** BRAZIL. Continued from last report on the RNA 11905-11910-11915
DRM: Dec 5 at 0402, Brasília SDR has MPB music at 16 dB SNR, always
14.06 kbps, S9+30, just a few dropouts but lost at 0404. At 0428 I go
to TWR Bonaire SDR instead, where it`s 18.7 dB, few dropouts, music
but frequent ID breaks, ``Nacional FM``; 0438 more completely
``Nacional FM 96.1 Brasília`` --- it seems WRTH 2020 includes NO FM
info about Brazil, tho it does at least partially for other countries.
Of course, AM and a bit of SW already occupy 21+ crammed pages. At
0452 this SDR times out for me so I switch to TWR Dominican Republic,
which is generally inferior, but it`s still getting the DRM well at
S9, 17.2 dB. Still at 0554 S8-S9, and past 0640. At 0658 I can hear
the DRM noise myself at S3-S5. Replies to my previous report:

On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 07:30 PM, Glenn Hauser wrote:
``Furthermore, at all times checked, there is also no signal on 6180,
apparently the transmitter repurposed for DRM test on 11910.``

``No, they are using a special transmitter for the DRM tests. It is an
SW2K5, which is a low power SW transmitter made in Brazil
https://btonline.com.br/site/pt/ondas-curtas.asp?codConteudo=125
They are running just 1.12 kW. -- Richard Langley``

On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 08:01 AM, Glenn Hauser wrote:
``I find that power level hard to believe,`` --- ``There is a photo
on the DRMNA io group showing power on the transmitter front panel.``

``Altho the antenna gain may also be huge.`` --- ``It is! I saw a
value posted somewhere and I'll try to find it and post it. -- Richard
Langley``

``I agree the antenna gain for the DRM transmission must be quite
good. At a check just after 2300 UT December 4, the DRM signal level
on 11910 into Houston was fairly decent, though I currently lack DRM
decoding capability. Sounds much more powerful than the rated 2.5 kW.
Meanwhile good RNA analog reception on 11780, but audio level rather
low. Did not check 6180. Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas``

I still need to hear 6180 and 11910 and 11780 all on air at same time.
Maybe it`s the same antenna of 6180 which is now needed for DRM if not
the transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ERITREA [non]. 17545.055V, Saturday December 5 at 1530, Bayto Yaikl
clandestine talk at S7/S9+10 direct, as I am trying to measure the
frequency, it`s constantly wobbling, roughly 17545.05 to 17545.06,
i.e. offset-plus just like when monitored on the additional Wednesday
broadcast. The Saturday one is registered as from Issoudun, FRANCE. I
thought this behaviour unusual even for ISS, so could be from
somewhere else, like UAE? But now it`s clear the two are at least from
some same site. At 1546 I try it via UTwente SDR: poor S6-S7 signal as
would be apt, too close for skip distance, but in AM Synch mode it
keeps trying to lock onto the wobbling frequency, briefly displaying
offsets + such as: .033, .051, .030, .048, .027, .045 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR) see also GERMANY [non]

** FRANCE. See ERITREA [non], GERMANY [non]

** GERMANY [non]. 15350, Sat Dec 5 at 1540, S6-S8 open carrier except
for telltale Issoudun, FRANCE clattering, i.e. the Saturday-only
[except for Dec 26] scheduled silly ballgame in Hausa from Deutsche
Welle relay.

15195, Sat Dec 5 at 1541, African talk in presumed Hausa, S7-S9, the
Sat-only silly football game from Deutsche Welle relay, managing to
modulate here unlike supposedly // 15350! The two are 7 degrees apart
in azimuth, 165 here, 172 on 15350. 15195 also has a short/long path
echo, and likely so would 15350 if there were anything on it to echo!
Not even the DW IS (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also ERITREA [non]

