** CUBA. 6100, April 24 at 0630, RHC English still on proper
frequency, during extreme propagation disturbance, but unusual flutter
on S9/+10 signal, and also some `rumble`, unclear source of that.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15140, April 24 at 2045, distorted Portuguese on one of few
signals on band, S9+5/15 with squeal, and spurs about +/- 6.67 kHz.
WRTH update does not show any PP at 2030, and 15140 supposed to stop
at 2030 after French. Likewise per EiBi, while Aoki still shows winter
timings of 2000-2100 English, 2100-2130 French! Something`s always
wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. 17855, April 24 at 2045, REE is SSOB direct, but much weaker
than normal, not recovered from major geomag storm. Recheck 2227
toward end of token English, JBA carrier for us; but 15520 off the
back for ME is sufficient as she is talking about Don Quijote (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2187 monitoring: confirmed Sunday
April 23 at 2000 on IRRS SW via AM Italia, 1323 kHz, S9+10/20 into
nearby Noale SDR but with heavy subaudible heterodyne (SAH) fading
from an understation, less so by 2025.

Also confirmed UT Monday April 24 at 0030 on WRMI 7780, S9/+10 into
Louisiana SDR, but with heavy storm noise level (HSNL) from nearby
Gulf of Mexico; also blasted first 14 seconds by noise transmitter.

Also confirmed UT Monday April 24 from 0302 on WBCQ Area 51, during
severe propagation disturbance, 6160 minus 66 Hz = 6159.934 into
Maryland SDR also with HSNL from Gulf of Mexico? or smaller storms out
toward Bermuda. Slightly better than into NH SDR. Direct? JBA carrier
vs HSNL. Started slightly late after some SFX, also heard on webcast.
Next:

0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, Australia 5035 USB [low power]
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

Like our website, a noncommercial service for which financial support
is appreciated; thanks this week to Dan Sheedy, Encinitas CA, for a
generous contribution to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702;
``Just wanted to wish you a happy birthday and throw a donation into
the `WOR vat of consistently useful and accurate DX info`. Thanks for
all your efforts to keep DX info non-trivial. Cheers, Dan``

One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to
woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5130 -16 Hz = 5129.984, UT Monday April 24 at 0200, WBCQ R.
Angela is back! on the air, as Bill Tilford notified us a few hours
earlier that Timtron had finally fixed the transmitter. Unfortunately
this coincides with extreme propagation disturbance, and high storm
noise levels. It`s `Concert Hall` with Sir Scratchy introducing UB,
but far too poor for any enjoyable listening, S9/+5 into Maryland SDR.
At 0219 I check it direct: JBA vs HSNL. At 0231 to Maryland has
declined to JBA at 5129.979; and Maine SDR is JBA at 5129.978. Wonder
if it`s back to previous power level. In summer anyway this should be
on a higher band (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. Obs direct during severe geomagnetic storm, April
24 at 0627+. 6160 WBCQ: inaudible. 6070 CFRX: JBA carrier. 6115 & 6055
Japan: inaudible. Attenuated but stronger signals remaining exhibit
Doppler flutter, with BFO, not up and down but sideways: 5935 WWCR,
5850 WRMI, 4840 WWCR. At 0632, also 7505 WRNO, 7570 & 7780 WRMI.
Flutter also hits southerly sigs such as CUBA, VANUATU, q.v.

Checking bands at 1530 April 24: most signals still very attenuated or
absent. The only one more or less normally strong is 12160 WWCR.

``:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt Issued: 2023 Apr 24 1500
UTC Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather
Prediction Center Geophysical Alert Message:
Solar-terrestrial indices for 23 April follow.
Solar flux 135 and estimated planetary A-index 66.
The estimated planetary K-index at 1500 UTC on 24 April was 3.67.
Space weather for the past 24 hours has been severe.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G4 level occurred.
Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be minor.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level are expected.``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** VANUATU. 7260, April 24 at 0632, RV is S4/S6 with talk, about
normal poor level, but with Doppler flutter caused by severe geomag
storm. This path is totally trans-equatorial entering the US thru Yuma
AZ; same direxion as Queensland (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 2349 UT April 24

** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RC USB, re my April 22 LRA36 log:

``Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Adrian Korol, of RAE who
shares the following announcement:
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW THE NEW LRA 36 DREAM TEAM?
The winter 2023 staff arrived to Base Antartica Conjunta Esperanza.
They are all Antarctic women:

LORENA DEL CARMEN ALVARADO
MARÍA VICTORIA MENENDEZ
NOEMÍ DEL VALLE CISNEROS
ARIADNA VERÓNICA BERRARDO
ADRIANA NOVAKOSKI
OP: Nicole Valdebenito {as in 2022; is Nicole a woman? gh}

LISTEN ON SHORTWAVE Saturday April 22 from 20:00 UTC to Sunday April
23 02:00 UTC 15476 khz (USB)

Coordination: Juan Carlos Benavente
TC Gustavo Cordero is our LRA 36 Season 2023 Director
{Teniente Coronel? = Lt. Col. - gh}
Overall Supervision : Adrian Korol (RAE Director)

LRA 36 URL AUDIO STREAM:

https://vmf.edge-apps.net/embed/live.php?streamname=sc_rad32-100131&autoplay=true

LRA 36 Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel
ask for your eQSL reception reports: lra36nacional@gmail.com
www.radionacional.com.ar
Spread the radio love`` (via gh, WOR iog)

** CUBA. 11760, UT Sunday April 23 at 0653, RHC jazz music, presumed
English hour on wrong frequency, only one still on air on any band;
also undermodulated but S9. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** KIRITIMATI. 846 kHz, regular chex between 06 & 07 UT have not
detected even a JBA carrier lately from R. Kiribati. Last time was
April 10. Of course, summery storm noise levels are increasing, but
would like to reconfirm if really still on air, e.g. via Oahu remote.
Walt Salmaniw, BC, has been complaining of degraded trans-Pacific MW
conditions (Glenn Hauser, OK, April 23, WOR)

** KURDISTAN [non]. 17470.008, April 23 at 1754, checking for Dengê
Welat and Turkish jammer: only signal now in area below 17500 is here,
VG S9+35 into UTwente, soft song by YL; 1758 change to OM & chorus
with martial music. 1800 YL speaking. Now a trace of something under,
but which is which? Splatters out to plus/minus 20 kHz. At 1810, the
strong 17470 signal jumps to 17480 as the YL is still speaking, so now
it`s splattering on 17470.010 where the other one has been uncovered,
about the same offset but only S9+20 with chanting, music.

``To Glenn: Administration of Pridnestrovsky Radiotelecentr informed
me on April 13 that Dengê Welat did not use its facilities in short
waves because they were out of service due to the attacks suffered.
On the frequencies 17450, 17460, 17470, 17475 and 17480 khz
alternately record musical programming of Kurdish origin. Broadcasts
between 21 and 2130 UT. Frequently, frequency changes are made during
broadcasts. Using the Shazam app I was able to find out the name of
one of the recordings: "Jin Jiyan Azadi" by Jinma. The translation
corresponds in Kurdish to "Woman, Life and Freedom" used by the
Kurdish autonomy movement. Information sites such as "Short Wave
info", "Short Wave schedules" do not record these transmissions. Any
information you publish about it will be valued. 73s Carlos Kostzer,
Tucumán, Argentina``

Kai Ludwig replies on the WOR iog to my previous comment:

>>> Some conclude that the current site is Uzbekistan, but not sure
how firm that be. Glenn <<<

``When they abandoned Kostinbrod again a new transmission appeared for
which Ivo Ivanov stated, as always just in three letters, that it came
from Tashkent. As a matter of fact it was, at this point!, always
noticeably off-frequency and the change from day to night frequency
took rather long, so apparently some old equipment, and always the
same transmitter.

