** ALASKA. 9580, Aug 23 at 1451, English S7-S9 starting `Creation
Moment`, in KNLS English hour. What a pity any airtime be wasted on
that anti-scientific nonsense by this and other gospel huxter stations
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-CUSB, continued from last report, of the Sat
Aug 22 broadcast of LRA36: by 1700 was down to S1-S3 via one Brazilian
SDR, still detectable past 1800; at 1902 I switch to another SDR which
is getting it better at S4-S7 as they are again talking about San
Martín and an escuela; 1944 recheck going from talk to music which
runs still past 2000+. No further chex, unknown when they closed
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, Aug 23 at 1330: only JBA carriers with
flutter: 13835, 13160, 13130, 12880, 12500. Other WOOBs not checked as
Arnie Coro is imminent, see CUBA.

At 1447 I check the lower 9s only: JBA carriers 9155, 9170; but
Chinese on 9215 at S5-S8, 9255 at S5-S7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13700 & 13740, Aug 23 at 1330, RHC fails to provide any
spurblobs, but seemingly live briefing in an echoey venue about
COVID-19 rates in leading countries, USA, Brasil, India, compared to
Cuba. Keeps running past 1335, outro as from a doctor in the public
health service; also mentioned meteorological events, i.e. the two
hurricanes, one of them named for a Cuban-American.

At 1340, `En Contacto` starts 5 minutes late, first the YL co-host
with platitudes, finally bringing up the fibre-optic link from Arnie
at home. QSL OTA to Uruguay and elsewhere; emergency nets on 2, 40 and
80 meters, but his almost-self-garbled lickety-split pace prevents me
froom copying the frequencies; Aug 22 was 90th anniversary of radio in
Cuba; propagation info; music fill until 1355, and then the medical
no-show. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA [non]. 5800, UT Sun Aug 23 at 0300, routine check for WORLD OF
RADIO at a good WRMI time we have enjoyed for a few weeks --- but
instead, CUBAN NA plays and then Radio República! See my comments
under USA: WOR monitoring. Until now, RMI has brokered R.R. broadcasts
only via Issoudun, France on 9490, where the noise jamming also goes,
but those have been ending at 0300 during DST. Now they have another
hour, announced at 0356 as new frequency on Thursdays thru Sundays at
11pm-midnight = 0300-0400 UT Fri thru Mon. Not jammed yet, but this
will surely subject another WRMI frequency besides 9955 to that, and
by the shoddy Cubans not only during this hour or those days. 5800
goes off at 0400*. HFCC A-20 shows RMI via ISS registered at
0300-0500, but also Nauen at same time with NHK Japanese to ME, and
confirmed by UTWente monitoring as only the latter really on (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** GERMANY. 9670, UT Sun Aug 23 at 0400, Bill Tilford experimenting
with a 10 kW ND relay via Channel 292 of his FTIOM and UBMP. Into
Maine, propagation from Europe seems fine, e.g. 9420 Greece S7-S9. On
9670, hardly anything audible at UTwente over all-dark, minimum-MUF,
too-close path; via SDR in Maine he`s detectable at 0403 with
multi-lingual intro, but JBA VP S4-S5, unusable. 0440 recheck,
inaudible. He was hoping to serve North America; maybe better eastward
into the dayside. I reminded the 900 members of the WOR iog about this
at 0340 as imminent, but not a single other report received (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** KIRITIMATI. 846 kHz, Aug 23 at 0608, JBA carrier presumed R.
Kiribati, with no other 9-kHz audible from Eurafrica (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** MALI. Posted to the WOR iog at 1853 UT Aug 22: ``Re: [WOR] Check
for Radio Mali on 5995 kHz. --- Of course 1850 UT Saturday is normally
the time for weekly English segment, right now. So far at 1852 only
African singing, via UTwente. Glenn`` and still past 1900 African
music (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9925, UT Sun Aug 23 at 0022, The Mighty KBC is
VP S2-S4, no good propagation this week. Assume they will revert to
5960 in September, none too soon, but no confirmation of that yet;
except HFCC registrations show the descent happening between Sept 5
and 6. via Nauen, Germany (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NIGERIA. 7254.9, Aug 23 at 0602, no signal from VON --- oh, cuts on
in progress at *0603, but JBM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. Saturday evening is supposedly prime-time for
pirates, but UT Sun Aug 23 at 0015, I find not a one in the 6.9s or
5.1s. So I am trying, and other evenings have been barren too despite
other specialized DXers reporting lots of them (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, Aug 22 at 2211 check, NO signal from VOT English to
us even at UTwente, instead weak signal from CNR1 Beijing site, which
is scheduled southward at 2025-0100 --- fortunately never hear any QRM
from that over here. Now I have missed two weeks of `Letterbox` and
hope to get around to listening to the Radio360 podcasts for Weds Aug
12 & 19 or Sats 15 & 22. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2048 monitoring: confirmed Sat Aug
22 at 2002 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, Wentzville MO, via KiwiSDR a few km
away in Warrenton, VG S8 about 4 minutes into so started circa 1958
instead of nominal 1930.