** U S A. 353-MCW kHz, Dec 5 at 0703 UT, ND beacon LIN --- ??? O, I
have been faked out again by the mixture of LI in LIttle Rock and IN
in INternational Falls. They are same pitch and perfectly in sync so
sound like a 3-letter call but then they gradually separate into LI
and IN with different periods, still overlapping. If pauses are long
enough, each should become audible independently at some point.
Classaxe.com shows LI at 6.2 seconds, IN at 6.03 --- close, but no
cigar. Also that they are 8 Hz apart in pitch (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2063 monitoring: confirmed Saturday
December 5 at 1322 the 1300 on WRMI 15770, S8-S9 but noisy. Next:

2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM [try the Warrenton MO KiwiSDR]
2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0500]
2300vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 61 to WSW [new, ex 0400 Mon!]
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE
0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 to SSE
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2300 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

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 Jack Amelar, NY8D, Lowell MI, who says, ``Glenn,
Thank you for many years of WOR and loggings which I have enjoyed and
used. Enclosed find my contribution to help keep your service to the
monitoring hobby going``; with a 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. 17775-, Sat Dec 5 at 1623, KVOH is back on during `Wavescan`
in English, having been missing Friday morning in Spanish, possibly
due to deliberate fire-hazard power cut by SCE to the transmitter
site; now only poor S7-S9 with hum --- I need to be careful reporting
hum, as some local device could be imposing it; however there is no
hum at same time on 17830 BBC ASCENSION. By 1817, KVOH has built up to
S9+20/30/40 with praise music and devotional. DXMAP check at 1906
shows a 36 MHz Es MUF blob in the Four-Corners, roughly halfway (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5830, Dec 5 at 1818, WTWW-1 night frequency is on in the
daytime with SFAW/PPP, S9/+10 but noisy; while 5085, WTWW-2 night
frequency is also on and of course even weaker, rock music S9 vs noise
level of S8. Whenever this happen, and it has before, one fears if the
transmitter operator, even by remote control, may be indisposed, or
worse. We know Ted has some health problems. Ivo Ivanov first noted
them both after 1300, 1500, 1630 via remotes.

What are the allowable hours for WTWW? One sesquimonth after B-20
official start, FCC still has not got around to adding it to A-20:

https://www.fcc.gov/general/high-frequency-stations-seasonal-operating-frequency-schedules
But B-20 HFCC registrations: 5085 24h; 5830 00-14 only; 9475 14-22;
9930 14-24; 12105 14-06; 15810 24h. Of course, only the lowest three
are ever in use (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 1915 UT December 5

** BRAZIL. 11905-11910-11915, Dec 4 at 2137, DRM noise audible here,
S5-S6 with a JBA AM carrier in the middle; while RNA 11780-AM is S7-S9
with music.

At 2321 I check the DRM via Bonaire SDR. Definitely on the waterfall,
sharp-edged 10-kHz wide, but no decode. Neighborhood Brasília SDR?
S9+15/20 but still no decode; then briefly displays silently: SNR 4.2
dB, 14.06 kbps. With offset USB tuning, I can tell there is a
considerable AM carrier amid at 11910, no doubt Japan as previously
noted, scheduled 21-24 UT, blocking RNA at prime-time in the Amazon.
Furthermore, at all times checked, there is also no signal on 6180,
apparently the transmitter repurposed for DRM test on 11910.

At 2352 some RNA music cuts on and off, mostly off. Some headline
texts start to display, SNR up to 13.2. Wonder if the NHK AM carrier
has closed? No, not yet, as I from 2357 listen in offset USB, to hear
that not quitting until 2400*. Now, RNA DRM should work better? NO.

Further chex: 0048 at Brasilia SDR: S9+25 but SNR 0.6 and no decode;
0107 check, at same SDR, 6180 is still off leaving a bit of China via
Cuba. At 0200 Bonaire SDR; SNL 6.5, S8 signal, zero decode (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ERITREA [non]. 17545, Dec 4 at 1545, no signal from Bayto Yiakl, so
that accounts for Friday off; yet to be checked after 1530: Sun, Mon,
Tue, Thu, lacking any explicit schedule; and on Saturday whether it be
off-frequency+plus or not, Issoudun or not (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** IRELAND. 13264-USB, Dec 4 at 1456, VOLMET roboyl, i.e. Shannon,
considerably weaker than 13270-USB, roboom from Gander. 13264 per Eibi
could also be used by Albrook, Panamá ex-CZ, for HFDL (ID-11) in -HF,
whatever that mean (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. Trip Ericson of rabbitears.info asked if I could get
KTOU, OKC, RF 21 again and clear up the uncertainties about
subchannels. I reply on December 4:

``Trip, I figured it would be a while before I had another chance at
KUOT RF 21, but in fact it decoded for a few minutes this morning at
1625 UT.

