** ARGENTINA [non]. 5800, UT Tue April 28 at 0230, via WRMI, RAE AAM
opening octolingual hour in Spanish. Fernando says it`s ``Made in
Casa`` #5, but impression from further comments is that was recorded
last week, not today. German YL a few minutes later, usw., etc. (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11950, April 27 at 2217, this RHC on earlier than nominal
*2300 for alternate `Mesa Redonda` TV soundtrack. It`s a speech by
some Commie, perhaps a live event, distorted here, but // mainstream
RHC Spanish on 11760, undermodulated 11850 and its spur on 11840;
while 11700 is in Portuguese, 13740 and 15370 are off. 6000 is on at
2225 and the SSOB at S9 --- except it`s dead air. Normally it would be
// 11950 for the separate M.R. at 23-24. By 0214 Apr 28, 6000 is JBM,
perhaps in English like louder 6145. Something`s always wrong at RHC
::: (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11670, April 28 at 0219, RHC Spanish is S9+20, overmodulated
and distorted. 11760 is off already. Not on at 2217, but 13740 is on
now, S9+20. Something`s always wrong at RHC.

Just for giggles, let`s check own website frecuencias schedule at:
http://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/frecuencias
It`s still the B-18 sked! headed
``HORARIOS, BANDAS Y FRECUENCIAS EN ESPAÑOL
PERIODO NOVIEMBRE 2018/MARZO 2019
CAMBIO DE HORARIO Y FRECUENCIA 11 DE NOVIEMBRE``
not including any 11760 in the tarde; but EiBi A-20 shows 21-02 while
11670 is 23-04, 11850 21-05.

As for the Esperanto broadcast missing at least the last two weeks
from Sunday 1500 on 11760 & 15140, now the Esperanto page
http://www.radiohc.cu/eo
does provide audio of the April 26 show, which 2+ minutes into
announces the schedule as Sundays: 08 UTC on 6100; 16 on 11760; 2230
on 15730 --- those are winter times! Should be at 07 and 15, but maybe
still at 2230. I`ve checked neither the first nor the last, and who
knows, maybe sometech axually believe it`s supposed to be at 16?(Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, April 27 at 2214, zero signal from VOT English to
North America. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler, and/or awry at
Ankara (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2031 monitoring: confirmed Monday
April 27 at 1800:40 on IRRS 7290, VG via UTwente SDR. Open carrier
already on at 1755 (and Iran in Italian already off, this week!);
1759:40 IRRS sign-on, 3 headlines from Feature Story News, then WOR.
There is no ACI plus/minus 5 on the tuner, but still some QRM on 7290,
apparently splashing out of 7280 Vietnam. After lunch, 1829 recheck
just as WOR has ended, FSN from Washington yet British accent, with
more detail, but cut to dead air at 1832 and still dead past 1838 when
The Shortwave Report should be playing. I hope there were no such
interruptions to *our* SW report.

Also confirmed UT Tue April 28 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, S9/+10 here but
noisy so only fair; at 0127 check, poor at UTwente, but VG at remote
in Maine. 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 Dan Sheedy, Encinitas, CA,
who sent a generous 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)

** U S A. 5800, April 28 at 0010, ``weather around the globe`` ---
followed by --- music! on SMTV via WRMI. Just another example why it`s
not a good idea to run TV soundtrax on radio without ``translating``
video-only info into audio. I can just *imagine* the grafix with maps
and temps, like on NHK Newsline, along with its tiresome always-same
music (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9955, April 28 at 0216, WRMI relaying RPI in Spanish, but as
I tune in with BFO, carrier is breaking up rapidly, then settles down.
Good thing there is an adjacent standby transmitter for this System
and frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7490.097V, April 28 at 0015-0100, WBCQ with `From the Isle
of Music`, jazz as promised this week, mostly music rather than
interviews, fair S9+10.

I was glad to advance-publicize a WBCQ special for Tuesday May 5 at
21-22 UT, featuring this and other musical programmers. Unfortunately,
we know that this time of year, reception that early in the day to
this far away will be poor, mostly absorbed before it get here, just
like other shows at 21, Marion`s Attic, BeHAViour Night, and World of
Radio. To be on 7490; and 5130 which will be even worse in the
afternoon. Why not repeat it after dark?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

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** ALASKA. 9580, April 27 at 1454, ending `Creation Moment`,
anti-science nonsense, then rock music, and KNLS closing with English
schedule for ``New Life Station`` including 13760 at 03 for S Asia,
i.e. via Madagascar. This confirms that not all the English hours from
MWV Mahajanga are African Pathways Radio as one schedule asserted.
Alaska had resumed on April 23 after 3+ weeks off, not clear exactly
why, expenses?

