** ALGERIA. 9455, April 19 at 0400, RTA Arabic playing martial
national anthem, but no English ID by 0405 as before following NA;
back into Arabic, and Qur`an; break circa 0430 more talk before
resuming Qur`aning. This continues from previous report about this
colliding with reactivated WRMI, worse on receivers further west
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11760, April 19 at 0625, RHC English, S9/+10 on wrong
frequency yet again and nowhere else on 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13 or 15 MHz
bands. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** KURDISTAN [non]. 17460, April 19 at 0620, JBA carrier only here
below 17500 so presumably Dengê Welat and/or Recep`s Turkish jammer. A
few other JBA carriers further up the band as previously explored
despite the nightmiddle (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MALI. 5995.000, April 19 after 2300, ORTM mostly nice African
music, vocals and drumming, fair into UTwente with no QRM, S8/9+5.
However, by 2325 there is CubaRM on both sides unless narrowed.
Scott Walker in Virginia had recommended this hour. Of course it`s
also a regular from around *0600 direct (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. Severe weather hitting OKC and southward causes big 3
affiliate stations to blow away network news at 2230 UT April 19,
replaced by wall-to-wall weather warnings. KFOR `4` finds a rerun of
`Friends` too important to preëmpt on substation KAUT `43`. No ABC on
KOCO `5`. But KWTV `9` moves CBS news to its substation KSBI `52`,
just in time instead of `Hiway thru Hell` (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** SPAIN. 17855, Wed April 19 at 2205, token English SNR topic seems
to be about bees, but I don`t have time to listen. Maybe worth
retrieving from archive. But there`s never enough time to hear
everything desired, now or later (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 11785.009, April 19 at 2200, VOT not AWOL today with
opening timesignal, but VP direct; measurement when checked during
music at 2248 via UTwente, S9+45. Off around 2255 with no extra German
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2186 monitoring: ``From: Richard
Lemke, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada, the desk of Richard’s listening
Post, Radio: JRC NRD-535 HF, Antenna: random long wires in the trees,
Dear Glenn: Confirming World of Radio #2186, WRMI:

5850, 0130, 0144, 0159 (55333), (55344), April 15 UTC 2023 [Sat]
15770, 2230, 2245, 2259 (3-45343), April 15 UTC 2023 [Sat]
9395, 2330, 2344, 2355 (45343), 2359, April 18 UTC 2023 [Tue]
(Lemke, Richard -AB)``

Also confirmed Wednesday April 19 at 2100:21 on WBCQ 7490 -72 Hz =
7489.928, S9/S7 but noisy even into Maryland SDR; no point in even
checking direct. Next:

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

New WOR 2187 should be ready for download early UT Friday April 21 and
first SWBC at 1430 on WRMI 9955

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UNIDENTIFIED. 10125 CW, April 19 at 0627, again something sending
keyboard letters in sequence with pauses: A S D F G H J K L ; Q W E R
T Y U I O P; periodically interjects much faster: VVV DE HK_QQB_ as
only partially and tentatively copied. I don`t suppose it`s from
Colombia (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 2330 UT April 19

** ALGERIA. 9455, April 19 at *0303, RTA Béchar cuts on with Qur`an in
progress. But WRMI has just reactivated this frequency, q.v. From 0250
or 0255 I`m standing by via UTwente, Maryland and Missouri SDRs. At
UTwente there has been a VP signal from WRMI, but now Legends is
totally overriden by Qur`aning, S9+20, making a slow SAH as both are
close to .000. At Maryland, RTA is S6/S8 but well atop RMI. At
Missouri, RMI rules, but we can hear Qur`an underneath, what a culture
clash. Only Aoki shows RTA on 9455 at 0300-0600; EiBi shows 9470 &
9500 but neither is on now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM [non]. (106.3), April 18 at 0000 UT, KGOU
Norman OK webcast opens `Fresh Air` teaser, 0001-0006 `National Native
News`; and NO `Stardate` which thinx it`s on KGOU daily at 7 am & 7 pm
CT; amend my previous item. It is on KENW but as early as 0058 rather
than 0100 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 11785, April 18 at 2156, VOT English ID and IS, S5/S8
direct, so not off the air today. And not on the air circa 2310 for
any extraneous German. In between I have better things to do than
frustratingly try to understand her (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2186 monitoring: confirmed UT
Tuesday April 18 at 0042 the 0030 on WRMI 9395, S9+10/20 direct.