21-1, 3ABN, bug LR
21-2, triangle and No Signal! - not diamond
21-3, 3ABN = same as 21-1! slightly different audio levels
21-4, preacher with Bible verse grafix, another grafic the Secrets of
Pentecost - no bugs, back in with credits just before 1700 but gone
again before any ID. 1740, drops in with Amazing Facts on the set of
the preacher
21-5 Hope, with bug UR, uplifted arms

I see that w9wi.com shows no subchannel info for 21 KUOT, and also
still shows KTOU still on 21 as well as 22.

Say, is there any way to sort/display r-e info by channel - showing
all stations everywhere on any physical channel? Then in order by
state? I don`t see that among your multiple options. This would be
very handy for DXing when you are not sure which state or market a
signal is coming from -- here, KS or OK most likely nearby but
something could also easily be in TX or AR.

W9WI.com does this but still nothing but Canada! Doug, hope you can
get that fixed. I was also getting a Bad signal on 32, I suppose the
nearest full power KRSU Claremore OK which I find in w9wi.com by state
Oklahoma, altho ambiguous whether on 32 or 36, LIC on both.
Glenn, Enid`` --- Trip replies:

``Ah, great! So my listing is now correct. Excellent. No, I don't have
a list like that. For DXing, I recommend using the Allocation Map:
https://www.rabbitears.info/allocationmap.php

It'll let you plot the stations on a given channel, and then you can
eyeball and see what you might be receiving. - Trip``

You can also set it to ignore adjacent channels and/or LP stations,
but to check power and all other info have to go back to lists (Glenn
Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 15225, Dec 4 at 1458, S5-S8 African? drumming and
chanting, 1500 YL in Arabic mentions ``Arabiya``, apparent news with
drum sounders; still at 1545 but JBA. It`s the General Program
starting, of SRI/SBA per WRTH; we do miss the more distinctive name
BSKSA, maybe suspended because SA is now more of a murderous
Crown-Princedom (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SCOTLAND [non]. 5800, UT Sat Dec 5 at 0301, classical music on WRMI
via Bonaire SDR, Karelia Suite by Sibelius, so it`s `Encore` from
Radio Tumbril. This first transmission of the week is still missing
from Brice Avery`s publicity; times UT, frequencies kHz:

Regular Broadcast times of Encore are:
1100-1200 Saturday 6070 Channel 292 to Europe-Simulcast on 9670
Repeated:
0100-0200 Sunday 5850, Simulcast 5010 WRMI to US, Canada, C America
1700–1800 Sunday 9670 Channel 292 to Europe
2200-2300 Sunday 3955 Channel 292 to Europe
0300–0400 Monday 9455 WRMI to the US and Canada
1300-1400 Tuesday 15770 WRMI to Europe, east coast of US and Iceland
0300-0400 Thursday 5800 WRMI to South America and Caribbean & US
1300-1400 Thursday 15770 WRMI to Europe, east coast US and Iceland
2000–2100 Friday 6070 Channel 292 to Europe

Our email is encoretumbril@gmail.com. Informal reception reports as
well as those requesting eQSL welcome.
The website is http://www.tumbril.co.uk where we show transmission
times and frequencies, the playlist for the most recent programme,
more information about Radio Tumbril, and the email link.

This week's programme starts with some Sibelius, then a piece by
Rameau, followed by something contemporary-part of UFO by Michael
Daugherty. Haydn next - Allegro con Brio from his Symphony 44, after
which we will hear some monastic music from 12th century France. Part
of a modern Quartet piece after that, then some Ravel, a Schubert
duet, and finally Celestial Fantasy by Alan Hovhaness.

