** ANTARCTICA. 15476-, Sat Oct 26 at 1503, checking for LRA36 via
UTwente, instead nothing but some un-DRM-like noise blob; Manuel
Méndez had been hearing it very weakly directly in Spain an hour
earlier, altho it was not heard on Friday. My further chex of UTwente
past 1700 find no noise and no signal either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** KURDISTAN [non]. 11520, Oct 26 at 1315 via UTwente checking for
Dengê Welat, bigsig here presumed this; while a weak something on
11510, Turkish jammer not yet glommed? Also 11540 something in
Chinese. Direct at 1348 I hear only a JBA carrier on 11510.

11510, Oct 26 at 1435 back to UTwente, VG referring to Agence France
Presse, so probably D.W. A bit of music under, maybe same station or
the jammer? But tuning around, nothing on others except 11500 has some
VG Chinese.

11500 is in Aoki/NDXC at this time as CNR1 jamming/Sound of Hope, and
11540 jammed at 1200-1400 vs RFA Tibetan via Kuwait (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1090, Oct 26 at 0605 UT, Spanish from south easy with KAAY
from the east nulled and initially dead-air. It`s an infomercial not
for mattresses but now for ``Vitac-30`` [?], an antiseptic, referring
to phone number to call ``en pantalla``, i.e. on the screen, another
*television* infomercial. The number probably depends on which station
is airing it in order to track response sources, but it`s rather hard
to ``see`` on the radio! Maybe they later inserted it verbally. That
name is incorrect; searching, there is a Vita-C vitamin supplement.
Anyhow, still presumed XEAU, Monterrey NL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1580, Oct 26 at 1752 UT, KOKB Blackwell is completely OFF
again, yet again (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 91.7, Oct 25 at 2128 UT, KOSU during NPR `All Things
Considered`, RDS is displaying the current ATC topic, ``TREE OF LIFE
SYNAGOGUE ANNIV. CHANG ON KOSU`` in rotating 8-character fields. Chang
being one of the ATC co-anchors.

I have only two radios with RDS displays, the identical DX-398 and
ATS-909, but I don`t pay much attention to them except during sporadic
E DX openings when the RDS could provide vital ID info or clues,
especially from Mexico --- but often won`t display due to
weak/fading/choppy signals, even if enabled by the station.

Some stations have long used RDS to show current song title/performer
info, but first time I have noted news content as on NPR/KOSU. Is this
something new to KOSU and/or NPR? Is it showing up elsewhere??

At 2130 it changes to generic ``ALL THINGS CONSIDERED ON KOSU``.

Some stations only display their static ID or slogan, such as 94.7 in
OKC, BUZZ; 96.9, KQOB. 96.1 KXXY displays song info. Some other
stations have RDS enabled per icon, but displaying nothing. One of
these slow days I`1l have to survey the entire FM dial around here for
what`s showing on RDS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. Tnx to Mauricio Molano for the answer about the REE 12030
target area ``Gran Sol``, found on Spanish Wikipedia:

>Where is Gran Sol?...
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Sol

``Gran Sol es un caladero situado en el Atlántico Norte, entre los
paralelos 48 y 60, al oeste de las islas británicas. Destaca por la
riqueza pesquera, especialmente por la existencia de merluza, una
especie de gran rendimiento económico. Desde antiguo el caladero de
Gran Sol ha sido explotado por los pescadores españoles y portugueses,
que navegan desde la costa cantábrica y atlántica a faenar en sus
aguas. Este mar destaca también por la ferocidad de sus temporales. El
nombre de Gran Sol proviene del francés Grande Sole (gran lenguado).
No se debe confundir con el Box Irlandés (Irish Box, en inglés),
caladero éste que está fuera del Gran Sol y que designa un área de
pesca reservada acotada entre paralelos y meridianos (box) alrededor
de la isla de Irlanda``

73! Mauricio Molano, Salamanca, ESPAÑA - SPAIN
(http://moladx.blogspot.com/)

Then I hunt for that in English wikipedia, but all it can find is a
hotel/skyscraper by that name in Alicante! So Google translates:

