** OKLAHOMA. The local S9+10 high line noise level again blocking most
DX tuning July 30 until suddenly quits at 0651*. While running, it
would typically exhibit split-second breaks every several seconds; as
if discharging and building right up again? Does anyone recognize what
kind of device might behave thus? (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. Correxion: in last report about KUSH, the second time
cited was typoed as 1607 instead of correct 1507; fixed:

1600 kHz, Saturday July 29 at 1506 UT, KUSH Cushing, not with
``Americana`` main music format, but story about bison, 1507 outro
National Native News! ... (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. I see that the WTFDA FM Database as of July 30 still has
not corrected the mistake I outpointed July 7, that 90.1 KUCO is NOT a
relay of 95.9 KCSC, but vice versa. Furthermore, the 95.9 KCSC entry
does not show it as a relay of 90.1 KUCO, or anything, but remarx that
it is // KUCO 91.1, getting that frequency wrong (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** ROMANIA. 11800.000, July 30 at 2239, RRI S9+30/40 into UTwente with
dead air! in English. Tuned up to here after finding Turkey 11785
distortion intolerable. I guess that`s an improvement? But something`s
gone wrong at Galbeni. Its other frequency is finely modulated and
even stronger, 9740 at S9+30/45, going from `Living Romania` to `In
the Spotlite` about the new foreign minister. Both aimed at WEu and
t/hence NAm. Also Tsiganeshti VG on 9790 and 11650 for FE, all exactly
.000. At 2253, 11800 is still dead; 2255 cut to S7/S8 but apparently
not totally off, antenna change, soon powered back up by 2258 and
finally modulating IS, 2300 Spanish. At this hour 11650 also continues
but the other two frequencies change, per EiBi (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** SAO TOME. 9525, Sun July 30 at 2209, S6/S9 of open carrier/dead
air. Nothing listed now, but EiBi shows VOA French via Pinheira at
2100-2130 on the odd schedule of Sun/Tue/Sat. Given sloppy record of
USAGM wasting taxpayer money, I don`t doubt it; even that not listed
by Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [non]. 15730, Sunday July 30 at 2059, surprised to encounter
VOA in English here, S9+20 from Grimesland, interview but interrupted
for sign-off. Both EiBi and Aoki show 2030-2100 transmission is
weekends only, French on Sundays, Hausa on Saturdays. They really have
a hard time coördinating programming with transmissioning. See also:
SAO TOME (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2201 monitoring: confirmed UT
Sunday July 30 at 0030 on WRMI 7780, S9/+15 into Louisiana SDR, some
storm noise; with opening blast of noise QRM first 14 seconds as
always, followed by one more brief bit. Also I think as perpetually
automated, three more brief blasts in the 0054-0055 minute. It seems
both WRMI and the QRMer are satisfied with this arrangement! Never
mind victimized programmers.

Also confirmed UT Sunday July 30 at 0309 on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, MO, about
5 minutes into, so again started early circa 0304, S9+10/25 into
nearby SDR, with storm crashes.

Also confirmed Sunday July 30 at 1356 the 1330 on WRMI 9955, S7/S9
direct, no jamming audible.

Also confirmed Sunday July 30 at 2021 the 2000 on IRRS SW via AM
Italia 1323 kHz, S9/+10 into nearby Noale SDR, with very little QRM.
Next:

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, NSW 5035-LSB
1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-LSB [previous #2200]
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

Thanks this week to William T Hassig, Mt Prospect IL, ``Congrats on
2200 World of Radios`` with a generous check in US funds on a US bank
to:
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

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

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** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RC USB, July 29 at 1756, LRA36 already on with
music for a regular Saturday broadcast, S6/S8 into Argentine SDR.
After another internet outage here, at 1809 talking about weather and
how cold Base Esperanza has been in midwinter, -25 and -35 C. Which
reminds me to turn on my AC: 98F outside, 82 inside, tolerable but
getting uncomfortable. 1813 to song, and live greetings with full ID,
`Uniendo Voces` with staff present named. On a windy afternoon, 25
kph, only -13 C. 1817 about other Base, Marambio, where there are
birthdays. 1826 LRA36 ID with reverb, music, then RAE multi-lingual
ID, back to chat, about two FM stations inside Argentina relaying
this. 1829 greeting listeners including Manuel Méndez in Spain.
Crediting Univ. Nac. de Quilmes for produxion. 1830 contact info,
whatsapp, email, website. Renovation of program, Estudio 9. 1845
interviewing a child. 1850 song. At 1905 it`s still -13. Next check at
2054, still going but weakening. Allegedly also scheduled now before
18 on Fridays, unchecked here July 28 nor any reports of it (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11760, July 29 at 0704, RHC extension still on, in Spanish,
S9/+10 and somewhat undermodulated. Also unusually with dirty
parasitic spurs plus/minus 3 kHz. Something`s always wrong at RHC
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** GUAM. 11590, July 29 at 1457, unID language, fair signal and off.
This one really was KTWR in Kazakh at 1445-1500 per EiBi, as I tuned
on to 11880, see SWAZILAND (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6869.912 AM, July 29 at 0639, much better signal
than before from pirate presumed Late Night Lunatix, S9+10/20 direct
in a song. Many more logs now in HFUnderground, this date:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,116418.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6964.00, July 29 at 0645, JBA carrier seems silent,
probably a pirate. At HFU many logs around this frequency going back
years, but nothing tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 1600 kHz, Saturday July 29 at 1506 UT, KUSH Cushing, not
with ``Americana`` main music format, but story about bison, 1607
outro National Native News! and ID as Native Voice One, the native
American radio network, right into drumming & chanting past 1515. What
could be more ``Americana`` than this? NNN had a CPB funding credit,
as mostly on public radio. Kudos to private/commercial KUSH for
devoting at least an hour a week to this.