Supposedly current sked for both is here:
https://www.worldchristian.org/welcome/who-we-are/how-to-listen/
including KNLS English: 08 on 9695; 10 on 9580; 12 on 9795 and 7355;
14 on 9580 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ALASKA. 9730, April 27 at 1502, rock song at S4-S6, clearly a
station that does not believe in news on the hour --- or any news at
all about the *real* world. 9730 is heavily used by China, North
Korea, Vietnam and Myanmar, but Aoki shows this one-hour window for
KNLS in Russian; only possible competition being SOH Taiwan relaying
RFA up to 20 hours a day including this one. In fact, it`s the same
KNLS-2 transmitter I just heard in English before 1500 on 9580, but
now 30 degrees clockwise at 300 degrees for ``E Central Russia``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. 9680, April 27 at 1501, S5-S9 open carrier, presumably CNR1
jammer against Taiwan not turned off yet, but could be vice versa.
Aoki/NDXC shows jammer site as Kunming (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA [non]. 11640, April 26 at 2125, chat in English about the
value of reading books, African accent, S4-S5. It`s CRI via MALI, that
odd half-hour broadcast until 2130, or is it expansion of the previous
one-hour? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 5040, April 27 at 0550, RHC in Spanish instead of English
during this hour, S9+30. Something`s always cockeyed at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13763 & 13637 approx., April 27 at 1406, RHC `Sonido Cubano`
music back on big distorted S9 spurblobs, about plus/minus 63 kHz out
of 13700-AM transmitter. Useless in SSB tuning but audible in AM or
FM, and with the F# tone in FM. JBA on second-orders circa 13573 &
13827. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA [non]. 7335, April 27 at 0554, Radio Martí music at S9+20,
apparently hit parade having reached #1, no jamming audible at first
unlike slightly weaker // 7365 S9+10/20. 0559 elaborate ID, ``siempre
contigo``. 0600 becomes `Radio Revoltillo`, show of revolting
comments, dated jueves 23 de abril, so a replay; also counts number of
days to end of year. Jamming now audible under 7335. Nothing on 5980
now except jamming as no RM until 0700; and 6030 audible under
jamming. Comments about how the Great October Revolution was really in
November due to calendar changes. 0613 takes phone call to a 305
number, evidently from another exile; or contact via
radiorevoltillo@gmail.com

RM has other music shows late at night. Better enjoy all this while
you can, as overnight 04-10 UT transmissions on SW are to be canceled
effective May 2, apparently due to a major budget cut. RM is the main
output of Grimesland, vs only a few VOA transmissions in Bambara,
French, Hausa, English, so we fear this could be the beginning of the
end for the ``Greenville`` site (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NIGERIA. 7254.9, April 27 at 0554 tune-in, big VON carrier cuts off
immediately, unknown if ever came back. At least they tried (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2031 monitoring: confirmed UT
Monday April 27 at 0130 on WRMI 7780 - only, VG via Maine SDR;
repeated at 0230.

Also confirmed UT Mon Apr 27 starting at 0305 on Area 51 via WBCQ,
5130-, stably a few Hz on minus side, after an ancient Jean Shepherd
stream-of-consciousness monolog ran over, concluding with his peppy
themesong - what was it? Axually better here, S9+10/20 than to a
Rochester remote where there were storms. Alternate 6160v NOT on the
air.

WOR 2031 presumably confirmed UT Mon Apr 27 at 0330 on WRMI 9955;
checked previous semihour during RPI it was S9+10. Next:

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 Dan Sheedy, Encinitas, CA,
who sent a generous 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)

** U S A. 9955, Sunday April 26 at 2120, WRMI with chat between W&M
about their favorite TV shows; it`s `The Lab` for a semihour, easily
overlooked and last reported in September as in DXLD 19-39, with
quotation from WRMI program page still there, outdated info lacking
this very airing, IDing them as Kate Holiday and Ryan Rivers (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1656 UT April 27
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JRX Logs_ April 26, 2020
Receiver (s)_ XHDATA D-808
Antenna (s)_ Mini Loop to SW

ASCENSION ISLAND
** 11810. Apr 26, 2020. 1903-1913, BBC, Ascension Island-ASC, in English. Man and woman talk; 1907 Man and woman talk and pieces of songs. Good reception.

