** ARGENTINA [non]. 9395, Sept 15 at 2131, RAE via WRMI is listed as
Italian this hour, but since COVID-19 hit, each language hour could be
filled by bits in any or all of their 8 languages, which explains why
they are in English now talking about the 100th anniversary of the
first radio broadcast on August 27, which presented Wagner`s
`Parsifal` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** COLOMBIA. New VOA relay via HJHJ 600: see separate post headed
VENEZUELA [non]

** COLOMBIA. 4940, Sept 16 at 0115, quick check for anonymous new
missionary station, via TWR Bonaire SDR, after concentrating on 600,
finds a JBA signal here, probably only the Peruvian. No TDOA tonight
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15370, Sept 15 at 2112, RHC Spanish is suptorted/JBM; wiggle
that patchcord! Something`s always wrong at RHC. I am beginning to
suspect sabotage somewhere along the line from studio to STL to
transmitter to monitoring; someone preventing clear distribution of
Commie propaganda. Or maybe just low morale, don`t-give-a-damn
attitude. All it takes is one weakest link (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ITALY. 14222-USB, Sept 15 at 2115, IZ0GYR, Antonio in Rome, CQ 20,
working N1EW, and being repeatedly called by WA7TEN. Sometimes under
an open carrier. Look at his profusely illustrated website as he is an
artist and famous? actor:

IZ0GYR Italy flag Italy
Antonino Iuorio
Viale dei Quattro Venti 10
Rome 00152
Italy

https://www.qrz.com/lookup/iz0gyr
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MALI. 13630, Sept 15 at 2121, dead air at S7-S8; then bits of talk
breaking thru in American English, so must be CRI relay, altho now
supposed to be toward end of sesquihour in Arabic. Wiggle that
patchcord (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, Sept 15 at 2220, via UTwente, VOT is VG with music,
2222 COVID PSA; while at 2248 direct to here I find it S5-S6 poor
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [non]. 9740, Tue Sept 15 at 2128, too-well-e-nun-ci-a-ted Q&A
about where`s the A-mer-i-can room in a mu-se-um, i.e. a language
lesson, S7-S9 in English only: ``Go down-stairs, then turn right...``
and chopped off the air at 2129.5*, leaving us hanging. It`s VOA
French via Woofferton UK, supposedly at 2100-2130 M-F only. Don`t
blame Encompass for the chop, but VOA where it no longer matters to
match programming to SW transmission times (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0414 UT September 16
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** VENEZUELA [non]. You may recall that VOA has been trying to get
into Venezuela via a MW transmitter in an adjacent country. Guyana was
approached some 6 months ago about using a 560 kHz relay, but VOA was
turned down. TWR Bonaire, which owes the USA something for licensing
KTWR Guam, would seem the obvious choice, but they must have higher
priorities for 800 kHz, at least during prime time.

On September 11, Don Moore informed me: ``COLOMBIA - Starting next
week VOA Spanish programs for Venezuela will be relayed on 600 kHz
(listed 50 kW) via Radio Libertad in Barranquilla, Colombia. The
broadcasts are scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. on September 15th, or 0000
UTC September 16th. The schedule I received shows the relays as being
three hours long Monday to Friday (local days) and two hours long on
Saturday and Sunday. (VOA via Don Moore)``

So I`m all set to monitor this début via remotes in the area. Before
0000, none of them are any good for 600 kHz except TWR Bonaire, where
I noticed there is also someone in Barinas, Venezuela tuned to 600:

600 kHz, Sept 15 at 2353 UT, sounds like a preacher in Spanish, with
QRM. But at 0000 Sept 16, Radio Rebelde is mostly dominant, no VOA
heard yet. There are basically two stations mixing. On the Key West
SDR I compare to 5025, distorted Rebelde, and find no match at first,
but then I can hear a match in the background of 600, and the
foreground talk is about Venezuela.

600 would not seem a very good choice, but at least there are no YVs
on it -- yet; there may not have been (m)any other options, and R.
Libertad is a good 50 kW. Nearest major competitor may be 40 kW in
Guayaquil, Ecuador. Barranquilla is 863 km = 536 statute miles from
Caracas, with Maracaibo about midway. At distancefromto.net if you
enter Caracas, Venezuela, looking closely at the map, that merely
reaches the west end of Caracas? province, near where the map is
labeled Carabobo. You have to enter ``Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela`` to
get to the capital city. The path is unfortunately all over-land since
Bqa is on the NW coast. But this will be relying on skywave.

