April 6 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, good at Bogotá
SDR.

Also confirmed Monday April 6 at 1800.6 on IRRS 7290, VG via UTwente
SDR following: 1758 jazz fill, 1759 switch to bit of rock song; 1759.6
canned ID claiming incorrectly that this is compatible USB rather than
full AM DSB; 1800 three headlines from Feature Story News, before WOR
start. Noticed at 1811 interruption in modulation if not transmission;
maybe others. 1829 cut off closing before I could finish with
``standard disclaimer`` (let me assure you it still applies!). Next:

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
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. What`s really on WRMI at 0130 UT Monday April 6?
5800 // 9395, Prague in English
5010 // 5850, fill music starting with ``Cayman Holiday``
7780, WORLD OF RADIO here only, poor; how about 5010 & 5850??
5950, SMTV?
7570 // 7730, TOMBS
9455, Oldies
9955, `Wavescan` about Greenland

At 0230:
5800, Wavescan
5850 // 9395, rock music, oldies?
5950 & 9955 unknown
7780, WORLD OF RADIO 2028, VG via NY remote on this frequency only
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also SCOTLAND [non], TAIWAN [non]

** U S A. 9330, April 6 at 0101, WLCR via WBCQ is still on here rather
than A-20 registered 6195 for this hour; and still no sign of the
other non-9330 frequencies unattainable (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 15745-15750-15755, April 6 at 1532, poor DRM noise from
WINB; was not audible at all at 1440 tho supposedly runs 11-17 UT M-F
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15545.445-USB approx, April 6 at 1442, JBA 2-way seems
Spanish but not certain; INTRUDERS may have a thing for ``cute``
frequency choices (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 18155.9-USB, April 5 at 2145, ham reminiscing about
equipment of yesteryear.

18137-USB, April 5 at 2146, ham in Italian but probably not Italy;
pileup replies, one in Spanish; handles are Giovanni and Nando. Soon
they finish with 73s and NO IDs.

I am logging these merely to note that the 18 MHz band is open at
least NorthAmerically, by HF sporadic E; but not the 21 MHz band.

Lower band nearby broadcasters are however also getting Es boosts far
beyond their normal JBA levels: 15610 WEWN S9+25; 15555-U WJHR even
S9+10; 15825 WWCR squealing S9+25; 15770 WRMI S9+25; 13845 WWCR S9+35
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 2034 UT April 6