``Gran Sol is a fishing ground located in the North Atlantic, between
parallels 48 and 60, west of the British Isles. It stands out for the
fishing wealth, especially for the existence of hake, a kind of great
economic performance. Since ancient times the Gran Sol fishing ground
has been exploited by Spanish and Portuguese fishermen, who sail from
the Cantabrian and Atlantic coast to fish in its waters. This sea also
stands out for the ferocity of its storms. The name of Gran Sol comes
from the French Grande Sole (great sole). Not to be confused with the
Irish Box (in English), this fishing ground that is outside the Gran
Sol and that designates a reserved fishing area bounded between
parallels and meridians (box) around the island of Ireland``

Note: sol does not refer to the Sun at all, but to lenguado, i.e. the
fish, sole! (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2005 monitoring: confirmed first SWBC, Friday
Oct 25 at 2200 on WRMI 9955, S9ish from S7 to S9+10.

Also confirmed UT Saturday Oct 26 at 0130 on WRMI: 5850 S9+20 after
some overlapping unneeded fill music for a second or two after the
canned ID; S9-S8 on 7780, also S9-S8 on 5010 but noisier.

Altho 4980 and 5010 continue registered available, it`s not clear
whether the new 6060 WRMI in B-19 will affect what`s on 5010.

Brand new WOR time on WRMI, Sat 1300 on 15770, monitored last week by
Ivo Ivanov, but still a blank space on the System D skedgrid: JBA
carrier here, but Oct 26 confirmed good signal via UTWente SDR.

Not confirmed Saturday October 26 at 1431-1500 on 9485-CUSB, Hamburger
Lokalradio; via UTwente SDR, no signal except huge splash from 9490
Romania.

From next week, WOR should shift to 1531, presumably still on 9485
rather than 7265 or 6190, but not confirmed. At 1530 per HFCC the ACI
should be lessened: 9480 CNR Beijing in Tibetan; 9490 CRI Kashgar
southward in Tamil. Next:

1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315]
1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany [ex-1030] to WSW
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 6160v? to WSW
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE
0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW
1130 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW
1816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania to WNW
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW
0830 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [another episode]
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, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. (7490), UT Sat Oct 26 at 0000 I`m listening only to the WBCQ
webcast; 7490 reception may be degraded by today`s propagation
disturbance after a G2 storm and K-index of 3. FKB gospel huxter ends
at 2400, hangs up, clunk, but after some DA we hear his last minute
repeated! Apparently, WBCQ output had switched to Deland of FLA studio
which got a delayed internet feed.

Then 0001, WTO theme of `AAAWWW` starts and off we go. Annoying Freddy
calls in almost immediately, and AW always gives him priority allowing
him to interrupt whatever he is saying. Asks about other frequencies,
and AW says on 7490 only, since he doesn`t want to bother the guys
back in Monticello with the complexities of multi-casting, running
other transmitters. 6160 it seems is completely silent, since he says
no time has been sold on it at all.

Super-station 500 kW: thinx they will be testing to China this [next?]
week to see how well it funxion over the pole. AW hates the ChiCom
government, yet says CRI would be welcome to relay via WBCQ, altho
they hardly need it. S-S status: ``locked and waiting`` for some parts
and info about how to QSY to higher bands; other than that, both
transmitter and antenna are working well; soon should be on full-time
with Worlds Last Chance Radio;

0043 again laments shortage of shortwave engineers. Has finally caught
up with QSLing, hundreds of them now on the way (meaning P-mailed?).
Still going at 0100 but cut off for Hal Turner.

Good I got this much, since John Carver reports, first at 0016:

``Very poor, noisy signal on 7490 again this week. Can find no other
BCQ frequency on the air, not even 5130. As soon as weather permits
will go outside and check out antenna. Not having problems picking up
other stations. I did check later in the hour and 5130 was finally
running that music program that's been running for a few weeks there.

