** ALGERIA [and non]. 15110, May 26 at 0652, SSOB S6/S9 with ME/Arabic
music, i.e. Ifrikya FM, // weaker 13790 under ChiCom jamming vs RFA
Saipan. 15110 is Béchar site aimed SE so in general we may expect
better reception from there off the back, than Ouargla 13790 aimed SW,
so off the side (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** GUAM. 15680, May 26 at 1540, via S Korea SDR, KSDA Kannada service
is only frequency on air, like yesterday, no 15670 or 15615 as on
their sked. Perhaps they have enough generator power to run only one
even if antennas and the others undamaged. No-call AWR sign-off at
1559 in English to 1600* and no show on next sked frequency 12080.
Again today, KTWR totally absent from its sked frequencies at 1540:
15390, 9900, 9870. Handy skeds by time at:
https://qsl.net/vu2jos/A23/KSDA.pdf
https://qsl.net/v/vu2jos//A23/KTWR.pdf
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 17470, May 26 at 1514, only signal direct just
below 17500, above 17445 is JBA carrier here, presumed Recep`s Turkish
jammer and/or Dengê Welat (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** OKLAHOMA. Re: [WOR] Lawmakers Override Gov. Stitt's Veto, Extend
OETA Contract
--- another version:
``Veto overrides save OETA, tribal regalia rights
Janelle Stecklein | CNHI Oklahoma 3 hrs ago
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma lawmakers overrode 13 of the governor’s
vetoes on Thursday, including those dealing with tribal regalia and
the state’s lone public television station.
Lawmakers noted they had a smorgasbord of bills to choose from, as
Gov. Kevin Stitt had been unusually heavy-handed with his vetoes,
already rejecting 46 pieces of legislation as of Thursday morning.
Legislators were able to garner enough support in both chambers to
override 13 of those vetoes, turning the legislation into law. After
their vetoes, among other things, Oklahomans will have:
• Continued access to OETA, the state’s public broadcaster, which was
at risk of closure after Stitt questioned the long-term strategic
value of the station.
• A state name, image and likeness (NIL) law for collegiate athletes
and universities.
• New protections in law for Native students who want to wear tribal
regalia at public school graduation ceremonies.
• University of Kansas license plates.
• A new makeup of the state’s turnpike authority oversight board.
Many other pieces of legislation made it partway through the veto
process. Lawmakers theoretically could consider addition overrides on
the final day of session Friday as they pass legislation finalizing
the state’s budget.
State Sen. Casey Murdock, R-Felt, said two of his bills were victims
of the political process. He was pushing to overturn Stitt’s vetoes
related to invasive species and protective orders for children.
“It’s not a fun task to override a governor’s veto,” Murdock said. “I
don’t take any pleasure in having to make this vote. I do it solemnly,
but it needed to happen.”
He said having to correct the mistakes made by another Republican is
not fun.
“Usually in the end, we make the right decisions here,” he said.
Choctaw Nation Chief Gary Batton celebrated the Legislature’s veto
override of Senate Bill 429, which enshrines into law Native students’
right to wear tribal regalia at graduation ceremonies.
“This measure should not have been controversial,” he said in a
statement. “It has no costs for schools and expands students’ rights
to honor their heritage. We look forward to seeing members of our
tribe and others honor their heritage at important moments in their
lives.”
State Rep. Trish Ranson, D-Stillwater, said 46 Stitt vetoes this year
seems like a lot, but some were related to budget fights and were
“another example of the dysfunctional supermajority that (we have)
going on.”
House legislators Thursday let stand most of the 20 vetoes Stitt made
on fellow Republicans’ bills after he became frustrated by their lack
of action on his tax and education priorities.
State Rep. Kevin McDugle, R-Broken Arrow, said the governor understood
a lot of his vetoes related to the budget fight would be overridden,
but they left House members confused over whether Stitt thought the
legislation was sound policy.
“The difficult thing when that’s done in this process is, you really
don’t know what he really wanted to override and what he didn’t,”
McDugle said. “So it makes it a little bit difficult to try and
decipher that when there’s so many of them.”
