** CANADA. 362 MCW kHz, Oct 17 at 0611 UT, dash and SB, 500 watt ND beacon at Greater Sudbury, Ont.
346 MCW kHz, Oct 17 at 0714 UT, dash and YXL, 500 watt NDB at Sioux Lookout, Ont. Tough copy but must be this regular (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** EGYPT. 9440, Oct 17 at 2150, R. Cairo is on, YL talking English? but distorted, S9+20 direct --- but 2152 drops to dead air. Something`s amiss at Abis and/or cutoff at Cairo (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** GUAM. 15320, Oct 17 at 2158, open carrier with some hum, S7/9+10 direct; 2200 AWR theme, s/on in English mentions language on 15320 but can`t copy it. Then heard ``Suara`` so Indonesian-related? Aoki says ``Nga``, abbr. for what? EiBi says ``NJ`` to INS = Indonesia, and his readme says ``NJ Ngaju Dayak: Indonesia-Borneo (0.9m)[nij]``; WRTH UD under USA:AWR just calls it Dayak (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** MEXICO. 6200.00, Oct 17 at 0645, S7/S8 open carrier, presumably Hikari FM, pirate still testing (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NORTH AMERICA. 7300.09 approx., Oct 17 at 0640, JBA S7/S9 talk probably sermon from the hamish pirate heard before only on UT Sundays but this is Tuesday. Nothing from another one now on 7320 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY. 11785+, Oct 17 at 2200, VOT on the air, VG S9+20/30 direct in English, some distortion during music. 2218 ``always-by-your-side`` promo (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** UKQOGBANI. 15245, Oct 17 at 1327, no signal yet from Woofferton, rather just barely audible carrier off-frequency, no doubt VOKorea. This is for the one-hour special from 1330 marking the 80th anniversary of Woofferton. 17785 eastward is on already with Encompass IS. Back to 15245 at 1330, now it`s on aimed USward with no het or other QRM, SINPO 45444 or S9/+20, so I listen mainly to it but 17785 is almost as good with a bit more fading. This on the NRD-545 with 100-ft E/W longwire; but heard the last few minutes sufficiently on DX-398 portable with telescopic antenna only. After sign/on, at 1331-1348, monolog by Dave Porter with great detail about all the different transmitters the WOF site has used over the years, concluding with RIZ from Croatia capable of DRM. 1348 asking for reports to radio@encompass.tv for special eQSL and chance to win something in a drawing. Then we hear voices of a number of other current or former engineers and other staff; including at 1352 G8XYJ. 1358 the first YL voice, office manager; interspersed with more QSL requests. 1402 Lilliburlero. At 1412 starts playing IS/IDs of: VOA signing off with Yankee Doodle Dandy, London Calling, Bow Bells, RCI, NHK, DW, RFE/RL Praha, B-B-C- chime notes, RNW. The same sequence repeats over and over and over again until cut off the air at 1430 during NHK with no further announcements. Quite nice nostalgia, and congrats to WOF. The WORLD OF RADIO iogroup was also flooded with reports on this. It would have been nice if defunct sites, Rampisham, Skelton had received similar treatment on their anniversaries (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 365 MCW kHz, Oct 17 at 0704 UT, ND beacon SYZ, new one for me, 25 watts at Shelbyville IL. Same frequency where recently heard AA, Fargo/Harwood ND, but dxinfocentre.com places it in Minnesota (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2212 monitoring: NOT confirmed UT Tuesday October 17 at 0030 on WRMI 9395; rather rock music from before 0030 continues; Legends? I asked Jeff White about this and the off-and-on appearance of WOR UT Mondays at 0030 on 7780. He says these are subject to pre-emption for specials and should both be on next week. Confirmed UT Tuesday October 17 at 0330 on WRMI 7780, S9+12 into Louisiana SDR starting with that 14-second uteblast override. Also confirmed Tuesday October 17 at 1326 the 1300 on WRMI 9955, S8/S9 direct. Next: 2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB 1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-USB [previous #2211] 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 No new contributions to acknowledge this week, in US funds but not necessarily, via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com Or MO, check on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Oct 17 at 0652, obvious het direct from 711 kHz when tuned to 710, likely this as in mwlist: ``AOE SNRT Al Idaâ Al Amazighia El Aaiún 24h Laâyoune=El Aaiún 300 kW languages: Tamazight (Berber), Tachelhit, Rifain, ar // 936`` --- AOE as country means Spanish West Africa - hardly anymore, rather WESTERN SAHARA but occupied by MOROCCO imperialism, their station. At this late hour, far more likely than lower-powereds further into Africa, Europe, ME (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 2325 UT October 17
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