** TURKEY. 5960.003+, March 15 at 2259, VOT not off the air today,
unlike yesterday, ending IS, 2300 TS and s/on English -- announcer
sounds out of breath, like he just ran up the stairs, barely getting
into studio in time for live announcement, always awry in Ankara,
oblivious to the several repeats of the 1330 broadcast on 13635. VG
S9+40/50 but low hum and soon CCCCCCI. 2313 `The First Quarter of the
Millenium`` about Kyoto climate change protocol of 2005, but which
*rump withdrew the US from in his first term. 2320 multi-lingual ID
filler reel; 2322 music. 2331 unID feature about the Spanish
reconquista. 2339 TRTVOTVorld.com promo, music. 2340 the axentuated
about an Ottoman project, railway from Jordan, music. 2350
always-by-your-side promo, music. 2355 s/off as if it`s the 1330 on
13635, `thank you for lis---`` and chop off before 2356* even one note
of IS, no finesse. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
A-25 TRT EMR time slot sorted
[with CIRAF targets, kW, azimuth, slew, antenna type]
17620 1230 1330 18S,27,28 250 310 0 211
11660 1630 1730 30S,40E,41N 250 95 -10 215
9750 1830 1930 27,28 250 310 0 205
9875 2030 2130 41,49,51,54,55,58-60 300 105 7 219
11785 2200 2300 4,7,8,9,11N,27,28W 300 325 0 219
6165 0300 0400 38E,39,40W 250 150 0 205
7275 0300 0400 6E,7-11,27,28W 300 325 0 219
(A-25 hfcc.org database via Wolfgang Bueschel, gh English excerpted)
** U S A [and non]. VOA situation: Not all the staff at Greenville
[Grimesland] are full-time employees; seven technicians are personal
service contractors (PSC) and are to be put on administrative leave
until further notice, but not locked out, unlike some personnel in
Washington.
Five Government Service Employees remaining are: three supervisors,
the chief engineer and a secretary. One person already accepted a
buy-out. A former manager has returned. It`s unclear if there will be
enough staff to keep running the site 24/7.
Perhaps they will at least keep Radio Martí broadcasting as long as
the program feed remains. It seems there has been a lot of repetition
already in music and talk features to fill the 24-hour schedule.
Already planned: GB-8, a 500 kW AEG transmitter is to be retired, as
no high voltage transformer can be obtained for it. One of the Kuwait
senders, a Continental 417 will be moved in to replace it.
Now in doubt is a major expansion of the Kuwait site, three x 250 kW
Ampegons, to replace São Tomé, and others. Other relay sites? So far
it appears that Tinang, Philippines is still operating (Glenn Hauser,
0451 UT March 16, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. Monitoring by gh: 13820, March 16 at 1457, open
carrier S6/S7, 1500 JIP Radio Martí with ID. 11860 was not on at 1457
but is on after 1500. 11930 already running at 1457, S7/9+5, all
Grimesland NC site. Presumably about to be abolished.
Greenville manager Willford Cooper could not find anything out at 1604
UT March 16. The computer network was down and Greenville getting its
Martí programs from satellite. Staff could not put in their time
cards, get the daily activity report of operational memos from DC. So
if they had been told to shut down they would never know.
But by 1654 UT: The order has been passed to Macon Dail, the Chief
Engineer, to shut Greenville down. All employees have been told not to
show up for work.
Alan Furst, Kansas City, reports: ``Martí went off at 16:30 today
3/16. All transmitters appear to be off in 22 and 25 meters. It
happened abruptly, although I wasn't listening closely to know what
they said at the end. Was a surprise.``
Many USAGM services are missing frequencies, dead air, filling with
music or repeating old programming as the axe is falling; much
monitoring of details in the WOR indian ocean group. The White House
has quoted Dan Robinson`s critique of VOA as one justification. And
Kim Elliott says, ``The zombification of VOA has begun. Listening at
0400 UTC 15 March on 4930 kHz, Botswana relay via an SDR in South
Africa: It was the VOA "Worldwide in Five" newscast from March 9 at
0200 UTC.`` - he probably meant 0400 UT 16 March as this was posted a
few minutes after that.
VOA`s broadcasting of week-olds eclipses Voice of Turkey, where their
olds would be no more than 14.5 hours stale.
At 1900 UT March 16, via UTwente checking all VOA scheduled
frequencies per EiBi:
Tigrigna: 9485 BOT & 12040 CVA dead air; 13765 KWT music
English: 13590 D-L = Germany music
French: 17700 GB OFF
Korean: 7465 & 9800 PHT, 9575 THA all with music
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2286 monitoring: confirmed Saturday
March 15 at 1928 about 4 minutes into so start circa 1928 UT on
WA0RCR, 1860 AM, MO, S9+18 groundwave into nearby SDR.
Saturday March 15 at 2300, still no signal on WTWW, 9475, when WOR
appeared a few times in A-24 season before 9475 became inoperable.
Maybe to return?
UT Sunday March 16 at 0000, new non-time for WOR reconfirmed on WRMI
9955, preacher, instead of UT Sunday 0100, despite still on the
don`t-you-believe-it System B sked for Saturday 8:00 PM EDT.
Confirmed UT Sunday March 16 at 0349 UT on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, MO, S9+20
groundwave into nearby SDR but with storm crashes from Alabama area, 5
minutes into so started circa 0344 the 0315v.
Also confirmed Sunday March 16 at 1047 the 1030 on WRMI 9955, S9
direct. (Also, after 0930, WRMI was still *not* on 9455, contrary to
own sked, when WOR is supposedly aired on Saturdays.) Next:
2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323-Italy;
2230 UT Sunday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
2330 UT Sunday WRMI 7570 to NW [and/or 7780];
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW;
0930 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 6160;
2030 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to SW;
1300 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?];
1400 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?];
2100 UT Tuesday IRRS 1323-Italy;
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW;
0030 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
2030 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW;
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S;
1730 UT Thursday SW Radio, Germany 3975 & 6160.
Financial support appreciated for our non-commercial public service
program: thanks for a generous contribution from Peter Robinson,
Preston UK, via PayPal to: woradio at yahoo.com
Or by MO or check on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid
OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. 5950, Sat Mar 15 at 2251 into UTwente, ham radio
news in English, but with modulated pulse QRM once per second,
horrible. Same thing audible without QRM from WRMI into Georgia SDR.
Xmtr grid shows 5950 WRMI-10 does not start until 2300! Contradixion:
System L sked shows 5950 WRMI starts at 2100 including `Viva Miami` at
2245. Something`s always odd at Okeechobee (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 15138/15142/15146//15154/15158/15162/15166, March 16 at
1453, WMLK only S9/+10 on fundamental 15150 but manages to produce
unstable spurs at +/- ~4 kHz intervals. Something`s bonkers at Bethel
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 2000 UT March 16
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