Channel 292 can be pulled live off the internet if the reception is
poor in your location. Easy to find their site with a google search.
A very good site for online SDR receivers all over the world is
http://kiwisdr.com/public/
Click the 'Map' button in the top left of the screen.

Thank you for spreading the word about Encore - Classical Music on
Shortwave on Radio Tumbril. Brice Avery - Encore - Radio Tumbril -
Scotland``

I fervently recommend you catch a repeat of this and every week. He
has reorganized the playlists to make them better informative, but
first item on this one for 5/12 just names it Intermezzo (Moderato),
not Karelia, but which he does back-announce.
https://www.tumbril.co.uk/playlists
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY [and non]. 5980, Dec 4 at 2143, Turkish music at S7-S9 from
VOT in Turkish as scheduled 17-22 to Europe and USward. Then on 5940
more music, sounds like same, switching back and forth, so think it`s
also VOT, but did no match on a second receiver to be positive.
Instead, Aoki & EiBi agree that 5940 at 20-22 is Algeria via France
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 11720, Fri Dec 4 at 2158 I catch just the outro on VOA-GB VG
signal backwards of `Music Time in Africa`. Hyper Heather has a
different way of expressing the show schedule, but still misses this
very broadcast, the only one we may easily hear. She also keeps saying
``hundred`` after times not ending in :00. (Of course it`s not really
hundred-anything in a 60-minute per hour clock system.) Re my previous
comment about this one hour on VOA -- despite my critiques, I do not
begrudge MTIA, just the other six hours of the week which ought to
cast broadly a wide variety of American music genres. This is after
all, the Voice of America, not Africa (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2063 monitoring: confirmed UT
Saturday December 5 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, S9+10 to UTwente SDR. Next:

1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0500]
2300vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 61 to WSW [new, ex 0400 Mon]
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE
0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 to SSE
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2300 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

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 Jack Amelar, NY8D, Lowell MI, who says, ``Glenn,
Thank you for many years of WOR and loggings which I have enjoyed and
used. Enclosed find my contribution to help keep your service to the
monitoring hobby going``; with a 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. (7490), UT Sat Dec 5 at 0100 on WBCQ webcast only, `AAAWWW`
topix: sunspots up affecting propagation; on 7490 & 6160 tonight; AHW
is an old romantic who loves to touch the model body of his beloved
wife Angela; touching in general is a human need but due to CV is
becoming taboo; that includes hand-shaking, never a good idea in flu
season anyway. Staff in Maine always come down with a bug in the
winters. Are we at war with nature, or with ourselves? 0129 phone call
from Bill in AZ with receptions problems; has lived in a van for 30
years, frugally instead of trying to maximize income. Fossil fuels are
still needed, no shortage now with less driving and flying. 0151
discusses the Arecibo radio-telescope collapse; was on his bucket list
to visit sometime. Hopes it can be replaced; 0158 closing prayer. I
was not listening closely every minute, but I don`t think I heard any
mention of Trump, Biden or the elexion. Is that possible? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 17775-, Dec 4 at 1546, no signal from KVOH; not propagating,
or powerless again like a week ago due to more fire hazards? I
mentioned that PG&E had turned off the juice, but it`s really Southern
California Edison, tho close to the monopoly boundary (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** VATICAN. 11935, Dec 4 at 1554, HOA music S4-S8; 1557 contact info
in unknown language but mentions ``at`` and ``dot``, cuts off air at
1558* after one note of music, not enough to recognize as VR IS, but
that`s what`s listed, 1530 in Amharic via SMG. Did not stay tuned but
VR also sked on 11935 from 1600 in Swahili via Madagascar (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 7000-LSB, Dec 4 at 1451, 2-way in Spanish. Since they
are on the wrong side of 7000, I assume these are not licensed hams
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report despatched at 0330 UT December 5

