** CUBA. 6040-6080, April 9 at 0602, RHC 6060 transmitter is not only
burying its English under big humbuzz, but splashing out over this
range, e.g. ruining 6070 CFRX. Something`s always wrong at RHC.

5040 & 6000 & 6100 are off, but 6165 remains with English at S9+10/20
tho undermodulated; not 6145 this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13505-trace, 13570, 13635; 13765, 13830, 13895, 13960-trace,
April 9 at 1350, RHC spurblobs with F# tones at approx. 65 kHz
intervals out to 4th order from source 13700-AM at S9-S4 weaker than
// 13740 which is clean. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15140, April 9 at 1358, this RHC is off; 1500 recheck is on
at S9+20/30 with good mod // 11760. Aoki says 15140 from *1400 but
EiBi from *1100. SAWA? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ERITREA [and non]. Re this: ``UNIDENTIFIED. 15340, April 3 at 1705,
I`m checking an A-21 frequency HFCC-registered for RMI via France,
q.v.: there is a JBA carrier, but it`s surrounded by DRM-like noise,
where nonesuch is scheduled. Weak, and I can`t get any remote to lock
and decode it as DRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)``

i.e.: ``15340 1700 1800 48W Mul 127 250 1234567 DTWT [Alameda BF?]``

Ivo Ivanov reported on April 4: ``Dimtse Wegahta Tigray Voice of Dawn
Tigray, 1700-1800 on 15340 ISS 250 kW / 127 deg to EaAf Tigrinya +
white noise jamming`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2081)

** HAWAII. Re the fonetix I heard ending the :50 minute announcement
on WWVH, I check 10000 again April 8 at 0550: it`s about MARS activity
on ``60`` meters, foneticizing website DOD.ORG. How is it that of all
USG/military activities, this merits time on WWV/H? (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** INDONESIA. When checking HFCC for Romania A21 sked, I hit RRI
instead of RRO, and come up with this TOTALLY IMAGINARY sked for
Indonesia, including 3325 relay via Playa-de-Pals, the long-destroyed
R. Liberty site on the coast of Spain! Makes HFCC a laughingstock:
http://hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A21&broadc=RRI
53 entries; language for all, long-dead domestic sites is English! Why
not?! These are presumably sprinkled thruout the by-frequency A-21
schedule; beware! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. RF 26, April 9 at 1508 UT, KOTV Tulsa on its repacked
channel ex-45; with level 1-2-3 tropoblobs between Tulsa and here,
barely decodes via my broken antenna for ID but not audiovideo: 6-1
KOTV-HD; 6-2 KQCW-SD; 6-3 NewsOn6. Also BAD signals on 15 and 21. Now
both Wichita and Tulsa are on some same channels, which would have
been unthinkable in the Analog Era.

Rabbitears.info shows the same KOTV trios also on RF 19 in McAlester
OK, RF 30 in Caney KS, low powers 1 kW ERP; same callsigns??

https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=kotv
I would check the other major reference, W9WI.com but even ``created
4-9-2021`` it`s still Canadian-only. FCC TV Query calls them all
KOTV-DT as ``Tulsa`` not mentioning far McAlester or Caney; only the
coördinates imply them! (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR)

** ROMANIA. 9660, April 9 at 0554, RRI closing 0530 English, S9-S7
citing further English times and frequencies. First time noticing this
right next to Brasil 9665-. Springy propagation improving? No, HFCC
shows NOT supposed to be on 9660 at 0530-0600, rather 0500-0530
French, and 0630-0700 Arabic! So stayed on an extra semihour? 0530
English supposed to be only on 6015, 7325 and 17760; one of which
probably DRM, not specified at
http://hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A21&broadc=RRO
See also INDONESIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9395, April 9 at 0553, TOMBS via WRMI, only
poor S4-S6; something on 9455 JBA carrier, presumably SMTV. WRMI
skedgrid still dated April 2, the day before BS died, still shows him
on 6 frequencies during the 05-06 hour: 5850, 5950, 7570, 7730, 7780,
9395 --- but 7570 and 7780 are still gone. Not sure at what hour they
QRT, but TOM had been starting at 04 on 7780; was continuous 00-11 on
7570. The latter jamfree bigsig beamed NW across America could/should
be re-occupied with significant evening programming (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** SPAIN [and non]. 17855, April 7 at *1800, REE is S9 here but deep
fades and bound to expire in an hour or so; `24 Horas` domestic
newscast all about new regulations coping with COVID-19 in Spain. Poor
as it may be, is the SSOB, vs JBA carriers on adjacent 17850, 17720,
17700, i.e. per HFCC: 17850 RFI ISS; 17720 AWR Nauen? supposed to
finish Oromo at 1800; 17700 something from Woofferton, World`s Last
Chance in English per Aoki; no longer VOA NC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. Alfredo Cotroneo advises me that IRRS will no
longer broadcast WOR Mondays at 1800 UT on 7290, replaced by something
else. A new time for WOR has now been found, SATURDAYS at 1800v on
7290 --- this means listeners will get more timely info on the program
produced late UT Thursdays. Tnx, Alfredo. In addition:

``Here is the new schedule of WOR on IRRS:
FRI 2030 UT on 594 kHz + streaming (*)
SAT 1800 UT on 7290 kHz+ 594 kHz + streaming
SAT 2330 UT streaming only
SUN 2100 UT 594 kHz
(*) this should provide best propagation to Europe on MW. It will be
even better when we move to 918 kHz, which will be less noisy.``

WORLD OF RADIO 2081 contents: Alaska, Andorra non, Angola, Antarctica,
Austria, Brasil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cuba, East Turkistan,
Eritrea and non, France, Germany, India, Italy and non, Korea South,
México, Netherlands, New Zealand, North America, Papua New Guinea,
Perú, Russia and non, South Carolina non, Spain, Sri Lanka, Turkey,
Ukraine, USA, Vanuatu, Zambia; propagation outlook [apologies for some
snags in the original recording]

WOR 2081 is available as of 0139 UT Friday April 9, 2021
(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2081.m3u
(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2081.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, 7780 to NE
1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
1801vUT Saturday IRRS 7290 14580 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy [ex-Mon]
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315; as late as 0400]
2200vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW
2300 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2200 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

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woradio at yahoo.com Not necessarily in US funds, and says, ``Glenn,
it's about time I contributed to your (virtually) lifelong efforts on
behalf of DXers!``

One may also contribute, by MO or check in US funds on a US bank to
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702.

First airings confirmed UT Fri April 9 at 0130 on WRMIs: 5850 VG
direct; 7780 VG via SDRs NE of FL (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9955, April 7 at 2128, WRMI in French about a coup d`état,
interviewee with heavy African? accent vs pure-French interviewer,
pause for brief ID in English as Radio for Peace International, back
to French; as scheduled Wednesdays at 21-22 preceding WOR at 2200
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** VANUATU. 11835, April 9 at 0551, presumed R. Vanuatu X3 is JBA, yet
the OSOB, therefore also the SSOB (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report despatched at 1745 UT April 9

** CUBA. 6145, April 8 at 0541, RHC English back here instead of 6165
instead of 9700, S9+20 but undermodulated. Now = UM on 6100 S9/+10,
6000 S9+20/30, and 5040 S9+20/30 --- but 6060 is dead air at S9+10
with some hum only instead of big humbuzz; progress? Something`s
always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13700, April 8 at 1430, RHC Spanish back here during `Sonido
Cubano` music, S9+10/20 but no spurs and not on 13740 either where the
spurunit appeared yesterday. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** EAST TURKISTAN. 13710, April 8 at 1455, CRI S9+10/S7 with flutter,
in American-English chat, i.e. Kashgar scheduled this hour only, to be
replaced by Sa`udi Qur`an at 1457. From the land of ChiCom imperialist
persecution, even genocide against native Uyghurs and other Moslems
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NEW ZEALAND. 15720, April 8 at 0534, JBA carrier no doubt RNZP, far
too late to be useful here instead of 9, 11 or even 13 MHz channels;
now scheduled until 0558, but Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, has been hearing
it running even later until 0645* instead of 11725 from *0559 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6970-AM, April 8 at 0546, JBA nothing but talk,
sounds like a real station. Search for //s: not TOMBS on WRMI or WWCR;
not any of my 3 Enid locals 960, 1390, 1640. No big 7 MHz signals
which could leapfrog here. 6970 does not compute as any MW harmonic
either. I notice that 6970 happens to be 2 x 3485, where Gander VOLMET
is, but USB of course and not // either.