Also confirmed Tuesday April 18 at 2330 on WRMI 9395, S9+10/20 into
Missouri SDR. Gary Pence, KM5X, also reports on this: ``Hi Glenn, I
just enjoyed listening to WOR 2186 from WRMI`s 9395 kHz xmtr at 2330z.
I copied it real well, S9+25/35db from Central Vermont rSDR K1VL
Shrewsbury VT. Nice audio.

Also. Last night when I was operating late night 20 meter CW, I worked
evidently a maritime mobile Russian craft over the North Pole at
0930z, somewhere and has an interesting page at QRZ.com. His call is
RI41POL.``

Next WOR airings:
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

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http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

Like our website, a noncommercial service for which financial support
is appreciated; thanks this week to Kelley Sprout, Hughesville PA, for
a PMO to:
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on a US bank

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woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9455, April 18 at 2101, WRMI-5 is back!! First noted missing
March 24, after a splatter problem March 19. It`s TOMBS, probably same
as on much stronger 9980 WWCR but not synchro. Now 9455 is S9/S5
direct, about the same as the other RMIs on 9395, 9955. In summer
daytimes, all these should be on higher band, 11 or 13 MHz. 9455 still
TOMBSing at 2330, S9+10/20 into Missouri SDR. At 0000 April 19
switches to Legends.

It shall be very interesting to note whether WRMI and Algeria be
colliding at 03-06 on 9455 as I have been hearing the latter Qur`aning
lately! Answer: see ALGERIA above.

Coincidentally, the WRMI skedgrid has been updated as of today April
18, more than a month after March 12. It always pretended 9455 was
running, but FWIW here`s the System/lineup for it now, all at 285
degrees close to usward:

00-02: K, i.e. Legends except for KBC one day a week.
02-04: C, Legends
04-05: F, Truth [sic] 2Ponder [sic]
05-07: J, SMTV
07-08: F, Fámily Radio
08-09: E, TOMBS
09-10: D, RAE Argentina
10-11: J, SMTV
11-24: E, TOMBS
That`s just consulting the transmission grid atop; there may be
further details or contradixions in the System/programming skeds
below. I have not tried to match up. Ahá: at 0159, RAE in Italian cut
off incomplete, 0200 to music // 5050 so Legends, but break for a
Bible quote. RAE in Italian is not scheduled on any System or
frequency at 0130 or 0200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5130, April 19 at 0233, still no signal from WBCQ Radio
Angela, into Maryland SDR. That makes six nights off, I believe. Must
be serious, what? R. Angela depended on broadcasting every night from
0200 to 0400 or a bit later, never webcasting. Finally circa 1330 UT
April 18, on disgraced Twitter: ``Allan Weiner @AllanWBCQ · 13h [ago]
Radio Angela 5130 kHz is down. Sorry. Bad tubes. Some 40+ years old.
Working on it. Timtron to the rescue. It’s what we do to keep the free
speech flowing. Some tubes not made any longer. Got to dig. WBCQ is a
living radio museum. It’s [sic] staff too😆. More to come🙏.`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9275, Tue April 18 at 2059, again no signal from WMLK, a day
and hour supposedly active. What`s become of deceased EJOM tapes?
Neighbor in more ways than one, WINB 9265v is audible but poor (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5085, WTWW-2 continues to be off the air, not clear why,
because it`s the other transmitter, WTWW-1 that George McClintock has
been working on; another update from him in the form of captions to
multi-MB closeups, received April 19:

``WTWW: transmitter damage & power --- THEY used plastic sheets to
cover up the damaged burned up power module holes. They were burned up
when the transmitter changed frequency because they did the change in
high power, out of tune --- not lightning damage. The plastic sheets
kept the air flow over the modules. I always went to low power for the
frequency change to avoid the transmitter coming up OUT OF TUNE in
high power causing module damage.

#1 transmitter has 6 modules down and is capable of about 90 KW, my
personal goal. The FCC classifies 100 KW as 90 KW below or 105 above.
Technically any power authorized as 90% below or 105% above.