https://www.1600kush.com/
leads to listen link:
http://crystalout.surfernetwork.com:8001/KUSH_MP3
which I switch to as more convenient and hifi than off-air direct
1600.
Website has everything except a plain old program sked, but see this:
https://www.1600kush.com/onair/native-air-with-hugh-foley

1524 another ID and more drumchant: lots of tribes do that so I can`t
guess which one now. 1533 National Native News again, in English; 1546
solo singing amid internet outages provided by subOptimum. By 1555
more Native News, about Guatemala. More outage until 1609 check now
with gospel huxter (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 90.1, KUCO: I had been catching up on episodes of `A Day
to Remember` via ``samples`` on the PRX website, but that halted in
June, so I asked KUCO about it. As a result they are now available via
own website:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-day-to-remember/id1699463301
as of Sat July 29 apparently only the past 5 weekday 2-minute episodes
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** SWAZILAND. 11880, July 29 at 1458, TWR music box IS, S3/S7, ID may
have mentioned pending language. Thought it would be KTWR, but no, per
EiBi it`s Manzini in Somali, and via longpath across Indian & Pacific
Oceans. See also GUAM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See GUAM

** U S A. 8992 USB, July 29 at 0646-0649* lengthy alfanumeric cryptic
US military message, training? with self-imposed whine, concluding ID:
``Assembly`` always a new word, never repeating? (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2201 monitoring: confirmed what is
now first SWBC, UT Saturday July 29 at 0130 on WRMI 5850, S9+20
direct.

Also confirmed, Saturday July 29 at 1609 the 1600 on WRN N America
webcast.

Also confirmed, Saturday July 29 at 1935 on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, MO, about
14 minutes into so started early circa 1921; so much storm noise from
north central MO that I could barely hear me, referring to Singapore
as a marker. Earlier at 1931 I thought it wasn`t me: of course, Vern
has to interrupt every dekaminute with his own ID. Next:

0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW
0245vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0457]
1330 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE
[also phonecast, webcast][jammed by Cuba?]
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, NSW 5035-LSB
1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-LSB [previous #2200]
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

Thanks this week to William T Hassig, Mt Prospect IL, ``Congrats on
2200 World of Radios`` with a generous check in US funds on a US bank
to:
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

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

** U S A. Re 9955, WRMI, Friday July 28 at 2323, what I heard was not
Backwoods Radio, so never mind that link, but Backroads Radio as Mike
M advises at 0113 UT July 29: ``[WOR] Backroads Radio on WRMI Repeats
Same Two Songs --- Just listened to WRMI 9455 kHz at 0100 UT Saturday.
It is Backroads Radio. It repeats the same two songs over and over.
Not sure what is up with that.`` --- Backroads Radio is on the WRMI
skeds a few various times, but *not* when I heard it; nothing on the
Programming page (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 11487 USB, July 29 at 0707, VP 2-way in English
including a YL voice, rather informal, including some tones at
cambios. Heard before on same frequency: Russian numbers station in
2018y per Observer, Bulgaria, and various other reports. I recall
hearing 2-way English before but can`t find it; maybe slightly
different frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