I'm really sorry I'm not getting anything. Was checking cables,
antenna tuner and pre-selector this evening. They all check out and I
was getting other stations this evening so am assuming that my antenna
is alright but will check it with my eyes once it stops raining. John,
Mid-North Indiana``

I told him the problem may have been the propagation disturbance ---
the northerly WBCQ site is at a disadvantage when that happen (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 12050, Oct 25 at 2057, WEWN is still JBM in Spanish, S6-S7,
as I first noted at 1422; is no one paying attention at Vandiver? Than
why should we? Or anylistener (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Altho Hepburn maps show no tropo at all around here, Oct
26 at 1442 UT I bandscan anyway and find Bad signals on RF 35 and 22.
W9WI.com shows a bunch of LPs or translators in mostly remote areas of
KS and OK; the only full powers being in KS: 35 KMTW Hutchinson, and
22 KSNC Great Bend. Tropo areas are to be closer the next morning.

BTW, of my two TV antennas, as of Oct 25, one of them no longer picks
up some of the OKC stations; something must be broken pending my
roofish inspexion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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** ANTARCTICA. 15476-, Sat Oct 26 at 1503, checking for LRA36 via
UTwente, instead nothing but some un-DRM-like noise blob; Manuel
Méndez had been hearing it very weakly directly in Spain an hour
earlier, altho it was not heard on Friday. My further chex of UTwente
past 1700 find no noise and no signal either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** KURDISTAN [non]. 11520, Oct 26 at 1315 via UTwente checking for
Dengê Welat, bigsig here presumed this; while a weak something on
11510, Turkish jammer not yet glommed? Also 11540 something in
Chinese. Direct at 1348 I hear only a JBA carrier on 11510.

11510, Oct 26 at 1435 back to UTwente, VG referring to Agence France
Presse, so probably D.W. A bit of music under, maybe same station or
the jammer? But tuning around, nothing on others except 11500 has some
VG Chinese.

11500 is in Aoki/NDXC at this time as CNR1 jamming/Sound of Hope, and
11540 jammed at 1200-1400 vs RFA Tibetan via Kuwait (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1090, Oct 26 at 0605 UT, Spanish from south easy with KAAY
from the east nulled and initially dead-air. It`s an infomercial not
for mattresses but now for ``Vitac-30`` [?], an antiseptic, referring
to phone number to call ``en pantalla``, i.e. on the screen, another
*television* infomercial. The number probably depends on which station
is airing it in order to track response sources, but it`s rather hard
to ``see`` on the radio! Maybe they later inserted it verbally. That
name is incorrect; searching, there is a Vita-C vitamin supplement.
Anyhow, still presumed XEAU, Monterrey NL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1580, Oct 26 at 1752 UT, KOKB Blackwell is completely OFF
again, yet again (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 91.7, Oct 25 at 2128 UT, KOSU during NPR `All Things
Considered`, RDS is displaying the current ATC topic, ``TREE OF LIFE
SYNAGOGUE ANNIV. CHANG ON KOSU`` in rotating 8-character fields. Chang
being one of the ATC co-anchors.

I have only two radios with RDS displays, the identical DX-398 and
ATS-909, but I don`t pay much attention to them except during sporadic
E DX openings when the RDS could provide vital ID info or clues,
especially from Mexico --- but often won`t display due to
weak/fading/choppy signals, even if enabled by the station.

Some stations have long used RDS to show current song title/performer
info, but first time I have noted news content as on NPR/KOSU. Is this
something new to KOSU and/or NPR? Is it showing up elsewhere??

At 2130 it changes to generic ``ALL THINGS CONSIDERED ON KOSU``.

Some stations only display their static ID or slogan, such as 94.7 in
OKC, BUZZ; 96.9, KQOB. 96.1 KXXY displays song info. Some other
stations have RDS enabled per icon, but displaying nothing. One of
these slow days I`1l have to survey the entire FM dial around here for
what`s showing on RDS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. Tnx to Mauricio Molano for the answer about the REE 12030
target area ``Gran Sol``, found on Spanish Wikipedia:

>Where is Gran Sol?...
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Sol

``Gran Sol es un caladero situado en el Atlántico Norte, entre los
paralelos 48 y 60, al oeste de las islas británicas. Destaca por la
riqueza pesquera, especialmente por la existencia de merluza, una
especie de gran rendimiento económico. Desde antiguo el caladero de
Gran Sol ha sido explotado por los pescadores españoles y portugueses,
que navegan desde la costa cantábrica y atlántica a faenar en sus
aguas. Este mar destaca también por la ferocidad de sus temporales. El
nombre de Gran Sol proviene del francés Grande Sole (gran lenguado).
No se debe confundir con el Box Irlandés (Irish Box, en inglés),
caladero éste que está fuera del Gran Sol y que designa un área de
pesca reservada acotada entre paralelos y meridianos (box) alrededor
de la isla de Irlanda``

73! Mauricio Molano, Salamanca, ESPAÑA - SPAIN
(http://moladx.blogspot.com/)

Then I hunt for that in English wikipedia, but all it can find is a
hotel/skyscraper by that name in Alicante! So Google translates:

``Gran Sol is a fishing ground located in the North Atlantic, between
parallels 48 and 60, west of the British Isles. It stands out for the
fishing wealth, especially for the existence of hake, a kind of great
economic performance. Since ancient times the Gran Sol fishing ground
has been exploited by Spanish and Portuguese fishermen, who sail from
the Cantabrian and Atlantic coast to fish in its waters. This sea also
stands out for the ferocity of its storms. The name of Gran Sol comes
from the French Grande Sole (great sole). Not to be confused with the
Irish Box (in English), this fishing ground that is outside the Gran
Sol and that designates a reserved fishing area bounded between
parallels and meridians (box) around the island of Ireland``

Note: sol does not refer to the Sun at all, but to lenguado, i.e. the
fish, sole! (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2005 monitoring: confirmed first SWBC, Friday
Oct 25 at 2200 on WRMI 9955, S9ish from S7 to S9+10.

Also confirmed UT Saturday Oct 26 at 0130 on WRMI: 5850 S9+20 after
some overlapping unneeded fill music for a second or two after the
canned ID; S9-S8 on 7780, also S9-S8 on 5010 but noisier.

Altho 4980 and 5010 continue registered available, it`s not clear
whether the new 6060 WRMI in B-19 will affect what`s on 5010.

Brand new WOR time on WRMI, Sat 1300 on 15770, monitored last week by
Ivo Ivanov, but still a blank space on the System D skedgrid: JBA
carrier here, but Oct 26 confirmed good signal via UTWente SDR.

Not confirmed Saturday October 26 at 1431-1500 on 9485-CUSB, Hamburger
Lokalradio; via UTwente SDR, no signal except huge splash from 9490
Romania.

From next week, WOR should shift to 1531, presumably still on 9485
rather than 7265 or 6190, but not confirmed. At 1530 per HFCC the ACI
should be lessened: 9480 CNR Beijing in Tibetan; 9490 CRI Kashgar
southward in Tamil. Next:

1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315]
1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany [ex-1030] to WSW
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 6160v? to WSW
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE
0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW
1130 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW
1816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania to WNW
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW
0830 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [another episode]
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, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. (7490), UT Sat Oct 26 at 0000 I`m listening only to the WBCQ
webcast; 7490 reception may be degraded by today`s propagation
disturbance after a G2 storm and K-index of 3. FKB gospel huxter ends
at 2400, hangs up, clunk, but after some DA we hear his last minute
repeated! Apparently, WBCQ output had switched to Deland of FLA studio
which got a delayed internet feed.

Then 0001, WTO theme of `AAAWWW` starts and off we go. Annoying Freddy
calls in almost immediately, and AW always gives him priority allowing
him to interrupt whatever he is saying. Asks about other frequencies,
and AW says on 7490 only, since he doesn`t want to bother the guys
back in Monticello with the complexities of multi-casting, running
other transmitters. 6160 it seems is completely silent, since he says
no time has been sold on it at all.

Super-station 500 kW: thinx they will be testing to China this [next?]
week to see how well it funxion over the pole. AW hates the ChiCom
government, yet says CRI would be welcome to relay via WBCQ, altho
they hardly need it. S-S status: ``locked and waiting`` for some parts
and info about how to QSY to higher bands; other than that, both
transmitter and antenna are working well; soon should be on full-time
with Worlds Last Chance Radio;

0043 again laments shortage of shortwave engineers. Has finally caught
up with QSLing, hundreds of them now on the way (meaning P-mailed?).
Still going at 0100 but cut off for Hal Turner.