WORLD OF RADIO HITLIST update December 3

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

1) Albania - R Tirana: Updated links to new website (thanks to Dr
Hansjoerg Biener in WOR iog)
2) China - CRI: Removed links to obsolete english.cri.cn domain
3) Cuba - R Habana Cuba: Updated links to new freq pages (thanks to
Jean-Michel Aubier in WOR iog) and updated link to live stream
4) Denmark - R 208: Added entry for this station
5) Denmark - WMR: Added alternative link for live stream
6) Germany - R Joystick: Added entry for this station
7) Germany - R Marabu: Deleted entry (no longer broadcasts via SW)
8) Netherlands - Mike Radio: Added entry for this station
9) Netherlands - R Piepzender: Added entry for this station
10) UK - BBC WS: Updated (and re-labelled) links to BBC Progs A-Z and
BBC WS Prog Info
11) USA - WBCQ: Updated link to WBCQ schedules
12) USA - WEWN: Removed link to Shortwave program grid (page/pdf no
longer reachable)
13) USA - WTWW: Added links to the WWTW Official Facebook page and to
the WWTW Fan Listeners Club Facebook page

Unless there's a major change anywhere, the next update will be end of
December. Best wishes and 73 (Alan Roe)

** AUSTRIA. 6155, Dec 4 at 0133, no signal from Ö-1 into UTwente, so
the hours of classical music we enjoyed last night must have been a
fluke or a test (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** BRAZIL. 11905-11910-11915 DRM, Dec 4 at 0145, RNA DRM is VG into
TWR Bonaire SDR, 16.9-17.0 SNR, 14.06 kbps, with only occasional quick
dropouts, altho only S8 on the meter. Now has a larger variety of
one-line headline texts. All-music except for `Nacional` ID at 0147,
and it`s the same as on 11780-AM. Really, when 11780 is loud & clear,
the DRM version is only a minor improvement. The DRM sked with the SDR
has now been amended to show 11910 instead of 11880 for 24 hours. At
0155 I check 6180 into Bonaire for the other RNA AM frequency, but all
I hear is China via Cuba, so RNA must be off. Is it the same
transmitter for DRM? How many usable transmitters have they, anyway?
Can`t tell from WRTH 2020 since EBC is treated as just another station
among many in the Domestic sexion, and there is no Brazil in the
International sexion where normally the number of and powers of
transmitters are shown. Still going with music at 0241, ``Rádio
Nacional, 980 kHz``. 0302 and 0401 fuller ID for 980, 11780, 96.1 and
Rio frequencies, 1130 and two more, but no mention of 11910 or 6180.
Still VG past 0415 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 13785.27 & 13724.21 & 13663.14, Dec 3 at 1604, among the
many birdies I have to deal with are these which measure 61.06 or
61.07 kHz apart, surely from some local device, but I am reluctant to
start unplugging everything one by one or throwing breaker switches.
Of course one wonders if they have something to do with AC which is
supposedly at 60.0 Hz. These do not divide out to integral harmonix of
61+ kHz either. The same spans are found on many other parts of the SW
dial. Any ideas? (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** U S A. 515-MCW kHz, Dec 3 at 0705, the only NDB I log before
shut-eye is here, OS, which is 25 watts from Columbus - Fuler, Ohio,
whatever that mean. First time I`ve ever heard this in nightly
bandscans, in case our own 515, PN in Ponca City OK, ever revive. I
see there are two other 515s listed, in MT and WA. Nor have I heard in
an even longer time, 512, HMY in Lexington OK. The 510-529 band is
normally vacant except for some utenoise 518 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 21420.3-AM, Dec 3 at 1932, hamgab about equipment,
apparently WA6JKN altho often hard to tell if a call mentioned is own
or contact`s. Then reply from a K1, and when he hands it back, nothing
further heard. The K1 also on a different split frequency,
21420.17-AM, all too obvious when tuning in SSB. These are the OSOB,
otherwise you might think 14m be closed, with 21525 WRMI the default
JBA carrier. A coast-to-coast contact on 21 MHz would mean climbing F2
MUF, or much less likely double-hop sporadic E. However here I am
halfway between them where Es would fit. The DXMAP mainly shows Es
MUFs, but also F2 paths if you seek them. WA6JKN is:

WA6JKN USA flag USA, KEVIN P LEVONIUS, GILROY, CA 95020 USA
LOTS more illustrated info about his setup and background:
https://www.qrz.com/lookup/wa6jkn
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2063 contents: Alaska, Australia,
Austria, Bougainville, Brasil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cuba, Eritrea
non, France, Germany, Greece, Iran non, Japan non, Jammu & Kashmir,
Korea South & North, Netherlands, North America, Oklahoma, Scotland
non, South Carolina non, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, UAE,
USA, Vanuatu, Zambia, Desert Whooper, Radio Shack; propagation
outlook

WOR 2063 is available as of 0041 UT Friday December 4
(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2063.m3u
(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2063.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 & 5010 to S
0130 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed?] [see below]
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE
1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0500]
2300vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 61 to WSW [new, ex 0400 Mon]
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE
0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 to SSE
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2300 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

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 Jack Amelar, NY8D, Lowell MI, who says, ``Glenn,
Thank you for many years of WOR and loggings which I have enjoyed and
used. Enclosed find my contribution to help keep your service to the
monitoring hobby going``; with a 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

But checking the first airing, UT Friday December 4 at 0130, gone
already from WRMI 9955, as we have been replaced by the same gospel
huxter which knocked us off UT Tue 0200 this week. Now we are back to
only two airings on 9955, Mon 0430 & Wed 2300; but at 0130 Friday we
remain on 5010, VG S9/+10 into Bonaire SDR, and on 5850 VG direct
aimed NW, but under a noise blob into Bonaire where unneeded (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0421 UT December 4

WOR 2063 is available as of 0041 UT Friday December 4
(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2063.m3u
(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2063.mp3

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

WORLD OF RADIO 2063 contents: Alaska, Australia, Austria,
Bougainville, Brasil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cuba, Eritrea non,
France, Germany, Greece, Iran non, Japan non, Jammu & Kashmir,
Korea South & North, Netherlands, North America, Oklahoma,
Scotland non, South Carolina non, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan,
Thailand, Turkey, UAE, USA, Vanuatu, Zambia, Desert Whooper,
Radio Shack; propagation outlook

The shortwave broadcasts should be:

0130 UT Friday WRMI 5850 to NW & 5010 to S
0130 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed?]
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE
1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0500]
2300vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 61 to WSW [new, ex 0400 Mon]
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE
0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 to SSE
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2300 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

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** BRAZIL. 11905-11910-11915, RNA DRM tests are back, on a non-Cuban
frequency, as Richard Langley reported to the WOR iog at 1804 UT Dec
2: ``As just posted in the DRMNA io group: ``"Per Brother Francisco
via Twitter: 'EBC & Brasília University tests 11910 kHz DRM on air
now! 16-QAM MSC, Mode A, AAC + SBR. #drmlog'"`` --- My replies:

From 1830, No signal here, but weak at Brasília SDR, better at Bonaire
SDR, S5-S6, solid H2Ofall block 11905-11915 but not audible except
occasional bursts of noise. Nothing else heard, but Aoki/NDXC shows
what else is on 11910, hardly clear:

11910 1200-1300 CHN CHINA RADIO INTERNATIONA Amo Beijing 572 1-7
11910 1300-1357 CHN CHINA RADIO INTERNATIONA Eng Beijing 572 1-7
11910 2055-2400 J NHK WORLD RADIO JAPAN Jap Ibaragi-Kog 1-7
11910 1400-1500 THA *jammed VOICE OF AMERICA Tib Udon Thani 1-7
11910 1800-1857 KRE Voice of Korea Fre Kujang 1-7
11910 1900-1957 KRE Voice of Korea Eng Kujang 1-7
11910 2000-2050 KRE Voice of Korea (KCBS) Kor Kujang 1-7

I go back to Brasília SDR --- how far is it really from the Rodeador
site? At 1924, some music is being heard at S9+15 and not // talk on
11780-AM, S9+20/30. DRM reads 14.06 kbps, 11.5 db SNR, mode B. Nothing
but music about 50% of the time but keeps going into oscillation,
dropping to silence and coming back as if nothing happened. The signal
is not fading much, if any, at local range. At the bottom of the box
there is a rotation of 3 or 4 one-line texts, about samba, drogas,
weather in São Paulo. At 1945 the SNR is 18.5 dB, but still same in &
out music. DRM sked menu still shows 11880. 1956, SNR is 22.4 dB,
S9+35, same in & out music only.