That characteristic frequency offset appears to be gone now. Thus I
would say that the matter needs to be assessed again.

Grigoriopol could be called the primary transmission facility for
Denge Welat and all its previous incarnations (apparently it was
always the same radio station from studios at Denderleeuw near
Brussels, just with alternating licences and thus names), but it was
by no means the only one. Other site usages over the years I'm aware
of were Issoudun, Bijeljina, Kostinbrod, Gavar and Samara. Only
Bijeljina and Samara can be ruled out now, simply because both
stations no longer exist. And it was rather the norm than the
exception that more than one station was involved in day-to-day
operations, like the previous Grigoriopol-Issoudun combination.

References to a certain database are in my opinion of limited use, it
meanwhile contains too much outdated data. I fear we're at serious
risk of getting lost in a self-reference loop niow. Kai`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 7400, April 23 at 0644, S5/S7 music, presumed R.
Eastern Star, Russian ethnic pirate. Reports lately he has been
talking about communism, socialism, capitalism, but not clear what`s
his POV, political agenda (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2187 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday April 23
at 0030 on WRMI 7780, S7/S9 into Maryland SDR way offbeam, with storm
crashes.

Also confirmed UT Sunday April 23 at 0312 on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, MO,
S9+18 by groundwave to nearby SDR, about 10 minutes into so started
early circa 0302. Next:

2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW
0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW
0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, Australia 5035 USB [low power]
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

Like our website, a noncommercial service for which financial support
is appreciated; thanks this week to Dan Sheedy, Encinitas CA, for a
generous contribution to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702;
``Just wanted to wish you a happy birthday and throw a donation into
the `WOR vat of consistently useful and accurate DX info`. Thanks for
all your efforts to keep DX info non-trivial. Cheers, Dan``

One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to
woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9330, April 23 at 0655, no signal from WLCR on WBCQ.
Something wrong again? Maybe just a break for beam change, as I think
they have to cut carrier while rotating. Did not get back to recheck
after 0700, zzzz.

It is on air April 23 at 1556 in English, only S9 into Missouri SDR,
pretends to sign off but stays on air straight thru resuming
programming at 1600, no change in strength either. What do skeds
show?

HFCC A23: at 1600 change English from 250 kW at 300 degrees, to 500 at
57. 05-09 continuous in English, 250 kW at 270 degrees. Not matching:

Own websked: 03-07 English at 250 degrees, 0700 change to Spanish at
57 degrees; 14-22 continuous in English, 256 degrees (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7505, Sunday April 23 at 0646, WRNO ``Fort Worth`` still on
extended sked with praise music, S9+20 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** VANUATU. Ron Howard says the report from him about RV I quoted in
last report was axually from April 20, not same date April 22 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1956 UT April 23

** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RC USB, Sat Apr 22 at 2303, LRA36 poorly
audible talk, S4/S5 into Argentine SDR. Inaudible by 2348 recheck.
First reported today by: ``Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol,
NW of Spain: ANTARCTICA, 15476usb, LRA 36, checked at 2046, 22-04, on
air, comments about Antarctica, identification, email, Whatsapp
telephone number, the weather in Base Esperanza. 35433``. I did not
check Wednesday April 19 and saw no other reports of it; was it on
then? When will the new all-woman crewe take over? (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** EUROPE. 6330 CW, April 22 at 2310-2407+, Radio Pirana International
publicized it would ``beacon``. Inaudible direct, but good and steady
S7 into UTwente SDR; best on LSB to avoid STANAG? noise. Sends RPI
several times, and spells out RADIO PIRANA -- with a plain N rather
than Ñ or NH. Wonder where this pirate transmit from, and purpose of
this; real broadcasts impending?