It`s S9 but so is the local noise level, so mostly unreadable. At 0600
fades up a bit, 0603 with anti-Biden talk, denouncing ``far left`` so
I bet it`s Fox News Channel TV audio. YES, I soon match it to FNC on
cable 48 here, a few seconds ahead of that during Sean Hannity repeat.
[BTW, our Suddenlink office was closed down yesterday for state tax
violations!] Also occasional machine-gun rat-a-tat-tat QRM, utility I
assume, tho the paranoid might conclude it be jamming.

Later I check HF Underground and find NO logs of it tonight as there
is hardly any pirate activity or DXing this late at night; but FNC has
been reported several times before on 6970, in full daytime, most
recently January 26 at 1755 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. 17855, Wed April 7 at 2126, REE JBA carrier on so-called
North American service; 15520 to ME backwards is better but still poor
S3-S5; 11940 to S America best at S5-S8; 11685 to Africa JBA vs RTTY
11687.5 except with LSB tuning. By 2158, 11940 is fair-poor S4-S5 as
token M/W/F English is about to begin (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, April 7 at 2158, VOT IS is JBA vs RTTY CCI; still JBA
at 2226 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2080 monitoring: confirmed
Wednesday April 7 at 2100 on WBCQ 7489.922, offset -78v Hz as measured
by Virginia SDR in SAM mode, S9/+20; while simul on WRMI 7780 is S9+10
but undermodulated in comparison. Also direct to here at 2125 check,
7490- is JBA S5, 7780 JBA S4-S8.

Also confirmed Wed Apr 7 at 2200 on WRMI 9955, S9+10/20 generally over
pulse jamming, same by 2226 recheck.

Confirmed final repeat, UT Thursday April 8 at 0130 on WRMI 5010, good
S9/+10 into VA KiwiSDR.

Next WOR 2081 should be ready by early UT Friday April 9 for first
airings at 0130 on WRMIs, 5850 & 7780.

BTW, this week, April 5, the Monday 1801 broadcast on IRRS 7290,
Bulgaria? Romania? was also heard on X2 = 14580 via UTwente SDR,
reports Ralf Ladusch, Germany in A-DX via Wolfgang Büschel. I`m adding
14580 to my WOR schedules (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** VANUATU. 11835, Ron Howard, CA, replies to my previous logs:

``Hi Glenn, Clearly the propagation conditions change a great deal for
11835 reception; changing on a daily basis. April 8 (Thursday),
checked 11835, from 0451 to 0705 UT. At tune in there was certainly
only one station being heard (R. Vanuatu harmonic), with no trace at
all of CNR2; at 0500, no hint of time pips from CNR2. About 0545,
started to hear CNR2 fading in; 0600, clear China time pips and RV
extremely weak (totally unusable) underneath; CNR2 continued to gain
in strength, while RV got harder to hear underneath. 7890 and 3945,
both unheard.

Normally RV does start the news about one minute or so after the hour.
Their intro is indeed always with the same theme music;
consisting of indigenous horns and drums, making for a very unique
sound; ending the news with a different theme music. Ron`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1651 UT April 8

** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-RCUSB, April 7 at 1530, no signal from
RNASG/LRA36, checked via Iceland, Bonaire SDRs as I can`t connect to
any of those in Brasil. Suspect it`s really AWOL this Wednesday, or
maybe already dumped off air early. No other reports of it have
appeared yet today, not even from Manuel Méndez, Spain. Try Saturday
as early as 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15730, April 6 at 2221, no RHC here, but is on 15370
distorted and squealing, S9+20/25; and nothing on 13 MHz band.
Something`s always wrong at RHC.

11880, April 6 at 2224, S3-S8 undermodulated music, presumed RHC when
French is scheduled; at 2258-2300* music to dead air to shutoff just
when English is supposed to start. QSY or forget it? No chance to
search all bands for it elsewhere, which was fruitless before.
Something`s always wrong at RHC.

11850, April 6 at 2225, RHC S5-S6 and undermodulated Spanish, along
with JBA parasite carriers 11840 & 11860. Something`s always wrong at
RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 6000 & 6100 off, 6060 S9+20 big humbuzz over English; 6165
S9+20 lite hum and undermodulated, 5040 off. Something`s always wrong
at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13246-trace, 13318, 13388, 13459 vs CODAR, 13527, 13598,
13669; 13811, 13882, 13953 all approx., not in the order logged, April
7 from 1359, extremely distorted FMish spurblobs with F# tone, all in
the *wrong* places since they are obviously coming out of 13740
instead of 13700 which is not on air. 13740-AM itself is
undermodulated during music. Intervals are about 71 kHz apart.