Good I got this much, since John Carver reports, first at 0016:

``Very poor, noisy signal on 7490 again this week. Can find no other
BCQ frequency on the air, not even 5130. As soon as weather permits
will go outside and check out antenna. Not having problems picking up
other stations. I did check later in the hour and 5130 was finally
running that music program that's been running for a few weeks there.

I'm really sorry I'm not getting anything. Was checking cables,
antenna tuner and pre-selector this evening. They all check out and I
was getting other stations this evening so am assuming that my antenna
is alright but will check it with my eyes once it stops raining. John,
Mid-North Indiana``

I told him the problem may have been the propagation disturbance ---
the northerly WBCQ site is at a disadvantage when that happen (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 12050, Oct 25 at 2057, WEWN is still JBM in Spanish, S6-S7,
as I first noted at 1422; is no one paying attention at Vandiver? Than
why should we? Or anylistener (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Altho Hepburn maps show no tropo at all around here, Oct
26 at 1442 UT I bandscan anyway and find Bad signals on RF 35 and 22.
W9WI.com shows a bunch of LPs or translators in mostly remote areas of
KS and OK; the only full powers being in KS: 35 KMTW Hutchinson, and
22 KSNC Great Bend. Tropo areas are to be closer the next morning.

BTW, of my two TV antennas, as of Oct 25, one of them no longer picks
up some of the OKC stations; something must be broken pending my
roofish inspexion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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JRX Logs_ October 24-25, 2019
Receiver (s)_ XHDATA D-808
Antenna (s)_ Mini Loop to SW

CHINA
** 7210. Oct 25, 2019. 1851-1900, China Radio International, Urumqi-CHN, in Russian. Woman announcer talks; 1856 A song. Very good reception, 55544.
** 7255. Oct 25, 2019. 1902-1912, China Radio International, Kunming-Anning-CHN, in Turkish language. Women announcers talk news, presumably. Excellent reception here, 55555.Parallel log on 9655kHz relay Kunming-Anning-CHN, 45544.

CUBA
** 11700. Oct 24, 2019. 2216-2228, Radio Habana Cuba, Quivican-CUB, in Portuguese. Man announcer talks about cuban actualities; ID; 2224 A song. Poor reception, 35422.
** 11950. Oct 24, 2019. 2300-2312, Radio Habana Cuba, Bauta-CUB, in Spanish. A cuban song; Man and woman announcers present news about variety themes of the cuban actualities in the program "Mesa Redonda"; ID. Fair reception, 35433.

GUAM
** 11955. Oct 24, 2019. 2252-2259, Adventist World Radio Guam-KSDA, Agat-GUM in Indonesian language. Man voice; A short song; Man talks and other song. Poor reception, 25422.

KOREA NORTH
** 9425. Oct 25, 2019. 1842-1850, Voice of Korea, Kujang-KRE, in German. A song; Man announcer talks and other song. Poor reception, 35422.

KOREA SOUTH

** 11810. Oct 24, 2019. 2229-2240, KBS World Radio, Kimjae-KOR, in English. Man announcer makes a interview with a man; 2237 ID. Fair reception, 45433..

ROMANIA
** 7310. Oct 24, 2019. 2242-2250, Radio Romania International, Galbeni-ROU, in English. Woman announcer talks; 2245 A short song; Man talks, ID. Poor reception, 25422.Parallel log on 9790 relay Saftica, 35422.

SPAIN
** 11940. Oct 24, 2019. 2313-2329, Radio Exterior de España, Noblejas-E, in Portuguese. Woman announcer presents a long interview with a brazilian theater director Felipe de Lima, settlet in Spain a few years ago; 2327 A flamenco song. Excellent reception here, 55555.
** 11940. Oct 24, 2019. 2330-2359, Radio Exterior de España, Noblejas-E, in Spanish. Man announcer Javier Martinez leads a debate with a director of the Parkinson Observatory about the theme: Parkinson Desease and a clinic and sanitary investigation. REE with a excellent reception this night, 55555.