By 2110 the DRM noise is audible direct on my R75, S7-S8 vs noise
level of S5; while 11780-AM is S7-S8 also. And RHC has not yet come on
11880 for the 2100 French, but it is on by 2138 check in Brazuguese.
Something`s always wrong at RHC.

11910-DRM checked again via Brasília SDR at 2301, music remains
cutting on and off --- but mostly off. In fact from at least 2310
constantly listening, only a few notes of music cut on at 2318. Then
constantly tries to decode and fails. At 2333 I check for any QRM ---
yes, there is a weak AM carrier under the noise on 11910, presumably
Radio Japan until 2400, which is 300 kW at 290 degrees; but we know
how well NHK propagates backwards, and it`s almost antipodal to
Brasil. That may be enough to ruin this hardly robust DRM. But after
Yamata is off, at 0023 Dec 3, hardly any DRM decode. Still needs some
tweaking.

A major defect of the DRM concept is that it has to run inside the
otherwise AM SWBC bands, a big PR problem QRMing normal broadcasts,
making enemies instead of friends; and which altho thinning out are
still a hard place to find a clear frequency, especially for 24 hours
-- while there is plenty of space in the adjacent fixed utility bands
already occupied by various forms of digital transmission --- where
DRM belongs, if anywhere. Ordinary SW AM reception should not be
blasted inside the bands by this noise even if technically it is not
QRDRMing (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11880, Dec 2 at 2110, no signal from RHC which is supposed to
start French at 2100; eventually on by 2138 check in Brazuguese. At
least Brazil has moved its DRM testing to 11910, q.v. Something`s
always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13740, Dec 3 at 0050, RHC in wrong language, not Spanish but
English, which is supposed to be on 5040 only at this hour. Via
Brownsville TX TWR SDR, `Chariots of Fire` theme` JBA on 13740 // VG
5040. Tnx to tip from Steven Wiseblood in the RGV who was getting
13740 well earlier in the hour. Improved here by 0055. Something`s
always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ERITREA [non]. 17545.06, Wed Dec 2 at 1540, VP talk and music; 1550
it`s Horn-of-Africa music, 1553 announcement, 1556 more music until
1558*. Recorded but too poor to pick out any ID. Like last Wednesday,
suspected to be Bayto Yaikl clandestine, which is supposedly scheduled
on Saturdays only, when it was first heard. Now broker Jeff White of
RMI confirms that it`s also on Wednesdays at 1530; but I wonder if
it`s also via Issoudun. A week ago it was off-frequency+plus like
this, but need to check whether it`s the same offfrequenciness on
Saturdays. Despite problems like clickbeeping, none here, I don`t
recall any ISS transmitter being so far displaced on other known
broadcasts. See previous discussions at:
http://www.w4uvh.net/ghlogs_2020_1105_1111.txt
http://www.w4uvh.net/ghlogs_2020_1119_1125.txt
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. 388-MCW kHz, Dec 2 at 0707 UT, ND beacon OK, which is
doubly okay, from OKmulgee - Preston, 25 watts. Not often heard. What
is Preston? ``Preston is an unincorporated community located in
Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, United States. The post office was
established December 13, 1909. It was named for an Okmulgee oilman,
Harry Preston. Wikipedia``. BTW, it`s a hard G in -gee, same as in
Muskogee, long O, accent on middle syllable (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1600 kHz, Dec 2 at 2140 UT, KUSH Cushing with
Americana music is already getting QRM in Vietnamese from KRVA The
Metroplex TX, still on 25 kW day power, skywave a sesquihour before
sunset (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1250, Dec 2 at 2143 UT, heavy SAH of about 4 Hz between
country music and other music. Spanish KYYS Kansas City normally
dominates; C&W around here are KRRD Fayetvil AR and KZHN Paris TX
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 11720, Dec 2 at 2112, VOA Grimesland with hyper African rock
music, S9/+10 off the back and overmodulated/distorted. What a pity
VOA prioritizes African music to Africa where there must be plenty of
African music on the radios already, rather than any kind of American
music of which there is a tremendous variety from classical to
country. VOA should fill this hour with a different American genre
each day of the week (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2062 monitoring: not airing Wed Dec 2 at 2100
on WRMI 7780, JBA something else, despite insistent listing on their
System F skedgrid -- and also on the no-frequency System D.