1439 recheck: spurs audible around 13596, 13668, 13812-trace; while
15140 fundamental is squealing. Something`s always wrong at RHC.

As I have long suspected, RHC swaps transmitters/sites at will, yet
some loggers are always specifying Bejucal, Bauta or Quivicán as if
they know for sure. Latest Aoki/NDXC shows: 13700 Bauta at 14-16,
13740 Bejucal at 12-15 (& 22-05). But A-21 EiBi now available shows
both as b for Bauta, not be for Bejucal: 13700 at 13-15 and 13740 at
11-15 (& 22-05). Incredibly, neither of them lists any of these
horrible spurs -- but then their intervals vary widely. And now, also
their source-frequency, obviously one single transmitter with this
defect. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ERITREA [non]. 17545, Wed April 7 at 1537, zero signal from Bayto
Yaikl via France, direct or via remotes in India, Bonaire; Kuwait not
available. So far no luck since A21 began of hearing this Wed & Sat
1530 broadcast brokered by RMI so suspect kaput. Only trace of a
signal on 16m is 17630 = CRI Mali. But MUF is not totally down as I`m
hearing one Utah ham on ``17m``, see U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** HAWAII. 10000, April 7 at 0250, WWVH tail of announcement spelling
something fonetikaly; what`s that? Need to catch it another hour. No
WWV audible at this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, April 7 at 1446, assertive YL sounds more
like Türkish than Kurdish, and we know Dengê Welat utters both
languages, fluttery S9-S5, and no second jammer signal audible here
nor on alternate 11540. Except for CUBA & non, 11530 is the SSOB.

EiBi shows DW on 11530 switching from PRIDNESTROVYE to FRANCE not
until 1600, with ``anti-Kurdish tape`` from Emirler only until 1500 on
11540.

Aoki, on the contrary, shows DW, 11530 going from PRIDNESTROVYE to
FRANCE at 1500, with ``TRT Radio Recep Erdogan`` on 11540 at 0500-2100
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 7570, April 7 at 0241, this WRMI is off again
as TOMBS is phasing out? 7780 JBA carrier, but BS still blasting out
of the grave on 7730, and 7490- WBCQ.

April 7 at 0557: 7570 & 7780 are off again, BS still on WRMIs 7730,
9395, 5850, 5950; also WWCRs 5890, 4840 and squealy 3215 as he
attempts to sing.

9955, April 7 at 1449, WRMIs 9955 and 9455 are off instead of BS,
still on 9395 and WWCR 9980. The WRMI skedgrid
http://www.tinyurl.com/WRMIgrid still has not been updated to delete
the ex-BS blox, obviously now no accident (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. 17855, further chex April 6 of REE`s too-high-if-on-the-
air-at-all NAm frequency. Here at 2218 during Tue Sefarad show but
really speaking castellano, JBA carrier, while 15520 is good S6-S7;
11940 S5-S8; 11685 S3-S7. REE forces us to tune off-beam channels in
order to hear it at all.

17855, April 7 at 1809, direct today is JBA already and so is 15520,
while at 1823, the other two, 11940 & 11685 are JBA carriers. Strike
out, but 17855 is probably well-heard in Outer Space (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, April 6 at 2220, VOT reads S5-S7, no RTTY, but I
think the RTTY carrier is still on causing a fast SAH; undermodulated
and unusable. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler, awry at Ankara
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 18140-USB, April 7 at 1540-1608+, when hardly anything is on
the 17 MHz broadcast band, at least one ham is heard on 18 MHz, W7YO,
lengthy ragchew with never-audible KB4OIF -- I think, as fonetix never
applied. Says he had ear surgery in Dec removing inner cartilage, and
is just now recovering. He`s 67 and concerned with ``end-of-life``
tasks, such as building towers and antennas while he still can climb.
ARRL FCC lookup shows: ``GURNEY, GLENN M, W7YO, BLANDING, UT 84511``.
This probably a bit of HF sporadic E, distance only 645 miles, so
nothing to do with lack of F2 TA propagation.