Support local journalism.``
{related: note that appointed by Stitt, Supt. Ryan Walters, who has
been making a lot of enemies, even among Republicans, by his extremist
views and axions, ex-officio sits on the OETA board. Since Stitt`s
veto, we noticed that OETA stepped up its self-promotion without
directly confronting Stitt -- gh}
``Education video prompts outrage, tears among educators
Janelle Stecklein | CNHI Oklahoma 6 hrs ago
OKLAHOMA CITY — Teachers fled a state meeting in tears and stood in a
hallway shaking and crying after the state superintendent Thursday,
May 25, 2023, unveiled a “propaganda” video that educators viewed as a
threat to their safety and livelihoods.
Superintendent Ryan Walters’ team later sent the media a link to the
full video and posted it to the state Department of Education website,
but then swiftly barred everyone from viewing it by setting it to
private. Walters’ team promised to send a “fresh version,” but over
two hours later, the video remained unavailable.
State education officials also aired an abridged version of the
several minutes-long video at the monthly state Board of Education
meeting, but inexplicably muted the audio for those trying to watch
the at-capacity meeting remotely.
The video features Fox News interviews of Walters discussing teachers
and teacher unions interspersed with a randomly selected mix of
National Education Association speaker clips. It included interviews
with people, whom educators didn’t think were from Oklahoma, and talk
of “The Young Adult Experience,” as well as blurred graphic and
pornographic images.
It ends with the message: “We can save education. Our kids are
counting on it.”
“There were tears,” said Allyson Helm, an Oklahoma City Public Schools
teacher who attended the meeting. “People were shaking and devastated
by these remarks. And it is nothing less than propaganda. It reminds
me of a wartime propaganda video.”
Helm, a registered Republican voter, said State Department of
Education officials tried to draw an insulting correlation between
pedophiles and pornography and educators, she said.
“I taught anatomy and physiology and high school biology for 10 years,
and I didn’t talk about sex as much as these people at the State
Department (of Education) do,” she said.
She also said Walters appeared to be attempting to indoctrinate the
public to his views.
Walters did not respond to a request for comment about whether it was
appropriate to use state resources to make the video or if it was
intended to make educators and parents feel unsafe.
Ashley Daly, a parent of a Tulsa Public Schools first-grader, said the
video was “very upsetting.”
“It made me worry that there are some people who are already feeling
upset, (and) it’ll radicalize them and maybe make them do something
really dangerous in our schools,” she said. “Our schools aren’t full
of the awful people that Ryan Walters makes them sound like they
are.”
She said it’s “terrifying as a parent” that Walters is using rhetoric
that could cause someone to shoot children or teachers, when he’s
supposed to be caring for and protecting them.
Daly, who attended the public meeting, said 90% of Oklahomans send
their children to public schools, and if parents really thought
teachers were “terrorists or pedophiles,” they wouldn’t send their
children there.
Jami Jackson-Cole, a Duncan Public Schools teacher, said she started
crying part way through the video because her first thought was “this
is fixin’ to get someone killed.” She said the video was beyond
outrageous and indicated that Walters is “coming after teachers.”
“There’s no doubt in my mind that if you’re not falling right along in
line with everything he says, he’s coming to get ya,” said
Jackson-Cole. “And we can’t have that. We are in a teacher shortage
right now.”
She was so upset she left the meeting room, then encountered more
teachers outside, also crying. They told her, “It is putting a target
on us.”
“There’s enough crazy people in this world,” Jackson-Cole said. “We
don’t need that. So it was beyond vile and reproach. Just horrible.”
State Rep. Mark McBride, R-Moore, said he watched a little bit of the
video after people contacted him outraged, but hadn’t been able to
finish it. Walters already had set it to private.
“You just can’t go around calling people terrorists and things like
that,” he said. “I think that (with) this conduct we’re losing that
professionalism in all of this. The hatred, the fear mongering that
goes along with all this is just not the way we should be doing
things.”
Support local journalism.``
Greg Hardison, CA, comments: ``Judging by this list of issues, I would
surmise this Gov. Stitt either has the brains of a tennis ball, or in
my untrained opinion, has some serious personal problems to work out,
preferably somewhere other than the state's constituency. How and why
do these lousy excuses for human beings continue to be elected to
power?`` (via gh, Enid, WOR)
** SPAIN. 17855, Fri May 26 at 2200, token English from SNR is VG
direct and the other three frequencies detectable. Justin Coe foresees
his feature today interviewing some American pop singer, Ron Sexsmith
[? sounds like], as adapted from a bilingual discussion on Radio 3.