Also confirmed Sat Aug 22 at 2300 on WRMI 7780, newish time, S9+10 at
UTwente.

NOT confirmed UT Sun Aug 23 at 0300 on WRMI 5800. I wrote to Jeff
White: ``Hi Jeff, Well, that was a shock - Cuban NA and R República on
5800 at 0300 instead of WOR, no such thing on your skeds or website or
FB yet. If it`s one hour, maybe you can still run WOR at 0400? I`m
guessing they wanted to run past 0300 and 9490 France is unavailable
as NHK via Nauen is on it. Now, stand by for jamming on 5800 at this
and times beyond! And/or if you could find *any* time for WOR on 5850,
7570, 9395 or 9455, that would be great. Glenn``. See also CUBA
[non].

Confirmed UT Sun Aug 23 starting at 0326.8 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM via
Warrenton MO SDR, S5-S8 sufficient vs storm noise level. Next:

0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 or 6160v to WSW
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0900 UT Monday Unique Radio NSW 3210-USB
1800vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria 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

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listener, for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com
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(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** VIETNAM [non]. 7315, Aug 23 at 0018, WHRI is S9+25 but JBM with
music, presumed VOV English relay; then bumps up to merely
undermodulated; also has Cuban pulse jamming splash all the way from
7335. People are speculating whether these relays continue after WBCQ
takeover; may depend on renewal or prolongation of contracts with
Encompass (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5085, UT Sun Aug 23 at 0023, WTWW-2 with hardsell Tedad, no
TONITO yet; 0035 recheck is underway presenting performance by someone
else, now deceased, ending at 0057 so started circa 0027 this week. I
immediately brought up the $ tereo webcast instead.

BTW, besides the degraded audio on 5085, it`s still always accompanied
by JBA spurcarriers circa 5072.1 & 5097.9. And this:

``I know WTWW on 5085 KHz has contained very noticeable audio
distortion for years. Sounds like a portable with weak batteries. It
has low-end punch, mind you, but is totally ruined with this annoying
distortion in the mix. If one uses narrower IF bandwidth filters, this
will not be so noticeable.
"Dave's Radio Receiver Page"
https://www.qsl.net/n9ewo/
Dave N9EWO`` Zantow (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15151.42-USB approx., Aug 23 at 1444, 2-way in Spanish
on a longtime occasional INTRUDER frequency, keywords barco and puta
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING

Note: with the suspension of compiled DX LISTENING DIGEST issues, our
kicker finale sexion has also disappeared. But gh would still like to
provide access to some rational not always on-topic commentary, not
really intended to provoke any further discussion. Here`s one from our
local newspaper by their best columnist:

We need America's women to dominate the polls, and save our future
By James Neal Staff Writer Aug 21, 2020

https://www.enidnews.com/opinion/columns/column-we-need-americas-women-to-dominate-the-polls-and-save-our-future/article_75a1d69d-ec91-5e45-a386-872b1611e5f7.html
(via gh)

This report despatched at 1943 UT August 23