AUSTRIA
** 6155. Apr 26, 2020. 0500-0513, Radio Austria International, Moosbrunn-AUT, in German. Woman and man announcers present news; 0508 A classical music. Fair reception.

BULGARIA
** 11680. Apr 26, 2020. 1815-1830, BBC, Sofia-Kostinbrod-BUL, in French. Woman and man announcers talk news; A conversation between them; 1824 Man talks; ID and a african song; 1830 Ends. Fair reception.
Parallel logs on 12005 relay Woofferton, very good reception; And 11875 relay SM di Galeria-CVA, very good reception.

CLANDESTINE
** 11830. Apr 26, 2020. 1853-1859, Dandal Kura Radio, Issoudun-F, in Kanuri. Man and woman in conversation; 1859 A brief song and ends programming. Fair reception.

FRANCE
** 13820. Apr 26, 2020. 1831-1841, Radio Algérienne, Issoudun-F, in Arabic. Man talks - The Qur´an recitation; 1835 ID and begins the Qur´an chant; 1838 A brief recitation, and next, a song by female singer and chorus. Good reception, but the jamming interference continues, since the A20 initial period.

GREAT BRITAIN
** 9800. Apr 26, 2020. 1916-1928, World´s Last Chance Program, Woofferton-G, in Arabic. Men announcers talk, conversation between them during all log. Good reception.
** 9820. Apr 26, 2020. 1842-1852, KBS World Radio, Woofferton-G, in Russian language. Man announcer talks and a brief song; 1843 A song by female singer; 1851 Man and woman talk. Fair reception.

LIBERIA
** 6050. Apr 26, 2020. 1931-1948, ELWA Radio, Monrovia-LBR, in English. Man and woman talk with nice enthusiasm and a musical background. Poor reception.

MALI
** 5995. Apr 26, 2020. 1948-2013, RTV du Mali, Bamako-MLI, in French. Musics of the country; 2000 Man talks, ID; Man and woman announcers talk news, say about Ramadan month and more. Fair reception.
Note: All edition in french language, till 2013UTC.

USA
** 6195. Apr 26, 2020. 0407-0430, NHK World Japan, Furman-SC, in Spanish. Woman announcer presents " Boletín Informativo de Radio Japón"; 0410 Program "Buzón de Radio Japón": Culture, history, tourism, music, listener correspondence and reception reports. Good reception.

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SWARL Callsign PR7036SWL
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JRX Logs_ April 25, 2020Receiver (s)_ XHDATA D-808Antenna (s)_ Mini Loop to SW

ARMENIA** 9880. Apr 25, 2020. 0211-0221, BBC, Gavar-ARM, in Pashto. Woman and man announcers present news, presumed; 0218 ID. Fair reception.Parallel logs on 6195 relay Al-Seela, fair reception; And 7445 relay Al-Seela-OMA, barely audible.** 9880. Apr 25, 2020. 0230-0242, BBC, Gavar-ARM, in Dari. Man talks; A conversation with a man. Poor reception.
FRANCE** 6105. Apr 25, 2020. 0253-0305, NHK World Japan, Issoudun-F, in Japanese. Man talks; 0300 Time pips and man says ID; News by man announcer. Very good reception.
KUWAIT** 15540. Apr 25, 2020. 1650-1705, Radio Kuwait, Kabd-KWT, in Arabic. A song; Man and woman talk - A nice conversation and fast piece of songs; 1654 Man and woman talk; 1659 A brief song; 1700 Time pips; Man announcer talks news, presumably. Good reception.
NIGERIA** 11770. Apr 25, 2020. 1600-1612, Voice of Nigeria, Abuja-NIG, in Yoruba. Woman announcer talks and says Nigeria many times; 1604 Abrupt interrruption programming; 1612 No returns programming at this time. Fair reception for these initial four minutes!
TURKEY** 7260. Apr 25, 2020. 0138-0155, Voice of Turkey, Emirler-TUR, in Spanish. Turkish songs; 0153 IS; 0155 Ends programming. Good reception.
UAE** 6070. Apr 25, 2020. 0200-0210, FEBA Radio, Al-Dhabbiya-UAE, in Urdu. IS and ID; Man and woman voices; A very brief song and woman announcer talks; Man voice. Poor reception.** 6070. Apr 25, 2020. 0222-0230, FEBA Radio, Al-Dhabbiya-UAE, in Urdu. Woman voice; 0228 A short song; 0229 IS. Poor reception.
VATICAN** 15565. Apr 25, 2020. 1613-1629, Vatican Radio, SM di Galeria-CVA, in Swahili. Man announcer talks; News, presumably; 1629 IS. Fair reception.** 15565. Apr 25, 2020. 1630-1640, Vatican Radio, SM di Galeria-CVA, in English. ID; Man talks and a religious song; 1633 Woman talks; Returns man voice. Fair reception.