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** CHINA. 9545, July 28 at 2321, Chinese maybe echoing, S7/S9 with
heavy flutter. That would be CNR1 jamming against RFA Tibetan via
Tajikistan. Several similar sigs on 31m band only, the sweet spot now
for such propagation. BTW Aoki still has Solomon Islands the only
other on 9545, at 22-05, but believed inactive, not reported in
longtime (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11760, July 28 at 0715, overtime RHC Spanish S9+10 but JBM.
Something`s always wrong at RHC. It`s the only log I make this
late-night due to horrible S9+10 noise level all over the bands:
suspect from neighbor and/or thru power lines. I may have to rely even
more on remote receivers, but many of them also have `line noise`
problems. Abated by 15 UT enough to tell that propagation is now
degraded (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15230, July 28 at 2316, RHC S9/+10 of dead air. Something`s
always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. 17855, Fri July 28 at 2200, token English from SNR, intro as
interview with some French composer/singer living in Spain, still no
news. Good into Maryland SDR, confirmed also active on 17715, 15520,
11670 and over to TURKEY instead (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 11785.006, July 28 at *2159, VOT tries to start, cuts right
off, comes back at *2201 to stay on 11785.009. Heavy modulation almost
tolerable distortion in talk, horrible in music. Top news about Niger
coup. 2210 `Review of Turkish Press`. 2212.5 music. 2220 multi-lingual
ID filler reel. 2222 `Feeling Supreme/The Healing Spring`, repeat
about persimmons. 2229 music. 2234 ``Always By Your Side`` promo. 2238
`Did You Know That`, by badax, repeat about WWI peace treaty during
Ottoman Empire. 2242 two more distorted musix. 2249 ``With You Every
Hour`` promo, music. 2253 always defective s/off announcement,
fragment of IS chopped off at 2254.6*, no finesse. Something`s always
erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2201 monitoring. WRMI 9955 JBA Fri
July 28 at 1455, enough to tell it`s not WOR for the third week tho
still on the websked.

Confirmed Friday July 28 at 2051 the 2030 on IRRS SW via AM Italia,
1323 kHz only, still no 918 or 207; S9/+15 with a few storm crashes
and only slight CCI presumably England. Next:

0130 UT Saturday WRMI 5850 to NW
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to SW
0245vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0457]
1330 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 to SSE
[also phonecast, webcast][jammed by Cuba?]
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, NSW 5035-LSB
1030 UT Wednesday Unique R, NSW 5035-LSB [previous #2200]
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

Thanks this week to William T Hassig, Mt Prospect IL, ``Congrats on
2200 World of Radios`` with a generous check in US funds on a US bank
to:
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

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

** U S A. 9955, Fri July 28 at 2323, WRMI with email in English for, I
think, backwoodsradioshow@gmail.com certainly not RAE relay in
Portuguese as claimed thrice in schedule grids. No such name anywhere
on the skeds, nor on the Programming page. We do wish Jeff would
assign someone to keeping his displayed skeds up to date. Assumed
music, but maybe this drama podcast I searched out:
https://www.backwoodspod.com/ with horrible disgusting illustrations,
nothing about WRMI, and a different email (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. (7490), UT Sat July 29 at 0000 on WBCQ webcast, minute of
dead air after lo-fi feed from FKB gospel huxter finishes; 0001 JIP
`AAAWWW` theme, and soon obvious it`s a repeat of last week where he
goes political despite audience hating it. Is it quadricast again? At
least I recheck sigs into Maryland SDR: 7490 -72 Hz = 7489.928; 6160
-68 Hz = 6159.932; 5130 & 3265, no signals, just storm crashes (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

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O, I have not forgotten. OKC ``needed`` another VHF to serve as ABC affiliate, so sucked in KGEO 5 from Enid.

Same thing happened in Tulsa, KTVX 8 from Muskogee becoming KTUL.

No doubt similar raids in many other markets

Glenn

On Friday, July 28, 2023 at 05:10:06 PM GMT+1, fmerrilljr--- via Hard-Core-DX <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com> wrote:

Glenn, don't forget that Enid had a full service "regular" TV station once. KOCO-5 Oklahoma City originally started out as KGEO-5 Enid. I think they may have moved south even by 1960...
Frank Merrill
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2023 01:26:28 +0000 (UTC)

** OKLAHOMA. RF17, July 26 in daytime, K17JN-D is definitely back on
air at usual local translator strength with satellator panoply of 3ABN
subchannels; Enid`s only local TV signal, embarrassingly for a city of
50K. For a while we had locally programmed LPTV, KXOK 32, ``TV-OK``,
gone as of 8 years ago. See my log report of July 21, 2015. At least I
still have their mug as a souvenir (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

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Glenn, don't forget that Enid had a full service "regular" TV station once.  KOCO-5 Oklahoma City originally started out as KGEO-5 Enid.  I think they may have moved south even by 1960...
Frank Merrill
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2023 01:26:28 +0000 (UTC)

** OKLAHOMA. RF17, July 26 in daytime, K17JN-D is definitely back on
air at usual local translator strength with satellator panoply of 3ABN
subchannels; Enid`s only local TV signal, embarrassingly for a city of
50K. For a while we had locally programmed LPTV, KXOK 32, ``TV-OK``,
gone as of 8 years ago. See my log report of July 21, 2015. At least I
still have their mug as a souvenir (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)
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