Seems familiar: yes, I logged him last year: ``18131.778-USB, June 6
at 2049, W7YO is the OPSOB (only phone station on band), Glenn running
100 watts from the 4-corners area...` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2080 monitoring: not confirmed Wed Apr 7 at
1030 on WRMI 5850 as I was totally asleep; did anyone hear it? Next:

2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2200 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

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** VANUATU. 11835, April 7 at 0558, one signal with W&M talk, goes
right thru hourtop and 0600.7 a bit of music, news theme? and more
talk. S2-S4. Again I think it is R. Vanuatu X3 despite co-channel CNR2
from China, which I assume would have a ToH timesignal and break,
right? Also a JBA carrier on 7890 X2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1934 UT April 7

** BRAZIL. 9664.914, April 6 at 0625, Voz Missionária is S7-S4 with
music, frequency wavering slightly as I measure it. Except for WRMI,
WBCQ, it`s the SSOB.

9818.823, April 6 at 0620, JBA carrier, presumably R. Nove de Julho,
and no other Brazilians on 31m except 9664.914, which is *much*
stronger, implying that 9dJ be underpowered. Both ZYE890 and ZYE971
nominally 10 kW per WRTH 2021. Occasionally I hear 9630v at night, and
one other, 9550 is sometimes reported at other dayparts, but these
still in WRTH 2021 must be long gone: 9675, 9695, 9725 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 6165, April 6 at 0235, RHC English, instead of alternate
6145; 6060 nothing but big humbuzz. Something`s always wrong at RHC.

6100, April 6 at 0610, RHC final English repeat is OFF. So is 6000.
Still ON are 6165, VG S9+30, and 6060 S9+10/20 but still with big
humbuzz only. SAWA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 7780 & 7570, April 6 at 0614, these TOMBS
frequencies of WRMI all-night are OFF the air. Looks like QRT of BS is
already impacting, less Overkill; still VG on 7730, 5850, 5950, 9395.
WRMI skedgrid still shows them all, so possibly the two be off for
some other reason.

Bishop Bob Biermann, sort of with WRMI, says to the WOR iog: ``Being
that Brother Stair has paid in advance a month or more at most
stations, you will keep hearing him until the money runs out. If he
paid for April, then you have 25 more days, if he paid even more
(which he sometimes does), even longer. I would guess his “Board of
Directors” will have to make that decision, depending if people keep
sending money to his compound`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. 17855, April 6 at *1755:10, REE carrier on with IS, managing
to run it two days in a row! I`m on Alexandria VA SDR for east-coast
reception then compared to my own in Deep North America. At outset,
S4-S7 at Alexa, S5-S8 here. 15520 to ME, so off the back to here and
Alexa, is already on air from 1500, now with silly ballgame or hyper
sports report; E Hemisphere frequencies start and end 3 hours earlier
on weekdays. It`s S4-S7 here too. At 1758 schedule announcement. 1800
one pip timesignal, time check as 8, 7 en Canarias, and ``24 Horas``
news program. At Alexa, 15520 at S5-S7 is already much better than
17855. Alexa at 1816: 15520 poor S5-S7, 17855 S7-S8; but by 1818,
17855 is fading out, while 15520 is S9. At 1844 here, 17855 is S7-S9
but noisy, roughly equal to 15520; while 11940 for S America is much
weaker. By 1955 here, 17855 is JBA carrier, and 15520 VP.

Already by 2000, we need REE to be on lower bands aimed thisaway, 13,
or 11, and before much longer, say 2200-0200*, 9 MHz. The registered
NAm azimuth with 200 kW is 290 degrees, which hits the continent
around Walterboro SC; but CIRAF zone targets are for all of NAm and
Caribbean except for C & W Canada, Alaska, and Greenland (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 13565-CW, April 6 at 1420, HIFER beacon K6FRC is JBA, and
fades up a bit to BA, nothing but call repeating, from Patterson CA.
No variety whatsoever in programming, but with alleged 1.8 milliwatts
only, any and every reception is notable. Once again, I never hear
this at any other daypart and wonder if like any beacon should, it be
constantly transmitting? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2080 monitoring; next:
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2200 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

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

Our non-commercial broadcasts and website depend on voluntary support:
thanks this week to Benn Kobb, Arlington VA, for a check to Glenn
Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

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

** U S A. 5800, April 6 at 0613, S9+20 open carrier, surely WRMI-10
transmitter, supposed to be OFF the air 0430-2200 except daytime TOMBS
Saturdays only. Every so often I find this on air in nightmiddle, why?
Test or misprogrammed? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also SOUTH CAROLINA
[non]

** VANUATU. 11835, April 6 at 0628, JBA ``island music`` I would not
expect to hear from China`s CNR2, so presumed R. Vanuatu, 3 x 3945;
S3-S5 better than usual JBA carrier. 0631 announcement when I almost
hear Vanuatu mentioned? Still going past 0641+, only one signal. As I
pointed out before, now in A21 confronts QRM from high-power China
fundamental, but that seems to be in regular Tuesday-only siesta after
0600. Hardly anything else on 25m, e.g. China. Nothing audible now on
7890 = RV X 2.