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WORLD OF RADIO HITLIST

Hi Glenn, My latest Hitlist update:
http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm

1) Austria - ORF/OE1: Added station (thanks to Glenn Hauser)
2) France - RFI: Added links to programme and Facebook pages of
Musique du Monde
3) Greece - V of Greece: As VoG now relays the Proto (1st) programme,
in place of the ERT external services, added links to this service.
Additionally, Proto may relay overnight either the Deftero (2nd) or
Trito (3rd) programme, so added links to these as well (with thanks to
Richard Langley in WOR iog for initial tip)
4) Lao - Lao National R: Added links for this station (with thanks to
David Kernick, Interval Signal Online, via WOR iog for initial tip)
5) UK - BBC WS: Updated link to "regional schedules"
6) UK - European Music R: Deleted entry (the former archived
website/domain has now been deleted)
7) USA - R Free Asia: Added link to RFA website (thanks to an initial
tip by Bill Harms in faceBook group)
8) USA - WEWN: Updated link to frequency schedules

Unless there's a major change anywhere, the next update will be late
May. Best wishes and 73 (Alan Roe, April 25)

** CUBA. 11880, April 25 at 2232, RHC Portuguese is S9+20 but very
distorted. 11 seconds later the same thing is heard on 11700 at S9+10,
a bit crackly but not distorted. The former bodes ill for the quality
of English to follow at 2300. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 15370
also supposed to be on now but a JBA carrier and nothing else on 19m
is any better, degraded propagation (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11760 // suptorted 15140, April 26 at 1512 check, RHC in
Spanish, another Sunday missing Esperanto. Plenty of it can be read
at
http://www.radiohc.cu/eo
including items with recent dates and linx to audio of April 5, 12 and
19 shows, and maybe will add 26 yet missing from SW. Something`s
always wrong at Radio Havano Kubo (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15140, April 26 at 1932, NO signal from RHC English. But:
15370, April 26 at 1932, RHC French is S9+20, OK modulation.
Something`s always wrong at RHC. On rare occasions 15140 programs go
out instead on spy-numbers frequency 16180, but not now (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** FRANCE. 15130, April 26 at 1932, JBA music S2-S3; listed as NHK
Japanese relay; hardly anything else trans-Atlantic on band and even
Cuba missing from 15140 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** GUATEMALA. 4055, April 26 at 0616, TGAV is still on late and
stronger than usual at S9+10/20 during sermon in Spanish (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** HAWAII. 5000, April 26 at 0619, WWVH with jittery Doppler flutter
on carrier when heard with BFO, sign of severe prop disturbance, very
unusual over such a low-latitude path; and NO signal from WWV Colorado
which is normally atop here; it can be heard on 2500 tho weaker than
usual. Just missed the 0618 propagation report on WWV, but 3-hourly
e-mail from WWV says at 0600 the K-index was only 2, SF 69, and no
storms observed or predicted (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ROMANIA. 7310, Sat April 25 at 2245, RRI S3-S7 poor concluding DX
Mailbag until 2246 just as in DX/SWL/MEDIA programs starting at 2240
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, April 25 at 2228, VOT English is on today, Turkish
songs at S7-S9; no RTTY now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2031 monitoring: confirmed UT
Sunday April 26 starting at 0311, good on WA0RCR, 1860-AM via
Edinburgh IN SDR south of Indianapolis. Next:

0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 and/or 6160v to WSW
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [may be jammed] to SSE
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 5045-USB or 3210
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 Dan Sheedy, Encinitas, CA,
who sent a generous 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)

** U S A. 9330, April 25 at 1824, WLCR via WBCQ is in English, not
German as previously scheduled, only fair S5-S8. Their sked now shows
German at 19-22 UT and wrong conversion to 8-11 pm local, tho they got
French to France right with a 2-hour difference (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A. 15770, April 26 at 1439, no signal from this WRMI which
normally achieves at least a JBA carrier; also no signal at 1512 via
remotes in Maine, Holland (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1951 UT April 26
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