** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RC USB, Aug 15 at 1910, no signal from LRA36
into Argentine remote, just S5 of noise. If it`s Tuesday, must have
been Base Esperanza, reported earlier at 1640 by Manuel Méndez direct
to Spain. Is it now every day, almost? Last week I caught it on
Thursday (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** BOTSWANA. 13830, Aug 15 before & after 0630, S7/S9 of dead air.
That would be VOA French at 0530-0630 M-F but not turned off yet
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CANADA. 3330 RC USB, Aug 15 at 1459, Ottawa VE3HOA SDR is getting
3330 and the other CHUs, so back on air; after Richard Langley
reported System Status finally acknowledged the offage once it were
onagain:
``Should be back on now. Here's the latest status report:
Off: 2023-08-09 @ 00:00 --- On: 2023-08-15 @ 11:00 3.330 MHz``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 17765, Aug 15 at 1722, S7/S9 with flutter in song,
sounds Chinesish, among few sigs on 16m. Aoki shows CRI French at
1600-1757 via Kashi-Saiba; land of ChiCom imperialist genocide against
Uyghurs and other Moslems. And nothing else anywhen on 17765; it was
once the 16m home of AFRTS, Delano, California (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)
** OKLAHOMA. 1140 & 1490, Aug 15 at 1705 UT, KRMP OKC & KMFS Guthrie
are back on air at normal levels after yesterday`s anomalies, QRP and
QRT respectively (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)
** OKLAHOMA. 1340, Aug 15 at 1718 UT, dominant KGHM has SAH ~counting
7 Hz from a second station, presumably next-closest KJMU Sand Springs,
especially on my favorable E/W longwire. KJMU listed strangely as 500
watts day/1000 night in last year`s NRC AM Log, but it`s had lots of
problems as recounted six times this year in NRC DX News with FCC
info, most currently the Aug 14 issue: ``1340 KJMU OK Sand Springs –
Granted STA, D1 125 from backup transmitter``. And previously: ``1340
KJMU OK Sand Springs – Silent since Jan. 8; on the air with U1 125/250
May 24.`` Supposedly Spanish; radio-locator calls it Radio La Raza,
which of course is not to be taken as racist. About the SAH, mwoffsets
has no entry for any OK but KGHM, which was 0.4 Hz high as of
2018-01-23 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)
** OKLAHOMA. 101.5, Aug 15 at 1708 UT, as far as I can tell, KOCD
Okeene still dead air, weak signal with occasional airplane surges, or
MS burst QRM. But also traces of another fringer. In OK there are
three translators and another Spanish, 6.2 kW in Collnsville; while
Kansas has three non-translators, most likely another Spanish, KSMM
Liberal, which I caught July 12 q.v., despite WTFDA DB *still* listing
it as silent since 4/28/22 due to xmtr failure which was/is? 100 kW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** TURKEY. 11785.009, Aug 15 at 2200, VOT English is not off the air
today, VG S9+45/50 into UTwente, also good modulation. Sign/on by
badax as always canned, but then News read by guy with clear English.
2211 going from `Review of the Turkish Press` which is always very
brief, into 2-minute multi-lingual ID filler reel; 2213 song. 2216
`Weekly Commentry` read by badax, penned by British scholar Hakim?
----, specializing in African affairs: UN says Aug 23 is International
Day for Remembrance of Slave Trade and its Evolution. A curriculum
being established about this history in Britain. Need to change from
Euro-centric. About University of Chichester; all this has no
Tuerkiyeish angle. By concentrating I manage to understand most of it.
Aug 23 is anniversary of Haitian? revolution in 1791. 2227 song, now
overmodulated/distorted. 2231 `Turkey`s Geomarked [sic] Products`
about --something-- cheese candy. 2233 again! 2-minute multi-lingual
ID filler reel. 2236 ``Always by your side`` promo, songs. 2240 for
third time! multi-lingual ID filler reel: enough is enough is enough!
2242 another song. And nothing but more songs until 2252 canned s/off
by badax. 2254 IS plays for a fraxion more than once and off* (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 1130 kHz, Aug 15 at 1705 UT, KLEY Wellington KS still dead
air another day (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2203 monitoring: confirmed UT
Tuesday August 15 at 0030 on WRMI 9395, S9+10 into Virginia SDR.
Next:
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB ex-LSB
1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB ex-LSB [previous #2202]
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
Thanks this week to Kenneth Brookner for a generous contribution via
PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com, ``Thanks for all of the WOR since
1975. It`s really nice to see you still at it and I`m enjoying working
my way back through the podcasts.``
One may also contribute via MO or check on a US bank in US funds to:
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 9980, Aug 15 at 1620 and still 1727, 1806, WWCR-4 is off
again today. Wonder if TOMBS has deliberately cut back? They never
understood the pointlessness, wastefulness of many duplicative
frequencies on US SW stations, but they were rolling in dough from
deceptees.
Transmitter sked dated June 1-August 31 still shows 9980 at 1200-2400.
But program sked dated August 1 admits it`s OFF AIR M-F 7-9 am & 11
am-3 pm Central, misconverted like everything as 13-15 & 17-21 UT.
Which one are we to believe? On weekdays there are several other
huxters, even Tony Alámo on WWCR-4, but Sat & Sun 5890/9980/7520 are
24h nothing but TOMBS.
Aug 15 at 2018, 9980 is back on already with `Financial Survival`,
which is at ``3:00P`` Central, so if you read that as CDT instead of
CST, it`s correct while ALL the UTC in the right column are WRONG, and
must be read as one real hour earlier than shown! After all these
years, WWCR still hasn`t understood UT conversion.
Reminds me of WINB 9265 several weeks ago, with similar confusion,
making it hard to correlate what was being heard with schedule. Now
they have an August 6 version showing correct 4-hour difference
between EDT and UT. NO, it`s still a mess. At 2300 English intro to
some Spanish huxter from Texas. Sked shows no Spanish now, but
2230-2400 `The Essentials of Life and Wellness`. Listening to webcast.
O, o, at 2305 he switches to English. No more info at WINB about that
show but search on title leads to a Dr William Wong, about health and
medicine, not religion, and not Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7640, Aug 15 at 0641, S9+10/20 of open carrier. Probably
ute, like idle RTTY but not noticed before, rather than a new
broadcast intruder (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 2314 UT August 15
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