** ANDORRA [non]. 13730, Sat Aug 6 at *2200, Moosbrunn, AUSTRIA transmitter cuts on sharp with this month`s R. Andorra revival special; song in unknown language, Catalan? 2203 announcement in French, language of this show from 1979y. More unfamiliar songs in French; I guess this is very nostalgic for the Franco/Euros of that era. Too much else is going on this hour. Recheck 2234, bit of classical music; 2245 operatic; 2254 a couple novelty songs; bong and R. Andorra original ID squeezed in just before 2300*. For one hour; next one on Sept 3 will be two hours. S9+10/30 into Maryland SDR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RCUSB, Saturday August 6, tune-in Buenos Aires area remote SDR at 1445, no signal from LRA36 yet, but *1457 cuts on in song, S4/S6 at first vs S3 noise level, but soon builds up better, turning up power output? 1458 ID, song, 1500 sign-on with quadrilingual announcement, in Ciclo 2022 de Esperanza Audaz; staff names, ``Nacional, la radio pública``, 1502 Antártida themesong, 1506 a bit of history, song; 1510 live greetings, as program #14, clima info from plus 5 to minus 13 degrees, winds 56 kph; phone numbers and other contact info; 1514 song ``Es un día perfecto``; 1518 ``su compañía``; efemérides for week of August 1, ``hoy día, 5 de agosto``--- implying this was recorded on Friday instead of Wednesday August 3 when it was AWOL but I did not check on Friday! This has been inconvenient to monitor during my breakfast time. More chat with guitar background. 1529 song. 1533 contact info again, frequencies ``15476`` and FM 96.7 --- I wonder if they run FM much longer hours than SW? 1535 discussing Escuela #38; 1536 interview someone from Misiones province which is about as far from Antarctica as you can get in Argentina. Ends at 1555 to music, just as rapid buzzclix start QRMing, OTH radar? Until 1600 as I was checking range of those, not on 15470 but up to 15490. At 1558, ID and more efemérides. Continues chatting with some guy in studio but too colloquial and I don`t follow it much. 1622 music; 1632 plugs this being ``hecho por mujeres``, music and chop off at 1632.7* with no formal despedida. Gary Pence also tells me, ``Hi Glenn, Since they started out kinda weak I thought Half Moon Bay would be awful; but instead it was decent. Noise floor is S4.5 and they have been between S5 to almost S7 into southeast antenna, Half Moon Bay, CA SDR`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 13562, 13631, 13769, 13838 approx., Aug 6 at 1431, spurblobs out of 13700 AM RHC, extreme distortion with no intelligible audio even in FM mode but trace of F# tone on plus/minus ~69 kHz and second-order doubles. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** EGYPT. 9440, August 5 at 2142, no signal from R. Cairo in English into UTwente, just some ``running water``. Something`s always egregious in Egypt (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA. 98.5, August 6 at 2002 UT, tuning across in fruitless search for Es DX, translator K253BC, caught part of local announcement with an Enid address: ``20th and East Elm`` --- that`s the location of Victory Bible Church, HQ of a different station, KVBN-LP 99.9 with transmitter site much further west. K253BC is supposed to relay KLVV 88.7 Ponca City from yet a different Enid site about halfway between. A confusing situation might require my further monitoring of these gospel huxters (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 5890, August 6 at 0643, TOMBS is on this WWCR // 5850 & 5800 WRMI; had been taking weekend overnights off 5890 but this is UT Saturday (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 17855, Friday August 5 at 2200, REE with another episode of `Canciones Ténebres` in Spanish. We eagerly await the alleged resumption of M/W/F token English on August 8 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 9830, August 5 at 2200, no signal from VOT into UTwente, just weak Chinese and RTTY; also huge splash from 9820 China. 2238 recheck, *now* VOT is on with Turkish music, S9+10/20; 2241 `Did You Know That?` repeating the brief bit about a Turkish city on the Black Sea which produces a lot of honey, still can`t perceive its name. Did it never occur to them that unfamiliar names should be spelt out for foreign audiences? Over by 2243, back to music. 2253 sign-off schedule and off at 2255* before IS can play once, let alone any bonus German. 9830.007, August 6 at 2226, S9+40/50 into UTwente with natural remedies for calluses, such as pineapple peels for seven days, 2231 outro as `Feeling Supreme`. 2251 sign-off with English schedule: omits frequency for 0300 to N America, just 41 meters, in jumbled disorganization of that info. IS plays 2252.7 to 2255*, off before switching to German (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** UKRAINE [non]. 