At 1920 UT on the WOR iog: ``[WOR] RPI Beacon on 6330 kHz --- Dear
friends; We are now again on air on: 6330 kHz in CW with our Beacon
transmitter with about 8 watts into a half wave dipole from northern
Europe. We could hear a weak signal on an SDR in Australia just 20
minutes ago (18:45 UTC). The beacon transmitter will be on to at least
08.00 UTC tomorrow (23rd of April). And on again from 18.30 UTC
tomorrow Sunday until Monday 08.00 UTC. Sincerely Jorge R. García,
radiopirana.com -- Porfavor siempre responder a: rpi@radiopirana.com``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 11785, VOT not off the air Sat Apr 22, heard until 2255.5*
via UTwente (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7230 LSB, April 22 at 0612, W2RTM inviting contacts for
International Marconi Day. There seems to be more ham activity than
usual in the 7200-7240 area but not higher. QRZ.com:

``W2RTM USA flag USA, WILLIAM S ZUKOWSKI, New Jersey Antique Radio
Club, 2201 Marconi Rd, Wall, NJ 07719 USA`` And with weblinx
imbedded:

``W2RTM is the Official Amateur Station of the New Jersey Antique
Radio Club, located at the site of Marconi's 1914 High Power Receiver
Station. This area became the U.S. Army's Radar Laboratory (Camp
Evans) in 1941, and is now the campus of the InfoAge Science History
Learning Center, in Wall, NJ.

W2RTM made its debut by participating in the International Marconi Day
on-the-air event, 27 April 2019, making 114 QSO's to 12 countries.
[caption:] Hotel at Marconi Wireless Station, Belmar, NJ
The New Jersey Antique Radio Club's Radio Technology Museum is one of
many participants at the InfoAge Science History Learning Center. The
center is open to visitors Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, 1:00 PM to
5:00 PM. [EDT = 17-21 UT]

We hold monthly meetings the second Friday of each month, at 7:30 PM
[2330 UT during DST season]. Our meetings are split between the Wall
location and Bowen Hall, located at Princeton University, all are
welcome. See our website for details.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2187 monitoring: confirmed UT
Saturday April 22 at 0134 the 0130 on WRMI 5850, VG S9+20/30 direct.

Not confirmed UT Sat Apr 22 at 0400 on WBCQ 5130, since the R. Angela
transmitter is still off the air, until May?

Confirmed Saturday April 22 at 1604 the 1600 on WRN NAm webcast.

Also confirmed Saturday April 22 starting at 1939 on WA0RCR, 1860 AM,
MO, steady S9+18 groundwave into nearby SDR.

Also confirmed Saturday April 22 at 2249 the 2230 on WRMIs: 5850
S7/S9, 15770 S9/+10 into Missouri SDR - even tho 5850 is aimed NW, and
15770 NE from FL. Next:

0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW
0245vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0457]
0800 UT Sunday Unique R, Australia 5035 USB [low power]
0830 UT Sunday Unique R, Australia 5035 USB [previous episode]
2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW
0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW
0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, Australia 5035 USB [low power]
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

Like our website, a noncommercial service for which financial support
is appreciated; thanks this week to Dan Sheedy, Encinitas CA, for a
generous contribution to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702;
``Just wanted to wish you a happy birthday and throw a donation into
the ``WOR vat of consisently useful and accurate DX info``. Thanks for
all your efforts to keep DX info non-trivial. Cheers, Dan``

One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to
woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9975, UT Sat Apr 22 at 0448 check, still off the air is
KVOH. Also absent UT Sun Apr 23 by 0004. Is it ever on anymore? UT
Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon at 00-05 was the sked (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7505, April 22 at 0449, WRNO still on extended schedule, VG
signal but distorted and not sure it`s English; Hindi? And still on at
0619 with gospel huxter in English. When does it sign off now? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** VANUATU. 11835, April 22 at 0700, I`m barely awake enough to
confirm that RV 3rd harmonic is now on, S9/S6 in Bislama talk; earlier
the usual VP signal on 7260 fundamental. Other reports today:

``7260, Radio Vanuatu, 0631-0658* UT. From 0631 to 0634, Intro and
exit with indigenous drums, for the segment of messages/announcements
in Bislama; this program is often heard at this time, but certainly is
NOT on every day!; pop songs.