I still think I heard only RV, but a contradictory report from Ron
Howard, CA, to the WOR iog: ``CHINA / VANUATU. 11835, random
monitoring on April 6 (Tuesday), from 0510 to 0705; CNR2 dominating
the whole time over Radio Vanuatu (harmonic); CNR2 didn't close down
at 0600, as they did last week; by 0615, started fading in of RV on
7890, with 3945 not heard; at 0701, could make out the distinctive
start of the RV news underneath CNR2``. Of course to here more so than
to CA, RV has a lower-latitude advantage (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 2034 UT April 6

WORLD OF RADIO HITLIST by Alan Roe, April 5

Hi Glenn, my latest Hitlist update.
https://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm

1) UTC offset notations updated for DST changes in New Zealand

2) USA - World Harvest Radio: Removed links to SW (frequencies,
programmes, live streaming). Retained link to home page for now.
Unless there's a major change anywhere, the next update will be in
May. Best wishes and 73 Alan

** CUBA. Correct number of the AER DX report on RHC En Contacto April
4 was 169, not 569; if always monthly, that = 14+ years (Glenn Hauser,
WOR)

** CUBA. RHC check at 0455 UT April 5: 6060 Spanish with humbuzz, 6100
Spanish with squeal, 5040 good in Spanish; 6165 // 6000 music presumed
English service. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** ITALY. 11390-USB, April 5 at 1642, Marconi Radio International
during publicized broadcast with 250 watts; very marginal via UTwente
SDR but I leave it there rather than fishing around for better Kiwis.
S5 is the noise level and MRI about the same; a song at first; 1643 a
4+1 time?signal and ID in English; a few notes of ``Wheels``,
``playing more music at the weekends`` [sic]; 1645 Italian
announcement; 1650 almost fadeout, music. 1711 mentions R. Aparecida
in Portuguese, a DX segment clip? Then some Italian; clip of RHC in
Spanish; 1715 music; 1724 talk and music; 1728 fade up for ID in
Italian with piano chords IS, then English ID a few times looping and
apparently off 1730 as sked, tho JBA traces of algo a bit longer
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ROMANIA. Checking the RRI 2030-2100 English to N America, April 5,
*2027 IS via Alexandria SDR is good on both 13650 and 11850. Here at
2043 however, 11850 is JBA carrier and 13650 is JBA. By 2058 RRI is
off but there`s a big OC on 11850, no doubt CUBA. It may well be on
earlier blocking those ex-Commies (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. 17855, April 5 at 2025, REE has managed to get its North
American frequency running again after a week AWOL! I proceed to
monitor it and the others the rest of the afternoon, since I have
feared it wouldn`t propagate until 2230, let alone 0200* as scheduled.
Gaisma.com says today`s sunset at Madrid, near Noblejas, was 2044 CEST
= 1844 UT. Of course maybe an hour later for signals to the west thru
the critical first refraxion point, before MUF drop.

First, via the Alexandria VA SDR for a good idea of how it reach the
east coast, bound to be better than into deep North America OK.
Presumably started at 1800 when I was busy monitoring WOR on IRRS. At
2025 tune-in, 17855 is S9+10, good. By 2047 has faded to S8-S9. 2102,
down to S6-S4. 2110, S5-S4 now fighting the band noise level. 2113
about gone! but presumably still transmitting.

Here into my R75: at 2042, 17855 is S8-S5, BUT 15520 aimed away from
us is much better already, S9/+10. 11940 for S America is almost as
good, S8-S9.

Alexandria obs of the others: At 2058, 15520 is S9/+5, already much
better than 17855 S7-S4. By 2135, 11940 surpasses 15520, and BTW still
inaudible on 17855 and ex-9690. By 2143, 15520 has faded out, leaving
11940. By 2157, 11940 remains, better than 11685, the African
frequency I had not checked before, way off-beam and vs 11687.5 RTTY.
11940 still audible at 2200 for timesignal and starting token English
on Monday. Alison says after some news items, feature will be on the
275th anniversary of artist Fsco. Goya, but even this is fading down
and out by 2203.