SUDAN
** 9505. Oct 25, 2019. 1814-1840, Voice of Africa-Sudan Radio, Al-Aitahab-SDN, in Hausa. Men voices; 1821 A local song; 1828 Man voice and a ID and next talks news, presumably; 1838 Continues program in hausa language (Not ends at 1830!). Fair reception, 35433.

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Cabedelo, Brazil (UTC-3)

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** ANTARCTICA. 15476-, Oct 24 at 1932, JBA carrier, so LRA36 is active
this Thursday afternoon. In B-19, HFCC has no 15475 registrants at all
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. 346 kHz, Oct 23 at 0612 UT, dash and YXL, 500 watts from
Sioux Lookout, Ontario. This NDB is not destined for decommissioning,
unlike 341, YYU, Kapuskasing, no longer mixing with local NDB EI;
http://dxinfocentre.com/ndb.htm
now shows a bunch of other Canadians to be decommissioned as of March
26, 2020 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. 15034-USB, Oct 24 at 1431, Trenton Military, ditto (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 11880, Oct 23 at 1450, CRI Plus English to North America
relay is S9+20 of open carrier/dead air except for some hum. Was it
always thus for the entire bihour today? Something`s always wrong at
RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 11880, Oct 24 at 1429, S9+20 of dead air from CRI in English.
On WOR 2005 I have merely cited all the Something`s Always Wrong
frequencies monitored the past week with no further details (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KURDISTAN [non]. 11550, Oct 23 at 1448, singing and drumming,
another new frequency for Denge Welat and/or Turkish jamming, as there
is nothing now on original 11530, nor recently jumped 11540 or 11520.
11550 seems to have a SAH hinting that both are on here at the moment.
At 1459, talk and music continue past 1500 with no ID caught, but now
I time the SAH at 2.4 Hz.

11510, Oct 24 at 1358, frequency of choice today, music and a JBA
carrier on 11540, else? By 1426, only 11510; 1430 talk, S5-S7 with
flutter.

11520, Oct 24 by 1921, the Kurdo-Turco radio war has shifted to here,
S3-S7 of Kurdish? talk.

11510, Oct 25 at 1421, JBA carrier only here; not surprising following
G2 storm as long predicted, and K index still 3 at 1500.

So far this radio war has been on 11510, 11520, 11530, 11540, 11550,
but they`d better avoid 11560 earlier not to collide with India.

Unless one understand Turkish or Kurdish it can be hard to tell which,
but Emirler could be running 500 kW vs 100 kW from DW.

Wolfgang Bueschel provides this for comparison:
Denge Welat Kurdish radio Livestream is 16 seconds behind,
http://37.187.140.96:8000/;stream.mp3
Later I listened to it for a while to become more familiar with it.

Strangely, only recently has Turkey bothered to jam the PKK station.
Did Drumpf OK that too? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MOROCCO. 595.9, Oct 25 at 0608, JBA carrier. Before a bandscan,
see UNIDENTIFIED, I check for this first, as the low-power 50 kW Oujda
transmitter of SNRT has been reported by Chris McWhinnie and Alan
Pennington of the British DX Club, further off-frequency than usual
595 instead of 594, and there it is! Wolfgang Bueschel precisioned it
at 595.896 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA. 7255-, Oct 24 at 0615, no signal from VON, which is always
VG when active; not heard on 9690- or 11770- either, tho one could be
on and not propagating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 341 kHz, Oct 23 at 0611 UT. Enid Woodring Airport beacon
EI continues to be heard, day or night: also at 1445 UT when I note a
period of 8 seconds, which means quite a pause between each pair of
dits. Also Oct 24 at 1355 UT check. At night there is no longer
co-channel from dash and YYU, Kapuskasing, Ontario, which
http://dxinfocentre.com/ndb.htm conforms has been Decommissioned.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1580, Oct 23 at 1502 UT, a SAH denoting more
than one station, but one of them per ID at 1503 is KOKB Blackwell,
still underpowered; and audio cuts out irregularly, unlike // 1020
KOKP Perry, where the audio is a few seconds ahead. The other 1580
likely our second closest, KHGG Van Buren AR, normally totally blocked
daytime by KOKB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PITCAIRN [non]. 14185-USB, Oct 23 at 1455, pileup of weak hams on
the publicized VP6R DX-pedition frequency. Itself not heard, but
someone says ``split``, implying that it (or they) should be on a
separate frequency. Not to be confused with Barbados, original island
called VP6; why change? No luck on the 18 MHz band either, but it
seldom opens utc [under-the-circumstances] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** ROMANIA. 7320-7325-7330, Oct 24 at 0614, DRM noise at S8; thought
it might be WINB, but that`s not until 0700 in A-19, while RRI
Tsiganeshti is in English and German WNW at 0530-0630. Neither
scheduled in B-19 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 11670, Oct 24 at 1923, the REE African frequency is gone
again while the other three are on, 9690, 11940, 12030. In B-19, the
silent frequency to resume is 11685 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** U S A. 353 kHz, Oct 23 at 0614 UT, confusing NDB MCW ID changes
from one time to the next: INLN, four letters? NO, it`s two different
beacons mixing at slightly different periods. They are exactly the
same pitch and same frequency. I ran into this before, these:

353 IN USA MN International Falls - Ray 100 48 28 53 -93 16 41
353 LI USA AR LITTLE ROCK 400 34 40 8 -92 18 20
per dxiinfocentre.com
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 13565-CW, Oct 24 at 1426, K6FRC HIFER beacon again audible
from Patterson CA, and no others on this band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2004 monitoring: confirmed
Wednesday October 23 starting at 2100:30 on WBCQ 7490.1, poor S6-S8;
their clock is running late, or previous program always runs
over/tight, not leaving enough time for full ID; but no problem, this
flexibility is an advantage as nothing is cut off.

Also confirmed UT Thu October 24 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, poor S8-S9.

WORLD OF RADIO 2005 Contents: Albania non, Antarctica, Argentina non,
Canada, China non, Cook Islands, Cuba, Ecuador, Eritrea non, France,
Germany, Hawai`i, Iran*, Ireland, Japan* and non, Kiribati, Korea
South and non, Kurdistan non, Mali, México, Morocco, New Zealand*,
North America, Oklahoma, Pitcairn, Pridnestrovye, San Andrés, Sudan
non, Turkey, Ukraine and non, USA, Zambia; propagation outlook; *B-19
schedules.

WOR 2005 is available as of 0414 UT Friday October 25
(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2005.m3u
(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2005.mp3

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

The shortwave broadcasts should be:

2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5850 to NW, 5010 to S
0629vUT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW
1000 UT Saturday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [alt weeks, Oct. 26]
1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 [NEW] to NE
1430 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315]
1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany [ex-1030] to WSW
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 6160v? to WSW
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE
0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW
1130 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW
1816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania to WNW
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW
0830 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [another episode]
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, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 17850, Oct 24 at 1928, JBA carrier, suspected 3 x 5950 WRMI;
17775 KVOH is already off, but 17530 Grimesland is still on; and
that`s it for 16m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENNG DIGEST)