THEY wrapped the power connections permanently in electrical tape and
made no plan to repair the modules. Jason said he saw the person
repairing electrical stuff. Ted hired this gentleman and what Jason
saw was all FAKE. I would ask what happened to the insurance 100,000
dollars to repair #1 transmitter that never got repaired. George
McClintock 4-17-2023`` (via Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 10125 USB, April 18 at 0618, phone ham with Oz accent,
weak and does not ID as he cambios to another who is JBA. Same
frequency/area where oddball phone on ``30m`` I`ve logged a few times
before, but 24 hours earlier, CW sending keyboard letters in sequence.
I wish ARDXC would investigate or clarify what is going on there
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0321 UT April 19

** CUBA. 15140, April 17 at 0623, RHC English, S9+10 here and nowhere
else, not on 5, 6, 9, 10, 11 or 13 MHz bands. 15140 is supposed to be
daytime only including English at 19-20, so something`s even more
wrong than always at RHC. At least shows it`s propagable (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** KURDISTAN [non]. 17470, April 17 at 2145, something talking here,
either Dengê Welat or Recep the Jammer; but marred by that wideband
multi-carrier whiner expanding further than usual from center 17450,
audible out to +/- 40 kHz = 17410/17490. What IS that?? (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. 11669.993, Monday April 17 at 2200, token English from SNR,
good via UTwente which I already have running for Turkcheck on 11785.
Due to best skip distance, I know this is better than 15 or 17 MHz at
Holland remote; but has RTTY warble QRM unless bandwidth squeezed to 4
kHz or less. Opens with acknowledgement that in Spain [on double-DST],
it`s already World Amateur Radio Day April 18, and plays clips of
greetings in Spanish from several hams, seemingly recorded off the
air. News delayed until 2203. Then I check it at Maryland SDR which
agrees it`s minus 7 Hz, but also sounds like some CCI. Aoki, EiBi and
HFCC show nothing else scheduled until China at 2230, Cuba from 2300
or 0000 --- but you never know when its 11670 or any frequency will be
running at wrong hours. However, this CCI is very weak (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 11785.009, April 17 at 2224, VOT English as S9+45 into
UTwente, canned salute to foreign S&R teams - are they still searching
& rescuing this long after the EQ? Music on this and music only
following are horribly distorted and I refuse to listen any further as
today`s announcer also has been the horribly-accented lady.
Something`s always awry at Ankara and/or erroneous at Emirler (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2186 monitoring: confirmed Sunday
April 16 at 2000 on IRRS via AM Italia, 1323 kHz only, S9+10/20 but
somewhat overmodulated and noisy, slight CCI from understation
presumably Smooth Radio, Brighton, England, UK.

Also confirmed UT Monday April 17 at 0030 on WRMI 7780, JBA in HSNL
direct; S5/S7 into Georgia SDR; S7/S9+5 into Maryland SDR.

Also confirmed UT Monday April 17 starting only 8.5 minutes late at
0308.5 on WBCQ Area 51, 6160 -67 Hz = 6159.933, S9/+15 into NH SDR
with warbleed de 6165 Turkey not Cuba; JL ran only 8 minutes over this
week. 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 Kelley Sprout, Hughesville PA, for
a PMO to
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA; also address for checks
on a US bank

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

** U S A. 5950, April 17 at 0635 open carrier and off in a few sex
before I can even read the S-meter. Must be WRMI testing; 5950 now
sked: WRMI-8 at 2100-0400 with System L (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5130, April 17 at 0255, no signal from WBCQ R. Angela into
NH SDR. Unchecked Apr 16 but probably AWOL that date too, as it surely
was on UT April 15 & 14. What`s wrong, for how long? Not a twit from
AW on disgraced Twitter, since earlier on Apr 14 forecasting that
AAAWWW would be on 5130 that night. UB must be faced with a lot of
long-planned Angela programming rescheduling (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 6160-, April 17 at 0636 with S9/+10 of dead air from WBCQ.
No loss as it would have been TOMBS. Standard remark about stations
not realizing they are modulating nothing. Fault could well be at
W-A-L-T-E-R-B-O-R-O or somewhere in between, international vacuum?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9275, April 17 at 2143, no signal from WMLK, nor have I run
across it lately. A23 HFCC sked is 17-22 on 9275, 04-09 on 15150 both
daily except Sabbathday. But 15150 never activated. B22 was same, so
no adjustment for local DST; kudos for that. I last logged it March 8
at 1855. Harold Frodge in MI a bit later:

``9275 WMLK Bethel PA (p); 2000, 3/10; Uh, uh Jacob O. Meyer. S9
w/very muted audio. Jake would never make it at Toastmasters. +++
1713, 3/16; Elder Jake singing on a 2009 b’cast; Jake said, “There are
approximately 30,000 mistakes in the Bible.” (How does he know?) So,
he published his own version. (The Gospel according to Jake) S10,
audio a tad muddy (I still want to know where the people of Nod came
from.) +++ 1849-1854, 3/16; I turned on the Jake Uh-meter; 15 uh’s in
5 min. (Frodge-MI)`` He also noted it not on 9275, April 7 at 2045
when he was getting WINB.