Back to my own rx: 11940 has held up better here, S9/+10 at 2211; Goya
feature finally starts at 2212 by another YL announcer, but soon
fade-out of the last frequency lasting.

If they were on 9 MHz, like 9690 by now, the 2200 M/W/F English would
surely still propagate as the MUF continues to fall.

Those of us who have been listening to SW for a few years or 60+, have
a feel for Propagation 101, as what I have monitored above should be
obvious and predictable, but not to REE frequency management.

Or they could have checked the WRTH 2021 page 43 for the table of Most
Suitable Frequencies: From Europe to E North America in March-April
2021: 15-23 UT 15 MHz, 23-03 UT 9 MHz; same to W North America: 16-20
UT 15 MHz, 20-24 UT 11 MHz, 00-04 UT 7 MHz. NEVER 17 MHz! Central
North America? Who cares (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 9830, April 5 at 2159 I can hear the VOT IS via Virginia
SDR but fighting the RTTY. At 2204 it`s useless with the two adding up
to S9. Something`s always awry at Ankara (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2080 monitoring: confirmed on IRRS
7290 via UTwente, Monday April 5, modulation cutting on at 1800:49 as
WOR opening with theme is already in progress, same as happened last
week, by misprogrammed automation? Then I lunch, but seems intact
until ending at 1829:30, some music and finally IRRS ID and contact
info, Feature Story News.

I was monitoring earlier from 1750 when there was nothing on 7290 but
CNR in Chinese, music, S7 with splash. *1757 IRRS open carrier with
some hum, but China still audible under, with 5+1 timesignal at 1800,
and CNR1 theme, but I don`t think it stayed on until 1805 as alleged.
By the time WOR starts JIP, ACI splash has abated, finding nothing
closer than 7300 with Iran in German, so LSB or narrow synch tuning
minimises that; Iran quits at 1820 anyway. Next:

1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2200 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

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thanks this week to Benn Kobb, Arlington VA, for a check to Glenn
Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

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** U S A. 7489.983V, Monday April 5 at 2300, WBCQ with semirepeat of
`Uncle Bill`s Melting Pot` 25 hours after original full airing, but
missed most of it since thru no fault of my own it conflicts with
WORLD OF RADIO on the other WBCQ, 6159.93, Sunday at 2200; even if it
be last week`s edition. UB doesn`t publicize this airing much but I
often find it more convenient. This week starts with music from
Solomon Islands, at 2318, ``This Land is Your Land`` with choir and
bamboo tuned pipes, to be viewed on his site at disgraced FB. More
music to come from Tonga and Vanuatu. Signal noticeably improves at
2325 to S9+10, but chopped off at 2330 for ID and *spot commercial*
for Peacock, newish streaming service of NBC. Spot ads are extremely
rare on US SW stations, no doubt hard to sell; have heard one or two
occasionally on WRMI; and into Camp Constitution Radio on WBCQ. Did
CCR have anything to do with the Peacock adjacency, or does it run at
random, or BCQ choice? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1540.200, April 5 at 0503 UT, WKVQ still making big het
here; 1319.715, April 5 at 0504 UT, detectable het from WCOG still
here (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. Here`s my latest strategy to view `CBS Sunday Morning`:
timer-record it on KWTV; if awake, check to be sure they haven`t
shunted it to KSBI. Anyway, primarily watch it at:
https://www.cbsnews.com/sunday-morning/
as I did this week April 5 of the April 4 edition, after which I can
re-use my own back-up tape of it. The website playback was correct and
OK, except went into incessant buffering two or three times, but after
noting the timer, refreshed and picked it up where left off. This week
totaled 64 instead of 62 minutes, all commercials excised, but adding
2 minutes to the closing nature segment, more than ever goes on the
CBS air (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search April 5 at 0457,
early enough for NW & SW Europe still to skywave: 531, 558, 576, 585,
612(2), 639(2), 684, 693, 738, 774(2), 837, 855, 882, 891, 909, 1053,
1089, 1125(2), 1134, 1152(2), 1215, 1296(2), 1305(2). Also 1710(2),
likely domestic. (2) = at least two carriers beating (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0118 UT April 6