11835 harmonic, *0659+ UT. Commercial announcement for "mobile stage"
available for events in Vanuatu; 0700-0715, news/sports in Bislama;
island music/songs; 0730, another "mobile stage" advert.; not as good
as recently heard due to heavy QRM (static). Ron Howard, Asilomar
State Beach, Calif. (near Monterey), Etón E1, external antenna: 100
ft. long wire``

``Hi Glenn, I just checked for Vanuatu at 0900z thru KFS rSDR SW
[antenna] Halfmoon Bay, CA. 7260 Nil, 3945 S6, 7890 S8, and 11835
S9+10/12db. 73, Gary Pence`` KM5X. Some previous reports had them
going off by 0859 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0013 UT April 23

** AUSTRALIA. 28262 CW, April 21 at 2304, beacon with long dash and
VK2RSY -- a Q code follows and a few more symbols, ending in AH. JBA
and needed repeated passes to copy this much. Not much else on 10m. It
happens that VK2RSY was recommended by VK4RST in his reply to me
earlier in April as one of the few other active VK beacons. But no
VK4RST audible on 28266 now. Listed thus at WI5V:
``28.2616 VK2RSY C SYDNEY, NSW, AUSTRALIA # 25W, 1/2 VERTICAL``
QRZ.com shows nothing except:
``VK2RSY Australia flag Australia, WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA NSW
DIV, PO BOX 1066, PARRAMATTA, NSW 2124, Australia`` (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** COLOMBIA. 10125 CW, April 21 at 0620, HK3QQ making another regular
appearance with keyboard letters in order. Listening closely again, I
notice that R and M are are skipped; maybe as before but I expected to
hear them? ``QWETYUIOX ASDFGHJKLÑ ZXCVBN``. Something else follows
after ID, BOGOTA COLOMBIA --- not yet copied but ends in 73 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 11785, April 21 after 2200 I can barely tell that VOT is
not off the air today, direct; better later with more antenna but
still too much fading and selective distortion, S9/S7. Recheck at
2259, still on with IS and German ID, 2300 timesignal about 8 sex
later than WWV, and into German. Rerecheck at 2310 it`s off.
Something`s always erroneous at Emirler, awry at Ankara (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2187 monitoring: confirmed first
SWBC, Friday April 21 at 1430-1459 on WRMI 9955, S8 fading to S4
direct, no jamming audible. Needs to be on higher band in daytime.
This transmission is the only WRMI one also webcast, and phonecast.
Wonder if I have any regular listeners via telephone? ``Listen to our
9955 kHz live stream via the telephone. Call +1-641-741-1762 anytime,
24/7.``

Also confirmed Friday April 21 at 2056 the 2030 on IRRS SW via AM
Italia, 1323 kHz, S9/+15 but noisy and medium SAH from understation
presumed Brighton. Stayed on after 2100 with news, presumably FSN, and
2105 ID starting VOA News relay. Next:

0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW
0400 UT Saturday WBCQ Radio Angela 5130v to WSW [off air till May?]
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
2230 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW
2230 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW
0245vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0457]
0800 UT Sunday Unique R, Australia 5035 USB [low power]
0830 UT Sunday Unique R, Australia 5035 USB [previous episode]
2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW
0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW
0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, Australia 5035 USB [low power]
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

Like our website, a noncommercial service for which financial support
is appreciated; thanks this week to Dan Sheedy, Encinitas CA, for a
generous contribution to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702;
``Just wanted to wish you a happy birthday and throw a donation into
the ``WOR vat of consistently useful and accurate DX info``. Thanks for
all your efforts to keep DX info non-trivial. Cheers, Dan``

One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to
woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report despatched at 0113 UT April 22