Now its own website won`t load: http://204.236.242.90/wmlk-radio/
Hitlist also leads to it on disgraced FB, bit nothing since this:

``WMLK Radio February 7 · Broadcast Note: The engineers have decided
to swap out our original tube and to install the secondary one. The
tube change is complete but there are start-up tests that need to be
confirmed before going on the air. We should be on later when those
tests are completed. Thank you for understanding.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** VANUATU. 7260, April 17 at 0642, missing last night but now
resumed, YL in Bislama talk, S7/S9. Ron Howard agrees and adds hearing
it on 11835 at *0659-0858* (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 10125 CW, April 17 at 0626, series of letters between
long pauses. I soon realize it`s reading off a standard keyboard: A S
D F G H J K L --- Then faster VVV DE --- and I don`t copy any ID. Then
resumes with: Q W E R T Y U I O --- Is this default of some software,
or done deliberately? This is of course in the so-called 30m hamband
as I am listening for VKs on phone in this area (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15253 USB, April 17 at 2149, 2-way in Spanish,
INTRUDERS, with lower-class-Mexican accents; but 19m mostly devoid of
SWBC, so why not? Certainly not QRM with anything around here (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report despatched at 2353 UT April 17

** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RC USB, UT Sun Apr 16 at 0205, no signal from
LRA36 into Argentine or Brazilian SDRs; missed checking it earlier.
Was reported by Walt Salmaniw, BC at 0100; presumably started circa
2100 Sat Apr 15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 11785.009, April 15 at 2211, VOT English is not off the air
today, S9+40 into UTwente; 2214 ``Gripping Piles`` but so
overmodulated/distorted and horribly accented that I refuse to try to
eke out the subject. It`s over already at 2218 music; recheck 2253
s/off as usual citing only 4 other English broadcasts and not in
order: 1230, 1830, 2030, 1630. 2255 IS to 2255.7* Something`s always
erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2186 monitoring: confirmed Saturday
April 15 at 2230 on WRMIs: 15770, S9+5/15 into UTwente, S6/S8 into
Georgia; 5850, S8/S9 into Georgia.

Also confirmed UT Sunday April 16 at 0030 on 7780, S7/S9 with storm
crashes into Maryland SDR, but *no* noise blast audible first 14
seconds. Into Louisiana SDR, S9/+10 but heavy storm crashes from SE TX
to SE IA and Gulf of Mexico.

Also confirmed UT Sunday April 16 at 0327 on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, S9+18
with heavy storm crashes nearby to MO SDR about 13 minutes into so
started close to on time at 0314. Next:

2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW
0300vUT Monday WBCQ Area 51 6160v to WSW [? not last two weeks]
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 Kelley Sprout, Hughesville PA, for
a PMO to
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA; also address for checks
on a US bank

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

** U S A [and non]. 9975, UT Sun April 16 at 0043, no signal from
KVOH, nor some later attempts. I never got around to checking last
weekend; were they ever on? To be sure, one must try sometime between
00 and 05 UT on Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon. Say, if they really wanted to be
heard somewhat in N & C America, they could run their Zambia
transmitters during that idle time period locally overnight. Not that
I should give them ideas. However one of the two transmitters there
was reported out of order too in April BDXC Communication, the one for
6065 and 11680, leaving only 9680 and 4965. However the latter two are
N-D, while 6065 & 11680 would be on 315 degree antenna, just right for
NAm beyond WAf. Could they exchange antennas? Not that I should give
them ideas! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5085, April 16 UT, WTWW still missing whenever checked.
Dated April 13, George McClintock sent some close-up photos of damaged
equipment he has been working on, with captions:

``Harris SW100 really dirty water drained. Clean distilled water
added. The meter tells when to change water that cools the tubes ---
.2 1/2 to change.``

``burned power module repair --- The amount of clean up required for
this burned up power module to be returned to service. Top. Bottom.
Damaged switcher module.``

``Harris SW100 air flow restricted --- foam was factory used to seal
the fan air flow to cool a radiator. The foam deteriorated and blocked
the flow of air. They did not notice this problem. Plastic used to
accomplish the seal.``

``WTWW: additional repair work --- The repair job on a previously
shown picture, required some additional work. The traces required
soldering to bridge the gap. 2 resistors needed to be added and a
solder bridge completed. Unfortunately when tested, these 2
transformers turned out to be bad. I previously ordered 8 black
transformers and will be replacing the original burned up ones. George
McClintock 4-13-2023`` (via Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** VANUATU. April 16 at 0645, not even a JBA carrier from RV on 5040,
7260, 7890 or 11835 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1947 UT April 16