** U S A. 4840, Oct 24 at 0620, WWCR S9+20 of dead air; tsk2, guess
TOMBS feed failed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15555-USB, Oct 24 at 1430, WJHR preaching is JBA. In B-19
it`s the only registrant on 15555, claiming unbelievable 50 kW, at 5
degrees; and if they shift to 15550 again will collide with France at
1530-1630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 12050, Oct 25 at 1422, WEWN Spanish is S5-S6 but JBM; at
least it`s not spurring around (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** U S A. 750, Oct 25 at 1207 UT, ad string in Ukrainian looping
NE/SW, one for auto parts, ID mentioning Ukrainian Radio, 1211 song.
We know this is WNDZ, Portage IN, Ethnic/brokered for the Chicago
market. No problem yet from KMMJ and this is axually better than WBBM
which has to contend with KSPI. WNDZ is 15 kW direxional daytimer,
from 1200 UT in October, 1230 in November. Pattern centered on NW, but
broad with considerable to the SW, notch SE toward Atlanta (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 900, Oct 25 at 1214 UT, nulling KSGL Wichita, I have
something else roughly E/W with ID mentioning 900 and 94.9 --- so most
likely KHOZ, Harrison AR, U1 1000/62/64 ``Bootz 94.9`` where the FM is
a mere translator; per NRC AM Log, tho there`s one other 94.9 combo,
WATV in AL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1440, Oct 25 at 1226 UT, RCC discussion in English, as KEXB,
University Park TX, has stopped stunting referring to KTNO move to
620; Paul Walker says it`s Relevant Radio. Can a call change be far
behind, since KEXB signified the kaput format, Excellence in Business?
Soon overtaken by Topeka, KMAJ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Oct 25 at
0609-0618: this time on the R-75 I am tuning LSB, 1 kHz above 9 kHz
channels, instead of the usual USB 1 kHz below; this could turn up
some different ones with different 10-kHz channel QRM/splash
situations: 531, 585, 603, 612, 621, 666(2), 684, 693, 711, 729(2),
747*, 774(2), 792, 801, 837, 8446, 855(2), 882, 936, 999, 1017, 1098,
1107, 1125(2), 1179(2) but none higher. * means stronger than the
others; (2) means at least two carriers beating. See also MOROCCO!
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 3272-USB, Oct 25 at 1234, 2-way discussing other
frequencies which may be better such as ``zero-3-9``; ``A7A`` also
mentioned, maybe this one or net designator; MARS? Nothing further
heard here. No significant hits on 3272 or 3.272 searching the entire
UDXF io group (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9341.25-USB, Oct 24 at 1356, 2-way in Spanish; Intruder
if we consider the 31m SWBC extend beyond (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 2027 UT October 25
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JRX Logs_ October 24, 2019
Receiver (s)_ XHDATA D-808
Antenna (s)_ Mini Loop to SW

ALBANIA
** 13670. Oct 24, 2019. 1520-1530, China Radio International, Cerrik-ALB, in French. Man and woman announcers make a interview with a man. Good reception, 45544.Parallel log on 11920kHz relay Cerrik-ALB, 35433.

CUBA
** 11850. Oct 23-24, 2019. 2348-0006, Radio Habana Cuba, Quivican-CUB, in Spanish. Woman announcer presents a musical program with the best of cuban music; 2359 IS and ID; Woman voice says RHC sked: Bands and frequencies in spanish; "Noticias de la jornada". Good reception till 0001, 45544. After 0001UTC starts interference by CNR2.

FRANCE
** 21690. Oct 24, 2019. 1547-1558, Radio France International, Issoudun-F, in Swahili language. Man and woman announcers present news; 1858 Abrupt ends. Good reception, 45544.

MALI** 13685. Oct 24, 2019. 1444-1455, China Radio International, Bamako-MLI, in English. Women voices in conversation about chinese themes, including development; 1452 IB by man voice; 1453 Returns conversation. Good reception, 45544.
** 17630. Oct 24, 2019. 1456-1508, China Radio International, Bamako-MLI, in English. A conversation between women, sometimes laughs; 1500 ID and starts news by woman and man announcers. Good reception, 45444.

PHILIPPINES
** 9795. Oct 24, 2019. 0008-0018, FEBC Manila, Iba-PHL, in Khmu language. Man talks, preaching, presumably; 0015 IS; Ends program. Fair reception, 35433.
** 12110. Oct 24, 2019. 0018-0029, Voice of America, Tinang-PHL, in Burmese. Woman talks; 0025 Man and woman voices; 0029 IS and ID. Poor reception, 25422.

SAUDI ARABIA
** 13710. Oct 24, 2019. 1510-1520, Saudi Radio International, Riyadh-ARS, in Arabic. Holy Koran chant and recitation during all log. Fair reception, 35433.

TURKEY
** 11765. Oct 24, 2019. 1601-1610, Voice of Turkey, Emirler-TUR, in Pashto. Man voice during all log. Moderate fades and barely audible reception, 25411.

USA
** 21525. Oct 24, 2019. 1535-1545, Pan American Broadcasting-Radio Africa Network, Okeechobee-FL, in English. Pastor makes a religious preaching during this log. Good reception, 45544.

JRX_Jose Ronaldo Xavier
SWARL Callsign PR7036SWL
Cabedelo, Brazil (UTC-3)

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