Not confirmed Wed Dec 2 at 2200:20.5 on WBCQ 7490.109V, but instead
2061 replays! This happens occasionally with WBCQ despite having 6
days to get the new edition programmed in; well, better than nothing.

Confirmed Wed Dec 2 at 2300 on WRMI 9955, which I check at Brasília
SDR since I have it running for 11910-DRM: S9+15/25, but fluttery and
hollow with disturbed propagation, at least well above the Cuban
jamming level.

Also confirmed UT Thu Dec 3 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, fair S5-S7 at
UTwente; 0057 ID after Slovakia claimed to be on 9395.

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New WOR 2063 should be ready by early UT Friday December 4 for first
broadcasts at 0130 on WRMIs 5010, 5850, 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 15770, Dec 2 at 2120, no signal from this WRMI-9, which must
be off, while 15610 WEWN and even 15555-USB WJHR remain audible if
poorly. 15770 is supposed to run 1200-2400, but the only non-TOMBS and
non-SMTV variety programming hours worth hearing are 13-14 & 20-21
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5970, Dec 2 at 0652, S9+20 of dead air except for some
squeal, from WEWN Spanish, RCM; competing with 5085 WTWW-2 for
deadairness (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5085, Dec 2 at 0656, S9+40 of dead air except for some hum,
from WTWW-2, along with JBA spurs +/- ~13 kHz, competing with 5970
WEWN for deadairness (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Re: New whooper beacon on 4095.6 as in last report:
I have not been able to pull it in directly by 0700 December 2, but:

There is a thread about this starting Nov 16 at:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,74397.0.html

including this one: ``Teotwaki Moderator DX Legend *****
Posts: 2190 Karma: +12/-1 California

« Reply #28 on: November 28, 2020, 2314 UTC »

Token has posted a YouTube video of receiving the DW Whooper at his
home along with a detailed description of beacon's characteristics.
https://youtu.be/LEKZDaD7J8g

"This is a pirate beacon, probably located in the US desert south
west. Some of these beacons have names, either given by the person who
built / place the beacon or given by listeners who monitor the
beacons, this one, at this time, is being called the "Desert Whooper",
for obvious reasons. The chirps have a distinctive, and one assume
intentional, non-linear chirp, or "whoop", and the CW ID is "DW".
This beacon was first reported on the associated forums on
HFUnderground in November, 2020. It is assumed that it started
operations about the same time.

The frequency of this beacon is 4095.6 kHz, and it consists of a
series of chirpy CW dashes, or short, frequency chirping, duration
carriers. Each dash shifts downwards in frequency by about 600 Hz from
start to stop. A "cycle" for this beacon has a CW ID consisting of the
letters "DW", followed by 22 chirping dashes, the first dash after the
CW ID is slightly longer than the other dashes. As far as I know,
whoever placed this beacon has not yet released any details of its
hardware. {was sweeping *upward* when I heard via Nevada --- gh}

Two other pirate beacons are seen in this video, a new and as yet
unnamed beacon on 4097.2 kHz consisting of 2 second long flat chirps,
and the long active Windy beacon in a failed mode.

Recorded at my location in the Mojave Desert of California, USA, on 26
November, 2020, 2353 UTC."

He has lots of neat beacons and other signals on videos which are
available at his channel``
https://www.youtube.com/user/FirstToken/videos

and

``Offline Teotwaki --- « Reply #11 on: November 21, 2020, 0036 UTC »
Glad you could hear DW on the KFS SDR. BTW I saw your Twitter posts
and this new beacon is unrelated to Stephen McGreevy’s “inyo whooper”.
He has written some long posts here and said he is quitting beacons
altogether. His beacons never had CW id’s and his whooper has been off
the air for quite a while. Logged Jim`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0121 UT December 3