7730, August 6 at 0501-0507, UR1 via WRMI, `Ukraine: Security Issue`, accented YL with too much original Ukrainian voice-unders, including: Russian army stalled in Lukhansk, so they take it out by killing civilians; high death rate in Mariupol hospitals; 50 kilo of corn going out on three carriers (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2150 monitoring: confirmed Friday August 5 from 1815 on AM Italia, 1323 kHz only, into Padova SDR, and on IRRS SW 7290 via Bulgaria, but not audible on x 2 = 14580 this week, into UTwente, S7/S8 with RTTY warble to be avoided on plus side by LSB tuning or bandwidth < 1.7 kHz. And Autonotch gets most of it. Further obs of those: tune in 1323 at 1750, `Shortwave [sic] Report` with recording of some station --- not on NEXUS/IBA generic program sked, and not heard other weeks, so just schlepped in as filler. Dan Roberts wrapping up but not quite finished when chopped off at 1800 for IRRS `SW` ID and Feature Story News; 1805 UN News; 1807 music fill; 1815 WOR vs music and German talk co-QRM, overcoming peak about 1835, i.e. Romania`s 15 kW minolity service. WOR also on 7290 to 1844 completion, *then* birdcalls and opening fragment of `TUC Radio` rather than at 1813-1815; but then music fill; 1854 starts `Counterspin`, another worthwhile half-hour program which we know is going to get chopped off in a few minutes. From 1857, 7290 has clunking noises out of China 7295 as IRRS is off already; 1323 continues a bit more of Counterspin, then mixing with music, 1900 tone maybe from Romania. WOR 2150 also confirmed Friday August 5 at 2055 the 2030 on AM Italia, 1323, S9+2/3 into Padova SDR with constant buzzing. Also confirmed UT Saturday August 6 at 0130 on WRMI 9395, S9 undermodulated into Missouri SDR at 9394.954; but 9394.950, S9+15 into Missouri: averaging 9394.952. First found it JBA into PEI SDR still up after `BCQ. Also confirmed UT Saturday August 6 at 0400 on WBCQ Radio Angela, 5129.946, S9/+10 with storm crashes into Maryland SDR. Also confirmed Saturday August 6 at 1929 about 4 minutes into, so started circa 1925 on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, steady S6.5 into nearby remote. Also confirmed from 1930 on WRN N America webcast. Still NOT confirmed Sat 1930 on WRMI 15770 altho still on sked grid, rather some gospel huxter for several weeks now. Next: 0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0430] 1324vUT Sunday WMRI Europe via Ch 292 Germany 9670 2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy 2230 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 to NNW [to be canceled? still July 31] 0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW 0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW 2230 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed by Cuba] 2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW 1100 UT Wednesday Unique R, Australia 5035-USB or 3210-USB 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S; 9395 to NNW Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Thanks this week for financial support from Joe Caberlin, VE1EJ, Ontario, for some US$ to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702; preferably by money order or check on a US bank. Or via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. (6160), UT Saturday August 6 at 0002 tune-in the Area 51 WBCQ webcast with music not // (7490) webcast as `William Tell Overture` theme for `AAAWWW` is concluding. Allan says WBCQ is an antique radio station with old mikes, etc. Then a discussion of early car radios. Lamenting that today, cars are basically computers with engines. Refers to LA Times article about distracted driving and rants against that - so far I am in total agreement. Also says tire dust is a big pollution problem. Gets almost halfway thru without politix, not until 0027 blaming all our problems on Democrats. At 0031 I check the frequencies on PEI remote: 6160 minus 62 Hz now // = 6159.938; 5130 minus 29 Hz = 5129.971; 7490 minus 71 Hz = 7489.929, too close to ME and VP; 3265 off. Altho no datestamp heard, so far I think it`s a new edition, but at 0045 plugging R. Angela sounds familiar; and 0048 refers to Free Radio Weekly ``#1371 from last week``, i.e. published July 2! So this is really a rerun of the July 9 edition, and he goes on to mention my CB pirate on 27184+, but you`d never know where- or who-from or that it was relaying a local legit station (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VANUATU [and non]. 11835, August 6 at 0627, RV is on with music, S7/S9, but BFO shows a carrier beat from a second station. Incredibly, Aoki does not list anystation anywhen on 11835; but EiBi has both Vanuatu and CNR2 China Business Radio from site-x (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0001 UT August 7
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