** U S A. (7490-), April 22 at 0000, WBCQ webcast of `AAAWWW`. For
once, Angela doesn`t ask whether her mike is on, and by golly, it`s
not. Only occasional comments from her are being picked up in the
background from Allan`s mike. Plugs their AM 780 and FM 94.7 stations
and their wonderful talk, country and rock programming. Mainly talking
about transmitters, including 5130 being down. Says they have six
transmitters and unspecified number of backups; (so why are only three
on air now, including the SuperStition?). 5130 is a 1955 Collins
FRT-22 which runs 8 ancient tubes, not being made any more; there are
rebuilders but also a shorage of usable duds which can be rebuilt.
Chides Timtron as a ``lazy lout`` who hasn`t gone to Monticello to fix
5130 which he could probably do in a semihour (he lives in central
Maine). And a couple more times during the hour. Only he and Allan
(still in Florida) know how to work on ancient transmitters. Trying to
hire two more engineers who know their stuff. For the SS also lost a
$ 245K Thalès tube which failed last month after running only 4 months!
Fortunately under warranty but delays in replacing. And it`s the
*second* one to fail like that. Made in France, must not be well
constructed. 0048 prompts Angela to utter datestamp and contact info -
still off-mike. Discussing saving AM car radios, contrary to Ford`s
plans. Claims explicitly that Democrats = communists = moonbats, who
are against AM radio because it`s mostly conservative talk. 0056 some
quick emails (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7505, April 21 at 0616, WRNO is still on with gospel huxter
in English, S9+10/20. It used to run overnight, partly in Hindi,
Chinese; maybe resuming that? Lately only 0100-0400, the last hour in
Hindi per EiBi. Always HFCC registered available all the way from 22
to 16 UT; and nothing else except USAGM Kuwait in Bod dialect of
Tibetan at 22-23 only, sparking jamming. Own website is useless, only
highlighting three preachers earlier in evening. Even more useless on
disgraced FB where the latest entry is a triyear old from April, 2020!
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 10105 USB, April 21 at 0625, 2-way in Spanish. In 30m
hamband, so are these hams in non-phone band, or intruders? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** COLOMBIA. 10125 CW, April 20 at 0635, once again the strange
station sending keyboard letters slowly in sequence: ``QWERTYUIOX
ASDFGHJKLÑ ZXCVBNM`` and then much faster: ``VVV DE HK3QQ BOGOTA
COLOMBIA`` --- note the error? of X instead of P, like reversed dits
and dahs? And the Enye after L; maybe that`s where it lies on a
Spanish keyboard. QRZ.com:

``HK3QQ Colombia flag Colombia, Jesús Ernesto Reyes Castro, Bogotà
111156, Colombia
Escuela de telegrafia Marconi ilustrado - Colombia
Frecuencia: 7.070 CW
Beacom VVV De HK3QQ Bogotá Colombia 5W``
Previous logs of this filed under UNIDENTIFIED (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WORLD OF RADIO 2187)

** CUBA. 6100, April 20 at 0655, RHC English still on here with some
rumble, and this time nowhere else on 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13 or 15 MHz
bands. Had not heard 6100 for weeks. Nominal sked was 05-07 English,
extended to 0730 for Esperanto, Sundays. Something`s not wrong at RHC
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 221887)

** NORTH AMERICA. 7400, April 20 at 0642, JBA music, then ``Mayak``
interval signal, and unreadable talk mixed with music: from R.
Vostochnaya Zvezda: first reported moved from 7320 to 7400 at 0419 UT
April 19 by Lucas Bandura, BC:

``[WOR] Radio Channel Eastern Star now on 7400 AM -- He moved
yesterday at 0423 UTC April 18. I was talking to him in the HF
Underground Discord chat and he moved to get away from the Radio Martí
QRM. Today he is having issues with his audio that is causing
distortion. I have also heard the English ID as “Radio Channel Eastern
Star” now.``

Per EiBi, 7400 is a good clear spot - except Brazilian Pará pirate R.
Antares could be there at any hour; nothing broadcasting at night on
7395 or 7405 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2187)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2186 monitoring: ``9395 kHz, 0030,
0045 S7, S8 signal, 0059, April 20 UTC 2023 [Thu] (Lemke, Richard
-AB)``

Also confirmed UT Thursday April 20 at 0030 on WRMI 9395, S9+20/30
into Missouri SDR.

