** OKLAHOMA. 92.1, May 19 at 1551 UT some tropo help for KFXI, ID:
``92.1, Foxy 92``; RDS: FOXY_92_ / __KFXI__ / THE_REAL / _GIANT_
Is 100/100 kW from Marlow.

94.1, May 19 at 1545 UT `The House FM` and indeed // 89.7. This one is
KTHM Waynoka, 9.8/9.8 kW, 122 m, not ordinarily audible (Glenn Hauser,
Enid, WOR)

** UKRAINE [non]. 7730, May 19 at 0501-0508, UR1 via WRMI, `Ukraine:
Security Issue`, war report for Day 84 = May 18. Really brings it home
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2138 monitoring: confirmed UT
Thursday May 19 at 0030 on WRMIs via Missouri SDR: 9395 S9+10/25; 9455
S9+10/20.

Also confirmed UT Thursday May 19 after 0130 on WRMIs direct: 9395
S+25 vs HNL; 5010 JBA.

WORLD OF RADIO 2139 contents: Antarctica, Brasil, Bulgaria, (Canada),
China non/Cuba, Egypt, (Frnce), Greece, Iran non, (Italy and non),
Kuwait, Maldives non, New Zealand, North America, Pridnestrovye,
Russia and non, Taiwan, USA, Vanuatu; Marconi; WRTH; propagation
outlook

WOR 2139 is available as of 0127 UT Friday May 20, 2022

(mp3 stream) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2139.m3u
(mp3 download) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2139.mp3

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

The shortwave+ broadcasts should be:

0130 UT Friday WRMI 5850 to NW, 7730 to NE
0330 UT Friday WRMI 7780 to SW [NEW]
1430 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed by Cuba]
1815 UT Friday IRRS 7290-Bulgaria to WNW, 14580; 1323 & 918?
& 207?-Italy [but pre-empted third Friday = May 20]
2030 UT Friday IRRS 1323 & 918? & 207?-Italy
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0400 UT Saturday WBCQ 5130 to WSW [ex-4790]
0700 UT Saturday Unique R, Australia 5035-USB or 3210-USB
1930 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
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 May 15]
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW
0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to WNW
2230 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed by Cuba]
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW [NEW]
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, Australia 5035-USB or 3210-USB
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to WNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S; 9395 to NNW

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First airings confirmed, 0130 UT Friday May 20 on WRMIs: 5850 good
with storm noise into Missouri and Oklahoma; 7730 good with storm
noise into Maryland; not bad onward to UTwente but also noisy (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 21525, May 19 at 1535, WRMI music with good signal due to
sporadic-E boost; also 15825 WWCR no longer JBA. 1557 beach music on
21525 strange for Radio Africa, but shortly soon IDed and 1600 into
gospel huxter. On DX-398 battery portable during local OG&E power
outage from 1327* until *1914 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9940, May 19 at 0031, WTWW is on playing ``Don`t Worry, Be
Happy``; had been absent whenever checked last few days in daytime.
Off again at 1535 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 93.7, May 19 at 1540 UT, Spanish overriding KSPI Stillwater,
soon ID as ``La Raza`` so it`s KNOR Krum TX again from The Metroplex,
tropopening into ground level DX-398 with whip only.

94.5, May 19 at 1554 UT, urban-sounding adstring in English, ``Magic
94.5 -- The Real Sound of the Dee-Eff-Dub. But it`s really another
rimshotter from far north of The Metroplex, closer to OK:

KZMJ Gainesville TX, Urban AC, Majic 94.5, 100/100 kW, 591.0 m,
R&B, per WTFDA db (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** VANUATU. 11835, May 19 at 0615, yay, R. Vanuatu is back on 3 x
3945, island music, S6/S9; and JBA carrier on 7890 = 2 x 3945. 0632
drumming. Had been missing May 14-18, but now also heard later by
Manuel Méndez, Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Ron Howard. Our harmonic spree
resumes (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2139)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6000, May 19 at 0626, JBA 2-way seems USB - in obvious
absence of RHC by this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 93.1, May 19 at 1835 UT, burst of Mexmx over fringe KS
signal on the DX-398. WTFDA db has only 9 SS in USA of which only 5
are close enough in TX, but only one of those is above translator
level: KHCU Concan TX, 9.9/9.9 kW but religious. Concan, population
100, is north of Uvalde in S Central TX; doubt it. More likely a
full-power Mexican on meteor scatter, or sporadic E attempting; plenty
of them in range (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0150 UT May 20

** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RCUSB, May 18 at 1443 tune-in via Campo Brasil
SDR, LRA36 is already on with music; 1453 song with whistling; 1500
sign-on with multilingual IDs including English to tell us it`s in
Spanish. 1502 all-female staff named by a male, ``Nacional, La Radio
Publica``; Esperanza/Antártida themesong. 1505 YL talking; 1507
temperatura máxima; 1508 exact geographical coordinates. 1509 contact
info of phone numbers, whatsaap, gmail, instagram, fb; streaming via
radio nacional, frequencies 15476 and FM 96.7 [NOT 97.6, a mixup which
keeps getting quoted, published]; 1512 song, 1514 siren.