Sorry, not interested. Is there nothing more important to report from
Spain happening in the last biday? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY. 6165.003, May 26 at *0259, VOT cuts on with IS, S9/+10 into
UTwente, off the back of ME beam, and also on by 0300 is much stronger
7275.006, S9+25/35 off the front on way to N America. So Emirler is
still funxional even with two transmitters, despite AWOL 11785 at
22-23 three days in a row so far. Usual s/on by heavy-accentedess with
jumbled, incomplete English schedule. 7275 is quite loud and enough
signal to justify opening up bandwidth to 9 kHz, but audio remains
lo-fi, down in a barrel? After skipping the news, further notes: 0312,
`with you every hour` promo. 0317, travelog about a city on the Black
Sea. Music breaks in between. 0326, multi-lingual ID filler reel.
0333, `Did You Know That` but I give up trying to understand her.
0348, another promo. 0352 usual s/off with incomplete, jumbled sked.
0353, IS. 0356, pause and restart IS until 0358*. I was expecting IDs
in Malay which follows at 0400 on another frequency but none heard
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
*** TURKEY. 11785, May 26 at 2159, VOT English is back on the air
after missing a triday; I seriously doubt there were any apology or
explanation, but of course I cannot possibly listen to and understand
every word they are saying. Monitoring direct today at S9/S5 with some
increasing ACI from 11780 Brasil; usual heavy modulation but lo-fi
audio. After news, 2212 `Weekly Analysis`, about the elexion and
impending second round = runoff coming May 28, alleges that only
Erdogan can solve Turkey`s economic and other problems [so why hasn`t
he, already?]. Besides music breaks: 2224-2226 multi-lingual ID filler
reel. 2235 `Feeling Supreme/The Healing Spring` about irritable bowel
syndrome, a repeat until 2241. 2251 `Did You Know That`, too accented
to understand. 2253 s/off with perpetual defects - no doubt the same
recording as ever; 2255 fragment of IS and off* Something`s always
awry at Ankara (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2192 monitoring: confirmed first
SWBC, Friday May 26 at 1430-1459 on WRMI 9955, S7/S8 direct; maybe a
trace of pulse jamming, briefly.
Also confirmed Friday May 26 at 2055 the 2030 on IRRS SW via AM
Italia, 1323 kHz but not 918 or 207, S9+10/20 with storm crashes into
nearby Noalel SDR also with some but tolerable music CCI and SAH from
understation, presumed Smooth Radio, Brighton, England, UQKOBANI.
Next:
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW [but not 7730]
0400 UT Saturday WBCQ Radio Angela 5130v to WSW
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
2230 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW
2230 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE [and 7730?]
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW
0245vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0457]
1330 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE [NEW]
[also phonecast, webcast][jammed by Cuba?]
2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW
0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW
0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
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Allis, WI, for a generous US$ check to Glenn Hauser, PO Box 1684, Enid
OK 73702
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(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. (7490-), UT Saturday May 27 at 0000, WBCQ webcast with
`AAAWWW`, quickly recognized as a rerun, as Allan starts talking about
fixing things, entropy; Angela`s mike is on and she is in studio; hot
& humid in Florida, etc., etc. What did he say on disgraced Twitter
today? Nothing: since May 24. Just before at 2359 May 26, the FKB
gospel huxter claimed he is also on WWRB 3215! A station which has
failed to exist for 2 or 3 years now. I`ll check the WBCQ frequencies
into NH SDR, hoping it`s accurately calibrated: At 0012: 5130 -15 Hz =
5129.985; 6160 -66 Hz = 6159.934; 7490 -73 Hz = 7489.927; 3265+ OFF.
WLCR 9330.001. WWV on 10000 & 15000 within a fraxion of 1 Hz (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17786, May 26 at 1515, S9 ute noises too close for
comfort to 17790, WRMI`s Radio Africa program aimed at S America
instead. Very repetitive beepery reminds me of fax? instead of OTH
radar-like clickery previously infesting here, intruding into the
middle of the exclusive? ISWBC band; until cuts off at 1518* (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 0042 UT May 27
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