Also confirmed UT Thursday April 20 at 0130 on WRMI 5010, S8/9+10
into Bonaire SDR

WORLD OF RADIO 2187 contents: Algeria, Argentina, (Bahamas),
(Belarus), Brasil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador,
Germany, Greece, Italy non, Netherlands, North America, Perú,
(Romania), Russia, (Sa`udi Arabia), Spain, Sweden and non, UAE, UK,
USA, Vanuatu, Vatican, Vietnam, Yemen non; unID Music4Joy; NASB
cruise; WRTH app available; propagation outlook (countries mentioned
with others not in order)

WORLD OF RADIO 2187 available from 0147 UT April 21:
(mp3 stream) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2187.m3u
(mp3 download) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2187.mp3

Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
Also linx to podcast services.

The shortwave+ broadcasts should be:

1430 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE [usually, or webcast only?][jammed by
Cuba?]
2030 UT Friday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW
0400 UT Saturday WBCQ Radio Angela 5130v to WSW [off air till May?]
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
2230 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW
2230 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW
0245vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0457]
0800 UT Sunday Unique R, Australia 5035 USB [low power]
0830 UT Sunday Unique R, Australia 5035 USB [previous episode]
2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW
0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW
0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, Australia 5035 USB [low power]
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

Like our website, a noncommercial service for which financial support
is appreciated; thanks this week to Dan Sheedy, Encinitas CA, for a
generous contribution to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702;
``Just wanted to wish you a happy birthday and throw a donation into
the `WOR vat of consistently useful and accurate DX info`. Thanks for
all your efforts to keep DX info non-trivial. Cheers, Dan``

One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to
woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. What about Radio Angela? 5130, still no WBCQ R Angela
signal from 0200 UT April 20. Yet, 6160 & 7490 are both carrying
military medley, SSB amid extended Hal Turner show.

R Angela must be of lowest priority - so the usual 5130 xmtr is
broken: why not let it be on one of the others temporarily? Other
nights would deprive dead Brother Hystairical of one frequency among
many.

And what about all the extra transmitters supposedly at Monticello?
Jeff White gave them one from WRMI. 3265 could be turned on at same
time as all the others, so why not use it now, preferably on 5130 or
higher instead?

``Bad tubes``, hard to find. R Angela & listeners may be in for a long
wait unless some alternative is used (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO
2187)

``Uncle Bill responds: At the moment I anticipate Radio Angela not
returning to the airwaves before May. There are actually two
components to the problem, parts and labor. The late Tom Barna was the
engineer in residence on the spot who might have been able to jury rig
something together, and he is missed more than ever right now. Timtron
and (at the moment) Allan are both some distance away.

The 5130 transmitter does legitimately need new tubes which are both
hard to find and expensive, hence our increasingly-frequent appeals
for financial support. But even with enough benefactors to buy "new"
tubes, the station does also need to hire another engineer as well and
has been actively recruiting. 7490 is full enough that throwing us
there isn't practical and the other frequencies aren't ideal options
just now either for other reasons. It would be nice on general
principles if listeners who miss us wrote the station to remind it
that we are missed when we are gone. --Uncle Bill [Tilford], Curator,
Radio Angela, WBCQ The Planet`` (April 21, WOR iog via Glenn Hauser;
not in time for WOR 2187)

** U S A. 9975, UT Fri Oct 21 at 0110, still no signal from KVOH,
which had started to run on Thursday nights too (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0201 UT April 21