At 1525 for the record I attempt to detect it direct on the R75 with
30m E/W longwire: less than imagination level JBA carrier; if it were
full rather than reduced -- what %? -- it might have a chance vs the S7
local line noise level in AM tuning. Next I switch to the LU1 SDR: 1536
ID, frequencies; 1545 full ID; still on past 1602, 1618+ with music but
apparently off, no longer heard from 1621 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 9780-9835, May 18 at 0632, approx. range of jamming splatter
out of peak 9805 = S9 against nothing as R. Martí is never on 9805 at
this hour, in fact on no SW frequencies at all in 0600/1000 break.
Something`s very wrong at the incompetent DentroCuban Jamming Command
where they also do not give a damn about collateral damage (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** EGYPT. 9440v, May 18 at 2225, NO signal today of R. Cairo English
into UTwente. Nor circa 9900 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. 17855, Wed May 18 at 2210, token English from REE, today`s
feature with Amy Egan about the Eurovision Song Contest won by Ukraine,
also with other entries such as Spain`s. VG into Maryland SDR (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830.021, May 18 at 2225, VOT English, S9+40 into UTwente
with some hum, just concluding the `Feeling Supreme` theme (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2138 monitoring: confirmed Tuesday
May 17 at 2230 on WRMI 9955, S9/+20 into Maryland SDR and no jamming
audible; also have UTwente running way outside target area and no
signal there, just clicking. At 2258 direct, 9955 is S9+10/20 and
jamming is building for the 2300 Radio Libertad until 2400: but at 2325
fill music is playing.

WOR also confirmed at new time of Tuesday May 17 at 2330 on WRMI 9395,
S9+5/20 into Maryland SDR.

Also confirmed Wednesday May 18 at approx. 2100:21 on WBCQ 7490v, S7/S9
into Maryland SDR minus 70 Hz = 7489.93. Next:

0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to WNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S; 9395 to NNW

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(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. Slight correxions to 5130 Radio Angela report May 17: [...]
At 0200 starts `Marion`s Attic`. We have now escaped CODAR QRM and the
uteblaaps! No QRM to 5130, but still some storm crashes inevitably in
spring/summer. Yet listenable, and better than the original 7490v
airing too early direct at 21 UT Sundays. 0300 next show is `Bluegrass
State of Mind`. Or, is it ``Mine``? 5130 ex-4790 of course also applies
to WORLD OF RADIO at 0400 UT Saturdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 2332 UT May 18

** AUSTRALIA. 10124 USB, May 17 at 0628, ragchew hamnet of Oz accents,
more unID VKs in the Aussie-only phone subband on 29 m, 10120-10135
kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** BRAZIL. 9667.177V, May 17 at 0635, RVM music, carrier wobbling
audibly but still exceeding 9667 from nominal 9665 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** CUBA. 13680, May 17 at 2001, RHC theme JBA and sounds like
Portuguese/Brasilian. This frequency is still missing from EiBi and
Aoki tho I reported it some time ago. Is anyone paying attention?

15140, May 17 at 2002, RHC definitely in Brazuguese, S6/S8 but not //
13680. Maybe two separate playouts. Aoki is way out of date, still
showing winter timing for English on 15140 at 2000-2100. EiBi on 15140
at 2000-2030 shows French. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** EGYPT. 9439.995, May 17 at 2201, R. Cairo still in extremely
distorted English, plus hum S9+30/40 into UTwente. As Alan Holder
quipped, ``something`s always amiss at Abis``, but that does not do
this justice; rather, ``egregious in Egypt`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SRI LANKA. Correxion to typo in frequency as ``15709.079``! Delete
original report and replace with:
15709.979, May 16 at 1447, JBA carrier. Scheduled is AWR Chinese via
Trincomalee on ``15710`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** UKRAINE [non]. 7730, May 17 at 0500-0506, UR1 via WRMI, day 82 of
Russia`s war, `Ukraine: Security Issue` in English (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2138 monitoring: confirmed UT
Tuesday May 17 at 0030 on WRMIs, into Missouri SDR: 9395, S9+22 and
9455, S8/S9+10. Next:

2230 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed by Cuba]
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 [NEW]
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, Australia 5035-USB or 3210-USB
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to WNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S; 9395 to NNW

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(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. ``Glenn, the WRMI spurspikes below 9455 have been going on
for at least a couple of weeks. I can hear them well up to 150 kHz
below fundamental when reception is good. One night they pretty much
ruined otherwise decent reception of BBCWS via SMG at 0500 on 9410.
Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas`` as of May 13. Also, typo in my report
as ``9355`` instead of correct 9335, spurs heard even next to WBCQ
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 15770, Tue May 17 at 1930, VOA News via WRMI, and 1935
`Flashpoint: Ukraine` dated today, not Mon May 16 edition which got
lost, since 72-hour-previous Fri May 13 edition played yesterday.
S9/+10 into Maryland SDR. But followed by another anomaly at 2000,
faux-time-signal and VORW, John claiming it be Sunday May 15 on 5850
doing a full new show tho did not feel well (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5130, May 17 at *0155, WBCQ IS & ID loop, just reactivated
for first time, ex-4790 for Radio Angela. S9/+5 into Maryland SDR
reading -22 Hz = 5129.978 as every Classic `BCQ frequency must be at
least slightly askew. At 0200 starts `Marion`s Attic`. We have now
escaped CODAR QRM and the uteblaaps! No QRM to 5130, but still some
storm crashes inevitably in spring/summer. Yet listenable, and better
than the original 7490v airing too early at 21 UT Fridays. 0300 next
show is `Bluegrass State of Mind`. Or, is it ``Mine``? 5130 ex-4790 of
course also applies to WORLD OF RADIO at 0400 UT Saturdays.

4790, from 0343 I inspect the ex-frequency via same remote: the
uteblaaps are still there visible on waterfall and/or audible, once a
minute near :00 and also near :42 past each minute. One at a time, in
three different positions: below, right on, or above, 4790. They too
are now free of WBCQRM - you`re welcome (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7505, May 17 at 0145, NO signal from WRNO which nominally
starts at 0100. Also missing last night. Previous report to the WOR
iog:

``7505even, ONLY EMPTY CARRIER of WRNO New Orleans at 1234 UT on May
13, S=9 in NY state, two 120 Hertz distance apart strings either
sideband visible too.[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3
Hertz] (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 8 / 13)``

Last reports were on UT May 14:

``Distorted audio of WRNO Worldwide Radio in English on 7505 kHz via
New Orleans, May 14
from 0430 on 7505 RNO 050 kW / 020 deg to ENAm English. Very good via
SDR Frostburg MD, USA

https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2022/05/wrno-worldwide-radio-in-english-on-7505_15.html

Very good WRNO Worldwide Radio in Arabic on 7505 kHz via New Orleans,
May 14
from 0733 on 7505 RNO 050 kW / 020 deg to ENAm Arabic Sce via SDR
Milford PA, USA

https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2022/05/wrno-worldwide-radio-in-arabic-on-7505_15.html

Very good WRNO Worldwide Radio in Chinese on 7505 kHz via New Orleans,
May 14
from 0842 on 7505 RNO 050 kW / 020 deg to ENAm Chinese via SDR
Frostburg MD, USA.

https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2022/05/wrno-worldwide-radio-in-chinese-on-7505_15.html
``

``[WOR] WRNO 7505 missing --- For the 2nd night in a row, I note that
WRNO is missing from their usual 7505 frequency. Walt`` Salmaniw, BC,
0218 UT May 16. This is not unusual: WRNO may disappear for nights or
weeks at a time for no obvious reason: technical or operational?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 2227 UT May 17

** CANADA. 248 MCW kHz, May 16 at 0451 UT, dash and WG, powerful ND
beacon at Winnipeg, glad to find it copiable despite HSNL, if no other
Canadians and hardly any Americans beyond 341 EI Enid (Glenn Hauer,
OK, WOR)