How does that compare to the CubaRM? R. Rebelde on 600 is in the east,
San Germán, Holguín, at 1494 km = 928 statute miles = 807 nautical
miles from Caracas; and its bearing is NW from there. Venzies with
direxional radios may be able to null it and get mostly HJHJ/VOA. Is
it not convenient that this ``opposition`` service is already named
Radio Libertad, but that`s coincidental as it goes way back deriving
from the Bqa newspaper La Libertad:
https://cadenaradiallalibertad.com.co/sitio/

Guess what, I don`t see anything about hooking up with VOA on its
website, nor is there any specific program schedule to be seen.

Resuming what I am axually able to hear on 600: at 0016, Rebelde is
dominant // 5025 as VOA fades; 0022 RR music // 5025 via KW. 0027
``VOA Noticias`` definitely heard, 0028 again concerning Venezuela;
0031 VOA ID, ``una producción de La Voz de America``.

At 0049 I`ve brought up the ``listen live`` link here, first of seven
stations
https://cadenaradiallalibertad.com.co/sitio/radios/
and there is the VOA relay loud & clear, with program ID ``Buenos
Dias, America`` --- so it`s anything but live! Rather played back from
the morning some 12 hours ago. 0101 concluding that program, with ID
again, and now also for ``600 AM, en Barranquilla, emsisora afiliada
con sistema de noticias de la VOA``; Then own callsign ID as ``HJHJ,
50 mil vatios...`; at 0114 another joint ID. Perhaps they have now
switched to the less stale tarde VOA program, `El Mundo al Día`, also
available as a 32-minute podcast, but archive shows M-F only, as
nothing ever happens on weekends.

VOA website does not say anything about this either that I can find,
but you can get their program audios --- are there any others left in
Spanish?

https://www.voanoticias.com/radio-buenos-dias-america
https://www.voanoticias.com/radio-mundo-al-dia
``Radio en vivo`` is NOT live, but the latest 32-minute episode:

https://www.voanoticias.com/episode/el-mundo-al-dia-noticiero-voz-de-america-radio-237606

And o yes, specifically for/about Venezuela, basically a TV show, but
audio-only also available and surely filling some of the 600 hours, in
fact probably what initiated this service at 0000:
https://www.voanoticias.com/venezuela-360-television
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** CANADA. 278-MCW kHz, 0625 UT Sept 15, JBA, dash and ND beacon NM,
500 watts from Matagami, Québec; new for me? Not quite, last logged:

``278 kHz, Dec 14 [2018] at 0717, beacon NM and dash: 500 watts from
Matagami, Quebec. Matagami is in a remote off-road area near 78 W/50
N, NNE of Rouyn-Noranda.``

Value-added info to this log per Wikipedia: ``Toponymy --- In Cree,
"matagami" means "meeting of waters", in reference to the large rivers
that join.`` And the town exists because of a zinc+ mine.

Interesting that its neighbor at DXinfocentre.com is at almost the
same latitude in SK within 16 seconds; no sign of that now:

278 N1 CAN SK Assiniboia 200 49 43 42 -105 56 57
278 NM CAN QC MATAGAMI 500 49 43 26 -77 44 30
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, Sept 15 at 1417: none in the 13s or 12s;
at 1419, JBA or JBA carriers on 11150, 11120, 11100, 10920 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** COLOMBIA. 4940-, Sept 15 at 0134 via TWR Bonaire KiwiSDR, anonymous
missionary station with M&W talk in Spanish only, reads S4-S5 in USB
reception, but S8-S9 in SynchAM, carrier offset varying from -2.8 to
-6.1 Hz. 0200 it`s peaking S9+15 at -4.3 to -4.6 Hz, protracted sermon
about Apocalipsis = Revelation. 0311 tropical music. 0356 yelling
preacher in echoey venue, with music. Outro program with club para
niños, addresses: Apartado 260, San José, 2120, Costa Rica, or
Historia Preferida, Casilla 14-23, Cochabamba, Bolivia; 0359 NO ID,
into songs; 0455 still/again music with automated? timecheck as 12:54,
0458 preacher, still past 0527. That`s UT-4 while Colombia is UT-5.
Others also report such timechex; this implies 4940 is for Venezuela
if not from inside that country. Of course they had been heard playing
part of the Colombian national anthem at *2300; but that could be
misdirexion. I posted to the WOR iog:

``OK, since the perpetrators are mum about what and where this station
really is, it`s about time to get on it with the TDOA direxion-finding
technique, triangulation or multiangulation using remote receivers.
First place to rule in or out is Puerto LLeras, which is in central
Colombia, SE of Bogotá, where 6010 & 5910 were located. Let us know
your results first!`` --- I myself have never tried this
Timed-Delay-Of-Arrival technique, and am not familiar with the
procedure, but others in our group have in other cases; yet no
replies, so far (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [non]. Correcting WOR 2051 monitoring report of IRRS 7290,
Iran is on 7300 of course, not 7290; I did it again! Fixed:
...Again this week no 7291 warble, hope gone for good, but always
annoying inevitable splash from 7280 Vietnam and 7300 Iran; the latter
should be off after 1820... (Glenn Hauser, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2051 monitoring: confirmed UT Tuesday
September 15 at 0330 on WRMI 5800, VG S9+10/20 at Bonaire SDR; but
recheck 0350 just in time to hear me cut off at 0350:40 for two IDs in
Spanish by Rudy and some Mexican, then fill music starting with a
version of ``Chariots of Fire``. I quickly asked WRMI to look into
this anomaly and prevent it from happening again. 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 Robert W Gruska,
Glendale NY, who has been contributing periodically since at
least 2009; a PMO to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702;
if by check please in US funds on a US bank.

Financial support may alternatively be sent via PayPal to
woradio at yahoo.com - not necessarily US funds as PP will convert
(Glenn Hauser, OK WOR)

This report dispatched at 1652 UT September 15
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JRX Logs_ Monday, September 7, 2020Receiver (s)_ XHDATA D-808Antenna (s)_ LongwireDate and Time in UTC/GMT

ASCENSION ISLAND** 17640. Mon, Sep 7, 2020. 1642-1655, BBC, Ascension Island-ASC, in English. Woman and man announcers present BBC News; 1648 Woman says ID and news continue. Good reception.** 17745. Mon, Sep 7, 2020. 1814-1829, BBC, Ascension Island-ASC, in Tigrinya. Man and woman announcers talk news; 1824 English Class by man and woman voices; 1829 Ends programming. Very good reception.
AUSTRIA** 17570. Mon, Sep 7, 2020. 1942-1952, Adventist World Radio, Moosbrunn-AUT, in French. ID and POBox to Abdijan; 1945 Pastor makes a christian preaching. Fair to good reception.
CHINA** 7225. Mon, Sep 7, 2020. 2142-2156, China Radio International, Beijing-Matoucun-CHN, in Croatian language. Chinese songs; 2155 IS and ends programming. Fair to good reception.** 7250. Mon, Sep 7, 2020. 2201-2211, China Radio International, Urumqi-Changji-CHN, in Spanish. Woman announcer presents news. Good reception.** 7260. Mon, Sep 7, 2020. 2212-2222, China Radio International, Urumqi-Changji-CHN, in Portuguese. No regular programming for a long time, but just chinese instrumental music. Very good reception.** 7265. Mon, Sep 7, 2020. 2222-2234, China Radio International, Kashgar-CHN, in Chinese. Man and woman announcers talk during all log. Fair reception with interference by CRI on 7260kHz.** 7300. Mon, Sep 7, 2020. 2245-2255, China Radio International, Kashgar-CHN, in Esperanto. Woman and man announcers present a "Chinese Class"; 2251 ID and woman talks; 2256 IS and ends programming. Very good reception.** 7350. Mon, Sep 7, 2020. 2300-2314, China Radio International, Kashgar-CHN, in English. Man announcer presents news; 2305 Woman talks and in conversation with a man. Good reception.** 7395. Mon, Sep 7, 2020. 2315-2325, China National Radio 2-China Business Radio, Xian-Xianyang-CHN, in Chinese. Man and woman talk; 2319 They talking with music background; Ring sound and more... Good reception.
IRAN** 7275. Mon, Sep 7, 2020. 2235-2245, Pars Today, Sirjan-IRN, in Hausa. Man announcer inteviews other man about "Corona", says it. Fair reception.
METEO FAX_Chile** 17146. Mon, Sep 7, 2020. 1604-1614, CBV Valparaiso Meteo Fax, Valparaiso-CHL. Good reception here.
STANAG_Canada** 17082. Mon, Sep 7, 2020. 1532-1550, CFH Halifax STANAG, Halifax-NS-CAN. Fair to good reception. Better on 17083, here._Djibouti** 18493. Mon, Sep 7, 2020. 1927-1937, FUV Djibouti STANAG. Good reception in my area, but better on 18493-USB mode._Martinique** 17106. Mon, Sep 7, 2020. 1552-1600, FUF Martinique STANAG. Fair reception in my area.
SÃO TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE** 17530. Mon, Sep 7, 2020. 1630-1640, Voice of America, Pinheira-STP, in Swahili. Man talks, ID and website; Talking about "Corona"; 1635 Woman talks news, too. Very good reception.
USA** 17775. Mon, Sep 7, 2020. 1832-1902, KVOH-Voz de Esperanza, Rancho Simi-CA, in Spanish. Man announcer presents a musical program with religious songs; 1837 ID, website and e-mail de "Voz de Esperanza"; 1838 More songs, glorifying Jesus, The Lord, till 1853; 1857 Man talks, ID, frequency, website and next a christian message of The Gospel; 1600 Now, in english, man announcer says ID and addresses of KVOH-Voice of Hope and a song. Incredible good reception in my area, after almost a year without hearing it (My last log of KVOH was on October 8, 2019, 1421-1445 UTC! ).
VATICAN** 17655. Mon, Sep 7, 2020. 1700-1715, Voice of America, SM di Galeria-CVA, in Portuguese. VOA News by João Santa Rita announcer. Very good reception.