** CHINA [non]. 9790, May 16 at 0458, CRI Cantonese via CUBA is S9+40
atop CCI in French which is RFI from 0400. At 0506 check, RFI S9:15 in
the clear on this 04-07 UT broadcast, huge collision during first
hour. RHC not in HFCC so how could RFI possibly know of a problem?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 6000, May 16 at 0513, RHC with S9+35 of dead air in English,
or maybe JBM; 6060 & 6100 are off already; 6165 is on S9+40/45 and
modulating; 5040 in Spanish. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ROMANIA. 13650, May 16 at 2037, RRI first English of the day for N
America is huge S9+50 into UTwente, but absent from // 11850, the
ailing transmitter. 2045 `History Show` about a great poet (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** RUSSIA. 9996 kHz, May 16 at 0456, binary code, no doubt RWM
Taldom/Moskva. BTW, American media kept mispronouncing Móskva as the
name of that downed naval vessel. They must never have heard any SW
utterance of ``Govorit Moskvá`` with the stress obviously on the -a
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7730, May 16 at 0500, UR1 via WRMI resuming `Ukraine:
Security Issue` war summary in English; S9/S7 direct with storm
crashes (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SRI LANKA. 15709.079, May 16 at 1447, JBA carrier. Scheduled is AWR
Chinese via Trincomallee on ``15710`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2138 monitoring: confirmed Sunday
May 15 from 2000.7 UT on IRRS SW via AM Italia, Villa Estense, 1323
kHz, S9 and noisy into nearby Noale KiwiSDR; and not on 918 or 207.

Also confirmed Sunday May 15 at 2230 on WRMI 5950, S9+10 into
Knoxville SDR. This airing perpetuates despite axed from websked.

Also confirmed UT Monday May 16 at 0030 on WRMI 7780, S8/S9 and noisy
into undirect Knoxville SDR.

Also confirmed UT Monday May 16 at 0301 on Area 51 via WBCQ 6160-.
Dead air at first, then an F-explative in the voice of Allan Weiner,
as A51 sometimes inserts such amusements; WOR itself sounded slightly
overmodulated/distorted. Next:

0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to WNW
2230 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed by Cuba]
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 [NEW]
1000 UT Wednesday Unique R, Australia 5035-USB or 3210-USB
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW; 9455 to WNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S; 9395 to NNW

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

For these noncommercial services, voluntary financial support is much
appreciated, by MO check in US$ on a US bank to:
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

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

** U S A. (7489.9v), Sunday May 15 from 2200, WBCQ webcast of `Uncle
Bill`s Melting Pot`, music from Ireland for St Patrix Day as
originally broadcast in 2017y, rerun of the third episode when they
were only a semihour. That should rereplay Monday at 2300. Sunday 2230
restart another episode of variety starting with Serbia, 2250 greeting
Michigan ARE where they like hot women and cold beer, as Ep #4. Reruns
still as UB is Covidailing (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 4790, UT Monday May 16 after 0200, WBCQ Radio Angela with
another opera on `Concert Hall`, but unlistenable via Maryland SDR
with uteblaaps every few seconds. Was last chance for 4790, as 5130 to
replace it from UT May 17. If the blaaps follow it there, that will be
really suspicious (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5950, UT Monday May 16 at 0200 I do catch this week`s
`Encore` of classical music via WRMI; almost sufficient into Knoxville
SDR but a bit of Cuban jamming splat from 5955, whence Radio República
has been kaput for a decade, unless BW narrowed, rather not for music,
or LSBed (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 15770, Monday May 16 at 1930 after R. Prague, WRMI with
`Flashpoint Ukraine` from VOA webcast, soon specified as Friday May
13! Skipping the news first since it would have been 48 hours olds.
Recall that FPU was missing Wed & Thu May 11 & 12, but I missed
checking May 13: no problem: we`ve got it now! But, what about the
Monday May 16 edition? Ended at 1954, then jive VOA ID, dead air; 1956
thumb piano music? WRMI ID and more music fill until Mistruths to
Mistrust (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9940, May 16 at 2208, WTWW again/still absent as ``Voice of
Freedom`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1130 kHz, May 16 circa 1730 & 1800 UT on caradio, and circa
2200 fixed, KLEY Wellington KS still providing air that is dead (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. (91.5), Sunday May 15 from 2301 UT, KTXK Texarkana (about as
far from Lubbock as possible in TX as I misplaced it last time,
confused with KTXT), webcast of `Weekend Radio` originated with WCLV,
on my last chance to hear this week`s episode on one of the fewer
affiliates remaining. After a ToH commercial, another break at 2311
pushing buying a ``spot for $ 3 to support public radio``. Surely this
is crossing the line into commercialism, and there were some brief
spots later which sounded just like ads, not ``underwriting``. Yet to
boot, show ended early at 2350 so some content must have been cut. HQ
does provide a cue sheet confirming it was this week`s episode, but
post facto could not figure what came out (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 2247 UT May 16