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JRX Logs_ Monday, September 14, 2020Receiver (s)_ Tecsun S-2000Antenna (s)_ LongwireDate and Time in UTC/GMT

ASCENSION ISLAND** 15400. Mon, Sep 14, 2020. 1713-1723, BBC, Ascension Island-ASC, in English. Woman and man announcers interview a nigerian man, all about Nigeria facts. Good reception.** 15490. Mon, Sep 14, 2020. 1915-1929, BBC, Ascension Island-ASC, in Tigrinya. Woman announcer in conversation with a man; 1919 ID and woman talks news; 1922 Man begins conversation with a woman; 1924 ID and a short "English Class"; 1929 Ends. Very good to excellent reception.
CHINA** 7225. Mon, Sep 14, 2020. 2125-2135, China Radio International, Beijing-Matoucun-CHN, in Croatian. Chinese songs, only. No regular programming. Very good reception.
FRANCE** 15130. Mon, Sep 14, 2020. 1900-1910, NHK World Japan, Issoudun-F, in Japanese. Time pips and ID; News by man announcer. Good reception.** 15215. Mon, Sep 14, 2020. 1849-1859, Deutsche Welle, Issoudun-F, in Hausa language. Woman announcer in conversation with a ghanaian woman, presumed; 1856 A brief DW ID jingle; 1857 News by woman; 1858 Man talks, ID and ends. Very good reception. 
GREAT BRITAIN** 15260. Mon, Sep 14, 2020. 1701-1711, IBRA-Radio Sama, Woofferton-G, in Arabic. Man and woman talk and a brief music between the communication;  1706 A religious song, presumed, by choral; 1710 Man talks with music background.. Fair reception.
USA** 21525. Mon, Sep 14, 2020. 1644-1654, PAB-Radio Africa, Okeechobee-FL, in English. Female Pastor makes a sermon with enthusiasm; 1656 A song by female singer. Fair to poor reception for Pan American Broadcasting.
VIETNAM** 7220. Mon, Sep 14, 2020. 2046-2057, Voice of Vietnam, Sontay-VTN, in English. Man and woman communication; 2050 A song; 2057 Woman talks and ends programming. Poor reception.** 7220. Mon, Sep 14, 2020. 2113-2123, Voice of Vietnam, Sontay-VTN, in French. Man talks; 2119 Man and woman talk. Barely audible reception and a strong interference by CRI in croatian on 7225kHz, chinese songs, this time.** 9730. Mon, Sep 14, 2020. 2010-2028, Voice of Vietnam, Sontay-VTN, in German. Man and woman announcers talk; 2015 A brief song and return announcers communication; 2022 A song by female singer; 2028 Ends. Fair reception.Parallel log on 7280son, poor reception.** 9730. Mon, Sep 14, 2020. 2030-2045, Voice of Vietnam, Sontay-VTN, in French. IS and ID by woman and next, news by woman and man announcers; 2040 ID; Man and woman talk; 2044 A song.Parallel log on 7280son, poor reception (Fair reception in rare moments!).** 9730. Mon, Sep 14, 2020. 2100-2110, Voice of Vietnam, Sontay-VTN, in Spanish. Woman talks.  I couldn´t hear the IS and/or ID. Barely audible reception on 9730son and 7280son! Interference by CRI, in english, on 7285kHz!** 9840 and 12020. Mon, Sep 14, 2020. 2212-2220, Voice of Vietnam, Sontay-VTN, in Japanese. No programming, sign-off!

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